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Top 10 Cities Where Women Are Securing Mortgages
Single women are the homebuying group that won't slow down; there is no doubt about that. Although one question is, where exactly are these female homeowners?
By HOM Editorial Team
Women are certainly purchasing homes all over the U.S, but cities such as Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle, Denver, and a handful more have been extremely popular with this demographic as of late. While 67% of homebuyers are married couples, when it comes to single buyers, women outperform men. According to NAR's 2019 NAR Home Buyer and Seller Generational Trends Report, 18% of homebuyers were single women, whereas only 9% of homebuyers were single men.
As seen in the graph below, single women overshadow single men when it comes to home buying. Most recent homeowners are still married couples, leading with 63% of homebuyers overall. Although, in comparison to the '80s, when 81% of homebuyers were married couples, they're not so high on the charts anymore. A mortgage consultant with Right Trac Financial Group, Joe Petrowsky, shares that 26% of his business is with single women and he has no doubt that it will exceed 30% soon. Petrowsky continues to share his thoughts that single women represent solid risks in part because "the reality is they have a better ability to save and plan for the future" than most single men.
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A Redfin agent in the D.C region, Leslie White, says that for single women, homeownership means "stability — you own it, you're in charge, there is no landlord," and that is very meaningful to them. White shares that out of her last 25 purchases, 20% were made by single women and zero by single men. According to data from Better and Compass, here are the top 10 cities where single women are getting mortgages.
"More and more single women have been buying homes, and I expect to see this continue in 2020. Women are more career-focused now than previous generations, and we want to be smart with our money and make an investment that sets ourselves up for the future…"
— Beatrice de Jong, REALTOR®
1. Atlanta
There is certainly something eye-catching about Atlanta, as more female homebuyers are buying homes here than anywhere else in the country. Aside from top-notch BBQ and fried chicken and waffles, Atlanta offers potential homeowners a sense of culture, comfort, and affordable living. With a median home value of $288,746, it's possible for those of all ages, including single women, to purchase a home in the area.
For example, 25-year-old Kelcie Evans purchased her home last year with the help of Invest Atlanta, an economic development agency in the city. This agency offers a home-buying assistance program to those whose income falls beneath a certain amount. With the help of her broker, Kelcie was able to receive a total of $40,000 in down-payment assistance from both Invest Atlanta and the Atlanta Housing Authority. With such a helpful and supportive community, it's no wonder Atlanta is the number one spot for female homeowners.
La-La Land has been a dreamy destination for most for a long time now. Whether those are attracted to the bountiful sunshine, entertainment industry, vibrant nightlife, or incredible beaches, there has always been something for everyone, including homeownership. Of Los Angeles's 2,105,366 owner-occupied homes, 460,273 are owned by single women, reaching 21.86%. In other words, single women in L.A. own 197,7000 more homes than single men.
An L.A. based REALTOR and consumer trends expert at Opendoor, Beatrice de Jong, has been taking note of the career-focused single women who have been seeking a new home in the metropolis as of late. Beatrice shares, "More and more single women have been buying homes, and I expect to see this continue in 2020. Women are more career-focused now than previous generations, and we want to be smart with our money and make an investment that sets ourselves up for the future, rather than relying on marriage or waiting for a man to provide the life we want."
3. Chicago
This city making it to number three on the list didn't shock Julie Harron, a Chicago real estate broker. Throughout her 27-year career, she exclaims that even when working with couples, women were more often the primary decision-makers. She shares, "I have worked with women who have lost spouses or are divorced…and younger women who know where they are in their careers and are financially stable are making concrete property decisions."
The Windy City made this list for the high percentage of women applying for loans and receiving them. Based on a Lending Tree study, single women in Chicago own 312,997 homes, while single men only own around 213,000 homes.
4. Seattle
The female-dominated housing industry isn't too new to Seattle, considering as of October 2018 there were more single female homebuyers than males in the state of Washington. Back in July of 2017, a survey conducted by NAR expressed that while married couples still accounted for the majority of home buying in the state, single women purchased more homes than their single male counterparts.
If you're a single woman with a love of lush forests and life-changing coffee, Seattle is likely the perfect place to start your life and become a homeowner. While the median home price is certainly not low—at $758,200—the median income measures up at $93,481. That median income also has a 7.67% growth rate which shows excellent hope for the future of professionals at any age in Seattle.
5. Denver
Amongst the Rocky Mountains and a slew of craft breweries, a humble city sits here in Colorado. For a thriving city, Denver has a surprisingly low median home value of $457,580. Another good sign for this city is the home value growth. Over this past year, this city's home value has gone up 1% and Zillow estimates it will rise 4% within the upcoming year.
About three years back, Owners, an online real estate brokerage, compiled a list of the 20 best places for single women to purchase a home based on an analysis, and Denver made the list. Today Denver is on this list of top ten places women are getting mortgages, which means single women are continuously purchasing homes in the Mile-High City.
As Lonely Planet says, San Francisco is "a bridge between cultures," and they're certainly not wrong. Having been a popular destination for decades, this vibrant city offers unique architecture, cool summers, and energetic culture. While SF is a very expensive city to live in — with a median home value of $1,436,145 — that doesn't seem to deter successful single women from purchasing a home in the City by the Bay. Based on data from Trulia, the median price for a home in the area rose that high from just $420,000 in the year 2000, which is a 329% increase. Despite this spike in the region's housing market, single women "comprise 12.1% of the market share compared to single men's 7.6%." That's quite a disparity, so let's give it up for women!
For those who are hesitant to take the step towards homeownership in this pricey area, Jamie Chappell, who recently closed on a home in San Francisco, makes a great point that your first home doesn't need to be your last. She shares, "A lot of my friends will say, 'I want to own a home but I like my freedom…one friend said to me, 'It doesn't have to be forever.' And that really stuck with me."
7. Washington, DC
As the capital of the United States, Washington DC is a cultural epicenter with an abundance of museums, landmarks, and monuments. With such a diverse job market and a rather healthy unemployment rate of 5.4%, there are a plethora of job opportunities just waiting for you. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, since last January two sectors in the Washington area gained between 6,000 and 10,000 jobs.
While it was about seven years ago now, Amanda Cowley purchased her first home in DC after moving out of her 800-square-foot condo. "I realized I was sitting around waiting to get married and move out of my condo," she shared. "And then it started to get really depressing to be there for that reason. I was like, 'This was an awesome place to live in when I'm 30, but if I'm still here when I'm 45, it's done.' Like, I'm gonna get 12 cats and give up." Today, the current home value in Washington DC is $637,738 and it is projected to grow 4.1% within the next year. With growth like that, now is the time to start your house hunting in DC.
8. San Diego
Not only is San Diego a hot spot for single women homebuyers, but also for young homebuyers in general. While the median age of today's single female homebuyer is 54, San Diego is expected to have one of the "biggest fraction of people hitting that median first-time buyer age, 34, than anywhere else in the country," says Zillow economist Jeff Tucker.
While San Diego has a median home value of $669,939, there are many organizations such as The San Diego Housing Commission (SDHC), which offer grants, mortgage credit certificates, and deferred loans to help both single people and families buy their first homes. With a nickname as bold as America's Finest City, what's stopping you from heading to this coastal town and starting the next chapter of your life?
9. Houston
If you're a single woman looking to purchase your first home, grab your cowboy hat and head to Texas! Houston is an up and coming city that still has a very affordable housing market, with a median home value of just $191,161, and Zillow predicts this value will rise 3.6% into the upcoming year.
The City With No Limits doesn't just have delicious crawfish, chicken-fried steak, and breakfast tacos to offer, but a very secure job market as well. According to Indeed, "The Houston, TX job market is strong compared to the rest of the US. Over the last year, job postings in Houston, TX have declined by 19% relative to a national decline of 32%." Considering Houston's affordable housing paired with the steady job market, this lively city is ideal for someone looking to relocate and settle down.
10. Oakland
Just beside San Francisco sits its humble neighbor, Oakland. This city has always been a great option for those who can't afford SF and has increasingly become more walkable and hip. It doesn't get the recognition it deserves, as it is a thriving unique city of its own with a population of 400,000 matching Miami.
Oakland has a median home value vastly lower than its counterpart SF, at $786,036. According to Zillow, homes in the area have gone up "5.9% over the past year and Zillow predicts they will rise 5.7% within the next year." With an average rental list price of $3,000, it almost seems silly not to consider homeownership soon.
As Erin Thompson, a Compass agent in San Francisco says, "If you have the financial ability to make it happen, why wait to buy one of the best appreciating assets? Don't pay someone else's mortgage when you can pay your own." These ten cities where women are getting mortgages show us how prominent single women will be in the housing market in years to come. Rather than putting marriage on the top of the list, single women are bumping matrimony down and putting homeownership at the top.
Other agents in large cities, such as Danielle Lurie in NYC, express similar thoughts based on their clients, "More and more of our clients are single women who have high-powered and high-paying jobs and can afford nicely sized mortgages."
Today, across the U.S., one in five homebuyers are single women. At this rate, within the next year, we very well could be looking at even more single women taking over the housing market. One important thing to remember: homeownership is possible. As a recent homebuyer in Avondale, Victoria Kent, says, "I am proud of being a homeowner — I never thought I would do it. I wish I would have known the process wasn't as scary as I thought, because I would've started sooner."
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Allama Sharar was son of Revd. Barkat Masih and was born in Mandhiala Tega, a suburb of District Gujranwala Punjab province (now in Pakistan). He studied at CTI Mission High School Sialkot and later went to the American Mission Gordon College Rawalpindi for further studies. Before completing his graduation he joined the armed forces and served n Rana Garh (Bengal), Colombo (Sri Lanka) Bilaspur (India), and Lahore (now in Pakistan).
Sharar apparently inherited from his ancestors the vigour and predilection's for serving humanity, the glimpses of which we undoubtedly see in his inspiring messages in the form of colossal poetical precepts which he has left behind apart from the memories of his indefatigable zeal he demonstrated through his active participation, presentation and performances in the community affairs as well as being the author of ten books with eight diwans and also he served as the Chief Editor of Tajalli Magazine issued from Glasgow/UK and later he served as Patron of Christian Times published from Luton, UK.
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Naqoosh-e Saleeb ( نقوش صلیب )
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Nada-e Saleeb (نداۓ صلیب )
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Keilain Kantay aur saleeb ( کیلیں، کانٹے اور صلیب )
Irfan-e saleeb ( عرفان صلیب )
Rodada-e saleeb (روداد صلیب
Karwan-e saleeb ( کاروان صلیب )
Masihi Mashaheer volume 1. ( مسیحی مشاہیر جلد اول )
Masihi Mashaheer volume 2. ( مسیحی مشاہیر جلد دوئم )
Sharar was a social activist, a political theorist and made some remarkably accurate predictions about the future of his people in India and Pakistan. Unfortunately, however, I am afraid that these attributes of his insightful personality will not be remembered for long. This is a pity. However, what cannot be easily forgotten, even in centuries to come is his great poetic gift and the voluminous poetry he has written and published during his lifetime.
Sharar's great literary achievement is not the amount of poetry he has produced, though it is no meagre feat in itself, but the unique ways in which he has kneaded Biblical and Christian theological phraseology in novel poetical renditions. He is a towering master of inventing original metaphors, similes and personifications using Biblical references. Throughout his voluminous work reader can find one enduring theme and that is his unwavering devotion to the cross of his Lord Jesus Christ and his uncompromising love for his chosen beloved, the Christian Church.
This truly great scholar, and an irreplaceable son of the Asian Christian community, slept in the Lord on 28th December 1999, and is buried in Luton, UK.


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A: OK solved. Problem was I was also using the i variable somewhere else.


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Décrits pour la première fois en 2009, les Transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs, nucléases effectrices de type activateur de transcription) sont des enzymes de restriction artificielles générées par fusion d'un domaine de liaison à l'ADN, appelé TALE, avec un domaine ayant la capacité de cliver l'ADN.

Les enzymes de restriction sont des enzymes qui ont la capacité de couper l'ADN au niveau d'une séquence spécifique. Les Transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs, effecteurs de type activateur de transcription) peuvent être rapidement conçus pour se fixer à quasiment n'importe quelle séquence d'ADN voulue. En combinant un domaine TALE avec un domaine de clivage de l'ADN (qui va couper le brin d'ADN), on peut ainsi créer des enzymes de restriction spécifiques pour n'importe quelle séquence d'ADN. Quand ces enzymes sont introduites dans les cellules, elles peuvent alors être utilisées pour modifier le génome in situ.

Domaine de liaison à l'ADN TALE
Les TAL effector (TALE) sont des protéines sécrétées par la bactérie Xanthomonas. Le domaine de liaison à l'ADN est constitué de répétitions de 33 ou 34 acides-aminés identiques à l'exception des acides aminés 12 et 13. Ces deux résidus sont très variables et montrent une forte corrélation avec la reconnaissance d'un nucléotide spécifique. Cette relation simple entre la séquence en acides-aminés et la reconnaissance de l'ADN permet de créer des domaines de liaison à l'ADN spécifiques d'une séquence en sélectionnant un assemblage de segments répétés contenant les résidus variables appropriés.

Domaine de clivage de l'ADN
Le domaine de clivage de l'ADN non spécifique de l'endonucléase Fok1 peut être utilisé pour construire des nucléases hybrides qui ont prouvé leur efficacité dans des essais chez la levure. Ces protéines sont aussi actives dans les cellules végétales et animales. Les premières études sur les TALEN ont été réalisées avec le domaine original de Fok1, mais des approches plus récentes, utilisent des domaines portant des mutations spécialement pensées pour augmenter la spécificité et l'efficacité du clivage de l'ADN. Les domaines Fok1 fonctionnent sous forme de dimère, ce qui nécessite deux constructions avec des domaines de liaison à l'ADN dirigés contre des sites du génome présentant des orientations tête-bêche et un espacement correct. Le nombre d'acides-aminés entre le domaine TALE et le domaine Fok1 ainsi que le nombre de bases entre les deux sites de liaison sur le génome sont deux paramètres importants pour assurer une bonne activité de l'enzyme chimérique.

Construction des TALEN
La relation simple entre la séquence en acides-aminés et la séquence d'ADN reconnue par le domaine de liaison à l'ADN permet de synthétiser des protéines personnalisées. Dans le cas des TALEN, la synthèse artificielle du gène codant l'enzyme est problématique car les séquences répétées du domaine de liaison à l'ADN risquent de s'hybrider entre elles lors des étapes de synthèse des oligonucléotides. Une des solutions pour remédier à ce problème est d'utiliser un logiciel ouvert au public (DNAWorks) afin de déterminer les oligonucléotides appropriés pour un assemblage avec deux étapes de PCR suivies d'une amplification de tout le gène. Plusieurs autres procédures pour l'assemblage des domaines TALE ont également été imaginées.

Transfection
Une fois que les gènes codant les TALEN ont été assemblés, ils sont insérés dans des plasmides. Les plasmides sont ensuite utilisés pour transfecter les cellules voulues où la protéine TALEN va alors être exprimée et passer dans le noyau pour accéder au génome. Les TALEN peuvent aussi être délivrées à la cellule sous forme d'ARNm ce qui élimine la possibilité d'une intégration génomique du gène codant la TALEN.

Modification du génome
Les TALEN peuvent être utilisés pour réaliser des modifications du génome par leur capacité à induire des cassures double brin de l'ADN (DSB), auxquelles les cellules répondent par des mécanismes de réparation de l'ADN. La réparation par jonction d'extrémités non-homologues (Non-Homologue End-Joining, NHEJ) permet de reconnecter deux extrémités d'ADN résultant d'une cassure double brin quand aucune séquence complémentaire n'est disponible pour servir de modèle à la réparation. Ce mécanisme de réparation induit des erreurs dans le génome par le biais d'insertions et/ou de délétions ; ainsi que des réarrangements chromosomiques. Toutes ces erreurs sont susceptibles de rendre le produit du gène codé à ce locus non fonctionnel. Parce que l'activité de l'enzyme peut varier en fonction de l'espèce, du type cellulaire, du gène ciblé et de la nucléase utilisée, ces paramètres doivent être pris en compte lors du design du TALEN et la génération de mutations doit être vérifiée. Une simple expérience de clivage d'hétéroduplex permet de détecter des différences entre deux allèles amplifiés par PCR. Les produits du clivage peuvent être visualisés sur un gel d'agarose. Alternativement, de l'ADN peut être introduit dans le génome en profitant de la NHEJ en prenant soin de fournir une source d'ADN exogène.

La recombinaison homologue peut aussi permettre d'introduire de l'ADN étranger au site de la cassure, l'ADN double-brin transfecté pouvant être utilisé par les enzymes de réparation comme modèle.

Les TALEN ont été utilisées pour générer des cellules souches embryonnaires humaines et des cellules iPS génétiquement modifiées mais aussi pour générer des knock-out dans différents organismes comme C. elegans, le rat, la souris ou encore le poisson zèbre. Il a aussi été montré que l'utilisation de deux paires de TALEN permettait de réaliser des modifications simultanées de deux gènes en même temps. Depuis très récemment cette technique peut également être utilisée pour générer des knock-in. Ainsi, des TALEN ont été injectés dans des ovocytes de rat ce qui a permis de générer des rats knock-in pour le récepteur aux glucocorticoïdes.

Problèmes possibles
Si une TALEN n'est pas assez spécifique vis-à-vis de son site cible ou ne cible pas une séquence unique dans le génome d'intérêt, des clivages non voulus peuvent se produire. Ce genre d'artefact peut entraîner assez de cassures double-brin pour submerger la machinerie de réparation de l'ADN ayant pour conséquence des réarrangements chromosomiques voire la mort de la cellule. Ces coupures non spécifiques peuvent également avoir lieu avec d'autres nucléases artificielles comme les nucléases à doigts de zinc dont l'effet non spécifique est mieux caractérisé.

Articles connexes
 Nucléase à doigt de zinc
 Méganucléase
 Génie génétique
 CRISPR/Cas9
 New Breeding Techniques

Références

Liens externes
  E-TALEN.org. Outil de design des TALENs.
  TALengineering.org. Ressources publiques sur l'ingénierie des TALENs.
  TALengineering newsgroup. Groupe de discussion sur les TALENs.
  www.taleffectors.com. Base de données de constructions de TALENs.

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Two Hamilton Co. school bands need your vote to win funds for uniforms, instruments
Ooltewah High School and Lookout Valley Middle/High School are participating in the Manilow Music Project (MMP).
Friday, May 10th 2019, 1:21 PM EDT
Manilow Music Project
Two Hamilton County school bands need your vote to help them win funds to purchase new uniforms and instruments.
The band that wins the contest will get $100,000 to spend on new instruments and uniforms.
Both bands have uploaded videos online explaining why you should vote for them.
Lookout Valley's video entry is called "Funding our Future in the Valley." The band's director, Shannon Stephens, talks in the video about the program's need for new instruments.
A Hamilton County spokesperson said some of the school's instruments date back to the Korean War. One trombone even dates back to the late 1920s.
"The band program has grown so much that we do not have enough quality instruments for all of our students to play," Stephens said in the video. "This would change the tone of our band, and it would change the pride our students have in their performances."
Ooltewah High's video was produced by students and discusses how the condition of the school's instruments is a problem.
"The video also outlines the community work the band participates in to assist people in the Ooltewah community," a Hamilton County Schools spokesperson explained.
If they win, the band would use the money to replace tubas and other instruments.
"This gift would make all the difference in the world," Sam Mossbeck, a student in the Ooltewah Band, said. "It would make it so much easier to just focus on doing well in school and playing well."
Online votes, community involvement and the level of need all play a part in determining the winning school.
Contest creator Barry Manilow will select the winner.
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Next in importance to light, is the matter of temperature. The ordinary house plants, to be kept in health, require a temperature of sixty-five to seventy-five degrees during the day and fifty to fifty-five degrees at night. Frequently it will not be possible to keep the room from going lower at night, but it should be kept as near that as possible; forty-five degrees occasionally will not do injury, and even several degrees lower will not prove fatal, but if frequently reached the plants will be checked and seem to stand still. Plants in the dormant, or semi-dormant condition are not so easily injured by low temperature as those in full growth; also plants which are quite dry will stand much more cold than those in moist soil.
The proper condition of temperature is the most difficult thing to regulate and maintain in growing plants in the house. There is, however, at least one room in almost every house where the night temperature does not often go below forty-five or fifty degrees, and if necessary all plants may be collected into one room during very cold weather. Another precaution which will often save them is to move them away from the windows; put sheets of newspaper inside the panes, not, however, touching the glass, as a "dead air space" must be left between. Where there is danger of freezing, a kerosene lamp or stove left burning in the room overnight will save them. Never, when the temperature outside is below freezing, should plants be left where leaves or blossoms may touch the glass.
As with the problem of light, so with that of temperature–the specially designed place for plants, no matter how small or simple a little nook it may be, offers greater facility for furnishing the proper conditions. But it is, of course, not imperative, and as I have said, there is probably not one home in twenty where a number of sorts of plants cannot be safely carried through the winter.
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My arguments look like this: "-File script.ps1 $var1 $var2"
Problem is $var1 and $var2 variables are not parsed though I have initialised them in module.
I'm afraid, there is not enough information in your post to provide a reasonable answer.
If I understand you right, you want to pass some arguments to PS via Ranorex recording/code?
How exactly do you pass the arguments to PS?
Are you doing it via recording action (please post a screenshot of recording table) or via code (please post exact code you are using)?
Also, always post a Ranorex version you are using.
The $var1 notation ('$' + variable name) is only used by Ranorex in the Repository as RanoreXPath replacement notation.
In code, you have to use just the variable name ("var1" without quotes).
Also, you are concatenating a string, so you have to tell the code exactly how you want the string to look after it evaluates the values of the variables, so you use the '+' sign.
I would highly recommend doing some reading on .NET basics if you are going to be working with user code in Ranorex.
Just to clarify it further, we are using Ranorex 6.0 . We are using recording module (not code module) to trigger a powershell script. I am trying to pass a module declared variable as an argument.
Please see an attached screenshot. As you can see on the "Arguments" column, I am trying to send the value of the module variable $varDbName to powershell.. but it's value is not being passed, instead the string $varDbName gets sent.
btw we are trying to avoid using code module as much as possible at this point. Thanks.
I understand that sometimes it makes sense to avoid writing code. But unfortunately, as it stands, there are a number of things we cannot do with Ranorex (like most recorders). These may include passing parameters and receiving feedback from other tools (Powershell in your case, others like SQL command, visual studio etc), doing some logic (looping, iteration, if statements etc). In these cases, I guess it makes sense to use some code to get the most our of your investment. After all, Ranorex has invested in this feature (user code) and other Apis because they know that there is so much one can do with the recorder. And the price we pay for their license include these features! Also consider using other tools for non-UI related tests. Let me paraphrase from Wikipedia: "Ranorex is a GUI test automation framework for testing of desktop, web-based and mobile applications". The accent here is on GUI. For other tests, maybe consider better suited tools and IDEs. Another paraphrase, this time from Abraham Maslow : "I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail".
Meantime, if you find ways around these issues and are able to implement them using exclusively the recorder, please share with the community on this forum.
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Yeah, you are going to have to use user code to do what you want. There's no way around it given what you have stated so far.


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Why Did I Make that Dumb Decision?: Understanding Common Fallacies of Decision Making and How to Avoid Them
A Project Decision
Imagine you are in charge of a project to upgrade you library's computer systems. After a year of searching you made the decision to buy $700,000 worth of new computers. So far $500,000 has been spend over the past year on non-refundable equipment purchases. As you prepare to place the last order for $200,000 another vendor approaches with a new offer. They can sell you the same number of computers, but these ones are twice as fast with twice as much memory for only $300,000. They are not compatible with the other set and would completely replace them.
Do you keep purchasing the initial set of computers or do you switch over to the new set? Think carefully about your choice.
Known and Unknown
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones." – Donald Rumsfeld – US Secretary of Defense – 2001-2006
When Secretary Rumsfeld initially made this statement he became the subject of much ridicule. At first glance it seemed like bureaucratic nonsense with no connection to the real world. Yet over time the statement has been re-evaluated. In fact, it has become so connected with him that Secretary Rumsfeld titled his own memoir Known and Unknown.
The act of leadership requires decisions be made on a constant basis. The challenge is that leaders must often do so in the face of limited knowledge and varying degrees of uncertainty. Rumsfeld's analysis breaks down the types of challenges facing decision makers.
What is a Decision?
What was the last tough decision you made? Why was it hard? What were the stakes? Who was impacted?
Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines the word decision in a few ways:
as the act or process of deciding
the moment of decision has come;
a determination arrived at after consideration.
We make decisions constantly ever day of our lives. Most of our decisions are small and only affect ourselves. However, leadership decisions directly affect others, ranging from a small few to an entire organization. Therefore, it is important for leaders to understand the art and science of decision making not only for themselves, but their colleagues and customers.
Decision making can be very challenging for leaders because of the impact. Since leadership decisions often have public implications, leaders are subjected to second guessing regularly. Psychologically the very act of making a decision is stressful because of the risk of making the wrong choice. Every decision we make means all other options were rejected in favor of one choice. This sense of finality can be scary. Sometimes people avoid making a decision altogether. However, not making a decision is a form of decision making with consequences in itself. Deferring decisions may be useful at times, but often there comes a point where making a decision is unavoidable.
The Search for Homo Economicus
Although it is easy to view the discipline of economics as simply about money and prices, it is at its heart the science of how decisions are made. That is, the economy is the sum total of the decisions made by the people participating in it. Any market, whether it be for houses, concert tickets, or collectable shoes, has its price largely decided by supply and demand and bounded by regulations and laws. Economics is full of models that seek to determine how people operate in markets, along with understanding the obstacles in the process. The sub-field of Behavioral Economics specifically examines how people actually make decisions.
At the core of classic economics is a fictitious being called Homo Economicus. He is the completely rational man who makes optimal decisions based on his own well-defined set of interests. For example, when Homo Economicus is shopping for a used car, in theory his preference criteria would be clearly ranked in advance such as:
Repair History
He would not be confused by dealer sales, car color, stylish floor mats, or the time of day, week, or month. Homo Economicus would move dispassionately through his criteria in a quest to make the optimum decision between Car A, Car B, or Car C. However, when economists search for Homo Economicus in the real world, it is like hunting for Bigfoot. Rumored sightings abound but he is never found.
The reason why Homo Economicus is a myth is simple: humans do not think rationally without a lot of effort! Our emotions and embedded cognitive misunderstandings constantly lead us astray. We are often driven by fear, anger, love, and beauty. These emotions pass quickly, yet can strongly influence our decisions in the heat of the moment. Many people buy a car based on its color and styling. These are attributes that have little economic impact, but lots of emotional weight. One need remember how the pandemic lead to a rush on toilet paper. The fear of being without those white little squares drove people to stockpile the product even though supply lines were functioning normally. Homo Economicus we are not!
Your Brain on Fallacies
The ability for our minds to think rationally is a developed skill, which even in experts can quickly go faulty. Our brains were built in an age when life and death decisions were made on the Savannah of Africa. Unfortunately, they struggle to adapt to the complex modern world, where evolutionary cognitive short cuts lead to faulty decision making. These modes of thinking are known as fallacies. Out of the hundreds of documented fallacies there are a few major ones that seriously impact decision making.
Here are five examples that have a huge effect on us:
Sunk Cost Factor – A cost that has already been incurred and cannot be recovered. This means continuing on a path based on the amount of time and resources already expended rather than understanding the potential value saved by stopping. Summed up in the phrase, "Throwing good money after bad."
How to Avoid It: Think like a new boss. "If I had no attachment to this project would I keep it going?"
In the midst of the doldrums of 1985, IBM leadership was debating moving the core business from memory chips to microprocessors. President Andy Grove posed a hypothetical question to his colleague Gordon Moore: "If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?" Moore answered without hesitation, "He would get us out of memories." To which Grove responded, "Why shouldn't you and I walk out the door, come back and do it ourselves?"
Grove also stated the following to his leadership: "If existing management want to keep their jobs when the basics of the business are undergoing profound change, they must adopt an outsider's intellectual objectivity."
Let's look back at the opening question regarding computer purchases. When making the decision one must ignore what has already been spent. It cannot be recovered. The real question is would you spend $200,000 for an inferior product or $300,000 on a better product?
Confirmation Bias – Seeking only data that supports the decision maker's preferred choice and rejecting all evidence to the contrary.
"I only get my news from the Alphabet News Channel because Beta News Channel is biased against my candidate."
How to Avoid It: Seek out alternative viewpoints. "What would it take to prove my idea is wrong?"
A prime example of the confirmation bias can be found in social media. Author Eli Pariser in his book called "Filter Bubble" showed how confirmation bias is amplified by algorithmic editing, which displays only information people they are likely to agree with, while excluding opposing views. This leads to increased polarization and disagreement.
Availability Bias – Making a decision based only on the evidence that is readily available. The decision maker does not dig deeper or look broader to find contradictory evidence.
"My five friends in the room all liked my product idea, so it must be great!"
Why to Avoid It: Do more research. "What other sources of information can I look at beyond what is available now?"
Here is a simple way to understand the availability bias. Quickly name three large quick service food/drink franchises? I suspect one or all of the businesses on your list were McDonalds, Subway and Starbucks. The reason they come top of mind is due to the number of locations. There are 37,000 + McDonalds, 41,500+ Subways and 30,000+ Starbucks outlets. Odds are one or even all three are located within three miles of your home. That is why when you think about getting something to eat or drink these franchises come to mind.
Outcome Bias – The outcome bias is an error made in evaluating the quality of a decision when the outcome of that decision is already known.
"Playing the lottery was a great decision since I won."
Why to Avoid It: Consider the probabilities of it happening again. "Did this outcome happen because of pure chance?"
Competitive sports are very susceptible to the Outcome Bias. When games come to down to a final shot it is the winning team that gets all the accolades while the losing team is left to consider what went wrong. In the end pure chance made be the actual determinant of success. As an example, consider Super Bowl XLIX between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots. In the final minute of the game Seattle was on the New England goal line one yard away from scoring the go ahead touchdown. Instead New England defender Malcolm Butler intercepted a Russell Wilson pass to seal the win for the Patriots. The media and the entire Pacific Northwest was shocked because they assumed the Seahawks would give the ball to their powerful running back Marshawn Lynch. In an interview after the game, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll defended the decision this way:
(He) saw a front stacked against a power run and a match-up he felt he could exploit with a short route against a rookie corner who had zero career interceptions. And he didn't want to run, get stopped short, burn his final timeout and be boxed into calling a pass on third down.
"You could run on 2nd down, call timeout, have to throw on third and score, or incompletion and have to choose (run or pass) on the final down," Carroll texted. "That's ball logic, not 2nd guess logic … you never think you'll throw an interception there, just as you don't think you would fumble."
Essentially, Carroll's defense of the play call was that it was the right one to make in that situation even if the result came out bad. However, for sports fans the interception colored the view of the Coach's decision.
Anchoring Bias – The anchoring bias where an individual depends too heavily on an initial piece of information offered, considered to be the "anchor", to make subsequent judgments.
"The salesman says this car retails for $20,000. It must be worth at least that much."
Why to Avoid It: Consider the first piece of information very lightly.
"If I made the first bid/offer/choice, what would it be?"
In a study by Dan Ariely, an audience is first asked to write the last two digits of their social security number and consider whether they would pay this number of dollars for items whose value they did not know, such as wine, chocolate and computer equipment. They were then asked to bid for these items with the result that the participants with higher two-digit numbers submitted bids that were between 60 percent and 120 percent higher than those with the lower social security numbers. This showed that a random number can easily become their anchor.
A common situation where we encounter the anchoring bias is during car shopping. The dealer creates an anchor with the sticker price. Most people negotiate based on that number which they have no idea how it was determined. I was enlightened as to how meaningless the sticker price is when I was in the market to lease a new vehicle. After being given an initial offer I happened to meet a friend at a dinner party who owns his own car dealership. When I ran it past him, my friend advised that I counter off at almost half the dealer's opening offer. By doing this I dislodged the initial anchor and bound it to my number. In the end the negotiated price was closer to my counter offer than the sticker price.
Probabilistic Misunderstandings
Have you ever heard someone say, "Show me the numbers," when wrestling with a decision? Oftentimes numerical data can be a big asset for making a decision. "Numbers don't lie," is a common saying, but statistics are one of the easiest things to manipulate. Former U.K. Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli famously said, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." However, even when presented honestly, interpreting statistical data can lead us straight into the same set of fallacies listed above. It may also be unclear which statistic is actually useful for solving a problem. Take the COVID-19 statistics. Which ones are the most important for understanding the spread of the virus?
Number of tests completed
Rate of infection
Comparisons to other states or countries
All these stats provide valuable data, but ranking their importance is challenging for fully understanding the problem.
Additionally humans are not built to comprehend probability. Our minds prefer definite answers over ones based on chance. Studies have shown we have difficulty understanding probabilistic results. Here is a simple example. Which form of transportation is more dangerous, cars or planes? Based on sheer probability a person is more likely to die in a car accident. Yet thanks to the availability bias, we ignore the probabilities and focus on the news reports of the few big plane crashes rather than the under reported but more numerous daily road accidents.
A classic puzzle that demonstrates how our minds fail to grasp probability is The Monty Hall Problem. This puzzle imagines a player on the game show Let's Make a Deal. The contestant is asked to pick one of three doors to win a new car. After their initial pick, the host opens ones of the other doors to show a worthless "zonk" prize. The host then offers the player a chance to switch doors. The puzzle asks whether switching doors increases the player's chance of winning, makes no difference, or reduces their chances. Most people assume it does not matter, but in reality, the probability of winning goes up when the player switches doors. It is counter-intuitive to how we regularly consider probabilities, but is proven through a simple charting of the results.
As the past few months have demonstrated all leaders are at the whim of unexpected events. Crisis coming out of left field challenge our standard decision-making process and upset prior conclusions very quickly. In his book, The Black Swan, author Nassim Nicholas Taleb reflects on how the unexpected has more of an out sized impact on our lives than most people appreciate. He believes that "our blindness with respect to randomness, particularly large deviations" causes us to naively believe that present conditions will exist for the foreseeable future, changing only gradually. In fact, they change more rapidly than we expect and in ways we cannot foresee.
Taleb's argument encapsulates many of the topics expressed in this article, including our inability to comprehend probability, the availability and confirmation bias fallacies, and failure to appreciate that most of our decisions are made in "wicked" environments.
"Kind" vs "Wicked" Environments
Decision making is also challenging because a choice made one day may not be the best choice on a subsequent day. Environmental conditions surrounding the choice have a direct effect on our ability to choose. In the book Range David Epstein shares research on "Kind" versus "Wicked" environments. A "kind" learning environment is one where the rules are fixed, allowing for easy feedback and adjustment. Think of chess where the games stays the same no matter where it is played. Players can improve quickly since the parameters are fixed and the lessons of a prior game can be directly applied to future games. This is contrasted by a "wicked" learning environment where the rules are either vague or change over time. For example, imagine an entrepreneur who grows an Internet start-up. They think they can repeat the success with a new company, but even after following their prior model the company is derailed by a change in the law, or an upstart competitor, or even a shift in user tastes.
Fear and Decisions
Perhaps the worst place to make important decisions is from a state of fear. This is because it narrows our focus and forces us to make quick judgements based on incomplete evidence. The Nobel winning economist Daniel Kahneman has spent his career understanding how the mind works when faced with choices. We tend to think that our minds have only one way of thinking. Kahneman proposes that we actually have two.
As described in an article from Psychology Today: "In his 2011 book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman proposed two different modes of decisional thinking—an automatic, fast judgment based on instinct and emotion and a slower, more rational and deliberative process—that optimally work together, but often come into conflict."
Fear runs along the instinctual line of thinking. This is understandable from an evolutionary perspective when our ancestor's survival relied on the ability to detect a snake in the grass or a tiger behind a bush. In our modern world where threats are far more ambiguous, these kind of snap decisions may lead us in the wrong direction. Recall the statistics shared earlier around the dangers of driving versus flying.
For example in the same Psychology Today article, law profession Carl Sunstein "has often argued that after 9/11, the fear-based implementation of burdensome airport screening measures may have resulted in people avoiding air travel and instead dying in car accidents as a result."
Fear can lead us to play it safe. Even professionals accustom to risk management often err on the side of caution when faced with a difficult decision. In the book Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won, author Tobias Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim provide a clear example in a chapter called Tiger Woods is human (and not for the reason you think): how Tiger Woods is just like the rest of us, even when it comes to playing golf. The authors point out that the data shows most professional golfers miss their putts short, not long. This would indicate that the golfer if fearful of overshooting. This in turn led them to miss more putts than needed. Even Tiger Woods at the height of his game was susceptible to this mistake.
There is an old saying loosely translated from the writings of Voltaire that "perfect is the enemy of good." It implies a major fear based trap in the decision-making process which is the desire to make the "right" decision. This is where someone is afraid to make the wrong choice so they engage in an endless search process that continually delays making the decision. This is known as analysis paralysis. As described in Wikipedia:
Analysis paralysis (or paralysis by analysis) describes an individual or group process when over-analyzing or overthinking a situation can cause forward motion or decision-making to become "paralyzed", meaning that no solution or course of action is decided upon.
Experimental Leadership
The first step to avoid this problem is to acknowledge that no real-world decision can be perfect due to a lack of information. Essentially, it is an understanding that most decisions are made in "wicked" environments. To move forward, making a decision provides the only way to gain additional information. By trying a solution and seeing the results the decision maker gains valuable data which they use to adjust and make the next decision. This moves them step by step towards an optimal solution.
An expression of this form of leadership decision making is the Design Thinking Model. It is a process centered on continuous experimentation and feedback. There are five stages to design thinking.
Empathize – Research the problem
Define – Clearly state the problem
Ideate – Create ideas and challenge assumptions
Prototype – Identify possible solutions
Test – Implement a solution and gain feedback
During the process, the designer will cycle between some or all of the five stages until they reach a point where the problem is effectively resolved. For an experimental leader, a process like Design Thinking is a good way to resolve the fear of mistakes. Not only are mistakes expected in the process they are required to gain important feedback.
Many professions use this approach including software engineers. Venkatesh Rao in his collected online essays entitled "How Software is Eating the World" notes that when creating new code software engineers try their best to make it fail. It is only through breaking the code that problems can be identified and improvements made. For example, when coding a new video game, the designer will test out unusual keyboard combinations to make it crash. If they do, the code is examined and then improved for the next test. This is important because it is better for the designer to find the bugs early rather than outsource that process to their customer after they buy the game.
Bonus Fallacy – The Fundamental Attribution Error
Perhaps one of the greatest fears we have as humans if the fear others, especially those who are different from us even the slightest of ways. Certainly this election season is a text book example of how fear of the other side is used to drive people's decisions on who to vote for at the ballot box. It also shows how easy it is to think the worst of others. In fact it is the basis of one of the most pernicious fallacies:
Fundamental Attribution Error – When we assign our mistakes to outside circumstances while we assign others mistakes to their personal failings. "I dropped the ball because the sun got in my eyes. He dropped the ball because he is a lazy bum!"
Why to Avoid It: Practice humility and empathy.
"If it was me who failed like they did, how would I explain it?"
One of the worst ways this manifests is through racism. After all racism assumes the worst about another person or group based largely on their skin color or ethnic background. This is especially relevant this year with the summer protests triggered by the murder of George Floyd. There was a huge discussion over institutional racism and what it means to be an anti-racist. For me the story that hit home for me the most was told by inspirational speaker and author Shola Richards. In the midst of the protests he shared a story on social media.
Twice a day, I walk my dog Ace around my neighborhood with one, or both, of my girls. I know that doesn't seem noteworthy, but here's something that I must admit:
I would be scared to death to take these walks without my girls and my dog. In fact, in the four years living in my house, I have never taken a walk around my neighborhood alone (and probably never will).
Shola's worry is that if he walks alone his white neighbors will only see a black man scoping out houses. However, when he is with his daughters or his dog the perception changes to that of a dog owner or Dad. This example shows how the fundamental attribution error not only effects the decision maker but also those who are impacted by the decision itself.
So how do we get past this endless cycle of misunderstanding? I believe that kindness is the key. To be kind to others forces us to consider them as human beings. It makes us think differently by having us take time to reflect on that person or decision rather than be trapped in reaction. Kindness makes everyone involved from the receiver, the giver, to any observers feel good. Consider that the next time you must make a decision that will affect others.
The field of decision making is immense. The skill is not one that is mastered in a short time. Instead, leaders must commit to improve their abilities continually over the course of their careers. Leader must be willing to remain a perpetual student, always learning and never being satisfied with their current state. That is the burden and the reward of leadership.


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Salesforce Spring 19 - Speed Up The Gaps — Arkus, Inc.
Once again, Salesforce has packed a lot of features into a single release. It's almost getting to the point where it's impossible to keep up with all the features that continue to rollout. I was particularly pleased with the number of features in this release that focus on productivity, speed, and click reduction - all in Lightning Experience of course. The following are a few features that caught my eye as either gaps being filled or Lightning Experience superchargers.
This feature *was* technically a gap in Lightning Experience, as it's existed for a while in Classic, though I literally know zero people who have ever really used it in Classic. I believe that fact is about to change. The new refreshed help menu in Lightning Experience is already pretty slick, but now it's getting even better with customization. Go ahead and create your own help assets and resources, then guide users as they work in context of what they are trying to accomplish. Add links to your own website, upload PDFs, link out to custom Trailmixes, or even upload a video. All custom content will be displayed in its own section at the very top of the new help menu.
Well this is fun, isn't it? Mission accepted; going to go earn some badges in the Lightning Community that I'm a part of. Or, at the very least, the administrator of the Lightning Community that I'm a part of has put together a series of actions that, when taken, automatically "Thank" me. Whether it be updating a profile photo, creating a certain number of posts, or receiving a "best answer" vote, Missions are a fun way to continue engagement and improve adoption within a Lightning Community.
Speaking of Thanks, thank you Salesforce for bringing Thanks Badges into Lightning Experience. It was only a matter of time before this occurred, as Thanks Badges have been in pilot/beta in Lightning Communities for a few releases now. Finally, no longer do we have to switch to Classic just to thank a colleague for doing a great job helping out. Once this feature is out of pilot, we can close the door on this gap on platform.
This update is something near and dear to my heart; saving me time when deploying things makes me a happy camper. Ultimately change sets are still not fun to deal with, as the screen to add elements to a change set really needs a complete overhaul, but at the very least there are now fewer clicks to validate and deploy a change set. No longer will I need to click into the change set to click the buttons, rather links will be provided for me right next to the link to the change set in the Inbound Change Sets page, and I can perform my action from right there. It's a start; thanks for the save on the one click, now let's get down to business and make creating these things much easier, eh?
For those stuck in Classic because of a Knowledge rollout, good news, there is a tool to convert your old legacy Classic Knowledge to new, fun, and shiny Lightning Knowledge. This tool has been in beta for a while. I believe it was even available on the AppExchange for a bit as the testing of it was going on, but now we are ready for primetime.
Another season (kinda), another release packed full of goodness. As previously mentioned, lots of gaps filled in this release plus lots and lots of fun features that expand the platform beyond our imagination years ago. Just go ahead and check out the entire section on Lightning Web Components or Enterprise Messaging or something I probably should have written about and may write about in the future called Permission Set Groups. Some of the marketing materials from a few years ago are starting to become relevant finally (insert troll emoji here)!
Please feel free to comment below, on the Salesforce Trailblazer Community, or directly at me on Twitter @JustEdelstein.


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Q: Visual Studio 2019 stopped debugging, showing No symbols loaded and 403 Forbidden I've been debugging a C# single project solution with VS 2019 since it was installed more than a year ago.  It's set up for external host and uses the local web address in the project URL box.   To start debugging, I was able to just click the "> Web Server (Google Chrome) Button in the toolbar to start debugging the web site.
All of a sudden I was no longer able to click the button to debug. It gave the error, "Unable to start debugging on the web server.  The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden".  Again, local server (servername.domain.net/CS).  No changes to anything that I know of.
However, I could attach to w3wp.exe and debug that way.  That lasted about a day.  Then all my breakpoints would turn black when attaching and said, "The breakpoint will not currently be hit.  No symbols have been loaded for this document".
Started and stopped IIS and killed w3wp.exe many times.  Cleaned, rebuilt, and republished multiple times.  Deleted all the bin directories and NuGet project directories.  Tried looking in logs, inetpub/logs, only see what pages hit, no errors (might be wrong log).  The .dll and .pdb are both in the bin directory.
Configuration is set at debug, any CPU.  DEBUG=true in web.config.  Debug->Windows->Modules shows one line: Name=Script Code, Status=Symbols Loaded.  Right-clicking it, selecting Symbol Load Information just shows "Symbols Loaded" and nothing else.
I uninstalled/Reinstalled and none of the problems changed... same as they were before the uninstall.  So, I'm out of ideas.  What else can I try?
EDIT: BIG CLUE!
I'm sure this is a clue but I don't know what it means...
I have another web site (production) on this server.  I changed the Properties -> Web, Project URL to the other web, clicked the start button in the toolbar and it started debugging it!  Same code, just different target.  Looking at the Debug -> Windows -> Modules, there is a ton of them there now.
So, why would just changing the Project URL allow debugging?... How can I make it debug the original site (development)?  Hopefully, this makes sense to someone.
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Confirming both webs are on the same server as Visual Studio and both using https, not http;


Whether it's Facebook or internet pørn, it's really easy to spend sections of your day staring at your device, be it phone, tablet, laptop or desktop. There are general principles from scripture I think we do well to remember; these can give us guidance regardless of which type of addiction you're dealing with.
As we've written a number of posts here concerning out thought life, let's just say that it is so important to guard our minds, guard our thoughts and thereby guard and protect our hearts. (See especially this post and the section dealing with our media diet.) We're told in scripture to take captive the stray thoughts which can do damage. Previous generations contended with this in terms of television and theater. We have such a greater barrage of ideas and philosophies being thrown at us online.
In an increasingly hectic world, time is a precious commodity. We're given 24 hours each day, no more, no less; and what we do with those is a large measure of our character. (For my article on "redeeming the time," read this post at C201.) A good measure of this is to realize the things that you might have done, could have done, or should have done in the time you spent on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter… or worse.
Without getting into specific social issues that face us currently, all of us have felt the pressure to capitulate to the larger culture, or even to the values shift happening in the capital-C Church. Isaiah 5:20 (NLT) reads, "What sorrow for those who say that evil is good and good is evil, that dark is light and light is dark, that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter." I can honestly say I have felt the pressure to change my mind on some issues because of internet exposure. On some of the issues, I think readers here would be comfortable, but on others I have realized the need for a reset and re-calibration. Be careful to know why if you sense your worldview shifting.
David Murray's outline on media consumption from the book The Happy Christian.


I'm in Singapore today where I just spoke at the Global Forum on Intellectual Property, a conference about the future of intellectual property. I had the honor of speaking immediately after Will Hutton, the brilliant Guardian economics journalist and current CEO of The Work Foundation. Huttons's presentation was spellbinding. He introduced the idea of the world economy moving from a production centric model to what he called an "experiental" model in which consumers "actualize themselves" rather than simply buying factory built product. To make his point, Hutton used the example of Mercedes who are now flying customers to their factory in Germany so that they can personalize production of their cars. Hutton's notion of the shift from production to experiential capitalism is prescient.
So what, exactly, does the word "experiental mean"?
, adv. --DR. H. More.
A more fashionable word for this focus on the personal and the observable is "interactive". But I prefer experiental because it captures the cultural revolution that is now fundamentally reshaping capitalism and the challenge of wealth creation. Value will be increasingly located in things to which we can lend our own experience or observation. And thus, in this economy, products/industries (the music labels or Detroit car manufacturers) which can't incorporate experiental business models will have no long-term value.
Hutton, author of the 2007 The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century, was particularly interesting on comparing the American and Chinese economies. In contrast to received wisdom, Hutton is extremely bullish on America and quite pessimistic about China. The reason? Experientalism, of course. American individualistic and innovative business culture is intrinsically experiental; Chinese business culture, on the other hand, remains stuck in the industrial, productive age.
As Hutton suggested, it's time to invest in Wall Street again. Fortune favors the brave. And the experiental.


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«Белые росы. Возвращение» — белорусский художественный фильм, продолжение трагикомедии «Белые росы» (1983) с некоторыми чертами ремейка. В России картина была представлена на фестивале «Московская премьера» 6 сентября 2014 года, в Минске премьера состоялась 13 октября, а в белорусский прокат картина вышла 16 октября. 22 октября премьера состоялась в Вильнюсе.

Сюжет
Андрей Ходас возвращается из города в родные места. Двое бизнесменов намерены выкупить живописный уголок для нового строительства и пытаются выселить Андрея и других немногочисленных обитателей деревни. Спасая свой родной уголок, Андрей помогает решить проблемы, казавшиеся неразрешимыми.

В ролях
 Юозас Будрайтис — Андрей Федосович Ходас, обитатель хутора (озвучивает Владимир Грицевский)
 Николай Караченцов — Василий Федосович Ходас, младший брат Андрея
 Ирина Егорова-Ковриго — Ирина (Ирэн Хольц), бывшая жена Андрея
 Татьяна Гаркуша — Маруся, жена Василия
 Анна Полупанова — Галюня, дочь Василия и Маруси
 Андрей Мерзликин — Иван, муж Галюни
 Юлия Смирнова — Аня, дочь Галюни и Ивана
 Виктор Манаев — Пётр Демьянович Струков (Струк), сосед Ходаса
 Павел Южаков-Харланчук — Артём Бородиш (Бодя), возлюбленный Полины, бизнесмен
 Сергей Жбанков — Русаченко (Рус), возлюбленный Ани, бизнесмен
 Евгения Жукович — Полина Щерата, обитательница хутора
 Наталья Дедейко — переводчица
 Жорж Девдариани — немецкий инвестор
 Вера Полякова — Антонина Ивановна, главврач
 Анатолий Голуб — Фёдор Иванович, председатель сельсовета
 Галина Кухальская — Фаина Ивановна, женщина в доме престарелых
 Максим Пониматченко — адвокат Ирэн Хольц
 Павел Адамчиков — врач
 Елена Стеценко — Лена

В фильме практически нет актёров, снимавшихся в первой части, исключение составляют Ирина Егорова-Ковриго, Владимир Грицевский (в первой части он сыграл эпизодическую роль милиционера, а в новой озвучил роль Юозаса Будрайтиса) и Николай Караченцов, снявшийся в небольшом эпизоде. Это первая роль Караченцова после почти десятилетнего перерыва, связанного с восстановлением актёра после серьёзной автомобильной аварии, в которую он попал в феврале 2005 года. Но эта же роль стала для Караченцова и последней — спустя четыре года после выхода фильма он умер.

Интересный факт
В доме Струка висят афиши советских фильмов «Белые росы» (продолжением которого и является данный фильм), «Иван Васильевич меняет профессию», «Афоня», «Гараж» и «Мимино».

Примечания

Ссылки

Кинокомедии Белоруссии
Фильмы Белоруссии 2014 года
Фильмы студии «Беларусьфильм»
Ремейки советских фильмов


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Nearly 3 Solar years have passed since the peaceful "Democratic Regression" of Sirius Inc. After decades of benign neglect by our parent corporation, sovereignty was officially transferred to the office of CEO Ollobrains. There were significant obstacles to maintenance of status quo. Our traditional corporate institutions do not lend themselves to fractal replication; corporate synergy has an optimal scale.
Our CEO, ever the pragmatist, chose a path of incremental democratization. Sirius Corporation raised no objections, and provided complimentary electoral oversight & supervision. CEO Ollobrains received a healthy 83% of the electoral vote. His closest rival, "JoJo the talking Mookah", received less than 5%.
The political landscape in San is chaotic. Opposition leaders decry loss of their pensions, corporate loyalty discounts, and imported consumer goods. Sirius Corporation maintains a corporate embassy on Selous Horizons, and may exercise "Clause 13" (re-incorporate Sirius Inc; dissolve local forums) at their discretion.
Our fledgling democracy has yet to choose a name for itself... in all likelihood, it will remain "Sirius Inc" for another generation. Sirius Corporation has yet to comment on this, rather egregious, trademark infringement.


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Beware The "Tender Back Rule" When Pursuing Previously Released Claims
November 7, 2018 by Stephen McKenney
Most civil litigation ends with a settlement agreement in which the parties agree to compromise their claims and defenses, dismiss the underlying lawsuit and release all claims they have against one another. Normally this ends the matter and the parties go their separate ways. But what happens when one party breaches the settlement agreement? What options does the non-breaching party have?
Michigan courts have long treated settlement agreements as contracts, so that the party harmed may file an action for breach of the agreement. But what if one party breaches the agreement and the other party wants to sue on the underlying claims it released, on the theory that the released party, having breached the contract, should not be entitled to the benefit of its bargain (the release of claims against it)? Bringing the released claims is possible, however, in order to advance those claims the releasing party has a high hurdle to overcome – the tender back rule. As the Court of appeals recently explained:
Settlement agreements remain binding until rescinded for cause…The scope of a release is governed by the intent of the parties as it is expressed in the release…If the text of the release is unambiguous, the parties' intentions must be ascertained from the plain, ordinary meaning of the language of the release…The "tender back rule" requires that a party may not file a lawsuit asserting previously released claims or repudiate a release unless the party first repays all consideration received in exchange for the release… The only recognized exceptions to the tender back rule involve waiver of the plaintiff's duty by the defendant or fraud in the execution of the release… The "seemingly harsh" tender back rule is necessary in order to preserve the stability of release agreements." Id. at 177. [Yob v Smith, unpublished opinion per curiam of the Court of Appeals date d May 15, 2018 (Docket No. 339607)(citations and internal quotations omitted)].
The Yob case involved an employee's claim against her former employer. When the employee left the company, she signed a severance agreement where the employer promised to pay her six-months' salary in exchange for a release of all claims against the employer. The employer paid the severance agreement for several months, but then filed for bankruptcy and ceased payments. The employee sued the employer raising a number of the claims she released in the severance agreement. The employee did not pay back of the partial consideration she received for the release. The trial court granted the employer's motion for summary disposition based on the application of the tender back rule. On appeal, the Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of the released claims. Specifically, the court held that because the employee did not tender back all of the consideration she received from the employer before, or at the time, she filed the suit, she could not sue on any of the claims that she had released. The Court of Appeals held that the tender back rule applied in "all cases" regardless of their complexity, and that the rule was not susceptible to any "equitable" exception.
A "seemingly harsh" rule with "no equity exception" should be a key consideration for counsel and clients before pursing claims that have been released, regardless of the breaches by the released party. Beware the tender back rule.