The rise of cloud computing brings with it the promise of infinite computing power. The rise of Big Data brings with it the possibility of ingesting all the world's log files. The combination of the two has sparked widespread interest in data science as truly the "one ring to rule them all." When we speculate about such a future, we tend to use two phrases to describe this new kind of analytics—artificial intelligence (AI) andmachine learning. Most people use them interchangeably. This is a mistake.
AI develops conceptual models of the world that are underpinned by set theory and natural language. In this context, every noun or noun phrase represents a set. Every predicate implicates that set in other sets. If all human beings are mortal, and you are ahuman being, then you are mortal. It's an exercise in Venn diagrams. By extending these diagrams through syntax, semantics, and analogy, human beings build up conceptual models of the world that enable us to develop strategies for living. AI seeks to emulate this capability in expert systems.
Results in this area to date have been mixed and overall have fallen far short of the aspirations and projections of earlier decades. The problem is that natural language sets are inherently fuzzy at the edges. As a result, set algebra that works very well when applied to things that are near the centerpoint of a set becomes increasingly challenged as set elements approach their boundary conditions. Olympic sports clearly includes track and field and swimming. Does it include badminton? ping pong? golf? baseball? bowling? billiards? chess? Any claim you make about Olympic sports must be increasingly modified as you expand the aperture of your focus to accommodate more and more borderline cases. Ultimately such a system simply cannot scale. It can still be incredibly valuable, particularly in constrained domains like medical diagnosis, but it is not the ring we are looking for.
Machine learning is. Or at least it appears to be at the present time. Unlike AI which seeks to understand the world through conceptual models, machine learning has no such interest. It does not understand anything at all, nor does it want to. That's because it does not seek emulate human intelligence, it seeks to simulate it. It does so through sheer brute mathematical force. Basically, any digital thing you present to a machine learning engine—say, a photographic image or a body of text—is converted into a string of integers, and everything that happens after that is some type of mathematical manipulation of that string. In the world of machine learning you and I really are just numbers.


Luxury brands experimenting with WeChat's commerce model rose from 3 percent to 10 percent from the year-ago, suggesting that the sector is beginning to have better understanding of the Chinese commercial ecosystem.
Every market in the world has its own idiosyncrasies that force businesses to adjust their strategies there, but few have the kinds of differences that China poses.
For one, China has its own set of digital platforms distinct from what most countries use. There is no Facebook, Google, Instagram or many other common digital destinations in China due to government regulation. Instead, Chinese consumers rely on platforms such as WeChat, Tmall and JD to search for products, view and share social content and make online purchases. The brands that do the most to embrace these platforms have the most success.
Currently, the most successful have been watches and jewelry brands such as Bulgari and Cartier as well as fashion house Christian Dior. These brands are among those that have launched their own direct-to-consumer ecommerce platforms in China. Dior, for example, tried its hand at social selling by offering its followers on WeChat the opportunity to purchase a limited-edition handbag directly through a post.
This can be partially attributed to Burberry's embrace of Chinese social media platforms such as WeChat and its partnerships with prominent Chinese influencers such as Mr. Bags, with whom Burberry released an exclusive bag. Another notable trend of the top performing luxury brands in China is an embrace of ecommerce. Online shopping is huge in China and even eclipses in-store purchases by some measurements.
Because of its reach, some ecommerce sites have become host to the kind of content that would normally appear on a brand's personal site.
China also places heavy emphasis on mobile, with mobile far outweighing desktop as the channel of choice for engaging with brands, consuming media and making purchases. WeChat is a strong driver of this trend, with its emphasis on mobile payments helping to boost the mobile commerce sector.
WeChat's social gifting and augmented reality coupons on Alibaba's Alipay are a few of the tools consumers can leverage through mobile wallets that make the customer experience in China extremely advanced. Marketers should be prepared for this to be replicated throughout the world, as well as advancing beyond (see story).
Understanding how the Chinese market works is paramount to luxury brands as the overall spending from Chinese consumers outside of China grows more each year.


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Focus Brands sells 'record breaking' number of franchises in 2021
Global franchise group that includes the Cinnabon, Jamba Juice and Auntie Anne's chains reports 'record breaking' number of franchise agreements in 2021, citing digital innovation, brand collaborations and non-traditional stores as key parts of its growth strategy
Focus Brands highlighted the strong performance of its Cinnabon franchise in the Middle East
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Focus Brands sold a 'record breaking' 561 franchises in 2021, with more than 175 outlets opened in the US and Canada, the Atlanta-based company has reported.
Focus said digital technology to promote convenience and takeaway sales alongside brand collaborations had been key parts of its US growth strategy. This included deals to launch 33 Jamba and Auntie Anne's co-brandED locations across the US and ten co-branded Cinnabon and Auntie Anne's stores in New York city.
Non-traditional stores, including ghost kitchens, travel hub kiosks and convenience store locations, also played a key role, with 972 non-traditional units open throughout the US and an additional 270 locations in the pipeline, Focus said.
Internationally, Focus said it had sold more than 225 commitments for expansion and opened more than 215 stores in 2021. The franchise group highlighted the strong performance of its Cinnabon franchise in the Middle East, which opened its first drive-thru in the region in Egypt and signed a deal with Innovative Union Company to open 130 new stores in Saudi Arabia within five years. Cinnabon currently operates more than 1,600 franchise locations worldwide.
"Each of our brands have adjusted well to meet the evolving expectations of the guest, and strategic modifications and digital-forward solutions have helped us maintain a strong position in each respective category. As we begin 2022, we remain focused on targeted expansion in new and existing markets and are always looking for the right opportunities to help our seven brands excel," said Focus Brands CEO, Jim Holthouser.
Atlanta-based Focus Brands is the franchisor and operator of more than 6,000 restaurants, cafés, ice cream stores, and bakeries in the US, Puerto Rico and over 50 countries worldwide. It comprises the Auntie Anne's, Carvel, Cinnabon, Jamba Juice, Moe's Southwest Grill, McAlister's Deli and Schlotzsky's brands, as well as Seattle's Best Coffee on certain military bases and in certain international markets.
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Colored People Time: SCRAAATCH Performance
Holy Apostles and the Mediator Episcopal Church, 260 S. 51st St, Philadelphia, PA 19139
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Gustave Doré, The Confusion of Tongues, 1865, engraving. Photo courtesy of the Institute of Contemporary Art.
In conjunction with its Center-supported project Colored People Time: Mundane Futures, Quotidian Pasts, and Banal Presents, the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) presents a sound and performance art piece by SCRAAATCH. The Philadelphia-based duo will perform what it describes as its "Dadaist and Afro-pessimist impulses" in a site-specific electronic composition titled Tower of Babel, featuring projections, movement, and sound sculptures.
The performance is free with registration.
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Pearl S. Buck House Restoration Work
Support for the preservation of the Pearl S. Buck House, a National Historic Landmark.
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Elephants on the Avenue: Race, Class and Community in Historic Germantown
Using the arts as a catalyst for community dialogue and engagement around race and class in Philadelphia's diverse Germantown neighborhood, this multi-part project joins artists such as Benjamin Volta and poet Sonia Sanchez, and historians from across the US to create public art installations, educational programs, and community events.
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Colored People Time: Mundane Futures, Quotidian Pasts, and Banal Presents at MIT List Visual Arts Center
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Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary
Book artists working with Iraqi and Syrian refugees create artists' books that amplify personal narratives of displacement, immigration, and sanctuary.
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Projects on Tour: Center-Supported Works by Ann Hamilton, David Ludwig, Silvana Cardell, and more
After premieres in the Philadelphia region, Center-funded performances and exhibitions are reaching new national and international audiences in venues around the world.
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Alan W. Moore is an art historian and activist whose work addresses cultural economies and groups and the politics of collectivity.
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Exploring the ethical dimensions of a project with Doris Salcedo
An engagement with Colombian sculptor and visual artist Doris Salcedo investigates the possibilities and ethical considerations of collaborating on artistic work with immigrant youth.
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Kemi Ilesanmi is executive director of The Laundromat Project, which advances artists and neighbors as change agents in their own communities.
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Beth Sholom Synagogue Preservation Foundation
Located in Elkins Park, Beth Sholom is the only synagogue ever designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Person of the Crowd: Anya Evans' Operation Catsuit
Performance artist Anya Evans will present her ongoing performance piece Operation Catsuit.
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(Dis)placed: Music & Tales of Home
Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture presents a concert of Syrian music and stories of displacement in Philadelphia.
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Independence Seaport Museum
Founded in 1960 as the Philadelphia Maritime Museum, Independence Seaport Museum (ISP) is a repository of art, artifacts, and archival materials documenting the diverse maritime history of the Greater Delaware Valley, and the history of major urban ports of the Delaware River.
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Swarthmore College Exhibition: Peace
Swarthmore College presents Peace, one of three culminating exhibitions at the Free Library of Philadelphia for Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary.
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Peter Eleey is the chief curator of MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, NY.
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John Dichtl
John Dichtl is the president and CEO of the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH).
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Chester Cultural Corridor Initiative
This project takes a novel approach to city planning, using theater and the arts to inform an eventual plan of action to revitalize Chester's historic Deshong Park.
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Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form Lectures and Gallery Talks
The Michener Art Museum presents a series of lectures and gallery talks exploring the connections between Sheeler's experimentations in fashion and the industrial paintings and photographs that established his career.
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Tangles in Time
Tangles in Time, presented by Thomas Jefferson University, is the culmination of a two-year collaborative project to foster conversation about the lived experience of dementia.
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Strange Currencies
Strange Currencies explores the emergence and development of experimental artistic practices in Mexico City in the 1990s, accompanied by outside performances and a film program at The Galleries at Moore.
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David Hartt: The Histories (Le Mancenillier)
A site-responsive, multimedia installation by David Hartt activates Beth Sholom Synagogue, offering new ways to experience and interpret the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed National Historic Landmark.
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Linsanity Part II: Nets could be interested in free agent Jeremy Lin
By Ari Gilberg
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Jeremy Lin, the point guard that gave the city a case of Linsanity when he electrified the Garden back in 2012, is unlikely to return to the cash-strapped Charlotte Hornets once free agency begins, and the Nets are rumored to be one of the likely candidates to sign the popular point guard, according to ESPN.
The move makes sense for a number of reasons. As of right now, the only true point guard on the Nets roster is 32-year-old Jarrett Jack, who posted the 30th-best player efficiency rating among all point guards last season and is also recovering from a torn ACL.
Lin, 27, is five years younger and also has a past relationship with Nets head coach Kenny Atkinson, who was an assistant under Mike D'Antoni with the Knicks when Linsanity first began. At the time, Lin credited Atkinson for developing him into the star he quickly became.
"I can't say enough about that guy," Lin said during the height of Linsanity in 2012.
Jeremy Lin has played for five NBA teams and two D-League teams in six seasons. (Nell Redmond/AP)
While the Nets aren't exactly a stable franchise — the team is on their third head coach in less than a year — but thanks to plenty of cap space and a bare roster, they can offer stability to Lin in the form of a multi-year contract and a shot at a starting role, something the point guard said is his number one priority when making his free agency decision this offseason.
"I've played six years in the NBA," Lin said at the World Economic Forum this past weekend. "I've played on five different teams. I've played for two D-League teams — so seven cities in six years. I'm tired of boxes, I'm tired of moving companies, and I want to find a home."
Lin isn't the only point guard whose name has been linked to the Nets this offseason. Rajon Rondo reportedly has interest in signing with the Nets, according to ESPN's Marc Spears. Spears said Rondo, who is also open to returning to the Kings, previously had interest in the Knicks as well, but the Derrick Rose trade nixed that possibility.
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Brazil will reject the offer of $20 million in aid for the Amazon fires pledged at the G7 summit in France, according to news site G1 Globo.https://t.co/GBzTXihfis pic.twitter.com/ajeoaKdrxY
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Leaders at the G-7 pledged $20 million dollars in aid to help fight the fires destroying the Amazon. Tuesday, Brazilian President's Special Communications Office told CNN the country will turn down the money.
President Jair Bolsonaro suggested that leaders should use the aid elsewhere instead. "We are thankful, but maybe those resources would be more relevant to reforest Europe."
French President Emmanuel Macron has called for more international involvement in fighting the fires but Bolsonaro said that foreign involvement would treat Brazil like "a colony or no man's land," and jeopardize the country's sovereignty.
Chief of Staff Onyx Lorenzoni suggested that, "Macron is unable to avoid a preventable fire in a church that is at a World Heritage Site and he wants to show us what is for our country? He has a lot to look after at home and the French colonies," Lorenzoni said, according to G1. He was referring to the Notre Dame Cathedral fire in April."Brazil is a democratic nation, free and never had colonial or imperialistic practices which might be (the) objective of Frenchman Macron."
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Summer is almost upon us, and we're celebrating with great new activities, restaurants, and events! Join us in Fort Wayne, Indiana this summer and discover our classic festivals, fun family activities, and everything new.
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Last year I stumbled upon Art House Co-op's "The Sketchbook Project", and immediately fell in love with the idea. This morning I signed up for the 2012 project, and I wanted to post the link here in case any of my fellow creative friends want to join up!
You can find The Sketchbook Project 2012 and its rules and terms here.
There are 40 or so themes to choose from, (including really open themes like 'untitled') so you'll have a good chance of giving yourself a theme to fit your own personality. I picked Time Traveler, and I will be sharing my pages here as I go. I encourage other folks to join! My friends who have participated in this project really enjoyed it and it made them draw subjects they might not have ever considered as they worked to fill their pages through their theme.
Preston and I relaxing on the porch at Megan's house.
Ryan and I at the Santa Monica Pier.
following the wedding of this lovely couple, Preston and Kaela!
Megan and I out to lunch with Ryan and Preston at Venice Beach.
It was so, so wonderful to spend time with them. Megan and I delighted in the fact that soon we will be sister in laws. Preston and Ryan bonded over a Goofy Movie. Kaela shared her amazingly beautiful and oh-so-dang-tasty cupcakes with us. (Kaela works for The Frosted Cupcakery in Hollywood, CA and can be seen here demonstrating their deliciousness on the KCAL9 LA morning news show).
Ryan and I once again got to dreaming about finally moving to Southern California. We love our Washington friends, but it would be really wonderful to live closer to Megan, Preston, and Kaela--actual family and near-actual family. The weather is beautiful, the opportunities for Ryan's profession are grand--and heck, I just want to work at the cupcakery! Maybe someday.
For the meantime, we'll settle for getting married there in August. We've got our sights set on the Santa Monica Pier for a location, now we're just looking into whether or not we would need a permit!
When I went to California in 2002 I fell in LOVE with Venice Beach. The boardwalk is just so amazing, with everything you could possibly want on one side of you, and a beautiful beach and ocean view on the other.
Not to mention the rollerskating singing Jamaican guy playing a guitar as he rollerskated down the boardwalk. He was pretty awesome, too, and helped make the entire experience for me kind of surreal.
The Sketchbook Project looks really interesting, but I don't think anything I doodle is really worth sharing unless it's on my blog. I'm not really a 'sketcher' or an artist. I just like playing with crayons and colored pencils, and stick figures. But I def can't wait to see what you come up with!
The Jamaican guy playing guitar and rollerskating was there last weekend, too!


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Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
April 2017 , Volume 20, Issue 2, pp 219–221 | Cite as
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The reader may have noticed that the last issues of ETMP encompass an increasing number of reviews of books, some of them written in another language than English. We are happy to have two active book review editors who make that ETMP now has a substantial book review section. This issue contains, among others, reviews of Emanuela Ceva, Interactive Justice (by Fabian Wendt), David Shoemaker, Responsibility from the Margins (by Anneli Jefferson) and Benjamin Eidelson Discrimination and Disrespect (by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen).
Ron Aboodi opens this issue with an article on de dicto moral motivation: doing the right thing because it is right. He argues that lacking an effective de dicto moral motivation would put the agent in a bad position for responding in the morally-best manner (relative to her epistemic state) in a certain type of situations. Two central features of the relevant type of situations are (1) the appropriateness of the agent's uncertainty concerning her underived moral values, and (2) the practical, moral importance of resolving this uncertainty. Aboodi argues that in some situations that are marked by these two features the most virtuous response is deciding to conduct a deep moral inquiry for a de dicto moral purpose. In the next paper, Andreas Christiansen examines the claim, commonly found in the ethical debate on genetic modification (GM), that some anti-GM argument would also apply to an established, ethically accepted technology, and that the anti-GM argument is therefore unsuccessful. Christiansen discusses whether this argumentative strategy, the Similarity Argument, is sound. After presenting a logically valid, generic form of the Similarity Argument, he shows that it is subject to three types of objections.
Jonathan Surrovell's article deals with moral status. Many theories of moral status, Surrovell argues, that are intended to ground pro-choice views on abortion, tie full moral status to advanced cognitive capabilities. Extant accounts of this kind are inconsistent with the intuition that the profoundly cognitively disabled have full moral status. Surrovell improves upon these extant accounts by combining an anti-luck condition with Bonnie Steinbock's stratification of moral status. Surrovell argues that modal accounts of luck provide a non-speciesist basis for attributing the lack of advanced cognitive capacities in humans to luck without doing the same for non-human animals. Many maintain, says Terrance McConell, that if a beneficiary has a right to a benefit provided by his benefactor, then the former cannot owe the latter gratitude for that benefit. In his paper he argues against that view. He gives examples in which benefactors provide others with benefits to which they have a right even though most others are denying them that right. These benefactors are moral standouts; they do what is right when most similarly situated agents fail to do so. McConell then spells out some of the features of these benefactors' actions that make them worthy of gratitude.
The next two articles discuss issues in political theory. According to John Halstead, almost all democratic theorists accept 'High Stakes Instrumentalism' (HSI). According to HSI, we ought to use undemocratic procedures in order to prevent high stakes errors -- very substantively bad or unjust outcomes. However, democratically produced severe substantive injustice is much more common than many proponents of HSI have realised. Halstead examines the implications of this fact for democratic theory. Suppose, says Klemens Kappel in his paper, that we have a persistent disagreement about a particular set of policy options, not because of an underlying moral disagreement, or a mere conflict of interest, but rather because we disagree about a crucial non-normative factual assumption underlying the justification of the policy choices. The main question in Kappel's paper is what political legitimacy requires in such cases, or indeed whether there are defensible answers to that question. Kappel argues that under certain plausible assumptions regarding legitimacy, there are serious difficulties in identifying legitimate choices in fact-dependent policy disagreements.
Two articles deal with questions in animals ethics. Kyle Johanssen discusses whether concern for the interests of wild animals requires us to intervene in nature, e.g., when child mortality rates among them are very high because many of them give birth to large numbers of uncared-for offspring. Johanssen argues that animal rights theorists should embrace fallibility-constrained interventionism: the view that intervention in nature is desirable but should be constrained by our ignorance of the inner workings of ecosystems. In the future, a new form of gene editing called Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats may give us the capacity to intervene without perpetually interfering with wild animals' liberties. James Yeates & Julian Savalescu argue that the ethics of human-pet relationships should take the specific nature of these relationships into account, in particular the uniquely combined features of mutual companionship, quasi-family-membership, proximity, direct contact, privacy, dependence, and partiality. The approaches to ethical questions about pets should overlap with those of animal ethics and family ethics (and, for veterinary issues, with healthcare ethics), and so need not represent an isolated field of enquiry, but rather the intersection of those more established fields.
Perspectivists hold that what you ought to do is determined by your epistemic position. Objectivists hold that what you ought to do is determined by the facts irrespective of your perspective. In their paper, Jonathan Way & Daniel Whiting explore an influential argument for perspectivism which appeals to the thought that the normative is action guiding. The crucial premise of the argument is that you ought to φ only if you are able to φ for the reasons which determine that you ought to φ. They show that this premise can be understood in different ways. On one reading, it provides no support for perspectivism. On another reading, the premise lacks support. So, the argument fails. An important upshot of the paper is that the objectivist can embrace the thought about guidance. The subject of the next paper is the value of jokes. Nathaniel Sharadin examines the relationship between a joke's being morally objectionable and its being funny. Drawing on recent work by Aaron Smuts, he identifies the mechanism by which the negative moral value of a joke can affect its comedic value negatively. Pace Smuts' view, Sharadin argues that the very materials that underwrite the mechanism by which moral flaws can attenuate amusement, can also operate to make the negative moral value of a joke affect its comedic value positively.
Is faith a virtue? According to Ann Jeffrey, recent literature provides compelling arguments for a positive answer to this question. However, neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics depicts the fully virtuous person as having all the cognitive perfections necessary for possessing practical wisdom. The psychological profile of the fully virtuous person on the neo-Aristotelian picture is incompatible with faith's role as a virtue which depends on limitations of its possessor. Jeffrey argues that because of tensions internal to the standard neo-Aristotelian view, the neo-Aristotelian has good reason to revise her account of virtue and picture of the fully virtuous person. In the last article of this issue, Filippo Santoni di Sio raises the question how should autonomous vehicles be programmed to behave in the event of an unavoidable accident in which the only choice open is one between causing different damages or losses to different objects or persons. In his paper, he addresses this question mainly from major principles and norms embedded in the Anglo-American jurisprudence and case law on the 'doctrine of necessity'; and assesses which, if any, of these principles and norms can be utilised to find reasonable guidelines for solving the ethical issue of the regulation of the programming of autonomous vehicles in emergency situations.
1.Department of PhilosophyVrije UniversiteitAmsterdamthe Netherlands
2.Ethics InstituteUtrecht UniversityUtrechtthe Netherlands
Musschenga, A.W. & Heeger, F.R. Ethic Theory Moral Prac (2017) 20: 219. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-017-9806-1
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Mark Twain's stories of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn began in this Mississippi River town.
Get a pleasant overview of local attractions with a ride on an old-fashioned trolley. Experienced drivers for Hannibal Trolley Company Sightseeing Tours know their stuff and take great pride in sharing their town with visitors. Stops allow ample time for exploring.
For lunch, grab a sandwich, salad or soup at Java Jive, then head for the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum. One ticket gets you into eight buildings near the Mississippi.
Finish your afternoon by browsing local art at the Hannibal Arts Council's new Home for the Arts on Main Street or Ayers Pottery, just a few blocks from the river.
Check in for your overnight stay at the Garth Woodside Mansion, a birthday cake of a Victorian house where Twain stayed, or the lavish Reagan's Queen Anne Bed and Breakfast, in walking distance of downtown.
For dinner, try the Ole Planters Restaurant. The menu declares, "Our Specialty: Homemade Pie," and the owners mean it. From-scratch German chocolate is a local favorite. They're also known for barbecue.
To round out the day, see Twain's modern-day counterpart, Richard Garey, perform Mark Twain Himself at Planter's Barn Theater (May to September).
Richard Garey as Mark Twain.
Enjoy the regular breakfast at your B&B, or make reservations ahead for "Breakfast with Twain," featuring Richard Garey, at Reagan's Queen Anne Bed and Breakfast (available select days in summer).
Depending on the weather and the time of year, you can spend part of the second day underground—or on the river.
Samuel Clemens immortalized the underground passages of Mark Twain Cave Complex, where he played as a boy, when he wrote about Tom and Becky getting lost in McDougal's Cave. Guided tours, available year-round, last about an hour. See A Mark Twain Live Show along with the cave tour in the summer.
The Mark Twain Riverboat plies the Mississippi on sightseeing tours and dinner cruises, available seasonally.
Before heading out of town, stop by Riverview Park, a 465-acre park off Harrison Hill Road that features a statue of Samuel Clemens and one of the area's best Mississippi River overlooks.


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"If you come stay with me, you get to sleep with my buttons," Boldt joked as she showed a visitor the way to her guest bedroom.
By By Lori Qualls of the Daily News
On one wall, from floor to ceiling, collections of buttons are attached to "trays" or business letter-sized pieces of cardboard. Each tray features a theme – sometimes a design (hats and headdresses or a tea party), material (metal, wood, pewter) or color (green buttons of all sizes and shapes).
The hat and headdress tray features all sorts of buttons including the likeness of Santa and a sailor, a queen with a crown, a Victorian era woman with hat and an Egyptian headdress.
The buttons Boldt collects aren't your typical four-hole, flat buttons. Instead, they are shaped in every likeness imaginable (stars, Peanuts characters, acorns, dinner plates) made from every imaginable material (brass, ceramic, celluoid) and in all sizes.
Throughout her Midland home, Boldt has her favorites displayed, most of them in small collections in frames. A porch off the back of her house is her work room. There, she sorts her button collections and works on trays. She stores most of her buttons by attaching them with old telephone wire to pieces of cardboard.
She competes each year in the Michigan Button Society's fall competition. This year she is putting together a tray on "whistle buttons" or buttons with one hole on the front and two holes on the back. Looking at it from the front, the "one hole makes it look like a whistle," Boldt said.
She also is putting together a tray of buttons for the "diminutive" category. She has to find 70 small buttons that represent all competition categories, including metal, black glass, colored glass, pattern, shapes, inlays and more.
Boldt started collecting buttons in 1986. She was taking care of a woman in Arizona who was recuperating from surgery.
"I was there in the morning and I was looking at the wall and she had (buttons) like I have now."
She asked a few questions, and the woman took advantage of her interest.
"I'll pick you up on Sunday and take you to the club," the woman told Boldt. "And she did."
That was all it took.
Boldt said she especially is fond of moonglow buttons, a type of glass button made in the 1950s and '60s in the area of the Czech Republic. She also enjoys buttons with nautical themes.
She remembers finding a tin of loose buttons on the counter of a fruit market in northern Michigan. She paid 5 cents for a metal "Teddy Roosevelt" button, which features a teddy bear design. Boldt said a collector would pay $35 for the button.
Another find was a profile of an American Indian carved in bone and probably made in the 19th century.
Button collecting, she said, helped her through a difficult time in her life.
"I concentrated on (collecting) rather than the problem," she said. "It really helped me. I enjoy the beauty of the buttons and tying them in with historical things."
Boldt is putting together a theme tray of bug buttons, including one of a dragonfly, bee, butterfly and lady bug, for the Michigan Button Society's spring show. The show, "Buds & Bugs," is scheduled for May 4 at the Quality Inn of Houghton Lake. The show is hosted by Top of the Mitt button club. For more information, call Judy Stopke at (734) 662-4178.


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Sex Tape Movie Interview With Director Jake Kasdan
July 19, 2014 by Enza Ketcham
Jake Kasdan at the Red Carpet Premiere. Photo Credit: Sony Pictures
Jake Kasdan the director of Sex Tape movie was an amazing interview. Honestly, he was probably one of my favorite interviews I have ever done. Being able to learn about the logistics of the movie, his opinion, what he liked, how he felt, the process of the film all really interest me. I am a big geek and I felt like he was one too–In a good way! He was really down to earth the entire time, friendly, and made us laugh a lot.
James Kasdan was also the director for Bad Teacher (also starring Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel) and he also worked as a producer for one of my well liked shows–New Girl. When getting to ask him about Sex Tape he was very excited and open. He talked very highly of his lead stars and even spoke highly of the entire cast.
With the movie coming out in theaters THIS weekend you will be sure to check it out! I LOVED it and it was really funny! It is a great Date Night and Girls Night Out movie, but like the film suggests it is rated R. The movie is very funny and will have to covering your face because you will be laughing so hard!
Interview with Jake Kasdan group picture with bloggers!
Here is what he had to say:
Question: We want to know about the pineapple. Why the pineapple? (laughs) We are foodies.
Jake: It is super weird. Right? Yeah that was like a last minute. I am trying to figure out how to make that first scene um just a little just better. Jason had a really funny idea. He remembered some meeting as a kid that just starting to get going. He was weirded out about how much people were trying to push the sliced pineapple on him. I thought it was genius. So Hank is obsessed with pineapple and trying to get other people to eat pineapple.
Question: What was it like with the three kids that you cast? The child actors? They were fantastic…the sensitivity of the movie. How did that go?
Jake: We lucked out with the kids. They were just really sweet great kids. Their two kids were completely adorable..
Blogger: The little girl.
Jake: Yeah I know. She was like one of these angelic little people. and Scott's little boy was a sweetheart also. There was also a little bit of…we were always kind of protecting them from the story… to what ever extent that we could. We would do a read through of the script they would come and go out of the room. He is a little older so a little more savvy, he could understand what was happening a little more than the little girl who I think sorta didn't really understand at all. You know we were just sort of careful of what was being put out in front of them. They were just so good. So we were always so thrilled to see them coming. It isn't always how it is with child actors. I have worked with mainly really sweet kids. But it is just harder a lot of the times and it takes longer and all of that. This was the unusual thing where Jason and Cameron and I all had the same thing we just see those kids coming, the whole crew really, and we just really thrilled to see them. Yeah. It was a really nice thing.
And then Harry, who plays Howard, was this unique little comedy freak who very fortunately dropped in our lap at the very last conceivable minute and um it was a funny thing where were having a really hard time finding a kid who could convincingly sell all of that and you know and still be able to laugh at it and all of that..and just funny. We were getting at where we kept saying we just really have to see a few more kids I feel like and then he just like walked in in New York and owned it and it was like "well there it is. That is Howard".
(Side tracked someone sitting in the room Jake didn't notice)
Question: What was your biggest challenge in selling this movie and what was your favorite part?
Jake: Honestly..It was the daily challenge of just figuring out what you are doing moment to moment. There was a little bit of a thing I was conscience of going in to it that was sometimes it could be hard to…a lot of sexuality can overwhelm peoples ability to laugh. I have done a bunch of things that have had fairly edgy sex jokes…and I have had it happen and seen it happen where you are sitting in the audience and showing these people and if just what is happening on screen is too provocative it makes it harder for just people to laugh. Even if they are having a good time. Laughing out loud and looking at naked people those things quiet each other a little bit or something. So we knew that part of the challenge of this movie is that it had to be funny and about sex. That is what..that is a big part of why I wanted to make it. I thought it was like a really strong interesting thing to do. That was the appeal to me. It was this movie about a couple trying to work out their relationship, their life, and their sex life. There was really funny material in that, but we knew that in order to do that you kind of had to find a level (5:35) of that where you weren't really trying to hide from everything, but they had to actually be credibly in the midst of you know of everything they were doing but that can't overwhelm the jokes which is what we were there for. So there was a little bit of trying to find out how that balance would work and it was something I was a little bit anxious about because I knew it would be difficult…but as soon as I started working with the two of them I was like "we don't have to worry about that" because they are incredibly funny doing that stuff. And their kind of fearlessness add ease with it
Jake: Honestly..It was the daily challenge of just figuring out what you are doing moment to moment. There was a little bit of a thing I was conscience of going in to it that was sometimes it could be hard to…a lot of sexuality can overwhelm peoples ability to laugh. I have done a bunch of things that have had fairly edgy sex jokes…and I have had it happen and seen it happen where you are sitting in the audience and showing these people and if just what is happening on screen is too provocative it makes it harder for just people to laugh. Even if they are having a good time. Laughing out loud and looking at naked people those things quiet each other a little bit or something. So we knew that part of the challenge of this movie is that it had to be funny and about sex. That is what..that is a big part of why I wanted to make it. I thought it was like a really strong interesting thing to do. That was the appeal to me. It was this movie about a couple trying to work out their relationship, their life, and their sex life. There was really funny material in that, but we knew that in order to do that you kind of had to find a level (5:35) of that where you weren't really trying to hide from everything, but they had to actually be credibly in the midst of you know of everything they were doing but that can't overwhelm the jokes which is what we were there for. So there was a little bit of trying to find out how that balance would work and it was something I was a little bit anxious about because I knew it would be difficult. But truly as soon as I started working with the two of them I was like "we don't have to worry about that" because they are incredibly funny doing that stuff. And their kind of fearlessness and ease with it um makes it so you are disarmed. It takes away the discomfort for the audience I believe. and in the way I am the very first audience. They can be really funny doing this stuff and there is just no tension of that at all.
Blogger: One of the thing that was so different about this movie is that the leading man was just as naked as the leading lady. That was awesome.
Jake: We like that. That was by design. I am glad you think that.
Question: Was that a difficult decision was it hard to convince Jason to do that?
Jake: No, Jason just does that. That is one of his moves. Ugh. We all knew that was really important. Exactly what you were describing. It was just the way we wanted to treat this relationship and this couple is that they were really in it together. And you can really feel that in their performances and that they are both really giving of themselves in every conceivable way with each other and with the movie. It was just really important to me that it felt like a couple at home. They are great looking and hugely charming, but at it's core. It feels like a couple at their house…
Blogger: relatable.
Jake:…trying to activate their love life basically. So I thought a big part of that is that we need to be really even in that way. We are not kind of learing at either of them. And Jason and Cameron were both in total agreement and up for it. In a situation where it wasn't really that big of a thing. We are figuring it out scene by scene. How are we blocking this? Where is the camera? and all that. It was the most relaxed set ever.
Question: How much was improvised? (laughing) (Jake: You mean of the whole thing?) Yes out of the whole movie? Did you stick to the script or did it change?
Jake: I absolutely sorta of like improv. I like to work that way and when you have people that really like to improvise the way they can you are crazy not to because you get great stuff and funny stuff and also I think you get better acting some of the time. Because there is something about when people say stuff for the first time, even the stuff that is scripted, sometimes comes up in takes when they are improvising more. So here is a lot of improv in our process but I would say that the finished movie is very close to the original script. The script that we started with
Questions: Were the kids able to do any improv or were they pretty much straight from the script?
Jake: No they can improvise! All 3 of them: The little girl, the little boy, even Harrison–Were all Weirdly Solid Improvisors. Harrison actually improvised some of the raunchiest stuff I have ever had..stuff that was too raunchy for me! To like I was starring at the monitor, and we were all laughing…and I was like this kid was offending MY delicacy. He was supervised. With different people with him at different times. But we were all startling but hilarious. But in joke form, you know, hard crazy dirty jokes.
Blogger: How old is he?
Jake: He is like 14…just crossing over in that area where he is a comedian and a comedy nerd.
Question: What did your wife think of the movie?
Jake: She really digs it. She is actually a really big part of it. When we first get the script…when we were getting serious about doing this. I didn't show it too early…We have three small kids. She isn't going to read extra stuff. When it becomes serious consideration…So she reads everything. I am very sensual that way. She read it and had been skeptical because of the title. Then read it and loved it. She was like, "when my girlfriends and I have dinner this is all we talk about." That is what I want. To me that is what is interesting about this. Within the context of this big crazy comedy idea. This is exactly what she is talking about.
Question: Did the name cause a lot of problems?
Jake: It was partly because…the way they do this is people hang signs all over the place and I didn't just want signs all over Boston saying "Sex Tape" there was a little bit of discretion…
Questions: Were there any scenes where you were just like we couldn't use it? It was way pushing the envelope.
Only by the slightest degree. There was nothing so crazy that we couldn't handle. It was more like..mainly about getting a laugh….We would have a joke and on a second thought where it doesn't score just right with the audience….
Question: I had to ask how did you come up with the idea of Annie being a mommy blogger?
Jake: That idea…I am trying to think where that idea came from. Angela who wrote the original script. This was very much the movie she wrote. Over the process Jason and Nick did some work on it. I think it was relatively late where we…she was already a mommy blogger. I think right toward the end we did that opening that way where I it was in that voice where I thought was a really good way to step in this way. In the version of it I was the most interested in it was an important part of it. Where it would be from her perspective as we are getting in to it as she is addressing this universal thing where she is like "what happened?" Men and women feel the way and it was always important we hear from it first. In terms of getting on board to where it was heading because it is some what outrageous for what they end up doing. But they do it for all the right reasons, you know what I mean. We always said we want to be rooting for them to make a sex tape, we don't want to be judging them. The movie isn't pro-sex tape but it is pro sex and it should be an affirmative message where you should feel like they are doing something good for themselves. Then when it sorta all goes to hell you feel it with them because it is meant to be private. I felt like a big part of that thing is you had to walk in it with her. I knew Cameron would be great in doing that sequence with him in that way.
Question: What was your famous scene to film and why?
Jake: Honestly, we had so much fun. It was we were all every day like couldn't believe. We were all having a good time together. The vass majority of the movie was just the two of them. When it was just the two of them it was total pleasure. Then when we would get other people coming through it. We would just have these brilliant people showing up for days at a time it was just a total rush. With Ellie and Rob were some of the most fun days I ever had. The big sequence with Rob Lowe was like we were shooting for quite a while it was pretty involved. The dog was just a big chunk of the movie. We couldn't believe how funny they were…with Jason, the dog..
Blogger: We love the Disney part of it.
Jake: I thought it was so funny. It was the one he was talking about and were like…we should have a bunch of these all over the place. My production designer, Jeff, spear headed it and it was so good!
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MarketScale's own Sean Heath sat down and spoke with Roee Peled, the Sales Executive for PointGrab, a company that provides some of the most advanced facility management sensing solutions for workspace optimization across many industries. They discuss the growth of sensor technology and the wealth of data that it provides, how that information can dramatically alter the efficiency of building usage, and how the design of intelligent buildings is just in the beginning stages.
Sean Heath: You work in a company that has over 30 million consumer electronic devices installed with your HMI Software. That's a different type of communication. Do you find that there are certain commonalities or are we striving to reach certain levels of equality in HMI being compared to human to human?
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So the whole office space is becoming more flexible and agile. And in order to manage that more efficiently and also to provide the employee with some kind of tools or capabilities to use that more efficiently and to improve the way that he feels about the office space, you need different platforms starting with data-enabling platforms such as the sensing solution that we provide in order to enable such a solution and such a workspace environment.
Sean Heath: Could we say this is similar to the memory settings on a seat in your car that the building learns the way that I like to work and then it is able to transfer those settings or those parameters to whichever workspace I go to?
Roee Peled:So it's a combination of that and an additional way of thinking. So usually most of our customers before they move into a flexible environment, they would start off with a kind of utilization study or occupancy study to see how their current space is being used. And based on the data that they collect, they can then analyze it and plan the space more efficiently. Now this is relying more on historical data or statistical data that you collected over time.
With regards to the memory that you mentioned, it's more relating to real-time applications. So you will have a kind of application where in the morning you will select in which building you would like to work in and in which floor either based on your preference or on the availability of the resource.
Sean Heath:What's really interesting about that concept to me is that normally when we think about business applications, we think about the way they affect the humans that use those. In a way, this also affects the way the building behaves almost as if it takes on a personality which gives them an incredible amount of flexibility, I would think, to the way we design those buildings in the first place.
Roee Peled:Exactly. And again, this is part of the combination between historical statistical data and real-time data. So based on the historical data that you collect, you can actually plan your existing building or a future building that you're about to construct. You can plan it more efficiently and customize it more to your exact needs. And at the same time, keep a very high level of flexibility and agility with regards to the resources and the services that you provide to the employees.
 Sean Heath: So it's a pretty all-encompassing approach that CogniPoint presents. Tell me about a use case or two that surprised you, that when a customer said, "Hey, we like to be able to do this," you originally thought, "Huh, we never tried to do that." What suggestions or request have surprised you?
Roee Peled: So there are a lot of additional verticals where this can be applied for and currently we're in a stage of exploring and expanding to those verticals. Several examples I can give is for example in the medical space, so placing these sensors in hospitals, in inspection rooms, in patient rooms to see the occupancy. You can take it one level further and customize the algorithm to identify for example whether a person has fallen off his bed, whether he's sitting down or standing up or lying down. You can take this to universities, to the education sector, see how classrooms are being used, whether a certain course leaves up to the occupancy levels that it initially expected. You can take it into the retail sector.
So for example to see or to count how many people walked in and out of a store and then compare it to the income or the revenue on that day or on that month. You can also use it to see or to create what we call heat maps to see where people tend to concentrate whether it's on a specific aisle or next to a specific product. And like you mentioned, you can take it to the hotel sector to see how many people are actually going into specific rooms.
Roee Peled: And again, I think that the idea here is to rather than look at the building, rather than a block structure with cement, look at it as a kind of dynamic area where you interact with the building the building interacts with you. And as a result of that, it can actually give you a kind of a feeling or a comfort level that you wouldn't get if that building wasn't smart.
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Power was defined as "having things your way" and leveraging others to get them to do what you want. Several items were identified. First, have control over resources important to others – money, equipment, information. Shouldn't we share and effectively communicate resources with others?
Second, tell others they get rewards by helping and punished if they don't. How about building strong relationships with others so they'll want to help you? Third, have multiple options to achieve something. Don't be devious or secretive with these options.
Fourth, make the first move because hesitation shows weakness. Numerous studies demonstrate second movers achieve more because they learned and improved upon first movers. Fifth, add antagonists to your team. Can't we collaborate with others and seek win-win solutions?
Sixth, remove rivals. Groupthink doesn't create long-term results. Seventh, don't get diverted by items interfering with your goals. Prioritize and stay focused. Eighth, use a personal touch when communicating. Isn't this just common courtesy when communicating?
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The author's summary is you'll achieve power by following these 11 power principles. Power may be briefly achieved; however, it doesn't sustain. History demonstrates these failures (Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Hitler). Power seems synonymous with bullying.
Those with true power never seek it (Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, Jesus Christ). They believed in something so strongly and were willing to die for it; and others chose to follow them. My power principles: share, communicate, collaborate, learn, earn respect, be genuine and kind, and believe in yourself – body, mind and spirit.


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