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Zoe Posted on April 17 2020
This week we're chatting to Lisa from Superfly soap. I met Lisa through the Glasgow Etsy team, at the time she was still focusing on her macrame business (Knottyknottymacrame if you're curious!) but it wasn't long until Superfly soap was born and it was definite love at first sight, (or should that be sniff?!) I look forward to seeing what new interesting scents 2020 will bring!
Can you tell us a little about yourself and what you do?
I'm Lisa and I run Superfly Soap from my studio in the small village of Kincardine, Fife. Superfly Soap is an ethical skincare company that produces sustainable, affordable and vegan friendly products. I started the business because I love handmade soaps and was passionate about reducing single use plastic, I was also after an escape route from my full-time job in IT and I was over the moon that that became a reality after only a few months of launching.
You've just moved into a new studio, what's your favourite thing about your new space?
I'm in love with my new space! I can work quicker and smarter compared to working at home because there's so much more space and everything doesn't need cleared away at the end of the day. I also actually have a work/life balance now because the two are quite separate and my house doesn't look like a soap factory! So it's a huge win with the studio.
What's your top tip for reducing waste and going plastic-free?
Start small and identify an area where you think you could make an improvement, for me it was in the bathroom swapping shower gel for solid soap but for others it might be in the kitchen, swapping out plastic sponges for plant based ones. After each change think what you could do next, it's not about making massive changes all at once and it's not about doing it perfectly because that's just not achievable. It quickly becomes a lifestyle and second nature to refuse plastic and look for alternatives.
Where do you get inspiration for new scents?
I'm a big foodie and all my products are based around food scents so it can be from a smoothie or a sweet, whatever catches my nose.
What's your favourite product to make?
It varies, as I get fed up making the same thing too often but in terms of my favourite part of the process I'd say it would be wrapping and putting those labels on at the end, it really elevates the products and I get a proud feeling of 'I did that'
Where do you see Superfly Soap in 5 years time?
This is a tough one and I always struggle with an appropriate answer because I feel I should say bigger and better but a work/life balance and having a job that I enjoy are more important. It's tempting to take on too much and work longer hours but then I'd lose the passion, my business ethos is less is more and I think that's also me in real life!
You can find more of Lisa's fabulous products at http://www.superflysoap.com/


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package com.twitter.finatra.json.tests.internal.caseclass.validation.validators

import com.twitter.finatra.json.internal.caseclass.validation.validators.TimeGranularityValidator
import com.twitter.finatra.validation.ValidationResult._
import com.twitter.finatra.validation.{ErrorCode, TimeGranularity, ValidationResult, ValidatorTest}
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit
import org.joda.time.DateTime

case class TimeGranularityNanosecondsExample(@TimeGranularity(TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS) timeValue: DateTime)
case class TimeGranularityMicrosecondsExample(@TimeGranularity(TimeUnit.MICROSECONDS) timeValue: DateTime)
case class TimeGranularityMillisecondsExample(@TimeGranularity(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS) timeValue: DateTime)
case class TimeGranularitySecondsExample(@TimeGranularity(TimeUnit.SECONDS) timeValue: DateTime)
case class TimeGranularityMinutesExample(@TimeGranularity(TimeUnit.MINUTES) timeValue: DateTime)
case class TimeGranularityHoursExample(@TimeGranularity(TimeUnit.HOURS) timeValue: DateTime)
case class TimeGranularityDaysExample(@TimeGranularity(TimeUnit.DAYS) timeValue: DateTime)

class TimeGranularityValidatorTest extends ValidatorTest {

  "time granularity validator" should {

    "pass validation for a day granularity value" in {
      val value = new DateTime("2014-3-26T00:00:00Z")
      validate[TimeGranularityDaysExample](value) should equal(Valid)
    }

    "fail validation for an invalid day granularity value" in {
      val value = new DateTime("2014-3-26T01:00:00Z")
      validate[TimeGranularityDaysExample](value) should equal(
        Invalid(
          errorMessage[TimeGranularityDaysExample](value),
          ErrorCode.InvalidTimeGranularity(value, TimeUnit.DAYS)))
    }

    "pass validation for a hour granularity value" in {
      val value = new DateTime("2014-3-26T04:00:00Z")
      validate[TimeGranularityHoursExample](value) should equal(Valid)
    }

    "fail validation for an invalid hour granularity value" in {
      val value = new DateTime("2014-3-26T04:01:00Z")
      validate[TimeGranularityHoursExample](value) should equal(
        Invalid(
          errorMessage[TimeGranularityHoursExample](value),
          ErrorCode.InvalidTimeGranularity(value, TimeUnit.HOURS)))
    }

    "pass validation for a minute granularity value" in {
      val value = new DateTime("2014-3-26T04:07:00Z")
      validate[TimeGranularityMinutesExample](value) should equal(Valid)
    }

    "fail validation for an invalid minute granularity value" in {
      val value = new DateTime("2014-3-26T04:07:01Z")
      validate[TimeGranularityMinutesExample](value) should equal(
        Invalid(
          errorMessage[TimeGranularityMinutesExample](value),
          ErrorCode.InvalidTimeGranularity(value, TimeUnit.MINUTES)))
    }

    "pass validation for a second granularity value" in {
      val value = new DateTime("2014-3-26T04:07:31.000Z")
      validate[TimeGranularitySecondsExample](value) should equal(Valid)
    }

    "fail validation for an invalid second granularity value" in {
      val value = new DateTime("2014-3-26T04:07:31.001Z")
      validate[TimeGranularitySecondsExample](value) should equal(
        Invalid(
          errorMessage[TimeGranularitySecondsExample](value),
          ErrorCode.InvalidTimeGranularity(value, TimeUnit.SECONDS)))
    }

    "pass validation for a millisecond granularity value" in {
      val value = new DateTime("2014-3-26T04:07:31.001Z")
      validate[TimeGranularityMillisecondsExample](value) should equal(Valid)
    }

    "pass validation for a microsecond granularity value" in {
      val value = new DateTime("2014-3-26T04:07:31.001Z")
      validate[TimeGranularityMicrosecondsExample](value) should equal(Valid)
    }

    "pass validation for a nanosecond granularity value" in {
      val value = new DateTime("2014-3-26T04:07:31.001Z")
      validate[TimeGranularityNanosecondsExample](value) should equal(Valid)
    }
  }

  private def validate[C : Manifest](value: Any): ValidationResult = {
    super.validate(manifest[C].runtimeClass, "timeValue", classOf[TimeGranularity], value)
  }

  private def errorMessage[C : Manifest](value: DateTime): String = {
    val annotation = getValidationAnnotation(
      manifest[C].runtimeClass,
      "timeValue",
      classOf[TimeGranularity])

    TimeGranularityValidator.errorMessage(
      messageResolver,
      annotation.value(),
      value)
  }
}

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As construction begins on the Woodburn Interchange over the coming year, Woodburn small businesses, commuters, and others who care about the safety and economic vitality of the community can thank their representative in Salem, Betty Komp. And they can thank their lucky stars her opponent in this year's campaign didn't have a chance to block the bipartisan bill that made that project and others like it possible.
The Woodburn Interchange has been a top priority for the community of Woodburn for decades, so you can imagine my surprise when I learned that a candidate for election from that district would choose this topic for attack. Sure enough, though, I've now seen copies of the mailers assailing Betty's support of the bill.
The Jobs and Transportation Act of 2009, HB 2001, was my main focus in the 2009 Legislature. As chair of the House Transportation Committee, I worked closely with Betty Komp, Rep. Vicki Berger, Republican of Salem, and Sen. Bruce Starr, Republican of Hillsboro, to craft HB 2001, which made the Woodburn Interchange and other transportation projects like it across the state possible.
Sen. Starr and Rep. Berger were tireless advocates for the bill throughout the session, helping make certain we crafted a bill that would serve communities across the state, and make the very most of Oregonians' precious tax dollars. Betty Komp was a doggedly determined advocate for the community of Woodburn, making certain that the final bill included the funding needed to finally move that long-awaited project forward.
Betty, Rep. Berger, Sen. Starr, and I all knew we needed put people to work right away. We had to do everything in our power to create and preserve jobs during the worst of the global economic crisis and speed up Oregon's path to economic recovery. The Jobs and Transportation Act will create a projected 40,000 jobs in Oregon and will fix and improve outdated roads and bridges that Oregonians rely on every day. In Woodburn, the Interchange project is projected to create or preserve approximately 880 jobs in construction and related industries, as well as additional jobs at restaurants, stores, and other businesses in and around Woodburn.
What's more, the new Woodburn Interchange made possible in the Jobs and Transportation Act will support economic development opportunities in Woodburn and the surrounding area by making more land available for development and improving access to those new lands as well as Woodburn's downtown. The Woodburn business community and city leaders and volunteers have been closely involved in the planning of the new Interstate 5 gateway to Woodburn, and they have supported efforts to create the new gateway at the Woodburn Interchange for decades.
In this struggling economy, how someone could oppose a bill that creates that many jobs, supports that level of economic and community development, reduces traffic congestion, and improves safety is hard to fathom.
Thanks for the update on this important infrastructure project.Tax money well spent!
As someone who visits Woodburn regularly to visit relatives I say it is long past due.


The Cedar Fire was the second largest wildfire in the history of the state of California. San Diego County's Cedar Fire burned over 280,000 acres destroying 2,232 homes and killing 14 (including one firefighter). Most of the victims were killed on the first day of the fire as they tried to escape their homes by foot and in vehicles. One hundred and four firefighters were injured.
On October 25 of 2003 a flammable shrub called chaparral was dry, in abundance and ignited by a "hunter". Strong 40 mile-per-hour Santa Ana winds made for extremely dry conditions in and around San Diego County and Lakeside. Daytime temperatures were above 90°F and the humidity was in the single-digits. With all elements of the fire triangle present and at high levels, the Cedar Fire rapidly turned into a dangerous firestorm. Government reports support a final conclusion that nothing could have prevented major destruction after ignition.
Investigators arrested Sergio Martinez for "setting fire to timber". Mr. Martinez concocted several stories around becoming lost hunting and setting a search fire. These inconsistencies resulted in being charged with lying to a federal officer but plea bargained for the arson charge.
On August 16, 2003 a lightning strike started a wildfire some 50 miles north of the state of Washington (U.S.)/ British Columbia (Canada) international line near Rattlesnake Island in Okanagan Mountain Park. This devastating wildfire burned in and out of the park for several weeks, ultimately forcing the evacuation of 45,000 residents and consuming 239 homes. The final size of the forest fire was determined to be just over 60,000 acres.
The Okanagan Mountain Park Fire was a classic "interface zone" fire. Thousands of homes were constructed in the zone where urban human habitation shared space with wildland conditions that were soon to become a fire trap.
The wildfire was fueled by constant winds during one of the driest summers in BC history. Starting on September 5, 2003, nearly 30,000 people of the city of Kelowna were ordered from their homes as the forest fire moved closer. That was about one-third of the city's total population.
Official reports confirm that 60 fire departments, 1,400 armed forces troops and 1,000 forest fire fighters were used in fighting the wildfire but were largely unsuccessful in stopping the fire's spread. Amazingly no one died as a direct result of the fire but thousands lost everything they owned.
The 2002 western fire season ended with fires burning 7.2 million acres and costing over $1 billion to fight. That same wildfire season is considered one of the most intense of the past half-century in the western United States.
The premiere fire that year was the Hayman which burned 138,000 acres and 133 homes in 20 days. It still holds the record for being Colorado's largest wildfire ever. Most of the fire (72%) stayed on the Pike National Forest south and west of Denver and northwest of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Enough fire escaped national forest lands to cause significant private damage.
Beginning in 1998 La Nina brought below-normal precipitation and unseasonably dry air masses to the Colorado Front Range. Conditions degraded year after year in the predominantly ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir forests becoming drier with each passing season. In the Summer of 2002 the fuel moisture conditions were among the driest seen in at least the past 30 years.
A U.S. Forest Service worker, Terry Lynn Barton, started the fire in a USFS campground as she patrolled under a no-burn order. A federal grand jury charged Barton on four felony counts including willfully and maliciously destroying U.S. property and causing personal injury.
On July 10, 2001, four U.S. Forest Service firefighters died while battling the Thirtymile Fire in Okanogan County. Six others were injured including two hikers. It is the second deadliest fire in Washington state history.
The fire was ignited by a camper's fire 30 miles north of Winthrop in Okanogan National Forest in the Chewuch River Valley. The blaze was actually only 25 acres in size when 21 Forest Service firefighters were dispatched to contain it.
Later investigation shows that the wildfire was handed over to several crews, obviously still uncontrolled. A second crew, the "Entiat Hotshots" crew experienced equipment failure and had to withdraw. The third and ill-fated "Northwest Regulars #6" crew was dispatched and suffered the brunt of the disaster. One ironic footnote was that a water bucket drop was delayed because of environmental concerns.
The hotshot crew firefighters eventually deployed their safety shelters as the fire overran them but four died from asphyxia. One firefighter, Rebecca Welch, sheltered herself and two hikers in a fire shelter designed for one person - all survived. Some crew-members found safety in the water of a creek. The fire grew to 9,300 acres before it was brought under control.
There were no towns or structures near the fire. Under Forest Service policy, managers were obligated to fight the fire because it was started by human activity. Naturally occurring fires, such as those started by lightning, were (depending on the forest plan) allowed to burn. Had the fire started one mile to the west in a designated wilderness area, regardless of origin, it might have been allowed to burn because of the fire management plan in place for wilderness areas.
On July 2, 1999, a planned 100-acre prescribed fire ignited by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) escaped control near Lewiston, California. The wildfire grew to about 2,000 acres and destroyed 23 residences before it was contained a week later by the California Department of Forestry. This "controlled" burn escaped and is now a text book example of how not to use fire under dry conditions.
A review team ultimately indicated that the BLM inadequately evaluated fire weather, fire behavior, and smoke impacts. The BLM did not light a test fire as prescribed in the burn plan and a plan of protection for houses was never discussed. Adequate protection resources were not available in case of the fire's escape. Heads rolled.
The Lowden Ranch prescribed fire has had major impacts on the federal govenment's use of prescribed fire - until Los Alamos.
On July 3, 1994, the Bureau of Land Management received a report of a fire near the base of Storm King Mountain in the South Canyon, near Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Over the next several days the South Canyon Fire increased in size and the BLM/Forest Service dispatched hotshot crews, smokejumpers, and helicopters to contain the fire - with very little luck.
To view pictures and to read more about the South Canyon Fire Disaster of 1994, visit our South Canyon Fire Explanation page.
On June 25, 1990, a dry lightning storm triggered a fire beneath the Mogollon Rim about 10 miles northeast of Payson, Arizona and on the Dude Creek. The fire occurred on one of the hottest days ever recorded at the Payson Ranger District of the Tonto National Forest.
Weather conditions were just right (high temperatures, low relative humidity) for wildfires. Large accumulations of fuel and several years of below normal precipitation caused the fire to burned quickly and within a matter of hours the Dude Fire had become uncontrollable. Before the fire was finally extinguished 10 days later, over 28,480 acres had burned in 2 national forests, 63 homes were destroyed, and six firefighters were killed.
This initial rapid fire spread entrapped eleven firefighters, six of which perished in Walk Moore Canyon and just below Bonita Creek Estates . The fire continued to actively spread for another three days to destroy the historic Zane Grey Cabin and Tonto Creek Fish hatchery. A total of $12 million in losses was incurred on the Dude Fire, which cost approximately $7,500,000 to suppress.
The Dude Fire Disaster inspired Paul Gleason to propose the LCES system (Lookouts, Communication, Escape Routes, Safety Zones), now a minimum safety standard for wildland firefighting. Other lessons learned from this incident that continue to influence fire suppression around the world today include knowledge about plume-dominated fire behavior, improved protocols for incident command transfer, and implementation of refresher training for fire shelter use.
The National Park Service allowed June lightning-caused fires to burn until July 14, 1988 in Yellowstone National Park. Park policy was to let all natural caused fire continue to burn. The worst fire in the history of the park had burned only 25,000 acres until then. Thousands of firefighters responded to the blaze in order to prevent valuable structures from burning.
No serious effort was made to extinguish the fires, and many burned until the arrival of autumn rains. Ecologists argued that fire is part of the Yellowstone ecosystem, and that not allowing the fires to run their course would result in a choked, sick, and decaying forest. The National Park Service now has a policy of prescribed burning to prevent another dangerous buildup of flammable materials.
Because of this "let the fires burn" policy, fires in Wyoming and Montana burned across almost one million acres in and around Yellowstone National Park . Taxpayers finally paid $120 million to fight the fires of Yellowstone. Compare that to the park's annual budget of $17.5 million.
The Laguna fire or Kitchen Creek fire ignited on September 26, 1970 when downed power lines sparked fire fueled by Santa Ana winds and chaparral. The Laguna disaster started in eastern San Diego County in the Kitchen Creek area near the Cleveland National Forest. More than 75% of the vegetation in that forest was chaparral, coastal sage scrub, chemise, manzanita and ceonothus - very flamable fuel when dry.
The Laguna Fire held the infamous title of worst fire disaster in California history for 33 years until The Cedar Fire destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres and killed 14 people. They both occurred in approximately the same area, an area which has been noted as having firestorms nearly every decade. The Laguna fire disaster then became known as the second-largest fire in California history burning 175,000 acres and 382 homes killing eight people.
In only 24 hours the Laguna firestorm burned and was carried by westward blowing Santa Ana winds for about 30 miles to the outskirts of El Cajon and Spring Valley. The fire totally destroyed the communities of Harbison Canyon and Crest.
The Capitan Gap Fire Disaster was caused when a cook stove over heated and started casting sparks. It was actually the first of two fires that began on Thursday, May 4th, 1950 in Lincoln National Forest, in New Mexico in the Capitan mountain range. The fires eventually combined to torched 17,000 acres. A firestorm from the Capitan Gap Fire slopped over a firebreak, nearly killing a 24-man firefighting crew who used recently dug firebreaks and a recent landslide to bury themselves in the earth. They all survived the fire.
My reason for including this as a major North American wildfire disaster was not because of the actual destruction (which was substantial) as much as the symbol that developed out of the ashes and smoke of that fire - Smokey Bear. On May 9th in a moppin up action, a badly singned bear cub was found. This cub bear would change the face of forest fire prevention forever.
Found clinging to a charred tree and briefly called "Hotfoot Teddy", the tiny bear cub was brought back to fire camp by a group of soldiers/firefighters from Ft. Bliss, Texas. Veternarian Ed Smith and his wife Ruth Bell nursed the new wildfire prevention mascot back to health. Smokey was sent on to the National Zoo in Washington, DC to become a legend.
Here are ways of predicting wildfire behavior using weather data.


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The Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina will honor five business executives May 4 at the school's 12th annual Business Leadership Dinner and Awards Program.
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Recipients of the 2007 Distinguished Alumni Awards are William R. Horton of Columbia and D. Roger Nanney of Dallas, Texas. The Distinguished Young Alumni are Kellie Cooper Johnson of Chapel Hill, N.C., and J. Chad Odom of Greenville. M. Edward Sellers of Columbia will receive the Distinguished Service Award.
Horton, who earned a bachelor's degree from the Moore School in 1973, is president and chief operating officer, Government Programs Division, BlueCross and BlueShield of South Carolina. A licensed certified public accountant, Horton is responsible for four BlueCross subsidiary companies that administer the Medicare and Tricare federal health benefit programs.
Nanney is vice chairman and regional managing partner, Mid-America, for Deloitte & Touche USA LLP. A 1982 graduate of the Moore School's master's program in accountancy, Nanney also has leadership responsibilities for the organization's marketing and business development, including operations in India.
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Summary, etc.: Ramona's year in third grade is highlighted by the arrival of Howie's rich uncle, a change in her after-school situation, a surprise wedding, a death and a new arrival in the family, and her father's getting a job.


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For those not in the know, Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este has been an unshakably annual event for over 80 years and is considered by many to be the world's foremost classic car show. Located on the shores of famed Lake Como, Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este draws owners, dealers and automotive aficionados from all over the world who share a penchant for historic vehicles.
This latest accolade is seen by those in the automobile industry as a nod to the superior craftsmanship required to create a concept that is both timelessly Bentley and progressively modern in design.
Bentley's Exp 10 Speed Six concept masterfully demonstrates the future of luxury performance in the automotive industry. Using only the highest quality materials and most sophisticated engineering techniques, this latest Bentley concept is decidedly unique and a wonderful example of how the legendary British car maker continues to keep the competition on its toes.
Be sure to place your pre-order for the Bentley Exp 10 Speed Six with H.R. Owen.


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Q: Creating Mount Points Could somebody please help me? I'm rather new to Ubuntu and just trying to figure a few things out.
Just as an example, I have a program that writes a lot of log files to a folder called /var/logging/data123.
I'm running out of space, so i physically added a 2TB hard drive to my server, partitioned and formatted the drive.
Am I able to mount this drive to the folder /var/loggingdata123 so as far as the program is concerned nothing has changed, but i have just gained 2TB of hard drive space.
Am I correct in thinking this is possible or am I off the mark?
Thanks

A: Sure, that's absolutely possible. If you want to automount it, proceed as follows:

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*Execute sudo blkid to get the UUID of the partition you want to mount. This will give some lines like this
/dev/sda1: UUID="0cde5cf9-b15d-4369-b3b1-4405204fd9ff" TYPE="ext4"

Using the UUID instead of the device file name sda1 makes this entry more consistent in case you choose to install another drive in the same machine, which will have another UUID, but may receive the device file name the current drive now has
(Windows analogy: If you plug in one USB stick, it may receive the drive letter F:, if you remove it and plug another, this other one will most likely get F: instead. If you now plug the first stick again, it will receive another letter, e.g. G:, so you can't rely on that).
Find out which one is your new drive (sudo parted -l gives some more information on the partition). Best open a text editor and copy and paste it there, so you'll have it at hand.

*Mount the hard drive somewhere, e.g. in /mnt/logs:
sudo mkdir /mnt/logs
sudo mount /dev/sdXY /mnt/logs #Replace XY by the actual value

*Move the existing log files to the new hard drive and check if there are any files remaning (files starting with a . will not be moved by this)
sudo mv /var/logging/data123/* /mnt/logs
ls -Al /var/logging/data123 #Shouldn't print any files, else move them also

*Unmount the drive
sudo umount /mnt/logs
sudo rmdir /mnt/logs

*Open the file /etc/fstab with a rooted text editor, e.g. with sudo nano /etc/fstab and add the following line at the end:
UUID=<uuid> /var/logging/data123 <format> defaults 0 2

Of course, replace <uuid> with the partitions UUID and <format> with the partition format you chose, e.g. ext4. Save the file (When using nano, use Ctrl+O) and exit the editor (Ctrl+X)

*Have the system automount the drive and check whether it worked:
sudo mount -a
mount #This will print a list of mounted drives, your new entry should be here

From now on, the drive will be mounted in /var/logging/data123 on each boot automatically.

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Many people do not realize there are ongoing efforts in Washington, D.C., on behalf of the fraternity and sorority community. In fact, for more than 10 years, fraternities and sororities have established relationships and communicated our issues and concerns with Members of Congress.
The work is done through the Fraternal Government Relations Coalition (FGRC), of which Pi Beta Phi is a member. The coalition, representing the National Panhellenic Conference (NPC), North-American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) and the Fraternity and Sorority Political Action Committee (FSPAC), monitors and addresses legislative issues important to the fraternity world.
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Pi Beta Phi recruits collegians annually to join the Fraternity's lobbying team. Applications are accepted in the fall and are reviewed by Pi Beta Phi, with final selection made by the FGRC. Pi Beta Phi covers travel expenses to Washington, D.C., for all selected members. We are looking for Pi Phis who have extensive campus leadership experience and an interest in government and politics. Pi Phis with existing relationships with Members of Congress would be advantageous to the group.
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A number of clubs featuring Caltex Socceroos were in action during Monday morning AEDT.
In Cyprus, Apostolos Giannou was substituted in the first minute of stoppage time as AEK Larnaca drew 0-0 with AEL in the Cypriot First Division.
With players having recently returned from international duty, a selection of players were absent from their team's line-ups.
Tom Rogic was absent from the team sheet as Celtic beat St. Johnstone 2-0 to extend their lead at the top of the Scottish Premiership.
The midfielder is set for a spell on the sidelines as he undergoes an operation on his knee as confirmed by manager Brendan Rodgers earlier this week.
Robbie Kruse was also not involved in Vfl Bochum's 3-0 defeat to SV Sandhausen while Trent Sainsbury and Aziz Behich also didn't line-up as PSV Eindhoven beat Fortuna Sittard 5-0.


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Dec212013December 21, 2013July 6, 20140Commentby Jessica
Jessica's Top Performances of 2013
Posted in Best Of
This year was a fantastic year of concerts for me. I saw a total of 15 concerts with 44 artists which is the most I've seen in a single year. All these great performances (I wasn't disappointed once) made it a pretty daunting task to narrow it down, but somehow I managed to do it.
10: Metric – November 21 | The Palace | Auburn Hills, MI
I would get excited every time I saw that Metric was coming to town, until I looked at the price of tickets and realized that I just didn't have the money to go. Fortunately things changed this year, I had been saving up for the upcoming Paramore show and Metric just happened to be one of the opening acts. The fact that there were not people dancing the entire time confounds me, of course I usually find myself dancing to these guys when I'm blasting their music in my car so maybe I'm just biased.
9: Pacific Air – June 24 | Saint Andrew's Hall | Detroit, MI
Saw that these guys were opening for Atlas Genius and wanted to check them out before going to the show. Instantly fell in love with their album, Stop Talking and was, honestly, a bit more excited to see them perform than I was for Atlas Genius that night. They didn't disappoint. Lead singer, Ryan Lawhon's dance moves elevated the short set of upbeat, catchy music. I will definitely be standing front row, center when Pacific Air finally makes it back into town.
8: Eisley – June 27 | Saint Andrew's Hall | Detroit, MI / Sherri DuPree-Bemis – December 5 | The Shelter | Detroit, MI
A nice, mellow concert experience, especially when compared with the other bands that they toured with this year but just as enjoyable as any rock show I've been to. Eisley has a great mixture of beautiful, whimsical love songs with some great angst ridden rock. They sound just as clean and polished live as they do on their albums which makes for a great night of live music. Seeing Sherri perform some of my favorite songs during her acoustic tour made my Eisley experience this year even better. Her voice is unique in that she sounds at home whether singing sappy love songs, unapologetic breakup anthems, or a macabre Christmas carols.
7: Andrew McMahon – January 26 | The Fillmore | Detroit, MI
I was pretty bummed when Something Corporate broke up before I got a chance to see them live. That's why seeing McMahon's name as the opener for Fun. back in January was sort of a dream come true for me. I've followed all his music from Something Corporate to Jack's Mannequin and now onto his solo work. Andrew has a way with words and music that musicians twice his age never master. I could listen to just him and his piano any night.
It was a tough call between the next two artists and I ended up not being able to decide who I enjoyed more this year. They toured together which made for a pretty perfect, albeit way too hot, summer night where I got to see them both perform.
6: Tegan and Sara – July 16 | Meadow Brook Music Festival | Rochester Hills, MI / December 11 | The Fillmore | Detroit, MI
One of those bands that I listened to casually before falling in love with them after seeing them live. This year I was lucky enough to see them twice, both times getting full sets. They fill the gap between songs with playful banter and some insight into their songs which is one of my favorite things about seeing them perform live.
6: Fun. – January 26 | The Fillmore | Detroit, MI / July 16 | Meadow Brook Music Festival | Rochester Hills, MI
Nate Ruess is like a little kid in the candy store when he's up on stage in front of his fans. I saw them open up for other bands before their newest album, Some Nights, blew up in 2012 making it nearly impossible to get tickets before they sell out. I stood in the freezing cold to see them in January and lost about 10 lbs when I saw them in July on probably one of the hottest days of the summer at an outside venue. It as more than worth it both times.
5: You Me At Six – May 1 | The Fillmore | Detroit, MI / October 14 | The Shelter | Detroit, MI
Their album, Sinners Never Sleep, won me over a few years ago and they were the opener on a tour that year but Detroit was the one date that they weren't going to make it to. Disappointed doesn't begin to cover how I felt when I saw that. Thankfully I made up for it by seeing them twice this year first as part of the Spring Fever Tour and then headlining their own dates. The second time was made slightly better by the intimate atmosphere that The Shelter provides and getting a full set from the boys that included some of my favorite tracks. Having lead singer, Josh Franceschi, crowd surf from the bar didn't hurt either.
4: Manchester Orchestra – November 19 | Saint Andrew's Hall | Detroit, MI
The two year wait from the last time they were here was well worth, although they better not wait that long before coming back. I get chills just listening to them in my car so I have no idea how to even describe what seeing them live does to me. I swear Andy Hull's beard is filled with magic because everything he does is pretty amazing (Right Away, Great Captain! and Bad Books).
3: Paramore – May 10 | The Fillmore | Detroit, MI / November 21 | The Palace | Auburn Hills, MI
Just today I had a coworker tell me that she had seen a Paramore performance on TV and thought of me. "The lead singer, yeah, she's crazy" were my friend's exact words when describing it. It is a fairly accurate assessment when watching Hayley Williams bounce around the stage and it's one of the reasons I keep going back. I saw my first Paramore show in 2009 and have attended every show in Michigan since. Not only has their music grown in scale, but their shows have gotten bigger and better as well. Moving from smaller venues to arenas bringing screens and choirs with them to help out, one thing remains the same: they love their job and their fans.
2: Saves the Day – September 17 | The Magic Stick | Detroit, MI
Got to see these guys the same day as their newest album dropped which was pretty amazing even if it did mean that I didn't know all the lyrics to the new songs that they played. I've been a fan from pretty much the beginning but only just my act together this year and finally got out to see them. The Magic Stick was the perfect, intimate setting for the show and the boys busted out a set of 30 songs from across their expansive discography, playing just about every one of my favorite songs.
1: Say Anything – June 27 | Saint Andrew's Hall | Detroit, MI / Max Bemis – December 5 | The Shelter | Detroit, MI
I challenge anyone to go to a Max Bemis / Say Anything concert and not immediately become a fan. It all comes down to Bemis who can command an audience like no one I have ever seen before. His endless energy and excitement to be on that stage is contagious and spreads through the audience like wildfire. While the rest of my list was hard to get the order nailed down, it was a no-brainer which performance was my favorite of the year.
Tags:2013Andrew McMahonAndy HullAuburn HillsBad BooksBest OfDetroitEisleyFun.Hayley WilliamsJack's MannequinJeremy DavisManchester OrchestraMax BemisMeadow Brook Music FestivalMetricPacific AirParamoreRight Away Great Captain!Rochester HillsSaint Andrew's HallSaves the DaySay AnythingSherri DuPree-BemisSomething CorporateTaylor YorkTegan and SaraThe FillmoreThe PalaceThe ShelterYou Me At Six


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Decision aid for women with newly diagnosed breast cancer seeking breast reconstruction surgery: A prospective, randomized, controlled, single-blinded, pilot study.
Klifto, Kevin M1
Khan, Hetty2
Manahan, Michele A2
Sacks, Justin M3
Broderick, Kristen P2
Aliu, Oluseyi2
Cooney, Damon S2
Cooney, Carisa M2
Rosson, Gedge D4
1 Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO, United States. , (United States)
2 Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States. , (United States)
3 Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States. , (United States)
4 Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States. Electronic address: [email protected] , (United States)
Journal of plastic, reconstructive & aesthetic surgery : JPRAS
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2021.03.029
Decision Support Techniques
Mammaplasty
Women undergoing immediate breast reconstruction for breast cancer often experience anxiety when faced with reconstruction and the type of reconstruction to choose. The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of a decision aid on decisional conflict in women with newly diagnosed breast cancer seeking breast reconstruction. Newly diagnosed breast cancer patients seeking breast reconstruction at a single center were prospectively randomized into two groups. Comparisons were made between two groups using the decisional conflict scale (DCS): women who reviewed the standard educational materials prior to initial consultation (control) and women who reviewed standard materials prior to initial consultation and then reviewed a decision aid brochure at initial consultation and two-week post-consultation (intervention). Pre-to-post-consultation DCS scores were compared within and between the control groups and intervention groups to assess which group had lower DCS scores. A total of 20 patients, mean age 53±9 years were included. Median differences between pre-to-post-consultation DCS total scores in the control and intervention groups lowered from 32 to 22 and 28 to 16, respectively. Significant differences in subscores were control group: uncertainty: 54-21 (p = 0.030), and intervention group: uncertainty: 46-29 (p = 0.036) and values clarity: 29-25(p = 0.042). Pre-to-post-consultation differences between DCS scores and subscores did not demonstrate any statistical significance. Decision aids did not significantly reduce pre-operative DCS total scores compared to current educational materials. More educational materials may not always be helpful for patients. Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. This record was last updated on 12/26/2021 and may not reflect the most current and accurate biomedical/scientific data available from NLM. The corresponding record at NLM can be accessed at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33906813


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Reaffirms the U.S. commitment to the Republic of Korea to support, participate in, and help ensure the security of the 23rd Olympic Winter Games.
Recognizes the importance of such games as a leading international sporting event that can contribute to peace and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula, in Northeast Asia, and around the world.
Reaffirms that the United States, the Republic of Korea, and other partners remain committed to pursuing the policy of maximum pressure and engagement toward the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Expresses hope that the games will contribute to the decision by the DPRK to engage in negotiations that will result in complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
Wishes the Republic of Korea success in preparing for and hosting such games.


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Bustamante Park is an urban park in Providencia, Santiago de Chile. It is built on the former site of Pirque railroad station and adjacent classification yard. The park is bounded by Providencia Avenue on the north, just south of Plaza Baquedano, and Marín Street on the south.

Features
Bustamante Park features bicykle paths, exercise equipment, a literary café, skatepark, monuments and water feature. In recent years a number of new cafés and restaurants have opened around the park. Bustamante Park has also become a popular location for outdoor entertainment, with the Providencia Theatre Festival held there annually.

Line 5 of the Santiago Metro runs under the entire length of the park, stopping at Baquedano and Parque Bustamante metro stations. Valdivieso advertising sign is located on one of the buildings that line the park.

Origins and development

Both the park and the avenue bordering it to the east take their name from José Antonio Bustamante, who fought in the battles of Chacabuco and Maipú.

In the 19th century, located in the area where the park now stands was an avenue running parallel to Vicuña Mackenna Avenue. This disappeared in 1894 to make way for a railway joining Santiago with Puente Alto, which was then otherwise isolated from the city, through Pirque railroad station (built facing Providencia Avenue between 1905 and 1911, today the location of Metro Baquedano).

In the early 1940s, the stretch of rail between Pirque railroad station and Ñuñoa railroad station was dismantled, with the Pirque railroad station demolished by 1943, leaving space for the park to take shape.

On December 27, 1947, at the northern end of the park towards Plaza Baquedano, the Monument to Manuel Rodríguez was installed. In May 2008, the project of the architect Germán Bannen was inaugurated; a two-story Literary Café "Café Literario" with a cafeteria, small library and reading spaces, as well as views of the park with a water mirror included. Some time later, a skatepark was opened between Avenida Rancagua and Avenida Francisco Bilbao.

Gallery

References

Urban public parks
Parks in Santiago, Chile
Skateparks

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Quadrivium, from left, Erik Gustafson, Kerry Ginger, Charissa Chiaravalloti and Ryan Downey, entertain guests at a San Juan Symphony FUNraiser at the home of Moni and Jonas Grushkin at the end of September.
Students from Tennille's Violin House in Farmington perform at San Juan Symphony's FUNraiser at the end of September at the home of Moni and Jonas Grushkin. Their teacher is Tennille Taylor, who is the principal second violin with the symphony.
What is better than a beautiful fall day, a lovely home with fabulous views, live music from talented musicians, great munchies and a libation or two? Not much I can think of, and I imagine the guests at the San Juan Symphony's FUNraiser would agree.
Held at the home of Moni and Jonas Grushkin on the rim of Florida Mesa in late September, the event gave guests a chance for casual chats with Thomas Heuser, the symphony's new music director.
The afternoon was a kickoff the 31st season, beginning with second principal violin Tenille Taylor's students from Tenille's Violin House in Farmington – the symphony is regional, performing in Durango and Farmington – in the upper gathering place of the Grushkin home. Guests moved to the lower patio to hear Quadruvium, a new quartet featuring some of the finest voices in the area, including Eric Gustafson, Kerry Ginger, Charissa Chiaravalloti and Ryan Downey and the San Juan Symphony String Quartet, which includes Brent Williams, Katharine Jetter, Haley Cunningham and Taylor.
In the living room, our Irish songbird, Gemma Kavanagh, sang, accompanied by Linda Mack Berven. Kavanagh will be a soloist with the symphony at its Nov. 12-13 performances of Brahms' German Requiem. The music finished in Jonas Grushkin's Photogenesis studio with Casey Reed, concertmaster of the symphony's Youth Orchestra.
Cheryl Folwell, who joined the symphony's board this year, made sure the attendees were fueled with artichoke squares, chicken salad on pumpernickel squares, assorted cheeses and fruit and maple syrup-apple chicken sausage bites with pretzel sticks as toothpicks – genius, by the way. I am always trying to figure out what to do with toothpicks and skewers at parties – call me the social columnist with no social graces. Chuck Norton Catering donated one of his beautiful poached-salmon platters and the repast ended on a sweet note – pun intended – with Mexican wedding cookies and brownies.
Stan Crapo of Star Liquors once again generously stepped up and donated the beer and wine.
HHHA reader recently asked me why I so often include business donors and sponsors in column items, and this seems like a good place to answer that question.
A community is stronger when everyone pitches in, and we certainly have many active volunteers whose efforts make a tremendous difference. That's why I try to include the names of people on organizing committees when I have them.
But the number of times in a week that local businesses are hit up for donations, whether it's for a silent auction, a live auction, a door prize or a party favor – is astonishing. While they don't give to everything, most businesses here try to accommodate as many nonprofits as is fiscally possible. That generosity deserves to be noticed. And I hope thank them for caring so much for our community.


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Q: What is the difference between illegal and unlawful? I often hear an unlawful act, so what is an illegal act?
Dictionary.com defines the words as:

illegal

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*forbidden by law or statute.

*contrary to or forbidden by official rules, regulations, etc.
unlawful

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*not lawful; contrary to law; illegal

so it appears they might be synonyms. Is there some nuance that I'm missing?

A: The New Oxford American Dictionary 3rd Edition describes illegal as "contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law", and describes unlawful as "not conforming to, permitted by, or recognized by law or rules." In American English, then, illegal is used in phrases like illegal alien, where it means a person present in a country without official authorization, and which is never replaced by unlawful.
Looking at the Oxford English Dictionary, I found a note about the usage of illegal and unlawful.

Illegal and unlawful have slightly different meanings, although they are often used interchangeably. Something that is illegal is against the law, whereas an unlawful act merely contravenes the rules that apply in a particular context. Thus handball in soccer is unlawful, but it is not illegal. A third word with a similar meaning is illicit: this tends to encompass things that are forbidden or disapproved of by custom or society, as in an illicit love affair.

A: If something is unlawful, it means it is against the law, but not necessarily a criminal act; it can be a civil wrong, such as trademark infringement, for which the wrongdoer may be sued, but will unlikely face criminal prosecution.
Illegal describes an act that is unlawful and also a criminal act, such as drug trafficking.
EDIT: It appears these definitions aren't so cut and dry. This article discusses their usage in greater detail...

A: Very occasionally (C.S. Lewis?), one hears "unlawful" used in the sense of 'Moral Law', as opposed to 'man made' laws. Otherwise, for practical purposes synonymous, as already stated.

A: One difference to note is that unlawful is generally only used in the context of state or federal laws, wereas illegal can be used to refer to any set of rules. For example, in sports people can perform illegal moves, and when a computer program crashes it will sometimes say that it performed an illegal operation.
Within the context of the law though, they are much more synonymous save for the differences that the other answers mention.

A: For all practical purposes, they are synonyms. Various sources describe possible minor differences, such as that illegal acts are criminal acts, whereas unlawful acts may be contrary to some non-criminal law, like tort law or contract law; however, if you check actual usage, I doubt whether you will find much of a pattern in that regard. The Oxford English Dictionary gives one as a synonym of the other. Unlawful obviously comes from un- and law; illegal comes from Latin in- (which means "un-") and lex ("law"). I believe unlawful is mostly just a more formal or technical synonym. Usage may very well vary in different countries, since each country has its own legal system, even though Anglo-Saxon systems are often much alike.

A: This is an important definition and so far we've not really had it from the comments.
The true definition is within the context of the difference between Statute and Constitutional Law, yes despite baseless assertions to the contrary, we British and all Common Law jurisdictions have one, that's why we have a Constitutional Monarchy. Constitutional Law includes Constitutional Instruments such as in 1215 Magna Carta and 1688 Declaration of Rights, both of which are a part of the US Constitution in addition to the US Constitution itself and Common Law. These are the only things that are Law per se. There is no such thing as Statute Law, the term is a misnomer, more properly it should be Statute Legislation, which can only be lawful if it follows the superiority of Common Law. So 'legal' refers to statute legislation and 'lawful' refers to constitutional and common law. Lawful is higher than legal.

A: U.S. synonym guides focus on legal/illegal and lawful/unlawful in their statutory sense as descriptions of what is permissible or impermissible according to a code of laws. The result, unfortunately, is not very satisfactory coverage of the terms as they are more broadly used in the real world.
For example, S.I. Hayakawa, Modern Guide to Synonyms and Related Words (1968) has this entry for lawful and legal (which it considers as part of a bundle of related words that also includes constitutional, legitimate, and licit):

Lawful implies conformity with laws, statutes, canons, precepts, principles, rules, etc. intended to regulate the conduct of those coming within  their particular field of action. Thus one speaks of lawful debts, a lawful claim, a lawful marriage, of conducting a lawful business or making a lawful decision. Legal has nearly the same  meaning, but is restricted chiefly to statute laws as they apply at certain times and places {Divorce is lawful but subject to various legal requirements before taking final effect; The legal speed limit within the town is 15 miles per hour.} ... Antonyms: illegal, ... unlawful.

And  Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms (1984) has this for unlawful and illegal:

unlawful, illegal, illegitimate, illicit are comparable when they mean contrary to, prohibited by, or not in accordance with law or the law. Otherwise than this negation in character, the words in general carry the same differences in implications and connotations as the affirmative adjectives discriminated at LAWFUL.

and this for lawful and legal:

lawful, legal, legitimate, licit mean permitted, sanctioned, or recognized by law or the law. Lawful differs from the others in implying a reference to various sorts of law (as divine law, natural law, or the law of the land, or as civil law, common law, or canon law). Consequently, the term often comes close in meaning to allowable or permissible {all things are lawful unto me,but all things are not expedient—1 Cor[inthians] 6:12} {tell me, which knave is lawful game, which not? Must great offenders, once escaped the Crown, like royal harts, be never more run down?—Pope} or sometimes to rightful or proper {the lawful heir} {a lawful prize} {the lawful sovereign} {that man was not Hannah's lawful husband—Ingamells} {William desired to reign not as a conqueror but as a lawful king—J. R. Green} Legal implies a reference to the law as it appears on the statute books or is administered in the courts; thus, the lawful heir is also the legal heir; the lawful owner of a piece of property is one whose legal right to to it is certain; a moneylender is entitled only to legal interest on his loans. Legal is used more often in the sense of sanctioned by law or in conformity with the law, or not contrary to the law, than in the sense of allowable by the terms of the law {a legal marriage} {the legal period for the payment of a debt} {the capture of the neutral ship carrying contraband was held to be legal} {she became the virtual head of our family, supplanting ... my Uncle Tiberius (the legal head)—Graves {the Vichy regime he considers an illegitimate, although, at first at least, it was outwardly legal—Guerard}

All of this may be accurate as applied to criminal and civil codes of law, but, as tankadillo points out in a rather underappreciated answer posted here ten years ago, use of illegal to refer to conduct outside the world of actual laws is extremely common, at least in the United States. In particular, multiple sports use the term illegal, not unlawful, to refer to various infractions of the rules. Thus, in U.S. football, penalties may be assessed for "illegal use of hands," an "illegal forward pass," an "illegal shift," an "illegal formation," or (more broadly) "illegal procedure"; in U.S. basketball (as in U.S. football), a referee may call a foul for "illegal defense" or an "illegal timeout"; and in U.S. baseball, a pitcher or batter may be penalized for applying an "illegal substance" to the ball or bat. In none of these cases would the word "unlawful" ever be used in place of "illegal" because in none of these cases is the infraction against any law; each simply involves violating the rules of the game.
Similarly (as tankadillo notes) a computer operating system may inform the user that "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." Essentially the operating system didn't understand or didn't approve of the program's behavior, so it closed the program. Likewise, none other than the Oxford Dictionary of Computing, sixth edition (2008) includes entries for "illegal character" and "illegal instruction":

illegal character Any character not in the character set of a given machine or not allowed by a given programming language or protocol.
illegal instruction An instruction that has an invalid operating code. It is sometimes deliberately inserted in an instruction stream when debugging in order to have a program halt, or interrupt, at a particular point.

Again, "unlawful character" and "unlawful instruction" are not in the lexicon because they aren't in real-world use.
In all of these areas, U.S. usage is exactly the opposite of what one might expect from the OED usage note cited in apaderno's answer: whereas the OED indicates that illegal narrowly implies "against formal statutory law" and lawful more broadly implies "contravening applicable rules," lay/informal U.S. usage treats unlawful as more strictly concerned with actual law (of some kind) and illegal as more broadly concerned with the normal and approved rules of play or operation.


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on February 1, 2008 2:27 PM | Permalink
With Microsoft putting Yahoo on its dinner plate, I may have a very different reason for getting my photos off of Flickr. I viewed Yahoo's acquisition of Flickr as an overall plus; a Microsoft acquisition would be a bit of a poison pill. The same goes for del.icio.us, though my heart is less tied to that service.
My mind goes back to the acquisition of Hotmail, which turned a leading free e-mail provider into a stagnant cesspool of spam and craptacular-ness. Microsoft forced Hotmail onto MS infrastructure for political reasons. Attempting the same with Yahoo's gives me visions of datacenters engulfed in flames.
The most interesting take I've seen in How Microsoft Could Go Hostile. it brings to light the timing of the takeover bid and how Microsoft could circumvent Yahoo's anti-acquisition poison pill.
Flickr/Yahoo! account $#!tstorm
on January 31, 2007 7:44 PM | Permalink
Flickr made a big announcement that the countdown to the single sign-on has started: in other words, away with your 'old skool' Flickr login and welcome to the world of Yahoo! integrated logins. This has produced a very active thread in the Flickr forums. It's funny to see actions of near-surprise, given that this was foreshadowed when Flickr was originally bought by Yahoo. But more than the feigned shock, this has been interesting study for me as to why some people are reacting so negatively. It takes me back to an older entry where I discuss my own personal theory on megaservices attempting to do public community sites:
... my Google and my Yahoo identities are too personal to give away in a community service. Google/Yahoo identities are tied to e-mail, search history, calendars, and more. If you publicly reveal that identity you at least open yourself up to more spam and at worst invite identity theft of a much larger scale: determined individuals can figure out who I am from my Flickr account, but that's because I chose to tie my Flickr account to my overall 'kwc' moniker. It's related to danah boyd's mention of managing social contexts, e.g. teens don't necessarily want to hang out in the same social space as their parents (related: MySpace is drawing older visitors, study finds).
There is also a technological corollaries to this. My "home page" for Google is private-facing while my "home page" for Flickr is public facing. A company managing your private identity has to have less lax login procedures: Flickr can keep you signed in for weeks, Yahoo needs to sign you out almost immediately. There is also screen-handle assignment: I can be 'kwc' on Flickr, due to the smaller user population, but there is no way I would ever be able to get that for Yahoo.
So, what is the point of all this pontificating? To go back to the original question, I do think big companies storing your private data can successfully create new public community services, but they have to create separated sandboxes for these services. They have to allow 'alter egos', perhaps many, so that you can remain in control of your privacy. This is what they effectively do when these large companies acquire community services, but sometimes attempt ruin the whole deal, e.g. Yahoo's announcing they will merge Flickr accounts with Yahoo! accounts. Arguably, this is what Google did with Orkut, but Orkut couldn't scale to meet demand.
I thought there was a tad bit of wisdom there -- after all, Google's Picasa Web albums now allows you to create an alterego URL for sharing your photos. But I think I was wrong, at least in the case of anything to do with Yahoo. Reading through the thread, it basically boils down to: Yahoo... isn't... cool.
That's a bit of an oversimplification, but a lot of it boils down to the fact that Yahoo is a bad brand and some Flickrati don't want to be associated with it. Flickr, after all, is a high mark of Web 2.0 brand coolness: Apple may own the vowel 'i', but Flickr has caused countless sites to disown 'e'. But this changes everything. You now have Thomas Hawk of Zooomr (a Flickr clone in both design and vowel omission) not-so-subtly trying to poach Flickr members in Flickr's own forums.
The fact is, Flickr did just about everything right*, but the bad brand experience of Yahoo outweighs this. In other words, Yahoo has done plenty to make its brand a pariah. Many in the Flickr forums think a Yahoo ID means that they have to re-login everytime they open their browser. Many also think that their Flickr accounts are going to be deleted for inactivity the same way other Yahoo properties do. But there's actually no difference with this transition: the Flickr team changed nothing other than requiring a Yahoo login ID. You can even use one Yahoo account to login to Flickr and then login with a different Yahoo ID, all the while staying logged into the Flickr (for those worried about their Flickr identity being tied to their more private data). But still, the Y! merger makes Yahoo's bad brand experience transitive.
This isn't to say that if you were to substitute Google for Yahoo you wouldn't have the typical "X is evil" comments, but there are least several comments in the thread that indicate that this only matters to them because Yahoo sucks in comparison to Google. I feel a bit sorry for Yahoo. They acquire many companies I like (Flickr, del.icio.us, MyBlogLog), they release cool projects like the Creative Commons Search, and they have interesting bloggers like Jeremy Zawodny, Tom Coates, and (briefly) Simon Willison. But then you read scathing articles in Wired on their CEO and you feel sorry for the individuals that do good work at a company that doesn't have it all together.
Anyway, my take on this was to extend my Flickr Pro membership 2 more years. It was actually due to expire when the switch was going to be thrown, but I've liked the acquisition by Yahoo. I doubt that unlimited uploads would have occurred if Flickr was still a small company. I also suspect that there would have been a lot more "Flickr is having a massage" messages. Unlike many other sites, Flickr provides a public API so that I can walk away with my data whenever I please.
* Flickr did also announce a 3000 contact limit at 75 tag limit, all in the name of performance. The contact limit only affects 300/6,000,000 of their user base, but arbitrary limits always come off as... arbitrary.
Why relate?
Google recently launched Google related links to compete with Yahoo's Y!Q for publishers. Both provide you an automated mechanism for inserting "related" links into your own Web site. I don't get it. Let me start off with an example of a human-authored attempt to incorporate related links (from Wikipedia's April 1, 2006 article, but just about any Wikipedia article will do):
Slashdot incorporated a pink "OMG!!! Ponies!!!" theme [1] at 00:00 UTC. This girlish theme is in stark contrast for a techie website believed to be mostly frequented by male nerds.
The only related links in that sentence important to understanding the subject (link "[1]") were Slashdot and OMG, but there are plenty of other 'related' links to Wikipedia entries about pink, girlish, male, nerds, contrast and Web sites -- great if your goal is to spend three hours on Wikipedia exploring the interconnectedness of entries, but not much more.
A link is a way for someone to leave your page. With either Google Related or Y!Q, you, as a publisher, are saying that you want to insert more ways for a visitor to get the heck out, that the fire marshal has directed visitors to proceed to the nearest related link safety exit in a calm and collected manner.
I use a more profitable system for saying, "Get the heck out": ads. A large percentage of the entries on this site are crap or have only short-term relevance. My entry about Bootcamp won't matter for long, but many more people will read it a year from now because of search engines. I'm too lazy to keep older blog entries relevant and I don't want to delete part of my historical record, so I review older entries from time to time and place my ad exit signs if I think that the entry won't age well... or if I think I can make a buck :).
Ads are just as crappy as related links, but older entries are mostly compost and you can't really crap on crap. At least Google is better incentivized to make ads more relevant. As a publisher, masking the smell with a Google Adsense check helps and there is one good that comes of it all: you can buy fancy new toys to blog about ;).
Free Web library = Hot
on February 14, 2006 12:35 AM | Permalink
Yahoo has released several ui libraries. Open APIs are pretty cool, but free (Creative Commons) code gives you more options. I've been considering a redesign of this site for quite some time; the ajax, animation, and dom libraries might be of some use. They've also released a series of user interface guidelines that they call 'design patterns,' which I found interesting in that such things are now considered important enough to share.
30 Boxes: immediate wow
on February 6, 2006 10:29 PM | Permalink
After hitting refresh all day, I finally managed to get a beta account on 30 boxes, which is a Web calendar with fancy features like:
a text box at the top where you can quickly add events like "Tour of California Feb 19-26" or "kwc's Birthday Oct 31 repeat yearly". I've found this box to be much, much faster after a 10 second learning curve.
overlay your local weather on top of your calendar.
little touches, like giving you a link to check your Gmail in order to retrieve your signup confirmation and getting a user icon from Flickr if you give it your Flickr account name.
export to iCal so that you can view it in iCalendar, Sunbird, or other apps
subscribe to your upcoming.org profile.
share your calendar with friends (anyone else feel like signing up? let me know)
uncluttered display: the calendar takes up your whole browser window
I've only been using it 15 minutes and I'm gearing up to switch over from my Yahoo! Calendar. Every other "Web 2.0" calendar site I've tried in the past (at current count, about three) has failed to immediately impress or convince me that it is in anyway better than the good ole' Yahoo klunker. I'm a little hesistant to jump ship so quickly. The last technology that convinced me to leave Yahoo! behind was Gmail, so it's been quite awhile since I've had to deal with the ramifications of having my personal workflow moved from one system to another. It appears that they may be in need of a little more polish before I'm ready to migrate, but given all the little touches in there so far it seems that whoever is in charge of their development will get it polished up nice and shiny.
Yahoo and TiVo
on November 7, 2005 12:01 PM | Permalink
I just setup Yahoo TV to work with my TiVo, which restores some of the usefulness of My Yahoo homepage. I can now click on any program in the Yahoo TV listings and have it record on my TiVo. It was surprisingly easy to setup and Yahoo even detected that my TiVo had a different schedule listing and offered to switch to that. About the only hiccup was that I have two Series 2 TiVos -- one in Berkeley and one in Mountain View -- and it isn't quite smart enough to deal with that oddity seamlessly. It would be nice if I could set my Mountain View TiVo as my default TiVo and if I could also easily switch between Mountain View and Berkeley channel lineups (or have Yahoo manage the difference).
on October 10, 2005 9:12 PM | Permalink
No time, no time, some rapid fire rants and praise:
Zimbra: I just check out their demo of their Web-based e-mail/calendar suite and it has some great stuff that makes me think, "why haven't more companies done that?" If there's an address in an e-mail you can mouse over and it pulls up a Google Map and if you mouse over a date reference ('tomorrow', 'Aug 20') it shows your schedule for that day. It's all about saving that extra step. The rest of the UI is pretty fancy and desktop-like, but I'm no longer sure why desktop-like is a plus.
Microsoft Max: A Microsoft product that I actually had fun with, though I have no idea why I would use it on a regular basis and the UI is confusing in all its modalities. I can't think of any other Microsoft product that I thought of as fun -- most just cause me to break DVDs (others agree). The feature I most enjoyed was the mantle, which arranges your photos in 3D space. (Examples: my nephew, Pinnacles, Red Bull). It looks great and it also lets you view more photos in less space. You can rearrange the clusters that it creates, but the ones it chose seemed intereresting. Side note: are the clusters in the mantle view randomly assigned? Some of their clusters are great, some make little sense, but overall it's a nice new spin on things.
iPod nano: strap one of those to the back of my cellphone and another to the back of my PSP. Slide another into my Elph case and ... oh, now I'm getting greedy.
Lost: is there anyone in the 18-35 demographic not watching this show? Everyone at the wedding was either watching the new episodes or catching up with the DVDs.
The maybe good
PSP + TV: The head of Sony says that soon you'll be able to watch video using the wireless capabilities of the PSP and sync with your DVR. Sounds pretty cool but I won't jump for joy unless I hear "TiVo."
The almost good
Google Desktop ate my CPU: I had to uninstall because the new Google Desktop decided that 99% of my CPU was quite nice to utilize, even when instructed to pause indexing. Rather unfortunate as there were some aspects of the sidebar I liked, even if it was ugly. You can tell that it's paying attention to what you're doing and trying to help and with a couple iterations I could imagine it becoming a great product, but not quite yet.
The probably ugly
Google Reader: davextreme pulled me aside during the wedding reception to let me know that Google had released a feed reader, news that I have been waiting to hear for a long time. Less than 24 hours is not enough to evaluate a feed reader properly -- for now I'll say that it's slick, but who wants to read through your feeds one entry at a time. BoingBoing alone has 20-40 entries a day -- even with keyboard shortcuts that means I have to hit 'j' 20-40 times to read just one site, at which point I want to rent a helper monkey to break up the monotony.
iTunes 5.0 (Windows): can't seem to play a song without skipping and the 'streamlined' UI makes me wish for ole' big and bulky.
Flickr + Yahoo: the extra year of service plus two free giveaway accounts were nice presents, but Flickr still goes out for massages all the time and I don't want my Flickr ID linked to my Yahoo! ID.
TiVo: what the hell are they up to? I love my three TiVos, but their current directions have been entirely pro-broadcasters and anti-consumer. It's a very capable platform that they try to do less and less with every day. Why can't I play shows on my PSP? Why can't I share episodes with friends? Why is TiVo Desktop so buggy? Why why why?
Food thoughts
on September 20, 2005 1:03 AM | Permalink
Wandering the Yahoo! cafeteria, it seems to be a less cool Google cafeteria. The Y! cafeteria has some nice things, but you get them for free at Google.
They were out of coffee.
A search with no 'enter'
on September 15, 2005 12:38 PM | Permalink
Yahoo has launched Instant Search, it's attempt to one-up Google Suggest. Instead of trying to autocomplete your search terms for you, the top search result appears for you as you type, i.e. you don't hit enter or click 'search.' I can see this approach solving a lot of usability problems for Web search for the average user (where average user is probably not someone reading this blog). According to Nielsen, 40% of the search population is not search literate, which he demonstrated by showing a video of an example user in this 40% attempting to do a search query. The number of different ways other than the correct way the user tried was impressive, though understandable.
The elimination of one the search steps should be beneficial to the 40% crowd. Also, this could be merged with a Google Suggest-like autocomplete -- the autocomplete to speed text entry and reduce spelling errors, and the instant search to eliminate problems with clicking the correct button or typing the correct key.
As currently implemented, though, the Y! Instant Search isn't ready to help that many people. The number of queries for which there is an actually instant search result is very small, so small that you have to adapt their examples searches to figure what works. I see this as a big impediment to my general use because the instant search is just slow enough that it's hard to tell whether the instant search is still being fetched or there is no instant search result. Also, I find the general Yahoo! Search results page (the page you get if you do click 'search') extremely annoying. On my laptop screen the top search result isn't even fully visible without scrolling down due to all the ads at the top. A search engine that places most of its results 'below the fold' is rather worthless.
Yahoo's retort to my previous post
on June 29, 2005 8:10 AM | Permalink
A day after I posted about Google's personalized search launch, I now find myself demo-ing Yahoo's "My Web 2.0 BETA"* (the logo for which tips its hat to the Flickr folks).
In terms of features, Yahoo's response is to see Google's personalization + search history and add in social bookmarking (del.icio.us-like) and social networks (Yahoo 360). This is an impressive array of functionality, but does an impressive feature list make for an impressive experience? Review in the extended.
Continue reading Yahoo's retort to my previous post.
Talk: Recent Innovations in Search and Other Ways of Finding Information
on April 12, 2005 10:24 PM | Permalink
Peter Norvig, Google; Ken Norton, Yahoo!; Mark Fletcher, Bloglines/Ask Jeeves; Udi Manber, A9; Jakob Nielsen, NN Group
I went with bp and Neil to a BayCHI talk on "Recent Innovations in Search." I agree with bp's sentiment -- there were some interesting moments, but the talk was short on revelations or insights. I guess that is to be expected as the title of the talk is past focused ("Recent Innovations") rather than future focused ("Future Innovations"); it's hard to believe that the panelists would give away yet unrevealed technologies they were working on. I'm going to try and save as much effort as possible, given that bp posted his notes. In fact, as I am going to crib from his notes, or just omit what he already has, you should just go read them instead.
Continue reading Talk: Recent Innovations in Search and Other Ways of Finding Information.
Yahoo term extraction examples
I was curious to see how well the new Yahoo term extraction API would work, so I coded up a quick script to get some results on my most recent blog entries. I was hoping that this api might make it easier to write something to go auto-tag all my previous entries or otherwise allow me to add some interesting bit of info to these pages, but I'm not so sure. You can see the samples in the extended entry as well as python code for doing it yourself.
Continue reading Yahoo term extraction examples.
Yahoo 360 First Impressions
on March 31, 2005 6:44 PM | Permalink
Is it possible to judge a new uber social-networking service in just one hour? No -- but I'm going to try anyways.
My gut reaction is that this will be hugely popular. I use My Yahoo! on a daily basis as my personal information organizer (calendar, fantasy sports, tv listings), and the overriding impression I get using 360 is that "this is what My Yahoo! should be more like," or rather, "360 is the complement of My Yahoo!"
360 brings together many separate Yahoo! services under one roof, from photos to IM to groups, as well as adding a new blogging service. The experience of logging into 360 is that of sitting in front of a large communication center gazing out onto my social network: on the left are my messages and my instant messenger list; to the right is the latest additions to my friend's 360 pages as well as my Yahoo! Groups. This is in contrast to My!, which mainly focuses on your own personal information and third-party information sources (comics, news, weather).
In constructing this comparison between the two, I wonder why Yahoo! didn't combine them, or at least incorporate more My! features into 360. For example, 360 has a "Mailbox", but it's not your Yahoo! e-mail -- it's actually just a basic inter-360 messaging service. There's also no linkage between my Yahoo Address Book and the 360 service, other than the fact that you can invite people directly from your address book. It's as if there is a glass wall separating you from the rest of Yahoo, and you are given a box of crayons to copy everything down from the other side. It also gives the feeling of missed opportunities -- e.g. my calendar has absolutely no presence on 360. It seems to me, at least, that there could be a lot of potential in adding the ability to organize events (social calendaring) that could be synced with my personal calendar.
This is an early beta, and perhaps Yahoo! will bring more of the My! world into 360 over time. They will, at the very least, be adding in the ability to subscribe to RSS feeds, which will greatly expand the content that is available and give friends with non-Yahoo blogs the ability to participate (at a reduced level). Maybe I just wish for this convergence because it seems silly that I need two Yahoo! pages opened up in my browser to view my Yahoo! world, all because Yahoo! doesn't know how to integrate the two worlds. [note: I'm not suggesting that Yahoo! mash My+360 into one uber page, but I am saying that 360 needs to be more like My! and integrate with Yahoo better]
Wombat notes that Yahoo 360 is a closed service, and that makes the service suck, and he's right, though I believe when users evaluate the balance of the features that 360 provides, they'll decide that it outweighs to problems of a closed service. After all, Friendster, which is completely closed, is still popular, and Xanga, which is most similar to 360 in that outsiders can view content but not leave comments, is also very popular. There is plenty of stupid 360 closed-world-oriented functionality to frustrate -- e.g. if you send a message to someone, it sends them an e-mail to tell them they have a message, but the e-mail doesn't actually way what the message is (you have to logon). It would be nice if it were more like LiveJournal with regards to openness, but in the end I don't think that's going to effect the popularity of 360.
Flickrhoo
on March 21, 2005 8:50 AM | Permalink
I'm more worried about the recent acquisition of Flickr by Yahoo! than I was about Bloglines being bought by Ask Jeeves. Both are great tools that are on my most-frequently-used list*, but my perception is that Yahoo! is more capable of screwing up their acquisition considering that everything they've bought in the past looks Yahoo-like, which is to say that everything they've touched has acquired the bad aesthetics and UI of Yahoo! proper -- anybody know of counter-examples to assuage my fears?
With the recent Flickr outages, though, perhaps the Y! infrastructure will be a plus, and I'm sure my friends over at NetApp are looking forward to an increased storage demand from Y!.
* Actually using Chameleon, Josh's extension to Bloglines. Try it out. It's great.
Subscribe to comments bookmarklet (Yahoo and Bloglines)
on June 30, 2004 9:53 PM | Permalink
As a follow-up to bp's entry on RSS Comments, I now give you a bookmarklet for bloglines and My Yahoo! users that will let you subscribe to RSS comments:
Subscribe to Comments (Bloglines)
Subscribe to Comments (My Yahoo!) (NOTE: you must add the RSS Headlines content to your My Yahoo! page)
Of course, bp's site is the only site supporting RSS comments right now, but I plan to add that feature to every movabletypo site, as well as kwc.org (when the real server comes back online).
Update: added My Yahoo! bookmarklet.
Y! Maps got Wi-Fi
on June 25, 2004 11:03 PM | Permalink
In the never-ending battle between Yahoo and MapQuest, I now give the edge to Yahoo, which is including Wi-Fi hotspot locations on their maps:
- Mountain View
It is unclear to me how they are getting this data -- you won't find your neighbor's access point listed on it, and some retail locations I know of are missing (Dana Street). They do have every Starbucks and McDonald's listed (sometimes twice), along with apartment complexes, miscellaneous stores (Borders, Apple) and coffee shops.
This is good advertising for those retail chains and apartment complexes. It also means that the next time I visit Boston I won't have to walk up and down Newbury Street with my signal strength indicator trying to find a place to drink coffee :) (Boston Wi-Fi map).
(via asa)
A little late
on June 15, 2004 11:18 AM | Permalink
Yahoo! upgraded my storage to 100MB (perhaps someone should tell them that this is less than 1GB), and they also mucked around with the interface ever-so-slightly. Its still mish-mashed and cluttered, but they got rid of the ugly bezelled buttons of the previous incarnation. The interface is also still mean-spirited: instead of taking you directly to your inbox, as any remotely intelligent e-mail client would, it still takes you to a welcome page with a big colorful ad. I also notice that they have a 'Search Mail' button; I don't know if this is new, or if I am noticing it for the first time. I'm not sure why they would choose to put the search mail functionality on a separate page, but leave a "Search the Web" box on every page, unless they're that desperate to steal searches from Google.
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