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Low Carb Diet: The Complete Low Carb Diet Plan: Low Carb Diet Cookbook And Low Carb Diet Recipes To Lose ...
, 2014
Low Carb Diet: The Complete Low Carb Diet Plan - Low Carb Diet Cookbook And Low Carb Diet Recipes To Lose Weight Quickly, Prevent Diseases, Boost Metabolism And Look Beautiful Today only, get Low Carb Diet: The Complete Low Carb Diet Plan and Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device. This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to lose all the excess pounds by making some changes on the foods that you eat. In ...
Slow-Cook Yourself Skinny (Low Fat, Low Calorie Slow Cooker Meals Book 1)
, 2014
A BRAND NEW COOKBOOK BY: SARA WINLET If you are trying to lose weight, you will want to meet your new best friend, your slow cooker. This low calorie slow cooker recipe book makes it easy to cook healthy, affordable meals without spending hours in the kitchen. At 450 calories or less per serving, these stew, chicken, beef, and pork recipes will help you lose weight as you enjoy delicious, nutritious meals.
High Fat Low Carb Recipes: Top 36 Easy & Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes For Rapid Weight Loss (slow cooker ...
, 2014
High Fat Low-Carb Recipes Top 36 Easy & Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes For Rapid Weight Loss Losing weight and be difficult, and all those recipes that take forever to make are not a big help when it comes to the busy, every day person. Don't fret! This book is filled with recipes that will help you lose weight as well as keep you satiated. They're all recipes that can be done in the slow cooker, so that you can start it before you go to ...
Low fat recipes that boosts the metabolism: Free gift inside (best healthy cookbooks)
, 2014
An excellent book. A perfect combination of good taste and health. Highly recommended. Daniel Bosh , member of FPA So, what can you find in this book? 121 Low-fat recipes - whether you are on a diet or not, low fat foods will help you maintain your weight! Boosting your metabolism - combined with physical activity will do wonders to your body! Recipes that are easy to make and delicious - no need to explain why this is good, right? ...
Low Carb, High Fat Food Revolution: Advice and Recipes to Improve Your Health and Reduce Your Weight
Andreas Eenfeldt
Skyhorse Publishing
, 2014
You hear miraculous stories in the news all the time—a man loses 370 pounds, another is able to return ten of his twelve medications at the pharmacy, and an epileptic child suddenly stops having seizures—each experiences a miraculous change in health, all from simply changing his or her diet. Fascinatingly, these stories all have one thing in common; the subjects started eating the opposite of what they had previously been told was healthy. ...
Fat Fast Cookbook: 50 Easy Recipes to Jump Start Your Low Carb Weight Loss
Dana Carpender
Amy Dungan
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CarbSmart Publishing
, 2013
Jump-Start Your Low Carb Weight Loss with Fat Fast Cookbook! Are you having trouble losing weight, even on the Atkins Induction phase? Have you lost weight successfully on low carb, but hit a plateau or started to regain weight even though you're still following your low carb diet? Are you looking for a way to add more healthy fat to your low carb diet? If you suspect you've been doing something wrong, we've got your solution. ...
200 Low-Carb, High-Fat Recipes: Easy Recipes to Jumpstart Your Low-Carb Weight Loss
Dana Carpender
Fair Winds Press
, 2014
Drop the Pounds Permanently with the Hottest New Diet Craze! You've hit it before - the dreaded weight-loss plateau that you just can't break through. No matter what, the pounds won't go even with calorie counting and traditional low-carb diets. Turns out there is a secret weapon to losing weight - fat (and lots of it). After decades of taking butter, bacon, eggs, and avocados off the table, it turns out that fats are far better for beating ...
High Fat and Low Carb: Top 30 Easy & Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes for Rapid Weight Loss-high carb low ...
, 2014
What Everyone ought to know about High Fat & Low Carb Recipes Today only, get this Amazon bestseller for just $0.99. Regularly priced at $4.99. Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device. You're about to discover how to... Losing weight and be difficult, and all those recipes that take forever to make are not a big help when it comes to the busy, every day person. Don't fret! This book is filled with recipes that ...
Low Carb High Fat No Hunger Diet: Lose Weight With A Ketogenic Hybrid
Veronica Childs
Laura Childs
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
, 2014
Lose Weight with Real Food: The Low Carb High Fat, No Hunger Diet Update: Laura Childs has lost over 50 pounds at 50 years old. Collectively the authors have lost over 100 pounds. What if we told you that you can lose a considerable amount of weight before you have to put on that bridesmaid dress next month? In time for your vacation? Or drop enough weight in the first 10 weeks to fit into your high school jeans - just in time for that high ...
Low Carb High Fat Recipes for the 1.5 - 2 Quarts Slow Cooker. Top 30 Healthy and Delicious Crockpot Recipes ...
, 2014
Low Carb High Fat Recipes for the 1.5 - 2 Quarts Slow Cooker Top 30 Healthy and Delicious Crockpot Recipes for Weight Watchers and For Those Who Just Love Healthy Eating * * * LIMITED TIME OFFER 50% OFF!(Regularly Priced At $5.99) * * * You look for recipes for your slow cooker and unfortunately, the recipes you find are way too large for your single serve slow cooker that is only 1.5 to 2 Quarts? To make matters worse, you might be on ...
Low Fat Desserts: Discover The Most Delicious, Scrumptious Low Fat Desserts Fit For A King! (Low Fat ...
, 2014
The Most Delicious Low Fat Desserts You Will Ever Taste! Today only, get this e-book for just $2.99. Regularly priced at $4.99. Read on your PC, Mac, smart phone, tablet or Kindle device. You're about to discover how to make simple, easy low fat desserts that your whole family can enjoy. Do you love your sweet desserts but always feel guilty having them? Well in "Low Fat Desserts" you will learn the simple process of making desserts ...
Low-Fat & Low-Carb Sauces: Dukan Diet Friendly Recipes (Delicious Dieting Book 2)
, 2013
Are you tired of preparing fish or meat the same old way over and over? Do you love your low-carb diet, but wish it could be more exciting? Would you like to spice up your dishes with natural, home-made, low-fat, diet friendly sauces? If yes, then read on, this book is for you! Book highlights: - 39 tried and tested recipes - Dukan Diet friendly recipes - recipes are: sugar-free, low fat, and low carb - 5 categories: Mayos, Dips, ...
American Heart Association Low-Fat, Low-Cholesterol Cookbook, 4th edition: Delicious Recipes to Help Lower ...
American Heart Association
Clarkson Potter
, 2010
Eat wisely, eat well. The nation's most trusted authority on heart-healthy living presents the fourth edition of this classic cookbook, with the most up-to-date information on heart health and nutrition—including the effects of saturated and trans fats and cholesterol—and 50 exciting new recipes. American Heart Association Low-Fat, Low-Cholesterol Cookbook offers more than 200 delicious, easy-to-prepare dishes, including: •Fresh ...
Low-Fat Love (Social Fictions)
Patricia Leavy
Sense Publishers
, 2011
Low-Fat Love unfolds over three seasons as Prilly Greene and Janice Goldwyn, adversarial editors at a New York press, experience personal change relating to the men (and absence of women) in their lives. Ultimately, each woman is pushed to confront her own image of herself, exploring her insecurities, the stagnation in her life and her reasons for having settled for low-fat love. Along with Prilly and Janice, a cast of offbeat characters' ...
High Fat Low Carb Griddle Recipes. Top 20 Simple & Healthy Griddler Recipes For Rapid Weight Loss: (Panini ...
, 2014
High Fat Low Carb Griddle Recipes Top 20 Simple & Healthy Griddler Recipes For Rapid Weight Loss (Panini Press & Indoor Grilling Cookbook for Weight Watchers) You've bought an Electric Griddler (panini press), f.ex. Cuisinart Griddler, but now what? This pan is a lot more versatile than you might think. As well as allowing fat to drain away from the meat, the charring produced by the bars creates an intense, savory taste that brings ...
The Everything Low-Cholesterol Cookbook: Keep you heart healthy with 300 delicious low-fat, low-carb recipes
Linda Larsen
Adams Media
, 2008
Good fats, bad fats, trans fats . . . eating right may sound complicated but it doesn't have to be. You can eat well and keep your cholesterol levels in check. In The Everything Low-Cholesterol Cookbook you'll find 300 mouth-watering recipes that are low fat and low sodium including: Chocolate Pancakes Cinnamon Hazelnut Scones Stuffed Jalapeño Peppers Creamy Grilled Cheese Sandwiches Chunky Irish Potato Leek Soup Texas BBQ Chicken Thighs Corned ...
EAT-FAT ∆ GET-FIT: The Complete Low Carb Diet and Lifestyle Guide (Everything you need to know and succeed ...
, 2014
With thirty chapters and over 260 pages, the EAT-FAT Δ GET-FIT diet and lifestyle guide builds a comprehensive and powerful case to adopt a Low Carbohydrate High Fat (LCHF) diet. EAT-FAT Δ GET-FIT shows you how to achieve your optimum healthy weight, dramatically increase your level of fitness, and more importantly improve the key bio-metric medical markers of good health. The book exposes the influence of the food and medical industries as ...
Low Fat Diet Recipes - 52 Low Fat Recipes for Breakfast, Lunch and Snacks with Weight Watchers Points ...
Low-fat eating remains the most popular and medically sound way to lose weight and maintain good health. Here is a bundle of 2 of my top favorite recipes books - 52 Low Fat Diet Recipes for Breakfast, Lunch and Snack. Weight watchers points are also included. Point values are given for every recipe based on the nutritional makeup of the dish. Foods that are rich in protein and fiber are assigned less points, and they represent the most filling ...
Low Carb Diet Cookbook: Quick And Easy Low Carb Recipes For Extreme Weight Loss (Low Carb Diet and Weight ...
, 2014
Discover the best cookbook on low carb diet recipes that are tasty, easy to prepare and will make you effortlessly lose weight. Let's be honest, there are a lot of low carb diet cookbooks out there and if you are checking this one, then you have probably bought other books. You are most likely familiar with the basics of a low carb diet and what you're really looking for is practical recipes and new ideas to add to your everyday ...
20 Easy Low Carb High Protein Recipes to Lose Weight Fast and Feel Great.: Low Carb High Protein Diet (low ...
, 2014
20 Easy Low Carb High Protein Recipes to Lose Weight Fast and Feel Great. Low Carb High Protein Diet This book is a great quick read that is filled with healthy information on the right way to go on a high protein low carbohydrate diet. Within these pages you will be offered safe and healthy suggestions on how to go onto the diet in a way that will be most beneficial for you. There are hundreds of high protein diets out there but there ...
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A great article of future of cloud IDEs: The Cloud IDE and its impact on DevOps by Chris Riley (@HoardingInfo).
The article makes a number of excellent points.
Many developers will oppose the Cloud IDE without much consideration. They will site claims that they are more efficient with their slightly better than notepad, notepad. Or that they don't have time to learn a new IDE. Or that they need the local offline instance. But really I've found that these are all just excuses. It does not take long to adapt to a new IDE. I know this from experience changing from Visual Studio, to NetBeans, to Eclipse, to Orion, to Cloud9 all in one week. And I did not find at any point I was just totally lost. The excuse that really gets me is the offline need. At the surface this seems like a strong argument, but, lets face it. If the internet goes out, no developer is doing any work anyway. And if your internet goes out that often. Your doing it wrong.
These are all very good points. From my personal experience, developers are very picky, they don't like change, and they don't like someone telling them to use some new cloud IDE. The offline issue used to be a sticking point but nowadays it's becoming pretty difficult to find a place without internet. If no internet or WiFi is available, people can get online by tethering their mobile devices or via MiFi devices. Many airlines offer or installing WiFi on their planes.
Because it is a hard sell. I don't think the flood of adoption is going to happen for a year or so. And I see adoption happening bottom-up with individual developers versus whole teams. But in the next few years as organizations take development operations as it's own internal practice. They will look at standardizing IDEs as a way to decrease variance and increase efficiency, and at this point whole teams will consider moving to a Cloud IDE.
Enterprises are slow to change but I believe that in the next 3-5 years, most development will be done in the cloud. Enterprise that refuse to change will be disrupted. Most people probably didn't think email can be in the cloud (Gmail). Most people probably didn't believe CRM can be in the cloud (Salesforce). Most people didn't think the word processing could be in the cloud (Google Drive, Office 360).
For organizations considering the move to DevOps but do not know where to start, the Cloud IDE is a low risk great place to get going and start introducing the other concepts of DevOps.
With cloud IDE's there is nothing to download, install, and configure. Developers can usually start developing within a few minutes after signing up. For example, starting building mobile apps is almost instantly after you sign up with the Appery.io cloud IDE.
The good news for any developer who is on the fence with Cloud IDEs, is that, at the very least it's something that can be tested in minuets. If nothing else you can add some more meat to your opinion as to why or why not to use them.
If the cloud IDE doesn't meet your needs today, you can always come back in six months and try it again. You won't have to download and upgrade anything. Anytime you sign in, you get the latest features.
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10 writing hacks to overcome perfectionism and just start spitting it out
Kevin Wofsy wrote this post on March 05, 2015
Last week, I hosted a writers workshop for the whole company. It was something I'd been talking about with Kyle (one of the Keen founders) for a while, but it had been hard to get started. I felt performance anxiety to make it amazing and shower everyone with genius words of wisdom about how to be totally awesome as a writer. That kind of pressure is tough, but it's so hard to get around it when you're in charge of something and supposedly an expert.
But then Kyle said something that made it all feel okay: "Don't worry about it. Just make it a prototype."
A prototype, I thought. That's genius. So it doesn't even count! It's just for practice. Suddenly I was excited instead of scared. And I realized I had just found inspiration for the theme of the workshop: Perfection Is Poison.
I latched onto this theme because I'd noticed I wasn't the only one in the company who got tripped up by perfectionism, especially when it came time to write something. Impostor Syndrome, Writers Block, Generalized Creative Anxiety, they're all close cousins on the neurotic freakout spectrum (NFS).
The question for the writers workshop was: how best to overcome them? Could inspirational ideals be helpful? I guess, maybe. But what about cheap tricks and gimmicks? Could they help, too? I was pretty sure the answer was yes.
So here they are: the top ten writing hacks to overcome perfectionism and just start spitting it out.
1) Call it a prototype. Whatever you're writing, decide from the start that it's just for practice. It doesn't count. No one even has to see it. You have no plans for it. It has no title. It barely exists. So just dive in and type around and see what happens.
2) Pretend it's an email. You know how it's so much easier to write in your own voice when you're just sending an email? Okay, open your email, pick a friend to put in the To: box, start Dear so-and-so, I'm writing up this thing and I just want to make it sound natural, so you're my secret guinea pig/muse/recipient/conspirator. And you don't even know it! Then keep going.
3) Have a conversation instead. Kind of like emails, conversations have that way of being so damn conversational. They just can't help it. Jot down some notes about your idea and get someone to listen and ask you questions. Have them write down the phrases they like best. Or just record it.
4) Break it down. 1,000 words too much to ask? Try just answering a few questions, ideally in pen. (Hand-written always feels lower stakes, especially if your handwriting is horrible like mine.) Who are you talking to? What is the one thing you want them to know? What are three examples/variations/anecdotes about that thing? Get that down and now you have something to aim for. (You don't have to call it an outline. That's too formal and confining. Feels too much like middle school.)
5) Share it too soon! Yes, before it's ready, when it's still obviously rough, before you've had a chance to edit out the best phrase because you decide it's stupid, and before you've worked on it long enough to have any reasonable expectation of "quality," let alone "perfection." Chances are your reader will find something great in there to organize around. Worst case, you'll be able to say, "I only spent an hour on this. What do you expect?"
6) Get a buddy. I know, it's not the gym and we're not doing squats or jerks (or whatever athletes do at the gym. I'm a writer; I have no idea). Point is, it's easier to share something too soon if you've got someone else doing the same thing. Mutual vulnerability and accountability.
7) Do a reality check. What's the thing you're most afraid of? Name it. Ask someone if it's rational. For me with my writing, my biggest fear is that I'll write something lame and everyone who previously admired my writing will suddenly say to themselves, "Oh my god, we were so wrong! You have no talent at all! We were giving you credit you don't deserve! In fact, you are completely worthless! Not just as a writer. As a human being!" At our workshop, I asked my colleagues if that is how they would respond in the event that I wrote something that wasn't my best work. They laughed and said, "Of course not!" (but half of them acknowledged they had the exact same fear).
Note: I'm not saying I won't write something lame. In fact, this might be that very thing. But it's not reasonable to think that your whole reputation as a writer and human being is on the line every time you write a new sentence.
8) Specify what feedback you want. You know what's dangerous? Showing writing to someone and saying, "Well, what do you think?" In the absence of any guidance, that reviewer may have a field day on a worm can you didn't even know was in the pantry. (Triple-mixed-metaphor: 10 points.) If you're mostly curious how they react to the topic, ask for feedback on that. If you're definitely sold on the topic but curious about the flow, ask how they think it flows. If you plan to publish this afternoon and want a set of eyes to look for typos or glaring errors, ask for that. Help the reviewer be helpful.
Not sure what feedback to ask for? Try these two questions: 1) What do you like about the piece? 2) What is unclear or unnecessary? (Feel uncomfortable asking those questions? Say you got them from a blog post.)
9) Ignore all this advice. If you've got a system that works, fine, do that instead. But then why did you click on a post with this title?
10) Don't have 10 things in a list. It's very tempting to go with ten, but it feels inauthentic and forced. Avoid it.
I hope some of this was helpful to you. Full disclosure, this is my fourth attempt to write something to share the most valuable takeaways from our workshop (second attempt written entirely inside a Yahoo mail window). I'm going to send it to the friend I put in the To: column now because it's still too soon to share it. I'd have to be crazy to send it now.
If you have any sneaky tricks to share, please add them in the comments (assuming I go ahead and post this later). And if you feel like attacking me as a human being, go right ahead. I can take it.
Now please fire up your email and start working on a prototype. It doesn't count and no one will even know.
Kevin Wofsy wrote this post on March 05, 2015
The Social Authoring Experiment
Alexa Meyer wrote this post on March 04, 2015
We are excited to be supporting Keen IO community members in AirPair's social authoring experiment!
What exactly does this mean? Well, have you ever tracked changes in MS Word and thought "there has to be a better way?!" Us too! AirPair has released some pretty cool features that allow authors and readers to collaborate on posts on github, just like normal code via forks and pull requests. Over the next 12 weeks you can submit posts and collaborate with the community on the best tutorials, opinion pieces and tales of using Keen IO, Firebase, RethinkDB, Twilio, and others in production.One of our community members, Mark Shust already submitted an awesome post about Making a Keen IO Dashboard Real-time by Integrating it with Firebase & D3.js. You can check it out, leave a review, and make edits!
Submit your posts here.
Have questions or just want to toss an idea by us? Feel free to reach out to us.
Alexa Meyer wrote this post on March 04, 2015
A note about rate limits
Cory Watson wrote this post on March 03, 2015
Our #1 job here at Keen IO is to maintain the reliability and stability of our API. As you might expect, we've put a number of limits and protections in place to safeguard the service and make sure existing customers are protected.
Today, we had a couple questions come up about the forms of limiting we've employed over the last couple weeks. In all the hubub we may've lacked a clear explanation of each, so I'll give one now. We also updated our documentation related to each of these today. If anything below is unclear, shoot us a question!
Rate Limits
Keen's had this for a long time. They limit the number of queries a customer can perform within a 60 second window. These limits are enforced at the project level. These limits are pretty high at about 1,000 a minute.
You can see these limits in our docs here.
Note: Rate limiting is soon going to be improved significantly. This may change our limits. We'll talk about that more when the time comes.
Concurrency Limits
This is a new limit, and it's enforced per-Organization and has two parts: Only ~24 queries are allowed to be executing simultaneously in each data center Only ~24 queries are allowed to be pending execution in each data center
These limits are documented here.
Concurrency limits are both new and pretty severe right now. We'd love to raise them in the future when we can handle it.
Fast Failure
This isn't a rate limit per se. It's a combined guarantee and protection feature. If we haven't been able to begin executing your query within 10 seconds, we will send it back to you with a failure. This feature is going to get an improvement tomorrow to make it work more like what I just said above. Today it's allowing some queries to hang around a bit longer.
Fast failure is documented here.
Why Do These Limits Exist Now?
For a number of reasons around performance and system health, these are the limits we've put in place to keep averages reasonable given our ability to execute queries. We'd like them to be higher, but they are what they are until we can improve performance within the stack.
Long story short: As new customers stretch the platform new ways, we want to make sure existing customers are protected. We've grown really fast and we're having trouble keeping up. We've been working super hard over the last week to get things to a stable place. Now we can start aiming for making it faster. :)
If you have any questions about rate limits, please reach out to us!
Cory Watson wrote this post on March 03, 2015
Platform Stability AMA Recap
Josh Dzielak wrote this post on March 02, 2015
Peter, Brad, and I hosted an AMA about recent platform instability on February 27th. It was a chance for our community to ask about what's been up with the API lately and how we're addressing it. Here are a few highlights from the conversation, fit and trimmed for readability. Editing notes are in brackets. The AMA itself contains the full, unedited versions.
Nima: We're also an analytics company dealing with billions of events each month, and have 3 layers of redundancy that last up to 60 days in our system – I was surprised to see that you only keep your queues for a week.
Josh: Most data is off of Kafka and persisted to Cassandra in multiple replicas, multiple data centers, within 5 seconds of receipt. When the write path gets backed up that delay can turn into hours, but a week isn't something we anticipated because we hadn't considered a failover scenario where data in the previous DC still needed to be ingested a week later. We haven't decided exactly what we want to do about this. Storing Kafka logs longer is one option but that's a difference in degree, not kind. My hunch right now is that we'll build in warnings into the monitoring stack for this a la "Hey dummy, this data is going to be reclaimed and isn't permanently persisted yet!"
Nima: We're having discussions on building even more of our analytics on top of Keen (client events -> engineering dash-boarding) – but it's hard to make that decision due to the recent events; especially when no real plan has been shared with the customers around what you'll do to address these issues.
Josh: Here are some of the plans we have in store:
- Index optimization, which will improve query performance and reduce Cassandra I/O generally. Expect to see a document about this on the dev group next week. We're trying to share more of this stuff, earlier, for transparency but also feedback (we know many of y'all are pretty smart about this stuff)
- Cassandra and Astyanax / Cassandra driver work. There are a few optimizations we've identified that will reduce the % of Cassandra reads & writes that have to be coordinated to nodes that don't own the row key in question. Big drop in I/O and increase in performance to be gained.
- Hardware. Kafka, Zookeeper, Storm, and Cassandra are continuously getting new metal.
Nima: So I guess the question is: what are the plans? How will you scale up faster than your customers are scaling?
Josh: The question of how we scale up faster than customers is favorite of mine. Fundamentally I think it comes down to people. Another kind of "monitoring" we have in place is this – "Is Keen a great place to work for distributed systems engineers?" If the answer is "Yes!" than we have the opportunity to address performance and scale challenges with the brightest minds out there. I think that gives us as good a shot as any to keep up with your (very impressive!) growth.
Jody: I've heard to write good software, you have to write it twice. What are some of the major things you'd do differently if you had to rebuild keen from the ground up?
Josh: I have heard that too, and I'd say at LEAST twice. Here are a few things I would have done differently [geared specifically toward our distributed Java stack]:
- Not use Storm's DRPC component to handle queries. It wasn't as battle-tested as I'd hoped and I missed that. We spent a lot of time chasing down issues with it, and it's partially responsible for queries that seem to run forever but not return anything. Thankfully due to the work of Cory et. al. we have a new service Pine that to replace DRPC and all queries are running on it now. It has queueing and more intelligent rate limiting and customer isolation.
- Greater isolation of write and read code & operational paths. The semantics of failure are very different in writes vs. reads (you can re-try failed reads, but not un-captured writes). To be honest it took us a few bruises in 2013 & 2014 to really drill that into our design philosophy. Most of our stack is pretty well separated today, but we could have saved some headaches and customer impact by doing it earlier.
- More monitoring, more visibility, earlier. Anything to ease the operational burden across our team during incidents and prevent stress and burnout.
Steve: I would be interested in your dev plans over the next 3-6 months especially on the query API.
Peter: Over the next 3-6 months our dev plans revolve around performance, consistency, and scalability. We intend that these architectural changes set us up for future feature expansion. Doors we'd like to open include custom secondary indices, greater filter complexity, chained queries, and increased ability to do data transformation. I'm happy to share more of my excitement around what the future holds if you're curious :)
Rob: We've been using Keen for a while now and I recommend you guys to everyone I know. It looks like you're having some success, which is awesome, but with that, issues scaling. How do you intend to improve performance even while you scale?
Brad: Thanks so much for your support Rob. There are a few things that we are doing to be able to improve performance as we scale. We are looking at making our systems more efficient, further down the road looking at new capabilities in terms of how we service queries and writes as the come into the system. We are currently on the second major iteration of our architecture which is a result of looking at how we can better serve our customers.
Nariman: Any updates on the read inconsistency issue? We first reported this in January and continue to see it in production as of yesterday. The problem hasn't changed since it was first reported, it includes null timestamp and other null properties.
Brad: We have a number of areas which require repair and I have made it through about a quarter of the data as we ran into a few operational issues around doing the repairs. That said, we are now running full steam ahead on the repairs and monitoring them closely and making sure we don't run them so fast they cause other issues in our infrastructure. This is my top priority and I have all the support I need to get this done.
Marios: You mention that you use Cassandra, are there scenarios where Cassandra's conflict resolution may result in customer data loss/corruption?
Peter: In the past we ran into issues with Cassandra's concept of Last Write Wins ("doomstones" and clock drift). Currently, the majority of our consistency issues are due to unforeseen edge cases in node failure scenarios.
Lee: I have been thinking about querying Keen overnight for consistency and replaying (when possible) if this check fails. Do you have a recommended procedure for replaying events over a questionable period? Thoughts on this?
Josh: [the first part of the answer goes into how, this is the 2nd part] Would I recommend it? It depends. If individual events have a very high impact (e.g. financial / you're using them to bill customers) than if it were me I'd keep my own rolling record of events over some period of time. The Internet and natural disasters and the entropy of an expanding universe can never be ruled out. Most compliance directives & regulations mandate this anyway.
That said, one of our design goals for Keen is that in the general case you shouldn't have to do that. The amount of write downtime Keen had last year can be stated in single-digit hours. We hate that we have a period with 1-2% inconsistent data, believe me, but mobile apps suffer connectivity issues, people run AdBlock on the web, batteries in sensors unexpectedly die – single-digit error percentages creep into the analytics equation way before data is sent to Keen. The question you have to ponder is a cost/benefit – the cost of building/maintaining verification vs. the cost to you / your business when more error creeps in than usual (because Keen or something else fails in an unexpected way).
There's no one right answer. It really depends on what you're tracking, your cost & time constraints, and in some sense your belief that the resiliency of the Internet and downstream services like Keen will get more reliable over time. I believe they (and we) will. Part of why I wanted to have this AMA, and more in the future, is to share the transparency I have into what's going on at Keen so you have more information with which to form your own beliefs.
That's it for the quick summaries. You can read all ~35 posts in full on the AMA itself.
I want to pre-emptively acknolwedge that we didn't get into as much of the nitty gritty tech stuff as I had hoped. There is a still a technical postmortem on the way and I'm happy to use that as a starter for another conversation on the developer group.
A special thanks to everyone who dropped by to chat with us. We learned a lot and your participation was really inspiring.
Josh Dzielak wrote this post on March 02, 2015
Net Neutrality and Startups: Talking with the FCC and Congress about an Open Internet
Alexa Meyer wrote this post on February 27, 2015
Yesterday marked a huge moment in the fight for net neutrality and an open internet. After years of contention and debate, the FCC voted to ensure that the internet remains an open utility uncontrolled by corporate interests. If you're anything like us, you're probably breathing a huge sigh of relief.
We're also super proud, though, that a member of the Keen team had the opportunity to speak to members of the FCC and Congress on the subject of net neutrality on the eve of this critical vote.
Two weeks ago, our very own Dan Kador joined a handful of representatives from other startups in a fly-in to Washington D.C. to offer up some perspective on how the policy could affect the startup industry. Here's Dan with more info on exactly what went down:
How and why did you get brought into this whole thing? The FCC invited a bunch of startups to discuss net neutrality, right? For what reason? What other startups were invited along with you?
Caroline [part of our Advocacy team] sent us an email from a group called Engine. They were looking to send startup folks who are interested in net neutrality to Washington D.C. to speak with members of the FCC, House, and Senate. I connected with them, and they were eager to get a group together before the FCC announced its decision.
Washington is used to hearing from the big guys. Comcast, Verizon, even Netflix – they're the ones spending garbage bags full of money on this. They don't get to hear from young companies like ours, and they're eager to hear our perspectives.
Alongside Keen, we had representation from Vimeo, Etsy, Foursquare, Union Square Ventures, Bigger Markets, Capitol Bells, and Spend Consciously.
What was the itinerary like? Where did you go? Who did you speak to? What was the format? What did they ask you?
They call it a "fly-in". We take one day and try to have as many meetings as possible. I flew into D.C. Wednesday night. We met as a group Thursday morning at the Mandarin Oriental, then walked over to the FCC. Our first meeting was with FCC Commissioner Rosenworcel and her staff. We introduced ourselves and then discussed why net neutrality was important to us. Rosenworcel is an ally, so we spent much of the meeting talking about how we could best use our time in DC with people who weren't as aligned with us.
Then we met with members of FCC Chairman Wheeler's staff. This meeting was mostly spent on digging into some of the specific details of what the FCC might rule on. Things like interconnection, paid prioritization, and zero rating. Our goal was to have the FCC write rules that were as simple and as clear as possible.
After that, we had a series of meetings with staff of various senators and representatives. In these meetings, we had a few goals. The biggest was to impress upon them that we wanted them to support the FCC's decision. One big risk is that Congress might wade into this debate and try to legislate. Our belief is that we can get much stronger and better protections if the FCC is left to its own devices. Any legislation that passes the Republican-controlled Congress is going to be worse for net neutrality than what the FCC has now passed.
What were the points that you made in these discussions? Basically, why do you think net neutrality is important – both as an average person and as someone at a startup?
There were a couple important points we were trying to make.
First, that net neutrality is essential for entrepreneurship, especially in tech. Without net neutrality, large incumbents could easily pay to enforce their monopoly over a particular industry. Imagine if Comcast could charge its internet subscribers extra for access to the next YouTube but give access to Hulu for free? It would stifle innovation.
We also wanted to make the point that startups need simple and understandable rules for how to bring complaints. If I have a reasonable belief that I'm being made to pay more for my service's traffic, I need a quick and easy way to bring that complaint to the FCC and have action taken quickly. Otherwise, there would be a strong stifling effect on innovation. Imagine if the process involved spending millions of dollars on lawyers and several years? No startup could grow under those circumstances.
As an average person, this is really important. One of the main reasons we've seen so much innovation over the last 30 years is because of the internet. If it suddenly became an uneven playground, we'd see a lot less growth. I don't want a small group of ISPs deciding what technology wins and what technology dies. I want consumers to decide. We get that with net neutrality.
Last, but definitely not least, I think high-speed access to the internet is a fundamental human right at this point and the FCC's ruling helps protect that.
That's Dan in the middle, with the bowtie!
Anyway, we don't want to say that Keen helped definitely save the Internet or anything, but we're super proud that we had the chance to speak on behalf of startups like us. Great job, Dan!
Alexa Meyer wrote this post on February 27, 2015
How I Went From 60,000 Readers to 1 in One Year
Michelle Wetzler wrote this post on February 25, 2015
When I started writing publicly on this blog in 2012, it opened it up a whole new world to me. One of my posts was published in an O'Reilly book. Another became part of the entrepreneurship curriculum at Harvard Business School, where I was invited to guest lecture. Several of my posts got upwards of 50k views. Suddenly, people I met in San Francisco already "knew" me from the blog. Folks wrote me personal emails asking for career advice. Werner Vogels, the CTO of amazon, retweeted one of my pieces to his 65,000 followers. It was incredibly rewarding.
Then… something changed.
When our company scaled from 8 people to 15, I started a draft about how hard that was, and what worked, and what didn't. After several weeks, half of those ideas were already being disproven. We were going so fast. Defeated, I abandoned the draft and stopped blogging completely. That was a year ago.
But, looking back, it wasn't my writing that was blocked, it was the sharing that I'd stopped doing.
In fact, after a 10+ years hiatus, I'd started writing letters again, to my now-pregnant childhood friend, back home in Illinois. Writing to her is as effortless as talking.
I told my friend about all the biggest things that were going in my life, which to be honest were 99% company-related. I told her about the teammate we knew we needed to let go, and how we were too chicken to do it. I told her about raising our Series A funding, and my mixed feelings about what that meant to me and my husband, and our company. I confessed about how surprisingly intimate it can be to work closely with people you trust & admire, and how confusing those feelings can be sometimes.
When she told me about how she was finally getting over morning sickness, I told her I couldn't think about having kids anymore, because I was completely emotionally maxed out. By that point the company was 30 people and I felt personally responsible for all of them. That letter is where I finally admitted to myself how ridiculously I'd over-extended myself. It was such a relief.
When I look back, I've learned so much over the last year, and have a lot of regrets about not publishing any of it.
The truth of the matter is, I am fucking terrified of sharing any of this type of stuff publicly. It's a mix of Imposter Syndrome and outright Fear.
Here are some examples of thoughts I have:
- Why would anyone care about what you have to say? Your story isn't special. Keep your ego in check.
- Your writing is mediocre at best. You just got lucky in the past because your friends up-voted your posts on Hacker News.
- Our company has a brand now. That some people actually know about. Don't screw it up.
- The only reason people liked your posts was because you are a female and they were trying to be nice.
- People already think the only reason you have this job is because your husband is the CEO. Blabbing about stuff you don't really know that much about on the internet is not going to help your case.
- If you write about your company, your friends and family back home are going to think you're bragging about your success.
Taken one by one, these doubts are pretty easy to argue against, but the combination of them can feel like quicksand. With practice, we can all learn to quiet these voices, but it takes hard work.
Then there's the straight-up Actual Risks category of anxieties. This is a special category that disproportionately affects women & minorities in the tech community. It's the threat of the trolls, the misogynists, the racists, the rape threats. It's accidentally getting your company DDOS'd because you complained at a conference. It's the stalker-fan who sends you explicit messages through every channel, and knowing there's nothing you can do about it except hope they don't show up on your doorstep. This special kind of fear is a topic for entirely separate article, but I wanted to mention it briefly because it is a very real and true blocker for so many of us, particularly women in technology.
DESPITE all these doubts & fears. I still think it's worth it to write.
So, this is me reminding myself:
- of all the helpful posts I've read and how glad I am that people shared them. To pay it forward.
- of the thank you notes and tweets I've gotten, for the stuff I wrote that really helped people.
- that unlike a lot of other types of work, content keeps on giving long after you've published it, and it always seems worth it in hindsight
- that I have a responsibility to the tech community. to do my part so that it's not only men's voices talking about technology and entrepreneurship.
- that publishing has been some of the most rewarding work I have done in my career, and that it's incredibly fulfilling. that doing it for myself might be reason enough.
Peace & Love,
Michelle Wetzler wrote this post on February 25, 2015
Query Performance Update
John Shim wrote this post on February 18, 2015
It's been a rough couple of months for Keen IO customers – if you've been tracking Keen's Status Page recently, you've probably noticed that we've reported a large number of incidents that have negatively impacted query performance for all of our customers.
We've been posting follow-up information for individual incidents on the Status Page, but we wanted to take some time to:
- Acknowledge that there has been a pattern of frequent degraded query performance issues which is not acceptable to us
- Provide you with more insight into why query performance has been suffering lately
- Explain what we are doing to improve query performance
Why Has Query Performance Been So Variable?
Unanticipated Query Patterns
We deliberately designed Keen to be a very flexible analytics solution, and provided a set of APIs to Collect, Analyze, and Visualize data. Given the flexibility of the API and the growth of Keen IO, we've started to see customers using Keen and running Keen analysis queries that we didn't anticipate and therefore we don't handle gracefully.
Hardware/Infrastructure Issues
We've had a streak of bad luck with our hardware and physical infrastructure and haven't done a great job managing their impact on our service: a network outage with our hosting provider, a hardware failure, a Cassandra node failure, and a misconfigured setting on our front-end API servers.
Increased Volume
The use of Keen IO by our customers has grown tremendously over the last several months, and we've run into some issues at scale that haven't presented themselves before. A significant increase in events and queries has caused the platform to misbehave in different and unanticipated ways.
The combination of these issues has put a lot of strain on our platform, and query performance has suffered as a result.
That said, Keen should be able to handle increased customer volume, accommodate unanticipated query patterns, and keep running even when hardware/infrastructure fails. As a platform provider, it's our job to anticipate and plan for these issues so that our customers don't have to. We know that we need to do better. And we will!
What We're Doing to Improve Query Performance
In the Short Term
We've started providing more prescriptive guidance on how to optimize queries by publishing a Query Performance Guide. We're also working on a new version of our documentation to ensure that customers know how to optimally use Keen across the board.
We're also currently rolling out some new internal tools to our infrastructure that will provide us much better visibility into customer query patterns, allowing us to implement better quality of service for our Analytics API and helping us harden our platform against unanticipated spikes in query volume.
Finally, we're actively working on revising our query rate limits, and will be providing more detail on this very soon.
Longer-Term Fixes
In addition to those short-term tactical fixes, we're currently implementing low-level changes to our Cassandra infrastructure to better identify, isolate, and remove performance bottlenecks in our platform.
It's important to note that rolling out fixes while maintaining an active platform for customers will not be an overnight process. The "timeframe to resolution" on this should be thought of in weeks, not days. We're shoring up our infrastructure now to harden the platform – not just for today's requirements, but to keep us up and running well into the future.
We are really, really sorry for the hassle and inconvenience you've had to put up with lately. "Scaling is hard" is an explanation, not an excuse. It's our job to ensure that what we've built can stand up and perform well for all of our customers, regardless of what load we put on it, and we're committed to keep working and improving so we can provide all of our customers a rock-solid analytics platform that can be depended on.
We've hit some bumps in the road. We know how frustrating it is for you and your customers when things aren't working, and we're working incredibly hard to make things right. We're confident things will get better and we hope you all stick with us while we're making these improvements.
If you have any questions, please reach out to us anytime at firstname.lastname@example.com.
John Shim wrote this post on February 18, 2015
Updating Keen's API Status Codes
Cory Watson wrote this post on February 11, 2015
This week we're pleased to ship some small changes to make our API responses a bit more precise when a problem is encountered. We're doing this by changing a few of our HTTP status codes. We've gone over our SDKs to verify everything will continue to behave as expected, but we wanted to be sure and communicate these changes to the folks who've built such wonderful stuff on top of our API: you!
Better Than 400
Most of our errors return a status code of 400. This gets the point across, but it doesn't necessarily identify the specific problem in such a way that an API user can react accordingly. A developer would need to examine the error message string, which is not nearly as simple as looking at the status code! To that end, here is the summary of changes:
- Events that are too large (either single or in batch) will now return a 413, representing "request entity too large."
- Trying to delete a "keen" property will return a 403, representing "forbidden."
- API endpoints that have been blocked due to lack of payment will return a 402, representing "payment required."
And One More Thing: Query Timeouts
There's one other change that's a bit bigger. Query timeouts used to return a 400, but they now return a 503, representing a "gateway timeout." This is a more correct answer because responses in the 4XX range signal that the client has made a mistake. Queries timing out are clearly a problem with Keen, and we should be making that clear in our responses!
Anything Else?
These changes improve our SDK's ability to take proper action on certain failures, improve our ability to monitor patterns of status codes, and all-around make our API better. We look forward to continuing to improve our API both in capabilities and correctness in the future. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to shoot an email to email@example.com. Thanks for building things with Keen!
Cory Watson wrote this post on February 11, 2015
7 Lessons from Heavybit's DevGuild
Ricky Vidrio wrote this post on February 11, 2015
I wanted to share with you my takeaways from Heavybit's DevGuild. It was a great event with over 200 people coming together to focus on developer community-building.
One of the best parts of DevGuild was meeting so many fresh faces who are passionate about Developer Evangelism. Josh Dzielak was the emcee and Tim Falls eloquently gave a talk called, "Measuring developer evangelism…or not!?" Josh always keeps the crowd energized and Tim's man bun was on point! You can check out all of the talks on Heavybit's website.
So knowledgeable and full of man-bunly goodness!
Some solid learnings:
- You don't have to be intimidated or embarrassed about the word evangelism. This word can potentially have some negative connotations but you have control over how you represent yourself. Mainly, you have valuable information to share. Share it with the right people.
- You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
- Don't just get measurements. Ask why you're measuring!
- "Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count."- Albert Einstein
- Don't underestimate the value of face-to-face interactions to build trust and develop relationships with your network. Building communities is an art. Connect your differences.
- Big NO NO's: 1. Not knowing your product very well 2. Drinking too much coffee (jitters) 3. Not buying the beer 4. Being a bridge to nowhere
- The red sauce on the veggie platter from Bi-rite is spicy and awkwardly tangy
Plus, the event raised over $2735 for a local charity, the Canon Kip Senior Center {WAAAAPPOOWWW!!!}.
I had a blast meeting other Developer Evangelists and I talked to many people who said that they had to really fight to convince their management team that Developer Evangelism is important and should be invested in. We had some great conversations about metrics and tangible items that you can and cannot measure.
The field of Developer Evangelism is developing very quickly. It's exciting and it makes all the difference knowing you are part of a team you can trust to represent your product in the very best way! Now go out there and share all that amazing information you have in those beautiful heads of yours.
Ricky Vidrio wrote this post on February 11, 2015
Top 12 new features and tools you might not know about
Kevin Wofsy wrote this post on January 29, 2015
If you're using Keen, you might have wondered: what's the easiest way to build a dashboard? Or how can I get the fastest queries? Or how can I set up automatic reports? And maybe you've also wondered, where can I go to see all the latest features in one place? Well, wonder no more because here it is!
New API Features
Query caching (in private beta) - Get super-fast responses by setting preferences for when to use cached results
Custom intervals - Break up query results into any sub-timeframe, such as 'every_10_minutes'
Funnels enhancements - Add actors and optional steps to analyze complex funnels
User-agent parsing - If you send Keen IO a user agent string, we can parse it out into browser, device, etc. for you
Extraction API enhancements - Use 'property_names' param to extract only the relevant properties of your events or 'content_encoding' param to compress your CSV extractions for faster download
Query Performance Guide - Tips for speeding up query time, extra useful for large data sets
New Query, Viz, and Reporting Tools
keen-cli - Quickly run Keen queries, add events, and run maintenance directly from the command line
New JavaScript library - More ways to render charts, interact with data, and show query visualizations
Dashboard templates for Bootstrap - Super handy when it comes time to make those beautiful dashboards
Pushpop - Easy way to make nightly / weekly / monthly email reports and SMS alerts based on Keen queries
New Data Collection and Streaming Tools
Streaming to S3 - If you need to analyze your incoming data outside of Keen, we can stream it to an S3 server for you
Electric Imp and Tessel Integrations - great ways for Internet of Things (IoT) developers to add analytics to all their projects
We also want to share some happy data from 2014 about our top two priorities: reliability and scalability. Over the past year, we scaled Keen volume by 12X and maintained 99.99% uptime for the year :)
Want to stay up-to-date on all our new features and announcements? Join the Keen dev group, and follow us on Twitter. Here's to a Keenly awesome 2015!
This is the bar where we wrote this list. (Note: we later discovered we're better at making lists than playing bar trivia.)
Kevin Wofsy wrote this post on January 29, 2015


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The Davey Tree Expert Co. is partnering with a university's branch campus to offer a program allowing employees to earn an associate degree.
In conjunction with Kent State University Trumbull, Davey employees may earn an associate's degree through a combination of Davey in-house training and academic course work.
R.J. Laverne, Davey's manager of education and training, called the program an opportunity for Davey employees to further their professional development utilizing the resources of Davey's training as a foundation.
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Employees with a high school diploma or GED are eligible for the program, portions of which are available online. Davey employees interested in learning more may contact Sarah Helmick, assistant director, enrollment management and student services at Kent State Trumbull, at 330-675-8961.
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Sizzling Quatorze won the $20,000 maiden claiming event for King Star and trainer Juan C. Vazquez. The bay colt, bred in Kentucky by Ernest C. Frohboese, covered six furlongs in 1:11.37.
Consigned to the 2013 Keeneland September yearling sale by Romans Racing & Sales, agent, Sizzling Quatorze was sold to Jason Hall, agent, for $32,000. King Star and Juan Vazquez purchased Sizzling Quatorze earlier this year from Off the Hook, agent, for $10,000 at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s April sale of 2-year-olds.
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Me too. Big dude, I'd wanna be on his side when it all goes down
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How is Nick Bosa not a 5*? Doesn't seem fair. From all accounts that I've heard, he's supposed to be even better than his brother and his brother was a 5* and could be the number 1 overall pick (according to WalterFootball.com). Shouldn't he be like a 10* then? (Yes, I'm aware 10*s don't exist, I was exaggerating to make a point lol)
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He is the only man that could beat Chuck Norris in a fistfight.
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I just did.
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Pace was a once in ten lifetimes type of player. I would be shocked to see anyone play at his level ever again.
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I think Jared Lorenzen wins this contest hands down.
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In other words, "Dont be the idiot fan that drives him away from Ohio State. Be the respectful fan that draws him to the family that is #BuckeyeNation."
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Thank you all for the helpful (and even some hurtful) comments. I am blessed that my dad raised me to be a Buckeye, because the Buckeye family is truly amazing!
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Buckeye Nation will show these young men love no matter where they end up. Thank you for bringing us a National Championship before leaving. The history books will hold your names forever. Make us proud.
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I love that every time I see that block, I get to watch an Alabama football players soul die.
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Both starting QBs are B1G alumni
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No, Jordan Jefferson doesn't ring a bell, but I guess that proves your point.
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"Pretend we're relevant!"...Wasnt that Dave Brandon's motto?
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Its 1/19 and hatred of *ichigan still trumps winning a National Championship (judging by number of upvotes for each comment)
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Not without contracting some sort of nasty disease.
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Our QB depth chart logjam could actually be a selling point now. "Oh, you're worried about sitting 2nd or 3rd-string? Well, our 3rd-string QB started and won a B1G, Sugar Bowl, and National Championship. So, not only will you see the field, you can help navigate the team to the history books no matter where you're sitting at on the depth chart."
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Currently 30-29 in favor of Ms. Lawrence.
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In a survey conducted by Skyscanner, 61% of respondents said they would use their mobile devices during flights to make calls or send messages, if it were allowed.
SIXTY-ONE percent of international air travellers would use their mobile phones on flights if they could, according to a survey carried out by Skyscanner.
Currently, a third of air passengers turn on their phones, smartphones or tablets as soon as the plane touches down on the tarmac, as current restrictions on in-flight cellular communications require that they be off or in sleep mode.
But the well-established habit of turning off your device during take-off and landing could soon become a thing of the past. The US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) is now working to loosen these restrictions, as it has concluded that mobile devices no longer present a security risk on planes.
A number of airlines already offer a WiFi connection on flights, which can currently only be used after take-off and before landing. British Airways and American Airlines are among the carriers offering a WiFi connection to passengers for an additional fee, and Air France-KLM is currently running trials on a similar service before bringing it to all of its flights.
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A "gruesome" disclosure about Karl Wes McKay abusing Phoenix Sinclair was made public Wednesday by the lawyer representing his former spouse and some of his children.
In March 2006, a child-welfare worker took a phone call from the ex-partner of McKay, who was Phoenix's stepfather. The ex-partner's two sons "made a gruesome disclosure to her," said the report taken on March 6, 2006, by worker Randy Murdock.
They told her they saw McKay physically abusing the five-year-old daughter of McKay's partner, Samantha Kematch.
"They called it 'choking the chicken,' " the report said.
At the 2008 criminal trial, one of the boys testified McKay repeatedly played a "game" with Phoenix he called "chicken," which involved picking her up by the throat, wrapping both hands around her neck and "choking her out," the boy told court.
"Then he'd throw her to the ground," said the teen, noting visible finger marks would be left on her neck.
"She'd make this weird scream. It was like someone had cut off her arm, like she was screaming to death," he testified.
The child-welfare report released Wednesday described her death.
"The two boys also said Karl Wesley McKay threw the five-year-old girl down the stairs... the fall down the stairs broke her skull open."
Their mother reported it had happened in August 2005, and the little girl was buried in the backyard.
Phoenix's remains were discovered buried at the Fisher River Cree Nation dump in March 2006.
Phoenix had moved from Winnipeg to a home on the reserve in April 2005 with her mother, McKay, and the couple's baby.
McKay, who is 20 years older than Kematch, has children from previous relationships. Two of them were 13 and 15 at the time they made the disclosure to their mother. Their mother told the child-welfare worker she didn't know the name of the little girl they saw being abused.
She told Murdock she had reported the information to police, and her boys said she was a "rat."
The worker told her she wasn't a rat.
"I acknowledged that she is taking the proper steps to address this situation," Murdock wrote in his report.
The five-page disclosure was submitted by the lawyer for McKay's ex-partner and three of his children.
They're seeking a publication ban to protect their identities.
Those who testified at the murder trial of McKay and Kematch said they were harassed afterward because of their connection to McKay, who was found guilty in 2008, along with Kematch.
The lawyer, Bill Gange, said the potential witnesses at the public inquiry want to be able to testify from a remote location by TV monitor that only the commissioner can see. Like earlier sources of referral who've testified already, they don't want their names or faces published. A hearing on the motion for the publication ban takes place Feb. 26. The oft-delayed inquiry began in September and was delayed by legal wrangling until November.
Now it is on a three-week break and doesn't resume until March 4.
The inquiry was promised in 2006 and announced in 2011 with a mandate to find out how Phoenix slipped through Manitoba's child-welfare safety net.
She was in and out of care from the time she was born in 2000 and on and off the radar of Winnipeg Child and Family Services until she died in 2005.
The last contact Winnipeg CFS had with her family was in March 2005, when two social workers stood in the hallway talking to Kematch about an abuse complaint concerning Phoenix. They left without seeing the girl and closed her file.
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