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i was going to post this in reply to confuscius' reply to woebot's stated desire to invest clubbing w/ meaning
however, i decided to make this its own thread b/c i'm not sure if anything on this list relates to the question of "meaning" -- and b/c it'd take the discussion of the "drive to be seen" way off point
so here's a partial list of what good nightclubs do or should do . . . .
(1) shift to more intimate venues = this is a 10-year-old trend = but was made necessary by the rise of superclubs = problem w/ intimate spaces is that they don't allow enough of a platform for the stars of the night to shine, nor do they allow for much unpredictability or chaos on the dancefloor
(2) no cover or nominal cover charge ($5 max) = can't have a space potentially open to all if you charge too much on the door = plus if you charge too much on the door then you end up having all kinds of materialistic bastards in the space
(3) no door policy = if people are lining up to get in, then you're obviously not ahead of the curve! = or else you're trying to create the appearance that you're fashionable and in demand, which is even worse = and yet the place can't be dead either = very delicate balance = best scenario is the steady flow of people hop-scotching through the door
(4) exception to the no door policy = never ever let a group of guys w/o any girls into the place = guys w/o girl companions should do the honorable thing and play the neurotic loner part = neurotic loners are always welcome at any good club, but not guys who travel in packs
(5) best way to inject excitement is to have live performers = bands or burlesque or clowns (but no laptop performers, no graffiti artists and no poets!) -- and then have the dj play before, after, and in b/w the performances -- the rise of burlesque and clownish entertainment is obviously a way to compensate for the disappearance of real-deal freaks of the night = it's a second-best solution = but it at least addresses the problem
(6) crowd dynamics -- can't really choose your crowd, the crowd chooses the place -- but you have to have a good mix of people and should be leery of one constituency taking over the place, i.e., can't be too hipster, too crusty boho, too european (if in new york), too straight or cocaine yuppy, too gangsta, too grad schoolish or journalisto, etc ------ needless to say, getting the right crowd dynamics is the $10,000 question, and a lot of it comes down to luck
(7) if you run the place, you need to have serious loyalty ("love") to the people who work there -- as this directly translates into vibe -- same policy should extend to bands and djs who play there -- moreover, if you have a "revolving door" policy, then people have no reason to keep coming back, i.e., you get rootless cosmpolitanism in extremis
(8) crowd dynamics part 2 = to really take things to the next level, you need to mix in gay people & fashion people w/o it being some kind of ironic electroclash or commercial scene or more of an art than music scene = in fact one of the major reasons for the decline and fall of clubbing is the split b/w queer and hetero scenes -- back in the 80s and early 90s things were really mixed, especially in the usa -- in london there was trade and "sex" w/ jon pleased wimmin at the cafe de paris, where music wasn't all that great, but crowd dynamics were strong -- *i'd be interested in hearing theories on why nightlife became so segregated in terms of sexual orientation in late 90s*
(9) make sure all staff, djs and performers live on the same onion ring -- i.e., that they're all people who'd cross each other's path even if not working at same establishment -- which does not mean that they have to be into the same kind of music or already be acquaintances/friends -- indeed, that'd be bad as each night should have its own musical identity, and a place where everyone is everyone else's friend would be way too limiting and claustrophobic -- and yet if you don't have people from the same onion ring, you'll have a club that has no overall orientation or which falls prey to the latest trends willy nilly
(10) the physical space -- decoration and design -- in general you want to keep things a bit rough w/o it being a dive or self-consciously "squat" -- and, errrr, apart from this rule you can't conform to formula for decorating the place, so i can't state a formula as such -- and in new york you either need to be very lax about enforcing the smoking ban or else have a back room or patio w/ seating and tables
(11) provide fruit and other such refreshing freebies -- if you can afford to do this w/o having to charge too much on the door or adding to price of drinks
(12) try not to have tables and booths that a private group of people can make their own for the evening -- this kills social interaction -- although tables are okay if on the periphery of the room w/ banquette seating -- but definitely no booths or too many chairs -- and no huts a la subtonic
(13) need to have space for dancing = but can't have too big of a space, b/c then people are all too aware of how "empty" the dancefloor is -- also helps to have random depressions in the floor or a slight slant to the floor, as this will make things a bit more freaky should people actually dance
(14) try to have a bar that wraps around as much as possible -- b/c some people like to watch (just as others like to be seen)
(15) always have some kind of really cheap beer on hand -- though try to avoid pabst or anything else trendy -- and always have cheap well drinks -- w/o making this into any kind of gimmick -- so you still serve quality beer and quality alcohol as well
(16) have only one floor, w/ only one dj playing at a time, etc -- make no attempt to please different people or cater to different moods -- it's always strictly about what you're providing right here right now
nightclubs are shit anyway. shit music. too loud to talk. drinks cost too much. sweat drips off the celing. fuck that for a laugh.
without wanting to sound rude dominic, what you've just described sounds like my idea of hell.
my idea of a good club night would be one loads of rich trendy people went too then got robbed and humiliated. it would be recored on digital camera and broadcast on projector screens to the whole club as part of the 'visuals' the all the girls would pester me for sex.
Jim Daze
LOL at that Luka old chap, the list above seems to overlook the one thing that in my experience made the whole club thing work and that is
addendum number 10 (a) subsection (Z) from the Clubs & Clubbing Handbook (out of print, sadly)
Flood the place with loads of cheap mind bending drugs, either hallucinogens or amphetamine based, mixture of both ideally. Keep the supplies at a vigourus and steady level through out night with preferably dealers of benevolent and non aggressive temeprament.
I never go clubbing anymore anyway, Lukes right, s'shit innit ?
'make sure all staff, djs and performers live on the same onion ring'
this bit is good though, make sure they're Red Mills though son, best onion rings by far, make sure you wipe the residue of your hands though when you go to mix a record or mp3 or whatever they do out in Clubland these days...... ;)
but big up Bobbys too, definietly a top boy in the onion ring game
my idea of a good club night would be one loads of rich trendy people went too then got robbed and humiliated.
to my everlasting shame i never ventured out to the jungle clubs on the periphery of london when i lived there back in 92/93
closest that i came was heading up to labyrinth a few times
however, i've since been assured that had i gone to the jungle clubs, i would have been promptly identified as an american and then stabbed, mugged, beaten
or is this merely the myth and the legend of the early jungle clubs?
that's slightly outside the scope of what somebody running a club can do
needless to say, there's no shortage of cocaine in any downtown nyc nightlife establishment
and mushrooms are plentiful in the summer
the trick is to watch the line on the restrooms -- b/c if the line is too long and ridiculous, then word will get out and cops will assert their authority and crack down
nightclubs are shit anyway.
yes -- but what are the alternatives -- listening to music on your lonesome ownsome?
or perhaps only going to loft parties? -- which amounts to being dependent upon others to tell you about it
or, should they ever return, raves? -- but by the time raves come back into fashion, you'll be partying w/ people young enough to be your children
w/ a club you need merely walk down the street several blocks, have a couple drinks, say hi to people you know, and then leave or stay to the bitter end
(also think there may be some confusion here as to what i mean by clubs -- remember, we don't have anything like pubs in america -- we have bars and small clubs -- what i call "small clubs," blissblogger might well refer to as "dj bars" -- except that i envision people dancing)
shit music.
this depends on the dj
and let's face it, unless you're playing the records yourself, you'll never be entirely happy w/ the music unless you count yourself a fan of the dj or something
sometimes you have to take the approach of seeing what this or that dj has on offer this evening
and sometimes it's a question of enjoying someone else's take on music even though it's not your own take -- i.e., it's still good music, and nobody can be expected to cover all the bases
too loud to talk
i often see this as a virtue
drinks cost too much
some places have cheap drinks -- i think you're thinking in terms of super clubs where they charge a small fortune -- whereas i'm thinking in terms of more intimate spaces
sweat drips off the celing
this can be good or bad, depending on your mood
it's not as if i'm unaware that clubbing has lost its edge and is associated with the bloated over commercialization of the 90s
rather, the question is twofold
(1) is clubbing dead forever? -- i.e., i addressed this on the mods thread -- i.e., we might simply view clubbing as a phenomenon that lasted from roughly 1960 to 2000
(2) assuming that it isn't dead, what moves would you have to make to have a decent club this day and age? -- which is why i wrote this in the slightly cheesy manner of an advice guide
AND YET if clubbing is dead, done, gone forever -- is this b/c our needs have changed? have we somehow moved on or something?
also, i think that this notion of clubbing as the preserve of rich trendy people is simply inaccurate
not to pretend to school english people in UK social history -- but the mod movement was a WORKING CLASS movement, as was the rockers movement -- the middle class alternative was being hippy or listening to folk music
northern soul was a working class movement -- and the very same people were the original constituency of house music in the uk
similarly, the club scene in 1970s and 80s nyc was not some kind of exclusive preserve of wealthy folk -- i.e, they had studio 54 -- but paradise garage and the other really happenng clubs were at root black/hispanic and gay, though they had an open door policy and during early 80s peak plenty of sexually straight white people passed on through -- which is what made it so great, by all accounts
i agree that super clubs are horrible -- i went to ministry of sound ONCE in 1993 and only once and thought it utterly crap from day one -- i never even bothered w/ any large clubs in manhattan post-1994 (though i can't say i that i lived in or even visited nyc during the latter nineties)
and at same time i'm not exactly satisfied w/ small clubs -- they never "explode," they at most vibe
however, i am the sort of person who goes out several times a week (unless i'm going through an ultra depressed spell or massively broke)
and this is for the simple reason that i most enjoy music in the company of others -- which alone dictates frequenting clubs or going to raves or some such destination
so, yes, i do understand the attitude that says "today's clubs suck"
but i don't understand the "anti-club" attitude -- unless you're going to make the argument that clubbing as such is dead and now belongs to the trash heap of history
and i think it something of a tragedy that volume in williamsburg died a quick death
also -- i don't think that clubbing implies being a bloke
that may be the case in england
but not in new york
there's still lots of socially maladjusted loner types who haunt the clubs and bars of new york
which is why i said that good clubs always let such people in
the bad ones don't
actually, when i was in SF last fall a friend of mine slipped me a flyer for an "underground" - it was a medium-big name house DJ from Chicago playing in some warehouse space out in Oakland. Kid Kameleon told me on the phone the other day they had Surgeon play one of those recently. sounds like a rave to me!
loft parties!!!
is clubbing dead forever?
look, the basic problem is people. who wants to be surrounded by people all night? especally people 'having fun'
clubs worked when people were so fucked up on drugs other people didn't seem so bad. or they didn't even notice there were other people around.
you can't have that anymore.
clubbing is not the preserve of rich trendy people, its true.
but the type of club you describe certainly is.
sweat dripping off the celing is always bad.
'unless you're going to make the argument that clubbing as such is dead and now belongs to the trash heap of history' yeah, i'll do that, why not?
needless to say, there's no shortage of cocaine in any downtown nyc nightlife establishment'
jeez, that'll make for a fun night. people on cocaine are so fun. god clubbings so great.
not only are you surrounded by cunts, you're surrounded by cunts on coke, dear god...
stelfox
the less drugs around the better in my book. i'd actually contend that drugs have been responsible as many fucking monumental lapses of musical taste (not that taste isn't a big bugaboo in itself sometimes) and shit music/scenes as good. they get toomany props since the ecstasy days. generally they''re bollocks. the less drugs there are, the more discerning people are about what they're hearing (god, imagine half those superclubs without really crappy mongy e that makes people incapable of leaving, no one would be there gone 4am coz they'd be knackered and realise what they're listening/twitching spazz-faced to was total cock). free fruit is a great thing, tho, coz it soaks up booze, freshens you up and tastes good. no, my ideal club has at least two rooms offering complimentary but diverse music (ie one being a real alternative to the others, not all of them offering varying intensities of house/techno), affordable drinks, a good mix of people (sexual orientation, gender, racial) who know how to behave (no aggression, unwanted groping of women - obviously this means no cocaine!), open minds and ears, and a space conducive to being able to lose yourself on the floor but also find your mates when you want to and a friendly/laid-back enough crowd to make meeting people, talking, making new friends, or pulling a real possibility. mainly, though i agree with luka, clubbing is pretty wack.
i find it enjoyable -- even if i'm not "having fun" with them, even if i may not like what i think they're about -- i still like going out and being around people, observing people, watching them interact
plus i sometimes enjoy talking to complete strangers, especially in new york, finding out where they're from, etc -- and yeah, often times they're "rich trendy types" when compared w/ the rest of society, i.e., they're from europe and on holiday, or they're involved in film, or whatever -- but this isn't always the case
obviously it helps matters if you're friendly with at least some of the people there, o/w it can be a very alienating experience -- and yet even if i'm feeling miserable and alienated as i nurse my drink in the corner of the room, or worse, prowl the room for drinks to steal b/c i can't afford any, there's still something to be said for going out and feeling the rhythm of the night (to quote gloria esteban)
and for the record, i'm the sort of person who often goes out alone -- i'm not easily embarrassed -- i have essentially three groups of friends in new york -- (1) one friend from college (plus his circle), who i for the most part never see; (2) three or four friends from grad school (and their circle), who i also rarely see; (3) party people friends, who are much more numerous, but who i see only if i go to the places they frequent -- but if i want to check out a band or go to a grime night somewhere or go to a club that's outside my usual loop, i generally do so on my own -- i've found that i if i had to rely on others to come along with me, i'd miss out on a lot of good music and adventures
i think that people who go out at night cannot be fucked up on drugs year in and year out
people who are always fucked on drugs become "casualties" of one sort or another -- they disappear, they move somewhere else, they become completely straight (and so stop going out at night) -- or else they reign in their use so as to continue going out
clubbing is not the preserve of rich trendy people, its true. but the type of club you describe certainly is.
admittedly, i did have in mind downtown clubs -- my main reference points are downtown new york and downtown st louis -- and it's true that in this day and age the kind of people who live in downtown urban areas are more financially well-heeled than at any point since 1960 -- so don't hold me responsible for the state of the world!
however, when i think of what makes a really good club, i have vague (and perhaps overly idealized) recollections of what things were like when i first began to go to clubs in 1990 -- and it seems to me that things were a lot more diverse back then
(best club i ever went to on a regular basis was a place called "riot" in hartford, connecticut back in 90/91 --and it certainly wasn't a middle-class preserve -- it really did have seriously happening social dynamics)
and so i think the riddle to be solved is how to make clubs more "democratic" again -- which is why i advocated no cover or a nominal cover, cheap drinks, and no door policy -- and yet you (luka) retort that this is something that only rich trendy people would go for
(though i'm not rich, i'm relatively privileged, and though i'm not trendy per se, i have some sense of what's going on -- so perhaps i'm blinkered when it comes to the larger question)
now obviously there's the reality today of middle-class people slumming it -- but what they slum to is rock 'n' roll and pabst blue ribbon -- and that is ROCKER culture, not CLUB or MOD culture -- the upper middle classes of america have appropriated the blue-collar rock-n-roll culture of the 70s/80s
however, club culture in america in the course of the 90s and early 00s has become increasingly materialistic -- especially at the large venues and the sorts of places that are called "lounges" -- i.e., super posh, high covers on the door, expensive drinks -- and some of these venues attract the music, publishing and fashion elite, plus lawyers, corporate execs and wall street types, and others attract what ny'ers disdainfully term bridge-and-tunnel people (and such disdain is in part classist, though not completely so)
but i'm advocating nothing of the kind -- i'm calling for cheap drinks, no cover, no door policy -- with a crowd that's largely self-selecting
in manhattan, that's nublu, rothko, subtonic, bar 169, the delancey, happy ending, lit, sapphire, good world, lotus, ruby lounge, sunburnt cow, baraza . . . . a million and one places all playing the same game, all with good intentions, but not necessarily getting things right
and then of course there's the whole of williamsburg
now it may well be the case that you have no interest in anything downtown -- which in ny is south of 14th plus williamsburg -- perhaps you'd prefer uptown -- but that's what clubbing is, the places downtown and the places uptown (125th street and thereabouts)
OBVIOUSLY i'm not too well-versed in london correlates to nyc -- i suppose old towne is london's williamsburg? and ladbroke grove is the west village? and camden town's the east village?
the alternative is neighborhood hangouts and block parties -- and maybe that's what people in the outer boroughs do -- places much more strictly defined by class and ethnicity
again, downtown club scenes are supposed to be, in theory, self-selecting -- open to all comers, a kind of democracy -- but perhaps it merely means trendy, rootless, middle-class people
(though a number of the places i mentioned above have fairly diverse crowds on any given night -- and maybe despite the diversity the people are all trendy to this degree or that -- but being trendy certainly doesn't mean being (a) rich and (b) white -- so maybe i don't understand what you mean by the term "trendy" -- clubbing insofar as it has its roots in mod culture is about being trendy, i suppose, or at least hip or knowledgeable about music -- and there's usually a high degree of black participation in the core crowd, and then there's the people who pass on through, the non-committal cultural tourist types -- again, when you say "rich trendy people" i'm not sure what you mean exactly b/c it's more of a general slur than an accurate description of what goes on)
so maybe the rootless, trendy, and middle class go to downtown clubs and loft parties
and maybe people in the outer boroughs go to neighborhood bars and block parties -- and yet this to me seems a very limited horizon (but again, maybe it's a case of my not being able to see the light as i pretty much am middle-class and rootless)
jeez, that'll make for a fun night. people on cocaine are so fun. god clubbings so great . . . . not only are you surrounded by cunts, you're surrounded by cunts on coke, dear god...
now you're being unfair to me -- it was jimdaze who remarked that i made no mention of drugs, and so i simply pointed out that there's no shortage of cocaine in downtown ny bars and clubs -- and i'd imagine that this is true of quite a few bars and clubs throughout the entire city, including the outer boroughs
aside from marijuana, cocaine is the most popular and readily available drug pretty much anywhere you go
this reflects not my personal preferences but the state of the world
polystyle desu
Hmm, saw the title of this thread this humid morning ,
thought 'ok let's see what everyone has to say'
but then you went on to detail only what YOU think makes a club 'good',
so you answer your own question.
then you went on to detail only what YOU think makes a club 'good'
this has got to be one of the more absurd comments i've ever come across on this forum
was i supposed to imagine what i think OTHER people think makes a club good???
that would sheer nonsense
i never purport to give any thoughts or opinions other than my own
however, if you disagree with my take on things, then why don't YOU say on which points you disagree and what YOU prefer instead
which is more or less what luka did -- though he didn't provide alternatives, at least he indicated what he doesn't like about the sort of club i described
and by providing detail, i was trying to give people something concrete to work with
also, you seem to be making the suggestion that i've somehow "exhausted" the topic
i, however, think it's very fertile ground for discussion -- e.g., grime is "street" music that people nonetheless go to "clubs" to hear -- all kinds of thorny issues
i've actually made 3 or 4 different posts on this general topic the past couple days -- i.e., it's my current preoccupation
also, if it's mainly been me talking to myself, that's probably b/c the site was down this past week and now it's the weekend
dissensus is always much busier on week days
(or perhaps you're suggesting that we're supposed to observe some kind of rule whereby we each say our very small piece and then no more until others have chance to chime in? -- except that dissensus has never operated this way -- and if you don't want to read someone's lengthy and verbose comments, then skip to the next person's comment)
(and, again, the more i say, the more others have to remark upon)
don't take what i say personally, let alone seriously
tips to club owners:
give people somewhere to escape heat sweat and misery ie QUIET
AIR FUCKING CONDITIONING...it might be costly but fuck you if you dont provide it
big enough cloakrooms. see above.
nice beer, not shit cheap piss.
minimise coke intake. fuck that shit.
dont make the design difficult to negotiate - no narrow doorways or passages if they connect different dancefloors
FUCK OFF unisex toilets. fuck off fuck off.
pathetic allusions to "glamour" are unnecessary. no one looks glamourous with sweat all over them,. even if they paid at a "reception area", and theres a VIP lounge. everyone looks the same at the end of the night: tired, bored, pissed off, hot, drunk, fucked.
stop being greedy bastards adn cramming people in. why not let enough people in to make some money and get a good atmosphere, instead of trying to strecht the fire capacity.
guestlist - no no no no no no
dont skimp on a soundsystem and buy cheap then whack the volume up so high it sounds shit and everyone leaves with ringing ears. either turn it down or buy quality.
listen to your customers! dont treat them like scum, luka is entitled to his contempt, but high and mighty club management are not.
the best club is my iving room cos it fulfils most of these criteria (except the soundsystem one)
minikomi
i agree about airconditioning!
what are peoples opinions about 'genre' nights? do you think it enhances or detracts from a club to say have hiphop night, electronica night, indie night ... or would you be more interested in attending one which had say all three in one night? or two of one, with a curveball thrown in? i think this option is the best.. a few bands with some electro at the end or something..
oh... and you dont have unisex bathrooms in your house? :)
jed_
i feel quite lucky to live in glasgow, there some pretty great clubs here actually including the best one i've ever been to - The Sub Club.
I came back in tonight and again saw this thread .
Jeez man > reread what you wrote - half the responses to your own opening query are by you .
What's next , arguing with yerself ?
Sit down for awhile , it's already hot enough
3underscore
Still a victim of the air conditioning point though, isn't it jed?
have to say i agree. these threads where dominic types reams and reams of stuff, sometimes even arguing with himself(!), are really difficult to read. way better to sit down, work out what you think and then type it in as succinct a way as possible, then people will bother to read and reply.
adruu
Dom -- I bet you type 80 words a minute or something...
Anyways, I tend to stick to the - it's not where you are , it's who you are with - mantra, and I gave up on the idea of the PERFECT space a while ago.
No-no's in a bar or club
Large Crowds
People with excessive use of hair product
No buybacks
Shot's more than $5 - No Tap Water
Homogenous crowds
Which in New York means I only go out if I know a bartender, or it's Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday and an open bar is involved. Weekends are for work.
oh and never EVER EVER charge for water... or 'for the service' as they like to say.
have to say i agree. these threads where dominic types reams and reams of stuff, sometimes even arguing with himself(!), are really difficult to read.
okay -- duly noted
and sorry for being so defensive -- but it was really hot and humid yesterday
hey it can also be quite interesting too dom, don't self-censor too much!
anyway, i'm surprised no one's mentioned dress codes yet, or perhaps that just too obvious a no-no. certainly a club having some sort of fancy dress code is the surest sign that the club will be filled with arrogant pricks and just generally suck ass...
i'm generally not a club fan myself (more of a pub/bar/party with friends kinda guy), but i think that may be more because i've yet to find a place in vancouver that consistently provides the right kind of atmosphere. basically i hate trendy people, like cheap drinks and would appreciate something other than top 40 or tired rock classics.
Backjob
Er yeah, quite funny to have a thread about good nightclubs with dozens of replies discussing what kind of haircuts people should have and the details of the interior decor and amenities but not one discussing the point of going to fucking clubs in the first place which is to, er, dance
I've been to great yuppie clubs (a lot of yuppies are hot, but they don't bother dating scruffy fuckers, get nice clothes or get over it whingers) and shit working class clubs, gay clubs which aren't meat markets and underground techno nights which are. Most everything that people think matters, really doesn't.
Frankly I could give a toss if people are on coke, e's or high on life, how much they earn, what colour they are and who they like to fuck and whether they are mixed or homogeneous. A good club is a club where everybody dances and has fun doing so.
Anything which contributes to this is a good thing - air conditioning, soundsystem, sprung dancefloor, absence of grumpy cunts like Luka...
Anything which is irrelevant to it, is, er, irrelevant.
Also I reckon if you chat to lots of 19 year olds they'll tell you clubbing has lots of meaning to THEM.
the most important thing is to make sure that people going to the toilets don't have to walk through the dancefloor
the club in dublin that most often has people i'd like to see playing didnt sort this out and as a result im rarely bothered going,same with most of my mates
it may sound like a small thing but if you're trying to dance its not at all
I think a slightly more important thing is to make sure that the contents of the toilets dont end up on the dancefloor!! Theres a club in Temple Bar 'The Hub' (formerly Switch), in which the toilets in the bar upstairs used to (and may still if reports are accurate) leak and drip onto the club downstairs!!...
That said, Dublin is completely shit for clubs. You Londoners and New Yorkians are spolied rotten...


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Sony Open
Snedeker shares Sony Open lead heading into Sunday
By GolfDigest.com Staff
Brandt Snedeker shot a four-under par 66 in the third round of the Sony Open In Hawaii on Saturday and will go into the final round tied for the lead with Zac Blair.
Each completed the third round without making a bogey and are one ahead of Kevin Kisner.
"I've had a really tough time with the speed [of the greens[ this week for some reason, because they look extremely fast and they're not rolling out quite yet," Snedeker, who had a one-stroke lead going into the round, said. "They don't have that quite get-away-from-you kind of speed."
Blair and Kevin Kisner shot scores of 64 and 66, respectively, and were tied with Snedeker for much of the afternoon.
Vijay Singh, a co-leader after the first round and seeking to become the oldest PGA Tour victor, shot a three-over par 73 and dropped out of contention.
Matt Kuchar had the low score of the day with an eight-under par 62 that included six consecutive birdies to finish his round. Kuchar trails the leaders by five.
Si Woo Kim, meanwhile, is two strokes back, while Fabian Gomez is four behind and Jason Dufner and Webb Simpson five back.


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November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
Did you know that November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month? This month is exceptionally important to Croixstone Consulting as three of our senior leaders have families who have been impacted by this challenging disease.
Croixstone's CEO and co-founder Patti Weber lost her father to pancreatic cancer, our Managing Partner and co-founder Mark Weber lost his mother to the disease, and our Senior Manager of Business Operations Grace Lynch lost her niece to the disease.
Pancreatic cancer is the 10th most commonly diagnosed cancer in the USA and is the nation's third leading cause of cancer-related death. Despite these facts, the typical American knows very little about the disease.
To honor the loved ones they've lost to pancreatic cancer. Patti, Mark and Grace are determined to educate Americans about the disease. In 2020, the trio launched a non-profit community organization (The Charlotte Pancreatic Cancer Alliance) to increase awareness of the disease with a hyper local focus on the fast-growing Charlotte, North Carolina region.
Charlotte Pancreatic Cancer Alliance is a member of the World Pancreatic Cancer Coalition (WPCC) which is a global consortium of pancreatic cancer advocacy organizations. In October 2021, WPCC profiled Charlotte Pancreatic Cancer Alliance along with Patti, Mark and Grace in its monthly newsletter.
Read the profile here.
Learn more about the symptoms and risks of pancreatic cancer here.
LinkedIn is Rightfully Tackling an Archaic Stigma
With the demand for labor at historically high levels and workers continuing to quit their jobs at historic rates to take advantage of that demand, there has never been a better time for employers to break free of archaic rules of hiring.
For a reason that has never made sense to us, employers have traditionally scoffed at job candidates with breaks in their employment. In fact, two of our senior female leaders, Patti Weber (CEO) and Grace Lynch (Senior Manager, Business Operations), have taken breaks during their impressive careers to raise children.
We applaud LinkedIn's news this week that it is rolling out a new feature called "Career Breaks" to all LinkedIn users allowing professionals to provide more context around breaks in employment.
Learn more about the LinkedIn Career Breaks feature here.
Under : Consulting Industry, Croixstone Consulting, LinkedIn, Patti Weber, Women in Business
We Have a Passion for Purple!
In addition to sharing a mutual passion for consulting, our three senior leaders (Patti Weber, Grace Lynch, and Mark Weber) are known for their passion for creating awareness for pancreatic cancer.
Purple is the official color that represents pancreatic cancer, and the trio is known across the greater Charlotte region and beyond for their long-term advocacy for the the disease. In fact, their passion runs so deep that Patti, Grace, and Mark launched the nonprofit Charlotte Pancreatic Cancer Alliance community group last year to amplify their voices.
Shortly after forming the group, the trio wasted no time in joining the World Pancreatic Cancer Coalition, a consortium of nearly 100 advocacy groups from 33 countries on 6 continents.
The World Pancreatic Cancer Coalition spotlighted the work of Patti, Grace and Mark in the October 2021 issue of its global newsletter. Learn more here.
Under : Charlotte, Consulting Industry, Croixstone Consulting, Mark Weber, Pancreatic Cancer, Patti Weber


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Jang So-Hee fez parte da geração medalha de prata em Atenas 2004.

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EMFs: Are Cordless Phones More Dangerous Than Cell Phones?
If you thought you could solve the problem of cell phone radiation by switching back to your home phone and your landline is a cordless phone, think again. Studies show that cordless telephones emit radiation just the same as cell phones.
In some cases cordless phones are more dangerous than cell phones.
Most cordless phones use DECT 6.0 (Digital European – version 6.0) technology. The handset and the base of the phone, emit pulsed radio frequency microwave radiation. Even when you don't receive calls.
Cordless phones emit a form of electromagnetic field called radio frequency microwave radiation. This radiation, although it is non-ionizing, and so has less energy than x-rays or gamma rays, a growing body of independent research links these exposures to a long list of disease including cancer.
Our governments, the companies selling these devices, the medical establishment and many so-called experts continue to say that this radiation is perfectly harmless but there is a lot evidence to show that this is not the case.
There are so many devices that emit this form of radiation (anything wireless or smart) in our homes, schools and workplaces, that our daily exposures are now at unprecedented levels.
We've always loved the idea of being able to talk to one another across distances. Tin cans attached to a long string were once used to communicate. In the 19th century we graduated to the telephone, ever since then have been refining and reinventing the "talking telegraph".
Anyone older than forty remembers when all telephones had a cord attached to them, thus grounding them to the incoming telephone line–it was a cumbersome but effective. You might remember using extra-long phone lines to connect your phone to the jack so you could roam about your house. Even that was pretty liberating.
When the cordless home telephone came into being in the 1980s there was no going back. They quickly became the household norm.
In a matter of a very few years we went from relatively low power, low frequency analog cordless phones to high power, higher frequency (some of the new phones operate at 5.8 Gigahertz) pulsed radiation DECT models. Because telephone advances happened faster than we could understand the relationship between their radiation levels and cancer risk, cordless systems weren't viewed as a health problem. Not until cell phone radiation studies brought the risk of brain cancer to light.
Research from Swedish scientists concludes that cordless phones raise the risk of developing cancer. After evaluating malignant brain tumor patients' usage of cell phones vs. their usage of cordless house phones, they found the cancer risk was multiplied for those who used DECT cordless phones and combining the two made the risk even higher.
Another problem is the radiation levels. In some cases the radiation from a DECT cordless phone base is higher than the radiation levels found near a cell phone tower.
The third problem is that most cordless telephones emit radiation from the handset, as well as the base, at full power, even when the phone isn't in use.
The radiation from the DECT cordless handset and/or charger sends emissions throughout your entire house–all the time.
Watch my short video on cordless phone radiation to better understand what I'm talking about.
Is Cordless Phone Radiation Worse Than Cell Phone Radiation?
Yes, it is in some circumstances. With EMFs, proximity to the source (of the EMFs) and length of exposure are two very important factors.
Do you go to bed at night with your head just a few inches from a DECT cordless phone base? If you do you are exposing yourself to significant levels of radio frequency radiation, just at the time of day when your body is the most vulnerable. This is the worst type of cordless telephone radiation exposure.
Throw away your cordless system and go back to using a corded phone. Problem solved!
It's that easy. But is it? I know you're listening to what I am saying here, but are you really ready for to take this step?
Don't feel guilty when you answer this. If I hadn't experienced electrical sensitivity I'd probably have a cordless phone just like everyone else.
Are Low Radiation Eco Cordless Phones The Solution?
I recently purchased a Siemens Gigaset cordless phone. I can confirm that they do not emit radiation when on standby.
BUT this function does need configuring. That's to say, the model that I received, when I took it out of the box it was operating like a normal DECT cordless unit and emitting EMFs. I was able to test this with my radio frequency (RF) meter.
Low EMF Corded Phone – Better For your Health?
Even though a long telephone wire is a cumbersome mess, my advice is – play safe. Being tethered to your land line phone jack is a small price to pay for long term improved health.
(thats to say a model which has an inbuilt speakerphone and jack, for corded headset, prefer "airtube" version) will reduce your EMF exposures significantly.
A basic model will suffice for most people, but more sophisticated corded telephones (no ear phone jack on this one) are also available with answering machine.
Another alternative is to try and find an old analog cordless phone not as safe as a corded phone but considered much safer than the DECT technology – works at a lower frequency – the EMFs are not pulsed.
Did you 'get' that if you use your DECT cordless telephone near its base your exposures are higher? They're higher because you're exposing yourself to a double dose of EMFs. You get zapped with the radiation from the phone AND from the base unit.
Do you and your family a favor deal with your cordless phone radiation exposures today.
Though I may not consider myself an ES, it's been enlightning to read your articles.
Can you help? My sister has for many years had trouble using land lines (not cordless). She gets severe earache and a scarlet face on the side against the phone. She now has to use the 'hands free' which is not very successful but does not cause the problems. We have tried in vain to find a reason for this.
I used to get this kind of reaction before with landlines. The reason is probably a reaction to the particular frequency of EMFs being emitted by the phone. It could be the magnetic fields in the handset or the EMFs coming down the phone line and grounding through her. The easiest solution is to go hands free or purchase a low emf telephone – lessemf sell these.
Being ES, I got rid of all cordless phones in the house and I don't see it a problem. An easy solution is to add many corded phones in the house so you can have good coverage all over the place. The challenge I am facing now is how to find a decent corded phone since it disappeared from most electronics stores.
Thank you for that very enlightening piece, was about to pick up a cordless , when I ran through your article,now it will be plug and talk ! Thanks again !
Thanks, Llyod, I have been learning so much reading your articles. I now want to buy a corded land line phone but have not been able to find EMF information about corded phones. Do you have any information that would guide me in my choice, or do you know where I can fine it?
By the way, I saw the Panasonic phone offered on emfless and went on amazon to see what the reviews were for Panasonic phones like the one in the picture and there were negative comments about the speakerphone feature. Amazon had lower prices also. Is that phone on emfless the only one recommended?
I don't know of another corded phone better than this one, but so long as you can find a phone with speakerphone and corded jack, it will work just as well. Make sure you use a headset which uses "airtube" technology.


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NYT's Krugman Gets In (Felix) Cat Fight!
By Glynnis MacNicolAug 18th, 2009, 10:13 am
Blog fights are not just for the Tumblrs, even Nobel prize winning economists/columnists are susceptible! Behold NYT's Paul Krugman, who reacted with shock and surprise (as did mostly everyone) to Niall Ferguson's lede in a FT article last week, which said President Obama was like Felix the Cat: "Felix was not only black. He was also very, very lucky."
Upon reading this a non-plussed Krugman wanted to know where the FT editors had disappeared to. Then, after Ferguson posted a response to the debacle on HuffPo — he was shocked, shocked! at the public's response — Krugman called him a whiner. Ha!
Now this. Ferguson has apparently demanded that Krugman print a further response from him. And he has:
As you both took exception to my comparison of the President with Felix the Cat, my favorite cartoon character, implying it was racist and recommending I consult Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., I have now done so. He has taken the trouble to consult others in the field of African-American Studies, including our colleague Lawrence D. Bobo, the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, and has written to me as follows:
"None of us thought of Felix as black, unlike some of the racially-questionable caricatures Disney used. Felix's blackness, like Mickey's and Minnie's, was like a suit of clothes, not a skin color. … You are safe on this one."
Professor doth protest too much! By simply removing this "Felix was not only black" the comparison would not have caught the eye at all. As it stands to suggest that the comparison didn't have something to do with race seems intentionally ignorant. But wait! That is not the best part. Krugman's response is by far the best thing to come out of this.
What can I say? While the Ferguson line was deeply offensive — everyone I know asked, "Did he really write that? Did the FT actually publish it?" — it never occurred to me that it had anything to do with the question of whether Felix the Cat was supposed to be African-American. The mind reels.
For the record, I don't think that Professor Ferguson is a racist.
I think he's a poseur.
I'm told that some of his straight historical work is very good. When it comes to economics, however, he hasn't bothered to understand the basics, relying on snide comments and surface cleverness to convey the impression of wisdom. It's all style, no comprehension of substance.
And this time he ended up choking on his own snark.
Oh snap! Business Insider calls Krugman a great blogger, we think this is perhaps the sort of fun, sharp British journalism whose absence over here James Warren was lamenting yesterday. Now if only Maureen Dowd would learn to Twitter.
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namespace Magento\DesignEditor\Model;

class StateTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    /**
     * Name of layout classes that will be used as main layout
     */
    const LAYOUT_NAVIGATION_CLASS_NAME = 'Magento\Framework\View\Layout';

    /**
     * Url model classes that will be used instead of \Magento\Framework\UrlInterface in different vde modes
     */
    const URL_MODEL_NAVIGATION_MODE_CLASS_NAME = 'Magento\DesignEditor\Model\Url\NavigationMode';

    /**#@+
     * Layout update resource models
     */
    const LAYOUT_UPDATE_RESOURCE_MODEL_CORE_CLASS_NAME = 'Magento\Core\Model\Resource\Layout\Update';

    const LAYOUT_UPDATE_RESOURCE_MODEL_VDE_CLASS_NAME = 'Magento\DesignEditor\Model\Resource\Layout\Update';

    /**#@-*/

    /**#@+
     * Import behaviors
     */
    const MODE_DESIGN = 'design';

    const MODE_NAVIGATION = 'navigation';

    /**#@-*/

    /*
     * Test area code
     */
    const AREA_CODE = 'front';

    /**
     * Test theme id
     */
    const THEME_ID = 1;

    /**
     * @var \Magento\DesignEditor\Model\State
     */
    protected $_model;

    /**
     * @var \Magento\Backend\Model\Session|\PHPUnit_Framework_MockObject_MockObject
     */
    protected $_backendSession;

    /**
     * @var AreaEmulator|\PHPUnit_Framework_MockObject_MockObject
     */
    protected $_areaEmulator;

    /**
     * @var \Magento\DesignEditor\Model\Url\Factory|\PHPUnit_Framework_MockObject_MockObject
     */
    protected $_urlModelFactory;

    /**
     * @var \PHPUnit_Framework_MockObject_MockObject
     */
    protected $_cacheStateMock;

    /**
     * @var \Magento\DesignEditor\Helper\Data|\PHPUnit_Framework_MockObject_MockObject
     */
    protected $_dataHelper;

    /**
     * @var \PHPUnit_Framework_MockObject_MockObject
     */
    protected $_objectManager;

    /**
     * @var \Magento\Framework\App\Config\ScopeConfigInterface|\PHPUnit_Framework_MockObject_MockObject
     */
    protected $_configMock;

    /**
     * @var \PHPUnit_Framework_MockObject_MockObject
     */
    protected $_themeContext;

    /**
     * @var \PHPUnit_Framework_MockObject_MockObject
     */
    protected $_theme;

    /**
     * @var array
     */
    protected $_cacheTypeList = ['type1', 'type2'];

    /**
     * @return void
     * @SuppressWarnings(PHPMD.ExcessiveMethodLength)
     */
    protected function setUp()
    {
        $this->_backendSession = $this->getMock(
            'Magento\Backend\Model\Session',
            ['setData', 'getData', 'unsetData'],
            [],
            '',
            false
        );
        $this->_areaEmulator = $this->getMock(
            'Magento\DesignEditor\Model\AreaEmulator',
            ['emulateLayoutArea'],
            [],
            '',
            false
        );
        $this->_urlModelFactory = $this->getMock(
            'Magento\DesignEditor\Model\Url\Factory',
            ['replaceClassName'],
            [],
            '',
            false
        );
        $this->_cacheStateMock = $this->getMockBuilder(
            'Magento\Framework\App\Cache\StateInterface'
        )->disableOriginalConstructor()->getMock();

        $this->_dataHelper = $this->getMock(
            'Magento\DesignEditor\Helper\Data',
            ['getDisabledCacheTypes'],
            [],
            '',
            false
        );

        $this->_objectManager = $this->getMock('Magento\Framework\ObjectManagerInterface');

        $mutableConfig = $this->getMockForAbstractClass('\Magento\Framework\App\Config\MutableScopeConfigInterface');
        $mutableConfig->expects(
            $this->any()
        )->method(
            'setValue'
        )->with(
            $this->equalTo(\Magento\Framework\View\DesignInterface::XML_PATH_THEME_ID),
            $this->equalTo(self::THEME_ID),
            $this->equalTo(\Magento\Store\Model\ScopeInterface::SCOPE_STORE)
        )->will(
            $this->returnSelf()
        );

        $this->_configMock = $this->getMock('Magento\Framework\App\Config\ScopeConfigInterface');
        $this->_configMock->expects(
            $this->any()
        )->method(
            'setNode'
        )->with(
            $this->equalTo('default/' . \Magento\Framework\View\DesignInterface::XML_PATH_THEME_ID),
            $this->equalTo(self::THEME_ID)
        )->will(
            $this->returnSelf()
        );

        $this->_theme = $this->getMock('Magento\Core\Model\Theme', ['getId', '__wakeup'], [], '', false);
        $this->_theme->expects($this->any())->method('getId')->will($this->returnValue(self::THEME_ID));

        $this->_themeContext = $this->getMock(
            'Magento\DesignEditor\Model\Theme\Context',
            ['getEditableTheme', 'getVisibleTheme', 'reset', 'setEditableThemeById'],
            [],
            '',
            false
        );
        $this->_themeContext->expects(
            $this->any()
        )->method(
            'getVisibleTheme'
        )->will(
            $this->returnValue($this->_theme)
        );

        $this->_model = new \Magento\DesignEditor\Model\State(
            $this->_backendSession,
            $this->_areaEmulator,
            $this->_urlModelFactory,
            $this->_cacheStateMock,
            $this->_dataHelper,
            $this->_objectManager,
            $this->_configMock,
            $this->_themeContext,
            $mutableConfig
        );
    }

    public function testConstruct()
    {
        $this->assertAttributeEquals($this->_backendSession, '_backendSession', $this->_model);
        $this->assertAttributeEquals($this->_areaEmulator, '_areaEmulator', $this->_model);
        $this->assertAttributeEquals($this->_urlModelFactory, '_urlModelFactory', $this->_model);
        $this->assertAttributeEquals($this->_cacheStateMock, '_cacheState', $this->_model);
        $this->assertAttributeEquals($this->_dataHelper, '_dataHelper', $this->_model);
        $this->assertAttributeEquals($this->_objectManager, '_objectManager', $this->_model);
    }

    protected function _setAdditionalExpectations()
    {
        $this->_dataHelper->expects(
            $this->any()
        )->method(
            'getDisabledCacheTypes'
        )->will(
            $this->returnValue($this->_cacheTypeList)
        );

        $this->_cacheStateMock->expects(
            $this->at(0)
        )->method(
            'isEnabled'
        )->with(
            'type1'
        )->will(
            $this->returnValue(true)
        );
        $this->_cacheStateMock->expects(
            $this->at(1)
        )->method(
            'setEnabled'
        )->with(
            'type1',
            false
        )->will(
            $this->returnSelf()
        );

        $this->_cacheStateMock->expects(
            $this->at(2)
        )->method(
            'isEnabled'
        )->with(
            'type2'
        )->will(
            $this->returnValue(true)
        );
        $this->_cacheStateMock->expects(
            $this->at(3)
        )->method(
            'setEnabled'
        )->with(
            'type2',
            false
        )->will(
            $this->returnSelf()
        );
    }

    public function testReset()
    {
        $this->_backendSession->expects(
            $this->any()
        )->method(
            'unsetData'
        )->with(
            $this->logicalOr(
                \Magento\DesignEditor\Model\State::CURRENT_MODE_SESSION_KEY,
                \Magento\DesignEditor\Model\State::CURRENT_URL_SESSION_KEY
            )
        )->will(
            $this->returnValue($this->_backendSession)
        );
        $this->assertEquals($this->_model, $this->_model->reset());
    }

    public function testUpdateNavigationMode()
    {
        $this->_setAdditionalExpectations();
        $request = $this->getMock('Magento\Framework\App\Request\Http', [], [], '', false);

        $request->expects($this->once())->method('getPathInfo')->will($this->returnValue('/'));

        $this->_backendSession->expects($this->at(0))->method('setData')->with('vde_current_url', '/');

        $this->_backendSession->expects(
            $this->at(1)
        )->method(
            'setData'
        )->with(
            'vde_current_mode',
            \Magento\DesignEditor\Model\State::MODE_NAVIGATION
        );

        $this->_urlModelFactory->expects(
            $this->once()
        )->method(
            'replaceClassName'
        )->with(
            self::URL_MODEL_NAVIGATION_MODE_CLASS_NAME
        );

        $this->_areaEmulator->expects($this->once())->method('emulateLayoutArea')->with(self::AREA_CODE);
        $controller = $this->getMock('Magento\Backend\Controller\Adminhtml\Action', [], [], '', false);

        $this->_model->update(self::AREA_CODE, $request, $controller);
    }
}

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Manufacturing Media Consortium Meets in San Francisco According to Industrial Journalist TR Cutler
Manufacturing journalist and founder of the Manufacturing Media Consortium, Thomas R. Cutler, will meet with editors, publishers, and economists regarding the upsurge in manufacturing and e-commerce in the Pacific coast of the United States. The meeting will take place in San Francisco, CA on August 8, 2017
According to Cutler, "The level of innovation in the manufacturing sector has never been greater. Extraordinary products, services, driven by advancing technologies, from robotics to guided vehicles, are changing the way manufacturers operate and deliver product. The increasing demand for fast and accurate e-commerce environment with safety, and ergonomics in mind, combined with higher labor rates are driving a demand for better throughput, productivity, and delivery. A new era of lean manufacturing and Six Sigma has arrived in 2017 and the content driven demand is extensive. Emphasizing automation and leading technologies drive the manufacturing cases studies reported in North America and around the world."
About TR Cutler, Inc.
TR Cutler, Inc. was founded seventeen years ago by Thomas R. Cutler. Cutler is the President and CEO of Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based, TR Cutler, Inc., (www.trcutlerinc.com), the largest manufacturing communication firm worldwide with four dozen industry experts and thought leaders on staff. Cutler maintains extraordinary relationships with clients, journalists, editors, economists, trendsetters, and key business leaders worldwide and has become a key resource for those writing about the manufacturing sector. Cutler founded the Manufacturing Media Consortium in 1999, which now has more than 6,000 global members including journalists, editors, publishers, and economists, worldwide writing about trends, industrial data, manufacturing case studies, material handling profiles, and robotics feature articles. Cutler works with thousands of media outlets to expand the coverage and importance of the manufacturing media coverage.
Cutler has authored more than 6,000 articles for a wide range of manufacturing periodicals, industrial publications, and business journals each published in leading monthly trade magazines, B2B periodicals, blogs, and marquis publications globally. Cutler is the most published freelance industrial journalist worldwide, and more than 3500 industry leaders follow Cutler on Twitter daily at @ThomasRCutler.
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The Republic of the Union of Myanmar has received financing from the World Bank towards the cost of the National Electrification Project, and intends to apply part of the proceeds towards payments under the contract for Installation of Distribution Lines and Transformers MOEE-NEP/C1-W12A/19 for Adaptation Villages in Sagaing, Shan (South), Kayah, Bago (East), Bago (West), Nay Pyi Taw, Ayeyarwaddy and Yangon.
The Ministry of Electricity and Energy now invites sealed bids from eligible bidders for Installation of Distribution Lines and Transformers MOEE-NEP/C1-W12A/19 for Adaptation Villages in Sagaing, Shan(South), Kayah, Bago (East), Bago (West), Nay Pyi Taw, Ayeyarwaddy and Yangon in the following locations.
Bidding will be conducted through the National Competitive Bidding procedures as specified in the World Bank's Guidelines: Procurement of Goods, Works and Non-Consulting Services under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits & Grants by World Bank Borrowers ("Procurement Guidelines"), and is open to all eligible bidders as defined in the Procurement Guidelines. In addition, please refer to paragraphs 1.6 and 1.7 setting forth the World Bank's policy on conflict of interest.
Interested eligible bidders may obtain further information from Project ManagementOffice (National Electrification Project), Project Manager and nep.pmomoep@gmail. com] and inspect the bidding documents during office hours [09:30 to 16:00 hours] at the address given below.
Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before 30th April, 2019 (10:00 A.M) – Myanmar Time. Electronic bidding will not be permitted. Late bids will be rejected. Bids will be publicly opened in the presence of the bidders' designated representatives and anyone who choose to attend at the address below.


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Arby's Aims To Set Your Mouth On Fire With TikTok Challenge
by Sarah Mahoney , Staff Writer @mahoney_sarah, January 11, 2022
Arby's is playing with fire, introducing a special-edition sandwich so spicy it requires a rescue milkshake.
Called the Diablo Dare, the new sandwich is built from either 13-hour smoked brisket or crispy chicken, then doctored with five sources of spice, including ghost pepper jack cheese, fiery hot seasoning, fire-roasted jalapeños and Diablo BBQ sauce, all heaped on a red chipotle bun.
The limited-time offer comes with a free snack-sized vanilla milkshake to help quench the flames.
Arby's, owned by Inspire Brands, has built its rep on over-the-top creations. This is, after all, the brand that recently introduced the Curly Fry Spicy Bloody Mary and the Meat Mountain Sandwich.
Arby's says it decided to create the new sandwich after it found many consumers don't think the "spicy" options on most fast-food menus are nearly spicy enough.
"This is not a sandwich for the faint of heart," says Patrick Schwing, the company's chief marketing officer, in its announcement. "Everyone in QSR says they have a spicy option, but our research tells us that consumers are disappointed by fast food claims of spicy. We took that as a challenge by making sure all different types of spicy -- the hot, the numbing, and the lingering -- are combined to make the Diablo Dare a true test of how much heat you can handle."
It is marketing the new offer with a Diablo Dare Hashtag Challenge on TikTok, which will allow people to use a branded effect filter to show how much they can take before reaching for their milkshake.
Like many QSR brands, Arby's hopes to roll into the new year strong, even as Omicron, the latest COVID-19 variant, is slowing sales, slowing customer traffic and forcing closures of some units due to sick staff.
That's a setback for the industry, which had been making gains. NPD Group reports that during the three-month period that ended in November, just before Omicron appeared in the U.S., certain aspects of the restaurant business had shown steady improvement.
Restaurant visits during breakfast, morning snack, and lunch dayparts–those most hit by people working and learning at home -- had shown increases. Breakfast visits, for example, improved 11% during those three months, compared to a 10% decline in the same period a year ago. Lunch visits rose 4% compared to a decrease of 11% a year ago. But that's still some 7% below pre-pandemic levels.
David Tarantino, an analyst who follows the industry for Baird, predicts continued recovery for restaurants as Omicron decreases, even if gains aren't as robust as they were in the last half of 2021.
"We think industry sales can be supported by pricing actions, a generally good economy (employment/wage growth), better execution/staffing levels (after pandemic- related disruptions throughout 2021), and a further normalization of consumer mobility/activity," he writes in his latest note on the industry.
Still, those gains may be offset by "prospects for consumers to reallocate their spending amid general inflationary pressures and the return of other activities that suffered during 2020-2021."
qsr, restaurants, tiktok
Sarah Mahoney covers the retail industry for MediaPost's "Marketing Daily." She also is a contributing editor for "Parents" and "Prevention." Her work appears regularly in such publications as "AARP The Magazine," "Family Circle" and "Good Housekeeping". You can reach Sarah at sarah.s.mahoney@gmail.com.
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Q: vb.net - combobox displays System.Data.DataRowView when trying to select the data from sql database I got the System.Data.DataRowView when I tried to select the data from sql database. These are my code:
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myCommand = New SqlCommand("SELECT FirstName +' '+ LastName FROM tblVisitor", myConnection)
myAdapter = New SqlDataAdapter(myCommand)
myAdapter.Fill(myDataSet, "tblVisitor")
cboName.DataSource = myDataSet.Tables(0)
cboName.DisplayMember = "FirstName"
cboName.DisplayMember = "LastName"
cboName.ValueMember = "FirstName"
cboName.ValueMember = "LastName"
..............

and I got the above error. Please help.

A: Your SelectCommand does neither return a column  LastName nor FirstName. You are only returning one column(a concatenation of both columns).
So this should work:
myCommand = New SqlCommand("SELECT VisitorID, LastName, FirstName, (FirstName +' '+ LastName)As FullName FROM tblVisitor", myConnection)
myAdapter = New SqlDataAdapter(myCommand)
myAdapter.Fill(myDataSet, "tblVisitor")
cboName.DataSource = myDataSet.Tables(0)
cboName.DisplayMember = "FullName"
cboName.ValueMember = "VisitorID" 'change to the correct pk-column'

A: You need to set ValueMember as well as DisplayMember.

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Q: Grails WARN: No SCM provider installed Stash GIT Repository I keep having this warning WARN: No SCM provider installed when publishing grails a plugin, I actually want to make sure I have committed before publishing, How do I install an SCM Provider ?
I have searched on-line including this question but not helpful information,
How do I use my Stash GIT SCM provider or any other GIT repository in publishing for my grails plugin

A: This is ignorable.
The original plugin publishing process used a Subversion repo and by default would create a project for your plugin source in addition to storing the binary in a tag associated with the version number. This was at CodeHaus; they're shutting down soon but for now you can see the old Acegi plugin source and binaries here.
You could skip that (with the --no-scm flag) and store the code wherever you wanted, and once GitHub became popular most plugins used it or other source repos, so the release plugin was changed to only publish the plugin binary and the pom file.
Some of the related release plugin code was removed but not all, and this message is one of the bits that should be removed. At a minimum it shouldn't be a warning message.


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April 28, 2020 | News
April 28, 2020 – Government updates on the COVID-19 pandemic
In the exceptional circumstances of the current health state of emergency, here is an update on recent decisions and actions by the Canadian and Québec governments in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic.
The prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, confirmed that the isolation, social distancing and hygiene measures are working and that the pandemic is slowing down, but that, despite this, "we're not out of the woods yet." The resumption of activities will be slow and adapted to each region.
The premier of Québec, François Legault, announced the resumption of activities for retail stores, except those in malls, as well as construction, infrastructure works and manufacturing activities, starting May 11, in the Montréal area, and one week earlier in the rest of the province.
General rules for reopening the economy
Mr. Trudeau explained that his government has come to an agreement with the provinces and territories on the general rules for reopening the economy across the country, which will vary based on the epidemiological realities of each region.
"The capacity to screen and monitor COVID-19 must be adequate enough for us to be able to control its spread. That's why we're intensifying screening," Prime Minister Trudeau said.
Gradual and limited
After having announced yesterday that schools and daycares will be reopening in May, Premier Legault confirmed that certain economic activities will be resuming. Retail, civil engineering construction, and manufacturing can resume starting May 11 in the Montréal area, and May 4 in the rest of the province.
The minister of the Economy and Innovation, Pierre Fitzgibbon, stated that new strict personal protection rules must be followed. Social distancing will be required or, if not possible, the use of a mask will be mandatory. Initially, manufacturing companies will have to respect limits on the number of people who can work at the same time.
At present, the 1.2 million people who had a job on March 13, 2020, have lost it as a result of the pandemic.
Shopping malls and restaurants will not be reopened for the foreseeable future.
Isolation maintained
Premier Legault explained that with the exception of deaths in seniors' residences, the death rate has been "very" stable for 14 days in Québec.
"Because of this plateau, we can declare that the situation is under control," he said.
However, this observation does not mean the easing of isolation, social distancing and hygiene measures. Québec's director of Public Health, Dr. Horacio Arruda, explained that the people who will be authorized to return to work must be considered "essential workers."
Strict monitoring
Premier Legault stated that the spread of the virus and its impact on the hospital system will be the two criteria that will dictate the pace at which activities resume.
"This is a weighted risk and we will monitor it. There will be an increase in contagion and there will be fatalities," said Dr. Arruda. "We will backtrack if we think we're moving too quickly."
Sunday closings
Store closures on Sundays, ordered for April, have been extended to May.
Similar to HIV?
Prime Minister Trudeau reiterated that as long as a vaccine has not been found—which will take at least six to 12 months—we will not be able to return to our normal lives in the foreseeable future.
As in the case of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a vaccine may not be discovered. "For over 10 years, we've been very aggressively searching for a vaccine against HIV, and we still haven't found one, but there are treatments that have greatly improved the management of this virus," stated the prime minister.
No gatherings or family reunions
Dr. Arruda added that without a vaccine or treatment, "we will have to maintain isolation for quite some time."
This means no dinners with friends, no play dates for children and no family festivities in the foreseeable future.
The gradual reopening of elementary schools and certain stores and businesses will allow the virus to circulate, and with that will come contagion. The strategy, above all, is to protect the most vulnerable, people 60 years of age or over, who represent 97% of deaths related to COVID-19.
For Mr. Trudeau, anyone who is working must be able to work in a safe environment. The Canadian government is intensifying its efforts to increase the acquisition and domestic production of protective equipment.
Some six million surgical masks will be distributed across the country this week, along with 100,000 visors for health workers. Mr. Trudeau stated that in addition to imports, Canadian companies are being encouraged to produce this equipment for Canadian institutions and businesses.
Cell phone tracking
Premier Legault stated that the government is not yet contemplating the use of the tracking capabilities of new cell phone technologies to monitor the contagion or inform people who have been in contact with others who are infected.
"If we ever get there, personal data will be protected," he said.


Get outside, move around, take a walk. Research confirms that a few minutes of exercise in nature can boost both mood and energy levels. Exercise is key to our psychological health because it releases the brain's "feel good" chemicals.
Strengthen your willpower muscles. Just like exercising arm muscles strengthens our capacity to lift heavy things, exercising willpower muscles in small, everyday behaviors strengthens our ability to stay focused at work. Resist the temptation to check the cellphone for new text messages or emails while walking somewhere, or resist the temptation to get the candy bar when in the checkout line at the grocery store. That will allow willpower muscles to become stronger and, in turn, resistant to temptations that could sidetrack us in other aspects of our lives.
Acknowledge potential barriers that might get in the way of implementing your goals (you might get lazy, tired, forget or be lured away by another temptation), and then identify contingency plans for how you will respond in those moments: "When I start getting distracted in the middle of a big work project, I'll give myself a quick break and then remind myself how rewarding it will feel to be finished with it." Better yet, select environments that are free from distractions altogether. If you know you're always tempted to surf the web while completing work, take your laptop to a place where there's no wifi and leave your phone behind.


Betulinic acid is a pentacyclic triterpenoid originally isolated from the bark of the white birch Betula pubescens, from which it got its name. Betulinic acid exhibits cytotoxicity in several cancer cell lines and the antitumor potential of betulinic acid against murine ascites Dalton's lymphoma has been earlier reported by us. Present studies were undertaken to further explore and evaluate the possible mechanism of antitumor activity of betulinic acid with reference to cell cycle analysis, changes in mitochondrial membrane potential and succinate dehydrogenase activity in Dalton's lymphoma cells. Cell cycle analysis using flow cytometry, changes in mitochondrial membrane potential and succinate dehydrogenase activity in Dalton's lymphoma cells were determined after betulinic aid treatment. In silico molecular docking study was done to scrutinize possible interaction of succinate dehydrogenase with betulinic acid. Betulinic acid treatment caused cell cycle arrest at S phase and also decreased mitochondrial membrane potential and succinate dehydrogenase activity in Dalton's lymphoma cells. Molecular docking study revealed the strong binding affinity of betulinic acid with succinate dehydrogenase. The decreased mitochondrial membrane potential and inhibition in succinate dehydrogenase activity in Dalton's lymphoma tumor cells after betulinic acid treatment may lead to the development of mitochondrial dysfunction and could be contributing to tumor cells death and should be imperative in its antitumor activity. It is suggested that mitochondria-targeted agents such as betulinic acid holds great promise as a novel anticancer drug.
Keywords: Betulinic acid, Dalton's lymphoma. cell cycle, mitochondrial membrane potential, succinate dehydrogenase.


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The certainty of mowers, life and the EU
About how certainty can get in the way
Tagged: Change, Complexity, Government
Complexity and the Hollow Men
A summary of an essay by Dominic Cummings on the problems of UK government.
Tagged: Public Sector Reform, Complexity, Government, Culture, Wicked Problems
Government doesn't get complexity
Repost of an article written for Computer Weekly about the effects of mismanaging of complexity.
Tagged: Public Sector Reform, Digital Transformation, Computer Weekly, Government, Complexity, Government 2-0
Something important is missing from the HMRC Digital Strategy
On working for the greater good.
Tagged: Digital Transformation, GDS, Gubbins of Government, Government 2-0, HMRC, Government, Government as a Platform
Future Gubbins Of Government - NICS ICT Conference 2014
A summary of links related to a talk at a civil service conference in Northern Ireland.
Tagged: Digital Transformation, Complexity, Wicked Problems, UK Government IT, Gubbins of Government, GDS, Government 2-0, Conference, Cynefin, Government, Government as a Platform
Book Review - Complexity and the art of public policy
A review of a book about applying the ideas of complex systems to government policy making.
Tagged: Book Reviews, Complexity, Universal Credit, UK Government IT, Wicked Problems, DWP, Government
Complexity and retraining politicians
On leopards. And spots.
Tagged: Complexity, Government, Leadership, Wicked Problems
PSNGB "Groovy Boots" video story
This is the story of the production of this video. Foden Grealy (under our Eggvids banner) produced the video for the PSNGB - the industry association for the Public Services Network. It explains in about two minutes what the PSN is and what the PSNGB is doing to make it successful.
Summary of what happened...
7 May - Neil Mellor - a director of PSNGB approached us. 8 May - Eggvid man Mark Hainge and I had a half-hour telephone discussion with Neil and Stuart Higgins - another PSNGB Director. We explained our approach (see pic below). 7 June - The four of us had a 3-hour flipchart session to work out what should be in the video. It was an excellent interactive session where we ended up with the bones of the story. 14 June - We produced a full-length rough & ready first version of the video, which Neil and Stuart provided feedback on. They liked the overall style and the way we put over the main messages; they also gave us a list of revisions to consider and some ideas about the humour (which is where the "groovy boots" came from). They also asked us if we could get the video ready for the PSN annual conference on 25 June. 21 June - We produced an improved version that was discussed by the board of PSNGB. It was approved with a few changes. 23 June - We produced the final version (after a couple of late-nighters). 25 June - The video was shown at the PSN Summit.
This production went smoothly. Neil and Stuart were great to work with (the reason it went smoothly) and were keen to participate - it felt like an interaction rather than a transaction. I'd say that it would be near-impossible to produce a video like this in a transactional way from a traditional written brief. The humour, always a potential sticking point, came easily with some super suggestions from the PSNGB folk.
I was at the first showing of the video at the PSN Summit yesterday. There was laugher, spontaneous applause and many positive comments.
We wish the PSNGB and the PSN huge success.
More stuff about the video and its production.
We work iteratively. Here is a pic we used to explain our approach to Neil and Stuart...
Eggvids iterative way
This was the output of the flip-chart session. Scientific, this...
PSNGB video flip-chart
PSNGB We are the industry association for the Public Services Network
The GB bit originally meant Governing Body but we aren't one Instead, think of Growing Benefits, Government Betterment, General Blossoming, Any of those
Our members are companies supplying either the PSN, or the services delivered over it,
So, the PSN itself Public Services Network
It's a computer network. Think of it as a house-trained version of the Internet for the public sector.
Any organisation providing public services can connect to it.
It replaces a whole lot of terribly disparate network wherewithal from the past that made it very hard for people in government to do internetty things.
Most public sector organisations are on it now and are shifting their services across from existing networks like the GSI (God bless them and all who sailed in them).
Of course there's box ticking and IT faffing about involved but we are getting to the end of that.
The PSN will carry the services that existed before but the important thing is it's not just a replacement network, it is a jolly sturdy foundation that some people call a platform for building all sorts of completely new stuff . Like...
Organising public services around citizens by linking the operations of different departments Or... Enabling third parties to create new dead-funky services that no one has thought of yet Or... Making it possible for people in the public sector to use the latest technologies to work flexibly Hurrah!
And this totally new stuff will bring new ways of working, new communication, new policy, new support, new procurement, new structures, new management, new thoughts and new almost anything else you can think of
PSN can change the shape of government
Which brings us back to the PSNGB:
Yes, we'll do the usual industry association things: standards, technical palaver, all that helping suppliers to get their boxes ticked and their faffing faffed helping customers to get with the right suppliers
But we've got a bigger ambition. We want to do our bit to enable this change We want to connect people, spark ideas and make a genuine contribution to the reshaping of government
Right nuff said.
PSN, GB The industry association for the PSN... bringing Great Bounty and Glittering Breakthroughs So, fill your Groovy Boots.
Tagged: Conference, Digital Transformation, Government, Government as a Platform, Video
Universal Credit and the need to think more 'Grow' (and less 'Build')
About an article in the New Statesman.
Tagged: Universal Credit, Digital Transformation, Agile, DWP, Complexity, UK Government IT, New Statesman, Government, Public Sector Reform
Future of 'office' software in government
I was asked yesterday for a view on what is likely to happen as a result of a change to government policy on document standards (described in this Guardian article) and the prospects for a switch to open source software. With the caveat that there are others with a better understanding of the specifics of the situation than me I wrote this... "I'd say the important thing is that it is document standards that are being specified not the software. Presuming that Microsoft update their software to make it easy to use the open formats then I imagine that departments won't need to do anything until existing licensing deals expire. I don't know what the licensing situation is but I should think that Microsoft will bend far to ensure that their software continues to be used.
A switch to open source alternatives would consume both the already-stretched IT service resources and the time (and probably more importantly the patience) of users. It would take will to make the change. I guess we will see new types of licensing deals - perhaps with Office software bundled differently with other products - and probably a reduction in cost but I don't envisage a rapid, widespread switch.
This is a broader point but that government should be thinking differently about how it manages both text and the way that people work together to create it - see Document standards and the rankling print presumption. It's quite possible I've become separated from my marbles here, but I do wonder whether we need documents at all."
Tagged: Document Standards, Government


Tired achy legs? Swollen ankles? Varicose veins? Spider veins? Referred by a Physician for compression?
See a Foot Specialist / Chiropodist who can assist you with the appropriate supply and fitting of compression socks and garments. Our Chiropodists are certified fitters of medical grade compression.
Fashionable textiles and colours from comfortable and soft to elegant, cushioned, or breathable all help to ensure your medical compression socks or garments are practical as well as effective.
Fed up with not being able find to the right shoes?
See a foot specialist/chiropodist who can recommend appropriate shoes.
Trying shoes with the right width and depth fitting for the first time you really notice the added comfort they offer. Different sole shapes and materials can help cushion feet or are sometimes designed with stability or the ability to rock.
Soft shock absorbing rubber soles can make shoes ideal for people with arthritic joints.
Light flexible the soles with quality uppers are other aspects to look for.
Finding your chosen style in a variety of widths and depths, is important to find that true comfort fit. Removable in-socks in many styles enable even more variability to accommodate difficult-to-fit feet, special insoles or orthotics.


Click here for a zone blitz out of the "Ruby" front.
If you ask NFL fans their opinion on rushing three and dropping eight into coverage, the responses are most likely going to be negative. Too much time for the QB, a "soft" pocket, WRs that can convert routes past the sticks, etc. etc. I get it. When you rush three, you are allowing a QB time to move in the pocket, look off safeties and target open throwing lanes in zone coverage. Hit the seam route or dump off to the RB on the check down and watch as the offense converts, continuing the drive.
However, there is one defensive scheme in my playbook that I would carry in the game plan every Sunday to win in 3rd and 11-plus situations: "Ruby Tent Robber." Let's take a look at the coverage up on the chalkboard vs. 4 Verticals (one of the top routes in 3rd and 11-plus) and then breakdown the scheme.
3-Man rush: I am using a "Tex" stunt (Tackle and End) to the open (weak) side of the formation here to give the O-Line something to work against. However, the key to any 3-Man rush is contain and a strong push up the middle. You need to keep the QB in the pocket and force him to step up.
CB Technique: Coach up your CBs to attack the release with Cover 2 technique (Jam, re-route No.1 to the inside). They will "trail" any vertical release (think 2-Man) and react to a ball thrown to the flat.
Vertical Hook players: The two "vertical hook" defenders (Sam and Dime) will match and carry No.2 on the release (W, Y). You want to see an angle that puts them on the inside hip of the receiver to play both inside and outside breaking concepts.
"Robber" technique: I have the Nickel (N) showing low in his pre-snap alignment and then working to the deep middle of the field. He is responsible for providing help over the top of the vertical hook defenders and can also drive on a second-level inside breaking route (think "Dagger" scheme). The Mike (M) will zone up (almost plays as a "Rover") to take away underneath concepts that work back to the middle of the field.
Safety technique: Both safeties are aligning at Cover 2 depth on their landmarks (top of the numbers). However, you want to coach your safeties to widen past their landmarks and play over the top of No.1 (X, Z). Take away the 9 route in this situation.
Is "pressure" a better option in 3rd and 11-plus?
I brought this up on Twitter and the majority of the responses I got: forget the 3-Man rush and bring pressure (blitz-man) instead. That is an option here. Align your DBs in an off-man position (depth of 8-yards), use a "flat-foot" read (play through the 3-step) and drive on the throw. However, if you miss a tackle playing blitz-man in a 3rd and long situation, it is time to strike up the band and play the fight song.


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