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American Traditions Like Veterans Day…
Veteran's Day is an American tradition that celebrates the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I in 1918. Most Americans have either served in the military themselves or have known someone that has. This is the day that is reserved for you to pay tribute to the living & deceased soldiers. Since most of the men in my life have been in the military, I know that they appreciate this day. They just wish that they were honored for more than just one day. All of the veterans that I know have voiced the same concerns about the military. When they complete their service, it is hard for them to find work & good healthcare. The treatment of veterans really needs to be improved. We should do more for those who are willing to put their lives on the line for our country. They should be able to obtain good health care & employment once they are a civilian. Let's honor the veterans by assuring that they are protected when they are out of the military.
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"King Joe" Represents More Than Just The Plumbers! Watch The Video!
Man Scared To Be Labeled As Anti-American
I feel like I have travelled through a time warp! What the hell is really going on? I posted this video of the cartoon representation of the all-American working man called "King Joe". He comes from the era of McCarthyism . This is the pro-American" propaganda film that I believe gave birth to this century's "King Joe"! That would be "Joe The Plumber" who has gained fame as the poster boy for working class Americans. Are we hearkening back to the olden days where everyone who wasn't clearly a Republican was a communist? Check out this piece from a writer who is from that era : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/mccarthyism-with-lipstick_b_133191.html
Yesterday, Sarah Palin made a controversial statement that I consider to be divisive. She said that certain parts of the country are "pro-American". C'mon, gal! That is a ridiculous statement! Only certain people are anti-American. I didn't realize all folks from small towns were pro-American. Remember Timothy McVeigh? He was the one of the perpetrators of the Oklahoma City bombings. He was a small-town guy who joined the military & was a member of the NRA. He was a registered Republican who later identified with the Libertarian Party, although they denounced him. He was opposed to liberals & identified with the views of the extreme right. He definitely thought that he was pro-American. But, he committed one of the worst terrorist acts before 9/11. He felt that he was protecting the constitution & destroying the all-consuming government. In his mind, the government was anti-American.
This is a quote from Timothy McVeigh that I found on wikipedia.org,
"The government is afraid of the guns people have because they have to have control of the people at all times. Once you take away the guns, you can do anything to the people. You give them an inch and they take a mile. I believe we are slowly turning into a socialist government. The government is continually growing bigger and more powerful, and the people need to prepare to defend themselves against government control." (end quote)
Check out this next passage from wikipedia.org,
"Various speculations have suggested that "the government" was involved in a conspiracy behind the bombing, or that the government planned the attack as a false flag operation in order to justify persecuting right-wing organizations."(end quote)
Sarah Palin must really be naive of just how extreme some folks are that call themselves "pro-American." That is why I used Timothy McVeigh to illustrate my point. But, wait a minute, guys! Wasn't she involved with the Alaska Independence Party which some describe as a fringe SECESSIONIST movement? SO MUCH FOR THE RED, WHITE, & BLUE! Read more about it here: (http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/sarah_palin_and_the_alaska_ind.php
All of this talk about socialism is very, very scary. It is eerily similar to what I had hoped was a bygone epoch! It is simply history repeating itself. We've already had a "King Joe" during the anti-communism era or the McCarthy era. In the 21st century, King Joe has morphed into "Joe The Plumber"! Now we know where this idea came from. And now we know we have officially entered the "Time Machine". My question is, does reform mean using the same tactics as another Republican from the 1950's? Is it Senator McCain or Senator McCarthy? I thought we were done with the old kind of divisive politics! Words like this can give rise to the worst kind of extremism. I think it really is time to bring in a change agent after all. It's all about PROGRESSION NOT REGRESSION! As Americans, we should all be insulted by these discordant statements that Sarah Palin made. They were very unpatriotic, indeed! We are one nation that is striving for unity in a multicultural society. Let's reach our goal, America!
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We Are Very Patriotic People
Don't Question The Last 8 Years ! That's Not Patriotic!
Since 9/11, patriotism has been an underlying theme during election time in America. Some people define patriotism as supporting your country. That's all fine & dandy. What does country really mean, though? Your country is the land and it's people. If you view your country as the Bush administration, then those who don't support George Bush & his policies are deemed to be unpatriotic. During this year's election, we have heard extensively from the campaign trail about patriotism. Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, John McCain, & Joe Biden have all had their love of country questioned. John McCain has even made it a central part of his campaign with his slogan "COUNTRY FIRST".That motto almost implies that you are disloyal to America if you don't vote for John McCain. Barack Obama's message of "Change That We Need" speaks to the voice of the dissenter. Barack Obama's catchphrase seems to be catching on because of the mood of the country. Most of us have become a dissenting voice against the current state of affairs in America. The huge bailout that they all signed really has a lot of Americans feeling disheartened. It may have been the change that we need but who really put the whole country first? Wall Street is the hierarchy of the country which is what made the whole nation balk at this bailout! We all are in disagreement with the way our government has been operating. This is when it is time to become truly patriotic by doing all that you can as an American to ensure that this country remains the land of dreams for future generations.
This video shows two different types of patriotism. The mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah named Rocky Anderson took part in an anti-war rally during a George Bush speaking engagement. This caused a lot of outrage because his state was one of the biggest supporters of the Iraq war. He is a voice of dissent because he fears the direction his country is going in. The founding fathers were also voices of dissent against Britian. That is how America came to be. Another kind of patriotism is consistently on display whenver you tune your tv to the Fox channel. That would be blind patriotism. According to Glen T. Martin,
"But such blind patriotism destroys democracy and corrupts the people who blindly follow their corrupt and deceitful leaders. Today, we reap the whirlwind, the judgment of God, so to speak, the consequences of our trashing the vision of the founding fathers. For today, our leaders no longer keep it a secret. They openly admit and act on the truth that the United States runs a brutal, world-wide empire based on the immense military might of the Pentagon and the immense domination of U.S. multinational corporations over the global economy." (end of quote). To continue reading this article follow this link:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5534.htm
There are hardly any voices of dissent in the mainstream media regarding the Bush administration's deceitful practices. What I have witnessed since the fear of terrorism struck Americans is this show of blind patriotism. By questioning the government, you run the risk of being accused of being a terrorist sympathizer. The entire staff at Fox will charge at their guests like raging bulls whenever they voice dissent. We must support our country at all costs is the view of the blind patriot. Even if the president has lied to the American citizens about weapons of mass destruction. Are we forgetting the "Declaration Of Indepence"? In particular,
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."
The Patriot Act would have the founding fathers turning over in their graves if they knew how the Constitution was being disregarded. Government has been spiraling out of control before this economic crisis. This article talks about how unpatriotic the Patriot Act is. Follow this link to read it. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/23/politics/23patriot.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
It is our duty as Americans to not follow our government blindly. To consider yourself patriotic, you must really take into account what is best for the future of our country. Putting your country first means putting both the land & it's people first. All of it's people regardless of their stature in society. If the people are not doing well then the country is failing. Recognizing that fact is true patriotism to me.
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The folks over at My Plastic Heart asked to take a peek into our toy collection. So we broke out the camera. Part one. Part two.
We are very pleased to be contributing to EMP's new exhibit exploring the world of horror film and the human experience it produces. Can't Look Away: The Lure Of Horror Film features 19 of our illustrations, some truly amazing artifacts, interactive experiences, and information galore. We got a sneak peek at the show, and it's absolutely incredible! Do yourself a favor and check it out- open to the public October 2nd. And check out the portfolio for a more extensive look at the work!
Everyone's tweeting. Apparently that means we have to as well. We promise we'll never talk about what we had for lunch. Unless it was really good.
Growing up, Ryan and I were Lego FANATICS. I vividly remember the massive room-sized bag of Legos that my mom found at a garage sale for $8 - and the day she brought it home. Our jaws dropped. We dabbled in Transformers, G.I. Joe and He-Man, but the Legos got the most love - for years and years. Naturally, my own kids love them (what kid doesn't?!) and those days in the 80's of creating airplanes and robots out of blocks are ever-present in our house 20+ some years later. I still think it might be the best toy to actually spawn creativity and imagination. All that to say - I just love Jason Freeny's anatomy of the lego man. Brilliant.
And yes, we are going to Legoland next summer. Anyone been?
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Q: How do you reference EditText in alertdialog? Here is my code:
public void openDialog(){

    final AlertDialog.Builder alertDialogBuilder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);

    AlertDialog alert = alertDialogBuilder.create();
    final EditText a = (EditText) alert.findViewById(R.id.kekekeke);

    LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
    alertDialogBuilder.setView(inflater.inflate(R.layout.list_example, null));
    alertDialogBuilder
        .setMessage("Enter a New Name")
        .setPositiveButton("Edit Name", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                myRef.child(Utils.object.getKey()).child("sfasf").setValue(a.getText().toString());
            }
        });
}

My problem is that I got below error :

java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'android.text.Editable android.widget.EditText.getText()' on a null object reference

I'm confused because I thought that I already accessed it through the edittext.

A: You can reference it like below
LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.list_example, null);
EditText a = (EditText) v.findViewById(R.id.kekekeke);
alertDialogBuilder.setView(v);

A: Try this,
public void openDialog(){

final AlertDialog.Builder alertDialogBuilder =
        new AlertDialog.Builder(this);

LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.list_example, null);
alertDialogBuilder.setView(view);

final EditText a = (EditText) view.findViewById(R.id.kekekeke);

alertDialogBuilder    .setMessage("Enter a New Name")
        .setPositiveButton("Edit Name", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {

myRef.child(Utils.object.getKey()).child("sfasf").setValue(a.getText().toString());

            }
        })

AlertDialog alert = alertDialogBuilder.create();
alert.show();

You should inflate the view first

A: Problem is your alert dialog has not set the view when you get the reference from it, so it does not have anything until you call setview, so you are calling it before and it is providing you nothing so you get the null pointer
public void openDialog(){

    final AlertDialog.Builder alertDialogBuilder =
            new AlertDialog.Builder(this);

    AlertDialog alert = alertDialogBuilder.create();

    LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
    alertDialogBuilder.setView(inflater.inflate(R.layout.list_example, null));
final EditText a = (EditText) alert.findViewById(R.id.kekekeke);
   alertDialogBuilder    .setMessage("Enter a New Name")
            .setPositiveButton("Edit Name", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {

                myRef.child(Utils.object.getKey()).child("sfasf").setValue(a.getText().toString());

                }
            })

A: Problem is your alert dialog has not to the view when you try to get reference from view, so it does not have anything until you set your view to AlertDialog, So it returns NullPointerException,
Just replace this code with your code
final AlertDialog.Builder alertDialogBuilder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);

AlertDialog alert = alertDialogBuilder.create();

LayoutInflater inflater = getLayoutInflater();
View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.list_example, null);
final EditText a = (EditText) view.findViewById(R.id.kekekeke);

alertDialogBuilder.setView(view);

alertDialogBuilder
    .setMessage("Enter a New Name")
    .setPositiveButton("Edit Name", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
            myRef.child(Utils.object.getKey()).child("sfasf").setValue(a.getText().toString());
        }
    });

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Q: How can i load a image from a server using image id? Hello i need to know how to load images using image ids in vb.net like localhost/2. I have already set the server but i need to use a text box to enter the id and load the image. Can anyone help me please? Note that i am using a button to load the image after the id has been inputted into the text box.
This is what i got so far:
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
    PictureBox1.Image = webDownloadImage("http://localhost/", True, "C:\temp.jpg")
End Sub

Public Function webDownloadImage(ByVal Url As String, Optional ByVal saveFile As Boolean = False, Optional ByVal location As String = "C:\") As Image

    Dim webClient As New System.Net.WebClient
    Dim bytes() As Byte = webClient.DownloadData(Url)
    Dim stream As New IO.MemoryStream(bytes)

    If saveFile Then My.Computer.FileSystem.WriteAllBytes(location, bytes, False)

    Return New System.Drawing.Bitmap(stream)

End Function

A: This is what you can do, just append the value of the textbox - TextBox1.Text to your URL, just make sure it has a value before you do it.
PictureBox1.Image = webDownloadImage("localhost/" & TextBox1.Text, True, "C:\temp.jpg")


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Q: Intel OpenCL: Tools for looking timeline of concurrent kernel execution In case of CUDA, NSIGHT would give us detail time lines of each kernel.
Is there similar tool for Intel Opencl? Basically I want to see if my three kernels are running in concurrently or not.


How do you stop a Ruby program early?
Normally a program will run until it's done processing all the instructions.
Or until it raises an exception that doesn't get handled.
But if you're writing a Ruby program that doesn't need to be running all the time, you may want to stop your program early for one reason or another.
You can do this with the exit method.
How does this exit method work?
When you call exit your program won't stop immediately.
Ruby raises a SystemExit exception which gives other parts of your program a chance to clean up.
This prints 123 before exiting.
If you want your program to skip this clean-up process, you can use exit!.
Notice how this won't print 123 before the program ends.
You can also use another method.
With this method you can provide an error message.
The warn method prints an error message to standard error.
But what is this 1 argument for exit?
That's the next topic of discussion!
When a program ends, not just a Ruby program but ANY program, it leaves a status code behind.
This is helpful because the operating system, or regular programs, can use this status code for monitoring, logging & even automatically restarting a failed program.
In Linux you can use echo $? to find out the exit status code of the last program.
When you call exit the status code is 0 by default.
You can pass another status code as an argument.
That's why when you call abort the status code is set to 1, the abort method is used to signal an error.
If you don't want to stop a whole program but just a loop, then you have to use something different.
This also works inside blocks, not just while loops.
Ruby methods end naturally on their last line of code.
return "I had my two apples today"
This code never gets to "bacon" because of the early return.
Sometimes you forget to increase a counter & produce an infinite loop.
You have learned about the exit method in Ruby, the abort method, exit status codes, and how to break out of a loop.
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Time to Vote! Pick the 15 Finalists to Compete At Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2023
Help pick the 15 legal tech startups that will get to compete at the seventh-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2023. Your votes determine the 15 companies selected to face off in a live pitch competition that will be the opening-night event of this year's TECHSHOW, which is March 1-4 in Chicago. They also get to exhibit in a special Startup Alley portion of the exhibit hall.
Below are summaries of the semifinalists. Each summary links to more-detailed information provided by each startup in its application. Once you have reviewed them, you can FIND THE BALLOT HERE.
DEADLINE FOR VOTING IS FRIDAY, FEB. 3, 2023, AT 11:45 P.M. ET.
Important: Changes to the Voting this Year
In consultation with the TECHSHOW planning board, we have decided to make two notable changes to the voting this year:
You will be limited to five votes. In past years, we placed no limit on the number of votes any one person could cast. This led to concerns about bot use and inflated numbers. This year, you will be able to vote five times on a single ballot. You may vote for your top-five favorites or five times for top favorite.
We have listed 40 companies on the ballot as semifinalists. In past years, the judges narrowed the ballot to 25 semifinalists. This year, out of the 55 applications we received, the judges felt that so many deserved the opportunity to compete that we eliminated only 15 and we are putting the rest out for your votes.
The increase on the ballot from 25 to 40 companies made listing them all on a single page unwieldy. Thus, listed below are summaries of each (as provided by the startups), with links to pages containing more-detailed information as taken from their applications, including, for most, a demo video.
Please cast your vote here — and remember that the deadline is Feb. 3.
Elevator Pitch: Calloquy is dedicated to making remote legal proceedings safe, secure, and efficient, both to reduce cost and risk for corporate litigants and to expand access to justice for underserved communities. Our all-in-one virtual litigation platform streamlines and professionalizes the process of conducting and managing remote and hybrid litigation. Users host meetings, mediations, and depositions that mimics real-life litigation scenarios and provides a level of security befitting legal proceedings.
What makes you unique or innovative?
Our platform is the only remote litigation platform intentionally designed for litigation teams to use through a case's life cycle. We provide features that protect attorney-client privilege and provide added security to sensitive proceedings. The platform is built to host the entire process, providing robust management and archiving tools necessary to successfully execute litigation.
As a PBC, we have a social mission to leverage technology to improve access to justice.
Read this startup's detailed application.
Elevator Pitch: We are the legal Gold Standard for Chronologies. Case Chronology is a patented browser-based software platform that is an efficient, effective way to build, analyze, prepare, and present your case. Case Chronology software allows users to work on a page once while automatically generating Reports, Search Features, Duplicate Detection, Analysis Filters, Interactive Calendars, and Timelines.
Our patented technology overcomes inherent issues working with documents and PDF's that interfere with making chronologies Secure, Scalable, Dynamic, and all in one place. Case Chronology is trial tested.
Elevator Pitch: CaseUp provides a faster and easier way to share exhibits in remote depositions. With one click, lawyers can securely send files to a shared exhibit portal where all participants are updated instantly. In the background, the system marks the exhibits, appropriately updates filenames, applies electronic stamps, and organizes your files. This helps avoid mistakes and delays in the deposition and by speeding up the process, effectively gives lawyers more time on the record to ask questions.
What makes you unique or innovative? CaseUp is uniquely focused on speed and ease-of-use, and is the first platform that provides a true single-click workflow for introducing and stamping exhibits in remote depositions. CaseUp also uniquely supports continuous numbering by analyzing files and appropriately marking the exhibits based on whether they are a new or previously marked. CaseUp is also the only platform that reduces friction for users with the option for a dedicated portal link (with embedded passcode) for each deposition.
Elevator Pitch: CaseYak uses AI to generate motor vehicle accident claim value predictions. We currently use this to offer lead generation services to law firms, but we love the potential for other use cases.
We answer the question found on so many attorney billboards: "What's your case worth?"
Elevator Pitch: For businesses that depend on contracts, Catylex Contract Analytics delivers quick answers without reading mountains of paper. Unlike others, we cover thousands of concepts out-of-the-box. Catylex users simply upload contract-related documents to a secure cloud application, and the system automatically extracts, tags and translates those documents into useful data that can be handed off to CLMs, or used to mitigate risk, revenue leakage, and legal fire drills.
What makes you unique or innovative? Until now, Contract AI has been disappointing because of weak training. Unlike consumer AI (trained on terabytes), most Contract AI is trained on small samples of text. Vendors expect their customers to do the hard work of training for themselves. Catylex is disruptive because we truly deliver out-of-the-box Contract AI (we do all the work). Fundamental to our success is a fine-grained data model (many thousands of concepts) derived from decades of legal, commercial, and technical experience.
Learn more about this company at the LawNext Legal Tech Directory.
Elevator Pitch: CiteRight helps litigation teams save, organize, share, cite, and assemble case law — so they can draft faster and spend more time on what matters.
What makes you unique or innovative? CiteRight is the only tool that allows lawyers to save case law and automatically cite it inside Microsoft Word. Our insight is that legal citations are themselves a form of knowledge that can be reused up and down the legal research workflow. By leveraging the data our users generate, we help them build long-term value out of their work product, making it more useful for more people across the firm.
Elevator Pitch: ContractKen is building the next generation contract drafting & review solution called ReviewKen. It combines our customer's existing knowledge (playbooks, checklists, guidelines & clause libraries) with best-in-class AI (including Large Language Models) and delivers the information, insights & suggestions within Microsoft Word. We want to make tech work for lawyers instead of trying to make lawyers learn new tools and platforms.
What makes you unique or innovative? Most contract review & management tools take a generic rules automation / pattern detection / workflow automation approach since they address a broader set of users, and not just lawyers. At ContractKen, we want to go deep and understand the typical problems & working environment around contract review/drafting processes. We are partnering with expert contract lawyers to build an intuitive solution which can handle extensive diversity that exists in playbooks, checklists, guidelines, etc.
Elevator Pitch: DecisionVault is an intake portal for attorneys that replaces the intake forms or fillable PDF they're currently using. It has a client facing side – the portal, which makes it easy for clients to fill in an online questionnaire. Then on the backend, the attorney can review / use and export this information in several ways – and sync it over to their other legal tools through one of our many integrations.
What makes you unique or innovative? What's unique is that we treat certain information differently – so we capture contacts as contact records (so we can sync them on to other tools). And we capture asset information in a structured way – so we can generate a nice-looking asset Excel sheet at the touch of a button. We integrate with lots of different tools – so we enable data integrations and automations that were impossible before. Firms can pick the stack of tools they want and know they can easily get client data into it.
Elevator Pitch: Disputec LTD is an Israeli company implementing the Binary Resolution Model (BRM) in online apps and websites. The BRM process will help you to resolve any kind of conflict: decision making, dispute resolution, building a real-time "Collective-Will" for communities.
Agree to negotiate a resolution.
Draft your point by yes/no questions.
Answer others' questions yes or no
Explain disagreements the same way (back to stage 2)
End discussion when you have nothing more to explain.
What makes you unique or innovative? We don't want to change the law. We want to build a new common law of communities from the ground up guided by the community's own collective-will, as discovered by the BRM. The real law makers will have to adjust.
Elevator Pitch: AI-powered Contract Acceleration Platform – 80% faster contract execution with improved compliance – supports review, redlining, collaboration, and negotiation of contracts (including third party/counter party contracts). Uses AI to deep dive on legal topics, compare contracts based on legal topics, and supports European and Asian languages.
What makes you unique or innovative? AI assist (not provide legal advice), very easy to deploy, supports data centers and cloud environments. Lots of functionality, depending on contract review flow.
Elevator Pitch: EsquireTek brings ground-breaking automation software to the underserved written discovery process. For decades, discovery has been a manual and tedious task. What previously took hours can now be done within 60 seconds, freeing up valuable time and resources.
What makes you unique or innovative? Our sophisticated AI accurately scans & extracts an opposing counsel's discovery request & creates a discovery response shell within 60-seconds. Rich, easy-to-use features allow attorneys & paralegals to quickly draft responses, add objections, text or email clients & obtain electronic signatures directly from our platform. We're on a mission to help law firms of every size improve efficiency by continuously developing innovative features that eliminate busy work to free up time & resources.
Elevator Pitch: We focus on litigation innovation. eSumry speeds the job of reviewing and analyzing deposition transcripts with AI. Forget old-school word indexes with our patent-pending ML-powered aspect identification. Create deposition digests without the hassle of switching documents, typing page/line numbers, or opening and closing text boxes. Easily export the summary to MS Word for the case file. All in a user-friendly interface. Faster, better summaries to keep your cases on track.
What makes you unique or innovative? We combine artificial intelligence with legal subject matter expertise to enable innovative solutions. Our CEO, a busy trial attorney, saw the need to bring technology to the guild. Our vision, help litigators focus on higher value work by streamlining more tedious tasks. We started with depositions. That's where the most valuable case information is. Reviewing & summarizing depositions is critical yet a tedious case task. We improved the process with a product that speeds the job, saving time.
Elevator Pitch: Etheia helps family attorneys compel fair discovery, uncover hidden assets, and analyze spousal spending in high conflict divorces. Family attorneys use Etheia's reports and analysis to increase settlement values, demonstrate coercive control, and effectively argue parenting, child support, and alimony terms.
What makes you unique or innovative? There's lots of innovation in streamlining uncontested divorces, but there's a billion-dollar market in high conflict and high net worth divorces that's been forgotten. In these cases, both parties turn to he-said, she-said arguments. With a data-driven approach, family attorneys can separate fact from fiction and achieve the best outcomes for their clients.
Elevator Pitch: We help legal teams ditch the billable hour for good in exchange for flat fee and subscription legal services. Within Fidu, law firms transform their manual actions, disjointed processes, and document templates into one-to-many legal products, automated workflows, and collaborative legal projects. All of this is packaged and delivered to clients in a firm-branded portal that's the hub for the firm's client experience. With Fidu, legal teams stop selling time for money and start scaling impact.
What makes you unique or innovative? Fidu will transform the business model of the trillion-dollar legal industry by helping law firms and legal teams successfully eliminate the billable hour for good in exchange for sustainable and scalable subscription legal services. To achieve this transformation, our product leverages the subscription design methodology developed by cofounder Kim Bennett based on her 10+ years of experience pioneering the model in her law firm and over 4 years of experience successfully teaching lawyers how to implement the model in their law firms. Together with Kim's experience, expertise, and methodology, we combine cofounder Blaine Korte's extensive product development and legal tech experience to build one platform for lawyers to transform their businesses with subscription legal services.
Elevator Pitch: Lawyers are universally under equipped to deal with the ever-increasing number of evidence formats present in the modern digital landscape. Stop manually converting files and struggling with cloud services. We're an eDiscovery company building a new product: FlexFile, a SAAS that gives lawyers the power to easily gather and convert any kind of digital evidence. Whether used by itself or integrated into existing workflows & apps, FlexFile can help lawyers everywhere be 10x more productive.
What makes you unique or innovative? Firms can integrate their existing workflows with the product right out of the box. No complicated technical barriers In addition to powerful AI to support practically every social media platform, mobile device, email inbox, and file. Any user can add their own conversion methods to the platform, while also allowing developers of other legal apps to integrate with us. Designed from the ground up to be accessible and flexible for firms of all sizes.
Elevator Pitch: Formally is a platform for legal collaboration and data-sharing that enables the legal experience of the future. We leverage artificial intelligence, behavioral science, and delightful user experience design to create a whole new category of legal tech. Our product simplifies the US Immigration process by letting clients collaborate directly with their immigration attorneys to accelerate their applications, track their cases and reduce anxiety, all while maintaining ownership of their own data.
What makes you unique or innovative? We combine the best aspects of consumer-facing products with powerful enterprise tools for attorneys to create seamless collaboration software. Where there would otherwise be dense, legalese-filled paper forms, we give clients a simple interface that auto-fills basic information, explains complex terms, and allows for quick feedback from lawyers. This saves attorneys dozens of hours on each case by automating grunt-work, and we work with top international employers, such as CommVault, to save in-house team millions of dollars in external legal fees.
Elevator Pitch: Giupedi has created the New Clinical Data Operating System for the Workers Compensation, Medical Malpractice, and Personal Injury litigation. Giupedi simplifies the creation of Medical Indexes for depositions and evidence production.
What makes you unique or innovative? Implementation of legal client care from a medical perspective. First commercial product to successfully produce medical indexes for workers compensation, PI, and medical malpractice cases.
Elevator Pitch: In 109 languages, Global Legal Leaders consolidates 20% of the global B2B legal profession. Users have access to 10,000 individually vetted firms with 600,000+ attorneys in 160 countries whose annual revenue is $300 billion. Businesses law and accounting firms and corporate counsel can precisely define the services they require. Firms delineate exactly the services they can provide. All users and firms control their own profiles at no cost. Operating costs and accurate information are assured.
What makes you unique or innovative? Global – Covers every country. Accessible in 109 languages. Large firms are vetted by media. Organization information is self-maintained with passwords reducing administrative costs. The model is similar to billion-dollar websites such as Amazon and LinkedIn. Contacts are managers of firms, networks and consultants which assures quality. AI integration personalize the site for each organization and individual user.
Elevator Pitch: We're the 'GoDaddy' of trademarking for small businesses, and the world leader in trademark search for enterprise brands.
What makes you unique or innovative? We're a Canadian, women-led deep AI startup that builds trademark software for two customer segments. Segment 1: SMB Transactional – Low volume searches and trademark tools for small and medium businesses, Amazon sellers, Web3 creators; Segment 2: Enterprise SaaS + Transactional – High volume searches and trademark tools for law firms, naming agencies, large enterprises. Trademarking is ripe for disruption. And we're the only company in the world to do it.
Elevator Pitch: We reduce mental stress and reclaim revenue loss caused by the multi-billion dollar "do I need to read this" problem. MyJr from Jurisage is a browser extension that works on any web page to improve your experience by delivering case law insights directly into your workflow. Stop opening new tabs for every cited authority and just hover over the citation to quickly understand cited cases without leaving your current page or breaking your flow. Focused intelligence for focused lawyers.
What makes you unique or innovative? Like large and innovative legal research and publishing companies, we combine AI tech, proprietary data and deep domain expertise to extracting and organizing the intelligence and insights contained in case law. We differ significantly in that the other companies seek to own the entire research experience, and while some offer APIs, none are built around technological unbundling and integration as core operating principles.
Elevator Pitch: We help law firms triple their efficiency by replacing manual data entry tasks with automation. Legal assistants must manually do tasks based on certain triggers, such as the receipt of a document. With Legal Ninja, they create a template of what they want done in the case management program, such as creating calendar entries, updating custom fields, add notes, generate document templates and tasks lists. Hit submit and all the work is done for you automatically.
Our software automates multiple repetitive actions being done within the user's case management system. It can be used with any type of law firm. It allows the user to be three times faster than doing the work manually.
Elevator Pitch: LegalEase Citations is a web app that helps lawyers, law students, and other legal professionals easily, quickly, and accurately create and format legal citations in legal-specific formats, like The Bluebook, for use in their legal writing. Users enter the source they're citing into a form, and LegalEase Citation's algorithm automatically applies the thousands of formatting rules and instantly outputs accurate legal citations.
What makes you unique or innovative? LegalEase Citations is the first and only software that creates accurate legal citations in accordance with legal-specific citation formats, like The Bluebook.
Elevator Pitch: LegalOn Technologies is an AI-powered contract review platform that identifies and prioritizes third-party contract risks in seconds so legal teams can negotiate with focus and precision. Lawyers love us because we automate what's tedious and put all the practical insights and precedent clauses you need in one place to make review easy. General counsels and legal ops teams use LegalOn to accelerate contracting and maintain compliance, improving margins and increasing revenue for their business.
What makes you unique or innovative? At LegalOn, we put legal in the driver's seat. While other platforms act as a black box and automate redlines, we prioritize risks and give legal teams the practical insights they need to decide what to negotiate. Legal teams can easily tune the alerts to their own preferences and playbook. This approach has made LegalOn in Japan the largest contract review platform in the world. And we're just getting started in the United States – innovating new tools for U.S. lawyers as we ready for launch.
Elevator Pitch: LegalType is the world's first adaptable SMART keyboard for lawyers and law students. It is also the World's first highly customizable keyboard that eliminates repetitive tasks and is compatible with most European languages. Unlike existing legal keyboards, LegalType is available both as a programmable mechanical keyboard and as a software-only solution. We facilitate document assembly and automation, thereby delivering significant savings of time and money.
What makes you unique or innovative? Our first-to-market features include shortcuts for Word and Outlook, Unicode symbols (i.e., § ¶ Δ π © ® ™) and international and crypto currency symbols (i.e., ¥ € £ Ξ ₿). Our programmable firmware keyboard delivers automation in a few key presses. We add a layer of functionality to the keyboard without overriding the user's default settings, which also makes it compatible with international keyboards. Lawyers have achieved improved efficiency, accuracy and savings with our innovative solution.
Elevator Pitch: Lexamica is a platform that helps plaintiff's law firms refer legal cases. This is a difficult workflow and by making it easier, law firms can make more money and stay ethically compliant at the same time.
What makes you unique or innovative? Lexamica is the only platform aimed at helping lawyers make money through attorney referrals. We simply the process from beginning to end so that clients and counsel both win.
Elevator Pitch: Litigaze is a modern software platform that enables litigation teams to better understand, communicate and evaluate litigation risk and uncertainty, using a combination of visualization and quantification techniques based on decision science. Using Litigaze, lawyers can stop giving vague and unhelpful "it depends" responses and start showing their clients exactly what they think litigation prospects really look like in granular and numeric detail.
What makes you unique or innovative? Litigaze is different from many other legal tech tools in that it deliberately does NOT use AI/ML or automation. Litigaze's tools have been developed by litigators, for litigators to use in complex litigation situations, and are the subject of multiple international pending patent applications.
Elevator Pitch: Communications powers legal activities. Llabo, an intuitive legal communications platform developed by some of the most experienced innovators in legal technology, eliminates many of the communication challenges that get in the way of a legal firm's success. Video meetings, task management, e-signature, cloud solution, full document editor and a dedicated secure communication channel to prevent information and communication silos.
What makes you unique or innovative? Llabo was designed to overcome common implementation challenges using the elegance of simplicity. Because it's browser-based, there's zero implementation. It's a solution that's ready to use at the first sign-on. Llabo is designed to be a one-stop shop for legal world that is accessible from anywhere, anytime. It's designed to facilitate legal communication between legal teams, firm management, and the customer in a way that puts simplicity first.
Elevator Pitch: Naya is a database driven solution that allows lawyers and their clients to share a platform that drives document automation and transaction management. Each environment is customized based on the documents / processes that are being automated.
What makes you unique or innovative? Our product is designed to be shared by lawyers and their clients to improve efficiency for all parties (not just the lawyers). Also, Naya has experienced attorneys as part of its implementation team and all setup is handled by Naya so there is no implementation necessary by lawyers.
Elevator Pitch: Assembly Software provides case management solutions (Trialworks, Needles, and Neos) that support everything from the micro to the macro operations of running a firm. Our flagship cloud-based platform, Neos, acts as your silent partner, a digital shot of B12 that will allow you to do more with fewer resources. You'll learn how to get more out of your staff and deliver better outcomes to clients without devoting additional effort.
What makes you unique or innovative? In 2019, Trialworks and Needles joined forces to create Assembly Software. Combining resources and experience allowed for robust product development and improved management strength. Neos, our cloud-based case management platform, combines the best of both legacy products. Our unparalleled experience in the legal case management industry and focus on customer-powered innovation have resulted in a practice management solution that will power any firm to new heights of success.
Elevator Pitch: Office & Dragons helps lawyers save days of time on their matters by streamlining document work. We've built the world's only document automation platform based on Agile methodology, so anyone can get results instantly and iteratively expand and improve their automations over time.
What makes you unique or innovative? We have developed the world's first and only document automation platform that is founded in Agile methodology. In doing so, we've flipped the traditional painstakingly slow model of document automation on its head. Users get results instantly, making small improvements to their templates iteratively and launching changes quickly to their team. Users don't have to wait for a year before their template is usable and it remains flexible and evolves over time.
Elevator Pitch: A verbatim, synced AI transcript 90 mins after a depo/EUO at no extra cost to our reporter's appearance. We empower insurance carriers/firms to make decisions faster and more cost efficient vs. long waits and thousands spent with traditional reporters. We built a free, cloud platform feat. clip cutting, instant depo confirmation, and smart search on past transcripts. Certified transcripts, if needed, are synced to the audio/video, for free. There are no videographer fees or other misc. charges.
What makes you unique or innovative? Parrot was built by veteran litigators and world class software engineers leveraging Machine Learning and AI to solve industry wide cost and time inefficiencies in court reporting and case/claims resolution. We have a proven track record of saving insurance carriers and law firms time and significant cost. This is in addition to being a single source, easy to use solution, enabling more persuasive advocacy through digital evidence presentation.
Elevator Pitch: Pre/Dicta tells you in three seconds whether your judge will dismiss your case. And all you need is your case number. Our predictions on cases in federal court are accurate 85% of the time and have been tested on over 50,000 motions to dismiss. No other technology can do this.
What makes you unique or innovative? Rather than giving attorneys reams of data and statistics and burdening them to spend time interpreting them and determining, what, if any are relevant, we provide instant predictions based on just the case number. Our algorithms objectively identify the biographical information that influences a particular judge's decision and leverages it to predict whether a case will survive a motion to dismiss and when the judge will issue their ruling.
Elevator Pitch: Prokurio makes it radically easier for businesses to take control of their intellectual property spending. Our SaaS platform helps companies uncover and eliminate hundreds of thousands of dollars in excessive IP costs and automates complex and time-consuming financial planning and budgeting processes.
What makes you unique or innovative? We're the first vendor to create a platform focused on the financial needs of corporate IP teams. To do this, we've integrated important features usually only found in IP Management, E-billing, and Financial Planning and Analysis applications. This allows us to deliver several innovative IP-focused financial features, including a graphical budget simulator and the industry's only automated IP maintenance invoice review solution.
Elevator Pitch: The perfect solution for collecting ESI from devices exists. Rocket is a cloud-native platform which collects from Windows, Mac devices and iPhone backups via email to the Custodian. The Custodian clicks a link and Rocket automatically takes over the data collection, forensic reporting and evidence transfers. No collection kits, forensic tools, installs or onsite engagements. Rocket can perform full disk & targeted forensic imaging, giving you all the information you at your fingertips.
What makes you unique or innovative? Rocket can: Collect data without requiring blank hard drives or imaging tools; perform full disk, Targeted search and Drop & Send; email discovery requests to a single custodian or from excel list; bi-directionally search data in 28 languages.
Elevator Pitch: Shareforce is a collaboration platform for legal docs and contract compliance (a Github for legal staff). It enables firms to improve the quality and uniformity of legal documents, while reducing costs and increasing efficiencies. It's a SaaS-based, modular (clause building-block based) solution for legal document design, maintenance, automation, and collaboration.
What makes you unique or innovative? Shareforce serves as the 'single source of truth' and is fully controlled by lawyers. SF is a comprehensive contract clause repository for all our clients' documents originated in each department and every system. Our modular setup allows SF to offer unique features, like automated clause-update distribution, multipurpose clauses, update approval workflow tool (branching), department specific clause versions (forking) and clause update suggestions (merge requests) – analogous to GitHub.
Elevator Pitch: Streamline AI is an intelligent intake and workflows system, purpose built for corporate legal teams to:
Collect and organize all legal requests via configurable intake forms + email, Slack, and Salesforce
Automate assignment, approvals, and workflows.
Provide real-time visibility and collaboration for business + legal.
Track key metrics (request volume, SLAs, and much more) to demonstrate the legal team's value and justify new hires over time.
What makes you unique or innovative? We are leveraging AI to cut down on the amount of manual work that legal teams are doing to triage and work on requests. Our AI module can auto-triage requests to the legal team after learning how the legal team triages by matter type and identify duplicates. We are further developing our AI/ML models to improve how legal teams manages requests, documents, and handle knowledge management.
Elevator Pitch: Our award-winning platform automates capital markets disclosures drafting, and related diligence processes, for companies and their advisors. The range of techniques we use include data analytics and natural language processing. We are legal and tech experts and build our products with input from top law firms (formal partners include Cleary Gottlieb and Vinge). Since 2021, our solutions have been used on c.50 equity and debt transactions worth billions of dollars by a dozen of Am Law 100.
What makes you unique or innovative? We focus on automating core legal (rather than administrative) work and translating premier legal expertise into practical products. We also forged co-development partnerships with top law firms to help ensure that our products meet practical needs. As capital markets disclosures must reflect an issuer's circumstances, latest financial results, and market developments, our products produce customized text based on evolving facts, rather than relying solely on templates and past precedents.
Elevator Pitch: Truve is a new, simple-to-use, first-of-its-kind law firm intelligence technology designed to help law firms structure and leverage their data. It's the data hub, analytics, and productivity platform for the law firms of the future.
What makes you unique or innovative? We have uniquely created a Case Value Estimation AI tool looking over 100 data points to understand key factors impacting the value of the cases. We then use this information to maximize case values.
Elevator Pitch: Universal Migrator makes changing practice/document management systems a breeze. It extracts data from 50+ systems into a universal database schema then pushes that data into your desired platform.
What makes you unique or innovative? LEDES standardized legal billing. We standardized legal migrations. Data migrations are traditionally hard because every system has a different database schema, API, and table structure. We ETL every system (even web/API-based systems) into a universal data model so every migration looks exactly the same.
Elevator Pitch: Wisedocs indexes and sorts medical records using machine learning for insurance carriers, healthcare providers, laws firms, and TPAs. We serve the auto, liability, disability, and workers' compensation markets. Wisedocs provides an easy-to-integrate solution for improved accuracy and speed to deliver improved outcomes in the medical claims process.
What makes you unique or innovative? Wisedocs tenure and experience in this space makes us an industry leader. Our mission is to erase the headache of manually analyzing medical records to create a more positive experience for insurance companies, legal firms, healthcare providers, and their claimants. Our clients stick with us and grow with us because of the actual product, turnaround time, accuracy and customer service. Wisedocs is an experienced company that focuses on delivering great customer outcomes. Instead of just packaging technology we spend a great deal of effort understanding client needs and making sure our solution provides targeted and measurable value.
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Mariah Carey's Sister Accuses Their Mother of Sexual Abuse, Satanic Rituals
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Mariah Carey's mother has been accused of sexual abuse by the singer's sister, Alison Carey.
Allison filed a lawsuit against her mother, 83-year-old Patricia Carey, under the New York's Child Victims Act. The act allows victims to sue their abusers by temporarily waiving the statute of limitations in underage sexual abuse cases.
Allison claimed in the filing that she suffered from anxiety, depression, PTSD and drug abuse that affected her life.
According to Page Six, she was previously arrested for prostitution and is HIV-positive. She alleged in court documents that her mother's actions led to her "misuse of both legal and illegal drugs in an attempt to suppress the horrific memories, and to undergo extensive professional counseling."
Allison also claimed that her and Mariah's mother subjected her to watching sex orgies and satanic ritual sacrifices. Patricia allegedly "allowed and encouraged" strangers to "engage in sexual acts" with Allison when she was roughly ten years old.
The filing also added that Patricia allegedly forced her daughter to "witness adults engaged in sexual acts with both adults and children during middle-of-the-night satanic worship meetings that included ritual sacrifices."
"Plaintiff now demands compensatory money damages for immense psychological and physical damage, mental pain and anguish and intentional infliction of severe emotional distress," the filing confirmed.
Mariah has not commented on her sister's allegations.
Celebrities Who Practice Witchcraft or the Occult Gallery
Source: Mariah Carey's Sister Accuses Their Mother of Sexual Abuse, Satanic Rituals


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Low-Carbon Birding
A climate-friendly aproach to ornithology
Are we addicted to high-carbon ornithology?
Ecotourism: Is my flying saving the planet?
The flying less movement
Does 'offsetting' work?
Carbon inequality
Driving less
"If we are to make a difference in the politically charged terrain of climate change, diligent and meticulous research is not enough. Credibility is paramount and resides in the integrity of the relationship between the researcher and their research."
Kevin Anderson, climate scientist
Acadmics and researchers, especially those based in wealthy institutions, often figure among the high emitters. Conservationists are not an exception. A 2017 study comparing the environmental footprint of conservationists, medics and economists—three groups with above-average footprints—found that while conservationists behave in a marginally 'greener' manner, the differences are modest. The average conservationist in the sample took six flights per year, three for work and three for personal reasons. Averages, though, can hide great disparities. A survey of 1509 individuals across eight departments at the University of British Columbia found that almost one third of academics did not fly, 8% produced half of all flight emissions and 25% produced 80% of all flight emissions. One reason for these high-carbon lifestyles is a research culture that confers status on international travel and downplays the potential of information and communication technologies for staying updated with research, fostering international collaborations, and making conferences more inclusive.
The articles below offer ideas on how to transition towards a low-carbon research culture.
Towards a culture of low-carbon research for the 21st Century
Report by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
"we review the rationale for and alternatives to the current high-carbon research culture. We find no clear obstacles to justify an exemption for the research community from the emission reduction targets applied elsewhere. While stimulating ideas and creating personal links of trust are important benefits of face-to-face meetings, these benefits may be outweighed by the opportunities to reach much wider communities by developing and using new social media and online platforms. We argue that the research community needs a roadmap to reduce its emissions following government targets, which ironically are based on findings of the research community."
An analysis of ways to decarbonize conference travel after COVID-19
Biennials, regional hubs and virtual attendance can slash emissions, new calculations show.
Article in Nature
"Only through a concerted and coordinated effort will the transition towards a decarbonized model of academic conferencing gain traction. As COVID-19 has taught us, changes to deeply embedded and seemingly intractable practices can happen in a global emergency with remarkable speed."
AGU Should Support Its Members Who Fly Less
Article in Science News by AGU
"many of us feel called to reduce our carbon footprint—sometimes dramatically—in an effort to align our actions with the urgency of climate change. For most Earth scientists, as for most other academics, air travel dominates our personal carbon footprint by a significant margin. For some of us, a concerted effort to fly less is a critical part of our shift to a lower-carbon lifestyle."
Initiatives to reduce academic flying
No Fly Climate Sci – Earth scientists, academics, and members of the public who either don't fly or who fly less. See also the section on biographies
Flying less: Reducing academia's carbon footprint
Reflections about flying less in academia
Anthropology: In an era of climate change, our ethics code is clear: We need to end the AAA annual meeting
Archaeology: Decarbonising archaeology
Ethnomusicology: Academic flying, climate change, and ethnomusicology: Personal reflections on a professional problem
Javier Caletrío
jcaletrio [at] gmail [dot] com
"Until we acknowledge the huge asymmetry in emissions & hence where the urgent and deep mitigation must begin, we will continue to fail. To date, this has remained a taboo subject, with scam after delusional scam held up as a veil to hide what the maths uncomfortably demonstrates." – Kevin Anderson, climate scientist


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Ok so I'm going to be doing a top end rebuild and was just wondering what is the best top end kit out there?
Personally, I would go with OEM piston.
I just redid my entire 2003 motor last winter and went with OEM everything... No regrets, everything is perfect.
djsather, did you keep up with total costs of your rebuild?
I would stick with OEM stuff. There is a reason that Yamaha has such a great reputation with build quality.
Sounds like he is looking for a "kit". As in, one stop shop.
No, I didn't keep a running total but probably around $1500-$1800, which I know is a lot for a 14 year old bike (more than the bike is worth) but I don't plan on selling it. I'm going to keep it until it's dead and gone. It's an excellent backup/buddy bike to have around.


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Welcoming new member Laura Wheeler
Laura Wheeler
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Laura Wheeler. Laura brings deep experience in Strategy, Analytics and E-commerce which she has honed through her years at a top-tier management consulting firm (McKinsey), as an operator at best-in-class retailers (Ross Stores and Gap), in client service as the Retail Practice Lead at a start-up marketing analytics consulting firm (Absolutdata) and culminating in P&L ownership as the General Manager/Chief Digital Officer at DTC divisions of Omni-retailers (Saks, Perfumania).
Her project work has covered a wide range of areas from designing and implementing a new data-driven planning approaches, employing sophisticated statistical methods to do multi-touch attribution modeling and launching a new retail concept with branding and organizational design components.
Throughout her career, Laura has been drawn to classic strategy problem solving and big data/analytics. She would love to continue those types of endeavors on projects with the Umbrex team. She currently resides in Irvington, NY (a suburb of NYC) with her 2 teen-aged children and 1 dog. She is open to travel and ready to dive into projects that can leverage her Strategy, Digital Marketing/Analytics or E-commerce experience.
TAGS: advanced analytics, consumer insights, Digital Marketing, e-commerce
What You Need to Know about Google's Antitrust Lawsuit
Tobias Baer
Tobias Baer shares an article on the latest Google news and the regulation of Big Tech. He explores the impact of Google's algorithms on e-commerce and the commercialization of the internet.
In spite of its limited scope, the DOJ's antitrust complaint against Google already highlights three fundamental issues of e-commerce and the commercialization of the internet. The first is about industrial organization – how to create a digital market structure that isn't monopolized through natural network and scale effects? The second issue is the bundling of services especially in areas where due to information asymmetry, consumers don't see the true cost of their decisions (as they pay with their data) and hence are highly vulnerable to exploitation. The third issue is the important role of design as a key trigger of human behavior – an aspect where governments still are playing catch-up with the latest insights of psychology and behavioral economics.
Before offering two specific solutions to the problem, I want to briefly explain these three issues.
Monopolization of e-commerce
The DOJ's allegations of anticompetitive behavior is the latest evidence that the internet, rather than democratizing seller and buyer relationships and giving more power to consumers by getting rid of the "middle man", has enabled the creation of powerful new quasi-monopolies. Such creation of dominating platforms is driven not only by network effects (e.g., just as we benefit from everyone speaking the same language, it also benefits us to communicate through the same channel or app) but also because of an inherent need for risk management, as I've argued in an earlier article. I learned already in Industrial Organization 101 that in such situations regulations need to create a market structure protecting a balance of forces between sellers and buyers – sadly my teacher did not explain exactly how to do this for the internet (which back then was in its infancy)!
The high cost of bundling
The psychology of design
A regulated code of conduct
Read the full article, What Google's antitrust lawsuit means, on LinkedIn.
TAGS: Business Intelligence, e-commerce, Google Antitrust Lawsuit, Psychology of design
Welcoming new member Ulrich Schumacher
Ulrich Schumacher
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Ulrich Schumacher. Ulrich is an expert in CRM, CEM, e-commerce and marketing; especially in the B2B and B2C retail environment. To date, he has been able to successfully apply his skills in various renowned companies in consulting and line functions. Ulrich is able to lead and realign large marketing areas in a contemporary and future-oriented way.
Due to his extensive knowledge in the areas of on- and offline instruments, he achieved concrete marketing successes. He is familiar with the peculiarities of e-commerce sales channels, omni-channel marketing approaches and has a proven track record of building and expanding CRM programs profitably. Ulrich is happy to collaborate on projects involving CRM and marketing in Europe
TAGS: CEM, CRM, e-commerce, Energy Economy, international strategy, Marketing
Welcoming new member Chris Moe
Chris Moe
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Chris Moe with Cartograph. Chris Moe joined McKinsey in 2011 as a BA, focusing primarily on Sales & Marketing for B2C companies, across topics including pricing, digital pricing, and growth. After leaving to spend two years at a structured credit hedge fund in NYC, he returned to McKinsey and split between Marketing and Sales and work in Education, focused on University transformations. Chris co-founded Cartograph in 2018, an agency focused exclusively on Amazon consulting for emerging CPG brands.
Chris now lives in Austin, TX, and is always happy to talk Amazon, eCommerce, or CPG.
TAGS: Consumer Packaged Goods, e-commerce, Energy Economy, international strategy, Marketing, post-merger integrations, Sales
Welcoming new member Brendan Kelly
Umbrex is pleased to welcome Brendan Kelly. Brendan Kelly has more than 15 years of professional experience across multiple sectors and industries including public affairs, top-tier consulting, and financial services.
Following an early career as a lobbyist for the Irish financial service industry, he joined the Dublin/London office of McKinsey in 2010 where he worked primarily on strategy and operations for clients in the banking and insurance sectors. On leaving McKinsey in 2014 he worked initially as an independent consultant before taking up a role as Head of Strategy for Credit Suisse's private banking business in Europe based in Switzerland. He returned to independent consulting in early 2019 to have greater freedom to develop his own entrepreneurial ideas.
Brendan's distinctive strengths include conceptual problem solving, communications, and team leadership and his working style combines the intellectual rigor of consulting with pragmatism and practicality.He is particularly interested in supporting projects in strategy development and implementation, change and transformation, and program management.
In addition to his strong background in financial services, Brendan has a proven track record in driving change and creating value across multiple industries including Food, e-commerce, publishing, and pharma. Brendan's focus is on serving clients in the UK, Ireland, Switzerland and Western Europe.
TAGS: Competitive Intelligence, e-commerce, Electronics, Energy, Energy Economy, Financial Services, Operations, Remote Work, Strategy


Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido was to arrive in Brazil on Wednesday night to meet with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro as part of a tour of several nations to drum up international pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to step down. Guaido last month invoked constitutional provisions to assume an interim presidency, arguing Maduro's re- election was fraudulent.
Oil prices dipped on Thursday, dragged down by China's weakening economy and record U.S. crude output, although markets remained relatively well supported by supply cuts led by producer club OPEC. International Brent crude futures were at $66.23 per barrel at 0129 GMT, down 16 cents, or 0.2 percent from their last close. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures were at $56.90 per barrel, down 4 cents from their last settlement.
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Q: No Method error : Login attempts using cookies in Rails Devise This is the functionality i used for "when a user fails to attempt login twice r thrice".

class Users::SessionsController < Devise::SessionsController
prepend_before_filter :require_no_authentication, :only => [ :new,
  :create ]
prepend_before_filter :allow_params_authentication!, :only =>
  :create
prepend_before_filter { request.env["devise.skip_timeout"] = true }
def new
cookies[:login_attempts] = cookies[:login_attempts] || 0

   **unless params[:user][:email].blank?**

  if  cookies[:email].eql?(params[:user][:email])

    cookies[:login_attempts] = cookies[:login_attempts].to_i + 1

  else

    cookies[:login_attempts] = 0

  end

end

self.resource = resource_class.new(sign_in_params)

clean_up_passwords(resource)

respond_with(resource, serialize_options(resource))

end
# POST /resource/sign_in
def create
cookies[:email] =   params[:user][:email]

self.resource =  warden.authenticate!(auth_options)

if cookies[:email]

  cookies[:login_attempts] = 0

  set_flash_message(:notice, :signed_in) if is_navigational_format?

  sign_in(resource_name, resource)

  respond_with resource, :location => after_sign_in_path_for(resource)

else

  unless params[:user][:email].blank?

    if   cookies[:email].eql?(params[:user][:email])

      cookies[:login_attempts] = cookies[:login_attempts].to_i + 1

    else

      cookies[:login_attempts] = 0

    end

  end

  render :new

end

end   end

In sessions/new:

   <% if cookies[:login_attempts].to_i >= 3 %>

<%= raw recaptcha_tags %>

              <% end %>

Entire functionality is working fine but when redirected to new,
Im getting the following error:
*NoMethodError in Users::SessionsController#new
undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
The error is shown in "unless params[:user][:email].blank?" line in above controller new method.*
Please try to help me out..

A: Your params[:user] returns nil object, a.k.a it does not exist. You shoudl check it first:
if params[:user] && cookies[:email].eql?(params[:user][:email])


TGW Systems Inc. has developed a revolutionary system for fully automatic split case picking using a robot. Rovolution will be showcased in the US at Modex in Atlanta. TGW's robot is intelligent, self-learning and extremely flexible, as it is based on findings from cognitive robotics and machine learning. It constitutes another high-performance element of the FlashPick® solution and seamlessly fits into TGW's system environment.
Rovolution is available as an add-on module to FlashPick®, TGWs Smart Piece picking solution. This modular concept for Rovolution allows for upgrades at any stage in the customers lifecycle. With PickCenter ONE TS a customer can chose to upgrade as many or as few workstations to Rovolution as required. With Rovolution TGW brings a new era of robotics to the material handling industry that incorporate cognitive and machine learning techniques that allow enhanced performance and decreased total cost of ownership.
"We recognize that finding and keeping qualified, reliable labor is an ongoing—and increasing—concern for most operations within the U.S.," says Andy Lockhart, TGW Systems Vice President Sales, Integrated Systems. Rovolution has been developed specifically to help companies, particularly those in the e-commerce and omni-channel retail order fulfillment space, overcome those labor issues."
The Rovolution is able to pick a variety of products and with the machine learning techniques the robot adapts intuitively to changes in business models and product mix. Combined with PickCenter ONE TS Rovolution picks products accurately and quickly into totes or cartons.
Items are stored within the modular, fast and flexible FlashPick® system, which automates split case picking for shorter lead times. It can be configured to interleave orders from different distribution channels while supporting the variable and frequently changing inventory assortments in the food, apparel and general merchandise industries. Built on the intelligent TGW Software Suite that incorporates sophisticated algorithms to continuously prioritize orders based on configurable profiles, the FlashPick® system allows for later order cut off times and/or earlier deliveries.
Also showcased at MODEX are TGWs 360-degree services and solutions, designed to support users of the companys automation across a broad range of industries, including e-commerce, omni-channel, general merchandise, grocery, apparel, manufacturing, distribution and more. Worldwide, the company provides planning, design, installation and commissioning of mechanical equipment, controls, robotics and software, then backs them up with comprehensive lifetime services and support.
"Companies that utilize TGW as a one-stop solution benefit from low operating costs, ultimately resulting in savings of up to 50% of the total cost of ownership," Lockhart adds.
"The Omni-Channel Evolution: How Strategic Investment in Fulfillment Automation Ensures Survival of the Fittest," presented by Raffaele Destro, Industry Manager, on Monday, April 9 from noon-12:45 p.m. in Theater I.
"How a major European Grocer Implemented Freezer Warehouse Automation to Gain Operational and Financial Benefits," presented by Andy Lockhart, Vice President Sales, Integrated Systems, on Tuesday, April 10 from 3:00-3:45 p.m. in Theater A.
For more information, visit TGW in MODEX 2018 Booth B1227, or contact Lynn Metzger, Business Development Manager of TGW Systems Inc. at lynn.metzger(at)tgw-group(dot)com or 231.798.4547.
TGW Logistics Group (tgw-group.com) is a global leading systems provider of highly dynamic, automated and turnkey logistics solutions. Since 1969 the company has been implementing different logistics solutions, from small material handling applications to complex logistics centers. With approximately 2,800 employees worldwide, the Group implements logistics solutions for leading companies in various industries. In the business year 2016/17, the TGW Logistics Group generated sales revenues of $742 million U.S.


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Q: How to locate the Create an Account element within https://www.shopdisney.com/ using Selenium and Python I have been trying to click the "Create an Account" button on this webpage with selenium and python but python cannot seem to find the element. Here is my current code:
from selenium import webdriver
import time
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://www.shopdisney.com/merch-pass/product-selection/arendelle-castle-collection-from-frozen")
time.sleep(12)
accountcreate = driver.find_element_by_class_name ('btn-group btn-group-create-account ng-scope')
accountcreate.click()

Every time I run it, chrome opens to the webpage but it does not click on the button and I get this response:
  File "skit.py", line 8, in <module>
    link = driver.find_element_by_class_name ('btn-group btn-group-create-account ng-scope')
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 564, in find_element_by_class_name
    return self.find_element(by=By.CLASS_NAME, value=name)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 976, in find_element
    return self.execute(Command.FIND_ELEMENT, {
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":".btn-group btn-group-create-account ng-scope"}
  (Session info: chrome=83.0.4103.97)

I have tried to use different methods to identify the element such as XPath, css, and more but I still cannot manage to locate it and click it. I believe it has something to do with Iframes but I am not completely sure. Does anyone have any idea on how to solve this?
Thanks!

A: The link with text as Create an Account is within an <iframe> so you have to:

*

*Induce WebDriverWait for the desired frame to be available and switch to it.

*Induce WebDriverWait for the desired element_to_be_clickable().

*You can use the following Locator Strategies:

*LINK_TEXT:
driver.get("https://www.shopdisney.com/merch-pass/product-selection/arendelle-castle-collection-from-frozen")
WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.ID,"disneyid-iframe")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.LINK_TEXT, "Create an Account"))).click()

*Using CSS_SELECTOR:
driver.get("https://www.shopdisney.com/merch-pass/product-selection/arendelle-castle-collection-from-frozen")
WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"iframe[name='disneyid-iframe']")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "a.btn.btn-secondary.ng-isolate-scope"))).click()

*Using XPATH:
driver.get("https://www.shopdisney.com/merch-pass/product-selection/arendelle-castle-collection-from-frozen")
WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(EC.frame_to_be_available_and_switch_to_it((By.XPATH,"//iframe[@name='disneyid-iframe']")))
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//a[text()='Create an Account']"))).click()

*Note : You have to add the following imports :
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

*Browser Snapshot:


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Bon Iver's "Perth" was inspired by Heath Ledger.[141] Justin Vernon, the lead singer and songwriter of the American indie folk band, revealed back in 2011 that he had begun working on the song in 2008 and was scheduled to meet with a music video director who was good friends with Ledger, Matt Amato. "The first thing I worked on, the riff and the beginning melodies, was the first song on the record, 'Perth,'" Vernon told Exclaim!.[142] Amato was directing the band's "The Wolves (Act I & II)" music video the day that Ledger died. "It was no longer about just making a Bon Iver music video anymore," Vernon says. "This was now our chance to be there with Matt as he grieved. It was a three-day wake." Amato told Vernon stories about Ledger that eventually became the inspiration for "Perth," the opening track to the band's second studio album Bon Iver, Bon Iver (2011).[141]
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Now that Christmas has officially come to an end, it's time to wave a fond farewell to 2017 and begin the New Year with some worthwhile resolutions.
As we're all too familiar with how easy it is to overindulge during the Christmas period, make sure you start the year off right with these simple steps to ensure you're feeling amazing this 2018.
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