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An Amazing Fact: There are more than 376 million Visas and MasterCards in circulation. This is up 80 percent from a few years ago when the average family had only two credit cards and $2,340 in outstanding balances. Today they have an average of four cards and owe nearly $4,880. Altogether, American consumers have racked up $480 billion dollars in debt with these little two- by three-inch pieces of plastic, and that figure grows at a 13 percent annual rate.
We are a nation drowning in red ink. Plans for the large government budget surplus seem to be the focus of recent political attention, but soaring consumer debt is seldom discussed. Within the past few years it has increased 39 percent and now exceeds $1 trillion. "When you carry this much debt it's scary," says consumer spending expert Madelyn Hochstein in a recent newspaper article, "Black-hole Borrowing, Consumer Debt Surging; Nation's Economy at Risk." The article goes on to warn that, "This could be a time bomb for the U.S. economy and its banks."
An Amazing Fact: Science tells us that light is constituted of three primary rays, or groups of wavelengths. Clearly distinct from each other, none of them without the others could be light. Each ray has its own separate function. The first originates, the second illuminates, and the third consummates. The first ray, often called invisible light, is neither seen nor felt. The second is both seen and felt. The third is not seen but is felt as heat.
Like light, our "One God" is revealed in the three distinct persons of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. "For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one" (1 John 5:7 NKJV).
Nazareth of Galilee was situated in one of the loveliest physical settings in all of Palestine. Nestled amid the natural beauty of rolling hills and lush, fruitful vineyards, it would seem to be the perfect place for the Son of God to manifest His sinless life. There, at His mother's knee, Jesus could be exposed to the holy influences of the book of nature as well as the inspired writings of patriarchs and prophets.
But things are not always what they seem to be, and this was especially true of Nazareth. History adds a sad footnote about the hometown of Jesus, the carpenter son of Mary. It was distinguished by its depravity and evil reputation. All over the Near East it had become a byword for sin and iniquity.
No wonder Nathaniel responded as he did when Philip urged him to get acquainted with Jesus of Nazareth. "Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?" (John 1:46). You see, Nathaniel was well acquainted with the ill-repute of that particular little Galilean town, and he could not in his wildest imagination associate it with the expected Messiah.
An Amazing Fact: In 1967 the city of Long Beach, Calif., bought the Queen Mary from Cunard Lines. Since then $63 million has been spent on its conversion into a tourist spot with a museum, shops, restaurants, and a hotel. Now many in the city of Long Beach look upon the giant ship, docked on the ocean front, as a floating white elephant, and voices are calling for the doughty old liner to be scrapped. With no possibility of sailing the seas, they claim the Queen Mary serves as false advertising; a ship filled with activity that never leaves port.
How to Choose a Church?"And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching" (Hebrews 10:24, 25).
An Amazing Fact: Bumble bees were originally called "humble bees" because they are generally good natured and very rarely sting. The young children of the early English settlers struggled to say "humble bees," and often called them "bumble bees" instead. Because of the awkward, clumsy movements of the adult bees, the new name stuck.
Bumble bees are among the few insects that can control their body temperature. In cold weather, queens and workers can shiver their flight muscles to warm themselves. Their large size and heat-conserving hairy coats also help them stay warm, allowing them to work in colder climates and lower temperatures than most other insects..
An Amazing Fact: The world's smallest known vertebrate fish, the pygmy goby, is found on coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean, and is only about a quarter of an inch long when full grown. The Latin name of this fish, Nanus comes from a word meaning "dwarf." You can understand why the pygmy goby babies can only be seen with a magnifying glass when they first hatch from their teeny, tiny eggs!
I suppose few people would choose to be dwarfed. It seems that every little school-age child dreams of growing up to be big and strong. Likewise, each individual who accepts Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour desires to grow to become a strong, tall Christian. Unfortunately, however, many people have a dwarfed experience with God. They're Christian pygmies, as it were. In fact, some churches contain so many spiritual pygmies that the occasional "normal" Christian, who is growing daily in his religious experience, is looked upon as something of an oddity!
An Amazing Fact: Between 1768 and 1775, the famous British explorer James Cook and his crew made two voyages around the world. Cook and his companions charted much of the South Pacific using nothing more than a sextant and a simple compass for navigation!
It's amazing to me how the ancient explorers knew their location based only on the sun, moon, and stars. The Bible contains a dramatic story of a ship lost at sea during a severe storm. For 14 gray days and black nights, the apostle Paul and some sea mates were beaten by the wind and drenched with the driving rain and angry waves. However, the main cause of the sailors' utter discouragement was that they had no heavenly bodies to guide them. They were oblivious to their location. "And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away." Acts 27:20. In the same way that it was imperative for the ancient sailors to have a view of the sun by day or stars by night in order to chart their location and measure their progress, modern men and women also need guiding lights.
An Amazing Fact: A man stopped at the bar in the Los Angeles airport to "relax" for a few minutes before catching his plane. Then, realizing he had lost track of time, the man raced out of the bar and quickly asked directions for the departing gate to Oakland. After hurrying through a maze of terminals, he handed the flight attendant his ticket and scurried onto the plane just as it was about to depart. After storing his briefcase, the weary traveler slumped into his seat and drifted off to sleep. When he awoke two hours later and examined his watch, the man wondered why the one-hour flight was taking so long. To his horror, he discovered that instead of boarding the plane for Oakland, Calif., he was on his way to Auckland, New Zealand! Because someone had confused Auckland with Oakland, that man had to endure a 22-hour round-trip flight.
An Amazing Fact: The European cuckoo bird is known as a "brood parasite." The female lays her eggs in the nests of other smaller birds, like the reed warbler. In turn, they unwittingly incubate, feed, and raise the young impostors-usually at the expense of their own genuine offspring!
The devil has successfully planted a dangerous lie in Christian theology, and it has been unwittingly hatched, adopted, and nurtured by most evangelical churches. Today, millions of people the world over who are interested in Bible prophecy have their eyes fixed upon Jerusalem. Christians are constantly speculating about the modern state of Israel, a rebuilt Jewish temple, and a Middle East Armageddon. These subjects are being discussed in magazines, on videos, in books, on the radio, from the pulpit, in seminaries, on the Internet, and at Bible prophecy conferences.
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We were both born and raised in Poland, studied theology, and became ministers. We both left our fatherland and lived and worked in other countries. He went to Italy; I sojourned across the Alps into neighboring Switzerland. Eventually both of us would come to Canada (in the same year, 1989) and live in southern Ontario within an hour's drive of each other.
We were both sent on similar missions to the same town in Western Manitoba. He came to Brandon in 1994, and I arrived in the summer of 1995. Our assignments were to revive our churches in this second-largest city in the province of Manitoba. The attendance in my church had dwindled down to seven. In his, only one couple remained. Both churches were about to experience unprecedented growth. But that's where the similarities end, because he was a Catholic priest and I am a Protestant pastor. We were literally two Poles, poles apart.


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by: Molly Schechter
I am physically fortunate in many ways. My body type comes from a statuesque paternal grandmother rather than from my late mother, who was petite and struggled with weight all her life. When I was 50 years old, I realized that I was going to be inhabiting this vehicle for a few more decades, so I hired a personal trainer. Thirteen years ago, at age 55, I became one. The usual joint diseases aside, I enjoy fundamentally good health, so, by virtually any measure, I have little about which to complain.
At the same time, my weigh-ins now register five pounds more than the beginning of the year. I would like to have more defined buttocks. I suffer every woman's dread of saggy upper arms and another issue of aging — poor balance. And, given that half my genes come from a father who lived to be 97-and-a-half years old,
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Fitness professionals are pretty good about working out. We actually do practice what we preach. At the same time, we have to motivate ourselves — not the easiest thing in the world to do. And, in my case, my workout was in a rut. I've been doing the same things for so long that my body has learned to do them with less effort. (The reason for that: I have devoted most of my continuing education units to advancing my understanding of yoga and Pilates versus the strength-and-cardiovascular training.) Bottom line: My personal workout was in pretty dire need of an overhaul.
I needed to hire a personal trainer, lousy economic environment or not. So I did, selecting Tim Watnem at Balance Health & Fitness in downtown Sarasota. He was my first choice because I need someone who understands the "mature body."
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Having finished teaching at the Bayfront Park Recreation Center at the end of April, I have Tuesday and Thursday mornings free. So, I committed to two sessions a week for 10 weeks and paid for them upfront — my choice, to be sure I stayed the course. Writing this column is another strategy for being sure I stick to my commitment. Readers kindly have taken an interest on the few past occasions when I have written about myself, and I will not be surprised to be asked, "How is your training going?"
My first session with Watnem was a fitness evaluation with measurements, including the always-frightening, body-composition analysis — the calipers. I weighed in at 130 pounds; my body fat is 22% — within the range designated "fitness" by the American Council on Exercise standards (see box). Pretty good, especially for my age. But it could be better. Watnem wanted to know my goals, and I gave him two words: balance and buttocks. (I probably said "butt," but this is a family newspaper.)
We are off and running, four sessions into the 20 I have scheduled. I am learning that the biggest change in muscle strength and endurance training is a shift — a huge shift — from isolation to integration and from working a muscle individually to working multiple muscles in harmony like they work in the real world. I can tell you this: It makes exercise a lot more fun.
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Long gone are the days when travel required sitting down with your local travel agent months before your trip. Today, simply hop online and run a search on flights and hotels to your favorite destination. Bam! The vacation of your dreams is instantly booked at a competitive price. However, as SiteJabber reviewers can attest, companies' cost-cutting tactics can come at a significant cost to the consumer experience. So, before you book that killer deal on your next trip, be wary of the following tactics used by online travel sites.
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Reviewers have also reported getting a great price on a trip, but as the trip commences, they realize there are hidden fees, mediocre amenities and poor customer service. You could wind up arriving at the airport and spending additional money on baggage fees despite the company saying otherwise, ultimately defeating your best money-saving efforts. SiteJabber reviewer Jolene expresses,
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Other headaches incurred by attempting to get the cheapest fare from an online travel company include multiple stops and long layovers without knowing in advance. And lastly, a consumer-valued "extra" most of us would consider important is accessible and dependable customer service. Customer service can be rude and not helpful and subsequently makes changes or adjustments to your trip extremely frustrating. Finding a travel site that can be easily accessible in the event you need to speak directly to a customer service representative is a huge plus. Consider checking out reviews in advance to see what other consumers are saying and avoid booking the dreaded Lemon Vacation.
Certain dodgy online travel agencies may be selling the same seat on the same plane multiple times, potentially leaving you without a seat. One SiteJabber reviewer writes,
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Travel deal seekers don't despair–there are still plenty of good online travel sites and legitimate online travel deals. The fact of the matter is we would all benefit from doing a bit more due diligence before booking our next vacation. Be sure the company has a solid refund policy, clearly states what exactly is included in the price, has accessible customer service (preferably by phone), and has a reputable business relationship with the airlines and hotels you are using. The biggest bang for your buck is a stress-free travel experience.
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Definitions for water flea
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word water flea
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
wa′ter flea`(n.)
any tiny freshwater branchiopod crustacean of the order Cladocera, as the daphnia.
Category: Invertebrates
Origin of water flea:
Princeton's WordNet
cyclops, water flea(noun)
minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
daphnia, water flea(noun)
minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
water flea(Noun)
Any of various aquatic crustacea characterised by their jumping or jerky mode of swimming; mostly species of Daphnia.
Webster Dictionary
Water flea
any one of numerous species of small aquatic Entomostraca belonging to the genera Cyclops, Daphnia, etc; -- so called because they swim with sudden leaps, or starts
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Take the stress out of this Thanksgiving holiday by making reservations at one of these locally owned and operated restaurants. Each has something a little different to offer, but you'll always find the traditional turkey taking a starring role along with numerous other choices for your holiday feast. Whether you prefer a sit-down meal or an all-you-can-eat buffet, these Charlotte's restaurants will welcome you as part of the family. Note that reservations are essential to ensure your spot at the table.
Big Ben Pub
2000 South Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28203
(704) 817-9697
The Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving were Englishmen (and women) and the feast served at Big Ben is one they would find familiar. Heaping helpings of roast turkey, roast beef or roast lamb come with all the traditional British trimmings including Yorkshire pudding. This classic pub in South End's Atherton Mill also serves its regular menu from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., with everything from fish and chips to steak and mushroom pie available. Save room for some sticky toffee pudding or sherry trifle to finish the meal Pilgrim-style.
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Bistro La Bon
1322 Central Ave.
Charlotte, NC 28205
(704) 333-4646
Charlotte's favorite spot for Sunday brunch in Plaza-Midwood offers one of its signature smorgasbords for Thanksgiving from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The buffet will be piled with roast meats, prime rib, turkey and oven-roasted salmon, along with many sides, including roasted vegetables, salads, mac-n-cheese and potato gratin. Don't miss the traditional Swedish meatballs served with lingonberry jam and the house-made pastries, pies and breads, all the creations of owner/chef Majid Amoorpour, a culinarian with an extensive and impressive resume.
The Liberty Gastropub
1812 South Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28203
(704) 332-8830
Tom Condron, one of the city's best and most creative chefs, draws upon his British heritage in designing a three-course holiday menu full of locally sourced meats and produce. The Thanksgiving menu, served from 11 a.m to 4 p.m., includes your choice of beef, turkey, pork or wild salmon entrée, accompanied by heirloom veggies and a range of appetizers. For dessert, it's all you can eat at the Liberty's famous "endless" holiday dessert buffet. Choices range from a classic pumpkin pie to a Southern-style banana pudding to a British lemon curd and strawberries, plus much more.
Red Rocks Café
Strawberry Hill Shopping Center
4223-B Providence Road
Charlotte, NC 28211
(704) 364-0402
Red Rocks, a Charlotte favorite with a long track record, offers a traditional Thanksgiving Day buffet from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Choices on the all-you-can-eat buffet include roast turkey, salmon, beef sirloin, pork loin and fried chicken, plus a wide array of vegetables, salads, fresh-baked breads and desserts. Owners John Love and Ron Herbert established their restaurant in 1992, with an emphasis on familiar American flavors, and Thanksgiving is a favorite holiday. A second Red Rocks location in Huntersville's Birkdale Village also serves a bountiful buffet on Thanksgiving.
Villa Antonio
4707 South Blvd.
Charlotte NC 28217
(704) 523-1594
Serving since 1987, Villa Antonio's South Boulevard location offers Thanksgiving dinner each year for its many loyal fans. Both its regular menu of Italian favorites and a special holiday menu are served from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. The four-course Thanksgiving menu includes a choice of soup, such as lobster and brie bisque, a choice of salad and either a turkey or ham entrée paired with a generous helping of sides, including traditional stuffing and whipped potatoes with wild mushroom gravy. For dessert, choose between pumpkin or pecan pie, chocolate cake or the Villa's signature tiramisu.
Waldhorn Restaurant
12101 Lancaster Highway
Pineville, NC 28134
(704) 540-7047
Charlotte's foremost German restaurant offers a Thanksgiving brunch buffet with an international twist from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. The holiday menu includes all the breakfast and German items normally found on Waldhorn's Sunday buffet, including made-to-order omelets, French toast, a roast beef carving station, bratwurst, sauerkraut, sauerbraten, spätzle, pork roast with red cabbage and seafood with rice. To these are added seasonal specialties such as roast turkey with cranberry sauce and stuffing, sweet potato casserole and pumpkin soup. The buffet comes with breads and a selection of German desserts, including apple strudel and Black Forest cake, all created at the in-house bakery.
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brian d foy
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- About: I'm the author of Mastering Perl, and the co-author of Learning Perl (6th Edition), Intermediate Perl, Programming Perl (4th Edition) and Effective Perl Programming (2nd Edition).
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Commented on Nominate Perl heroes for the 2014 White Camel Awards
As it's a Perl Foundation award, we tend not to give them to people currently working inside TPF....
Posted Nominate Perl heroes for the 2014 White Camel Awards to brian d foy
We're looking for nominations for the 2014 White Camel Awards that recognize significant non-technical achievement in Perl and its community. Each year we recognize work in the broad categories of community, advocacy, and user groups.…
Commented on Test::More has lots of crazy new development that's breaking my modules
Tell that to the people who see the number of PASSes and FAILs. It's not just "nice" to see a field of green. It's not that I'm upset that it's not perfect. People see these numbers, make judgements, and decide...
Posted Test::More has lots of crazy new development that's breaking my modules to brian d foy
I still wish we had a way to remove reports from CPAN Testers. The case of a broken Test::More is a really good reason for this.
I received many fail reports for Business::ISBN, which I've been working on lately. Howeve…
Commented on Logically And Yourself (&&=)
I love interesting behavior with the binary assignments. This one is quite nice. I expanded this benchmark in a gist (ouch.pl). There are a few things to note. 1. These sorts of benchmarks often show the performance in a particular...
Commented on Revitalizing the Perl Power Tools
Well, I'd prefer that we only include working programs, so until vip isn't hugely buggy and works as advertised we can put it in there. If it has major problems, perhaps we should wait. I'd suggest moving it to Github...
Commented on Revitalizing the Perl Power Tools
I'll started a list of opportunities in Github Issues. If you think that there are other things you could do, add an issue. If there's something you think you can do, work on that. If you have some ideas, add...
Commented on Revitalizing the Perl Power Tools
There's much to do that doesn't need great Perl skill. Most of the code is already written, so you don't have to create it. I would like to standard the code across all of the programs, and add consistent documentation...
Commented on A quick static file webserver
I'd modified Joel's script to include a default index file by using a before_dispatch hook. It could probably be better, but I stopped when I got it to work. I needed this for a particular project so I haven't stopped...
Posted Revitalizing the Perl Power Tools to brian d foy
I've started revitalizing the Perl Power Tools. I love this project, also known as the Unix Reconstruction Project, but there's been a some bit rot and I think we can make it easier to find. Googling "PPT" means so many other things,…
Posted 2014 Swiss Perl Workshop redux to brian d foy
The Swiss Perl Workshop did not disappoint, although as a featured speaker there was plenty to worry about. One of the organizers, Matthias Bloch, was well trained to take care of the chaotic situation of herding cats and programmers. He was a trained primary school instructor, in which he…
Commented on Public 0 is the new Inbox 0
I thought part of Inbox 0 was simply deleting all the undealt with messages and thinking that anything that's important will be re-submitted. :)...
Commented on how to add switches to a perl program like plackup or dzil
I need to do this frequently because some people insist on using /usr/bin/env in the shebang line to find the first perl installed instead of using the one the installed it. perl5.20.0 `which mojo` ......
Posted The Whitespace in the Perl Community to brian d foy
Posted What's Freelancers? to brian d foy
I thought the tweet might have something to do with the paste discussion I posted to Stackoverflow by using Perl Power Tools. That answer was a lot of fun, and as I suspected, I didn't even need Perl since a user on Reddit came up with a…
Commented on I learn something about tell(), then abuse it.
Ah yeah, I keep forgetting to use file handles as objects. I started Perl too early to immediately jump to those....
Commented on A comparison of memory use for primality modules
I'm also curious what the range limitations are for each method. Sometimes a slow program that has a longer range is better than a speedy one that stops at 127. And, how long does it take for the last prime...
Posted I learn something about tell(), then abuse it. to brian d foy
I learned a new thing today, or remembered a forgotten one. I can use tell to affect the file handle that
It all started very simply. I was going too far in my answer to ="http://stac…
Commented on Want PPW in 2014? So do I.
I think this is a great way to discover things the community wants to do. However, if these sorts of things fail, I don't necessarily think that means people don't want it. We haven't developed the channels to reach all...
Commented on Are conference speakers compensated
I'd rather hear a really good speaker than have a conference t-shirt. As I noted in my post, YAPC has gone far beyond it's grassroots beginnings (which was more like today's Foo-camps). That's one of the problems I alluded to...
Commented on Swiss Perl Workshop: Kickstarting Mastering Perl Course
You don't have to go to the Swiss Perl Workshop to contribute. You can sponsor a student to go to my classes! I'm also sending out signed books as a reward. You don't have to attend to get that....
Commented on Attendees Meet and Greet
I organized a newbie event at YAPC in Madison, and it was certainly low rent and designed to be that way. I cajoled a bunch of Perl's big names to have lunch with four YAPC newbies each. People signed up...
Commented on Sawyer X joins Perl::Dancer conference as trainer and speaker
While Sawyer (and Peter Rabbitson) are in New York State, I'd like to entice them to come to New York City as well. :)...
Commented on How should conference speakers be compensated?
I don't think that you were a jerk at all, but I don't think you addressed the dirty secret that all the grass-roots volunteerism and open source-ism is paid for corporate money coming from closed sourced software (mostly). I don't...
Commented on How should conference speakers be compensated?
I look forward to your opinion on the whole thing, especially since I know you had things to say about it on that mailing list. But yes, I meant what I said. Maybe you have a different opinion....
Commented on Time::Moment vs DateTime
This looks amazingly cool with a slightly friendlier interface! What are the functional differences to DateTime? Are there any incompatibilities? That's the first section I looked for in the docs....
Posted How should conference speakers be compensated? to brian d foy
Curtis Poe, one of the top presenters in the world of Perl (and testing and ...) recently posted How Do Conference Speakers Get Compensated? in…
Commented on The 'right' name for your CPAN distribution
PAUSE has some naming guidelines in On the naming of modules for choosing the actual module name. Maybe you can roll some of this into it (the PAUSE Github repo. :)...
Commented on Does anybody know Matthias Nutt?
I say go for it. I can't say that Matthias won't be mad, but I'd assert that expensive lawsuits are improbable (an inexpensive cease and desist is more likely, but I don't know where you are). If it was already...
Commented on CPAN Workshop in Houston at cPanel
I could and will do that, but that's exactly what Acme:: was supposed to do. Why are you paying attention to Acme modules?...
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Test::More has lots of crazy new development that's breaking my modules
> I don't think CPAN Testers is doing the right thing by using broken Test::More's that aren't available for normal installations.
I strongly disagree. What if these Test::More changes *were* production ready? Receiving these failing reports, before Test::More sees a stable release, would be vital to identifying issues with your code, so you have a chance to fix it before that stable release and everyone is affected. The smokers can't know whether this trial is nearing production readiness or not.
CPAN test reports are my best indicator of whether my code is working for eve…
CPAN Testers commented on
Test::More has lots of crazy new development that's breaking my modules
Firstly. @preaction CPANTS != CPAN Testers. They are two very different projects.
Secondly, this is a conversation that has cropped up before, and I'm still in two minds about it. Short answer: I tend to side with brian. The tester platform shouldn't be doing any testing with the trial/development releases of pre-requisities, unless the tester is going to manually filter the results and send to the pre-requisite author if appropriate. I do understand Ether's perspective too, and there is merit in h…
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Test::More has lots of crazy new development that's breaking my modules
As the person making the Test::More changes, I have to agree with this idea:
Failures due to alpha versions of Test::More should not be red marks against OTHER modules that in no way took action to cause the problem.
If I had known they did show up there I probably would have been reluctant to release these alphas. The alphas are valuable and help me find a lot of issues... but I don't want other people to be dinged from them. I myself judge modules based on the pass/fail ratio in cpan testers.
At the very least these should be unknown, not fail (in metacpan/cpan dis…
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This is very exciting to me! Yeeears ago, I was enamored with the idea of a Unix-y OS that booted into a Perl-based shell and that, beyond the kernel, used as few non-Perl moving pieces as would be practical. I imagined PPT being the foundation to build upon, but it was already seemingly abandoned and neglected even back then. Glad to see it's being picked back up!
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I can understand that - an organisation giving its awards to its own members might get some flak.
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Just in case you thought you knew the real Angelina Jolie ... you totally don't. The humanitarian actress is actually a pompous bitch and a raging psycho!
At least according to In Touch, which quotes Brangelina's former bodyguard, supposedly, in "exposing" the "hidden truth" about the controversial star.
And we're talking worse than staging photo ops.
"In my opinion, the real Angelina is self-centered and a control freak," the dude says. "She has no patience at all. She doesn't do things out of kindness."
"And she's totally psycho."
Well, there you have it, fans. Brad Pitt really needs to run for his life and back into the arms of Jennifer Aniston as soon as humanly possible ... OR ELSE!
Angelina Jolie likes when the kids cry. Does she also kick dogs?
"Angelina has a a private and a public persona," continues the former bodyguard, who for "security reasons" chooses only to be identified by his first name, Bill.
How far does she take these supposed mind games?
"She screams and yells a lot, then walks away," Bill says. "She will disappear into her suite for hours," leaving staffers - and Brad - to deal with her children."
"She would punish them with silence. I think she could be abusive at times in a mental way," he adds, even "giggling when one of her kids starts crying."
The guy says that while Brangelina used to have "a lot of laughing and fun" and "spontaneous sex," now the couple often sleeps in separate bedrooms.
Shame. But it makes sense. You probably have to distance yourself from the maniac sometimes if you're Brad Pitt. One man can only deal with so much.
Most likely this guy doesn't exist, and it is ridiculous fodder for TheHollywoodGossip (read the title people - GOSSIP) to print. If he does, he is pathetic. How the hell does he know that the couple used to have "spontaneous sex"? Was Brad like: "Hey, let's have sex, bodyguards get out right now". Yeah, right. Secondly, would you believe someone that rats on his former clients to the media? Even if they were terrible people, most decent people would not talk to the media out of professionalism. I know nothing about the credibility of this "bodyguard" guy. What I do know is that Ange seems to be one of the most genuine and credible celebs out there, and anyone with half a brain can see she is an awesome human being who loves her kids to death. Sadly, however, there will always be many many humans with a low brain cell count - most of them can be found here bashing her.
i hate angelina jolie she is nothing bad news and nobody loves her i dont know why she has sweet eyes because she is not sweet at all, she just fakes feelings when she acts roles where she is the strong individualistic type thats sweet inside she such a psycho bitch she has no feelings she has just rage and i hate her
Angelina Jolie has done nothing to help third world countries accept take a couple of kids off their hands. All the other humanitarian acts are just that; an act. I challenge even one of you people touting her good deeds to name one specific thing she's done to help impoverished nations. Has she helped construct one house or dig one well or help one refugee get reestablished? No, she hasn't. She flies on her private jet, has her photographers snap a few pictures, then goes back to her five-star hotel. I have actually seen people like Matt Damon and Ben Affleck doing the grunt work in these place that Jolie pretends to care about. Stop being so naive, people.
Angelina has always been weird. She acts like mother Theresa now, but i still remember her blood carrying and french kissing her brother days. Heck, even her dad has said the woman has mental issues and that's when she stopped talking to him. I'm not saying all of this is true, but i get the feeling there's more truth than fact in what this bodyguard says.
I agree, she's a phsyco liar. "I would never break up a marriage"...and then 6months after Aniston/Pitt file for divorce she has little Shiloh.
Let us not forget the wearing a vile of Billy Bob's blood around her neck and the TOTALLY inappropriate french-kiss with her brother.
She's a nut bar.
Brad is in it for the sex.
Good luck with your handful of crazy Brad
angelina jolie is pictured as a real hollywood goddess for the past years and is thought to be the kindest beautiful face with a kind heart for public purposes. we need not judge her negatively for we know on ourselves that we dont really know the "real" her unlike the image she portrays. celebrity life is a real stress and we cannot just expect her to be patient all the time. maybe, just maybe because of the well pampered attention people give her, she had came to the point of being a spoiled brat and knows that she always get what she wants not knowing people around her have been badly hurt by the way she conversiates with them, cause for many times in her life, she had experienced the real fame and attention she had ever longed...
Haha thank god I cannot stand her,saying that sh would never have an affair and then as soon as the movie was done she walks hand and hand w/ pitt that's what brad gets 4 leaving Anniston that crazy ass bitch
Ok, Angelina needs some credit for her work in 3rd world countries and the millions she donates to orphans and under privileged children. This article wasn't about her achievements, it was written about her supposed psycho personality. Now we all know that anyone in the world can suffer from mental illness and it doesn't spare the rich. More often then not actors and actresses are addressed for their insane behavior. It is fully possible that she suffers from a disorder that makes her a bit crazy at times. And laughing at crying kids? I laugh if one of my children go into a ridiculous temper tantrum for no reason. She is a person above all else, and im sure she is a bit of a bitch. But she does a lot of good. And a lot of bad, kissing her brother, her insane habit of stealing men, her multiple flings with women before destroying them. She seems like a psycho to me.
Brad Pitt is an immature cheater and Angelia Jolie only wants what someone else has. They deserve each other and having beautiful children does not mean they are in love. It's genetics. Jennifer Aniston would be a fool to go anywhere near Brad as he has proven he can't be trusted and she can do better than him.
i have no idea what's happening with her life. would say nothing but hope that she's would be fine the helf of our father heaven.


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Countless once-skeptical businesses have changed their tune about personas [define]. The successes have been well documented, but a lot of smart people continue to scoff at the idea, thinking personas are a touchy-feely attempt to connect with customers on, like, a cosmic level — and that you'd have to be some kind of marketing hippy to waste budget on fluff like that.
Those attitudes are changing. This month's Internet Retailer magazine shows how companies like Future Now are using personas to bridge the gap between business and customer*; not by targeting specific people, but by attracting them according to their needs and buying preferences. By speaking their language. By anticipating their questions ahead of time in order to answer them at the right time. By reducing friction in buying process. And it works.
Just ask Steve Franzman, founder of Detoxologie.com, a client who used personas to boost conversion by 400%, and get a 2 to 1 return on a floundering Pay-Per-Click campaign. Steve didn't even go for the full-on, from-the-ground-up implementation (see also: Howard Kaplan's "six-figure" quote in the article). Instead, the company did a low five-figure analysis of its current site and used just four simple personas to get enough perspective to rework the entire website.
When it comes to personas, the return you get depends on how much you're able to implement. It's why we encourage clients like Steve to think big by starting small. As with any marketing spend, the focus should be on spending the least amount of money to generate the best possible return on investment. Time and time again, personas have proven to be the most effective tool to plan multi-channel campaigns. But not all personas are equal.
An entrepreneur struggling with a lot of other tough decisions, Steve spent a month pouring over whether he should invest in personas. His competition was marketing themselves in ways that made Steve uncomfortable. They seemed successful, but he didn't want to be like them. He felt he understood his customers better and had serious empathy for their needs — his website just wasn't showing that, and he didn't know where to start. Before personas, he says, "Our customers were everybody and we didn't know how to deal with them."
If you feel the same way, you're not alone. To find out how the use of personas can boost your marketing potential, don't be shy. Reach out and ask us anything and everything about personas. But remember, with personas, you are what you implement. It's like having your own customers as a personal trainer. Personas can tell what to improve and what to avoid, but it's up to you to take the first step.
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Reach out and ask us anything and everything about personas.
Since you ask:
- How do you define where to make the personas different?
- Do you just force yourself to create absolutely different people or you base your preference on existing problems, your own experience or something?
- Any more efficient ways of differentiating the personas?
Great questions. The best reason people hire us to create personas with them — not just for them — is to avoid the Curse of Knowledge. Without getting an outside perspective, it's easy to revert to piling new assumptions on top of existing assumptions, and that can distort things even more.
Howard wrote a series of posts called "2 Ways to Get Started with Personas" (here's Part 1 & Part 2), which explains how to go about it on your own if you must. Waiting for Your Cat to Bark goes much deeper on the subject.
To answer your question, though, before diving into persona creation, we start with an "uncovery" phase to gain insights into the business's key metrics. We find out what people are asking the sales staff, customer service reps or anyone else customer/client-facing. Analytics and log files often give us pieces of the puzzle. But once we all have that information out in the open, we start to ask the bigger questions. In Steve's case, for instance, there are a few different products to choose from. He's been a nutritionist and health supplements expert for many, many years, so there's no way we could pretend to swoop in and be more of an expert than he is in his business; rather, we sought the best way to leverage his expertise to help create personas on a limited budget.
Once we roughly group the customers you already have into certain types, we then give the personas not just a name and basic demographic and psychographic info, but define the specific problem or set of problems they're hoping to solve. So, for each persona, there's the question of "What problem(s) are they looking to solve?" as well as "What buying mode will they be in at various stages of the buying process?" (e.g., are they early-stage, not ready to buy, and Spontaneous; late-stage, ready to buy, and Humanistic?").
Different personality types buy in different ways, so we write narratives for each persona to give them a back-story, and to help us get under their skin once we develop buying scenarios [define] for each of them. Scenarios either result in an end action (a conversion) or give us a sense of where the persona has abandoned the buying process so we know how to communicate with them when they come back, ready to pounce.
If the personas, and their respective scenarios, aren't seen as different enough by that point… Well, that just wouldn't happen. People who know their business know when a customer sounds made-up, and if that were the case, we would discard the persona altogether. It's important to stay clear of stereotypes.
Ultimately, the personas tie into existing business GOALS — not problems. It's the customer's problems we're hoping to solve, and personas help to identify those roadblocks before they're an issue. The process of matching business goals to human goals is what's so powerful.
As you can see, though, it's not simple stuff. The concepts are easy, but it takes commitment to planning, execution, and optimization. Most companies don't want to do the work. They want consultants to feed them clear answers; to be a black box. We warn people against investing in personas done by any firm that makes a practice of trading your assumptions about customers for their own — it just won't work.
Our process for bringing personas to life is called Persuasion Architecture™. Without a way to tie the personas to business goals and account for their differences, there may be no way to tell whether drop-offs in a certain area of the site mean that we need to fix one of the scenarios, or that the entire persona is wrong.
Hope that answered your question without giving you too much of a headache.
Thanks for this article. Can you show me some examples of sites that uses personas well?
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"Persona"ology is a cute theory but it doesn't amount to much if you don't have a zipper on your pants.
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While you didn't answer my questions directly, you do give the background for the answer. Thanks for that
Well, examples of the sites that have upped sales by 400% with personas might help, indeed.
I, for one, remember their case of http://www.theleodiamond.com. It is a really well made website. I heard they worked with CafePress, too.
Sorry for not directly answering your question. I suppose I was just trying to be careful, since some people — and this seems to happen each time we share a client success — thought I was insisting that "the use of personas will ALWAYS increase your conversion rate by 400%." Um… I didn't say that.
But here are a couple of other case studies involving personas:
-Volvo Construction used personas to boost its conversion rate by 700% (you can download the case study as a PDF).
-Universal Orlando improved online ticket sales 80% over the previous year in just the first few months after launching a site we helped them restructure with personas. (You can read the case study from Harris Interactive on ClickZ.)
Hope those help!
[...] Recently I came across this article about personas and headlines at Psychotactics. And of course, over at GrokDotCom, the Eisenberg brothers et.al. know a lot of reasons to like and use personas. [...]
I still like one source.
When a visitor enters a site from one source and comes back at a later
date from a different source, how does GA count the referral from the
second visit – is it still from the original source, or the new
Example: A new visitor enters the site through a Google CPC ad. GA
counts this visit under the Google CPC source. The same visitor has
now bookmarked the site and comes back 2 weeks later. Is this second
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[...] Everybody's favorite radio station – what's in it for me. Are you speaking to the reader about what matters to them? And are you speaking their language? Different personality preferences have different ways of engaging with your content and making decisions. This is where (and why) using personas to decide your content strategy can be so valuable in improving your conversion rate. [...]
[...] Everybody's favorite radio station – Ca l'est pour moi en tout cas. Parlent-ils avec leurs lecteurs de ce qui comptent pour eux ? Parlent-ils leur langage ? Différents types de visiteurs ont différentes manières d'appréhender le même contenu de votre site. C'est pourquoi la technique des personas pour définir votre content strategy peut être si bénéfique sur votre taux de transformation. [...]
How could you boot conversation to 400% ? It's so great for running and grow up your business
Fantastic post. We'll be using persona's in our healthcare offering to combat chronic diseases. Thanks,
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Posted: Jun 30, 2014 6:15 PM
Updated: Jun 30, 2014 8:54 PM
EDINBURG - A telephone number on the back of a belt buckle helped Hidalgo County Sheriff's Department investigators identify the body of a young illegal immigrant.
Interim Sheriff Jose E. Guerra said the body was badly decomposed. The telephone number on the buckle led them to the 11-year-old boy's brother in Chicago.
"Three phone numbers were located on the body. One in particular was located behind the belt buckle. Through further investigation, contact was made via one of the phone numbers to a person that identified himself as the brother of the 11-year-old male," Guerra said.
The man identified the body as that of Gilberto Francisco Ramos Juarez of Guatemala.
"The brother in Chicago gave us the phone number to his father in Guatemala," Guerra said.
"Through the joint efforts with the Guatemalan consulate, the sworn statement was obtained from the presumed father of the deceased male who provided the specific clothing description of what his son was last seen wearing," Guerra said.
The man told investigators Gilberto was travelling with a group of illegal immigrants, including his uncle and a human smuggler. The uncle was reportedly detained by the feds after crossing the border.
The man in Chicago said the last time he heard from his brother was when he called from Reynosa in late May. The body was discovered on June 15.
Guerra said the body had no shirt.
"The pathologist believes ... that's a sign of heatstroke; however we're still pending a toxicology report from the pathologist," Guerra said.
"I don't know if you've seen a body in the hot sun for two weeks. The remains, as far as the tissue, is pretty bad. It's just solid black," Guerra said.
Investigators are not certain, but they believe the boy was headed to Chicago to be with his brother. His father had told him to contact the number on his belt buckle as soon as he crossed into the United States.