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Maybe it is just me but i bought this thinking it was a pack based on there being 4 in the picture. Only one was mailed. Thought i was getting a great deal, now $6 is kind of… - Kathy, 11/19/13
nice key chain that makes you look like a climber without having to climb anything,… - Calais, 01/30/15 Washington
I'm in love with this mug. I would marry it if I could. It's the perfect size for morning coffee or camp wine. It's totally spill proof and clips on to your pack for easy trav… - Cale, 05/22/13 Pittsburgh, PA
This is the second day of using this mug, and I love it! It says dishwasher safe, but per another review regarding the leaky bottom/grip piece taking on water, I would suggest… - Melea, 12/10/14
These quick draws are not the lightest. They are not the sexiest. They don't have the best clearance or the perfect clipping feel. They are however solid and extremely functio… - Zachariah, 02/25/15
I dont really use it for the hardcore climbing (yet). I know i will when i get going, but for now i use it for my ENO Hammock instead of the heavy steel ones they give you.… - Daniel, 10/11/11
Nice, tough, affordable (I love Black Diamond) !! Personally, I use those carabiners for hanging my Hennessy hammock and it's really useful! I'll probably buy a bunch of !… - Olivier, 11/11/14 Québec
Works just as expected, has a very good gate clearance which makes for easy clipping. The size is very slightly bigger than most HMS biners (i think) but it's pretty good. Goo… - Miguel, 05/05/12 Prescott, AZ
The twist lock gate is way too easy to open and i could imagine it coming open from rope or gear sliding across it and pressing just the right way. I suggest trying it out fi… - DANIEL, 05/15/09 SAN FRANCISCO
These will be your first quick-draws and they will work just fine for you. As you climb and as your needs change, you'll change how you assess your equipment. You might even… - Spencer, 12/04/14 Kansas City that's not in Kansas
Great draws for sendin the most gnarly sport route. Super easy to clip.… - Brett, 01/16/14
I really love these quickdraws. They're at the top of the pile in innovation, and they just feel really good in my hands. That feeling of relief when you're clipping on your l… - John, 08/25/14
Good draws. Nice and light and the hood stops em from getting caught up. Can't complain about them being on my rack.… - Errol, 10/13/13
Little on a smallish side as a belay biner, but a good locker otherwise. Light.… - Goran, 03/27/13 Chicago
I grooved one out redirecting a hanging belay one time. I lowered one climber a few time while cleaning and climbing some harder multi pitch and put a serious grove in one of… - rob, 10/29/11 colorado
I would have usually thought twice about paying a premium for gimmicky features. However, I find the opposed magnets to be easier to unlock than a twist-lock or rotating sleev… - Nicholas, 10/22/13 Charlottesville
I really like the magnetron line since they are the easiest to operate of all the autolockers I have ever used. Specifically I use these to clip into the anchors on sport rout… - Joseph, 08/26/13
It's your standard carabiner, great for securing lines and clipping gear onto a bag quickly. It is pretty lightweight, but is also plenty strong enough for anything you could… - Casey, 07/27/12
I use these for slacklining on short to moderately long lines. Great for 1" webbing because it's wide enough to keep your line flat from anchor to anchor (I pair them with rap… - Sarah, 02/24/11
A good price. I find them a bit snaggy and a bit heavy, but that isn't much of a consideration for your first draws.… - Tamara, 03/29/14
I have draws of a few different brands and these are what go out with me. Smooth clipping, durable, and great value. Little heavy, but what can you expect from not-a-wiregate.… - JK, 11/26/11 Southern Utah
I have a set of these for my Camalot X4's. They're noticeably light weight, and are still a nice size for an easy clip. There's a little piece of metal at the top of the gate… - Evan, 11/04/14 Melbourne
These carabiners are a big upgrade from BD Neutrino carabiners in terns of light weight (from 37g to 28 gram) and sang-free design. However, they are also more expensive. I lo… - chunghao, 03/10/13 Gainesville FL
No complaints. The dogbones are stiff, which gives you a little distance for clipping, and they're also easy to pull on. Rope clipping is easy on the bent gate.… - Brad, 06/13/14
Best draw around, period. I refuse to carry any other draw on my rack. Clips well, does not get tangled or caught on ropes, bolts or harness loops. A little spendy compared… - Nathan, 03/21/14
Black Diamond Neutrinos allow me to select the camelot that I need quickly and with minimal effort. In addition the blue one matches my eyes. Mike Frankus… - michael, 02/08/11
I have these solely for the purpose of keeping my rack organized. It's nice to have a red neutrino to go with my Red BD C4 camalot, and the blue neutrino with my blue camalot.… - Stephanie, 05/06/10 New York
Ok. First off... They are light as heck. I had all 15 of them on my harness the other day for a 31m route and they didn't weigh me down. The gates are just right for clipping… - Charles, 09/15/12 Yangshuo, China
These have quickly become one of my go to pieces of gear. They are nice and light and work well on long trad routes. Some may prefer alpine slings for this, but I always prefe… - Joshua, 04/24/13 Boulder
Great product, top quality.... I've purchased 6 of these in the last 3 months.… - Aric, 07/04/14 Michigan
These bad boys offer the durability of a heavy draw, but are lighter than they appear. The rubber grommet on the clipping draw is perfect. To top it off, this draw is extremel… - Ryan, 12/29/13 Springfield
This biner if fantastic when you break out ropes and chains, but like all fun women it takes some work. There's a lot of unlocking and clicking that has to be done when you pu… - Carter, 09/09/14 The dry part of California
This carabiner is very difficult to open accidentally. But very easy to open with two fingers. Its unique shape minimizes the risk of cross loading. My only concern is the… - Glenn, 06/03/14 Champaign
Used this during work at a climbing gym with kids. They implemented this for extra safety. My experience from working there and coming across this after quite a lot of times i… - Zedong, 04/23/12
This biner really does preform well, keeping the crossloading to almost 0. The draw back is in the manucafturing of the gate spur. If you get your hands on one, run your finge… - Augustus David Andrew Knight, 07/28/11 Waitomo, New Zealand
It does it's job well as a biner, I particularly like this one cause it's easy and quick to use, plus, I have small hands and unlike some of the locking carabiners I can wrap… - maggie, 01/14/15 DFW
Magnetron is not actually a twist lock 'biner as Moosejaw implies, but it it's own style using magnets and two clasps on either side of the gate. I find it to be the easiest… - Todd, 07/27/14 United States
These are my new favorite wire gates. Super light, yet plenty big enough to put plenty of ropes and slings in. The overall shape feels good in the hand and is easy to manipula… - Chris, 07/09/14 San Diego
These things are awesome, very light! I love that they're full size, they minimize fumbling while wearing gloves. I use them for ice climbing, all my climbing actually... The… - David, 05/15/14 Homer, Alaska
At our gym, (where I work) we bought a bunch of these as belay carabiners staring out. At first they seemed ok, but as time went on we avoid them at all cost. seriously, if th… - Jeremy, 12/06/10 Amarillo, TX
So call it overkill, but I got this for my keys. Then i saw a force rating of 23 kN (Thats 5170 lbf for those of us who like converting units) believe it or not, during the sn… - jeff, 03/13/13 Kansas City
Bought a couple of these biners for top roping. Locking mechanisms works great and release when desired; still put them opposing, but haven't had an issue yet.… - Scot, 05/30/11
Pay attention to the measurements (small opening) but if you're looking for a small and light biner, this is it. Too small for an ATC but a solid biner for miscellaneous tasks… - John, 04/04/14 Berkley, MI
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Internal investigations are an indispensable part of a robust compliance program. When faced with potential misconduct, a company must have the right processes to manage an investigation to resolution.
Moreover, the investigation must facilitate a resolution without compounding risk to the company. The company (or its agents) cannot cross any applicable ethical or legal boundaries. In other words, the cure (the investigation) must not be worse than the disease (the alleged misconduct). Set forth below are suggestions to help ensure an investigation "stays inbounds."
Plan Ahead
A company should carefully develop, document, and follow its investigations protocol. That's not to say that every investigation must follow the precise course of action found in the protocol. Rather, the protocol should serve as a guideline to ensure the appropriate investigative response. Among other things, the protocol should address:
The events that trigger an inquiry, such as a hotline complaint;
Required internal notifications (to the chief compliance officer, general counsel, the audit committee, and so forth);
Required actions when an investigation relates to a regulatory probe;
Privilege considerations;
Selection of the investigator(s);
Data preservation;
Guidance for establishing the appropriate scope for the inquiry;
Privacy implications of the investigation;
When to engage outside help to support the inquiry;
The interview process;
When to create a written report, and what to include;
Required disclosures, based upon the investigation outcome; and
Implementation of remedial measures, if appropriate.
Tread Carefully
The typical workplace investigation isn't launched to save lives. Harsh interrogation tactics aren't appropriate or effective. Such tactics can impede efforts to arrive at the truth and can expose the company to legal claims, including outrageous conduct.
To mitigate this risk, investigators must be properly trained and supervised. Periodic training should help develop investigative skills (say, interviewing skills or report writing). Proper training includes creating awareness regarding differences in culture, gender, and other witness characteristics. Training also should broaden the investigators' understanding of the law implicated by every workplace probe (employment discrimination or privacy, for example). Such training also should remind investigators of their role in the risk-management process and the perils that can arise if they cross legal boundaries.
When faced with potential misconduct, a company must have the right processes to manage an investigation to resolution.
Generally, two company representatives should be present during interviews, especially for the accused employee's interview. Or, with the express consent of all interview participants, consider tape recording interviews. This will help deter false accusations of misconduct against the company's agents.
The interview location should be carefully selected to preserve confidentiality and protect witness sensibilities. Conduct interviews in a comfortable, private environment, such as a conference room where there can be plenty of physical space between the witness and the interviewers. Also, at the outset of the interview, in addition to any admonitions regarding confidentiality and privilege (if applicable), remind the witness of the company's anti-retaliation policy and the opportunity to take breaks during the interview.
In short, take reasonable steps to ensure that the process is respectful and conducive to determining the facts.
Access Information With Authorization
State and federal laws create risk for employers who monitor workplace communications without authorization. One source of risk is the federal wiretap law that prohibits the unauthorized acquisition of the content of an oral or electronic communication, and use or disclosure of an unlawfully intercepted communication. An extensive review of this law is beyond the scope of this article; suffice to say that the potential sanctions for violations of the law are severe. Liability (including criminal consequences) can extend to the company, the employees who facilitated the unlawful interception, and even the lawyer who used the fruits of the unlawful interception to defend a termination decision. Therefore, before accessing any information during an investigation, first make sure you understand and abide by legal controls applicable to access to the information in question.
Generally, employee consent can help eliminate the risk of a privacy breach claim. The federal wiretap law contains an express consent exception. Thus, employers are well advised to implement a workplace policy that limits employee workplace privacy expectations and dispels any expectation of privacy while communicating on company-provided resources. Also, be sure to widely disseminate the policy, enforce it consistently, and require employees to acknowledge it whenever they log on to a company-provided computer.
Even with such consent, investigators should limit access to employee e-mail and similar communications only to that information necessary to be reviewed for a thorough inquiry. Moreover, where a communication is between the employee and a person with whom a privilege claim may apply (attorney, doctor, clergy or spouse), the investigator should consult counsel before reading it.
Provide Due Process
Due process, simply described as an opportunity to be heard, is not a legal duty imposed on private-sector employers. But, generally terminated employees are less likely to sue if they are provided an opportunity to review and respond to the information gathered in the investigation and provide their own account of what happened. Sharing the relevant information with the accused before taking an employment action can also help reveal flaws in the information. This approach will help you get the investigation right and reduce the risk of a wrongful termination claim. Consider that if the employee sues you, factual information gathered from the investigation will likely be required to be produced during the discovery process, even if you conducted the investigation under privilege. In short, due process can save time and money.
If It's Broke, Fix It!
After finishing the investigation, review the information derived to assess whether broad remedial action, such as a process change, is necessary. To root out systemic problems, the compliance team should routinely partner with the internal audit team to explore whether an act of misconduct is the by-product of a broader deficiency in process or corporate controls.
As a "gut check," consider the guidance provided by the SEC's Seaboard Report, which can be found on the SEC's Website at Exchange Act Release No. 44969. This report suggests how the SEC will evaluate the sufficiency of a company's probe of matters within SEC purview. The factors cited in this report include:
How long after discovery of the misconduct did it take to implement an effective response?
Did the company commit to learn the truth, fully and expeditiously? Did it do a thorough review of the nature, extent, origins, and consequences of the conduct and related behavior?
Did the company adopt and ensure enforcement of new and more effective internal controls and procedures designed to prevent a recurrence of the misconduct?
Implementing an investigative process that fulfills these requirements will help ensure that the investigation is deemed credible by regulators.
Establish Adequate Oversight
If the investigation function is centralized in one group, there is a risk that it will become detached from the rest of the business. Such isolation may deprive the investigation team of the benefit of information and other resources that can ensure a consistent and robust process. To avoid this result, the investigation function should routinely calibrate with legal, HR and business units to assure that investigative processes remain appropriate and that any corrective action, including discipline, is consistent.


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In 1984 President Ronald Reagan declared July National Ice Cream Month. In honor of the month, we'll be celebrating this delicious food each week with Frozen Fridays, a series about Jews and ice cream.
People are fascinated with the idea of the afterlife and whether Jews believe in Heaven and Hell. Now, I'm no professional theologian, but I think that if I died and was greeted by a smiling minyan of Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, Mr. Häagen and Mrs. Dasz, Joseph Edy and Moshe-Lev Dreyer, Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins, Sharon Breyer and Malky "Dairy" Queen bearing free samples that, for me, would be heaven.
Perhaps to partly compensate for classifying ketchup as a vegetable, Ronald Reagan's gift to gastronomes was to proclaim the third Sunday in July National Ice Cream Day. As homage to Proclamation 5219 we convened a Forward think tank to test the tastes presented by two post-Reagan kosher ice cream outfits.
Due to a dearth of distribution depots it was difficult for our intrepid investigators to choose Chozen. Of their heritage-influenced flavors we were sadly unable to obtain Ronne's Ruglach, Chocolate Babka or Apples and Honey flavors. Having sampled Matzel Toff's excellent caramel and chocolate covered matzo in the past, we had high expectations for the Matzoh Crunch flavor but were sadly disappointed. Contrary to advertized, the slivers of unleavened bread were soggy and they lacked either a saltiness or nuttiness to give the ice cream dimension.
Our Canadian arty semite vouched for the Coconut Macaroon flavor which, he mumbled around mouthfuls, contained "a lot of coconut. Really has a lot of coconut. This has coconut!" And universal approbation came, not entirely unexpectedly, for the Chocolate Gelt flavor. Brooklyn foodster Devra Ferst noted that it tasted like "frozen hot chocolate." Which is not as oxymoronic as it sounds, but about as tasty. Plus the Gelt had coin sized solids in it which gave it a pleasing texture.
Editor Eisner finished the Gelt flavor off with relish after having, inexplicably, refused the tangy yogurt-flavored ice cream from Israeli upstart Screme. A relative newbie on the American scene, Screme is a spinoff from Israeli ice cremeurs, Aldo. It is, presumably, trying to take advantage of Israel's excellent reputation for dairy products — undoubtedly the result of its vast and lush meadowland upon which huge herds of happy cows graze.
Made from scratch every day, gelatos and sorbets from Screme face different challenges from Chozen tubs that can languish in freezers for weeks. Allison "YidLit" Yarrow is a popcorn maven and she was disappointed by the Popcorn flavor ice cream that she tried the day after it was purchased, whereas it was met with fairly widespread approval from the froznoscenti while it was fresh the night before.
Cookies and Screme was as sweet as advertized but it raised little interest from heavy-hitting news editor Larry Cohler-Esses who was sweet enough even before the cool treat. Biscotti Screme was also felt to be a little underwhelming although, perhaps, faithful to the flavor of the likewise underwhelming foodstuff, biscotti.
Naomi "Dasz" Zeveloff — champion of justice and soft-scoop — noted that the playing field was anything but level, trying ice creams at different temperatures and different ages. But, as the Gipper himself might have said, "Chill out, it's ice cream month, dude."
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Hmm interesting, yeah the past couple years the flood gates have been opened on "fan-fiction" so its impossible to figure out how it all fits together (graphic novels, comics, etc). If episodes VII-IX, lol, are really true reboots, that will be scary.
From what I've read years back, the story follows the 2 droids. it's not necessarily readily apparent, since they are not the "main characters". I've heard that Luke, Leia, etc. could have cameos, but I've also read that the story happens a bit past that point, with a new threat looming. Supposedly with the past character's Children being the new main characters. Luke's kids, Leia's twins, etc. I'm hoping for a bit less CGI and a bit more WRITING in the new movies. I'd love for the next movie to start with a mindblowingly evil event that shatters the peace since the collapse of the Empire. Also, I've read that Zahn's books are not to be figured into the new movies. So no, what was his name?? Thrawn??
Yeah, the Thrawn trilogy would have been nice, but I had read that the treatments George did for episodes 7-9 weren't allowed to be covered in the books. And the rumors are that the script will be written using those treatments so no Thrawn (he would have been a cool villain!)
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NEEDS GOING INTO THE OFFSEASON PRESUMING THE STEPS BELOW This isn't a large wish list compared to other years. Obviously, we have free agency, trades and the draft to fill these needs. I think the biggest effect of the no-cap year will be the additional flexibility in working out loing-term extensions for Brady, Welker and Moss. I suspect that it would help the negotiations with Brady for him to know that his two top weapons were staying for awhile. A) starting RG plus perhaps a developmental guard B) pass-rushing DE/OLB or two or three C) starting TE and perhaps a #3 TE (extending Watson would work for me) D) #3 wide receiver E) running back F) a shut-down corner (extending Bodden would work for me) OFFENSE (24) QB Brady, Hoyer, Stanback WR Moss, Welker, Edelman, Tate, Aiken RB Maroney, Taylor, Morris, Faulk, Green-Ellis TE Baker, Agnone OL Light, Mankins, Koppen, Connolly, Vollmer, Kaczur, LeVoir, Ohrnberger, Bussey DEFENSE (26) DL Warren, Wilfork, Wright, Brace, Pryor, Burgess OLB Banta-Cain, Thomas, Ninkovich, Woods, Crable ILB Mayo, Guyton, McKenzie, Alexander CB Wilhite, Butler, Springs, Wheatley, Arrington S Meriweather, McGowan, Chung, Sanders, Slater, Lockett SPECIALISTS (3 including one opening) K Gostkowski P open LS Ingram ====================== ERFA's and ERFA's I presume that there is no point worring about a few bucks. We will keep all our ERFA's and RFA's. We usually do anyway. That bring back Guyton, Lockett, Gost, Mankins, Woods and Connolly. FRANCHISEES I presume a franchise tag of Wilfork, or a contract extension. RE-SIGNS I expect us to re-sign Faulk and Burgess. I expect us to say good-bye to Neal and Green. Of course, others may be replaced or traded before the season starts. ====================================================================
I agree that Hanson will likely be re-signed, but he is not signed for the 2010 season now, and I would certainly not post that I thought that he should be re-signed. QUOTE=ctpatsfan77;1653164]Let's be honest: unless a miracle occurs, it'll probably be Hanson at punter again.[/QUOTE]
There are a few good punters in the draft... maybe a 7th? Mike Brandtner, Iowa St would be my first choice, but Zoltan Mesko, Michigan (what a name) would also be a great punter. In the future, Ryan Donahue, Iowa (2011 Draft) will be a mid-round target on my list if Hanson is still in New England. Okay, no more talking about punters for at least a month for me.
I was a strong supporter for the pick of Ingram. Lots of us had him being drafted by the patriots. Now, if Belichick thinks we NEED a punter this year, I would certainly support using a 6th or 7th for that purpose. I think several posters suggested that last year.
For some perverse reason, in the last few years punters have started coming off the board in the third and fourth rounds; IIRC, in at least two of the last five years the first punter came off before the first kicker did.


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Chatter (move)
Move data
Type | Flying |
Category | Special Special |
Power | 65 |
Accuracy | 100 |
PP | 20 (max. 32) |
Introduced | Generation 4 |
Chatter deals damage and causes the target to become confused. Confused Pokémon have a 50% chance of hurting themselves each turn, for 1-4 turns. The damage received is as if the Pokémon attacks itself with a typeless 40 base power Physical attack.
Pokémon with the ability Own Tempo or those behind a Substitute cannot be confused.
In Generations 4-5, Chatter has base power 60.
In Generations 4-5, the player's voice can be recorded and this recording is played back when the move is used. The louder the recording, the more likely Chatter is to cause confusion. The chance of confusion can be 1%, 11% or 31% for a low, medium or high volume respectively.
Chatot was previously banned from online play due to the possibility of inappropriate phrases being recorded with Chatter (although the recording is always somewhat distorted).
Move target
Targets any single Pokemon on the field including non-adjacent ones.
Game descriptions
Diamond/Pearl Platinum HeartGold/SoulSilver | The user attacks using a sound wave based on words it has learned. It may also confuse the foe. |
Black/White Black 2/White 2 | The user attacks using a sound wave based on words it has learned. It may also confuse the target. |
X/Y | The user attacks using a sound wave based on words it has learned. This confuses the target. |
Learnt by level up
These Pokémon learn Chatter at the level specified. The numbers given are for Pokémon X & Y and may vary in other games; check the respective Pokédex pages for details.


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Atul Gawande on Medicine's Promise and Limits
Surgeon and writer Atul Gawande's new book, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, examines how well doctors do their jobs, and how they could improve their craft.
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Some people are just better than others, and arguably, Atul Gawande is one of them. He's a MacArthur Genius Award fellow. He's also a surgeon, and he's a writer. His latest book is called "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance." It looks at how well doctors do their jobs and why they could do even better.
I asked Atul Gawande why those in the medical profession have to be better than just good enough.
Dr. ATUL GAWANDE (Surgeon; Author, "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance'): You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications. And we feel like that's enormous success, and yet three percent of the time in a country of 300 million people is an awful lot of injury to people that we could help try to avoid.
And the second thing is there's a bell curve. There are some people who are getting fabulous results. We have not looked to what those people are doing that's different from everybody else. But when we look, you start to see stories that tell you a lot more about what we can do to close the gap between what we already know how to do and what we actually do.
BRAND: Let's talk about the hand washing. Because hospital infections - they are a huge, huge problem. And yet, it is notoriously difficult to get doctors or nurses or any other medical professionals to routinely wash their hands. Why is that?
Dr. GAWANDE: Yeah. If you think about, you know, what's the difference with people who are great at washing their hands and those who are not, it's not that they, you know, scrub under the nails extra special carefully. They are people who recognize that in the course of the day, you might take care of 50, 75 people and have to wash your hands 100, 150 times. And there barriers to getting it done. There are barriers all around.
You know, for a nurse who has to wash her hands, or his hands, 100 times in the course of eight hours, that can - at a minute per time - that's already getting up to almost a couple of hours of your entire shift your washing hands. It's not tenable. So the people who are great at zeroing in on this look for the possibilities of failure.
They started doing things in Pittsburg, for example, like making sure that they switch entirely to alcohol-based gels, because it only took 15 seconds. They moved gloves and gowns right into the patient rooms where they could be used. They made sure dressings were available, so you weren't running back and forth. You had to think about failure in a decisive way and recognize that what we have isn't good enough.
BRAND: And you chronicle some innovations in this field, and yet they haven't seem to have caught on nationwide.
Dr. GAWANDE: Yeah. Part of it is because we haven't imagined, I think, the problem in the right way. Instead, we put obstacles in their way. And so in Pittsburg, I talk about a hospital that actually got rid of these infections. And it's partly because they looked at, what is our infection rate? They publicized it. They made themselves transparent in way that makes a lot of us uncomfortable. And then, they went to the staffs and said, what do you know that could make this better, and let's actually do it.
And it had this level of attention to detail about performance in medicine that we usually reserve just for, you know, the laboratory.
BRAND: You have a whole section in your book about malpractice and the huge amounts of insurance that doctors have to carry to fight malpractice suits. And I'm just wondering if you do admit that you're not the best at something, if you do go the way you're suggesting and having the performance published, don't you just open yourself up to lawsuits or formal complaints filed against you, or a whole host of legal problems that doctors already have to contend with?
Dr. GAWANDE: Yeah, the malpractice system is - gets in our way of being able to do good. But at the same time, it serves a certain purpose which we have to be willing to replace if we are going to argue against that system. You know, it is a system that tries to do something to help people who are harmed by what we do. And we do owe people we hurt something, especially when we've hurt them because of a mistake. Now, the reality of this system we have is that it's only one percent who actually get compensation when they are harmed.
And also, there's a large proportion of people who sue, but don't deserve compensation because they just had a bad outcome where there wasn't an error. And that's just is a sign of a kind of a broken system. I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard about them, even despite the malpractice system. I mean, there are things that we can do to make that system better. But in the meantime, we can't say, well, you know, the malpractice system's in the way, therefore I can't think hard about these problems.
You know, there's human skills, and it's not just science. It's not just algorithms and statistics. But there is also some general pattern to the recognition that, you know, we do 40 million operations a year in the country. It's not just a craft if we want to make sure that we save as many of those people as possible. We also have to be willing to recognize that it's - that there are obstacles in the system that prevent care from being very good, and that there are directions that you can push the whole community to go, the decision making to change, so that you're saving more of those lives.
And part of what I try to weave together in this story is there's some sense of how you deal in a world with risk, acknowledge the humanity and individuality of people, but get all the advantages you can from the science and the statistics to let us get the best possible results.
BRAND: Atul Gawande, thank you very much for speaking with us.
Dr. AGAWANDE: And thank you.
BRAND: Atul Gawande is a writer and a surgeon. He's the author of the new book "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance."
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Yesod Web Framework: Installing application dependencies using Stackage, sandboxes, and freezing
Installing Haskell packages is still a pain. But I believe the community has some good enough workarounds that puts Haskell on par with a lot of other programming languages. The problem is mostly that the tools and techniques are newer, do not always integrate easily, and are still lacking some automation.
My strategy for successful installation:
- Install through Stackage
- Use a sandbox when you start having complexities
- freeze (application) dependencies
Simple definitions:
- Stackage is Stable Hackage: a curated list of packages that are guaranteed to work together
- A sandbox is a project-local package installation
- Freezing is specifying exact dependency versions.
I really hope that Stackage (and sandboxes to a certain extent) are temporary workarounds before we have an amazing installation system such as backpack. But right now, I think this is the best general-purpose solution we have. There are other tools that you can use if you are not on Windows:
- hsenv (instead of sandboxes)
- nix (instead of Stackage and sandboxes)
hsenv has been a great tool that I have used in the past, but I personally don't think that sandboxing at the shell level with hsenv is the best choice architecturally. I don't want to have a sandbox name on my command line to remind me that it is working correctly, I just want cabal to handle sandboxes automatically.
Using StackageSee the Stackage documentation. You just need to change the remote-repo setting in your ~/.cabal/config file.
Stackage is a curated list of packages that are guaranteed to work together. Stackage solves dependency hell with exclusive and inclusive package snapshots, but it cannot be used on every project.
Stackage offers 2 package lists: exclusive, and inclusive. Exclusive includes only packages vetted by Stackage. Exclusive will always work, even for global installations. This has the nice effect of speeding up installation and keeping your disk usage low, whereas if you default to using sandboxes and you are making minor fixes to libraries you can end up with huge disk usage. However, you may eventually need packages not on Stackage, at which point you will need to use the inclusive snapshot. At some point you will be dealing with conflicts between projects, and then you definitely need to start using sandboxes. The biggest problem with Stackage is that you may need a newer version of a package than what is on the exclusive list. At that point you definitely need to stop using Stackage and start using a sandbox.
If you think a project has complex dependencies, which probably includes most applications in a team work setting, you will probably want to start with a sandbox.
Sandboxescabal sandbox initA sandbox is a project-local package installation. It solves the problem of installation conflicts with other projects (either actively over-writing each-other or passively sabotaging install problems). However, the biggest problem with sandboxes is that unlike Stackage exclusive, you still have no guarantee that cabal will be able to figure out how to install your dependencies.
sandboxes are mostly orthogonal to Stackage. If you can use Stackage exclusive, you should, and if you never did a cabal update, you would have no need for a sandbox with Stackage exclusive. When I am making minor library patches, I try to just use my global package database with Stackage to avoid bloating disk usage from redundant installs.
So even with Stackage we are going to end up wanting to create sandboxes. But we would still like to use Stackage in our sandbox: this will give us the highest probability of a successful install. Unfortunately, Stackage (remote-repo) integration does not work for a sandbox.
The good news is that there is a patch for Cabal that has already been merged (but not yet released). Even better news is that you can use Stackage with a sandbox today! Cabal recognizes a cabal.config file which specifies a list of constraints that must be met, and we can set that to use Stackage.
cabal sandbox init curl http://www.stackage.org/alias/fpcomplete/unstable-ghc78-exclusive/cabal.config > cabal.config cabal install --only-depFreezingThere is a problem with our wonderful setup: what happens when our package is installed on another location? If we are developing a library, we need to figure out how to make it work everywhere, so this is not as much of an issue.
Application builders on the other hand need to produce reliable, re-producible builds to guarantee correct application behavior. Haskellers have attempted to do this in the .cabal file by pegging versions. But .cabal file versioning is meant for library authors to specify maximum version ranges that a library author hopes will work with their package. Pegging packages to specific versions in a .cabal file will eventually fail because there are dependencies of dependencies that are not listed in the .cabal file and thus not pegged. The previous section's usage of a cabal.config has a similar issue since only packages from Stackage are pegged, but Hackage packages are not.
The solution to this is to freeze your dependencies:
cabal freezeThis writes out a new cabal.config (overwriting any existing cabal.config). Checking in this cabal.config file guarantees that everyone on your team will be able to reproduce the exact same build of Haskell dependencies. That gets us into upgrade issues that will be discussed.
It is also worth noting that there is still a rare situation in which freezing won't work properly because packages can be edited on Hackage.
Installation workflowLets go over an installation workflow:
cabal sandbox init curl http://www.stackage.org/alias/fpcomplete/unstable-ghc78-exclusive/cabal.config > cabal.config cabal install --only-depAn application developer will then want to freeze their dependencies.
cabal freeze git add cabal.config git commit cabal.configUpgrading packagescabal-install should provide us with a cabal upgrade [PACKAGE-VERSION] command. That would perform an upgrade of the package to the version specified, but also perform a conservative upgrade of any transitive dependencies of that package. Unfortunately, we have to do upgrades manually.
One option for upgrading is to just wipe out your cabal.config and do a fresh re-install.
rm cabal.config rm -r .cabal-sandbox cabal sandbox init curl http://www.stackage.org/alias/fpcomplete/unstable-ghc78-exclusive/cabal.config > cabal.config cabal update cabal install --only-dep cabal freezeWith this approach all your dependencies can change so you need to re-test your entire application. So to make this more efficient you are probably going to want to think about upgrading more dependencies than what you originally had in mind to avoid doing this process again a week from now.
The other extreme is to become the solver. Manually tinker with the cabal.config until you figure out the upgrade plan that cabal install --only-dep will accept. In between, you can attempt to leverage the fact that cabal already tries to perform conservative upgrades once you have packages installed.
rm cabal.config curl http://www.stackage.org/alias/fpcomplete/unstable-ghc78-exclusive/cabal.config > cabal.config cabal update cabal install --only-dep --force-reinstalls cabal freezeYou can make a first attempt without the --force-reinstalls flag, but the flag is likely to be necessary.
If you can no longer use Stackage because you need newer versions of the exclusive packages, then your workflow will be the same as above without the curl step. But you will have a greater desire to manually tinker with the cabal.config file. This process usually consists mostly of deleting constraints or changing them to be a lower bound.
ConclusionUpgrading packages is still a horrible experience.
However, for a fresh install, using Stackage, sandboxes, and freezing works amazingly well. Of course, once you are unable to use Stackage because you need different exclusive versions you will encounter installation troubles. But if you originally started based off of Stackage and try to perform conservative upgrades, you may still find your situation easier to navigate because you have already greatly reduced the search space for cabal. And if you are freezing versions and checking in the cabal.config, the great thing is that you can experiment with installing new dependencies but can always revert back to the last known working dependencies.
Using these techniques I am able to get cabal to reliably install complex dependency trees with very few issues and to get consistent application builds.
Yesod Web Framework: The case for curation: Stackage and the PVP
A number of months back there was a long series of discussions around the Package Versioning Policy (PVP), and in particular the policy of putting in preemptive upper bounds (that is to say, placing upper bounds before it is proven that they are necessary). Eventually, the conversation died down, and I left some points unsaid in the interests of letting that conversation die. Now that Neil Mitchell kicked up the dust again, I may as well get a few ideas out there.
tl;dr Stackage is simply better tooling, and we should be using better tooling instead of arguing policy. The PVP upper bounds advocates are arguing for a world without sin, and such a world doesn't exist. Get started with Stackage now.
This blog post will be a bit unusual. Since I'm so used to seeing questions, criticisms, and misinformation on this topic, I'm going to interject commonly stated memes throughout this blog post and answer them directly. Hopefully this doesn't cause too much confusion.
As most people reading this are probably aware, I manage the Stackage project. I have a firm belief that the PVP discussions we've been having are, essentially, meaningless for the general use case, and simply improving our tool chain is the right answer. Stackage is one crucial component of that improvement.
But Stackage doesn't really help end users, it's nothing more than a CI system for Hackage. The initial Stackage work may have counted as that, but Stackage was never intended to just be behind the scenes. Stackage server provides a very user-friendly solution for solving packaging problems. While I hope to continue improving the ecosystem- together with the Haskell Platform and Cabal maintainers- Stackage server is already a huge leap forward for most users today. (See also: GPS Haskell.)
The PVP is composed of multiple ideas. I'd like to break it into:
- A method for versioning packages based on API changes.
- How lower bounds should be set on dependencies.
- How upper bounds should be set on dependencies.
Just about everyone I've spoken to agrees with the PVP on (1) and (2), the only question comes up with point (3). The arguments go like this: preemptive upper bounds add a lot of maintainer overhead by requiring them to upload new versions of packages to relax version bounds regularly. (This is somewhat mitigated by the new cabal file editing feature of Hackage, but that has its own problems.) On the other hand, to quote some people on Reddit:
I'd rather make a release that relaxes bounds rather than have EVERY previous version suddenly become unusable for folks
that upper bounds should not be viewed as handcuffs, but rather as useful information about the range of dependencies that is known to work. This information makes the solver's job easier. If you don't provide them, your packages are guaranteed to break as t -> ∞.
These statements are simply false. I can guarantee you with absolute certainty that, regardless of the presence of upper bounds, I will be able to continue to build software written against yesod 1.4 (or any other library/version I'm using today) indefinitely. I may have to use the same compiler version and fiddle with shared libraries a bit if I update my OS. But this notion that packages magically break is simply false.
But I have some code that built two months ago, and I opened it today and it doesn't work! I didn't say that the standard Haskell toolchain supports this correctly. I'm saying that the absence of upper bounds doesn't guarantee that a problem will exist.
Without dancing around the issue any further, let me cut to the heart of the problem: our toolchain makes it the job of every end user to find a consistent build plan. Finding such a build plan is inherently a hard problem, so why are we pushing the work downstream? Furthermore, it's terrible practice for working with teams. The entire team should be working in the same package environment, not each working on "whatever cabal-install decided it should try to build today."
There's a well known, time-tested solution to this problem: curation. It's simple: we have a central person/team/organization that figures out consistent sets of packages, and then provides them to downstream users. Downstream users then never have to deal with battling against large sets of dependencies.
But isn't curation a difficult, time-consuming process? How can the Haskell community support that? Firstly, that's not really an important question, since the curation is already happening. Even if it took a full-time staff of 10 people working around the clock, if the work is already done, it's done. In practice, now that the Stackage infrastructure is in place, curation probably averages out to 2 hours of my time a week, unless Edward Kmett decides to release a new version of one of his packages.
This constant arguing around PVP upper bounds truly baffles me, because every discussion I've seen of it seems to completely disregard the fact that there's an improved toolchain around for which all of the PVP upper bound arguments are simply null and void. And let me clarify that statement: I'm not saying Stackage answers the PVP upper bound question. I'm saying that- for the vast majority of users- Stackage makes the answer to the question irrelevant. If you are using Stackage, it makes not one bit of difference to you whether a package has upper bounds or not.
And for the record, Stackage isn't the only solution to the problem that makes the PVP upper bound question irrelevant. Having cabal-install automatically determine upper bounds based on upload dates is entirely possible. I in fact already implemented such a system, and sent it for review to two of the staunchest PVP-upper-bounds advocates I interact with. I didn't actually receive any concrete feedback.
So that brings me back to my point: why are we constantly arguing about this issue which clearly has good arguments on both sides, when we could instead just upgrade our tooling and do away with the problem?
But surely upper bounds do affect some users, right? For one, it affects the people doing curation itself (that's me). I can tell you without any doubt that PVP upper bounds makes my life more difficult during curation. I've figured out ways to work around it, so I don't feel like trying to convince people to change their opinions. It also affects people who aren't using Stackage or some other improved tooling. And my question to those people is: why not?
I'd like to close by addressing the idea that the PVP is "a solution." Obviously that's a vague statement, because we have to define "the problem." So I'll define the problem as: someone types cabal install foo and it doesn't install. Let me count the ways that PVP upper bounds fail to completely solve this problem:
- The newest release of foo may have a bug in it, and cabal has no way of knowing it.
- One of the dependencies of foo may have a bug in it, and for whatever reason cabal chooses that version.
- foo doesn't include PVP upper bounds and a new version of a dependency breaks it. (See comment below if you don't like this point.)
- Some of the dependencies of foo don't include PVP upper bounds, and a new version of the transitive dependencies break things.
- There's a semantic change in a point release which causes tests to fail. (You do test your environments before using them, right? Because Stackage does.)
- I've been really good and included PVP upper bounds, and only depended on packages that include PVP upper bounds. But I slipped up and had a mistake in a cabal file once. Now cabal chooses an invalid build plan.
- All of the truly legitimate reasons why the build may fail: no version of the package was ever buildable, no version of the package was ever compatible with your version of GHC or OS, it requires something installed system wide that you don't have, etc.
That's not fair, point (3) says that the policy doesn't help if you don't follow it, that's a catch 22! Nope, that's exactly my point. A policy on its own does not enforce anything. A tooling solution can enforce invariants. Claiming that the PVP will simply solve dependency problems is built around the idea of universal compliance, lack of mistakes, historical compliance, and the PVP itself covering all possible build issues. None of these claims hold up in the real world.
To go comically over the top: assuming the PVP will solve dependency problems is hoping to live in a world without sin. We must accept the PVP into our hearts. If we have a build problem, we must have faith that it is because we did not trust the PVP truly enough. The sin is not with the cabal dependency solver, it is with ourselves. If we ever strayed from the path of the PVP, we must repent of our evil ways, and return unto the PVP, for the PVP is good. I'm a religious man. My religion just happens to not be the PVP.
I'm not claiming that Stackage solves every single reason why a build fails. The points under (7), for example, are not addressed. However, maybe of the common problems people face- and, I'd argue, the vast majority of issues that confuse and plague users- are addressed by simply moving over to Stackage.
If you haven't already, I highly recommend you give Stackage a try today.
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Yet while Marquez enjoyed a stellar career while campaigning at lightweight, it was Pacquiao who blossomed into a crossover superstar and global phenomenon, adding world titles at 135, 140, 147 and 154 pounds, winning election to Congress in the Philippines and being named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. That was the backdrop for the third fight, which saw Marquez nearly engineer a seismic upset despite the 7-to-1 odds against him. For a fighter who's made his name on exciting, crowd-pleasing performances, Pacquiao's most recent outings have left fans with a tinge of disappointment. He hasn't registered a knockout since 2009, even hearing the rare sound of boos in the later stages of a lopsided points victory over Shane Mosley in May 2011. Both fighters are motivated to give this rivalry an definitive resolution, ideally in the form of a stoppage win. 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"Glee" 4 is all about moving on. After tackling new beginnings, the hit show choir dramedy is now exploring new challenges for its cast. In Finchel's case, Rachel thanks Santana for coming to Finn to defend her honor, so to speak. But that's getting ahead of the "Guilty Pleasures" story. Meanwhile, fans need to wait a couple more weeks to see American Idol 2012 runner-up Jessica Sanchez on the show.
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As many as 50,000 stray dogs roam the streets and vacant homes of bankrupt Detroit, as many residents flee the once-booming metropolis.
The city has shrank from 1.8 million to about 700,000 and packs of as many as 20 dogs have been found in boarded-up buildings of former residents, Bloomberg reported. There are as many as 70,000 abandoned buildings for dogs and other animals to make their home.
Officer Lapez Moore, 30, recalled a pack splashing away in a basement that flooded when thieves ripped out water pipes.
"The dogs were having a pool party," the officer said. "We went in and fished them out."
Stray dogs are literally terrorizing the city as the ratio of humans to animals continues to balance out. Strays have killed pets, bitten mail carriers and clogged the animal shelter, where more than 70 percent are euthanized, Bloomberg reported.
Most strays are pets that roam, often in packs that form around a female in heat, said Harry Ward, head of animal control. Few are true feral dogs that have had no human contact.
Mr. Ward has only four officers to cover Detroit seven days a week, 11 fewer than when he took command in 2008. He has one dog-bite investigator, down from three, Bloomberg said.
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