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Q: Upload large files to AWS s3 using express js synchrounsly Currently i am using putObject to upload the large file to AWS s3 with REST api call.
 var params ={
     Bucket:'lambdacushbu',
     Key:req.files.image.name,
     Body:req.files.image.data
 }
  s3.putObject(params,function(err, data) {
      if (err) console.log(err, err.stack); // an error occurred
      else     {
          console.timeEnd('Uploadtime');
          console.log("uploaded",data);
          res.json({
              'status':'Uploaded',
              'url':data.Location
          });
      }           // successful response
  });

But its looks like asynchronous i want the above in synchronous mode also a timeout is occurred  but the file is being uploaded to the AWS s3.
So how can i increase the timeout value?? tried with connect-timeout package
app.use(timeout('600000'));

But it dosen't worked

A: Try using upload function instead of putObject. That should solve your timeout problem.
Here is a documentation for that function: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/S3.html#upload-property
Synchronous call will definitely lower your app's performance. Can you provide me more details about your problem so we can find an async solution?
EDIT:
Here is how you should return response in your controller:
router.post('/your-route',
  //additional middlewares
  function(req, res, next) {
     var params = {
      Bucket:'lambdacushbu',
      Key:req.files.image.name,
      Body:req.files.image.data
      }
      s3.upload(params,function(err, data) {
        if (err) { res.json(err); }
        else {
           res.json({
          'status':'Uploaded',
          'url':data.Location
       }
      });
  }
);

And make sure you don't call res.json() or res.send() anywhere else in this route


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Windows 10 version 1809, October 2018 Update, delivers a new set of features and improvements — Here are the most exciting additions.
Windows 10 version 1809, October 2018 Update, is the next major refresh that Microsoft is making available after the version 1803. This is the second semi-annual release, and it introduces a new set of features and enhancements to improve the overall experience.
This is the sixth feature update (since the original) arriving for Windows 10, and it's a smaller update compared to the update released in April 2018, but it delivers a number of visual changes, and new features around system health, storage, customization, security, and productivity.
In this guide, we'll highlight the seven best new features and improvements available starting October 2, 2018. You can check out everything that is new with this new version here.
Although you'll have to wait a little longer to get native tab support in File Explorer, starting with version 1809, Windows 10 is introducing a dark theme for File Explorer, context menus, and popup dialogs.
We've been able to copy text and images to the clipboard and paste them to any application for a long time, but it's been a feature limited to one device.
Starting with the October 2018 Update, another best new feature is the new clipboard experience that leverages the Microsoft cloud to copy and paste content across devices. In addition, the new clipboard also introduces a new interface (which you can invoke using the Windows key + V shortcut) to view your history, paste previous content, and pin items that you may need to paste in the daily basis.
In this new version of Windows 10, Microsoft is also adding some important changes to the search experience. Starting with version 1809, you're getting a wider interface to accommodate previews in the right pane to access more information and actions a lot faster.
For example, searching for an app or document, the right pane will now surface common actions, including options to run an app as an administrator, file information, such as path and last time the document was modified, and more.
Also, if you're searching an app, the web results will now also show a button to download the third-party app directly from the official website.
Windows 10 is introducing a new snipping experience that combines the old Snipping tool with Screen Sketch (formerly part of the Windows Ink Workspace) into a single modern experience to take screenshots.
While you've been able to use Snip & Sketch in the past to take screenshots, the new experience enhances that experience, and adds a few other benefits, such as update through the Microsoft Store (instead of having to wait for a new version of Windows 10), activities will appear in Task View, and you can have multiple open windows.
In addition, you can now use the Windows key + Shift + S keyboard shortcut to bring up the snipping toolbar with all the basic tools you need.
The app includes support to work with a stylus. You can set a new option to use Print Screen key to launch the new snipping experience. And Action Center gains a new Screen snip button that let you also get a quick access to the new snipping experience.
On Windows 10, Storage sense helps you to free up space automatically as your device starts to run out of space, and in version 1809, there's a new feature that automatically makes unused OneDrive content available only online to free up additional space.
The ability to make content available online-only is already part of the Files On-demand feature set, but it was something that users needed to use manually, and now, there's an option to automate the process.
In previous versions, you've been able to change the font size for the entire system, such as for File Explorer, Start menu, Settings, Control Panel, and apps, but for an odd reason, this option was removed from the operating system.
However, starting with Windows 10 version 1809, the feature is back as part of the "Display" settings in the Ease of Access section of the Settings app.
Using the new slider option, you can now quickly adjust the font size for the Start menu, titles, message boxes, palette titles, icons, and tooltips for all apps.
Although for many users this may be a subtle addition, it's a big feature for users who need larger font size to read content on the screen more clearly.
Although it's still a work in progress, Your Phone is one of the best features you'll find in this new version.
Your Phone is a new experience designed to integrate your phone even further into your computer allowing you to access your texts, photos, and notifications from your phone wirelessly.
The new experience is expected to work with iPhone and Android devices, but in this first release the Your Phone app is only available for Android devices and with limited features, including linking your phone, access recent photos, and send text messages.
Although Windows 10 version 1809 seems significantly smaller than the previous release, this update is more about improving and tweaking the features already in the operating system.
These are what I consider the best new features and improvements coming with the October 2018 Update. Do you have a favorite feature that wasn't mentioned? Share it in the comments.
Update October 4, 2018: This guide was originally published in August 2018, and it's been updated to reflect the new changes.


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Never Marry a Politician
by Sarah Waights
In politics, there are rules to being a good and proper wife. But what if a wife wants to be a woman—and what if that woman wants to be loved?
On the surface, Emily Pemilly appears to be a perfect politician's wife and a model mother. But few know the price she has paid, giving up a promising journalism career and her once-dear principles to stand by an ambitious husband, who is now on the verge of becoming Britain's next prime minister.
Cynical reporter Matt Morley knows that politics is all about appearances. But he never expected to find the fiery, outspoken girl he once loved pinned to the arm of a PM candidate like a lobotomized mannequin.
When Matt uncovers a sordid secret about Emily's hubby, he knows it could crush the man's campaign, as well as Emily's carefully crafted world. But maybe that's not such a bad thing . . .
Publisher: Open Road Integrated MediaReleased: Mar 7, 2016ISBN: 9781781892152Format: book
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To my mother, who said 'do it'
– and never doubted that I would.
It is an act of faith – to say nothing of slightly unattractive self-belief – to write a novel without a publishing deal, which is where I was when I wrote this story. It could have been lonely too – but I never felt it was, thanks to many, many people including: my long suffering husband, who always shows a polite interest; the Romantic Novelists' Association – with honourable mentions for Catherine Jones and Melanie Hilton in particular; my lovely friend Julia Silk at Orion Publishing; the wonderfully encouraging team involved in the Good Housekeeping Novel Award including Luigi Bonomi, agent, Kate Mills and Jemima Forrester from Orion, Joanne Finney, Books Editor at Good Housekeeping and the rest of the team who scooped my entry out of the pile and were kind enough to encourage me, and not forgetting my loyal friend Anne Roberts who nagged me to enter in the first place; then there are my drinking pals who promise to buy it, including Alex, Claire, Clare, Kate, Nancy, Carolyn, Charlie, Georgie, Sarah, Anna, Vicky, Kim, Helen, et al – you know who you are … and finally, the fabulous Choc Lit team who are patiently teaching me to be a proper novelist. Special thanks go to the Tasting Panel readers who passed the book and made this all possible: Lisa B., Sue P., Louise, Linda Sp., Melanie, Georgina, and Sarah C. I salute you all.
Chapter Eleven
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Chapter Seventeen
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Chapter Twenty
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for a politician's wife
My name is Emily Pemilly. I know, catastrophic. Being of dubiously sound mind my advice would be never, under any circumstances, marry a politician.
However, if you insist, the only advice I can offer is this:
1. Thou shalt take thy husband's name – because this is expected, even if thou art then called something utterly ridiculous like Emily Pemilly which makes thee sound like the heroine of one of those silly children's books that would never have got published if they hadn't been written by someone famous.
2. Thou shalt give up thy career – which was the one thing that made thee feel like a proper adult. That and having a sensible name. Sadly, being a fearless and uncompromising mouthpiece for the truth – I was a journalist – is an impossible career choice for people with silly names anyway. As another option, you could consider the following commandment;
3. Thou shalt choose a career which makes thee look saintly – thereby casting a glow of sanctity upon thy husband by association. Looking after sick children would be good, although being a nurse is politically sensitive because of the union issues and being a doctor means thou art a bit too clever. Perhaps run an animal rescue centre or similar as being nice to small, furry creatures is definitely a vote winner.
4. Thou shalt give up the right to make even the simplest decisions on thine own – leaving such weighty issues as which supermarket to shop at, which car to drive and even names for thy children, to be endlessly dissected and analysed by a focus group which will tell thee precisely how to do absolutely everything.
5. Thou shalt gaze adoringly at thy husband at all times whilst in public – even when he is making the most boring speech in Christendom. Actually, especially then. And no yawning. Ever.
6. Thou shalt cheerfully attend an endless series of constituency fundraising events – where members of thy husband's constituency and team will talk about thee as though thou aren't there.
7. Thou shalt deputise for thy husband at all the constituency surgeries that he can't be arsed to go to himself – even though this involves sitting for hours in draughty village halls listening to old people moaning about waiting lists for hip replacements, the solution for which is entirely beyond thy power.
8. Thou shalt not beat thy children – as thou art required to be a far more perfect parent than anyone else in the world. This is mainly in case thy husband is called upon to speak in support of a smacking ban or some other entirely unrealistic parenting policy thought up by people who don't have children.
9. Thou shalt not allow thy children to misbehave in public – a particularly difficult commandment given the restrictions imposed by commandment number eight. By the way, thou needn't think drugging them into submission is an option either because this is also frowned upon by those pesky childfree policymakers.
10. Thou shalt believe that the end justifies the means – in practice this translates to a devout and unquestioning acceptance that how things look is considerably more important than how things are.
And this is the word of the Party.
Even the combination of tiger face-paint and a generous coating of chocolate spread failed to disguise Alfie's gorgeousness.
'Daddy,' he announced, 'is a poo-poo head.'
'I couldn't agree more,' Emily muttered. 'I know you're disappointed sweetie,' she said, ruffling Alfie's hair. 'Daddy wouldn't have missed your party for the world if he didn't have to.'
He had still had a fabulous birthday, she mused. As a sociable four-year-old, his idea of heaven was a crowd of mates, opportunities to run around screaming like a banshee and endless supplies of party food made primarily out of artificial colouring. He had had all these since three o'clock that afternoon and fifteen pre-schoolers had trailed home two hours later, off their heads on sugar and additives and primed to put their parents through hell until bedtime.
The house had not escaped unscathed and, once again, Emily rued her lack of forethought in not giving birth to her children in the summer. How did the other parents of children with winter birthdays cope without the garden party option? Her husband Ralph – pronounced Raif, but frequently mispronounced, to his irritation – had thought the same. He'd had little patience for her in the first mind-numbing weeks when she was caring for the new-born Alfie who had arrived when Tash, then four, was at the height of her despotic infant powers.
'You should have waited for summer recess,' he had said, creating the impression that, in his view, Emily could have extended gestation to fifteen months rather than thoughtlessly sticking with the usual nine.
He missed the birth of course. A three line whip had kept him in the House to vote. Then he had turned up at the hospital, not with flowers and champagne but with his agent TJ along with Saul, TJ's celebrity photographer boyfriend. Saul's sleeveless leather jacket, worn over a naked torso, attracted even more interest in the maternity ward than Ralph, who was irritated at not being the centre of attention. The resulting arty black and white shots of father gazing into the eyes of his new-born son had been sold hard into the national newspapers. Columnists had twittered at length about the family-friendly face of the Party, edging ahead in the polls with their young, dynamic team of shadow ministers, of which Ralph was the newest and shiniest. He was Shadow Secretary of State for Children and Families at the time, being elevated to the top of the party at just thirty-eight, only four years into his career as an MP.
She gazed wearily at the post-party mess. If only she'd organised a press call along with the crisps and sausage rolls, he might have made an appearance. Mind you, as Alfie was a lot more vocal and less co-operative than he had been, it suited Ralph to play the sanctimonious 'my family life is private' card more often nowadays.
'Give us a kiss, gorgeous,' she sighed, holding out her arms.
Alfie's eyes narrowed. 'Okay, just one,' he said, offering a cheek, 'but no spit.'
Nessa and Emily were having a cup of own-brand instant coffee, the best the kitchen cupboards at the village hall had to offer. It was an unappealing reward for finishing the clothes sorting.
'Who donates their pants to a jumble sale?' asked Emily again.
'I know darling. Too ghastly,' agreed Nessa with a shudder. 'Never mind,' she added, 'just the books to go – thank heaven. Must be my millionth time …'
'More, I should have thought. You're so kind to help, you know. I don't know what I'd do without you.'
The last words came out with a barely perceptible tremor and Nessa knew Emily wasn't just talking about gruesome jumble sale preparations.
'Darling, I wouldn't be anywhere else,' she replied, giving Emily a little squeeze and then busying herself with the coffee cups so they could both regain their composure. 'God knows, I'd still be doing this as an MP's wife if Arthur hadn't so selfishly dropped dead on us all,' she continued over her shoulder as she rinsed the cups and put them on the draining board. 'Mind you, it's been forty-six years of jumble sales and coffee mornings I worked out the other day. Horrifying isn't it? The truth is – despite it all – I'm not ready to hang up my constituency boots just yet.'
Emily could hardly believe her friend was in her sixties. She wore her age with an ease that made the thirty year age gap irrelevant. 'I didn't have a clue what I was doing when Ralph took Arthur's seat,' she reminisced. 'Thank goodness you were prepared to stick around.'
Nessa smiled. 'I was thinking the other day I've gone from MP's wife to a kind of honorary MP's wife's mother-in-law.'
'I can assure you, you couldn't be less like a mother-in-law.'
'You say the sweetest things. Also, the very thought of being Ralph's mother! I don't know who would be more horrified – him or me … ooh look, porn!' she exclaimed, distracted by a grubby paperback with a naked woman on the front.
'So it is. Much pored over by the look of it too. Ugh. Shall I chuck it?'
'Absolutely not. I'll keep it under the counter and whip it out when the vicar gets to me. He likes a bit of smut.'
'No he doesn't,' giggled Emily. 'You are naughty. He's a clean cut young man with a gorgeous wife and three children, as you know perfectly well.'
'Ah, but appearances can be deceptive,' said Nessa, tapping the side of her nose. 'Now this really is interesting,' she exclaimed holding up a fat red volume with gold tooling on the spine. 'How to Run the Perfect Household by Felicity Wainwright,' she read. 'It looks like – oh yes, look at this publication date – 1953. Now those were the days,' she reminisced. 'It was only the mid-sixties that Arthur and I were married – I was a child bride obviously – and my, what a shock it was, too! I could have done with something like this.'
'Must be hopelessly old-fashioned nowadays though,' said Emily, holding out her hand for it. 'For goodness' sake, look at this, for example. Page one, chapter one, A young woman of refinement entering marriage today is likely to find herself running a household with the bare minimum of staffing. She will therefore be likely to have to take on the role of housekeeper herself, taking a close interest in the work of the maid and cook, to ensure standards are kept to a respectable level. This is essential if she is to do her wifely duty of maintaining the dignity of her husband amongst his peers. '
She blew a sigh. 'It was another world wasn't it! Pipes and slippers for the men and domestic slavery for the women, albeit with help . Thank goodness we made it to the twenty-first century before Ralph and I tied the knot.'
'Hello ladies,' announced TJ as he marched into the village hall, looking more than usually brisk and efficient. Behind him followed a bespectacled grey-haired man in pinstripes. 'Right,' said TJ rubbing his hands together, 'let's talk tactics.'
'Great,' said Nessa. 'They're my favourite … Only the mint ones of course, those orange and lime things they brought out are just too horrid for words.'
Emily giggled. 'Tactics, Nessa, not tic tacs.'
TJ looked cross. He raised his chin and continued, 'In light of the … er … developments of this morning, central office are keen to ensure we are optimising the opportunities presented to us by the inevitable increase in media interest.'
Nessa shot Emily a look.
'What developments, TJ?' asked Emily, 'only whatever massive news has been announced, we've missed it.'
'True,' agreed Nessa. 'We've been buried in dirty underpants and porn all morning. Haven't heard a thing,' she added innocently.
TJ and pinstripes looked pained and astonished in turn.
TJ sighed. When Arthur had died, a tiny glimmer of hope in the general bleakness of the situation was that Nessa would be replaced by an altogether more amenable MP's wife that he could boss around. It had worked out, to a point. He was secretly and devotedly in love with Ralph, as well as being extremely fond of Emily, but Nessa's continued presence led her frequently into insurrection that TJ, as agent and therefore lynchpin in the constituency, could do without. Now, more than ever, unquestioning compliance would be helpful.
'So, he hasn't contacted you?' he asked Emily, incredulously.
She shook her head. Although he had been in the London flat since Tuesday night and it was now Thursday afternoon, they no longer called each other several times a day, just to hear each other's voices.
'Well,' TJ continued, flustered, 'I am sure he would have done if he could. It's been really mental. I happen to know he's in a shadow cabinet meeting as we speak.'
'So anyway,' said Nessa, 'cutting the crap – as it were – what the bloody hell is this huge news, TJ?'
'Oh, right. Well, in a nutshell, the government have done it. They've called a general election.'
Emily whistled. 'Ralph must be beside himself,' she said with awe.
'Well, we're all pretty excited, that's true enough,' conceded pinstripes, coming forward to shake the women's hands. 'I'm Gerald Mortimer, from central office as TJ said. Basically, I've been asked to come out and help get everyone on message, help out with profile management, that sort of thing.'
Emily nodded and Nessa looked amused.
'The thing is,' he continued, 'Ralph is obviously a pretty key person as far as the presentation of the party is concerned. We will want to be using him – and you,' he flashed a grin at Emily, 'to show the electorate what we represent.'
'Which is …?' queried Nessa.
Gerald looked as if it was the pinnacle of his life's ambition to be asked such a question. 'Well,' he began, 'the main thing to get across is probably going to be the whole traditional family values thing.'
Emily threw him an enquiring look.
'You know,' he continued, 'like supporting the nuclear family with the introduction of a tax framework that rewards the single wage earner, allowing the other parent the choice to manage home and childcare meaning better educational attainment and a future workforce with inherent personal social responsibility and a valuable skill set …'
Nessa yawned extravagantly. Emily was sure she was putting it on. 'So, my role is …?' she queried.
'Ah,' smirked Gerald, 'You would be the go-getting, ball-breaking alpha woman, with the high-flying career and the househusband, obviously …'
'Really?' said Emily, flattered that her gossipy column in the local lifestyle magazine plus the odd feature article in a national broadsheet was considered 'high-flying'.
'Erm, no – sorry – I was joking,' he replied, embarrassed. 'We rather had you down as the perfect home-maker, photogenic family, dedicated wife, charming consort to the powerful man type of role actually.'
'Sounds like not much has changed,' Nessa observed. 'I've done rather too much charming consort stuff myself over the years.'
'Really?' said Gerald, a little too incredulously for Nessa's liking.
'Yes, really,' she said. 'I am relieved to say that role is behind me – and I can assure you there is nothing less diplomatic than an ex-diplomat.' Emily noticed TJ nodding fervently. 'But surely,' Nessa continued, 'we should be allowing Emily a little more freedom than I had?'
'Yes, sure … I mean, erm, no,' said Gerald, confused. 'That is, Emily is an asset,' he beamed at her, 'and we feel she has an important role to play in enhancing the appeal of the party to the electorate. She and Ralph are a package. That's the point.'
'So she can continue being her charming, supportive, delightful original self?' pressed Nessa.
'Oh yah, absolutely,' said Gerald. But he didn't mean it. Emily could tell, having been mugged by the central office mafiosi before, not least when they insisted that she turn down a parliamentary sketch column – the would-be pinnacle of her journalistic career – because of a conflict of interest . In other words, it conflicted with Ralph's interest in becoming the youngest member of the Cabinet.
'Anyway,' said Nessa, tiring of her TJ baiting game, 'I'm off.'
'I'll call you later,' she whispered in Emily's ear as she gave her a goodbye hug. 'And I think you might be needing this,' she added as she pressed something hard-edged and heavy into her hand.
Bringing it up to her face, she didn't know whether to laugh or cry. There, in her hand, was the copy of How to Run the Perfect Household by Felicity Wainwright, 1950's housewife extraordinaire.
Remember, your husband will be looking forward to returning home and off-loading the stress of his day. Even if your own day has been wearing, don't make the mistake of burdening him with your problems. Instead, prepare to amuse him with an entertaining snippet or two.
FELICITY WAINWRIGHT, 1953
'Tash has got nits again,' she said to Ralph as he took off his coat.
'Really? What glamour, what hedonism you enjoy when I'm away,' he joked. 'D'you think it's the school? Maybe we should send her private …'
'The village primary's fine. She'd still get nits in a snob school.'
'Ah, but posh nits though. A better class of nit, if you will …' said Ralph, giving her a hug and a glancing kiss on the cheek. 'Nothing for it though, the village primary it must be. Better for the image don't you know?'
She did. 'How was the surgery?'
'God, what a ghastly crowd,' he groaned. Fresh from the excitement in Westminster, the weekly constituency surgery had seemed even more parochial than usual. 'Can you believe that horrific old crone from Maybury showed up again to rant about double-yellow lines with her photo album of badly parked cars? Do you know, she actually goes around with a measuring tape to get evidence? One can only hope she'll get squashed by a lorry…'
'Did we not get a reply from highways on it? You remember we decided to ask them to do a study on it to see if the parking restrictions should be extended to help the flow of traffic?'
'Did we? To be honest I don't have a clue any more,' admitted Ralph, running his fingers through his hair, rubbing his scalp hard as if his head hurt which it probably did, to be fair.
'Tea or wine,' she offered.
'I'm not sure either of them are going to do it, have we got any gin?'
'Sorry. Gin, yes, but tonic, no. I forgot to put it on the list.'
'I'll have wine, as long as it's not that filthy stuff we got in for the cheese and wine do last week,' he conceded, but not before Emily had seen his irritated look at this failure in the domestic machinery which was, of course, her fault.
Emily rummaged for the corkscrew, eventually turning out the whole drawer onto the kitchen table, but then realised it was a screw top anyway as they almost always were nowadays, even the decent stuff which Ralph now insisted on. She recalled the days when any old plonk would do.
The day they met – her newspaper had sent her to do a profile on him as one of the chief architects of the new party – their business lunch had run into the evening and then through the night, with Ralph insisting on ordering another bottle of wine and then another before repairing to his Westminster flat where he talked her into bed. She had been ripe to be impressed by him. Flattened by the series of painful events that preceded her meeting with him, he was ten years older than her, successful, dynamic and in no way plagued by the self-doubt that crippled her.
Ralph, in turn, was totally bewitched. It was not just her

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Q: How to separate User data from my Swing components? I am working on a Swing GUI, which consists of several panels, tables and table models which are connected to an underlying MySQL database using Hibernate.
My current aim is to store information about the current user, id and table name, in a kind of History/Log table.
The problem I'm facing is that I have to pass the user name to all panels to the table model, because this last one is the responsible to create a new log record in case of UPDATE, SAVE, DELETE events.
I am thinking about a way to separate user variable from panels/table models.
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See an example of implementation in this answer.

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We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable lessons, but these Cautionary Tales are for the education of the grown ups – and they are all true. Tim Harford (Financial Times, BBC, author of "The Data Detective") brings you stories of awful human error, tragic catastrophes, and hilarious fiascos. They'll delight you, scare you, but also make you wiser. New episodes every other Friday.
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LIVE: The Myth of the Million Dollar Tulip Bulb
Recorded before an audience at the Bristol Festival of Economics (11/17/2022)
The Dutch went so potty over tulip bulbs in the 1600s that many were ruined when the inflated prices they were paying for the plants collapsed - that's the oft-repeated story later promoted by best-selling Scottish writer Charles Mackay. It's actually a gross exaggeration.
Mackay's writings about economic bubbles bursting entertained and informed his Victorian readers - and continue to influence us today - but how did Mackey fare when faced with a stock market mania right before his eyes? The railway-building boom of the 1840s showed he wasn't so insightful after all.
For a full list of sources used in this episode visit Tim Harford.com
DOUBLE BILL: When a Plague Struck World of Warcraft/Blood on the Tracks
As a special New Year treat we're presenting two Cautionary Tales Shorts - which have previously only been available to paying Apple and Pushkin+ subscribers.
When a Plague Struck World of Warcraft: The makers of WoW wanted to spice up the fantasy computer game by introducing a virtual disease - "Corrupted Blood". It was supposed to be a fun challenge for expert player - but the illness became a pandemic which wiped out villages, cities and then whole realms.
Blood on the Tracks: The signalmen running a busy stretch of railroad on the Scottish border had to adhere to strict rules to prevent crashes - but did those regulations fail to take into account human nature? Despite all the logbooks, alarm bells, levers and regulations, the signalmen didn't seem to notice a packed troop train barrelling towards them.
For a full list of sources go to timharford.com
"Snow Crashing Into The Metaverse" from Imaginary Worlds
This week, we're sharing an episode of Imaginary Worlds. For the last 30 years, the real world has been catching up to Neal Stephenson's vision of the future in his 1992 novel Snow Crash, which influenced the creators of Google Earth, Second Life, Oculus Rift and more. Now the centerpiece of the novel, a virtual world called The Metaverse, may become a daily part of our lives thanks to Facebook (renamed Meta) and other big tech companies. In this episode of Imaginary Worlds, host Eric Molinsky explores whether it's a good idea to use a satirical cyberpunk novel from decades ago as a blueprint for the future.You can hear more episodes of Imaginary Worlds at https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org
The Company That Cancelled Christmas
More than 100,000 families - many of them amongst the poorest in Britain - put money aside for Christmas gifts and other seasonal treats in a savings club called Farepak. It wasn't a bank, and it wasn't great value for money... and it went bust. Kids went without toys, and festive dinner tables were left bare.
Why would someone put their hard-earned money into such a scheme? And what does it tell us about how we often view Christmas as a time for frenzied spending?
CAUTIONARY TALES RETURNS 6 JAN, 2023. HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND SEE YOU IN THE NEW YEAR.
The Wild Turkeys of Schleswig
There are eight American turkeys painted on the walls of Schleswig's Cathedral of St Peter - which is odd... since the frescoes were created two centuries before Columbus even crossed the Atlantic.
How did the creatures come to be added to the medieval Biblical scene? Was this proof that the Germans reached the Americas before Columbus? Or do the painted birds tell a different story all together?
Cautionary Conversation: The Blitz Spirit and the Blackout Ripper
In a crisis most people respond with decency and solidarity. The bombing of British cities in the Second World War did not cause society to crumble as was expected, but proved instead human resilience. That defiant "Blitz Spirit" is still a source of pride for Britons... but have inconvenient facts about that time been ignored?
Alice Fiennes (co-host of the podcast Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper) explains that the chaos and disruption of the bombing allowed some people to commit awful crimes - and especially a trainee RAF pilot who embarked on a vicious killing spree under cover of darkness.
Find Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper wherever you get your podcasts.
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pamerj , 01/23/2023
Extraordinary!
I look forward to every episode, so informative, interesting and enjoyable. Also, the most pleasant voice in podcasts.
ToucheDeF , 01/02/2023
Entertainment & Logic Exercise
I've listened to podcasts that I've loved for years and have never written a review. I'm flawed. However, I'm so hooked on this show that I've finally been moved to effort. Cautionary Tales expertly manages to 1. Tell a true story 2. Review the consequences of the events in that story, and 3. Challenge the listener to look at the cause/effect from different perspectives that could have changed the outcome of the events for the better. What makes this podcast such a stand out is how these steps are repeated show after show, and at NO point do I get the impression of judgement or superiority from the host or the writing. Tim Harford does such an excellent job of narrating these tales in an academic tone that doesn't judge the people and there choices in these dramatic events, and he kindly challenged the listener to look at everything from different points of view with the benefits only hindsight can give. If you enjoy learning, logical exercises, dramatic storytelling, and relaxed narration, this podcast is definitely for you.
Nyx857 , 01/10/2023
Great but…
I really like this podcast, I enjoy the narration and it gives me a lot to think about, but I'm getting tired of the episodes from other podcasts. It's like half cautionary tales and half other podcasts. Who listens to a podcast because they want to listen to a different podcast? It really irks me that I think there's a new episode that's downloaded only to find it's some other podcast with an uninteresting topic and bad narrator.
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Heads Up on these 5 Emerging Customer Success Trends
Blog May. 11, 2018
Customer Success Trends from March 19 to April 6, 2018.
It is never too late to discover your success, understanding and observing your competitor's actions are the most interesting way of learning new things and a smarter move to see what others miss out.
Here are the latest trends that can keep your company forward.
1. Verizon Finishes 2017 with Highest Customer Loyalty
Summary: Verizon finishes 2017 with the highest customer loyalty and lowest retail churn of the big four wireless carriers and saying thanks with its new customer rewards program Verizon Up, which will offer new music experiences with Justin Timberlake, Luke Bryan, Demi Lovato, Maroon 5, Rae Sremmurd, Daya, Skylar Grey, Rich The Kid, Kali Uchis and X Ambassadors throughout the year.
2. Calabrio Enhances Analytics Platform with Sentiment Analysis to Accurately Capture and Interpret Customer Insights
Summary: Customer engagement and analytics software provider Calabrio introduces a new version of Calabrio ONE, which helps customers accurately capture and interpret the voice of the customer. The enhancements feature Sentiment Analysis, via a new dashboard and customizable reports, and new workforce management functionalities. With this, contact centers can identify trends and shifts in customer attitudes or uncover root causes of customer discontent more accurately and use the data to help their businesses grow or change.
3. Talkdesk Delivers ROI Exceeding 300% According to Independent Consulting Study
Summary: Talkdesk, the leading enterprise contact center platform, today announced the findings of a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study performed by leading industry analyst firm, Forrester Consulting. Forrester's final analysis found benefits in excess of $7 million over three years with a net present value (NPV) of more than $5 million, an ROI of 346% and an increase 19 points in Net Promoter Score (NPS). According to Tiago Paiva, Talkdesk CEO, Forrester found an astonishing 346% ROI and three-month payback period after a large enterprise customer made the transition to Talkdesk from another contact center platform.
4. Kahuna comes out of the gate with customer engagement platform
Summary: Kahuna, a Californian startup, has released a platform to help brands build more targeted interactions. This platform can ingest data from live interaction or third-party systems like order management. The AI also helps a company to reduce the shopping cart abandonment with better offers by determining the best message, best time, best subject line, best device and best channel. With this new product, Kahuna hopes to compete with other giant companies.
5. Stripe launches a new billing tool to tap demand from online businesses
Summary: Stripe has launched a billing product for online businesses. This includes handling of subscription recurring revenue, as well as invoicing all in one place. The goal was to replace a previously hand-built setup, whether using analog methods for invoicing or painstakingly putting together a set of subscription tools and make that experience as seamless as charging for products on Stripe.
Customer success strategies, tools, and process are developing faster than our capacity to comprehend them. Companies need to have a better understanding of the importance of investing in customer success tools and how it will make an impact on the result of your business.


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The world's spookiest day is growing, but it's also evolving. More people are celebrating Halloween and Halloween spending is up. But there are changes afoot that will definitely impact your Halloween marketing strategy this year.


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Heady days of Amsterdam's drug culture turn bad as hard stuff brings violence and corruption
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Long famed for its casual attitude to marijuana use, the Dutch capital Amsterdam says it now has a serious problem with hard drugs that has brought increased violence and corruption at the hands of "hustlers, parasites and extortionists".
FILE PHOTO: People sit on a quay at the Leliegracht canal in Amsterdam April 2, 2013. REUTERS/Michael Kooren/File Photo
Money from the lucrative trade in drugs such as cocaine and ecstasy as well as marijuana has also found its way in the city's flourishing real estate market, according to a city-commissioned report entitled "The Other Side of Amsterdam".
Although marijuana is illegal in the Netherlands, Amsterdam's famed "coffee shops" have for decades sold it openly for the pleasure of residents and tourists alike.
Prosecutors do not press charges for possession of small amounts and the report said police had largely given up on trying to enforce small drug offences in the face of widespread social acceptance.
But this policy has de-facto spread to other drugs, it said.
"Amsterdam has given free rein...to a motley crew of drugs criminals, a ring of hustlers and parasites, middle-men and extortionists, of dubious notaries and real estate agents," the report said.
At the top of the criminal chain are wealthy organised crime bosses who may not be physically located in Amsterdam, the report said.
At the bottom are "criminal lackeys such as scooter and taxi chauffeurs and even youthful messenger-boys set to follow quite a career path: offering murder as a service."
Recent studies found that 21 percent of Amsterdam's population has used marijuana in the past year and 17 percent had used "hard drugs" such as cocaine and ecstasy, it said.
Health authorities estimate up to 70% of people attending dance festivals may use ecstasy, it said.
Mayor Femke Halsema said she accepted the report's criticisms.
She intended to continue current programs, especially those aimed at countering drug money entering the real estate market, and to improve Amsterdam's cooperation with law enforcement, Halsema said in a statement.
Reporting by Toby Sterling; Editing by Angus MacSwan


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We attended Kenshoo's K8 event last month and, veritably, it knocked my socks off. Kenshoo is an ad-bidding software platform and one of our closest partners. They are jointly based in Israel and San Francisco and providing so much more than just savvy CRM integration and ad-bidding. Read on.
The conference theme: Be Authentic. Kenshoo did not hold back on this. Every part of the event had opportunities for staff, partners and clients to share amazingly personal and heartfelt truths about the nature of life.
People were real. On stage. Off stage.
Yoav Izhar-Prato, CEO of Kenshoo, took everyone on the first night in buses to a castle where you could make pasta, taste wine (there was a lot of wine) or CRUSH GRAPES.
Naturally, I chose the latter, along with Yoav and a group of about 21 of us. We had to change our clothes. We had to get into a tub and mash fruit with our bare feet. With strangers. Our little cohort instantly bonded and spent the next 48 hours digging deep on matters of life, purpose, family and questioning where technology and advertising fit in.
Safely, I can say that I made friends for life this week. And the course of my path altered.
Huge focus on the impact of the Santa Rosa/Napa fires and on donating money to help rebuild the area. The hotel where we stayed has had virtually no business since the fires and the staff was elated to be busy again. The bar was supposed to close at 10pm, but stayed open until 2am because the workers were so anxious for work! K8 participants raised $5800 for the Wine Country Relief Fund.
Elizabeth Gilbert–yep, the Eat, Pray, Love one–came to speak to us just weeks after her partner's passing. Honestly, I can't even imagine how she did it. Very intense–she talked about owning what makes you happy and what doesn't.
1) Start knowing. Stop staying, "I don't know." START KNOWING. Know what you care about. Know what you gives you peaceful joy. Know what causes you stress and anxiety. Know who you are! And if your family or friends or coworkers are going to be ruffled by this actual/authentic you, consider the cost of lying to them for the rest of your life.
2) Listen to the whispers or else you'll be listening to the screams.
3) Self-care and self-love and gentle curiosity are the BEST WAYS to approach/acknowledge traumatic memory and experiences. Take good care of yourselves!
Falling in love with customers by knowing them, their buying habits, their hopes, dreams, wishes, pain points, complaints, desires. We discovered all the new ways to analyze CRM data and fall in love with our customers.
Microsoft Search Advertising executive Matt Lydon shared an incredibly intimate and heartfelt story about his early Parkinson's diagnosis and how Microsoft's new culture of empathy embraced him, under the leadership of Satya Nadella. Full story here, but I can safely say there wasn't a dry eye in the place. Parkinson's is a very invasive disease and it's progressive and degenerative: which means Matt will always have it and it will only get worse.
The shock was what happened after he nervously told his Microsoft boss. It was AMAZING. His boss grabbed his hand and arm and told him they would be with him, no matter what. Matt told stories of his coworkers raising money all over the globe for him, his research colleagues diving into new innovations to help people with Parkinson's. It was unreal. Watch a video here about the research and practical ways Microsoft is helping people with their daily lives here. The image below shows handwriting improvement from a woman with Parkinson's while wearing Microsft's Emma tremor-reducing device. We all were crying. Even MC Sandeep Hardas. Very real moment.
PEOPLE CHANGE THE WORLD, NOT INDUSTRIES. But they must do it with love and empathy.
As someone who started my career in both politics and public education, thinking that was the only place to make societal change, I will–until the cows come home–believe people in business can make enormous change for good in the world. Maybe even more than nonprofit or government.
The good people at Kenshoo understand this and are doing it. They know who they are and aren't afraid to go big with it.
Do you know who you are? What would it take to start knowing?


In an hourlong interview Friday in his office here at the heart of the country's electronic eavesdropping and cyber operations, Adm. Michael S. Rogers, who has now run the beleaguered spy agency and the military's Cyber Command for just short of three months, described the series of steps he was taking to ensure that no one could download the trove of data that Snowden gathered — more than 1 million documents.
But he cautioned that there was no perfect protection against a dedicated insider with access to the agency's networks.
The crucial change, he said, is to "ensure that the volume'' of data taken by Snowden, a former agency contractor, "can't be stolen again.'' But the Defense Department, of which the security agency and Cyber Command are a part, made the same vow in 2010, after an Army private, Chelsea Manning, downloaded hundreds of thousands of secret State Department and Pentagon files and released them to WikiLeaks.
Notable in his comments was an absence of alarmism about the long-term effects of the Snowden revelations. Like former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, who urged colleagues in the Obama administration to calm down about the WikiLeaks revelations in 2010, Rogers seemed to suggest that, as technology progressed, the agency would find new ways to compensate for the damage done, however regrettable the leaks.
He repeated past warnings that the agency had overheard terrorist groups "specifically referencing data detailed'' by Snowden's revelations. "I have seen groups not only talk about making changes, I have seen them make changes,'' he said.
Rogers discussed his vision of how the United States might use cyberweapons against adversaries — a subject of debate inside the administration that U.S. officials rarely discuss in public — saying he could imagine a day when, under strict rules of armed conflict, they were used selectively but as part of ordinary military operations, like cruise missiles and drones.
He also acknowledged that the quiet working relationships between the security agency and the nation's telecommunications and high technology firms had been sharply changed by the Snowden disclosures — and might never return to what they once were in an era when the relationships were enveloped in secrecy.
Telecommunications businesses like AT&T and Verizon, and social media companies, now insist that "you are going to have to compel us,'' Rogers said, to turn over data so that they can demonstrate to foreign customers that they do not voluntarily cooperate. And some are far more reluctant to help when asked to provide information about foreigners who are communicating on their networks abroad. It is a gray area in the law in which U.S. courts have no jurisdiction; instead the agency relied on the cooperation of U.S.-based companies.
Last week, Verizon lost a longstanding contract to run many of the telecommunications services for the German government. Germany declared that the revelations of "ties revealed between foreign intelligence agencies and firms'' showed that it needed to rely on domestic providers.
Google has announced steps to seal gaps in its system that the security agency exploited to gain access to the company's databases. Microsoft is challenging in court the validity of warrants to turn over data that it stores outside the United States.
Rogers said the majority of corporations that had long given the agency its technological edge and global reach were still working with it, although they had no interest in advertising the fact. He was unapologetic about the agency's past activities, even as he said he recognized that unlike his predecessors for the past six decades he was going to have to engage "in a public dialogue'' about how the agency operated.
When asked about the changes the agency had made to prevent another insider attack like the one Snowden executed without detection — including a "two-man rule'' that would require two systems operators to enter codes to gain access to sensitive data, much as two officers must enter codes to launch nuclear weapons — he refused to say whether he had embraced one major recommendation of a presidential commission on the agency's operations.
The commission, which issued a public report in December, said it was surprised that the agency did not encrypt the vast databases of information it stores on its computers and in the Internet cloud. Had it encrypted that information, the files Snowden downloaded would have been unreadable, unless he also had the cryptologic key.
In discussing the post-Snowden changes, Rogers said the security agency had received instructions to cease its monitoring of a number of world leaders beyond Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, whose cellphone was monitored in a decade-long operation that President Barack Obama halted.
Rogers has taken command of the agency just as its power to collect and retain "telephone metadata'' — the records of numbers dialed and the duration of calls — is being stripped from the agency. Obama defended the program last summer, after the initial round of revelations. But he had a change of heart, fueled by his commission's conclusion that it could not find a case in which the program had definitively halted a potential terrorist attack.
Obama ultimately decided to cease the government collection of the data, putting it into the hands of a third party and requiring an individual warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to obtain the data.
Rogers indicated that system, so long resisted by the security agency, was workable.
The House passed a bill that would keep the data in the hands of telecommunications businesses; the Senate has yet to act.
"Clearly the intention,'' he said, is to get the security agency "out of the data-retention business'' for domestic calling records.


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Progressive Kara Eastman Is Pulling Ahead in Omaha's Bellwether Congressional District
A champion of economic, social, and racial justice could beat a Republican incumbent in eastern Nebraska.
By John Nichols
Kara Eastman (Courtesy of Kara Eastman for Congress)
Joe Biden is surging in the polls and his campaign is looking to run up the Democrat's Electoral College numbers in unexpected places—like Omaha.
Political junkies know that Nebraska is one of two states—the other is Maine—that assign electors for president not according to the statewide vote but rather on the basis of voting in individual congressional districts. That distinction has made the Omaha-based Second Congressional District a presidential battleground, as well as a bellwether for the nationwide campaign of progressive Democrats to build up their power in Congress by flipping key US House seats.
Want more from John? Check out the first-ever Nation Festival featuring John Nichols alongside an extraordinary group of speakers. Nov. 18-21.
Nebraska is a historic Republican stronghold, and Trump still leads statewide. But as the wheels come off the president's reelection campaign, at least some Nebraska Republicans are distancing themselves from a president who Senator Ben Sasse this week ripped as a political liability who has "flirted with white supremacists" and whose family "has treated the presidency like a business opportunity."
Sasse is a cynical political player who is positioning for what he imagines will be a post-election scramble to redefine the GOP. But that doesn't mean he isn't right to recognize that Trump's "stupid political obsessions" are alienating voters in this election season. Or when he observes:
If young people become permanent Democrats because they've just been repulsed by the obsessive nature of our politics, or if women who were willing to still vote with the Republican Party in 2016 decide that they need to turn away from this party permanently in the future, the debate is not going to be, you know, "Ben Sasse, why were you so mean to Donald Trump?" It's going to be "What the heck were any of us thinking that selling a TV-obsessed narcissistic individual to the American people was a good idea?" It is not a good idea.
If a Trump derailment causes a "Republican bloodbath" in November, as Sasse suggests is possible, the best measure of it could come in Omaha and the suburban communities of Douglas and Sarpy counties that make up Nebraska-2.
A new Congressional Progressive Caucus poll from the district has Biden leading 53-42, while a recent New York Times/Siena College survey has him up 48-41. FiveThirtyEight, the political prognostication site, now says, "Biden is favored to win Nebraska's 2nd District."
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But that's not the only big win Democrats could score in Nebraska-2, and in a number of swing districts like it across the country. While much of the attention to the district has been on Biden's bid for its Electoral College vote, an even more striking breakthrough could occur in the campaign for its US House seat.
Progressive Democrat Kara Eastman, who came within 5,000 votes of winning the seat in 2018, is surging in this year's race against Republican incumbent Don Bacon. The October 8 Progressive Caucus poll has Eastman leading Bacon 47-45, and among early voters who have already cast ballots—roughly one-fifth of those surveyed—she's up 59-36.
If Eastman wins, it will be a major victory for progressive forces, on a par with this year's primary wins by House candidates Marie Newman in Illinois, Jamaal Bowman in New York, and Cori Bush in Missouri—high-profile contenders who, like Eastman, have run this year with backing from Justice Democrats. Like a number of other grassroots groups, Justice Democrats argue that the party needs to embrace progressive policies and candidates who, in the spirit of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, seek to push the Democratic Party and Congress in bolder directions.
Eastman has twice beaten more cautious, establishment-tied Democrats in Nebraska primaries. After her 2018 primary win, she got little help from national Democrats. This year, Democratic insiders poured resources into a campaign to beat her for the nomination. Yet she swept to a 62-31 victory.
Now, she's getting more national party support as strategists sense a win is within reach. With that said, Eastman's still a grassroots-focused candidate, who celebrates the small-dollar donations that helped her to significantly out-raise Bacon in the latest fundraising quarter.
Eastman is running as a champion of economic, social, and racial justice who is prepared to address the climate crisis and advocates for a foreign policy that's focused on "negotiation, diplomacy and alliance building in order to prevent unnecessary conflict in the world." She argues for Medicare for All as "the most pragmatic and practical solution to this problem," explaining, "We need to untether employment from health insurance. Covid-19 makes this case even CLEARER. I'm on the RIGHT side of history with this issue and am unafraid to say it."
That kind of talk has won her strong backing from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who points out that Eastman is "facing the same incumbent Republican she came within just 1.9% of defeating two years ago while running on a strong progressive platform that prioritizes the needs of working people in Omaha and beyond."
Congressional Progressive Caucus cochair Mark Pocan calls Eastman "one of the best candidates running anywhere in the country." Pocan, who has traveled to Nebraska to campaign with her, says, "It would be a huge message to have a smart progressive like Kara Eastman elected from Omaha. That would be another signal that people favor progressive issues everywhere, and that they will vote for smart progressives who run on those issues."
John NicholsJohn Nichols is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation and the author of the new book The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace's Anti-Fascist, Anti-Racist Politics (Verso). He's also the author of Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse: A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in America, from Nation Books, and co-author, with Robert W. McChesney, of People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy.


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On the 18th of March 1799, the HMS Telegraph captured the French ship Hirondelle near Île de Batz.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...s-day-18-March
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On the 20th of March 1815, Napoleon returned to Paris from his exile on Elba.
On the 21st of March 1800, the HMS Peterel captured two merchants, which were part of a larger convoy, off the coast of Marseille.
On the 22nd of March 1820, U.S. Commodore Stephen Decatur died after dueling with James Barron at Bladensburg, Maryland.
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On the 23rd of March 1815, U.S.S. Hornet defeated HMS Penguin off Tristan da Cunha in the south Atlantic.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?385-March-23rd
Congress orders all Continental naval vessels and privateers home.
George Dewey is commissioned Admiral of the Navy.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?940-March-24th
On the 25th of March 1802, the Treaty of Amiens was signed.
USS Essex takes the Peruvian corsair ship Nereyda.
On the 26th of March 1806, HMS Pique, formally the French ship Pallas, captured the French brigs Phaéton and Voltigeur.
On March 27, 1794 President George Washington and Congress authorized creation of the U.S. Navy.
On the 28th of March 1814, HMS Phoebe (36) and HMS Cherub (18) captured USS Essex (36) and USS Essex Junior (20) at the port Valparaíso, Chile.
Essex becomes the first U.S. Navy vessel to pass the Cape of Good Hope.
On the 30th of March 1800, three British ships attacked and captured the French Tonnant-class Guillaume Tell (80).
On the 31st of March 1813, Royal Marines from four British ships attacked and captured two batteries at Morgeon in the south of France.
On the 1st of April 1797, during the French Revolutionary Wars, HMS Hazard captured the French privateer Hardi off of Ireland.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...is-day-1-April
On the 2nd of April 1801, the Battle of Copenhagen took place between British and Danish-Norwegian fleets.
Navy frigate Alliance captures two British privateers, Mars and Minerva.
Construction of the first naval hospital begins at Portsmouth, Va.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?404-April-2
On the 3rd of April 1813, the British navy engaged American ships in the Battle of Rappahannock River, an inlet to the Chesapeake Bay.
On 3 April, 1836 the Republic of Texas schooner Invincible sinks the Mexican schooner Montezuma.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?406-3-April-1836
On the 4th of April 1808, a battle broke out between forces of the British and Spanish navies near Cadiz.
The Continental Navy frigate Columbus captures HM Tender Hawke; this is the first American capture of a British armed vessel.
Sailors and Marines from sailing sloop Plymouth, protect U.S. citizens at Shanghai.
Appointment of the first Civil Engineering Corps officer, Rear Adm. Mordecai Endicott, as chief of Bureau of Yards and Docks.
NATO is established.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?407-4-April
On the 5th of April 1805, the HMS Bacchante landed a shore party to capture a 40 foot tower armed with three 24-pound guns near Havana, Cuba.
The Action of 6 April 1809 was a small naval battle fought between the French frigate Niémen and several British frigates.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...-day-April-6th
The Action of 7 April 1800 was a minor naval engagement fought between a British squadron blockading the Spanish naval base of Cadiz and a convoy of 13 Spanish merchant vessels escorted by three frigates, bound for the Spanish colonies in the Americas.
The Continental brig Lexington captures the British ship Edward.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?408-April-7th
On the 8th of April 1782, ships of the U.S. Continental Navy and Great Britain fought with each other in what is known as the Battle of Delaware Bay.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...f-Delaware-Bay
On the 9th of April 1799, HMS St. Fiorenzo and HMS Amelia engaged the French frigates Vengeance, Sémillante, Cornélie, and a gun vessel, as well as a gun battery protecting them.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...ries-and-ships
The French frigate Gloire was followed by the British frigate HMS Astraea and was ultimately brought to battle in a closely fought engagement.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...s-day-10-April
On the 11th of April 1783, the Continental Congress proclaimed the cessation of arms with Great Britain.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?414-April-11th
On the 12th of April 1782, British and French fleets fought the Battle of the Saintes in the West Indies
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...of-the-Saintes
On the 13th of April 1796, HMS Indefatigable and HMS Révolutionnaire captured the French frigate Unité.
On the 14th of April 1793, Admiral John Gell's squadron captured the French privateer Général Dumourier and her Spanish prize, the St. Jago.
On the 15th of April 1805, crewmembers of the HMS Papillon captured the Spanish privateer Conception off the west coast of Jamaica.
On the 16th of April 1797, the Spithead mutiny began as sailors from 16 ships of the Channel Fleet, under the command of Admiral Lord Bridport, responded to poor living conditions and low pay.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...-is-in-the-air
On the 17th of April 1780, British and French ships engaged in the Battle of Martinique in the West Indies.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...-of-Martinique
On the 19th of April 1770, Captain James Cook, commanding the Endeavour, reached the south-eastern coast of Australia, being the first recorded Europeans to see eastern Australia.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...tern-Australia
On the 20th of April 1792, Louis XVI of France declared war on the Habsburg monarchy of Austria, resulting in the French Revolutionary Wars.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...e-declares-war
On this day, 20 April 1814 while in the Florida Strait, the 18-gun sloop-of-war USS Frolic encountered the British 36-gun frigate HMS Orpheus and 12-gun schooner HMS Shelburne.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...-20-April-1814
On this day, 21 April 1782 the 74-gun Pégase was captured by the Captain John Jervis in the 80-gun HMS Foudroyant.
On the 22nd of April 1676, French and Dutch-Spanish fleets fought in the Battle of Augusta off the east coast of Sicily.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...tle-of-Augusta
Capt. John Paul Jones of Ranger leads a landing party raid on Whitehaven, England.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.php?420-April-22nd
The Action of 23 April 1794 took place between a British squadron of five frigates under the command of Sir John Borlase Warren and three frigates and a corvette under the command of Chef d'escadre F. Desgarceaux during the French Revolutionary Wars.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...l-First-Action
The Continental Navy sloop Ranger captures HMS Drake.
On 24 April 1798 the 36-gun HMS Phoenix captured the French privateer Brave.
On the 25th of April 1607, the Dutch defeated the Spanish in the Battle of Gibraltar.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...Gibraltar-1607
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...Day-25th-April
ARA Santa Fe disabled at Grytviken, South Georgia liberated, 30 years ago today
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...Day-April-25th
On the 26th of April 1797, British ships, under the command of Captain George Martin, captured two Spanish frigates off the coast of Conil de la Frontera, Spain.
The Battle of Derne was a decisive victory of a mercenary army led by a detachment of United States Marines and soldiers over pirate forces along the Barbary coast nation of Tripoli during the First Barbary War.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...f-Derna-Begins
The capture of HMS Epervier was a naval action fought off the coast of Florida near Cape Canaveral on 28 April 1814, between the ship-rigged sloop of war USS Peacock, commanded by Master Commandant Lewis Warrington, and the Cruizer-class brig-sloop Epervier under Commander Richard Wales.
On the 28th of April 1789, Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against the HMS Bounty's captain, William Bligh.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...-on-the-Bounty
On the 29th of April 1758, British and French forces engaged in the Battle of Cuddalore off the Carnatic coast of southern India.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...ddalore-(1758)
The Battle of Fort Royal was a naval battle fought off Fort Royal, Martinique in the West Indies during the American War of Independence on 29 April 1781 between fleets of the British Royal Navy and the French Navy.
Congress Established U.S. Department of the Navy
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...nt-of-the-Navy
George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France.
The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
The Action of 1 May 1781 was a minor naval engagement nearly 210 miles off the Port of Brest in which HMS Canada, a 74-gun third rate of the Royal Navy chased, intercepted and captured the 40-gun Spanish frigate Santa Leocadia.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...This-Day-1-May
The Dos de Mayo of 1808, was a rebellion by the people of Madrid against the occupation of the city by French troops.
On the 3rd of May 1810, the HMS Spartan engaged Neapolitan ships in the Bay of Naples.
HMS Belle Poule participated with HMS Alceste in an attack on Parenza (Istria).
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...n-the-Adriatic
On this day 5 May 1821 Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...poleon-s-Death
The Action of 6 May 1801 was a minor naval engagement between the 32-gun xebec-frigate El Gamo of the Spanish Navy under the command of Don Francisco de Torris and the much smaller 14-gun brig HMS Speedy under the command of Thomas, Lord Cochrane.
http://sailsofglory.org/showthread.p...-Spanish-Tango
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Going After Cacciato takes place during the height of America's involvement in the Vietnam War. While there's relatively little information about Vietnam in the novel—in fact, it takes more than a hundred pages before the word "Vietnam" is mentioned—it's important to understand the background of this war, and Tim O'Brien's experiences in it.
Between the late 1950s and the mid-1970s, the United States gave military and financial aid to its allies in South Vietnam, trying to prevent South Vietnam from falling under the control of Communist forces. The Communist soldiers were known as the Vietcong, and they were based in North Vietnam and were led by Ho Chi Minh. Under the presidencies of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon, the United States deployed hundreds of thousands of troops to Vietnam, and waged chemical warfare on the land of Vietnam itself by dropping millions of pounds of bombs and napalm into its forests. During this time, many in the United States came to oppose America's involvement in Vietnam, protesting outside the White House and, in 1968, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. In 1968, news of the My Lai Massacre reached the United States, and it was shown that American troops massacred a village of unarmed civilians, including women and babies, and abused Vietnamese women before murdering them.In the late 60s, when the government instituted a military draft requiring all able-bodied men to sign up for military service in Vietnam, many Americans became "draft dodgers"—some people fled to Canada to avoid being sent to Vietnam, and many soldiers who fought in Vietnam "went AWOL" (absent without leave) rather than fight in the brutal war. A decade before he wrote Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien was himself a soldier in the Vietnam War, and he's continued to write about Vietnam for the rest of his career as an author.
Going After Cacciato doesn't offer up any grand statements about the war in Vietnam itself—in fact, the majority of its plot doesn't take place in Vietnam at all. O'Brien also avoids directly discussing the most painful elements of American military involvement in Vietnam, such as the massacre of innocent women and children at My Lai. But this doesn't mean that Going After Cacciato doesn't take a moral or political stance against the war in Vietnam. On the contrary, O'Brien shows how the moral incoherence of America's motives in the war in Vietnam "trickled down" to the soldiers in the war. As Doc, the friendly military doctor, argues, none of the soldiers in the war have a clear idea why their country is at war with the Vietcong. As a result, it's almost impossible for a soldier to feel "right" about any of his actions. Indeed, O'Brien makes it clear that almost none of the soldiers' missions have any clear benefits, either for themselves or for the "civilians" they're supposed to be protecting. Battles always end with a stalemate, not a victory. Even the military's high-ranking officers, such as Lieutenant Corson, are shown to be exhausted by the fighting. Although he doesn't discuss My Lai directly (it's a major aspect of his later novel, In the Lake of the Woods), O'Brien makes it clear that the war in Vietnam encouraged soldiers to be cruel and sadistic—we can see this in the nightmarish scene in which the soldier Stink empties his gun into a large, defenseless buffalo.
O'Brien's diagnosis of the war in Vietnam itself—that it was an incredibly misguided, chaotically-run operation that endangered as many lives as it protected—isn't exactly groundbreaking anymore. But when the novel appeared in 1978, the American mainstream hadn't yet decided what to think of Vietnam. O'Brien's novel, along with the creative work of such figures as Michael Herr and Oliver Stone, helped solidify American cultural opposition to the war.
The ThemeTracker below shows where, and to what degree, the theme of Vietnam and the Chaos of War appears in each chapter of Going After Cacciato. Click or tap on any chapter to read its Summary & Analysis.
Below you will find the important quotes in Going After Cacciato related to the theme of Vietnam and the Chaos of War.
Arn, Jackson. "Going After Cacciato Themes: Vietnam and the Chaos of War." LitCharts. LitCharts LLC, 8 Jan 2016. Web. 20 Apr 2019.
Arn, Jackson. "Going After Cacciato Themes: Vietnam and the Chaos of War." LitCharts LLC, January 8, 2016. Retrieved April 20, 2019. https://www.litcharts.com/lit/going-after-cacciato/themes/vietnam-and-the-chaos-of-war.


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Episode 83. Follow the Bouncing Ball: The Changeling (1980)
By reminding us of the past, ghosts can shape our future, revealing hidden truths, histories and uncertainties that we're often too scared to acknowledge. Grief and terror become inextricably intertwined in Peter Medak's The Changeling, and Andrea and Alex untangle the metaphors, traumas and unspoken realities that have made this film a Canadian horror classic.
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The Changeling. Dir Peter Medak, 1980.
The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema: Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century. An exploration of the children in '80s cinema and how they speak to the dead.
The Social Shaping of Emotion: The Case of Grief by Lyn H. Lofland. Is grief a social emotion?
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space. Amanda Leduc's analysis of narrative and disability.
http://media.blubrry.com/facultyofhorror/p/ia801400.us.archive.org/18/items/foh-83-the-changeling/FOH83-TheChangeling.mp3
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The reasoning you gave illustrates why Zeno's example has a chance of counting as a paradox at all. As you show, of course Achilles will overtake the tortoise. But Zeno claimed to have equally good reasoning showing that Achilles never overtakes the tortoise. That's the paradox: apparently good reasoning in favor of each of two incompatible claims.
For Zeno's reasoning and a critique thereof, see sections 3.1 and 3.2 of this SEP entry.


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Northeastern Hospital School of Nursing is one of the -- private 2-year, not-for-profit colleges in Pennsylvania. Its campus is small in size and located in Philadelphia. The institution offers only undergrad degree programs.