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Future Insights LIVE! 2015
Keynote Partner Session: So You Want To Build An API
17:06 with Eric Fleming
After years of building APIs for various kinds of businesses and consumers, Eric wants to share with you what he's learned along the way. You have lots of choices to make when creating an API. A lot of those choices will be made for you based on your business and development capabilities. Together you'll go through the different choices you can make, the pros and cons of each, and finally what to do after you've made some decisions. We'll cover everything from delivery protocols to marketing and everything in between. Along the way, Eric will walk you through the choices he made in developing the Traitify API and the analysis that went into each decision.
So I like to start with something that I call developer experience.
It's probably a term that other people have used before.
But a conference like this is really cool because you have designers and
developers at the same conference talking about similar things.
You can kinda steal ideas from each other and come up with something really cool.
So developer experience to me is same as user experience but
my users are developers.
So how are they gonna use my API?
And that's gonna go into influencing pretty much every decision I'm gonna make.
So the first step is kind of identifying who your developers are.
If you're working with maybe your internal team and you're developing internal API,
you have a really good idea who your developers are.
If you're like me building something that we don't know who the audience is
gonna be.
We have an audience that we hope is gonna use it.
Then maybe you're just kinda making your decisions based on this ideal developer.
And I'll walk through each kinda decision we had to make, and
how developer experience influenced our decision for that.
So the first thing in developing an API is kind of
deciding what protocol you wanna deliver your API in.
So to me there's two choices here, SOAP and REST.
If you have a large enterprise company that you're working with
who are use to using SOP.
Maybe they have, it's a Java development shop, then you probably wanna chose SOP,
because it's something that you're developers are already familiar with.
It's not something they have to learn.
They may already have tooling in place to use that.
A few jobs ago I was working at such a shop, and
I had to build a number of APIs, both internally and externally facing.
All the internal APIs ended up being SOP,
because that's what the developers knew how to use.
All of our external APIs were REST.
For Tradify, we wanted to be kind of modern.
We wanna make it really easy.
Developer experience in this case is me and I like working with a REST API.
Our other main audience at first is gonna be that widget,
that JavaScript widget that I showed you where people can actually take the test.
And SOAP doesn't work so well on the client side.
It's just not fun to work with.
So we ended up going with REST.
The next decision to make is what type of data you wanna deliver.
If you're using SOAP then you probably wanna do a XML.
You could do JSON in the message body of a SOAP request.
And I've actually seen that done, but
I don't know why you would ever wanna do that to somebody.
It's kinda mean.
And that's really the, that's the biggest case use for XML in my opinion.
If you're building something new from scratch, most people are using JSON or
at least doing JSON first and coming back XML second.
All the major APIs are doing it.
So we chose to go with JSON.
Once again our first client is going to be this JavaScript widget that we're
building, and JavaScript and JSON, it's a good pair.
Next step is authentication.
If you are building a product or an API or
something that your users need to access their own data with,
you're gonna wanna use something like OAuth where the user is given
something a developer explicit access to certain data in your API.
And so that decision is kind of made for you.
There's a couple of different options there.
You can use OAuth and SOAP, there's XAML,
which is kinda the same thing but not really.
If you're not going after specific user data, say you're using something
like Stripe where you just want access to generic data or you wanna process credit
cards that are anonymous, they use HTTP basic.
Amazon uses HMAC.
We decided to go with HTTP Basic mainly because it's easy to use.
I wanted to be able to hit a URL and actually see JSON
spit out without having to go through some kind of client to get it.
And HTTP Basic is the best for
that in my opinion cuz the browser will just prompt you for it.
Let's see next is choosing your tech stack and
this is another one where I'm going to go back to developer experience but
this time you're talking about your own team because really when you're building
an API you're just exposing an interface to everybody, right?
So it doesn't really matter what's on the back end
to developers outside of your own company.
So what do your developers already know?
What do they program in now?
What do they wanna program in?
When I came in this was primarily a Ruby and Rails shop.
So that was certainly one of the considerations we had.
We could go with Ruby and
Rails to build our API, but I came in with some Java experience.
We had a couple other guys that were using Go at the time.
Node, Scala.
So what I did was we actually split up and we kind of took a technology or
a framework in those different languages and everybody got to try one out.
And the idea was that we would come back together, report on how much we liked it,
and the criteria was we had to build a small little service.
So it was a user API, you had to create a user, list users, get users, etc.
There had to be authentication, and
you had to do little bit of performance testing.
Not super crazy performance testing, just like using what is it,
the Amazon tool that's built in to your Mac, AB.
So anyway, we did all that, tried to come up,
came together at the end and kind of came down to a few different things.
We decided to go with Java.
It's very performing, it's easy to find other developers that know it.
And we found a cool framework called Drop Wizard that made writing Java nice again.
I wasn't a huge fan of Java when I did it before just because it was complex.
But coming back to it after going through Ruby seeing Drop Wizard it
reminded me a lot of Ruby and it was written by a guy named Koda Hale, and
I think they used Ruby and it probably influences the decision to write this.
The next step is building it which is a huge topic but,
hopefully you have an idea of what you're building before you start.
If not, there's a few ways that you can figure out what you need to build.
For us, like I've said before, our main starting point was that JavaScript widget
that we were building that displayed the test so that's our first client, and we
know that we have to build the minimum on the API side to be able to support that.
And then we also need to build something to be able to build that.
So that was our first API that we built was something to be able to build that and
then something to be able to render that.
So I would suggest you just building what you need.
If you don't have an existing client base then try to find a beta client.
Maybe you have existing customers that are willing to try something out and willing
to work with you while you work through the bugs and with growing pains of that.
There's another side to that, figuring that's the interface side but
there's also how do you architect this thing,
which is also another huge topic that I'm gonna boil down to a couple minutes.
We went with a service oriented architecture.
It's kind of micro services but not really.
They're a little bit smaller than micro, mini services I guess you would call them.
So we're not having a service that is just for creating a user and a user for, and
one for creating an assessment and we have one for the public API and one for
building a slide deck which is what we call those things, and one for billing.
So they're small services but they're grouped together and they all
talk nicely together and it's also allowed us to actually open up the tech stacks.
So our building service is currently being written in Go which is
something that one of our developers wanted to try out.
And we looked into it and he loved it and we loved it so
we're gonna try that out and see how it goes.
Testing is the next big topic.
This is kind of gonna be driven by your company culture.
If you are a test driven development shop then you're going to
test drive develop your API as well.
At the very minimum you want to create at least some,
you want to have some testing on your publicly exposed API so
that every end point that you expose is going to be consistent throughout.
And you can do that a number of ways.
I like to use integration tests because it tests the whole stack and
they're easy to use but if you're doing TDD you probably wanna have unit tests and
it's not bad to have both.
We have both.
The next big thing to test is performance.
When we first built this we were focusing on developer performance and
getting it out fast.
We weren't focusing on how well is this gonna perform when we get a million people
on it?
If you have an organization that's gonna have a million people hitting your API
right off the bat, maybe you have a big company that's gonna use this,
then you need to focus on it sooner than we did.
We could take our time because we were just growing, so it could grow with us.
And we had we did some performance testing, the numbers were not good
the first time we did it, we had a member from our development team and
a member from our dev ops team spend probably a good month and
a half to two months fine-tuning things and now it's pretty awesome,
so as an example our goal was to get to 100,000 concurrent users.
A user, for us, is somebody going through a complete assessment.
So it takes about two minutes, so
it's about seven to eight requests in the span of two minutes.
And that's what our performance test was setup to do.
We use a tool called Gatling and it will you know basically hit
all these different end points and throw as much load at it as you can handle.
So our goal is 100,000 of those in a two minute timeframe.
Before we did our performance tuning it would have taken 30,000
machines to be able to handle that, which is terrible.
After spending a month and a half it only takes 20 machines.
So little things made a huge difference and then we were able to go and
do some crazy things that got it really fast.
But we're very happy with the results and it's something that you have to do and
you just have to figure out if you need to do it at the beginning of the cycle or
towards the end.
And then use it.
They call this eat your own dog food.
So build with it, have your internal team just work with your API.
They're gonna discover a lot of bugs,
have internal hack-a-thons where people can just build on it.
I know working at the company, working with this API, building it all this time,
you have all these ideas that come up of things you would like to
build to work with it.
So let people do that.
External hack-a-thons,
actually our first external hack-a-thon was at this conference last year.
And we discovered so much that we were lacking
in our API on the documentation side just lacking some end points that made it so
that other people could use it, but it was so helpful.
We got tonnes of great feedback, we implemented it immediately and
now we're much better off then we were back then.
And then beta clients.
If you can get some people, maybe give them a discount for using it, or
if it's free, just ask them to do it.
They'll be good testers too.
Documentation, this kinda goes back to using it and
our experience at the hack-a-thon.
But our documentation sucked.
It was really bad.
There was a key thing missing where like the first part of our,
of using our API is to create and assessment and
we didn't have the necessary data there that you could even do that.
So you couldn't even start [LAUGH] it took discovering that at the hack-a-thon for
us to realize it and
it was, it kind of sucked but I think our documentation is pretty awesome now.
We were heavily influenced by Twitter, Facebook.
Stripe has excellent documentation.
There's a lot of good examples out there.
Steal ideas, you don't have to rewrite everything.
But definitely do it.
It's hugely important.
I underestimated it at first, but it's crazy important.
The next topic is building client libraries.
I think I was at a talk last year at this conference again, And
somebody was talking about building an API.
And one of the things was, do not build your own client libraries.
It's a pain in the butt, you're gonna have to support it,
and we have discovered that that is kinda true.
But I don't think I would have done it differently.
We decided to build client libraries.
We started in the languages that we knew and then we just kind of built them out.
I would suggest not
building a client library in a language that your don't know.
We had one in PHP and I think we went through a few different hack-a-thons and
it just it never worked really.
Finally we got somebody who knew what they were doing and
made it a really first class client library.
But hopefully, depending on what kind of API you're writing.
If you're writing a REST API it's going to be super easy and
there's tools built into most languages and frameworks to allow you to
work with just making an HTP request is supper easy if you're getting JSON back,
built in library of support in many languages.
If you're doing SOAP, there's tons of tools out there that will generate codes,
so I wouldn't even suggest building your client library for that.
Support, so you could tell there's a lot that going into building an API that maybe
you haven't considered.
Support is a big one on our developer site,
if you go to our developer site, we list out everybody,
all the developers on the team and you can actually email them directly.
We actually, we also show which languages they are most proficient in and
we encourage people to just talk directly to us.
We want to know if something's going wrong, if something is hard to work with,
if you don't understand something, so that we can make it better.
And rather than going through some support channel, and us kind of being shielded
from that, I want to know so that we can make it better and we can feel their pain.
Marketing, not something you necessarily consider when you're building this but
it's huge one, you need to get people using it otherwise you're not going to
have a job much longer.
Hack-a-thons is a good one, a good way to get people to know about your API,
that it exists, there's API challenges,
there's websites out there that will let you issue and API challenge,
give cash prizes and it's just all online evangelism, giving talks,
talking about your API, we sponsored this conference, sponsoring
another good way to get the word out on your API and get people using it.
And that's all got.
I'll let you guys get to lunch, unless people have questions then I'm happy to
answer first, we know the rules right, round of applause.


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An amble across the continents
Three visit the Air and Space Museum
Our friend Gab has joined us in DC; she too is an aeroplane geek. So it was always going to be a big day when two aviation geeks and a space science nerd went to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
There are two ways to approach the Air and Space Museum.
Gab and I were starstruck, and a little confused at first, starting at the wrong end of the space race and working our way backwards from the moon landing. We soon got our bearings and marvelled and admired every slick, gorgeous piece of aeronautic machinery that we approached. We were amazed and bedazzled as any true plane spotter would be, overwhelmed by rockets, planes and spacecraft. Gab said "Beautiful" a lot, I said "Wow" a lot.
And then there was Don.
We lost him immediately on entry, spotting him every now and then as he darted between rockets and satellites. But a pattern soon emerged. As Gab and I wound our way through the displays, looking up, looking down, Don would suddenly appear in front of us at random moments.
"Oh my God," he exclaimed at one point, "it's a V2! Do you know what that is?"
"A V2?" I suggested.
"It's a V2! Let me tell you about the V2…" and then he was gone.
And then he was back.
"Is that what I think it is?" he bounded across to a spacey looking spherical object.
"The Death Star?" asked Gab, only half joking.
"It's the Telstar! Let me tell you about the Telstar…." and then he was gone.
"Do you know how long I've wanted to see the original 1903 Wright Flyer?"
"Ever since you were a…"
"Ever since I was a little boy…" and then he was gone.
Back and forth as though attached to us by an elastic band.
It was one of the best museums any of us had ever been to. So much to see that by the end of our visit, Gab and I had walked roughly 37km.
And Don had run 163.
Imagine my surprise
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There is a core assumption from guest columnist and academic Brent Skorup that the government is evil and that commercial operations such as Google, Facebook, Apple and Comcast are better ["The Internet is not like an electric or water utility," Opinion, Aug. 31]. His assertions that we should not let the government regulate broadband is both facile and somewhat of a disservice of our form of government.
That the Internet, its pipes and its content should be free and open is an unassailable argument that Skorup wants to obfuscate. He probably still thinks that Google "does no evil," intentionally or otherwise.
If we follow his arguments to their logical conclusion then there would be no citizens access to cable, or indeed other important safeguards to the access and use of the our public assets and resources.


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Sidarawiczy (; ; pol. hist. Sidorowicze) – agromiasteczko na Białorusi, w obwodzie mohylewskim, w rejonie mohylewskim, w sielsowiecie Sidarawiczy, przy drodze magistralnej M8.

Do 1917 położone były w Rosji, w guberni mohylewskiej, w powiecie bychowskim. Następnie w granicach Związku Sowieckiego. Od 1991 w niepodległej Białorusi.

Urodził tu się białoruski polityk Jauhien Mielnikau.

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Dehydration is no joke - and drinking several glasses of water a day is the best way to avoid it. "As a rough rule of thumb, most people need about 1.5 to 2 litres of fluid a day," says Dr Kim Glass, lead physician at the Bupa Clinic on Basinghall Street. "Your body needs it to get rid of waste products and transport nutrients around the body. You can get the fluid you need from other drinks like tea, coffee, milk or fruit juices and also from your food - but water is the best choice as it contains no additional sugar or calories." Dr Glass says to keep an eye out for signs of dehydration - dry lips, exhaustion, headaches and dark urine - and drink more water if they occur.
There's a reason why your natural reaction is to squint when it's sunny out. "Looking at the sun just for a few seconds can be extremely damaging to the eyes and may cause blindness," says Sarah Farrant, optometrist and member of the College of Optometrists. To protect your eyes, she recommends wearing sunglasses whenever you're outdoors, year-round - not just during the summer. Consider this health warning an excuse to buy a new pair for autumn. But, unless you're a celebrity, do take them off once you go inside.
There's nothing worse than making a cup of tea and realising your milk is past its date. It may be tempting to just pour it in anyway and hope for the best - but it wouldn't be smart. "Perishable foods labeled 'use by' tend to go off quickly and potentially can put your health at risk by causing food poisoning," says Christina Merryfield, lead dietician at the Bupa Cromwell Hospital. "The label 'best before' tends to appear on foods that are not always perishable and focuses more on quality rather than safety." Unfortunately, milk falls under the first category.
You know that feeling of extreme misery you get after a night of dancing in four-inch stilettos? Mr Kaser Nazir, podiatric surgeon at The London Foot Clinic, calls it a "high heel hangover." In addition to aches and pains, he says frequently wearing high heels can put strain on your back and lower legs, adversely affect joints and muscles and can eventually cause arthritis or foot deformities. "In my opinion, women are going to wear heels no matter what you tell them," he says. So to limit problems, he recommends you not wear heels higher than three inches and wear supportive shoes for commuting to work and walking long distances.
There seems to be loads of controversy over diet soda - and many dieters think of it as their go-to weight-loss beverage. But according to obesity researcher Zoe Harcombe, its aspartame content makes it one of the worst things you can consume. "Just search 'the dangers of aspartame' and decide for yourself," she says.
Stressed after a long day at work? Don't think twice about popping open that bottle of merlot. Christina Merryfield, lead dietician at the Bupa Cromwell Hospital, says: "As long as you are within your safe limits (no more than 2-3 units for women, with at least two alcohol free days), there may be some benefits in moderate drinking." And Dr Laurence Gerlis from SameDayDoctor London Clinic agrees that one glass is just fine - and can be good for the heart. Cheers to that!
Okay, so you're allowed a couple drinks a day. But can you save them all up for Saturday night, instead? Not so much. Alcohol intake should be no more than 2-3 units for women a day, with at least two alcohol-free days a week," says Christina Merryfield, lead dietician at the Bupa Cromwell Hospital. "This guideline applies no matter however often you drink. You cannot compensate by saving all your units (14 units for women a week) for one night. Drinking large amounts can compromise your long-term health." We're not saying we've never had one too many - but every time you do, you're taking a risk.
In the winter, many of us get to work before the sun is up and leave after it sets. This means we may only get exposure to sunlight on the weekends and that's just not enough. "Vitamin D deficiency is very common in the winter," says Dr Laurence Gerlis from SameDayDoctor London Clinic. "Also you may suffer from seasonal affective disorder (SAD), which is depression caused by lack of sunlight." To combat this, consider taking Vitamin D supplements when the days are short and make a conscious effort to step outdoors for lunch - even if it's just for a quick walk around the block.
Many of us dread seeing the GP and take the "wait and see if it goes away" approach when any new issues arise. But it's always better to be safe than sorry.


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Northern Boat Show Launches At Liverpool's Mersey River Festival
#liverpoolboatshow – The Northern Boat Show is a festival of boating at the heart of the International Mersey River Festival. This three-day boat show will showcase world class sailing boats, power boats and marine products and services, all set against the backdrop of the Albert Dock.
The latest sailing and power boats will be showcased in Albert Dock and there will be a land-based exhibition on the quayside next to Salthouse Dock. The land-based show will be free to all festival visitors and boat enthusiasts can purchase pontoon tickets to gain exclusive access to the boats on display in Albert Dock.
Location: Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool L3 4BB. Open 10am to 5pm Fri 5th, Sat 6th & Sun 7th June.
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Birkenhead Docks Upbeat On Future Growth
#PORTS – The operator of Birkenhead Docks at Twelve Quays Terminal, says it is confident it will recover the business it lost when DFDS Seaways closed down ferry operations last year, according to a report in today's Liverpool Daily Post.
Birkenhead Port, part of the Peel Group, says overall tonnage for the year to March stood at 3.2m tonnes – down 3% on the previous year. It said the fall was due to DFDS's decision to shut its Birkenhead-Dublin routes in January, 2011 (click HERE).
In accounts newly filed at Companies House, Birkenhead Port said business for the first ten months of the year had been strong. But it said that, in the final quarter, ongoing growth on its Belfast route was "more than offset by the loss of all Dublin volume".
It added: "While, in the short term, the loss of the DFDS business will adversely impact revenues and overall financial result, in the medium term the directors are confident that the company will recover this lost business as we look to contract with another operator at this flagship, purpose-built roll-on, roll-off facility."
It said that, with Stena Line axing its Fleetwood-Larne service, Birkenhead could attract more business to its Belfast route.
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Destroyer's Last Visit to Liverpool
The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Manchester is on its last visit to Liverpool, prior to its decommissioning. The Type 42 destroyer is currently berthed at the Liverpool Landing Stage, where she will be open to the public tomorrow (Sunday) between 12 noon and 4 pm.
One of the most notable actions of the warship's three decades in service was during the Gulf War in 1991. The destroyer was engaged in the Persian Gulf. This was primarily to uphold the trade blockade imposed on Iraq during that country's invasion of neighbouring Kuwait.
Special River-Explorer Cruise's run by Mersey Ferries are scheduled for tomorrow. The cruises will provide an opportunity to sail close to the HMS Manchester, which is berthed alongside the Liverpool Landing Stage.
The cruises are scheduled to run between 11 am to 4pm and they include a live commentary from a Blue Badge Guide. On these cruises the normal ticket price applies. For further information contact Mersey Ferries for timetable and ticket fares on 0151 330 1000 or logon to www.merseyferries.co.uk
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Ferry-Go-Round on the Irish Sea
At this quiet time of the year, vessels from Irish Sea ferry operators are taken off routes to undergo annual dry-docking, writes Jehan Ashmore.
In the case of Irish Ferries, their Rosslare-Pembroke Dock route vessel, Isle of Inishmore arrived on the Mersey yesterday at the Cammell Laird dry-dock facility in Birkenhead.
The 1997 Dutch-built Isle of Inishmore had relieved the 50,938 tonnes 'flagship' Ulysses from the Dublin-Holyhead route which too had gone to Birkenhead for maintenance since January 4th.
The Ulysses is now back on service and the company's French routes cruiseferry, Oscar Wilde is covering the Isle of Inishmore's absence from Rosslare-Pembroke Dock sailings.
Continental services to France on the Rosslare-Cherbourg route will resume on February 16th when the Oscar Wilde returns from her overall. The Bahamas flagged vessel will re-open seasonal Rosslare-Roscoff sailings starting on May 13th.
In addition to conventional tonnage Irish Ferries also operate the fast-craft catamaran Jonathan Swift in tandem with Ulysses on the Dublin-Holyhead route. The Ulysses takes 3 hours 25 minutes while the 39-knot catamaran craft marketed as the Dublin 'Swift' is advertised with a scheduled passage time of 1 hour and 49 minutes.
The Australian-built catamaran was taken off the central corridor route yesterday to be drydocked also in Birkenhead until January 18th. Dublin Swift sailings return to the Dublin-Holyhead route on February 19th with the first crossing to depart at 14.30 hours from the capital port.
For the latest information on ferry sailings and reservations click: www.irishferries.com
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Mersey's Biggest Sailing Event to be Staged at Liverpool Boat Show
The River Mersey's biggest sailing event in living memory will take place when two open regattas are staged during the Liverpool Boat Show.
About 150 boats will compete in a series of spectacular races on each of the two weekends of the show, which takes place from April 29 to May 8 next year.
Up to three races will be held each day on the weekends of April 30 and May 7, with classes for modern racing yachts, ultra-fast multi-hulls, local classes and traditional nobbys.
The regattas – comprising the Royal Dee Yacht Club Spring Regatta and the Liverpool Yacht Club Kindred Clubs Regatta – will be one of the main highlights of the Liverpool Boat Show, which takes place in the splendid surroundings of the Albert Dock.
Competitors from across the UK and Ireland are expected to take part in the regattas, which will see boats racing against each other on courses in front of the Albert Dock.
Today organisers urged enthusiasts and clubs to submit their entries for the races to secure a place in one of the most spectacular sailing events of the year.
Alastair Soane, chair of the race committee, said: "This will be the biggest sailing event for probably 70 or 80 years on the River Mersey and interest is already very high."
Alastair Soane, a past Commodore and President of Liverpool Yacht Club who sits on the steering committee of the boat show, added: "We already have expressions of interest from clubs and individuals in Scotland, Wales and Ireland and we are keen to get representation from the sailing fraternity right across the UK, including the South coast.
"The combination of the festival atmosphere of the show and the spectacle of the racing will make these truly unique events and we'd urge potential participants to register as soon as possible."
A number of North West clubs are supporting the regattas, including Liverpool Yacht Club, the Royal Mersey Yacht Club, the Royal Dee Yacht Club, West Kirby Sailing Club, Wallasey Yacht Club, Dee Sailing Club, Blundell Sands Sailing Club, Liverpool Sailing Club, Hoylake Sailing Club, West Lancs Sailing Club and the Nobby Association.
Mr Soane said: "The entire North West sailing community is throwing its weight behind the Liverpool Boat Show and we are determined to make it a show like no other and to showcase to a whole new generation the pleasure and benefits to be had from sailing."
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The Half Ton Class was created by the Offshore Racing Council for boats within the racing band not exceeding 22'-0". The ORC decided that the rule should "....permit the development of seaworthy offshore racing yachts...The Council will endeavour to protect the majority of the existing IOR fleet from rapid obsolescence caused by ....developments which produce increased performance without corresponding changes in ratings..."
When first introduced the IOR rule was perfectly adequate for rating boats in existence at that time. However yacht designers naturally examined the rule to seize upon any advantage they could find, the most noticeable of which has been a reduction in displacement and a return to fractional rigs.
After 1993, when the IOR Mk.III rule reached it termination due to lack of people building new boats, the rule was replaced by the CHS (Channel) Handicap system which in turn developed into the IRC system now used.
The IRC handicap system operates by a secret formula which tries to develop boats which are 'Cruising type' of relatively heavy boats with good internal accommodation. It tends to penalise boats with excessive stability or excessive sail area.
The most significant events for the Half Ton Class has been the annual Half Ton Cup which was sailed under the IOR rules until 1993. More recently this has been replaced with the Half Ton Classics Cup. The venue of the event moved from continent to continent with over-representation on French or British ports. In later years the event is held biennially. Initially, it was proposed to hold events in Ireland, Britain and France by rotation. However, it was the Belgians who took the ball and ran with it. The Class is now managed from Belgium.
At A Glance – Half Ton Classics Cup Winners
2017 – Kinsale – Swuzzlebubble – Phil Plumtree – Farr 1977
2016 – Falmouth – Swuzzlebubble – Greg Peck – Farr 1977
2015 – Nieuwport – Checkmate XV – David Cullen – Humphreys 1985
2014 – St Quay Portrieux – Swuzzlebubble – Peter Morton – Farr 1977
2013 – Boulogne – Checkmate XV – Nigel Biggs – Humphreys 1985
2011 – Cowes – Chimp – Michael Kershaw – Berret 1978
2009 – Nieuwpoort – Général Tapioca – Philippe Pilate – Berret 1978
2007 – Dun Laoghaire – Henri-Lloyd Harmony – Nigel Biggs – Humphreys 1980~
2005 – Dinard – Gingko – Patrick Lobrichon – Mauric 1968


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Why 'The Undiscovered Country' is the Best 'Star Trek' Film
Dec 10, 2022, 10:24 am EST | 11 min read
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In November, a friend challenged me to watch all six classic Star Trek films starring the original cast before the end of the month. Of course, I accepted, and by the time I finished, I came away with the notion that the series's final film was the best. Here's why.
A Star Trek Allegory at Its Best
It's a Slow Burning Suspense Ride that Doesn't Let Up
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The Enterprise is Firing on All Thrusters
It Portrays Starfleet and Its Officers at Their Finest
So Many Top-Notch Scenes
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If you've ever wondered why so many people treat Star Trek like a religion, it's because many of its stories harness the storytelling power of allegory. They address real-life scenarios and teach moral lessons by placing the crew in an ethical conundrum that forces them to make hard choices and where there are often no good answers.
Classic examples of allegorical storytelling in Trek include "The Doomsday Machine," which used an allegory of a planet-killing entity for the destructive power of an H-Bomb. "A Private Little War" saw the Klingons and the Federation provide primitive cultures with advanced weaponry as an allegory for the ongoing Vietnam War, where the Americans and the Soviet Union were locked in a proxy battle using the Vietnamese as stand-ins. And "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" addressed the racial tensions in 1960s America.
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These allegories were sorely missing in Star Trek films. When they did address current-day topics, like in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, no allegory was employed. Rather, they spelled out that humans killed all the Humpback Whales, and it was necessary to travel back in time to get some back to save Earth from a mysterious probe looking for them. And while Voyage Home is a great watch, it often feels hamfisted with its messaging. "Save the whales" might as well have been plastered all over the screen.
The allegory in Star Trek VI is the ending of the Cold War. And in 1991, that was about as current-day as it got. The premise, as director Nicolas Meyer puts it, was "what if the wall came down in space," and was inspired by a walk on the beach with Spock actor Leonard Nimoy.
The begging of the film is the Klingon Empire's (again a stand-in for the Soviet Union with the Federation playing the United States) primary energy production facility exploding, leading to the imminent collapse of the empire, which then reaches out to the Federation for peace negotiations. It's an obvious nod to the real-life nuclear disaster at Chornobyl in 1986, which kicked off a series of events that eventually led to the collapse of the communist empire.
And in classic Trek fashion, themes of prejudice, aging, faith, hope, and more hang heavy in every scene of the film. Kirk must deal with his bigotry toward Klingons that began when a rouge crew murdered his son David in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Spock faces the challenges of his faith in the logic that "the universe will unfold as it should." And Dr. McCoy's surgical skills fail him during his attempt to save the Klingon chancellor after an assassination plot. Every scene in this film is layered with meaning, subtext, and consequence. A thing that several Star Trek films before just don't replicate.
It's a Slow Burning Suspense Ride that Doesn't Let Up
Some lesser Star Trek films leave you bored and wondering when something important or exciting will happen. Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek V are the worst offenders in this regard. This is not the case in The Undiscovered Country. From the moment Praxis explodes to the moment the Enterprise flies into the sunset, each scene builds upon the last in a tightly-woven, perfectly-paced action-adventure story presented as a political thriller, courtroom drama, prison break film, and murder mystery. No superfluous scenes, throw-away lines of dialogue, or fourth-wall-breaking gags drag the movie from the story unfolding in front of your eyes. It's a pure gripping story from beginning to end.
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And that's not to say that lighter films like Star Trek IV are an unwelcome change of pace or that the brilliant work in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan doesn't share a similar gripping structure. It's simply to say that after five films, Nicholas Meyer and company finally unlocked the formula of a perfect Star Trek film and executed it accordingly.
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After three seasons of live television, two years of an animated show, and five films, the original cast of Star Trek is undoubtedly at its best in this film. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForrest Kelly, and the rest wear their characters like a set of old clothes that fit perfectly but somehow retain their sense of newness. However, the ancillary cast is arguably the best casting decision ever made in a Star Trek film. Here's a rundown of the guest stars in The Undiscovered Country:
Christopher Plummer as General Chang: For my money, Captain Von Trapp from The Sound of Music is the most brilliantly portrayed Klingon in all of Star Trek. He's not the bloodthirsty warrior like Christopher Lloyd's Captain Kruge in Star Trek III and Todd Bryant's Captain Klaa in Star Trek V. Instead, he's cold, calculating, and refined. Versed in the classics of Earth's literature, he's constantly quoting Shakespeare in a way only a classically trained actor can. Chang rivals Khan from Star Trek II as one of the greatest Trek villains of all time.
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Kim Cattrall as Lt. Valeris: The future Sex in The City star brings grace and femininity to the often stodgy Vulcan species. And those aspects of her character complement the cool logic of the race in a way hasn't been replicated in the franchise since (sorry, T'Pol). Her character was initially written to be the return of fan-favorite Lt. Saavik. However, the character was changed when Kirstie Alley and Robin Curtis proved unavailable to reprise the role. And that's a good thing, as the character's resolution wouldn't have sat well with long-time fans of the franchise.
Kurtwood Smith as The President of the United Federation of Planets: In addition to being a murder-mystery sci-fi action adventure film, The Undiscovered Country is an intergalactic political drama that involves the highest levels of the Federation government. The movie's events require the intervention (or non-intervention) of the rarely depicted president of the Federation, and Kurtwood Smith brings poise and gravitas to the role. And with his alien makeup, you won't even recognize him as Red from That '70s Show.
David Warner as Chancellor Gorkon: Star Trek is famous for reusing actors in different roles across films and series. We last saw David Warner in Star Trek V as St. John Talbot. A rather forgettable part. In The Undiscovered Country, he plays the stand-in for former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. And he brings dignity and solemnity to the role. And the weight of the character's death early in the film fills the rest of the movie with a sense of dire consequence and high stakes.
Brock Peters as Admiral Cartwright: We last saw this character in Star Trek IV, but he didn't have a large part. And while Admiral Cartwright is only in a handful of scenes in this film, it's good to see a returning face. Peters brings a sense of continuity between the movies and contributes heavily to the themes of prejudice and war. He commands attention in every scene he appears in.
Notable smaller parts in the film include the return of Grace Lee Whitney, reprising her role of Janice Rand on board the Sulu-commanded U.S.S. Excelsior, and Michael Dorn portraying Colonel Worf, the namesake of the actor's famous Next Generation character. Plus, we see
Iman as the shapeshifting siren Martia and Christian Slater, who has a cameo as a crewman that gets snapped at by Captain Sulu in one of the tensest moments in the film. And finally, we're treated to Gorkon's daughter, Azetbur, played by Rosanna DeSoto, as well as René Auberjonois (who would later go on to play Odo in Deep Space Nine) as Colonel West.
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It can't be overstated how vital the Starship Enterprise is to Star Trek. However, it might interest you to know that in all the classic Trek films up to this point, there has always been something wrong with the ship that kept it from performing at full capacity. In The Motion Picture, it wasn't ready for action and had to launch prematurely. In The Wrath of Khan, it was crewed by Starfleet cadets when it was called into action. In The Search for Spock, the ship was still severely damaged from the battle in the previous film. The Enterprise didn't even appear until the final moments of The Voyage Home on account of being destroyed in The Search for Spock. In The Final Frontier, the new Enterprise wasn't ready for action and constantly glitched and sputtered out. The Undiscovered Country, ironically, is the only time in the films we see the Enterprise operating as it should with an entire crew of trained Starfleet officers onboard.
As crucial as the Enterprise is to Star Trek, Starfleet is even more so. And portraying them as qualified semi-military professionals is one of the things that Star Trek VI does wonderfully. A thousand little moments show how every character is immersed in the Starfleet organization. For instance, there's a short scene where Captain Kirk enters the bridge of the Enterprise, and Lt. Valeris calls out "Captain on the Bridge" and rises to her feet.
After a brief exchange with Kirk and Spock, they return to the technical business of launching the Enterprise from spacedock. The nautical commands Kirk gives, like "one-quarter impulse power" to leave the docking station and Valeris reminding him that Starfleet regulations stipulate "thrusters only while is spacedock," shows that these characters live and breathe the world of Starfleet and that they're committed to its mission and ideals. The film is filled with small nods like this and sells the notion of a highly professional crew, which is often missing from other films and TV shows that treat them as an afterthought or use them flippantly.
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The writing in this film is arguably the tightest and most compelling of any movie in the franchise. As I mentioned before, the film is a slow burn that doesn't let up or give you satisfaction until the very end scene. But even among those scenes, a bunch stand out as classic Trek moments.
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For instance, the briefing scene that lays out the mission Captain Kirk and company must undertake to bring the Chancellor of the Klingon High Council to Earth for peace negotiations is a masterclass of minimal filmmaking and perfectly lays out the emotional stakes of the film. It ends with a rare confrontation between Kirk and Spock when the Vulcan implores the Captain to consider that the Klingons are dying. "Let them die!" Kirk exclaims. Nothing could lay out his feelings more clearly.
Another classic scene for the Trek ages is the one depicting the State dinner on board the Enterprise, where the top officers of the ship host the Klingon delegation to a spread of blue food. This scene conveys the Klingon side of the stakes, as General Chang puts it, "To be, or not to be. That is the question which preoccupies our people, Captain Kirk." Of course, he follows up with, "we need breathing room," to which Kirk replies, "Earth, Hitler, 1938," showing again precisely how he feels toward the Klingon Empire.
Who could forget the trial scene where Captain Kirk and Doctor McCoy are wrongly condemned for assassinating Chancellor Gorkon? Christopher Plummer chews the scenery in the best way possible as he grills the two Starfleet officers while quoting Shakespeare yet again. "What would your favorite author say, Captain? Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings?" And then, he proceeds to lay out Kirk's supposed motives for murdering the Chancellor as revenge for the death of his son. It's chilling stuff and executed brilliantly. It's also the moment we learn what the "T." stands for in "James T. Kirk."
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I would be remiss if I didn't mention the climatic space battle between the Enterprise and Chang's cloaked Bird of Prey, with Captain Sulu's Excelsior coming in at the last second for an assist. While space battles are a staple of Star Trek films, they're used sparingly throughout the film franchise up to this point. In The Motion Picture, the Enterprise fires a weapon precisely one time.
The battles in the Wrath of Khan are slow burns that don't involve a lot of weapons fire. The battle in The Search for Spock involved a single exchange of phaser power. The Voyage Home doesn't even have a space battle. In The Final Frontier, a Bird of Prey stalks the Enterprise throughout the film, but the climactic battle never happens. So, it's refreshing to see The Enterprise locked in a true-blue battle with a Klingon ship, even though it is invisible. "I can see you, Kirk," Chang taunts over the Enterprise comm system, "Can you see me?"
I can already hear many of you thinking, "Well, this is all fine. But can't you also apply most of these points to Star Trek II?" After all, they have the same director, and the events of Wrath of Khan set up nearly everything that happens in subsequent films. I agree with this notion to an extent. However, there are slight flaws in Wrath that technically give Undiscovered Country the edge. For example, the matte paintings aren't always top-notch and take away from the believability of some of the scenes. The central theme of "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one" is contrived. There's no reason for Spock to have said that phrase when it was first uttered. And while these are quibbles with that film, I need to point them out because I know I have to justify ranking this film over Wrath in the minds of those who will read this.
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Throughout the film series, growing old and fulfilling your true purpose in life is a recurring theme. Captain Kirk is constantly struggling with his rank, position, and age. So, it's fitting that we see his final commands as the film's last scene once the Enterprise crew has "saved civilization as we know it." As Checkov puts it, "So, this is goodbye," and Uhura receives an order to return to spacedock to be decommissioned. To put a bow on the aging theme, Kirk's last order is to set a course of "second star to the right and straight on til morning." Followed by his last Captain's Log officially relinquishing the Enterprise and her history to the next generation to boldly go where no one has gone before.
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We had such a wonderful time in Villa Ria Sayan. We are so sad to leave ! Ketut and Nengah were great and loving and the food was very nice we recommend LAKSA ... Yummy !! Soto Ayam was so nice. Great house, beautifully decorated a peaceful place. Thank You very much.
My boyfriend, his parents and I stayed 5 nights at the Villa Ria Sayan and we wish we could have stayed longer. What a spectacular property! We arrived late at night and were greeted by a beautiful view of the rice fields the next morning. Everything was so well organised and the staff were fantastic - we were collected by the airport at 11 PM and the staff were waiting at the house to meet us even though it was late. Each morning we had a delicious breakfast with a selection of local fruit, yum! We also ate a number of dinners at the house and each was absolutely wonderful, compliments to the chef! Everything was immaculate, the bedrooms, the bathrooms, the living area, the swimming pool.
It's a home away from home! Great staff, beautiful view, friendly people everywhere. Thanks a lot for having us. We enjoyed so much.
" FABULOUS GREEN MAGICAL VIEW "
From the second we walked in the door we felt relaxed and welcomed. The fabulous, green magical view was just what we needed. We were filing 8 days net enough as we sit parking just one more hour. Looking across the valley our sails especially enjoyed the Tree Top Adventure of scenic drive up the montain to get there. The nature walk with sun (Bali Birds Walk) and the cultural / cooking class - spending time in their family was a highlight for me. Indus just down the vocal great for laugh and another magical view. We are loving feeling refreshed and relaxed and already planning a trip back in the summer - less rain! in the future. Thank you for showing your beautiful home. And a big suksana to Nengah, Ketut, Made and the other for making our stay so effortless and peaceful. With Gratitude.
" VIEW OF THE VOLCANOS "
We enjoyed one full week at Villa Ria Sayan with our whole family. We all were impressed by the massive green around us, the intense jungle noise and the view of the volcanos. One could only sit on the terrace or next to the pool watching and stunning. Everyday we enjoyed breakfast and dinner here, where they served all with the children liked and typical Balinese food for the adults being here in the rainy season was an experience with unseen rainfalls and an unseen nature and green thereafter. We loved the furniture and would have wanted to buy everything that is there. We will surely comeback once.
" HARDLY FELT LIKE LEAVING THE VILLA "
Thank you so much for a relaxing and peaceful 4 days in Ubud. Hardly felt like leaving the villa. We enjoyed soaking in the natural rhythms of life from the pool and verandah with brilliant views across the gorge. Sublime! Wonderful care and service with a smile.
" LOCATION IS SPECTACULAR "
This was our second stay at Villa Ria Sayan and it was just as good as the first one 5 years ago. The location is spectacular, with the views over the Sayan River and fabulous sunsets. The villa is comfortable and large enough to accommodate our family of 4 with extra space. We spent days on end in the pool and lazing around the villa. The service is outstanding. The staff shopped and cooked delicious meals and helped us book our outings as well. We are likely to go back again as it really was one of the most relaxing holidays we've had.
We had a lovely stay at Villa Ria Sayan. Nengah and Ketut are absolutely amazing and deserve a special mention for their untiring service and flexibility. They honestly made our stays (both times) proper holidays.The highlight of our time there was having delicious breakfasts by the pool. The food was outstanding (especially the gado gado and the kids loved the pizza). We might want to see a few more Indonesian dishes added to the menu, but we don't have any complaints.The villa was kept in lovely condition and was a delightful place to stay. The pool was a key attraction for our family. The only thing I might suggest is having a copy in the villa of the "activities" sheets that you emailed. Other than that, I have already recommended the villa to 2 friends.Thanks again for your patience, communication and follow up. We had a great time.
The second week of our Bali holiday has been spent in the spectacular Villa Ria and has been truly special. We have all has the most wonderful and relaxing time at the villa and around Ubud, after a week in Seminyak which together have given us a taste of everything Bali has to offer. we have enjoyed gazing out across the valley to the temple where we have seen ceremonies and Javanese King. Highly away from the villa in Ubud : The elephant park at Taro, The monkey forest, Mozaic restaurant, Bali Buddha Cafe, Bodyworks Spa, Lunch at the Amandari Hotel (Altough the view is better at Villa Ria), Buying Balinese wood carvings and out cash Ketut's father in law to drive you to the best shops), walking through the Padi fields to the Sari Organic restaurant. The food at the villa has been great. Thank you Nengah and Ketut for looking after us so well.
10 минут (2.6 км) на машине до Cultural town of Ubud, 85 минут (21.8 км) на машине до Seminyak Night Life, 110 минут (27.1 км) на машине до Bali's Ngurah Rai International Airport.


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La Selección de Bulgaria fue uno de los 32 países participantes, en lograr la clasificación a la Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1998, que se realizó en Francia.

Bulgaria llegó por séptima vez a este evento y la segunda en forma consecutiva, y cabe destacar que fue durante el proceso clasificatorio. El combinado búlgaro fue emparejado en el Grupo D, en el que también estaban España, Nigeria y Paraguay.

El reto no estuvo a favor de los búlgaros, ya que empataron contra los paraguayos y perdieron ante los nigerianos y los españoles (ante este último, por una derrota por 6-1) y se despidió siendo último de su grupo.

Clasificación

Luego de la disputa del Grupo 5, Bulgaria culminó en la primera posición, por lo que se clasificó directamente a la Copa Mundial de Fútbol, dejando en segundo lugar a Rusia, que clasificó al repechaje.

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Equipos participantes en la Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1998
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Equipos participantes en la Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1998
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The Stuck in the Middle actress is 15 today, and it seems like everyone who has ever met her wants to celebrate. Jenna's co-stars, rumored boyfriend, and many friends are taking to social media to wish her the best.
Isaak Presley penned a heartfelt note that will definitely make you feel things.
Lizzy Greene has turned into an actual princess!
The Nickelodeon star turned heads in a gorgeous sparkly gown at the 2017 Race To Erase MS Gala last night in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Lizzy was joined at the annual event by Skai Jackson, Megan Nicole and Francesca Capaldi.
Steven R. McQueen brought girlfriend Allie Silva to the event, and also joined iZombie's Aly Michalka, and model sisters Amelia Hamlin and Delilah Belle.
FYI: Skai wore a The Kooples suit, Joyce Echols shoes, an Ashlynd clutch and Sarah Magid Jewelry earrings. Lizzy wowed in a John Paul Ataker gown and Stuart Weitzman shoes. Megan wore an Asos dress with Guess heels.


If you are a veteran of this profession – or you are new and hope to one day become one – I'd like to reflect a bit on the career path of the community management professional. Specifically, I would like to encourage you to seek advancement and not sell yourself short.
When we sell ourselves short as professionals, we don't do justice to the importance of our industry. It impacts the space and those who work in it, in a negative way. It holds us back.
I know that, sometimes, you just have to take what you can get. You have a family to support. I respect that and it's not what I am talking about. Also, if you are happy where you are and don't want to take what might be a higher pressure role, I totally get that, as well. Family and happiness should be your priorities.
But then there are those of us who might not be aware of what is out there. Or we just might be a little too comfortable. Or possibly we are a bit too accommodating and too willing to compromise that we do so at our own detriment. You have to know your worth.
I'll let you in on a secret. I've been talking to some companies about taking a role with them. I'll probably write about this soon because I'd love to hear about interesting opportunities outside of the people I've been talking to. But I also don't need a job. I'm not desperate for one. If the right role is offered, I'd love to take it. Otherwise, I have other ventures I'll invest in. I am fortunate to be able to do that and not have to take a job.
But I also feel a responsibility. I care a lot about this space and do what I can to help it. I have a deep level of experience, have written books that have been well received and have a certain level of visibility in this profession. I feel like I owe it to my fellow professionals to ensure I take a role that befits my experience and properly values community. If I don't do that, if I accept a job where I don't have the authority, autonomy and support that I should, then I've let the space down.
With my work here and elsewhere, my aim is to advocate for this profession, the importance of it and how high it can go. If I take a job, I want it to be one that shows veterans a role that speaks to what we have to offer and shows newer professionals what they can reach towards.
To help visualize this, let's walk through the progression of the community management role, that I am seeing at companies right now.
More than two years ago, I asked if community manager was becoming an entry level role. What dictates that, more than anything else, is the salary paid. The reports that we have these days generally indicate the salary of an entry level role (or close), more often than not. For example, the Social Fresh report of 2012 salaries shows an average of salary of $57,732.77. That's just not the pay that speaks to a senior role.
Let's face it. For a lot of companies, "community manager" is a way of jamming a lot of responsibilities under one role and getting away with it cheaply.
That said, it obviously varies. Some community managers make six figures. At some companies it is a senior role, where more experience and qualifications are expected. There are community departments where there are paid employees who work under the community manager and report to that person. Moderators, assistant community managers, etc.
But for the sake of talking about moving up the ladder, let's start with the community manager role and go up from there. On LinkedIn, there are 154,383 results for "community manager." Of course, many of these have nothing to do with the online world. But it is fun to see such a high number. The profession has come a long way.
Not quite a director, but more than a community manager. LinkedIn shows 1,520 results for Senior Community Manager. Like community manager, what it means can vary quite a bit. For some, it might just be a way of recognizing (and keeping) a more senior member of the team without adding a ton of extra responsibilities. For others, it might mean that you get to look at a bigger picture view and oversee the actions of more junior members of the community team.
There are other in-betweens beneath the head of the department. For example, some might call themselves Community Strategist.
In a traditional business hierarchy, directors report to vice presidents. VPs are more strategic while directors are more tactical. But in looking at various higher level community jobs, I've found that sometimes it just means "head of department" (regardless of how it is worded). Of course, you can also run into the "senior" verbiage here, as well. Senior VP, senior director, etc. There can be levels, it just depends.
While you might see a VP of Community and Director of Community at the same company, mostly you just see one or the other.
This role typically oversees a community department. That department could be large or it could be a small group. Maybe even one person (for example, if you want to make a high profile community hire to launch that department at your company, you'd likely hire someone in this role, as they then work to build out a department over time).
This is the peak of our profession as far as job titles are concerned. Even with that said, for a lot of companies, the Director of Community is essentially their Chief Community Officer, just not in title. The use of the title is fairly rare but is slowly growing. LinkedIn has 140 results.
The first person I knew to have this title was Bill Johnston, when he was at Forum One Communications. He had it back in January of 2008. Bill is the greatest. He's one of the leaders of our industry. I've joked with him that he's the pioneer of awesome job titles for us. Right now, he is the Director of MFG 360 Community & Customer Experience at Autodesk (MFG is short for manufacturing and 360 is their cloud platform). Before that he was Director of Social Media and Community. He went to Autodesk from Dell, where he was Director of Online Community & Social Media, Commercial Business. As I said, great titles.
Update: in the comments, Bill mentioned that he borrowed the title from Jenna Woodul at LiveWorld. According to Ms. Woodul's LinkedIn profile, she has had that title since 1996.
Since Bill doesn't have the CCO title anymore, does it mean he's had less responsibility? No. I'm sure his responsibility has only increased. He's the CCO of the units he heads, but it just doesn't make sense for the companies he is at to have a community professional at the C level. Not yet, anyway.
Another person who has this title is Rebecca Newton, the Chief Community & Safety Officer at MindCandy. She's another super impressive veteran mind and a pioneer in our industry. You can look at her as a great example of how to ascend.
Here is how Rebecca's career has grown in this space: Program Manager, various AOL Forums at America Online > Program Manager, Community Leader Program at America Online > Community Director at Lifescape > Director of Marketing/Product Development at HeyMax > Community Director at HowStuffWorks.com > Community Operations Manager at Sulake > Director, Community at Sulake > Director, Community at Mind Candy > Chief Community & Safety Officer at Mind Candy.
That's a pretty solid example of how you can grow in this profession. Bill and Rebecca are both wonderful examples to follow.
Outside of individual titles and roles, for me, one of the more exciting things is when community becomes a department onto itself – not simply a function of marketing. That is an area to push into. From being the community manager to managing your own department with the autonomy that provides. That can really open things up and create a fun, rewarding professional experience.
We are seeing this more and more and there are some very mature community departments out there. There are more on the way.
In this article, I mainly talk about progressing through the community ranks. But obviously professionals move between departments and job functions. You might move to marketing or PR or communications or even a more drastic change. There are a lot of things you pick up that work well in other areas of business and vice versa.
In conclusion, I encourage you to reach as high as you wish. If you are feeling stagnated where you currently are, with no opportunity for advancement (and you want it), look elsewhere. Don't think it's not possible because a given company doesn't do it that way yet. Don't sell yourself (or us) short.
Patrick, a huge round of applause for this post. This is a wonderful roadmap for growth in the profession. Maria Ogneva and Ligaya Tichy are two other wonderful examples of how you can grow and move beyond community manager to higher roles or take on the job of a consultant or strategist (Ligaya is now an angel investor and advisor to many wonderful startups, so a very different path). And it's totally true: if we take on roles and find that there is no room for growth or that we are not respected for what we do, we should leave. Not only will staying make you feel stagnant, it also sends the wrong message about what we do and what our value is.
As always, I admire your authenticity and insight. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Carrie. That is very kind of you.
Thanks for the mention Patrick! Credit where credit is due, I actually borrowed the Chief Community Officer title idea from Jenna Woodul.
You raise a lot of interesting points about career arcs for Community Professionals. The truth is, we don't really have great paths forward *yet*. The typical is entry level social or community manager to a Sr Manager then Director position.
I do think there is a resurgence of interest and investment in online communities by more enlightened brands given that the organic reach (a.k.a. the free ride) on large social networks is mostly in decline.
Thanks for the comment, Bill. That's cool to know, regarding Ms. Woodul. I've updated the article with that info.
Always great to have your perspective. What do you think a great path will look like (or could)?
This is really a great post. I am not a Community Manager but I have worked as Moderator for 13 years and during that time I have worked very closed with a CM of the site so I have a quite good idea of their task at work. Lots of responsibilities they have to bear. I totally agree that they cannot sell there skills cheap. Unfortunately the work market has more demands for the job than offer and that leads employers to offer less salary. So the lack of job and the needs the families go through all over the world makes people to accept what is offered fair or unfair. Personally I am retired and my retirement pension although not high give me the freedom to say yes or no to a job offer but not everyone can do this. I feel very sad because I am not moderating at the moment and not having the chance to have a work that keep my mind busy, but I would not take a job with salary not suitable with the responsibility in it or under the market offer. I totally agree with what is written in the post but I recognise that not everyone can follow it sometimes because it implies families survivals. Which is unfair!
Thank you for adding that perspective, Ms. Reis. Very glad you did.
My first job in the sector was as Online Communities Producer at the BBC (1997), then Online Communities Editor (around 2000) as an online communities department grew around me. The Online Communities department was subject to various strategic ebbs and flows as having a community around BBC TV and radio programmes went in and out of vogue, blogs rose in popularity with the BBC management as the cost of moderation went up for the – then – countless forums, live chats, and chat rooms, we/the other Online Community Producers were running across the BBC. From 2002 the BBC wanted to outsource much of the social activity to be run externally on Facebook/elsewhere as the moderation bill for managing so many social media areas was seen as not scaleable. User-generated content took over as being something more in line with the BBC's strategy. I did a PhD and moved into academia, to study the interactive relationship between public service media and the public, moving into a second career path of Senior Research Fellow > Deputy Head of Faculty > Professor of Interactive Media. I think you have to be prepared to adapt to the changing strategic priorities of organisations, keep your skills honed, and I agree with you that it's important to keep talking to lots of different people. Community professionals have essential skills which are still undervalued, but we are an increasingly important element as organisations become more affected by networks and engagement with customers rises up the strategic agenda. I ended up advising the Council of Europe on community management and got involved in policy-making at EU level; the world is our oyster, and increasingly this will be the case! Thanks for plugging Emint, an essential resource for our profession.
My pleasure, Ms. Jackson. Thank you for the great comment and behind-the-scenes insights.


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Why is the energy of human beings seemingly so complex?
We, as human beings, even those of us who sit on the evolutionary fence, have natural paradoxes which run through our energy. On the one side we are rational and demand order from our world. We want two to follow one and know that when we sit in a chair it won't turn into a sea tortoise. But on the other side is the creative, irrational part of our nature, the one that wants to believe in the impossible. The part that wishes that chair was a sea tortoise. This is the large division in our nature, the main one which we all struggle with in life. The problem lies not in this main division, but in the creation of the patterns which play between the two parts. It's as though we have been creating a record throughout our life and the grooves that make up the tracks of our existence are set in the surface of that energy. These are the patterns of our behavior which result in us living life according to other people and not ourselves. The paradox comes into play in this when we have recapitulated the energy, but the grooves on that energetic record still exist. They have no content, but the propensity to recreate those songs we used to dance to is still there. Hence, the bad stuff. Here is where human nature really expresses its incredible ability to move without our concious awareness or agreement. We can create a false record of excuses in order to facillitate reanimating those patterns which we have worked so hard to erase.
The key is to be constantly aware of each action you take and it's logical path to a conclusion. This is where you will lie to yourself. You can create a lie and then, even though you know it's a lie, believe it as total truth. It's like trying to ski down a slope in fresh snow -- which is better, more exciting, more individual -- but the tracks already left by others are easier to follow. Learning to turn the statement around in your head is really the best way. Tell yourself something you want to hear about X, whatever it is you want to do, then reverse it grammatically. It will show you a new side of yourself. 'I want him'....'he wants me'...now consider both statements. The 'I want him' statement is easy to handle, it is an expression of self. But the opposite raises other questions, which you need to answer honestly. We will go to extreme lengths sometimes to fall back into those patterns and begin recreating what we were trying to get away from in the first place. Yes, it's a paradox. Logically it makes no sense that we would do that, but then, pipples aren't logical :)
In other words, your brain is still trying to kill you.


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Why You Should Encrypt Your Email?
And some tips for how to do it….
Many people suspect that security is mostly hype. You don't really need to bother with all those complicated passwords, antivirus software, firewalls and such. It's all just security software vendors and security consultants trying to scare everyone so they can sell their products and services.
However, as one of the common sense measures that aren't pure hype, you should consider encrypting your email communications. If you are on vacation you might send a picture postcard to a friend or family member with a quick "wish you were here" sort of message. But, if you are writing a personal letter to that same friend or family member, you would be more inclined to seal it in an envelope.
"Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow," the holiday song goes. But for small businesses in areas affected by severe winter weather, the white stuff is anything but welcome.
How can you prepare to keep your employees, customers, and business safe in a winter storm? Here's what you need to know.
Winter storm: Winter storms involve snow, sleet, or freezing rain.
Ice storm: When 1/4 inch of ice or more builds up, driving and walking are hazardous, and power lines can break because of the weight of the ice.
Blizzard: A blizzard involves snow, gusty winds up to 35 mph or more, near-zero-visibility conditions, and a wind-chill factor that can be life threatening.
Winter storm watch: Severe winter conditions might occur in the next 12-36 hours.
Winter storm warning: Severe winter conditions are expected in the next 12-24 hours. This is defined as 4-6 inches of snow or sleet, or at least 1/4 inch of ice.
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When Zina Hassel began the technology consultancy firm ZLH Enterprises (Manalapan), in early 2000, she was not thinking about an exit strategy. Consulting was what intrigued Zina. And the push to get things accomplished when suppliers said it couldn't be done was what fueled the fire.
Unlike some company founders who fret over the upheaval such a transition might cause, Zina is sure they will both be ready for the change. Jodi put it best when she said, "I know Zina will never truly leave the business. She may cut back and be more in the background, but she'll always be there to give me advice." Jodi is confident in her skills and abilities, and already manages the business during Zina's absence.
The one thing these two differ on? Zina kept the business small and hands on, a boutique telecommunications consulting business. Jodi wants to build and expand the business, and knows there is plenty of room for growth in the market. Both agree that the best growth strategy is already in progress … continuing to shift the business from telecommunications to technology, and continuing to expand their channel programs and resources.
We're in the middle of hurricane season again.
Now that we're in the middle of hurricane season 2018, here are the lessons we learned that other companies facing disasters similar to ours — especially companies in technology — can do to "weather the storm" when disaster strikes.
When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico on September 20, 2018, it left almost insurmountable tragedy in its wake. Although the death toll is widely disputed, one Harvard study estimates a potential 4,645 excess deaths, and the storm likely caused between $40 billion and $85 billion in damage, according to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide. Businesses — and plans for businesses — were also heavily impacted. Valeria Quinones had invested $300,000 to open a Pita Pit franchise, and although her construction site wasn't destroyed, she faced hunger, power outages and monetary losses. Here, she tells us how she used a new mindset to take her next steps and move forward.


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For those of you following the SOPA/PIPA to-do, be warned: if you live in California, both of your Senators are flogging hard for this thing. Because of that, for these two characters I actually wrote a note rather than just calling, tweeting, or petitioning.
As a writer and audio/video producer (with 8 novels, 20 short stories, 8 films, and 3 albums to my name), I have a vested interest in the enforceability of copyright. However, as one not attached to the large studios, none of the remedies in SOPA and PIPA will do me any good–instead, they will do me an immense amount of harm.
The lack of due process puts my livelihood at the mercy of larger businesses in my industry who may take offense to parody, or who may target my web provider due to the offending actions of other customers, or who may decide that their new high-concept film looks too much like one of my books or radio dramas, and that it's easier and cheaper to shut me down rather than to negotiate a license fee from me.
More fundamentally, though, the future of the American economy depends on the openness of the Internet. Freedom of information and public discourse allowed science and technology to take root here to a greater extent than anywhere around the world in the 19th century; the Internet extends that cultural fundamental into the 21st century.
This bill, in seeking to protect big business, will cripple the economic and political power of the Internet to advance freedom, equality, opportunity, and human progress, both here and around the world. It will cripple the educational power of the Internet as well, cutting off millions from educational opportunities (such as free streaming college classes, Wikipedia, OpenCulture, and many more) that they would not otherwise be able to afford–all of which are legal under copyright law, all of which will be vulnerable to shutdown due to the lack of due process in PIPA.
The PIPA does not do what it claims, and has too much collateral damage to be worth the trouble. I urge you to reconsider your position, and vote against the bill.
Tagged Business, civil liberties, copyright, PIPA, politics, SOPA.


The annual Art & Soul charity fundraising event in Squamish is seeking 15 visual artists for this year's event.
The interactive evening features music and live art demonstrations. Artworks are auctioned at the end of the evening with proceeds to charity. All mediums of visual art are encouraged.
Art and Soul takes place Oct. 29 from 8 p.m.-1 a.m. at Totem Hall.
For more information call 604-898-5643 or e-mail totoandus@shaw.ca before Sept. 10.


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The Day I Met Gamal El-Banna
Yesterday, at 93 years of age, Gamal El-Banna passed away after a struggle with illness. He was a towering thinker, often controversial (at times for his supporters and detractors alike), a profoundly courageous mind, and a man whose massive body of work will live for long.
El-Banna dedicated his life to two causes. The first was the rejuvenation of Islamic jurisprudence, which he believed had been overtaken by a deeply rigid and innovation-aversive mindset that he saw as having clouded the essentially progressive nature of the religion. The second cause, which had been deeply overshadowed by the first, was his leftism.
Nearly a year ago, my friend and brilliant journalist Jess Hill informed me she was looking for an interpreter to do an interview with El-Banna, asking me to find her someone. I immediately volunteered to do it in exchange for cheesecake, being genuinely excited about the idea of meeting the man.
I was given a landline to call him to set the appointment. I called, and nothing happened. After a couple of days of trying, finally someone picked up. A senior, calm and immensely reassured voice answered, and it was him. Within 30 seconds the interview was set, and a couple of days later we went to see the man.
We were lost for quite a bit in the mazes of old Cairo until we finally found the building where he lived. Once you enter his office, the first thing that will make you gasp is the sheer amount of books he owned. There were thousands of books, categorised, sorted out alphabetically and thematically, and many more were on the floor waiting to be sorted.
Your eyes would not have mistaken how old El-Banna was. But they would also not mistake how lucid he was. He was writing an article for Al-Masry Al-Youm when we met him, on traditional pen and paper to be sure. He was generous with his time, answered all of our questions, and he invited me to visit him on a friendly basis. I did try that one time, but I was informed by his assistant that he was not of good health at the time. Regrettably, I never saw him again.
El-Banna was the half-brother of the Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan El-Banna. In fact, Gamal El-Banna's last name wasn't even El-Banna, but he took up the name as his pen name. He held a genuine and profound respect for Hassan El-Banna whom he called "Al-Ustath Hassan" and not Sheikh Hassan, holding on the idea that only an Azhar graduate could carry the mantle of "Sheikh," and Hassan El-Banna wasn't. He talked for ages about the tenacity of Hassan El-Banna's dedication to building the Brotherhood, and how the man was an organisational genius in his opinion. Simultaneously, he was also in deep disapproval of what the Brotherhood - which he never joined - was turning into in the last days of his half-brother's life. As for the Brotherhood today, well, he loathed it. He believed in the separation of religion and politics, and he believed in progressivism, two things he saw the current Brotherhood as the absolute opposite of.
It is unclear who will carry forward the school of thought that El-Banna represented. But until one or more such names do come forward, El-Banna's huge body of work alone is something that would take years to read.
On the way out, I took the picture above. He also told me a very interesting historic fact about the desk in the lower part of the photo. But that is, well, for another day.
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An Unforgettable Photo From A Protest In Cairo
Updated: Egypt State TV Under Tight Control?
The Arab Spring In A Photo? - الربيع العربي في صور...
A quick note on my Libya article
On Hani Shukrallah
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