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We're a little partial to Amazon.com here at Biznews. For one thing, it delivers an amazing service, giving the world simultaneous downloadable access to the freshest books. For another, the stock has been the star performer in our Biznews Global Share portfolio. So reading the hatchet job in the New York Times was uncomfortable. It looked like the newspaper found every disenchanted employee it could uncover and got them to spill their guts about a brutal, unforgiving company that treats its employees like necessary evils. Thankfully, there are two sides to even the darkest NYT expose. And last night Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos added his voice to those defending the business, saying the Amazon written about was not one he would recognise. So why such different perspectives? The answer lies, perhaps, in the DNA of an Exponential Organisation like Amazon. Places where technology is embraced and increasingly used to take over roles previously filled by human beings. In that environment it's not always easy to find the middle ground, the empathy embraced by caring corporations. – Alec Hogg
A worker puts together orders at the Amazon logistics center in Brieselang, in this November 11, 2014 file photo. Amazon.com Inc's shares surged more than 20 percent in early trading July 24, 2015, adding more than $46 billion to the compnay's market value, after strong growth in the e-commerce giant's cloud business drove a surprise quarterly profit. REUTERS/Hannibal/Files
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(Bloomberg Business) — Amabots and Amholes; employees sobbing at their desks; colleagues spamming the internal employee-review tool in an attempt to eject their managers from the company; cancer survivors returning to work, only to be put on "performance improvement plans." These and other rich anecdotes made the New York Times broadside against Amazon an entertaining and brutal read, which drew a rebuke from the company's top dog.
Amazon.com Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos wrote a memo to his employees last night contesting the Times article and asking anyone who witnesses such displays of corporate callousness to report it to human resources or e-mail the CEO. "I don't recognize this Amazon, and I very much hope you don't, either," Bezos wrote. "I strongly believe that anyone working in a company that really is like the one described in the NYT would be crazy to stay. I know I would leave such a company."
The Times can take at least some consolation in getting a response from Bezos. A similar depiction of the company's cutthroat corporate culture in my 2013 book, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon, earned ire only from Bezos's wife, Mackenzie, in the form of a one-star book review on Amazon. But there's now plenty of fodder to support the narrative that the secretive beast is not always a pleasant place to work. While 82 percent of respondents on the job-search site Glassdoor say they approve of the CEO, only 62 percent would recommend a job there to a friend. That's much lower than Amazon's peers.
The byways of technology, particularly in Seattle, are now filled with former Amazonians who will eagerly dredge up stories of inhumane treatment. Many seem to be touched by a form of post-traumatic stress disorder. They did witness the kind of working conditions described in the Times story and burned out quickly, leaving within a year or two after they were hired and abandoning their stock options.
It's important to note, though, that there are also many former employees and executives who will testify on Amazon's behalf. They consider the company to be an energetic and productive place to work that doesn't tolerate the kind of mediocrity infecting many other tech giants and that molds employees with a disruptive way of thinking. That's why Silicon Valley startups, such as Uber, try to recruit from Amazon as much as possible—they are familiar with the demanding pace of work that's required when you are tearing down old institutions and creating new ones in their place.
Experiences largely vary by division. The conditions described in the Times piece likely have little to do with the engineering paradise of the Amazon Web Services division or its growing Amazon Studios arm in Los Angeles. Based on my interviews with current and former employees, the pace of work actually seems to be most intense and unforgiving in the areas where Bezos himself has direct interest, such as the Kindle e- book division or the Lab126 hardware group in Cupertino, Calif.
Ultimately, though, Amazon's culture is inseparable from its overall performance. The company is unique among its peers online and in retail for continuing to grow quickly, innovating constantly, and expanding relentlessly into new business areas. Tech companies that were started around the same time, such as AOL, Yahoo!, and EBay, have long ceased to be so dynamic. This mode of operation works for Amazon, and its high performance drives its appeal among top engineers and MBAs, who, as the Times notes, line up every Monday to join the company. They are not conscripted; they have no illusions about Amazon's culture; and they can leave at any time.
The more serious allegation against Amazon is the way it treats sick employees and, in particular, women. One possible solution should be clear to Bezos and his top lieutenants: They need to add an entry to the company's vaunted "leadership principles," the 14 written values that guide new employees and mold the thinking of executives. The new 15th principle should go something like this: Have Empathy.
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Four favorites from Eric Carle are available in one gift set!
This sturdy boxed set of four bestselling Eric Carle titles includes board editions of The Tiny Seed, Pancakes, Pancakes!, A House for Hermit Crab, and Rooster's Off to See the World. Each story is filled with Eric Carle's trademark collage-style illustrations that have made him one of America's most beloved artists. Parents love Eric Carle as much as kids do, and these four books in a compact boxed set make a perfect gift!
Eric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of more than seventy books for very young children, including The Tiny Seed, Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me, and his most well-known title, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Born in Syracuse, New York, Eric Carle moved to Germany with his parents when he was six years old. He studied at the prestigious art school, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, in Stuttgart, before returning to the United States, where he worked as a graphic designer for The New York Times and later as art director for an advertising agency. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, now considered a modern classic, has sold nearly fifty million copies and has been translated into sixty-five languages. With his late wife, Barbara, Eric Carle cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Massachusetts in 2002. Eric Carle lives in the Florida Keys.
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In November 2010, social networking giant - Twitter - partnered with MTN, a major mobile phone operator in Cameroon, in an effort to make Twitter more accessible to people living in Cameroon - many of whom have limited access to internet. Sadly, this effort to give people in Cameroon a voice online through Twitter mobile (Twitter SMS) has been thwarted by the government which has reportedly ordered the suspension of service.
It is unclear why the service was suspended, but earlier today, a source posted on Twitter that it's "Pour des raisons de sécurité" (for security reasons).
The government's decision to suspend Twitter comes two weeks after Cameroonians - inspired by calls for democracy and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa - mobilized online and took to the streets of Cameroon's economic capital to demand an end to a 28-year-old iron-fisted regime. Needless to say - the peaceful protesters were brutally suppressed by security forces.
Mindful of the role of Twitter and other social networking sites in the recent pro-democracy uprisings around the world, its easy to see the suspension of Twitter mobile in Cameroon as an attempt to stifle the free flow of information and co-ordinated calls for democracy and respect for human rights through social media.
The Committee to Protect Journalists recently took the government of Cameroon to task for "obstructing" free reporting on issues of public interest. The suspension of Twitter SMS adds weight to this assertion and highlights state-sponsored limitations on basic freedoms in Cameroon.
Following this suspension, people living in Cameroon can only tweet from internet cafés. This greatly limits the free flow of information - especially if for some reason, users are unable to go to internet cafés.
It remains to be seen whether Twitter (and other social networking sites) will be banned altogether in Cameroon.


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What business are you in? What do people call you? How do you introduce yourself? How many competitors do you have? If you don't have competitors, you're what I call a "Category of One" brand.
How many people today would you consider to be a "Category Of One"?
Oprah? Elon Musk? Warren Buffett? Richard Branson?
I consider myself and my co-host, Dan Sullivan, to be a "Category Of One" because for the past 30 years, we have both been in the business of making dreams come true—for ourselves, our employees, our families, and our clients—and it's something we're both very passionate about.
It's like this … if someone asked me to create the perfect profession for myself, it is and always has been to make dreams come true.
In this episode, Dan and I dive into how we are able to accomplish making dreams come true for our clients. Bottom line is that we're both in the same business but have different methodologies.
We'll cover a few client case studies, including:
Charlie Epstein, a mutual client who had been in the finance business all his life, who we helped turn his dream of performing stand-up comedy into a moneymaking, fulfilling reality. He "makes money funny" with a one-man show called "Yield of Dreams."
Brett Kaufman, a very successful real estate developer and visionary, who we helped figure out the best messaging, launch a podcast, and decide on a platform for his greatest creation to date, The Gravity Project (an incredible live/work lifestyle facility that has affordable housing).
Both are in a "Category of One."
Dan started Strategic Coach® because he was a horrible student who barely passed high school. He was incapable of staying awake in a classroom environment. He needed to TEACH in order to stay awake, or be really engaged with activities.
Thus, Strategic Coach was born—a place where performance is appreciated and the lesson materials are about YOU. You never get bored with yourself, right? It's everyone's favorite subject.
Dan created structures and processes so that everyone is able to amplify their Unique Ability® and have a community where they feel "normal."
In our experience, most entrepreneurs feel like misfits, outsiders, or aliens because of their unique way of thinking, processing information, and just being in the world. Both Dan and I have been there, and it's not fun. To have a place where you feel understood, welcome, and appreciated is life-changing, and that's why we both do what we do. We're thinking about starting a school called ALIEN UNIVERSITY! What do you think?
True freedom is what most people say they want, but freedom is only created from the inside out. It takes A LOT of courage to be who you imagine you want to be and block out the people telling you that you can't.
In order to lead a whole future, you have to start with a whole present, and you can't do that if you have a half past. You have to go back and complete the unfinished business from the past before you will have confidence to create an entirely new future.


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SDB Popularity Ranking: 1434
Last name: Main
Recorded as Mane, Main, Maine, Mayne, and the patronymic or locational Mains, this very interesting surname can be English, Scottish, Dutch-Flemish, French, Scandanavian, or German in origin. However in almost all cases the derivation is from the Roman (Latin) word 'magnus' meaning strength. As such in pre medieval times it was usually given as a baptismal name of endearment, although later in the Middle Ages when surnames began to be formed from about the 12th century a.d., it was usually a nickname for a very strong man, or given the robust humour of the period, the reverse! However to add to the confusion the name can also be locational from the French province of Maine, whilst the Scottish name holders, the name is particularly popular in Aberdeenshire, are of Viking stock, possibly from Iceland where the spelling is Magnus. The name development includes the recordings of Adam de Meine of Somerset, England in 1205, although he was almost certainly from France, William Asmayns of Lincolnshire in 1255, and Richard le Mayne of Sussex in 1327. In Scotland the spelling was originally Mane, generally becoming Main or Mains in the 17th century. It is said that in the year 1895 there were over thirty men called John Mains in the town of Nairn. The coat of arms granted in 1685 has the blazon of a blue field, charged with a chevron voided in red, between two fleur de lis in chief and a unicorns head in base. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Robert Main. This was dated 1204, in the Assize Rolls of Yorkshire, England. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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Specifically, for a &str of 1 unicode scalar value, there should be a .to_char() available to turn it into a char. This is useful when taking e.g. a hexadecimal digit from a DB and calling .to_digit(16) on it. If the string contains more than 1 unicode scalar value, this method should panic (on debug builds. may not panic on release builds. fallback to using only the first char/scalar value when not panicking).
Sometimes, especially when dealing with legacy data, it makes sense to get rid of unicode. Rust makes getting rid of unicode extremely painful and everything you try will bite you - even CStrings aren't well supported and you can't use them as an alternative to Strings. Small tweaks such as str.to_char() or even str.to_digit(radix) would make this transition much more painless.
Isn't this the same as string.chars().first().unwrap()?
because char implements 'FromStr', you can use str::parse() for this.
can I use that as in s.parse().to_digit(16)?


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Q: How to extend AuthorizeAttribute and check the user's roles I am busy writing my own custom attribute for my action method called MyAuthorizeAttribute, I am still busy writing the code, here is my partial code:
[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Method, AllowMultiple = false)]
public class  MyAuthorizeAttribute : AuthorizeAttribute
{
   public new Role Roles;

   public override void OnAuthorization(AuthorizationContext filterContext)
   {
      base.OnAuthorization(filterContext);

      if (Roles != 0)  // Did it this way to see what the value of Roles was
         return;

      // Here I am going to get a list of user roles
      // I'm doing my own database calls

      filterContext.Result = new HttpUnauthorizedResult();
   }
}

Here is my Role enum:
public enum Role
{
   Administrator = 1,
   SuperAdministrator = 2
}

My action method:
[MyAuthorize(Roles = Role.Administrator|Role.SuperAdministrator)]
public ActionResult Create()
{
   return View();
}

The reason why I did not use Roles = "Administrator,SuperAdministrator" was because the roles are hard-coded.  I don't want to have a 100 places to change if the role name changes.
Given my method, when it gets to if (Roles != 0) then Roles total value is 3, how would I check to see if these 2 roles is in the list of user roles for a specific user?
Am I doing it correct here?  If not how would I otherwise implement this?  It doesn't have to be the way that I did it in.

A: Would it not be better if MyAuthorizeAttribute accepted an IList ( or similar)
That way it is both typesafe, but you don't have to use bit flags.
Bit flags are great if you want to save the reult, but this is the other way.
Edit (Now with examples):
Attribute:

[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Method, AllowMultiple = false)]
public class MyAuthorizeAttribute : AuthorizeAttribute
{
    public Role[] RoleList { get; set; }

    protected override bool AuthorizeCore(HttpContextBase httpContext)
    {
        if (httpContext == null)
        {
            throw new ArgumentNullException("httpContext");
        }
        IPrincipal user = httpContext.User;
        if (!user.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
        {
            return false;
        }
        //Only role access is implemented here
        /*if ((this._usersSplit.Length > 0) && !this._usersSplit.Contains<string>(user.Identity.Name, StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            return false;
        }*/
        if ((RoleList.Length > 0) && !RoleList.Select(p=>p.ToString()).Any<string>(new Func<string, bool>(user.IsInRole)))
        {
            return false;
        }
        return true;
    }

}

Controller:
[MyAuthorize(RoleList = new []{Role.Administrator , Role.SuperAdministrator} )]
    public ActionResult Create()
    {
        return View();
    }

A: If I understand correctly, your problem here is not with inheriting the AuthorizeAttribute, but rather with comparing enum values. You probably want an enum type that you can use as a bit flag - if so, take a look at the section about Enumeration Types in the C# Programming guide especially the second part, "Enumeration Types as Bit Flags".
To clarify a bit:
Instead of just checking Roles!=0, you could now do something like this:
public override void OnAuthorization(AuthorizationContext filterContext)
{
    base.OnAuthorization(filterContext);

    // Here you get an enum indicating the roles this user is in. The method
    // converts the db information to a Role enum before it is returned.
    // If the user is not authenticated, the flag should not be set, i.e. equal 0.
    Role userRole = GetUserRolesFromDatabase();

    // Bitwise comparison of the two role collections.
    if (Roles & userRole > 0)
    {
        // The user is in at least one of the roles in Roles. Return normally.
        return;
    }

    // If we haven't returned yet, the user doesn't have the required privileges.
    new HttpUnauthorizedResult();
}

To make the comparison easier, you could use the following extension method on your enum:
public static class RolesExtensions
{
    public static bool HasAnyOf(this Roles r1, Roles roles)
    {
        return (r1 & roles) > 0;
    }
}

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Information breaches that would have been difficult to fathom years ago are now common. And people are rightfully worried. After all, if the federal government can get hacked and its employees' data stolen, how vulnerable is a personal account held at a bank or brokerage?
1. Diversify your passwords – and change them.
For the user's convenience they often use the same password across multiple websites, which is a big mistake. It's like giving an intruder a key that opens every lock. You want to make it extremely difficult for a hacker to access your sensitive information. Create unique password combinations (including letters, numbers and symbols) for each of the financial websites you log into, and establish a bi-annual schedule to change them.
2. Use an online password manager.
All of those hard to crack passwords can be a nightmare to remember and store, so utilize a reputable password manager. The best managers include password generators that create strong and unique choices. Most password managers allow you to sync your passwords across all electronic devices, making it easy to maintain multiple passwords.
3. Make life hard for crooks.
Shredding confidential documents, avoiding simple passwords, and keeping sensitive information off of unsecured channels are all effective actions. Thoroughly checking credit card statements for suspicious activity, and being aware of your surroundings when using ATMs, are security measures that remain effective. Don't let your guard down. Learn more about preventing fraud at the ATM here.
4. Check your credit reports at least annually.
Periodically checking your credit report is a smart way to stay ahead of the bad guys, but many people don't because of common misconceptions like the belief that you have to pay a fee to see your report, or that you must subscribe to a service.
The goal is to check for discrepancies, inconsistences and inaccuracies that might suggest identity theft. Annualcreditreport.com is a great (free) place to start.
5. Keep your guard up when it comes to emails.
Be wary of any email that requires you to click on a hyperlink to update a password or confirm confidential material. These emails are often "phishing" attempts seeking to scam you. They appear to come from familiar places such as your bank, an online retailer, or even the IRS. But – they are not legitimate, so be very careful before you open them!
It's understandable to feel helpless in an age of smart criminals who conduct endless assaults on privacy. But simply putting the threat out of mind is not a solution, or thinking it can't happen to you. Think first because there's harm in not knowing!
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Portland – Banks Vernonia State Trail – Ximena.
I work-out but am no longer an athlete. I mostly trained for this bike ride by sitting on a bike at the gym and maxed out at 16 miles.
I preface this review with the above facts so that you know that this was a challenge. I did a lot of research before embarking on this adventure. Many sites said it was easy for anyone to do, the 70 yr old guy at the bike shop said he does it BUT it is not easy or leisurely. It is 100% true that the second half (going in the direction of Portland) is easier. This is because around 12 miles of the first half is at an incline, so on the way back you are flying for most of it.
Honestly, I wanted to turn around at mile 8. There are markers every mile that let you know how far you have gone, in a way seeing them was torture. I was Major of Struggle City on this ride but at the end I felt so amazing. I highly recommend it if you have been to Portland before and are looking for something new to do.
After we drove back into the city and went to Bollywood Theater. Quick Review: Good, authentic tasting. Would come back if I lived in the area.
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You finished the ride! so fun. wild blackberries were free!!!! free is good.