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Just because your prospect is courteous doesn't mean he is interested. Use these tips to avoid boring your audience.
Just because your prospect is courteous doesn't mean he is interested. Use these tips to avoid boring your audience.
This is part of a package on selling to prospects. Read the other part: 5 Things Customers Want to Hear.
So you're on a sales call, and the people listening to you are polite. They nod, ask questions, smile. At least, this is what is happening on the outside.
Inside, they are sleeping, mentally traveling, making lists, and counting minutes until the meeting or presentation ends.
In truth, you are probably droning on about things that are boring to your prospect. Some will have the mercy to tell you to move on, but most will commit the courtesy sin of pretending to listen.
What are the top ways to bore a prospect? Here's what customers tell me they don't want to hear about:
1. Your Company History
Really: No one cares about this but you. If it takes more than 90 seconds to hit the highlights, you are talking to yourself, not to your customer.
Remember this simple rule: Talk to people about what interests them. If you can directly connect the history to this conversation, then do it--but do it fast.
2. Lists
Whether you're citing equipment, locations, awards ... Just stop it.
I recently reviewed a commercial printer's initial presentation materials. The slides included pictures and descriptions of the entire inventory of printing equipment, capabilities, and production specifications. For a technical buyer, maybe you could include this in the leave-behind, but never in the presentation materials. Sure, there may be one person in the room who is interested--but you have lost the interest of the other attendees.
3. Years of Combined Experience
The prospect may want to know about your background; you're the person he or she will be dealing with. But faceless names and their unsubstantiated resumés are background noise.
Don't spend a lot of time on people who are not in the room. For people who are in the room, make three points: Why they are here, what insight the attendees can get from that person, and what that person wants to get from the attendees.
4. What Makes You Different
Whoa! All of the modern selling and marketing wisdom is focused on this powerful concept of differentiating yourself from your competitors. How can I possibly say that your prospect doesn't want to hear your unique value proposition? Isn't the whole point of an initial conversation with a prospect to convince them you are different?
Here's the problem: Your UVP tends to be focused on you. But customers want to know why it's relevant to them and to their business issues. Without the translation, it's just one more set of slides or presentation points in a long, droning monologue.
There's a Better Approach
In the accompanying story, I explain a few things that prospects do want to hear. But there are a few other simple things you can do to make these conversations better.
This clarity, simplicity, and focus on the prospect are what buyers want to see more often.
Author, speaker, and consultant TOM SEARCY is the foremost expert in large account sales. With Hunt Big Sales, he has helped clients land more than $5 billion in new sales. Click to get Searcy's weekly tips, or to learn more about Hunt Big Sales.


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Cyber Games : Kieron Athey, Ryan Quaid, Ben Lamar
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Kieron Athey quickly dives into Ben Lamar's lap, sucking his cock as Ryan Quaid watches the action on his monitor. Ben then returns the favor and before long, Ryan is there to join the fun. The three dissolve into a mass of flesh, eagerly feeding on each other's cocks and balls - kissing, fondling and nibbling. Propped up in Ben's lap, Kieron spreads his legs wide apart so Ryan can easily slide in and fuck his ass. They switch it around and Ben plugs Ryan who simultaneously fellates Kieron. They finish as Ben and Kieron spritz Ryan's face with their spooge. Then Ben rims Ryan's ass, pleasuring him until he turns around and unloads, shooting his cum into Ben's mouth.
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Interview: Tomohiko Ito
A few questions for the director of Occult Academy, Silver Spoon and of course, the smash hit series Sword Art Online.
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Rather unusual to have Conan at the top especially at the second week even if the anime spars with One Piece and frequently wins in ratings on Japanese television...
Wonder how normal it is for a manga to be relatively obscure (speaking from the curbstomp OP is delivering to everyone) despite the animation doing REALLY REALLY well and getting movies on a yearly basis. >_> More manga I like at the top for a week... Yay! Need to catch up on it... >_> |
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Thrilled to see Kamisama Dolls, Chihayafuru, Ao Haru Ride, and Blast of Tempest are all doing well. Particularly hoping the latter three get licensed stateside. | |||
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RAmmsoldat Subscriber Posts: 953 Location: North wales coast |
ah pumpkin scissors, a manga i wanted to buy torn cruelly from the grasp of the English speaking masses. | |||
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MrHatandClogs Posts: 274 Location: Between two ferns! |
I'm with ya, I've been hoping for a US license for years. Seems like something Kodansha USA or YP would license. Maybe even SS or DH, but I don't think Viz would touch it. Edit:LOL, after some checking I see that Kodansha(Del Rey) does hold the license, they just have it on hiatus after vol 5? |
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Well nothing sells like One Piece manga wise lol. Detective Conan has a very loyal following though, and of course the anime tv show does amazing. Blue Exorcist well over the half a million mark! Sadly Reborn isn't even close to that. |
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Yup, seeing a lot of manga I enjoy on the list 8D
Otomen, Seiyuu Ka-!, Kyo no Kira-kun, Ao Haru Ride (still up there!) and Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso. ...looking forward to some licenses in the US now (like Seiyuu Ka and after Strobe Edge does its thing, Ao Haru Ride...) |
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18 Apr 2013 8:26 AM #1
Unanswered: Value of converted field not updating on refresh
Unanswered: Value of converted field not updating on refresh
Hi all!
I have a List backed by a Store, with the PullRefresh plugin. One of the fields in my Model is a calculated field. It represents the average of two other fields. (This is for showing disk I/O performance. readOpCountAvgPerSec is the average number of read operations, writeOpCountAvgPerSec is the number of write operations. In the list, I am showing just an average between the two).
Code:{ name: 'opCountAvgPerSec', type: 'int', convert: function(value, record) { return ((record.get('readOpCountAvgPerSec') + record.get('writeOpCountAvgPerSec')) / 2; } }
I set a breakpoint in the convert function and restarted my app. The convert function gets called when the Store is first loaded, as expected, but never gets called again. I tried doing a pull-to-refresh and also explicitly going in my console and calling Ext.getStore('DiskPerformance').load(), but neither case triggered my breakpoint.
Is there something else I need to do to make the function be called to re-calculate with new data?
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You need to set opCountAvgPerSec field as an empty string or something to trigger the convert method to be fired.
Code:record.set({ readOpCountAvgPerSec : 1, writeOpCountAvgPerSec : 2, opCountAvgPerSec : '' //triggers the convert });
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Where would be the appropriate place to do this if I need this field updated on every refresh?
Add a listener to the load event on the Store, then iterate over all items and set the field blank to force the update?
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Thanks, this is pretty critical info for anyone trying to use 'convert'; I've added this comment to the docs.


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The Olympus Stylus 1 compact camera pairs a larger-than-average 1/1.7" BSI-CMOS sensor with an F2.8, 28-300mm zoom lens, high resolution electronic viewfider, 'hybrid' control ring, and Wi-Fi. The control ring can be toggled between digital or analog mode. In digital mode, the ring adjusts zooming or manual focusing; in analog, it adjusts settings such as aperture, shutter speed and more. The camera is also equipped with a hot shoe for accessories, built-in flash, a side zoom lever with variable speeds, and two customizable function buttons for easy access to commonly used settings. Other notable features include a built-in ND filter, tilting touchscreen LCD, built-in Wi-Fi, and 1080p movie recording. All of these features are packed into a compact body that strongly resembles the popular Olympus OM-D EM-5.
Olympus Stylus 1 Compact Camera
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Key Features
- 12MP 1/1.7" BSI-CMOS sensor
- 28-300mm equivalent F2.8 lens (10.7x optical zoom) with optical image stabilization
- Up to 7 FPS continuous shooting
- 3" tilting touch LCD with 1,040,000 dots
- Built-in electronic viewfinder with 1,440,000 dots
- 1080/30p HD video (H.264/MPEG-4)
- Raw/JPEG/ Raw+JPEG
- Built-in Wi-Fi with smartphone control
- Magnesium alloy body
- SD/SDHC/SDXC memory
Body type | |
Body type | SLR-like (bridge) |
Sensor | |
Max resolution | 3968 x 2976 |
Image ratio w:h | 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 |
Effective pixels | 12 megapixels |
Sensor photo detectors | 13 megapixels |
Sensor size | 1/1.7" (7.44 x 5.58 mm) |
Sensor type | BSI-CMOS |
Processor | TruePic VI |
Image | |
ISO | Auto, 100 - 12800 |
White balance presets | 6 |
Custom white balance | Yes (2) |
Image stabilization | Optical |
Uncompressed format | RAW |
JPEG quality levels | Super fine, fine, normal, basic |
Optics & Focus | |
Focal length (equiv.) | 28–300 mm |
Optical zoom | 10.7× |
Maximum aperture | F2.8 |
Autofocus |
Digital zoom | Yes (2X) |
Manual focus | Yes |
Normal focus range | 10 cm (3.94″) |
Macro focus range | 5 cm (1.97″) |
Number of focus points | 25 |
Screen / viewfinder | |
Articulated LCD | Tilting |
Screen size | 3″ |
Screen dots | 1,040,000 |
Touch screen | Yes (Touch focus, touch shutter, menus) |
Screen type | LCD |
Live view | Yes |
Viewfinder type | Electronic |
Viewfinder coverage | 100% |
Viewfinder magnification | 1.15× |
Viewfinder resolution | 1,440,000 |
Photography features | |
Minimum shutter speed | 60 sec |
Maximum shutter speed | 1/2000 sec |
Aperture priority | Yes |
Shutter priority | Yes |
Manual exposure mode | Yes |
Subject / scene modes | Yes |
Built-in flash | Yes (Pop-up) |
External flash | Yes |
Flash modes | Auto, redeye reduction, fill-on, off, redeye reduction slow sync, full, manual |
Continuous drive | 7 fps |
Self-timer | Yes (2 or 12 sec, custom) |
Metering modes |
Exposure compensation | ±3 (at 1/3 EV steps) |
AE Bracketing | ±3 (2, 3 frames at 1/3 EV, 2/3 EV, 1 EV steps) |
WB Bracketing | Yes |
Videography features | |
Resolutions | 1920 x 1080 (30p), 1280 x 720 (30p); high speed: 640 x 480 (120p), 320 x 240 (240p) |
Format | MPEG-4, H.264 |
Microphone | Stereo |
Speaker | Mono |
Storage | |
Storage types | SD/SDHC/SDXC card |
Connectivity | |
USB | USB 2.0 (480 Mbit/sec) |
HDMI | Yes (micro HDMI) |
Wireless | Built-In |
Wireless notes | with smartphone control |
Remote control | Yes (via RM-UC1) |
Physical | |
Environmentally sealed | No |
Battery | Battery Pack |
Battery description | BLS-5 lithium-ion battery pack and charger |
Battery Life (CIPA) | 410 |
Weight (inc. batteries) | 402 g (0.89 lb / 14.18 oz) |
Dimensions | 116 x 87 x 57 mm (4.57 x 3.43 x 2.24″) |
Other features | |
Orientation sensor | Yes |
Timelapse recording | No |
GPS | None |
User Reviews
My experience with the Stylus 1
I purchased the Stylus 1 to complement my two Canons - a G1X and an SX230HS - with the hope of replacing my SX230HS and giving it to a relative as a gift. I tested the camera alongside my SX230 over the weekend in various shooting situations. Unfortunately, the camera did not meet my needs/expectations and I am returning it. I am going to keep this brief and to the point. What I liked about the camera: (1) Beautiful bright LCD (2) Very nice, useable EVF (3) ...
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Questions & Answers
USB charging an Olympus Stylus 1
I read that the Olympus Stylus 1 battery can be recharged via usb. However, the reviewer went on to say about usb charging with windows xp, vista, 7, 8 etc. This left me wondering if windows is needed as part of the charging process or if it can be recharged via any usb ports e.g. a usb port found in a car radio? Thank you for any help.
Buy me a Stylus 1 and I'll gladly test it for you :-P With my XZ-1 it's no problem, it charges with usb in the car, or with the usb adapter of my Sony phone. Continue Reading
Thanks for the indicator that usb might be ok with my camera. Hoping a Stylus 1 user might be able to confirm. Continue Reading
I have one. In the instructions for use, they say nothing about this. They say only the battery in the charger. Continue Reading
Oly XZ-2 vs Panny LX7 at elevated ISO?
If anyone out there has first-hand experience of these two cameras at ISO 400-1600, either raw or jpg or both, I'd appreciate your comments. The reason for my question is that I understand the forthcoming Stylus 1 will have the same sensor as the XZ-2 (tho maybe an upgraded processing engine). I'm strongly inclined to buy a Stylus 1 to supplement, and eventually replace, my LX7, which has been a fine camera for me. The Stylus 1 has at least three obvious advantages over the LX7; namely an on-board EVF, a longer tele, and a tilting screen. (Slower lens, tho. :-( ) It would be icing on the cake if the Stylus 1 image quality at elevated ISO at least matches, or possibly betters, the LX7. The ISO comparisons by DPR look like the XZ-2 does better than the LX7 all across that range, but studio tests don't always tell the same story as field experience. Please let me know if you have any experience -- or even informed opinion on the question. Thanks. I hope my LX7 doesn't know I'm thinking ...
David, Whether you trust the DxOMark data or not (let's assume they are reliable, which is a safe bet), they make a very good living comparing sensors and lenses to each other in somewhat narrowly defined and precise parameters. Measuring SNR for each sensor in a fixed lens body requires some interpolation and fudge factoring as the lens itself cannot be removed from the system. The calculations are done on the RAW file output from the camera and various lens induced variables have to factored out using complex formulas (see the site for the mind blowing mathematics). Even DxOMark offers this caveat: (1) All sensor scores reflect only the RAW sensor performance of a camera body. All measurements are performed on the RAW image file BEFORE demosaicing or other processing prior to final image delivery. DxOMark does not address such other important criteria as image signal processing, mechanical robustness, ease of use, flexibility, optics quality, value for money, etc. While RAW sensor ... Continue Reading
Well, neither can I. So I pre-ordered one from B&H. Next step: psychotherapy! Continue Reading
There are so many choices, hard to say if the one we make is the best anymore. Used to be clearer. The why would be: 28-300mm f2.8 lens 1.44M dot built-in EVF borrowed from the EM5 1.04M dot 3" tilt touchscreen LCD display with the Fast Touch AF Usable WiFi with Smartphone App for external viewing and control 1/1.7" BSI CMOS sensor Full HD video Amazing looks All for half the price of an RX10. Sure, the RX10 will have slightly better IQ but, since I had spent some time owning the amazing Canon SX50HS, I have learned the secret to better IQ through optical zoom versus digital cropping (pixel peeping). Optical zoom, especially with a bright, sharp lens, trumps cropping every time. Just frame the shot right in the first place and you don't have to give up any IQ in post processing. I have found using this technique, you can significantly offset a disadvantage in image sensor size. The problem with the SX50, as I had discovered, was it's rather lackluster lens. It was just too slow ... Continue Reading
Stylus 1: A deafening silence
For a long time Amazon had an availability date of 11/28 posted, but no more. And I find no news about possible release here or anywhere else I can search. So I'm wondering if Olympus has cancelled the release of this model and I'm the only person who missed their announcement. Does anyone out there have any news?
you could try the actual, official Olympus website: http://www.getolympus.com/us/en/stylus-1.html where you will find this statement: "PRE-ORDER | FREE SHIPPING! Expected to ship in early to mid December." Steve Continue Reading
http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/review/special/20131211_627071.html Continue Reading
Like I say last week, I gone to the presentation of the new products of Olympus in my shop. I play with the stylus. Like there are only 3 in stock, now.....2, because the 3rd is in my house. Continue Reading
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Syntactic sugar
In computer science, syntactic sugar is syntax within a programming language that is designed to make things easier to read or to express. It makes the language "sweeter" for human use: things can be expressed more clearly, more concisely, or in an alternative style that some may prefer.
For example, many programming languages provide special syntax for referencing and updating array elements. Abstractly, an array reference is simply a procedure of two arguments: an array and a subscript vector, which could be expressed as get_array(Array, vector(i,j))
. Instead, many languages provide special syntax like Array[i,j]
. Similarly an array element update is abstractly something like set_array(Array, vector(i,j), value)
, but many languages provide syntax like Array[i,j] := value
Specifically, a construct in a language is called syntactic sugar if it can be removed from the language without any effect on what the language can do: functionality and expressive power will remain the same. For instance, in the C language the a[i]
notation is syntactic sugar for *(a + i)
Language processors, including compilers, static analyzers, and the like, often expand sugared constructs into more fundamental constructs before processing, a process sometimes called "desugaring".
The term syntactic sugar was coined by Peter J. Landin in 1964 to describe the surface syntax of a simple ALGOL-like programming language which was defined semantically in terms of the applicative expressions of lambda calculus.[2]
Later programming languages, such as CLU, Racket, ML and Scheme, extended the term to refer to syntax within a language which could be defined in terms of a language core of essential constructs; the convenient, higher-level features could be "desugared" and decomposed into that subset.[3] This is, in fact, the usual mathematical practice of building up from primitives.
Notable examples[edit]
- Augmented assignment or compound assignment operators: For example,
a += b
is equivalent toa = a + b
in C and similar languages. - Properties in C#: The construct may be called syntactic sugar — it is roughly, but not exactly equivalent to a getter-setter pair of functions.
- Operator overloading in C++: Using overloaded operator is semantically equivalent to calling a function, e.g.
equates toadd(a, multiply(b, c))
. - List comprehension in Python.
- Decorators in Python.
Some programmers feel that these syntax usability features are either unimportant or outright frivolous. For example, Alan Perlis once quipped, in a reference to bracket-delimited languages, that "syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon". (See Epigrams on Programming.)
Derivative terms[edit]
Syntactic salt[edit]
The metaphor has been extended by coining the term syntactic salt, which indicates a feature designed to make it harder to write bad code. Specifically, syntactic salt is a hoop programmers must jump through just to prove that they know what's going on, rather than to express a program action. For example, Java will not allow a float value to be assigned to a variable declared as an int without additional syntax explicitly stating that intention, while C and C++ will automatically truncate any floats assigned to an int.
In C#, when hiding an inherited class member, a compiler warning is issued unless the new
keyword is used to specify that the hiding is intentional.[4] To avoid potential bugs owing to the similarity of the switch statement syntax with that of C or C++, C# requires a break
for each non-empty case
label of a switch
(unless goto
, return
, or throw
is used) even though it does not allow fall-through.[5] (Using goto
and specifying the subsequent label produces a C/C++-like fall-through.)
Syntactic salt may defeat its purpose by making the code unreadable and thus worsen its quality - in extreme cases, useful code may be shorter than the overhead introduced to satisfy language requirements. An alternative to syntactic salt is generating compiler warnings when there is high probability that the code is a result of a mistake - a practice common in modern C/C++ compilers.
Syntactic saccharin[edit]
Other extensions are syntactic saccharin and syntactic syrup, meaning gratuitous syntax that does not make programming any easier.[6]
Notes and references[edit]
- ^ Eric S. Raymond (11 October 1996). The New Hacker's Dictionary - 3rd Edition. MIT Press. p. 432. ISBN 978-0-262-68092-9. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
- ^ Peter J. Landin, "The mechanical evaluation of expressions", Computer Journal 6:4: 308-320 (1964) doi:10.1093/comjnl/6.4.308
- ^ Barbara Liskov, "A History of CLU", MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Technical Report 561 (1993)
- ^ new Modifier (C# Reference) - Visual Studio 2012
- ^ switch (C# Reference) - Visual Studio 2012
- ^ The Jargon File v4.4.7: "syntactic sugar"
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- Landin, Peter J. (February and March 1965). "A Correspondence Between ALGOL 60 and Church's Lambda-Notation: Parts I and II". Communications of the ACM 8 (2.3): 89–101, 158–165.
- Landin, Peter J. (March 1965). "Programming Without Imperatives - An Example". UNIVAC Systems Programming Research (Technical report ).
- Landin, Peter J. (July 1965). "Getting Rid of Labels". UNIVAC Systems Programming Research (Technical report ).
- Landin, Peter J. (August 1965). "A Generalization of Jumps and Labels". UNIVAC Systems Programming Research (Report )., reprinted in Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation 11. 1998. pp. 125–143. CiteSeerX: 10.1.1.85.2610.
This article is based on material taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later.


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Parts of Speech: A Brief Review
A word's function and form is determined by its part of speech. The word calm, for example, can be either a verb (calm down) or an adjective (a calm afternoon); it changes to calmly when it is an adverb (they discussed the matter calmly). Be sure you know the different parts of speech and the job each part of speech performs in a sentence. The table offers a quick reference guide for the main parts of speech.
Phrases and Modifiers
Sentences are often "filled out" by phrases and modifiers. Phrases are groups of words that do not have both a subject and predicate; they might have either a subject or a verb, but not both, and sometimes neither. Modifiers are words and phrases that qualify or describe people, places, things, and actions. The most common phrases are prepositional phrases,which consist of a preposition and a noun or pronoun (e.g., in the attic).Modifiers include adjectives (e.g., slow, blue, excellent) and adverbs (e.g., cheerfully, suspiciously). In the following examples, the prepositional phrases are underlined and the modifiers are in bold:
He was very late for an important meeting with a new client.
He brazenly took her wallet from her purse when she got up from the table to go to the ladies' room.
Placement of Modifiers
As a general rule, words, phrases, or clauses that describe nouns and pronouns should be as close as possible to the words they describe. The relaxing music, for example, is better (clearer, more concise and precise) than the music that is relaxing. In the first sentence, the modifier relaxing is right next to the word it modifies (music).
When modifiers are not next to the words they describe, you not only often use extra words, but you might also end up with a misplaced or dangling modifier and a sentence that means something other than what was intended. This is especially true of phrases and clauses that work as modifiers. Take a look at the following sentence, for example:
Racing to the car, I watched him trip and drop his bag.
Who was racing to the car? Because the modifier racing to the car is next to I, the sentence says that I was doing the racing. But the verb watched indicates that he was the one racing to the car. Here are two corrected versions:
I watched as he raced to the car and dropped his bag.
I watched as, racing to the car, he dropped his bag.
In the first sentence, the phrase racing to the car has been revised to raced to the car and given the appropriate subject, he. In the second sentence, racing to the car is right next to the modified element (he).
Here's another example:
Growling ferociously, I watched as the lions approached each other.
It's quite obvious that it was the lions, not the speaker, that were growling ferociously. But because the modifier (growling ferociously) isn't right next to what it modifies (the lions), the sentence actually says that I was growling ferociously. Here's the corrected version:
I watched as the lions, growling ferociously, approached each other.
Again, the sentence is clearer now because the modifier is right next to what it modifies.
Sometimes these errors can be corrected simply by moving the modifier to the right place (next to what it modifies). Other times, you may need to add a subject and verb to clarify who or what is modified by the phrase. Here are some more examples of misplaced and dangling modifiers and their corrections:
Incorrect: Worn and tattered, Uncle Joe took down the flag.
Correct: Uncle Joe took down the flag, which was worn and tattered. OR Uncle Joe took down the worn, tattered flag.
Incorrect: While making breakfast, the smoke alarm went off and woke the baby.
Correct: While I was making breakfast, the smoke alarm went off and woke the baby. OR
The smoke alarm went off and woke the baby while I was making breakfast.
Parallel Structure
Parallel structure is an important part of effective writing. It means that words and phrases in the sentence follow the same grammatical pattern. This makes ideas easier to follow and expresses ideas more gracefully. Notice how parallelism works in the following examples:
Not parallel: We came, we saw, and it was conquered by us.
(The first two clauses use the active we + past tense verb construction; the third uses a passive structure with a prepositional phrase.)
Parallel: We came, we saw, we conquered.
(All three clauses start with we and use a past tense verb.)
Not parallel: Please be sure to throw out your trash, place your silverware in the bin, and your tray should go on the counter.
(Two verbs follow the to + verb + your + noun pattern; the third puts the noun first, then the verb.)
Parallel: Please be sure to throw out your trash, place your silverware in the bin, and put your tray on the counter.
(All three items follow the to + verb + your + noun [+ prepositional phrase] pattern.)
Parallelism is most often needed in lists, as in the previous examples, and in the not only/but also sentence pattern.
Hermione's nervousness was exacerbated not only by the large crowd, but also by the bright lights.
(Each phrase has a preposition, an adjective, and a noun.)
Their idea was not only the most original; it was also the most practical.
(Each phrase uses the superlative form of an adjective.)
Active and Passive Voice
In most cases, effective writing will use the active voice as much as possible. In an active sentence, the subject performs the action:
James filed the papers yesterday.
Jin Lee sang the song beautifully.
In a passive sentence, on the other hand, the subject is passive.Rather than performing the action, the subject is acted upon:
The papers were filed by James yesterday.
The song was sung beautifully by Jin Lee.
Active sentences are more direct, powerful, and clear. They often use fewer words and have less room for confusion. There are times when the passive voice is preferred, such as when the source of the action is not known or when the writer wants to emphasize the recipient of the action rather than the performer of the action:
Protective gear must be worn by everyone entering this building.
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Toni Reese of the Joslyn Art Museum library was also elected Co-Moderator. Unfortunately, in October Toni changed jobs and resigned that position. We were very fortunate to have Kenneth Soehner, Chief Librarian, Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, volunteer to fill out Toni's term and run for the position for next year.
A committee of seven was formed after the
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Vicky Bohm, and Meg Klinkow. Emails were exchanged. Kathy gave several
suggestions about the importance of institutional power accruing to the
library and liaisons with other official groups, such as AAM. Stephanie
Sigala suggested working more with RLG, creating internships and providing
grants for travel, sharing information on special collections. Roger
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Ken Soehner, when he became Co-Moderator, expressed an interest in finding
ways to involve curators more in using the library collections and services.
It is intended that action steps will be presented
at the 2001 business meeting for voting
on by the division.
In accord with the second and fourth goals
of the Division (based on Strategic Plan for the whole of ARLIS/NA), we
supported several programs for next year's conference. The Division
was approached and sponsored the following sessions:
"Native American Art Now - Reflecting
Contemporary Realities" (Joan Benedetti) -- This is now Session 10.
"Never the Twain Shall Meet?: Museum
Systems and Library Systems" (Elizabeth
O'Keefe) - This is ASK ARLIS 4.
"Through Time and Space: documenting museum
collecting and exhibition history
on the web" (Jonathan Franklin) - This
is Session 4.
-- and two other programs that were not
selected for inclusion in the L.A. conference.
Meg Klinkow kept an eye on ARLIS-L throughout
the year and responded to questions that arose related to museum libraries.
She also approached Dominican University's Dean of the Graduate School
of Library and Information Science about sponsoring an art library (particularly
museum library) educational program. The Dean was open to having
a 3-day workshop but not an entire course. Meg could not find anyone among
the local librarians who would commit to teaching for no money, however.
This will also be brought up in L.A. in conjunction for the need to develop
leadership and educational
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I'm trying to write a command that breaks polylines / lines along a polyline. Is there any way to
A. Find all intersection points of two polylines?
B. Break the polyline at points gained previously?
Any help is appreciated, but keep in mind these are polylines with 30k+ vertices... so try to tailor a response around speed if possible.
You rotate both lines so one is vertical, then see if horizontal one has x values surrounding the vertical one.
Other approaches work too, but in real programs you must also deal with a really close intersection, where mayeb there is a gap of .0000001 and you wantb to consider that an intersection.
Then my approach works.
I've written this for arcs too, so anything can chop anything.
Arcs are not trivial, though you can use acad's api to cut the corner of doing your own code...
Did you try IntersectWith method ?
SomePolyLine.IntersectWith(OtherPolyline, Intersect.ExtendThis/OrNot, PointCollectionVariable, New IntPtr(0), New IntPtr(0))
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another suggestion, you could use each poly's vertices to form a geometry curve and use those pairwise to form a curvecurveintersector object which can return intersections as doubles/points, which in turn you could use as a collection parameter in the getsplitcurves method of the original poly*. whether it's worth the trouble may to depend on how many intersections you expect, and whether it is certain that there actually is an intersection between any two polys
*i'm wary though of how reliable it is to 'carry' intersections over from geometry to database curve, so you'd have to stick to the geometry curve for the splits, which means you'd need a final conversion back into polys (if that's what you need after all)
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Chicago Strike Shows How Unions Stifle Reform
Lessons from the Windy City teachers strike
Chicago's public-school teachers went on strike over a modest plan to extend their work day and subject them to the type of standardized performance testing they typically administer to students.
It was the latest reminder that teachers' unions exist to expand the pay and protections of teachers, not to help "the children." Unions protect their worst-performing members, which is why Mayor Rahm Emanuel's testing plan caused so much angst.
We've all read examples of unions coddling rotten apples—layoffs of the "teacher of the year" because seniority trumps performance and those "rubber rooms" where accused educational miscreants spend their days collecting full pay as the case against them is adjudicated in a disciplinary process designed to insulate them from accountability.
The only thing that gets teachers' unions angrier than having to subject their members to performance tests are plans to subject them to competition through charter schools and vouchers. Note also the type of people who rise to union leadership. The only enjoyable part of this Chicago-strike spectacle was watching two bullies battle it out in front of the TV cameras.
It's also interesting to see how the strike split the Democratic coalition. As The New York Times reported Thursday, "The strike pits several core components of the Democratic coalition against one another: The teachers' union and much of organized labor are on a war footing against [Emanuel] … . What is more, the strike pits organized labor against myriad wealthy liberals—vital donors to Democratic coffers—many of whom contribute heavily to efforts to finance charter schools and weaken teachers' unions."
Even though the reforms were led by Mayor Emanuel, the former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, the Obama administration refused to weigh in on the matter. Obviously, a public school labor dispute is not a federal issue, but Obama rarely recognizes any constitutional limits on anything. He could have used this nationally publicized strike as one of those "teachable moments," but we understand his silence. He didn't want to anger the unions.
Short-term politics aside, the spectacle was depressing when one considers what's at stake—the future success of the students held hostage to the mismanaged and bureaucratic Chicago school system. Following a deal that was unfolding Friday, the system will chug along in its current shape one way or another.
Few Democrats believe in any sort of reform beyond throwing more taxpayer dollars at a dysfunctional government school monopoly controlled—from the classroom to the school board—almost completely by teachers' unions.
Here in California, the state constitution mandates that at least 40 percent of the general-fund budget go to public K-14 education, in addition to the federal funds and local bond dollars sent to the schools. Yet the state's leaders cannot come up with any better idea for uplifting the state's students than finding more tax dollars to fund the current system. Gov. Jerry Brown's Proposition 30 tax-increase measure is packaged as a boost in education funding. This debate over the quality of education has been going on my entire life, and the same folks call for the same solutions (more money!) and nothing ever changes. Is it any wonder?
It was Emanuel who said, famously, "You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
His critics portrayed that statement as an expression of cynicism, but it's something all politicians know. The current "scarcity" of public dollars offers an opportunity to talk about the issues that really matter, from education reform to pension reform. Unfortunately, the nation's educational problems need a more radical fix than any politician from either party is willing to consider.
The best news about the Chicago strike was that a prominent Democratic official at least tried to take on the unions, although he doesn't appear to be getting much for the bother.
Republicans tend to represent suburban and rural school districts where education is tolerable. Education expert Lance Izumi penned a book about suburban school districts called Not As Good As You Think, detailing the mediocrity of even the best public schools. But it's easy to be complacent in safe communities where parents plaster "Student of the Month" bumper stickers on their minivans and their kids head off to good colleges after graduation.
In urban areas, education can be dismal. These districts often have the highest per-capita student spending in the nation. Because the worst schools are in the most Democratic areas, we will perhaps see more serious Democratic officials taking on the biggest obstacle to reform, the unions.
There's a reason poor parents jump through hoops to try to get their kids enrolled in charter schools. Those schools have been freed from the teachers' union stranglehold.
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Chicago Strike Shows How Unions Stifle Reform
Captain Obvious to the rescue!
That's kind of a sarcastic response, sarcasmic.
"7 Important Facts about the Chicago Teachers Union Strike"
http://www.freedomworks.org/bl.....hers-union -
Looks live Obama is going to cave and the union is going to win.
Say it isn't so......
What does Obama have to do with a Chicago teachers strike?
He is everywhere. The alpha and the omega. The beginning and the end, forever and ever...
He's The Raven!
Haha... you think Obama wants the teachers' union strike to go on and on and on in Chicago during the meaty part of an election year?
Come on man.
No doubt the White House has been berating Rahm Emmanuel all week about this. There is no way in the world Obama takes on the teachers.
I think the city's making an error in holding out for the evaluations. That's not the important thing. The pensions and pay are the important things. Sounds like maybe they can get that.
I don't sense that they're doing the old bait and switch, which is too bad. I think the really want the evaluations. That's not what they need....go fer co-pays, etc. As they say on "Pass Time" - "Cash iiiiisssssss goooooooood."
No, the error is not firing every single one of these criminals and not using the crisis to push for full emasculation of the public sector union mafia.
Unions are holding education back. They are staunchly opposed to reform, accountability, or progress. They care more about protecting bad teachers than rewarding good ones, or about the children who suffer when bad teachers are allowed to continue.
Can't the city just post want-ads in the local papers and have a job fair? If they did, there'd be at least half of the numbers they need show up. And once those people go to work, the rest would be filled within a matter of a few days.
If you ignore these assholes (or more like, if you were allowed to ignore these assholes), the unions would cease to be a force. Seriously. They should have no power when there are literally tens of thousands of qualified teachers that are currently unemployed. But by chicanery and manipulation, a striking union can't simply be replaced by the hiring entity anymore.
I swear to God, if I had a company and the employees voted to organize, I'd terminate every single one of them and be at full staff within a week.
And a week is about how long it would take the National Labor Relations Board to shut your business down.
A government isn't a business, and I think SOCTUS precedent says that state (and presumably city) unions are governed by state law, not federal.
"Everybody knows™" paying teachers more means you care about the students the teachers ignore.
I just want to make sure that whenever we say, "won't someone think of the children?" we are imagining Maude Flanders, right?
Just checking.
"Competition and incentives"? These are values of capitalistic business aren't they? They have NEVER, in all of history, been cited as proper for the education of children, future citizens or teachers. How can you criticize teachers' unions for promoting nothing but salary and benefits and then insist that their interest in the system be motivated by the same things you condemn? This is a clear case of Orwellian double-speak; sadly, like Big Brother, friend of students, parents, teachers, administrators and school systems, you are getting away with it.
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..."They have NEVER, in all of history, been cited as proper for the education of children, future citizens or teachers."^?
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"Competition and incentives"? These are values of capitalistic business aren't they? They have NEVER, in all of history, been cited as proper for the education of children, future citizens or teachers.
Uhhh... bullshit. Competition and incentives are integral to producing excellence in any endeavor. And yes, they HAVE been cited as proper in the "education of children, future citizens or teachers. Haven't you heard of "grading on a curve?" Aren't you aware that there are private schools in k-12 and higher education both in the US and elsewhere in the world? A monopoly (no competition) produces just what you spew.... bulshit.
"many of whom contribute heavily to efforts to finance charter schools and weaken teachers' unions."
It just wouldn't be a New York Times article if it didn't include some out of place, self-fellating bitchfest about how private schools are to blame for the screwups of public schools.
Another case of special interests caring only about themselves. Special interests should NOT have the power to deny 350,000 students their education! California should regard this as a cautionary tale; our teachers union has shown an utter disregard for student welfare when it gets in the way of their agenda, and they are at LEAST as powerful as the CTU, if not far more so. California needs to reduce special interest power, or we could find MILLIONS of people left without services if the legislature puts a toe out of line. Maybe that's why we haven't seen any real pension reform...
The California Teachers Association has a stranglehold on the California legislature. As with any public union, they are hellbent on amassing as many benefits and protections for themselves as possible, and they are more than willing to tell taxpayers, children and everyone else to eff off. Help curb union influence by voting yes on Prop. 32.
This is pretty much why I think Obama's foreign policy, as bad as it is, is way preferable to Romney's. His purporters seem to think the world is some campy 80s action movie where all our problems would be solved if we just killed enough people.
Standardized testing is the worst thing to happen to students since teachers unions. Not sure why Reason wouldn't take a stand in this article against standardized tests. They're a tool of the government to quantify, collectively, the success or failure of large groups of students so that the Department of Education can alter policy to make sure 'no child is left behind'. Standardized testing is inherently anti-individualism.
Question, do teachers within their classroom have a form of standardized tests? Maybe the problem is what type of question is asked. If we don't test our students, how do we know if they have learned anything on the subject?
Who said anything about not testing the students? I just don't think standardized testing should be used.
Obama to Rahm, "What the hell are you doing? Just pay them goddammit! Get this out of the news cycle now!!"
The schools are another victim of increasing centralization. From the 1950's till now the slow creep of bureaucratic bloat has lowered the quality and vastly raised the cost of education. Instead of having 10,000 local battles to fight the zealous left-wing 'reformers' just go to the top of the pyramid to control the curriculum. Now that the American welfare state has brought the nation to the edge of total collapse we should resolve, after that collapse, to decentralize as much as possible.
Ok, let's correct some of this stupidity.
Teachers are supposed to work longer hours for substantially less pay (e.g., reduced raise, increased healthcare premiums)? For the sole reason, that becoming a teacher should relegate you to a life of poverty. Additionally, nearly half of all student in CPS are in special education. Meaning they are technically either mentally retarded, have serious behavioral issues, or exhibit learning disabilities. And teachers are supposed to be evaluated based on their test scores compared to whom? Private schools which don't have to admit these kids? Please, show me you have any even remotely reasonable opinions on this matter.
I'm surprised you don't call teachers "thugs". That pejorative is just about the only item lacking from your slanted story. Like every other profession, teachers have a few bad apples who bring down the rest of them. However, the overwhelming majority are hard-working, caring, highly-educated men and women committed to the students they teach. Teachers' unions and other unions are far more democratic than the US congress itself. No super majorities or filbusters get in the way of the members' will.
The wage issue is only one aspect of the strike. What is wrong with teachers expecting higher pay for longer days and longer years? Name any worker who doesn't expect more compensation for more work.
Standardized performance testing is unfair, especially in urban settings where students are so disadvantaged that they can't possibly compete with suburban kids who get an actual three square meals a day.
But another legitimate strike issue is the lack of resources in inner-city schools. A documentary I viewed showed the palatial, fully equipped schools of suburbia juxtaposed with the crumbling under-supplied, semi-condemned downtown structures. Contrary to your claims, there is no way that urban schools are having money thrown at them.
bunnyduet said:
"What is wrong with teachers expecting higher pay for longer days and longer years?"Well, for starters, teachers unions usually complain simultaneously about being underpaid for overwork and classes that are too large. Well, guess what? Given a fixed public for teachers' salaries, if I pay each teacher more money, then I must hire fewer teachers. This results in fewer teachers doing more work with larger classes, which causes them to complain that they are underpaid for overwork and classes that are too large. Eventually, I assume we'll go down to one public school teacher teaching everyone in the state, complaining that he isn't paid enough to do such a big job well.
bunnyduet also said:
"Standardized performance testing is unfair, especially in urban settings where students are so disadvantaged that they can't possibly compete with suburban kids who get an actual three square meals a day."If I listened to what teachers unions say about this subject, I should conclude that public education should be abandoned. After all, teachers unions themselves have informed us that they can produce no measurable effects on the children they teach. How, then, can we make rational sense of the notion that spending more money on them will solve the problem, since we cannot measure the effects it would produce? Why should we driving state budgets broke attempting to accomplish immeasurable impacts on children?
Unless, of course, I could use testing to measure the progress of individual students and classrooms, which points out the straw man argument of claiming that we must compare worse-performing classrooms to better ones.
But another legitimate strike issue is the lack of resources in inner-city schools. A documentary I viewed showed the palatial, fully equipped schools of suburbia juxtaposed with the crumbling under-supplied, semi-condemned downtown structures. Contrary to your claims, there is no way that urban schools are having money thrown at them.
Charter schools should be called out for what they are, for-profit entities which may make grand promises initially, but renege on them in the long run in order to increase profits.
The President stayed out of it because he SHOULD stay out and let the bargaining process run its course. President Reagan DIDN'T, with the air traffic controllers, and set a horrible example for democracy.
In conclusion, your article simply scapegoats teachers and anything associated with the President or the Democratic Party. If you had any insight into the nurturing, "make it a better world " mindset of teachers, you would blush with embarrassment.
bunnyduet said:
"If you had any insight into the nurturing, "make it a better world " mindset of teachers, you would blush with embarrassment."It's always such a coincidence how frequently "making it a better world" so closely corresponds to "give me more money and power."
Whew! So much anger on all sides. I have a modest proposal, and I am making it as someone who has spent 35 years teaching high school English in public, private, and parochial schools across the country. Here is it:
We need to stop focusing so much on how education is delivered, and focus on what is delivered. Specifically, we need to make our primary goal be that all students become avid readers. That is a goal now that is not even on the radar screen for most public, private, charter, or parochial schools. Schools now, in the name of "teaching reading skills" turn reading into a boring, tedious chore for most students.
Avid readers read better. They understand tone and nuance; they can follow complicated plots; they can process difficult science or history texts. Avid readers write better, as they acquire a sense of written language and structure that simply can't be taught. Avid readers have wider, deeper frames of knowledge that make all learning easier. Even reading fantasy or science fiction teaches about government structures, about the use of power, about the possibilities of science. My own experience is that avid readers tend to be more compassionate, perceptive people, as they have had thousands of narrators explain different people's motivations and understandings.
It's not that hard for teachers to turn kids into avid readers, if it is made an absolute priority in the schools. I did it for years. http://teachloveofreading.blogspot.com/
Here's my take. I've been a teacher in LA for 25 years. The solution to the problem of teacher evaluation is to get the students that don't care about their education, out of the classroom. You will never hear any side discuss this situation. But frankly at the high school level many periods a day teachers have to deal with, to be nice disrespectful students, everyday, every period. This takes a lot out of a teacher and the students who want to learn don't get the education they deserve. If you get the discipline problem out of the classroom, then go ahead and evaluate me, I now have students who just want to learn which is why I became a teacher.
In the end they get their rights and demands by the government, this strike is continuing from last week finally end with the solution.
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