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Leading European Companies Fuel Next-Generation HR in the Cloud With SAP
NICE — To move away from managing in isolation and really optimize their workforce, companies need a comprehensive and flexible approach that is fully integrated with all other business processes. More than 26 million users worldwide depend on human resources (HR) technology from SAP AG and today, the company announced that adoption of the core HR solution SuccessFactors Employee Central doubled in the past year across European companies. Businesses chose Employee Central and Employee Central Payroll for global functionalities and insights, and the ability to help support local and regional compliance. The announcement was made from SAPinsider, being held May 21-23 in Nice, France.
Unlike traditional HR systems, SuccessFactors Employee Central goes beyond basic HR transactions, providing a complete system of record to help ensure critical HR functions are met globally across the entire employee life cycle — all on a single cloud platform that is tightly integrated with all other HR business processes.
Recent European companies that have gone live with SuccessFactors Employee Central include:
CSM Bakery: CSM Bakery Solutions develops, produces and sells a wide selection of bakery ingredients and products to professional bakeries, top consumer food companies, grocers and retailers around the world. With more than 8,800 employees in 90 locations, CSM needed to streamline and standardize its variety of disparate HR technologies. SuccessFactors Employee Central helps CSM localize and streamline its HR department, delivered in a single cloud platform that is easy to use. "Our industry is all about a passion," said William Kelley, global HRIS manager at CSM Bakery Solutions. "We depend on cloud technology from SAP to equip our HR department to deliver a personal degree of service on a global scale."
Expro Group: With 5,000 employees in 50 countries, Expro offers a truly global service solution, and it was looking for the same to serve as its foundation for HR. "SuccessFactors Employee Central appealed to us immediately because it's an SAP solution, it can easily integrate with lots of different modules and we could get up and running quickly," said Martin Ogden, CIO, Expro Group. "The system is highly intuitive and our managers have had very few questions about how to use it."
M+W UK: Headquartered in Germany, M+W is a global engineering, construction and project management company that needed to manage and train highly skilled and specialized workers. SuccessFactors Employee Central, paired with SuccessFactors Learning Management, allowed the M+W UK management team to have a clear view of the skills, competencies and experience of employees, enabling M+W to select the right people for the right tasks. Joanna Merry, head of HR for UK and Ireland at M+W group said, "Having implemented other HR systems in the past, this is the only implementation I would willingly repeat."
Unify: Headquartered in Germany and formerly known as Siemens Enterprise Communications, Unify is one of the world's leading communications software and services firms. Unify builds on its Siemens AG heritage of product reliability, innovation, open standards and security to provide integrated communications solutions for approximately 75 percent of the Global 500. "Once people in our company saw the look and feel of SuccessFactors Employee Central, they embraced our new way of doing business. From our HR team to our individual employees, everyone is really happy with the interface we've deployed," said Dorothee Branz, project lead at Unify.
New Innovations from SAP Cloud for HR
As these and other companies demonstrate, efficiency and improved quality of HR services are key capabilities that HR operations managers seek so they can bring order, encourage consistency and deliver world-class support. And leading HR solutions enable them to do this.
To help them take things to the next level, SAP helps facilitate local compliance for SuccessFactors Employee Central in 71 countries and, as of May 23, will help support payroll processing and localized requirements for Employee Central Payroll in 28 countries. Additionally, Additionally, global benefits capabilities will be available in SuccessFactors Employee Central. This tool will include pre-delivered processes for gifts and reimbursements and will help ensure the efficient delivery of global benefits to employees.
"At SAP we recognize the importance of providing employees with access to the information they need when, where and how they need it to do their jobs," said Mike Ettling, global head of Cloud and On-Premise HR, SAP. "Across SuccessFactors Employee Central and our other HR solutions, we're committed to delivering innovations that will allow them to do this and maximize employee engagement and satisfaction."
To learn more HR solutions from SAP and the value they can deliver, visit the Human Resources section of the Cloud Computing page on SAP.com. For more information, visit the SAP News Center.Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.
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Feb. 11, 2019 3:25 p.m.
From Leduc RCMP: This afternoon at approximately 2 p.m. Leduc RCMP responded to a report of uttering threats at Father Leduc Elementary School. A student found a threatening snap chat post concerning the safety of the school and a school staff member was advised immediately.
As a result of the threat the school was placed in a Hold & Secure and police were contacted.
The Hold & Secure has now been lifted.
At this time there is no concern for public safety, however all threats of this nature are taken seriously and fully investigated.
There were some tense moments in Leduc-area schools Monday, Feb. 11 as one person was arrested after a student received a threatening message.
According to a press release from Leduc RCMP spokesperson Cst. Bridget Morla, "This afternoon at approximately 2 p.m. Leduc RCMP responded to a report of uttering threats at Father Leduc Elementary School.
"A student received a threatening snap chat message concerning the safety of the school and advised a staff member immediately.
"As a result of the threat the school was placed in a 'Hold & Secure' and police were contacted.
"Leduc RCMP attended the scene immediately and quickly identified the person responsible for sending the threat. One person has been taken into custody.
"The investigation is ongoing and the public will notice sufficient police resources are in the area in order to ensure the safety of staff and students.


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Merry Christmas! Have some head trauma! I'd like to draw a little more attention to the Cautionary Fables and Fairytales book which is on Kickstarter right now- We've only got 20 days left and we're $2k short! Go buy a copy or it won't happen! :O I had a lot of fun drawing my version of Puss in Boots for it, check out the first 3 pages of it here!


A funny look at cats and dogs trying to fit into things that are a little too small for them.
I think the cats are a little bit better at this game than dogs as they seem to be able to fit into anything despite how small it might appear. Hope this makes you smile! If you enjoyed this adorable animal video and want to see another cut one watch Friends Furever.


JHSF is one of Brazil's leading real estate agencies, since they work with largest clients like the ones you'd find in shopping malls and airports. Their CEO and chairman is known as José Auriemo Neto, who joined the company back in 2003. Because of his work within the company, it has become a true success and has taken on thousands of clients within the area who are looking to either buy or sell property. This has made José Auriemo Neto a wonderful choice for those individuals who simply want a better way to understand and invest in real estate properties.
José Auriemo Neto has extensive experience behind him involving real estate, since it has been his mission in life to further his career within this field. He has also gone to school for a number of different studies such as business, real estate and finance. You can find more on José Auriemo Neto by visiting his site or checking him out on the variety of social media pages he has created and updates himself. These social media pages are updated regularly, allowing you to get real-time updates on what projects José Auriemo Neto is done at the current moment in time.
José Auriemo Neto has been working with JHSF and has been the creator of a variety of projects, which includes the safe parking lot project he accomplished several years ago. This has made Brazilian shopping malls and airports easier and safer for people to drive around just because they are more organized. José Auriemo Neto has worked on so many different projects both within the company as well as outside the company, and his experience has made him one of the best Brazilian real estate agents in the country who many people are going to for help and for work.


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Alina is a second year at the University of Chicago studying political science and history, with a specialization in Western violence and social theory. She is a Research Assistant at the Chicago Center on Democracy, where she supports projects on national referendums and voting trends. Outside of academics, she enjoys editing for The Chicago Maroon Arts Section, coordinating events with the Institute of Politics and its Jukebox Ballot project, and training as an apprentice projectionist at Doc Films.
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Amid all the controversy generated by WikiLeaks posting classified diplomatic cables online, Amazon has thrown WikiLeaks off of its servers.
WikiLeaks is now being hosted by another service in Europe, according to a report from the AFP news agency.
Multiple media sources said that Amazon was put under intense political pressure to make the move.
There were numerous reports that U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, had put pressure on Amazon to stop hosting WikiLeaks.
"Wikileaks' illegal, outrageous, and reckless acts have compromised our national security and put lives at risk around the world. No responsible company - whether American or foreign - should assist Wikileaks in its efforts to disseminate these stolen materials," Lieberman said.
"While I wish that Amazon had taken this step when US soldiers' lives were first put in danger by WikiLeaks back in July, I am heartened that the company has finally corrected its action," King added in the statement.
WikiLeaks, on Twitter feeds, criticized Amazon for not standing up for freedom of speech, AFP reports.
"Our dollars are now spent to employ people in Europe," WikiLeaks said, according to AFP. "If Amazon are so uncomfortable with the First Amendment, they should get out of the business of selling books."
There were also many media reports that WikiLeaks' website was temporarily out of service on Wednesday, and the service has been sluggish. The site also has been the target of hackers over the last several days, according to media reports.
TMCnet has reported that governments around the world are condemning the publication of leaked diplomatic documents, after WikiLeaks started publishing what have been described as several hundred thousand classified State Department cables.
Their dissemination has not only embarrassed U.S. and foreign officials but may have put some lives and policy initiatives at risk.
The White House would not rule out the possibility of taking legal action against WikiLeaks.
At least one observer, however, says such an incident was likely given advances in technology.
"WikiLeaks is simply an early manifestation of what I predict will be a more-or-less permanent feature of contemporary life, and a more-or-less permanent constraint on strategies of secret-keeping," Wilkinson says.


In a CRTC release issued February 19th, the CRTC announced their new Communication Service Providers in Canada online tool.
Service Providers Near You – Find television, Internet, mobile and phone service providers in your area. See what they have to offer. Choose the service provider that works best for you.
Change your Service Provider – Easily change your phone, mobile, Internet or television service provider.
Compare Services – List of websites that compare service providers' prices, plans and coverage areas.
The CRTC lists CompareMyRates.ca in Compare Services to connect to the website to compare service providers' prices, plans and coverage areas. CompareMyRates.ca is Canada's first rate & price comparison website – Search, Compare and Start Saving on 1000's of products & services – including Best Mortgage Rates, Credit Cards, Compare Cell Phone plans, Home Phone providers, Internet plans, and TV Service providers. CompareMyRates saves Canadian thousands of dollars by comparing mortgage rates, bank accounts, shopping deals, plans and more.
CompareMyRate's main goal has always been to assist Canadians save money so we are pleased the CRTC has listed CMR as one of the websites listed to compare services and give Canadians choices for communications service providers along with other money saving comparisons.


The sports world erupted last weekend when FBI documents revealed deep corruption in college basketball. Several storied programs — including those at Duke University, University of North Carolina and the University of Kentucky — gave cash benefits to recruits to entice talented players. Though some of these benefits were minor, there were also substantial offenses, including at the University of Arizona, where coach Sean Miller was caught discussing a $100,000 payment for star DeAndre Ayton's services.
My only question: Why is everyone in college basketball acting so outraged and saddened? Let's be honest: everybody knows that top recruits are receiving money. And those players deserve the money, too. The college basketball system is broken and filled with incomprehensible rules. Don't get me wrong — I love college basketball. But I think we all can admit that the sport needs fixing fast. Here's how I would go about it.
1. Allow college players to make money off their own names.
The NCAA does not let athletes profit from their likenesses and autographs. The organization has maintained that players are students first and that they must retain their amateur status. Well, I'm a student too, and if anyone was willing to pay for my autograph, I would sign everything in sight. Players, and especially national stars, should not be as limited as I am, considering they produce tons of revenue for schools and the NCAA itself thanks to TV contracts and merchandise. Head Coach of the Kentucky Wildcats John Calipari is a controversial figure to be sure, but is absolutely correct when he says, "It's their name and likeness. It's not ours, it's theirs." As adults, college athletes should be able to use their images in whatever manner they choose. Are members of Final Four teams who play in front of full football stadiums not mature enough to represent their own brand? Ridiculous.
2. Get rid of the one-and-done rule.
There has been a lot of conversations about changing this regulation. Top high school basketball players should not be forced to attend college, especially when they won't gain anything from the experience. Ben Simmons did not need the experience of leading LSU to the NIT alongside a bunch of lesser players. He was NBA-ready from the moment he stepped on a college court. A common argument against removal of one-and-done is that players could get lost in the draft and lose their college eligibility. Why not allow high school graduates to enter the draft for a period, then remove their candidacy if their draft stock is not satisfactory?
Another argument is that high school prospects are simply not prepared for the NBA life and will be busts like Kwame Brown, who is widely mocked for his NBA failures. Well, Kwame Brown played in the NBA for 13 seasons and earned just under $64 million in career earnings. Where do I sign up to be a $64 million bust? Out of the 44 men who were drafted out of high school, 32 became solid NBA players — that list includes Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady, Amar'e Stoudemire, LeBron James and Dwight Howard. Not too shabby. Somehow, Kobe and LeBron were able to hold their own against NBA players without a year at college.
3. Build-up the G League as another option.
The NBA is heading in this direction, too. I think it is clear that no upper-echelon prospect like DeAndre Ayton or Marvin Bagely is going to choose the Maine Red Claws over the NBA or a top college program. But guys who are just below that mark and want to improve their NBA draft stock should be able to pursue basketball as their sole focus, without the forced, time-consuming distractions of classes and other college responsibilities. Take Duke's Trevon Duval, for example. He has underperformed on the court at times and is not projected to be a lottery pick. If, hypothetically, he wants basketball to become his full-time job but does not want to enter the NBA draft yet, he should have another viable option besides returning to Duke. An expanded (and better paying) G-League would allow players to work alongside NBA coaching talent and adjust to the NBA game more gradually. The influx of superior players would drive up attendance for G League games, and the league would truly be off and running.
With these three rules, I have removed all the players who don't want to be in college and have given athletes their rightful compensation. Top college teams could play together for longer without the interruption of one-and-dones, and the quality of play would improve accordingly. Players would get to know each other's tendencies, and rivalries like Duke and UNC would ramp up even further as starting lineups play against each other year after year.
And best of all, we don't have to act surprised when DeAndre Ayton makes some money.


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Treatment of a category II pressure ulcer and improved asymmetric positioning through Vicair
Wheelchair users automatically have a high risk of developing skin breakdown. When there are additional positioning aids involved, the risk increases. This clinical case report describes the treatment of an 8 month old category II pressure ulcer and solving asymmetry for Mr. de L (Spina Bifida patient).
Mr. de L is a 73 year old male who generally uses a office chair at home. Outside he uses a manual wheelchair: an active Quicky Argon without arm support that is fitted with a Jay Easy Visco cushion. Mr. de L mainly walks therapeutically and to make transfers, using elbow crutches.
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Mr. de L. has a sensation disturbance in the buttocks and lower extremities. At the start of the treatment in the Seating Clinic the client suffered from a superficial pressure ulcer, category 2, with wound edge maceration. In general the pressure ulcer does not cause pain. The ulcer does not show signs of shear force or friction.
Additionally Mr. de L. experiences pain in the left side of his body at the height of thoracic spinal cord segments 6-8 and in the left side of his torso. Treatment with pain medication has not been sufficient. The pain in his torso occurs after sitting for half an hour: the VAS score varies strongly. Once a week he goes to bed when the pain becomes unbearable and he wants to change his position.
Further assessment shows that Mr. de L's left leg has a different bony structure and size than his right leg. He uses a corrective left shoe because of the shorter left leg. This left leg also has reduced muscle mass. While seated and laying down the abdominal mass is positioned to the left side. He also uses a urine stoma. Once in a while he is faeces incontinent. This did not affect the pressure ulcer.
Implementing Vicair into the seating solution
In an attempt to solve the problem at hand it was chosen to conduct pressure mapping of the current situation and of all cushions tested in the process.
All pressure maps show pressure on the ischial tuberosities (IT). When using the Jay Easy Visco cushion there is very significant pressure on the left buttock and the centre of gravity of the body shifts to the left.
It was found that when using a Vicair cushion that can be setup asymmetrically the pressure is redistributed more equally across the entire surface of the buttocks. The asymmetric setup is accomplished by relatively increasing the height of the cushion's left side, because there is less buttock/leg mass on this side.
After the pressure mapping we chose to try out a cushion that can be adjusted to a asymmetric setup: a Vicair Positioner. By setting up this cushion asymmetrically (more volume on the left side, less volume on the right) the smaller leg/buttock mass is supported and the client experiences improved pelvic stability while seated. This cushion was tried for two weeks. At that point the pressure ulcer had healed, but the client showed more tendency to slide.
In order to provide more stability and prevention of sliding we decided to try out a Vicair Active for the next two weeks. The cushion was set up in the following way in order to cater to Mr. de L. asymmetric needs: 7 SmartCells were removed from the cushion's right rear compartment, 3 SmartCells were added to the left rear compartment and the centre compartment kept its standard filling. A solid seat was installed on top of the wheelchair's sling seat to prevent it from hammocking. Due to the asymmetric set up, future risk of a pressure ulcer was reduced as the pressure was more equally redistributed on the adjusted Vicair Active.
Mr. de L's pressure ulcer was healed due to the switch to the Vicair Positioner. Afterwards his desired seating positioning and stability were achieved by using the Vicair Active with an asymmetrical set up. He now experiences a high level of seating comfort. Mr de L. has started to stand up and sit down more often. He tries to walk two times a day in a functional manner, for instance in combination with a toilet visit or for transfers. He is more aware of the positive effect of alternating his position.
In sum the Vicair Active was able to provide skin protection and it met Mr. de L's positioning needs for a cushion that provides stability and can be set up asymmetrically. It was however noted that ideally, Mr. de L needed extra back support (lower lumbar and lateral support) and that it was important to improve overall lateral support.


Should a mother take control over her baby's feeding schedule and the amounts that she feeds or leave it to her baby to indicate its need and when it has had enough?
Research in this field is gathering momentum in an attempt to find a way to curb childhood obesity and obesity in later life.
The NZ Health Survey 2006/2007 found that one in twelve children (2 – 14 years) were obese (8.3%) and one in five (20.9%) were overweight. Statistics for adults during the same period was worse with one third (36.3%) being overweight and more than a quarter (26.5%) were obese.
Breast milk or breast milk substitute is the most important nutrient source for the first year of an infant's life and is the first control decision that a mother makes for her baby.
Mothers who choose to bottle feed their baby usually do so after much thought.
High visibility – mothers can see how much milk the baby has consumed.
However the question does arise over where mothers get their information on how much the baby should consume?
Growth – mothers are concerned about the baby's perceived rate of growth.
However babies do grow at different rates and Midwives and Child Nurses (Plunket) can do much to allay such fears.
Confidence – the mother may lose confidence breastfeeding , especially if the baby has difficulty latching on.
Lactation consultants can offer help when latching on is a problem. All child care workers need to guide, not take over, the feeding process. It is easy for mothers to become so bombarded by advice from manuals and the "well-meaning" that they may suppress their own natural ability to feed their baby, to tune into its hunger cues and to respond when the baby has had enough.
Supply – the mother may worry about her ability to make sufficient milk to match demand.
This very process of worrying can affect her milk supply. Learning to drink more can help boost milk supply but requires not only meeting the mothers personal daily needs plus exercise but also allow around 200mls of extra fluids per baby feed.
Embarrassment – some mothers feel self-conscious about breast-feeding in public.
Attitudes in society are changing and as communities learn to value breastfeeding amenities such as parents rooms in shopping centres and workplaces are being considered by architects and town planners.
Convenience – bottle feeding can be handed over to others to help with when mothers are busy, working or have ill-health themselves.
Many breastfeeding mothers now express milk for times when baby feeding needs to be delegated to others.
Contentment – some mothers believe that their baby is more contented, easier to settle and sleeps for longer if formula fed.
Accommodating a new baby into a busy household is a challenge no matter which mode of feeding is employed and parents need to trust their own instincts over the choices they make and seek support when in doubt.
The scheduling of feeds – how often they choose to feed and when?
Waking the baby to feed.
Using a feed to comfort a baby or control it's behaviour.
Control over the rate of flow such as by encouraging the baby to feed for longer at the breast by moving if their baby pauses or falls asleep when feeding. In the case of bottle feeding mothers may widen the hole on the teat to speed delivery.
The length of time a mother chooses to feed solely milk before they wean.
Studies have found that mothers who choose to breast feed (even if just for a week) or for 6 months or more scheduled and encouraged milk feeds significantly less frequently than mothers who formula-fed their babies from birth. Also studies have shown that mothers who breastfed their infants are less likely to use restrictive or pressurising child feeding practices after weaning than mothers who used formula.
For most infants, complementary foods should be introduced by the time they are 6 months of age. While some infants may be ready to feed earlier complementary foods should not be given before 4 months of age as this is more in line with their physical development e.g. being able to hold their head up well, sit up, open their mouth when a spoon touches their lip and also when their tongue does not protrude.
See the Dietitians NZ Complementary Feeding: Starting Solids – A guide to introducing complementary foods to infants fact sheet for more information.
Studies of toddlers aged 20 months to 6 years, that examined baby-led weaning versus traditional spoon-feeding methods have found that feeding method can influence food preferences and health related outcomes in later life.
Significantly increased liking for carbohydrates, especially vegetables in the higher social class (compared to sweet spoon fed foods).
Lower body weight in the baby led group and more obesity in the spoon fed.
No difference in the picky eating was found between the two groups.
The researchers concluded that infants weaned through baby-led approach learn to regulate their food intake in a manner that leads to a lower BMI and a preference for healthier foods like carbohydrates (bread, cereals, fruits and vegetables) which may lead onto reduced obesity in later life.
Mothers who do spoon feed their baby's need to be aware of the research on interpreting the reactions to taste sensations that infants may exhibit.
It is perfectly normal for a baby to lean forward and appear interested when offered sweet and salty foods and to recoil when offered foods that are sour or bitter. This recoil is an uncontrollable reflex or 'shock factor' when a child first encounters these tastes sensations and should not be interpreted as a baby not liking sour or bitter.
While pre-testing weaning food to check it's temperature is not too hot or too cold is important before feeding mothers are encouraged not to add sugar or salt to weaning foods to suit their own taste preferences. Adding sugar can just lead onto dental carries and encourage a preference for sweet foods. Adding salt is discouraged because a baby's kidneys are immature and unused to handling a higher salt load that can put stress on their fluid balance.
Allowing for messy eating and 'play' with foods encourages baby control over feeding and enables them to develop good hand and eye co-ordination.
Barker looked at the health records of 60 year olds in the UK and found many who had died from heart disease, diabetes, etc. were small at birth or SGA (small for gestational age). He hypothesised that a foetus develops and adapts to under nutrition in the womb e.g. by developing smaller vital organs such as heart and pancreas with less insulin production etc. So that following birth the infant becomes overwhelmed by an abundance of nutrition and it is this rapid weight gain that increases disease risk in later life.
Studies of SGA individuals have found that they are at an increased risk of rapid postnatal weight gain, later obesity and diseases in adulthood such as Type-2 Diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Environmental risk factors during pregnancy include smoking, low pregnancy weight, maternal short stature, maternal diet, ethnic origin of mother and hypertension can contribute to the problem.
However, in a large proportion of SGA where no underlying cause is obvious, then these individuals may have a larger genetic predisposition to later health problems. Research is now focusing on isolating the genes that in SGA appear to have the greatest effect on long-term health.
Evidence of the effects of environmental factors on the health and diet of children can be seen in a 2009 study of Tongan children that migrated to New Zealand. While migration resulted in increased height and reduced stunting of infants and toddlers, older children (3-5 year olds) experienced increases in their body mass index (BMI) and obesity.
Women contemplating pregnancy need to stop smoking, avoid alcohol and adopt a healthier lifestyle, diet and exercise.
During pregnancy they should aim to gain a steady 10 – 12 kg and eat well throughout. Professional advice may be helpful if the mother is under or over weight.
Ideally breastfeed or bottle feed their baby for at least 6 months according to demand and keep eating and drinking well themselves to maintain sufficient energy to cope.
When introducing solids following the recommended guidelines outlined above may be helpful.
Aim to create a healthy environment for their children which values a wide range of healthy food, sleep and exercise. This means adopting these values for themselves as well.
If you would like to discuss you or your families dietary needs then contact us for an appointment.
Many thanks to Jayne Strachan for your time and expertise reviewing this article.


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The Clickbait Candidate
Published October 9, 2016 | By James Williams
By James Williams (@WilliamsJames_)
Note: This is a cross-post with Quillette magazine.
While 'interrobang' sounds like a technique Donald Trump might add to the Guantanamo Bay playbook, it in fact refers to a punctuation mark: a disused mashup of interrogation and exclamation that indicates shock, surprise, excitement, or disbelief. It looks like this: ‽ (a rectangle means your font doesn't support the symbol). In view of how challenging it seems for anyone to articulate the fundamental weirdness of Trump's proximity to the office of President of the United States, I propose that we resuscitate the interrobang, because our normal orthographic tools clearly are not up to the task.
Yet even more interrobang-able than the prospect of a Trump presidency is the fact that those opposing his candidacy seem to have almost no understanding of the media dynamics that have enabled it to rise and thrive. Trump is perhaps the most straightforward embodiment of the dynamics of the so-called 'attention economy'—the pervasive, all-out war over our attention in which all of our media have now been conscripted—that the world has yet seen. He is one of the geniuses of our time in the art of attentional manipulation.
If we ever hope to have a societal conversation about the design ethics of the attention economy—especially the ways in which it incentivizes technology design to push certain buttons in our brains that are incompatible with the assumptions of democracy—now would be the time.
Trump's cynical and dangerous candidacy should be prompting urgent late-night video conferences among leaders in the technology industry. They should be asking: How ethical, and ultimately sustainable, is the attention economy‽ Are we comfortable with the psychological world we have designed for society‽ Are we prepared for the character of the attention economy to become the character of the political realm‽
Because the truth is, these political effects are already upon us. This election, more than a contest between candidates or ideas, is a contest between cognitive styles: between attention and distraction, reflection and impulsivity, self-regulation and outrage. The dynamics of the attention economy uniquely underlie and enable Trump's style. Whether or not we collectively reflect on, and fix, those dynamics is a far more consequential question than whether or not he becomes America's next president.
In every age, the dominant techniques of attention management find themselves embodied in our political candidates. In the era of film and television, this meant that politicians had to become actors—but it also meant that some actors would become politicians. (I'll leave it to you to decide which is worse.) People were flabbergasted that Ronald Reagan—the actor‽—could become president, until they weren't anymore. Just as people were flabbergasted that Arnold Schwarzenegger—The Terminator‽—could become governor, until they weren't anymore. Or that Minnesota would choose a professional wrestler as governor, or a comedian as a senator.
Today, though, the era of television is behind us. It is now that loose confederation of digital services aggregated under the lazy misnomer 'social media' that rudders our attentional ship. (44% of American adults now get their news from Facebook, and for young adults it is the number one source.) To the extent that the 'news industry' may still defensibly be described as such, it now largely functions as a filtering mechanism for, and extension of, these digital services. Furthermore, the disruption of traditional media business models, especially by digital media's separation of content creation and publication, has forced news outlets to play by the rules of social media. This means they, too, must now dance for their dinner: they must sensationalize, bait, and entertain in order to survive.
It's frequently pointed out that Trump is fond of criticizing 'the media.' This is not entirely true. He has never (to my knowledge) criticized the design of Twitter, Facebook, or any other platform whose dynamics he actually embodies. As a general rule, the 'media' that politicians criticize are rarely the media that actually matter.
A better name for 'social media' would be 'impulsive media.' The unprecedented abundance and instantaneity of information in the digital era has turned our world into a never-ending flow of novel attentional rewards. Yet transcending these limits of space and time—moving from information scarcity to abundance—does not mean our informational world has become limitless: it is still limited by our capacity to navigate it. Thus, we have now become the main limits; the constraints of our psychology now play the defining roles. A major implication of this is that we now spend much more of our finite willpower to maintain our previous levels of self-regulation. Too often, though, we find that we don't have enough willpower saved up to spend to avoid distraction.
In the brave new cognitive world that results, then, innumerable packets of information come screaming across the sky (to remix Pynchon's phrase)—all our candidates, comedians, memes, meeting notes, native advertisements, love letters, likes, posts, product placements, poems, exhortations, titillations, and cats—all competing on the same instant playing field, whose center is everywhere and boundary is nowhere, for the grand prize of our attention. And whichever one is best at pushing our buttons will win. We have many buttons.
In case you haven't noticed, the internet has become an outrage machine. (Sidebar protip: whenever you see the phrase 'the internet' used agentively like this, mentally replace it with 'we.') As usual, The Onion has already scouted out this territory and returned with pitch-perfect intelligence: 'Blogger Takes Few Moments Every Morning To Decide Whether To Feel Outraged, Incensed, Or Shocked By Day's News.' As this article expresses well, the problem with digitally-induced outrage is not so much its negative valence (some things do, after all, deserve outrage), but rather its tendency to feed wantonly on our impulsivities, thus crowding out our opportunities—and perhaps even our capacities—for reflection.
We seem to be producing around one big outrage cascade per week now. Here's just one example. On July 1 of last year, a Minnesotan dentist hunting in Zimbabwe killed a well-known lion named Cecil. Cecil had a black fringe around his mane. His cause of death was an arrow, followed by—around forty hours later—a rifle round. Cecil was then decapitated and flown to Minnesota as trophy of a victorious hunt. It cost around $50,000 to kill Cecil. It may not have been legal.
Suddenly, the whole internet—sorry, we—rose up and roared. The memorial hashtag #CecilTheLion received 670,000 tweets in just twenty-four hours. Comedian Jimmy Kimmel called the dentist 'the most hated man in America who never advertised Jell-O on television.' Actress Mia Farrow tweeted the dentist's address. Crowds appeared at his office to yell 'Murderer! Terrorist!' through megaphones and to display homemade signs suggesting that he 'ROT IN HELL.' Someone spray-painted 'Lion Killer' on his house. Someone else tore down his professional website. Still others, sitting god knows where in the world, spent hours falsifying one-star Yelp reviews of his dental practice. On Facebook, the thousand-plus-member group that emerged as the de facto mission control for Cecil's revenge brigade was called 'Shame Lion Killer Dr. Walter Palmer and River Bluff Dental.'
When children behave like this, we call it 'cyberbullying.' Yet when it's a gaggle of outraged adults, their buttons pushed by the persuasive patterns of digital design, it becomes 'justice,' 'karma,' or 'sweet, sweet revenge.'
Of course, it is none of those things. It is nothing more—and nothing less—than amplified mob rule, a digital Salem.
The problem is this: we enjoy being outraged. We respond to it as a reward. That's because it is a reward. When we turn ourselves over to a new outrage cascade, life once again has that rush—of purpose, of moral clarity, of social solidarity—of meeting deep human needs that the regiment of day-to-day habit is increasingly powerless to fill. Furthermore, when you perform and broadcast your moral outrage, it gives you an opportunity to signal to others that you can be trusted, that you're one of the good guys.
To be sure, outrage is not the only problematic button that our impulsive media environment manages to push. It may, however, be one of the most dangerous.
Although the term 'clickbait' is of recent coinage, it's already been enshrined in the OED, where it's defined as 'content whose main purpose is to attract attention and encourage visitors to click on a link to a particular web page.' You've undoubtedly encountered clickbait on the web even if you haven't known its name. It's marked by certain recognizable and rage-inducing headline patterns, as seen in, for example: '23 Things Parents Should Never Apologize For,' 'This One Surprising Phrase Will Make You Seem More Polite,' or 'This Baby Panda Showed Up At My Door. You Won't Believe What Happened Next.'
Trump is very straightforwardly an embodiment of the dynamics of clickbait: he is the logical product (though not endpoint) in the political domain of a media environment designed to invite, and indeed incentivize, relentless competition for our attention. In fact, Trump benefits not only from the attention and outrage of his supporters, but also that of his opponents. So you already are, in a sense, 'voting' for Trump every time you click that link to see what zany antics he's gotten himself into in today's episode. (Yes, I am aware of the ironic implications of the previous sentence for this article as a whole—more on that shortly.)
When Thomas Paine wrote that 'those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it,' he probably wasn't imagining the sort of fatigue you incur when you have to repeatedly defend your country's dignity at dinner parties because a leading candidate for its highest office turned a debate into a straw poll about dick sizes. Or held forth about a debate moderator's menstruation. Or mocked a disabled reporter.
Yet the problem with Donald Trump is not ultimately Donald Trump. Like clickbait or outrage cascades, Donald Trump is merely the sort of informational packet our media environment is designed to select for. The real problem is the set of incentives that make it lucrative to select for the informational packet of Donald Trump in the first place—i.e., the incentives to design technologies that deliberately, wantonly, and indiscriminately appeal to our impulsivity and non-rational biases to steal our attention. And at the root of nearly all these problematic design incentives is advertising.
Trump and his supporters frequently tout the fact that he is not dependent on advertising for his success. It's unclear why, in their reasoning, this should be a laudable thing. In any event, it does not matter because the claim is flatly untrue.
Trump is probably more dependent on advertising for his success than any other political candidate in history. To understand why, consider a comment Les Moonves, chairman and CEO of CBS, made about Trump's candidacy back in February: 'It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS.' (CBS moderated the vice-presidential debate on October 4th.)
Trump's outrageous antics are valuable to publishers because they drive yuge numbers of 'eyeballs,' which enable delivery of a yuge quantity of ad impressions, which ultimately bring in a yuge amount of money. In advertising-speak, we might say that Trump is a highly reliable source of 'earned,' rather than 'paid,' viral content. The fact that he plays the role of the bait, and not the hook, in this system makes him no less a part of it.
Of course, the incentive to maximally capture and hold people's attention is not itself new. Elements of the so-called 'attention economy' have long existed in various forms throughout previous media such as radio and television. (In fact, going even further back, we find in the original use of the word 'claptrap' a nice eighteenth-century analogue of 'clickbait.')
However, what is new in this election is the way in which the new, digitally supercharged dynamics of the attention economy have finally crossed a threshold and become manifest in the political realm.
There's a bumper-sticker slogan of unknown provenance that says, 'If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention.' An unstated assumption here is that what you're paying attention to is the source of your outrage. However, in the attention economy, the truth is more clearly expressed by the phrase, "If you're outraged, it's probably because of how you're paying attention." Our critical task is to turn that how into a what: to make our informational environment the object of observation; to bring forward the background dynamics of the attention economy long enough to see and question and fix them.
Of course, this is very hard to do—for many reasons. We like to think of our media as 'neutral.' We still frame technology design ethics in terms of information management rather than attention management. There are no good societal mechanisms for reflecting on and guiding the media that operate in the background of our lives. Also, the new Rick and Morty episodes are coming out soon.
In fact, there is even a sense in which reflecting on the spectacle of Trump in the way I have here is entertaining. But we must not let ourselves be entertained. As Neil Postman wrote in his startlingly prescient 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death (which ought to be required reading for every American this election season), in information societies this is precisely where the deeper threats to freedom lie:
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture. … As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny 'failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.' In 1984, Orwell added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we desire will ruin us.
Our situation is not yet ruinous, but it is dangerously entertaining. Trump's candidacy represents the ascendancy of a new level of Huxleyan threat into the realm of American politics. This is not good, as we were already ill-equipped to contend with, or even recognize, the old threats. Now, even more than in Postman's time, the deeper threats to our freedom are far more Huxleyan than Orwellian in character. Yet here, at the outset of the digital era—when the emergence of technologies such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and the physical internet present us with unique opportunities to shape the moral character of our informational environment for generations to come—we're making the same mistake Huxley spoke of: we're failing to take into account 'man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.'
Yet—to return to the paradox I mentioned above—how can we reform the attention economy without also turning into clickbait ourselves? How can we critique and steer a medium, and manage its political externalities, from within that medium itself? Marshall McLuhan seemed to think the appropriate tool for this was parody. I wonder whether it is more than coincidence that, in the same year two of our greatest political parodists/satirists (Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart) have stepped back, at least in these capacities, from the public stage, one of the two major presidential nominees is an entertaining reality TV personality whose campaign we're still not even sure isn't a joke‽
In any event, the phenomenon of Trump may be amusing, concerning, depressing—but one thing it should not be is surprising. Because he is a master of attention in our time—and in our current media environment, attention trumps everything.
Posted in Current Affairs, Information Ethics, James Williams' Posts, Politics, Reflections, Web/Tech
2 Responses to The Clickbait Candidate
Paul Treanor says:
No, the 2016 US election is not a "contest between cognitive styles", it is by American standards an unusually ideological contest. It is also notable that immigration has displaced the economy and national security as a prime voter concern. Without the populist reaction to the real-world demographic and cultural shifts, Donald Trump would not even be a candidate. As with similar populist revolts in Europe, the voters matter more than the candidate. They are an indication that part of the population has disengaged form mainstream politics, to a degree that threatens national cohesion.
The outrage is there alright, but it would be wrong to dismiss it as trivial because it is now mainly expressed online. On the contrary, social media can indicate further contentious issues, which will have real electoral impact, probably as new populist revolts. This post by James Williams reflects a now-established tradition among media theorists, to seek explanations for social and political shifts in the media themselves. So be it, but there is no reason for the rest of us to follow the media theorists in this approach.
Hi Paul, thanks for taking the time to comment. Perhaps I'm watching a different election than you are, but I can't recall any US election in my lifetime in which ideology has played a less important role than the present one.
My point is not that the design of media explains the totality of the effects we're seeing (which I certainly don't dismiss as trivial – quite the opposite!), but that it is a major and largely unacknowledged cause of them.
Whatever the extent of its influence, though, I see no reason to ignore media design as an explanatory force, as you suggest. It is obvious and uncontroversial that what Churchill said of physical architecture – 'We shape our buildings, and afterwards, our buildings shape us' – is true of our information architecture as well.


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While this city is nearer to Cebu City as compared to Bacolod (where the call center is located and where I will be temporarily be based) it is just way different from Cebu...way different!
2. Dumaguete City is the capital of Negros Oriental.
3. This is a city which I'd say has been trapped somewhere in time. The city does not have any cabs nor jeepneys (the public transport here in the Philippines). People here ride the motorcycles and the motorcycles with a side car which we commonly call as tricycle or pedicab.
See this woman? She is dressed well and most likely on her way to work. I cannot imagine myself in my corporate outfit riding one! The government they said does not allow franchise for jeepneys and cabs...amazingly crazy.
Needless to say this makes the like of Mariposa go nuts! I haven't driven for awhile moreso in a new and unfamiliar city...so I have to what, rent a car with a driver?! So crazy!
4. But I found a nice place to stay. Not a fancy hotel but very neat, people are very hospital and the place was able to host all of us. Yes we got the entire place for us!
This is Bolmon Guest House. If want to visit Dumaguete I highly recommend this place for you. I rarely make recommendations and this is one I am willing to promote for free! :) Seriously this place is just nice. Despite all the craziness that I have with transportation and at the other center, it is nice to know that I have a place to rest at the end of the day. This is like home away from home for me.
This is the terrace outside the room where I'm staying. Actually it is the suite. I can see sunrise from here...which I really love!
5. One popular landmark and one of of the city 's historic construction is the Dumaguete Bell Tower (Belfry). It served as a watchtower in ancient times and is now equipped with a lush garden. Devotees visit the place everyday to pray.
6. The Boulevard is Dumaguete's most famous promenade and I have to admit, I love it, especially with the beautiful view of sunrise that it offers!
Lots of people jog here early morning and I enjoyed my morning walk here with my coffee!
7. Along the Boulevard is also a nice restaurant which I always frequent, Lab-as. It is a local term for fresh, as their specialty are seafoods.
7. The Quezon Park is another beautiful area with some stunning tree lines and a huge play area for children and a venue for concerts and exhibitions as well. A cultural program is being held every week in this park, the Tayada Sa Plaza.
8. Silliman Univeristy. This is definitely one icon Dumaguete has...to a point that I sometimes would say to myself that there is not Dumaguete without Silliman. They are just synonymous to each other.
9. And the Silliman Beach is a beautiful place known for its relaxed and serene environment. Visitors can also enjoy some popular water activities here. It is especially popular with the younger crowd.
10. The place is famous for Sans Rival.
11. I love Cafe Antonio! After several nights of searching for a nice coffee shop I finally found a place to stay and enjoy my coffee.
12. The people in Dumaguete speaks the same language/ dialect with the people in Cebu! WOOT! I get to finally talk in my Cebuano dialect. I missed it when I was in Bacolod because people there speak Ilonggo.
That's it for today people...Happy Thursday to all!
The lack of public transportation really is seriously crazy. Around here, the city does all it can to get people to take the bus.
Finding a good coffee shop is a big plus. I couldn't do without my coffee.
Silliman U is always my first association with Dumaguete.
Thanks for taking us along on your adventure. I envy your freedom to do so. Happy T13!
That looks really interesting. Thanks for sharing it with us.
I would love to have a patio with a direct ocean view.
Interesting facts and great photos.
thank you for yet another tour of your world.
Thank you for taking the time to tell us about Dumaguete. I love seeing new places and learning about them. If I can't travel in person, at least I can travel through blogs!
Even tho this town seems "stuck in time" it sounds like you had fun. The bell tower and the boulevard sound like lots of fun!
I missed Dumaguete...You can explore the place within the day and the people are just very friendly. Nice photos, btw.


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Q: Create a custom config xml [HELP] I want to create a simple configuration. But I can't get the data attributes (countryCode and class) from it. Can you help me please ?
assignment_adapter.xml :
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:module:MyVendor_CommercialAssign:etc/assignment_adapter.xsd">
    <map countryCode="Default" class="Default"/>
    <map countryCode="FR" class="FR"/>
</config>

assignment_adapter.xsd :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <xs:element name="config">
        <xs:complexType>
            <xs:sequence>
                <xs:element name="map" type="mapType" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
            </xs:sequence>
        </xs:complexType>
    </xs:element>

    <xs:complexType name="mapType">
        <xs:attribute name="countryCode" type="xs:string" use="required"/>
        <xs:attribute name="class" type="xs:string" use="required"/>
    </xs:complexType>
</xs:schema>

di.xml :
<?xml version="1.0"?>

<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:ObjectManager/etc/config.xsd">
    <virtualType name="AssignmentAdapterReader" type="Magento\Framework\Config\Reader\Filesystem">
        <arguments>
            <argument name="converter" xsi:type="object">MyVendor\CommercialAssign\Model\Config\Assignment\Converter</argument>
            <argument name="schemaLocator" xsi:type="object">MyVendor\CommercialAssign\Model\Config\Assignment\SchemaLocator</argument>
            <argument name="fileName" xsi:type="string">assignment_adapter.xml</argument>
        </arguments>
    </virtualType>
    <type name="MyVendor\CommercialAssign\Model\Config\Assignment\Data">
        <arguments>
            <argument name="reader" xsi:type="object">AssignmentAdapterReader</argument>
            <argument name="cacheId" xsi:type="string">myvendor_commercial_assignement_map_cache</argument>
        </arguments>
    </type>
</config>

Here is my converter convert function :
public function convert($source)
    {
        $maps = $source->getElementsByTagName('map');
        $mapInfo = [];

        $i = 0;
        foreach ($maps as $map) {
            $mapInfo[$i]['complete'] = $map;
            $mapInfo[$i]['attributes'] = $map->attributes;
            $mapInfo[$i]['child'] = $map->childNodes;
            $i++;
        }

        return ['map' => $mapInfo];
    }

My Data class content :
use \Magento\Framework\Config\Data as DataConfig;

class Data extends DataConfig
{
}

So when I did a get('map') from my data reader I get this (there is no countryCode or class from the xml why ?) :
array(2) {
  [0] => array(3) {
    ["complete"] => object(DOMElement)#148 (18) {
      ["tagName"] => string(3) "map"
      ["schemaTypeInfo"] => NULL
      ["nodeName"] => string(3) "map"
      ["nodeValue"] => string(0) ""
      ["nodeType"] => int(1)
      ["parentNode"] => string(22) "(object value omitted)"
      ["childNodes"] => string(22) "(object value omitted)"
      ["firstChild"] => NULL
      ["lastChild"] => NULL
      ["previousSibling"] => string(22) "(object value omitted)"
      ["nextSibling"] => string(22) "(object value omitted)"
      ["attributes"] => string(22) "(object value omitted)"
      ["ownerDocument"] => string(22) "(object value omitted)"
      ["namespaceURI"] => NULL
      ["prefix"] => string(0) ""
      ["localName"] => string(3) "map"
      ["baseURI"] => string(36) "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/project/"
      ["textContent"] => string(0) ""
    }
    ["attributes"] => object(DOMNamedNodeMap)#140 (1) {
      ["length"] => int(2)
    }
    ["child"] => object(DOMNodeList)#134 (1) {
      ["length"] => int(0)
    }
  }
  [1] => array(3) {
    ["complete"] => object(DOMElement)#123 (18) {
      ["tagName"] => string(3) "map"
      ["schemaTypeInfo"] => NULL
      ["nodeName"] => string(3) "map"
      ["nodeValue"] => string(0) ""
      ["nodeType"] => int(1)
      ["parentNode"] => string(22) "(object value omitted)"
      ["childNodes"] => string(22) "(object value omitted)"
      ["firstChild"] => NULL
      ["lastChild"] => NULL
      ["previousSibling"] => string(22) "(object value omitted)"
      ["nextSibling"] => string(22) "(object value omitted)"
      ["attributes"] => string(22) "(object value omitted)"
      ["ownerDocument"] => string(22) "(object value omitted)"
      ["namespaceURI"] => NULL
      ["prefix"] => string(0) ""
      ["localName"] => string(3) "map"
      ["baseURI"] => string(36) "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/project/"
      ["textContent"] => string(0) ""
    }
    ["attributes"] => object(DOMNamedNodeMap)#135 (1) {
      ["length"] => int(2)
    }
    ["child"] => object(DOMNodeList)#146 (1) {
      ["length"] => int(0)
    }
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}

A: As you can see in the outputed section each element has two attributes but you just need to read them.
["attributes"] => object(DOMNamedNodeMap)#140 (1) {
  ["length"] => int(2)
}

Try using the getAttribute method to do this.
public function convert($source)
{
    $maps = $source->getElementsByTagName('map');
    $mapInfo = [];

    $i = 0;
    foreach ($maps as $map) {
        $mapInfo[$i]['complete'] = $map;
        $mapInfo[$i]['countryCode'] = $map->getAttribute('countryCode');
        $mapInfo[$i]['class'] = $map->getAttribute('class');
        $mapInfo[$i]['child'] = $map->childNodes;
        $i++;
    }

    return ['map' => $mapInfo];
}

Or you could loop through the attributes to get the information.
foreach ($map->attributes as $attrName => $attrNode) {

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Q: Can I keep a folder read by an application in a different location, and use a symbolic link in the original? I have a folder SOURCE using by application.
I want to move this folder in a new location without config the new path in the application. So logically, the application read from the source folder but physically, the folder is in another location.
Can I do that using symbolic link?

A: I've moved some appdata folders to ~/Private and created symbolic links and everything seems to be working fine:

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*Make sure that the application whose data you want to protect is not running
ps -ef | grep evolution

*Move the application's data directory into your ~/Private directory
mv ~/.evolution ~/Private

*Establish a symbolic link from the old location to new location
ln -s ~/Private/.evolution ~/.evolution

The example is using evolution, just change name and paths to what you need.
source: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedPrivateDirectory


The liver is located in the upper right corner of the abdomen. It weighs about three pounds in an adult.
What happens when a liver is lacerated?
An injured liver results in hemorrhaging (bleeding). The signs and symptoms of an injured liver include abdominal pain, guarding (holding hand over the area), tenderness in the upper right part of the abdomen, right shoulder pain and signs of shock and blood loss. This can be a major life-threatening event. Diagnosis is made by CT scan.
What will happen to my child if he/she has a lacerated liver?
The pediatric surgery team will be watching your child's lab results carefully to determine if the laceration continues to bleed. The lab results that will be most important will be your child's hemoglobin (main component of blood cells that carry oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body) and hematocrit (the percentage of red blood cells in the blood). The results of this blood test should be expected to drop within the first 24 hours and then begin to resolve. Your child will be on complete bedrest for 24-48 hours with the hemoglobin and hematocrit tested every 6 to 12 hours. When your child leaves the hospital he/she must not participate in physical activity for a period of six weeks to three months. A follow-up visit to the pediatric surgery clinic will be scheduled for one week following discharge with the hemoglobin and hematocrit drawn again to check for resolution of the bleeding. The pediatric surgery team will be happy to answer any further questions that you may have.


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$800,000 for Him, $4 for You
By A.T. On July 27, 2004
Yesterday, I linked to a report that shows how, for the 2003 tax cut . . . a tax cut that will save a friend of mine $800,000 a year in taxes on $3.2 million he gets in dividends each year . . . the average tax reduction for 88% of all taxpayers will be $4.
Clearly, my friend is not included in that 88%. But 118 million other taxpaying households are – perhaps yours is one of them – and the most any of them will get from the 2003 tax cut in 2006 is $100 . . . with an average, as I say, of $4.
Several of you asked how this is possible.
Bob McIntyre of the Center for Tax Justice, explains: 'The 2003 Bush tax cut has much less of an effect in 2006 than earlier because by 2006, the only provision of the bill is the cut in taxes on dividends and capital gains. By 2006, other changes either would have taken effect anyway, or expire.'
It's as almost as if the average voter was tricked (mis-led?) into accepting a small soon-to-evaporate tax cut in return for granting the wealthiest people in the country a giant long-term cut. If I were a typical taxpayer – Democrat or Republican – I'd be furious. Fortunately, I'm rich (in a very minor way) so this worked out fine for me. Yet somehow I think President Bush has it all wrong, with desperately sad consequences for our country.
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L ast week, I wrote that content is an essential part of any social media strategy in order to prove value. But anyone who has used a social network knows that a tweet or a status update doesn't have a long lifespan... no matter how much content you share. In fact, most of the links you share only have visibility for about 3 hours before they are lost in the noise; not much time for the effort. But earlier this year, Facebook solved that problem for business pages by launching promoted posts.
What are Promoted Posts for Pages?
Promoted Posts allow you to increase a page post's visibility by giving it premium placement in a targeted user's news feed. With a small budget, you can easily extend the life of a Facebook post, long past the initial publish time.
Lead-Generating Content: Sharing an occasional link to a landing page with a helpful download is a best practice for any Facebook strategy. So when you share a landing page, hop over to Facebook's Ad Manager and promote that landing page post to a targeted audience that would be interested in your content.
Your Most Popular Content: Even popular content can have a short lifespan. If there's a photograph or blog post that received a lot of Likes, comments and shares, push it out to more people who may have missed it when you originally published the post.
Fans: Not every fan sees a post when you hit publish. If you want to make sure that your fans download your new content or read a popular blog, you can promote your post to people who currently Like your page. This gives you the opportunity to engage with your community and potentially turn fans who haven't converted on your website into leads.
Friends of Fans: Social influence is a powerful thing, especially when it comes to Facebook ads. Targeting friends of fans means your post will include a friend's name on the Promoted Post like a Sponsored Story. Combine that with Facebook targeting, and your content can engage users who haven't Liked your page but will be interested in your post.
Potential Fans: Even if someone isn't connected to your business's page by any measurable degree, you can still use Facebook targeting to promote a post to a specific group of likely fans. If you combine this targeting with a post that includes a landing page, you can gain a new lead instead of just another page Like.
The best part about all these options is, when your content is good enough, the Promoted Posts work. Just take a look at this graph from Bitly showing a link's lifespan when launching a Promoted Post about four days after the initial publish date.
Have you tried promoting posts with Facebook's Ads Manager yet? How has it worked for you?


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