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Quickie Case Study: Why Amazon Is Top Dog
Freddy Tran Nager	 Aug 27, 2017
by Freddy Tran Nager, Founder of Atomic Tango + Amazon Customer Since 1998…
Call me an Amazon loyalist by default.
As in, it's da fault of the competition.
Case in point: I needed to buy an air purifier. My research revealed that Honeywell tends to make the best ones in my price range, and their latest model is the Honeywell AirGenius 5 sold in many stores. So like most 21st century consumers, I performed a quick price check.
Google showed that the lowest price for the Honeywell AirGenius 5 was at Walmart and its subsidiary Jet.com, both carrying it for $97.99. That was significantly lower than Amazon's $156.64 for the same product. Woohoo, what a deal!
But wait. My Spidey Sense detected something awry. Amazon is generally a discount leader, so how could its price be significantly higher? A quick read of the Walmart and Jet.com pages revealed a potential problem…
Jet.com's Honeywell AirGenius 5 Page (8/27/17) – click to enlarge
Walmart's Honeywell AirGenius 5 Page (8/27/17) – click to enlarge
While both claimed to be selling the AirGenius 5, all but the top picture on each site showed the Compact AirGenius 4 — a smaller, older model which also sold for $97.99 at Amazon. In addition, both Walmart and Jet.com lacked details about the product, so there was no way to confirm which AirGenius I would get from them.
Amazon, by contrast, provided a full product description of the AirGenius 5…
Amazon's Honeywell AirGenius 5 page (8/27/17) – click to enlarge
My guess: if I ordered the full-sized AirGenius 5 from either Walmart or Jet.com, I would likely get a compact AirGenius 4 instead, or an error message now or later ("We're sorry, but due to a mix-up, the product you ordered…"). If I were the litigious type, I could likely file suit for false advertising, but I'm allergic to courtrooms and hassles.
So I simply ordered from Amazon. Convenience + confidence = sales.
It's not as though Amazon is perfect — I've found errors on their site, and they've made mistakes with my orders over the years. But those have been rare exceptions, and Amazon has always been quick to remedy their mistakes with refunds and easy returns.
With Walmart and Jet, this smelled like careless management. After all, according to the Walmart blog on September 19, 2016, they bought Jet.com because it's "complementary," because of Jet's "talent," and because Jet provided a "unique, transparent way for customers to shop." Yet less than one year later, the two sites were nearly identical, down to the exact same errors.
So much for taking advantage of all that talent for a unique, complementary option.
In the end, I and many other shoppers prefer Amazon. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why.
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Connie Zhang
30 August 2017 at 8:32 am	Reply
I agree!!! I recently tried to buy a wooden desk and did the price search. It's the same on both Amazon and Walmart. Although I ended up ordering from Walmart because it sold out on Amazon, I didn't like the Walmart's website at all! Its shopping experience was bad. And if it was not because of Walmart's physical store and its reputation, I wouldn't trust it to give my credit card information.
Freddy J. Nager
Thanks for your comment, Connie. Yes, there's much more to ecommerce success than pricing — especially when there's price parity. Walmart needs to wake up to that fact!
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The Top10 Magazine Excellence Awards 2021: Sen. Godswill Akpabio – Minister of the Year
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When he was Governor of Akwa Ibom state between 2007 and 2015, Dr. Godswill Akpabio was fondly referred to as The Uncommon Transformer. This was because his tenure brought about the transformation of the state on an unprecedented scale. In appreciation of his performance, his people elected him into the Senate in 2015, where his colleagues set aside the seniority rule to make him, a first-term Senator, the Minority Leader. Again, this was in acknowledgement of his high-performance record.
President Muhammadu Buhari obviously took notice of Akpabio's leadership acumen and made him minister for Niger Delta Affairs in August 2019. "Nigerians should expect higher performance, commitment to service and dedication to the country," he declared on assumption of office. "Being a Niger Delta person, I will ensure that things are better for further and effective development of the region… Therefore, expect a lot of uncommon representation and uncommon performance that will culminate in uncommon achievements,'' he said when he assumed office.
So far, the minister is living up to his promise.
Since he assumed duty in August 2019, the Ministry, under Akpabio, has achieved several milestones. His first work plan was to ensure that the region remains peaceful while stakeholders were frequently engaged on ways to develop the region.
Also, Akpabio, as the supervising minister of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), made sure the incoming board of NDDC meets the yearnings and aspirations of the people through effective dispensation of services. And that was why he initiated and completed the Forensic Audit into activities of the commission. The report has since been submitted to the Federal Government, which is expected to use the report to chart a new course for the board of the commission.
In the area of projects execution, Senator Akpabio has completed many ongoing projects despite the challenges of Covid-19 Pandemic and the obvious paucity of funds. The Ministry ensured the completion of the 13 and 8-storey buildings at NDDC headquarters which was commissioned by President Buhari.
In 2021, the ministry also inaugurated 1,050-bed space hostel at the University of Uyo, to address accommodation challenges in the school.
Akpabio said the hostel which had been completed with 24,000 gallons of water per day, 22 units of 1,200KV standby generating sets and 5,000 vehicular parking spaces, among others, would be replicated in all the Niger Delta states. He said that, going forward, among 13,777 projects, the ministry would select the ones that would impact positively on the communities and ensure they were completed.
A rundown of 52 other projects in the nine Niger Delta States (Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo and Rivers) ready for commissioning as at the first quarter of last year included The Skill Acquisition Centre (TheSAC) at Agadagba in Ondo State with 38 buildings, which would be handed over to Federal Polytechnic Ile Oluji. Others are the construction of over 77 roads spread across the region; the construction of a Cassava Plant Processing Plant at Usugbene Irrua, Edo State; construction of Health Centre, Amauzari Community, Isiala Mbano, LGA, Imo State; construction and furnishing of Health Centre, at Odi, Kolokuma/Opokuma LGA, Bayelsa State; Land Reclamation/Erosion Control Works at Nsit Attai LGA, Akwa Ibom State; construction of Health Centre, at Eworkpe, Emede, Isoko South LGA, Delta State; construction of Umudike-Umueze-Umuoyere Road Project, (Phase 1) River of Mini Water Works at Ikot Effiong, Effiong Village, Akasoko Clan (Idundu/Anyanganse Ward) Akpabuyo LGA, Cross River; construction of Boreholes and Reticulation in Ndulu-Amaoba, Oboro Water Project, Ikwuano LGA, Abia State.
"I see more completed projects in 2022, more people being empowered and a more peaceful region as we go forward,'' the 59-year-old minister said in his review of his ministry for 2021.
Dr. Akpabio is honoured here with the Minister of the Year Award in recognition of his bold and courageous efforts at developing the Niger Delta region, restoring sanity, transparency and accountability to NDDC.
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"Hyperuniformity of Generalized Random Organization Models" is published in Physical Review E.
Studies of random organization models of monodisperse (i.e., identical) spherical particles have shown that a hyperuniform state is achievable when the system goes through an absorbing phase transition to a critical state. Here we investigate to what extent hyperuniformity is preserved when the model is generalized to particles with a size distribution and/or nonspherical shapes. We begin by examining binary disks in two dimensions and demonstrate that their critical states are hyperuniform as two-phase media, but not hyperuniform nor multihyperuniform as point patterns formed by the particle centroids. We further confirm the generality of our findings by studying particles with a continuous size distribution. Finally, to study the effect of rotational degrees of freedom, we extend our model to noncircular particles, namely, hard rectangles with various aspect ratios, including the hard-needle limit. Although these systems exhibit only short-range orientational order, hyperuniformity is still preserved. Our analysis reveals that the redistribution of the "mass" of the particles rather than the particle centroids is central to this dynamical process. The consideration of the "active volume fraction" of generalized random organization models may help to resolve which universality class they belong to and hence may lead to a deeper theoretical understanding of absorbing-state models. Our results suggest that general particle systems subject to random organization can be a robust way to fabricate a wide class of hyperuniform states of matter by tuning the structures via different particle-size and -shape distributions. This in turn potentially enables the creation of multifunctional hyperuniform materials with desirable optical, transport, and mechanical properties.


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It's just software engineering?
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By Dr Marion Weinzierl, Research Software Engineer at Durham University
Join the discussion on the UK RSE Slack.
Question: "I have just come out of a meeting with a professor and his postdoc in which we discussed how I could help them with improving the robustness of their code, error handling, and introduce automated testing. Halfway through he stated that his postdoc 'should not have to do this kind of stuff,' as she was employed for doing research and 'this is just software engineering'. I was feeling a bit annoyed and pointed out that actually, although I am happy to help them with this, the person who writes a code should generally also be responsible for its quality and testing. However, this conversation made me think, and I would like your opinion. Was he right in some way? What do you think about the software engineering vs research statement? How much should we train, help, consult and support, and how much should we 'do'?"
This was my post on the UK RSE Slack channel earlier this week, and it got a discussion going with more than fifty responses. What was the outcome of this discussion? To cut a long story short: It depends. And there isn't a general RSE consensus on how much to expect from academics.
The people 'on the professor's side' pointed out that the researchers should not be expected to have both the domain knowledge and the software engineering expertise. At most, they can provide a prototype/proof of concept, which the RSE can then take and turn into 'something real'. They also pleaded for understanding of the researchers' dilemma to produce as many papers as possible. To add my own thoughts to this: is this not (partly) where the RSE movement came from? To make sure that there are no more (or not as many) postdocs left behind on the academic track because they did "too much software engineering/coding", and did not produce enough citable output (which leads to the point of acknowledging software as research output, but I won't go into this here, as it was and is discussed at length elsewhere)? And because academics often did not have the skills and knowledge needed to do this kind of work?
People 'on my side' (although I did not intend to be the opposition to the professor in this debate) stressed the importance of researchers taking responsibility for code quality and testing, in particular when publication results are produced with the code. They also stated that an RSE cannot be expected to have enough domain knowledge to be able to 'clean up' after the researchers and know enough to write the tests on their own. One frequent comparison that was made was of an RSE being like a lab technician, and I think in some ways we have similar problems with acknowledgement and being treated as being someone at a professor's disposal.
Both sides agreed that it is important to establish a partnership between RSEs and academics, and to have an understanding of being in the same team, rather than the academic handing something away to the RSE and expecting a finished product to come back without further intervention.How much we can expect from the academic will hugely depend on their field, the code in question and its purpose, and that particular academic's skills. In my example, the code is a physics simulation code that has been developed over many years, with many papers already published, and which is planned to be made available for others. This is a different situation from, say, a psychology professor wanting an app and a database for their data acquisition, or someone who can throw together a proof of concept in Matlab, but wants a C++ code to be shared with other researchers.
Each RSE who took part in this discussion will have had a certain project or situation in mind in which their arguments will be valid. There seems to be no one 'correct' answer to the original question. It is important to be in a dialogue with the academics, to find out what their goals, requirements and software engineering skills are, and then support them accordingly.
What do you think? How can RSEs and academics help each other work together most appreciatively and productively? And is there a way how we can remove the little word 'just' in front of software engineering in academics' minds?
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Another recent notable in the contempt for evidence department is one Toni Solo writing in something called Dissident Voice. Solo's attempted debunking of Phil Gunson's piece in The Independent (March 2nd – link by subscpription only) is either funny or alarming, depending on my mood.
I realize people in the US read this stuff and believe it, and it alarms me. I have fresh reports of sightings of Chavez banners at the recent anti-war rally in New York, and I start to think, Jesus, they're taking the bait!
1-The basis for the 3 million signature claim was not on the record when Phil wrote his piece, it has since been put there by the Financial Times. As you'll recall, the signature gathering process was closely observed by the OAS and the Carter Center, following an agreement signed between government, opposition, OAS and the Carter Center in May 2003. As part of its remit, the Carter Center was charged with carrying out a statistical sample of the signatures collected to check their validity according to the criteria published before the gathering process was concluded, (not after.) The Carter Center sample revealed that 93% of the 3.2 signatures collected (discounting 200,000 dismissed for double-signing and underage signing) were valid.
That's the source of Phil's certainty on the signature tally: every diplomat in Caracas (except Sanchez Otero) stands by that number off the record. Now, maybe you think Jimmy Carter is a tool of the American imperialist machine, but I think he's an honorable man and he is certainly highly regarded by both sides in the conflict. He's 79 years old, has helped mediate over 13 conflicts, has a nobel prize, oversaw the first and only peace treaty between Arabs and Israelis in the modern era, teaches Sunday school, and is clearly not going to come and spoil it all by lending his organization's name to a sample carried out unfairly. For that reason, I take it very seriously when the Carter Center/OAS statement on the referendum says clearly that there were more than enough signatures to call a referendum, and the CNE leadership calls them "biased." The simple fact is that if the right criteria had been applied properly, the referendum date would have been set long ago.
Eventually, the exact Carter Center results were leaked. Can't be sure who leaked, but in any event the statistical results are sure to be included in the final report by the secretary general of OAS, Cesar Gaviria, who practically lived in Venezuela for months hammering out the May 2003 agreement. Its open violation is not likely to go down well.
2-You write that no European country would have regarded the signature gathering drive as acceptable? This EU presidency statement, published by the current EU president country (Ireland), explicitly backs the OAS/Carter Center conclusions that there were more than enough signatures to convoke a vote. Even the Eastern European accession countries sign – and they know a thing or two about living under authoritarianism. Europe is UNITED in believing the signature gathering process was fair.
3-As for the door-to-door canvassing being unfair – this is a joke, right? You do know that there was a pro-Chavez witness accompanying each opposition canvasser at all times? You do know that the chavista witnesses had to sign each form for the signatures to be tallied at all (otherwise, it's part of the 200,000 initially invalid ones?) You do know that the government controlled Elections Council approved the legal framework -explicitly including the canvassers- and oversaw the whole process? You do know that forms that left each signature gathering center in the morning had to be back before 6 pm that same evening with a Chavista witness signatures, otherwise they did not count, don't you? You do realize the forms were printed on special, water-marked bank security paper that cannot be photocopied, that each had an individual number and location it was assigned to, a bar code, and that signature tallies had to be produced at the end of each of the four days of signing at each of the 2700 signing centers and signed by each of the CNE representatives, the pro government and pro opposition witnesses and a number of nonpartisan civilian witnesses, don't you? You do know that this material was guarded overnight by armed troops all over the country, don't you? You do know that international observers witnessed the signature process at almost half the collection centers nation wide and that 90% called the process "good" and the other 10% called it "reasonable"? You do know these things, right?
I obviously don't have the time to pick apart the rest of your essay on this level of detail, but let me just say this: I have a feeling you didn't actually know these things. Facts are such pests. In future, please make an attempt to inform yourself more fully before spewing off on matters that are, literally, of life and death for the people involved.
And do look through my web-site now and then.
Go ahead and send Dissident Voice a letter to the editor urging them to publish this, or send them a letter of your own picking them up on any other part of their abominable pseudo-reporting.


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Farhad R. Alavi is a Washington, DC-based attorney and partner at Akrivis Law Group, PLLC, a boutique law firm in Washington and New York advising clients around the world on corporate, trade regulatory law (e.g., OFAC sanctions, export controls, anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, and customs) as well as trade-related criminal defense. He has also been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center (GULC).
Mr. Alavi has worked as an attorney in a number of major international law firms in Washington, and in one he was based in that firm's Washington and Abu Dhabi offices. He has also written and spoken extensively around the world on matters related to international business transactions, U.S. sanctions laws, and Sharia Finance.
Mr. Alavi has been quoted in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Arabian Business, and other major publications around the world, has been published in the American Bar Association's International Lawyer journal, has appeared on National Public Radio (NPR), the BBC, Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera Arabic, China's CGTN, BBC Persian, Voice of America Persian, Al Hurra, and has taught Continuing Legal Education (CLE) courses on international commercial transactions and U.S. sanctions laws on Iran and broader topics regarding U.S. legal compliance, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
Mr. Alavi is admitted to practice law in Washington, D.C. and Maryland. He holds a LL.M. in Banking & Financial Law from Boston University, a J.D. from George Mason University, and a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Tufts University. He has also taken coursework through Harvard Business School (HBS) Online. Mr. Alavi is fluent in Persian (Farsi) and Spanish, and has knowledge of German, Arabic, and Turkish.
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JPRS translation of ruling Communist Party journals - Soviet-Empire.com U.S.S.R.
As some other gems like the critique of Agnes Heller by the ruling Hungarian party back from the 50s. There was a CPC critique of Althusser, but the translator apparently didn't know who that was and so its transliterated from the Chinese.
I found most of it is from the Chinese Red Flag journal, and the Soviet material is from the Gorby period. But theres some rare DPRK journal articles as well.
and in case you're wondering "The contents of this publication in no way represent the policies, views or attitudes of the U.S. Government."