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\section{Introduction}

It is not usual to be asked to write something on a subject on which you have worked fifteen years before and on which you have remained far from subsequent developments. Yet this is the challenge we humbly accepted to undertake in this paper with the limitation that our expertise in this research area have diminished regarding the developments made by many others during the ten previous years.

We begin with the easy part consisting in recalling the context of the paper \cite{BB03}.

In the sequel the word \emph{constraint} will be used in two meanings: a type of constraints, such as propositional clause, Boolean cardinality constraint, ALLDIFF..., and a constraint instance, i.e., the formal representation of a relation on several variables each having a domain. We will use the word \emph{Constraint} in the first case and \emph{constraint} in the second case. For example, CNF is a Constraint that denotes the set of propositional clauses, whereas $(a \vee \neg b \vee c)$ is a CNF constraint.

The main result in \cite{BB03} was twofold: the description of a general method of solving constraints satisfaction problems through translation and the application of this method to the translation of Boolean cardinality Constraint into CNF.

The general method can be quickly described as follows: We have a constraint network based on one or more types of so called \textit{source Constraints}, and we want to solve this network using a solver dedicated to a type of so called \textit{target Constraint}. Then we need to translate each source constraint to an equivalent set  of target constraints. It is therefore desirable that the problem can be solved at least as effectively with the target solver as it would have been with an up to date source solver. The three most obvious criteria for achieving this objective are:
\begin{enumerate}
\item The translation process must be fast compared to the assumed resolution time of the source solver, namely, the translation algorithms must have a polynomial time complexity.
\item The target constraint network must not be of a prohibitive size.
\item All deductions that could be made by an up to date solver from source constraints must be feasible by the target solver.
\end{enumerate}

Let us call for the moment a translation that fulfills the three above criteria a good translation. Regarding the third criterion, almost all modern constraint solvers at least enforce domain consistency, also called generalized arc consistency or GAC. We therefore considered, as \cite{Gent2002ArcCI} before us, and as many authors thereafter, that it was desirable that enforcing domain consistency on target constraints produces at least the same deductions as enforcing domain consistency on source constraints.

We applied this method to the case of cardinality constraints as a source Constraint and clauses in CNF form as a target Constraint.
Most of SAT solvers use unit propagation as a deduction method and therefore we required for the third criterion that the translation restores the generalized arc consistency through unit propagation. At the time, it was known that a direct translation of cardinality constraints to CNF that preserves the power of deduction without adding any new variable requires an exponential number of clauses. Then a linear time translation was proposed in \cite{WARNERS199863}, producing a polynomial number of clauses, but at the cost of a loss of deduction power since the unit propagation does not restore arc consistency.

We proposed then in \cite{BB03} a good encoding (thus fulfilling the three above criteria) of cardinality constraints to CNF  based on boolean adders using the unary representation of integers.

Many developments have been done since : refinements of the translation of cardinality constraints, CNF translation of general arithmetic constraints... It would be difficult to cite them without omitting some. Some papers studied the existence of good translations to CNF as a target Constraint. That is the subject we choose to tackle and generalize in this paper through some incomplete thoughts.

A breakthrough was made in \cite{Bessiere2009CircuitCA} by giving a necessary and sufficient condition for a source Constraint to have a good translation to CNF. The condition is that a propagator that enforces generalized arc consistency on this source Constraint must be computed by a polynomial size monotone circuit. As a consequence of this result, a superpolynomial lower bound for the monotone circuit that encodes a propagator for some Constraint implies that there is no good translation to CNF for this Constraint. It is the case of ALLDIFF as mentioned \cite{Bessiere2009CircuitCA} and also for its generalization GCC.

In the same vein, \cite{GMKO2014} proves that there exists no GAC translation of systems of an arbitrary number of XOR equations.  By contrast, it gives a good translation to CNF for XOR systems having a constant number of equations.

These results draw the outlines of classes of Constraints according to the existence of good translations to CNF. We describe in the following a classification that does not consider necessarily CNF as a target Constraint and we discuss it.

\section{Comparing constraints according to their propagation power \label{sec:classification}}

Polynomial time constraints translation, in its simplest acceptance, i.e., the target constraint network and the source constraint network must be equiconsistent, is a Karp-reduction in the sense of complexity theory.
It allows to polynomialy translate a source problem into an equivalent target problem.
We propose to call \textit{GAC-reduction} any Constraint reduction that preserves the deductive power of domain consistency enforcement. Such a reduction allows to categorize Constraints with respect to their propagation powers.

Let us illustrate the notions of reduction and GAC-reduction with an example involving two Constrains : CNF, namely the propositional clauses, and $\neq$, namely the binary difference constraints on finite domains.

Figure \ref{fig:cnf2dif} shows a reduction from CNF to $\neq$ in the case where the source constraint is a clause of 3 literals, but which can be generalized to a clause of any length.

\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{cnf2dif.png}}
\caption{A (non-GAC) reduction from the clause $(a \vee \neg b \vee c)$ to binary difference constraints.}
\label{fig:cnf2dif}
\end{figure}

The variables $a, b, c$ of the resulting target constraint network correspond to the variables of the source clause $(a \vee \neg b \vee c)$, with domains $\{\text{F},\text{T}\}$, where T stand for true and F for false. The variables $x_1$ to $x_5$ are called auxiliary variables. If $a=\text{F}$, $b=\text{T}$ and $c=\text{F}$ the target network cannot be satisfied. For all other assignations of $a, b, c$, it can be satisfied.

But this reduction is \textit{not} a GAC-reduction. For example, with $c=\text{F}$, $b=\text{T}$ and $a$ unassigned, unit propagation, which enforces domain consistency on the source clause, assigns $a=\text{T}$. But on the target network, enforcing domain consistency on the difference constraints does \textit{not} assign $a$.

On the other hand, the reduction from CNF to $\neq$ presented figure in \ref{fig:GACcnf2dif} on the same example \textit{is} a GAC-reduction. If the source clause is falsified, then the target network in inconsistent and enforcing domain consistency on its constraints produces an empty domain. In addition to that, in the three cases where unit propagation on the source clause assigns a variable, enforcing domain consistency on  constraints of the target network do the same assignation.

Incidentally, if we want to solve SAT instances with a graph coloring solver, it might be more efficient to use the second reduction rather than the first one.

\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=0.65\textwidth]{GACcnf2dif.png}}
\caption{A GAC-reduction from the clause $(a \vee \neg b \vee c)$ to binary difference constraints.}
\label{fig:GACcnf2dif}
\end{figure}

GAC-reduction may involve different domains for the source variables and the related target variables. For example, to reduce a constraint $A \neq B$ in CNF, where $A$ and $B$ have domains $1..n$, the source variable A (B) can be represented in the target network by $n$ variables $a_1,...,a_n$ ($b_1,...,b_n$) with domains $\{\text{T},\text{F}\}$, which is expressive enough to represent not only all possible assignments of A and B, but also all possible restrictions of their domains.

The GAC-reduction can be completed as follow:
\begin{enumerate}
\item A set card[1..1]($a_1,...,a_n$) of clauses encoding that exactly one variable among $a_1,...,a_n$ must be set to 1, see for example \cite{Sinz2005TowardsAO} \cite{Hlldobler2013AnEE} for different GAC-compliant solutions.
\item A set card[1..1]($b_1,...,b_n$) of clauses encoding that exactly one variable among $b_1,...,b_n$ must be set to 1.
\item The clauses $(\neg a_1 \vee \neg b_1), ..., (\neg a_n \vee \neg b_n)$.
\end{enumerate}

Here, not only GAC-reduction can introduce auxiliary variables (depending of the encoding of the card[1..1] constraints), but it may also use different representations of the possible restrictions of source domains and the corresponding target domains.

A formal definition of a GAC-reduction - which we will not give here - should express the idea, summarized in figure \ref{fig:GACreduction} that if, from a certain source knowledge K, the GAC-propagation of the source constraint produces a deduction D, then from the same knowledge expressed in the target representation, the GAC-propagation of the target constraint network should produce a deduction at least as strong as D.
K and D are restrictions of the domains of the source variables. The corresponding target knowledge and deduction are restrictions of domains of target variables. A domain $d$ is a restriction of another domain $k$ if $d \subseteq k$.

\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=0.7\textwidth]{GAC-reduction.png}}
\caption{A schematic representation  a GAC-reduction.}
\label{fig:GACreduction}
\end{figure}

The main result in \cite{Bessiere2009CircuitCA} can be reformulated in terms of GAC-reduction this way: for any finite domains Constraint $S$, the GAC-propagator of $S$ can be implemented by a monotone Boolean circuit if and only if there is a GAC-reduction from $S$ to CNF.
We identify here a class of Constraints that we call MPC (for Monotone Polynomially Propagatable Constraints), which is the set of all the Constraints that can be GAC-reduced to CNF. De facto, CNF is a MPC-complete Constraint.

All the generalizations of CNF belonging to MPC, such as Boolean cardinality Constraint (Card) and pseudo-Boolean inequalities (PB$_>$), are obviously MPC-complete. (Card $\in$ MPC follows from the GAC-reduction proposed in \cite{BB03} and PB$_>$ $\in$ MPC follows from the one proposed in \cite{BBR09}).

It can be noticed that a necessary condition for a type Constraint $Q$ be MPC-complete is that $Q$ is NP-complete - in the sense that the problem of determining the consistency of a constraint network of type $Q$ is NP-complete - because the existence of a GAC-reduction from $Q$ to CNF implies the existence of a Karp-reduction from $Q$ to CNF.
So the XOR Constraint, which belongs to MPC but is not NP-complete, is therefore not MPC-complete.

Also according to \cite{Bessiere2009CircuitCA}, there are Constraints, such as ALLDIFF and its generalization GCC (Global Cardinality Constraint \cite{GCC}), whose CAG-propagators can be computed in polynomial time, but which are not in MPC. We propose to call PPC (for Polynomially Propagatable Constraints) the set of all finite domain Constraints whose GAC-propagators have polynomial time complexity, and then can be implemented as polynomialy sized Boolean circuits. De facto, MPC is strictly included in PPC, and ALLDIFF and GCC are in PPC $\backslash$ MPC. We do not know if there are PPC-complete Constraints, and the question seems interesting to us insofar as a solver optimized for such a Constraint could perhaps have a broader application scope than any solver dedicated to a MPC Constraint, such as SAT solvers or even pseudo-Boolean solvers.

Finally, it should be noted that there are Constraints whose satisfaction is verified in polynomial time, but for which enforcing domain consistency is a NP-hard problem. This holds with pseudo-Boolean inequalities (PB$_=$), for example. Under the assumption P $\neq$ NP, these Constraints are not in PPC. We propose to call PVC the set of polynomialy verifiable Constraints, in the sense that a finite domain Constraint $Q$ is in VPC if and only if there is a polynomial time complexity algorithm that checks whether a complete assignment satisfies a constraint $q$ of type $Q$.

Figure \ref{fig:classes} shows the classes MPC, PPC and VPC, as well as some Constraints belonging to these classes.

\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=0.7\textwidth]{classes.png}}
\caption{A classification of \textsc{C}onstraints}
\label{fig:classes}
\end{figure}

\section{Concluding remarks and questions}

In a world where solvers are based on enumeration and domain consistency enforcement, a solver dedicated to a Constraint of the PPC $\backslash$ MPC class has a higher deductive power than a solver dedicated to an MPC Constraint, such as a SAT solver, a graph coloring solver, or even a pseudo-Boolean solver. And in such a world, CNF is a poor candidate for the role of universal Constraint into which all polynomially propagatable Constraints could be translated without loss of resolution efficiency. If we were to look for a universal solver, we would first have to identify the complete constraints of the PPC class. In the current state of our young reflections, we do not even know if such Constraints exist and so one question that could be addressed would be: are there Constraints complete for the class PPC?

But in a world where solvers use more sophisticated deductive systems, things are becoming more complex. In \cite{GwynneK14} is addressed the question of power of deduction restricted to the representations of boolean functions but they consider also more  sophisticated systems of deduction than GAC. The same can be done with Constraints with general domains. For example, the GAC-propagation of Constraints beyond MPC, such as GCC, cannot be polynomially simulated by unit propagation in a SAT solver or by GAC-propagation in a pseudo-Boolean solver. But what if the SAT solver replaces unit propagation with bounded resolution or if the pseudo-Boolean solver uses cutting planes?

Finally, we think that the study of good practices of constraint translation will have to be strongly connected to the study of solvers in order to progress.

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Q: Regex to remove everything after gmail reply string This is my reply

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 3:22 PM A User (User) <user@mygmailaccount.com>
wrote:
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I only want to be able to display my reply message and remove all previous responses.
I use the following regex expression, and it removes everything after "wrote:"
\wrote.*$
Which displays
This is my reply

On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 3:22 PM A User (User) <user@mygmailaccount.com>

I need an expression that will look for the "On" and "wrote:" and remove everything after it.

A: You could make the dot match a newline using for example an inline modifier (?s) and then first match On at the start of the string, and then match wrote: after matching a newline.
(?s)^\s*\bOn\b.*\nwrote:.*$

Regex demo
Or using a character class to match any char
^\s*\bOn\b[\s\S]*\nwrote:[\s\S]*$

Regex demo

A: This regex works for me in python:
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Staden ligger på den östra sidan av floden Oders östra flodarm Reglitz, uppströms drygt 20 km söder om Szczecin. Väster om staden ligger Oders floddelta och via broar över Oders östra och västra flodfåra sammanbinds orten med gränsorten Mescherin på den tyska sidan. Nationsgränsen går sedan 1945 genom den västra flodfåran. Den östra armen vid Gryfino och floddeltat ligger därigenom helt på polskt territorium.

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Staden erhöll stadsrättigheter 1254 av hertigen Barnim I av Pommern. I början av 1300-talet anlades broar över Oder och tullarna från dessa var en viktig inkomstkälla under medeltiden. Under trettioåriga kriget besattes staden, som var befäst, 1630 av den kejserliga armén, men stormades juldagen samma år av svenskarna. Den 8 augusti 1659 intogs Greifenhagen av markgrevskapet Brandenburg och österrikarna under de Souches, men återlämnades i freden till Sverige, varefter befästningarna nödtorftigt underhölls. År 1675 bemäktigade sig kurfursten av Brandenburg Greifenhagen, som dock återkom till Sverige 1679, varefter försvarsverken fick förfalla. Staden blev en del av Preussen i freden i Stockholm 1720 och uppgick med Preussen 1871 i tyska kejsardömet.

Under preussiskt styre var Greifenhagen från 1815 en kretsstad i det preussiska regeringsområdet Stettin i provinsen Pommern. År 1900 hade staden 6 473 invånare.

Efter Tysklands nederlag i andra världskriget 1945 hamnade orten på den östra sidan av Oder-Neisse-linjen och tillföll genom Potsdamöverenskommelsen Polen. Staden heter sedan dess officiellt Gryfino, den polska namnformen.

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Man Utd Steal March On Liverpool & Chelsea After Opening Talks To Sign £96m Star
Super-agent Mino Raiola has held talks with Manchester United about signing Liverpool and Chelsea target Mauro Icardi this summer
The transfer window may be closed but managers are working hard on their plans for the summer so we'll bring you all the latest gossip from around the globe. Today, the latest on Mauro Icardi…
Super-agent Mino Raiola has held talks with Manchester United about signing Liverpool and Chelsea target Mauro Icardi this summer, according to a report by TeamTalk.
Icardi has developed in to one of the best strikers in Europe since joining Inter Milan from Sampdoria in 2013 and he's enjoying a fine campaign having scored 27 goals in his 31 league appearances so far.
However, the Argentinean international's future at the San Siro has been cast in doubt as talks over a new deal have failed to progress with Inter struggling to meet his wage demands.
TeamTalk claim that Icardi is demanding a new contract worth around £150,000-a-week but the Nerazzurri are unable to stretch that far as they need to balance the books to meet Financial Fair Play guidelines.
The situation has alerted clubs in the Premier League as TeamTalk cite reports from Italy as saying that Man Utd, Liverpool and Chelsea have all expressed their interest in luring Icardi to England this summer.
Jurgen Klopp needs competition for Roberto Firmino if Liverpool are compete on all fronts next season while Chelsea are also being tipped to sign a new striker amid on-going doubts over the future of Alvaro Morata and Icardi is seemingly on their radar.
However, it looks like United are in pole position to sign the South American as TeamTalk are citing a report from Corriere dello Sport that claims the Red Devils are now in preliminary talks about a deal.
The Italian publication says Icardi's agent, Wanda Nara, has asked super-agent Mino Raiola to act as an intermediary and he's opened talks with United about a move to Old Trafford this summer.
Raiola has close contacts at United having conducted several deals with them in the past so it seems Icardi is keen to use those relationships to explore a potential switch to Manchester.
Jose Mourinho needs to sign another striker after losing Zlatan Ibrahimovic and United have the finances to meet Icardi's £96m [€110m] release clause if they choose to move forward with a deal.
READ MORE –> Liverpool transfer news | Man Utd transfer news | Chelsea transfer news
We'll have to wait and see how things progress over the coming months but the 25-year-old is a top class forward so I think Icardi would be an excellent signing for whichever club ends up buying him if he leaves Inter this summer.
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Hilton completes split into three independent companies
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. signage is displayed outside the company's Midtown hotel in New York. (Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg News)
Abha Bhattarai
Reporter covering the retail industry
Hilton Worldwide completed its split into three independent companies this week as part of an effort to lower the company's taxes and boost value to shareholders.
The new real estate and timeshare spinoffs — Park Hotels & Resorts and Hilton Grand Vacations — debuted on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday with mixed results. The long-term hope, according to company executives, is to create more efficient companies, each with its own objectives and goals.
"Does this allow us to be more focused? Of course it does," said Christopher J. Nassetta, president and chief executive of McLean-based Hilton. "We are going to be able to create a lot more value for shareholders as three independent companies than we would have been able to as one combined entity."
The move also allows shareholders to choose which parts of the business they'd like to invest in, he said. The timeshare and real estate businesses, for example, tend to be more capital intensive, meaning that they require larger cash investments to grow and become profitable than Hilton's hotel business does. In the past, Hilton shareholders often shied away from accommodating those needs, which may have hindered profits and growth.
"What this means is that each company is now in the hands of shareholders that are interested in its specific goals," said Rachael Rothman, an analyst for Susquehanna International Group. "Hilton shareholders won't necessarily want to remain in each of the three businesses, so we're likely to see a lot of movement."
On the first day of trading, shares of Park Hotels fell 1.98 percent, while shares of Hilton Grand Vacations climbed 1.1 percent. Hilton Worldwide's stock, meanwhile, rose 3.2 percent to close at $58 per share.
As part of the deal, Hilton shareholders received two shares of Park and one share of Hilton Grand Vacations for every 10 Hilton shares they owned. Shareholders also approved a stock-split last month that effectively reduced the company's outstanding shares from 990 million to 330 million.
Park Hotels is now the country's second-largest hotel real estate investment trust, behind Bethesda-based Host Hotels & Resorts. The company, which is based near Hilton's headquarters, oversees 67 Hilton properties, accounting for about half of the properties Hilton owns and leases around the world. Many of them are high-end U.S. hotels, including the Hilton New York Midtown, the Waldorf Astoria beach resort in Key West and the Capital Hilton in downtown Washington.
Thomas J. Baltimore, chief executive of Park Hotels, says he plans to eventually add other, non-Hilton hotels to the company's lineup.
"There is significant opportunity for growth," said Baltimore, previously chief executive of RLJ Lodging Trust in Bethesda. "When you start with a base of such significant scale — 67 properties, 35,000 rooms — it's a very attractive proposition."
Real estate spinoffs, popular among large hotel companies as a way to pay lower corporate taxes, were outlawed by Congress in late 2015. Hilton, however, was able to move ahead with its plans because it sought permission from the Internal Revenue Service before the Dec. 7 cutoff that year set by Congress, according to a company spokesman.
"Hilton was grandfathered in, so it was a now-or-never strategy," said David Katz, an analyst at Telsey Advisory Group, a research firm in New York. "This is where the industry has been going for a long time, and it was a no-brainer for Hilton."
The company's decision to spin off its timeshare business also follows in the footsteps of a number of major hotel chains that have taken similar measures in recent years, including Marriott International in 2011.
Shares of the timeshare business, Marriott Vacations Worldwide, have more than tripled since then, outpacing the parent company's stock. Hyatt Hotels and Starwood Hotels & Resorts (now part of Marriott) later followed suit.
Hilton Grand Vacations, based in Orlando and led by Hilton veteran Mark Wang, includes nearly 50 timeshare resorts in the United States and Europe. Analysts value the company at about $2.1 billion.
"Frankly, all three entities are likely to benefit because of this split," Katz said. "The remaining Hilton can operate on a much thinner, leaner capital structure and still grow."
Hilton, which has 4,700 hotels around the world, has been particularly aggressive in building new properties. It has 144 new hotels in the works. The company returned to the New York Stock Exchange in 2013 after six years of private-equity ownership by Blackstone. It raised $2.35 billion in its initial public offering, marking the largest IPO by a hotel firm.
Abha Bhattarai Abha Bhattarai is the national retail reporter for The Washington Post. She was previously a reporting fellow at the New York Times. Follow


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« 40. BREATHE OUT
42. AFTERMATH »
41. ROYAL FALCON
"Ladies and gentlemen, here and all over Australia, welcome to the 118th running of the Australia Post Stawell Gift."
As her name rang out from the PA system and the mouths of thousands, Layla emerged from her protective circle. With oppressive acceleration, she dashed and darted up to and through the start line, stopping abruptly 20 metres up her lane. She turned and turned, two hands waving to the adoring crowd.
Televisual gold, but very, very aggressive and self-centred showmanship. Surely, the other competitors were due their fair share of respect and adulation? Over the weekend, all the applause, praise and accolades had been sucked into the Layla vortex and it had pissed people off.
In frustration, one of the finalists walked 5 metres up Layla's lane and stood his ground solidly, waiting. Perhaps he felt he could delay her return to the start and embarrass her, in some way stamping his authority on her.
The blocking man watched as an apple arced towards Layla's back. Judging by its flight, a member of that rowdy cluster had imparted some leg spin to it. It was a slow motion, warm day; just a smattering of cotton clouds grazing under the blue.
From out of this blue nowhere, he registered the flash. The flash of the big, brown meteor as it dove to earth, snatched the apple in its talons and flew low around the stadium before climbing and coming to rest on top of the old grandstand. Like everyone else he had ducked and crouched into a ball amid the wild surprise.
[Stewart Appens, Channel Ten commentator]:
"Jeez, that's a big bird."
[Bryce Cannor, Channel Seven partner commentator]:
"I think it's a raptor mate. A hawk, possibly a Peregrine. If you're at the MCG, I can tell you Collingwood won't be one short. That was no magpie."
[Stewart Appens]:
"I'm not sure what else can happen, Bryce. We've had the lot this year. Man, that was incredible. That bird nearly took her head clean off. Stawell is not for the faint-hearted."
[Bryce Cannor, watching a replay]:
"It's not Stewy. And she didn't see it either; she was facing the other way. Oh, that's… that could have been tragic.
Well, the athletes seem a bit… they seem okay… a bit shaken maybe like the rest of us. I see Stevey Blackton is showing some concern for young Layla Parkin. She's nodding, she's fine. That's a relief. He's pointing her to the replay on the big screen. Yes, there goes her hand to her mouth. Yes, Layla, that's what happened, strange eh? Well, it looks like she's able to smile about it and share a laugh with the other guys out there. Seems to have worked wonders for their camaraderie, they're a lot closer now, less combative."
"It's a fine line Bry, a fine line. It's hard to find the right words. I think that bird of prey has stolen the occasion from our newly crowned queen of the track."
[Bryce Cannor]:
"Yeah, good point, Stewy. At least we have something we haven't had for any of Layla's runs so far… some respectful stillness from the spectators. It's muted chaos out there. I'm not sure how the athletes are going to be able to get back in the zone."
"Well, they are going to have to try. They've been called to their starting blocks. Soon, we'll be off in the Gift. And that bird there, he has the best seat in the house. Very dignified look about him. Wonder who he's got his money on? How strange."
Above Central Park, a helicopter filmed the competitors leant low in their staggered starting positions. Layla off scratch, everybody else 5 to 10 metres out front.
"What a great overhead shot. That says it all folks. Have you ever seen a sight like that? It just screams 'wrong'. But that's the way it's been all weekend. She's definitely got plenty of ground to make up. Now, can she do it? I think we're more nervous and concerned than she is."
At the MCG, the crowd stood and applauded in amazement as Stewy Appens circled her with a yellow highlighter and drew an arrow through the gulf to the other racers.
The starter got them on their marks, SET and fired his pistol. They were off with flurry and fury. It was no longer unexpected to see Layla burst firmly from the blocks to an upright position but the sight of the raptor swooping from the grandstand to glide above Layla's head was sickening.
But the raptor didn't strike. The onlookers were astonished and awestruck as the pair traveled up the track together, coming over the top of each athlete without difficulty.
The bird looked down and, touching her ears with the tips of his wings said:
Layla.
I am the royal Falcon
On the arm of the Almighty.
I unfold the drooping wings
Of every broken bird
And start it on its flight.
I am the bay Mare rearing
In the deadest part of night.
I crack the concrete surfaces
Of each bewildered heart
And reach scared souls to life.
Indeed! You have energy. Listen.
You are my fearless Fledgling
From the egg of Eternity.
Approached by the Creator
You fell pirouette from Heaven
So happy and chirping.
I am a tearful Falcon
Returning to Immensity.
I give fair warning to you all
That this is our beauty
that I leave to your care.
The falcon launched upward and soared away as Layla triumphantly broke through her finish gate. She had more than 10 metres to spare.
[Stewart Appens, shaken]:
"On behalf of Bryce and myself, apologies for our interrupted and… unprofessional call. I'd just plead that we're not used to birds of prey availing themselves of late entrance into elite sprinting events. It threw us. Bry?"
"I'll second that Stewy. I'm still dumbfounded. Let me see. Layla Parkin wins the 1999 Gift in, get this, listen to this everyone, eleven seconds zero. That's impossible. That's right, isn't it, eleven seconds? There's no malfunction? No wind? Yep, thought so, eleven seconds. And the bird was a close second before bailing out at the end. Everyone else? They're still running."
"There we go Bryce, the crowd is coming back to life now, getting some feeling back. Yeah, and that's a very generous and well-earned ovation. I think the magnitude of what's just unfolded before us is beginning to register."
"Oh, that was phenomenal. Let me shake your hand mate. Congratulations, we were here. We were here when the world of athletics was turned upside down, completely disorientated. And all you folks out there, you were there, you were there. What a ripper of a sprint. What does it all mean? And what on earth was with that bird?"
"Oh, forget the bird. Forget it. I'll take your hand mate. Look, I'll say it; I'm in a state of shock right now. I don't think any of us could have been prepared for a young girl to bury the achievements of so many fabulous athletes. Carl Lewis, Jesse Owens, Jim Hines and, of course, Donovan Bailey. Even Ben Johnson. She's made them all look like work horses today. By my reckoning she went through 100 metres in the region of 9.4 and that's over 0.4 of a second quicker than the world record. We thought someone, some man, would do this kind of time and that it would happen in 60 or 70 years. We've just been catapulted into the future here and, well, it's great and, well a bit troubling also.
I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a little niggle in the back of my mind. I think they'll have to check her DNA. Seriously. That's just not human."
"Disconcerting, Stewy. That's how I'd categorize the feeling. It's just too good to be true. And try as I might Stewy, I can't forget the bird."
Maddy and Geoff were kneeling with their elbows on the grass, their palms behind their heads. They toppled over, out cold, as the rest of the Horsham crew waded past them towards Layla. She was already being deferentially congratulated by her fellow competitors. Amongst the confusion, the hysteria and the incredulity, some uneasiness and suspicion sought their way to the bar asserting their need for a drink.
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Q: Having test app provisioning profile not expire I have an iOS app that I'm testing on my phone. I installed it through XCode. I've had the app on my phone for several weeks. After a couple of weeks the app no longer works. If I open the app it immediately closes. If I do a fresh re-install of the app, then everything works for a couple more weeks till it breaks again.
My theory is that the provisioning profile I used has expired, preventing the app from loading. This is expected as I'm installing the app through XCode and Apple probably doesn't intend for users to have a test build used on an iOS device for extended periods of time. My question is this, how can I set it so the provisioning profile doesn't expire? How would I need to adjust the code signing settings to adjust for this?

A: You cannot set provisioning profiles to never expire.  Development provisioning profiles will expire after a set amount of time.  For a free developer account with Apple, your profiles will be set to expire after 30 days.  If you have a paid developer account, the profiles will last for a year from when it is created.  Note that a new profile isn't created every time you build, so you have to keep an eye on the profile expiration date and generate a new one when you get to 10 months or so.
Apple will not let you go longer than this, as it would allow / encourage other distribution mechanisms.  If developers could build an app and distribute it to other peoples' devices, and those apps could run indefinitely, someone would quickly develop a 3rd party app store and Apple would lose control of its ecosystem.
FYI - If a provisioning profile expires, the app will launch briefly, then shut down when iOS realizes that there is a code signing problem (also happens if your certificate has been revoked or has expired).  You can check for sure by plugging the device into your Mac and monitoring the device console when you attempt to launch the app.  You will likely see a code signing error in the logs.

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*Set device type to generic in Xcode.

*Go to Product in the status bar on the top of your screen

*Select Archive

*Build your app as an AdHoc file

*When its done, save that file somewhere, (I usually throw it on my desktop and then delete it)

*Double click the .ipa file, Make sure your phone is plugged in and hooked to iTunes.

*This should install the app on your phone.

I have had good luck with this, I hope it works for you.
Note: This may only be possible with a developers license, I'm not 100% sure.


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Eumerus ammophilus är en tvåvingeart som beskrevs av Paramonov 1926. Eumerus ammophilus ingår i släktet månblomflugor, och familjen blomflugor.

Artens utbredningsområde är Turkmenistan. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Ed Dept. Issues Final Rules for Defrauded Students; Activists Say the Rules Fall Short
Chronicle photo by Julia Schmalz
Betsy DeVos
After some two years of deliberation, the U.S. Department of Education has released final rules meant to protect students from colleges that close or defraud them.
The "borrower defense to repayment" rule allows students to have their federal student loans discharged in cases where they were given false or misleading information, for example. The closed school discharge gives some students the option of having their loans forgiven if a college closes suddenly.
The new rules, which go into effect in July, will replace a 2016 regulation issued under former President Barack Obama, and will save the federal government an estimated $11 billion over 10 years. Until that date, the department will enforce the existing regulations. An estimated 180,000 claims for debt relief are now being reviewed by the department, mostly from students affected by the closures of major for-profit colleges such as Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institute.
Education department officials said the new rules were changed quite a bit from the draft proposals, in response to the nearly 40,000 public comments they received. For example, students who file a claim under the borrower defense regulations, will not have to be in default on their loans as the department had originally proposed.
Claims of fraud also will be judged under the existing standard of "preponderance of evidence" rather than the higher standard of "clear and convincing evidence," as the draft regulations had proposed.
Under the final rule, students also will not have to show that the institution intended to defraud them, said Diane Auer Jones, principal deputy undersecretary, who described the changes to reporters in a phone call.
But student advocates and consumer protection groups derided the department's final regulations, saying that they create a nearly impossible hurdle to show they have been wronged.
While the standard of evidence is lower, students still have to prove that a statement or action by the college was "made with knowledge of its false, misleading, or deceptive nature or with a reckless disregard for the truth," Sam Gilford, a spokesman for the National Student Legal Defense Network, said in an email.
Ashley Harrington, senior policy counsel at the Center for Responsible Lending, said even if a student manages to prove that they were defrauded, the department will not necessarily provide them any relief from their student loans. Instead, the student must prove evidence of financial harm, for instance by showing that they could not get a job in the field for which they earned a credential.
This is an excellent indicator of the complete disregard for students the administration has. To file a borrower defense claim when your school ripped you off... (Page 65) pic.twitter.com/POTX3Fjmou
— Ben Miller (@EduBenM) August 30, 2019
As in the draft rule, the final rule also prohibits the department from granting relief to an entire group of students when they are defrauded or their school closes. Instead, all students must apply individually for relief.
The new rule "does anything but defend students," said a prepared statement from James Kvaal, president of The Institute for College Access and Success. "It requires students to submit evidence that students do not have and cannot get, and it prevents students who were harmed as a group from getting relief as a group," the statement said. "By the Department's own estimates, their rule would discharge only a tiny fraction of the loans made to cheated borrowers."
Eric Kelderman writes about money and accountability in higher education, including such areas as state policy, accreditation, and legal affairs. You can find him on Twitter @etkeld, or email him at eric.kelderman@chronicle.com.
A version of this article appeared in the September 13, 2019, issue.
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Eric Kelderman covers issues of power, politics, and purse strings in higher education. You can email him at eric.kelderman@chronicle.com, or find him on Twitter @etkeld.


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NEXT GEN | SOCIAL JUSTICE
Veterans connect with next generation through storytelling
By Andrew Christianson and Miles Wilson, Cronkite News | Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020
PHOENIX – Reading about war from a book isn't nearly as personal as learning about it from someone who experienced combat firsthand. The Veterans Heritage Project, with the help of one-on-one interviews conducted by students, is collecting real war stories and experiences from military veterans to keep history's truth alive.
"One of the things I think the Marine Corps taught me is discipline," said Phil Yin, a Vietnam veteran, "and the Marine Corps has three words, actually: adapt, improvise and overcome. And I use those three words in my professional career all the time."
Yin's experiences were among those captured by the Veterans Heritage Project, whose platform gives middle school, high school and college students a chance to hear the truth about war.
"Their individual stories really capture, 'What is the cost of war?' It's a lot beyond words on a page or numbers … and students learn that historical events, they're nuanced," said Barbara Hatch, who founded the nonprofit project in 2004.
The impact of a veteran's words can be seen in the lives of students who've had the opportunity to connect with them.
"It's those kinds of stories that really stick with me … as well as the lessons of leadership and I think that you get more lessons from the stories after the conflict … after their service," said Jake Sonnenburg, president of the project's ASU chapter.
The Veterans Heritage Project does more than familiarize younger generations with history, said Michelle Dimuro, executive director of the project. Students are improving their writing and researching skills, as well as their confidence as a result of these interactions.
"You realize what they (the veterans) went through and what they overcame, that student then looks at their own life and realizes, 'My problems aren't that bad. I can work through this,'" she said.
For Yin, being interviewed brought up a lot of feelings he had been holding back, and he now better understands them by sharing his insights and experiences.
"I think all the schools, wherever, whatever town you go should have organizations like VHP," he said. "I think it's an excellent vehicle for the students to learn about history to learn about the different wars. Before you know it, if you don't capture that information, it's going to be lost … and what better way to capture it then to have a student one-on-one with a veteran that experienced that?"
The Veterans Heritage Project also has a speaker series in which veterans talk to students about their war experiences, and a scholarship program that has awarded more than $100,000 to allow students to pursue secondary education or to travel.
Video by Andrew Christiansen/Cronkite News
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Another year, another annual I Want To Knit list. I collect links to my currently coveted patterns here each year the week of my blog's birthday. It is a nice way to look forward to new creations. Here are the posts from previous years: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.
You may have noticed a couple baby knits snuck on the list last year, even though I didn't announce my pregnancy or baby's arrival until he… well, arrived at the end of summer. No hidden messages in my list this year, except that I am on maternity leave so lots of sitting around snuggling little AH.
I am trying to not carry over things from previous years, so the lists are different. But that doesn't mean I've knit all the items from last year's list. Far from it.
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Some recommended exercises designed by physiotherapists for Lateral Epicondylitis (Tennis Elbow). If you have pain on the outside of your elbow, these exercises may be of benefit to you. These exercises are some of the latest exercises physiotherapists and other health professionals recommend..
Some recommended exercises for plantar fasciitis and heel pain. These exercises are some of the latest exercises physiotherapists and other health professionals recommend when patients have plantar fasciitis and/or heel pain. The focus and exercises to start with may vary from patient to patient. ..


"What is Lean" is a training material, focused on preparing managers to build a Lean organisation. It covers the basics of the Lean Thinking, to provide a better understanding of Lean and its importance in Operational Excellence. The material gives a basic background on concepts, such as maximising customer value by eliminating waste, and the history of Lean. It also educates managers on the key elements of Lean, including the Five Principles of Lean Thinking (Value, Mapping, Flow, Pull and Perfection), the Seven Wastes or "Seven Muda" and how to identify waste in both production and the business processes.


Close up of the painting. I bought some enormous sheets of water colour card for Megan's art exam and am using the left overs cut up. I have enough for quite some time!!
What a lovely image and your colouring is so pretty & soft without being wishy-washy - beautiful card.


I've used Cramfs as my root but I get the following error when I try to run the X server. Can anyone help?
Would it help if I put the /usr/X11R6 in a different filesystem? If so, how to I edit the fstab accordingly?


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Meticulously handcrafted in the USA from your choice of solid oak (as shown) or walnut, this heirloom floral cremation urn is designed and crafted with multiple layered and engraved hardwoods to give it its color. Add engraved inscription to this wooden urn by selecting options above.


Tony Okechukwu Nwoye, has been declared the winner of the Anambra state governorship primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The 42-year-old medical doctor and politician scored 2,146 votes to beat his closest rival, businessman Andy Uba, who scored 931 votes.
Borno state governor Kashim Shetrima announced the result in Awka on Sunday after the keenly contested primary by 11 candidates for the November 18 governorship electiob..
The medical doctor, now a member of House of Representatives (Anambra East/West constituency) was a student union activist before becoming a politician.
He attended Metropolitan Secondary School, Onitsha for his secondary education from where he proceeded to study medicine in the University of Nigeria college of medicine.
In 2006, Nwoye became the substantive Chairman of the State Executive Committee of the Anambra State PDP.
The result is agog in the social media, especially twitter, with congratulatory messages and response.


We are a community of Catholic women who have come together from many different backgrounds and previous religious experience to live together the Teresian Carmelite vocation. We endeavour to witness to the gospel through a complete gift of ourselves to God in a life of love and service. Inspired by the spiritual way marked out for us by Saint Teresa of Avila, our primary mission in the Church is one of contemplative prayer and intercession.
Sacramental Confession Sacramental confession is available before Mass on Sundays or by private appointment with the priest in charge.
to take him as our only Saviour, our healing and our holiness.
You ask me what my work is in Carmel.
I could answer that for the Carmelite there is only one occupation: to love, to pray.
God wills that we communicate grace to each other through prayer with great love.
send light and grace over the whole Church.
The Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our works as the love with which they are done.


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Plastic gratings – fiberglas GFK
Floor steel gratings form the basic structural elements of work platforms and communication routes in building structures and technological equipment. We are happy to produce gratings for you in various material designs and for all purposes of use - welded SP gratings, pressed P gratings, anti-slip gratings, plastic gratings, as well as various more special gratings.
Welded (SP) steel grates - according to DIN 24537 - are structural elements which, due to their strength and high load-bearing capacity with relatively low weight and easy installation, belong to the most popular type of all available grate types. They form a group of very stable and at the same time visually attractive elements of various projects. During their production, non-load-bearing steel wires are resistively welded to the grate load-bearing strips under a pressure of 1000 kN and an electric current of 2000 kVA. The grating can be hot-dip galvanized or use various other finishes to meet the requirements of the project. We produce them in standard dimensions or exactly to your requirements.
Surface treatment: hot-dip zinc galvanised, coloring, without surface treatment.
Construction of welded floor steel gratings - type SP
SP type steel floor grates are made of three main elements:
1. bearing bar, which is:
a) flat steel with the most frequently used dimensions (height x thickness) 30 x 2 mm, 30 x 3 mm. In addition to these, other basic dimensions are produced according to the following table:
tape thickness 2 mm | 25 x 2 | 30 x 2 | 40 x 2 | 50 x 2 |
tape thickness 3 mm | 25 x 3 | 30 x 3 | 40 x 3 | 50 x 3 | 60 x 3
tape thickness 4 mm | 25 x 4 | 30 x 4 | 40 x 4 | 50 x 4 | 60 x 4 | 70 x 4
tape thickness 5 mm | 25 x 5 | 30 x 5 | 40 x 5 | 50 x 5 | 60 x 5 | 70 x 5 | 80 x 5
b) flat steel in anti-slip design on the bearing bar (see Anti-slip gratings), is used in places where there is a risk of injury due to slipping, icing, oils, etc.
2. non-bearing steel wire with a diameter of 4.8 mm
3. edging tape / profile, which is standard with the dimensions of the bearing bar. There is also the possibility of a different size and profile by mutual agreement with our employees.
Condition for production of SP grates > 1000 mm
Gratings with a non-bearing width > 1000 mm are made of two gratings. When designing platforms and footbridges from "SP" gratings, it is recommended to design a non-load-bearing grate width of 1000 mm according to the example shown in the figure below. Gratings with a non-bearing width of 1000 mm are usually cheaper and can be delivered in a shorter period of time.


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TV actor Amit Sarin and family test Covid positive
Published on : Sat 09th January 2021, 04:42 PM
Los Angeles, Jan 9 (IANS) Television actor Amit Sarin, who relocated to Los Angeles a few years back, has tested positive for Covid-19.
Amit's wife Vineesha and their two children have contracted the virus, too.
Known for his role in shows such as Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, Nisha Aur Uske Cousin, Pavitra Rishta, Amit enjoys a huge fan following in India and different parts of the world.
The actor, who is currently producing a film titled Tiger Heart, told IANS, "It has been six days now Vineesha, the kids and I have tested positive. Mentally, it was a jolt initially, but the good thing was that we were asymptomatic. And that is the silver lining."
"We have immediately boosted our intake of vitamin C, D and zinc. We are having lots of water and fresh vegetarian food. This will definitely help us overcome the deadly virus. Though we have developed antibodies naturally without a vaccine and won't be infectious to others, but we are not going to take that for granted and follow the rules by wearing a mask, washing hands regularly and maintaining social distancing till we are vaccinated," he added.
"Our daily routine has been the same, we are doing mostly the same thing which we have been doing the entire pandemic for the last 8 months spending lots of time together," Sarin said.
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Remaining landscaping, including the soccer field, will be installed in phases with completion expected spring 2019.
Foundations and columns for the trash enclosure north of the building have been installed.
The associated concrete pads are nearly complete as well.
Irrigation mains have been installed at the upper site.
New flatwork has been poured around the upper parking lot, and the shade structure has been successfully relocated.
Retaining wall installation is complete at the playground ramp and along the upper site slope.
The revised Expeditionary Learning principles are installed. f. The final Certificate of Occupancy was issued on December 7, 2018.
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Dirt from Adventure's construction site is being trucked over for use at Welby's construction site!


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Hi there, so far it's been a pleasant journey with airbit, thank you guys!
I'm trying to wrap my head around how I will handle free downloads and email-collection.
What if I offer free downloads in exchange for a social follow? Does Airbit collect the email address of those downloads as well and saves it to the downloadable .csv?
A better API integration to be able to send emails to different lists or a way to use custom fields/tags to start different campaigns for customers and leads.
Stats for free downloads to see which beats are getting downloaded for free.
Hi @SoulFyah, thanks for your feedback - I'm glad to hear you're mostly enjoying your experience.
Exchanging beats for a social follow does not record their email address - this can only be recorded if expressly requested & given.
Regarding the separate lists; this is not currently possible, but something we are aware would be useful - this could become a feature in the future.
I read somewhere in the forum that this is a feature that will be coming soon in the future.
However, I'm actually checking out sourceaudio.com cause they offer a content ID feature with DIY whitelisting for client's channels.
I'm on a free-month-test-account there and it would be a great timing now to know when this feature will be rolled out on airbit?
@sontwisted thanks for the reply, yeah sure I know this, but in airbit you can only select one list for both, customers and free downloaders. So they all get signed up to that one list first, and the rest I would have to do manually.
And I can't start a dedicated follow-up series or campaign for each group separately.
Just talking subscribers coming from the airbit integration.


My wife loves post-it notes. I even gave them to her for Christmas as a stocking stuffer…and she thought it was a good gift! And there's a good reason why: Post-its are awesome. You can use them for everything from leaving reminders to writing passive aggressive messages to strangers.
There are even apps to simulate post-its on your computer desktop, which clearly shows that my wife and I aren't the only ones fond of them.
Thankfully, for those of us in the pay per click marketing industry, Google offers its own version of post-it notes for Google AdWords users: Labels! They're not quite as fun as real life sticky notes, but AdWords labels are incredibly useful nonetheless.
Labels allow you to create color-coded tags in you can view in a column right next to your clicks, impressions and conversions at the Campaign, Ad Group, and, Ad, and Keyword levels. They're a great visual reminder for keeping track of all sorts of things, from campaign organization and much more.
AdWords labels have a lot of potential; but, like a post-it note, an AdWords label is only as useful as you make it. So, let's discuss a few ways to use labels for a more productive AdWords experience.
How Do I Create Labels in AdWords?
To create a label, just check one or more of your campaigns, ad groups, or keywords and then click the Labels drop-down and select Create New Or, you can apply an existing label by checking the appropriate box. To make things even easier, AdWords lets you apply multiple labels simultaneously.
You can also select Manage Labels to see a list of all active labels and delete ones that aren't in use. You can even change the label color if you aren't happy with the random color Adwords assigns to new labels.
In fact, custom color-coded labels can be extremely handy if you find yourself using lots of them—which just might be the case after you finish reading this!
Google recently added the ability to edit labels in its offline AdWords Editor software, something that becomes incredibly handy when you're making bulk changes. Editor can't create new labels, but you can assign and view existing ones with the Labels button on the bottom menu.
If you find yourself (like I sometimes do) working on AdWords accounts with hundreds of active campaigns, keeping track of what's happening where can be a pretty daunting task. For these campaigns, labels save you a lot of time and headache.
For example, let's say you have a nationwide, 50 state/50 campaign account. Every account has the same ad groups: Tall Widgets, Short Widgets, and Wide Widgets. You can apply an Ad Group label for each of those product categories to get a quick, at-a-glance view of all your different types of widgets across multiple campaigns. Or, you can use labels to group Search vs. Display campaigns, or to mark your top performing campaigns.
AdWords comes with fairly robust filtering system once you learn how to use it, and using labels can be a great way to simplify and save time for filtering tasks that you perform often.
For example, imagine your account has a lot of similar ads pointing to a variety of destination URLs. AdWords lets you filter by destination URL manually, but it might be simpler to create a label for every ad that points to a specific URL. That way, when you need to find ads with that URL, you can use the Filter By Label drop-down to select it. In addition, you can also filter by multiple labels at the same time.
Going back to our Widgets business, let's say you want to compare the performance of all Tall Widget ads with at least 20 conversions. If you've create a label for your Tall Widgets landing pages, you can filter by that label and then add your filter for greater than 20 conversions. Then you can sort the list by various AdWords columns, including Clicks, Impressions, Click Through Rate, and more!
If you've ever been in a relationship (business or personal!), chances are you've gotten in trouble at some point because you forgot something important. I know I have. Luckily, labels are a handy way to create visual reminders to check something and avoid problems.
For example, say I start testing a few new keywords in a specific AdWords campaign. Whenever I do new keyword tests I always create a calendar reminder to review the new keywords to make sure everything's working properly. Then, as a backup, I'll sometimes apply a label to the campaign as well, so next time I check the account I'll see a bright reminder that says "Review Keywords From July 20".
If you use this strategy, I recommend applying the label at the campaign level, even if your changes were to keywords, ads, or ad groups. That way you're more likely to see it later. Also, if you use a lot of reminders, use Manage Labels (mentioned above) to clear away unused ones periodically to avoid clutter.
This is probably the the most useful yet underused way to apply labels in AdWords. Lets face it, AdWords is big and complicated. If you're been managing an account for a long time (or if you're managing more than one account), it's easy to forget when you made a specific change or started a test.
AdWords has a nifty feature to track change history, but it's not always easy to use. Labels can help! I like to use them to track when I make significant changes to bids or ads, or when I create new keywords. Usually I'll include the date, and sometimes the amount of the change (i.e. "Raised Bids 20% Jul 20").
Then, when I'm reviewing account performance, I can use that date for easy before-and-after comparisons.
Labels are also really useful for changes AdWords doesn't track. For example, you might apply a label to a campaign with the date you changed a landing page or altered your checkout process, so if your numbers change as a result you'll have an easy reference point.
Hopefully you've been inspired to try out some new tactics for using labels in your AdWords accounts! (and seriously, Microsoft: get with the picture and add labels to Bing!). They're great for people who love to stay organized and even better for people like me who have trouble getting organized in the first place. My wife doesn't use AdWords; but, if she did, labels would be her favorite feature.
Have you found any creative or useful ways for using labels in your own campaigns? Let us know in the comments!
Casey is an account strategist and blogging/content and IT czar here at Disruptive Advertising. When he's not cuddling up to his cardboard cutout Chewbacca, he's cuddling up with his cardboard Jar Jar Binks.
What about automating this process? For labeling? As in, if I change a keyword, a rule would automatically label it for the day?
Choosing the best wording and the most persuasive calls to action are crucial in determining the success of your PPC ad campaign.


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Last week I talked about character agency – that is, characters actively making decisions that propel the narrative – with an example of a story that does that well and a couple that don't, one of them my own gaming efforts.
But how do stories like those latter ones happen? It's not like authors/scriptwriters/GMs think 'man, I'm all fired up to create a story in which the protagonists don't get to make any meaningful choices that affect the narrative'!
Well, maybe Zack Snyder. I'd believe anything of that guy.
Thinking it over this week, I came up with a few reasons why agency might get overlooked or forgotten in a story – hell, they're reasons why I've done that overlooking in the past. (And things I need to look out for while writing Raven's Bones at the moment.) Let me know if any of these sound familiar, as a writer, reader or viewer.
'Agency' is more than just acting, it's about making choices between options. Run away or fight back. Lady or Tiger. Shit or get off the pot. And often, just like in the real world, those decisions aren't based on a full understanding of all possibilities, because time is short and data is missing and important people are currently on fire.
All of that is fine. But there's an information threshold that decisions have to meet in order to be genuine, to be more than just surrendering to random chance. Come in below that point, and the character may as well just flip a coin. This is kind of realistic – it happens to us regular folks all the time – but it's frustrating and disengaging in real life, and it's more so in fiction.
We can't get excited by reading about someone blindfolded in a maze and stumbling randomly about. we get excited when the character peeks through the blindfold, or works out a way to navigate, or changes the rules of the game. We want characters to make a real decision, and that means that character knowing (or at least suspecting) what will happen when they do it.
Decisions that don't matter
If decisions drive stories, it's because the consequences of those decisions determine the outcomes of stories. A meaningful decision disrupts the flow of events, for good or ill, and the story has to take that change on board. And not just the right decisions – bad decisions are as important to character agency as good ones, maybe more so. A story where the reader worries that the characters have decided to do the wrong thing is one where the reader is invested in what's happening, and that's a winner.
But it's too damn easy to write a story that spends lots of time exploring or demonstrating a character but not let them really do anything to change outcomes. The character gets lots of spotlight time and they do a bunch of things, but those actions don't have consequences that alter the way things are moving – it's choices about what clothes to wear or which gun to shoot, rather than where to wear those clothes or who to shoot at.
Sometimes this happens in stories where the author loves the character too much to ever let them risk bad outcomes, so they go for no outcome instead. Sometimes it's about mistaking small decisions for 'relateable' decisions, an effort to keep the character grounded but instead just rooting them in place. It also happens A HELL OF A LOT in video games, where player decisions tend to be cosmetic or incidental, while the meaningful decisions get made by the 'character' (ie the game designers) during cut scenes.
Too much plot
And why are those decisions taken out of player hands in games? Because the game has a plot in which the next event has to happen, and then the event after that, and that, and that. (Not all video games, obviously, but a lot of them.) You can't screw up that workshopped plot, and waste all those expensive-to-produce graphics, by letting the player decide not to follow the trail all the way to the end.
It's easy to rag on games (I just did it!), but any narrative can get overwhelmed by plot, and by the desire to explore and go through with the great set of events, twists and payoffs that you've come up with. Plot's important, and you need to move from A to B to C to Q, and the audience wants that. But if plot happens to characters, rather than something that they make happen, they're more like a witness or catalyst rather than an active participant. Characters become passive or helpless, following the plot rather than creating it – which makes them seem ineffectual, even if the text says they're not, and makes it hard for the audience to engage with or identify with them.
Too much setting
The parallel to spending all your time pushing the plot onto the characters is when you spend all your time showcasing the setting of your story or world. And again, I get it. You have all this information you want to share! You have a detailed setting bible and a timeline of the world! You've got to show this to the reader somehow, and it's much better to let the character explore and appreciate the world around them than to just dump a bunch of exposition in the readers' laps!
All of this is true, and yeah, showcasing the setting is important, especially in stories that take place in totally fictional worlds. It helps make the setting seem real, and many readers want that experience of exploration and glimpsing wonders. But once that setting is displayed, the character needs to do something in or with it, or else what was the point? If the story would have taken the same course whether the protagonist was exploring the Purple Centipede Swamps or exploring a plain white room, then neither the setting or the character's engagement with it matters.
Give your setting the space it needs – and then let the character take hold of it and effect it. That jolts way more engagement from 99% of readers than ten pages of loving descriptions of giant arthropod mating rituals.
(And if you're in that 1% – hey, you be you.)
Too much tone
This one's a bit tricky to unpack, but… horror is a genre that's all about helplessness, right? So it makes sense that characters are helpless and can't change things. War stories are all about being part of something bigger than you, so emphasising a character's lack of impact reinforces the theme. And an exciting chase story isn't going to work if the characters are always stopping and deliberating on what to do – it'd totally ruin the pacing and feel!
All of these things are true, and this might be the biggest thing that gets between storytellers and character agency. It's why I stumbled so badly with my DRYH game – it's a game about horror, weirdness and hallucinatory paranoia, and having characters in control of situations would diminish that.
But there's a big excluded middle between 'powerless to effect things' and 'tone-destroying competence', and too many writers (myself included) push things to the wrong end in trying to maintain the feel we want for stories. Instead, we should be looking at ways in characters can be active within the tonal confines of the story – how to present them with decisions that reinforce the desired themes and style, rather than damage them.
How to do that?
Well, I've got some ideas, but I'm already 1200 words into this diatribe, so I'll carry this over for one more week.
Stay excited. And leave comments if you have any thoughts.
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