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Dr. Gail Christopher
Dr. Gail Christopher is vice president for program strategy at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan. In this role, she serves on the executive team that provides overall direction and leadership for the Foundation. She also leads the Food, Health & Well-Being, Racial Equity, Community & Civic Engagement and Leadership programming.
Gail is a nationally recognized leader in health policy, with particular expertise and experience in the issues related to social determinants of health, health inequities and public policy issues of concern to our nation's future. Gail has more than 20 years experience in designing and managing national initiatives and nonprofit organizations. She brings extensive knowledge and experience in creating a comprehensive approach to well-being and is nationally recognized for her pioneering work to infuse holistic health and diversity concepts into public sector programs and policy discourse. Her distinguished career and contributions to public service were honored in 1996 when she was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. In 2007 she received the Leadership Award from the Health Brain Trust of the Congressional Black Caucus for her work in reducing racial and ethnic health disparities; in 2009 she was named a Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) Honorary Fellow – the highest recognition given to a non-SOPHE member, who has made significant contributions to health education and to public health; in 2011 she was awarded the "Change Agent Award" by the Schott Foundation for Public Education; in 2012 she received the recipient of the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) John C. MacQueen Lecture Award for her innovation and leadership in the field of maternal and child health. She is president of the board of the Trust for America's Health.
A prolific writer and presenter, Gail is the author or co-author of three books, a monthly column in the Federal Times, and more than 250 articles, presentations, and publications. Her national print and broadcast media credits are numerous, and include The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Dallas, Times, National Journal, Essence, "Good Morning America," "The Oprah Winfrey Show," National Public Radio, and documentaries on PBS and CBS.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Gail was vice president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies' Office of Health, Women and Families in Washington, D.C. There, she led the Joint Center Health Policy Institute, a multi-year initiative created to engage underserved, racial, and ethnic minorities in health policy discussions. Previously, she was guest scholar in the governance studies department at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and executive director of the Institute for Government Innovation at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has additional experience at the National Academy of Public Administration, Howard University School of Divinity, Americans All National Education Program, and Family Resource Coalition of America. She has also launched, led, and managed three public commissions. Under her sponsorship, the landmark Dellums Commission research into conditions faced by young men of color produced policy recommendations to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities.
Gail holds a doctor of naprapathy degree from the Chicago National College of Naprapathy in Illinois and completed advanced study in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in holistic health and clinical nutrition at the Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities at Union Graduate School of Cincinnati, Ohio. She is president of the Board of Directors of the Trust for America's Health.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, established in 1930, supports children, families and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. Grants are concentrated in the United States, southern Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Nathaniel Smith
Nathaniel Smith serves as Director of Partnerships and Research for Equitable Development at Emory University's Center for Community Partnerships. In this capacity Nathaniel facilitates engaged scholarship opportunities with external and community organizations to achieve balanced, sustainable and inclusive development throughout the metropolitan Atlanta region. Prior to joining Emory Nathaniel served as Public Policy Manager at the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership (ANDP). His advocacy, research and coalition building activities supported the creation of many innovative policies that encourage the equitable distribution of mixed income communities throughout the metropolitan Atlanta Region.
Nathaniel has been sanctioned by Emory University to continue his efforts to support the realization of an equitable metropolitan Atlanta via his role as Founder and Chief Equity Officer (CEqO) of a multi-sectored, racial and generational network of regional stakeholders called Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE). Empowered by the unified vision and voices realized through its regional organizing efforts, PSE pushes for policies and actions that promote equity and inclusive prosperity in metropolitan Atlanta.
Among his many acknowledgments, Mr. Smith was selected for the National Congress for Community Economic Development (NCCED) 2000 Emerging Leaders Program; the Outstanding Young Person of Atlanta Award in 2003, Georgia Trend Magazine's 40 under 40 list in 2006 (cover), The Atlanta Business Chronicle's "Up and Comers" List in 2006, and the 2007 Atlanta Housing Association of Neighborhood Based Developers (AHAND) 2007 Affordable Housing Champion Award. Nathaniel was awarded the German Marshall Fund of America's Marshall Memorial Fellowship (MMF) in 2009 and was also a participant in the summer 2012 Aspen Seminar, sponsored by the Aspen Institute.
Nathaniel resides in the Summer Hill Community of Atlanta, Georgia with his wife Alyshia, an elementary school principal, and their daughter Alexia.


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package nl.knaw.huygens.timbuctoo.search.description.propertyparser;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import nl.knaw.huygens.timbuctoo.model.PersonNames;
import nl.knaw.huygens.timbuctoo.search.description.PropertyParser;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import java.io.IOException;

class PersonNamesDefaultNamePropertyParser implements PropertyParser {

  private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(PersonNamesDefaultNamePropertyParser.class);

  @Override
  public String parse(String value) {
    if (value != null) {
      try {
        PersonNames personNames = readPersonNames(value);

        return personNames.defaultName().getFullName();
      } catch (IOException e) {
        LOG.error("Cannot parse '{}' as PersonNames", value);
        LOG.error("Exception thrown", e);
      }
    }

    return null;
  }

  protected PersonNames readPersonNames(String value) throws IOException {
    return new ObjectMapper().readValue(value, PersonNames.class);
  }

  @Override
  public Comparable<?> parseForSort(String value) {
    if (value != null) {
      try {
        PersonNames personNames = readPersonNames(value);

        String defaultName = personNames.defaultName().getSortName();
        if (StringUtils.isBlank(defaultName)) {
          return null;
        }
        return defaultName;
      } catch (IOException e) {
        LOG.error("Cannot parse '{}' as PersonNames", value);
        LOG.error("Exception thrown", e);
      }
    }

    return null;
  }

}

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Small business lending Paycheck Protection Program
Fintechs help banks manage deluge of emergency small-business loans
By Miriam Cross April 14, 2020, 9:00 p.m. EDT 6 Min Read
A slew of fintechs are selling software solutions to lenders grappling with the influx of applications for emergency small-business loans.
Within days of enactment of the federal Paycheck Protection Program, online lenders, core-system providers and software companies churned out platforms and portals — often built on existing technology — that allow banks to accept applications under the relief program, originate loans, automate the underwriting process, collect documents and transmit the information to the Small Business Administration's processing system. The products also help banks meet compliance requirements in the rush to help businesses survive during the coronavirus pandemic.
Mark Rockefeller, CEO and co-founder of StreetShares, a lending-as-a-service provider, said software like his company's onboarding and prequalification solution is essential for bankers, who are accustomed to making loans in person.
"That is the biggest problem with this entire PPP structure," Rockefeller said. "In an era where branch offices are closed and entrepreneurs and business owners are quarantined, how do you distribute this if not 100% digitally and remotely?"
Many of these providers say they have started conversations with dozens or even hundreds of financial institutions, report a handful have been receptive, and expect more to follow suit in the weeks ahead. Companies interviewed for this story generally did not provide names of their bank customers.
Jack Henry Lending, the loan origination division of the core banking software provider, said it has sent out over 400 contracts and is already helping 264 financial institutions take applications and relay approvals to the SBA for final clearance.
Numerated, a small-business loan prospecting and origination software provider, reports more than 90 community banks, regional banks and credit unions are using its PPP software.
Laso, a provider of artificial-intelligence-based lending software, predicts the number of banks using its technology for the SBA program will climb to 50 in the coming weeks. The relationships are primarily sourced through white-label channel partnerships with bank software-as-a-service solution providers.
The software company Treasury Prime offers technology for account creation as well as know-your-customer vetting and other compliance tasks. It recently partnered with Radius Bank in Boston and said together they have produced more than $1.1 billion in PPP loan applications in less than three days.
The Paycheck Protection Program, which is being managed jointly by SBA and the Treasury Department, is an effort to help small businesses keep their workforces employed during the coronavirus crisis. If businesses use these funds strictly for the purpose intended — mainly, to pay their people — the loans will be forgiven. As of midafternoon Tuesday, more than 4,700 lenders had approved about 1.1 million applications for $263 billion of loans, according to the SBA.
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For some fintech lenders, creating software that smooths out the application process was a way to penetrate the PPP market until they could lend themselves.
StreetShares, for example, originally planned to make SBA loans once nonbank lenders were permitted. But the company changed direction and partnered with Fiserv instead to cater to its noncore bank clients. StreetShares provides a secure portal to help bankers review and prepare loan documents. It handles application processing and eligibility checks. StreetShares and Fiserv are not providing user numbers yet because their platform just launched on Friday.
For other providers, devising solutions that simplify online loan applications may be one way to support their small-bank clients that are facilitating emergency loans and solicit new customers at the same time — even if they do not make much money in the process.
"They're trying to show their stuff," said Todd Baker, senior fellow at the Richman Center for Business at Columbia University and Managing Principal at Broadmoor Consulting LLC. "It's a great opportunity to get in quickly. Usually selling software to an enterprise is very complicated, but this is an emergency situation. If you show up with a great package, there is a good chance [banks] will take it."
At the basic level, banks get a simplified SBA loan application platform. A more complete service, such as the one built by Jack Henry Lending, enables lenders to offer an online application with prequalification, a secure document portal, electronic submission to the SBA for approval, documentation for closing, electronic signature, and loan boarding, or automatic integration, to supported cores.
Bottomline Technologies is providing free use of its loan processing software to help banks participate in the Small Business Administration's Payroll Protection Program, according to CEO Rob Eberle.
Another provider, Nymbus, pitches its SmartLenders Program as a bundled solution where lenders can point their clients to a portal link to submit their applications, and SmartLenders will take care of automating the requests, collecting documents and closing the loans. The company promises a weekly report of all PPP loans originated through the bank and to follow up on the SBA forgiveness process. The company declined to say how many banks have signed on.
Meanwhile, Unqork, a no-code application platform, recently announced a partnership with Deloitte to help lenders streamline the distribution of loans to small businesses, using tools from Plaid.
What they have in common
The big selling point, regardless of the provider, is digitizing a loan process that normally takes place in bank branches.
"Many small businesses have been dependent on physical branches for service and access to credit, so this digital capability is even more essential in this environment due to temporary branch closures and social distancing guidelines," said Rob Eberle, CEO of Bottomline Technologies, another vendor that offers PPP loan software that incorporates business background verifications with LexisNexis and fraud checks with Socure.
Another selling point is speed. For example, MX, a data software company, said its application portal speeds up from 30 minutes to 30 seconds financial institutions' process for submitting approvals to the SBA. Laso reported its technology can safely deploy loans to as many as 1.25 million applicants per hour, using its proprietary AI and credit models.
And providers are finding ways to differentiate their products from competitors in a crowded field.
For example, Biz2X emphasizes that its Accelerate SBA platform can integrate with payroll companies to quickly get payroll data, a key to determining eligibility and loan forgiveness. The company also said the Accelerate SBA platform will track loan forgiveness eligibility and let banks service any outstanding loans that remain once forgiveness periods are expired — something it asserted all banks will have to deal with once the "mad rush" for originations slows down.
Brandon Dewitt, co-founder and chief technology officer at MX, said its Easy SBA Portal, which automates the application and submission process, is offered as an open source solution where financial institutions can download the source code and use it at no charge.
What they charge
Companies that act as agents to lenders are entitled to a slice of the processing fees that lenders receive from the SBA, with a max of 1% for loans up to $350,000, 0.5% for loans of $350,000 to $2 million, and 0.25% for loans above $2 million.
Software providers work out their own fees. Numerated charges an annual platform fee and a fee for each loan closed on the platform.
Some companies, including Bottomline and MX, say they will not take any fees at all. And Biz2X is offering Accelerate SBA to community banks and credit unions with assets under $10 billion for free through June 30.
"Bottomline is not drawing any revenue from this program," Eberle said. "We thought it the right thing to do to help small business, help the banks that serve them and to help our country get through this extraordinary economic and health challenge." As of April 8, Bottomline said several banks were live on its platform, it had a handful of implementations going, and the company had spoken with more than 100 banks that were interested.
Of course, these programs give vendors a way to get their foot in the doors of new bank clients, an achievement that could prove extremely lucrative over time.
Miriam Cross
Tech Reporter, Arizent
Small business lending Paycheck Protection Program Coronavirus SBA Fintech
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Tier1 Financial Solutions says the acquisition will give it access to midsize financial institutions and that Alessa's product will improve onboarding for Tier1's clients.
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Katie Porter off House banking panel: Report
The California Democrat known for sharp questioning of executives was turned down for a waiver to serve on the Financial Services Committee by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., The Hill reported Thursday.

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The Dutch Bureau of Statistics has new figures out — and they show that the numbers of one-person businesses are booming. Over two-thirds of new companies in 2011 were one-man enterprises. Five years ago this share was still only 55 percent. In business services, and information and communication in particular the percentage of one-man businesses has increased.
In 2011 the number of enterprises grew by nearly 7 percent according to Statistics Netherlands. The number of consultancies, in particular, rose last year and construction is the most dynamic sector.
The 7 percent net increase in the number of companies in 2011 was comparable with that in 2007. In 2010 the number rose by 3.5 percent.
The construction industry has been the most dynamic sector since 2007. In 2007 and 2008 the number of companies in this sector grew by around 12 percent, while two years later growth had almost come to a standstill. Last year, the number of businesses in construction activities rose by 5 percent. The increase in the number of companies is above average in business services, and information and communication. In manufacturing and trade, transport, and the hotel and restaurant sector the number grew by less than average.
The sector with the largest number of new businesses was consultancy: 14 thousand. These new companies account for 20 percent of the total number of companies in this sector. For most sectors in the top 10, the low starting up costs are an advantage for new businesses.
Six thousand new companies in 2011 were online retail outlets, over 35 percent of the number of companies in this sector. In 2007 this was still 22 percent. More and more businesses starting out in retail are opting to sell their products via the internet.
Nearly 20 percent of all the companies that started business in 2007 closed down within one year; 55 percent are still in business today. Companies active in construction or manufacturing have the greatest chance of surviving. Those in the trade and the hotel and restaurant sectors have the smallest chance of staying in business.


As the chilly wind of winter settles in, it brings to the end a year's worth of fashion and style statements from all over the world. This year, before the New Year arrives you must make yourself acclimatized to the five fashion favorites which are most likely to rule winter fashion weeks and street wear designs. Stock up on the hit designs before the year-end countdowns to 2014 begins.
This dress is going to mark the return of the Bohemian and retro chic, with graphic prints from the Warhol era predominating the fashion scene. Colorful and funky, vintage and classic are all going to be seen on the same palate. Each dress is going to be a work of art, with abstract prints, geometric and paisley designs taking the centre stage of fashion. Tight fitted sheath dresses in mind boggling graphic designs are going to be the rage of the season. To make them look classy and edgy at the same time, you can pair them up with short cropped jackets and suede boots.
What is winter without a touch of the pristine white, of snow and frozen rain? These elements of nature will be reflected in fashion wear too, with white and pastels dominating the runway. Stock up on your light shades and white dresses for a wintery feel and a cozy look. Go monochrome with white dresses that end at the knee and compliment them with white boots and jackets. This is a classic style that never goes out of fashion during the last few months of the year.
Following the popular Pantone color of the year, designers everywhere are going green and emerald. To add extra points to your winter statement, buy a good quality emerald scarf in chiffon or georgette for a glamorous look that will go perfectly with your dark coats and blazers. You can mix and match the accessories with it and go for green beads and gemstone jewelry and emerald stilettos.
We suggest comfortable footwear for this winter, like loafers and flats. Sneakers and loafers don't always have to be uninspiring. You can play with the design and color of loafers. Animal printed loafers and colorful sneakers with graffiti art on them is a cool look to sport, if you think you can carry it off.
The sheer versatility of the wrap skirt makes it an absolute necessity on this list. Winters are incomplete without the wraparound skirt. These come in a variety of thick fabrics like wool, tweed, suede and cotton. The most amazing thing about these skirts is the fact that they easily fit any waist size and can also be worn inside-out, which has a different print in many cases. Pair these skirts with knee length boots and jacquard stockings for a feminine and ultra-chic look. Depending on the chill factor during the end of the season, you can go for short length or long wrap skirts.
Shivani is a fashion blogger at online shopping portal Rajrang. She loves to write about latest fashion trends, ladies apparels, accessories and home decor products.


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Q: Как в js сделать подгрузку определенного контента Привет всем. Подскажите мне, пожалуйста, а то я уже неделю не могу ничего найти. Нужен скрипт асинхронной загрусзки страницы. К примеру, когда полностью открылась страница сайта, появлялась надпись "Подождите идет загрузка", и через секунд 2 - 3 появлялся контент сайта (в моем случаи это блоги).
A: Вот простое решение - попап с самозакрытием. Сейчас он конечно крайне примитивен, просто как вариант:

Можно сделать закрытие не через фиксированное время а по onload, когда контент прогрузится.
A: Используя jQuery попробуйте на событие загрузки повесить текст о том, что страница загружается.
А когда страница загрузится - выводите контент.

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Building Extranets for Business Advantage
You knew it was coming sooner rather than later. Your executive committee has come down with a bad case of the e-B-G-Bs: E-business is Good Business. The symptoms are pronounced: no word is uttered without an "e" prefix, and talk of extranets, self-service, portals, and profits fills the corporate meeting rooms.
To be prepared for the transition to e-commerce, you need to know how upper-level management thinks. What do they want out of this Internet excursion? How do they plan to present the business to online customers? What should the system provide in the way of services and information to the employees running the back-end processes? How will it all involve you?
Building a solid extranet that compels customers to return is no trivial matter. A number of factors need to come together for an effective extranet, including the interface, the infrastructure, and all the corporate data made readily available. Most important, perhaps, is making the data mean something to line-of-business managers and customers.
The Customer Is King
Due to the nature of their purpose, extranets and the systems they encompass must be designed with the customer in mind. A critical component of the customer-centric extranet is the user interface. It must be simple, clear, and easy-to-use, but still provide access to extensive information behind it. Ideally, everything and anything a customer needs to do can be accomplished via this interface.
"The traditional business-intelligence tools have been slow at adapting their technologies to the Web and making them modular enough to allow themselves to sit seamlessly within a Web solution," says Sanjay Poonen, director of product marketing and a founder at Alphablox Corp. (www.alphablox.com), which builds a platform for e-business analytical applications. "People want to read a Web page as if they were reading CNN.com, unaware that some of the information is, in fact, business logic that is analytical in nature from a structured database, while other items might be unstructured information in the form of news feeds."
Greg Johnsen, director of product marketing at Tradiant Inc. (www.tradiant.com), a provider of e-commerce solutions to the transportation industry, agrees that presentation is a key factor in an e-business's success. "We run an online marketplace, and giving our customers the help and information they need to make good commercial decisions is critical," he says.
Johnsen's team manages the multiple communication channels the company uses to interact with its customers. These include e-mail, phone, fax, and the Web. The company collects information gleaned from its interactions, in the end pushing very specific and useful knowledge to customers.
Building an effective user interface means developers of e-commerce applications must integrate data from structured sources -- such as relational databases and data warehouses -- as well as from unstructured sources, such as news feeds.
The Infrastructure
Larry Freed, vice president of divisional practices at Compuware Corp. (www.compuware.com), sees challenges on the back-end side of an extranet's user interface. Freed spent several years working with the American National Standards Institute X.12 committee for electronic data interchange (EDI).
"The system-to-system communication components of e-business demand the adherence to standards. Although a standard like XML is critical for effective computer-to-computer transactions, the path to seamless communications still has some potholes," he says.
Freed continues that although several e-business partners can write to the XML standard, each one can write to their own interpretation.
"I worked with automakers for several years on the X.12 standard. While we got real close to agreeing on standardized forms for data interchange, invariably, there was always something a bit different," he says.
For seamless system-to-system communications, which effective extranets require, business partners have to agree on such matters as what fields are defined in their data exchanges, what type of data populates each field, where the fields are located in the data stream, and so on. Naturally, the complexity increases as the number of business partners increases.
Jim Lambert, director of corporate marketing at Octane Software Inc. (www.octane.com), a company that makes Internet relationships management software, sees the integration of disparate systems as a key hurdle to overcome -- similar to the days when it was typical to find a PC and a minicomputer terminal on someone's desk because the two systems didn't "talk."
"Some early systems were narrow in focus, perhaps concentrating on the call center where the telephone was the key tool to use. Then along came the fax, e-mail, and the Web. Often, point solutions were implemented for each of these communication channels," he says. "You'd have the 'phone group' in one corner, the 'Web group' in another, and so on. Technology today must be flexible to allow the development of systems that integrate multiple input channels and present them to the knowledge worker in a single, unified manner."
Tradiant's Johnsen says developing a robust extranet infrastructure behind the Web interface is another important extranet challenge. "Having an infrastructure that can sort, store, and manage this continuous and critical activity is central to any proposition," he says.
The beauty of a Web-based approach is that many of the previous hurdles are eliminated: Users -- customers and the vendors -- rely on standard Web browsers, which can be used across a variety of hardware and software platforms without concern for the underlying details. Interacting with data, viewing data, searching for data, and reporting on data -- are all simplified by virtue of Web-based technology.
Making the Data Mean Something
Making sense out of the data is another complicated matter. The knowledge has to be classified to make it accessible. Different data needs to be driven toward users for whom a particular bit of information is useful. Access rights and policies need to be established, and the circumstances under which information is provided need to be determined.
Imagine an executive of an automobile company being able to get a personalized application delivered across the Web that had the fundamental driving factors of the lease and retail side of car sales -- analyzed behind the scenes by powerful databases and servers -- presented in easy-to-read, protected Web pages.
The executive's experience with this easy-to-use application is in stark contrast to today's analysis experience, where he is forced to open a proprietary query tool that is hard to use, that dominates desktop real estate, and that has little or no hard business context for the automobile company.
Extend the Web-based analogy to the supply chain, where franchise dealers make informed decisions on the inventory of cars based on alerts and analysis provided by the automobile company on its portal. It's easy to see where this drives tremendous e-business efficiency in the supply chain.
"The heart of the challenge involves making analytics mean something to the context of line-of-business managers at Fortune 500 companies," Alphablox's Poonen comments.
For example, suppliers looking to understand and analyze the variance of demand forecasts don't want to have to learn how to "slice and dice" the data, or understand magical words like OLAP. They just want to click a few buttons on a Web page that were customized and optimized for their particular e-business supply chain.
The depth to which users can drill to find the data they need presents further challenges to corporate extranets and e-businesses.
"You can present data in a strictly Yellow-Pages fashion. That is to say that you can present data as a series of categories with just the basic contact information, which forces the user to make a phone call or use some other means of communication to complete a transaction," says Hemang Dave, founder of TrainingNet Inc. (www.trainingnet.com), a provider of access to technical and professional courses. "On the other hand, you can use all data modalities to drill down to get answers and buy products and services right then and there. By allowing the user to transact business from start to finish, you provide value that will bring that customer back and will satisfy participating vendors."
Octane's Lambert says that one factor in achieving this is personalization -- the integration of business information and knowledge of customers that will make self-service possible.
"The insights e-businesses gain about their customers must be translated to action. Systems must be developed that allow businesses to get to know their customers," he says.
Additionally, extranets must be process-oriented. The technology must allow the fluid execution of business from start to finish, rather than providing the ability to simply execute a single transaction, Lambert explains.
Despite the advances in technology that are geared at making e-commerce ventures successful, the value of old-fashioned elbow grease can't be ignored.
TrainingNet's Dave cautions customers not to underestimate the amount of manual labor required to populate a database -- not to mention massaging and grooming the data. TrainingNet knows the effort; it is doing everything itself -- data entry, cleanup, posting, and updating.
"We started with 100 percent manual effort. Now we estimate that we've got that down to 60 percent, and we're trying to bring it down to 30 percent. Still, technology can't solve everything. B2B [business-to-business] ventures need to consider the resource costs of this manual effort up front," he stresses.
The Corporate Melting Pot
Another challenge facing extranet e-commerce-based businesses is the IT culture shift that inevitably occurs. More than ever, business units and IT must work together to make a project successful. IT groups must see the continuous chain of requirements from the customer down to the server. This sort of integration and awareness cuts deployment time from years to months, or weeks to days. While integration technologies such as Computer Telephone Integration (CTI) and XML are important, the cooperation between IT and the business units is the linchpin in the success of business extranets.
Patrick Meehan, vice president of solutions architecture at InfoRay Inc. (www.inforay.com), a developer of real-time business monitors, can foresee the day when a hybrid business-IT organization will emerge as the profit engine of the enterprise, rather than a cost center.
To that end, systems will be developed that constantly monitor business performance and automatically link to suppliers and partners with much of the e-business activity taking place behind the scenes.
Vendors agree that companies need to consider business objectives in relation to an extranet. Tradiant's Johnsen says this is a step that many companies race over in the rush to get something in place.
From the beginning, though, customers should be thinking about what they want to accomplish from a business perspective, how they want to service customers, how to measure their own success, and what results they'll produce by meeting those business objectives.
"Look at the big picture. Too many organizations address one thing -- infrastructure, portal design, etc. -- and lose site of the overall goal. Don't look at the pieces rather than the whole. Focus on how customers are treated by your e-venture," Octane's Lambert says.
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Outsourcing an Extranet
Add another three letter acronym to the list of offerings in the service provider space: the extranet service provider (ESP).
With the seeming complexity of extranet e-business environments, should one seek to outsource all or part of an e-venture? According to Giga Information Group Inc. (www.gigaweb.com), large corporations can expect to support at least 10, if not dozens, intercompany connections within the first 18 months of an extranet initiative.
Even in cases where a company's requirements are ultra-unique, a state-of-the-art infrastructure system will prove to be flexible enough, and open enough, to bring more value more quickly than could be accomplished in house.
Although the market is still a small one, at least one company, Aventail Corp. (www.aventail.com), proclaims itself an ESP, with the goal of providing everything customers need to activate and manage business partner networks. Aventail's approach merges a customer's existing investments in technology and core business functions. An Aventail spokesperson says that the company can set up an extranet for customers in as little as 10 weeks.
If Giga's predictions are accurate, we can expect to see more ESPs emerge in the future.


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Q: sequential processing in nodejs i am interfacing some existing nodejs code (particle cli) for factory testing. got all to work separately but have some last remaining issue running the "commands" sequentially which seems trivial?!
my code below. the "particle identify" command works and the "particle flash" command works but together they do not as "particle flash" starts while "particle identify" is processing
i tried "await" but that gives "SyntaxError: await is only valid in async function". ".then" works but to make that work i have to nest all the commands which makes it unreadable?
anyone any suggestions?
thanks
frank
"use strict"

const SerialCommands = require('particle-cli/dist/cmd/serial');
const FlashCommand = require('particle-cli/dist/cmd/flash');

global.verboseLevel = 1;

// command is found in cli/serial.js
// args are found in cmd/serial.js

// particle identify
new SerialCommands().identifyDevice({port: undefined});

// particle flash
new FlashCommand().flash('p1-bootloader@1.5.2+lto.bin', 'p1-bootloader@1.5.2+lto.bin', [], {usb: false, serial: true, factory: false, force: false, target: undefined, port: undefined, yes: true});

A: Wrap your code in an async function and immediately call it:
;(async function() {
  // your code here
})()


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Nursery Makes Its Pitch To Be Seventh Legal Pot Grower
WFSU | By Nick Evans
Published July 6, 2016 at 3:59 PM EDT
Marijuana could soon be legal in Florida for terminal patients.
Credit US Fish and Wildlife Service
An administrative court will spend this week and the next deciding whether another nursery should be allowed to grow medical marijuana. Loop's nursery would be the seventh in the state.
The Florida legislature approved a path for five nurseries to grow and distribute low-THC marijuana in 2014. The list has since grown to six and Loop's nursery is hoping to extend it to seven. Meanwhile, Holley Moseley says families like hers are still waiting.
"Nothing has come as of yet," she says, "We were told January 1, 2015 oil would be available to patients, and we're still waiting."
"And so I'm here for my daughter and for all the other kids throughout this state who deserve the same opportunity that kids in Colorado have to try this treatment."
Moseley—whose daughter RayAnn suffers from intractable epilepsy—has been a major proponent for low-THC marijuana. Her organization, Realm of Caring, partners with the Colorado company that developed the strain known as Charlotte's Web. If the judge approves Loop's bid, the company would be licensed to grow and distribute treatments under that brand name in Florida.
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Nick Evans came to Tallahassee to pursue a masters in communications at Florida State University. He graduated in 2014, but not before picking up an internship at WFSU. While he worked on his degree Nick moved from intern, to part-timer, to full-time reporter. Before moving to Tallahassee, Nick lived in and around the San Francisco Bay Area for 15 years. He listens to far too many podcasts and is a die-hard 49ers football fan. When Nick's not at work he likes to cook, play music and read.
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Years ago I read an account of a Soviet tank assault against the Seelow Heights outside of Berlin. A single Tiger II commanded the ridge overlooking the plain the Red Army advanced over. Like Horatius at the bridge, the Tiger crew stood their ground, absorbed blow after blow, stopped the enemy attack, fired until their last round, and only retreated when their ammunition resupply was stopped by artillery. That Tiger II left over 100 burning Soviet tanks blocking the avenue of advance.
In another book about Soviet heavy tanks I read that the 122mm gun of the Stalin tank was tested against a captured Panther. The AP round penetrated the glacis, drilled through the bulkheads and engine, exited the rear plate, completely ruining the Panther's day. With those memories I could not wait to read KING TIGER vs. IS-2 and started it as soon as it arrived.
Author David R. Higgins brings to us a wealth of historical, tactical, doctrinal, technical, organizational, and archival information about the ultimate armor adversaries of World War Two. It specifically chronicles Operation Sonnenwende ("Solstice"), the 1945 winter German attempt to stymie the Red Army advance through Pomerania. The book is very well organized and consists of many photographs, illustrations, informational sidebars, and profiles of two key commanders of the battle.
The IS-2 was an evolution of the KV series of Soviet heavy tanks intended for breakthrough roles in the face of increasingly formidable panzers. The Tiger II was a revolutionary design utilizing battlefield lessons. The design theories are very different. The Tiger II was an armored sniper, the IS-2 was a nimble wielder of a maul. While the Tiger's frontal armor was practically impenetrable at normal combat ranges, the physics of a 122mm round impact would ruin the panzer's day; small fast moving flakes of armor called spall demonstrated Newton's Law inside the Tiger, sometimes with catastrophic results.
The book opened my eyes on a few subjects. The mighty IS-2 only carried eight rounds of BR-471 APHE (Armor-piercing High Explosive) anti-tank ammunition in its paltry 28 round capacity. The Soviet crew consisted of two officers and two NCOs. And despite the general mechanical deficiencies of the Tiger, they could occasionally move great distances on their own, fight, and return to base. Additional interesting trivia is that in 1943 NKO offered a bounty to Soviet soldiers who destroyed a panzer.
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This book is engaging and I found it to be a worthwhile read. However, I was expecting some combat reports and tank vs. tank battle narratives. There are none. The majority of this book is a history of Sonnenwende. That King Tigers and IS-2s were the star players seem to be a side note. There are no accounts of tankers shooting it out with the enemy. No personal experiences of shells bouncing off armor, of spall showering the inside of the vehicle. Possibly this is due to the losses amongst the tankers – few Red Army tankers survived their encounter with a Tiger II, and few Tiger crews survived Soviet captivity.
I am glad to have a book that compares the King Tiger to the IS-2, which this book does, but I do not consider this a duel. It is more a story of the strengths and weaknesses of two specific tank types that happened to be in a particular operation in the closing months of World War Two.
Within the pages is a great deal of photographic support for this work. Although most are black and white, several are color photographs of the interior of a preserved King Tiger. Of the black and white photographs, many are staged and thus studio quality; the rest range from good amateur photos to low quality frames. All the same they convey the subject matter well.
Also enriching the book is a centerfold painting of Red tanks and infantry assaulting a ridge defended by a King Tiger. Computer graphics created profiles of the Tiger and Stalin, turret interiors and main gun ammunition, gunsight views, and tactical diagrams. Several maps help orient the reader to the strategic and tactical situations.
Interesting - a fair assessment of this book. Indeed, all of the Duel series that I have read have been fascinating and this title is no exception. It has opened my eyes to facts unknown about these two antagonists. I would like to have accounts from tankers, or at least some after action reports.
The illustrations are outstanding and the battle scene is dramatic. Historians and modelers will appreciate the photographs. I recommend this book.
Lows: I really do not find the presentation to convey a "duel" story.
Verdict: Students of King Tigers and IS-2 Stalin tanks should find this title interesting.
Pretty amazing feat when you consider the Tiger II only carried 80-86 rounds of main gun ammo.


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Finnegan Asher was born two years ago in November 2016. He was 6 weeks premature and in the NICU for 9 days. But he was strong and healthy….and came home to outgrow any time he might have been "behind".
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The owner of the largest search engine on the planet is also known for its Android Mobile operating system which is used on a very large number of cellphones and mobile devices. Google's search engine holds the largest market share followed by Microsoft's Bing. Apart from that Google is also a competitor in cloud based services. Google's hosted messaging and a large range of productivity suite compete with several products by Apple and Google. The cloud industry especially is seeing very heavy competition because of the growing opportunities in this segment and because of its heavy profitability. Now, google has entered the smartphone market with its Pixel. while its share in the smartphone industry is very small, still it can grow into a significant player, if it continues to invest in this area. In search engine and digital advertising, it will continue to remain the biggest player. Another major player is Facebook whose share in digital advertising has continued to grow with its growing customer base.
Google's main competitors are the big four – Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook. However, apart from these small and big rivalries in several areas can also be noticed from those for being technologically advanced to those in the area of social media. Netflix and Hulu are powerful competitors for Google's YouTube.
Apple is one of the toughest competitors that has made a return to the top position in the tech industry with a bang. Its iOs is the biggest challenger to Google Android OS. The maker of Mac and iPhone has got its market value at around 800 Billion USD. Despite the sweeping changes across the computing industry, the brand has continued to grow based on its iPhone sales. Even after the passing away of Steve Jobs, Apple is ruling the tech industry and investing in new technologies. It turns out the brand is the highest rival for Google, Amazon and Microsoft.
The maker of windows operating system is also a major challenger to Google's business empire. The two compete in several areas including cloud technology and search advertising. While Google has the lion's share in online advertising business, Microsoft also has a significant presence in this field. Moreover, it continues to invest in areas like AI and IoT to remain ahead in the race of technology. Microsoft's Bing search engine competes with Google. While Google has the largest market share in this area, Bing s just second to it.
Amazon has also grown to be a tough competitor for Google. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are taking the lead in the cloud business industry. Google's cloud business is growing but is met against tough competitors. Amazon's revenue has also grown very fast in the recent years. Infact it is the toughest competitor in the cloud industry.
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However, this is not the entire story because there are several other influential players in the cloud industry too. The demand for cloud technology has grown very fast in the recent years. Several major cloud players have merged whose revenues have grown fast owing to the fast growth of the cloud industry. Some of the biggest names that can compete with Google include IBM, Salesforce, SAP and Oracle. Apart from these since Google owns Youtube a social media brand, it is also in competition with other social media channels like Twitter, Instagram etc as well as the other streaming video sites like Netflix and Hulu. So, the number of competitors of Google has continued to grow and it is mainly because of the growing number of players in the cloud industry.


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Occidental secures exploration rights for Abu Dhabi Onshore Block 5
Aninda Chakraborty 1 month ago
ADNOC Headquarters & Etihad Towers. Credit: Aidas U.
US-based oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) company Occidental has secured exploration rights for Abu Dhabi Onshore Block 5 in the UAE following a competitive bidding round.
The company signed the exploration concession agreement with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) to appraise oil and gas opportunities in the block located southeast of Abu Dhabi city.
The contract was approved by Abu Dhabi's Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC).
As agreed, Occidental will hold 100% stake during the exploration phase and will invest up to AED514m ($140m) for exploration activities on the block that covers an onshore area of 4,212km².
The company will also have the right to a production concession following a successful commercial discovery and can hold a 60% stake in the property during the production phase.
In a statement, ADNOC said that a new 3D seismic data covering a large part of the block as well as its proximity to existing onshore oil and gas fields, suggest that the area has promising potential.
The production phase will have a 35 year term starting from the commencement of exploration activities.
The UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and ADNOC Group CEO Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber said: "We are very pleased to once again collaborate with Occidental and strengthen our long-standing partnership. This concession award highlights the important role of energy cooperation in deepening the strong and deep-rooted strategic relationship between the UAE and the US.
"Crucially, the award underscores the attractiveness of Abu Dhabi's huge untapped resource potential and ADNOC's ability to continue to secure foreign direct investment to the UAE's stable and trusted business environment, despite tough market conditions."
Last month, ADNOC awarded the world's largest 3D seismic shoot to CNPC-subsidiary BGP.


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A Michoacán rail blockade takes on a Day of the Dead theme.
'For lack of political will,' train blockades continue after 28 days in Michoacán
Cost to industry estimated at 5 billion pesos, or US $235.6 million
Published on Friday, October 30, 2020
They lifted their rail blockades in Michoacán late last month but by early October teachers and teachers in training were once again holding up freight trains in the Pacific coast state, costing industry billions of pesos.
After state police allegedly threatened to remove them with force, teachers and teaching students affiliated with the dissident CNTE teachers union freed tracks in the municipalities of Maravatío, Pátzcuaro, Múgica and Uruapan on September 22.
But on October 2 teachers and normalistas, as teaching students are known, began blocking tracks again to demand the payment of late salaries, bonuses and scholarships as well as the automatic allocation of jobs to graduates.
According to the president of the Business Coordinating Council (CCE) in the port city of Lázaro Cárdenas, authorities haven't removed the protesters due to a lack of political will.
"It's not possible that it's been 27 days [until Thursday] and the tracks are still occupied. I'm convinced that what is lacking is political will to resolve this situation," said José Luis García.
Trucks have substituted for trains to move containers, but the process is slower.
He and other business leaders, along with industry representatives, workers and many Michoacán residents, are calling on state and federal authorities to solve the problem.
Oscar del Cueto, CEO of rail operator Kansas City Southern de México, told the newspaper Milenio that more than 5,000 containers have been held up at the Lázaro Cárdenas port due to the blockades set up this month in the municipalities of Uruapan, Pátzcuaro and Morelia.
Kansas City Southern has incurred losses of 300 million pesos (US $14.1 million) while industry has lost an estimated 5 billion pesos (US $235.6 million), he said.
Del Cueto, who is also president of the Mexican Railway Association, said the steel industry has been particularly affected because it has been unable to supply automotive plants and factories that make domestic appliances.
He also said that vehicle imports and exports have been delayed by the rail blockades as have auto parts, building supplies and consumer products.
Daniel Torres, a CCE member in Lázaro Cárdenas, said the city's port is still operating but trucks, rather than trains, are transporting goods to and from the port.
That makes the movement of goods slower as a single train can carry as much freight as 150 trucks, Milenio reported. When the railroad is unobstructed, six trains leave the Lázaro Cárdenas port daily but workers now have to load freight onto 900 trucks to ship the same quantity of goods.
García, the CCE president, said the delay in getting products to their intended destination could cause some companies to close.
"We'll start to see massive lay-offs and those people, where will they work? Will they be left without work thanks to a handful of teachers blocking the train tracks?"
Meanwhile, the teachers and normalistas warned that they won't lift their blockades until their demands are met.
But while they remain committed to maintaining their protest for as long as is required, they're not letting it stop them celebrating the Day of the Dead holiday, which will take place this Sunday and Monday.
In Caltzontzin, Uruapan, on Thursday, protesting teachers and students built Day of the Dead altars on the train tracks they are blocking, using marigold flowers and a range of other items commonly used to attract the spirits of the dead.
Normalistas have also been busy this week robbing trucks in Michoacán. Teaching students hijacked at least three Coca-Cola delivery trucks in Morelia on Wednesday and offloaded hundreds of packages of soft drinks at a teacher training college in the state capital, Milenio reported. There were no reports of any arrests.
Source: Milenio (sp)
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11 February will take place the ceremony "Grammy", to be held without Ariana Grande. Who is to blame in the situation and whether in the end the Grand ceremony is not known, and the details are below.
The singer was nominated for the award in the category "Best pop solo performance" and Grande began to negotiate with the organizers of his speech at the ceremony. But the stars and producers of the conflict occurred: supposedly the artist was forbidden to choose the second track that she will perform what she is very offended and boycott.
This year will also host the Grammys without Taylor swift, which to this day will attend a different event — BAFTA, which will support your beloved Joe Alvin. The painting "Mistress" with his participation was nominated in the categories "Best film" and "Outstanding British film".
now in the life of the singer. On 7 September last year died ex-boyfriend Ariana Grande Mac Miller. After breaking up with performer Ariana was able to move on and even accepted a proposal of marriage from the SNL comedian Pete Davidson. We never reached, because due to Mac couple ended the relationship.
Relationship of Mac and Ariana lasted much more than with Pete. Met a couple two years and recorded a joint song. But in the end their romance was "toxic", said Grande, because the singer could no longer watch while unsuccessfully struggling with drug addiction her boyfriend. The singer promised that he would support it.


Culture: If the women in Khoma, Lhuentse are known for weaving kishuthara, women in Chumey, Bumthang are known for weaving yathra. Women here keep weaving yathra throughout the year, as it is their main source of cash income.
Women in Chumey, especially those living in Chungphel, Zhurey, Kertsho, Bhim, Terzoe and Yeerangbi depend on weaving yathra.
Women here begin training to weave yathra by the age of eight.
Settlements in these villages are mostly clustered. Women come to weave together in a shed. The four women usually weave facing each other.
While they weave, they converse, at times stopping momentarily to concentrate on a juicy topic. Sometimes they sing together or listen to radio programmes.
Sonam Lhamo, 28, from Chungphel started weaving yathra at the age of eight. She weaves yathra throughout the year and her income helps her to take care of her entire family.
She said women weave in groups outside their houses to keep themselves away from getting bored. Talking to each other and singing keeps boredom away, she said. School going girls still learn how to weave yathra during their breaks.
Sonam weaves seven yathra coats in a month and earns Nu 7,000. She said that while it doesn't fetch her good profit it still helps her make ends meet. "We have to buy yarns from the shops and the profit margin is minimal," she said.
People here don't do agricultural works unlike elsewhere in the country. Their farmlands lie fallow except for some wheat.
Choni Lhamo, 35 from Chungphel said they also weave Dewan Kheb, Dhen Khebs (mats), sofa covers, mufflers and bags besides yathra today.
Kinga Tshomo, 56 from Zhurey village said she weaves yathra products along with her two daughters at home. She has a handloom set outside her house in a bamboo shed.
She sometimes weaves woollen products when her sheep produce enough wool. Otherwise, she buys imported yarns for yathra. "Woollen products consume a lot of time but it also fetches us better income," she said.
She sells a woollen bed cover for Nu 2,000.
She said her parents used to cultivate a variety of crops in the past but today only some wheat is cultivated, which is essential for making wheat flour and brewing Ara.
Thinley Dema, 19 from Bhim said the Ura-Nangar bypass road has eased their lives. They need not take their finished yathra products to shops in Zungey, which is some 10km from Nangar.
Villagers sell their products along the bypass road and they also buy yarns from these shops today. They also buy their rations from here.


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I think as the web has evolved/is evolving from what is/was essentially an electronic version of a traditional library of documents all linked together, into a network of much more sophisticated content (not just documents) and is increasingly becoming a network of inter-related entities, we are all essentially building nodes in a big brain.
As a result I think SEO is heading towards building parts of that brain, or at least helping this brain understand the content we want to surface, beyond a document and instead as a 'thing' or an 'object', so with that in mind I think aspects of SEO like structured data, micro-data, schema etc all help in this evolution. The more structured and modular you can make your output the better SEO'd it will be. So long as it serves the user well of course too, then the brain will be happy.
Google is looking more at user behaviour to further help determine content/website quality, as one would expect, and this is only going to increase. However its being quite widely discussed amongst the seo community that, at the moment at least, this is likely to help differentiate between the sites that are already ranking well, to help determine which is actually the better site according to user behaviour, and that sites that are not yet in that top tier should still focus on the traditional fundamentals of content and links.
Always ignore the death knells of SEO, which usually come around every year or so when something big happens or theres a major change to the status quo that some industry commentators can't get their heads round. I've literally heard someone somewhere say 'SEO is dead' every single year since 2005 or so, and they have always been wrong.
There is a very easy way to find out if/when SEO is dead/will die, it will simply be when non-organic/natural listings no longer exist. So long as its possible to achieve rankings without paying for it, there will be a way to positively influence your position within that and that is SEO.


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Strong Female Character Friday: Joey Lucas (The West Wing)
So, it's with shame in my heart that I admit that the reason I never really talk about The West Wing on this blog, despite it totally being a seminal work of television that is totally up my alley, is because I haven't actually watched it since it aired, and I was never a particularly faithful viewer. I haven't really seen it, is what I'm saying. I mean, I've seen some of it, just not all of it and not in the right order.
I'm working to fix that, though, and undertaking the enormous task of rewatching all of the episodes in order, much the bemused support of my roommates, and I have to say that the show really does hold up. It's an unrealistic, idealized, warm fuzzy version of a Democratic White House that could probably never exist, but I like that. I can dig it.
This is also, for the record and those keeping score at home, the reason I've been so terrible about recaps lately. I'm sorry! But the reason I'm not up to date on Orphan Black and Game of Thrones is because I have to know what happens next on a television show that's been off the air since 2007. Sorry not sorry.
Anyway, the point of all of this is to say that for the first time I'm actually making a committed effort to watching The West Wing, and I have discovered a character I didn't know existed who I really needed to know existed.
Joey Lucas. Played by Marlee Matlin. A deaf actress playing a deaf character and it's really not a big plot point. I mean, it's not not a plot point, but the show doesn't go out of its way to make a huge deal about how progressive and interesting they are for having a deaf character. She just is deaf and is a character. No big.
For me, a person with degenerative hearing problems and more than a passing interest in pop culture, this is really awesome to see. Joey Lucas is presented as being competent, sexy, funny, and just happens to be deaf. There's no tragic backstory, it's not something that needs to be fixed, and at no point does the story feel the need to apologize for her deafness. It's everything I've wanted from a story like this and more.
From the very first second she appears on screen, it's clear that Joey Lucas is going to be an awesome character. Based on her name and job, the characters of The West Wing initially assume Joey Lucas is a man. Lucas has demanded a meeting with the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Josh Lyman, because "he" is upset that the White House has cut off funding for a California congressional race Lucas is managing. Lyman shows up to the meeting completely unenthused and more than a little hungover. Their first meeting actually occurs while he wears a set of foul-weather waders and a puke-stained tank top, blinking blearily at the woman standing in his doorway.
That woman is Joey Lucas, whose interpreter, Kenny, calmly translates the words she's clearly shouting in sign language. It's a fantastic introduction, with Lucas finally resorting to yelling at Josh, "You idiot! I'm Joey Lucas!" when he doesn't understand what's going on. It fantastic because from the get-go, the show makes it clear that Joey Lucas is a deaf woman, but she's also really freaking good at her job and incredibly cool. I mean, she's standing in front of the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, and she's yelling his brains out in sign and out loud. She doesn't care that he's hungover and unhappy, she's a professional and she demands answers.
Josh tries to brush her off at first, but Ms. Lucas refuses to be put aside. She stays on him, and even ends up meeting the President while he wanders the halls seeking revelation. When he asks her what her views are on the death penalty - a topic he's been mulling all day - she's blunt and honest. She doesn't mince words and she doesn't apologize for her views. She's straight-forward and tells the President exactly what he doesn't want to hear: that the death penalty is wrong, plain and simple.
I mean, obviously I had a girl crush on her based on this episode alone, but it just keeps getting better. As the show goes on, Joey becomes more indispensable as a pollster and consultant for the White House staffers. She never backs down from her opinions, she's usually right, and she's always portrayed as being consummately professional but also super fun. And it's not like they make her out to be some sexless hag, either. It's made incredibly clear that Josh has a crush on her and he even tries to make a move.
Even more to her credit, though, is the fact that Joey Lucas doesn't really reciprocate said move. At the time he makes it, she's in a relationship, and she doesn't waver in that. When the relationship ends, she seems vaguely open to pursuing something, but by then she's functionally working for Josh, so nothing happens. It's never because she's too "damaged" or too "different" that we're told a relationship between Joey and Josh would never work. We're actually told that it probably would work, they just have terrible timing. And that's okay. Neither of them is that broken up about it which is just so freaking refreshing.
I guess what I'm getting at is this: Joey Lucas makes me super happy because she's a person. She's not a disabled character thrown in for the brownie points of having a "progressive" storyline about her overcoming the odds, and she's not in there so that the White House staffers can pat themselves on the back for being inclusive. She's there because she's incredibly good at her job. She's there because she's the best, which is how it should be.
And the show, for all that it doesn't shove your face into her deafness, never ignores it either. It's made clear that Joey can read lips, but she still mostly speaks through an interpreter. She can talk, but it's hard and cumbersome for her to do it, so she tends to save it for times when it's super important. And that's fine. That makes sense. Her interpreter, Kenny, is shown to be her closest friend and companion in the world, and that makes sense too. They've been together for eleven years, and he's her ally against the world.
It's such a fine line to walk, and The West Wing walks that line really really well. From storylines where people question whether or not Kenny should be in the room for top secret polling data meetings to side comments about how one knocks on a deaf person's door*, the show makes it clear that, yeah, Joey Lucas is a deaf woman, and yeah, that affects her life. But it doesn't rule it. Her disability is not the sum and total of her life.
She even acknowledges that her disability has made life harder for her. In that first episode where she appears, Josh asks her why she's working for this particular congressional candidate - he's a stuffed shirt and she's way too talented for such a terrible campaign. Joey succinctly replies that not many people are willing to hire deaf campaign managers. And Josh concedes the point. He doesn't argue with her, he just bows to her clearly more experienced understanding of her own hardship.
Overall, I think the show's treatment of Joey Lucas and it's radness can honestly be summed up by this one quote from Donna in the episode where Joey is introduced: "So Joey Lucas is a woman. And she's deaf. Cool."
That's it. That's all you actually need to do to have a deaf character on your show. You don't have to problematize their deafness, you don't have to make them a "special case" or a moment of diversity in action. Just introduce a deaf character who is a character with other traits and qualities, a person in their own right. You know, like a human being.
And all of this is why sometimes I get frustrated over how Marlee Matlin herself often gets pigeonholed as "that deaf actress". I mean, admittedly, there really aren't that many other people vying for the role of Hollywood's preeminent deaf celebrity, but still. She's good at other stuff too! I get frustrated because it feels like people try to reduce her personhood down to simply a description of her disability, and that's not okay.
But let's not get too negative. Let's keep looking at Joey Lucas and sighing in happiness, because here is a character who represents the best possible scenario. A woman who has faced discrimination for her disability, but who has succeeded anyway. A woman respected as being at the top of her field. A person with wants and needs and a complex understanding of the world who has compelling and deep relationships with other people. A deaf woman on a show that's not about deaf issues.
That's all worth celebrating. And seeing her now really makes me wish I'd been watching The West Wing when it aired so that I would have Joey Lucas in my back pocket when I realized I was going deaf. I wish I'd known about her so that I could pull her out and sort of go, "It's okay. If this is who I get to look up to, then it's really going to be okay."
Sometimes that's what you really need.
*You press a button and a light in the room flashes. Sort of the same concept for fire alarms and some alarm clocks.
Labels: actress: marlee matlin, char: joey lucas, media: tv, title: the west wing, topic: ablism, topic: personal, topic: strong female characters, type: sfc friday
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AuctionMark benchmark is an Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workload that simulates the activities found in a well-known auction site. This benchmark comprises of 13 tables and 14 stored procedures representing the auction site's core transactions.
There are two types of transactions in AuctionMark: (1) transactions that are initiated by a user and (2) book keeping transactions that are invoked periodically by the system. Sellers and buyers are two main user types in the system. Transaction that are related to sellers include (1) adding an item for auction, (2) updating an existing item's information, and (3) responding to buyers' comments and feedbacks. Buyers related transactions include (1) adding an item to watch list, (2) retrieving item's detail, (3) placing a bid on an open auction, (4) purchasing an item, and (5) leaving comments/feedback for sellers. The system periodically invoke check-winning-bid transaction to check if any auction comes to the end, and checks the winning bid for that item.
This benchmark is implemented in Java, and works with H-Store database. It is designed for scalability and flexibility (a user can configure the proportion of different transactions executed).
The source code is publicly available from the H-Store repository.
The tables are all named in a singular form. Each column is prefixed with an abbreviation of the table that it is a member of. Foreign key references include the abbreviation of the parent column. The only exception to this rule are those tables with more than one column referencing the same foreign key parent table (e.g., ITEM_COMMENT.ic_u_id and ITEM_COMMENT.ic_buyer_id).
The Global Tables represent data that is not specific to one particular item or user.
This table represents the geographical regions of users.
This table represents merchandises' global attribute groups (e.g., brand, material, features).
This table represents merchandises' global attributes within each attribute groups (e.g., Rolex, Casio, Seiko within brand).
This table represents users of the system both sellers and buyers.
This table represents attributes of users.
The ITEM id consists of a composite key where the lower 48-bits of the number is the USER.u id and the upper 16-bits is the auction count for that user.
This table keeps paths to the images of items in the ITEM table.
Comments of items in the ITEM table.
Feedbacks of items in the ITEM table.
Bids of items in the ITEM table.
The maximum bids of each item in the ITEM table.
Tthe purchasing records from the buyers.
The items that a user has recently purchased.
The stored procedures below are executed in the following distribution except for two stored procedures; check-winning-bid and post-auction. check-winning-bid is executed every 10 seconds, and post-auction is executed right after check-winning-bid.
Creates a new USER record. The rating and balance are both set to zero.
The benchmark randomly selects id from a pool of region ids as an input for u_r_id parameter using flat distribution.
Insert a new ITEM record for a user. The benchmark client provides all of the preliminary information required for the new item, as well as optional information to create derivative image and attribute records. After inserting the new ITEM record, the transaction then inserts any GLOBAL ATTRIBUTE VALUE and ITEM IMAGE. The unique identifier for each of these records is a composite 64-bit key where the lower 60-bits are the i id parameter and the upper 4-bits are used to represent the index of the image/attribute. For example, if the i id is 100 and there are four items, then the composite key will be 0 100 for the first image, 1 100 for the second, and so on. After these records are inserted, the transaction then updates the USER record to add the listing fee to the seller's balance.
The benchmark randomly selects id from a pool of users as an input for u_id parameter using Gaussian distribution. A c_id parameter is randomly selected using a flat histogram from the real auction site's item category statistic.
A buyer enters in a new bidding for an open item. If there is no existing bid on the item, the new bid is marked as the winning bid and the item is updated accordingly. If there is an existing highest bid, then the transaction has to check whether the new bid amount is greater than the existing bid. The id for the new ITEM_BID record is the ITEM.i_num_bids + 1.
• The auction is still open.
• The potential buyer is not the seller.
• The new bid is greater than the current bid.
The benchmark randomly selects ids from a pool of users as an input for u_id and i_buyer_id parameter using Gaussian distribution.
A potential buyer posts a question/comment about a seller's item. Each transaction inserts a new ITEM COMMENT record.
The benchmark randomly selects item from a pool of items that are in CLOSED status using flat distribution. It then extracts i_id, seller_id, and buyer_id from the item and associated winning bid as inputs to this stored procedure.
The seller responds to an open question/comment created by new-comment-response.
The benchmark randomly selects comment from a pool of comments by users using flat distribution. It then uses i_id, i_c_id, and seller_id from the selected comment as inputs to this stored procedure.
The buyer purchases the item for a previously won auction. This stored procedure checks first if the input bid is the winning bid. It then inserts a record to the purchase table, and changes item's status to CLOSED.
The benchmark randomly selects item from a pool of items that are in WAITING_FOR_PURCHASE status using flat distribution. It then gets a wining bid of that item, and extracts ib_id, i_id, u_id, and buyer_id as inputs to this stored procedure.
The buyer adds a seller feedback for a previously won auction. The rating is either -1, 0, or 1 and is added to the USER.u rating attribute.
Get item information. Returns all of the attributes for a particular item.
The benchmark randomly selects item from a pool of items that are in OPEN status using flat distribution. It then extracts i_id and i_u_id from the item as inputs to this stored procedure.
The buyer modifies an existing auction that is still available. The transaction will just update the description of the auction. A small percentage of the transactions will be for auctions that are uneditable; when this occurs, the transaction will abort.
This stored procedure is called once a minute to examine whether any auctions ended within the last 60 seconds. It returns a list of ITEM.i ids of the auctions that need to be processed. This is a broadcast transaction that must be executed on all nodes.
An array of due item objects each containing the following fields.
Each transaction performs post-processing of a given closed auction items. This stored procedure goes through each item and update the item status. If there is no bid for an item, this stored procedure changes the item's status to closed. Otherwise, the status is changed to waiting-for-purchase, and a new record is inserted to the USER_ITEM table. All IDs of the same item across fields must be on the same array index. This transaction is invoked immediately after check-winning-bid if check-winning-bid finds due items.
Get all item comments of a seller.
The benchmark randomly selects id from a pool of sellers who has items in CLOSED status as a seller_id parameter using flat distribution.
An array of comments each containing every field in ITEM_COMMENT table.
Get a user's items as a seller or a buyer. This stored procedure also retrieves items' feedbacks if specify. The get_seller_items, get_buyer_items, and get_feedback must be either 0 or 1. If get_seller_items and get_buyer_items are 1 at the same time, this stored procedure will retrieve all items of a user as a seller.
The benchmark randomly selects id from a pool of sellers who has items in OPEN status as a u_id parameter using flat histogram.
A user object containing every field in USER table.
An array of item objects each having the following fields.
An array of item feedback objects each having the following fields.
Gets all watched items of a buyer.
The benchmark randomly selects id from a pool of users as a u_id parameter using Gaussian distribution.
An array of user watched items each having the following fields.