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[RANKED] Where are Washington's Most Distracted Drivers?
Updated on: 4/1/2019
It's easy to find a distracted driver in Washington state. And it's significantly easier in some cities than others.
In July 2017, Washington state's new distracted driving law went into effect. The law makes it illegal to use a handheld personal electronic device (cell phone) while driving. Even if you're stopped in traffic. First-time violators of the law face a $136 fine.
To help spread awareness about the dangers of distracted driving, the National Safety Council, along with countless safety organizations in the United States, sponsors Distracted Driving Awareness Month in April of each year. Despite the efforts of educators, law enforcement, and countless non-profits, the problem of distracted driving persists, and some Washington cities are especially prone to the devastating consequences that result from serious car accidents.
A AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety study determined that texting and visual-manual tasks increase the odds of crash involvement by 83 percent.
Given their size, it's obvious that Washington's largest cities like Seattle, Tacoma, and Spokane experience the most total distracted driving crashes and deaths. However, when you look at the numbers as a percentage of all crashes — regardless of the cause — the results are surprising.
Based on five years of collision data, Davis Law Group has ranked the top 10 most dangerous cities in Washington for distracted driving.
For complete details on the methodology used to rank these cities, click here.
MAP: Washington State's Most Distracted Drivers
This interactive map shows the percentage of fatal/serious injury crashes between 2013 and 2017 that involved a distracted driver. Click on a city to see the underlying numbers. Larger circles = higher rate of distracted driver crashes. You can drag the map if needed.
#1 Sammamish
% of crashes involving a distracted driver: 30.77
Sammamish tops our list of the most dangerous Washington cities for distracted driving. In 2015, 15.9 percent of all motor vehicle deaths and injuries in the United States involved a distracted driver. But in Sammamish, despite having a small population of 52,253, four of the 13 total crashes over the past five years involved a distracted driver. That's nearly double the national average.
#2 Lakewood
To find the No. 2 city on our list we go to Lakewood, a city of 59,829 people located just outside Tacoma. Lakewood is home to 94 total serious injury or fatal crashes over the past five years, 16 of which involved a distracted driver.
#3 Everett
The largest city in Snohomish County, Everett comes in at No. 3 for most distracted drivers in Washington. With a population of 108,010, Everett saw 227 serious or fatal crashes on its roadways from 2013-17, 33 of which involved a distracted driver. While 2017 was a good year for Everett (two bad distracted driver crashes), 2014 and 2016 were bad with 11 and 10, respectively.
#4 Bellevue
Bellevue — a city of 139,820 people across Lake Washington from Seattle — comes in at No. 4 on our list. The main Eastside hub for local transit, Bellevue beats out its big brother to the West when it comes to distracted driving.
#5 Marysville
At No. 5 is Marysville, one of the fastest-growing cities in Washington state. After having zero serious or fatal distracted driving-involved crashes in 2013, Marysville had three in 2017, putting it firmly in the top 10 of our list.
#6 Seattle
Unfortunately, our home and the largest city in Washington clocks in at No. 6 on our list of Washington cities with the most distracted driving crashes. The Emerald City saw 1,031 serious injury or fatal crashes from 2013-17, with 129 involving a distracted driver. Since 2013, the city of Seattle has seen an 53.8% increase in these preventable incidents.
#7 Tacoma
Tacoma — a city of 207,948 people as of 2015 — is our No. 7 city for distracted driving. And the problem seems to be getting worse here in Pierce County. After just seven total distracted driving crashes in 2013-14, the rate spiked from 2015-17. In the past three years, there have been 11, 15, and 15 such crashes, respectively.
#8 Spokane
Home of the Gonzaga Bulldogs, Spokane checks in at No. 8 on our list. The Lilac City, situated along the Spokane River west of the Rocky Mountain foothills in eastern Washington, sees 7.2 distracted driving crashes per year within its borders. Interstate 90, which rans east-west from Seattle, passes through Spokane.
#9 Pasco
The city of Pasco comes in at No. 9. One of three cities that make up the Tri-Cities region of the state of Washington, Pasco saw seven distracted driving crashes from 2013-17. With 68 total serious crashes during that time period, Pasco — a city of 69,451 — can challenge the larger cities on this list when it comes to distracted driving.
#10 Spokane Valley
Rounding out the top 10 on our list is Spokane Valley, a city with a population of 94,919. Spokane Valley is the site of about 22 serious injury or fatal crashes per year, and on average, 2.2 of those involve a distracted driver.
The Bottom 5 Cities
Not every city in Washington state is notorious for distracted drivers. Each of the following cities of 50,000-plus people had two distracted driving-involved crashes from 2013-17.
#24 Yakima
% of crashes involving a distracted driver: 1.71
#23 Olympia
#22 Kennewick
#21 Shoreline
#20 Richland
Various Types of Distracted Driving
Texting while driving has always been a focal point for traffic safety advocates because – although there are a number of different types of distracting behavior – it requires visual, manual and cognitive attention from the driver, making it "by far the most alarming distraction," according to the NHTSA.
Other forms of driver distraction include:
Talking on cell phone
Web browsing on a smart phone
Talking to passengers
Self care/grooming
Reading maps or books
Using a navigation system
Watching a movie
Adjusting radio or CD player
Texting while driving increases a driver's risk of being involved in an accident 23 times in comparison to drivers who are not distracted. And sending or receiving a text message at a speed of at least 55 mph takes a driver's eyes off the road for almost five seconds, enough time to drive the length of a football field.
The Davis Law Group is a proud supporter of Distracted Driving Awareness Month and encourages all drivers to refrain from using a cell phone behind the wheel.
Using WSDOT Crash Data Portal we obtained city-level Washington state crash data for all serious injury or fatal distracted driving-involved crashes over five years, from 2013 to 2017.
We narrowed the list of cities down to only those with a population of over 50,000 people as of 2015 (24 cities).
We then compared that data to the total number of serious injury or fatality car accidents involving all drivers. What we got was the percentage of crashes involving a distracted driver in each city.
Questions about this study? Email Us
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Q: Swift 2.0 - Rearranging a JSON object by sub array I'm using SwiftyJSON to create a data dictionary in JSON.
Now I want to arrange one of the sub dictionaries called fb_friends by friend_health_points.
I tried using Sort or any other manipulation but I get String/JSON errors.
So basically I'm trying to sort it so that 150 health points will be first and 20 will be last in that data dictionary.
This is the data:
var data: JSON = [
        "user_id": 7742,
        "name": "Bla",
        "fb_friends": [
            [
                "friend_id": 202072,
                "friend_name": "Bla Bla",
                "friend_photo_url": "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/",
                "friend_health_points": 50,
            ],
            [
                "friend_id": 502333,
                "friend_name": "hdfghdfghfdgh",
                "friend_photo_url": "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/",
                "friend_health_points": 150,
            ],
            [
                "friend_id": 202072,
                "friend_name": "gjhkghjk",
                "friend_photo_url": "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/",
                "friend_health_points": 20,
            ]
]

A: This is a solution without third-party libraries
var data = [
  "user_id": 7742,
  "name": "Bla",
  "fb_friends": [
    [
      "friend_id": 202072,
      "friend_name": "Bla Bla",
      "friend_photo_url": "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/",
      "friend_health_points": 50,
    ],
    [
      "friend_id": 502333,
      "friend_name": "hdfghdfghfdgh",
      "friend_photo_url": "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/",
      "friend_health_points": 150,
    ],
    [
      "friend_id": 202072,
      "friend_name": "gjhkghjk",
      "friend_photo_url": "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/",
      "friend_health_points": 20,
    ]
  ]
]

let friends = (data["fb_friends"] as! [[String:AnyObject]]).sort{ ($0["friend_health_points"] as! Int) > $1["friend_health_points"] as! Int}
data["fb_friends"] = friends
print(data)

let json = JSON(data)

A: Ok I found the answer, because the object is of type SwiftyJSON I can use arrayValue to extract it to array.
So this will give me back a sorted array of friends.
let fbFriends = data["fb_friends"]
let friendsArray = fbFriends.arrayValue
let sortedFriends = friendsArray.sort { $0["friend_health_points"].doubleValue > $1["friend_health_points"].doubleValue }

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CGTalk | Syflex for Maya with Renderman for Maya 1.0 ?
Syflex for Maya with Renderman for Maya 1.0 ?
I wanted to know if Syflex for Maya is compatible with Renderman for Maya 2008 ?
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Q: Dotted border appears as "solid" in chrome I have an input field inside a tbody tr.
I made its border dotted when hovering (with CSS). It works well on Firefox, but, it does not work in Chrome.
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Bronze medals in FINA World Masters Swimming Championships in Kazan-2015.
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The 53 year old's last Staysure Tour victory was at the 2016 Paris Legends Championship and the possibility of adding to that triumph this weekend is something which whets the Swede's appetite.
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	Platform:
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	Platform:
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	\li XB360: Yes

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	Platform:
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	\li PPU  : Yes
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	Platform:
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Ding repair was a pretty good gig but I really wanted to build my own surfboard. I met Jack Hokanson when he opened "Jack's Surf Shop" in Anaheim California. It was a small spinoff shop from his Huntington Beach location and it sold surfboards, skateboards, wetsuits, and and other surf-related stuff. I used to go there and drool over the new boards. Jack knew I wanted a foam blank but he also knew that, since virtually every penny I made went for gas and taco's, my chances of being a paying customer weren't good. I finally managed to talk him into trading a bunch of 8 x 10 action photos I had taken at the 1963 West Coast Surfing Championships for an ugly 9'8" hard-shell blank nobody else wanted. I sanded it and got rid of the bumps and yellow spots and glassed it with 20 oz cloth (yup, 20 oz.). The resulting board was wide, flat, and kinda heavy but it was "my board" and I loved it. My shaping and glassing skills got better over the years but that first board - as crude as it was - will always be special to me.
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It has been awhile since I've checked in on the books portion of this site. That's because I took a break from reading new (to me at least) books in favor of revisiting the six books of Frank Herbert's Dune Series. This is something I do about every year or so, whenever the mood strikes me. Rereading these is always an enjoyable experience since it is an interesting mix of revisiting old friends and finding new perspectives and ideas within familiar settings and finding new ways they apply to the time in which I am reading the books.
The series has been reviewed so many times before that I don't feel like I can say anything novel at this point. Obviously, I love the books, but more importantly I love how different passages stay with me at different times depending on what's going on in my life and the world. With this in mind, I just wanted to share some of the quotes and ideas that really stood out for me during this reading. So sit back, grab a spice beer, and enjoy my collection of largely spoiler free quotations from the series.
Some awesome person even set this to an old Calvin & Hobbes cartoon on their Tumlbr page. I don't know this person, and I hope they don't mind the link; I just think their idea is fantastic. I find myself thinking of this one most frequently at work when dealing with someone who is particularly difficult or demanding.
As someone who often finds himself relying on machines to do a lot of thinking for him and has occasional problems focusing on the present situation, I like keeping this in mind from time to time. Doesn't always help me, of course, but I usually find the idea relevant.
I think anyone who has ever been at least partially awake while working an office job can appreciate this one.
This is more whimsical quote that happens to occur just before a very important scene in the early part of the series. Paul Muad'dib has taken custody of Bijaz (who was a ton of great lines in his short amount of page time) who speaks entirely in nimble riddles and word tricks. Bijaz's weapons are his words and Paul is quick to realize that the dwarf is far more than he appears. This particular quote is a great representation of the character and was the particular one that stood out.
This excerpt from Princess Irulan appropriately heads a chapter in which Farad'n Corrino is being indoctrinated into Bene Gesserit thought. I like how it touches upon the ways in which language can be used to subjugate and control certain groups or people.
I chose this passage because despite being among the easiest to pull out into a single quote, it also is both interesting and extremely relevant as the story transitions into the later books. For the real world, it raises questions about how language influences and prejudices how we experience ideas and reality. For the books, it shows part of the God Emperor's shaping of humanity to question reality and the universe around them, and primes them to explode outside the boundaries of the known universe.
The series also has no shortage of quotable thoughts on politics as well, and, seeing how an election cycle is ramping up, I can't help but think about how some of these apply.
As the number of candidates and corporate money pouring into the elections machine climbs steadily higher.
Until next time, cheers and Long live the fighters of Muad'dib!
One of the goodies that made it home with me from my recent trip out of state was a lone bottle of something I'd been curious to try for awhile. As promised here is my review of Prairie Bomb!
Pour Info: Poured from a refrigerated 12 oz. bottle into a snifter glass.
Price: $9.99 for a 12 oz. bottle. A bit steep for a random pickup, but my love of stouts and the beer's rock solid reputation convinced me to pick up this highly sought after beer I won't see in my home market.
Appearance: As expected, a thick black pour topped off by a thin tan head.
Smell:.Lots of light, roasty coffee dominate the smell. A little bit of pepper snuck through on the finish at warmer temperatures.
Taste: The front end of the beer is some more of that roasted coffee mixed in with some bittersweet chocolate. The ending of the beer is where you get hints of chilli peppers; just a little bit of an extra bite mixing with the roastiness. Somewhere in the middle is subdued vanilla in the background that bridges the two ends of the beer. As the beer sits for a bit and warms up, the chilli peppers come out a bit more and the coffee fades off a bit. The peppers pick up to a point that the beer does get a slight spice at the end. As for alcohol heat, there surprisingly isn't that much of it. I think there's probably too many other tastes going on for it to really come through.
Mouth Feel: Not to be nitpicky, but it was more of a medium thickness. It wasn't really a flaw, and perhaps it was necessary to get through a monster beer like this; however, I was expecting more body.
Hype Factor: Sky high. There's a lot of buzz around this beer, and it has received just about the highest possible scores on the big rating sites. Adding in that it was a chance find and fairly significant purchase, I was really looking forward to this one.
Overall: This is certainly a very, very good beer, and I certainly can see why it gets the attention it does. There are a lot of complex tastes going on in here. The blending of flavors was spot on. I really appreciated how the different tastes were able to stand on their own without clashing. I also liked how this was a chilli beer that didn't go the route of having to be overly spicy (something that I have yet to see turn out well). I am, however, at a bit of a loss as to how to categorize this now. As a chilli stout, this is hands down the best I've ever had. As a coffee and/or vanilla stout, it is also a superior brew, but is perhaps edged out by some of the other "World Class" rated options. Evaluated solely by its own standards this is an excellent beer. It has a lot to offer and is worth seeking out and trying.
This time we're looking at a local offering that I couldn't help but pick up off the shelf at Kappy's. I haven't had nearly enough of this brewery in my drinking rotation, so perhaps now is the time to fix that.
Description: Part of the brewery's Wigglesworth series of bottle conditioned real ales.
Pour Info: Poured from a refrigerated 500 ml (16.9 oz.) bottle into a snifter glass. Couldn't find a bottled on date.
Price: I don't remember exactly since it was lumped in with other purchases, but I believe it was in the $3-4 price range.
Appearance: There was a nice hazy mist upon opening the bottle, noticeably more so than usual upon opening up a bottle (as odd as that sounds). Characteristic golden body with a lively fluffy white that didn't quite disappear entirely.
Smell:.Not much going on here. There was a burst of resiny bitterness upon opening the bottle but not so much in the glass, where there was just a hint of floral bitterness.
Taste: The taste really brought what the nose hints at. Lots of bitterness of the floral variety in this beer. The beer got a little sweeter at warmer temperatures, but this was first and foremost a very crisp, dry tasting hoppy beer.
Mouth Feel: Appropriately medium bodied for the style. It was playfully bubbly without being over carbonated.
Hype Factor: Cautiously optimistic. Mystic is a somewhat under the radar but very well regarded local that I haven't had a lot of experience with.
Overall: This was a very solid beer. The word "quality" comes to mind in describing the taste and execution; you can really taste that this was well made. The taste profile is not quite in line with my usual IPA preferences, but I cannot deny that this is a top notch brew. I'm happy I picked it up and would try it on draft if given the chance. I'll even recommend someone else do the same.
Following a period of technical difficulties, I am back ready to make up for lost posting time. And it only seems fitting to jump back into things by taking a trip over to Night Shift, where they are welcoming in the warmer weather by expanding their seating outdoors. Let's see what beers they have to welcome me back.
Starting off with the Barrel Society offering (and proof that I really am still reading books), on tap for my visit was Hogarth. This is the second of this year's society beers and was released on May 28. This beer is described as a Strong Ale that has been aged in apple brandy and bourbon barrels. It pours a rich caramel colored body with thick, foamy off-white head. The smell offered some hints of the beer's origins; slightly sweet with some hints of oak and brandy. The taste is also on the sweet side with a little bit of bourbon heat and a nice smooth maltiness. The influence of the apple brandy barrels comes through more after the beer has sat for a few minutes. There is a little bit of a funky bitter taste that lingers after beer finishes that, while not unwelcome, perhaps seems a bit out of place. The mouthfeel is also a bit thinner than I might have expected though it is still medium-plus. Overall, I think it was a pretty good beer but not one of my favorite Barrel Society offerings. For what it's worth, the releases last year really started coming on strong at the third beer, so I'm eagerly awaiting what comes next. I'm also curious to see how this one ages, so I'm going to sit on a bottle for awhile and see how it goes.
My latest flight was a mix of styles. This time out I had (listed in the order pictured) a Pale Ale, an IPA, a Porter, and a Pilsner. The Pale Ale was the latest installment in the brewery's new One Hop This Time series, this time featuring Galaxy Hops. This was a very good beer, clean tasting with a very nice light juicy and citrusy bitterness. Next up was Santilli, a beer that has recently become the brewery's flagship IPA and one of the select few offerings to see distribution in bottles. It is definitely a solid beer, slightly darker than the Pale Ale and noticeably hoppier. It is also maltier with a yeasty/bready backbone and a slightly sweet finish. From here I went out of order and grabbed the Pilsner, named Pfaffenheck, next. This beer was well executed but at the same time wasn't quite my thing. It certainly accomplished what they were looking to do; the beer was clean, crisp, and a little bit wheaty. I think what did this in for me was a little bit of sweetness and what I picked up as a slightly peppery herbal finish. Rounding out the flight was Stafford, the Porter. This was another very nice beer continuing Night Shift's run of solid Porters this year. It offered some good roasted espresso notes on top of a smooth, thick, and creamy base. Well done.


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September 22, 2021 4:15 PM, EDT
Retailers Face Challenges Installing Electric Vehicle Chargers
Retail fuel outlets such as truck stops and gas stations say they are seriously weighing investment in electric vehicle chargers, but face such challenges as customer "range anxiety," high utility charges for electricity and political policy uncertainties.
But even when they do make the investments, they don't plan on seeing any profit for at least a few years, several executives told a Sept. 20 Natso virtual webinar titled, "Business Case for EV Charging at Retail."
"We are definitely in an evaluative mode right now where we are looking at demand for electric vehicle charging infrastructure in various parts of the country," said Tim Langenkamp, vice president and general counsel for Pilot Co.'s energy division. "But the demand is not uniform across the nation. The regulatory environment is definitely in flux, and there needs to be a successful energy transition with as few dropped balls as possible."
Congress is set to vote on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal—which includes $5+ billion for EV charging—next week.
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One of the biggest obstacles to that successful transition is for utility companies to offer reasonable electricity rates to retailers wanting to install chargers on their properties, said Eva Rigamonti, associate general counsel for RaceTrac Inc.
"I think the rate structure is a huge impediment to private investment," Rigamonti said. "We have 518 RaceTrac locations that span 67 different utilities, meaning 67 different jurisdictions of rate structure. I think it's kind of a pipe dream that Congress would open up some major utility legislation at this point."
Rigamonti added, "Certainly RaceTrac is under no delusions that we're going to make a profit in a couple of years. Frankly, for us right now we're just hoping to cover our costs over a reasonable multiyear period. There's no way that the cost of a sandwich is going to cover a [utility] demand charge."
Retailers and charge providers are clearly hoping to receive assistance from federal and state grants to begin building out a charging infrastructure.
President Joe Biden's American Jobs Plan, if passed by Congress, could help. The plan calls for a $15 billion investment to build a national network of 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations to help the nation reach his ambitious goal that 50% of vehicles sold be electric by 2030.
Through a combination of grant and incentive programs for state and local governments and the private sector, the plan would support a transformational acceleration in deployment of a mix of chargers in apartment buildings, in public parking, throughout communities and along our nation's roadways, the administration has said.
"Congress needs to send very clear signals to the private sector that they want us to invest, and that they're not going to flip-flop and change their minds," Rigamonti said.
Anne Smart, who oversees electric vehicle charger provider ChargePoint's policy team, said she is hoping that states and the federal government will provide more funding to jump-start the EV charging industry.
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But she points out that already there is grant money being offered in a number of states just in the next three months. Also, grant programs will be available in the infrastructure bill that could be forthcoming soon. "Now is the time to get moving on it," Smart said.
"What we've always been concerned with is how do you make this economically feasible," said LeRoy Fitzgerald, commercial director with FreeWire Technologies. "If you can't make money on it, why are you willing to do it, especially running on very tight margins."
"We're only in the second inning of this discussion right now," said David Fialkov, Natso's executive vice president of government affairs. "Hopefully it will evolve and become a little more market-oriented."
"What has been frustrating to us is that utilities are presenting themselves oftentimes to policymakers as the environmentally conscious forward-thinking EV charging advocates," said Fialkov. "But then they oppose [us] and others when we are trying to figure out a way that we can sell electricity and make a profit off of it."
Another challenge is motorist "range anxiety," Fialkov said.
"Even if you don't live in a house with a garage with your own charger or in an apartment building where you don't have overnight parking with access to a charging station, you can have range anxiety even when you're not traveling far," he said. "Even going to a charging station in town, it must be a fast-charging station."
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Facebook Is Becoming a Worthy Alternative to YouTube Regarding Video Sharing
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It's no secret that Facebook is trying to dip its hands into YouTube's revenue by becoming a worthy alternative when it comes to videos. Over the last two years, the social network has been constantly releasing new features designed to attract more users into watching videos directly on the platform instead of going to YouTube.
Along with the new features, Facebook's improved News Feed algorithms have also appealed to advertisers, celebrities and media outlets by rewarding them for posting directly on its site. And this cocktail of strategies seems to be paying off, if we're to believe Facebook's data.
Ever since 2013, the number of videos posted by an individual user has skyrocketed to 94 percent in the United States and 75 percent on a worldwide level. The greatest increase, however, was recorded by the number of paid and non-paid videos that shows up in your News Feed – rising to 360 percent!
According to comScore's data, YouTube still occupies no-1 in terms of video sites in the US, but Facebook is following closely on second place, closing the gap with each year that passes. There are several changes and updates that have made Facebook more similar to YouTube.
One of the greatest successes recorded was the auto-play tool, which turned the user's News Feed in a livelier environment. This feature launched in the second half of 2013 is only available for videos uploaded straight on Facebook.
Some found the auto-play tool annoying, but most agreed that it was even more annoying to have to click play every time you wanted to watch the video again. Views have also increased, exceeding the milestone of 4 billion times a day in only 6 months of 2015.
Another trick that has helped Facebook move closer to YouTube is showing how many times a video was viewed. When you see a video was viewed 10 million times, you are more compelled to stop scrolling and watch it as well. This strategy has worked well for YouTube and many social video platforms have also adopted it.
At the same time, Facebook's News Feed algorithm is trained to feed your habits – especially if you watch a lot of videos on its platform. It's a known fact that Facebook can track your viewing practices, like how long you watch a video, or how often you expand the video player.
Apart from these successful new features, Facebook has one ace up its sleeve giving it an immense advantage over YouTube: the ability to share videos poses a true threat to YouTube's monopoly. Facebook also has the advantage of being perceived as a social network, something YouTube still struggles with; most users see it as a giant video search engine.
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'Bigger and better' Liotard sold to German museum
'Bigger and better' Liotard portrait sold to German museum
A private museum in south-west Germany has bought a portrait by Swiss artist Jean- Etienne Liotard (1702-89) from London Old Master dealer Derek Johns.
A portrait of Mme Paul Girardot de Vermenoux sold by London Old Master dealer Derek Johns to the Karlsruhe Museum in Germany for €1.4m (£1.2m).
Karlsruhe Museum, in the Baden- Württemberg area of Germany, paid €1.4m (£1.2m) for the portrait of Mme Paul Girardot de Vermenoux that is signed and dated 1764.
Executed in pastel on a single piece of vellum measuring 3ft 11.5in x 3ft 1.5in (1.2m x 95cm) – the largest known work by the artist in this medium – it is believed to have been painted because of a rivalry between two well-to-do women of the period.
Liotard was commissioned to paint Mme Vermenoux in 1764 as a gift to her doctor, Theodore Tronchin in Geneva.
It appears Mme Vermenoux was aware the artist had painted the fashionable writer Madame d'Epinay five years earlier – a picture also gifted to the Swiss doctor.
According to Johns: "The younger, wealthier and more mundane Mme Vermenoux commissioned her portrait to be three times bigger than that of her 'rival'."
The painting appears in the catalogue raisonné of Liotard by Roethlisberger & Loche (2008) and was previously in a private collection in Geneva.
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April 21, 1934 - January 4, 2023 Mr. Marvin Edison Lariscy, 88, of Rocky Ford, GA, passed away on January 4, 2023 at the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center in Augusta, GA.
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April 21, 1934 - January 4, 2023
Mr. Marvin Edison Lariscy, 88, of Rocky Ford, GA, passed away on January 4, 2023 at the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center in Augusta, GA.
He was a member of the Little Horse Creek Baptist Church and has served his country in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.
He was retired from Union Bag and had worked for many years as a carpenter. He enjoyed fishing, being outdoors, reading scripture upon waking and in the evening, but most of all spending time doting over his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Harold and Annie Lee Waters Lariscy, brothers and sisters-in-law, William H., Sr. and Joyce Lariscy and James and Bernice Lariscy; sister, Thelma Bowen; brothers-in-law, Jake Bird and Walter Prevatt; and a great-grandchild, James Kirby Smith, Jr.
He is survived by his wife, Miriam Elizabeth Howard Lariscy; daughter and son-in-law, Tina M. and Nicky R. Johnson, all of Rocky Ford; sisters, Mary Bird of Augusta, Beatrice Lariscy of Statesboro, and Dorothy Prevatt of Rocky Ford, four grandchildren and their spouses, Raymond and Hollie Johnson of Sylvania, Stephen Johnson of Langley, SC, Nicholas and Christina Johnson of Sylvania, GA, and Kristina and Kirby Smith of Rocky Ford; great-grandchildren, Ryleigh Brackin, Emorie Johnson, Oliver Johnson, all of Sylvania, and Stryder Smith of Rocky Ford, and and several nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be held on Friday, January 6, 2022 at 5:00pm to 7:00pm at the Joiner Anderson Funeral Home Screven Chapel.
Services will be held on Saturday, January 7, 2022 at 3:00pm at the Screven Chapel of Joiner Anderson Screven Chapel with Rev. Jim Cheyne officiating.
Interment will follow at the Little Horse Creek Baptist Church.
Pallbearers will be Bill Lariscy, Michael Lariscy, Edwin Bird, Trey Lariscy, Dana Waters, and Randy Edenfield.
Honorary pallbearers will be Gary Edenfield, Dan Tuten, Gill Stewart, Fredrick Sheffield, Robert Waters, Bennie Eubanks, Jerry Jenkins, Dennis Casto.
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#1. Bart Jackson: It cannot be an accident that your consulting firm CoTria embraces such a great concern for the human talent within a company. Do you have a particular personal story that led you to this emphasis?
Garrett Miller: I spent ten plus years as a manager in a Fortune 50 company and loved the process of building and leading a team. What I didn't enjoy about managing was dealing with HR issues. I quickly discovered that the HR issues I and other managers were struggling with were similar; they tended to surround several key qualities. I began to concentrate on hiring candidates who clearly possessed these qualities and found that I was able to build what I call low maintenance teams. As I began to hire candidates who possessed WHIM, I found the joy of managing return.
#2. Bart Jackson: There is a great deal of lip service among larger companies that people are the corporation's greatest asset. Do you think business is actually taking this truth to heart? Are we beginning to practice this belief or do you see most firms placing their people on the liability side of the ledger?
Garrett Miller: The fact is that people are a company's greatest asset. No one can deny this. Do companies treat their employees in light of this fact? I find organizations that value their employees tend to invest in them. I've worked for organizations who genuinely cared for their workforce and ones that did not, and the organizations that did care, always exceeded expectations. Notice, I used the word genuinely, when describing how leadership needs to care; empty phrases, promises, and tchotchkes won't cover up true motives.
Whether hiring the next CEO or mail clerk, I believe that when organizations hire the right qualities (WHIM) they are going to attract and keep people that are committed to success.
# 3. Bart Jackson: There's always a great lure to hire top talent, even if the individual does not particularly play well with others. Can you train someone to be a good team player - to blend her energies with others - or is the most profitable move simply to amputate the talented, non-team player?
Garrett Miller: As an example, the sports arena is filled with individuals who have amazing talent but lack one or two of the necessary WHIM qualities. These players often wind up being a disappointment because they never lived up to their potential. Can you teach someone how to play nicely with others? I find that these types of people, though talented, lack what it takes to be on a low maintenance team and may drive away those who are productive and valuable. Firing someone is never a pleasant or easy process. My philosophy is to spend more time upfront and make sure these qualities are all accounted for prior to hiring.
#4. Bart Jackson: You have mentioned WHIM several times, what does WHIM stand for and does a manager need to hire all four of these qualities?
Garrett Miller: WHIM is an acronym that stands for: Work Ethic, Humility, Integrity and Maturity. What makes these qualities unique is that most managers are not able to teach them. These qualities are usually learned in a candidate's formative years – in the classroom of life. To your question about hiring all four qualities, I teach that you need to have evidence of all four before you make an offer. Surround yourself with excellent people and you will set yourself up for success.
#5. Bart Jackson: Your latest book, "Hired Right Out of College", also guides the job seeker into adopting the best possible stance and qualities. What is the greatest blunder you see novice job-seekers making? If you could grab them by the shoulders, what one warning would you give?
Garrett Miller: The one piece of advice that I'd like to give each job seeker is to take time to evaluate where their gifts and talents lie. Understand what your greatest assets are and then seek to put them to use. Though there is value to anyone who reads the book, I want to equip job seekers with the tools to answer that question as early as possible. For many, that begins with choosing a major based on where they think their natural interests and talents lie. Finding joy, satisfaction, and fulfillment in a career comes when we find our calling in life.
#6. Bart Jackson: After a successful career in corporate, an entrepreneurial plunge into founding the flourishing CoTria, and two very well received books, what's next for Garrett Miller?
Garrett Miller: Like many authors, I have several more books in the works. I enjoy writing and speaking on career related topics. I believe these books and topics are so relevant today, with unemployment and college expenses on the rise, it is important to get the right answers so that we have greater focus on our goals. CoTria, my productivity training company, continues to grow and I have my hands in several other exciting ventures as well. I'm blessed to have opportunities and resources that allow me to continue to push and grow. I hope these books equip others to do the same.
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Welcome to the age of investing in robotics and cobots (robot co-workers).
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Investors can own a basket of successful Japanese robotics firms through two exchange-traded funds writes Tony Daltorio, editor of Investors Alley's The Market Cap and frequent contributor to MoneyShow.com.
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When most of us think of robots, we think of the friendly pair of R2-D2 and C-3PO in Star Wars. Or more darkly, of dangerous androids from the Terminator movie series.
The reality is that the Age of Robotics is already upon us... the future is here. Robots of all kinds are already among us. Think Alexa, drones and driverless cars.
And let's not forget about the tiniest of robots that are reminiscent of the 1966 science fiction film Fantastic Voyage. In February, researchers from Arizona State University and the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences injected nanobots made from a folded sheet of DNA into the bloodstream of mice. These nanobots targeted the blood vessels around cancerous tumors, injecting them with blood-clotting drugs to cut off their blood supply. According to the study, published in Nature Biotechnology, the treatment was successful in shrinking the tumors and inhibiting their spread.
There are also a growing number of robot co-workers known as collaborative robots or cobots. Consider Amazon (AMZN) and its many fulfillment centers around the world. In 2012, it bought robotics start-up Kiva for $775 million. Today, there are more than 100,000 of Kiva's machines globally working in conjunction with Amazon employees, alleviating not only mundane but also potentially hazardous tasks such as lifting a heavy load.
It isn't a stretch to think that cobots will become the norm in many industries around the world. But that doesn't mean people will lose their jobs. The industry with the highest usage of robots - the automotive industry - continues to have rising employment globally.
There is a certain logic to this. Researchers at MIT found that robot-human teams were about 85% more productive than either humans or robots alone! And the robot technology manager at the Danish Technology Institute, Søren Peter Johansen, says that automating the simplest 80% of a production process is significantly cheaper than a fully automated solution. The remaining 20% of the work will be done by human co-workers.
Adding robots to the workforce will turn out to be a win-win situation.
Robots: The Next Generation
The prior generation of an average industrial robot cost about $120,000 to install. That served as a damper on the growth of the industry. But now, the newer generation of industrial cobots cost only about $35,000 to install. And they require very little time for training, unlike the old-school robots that needed a programmer to set it up.
The old-school robots have been used mainly by the auto industry, with little uptake from other types of manufacturers. That's why sales of cobots are still a very small part of overall global industrial robot sales, accounting for only about 5%.
I don't have to tell you that this means there is a very large remaining market that is wide open for the introduction of next-generation cobots. That line of thought is supported by a 2017 study from Research and Markets that forecast that the cobot market will grow by more than 40% annually over the next five years.
This growth will be sped along by the continuing drop in price for industrial robots. According to research from ARK Invest, by 2025, robot costs will drop by about 65% to only $11,000. All thanks to technological advances in machine learning, machine vision and connected sensors.
Some question whether falling prices for robots will adversely affect companies selling robots. Based on history, the answer is no. During the past decade, robot prices have dropped by about 40%. Yet, gross margins for the world's leading robot manufacturers such as ABB (ABB) , Fanuc (FANUY) and Yaskawa Electric (YASKY) have actually been stable to improving.
China Leading the Way
Not surprising to me is the fact that China is leading the way in this robot revolution. Robotics is one of the industries among the government's ambitious Made in China 2025 program whose aim is to position the country at the forefront of new manufacturing technologies.
Despite the recent imposition of U.S. restrictions on technology transfers to China, the country is feverishly automating its factories in response to a labor shortage, rising wages and growing macroeconomic confidence. A forecast from the International Federation of Robotics predicts that from 2018 to 2020, sales of robots in China will jump between 15% and 20% annually.
The main driver of this growth in China is its electrical and electronics industries. Among these industries are the semiconductor and battery manufacturing sub-sectors, which are also a focus of the Chinese government's Made in China 2025 plan for its economy's future.
However, at the moment, China is not the leader in robot technology and neither is the U.S. The leader, as it has been for decades, continues to be Japan.
Japan Says Doumo Arigatou to China
According to a November 2017 report from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR), Japan delivers 52% of the world's supply of industrial robots. The production capacity of Japanese suppliers hit 153,000 units in 2016, the highest level ever recorded. Japan also exported a record number of robots (115,000) in 2016 that were worth an estimated $2.7 billion.
Many of these robots were exported to China. That country, since 2013, has become the largest buyer of industrial robots. In 2016 alone, sales soared by 27% to 90,000 units -- a single country record. The IFR estimates that robot sales in China will rise to 160,000 units in 2019. In other words, China's automating of its factories has been and continues to be a bonanza for Japanese robotics companies.
In 2018, thanks to China, Japanese production of industrial robots will grow by 10% and hit for the first time ever the 1 trillion yen (about $9 billion) level. This follows a very robust 2017 when output soared 30% to about 900 billion yen. Robot exports from Japan to China soared nearly 58% to 227.5 billion yen, accounting for 40% of all of Japan's overseas robot exports.
These numbers come from the Japan Robot Association. Its chairman, Fanuc CEO Yoshiharu Inaba, said in January, "Output could reach 2 trillion yen in three to five years if things go smoothly." He added, "Demand will expand for more than five years. The 2 trillion yen mark is probably just a checkpoint." By the way, Fanuc is the world's largest maker of industrial robots.
Besides Fanuc, other Japanese beneficiaries of China's robotic revolution include Yaskawa Electric, Mitsubishi Electric (MIELY) and Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KWHIY) .
For example, let's look at Yaskawa. China currently supplies a quarter of its consolidated sales, yet the company plans to grow its Chinese presence even more. Besides selling its own robots, Yaskawa will sell machine controllers and servomotors (key components for robot control) to several leading Chinese robot manufacturers. This program will be similar to the Intel Inside campaign in that Yaskawa is considering allowing Chinese firms to use the Yaskawa brand and sales channels when they sell robots containing its parts abroad.
Importantly, as part of this program, Yaskawa will offer controllers and servomotors for the types of robots that the company does not build, such as SCARA (selective compliance assembly robot arm) robots, as a way to prevent competition with its own products.
Robot Investments
You may be wondering what is the best way to invest into this fast-growing sector. One good option is to buy a company like Yaskawa Electric. Even though it trades over-the-counter here in the U.S., its ADRs (American depositary receipts) are fairly liquid.
The other option is to own a basket of these Japanese robotics firms through an exchange-traded fund. Two such ETFs are the Global X Funds Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF (BOTZ) and the ROBO Global Robotics & Automation Index ETF (ROBO) .
The most important difference between the two are the differences in their portfolios. BOTZ has a more concentrated portfolio, with only 29 stocks versus the 93 stocks in the ROBO portfolio.
Another major difference is the geographic exposure of the two funds -- with my preference for exposure to the leaders in the industry, which are Japanese -- here BOTZ has the upper hand with about 51% of the fund in Japanese stocks versus only 28% for ROBO.
However, when it comes down to the actual stocks in the portfolios, both are outstanding. Here are the top 10 positions for each ETF:
Top 10 Positions for the Global X Robotics & Artificial Intelligence ETF
Nvidia (NVDA)
Keyence Corporation (Japan) (KYCCF)
Yaskawa Electric (Japan) (YASKY)
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG)
Fanuc Corporation (Japan) (FANUY)
Mitsubishi Electric (Japan) (MIELY)
ABB Ltd. (Europe) (ABB)
Hyundai Robotics Company (South Korea)
Omron Corporation (Japan) (OMRNY)
Daifuku Company (Japan) (DAIUF)
Top 10 Positions for the ROBO Global Robotics & Automation Index ETF
Hiwin Technologies (Taiwan)
Harmonic Drive Systems (Japan)
Krones AG (Germany)
Keyence Corporation (Japan) (KRNNF)
Zebra Technologies (ZBRA)
Daifuku Corporation (Japan) (DAIUF)
Oceaneering International (OII)
Over the past year, the two funds have gained 38.52% and 29.88%, respectively, both easily outperforming the S&P 500 index. With the bright future I see for the robotics industry, I expect the outperformance to continue for many years.
-- This article was originally published on April 12.
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We have added Fanuc CNC control training to our curriculum at school. It has been added as a separate module in our LearnCNC software from Immerse 2 Learn. This give our students a real leg up on having training in a majority of CNC machinery that is in the industry with Haas and Fanuc controls for Mill and Lathe.
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The Charm of Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies has been brought to life in these precious figurines. The Lily of the Valley fairy is found kneeling holding an arrangement of her little white bells. Display them with the gold cord or use the wire pick provided to decorate flower arrangements, plants or gift baskets. Flower fairies are a special gift that all ages enjoy collecting. To see our entire collection of Flower Fairies, click Collectibles and then Flower Fairies.


Banco Chambers is pleased to announce that on 30 July 2018 its members resolved to adopt a new comprehensive parental leave policy. Barristers have monthly overheads for their accommodation in chambers which they typically must continue to pay when they are on leave and not earning an income. Typically, a barrister must find another barrister to licence their accommodation who will take over the obligation to pay overheads. When a barrister returns from leave, they face the additional challenge of rebuilding their practice whilst continuing to pay overheads.
Banco Chambers has had a historical but informal practice of supporting our barristers in making parental leave arrangements and supporting their return to work. The newly implemented policy includes new and stronger measures to provide significant relief from costs, certainty and comfort for barristers contemplating taking parental leave, and a robust support structure for the return to work. The policy also further demonstrates Banco Chambers' commitment to flexible approaches to work and a career at the Bar. Banco Chambers believes its new parental leave policy is amongst the most comprehensive policies of its kind in place at the NSW Bar.
Under the policy, a Banco Chambers' member who takes a period of parental leave of at least 6 months and up to two years is entitled to licence their room to another barrister, subject to the usual approval procedures of the Chambers. If after making reasonable efforts a licensee has not been found, Banco Chambers will take responsibility for finding a licensee. If Banco Chambers is unable to find a suitable licensee, then the Chambers will absorb our barrister's rent and clerk fee expenses for up to six months while they are on parental leave.
The policy includes a suite of measures to support the return to practice, including a commitment to making room sharing or door tenancy arrangements available. A Banco Chambers' barrister returning to practice will also be paired with a silk or senior barrister in their practice area to assist with the re-establishment of their practice. The assistance can include offering space in their chambers to work from if they are working part time, mentoring or introductions to new solicitors.
Banco Chambers also has a number of barristers who licence their accommodation in Chambers. The policy also caters for licensees by permitting termination of a licence agreement on account of parental leave, making door tenancy arrangements available, and pairing with a silk or senior barrister in the licensee's practice area for additional support and mentoring.


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Q: Typescript cast string to array not working I try to cast a string given in terminal args to an array of custom type but the compiler still thinks it's a string and doesn't allow me to do a for each.
Here is the code
type Delivery = [number, number];

const deliveries: [Delivery] = (argv[2] as unknown) as [Delivery];

function sampleChecks() : Boolean {
    console.log(typeof deliveries); // prints string
    let deliveriesToCheck: number[] = [];
    deliveries.forEach(delivery => {  // doesn't work
        deliveriesToCheck.push(delivery[0], delivery[1]);
    });

And I run with ``tsc && node app/deliveryChecker.js "[[1,2],[3,4]]" "[1,2,3,4]"```

A: TypeScript doesn't have casting, it has type assertions. They have no effect at runtime whatsoever. (In constrast, in languages with casting, casting often has both a compile-time type effect and also a runtime value effect [and other times, just a compile-time type effect].) The only purpose of a type assertion is to tell TypeScript what the type of something already is when TypeScript doesn't know it. (For this reason, it's best to avoid them when possible.)
Your code is taking argv[2], which (assuming it's process.argv[2]) is string¹, and telling TypeScript that it's a [Delivery] (where Delivery is [number, number]). That's incorrect, it's a string (or undefined if 2 is beyond the end of the array) and asserting something else doesn't help you. Separately, given the value you've provided, it's a Delivery[] (array of [number, number]), not a [Delivery] (a tuple type with exactly one [number, number] inside it).
If you need to convert argv[2] from string to Delivery[], given the value [[1,2],[3,4]], you could use JSON.parse to do that. The direct, naive way is:
const deliveries = JSON.parse(argv[2]) as Delivery[];

That does (sadly) need the type assertion on the result of the conversion, since JSON.parse's return type is any.
Since it's better to avoid (unchecked) type assertions, we could use a function that checks at runtime that the assertion is correct:
function parseDeliveries(deliveries: string): Delivery[] {
    try {
        const result = JSON.parse(deliveries);
        if (!Array.isArray(result)) {
            throw null;
        }
        for (const value of result) {
            if (!Array.isArray(value) ||
                value.length !== 2 ||
                typeof value[0] !== "number" || typeof value[2] !== "number"
               ) {
                throw null;
            }
        }
        return result as Delivery[];
    } catch {
        throw new Error(`expected an array of [number, number], got ${JSON.stringify(deliveries)}`);
    }
}

Then:
const deliveries = parseDeliveries(argv[2]);

¹ I would have expected process.argv[2] to be string | undefined if you don't have a length check on it, but I checked it it just came back string.


Advertising Age has a great example of the complete and utter incompetence many newspaper executives still have when it comes to the web.
The last paragraph isn't quite accurate. What shows up is not a report from the Guardian on Gaza, but rather a portal-style page where The Guardian has *gasp* actually assembled a page listing all of its recent news stories on Gaza along with links to videos, photographs, commentary and assorted other resources on Gaza.
Now, there's nothing stopping the New York Times from creating a similar aggregation page, except that it is too busy whining at publisher meetings and tinkering with nonsense like ACAP to think about what its readers (and, in turn, Google) might find valuable.
The reason the NYT didn't show up on on the first page of a Google search on Gaza is quite simply that it didn't deserve to. Maybe it can borrow more money Carlos Slim Helú to buy a clue. It might start by finding a VP of digital operations who knows what he's doing.
As image-editing software grows in sophistication and ubiquity, alterations go far beyond removing red-eye and whitening teeth. They include substituting head shots to achieve the best combination of smiles, deleting problematic personalities or adding family members who were unable to attend important events, performing virtual liposuction or hair restoration, even reanimating the dead. Revisionist history, it seems, can be practiced by just about anyone.
As people fiddle with the photos in their scrapbooks, the tug of emotion and vanity can win out over the objective truth. And in some cases, it can even alter memories — Cousin Andy was at the wedding, right?
In an age of digital manipulation, many people believe that snapshots and family photos need no longer stand as a definitive record of what was, but instead, of what they wish it was.
I can't imagine doing that. Obviously, there are people who enjoy pretending that some things simply didn't happen, but once you start preferring what you wish had been to reality, where does it stop? I've had personal experience with people who choose to concoct elaborate fantasies around past events to the point where they no longer realize they've come to believe the comforting lies they tell themselves, and it comes off as more pathetic than anything else.
Tim O'Reilly has an interesting essay on something that is starting to happen more and more on the web — when media companies include links in a story, the links tend to go to internal rather than external content.
The example O'Reilly cites is of journalism professor Jay Rosen complaining about New York Times stories that had links in them, but the links just took him to New York Times searches rather than to external content. So, for example, if a story is about KPMG and the word KPMG is hyper-linked, I would expect it to go to KPMG's site. Increasingly, however, the link goes to some internal "portal" page or search about KPMG.
There are a number of sites that I used to read all the time that I simply stopped doing so because they actively used this sort of linking to keep you at their site.
Now I don't mind internal topics pages — in fact they can be very useful. But this is just like the difference between ads and editorial content. Companies need to clearly separate the two, or risk losing the user's trust.
It's just a gaming site, but WoWInsider.Com's practice of doing this led me to simply stop reading the site. Every time I'd click on a link that appeared from the context that it would take me to an external site with additional information, it turned out it simply redirected me to an internal portal page which I had zero interest in reading. Moreover, I then had to actively hunt through the article to figure out where the links were that did actively go to any external sites. This was especially annoying since each story at WoWInsider had an area where the author linked to specific internal portal pages that he or she deemed relevant to the story itself.
After the 20th or so time that happened, I concluded that WoWInsider had little respect for its readers with such bizarre behavior and moved on. It's not like it is the only provider of WoW-related news on the web.
When this trend spreads (and I say "when", not "if"), this will be a tax on the utility of the web that must be counterbalanced by the utility of the intervening pages. If they are really good, with lots of useful, curated data that you wouldn't easily find elsewhere, this may be an acceptable tax. In fact, they may even be beneficial, and a real way to increase the value of the site to its readers. If they are purely designed to capture additional clicks, they will be a degradation of the web's fundamental currency, much like the black hat search engine pages that construct link farms out of search engine results.
Ensure that the pages you create at those destinations are truly more valuable to your readers than any other external link you might provide.
Rogers Cadenhead catches the New York Times in an obvious error about the origins of the Monopoly board game — and one they still haven't corrected.
When Monopoly was devised in the 1930's, Atlantic City was chose because it epitomized the kind of glittering tourist destination that many Depression-era Americans could only fantasize about visiting.
Charles B. Darrow, an unemployed salesman, sketched the prototype game on a tablecloth in the Germantown of Philadelphia, using 21 street names from Atlantic City. . .
Darrow learned a version of Monopoly from Quakers in Atlantic City who took to printing and selling copies of the game, and the rest is history. Darrow claimed he had invented the game, and Parker Brothers helped perpetuate that lie in its marketing materials. The company also bought up the rights to the The Landlord's Game and similar games.
In the 1970s, this history came back to haunt them when Parker Brothers sued Ralph Anspach to stop distribution of Anspach's Anti-Monopoly game. Parker Brothers ultimately lost that lawsuit and the floodgates opened for literally hundreds of impersonators and Monopoly variants.
Anspach went on to write a book about his lawsuit and Parker Brothers fraud, The Billion Dollar Monopoly Swindle.
The New York Times' Claudia Dreifus recently interviewed longevity researcher Michael Rose. In the 1970s Rose managed to extend the average lifespan of fruit flies by forcing them to breed at relatively old ages, thereby providing a selection event for longer life (since only older fruit flies would be able to reproduce in this experiment).
Because the common assumption is that young bodies work and then they fall apart during aging. Young bodies only work because natural selection makes them healthy enough to survive and breed.
As adults get older, natural selection stops caring about them, so we lose its benefits and our health. If you don't understand this, aging research is an unending riddle that goes around in circles.
The problem, of course, is that fruit flies live very short lives, and extending lifespan this way with other animals is not quite so easy (Rose notes that the increasing age at which women give birth in the West could eventually have the same effect, but that it would take centuries to see any significant effect).
There's not going to be one magic bullet where you take one pill or manipulate one gene and get to live to 500. But you could take a first step, and then another so that in 50 years' time, people take 50 or 60 pills and they live to be 200.
Leaving aside F.D.A. approval, it looks like we are about 5 to 10 years away from therapies that would add years to our present life span. For now, pharmaceuticals will be the primary anti-aging therapy.
After another 10 years or so, the implantation of cultured tissues will become common — especially skin and connective tissues. Reconstructive surgery is certain to become more effective than it is today.
Eventually, we will be able to culture replacement organs from our own cells and repair damage using nanotech machines. All of this will increase life span.
I'd also like the "play cornerback like Deion Sanders" nanomachines, but that's just me.
Live Longer With Evolution? Evidence May Lie in Fruit Flies. Claudia Dreifus, New York times, December 6, 2005.


With Microsoft Project Standard 2010 you always have an overview of the projects in your business: manage and create new projects, organise appointments and assign specific tasks to staff with the project manager software. With Project Standard 2010 it is easier than ever to access important commands – thanks to an improved menu ribbon which makes the integration of new projects faster, simpler and more efficient.
Project Standard 2010 manages the implementation of new projects for you almost automatically: set dates and deadlines and include sub-items in your project. Add essential staff, resources and tasks step by step in MS Project 2010 Standard and see your project come to life in just a few minutes – from small ideas to great visions. The project manager software is ideal not only for self-employed people and freelancers, but also for small businesses.
MS Project 2010 Standard automatically takes over a major part of the work for you. Interdependent dates are enqueued consecutively, Project 2010 Standard warns you of potential clashes caused by overlaps of resources or staff and offers a solution. Existing data can be exported from Word or Excel into Project Standard 2010, saving a lot of work. Complex projects extending over a long period of time are clearly presented in the new project manager software time axis.
Use Project Standard 2010 to correlate dates and resources and generate complex projects in just a few minutes.
Reworked design: if you already work with Office 2010 products, integrating Project 2010 Standard into your daily work will be extremely straightforward.
Automatic warnings of potential overlaps related to time or resources in your project facilitate the structuring of projects for you with Microsoft Project Standard 2010.
New designs, colours and effects ensure that you can use this project manager software to present projects in a visually appealing manner.
Import data from Excel documents into MS Project 2010 Standard to integrate existing information into your project without extra effort.
For the first time in the history of this project management software, the menu ribbon which Microsoft has used for other programs since Office 2007 has been introduced into MS Project 2010 Standard. This provides you with faster, significantly more intuitive access to the functions that are essential to your project. Since the interface is visually hardly different from current Office products in the 2010 Suite, you will be able to operate Microsoft Project Standard 2010 immediately without any problems.
Furthermore, Project 2010 Standard allows you to present information in a manner which is visually appealing to you – using extended colour palettes, modern text effects and more. Highlight important milestones in your project with appropriate designs and mark those stages that really push your project forward. Perhaps you are managing large teams? Allocate colours to them in MS Project 2010 Standard and use drag & drop to add them to suitable tasks! Microsoft Project 2010 Standard simplifies the planning, management and running of projects significantly. Work even faster and more productively, and step by step get closer to your objectives.


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WATCH: Obama Slams GOP For 'Disingenuous' Election Fraud Claims
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WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 11: U.S. President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks during an event to recognize emerging global entrepreneurs May 11, 2015 at the South Court Auditorium of Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC....
Former Barack Obama expressed his disappointment in seeing GOP leaders support President Donald Trump's lawsuits and voter fraud claims.
"There's damage to this," Obama told 60 Minutes. "Because what happens is that the peaceful transfer of power— the notion that any of us who attain an elected office, whether it's dog catcher or president, are servants of the people, it's a temporary job, we're not above the rules, we're not above the law— that's the essence of our democracy."
The former president called he Trump administration's fraud claims "disingenuous" because "they obviously didn't think there was any fraud going on, because they didn't say anything about it for the first two days."
Despite President-elect Joe Biden claiming victory, Democrats were less successful than expected in their House and Senate races against Republican opponents.
Although only a few GOP leaders have accepted Biden's win, some have asked for Biden to be included in presidential intelligence meetings.
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O Papiro 125  (125) é um antigo papiro do Novo Testamento que contém fragmentos do capítulo onze da Primeira Epístola de Pedro (1:23-2:5; 2:7-12). Ao dia presente sobreviveu só a partes de uma folha do códice.

O texto grego desse códice é um representante do texto-tipo Alexandrino.

Ver também
 Papiros de Oxirrinco
 Anexo:Lista dos papiros do Novo Testamento

Bibliografia
 Obdink D., N. Gonis, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXXIII (Londres: 2009), pp. 17–22, Pl. II-III.

Ligações externas
 P.Oxy.LXXII 4934 "POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online".
 "Continuation of the Manuscript List" Institute for New Testament Textual Research, Münster.

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