When is it the right time to say goodbye/consider euthanasia? Deciding to euthanase your adored dog is one of the hardest decisions in the world, and one that needs to be made with the right advice at hand. Dogs Life hopes this article will offer help during those hard times.
Knowing when its time to say goodbye to a trusted family pet can be a gut-wrenching experience. Dogs Life caught up with Dr Angus Ross from the Ku-Ring-Gai Veterinary Hospital in New South Wales to get some advice on Euthanasia and our pets. On a personal note, it was Dr Ross who gave my family and I advice on our beloved 13-year-old Dobermann Trajan, who, we sadly said goodbye to a few months ago, after Trajan succumbed to the pain of cancer. His advice, alongside his team of wonderful vet nurses, was invaluable at this very emotional time.
For Trajan, we decided his quality of life was no longer at its peak, and we could not sleep easy knowing the amount of pain he was going to endure. Dr Ross and his great team had done all they could to keep the pain at bay, however, realistically this could no longer be managed. So we decided to say our final goodbyes to our beloved Dobermann, known as our black stallion.
There is no real right or wrong time to say goodbye to your beloved dog. Like most, Trajan was a huge part of our family and saying goodbye took some preparation and planning. Realistically, we knew he wouldn't be around forever and as he edged ever so gracefully into old age, we began preparing ourselves both mentally and emotionally for the day when we would have to say goodbye.
"My advice is that any such decision should be based on the pets welfare and quality of life," Dr Ross advises. "The criteria involved in making a decision are purely subjective and will vary between people. In deciding what is the best course of action I normally consider the current problems facing the pet is it in pain, is the condition going to get worse and at what rate, is the pet eating, drinking and going to the toilet without soiling itself?
Understandably, your decision will depend on many factors. Saying goodbye is not easy. There will be lots of tears, some doubts and a deep sense of loss, but these are all natural steps when preparing for grief. As our dogs become more and more accepted in our homes as family members, grief becomes more and more apparen't in our loss. Therefore, making sure you get the right support and advice is essential in these times of great sadness. Holding off on making the decision could cause you and your pet more pain. Being reasonable and realistic in the possible decisions you will need to make, especially in times of chronic illness or old age, will help prepare you and your family for the hard outcome at hand.
An important piece of advice is to talk it over. Speak with your vet and get the whole realistic rundown of your pets condition. Chat with friends; you'll be surprised how many of them have also gone through this. Talk it over with your family, even chatting about where you would like to bury the dog or if you would like to make a plaque in its memory. All these attributes will prepare you emotionally for the loss of your pet. The only way I was able to make such a hard decision was to talk it over and make sure we found a way to never forget our black stallion. We also knew the time would soon arrive, so we spoilt the pants off him our way of saying thank you for so many wonderful years of companionship. Now we can look back and smile when we think of our beloved boy as the pain of his loss is finally fading, allowing all those funny memories to resurface.
If your pet is suffering from a chronic terminal illness, chat with your vet about how much time the animal has left and, more importantly, if your pet is in pain. With age, its always a tough one. Some dogs will live as happy as Larry until 15 or more years … others will begin to deplete with age rapidly. I remember always thinking of Trajan as a puppy until one day he just went grey and wasn't able to move with much ease. His old age crept up on all of us very quickly.
For vets this is also a hard time, as many would have known the dog for a long time and will also see the change in quality of life.
Many people will suffer great loss once this decision has been made, some more than others. While I have many great memories of Trajan, I find making special picture frames with all my lost pets helps. Putting up new pictures of Trajan that make me smile helped with the grieving process, as too did long walks in the rain with Jazmine! For Trajan it was the right time to go to that huge oval in the sky. The veterinary support was excellent, and I would advise anyone to speak with their vet when making this choice. They are always willing to lend an ear and even a shoulder to cry on!
Having said goodbye to your beloved dog, is the pain and loss making you apprehensive about getting another dog? Dogs Life hears this often through letters from readers, however remember that the years of love and loyalty from your pet will, in time, far outweigh your pain. It may not feel that way now, but in time you will look back and realise you made the right decision and your dog will thank you for ending his life in a peaceful manner. Your new dog will never replace your lost dog, however it will provide you with that unconditional love, hysterical laughter and loyalty we all adore about our dogs.
If you have lost your dog to a generic or hereditary problem, doing your research on the breed and breeder will ultimately protect your chances of going through the same ordeal. With so many great doggy souls looking for new homes, getting back on the horse sooner or later will not only allow you to enjoy the company of a dog again, it will also help a dog out who needs a loving owner like you.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the wonderful vets around the world for helping so many pet owners with this unbearable decision. Your words of wisdom have helped many remember their pets with joy instead of pain. Your professionalism in times like this is purely outstanding.


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What the heck is Domo and why should you care?
Do you understand what Domo is from this commercial? Apparently it's something that allows you to "connect with anything in the company" and gives you the "company data in one place." And let's not forget, it will help Jeanne, who is always cold (huh?). The tagline on the commercial is Domo: For the good of the company.
This commercial is successful in making you wonder what Domo is, and maybe, like me, you go search it out on the web.
Here you do learn more about it. When I scroll down there is a part of the home page called product benefits where I learn that Domo is "the fully-mobile, cloud-based operating system that unifies every component of a business. Data becomes decisions, ideas turn into action." Someone needs to explain to Domo that this is not a listing of benefits, but rather an actual description of the product.
Domo creates a truly digitally-connected organization.
The sum of Domo's parts deliver a virtuous cycle of business optimization. Everyone knows more, works together better, and gets more done, faster.
But what is it? And why do I care?
I don't know about you, but I am still confused. I am confused because at no point does the ad or the website explain what exactly we are talking about and why being connected to all your data and systems in one place (apparently your phone) makes things run better.
There are so many issues both with the website messaging and with the TV commercial. The website and the commercial feature taglines, descriptors, slogans, product benefits, a product description–and none of them match up. The website prominently features a phrase that tells you you can get to everything from your phone. Is this the main selling feature?
Who should hear about it?
It's clear that the target audience for the TV commercial is a CEO or a COO of a company. We know this because we have the self-effacing female administrative assistant who starts by saying she's not the "c-anything o," and ends by saying that the CEO, to whom she is writing the email suggesting the company get Domo, is really the one who runs things.
How is it then that the lowly admin knows about this amazing product? And what I really don't get is how having data visualization on your smartphone is going to help Jeanne who is always cold?
Domo, with its short and easy to remember name, has succeeded in building brand recognition and perhaps even increasing its website traffic. What is less clear is if has succeeded in getting customers. There's a lot of explaining that needs to be done about what Domo actually is, how it works, and why you need it. To be successful in your branding, you need clear and consistent messaging and a strong selling proposition.
Domo has many messages and several reasons (maybe too many) for you to consider getting it.
What do you think? Do you understand Domo? Do you need Domo?
You may have noticed that the DBMC website has been spruced up a bit. During the "remodeling" I refrained from blogging so that there would be no new content to migrate to the new site. But now I am back! Let me know what you think of the new website.
And then there's the local pizza chain with the catchy jingle that says it offers "something for every one." The place is called [name] Pizza, and its current TV commercials show pictures of a burger and fries. Because, of course, if you want a burger and fries you'd call a pizza delivery place, right?
When you seek to please everyone by offering tons of choices, you end up pleasing no one.
In terms of branding and marketing, when you offer so many choices (and in Isabella's case, cuisines and restaurants) you are violating the first two of The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding by Al Ries and Laura Ries. The first law says that your brand loses its power when you expand your scope, and the second, which really is the inverse of the first, is that having more focus strengthens your brand.
A strong brand is focused, a weak brand is not. It seems to me that Mike Isabella is expanding at the expense of his brand. And the pizza place? Well I don't think it would be anyone's first choice for pizza or for burgers.
Your brand is your mark of distinction. How well are you communicating it? If you need help with your branding, check out my new Brand Identity Kit.
Is having a point of differentiation enough?
Last night, I met a friend for dinner. He chose a Thai place that was half-way between his place and mine. Upon reading some reviews online, I found out that this is the only Thai place in the area that's Halal, that is, observes Muslim dietary rules.
When I got there last night, it was empty save for a couple of people. Few people came in until a outwardly observant Muslim family came in. When they were done eating and had left, the owner pretty much closed up shop and kicked my friend and me out. From the time we had arrived at 6:30 p.m. until we left, no more than ten other customers had been in the restaurant.
The food at this Thai place was not very good. In fact, it was mediocre. It wasn't spicy enough, or attractively presented enough or even interesting enough. They did not have Thai standards like green papaya salad or red curry. Based on the food alone, I would not go back.
The only relevant differentiator this Thai restaurant offers is that it's Halal. Is that enough? Can you have one strong point of differentiation and have that keep your business alive? Well, the answer is yes, but there is an "if" attached. In this case, you could have Halal as your point of differentiation ONLY IF your food is on par with other similar restaurants.
In a world where there are multiple offerings for everything (many organic grocery stores, tons of sushi restaurants, hundreds of nail salons), you have to meet the standard or exceed it AND then find your point of differentiation. For example, if you have a nail salon, not only do have to comply with sanitary guidelines required by law, but you should find something that your competition does not have (the most colors, the most comfortable chairs, etc.).
What do you think? Is having a point of differentiation enough?
It seems the folks at Spike TV"s Bar Rescue didn't think personality went a long way when they remade Silver Spring's Piratz Tavern into the very generic Corporate Bar and Grill. As I commented here on the blog, I didn't give the corporate makeover good chances of succeeding, and apparently neither did Piratz Tavern's owners. The Washington Post is reporting today that the bar's owners, Tracy and Juciano Rebelo are getting rid of the makeover and re-launching Piratz Tavern today.
The bigger problem, however, was the tavern's new identity, designed to attract Silver Spring's corporate worker bees. The new place seemed to do just the opposite: It became a cruel joke among a number of locals.
After reading the article, I have concluded that the Bar Rescue team did have some genuine concerns about Piratz Tavern (to do with management style and food quality) but that their solution eliminated the only thing that made Piratz Tavern stand out–its personality. Remember, personality does go a long way.
If you blog, for yourself or for your organization, do you know what your blog looks like to the outside world? How are your readers seeing you? Are they subscribing in a reader, via email or just visiting your blog? Are those visitors sharing your blog? If so, how are they doing it?
Sharing button that does not fill in information when you share so the post only has a link and no title.
Happily, all these are fixable. Start by following your own blog via RSS feed in a reader and via email subscription. Use your sharing button to see how (and if) it works. You may be overlooking something that will turn off one of your readers. You should probably view the blog on someone else's computer too.
You may be overlooking something. Protect your brand and your blog!
In the age of self-publishing and social media, it's easy to put out information about your brand or yourself out there. It's easy to gain "followers." The lack of filters makes it easy to connect directly with people. But that doesn't mean that what you are saying is true. Keep that in mind. Just because you put in on your blog and somebody shared it on Twitter DOES NOT MAKE IT FACTUAL OR TRUE OR EVEN RIGHT. It just means that someone liked what you have to say.
In fact, just yesterday the disheveled leader of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmanidejad, claimed to the United Nations General Assembly that the U.S. was behind the 9-11 attacks and that most of the world believes that. To a rational person, this is hogwash, and yet there are nutcases out there who agree with this maniac. Let me emphasize again: having followers does not make you right or true.
Many people and companies are falling prey to the lure of large numbers. They believe that because they have large numbers of followers, they are "all that." They may be, but they should question it. Just today, I read a blog post by a book author, talking about herself and her concentration. It was purported to be about happiness, but it really was all about her. Another popular blog shared this morning what the blog author does as a morning routine, as if this is what we all need to do. What is happening is that because it was easy to get ideas out there, and to get positive publicity for such ideas, these people believe that everyone cares and everyone agrees with them. But that is just not accurate.
I am not saying that you should not self-publicize or promote yourself or your brand. I am just saying you should not fall prey to the numbers game. Just because you have supporters does not mean everyone supports you (go over to the Washington Post and read what happened to Mayor Adrian Fenty if you want a real-life example of buying your own PR at the expense of a reality check).
If I can paraphrase a famous line: publicity corrupts, absolute publicity corrupts absolutely.


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The dying art of compromise
I don't often find myself agreeing with Esther McVey, but I wondered this week whether the candidate for leader of the UK Conservative party might accidentally have spoken the truth: "People saying we need a Brexit policy to bring people together are misreading the situation. That is clearly not possible."
The British do indeed seem in no mood to compromise. The results of elections to the European Parliament produced a thunderous endorsement of parties that proudly reject an attempt to find common ground on Brexit. The Conservatives and Labour, each caught in an awkward straddle, were slaughtered. Labour offered the slogan "let's bring our country together". Ha! Voters preferred the Liberal Democrats ("Bollocks to Brexit") and the Brexit party ("they're absolutely terrified of us").
Sometimes an extreme position is the correct one. When King Solomon proposed cutting the baby in half, it wasn't because he was looking for the middle ground.
Yet a capacity to find compromises is a good thing to have. Positions may differ, but whether we live in the same home or on the opposite side of the planet, we benefit when we can find a way to get along.
If this new distaste for compromise is a problem, it is not the UK's alone. Positions seem to be hardening everywhere, the sclerotic arteries that may lead to a heart attack for western democracies. Perhaps this is driven by personalities. For a man whose name adorns a book titled The Art of The Deal, Donald Trump is curiously uninterested in negotiating lasting agreements with anyone. Or maybe it is a function of an information ecosystem in which outrage sells.
Perhaps the problems themselves are more intractable. Some issues do not lend themselves to compromise. Brexit is one. Splitting the difference between Remainers and hard Brexiters is less like cutting a cake and more like splattering its ingredients everywhere. Egg on my face, flour on yours, and nobody even partially satisfied.
Abortion is another. There is a principled case to be made for a woman's absolute right to control her body. There is also a principled case to be made for the absolute right to life of a foetus. But like the unstoppable cannonball and the immovable post, both rights cannot be absolute simultaneously.
In contrast, other complex and emotive problems may still allow for compromise. On climate change, we can shrug and do nothing, or we can turn our economic system upside down, but there is plenty of middle ground between those options. In a trade negotiation, a mutually advantageous outcome is almost always there to be discovered.
Roger Fisher and William Ury's classic negotiation handbook Getting to Yes advises: focus on the problem rather than the personalities; explore underlying interests rather than explicit positions; and consider options that may open up scope for mutual benefit. We may find a much better way to split the cake if we discover that you scrape the icing into the bin, while I would happily eat it with a spoon. It is sometimes astonishing how far a principled negotiation can go towards giving both sides what they want.
It is clear that we British have failed to follow this advice. Our debate is driven by a bitter focus on personalities, from Theresa May to Nigel Farage to Jeremy Corbyn to the generic "Remoaner elite". Each side knows what the other wants but has shown very little interest in why they want it. Without sincerely exploring the underlying aims and values of warring tribes there is no chance of finding an outcome everyone can accept.
The US debate also seems the antithesis of Fisher and Ury's advice. Too many politically active people seek the humiliation of the other tribe. Dismissing compromise as craven appeasement seems to be a winning tactic, particularly in the primary elections that set the tone of US politics.
Compromise, however, is often possible even in unpromising situations. On abortion, for example, it emerges with a focus not on absolute rights but on practicalities. Many people can get behind policies to minimise unwanted pregnancies, and to make abortions safe and regulated rather than dangerous and illicit. It is a middle ground that many countries manage to find.
One can see politics as a competitive sport or a search for solutions. There's truth in both views. However, a democratic election is far closer to a competition than to a principled negotiation. Do we not wish to see the opposite team soundly thrashed? Do we not boo their villainous antics and laugh at their mishaps? Who wants to play out a nil-nil draw?
I would not want to venerate compromise as the supreme good in politics. Sometimes it really is true that you and I, dear reader, are absolutely right and they are absolutely wrong. (It may even be true that we are absolutely wrong and they are absolutely right.) Either way, the merits of the case must be weighed against the merits of trying to respect everyone. It feels good to win, but this isn't a fairytale: the losers won't stamp their feet and vanish through the floor. They — or we — aren't going anywhere.
Written for and first published in the Financial Times on 31 May 2019.
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28th of June, 2019 • Undercover Economist • Comments off
It hasn't been a great couple of years for Neil Woodford — and it has been just as miserable for the people who have entrusted money to his investment funds. Mr Woodford was probably the most celebrated stockpicker in the UK, but recently his funds have been languishing. Piling on the woes, Morningstar, a rating agency, downgraded his flagship fund this week. What has happened to the darling of the investment community?
Mr Woodford isn't the only star to fade. Fund manager Anthony Bolton is an obvious parallel. He enjoyed almost three decades of superb performance, retired, then returned to blemish his record with a few miserable years investing in China.
The story of triumph followed by disappointment is not limited to investment. Think of Arsène Wenger, for a few years the most brilliant manager in football, and then an eternal runner-up. Or all the bands who have struggled with "difficult second-album syndrome".
There is even a legend that athletes who appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated are doomed to suffer the "SI jinx". The rise to the top is followed by the fall from grace.
There are three broad explanations for these tragic career arcs. Our instinct is to blame the individual. We assume that Mr Woodford lost his touch and that Mr Wenger stopped learning. That is possible. Successful people can become overconfident, or isolated from feedback, or lazy.
But an alternative possibility is that the world changed. Mr Wenger's emphasis on diet, data and the global transfer market was once unusual, but when his rivals noticed and began to follow suit, his edge disappeared. In the investment world — and indeed, the business world more broadly — good ideas don't work forever because the competition catches on.
The third explanation is the least satisfying: that luck was at play. This seems implausible at first glance. Could luck alone have brought Mr Wenger three Premier League titles? Or that Mr Bolton was simply lucky for 28 years? Do we really live in such an impossibly random universe?
Perhaps we do. Michael Blastland's recent book, The Hidden Half, argues that much of the variation we see in the world around us is essentially mysterious. Mr Blastland's opening example is the marmorkrebs, a kind of crayfish that reproduces parthenogenetically — that is, marmorkrebs lay eggs without mating and those eggs develop into clones of their mothers.
Place two clones into two identical fish tanks and feed them identical food. These genetically identical creatures raised in apparently identical environments produce genetically identical offspring who nevertheless vary dramatically in their size, form, lifespan, fecundity, and behaviour. Sometimes things turn out very differently for no reason that we can discern. We might as well call that reason "luck" as anything else.
This is not to say that skill doesn't matter — merely that in a competition in which all the leaders are highly skilled, randomness may explain the difference between triumph and failure. Good luck plus skill beats bad luck plus skill any time.
It is easy to underestimate how much chance is at play all around us. The psychologist Daniel Kahneman has recently been studying what he calls "noise": the variability of judgments for no obvious reason.
A wine expert blind-tasting two glasses from the same bottle will often rate them differently. Pathologists disagree with each other in their judgments of the same biopsy. More disconcertingly, they also disagree with their own prior judgments of the case.
We rarely appreciate just how much inconsistency there is in the judgments we and others make, argues Prof Kahneman. It can hardly be a surprise, then, if past performance is no guarantee of future success.
We should remember, too, that people often achieve outsized success by taking risks or being contrarian. When John Kay examined the forecasting record of economists in the 1990s, he noted that Patrick Minford, an idiosyncratic forecaster, would often produce the best forecast one year and the worst forecast the next. If the consensus is wrong, being an outlier gives you a high chance both of dramatic success and spectacular failure.
We perceive all this randomness through a particular filter, too. Few people make the cover of Sports Illustrated after a run of mediocre luck. They appear after things have been going well, and if the good luck fails to hold then it seems like the SI jinx. More likely it is "regression to the mean", or in simple terms, a return to business as usual.
We begin paying attention only when someone is producing a remarkable performance. Genius followed by mediocrity is a story arc we all notice. Mediocrity followed by genius just looks like genius — assuming the mediocre performer gets a second chance. Not all do.
So I wish Mr Woodford well. Perhaps he has lost his touch, perhaps the world has changed, or perhaps he has simply been unlucky. It would be nice to know which, but in such matters the world does not always satisfy our curiosity.
21st of June, 2019 • Undercover Economist • Comments off
The Doris Day effect – when obstacles help us
She had hoped to become a ballet dancer. After her leg was shattered in an accident at the age of 15, she took singing lessons instead. It was a striking detail in the obituaries. If not for that painful setback, the star that was Doris Day would never have risen.
Was the car accident that redirected her career an extraordinary twist in the story of an extraordinary life? Or was it typical of some broader truth about life, that frustrations can actually help us? Perhaps it is true that what does not kill us makes us stronger. It may, in contrast, be that what does not kill us nevertheless slows us down.
The conventional wisdom is that initial advantages tend to snowball into an avalanche of privilege. Sometimes this reflects genuine achievements: a bit of luck with an early teacher sharpens a student's skills, lifting her into a higher set, which in turn gets her into a better university, then a job with more stimulating peers, and so on.
An egregious example, made famous by Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers, is the tendency of elite athletes to be born early in their school year. Being a few months older at the age of five means you are stronger and faster, are more likely to be picked for school teams, get more practice and are still reaping the benefits as an adult athlete. The effect is particularly well-studied among boys playing ice hockey in Canada, and football in a variety of countries.
At other times, well-deserved acclaim is followed by unearned praise. In academia this tendency was named by the sociologist Robert K Merton as "the Matthew Effect" in reference to a biblical verse: "For to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away."
If three researchers collaborate on a problem, and one of them already has a Nobel Prize, the laureate tends to earn disproportionate recognition for the joint work. When a teacher and a student work together, the senior researcher is cited because that name is already recognised. The junior is easily forgotten.
In the wider workplace, we have evidence that the luck of graduating in a benign economic climate can lead to a lasting advantage. One researcher, Paul Oyer, found that young PhD and MBA students who started off in favourable job markets were employed in better places with smarter colleagues, and were still doing better a decade later than those who started out in tougher times.
Hannes Schwandt and Till Marco Von Wachter studied the other end of the US labour market to find the story is even worse there: entering the job market during a recession damages anyone's prospects, but the harm is deeper and lasts longer for less-educated and otherwise disadvantaged groups.
All this suggests that setbacks are setbacks: they drag us down, perhaps disproportionately. Doris Day was an exception, not the rule.
Yet a striking new study suggests that the Doris Day effect is quite real in one particular group of people: young scientists applying for research grants. Yang Wang, Benjamin Jones and Dashun Wang looked at scientists applying for funding from the US National Institutes for Health, with grants averaging $1.3m. In particular, they focused on borderline decisions, comparing those who scraped through to get a grant with those who just missed out. The near-winners and the near-losers were otherwise indistinguishable before the decision point, but afterwards it was the losers who prospered, publishing substantially more highly cited research papers.
We should remember that anyone in a position to nearly secure a million-dollar research grant has presumably enjoyed a few successes along the way at school and university. Failure at this hurdle may be described as an "early career setback", but it is not comparable to the setback suffered by an undernourished two-year-old with no books in her bedroom.
Still: this is a counterintuitive finding. Yet I was not entirely surprised to encounter it. It may be that many people respond to a setback by bouncing back with renewed determination. It may also be that the failure provokes a rethink and a fresh course of action. Doris Day, after all, did not respond to a shattered leg by trying even harder to become a dancer. She changed her goals and prospered as a result.
We don't have to be promising young scientists — or aspiring starlets — to benefit from having obstacles placed in our way. Something as mundane as a strike disrupting regular commuting has been shown to push people towards new habits. Three economists who studied data from London's public transport network found that after a 48-hour strike in London in February 2014, thousands of commuters changed routes and never switched back. They discovered that they'd been doing the commute wrong their entire working lives.
Often failure is simply failure, and a setback is exactly what it seems. But sometimes the obstacle that has been placed in our path might provoke us to look around, and perhaps to discover that a better route was there all along.
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Why we should favour second guesses over first instincts…
Tension is rising in the Harford household as exams approach and we try to persuade Miss Harford Sr to relax, and Miss Harford Jr to be slightly less relaxed. I'm sure many readers have vivid memories of the exam room, recent or otherwise. But here's a question about exam technique that suggests a much wider lesson. In a multiple-choice test, you sometimes write down an answer and then have second thoughts. Is it wise to stay with your first instincts, or better to switch?
Most people would advise that the initial answer is usually better than the doubt-plagued second guess. Three-quarters of students think so, according to various surveys over the years. College instructors think so too, by a majority of 55 to 16 per cent. The 2000 edition of Barron's How to Prepare for the GRE Test is very clear that students should be wary of switching. "Experience indicates that many students who change answers change to the wrong answer."
This confidence would be reassuring, were it not utterly erroneous. Researchers have been studying this question since the 1920s. They have overwhelmingly concluded both that individual answer changes are more likely to be from wrong to right, and that students who change their answers tend to improve their scores. This gap between perception and reality is stark enough to have earned a name: the "first-instinct fallacy". No doubt our first instincts are often right, but when we start to have second thoughts, the second thoughts are usually occurring for a reason. It is better to switch. So why don't we?
Justin Kruger, a psychologist at New York University, has been studying this question. (Prof Kruger is more famous as co-discoverer of the Dunning-Kruger effect: people who are incompetent are too incompetent to realise how incompetent they are.) With his colleagues Derrick Wirtz and Dale Miller he replicated the longstanding findings that college students believe you should trust your first answer in a multiple choice question, and yet that switching to a second answer tends to improve your grades. Then the trio started to explore why.
In one study they showed subjects video based on the TV show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and asked them to imagine that they were watching a teammate play, accumulating cash for the team whenever he or she gave the correct answer. Some subjects were shown teammates who always switched on 50/50 questions, while others were shown teammates who always stuck with their first instinct. In the study, both strategies produced identical results, yet subjects watching a switching teammate were more frustrated and critical and had a good memory for the errors.
Another study by Prof Kruger and his colleagues showed that we also have a warped recollection of our own errors in multiple choice tests. We have a rosy memory of sticking to our first instincts, forgetting the failures and exaggerating the successes. We vividly recall switching to the wrong answer and overestimate how often we did so. In short, we remember sticking as having been the best tactic, when in fact switching was better. No wonder the Barron's guide remarks that "experience" tells us switching is a bad idea. Our own experiences do indeed tell us that, but only because we misremember the lessons of previous switches.
If you — or a loved one — are about to enter exam season, perhaps this evidence-based strategy will be of use. But it's hard not to see a broader lesson. How often in life do we make a choice and then stick to it despite mounting doubts?
In politics, such questions are aggravated by questions of partisanship and pride. Nobody wants to admit that they were wrong in the face of jeers from those on the opposite side of the political fence. The U-turn is one of the greatest sins in politics, if only because it is so easy to criticise. Either you were wrong before or you are wrong now.
But even in everyday life, we find ourselves clinging to bad choices. Steven Levitt, the co-author of Freakonomics, once conducted a study in which people hesitating over big choices — to leave a spouse, to adopt a child, to quit a job, to start a business — agreed to be guided by a coin toss. Those who had been nudged to act ended up being happier several months on than those who had been nudged to stick with the status quo.
We are prone to cling tightly to the devil we know. The likely explanation is that we are seeking to minimise regret. Forget the old cliché about regretting the things you didn't do more than the things you did: we regret misfiring action more than misfiring inaction. We starkly remember the times we changed things for the worse, and we more easily forget the times when we failed to change things for the better. It's not that impulsive action is always the best option, any more than your first answer on a test is always wrong. Instead, the lesson is that if you are hesitating over whether to leave things as they are, you probably needed to make a change some time ago.
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Lompoc apartment resident fighting back against graffiti, drug use in complex
By: Melissa Newman
After repeatedly finding drug paraphernalia and graffiti around his apartment complex, a Lompoc man is taking it upon himself to change the culture of the neighborhood and is encouraging others to do the same.
The current state of the complex Thomas Bagu rents off 4th Street in Lompoc has him concerned for his kids' safety.
Bagu has been finding needles and graphic graffiti in the laundry room and alleyways.
"My kids go to school right down the street a block away from here and they have to walk through these alleyways. If there's needles and such and they're wearing opened-toe shoes or something like that, somehow, someway it could happen but it could get poked with needles that could have HIV, Hepatitis C, and those types of things," Bagu said.
These apartments are managed by DPI, Red Barn and Tower Property management. All three say trying to clean up this area is an uphill battle as they find many people that don't even live in the area dumping their trash there.
"It's a chronic problem that belongs to the whole community and not just the property managers or just the property owners," said Glenda Shippen, owner of Tower Property Management.
Now Bagu is trying to change that, cleaning up the complex where he can, even installing cameras.
"I'm not perfect in any kind of way or anything like that. I have a past, I'm from the streets but it doesn't mean that's where I want to stay. I want to see my kids do better than I did," Bagu explained.
He's trying to instill a sense of pride where he lives that both he and the property managers wish others had as well.
"I think it's going to take the entire community acknowledging the professionals, the people that can do something about it, for them to acknowledge there is this problem and that how we're dealing with it now is not a good enough solution," Shippen said.
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Jung Wilne (, "Młode Wilno") – modernistyczna żydowska grupa artystyczno-literacka działająca w Wilnie w latach 1927–1943. Nazwa Jung Wilne inspirowana była łódzką grupą artystyczną Jung Idysz. Twórczość grupy cechowały: ideologia jidyszyzmu, dbałość o zachowanie związku z żydowską tradycją kulturową Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, niechęć do syjonizmu, umiarkowane dążenie do nurtów awangardowych sztuki, tendencje lewicujące i odniesienia do problematyki społecznej. Grupa wydawała almanach w języku jidysz, zatytułowany "Jung Wilne", w którym zamieszczano utwory literackie oraz prace plastyczne. Artyści należący do grupy brali także udział w wystawach organizowanych w Wilnie i w innych miastach Polski, a także za granicą.

Grupę Jung Wilne tworzyli m.in. literaci Elchanan Wogler, Lejzer Wolf, Mosze Lewin, Szymszon Kahan, Szmerke Kaczergiński, Perec Mirański, a także dwaj najwybitniejsi po II wojnie światowej pisarze żydowscy Chaim Grade i Abraham Suckewer. Z grupą współpracowali malarze Bencijon Michtom, Rachela Suckewer, Szejna Efron, Lejb Zameczek i Rafał Chwoles.

W pierwszej zbiorowej publikacji grupy znanej jako Der arajnmarsz fun Jung Wilne in der jidiszer literatur (Triumfalne wejście Młodego Wilna do literatury jidysz) z 11 października 1929 r., na łamach "Wilner Tog" ukazały się utwory następujących twórców: Lejzera Wolfa, Szymszona Kahana, Szlojme Belisa, Elchanana Woglera, Arona Piudika, Mosze Basina oraz Mosze Lewina.

Początki działalności Jung Wilne
Choć powszechnie znany jest przede wszystkim literacki dorobek grupy, to działalność zainicjowało przedsięwzięcie plastyczne. W 1927 została zorganizowana przez artystów wileńskich wystawa plastyczna "Od dziedzictwa synagogi do ulicy Szklanej". Wystawa okazała się sukcesem i zadziałała inspirującą na środowisko artystyczne Wilna. Inicjatorami zintegrowania wileńskiego pokolenia młodych artystów byli Szymszon Kahan i Szlojme Belis. Twórcy planowali początkowo włączyć do przedsięwzięcia nie tylko malarzy i literatów, ale też muzyków i kompozytorów, czego nie udało się jednak urzeczywistnić, i Jung Wilne stała się grupą artystyczno-literacką skupiającą literatów i malarzy, co było charakterystyczne dla wielu ruchów awangardowych lat 20.

Pierwszym malarzem, który na stałe związał się z Jung Wilne, był Michtom. On to tworzył jej wizerunek, projektując jej emblemat, okładki tworzonej gazety, a także portretując członków ugrupowania. Do scalenia tworzącej się grupy artystyczno-literackiej przyczynił się także charyzmatyczny Mosze Kulbak, nauczyciel literatury i poeta, który wprawdzie w 1928 przesiedlił się do Mińska, lecz jego twórczość i osobowość nadal oddziaływały na młodych artystów.

Zobacz też
 Trupa Wileńska
 Jung Idysz

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The 2012 London Olympics were very effective at creating new opportunities for people, not just throughout Ireland, but also the entire United Kingdom and Northern Ireland as well. The Games helped to get the population interested in sports and staying active. This is especially true for the younger generations.
Recent studies have shown that after the Olympics the re was a renewed interest in keeping fit amongst children. This also extended to those with disabilities. There has been a worrying trend amongst the Irish youth, as childhood obesity is on the rise, and action needs to be taken to protect the health of the young. The Olympics helped to reverse this trend. It got more children interested in performing in sports and therefore improved their health.
Readers may ask how this had affected Irish children so much when the Games were actually held in London. The answers lie in how extensively the Olympics were covered in the media. People all over the world watched the different athletes perform their skills. This was seen on TV sets throughout the globe. In Ireland, this was no exception.
Often people with disabilities are at particular risk of succumbing to obesity, and the health problems to come with it. This is more likely to happen to them due to their mobility restrictions. The Olympics inspired these people to try their hand at more physical activities. This was further helped by the start of the Paralympics as well. This showed people with disabilities in Ireland that, regardless of their condition, they can still achieve greatness in sport.
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Antonov An-70 je štirimotorno transportno letalo ukrajinskega proizvajalca Antonov. Je prvo veliko letalo propfan motorji. Propfan pomeni kombinacija propelerja in  ventilatorja (fan), sicer je propfan zelo podoben turbopropelerskem motorju. Vsak motor ima kontrarotirajoča propelerja in doseže potovalno hitrost 750 km/h, kar je primerljivo z reaktivnimi letali.

Načrtovanje
Delo na An-70 se je začelo v Sovjetski zvezi na zaćetku osemdesetih. Planirali so proizvodnjo v Kievu, Ukraija in Samari, Rusija, kar je tipično za ruska vojaška letala, najmanj dve različni tovarni zaradi strateških razlogov. Izdelava letala naj bi zagotovila 80.000 služb, sovjetska zračne sile so hotele kupiti 160 letal. Po razpadu sovjetske zveze je zmanjkalo sredstev, zato je Antonov sam finaciral razvoj.

An-70 ima visoko krilo, stekleni kokpit in fly-by-wire. Ima 19,1 (22,4 z rampo) x 4 x 4,1 metrov velik tovorni prostor, maksimalna teža tovora pa je 47 ton. Poganjajo ga štirje Progress D-27 propfani, s kontrarotirajočimi scimitar propelerji.

Prvi prototip je strmoglavil leta 1995, po trčenju v zraku z zasledovalnim letalom An-72. Drug prototip je poletel 21 mesecev pozneje decembra 1996.

An-70 je prvo letalo Vzhodnega bloka zasnovano z zahodnimi normami JAR-25, kar bi omogočilo komercialno uporabo v Evropi ina Severni Ameriki. Uporabili MIL-STD-1553 podatkovni vmesnik, kar omogoča uporabo NATO avionike.

Leta 1997 so se Nemci zanimali za letalo An-70, ki ima v primerjavi z A400M boljše tehnične specifikacije in je precej cenejši, vendar z večjimi stroški obratovanja. Zaradi političnih pritiskov francoske vlade so potem naročili A400M. Obe letali imata poleg precejšnjih političnih težav (overbudget) tudi težave v testiranju in obratovanju.

Drug prototip je leta 2001 zasilno pristal med testiranjem v hladnem vremenu v Omsku. Izgubil je moč na dveh motorjih. Antonov je potem zelo hitro popravil poškodovano letalo, vendar so je medtem skrčilo financiranje.

Leta 2002 so se Rusija in Ukrajina dogovorili o 50-50 sodelovanju.. Testiranja letala naj bi se nadaljevalo. Leta 2006 je Rusija oznanila odstop od projekta, An-70 naj bi postal težko in drago letalo. Il-76MF naj bi stal polovico manj ko An-70. Po oranžni revoluciji v Ukrajini je političina volja za razvoj upadla. V projekt so investirali okrog 5 milijard ameriških dolarjev, Rusija je prispevala 60%.

Rusija je potem najavila potrebo po 60 letalih do leta 2020, letalo naj bi kupila tudi tovorna letalska družba Volga-Dnepr. Drug prototip je spet letel leta 2012.

Tehnične specifikacije
Posadka: 4 (2 pilota, navigator in inženir)
Kapaciteta: 300 vojakov
Tovor: 47.000 kg (103.620 lb) tovora
Dolžina: 40,7 m (133 ft 6 in)
Razpon kril: 44,06 m (144 ft 7 in)
Višina: 16,38 m (53 ft 9 in)
Prazna teža: 66.230 kg (146.000 lb)
Maks. vzletna teža: 145.000 kg (319.670 lb)
Motorji: 4 × Progress D-27 PropFan, 10.350 kW (13.880 KM) vsak
Maks. hitrost: 780 km/h (421 knots, 485 mph)
Potovalna hitrost: 750 km/h (405 knots, 466 mph)
Hitrost izgube vzgona: 113 km/h (61 knots, 70 mph)
Dolet: 6.600 km or 5.000 km (3.564 nm or 2.700 nm) z 20 oziroma 35 tonami tovora
Največja višina leta: 12.000 m (39.370 ft)
Hitrost vzpenjanja: 24,9 m/s (81,7 ft/s)

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What is landscape mode for? – Why can't I hear it now?
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On the iPhone, there are several apps that change the screen layout when you switch the body horizontally. "Memo" and "Mail" are divided into two screens in the list and preview, and "Map" floats in the state that the control panel is stretchable on the left side of the screen. Calendar changes the layout to make it easier to check the schedule by day/ week/month/year.
In this way, the screen layout that changes completely when holding the iPhone horizontally is called "landscape mode", and is supported on some devices after the iPhone 6 Plus. The iPhone 11 series is supported by all models, so it may be recognized as a natural feature.
The purpose of landscape mode is to provide features and user interfaces optimized for horizontal screens, rather than changing them to a screen layout that is easy to operate when held horizontally.
If you use "calendar" as an example, the vertical screen is easy to grasp the schedule of the day, although you can see by scrolling the screen up and down, it is not suitable for the purpose of adjusting while staring at the schedule of the previous day and the next day. However, if you select the Week tab in landscape mode, the week's schedule, including the day, will be changed to a layout that allows you to take a bird's-eye view. On the Month tab, you can check your daily schedule by looking sideways at the monthly calendar.
Notes also provides features that are only available in landscape mode. In iOS 13, you can swipe left with three fingers to "Undo", and swipe to the right with three fingers to "redo", but in landscape mode you will see the Undo/Redo button at the bottom left of the edit screen. Because it is a button that is not displayed in normal mode, it seems to be worth using when three fingers flick feels difficult to handle.
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New European guidelines on syncope revise diagnostic definitions and re-evaluate extent of risk
Barcelona, Spain, 31 August: A new definition of syncope — most commonly perceived as an episode of fainting — makes its diagnosis more precise and now dependent on a specific cause. New 2009 ESC Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Syncope define syncope as "a transient loss of consciousness due to transient global cerebral hypoperfusion characterized by rapid onset, short duration and spontaneous complete recovery".(1)
The definition, says Professor Angel Moya from the University Hospital Vall d'Hebrón in Barcelona and Chair of the Guideline Task Force, now includes an aetiological requirement of reduced cerebral blood flow, which is new to the 2009 Guidelines. Indeed, he explains, a sudden cessation of cerebral blood flow for as short as six to eight seconds is sufficient to cause complete loss of consciousness. "Without this diagnostic addition," he says, "the definition of syncope becomes wide enough to include other disorders such as epileptic seizures and concussion – in fact, would be nothing more than 'loss of consciousness', irrespective of mechanism and duration."
The Guidelines note that syncope is also associated with a decrease in systolic blood pressure to 60 mmHg or lower, which in turn is determined by cardiac output and total vascular resistance; a fall in either can cause syncope, but a combination of both mechanisms is often present.
The new definition helps provide — for the first time ? a clearer picture of who and how many are affected by this common condition, and what its longer-term health implications are. The Guidelines identify three common types of syncope, all with the same presentation (sudden loss of consciousness) but with different causes and different risk profiles.
Reflex syncope occurs when cardiovascular reflexes normally used to control circulation become suddenly altered, resulting in a fall in blood pressure and cerebral blood flow. This type includes the common faint ("vasovagal syncope", VVS), which is usually preceded by emotional stress and its attendant symptoms (sweating, nausea). The classical form of VVS nearly always begins in young people as an isolated, benign episode, which makes it distinct from other forms of syncope; for example, episodes starting in older age are often associated with cardiovascular or neurological disorders (such as orthostatic hypotension as described below)
Orthostatic hypotension, sometimes known as "postural hypotension", unlike reflex syncope is usually a recurring event: blood pressure always falls on standing up, and syncope occurs. The cause, say the Guidelines, is a "circulatory abnormality" of which syncope is just one of several other symptoms (dizziness, fatigue, palpitations, visual disturbance and even back pain). Classically, systolic BP falls by at least 20 mmHg within three minutes of standing, and diastolic BP by at least 10 mmHg.
Cardiac syncope is most commonly caused by arrhythmias, which reduce cardiac output and cerebral blood flow. In such cases, the Guidelines stress that, "when an arrhythmia is the primary cause of syncope, it should be specifically treated".
Applying these definitions to everyday prevalence, Professor Richard Sutton of St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College, London, and Co-chair of the Guidelines Task Force, describes reflex syncope as "common" in the general population, with around 50% of us experiencing a VVS over a lifetime.(2) Prognosis is nearly always good.
Despite this broad prevalence, he says, many subjects with loss of consciousness are wrongly diagnosed and wrongly treated, with the potential for missing more serious conditions. However, with the right diagnosis, he adds, treatments for reflex syncope have improved in recent years: "We can provide the means to combat the symptoms of syncope. There is now evidence that physical treatments as well as 'tilt training' [extended periods of upright posture] are emerging as the new front-line treatment of reflex syncope. Two recent clinical trials have shown that isometric leg-crossing, hand grip and arm tensing exercises can induce a significant increase in blood pressure during the phase of impending syncope, which avoids or delays the loss of consciousness in most cases."
The Guidelines also put new emphasis on the increasing role of a diagnostic strategy based on prolonged monitoring, and not just on conventional laboratory testing. Implantable loop recorders, for example, which have a battery life of up to 36 months and a memory which stores ECG recordings, have already been shown to be cost-effective in the diagnosis of unexplained syncope, with a high correlation between symptoms and stored ECG data.
Both Professors Moya and Sutton thus believe there are three strong reasons for the new Guidelines: to prevent misdiagnosis (and inappropriate treatment, which is often expensive); to improve quality of life; and to recognise and reduce longer-term risk (especially in cardiac syncope). Because of the multifactorial nature of syncope as identified in the new diagnostic definitions, the Guidelines underline the important role of a dedicated multi-skilled "syncope unit", which would provide guideline-based assessment, risk stratification and treatment.
Among the quality of life questions addressed specifically by the Guidelines is whether those with syncope should drive. The new data "suggest that the risk of vehicle accident in patients with a history of syncope is not different from the general population of drivers without syncope". The Guidelines recommend for non-professional drivers:
no restrictions following single or mild reflex syncope events
no restrictions after recurrent and severe reflex syncope events once symptoms are controlled
but restrictions in cardiac syncope until successful treatment has been established (with modifications for those with an implanted pacemaker or cardioverter-defibrillator)
For public safety, say the Guidelines, "the risk of syncope-mediated driving accidents (0.8% per year) appeared to be substantially less than in young (16󈞄 years) and in elderly drivers (high risk accident groups)".
1. The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Management of Syncope of the European Society of Cardiology. Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Syncope. Eur Heart J 2009; doi 10.1093/eurheartj/ehp298.
The Guidelines will be presented simultaneously at the ESC Congress 2009 in Barcelona, 29 August ? 2 September.
2. Most first faints occur between the ages of 10 and 30 years (around the age of 15 in 47% of females and 31% males), though 1% of toddlers in one study had VVS.
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The Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning (hereafter referred to as "Humber" or "the College") may need to suspend or cancel a program based on such factors as student demand, retention, graduation rates, financial viability, labour market demand and program quality. This policy outlines the College's commitment to students if a program is suspended or cancelled.
This applies to all programs of instructions offered by the College and to all applicants and students.
Program of Instruction: a group of related courses leading to a certificate, diploma, degree or other document awarded by the Board of Governors.
Suspended Program: a program of instruction into which the College has decided not to admit first year of beginning level students.
Cancelled Program: a program of instruction that the College is no longer offering and in which no students are enrolled.
1. The College Board of Governors will inform the Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities of a final decision to suspend or cancel a Ministry funded program of instruction at all campuses and all delivery modes, including part-time.
2.1 The College will make a decision to suspend/cancel a program prior to the confirmation date in order to minimize impact on students.
2.2 New students will be notified when a program intake is suspended/cancelled and, where possible, offered registration in another program.
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Ari Shapiro On Covering The Pulse Shooting
By Ari Shapiro,
Published June 12, 2021 at 5:16 PM EDT
Ari Shapiro is a journalist here at NPR. We hope you know him as one of the voices of ALL THINGS CONSIDERED during the week. Five years ago, he got on a plane to report on the Pulse nightclub shooting. At the time, it was the deadliest mass shooting in the country. And it would have been a difficult and draining story for any journalist to cover, but even more so when Ari realized it hit closer to home than he had first understood. He wrote about this for The Atlantic, and he's here with us now to tell us more about it. Ari, thanks so much for being here and spending some time with us on this day of remembrance.
ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: Thanks for having me.
MARTIN: Well, I do hope people read the piece, but I hope you don't mind if I start with a bit of a spoiler, which is that it wasn't until you got on the scene and started talking to people that you realized you had actually been there. You had been at the Pulse. How'd you figure that out, and how did it strike you when you did?
SHAPIRO: So the shooting took place in 2016. And when I headed down there, I knew that I had been barhopping in Orlando in 2004, back when I was based in Florida, covering the state for about nine months for NPR. I was on a reporting trip to Orlando and had a quiet Monday night and decided to just go to the nearest gay bar, which was pretty empty. And I made friends with a couple of bartenders named Nathan (ph) and Bobby (ph). And we had a great time. And the next night was their night off, so they invited me to go out with them. And we had this really fun time. They showed me around their town, Orlando.
And so, you know, you fast-forward 12 years, and I'm flying down to Orlando to cover the Pulse nightclub shooting. And I knew that I had been barhopping in Orlando, so I felt a connection to this city and this community. And it wasn't until close to the end of my reporting trip that I was interviewing the editor who has since passed away of the free gay weekly paper Watermark. His name was Billy Maines. And I was just kind of making small talk with him before our interview. And I told him, yeah, I'd been barhopping in Orlando all these years earlier. And I told him the story. And he said, well, what was the name of the bar? And I said, I don't know. I'm sure it's closed. And he asked me to describe what it looked like. And so I described the layout - sort of you walk in, dance floor to the left, cocktail bar to the right. And he said, that was Pulse.
And I had been covering this story for the previous week and not realizing that I had had this memorable experience in that very club where the shooting took place. And I looked on my phone, and I found the number of one of the bartenders who I had met that night. And when I got back home to Washington, D.C., I reached out to him. And we had this really sort of lovely reconnection more than a decade later.
MARTIN: Did it make you feel some kind of way to realize you're sitting right there?
SHAPIRO: Oh, of course. How could it not? I mean, so I think in the back of my mind, I probably the whole time thought, well, this could have been Pulse. But, A, the story isn't about me. And, B, you know, there's no way of knowing. And trying to find out is the opposite of what I'm supposed to be doing here, covering this massacre and telling the stories of the people who are at the center of it. But ultimately, I think this gets to a question about the value of journalistic objectivity weighted against the value of lived experience, because the way that I told those stories included a piece of myself. And I think I was able to tell different stories because I'm a reporter who is gay and had not just been to Pulse specifically, but had been to gay bars and understood the role that those places play in a community.
MARTIN: I want to ask you about that now, if I can, because...
SHAPIRO: Sure.
MARTIN: ...You know, we're never going to know the motive of the gunman in his own words because he was killed the night of the shooting. He didn't leave some, you know, manifesto or anything like that. But for whatever the reason that - this was a devastating event on multiple levels. And I just wanted to ask if you would talk about the fact that it took place at a place like Pulse. What could a place like Pulse mean to somebody?
SHAPIRO: I think for queer people especially, bars and clubs have always been a haven. It's a place you can go no matter how your family feels about you, no matter how the rest of the world treats you. And you know you belong there. And you will be embraced, you know. And you can find your people. And you can just look at my experience on that Monday night in Orlando in 2004, when I wasn't oppressed or persecuted, but I was in a town where I didn't know anybody. And I showed up at this place that I had never been before. And I walked away with two friends who, 12 years later, I was able to connect with. And they remembered. And, you know, Nathan said to me, we didn't want you to feel alone. And I think that's an experience that so many LGBTQ people have had when they show up at a bar or a club. And so for this massacre to take place in that kind of a setting, as horrific as any mass shooting is, that adds another layer to it.
MARTIN: So before we let you go, I wanted to ask if you could kind of think with me for a minute about both understanding something on a visceral level and then having to think about it on an intellectual level. And, you know, you'd think that many Americans now have had this experience of being both and, right? They've been to a supermarket. They've been to - you know, that was the site of another - they've been to a school. They've been to - they - maybe they work in a warehouse. They shop at a Walmart. You know, all of these are places that have experienced these terrible things. I just wonder - if I can put you on the spot, like, how - do you have some thoughts about - how do you think about that? I mean, how do you think about the fact that you could have been sitting there?
SHAPIRO: Yeah. I think for us as journalists or just for us as people, it's so easy for us to distance ourselves from experiences as a form of self-protection, that those are the kinds of things that happen to other people, people who are somehow different from us. And we can jump through these intellectual hoops to try to rationalize that to ourselves. And I actually don't think that helps anyone. And I think ultimately, understanding the commonality and the shared humanity and the shared experience that we have with people who are going through these horrific traumatic events, even as journalists covering those events, I think helps us relate to one another in a more authentic way.
MARTIN: Ari Shapiro is a host of ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. He wrote about covering the Pulse shooting for The Atlantic. Ari, thank you so much. Always good to be with you.
SHAPIRO: Thank you, Michel. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Q: App (rails 6.1.1) can't boot after upgrading to Ruby 3.0 Here is the Gemfile:
source 'https://rubygems.org'
git_source(:github) { |repo| "https://github.com/#{repo}.git" }

ruby '3.0.0'

# Bundle edge Rails instead: gem 'rails', github: 'rails/rails'
gem 'rails', '~> 6.1.0'
# Use mysql as the database for Active Record
gem 'mysql2', '>= 0.4.4'
# Use Puma as the app server
gem 'puma', '~> 5.0'
# Use SCSS for stylesheets
gem 'sass-rails', '>= 6'
# Transpile app-like JavaScript. Read more: https://github.com/rails/webpacker
gem 'webpacker', '~> 5.0'
# Turbolinks makes navigating your web application faster. Read more: https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks
gem 'turbolinks', '~> 5'
# Build JSON APIs with ease. Read more: https://github.com/rails/jbuilder
gem 'jbuilder', '~> 2.7'

# Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden
gem 'devise', '~> 4.7'

# A simple HTTP and REST client
gem 'rest-client', '~> 2.1'

# Reduces boot times through caching; required in config/boot.rb
gem 'bootsnap', '>= 1.4.2', require: false

# Devise supports i18n in controllers, models, and in other areas,
# but it does not have support for internationalized views.
# devise-i18n adds this support.
gem 'devise-i18n', '~> 1.9'
# Devise Bootstrap Views
gem 'devise-bootstrap-views', '~> 1.0'
# Configure Devise to send its emails asynchronously using ActiveJob
gem 'devise-async', '~> 1.0'

# Stripe is the easiest way to accept payments online
gem 'stripe', '~> 5.22'

# A gem that provides a client interface for the Sentry error logger
gem 'sentry-raven', '~> 3.0'

# Taming Rails' Default Request Logging
gem 'lograge', '~> 0.11'

# Ruby state machines
gem 'aasm', '~> 5.0'
# Allows to use ActiveRecord transactional callbacks outside of ActiveRecord models, literally everywhere in your application.
gem 'after_commit_everywhere', '~> 0.1', '>= 0.1.5'

# Agnostic pagination in plain ruby
gem 'pagy', '~> 3.8'

# Connection Pool
gem 'connection_pool', '~> 2.2'

# Redis client
gem 'hiredis', '~> 0.6'
gem 'redis', '~> 4.1', require: ['redis', 'redis/connection/hiredis']

# Sidekiq
gem 'sidekiq', '~> 6.0'

# Check password strength against several rules
gem 'password_strength', '~> 1.1'

# Slack Ruby Client
gem 'slack-ruby-client', '~> 0.15'

# Assets on AWS S3/CloudFront
gem 'asset_sync', '~> 2.12'
gem 'fog-aws', '~> 3.6'

group :development, :test do
  # Call 'byebug' anywhere in the code to stop execution and get a debugger console
  gem 'byebug', platforms: [:mri, :mingw, :x64_mingw]
end

group :development do
  # Access an interactive console on exception pages or by calling 'console' anywhere in the code.
  gem 'web-console', '>= 3.3.0'
  gem 'listen', '>= 3.0.5'
  # Spring speeds up development by keeping your application running in the background. Read more: https://github.com/rails/spring
  gem 'spring'
  gem 'spring-watcher-listen', '~> 2.0'
  gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 4.0'
  gem 'amazing_print', '~> 1.2'
end

group :test do
  # Adds support for Capybara system testing and selenium driver
  gem 'capybara', '>= 2.15'
  gem 'capybara-screenshot'
  gem 'selenium-webdriver'
  # Easy installation and use of web drivers to run system tests with browsers
  gem 'webdrivers'
  gem 'factory_bot_rails', '~> 6.0'
  gem 'shoulda-matchers', '~> 4.1'
  gem 'rails-controller-testing'
  gem 'faker'
  gem 'database_cleaner-active_record'
  gem 'coderay'
  gem 'mock_redis'
end

The application seems to be blocked during Rails.application.initialize!.
I wonder if it could be a gem that is not compatible with Ruby 3.0, but I started a new app from scratch, installed all the gems and the app started normally.
I'm using puma (5.1.1) as web server.
The app is running in docker container via docker-compose.
FROM ruby:2.7.2

# Update for security reason
RUN apt-get update -yqq && apt-get upgrade -yqq -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" && apt-get install -yqq --no-install-recommends \
  vim # needed for editing rails credentials

# Ensure we install an up-to-date version of Node
RUN curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | bash -

# Ensure latest packages for Yarn
RUN curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | apt-key add -
RUN echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian stable main" | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list

RUN apt-get update -yqq && apt-get install -yqq --no-install-recommends \
  nodejs \
  yarn

ENV RAILS_ROOT /var/www/app
RUN mkdir -p $RAILS_ROOT

COPY Gemfile* /var/www/app/
WORKDIR /var/www/app

ENV BUNDLE_PATH /gems

RUN bundle install

COPY package.json package.json
COPY yarn.lock yarn.lock

RUN yarn install --check-files

COPY . /var/www/app/

EXPOSE 3000

# Clean up APT when done.
RUN apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* /tmp/* /var/tmp/*

ENTRYPOINT ["./puma-entrypoint.sh"]
CMD ["bundle", "exec", "puma", "-C", "config/puma/development.rb"]

# Puma can serve each request in a thread from an internal thread pool.
# The `threads` method setting takes two numbers: a minimum and maximum.
# Any libraries that use thread pools should be configured to match
# the maximum value specified for Puma. Default is set to 5 threads for minimum
# and maximum; this matches the default thread size of Active Record.
#
max_threads_count = ENV.fetch("RAILS_MAX_THREADS") { 5 }
min_threads_count = ENV.fetch("RAILS_MIN_THREADS") { max_threads_count }
threads min_threads_count, max_threads_count

# Specifies the `worker_timeout` threshold that Puma will use to wait before
# terminating a worker in development environments.
#
worker_timeout 3600 if ENV.fetch("RAILS_ENV", "development") == "development"

# Specifies the `port` that Puma will listen on to receive requests; default is 3000.
#
port ENV.fetch("PORT") { 3000 }

# Specifies the `environment` that Puma will run in.
#
environment ENV.fetch("RAILS_ENV") { "development" }

# Specifies the `pidfile` that Puma will use.
pidfile ENV.fetch("PIDFILE") { "tmp/pids/server.pid" }

# Specifies the number of `workers` to boot in clustered mode.
# Workers are forked web server processes. If using threads and workers together
# the concurrency of the application would be max `threads` * `workers`.
# Workers do not work on JRuby or Windows (both of which do not support
# processes).
#
# workers ENV.fetch("WEB_CONCURRENCY") { 2 }

# Use the `preload_app!` method when specifying a `workers` number.
# This directive tells Puma to first boot the application and load code
# before forking the application. This takes advantage of Copy On Write
# process behavior so workers use less memory.
#
# preload_app!

# Allow puma to be restarted by `rails restart` command.
plugin :tmp_restart

Is there a way to have logs to see what is happening during boot process?

A: Please give more information.

*

*On which system are you?

*How do you start your application? If you get in trouble, start it always on console.

*Puma has a log output. Search for this location. Put log output here.

*Try to remove all gems or big part of it to find error.

A: Researching for this topic, I realized that there isn't much useful information, so just trying to contribute for this cause...
You don't give too much information, but try again changing FROM ruby:2.7.2 to FROM ruby: 3.0.0 in your Dockerfile. Also check that Bundler is still working with ruby 3.0, if it's not, try updating this to v2.2.
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2020/12/25/ruby-3-0-0-released/
https://bundler.io/blog/


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Q: Woocommerce Thumbnail Image Swap I am working on a custom WordPress theme and I have added the function of swapping the main image with the thumbnail image on hover see here using the following JS:
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
 // Get the main WC image as a variable
 var wcih_main_imgage = $( 'a.woocommerce-main-image' ).attr( 'href' );
 // This is what will happen when you hover a product thumb
 $(".thumbnails a").hover(
 // Swap out the main image with the thumb
   function(){
     var photo_fullsize = $(this).attr('href');
     $('.woocommerce-main-image img').attr('src', photo_fullsize);
   },
   // Return the main image to the original
   function(){
     $('.woocommerce-main-image img').attr('src', wcih_main_imgage);
   }
 );
} );

This works but returns images that are bigger than the main image. Now I can manage this problem in other areas of the site by using this code:
<script>
                jQuery(document).ready(function() { jQuery('.overlayimage').css('height','288px'); });

                    jQuery('.overlayimage').css('width','288px')
                    jQuery('.overlayimage').css({'overflow':'hidden', 'left':'0', 'top':'0', 'position':'absolute'});

                function resizeoverlay() {
                    var pr = jQuery('.overlayimage').eq(0).prev();
                    jQuery('.overlayimage').css('height',pr.height());
                    jQuery('.overlayimage').css('width',pr.width());

                    }
                jQuery(window).load(resizeoverlay);
                jQuery(window).resize(resizeoverlay);
            </script>

... but I am struggling to get the two functions working correctly. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

A: you should do all your operations in jquery dom ready function like that
       <script>
                jQuery(document).ready(function() {
                   jQuery('.overlayimage').css('height','288px');
                   jQuery('.overlayimage').css('width','288px');
                   jQuery('.overlayimage').css({'overflow':'hidden', 'left':'0', 'top':'0', 'position':'absolute'});

                   function resizeoverlay() {
                       var pr = jQuery('.overlayimage').eq(0).prev();
                       jQuery('.overlayimage').css('height',pr.height());
                       jQuery('.overlayimage').css('width',pr.width());
                   }
                   jQuery(window).load(resizeoverlay());
                   jQuery(window).resize(resizeoverlay());
                });
       </script>


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Norman Rothfield 1912-2010: A celebration of his life July 4 2010
by AJDS | Jun 4, 2010 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
If you knew Norman Rothfield or knew of him, his family would like to invite you 3.00pm, Sunday 4 July, St Kilda Town Hall, Brighton Rd St Kilda
An early RSVP to the family would be appreciated, either by email [email protected] or by phone to messagebank at 9482 5574.
The AJDS deeply mourns the passing of Norman Rothfield, who died on 4 June aged 98. Among his many activities, he was a founding member and supporter of the Australian Jewish Democratic Society and an inspiration to all who knew him.
Norman's 76 years of activism went back to the 1930s in the UK, where he was elected to local government at the Age of 22, and he was a member of many progressive organizations in Australia, including the Council Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism (President 1947), Paths to Peace, and Australian Friends of Peace Now. He was active in the anti-nuclear and the Vietnam peace movements and the Fabian Society.
A detailed obituary can be found in The Age.
Norman was interviewed at length by Phillip Adams of ABC Radio several years ago, and the interview can be played or downloaded via this link.
You can also see a brief video clip of him speaking on December 13 2009 at the AJDS Annual Dinner in response to Denis Altman on Youtube at about 6″25′ onwards.
Norman's publications included:
The Trial of God-a Challenge to Conventional Thinking (1998)
Many Paths to Peace: The Political Memoirs of Norman Rothfield (1997)


the mm clearly marked on it.
How do you figure it out for the 6X ??
just answered my own question.
to show 0-99 zoom instead of the little zoom bar.
range is 122.5 for the 24.5 to 147 (lens 35mm equivelant).
so.... add .225 to each zoom increment and Voila!
You have the 35mm markings.
Thanks for sharing your calculations.
Your technique will be very useful.
Your formula could also be used with the 20x lens, or for any other lens.
considering my poor math skills.
Please double-check this. If you plot the actual fields of view for each zoom number, you should see that it is not a rectilinear progression. Z49 or Z50 most likely does not equal the mid-point of the zoom range. It's probably a bit more toward the telephoto end. The Z numbers should fall along a curvilinear path. Pete Bauer did a similar experiment for the 20x lens and those were the results he wound up with, if I remember correctly. If somebody can verify whether or not Z49 or Z50 on the 6x lens actually delivers a field of view equivalent to an 85mm lens, that would be most helpful. My guess is that it does not... somebody please prove me right or wrong. Thanks in advance, and thanks a bunch Will for doing this!
I believe you can get the exact focal lenght in millimeters of the 6xzoom if you zoom it forexample to z 50 and take a photo with XL H1 to sd card. Then you just look at the photo's info.
and copy and paste the EXIF data.
As Chris said, I've done this for the XH A1 and the XL H1 stock 20X lens, and the Z Number response is not quite linear. I have a 6X on back-order and will conduct tests on it as soon as I can get it. Presumably it'll show the same curvilinear response. I'm not able to post the results from the other lenses at the moment, but will do so as soon as I can.
in the exif data so looks like the curve starts out pretty flat!
There is a chance it will always report the same info.
May I recommend that you try a mid-zoom and far zoom on the lens.
This will show if the results will ever change.
Will, check position Z30. That should be roughly the halfway point of the lens (about 85mm or so).


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Q: Exclude Child Terms From Parent Posts How can I exclude the child term posts from showing up in the parent term posts output??  Right now it's duplicating in both parent and child term outputs.
 //Function to display posts grouped by taxonomies
    function display_posts_per_taxonomies($parent_term, $post_type = 'beat_posts', $taxonomy = 'beats'){
    $parent_posts = get_posts(array(
    'tax_query' => array( array(
    'taxonomy' => $taxonomy,
    'field' => 'slug',
    'terms' => $parent_term
        )),
        'post_type' => $post_type
    ));
    echo '
';
    foreach($parent_posts as $post){
        echo "
{$post->post_title}
";
    }
    $children_terms = get_terms($taxonomy, array(
        'parent' => get_term_by('slug', $parent_term, $taxonomy)->term_id
    ));
    foreach($children_terms as $term){
        echo '
';
        display_posts_per_taxonomies($term->slug, $post_type, $taxonomy);
        echo '
';
    }
    echo '
';
}

Below is what I'm trying to get rid of.

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ergerg

asdfasdfsdf

A: In your get_terms() call, try setting the hierarchical option to false:
$children_terms = get_terms($taxonomy, array(
        'parent' => get_term_by('slug', $parent_term, $taxonomy)->term_id,
        'hierarchical' => false
));

This option normally defaults to true, which is probably why you're getting the extra copies.

A: I fought with this problem for three days, but in the end I won by using a custom query. Put this code in your taxonomy.php template:
<?php
global $wpdb;
global $post;

$term = get_term_by('slug', $wp_query->get( 'term' ), 'menu');

$querystr = "
SELECT wposts.*
FROM $wpdb->posts wposts
    LEFT JOIN $wpdb->term_relationships ON (wposts.ID = $wpdb->term_relationships.object_id)
    LEFT JOIN $wpdb->term_taxonomy ON ($wpdb->term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id = $wpdb->term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id)
WHERE $wpdb->term_taxonomy.taxonomy = 'menu'
    AND $wpdb->term_taxonomy.term_id IN( $term->term_id )
LIMIT 20";

 $pageposts = $wpdb->get_results($querystr, OBJECT); ?>

<?php if( $pageposts ) : ?>

  <?php foreach ( $pageposts as $post ): ?>
  <?php setup_postdata($post); ?>

//Echo post title/content here.

  <?php endforeach; endif; ?>

I use the "menu" taxonomy, but you need to edit accordingly.

A: Firstly as Bainternet says your function is never-ending.
But to solve your original problem, there is a undocumented parameter for tax_query to prevent posts in child terms being fetched. It requires a fairly recent version of WordPress (I don't know the exact version in which it was implemented but it certainly works in the latest release).
Try this, it should do the trick:
$parent_posts = get_posts(array(
    'tax_query' => array(
        array(
            'taxonomy' => $taxonomy,
            'field' => 'slug',
            'terms' => $parent_term,
            'include_children' => 0
        )
    ),
    'post_type' => $post_type
));

As you'll notice the inclusion of 'include_children' => 0 will stop child posts in hierarchical taxonomies from being displayed.


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