In my last post, I described an example of a very bad customer service experience my wife and I experienced just over a week ago at the Hard Rock Cafe in Atlantic City. I'm happy to report that the assistant manager responded promptly to my complaint on the Hard Rock Facebook Wall and followed it up with a phone call.
In today's world where most businesses tend to make excuses or ignore their customers, I'm pleased to say at least one Hard Rock Cafe manager differentiated himself. This incident offers many important customer service skill lessons for business. Here are what I believe are the top 5 lessons learned. What do you think?
1. It's the experience, stupid. Guests will tolerate even mediocre food if the experience is good. We have many choices when we dine out but find ourselves choosing just a few. What differentiates our favorites from the rest aren't cheap food and drink. It's the comfortable feeling we get when we're greeting as "family" or "special guests" every time we visit. Likewise, we've never returned to restaurants that had outstanding cuisine but lousy service. In this case, the manager ignored our experience and put her attitude and work operations ahead of visitor safety and comfort.
2. Be proactive. Employees should be on the lookout for dangers and risks for their guests. Although my wife's purse wasn't in the open, it wasn't secure either. Some might argue that it's not the restaurant's obligation to ensure that guests protect their personal belongings. But it should be their responsibility to ensure our visit is uneventful, if not enjoyable. We've been guests in other restaurants where the wait staff or host scanned the floor, then stopped by the table to recommend that we hide our personal belongings and remove the "easy target" sign from their backs. It's not a perfect system or a guarantee but we always appreciated that the restaurant was looking out for us and creating a safe environment - even for just a few minutes.
3. Seize the moment. Don't wait for a customer to complain. For me this one's a no-brainer. What could have turned into a major inconvenience and ruined weekend worked out thanks to the observant guest at the next table. For just a moment, he was a "hero." The Hard Rock Café staff blew one of those rare opportunities to recognize a guest for going above and beyond. The good will and positive press generated by such a moment would have far exceeded any disruption to a manager's busy schedule or loss of a few dollars by comping their meal. Instead the "hero" walked out quietly, and we left angry and unhappy…with a negative story to tell.
4. Don't underestimate the power of social media. To paraphrase, "Hell hath no fury like an upset customer scorned." In the past, it was said that a person would tell 3 other people about a good customer service experience…and 13 about a bad one. Today, you can add a few zero's to the bad story scenario. In the past, I might have written a letter to the General Manager or CEO of Hard Rock Café. Today, all I needed to do was post my complaint to a social networking site like Facebook and user-review site like Yelp. Instead of 13 people hearing about the bad experience, my potential audience reached hundreds of millions with a few keystrokes. What's worse is that what happens on the Internet, stays on the Internet. A bad experience posted on the Internet doesn't go away after it's resolved, but lingers on the Internet ad infinitum. Don't ignore this new reality. Thanks to social media, the company no longer controls the brand; customers do.
5. To err is human, to recover divine. An apology is a good way to have the last word (Author Unknown). One of the most frequent questions I get when speaking to business people about social media is "what should we do about negative comments posted on our blog or social networking site." My response: thank them! A study of why customers switch companies revealed that only 4 percent of dissatisfied customers complain. For every complaint, 26 more customers were unhappy. Worse than that, from 65 to 90 percent of the unhappy but non-complaining customers would never buy from the company again. Social media can be a very valuable customer service recovery strategy. A study for Travelers Insurance a few years ago showed that persuading people to complain could be the best business move a company could make. While only 9 percent of the non-complainers would buy from that company again, 82 percent would buy again if they complained AND the company resolved the problem. Even for customers who did complain but whose problem wasn't resolved, more than 50 percent were willing to give the company a second chance.
Good customer service starts with attitude. All the training in the world won't save an employee with a bad attitude. And a positive service attitude can't be trained. But a good customer service strategy can turn a good employee with a positive attitude into a great one and maybe – just maybe – help a company successfully recover and retain a customer from a bad service experience.
During our dinner this past Saturday, my wife's purse was stolen…or at least that's what one restaurant guest attempted to do. Thanks to a very observant and quick thinking young man at the next table, my wife's purse was retrieved intact.
The tables were very close together. A middle age couple apparently squeezed between the tables. We didn't think anything about it because customers and wait staff were doing it all the time. But the would-be thief managed to kick the purse out into a clear spot where she could bend over to pick it up. Fortunately the young man at the next table observed the woman carrying two purses. He bent over and asked my wife if she had had a purse on the floor. When she noticed it was missing, the young man in his late 30s or early 40s ran after the woman. My wife followed and I followed her.
Our friends at the table notified the waitress, who in turn notified the manager. The manager supposedly called security and police but neither ever showed up. After a short run down the boardwalk, we confronted the woman who acted like she didn't know she was carrying this second purse. Of course, my wife's purse looked like a suitcase compared to the other one she was holding so an innocent mistake wasn't likely. She handed the purse back with all the contents intact but still no police or security. She and her friend took off and we returned to the restaurant.
Never did security or the police or the manager ever come to our table to follow-up or apologize for the inconvenience. Worse, no one from the restaurant even thanked the young man. We notified the waitress that we wanted to pick up the couple's check. She seemed surprised we would offer to do that. I'll notch it up to youth and lack of experience in these matters, but one might think that a staff with good customer service skills and training might report that to the manager and suggest the restaurant might want to do something for their customer "hero." But no, they just ignored it.
Following the return of the purse, we resumed our dinner and for the next 45 minutes waited for security or the manager to visit. Nothing, nada, not a peep. Before leaving the restaurant, we asked to speak with the manager. She told us that "we handled the situation well and thought we wanted to keep it private." Yea, right. When we told her that we paid for the guests' dinner who chased down the thief, she told us, "she would have offered to pay for their drinks, but not their dinner." Of course, she did neither and didn't bother to reimburse us either.
In the next post early next week, I'll highlight a few of the lessons a business like Hard Rock Cafe can learn from our customer service experience. But before you read them, what advice or comments would you share?
The long awaited engagement of Kate Middleton to Prince William has finally been announced. The press has been waiting 30 years to cover another royal wedding. Daily updates on what is happening with the newly engaged couple are the buzz one traditional and social media.
Middleton and Prince William have been dating on and off for the last 8 years so it is not completely unexpected. Similarities are already being drawn between their relationship and that of Prince Charles and Lady Diana. Specifically, Kate is a commoner and may therefore not be as experienced as Prince William in what it means to be a royal. The expectations and responsibilities associated with this royal position exceed the ability of many people.
According to Prince William, the long engagement allowed both of them to ponder what they were getting into. That's not unlike many other couples in Generation X who have postponed matrimony. It's also not unlike what many employers are discovering about managing Generation X.
While Baby Boomers couldn't wait to get a title, Generation X and Generation Y are often reluctant to climb the career ladder at the expense of personal and family life. In addition the allure of the title often exceeds the ability of the manager to manage the pressures and fulfill the expectations.
For Middleton, it will be a very different thing to be a princess with the very real possibility of becoming the queen than the girlfriend of a prince. For many managers promoted prematurely or reluctantly, the kiss of the prince often ends up turning them into frogs.
Many employers see the promotion as the reward for a job well done. The recession has caused many organizations to question that rationale. Young generations are also questioning the lure and promise of a management position. For them, it's just not worth the hassle. But to grow the business and to replace retiring baby boomers, employers need skilled managers. Not only is the skill gap widening but many of the qualified successors are reluctant to step up and into management roles.
This double whammy poses an imminent threat and troubling problem for business going forward.
Workaholism may be killing you. At least that's what several studies are finding – that long term dangers accompany an addiction to work.
A recent post on the Term Life Insurance Blog provided a nice graphic citing that 1 in 31 Americans (10 million) worked 60+ hours a week last year. That's 200 more hours per person worked compared to 1970. Interestingly enough, when compared with other countries, the United States at an average of 1,782 hours per person per year no longer sits atop the worldwide perch of hard workers. In fact workers in 8 other countries work more hours than workers in the United States.
1. Working at home has become routine.
2. You feel bored and unproductive if you are not working.
3. Work and clients have access to you 24/7 and it interferes with life.
4. You think you are the best person for the job and refuse to delegate.
5. You are constantly talking about work.
6. Your workday doesn't stop when everyone else goes home.
Did you pass…or fail? Are you at risk? Don't fret – help is just 12 steps away. Apparently there is now a 12-step program called Workaholics Anonymous to help individuals cope with this addiction.
What do you think? Productivity reports seem to infer we're working smarter and not harder. Is that true or have we just pushed fewer workers to the brink of workaholism? Or is workaholism just another syndrome concocted by a group of slackers and entitled workers who feel that commitment and personal satisfaction in a job sets a bad example? Let's hear from you … if can you spare a few minutes from your busy day.


Late Night with Jimmy Fallon will be holding test shows before its television premiere on March 2nd, and you can be in the audience! To be a part of the February audience, email Brandon at JimmyFallon.Audience@gmail.com. Please include your name, email, address, phone number, and date you would like to attend.
When: February 17th and 18th at 9pm, February 24th, 25th, and 26th at 5:30pm.
For more information, visit www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com.
If you're interested in seeing CNN's D.L Hughlet Breaks The News on 2/12 at 1:30, email hughleycnnshow@broadwayvideo.com with the following information in both the subject line and body of the email. You will be contacted with detailed ticket information if tickets are available.
5. Number of tickets requested: 2-4 max.
6. Say in one sentence what you like about DL Hughley and why you want to be in the audience (this can go in the email body).


2018 Home Prices were consistently up in most markets across the community! But not at the same levels as 2017. High demands for homes for sales fueled price increases. 4th quarter interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve spooked the market some. But overall the prices had increased 5.7% with number of sales were down compared to 2017.
It's that time of the year - that the Johnson County appraiser's office will be sending out the new valuation appraisals for 2019. It's a love hate scenario! We love to see our valuations rise - but don't like the new tax numbers at the end of the year. So look for those annual notices to be in your mailbox the first week of March! The Johnson County appraiser site shows that 93% of the residential homes had seen an increase in their valuation. Now is the time to review that valuation! You will have until March 27,2019 to file any appeal of that valuation. If you have any question or need a market update on your subdivision/area. Let us know. We'll be able to help supply one.
Our February 2019 sales numbers are available! The market is definitely making some changes. Of course, our weather hasn't helped! We've seen more snow in the last few months than we did in the last 3 years! That does make a difference for buyers who are out looking. As you can see, we have more inventory coming on the market than we did in January 2019. But, we have only 2.34 month of homes available. The pending sales are down about 9.9% from one year ago.
Knowing how the market breaks down can make a major difference in your selling success. For example, if the market is booming, you can list your home for higher price and enjoy a maximized profit. If the market is cooling off, then you might miss out on potential buyers by pricing your home too high.
Get to know more about listing price trends, monthly units sold, average sale price, and more by diving into a few of these key statistics. Any questions? Don't hesitate to contact the local experts at the CindyDTeam!
When you work with the CindyDTeam, you don't have to worry about knowing the ins and outs of the Kansas City real estate market on your own — we've got you covered. From analyzing market trends to completing neighborhood sold reports, we'll use our years of local experience and professional expertise to help you buy or sell your dream home at an ideal price. If you're ready to get started with your Kansas City real estate journey, don't hesitate to give us a call!
The Kansas City Area is a great place to call home — so great, in fact, that the population here has been steadily growing over the past two decades and shows no sign of stopping. With the growing popularity in and around the city, the real estate market has been booming, and there's never been a better time than now to invest.
Are you looking to sell or buy in Kansas City? Since the area is constantly growing and changing, staying up-to-date on the latest market trends is a vital part of jumping into real estate. Luckily, you don't have to do all that work by yourself. Take a look at some of the major stats from the state of the market in Kansas City, and let the CindyDTeam help you navigate all of the latest trends.
Are you ready to sell your Kansas City home for top dollar? Whether it's calculating a detailed and accurate listing price for your home or providing tips for staging to impress, we're here to help. When you list your home with the CindyDTeam, we're dedicated to providing you with a stress-free and successful selling journey. Explore some of the exclusive resources we have to offer, and list your home with us today!
As experts in the Kansas City real estate market, you can rest easy when you list your home with the CindyDTeam. We'll help you prepare for every step of selling your home, and answer any and every question you may have along the way. Kick off your selling journey on the right foot — give the CindyDTeam a call today.


What is responsible for the differences between the sexes in so many animals, from the brilliant plumage of birds-of-paradise to the antlers on deer? Why are the traits that distinguish the sexes sometimes detrimental to survival? And why do males and females sometimes behave differently?
Questions like these have intrigued scientists and the public alike for many years. New discoveries are showing us both how wildly variable the natural world is, and how some basic principles can help explain much of that variation. Like natural selection, sexual selection is a process that results from differential representation of genes in successive generations. Under sexual selection, however, the crucial characteristics that determine whether an individual reproduces depend on sexual competition rather than survival ability.
This Very Short Introduction uncovers the history of our understanding of sexual selection, from Darwin's key insights to the modern day. Considering the investment animals place on reproduction, variation in mating systems, sexual conflict, and the origin of sexual dimorphism, Marlene Zuk and Leigh Simmons discuss questions such as whether females can really choose between males on aesthetic grounds and how sexual conflict is resolved in different species.


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http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html
Many open source ad SDKs also use the same method for showing interstitial ads.

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Sudan has issued a decision obliging Egyptian citizens seeking to enter its territories to obtain entry-visas, namely the ones aged between 16 to 50 years old.
"The decision stipulates that Egyptian nationals aged between 16 and 50 years old must obtain entry-visas to Sudan. The decision excludes women, children and those above 50 years old," Gen. Omer al-Mukhtar, Spokesman of Sudan Police, told Xinhua.
It is to be noted that the Egyptian authorities apply the same condition for entry of the Sudanese nationals to Egypt.
In 2004, Sudan and Egypt signed an agreement of the four freedoms, which avails the citizens of the two countries freedoms of work, movement, residence and ownership.
Khartoum said it has fully implemented the agreement since it was signed, while Cairo imposes entry-visa on Sudanese aged between 18 and 50 years old.
Recently Khartoum complained over an Egyptian decision increasing the stay fees on foreigners, including the Sudanese.


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Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications
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AbstractIntroductionMaterials and MethodsResults and DiscussionConclusionsAcknowledgmentsReferencesCopyrightRelated Articles
Osteoconductivity and Hydrophilicity of TiO2 Coatings on Ti Substrates Prepared by Different Oxidizing Processes
Dai Yamamoto,1Ikki Kawai,1Kensuke Kuroda,2Ryoichi Ichino,2Masazumi Okido,2and Azusa Seki3
Academic Editor: Ian Butler
Received08 Aug 2012
Revised29 Nov 2012
Accepted29 Nov 2012
Published18 Dec 2012
Various techniques for forming TiO2 coatings on Ti have been investigated for the improvement of the osteoconductivity of Ti implants. However, it is not clear how the oxidizing process affects this osteoconductivity. In this study, TiO2 coatings were prepared using the following three processes: anodizing in 0.1 M H3PO4 or 0.1 M NaOH aqueous solution; thermal oxidation at 673 K for 2 h in air; and a two-step process of anodizing followed by thermal oxidation. The oxide coatings were evaluated using SEM, XRD, and XPS. The water contact angle on the TiO2 coatings was measured as a surface property. The osteoconductivity of these samples was evaluated by measuring the contact ratio of formed hard tissue on the implanted samples (defined as the value) after 14 d implantation in rats' tibias. Anatase was formed by anodizing and rutile by thermal oxidation, but the difference in the TiO2 crystal structure did not influence the osteoconductivity. Anodized TiO2 coatings were hydrophilic, but thermally oxidized TiO2 coatings were less hydrophilic than anodized TiO2 coatings because they lacked in surface OH groups. The TiO2 coating process using anodizing without thermal oxidation gave effective improvement of the osteoconductivity of Ti samples.
Titanium has been widely used in dental and orthopedic implants because of its good biocompatibility and high corrosion resistance [1, 2]. However, Ti in itself does not always show good performance to form hard tissue on its surface in living bodies. Therefore, proper surface treatment to enhance bone-forming ability, as represented by hydroxyapatite (HAp) coating [3–10], has been studied for a long time. Similar to HAp, TiO2 is also important as an osteoconductive substance because it has been shown to exhibit strong physicochemical fixation with living bone, even though it is not a component of natural bone [11]. There are many coating processes to create TiO2 films on Ti substrates, such as thermal oxidation [12], chemical methods [13–15], physical vapor deposition [16, 17], and anodizing [18–21]. These processes are classified into hydroprocesses and pyroprocesses. Anodizing is a widely used hydroprocess; it is performed in various aqueous solutions at an arbitrary applied voltage. On the other hand, thermal oxidation is one of pyroprocesses, which is performed in various atmospheres at high temperature. Both processes have been used to prepare bioactive TiO2 coatings on Ti [20, 22–25].
Previously, various parameters of TiO2 coating, such as crystal structure, surface roughness, and film thickness, were reported to influence the osteoconductivity of the coating [20, 27, 28]. Even though these parameters can be altered simultaneously when changing the oxidizing condition, they have not been well controlled to compare the surface properties of TiO2 coatings prepared with different oxidizing processes in previous works, which made it unclear what kind of surface property had influence on the hard tissue formation in in vivo test. Therefore, in this study, we prepared TiO2 coatings with controlled surface structure on Ti using anodizing and/or thermal oxidation and investigated the chemical influence of oxidizing processes on the osteoconductivity.
2.1. Preparation of Ti Substrates
Commercially pure Ti (Cp-Ti) disks (for anodizing, area = 1.13 cm2) and plates (for thermal oxidation, area = 1 cm2) were used as substrates to prepare coatings for surface analysis, and rods (for both anodizing and thermal oxidation, dimensions = ϕ2 × 5 mm) for in vivo testing. The Cp-Ti disks were covered with epoxy resin, except for the face that would be in contact with the aqueous solution. All of the substrates were polished by emery paper followed by buffing using Al2O3 particles (particle size = 0.05 μm). After polishing, the substrates were cleaned and then degreased with ethanol.
2.2. TiO2 Coatings
The following three methods were used to form TiO2 coatings on Ti substrates. The preparation conditions were selected in each case so that all of the oxide coatings had the same film thickness to exclude the influence of that variable on the osteoconductivity of the formed coatings.
2.2.1. Anodizing in Aqueous Solutions
A Ti substrate and a Pt coil were set as anode and cathode, respectively, and reference electrode was not used. The anodizing voltage was increased from 0 V up to 100 V in 0.1 M H3PO4 aqueous solution and up to 80 V in 0.1 M NaOH aqueous solution at a rate of 0.1 V s−1. The aqueous solution was stirred and kept at a constant temperature (298 K) in a water bath during anodizing. This oxidation process is denoted as "AZ treatment" in the following description.
2.2.2. Thermal Oxidation
Titanium substrates were heated to 673 K at a rate of 4 K min−1 in air in an electric resistance furnace, and kept at that temperature for 2 h. The substrates were then cooled in the furnace, in the same atmosphere. This oxidation process is denoted as "TO treatment."
2.2.3. Two-Step Process of Anodizing and Thermal Oxidation
In the first step, substrates were anodized with the voltage increasing from 0 V to 70 V in 0.1 M H3PO4 aqueous solution or up to 50 V in 0.1 M NaOH aqueous solutions at a rate of 0.1 V s−1. The anodized samples then were heated to 673 K at a rate of 4 K min−1 in air in an electric resistance furnace, and kept at that temperature for 2 h. The substrates were then cooled in the furnace, in the same atmosphere. This two-step oxidation process is denoted as "AZ-TO treatment."
2.3. Analysis of the Coatings
All of the samples were sterilized using an autoclave unit at 394 K for a period of 20 min before following. The surface morphology was observed using a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The coated films were identified using thin-film X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The surface roughness was measured using a confocal laser scanning microscope with an analysis area of 150 μm × 112 μm. The arithmetical mean of the surface roughness (Ra) was used, as this value was not distorted by any local scarring of the sample. The contact angle of distilled water (WCA) was measured at three different points for each sample using a 2 μL droplet of distilled water 24 h after autoclaving, and the average value was used as the WCA value.
2.4. In Vivo Test
In vivo tests were performed for all of the AZ-treated, TO-treated, AZ-TO-treated, and as-polished samples. Because the experimental procedure for our in vivo study was almost the same as described in previous reports [8], it is described only briefly here. Before surgery, all of the implants were cleaned in distilled water and immersed in a chlorhexidine gluconate solution. Ten-week-old male Sprague Dawley rats (Charles River Japan, Inc., Japan) were used in our experimental procedures. The samples were implanted in the tibial metaphysis of the rats. A slightly oversized hole, which did not pass through to the rear side of the bone, was created using a low-speed rotary drill. Subsequently, the implants were inserted into these holes, and then the subcutaneous tissue and skin were closed and sterilized.
The rats were sacrificed after a period of 14 d, and the implants with their surrounding tissue were retrieved. The samples were fixed in a 10% neutral buffered formalin solution, dehydrated in a graded series of ethanol, and embedded in methylmethacrylate. Following polymerization, each implant block was sectioned longitudinally into 20 μm thick slices. These sections were then stained with toluidine blue.
The sum of the linear bone contact with the implant surface was measured and was expressed as a percentage over the entire implant length (the bone-implant contact ratio, ) in the cancellous bone and the cortical bone parts [8]. Significant differences in the bone-implant contact ratio were analyzed statistically using the Tukey-Kramer method [29]. Differences were considered statistically significant at the level. This animal study was conducted in a laboratory accredited by AAALAC International (Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International).
3.1. Evaluation of Oxide Coatings
The surface morphology and surface roughness of these samples are shown in Figure 1. Figure 2 shows the XRD patterns of the samples after AZ treatment in (a) 0.1 M H3PO4 aqueous solution up to 100 V, (b) 0.1 M NaOH aqueous solution up to 80 V, (c) TO treatment at 673 K for 2 h in air, and AZ-TO treatment (anodized in (d) H3PO4 and (e) NaOH aqueous solution). Figure 3 shows the XPS spectra ((A) O1s, (B) P2p, and (C) Na1s) of each of the samples.
The surface SEM images, surface roughness Ra, and WCA of the samples prepared in this study.
The XRD patterns of the surface coatings on samples treated by (a) AZ treatment up to 100 V in 0.1 M H3PO4 aq., (b) AZ-TO treatment (anodized in H3PO4 aq.), (c) AZ treatment up to 80 V in 0.1 M NaOH aq., (d) AZ-TO treatment (anodized in NaOH aq.), and (e) TO treatment.
The (A) O1s, (B) P2p, and (C) Na1s XPS surface spectra of samples treated by (a) AZ treatment up 100 V in 0.1 M H3PO4 aq., (b) AZ-TO treatment (anodized in H3PO4 aq.), (c) AZ treatment up to 80 V in 0.1 M NaOH aq., (d) AZ-TO treatment (anodized in NaOH aq.), and (e) TO treatment.
Surface was kept fine (Ra/μm < 0.1) after any oxidizing process (Figures 1(a)–1(e)). All of the formed oxide coating had the same film thickness of c.a. 120 nm [30]. However, the crystal structure of the oxide coating was different depending on the oxidizing process; anatase-type TiO2 was formed by AZ treatment (Figures 2(a), and 2(b)), but rutile-type TiO2 by TO treatment (Figure 2(e)). Each of AZ-treated samples contained or Na+ in the oxide coating which derived from aqueous solutions (Figures 3(B)(a) and 3(B)(c)), as described in our previous report [27]. Anatase was also formed by AZ-TO treatment, which was the same crystal structure as the AZ-treated coatings (Figures 2(b), and 2(d)), and no rutile was detected in the coatings using XRD, despite the thermal oxidation.
The XPS analysis showed different O1s spectra depending on the oxidation process. When deconvoluting the O1s spectrum of the as-polished sample in the same way as in a previous work [31], the spectrum was divided into three predominant peaks (530.1, 531.5, and 532.5 eV) originating from O2-, OH group, and adsorbed water (Figure 3(A)(f)), which derived from the thin natural oxide layer on the Ti substrate. These components were also present after anodizing (Figures 3(A)(a), and 3(A)(c)). However, OH groups was lost from the surface after thermal oxidation (Figures 3(A)(b), 3(A)(d), and 3(A)(e)), in the same way as a previous report by Zhao et al. [24]. Instead, large amounts of water molecule adsorbed on the surface of thermally oxidized samples. The absence of or Na+ on the AZ-TO-treated samples (Figures 3(B)(b) and 3(B)(d)), which was detected on the anodized-only samples (Figures 3(B)(a) and 3(C)(c)), supports the idea that the oxide layer grows outward during thermal oxidation, as noted by Kumar et al. [32]. The sample anodized in H3PO4 aqueous solution is considered to have surface OH groups, but the corresponding peak could not be separated from the peak of at the binding energy of around 531.5 eV (Figure 3(A)(a)). Although it is not shown in this figure, hydrocarbon was detected as a contaminant at the surface of all of the samples at the same adsorption level.
The surface hydrophilicity of oxidized samples was different depending on their oxidizing processes. As listed in Figure 1, WCA values decreased largely from 71 deg. (f) to less than 40 deg. ((a), (c)) after AZ treatment, regardless of the type of aqueous solutions used for anodizing. The anodizing process did not significantly change the amounts of OH group and adsorbed hydrocarbon at the surface. It was already shown that solute ions ( and Na+) contained in anodized coatings did not contribute to the reduction of WCA [28]. On the other hand, all of the thermally oxidized samples (i.e., TO-treated sample (Figure 1(e)) and AZ-TO-treated samples (Figures 1(b), and 1(d)) had high WCA values similar to the as-polished sample. Since TO-treated sample and AZ-TO-treated samples had almost the same WCA values in spite of different crystal structure of formed TiO2, it is thought that the crystal structure of TiO2, whether anatase or rutile, did not have strong influence on the hydrophilicity. In addition, the increased amount of adsorbed water molecule on thermally treated samples did not contribute to the decrease of the WCA value. Based on these results, it is reasonable to think that the absence of OH groups on the surface is responsible for the high WCA values of TO- and AZ-TO-treated samples. In other words, anodizing can improve the hydrophilicity of as-polished samples as a consequence of forming TiO2 films having surface OH groups, but thermal oxidation does not improve the hydrophilicity because of the lack of surface OH groups on the TiO2 films.
3.2. In Vivo Evaluation
Figure 4 shows the bone-implant contact ratios, , of the samples in both the cortical bone part (A) and the cancellous bone part (B). In the cancellous bone part, the values approached nearly 30% with any coating process; this value agreed well with the percentage of hard tissue in healthy cancellous bone in rats. According to this, it is difficult to judge the influence of the oxidizing process on values in cancellous bone parts in the early stages after implantation. On the other hand, in the cortical bone part (A), the values were obviously different depending on the oxidizing process for the slow formation rate of hard tissue. Therefore, we will focus on the cortical bone part in the following discussion.
Bone-implant contact ratio, , of Ti samples in both (A) the cortical bone part and (B) the cancellous bone part. .
The values of samples varied significantly depending on the oxidizing process. Both AZ-treated samples (Figures 4(A)(a) and 4(A)(c)) tended to have higher values than the as-polished sample (Figure 4(A)(f)). In contrast, the values of thermally oxidized samples (b), (d), (e) were as low as that of the as-polished sample. The low values of the AZ-TO-treated samples mean that the values of the AZ-treated samples decreased significantly after additional thermal oxidation, regardless of the type of aqueous solutions used for AZ treatment (Figures 4(A)(b), and 4(A)(d)). These results indicate that thermal oxidation attributed to decrease the osteoconductivity of TiO2 coatings, and also that the different crystal structures of TiO2 did not influence the osteoconductivity. Furthermore, all of the thermally oxidized samples were similar, with WCA values ranging from 60 (deg.) to 70 (deg.) and also values ranging from 10% to 20%. These values followed the relation between and WCA reported in our previous study (Figure 5) [28]. This means that variation of surface hydrophilicity was the reason for the different osteoconductivity of TiO2 coatings prepared with different oxidizing process. Therefore, it was thought that the surface properties, such as WCA and the amount of OH groups, strongly affected the osteoconductivity, rather than the coating substance, crystal structure, and coating process. TiO2 coating processes using only anodizing and not thermal oxidation improved the osteoconductivity of Ti samples effectively.
Relationship between the WCA and values in the cortical bone part. The symbols in closed circle correspond to the letters in Figure 4. Open circles represent the data for the sample anodized in various aqueous solutions, taken from previous work [26].
In this study, we prepared TiO2 coatings with controlled surface structure on Ti using anodizing and/or thermal oxidation and investigated the chemical influence of oxidizing processes on the osteoconductivity. The following results were obtained.(1)Anatase was formed by anodizing, and rutile by thermal oxidation, but the difference of TiO2 crystal structure did not influence their osteoconductivity. (2)Anodized TiO2 coatings were hydrophilic, but thermally oxidized TiO2 coatings were less hydrophilic than anodized-only TiO2 coatings because of the lack of surface OH groups.(3)The TiO2 coating process using only anodizing, not including thermal oxidation, gave the effective improvement of the osteoconductivity of Ti samples.
This work was partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for JSPS fellows (No. 2310401), and the Global COE program (COE for Education and Research of Micro-Nano Mechatronics) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (No. 21560719).
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Tesla's Problems Go Way Beyond Elon Musk
There is also a growing sense that Musk's behavior since taking over Twitter has made a challenging situation for Tesla even worse.
Over the past year, Musk has used Twitter to call for the prosecution of former director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci ("My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci"), take swings at US senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders over government spending and inflation, and placed himself at the center of the free speech debate. He's lashed out at critics, challenging, among other things, the size of their testicles.
A November analysis of the top 100 global brands by the New York–based consultancy Interbrand estimated Tesla's brand value in 2022 at $48 billion, up 32 percent from 2021 but well short of its 183 percent growth between 2020 and 2021. The report, based on qualitative data from 1,000 industry consultants and sentiment analysis of published sources, showed brand strength declining, particularly in "trust, distinctiveness and an understanding of the needs of their customers."
"I think [Musk's] core is rapidly moving away from him, and people are just starting to say, 'I don't like the smell of Tesla; I don't want to be associated with that,'" says Daniel Binns, global chief growth officer at Interbrand.
Among them are once-loyal customers. Alan Saldich, a semi-retired tech CMO who lives in Idaho, put a deposit down on a Model S in 2011, before the cars were even on the road, after seeing a bodiless chassis in a Menlo Park showroom. His car, delivered in 2012, was number 2799, one of the first 3,000 made.
He benefited from the company's good, if idiosyncratic, customer service. When, on Christmas morning 2012, the car wouldn't start, he emailed Musk directly seeking a remedy. Musk responded just 24 minutes later: "…Will see if we can diagnose and fix remotely. Sorry about this. Hope you otherwise have a good Christmas."
On New Year's Day, Joost de Vries, then vice president of worldwide service at Tesla, and an assistant showed up at Saldich's house with a trailer, loaded the car onto a flatbed, and hauled it to Tesla's plant in Fremont, California, to be repaired. Saldich and his family later even got a tour of the factory. But since then, he's cooled on the company. In 2019, he sold his Model S, and now drives a Mini Electric. He's irritated in particular, he says, by Musk's verbal attacks on government programs and regulation, particularly as Tesla has benefited from states and federal EV tax credits.
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Q: Pros and Cons of Cassandra User Defined Functions I am using Apache Cassandra to store mostly time series data. And I am grouping the data and aggregating/counting it based on some conditions. At the moment I am doing this in a Java 8 application, but with the release of Cassandra 3.0 and the User Defined Functions, I have been asking myself if extracting the grouping and aggregation/counting logic to Cassandra is a good idea. To my understanding this functionallity is something like the stored procedures in SQL.
My concern is if this will impact the computation performance and the overall performance of the database. I am also not sure if there are other issues with it and if this new feature is something like the secondary indexes in Cassandra - you can do them, but it is not recommended at all.
Have you used user defined functions in Cassandra? Do you have any observations on the performance? What are the good and bad sides of this new functionality? Is it applicable in my use case?

A: You can compare it to using count() or avg() kind of aggregations. They can save you a lot of network traffic and object creation/GC by having the coordinator only send the result, but its easy to get carried away and make the coordinator do a lot of work. This extra work takes away from normal C* duties, and can just as likely increase GCs as reduce them.
If your aggregating 100 rows in a partition its probably fine and if your aggregating 10000 its probably not end of the world if its very rare. If your calling it once a second though its a problem. If your aggregating over 1000 I would be very careful.
If you absolutely need to do it and its a lot of data often, you may want to create dedicated proxy coordinators (-Djoin_ring=false) to bear the brunt of the load without impacting normal C* read/writes. At that point its just as easy to create dedicated workload DC for it or something (with RF=0 for your keyspace, and set application to be part of that DC with DCAwareRoundRobinPolicy). This also is the point where using Spark is probably the right thing to do.


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In her article "The Posthuman Ethos in Cyberpunk Science Fiction" María Goicoechea explores the posthuman tendencies of Anglo-American popular culture as they are manifested in the representations of the cyborgs, clones, and artificial intelligences that populate cyberpunk science fiction. Choosing the figure of the cyborg as the central myth of cyberculture, Goicoechea exposes the underlying tensions and contradictions present in cyberpunk prescient visions of humanity's evolution. Goicoechea reviews the variety of contradictory meanings that have been sedimented over this hybrid creature, using as ideological framework the digital narratives of "Technoromanticism" and "Cybergothic," respectively the dominant and the countercultural trend inside cyberculture. Goicoechea postulates that although cyberpunk narratives have been associated traditionally with the subversiveness and rebelliousness of the more dystopian Cybergothic, they are also prey to the mesmerizing promises of the technoromantics. Goicoechea argues that the discourses of Technoromanticism and Cybergothic run parallel in many of the cyberpunk novels explored, provoking a schizoid and paranoid tunnel vision in characters and readers alike. Cyberpunk visions coincide in diagnosing the cyborg with the illness of Narcissus. In their quest for immortality, humans that have fused too intimately with the machine seem propelled towards a solipsistic free fall, a movement which tries to avoid any form of ideology but which entraps them instead in their own contradictory impulses for control and freedom.
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'A van is a working tool, so getting the right specification for the job is a given. But, equally, getting the right added extras will make any van more attractive to used buyers a few years down the line when it is time to sell,' commented Duncan Ward, general manager, Commercial Vehicle Sales at BCA.
'The auction buyer will seek out the best vehicle they can buy with the budget they've got – and if a van with two side loading doors, a bulkhead and aircon is on offer that will be the one they bid for, if all the other vans available are basic models.
According to BCA, iterior ply-lining is one of the best value extras for any van buyer. It's expected by buyers and, importantly, it protects valuable company vehicles from "inside-out" damage that is likely to occur day-to-day. BCA found that value-wise ply-lining might add £100, but the real benefit is that the van is much more likely to be in a more saleable condition after three or four years' hard work.
Side-loading doors are another key consideration for buyers. And these are just as essential for smaller vans as they are for the larger one tonne and 3.5 tonne vehicles. BCA believes that, at the very least a van should include a single nearside sliding door, but two side-loading doors will be particularly appealing for businesses whose drivers are going to work in tight, urban conditions. Potential value in the used market can increase by around £150 for a single and £250 for two side-loading doors, depending on the vehicle.
According to BCA, factory-fitted satnav does not, however, make a huge difference to the selling price because most mobile and smart phones now offer this facility. Similarly, in-van entertainment and blue-tooth connectivity may only add a marginal increase of £50 at resale. Parking sensors for the 3.5 tonne market where low-speed reversing damage is more common might also add £50.
Still inside the cab, air-conditioning is highly valued but only combined with a bulkhead, otherwise the cool air escapes and reduces efficiency. Similarly, if a van is being used for start-stop urban deliveries air-conditioning is considered wasteful, because the driver will be in and out of the cab and not getting the benefit. However, air-con is appealing for vans that do longer distances or where the vehicle doubles as the family transport at the weekends for a tradesperson.


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Q: how can i access array elements in a $scope variable angular js from php? I created an array of cards in php:
$card = array(
      "id" => $row["id"],
      "nome" => $row["nome"],
      "indirizzo" => $row["indirizzo"],
      "descrizione" => $row["descrizione"],
      "prezzo" => $row["prezzo"],
      "images" => array(),
      "thumbs" => array(),
      "dataInserimento" => $row["inserimento"],
      "dataModifica" => $row["modifica"],
      "bigImage" => array(),
      "lat" => $row["lat"],
      "lng" => $row["lng"],
      "latInd"=>$row["latInd"],
      "lngInd"=>$row["lngInd"]);

in a loop i do:
 $cards["card"][] = $card;

and i pass the data to angular:
echo json_encode($cards);
In controller i copy the array into a scope variable:
  $scope.cards=[];
  CardService.getCards($scope.lastCard).then(function (success) {
    CardService.setLocalCards(success.data.card);
    /*check if all imges are loaded*/
    for (var i = 0; i < success.data.card.length; i++) {
      console.log(success.data.card);
      console.log("numero di card caricate " + success.data.card[i].id);
      var localCard = CardService.getLocalCard(success.data.card[i].id);
      if (localCard === null || localCard.photosLoaded === true) {
        $scope.cards.push((success.data.card[i]));
        $scope.lastCard = success.data.card[i].id;
      }
    }
    $ionicLoading.hide();
    console.log("ultima scheda caricata " + $scope.lastCard);
  }, function (fail) {
    console.log("getCards error " + JSON.stringify(fail));
  });
  console.log($scope.cards);

the problem is if i try to access elements in $scope.cards i can access them from the then function in CardService but outside i get this:

And i don't know how to access the elements

A: Since you are using promises, which are async, your console.log is executing right after the CardService.getCards function and before the function inside the .then(). The function inside the .then is a promise that excecutes only after the getCards is finished. So when you do console.log($scope.cards);The arrive it's still empty.
Either way be sure you are actually excecuting any push inside $scope.cards and you can try to do a console.log($scope.cards) inside the promise (after the cards are pushed) to see if it's actually filling.


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US Debt Ventures is a private equity firm based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and sponsored by a group of high net worth investors. The company focuses on acquisitions of distressed real estate, and provides an online platform for accredited investors to participate in crowdfunding.

In 2013, the company was projected to surpass $1 billion in total portfolio purchases.

History
USDV's founder, Todd Billings, started out running a small wealth management company, Veriloquent Wealth Advisors. At the request of one of their investors, they began transitioning to the distressed real estate field in 2009. After putting $1 million into USDV and setting up a series of partnerships to purchase distressed real estate, Billings officially launched US Debt Ventures in 2010.

USDV currently offers a number of investment products, divided into four main asset classes: residential real estate, commercial real estate (CRE), performing loans, and strategy funds. Until Section III of the JOBS Act has been passed, the company is only targeting accredited investors.

References

External links
US Debt Ventures Homepage

Financial services companies established in 2010
Companies based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Private equity firms of the United States
Real estate companies of the United States
2010 establishments in Florida

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Q: Carrirage return not recognized in VBScript variable (Passed from SQL Server) I have a VBScript file that accepts a variety of parameters, one of which is a text string from a varchar(max) field in SQL Server, which is used in the script as the .HTMLBody of an e-mail message.
However, when the e-mail message is created and displayed, all of the text is jumbled together, making it somewhat difficult to read since it ignores all line breaks.
The actual script is called from a Java application like this:
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(arguments)

Where arguments is a list of arguments pass into the VBScript file, which is also part of the arguments string like this:
wscript filepath\sendEmail + arguments

Each argument is held in quotes to segment each unique parameter in the VBScript file, which is structured like this:
Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments
Arg1 = objArgs(0)
...
Set MyApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
...
.HTMLBody = Arg8

Many thanks for any help you can provide.
-Brian

A: According to this doc for HTMLBody Property, .HTMLBody deals with HTML:
.HTMLBody = "Enter the message text here. "

As whitespace has reduced significance in HTML, you should replace (whatever) line-endings of your input text with
 (or
).


Last week, Image Entertainment announced the acquisition of Ken Crane's LaserDisc/DVD Internet-based direct-to-consumer business, a division of Ken Crane's Home Entertainment of Hawthorne, CA. Long a favorite among laserdisc aficionados, and more recently DVD fans, the business was purchased for approximately $6.5 million in a combination of cash, stock, and the assumption of certain liabilities, subject to adjustment.
It's Official: Couch Potatoes Will Inherit the Earth!
Interactive TV will reach 10 million viewers by 2002, but a new report from Forrester Research, Inc. concludes that television providers and interactivity vendors have completely misunderstood the promise of the new medium. For interactive television to succeed, programmers must embrace lazy interactivity---an approach designed for TV viewers of short attention spans.
Convergence might be the brunt of jokes in some quarters, but not at 7 Mark Drive in San Rafael, CA. That's the home of NetTV, which has just announced its new ExtremeDVD home-entertainment system. ExtremeDVD is optimized for 3-D gaming, Internet access, satellite downloads, and high-resolution movie playback.
It's been a glorious week for folks who rent or buy open-DVD videos. Paramount Home Video and Twentieth Century Fox have each announced a string of releases that signal their entry into the open-DVD market. Both companies, relative laggards in the rollout of the new format, have said that copyright issues are the delaying factor.
The format war is heating up. Circuit City has enlisted a third ally as it prepares to go nationwide with the launch of Divx. On August 11, Denver's 30-store Ultimate Electronics chain threw its weight behind the pay-per-view format. California-based retailer The Good Guys has been a Divx partner since early in the game.
Public awareness of HDTV has almost doubled in the past year, according to a survey recently conducted by the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association. Over the week of July 6-14, CEMA interviewed 1000 adults, selected at random, to find out how far the coming television format has penetrated into the American consciousness.
The new holy grail of the media business is video-on-demand (VOD)---the ability to make high-quality video, audio, and Web content available on customers' TVs when they want it, not according to a broadcaster's schedule. When you add shopping-on-demand supported by live video and sound, you have the makings of a new media empire.
Sandor Hasznos of Denver, Colorado, purchased a television on July 31, and it was delivered last week. This might not seem like a big deal---unless you consider that this was the first HDTV officially sold in the US. The set, a Panasonic PT-56WXF90, was the first one bought at Ultimate Electronics during an HDTV preview event that drew over 4000 digital-television enthusiasts.
A lawsuit filed Friday, July 31, in a Los Angeles US District Court could delay by many months Seagram Ltd.'s widely publicized takeover of PolyGram NV. The international mega-merger, valued at $10.4 billion, has ground to a halt because of a $100 million suit brought by Image Entertainment Inc., a video distributor based in Chatsworth, California.
Currently, a relative handful of people worldwide subscribe to Internet-on-TV services. However, according to a recent study by SRI Consulting, a research firm based in Menlo Park, California, the number of Net-TV subscribers will mushroom to over 12 million in less than four years, and the cable industry is in the best position to serve these new customers.


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HomeBLOGVirtual Listening Session Gathered Additional Stakeholder Input on Next National HIV and Viral Hepatitis Strategies
Virtual Listening Session Gathered Additional Stakeholder Input on Next National HIV and Viral Hepatitis Strategies
By: Tammy R. Beckham, DVM, PhD, Director, Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | Published: February 22, 2019
HHSDepartment of Health & Human Services
NHASNational HIV AIDS Strategy
HIV and viral hepatitis community stakeholders offered a rich variety of input on developing the next iterations of both the National HIV/AIDS Strategy and National Viral Hepatitis Action Plan during a virtual listening session on January 29, 2019. OHAIDP facilitated the session, which gathered over 330 people or groups on the line.
The participants represented a wide variety of HIV and viral hepatitis stakeholders, including health department leaders, physician educators, advocates, researchers, staff from community health centers and Ryan White HIV/AIDS Programs, and others. Their recommendations reflected the diversity of their work and experiences and addressed many aspects of each of the national strategies. Their recommendations included the following topic areas for these two national strategies:
Integration of HIV, viral hepatitis, and STD prevention, testing, and treatment and models and education to support these efforts;
Funding for viral hepatitis surveillance;
The indicators used to measure progress and full implementation of both national strategies;
Rapid linkage to care with same-day medication initiation for individuals diagnosed with HIV;
Expansion of harm-reduction efforts;
Research on a HCV vaccine and perinatal HCV transmission and prevention;
Covering the cost of PrEP medication and required periodic clinic visits and tests; and
HIV, HBV, and HCV-related discrimination.
The interagency workgroups developing the next iterations of each of these national strategies will consider stakeholders' important input.
This virtual listening session was part of a series of opportunities for stakeholders to provide ideas and feedback about these national strategies, the current versions of which expire in 2020. If you would like to share your thoughts, we are also gathering written comments until March 11. Read more about how to submit written comments.
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Artist Transforms 50-Year-Old Photo Into a Beautiful Modern Portrait
An anonymous digital artist is creating impressive transformations of old black-and-white photos, reimagining them as enhanced and colorized portraits that look as though they were shot in the modern-day.
The artist, who goes by IDoArtForYou on Reddit, most recently wowed the subreddit /r/pics with the above before-and-after that shows the result of his colorization work on a photo of a woman from around half a century ago.
Taking on a Stranger's Request
IDoArtForYou, who is a 3D character artist by profession and who has done some semi-professional photography work in the past, first saw the old photo when it was posted to the subreddit r/estoration.
"The original photo was posted to the r/estoration subreddit where anyone can post a picture and have to hope it restored by someone in the community," IDoArtForYou tells PetaPixel. "It was posted a couple of days ago by a guy who wanted someone to enhance it so he can use it as a reference to sketch the image as a gift to a friend of his who bakes for them. This lady in the picture is the baking lady's mother.
"The photo was taken in 1953 in Ireland."
Some members of the community did try their hand at restoring the photo, but IDoArtForYou wasn't impressed with the results, so he decided to give it a shot himself.
A Lengthy Colorization Process
The first thing IDoArtForYou did was to fix the damage in the photo and address overexposed areas. He enlarged the canvas and filled in missing areas.
"I did that in this case but ended up replacing the entire background anyway because there was barely anything there," he says.
After removing as much noise as possible, he then spent hours finding details and textures from stock photos to enhance things like facial features, skin, hair, and clothing.
"Spend more time trying to morph and blend them all to match with the original as much as possible," IDoArtForYou says. "Improvise when there's no information. Spend a lot of time on this step because the more accurate you can make it, the better the final result will be."
Next came the colorization. He first added a base color coating over the entire photo. Next, he did his best to colorize each of the details in the photo as realistically as possible based on what they are.
"Study the materials in the image and try to overpaint on all of them trying to replicate the material effects — glossiness, refraction, reflections, specular detail, subsurface scattering for the skin and transparent materials, etc," he says. "The more time spent on this, the more realistic the final image will be."
Once the colorizing is done, he adds some noise and distortions intentionally to make the result look more like a real photo again and less like a digitally painted image.
The last step is to do final color grading, lighting fixes, and minor touchups to correct anything that stands out too much in the image.
"This one took around 12 hours over a 2 to 3 day period," IDoArtForYou says. "I got sloppy towards the end once the face was done. Hence the bad work on the clothing, etc."
The original photo shot back in 1953 in Ireland.
The final enhanced and colorized version of the photo by IDoArtForYou.
As you can imagine, the person who originally posted the photo was very impressed with the result — his first response was: "That's insane."
A Closer Look at the Process
A previous colorization project IDoArtForYou did offers a behind-the-scenes look at his process. The monochrome photo was off-center and had physical damage across the print.
A before (left) and after (right) comparison of another photo colorization IDoArtForYou did.
In this case, IDoArtForYou documented the entire process in a 34-second animation.
Not Restorations but Reimaginings
IDoArtForYou does not consider himself a photo restoration artist, but rather someone who aims to provide the world with a different view of history — reimagining the photos rather than restoring them.
"Rather than restore an older image, my goal with these images is to try and make feel like they were taken today," he says. "Because looking at black-and-white pictures often skews our view of what we are looking at. It makes us feel like we're looking at a time long past when in truth, it is at most 100 years. And that's nothing in the grand scale of things.
"So my little hope with these 'reimaginations' is to build a bridge that lets us view these people and times with a view that we are more accustomed to today.
"I understand the nostalgia of black and white images and I love that myself, but this is a small effort to build a different lens at looking at [historical photos]."
IDoArtForYou has been doing art for 16 years now, but his digital colorization work has so far been a side hobby while his main job involves 3D art.
"I've been exclusively doing 3D stuff for so long that I felt I wanted to explore more 2D and photograph avenues," he says. "So I made this account explicitly to tend to Photoshop requests and restorations of random people.
"And it makes me super happy to see their reactions when their loved ones' photos are restored. Amazing feeling."
He doesn't take paid work, but he does keep his eye on messages that arrive in his inbox — which has been flooded with hundreds of requests after his latest viral hit — to see if anything catches his eye.
"I do ask people to send me photos," he says. "I never know when I get in the mood for it. If I like a picture, I work on it. And if I do work on it, it'll be free of charge."
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Online research tool will bridge human rights law and Catholic social thought
The Center for Civil and Human Rights, in cooperation with the Center for Digital Scholarship of the Hesburgh Libraries, has begun work on an online research tool that will allow users to search Catholic social teaching documents alongside instruments of international human rights law. This free online library will help scholars, students, advocates, and public officials to identify both convergences and divergences between Catholic teachings on the subject of human rights and those contained in international law.
Esther Terry, Project Coordinator, is encouraged by the interest she has encountered across the Notre Dame community for such a tool. "The database is receiving enthusiastic support from our students, faculty, and staff," says Terry. "Everyone seems to be intrigued by the potential for this research tool and have been eager to express their ideas for its development."
The database will make digitized documents accessible in their totality, and searchable by topic, key words, or geographic region for purposes of comparison. Designed for a diverse audience and built upon an interdisciplinary framework, it will gradually expand to include not only primary sources but also secondary sources such as articles on the overlap between Catholic social thought and human rights, topical reference guides for educational purposes, and recommended bibliographies.
Scheduled for a pilot phase rollout in the summer of 2014, the project is currently in review by focus groups representing varying audiences. As Terry emphasizes, the database is meant to help a wide range of constituencies in their research, advocacy, and educational endeavors. "It is our hope that this searchable online library of human rights instruments and documents of Catholic social thought will have broad appeal and impact, not only in the academy, but also 'on the ground.'"


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