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The Education of Shelley Zalis
As a girl, Shelley Zalis expected to be a full-time mom when she grew up. Instead, the CEO and founder of consulting firm The Female Quotient would become an internet pioneer and a force for gender equity.
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Shelley Zalis in her Hudson Yards office, New York, January 2019. Photo by Jeremy Bales
How Her Parents Influenced Her
I grew up in Los Angeles, one of four girls. My father was a cardiologist. My mother, when I was growing up, was a full-time mom. Very involved with the PTA, nonprofits. I didn't think there was any difference between girls and boys. I mean, we didn't have any boys in our family. We could do anything we could imagine. I could throw a perfect spiral. Swish a three-pointer.
My father always said that if he left us money when he died, we didn't live life. Every other year before he died, we would take mandatory family trips. We chased eclipses all over the world. We would receive a letter in the mail from my father a year and a half in advance telling us on this day we were to be in this airport at this time. We would have airline tickets sent to us, and then be in the Galápagos chasing an eclipse together.
After my sisters and I left the house, my mother started working for [California governor] Pete Wilson. In 1992, she created the first conference for [corporate] women in the state. I remember going to that conference and thinking, I've never seen anything like this. I remember a woman standing up and asking a question in front of all these other women: "How do you still find your identity when you're no longer working?"
I thought to myself, What a vulnerable question—I don't want to be that person. I thought that once I had children I was not going to work.
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Zalis traveled to New York for college because, she says, "Your parents want you to marry a nice Jewish boy, and in Los Angeles, all you know is all the Jewish boys are in New York." Though she had a sister at Barnard, she started college at New York University. But after realizing that Barnard students could actually be a part of Columbia, she transferred.
I was the one who never studied in high school. You'd never catch me in a library! I was playing tennis with the boys. I never took any classes at Barnard. In hindsight I didn't appreciate the value of being at an all-girls school. I wanted to surround myself with diversity. What I loved about school was meeting people and being curious and adventurous. It was definitely not about learning from a textbook. It was about experiencing people. I majored in psychology. My favorite part was how you could get people to do things, to try new things. Because it's very complicated—people do not want to try new things. I thought maybe I would be a psychiatrist. I'm a very good listener and I love people. But I don't think I'd be very good at sitting in one place for a long period of time.
Zalis and Patty Kerr, executive director of #SeeHer, before an FQ tour of CES, January 2019. Photo courtesy of the Female Quotient
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The Beginning of an Accidental Career
Though Zalis didn't particularly plan on having a career—she still expected to be a full-time mother—she did want a job upon graduation in 1983. So she interviewed with a company called Video Storyboards that tested advertising animatics with shoppers in malls. Hired on the spot, Zalis loved the work—even though the pay was minimal for her and the three other women who worked for the firm's male owner.
I remember asking him one time how much money the firm made, because there was no overhead—we had this tiny little office and it was him and four girls, and I was making $24,000 a year. And I think he told me $3 million. And so if all the women and I were getting paid all in like $200,000, he was making about $2 million a year. But I never thought about it—I didn't care. I wasn't thinking about savings, the future. I was just thinking about paying my rent in New York and dating and having a good time.
Learning That There's No Such Thing as Trying
After Zalis had been at Video Storyboards for about six years, a headhunter called and asked her to interview at a company called Applied Science International Market Research, better known as ASI. She met with CEO and president Gerry Lukeman, a leading figure in the still relatively small market-research industry. In the interview, Lukeman asked her to watch two spots for Domino's Pizza and tell him which one consumers liked more. "I said, 'Oh, this one,'" says Zalis, and told him why. "And he said, 'You're hired.'" Lukeman would become her mentor and close friend.
Gerry was the most nurturing, empathetic CEO that I've ever met. He ran the company like he ran his family. He always had a sofa in his office, to encourage conversation. He taught me you either do something or you don't, there's no such thing as trying. Once he took a pen and threw it on the floor and said, "Try to pick it up. You either pick it up, or you don't."
When Zalis Helped Create Online Advertising
Zalis worked in business development for ASI; she loved building long-term relationships with clients and came to feel that she did it differently than her male coworkers. "I didn't do deals," she says. "I created relationships." In the early 1990s, she sensed that things in the marketing world were about to change profoundly. In the internet's infancy, companies that wanted to promote their products weren't placing ads because internet advertising as we now know it didn't really exist. Instead, they simply built their own websites. Zalis' epiphany was that marketers should be creating ads to be placed on other companies' websites. "Which is when," she says, "we started creating split screens and banners and interstitials." One problem? There were no industry standards defining the ads' specifications, as there were for TV. "We don't have a 30 [-second spot] on NBC and a 32 on ABC," Zalis recalls. "We needed standard units." So she pulled together a consortium of 10 noncompeting advertisers, including IBM and Levi Strauss, which created a database of online advertisements they then used to devise technical standards. "No one else was doing it," Zalis says. "We pioneered game-changing methodologies."
A Roadblock Becomes an Opportunity
The problem was that other colleagues, including her immediate boss at ASI, weren't showing much support for the project. And that led to an employment review from that boss that changed Zalis' trajectory—and consciousness. Today, talking about that 20-year-old review, Zalis actually pulls it out of a file cabinet in her office to read excerpts. Including:
"Need to better judge and recognize what our priorities are and what they aren't."
"Need to maintain focus."
"Need to appreciate the range and challenges of work done by others."
"Be careful of how sure of yourself you are."
"Courage of conviction is an appealing quality, but being too stubborn can burn bridges."
"Try not to take everything personally."
"Don't make sacrifices that you don't have to, including in your personal life."
And that's when I realized I needed to break the rules and create my own. Because following other people's rules didn't always work well for me. Why were the men always right?
Zalis leads an FQ tour at CES, January 2019. Photo courtesy of the Female Quotient
How a Bad Review Changed Her Life
The episode pushed Zalis to leave ASI. "They were trying to keep me in this place," she says. She aimed to pursue another idea that she had: migrating consumer research from in-person surveys like the ones she had done in malls to internet-based testing. Zalis wanted to build a website to conduct market research, something that seems obvious now but was radical at the time. However it was clear after her review that the men at ASI didn't see things the same way.
When I followed the rules—I came in early, I stayed late, I was a team player—I got the shittiest review of my life. And that's when I realized I needed to break the rules and create my own. Because following other people's rules didn't always work well for me. Why were the men always right?
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So I called this young guy, Trevor Kaufman, who used to do all my website-visibility testing. I said, "I have this great idea to migrate testing from offline to online—would you build me a website? I have no money, but the second someone says they want to do this, I'll give you a million dollars." He took that offer and we built the platform in my basement.
My husband and my father each said, "We'll give you half a million dollars to start your company." I was afraid to take their money. My husband was a surgical resident—he had no money. Half a million, that would have been everything of ours. I knew that I would not take risks with my husband's and my father's money. I thought I would lose it, and then we would have nothing left.
So I brought it to [market-research company] Nielsen and said, "I have this crazy idea," and I showed them the prototype…They said, "What do you need?" I said, "A million dollars." And I handed it to this 21-year-old. Made him a millionaire. And that is how I started online research.
Zalis in her office, January 2019. Photo by Jeremy Bales
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Now married with children and back in Los Angeles, Zalis decided to look for clients in the film business. Her premise: If you could build a site that could handle testing two-and-a-half-minute trailers—this was the internet in 2000, remember, when for most people fast download speeds were still years away—you could easily test 30-second advertisements. The business, which she called OTX, for Online Testing Exchange, did well, but her partnership with Nielsen did not. "As it started getting bigger and bigger, all the divisions at Nielsen started fighting over who was going to own this online business," Zalis says.
So Zalis left in 2000 to bring OTX to a video startup for user-generated content called iFilm—basically, YouTube before YouTube. Again, iFilm struggled—but Zalis' OTX (now called iFilm OTX) did well, eventually hitting $20 million a year in revenue. After discovering that iFilm was considering allowing pornography on its site—a no-no for the Fortune 500 firms she worked with—Zalis moved her company to a partnership headed by media entrepreneurs Bob Pittman and Strauss Zelnick. In 2010, she and her partners sold OTX for $80 million to a research company called Ipsos. Zalis agreed to stay for five years. And that led to another pivot point for Zalis: the almost accidental realization that she wanted to do something about gender inequality in business.
While I was at Ipsos, in 2013, I wanted to go to CES, the Consumer Electronics Show. I'd heard that there were something like 150,000 people there, and fewer than 5 percent were women. I'd never been to CES, I didn't know anyone there…Who wants to go to a trade show by themselves?
So I decided to invite four girlfriends. "Let's go to CES in Vegas together. And if you know other women going, invite them." Fifty women showed up, and we walked the floor together. And every guy's head turned—where did all these women come from? By day two, there were 100 women. By day three, I have the penthouse suite of the Four Seasons and we were all having the best time hanging out together and doing business. And that's when the Girls' Lounge was born: The place where the minority acts like the majority.
Initially backed by Ipsos, Zalis' Girls' Lounge would be a place for women (though men are welcome) to gather at conferences to network and do business and, really, have a space of their own. The name came from Zalis' feeling that the business world had always been a boys' club, and since "women never felt comfortable in the boys' club, we'll create our own girls' lounge." Now you can find the FQ Lounge—renamed to avoid the word "girl," a stumbling block for some, and to emphasize inclusion—at Davos, South by Southwest, the NBA All-Star Game and other high-profile events. At Davos in January, the Lounge hosted panels on topics ranging from "Male Champions of Change" to "Women Changing the Trajectory of Distrust in the World Through Tech."
The Imperative of Going Solo
Zalis left Ipsos when her five-year deal expired; she wasn't confident the company would continue to support the Girls' Lounges. "The men there were like, 'If we're going to have a girls' lounge, we need a man cave,'" she says. She knew she'd reached a turning point in her life. "I've made my money," she thought. "I don't want to be in research anymore. The Girls' Lounge was very empowering to me."
In 2015 Zalis launched the Female Quotient. "First came the intelligence quotient—IQ," she says. "Then came the emotional quotient—EQ. Now comes the female quotient." Naturally—Zalis is a marketer, after all—FQ has a slogan: "When you add women to any equation, the equation gets better." In addition to the FQ Lounges, the Female Quotient consults for companies on "the practice of equality"—things like closing the wage gap and recruitment. It also has an impact arm, supporting female-centric nonprofits ranging from the Girl Scouts to an organization that builds schools for girls in Rwanda. The company generated about $9 million in revenue in 2018, and Zalis says she had an offer to sell it for $45 million. "I'm not looking to sell," Zalis explains. "I want to be in the business of equality.
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AUGUSTA---For five years, the St. Michael School and Travis Mills Foundation Walk-A-Thon has steadily grown into a heart-warming fundraiser that annually displays the importance placed on service and kindness at the Augusta school. Students walk laps around the block of the school, located on Sewall Street, raising money for the foundation and the school through pre-obtained pledges. The event also features an inspirational speech from Mills before the walking begins, and a barbecue lunch at its conclusion.
This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent distance learning, changes were needed to ensure the event would flourish once again.
"Students will be challenged to perform designated exercises for four days, from Tuesday, May 19 through Friday, May 22," said Kevin Cullen, principal at St. Michael. "Travis and I will kick off the Exercise-A-Thon on Tuesday morning with a Zoom call on Facebook Live at 9 a.m."
The four-day challenge will have a different theme each day, both in exercise and attire, with the amount of exercise time increasing with the ages of the students:
Tuesday: jumping jacks and star jacks while wearing St. Michael School colors
Wednesday: sit-ups and dancing while wearing "crazy outfits"
Thursday: students' choice for exercise while wearing the uniform of their favorite team
Friday: run/walk while in patriotic clothing
"Each day, students are asked to take pictures or videos of themselves doing the exercises and post them on the St. Michael School Facebook page," said Cullen. "The suggested donation for each video and picture is a minimum of $5. We are asking school families to share the videos with friends and family and support our students in raising money for this amazing cause. All donations will be split 50/50 between the school and the Travis Mills Foundation."
Mills, a retired United States Army Staff Sergeant of the 82 nd Airborne, is one of only five quadruple amputees from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was wounded by an improvised explosive device during his third tour in Afghanistan in 2012. During his recovery, Mills discovered a passion for inspiring fellow wounded servicemen and women. He founded the Travis Mills Foundation, a nonprofit organization, formed to benefit and assist wounded and injured veterans and their families. He has traveled around the country as a motivational speaker, inspiring thousands to overcome life's challenges and defy odds. In 2015, his book, Tough as They Come, was published.
"We will have so much fun this week exercising our bodies and showing support for our veterans," said Cullen. "I'm so grateful that everyone was enthusiastic to find a way to continue the fundraiser during the pandemic."
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A new digital archive contains 374 US-Native American treaties, available for the first time ever
Thom Dunn 7:31 am Wed Mar 24, 2021
From Smithsonian Magazine:
Thanks to a newly completed digitization effort by the U.S. National Archives and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC) in Santa Fe, researchers and the public now have unprecedented access to hundreds of these critical agreements.
The online collection features 374 ratified Indian treaties from the archives' holdings. According to ablog post, these documents are housed in a specially protected area of the National Archives building and are unavailable for use in the Central Research Room due to their fragility and significance. More than 50 of the treaties are written on large sheets of parchment; several contain drawings, maps and wampum, or decorative beads used as currency in some Native American tribes.
Those hoping to delve into the trove can use Indigenous Digital Archive (IDA) Treaties Explorer, a free tool optimized for easily searching and studying the documents.
While it's depressing that such a project took so long, it's still an important and exciting archival milestone. Now, anyone can see how the US legal system has continuously disregarded its own internal policies and claims in order to punish the very same people from whom the land was stolen in the first place. Maybe this can at least be a first step towards reconciling some of those very valid grievances.
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The thing was that I owned millions of cartons of cigarettes, most of the cigarettes in what was left of the world—but not to smoke them (I don't smoke). This was at a time when I didn't know fear. Everyone who smoked came up to me asking for one cigarette or half a cigarette; in exchange they gave me vegetables, bottles of water, socks, soap. I was rich. I lived in the bar with good-looking Craig, who doled beer out into shot glasses and mugs, accepting items of different weights for different quantities of beer—a radish for a small beer, a potato for a big one. Every evening I'd return to the bar after my day of trading cigarettes for goods, load the goods into the bar's cellar, eat, then come upstairs to help Craig run the bar and trade more cigarettes for more things. Craig himself got his cigarettes for free—he was the only one. He would put the padlocks on the doors in the early morning and we'd sit together reading, holding hands, while Craig smoked. He knew to wash his hands after he was done, and clean his teeth, so that I would let him into our little bed up against the back gate and we could fall asleep with our faces too close even to kiss, the sounds of the city's chaos muffled by our bodies and the bricks in the walls.
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The man who's embracing me in the street because I have a piece of dust in my eye: yes, I know him. He grips me above the elbows, makes me fix my flickering gaze upward. Through startled tears I look at a square of sky until a big shape—his face—interrupts one corner.
"Relax, I have saline," he says. "Relax. Can you see me?" Has all my work culminated now, in something as mundane as a man and a woman hugging?
We've shared a coffee cart for years. The first time I saw him was in periphery as I finished buying my breakfast.
I walk dogs. I said, "Sorry!", pulled the dogs aside, thought about my Bavarian creme donut in a new way. From that moment, I'd be watching him; I wondered, with satisfaction, how long he had watched me and I hadn't known.
I wondered what his briefcase was full of. I tried to remember ever having been watched before by someone with a briefcase. He seemed to own things, and I wondered, What kinds of things does he own? but guiltily, because what should have been enough was that he owned his shoulders, his broad back, the hands that put a dollar on the counter and carried away a paper bag.
Now this man's body is over me and he is flooding my eye with drops of greasy water from a bottle that was in his pocket. Papers swirl everywhere because he has flung down the briefcase, and it has opened. I have let go of the leashes, thrown the coffee cup; the dogs bite the papers and lap the brown liquid. A horse may be whinnying nearby, or I may be imagining that.
I'll admit I once thought about making love to him surrounded by things he owned: good umbrellas, leather-bound books, letter openers. "Hey, no fair," I heard myself say, referring to some fine shoehorn or vase, but looking at his mouth which I was about to kiss. "That's what I was going to get!" We collapsed right into each other.
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"Blink," he says, his voice disturbing the hairs inside my ear. "You can see me, can't you?" The piece of dust floats away in a torrent and I close my arms around him, I smear my wet eyes on his soft, expensive shirt.


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Q: android.view.inflateexception binary xml file line #1 error inflating class android.widget.relativeLayout I am new in android. I just made a new layout with one text bar and 2 buttons but it didn't work, I am posting the stack trace and my relative layout file any idea about this? I saw the same question there which says to decrease the draw able size. But it didn't help in my case or I didn't now much about how to decrease it.
Here is some of my stack trace:
  D/AndroidRuntime(1192): Shutting down VM
W/dalvikvm(1192): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0xb60cc4f0)
E/AndroidRuntime(1192): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime(1192): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.example.hellomissworld/com.example.hellomissworld.MainActivity}: android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #1: Error inflating class android.widget.RelativeLayout
E/AndroidRuntime(1192):at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1647)
12-24 18:58:31.451: E/AndroidRuntime(1192):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1663)
12-24 18:58:31.451: E/AndroidRuntime(1192):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117)
12-24 18:58:31.451: E/AndroidRuntime(1192):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:931)

and that is the xml file of lay out :
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="@layout/activity_main"
    android:focusable="false"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context=".MainActivity" >

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="24dp"
        android:ems="10"
        android:inputType="text" >

        <requestFocus />
    </EditText>

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:text="@string/typehere"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignRight="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_below="@+id/editText1"
        android:text="@string/ok" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/button2"
        android:text="@string/cancel" />

</RelativeLayout>

A: this line is indicating the first line of the layout:
android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #1: Error inflating class

and at the first line there is Relative layout declaration:
So The error is on android:background, and This is not the correct way to set background of layout:
android:background="@layout/activity_main"

it should be a color or drawable image
android:background="@color/backgroundColor" or android:background="#012345"
or
android:background="@drawable/backgroundimg"

A: This is wrong android:background="@layout/activity_main" should be
android:background="@color/backgroundColor"

or
android:background="@drawable/backgroundimg"

A: What fixed it in my case was to change the location of my color.xml
As I copied it from some other project of mine and pasted it in the new project, Android Studio placed it in the v21 folder, meaning my emulator (v19) could not reach the resource file color.xml.
I did the following to fix it:

*

*Right click on color.xml.

*Select Refactor > Move.

*On the dialog that open, removed the suffix -v21.

Now, my "old" emulator was able to read the file.
I hope it helps..

A: You have to change
android:background="@layout/activity_main"

to
android:background="@drawable/yourImageName"

A: Sometimes this error can also pop up when you are using a large image that is actually too big that leads to a memory error and crashes your app. If you are using background images or any large assets make sure they exist and that they aren't too big and then you'll be singing in the rain!

A: I had the same problem - but in a activity that had no background image.
I found out that the GUI editor (when using Eclipse - I don't know about Android Studio) sometimes adds the buggy property without any reason:
android:background="@layout/activity_main"

I'm not sure why the editor does so - maybe it is a bug or simply a usage error.
However if the activity does not have a background image the entire property simply has to be deleted!

A: If you use Google Play Services and show Maps you should add Meta tag in AndroidManifest.xml
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Kobudo (jap.: 古武道; Tradicionalni ratnički put), japanska riječ za tradicionalne borilačke vještine. Uz termin Kobudo koristi se i termin Koryu Bujutsu (古流武術 stara škola / stil borilačke vještine) i oba termina se odnose na klasične japanske borilačke vještine koje su oblikovane prije japanskog razdoblja modernizacije tj. Meiji razdoblja (1868 - 1912).

Stari borilački stilovi i škole
Koryu (古流) uvijek označava borilačke vještine koje su nastale prije Meiji restauracije. Svi ti stari stilovi borbe razvijeni su u konstantnim bitkama, a pogotovo su ih onda usavršavali u Edo razdoblju (1603-1867). U svim tim borbenim situacijama kroz razna razdoblja, potezi su sakupljeni i oblikovani, i time napravljeni razni borbeni stilovi, Ryu-Ha ( 流派 ).

Korištenje termina
U Japanu sam termin se odnosi na sve drevne borilačke vještine i stilove, ali kod neupućenih izvan Japana termin asocira samo na nekoliko borbenih vještina oružjem okinawljanskog porijekla. U zaključku, sve borilačke vještine nastale prije japanskog razdoblja modernizacije nazivaju se generalno Kobudo / Koryu Bujutsu.

Kobudo, Gendai Budo i Budo - razlike u terminima
Budo (武道) je općenito termin za sve borilačke vještine, ali više je modernog kova i odnosi se većinom na moderne borilačke vještine. Danas sve borilačke vještine nastale nakon Meiji restauracije nazivamo točnije Gendai Budo (現代武道) ili moderne borilačke vještine sa sportskim karakterom, koje su danas znane kao Judo (柔道), Karatedo (唐手道), Kendo (剣道), itd.

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On Monday, June 20, three officials with the New York Police Department were arrested on charges of corruption. Two of the officials are accused of taking bribes of over $100,000, including a trip to Las Vegas, expensive game tickets and the services of a call girl.
These arrests are part of a federal probe that has currently led to five commanders being put on leave or receiving alternate assignments.
The indictment charged a deputy chief and a deputy inspector with conspiracy to commit fraud. Another arrest was a man who said he was a community liaison. His expensive gifts meant he received special privileges from the police. One such "privilege" was having one lane of the Lincoln Tunnel closed for a businessman who was visiting from overseas. That man, who was not identified, also received special access to the Times Square New Year's Eve celebration. He was also able to receive his gun license quickly when the current process takes about a year.
The deputy inspector allegedly received a two-night hotel stay in Rome and a Las Vegas Super Bowl Weekend. He was allegedly flown on a private jet and received a call girl's services.
The deputy commander received thousands of dollars' worth of free meals, according to court papers, and tickets to see the New York Rangers and Brooklyn Nets.
The unidentified business man is cooperating with authorities and has already pleaded guilty.
Even those in law enforcement can face criminal charges. Each will need a strong defense against the conspiracy and other charges in order to mitigate the possible penalties.
Source: USA Today, "Three New York City police officials arrested for corruption," Charisse Jones, June 20, 2016
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Maryland Occupational Safety and Health (MOSH) works to improve the safety and health of Maryland's working men and women in both the public and private sector by providing consultation services, outreach and educational programs, establishing partnerships, setting and enforcing standards, and encouraging continual process improvement in workplace safety and health. MOSH, with the assistance of the MOSH Advisory Board, develops and proposes rules and regulations designed to prevent accidents and occupational diseases in every occupation or place of employment in Maryland.
Maryland Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional (MOSH) trabaja para mejorar la seguridad y la salud de los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en Maryland, tanto en el sector público y privado para proveer servicios de consulta, difusión y programas educativos, establecer alianzas, establecer y cumplir las normas, y promover el proceso continuo para mejora la seguridad y salud en el trabajo. MOSH, con la asistencia de la Junta Consultiva de MOSH, desarrolla y propone normas y regulaciones diseñadas para prevenir accidentes y enfermedades ocupacionales en cada profesión o lugar de trabajo en Maryland.
MOSH is one of 28 OSHA-approved State Plans. State Plans are OSHA-approved job safety and health programs operated by individual states instead of federal OSHA. Section 18 of the OSH Act encourages states to develop and operate their own job safety and health programs. MOSH is funded with federal and special funds.
MOSH has jurisdiction over all public and private sector workplaces in the state with the exception of federal employees; the United States Postal Service; most private sector maritime activities (shipyard employment, marine terminals, and longshoring); and military bases which are covered under OSHA jurisdiction.


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Q: How do you clear an HTML form on page reload but not when the user navigates BACK to the page? I am using the trick where you store some data in a hidden form in order to be able to persist it so that when the user navigates away from the page and then uses the BACK button to come back I can restore the data to the page without hitting the server again...
However, this trick means that the same thing happens when the user clicks refresh or reload... (even shift-reload in Firefox).  I would like to detect that the user is clicking reload as opposed to clicking the back button so that I can start fresh on a reload but still restore the previous data when the user navigates away and back.
Is there a way to do this?  I've been investigating the onbeforeunload event etc but haven't figured anything out yet.
Edited to address Josh's question of "Why?":
The page is a search results page with a bunch of AJAX filters.  The user might spend quite some time tweaking the filters to get just the set of search results they want... then if they either click away from the page or type in a new address in the URL bar... then come back to the page, if I don't do something like this, they will have to start all over and do all of the filtering again.  This has been a very frustrating experience for the users we've brought in for usability testing.
This is the type of thing that a tech savvy user might solve by just opening a new tab instead of clicking/typing away, but unfortunately the vast majority of our users are not tech savvy, so the obvious solution is to have the page restore the filters/results when the user navigates back to the page.
On the other hand, there are two reasons I can think of why a user might reload the page:

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*The results on the search page have a time-sensitive element in them and the user may want to get more up-to-the-minute results.

*Occasionally there may be an error where the page did not load properly.  In both of these cases, if I restore the page to the saved state they will get the same (old and/or broken) results and not the fresh/fixed results they were expecting.

Hope that clears it up.

A: You could perhaps do this on the server side by looking at the headers sent with the request. Certain headers are used when the user performs a refresh or hard-refresh.
Use Fiddler or Firebug to examine the headers to see what you could use.
For Firefox at least, hitting F5 causes a
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For a breakdown of other browsers behaviour, check out this excellent answer to another question.

A: If you can't get the form based approach to work, you may want to investigate one the 'ajax history' libraries like RSH.

A: When I load the page with the form in it, I fill in the values I had stored away previously as you do, but then clear that data from my session. A second page refresh will find no stored data and provide a blank form. If the form is re-submitted, then I store the fresh data back in the session, ready for a back button press...


15 February 2019 – Croatian heavyweight boxer Filip Hrgović has signed a co-promotional deal with Matchroom Boxing and Team Sauerland, with his future fights to be screened exclusively live on DAZN in the US and Sky Sports in the UK, his management has reported.
The Rio 2016 Olympic Bronze Medallist has made a blistering start to his professional career, racing to seven wins from seven fights – with five of those wins coming by knockout – since making his pro debut in September 2017.
Ranked in the top ten in the World with the WBA, the 26-year-old Croatian star already finds himself being positioned for a World title fight, having been matched aggressively from the very start of his career.
He sent shockwaves through the Heavyweight division with a sensational third-round knockout win over Amir Mansour to claim the WBC International belt in his hometown Zagreb, and also has notable wins against former World title challenger Kevin Johnson and Brit Tom Little.
As Hrgović continues to climb the World rankings and move closer to an inevitable World title shot, the highly-touted prospect says he is delighted to be teaming up with Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Boxing alongside his current promoter Team Sauerland.
"I am very happy and honoured that my promoter Team Sauerland will be working with Matchroom Boxing, DAZN and Sky Sports to deliver me big fights as I continue my World title quest," said Hrgović. "This will be great for my career and proves I am one of the best prospects in the business. My goal is to become World Champion and to hold all the belts in the Heavyweight division. I know to be the best, I will have to beat the best, and as I proven so far in my professional career, I am willing to fight any heavyweight out there.


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As you know, email marketing is a cost-effective and powerful way to market your business. As you might remember, we discussed ways to kick-start your new email marketing campaign just a few blog posts ago.
This time we're diving in deeper to learn strategies to create actual email marketing campaigns that work. If you are unfamiliar with the process check out our Kick Starter article first!
Here are 5 tips and tricks to "email market" like a pro.
In every email marketing campaign, you need to be intentional about its three major components – email text, email graphic design, and the email list or database. Because you've built a robust email list of people, they must be categorized by specific things. For example, those interested in receiving your newsletter might receive a unique email campaign compared to those in your current client list.
Most businesses create email campaigns specific to products, services, segments of customer and their needs, special events, holidays, etc. These are great places to start for your next campaign. Like any form of marketing, it's best not to put all your eggs in the same basket. You should try a few different types of email campaigns and experience what works best for you. Tip 5 will show you how. Also, make sure you do not bombard the reader with too much at one. Keep the message short, clear, and focused.
As you start to create a new email marketing campaign, you need to ask yourself some questions to stay on track.
Is my campaign seasonal or holiday related?
Do people on my email list live in countries where those holidays are even celebrated?
What is the campaign going to promote?
What is the campaign design? Newsletter? Video letter?
Creating a plan before you start will help you generate effective ideas to target your specific audience. You should run through a similar set of questions for all target audiences to make sure your overall and audience-specific goals stay on track.
As your actual email marketing campaign develops, cut out the jargon and buzzwords. Communicating in an open, personable tone is warm and direct and works. Voice your emails in the first person and write clearly.
When your email campaign starts connecting with the people on your list, you want to make sure they can easily share it with their friends and piers. Include easy to use share buttons that allow people to seamlessly forward it to friends or tweet it. If you design your email so people can share pieces of it on social media without clicking through to the content, you can be sure more people will share.
More people use mobile devices to check their emails than ever before. If your email marketing campaign is difficult to access on a tablet or smartphone, you're going to be losing opportunities to engage and convert people on your list.
Avoid using multiple columns and too many images on your emails. These make it more difficult to load and can completely mess up your formatting. If that happens, people might not be able to clearly read it and will quit it quickly. Emails optimized for mobile should be easy to scan. Keep paragraphs short. Big blocks of text are annoying to read. Another tip is to make sure your emails are in plain text as HTML can take longer to load.
If you're going through all the trouble of doing your due-diligence research, setting up your email marketing campaign, writing and designing the emails, and sending them out, you need to make sure you invest your time in tracking its results. One metric you must keep track of is the open rate. This tracks how many people actually open up your email. The average is about 20 percent but that depends on your industry. If you find yourself falling below the average, it's time for an email marketing overhaul. Make sure you are targeting the right audience and your email design is up to par.
Keeping track of your email marketing campaign metrics will help you follow up more effectively. Depending on your email marketing service, you should be able to track individual email campaigns to gauge their effectiveness. Another important measure is click-through rate which measures how many people take the action you want them to take. If you're not getting people to open emails and they're not converting, you might have a stale list or perhaps you're targeting the wrong people.
As you actually start creating your email marketing campaigns, these 5 tips can help you dive deeper. It's important to invest time in researching your target audience as well as choosing the right campaign platform for you. Don't put all your eggs in one basic and try different campaigns with different email lists to keep experimenting and learning what works for you.


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Investing and Business Lessons from The Princess Bride
December 22, 2017 ∞
If you have not at least watched the movie version of The Princess Bride, I suggest that you review your priorities in life.
"The Princess Bride was directed by Rob Reiner, who was in the midst of a dynamite run that also included This Is Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, When Harry Met Sally, Misery and A Few Good Men; and written by William Goldman, who also wrote the book on which it was based. Goldman also wrote the screenplays for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All The President's Men." "The film they made together goes something like this: in a fantasy kingdom, the evil Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon) decides to marry simple farm girl Buttercup (Robin Wright), who is mourning the loss of her true love, Westley (Cary Elwes), following his untimely demise. When Westley reappears, he must save her from the evil prince and his henchman, Count Rugen (Christopher Guest), with the help of bad-guys-turned-good-guys Fezzik (Andre the Giant) and Inigo (Mandy Patinkin), while avoiding their still-a-bad-guy boss, Vizzini (Wallace Shawn). And this all takes place inside a modern-day frame, in which a kind grandfather (Peter Falk) reads the book to his sick grandson (teeny Fred Savage, before The Wonder Years)."
Also in the movie is Billy Crystal, who plays the part of Miracle Max. Mandy Patinkin has said this about working with Crystal: "He had in cataract contact lenses so he couldn't really see. He was making up 13th-century period jokes. The only injury I received on the entire movie was I bruised a rib holding in my laughter." Variety tells this story about the movie: "Reiner had to walk away from the shooting because he couldn't stop laughing, especially when Crystal said, 'True love is the greatest thing in the world, except for a nice MLT — mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomatoes are ripe.'" Crystal told the makeup team that he wanted Miracle Max to look like a cross between former Yankees manager Casey Stengel and his grandmother. Crystal was filmed for three ten hour days in the making of this movie and never told the same joke twice.
True love is a great theme of the movie but so are innovation, duplicity and hubris. As the first of several asides, when the writer Goldman's two daughters were asked what they would want in a story the first replied "A princess!" and the second said "A bride!"
Vizzini: "He didn't fall? Inconceivable!"
Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Vizzini is using the word "inconceivable" when he should be using the word "improbable." This difference gets to the heart of what I wrote about in my recent blog post on Benoit Mandelbrot. When you are faced with situations like investing or making a business decision, you must take into account that the probability distribution of outcomes may not be a "Bell Curve." For example, it may not be probable that Wesley survived the cutting of the rope as he tried to scale the cliff, but it is conceivable that he might do so.
In trying to understand the movie it is important to think about Goldman's most famous statement. "The thing they'll end up writing on my tombstone is the phrase 'Nobody Knows Anything.'" Goldman explains the "nobody knows anything" idea in this way:
"I look at movies and I think what works and what doesn't work, and it's got nothing to do with quality. But there is something that they can't figure out how to manufacture: word of mouth. That's the great problem the studios have. If they could figure out how to manufacture that, they could all be relaxed about the world. But you can't figure out why people say, "I want to see that," and, "No, I don't want to see that." "No one has the least idea what is going to work," he observes. "The minute people start acting like they know everything, we're all in trouble. Nobody thought Taken would do $100m. Nobody thought Liam Neeson would make it as an action star at this stage in his career." "When I was thirty, I got to work doctoring a show on Broadway for George Abbott, who was the most successful director in the history of American theatre. He said, "You can't tell anything until you get hot bodies out there." And I said, "What are hot bodies, Mr. Abbott?" He said, "People who don't know your mother. People who want to come to the theatre and enjoy themselves or not and if they don't, they'll leave." And that's still true. They spend all this money hyping all these movies that open on Friday and they've gotten very skilful, but you still don't know what's going to work."
The Guardian illustrates Goldman's "nobody knows anything" principle with this example:
"In the late-60s, Goldman sold his first original screenplay – a little script called Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – to 20th Century Fox for $400,000, a record at the time. Goldman, already a successful literary novelist who'd shown his gift for cinema by adapting Harper from a Ross McDonald book, felt the fee justified the eight years of research he'd put into the story, not to mention the script's commercial potential. But film critics, particularly those from Goldman's adopted home of New York, didn't agree. Apparently resentful of his big payday, the New Yorker review appeared under the headline "The Bottom of the Pit". Goldman and director George Roy Hill were in Manhattan the day the film was released. "When we got killed [by the critics], we were just crushed," he recalls. "So George and I walked over to a theatre at 57th and 3rd and we asked to see the manager. He came out and when we asked how the film was doing, he said, 'We're selling out all the shows and the audiences love it.' Still, we thought it might only be doing well in that theatre. So he volunteered to phone the manager at a theatre in Times Square – can you imagine anyone doing that today? – and he said the same thing. George turned to me and said: 'Well, maybe it's not a disaster after all.'" Butch went on to become the highest-grossing film of 1969 and won four Oscars, including Best Screenplay.
Predicting what people will do, particularly if it involves word of mouth is best discovered through experimentation rather than prediction. The best article on this topic is written by Duncan Watts and is entitled: "Is Justin Timberlake a Product of Cumulative Advantage?" As is usual, when I make a refence like this, a link to the article or book is in the Notes below.
A book entitled, The Princess Bride and Philosophy: Inconceivable! argues that Goldman is making a deeper point:
I'm somewhat skeptical of this interpretation, but I am making some unusual comments in this post myself.
Miracle Max: "There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead, is slightly alive."
Miracle Max is talking about a danger associated with "Gambler's Ruin." To invest capital you must first have capital. Ed Torp describes the danger in this way:
"If you bet too much you're likely to be wiped out…. You have to make sure that you don't over-bet. Suppose you have a 5% edge over your opponent when tossing a coin. The optimal thing to do, if you want to get rich, is to bet 5% of your wealth on each toss — but never more. If you bet much more you can be ruined, even if you have a favorable situation. It's a formula Bell Labs scientist John Kelly devised in the 1950s."
To have a chance of outperforming a market index you must first stay in the game. In other words, if you have zero capital it is impossible to be an investor. For much the same reason Walter Schloss once said: "Remember it's your money and generally it is harder to keep money than to make it. Once you lose a lot of money it is hard to make it back."
Inigo: "There is but one working castle gate. And it is guarded by sixty men."
This seems like a reference to something Warren Buffett has said: "Capitalism is all about somebody coming in trying to take the castle. What you need is a castle with some form of durable competitive advantage, thus an economic castle with an economic moat around it to protect the corporate profits from its fierce competitors." Unfortunately, someone eventually events a weapon like the cannon and the walls of the castle become a big cost burden rather than an asset. I have written several blog posts on moats. Prince Humperdinck's castle looks impressive, but it is breached by the heroes with a few props, a clever ruse and bravery. As an aside, the castle used in the movie is Haddon Hall, a fortified country house rather than a real castle with an origin traceable to sometime before 1087. There is no actual moat at the castle, but remember that the film's budget was tight. Changes to the book were made in the screenplay to reduce costs, such as changing the Zoo of Death into the Pit of Despair. Creating a Zoo of Death is as you know very expensive.
Westley: "And our assets?"
Inigo: "Your brains, Fezzik's strength, my steel."
Goldman is describing the innovation process in this scene that I wrote about last week. Inigo believes that Westley will invent an innovative solution that will enable them to beach the defenses of the castle. A wheelbarrow, a cloak and fire are used to great effect in in breaching the walls of the castle. The making of the movie itself is an example of innovation. "Reiner had a tough time marketing The Princess Bride because it was kind of genre-less. Swashbuckling comedy? Charming, witty fable? Tale of love and revenge? Nothing felt right. Reiner feared he had a "Wizard of Oz" on his hands – and "The Wizard of Oz" was a flop when it first hit theaters in 1939." Of all the movies released in 1987, the Princess Bride ranked just 41st in domestic grosses, bringing in $30,857,814. " As a reference point, the movie "Three Men and a Baby" brought in $167,780,960 that year. Elwes, who played Westley, explains in his book about the movie that "'The Princess Bride really didn't have an audience when it came out. It gained popularity in the VHS marketplace."
Inigo: "I just work for Vizzini to pay the bills… not a lot of money in revenge."
Mandy Patinkin who played Inigo has said that this is his favorite line from the movie. Inigo is expressing a view that is similar to Charlie Munger who once said: "Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought." A passage in the book The Princess Bride and Philosophy: Inconceivable! examines Inigo's situation:
Patinkin said that when he stabbed Count Rugen in this scene he felt like he was killing the cancer that killed his father, and "for a moment, he was alive. And my fairy tale came true."
A situation involving revenge in my own life happened when my five-year-old son opened a birthday gift from his grandfather, he discovered a water pistol. He squealed with delight and headed for the nearest sink. I was not so pleased. I turned to my father and said, "I'm surprised at you. Don't you remember how we used to drive you crazy with water guns?" My father smiled and then replied, "I remember." As another aside, "Revenge" is the name of the pirate ship of Dred Pirate Roberts. Also, there was a real and very famous pirate named Black Bart Roberts.
"Everyone had told her, since she became a princess-in-training, that she was very likely the most beautiful woman in the world. Now she was going to be the richest and the most powerful as well. Don't expect too much from life, Buttercup told herself as she rode along. Learn to be satisfied with what you have."
This is a reference by Goldman to an idea that is central to a classic Charlie Munger quip: "The idea of caring that someone is making money faster is one of the deadly sins. Envy is a really stupid sin because it's the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There's a lot of pain and no fun. Why would you want to get on that trolley?" Envy can lead to fear of missing out (FOMO) which is what causes things like the Internet bubble. Warren Buffett tells the following joke about herd behavior that can be caused by envy:
A dead oil prospector arrives at the pearly gates and is told by St Peter that Heaven's allocation for miners is full. The prospector leans through the gates and yells: "Oil discovered in Hell." A stampede of men with picks and shovels streams out of Heaven. An impressed St Peter waves the prospector through. "No thanks," says the prospector. "I'm going to check out that Hell rumor. Maybe there is some truth in it after all."
As another aside, since Buttercup never actually married Prince Humperdink, she technically wasn't a princess. But where is the fun in that?
Westley: "Ha! Your pig fiance is too late. A few more steps and we'll be safe in the fire swamp.".
Buttercup: "We'll never survive."
Westley: "Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has."
Westley exhibits a classic missionary attitude in this scene and many others in the movie. Miracle Max is also a bit of a missionary in the movie since at one point he says: "I never worked for so little. Except once, and that was a very noble cause." The writer Goldman himself exhibited missionary rather than a mercenary traits when he said in an interview: "You can only write what you give a shit about. You got to keep on doing that. If for example, you don't like special effects movies, don't try to write one because it will suck."
I love the following story told by Goldman about the making of The Princess Bride that also demonstrates a missionary attitude. The new person in a role at a business too often feels like they must throw out any idea that could be attributed to their predecessor:
"Only one person per studio has anything resembling power, and that is the GG. The GG, you see, can make a picture happen. He (or she) is the one who releases the fifty million bucks—if your movie is aimed for Sundance. Triple that if it's a special effects job. Anyway, the GG at Fox liked The Princess Bride.
Problem: he wasn't sure it was a movie. So we struck a peculiar arrangement—they would buy the book, but they would not buy the screenplay unless they decided to move forward. In other words, we both owned half the pie. So even though
I was tired from finishing the abridgement, I went on nervous energy and did the screenplay immediately after.
The GG at Fox sent it to Richard Lester in London—Lester directed, among others, A Hard Day's Night, the first wonderful Beatles film—and we met, worked, solved problems. The GG was thrilled, we were a go—
—then he got fired, and a new GG came in to replace him.
Here is what happens Out There when that happens: the old GG is stripped of his epaulets and his ability to get into Morton's on Monday nights and off he goes, very rich—he had a deal in place for this inevitability—but disgraced.
And the new GG takes the throne with but one rule firmly writ in stone: nothing his predecessor had in motion must ever get made. Why? Say it gets made. Say it's a hit. Who gets the credit? The old GG. And when the new GG, who can now get into Morton's on Mondays, has to run the gauntlet there, he knows all his peers are sniggering: "That asshole, it wasn't his picture." Death.
So The Princess Bride was buried, conceivably forever. And I realized that I had let control of it go. Fox had the book. So what if I had the screenplay; they could commission another. They could change anything they wanted. So I did something of which I am genuinely proud. I bought the book back from the studio, with my own money. I think they were suspicious I had some deal or plan, but I didn't. I just didn't want some idiot destroying what I had come to realize was the most important thing I would ever be involved with. After a good bit of negotiating, it was again mine. I was the only idiot who could destroy it now."
Goldman decided that Reiner was the right person to direct The Princess Bride based on his contributions to the movie This Is Spinal Tap. There is a Spinal Tap baseball hat in the bedroom of the sick grandchild, a cultural reference that Mark Knopfler made a condition for doing the movie's soundtrack.
Vizzini: "But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me."
Vizzini is exhibiting what Keynes called a "Beauty Contest" attitude. He would be would be a terrible investor, since his approach is speculation.
"The Keynesian beauty contest is the view that much of investment is driven by expectations about what other investors think, rather than expectations about the fundamental profitability of a particular investment. John Maynard Keynes observed that investment strategies resembled a contest in a London newspaper of his day that featured pictures of a hundred or so young women. The winner of the contest was the newspaper reader who submitted a list of the top five women that most clearly matched the consensus of all other contest entries. A naïve strategy for an entrant would be to rely on his or her own concepts of beauty to establish rankings. Consequently, each contest entrant would try to second guess the other entrants' reactions, and then sophisticated entrants would attempt to second guess the other entrants' second guessing. And so on. Instead of judging the beauty of people, substitute alternative investments. Each potential entrant (investor) now ignores fundamental value (i.e., expected profitability based on expected revenues and costs), instead trying to predict "what the market will do." The results are (a) that investment is extremely volatile because fundamental value becomes irrelevant, and (b) that the most successful investors are either lucky or masters at understanding mob psychology – strategic game playing." Economicae: an illustrated encyclopaedia of economics
Keynes himself said:
'It is not a case of choosing those [faces] which, to the best of one's judgment, are really the prettiest, nor even those which average opinion genuinely thinks the prettiest. We have reached the third degree where we devote our intelligences to anticipating what average opinion expects the average opinion to be. And there are some, I believe, who practise the fourth, fifth and higher degrees.' (Keynes, General Theory of Employment Interest and Money, 1936).
Westley: "Dread Pirate Roberts had grown so rich, he wanted to retire."
In my blog post on Dan Airely I quote him as saying:
"Retirement is especially difficult because we not only don't know exactly what we're giving up, it's also far away in the future. That makes it very, very difficult to think about. It's called hyperbolic discounting — we just care less dramatically about the future so not only is it hard for us to understand what we are giving up, it's also really, really delayed." "If you think about the opportunity cost of money — if I spend a thousand dollars now on a new bicycle I know what I'm getting. If I put it into my retirement account I don't really know what I'll get in the future."
How much wealth must you save for retirement? What should your portfolio look like to achieve that and after you retire? These are topics worthy of a future blog post. I should note that on the succession planning issue, Westley served as an apprentice for a considerable period and was able to step into the Dred Pirate Role role quite effectively. Inigo inherits the title from Westley. In the first chapter of Buttercup's Baby, the unfinished sequel to the novel, Goldman refers to "'Pierre," who seems destined to be the next Dred Pirate Roberts.
Vizzini: "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders—the most famous of which is, 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'—but only slightly less well-known is this: 'Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line'! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha…[drops dead]."
My blog post on The Godfather is about one type of Sicilian wisdom. Speaking of Sicilians, Reiner at one point ran into mob boss John Gotti and his entourage outside a New York restaurant. One of the men with Gotti looked at Reiner and said, "You killed my father, prepare to die!" and then started laughing.
Vizzini, like many people with high intelligence, is a danger to himself and others since he mistakenly believed that his IQ was higher than it actually was and that his IQ was a substitute for good judgment.
As for the avoid land wars in Asia comment he is referring to advice Charlie Munger often gives about avoiding situations that are painful. When Munger jokes: "I just want to know where I will die so I can just not go there" he is humorously making a broader point about avoiding certain areas in investing and in life. Munger once gave a speech where he spoke about a famous Johnny Carson talk in which the comedian described all the ways one can be miserable. Munger said: "What Carson said was that he couldn't tell the graduating class how to be happy, but he could tell them from personal experience how to guarantee misery. Carson's prescriptions for sure misery included: 1) Ingesting chemicals in an effort to alter mood or perception; 2) Envy; and 3) Resentment. What Carson did was to approach the study of how to create X by turning the question backward, that is, by studying how to create non-X." Invert!
Man in Black (Westly): "Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
My blog post on how Charlie Munger deals with the inevitable adversity people encounter in life is one of my more popular pages on my blog. In it I quote Munger as saying:
"Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won."
"Life will have terrible blows in it, horrible blows, unfair blows. And some people recover and others don't. And there I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He said that every missed chance in life was an opportunity to behave well, every missed chance in life was an opportunity to learn something, and that your duty was not to be submerged in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in constructive fashion. That is a very good idea."
The people who step up when adversity arrives inspire me. Doing the right thing is a highly underrated part of life. It is a not only a test of character, but a chance to show what you have learned and who you are as a person.
Vizzini: "I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess."
What do you do when your are faced with a situation in which "no one knows anything" because you are dealing with complex adaptive systems? The best response to this is to do a lot of experiments using the very best data available and modern data science tools. There has never been a better time in history to do this work since the cost of running an experiment has never been lower. Rather than try to predict the unpredictable, it is a better idea to run experiments instead and then select the most favorable outcomes. A well-constructed trial and error process allows the experimenter to identify a favorable result from a test result and to exploit it when they actually see it. This topic will be part of my next blog post entitled: "Why is Data the New Oil?"
Data is not a substitute for thinking. Bill Gates is one of the deepest thinkers I have ever known. He is interested in many things. For example, I ran into him once in an athletic club locker room and we ended up having a long talk very there about Mandelbrot sets. We completely lost track of time during that talk. Bill's "always thinking" character trait is not new. When Bill was a child, his mother Mary complained about him being slow to get into the car for a trip to a family event. When she asked Bill what he was doing, he responded by saying: "I'm thinking, mother. Don't you ever think?" Bill's father recalled that day in this way: "Imagine yourself in our place. I was in the most demanding years of my career. I was a dad, a husband, doing all the things parents in families do. My wife, Mary, was raising three kids, volunteering for the United Way, and doing a million other things. And your child asks you if you ever take time to think."
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The Appointments of Dennis Jennings ist eine kurze US-amerikanische Filmkomödie von Dean Parisot aus dem Jahr 1988. Parisot wurde gemeinsam mit dem Produzenten des Films Steven Wright, mit und für den Film mit einem Oscar ausgezeichnet.

Handlung
Der introvertierte Dennis Jennings ist ein Tagträumer. Er arbeitet als Kellner und hat eine etwas zurückgebliebene Freundin, Emma. Dennis will sich aus seiner geistigen Isolation befreien und sucht den Psychiater Dr. Schooner auf, der allerdings nicht wirklich an den Problemen seines Klienten interessiert zu sein scheint. Dennis findet jedoch heraus, dass sein Psychiater seine Probleme mit einer Gruppe von Studenten erläutert und sich dabei über seinen Patienten lustig macht.

Als Jennings dann nach einer Weile auch noch erkennen muss, dass Emma ihn mit Schooner betrügt, hat er von allem genug. Er jagt den Psychiater in einen Wald und erschießt ihn. Er wird für seine Tat verurteilt und trifft ihm Gefängnis abermals auf einen Psychiater, der völlig desinteressiert ist.

Veröffentlichung
Uraufgeführt wurde der Film am 7. September 1988 auf dem Boston Film Festival.

Auszeichnung
Oscarverleihung 1989
 Auszeichnung in der Kategorie Bester Kurzfilm

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Filmtitel 1988
US-amerikanischer Film
Kurzfilm
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Q: Android Intent.ACTION_SEND, how to pre-fill phone number in message Using Intent.ACTION_SEND to share plain text or image. Everything works fine, the third party apps bottom sheet opens and I choose the sms application but I am not able to pass in the contact number in the intent. If I use share.putExtra("address", "9839098390") the message body becomes blank, and without using this flag everything works fine except the number recipient field is empty.
I have tried share.putExtra("address", "smsto:9839098390") and share.putExtra("mmsto:address", "9839098390") in both these cases the recipient field is filled with "9839060055" but the message body becomes empty.
Here's the code
Intent share = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, message);
share.setType("text/plain");
if (contentUri != null && MIME_TYPE != null) {
      share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, contentUri);
      share.setType(MIME_TYPE);
    }
if(phoneContact != null && !TextUtils.isEmpty(phoneContact.getId()))
share.putExtra("address", phoneContact.getId());
share.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION);
mContext.startActivity(Intent.createChooser(share, title));


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Many investors hoped Bitcoin's price would rally as pressure increases on emerging market currencies like the Turkish Lira. Instead, Bitcoin is following the downward trend of these currencies.
Economist Panos Mourdoukoutas, writing for Forbes, describes the prospect of Bitcoin replacing national currencies as a myth.
Mourdoukoutas believes that Bitcoin (BTC) 00 is following the crash of emerging market currencies like those in countries like Turkey and Argentina. These countries have massive US dollar debts, and their home investors are seeking new opportunities to protect their wealth. Instead of looking to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a new investment vehicle as some might expect, these investors are looking elsewhere. This includes traditional investment opportunity of gold.
Strangely enough, Bitcoin's performance is currently mirroring the historic performance of gold as an asset.
I'm not convinced emerging countries are capable of moving the needle enough, especially after significant devaluations in their local currencies.
Bitcoin's price fell more than 15% in 24 hours in recent days, creating what Rob Sluymer of Fundstrat Global Advisors describes as a "damaging drop." The cryptocurrency slid below its 100-day moving average — an indicator of momentum that could point to further trouble.
Many investors hoped Bitcoin's price would rally as pressure increases on emerging market currencies like the Turkish Lira.
CME Trader Brian Stutland is predicting a September rise for Bitcoin and a return to $7250, despite recent performance.
Placeholder VC partner Chris Burniske said in a new analysis this week that Bitcoin is actually "functioning well as a reserve currency." Burniske finds that Bitcoin is performing as expected from a reserve asset of choice.
Although the theories and expectations regarding Bitcoin's long-term durability vary greatly, short-term investors are once again holding their breaths and peering at the charts.
What are your thoughts on Bitcoin's current performance? What do you think is the cause, and what next for Bitcoin? Let us know in the comments below.