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Q: Metodo every para array en Javascript Este codigo tiene la funcion de devolver true si todos los alumnos del array son chicas y falso si hay algun chico. Para esto utilize el metodo every para arrays en Javascript.
El problema es que me di cuenta que si el array esta vacio devuelve true, lo que me parece ilogico ya que deberia devolver false. Intente crear una condicion que en caso de que el lenght del array sea igual a 0 me devuelva false pero igualmente a pesar de ell0 me devuelve true si el array es vacio.
Dejo aqui el codigo:
const students = []

let allGirls = students.every(student => student.gender === 'female');

function allGirlsClassroom() {
  let allGirlsClassroom;
  allGirlsClassroom = (students.lenght === 0) ? false : allGirls
  console.log(allGirlsClassroom)
}

allGirlsClassroom();

Lo que necesito resolver es si es correcto que este metodo me devuelva true si el array esta vacio o en caso contrario como podria corregirlo para que tome en cuenta esta posibilidad y me devuelva false si el array esta vacio.
Dejo tambien el array con alumnos:
const students = [{
  age: 32,
  examScores: [],
  gender: 'male',
  name: 'edu'
},
{
  age: 29,
  examScores: [],
  gender: 'female',
  name: 'silvia'
}]

Agradeceria muchisimo una ayuda con esta duda!

A: De la documentación

every opera como el cuantificador "para todo" en matemáticas. En particular con el arreglo vacío retorna true. (es una verdad vacua que todos los elementos del conjunto vacío satisfacen una condición dada.)

Entonces si es correcto que regrese true en un arreglo vacío, podrías en tu misma variable allGirls revisar la longitud del arreglo

let allGirls = students.length > 0 ? students.every(student => student.gender === 'female') : false;

A: Agregando el método some te devuelve falso si esta vacío

  const students = [];

  let allGirls = students.some((student) => student.gender === "female");

  console.log(allGirls);

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E. R. Braithwaite
Caryl Phillips (Introducer)
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CARYL PHILLIPS
In 1945, Rick Braithwaite, a smart, highly educated ex-RAF pilot, looks for a job in British engineering. He is deeply shocked to realise that, as a black man from British Guiana, no one will employ him because of the colour of his skin. In desperation he turns to teaching, taking a job in a tough East End school, and left to govern a class of unruly teenagers. With no experience or guidance, Braithwaite attempts to instill discipline, confound prejudice and ultimately, to teach.
"A book that the reader devours quickly, ponders slowly, and forgets not at all-Moving and inspiring"
"E.R. Braithwaite's postwar novel about a black teacher fighting to win the respect of white pupils in a school in the East End of London is a milestone in the campaign for racial equality"
"It is the noblest, most moving, least sentimental account of life in a modern school and of a teacher's struggles with his pupils and with himself that I have come across"
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E. R. Braithwaite was born 1920 in British Guiana and educated in British Guiana and the United States. He served in the R.A.F. His publications include To Sir with Love: Experiences While Teaching in a London School (1959); Paid Servant: A Report about Welfare Work in London (1962); A Kind of Home-Coming: A Visit to Africa (1963); A Choice of Straws (1965).

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New Year, more couples have called it quits. We're breaking down all the celebrity breakups of 2022 and what caused these stars to part ways.
From Lisa Bonet and Jason Momoa to Joe and Bessy Gatto, here's a look at the couples whose love wasn't meant to last a lifetime.
Lisa Bonet and Jason Momoa
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Lisa Bonet and Jason Momoa announced in January they're divorcing after nearly 20 years together.
"And so We share our Family news that we are parting ways in marriage," the announced in a joint statement. "We share this not because we think it's newsworthy but so that as we go about our lives we may do so with dignity and honesty."
The former couple, who married in 2017, share two children.
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Delilah Belle Hamlin broke up with Eyal Booker after two years of dating at the start of 2022.
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Page Six confirmed Delilah Belle Hamlin called it quits with Eyal Booker at the start of 2022 after two years of dating.
"It was important to her that 2022 could be a fresh start and right now she wants to be single and focus on her career," an insider told the Daily Mail of the split. "Last year, she experienced some difficult times, but she's come out the other side stronger than ever and is happy, enjoying time with friends and family, as well as looking positivity to the future."
The former couple met after the 23-year-old model slid into Booker's DMs.
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"Impractical Jokers" star Joe and Bessy Gatto are divorcing.
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"Impractical Jokers" star Joe Gatto announced at the start of the New Year that he and wife Bessy Gatto were divorcing after eight years of marriage.
The former couple shares two children, daughter Milana, 6, and son Remo, 4.
Neither Joe nor Bessy gave a cause for the split, but the prankster did reveal it was forcing him to leave "Impractical Jokers."
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She first praised Jay-Z's multiple features on Jay Electronica's 2020 debut A Written Testimony. "Jay-Z on that Jay Electronica record was really some crazy s**t," Banks said. "I never heard Jay-Z sound like that and it was a clear evolution and maturation of his artistry."
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Azealia Banks praises @LilKim's ability to create her own sound and Jay-Z's maturation of his artistry:
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Maybe we'll continue to see this trend in the future of our current rappers getting even better the older they get.
On Monday, rumors about Mike Tyson agreeing to fight Jake Paul in a $50 million exhibition boxing match made their way around the internet. Many boxing fans were not happy at the news. However, shortly after the rumors came about, Mike Tyson quickly denied the rumors, saying he didn't know where they were coming from.
"This is new to me," Mike Tyson tweeted. "I saw Jake in St. Barths and he never mentioned it."
The Sun had originally reported about the fight. According to the publication, a source close to Tyson said that a verbal deal between the former champion and Paul had been struck and "now it's all about the contracts and money split." The source also claimed that "Mike is looking for a certain figure to get into the ring with a profit share guarantee."
As for Jake Paul, the source stated that he "obviously has that on his mind but is keen to show the world that stepping into the ring with a man once called, 'the baddest man on the planet,' takes his boxing career to the next level."
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Yeah. He said the Earth Cradle had been transformed by the Magus System and Machine Cells going out of control. That's likely what changed the Earth Cradle from an artificial hibernation facility meant to preserve seeds... To the main headquarters of the Ancestors, headed up by Magus.
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: Then... What exactly is the Magus System...?
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The Earth Cradle's supervisor... Or she could be its core functionality itself.
: But that woman looked human enough.
It's possible that Magus was once Dr. Anzai's friend Sophia Nate, who was a key member of Project Ark... But now she's been changed into the Ancestors' central system, which plans to wipe out all of mankind.
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: All right, Poncho, I'll let you take care of shopping, so use your haggling skills to bring back some good stuff.
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Q: How to filter data using dropdown option I try to filter some data using dropdown option. When user select year/division and click filter button, it suppose to read all row from database that contain the value. This is as far as I can go and it didn't work. Really hope someone can help me.
 if (isset($_GET['do']))
{
    if($_GET['do'] == 'filter')
    {
        if( empty($_POST['key_year']))
        {
            redirect("list.php");
        }
        else
        {
            $_SESSION['key_year'] = $_POST['key_year'];
            $_SESSION['key_division'] = $_POST['key_division'];
        }
    }
    else if($_GET['do'] == 'clear')
    {
        unset($_SESSION['key_year']);
        redirect("list.php");
    }
    else
    {}
}
$limit = 10;
$page = ( isset($_GET['page']) ) ? $_GET['page'] : 1;
$end = ( isset($_GET['page']) ) ? ($limit * $_GET['page']) : $limit;
$offset = ( isset($_GET['page']) ) ? ($limit * $_GET['page']) - $limit : 0;
$start = $offset +1;
$next = $page + 1;
$prev = $page - 1;
$key_year = ( isset($_SESSION['key_year']) ) ? $_SESSION['key_year'] : '';
$key_year = ( isset($_SESSION['key_division']) ) ? $_SESSION['key_division'] : '';

$sql  = "SELECT * FROM tbl_perfomance ";
$sql .= "ORDER BY `p_aid` ASC";
$sql .= " LIMIT $offset, $limit";
$rs = mysql_query($sql);

$sql2="SELECT COUNT(p_aid) AS total FROM tbl_perfomance ";
if(isset($key_year) && isset($key_division))
{
    $sql2 .= "WHERE p_year LIKE '%$key_year%' AND p_division LIKE '%$key_division%'";
}
$rs2=mysql_query($sql2);
$getRec = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs2);
//total
$rowCount=$getRec['total'];
$end = ($end > $rowCount) ? $rowCount : $end;
$total_page = ceil($rowCount/$limit);

$for_start = ( $page <= 2 ) ? 1 : $page - 2;
$for_stop_tmp = $page + 2;
$for_stop  = ( $for_stop_tmp > $total_page ) ? $total_page : $page + 2;

This is the form.
            <form name="filter" action="list.php?do=filter" method="GET">
                    </label>
                    <label style="color:darkgreen;float:left;width:11%" align="left">
                        Division
                        <select name="key_division">
                            <option value="All">All</option>
                            <option value="ITNT">ITNT</option>
                           <option value="ITP">ITP</option>
                        </select>
                    </label>     -->
                    <label style="color:darkgreen;float:left;width:11%" align="left">
                        Year
                        <select name="key_year">
                            <option value="all">All</option>
                            <option value="2014">2014</option>
                            <option value="2015">2015</option>
                        </select>
                    </label>
                    <label style="color:darkgreen;float:left;width:11%" align="left">
                    </label><br>
                        <input class="button_green" type="submit" value="Filter »" />

            </form>

A: I feel you just adding conditions for paging sql not for the content sql
Try to change your code something like this so that you have proper $sql1 and $sql2.
$sql  = "SELECT * FROM tbl_perfomance ";

$sql2="SELECT COUNT(p_aid) AS total FROM tbl_perfomance ";
if(isset($key_year) && isset($key_division))
{
    $sql2 .= "WHERE p_year LIKE '%$key_year%' AND p_division LIKE '%$key_division%'";
    $sql1 .= "WHERE p_year LIKE '%$key_year%' AND p_division LIKE '%$key_division%'";
}

$sql .= "ORDER BY `p_aid` ASC";
$sql .= " LIMIT $offset, $limit";
$rs = mysql_query($sql);

$rs2=mysql_query($sql2);
$getRec = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs2);

once you do it than echo both the queries and run them directly in php myadmin or any other mysql tool to check that these are working.


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'Breakthrough' coronavirus treatment dexamethasone is a 'good first step,' lead researcher says
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The new potential coronavirus treatment dexamethasone is a "good first step" to finding a cocktail of drugs that can effectively treat Covid-19, Oxford University professor Martin Landray, who co-led the study that found the drug to improve survival among patients, told CNBC on Tuesday.
Landray and his team earlier Tuesday published the results of a study, which has not been peer-reviewed, that show the cheap steroid cut the risk of death by a third for Covid-19 patients on ventilators, and by a fifth for those on supplemental oxygen. The underlying data from the study has yet to be published, but the U.K. researchers who led the trial described the results as "a major breakthrough."
The drug is the first to show signs that it can improve survival among Covid-19 patients, the researchers said. There are currently no drugs approved by the FDA for the treatment of the disease caused by the coronavirus, which has killed at least 438,843 people around the world.
Landray told CNBC that the drug appears to effectively combat some aspects of the disease, but a treatment regimen in combination with other therapeutics, like an antiviral drug or antibody treatment, could prove to be even more effective in preventing death.
"It's very likely that we'll end up with a situation where a combination of drugs are used, just as we see in HIV, just as we see in heart disease, in many other areas of medicine," he said on CNBC's "Closing Bell." "But this is the first step. It's a good first step."
Dexamethasone, a steroid medication that's been used for decades to treat conditions like arthritis and asthma, is cheap and widely available, Landray said. He added that the drug combats Covid-19 by "dampening" the body's immune response, which in the sickest patients "almost turns against the body." This phenomenon, referred to by doctors as a cytokine storm, can severely damage Covid-19 patients' lungs and result in death.
In order to build on the study's findings, researchers will hopefully find a drug or therapeutic that attacks the virus itself rather than the body's response to the disease, Landray said. Such a drug could potentially be taken in conjunction with dexamethasone to create a robust combination treatment.
"It's a cheap drug, widely available — that's going to be first line therapy," he said. "And the question is do these other drugs now work on top of dexamethasone."
Gilead's remdesivir would be one such antiviral drug, but it has not proven to improve a patient's chances of surviving Covid-19. Studies have indicated remdesivir shortens the recovery time for patients.
While dexamethasone effectively treated hospitalized patients enrolled in Landray's study, it did not have a beneficial effect on patients who were not sick enough to require respiratory support. Most people infected with the virus will not require hospitalization or respiratory support, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"This is not a treatment for the community," Landray said. "This is a treatment for the sickest patients. But if you had to have a drug and choose where it was going to work, you'd choose for it to work in the very high-risk group, the sickest patients."
While more research is needed and the study still needs to be reviewed, Landray said that "thousands of patients are dying each day" and the findings from his study are "good for patients today."
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Bitcoin's mining difficulty saw a significant increase in the span of a day. The hashrate experienced a steep surge and mining difficulty rose over 20% on December 29.
Mining difficulty is the measure of the difficulty to find a new block on the blockchain. The bitcoin hashrate registered an increase of 21.6% over a span of 24 hours, according to Blockchain. Mining difficulty has been on the rise since January 2018. The difficulty reached its peak on August 27. The hashrate has since declined by 32%.
Numerous cryptocurrency miners are being forced out of the market as the result of a nasty bear wave that hit the market in November. The bear run caused Bitcoin to fall below $4000. The first digital coin was trading below $4000 for a considerable amount of time as the massive sell-off struck the market.
More than 10,000 Bitcoin miners shut down following the bear rally. Major mining firms including the U.S based Giga Watt Inc announced bankruptcy as the mining difficulty refused to decrease. Also, the bear market forced several mining forms to shut down. Certain mining equipment of Bitmain and Canaan Creative was taken out of the market due to inflated operational costs.
Arianna Simpson, the VC of Autonomous partners, stated that the decrease in the Bitcoin mining difficulty and the shuttering of mining firms is a feature of Bitcoin design.


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Things to Do in Athens
The 'must-see' and the local vibes
Things to Do in Athens: The 'must-see' and the local vibes
There are so many things to see and do in Athens that it would literally take you weeks (if not months) to do them all. So, how can you take a good taste of the city if you have only a couple of days to spare? Thankfully, being local experts, we have created for you this thoughtful guide, combining the most famous, 'must-see', sites with truly 'local' experiences. Here are the 10 'must' things to do and see in Athens, for a meaningful experience and lasting memories.
Shopping at Ermou Street - Credit: Sanga Park [shutterstock]
1. Acropolis and the Parthenon tour
Surely, if you think of Athens you think of the Parthenon. If this is your first time in Athens, you will want to cross this off your bucket list early on. The Acropolis, the so-called "sacred rock of Athens", is arguably the most important archaeological site in Greece. It is located on a steep hill in the center of the city. There are actually three ancient temples on Acropolis Hill. The famous Parthenon, the enigmatic Erechtheion, and the Temple of Athena Nike. There is also the monumental entrance, the Grand Propylaea, that takes your breath away. All of the Acropolis monuments were built during the Golden Age of Pericles (5th century BC). The Parthenon was dedicated to the goddess Athena, the patroness of the city. As Pericles said, "they were made by men for men."
Tip: Make sure your visit is worthwhile. Joining a tour with an expert tour guide will definitely enrich your experience and offer a different perspective.
Acropolis Mythology Tour with an Expert Local Guide
2. The Odeon of Herodes Atticus experience
If you are strolling around Dionysiou Aeropageitou Street, you will come across a magnificent ancient structure. It is the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, an ancient conservatory of the Roman period, located at the foothills of the Acropolis Hill. It was built at the expense of Herodes of Attica during the 2nd century AD, in honor of his wife. The purpose of the building was, mainly, to host musical events, hence its name 'Odeon'. Today, there are still festivals and concerts taking place on its stage and the Odeon is one of the main venues for the Epidaurus Summer Festival. If you happen to be in Athens when there is a concert at the Odeon, do not miss the chance to book a ticket and attend! Truly could be a once-in-a-lifetime experience and one of the 'must' things to do and not miss in Athens.
Fun fact: Back in ancient times, the Odeon had a wooden roof(!) of cedar wood. There is no trace of it today.
3. Explore the picturesque neighborhoods and the local vibes
Plaka, the 'neighborhood of the gods', is undoubtedly one of the most picturesque spots in Athens. Enter its colorful alleys from Tripodon Street, and walk where supposedly the great Pericles saw and fell in love with the courtesan Aspasia. Stroll around the small neoclassic houses and the vivid local shops.
Anafiotika
Right above Plaka, you will find Anafiotika, the 'secret neighborhood' of Athens. You're your way through the beautiful white and blue cube-shaped little houses which are a replica of the houses of Anafi, an island in the Cyclades. After enjoying the panoramic views, walk down till you reach the Yassemi steps, also known as the steps of Mnisiklis, the architect who designed the entrance of the Acropolis. Locals love hanging out at the steps and enjoying their coffee and a sweet from the café called, what else, Yassemi!
Monastiraki and Psyrri
Monastiraki is the multicultural heart of Athens and the most famous meeting point. At its street market, you can find anything you are looking for; from souvenirs to antiques. This ancient neighborhood is surrounded by important archaeological sites, like the Ancient Agora, the Roman Agora, Hadrian's Library and the Tower of Winds. After you strolling around and shopping your vintage items at Avissinias square, cross Ermou street and enter the Psyrri area. Locals and travelers are becoming one at its vibrant alleys filled with street art and family-run stores.
4. Tasting the authentic Greek gastronomy
One of the top things to do in Athens is to try the local food. Visiting Greece is a journey of a wide range of culinary sensations and possibilities! The Greek cuisine is well known for its rich tradition and flavors. Athens has a different food spot in every corner of the city. Trying Greek food will be easy but tasting really good Greek food won't be that easy. It's easy to fell into the so-called 'tourist traps' that fill the city center. So make sure to research in advance where and what you are going to eat. It is strongly recommended to join a food tour run by a local company. It will give you a great orientation of the city and guide you to the most authentic Greek flavors.
5. Explore Syntagma Square and the National Gardens
Syntagma Square (or Constitutional Square) is the ground zero of Athens. Back in the 19th century, the Greeks required their King to register their rights in a statute that was signed at this square (hence its name). Today, there is no king and the former palace now houses the Greek Parliament. You can see the Presidential Guards in front of the Parliament House, an institution that remained intact through the centuries. The Change of Guard is an interesting sight and something you should witness when in Athens. It takes place every hour. The soldiers are dressed in traditional Greek freedom fighters' uniforms, guarding the Greek parliament externally. They remain silent and absolutely still with their armor until they are replaced. Syntagma Square connects the most well-known neighborhoods of the center (Acropolis, Plaka, Monastiraki, Psyri, Kolonaki, etc.). So it makes for a good starting point when you arrive in Athens and one of the first things to see.
Located next to Syntagma square there is a hidden oasis - the National Gardens. They used to be the Royal Gardens of the former Kings and Queens of Greece. They are open to the public from sunrise to sunset and entry is free. Take a magical walk between the countless indigenous trees, the tree-lined alleys, under the pergolas; find your way to the pond with the swans and other birds and turtles. It is the perfect place for a romantic walk and relaxation. You can then head to Zappeion Hall and the Kallimarmaro Stadium, located next to the Gardens.
See also: Free things to do in Athens
Cultural Walking Tours in Athens with Locals
6. Join a Greek Dance Lesson
Are you a fan of Zorba the Greek and you would love to dance the famous Syrtaki like a local? One of the most fun things to do in Athens is to join a Greek dance lesson. There are lessons taking place in the heart of the city center so you don't even need to go out of schedule. Within a couple of hours, you will learn some of the most famous Greek folk dances, like Syrtaki and Kalamatianos, and enjoy memorable moments to last a lifetime! Whether in a small group or privately with your family or friends, you should definitely book your place for a Greek dancing lesson.
7. Discover the Arcades of Athens
What is it about the arcades that fascinate people? Concerning the Athenian Arcades, it's their particular architecture. Their atmospheric (to some extent incomplete) lighting. Their retro aesthetic. The fact they offer shelter from bad and cold weather during winter. Their warm and cozy atmosphere. The scent of the old Athens that they exude. Proof that the architectural creation in Greece did not die with Pericles… The most famous arcade - and the locals' favorite - is the Korai Arcade. Make a quick stop from your walking tour and enjoy a hot chocolate at one of its cafés.
8. A morning at the National Archaeological Museum
The National Archaeological Museum of Greece is one of the most important museums in the world when it comes to the field of Ancient Art. Its collection represents the cultures that flourished in the Greek territory from prehistoric times to the end of the Roman period. At the center of the neoclassic building, there is a very beautiful garden where you can enjoy a drink or a snack before you continue your tour. The treasure and the findings that this Museum holds are truly of indescribable value. Of course, an expert tour guide will give another meaning to your experience, so it is advised to book a guided tour. Visiting at least one museum in Athens is one of the 'must' things to do, considering its rich history and heritage.
Mysteries at the National Archaeological Museum Private Tour
9. Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
When you enter the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) anything is possible! Concerts by the canal; summer cinema with picnic blankets spread on the lawn of the glade; sailing lessons in the canal; Climbing walls; Latin dance evenings. Art exhibitions at the beautiful park behind the building. It is a vital escape space for the locals but also a cultural destination for travelers in Athens. Hop on the bus from Syntagma Square and take a short ride for a nice afternoon or evening in SNFCC.
10. Athens Riviera and a unique sunset in Cape Sounion
Don't miss the experience of watching the sun setting over the Aegean Sea from the ancient Temple of Poseidon. The Temple of Poseidon is located in Cape Sounion, just 40 minutes away from Athens. One of the best decisions to take when in Athens is to take a day trip to Sounion and drive through the so-called 'Athens Riviera' - the beachfront districts of the Greek capital. On the way, make a stop for swimming in one of the many sandy beaches or diving spots on the rocks. The main road passes next to all of them and you can choose which is best for you. Make a stop for lunch at a seaside restaurant to try the famous Greek mezedes (small dishes) and drink some ouzo! You will find some good options just before the Cape Sounion, with a view of the imposing Temple of the Sea God. Then visit the Temple for the grand finale: watching from the top of the cliff the sun diving in the deep blue of the Aegean Sea. Amazing!
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11. A night out at Dexameni's Square
There are many 'must' things to do and see in Athens, but in our opinion, experiencing the local vibes and life is another 'must'! It doesn't have to involve famous landmarks or monuments. Simply take a walk in Dexamenis Square. Located at the top of Kolonaki district, at the basis of Lycabettus Hill, it used to be the place where great Greek writers once frequented, such as Souris, Kazantzakis and Alexandros Papadiamantis. Today, it is a famous hangout spot for local Athenians and you will find nice bars to enjoy a drink (or more) under the Athenian night sky. Taking your way down the hill, head towards Kolonaki square and feel the vibes of its vibrant nightlife.
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2,000 slaughtered, town razed in Nigeria by Boko Haram
by Karen L. Willoughby | 14 January, 2015
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BAGA, Nigeria (Christian Examiner) – Perhaps 2,000 people in northwest Nigeria are feared dead, slaughtered the first weekend of January in what Amnesty International says is the worst atrocity yet by the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram.
This is the group that roughly translated means "western-style education is forbidden" responsible for the kidnapping last April of 276 schoolgirls from their classrooms in Chibok. Its formal name, in English: People Committed to the Prophet's Teachings for Propagation and Jihad.
"The attack on Baga and surrounding towns looks as if it could be Boko Haram's deadliest act in a catalogue of increasingly heinous attacks carried out by the group," said Daniel Eyre, Nigeria researcher for Amnesty International, in a news report on the human rescue group's website: www.amnestyusa.org.
"If reports are true that the town was largely razed to the ground and that hundreds or even as many as 2,000 civilians were killed, this marks a disturbing and bloody escalation of book Haram's ongoing onslaught against the civilian population," Eyre continued. "We are currently working to find out more details of what happened. ... This attack reiterates the urgent need for Boko Haram to stop the senseless killing of civilians and for the Nigerian government to take measures to protect a population who live in constant fear of such attacks."
The area is still to volatile for government officials to see the extent of carnage, according to several news reports including that of Amnesty International.
Hundreds of gunmen invaded Baga, its military base and 16 surrounding villages Jan. 3 and for the next week without opposition continued to burn houses down and mercilessly kill people, often children and the elderly who couldn't escape fast enough, survivors said.
"We saw dead bodies especially on the islands of Lake Chad, where fishermen had settled," said Yahaya Takakumi, a 55-year-old farmer, according to a Jan. 12 account in Nigeria's Premium Times newspaper. "Several persons were killed there like insects."
Amnesty International's Nigeria spokesman Daniel Eyre explained that the Nigerian military quickly ran out of ammunition when Boko Haram descended on Baga. When the military retreated, they left area residents undefended.
"Almost everyone agrees that corruption has basically weakened the capacity of the military to operate," Eyre said. Low morale among the military and ineffective tactics add to the problem, Eyre added.
In addition to the dead, 30,000 people were displaced by the Boko Haram offensive.
"Boko Haram's videos show a troubling convergence between Nigerians militants and their ISIS counterparts not only in terms of symbolism and ideology, but also insurgency doctrine," wrote Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council's Africa Center, in an opinion piece posted on CNN.com's Global Public Square.
"Even more worrisome than Boko Haram's extremist ideology and gruesome terrorist acts should be the increasing military sophistication demonstrated by the Nigerian militants," Pham continued. "What makes the threat from Boko Haram all the more significant is the political and economic context of Nigeria, Africa's most populous country and the largest economy on the continent."
The international community needs to be involved with the protection of Nigeria's people, said Pham and others, such as Nigerian relations expert Adeniyi Ojutiku, a Southern Baptist, who spoke with Diana Chandler for a Jan. 12 article on the Baptist Press website, www.bpnews.net.
"This is no longer Nigeria's war," Ojutiku said. "Whatever the global community is doing with respect to ISIS ... they should be doing the same thing with respect to Boko Haram."
The Islamic terrorists, who first targeted Christians in an effort to establish Sharia law in Nigeria, can no long be considered a Nigerian and Christian problem, added Ojutiku, now living in North Carolina as founder of Lift Up Now, an organization designed to reform his homeland economically and spiritually, Chandler wrote.
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Following this guidance, you shouldn't have any credit card problems. But sometimes things get out of hand and we had to use the card a lot – like they say "when it rains, it pours", and now you have amassed some credit card debt.
Now you need to pay off all your credit card debts. But before we can start working on our debt relief plan, we need to know what we're working with.
$8,000 total balance, $11,927.18 total in payments, and 11 years and 5 months to pay it all off.
Seems shocking once you have it down on paper isn't it? Not to worry, here are 8 different ways to pay off your credit card debts.
You've saved $2,173.92 with this simple action.
I'll let you in on a secret, the minimum payment amount on your credit card isn't there to help you financially, it's there to maximize profit for the credit card company.
Credit card companies set the minimum amount to where it only pays a little off the principal, which extends the time to pay everything off, which incurs interest.
Therefore, you're paying more than you should. Dirty trick isn't it? So, every month try and pay as much as you can on your credit card.
$8,113 total balance payoff and will take 1 year and 7 months.
That makes a $1,640 savings plus 8 years less to pay it off. Let's look at the savings difference from the original set-up = $3,814.18 in savings and 10 years less to pay it off. Much better isn't it?
Let's try a different strategy you can use. Maybe $450 a month is too much? Instead of waiting to pay once a month, pay a little bit every week.
What ends up happening is you actually end up paying more on the card than the minimum payment would.
Card A minimum payment was $200, instead pay $60 a week. It would only take 99 months to pay it off with a total of $5,959.51 paid!
Card B minimum payment was $100, instead pay $30 a week. It would only take 92 months to pay it off with a total of $2,778.44 paid!
Card C minimum payment was $20,, instead pay $20 a week. It would only take 25 weeks to pay it off!
Now the new total payments are $9,237.95, a $2,689.23 savings and it only took about 8 years.
Now let's do it with the consolidated balance after we transferred the cards.
Minimum payment is $320 a month, instead, pay $100 a week. In one year at 0%, you would have paid $5,200 with $2,800 left on the balance.
The interest rate of 14.74% kicks in after 1 year, continue to pay $100 a week. It would only take 30 weeks to pay off the rest with $2,920.92 in payments.
Total payments now are $8,120.92 and would take about a year and a half. The difference this makes from the original plan is that you save $50 a month and paying weekly may be easier to do than one large lump sum monthly.
Let's say you can't do any of the changes mentioned, maybe you couldn't consolidate your cards and you're barely making the monthly payments let alone paying more on them.
You can still try to work with your credit card company and ask for a lower interest rate. Many companies are willing to do this if you have been consistently paying your monthly bill.
Card A with a $5,000 balance and the new interest rate is 9.45% APR. With the same $200 minimum payment it will be $5,590 in total payments and takes 28 months to do it.
Card B with a $2,500 balance and a new interest rate is 6% APR. With the same $100 minimum payment it would be $2,677 in total payments and 27 months to complete.
Card C with a $500 balance and after 0% for 1 year of a minimum payment of $20 it becomes a $260 balance and we have a new interest rate of 7.37%. It takes $271 in total payments in 14 months for the new interest rate. The total we paid altogether is $511 and took a little over 2 years to do.
Now the total payments are $8,778 and took just over 2 years to complete.
I hope you're following the math without any problems. Here are some calculators to figure out your own credit card debts.
Now let's say that none of these options are available, your credit is so bad that credit card companies are not willing to work with you in any way. Not to worry there are still some great options available.
If you're struggling to make your credit card payments every month, then you just need to make more money every month.
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Cut back on Spending – trim your expenses, spend less, and other ideas.
There are many other ways to cut down on spending and increase your monthly income. Once you have more money each month the credit card payments are less of a struggle to maintain.
This is different from consolidating all your credit cards onto one card. This debt consolidation is working with your bank or a debt relief company to get a loan to pay off all your debts.
Personal loan – your utilization rate can go down making your credit score go up.
Debt relief company – if they negotiated a lower balance, the creditor may report it as bad debt or a charge-off, which will make your credit score go down.
A word of warning though, besides the fees that debt consolidation companies charge, they pretty much charge a higher interest rate and you may end up paying more in the long run.
As a second to last resort, you may need to claim bankruptcy. Claiming bankruptcy should only be done when you have undeniably mucked up your finances so bad that there's no way out or there is no income left.
Chapter 7 – You have little to no income. They'll liquidate some of your assets to cover some of your debts.
Chapter 13 – You get a repayment plan established to pay off your debts over the next three years.
You'll need to check with your state on the qualifications for either of those bankruptcies.
Just remember that after this bankruptcy filing is completed that your credit score will plummet, the bankruptcy stays on your credit report for up to ten years, and you may still have some uncovered debts left to repay as well.
This should be the very last option to pick. I don't suggest doing it at all, but it is a choice you can make. That is to just ignore your credit card debt.
Unpaid accounts are removed from your credit report after seven years. At that point, the delinquency stops affecting your credit.
In the meantime, your credit suffers badly and since you're still "legally obligated" to pay the debt, a debt collector can pursue you until the statute of limitations runs out in your state.
To find out how long the statute of limitations is in your state, here's a great site.
I hope it doesn't come down to having to pick one of the last three choices as this will limit any future financial choices you can make. The first five are much easier to accomplish and doesn't affect your credit as much.
Do you have any credit card debt payoff success stories? We would love to hear them!


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"I hope to be remembered as someone who was passionate about changing the industry for women of color."
Olivia Hancock
Olivia Hancock is an editor at Byrdie and has over three years of experience writing for digital media platforms.
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To put it bluntly, Candice Patton is a voice that the television and film industry needs to listen to. Patton's career moves have always been fueled by an unwavering commitment to amplifying diversity and inclusivity in front of and behind the camera. A prime example is The Flash. Playing Iris West-Allen in the series, Patton has shattered the dated idea of what a comic book character should look like. In the past, the DC Universe character was depicted as a white woman. But Patton's casting in the series has reimagined Iris as a Black woman, providing viewers who look like her a chance to see themselves in this television category. "I'm proud that I've been able to be a part of this race-bending casting, especially in this genre, because I feel like it's opened the doors for so much more of that," Patton says of her time on the show.
When I signed on to a Zoom call with Patton, she was nestled at home with her adorable and Instagram-famous Maltipoo Zoë. During the pandemic, Texas-raised Patton has been residing in Canada to film the seventh season of The Flash (which will premiere on March 2). Expectedly, being sequestered from loved ones for months on end due to Canadian border restrictions has proved challenging on all fronts for Patton. During our conversation, she opened up about the little things that have boosted her spirits during this time, her on-set beauty must-haves, and the impact she hopes to have on the industry. Ahead, find Patton's honest thoughts on it all.
How have you been doing over the last year?
Honestly, terribly. It's just not an easy time for anybody. If I'm honest about it, it's just been a hard time. I'm in another country shooting a show, and I'm away from my family, and I can't go home because of the border being closed off. I can't see my mom, my dad, my friends, or my family, so I'm just kind of like stuck isolated in another country. I'm just trying to survive a pandemic, which I think most people are struggling with. So, it's been hard, but you know, I just put one foot in front of the other every day.
I think it's really important that you're radically honest about how this time has affected you.
Yeah, and I try not to dwell on it too much publicly because I know there are a lot of people who have it way worse off than I do. So I don't enjoy speaking about it. I know a lot of people think like "Oh, you must be fine. You make money, you're on a TV show, and you're in another country where the numbers aren't as bad." All of those things are true, and I'm really grateful for those things. But mentally, I think it's it's hard on everybody, no matter what standing you have in life. It's just a hard time for everybody.
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I completely agree. One of the positive things about you being there to film this show is you have been able to promote diversity and inclusivity in the industry. What has it meant to be able to play the role of Iris?
It's been an interesting journey. At first, it was really hard. I think we were doing it at a time where it wasn't cool or being done very often. So there was a lot of pushback, which was hard for me to navigate through. But when I look back on it, I'm proud that I've been able to be a part of this race-bending casting, especially in this genre, because I feel like it's opened the doors for so much more of that. I feel if fans have connected with that, connected with the character, and have enjoyed my time on the show, I'm grateful to have been a part of it.
What do you want equity and inclusion in the industry to look like in the future?
I talk a lot about advocating for more representation behind the camera. I think we're doing a great job of putting people in front of the camera that are diverse. But, it really means nothing if those people are not supported behind the scenes—if they don't have people who know how to do their hair and makeup, people who know how to write for them, directors who understand what they're going through. It's not enough to just put someone in front of the camera that looks a certain way. It's about supporting them, protecting them, and allowing them the space to do the best work possible.
Whether you're on set or off-camera, you're always wearing really stunning beauty looks. Are there any makeup products that you love?
I've gone through a lot of different foundations while working on the show. I've been trying to figure out what I like best for my skin on camera. For the last two seasons, we've settled on Estee Lauder Double Wear Foundation ($43), which is kind of a hidden gem, but they have amazing reviews for a reason. It gives you a skin-like finish. I'm a person that typically hates dewy, melted-looking skin. It just looks like I've been in a club, and my makeup is sweating off. So I've always liked a very matte foundation. I was playing around with Fenty, which I actually really do like, but it was just so matte on camera that it looked stiff. So, we were looking for something that could bring back fluidity to the skin on camera, look natural, and still have that matte finish. For me, the Double Wear Foundation has been a personal favorite on and off the show.
Are there any products that are essential in your haircare routine?
I'm always changing it. For hair, it depends on if I'm doing my hair straight or curly. But right now, I'm trying a company called Virtue, which I really like. They sent me their styling mousse, and it does a really good job of defining my curls without making them hard, crunchy, or overstyled. I've also been trying Pattern, which I'm really enjoying. But, my go-to is Kevin Murphy's Smoothing Conditioner ($34). It's the yellow bottle. I don't know what is in that bottle, but I find their shampoo and conditioner to be the most moisturizing for curly hair. I put it on my hair, and it just slicks through. That's probably my OG favorite, but I love trying new products just to see what will work best on my curly hair.
What does your skincare routine consist of?
I've always been into skincare and trying new stuff. We use these tools that look like light bulbs [on set]. You put them in the freezer and roll them around your eyes. So I keep them in my freezer here. When I have really early calls, I just roll them around my eyes. It's something I never needed before until you all of a sudden wake-up and you're old and you realize that your eyes are puffy. I've started to do a lot of facial massaging with jade rollers. I bought these suction cups on Amazon to get the blood flowing back in my face. We work so early, and my face often doesn't have time to catch up and depuff.
Who is a Black woman that has inspired you beauty-wise?
Well, I immediately think of Tracee Ellis Ross. I love following her on Instagram. I think she's just so so beautiful in the purest way. There's just something about her skin, her body, and her hair. Everything about her feels natural and organic. When I look at her photos, you can just really see her natural inner beauty shining through. She's never trying to cover or hide her features or who she is. There's just an acceptance of her natural beauty that I think a lot of people resonate with. I know I do.
What has self-care looked like for you these days?
Yeah, that's really hard. I've kind of lost my way in doing that, and I'm trying to get back to focusing on that because I'm slowly losing my mind. But they have a lot of foot massage places here. You can just sit in a chair and get your feet massaged for an hour. I can still be on my phone, get work done, or read a script. It's just a nice way to treat myself. I bought myself a plant the other day. I realized the importance of going after things that are beautiful and trying to find beauty in my life with simple things like plants and nature.
I think that's a beautiful form of self-care. Do you have any advice for aspiring actors and actresses?
Yeah, I have a lot of advice. But I guess one thing would be to really know who you are. I think it's important in an industry like the one I'm in to know who and what you're about before you get into it. You can get a lot of messages from a lot of different people and a lot of the wrong people. You can lose your way if you're not careful. I know it sounds so corny to say stay true to who you are, but it's really important. I've tried to focus on that for most of my career and just remind myself what's important to me. I'm glad I've done it because I can go home at night with a good head on my shoulders and feel good about the person that I am. So, just be very clear about who you are, what you're willing to do, what you're not willing to do while carving out a career for yourself.
What do you want your legacy to be in this industry?
I want to be remembered as someone who spoke up and spoke about things that were important to me, even when I wasn't sure of what the consequences would be. I am constantly fighting for evolution in the industry as it pertains to minorities, especially women of color because that's who I am. I hope to be remembered as someone who was passionate about changing the industry for women of color.
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MLB Draft: Drafted in the 39th round by the Cleveland Indians (1174th overall) in 2015 but chose to attend Tech.
2018 (Redshirt Sophomore): An ABCA/Rawlings Atlantic all-region second-team selection … Named to the all-ACC first team as a utility player … Played in and started 54 games for the Jackets on the season … Pitched in 16 games, making nine starts … Missed four games due to injury … Saw time at designated hitter, first base and on the mound … Hit .279 with 63 total hits … Recorded six home runs, a triple and a team-high 17 doubles … Drove in a team-high 60 RBIs, which ranked fifth in the ACC … Also scored 33 runs … Posted a .442 slugging percentage and a .324 on-base percentage on the season …Recorded a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage on the year … Totaled 19 multi-hit games and a team-high 16 multi-RBI games … Registered a season-high nine-game hitting streak on the year … Posted a season-high four hits twice – in game two of the doubleheader versus Dartmouth (Feb. 24) and against Virginia Tech (March 16) … Scored two runs seven times and drove in a career-high six RBIs in the series-opening win over Virginia Tech (March 16) … Hit .272 with 32 RBIs in the ACC play, which was tied for the league lead in conference only games … Went a combined 3-for-12 with a home run, three RBIs and four runs scored on opening weekend versus Minnesota (Feb. 16), Bradley (Feb. 17) and UConn (Feb. 18) … Was 8-for-14 with a home run, a triple, two doubles, six RBIs and five runs scored in the three-game series sweep of Dartmouth (Feb. 23-24) … Went 2-for-4 at the plate with an RBI and two runs scored in the shutout win over Arkansas-Pine Bluff (Feb. 27) … In the two wins over Illinois-Chicago (March 3-4), he went 3-for-7 with two doubles, an RBI and a run scored … Was 1-for-4 with a home run, a walk, four RBIs and two runs scored in the win at Georgia State … Went 4-for-9 with an RBI and run scored in the doubleheader at No. 6 Clemson (March 10) … Drove in two RBIs on two hits (2-for-5), one of which was a double, in the road loss at No. 13 Auburn (March 13) … Exploded to go 7-for-15 with a grand slam, a double, 10 RBIs and two runs scored in the three-game home series versus Virginia Tech (March 16-18) … Was 2-for-4 with a double, an RBI and run scored in the home win over No. 6 Auburn (March 20) … Recorded two hits (2-for-5) in the home loss to Mercer (March 21) … Went a combined 3-for-14 with a double, five RBIs and two runs scored in the three-game road series at No. 6 NC State (March 23-25) …Was 1-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored in the home victory over Georgia Southern (March 27) … Was 2-for-3 with a home run, a walk, three RBIs and a run scored in the series-opening win over Miami (March 30) … Was 1-for-3 with a walk, an RBI and a run scored in the series clinching win over No. 6 Florida State (April 8) … Was a combined 4-for-8 with a double, a walk and an RBI in the first two games of the three-game series at Pittsburgh (April 13-14) … Recorded two doubles (2-for-4), a walk, an RBI and two runs scored in the blowout win over Kennesaw State (April 18) … Went 3-for-9 with a double and three RBIs in the final two games of the three-game ACC road series at No. 8 North Carolina (April 21-22) … Went 4-for-12 with a double, five RBIs and two runs scored in the three-game weekend series sweep of Radford (May 4-6) … Was a combined 4-for-12 with three doubles, four RBIs and two runs scored in the three-game road series at Virginia (May 11-14) … Drove in two RBIs on a double in the win over SEMO (May 15) … Hit a home run and drove in three RBIs in the double-digit win over No. 10 Duke (May 18) … Pitched in 16 games on the season, making nine starts … Moved into the weekend starting rotation in mid-March … Went 2-4 with a 4.11 ERA … Recorded one save … Struck out 51 batters in 57.0 innings … Threw a season-high 6.0 innings three times … Struck out a season-high seven batters twice – versus Miami (April 1) and at Pittsburgh (May 15) … Recorded a pair of quality starts … Made his collegiate debut on the mound out of the bullpen versus Bradley (Feb. 17) … Earned his first career save with a scoreless ninth inning in the series-opening win over UIC (March 3) … Picked up the win over Miami (April 1), allowing one run on five hits and seven strikeouts over 6.0 innings – his first collegiate win … Also went 6.0 innings, giving up one run on eight hits and three strikeouts against No. 6 Florida State (April 8) … Threw 2.0-scoreless innings out of the bullpen in the win over Arkansas-Pine Bluff (Feb. 27) … Also threw 1.1-hitless innings at No. 13 Auburn (March 13) … Struck out all three batters he faced in the top of the ninth in the ACC Tournament game versus Pittsburgh (May 22) … Pitched 5.0-scoreless innings, allowing three hits and striking out five out of the bullpen versus North Carolina (May 25) at the ACC Tournament …Tabbed a Perfect Game/Rawlings and D1Baseball midseason all-American.
2017 (Sophomore): Missed the entire season due to Tommy John surgery in January 2017 … Received a medical hardship redshirt.
2016 (Freshman): Played in 60 games, making 58 starts — including 52 starts at first base … One of three Jackets named all-ACC first team and one of two Jacket rookies named to the ACC all-freshman team … Selected to the NCAA Gainesville Regional all-tournament team as a designated hitter … Named a Louisville Slugger freshman all-American … Finished the season with a .315 average (tops among Tech freshmen) with a team leading 21 doubles, five home runs and 44 RBIs … His 21 doubles are a single-season record by a Georgia Tech freshman … Ranked second on the team behind Matt Gonzalez in both multi-hit games (22) and multi-RBI games (12) … Made his collegiate debut in the season opener as the starting first baseman vs. Purdue on Feb. 19 … Went 2-for-4 with two doubles in a win over VCU on Feb. 21 … Was 3-for-4 with a double in the ACC opener at No. 7 Florida State on March 11 … Credited with three RBIs on 2-for-4 hitting and two doubles vs. Virginia Tech on March 18 … Drove in a then career-high four RBIs at Kennesaw State on March 22 … Tallied two doubles on April 1 vs. Duke … Ripped a career-best four hits on April 2 vs. Duke, finishing 4-for-6 with an RBI … Went 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI in the series opener at Pitt on April 8 … Drove in three runs with a double at Pitt on April 10 … Crushed his first career home and went 3-for-4 with two RBIs in the series finale win over NC State on April 17 … Hit two home runs and drove in four runs overall in the 16-1 rout of No. 21 Clemson on April 23 … Played a crucial role in Tech's 10-inning win vs. Georgia at Turner Field on May 17 … Had two timely doubles and drove in two runs against the Bulldogs in the extra inning win … Hit a monster home run at the ACC Championship, going 3-for-5 with two RBIs vs. Boston College on May 24 … Drove in a career-high five RBIs with a home run in the NCAA Gainesville Regional elimination game vs. Bethune-Cookman on June 4 … Went 2-for-4 with two RBIs vs. UConn on June 5.
Before Tech: Four-year letterwinner at Pike County High School under head coach Don Hanson … Led team to back-to-back region championships in 2013 and 2014 … Posted a 1.09 ERA and recorded 57 strikeouts over 32 innings his senior season … Named the 2015 GHSA Region 4-AAAA MVP after batting .632 with 45 RBIs … Named a first-team preseason all-American by Perfect Game USA in 2015.
Personal: Full name is Tristin Hall English … Born May 14, 1997 in Stockbridge, Ga. … Son of Justin and Stacey English … Has a younger sister, Makenzie … Lists participating in the 2014 Perfect Game All-American Classic at Petco Park as his favorite baseball memory … Majoring in business administration.


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Really, I Can Return It? Sold!
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Data AnalyticsStrategy Marketing Jan 1, 2010
Optimizing your returns policy
Eric T. Anderson
Karsten Hansen
Duncan I. Simester
Around Christmas, Celeste Pramberger visited Babies R Us in Tampa, Florida, to exchange an outfit for her then eight-month-old baby, Allie. But the store did not have Allie's size, so Pramberger asked to return it. She was mortified when the clerk said she could not because she had returned too many past purchases.
"I was so surprised," Pramberger said. "The only things I had returned had been four months prior from my baby shower registry. It wasn't like I was reckless, buying things then returning them without a receipt." Pramberger said that after her baby shower, she had returned about fifteen items within four months priced between $5 and $20 because she'd "gone overboard' and registered for too many similar blankets, bottles, and "onesie" outfits.
"I wasn't ungrateful for the gifts, just an indecisive new mom," said Pramberger, who works in talent and organizational performance for Accenture. Although her returns ban at Babies R Us occurred five years ago, she said the incident left her paranoid even today, resistant to return anything for fear of being embarrassed, even at other stores. And it may have left her gun-shy to purchase items in the first place, for fear of needing to return them later.
People return items for a multitude of reasons, from poor fit to buyers' remorse. And some stores, like Babies R Us, track their customers' behavior over time and then tailor their returns policy based upon the customer's personal shopping history. But are they harming or helping their profit potential by doing so? It is difficult for retailers to parse the tangible and intangible benefits a customer perceives at simply having the opportunity to return a purchase.
Most retailers base their returns policies on a mix of customer data and intuitive business sense, with the goal of protecting profits but also fostering loyal customers who will come back to spend tomorrow. It is a fine line with murky parameters, but companies do not have to rely on trial and error to tweak their returns policies.
Marketing Meets Finance
A new model developed by a team of marketing science researchers allows retailers to plug in two or three years worth of customer data and get hard dollar figures for exactly how much individual customers are willing to pay to have the option to return an item later. The team was led by Eric Anderson (Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management) and included Karsten Hansen (Associate Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management) and Duncan Simester (Professor of Management Science at Sloan School of Management).
"I like to say that this study is where marketing meets finance," Anderson says, "because people in finance price out real options all the time and this is an example of the same kind of problem—but in a marketing context."
Anderson notes that his team's study represents the first time anyone has been able to pin a dollar sign on how much a customer values the option to return something. Their model can help retailers to optimize their returns policies for individual customers as well as across product categories and purchasing modes, such as online versus in stores. And because the model monetizes the option to return purchases, Anderson says it can also be applied to parsing gross and net demand changes based on the option to return, and calculating more accurate price elasticities.
Anderson explains that while there is a lot of theoretical literature on customer returns behavior, empirical studies are lacking, which drove him and his team to fill the void.
"Every retailer has a return policy, but there is no empirical evidence as to how effective they are or how much customers value these policies," Anderson says. "There is just not much evidence about returns in general, although this is an emerging field in marketing science."
To pinpoint the numbers, his team approached solving the problem from a customer's perspective and devised a statistical model that chews up customer purchase histories and then spits out the probability of their individual purchase rates and return rates within defined product categories over time (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: Summary of Customer's Transactions
The model also calculates how much customers would pay for the option to return purchases within these categories and how a retailer's returns policy affects whether or not they buy a product. For example, Anderson's team used household data from 987 individuals over ten and a half years and analyzed their purchases for women's footwear, men's tops, and women's tops from a single retailer that sells through stores, a Web site, and mail catalogs. They purposefully chose these categories for their independence of each other in terms of returns and their variation in return rates. They calculated that while men were only willing to pay $3.19 for the option to return tops, women were willing to pay $5. But the real surprise lay in footwear. Women were willing to pay an extra $15.81 per pair of shoes if they had the option to return them later (see Figure 2) when the average price for shoes was around $50.
Figure 2: The Impact and Value of Returns
"One way to think about that is if you were a direct marketer and people didn't have the opportunity to return shoes that they hadn't tried on, you'd have to drop the price down to $35 to sell those shoes," Anderson says. "For retailers, that is a big deal."
The model works by calculating the base probability of purchases customers will make (based on their past history), and then recalculates how this probability will change given the option to return the purchase. For example, there is an 8.7 percent chance that an average customer will buy a pair of women's shoes in a given month if she is allowed to return them (Figure 1). But the probability that she will buy those shoes decreases by 0.030 if she cannot return the item (Figure 2). This translates to a 53 percent increase in demand for women's shoes if the buyer can return them.
"For footwear, because the purchase rate is so low, the impact of a returns policy upon net demand is huge," Anderson explains.
The researchers found less steep increases in demand for women's tops (16 percent) and even less increase in demand for men's tops (9 percent), although in all cases the option to return merchandise increased demand. But there was wide variation in how individuals valued the option to return their purchases, and Anderson attributes this spread to the precision of a product's fit. There is less margin of error for fit in footwear—or in baby's clothes if we recall Pramberger's problem—and therefore there is a higher value placed on the ability to return the item when it is bought sight unseen.
"There is a lot of variation in customer's valuation," Anderson notes. "A bunch of people place no value at all on these policies." But some people, he added, purchase more because they have the option to return.
Anderson's research provides the type of information a retailer could use to customize its return policy to individual customers, such as Pramberger. "Our model would allow a retailer to evaluate how much demand would be lost from a customer if she was not allowed to return a product."
The model can also be used to distinguish differences in gross and net demand when returns are allowed. Crunching the numbers on women's tops, the team found that while gross demand increased significantly when returns were allowed, the actual numbers of customers who kept their purchase was only slightly greater, leading to a small increase in net demand. And the shift in demand was consistently greater for lower-priced items versus higher priced items for both net (Figure 3a) and gross demand (Figure 3b).
Figure 3a and 3b: Demand for Women's Top
Taking this into account, the researchers' model can make predictions for maximizing profits based upon a retailer's current returns policy. A single parameter, K, is used to summarize the ease of a product return policy for each category, with values of K over one indicating an overly strict return policy and values below one an overly lenient policy. The model suggests that for their case study, the returns policy for women's tops is close to optimal but that returns for men's tops should be made more stringent, or that the option should be eliminated. For women's footwear, the returns policy should be made more liberal to capture the maximum profit (see Figure 4).
Figure 4: Optimal Return Policies for Each Category
So, is this an academic exercise or will it actually help retailers? "If Babies R Us applied our model," says Anderson, "they would be able to forecast how Ms. Pramberger's purchase behavior changed after she was not allowed to return products. Right now, these decisions are made with gut feel. Our model allows retailers to measure the impact of this policy change."
Anderson believes the model can benefit retailers in three other ways: First, they can measure how changing their returns policy will shift both gross and net demand and calculate expected changes in net profit. Second, they can plug their own customer data into the model to optimize their returns policies across product categories and across selling modes. And third, they can calculate more accurate price elasticities by incorporating changes to their net demand when returns are allowed.
"This model is quite general and can be applied to many types of products, not just retail clothing," Anderson says. "The model is applicable in any situation where the customer has the option to renege on a purchase."
Because retailers ultimately want to figure out not just how to market and sell their product, but also how to get their customers to keep it, Anderson believes that future research avenues will investigate how customers learn about the fit of the product, differences in return behavior in different selling modes, and evaluating returns policy in the context of retail competition.
Hartmarx Professor of Marketing, Professor of Marketing, Director of the Center for Global Marketing Practice
Member of the Department of Marketing faculty between 2006 and 2008
DeLene Beeland is a science writer based in Graham, N.C.
Anderson, Eric T., Karsten Hansen, and Duncan Simester. 2009. The Option Value of Returns: Theory and Empirical Evidence. Marketing Science, 28:3 (May), 405-423.
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