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In this episode we talk to Anthony Johndrow, CEO of Reputation Economy Advisors.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyjohndrow/
623: How Corporate Reputation Impacts Growth w/ Anthony Johndrow
... a podcast, interview your ideal clients and let them choose the topic of the interview, because if your ideal clients care about the topic, there's a good chance the rest of your audience will care about it too. Learn more at sweet fish Mediacom. You're listening to the BE TOB growth show, podcast dedicated to helping be to be executives achieve explosive growth. Well, you're looking for techniques and strategies or tools and resources, you've come to the right place. I'm Jonathan Green and I'm James Carberry. Let's get into the show. Welcome back to the BEDB growth show. We are here today with Anthony John Drew. He is the CEO of reputation economy advisors. Anthony, how you doing today? I'm doing great, James. I'm glad to be here. I'm a really excited to chat with you today, Anthony. We're going to be...
...talking about corporate reputation and how that impacts be tob growth and so before we dive into that, though, I'd love for listeners to know a little bit of context about you and your company. Tell us a little bit about reputation economy advisors. Thanks, James, and probably quite a few of your listeners might be a bit confused to see reputation and growth in the same sentence. So I'll start by talking about what got me into this topic, and really the world changed after the financial crisis. That's the biggest thing going on right now, and you don't have to look very far to figure that out, and I call it the dawn of the reputation economy. What I mean by that is that, starting in about two thousand and ten or so, people started caring more about the companies in the people behind the products and services they buy, and they do about the products and services themselves. So what that means to you, if you're a marketer or if you are a corporate strategist of any kind, is that suddenly how you engage the market place is going to need to change quite a bit. The big recognition that you have,...
...or that I've seen from companies as they embrace this reality or or shrink from it, is that they either approach it with a sense of fear reputation risk, or they approach it with a sense of greed. Wow, this is an opportunity to grow a little bit faster, and that's what I want to talk to you about today. I love it and so so, Anthony, let's dive into that. You know, talking about how the impact of what would change after the financial crisis. Of You, as we're talking about it offline, you mentioned that there are two specific things that impact bb growth as it relates to a corporation's reputation. You said it was risk and greed. Can you talk to us about both of those things? We absolutely when you think about where this comes from originally, it's grounded in social science. So if you look at the science of reputation behind it, is the science of relationships between people. People don't really have relationships with products, no matter what...
...brand marketers would like to tell you. They have relationships with people in groups of people. So companies are closer to groups of people than products are. That's really what they are. Companies a group of people working on the same effort towards the towards the direction that people can relate to. So typically, if you think about traditional consumer package goods, the companies behind them have hidden themselves. So reality number one is that's a huge reputation risk if your proctor and gamble, for example, you're the invisible hundred and fifty year old company behind tied and crest and product brands that are that dominate the world. So if suddenly people are curious as to WHO's the company behind these products they've been buying all along and, oh, by the way, they've seen these new market entrants that are leading with their company or their cs our proposition and your procturing gamble, that is a major risk and you don't know what to do about it because suddenly have to figure out how to tell your story. Now. If, on the other hand, so that the second point to yours, if you are a company that has a great story that you've always led with, led with, if your seventh generation, for example, or method...
...or something like that, in that competing in the laundrey isle against proctor and Gamble, you were born as a company in this new reputation economy and it's natural for you to talk about who you are as a company and what you stand for. So you're looking for new tools, new ways to tell that story and build on lead you may already have against proctoring gamble or, at a minimum, chip away at their market share God. And so how for the BTB companies, you know, for the all a lot of be tob marketers listening to this. I'd love to kind of dive deeper into the into the green side of that, into kind of owning embracing your story and kind of leading with that. What would be the advice that you would give as it relates to that idea, anthony, to the B to be brands that are tuning in? What's been great for me is I've as I've had the opportunity to work across a lot of big companies, both be tocn be to be. Is that the be to be executives that I've talked to tend to get this. This is already the be to be re reality. It's not...
...news for you. In fact, if you look at the science underneath it, if you look at be to be customers, they cared more about the companies behind the products they were buying years before consumers did. It was already when I look at it from a proportion standpoint, if you just take two sets of perceptions, perceptions of products and be to be in perceptions of the companies behind them and their relative importance when it comes to say net promoter score or purchasing behavior the company. Set of perceptions is who we are. Set of perceptions in be to be on average accounts for about eighty percent of those behaviors if you're looking at what explains what. So when you talk to a be to be leader, they get it. They're not this is not news to them. It doesn't rock their world like it does a strategist to proctor and gamble. But at the same time, these these old disciplines of brand marketing that really said, hey, we need to put a new brand behind every product we launch. Everything has to have a great product story and when you go talk to your custom and rich, talk up these products and use these new sales materials about the products, be to be salespeople, even though...
...they're instincts have told them that they need to tell a broader story, not just about the product but also about the company. They've been told to talk about the product exclusively for many years now, and retraining them, helping them figure out a new script for how to pitch in the market place, is a huge opportunity and it's actually a lot of fun when you get into that. And so tell me a little bit more about how your kind of coming alongside be tob companies, how you and you and your team are coming alongside bed be company. So you're helping them kind of craft these scripts. And what other things are you guys doing to help them get further along this path of really communicating their story and be less having less emphasis around the product itself? Well, I'll tell you a quick a quick story. I think they might illustrate the answer better than than me talking up our services. I was working with a major be to be to see company, really a healthcare device...
...and pharmaceutical company. So their business is B tob sales people who call on physicians. Essentially, they had been like I just described, talking about the new and latest products that their organization had developed for years. That was what sales looked like. You ran around, you gave samples to the doctors and you talked about the latest features and benefits of the products. And they were successful company, competing head to head with other big successful companies in the world's largest pharmaceutical market here in the United States. I had done some work for the corporate folks, the Corporate Communications and corporate branding folks in the organization that researched physicians and looked at what they thought about and really analyzed what drove their prescribing behavior. And so this research had been around the Organization for actually better the better part of a year. So it wasn't it wasn't like it was new news. But the sales organization looked at and said, you know, this is contradictory to what all the product marketing people are telling us and we've got so many new product initiatives we don't even want to have this insight presented...
...at our sales meeting. Oh Wow. So I said to them that's crazy. You know what, why wouldn't you want at least share this with what? You've got too much on our plate, we can't do it. But of course what they were looking at was a hundred and fifty pages of research and really a lot of that said reputation all over it. And I'll give you a secret, JAMES BE TOB salespeople don't really care about reputation. That's an abstract concept, that's a personal one to them, but when it comes to corporate reputation they've got bigger fish to FRY. So when I was when I got that pushback, I said, Hey, listen, this is predictive analytics that we put together for you here. That says, you know what, if you talked about the company a little bit, when you can give with physicians, they would write more prescriptions in your favor and you would build market share. So the people running this sales meeting said that's kind of interesting and it's certainly more interesting than what we saw at this one hundred fifty pages of research. So what we don't really believe you. It sounds is good, but we don't believe it. And I said, Hey, you guys are a science company. Why don't you test it out? Don't change everything...
...you do in your sales meeting, don't don't retrain all of your sales reps today, but why don't you go train a few of them in one of your markets and do it just like you would a science experiment. I have a control do a test and see what happens. So they did and at the same time during the test, which made me a little nervous, their biggest competitor launched a new, absolutely amazing product. So they lost market share all over the country except for one market, the market where they tested the new script. That incorporated storytelling about the company. So it's just it's phenomenal when you see, when you start to see it in real life. salespeople are are show me people. Be To be is a show me world. So once we're able to show them actual results, it was off to the races and they've been destroying a competition ever since. I love it, Anthony. This has been incredible. Is there? Is there anything else before I let you go today that you think would be valuable for our listeners to understand as it relates to reputation, tying back to growth in a be to be...
...context? I think billy on my story there. I think this idea that the world has changed is an uncomfortable one. It's much more comfortable to just go with a tried and true and there's a lot of a lot of fear associated with changing a growth strategy. But if you're in a be to be organization where you have these close relationships with your customers already, you're not two layers away as a consumer product marketer is, then talk to them and do it in a sophisticated way and use a little bit of that analysis that comes out of that to try something new and try it. You can experiment, and that's I think the lesson that we can take from that pharmaceutical company is that I'm you can experiment and I think that can happen really, really fast. So try it out, prove it in a pilot before you try and change the way you do thin because of organization. Awesome, Anthony. If there's somebody listening to this, they want to stay connected with you, they want to learn more about reputation economy advisors. What's the best way for them...
...to go about doing that? Just stopped by our website, which we've tried to keep simple. It's our EPECN REP ECON DOTCO, notcom, because someone stole that from us. So REPICON DOT CO and love to tnue conversation on twitter, Linkedin as well under my name. Awesome. Thank you so much, Anthony. This has been fantastic, so I really appreciate your time. Thank you, James. appreciated. If you've been getting valued from this podcast, you can help us reach more people by reviewing the show on itunes. Here's how you can leave a review in less than a minute. Open your podcast APP and tap the search icon in the bottom right corner. TYPE IN B toob growth. Then select our show. Once you're there, tap the reviews tab and tell us what you think of the show. These reviews help us out of time. Thank you so much for listening, until next time.
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Q: How to write withcolumn as reusable code in scala Below is my code how can I write optimal code for withcolumn as a reusable code since the conditions are quite similar and I might use the withcolumn in other dataframes as well.
    val sample = df1.alias("a").join(df2.alias("b")
      ,Seq("ReportingSetID","ProductLine","PlanID","ReportType","NumeratorID","MemberID","ServDate"))
      .withColumn("IsNumeratorSupplemental",
        when (col("a.IsNumerator")===1 && col("b.IsNumerator")===0,1).otherwise(0))
      .withColumn("IsExclusionSupplemental",
        when (col("a.IsExclusion")===1 && col("b.IsExclusion")===0,1).otherwise(0))
      .withColumn("IsSubExclusionSupplemental",
        when (col("a.IsSubExclusion")===1 && col("b.IsSubExclusion")===0,1).otherwise(0))
      .withColumn("IsRequiredExclusionSupplemental",
        when (col("a.IsRequiredExclusion")===1 && col("b.IsRequiredExclusion")===0,1).otherwise(0))
      .filter(!col("b.MeasureID").isin("44","70"))

A: You can write a simple method that takes a DataFrame and adds the column like this:
def withSupplemental(columnName : String)(df: DataFrame) = {
    df.withColumn(s"${columnName}Supplemental",
        when (col(s"a.$columnName")===1 && col(s"b.$columnName")===0,1).otherwise(0))
}

Optionally, this could also become an extension method if you feel the need for it.

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Dodge 1984 pick-up trucks were based on models produced by Chrysler Motors beginning in the 1960s. The 1984 pick-up was Dodge Chrysler's all-purpose economical pick-up, which had improved features and provided owners with a fuel-efficient truck at a reasonably low price. The 1984 Dodge Truck ushered in an era of low-mileage trucks, which became the norm throughout the '80s and '90s. Chrysler discontinued the model in 1993.
The 1984 Dodge Truck was part of Chrysler's second model generation, which began production in 1983. Chrysler made three product lines: two-door, two-door extended cab and four-door crew cab. Each came with anti-lock brakes, front disc brakes utilizing ventilated discs, which assist the braking system. Buyers could choose between a four-speed automatic transmission and a five-speed manual transmission.
The 1984 Dodge Truck models featured a regular front-wheel drive layout, with the engine position in an angled position, perpendicular to the length of the truck. This vehicle was mass manufactured on Chrysler's AD-Body platform.
The 1984 Dodge Truck was a mid-size pick-up that measured 215 inches long. The truck's body sat on a steel frame with a 131-inch wheelbase. The 1984 Dodge Truck had a width of 71 inches and extended 65 inches from the passenger's side to the driver's side door. This truck's front bumper ran 61 inches from left to right and the rear bumper extended 62 inches. The radius of the '84 Dodge Truck was 470 inches with an overall curb weight of 3,385 lbs.
The 3.9-liter V-6 engine within the 1984 Dodge Truck used a multipoint fuel injection within a four-value cylinder that ran on regular unleaded gas. With the various components inside the engine, '84 Dodge trucks received 125 horsepower at 5,200 rpm with a torque of 230 feet-pounds. The engine size measured 96 inches and provided 86 inches of distances between piston and cylinders, which represents the stroke shaft.
Dodge '84 trucks received an average 22 miles per gallon (mpg). All models came equipped with a 15-gallon fuel tank. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) national statistics, '84 Dodge Trucks consumed less gas when driven on urban roads (averaging 15 mpg), than when driving on rural highways or county roads where the pick-up consumed an average of 25 mpg.


Last spring, three people died from carbon monoxide poisoning after staying at the Blue Ridge Plaza Best Western Hotel in Boone, N.C. The victims visited the property seven weeks apart and all stayed in room 225. Though the initial investigation following the Jenkins' deaths was inconclusive, toxicology reports eventually revealed that the deadly gas was to blame for the tragedies. The pool heater's exhaust pipe, which ran directly under room 225, was the source of the lethal leak.
The deaths made national headlines, and Damon Mallatere, the hotel's manager and president of Appalachian Hospitality Management, was charged with three counts of involuntary manslaughter in January. He will most likely face legal action from the families of the victims as well.
While carbon monoxide poisoning at hotels is extremely rare, dire outcomes like this serve as a reminder of how serious an issue it is. Hotel owners and operators should practice regular maintenance and checks on equipment and systems to ensure the highest standards of guest safety.
Common hotel systems that could produce carbon monoxide include fuel-burning furnaces, boilers, pool heaters, emergency generators, fireplaces, and in-suite kitchens with gas-fired stoves. If exhaust pipes attached to these devices are damaged, bent, or punctured, carbon monoxide could build up and leak into nearby areas.
Maintaining and monitoring the potential sources of carbon monoxide is something that hotels should do at least annually.
Bringing in unbiased third-party inspectors, such as a local fire department rather than a service that sells carbon monoxide alarms, to audit the hotel also is a good way to get objective opinions about potential danger zones.
Tom Daly, principal at The Hospitality Security Consulting Group, explains that it is important to reevaluate systems following any type of natural disaster where equipment may have shifted or venting could have become blocked or dislodged. Inspections should occur after earthquakes, hurricanes, or even massive snowstorms.
In the case of the North Carolina hotel deaths, a contractor was hired to install the pool-heating system that was eventually identified as the source of the deadly carbon monoxide leak.
When working with contractors, make sure to check references and ensure that the company has the proper permits before starting construction on a project, says Stephen Barth, the founder of HospitalityLawyer.com and Professor of Hotel Law at the University of Houston.
It's also important for municipalities to inspect the project and sign off on it after completion. This will help hoteliers avoid liability if a system is not installed properly.
New requirements from the International Code Council (ICC) for the International Building Code and the International Fire Code state that carbon monoxide alarms should be installed in any location that includes a device that could potentially produce carbon monoxide.
"As states, counties, and cities update their codes, they'll look to the international codes and most likely adopt them," Daly says.
The cost of installing carbon monoxide alarms is relatively inexpensive for a hotel. These alarms generally range between $50-$100 each. Since most midsized hotels will average three to five potential sources for carbon monoxide, hoteliers usually can put alarms in place for less than $1,000.
Harrington believes hoteliers should be proactive and install carbon monoxide alarms in the locations recommended by the ICC, whether it's required by their state or not.


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Q: React eslint error missing in props validation on for the word "props" I have the code below:
import React from "react";
import "./App.css";
import myPic from "./pics/John_Smith.jpg";

function App() {
  return (

5 Birthdays today

                    {/* <BirthdayCard job="Developer"/> */}
                    <BirthdayCard />

  );
}

const BirthdayCard = (props) => {
    console.log(props);
    return

        <Image></Image>
        <Text></Text>

{props.job}

};

const Image = () => (

 );

const Text = () => {
    return

        <Name></Name>
        <Age></Age>

}

const Name = () => (

John Smith

)

const Age = () => (

30 years

)

export default App;

I am getting the error; "job" is missing in props validation  react/prop-types, but this ONLY happens if I use the word "props" as a parameter. If I change it to anything else even "prop", the error goes away. Does anyone know why this is and how to fix it to be able to use "props" as a parameter?

A: Prop validations is a way of typechecking the props that a component recieves.
For instance, in the case of BirthdayCard you could do something like:
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';

BirthdayCard.propTypes = {
  job: PropTypes.string
};

So whenever you use BirthdayCard and pass the prop job with a type other than string you will get a console error warning you that the type should be string.
// This throws a console error
<BirthdayCard job={1} />

// This does not throw any error
<BirthdayCard job="programmer" />

If you are not going to be defining prop types you might want to disable this warning.
As of why it only throws the warning when the name is props, I have no clue. Maybe because it's a convention to use the name props.
Side note. You can use object deconstruction to clean your component definitions a little bit.
const BirthdayCard = ({ job }) => {
    return

        <Image></Image>
        <Text></Text>

{job}

};


Relying on an international employer to discover you is like trying to be number one in the Google search rankings. Take for example Canada and the Express Entry system. It is estimated that there are currently approximately 50,000 individuals waiting to be selected in the Express Entry pool.
Each month, applicants are offered an invitation to apply for permanent residency to Canada and job offers from employers are a major factor in being selected. Is it possible to draw more attention to yourself and get selected in Express Entry? Perhaps, but trying to figure out the search behaviour of employers on Express Entry is a futile task. Who knows what words and which phrases related to education and work experience will cause an employer to discover your profile.
Furthermore, even if the employer does discover your profile, what impression are you leaving with them? Are you using the correct job title so that the employer understands what you can offer and what you actually do in your job? Does your description contain buzzwords that are only understood in your country? Even worse, are there terms that are being misconstrued to your detriment?
What's more, international candidates are realizing that employers are simply not conditioned to do a lot of the heavy lifting in order to search out candidates. The end result is that a lot of international candidates are sitting idle in the Express Entry pool and unfortunately their profiles will never be viewed or considered.
As more and more international candidates are discovering, just being in Express Entry is not going to give you a great chance of getting a job in Canada. International candidates need to move beyond waiting in the Express Entry pool to give themselves a real chance to find a job in Canada. This means actively trying to reach out and find employers who are willing and able to hire international workers, perhaps even before entering into the Express Entry system.
The good news is that when the international candidate reaches out and contacts the employer it gives them a real chance to explain who they are and why the employer should look at them, and this is a critical component to getting a job in Canada.
The reason is that first impressions really matter in the world of international recruiting. Given the high level of uncertainty and the great amount of effort required to hire an international worker, companies need clarity with respect to whom they are talking to and what that candidate offers. In a way, companies need to brand the individuals that they are looking at in order to sell themselves and the rest of the organization on that international candidate. Additionally, it makes it a lot easier for a hiring manager or recruiter to become your evangelist if your brand is one that resonates with the needs of the employer. Is it possible to clearly communicate a personal brand within the Express Entry system? The simple answer is no.
Being discovered within Express Entry is challenging. Representing yourself properly once you are in the system is even more difficult. That is why constantly trying to reach out and communicate with employers who are willing and able to hire international workers, before or even if you are already in the Express Entry system, may be the key to finding a job and starting a new life in Canada.


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Scully Gray Box
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Then & Now: A Legacy of Filmmaking at SFAI
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Saturday, March 28 | 6–7pm Panel | 7–8pm Reception
Scully Gray Box at SFAI—Fort Mason Campus
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Starting in 1947, Sidney Peterson taught the first film course at San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), and since then the film department has produced many great filmmakers that learn, graduate, teach, leave, and ultimately return back to SFAI. The process of learning how to make films has changed dramatically since the inception of film. Technical improvements like the iPhone make filmmaking accessible to almost everyone. From 35mm to digital to iPhones, the SFAI's film community has a history of delivering its legacy to the next generation and connecting artists in diverse fields. The legacy includes both celebrated alumna such as Kathryn Bigelow and Laura Poitras, and many other inspiring filmmakers. In this festival, SFAI's current students will curate a program based in the legacy they dig out from SFAI's film archive alongside the work of SFAI alumni.
SFAI is proud to present a weekend of films featuring SFAI alumni and students with additional shorts curated by SFAI students from our eclectic archives. The festival will also host a special screening of the award-winning feature films, Letters Not About Love by Jacki Ochs, and Art and Craft featuring notable art forger and SFAI alumnus Mark Landis. Opening on March 28, films will screen throughout the day from 12–6pm and will be followed by a panel discussion and reception. We invite the public to join our 2-day film festival to experience a vibrant film community and the rich history of SFAI.
Christopher Coppola, President of PlasterCITY Productions Inc., has been a champion of and leader in digital media for over a decade. Since 1987, he has directed eleven feature films, numerous television shows and developed and produced content for alternative distribution and interactive platforms. He has spoken at CES, NAB, SHOWWEST as well as many film festivals about the future of digital filmmaking. His production company is producing low-budget feature films on which SFAI film students can intern and learn by working on set alongside professionals.
Coppola is currently the head of the film program and a tenured professor at San Francisco Art Institute.
Mike Henderson is a pioneering African American artist, filmmaker and musician, whose dynamic practice has spanned more than fifty years. Born and raised in Marshall, Missouri, Henderson received his MFA from the SFAI in 1970. His experimental short films have been screened at venues around the world, including recent presentations at the New York Film Festival (Lincoln Center); the Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago); and Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris).
Mike Henderson has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1973) and two National Endowment for the Arts Artist Grants (1989, 1978). He was recently awarded the 2019 Artadia San Francisco Award. Henderson's paintings and films have been exhibited in such distinguished institutions as Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL. He is the subject of three solo exhibitions in the Bay Area: Honest to Goodness at the San Francisco Art Institute (2019); At the Edge of Paradise at Haines Gallery (2019); and Before the Fire, 1965-1985 at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, CA (2022); and is included in Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983 at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA.
Toban Nichols, is a visual artist from Los Angeles. His work has been seen in film festivals & galleries around LA, in Romania, Israel, & the Netherlands. He was also featured in Pop Rally at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. After earning a Bachelors degree in painting, he studied New Media at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2003 where he received an MFA in New Genres. He has been granted a residency with the Experimental Television Center in New York, and awarded the Juror's Pick at the ArtHouse Film Festival for his video entitled "BATTLESTATIONS!! In the past six years Nichols launched a line of textiles, created a photo app for iDevices worldwide and published his first photo book titled 'MY TWIN'.
Vivian Vivas is a visual artist whose work fuses experimental film, performance, sound, video, and photography. Her work opens a door to the unconscious mind for a full-bodied, conceptual experience that challenges boundaries in contemporary issues. Through her practice, Vivian invites the audience to participate in a conversation, engaging them in the transformation of reality within a constructed world. Vivian works with allusions to a symbolism that can be rediscovered in multiple contexts, allowing both emerging concepts and the greater structure to direct her selection of media. She is currently co-chair of the film selection committee for the 2020 UN Women Film Festival San Francisco Chapter. She recently received the Best Experimental Film Award at the 2019 ARFF Barcelona Film Festival and the 2018 Kodak Award from San Francisco Art Institute. Vivian studied Art Photography at the Andy Goldstein School of Creative Photography in Buenos Aires, Argentina, before receiving her BFA with a double major in Film and Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has exhibited artwork in Buenos Aires, Cali, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Barcelona, among others.
Sequinette is NYC's "pastry of performance art", called a "Drag Impresario" by The New York Times and a "Dolly Parton-esque beauty" by the Village Voice. Highlights of her career include being crowned Miss LEZ 2008 in Murray Hill's queer beauty pageant, starring in Michelle Handelman's film Dorian in 2009 and winning the first ever Miss Drag Coney Island 2012. She creates performance, installations and moving image works of exquisite beauty and carefully wrought absurdity. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Film at San Francisco Art Institute and her most recent 16mm film project Fancy Phone Numbers is currently in post-production.
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Because sometimes being a parent is the most rewarding job ever.
When we think about the best parts of being a parent, we're not thinking about the laughter or the unconditional love. We're thinking about all the random crap we can make up that our kids will believe no matter what.
So we can totally understand why Claire McCormack couldn't contain herself when she finally fessed up that the posh shop she told her daughter her clothes were from were actually just hand-me-downs from her two sisters.
Ever heard of the designer store L'Attic? No? Well, that's obviously because it doesn't exist. Unfortunately, little Katie was none the wiser up until a few weeks ago.
Katie is pretty annoyed, but we think she'll just about forgive her mum... after a trip to a real shop.
Claire McCormack may have just blown her cover, but she is an absolute pioneer in our books and we will defo be trying it on our kids.


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Q: Expand Time-Series Data in R I have a dataset of NHL players that includes number of goals for each player for every season that player played. I calculate the running total of goals over a player's career in order to identify a "running" Top 10 players.
toy_data <- data.frame(player=c("gretzky","gretzky","gretzky","gretzky","gretzky","gretzky","gretzky","gretzky","gretzky","gretzky"),
                       goal_total=c(5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50),
                       goals=c(5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5),
                       year=c(1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999))

player goal_total goals year
1  gretzky          5     5 1990
2  gretzky         10     5 1991
3  gretzky         15     5 1992
4  gretzky         20     5 1993
5  gretzky         25     5 1994
6  gretzky         30     5 1995
7  gretzky         35     5 1996
8  gretzky         40     5 1997
9  gretzky         45     5 1998
10 gretzky         50     5 1999

I want to expand the dataset such that when players end their career, they remain in the dataset. For example, Wayne Gretzky retired in 1999, but I want an entry for Gretzky in the dataset for all subsequent years with his final goal total. The end product would look something like this:
player goal_total goals year
1  gretzky          5     5 1990
2  gretzky         10     5 1991
3  gretzky         15     5 1992
4  gretzky         20     5 1993
5  gretzky         25     5 1994
6  gretzky         30     5 1995
7  gretzky         35     5 1996
8  gretzky         40     5 1997
9  gretzky         45     5 1998
10 gretzky         50     5 1999
11 gretzky         50     0 2000
12 gretzky         50     0 2001
13 gretzky         50     0 2002
...

and so on until 2019. Is there a simple way to do this?

A: We can achieve this with complete and fill from tidyr
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)

toy_data %>%
  group_by(player) %>%
  complete(year = min(year):2019, fill = list(goals = 0)) %>%
  fill(goal_total)

#    player year goal_total goals
#1  gretzky 1990          5     5
#2  gretzky 1991         10     5
#3  gretzky 1992         15     5
#4  gretzky 1993         20     5
#5  gretzky 1994         25     5
#6  gretzky 1995         30     5
#7  gretzky 1996         35     5
#8  gretzky 1997         40     5
#9  gretzky 1998         45     5
#10 gretzky 1999         50     5
#11 gretzky 2000         50     0
#12 gretzky 2001         50     0
#....


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Don't normally do campsite reviews as they are so subjective but nestled in the Tuscan hills is a little gem. Il Colono agritourism campsite that has space for only 6 Motorhomes as well as a few tents lies 2km north of Pomerance on the road to Volterra is a beauty. With a view of the rolling tuscan hillside it has great facilities including good WIFI and a brand new shower block ( 2016) delivers a hot pressure wash without having to press the button every 10 seconds to eep the water going. We stayed for a week in late October and were the only ones there. A lovely sleepy spot.


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Home » Story » Homeless man approaches 24-year-old and wants money - 2 minutes later she's speechless
Homeless man approaches 24-year-old and wants money - 2 minutes later she's speechless
We tend to look at homeless people like they're some kind of faceless people living on the street.
But nothing could be further from the truth. Homeless people also have thoughts, feelings, and dreams.
And sometimes, the people who have the least to give end up being the ones who give the most—something that 24-year-old Caroline Santana got to experience close-up.
Caroline Santana lives in São Paulo, Brazil.
One night, she was about to take the bus home. But when she started rummaging through her bag, she realized that her bus pass was gone and she didn't have enough money for a ticket.
Just them, a man approached her. He was bviously homeless and asked her for money.
"So I said, 'Can you just wait a minute? I think I've lost my bus pass,'" Caroline Santana wrote on Facebook.
Caroline could never have imagined the man's response.
"How much do you need for a ticket?" the homeless man asked. "I only have 4 real, (USD $.63), but I can give it to you."
Caroline was quite moved, but refused his money.
"Are you sure? I can give you the money. I can't let you walk. I can help you," he said.
Then Caroline took another look in her bag—and found her ticket.
She thanked the homeless man for his kindness and his selfless gesture. Then, she started walking to her bus stop.
But after a few seconds, she turned back. She wanted to take a picture of the homeless man and post it on her Facebook page so that everyone could see what big heart the man had.
"Write that my name is Cesar. That's my name!" the man requested.
Caroline also found 2 Brazilian real in her bag and gave them to the man before they parted ways.
She wrote a Facebook post about the meeting. And since May 2016, her post has received 650,000 likes and 120,000 shares.
"Was it a simple gesture? YES! But there's a lesson. This gentleman, who has so little, who needs to rely on others to survive, was willing to give me all that he had that night so I wouldn't have to go home on foot. I'm sure he's condemned by others because of his appearance—many people must think he's badly behaved and could be a thief. But no, he has a big heart.
This story is a lesson of character, humility, wisdom and love! Never judge anyone by their appearance. God writes straight with crooked lines!"
I really believe that everyone who reads this will be inspired by this homeless man.
Nobody can do everything. But everybody can do something. And together we can do even more. Share this story on Facebook if you agree!
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Rivers United chief coach Stanley Eguma has called on the Club fans to get behind the ahead of the mouthwatering clash against inform MFM football club of Lagos in the match day five in the 2019 Nigeria professional football league.
More than three top Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) clubs are jostling for the signature of Sunshine Stars of Akure sensational midfielder, Jide Fatokun.
In the bid to reposition the team for better performance, the management of the Akure-based Sunshine Stars FC on Monday announced minor reshuffling of its technical crew.


Once you have made this fully lined Tote Bag you won't be able to imagine your life without it! Summer is coming – we all need a gorgeous big beach bag!
Materials: you get to keep your own pattern! You will need 1 metre of fabric and 1 metre of lining. A heavier canvas type fabric works well for the main fabric (if you need suggestions on where to buy the canvas fabric let me know). A lovely cup of tea and a slice of cake (yum!) is provided.
Fabric and lining can be bought from me at the workshop.


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Queen Mary's College Students to Embark on Global Expeditions as Part of Challenges Abroad Project
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Yesterday a group of students considering a range of #healthcare #careers enjoyed a second NHS Insight Day with Winchester Hospital. The students attended an NHS 350+ Careers workshop, followed by an amazing panel talk, which consisted of 7 NHS workers including a Health Care Worker who is also a Nursing Apprentice, a Physiotherapist, an Operating Theatre Practitioner, Speech and Language Therapist, Radiographer and 2 Midwives. The students visited the simulation centre where they got to meet 'Victoria' the birthing simulator. They also attended a CPR and Hand Washing workshop. Our students were engaged, asked some great questions and were enthusiastic towards the activities and workshops. Mia Stewart, QMC's Work Experience Coordinator said "The students were a credit to the College. They found the day really helpful in deciding what route they want to go down within the NHS. All in all, another successful day!" #students #hospital #nhs #experience #QMCWorkExperience ... See MoreSee Less
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Students considering a range of #healthcare #careers enjoyed a NHS Insight Day with Winchester Hospital. The students attended an NHS 350+ Careers workshop, visited the simulation centre where they met 'Victoria' the birthing simulator & attended a CPR workshop.
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Posted: 20th January 2023
Queen Mary's College has been given a unique opportunity to run up to 10 expeditions all over the world this academic year as part of the Challenges Abroad Global Citizenship Project.
QMC student Isabella Bache helping at a school in Cambodia on a 2022 Challenge Abroad expedition with QMC.
£500,000 worth of funding has been secured from the Challenges Abroad Turing Scheme, meaning that the cost of a series of two-week adventures is fully covered for QMC's sixth-form students. Expeditions, planned for India, Nepal, Peru, Thailand, Cambodia, and Tanzania, will involve volunteer work with the 'FutureSense' foundation, supporting community-based development projects. Students will also enjoy opportunities to experience the culture of the destination country.
The first of the 2023 trips are scheduled to take place in February, with 16 students and three members of staff each visiting Tanzania, Thailand, or Cambodia. They are looking forward to experiencing another culture, building valuable skills, and contributing to a better world. It follows the success of the 2022 expedition to Cambodia, where 15 students from QMC, accompanied by three members of staff, spent two weeks immersing themselves in the local culture and working alongside a community development program called 'FutureSense'. The students focused on the 'Supplementary Education Programme' which aims to bridge the gap between the level of education supplied free by the state and what is needed for children to succeed in their education. Currently, less than 50% of young people in Cambodia complete their secondary education, and this has the effect of locking a large section of the population into a cycle of poverty. The Futuresense Foundation's mission is to ignite compassion and create a generation of global citizens by providing students with unforgettable experiences that help them develop their skillset and grow as individuals. As a social enterprise, they are committed to providing ethical volunteer experiences that have a long-term impact and are mutually beneficial to both volunteers and the communities where they work. They believe that one student, one team, one programme can be a catalyst for change and that together we can make a difference. Every Challenges Abroad program QMC students are getting involved with supports the goals and objectives of The Futuresense Foundation, which operates in each of their six hubs all year round, creating and overseeing development programs that have a long-term and sustainable impact. Their values of Passion, Integrity, Empathy, Energy, and Innovation are at the heart of everything they do, and they are committed to providing our student volunteers with a wider world view and an understanding of other cultures, all the while helping them to tackle the challenges currently facing marginalised communities around the world.
QMC students and staff had an incredible impact during their first expedition last Summer. One of the major highlights of the trip was the students' fundraising efforts to build two additional classrooms for the 'Supplementary Education Programme'. The group was able to raise the funds needed, a total of US$10,000 (£7,600). Their success enabled over a hundred young students in the Battambang region to access the academic support provided by the Challenges Abroad programme. Photos and videos from last year's expedition to Cambodia can be viewed on Facebook. Click here.
Mark Henderson, Principal of Queen Mary's College said "I am delighted that 160 of our students have the opportunity to take part in the Challenges Abroad expeditions this year. They will be part of unforgettable experiences that help them develop their skillset, grow as individuals and have a positive impact on disadvantaged communities across the globe." Staff and students are now busy raising funds for FutureSense Foundation to support rural, disadvantaged communities in the locations QMC is visiting this year. Click here to find out more more and/or to donate.
QMC Students visiting Tanzania this February will enjoy an incredible insightful experience to see the animals in their natural habitat on the Serengeti Safari. photo credit: Challenges Abroad
QMC Students visiting Tanzania this February will enjoy an incredible insightful experience to see the animals in their natural habitat on the Serengeti Safari. photo credit: Challenges Abroad.
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Obvious, yes but needs to be pointed out. This can be either an Intel Mac or a Windows PC (running anything from Windows XP up to Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit). The software available to make transcription easier is commonly available for both Windows and Mac users.
This is the key component of transcription typing. The software is responsible for audio playback and audio control from within your preferred word processing or text document software. This means that you never need to leave the window you are typing in to stop/start/rewind the audio – the software handles this for you which saves a huge amount of time as those of you who have tried to transcribe using Windows Media Player or QuickTime will know.
If you have come from a transcription typing background, i.e. you have used a foot pedal before then you will need a USB foot pedal to go with your software, experience has shown us that once a foot pedal user always a foot pedal user. For those of you who are new to transcription you have the option of using a foot control or alternatively using keys on the keyboard to control the audio playback. The pedal or the keys are used to stop/start/rewind while listing to and typing the audio.
There are a number of software options around for transcribing audio, we will look at two of the most popular – Express Scribe from NCH Software and DSS Player Transcription Kits from Olympus. The transcription software is key for transcribing digital audio files, it replaces the old tape playing transcriber units of days of old.
Blog post from our UK blog – NCH Express Scribe vs Olympus Transcription Module. This post has some Express Scribe history and compares the two products from a business level.
Express Scribe from NCH Software – $free or AU$35/US$35/GBP23 approx.
Express Scribe has been around for a very long time and is hugely popular with the micro (WAHM – work at home Mum) and VA (Virtual Assistant) style businesses due to both its cost and functionality. Until late 2011 Express Scribe had been free and could play just about any audio format you could throw at it. This recently changed and NCH now offer a free edition and a Pro (paid) edition of Express Scribe. The Pro edition can play a huge range of audio file formats including the very common .ds2 (DSS Pro) audio files now created on the Professional range of Olympus and Philips digital dictaphones. The free edition is restricted to open audio formats like .MP3 and .WMA (Windows Media Audio). Earlier blog post explains the difference between free and Pro version.
Both Windows and Mac compatible Express Scribe can run on either platform. The software can be downloaded and up and running in minutes and is very easy to use and set-up. I recommend you start with the free version first, install it and have a play to see how it works. Scribe comes pre loaded with a sample audio file containing a welcome message – this is perfect for practice in using the software and transcribing from it. Obviously as a download they haven't yet perfected squeezing a USB foot pedal down the phone line so to start with use the Hot-Keys to define the how you would prefer to stop/start/rewind your audio.
My tip: use three of the F keys towards the middle of your keyboard and clearly label them with STOP/PLAY/REWIND – you will very quickly get used to which key does what. Should you require a USB foot pedal then I highly recommend you buy one via the NCH website. Pricing is in US$ but they do ship to Australia and other countries outside of the US.
You will also need to find yourself some good headphones to wear as you listen to the audio. I recommend you buy USB headphones and not the headphones that connect via your sound card. Make sure they are comfortable as you will be wearing them a lot.
UPDATE – Mid 2012 the Olympus AS-5000 transcription kit was replaced by the Olympus AS-7000 Pro digital transcription kit with updated software and new 4 pedal USB foot switch control pedal.
Windows users: AS-5000 will work with all Olympus voice recorders, current and past models including the latest Pro range Olympus DS-2400/DS-3400/DS-5000. Choose AS-2400 if you have any Olympus recorders other than the current Pro range.
Mac users: If you are going to transcribe on a Mac only choose the AS-2400 kit, the software for Mac is exactly the same in the AS-2400 and AS-5000 kits so save yourself some money and only buy the AS-2400.
The cost of these kits when compared to Express Scribe is quite high but remember the kits contain the latest transcription software from Olympus, a transcription headset and a USB foot control (known as an RS-28). The Olympus AS-2400 transcription kit costs approx. AU$349/US$349/GBP234.00 and the AS-5000 kit is approx. AU$449/US$449/GBP300.00 – expensive yes but you do get what you pay for. Including support from your Olympus reseller and from Olympus themselves.


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Credit score card bin # is fundamentally a Visa credit score card or it can also be a quantity that relates to another kind of credit score card. The most common US credit card bin # is that which has sixteen numbers which in simple fact are the main numbers and which are displayed on the front of the card. So, if you have a Uncover credit score card or a MasterCard, you can be sure that its credit score card bin # comprises of sixteen digits.
American Convey is the exception as it is a credit score card with a credit score card bin # that comprises of just fifteen digits. Nevertheless, even even though credit score card bin # can be of any length, it will still be validated in the same way. Complicated math is essential but in the end the credit card bin # can be validated with utmost accuracy.
How to recognize the card sort?
Standard credit score card bin # is produced up of six digits which are the prefix numbers of every single credit card. These 6 digits are recognized as the Financial institution Identification Variety or BIN. These six digits are really there to inform the BIN database that they signify the network to which the credit card belongs and to the financial institution which has issued the credit score card. BIN was also referred to as IIN or Issuer Identification Quantity and the latter can make complete use of the unique prefix that identifies the card sort.
Credit score card bin # is obtained from the total credit card quantity which in turn has its very own construction and so each the credit score card bin # and real credit score card variety have a scheme of numbering that is typical to the two.
The prefix from the credit score card variety includes the first digit of the credit card quantity which signifies the network to which the credit card belongs. It pays to look at how the credit score card bin # is produced up in more detail. For example, if the card sort is American Express then it will have fifteen numbers in all to make up its credit score card quantity. The prefixes utilized are thirty-four and thirty-seven.
If the card belongs to BankCard, then the length of the credit score card number is sixteen and the prefixes are 560 and 561. Even JCB credit cards have fifteen digit credit score card numbers but the prefix (in some circumstances) is 1800 or 2131. There is also a JCB credit card with sixteen digit credit card numbers and prefix of 3.
The credit score card bin # is really produced up of the 1st six digits of the credit score card amount. This credit score card bin # can help in identifying the issuer of the card. In some instances, the credit score card bin # refers to an issuer that has restricted the card numbers in a way that when checked will demonstrate that that the last digit of the prefix is employed to just validate the initial digits.
With this kind of varieties of credit score card bin #, it is not achievable to invent credit score card numbers and it also aids in creating it less difficult to record the credit score card quantity into a BIN database with increased accuracy.
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I wish to produce a store on Etsy, but I haven't got a charge card and that i would need to play one of my parents cards. What type of cards may be used?
I've got a charge card with 1200 onto it. I must money to repay it but am attempting to build my credit rating. Will having to pay double the amount minimum payment aid in increasing my credit rating?
I'm thinking about selling my computer. I've a lot of private information, like addresses, charge card info, social security amounts which i erased. I occur to realize that whenever you remove files out of your computer it does not become permanently erased, it stays in your hardrive even when you need to do empty your ricyle bin. How do i permanently remove it so people cant restore it? What are the good programs?
My mother will allow me to buy stuff with my money online but wont allow me to make use of a charge card. she'll right a cheque for me personally….can there be in whatever way to?
Since you will find many people with poor credit nowadays, do you consider they'll put pressure on charge card companies to help individuals with debt or poor credit?
Opening a PayPal Account in Hong Kong? What's needed to obtain the account fully verified and lift limits?
Aside from a charge card, should i enter my banking account particulars too according to the united states account.
I wish to download a classic bollywood song, Kishore Kumar's "Tum Bin Jaoon Kahan".
I wish to download the song free of charge. I haven't got a charge card so please I wish to download the song free of charge.
What is the cheap and good way to get established to accept charge cards ? Either personally or on the web site or something like that ? Possess a small company and lots of people wish to pay by debit or credit card. Does anybody understand how I possibly could set this up and just how much it might require me to pay ?
I wish to spend money thats $50 but I haven't got a charge card. Can there be a different way to receives a commission onto a paypal account?
I wish to sell my laptop on ebay. Can a hacker take charge card particulars which i have imput online in some way in the hard disk?
I've got a small company , I do not usually take charge cards (i'm not setup for this). I needed to understand if there is a website which i could operate a charge card once without having to pay a regular monthly fee , only a number of the transaction.
I don't have an online prescence . My company isn't online.
I'd my publish diverted before Christmas to my new address when i moved. My bank and utilites etc have my new address now.
Now all I am getting re-directed is spam from charge card companies etc. Since charge card companies distribute forms that simply need signing I am worried about departing it.
How do i stop them delivering this junk?
I understand there is a 2.9% fee but can there be really a noticeable difference between Personal and Premier? I understand you could get Charge Card obligations now /Utilize it like a business account but could I still utilize it as kinda an individual account? Send money to buddies, buy stuff every so often.. Sometimes I do not even touch my Paypal for any couple of several weeks… Will anything happen?
My home is a set that is a house split up into two. He can access the leading door, I do not. My door and letterbox is about the rear of the home with the back gate. I live at 82a and also the neightbour 82b. The issue I've may be the mail carrier will not walk the 50 yards approximately to my letterbox and merely puts all the mail with the door (which I haven't got use of). My neighbour will get my mail, opens it, and puts it within the bin. Previously he's opened up it and tossed it on my small doorstep – sometimes putting it in little plastic bags before departing it around the doorstep. Now I merely don't see my mail. It's been almost a week since i have last had mail. I understand my nieghbour has my bank claims/charge card claims but nothing went missing. I have complianed to royal mail, law enforcement two times, postcomm, my landlord, attempted talking with him but nothing works. What else can one do?
is it feasible?? Plane tickets, hotels etc.
Have only atm cards. what goes on to individuals who dont possess a charge card?? could it be just misfortune on their behalf?
I had been in a local vehicle clean cleaning within my vehicle and cleaning it. I acquired a grocery bag and stuck in most the random papers I spotted—– banking account claims, charge card claims, catalogs, spam, store receipts, etc… I'd planned to accept bag to the house and type out things i wanted and just what was trash to become tossed. In a rush, I didn't remember about my primary plan and put the bag by helping cover their other junk I washed of my vehicle .
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- Do you want to hear the truth?
- Do you know it?
- I'll tell you what I heard.
- The chief administrators of the European Union were always coming and going at the Central European University. George Soros the billionaire money speculator founded the University, and had recently added a Center For European Union Studies. Thus the traffic in bureaucrats. They were a dull and dispiriting bunch, but do you know what I liked about them?
- They actually said what they thought.
- What did they think?
- The usual: the European Union had lived too long on borrowed money, now had to save, suffer through austerity, and then begin again stronger and healthier.
- And of course you think that is wrong.
- Of course I do. I performed this experiment on the bureaucrats. First, I pointed out that even for them there is nothing right or wrong in paying what you owe. The bankers and financial institutions don't do it themselves. They go bankrupt, or get their governments to subsidize them. Second, I told them they were acting on the belief that econonic policy based on "paying what you owe" is best for the countries which it is forced upon. Fifty years of economic history has showed conclusively, with 100% consistency, that this is false.
- The people who borrow and don't repay have to be taught a lesson.
- But not the bankers who borrow and don't repay.
- The bankers do, usually, repay.
- After they get the government to give them the money to repay with.
- Yes. And the European Union bureaucrats don't want to give the people the money to repay with.
- You tell them they're not being fair. What happens?
- They say something like, "life is unfair."
- Of course. And that's what's interesting: they know the economic policies they are pursuing will destroy the lives of the majority of the people they supposedly work for. But they excuse themselves by shifting attention to a moral principle, "pay what you owe".
- Which no one practices!


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Global Learning Initiative Drives 57% Promotion of Senior Women at Lenovo
Solution Advancing Women Leaders
Lenovo, a global technology leader, knows the importance of diversity in creating more innovative products, driving more efficient operations and better serving its customers. The HR Leadership team wanted to increase the number of women in senior leadership positions to keep the talent pipeline strong and reduce turnover.
Lenovo partnered with Linkage to design a nine-month leadership development solution targeted to "Band 10" women (the level just below executive). Since launching in 2014, this global initiative has surpassed expectations—management promoted 57 percent of the participants from the first cohort to the executive level, and the CEO, Yang Yuanqing, has doubled his number of female direct reports. Also, women now represent 20.5 percent of all individuals promoted to the executive ranks.
Immersive learning, global impact
From its inception, the program has focused on advancing high-potential women who were considered promotable to the executive ranks within two to three years. In order to achieve this, the Linkage team designed and delivered a comprehensive journey focused on the six competencies critical to leadership advancement and the seven hurdles that women leaders face in the workforce.
Since being nominated to this program and getting promoted, I have made an intentional effort to give back. I try to help people in the organization, whether they are part of the program or not. Lenovo invested in me, for which I am grateful, and I owe it back to the company.
Vivian Young
Executive Director, Global Digital Marketing
In the first year, 21 leaders from various business groups and functions completed the customized Women's Leadership Development Program. First they took Linkage's Women in Leadership Assessment™—a multi-rater tool that measures skills and competencies necessary for ascension in leadership. Each participant then took part in a one-on-one coaching session focused on interpreting her assessment results and processing the feedback. The group came together before Linkage's Women in Leadership Institute™ to participate in a series of exercises focused on networking, best-practice sharing, and setting expectations for the learning experience.
At the Institute, participants spent four days focused on the critical competencies known to help women advance into more senior leadership positions: Aware, Bold, Clear, Connected, Influential, and Inspiring. They attended keynote sessions and workshops, in addition to daily team discussions on how to apply the key concepts presented in the general sessions.
Following the Institute, participants focused on their individual development plans and took part in two coaching sessions. They then met for a three-day workshop focused on strategic thinking and presentation skills. They were given the opportunity to submit questions to a panel of female Executive Directors who engaged in a dialogue about succeeding at the executive level. The cohorts also worked on their action learning projects.
Executive visibility
These projects were designed to give participants experience increasing their brand awareness with senior leaders from a variety of business groups within Lenovo. Members of the first cohort were paired with various teams to tackle everything from researching the market viability of a children's wearable device to making system-wide changes to how Lenovo recruits, retains and promotes women. Teams in the second cohort created pitches for the next-generation product or service and the next merger or acquisition for the organization. Projects included using artificial intelligence in healthcare and creating an ecosystem around Lenovo gaming products.
At the end of the program, each team presented its action learning project in front of a panel of executive judges. Lenovo executives judged the women primarily on their ability to effectively communicate their message. The winning team then presented to the CEO and Executive Committee, giving participants maximum exposure within the organization.
Turnover at an all-time low
After introducing the program to 21 leaders in 2014, the company selected 23 participants for the second year, and 20 leaders are currently participating in the third year. This initiative has helped to create a pipeline of women in senior leadership roles:
57% of the participants have been promoted from the program's first cohort
32% overall promotion rate for both groups the global average attrition for high-potential female directors has gone from 7.3% to 0.6%
Participants have the tools, insights and framework to help accelerate their own careers and are empowering their teams for success. They are contributing positively to the business in forward-thinking ways. They have had exposure at the senior-most levels of the organization and have built their brands as global leaders capable of driving the business forward.
Participants have also formed a powerful network with one another and now communicate routinely to exchange new ideas, resulting in exciting opportunities for themselves, their team members and the organization.
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Teen angst rides a skateboard.
Who knew that the birth of Christ was so damn boring?
This narrative re-creation of the skateboarding doc Dogtown and Z-Boys is a blast -- as accurate as it ought to be with more than enough mythology and gut thrills thrown in for good measure.
In the mid-'70s, during a summer drought, Southern California surfers known as the Zephyr Team took what had been a mere toy and created modern skateboarding, now a multi-million dollar industry. Lords of Dogtown is the Z-Boys' story.
Lords of Dogtown fails due to an unfocused screenplay and wooden performances.
Digging deeper into the personalities behind this fierce cadre of pioneer skateboarders would have made sense, but Lords of Dogtown is unnecessarily beholden to the skating milestones unearthed in Stacy Peralta's documentary.
Miles Copeland shoots for Riverdance redux with the reality TV-ish American Bellydancer.


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Want People To Use Bike Shares? Don't Make Them Walk.
In cities around the globe, it seems like bike and electric scooter rentals are everywhere. But if one isn't in the right place when a person needs it, they aren't going to walk out of their way to find one.
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Bike-Shares Do Better With More Stations Closer Together
In cities around the globe, bicycle and electric scooter rentals seem to be everywhere. And in a way, they almost have to be. If the bicycle or scooter isn't right where users need it, right when they need it, they won't go out of their way to find one, says new research from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.
It creates a challenge for bike-share and e-scooter companies, says Maryland Smith's Ashish Kabra. In new research featured in Management Science, Kabra and two Cornell University co-authors offer suggestions on designing bike-share systems that attract more users. They studied how ridership is impacted by the distance a user must walk to the next docking station and the likelihood that one will be available.
As a doctoral student studying at INSEAD in France, Kabra spent a lot of time in Paris. He became a frequent user of the city's ubiquitous Velib bike-share system at a time when he was studying inventory management, sparking the research.
He and his co-authors combed through Velib's bike-share data online and mapped Paris points of interest, such as tourist attractions and popular restaurants, bars and hotels to figure out where riders were picking up bicycles. They wanted to know what happened when stations had no bikes left – whether people would walk to the next station or opt for another mode of transportation.
"Once a station runs out of bikes, you never know when a bike will become available," Kabra says. "If there is no bike when you need one, how does that affect your propensity to use the system?"
It turns out, a lot.
Kabra says the data show that people are "quite sensitive" to walking and really don't want to go out of their way to find a bicycle. "Even a few hundred meters – a few minutes' walking distance – has a significant drop in demand," he says.
Kabra and his co-authors found that having to walk 300 meters, roughly four city blocks or one-fifth of a mile – made potential users almost 60% less likely to bother. And when a station is 500 meters away, or about six city blocks, people become "highly unlikely to use the system." The availability of bikes matters too. Even a 10% increase in bike availability at stations increases system-use by more than 12%.
Adding more bikes to the system hits both distance and availability factors, and therefore is a solution. But, Kabra says, this doesn't always mean a company has to increase its fleet to increase ridership. "Simply reconfiguring your system design, so that there are more smaller stations with the same overall number of bikes could improve ridership," says Kabra. "The advantage of that system design is you can locate them closer together, but the downside is with fewer bikes at each station, there is a higher chance that a station will be out of bikes when a user wants one, or there will be too many bikes and no place to dock them."
The other extreme would be to only have a few large stations in a city, likely requiring most users to walk too far to get to a station. But because they would be high-capacity stations, users could be almost assured to find a bike when they want one. After performing several scenario analyses, the researchers concluded that distance is a more critical factor, and therefore Kabra says, bike-share systems should have many stations within a city.
The latest trend in dockless bikes and e-scooters – though raising environment and safety concerns – is solving some of the accessibility and availability problems of docked systems, Kabra says.
"Dockless systems remove walking, especially at the end of your journey, where you won't have to go out of your way to deposit the bike or scooter you've been using, which is great, because people hate walking," he says. "Where it may become slightly challenging is where you have to locate a bike or scooter. With docking stations, you always know where to find them. But without stations, you have to try to locate one on an app and hope that it's still available when you get there."
Overall, dockless systems are easier to use than station-based systems, Kabra says, because bikes and scooters can be in more places when riders need them.
"Dockless systems allow virtual stations pretty much anywhere, so in some sense, you are getting to that idea of having lots of stations," Kabra says. "These systems align with the main finding in our research: People hate walking, so if systems have bikes or scooters available in more places, they'll do better on total ridership."
Read more: "Bike-Share Systems: Accessibility and Availability" is featured in Management Science.
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Ashish Kabra is a faculty in the DOIT. His expertise is in using developing and applying estimation algorithms to study new business models such as bike-share systems (eg: Citibike) and marketplaces (eg: Uber). He has studied topics related to "accessibility" (sufficient reach), availability (service is available when a user needs it), and that of effectiveness of promotions in scaling marketplaces. He has also studied online grocery retail models (eg: Amazon Fresh), specifically its financial and environmental concerns using mathematical economics models.
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Portraits for NHS Heroes – Book to be Published
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I am thrilled my painting of 'Surgeon-Turned-Nurse', Mr Joel Dunning, is to be featured in a new hardback book this November. The book has been curated by the mastermind behind the Instagram initiative of 'Portraits for NHS Heroes' (#portraitsfornhsheroes), artist Tom Croft, and published by Bloomsbury Publishers.
For artists, lockdown was difficult with their galleries and studios closed to the public and art fairs and exhibitions cancelled. Social media was where many turned for collective support and inspiration. Artist Tom Croft started the 'Portraits for NHS Heroes' (#portraitsfornhsheroes) initiative to support hospital workers on the frontline of the pandemic, and it quickly gathered momentum. Artists could advertise on their Instagram account, using the 'portraits for NHS heroes' hashtag and healthcare workers could team up with an artist who painted their portrait for free.
Very soon, Instagram feeds were full of artists sharing their incredible work. I looked on with envy as I was too busy at work in the hospital to participate, but I very much enjoyed seeing an ever increasing gallery of work.
Before long, I really couldn't resist but decided to pick my own 'NHS hero' – my privilege I reckoned for being a nurse and an artist!
I approached my colleague, Mr Joel Dunning -a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon- as I was so impressed by his inspirational response to the pandemic. Joel quickly realised that, with his routine lists cancelled and high numbers of patients expected in critical care, it was nursing hands we were likely to be short of. Critically ill patients in intensive care require a 1:1 nurse to patient ratio, and with plans to expand out critical care capacity to unprecedented levels in response to the developing pandemic, our nursing resource was going to be stretched to breaking point. Therefore, Joel put himself forward to receive training in critical care nursing and started his grueling 12 hour shifts in full PPE.
I was so inspired by Joel's willingness to do whatever was required and his brilliant leadership. Luckily, he was willing to let me paint his portrait and supplied me with some suitable photographs to work from.
It never meant to be a 'three-in-one' portrait – my most ambitious to date- but hopefully it tells the story of a surgeon during a global pandemic who takes on the role of nurse. It did involve a few late nights to complete the work, but hopefully the result has been worth it.
The original picture is now at the entrance to our STRIVE Academic Centre at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to not only remind us of healthcare during these unprecedented times, but also to inspire our future generation of medical and healthcare staff.
Thousands of portraits were created as a result of this initiative, with professional and amateur artists all depicting their NHS heroes with varying techniques, mediums and styles. The hardback book contains over 350 portraits created during the pandemic lockdown. The book is due to be released on November 12th and is available for pre-order now via Bloomsbury Publishing or Amazon.
The best bit……all proceeds and royalties go directly to NHS Charities.
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The wearables market keeps growing, with shipment volume reaching 27.9 million units in the second quarter of the year, according to data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. That's growth of 5.5 percent year-on-year in terms of number of units shipped, while the dollar value was up 8.3 percent (to $4.8 billion) due to continued popularity of smartwatches with their high price tags.
Unsurprisingly, emerging markets were behind this growth — Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan), Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa, and Latin America grew 14 percent year over year as basic wristbands are still in high demand (due to the low price) and smartwatches also gained traction.
On the other hand, mature markets — comprised of North America, Japan, and Western Europe — declined 6.3 percent year over year.
Apple is still the top vendor thanks to the continued demand for its LTE-enabled Watch, which makes it welcome addition to many telco channels around the world. Now that the company has unveiled watchOS 5, it has also begun to chart out potential replacement cycles as the latest version of Apple's smartwatch platform will be compatible only with Series 1 and later.
Xiaomi held the second position and has successfully diversified its product portfolio to include shoes, kids watches, and multiple variants of the Mi Band, each priced at the low end of the market. The company also grew its brand awareness across Europe and the Middle East.
Fitbit's decline continued as the company largely relied on sales of basic wristbands in the past and was not able to maintain pace during the second quarter. However, with the launch of the Versa, the fitness giant has successfully expanded its user-base and emerged as the second largest smartwatch brand during the quarter with 1.1 million smartwatches shipped.
Huawei, like Xiaomi, has been heavily focused on the Chinese market though this is slowly changing as the company starts to experience growth outside its home turf. The company's dual brand strategy has also been paying off as Honor accounts for a little over half of all the wearables shipped by Huawei.
Finally, Garmin extended its lead over Samsung to maintain its position as the number five vendor worldwide and saw its shipment volume of smartwatches extend their lead over its basic wearables. Still, the company continues to benefit from the success of its fitness-oriented Vivo line and the launch of its new golf-centered Approach S10.


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Sikorsky Program Showcases STEM Careers for Students
A major Connecticut manufacturer recently teamed with a Naugatuck Valley middle school for a program that encourages girls to pursue STEM careers.
The partnership between Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company, and Ansonia Middle School resulted in a two-day virtual Women In Engineering event involving about 100 female students.
"We feel it is important to encourage young women to enter STEM fields because we want to help break down gender stereotypes," said Sikorsky's Kate Rowland. "There are many great opportunities for employment here, whether male or female.
"STEM is definitely the future of work, and encourages young people to be problem solvers and change the world."
On the second day of the virtual event, middle school students built a cardboard airplane under the direction of volunteers from the Stratford-based aerospace manufacturer.
"I believe that allowing students to apply math and science by 'doing' leaves a longer lasting impression than something they will see in a book," said John LoRovera, director of math and science for Ansonia Public Schools.
"It is important to encourage young women to enter STEM fields because we want to break down gender stereotypes."
Sikorsky's Kate Rowland
News Channel 8 covered the event, helping LoRovera spread the word about the benefits of a STEM education.
"The WTNH segment—What's Right with Schools—was a wonderful first step to show the community the wonderful things we are doing at Ansonia Public Schools," LoRovera said. "Being able to successfully convey the message to families is a challenge for sure.
"But as we continue to grow these partnerships and showcase them to the community, it will go a long way in getting stakeholders to realize that these jobs can become a reality for our students."
Thanks to technological advances, students who pursue a manufacturing career will find themselves in a well-paying, intellectually challenging position in a clean environment.
The Ansonia School District has made a commitment in recent years to raise STEM awareness among their students, starting their partnership with Sikorsky by enrolling high school students in the manufacturer's Career Pathways program.
The school district began its partnership with Sikorsky by enrolling high school students in the manufacturer's Career Pathways program.
"We needed to find a way to give the students the manufacturing experience at a public school that students generally receive at a technical school," LoRovera said.
The Greater Valley Chamber of Commerce introduced school officials to George Mitchell, a key member of the team at Sikorsky and a product of Ansonia schools.
"In several meetings with Mr. Mitchell, we were able to secure three summer paid internships for students—two males and one female," LoRovera said. "This program allowed students to shadow Sikorsky operations employees."
One of the best parts of the recent Women in Engineering event at the middle school was when students heard from female Sikorsky employees who have succeeded in STEM fields.
"Allowing students the opportunity to connect and ask questions to a high-level female executive on her experience and how she climbed the ladder, was invaluable," LoRovera said.
Rowland said the company plans to continue working with students from Ansonia and elsewhere to raise awareness of a STEM education and the well-paying jobs in the field.
"As we grow these partnerships, it will go a long way in getting stakeholders to realize that these jobs can become a reality."
Ansonia Public School's John LoRovera
"We definitely plan to continue events like this, including in person once the pandemic ends," she said.
"We have participated in Women in Engineering Day for a few years now, this was our first year with Ansonia, and have been reaching out to various partner schools over the last year.
"We hope to educate and excite young girls about careers in STEM."
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