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La fondation Eclipse est une organisation à but non lucratif supervisant le développement de l'IDE open source Eclipse et des projets gravitant autour, et qui aide à cultiver une communauté open source et un écosystème de produits et de services complémentaires autour d'Eclipse.

La fondation Eclipse est financée par les cotisations annuelles de ses membres. Elle est considérée comme une organisation Open Source de troisième génération.

Histoire
Le projet Eclipse a été initié par IBM pour remplacer, en utilisant Java, son IDE Visual Age alors basé sur Smalltalk. Dès l'origine du projet, IBM a voulu offrir une solution multiplate-forme, pouvant être exécutée sur les différents systèmes d'exploitation de ses clients. De même le projet s'est voulu extensible par le biais de plugins. En , Eclipse, en tant que logiciel libre, voit le jour, porté par un regroupement de sociétés.

Le nom Eclipse serait un jeu de mots : le créateur de Java est Sun , concurrent qu'IBM semble vouloir « éclipser ».

En 2003-2004 le consortium Eclipse, un consortium composé d'une cinquantaine d'acteurs du monde logiciel fonde la fondation Eclipse, une fondation à but non lucratif qui a pour but de diriger et superviser le développement d'Eclipse.

Membres stratégiques
Chacun des membres stratégiques possède un représentant au conseil d'administration de la fondation Eclipse ce qui leur permet d'avoir une influence directe sur la direction stratégique de la fondation. Les membres stratégiques possèdent aussi un siège dans les différents conseils de la fondation, fournissant ainsi leur avis sur les thèmes et les priorités de l'écosystème Eclipse.

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 Bredex
 CA
 CEA
 Google
 IBM
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 Obeo
 Oracle
 SAP

Autres membres
Il y a approximativement 190 membres au sein de la fondation Eclipse représentant la plupart des régions du monde ainsi que de nombreux secteurs industriels et technologiques.

Microsoft a rallié la fondation en 2016, en lui apportant divers outils placés sous licence libre, en particulier pour son environnement de Cloud computing, Microsoft Azure.

Projets de la Fondation Eclipse

On ne peut dresser une liste exhaustive des projets ou d'extensions d'Eclipse car l'écosystème autour d'Eclipse est très actif.
Eclipse définit un programme de développements organisés autour de l'EDP (Eclipse Development Process), qui régit les règles et procédures de développements des projets.

Les 'Top-Level Projects'
Eclipse est ainsi organisé en 2011 en 11 'Top-Level projects' ('projets de haut niveau'), chacun de ces projets pouvant contenir plusieurs projets :

Une liste des Top-Level projects et autres projets gravitant autour de l'IDE Eclipse peut être trouvée sur cette page.

Packages en téléchargement
Une douzaine de packages, regroupant chacun un ensemble de sous-projets Eclipse pour un usage particulier, sont par ailleurs proposés en téléchargement sous forme d'installeurs 'prêt à l'emploi'.

C'est ainsi le cas de:
 Eclipse IDE for Java Developers, regroupant un IDE Java, un client CVS, un client Git, XML Editor, Mylyn, Code Recommenders, Maven et WindowBuilder
 Eclipse IDE for JavaEE Developers, regroupant un IDE Java, les outils de développements Web, JavaEE, Javascript, les outils de gestion de données (Data Tools Platform), Maven
 Eclipse IDE for C/C++Developers, regroupant un IDE C et C++, un client CVS, un client Git, Mylyn, et un outil de déploiement et de gestion de systèmes distants
 Eclipse for RCP and RAP Developers, plateforme dédiée à la construction et déploiement de client riche, incluant outre l'Eclipse Platform, Equinox, BIRT ou le PDE (Plug-in Development Environment)
 Eclipse Standard, le socle de base pour créer des plugins Eclipse regroupant l'Eclipse Platform, le JDT (Java Development Tools) et le PDE
 Eclipse Modeling Tools, regroupant des outils pour fabriquer ses propres modeleurs (le langage avec EMF, les éditeurs graphiques avec GMF, les formulaires avec EEF) et ses générateurs de code (Acceleo), et divers autres outils comme Mylyn.
 Eclipse Orion, un IDE en ligne pour Java, Javascript, HTML et CSS.
 etc.

Références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Le projet Eclipse
 Apache, autre fondation de logiciel open-source
 Eclipse Virgo

Liens externes

 Eclipse.org
 Wiki Eclipse

Fondation Eclipse
Association ou organisme ayant son siège à Ottawa


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Old and new stars paint very different pictures of the Triangulum Galaxy
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image: A composite image of the Triangulum galaxy, made by overlaying individual images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the PHATTER survey. view more
Credit: A. Smercina/M.J. Durbin/J. Dalcanton/B.F. Williams/University of Washington/NASA/ESA
Astronomers have been gazing at the Triangulum galaxy for centuries. But they've never seen it quite like this.
On Jan. 11 at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, a team led by scientists at the University of Washington and the Center for Computational Astrophysics will unveil results using the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury Triangulum Extended Region — or PHATTER — survey. The endeavor is giving astrophysicists their first in-depth look at the distinct populations of stars that make up the Triangulum galaxy.
Researchers discovered that this satellite galaxy, a close companion of the much larger Andromeda galaxy, has two drastically different structures depending on the age of the stars.
"The youngest stars and the oldest stars in the Triangulum galaxy — which we can separate out using multiple wavelength filters on the Hubble Space Telescope — are organized very differently," said Adam Smercina, a postdoctoral researcher at the UW. "This is surprising. For a lot of galaxies, like the Milky Way and Andromeda, the stars are distributed roughly consistently, regardless of their age. That is not the case with Triangulum."
At about 61,000 light years across, Triangulum is the third-largest galaxy in our local group, after Andromeda and our own Milky Way. In lower-resolution images it has a "flocculent" structure – with many small spiral arms radiating out from a well-defined center.
For the PHATTER survey, the Hubble Space Telescope obtained hundreds of high-resolution images of different sections of the Triangulum galaxy in 108 orbits over the course of more than a year. The team tiled these smaller-section images together to create a comprehensive, high-resolution dataset for Triangulum that for the first time showed the galaxy's individual stars over a large region in its center.
Thanks to Hubble's array of filters, researchers could also separate those stars by age. The distribution of younger, massive stars — those less than 1 billion years in age — were roughly in line with the "flocculent" pattern, for which the Triangulum is so renowned. But its older, redder stars are distributed in a very different pattern: two spiral arms radiating out from a rectangular bar at the galaxy's center.
"This was a largely unknown and hidden feature of the Triangulum galaxy that was very difficult to see without this kind of detailed survey," said Smercina.
Old stars make up the majority of Triangulum's mass, but are dimmer than their younger counterparts, according to Smercina. That could explain why the "flocculent" pattern prevails in low-resolution images of the galaxy.
The survey team also does not know why young and old stars have such divergent distributions in Triangulum. Satellite galaxies in general are an eclectic bunch, and many questions remain about their formation and evolution. Satellite galaxies come in many different shapes and can be molded by interactions with their parent galaxies. The Milky Way's largest satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, for example, is similar in size and mass to Triangulum, but has an irregular and globular shape due to its proximity to our own galaxy.
The PHATTER survey's on-going analysis should shed light on how these types of galaxies form and interact with their larger neighbors. The team plans to follow up on these initial findings by tracing the history of star formation in Triangulum, comparing different sections of the galaxy.
"A major goal of the PHATTER survey was to generate the kind of detailed, high-resolution data on this prominent satellite galaxy that will allow us to examine its structure in depth, trace its history of star formation and compare what we see to theories of galaxy formation and evolution," said Smercina. "We're already finding surprises."
Other team members include Julianne Dalcanton, director of the Center for Computational Astrophysics in New York, a UW professor of astronomy and principal investigator of the PHATTER project; UW research associate professor of astronomy Benjamin Williams; UW doctoral student Meredith Durbin; and Margaret Lazzarini, a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech.
For more information, contact Smercina at asmerci@uw.edu.
Corresponding events at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle:
Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023 (10:30 a.m. U.S. Pacific Time): Conference presentation
Abstract title: "The Structure of M33 in Resolved Stellar Populations from the PHATTER Survey"
Authors: Smercina A, Dalcanton J, Williams B, Durbin M, Lazzarini M, Bell E, PHATTER Team
Program number: 319.04
Session: "Multiwavelength Observations of Nearby Galaxies" (10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.)
Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023 (2:15 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time): AAS press conference
Topic: "Discoveries in the Milky Way's Backyard and in the Universe at Large"
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No one knows better about an experience than a person who has gone through the same experience.
Ask people why they do what they do … especially people involved in protecting, saving, and helping people overcome traumas of some form.
The twelve step program relies on people to sponsors newcomers. Joyce Meyer, the televangelist who experienced parental sexual abuse since a child shares her experience to help others. Many people step up to help after their healing. Joel Osteen inspires people to move past other people's judgments of you so you can do what you know what you must do. Psychology shares the same idea.
As do I, by my actions as well as my words.
Considering all the challenges and trauma I experienced as someone with a personality type that is a very small minority in the U.S., 3% to 5%, in retrospect, from what I have learned, it is understandable why I experienced what I did.
Much of the trauma resulted from a lack of understanding and also from low "Respect Levels" that enabled disrespectful and even harmful acts to be carried out against me.
Sad to say, as much as I am a highly sensitive being who is greatly disturbed when anyone or anything is hurt, harmed, or killed, my take charge personality rebelled and acted out against others, sometimes not even against those who harmed me.
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For me, logic, practicality, and logic took me so far in my healing. What finally brought the acceptance and peace I sought my whole life came from within. And within is where I found a connectedness I have never known.
For me, raised a Catholic, the hypocrisy I saw pushed me away from God. I looked to many alternate sources, but for me the solution was studying the Bible for myself and developing a personal relationship with God.
I don't know what you may have gone through, but I do know what it means to be on the outside looking in, to be taken advantage of in all kinds of ways because of wanting to be accepted, valued, and loved.
However, that mentality, a low "Respect Level" for myself turned me into a people-pleasing puppet until at different times I burst out with pain and anger at not being able to be me … and still be accepted, valued, and loved.
The chaos I left in my wake then haunted me because I did not want to hurt people.
I just wanted them not to hurt me.
But this world, with disrespect as the dominant global cultural belief, is all about hurting others for our own or someone else's benefit.
The reality I finally saw was that when we do not value … respect others and the world that supports our existence, we contribute to our own dysfunction created by disrespect. We add fuel to that fire of destruction.
Connecting The Dots With The Respect Principle provides us the freedom to not have to like everyone, to not have to judge, or approve of anyone. Instead, the concept is an empowering live and live mentality. The only time that changes is when someone or some group's prejudice is harming others and then we have to step in to protect those who, for whatever reason, cannot protect themselves yet.
This past Sunday, Joel Osteen's sermon inspired me to write this blog piece so you understand the Connecting The Dots With The Respect Principle concept, company, books, products, and global initiative were born out of lifetime of pain, finally abated with understanding and healing that I need to share … to help others who have felt alone, misunderstood, rejected, abandoned, and even harmed sexually and physically.
You are valuable … worthy of respect … simply for being a life.
And beyond being valuable … respected … you are loved unconditionally by God no matter what you have done. That's the big difference between humans and God … he not only forgives, he is willing forget! Cool, eh?
So, keeping that in mind, may you open your heart, mind, and spirit to the peace available to you.
No worries. All will be well because by reading this you have already taken the first step.
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In the book An Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, the author lists the things around her home that are broken. For some reason, it was an entry I really liked. It made her seem more real and endearing. And since I would LOVE to seem more real and endearing, I am going to do the same.
1. My sewing machine. I pretty much killed it while sewing the things for the boys' room. I feel like it only needs a minor repair, but getting it to the place that repairs sewing machines, seems like a major undertaking.
2. One of my camera lenses. One night, while Isaac was in a particularly wild mood, he pulled my camera off of the kitchen counter and the lens broke. Luckily, the camera body was fine. Luckily, it was my least expensive lens. And luckily, after thinking long and hard, in the end I did decide that I love Isaac more than my camera. But it was really, really close.
4. The doorbell. The doorbell is broken. And that is a pain in the rear. We've had all kinds of doorbell troubles in this apartment. I never think about the doorbell at all, until it doesn't work. And then I can't believe how much I need the doorbell to work!
5. Many of the zippers of many of my bags. This weekend I traveled across the country with pricey electronics in bags that were falling apart. Classy.
1. The walls of the kitchen need painting, now more than ever since we tried touching up an area with the wrong color.
2. The boys and I both have more pants with holes in the knee than pants without holes.
3. Our internet keeps going down. We are not sure why. I don't like that.
So…what do you think? Endearing? or sort of pathetic?
This is beer bread. Super yummy. Great, soft texture. And it used up some of the beer Dave bought the night I got home and the night he told me "tonight I just want to drink DVDs and watch a beer".
1. There is a sewing machine repair shop in StJ. You could have taken mine home as a loaner.
2. You could also have "borrowed" any number of large bags w/ intact zippers while you were here.
3. Doorbell-can't help with-but I do know that hardware stores have them that are easily installed.
6. Was Isaac at the Bronx Zoo last weekend-a baby cobra is missing.
Oh, I forgot, I would rather watch a beer than drink it!!
Miss Vicki's #6 made me chuckle aloud!
For years we made a pizza dough that called for a bottle of beer, and now almost every time I eat a slice of pizza (which is often here in Brooklyn, yes?!), I expect the beer taste and feel just slightly disappointed!
Dave, you are a trooper!
I think your list/life sounds exactly right. No-one has the "perfect" set-up and if they say they do, then they're telling great big porkies.
I loved that book! But I don't remember that part at all. Isn't it funny– what sticks with us?
Phwew! I'm so glad you are still blogging! I was deep in the middle of our move to a new house when you evicted us from your old blog and I didn't see the message to come over here. For the last couple weeks I've been thinking, "Now where is that Robyn and why isn't she posting?" every time I look at my Google reader. I'm glad to have solved *that* mystery.
Most of our little boy pants have holes in the knees too.
Our outside lights are broken & have been for going on 9 years now, which gives me no hope for the repair of anything more recently broken, like the trim boards in our bathroom & the closet door in the boys' room.


Chapter FourHow diverse and inclusive is the sector?
Employees overwhelmingly agree that a diverse and inclusive workplace can lead to better business outcomes (85%).
Figure 4.1: How diverse is the NSW public sector in 2016?
As well as the Premier's Priorities for diverse leadership (see Chapter 2), many agencies are also working towards other diversity and inclusion goals. This chapter will address the drivers of these goals and the challenges to achieving them.
Discussions with human resource and operational leads across the sector reported four key drivers for building a diverse workforce.
Agencies reported strong leadership support for diversity initiatives, underpinned by executive sponsorship of key goals, and effective accountability mechanisms.
Diversity Council Australia (DCA) benchmark research found that 61% of Australian firms measured and reported their progress to their executive. In the NSW public sector, the same percentage of agencies did likewise. However, while only 20% of the firms in the DCA survey had included progress measures in managerial performance plans, agencies in the NSW public sector reported more than double the rate of accountability in senior leadership performance plans, at 43% 1.
The leaders driving diversity strongly support it. Senior executives are consistently more positive than other employees in their organisations in endorsing questions relating to diversity and inclusion in the People Matter survey.
60% of agencies reported that their top driver of diversity and inclusion is improving service delivery, while 49% say diverse perspectives improve decision-making.
Agencies say a workforce that reflects 'who we are and what we do' helps increase the take-up of services by key groups such as women and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in regional communities.
Agencies also view diversity through a workforce capability lens, with half reporting their strategies are also driven by a desire to recruit and retain top talent. However, while 57% of agencies say they monitor recruitment results for diversity outcomes, only 37% monitor their ability to attract diverse applicants – the other side of the 'war for talent' coin.
Although the GSE Act allows agencies to look beyond equal employment opportunity (EEO) plans to focus on outcomes, 52% say their diversity initiatives can also be driven by a longstanding commitment to diversity group-focused EEO. In discussions, agencies believed they needed to move to a more inclusion-focused approach that recognised the value of diversity of thought.
Employee support for diversity is high, and most feel their managers and organisations take the right steps to encourage an inclusive environment. 75% of employees agree their organisation respects individual differences, 73% feel their manager listens to what they say and 65% say their managers would act against biased decision-making.
Three-quarters of employees believe that cultural background, sexual orientation and gender are not barriers to workplace opportunities (77%, 76% and 74% respectively). Age and disability not being barriers to success were lower, at 71% and 67% respectively.
There are disparities in the scores relating to these barriers when analysed by selected demographics. For example, responses from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that cultural background was not a barrier to success were 8% points lower than the sector average, despite other responses from this group being broadly in line with scores in other areas.
While 80% of those in the 20–24 age bracket felt that age was not a barrier to success, this rate steadily declined to 64% for those aged 55–64, yet increased to 72% for those 65 and over. While 67% of employees reported that disability was not a barrier to success, just 54% of employees with a disability agreed.
This section focuses on initiatives for building representation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and employees with disability across the sector, given the issues highlighted in the previous section.
The Council of Australian Governments set a target for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workforce representation of 2.6% by 2015. NSW exceeded this target, but found that employment was centred at the lower end of salary levels. It developed a new aspirational goal of 1.8% representation in each salary level, which would result in a cumulative representation level of 3.3% of the workforce. The NSW public sector is currently at 3.1%. 79% of agencies reported they had set goals for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representation, while 68% had offered training to improve Aboriginal cultural competency.
Discrete strategies with focused support and leadership sponsors are demonstrating progress. When representation is looked at by salary range, progress since 2015 can be seen at either end of the salary range, where representation has either gone up or stayed the same. However, representation levels in the middle salary ranges are a concern, and emphasise the importance of strategies for retention to ensure the pipeline flows through. This could have an impact on the government sector's ability to meet the Premier's Priority goal of 114 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders by 2025 (see Chapter 2).
Source: NSW Workforce Profile 2016.
Understanding why Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees may feel cultural background is a barrier to success – and the nature of the barrier – is important to understanding the impact on retention.
Data for median tenure and separation rates indicate some retention challenges. Median tenure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees is currently two years shorter than the sector average. While the population is generally younger than the general workforce, it is worth a closer analysis of the drivers for this lower median tenure.
Following on from this, separation rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees are higher than for the A sector as a whole.
Agencies are working to build employment pipelines, with several reporting collaborations, such as between Education, Industry and Health to achieve goals of both retention in school and providing employment pathways. The work of the Aboriginal Career and Development Program builds on this to support leadership ambitions, as discussed in Chapter 2.
Employees with disability report lower scores in most key measures in the employee survey, by an average of six percentage points across the board compared to the broader workforce. They also report higher rates of bullying than the sector average, with 34% indicating they have been bullied compared with 20% of the broader workforce.
Analysis of data for tenure, separation and commencement rates can provide insight into overall representation rates for employees with disability in the NSW public sector. For example, average tenure for employees with disability, while higher than the sector average and improving slightly in 2016, has generally been falling in recent years, moving in the opposite direction to the sector's average tenure rates.
Employees with disability have separation from employment rates of 10.7% in 2016, up from 9.9% in 2015. This is slightly higher than the sector average of 10.0%, perhaps reflecting that employees with a disability are generally older with almost double the proportion retiring than the sector average, and double the rate of medical retirement. However, while the commencement rate for employees with disability is the highest in the past six years at 4.9%, it is still much lower than the sector-wide rate of 7.9%, contributing to a decline in participation overall.
Each agency's self-assessed maturity of their disability inclusion policy and practices was measured against their headcount of employees with disability. This analysis showed that the more mature an agency's disability inclusion practices, the higher their representation of employees with a disability. This was particularly the case for proactively making the workplace fully accessible and having policies and procedures to enable adjustments.
The data so far indicates that more work is needed to understand what makes a workplace inclusive for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders or employees with disability, and the barriers to their success. More can be done to attract workers from both these groups, and to engage and retain them. This, in time, will flow through to more meaningful and targeted services to these groups in the community.
For regional health services such as the Central Coast Local Health District (CCLHD), attracting a workforce that better reflects its indigenous community members is critical to effective service delivery. Regional services also confront workforce shortages in skilled areas, and health agencies have noted that information technology skills are a core capability gap.
In response, a partnership was developed to deepen regional relationships between CCLHD, Hunter TAFE (TAFE) and the Department of Education's local schools to provide a pipeline of skilled Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in areas of shortage, and ensure that educational and career development needs are aligned with a strategic regional view of future workforce requirements.
In 2014, CCLHD and TAFE worked in partnership, contacting all of the local high schools to launch a long-term strategy of attracting, training and employing Aboriginal school trainees. The strategy creates new roles that deliver improved healthcare to the community, enabling a single clinician to perform a wide generalist remit of healthcare services to clients (for example, Allied Health Assistants or Aboriginal Health Practitioners). In turn, this improves health outcomes and the length of hospital admissions (avoiding hospital altogether in some cases). The education partnership allows the TAFE and NSW Health training organisations to complement each other's curricula, and work collaboratively to specialise in selected content, removing duplication and wastage. The linkages to schools allow early talent identification and career guidance to align training pathways to jobs of the future, which are in turn aligned to service needs.
The program has since more than doubled its intake numbers. All students who have participated so far have completed their HSC, attained a Certificate III Health Services Assistant qualification and work in permanent ongoing employment with CCLHD. Of the 24 currently employed, two have articulated into adult traineeships.
With the $348 million Gosford Hospital redevelopment underway, a need was also identified to directly develop the skills base within the region for the existing adult workforce. This has seen delivery of partial qualifications for people in information technology, operating theatre assistant studies and interpreters, and qualifications for frontline managers and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care (Practice).
Delivery of all programs was aligned to the local health district's workforce planning cycle, adapted to project lines, and planned in conjunction with the major contractor. For example, some programmes have annual planning cycles (school-based traineeships) while others need to align to service requirements (the interpreter course was identified, scoped and able to be delivered within a short window of a few weeks). Work was done with the contractor to identify opportunities to build workforce capacity during construction phases and ensure a future regional workforce is delivered that is sustainable, and creates ongoing economic and employment opportunity for the regional community.
The partnership will continue to operate on a long- term basis and planning is underway to align service provision between the agencies in both the immediate and long term.
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In my experiance Gaelic speakers get discriminated against here in Caithness.
They're not - but a lot of people do object to public money being spent to promote it.
Does it really matter if the language dies out?
What's important is that people can communicate with one another & at present the English language fulfils that role quite nicely.
Is it discrimination? If you address me in a language I don't understand, how can I serve you?
It's made more complicated by the fact that all Gaelic speakers also speak English, which I do understand.
Actually, no-one's ever spoken to me in Gaelic, so I've never even had the chance to discriminate against them.
Sometimes a so-called 'dead' language can be a useful tool in understanding where our modern day language comes from. I learned the Irish Gaelic at school, and am now learning the Scottish Gaelic. They are very similar, and sometimes almost identical. I'm not learning it to 'keep it alive' or communicate with others, I'm learning it just because I want to, and in doing so I'm keeping my brain alive!


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The main reason for our family vacation to Park City, Utah was to give Amelie & Eleni the experience of "fun in the snow" that Veronica and I had growing up back East before moving to California. There was a side aspect to the trip though. It was the final week of my 3-week Christmas /vacation/Eleni's 4th birthday chemo break – upon return from Utah, I knew I would be facing tough decisions re: switching to a harsher chemo cocktail vs. entering an unproven drug clinical trial. Although I have zero symptoms of cancer and feel 100% healthy, my lung tumors are slowly growing under standard chemo – i.e. they are not responding to treatment.
Although I was focused on fun during the trip, that impending decision was in the back of my mind as I looked up the ski mountain to the summit (10,000 ft). I had skied once or twice each winter as a kid but always on relatively small hills back East – this was my first ever trip to a "mountain" resort in the Rockies (we figured the site of a 2002 Winter Olympics ski events was as good a place to start as any ha). While relearning my (limited) childhood skiing skills (I hadn't skied for 23 years!) on the bunny slopes, I could not get that summit out of my mind (of course having a 10,000 ft mountain in front of you does not help in that regard).
Veronica decided to take a skiing break to watch our 3-year old Eleni in her ski class for a while – I double-checked the trail map and noticed a route down from the summit at my skill level that I could possibly do without ending up hospitalized in traction. One thing I have learned from Cancer over the past few years – never give in to fear and never be afraid to take chances if there is a clear goal in sight. "Living" = a very clear goal. Likewise, looking up at a 10,000 ft summit = a very clear goal.
I told Veronica my plans & skied over to the almost empty ski lift going up to the summit. I got on an empty 6-person lift by myself (I was glad to be in solace for the ride) and the lift operator said "Good Luck Sir" as the chair took a hold of me (I must have had a nervous look on my face!). The 15 minute ride up the hill was incredibly beautiful – the sun was out in full glory and it was breathtaking to "climb the mountain" dangling in the open air – with the occasional mostly empty steep ski runs criss-crossing below me. I exited the lift at the summit & the view was spectacular (photo below).
In all directions were various snow-capped mountain ranges, most of which had summits lower than me. I took some cell phone pictures as mementos, sent a quick text to Veronica and my sister that I was at the top & about to take the plunge. I looked at the trail map one last time to mentally plan how to avoid accidentally getting on any black diamonds on my way down – I crossed my chest, took a deep breath, thought to myself "no fear" and pushed off the snow to begin the biggest ski run of my life.
It was one of the most exhilarating moments of my life, descending almost 3,000 ft down a mountain on my own. Even with taking the "easiest" route down (although there were a few very close calls, I made all the turns necessary to keep on my planned route – whew!) – I was at the absolute limit of my very limited 23 year old rusty skiing abilities (actually to be honest slightly over my abilities). But I had that goal in my mind & I was not going to give up. It took every inch of mental & physical concentration I had in me in order to make the necessary turns, avoid the side cliffs, importantly not wipe out (there were 3 close calls where I seriously doubted I would stay up!) and even with trying my hardest to control my speed, due to the slope and length of the run, it was the fastest I have ever moved without the safety of a metal shell of a car around me.
Even at high speeds and concentration, the parallels with my cancer treatments did not mentally escape me as I barreled down the slope, barely in control of my own destiny, regardless of how hard I worked to gain that control.
I then looked down at my watch and saw it was 3:02 PM – I was supposed to pick up our 7-year old daughter Amelie at 3:00 from her ski school!! As what happens continuously with Cancer, everyday "normal" realities of life and being a parent came crashing into my Cancer moment.
Legs still like spaghetti, I quickly ran over to the school area. After a quick hug, I asked Amelie which ski run the school had gotten up to that afternoon, expecting a bunny slope. With a very proud look on her very tired face, she told me she had just finished the exact same run from the mountain's summit I had done, which had been the key goal required for her to move to the next school level. We had both accomplished the same major individual goal simultaneously without knowing we were both traversing the same mountain at the same time (she must have been about 5 minutes ahead of me). I had been proud of myself – now I saw that the same goal I accomplished at 42, had been obtained 35 years sooner by my 7-year old – and this deepened my pride & joy by an order of magnitude! For both of us, the overarching goal had been the same – if you have a goal, figure out what it takes to achieve it and take the necessary plunge with no fear.
A few days later I met with my oncologist to restart treatment. After a lot of soul searching (and scientific reading!) we jointly came up with a clear plan of action which (pending my next scan results) will likely involve me entering a "custom-made" clinical trial in Feb., perhaps literally being the first patient in the world to take that particular drug combination – who could ask for more than that level of personalized treatment? I feel very blessed to be being treated by a brilliant "scientist" oncologist who I can discuss ideas and plan with – there is no better treatment situation that I, as a scientist, could wish for!
My goal is life; I'm trying to figure out what it takes to achieve this; and this week we planned the (latest) necessary treatment plunge — with no fear.
Live life always. No fear.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful story and good luck with the custom trial. We seem to be at a similar treatment crossroad, looking for the next effective path. I get the feeling whatever path you end up on, "to the fullest" will describe your journey.
Tom, this is an amazing and poetically-insightful story. I love it! The photos are incredible as well, they are truly picturesque. I have found though-out my life, that in life-challenging times I pray to St. Jude, I seem to find a lot of comfort in him, and hopefully this helps for you. Either way, and as always, thoughts and prayers my friend! Good luck with the new trail.
wonderful and inspiring story! good luck with the new cocktail, hope it comes with a tasty olive.
awesome story and well-written! I see many parallels to the cancer journey. There are many hills to conquer but it makes good times like these all the more exhilarating. Best wishes to you on your new trial and welcome to the blogosphere!
Thanks Tami – I'll add your blog to my blog roll! (should have already) – your books are very inspirational to patients and caregivers!
Fantastic Tom! You are a true inspiration.
Thank you, Tom, for being you.
Tom, thank you for sharing the stories and your journey to flight cancer. You are a huge inspiration and hero for many of us here at GNF. I love this story, it is beautifully written. Hope the new combo will be a great success.
Thanks for sharing and setting up this site Tom! Great moment, especially to be shared with your daughter. Best of luck with the new treatment plan.
My brother Roger forwarded the link to me. Glad to hear you are doing relatively well and the next steps prove beneficial. As a prostate cancer survivor who's showing signs of relapse yet again I know some of what you are going through. You are giving me some inspiration as I begin the next phase of my own journey.
What an awesome and inspiring story– congrats to you and Amelie!!
Loved reading your story…..thank-you for making this blog! Very thankful we are friends! Will be keeping you in my thoughts and prayers, Tom!
Thanks Marla – I'm glad that Tim introduced us to each other!
If you don't know it already, you should listen to it. I think you'd really like it. Thanks for starting a blog. I look forward to following your story. You continue to remain in my prayers.
Thanks for the message Karen – I'll check the Matt Redman song out!
Drug Inventor turned to be a talented Novelist. You may think changing career, ha. I pray for you my dear friend/brother.
I LOVED reading this! So glad to get to know you and follow your journey. You are an inspiration to me and so many others.
Thank you Leta – likewise I have loved getting to know you recently both on a personal level as well as witnessing your CRC immunotherapy success!


From Middle English rather, rether, from Old English hraþor ("sooner, earlier, more quickly"), comparative of hraþe ("hastily, quickly, promptly, readily, immediately, soon, at once, directly"), equivalent to rathe + -er. More at rathe. Cognate with Dutch radder ("faster"), comparative of Dutch rad ("fast; quick"), German Low German radd, ratt ("rashly; quickly; hastily"), German gerade ("even; straight; direct").
I'd rather stay in all day than go out with them. I'd like this one rather than the other one. I'd rather be with you.
It wasn't supposed to be popular; rather, it was supposed to get the job done. She didn't go along, but rather went home instead.
What the pupil already knew was indeed rather taken for granted than expressed, but it performed the useful function of transcending all textbooks and supplanting all studies.
His 'Iliad' is spirited and polished, and, though often rather a paraphrase than a translation, is always more truly poetic than most of the best translations.
I didn't want to leave. Or rather I did, just not alone.
This melon is rather tasteless. This melon is rather tasteless, especially compared to the one we had last time.
(somewhat): This is a non-descriptive qualifier, similar to quite and fairly and somewhat. It is used where a plain adjective needs to be modified, but cannot be qualified. When spoken, the meaning can vary with the tone of voice and stress. "He was rather big" can mean anything from "not small" to "huge" (meiosis with the stress on rather).
(preference): When expressing preference, the expression is usually would rather or had rather, usually contracted to 'd rather, but will rather and should rather also exist. In fact, use without any modal verb also exists in nonstandard and dialectal usage, in which rather is used as a verb (he rathers/rathered), see below.
(nonstandard or dialectal) To prefer; to prefer to.
Until just before the pie was popped into the heat. A few of them suddenly realized who put that gorgeous hunk of crackers together, and gaped. We grinned back, but very cool. The ones who knew said nothing, rathering to die than let on they had been hustled by two negative dudes.
So you must excuse my saying anything I did: all it was, that up to the very last I had understood us all to be friendly — apart, that is, from his rathering me not there. How was I to know he would flash out so wicked?
"That was a killer," said Chris. "I'd rathered die in St. Bernard than spent one minute over there. I would have rathered the storm, shaking with the wind and rain hitting in the boat for an eternity than spending any time there.
(England, dated) An enthusiastic affirmation.
"Do you mean to say, young man," she said frostily, "that you expect me to drink this stuff?"
"Rather! Bucks you up, you know."
"Some of us stupid old die-hards believe that there is yet room for pride in one's work, Pook," Mr Pants said with dangerous emphasis.
"Oh, rather, sir. I'd much sooner walk to London Town than ride in one of those motorcars we've heard tell of, sir."


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Will I get there? Effects of parental support on children's possible selves
Shimin Zhu, Samson Tse, Sing Hang Cheung, Daphna Oyserman
Background: Imagining one's future self is a hallmark of adolescence. But imagining is not enough; adolescents must feel that this future is plausibly likely and take action, which may require pragmatic support from parents. Prior research has examined the effect of parental aspirations and expectations on children's possible self, not the effect of their support. Aims: Therefore, this study assessed the role of parental support on youths' possible selves, strategies, and subjective likelihood of attaining possible selves. Sample: A representative sample of Hong Kong Chinese secondary students aged 12-20 (N = 3,078). Methods: Students responded to an in-class questionnaire. Responses were analysed using generalized linear mixed models and linear mixed models. Results: Content of hoped-for possible selves was mostly about school and career. Content of feared possible selves was more diverse. Girls had more school- and career-focused possible selves and were more likely to have strategies to attain their positive and avoid their negative possible selves. Students reporting more pragmatic support ('If I need to know something about the world, I can ask my parent about it') from parents had more school- and career-focused possible selves and were more likely to believe they could attain their hoped-for and avoid their feared possible selves and to report having at least one strategy to do so. Conclusions: Parental pragmatic support provides students a secure base to engage in their future generally and in their school- and career-focused future in particular.
British Journal of Educational Psychology
https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12044
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Pragmatic support
Socio-emotional support
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Zhu, S., Tse, S., Cheung, S. H., & Oyserman, D. (2014). Will I get there? Effects of parental support on children's possible selves. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 84(3), 435-453. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12044
Zhu, Shimin ; Tse, Samson ; Cheung, Sing Hang ; Oyserman, Daphna. / Will I get there? Effects of parental support on children's possible selves. In: British Journal of Educational Psychology. 2014 ; Vol. 84, No. 3. pp. 435-453.
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Celebrating National Women's History Month: Mother and Daughter Team Up for Development
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Contributors: Annette Aulton
March is National Women's History Month, a time to reflect on the countless women who are making a difference in the world.
Paula and Caroline Bertolin during a trip to Panama. Photo credit: Bertolin family photo
The phrase "like mother, like daughter" can refer to common physical traits or hobbies, but in the case of Paula and Caroline Bertolin, it is their shared passion for development work that best applies.
March is National Women's History Month, a time to reflect on the countless women who are making a difference in the world. For Paula, it is through her work at USAID. She believes in the Agency's mission of humanitarian assistance. "USAID does what needs to be done for countries that need it," she explains. Paula is an officer in the Office of Food for Peace, working on issues of food security for Ethiopia for the U.S. Government's longest-running and largest food assistance program. These initiatives respond to short-term relief and long-term development. Before working at USAID, she served over five years in the Peace Corps in Cameroon, and has worked for Catholic Relief Services in Burkina Faso and in Kenya.
Caroline, 30 years old, followed her mother down the development career track. She recently became a member of the Foreign Service where she is a Contracts and Agreements Officer, overseeing the execution of contracts and assistance awards. She works on the business side of USAID, in partnership with recipient governments and organizations to make USAID assistance as effective and efficient as possible.
"My parents were very proud and excited," she says of their reaction when she decided to work for USAID. In the career choice, she has also emulated her father, a 30-year Foreign Service veteran. For Caroline, it's not just a career, but a lifestyle. She believes kids who spend a part of their childhood surrounded by different cultures, languages and people develop excellent skills of observation and adaption. She acknowledges that when growing up, her best answer to the "where's home" question was: "wherever my family happens to be at the moment!"
Although Paula has spent most of her career working in the Africa region, Caroline is ready for assignments in any region of the globe. She explains: "Part of the beauty of being a Contracting Officer is that you are a true generalist. You get to work with a variety of programs from any and all technical sectors at USAID and you are always wanted—and needed – everywhere!"
Reflecting on National Women's History Month, Paula believes that women in the work force still have "a long way to go, particularly if you choose to take time out for childrearing." She cites that women, especially with interrupted careers, are victims of the pay gap, which was recently cited in a White House report.
The younger Bertolin gives her mother's generation credit for breaking into USAID's male-dominated Foreign Service Corps. However, she states, "the women of my generation need to produce more representation at the top levels of USAID — we need more women in high-level leadership roles. This will affect how girls at home and abroad think about women and their role in development."
Like mother, like daughter.
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ATLANTA (CNN) — Conjoined twins born at an Atlanta hospital have died, their parents said, less than two days after they beat the odds simply by coming into the world.
Eli and Asa Hamby shared a torso, heart, arms and legs. They had separate spinal columns to support their heads.
Doctors at Atlanta's Northside Hospital delivered the boys Thursday morning, then transferred them to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, parents Michael and Robin Hamby wrote on their Facebook page, where they posted frequent updates on their boys.
Late Friday, the parents posted a tearful video in which they announced their boys had died that evening.
He said one side of their heart was beating more quickly than the other and the heart rate reached 300 beats per minute, despite medicine to try to bring it down. Staff then sedated the boys and doctors allowed Robin, still recovering from her cesarean section, to leave her hospital bed to be with them.
"We sang to the boys and prayed over them, and our families got to love on them and tell them how much we love them," Robin said in the video.
"They took them off the ventilators, and about 45 minutes (later), Eli and Asa went on to sleep, to be with the Lord," Michael said.
Births of conjoined twins are rare, happening once every 200,000 live births, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center. About 40-60% of conjoined twins arrive stillborn, and about 35% survive only one day.
The overall survival rate of conjoined twins is between 5% and 25%.
The Hambys are from near Phenix City, Alabama, and have a daughter, Selah, who is almost 2.
Robin called the boys "beautiful" and had said late Thursday they were even offering glimpses of their different personalities. Pictures on Facebook showed the parents beaming as they held their babies, swaddled tightly with hats on their heads.
"They looked so much like Michael. They were just the cutest little things. They were so, so sweet," Robin said.
The parents said their Christian faith had grown stronger ever since the boys came into their lives.


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A motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, or any other vehicle that is pulled at the end of another vehicle must be equipped with at least 1 rear-mounted red taillight. This taillight must be plainly visible from a distance of 500 feet away. This vehicle must also be equipped with 2 or more rear-mounted white taillights. These taillights must be mounted between 20 inches and 72 inches from the ground. A separate white light must be placed on the vehicle so that it illuminates the rear plate and makes it clearly visible from a distance of 50 feet. All of these taillights must be properly wired so that when the headlights are illuminated, these lights are also illuminated.


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Damdiny Süldbajar (; * 1. Juli 1981) ist ein mongolischer Judoka.
Er kämpfte in der Gewichtsklasse Leichtgewicht.
Seine internationale Qualifikation erlangte er bei den Asienspielen 2002, wo er jedoch knapp die Bronzemedaille im Kampf gegen Egamnazar Akbarov aus Usbekistan verfehlte. Im folgenden Jahr gewann er die Bronzemedaille bei den Asienmeisterschaften. Bei den Olympischen Sommerspielen 2004 in Athen schied er im Viertelfinale aus.

Später trat er bei Mixed-Martial-Arts-Kämpfen an. Er gewann seinen ersten Kampf bei Cagezilla 52 durch ein k.O. in der ersten Runde.

Familie
Süldbajar ist der Sohn des Judoka Tsendiin Damdin, der bei den Olympischen Sommerspielen 1980 in Moskau eine Silbermedaille errang.

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Teilnehmer an den Asienspielen (Mongolei)
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Geboren 1981
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Josef Albers. Anatomia di «Omaggio al quadrato»
Museo Villa dei Cedri
23 March – 4 August 2019
By means of a mainly unpublished sequence of oil paintings, prints and sketches by Josef Albers (1888-1976), the German artist and colour theorist, the exhibition traces the genesis of an icon of the twentieth century "Homage to the Square". In this series – starting in 1949 and developed for more than a quarter of a century – Albers analyses the interactions of colour in strictly square backgrounds of different sizes and shades, superimposed one over another. Adopting an almost ritualistic approach, the artist in this way explores the modulations of light and colour in more than 2'000 works, revealing them in motives, shapes and processes that are infinite and, at the same time, invariable. The square delimits the field of unlimited creative liberty.
The result of an in-depth investigation, this series illustrates the artistic experiences of Albers, developed during his years spent teaching at the Bauhaus in Dessau (1925-1933) and at the Black Mountain College (1933-1949). Contrary to any theoretical instruction, Albers encourages his students to learn from practice alone and to find their artistic and technical solutions for themselves. It represents a new approach, not just to the teaching of art, but also to the vision of artistic practice itself.
The exhibition has been realised in collaboration with The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, Connecticut/USA.
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- Corriere del Ticino
Josef Albers, Homage to the Square, 1950, Oil on Masonite, 16 x 16 in. (40.6 x 40.6 cm), The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, 1976.1.1313, © 2019 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ProLitteris, Zurich, Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art
Josef Albers, Two color studies for Homage to the Square, n.d., Oil and pencil on cardboard with varnish, 11 1/4 x 4 7/8 in. (28.6 x 12.4 cm), The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, 1976.2.38, © 2019 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ProLitteris, Zurich
Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art
Josef Albers, Color study for a Homage to the Square, n.d., Oil and pencil on blotting paper, 13 1/8 x 12 in. (33.5 x 30.6 cm), The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, 1976.2.75, © 2019 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ProLitteris, Zurich, Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art
Josef Albers, Study for Homage to the Square: Unexpected Turn, ca. 1959, Oil and pencil on blotting paper, 11 1/2 x 11 5/8 in. (29.4 x 29.7 cm), The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, 1976.2.298, © 2019 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ProLitteris, Zurich, Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art
Josef Albers, Two color studies for Homage to the Square, n.d., Oil and pencil on blotting paper, 6 7/8 x 3 3/8 in. (17.6 x 8.6 cm), The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, 1976.2.318, © 2019 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ProLitteris, Zurich, Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art
Josef Albers, 4 Central Warm Colors Surrounded by 2 Blues, 1947, Oil on blotting paper mounted on wood panel, 10 x 13 1/2 in. (25.4 x 34.3 cm), The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, 1976.2.1170, © 2019 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ProLitteris, Zurich, Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art
Josef Albers, Color study for a Homage to the Square, n.d., Oil and pencil on blotting paper, 11 5/8 x 9 3/8 in. (29.5 x 23.7 cm), The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, 1976.2.1407, © 2019 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ProLitteris, Zurich, Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art
Josef Albers, Sanctuary, 1942, Zinc plate lithograph, Sheet: 19 x 24 in. (48.3 x 61 cm), The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, 1976.4.104, © 2019 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ProLitteris, Zurich, Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art
Josef Albers, Angular, 1935, Oil on composition board, 16 x 19 3/4 in. (40.6 x 50.2 cm), The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, 2003.1.1, © 2019 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ProLitteris, Zurich, Photo: Tim Nighswander/Imaging4Art
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The single most important reason your business should have a Facebook Messenger Chatbot is to make your Facebook ads more effective. People will respond at a higher rate and find it easier to interact with your offer… the result: more new customer leads and lower lead cost.
Facebook offers something almost no other ad platform can… ATTENTION – Facebook has people's attention… it's on their phone… they check it multiple times each day.
Done right, Facebook ads will help you grow your business – almost immediately.
1. Convenience is king – Users demand an easy and effective online experience. Chatbots facilitate convenient information seeking. Furthermore, today more and more potential customers avoid communicating via phone calls.
Phone calls are now considered an invasion of privacy. This is why people would rather text. The most successful brands win with convenience and ease of use. These things are at the center of the messenger chatbot concept and that is why they are succeeding.
2. Higher user engagement – Today nearly every businesses has a web presence. But with being on the internet, limitations of day and night, availability and unavailability have changed, as well as what users expect.
This may be the most important reason to use them. A chatbot provides users with an interactive experience. If done right, chatbots can help customers get questions answered and resolve their issues 24/7.
3. Always open. – How many businesses do you know that are open and functioning 24/7/365? With a chatbot, you remain available at least in one form to all potential customers round the clock.
4. Answer questions. Build trust. – For the vast majority of business owners, they are one of many similar businesses in a saturated market. Most small businesses start in niches that are already established — it's a lot easier to get a bank loan if you're working with a business model that already exists!
Standing out from the crowd becomes essential for every small business in a crowded marketplace.
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The vast majority of businesses have spent the last decade relying on email marketing to promote and connect with their customers.
Sadly, email marketing is failing businesses. At best only 18-25% of marketing emails are opened by the recipients. Fewer people will actually read the email and even less still will click on buttons or take action.
People view emails as risky, due to spam and malware, and most emails are deleted without even being opened.
So how can you connect or reconnect with customers, especially those who you want to bring back into your business? The answer is to use a chatbot.
You can send out regular marketing messages and promotions to all subscribers to your bot. The best part? Messenger messages have open rates above 90% – Wow, compare that to email!.
So, it's very simple — if you want to interact with your customers don't spend time and money on email marketing. Get a Messenger chatbot and see your conversions increase significantly.
6. Be Creative. Use your imagination. – Part of the marketing clout of a chatbot is that it can help increase sales.
With email marketing, the recipient needs to open their email dashboard or app, read the email and then click on a link. That is a lot of steps to interact with a business.
A chatbot is frictionless. You customers never needs to leave Messenger to interact with your business.
They can open a marketing message about your new products and services, click on a button in the message and continue in Messenger to find out more. This will only drive up sales for your business.
That's not all, though. The very way you launch offerings or run promotional sales can be changed with a bot.
Chatbots give you the freedom to be creative in how you interact with customers and run promotions. Once they're in the bot they can be taken on adventures.
For example: You could use the chatbot Scan codes to create a treasure hunt in-store or a scavenger hunt around your local area.
Basically, with a chatbot you can be more creative and fun – let your imagination run amok!
7. Not just chatting. – So a chatbot is just for telling people when you're open, what you sell, and where you are located – right?
There is so much more you can accomplish with a chatbot.
Firstly, as an example, you can allow customers to request a booking 24/7 for a chiropractor, dentist, plastic surgeon… or a salon, restaurant or other similar businesses.
Also, you can use a chatbot to send customers downloadable files, such as a menu for a restaurant, or provide links to Google Maps. Both of those simple tasks are something that you can't do on the phone or in person and both can be achieved all day long by a chatbot without any effort from you!
As it's a fairly new concept, in time there will be even more amazing ways you can interact with customers with a chatbot. We're at the inception of AI bots, imagine what we can do in 5 years time!
There are so many reasons why a chatbot would benefit your business.
Going back to the stats, 63% of consumers think a business should be on Messenger and 55% of customers prefer to talk to a business via a chatbot.
The bots are coming and you can't stop the invasion of business chatbots.
Rather than be left behind by this shift in the business landscape, it's best to get on board as soon as possible and discover the power of a bot.
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There may be a problem installing the burn engine when another program is actively using the same files.
1. Attempt to remove all burn engine files.
2. Close all burning programs (especially Roxio).
3. Close all burning services that may monitor the drives for blank discs.
4. Reboot in safe mode. Attempt to install again.
If all else fails, install on a new computer and copy both the PTI folder and the (PTPublisher) program folder from one computer to another.


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BNY Mellon Wealth Receives Civic 50 Orange County Award
BNY Mellon Wealth's Newport Beach location has been selected as a 2017 Civic 50 Orange County honoree. The award honors the 50 most community-minded companies in the region and provides a local standard for superior corporate citizenship.
Newport Beach, Calif. October 20, 2017 – BNY Mellon Wealth Management's Newport Beach location has been selected as a 2017 Civic 50 Orange County honoree. The Civic 50 Orange County, presented by the Orange County Business Journal in partnership with nonprofit OneOC, honors the 50 most community-minded companies in the region and provides a local standard for superior corporate citizenship. The award program showcases how honorees use their time, skills and other resources to improve the quality of life in the community where they do business.
Honored companies were selected based upon four dimensions of their community engagement programs: investment, integration, institutionalization and impact. BNY Mellon Wealth Management was recognized in particular for its dedication to sustainability. The office runs a "PrintWise" initiative to help employees understand the environmental impact of paper use and how to make smart choices when printing and copying documents. As a result of the initiative, BNY Mellon reduced copy paper purchases by a whopping 52 percent in U.S. offices in just four years. The Newport Beach office hosts sustainability themed speakers and events for its clients and partners. The firm offers a comprehensive recycling program for employees, and the office is located in a low carbon footprint building.
BNY Mellon Wealth Management employees are also active participants in the Orange County community, taking part in social cause organization and events including the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation fundraising walk, the Girl Scouts of Orange County, University of California Irvine Women & Wealth, Habitat for Humanity, The Jewish Federation, Make a Wish and GoodWill, among others.
"At BNY Mellon Wealth Management, we pride ourselves on our unparalleled dedication to corporate citizenship in the communities where we conduct our business," said Shannon Kennedy, president of U.S. Markets, Southwest. "We're thrilled that our service in the Orange County community has been recognized in this way."
Civic 50 Orange County recipients will be recognized at an awards luncheon on October 19, 2017 at the Hotel Irvine, featuring keynote speaker Matthew Emerzian, founder and CEO of Every Monday Matters. All 50 honorees will be recognized at the event, and five awards will be given in the following categories: small, medium and large company; emerging company; and legacy company. The Civic 50 Orange County List and Special Report will be published October 23, 2017 in the Orange County Business Journal.
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About BNY Mellon Wealth Management
BNY Mellon Wealth Management is a leading wealth manager. In 2016 it was named by Family Wealth Report as the top U.S. Private Bank and rated the Top Private Bank for Family Offices by Professional Wealth Management magazine. Barron's ranked it the 10th largest U.S. wealth manager in 2017. The firm has more than two centuries of experience in providing services to clients who today include financially successful individuals and families, their family offices and business enterprises, planned giving programs, and endowments and foundations. It has $221.3 billion in total private client assets, as of September 30, 2017, and an extensive network of offices in the U.S. and internationally. BNY Mellon Wealth Management, which provides investment management, custody, wealth and estate planning and private banking services, conducts business through various operating subsidiaries of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. For more information go to bnymellonwealth.com or follow us on Twitter @BNYMellonWealth.
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BNY Mellon is a global investments company dedicated to helping its clients manage and service their financial assets throughout the investment lifecycle. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, BNY Mellon delivers informed investment management and investment services in 35 countries and more than 100 markets. As of Sept. 30, 2017, BNY Mellon had $32.2 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration, and $1.8 trillion in assets under management. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments. BNY Mellon is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK). Additional information is available on www.bnymellon.com. Follow us on Twitter @BNYMellon or visit our newsroom at www.bnymellon.com/newsroom for the latest company news.
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The Appellant buyer had sought review of the judgment of a Kansas court of appeals.
The court reversed the judgment of the district court, finding that the conveyance of land that contained a "Mother Hubbard" description to appellee assignee was valid against the buyer (a subsequent purchaser).
The owner of gas and oil leases assigned her interest in these leases in a particular county to the assignee.
The instrument of conveyance contained a "Mother Hubbard" clause which described the land in question.
Later the owner sold her interest in one of her wells in the same county to the buyer.
The buyer filed suit to quiet title to the land.
The district court found in favor of the buyer.
The appellate court reversed the district court's ruling.
The buyer appealed and the court reversed the appellate court's holding.
The statutes had indicated that the legislature had intended that recorded instruments of conveyance, in order to impart constructive notice to a subsequent purchaser or mortgagee, should describe the land being conveyed with sufficient specificity so that the specific land conveyed could be identified.
The recording of the assignment from the owner to the assignee, that did not describe with sufficient specificity the property that was covered by the conveyance, was found not to be sufficient to impart constructive notice to a subsequent purchaser (such as the buyer).
Because the buyer did not have actual knowledge of the prior assignment from the owner to the assignee, the later assignment to the buyer prevailed over the owner's assignment to the assignee.
The court reversed the judgment of the appellate court.
The court ruled in favor of the buyer in his suit to quiet title to gas and oil leases.


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House Judiciary Chairman Calls MFA Fundamentally Flawed
On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee set a high bar for taxing remote sales and reset the clock on a broader debate over the Marketplace Fairness Act. The assembled witnesses clearly communicated that there is no simple federal solution and that any system put in place should be heavily weighed against the potential for disrupting remote sales.
Chairman Goodlatte opened the event by announcing the Senate passed MFA has fundamental defects on multiple levels. In clear language, he called the legislation, "not sufficiently simple," declared that MFA advocates had misrepresented a "free software" solution by ignoring integration costs while also simultaneously turning a blind eye to the direct mail industry.
How far we've come in one year.
Committee members heard from former Representative Chris Cox who testified on behalf of NetChoice, a TruST founding member. Cox underscored that the crux of the issue is not about remote sellers and catalog businesses wanting to skip out on paying sales tax; but rather the compliance burdens and costs involved with the ability of remote sellers to successfully wade through a complex new tax system.
In response to Chairmain Goodlatte's request for proactive proposals, Cox presented a system that would treat all entrepreneurs equally by allowing every business (whether brick-and-mortar, online, or catalog) to continue to file sales tax returns in their own states. The Home Rule & Revenue Return would give each state the opportunity to join a multi-state compact to enable revenue sharing.
The origin-based tax proposal is similar to the method of tax collection for conventional bricks-and-mortar retailers using the tax rate of the county or state where the store is located and the sale occurs. It's a workable solution that leaves behind the regulatory and audit nightmare proposed by the MFA.
With so much at stake, it's a positive sign that Congress is attempting to be more deliberative than the Senate in considering the elements of a workable remote sales tax bill.
The thoughtful and deliberative process called for by Chairman Goodlatte is much more likely to produce a remote sales tax solution that benefits consumers and businesses. The hearing was a step in the right direction, but there is still a long way to go before we're out of the woods.


WEIFIELD WINS 2017 BBB TORCH AWARD FOR ETHICS!
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Weifield is humbled and excited to announce our 2017 Better Business Bureau (BBB) Torch Award win in the Large Business category! The Torch Awards are BBB's annual awards celebrating businesses and nonprofits with exceptional ethics.
BBB's mission is to advance marketplace trust; this mission involves working with businesses and consumers to promote an ethical business community where buyers and sellers trust each other. The Torch Awards winners were announced at a ceremony on October 19th, 2017, at the Infinity Park Event Center in Glendale, during which Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman spoke about the importance of ethical charitable and business practices.
As "Trusting Relationships" is one of Weifield's core values, we are tremendously proud to be recognized for our total commitment to ethical business and the integrity and honesty that we demonstrate every day — on every project!
We're honored to be recognized!


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Francis Marion Crawford – author
Novelist found inspiration while living in Sorrento
Francis Marion Crawford
The American writer Francis Marion Crawford was born on this day in 1854 in Bagni di Lucca in Tuscany.
A prolific novelist, Crawford became known for the vividness of his characterisations and the realism of his settings, many of which were places he had visited in Italy.
He chose to settle in later life in the coastal resort of Sorrento in Campania where he even had a street named after him, Corso Marion Crawford.
Crawford was the only son of the American sculptor, Thomas Crawford. He spent his childhood going backwards and forwards between Italy and America and studied at various American and European Universities.
He spent some time in India where he found the inspiration for his first successful novel, Mr Isaacs, which was published in 1882.
In 1883 he returned to Italy to settle there permanently. He lived at the Hotel Cocumella in the village of Sant'Agnello just outside Sorrento to begin with. He then bought a nearby farmhouse, from which he developed the Villa Crawford, an impressive clifftop residence easily identifiable from the sea by the tall buttresses Crawford added as a safeguard against erosion.
The Villa Crawford, now a guesthouse, has a prime
position overlooking the Bay of Naples
He was married to Elizabeth Christophers Berdan, daughter of the American Civil War General, Hiram Berdan. They had two sons and two daughters, one of whom became a nun and lived at the Villa Crawford when it became a convent after her father's death.
The Villa, which was donated to the order of the Daughters of Maria Ausiliatrice, has recently been refurbished as a guesthouse.
Many of his later novels have Italian settings, such as Don Orsino, published in 1892, which is about the effects of social change on an Italian family.
His novels sold in thousands in the United States, gaining him fame and prestige as a writer. He would often return to America to deliver lectures on Italian history, about which he wrote several books.
He died at the Villa Crawford after suffering a heart attack in 1909. He was buried in the cemetery of Sant'Agnello.
Bagni di Lucca, where Crawford was born, is a small town in Tuscany that became popular during the 19th century because of its thermal springs. For a while the town was the summer resort of Napoleon and his court and a casino and dance hall were built there. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her husband, Robert Browning, spent their summers in Bagni di Lucca during their time in Italy in the 1840s and 1850s.
The entrance to the Grand Hotel Cocumella in Sant'Agnello,
where Crawford lived before buying his clifftop villa nearby
The Corso Marion Crawford in the seaside resort of Sant'Agnello leads down to the sea from Corso Italia, the main road connecting Sant'Agnello with the resort of Sorrento. The historic Hotel Cocumella, where Crawford stayed during the 1880s, is in Via Cocumella, just off Corso Marion Crawford.
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