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Q: Rails - Is .first guaranteed to be the first created, or just the first fetched? Let's assume I have many User records - if I call User.first is that guaranteed to be the first user that existed in the database or should I sort by created_at to make sure that the ordering is by created_at? Please note that I am using mongoid and not ActiveRecord.

A: User.first returns the first user ordered by primary key (see section 1.1.3 of Active Record Query Guide).
Most of the time it will be first created item, but it's not guaranteed. Depends on how the DB has been populated. So you should use:
Client.order('created_at').first

A: First returns the first object in the query. In your example calling User.first returns the first record in the User.all set of data. While this would by default be the first record in order of primary key, if you have placed any order conditions on the query (including a default scope on the model) it will return the first object based on the order given.
For example User.all.order("last_name").first would return the record with the first alphabetically ordered last name. Or User.all.order("updated_at DESC").first would return the most recently updated user.
If you have not set any ordering scopes on your query, the ordering will default to the order in which the records were created at and no other ordering would be necessary. For more info on the way these function, check out this rails guides entry on Active Record Query Interface.


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Crossette é chefe do escritório do New York Times na ONU. Foi correspondente no Sudeste e no Sul da Ásia.

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India Facing the Twenty-First Century
So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas
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The IISP has accredited Cyber Management Alliance's Cyber Incident Planning and Response (CIPR) training course. The GCHQ-certified course has been rigorously assessed to ensure that the course content and materials meet the required competency level defined by the IISP Skills Framework.
The CIPR course is designed to teach strategic and operational management best practices to respond to a cyber attack or a data breach. It provides senior management and incident response teams with the vital processes, knowledge and skills to lead and manage a cyber crisis. This includes coordinating the right stakeholders to invoke quick decision making that protects brand value and orchestrating people, processes and technologies across the organisation.
Cyber Management Alliance provides specialised cybersecurity training to business executives and senior management. "Our aim is to reduce organisational risk exposure to cyber threats by bringing together the best qualities of thought leadership and operational mastery of cyber security management," said Amar Singh, Cyber Management Alliance founder, CEO and global CISO. Organisations that have already attended the CIPR course include UK, Belgium and Czech police forces, Switzerland National Bank, Microsoft, Adobe, Sony, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Standard Chartered Bank, Emirates Airlines, Fujitsu and Ernst & Young
"With the abundance of cybersecurity training courses on offer, it can be difficult for organisations to identify competent knowledgeable trainers and good quality, effective courses," said Amanda Finch, general manager at IISP. "IISP accreditation demonstrates that the course has been independently assessed against the IISP Skills Framework and meets the high standards demanded by the accreditation process."
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Nagroda Brama Stokera za powieść – przyznawana jest nieprzerwanie od 1987, czyli początku istnienia nagrody, za utwór składający się z 40 000 lub więcej słów, pisany prozą.

Lata 80. XX w.

1987
 Nagroda
 Stephen King – Misery
  – Swan Song (Łabędzi śpiew)
 Nominacje
  – Live Girls
  – Unassigned Territory
  – Ash Wednesday

1988

 Nagroda
 Thomas Harris – The Silence of the Lambs (Milczenie owiec)
 Nominacje
  – The Drive-In
  – Flesh
  – Stinger
 Anne Rice – Queen of the Damned (Królowa potępionych)
 F. Paul Wilson – Black Wind

1989
 Nagroda
 Dan Simmons – Carrion Comfort
 Nominacje
  – Geek Love
  – In A Dark Dream
 Dean R. Koontz – Midnight (Północ)
  – The Wolf's Hour

Lata 90. XX w.

1990
 Nagroda
  – Mine
 Nominacje
  – Savage Season
  – Funland
  – Reign

1991
 Nagroda
  – Boy's Life
 Nominacje
 Thomas M. Disch – The M.D. (Lekarz)
 Stephen King – Needful Things (Sklepik z marzeniami)
 Stephen King – Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (Mroczna Wieża III: Ziemie jałowe)
 Dan Simmons – Summer of Night

1992
 Nagroda
  – Blood of the Lamb
 Nominacje
  – Homecoming
  – Deathgrip
 Dean R. Koontz – Hideaway (Przełęcz śmierci)
 Dan Simmons – Children of the Night

1993
 Nagroda
 Peter Straub – The Throat
 Nominacje
 Kim Newman – Anno Dracula
 Bradley Denton – Blackburn
  – Drawing Blood
 Bentley Little – The Summoning

1994
 Nagroda
  – Dead in the Water
 Nominacje
 Caleb Carr – The Alienist (Alienista)
 Jonathan Carroll – From the Teeth of Angels (Na pastwę aniołów)
 Stephen King – Insomnia (Bezsenność)
 Patrick McCabe – The Butcher Boy

1995
 Nagroda
 Joyce Carol Oates – Zombie
 Nominacje
  – Widow
  – Deadrush
  – Bone Music

1996
 Nagroda
 Stephen King – The Green Mile (Zielona mila)
 Nominacje
 Poppy Z. Brite – Exquisite Corpse
  – Crota
 Peter Straub – The Hellfire Club

1997
 Nagroda
  i  – Children of the Dusk
 Nominacje
  – The Church of Dead Girls
  – My Soul to Keep
 Tim Powers – Earthquake Weather

1998
 Nagroda
 Stephen King – Bag of Bones (Worek kości)
 Nominacje
 Dean R. Koontz – Fear Nothing (Zabójca strachu)
  – Darker Angels
  – Fog Heart

1999
 Nagroda
 Peter Straub – Mr. X
 Nominacje
  – Darker than Night
 Thomas Harris – Hannibal
 Stephen King – Low Men in Yellow Coats (Serca Atlantydów)
  – Hexes

Lata 00. XXI w.

2000
 Nagroda
  – The Traveling Vampire Show
 Nominacje
  – The Indifference of Heaven
 Ramsey Campbell – Silent Children
  – The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club
  – The Deceased

2001
 Nagroda
 Neil Gaiman – American Gods (Amerykańscy bogowie)
 Nominacje
 Ray Bradbury – From the Dust Returned
 Jack Ketchum – The Lost
 Stephen King i Peter Straub – Black House (Czarny Dom)

2002
 Nagroda
  – The Night Class
 Nominacje
  – The Hour Before Dark
 Stephen King – From a Buick 8 (Buick 8)
 Chuck Palahniuk – Lullaby
 Alice Sebold – The Lovely Bones

2003
 Nagroda
 Peter Straub – Lost boy lost girl
 Nominacje
 Stephen King – The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (Mroczna Wieża V: Wilki z Calla)
  – Serenity Falls
  – The Night Country
  – A Choir of Ill Children

2004
 Nagroda
 Peter Straub – In the Night Room
 Nominacje
  – The Wind Caller
 Stephen King – The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (Mroczna Wieża VII: Mroczna Wieża)
  – Deep in the Darkness

2005
 Nagroda
 David Morrell – Creepers (Infiltratorzy)
  – Dread in the Beast
 Nominacje
  – Keepers
  – November Mourns

2006
 Nagroda
 Stephen King – Lisey's Story (Historia Lisey)
 Nominacje
  – Prodigal Blues
  – Ghost Road Blues
  – Headstone City
  – Pressure

2007
 Nagroda
  – The Missing
 Nominacje
  – The Guardener's Tale
 Joe Hill – Heart-Shaped Box (Pudełko w kształcie serca)
  – The Witch's Trinity
 Dan Simmons – The Terror

2008
 Nagroda
 Stephen King – Duma Key (Ręka mistrza)
 Nominacje
  – Coffin County
  – The Reach
  – Johnny Gruesome

2009
 Nagroda
  – Audrey's Door
 Nominacje
  – Patient Zero
  – Quarantined
  – Cursed

Lata 10. XXI w.

2010
 Nagroda
 Peter Straub – A Dark Matter
 Nominacje
 Joe Hill – Horns (Rogi)
  – Rot and Ruin
 Linda Watanabe McFerrin – Dead Love
  – Apocalypse of the Dead
  – Dweller

2011
 Nagroda
  – Flesh Eaters
 Nominacje
 Christopher Conlon – A Matrix Of Angels
  – Cosmic Forces
  – Floating Staircase
  – Not Fade Away
  – The German

2012
 Nagroda
  – The Drowning Girl winner
 Nominacje
  – Bottled Abyss
 John Everson – NightWhere
 Bentley Little – The Haunted
  – Inheritance

2013
 Nagroda
 Stephen King – Doctor Sleep (Doktor Sen)
 Nominacje
 Joe Hill – NOS4A2
  – Malediction
  i F. Paul Wilson – A Necessary End
  – The Heavens Rise

2014
 Nagroda
  – Blood Kin
 Nominacje
  – Suffer the Children
  – Jade Sky
 Chuck Palahniuk – Beautiful You
  – The Vines

2015
 Nagroda
  – A Head Full of Ghosts
 Nominacje
 Clive Barker – The Scarlet Gospels
  – The Deep
  – The Cure
  – Black Tide

2016
 Nagroda
  – The Fisherman
 Nominacje
 Elizabeth Hand – Hard Light: A Cass Neary Crime Novel
  – Mongrels
 Bracken MacLeod – Stranded: A Novel
  – Disappearance at Devil's Rock

2017
 Nagroda
  – Ararat
 Nominacje
 Stephen King, Owen King – Śpiące królewny (Sleeping Beauties)
  – Black Mad Wheel
  – I Wish I Was Like You
  – UBO

2018
 Nagroda
  – The Cabin at the End of the World
 Nominacje
  – The Hunger
  – Glimpse
  – Unbury Carol
  i J.D. Barker – Dracul

2019
 Nagroda
  – Coyote Rage
 Nominacje
  – Inspection
  – The Worst is Yet to Come
  – Into the Ashes
  – Wanderers

2020
 Nagroda
  – The Only Good Indians
 Nominacje
  – The Deep
  – Mexican Gothic
 Todd Keisling – Devil's Creek
  – Malorie

2021
 Nagroda
  –  My Heart Is a Chainsaw
 Nominacje
  – The Book of Accidents
 Cynthia Pelayo – Children of Chicago
  – The Final Girl Support Group
 V. Castro – The Queen of the Cicadas

Najczęściej nagradzani
6 – Stephen King
5 – Peter Straub
3 – Robert R. McCammon
2 – Sarah Langan
1 – Janet Berliner, George Guthridge, David Morrell, Neil Gaiman, Charlee Jacob, Richard Laymon, Dan Simmons, Thomas Harris, Joe McKinney, Thomas F. Monteleone, Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Piccirilli, Nancy Holder, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Paul Tremblay

Najczęściej nominowani
14 – Stephen King
6 – Peter Straub, Tom Piccirilli
5 – Robert R. McCammon
4 – Joe McKinney, Dan Simmons
3 – Richard Laymon, Joe Hill, Jonathan Maberry, Dean R. Koontz
2 – Chet Williamson, Joe R. Lansdale, Sarah Langan, F. Paul Wilson, Thomas Harris, Gary Braunbeck, Bentley Little, Poppy Z. Brite, Gary A. Braunbeck, Owl Goingback
1 – Katherine Dunn, Chuck Palahniuk, Benjamin Kane Ethridge, Nate Kenyon, Joyce Carol Oates, Stewart O'Nan, Ronald Malfi, Thomas M. Disch, Alan Rodgers, Alice Sebold, Michael Laimo, Jack Ketchum, Matthew Costello, Brian A. Hopkins, Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, P. D Cacek, Douglas Clegg, Christopher Rice, Bruce Boston, Kim Newman, Lee Thomas, Tim Powers, David Morrell, Yvonne Navarro, Stephen Dobyns, Charles L. Grant, Patrick McCabe, Erika Mailman, Caleb Carr, Jonathan Carroll, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Tessier, James A. Moore, Caitlin R. Kiernan, John Everson, Charlee Jacob, Greg Lamberson, Sue Mosiman, Janet Berliner, Anne Rice, Bradley Denton, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Christopher Conlon, S.P. Somtow, Ray Garton, Nancy Holder, Jeff Strand, Lisa Morton, Brian Hodge, Kem Nunn, Thomas F. Monteleone, Gregory Lamberson, Jeff Strand, Jeremy Shipp, Gene O'Neill, Tananarive Due, Paul Tremblay, Clive Barker, Michaelbrent Collings, JG Faherty, Patrick Freivald

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"We can't arrest our way out of the problem [of abuse], and we can't shelter our way out of the problem, either"
Late Tuesday night, former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice appealed his indefinite suspension from the NFL, a punishment leveled only after video was released of Rice knocking Janay Rice unconscious in an Atlantic City elevator. Lawyers for the NFL Players Association are appealing on the grounds that Rice was essentially penalized twice for the same offense. They have a point. The video didn't reveal anything new about the brutal nature of the assault. The NFL had a damning police report, a grand jury's felony assault indictment and footage of Rice dragging Janay's limp body from the elevator. All of this evidence, according to the NFL, warranted a two-game suspension. Because, as commissioner Roger Goodell and Ravens coach John Harbaugh argued at the time, Rice was "taking responsibility" and being "accountable for his actions."
The appeal is only the latest development in an unprecedented national conversation about how the NFL, the criminal justice system and our culture as a whole routinely fails victims of intimate partner violence. And so many questions remain. There has been a lot of focused outrage at both the NFL and the New Jersey prosecutors, the latter of whom let Rice enter into a pretrial diversion program rather than face criminal penalties. But we also know that the criminal justice system has not "solved" the problem of domestic violence, and that jail is not a rehabilitative place where violent men get "cured." In fact, some zero tolerance measures, like mandatory arrest laws, have been shown to discourage victims from calling the police and sometimes result in the arrest of the victims themselves. As we know, Janay Rice was also arrested the night she was knocked unconscious.
So what remains is the question of what reform and rehabilitation for abusers actually looks like, and if it's even possible. It's a big and messy question, but one we all need to grapple with. Earlier this year, Rice said in a statement that he is undergoing counseling with Janay, and according to a report from ESPN, he is also enrolled in an anger management program. Is this a successful model of rehabilitation?
David Adams, a psychologist and co-director of a Boston-based abusers' education and intervention program called Emerge, doesn't think so. Anger management programs like the one Rice is reported to be attending are not designed to address domestic violence, Adams told me. "Those programs are intended to address stranger assault, road rage, for example." To put an abuser in anger management rather than a batterers' intervention program is a fundamental misunderstanding of abuser dynamics and domestic violence, he said, because it "identifies the problem as anger, when really the problem is about control."
It's a fundamental misunderstanding that many, many people share.
There is a pretty vigorous debate about the effectiveness of batterers intervention programs. And research about "success" rates varies, since the definition of a successful intervention can be hard to quantify. (Is it the end of violence? A reduction in violence? Heightened awareness about abusive dynamics?) Data about recidivism is also complicated. But the fact remains that current criminal justice responses that either temporarily lock up an offender or isolate a victim in shelter programs are failing victims, and Adams believes intervention programs can be part of a more robust, ongoing and community-oriented response to intimate partner violence.
How do these men come to your program? Voluntarily? Through a court order?
It's about 50 percent court-mandated, and about 35 percent self-referred. And about 15 percent come to us through child welfare.
And what does a batterers' intervention program entail?
It's 40 weeks. It's group sessions. Each group is co-facilitated by a man and a woman. One of the reasons for that is we want to model men and women working together and sharing leadership. That's an important aspect of the work, independent of the education we provide.
The first part of the program provides very basic education about what abusive behavior is. And that's important because a lot of abusers don't think what they've done is abusive. Yelling, name calling, undermining her reputation, isolating her socially -- even things like punching holes in wall. A lot of people don't think of this as constituting abuse.
So we educate them about this, how the abuse impacts their victim, their children. Then we move into a counseling group for the remainder of the program, weeks nine through 40. It's more of an interactive experience for the men. We teach them how to provide constructive feedback to each other. Each person has goals that they are expected to report in from week to week. So if someone is living with his partner, for instance, there are goals that pertain to showing more empathy. Listening and supporting her, for example.
If they are not together as a couple, then the goals often relate to ongoing responsibilities as a parent, his dating behavior. The essence of our program is really teaching empathy. Because if you had to identify a core personality characteristic among most abusers, it would be narcissism. A lot of people think of rage when they think of abusers. They think of people who are angry. But for a lot of abusers, that's not the issue. It's control, a sense of entitlement. Part of what narcissists tend to do is take any kind of disagreement as a sign of betrayal. They are really big on loyalty. They blame other people for their problems.
I like to describe empathy as a muscle that gets stronger with use. Most abusers have very flabby empathy muscles, so to speak. Part of what we do is have them report ongoing interactions with their partners and then ask the other men in their group to see it from the partner's perspective. Because it's easier to spot other people's abusive behavior than your own abusive behavior. We really engage them in that process.
We're giving them tools. Listening is a big one. Then, hopefully, they begin to incorporate that so it changes the dynamic.
And what is happening with the partners during this process?
Throughout the program, we reach out to the partners and maintain confidential communication with the partners. And by the way, that's very different than an anger management program. Ray Rice was referred to an anger management program. Those tend to be much shorter, they tend to be 10 weeks. They are not specifically designed to address domestic violence. Those programs are intended to address stranger assault, road rage, for example.
And doing that identifies the problem as anger, when really the problem is about control.
I noticed in his press conference, Ray Rice said that part of what he learned is that husbands have to "lead" their families and he has to "lead" his wife and without that "leadership" his family will crumble. I think that's a good example of how he has already been given a wrong notion about what needs to change.
How prevalent are programs like Emerge? We have an almost unprecedented level or awareness around the Ray Rice case, which would make you think that -- even as a matter of optics -- the NFL and the New Jersey prosecutors would really want to get this one right. And yet he's reported to be enrolled in an anger management program. What's the disconnect?
You tend to have defense attorneys who plea bargain for a shorter program.
I think one of the biggest misunderstandings about abusers is that they don't often come across as an abuser. They can sometimes come across as more "likable" than their victims. A lot of times they don't have an arrest record. So people tend to think of the 25 percent of abusers who fit the stereotype of an abuser, and those are the ones who are often referred to batterer programs.
In Boston we had Jared Remy, the son of Jerry Remy, a former Red Sox player and Red Sox announcer. He was also not referred to a batterer program even though he had a very egregious history of violence against women.
A lot of this is driven by plea bargains. Particularly in these kinds of celebrity cases. My program actually gets a high degree of voluntary referrals. We do get a fair number of men who don't fit the abuser "type," but these men are often referred by their partners. Often it's the partners who call us first.
This is a 40-week program, which is certainly more extensive than a 10-week anger management program. But unlearning abusive thinking and behavior seems like a lifelong process. What happens after the program ends?
My program really focuses on who their friends are, too. Just like recovering alcoholics need to be selective about who their friends are, we ask the men in our program to really consider who their friends are.
The other thing we ask him is, "How will you explain your situation to your friends?" If they are out of the house, how will they explain that? Not just to their friends, but their families? Because a lot of the time, these men go back to live with their families.
That is a standard feature. The quick fixes and manipulations. That's why we reach out to the partners. We refer the victims to support services, for one thing. And we help the victims identify the ongoing manipulation. We want people to get clear about what real change is and set limits about what's happening.
So one of the manipulations is to convince a woman to come back. To pressure her. Part of what we say to victims is to say, "Don't assume that he has changed at this point. Only time can tell. Get support for yourself, and maintain whatever limits you want to place on the relationship."
Abusers will try to manipulate everybody. And they are quite successful.
I do a lot of training of clergy [who provide counseling to abusers]. And one of the ways that abusers manipulate is to put on a big show of remorse. A lot of perpetrators cry more than their victims do. Clergy often see this as a signal that things are changing, they're overly impressed by that. But for narcissistic abusers, they aren't crying about their victims. They are crying about what happens to them.
They have this saying in Alcoholics Anonymous, "Fake it till you make it." A lot of real change starts with phony change, really. Anyone who has problems they don't want to address -- their initial efforts to change are often not very sincere.
That's kind of standard. I think the important thing is that people be clear about what real change is, so we can have consistent expectations. We send a brochure to the partner that says, "How do I know that he's changing?" Can you get angry at him without him getting more angry?
Most abusers will apologize once or twice, but if they don't get immediate results, they will take it all back and say, "You're the problem." I think we help victims to be more savvy. And not just them, but their communities, too.
A lot of victims can come across as less "credible" than their abusers because of the dynamics we discussed. So I think a lot of judges are impressed. A lot of abusers overstate their abilities as parents. We really think of addressing this as being part of our work. Not just addressing individual abusers, but educating the community about abuser dynamics and real accountability.
Your point about Alcoholics Anonymous feels apt, in a way. We have these 40 weeks. And all of the tools your program puts into place about identifying abusive behaviors, boundaries, accountability. But in AA, you have a sponsor to support you through your program. Does anything like that already exist at Emerge? Would a similar arrangement even work?
We have experimented with that in the past. People can come past the 40 weeks, by the way. We encourage that. We haven't maintained a third stage that's worked successfully so far.
Our latest has been to try to develop a combination in which they are coming for support but are also engaged in work. To speak about domestic violence, which helps to reinforce what they've already learned.
But I'm not quite trusting that the AA model would work, that it wouldn't just dissolve into mutual commiseration.
Which leads to the question of criticism of this approach. To me, it's very clear that criminal responses to domestic violence are not effective deterrents to violence. They can also serve to criminalize victims, particularly women of color who report abuse to the police. But what is your response to criticism that says allowing offenders to enroll in these programs as an alternative to criminal penalties sends the message that intimate partner violence is a less serious crime than other forms of violence?
My response to that is that the alternative is not to go to jail for most abusers. If they don't go to an abuser program, they are likely going to go to an easier, shorter program. And even if they go to jail, jails have been demonstrated to be incredibly ineffective for addressing violence.
There is a difference between punishment and accountability. I think punishment -- mostly abusers, they take their punishment and then they're free to repeat what they've done. It doesn't require any change at all.
It's comparable to our overemphasis for punishment for drugs. We have millions of dollars invested in incarceration, but nothing for treatment. Accountability involves a lot more than punishment. That doesn't happen in prisons.
And the reliance on mandatory arrest policies also leads to the arrest of women in these situations, which is a harmful pattern that targets low-income women and women of color.
The result is the overrepresentation of people of color being arrested and poor people. People who fit the "stereotype" are more likely to be ensnared in the system. The ones who don't go to private therapy. It's the same issues with drug and alcohol crimes.
I'd imagine there isn't one model of what success looks like in the program, since in some situations the partnership ends, but the man has been held accountable. And in some cases, the relationship may continue, but without the violence. How does Emerge define success?
That's a good conception. It differs from person to person, and depends on what their starting point is. Some start out and are still living with their victims, so you expect different outcomes from them than from someone who ended the relationship. What you expect from someone who has ended the relationship is to be more responsible parents to their kids. To those still in the relationship, you expect them to be more sensitive partners.
And we hear from the men how they have involved more empathy. Just one little example was someone who started in our parenting program that is geared toward men with histories of domestic violence.
He was referred to us after his twin 5-year-old boys got so upset about the domestic violence in their home that they got up in the middle of the night, dressed themselves, and walked to school in the middle of the night. They were picked up by the police in the middle of the night, and he was enrolled in our program.
Over time, he was able to recognize the impact of his behavior on his kids as well as change his behavior toward his partner.
We've talked about how the current system does not bring accountability or safety to victims. Is there a legislative or policy agenda here?
It varies. Family courts, generally, are even worse than criminal courts on domestic violence. What we've seen over the past 10 years is this increasing attention to allegations of parental alienation. So a lot of judges have started to care more about that. If an abuser claims, "She is alienating me from my kids," some judges will put more stock in that than they do domestic violence. They see domestic violence as being "trumped up" by the victim to gain advantage.
But it's a society-wide problem. The general public still has a lot of stereotypes about who abusers are. A lot of people don't know about existing programs. There was a survey I was reading about how a lot of people hadn't heard of batterer intervention programs, but thought they were a good idea. At the same time, these people knew abusers.
I just don't think we think through enough of what should happen with offenders. We have a lazy way of thinking, "Just put them in jail," as if that solves the problem.
I like to say, 100 percent of domestic violence is caused by abusers. Why should the burden to change always be on the victims? We're in the practice of incarcerating victims or hiding them. We can't arrest our way out of the problem, and we can't shelter our way out of the problem, either.
This whole idea of expecting change from the people causing the problem -- we still aren't quite there yet.


In the U.S., the Peanuts characters are beloved cultural touchstones. They evoke a sense of childhood innocence, to be sure, but they also carry with them the strip's undercurrent of melancholy, which prevents them from being mere carriers of treacly nostalgia.
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Hi, everybody! Jet lag is laying me low at the moment but I did want to stick my head in as promised before the day was out. Let's give Uncle Lumpy a big hand! My wife and I have been giggling at his fill-in posts for the last little while. New comics posts from me tomorrow. Is Tommie really boasting to Margo about all the action she's getting? Is Mary Worth's requirement that her man "like seafood" as filthy as I think it is? I can't wait to catch up!


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A Birmingham Sex Crime Conviction Means You May Be in the Newspaper Every Time You Move
Posted by Steve Eversole | Jun 19, 2011 | 0 Comments
The News-Courier in Athens recently reported about a sex offender who was arrested for failing to notify authorities that he had moved.
Picking up a conviction for a sex crime in Alabama is akin to being labeled with the Scarlet Letter on your forehead. Sadly, Birmingham Criminal Defense Lawyers have seen many defendants who were wrongly accused of such a crime suffer a ruined reputation simply for being arrested. Hiring an experienced defense lawyer who won't judge you and will fight for your rights is critical.
The newspaper reported that the man had been living in a motel off U.S. 31 South in Athens and he is now charged with failure of a sex offender to transfer and establish legal residence, in violation of Alabama Code 15-20-23.
People convicted of a sex offense in Alabama who are deemed sex offenders are required to register with the sheriff's office of the county or police department in the city where they live. If they move, they must give 30 days notice to the local law enforcement that they are moving.
Failing to provide a timely and accurate written declaration is considered a Class C felony in Alabama, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and $15,000 in fines.
Imagine having to deal with all the other pressures of moving, such as packing, finding a new place, dealing with selling a house or canceling out a lease and on top of all that having to tell the local police department or sheriff's office you're moving and where.
And it's not as if the police department simply stores that information away and does nothing with it. The person's name is stored in the state's Sex Offender Registry, which is available for anyone in the world to search online. According to the Alabama Department of Public Safety, there are more than 11,000 offenders in the system.
I bring up all this to prove how serious these penalties are. From the 18-year-old who has sex with his 17-year-old girlfriend and then has a bad breakup to the man accused of a sex offense for urinating outside, sex offenses aren't always as heinous as portrayed on television. People who don't commit rape or sexual assaults can be labeled sex offenders for the rest of their lives.
That's why attacking the charges early in the process is crucial. Hiring an aggressive and experienced Birmingham criminal defense lawyer can make the difference between prison time and probation and being labeled a sex offender for the world to see and being able to live without neighbors looking at you as if you're a violent criminal.
Sex crime prosecutions sometimes come down to a he said/she said types of cases, which makes it important to attack the credibility of the state's witnesses. Suppressing physical evidence because police mishandled it can also be important in defending these types of cases. So, don't leave this up to a rookie defense lawyer, trust a firm that has been doing this for years.
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Don't miss this site! It's an absolutely fascinating look at specialization.
Eco-Dyeing with Flowers blog post - so pretty!
We did this and it worked GREAT. I kept the mummy on my front porch in a humid Southern MD summer and you never even knew it was there. We have since kept it in the classroom and not a single visitor knows that we have a Cornish game hen which has been out of refrigeration since February 2nd, 2012.
Chapter 8 of Games Children Play: How Games and Sport Help Children Develop is called "The Greek Olympics" and details how to set this event up, what games to play, and how to play them. Holding a Greek Olympics is traditional at the end of the year in Grade 5 of Waldorf schools.
wouldn't it be spectacular to transfer them to graph paper and cross-stitch a biome map of your continent?


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Larry Hooper loves music. This is evident in the passion with which he talks about music, to simply looking at his extensive music collection. What is also evident is that he loves songwriting and songwriters. Hooper honed his skills as a singer-songwriter performing alongside such greats as Slaid Cleaves, Jeff Plankenhorn, Ray Wiley Hubbard, and Susan Gibson. His debut album Rust is a hand crafted a collection of story-songs and character tunes that give a nod to his influences, while creating a sound that is definitely all his own. Bluegrass, blues, folk and country all mesh fluidly, from the title tracks description of a town with a bleak future after the oil bust, to the fan favorite "Background Music". Another highlight of the album is "Wild Side", a duet with co-writer Susan Gibson that calls to mind classic parings like Prine and Dement. Through several years of solo and festival shows, Larry Hooper has impressed music fans of all ages and created great anticipation for a follow-up.
Larry writes and sings songs he hopes you like. He won't eat an olive, so don't ask.


There are a bunch of posts about making your audio work by default in Linux but none that just worked for me.
speaker-test -t sin -f 800 -Dsysdefault:Audio -c2   # This works!
If we instead have for example card 1, device 2 then we use hw:1,2 and card 1.
Do speaker-test -t sin -f 800 to test or something else like youtube.
Make sure to use your card and device numbers.
After reboot the card number changed, it changed between 0, 1 and 2.
There were various suggestions online but most didn't work. I found one suggestion somewhere that said I could just use the card name. I randomly tried something that worked!
Much simpler than messing around with udev to get the card to always occupy the same card number, especially since I often turn on and off the amplifier.


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Piątnica è un comune rurale polacco del distretto di Łomża, nel voivodato della Podlachia.Ricopre una superficie di 218,69 km² e nel 2004 contava 10.575 abitanti.

Località
Il comune rurale comprende le seguenti località (sołectwa): Budy-Mikołajka, Budy Czarnockie, Choszczewo, Czarnocin, Dobrzyjałowo, Drozdowo, Drożęcin-Lubiejewo, Elżbiecin, Górki-Sypniewo, Górki-Szewkowo, Guty, Jeziorko, Kalinowo, Kalinowo-Kolonia, Kałęczyn, Kisielnica, Kobylin, Kosaki, Kownaty, Krzewo, Marianowo, Motyka, Murawy, Nagórki, Niewodowo, Nowe Krzewo, Nowy Cydzyn, Olszyny, Olszyny-Kolonia, Pęza, Piątnica Poduchowna, Piątnica Włościańska, Poniat, Rakowo-Boginie, Rakowo-Czachy, Rządkowo, Stary Cydzyn, Stary Drożęcin, Taraskowo, Truszki, Wyłudzin, Wyrzyki, Zabawka, Żelechy, Wiktorzyn.

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La cittadina è posta al 28º km del Sentiero regio polacco.

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"I understand there was someone from the Arab origin that accepted Christ and was baptized by them," leading to their arrest within the past few days, one religious leader told AFP.
Other religious sources confirmed the incident but Khartoum's Coptic Bishop Elia was not immediately able to comment.
Under the 23-year Islamist regime of President Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's minority Copts have not experienced the violence suffered by their brethren in Egypt, where sectarian attacks surged after an uprising overthrew president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011 and saw Islamists rise to power.
But a little-known group calling itself Al-Qaeda in the Nilien States sent a statement to Sudanese journalists on Tuesday threatening violence against Copts unless the woman who converted and was "kidnapped" by the Christians is returned.
I understand there was someone from the Arab origin that accepted Christ and was baptized by them.


Over the past few weeks I've written a series of entries on the variety of graffiti found throughout the city of Detroit. In part one I described the environment where it can be found, which included the interior of abandoned buildings, the underside of overpasses and many other locations. In part two I presented an array of highly detailed caricatures and distinct images, some quite large and colorful. The third in the series focused on the many artfully designed names and letter styles used to create the writer's name. In this entry, the fourth in the series on Detroit graffiti, I'll be spotlighting written messages I've come across while bicycling throughout the city.
I believe that all graffiti has a message, no matter how obscure the image or words may be. The message could be political in nature, conveyed through a simple or multifaceted image or tag line. A stylized signature may tell viewers "Hey, I was here". A one-color, unique moniker may not represent anything more than the creator's need for attention, and the creator's tag sprayed on the side of a railroad car could travel across the country to be seen by millions. Some images may be written on a wall for nothing more than to create mystique or debate of its origin and meaning. Others could be simply sprayed words of wisdom or random musings of a street prophet scrawled from the tip of a sharpie onto the side of a boarded structure.
Not all the messages I've spotted in my travels were created in traditional style graffiti, which incorporates multi-colors, flowing letters and well-defined graphic elements. Although those fluid styles are easily found, most of what I've seen appeared to be hastily sprayed painted messages on a variety of surfaces from abandoned storefronts to utility boxes. I have also noticed quite a few graffiti decals and stickers on traffic signs, bus shelters and other high-traffic areas. This fairly simple, common form of tagging, (made somewhat popular by the Obey sticker campaign) makes it easy for a writer to spread their message quickly and far. Some writers have sketched a design or scribbled messages onto plain adhesive labels that could have been purchased at the local office supply store, and quickly slapped them up.
Certain messages I've seen can be tough to understand, while others are clear, concise and meaningful. Take a look at a few of the many graffiti messages I've spotted while cycling in Detroit.
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In part one of this series on graffiti art in Detroit, I pointed out that the city has an incredible variety of stunning street art pieces on every imaginable surface from buildings to bridges. I also described many of the places where these fantastic wall writings can be found. In the second part of this series, I focused on the array of interesting design elements that make up many of the graffiti caricatures and distinct images I've come across while bicycling in Detroit. Some of these images include sinister, mysterious looking faces that reminded me of cartoon characters or an animated character found in an online video game. Some were simple one-color tags, while others were large, colorful caricatures, and a few were created using stencils.
In this entry, the third in a series, I'll be taking a look at many of the artfully designed graffiti tag names found in Detroit…names like Kosher, Paid, Yogert and many others.
Unlike many of the elaborate caricatures I've come across, graffiti artist's names (or logos) are more widespread and in plain view. They can be found on the sides of buildings along commercial strips, in downtown Detroit near the top of multi-story buildings and other highly visible locations throughout the city. Much different from simple one-color tags, the designs incorporate a variety of wide-letter styles that take many forms. These forms may include straight block and leaning letters and letters with softer, flowing curved lines known as bubbles. These wide-lettered bubble pieces are well-defined and usually easy to read. They also provide an interior palette within the letters for the writer to enhance their name through the use of a solid or contrasting fill color. In some instances this fill color gradates from a lighter tone to a much darker one.
In many of the stylized names or logos I've spotted, the graffiti writer(s) has filled the interior of the various letters with design elements such as starbursts, dollar signs and hash (###) marks. Other graphic treatments I've seen within the bubbles include circles, stripes, arrows and many other subtle touches, like soft contrasting colored polka dots. Hollows or outlines without any interior letter fill are also out there.
One thing I noticed about these writings and many others I've come across while bicycling in Detroit, are the small signatures that have been spray-painted above or below the finished pieces. As it was explained to me, those are crewmember signatures. A crew is a group of friends that are interested in graffiti and want to work together on wall writings such as a large multi-colored name or large complicated piece of work.
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In part one of this series, I gave a brief history of modern graffiti and where I've spotted it while bicycling across the City of Detroit. I wrote that it could be found on just about any imaginable surface in a variety of styles and colors. Styles that include clearly identifiable images, graceful lettering, distinct messages and simple quick hitting one-color tags that some would call the most prevalent type of wall writings to be found. In this entry, the second in a series, I offer a look at some of the many caricatures and distinct images that I've come across on my travels.
One of the most famous graffiti images over the years in Detroit has been the turtle image. As some of you may remember, this mysterious tag seemed to be-spray painted everywhere: billboards, buildings along commercial strips, freeway overpasses, delivery trucks and many other surfaces. The image started appearing in the mid-to-late 1990s and spread quickly across the city through early 2000s. During that period, no one knew who created the turtle tag or its significance in the community. The Wayne County Prosecutor at that time vowed to send him or her to prison if caught. The threat drove the creator underground until he was identified in 2004 as a former Warren resident now living in Hamtramck. Because the creator of the turtle icon was never caught in the act of creating it, he was never prosecuted and has since retired from tagging.
Although simply designed tags like the turtle can be found throughout most neighborhoods in Detroit, larger more elaborate caricature pieces or intricate images are not quite as widespread. In fact, they can be somewhat secluded and hard to find. This makes sense considering the complexity, use of color and the sheer size of the many pieces I've looked at on my two-wheeled travels. Another reason for the seclusion could be the legal issues involved should a writer get caught trespassing and putting up a large, time-consuming piece on private property.
The array and design elements of the graffiti caricatures in Detroit are remarkable. Some have a sinister, creepy look, while others are mysterious in appearance. A few are subtle in design whereas others, with their bright colors and contorted facial features, reminded me of cartoon characters or a character found in a video game. Designs created with stencils (a quick way to put up somewhat complicated pieces) with their crisp, clean lines are part of the mix as well.
I find them all quite interesting. Take a look.
Like most U.S. cities, both large and small, Detroit has its share of stunning street art. The art, known as graffiti, can be found everywhere throughout this vast city. On my two-wheeled travels across this old, worn out town, I've spotted it on every imaginable surface including the pavement I've ridden on. It's under bridge overpasses, on the interior and exterior of abandoned factories as well as vacant retail storefronts. Active graffiti "writers" have used the flat, long walls of abandoned, boarded up school buildings and tall warehouses along railroad tracks as prime palettes for their remarkable pieces. I've also seen it on houses; trucks, stop signs, railroad boxcars and even on the rails the cars ride upon. Almost no surface in Detroit is immune to a writer's spray can.
The variety and high quality of the pieces I've seen while biking in Detroit is incredible. There are distinct messages, monstrous looking characters, highly stylized names and masterpieces that appear to be three-dimensional in magnitude… way too much to cover in one blog entry. Since there are so many wall-writing styles represented and writers that have left their mark within the city limits, I've decided to post a series of "theme driven" entries exploring the multi-faceted graffiti art found in Detroit.
In this entry, the first in a series, I've provided a brief history of modern graffiti and showcased – through a series of photos – the environment in Detroit where much of it can be found.
Graffiti has a long history in the United States, dating back to the 1920s. At that time a mythical symbol named "Bozo Texino" started appearing on railroad boxcars that wound their way across the country. This simple drawing, which can be spotted on railroad cars even today, has become synonymous with "hobo graffiti". Then along came WWII, and the phrase "Kilroy Was Here" suddenly appeared. It was accompanied by a distinct drawing, and it was spread around the world by American troops. The design was very influential, and many graffiti writers use a similar version today.
Modern, urban graffiti got its start in Philadelphia in 1967 by a street artist known as "Cornbread", considered by many to be the "father of modern graffiti." He "bombed" (to quickly and simply paint many surfaces in an area) the city with his stylized initials to gain the attention of a girl he liked. It's unclear if he impressed the girl, but his efforts caught the eyes of the local media, and his work and fame spread to other American cities where budding graffiti artists began to emulate him.
New York City in particular became a hot bed of writers shortly after Cornbread's work appeared. This was because of the subway system and its vast reach across the city, which exposed their colorful work to millions. The new art form moved quickly to other urban centers across the country including Detroit, where it has spread like quicksilver, especially over the past few years.
Detroit's overabundance of vacant and derelict structures and its wide streets with multiple overpasses is prime real estate for graffiti writers. Take a look at some of the areas where it can be found.
and on abandoned retail stores.
and on the insides of empty warehouses.
and on crumbling walls of abandoned factories.
The Dequindre Cut is a hotbed (note the paint cans & art materials in the foreground).
This richly covered building showcases some of the best.
Note: Early last summer I joined four others on a private graffiti tour led by the city's foremost authority on Detroit's wall writings. Much of the history and terms used in this and future entries stem directly from that tour. Thanks again, Tom, for an insightful tour!


Looking for Biblical themes for choir day to help towards the occasion in church?
We have prepared some that you can find below.
We want to remind you that depending on the preparation you have made, themes can differ but if you are here to just find themes that can guide during the day, then that is what we have provided below here and we hope you will be inspired.
All the themes are derived from the scripture that we have picked from the bible,otherwise may the Holy Spirit guide us as we look at the verses to help us get the themes.
I love this theme very much and if you are planning for a choir day in church, I urge to pick this one because it directs us to make Jesus our savior. When you know that you have been saved, the grace of God shall be in your heart and shall sing praises to the Lord.
How wonderful it is to impress this truth to the listeners and the choirs who are coming to grace the occasion.
May our good Lord be with you as you sing songs of praise to Him during the choir day.
This is another theme that touches my heart.
We need to cry to the Lord and ask for revival in each and every one of us who will attend the choir day in your church.
The revival will make people rejoice forever in the presence of God.
As you prepare for the choir day in your church, you can have this theme in mind, it encourages and talks about how we are united in singing with one song but may voices.
we produce melodies that reaches the heavenly throne of grace as we worship God through singing.
consider taking this one and let the whole congregation who will attend for the choir day that presence of God is always with us.
Have chosen the above theme for the choir day in your church.
Let the Holy Spirit speak to our hearts and ponder on those words spoken through the Lucan gospel and how it is impacting the lives of those who will attend the choir day in your church.


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Gaming Insomniacs Brings eSports to Downtown Schenectady
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — URBAN CO-WORKS and the Schenectady County Metroplex Development Authority today announced that Gaming Insomniacs will locate company offices and a new eSports studio in downtown Schenectady.
"The Capital Region is already a leader in game development and we want to build on that momentum by establishing a thriving eSports gaming facility. Our goal is to involve gamers in competitive league play, host teams and develop a talent pipeline to send players on to the professional leagues," said Jide Osipitan, CEO of Gaming Insomniacs.
"We're very excited to welcome Gaming Insomniacs into the URBAN CO-WORKS community where we can provide them the space, support and flexibility to scale-up and grow their organization, similar to some of our other high-growth tenants like Beekman 1802 and Magic Digital Media," said Jeff Goronkin, CEO of URBAN CO-WORKS.
"This first in the Capital Region eSports studio with competitive league play adds to the entertainment mix in downtown Schenectady. We also want the gaming sector to know that Schenectady County is a good place to grow your business," said Ray Gillen, Chair of Schenectady County Metroplex Development Authority.
Gaming Insomniacs will be located at URBAN CO-WORKS at 433 State Street. The company will utilize 5,000 square feet of space for a gaming studio as well as company offices. The gaming studio will be open for league play seven nights a week weeknights from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. and from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday starting in February. Over the past three months the company has already recruited more than 60 players that will compete in a dozen teams at the new Schenectady gaming studio.
A relatively new and burgeoning industry, eSports is a platform for multiplayer video games that are played competitively for spectators, typically by professional gamers. Gaming Insomniacs will host their first gaming tournament in Schenectady on January 26th from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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Mobile Deep Linking 101
By Daniel KobJuly 29, 2015 2 Comments
Do you know that feeling of being new in a job and not understanding a single buzzword, so you are secretly googling every term in order to beef up your lingo? That's what I was expecting to do during my first few days at Branch … but fortunately, I have amazing colleagues who patiently explained all the terms and technical details to me. I learned a ton, and so can you – without asking Google for every single keyword.
Mobile Deep Linking
In this post, I want to explain the most important terms in the deep linking world in plain English. And if you want to go even deeper (pun intended) I'll provide you with some helpful links along the way.
What exactly are deep links?
We are all using deep links every day, although most of us would probably just call them 'links'. Technically, a deep link is a hyperlink that instead of linking to a homepage (such as www.branch.io) is linking to a specific website (e.g. this blog article) or piece of content (an image, a video etc.). In other words, deep links go deeper than just to the home page because they contain all the information to direct you to a specific place. That's easy. But when you hear someone reference "deep links" in 2015, they are probably referring to deep links for mobile apps. This gets trickier:
So why is mobile deep linking such a big deal?
Whereas on the web (desktop or mobile) I can just send you a deep link to some piece of content I like, I couldn't really do this in a mobile app. While websites have a standardized document structure, apps don't. As a consequence, I would need to tell you what app to download and where to click to find exactly the content I saw. Until recently, the same was true for app developers who wanted to promote specific content in their app, such as a special offer. If they would post an ad highlighting this deal on the mobile web, clicking the ad would direct me to the welcome screen of the app – or worse – to the app store. From there I have to find the special offer myself. And even if it was a really good deal, how likely am I to spend time searching for it?
Fortunately, companies like Branch have solved this problem. Once developers have integrated a few specific lines of code, they can create links to the content in their apps and direct users to any place they want, even if they first have to install the app.
What is deferred deep linking?
Here, deferred deep linking comes into play. With deferred deep linking, clicking on a link that points to content inside an app you haven't installed will bring you to the download page inside the app store. After downloading and opening the app, you will automatically be routed to the piece of content you were expecting – no search required. How does that work? Theoretically, the app stores are a barrier for information and analytics. After installing an app, the store won't share where a user originally comes from and what he is looking for. In order to still direct you to the right place, deep linking solutions use something called device or snapshot matching in order to connect a user before and after they enter the app store. Basically, once a user clicks on a deep link, a snapshot of the user is taken in the browser and classified as an "outstanding match." After installing the app the user is (very) quickly matched with his original snapshot, and subsequently matched with the experience he was looking for.
What is contextual deep linking?
Which brings us to contextual deep linking. With contextual deep linking, you can pass information through the app store, e.g. the referring information that is required for deferred deep linking. But this is only the beginning – contextual deep links can also transport information about who the user is, where he is coming from, which ad campaign he clicked, which friend has referred him or which promotion code he wants to apply to his order. With contextual deep linking, developers can give users the most personalized and targeted app experience possible, especially when they open the app for the first time (also known as onboarding). Beyond that, with contextual deep links marketers are able to analyze exactly which advertising campaigns and marketing channels are effective at converting, and which are not.
How Apple, Google, Facebook, and Twitter use mobile deep links
The great thing about using a mobile deep linking solution like Branch is that you don't have to integrate any platform or device-specific standards, many of which are constantly changing. Let's familiarize ourselves with a few of these standards and the platforms that implement them:
Apple recently announced that its newest version of the mobile operating system iOS 9 will feature their own version of deep links, called Universal Links. Once developers have connected the domain of their mobile website with their app, Safari will check whether a user has installed the respective app when clicking on a normal web link. If the app is currently installed, the linked content will be opened in the app, if the app is not installed, Safari will load the content in mobile web as a fallback. In a nutshell, it's one (universal) link that will either open the app or the mobile site in the browser.
Google has announced a similar deep linking solution for its newest release of the Android operating system. The feature, called App Links, has the same logic as Apple's universal links: once a website is associated with an app, clicking on a link will open the content in the app if it is installed and the mobile site if it is not installed. Until now, a popup window asks Android users which app should open the link (choices include the web browser among others). With the newest Android release this popup will be UX history.
Facebook has partnered with a few other web services and implemented an open standard that is also called App Links. While the goal is the same (opening links shared on Facebook in the native app if installed and with a webview fallback if not) the approach here is a little different. Instead of connecting websites and apps on Facebook, App Links work by adding some metadata to your website. When a user clicks on a link, the Facebook robot looks for whether this metadata is available at the destination. If that's the case, it opens the content inside the respective app.
Finally, let's talk about Twitter Cards, which are a form of attachment to your tweets. In addition to adding videos, images or links to your website, Twitter also offers a product called the App Card. This card displays the name of the promoted app, its icon, price, and rating along with a brief description directly below the tweet. A link takes the user to the respective app store to download the app, or if they have it already installed, they are deep linked to the specific content within the app. In order to use App Cards, you have to add a few tags to your website which Twitter will crawl once you post a related URL.
Making app content discoverable
This was just a basic overview of how the big players utilize deep links to improve user experience and help drive app installs. With so many different solutions and individual integration requirements in place, it's hard to keep your code up to speed. This is why companies like Branch Metrics are building solutions that combine all the deep linking standards out there, so you can stay top of things. It's free and open source because there is a bigger goal here, and the last buzzword for today: app discoverability.
When you are looking for a new app that has some content or functionality you are interested in, you are completely dependent on the way the apps are presented, promoted, and organized in the app stores. You can search for names and keywords but don't really know what is inside the 'black box' you download and often pay for right away. As of today, you can't search for native mobile app content based on your own interests because they are not completely indexed and searchable. And here deep links can make a difference: Once the content of many apps is indexed, it is possible to build a discoverability solution that connects users with those apps that have the most relevant content for them. What a great vision!
Branch is a mobile linking platform providing unified mobile experiences and measurement for more than 50,000 mobile apps, including Airbnb, Pinterest, BuzzFeed, Tinder, Foursquare, Yelp, and Sephora. Branch's linking platform can help you grow your mobile app through features like deep linking, sharing, referrals, mobile banners and interstitials, custom app onboarding, and unified attribution across platforms and channels. Learn more about Branch or contact sales today.
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