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Soo sandt hy ons sijn Soon, die heeft ons weerghehaelt.
Dat hij v schenckt om niet. jn volle Overvloet.
Fors qu'il est net, & exempt de pecher.
Car nous puisons tous de sa plenitude.
Quò fugis, incerto mutans vestigia gressu?
Justiciæ viuo fonte requiris aquas?
Hìc bibe, iustificæ fons vbi viuus aquæ.
To where are you fleeing, changing track with uncertain step?
Are you in search of the waters of justice from their living source?
You have longed for, where the live well of justifying water is.


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\section{Aestheticizing Poncelet}
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\subsubsection*{Locus type and conservations} once a Poncelet locus is drawn, the app informs the user if (i) the curve swept is a conic, point, or line, and (ii) if any metric quantities are conserved (e.g., perimeter, areas, sums of trigonometric functions of angles, ratios, etc.). As shown in \cref{tab:n3-conc-families}, this tool and previous experiments with Mathematica \cite{mathematica_v10} have pointed us to many new curious properties and conserved quantities manifested by individual families, some proved, some simply reported in previous publications, e.g.,  \cite{akopyan2020-invariants,caliz2020-area-product,bialy-maxim-2018,reznik2021-fifty-invariants}. See \cref{tab:n3-conc-families} for a summary.

\subsubsection*{Interaction with a digital designer} Some outlines of interesting loci are shown in \cref{fig:raw-loci}. These were sent in vector format to a graphic designer (my sister \cite{regina2021-private}). Using digital image-editing tools and much creativity, a sample of her work appears in \cref{fig:regina}.

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    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{pics/pics_100_raw_loci.png}
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    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{pics/pics_090_regina_loci.png}
    \caption{Samples of Regina Reznik's artwork \cite{regina2021-private}.}
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package me.ticknick.weixzz.dao.statusdetail;

import android.content.ContentValues;
import android.content.Context;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.util.Log;

import com.google.gson.Gson;

import java.io.IOException;

import me.ticknick.weixzz.Constants;
import me.ticknick.weixzz.dao.HttpClientUtils;
import me.ticknick.weixzz.dao.UrlConstants;
import me.ticknick.weixzz.dao.WeiboParameters;
import me.ticknick.weixzz.database.table.CommentStatusDetailTable;
import me.ticknick.weixzz.model.CommentListModel;

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 * 评论微博的dao层
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    public CommentSdDao(Context context, long statusId) {
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Arapahoe High School is a public high school in Centennial, Colorado, United States. Located in a suburb of Denver, it is the flagship of the Littleton Public Schools District as the largest of three high schools, with an enrollment of 2,229 students. It has been designated a Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education.

The school is known for its affiliation with the Arapaho tribe of Wind River, Wyoming.

History

Relationship with Arapaho Nation
On September 17, 1993 the school began a relationship with the Arapaho Nation from the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. The relationship strives to promote awareness and exchange between cultures.

The original "Arapahoe Warrior" logo was designed by Wilbur Antelope, a Northern Arapaho artist, and the logo has been endorsed by the Arapaho Nation for school activities.

On December 9, 1994, the school gymnasium was renamed in honor of Arapaho Elder Anthony Sitting Eagle, who was one of the primary tribal elders that principal Ronald Booth met with in establishing the school's relationship with the Arapaho Nation.

Every year the school hosts "Arapahoe Day" in which members of the Arapaho Nation travel from the reservation to share in tribal customs with the students.

2013 shooting
On December 13, 2013, a shooting occurred at the school. The gunman, an 18-year-old student, entered the school armed with a 12-gauge Stevens Model 320 pump-action shotgun, a machete, three Molotov cocktails, and 125 rounds of ammunition.  He requested to see the school librarian, who was also the coach of the school debate team. The shooter's demotion on the team was a contributing motive to the shooting.  One student was shot in the head and died eight days later. The shooter attempted to start a fire with one of the devices he had carried with him and then shot himself in the head after being confronted by a sheriff deputy working as a school resource officer.

Facilities
The  facility includes 70 classrooms, two gyms, a weight room, a library, kitchen, a 647-seat theater, a pool, tennis courts, a track and fields for baseball, football, and soccer fields.

Athletics
Arapahoe is part of the 8-team Centennial League that also includes Cherry Creek, Grandview, Cherokee Trail, Smoky Hill, Eaglecrest, Mullen, and Overland.

Arapahoe athletics include baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, dance, football, golf, lacrosse, marching band,  soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track, volleyball, winter guard, field hockey, and wrestling. All athletics at Arapahoe are competed at the 5A / world level.

Girls' golf won the Colorado State Championship in 2010.

The Arapahoe soccer program, known as ABK (Arapahoe Ball Kickers), holds 14 state championships; the girls' program has won nine state titles and the boys' program has five state titles.  In 1997 and 1998, members of the ABK and friends formed the Jolly Green Men, supporters of the Colorado Rapids soccer club.

Publications

Arapahoe Herald
The monthly Arapahoe Herald newspaper is produced by journalism students. In 2005, the Arapahoe Herald was named a National Scholastic Press Association Pacemaker Finalist and went on to win a Pacemaker. The National Pacemaker Awards have been called the high school equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. In 2005, the Arapahoe Herald received the Pacemaker as well as a Silver Crown from Columbia Scholastic Press Association. It is only the sixth high school newspaper in Colorado to win a Pacemaker in the award's 100+ year history.

In 2007 the Arapahoe Herald received the National Scholastic Press Association's All-American rating, and Columbia Scholastic Press Association's gold medalist Award. In 2008 the paper placed first in the American Scholastic Press Association's Newspaper Review and Contest. The Arapahoe Herald is also included in the National Scholastic Press Association's Hall of Fame for ten consecutive All-American ratings. To date, the newspaper has earned 14 All American ratings since 1992. The Arapahoe Herald won its second NSPA Pacemaker Award in November 2009. The Herald also received Gold Medal awards from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association in 2008 and in 2010.

In 2009, the February issue of the newspaper gained statewide attention for a controversy over articles depicting teenage boys using alcohol to engage in sexual actions with girls, and young women objectifying themselves for attention.

Calumet
Calumet, the Arapahoe yearbook, is produced by journalism students. Calumet received All-American ratings in both 2005 and 2006 and was a Pacemaker Finalist in 2005.

Muse
Muse is Arapahoe's literary arts magazine. In 2007, the Muse placed eighth in the National Scholastic Press Association's Best-in-Show, during the Denver Convention.

Notable alumni

 Amy Barczuk – selected in 2013 National Women's Soccer League draft by Western New York Flash
 Melissa Benoist – actress in Fox's Glee and CW's Supergirl
 Tom Costello – NBC NEWS correspondent based in Washington, D.C.
 Tommie Hill – football defensive end who played college football at Colorado State
Ethan Horvath - goalkeeper for English side, Nottingham Forest and the United States men's national soccer team
 Brian R. James – award-winning game designer and patent holding software engineer
 Steven Moore – literary critic and former managing editor of Dalkey Archive Press/Review of Contemporary Fiction
 Bradford Morrow – novelist and founding editor of literary journal Conjunctions
 AnnaSophia Robb – actress in films such as Soul Surfer, Bridge to Terabithia, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and in CW's The Carrie Diaries
 Willow Pill - winner of RuPaul's Drag Race, Season 14

References

External links

1964 establishments in Colorado
Educational institutions established in 1964
Public high schools in Colorado
Schools in Arapahoe County, Colorado


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A kor, amelyben a fajelmélet különféle változataival volt terhes az orvostudomány, az emberi faj "minőségének" problémájával szembesültek a tudósok, hiszen az elmekórképeket az emberi örökletes anyag hibáira vezették vissza. Még a korszerűen gondolkodó orvosok is egyetértettek azzal, hogy az ilyen betegségben szenvedők szaporodását meg kell akadályozni. Kezdeti szakaszában a magyar eugenika sokkal inkább szocialista elkötelezettségű követőket vonzott, a téma valójában csak 1933 után került át hangsúlyosan a jobboldalra.

Az eugenika kibontakozása Magyarországon
A magyar eugenika 1910 és 1918 között kibontakozó első szakaszát Apáthy István, Madzsar József, Dienes Lajos, Fülöp Zsigmond, Bársony János és Lenhossék Mihály képviselték. Ezek a kutatók a hazai eugenika elsőbbségét hangoztatták a külföldi eugenikai elméletekkel szemben. A kitekintés vezető teoretikusa Hoffmann Géza volt, aki egy nemzetközi, elsősorban német és amerikai eugenikai modellt akart a hazai tudományosságba bevinni. Ebbe a csoportba tartozott Bársony János és Tomor Ernő is. A két csoport közötti nézetkülönbségek leginkább egy 1911-ben a Magyar Tudományos Akadémián megrendezett vita alapján rekonstruálhatók. A legnagyobb nemzetközi hírű magyar eugenikus, Hoffmann Géza (1885–1921) 1921-ben publikálta tanulmányát az amerikai Social Hygiene-ben, ez a nemzetközi eugenikakutatás egyik alapszövegeként lett számon tartva: Eugenics in the Central Empires since 1914 (Eugenika a Központi Birodalmakban 1914 óta). Ezt további külföldön publikált művek követték, amelyek közül Marius Turda tanulmánya elsősorban a következőkre utal: Ausschüsse für Rassenhygiene in Ungarn (Magyar fajhigiéniai bizottságok), Rassenhygiene in Ungarn ([Fajhigiénia Magyarországon, 1918]).

1914. január 24-én a Királyi Magyar Természettudományi Társulat, a Budapesti Királyi Orvosegyesület és az Országos Közegészségügyi Egyesület közös szervezésében megvitatták egy eugenikai társaság megalapításának lehetőségét. Az egyesület tevékenységének tervét vázolva Apáthy István kifejtette az előkészítő, a megelőző, a selejtező, a rendelkező és a jövőt intéző fajegészségtan stratégiai pontjait. Ezt követően gróf Teleki Pált választották az egyesület elnökének. 1917-ben az egyesület Magyar Fajegészségtani és Népesedéspolitikai Társaság néven a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia részeként folytatta működését, továbbra is Teleki Pál vezetésével.

Eugenika a két világháború közötti Magyarországon (1918–1939)
Az eugenika iránt érdeklődést mutató gróf Teleki Pál Társadalomtudomány biológiai alapon című cikkében, amelyet a Huszadik Században közölt (5. szám, 1904) elismerően beszél a "faji higiéniáról". 1909-től a Magyar Társadalomtudományi Szemle új rovatban ("Közegészségügy") kezd rendszeresen foglalkozni az eugenika kérdéseivel. A szerzők különböző politikai körökből származnak. 1911-ben Madzsar József a Huszadik Század hasábjain beszél Francis Galton (1822–1911), az eugenika megalapozójának munkásságáról (A szaporodás higiénéje [F. M. Galton. Eugenika]). Fajromlás és fajnemesítés című cikkében Madzsar az eredetelméleti kutatásokban társadalmi missziót lát, és egy "biológiai arisztokrácia" utópiájáról álmodik. Születési és termékenységi statisztika című művében Vitéz Géza a születés "racionalizálásáról" beszél. A Huszadik Század 23. számában Fülöp Zsigmond "nemzeti etikának" nevezi azt a fajta társadalmi szolidaritást, ami a nemzedékek faji folytonosságára kell törekedjék. A világháború kitörését követően a Magyar Királyi Honvédelmi Minisztérium felkérte Méhely Lajos, antiszemita nézeteiről is ismert biológust (1862–1953), hogy írjon tanulmányt a hadviselés biológiai következményeiről. Egy évvel később Méhely közölte A háború biológiája című pamfletjét. A háború eugenikai jelentőségét Bársony András (1860–1926) nőgyógyász is elemezte (Eugenetik nach dem Kriege [Eugenetika a háború után]. Archiv für Frauenkunde und Eugenetik, 1915/2.). A háborúra alkalmazott eugenikakutatás a nagy számban elesett egészséges férfiakra és ezáltal a biológiailag alkalmatlan egyének arányának megnövekedésére hívta fel a figyelmet.

Benedek László társadalompolitikai szemlélete és eugenikai törekvései
Benedek László eugenikai érdeklődését és idevonatkozó munkásságát előbb örökléstani tájékozódása előzte meg. A későbbiekben egyre inkább az eugenika kérdéskörére irányult figyelme. 1931-ben az Uppsalai Egyetem felkérte, hogy a svéd állam költségén tartson előadást a Magyarországon, és más államokban folyamatban lévő eugenikai törekvésekről. Mindezen megtiszteltetések további nagy lendületet adtak hazai eugenikai munkájának, s az ez irányú törekvések fő népszerűsítőjévé tették. Ugyanakkor szám szerint kevés dolgozata jelent meg e témában, melyek azonban az eugenika egyes kérdéseit, jogi vonzatait mégis átfogóan és részletesen tárgyalták. Számos előadásába gyakran beleszőtt az öröklésbiológiával és a fajhigiéniával kapcsolatos hosszabb fejtegetéseket. Az eugenikai törekvések Magyarországon című dolgozatát először előadásban, majd később 1931-ben írásban is közölte.

A pozitív eugenika, mint a fajnemesítés eszköze Benedek László meglátásában
Az eugenika "negatív" változata az örökletes betegségek továbbadásának és azok elszaporodásának megakadályozását igyekszik elérni, míg a "pozitív" eugenika az utódok "minőségi javítására", "tökéletesítésére" törekszik. Ez utóbbi cél többször felbukkan Benedek László beszédeiben. Gróf Apponyi Albertről mondott emlékbeszédében az alábbiakat mondta:

{{Idézet|Az öröklésbiológiai adatgyűjtés igazolja, hogy a tehetségek, kiemelkedő képességek (pl. a zenei talentum, a természetkutatás iránt való szeretet, a matematikai, a plasztikai, festészeti tehetség, írói készség, mechanikai ügyesség, tanító - előadó képesség) bizonyos családokban örökletesen fordul elő. Gróf Apponyi Albert családjában, pl. évszázadokon át mindazok a készségek és hajlamok, amelyek a politikai pályára való alkalmasságot jelentik és a közösségi ügy szolgálatát fokozott mértékben elősegítik. Fel kell tételezni, hogy az ősi táblán ismételten, generációkon át manifesztálódó tehetségek a genotypushoz vannak nagyobbrészt horgonyozva.}}

Szociális utópia-e az eugenika?
Schaffer Károly 1924 februárjában a következőket írta: "Az eugenikának két igen sebezhető felszíne van, amiből egy gyengéje és egy hibája adódik." A manapság, a prenatális diagnosztika segítségével megállapított, Down-kóros terhesség megszakítása lényegében a schafferi "eliminatiónak" felel meg. Ugyanakkor Schaffer számára is kérdés, hogy ezeket az eszközöket alkalmazhatjuk-e, hiszen az egyén "önrendelkezésébe nyúl bele".

A második világháború alatt

Az eugenika helyzete napjainkban Magyarországon

Források
Az eugenika kibontakozása Magyarországon:Blood and Homeland. Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe 1900–1940. Ed. by Marius Turda and Paul J. Weindling. Central European University Press, 2007

Eugenika a két világháború közötti Magyarországon:
Lenhossék Mihály: Az ember helye a természetben, Franklin Társulat, Budapest, 1921A Balassa utcai klinikák 100 éve, Semmelweis Kiadó, Budapest, 2008
Angyal lajos: Benedek László és kora (1936-1945). Ideggyógyászati Szemle, 1983, 36(5):216-219.
Benedek László: Az eugenika törekvése Magyarországon (Továbbképző előadás) Magyar orvos, 1931, 8-200-201.
Benedek László: A cselekvő eugenikának és a psychiátriának öröklésbiológiai és orvosi vonatkozásai. A Monatschrift Ungarischer Mediziner 1931. évi 10. száma, 1-72. o. Druckerei der Pester Lloyd-Gesellschaft
Benedek László: Időszerű adatok az elimináló eugenica kérdéssphaerájához. Orvosok és gyógyszerészek Lapja, 1934. 5:98-101.
Pisztora Ferenc: Benedek László élete, személyisége és életművének társadalom- és kulturpsychiatriai, psychológiai és eugenikai vonatkozásai. I. rész. Ideggyógyászati Szemle 1988. 41(11):441-456.
Schaffer Károly: A'z eugenika jelentősége elme és idegorvosi szempontból. orvosi Hetilap 1934. 78(8):161-166.
Siró Béla: Eugenikai törekvések az ideg és elmegyógyászatban Magyarországon a két világháború között. Orvosi Hetilap (Horus rovat) 2003. 144(35) 1737-1742.
Marius Turda, Paul J. Weindling (szerk.): Blood and Homeland. Eugenics and Racial Nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe 1900–1940''. Central European University Press (2007. január 1.)

Eugenika napjainkban:
 http://www.magyarkurir.hu/hirek/az-eugenika-napjainkban

Jegyzetek

Szociológia
Nemzetiszocializmus
Holokauszt
Antiszemitizmus


On Saturday, at approximately 7:00 p.m., Central Hastings OPP responded to two traffic complaints of a southbound vehicle striking two separate northbound vehicles on Highway 62 south of Madoc. The driver continued southbound on the Highway 62 and was involved in a single motor vehicle collision. The driver left the highway and rolled over into the west ditch near Smith Road in the City of Belleville.
Green had her driver's licence suspended for 90 days and her vehicle was impounded for seven days. Green will appear in Ontario Court of Justice in Belleville on February 28.
No one was injured in the collisions.


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Even if bad-fit customers come in seamlessly, they will drain your support resources and drag you away from serving your more valuable customers. Bad-fit customers will eventually churn. And more often than not, they will do so with gusto, creating long term issues for your brand, making it harder to sustain growth.
But spotting non-ideal leads isn't always an easy task. Here are 7 steps to stopping bad-fit leads before they become costly customers.
This seems like a no-brainer, right? But you'd be surprised by how many companies never establish buyer personas before embarking on user acquisition.
Before you can recognize a bad-fit lead in your pipeline, your need to understand what a good-fit really looks like. First, you need to make sure you thoroughly understand your current user base.
Send out surveys, hop on a call, whatever it takes, you need to get user feedback and understand your customers on a deeper level.
More importantly, you need to understand your most successful customers. These are the ones who have been with you for years, who have integrated your product into their daily workflow, and who wouldn't think about leaving you unless something drastic changes in their position.
These "VIP" customers will give you insight into your true best-fit personas.
What characteristics define a these types of customers?
What are their daily tasks and responsibilities?
What role do they play in their company?
How did they find your product in the first place?
What sold them on choosing you over the competition?
Most importantly, what made them so loyal?
Collect qualitative data from as many customers as possible as you create your buyer personas. Then, make sure those personas are extremely detailed. It should feel like you know these imaginary people inside and out. You understand their motivations, inspirations, issues, and dreams.
Once you are fully aligned around these best-fit personas, you can move onto step 2.
No matter how good your product is, there will always be people who simply won't find the value. Often times, it has nothing to do with your offering, and more to do with their needs and expectations coming in.
And you should be able to spot these people before they get too far into your funnel.
Now that you have asked all the right questions and drilled into your best-fit customer personas, it's time to define what a non-ideal, or bad-fit customer looks like for your business.
You can likely find these answers in your customer support channels. Which customers are muddying up the waters with constant complaints and issues? Find those conversations, and then reach out to those customers.
Additionally, you should look at your churned customers (yes, even people who have left are valuable to you). Reach out to ex-customers who churned quickly after signing up.
Set your parameters to 1 month or less. People who churn within the first month were clearly unimpressed with your product, and you need to know why.
Create a list of these contacts and send out a survey about their experience. Hop on a call with churned customers. Whatever it takes, you need to fully understand why these people left in such a hurry.
Just like your best-fit personas, you want to understand these people on a deep level.
What characteristics make someone a bad-fit for your product?
Where did your product fall short for them?
What expectations weren't met when they came in?
How did they find out about you? Why did they chose you in the first place?
Where did they go next? And why?
Build up a buyer persona (or multiple personas) based around the same standards you chose for your good-fit customers.
Knowing which kinds of leads aren't likely to stay will improve your ROI and help to shape your marketing and advertising decisions moving forward. And, prevent you from bringing these people into your product in the first place.
"Customer success is a function of every department. Customer success is everyone's job…" You've probably heard it a million times, but what does this really look like?
In a nutshell, if your goal is to stop bad-fit leads at the door, everyone has to be aligned around the high-level mission of customer success.
By now, you've got your good-fit and bad-fit personas locked down, now it's time to educate your team. Ahem, your entire team. Yes, your sales team should know these personas like the back of their hand, but it doesn't stop there.
If your development team is working on features that your ideal customers don't necessarily need, it'll be harder to catch the bad apples before they get into your product. If your marketing team is speaking towards bad-fit characteristics, you'll bring in more bad-fit leads than your sales team can weed out.
See how customer success really trickles through your entire company?
The responsibility of stopping bad-fit leads at the door falls heavily on your sales team, but every department contributes to the issue. Good-fit and bad-fit buyer personas should be intertwined in every single business decision your team makes, from product development to content marketing to customer success and sales.
Make sure every department understands these bad and good-fit personas so anyone can spot a mismatched customer before they become too costly for your startup. Aligning your team around these personas will ensure more protection against those havoc-wreaking users.
Pricing tiers have a surprisingly large impact on the quality of customers that come into your pipeline. If your pricing is set too low, or fails to provide quality value, you may attract the wrong kinds of customers.
You need to make sure your pricing tiers align with your best-fit customers in mind. This is, yet again, another way your business can be truly customer-centric.
If your pricing tiers are simply designed to bring in as many people as possible, or upsell as often as you can, the quality of your users will reflect that.
If you're truly a customer-first company (as you should be), your pricing will aim to provide the most value for your best-fit customers, at every stage. And if it's not, you'll feel it in your churn.
If you being to notice an uptick in bad-fit customers on your lower-tiered plans, bogging down your support team and creating lots of noise, double back and analyze your pricing.
Pricing tiers should be designed with long-term retention in mind. And if they're designed correctly, they will naturally eliminate non-ideal customers.
Sounds does a great job of this with their pricing. Each tier clearly provides the value and features their user need at every stage. They don't skimp on features on the lowest tier, and clearly express the features available on each level.
Do your tiers offer real value to the customers you want to keep? The best place to look is at your lowest tier. Is the entry point too low?
It's tempting to design a free, or highly inexpensive plan with minimal features just to get people in the door. But if there's not real value tied to it, you could attract users who don't necessarily need your product.
When this happens, you'll see an increase in complaints, angry customers, and yup you guessed it– churn. Your pricing tiers say a lot about the value of your product.
Make sure your pricing strategy speaks to the expectations of your best-fit customers.
As I've mentioned, halting bad-fit leads at the door isn't just a sales issue. The second big player in customer quality is your marketing team. Now that you've got your buyer personas set, it's important to circle back and check in on your marketing efforts.
With strong buyer personas set, you can really hunker down into your external communications in a more targeted way. Your goal is to flag any marketing pieces that may attract those bad-fit leads to you in the first place.
Review every piece of your marketing strategy. From ad copy to email subject lines, ensure that you're speaking to the issues of your best-fit persona every single time. Simply sharpening up your messaging and brand presence should lower the amount of bad-fit leads that enter your funnel.
If you're not sure where to start here, using a cohort analysis is a great way to gather insight into any marketing that may be bringing in bad-fit leads.
Analyzing your churn with time-based cohorts can help you identify any moments where large groups of users churned out. Compare this churn analysis against all of your marketing campaigns.
Did you run a set of Facebook ads for a month, then see a large amount of churn 30 days later? It's trends like this that will give you clear insight into certain marketing tactics that may be bringing in poor-fitting customers.
Marketing and sales go hand in hand, right? This may sound like another no-brainer, but more often than not, sales teams and marketing teams are not nearly as intertwined as they should be.
Creating a bridge between the two teams will allow each department to better understand how they're doing in terms of bringing in the best-fitting customers.
Create processes for your sales team to report on the nature of the leads coming in. Maybe this looks like a monthly report sent to the marketing team, or a weekly high-level meeting to discuss findings from their prospects.
Qualitative data from your sales team should impact high-level decisions made on the marketing side.
If the sales team feels bogged down with prospects who seem to fall in the bad-fit persona, marketing needs to know there's something wrong. Conversely, if the sales team feels like a large portion of the leads coming in are eager to buy and fall in the best-fit persona, this will continually help drive your marketing team towards better strategies.
Quantitative data from your marketing team on things like activation rates and long-term retention of customers should impact high-level decisions made on the sales side. If the sales team converted 10 leads that turned into highly valuable, loyal customers, they should have that information (and be rewarded for it).
This data will help them further their understanding of who really is the absolute best-fit lead so they can prioritize their outreach accordingly. The only way this is possible is through open and positive communication.
When sales and marketing teams work together, your funnel will become cleaner, more controlled, and will naturally bring in better fitting customers.
If you incentivize your sales team to convert as many leads as possible, bad-fit customers are going to start pouring in.
Instead, include rewards for your sales team on post-sale wins such as retention, upgrades, and engagement. Even if these metrics are not directly tied to sales, you are empowering your team to take ownership over high-level goals.
Create a "cheat sheet" of persona characteristics your sales team can reference quickly.
Prepare your sales team with walk away messaging.
Create a solidified system for turning down a lead.
Partner with a company who better serves your bad-fit personas, and create a system to point those leads their way (and vice versa).
While customer acquisition is necessary for growth, retention should get more of your focus. It doesn't matter how many leads you convert if none of them fit enough to stick around.
If you're bringing in too many bad-fit customers, your churn will get out of control. And in the long-run, you'll spend more money and resources just trying to keep up with the noise.
Responsible executives understand that customers come first, which means not every sale is a good sale. From employee and customer satisfaction to churn reduction, halting bad-fit leads at the door will set your business up for dependable growth.
So are you willing to stop signing bad-fit leads?


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(Batili) and (Tebboune) assert that the elections are the means to overcome the political impasse in Libya
The Czech Republic calls for an agreement on the constitutional basis for holding the Libyan elections
The Audit Bureau reviews with the Dutch Court of Accounts the work plan for developing performance control prepared by the Audit Bureau.
Al-Dabaiba receives a written message from the President of Niger, Mohamed Bazoum.
The head of the government of national unity receives a written message from the Japanese Prime Minister.
Members of the House of Representatives meet with the United Nations Sanctions Committee for Libya
Libyan parties offer a road map to get out of the crisis.
Al-Huwaij: Italy is Libya's largest economic partner with a trade volume of $15 billion
Abu Janah is discussing with the Czech ambassador to Libya the Medovac agreement project to train Libyan doctors in the field of physical medicine.
EUBAM begins a criminal intelligence training course for Libyan border guards.
Permanent Representative of the Sultanate of Oman to the Arab League praises Libya's efforts to strengthen Arab solidarity.
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Al-Grandi conveys to Al-Dabaiba the keenness of President (Qais Saeed) to promote stability in Libya and its return to its normal role.
Al-Mnfi expresses appreciation for Tunisia's positive role in Libyan issue.
Presidential Representative (Al-Lafi) meets with the State Minister for Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar.
Italian Foreign Minister calls for the need to find a solution to the Libyan crisis.
Al-Qayeb stresses importance of Libyan -Algerian higher education relations
UNICEF express concern over situation of Libyan children.
Geneva, 11.11.2015(Lana) UNICEF expressed concern over situation of Libyan children against the backdrop of the security situation in the country since 2011. UNICEF spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday that 40% out of 2.4 Libyans are children who need one form of support and protection. He said 270,000 Libyan children in Benghazi alone need psychological and social support due to armed -conflict related violence. He explained that the armed conflict and political instability in Libya since 2011 exposed children to many forms of violence and exploitation, asserting that the organization is intensifying their efforts to provide best protection. The organization underlined that it supervises a training programme to support Libyan authorities in the development of the justice system that responds to children needs and in line with UN convention on children rights ratified by Libya. =Lana=
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Among them Libya: the US State Department is developing projects to combat human trafficking in 95 countries.
A European parliamentarian appreciates what the Libyan Coast Guard is doing against human smugglers and contraband.
Italy's Defense Minister stresses the importance of Libya's stability in a tripartite meeting of the defense ministers of Turkey, Britain and Italy.
Discussions between Di Maio and Borrell on Libya and the crisis in the Sahel.
Italian Deputy Foreign Minister: Elections are the only reliable solution in Libya.
The Egyptian and Algerian presidents stress the importance of achieving stability and preserving the unity and sovereignty of Libya.
Malta appoints a new representative in Libya.
Russian Ambassador to Egypt: Moscow hopes to set a date soon for elections in Libya.
Former Italian Interior Minister: The decision to hold elections in Libya is a decisive decision that only the Libyans have.
The Libyan file and a number of other issues are the focus of a bilateral meeting between the Italian Foreign Minister and his Qatari counterpart in Brussels
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Garden of the Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati, from an engraving pubished in C. Percier and P. F. L. Fontaine, "Choix . . . ," Paris 1809, and from a topographical plan (1828) now in the State Archives of Rome
TitleGarden of the Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati, from an engraving pubished in C. Percier and P. F. L. Fontaine, "Choix . . . ," Paris 1809, and from a topographical plan (1828) now in the State Archives of Rome
Creator nameBettini, SilviaZaramella, Radames
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SubjectsGardens--Designs and plansGardens, RenaissanceGardens, Italian
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PART ONE: The Humanist Garden: From Allegory to Mannerism
Monique Mosser (Editor), Georges Teyssot (Editor)
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Though technically a remembrance of the circumstances and history of an actual advice column featured in the Yiddish newspaper The Forward, published in New York City in first half of the 20th Century, Linia Finck's sweet and personable debut graphic novel A Bintel Brief (Amazon) goes far beyond the call of duty in its depiction. Finck uses the columns of old as a way of examining Jewish-American history, particularly in an immigrant context, and how it relates to Jewish people nowadays, particularly Finck herself.
The story features Finck's strange ghostly encounter with a book of newspaper clippings in her grandparents' house as a child, and then its subsequent reappearance in her life, along with the specter who spooked her back as a kid. It turns out that specter is none of than Abraham Cahan, editor of the newspaper and writer of the column. Their friendship grows as they wander around together, Finck discovering tidbits about the new world while reciting to Finck actual columns and circumstances surrounding them, often with Finck's own reactions to those dramas.
Eventually, though, certain revelations arise and the role of the advice column becomes elevated. The importance of soothing stories and recognizable tropes masquerading as problems to be solved in the new world becomes clear, and Finck may now be able to see a direct path from these people to her own generation.
More importantly, though, are the lines that Finck begins to draw between herself and Cahan, in context of capturing other people's stories and relating those narratives. These moments of realization are charming, but also carry the appropriate weight. Finck is part of a movement through time, and her understanding of her place in a historical progression is as touching as her portrayal of Cahan and the stories his column documented.


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Blog > 2022 > August > Mithril proof of concept is now open-source
Mithril proof of concept is now open-source
Mithril is a stake-based signature scheme that improves the speed and efficiency of syncing times for nodes joining the network. Find out how to get involved
29 August 2022 Olga Hryniuk 4 mins read
Olga Hryniuk
Senior Technical Writer
As Cardano scales, Input Output Global (IOG) engineering teams are working on a range of solutions to boost network performance. Mithril is one such solution, aiming to streamline the speed and efficiency of data synchronization between applications.
During July's 360 show, Arnaud Bailly – IOG technical architect – shared a Mithril development update.
The importance of Mithril for Cardano operations
By running a Cardano node, users can interact with the Cardano blockchain in a trustless way. The network combines thousands of nodes into one unified system, where they communicate with other nodes to share information about new blocks and transactions.
Because each node holds a full copy of the blockchain, node synchronization takes time – each new node needs to download and verify each block. Daedalus, for example, is a full node wallet that downloads a full copy of the Cardano blockchain and independently validates every transaction in its history. This requires specific software and storage requirements, which also means that it requires more time to synchronize the chain state.
The goal of Mithril is to leverage the existing network to provide certified snapshots of all or part of the blockchain state. These snapshots can be useful in different ways. The IOG team has been working on a first use case to leverage Mithril to quickly and efficiently bootstrap a full Cardano node.
Mithril is based on the same concept of stake that powers the Ouroboros proof-of-stake consensus protocol. With Ouroboros, stakeholders are elected to produce blocks randomly with a chance proportional to the amount of stake they own or delegate. With Mithril, stakeholders can sign the current ledger state according to a lottery mechanism where a probability to contribute is also proportional to their stake. The signatures generated by the stakeholders are then combined, or aggregated, into a Mithril multi-signature, which can only be produced when a predefined threshold (quorum) of the total stake is contributed. Mithril relies on the uniqueness guarantees provided by underlying cryptographic primitives to secure the lottery process.
Mithril operates on top of the main ledger, which ensures no interference with mainnet operations, and as the signatures created are condensed, it requires minimal extra resources and bandwidth usage for the signing nodes.
The peculiarity of Mithril certificates is that they carry the same security properties as Cardano's underlying protocol – Ouroboros. The security of Mithril relies primarily on the stake distribution of Cardano itself, without the need for a trusted setup. The Mithril network can achieve the highest level of security as long as all SPOs join the network.
Development timeline
IOG introduced Mithril during the 2021 Cardano Summit. Since then, the team has made steady development progress.
The team worked on the development of the Mithril Core library that implements the full feature cryptographic primitives of the Mithril protocol. They also worked on creating the Mithril Network, which is implemented on top of the Mithril Core library. In the current proof of concept (PoC) paradigm, it is composed of the following components:
The Mithril Signer: the node that works transparently on top of the stake pool operator Cardano nodes and individually signs the ledger state.
The Mithril Aggregator: the trusted node run by IOG that orchestrates the work of the Mithril Signer nodes and gathers their individual signatures to produce Mithril multi-signatures and their associated certificates. It is also in charge of creating and storing the ledger state snapshot archive.
The Mithril Client: the node used to restore a full Cardano node by retrieving a remote snapshot and its certificate chain from a Mithril Aggregator, and by verifying snapshots validity thanks to the Mithril cryptographic primitives.
Currently, the team is at the final stages of Mithril Network optimization and testing in its first centralized version (ie running with an IOG-operated Mithril Aggregator). This phase will allow IOG engineers and researchers to work on the release of a more decentralized version of the Mithril Network on the Cardano mainnet (where stake pool operators will also be able to run Mithril Aggregators on their own). New use cases will be further added such as implementing Mithril in light clients and wallets.
The Mithril repository is now open-source. If you're interested to find out more, see Mithril proof-of-concept documentation and join this Discord channel for more discussions.
This blog post has been prepared in cooperation with Arnaud Bailly and Jean-Philippe Raynaud.


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Home Middle States Accreditation, SEAS Update Highlight Faculty Senate Meeting
Middle States Accreditation, SEAS Update Highlight Faculty Senate Meeting
Executive Vice President and Treasurer Louis Katz presents on debt strategy at final meeting of academic year.
Executive Vice President and Treasurer Louis Katz presented Friday on the university's debt strategy. (William Atkins/GW Today)
Professor of Religion Paul Duff presented on the George Washington University's accreditation process at Friday's Faculty Senate meeting.
The presentation outlined GW's accreditation for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE)—a voluntary membership association of colleges and universities located mostly in the mid-Atlantic region.
Institutions in MSCHE's jurisdiction conduct accrediting activities on a 10-year cycle. The process involves a self-study, a campus visit from a team of academics and administrators from other institutions who have read the self study and a ruling on the accreditation status of the institution. MSCHE accreditation applies across the university, regardless of accreditation processes for individual schools or programs.
"I know a lot of the professional schools and programs do have their own accreditation processes," said Dr. Duff, co-chair of the steering committee that will create GW's self-study. "This is a different animal. That's not to say that what goes on in the business school for its accreditation is totally disconnected with what we're doing with Middle States. Hopefully, we can use the information they find, and hopefully, they can use the information we find. But it is a separate process."
It will be an open process, he said.
"We want this to be a transparent process," Dr. Duff said. "We want the university community to be involved. We would like broad participation in the process. We want everyone to know about this, and we want as many people as possible to be involved."
Timeline for accreditation
Dr. Duff briefly outlined the timeline for MSCHE accreditation. He and steering committee co-chair Cheryl Beil, associate provost for academic planning and assessment, attended the MSCHE Self-Study Institute last fall. The full steering committee—and eight working groups formed by that committee—was created this spring.
The working groups will begin their analyses for the self-study this fall and will have an initial draft in spring 2017, Dr. Duff said. That draft will undergo revisions and will be sent to the chair of the visiting team in fall 2017. The process will finish in early summer 2018.
All 10 GW schools are represented on either the steering committee or working groups. The working groups correspond to seven MSCHE accreditation standards:
Design and delivery of student learning experience
Support of student learning experience
Educational effectiveness assessment
Planning, resources and institutional improvement
Governance, leadership and administration
The eighth group, Dr. Duff said, will verify that the institution is in compliance with accreditation-relevant federal regulations.
Engineering update
Friday's meeting, led by President Steven Knapp, was the final of the academic semester and featured a presentation from School of Engineering and Applied Science Dean David Dolling.
Dr. Dolling spoke of advances in SEAS over the past few years, including the opening of Science and Engineering Hall in March 2015, the installation of cardiovascular disease researcher Igor Efimov as the Alisann and Terry Collins Professor in April 2015 and the installation of Ahmed Louri as the David and Marilyn Karlgaard Professor last September.
"[SEH] is the key enabler of the vision we have," Dr. Dolling said. "The promise of SEH allowed us to recruit great faculty and students even when it was a hole in the ground. The designed intent has played out. It's driven up research productivity, reputation, expenditures and alumni investment in the school dramatically."
Annual research expenditures are on the rise, Dr. Dolling said. Female undergraduate enrollment (38 percent) is nearly double the national average. Retention of students also has increased.
"We're now retaining around 90 percent of the freshmen into their sophomore year. Nationally it's around 70 percent, so we're way ahead of what's being done at many schools."
Executive Vice President and Treasurer Louis Katz presented Friday on the university's debt strategy. It is a strategy aimed at investing capital in projects that will enhance GW, he said.
"The whole debt strategy is not to just go out and issue debt in the public markets," he said. "The debt we issue is to invest in the quality of the institution. It includes many academic buildings and residence halls. The strategy also is to ensure the majority of the debt has a specific revenue source so that we're not putting pressure on the tuition side of the institution."
Some of that revenue is generated by the university's valuable investment properties that help provide revenue for capital projects, Mr. Katz said. Revenue from the Avenue—a mixed-use development on the site of the old GW Hospital—was used to partially fund the SEH construction project, for example.
Talk Friday eventually pivoted to the university budget and GW's net cash flow.
The university experienced a decline in graduate enrollments and did not reduce expenses at the same rates that enrollments dropped, Mr. Katz said. That led to a short-term operating budget shortfall. The problem has been addressed, Mr. Katz said.
"We're happy to report that the graduate enrollment prospects look very good," he said. "We believe, from operations, there will be a positive cash flow this year of around $25 million."
That margin is a little tighter than in previous years, Mr. Katz said, because of the increasing need for financial aid.
"If you were to look back five years ago, that number would have been more like $50 million," he said. "We are predicting that the need for financial aid is going to continue to grow, which means your net tuition margins are going to continue to shrink."
That is one of two reasons GW will continue to make reductions in the central administration despite the rebound in graduate enrollments, Dr. Knapp said.
"We are doing this for two reasons: one is our concern about the growing need for financial support for undergraduates, which reduces net tuition revenue that we have to pay for the central administration," Dr. Knapp said. "The second has to do with our deliberate steps to decentralize our revenue control by giving the deans more control over revenues for graduate programs, off-campus programs and online programs."
Interim Provost Forrest Maltzman announced Friday that Shelly Heller will be stepping down from her position as associate provost for academic affairs for the Mount Vernon Campus. Dr. Heller, a professor in the computer science department, will remain a member of the GW faculty.
Dr. Knapp highlighted the NEXT exhibition at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design and previewed the university's May 15 Commencement ceremony. He also recognized Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Dianne Martin, who announced her retirement in April.
Faculty Senate Executive Committee Chair Charles Garris read a senate resolution for Dr. Martin, who has held numerous leadership roles at GW, including chair of the Department of Computer Science, director of the Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute and associate vice president for graduate studies and academic affairs.
"I want to join everyone else in thanking Dianne for her extraordinary service," Dr. Knapp said. "We all wish her the best in her retirement."


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Home > IMF trims estimate of global bank losses
Published:Wednesday | April 21, 2010 | 12:00 AM
The world's banks could be spared billions in losses thanks to a global economy that is recovering from the financial meltdown more quickly than initially expected.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is forecasting that global bank losses from the financial crisis will total US$2.28 trillion, a drop of US$533 billion from an estimate made last October.
The IMF said Tuesday that its forecast for losses just for US banks had dropped to US$885 billion, down from an estimate of US$1.03 trillion made in October.
The international lending agency attributes the improvements in part to a faster-than-expected rebound in the global economy. But the IMF warns that risks still remain, especially in the area of government debt. A debt crisis in Greece is still riling markets and raising concerns about huge debt burdens in other countries including the United States.
"Risks to global financial stability have eased as the economic recovery has gained steam," the IMF said in a new report.
The document is being issued in advance of the spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank and finance officials from the Group of 20 major industrial and developing nations.
The meetings, which will begin Thursday, are taking place against a backdrop that has significantly improved from a year ago when the world was still in the grips of the worst financial crisis since the 1930s.
But the IMF's latest Global Financial Stability Report stresses that a number of risks remained ranging from sizeable government debt burdens to continued threats facing the banking systems of many countries.
The IMF called the need for countries to get control of budget deficits the "most daunting challenge facing governments in the near term".
Greece talks
The IMF has dispatched a team to Athens, Greece, for negotiations with that country's government and officials from the European Union.
The talks are focused on a possible financial rescue package to help Greece weather a debt crisis that has rattled investors around the world.
The decline in the IMF's estimate for bank losses from the financial crisis reflects a drop of 13 per cent in the IMF's estimate of loan losses, which fell to US$1.65 trillion, and a 31.3 per cent decline in losses on bank securities, which fell to US$629 billion.
For the United States estimates for losses on bad loans fell 10.1 per cent to US$588 billion and losses on securities investments fell 20.2 per cent to US$296 billion.
But the IMF report cautions that these improvements may not materialise.
"In the United States, real estate exposures still represent a significant downside risk," the IMF said. "The regional banks with heavy exposure in real estate need to raise capital."
The IMF said that concerns about real estate lending also represent a challenge for many countries in Europe, contending that the most vulnerable loans in Spain now are loans made to property developers.
The IMF said governments must "decisively move forward to complete the regulatory agenda" to ensure that the global economy will have a safer and more resilient banking system in place.
President Barack Obama's effort to overhaul the US financial system is heading for a showdown in the Senate with the administration hoping that a fraud lawsuit brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission against financial giant Goldman Sachs will help tip the odds in favour of a sweeping overhaul bill.
Coordinating regulatory reform efforts among major countries will be a key topic of conversation on Friday when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke are hosts to their counterparts for a meeting of the G-20, composed of the world's wealthiest countries and major developing economies including China, India, Brazil and Russia.
Those discussions will be a prelude to meetings Saturday and Sunday of the policy-setting committees of the IMF and its sister lending organisation, the World Bank.
- AP
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CONCORD & WIDE+: Women´s Rights and Trade
Veröffentlicht am: 5. Juni 2018|Publikation|Themen: Feministische Ökonomie, in English|
Joint Position Paper calls on the EU to move beyond voluntary gender articles in EU trade agreements
(4.6.2018) In this joint position paper "Women's rights and Trade: Time for a radical shift", CONCORD, the European Confederation for Relief and Development that represents 2.600 NGOs in Europe, and WIDE+ reflect on the recent policy developments to promote women's rights in EU's trade policies.
It is a step forwards that the European Commission has committed to a chapter or provisions on gender in the upcoming (modernization of the) trade agreement with Chile that is being negotiated and when finalized would serve as a model for other negotiations. This position paper concludes that it is not a sufficient measure to include gender articles that are most likely non-binding: much more needs to happen to make trade agreements respect women's human rights.
The European Parliament (EP) has adopted in March of this year a resolution with many other proposals for action that the EU can and should fully implement. The present NGO position paper makes the case for, firstly, gender provisions in trade agreements that are enforceable and binding, a measure the EP couldn't (yet) agree to, but that was on the agenda for discussion.
Furthermore, CONCORD and WIDE+ call for a fundamental shift towards an EU trade policy that gives as much importance to human rights and environmental standards as to economic indicators -especially the questionable indicator of GDP growth. This implies that other measures within Trade and Investment Agreements, such as investment arrangements, reduction of available resources for gender-responsive public services and the risks/threats of privatization, need to be re-adjusted to make sure they respect and promote women's rights.
Full position paper (pdf)
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We're on to another Harry Potter review! Go check out what other participants in Harry Potter Month are doing, their posts are pretty cool! :) And my review of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is also possibly worth reading.
So, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. This one may possibly be my… ugh. I wanted to write "second favourite" but that's Goblet of Fire (Half Blood Prince is first, in case you're wondering), but then I also love Deathly Hallows and Prisoner of Azkaban so… Nope, I'm not sorting them. I just really like them all.
The story in this one is awesome. Philosopher's Stone was all about getting to know the wizarding world and making friends and eating enough food for once but Chamber of Secrets is more sinister, the attacks are putting everyone on their toes and nobody knows who to trust.
But there's still some comic relief in the form of Gilderoy Lockheart who is, I think, my favourite Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher (SERIOUSLY though, is DADA an acceptable acronym for this? It's a mouthful!). He's such an idiot but I love him all the same. I really like his movie version, too, I think Stephanie used the word "smarmy" which is exactly right for him. That duel with professor Snape is hilarious, and that chapter is one of the highlights of the book for me – both for the fun part and the big reveal at the end that Harry is a parselmouth.
As usual, I have to add a little something to balance out this devoted rambling: when I re-read the book this time I noticed something that never bothered me before: out of all the students at Hogwarts, many of whom are much more experienced in magic, Harry and Draco come out as the only suspects for the coveted position of Slytherin's heir. I mean – of course Harry speaks to snakes and Draco is one nasty little kid (though I always had a soft spot for him) but can't you at least check out some of the older students?
Also, why do all the Slytherins need to be bad? Do you know how troubling it is that 1/4 of the British wizarding population is thought inherently evil just because some moldy old hat put them in Slytherin? So unfair. Why is ambition thought to be a bad personal characteristic? This is a constant complaint for me – it doesn't only relate to this book.
But these are minor issues, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets remains a favourite that I will read and re-read – hopefully with Kiddo, too, someday soon!
Do you know which HP book is your favourite? Is it even possible to rank them?
Which DADA (haha DADA! It's official now!) teacher is your favourite?
This entry was posted in Book Review and tagged 5/5, children's, fantasy, review, series on July 7, 2015 by Kaja.
I love the word Smarmy! Heh. :) I agree with you about Slytherin's being evil. I think they get a bad wrap. I know evil has come out of Slytherin but not all of them need to be bad or mean or evil. It's like saying Harry was a Gryffindor so all Gryffindors are heroes. They are all good and brave and courageous. That's not the case. It would have been nice to see a Slytherin that was considered good and kind and brave. It would have spiced up the books, I think.
Yep, this black-and-white mentality is much easier to stomach when you're a kid, I think, but as an adult reading the series, it's more obvious.
I think Peter Pettigrew (Wormtail) was a Gryffindor and look at how HE turned out! Ugh!
PREACH! I've never understood why people have such a hate on for Slytherins. When Pottermore first came out, I filled out the quizzes so I could see where I'd be sorted…and apparently I'm a Slytherin! No complaints here. Smart, ambitious, dangerous…;) But in all seriousness, I think all of the houses have their good and bad characteristics associated with them. Harry, Hermione, and Ron in particular fly off the handle a lot.
*le gasp* You're a Slytherin? Dangerous, huh? :) I'm a Gryffindor (always suspected I was one but Pottermore confirmed it).
Yeah I know, Gryffindor seems to be the most well-balanced house, I think Wormtail was a G as well? And Slytherins do come through in The Battle of Hogwarts for the most part but up until then, it's pretty black and white.
Yeah, I'm noticing stuff with this re-read that I didn't notice before and it seems like H+R+H are the most friendly with the Hufflepuffs, at least at the beginning of the series. Making friends with a Slytherin would have created a nice balance.
I know, ranking the books is so difficult! I have a clear favorite, but then after that, I just don't know. They are all so wonderful and so important to the whole series. My favorite is Prisoner of Azkaban.
Heh, I love the word "smarmy," and it's totally applicable to Lockhart.
That is an interesting point about the Slytherins. I'm hopeful that the scene at the end of Deathly Hallows where all the house tables are abandoned is a sign that things are changing for the better.
It definitely is DADA, although that makes me think of German art, haha.
Battle of Hogwarts is a game changer, that's true. I like how some of the Slytherins came through at the end.
I can't even remember! I just know that Hitler HATED it. What are "tata" and "baba" short for?
"No" is an important one, haha. What is "yes"? I love when kids make animal sounds. My friend's daughter "roars," except she only does it in a a whisper. I finally got to hear it the weekend before last. :D I also think differences in animal sounds across languages are fascinating. My Hungarian friend and I had once an extensive conversation about them. It's also funny how many you (or at least I) forget as an adult. I think my favorite animal sound is the German one for roosters (kikeriki).
"Yes" is "ja" (pronounced like in German) or "da" (very formal).
Our roosters go "kikiriki", too :) I always found the sound in English to be really weird!
I love this review because I agree, Lockhart was the perfect comedic comic relief in a book that was a bit darker and sinister than the first, especially when I read the book as a kid. And I agree that it is strange thinking back on it that people would suspect Draco and Harry who are both second years, I am sure there were older more terrifying students at Hogwarts. Also, it's nice to hear someone fighting for the Slytherin portion of Hogwarts, I was actually sorted into Slytherin on Pottermore and I was horrified at first, but then thought screw it, maybe that means I'm ambitious and smart and whatever the other traits are for Slytherin. It would have been nice to have a see a few Slytherin not be portrayed as the worst kind of human beings in the books.
Ah, they did? :) How old are they? And have they read the entire series yet?
I enjoyed the duel scene too, and the rivalry between Snape and Lockhart. I especially enjoyed that Snape didn't really see Lockhart as a threat of any kind because, come on, he is SMARMY. Love that word too, it fits him so well. I'm with you on the whole Slytherin thing, but I think it was more that the ones that DID go bad were most likely in that house, not that all the wizards in Slytherin were bad. That's how I took it at least. I always think about Pettigrew though…he's a Gryffindor and he went bad as well. I sometimes wonder how he ended up in Gryffindor to begin with because he was a HUGE coward.
And yes, I always wondered about that, too! The Sorting Hat is supposed to be infallible, how on Earth did it sort Pettigrew into Gryffindor!?
Slytherin's also have Snape to help clear their name ;) I wonder if there is such a stigma on the house after The Battle of Hogwarts.
Chamber of Secrets is my least favorite Harry Potter book. I don't really know if that means anything because it's still a Harry Potter book. It's basically just me saying, "Chamber of Secrets is my 7th favorite book ever". It usually takes me a while to get through even though it's such a short read, but the last time I read it, I was completely charmed by it and read it in nearly one sitting. It definitely introduces some darker ideas, but it's still pretty silly and light hearted.
I'd say my favorite DADA professor was Remus Lupin. The class received so much practical training that year!
Aw, Man. I know what you mean with trying to sort them out. The only one I can say definitively is Order of Phoenix is my least favorite.
I agree that the chapter with the dueling and Harry's reveal is so great. It's awesome in the movie as well!
You bring up REALLY good points about the Slytherins and it's a similar complaint to what you had about the Dursley's being just unremittingly bad. Basically Black and White world with shallow characterization. It is something that normally drives me mad when reading YA and middle-grade and yet I'm able to kind of gloss over it in HP for the most part. Also, I'm not done with the re-read of all the books yet but I do think she muddies the waters a bit as the series goes on (it will be interesting to see if my memory is right). Draco ends up being a conflicted character and of course Snape is super interesting. However, it never really fixes that Slytherin = EEEvil. Sigh…. We did at least see some jerk Hufflepuffs in this book right? Isn't one of them really nasty to Harry?


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Q: Generic lifetime parameter of the iterator creeping into the struct type I am trying to create a data structure (let's call it Outer) that wraps another data structure (let's call it Inner). However, rather than fixing an implementation for Inner, I want to use a trait so that I can easily swap the implementation of this underlying data structure.
A simplified version would look somewhat like this:
pub struct Outer<K, V, I>
where
    I: Inner<K, V>
{
    inner: I,
    // some phantom data fields
}

pub trait Inner<K, V>
{
    ...
}

Now, I want to add an iterator to Outer which should also wrap an iterator provided by the inner data structure, and here comes the problem.
In the Inner trait, I cannot write:
fn iter(&self) -> impl Iterator<Item = (&'_ K, &'_ V)>;

as impl Trait syntax is not allowed here, and I also cannot introduce an associated type like:
type Iterator<'a>: Iterator<Item = (&'a K, &'a V)>;

since generic associated types are not there yet.
What I came up with so far is to have a separate trait for an iterator:
pub trait InnerIterator<'a, K: 'a, V: 'a>: Iterator<Item = (&'a K, &'a V)> {
    type Inner: Inner<K, V>;

    fn new(inner: &'a Self::Inner) -> Self;
}

Then Outer receives a new generic type parameter InnerIt:
pub struct Outer<K, V, I, InnerIt>
where
    I: Inner<K, V>
{
    inner: I,
    // some phantom data fields
}

impl<K, V, I, InnerIt> Outer<K, V, I, InnerIt> {
    pub fn iter<'a>(&'a self) -> InnerIt
    where
        I: Inner<K, V>,
        InnerIt: InnerIterator<'a, K, V, Inner = I>,
        K: 'a,
        V: 'a,
    {
        InnerIt::new(&self.inner)
    }
}

And now, when I want to pick some specific Inner implementation, I have something like:
pub type SomeOuter<'a, K, V> = Outer<K, V, SomeInner<K, V>, SomeInnerIterator<'a, K, V>>;

and here the lifetime parameter 'a becomes a part of my type definition.
Other than the problem that I would have to add at least two more parameters for enabling iter_mut and into_iter, my question is what would be the consequences of having this 'a parameter there, would it continue to propagate further when using this type, would the user of this type be surprised by this lifetime parameter, and is there a way to implement iterators without introducing generic iterator types and their lifetimes for Outer?

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would it continue to propagate further when using this type

Any type that wants to embed your type would need to also have a lifetime parameter.
However, some places lifetime elision will take over (e.g. in function arguments):
struct Struct1<'a>(std::marker::PhantomData<&'a ()>);
struct Struct2<'a>(Struct1<'a>); // lifetime propagates to Struct2

fn func(_: Struct1){
    println!("lifetime not needed. It is 'elided'");
}

would the user of this type be surprised by this lifetime parameter

They shouldn't be. In rust, lifetime are everywhere. For example, iterating over a slice is done using a struct with a lifetime parameter.

is there a way to implement iterators without introducing generic iterator types and their lifetimes for Outer?

The reason why you have a lifetime parameter is that you have an iterator that returns a reference. If your iterator would return a direct object no lifetime would be needed. For example, if you turn a vector into an iterator (which thus returns all the elements in the vector) it won't need a lifetime parameter

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Rep. Leonard Boswell Signs onto Cheney Impeachment
Congressman Leonard Boswell, right-wing Democrat from Iowa'a third district, would apparently like to avoid the fate of Congressman Al Wynn in Maryland. Al Wynn nearly lost a primary in 2006 to a challenger from his left, Donna Edwards. He transformed himself from one of the most corporate and militaristic members of Congress into one of the most responsive to his constituents, reversing his position on the occupation of Iraq and signing onto articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney. It wasn't enough to save him, as Edwards showed Wynn the door in the 2008 primary earlier this month.
Boswell is being challenged by Ed Fallon, who – like Edwards – seems to inspire more courage in the incumbent than he himself actually exhibits. Fallon's website says nothing about impeachment. Edwards said she was for it when asked, but never brought it up, and kept it off her website.
The Iowa Independent quotes Fallon as responding to Boswell's cosponsorship of H Res 333:
"'It's a little late to start impeachment proceedings,' said Fallon. 'The time to impeach Cheney and/or Bush would have been when we first discovered the administration had misled us into the Iraq war. This current attempt by Kucinich was introduced in April of last year. If Rep. Boswell were serious about impeachment, why did it take him 10 months to sign on to the measure? It's clear to me that Boswell is trying to act more like a Democrat now that he has an opponent.'"
There are dozens of candidates for Congress this year who do make impeachment a prominent part of their campaigns, even though they won't reach office until 2009 if they are elected. Perhaps supporting some of them would be the most effective way to win over some more incumbents, either to cosponsorship of H Res 333 or to signing onto Congressman Robert Wexler's letter to Chairman John Conyers calling for impeachment hearings to begin.
54% of Americans want Cheney impeached, as do 64% of Vermonters.
Congressman Dennis Kucinich was the first member of Congress to lead the way in April 2007. H. Res. 333, Articles of Impeachment Against Dick Cheney (reintroduced on Nov. 6, 2007, as H Res 799), is sponsored by the following Members of Congress: Jan Schakowsky, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Keith Ellison, Lynn Woolsey, Barbara Lee, Albert Wynn, William Lacy Clay, Dennis Kucinich, Yvette Clarke, Jim McDermott, Jim Moran, Bob Filner, Sam Farr, Robert Brady, Tammy Baldwin, Donald Payne, Steve Cohen, Sheila Jackson Lee, Carolyn Kilpatrick, Ed Towns, Diane Watson, Danny Davis, Raul Grijalva, Gwen Moore, Leonard Boswell. Please thank them and encourage them to whip their colleagues.
Robert Wexler, Tammy Baldwin, and Luis Gutierrez are urging the initiation of hearings and are joined in this by Anthony Weiner. Mike Michaud has written to Chairman Conyers calling for Cheney impeachment hearings. Tim Mahoney is open to the idea of impeachment hearings. Ron Klein says there should be hearings. Kirsten Gillibrand told constituents she would urge Nadler and Conyers to start hearings.
Zoe Lofgren has urged Conyers to hold hearings on the committee's 1974 report on presidential impeachment.
These Congress Members have signed Wexler's letter to Conyers:
(*= member of the Judiciary Committee)
Baldwin, Tammy, WI, 2nd *
Capuano, Michael E., MA, 8th
Clarke, Yvette D., NY, 11th
Clay, Wm. Lacy, MO, 1st
Cohen, Steve, TN, 9th *
DeFazio, Peter
Farr, Sam, CA, 17th
Grijalva, Raúl M., AZ, 7th
Gutierrez, Luis V., IL, 4th *
Kucinich, Dennis J., OH, 10th
Lee, Barbara, CA, 9th
Moore, Gwen, WI, 4th
Moran, James P., VA, 8th
Thompson, Mike, CA, 1st
Towns, Edolphus, NY, 10th
Woolsey, Lynn, CA, 6th
Wexler, Robert, FL, 19th *
Wynn, Albert Russell, MD, 4th
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Fait prisonnier au début de la guerre mais libéré, il est d'abord aumônier attaché aux Chantiers de jeunesse, mouvement dont il se détournera en 1943.

Aumônier de la Sorbonne de 1944 à 1959, il fonde le Centre Richelieu qui marqua des générations d'étudiants à l'époque, et la revue Résurrection en 1956. Il est nommé recteur de la basilique de Montmartre en 1959 dont il fait un centre de réflexion et d'évangélisation, pendant une trentaine d'années jusqu'à son départ à la retraite. C'est là qu'il accueillit le pape Jean-Paul II lors de sa première visite pastorale en France en 1980.

Il joua un rôle déterminant dans le renouveau pastoral qui précéda le concile Vatican II, notamment par son rôle précurseur de l'apostolat des laïcs, en s'appuyant sur les étudiants militants pour faire du Centre Richelieu un foyer de réflexion théologique et liturgique, qui s'imposa à l'époque comme l'unique alternative à l'organisation marxiste des syndicats étudiants pour les étudiants parisiens. Les divergences apparurent rapidement entre la JEC et le Centre Richelieu, Charles estimant dès 1948 que . Il s'opposa en cela au cardinal Feltin qui prenait la défense de la JEC ; celui-ci obtint son départ et le nomma à Montmartre.

Après son départ pour le rectorat de la basilique de Montmartre, en 1959, Charles est remplacé au Centre Richelieu par l'abbé Jean-Marie Lustiger.

Charles était selon le cardinal Daniélou , capable aussi bien de mobiliser plus de dix mille étudiants de la Sorbonne pour le pèlerinage de Chartres que de puiser dans la Bible et les Pères de l'Église pour renouveler l'adoration eucharistique. D'autre part, il s'appuyait sur une liturgie et une théologie classiques à l'opposé des thèses progressistes de l'époque. Son enseignement a marqué plusieurs générations de catholiques de Paris et de la région parisienne et au-delà.

Il repose dans la crypte de la Basilique de Montmartre devant le maître-autel.

Ouvrages
 Mgr Maxime Charles, textes choisis, éd. Résurrection 1993
  Guide de l'adoration eucharistique, préface de Mgr Patrick Chauvet,  , éd. François-Xavier de Guibert, 2002
 Sais-tu quelle est notre foi ? Sous la direction de Michel Emmanuel, Préface du Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, , éd. Parole et Silence, 2010
  Prier la semaine Sainte avec Maxime Charles. Transcription de ses interventions en 1975 à Montmartre,  , éd. Amazon, 2019

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographies
Mgr Maxime Charles, La clef d'un renouveau, éd. Résurrection 1993
Monseigneur Charles, aumônier de la Sorbonne (1944-1959), Samuel Pruvot. Préface par  Guy Gaucher. Paris, éd. du Cerf, coll. « Cerf-Histoire », 2002.
 Samuel Pruvot, Nos ancêtres les saints, petite histoire de la France missionnaire, Éditions du Cerf, 144 p., 2017
La vie cachée de l'Abbé Charles, les années de formation sacerdotale d'un séminariste de l'entre-deux-guerres 1908-1939, Michel Emmanuel, éd. Parole et Silence, 2017

Liens externes

Naissance en mai 1908
Naissance à Ribérac
Décès en août 1993
Prêtre catholique français du XXe siècle
Sacré-Cœur
Décès à Saint-Raphaël (Var)
Décès à 85 ans
Chanoine du XXe siècle
Prélat d'honneur
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur


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The G*M*S Magazine Podcast Episode 79–Dark Harvest: The Legacy of Frankenstein
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At last, after too long of waiting, and not without some host coordination issues, we are back to bring you more RPG goodness and more interviews. Huzzah!
In this episode Dale and I talk about the recently reprint of the AD&D games by Wizards of the Coast. Together with the release of old modules and material in PDF through DriveThruRPG.com, there are also a small number of physical books you can get your hands on if you so wish. But is there a point to that, or are you better off buying the books in the second hand market?
We also talk secrets! Do you keep anything from other players? Does your character have a shady past you don't want to discuss? Is she a doppelganger pretending to be an elf? What happens when your friends find out?
In this episode we also have an interview with Phil Harris and Ian Lowson. You might remember Ian from episode 26, exactly a year ago, when we discussed his game and now he's teamed up with Phil to take the product line ever further with some seriously cool short fiction.
Last, but by no means least, Dale and I talk about games that have come from literature and what sort of games you could play with your friends that would make them interested in the books that inspired them. Like Lord of the Rings or Call of Cthulhu. What would be your choices?
Hope you enjoy the show. As usual, any feedback can be sent to podcast@gmsmagazine.com and we very much look forward to hear what you have to say!
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