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I met him drunk
In the sentence, "I met him drunk," couldn't the adjective apply to either party, the "he" or the "I"?
Posted by lonfriday
I suppose on purely grammatical grounds it could, but no native speaker (just sampled my office so VERY small sample) took the drunk to apply to "I," only to "him."
Janet1 Aug-01-2006
I think the phrase may be somewhat ambiguous. "I met him while drunk" could mean "I met him while he was drunk" or "I met him while I was drunk". Only, I would think it more likely that the speaker is the drunk one. Try constructing some similar sentences with missing pronouns, only ones where it is clear from the context what is meant. Consider: "I e-mailed John while sitting at my computer." Grammatically, either "I" or "he" could follow "while" and it's certainly possible that John was sitting at my computer, but I think no one would assume so. If I wanted to suggest John was in front of my computer, I think I would have to say so to be clear. I can't think of a single sentence that would be understood the other way, even if the context makes it clear.
"I met the President while visiting New York."
"Wuddya mean, visiting? You live in New York."
"No, HE was visiting."
"Oooohh, why didn't you say so?"
"I met the Pope while hearing confession."
'Wow, you heard the POPE'S confession???"
"I met Roy Rogers while riding Trigger"
"What were you doing on his horse?"
I don't think any of the above sentences can really be understood to be ascribing action to the object, even when the context makes it clear. I can't think of any sentence which does. The more I try, the more stilted the sentences become.
I think maybe the office vote picked "him" only because there's a natural tendency to distance oneself from what may be perceived as a negative activity.
porsche Aug-02-2006
There is a difference between those example sentences and the original sentence: the addition of 'while'.
'I met him while drunk' is clearly 'I' and not 'he'; 'I met him drunk' is more ambiguous.
eg.
-> "I met Roy Rogers riding Trigger"
"Oh, you met the horse too!"
'while' indicates 'while the first verb was being carried out' - this connection to the first verb (which the speaker is performing) pushes perception over to the second part being about the speaker, too. A non-'while' phrase any possible connection to the first verb is balanced by proximity to the 'him' part: 'I met...drunk' suggests 'I', while '...him drunk' suggests him.
rebecca1 Aug-04-2006
I was going to agree with you, Rebecca, but consider this. Let's recast any or all of the sentences without the "while". Let's say they're ambiguous (which I already did say). If you reform any of the sentences in an unambiguous fashion, i.e. specifying which version you actually mean, then the "while" must be used.
"I met him drunk" becomes either "I met him while I was drunk" or "I met him while he was drunk".
Thus, I would suggest the the presence or absence of the "while" becomes meaningless and irrelevant; the absence of the "while" becomes simply an elided version of the same sentence with it.
porsche: In any case, analyzing a phrase which is different from the original phrase is a fundamental error. Your main focus now is on 'while', which isn't even in the phrase in question!
slemmet1 Aug-06-2006
Oh dear God! The original sentence--to me--made me believe that he was drunk when you met him. I guess it is an ambiguous sentence structure that we should all avoid. ?
Kurt1 Aug-09-2006
OK Slemmet, My first posting of August 2nd did use "while", in "I met him while drunk", but that was purely a typographical error. I simply meant to type the original phrase in question, "I met him drunk." Similarly, "I e-mailed John while sitting at my computer", while not a typo per se, could just as easily been written as "I e-mailed John sitting at my computer." This applies to the other ambiguous versions of example phrases as well. Consider this as an amendment to that posting. I stand behind everything else I said in that posting with the changes just mentioned.
Well all the conversations strayed way off the target. In effect we are supposed to consider the object and the subject in the sentence. Now considering 'I' as the subject then 'he' is drunk.
One more angle to look at would be of the intonation and stress applied while speaking out the sentence.
kcl_a Aug-20-2006
I think issues like these really highlight a misconception that many of us share about the English language - that it's a coherent system with rules, and so can be unambiguous if used properly.
Actually English is a mix of many languages, which have merged and affected each other in some very inconvenient ways.
There may even be a rule for the "I met him drunk" problem, but I would suggest that any such rule is probably a consensus held in by some linguistic communities and not others; it's certainly surprising how much grammaical variation can be found within one country, never mind across the Atlantic, etc!
Therefore I think the mention of the word "while" was very relevant; a strength of the English language is that, as many linguistic cracks might appear, there are always various options to fill them with.
To summarise what is perhaps an overly long post, I agree with Kurt: "I met him drunk" is ambiguous, so let's avoid using that particular structure when we want to be clear. When we DON'T want to be clear, nice one to remember!
Fryett Aug-31-2006
I was embarrassed when I encountered President Bush. I met him drunk. (Or "I met'im drunk.")
The ambiguity is worse than what has been proposed.
(1) It was embarrassing to encounter a drunk President.
(2) It was my big chance, but I was drunk when I stumbled upon the President.
(3) George and I were hugging adjacent "chamber pots" in the men's room at the bar. What an embarrassment for us!
I find the original three-ways ambiguous.
The further discussion of "I met him drunk" involves the use of such an utterance. So we must distinguish between the syntactic/semantic analysis of the sentence (or sentence type) which follows syntactic "rules" and its use in a particular situation.
Everyone seems to agree that the sentence is ambiguous; it can be intrepreted to carry various meanings. (My vote is for three.) And whether one reading dominates others is irrelevant since we can imagine a context in which any of the readings can be evoked from the sentence.
Used alone, then, the sentence has little use. It leaves the message unclear. A context will disambiguate the message the speaker or writer of such a sentence is trying to convey. But another possibility is for the speaker/writer to intend an ambiguity as I did in context sentence (2) above. In this sentence "stumbled upon" paraphrases "encountered" while additionally adding the picture of unsteady walking that might infringe upon the President's personal space. If I met with success, you read it both ways. And smiled.
So when Shakespeare writes "I lie with her and she with me" in Sonnet 138, he means for the reader to take "lie with" as both "not telling the truth" and "sharing bliss in the bed." The joy of the sonnet lies in its ambiguity.
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/poems/sonnet138.html
buckbingham Sep-01-2006
"I met him drunk" implies the speaker was drunk. The adjective applies to the subject and not the object. End of discussion.
Don_Quixote Oct-10-2006
Fryett:
"I think issues like these really highlight a misconception that many of us share about the English language - that it's a coherent system with rules, and so can be unambiguous if used properly."
English is a consistent system with rules. It's complete madness to claim otherwise. How would we be able to communicate with each other, if our language had no rules?
Whether a certain construction is ambiguous is a separate issue.
John4 Oct-11-2006
Guys, look (especially you, Don Quixote).
Not only is the sentence, "I met him drunk" ambiguous, but it is grammatically incorrect. The speaker is trying to use the word "drunk" in this sentence as an adverb to describe the verb, "met." However, "drunk" is an adjective and not an adverb. If the speaker is trying to describe the subject (i.e. himself), he could say, "I drunkenly met him," or "I met him while I/he was drunk." Neither of those sentences are ambiguous.
Furthermore, the words "I/he" after the word "while" are NOT optional; if "I/he" are omitted, the listener or reader can not know whether "drunk" is describing the object or the subject of the sentence (despite the belief that most native speakers may understand that the "word" drunk describes the speaker). The interpretation of sentences in that way is based on context and assumption, not grammar.
Bluntly stated, "drunk" is an adjective, not an adverb, and omitting "I/he" after the word "while" is grammatically incorrect and leaves the sentence ambiguous.
John_A. Oct-14-2006
John A,
Yes the sentence is ambiguous, but I find it difficult to believe that it is ungrammatical. "drunk" is not modifying the verb, it is modifying the object "him". Or the subject "I" depending on your interpretation.
Ambiguity and grammaticality are two seperate things.
Who do you want to fight?
This is ambiguous - the subject of "fight" could be interpreted as "you", or it could be interpreted as someone else. Just like "I met him drunk", it is ambiguous, but not ungrammatical.
Well, I'll be damned, "grammaticality" IS a word!
porsche Oct-16-2006
Don't worry about porsche; I know you meant to say "grammar." Also, I considered what you said and I think you are right. The sentence is ambiguous, and when interpreted my way ("drunk" as an adverb) it is grammatically incorrect and when interpreted your way ("drunk" as an adjective), it is grammatically correct. Consider the original sentence:
"I met him drunk."
I have been trying to argue that this sentence is grammatically incorrect because "drunk" does not fit; the word either needs to be replaced with "while I/he was drunk" or replaced with "drunkenly" and inserted in front of the verb. I am correct in saying that drunk can't be used as an adverb here, but that does not mean that it can't be used as an adjective (which I had originally thought).
Your interpretation is that "drunk" is modifying "him." In other words, with your model, the structure would break down into these categories:
SUBJECT + VERB + OBJECT + COMPLEMENT
. . . . . . . . . . . . I + met + him + drunk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . just like
. . . . . . . . . . I + forced + the door + open . . . . . . . . . . . . and similar to
. . . . . . . . . They + elected + him + president
"President," in this case, is called the predicative nominal and "open," the predicative adjective. "I met him drunk" follows the same pattern as "I forced the door open." In this case, your interpretation of the sentence means that "I met him drunk" is grammatically correct.
Keep in mind that, like I said, interpreting "drunk" as an adverb that modifies the verb "met" is incorrrect because, obviously, "drunk" is not an adverb.
In other words, you were right and I was wrong. But I stand by my opinion that "I met him drunk" is a terrible sentence because it is extremely ambigous and can be easily used incorrectly if, for example, I told a story about how I was drunk and I went to meet an old friend of mine.
Also, I forgot to mention that "drunk" does not modify the subject.
John A, there's no need to defend John from me. I wasn't attacking him. I really meant what I said. Actually, he did NOT mean to say "grammar". What he said was 100% correct and proper. He certainly could have said "grammar" with similar sentiment, but the literal meaning would have been different. At first, I also jumped to the wrong conclusion that he should have used "grammar" until I researched it further. Actually, "grammaticality" is precisely the correct word, in fact, far better than "grammar" (which is less grammatical). I may have been a little jocular, but I was not being sarcastic.
"grammaticality" is what I meant, as in "the quality of being grammatical". Linguists use this word all the time.
John A, you say that the sentence is ambiguous, but then you state that "drunk" does not modify the subject. If that's the case, then how is this sentence ambiguous?
It's ambiguous because "drunk" can modify either the subject or the object, as many people have pointed out.


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Any ideas of what is going on? Maybe I'm doing something wrong in the example?

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If it is true that religiousness and segregation go hand in hand, the result is an isolated parallel society, organized according to religious moral principles and values -- in this case, Islamic ones. Further, this Islamic parallel society in the future will increase quantitatively because of its high fertility rate, especially with regard to women with a radical Muslim background due to their restricted role of "mothers" under the circumstances and influences of Islamic extremism.
Islamic Parallel Society in Action
The Islamic parallel society is a community structured and organized by families and clans, occupied with both legal and illegal business and applying its own rules, not only in the sense of customs and habits but also in terms of jurisdiction. Tribunals in which civil law disputes are settled in front of a religious committee are part of this outlaw "regulation system" as well as punitive measures according to Islamic principles. The "honor killings" in Berlin of the last few years show to what extent this parallel legal system can operate. The alarming point in reference to these murders is that the "executioners," who killed female family members because of alleged violations of religious moral principles earned broad support from teenagers in the Muslim community. It seems that neither the regulations of German criminal law nor the commandments of humanity count within this parallel society.
Studies which misjudge these circumstances and attribute the segregation to disastrous social conditions or even the macroeconomic framework do not get the point because they ignore the close connection between radical Muslim religiousness, tending to a political Islamic fundamentalism, on the one hand, and unemployment and poverty on the other.
How Can the Problem Be Solved?
To make one point clear, according to authorities in Berlin, only about 4,000 of the 200,000 Muslims in the German capital can be considered extremists (3). But even if one takes into consideration that this only represents 2 percent of the community, one cannot ignore the problem, particularly since one case of murder can destroy more confidence than 100 remarks of regret can build back up. The number of extremists seems to be increasing and, furthermore, one gains the impression that they rule within their municipalities. Nevertheless, everyone in the democratic civilian society should promote peaceful dialogue, at least with the 98 percent who are moderates in the Muslim community. Politicians, representatives of the Christian churches and those who are responsible in business, culture and sports should try to stay or get in contact with that parallel society in order to tear down this new Berlin Wall before it is completed.
A first step: "Days of intercultural dialogue"
In this context it is worth mentioning Berlin's first step to a successful approach to more understanding by means of an interreligious and intercultural dialogue. The "Days of intercultural dialogue" were organized by a committee of activists from the civil-society (Antirassistisch-Interkulturelles Informationszentrum ARiC Berlin e.V.), under the auspices of Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit. The "Days of intercultural dialogue" have taken place each autumn since 2003, so this year will be the fifth time. The project is rooted in the experiences of the Dutch cities of Rotterdam and Amsterdam, which organized round-table discussions between migrants and the Dutch population first in 2002. Since then the number of participants has increased, both in the Netherlands and in Germany.
During the last such dialog held from Oct. 5 to Nov. 5, 2006, about 40 round-table discussions took placein several districts of Berlin, attended by nearly 1,000 persons. Workshops on "integration management" and a intercultural street festival completed the program.
In a communication the organizers proclaimed their primarily goals as "dealing with variety and difference on the basis of mutual recognition and esteem, solidarity based on common values, openness, liberty and participation with equal rights." To build up a society of peaceful understanding furthermore it is recognized as important, "to reduce the causes and manifestations of discrimination and hate, to create spaces free of fear and violence, to meet and discuss at eye-level and to discover things in common as well as to accept differences and to learn to bear them." A very important condition of the dialogue is seen in the acceptance of the human rights and the fundamental civil rights provided by the German constitution, the "Grundgesetz." This principle may not be violated at any time.
As a means to reach this honorable ends, the round-table talks "provide time and space for an exchange of perceptions, positions and experiences with equal rights. This exchange contains plumbing and recognizing both individual and social scopes of action." As such the "Days of intercultural dialogue" are a small but important contribution to a change in Berlin's everyday life, an icebreaker as well as a starting point to more understanding and cooperation. Hopefully the "Days of intercultural dialogue" can spur a society engaged in dialogue for 365 days a year.
1. http://www.statistik-berlin.de/
2. Offenbacher Post (Nov. 21, 2004)
3. Berliner Morgenpost (May 5, 2004)
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Schlumberger reaffirms commitment to Venezuela despite debt concerns
Oilfield services provider Schlumberger has released a statement saying that operations in Venezuela have improved enough for it to recognise all revenue associated with its first quarter operations.
The announcement comes two weeks after the group said it was suffering collection issues in the country and announced plans to reduce activity on a temporary basis.
The company has had problems with the PDVSA [Petrleos de Venezuela/Petrol of Venezuela], the country's state-operated oil giant, over huge debts said to total hundreds of millions of dollars.
Speaking on March 22nd, Rafael Ramirez, Venezuela's Oil Minister, revealed that last year PDVSA's debts to its service providers, including Schlumberger, had rocketed 35% above the $12bn posted the previous year.
The minister is also quoted as saying that during a "very good meeting" with the head of Schlumberger, they "clarified all of the issues".
On Tuesday, Chief Executive Officer, Paal Kibsgaard, released a statement saying: "In Venezuela, after meetings with PDVSA, the collections have improved to the point that we will recognise all revenue associated with our first-quarter operations.
"We further expect to finalise a new payment agreement with PDVSA and we anticipate ramping up activity to meet the current and future needs of PDVSA's development and production plans, thereby continuing our commitment to Venezuela."
Schlumberger's share price was unchanged at $75.23 at 10:00 on Tuesday.


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The Gander International Airport Authority (GIAA) released details of its 2015 financial performance at its Annual Public Meeting today.
The airport posted revenue of $10.7 Million and net operating income of $2.9 million, representing the best financial performance in the airport authority's history and 11th consecutive year of profit. Revenue increased 14% over 2014.
"All of us with a stake in Gander International Airport share a common goal: to build lasting success for YQX," said GIAA President and CEO Reg Wright. "In my view, 2015 was another step in what has become a steady march in the right direction."
Passenger traffic at Gander grew 25% over 2014, marking the highest passenger totals at Gander since 1980 and the third most prolific year for passenger traffic in Gander's history.
"New services and routes introduced by WestJet, Provincial Airlines and Sunwing last year, combined with continued high frequency service by Air Canada, meant more travel options, cheaper airfares and growth," Mr. Wright said. "We extend our thanks the airlines servicing our region and also to all those passengers who made our airport part of their travel plans."
Over the last four years, the airport authority completed $18 million in capital works projects. In 2015, the airport completed phase I of its 150-acre Business Park, undertook a significant renovation of the airline check-in counters, passenger facilities and baggage screening systems. The airport also opened a third 200-space long term parking lot.
The GIAA is forecasting that passenger traffic will plateau for the foreseeable future as the economy navigates strong fiscal headwinds.
"Our strategy has remained largely the same for the last decade," stated GIAA Chairperson Des Dillon. "It is a simple approach: manage costs, exploit our competitive advantages and marshal opportunities for growth. We are working to diversify and thicken our revenue stream and insulate the airport from volatility. While the airport has enjoyed an upward trajectory of growth over the last number of years, our future is tempered by the reality of a listing provincial and national economy. Even lava eventually cools, and we need to maintain a prudent approach to operating the facility for the betterment of the region in the years to come."
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If you're a small business owner, you've likely been to a networking event or two with the hopes of engaging a new client or perhaps meeting a mentor to coach you through your latest business challenge.
Whether you do it face-to-face or online, expanding your circle of peeps is in my opinion, the single best way to grow your business. It goes back to the old Faberge® Organics shampoo commercial that many of you reading this are probably too young to remember. The premise of the commercial is that the consumer loved the product so much, that she told two friends and they told friends and so on and so on until wads of people were using this fabulous shampoo.
This is similar to how networking works. You meet one new person who loves what you do. They tell a friend who tells another friend and so on and so on. It's magic! Well, sort of.
How do you get someone to take interest in the single most important thing in your life – your business? Here are some rules of thumb that have worked for me.
1. Please, please, please don't give someone a dried up, boring, over-rehearsed elevator pitch. We all know that having an elevator pitch is important and it is. Unless it's a bad one. A bad elevator pitch will kill you faster than a can of Raid® in a roach hotel!
While you do want to be able to describe your business so your listener understands what you do, no one wants to hear about every single product or service you have nor how many awards you have won (unless they are Oscar's or Grammy's). People want to know how you can help them solve their problems. That's it. What's In It For Me? WIIFM. Remember this acronym in everything you do for your business and you will never fail.
Every one of your potential clients is asking this – What's In It For Me if I buy your coaching services or hire you to decorate my office or manage my finances? If you are not able to articulate e how you can solve a future client's problem in the first few minutes, then head to the buffet table and take advantage of the free food because you're wasting your time.
Take some time to think about your business and how it helps people. Put yourself in their shoes. Would you buy from you? Write down 3-5 short sentences about what you can do for them that makes their lives easier or less stressful. Try it out at your next event and see what the reaction is.
2. Please, please, please don't keep trying to convince someone to meet with you when they've already said they are not interested. Yes it's true that sometimes an initial reaction can be one of disinterest until you probe a little further but if someone says they hate to cook and eat out every night, don't try to persuade them to buy your new cookbook. It ain't gonna happen.
Can you turn some of these nay-sayers around SOMEtimes? Yes. I've seen this happen. Let's stick with our cookbook example. You wrote a cookbook because YOU love to cook and wanted to share your recipes with the world. Not everyone loves to cook. In fact, some people (like me) hate it. What I want is someone to cook FOR me. Is it possible that instead of buying your cookbook, they can buy your meals that you've prepared, delivered right to their door? Sure! Fabulous idea.
My point is – don't get stuck on selling only one thing. The people you are meeting are a hot bed of market research. If they're not interested in what you're selling, find out what they are interested in and then go home and figure out a way to deliver it.
3. Please, please, please don't take everyone's business cards home and enter them into your newsletter distribution list. This is a BIG no-no! Just because someone gave you their card does not equate to them agreeing to receive daily tips on how to cook vegan. You're overstepping and worse? You've likely pushed them over the line and they will never do business with you.
Then how am I supposed to grow my list and work on the "so on's and so on's"? You ask permission, that's how. You can either do it during the event or by sending them a nice 'Thank You' email the following day inviting them to join your list.
WIIFM . Tell them WHY they should sign up for your list. Tell them how your newsletter or tips or e-book is going to solve their problem. Make it worth their while. People are busy. No one has time to read anything anymore, let alone a newsletter on a product or service for which they are not interested.
I know these few tips seem simple but what I have learned is that the best way to grow your business is through the KISS principle. Keep It Simple Silly. Put any one of these tips into practice and watch your business grow and so on and so on and so on.
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You've just dropped serious cash on attending a trade show or networking event. There are some great keynotes, breakout sessions, and a chance to ask your questions to your biggest crush. So how do you prepare? First, do your homework – make a breakdown of what activities you want to take part in and who is running them. Taking a moment to plan where you need to be and when will make it much easier to make time for that necessary third cup of coffee and even more necessary bathroom break.
Second, do some research on the presenters. With a simple Google search you can find out more about who they are. You're looking for three key points that you might be able to relate to them on. Look for the people who are doing what you want to do. They might be a successful author and you can check out their most recent book. You might also make note of current passion projects, general location like NYC, and be sure to read a few recent blog posts so you know what they're currently interested in. The necessity behind this information is so that you have a basic understanding of where someone is coming from and so that you can have several points to connect on. For example, when you walk up to someone and introduce yourself at the conference you can begin talking about how you enjoyed his or her blog post on stalking versus networking.
Third, after you've compiled your data, consider three questions that you would ask each person if you had the opportunity. Expect that you will only be able to ask one question. I run a shifting list of questions so that if I'm able to get an answer from one person, than I shift the list of questions so that I'm not asking the next person the same exact question. This way I can gather the greatest amount of information in the shortest amount of time. Plus, at a busy conference it can be impossible to speak to everyone on your list but it may be possible to find all the information you're after.
Fourth and final, print out your list so that you have it in front of you at all times. This is crucial for remembering to stay on task, taking advantage of all breaks for getting your networking done and not forgetting whom you are talking to in a sea of new friendly faces.
Networking at a conference can seem overwhelming especially if you're going it solo. Through doing your homework and stealthily going after your goal of information gathering you can walk away feeling like a superwoman of success.
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Do you collaborate? I'm sure you do, maybe even in more ways than you think. Collaboration and joint ventures are very effective marketing tools and they can be very low-cost or even free.
First and foremost collaborating gives you a reason to network. Step outside of your office, or comfort zone and meet new people. What are the businesses in your area up to? How are they expanding and improving? What new initiatives are happening around you?
If you're online based, you can do this too. Attend online meet-ups and gatherings, converse via social media. Seeking collaboration forces you to expand your circle of associates. This is always a good thing. Chances are you'll meet people that you can easily work with and some that aren't a good fit. That's ok; the relationship building is still very beneficial.
Another benefit of collaboration is that it often introduces you to a new market. For instance, an online bow boutique in our area recently partnered with an area salon and dance studio to carry their products. This immediately increases her local exposure. And, it introduces her products to those who may not frequent social media, or be too young to do so. It also will increase her sales because now she is more available to impulse buyers who want cash and carry items.
Collaboration is also a way to improve your reputation. Even if you are known to be a stellar business woman, this can still be beneficial. What is better than one stellar business women but two of them! When you seek out potential partners, keep this in mind. Be picky and search for businesses that hold them to the same high standards that you do.
When you are entertaining partnership ideas, be sure to think outside of the box. How can you be more creative? How can you maximize the benefits? What can you do to make your arrangement more unique and appealing? Think about these questions as they relate to you, your potential partner and your customers.
Small businesses generally have small marketing budgets. It is great when they can work together and get more for their money. When two businesses work to get the word out, exposure automatically doubles. However, as with any agreement, always proceed with caution and follow your gut instinct. If you don't feel as though it is really a good fit, don't pursue it. And, it is always advisable to get all agreements in writing.
Happy partnering! Feel free to share some of your creative partnership ideas in the comments!
I'm excited to share with you some amazing events for women entrepreneurs. Startup Princess is taking their premier event for women entrepreneurs to 3 cities this year! Startup Princess is a national organization for women entrepreneurs. It's a place where women connect and share resources online and through events.
The event is called Touchpoint - A Conference for Women Entrepreneurs. Each year Startup Princess holds this conference in Salt Lake City. They're traveling to Portland, OR and Orange County, CA over the next six weeks. It's a one day event to help women entrepreneurs activate their dreams and energize their business. The agenda includes amazing speakers, networking opportunities, lunch and they tout that you'll leave with practical ideas on business development, marketing and strategy that you can easily implement in your business when you get home.
If you want to attend in Portland or Orange County, they have created a discount code just for Market Mommy readers! Use code: marketmommy for $25 off the all ready low-cost, $79 ticket.
Also, if you are interested in promoting your business or selling your products at these events, you can receive a discount on an exhibitor table when you mention "Market Mommy". Contact Michelle for details!
They are still holding their premier event for women entrepreneurs in September this event will be a 2 day event.
And, don't forget to use code marketmommy for $25 off!


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Goldman Sachs Crushes Analysts' Estimates on Strong Investment Banking and Trading Results
By Hugh Son, CNBC	• Published October 15, 2021 • Updated on October 15, 2021 at 9:27 am
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Profit at the bank surged 63% to $5.28 billion in the third quarter, as revenue climbed 26% to $13.61 billion.
Goldman Sachs also saw investment banking revenue surge by 88% in the quarter to $3.7 billion.
Goldman Sachs posted Friday third-quarter results that exceeded analysts' expectations, as investment banking revenue surged nearly 90%, and the bank reaped record fees from equities financing.
Here are the numbers:
Earnings: $14.93 a share vs. $10.18 consensus estimate, according to Refinitiv
Revenue: $13.61 billion vs. $11.68 billion consensus estimate
Profit at the bank surged 63% to $5.28 billion, or $14.93 a share, as revenue climbed 26% to $13.61 billion. Shares of the New York-based bank rose 2.4%.
Goldman — led by CEO David Solomon — has the world's premier investment banking franchise, and analysts had expected strong revenue from booming mergers and IPO activity in the quarter. That theme played out at Wall Street rivals from JPMorgan Chase to Morgan Stanley.
But Goldman exceeded expectations, producing $3.7 billion in investment banking revenue. That's an 88% increase from a year earlier and roughly $750 million more than the StreetAccount estimate. Those results were driven by a rise in completed merger transactions and debt and equity underwriting; the bank said advisory revenue hit a record high.
Revenue in the bank's markets division climbed 23% to $5.61 billion, as an expected slowdown in bond trading was offset by a surge in financing results.
Bond trading revenue of $2 billion edged out the $1.97 billion StreetAccount estimate, while equities trading of $1.92 billion missed the $2.08 billion estimate. Equities financing revenue more than doubled year over year to a record $1.18 billion, and fixed income financing rose 55% to $513 million.
Meanwhile, Goldman's consumer-facing division posted gains from high stock market values and increased credit card and deposit balances. The firm's consumer and wealth management division saw revenue rise 35% to $2.02 billion, exceeding the $1.79 billion estimate.
"Goldman Sachs simply crushed third quarter earnings," said Dave Donovan, an executive vice president of financial services for Publicis Sapient. "Where the other big banks released loan loss reserves to bolster third quarter numbers, Goldman's strategy has been growing the business."
Analysts are likely to ask Solomon about the rationale for his $2.24 billion acquisition of fintech lender GreenSky. The deal is expected to close by the first quarter of 2022.
The bank said last month that CFO Stephen Scherr would step down by year-end, to be replaced by Denis Coleman, the current co-head of the firm's Global Financing Group.
Goldman shares were up 47% this year as of Friday, exceeding the 37% rise of the KBW Bank Index.
Goldman is the last of the six biggest U.S. banks to report earnings. JPMorgan, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Wells Fargo exceeded expectations for profit and revenue, helped by reserve releases and strong investment banking revenue.
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Despite Putah Creek being a tailwater fishery that is relatively short and narrow, the water is cold all year-around, deep, and has ample cover. These factors are some of the reasons why Putah Creek trout grow to such immense sizes. Putah Creek trout that are 20''+ make up about 10% of the creek.
The adult male rainbow trout, also known as a buck, of Putah Creek are what the local anglers refer to as "The Beast of Putah Creek" due to their dark colors, kyped (hooked) jaw, and huge body. These beast are elusive creatures that are not easily caught. Now that I am more familiar with the creek, I set out to find myself a monster.
Since my last visit, the creek was lowered to a flow of 350 CFS. These flows lowered the creek about 1ft and gave me access to about 70% of the areas I wasn't able to fish my previous trip. In my opinion, these flows are almost perfect. The wading is still challenging but not nearly as dangerous. The water is still high but not as fast. By the look and feel of theses flows, I'm thinking that a flow of 250 CFS would be absolutely perfect to fish.
Throughout the day I skipped around all the parking accesses and explored some new water. The lowered flows attracted a few anglers to come out and try to fish the creek as well. As I passed by these anglers, I started to notice that only those who were keyed in on the creek's secrets caught fish. Putah Creek rainbows are not easy to catch.
When a trout grows to a certain size, nymphs are no longer a sustainable food source. These big trout have official graduated from Trout University and are now higher on the food chain. Smaller fish is what's for dinner.
To imitate small fish, streamer patterns that match the hatch work the best. Go go Hero Sculpin!
Wading access to the creek is pretty limited giving big trout plenty of spots to hide and avoid anglers. Although I hooked several fish throughout the day, all of them threw the hook except my first Putah Creek trophy.
After covering a few spots with no hits, I hiked and fished a run with a deep channel and plenty of cover. As I stripped in my fly, I felt a take and it felt huge. The water was gin clear and allowed me to watch as the beautiful bow shook its entire body to throw the hook. During the fight, I noticed that this fish wasn't much of a runner and used its weight to its advantage instead of the current. This allowed me to control the fight and in the end land my first Putah Creek trophy trout.
Dark colors, check. Big body, check. Kype jaw, nope. Although the big fish I caught was a beauty, it was a female. Not the fish I was looking for but a great fish nevertheless. Now that I have more confidence fly fishing the creek for big fish, I will continue to fish Putah Creek in hopes of one day landing a true beast.
Be aware that there is a huge infestation of New Zealand Mudsnails in Putah Creek. These mudsnails reproduce extremely fast and out-compete our native aquatic insects for food. There is currently no solution in controlling these mudsnails and it is advise that anglers not jump into another body of water after fishing Putah Creek.
New Zealand Mudsnails have a 100% chance of hitchhiking on gear (proven from my experience), therefore switch outfits if you're going to fish elsewhere or thoroughly clean your gear before entering a new body of water.


Aren't we aproaching a y2kish day here on the 11th?
Let me guess, Twisty modified his script to emboss the fields and ran it, thus taking the next four months off.
And is Twisty the German equivalent to Swirly? If so, how many hospital toilets did he have his head dunked in?
Yep...Mar 11 - Nov 4 (http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/daylight_time.html).
[EDIT] The keyword in this would be "personal" (i.e. home computer).
Yep, it's already causing massive IT headachs where I work. We are scrambling to get everything updated.
I think a better script would "emboss" a few fields every ten minutes, this way Twisty would be doing this job forever and his supervisor would see progress. "Today I embossed three hundred fields, which is 7% more than last week's average!"
I swear we've seen that picture before a few months back.
That's OK, though, it conveys so many feelings perfectly that it seems applicable for about half of these articles.
who's the guy in that picture? he's kind of cute!
yeah ! really cute !
But, the worst possible effect: you're off an hour for 3 weeks.
Unless your missile tracking systems try and lead the target, and accidentally lead an hour ahead (or behind), missing wildly.
Someone remind me why this year's Daylight Time will cause problems when none of the previous one's would? They change the date or something? I never kept track of it and always had to be reminded to change my clock.
Anyone else think the image looks like a young Billy Joe Armostring (lead singer of Green Day)?
From the above link: In 2006, daylight time begins on April 2 and ends on October 29. In 2007, daylight time begins on March 11 and ends on November 4.
Using scripts is an easy argument to win with a boss.
The bigger the change, the better it is to use scripts. Learning some simple regular expressions can save you so much time. Scripts can be rerun, have their accuracy checked, and are deterministic, manual changes don't have any of these attributes.
We lost the use of some software for a few hours on Monday. Apparently there are some issues with certain (Win2003) servers.
Canadians can't file taxes because CRA's computers aren't working.
Hospitals are expecting a few deaths.
I'm currently handling some DST issues for my company and upgrading Websphere vs. just updating some JDKs is a beeyotch.
Also, I read somewhere recently that some jetfighters systems died when crossing the international date line.
capcha: "yummy" - yes, it is almost lunchtime and I'm still on a troubleshooting call.
Well, technically, those were Chinese MIGs flying over restricted Alaskan airspace this morning, but yeah, I guess they died.
My company is patching bar code machines, blackberry servers, as well as the operating systems, databases, JRE, etc. The interesting thing about this is the visibility isn't as great as Y2k. My prediction is some businesses will have some problems. We shall see.
See this User Friendly strip on the subject.
Or, more generally: In the past, DST began on the first Sunday in April and ended on the last Sunday in October. Until further notice it will begin on the second Sunday in March and end on the first Sunday in November.
The Real WTF is DST! The rest of the world should follow Arizona's example (I guess there are a few other places that also don't change?) and just not do it!
Honestly, I never understood how changing the time could be beneficial to anyone, including farmers.
A lot of people have been burned by automating things. You can test and practice all you want, then 10 minutes before "go time" someone changes an IP address or renames a column or does SOMETHING stupid that they shouldn't have done. The best case scenario is that your script just fails. The worst case is that half of it completes, the other half does something destructive, and the third half breaks the space time continuum along with all known knowledge of fractions.
We all prefer to automate things, but it's not without it's own risks.
Clearly you don't live an area where DST is needed. Without DST it would get light at 10-11am here in the winter and dark at about 3-4pm. Screw that!
Many countries near the equator do not have DST, such as the UAE (Dubai) and neighbouring nations.
So, the D stands for Daylight. Daylight is beneficial to everyone because they have to use less energy to create artificial light. Waking up an hour earlier and going to bed an hour earlier for part of the year means you save on candles/oil/whatever energy source.
It's completely outdated now as we use artificial light during the day since we're not all farmers, but how can you not understand the concept?
He's the brother of the guy that was in 90210 TV show.
The key words are ... ... "a gigantic, old, undocumented Access application"
I'd have made him go through the application manually my self as well. Because gosh darn it... as sure as 99% of the fields are in the form [.]date[.] you can bet that somewhere there's a field that's txtBirthDay instead of txtBirthDate.
"Sure, use the script... but you still gotta manually touch EVERY date field. Schnell!!!!"
I agree. What I really hate is when the consensus becomes "we need a script to do this", when it could all be done manually in about a half hour if you just sat down and did the work manually.
ARrrghh... That's three halfs... and two posts.
It's annoying for farmers because they work an extra hour in the evening when everyone else is socializing instead of in the morning when everyone else is sleeping.
Actually maybe not. Considering this only affects dates that were saved and treated as dates you didn't have to worry about the field name itself. In an access application, forms are tied to a database table. So you read in a form, find the table it is attached to, scan the table for date fields read the mappings to find the form fields it is assigned to and you update. This is one of the things that Access made easy simply because of the strong coupling of it's UI with the data.
?? So, where you are, with DST it would get light at 11am-12pm and dark at 4-5pm? How is this helpful?
That might work, unless the dates are stored internally with strings, then parsed out with internationalized formatting based on the XML configuration file.
So the old COBOL programmer made so much overtime money fixing the Y2K problem that when he died, he could afford to be cryogenically frozen.
"We're looking a huge amount of work to fix the Y10K bug in our software, and we understand that you know COBOL..."
Reflective armband with 5 LEDs.
Reflective armband with 3 LEDs.
Reflective vest with about 20 flashing red LEDs.
Bright yellow jacket with retroreflective piping.
So yeah, I know what you mean about having to light up more. I've put most of this away for the spring / summer, and I'm going to have to put it all on again for the next month. It's just getting light out at 7:00, and now it'll be dark until 8.
Tuesday was nice. It was sunny and I wore shorts biking.
In that case, hopefully you would just have to update the XML file and you are done. Based off of the plan put forth by the PHB though, I doubt it, and it would be time to cancel that date with Hotlips and get back to work.
Yep, a major WTF. Navigation software for the F22 Raptors crashed when the longitude went from -180.0 to 180.0. See http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=2590456&C=america.
Actually, it was a whole squadron of shiny new F22 Raptors on their way to a base in Japan. The nav systems all crashed. They had to visually follow the refueling tanker back to the US. Rather embarrising for a new multi million dollar jet. Some ones head should roll for this.
CAPTCHA: cognac...no thanks, I prefer Scotch.
what are those missiles doing using local time? is someone going to update the time zone every time they move into another one?
...The worst case is that half of it completes, the other half does something destructive, and the third half breaks the space time continuum along with all known knowledge of fractions.
I understand the concept: I just don't understand what's so difficult about going to bed an hour earlier without having to screw around with the clock for everyone. Is there some sort of law that farmers have to go to bed at exactly 10PM, and the only way to get them in bed earlier/later is to change time for everyone?
With or without DST you're going to have daylight at the same time in winter, because DST wont be in affect. You're in standard time in winter.
What I really don't understand is how DST got associated with dachshunds. I thought the ad linking was smarter than that. Regretfully I can't attribute that to "The Real WTF"
You have heard of that thing call the 'test'. For the uninitiated it is a process used on a non-production system to verify your assumptions regarding how your application will work on a clone of the environment it will work in.
The whole purpose of computing is to automate things that people do manually. Managing the risk, by test based development and various testing paradigms is what you should be doing as a developer. Ideally mitigating that risk would also mean having a rollback plan in the event your tests were incomplete (e.g. backup the database before doing the installation).
Captcha - wigwam --- the desired replacement for my cubicle (802.11G and VPN connection and I would be good to go).