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Q: Relative positioning with tikz and let syntax results in slightly incorrect (y-axis) position I'm trying to set the position of the b node based on the x position of one, and the y position of another node.
I use the let function, as I learned from another thread.
In my code this somehow results in a slightly incorrect position where the node is positioned slightly lower than expected, resulting in a minor but noticeable gap.
Here you can see that the b node and its label is below the y position of node w1:

I know this is a very minor problem, but I would like to understand it.
What causes the gap?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows,3d,calc,fit,shadows,snakes,automata,backgrounds,petri,positioning,chains,decorations.pathreplacing}

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{tikzpicture} [start chain=2,node distance=13mm, label distance=3mm]
\tikzstyle{init} = [
    draw,
    circle,
    inner sep=2pt,
    font=\Huge,
    join = by -latex
]

\tikzstyle{squa} = [
    draw,
    inner sep=2pt,
    font=\Large,
    join = by -latex
]

\node[on chain=2] (x2) at (0,0) {$x_2$};
\node[on chain=2,join=by o-] {$w_2$};
\node[on chain=2,init] (sigma) {$\displaystyle\Sigma$};
\node[on chain=2,label=above:{\parbox{2cm}{\centering Activation \\ function}}] (phi) {$\phi(...)$};
\node[on chain=2,label=above:Output, join=by -latex] (y) {$y$};
\begin{scope}[start chain=1]
    \node[on chain=1,label=above:Inputs] at (0,1.5cm) (x1) {$x_1$};
    \node[on chain=1,label=above:Weights, join=by o-] (w1) {$w_1$};
\end{scope}

\begin{scope}[start chain=4]
    \node[on chain=4] at (0,-1.5cm) (xn) {$x_{n}$};
    \node[on chain=4,join=by o-] (wn) {$w_{n}$};
\end{scope}

\path let \p1=(sigma), \p2=(w1) in node[label=above:Bias] (b) at (\x1, \y2) {$b$};

\draw[-latex] (w1) -- (sigma);
\draw[-latex] (wn) -- (sigma);
\draw[o-latex] (b) -- (sigma);
\path (x2) -- (xn) node [font=\large, midway, sloped] {$\dots$};

\draw[-latex] (sigma) -- (phi) node[above, midway] (net) {\textit{net}};

\end{tikzpicture}
\caption{Structure of an Artificial Neuron}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

A: The issue is explained and solved in the tutorial in the pgfmanual v3.1.4 on pages 70-71. What you seeing here are the effects of p and g "going below the baseline" and b being higher than x and w. You can solve the issue by giving the nodes some fixed text heights and text depths. (I also used the opportunity to get rid of the deprecated \tikzstyle and removed libraries which are not used here. The red lines are only to guide the eye.)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc,chains,positioning,arrows}

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{tikzpicture}[start chain=2,node distance=13mm, label
 distance=3mm,fw/.style={text depth=0.25ex,text height=1.5ex},
 every label/.append style={fw},
 init/.style={draw, circle, inner sep=2pt, font=\Huge, join= by -latex},
 squa/.style={draw, inner sep=2pt, font=\Large, join = by -latex}]

\node[on chain=2,fw] (x2) at (0,0) {$x_2$};
\node[on chain=2,join=by o-,fw] {$w_2$};
\node[on chain=2,init] (sigma) {$\displaystyle\Sigma$};
\node[on chain=2,label=above:{\parbox{2cm}{\centering Activation \\ function}}]
(phi) {$\phi(\dots)$};
\node[on chain=2,label=above:Output, join=by -latex] (y) {$y$};
\begin{scope}[start chain=1]
    \node[on chain=1,label=above:Inputs,fw] at (0,1.5cm) (x1) {$x_1$};
    \node[on chain=1,label=above:Weights, join=by o-,fw] (w1) {$w_1$};
\end{scope}

\begin{scope}[start chain=4]
    \node[on chain=4] at (0,-1.5cm) (xn) {$x_{n}$};
    \node[on chain=4,join=by o-] (wn) {$w_{n}$};
\end{scope}

\path let \p1=(sigma), \p2=(w1) in node[label={[name=Bias]above:Bias},fw] (b) at (\x1, \y2) {$b$};

\draw[-latex] (w1) -- (sigma);
\draw[-latex] (wn) -- (sigma);
\draw[o-latex] (b) -- (sigma);
\path (x2) -- (xn) node [font=\large, midway, sloped] {$\dots$};

\draw[-latex] (sigma) -- (phi) node[above, midway] (net) {\textit{net}};
\begin{scope}[overlay,red,thin] % only for illustration
 \draw (b.base-|b.south east) -- ++ (-4.5,0);
 \draw (Bias.base-|Bias.south east) -- ++ (-5,0);
\end{scope}
\end{tikzpicture}
\caption{Structure of an Artificial Neuron.}
\end{figure}
\end{document}


Water is life, water is feminine and water is strong. It has sustained our communities over generations and allowed humans to plant seeds, harvest and grow with the sacred elements that surround us, and that are so connected to our physical and cultural survival in this place we call home. The bosque is the place where the ancestors first drew water and had faith in the landscape to sustain future generations. Since then, many have followed, attempting to control, own and govern these waters, forgetting that she does not belong to us, we belong to her. We have great responsibility in taking care of this area, as it has always taken care of us, and to have respect for all of the animals and plants that also cling to the bosque for survival. The waters remain strong with life‐giving force, providing space for nature to survive in the city against all odds. We still have the opportunity to honor the delicate balance that exists here and we have an obligation to do so. I hope these images communicate gratitude and hopefulness for the protection of this sacred place.
See Jaelyn's related photos in our "Visions of the Bosque" section here.


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Western Gorilla Facts
Hominidae
A group of animals within a family
Gorilla Gorilla
The animal group that the species belongs to
Size (H):
1.4m - 1.7m (4.7ft - 5.5ft)
The measurement of how heavy the animal is
100kg - 200kg (220lbs - 440lbs)
The fastest recorded speed of the animal
40km/h (25mph)
Whether the animal is solitary or sociable
Black, Grey
Rainforest and dense jungle
Average Litter Size:
The average number of babies born at once
Leaves, Fruit, Flowers
Human, Leopard, Crocodile
Large head and long arms
Western Gorilla Location
The western gorilla is one of two gorilla sub-groups found on the African continent (the other being the eastern gorilla). The western gorilla is the most numerous species gorilla and also the larger out of the two.
The western gorilla is found inhabiting the tropical jungles and forests of western and central Africa, along with lowland swamps and secondary forests. All western gorillas are now considered to be critically endangered as much of their natural habitat has now been deforested or taken over by humans.
There are two separate sub-species of western gorilla which are the western lowland gorilla and the cross river gorilla. Although only slightly different in appearance, the two western gorilla species are distinguished by there differing skull and tooth sizes.
The western gorilla is one of the great apes, a group that includes orang-utans, gorillas, humans and chimpanzees. As with the other great apes, the western gorilla has a number of features which makes living in the jungle a bit easier, including having opposable thumbs which come in handy when the western gorilla is peeling fruit.
The western gorilla is an omnivorous animal, but the majority of its diet is made up of eating fruit which the western gorilla is known to travel vast distances through the forests to find. The western gorilla also eats leaves, nuts and berries, along with insects and occasionally small animals such as lizards and rodents. The western gorilla has also been observed using basic tools in the wild in order to more effectively gather food.
Due to it's large size, the western gorilla has few real predators in its native African forests, with large cats such as leopards and the odd crocodile being the only real natural threat to the western gorilla. The biggest threat to the western gorilla is habitat loss caused by deforestation and also being hunted by humans. Parts of the western gorilla's territory has also been taken over by civil unrest in recent years, which, along with poaching, has had a truly devastating effect on wild populations.
The western gorilla tends to live in groups which are led and protected by the alpha male. The alpha male western gorilla also mates with the females in his group, producing generally single offspring, known as babies. The western gorilla babies remain with their mother until they are a few years old and become independent.
Today, all western gorillas are critically endangered species but there are thought to be 95,000 western lowland gorillas remaining in the wild, significantly more than their cross river gorilla cousins, whose numbers in the wild are thought to be as low as 300 individuals.
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2016 St. Louis Cardinals Game Recaps & Scores
4.30.16 Nationals @ Cardinals Recap: Cards Lose 6-1
The Cardinals outhit the Nationals 8-6 this afternoon, but couldn't ever get a rally going. With the win today, the Nationals got their first series win in St. Louis since May 2007. (Yes, you read that right.)
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Jaime tells his glove to suck it after the misplay in the first.
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Six runs the Nationals plated
Jayson Werth, he just slayed it
This game was too tough
One run not enough
Losing sucks and I hate it
Ugh. Recapping losses is the pits, you guys.
The Cardinals seemed doomed from the beginning of this game. Jaime Garcia, who has arguably been our best pitcher this season, gave up four runs in the top of the first inning. Anthony Rendon singled on a ball up the middle that Garcia tried to grab, but it went off his glove. After a walk to Ryan Zimmerman, a Daniel Murphy single scored Rendon. Then Jayson Werth - who has been so bad this season, I recently kicked him off my fantasy team bench - hit the ball on a freaking ROPE into the left field bleachers. Just like that, it was 4-0.
Garcia actually didn't pitch all that badly today. Those first inning runs were the only ones he allowed and he struck out six. He did walk three, though, and that was not great, but he may have been getting squeezed a bit against righties:
I count two definite strikes that were called balls, and at least three that were borderline but were either called strikes for Washington, or were called strikes for us at different times. Not all of these pitches were thrown by Jaime, but the real point here is that the umpire was not consistent and maybe even bad. And that can cause problems for everyone.
The Cardinals threatened to have a big inning in the fifth. Consecutive singles by Ruben Tejada and Kolten Wong made it two on with nobody out. Personally, down 4-0, I would have lifted Jaime for a pinch-hitter. Our bench was stacked today: Randal Grichuk, Stephen Piscotty, Aledmys Diaz, and Jedd Gyorko were available. The bullpen was relatively fresh, as well. Mike Leake threw seven innings yesterday and only Oh and Bowman pitched. Alas, Matheny stuck with Garcia, who bunted the runners over. Jeremy Hazelbaker walked, and it was bases loaded with only one outs, so things still seemed promising. Matt Carpenter hit a sacrifice fly to score Tejada, but that was the only scoring of the inning, and, sadly, the day.
The Nats scored again off Jonathan Broxton in the eighth inning. Broxton walked Bryce Harper, hit Zimmerman, and gave up a single to Murphy. A sacrifice fly by Werth made it 6-1, also the final score.
1. Diaz didn't start today, which, I mean, if you think about it, why SHOULD the national league's best hitter start every day? I understand that Matheny was stacking the lineup with left-handed hitters against Joe Ross (who has a strong split in his very short career), but that's not a reason to keep one of your best players on the bench. Matt Carpenter still starts against LHP, right? I digress. Diaz reached on an error and hit a single. His slash line is still ridic. Keep that doggie rolling.
2. Matt Adams was 1 for 3 with a walk. Respectable. I don't really have much to say about this, but I mention it only because it seems like Adams is cromulent this year. I don't know what to do with this guy. It's not a bad problem to have, I guess. But since the FO basically said Adams isn't going anywhere when Pham comes back, I really don't what is going to happen. If Diaz gets the boot, I will raise hell.
3. This was the first series the Nationals have won in St. Louis since May 2007. I don't know if it is more depressing for the Nats that they couldn't win a series here for nine years, or more depressing for us that we let that awesome streak come to an end.
4. Tomorrow is Carlos Martinez day! Hooray! The game starts at 1:15 CT. How about we win this one?
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I suspect that military victory without reconciliation is a recipe for further violence. How will the Tamil minority now be treated in Sri Lanka, and will they be fully and equally integrated into a multi-ethnic society?
I thought it was the year 1984 redux, but not so. George Orwell had credited The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism to Emmanuel Goldstein. There had been an earlier analysis.
The governing party has been returned in results from the Indian Election. Such a vote of confidence might not have been expected given the effects of the global financial crisis and Mumbai terrorist attacks.
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Lophira lanceolata est une espèce de plantes de la famille des Ochnaceae et du genre Lophira, présente en Afrique tropicale.

Description
C'est un arbre de 10 à (occasionnellement ) de hauteur, à écorce liégeuse et fleurs blanches. Les fruits, d'une taille de , sont plus larges que ceux de Lophira alata.

L. lanceolata et L. alata, différentes d'aspect et d'habitat, sont néanmoins deux espèces botaniquement très proches, c'est pourquoi on les distingue difficilement dans un herbier, sauf par leurs rameaux,  lisses chez L. alata et écailleux liégeux chez L. lanceolata.

Distribution
L'espèce est présente en Afrique tropicale, en Sierra Leone et au Cameroun, au Gabon et en république démocratique du Congo. En gbaya elle est connue sous le nom "kofia".

Habitat
On la rencontre dans la savane arborée, à une altitude généralement comprise entre 530 (voire moins) et . C'est l'une des premières espèces de retour après un récent déboisement.

Utilisation
Les graines fournissent une huile comestible. On s'en sert aussi pour fabriquer du savon et des lubrifiants.

Le bois est très dur, dense, très résistant. On l'utilise localement dans la construction. C'est aussi un excellent bois de chauffe et une bonne source de charbon de bois.

Les différentes parties de la plante connaissent de multiples utilisations en médecine traditionnelle. De nombreux travaux de recherche leur sont consacrés, qui ont confirmé la présence de composés actifs.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Ochnaceae
Espèce d'Angiospermes (nom scientifique)
Flore en Afrique
Plante médicinale

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Despite the fact that dreadlocks are quite recently established itself in the world of fashion, this hairstyle is one of the oldest in the world. The emergence of dreadlocks has its roots in the religion of Rastafarian and Hindu hermit practices. In those days when there was no scissors nor comb long hair, grow naturally, rolled into long tangles.
To modern girls to create natural dreadlocks would have to be patient and to forget about your hair for several years. Fortunately, repeating on his head the hair of the ancient Hindus, today is much easier and faster. In our review we will talk about how to braid dreads and undo, what types of netting exist and how to construct dreadlocks hairstyle.
Girls with dreadlocks look very impressive and attractive. The word «dreadlocks» is translated as «terrible and strong». Perhaps this phrase escaped from the Europeans when they first saw the matted hair of the representatives of the Hindu religion. Dreadlocks visually increase the volume of hair, draw eyes of others, look outside the box and challenging.
There are several basic types of dreadlocks, which differ depending on the weave, the duration of the socks and length.
Stylish but short-lived dreadlocks (average 3 months), which is enough 5-6 cm of your own hair. Ja-dreadlocks are a thin faux dreadlocks that are easily woven into the hair by a method of eights or a regular braid. Ja-dreadlocks pleasing variety of shades, original appearance and safety netting.
To create de dreadlocks is used kanekalon material looks similar to natural hair. Using kanekalon you can create dreadlocks of any length, they will look like native hair. If you want to create a more daring and bold look, choose any shade of kanekalon, a variety of which is enormous. Ask the master to combine with the luscious shades of curls, thereby creating the fantasy image.
De dreadlocks woven into the natural hair by the method of eight. Duration socks de dreadlocks is 2 months, after which they can be reused.
Are all the same kanekalon, but in the special procurement type, which are attached to the native hair. Using safe dred, you can create voluminous dreadlocks of any length and colors.
One of the most unusual and eye-catching varieties of dread. To create nepalinux dred used the felt blanks. Of course, the texture felt immediately catches the eye and focuses on senatorelect hair. If it is safe or dreads de dreadlocks will help you to create the image of the heroine of anime, it is felt to be associated with a Rasta-man motif. In addition, the felt blanks when wet have a very specific smell.
The method of creating dreadlocks negotiate with the master, thus pay attention to the hair ends. They can be hidden inside or stay «alive».
Threat dreadlocks are made for a period of several years. Adjusting her hair and to weave additional dreads as regrowth hair need a crochet hook.
According to most girls to take care of dreadlocks is not difficult. Indeed, the head of dreads can be washed much less frequently. You are exempt from daily procedures, hair styling, save on shampoos and balms. However, it is important to know how and what to wash dreadlocks to make them look properly.
artificial dreadlocks recommended to wash once a week with regular shampoo, diluted with water. Use hair conditioner is not necessary, drying the dred also be required. threat dreadlocks require a little more attention in the first month of wear. During this period they should be washed with plain water every day to tighten up the curls from roots to ends, creating a tight sausage. In the future, the hair should be washed with an ordinary shampoo or soap with the addition of salted water.
The dreadlocks themselves are hair and rarely need any installation. The owners of safe dred-dred easier to cope with the hair as kanekalon sufficiently elastic material. Dreadlocks from kanekalon can be tied into knots, to weave them into a braid, pin original pins.
Natural dreadlocks are harder to collect. Usually they tie in a large knot or fix a special bandage-elastic. There is always the opportunity to decorate dreadlocks threat rings or pendants.
The condition of the hair depends on what types of dread you used. Owners of artificial dreadlocks is almost not worth it to worry about their hair. A little bit of caregivers and locks re-acquire the original form.
After a dangerous dred hair will be in need of emergency care. Curls will pouchitsa and confused, so many resorted to drastic decision to shave bald.
Untwined dreadlocks is a long and painful process, accompanied by sudden hair loss and thinning hair. This is due to the fact that dreadlocks are those hairs, which long ago left the scalp and woven into dreadlocks. Take care of the hair using masks, skin care and restoring shampoo, massage into the scalp infusions and vitamins.
Dreadlocks is a hairstyle that is worth to follow if you used to be the center of attention and to enjoy life to the maximum. Hair look stylish, bright and attractive, and the way playfully and Flirty. If you are ready for radical change in its image, then try first safe or de dreads.


This is the first edible billboard and we are excited just to be seeing it! In total it has about 13, 360 mini cakes sealed perfectly onto the frame. British confectionery brand Mr.Kipling and agency JWT London are the geniuses behind this beautiful gift to the world.
Since they are leaders who understand how things should work, they let everyone lucky enough to be near the billboard, at a mall in London, also participate in tasting the lovely goods as they passed on by.
Having pedestrians eat off the billboards contents made it even more of a win, as the billboard started to disappear. This gesture was also quite selfless as creating it took more effort than the usual kind of billboard we get today. The use of 13, 360 cakes took approximately seven hours, assembling, primping and coiling each one to perfection.
Even with the help of a professional food artist like Michelle Wibowo, whose credentials include making a portrait of Prince William and Prince Geourge out of 16, 074 triangle pieces of Toblerone chocolate, this was still a heavy and fragile task at hand.
So, if this isn't the best billboard in the world I don't know what is. Cake rules over everything! More billboards should be made edible, for that quick lunch break at work when your pockets are low.
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Get a Bird's Eye View of Training
Words: Tom Skolarikis I Video: Guy Bevan & Leigh Richardson
Tue 1 Dec 2015, 11:46 AM
Get a whole new perspective on Rabbitohs training! The Rabbitohs Media team got their hands on a drone to bring you this footage.
Now into their fifth week of pre-season training, the Rabbitohs have continued to test themselves despite rising temperatures in Sydney as they prepare for the Club's 106th assault on the Premiership.
Rabbitohs Head Coach, Michael Maguire spoke about the importance of the pre-season period to Rabbitohs.com.au.
"Pre-season is an opportunity for growth in players in all aspects – strength, fitness, mental attitude, skill levels – all the many different characteristics that make up a player," said Maguire.
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"The pre-season allows you to work on those individual needs and requirements that you're going to need during a season but also in life.
"The way you perform in the pre-season tends to play its part later on, so setting the platform early for not only the team, but for the individual, is important at this time of year."
The men in red and green will get their 2016 campaign underway at Allianz Stadium in Round 1 when the game's oldest and fiercest rivalry re-ignites on Sunday March 6 at 4pm at Allianz Stadium, with the Rabbitohs taking on the Roosters in the first leg of the Ron Coote Cup – the deciding match set to be played at home in Round 6 at ANZ Stadium.
To watch Pre-season Aerial, please press play on the video player.
Click here to check out the rest of the Club's 2016 draw.


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Bears visit Flint Wilderness Resort June 17, 2013.
Welcome to the opening of the Walleye season 2013.
Take a look at our 2012 Black Bear Hunt at Flint Wilderness Resort. Hope to see you in 2013.
During the week of June 23-30, 2012 we enjoyed a wonderful fish fry at our outpost on Flint Lake. Take a look at the video and you will see what I mean.
During the week of June 16-23 we enjoyed guest from the great city of Detroit. We also had folks fish at the outpost on Flint Lake for excellent Northern Pike fishing. Take a look at the video and you will see what we can offer you.
It was time to replace the old fish cleaning building with a new one at our Outpost on Flint Lake. Check out the video and you will see Hank and I navigating our way to the outpost and replacing the building.
Check out some of the fish caught during the week of June 9-16, 2012. You will also see some footage of Bert removing a hook from the mouth of a Loon.
During the week of June 2-9, 2012 the guests at Flint Wilderness Resort ventured off to some of our outer lakes for excellent fishing. Take a look at the video and you will see what I mean.


Alma Braithwaite was a teenager in Exeter when her boarding school was bombed in 1942. Twenty-one years later she remains alone in the house where she grew up teaching music at her old school unable to move on from the tragic events of the war. It takes the arrival of an innovative new headmistress and a new pupil - the daughter of a man Alma hasn't seen since 1942 - to bring back the painful yet exhilarating summer that followed the air-raids and jolt her out of the past.


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Carriera

Club
Cresciuto nella cantera dell'Athletic Bilbao, viene mandato un paio d'anni nella squadra riserve, con cui ottiene una promozione in Segunda División B. Nel 1978-1979 viene mandato in prestito al Castellon nella Segunda División spagnola, per fare rientro al club basco l'anno successivo.

Dopo la prima partita, giocata ancora con il Bilbao Athletic, il 9 settembre 1979 debutta con la prima squadra nella Liga durante Salamanca-Athletic (2-1).

Negli anni seguenti diventa un punto fisso del centrocampo dei rojiblancos collezionando, in nove stagioni, 268 presenze (198 in campionato) e 12 gol, e vincendo due campionati, una Coppa del Re e una Supercoppa di Spagna.

Conclude la carriera al termine della stagione 1987-1988, rimanendo comunque in società in veste di osservatore.

Nazionale
Il suo debutto con la Nazionale di calcio della Spagna avviene il 18 gennaio 1984, nell'amichevole persa dagli iberici contro l'Nazionale di calcio dell'Ungheria per 1-0.
La successiva presenza è anche l'ultima, e risale a Spagna-Nazionale di calcio della Danimarca 2-1 dell'11 aprile 1984.

Palmarès

Competizioni nazionali

Athletic Bilbao: 1982-1983, 1983-1984

Athletic Bilbao: 1984

Athletic Bilbao: 1984

Collegamenti esterni

Calciatori della Nazionale spagnola


A pioneer surgery was carried out by doctors from the UK in the still unborn child of an Englishwoman Bethan Simpson after an examination that showed that the baby has a split spine (Spina Bifida). A baby has been pulled from its mother's womb for an operation before it was placed back in for the duration of the pregnancy.
Bethan Simpson was 20 weeks pregnant when a routine 20-week scan revealed the infant that the baby's head was not the right measurement, and the child's spinal cord had not fully developed.
Doctors diagnosed Spina Bifida and Ms Simpson and her husband Kieron were given three options: continue the pregnancy, terminate the child, or opt for a fetal repair surgery. She decided on the latter.
So Ms Simpson, who is due to give birth in April, had the specialised surgery at the University College London Hospital, where doctors from Great Ormond Street Hospital worked to repair the baby's spine.
The surgery saw the baby removed from Ms Simpson's womb, before its spinal cord was repair.
The infant was the placed back in the womb for the remainder of the pregnancy.
Ms Simpson is only the fourth mother in the UK to undergo the procedure.
She added that it was sad that 80 per cent of babies in England are terminated when their parents get told their baby has Spina Bifida.


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And the results here can be disastrous. He wants you all to himself. But what he really wants is to avoid other people. This includes your friends, your family, and any coworkers who are a part of your intimate circle of friends. Not only does he hold them in disdain, but he wants to keep you from them so that you can be there to make him feel validated. You are probably the outgoing one in the relationship. Otherwise, you would have never met. And, to the girls that are in an introvert-introvert relationship with an antisocial guy, beware.
You will find that they have been the victims of many situations if not all. They are quick to become angry at the most tiny sign of disrespect whether real or not. They do not give without reason. They have an agenda. Social attack is what they can and will do especially if she is a woman. They will call you night and day to tell you what crap you are.
For the most antisocial people the advent of online dating sites has been one of the greatest inventions that they have ever seen. However, choosing the best dating software will certainly become the first step you will take to establish a successful online dating company.
Psychopaths are extremely dangerous because they lack a heart and conscience but they camouflage that fundamental lack so well. With their extraordinary glibness and charm, they come on strong to their potential victims, love bombing them, flattering them, mirroring their interests and personalities—essentially, seducing them—then use them for their selfish and malicious purposes. Experts estimate that between 1 and 4 percent of the population is psychopathic. Since psychopaths are very sociable and promiscuous, this means that millions of psychopaths in this country alone adversely affect hundreds of millions of lives.
As its title suggests, Red Flags of Love Fraud teaches victims and the general public how to recognize the red flags of the psychopathic bond—which are far from obvious in the beginning. Liane Leedom , and—last but not least—a lot of her own analyses of psychopathic behavior and insights about the mindset of victims.
describes a sociopath as "a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience." This detachment from feelings is a gateway to evildoing.
Most important of the missing signals may very well be smell, which some scientists believe underlies most of male-female attraction — what literally constitutes sexual chemistry.
I have been in a sexual relationship with a married man for five years. We meet once a month, but are in touch daily by text and email. We meet once a month, but are in touch daily by text and email.
They may repeatedly disregard and jeopardize their own safety and the safety of others and place themselves and others in danger. These behaviors lead such individuals into frequent conflict with the law, and many people with ASPD have extensive histories of antisocial behavior and criminal infractions stemming back before adulthood. Attachments and emotional bonds are weak, and interpersonal relationships often revolve around the manipulation, exploitation, and abuse of others.
Conduct disorder While antisocial personality disorder is a mental disorder diagnosed in adulthood, it has its precedent in childhood. Children with the disorder often display impulsive and aggressive behavior, may be callous and deceitful, and may repeatedly engage in petty crime such as stealing or vandalism or get into fights with other children and adults. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD is common in this population, and children with the disorder may also engage in substance abuse.
The first is known as the "childhood-onset type" and occurs when conduct disorder symptoms are present before the age of 10 years. This course is often linked to a more persistent life course and more pervasive behaviors, and children in this group express greater levels of ADHD symptoms, neuropsychological deficits, more academic problems, increased family dysfunction, and higher likelihood of aggression and violence.
Compared to the childhood-onset type, less impairment in various cognitive and emotional functions are present, and the adolescent-onset variety may remit by adulthood. Compared to the adolescent-onset subtype, the childhood onset subtype, especially if callous and unemotional traits are present, tends to have a worse treatment outcome. Fire-setting and cruelty to animals during childhood are as well linked to the development of antisocial personality.
Top 18 signs that you were dating sociopath!! It can be hard to sink in that Mr or Mrs Perfect that you have been dating is actually a sociopath. You might search the internet looking for answers. Yes you have started to discover things, but you are still not sure, you are confused. The following is top 18 traits that are red flags.
Sociopath: a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.. Psychopath: a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from.
Beekes has proposed a Pre-Greek origin. Partridge concludes, "The basic sense of both Hera and hero would therefore be 'protector'. Heroes in antiquity[ edit ] See also: Greek hero cult , Achilles , and Hector A classical hero is considered to be a "warrior who lives and dies in the pursuit of honor" and asserts his or her greatness by "the brilliancy and efficiency with which they kill".
Classical heroes are commonly semi-divine and extraordinarily gifted, like Achilles , evolving into heroic characters through their perilous circumstances. Hector acted as leader of the Trojans and their allies in the defense of Troy, "killing 31, Greek fighters," offers Hyginus. Indeed, Homer places Hector as peace-loving, thoughtful as well as bold, a good son, husband and father, and without darker motives.
Even the outstanding profile of psychopathy provided by Jon Ronson focuses almost exclusively on men who meet the clinical definition of the psychopathic personality disorder. Research offers new details about individuals with psychopathic personality disorder, including what it is really like to fall in love with one. Psychopathy takes many forms, including the subthreshold variety in which people score high on personality tests that measure psychopathic tendencies, if not behavior.
Individuals with HPD constantly self-dramatize, manipulate others, and carry out sexually seductive behaviors a. People with BPD show attention seeking behaviors, unstable relationships and emotions Ambardar, Although people living with ASPD and NPD are both exploitive, antisocial individuals are significantly more so by actively taking advantage of others Gunderson, Ronningstam, , pg 4.
In addition, people with NPD do not show impulsivity, aggression, and deceit as antisocial individuals would d. They also differ from antisocial individuals by not having a history of criminal activities, and are needier for admiration d. Individuals with HPD are charming and can be seductive to take advantage of others American Psychiatric Association, For example, a histrionic female will exaggerate her vulnerability and need for a male in order to induce him to focus all his love and attention on her Palmer, n.
Traits of Sociopath and How to Communicate Traits of Sociopath and How to Communicate There're many traits of sociopath such as long-term pattern of manipulating, exploiting, or violating the rights of others. Learn all the signs and how to communicate. Medically, sociopathy is termed as antisocial personality disorder. It is defined as "a mental health condition in which a person has a long-term pattern of manipulating, exploiting, or violating the rights of others.
However, it is believed to result from complex interaction of genetic and environmental factors e. Sociopathy is much more common in men as compared to women.
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There will be many verbal declarations of appreciation and of their feelings about you and all your wonderful qualities, and amazement at all the things you have in common or at how lucky you both are to have found each other. The psychopath is not able to bond with another human, but he is good at getting another to bond to him. This is known as the psychopathic bond. The idealization stage creates that one-way bond, which is what makes you vulnerable to the manipulation and abuse that will follow.
Even if the psychopath is, at the outset, genuinely attracted to you which is possible , they will end up devaluing and abusing you.
Dec 07, · A good marriage civilizes men. At least, that's what it looks like, since fewer married men are antisocial. Married men are more responsible, less aggressive, less likely to do something illegal and more mentally healthy than single ones.
Arts[ edit ] Gustave Flaubert once declared that he would "die of suppressed rage at the folly of [his] fellow men. Poet Philip Larkin has been described as a misanthrope. Michelangelo has been called a misanthrope. In Western philosophy, misanthropy has been connected to isolation from human society. In Plato 's Phaedo , Socrates describes a misanthrope in relation to his fellow man: Immanuel Kant said that "Of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made", and yet this was not an expression of the uselessness of mankind itself.
Kant further stated that hatred of mankind can take two distinctive forms: This might be thought of as more a criticism of conformity than of people in general. Unlike Schopenhauer, Heidegger was opposed to any systematic ethics; however, in some of his later thought he does see the possibility of harmony between people, as part of the four-fold, mortals, gods, earth and sky.
It can get turbulent Picture: Some of the comments hit home because, from an early age, I have had an extremely tempestuous love life, but I also know it can work if both partners learn to understand each other. Advertisement Advertisement This is a hard concept to explain to a healthy person, who may have only ever felt something close to this when someone they love passes away, or they lose something they hold dear in their life.
African Man Dating Tip 1 – It is a good idea when communicating with any person whose profile you are interested in what you do not provide them with with too much personal information initially. They met extraordinary people are all set and married with children.
Antisocial personality disorder is often referred to as psychopathy or sociopathy in popular culture. However, neither psychopathy nor sociopathy are recognized professional labels used for diagnosis. Individuals with antisocial personality disorder frequently lack empathy and tend to be callous, cynical, and contemptuous of the feelings, rights, and sufferings of others.
They may have an inflated and arrogant self-appraisal e. They may display a glib, superficial charm and can be quite voluble and verbally facile e. Lack of empathy, inflated self-appraisal, and superficial charm are features that have been commonly included in traditional conceptions of psychopathy and may be particularly distinguishing of antisocial personality disorder in prison or forensic settings where criminal, delinquent, or aggressive acts are likely to be nonspecific.


'The one I wished to see.
'Oh! save him, save him, Campbell!
'I beg in friendship's name!
'The wife would die of shame.
'Or claim the love of men?
''Twere better we were dead.
'You know your words are wild.
'How can I show my face?
'Ah, God in Heaven pardon!
'Than many that I know.
'Don't fire! don't fire, in heaven's name!
'It's Campbell, boys!' he cried.
'Ride through the Gap again.
'That e'er he broke his word?
'His poor old mother's heart.
'That I'd be proud to own.


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Pleasant programming playground paves popular Python path
Shrew'd thinking: Code Shrew helps peeps who want to, or need to, gobble a slice of Py
By Thomas Claburn in San Francisco 7 Aug 2018 at 05:08
To help aspiring programmers start writing code, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology in the US have developed a free web-based platform called Code Shrew.
The site – built with Django (Python 3), PostgreSQL, the Skulpt in-browser Python interpreter and the JavaScript-based CodeMirror editor widget – relies on a Python-based syntax to teach basic object-oriented programming concepts using drawing and animation.
Python is among the world's most popular programming languages, thanks in part to its utility for data science and AI-oriented disciplines. The creators of the site hope that the lessons learned through Code Shrew will help students whether they pursue Python or some similar language.
"The programming course consists of lessons that cover essential programming principles, as well as challenges to test users' skills as they progress through the course," explain Ludwik Trammer and Jamie Dunn from the Georgia Institute of Technology, in a paper describing the project. "Both the lessons and challenges take advantage of the editor's instant feedback, allowing for a focus on learning-by-doing."
Trammer and Dunn say Code Shrew was inspired by a learning theory advocated by Seymour Papert and Idit Harel called constructionism, which holds that people learn best by creating things. Unlike online courses that require students to follow a series of specific steps, Code Shrew lessons don't make many demands on how the student should progress.
"We want students to develop their own personal, unique creations," the pair state in their paper. "They shouldn't be forced to follow predesigned paths."
Short videos provide an overview of specific concepts. And the interactive editor provides a way to test how code changes affect screen output. What helps make this approach work is that feedback is basically instantaneous. Where other online code editors generally require the user to click a button to run code, Code Shrew continually looks for changes made to the code input area on the left-hand side of the page. The results show up almost immediately in the graphics display area on the right-hand side of the page.
The syntax for basic operations like variable assignment, looping, conditional statements, and interacting with data structures comes from Python, but Code Shrew isn't feature-complete Python. It doesn't implement advanced concepts like Lambda Expressions, for example.
Still, that's for the best in the context of beginning programmers. Educators don't want prospective students to wind up in Python dependency hell or some similar state of frustration arising from installation missteps.
Registration for Code Shrew is not required to use most of the site's content, but it is supported so users can share their creations. Students can create profiles, share their code and remix code created by others. Instead of a "Like" button, there's a "Love" button. ®
Snakes on a wane: Python 2 development is finally frozen in time, version 3 slithers on
I'm not quite dead, mutters 2.7 as rigor mortis sets in
First Python feature release under new governance model is here, complete with walrus operator (:=)
No word on eggman counterpart
For real this time, get your butt off Python 2: No updates, no nothing after 1 January 2020
'Let's not play games,' says lang dad Guido van Rossum
Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript
Data analytics helps to boost contributions by 151%
Python the latest language to slither into Microsoft's serverless Azure Functions service
Look, we caught up with AWS
Chemists bitten by Python scripts: How different OSes produced different results during test number-crunching
Analysis Boffins claim code was fine... when they wrote it
Website programming? Pffft, so 2011. Python's main squeeze is now data science, apparently
Popular glue coding language sticks to everything
Mega-bites of code: Python snakes into 1st place for cyber-attacks
Hackers share general public's love of popular programming language


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QUSRTOOL is a library provided by IBM that has a number of programs that are intended as tools for programmers to use on their own systems. This is not to be confused with the commercial TAATOOLS offering. QUSRTOOL has not been updated in many, many years.
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APING is a CPI-C program that should be the first program you configure and run when first configuring APPC on your computer. APING exchanges data packets with a partner computer, and times how long the data transfer takes.
APPC Remote EXECution . AREXEC allows you to execute any single command line on a remote workstation.
ATELL is a sample program that allows a workstation user to send a message to another workstation.
Cluster Tools - Provides commands which allow you to work with cluster configuration information.
Display Overflowed Object(s) Tool - This tool will display all the objects that are overflowed from a user ASP(s) into the system ASP.
Example Communications Configurations - Provides a display interface which allows you to create example configuration objects (lines, controllers, devices, modes) for particular communications configurations (multipoint SDLC line with attached remote controller, pass-through over switched dial-in SDLC, and so on).
Generating Binding Source Language Method for generating the binding source language given a module as input. The way to identify what are the allowable exports from a service program is through a binding source language.
MAKE Utility - The MAKE tool helps you to maintain the relationships and dependencies between parts in a application. The MAKE tool can also be used to maintain process procedures such as printing files.
NetServer (GO NETS) Tool - Provides commands which allow you to configure the iSeries NetServer, work with file and print shares, and view this information.
Package/Unpackage of QUSRTOOL Files - This tool provides a method of converting save files to source physical files and converting source physical files to save files. This tool is needed before any tools within QUSRTOOL can be compiled or used.
Publication Examples - Provides a list of publications that have included examples in the QUSRTOOL library.
Read Tape - This tool will count the number of blocks and their lengths on a tape volume to assist in determining available space remaining on the tape and data compression ratio for S/R tapes.
SNA LU2 Printer Support - This will create a printer device description with an application type *APPINIT for the associated and/or alternate printer. This is used with the SNA LU2 support.
SQL Trace - This tool reads the outfile of TRCJOB or ENDJOBTRC CL commands and provides a report listing the SQL requests, CPU and paging resources used, and other important SQL performance information.
Save/Restore Spooled File Tool - This tool provides a method of saving spooled files into a designated library and recreating them at a later time.
SOCKETS - This tool consists of an interactive SOCKETS tool that allow users to interactively issue sockets calls.
Transform AFP Spooled File to ASCII Data Stream The tool would take data from an AFP spooled file and send it to the API where it would be transform to an ASCII data stream. This tool would be useful to any customer that produces AFP output and would like the option to print this output on an ASCII laser printer.
Remote Writer Page Range Support Program This tool will allow a user to have only a specific page range printed or sent using the LPR or SNDTCPSPLF commands.
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Hong Kong's Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW) plans to shut down its ailing pay-TV service, iTV, in September and hand its video-on-demand (VoD) licence back to the Broadcasting Authority.
ITV offers interactive services such as VoD, home shopping and broadband internet access and was billed as the world's first VoD platform when it was launched four years ago. However it failed to provide much competition for dominant player, i-Cable Communications, which has held a virtual monopoly in the Hong Kong pay-TV market since 1993.
The decision to close the moribund service was widely expected. Richard Li's PCCW inherited iTV when it acquired Cable & Wireless HKT in 2000 but didn't appear to be investing in the service. Subscriber levels have fallen to just a few thousand from 90,000 two years ago.
UK-owned Yes Television is now the only pay-TV operator to offer VoD in Hong Kong, but is still conducting trials in a handful of residential areas. The Hong Kong government issued five pay-TV licences in 2000 in an attempt to liberalise the sector, but only Yes and Taiwan's Pacific Digital Media have since launched services.


The Market Basket of the Month program launched in area school districts during the 2009-2010 school year. Each month the schools were provided with a newsletter for sharing with students and their parents. The newsletter includes facts about the month's featured fruit or vegetable. tips for using it, a recipe, activity suggestions and more.
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			//delete tt.team;
			//delete tt.tournament;
			return tt;
		},
		associations: {
			"team_id": "team",
			"tournament_id": "tournament"
		}
	});
	TournTeam.Collection = Backbone.Collection.extend({
		model: TournTeam.Model,
		urlRoot: Leaguevine.API.root + "tournament_teams",
		url: function(models) {
			var url = this.urlRoot || ( models && models.length && models[0].urlRoot );
			url += "/?";
			if (this.team_id) {
				url += "team_ids=%5B" + this.team_id + "%5D&";
			}
			if (this.tournament_id) {
				url += "tournament_ids=%5B" + this.tournament_id + "%5D&";
			}
			url += "fields=%5Bfinal_standing%2Cseed%2Ctournament_id%2Ctournament%2Cteam_id%2Cteam%2Ctime_created%2C%20time_last_updated%5D&";
			return url.substr(0,url.length-1);
		},
		comparator: function(tournteam) {// Define how items in the collection will be sorted.
			return tournteam.get("final_standing");
		},
		parse: function(resp, xhr) {
			resp = Backbone.Collection.prototype.parse(resp);
			/*
			var _this = this;
			if (this.team_id){resp = _.filter(resp, function(obj){
				return obj.team_id == _this.team_id;
			});}
			if (this.tournament_id){resp = _.filter(resp, function(obj){
				return obj.tournament_id == _this.tournament_id;
			});}*/

			var Team = require("modules/team");
			if (Team){
			output = _.map(resp, function (obj) {
				obj.team = new Team.Model(obj.team);
				return obj;
				},this);
			resp = output;}
			var Tournament = require("modules/tournament");
			output = _.map(resp, function (obj) {
					obj.tournament = new Tournament.Model(obj.tournament);
					return obj;
				},this);
			resp = output;
			return resp;
		},
		initialize: function(models, options) {
			if (options) {
				if (options.team_id) {this.team_id = options.team_id;}
				if (options.tournament_id) {this.tournament_id = options.tournament_id;}
			}
		}
	});

	TournTeam.Views.Team = Backbone.View.extend({
		template: "tournteams/team",
		tagName: "tr",
        serialize: function() {
            tournteam = this.model.toJSON();
            tournteam.team = this.model.get("team").toJSON(); //Expand the team on the model as well
            return tournteam;
        }
	});
	TournTeam.Views.TeamList = Backbone.View.extend({//Renders the standings for a tournament
		template: "tournteams/list",
		initialize: function(){
			this.collection.on("reset", this.render, this);
		},
		cleanup: function(){
			this.collection.off(null, null, this);
		},
		className: "tournteams-wrapper",
		render: function(layout) {
			var view = layout(this);
			//this.$el.empty()
			// call .cleanup() on all child views, and remove all appended views
			//view.cleanup();
			this.collection.each(function(team) {
				this.insertView("table", new TournTeam.Views.Team({
					model: team
				}));
			}, this);
			return view.render({ count: this.collection.length });
		}
	});
	return TournTeam;
});

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Facebook vs. Snapchat: The Epic Battle
Karim Mneimneh
Summary of Are You Still Ignoring Growth Hacking
Growth Hackers vs. Traditional Marketers
Increasing Customer Acquisition
Optimizing Customer Activation
Improving Customer Retention
Boosting Referrals
Building Growth Teams
Crafting a Growth Strategy
The Future of Growth Hacking
Summary of Facebook vs. Snapchat: The Epic Battle
The Offer You Can't Refuse
The Movie 300
The Escalation
The Ending
Summary of Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Masters of the Earth
A New Life Form
The Useless Class
Giviing Up Privacy
Upgrading Humans to God
The Future is in Our Hands, But Not For Long
Table of Content: How to Choose the Right Digital Marketing Agency
What Marketing Agencies Do
Facebook Ads and Instagram Ads
10 Things to Look for When Choosing the Best Digital Marketing Agency
1. Does the digital agency offer comprehensive services?
2. Is the agency knowledgeable and up-to-date?
3. How experienced is the agency's team?
4. Does the team provide detail-oriented work?
5. Does the agency have a work process?
6. What is the agency's portfolio?
7. Do they use the most advanced digital marketing tools?
8. Do they listen to your needs and challenges?
9. Do they focus on improving their clients' return on investment?
10. Does the agency have an open and flexible agency culture?
For a time, it looked as if both Snapchat and Facebook could coexist peacefully in the social media space. Facebook was a place where users could network with friends, post about life events, and generally stay on top of things going on in their circles. Snapchat was a photo messaging app with a unique twist: the photos self-deleted after a brief period. Today, though, the two companies are locked in one of tech's most epic rivalries.
Where did this battle start and what does it mean for the future of social networking?
Read on to find out.
The Facebook vs. Snapchat conflict began in 2013, when Mark Zuckerberg offered to buy Snapchat for $3 billion. Forbes speculated that Zuckerberg wanted Snapchat because Facebook was losing the interest of the teenage audience and Snapchat was picking it up in spades. After starting as a college platform, Facebook eventually welcomed high school students and then everyone else. As more parents, teachers, and other adults hopped onto the network; youth interest began to slip.
A Snapchat acquisition might have reversed the trend, but it never happened. Snapchat's Evan Spiegel declined Zuckerberg's offer. "There are very few people in the world who get to build a business like this," Spiegel said at the time. "I think trading that for some short-term gain isn't very interesting."
If you've seen the movie 300, it won't take long to realize that the battle between Leonidas and Xerxes is similar to what we're seeing right now between Spiegel and Zuckerberg.
Watching Leonidas fight and resist Xerxes is what's been happening since Spiegel turned down Zuckerberg's offer to acquire Snapchat.
Zuckerberg: I can make you rich beyond all measure. It's useless to resist my power.
Spiegel: Kneeling will be hard. Keep your $3 billion!
It didn't go down exactly like this, but you get the point.
While Snapchat, thanks to the quick thinking Spiegel, has been able to hold its ground to this point, it is obvious that Facebook has been pushing to eliminate the company's competitive edge.
Over the years, Facebook has adapted its own Messenger app, Instagram (which it acquired for $1 billion in April 2012), and WhatsApp (which it bought for $19 billion in February 2014) into more direct Snapchat competitors.
That competitive push escalated drastically in 2016 when Facebook started copying Snapchat features and using them in its own apps. This Business Insider article provides a timeline of Facebook copying Snapchat, from Snapchat's "Lens" feature (which lets users take selfies with silly faces and effects) to simpler things such as camera interfaces.
The most blatant copy came when Facebook rolled out a "Stories" feature for Instagram. The Stories functionality is arguably Snapchat's flagship feature, allowing users to compile multiple photos and videos into a chronological slideshow story. Instagram launched the same feature in August 2016—and quickly started beating Snapchat at its own game. Unsurprisingly, as of June 2017, Instagram Stories passed 250 million users to Snapchat's 160 million.
Facebook recently delivered a haymaker by announcing that its users spend more time on the app each day (users under 25 spend 32 minutes and users 25 and over spend 24 minutes) than Snapchat users (users under 25 spend 30 minutes and users 25 and older spend 20 minutes).
So, what's next for the Facebook/Snapchat rivalry?
Snap Inc, Snapchat's parent company, has suffered dipping stock prices throughout the year. It's IPO has been characterized as "one of Wall Street's biggest flops."
Another and potentially bigger problem: Snapchat has warned that it may never be profitable. It hasn't figured out how to monetize yet. Ads have become a pretty natural part of Facebook, while ads in Snapchat feel more intrusive; Facebook also makes a ton of money by collecting user data to empower advertisers, whereas Snapchat has nowhere near that level of information to apply.
Let's face it: everyone wants to become famous on social media in today's world. Instagram is the preferred method for making a run at fame. With Snapchat, it's difficult to grow your audience and become famous due to a lack of discoverability (no hashtags or explore section) and the lack of social proof (hidden number of followers and likes), all of which are popular features of Instagram. With all this in mind, users have less incentive for investing time and effort into Snapchat. It really is that simple.
If Snapchat has a chance to catch up with Facebook, it might be by embracing future technologies—specifically augmented and virtual reality. In April 2017, Snapchat unveiled a "world lenses" feature, which allows users to see the world and take snaps with playful visual overlays. (Facebook quickly followed Snapchat down the AR wormhole.) But augmented reality is still in its early stages and it likely won't be enough to help Snapchat beat the Facebook empire. Facebook will have the edge in AR and VR anyway, since unlike Snapchat, it has an open development platform called AR Studio for developers to create AR experiences and exponentially grow the platform.
Whether it's Zuckerberg who is consciously trying to crush the company that once turned down his offer or the rivalry between Facebook and Snapchat is simply business as usual, it doesn't matter much either way.
"Talent imitates, genius steals." T.S. Eliot
Despite Facebook's dirty habit of copying Snapchat's features, Facebook has a wider user base, more resources, and a talent for repackaging its competitors' features in more convenient and integrated formats.
Only time will tell if Snapchat can make a comeback or suffer the same fate as the Spartans. In the movie 300, the hunchback betrays his own people to the enemy by guiding it through a hidden shortcut.
The fact of the matter is that, right now, Facebook is winning the war and can end it with a final fatal move if it pre-releases Snapchat's next new feature.
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Karim is a marketer with 14 years of experience and a solid understanding of both online and offline marketing. He has extensive experience leading cross-functional teams and managing multinational brands (Heineken, HSBC, Volkswagen, Nokia) in high-pressure advertising agencies (BBDO, Saatchi and JWT). His diverse experience enables him to work with C-level executives, product managers, full stack developers, designers, and other digital marketers. His recent focus is on how to transform his clients' social media marketing from wasteful to profitable and grow their business by driving measurable results using Facebook advertising. He is always on the look out for what is trending in the digital world and is passionate about building digital products and experiences that improve people's lives.
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10 Wrestling Video Games We'd Love To See
September is Arcade Month at Wrestling Merchandise and Memories, where we celebrate some of the greatest wrestling video games from the past few decades. And between arcade classics such as WWF WrestleFest and Saturday Night Slam Masters and groundbreaking console games such as WCW/nWo World Tour, WWF No Mercy, the Fire Pro titles, and the series of WWE 2K games... there's a lot to choose from.
Beyond those games, though, here are 10 Wrestling Video Games We'd Love To See.
Hall of Duty: Wolfpac Ops
Hey yo! Hall of Duty: Wolfpac Ops follows the career of CIA operative Scott Hall as he "takes over" the agency in an effort to save the world from military rivals.
Watch as the nWo co-founder battles enemy foot soldiers by drunkenly refusing to "sell" their attacks, and warning them "In this business, you make friends or you can make money," before blowing them away with an assault rifle.
Image inspired by Call Of Duty: Black Ops.
Firefly Fun House Returns
Yowie Wowie! Firefly Fun House Returns documents the world of puroresu, mixed with the fever dream machinations of former WWE star Bray Wyatt.
With a massive roster of characters to choose from including The Fiend and Husky Harris, each competitor is given a deep, authentic move set to work from including teleporting into thin air and using an oversized novelty mallet on your opponent.
Image inspired by Fire Pro Wrestling Returns.
An arcade classic appealing to nostalgia buffs, AEW Rampage focuses on Malakai Black and Luchasaurus, who use their respective strength to smash through buildings, helicopters, taxis, boats and (in the final level) Daily's Place.
Watch on as the lumbering giants travel from city to city, destroying buildings by (probably) violating various physical distancing restrictions in the name of the entertainment.
Image inspired by Rampage.
World Of Warrior
World of Warrior is a popular online role-playing game where players operate in a fantasy world, snarling, huffing and puffing along the way as you attempt to... well, we're not sure what the point is, due to the rambling and often racist monologues uttered throughout the game play.
Make sure you check out The Dungeon of Destrucity along the way!
Image inspired by World of Warcraft.
SmackDown vs. Raw 2021
Despite what people may think... SmackDown vs. Raw 2021 is NOT a cheap imitation of the 2010 version! For one thing... it's been more than a decade since that game, and we've updated how much older the main characters have gotten! And instead of "Featuring ECW," it's now Featuring NXT! Plus we've swapped out The Undertaker for Roman Reigns... unless The Dead Man decides to turn.
Image inspired by SmackDown vs. Raw 2010.
AEW Legends Of Wrestling
From the producers of Legends of Wrestling, Legends of Wrestling II and Showdown: Legends of Wrestling comes AEW Legends of Wrestling!
Here, you'll compete as such aging legends as Christian Cage, Tully Blanchard, Sting, Paul Wight, Jake Roberts, Mark Henry, Matt Hardy, Arn Anderson, Chris Jericho and Taz. And yes... they do all job to Cody Rhodes!
Image inspired by Showdown: Legends of Wrestling.
ARE... YOU... READY?!? X-Pac Man follows a sketchy-looking bearded, yellow circle as he dives through a maze, dodging ghosts, eating power-pellets and (probably) scoring weed.
And just so you know, we did briefly consider making this The Bastard Pac Man... but that felt like it wouldn't fit on the cartridge.
Image inspired by Pac Man.
Grand Theft Auto: Suplex City
Grand Theft Auto: Suplex City follows around The Beast Incarnate Brock Lesnar as he travels around the city stealing cars, beating up street thugs, damaging property and... well, pretty much anything else he wants to do because realistically, who's going to stop him from doing it?
This game is Rated F5 for mature subject matter.
Image (loosely) inspired by GTA: Vice City.
Super Steiner Brothers
In the classic console game, the Super Steiner Brothers are two collegiate plumbers from Detroit, who work stiff against Koopas and deliver crushing Steinerlines and Frankensteiners to Bowser. Later, they rescue Princess Peach, only to make her their freak. Holla if you hear me!
Mega McMahon
In the console game Mega McMahon, humanoid billionaire Mr. Mega McMahon dons a space helmet and shoot Max Moon-like laser beams at his enemies, including Dr. Wily and the U.S. government.
Also, his ass can do tricks.
Inspired by Mega Man.