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Television pilot
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For a list of television episodes titled "Pilot", see Pilot (television episode).
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A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie) is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell the show to a television network. At the time of its creation, the pilot is meant to be the testing ground to gauge whether a series will be successful. It is, therefore, a test episode for the intended television series, an early step in the series development, much like pilot studies serve as precursors to the start of larger activity.
In the case of a successful television series, the pilot is commonly the very first episode that is aired of the particular series under its own name; the episode that gets the series "off the ground". A "backdoor pilot" is an episode of an existing successful series, featuring future tie-in characters of an up-and-coming television series or film. Its purpose is to introduce the characters to an audience before the creators decide on whether or not they intend to pursue a spin-off series with those characters.
Television networks use pilots to determine whether an entertaining concept can be successfully realized and whether the expense of additional episodes is justified. A pilot is best thought of as a prototype of the show that is to follow, because elements often change from pilot to series. Variety estimates that only a little over a quarter of all pilots made for American television proceed to the series stage.[1] Most pilots are never publicly screened if they fail to sell a series.
1 Pilot season
2 Types of pilots
2.1 Standard pilot
2.1.1 Presentation
2.1.2 Broadcast
2.1.2.1 Multiple airings
2.2 Demo
2.3 Backdoor pilot
2.4 Unintentional pilot
2.5 Put pilot
2.6 Unsold pilot
2.7 10/90
3 As distinguished from "first episode"
Pilot seasonEdit
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Each summer, the major American broadcast television networks – including ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox, and NBC – receive about 500 brief elevator pitches each for new shows from writers and producers. That fall, each network requests scripts for about 70 pitches and, the following January, orders about 20 pilot episodes.[2] Actors come to Los Angeles from within the area or elsewhere in the United States and around the world to audition for them. By spring, actors are cast and production crews assembled to produce the pilots.[3]
Casting is a lengthy and very competitive process. For the 1994 pilot of Friends, casting director Ellie Kanner reviewed more than 1,000 actors' head shots for each of the six main roles. She summoned 75 actors for each role to audition, then chose some to audition again for the show's creators. Of this group, the creators chose some to audition again for Warner Bros. Television executives, who chose the final group of a few actors to audition for NBC executives; as they decide whether to purchase a pilot, network executives generally have ultimate authority over casting.[4] Since the networks work on the same shared schedule, directors, actors, and others must choose the best pilot to work for with the hopes that the network will choose it. If it is not chosen, they have wasted their time and money and may have missed out on better career opportunities.[5]
Once they have been produced, the pilots are presented to studio and network executives, and in some cases to test audiences; at this point, each pilot receives various degrees of feedback and is gauged on its potential to advance from one pilot to a full-fledged series. Using this feedback, and factoring in the current status and future potential of their existing series, each network chooses about four to eight pilots for series status.[2] The new series are then presented at the networks' annual upfronts in May, where they are added to network schedules for the following season (either for a fall or "mid-season" winter debut), and at the upfront presentation, the shows are shown to potential advertisers and the networks sell the majority of the advertising for their new pilots.[5] The survival odds for these new series are low, as typically only one or two of them survive for more than one season.[2]
Types of pilotsEdit
Standard pilotEdit
PresentationEdit
If a network is not completely sold on a potential series' premise but still wants to see its on-screen execution, and since a single pilot can be expensive to produce, a pilot presentation may be ordered. Depending on the potential series' nature, a pilot presentation is a one-day shoot that, when edited together, gives a general idea of the look and feel of the proposed show. Presentations are usually between seven and ten minutes. However, these pilot-presentations will not be shown on the air unless more material is subsequently added to them to make them at least 22 or 45 minutes in length, the actual duration of a nominally "30 minute" or "60 minute" television program (taking into account television commercials that fill the remaining time). Occasionally, more than one pilot is commissioned for a particular proposed television series to evaluate what the show would be like with modifications. Star Trek: The Original Series and All in the Family are famous examples of this presentation-to-pilot-to-series situation.
An example of change between the making of a pilot and the making of a series is To Tell the Truth in 1956. The show's original title at pilot was Nothing But the Truth and was hosted by Mike Wallace; by the time it became a series, the title was changed and Bud Collyer was tapped as host.
BroadcastEdit
Pilots usually run as the first episode of the series, and more often than not are used to introduce the characters and their world to the viewer. However, the post-pilot series may become so different that it would not make sense for the pilot to be aired. In this case, the pilot (or portions of it) is often re-shot, recast, or rewritten to fit the rest of the series. The pilot for Gilligan's Island, for instance, showed the castaways becoming stranded on the island. However, three roles were recast before going to series, with the characters either modified or completely altered to the point where the pilot could no longer be used as a regular episode. As a result, CBS aired Gilligan's second produced episode, which had the characters already stranded on the island, first; the story from the pilot was largely reworked into a flashback episode which aired later (with several key scenes re-shot). Even Gilligan's theme song, which was originally done as a calypso number, was rewritten and recomposed to be completely different. Another example was in the original Star Trek where most of the footage of the original pilot, "The Cage," was incorporated into the acclaimed two-part episode, "The Menagerie," with the story justification that it depicted events that happened several years earlier. Conversely, the second pilot for Star Trek, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", aired as the third episode of the show's first season, even though it included some casting and costuming differences that set it apart from the preceding episodes (enough that a literary work based on one of its spin-offs would actually place the episode in a parallel universe).
If a network orders a two-hour pilot, it will usually broadcast it as a television film to recoup some of the costs even if the network chooses to not order the show.[6] Sometimes, a made-for-TV-movie is filmed as the pilot, but because of actors not being available, the series intro is reshot and the first reshot episode is considered the pilot. The original Cagney & Lacey movie co-starred Loretta Swit (of M*A*S*H fame) as Chris Cagney, but when she could not get out of her contract, they reshot it with Meg Foster, who after the first season was replaced with Sharon Gless; therefore, the original movie is not considered a pilot, and is not included in the series collections on DVD. In some cases, this does not hamper broadcast, such as Jackie Cooper playing the role of Walter Carlson in the TV movie pilot of the 1975 series The Invisible Man, but replaced by Craig Stevens for the remainder of the series; the pilot is still considered part of the series and released to DVD as such. Likewise, The Homecoming: A Christmas Story had an almost entirely different cast than the series it was intended to pilot (The Waltons), but both were rerun for many years.
Multiple airingsEdit
The majority of TV pilots are aired twice (typically in September and December), while some have aired more times.
Examples of pilots airing three times, typically in September, December, and June, include:
Scrubs (first airing: 15.4 million; second airing: 10 million; third airing: 6.5 million)
Medium (first airing: 16.1 million; second airing: 9.3 million; third airing: 5.2 million)
The Office (first airing: 11.2 million; second airing: 3.4 million; third airing: 4.2 million)
Ghost Whisperer (first airing: 11.3 million; second airing: 8.8 million; third airing: 4.9 million)
The Good Wife (first airing: 13.7 million; second airing: 5 million; third airing: 6.9 million)
Some examples of pilots airing more than three times:
ABC aired the pilot of Lost five times (first airing: 18.7 million viewers; second airing: 8.8 million; third airing: 11.6 million; fourth airing: 8.1 million; fifth airing: 6.4 million)
Desperate Housewives (first airing: 21.6 million; second airing: 7 million; third airing: 12.9 million; fourth airing: 7.4 million)
My Name Is Earl (first airing: 15.2 million; second airing: 5.3 million; third airing: 8.3 million; fourth airing: 4.8 million)
DemoEdit
Since the mid-1990s, television producers and networks have increasingly used presentation tapes called "demos" in lieu of full-length pilots.[7] These demos tend to be substantially shorter than a standard episode, and make limited use of original sets and post-production elements. The idea is merely to showcase the cast and the writing. These types of pilots are rarely broadcast, if ever, although the material is sometimes partially fitted onto a future episode of the resulting series. A demo prepared at an early stage, normally using amateur equipment, is also known as a sizzle reel.[8]
Some series sold using demos:[citation needed]
Knowing Me, Knowing You... with Alan Partridge
PB&J Otter
Superman: The Animated Series
Saul of the Mole Men
The "demo" episode is not a new concept, as The Munsters was sold on the basis of a 13-minute demo episode in 1964, as was the original version of Jeopardy! the same year (though the latter's host Art Fleming and creator Merv Griffin both insisted NBC had already greenlit the show before that demo was made). Who's Afraid of Diana Prince? in the late 1960s attempted without success to launch a comedic Wonder Woman series.
Backdoor pilotEdit
A backdoor pilot is a film or miniseries that serves as a proof of concept for a full series,[9] but may be broadcast on its own even if the full series is not picked up.[10] The term may also be used for an episode of a currently running show that serves to introduce a spin-off. Such backdoor pilots commonly focus on an existing character or characters from the parent series who are to be given their own show.
For example, to introduce A Different World, built around Cosby Show character Denise Huxtable (Lisa Bonet), the Cosby Show episode "Hillman" was devoted to Denise's visit to the college that would become the new show's setting, and her encounters with some of the new show's supporting characters. A 2018 episode of ABC's 1980s-set sitcom The Goldbergs, titled "1990-Something", heavily featured teachers who were recurring characters on the series and served as the backdoor pilot to Schooled, which debuted in early 2019.[11]
In other cases, however, an episode of the parent show may also focus on one or more guest characters who have not previously appeared in the show; for example, the JAG season eight episodes "Ice Queen" and "Meltdown" introduced the characters for what would become NCIS, while the NCIS season six "Legend Part 1" and "Legend Part 2", two-part episode introduced the characters for what would become the NCIS spin-off series, NCIS: Los Angeles and the NCIS season 11 two-part episode, "Crescent City", introduced the characters for what would become NCIS: New Orleans.
Similarly, the backdoor pilot for the television sitcom Empty Nest was an episode of The Golden Girls, which relegated that show's regular stars to supporting characters in an episode devoted to new characters who were introduced as their neighbors. Feedback on the episode resulted in Empty Nest being extensively reworked before its debut; while the concept and the "living next to the Golden Girls" setting was retained, the series ended up featuring different characters from those in the original Golden Girls episode.
In a 2011 episode of the TV Land original sitcom Hot in Cleveland focused on the wedding of the Elka character (Betty White). Boyce Ballentine (Cedric the Entertainer), an R&B singer-turned-preacher, was introduced as the pastor for the wedding, with the intention to give the Boyce character his own series on the network. That came to fruition in 2012, when TV Land introduced The Soul Man.[12]
Not all backdoor pilots lead to a series. In 1968, the Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth" was intended as the pilot for a spin-off of the same name, featuring a human named Gary Seven (played by Robert Lansing), taken from Earth's far past and raised by aliens to be sent to watch over Earth in the 1960s; while the series was not picked up, its characters have appeared in numerous non-canon Trek productions set in the 20th century.[13]
ABC attempted to create a spin-off of Charlie's Angels in 1980 called Toni's Boys.[14] The backdoor pilot that aired near the end of season four was simply titled "Toni's Boys" (season 4, episode 23) and guest starred Barbara Stanwyck as Antonia "Toni" Blake, a wealthy widow and friend of Charlie Townsend's who ran a detective agency. The agency was staffed by three handsome male detectives—Cotton Harper (Stephen Shortridge), Matt Parrish (Bruce Bauer), and Bob Sorensen (Bob Seagren)—who took direction from Toni and solved crimes in a manner similar to the Angels. The show was not picked up as a regular series for the following season.[15]
The series finale of One Day at a Time in May 1984 was supposed to serve as a backdoor pilot to a spin-off featuring Pat Harrington, Jr.'s character of Dwayne Schneider in a new setting, but CBS ultimately passed on the potential series.[16] Similarly, the 1988 two-part series finale of The Facts of Life {"The End of the Beginning" and "The Beginning of the Beginning") also served as a backdoor pilot that focused on the decision Blair Warner (Lisa Whelchel) made in using her trust fund to purchase the financially troubled Eastland Academy. Blair became headmaster and opened enrollment to male students for the first time in Eastland history. Among the new students, some were played by: Juliette Lewis, Mayim Bialik, Seth Green, and Meredith Scott Lynn.[17] NBC did not pick up the new series.
The Dukes of Hazzard aired two episodes, named "Jude Emery" and "Mason Dixon's Girls", which served as a backdoor pilot complete with the Dukes cast interacting with the new characters. Ultimately, CBS passed on the two series in favor of a series starring Hazzard County deputy Enos Strate. Another example within sitcoms would be a season 2 episode of The Nanny called "The Chatterbox", which centered around a struggling actress who gets a job at a barbershop owned by a single father.[citation needed]
In an example from June 2010, Lifetime pursued a spinoff procedural drama of Army Wives featuring Brigid Brannagh's character, police officer Pamela Moran.[18] The fourth-season episode "Murder in Charleston" was intended to serve as a backdoor pilot for the proposed spin-off.[18] The episode sees Moran teaming up with an Atlanta-based detective on a murder that is related to a case she has been working on for the past three years. At the end of the episode, the detective encourages Moran to take a detective's exam, and to look for her if she is in Atlanta.[19] In September 2010, however, Lifetime declined to pick up the project to series.[20]
In 2013, The CW announced there was a spin-off of their genre hit Supernatural in the works. The 20th episode of season nine titled Bloodlines, served as a back-door pilot, revealed in January 2014 to have been titled Supernatural: Bloodlines. The series was set to explore the "clashing hunter and monster cultures in Chicago". The show was not picked up by the CW for the 2014–2015 season due to dismal overall reception by viewers.
The Gossip Girl episode "Valley Girls" was supposed to be a backdoor pilot for a prequel spin-off series starring Brittany Snow as a young Lily van der Woodsen, however the show was not picked up. "The Farm" was an episode of NBC's The Office that was supposed to act as a backdoor pilot for a spin-off series starring Rainn Wilson and focusing on his character, Dwight Schrute.[21] Upon review, the spin-off was not picked up by NBC[22] and the original version was never aired; instead it was reworked with additional material shot later, as the original version contained "certain aspects that were appropriate for a pilot of a new show".[23]
A historically important venue for backdoor pilots has been the anthology series. They have variously been used as a place to show work still being actively considered for pickup, and as a venue for completed work already rejected by the network. With the decline of anthology series, backdoor pilots have increasingly been seen as episodes of existing series,[24] one-off television films, and miniseries. As backdoor pilots have either failed to sell or are awaiting audience reception from its one-time broadcast, networks will not advertise them as pilots, only promoting them as a "special" or "movie". It is thus often unclear to initial viewers of backdoor pilots that they are seeing a pilot of any kind, unless they have been privy to knowledgeable media coverage of the piece.
In one extraordinary case, an unsold pilot was released as a theatrical film. A 1956 attempt to create a television vehicle for film and radio stars Lum and Abner was not picked up as a series, but the three pilot episodes produced as proof of concept for the series were strung together and released as a theatrical film titled Lum and Abner Abroad.
Unintentional pilotEdit
While, as listed above, there are many telemovies or episodes within series intended as pilots, there are also often telemovies or episodes within other series that are so popular that they inspire later television series. Popular examples are South Park, which began as a duo of shorts its creators made at college; The Simpsons, which began as an occasional comic short within The Tracey Ullman Show; and Family Guy, which began life as a short, titled The Life of Larry. A two-part episode of The Six Million Dollar Man introduced the character of Jaime Sommers who, despite dying in the story, was popular enough to narratively return to life and a spinoff series, The Bionic Woman, was commissioned. The 2006 Doctor Who episode "School Reunion" was intended as a one-off reunion appearance by Sarah Jane Smith, but ended up leading to a spin-off series, The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Put pilotEdit
A put pilot is a pilot that the network has agreed to air either as a special or series. If the network does not air the pilot episode, the network will owe substantial monetary penalties to the studio. Generally, this guarantees that the pilot will be picked up by the network.[25]
Unsold pilotEdit
Unsold television pilots are pilots developed by a company that is unable to sell to a network for showing.
There have been numerous pilots for game shows that have been rejected by American television networks or syndicators:
Boggle (pilot filmed in 1988; series aired in 1994)
PokerFace (2007)
The Cube (2009)
The Exit List (2011)
TriBond (2002)
Trivial Pursuit (pilot filmed in 1986; series aired in 1993)
The Whole 19 Yards (2010)
10/90Edit
In a 10/90 production model, a network broadcasts ten episodes of a new television program without ordering a pilot first. If the episodes achieve a predetermined ratings level, the network orders 90 more to bring the total to 100 episodes, immediately enough to rerun the show in syndication. Series that used the 10/90 model include Tyler Perry's House of Payne, Meet the Browns, For Better or Worse, Debmar-Mercury's Anger Management,[26] and Are We There Yet?. Byron Allen's sitcoms followed a similar model, with Mr. Box Office and The First Family airing 26-episode first seasons with the intention of following them up with a full 104-episode order if successful; both series failed to reach the threshold Allen sought, though they remained in limited production (three to four new episodes a year, mixed in with the first season) for a few years afterward.
As distinguished from "first episode"Edit
A pilot episode is generally the first episode of a new show, shown to the heads of the studio to whom it is marketed.
The television industry uses the term differently from most viewers. Viewers frequently consider the first episode available for their viewing to be the pilot. They therefore assume that the first episode broadcast is also the episode that sold the series to the network. This is not always true, however, in part because of the factors mentioned above. For instance, the episode "Invasion of the Bane" was not a pilot for The Sarah Jane Adventures because the BBC had committed to the first series before seeing any filmed content[27] – yet it is routinely referred to as a pilot.[28][29] In the Canadian supernatural drama Lost Girl, the pilot that sold the series to Showcase, "Vexed", was used as the eighth episode of the first series.[30] In the case of Firefly, the original pilot (Serenity) which was intended to serve as the series premiere was rejected by the network, and a new first episode, Train Job, was shot specifically for broadcast.[31]
Sometimes, too, viewers will assign the word "pilot" to a work that represented the first appearances of characters and situations later employed by a series – even if the work was not initially intended as a pilot for the series. A good example of this is "Love and the Television Set" (later retitled "Love and the Happy Days" for syndication), an episode of Love, American Style that featured a version of the Cunningham family. It was in fact a failed pilot for the proposed 1972 series New Family in Town, but was a successful pilot for 1974's Happy Days.[32] So firmly embedded is the notion of it as a Happy Days pilot, however, that even series actress Erin Moran viewed it as such, as well as its creator, Garry Marshall.[33]
On other occasions, the pilot is never broadcast on television at all. Viewers of Temple Houston, for example, would likely have considered "The Twisted Rope" its pilot because "The Man from Galveston" was only publicly exhibited in cinemas four months later. Even then, "The Man from Galveston" had an almost entirely different cast, and its main character was renamed to avoid confusion with the then-ongoing series.
RatingsEdit
List of highest rated television pilots which attracted 28 million or more viewers in America:
(in millions)
1 A Different World 38.9 31.3% September 24, 1987 NBC
2 Undercover Boss 38.7 19.1% February 7, 2010 CBS
Lead in: Super Bowl XLIV Post Game 75.5 33%
3 The Last Precinct 39.7 N/A January 26, 1986 NBC
4 Dolly 37.4 24.7% September 27, 1987 ABC
5 Veronica's Closet 35.07 [1] 23.3% September 25, 1997 NBC
6 Twin Peaks 34.6 [2] 21.7% April 8, 1990 (two hours) ABC
7 Brothers and Sisters 31.722 N/A January 21, 1979 NBC
8 Full House 31.3 21.7% September 22, 1987 ABC
9 Roseanne 30.8 23.7% October 18, 1988
10 Grand Slam 30.765 N/A January 28, 1990 CBS
11 seaQuest DSV 30.4 (8–10pm) [3] 17.8 rating September 12, 1993 NBC
12 Chicken Soup 30.2 21.8% September 12, 1989 ABC
13 Suddenly Susan 30.1 [4] 20.4% September 19, 1996 NBC
14 Caroline in the City 30.0 20.5% September 21, 1995
15 Delta 30.0 20.5% September 15, 1992 ABC
16 Dear John 30.0 19.8% October 6, 1988 NBC
17 The Single Guy 29.1 19.2 September 21, 1995
18 Frasier 28.1 19.3% September 16, 1993
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Further readingEdit
Goldberg, Lee (2015). Unsold Television Pilots, 1955-1989. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. 828pp. ISBN 9781511590679.
Terrace, Vincent (2013). Encyclopedia of Television Pilots, 1937-2012. McFarland. 380pp. ISBN 9781476602493.
NYTimes: No Smooth Ride on TV Networks' Road to Diversity (2009)
Television Obscurities - Unsold Pilots on Television, 1956-1966
Pilot Season Secrets: Are You Ready?
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Television_pilot&oldid=936434289#Backdoor_pilot"


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On top of the challenge that comes with facing a talented Cubs team, the Dodgers will need to solve two left-handed starters during the three-game series. They draw Jon Lester in the series opener, and former teammate Brett Anderson in the finale on Thursday.
After this week, Chicago and Los Angeles will next meet May 26 for the start of a three-game set at Dodger Stadium.


Basically Sao Paulo is a big city. There really isn't anything too spectacular to distinguish it from other large cities around the world, except that is it the fourth largest, with a population of about 19 million. Because it isn't really on the tourist radar, English is harder to come by than other foreign cities; my high school Spanish to the rescue – well, sort of. It took me a few trys to make sure the movie we were going to see had only Portuguese subtitles (not dubbed), but I managed to get it right. Given that I haven't had any Spanish in almost seven years, and Spanish is still a different (though quite similar) language than Portuguese, I think I did fairly well for myself (and Matt).
While sitting in a churrascaria (Brazilian restaurant, basically a meat buffet – though Wikipedia describes it a little better) Matt wants to order a beer, though is completely unable to communicate that to the waiter, without the typical point and grunt method provided by a menu. I step in and end up getting him exactly what he wants. I then ask Matt what he would do without me; "go to McDonald's" was his only response.


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Dogwood Turns 10
July 1, 2009 | Maggie Gilbert
My first project as Dogwood's new Development Assistant was to help plan our 10th Anniversary party. It turns out planning a 10th anniversary party is probably the best way to get to know your new place of employment, its history, supporters, friends and sponsors.
Dogwood has developed a vast community over its 10 years. The lists of these started out long and as the date neared continued to get longer. More supporters, more partners, more businesses were brought forward by the staff – "can't forget so-and-so", "don't forget to ask such-and-such!" As I reviewed the lists again and again I became intimately aware of all the names of our supporters; though I would have to wait for the party to put faces to all those names.
A new set of names also came forward as we neared the anniversary. New businesses that had never worked with Dogwood before were thrilled at being asked to participate and quickly offered up silent auction items with words of gratitude for the projects Dogwood works on. A quick email to students at UVIC gathered a new crowd to the party to mingle with the gathering of founders, past staff, board members and long-time supporters.
As I struck out to find photos for a slideshow I learned more about Dogwood's progress and actions over the years. Photos abounded of Dogwood work with First Nations, young people, Raging Grannies, coastal British Columbian's and northern residents. It became clear that Dogwood has touched people throughout BC and has worked on some of the most important issues in the province.
It's fitting that Dogwood Initiative's 10th Anniversary Party included five BRAND NEW staff members. The team at Dogwood has stretched from eight to 13 almost overnight, demonstrating that Dogwood's work is as pertinent today as it was 10 years ago.
What better way could there possibly be to excite and engage new staff than to bring together the amazing community of people that have brought Dogwood to where it is today? What better way could there possibly be to reassure the long-time supporters than to show a growing Dogwood – full of people inspired to continue the mission? What better way could there be to celebrate 10 strong years and push our way into the next 10?
Happy Birthday Dogwood!

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package org.cloudfoundry.client.v2.featureflags;

import org.junit.Test;

public final class GetFeatureFlagRequestTest {

    @Test(expected = IllegalStateException.class)
    public void badName1() throws Exception {
        GetFeatureFlagRequest.builder()
            .name("mustn't have spaces or / chars (or quotes, or parentheses, or commas)")
            .build();
    }

    @Test(expected = IllegalStateException.class)
    public void badName2() throws Exception {
        GetFeatureFlagRequest.builder()
            .name("good_name_with_bad_at_end ")
            .build();
    }

    @Test(expected = IllegalStateException.class)
    public void badName3() throws Exception {
        GetFeatureFlagRequest.builder()
            .name("good_name_with_bad_at_end.")
            .build();
    }

    @Test(expected = IllegalStateException.class)
    public void noName() throws Exception {
        GetFeatureFlagRequest.builder()
            .build();
    }

    @Test
    public void valid() throws Exception {
        GetFeatureFlagRequest.builder()
            .name("test_feature_flag_name")
            .build();
    }

}

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The comedian Michelle Wolf made headlines at this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, where she was both commended and condemned for her ballsy jokes about Roy Moore ("I am 32 years old, which is an odd age — 10 years too young to host this event, and 20 years too old for Roy Moore") and Sarah Huckabee Sanders ("I think she's very resourceful. She burns facts, and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye"), to name a few. Now, she has her own half-hour variety show on Netflix, which offers a mix of stand-up and sketch comedy, delivered with her signature bite, as well as guest appearances.
If you loved what you saw on Netflix, Michelle Wolf's 2017 HBO special, Nice Lady, is worth watching. Wolf offers a mash-up of fart jokes and personal confession, both of which are somehow brilliantly spun into incisive political commentary. Don't be fooled by Wolf's showmanship (her act includes character work and shifts in voice to deeper and more nasal registers for comedic affect); her critique of gender relationships and women "having it all" is unsparing. Then again, she warned you: Michelle Wolf is not a "nice lady."
With 110 episodes at 100 minutes each, Midsomer Murders, available for streaming on Acorn and Amazon Prime, is for those seeking a substantive series to get lost in. The writer, Anthony Horowitz (who also wrote the detective series Foyle's War and acclaimed mystery-within-mystery novel Magpie Murders), has a distinctive knack for making everyday characters and relationships interesting and complex, and Midsomer Murders is no exception.
If you missed I, Tonya in theaters, be sure to stream it this month on Hulu. Director Craig Gillsepie takes Tonya Harding's life story, one beset by domestic violence, poverty, and one of the most bizarre scandals in history, and turns it into a gritty and surprising dark comedy. Margot Robbie as Tonya and Oscar-winner Allison Janney as Tonya's mother are absolute knockouts, and the skating scenes are masterful.
Starring athletes Tonya Harding, Adam Rippon, and Josh Norman, Dancing with the Stars' short four-week season has its finale this week. Though not without controversy and tears, this season has been especially fun to watch. A nice complement to your home-viewing of I, Tonya on Hulu.


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University of Arizona Student Awarded NASA Spacegrant Fellowship
Doctoral student, Theresa Foley (advisor, Eric Betterton) has been awarded a NASA Spacegrant Fellowship to work with the UA Superfund Basic Research Program (UA SBRP), US EPA and Sonora Environmental Research Institute, Inc (SERI), to analyze and translate airborne metals data into useful information.
The UA/NASA Space Grant Program provides six fellowships per year to graduate students studying science and engineering. Space Grant fellows are required to complete an educational outreach project as part of their fellowship. As a 2008 Space Grant fellow, Theresa will be conducting her outreach program in partnership with the UA SBRP and SERI, a non-profit Tucson organization that seeks to enhance community involvement in health and environmental issues. SERI focuses much of its effort in the largely Hispanic neighborhoods located on the south side of Tucson. SERI has created an innovative environmental health education program, Community Assist of Southern Arizona (CASA). CASA implements its goals through a Promotora program in which individuals South Tucson neighborhoods are trained in environmental health issues and conduct community outreach.
The Pima County Department of Environmental Quality Air Division monitors beryllium at six PM10 monitoring sites located in the Sunnyside Unified School District in South Tucson. SERI has obtained funding to analyze the same PM10 samples for seven additional metals: lead, arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, manganese and nickel. Theresa will be analyzing the metals data and translating her results into a format that is culturally sensitive and relevant for Mexican and Mexican American residents in Tucson. She will create informational brochures, which will be translated into Spanish, discussing the results of the beryllium study, the health effects of various metals and concentrations of naturally occurring metals in Arizona. Theresa will also be conducting an outreach program giving presentations to neighborhood associations and parent-teacher associations within the Sunnyside School District. An important part of Theresa's outreach program will be training the Promotoras from CASA.
Metals research, specifically arsenic, is an important part of the UA SBRP. Please refer to the UA SBRP research projects for more information.
Please join us in congratulating Theresa on this prestigious fellowship.


The Child Care Human Resources Sector Council released a report entitled Literature Review of Socioeconomic Effects and Net Benefits: Understanding and Addressing Workforce Shortages in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Project.
The report shows that investing in early childhood education and care not only benefits children and families, but it also creates the maximum possible jobs while passing the most revenue to government.
Child care grows the economy. Every dollar invested in child care programs increases GDP (economic output) by $2.30—one of the strongest levels of short-term economic stimulus of all sectors, and far ahead of construction and manufacturing.
Child care creates jobs. Investing $1 million in the child care sector generates almost 40 jobs—at least 40% higher than the next closest industry, and four times the jobs generated by investing $1 million in construction activity.
Child care more than pays for itself. Even in the short term, more than 90% of the cost of hiring child care workers goes back to governments as increased revenue, and the federal government gains the most. Over the long term, every dollar invested in quality child care programs returns $2.54 in benefits to society.


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S.O.P.H.I.A. Is One Bad Chick: A Look Back At Blaster Master
It has been said that Japanese publishers are fairly nervous about what they bring to the US market, and we typically miss out on some gems in the process of that apprehension. One game that successfully broke that mold and became more popular in the US than it was in Japan was Sunsoft's Blaster Master (Chô Wakusei Senki Metafight in Japan). since the story was told through a few short cut scenes, it was easy to rework the story to make it more palatable
to gamers outside of Japan, and they changed the game's title. With Blaster Master, Sunsoft effectively created a game the size of Metroid, that was also linear like Super Mario Bros, and had a challenge in spots that was on par with Mega Man. Sunsoft unsuspectingly localized a been there, done that, game like Metafight into gaming history and created one of the 8 Bit generations biggest cult hits. The gameplay in Blaster is pretty straightforward. The game is broken into 8 levels that can only be entered after acquiring an item from the previous levels boss. The playfield takes place in side scrolling areas where the player will control Jason's Tank, S.O.P.H.I.A., or they can make Jason exit the tank to get to harder to reach areas. Interior ares where boss battles take place. During the course of the game, S.O.P.H.I.A. will gain new weapons and abilities, like the ability to hover and fire homing missiles. The boss fights are all pretty much the same save for a few different attacks the bosses do, but they all fall with enough shots from Jason's gun or grenades. Sunsoft has tried over the years to capitalize on the long standing popularity of Blaster Master by releasing a port of Hudson's Bomberman as Blaster Master Boy on the original Gameboy, they released a sequel called Blaster Master 2 on the Sega Genesis, a 3D update called Blaster Master: Blasting Again on the Sony Playstation, Blaster Master: Enemy Below on the Game Boy Color, and Blaster Master Overdrive, a remake of the original game, for Nintendo's WiiWare service. Thankfully though, Nintendo's Virtual Console service and they high popularity of the original game have made it quite plentiful if you happen to be looking for a copy.
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I have found a new love! I know it might sound silly but it's true. It all started with a wedding (doesn't it always?). My friends got married as few months back and at the same time bought their first house (completed the day they got back from their honeymoon!). Neither of them really had anything to put in the house, it being a first for both of them, so as a wedding present I got them some vouchers to help furnish the house. However being a sewing bee and feeling that this was a little impersonal (ok, that's just an excuse, I wanted to make them something) I decided to make them some tea towels as well. I chose some egg blue linen and some turquoise linen/cotton mix and made the tea towels (47cm by 64cm including seam allowance). I have to say that I was pleased with how the colours complimented each other however they were still a little bland. So I did what I've never really done before and…….(drum roll please)…… decided to embroider a pattern onto each tea towel. Oh I have done embroidery before, on small items, such as my phone case or my changing bag, but it's always been simple running or back stitch. To be honest I've done cross stitch but have either got bored; got lost or wanted to go off on my own rather than following the pattern, so most of my cross stitch endeavours lie half finished at the bottom of my sewing box (terrible I know!). I have always found embroidery daunting. It look beautiful but I was (still am to be honest) doubtful to whether I could pull off the finish. My Great Aunt taught me the basics of sewing (cross stitch mostly) and so I've mainly taught myself. Most of my stuff is pretty basic, but I love it.
Anyway, getting back to the story: I decided to embroider two different designs onto these tea towels. I made four, so one design on each colour. I had recently found a book called doodle stitching which not only gives you an easy to follow run through of different stitches but also, I feel the writer gets across her passion for stitching, whatever you like – basically stitching your doodles. I had never really though of it before. It inspired me to embroider these tea towels and I have to admit, once I'd finished them, I was hooked! I love it. It is so relaxing. I can't draw very well. My whole family is amazingly creative (my sisters did fine art and graphics at Uni) but I have never been able to draw. Put something into my hands however and I can make it into something. Embroidery is like that for me.
Unfortunately I haven't a picture of my (now) famous tea towels as the light was too bad to take any good photos. Anyway, It's probably for the best as they were supposed to be a personal gift. I do however have a picture of the project I did next.
This is my Poppy Bag. I know that there isn't much embroidery on it however it was designed with the poppies in mind. I got the pattern from my favourite sewing magazine, 'Sew Hip'. In the magazine they have a lovely sunflower patterned fabric and I loved the idea of the late spring flowers. Ever since visiting Norfolk a few years ago and being amazed by the beauty of the poppy fields there, I have wanted to do something with poppies. I chose Black handles to tie in with the very black centres of the poppies and used a green thread that matched the colour of the stems of our oriental poppies in the garden. I also chose the button (which is just for decoration) as I think it some how adds to the country feel. It isn't much but it was fun to make and makes me happy every time I go out with it.
I have started playing with some scraps of the bag fabric to see the different effects I can get with different stitches. I am completely hooked! If the 'doodles' work then I'll up load some photos.


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Q: rigidbody.velocity is not working smoothly in unity wrote a script to move the player by dragging it, so at first, I moved the player with transform.position and it worked perfectly so I said its time to move it with rigidbody to make it collides with objects,
so I tried rigidbody.velocity but it not moving smoothly. so how to make this works like transform.position?
this is the script:

void Update()
{
    if(Input.touchCount > 0)
    {
       Touch touch = Input.GetTouch(0);

        if (touch.phase == TouchPhase.Moved)
        {
            transform.position = new Vector3(
            transform.position.x + touch.deltaPosition.x * speedmodifier,
            transform.position.y,
            transform.position.z + touch.deltaPosition.y * speedmodifier);

        }
    }
}

A: When using Rigidbody you want to do all physics related stuff in FixedUpdate. then you probably would not use velocity but set fix positions using Rigidbody.MovePosition
You should still get the User input via Update though.
I would separate the logic. Something like maybe
[SerializeField] private Rigidbody _rigidbody;
private Vector3 targetPosition;

private void Start()
{
    targetPosition = transform.position;
    if(!_rigidbody) _rigidbody = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
    // since this rigibody is going to be moved via code not Physics it should be kinemtic
    _rigibody.isKinematic = true;
    // in order to smooth the movement
    _rigidbody.interpolation = RigidbodyInterpolation.Interpolate;
}

void Update()
{
    if(Input.touchCount > 0)
    {
       Touch touch = Input.GetTouch(0);

        if (touch.phase == TouchPhase.Moved)
        {
            targetPosition += Vector3.right * touch.deltaPosition.x * speedmodifier;
            targetPosition += Vector3.forward * touch.deltaPosition.y * speedmodifier;
        }
    }
}

private void FixedUpdate()
{
    _rigidbody.MovePosition(targetPosition);
}


Orlan has made her body, in particular her face, the support and material of her performance art, mostly through plastic surgery. For the first time she abandons this method, in her latest work, Suture/Hybridisation/Recycling. This new project represents a new chapter in Orlan's work with the artist showing herself as an omitted subject through a paradoxical retrospective of her life, represented by her wardrobe. A trajectory endowed with a great conceptual and discursive coherence, in which some of her least celebrated works cast a new light on the project that she has created with the Spanish designer Davidelfin, highlighting one of the foundations of her work often overlooked: her constant flirtations with fashion design in a relationship which questions how fashion is a potent vehicle for projecting and supporting values of social control over the body and the construction of beauty archetypes.
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As one of the most prominent figures in the world of sports and fashion, soccer superstar David Beckham is adding a new venture to his repertoire—beauty—and he is taking it worldwide, announcing the global launch of his grooming line, House 99. Done in partnership with L'Oréal Luxe and soon to be available in 19 countries, the line will consist of 13 innovative hair, skin, beard, and—of course—tattoo products, ranging from facial moisturizers to beard and hair balms.
And while Beckham's mission is to give "all the tools men need to experiment with their look in order to express their own evolving style and unique identity", the significance behind the brand's name is something of great meaning to Beckham as well. According to a press release issued by the brand, "the word 'house' reflects David's goal to build an inclusive community of grooming aficionados, to share style tips and recommendations in order to conquer every look and inspire new creations,' while the number 99, which he has tattooed on his hand, marks a momentous year in both his personal life and career. He married Victoria, his eldest son, Brooklyn was born, and Manchester United won the treble."
And since the soccer star has already gotten an incredible start with his over 30 fragrances, Beckham alongside wife and makeup mogul, Victoria, are well on their way to becoming a beauty empire. Beckham's new grooming brand will be available in the US, exclusively at Ulta, starting on March 4th.


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Very interesting post, Braden. I read another quite interesting article on the combination of media, politics and advocacy around CCSVI and MS affected research priorities and allocation of funding for research in Canada (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6939/14/6). As you mentioned on twitter, it demonstrates that it is a big issue in Canada. Considering that we increasingly encourage stakeholder engagement esp. patients and public, I guess it is very critical for research and funding organisations to better understand how the patient stories online affects people's decision on what is their biggest uncertainty.
When JLA did their priority setting exercise on Cleft Lip/Palate. One of the topics that became a priority was the aetiology of cleft (to the surprise of clinicians!), I mentioned to Sally that I am suspecting that media and internet might had an role on making this topic an uncertainty for the patients and their parent. Interestingly in a presentation in a dental research event, one of the people engaged in that project mentioned something similar on an advocacy and media campaign happening around that time that might have affected this decision. I do made a storify of the tweets from the latter session http://storify.com/monalisa1n/bringing-primary-and-secondary-care-oral-and-denta (although, this was a very small part of that day's presentations…).
P.S. Unfortunately, the link to your own paper doesn't work or at least on my computer says it broken.


It took about five years to research Going Ape: Florida's Battles over Evolution in the Classroom, and after all that time and effort the book finally became a reality in April 2014. I'm so grateful for all of the wonderful feedback I've received since its publication. For instance, Daytona Beach News-Journal columnist Mark Lane wrote: "… this is relevant history and Haught works hard to be fair and factual even when writing about the odder, more anti-modernist anti-evolution activists." Those odd people and their passionate antics are exactly why I wrote Going Ape and they're why I continue to monitor their activities.
And there is more to this never-ending story to come. It's 2018 and evolution is back in the news in the Sunshine State. A brand new law that changes the way textbooks can be challenged by citizens and and another new law that guarantees "religious liberties" for school personnel and students have already set the stage for a new series of evolution battles. This is the next chapter playing out live right in front of us! Keep an eye on my blog for all the latest.
This site is a companion to the book. You'll be able to view some of my source material, including school board meeting minutes, video and audio clips, and even lesson plans comparing evolution and creationism that were intended for classroom use.
Would you like to try it before you buy it? I welcome you to read a free excerpt from Going Ape hosted at the National Center for Science Education website.
The book is available at your book seller of choice. You can go to the University Press of Florida, Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, etc. You can also go to your local book store. If they don't have it on the shelf, you can ask them to order it for you.
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'GREED' IS GOOD
A Fast, Funny and Infuriating Take on the Emptiness of Acquisition
Steve Coogan as Sir Richard "Greedy" McCreadie in 'Greed' (2020)
Chris Sullivan reviews a new comedy drama based on one of Britain's most controversial modern businessmen.
Michael Winterbottom is a director compelled to make pictures that are more than entertaining; that cut to the core and make a statement.
Greed, his latest offering, is no exception. A scathing mockumentary that focuses on the foul Sir Richard "Greedy" McCreadie (nicely rendered by Steve Coogan), it's quite simply a blatant attack on Sir Philip Green – "the unacceptable face of capitalism" – who Coogan caricatures.
Long overdue, Greed reveals the obscene chicanery and underhanded verbiage that has made Green one of the UK's richest men. His alter ego, McCreadie, is a major league liquidator of companies and puts his company and its money in the hands of his wife so he can be beyond the reach of the authorities. It is classic tax avoidance. This saves the semi-fictional McCreadie some £540 million in tax, which is enough to build six new hospitals in the UK.
Aptly, the film revolves around a party that celebrates his 60th birthday on the island of Mykonos. Quite naturally, it's a revolting affair based on Green's 50th birthday, with a Roman theme – replete with a real life lion and a gladiator – where he is Caesar, the emperor of all he surveys, and all have to dress as Romans in togas and sandals. A vulgar function, it's a nice dramatic device that serves to illustrate just how crass the man is underlining the maxim that 'all the money in the world can't buy class'.
Born in Croydon in 1952 to a well-to-do Jewish family of property developers and retailers, Green's mother introduced self service petrol pumps, putting thousands out of work in the process, and Green inherited his family business after his father's death when he was 12.
He was kicked out of a posh Jewish boarding school aged 15 and, at 21, set up his first business venture to import jeans from the Far East, paid for with the equivalent of a £240,000 loan backed by his family. Just like McCreadie, he bought up the complete stock of 10 clothing retailers who were in receivership, dry cleaned the lot, put them on hangers, wrapped them in polythene to make them look brand new and then purchased his very own shop to sell them in. In 1985, he bought Jean Jeanie, a struggling jeans chain, for £65,000, sold it for £7 million and then invested in retailer Amber Day.
He bought BHS in May 2000 and insisted it would not be "rocket science" to revive the ailing high street retailer that clothed generations of Brits. Simply a cash cow to be hung, drawn and slaughtered, between 2002 and 2004, £422 million in dividends were extracted by the company's shareholders – most of which went to Green and his clan.
A damning Government investigation into the ruin of BHS determined that the company – once a household name – had been methodically pillaged by its owners. It found that Green's "reputation as the king of retail lies in the ruins of BHS".
"His family took out of BHS and Arcadia a fortune beyond the dreams of avarice and he's still to make good his boast of 'fixing' the pension fund," chided MP Frank Field, the then Chair of Parliament's Work and Pensions Select Committee. "What kind of man is it who can count his fortune in billions but does not know what decent behaviour is?"
Green agreed to hand over £363 million in cash to rescue the BHS annuity scheme after the pensions regulator came for him, teeth bared. But, the regulator estimated that BHS staff would receive around 88% of the worth of their initial benefits in this new retirement fund created by the settlement. So, while Green luxuriates on his £100 million yacht, poor ladies who have walked the BHS shop floor all their working lives have seen their pensions dwindle. It is simply despicable.
In 2006, he was knighted for services to retail by Tony Blair. In 2010, David Cameron pulled him in to advise the Government on efficiency.
After the BHS scandal, MPs voted in favour of stripping Green of his knighthood. Incredibly, and totally unjustly, the man has held onto his title. This is a savage indictment of the morally infirm society we inhabit and shows just how worthless a knighthood is today.
'Greed'
What is also legal but thoroughly unethical – and is employed by Green and others – is the exploitation of third world workers who are paid £3 a day to create their clothing in conditions that are far from perfect. In the film, McCreadie travels to factories in Sri Lanka and batters down his costs to the clothing factories that forces the bosses to put pressure on the beleaguered seamstresses, one of whom dies as a result.
In essence, Greed is a bittersweet comedy with a pronounced barb that sticks in your throat like a lost hair. Although I was angry, I laughed on a good few occasions.
Coogan delivers a superlative performance that both creepy and snide is without fault. The script is spot on and the characters agonisingly real. But I still left it feeling resentful that such a man should be able to make billions through double dealing and tax evasion.
All in all, I hope it puts you off buying clothes from any high street chain owned by billionaires who exploit the poor under the auspices of good business practice and pushes you to join me in petitions to change laws governing tax havens.
'Greed' is in cinemas now


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VR Helps Prosecute Concentration Camp Guards
On 20 November, 1945 the Nuremberg trials began - the military tribunals called to prosecute Nazi war criminals closely involved in the Holocaust.
Now, 71 years later, that work continues through the Bavarian State criminal office (LKA) in Munich, that has created a virtual reality version of the Auschwitz concentration camp to assist with the continued prosecutions.
Digital imaging expert Ralf Breker is behind the project: "We spent five days in Auschwitz taking laser scans of the buildings and the whole project to complete took about six months."
About 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were killed at Auschwitz, most deceived into entering gas chambers where cyanide-based pesticide Zyklon B was released, killing those inside. Their bodies were then burned in the camp's many crematoria.
Initially the model was created to be viewed on a computer monitor, but it has now been adapted so that once the viewer puts on a VR headset they can examine the camp from almost any angle.
Eyewitness view
Towards the end of the war the SS destroyed most of the camp's files and records as well as the gas chambers and crematoria, leaving only one remaining, which at the time was used as an air raid shelter.
In order for Ralf's model to be useful in court it had to be as accurate as possible. "We searched the Auschwitz archives and we were lucky, we found blueprints from all of the buildings that had been destroyed - so we were able to recreate them," he said.
The VR version of Auschwitz is yet to be used in court, however, the 3D computer model was used in the most recent war crimes prosecution of wartime SS camp guard Reinhold Hanning.
In June this year, Mr Hanning was sentenced by a German court to five years in jail for being an accessory to at least 170,000 murders. Mr Breker notes that the 3D model aided the prosecution.
"In the court decision the judge explicitly referred to the model and said that the model made it possible to grasp what Reinhold Hanning would have seen from his post at the watch tower."
While many senior members of the Nazi regime faced trial for their crimes, many of the junior SS officers or camp guards who also perpetrated crimes in the camps escaped justice.
Emotional toll
Germany's Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist crimes was established after World War Two in the town of Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart.
Today, its staff are still attempting to identify Nazis guilty of committing crimes in the camps.
"We think that each part of the machine was important - even the lower rank SS guard has to take his share of responsibility," said Jens Rommel, the chief senior prosecutor who runs the office.
"I have heard the question very often, is it really worth continuing now 70 years after the war? But I think it's still important for the German state to do so, because these crimes were organised by the state and I think it's a task for the legal bodies to prosecute those crimes."
He thinks the 3D model of Auschwitz is useful in specific trial circumstances. "This model is a helpful tool and it's especially important when it comes to a specific line of defence, a defence strategy used in almost all cases," he said.
"The defendant admits that he was in Auschwitz but generally he says that he didn't know anything about what was going on in Auschwitz. And here the 3D model can help to understand what the person involved could see from his position."
Beyond its use in war crimes cases, Mr Breker thinks the criminal justice system will make more use of VR in the future.
"I think that within five to 10 years, virtual reality will become a standard tool for police, not just in Germany but all over the world because it's a way to make scenes of crime accessible even years later."
Mr Breker usually works with cutting edge technology to provide evidence in contemporary capital criminal cases, but, even with his experience working at Auschwitz had an effect on him: "We have been at crime scenes that are terrible, but Auschwitz is in a league of its own. We met the director of the Auschwitz archives and he told us a lot of details about the industrial scale of the killing and it took quite an emotional toll."


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White House Marketing Will Expand Into Salt Lake City Market
The management of White House Marketing, a premier interactive marketing firm, recently announced their future expansion site will be in the Salt Lake City region. To accommodate this new market, managers will soon begin recruiting new team members.
Ontario, CA, September 03, 2018 –(PR.com)– Randy explained that the inclusion of new clients and services increased demand for staffing and is the primary reason for the company to branch out into these Utah cities. "Much research has been done on Salt Lake City and its surrounding areas," he said. "With the expansion into this new territory, we promise to bring more jobs and promotions to the area.
"The manager has been well-trained on the clients—products, services, and promotions—and he has successfully trained and developed many people in his time with the company. He's ready."
White House Marketing Leader Discusses Hiring Objectives
As the company expands into the new territory, the need for additional team members is evident. The new manager noted he will be searching for new talent very soon. "We will be conducting over-the-phone and webcam interviews to jumpstart the process of adding to our team," he said.
According to the new manager, the company has developed a strategic way of fast-tracking people to a management position. "Student mentality and positivity are the only attributes that cannot be taught," he said. "Everything else are minor tweeks."
One point that Randy strongly emphasized was that White House Marketing is not opening in Salt Lake City to fill positions, however, it's more about providing an opportunity to those who want a long-term career in a business, marketing, customer service, or entrepreneurial field. He finishes by saying, "It is not for the weak; it's a position for those who have once been weakened yet are determined to come out strong. It is not a corporate-style position, whereas one person must retire for another to move up. It is merit-based and performance-based.
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White House Marketing Supports Special Olympics through Volunteering and Donations
Corona, CA, June 19, 2018 – White House Marketing has always supported Special Olympics and Special Olympics' Athletes through financial donations online. However this year, WHM decided to go the extra mile and volunteered at Special Olympics.
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Each year, Special Olympics has sponsors who will take donations. WHM has always donated money. This year, we went the extra step to volunteer. "And, boy, is it a humbling, happy, emotional, intense, organized, chaotic experience. People complain about the simple things like jobs, finances and relationships. These athletes are so grateful to have the opportunity to cross the finish lines.", says on WHM volunteer.
Special Olympics is thought to be about sporting events. But, Special Olympics serves as a social community event for the athletes involved. Not only is there an opening ceremony, but there is also a dance, vendors, festivals, award ceremonies, and meet-and-greets. Approximately 1,100 athletes were in attendance this year. The sporting events arranged were gymnastics, bocce, track, and basketball. An announcement came out this year during the Long Beach opening ceremony of flag football being added to next year's list. Athletes watched as several Los Angeles Rams showed a demonstration.
During and before the Special Olympics, Kaiser Permanente had testing kits and medical supplies on hand to provide the athletes with a check up at no cost to the athlete. One athlete stated during a news conference several years ago the Kaiser medical tent picked up on early signs of cancer and saved his life. He is forever grateful.
Special Olympics Southern California is always looking for volunteers. Volunteers can sign up via the website. This is to ensure the volunteer can select what area he/she wishes to volunteer in. A volunteer can always sign up on the day of the event by simply going to the "non-registered volunteers" tent. Volunteers are then given an assignment–whether it is to be a fan in the stands or call out names during the award ceremony.
WHM will be attending this event from now on. Several volunteers from SOSC made everlasting connections that they are now becoming coaches at their local chapters. WHM CEO Randy W. states, "Special Olympics is something special to me. The fact that some of my business partners took action too and loved every second of it tells me we are doing something right."
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White House Marketing is back to work after their trip to the Bahamas!
Because the year is packed full of excitement and growth, White House Marketing took a three day vacation to enjoy the sights, amusements, views, and networking events at the Atlantis resort.
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White House Marketing, Inc. Creates a Team of Leaders
You've surely heard the adage that you're only as strong as your weakest link. While the saying applies to many circumstances, we at White House Marketing, Inc. believe it's particularly important in the context of business. Unless every member of your team is driven and fully engaged, your company is at substantial risk of failure. With that in mind, our professionals at White House Marketing, Inc. present the following tips for building a winning team:
Hire Smarter People: The individuals you hire should be smarter than you. You may be in charge, but you certainly don't know it all. Gathering a group of people with expertise in various areas will effectively widen your range of knowledge. Ideally, weaknesses should be offset by strengths, and vice versa.
Create Your Culture: At White House Marketing, Inc., we advise you to develop a clear idea of how you plan to define your company's culture. You might want to fill it with integrity and innovation, for example. Keep these values in mind as you interview candidates, because the people you hire constitute the essence of your organization's culture.
Nurture a Work Family: You are likely to spend significantly more time with your team than with your own family – at least for a while. That's why you should facilitate trust, confidence, support, and bonding among everyone.
Your team is the backbone of your business. Leverage these strategies to build a solid one.
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White House Marketing on the Future of Brain Science
We are always interested in medical breakthroughs here at White House Marketing. One development that has caught our eye involves a new technology which was created by a Harvard chemist that could change neuroscience forever. This is an incredible breakthrough, and we would like to share it with you.
The remarkable process that Charles Lieber has devised involves constructing a tiny fishing net out of threads that conduct electricity. This net has tiny sensors across its entire surface which can be put in place with a regular-sized needle, which might be the biggest advantage of Lieber's invention. Once in place over the top of the brain, the mesh device unfurls and shifts with the brain in a very natural and comfortable manner. After it's installed, this electronically-enabled mesh can send diagnostic information quickly and easily.
Not only does Lieber's creation ease access to the brain, it also has an ingenious way of getting around the body's tendency to reject foreign bodies. Because it's so soft and slender, the mesh contraption has been accepted easily thus far in the mice on which it's been tested. We at White House Marketing are excited to see how the technology will translate to human brains, and we will be following any related developments.
We hope that you find this news to be as inspiring and promising as we do here at White House Marketing. The idea that we can easily access and better understand our brains seems almost too good to be true, but it appears to be a reality. Neuroscience could be on the verge of an incredible transformation.
White House Marketing Reminds You to Be Selfish
Here at White House Marketing, we believe that many professionals don't reach their career goals because they are too nice. We don't mean to say that you shouldn't treat people with respect and kindness, but you must look out for yourself if you want to achieve your loftiest ambitions.
When you spend too much time focused on helping other team members, your own career goals may get lost in the shuffle. We at White House Marketing are not suggesting that you should hinder the progress of others, but when your team's goals come before your own, you risk getting left behind. That's why we endorse the notion of a career strategy and we encourage you to create one for yourself.
One of the best ways to ensure that your work aligns with your career plan is to identify an opportunity for yourself in every task that you perform. You will be amazed to discover how many opportunities are present in almost every project. Whether it allows you to stretch your professional skills, step into a leadership position, or delegate to others, each task presents an occasion for you to develop your abilities and to advance toward your career goals.
By figuring out what's in it for you every time you adopt a new task, you will be able to draw closer to your professional ambitions. It might seem selfish at first, but we at White House Marketing believe that you must overcome being nice and you should grasp opportunities wherever you find them.
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Well Dave I'll throw in my two cents. I am bi-lingual and have landed some of my VO work as a result of being being able to speak Spanish.
My parents are both Cuban and left Cuba before Castro took over. My dad was offered US citizenship and actually served in the US Army during the Korean war because my grandfather was born in the states. My parents are both huge American patriots and like me, have been less than pleased with the bi-lingual trend we've seen happening, especially in schools where in our opinion, it seems to make it easier for Spanish speaking students (and parents) not to have to learn our native language, English. I think we spend a lot of money printing things in other languages instead of helping those folks to learn to speak English. This will be the end of my rant on that subject.
Now having said all that, I have reaped the benefits of speaking Spanish. My VO marketing is primarily English but I have been able to land jobs simply because I speak Spanish. I mainly stick to short form when it comes to Spanish because as you mentioned in your blog, there are so many nuances and dialects to consider and then add in all of the nuances that go into creating a good VO in any language.
1) I don't know that it's doubled my exposure but it has given me some opportunities and jobs I would not have landed otherwise.
2) It has not doubled my income but helped to add to it.
3) I use the same rates as my English VO unless I have to also translate then the rate goes up considerably.
I'm so glad to hear you say these things. Lately, living in Las Vegas, I'm hearing more Spanish than English. My father was a native French speaker, but NEVER spoke it around the house. That was just the way it was back then…you wanted to be an American in every way…especially language. Not so anymore… everyone seems to raise the flag of their PAST country proudly….which makes me wonder about their patriotism. Oh, well… I guess I'm an "old guy" now.
I wish my father HAD taught me French, but that doesn't mean I'd expect food labels, voting instructions, and ATM machines to be stated in French, too. It's just a new age. Now, I'm considering going back to learn another language for the very reason you mention.
Thanks for stopping by and sharing, Paul.


If you're reading this, the chances that you are on Facebook are relatively high. And sadly, the chances that you personally will duplicate Mark Zuckerberg's business success are relatively low. Very few of us will take our companies public, let along profit so handsomely during our careers.
What we can do, however, is learn from this success. And particularly, learn from the Facebook IPO.
The key to this is the prospectus. This document gives a prospective investor all of the information they need to make a knowledgeable investment decision. Unfortunately, most investors – or members of the general public – never see the prospectus. Test this amongst your friends and family: how many of them have personally reviewed the Facebook prospectus, the most publicized IPO in the history of the world? Likely, very few.
2) History: For several years prior to an IPO, the company must run their organization in a squeaky-clean, financially-sound manner, and their audited financial statements in the prospectus must reflect this. Insight: It is impossible to turn back the clock. Three years from now, if you want to look back at a history of great results, then the great results must start in the present. Interestingly, this is also true of our reputations, something that many people and organizations forget when it comes to Social Media.
3) Transparency: If the goal of the prospectus is to ensure that all investors have what they need to properly make their investment decisions, then there should be no "hidden" areas of nondisclosure. Within the document, you can find details on the controlling shareholders, executive compensation, legal considerations – and more – on 186 pages, plus exhibits. There is complete transparency. Insight: Many organizations aren't particularly transparent, instead rationing information to their employees, clients, suppliers, and other stakeholders. Or worse, "spinning" it. While not advocating the words of Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg ("privacy is a thing of the past"), what's the worst that could happen if those around you knew "too much"? Perhaps alignment, accountability, and better decision-making?
This week's action plan: While writing a prospectus is probably not top of your to-do list, spending a few minutes on one of Risk Factors, History, or Transparency is probably doable. Answer one of these questions this week: What are the Risk Factors in my organization? History: is there anything we should do now (or stop doing now) that will be important several years from now? Transparency: Where can we be more open with our colleagues, clients, suppliers, and other important relationships?
Postscript: If you are interested in reading the Facebook IPO prospectus, it's available here.


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It is now possible to define an audience based on a list of your users. For example, a list of users from your backend systems which you want to show inserts to or send push notifications to. You can also build a list based on a specific survey's answers.
The list can includes visitor IDs or device IDs as described in this article.
iOS11 introduced changes in the way in which Apple requires app owners to ask their users for app rating. Apple officially announced that it is not appropriate to send users to rate the app in the App Store. Instead, Apple offers an in-app rating dialog which enables the user to rate the app without leaving it.
To support this guideline, Insert now supports a new action in iOS inserts: "Open the iOS Rating Dialog", selectable from any insert button. This action will try to open the Apple Rating Dialog. Note that the operating system may decide not to open the rating dialog, based on the user's past rating history and settings. Read more here.
It is recommended to use this new action in iOS instead of the 'Rate App' insert for all users with iOS 11 and above.