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Further to the release of a first set of videos introducing NDC in March, we are pleased to announce that the second module is now available for your review.
Presented by Bryan Wilson, IATA Director, Industry Architecture, these new educational videos provide a step-by-step explanation of how an airline can use NDC to manage key processes in relation to their distribution, ground handling and other airline partners (i.e. interline partners).
If you're keen to understand NDC, we encourage you to check the following videos:
The next and final module is planned for release in August and will explain how to get started with NDC.
A recent trip to IATA's Geneva HQ provided me with a real insight into the building blocks of IATA's future. To be honest, I expected to find a traditionally structured, slightly boring office of be-suited middle aged men for some reason, but instead I walked into the cool, cultural vibes of what felt like a tech company. A tech company with a youthful, seemingly vibrant workforce gathering in open groups to debate and update. On the wall was a newly framed set of statements designed to illustrate the focus of the association, the first of which I noticed was "Building Standards Through Expertise."
This mantra runs through the very veins of IATA as an airline association and manifests itself publicly in the poster-child of standards, the New Distribution Capability (NDC). And unless you've had your head in the sand in the last two years you'll know that this particular standard has courted controversy, and I have been no stranger to that. I personally think this isn't because of what it will do, we all know it will provide a platform for richer content and more personalised offers, but rather because its impact on the corporate airline market is yet to be quantified. It's the unknown that worries people.
The importance of standards to set the scene for the future should not be underestimated. I often use a story in my public presentations about the role a Roman horse's ass played two thousand years ago in ultimately contributing to the size of the fuel capabilities of the US space shuttle to illustrate how standards create legacies. The story was written by the incoming president of the UK's procurement association a few years ago, and it's an interesting and humorous tale, but when she presented it, she meant it to illustrate how standards can restrict and the importance of challenging the way things have always been done. This is an important lesson and continued innovation is key to a successful industry, but I see the story slightly differently. For me the story illustrates the importance of standards to create platforms to facilitate growth and innovation. Without the creation of a standard railroad gauge, the first mass transit systems of our age, the railroads, could not have advanced at the speed it did and have facilitated the cultural and economic growth of the 19th century. The creation of a standard railroad gauge was the catalyst for a transport revolution and it allowed for joined up thinking and collaboration to facilitate the mass movement of people and cargo. Sure, the standard gauge then meant there were restrictions many years later, and standards need to be challenged and re-thought on an ongoing basis, but their initial creation can invigorate an industry and change lives. Standards beget innovation and innovation creates the need for standards. The two are inextricably linked.
My big hope for our future is that NDC will do for the corporate travel market what the railroad gauge did for rail, that it will invigorate the airlines and all those in the supply chain to provide a better service to airline customers. If in two thousand years the NDC standard restricts airline delivery just like the story of the horse's ass it won't be the standards fault, just our ability to innovate.
Paul Tilstone is Founder and CEO of Festive Road and undertakes the role of "NDC Corporate Envoy" for IATA.
Next week on Tuesday, 24 February, at 13:00 GMT, Airlines International will host a free webinar where:
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In the current distribution environment, when a travel agent sells a flight and issues a ticket through a GDS, that GDS needs to know that the agent has been accredited by the airline as a selling agent in order to accept a ticket proposal. In an NDC world, there is still a necessity for airlines to identify the agents and aggregators with whom they wish to work.
So how will the system adapt to the NDC environment? Today, IATA sends a file called 'ticketing authorities' to every GDS 12 times a day. This ensures that their systems are aware of new agents chosen by airlines as well as have information on any suspensions or defaults. In the NDC environment, airlines will receive shopping requests from travel agents and can decide whether or not to respond with offers. At the more advanced stage of deciding whether to issue a ticket against the agent's declared passenger's form of payment, the airline decides whether to accept the card or cash proposed. For cash payments the airline will need to be confident that the agent is a BSP participant. Hence, IATA will be making a version of the 'ticketing authorities' file available to NDC-supporting airlines. Do ask for this file if you are an airline about to use the end-to-end schemas.
Under NDC, the BSP remains highly relevant. Selling through BSP accredited agents gives a 99.9% certainty of receiving cash payments with an average cost of $0.15 per ticket after the NDC-supporting airline submits the sales data to the BSP, while if the passenger chooses to pay by credit card the BSP continues to play its traditional role in ensuring that the airline will receive payment for the ticket – although incurring the merchant fee from 1% to over 3%.
Until airlines have fully adopted NDC, the BSP will continue to hold the selection of agents chosen by each airline in that country as 'ticketing authorities' – and will advise airlines when any of their agents cease to be BSP members. So eventually the concept of 'ticketing authority' will drop from the airline distribution vocabulary, but the setup between suppliers and distributors will remain important.
Well, here we are at the start of a new year. And 2015 will be an important year for the NDC program as it is now moving into deployment phase. In the video below, Yanik Hoyles, NDC Program Director, will share his perspectives on program achievements in 2014, and what 2105 will hold for NDC.
We hope you will enjoy this video, and on behalf of IATA, we wish all of you a very happy and successful 2015!
On 15 October, IATA announced the creation of the NDC Innovation Fund in partnership with Travel Capitalist Ventures (TCV), a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in travel industry investments. The announcement, which occurred during the recent World Passenger Symposium 2014 in San Diego, generated quite a bit of interest, as was made clear by the number of tweets and re-tweets immediately following the news.
Because the NDC Innovation Fund will become an essential pillar of the NDC program moving forward, we asked Abrar Ahmad, Partner at Travel Capitalist Ventures (TCV), to tell us a bit more about this new fund.
What motivated you to create an NDC-related fund together with IATA?
As a travel-focused investment firm, it is pretty clear to us that the NDC standard will have a positive and wide-ranging impact on how (air) travel will be distributed in the future, and with countless possibilities for new entrants to leverage. With this in mind, we at TCV were convinced that investments in NDC-based solutions providers will translate into strong returns, hence our interest from day one in partnering with IATA for the launch and management of the NDC Innovation Fund.
Here are the key learnings:
If you are interested in learning more about this key traveler segment, please feel free to download this White Paper and circulate with your peers and business partners.
On September 26, 2014, the Article 29 Working Party (WP29), an independent European advisory body on data protection and privacy, issued a letter outlining the results of their extensive review of NDC and its potential implications for passenger data privacy, in which IATA cooperated fully.
While the WP29 wants to monitor the implementation of the NDC standard in the future, we were encouraged that they identified nothing to warrant any action at this time.
Imagine my surprise then, to read in the media that my colleague Christoph Klenner, the Secretary General of the European Technology and Travel Services Association (ETTSA), had described the WP29 letter as a "stern warning" to IATA and "the strongest possible position" against NDC.
I wonder whether the WP29 is not just as surprised. But perhaps it is all in Christoph's over-heated imagination. After all, over the past year, he has continually peppered the WP29 with the tiresome allegation that NDC will eliminate anonymous shopping. He has continued to recite this charge even as IATA has committed to both the WP29 and to the U.S. Dept. of Transportation that anonymous shopping will be preserved.
Of course Christoph knows this to be the case, because ETTSA is a member of Open Allies for Airfare Transparency. And it was Open Allies, working with IATA that offered DOT specific language to include in its approval of Resolution 787 to preserve anonymous shopping. Which raises an interesting question: Was Christoph being disingenuous when he helped craft the language that contributed to DOT's approval of Resolution 787? Or is he being disingenuous now?
Earlier this month, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) granted final approval to Resolution 787, effectively completing the inception phase of NDC. It is great news for air travelers, airlines, travel agents and distribution technology providers--and for competition.
Now, the question that many are asking is what happens next?
First and foremost, we are about to release the first comprehensive set of end-to-end NDC schemas, covering shopping, order management and payment and ticketing. This means that developers will now be able to get their hands on the schemas and start 'playing' with them.
As the schemas become publicly available, increasingly our focus will shift toward market adoption. Although NDC will be a voluntary standard, it is in the interest of air travelers and the industry at large to see NDC widely adopted.
With that as background, here are three priorities the NDC team will be pursuing in the coming months.
Expand airline knowledge and participation
The NDC pilot phase will continue throughout the rest of 2014 and into 2015. Concurrently we expect to see rising interest from more and more airlines to learn about implementing NDC and standard deployment. As our experience with the pilots grows, we will share learnings and best practices with airlines - and their technology partners - that have chosen to test or to deploy the standard.
Strengthen our relationships across the value chain
Over the past 12 months or so, NDC has transitioned into a true industry initiative with broad participation across the travel value chain (an example is our agreement with Open Allies for Airfare Transparency on conditions to the implementation of Res. 787). The upcoming release of the comprehensive end-to-end schemas presents the opportunity to take our engagement with global distribution systems and other technology providers, travel management companies, online travel agencies and travel metasearch engines to the next level.
Get travel technology innovators behind NDC
Lastly, as we work with Open Allies and the GDSs, we want to extend our outreach to be inclusive to travel technology innovators looking at ways to re-invent the flight shopping experience. Reaching these smaller and less well-known firms will take some fresh thinking and we expect to have a big announcement in this regard at World Passenger Symposium 2014!
Timothy O'Neil-Dunne is usually provocative and always interesting and his recent thoughts regarding specific technology and commercial issues linked to NDC are no exception. While ultimately concluding that, "Airlines and other stakeholders in the airline distribution marketplace need to focus on adoption of NDC, rapid deployment and sponsorship of innovation," Timothy is unsparing in his critique of NDC as having "lost its way," while its goals and promise have "become clouded by different agendas and competing forces."
Other aspects of NDC are not entirely under the control of IATA for example:
Still, there is a need for greater speed in standard deployment and greater access to the schemas by the developer community and we expect to see progress accelerate as the Resolution 787 approval process at the US Department of Transportation is completed this summer.
As IATA increases its focus on industry adoption of NDC during this second phase of the program, we are excited about upcoming developments which include the release of the end-to-end schemas, a new study on business traveler needs and two other exciting projects which we expect to announce at the World Passenger Symposium, 15-17 October in San Diego. These initiatives will move us further down the NDC path. And they will help to deliver the key success factors that Timothy cited: "deliver value, deliver speed, deliver what the user and his/her consumer want".
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Ultima online was pretty unforgiving with death aswell, anyone could loot your entire inventory.
That made it a pretty frightening experience leaving town if you had any items on you.
The causal way death is handled in MMOs now has its pros and cons though, going into PVP is riskless so you can spend alot of time doing that without having to gear up on each death, the way the games are made, essentiall just a big item hunt, you couldnt really have lootable gear on death either.
But its a bit less exciting.
In UO most PKs wore some free bone armor, a res robe, and a poisoned kryss, no investment what so ever, jumped other players from stealth and kept their distance while the poison did its work, which could be pretty frustrating for anyone on their way out to fight mobs with some decent armor and weapons on.
This. UO was the most hardcore MMO made until the 2nd expansion. All of them have been "care bear" ever since.
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I made this for Thanksgiving and it was the first to go! Even the non-brussel sprout eaters loved it!
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Bobbi Brown is just amazing. As a brown girl with yellow undertones, its very hard for me to find makeup that doesn't oxidize and make me look red mid-day. This powder sets my BB Natural Finish SPF 15 perfectly. Not too heavy but just enough to give me a polished look and lasts all day. Beautiful!
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I got this powder in pale yellow to set the tinted moisturizer, and to take away the shine I get mid-day in my T-zone. I can apply this once, and I'm set for another 8 hours. Love this powder! I also like that it isn't heavy at all, I don't look cakey, and my skin feels like it can still breathe--almost like I have nothing on at all. I will definitely repurchase, but this is such a huge amount it's going to be over a year before I need to.
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This is a very good powder - not a great powder, but still a very good one. The good points - the colours are yellow-toned, and I got a perfect match with the colour Warm Natural (for reference, my skin is NC40, Bobbi Brown Warm Natural). And it doesn't oxidise and turn your face orange after a few hours either (ahem, Clinique!). It leaves my skin with a very natural finish, and not cakey or overdone at all. However, I do not use this as a setting powder, as it's probably a bit too sheer for that, but only as a touch-up one. The bad points for me are the price, and the packaging. £22.00 is expensive! And the packaging, although chic, is very bulky - I usually take it out with me in the evenings, and it doesn't leave much other room in a clutch bag (although it does come with a mirror). Furthermore, with a fifth of the product still left, the powder shattered and got everywhere, so I was unable to finish using it all up. That's not the product's fault, but it's especially annoying as it's so expensive. If the price was lower, and the packaging more slimline, I would give this product a 5. I'm going to try MAC's Select Sheer Powder next, but if it's not as good as this, I'll come running back.
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I love the fact that this powder came in a YELLOW color! Especially since I'm Asian, it was basically a godsend. Initially it went on great w/the included puff or w/a powder brush. However it didn't absorb oil well like it claims and it started to settle into my pores on my nose. I really wanted to like it, too cuz of the color. It ended up being returned. Still worth a shot as it's a very finely milled, soft powder and felt great on the skin.
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I use this in Pale Yellow with the BB oil-free liquid fdtn; when I have blemishes (curse you hormones!) I also apply the BB stick with a small brush as spot cover for said blemishes. This powder on top is excellent -- very fine, and not pink or orange at all. I apply lightly with the puff, and then use a big brush to even out/get rid of the excess. Sets and evens out skin tone for a very natural, but polished look. Not super matte, but natural. And it stays all day long, maybe needs a touch-up at the end of a long day.
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Nothing of great worth comes easily? That's right. The lessons we learn, the wisdom we acquire, all come from this recognition. The nature of experience is heavy. So we shouldn't spend all our energy running away from the truth. This is why you cannot explain why there is suffering. It's there—you must recognize it, and engage it.
I know you survived the Nigerian civil war while supporting the Biafran secession. In retrospect, do you think it would have been better to have attempted some sort of United States of Nigeria, where Biafra might have had more cultural autonomy, yet remained part of Nigeria under a federal authority? That was actually what was proposed! The element that is absent from what you just said is that the British—who had granted independence to Nigeria and left—warned us they were not going to tolerate any fiddling with the Nigerian model they had created. That is what determined the fate of Biafra.
After teaching undergrads at a liberal-arts college like Bard for almost two decades, what have you concluded about using multicultural literature to eradicate racism and xenophobia? The number of children who are reading Things Fall Apart in high school has increased enormously, especially among the students who take my classes. For me, that's a very good sign. Because this generation has a lot of responsibility waiting for it. And how they link up with others their age in distant places may well determine how our civilization survives in this century.
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Good way to start off a weird day.
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So I wake up and go to work, after having a really fucked up dream which went something like this.
I dreamt I had moved to Winnipeg (City in Canada) maybe because I had been there this summer, but anyways I was walking down the street and my father had a job at a local restraunt for some reason, and I had stopped in to say hi, after I left I went onto this other street, a residential area where I had bumped into a bunch of cops shooting at a black man who looked like a thug, a helicopter was also flying like 3 feet above him for a second, I thought I was ok until he started to chase me so I bolted behind a near house with unbelieveable speed and ran through thick bushes and trees to end up in some really weird place, it was like a long cliff and I was on the edge of it, and it was covered in garbage bags with garbage in it, all the bags were square and white and there were bugs crawling around in them, some bags were even moving which freaked me out, I could feel myself sweating.
After getting out of the garbage which took a lot of effort it felt like, I made my way to a near by house where there was a pig tied on and was the same street where the thug chased me, but he was no where near.
the pig kept oinking and there was a boy standing on the porch, I tried speaking to him but he just kept stairing at nothing, his parents were close by in th drive way but I didn't bother talking to them, and out of know where I got this feeling and it felt like they were going to slit the pigs throat, I have no clue why but I just knew they were, I felt bad for him but I didn't let him go, I wanted to, but I didn't, I just took of.
Then I was back at my dads restraunt, and I just remember talking to him for a moment and waking up.
I was covered in sweat, probably since that was one of the most fucked up dreams I have ever had, it doesn't seem that strange but when I was seeing it, it felt so real and vivid unlike most dreams I have, and it wasn't so much a nightmare but maybe inbetween.
Also I usually never remember dreams when I wake up, just parts, but this time I remembered the whole thing........
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Tigers vs. Westmoreland
March 10, 2014, Opening day for Macon County Baseball. Macon County hosted Westmoreland in a non-district game. Taking the mound for Macon County was #7 Austin Craighead. The game went scoreless for three innings.
Westmoreland took the lead 1 – 0 at the top of the 4th inning, but the Tigers would respond with 2 runs made by Jesse Gregory and Justin Woodard from a single up the middle by Clay Carnahan. Tigers take the lead 2 – 1. Hunter Williams led off the bottom of 5th inning with a single to right field, a walk for Woodard, and Hit by Pitch for Gregory, loaded the bases for clean-up hitter Craighead, who was hit by the pitch scoring Williams. Woodard would score on a pass ball.
With two outs, the Tiger bats would come to life when Daniel Ashburn hit a double up the middle scoring Gregory and Pinch Runner, Austin Herbert. Clay Carnahan hit a double to right field scoring Ashburn. Tigers added to their lead 7 – 1. Hunter Williams and Clay Carnahan both went 3 for 3 on the day. Austin Craighead finished 6-2/3 innings with a personal record of 18 strikeouts, giving up 2 hits and 2 walks.
Tigers win with a final score 7 -1.
Tigers vs. Franklin-Simpson
On Thursday, March 13th, Tigers hosted Franklin-Simpson High School. Justin Woodard would take the mound for the Tigers with an impressive performance for 5 innings. Brandon Noles would come in for 2 innings of relief. Errors plagued the Tigers defensive play along with the good bats for Franklin-Simpson. In the bottom of the 7th inning, Macon Co rallied to end the perfect game by the Franklin-Simpson pitcher loading the bases, but would end the night with a loss, 10 - 0.
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As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours.
Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddoxhis partner and closest friendfind themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past.
Richly atmospheric, stunning in its complexity, and utterly convincing and surprising to the end, In the Woods is sure to enthrall fans of Mystic River and The Lovely Bones. And look for French's new mystery, Broken Harbor, for more of the Dublin Murder Squad.
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Produced by Clint Eastwood's Malpaso company, this genial, unexacting sports movie takes its pace from the ambling gait of Eastwood's octogenarian baseball scout for the Atlanta Braves. He's a curmudgeonly widower with a wry sense of humour, failing eyesight, a bladder problem, a neck like a turkey that's been dodging Thanksgiving since the bicentenary, a heart of gold, an estranged highflying lawyer for a daughter (the ubiquitous Amy Adams) and an outspoken contempt for number-crunching, computer-reliant front-office suits. He also has a habit, like John Wayne in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, of talking to his wife's gravestone, though, unlike Wayne, he ends his visits by serenading her with You Are My Sunshine.
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- Production year: 2012
- Country: USA
- Cert (UK): 12A
- Runtime: 111 mins
- Directors: Robert Lorenz
- Cast: Amy Adams, Chelcie Ross, Clint Eastwood, Ed Lauter, John Goodman, Justin Timberlake, Matthew Lillard, Raymond Anthony Thomas, Robert Patrick
The role suits Clint like a catcher's glove that's been passed down to him from Gary Cooper via Henry Fonda. John Goodman, who once impersonated Babe Ruth on screen, plays his best friend and boardroom apologist. The movie celebrates a triumph of knowledge and intuitive experience over computers, which is OK by me, though it could have been written by one. And the hero's central condition of macular degeneration suggests a possible film scripted by Dr Oliver Sacks called "The Star Who Mistook a Chair for his President".


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Remember her? Yes, that's right the supersexy blond cutie AKA Colombian bombshell from Miami. Well, clearly she's just as hot now as she was last time we brought her to your attention... only somehow even hotter musically.
Fanny Lu has spent much of the past year tearing up the charts not only in the States and her native Colombia but also in Mexico. Her first single, "Tu No Eres Para Mi" continues to dominate the top spots on radio. And her current single, "Celos," a Daniela Romo cover, has been rolling strong since it dropped earlier this summer. As if that weren't enough, she's quickly making her way to the top of my list of Colombian crushes... right after my wife and Shakira (in that order, honey, I swear!).
It's no wonder Luis Fonsi selected Fanny to open for him in NY's Nokia Theater last month and for his upcoming concert at the James L. Knight Center Saturday.
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FIFA 15 on PC will be the Ignite version, specs revealed5 Jun 2014
FIFA 15 on PC will have parity with the Xbox One/PS4 versions this year, EA Sports has confirmed. In a "PC features" post at the EA Sports site, the team states that "The PC version will include all the same core features coming to the PS4 and Xbox One versions of the game" and says it will run on the Ignite Engine.
Last year's FIFA 14 on PC was the older 360/PS3 version of the game, for reasons that never really made a whole lot of sense. This announcement is positive news for PC FIFA players.
The post comes with some minimum and recommended PC specs for the upcoming FIFA 15, which you can see below.
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Why did Canelo run away after Trout beat Cotto?
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You're missing the point. It's a matter of priority. Unless he signed some sort of contract Canelo doesn't have to be there to celebrate and watch the media rub Trout's nuts. Like I said, the negotiation room is where it matters most. As long as Canelo eventually signs the dotted line to fight Trout then there is no problem. All this parading and getting in each other's face is WWE bravado ****.
what you dont understand is that this is the only way trout will get canelo into the ring...by embarassing him in front of 100's of thousands of people.
you dont think that this was planned? i can almost guarantee this guy doesnt speak spanish. he got the translation to spit directly into sauls face, in his own language. i speak passable spanish and if i have a problem here in mexico with a mexican national that speaks both english and spanish the **** goes down in spanish.
he just won the biggest fight of his career and all hes thinking about is canelo and how to get him in the ring. and last night he let everone know that he wants canelo and if saul doesnt fight him then hes a fraud.
all these legit jmws cant wait to fight canelo and they are calling him out.
you dont think thats odd?
you dont call a guy out if you think youre going to lose.
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On Easter Sunday evening, a TV show about good and evil aired on the History Channel -- the final installment of "The Bible" miniseries in which Jesus is executed. AMC ran the season-ending episode of "The Walking Dead" -- the series where zombies try to eat the brains of human beings. One footnote: The world might have been a better place had the zombies pre-emptively gotten to the guy who thought up this series in the first place.
Anyway, the zombies won. They beat Jesus in the ratings, especially among viewers ages 18 to 49.
What lesson can be derived from Jesus losing to the walking dead? Well, it proves that about 12 million Americans want to see blood and gore. Wait -- there was plenty of that in the Bible's crucifixion scenes. Maybe the zombie viewers simply wanted cheap thrills. Yeah, that's it. Cheap thrills triumphed over a spiritual experience. Cannibalism beat baptism.
Base entertainment almost always beats highbrow stuff. But watching flesh-eating zombies on Easter does put a different spin on things, does it not? I mean, how soon can we digest dismemberment on television after eating our baked ham dinner? One hour? Two?
At least Jesus was in context. The New Testament says the son of God rose from the dead on Easter. The zombies rise from the dead whenever their makeup is finished.
Honestly, I have no idea what this zombie phenomenon is all about. Way back in the 1960s, I saw the first modern zombie movie: "Night of the Living Dead." Things were creeping along OK until a little girl turned into a zombie and tried to eat her mom. At that point, my entire group decided enough was enough, and we bolted out of the theater.
But today that scene would be tame. Now zombie kids will eat their entire families if given the opportunity. Depravity doesn't even begin to cover it. Apparently, we Americans have an unending appetite for gross behavior. Pun intended.
What must Jesus think? Here he is, being nailed to the cross by smirking Romans and getting trounced by TV zombies at the same time. The prince of peace preached that we all should love our neighbors as ourselves. I do not believe that Jesus would condone eating your neighbor even if you are dead.
Many folks who like this zombie business freely admit it's a low form of entertainment. "But so what?" they say. It's fun to envision yourself outsmarting zombies, blasting them to hell with shotguns and then escaping to some tattoo parlor. I guess that's fun in some precincts.
But not for me. I threw in with Jesus even though the guy who played him looked a bit like Spicoli in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." Sure, I knew how the miniseries was going to end, but there are worse things you could do on Easter Sunday -- like watching man-eating zombies.
All I know is this: When Jesus appeared to the apostles after he died, thank God they did not have access to AMC.
Veteran TV news anchor Bill O'Reilly is host of the Fox News show ''The O'Reilly Factor.'' Visit his website at www.billoreilly.com.
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Autonomic neuropathy in diabetes: early detection and the role in development of microvascular complications
ABSTRACT Diabetic autonomic neuropathy (DAN) is common complication of diabetes mellitus (DM), associated with development of angiopathies and increased mortality. The objective of the study was to determine the frequency of DAN in type 1 DM patients using heart rate variability (HRV) analysis and, besides, to study the relationship between DAN and circadian profile of blood pressure (BP) and vascular diabetic complications. Power spectral analysis of HRV is found to be a useful method for early detection of autonomic neuropathy in diabetes patients. Dysfunction of autonomic nervous system in type 1 DM patients is associated with increased systolic BP and with reduced fall in nocturnal systolic BP. Through the changes in hemodynamics autonomic neuropathy may contribute to development of diabetic vascular complications.
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ABSTRACT: The objective was to determine if having a television (TV) in the bedroom is associated with physical activity (PA), TV/video viewing, and adiposity throughout adolescence. Longitudinal data (September 2002 through June 2005) were analyzed of 379 initially 12-year-old French adolescents participating as controls in the Intervention Centered on Adolescents' Physical activity and Sedentary behavior (ICAPS). Presence of a TV set in the bedroom (TV(bedroom)) and leisure activities were obtained by questionnaire. There was annual assessment of BMI, waist circumference, and body fat by bioimpedance. In boys but not girls, baseline TV(bedroom) was associated with higher TV/video viewing over time [odds ratio (OR) of high TV/video = 1.87; 95% confidence interval, 1.2 to 2.8] and less no-sport club participation (OR = 0.59; 95% confidence interval, 0.35 to 1.0). Both boys and girls with baseline TV(bedroom) had lower reading time (p < 0.0001 in boys; p = 0.04 in girls), while PA did not differ according to TV(bedroom) for boys or for girls. For boys only, baseline TV(bedroom) was associated with higher BMI (mean BMI over time 20.5 +/- 0.5 vs. 19.0 +/- 0.5 kg/m(2); p = 0.001), waist circumference (70.9 +/- 0.9 vs. 67.2 +/- 0.8 cm; p < 0.001), and body fat (15.9 +/- 0.9% vs. 13.5 +/- 0.9%; p < 0.001), without interaction with time. These relationships remained significant after adjustment for socioeconomic status. TV/video viewing explained 26%, 42%, and 36% of the relationships of TV(bedroom) with BMI, waist circumference, and body fat, respectively, while addition of other leisure activities in the models only marginally reduced the effects. These results suggest the importance of keeping TV out of an adolescent's bedroom from an obesity prevention perspective but show gender differences.Obesity 10/2007; 15(10):2495-503. DOI:10.1038/oby.2007.296 · 4.39 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: The prevalence and magnitude of childhood obesity are increasing dramatically. We examined the effect of varying degrees of obesity on the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome and its relation to insulin resistance and to C-reactive protein and adiponectin levels in a large, multiethnic, multiracial cohort of children and adolescents. We administered a standard glucose-tolerance test to 439 obese, 31 overweight, and 20 nonobese children and adolescents. Baseline measurements included blood pressure and plasma lipid, C-reactive protein, and adiponectin levels. Levels of triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and blood pressure were adjusted for age and sex. Because the body-mass index varies according to age, we standardized the value for age and sex with the use of conversion to a z score. The prevalence of the metabolic syndrome increased with the severity of obesity and reached 50 percent in severely obese youngsters. Each half-unit increase in the body-mass index, converted to a z score, was associated with an increase in the risk of the metabolic syndrome among overweight and obese subjects (odds ratio, 1.55; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.16 to 2.08), as was each unit of increase in insulin resistance as assessed with the homeostatic model (odds ratio, 1.12; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.07 to 1.18 for each additional unit of insulin resistance). The prevalence of the metabolic syndrome increased significantly with increasing insulin resistance (P for trend, <0.001) after adjustment for race or ethnic group and the degree of obesity. C-reactive protein levels increased and adiponectin levels decreased with increasing obesity. The prevalence of the metabolic syndrome is high among obese children and adolescents, and it increases with worsening obesity. Biomarkers of an increased risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes are already present in these youngsters.New England Journal of Medicine 06/2004; 350(23-23):2362-2374. DOI:10.1097/01.ogx.0000140472.10719.95 · 54.42 Impact Factor


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I want to take the time today to talk about BABIP, a baseball term which stands for Batting Average on Balls In Play. I get the sense that sometimes that acronym, BABIP, is something of a touchy subject for baseball fans, and I want to use this platform to try to bridge that gap to some degree.
The main series of questions I want to answer in this piece are as follows:
What is BABIP? What does BABIP measure? How is BABIP useful? They're all interrelated concepts, so I'll try to break it down as best I can.
As I mentioned at the top, BABIP (I pronounce it phonetically, for what it's worth) quite literally stands for Batting Average on Balls In Play. While that sounds like some newfangled sabermetric stat, I hesitate to really call it a purely a "stat," per se.
To me, BABIP is more of a measurement tool than a statistic. Yes, it's expressed in a number, but like any baseball-related statistic, it requires a little more nuance to properly contextualize what it's really measuring. BABIP to me is an inexact, but important, rough outline of a player's batted ball profile.
What you may have surmised from its name is that BABIP only measures batted balls that are in play. That means strikeouts and walks have no baring on it, but neither do home runs. Home runs are considered out of play, and they aren't subject to what BABIP measures for that reason.
Mathematically, the formula to calculate BABIP is: (H - HR) / (AB - K - HR + SF + SH). I'm not a huge math guy, which may come as a shock to my readers and Twitter followers, but I'm truly not very mathematically and/or formulaically sound. I respect the math and science that goes into these metrics, but you won't see me inventing a mathematical proof any time soon.
The best I can do is try to understand what a measure like BABIP is really measuring, as opposed to what it doesn't measure, and try to contextualize why BABIP is a useful tool for baseball fans.
People might say, "why should I care about BABIP? It doesn't include strikeouts, walks and homers. Strikeouts, walks and homers are part of the game!" That's absolutely true, and no proper application of BABIP aims to measure or truly impacts anything other than batted balls in play.
BABIP is not trying to be anything more than a measure of a specific criteria of baseball plays. It is not meant to encompass everything, nor is it a magic stat that means a significant amount on its own. It is simply meant to scratch the surface of batted ball profiles, and help us get a better of understanding of what happens when a ball is put in play.
Something unique about BABIP and batted ball profiles in general is that every single player, pitcher and batter, has a unique and individualized batted ball profile. Pitcher A may not have similar batted ball profiles than Pitcher B, because they have different skill-sets. Same for Hitter C and Hitter D.
The theory on BABIP for hitters is that they have somewhat more control over their BABIP and batted ball profiles than pitchers do, because in theory, hitters can influence the direction, speed and quality of contact made on the balls they put in play. Maybe not to a large degree, but still more than a pitcher can.
Essentially, a batter's approach to a pitch can influence a batted ball more than a pitcher can because a pitcher is at the mercy of the defense behind him, the batter's skill, the execution of his pitches, etc. Luck is inherently a part of baseball, which to me is a beautiful thing.
The best players in the world need a certain degree of luck to succeed. Just as a hard line drive can be caught, and a soft blooper or dribbler can go for a base hit, luck is inherently as big a part of baseball as grass and dirt.
The proper use of BABIP, in my opinion, is looking at it in the grand scheme of things. Look at a player's career BABIP and see if it falls in line with their current season BABIP. Sometimes, for a variety of factors, it does not.
Maybe a pitcher is getting a higher rate of ground balls a given year and getting weaker contact more consistently, leading to a lower BABIP. In theory, weaker contact should lead to a lower BABIP.
I've mentioned batted ball profiles, and I want to expand on that as well. Batted ball profiles typically include ground ball percentage, fly ball percentage, and line drive percentage, (along with other more minor batted ball types such as infield fly balls, bunt hits, infield hits, etc.)
Consistency in baseball is really hard, obviously. It's very difficult to hit line drives all the time if you're a hitter, or get weak contact if you're a pitcher. And of course, even if you do exactly what you were trying to do, success isn't guaranteed. Luck is a fickle beast, and because of that, so is BABIP.
I'll use David Wright as an example. He is a player who has put up a career BABIP of .341, which is extraordinarily good. From 2005 to 2013 for example, his .343 BABIP is tied for 15th among hitters. How does he do it? Mostly on the strength of a career 22.5% line drive percentage. David Wright hits the baseball hard a lot. He's pretty skilled, and his skill-set is predisposed to a pretty solid BABIP. Since the BA in BABIP literally stands for batting average, BABIP is as limited as AVG is, treating all base hits equally like AVG does.
Wright's worst offensive season in 2011? Career-low BABIP of .302, and career-low line drive percentage of 18.0%. He also had career-lows in AVG, OBP, SLG that year, which isn't very surprising. It's all there in the batted ball profile. He did not hit the ball as hard that year as he typically does, and lady luck did not bless him with a high BABIP.
I keep coming back to luck because I can't stress enough how much luck has to do with it. I wish I could say Chris Johnson of the Braves is an extremely skilled hitter with his career .361 BABIP and his outstanding 24.9% live drive rate (career-best 27.0% last year, unsurprisingly along with career-best and MLB-best .394 BABIP.) He's very good at hitting for batting average, though there's not much else to his offensive game. His skill-set predisposes him to good batted ball luck, and luck is always a factor.
I'm rambling. I do that pretty often. This post is long, and frankly I'm a little worried I haven't explained any of this very well at all. I'm glad you're still reading, and I really hope you're not more confused about BABIP than you were when you started this article and saw my terrible photoshop.
The bottom line is that BABIP is a useful concept when properly applied. I think you can say that about just about any metric in baseball. And like any metric, basic or advanced, the bigger a sample size you're working with, the higher degree of reliability it has. BABIP measures what happens when the ball is put in play. It doesn't measure anything else, and quite frankly, it doesn't tell you nearly everything that happens when that ball is put in play, either.
Sample size is always important. Small sample size is dangerous for reliability purposes. For hitters, you might need somewhere in the range of 800-1000 total balls in play to properly and reliably make statements about a player's BABIP. For pitchers it's a lot more. Fangraphs estimates it at about 2000 balls in play before a pitcher's BABIP becomes reliable. In a nutshell, single-season pitcher BABIP is very, very unstable and unreliable. Always beware of small sample size in statistical analysis. Accuracy and objectivity is the goal, and without a proper sample, inaccuracy can run rampant.
BABIP is imprecise. It's rough, just as batting average is. It means very little in a vacuum, but it can be very meaningful when compared to the quality of contact in a player's batted ball profile that season and those same things over the course of career. You don't have to be a good player to have above-average BABIP luck, and you don't have to be a bad player to get below-average BABIP luck. Random variation is a big part of baseball, and BABIP is simply a rough estimation of the degree of luck at play.
An above-average or below-average BABIP on its own doesn't mean a player is necessarily lucky or unlucky, especially if that player does it consistently over many seasons. But statistical outliers, such as a pitcher putting up a .272 BABIP with a career .310 BABIP all of a sudden, that can be a red flag that, "hey, that guy's getting lucky, and he's probably due to regress back towards the .300 mark or so." Fluky outliers happen, and typically if they don't make sense, over time, they correct themselves.
I hope that makes sense.
I'll leave you these silly but informative YouTube clips by Fangraphs writer Bradley Woodrum, this one on pitcher BABIP, and this one on hitter BABIP. He's much more concise and a lot smarter than I am, and if you're a visual learner it'll probably help.
I truly hope by the end of this paragraph you have a greater understanding and appreciation of the concept of BABIP in general, and please don't hesitate to tweet me with any questions or comments. I'm happy to help.
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Fantastic retreat!
The location is close to Franklin, where there is plenty to see and do. Other towns with activities are only a few miles further. We took a day trip to Gatlinburg; went antiquing in Dillard, and found some great flea market buys in Clayton. It was pleasant to be busy in the day and come back to sit on the porch relaxing with a book or playing games. There is wifi and cell service, how great is that!!
Stephanie visited us once early on to make sure all was well, instructed us to call her if we needed her, then left us to ourselves. A most excellent hostess!
I would definitely recommend this property to my friends and relatives.
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My husband and I had a wonderful anniversary trip staying in the charming Guest House in Franklin, NC. We found the house so comfortable, and the trip so relaxing, that we didn't want to leave! Stephanie, the gracious hostess, provided delicious homemade macaroons and a breakfast casserole, along with wine, o.j., half & half, and fresh flowers. These personal touches made us feel right at home, and you won't find these amenities at many other places! We've stayed in several wonderful homes but none that provided so many little extras as The Guest House. The king bed was extremely comfortable (and the sheets amazingly soft!), as was the living room sofa- I found myself wishing I had such comfy furniture at our house, but I suppose I wouldn't get much work done if we did. :) I really loved the way the house was decorated- comfy mountain-style furnishings with a touch of mid-century modern. It seemed a perfect match. We took advantage of the wonderful gas fireplace every day of our week! The gazebo was a great outdoor amenity- I spent one blissful afternoon lying in the hammock with a book and watching the chickens "free-ranging" on the hillside. I wish I had done more of that! There is so much to see and do in the area, though, if you enjoy driving curvy mountain roads, breathtaking scenery (gorges, waterfalls, amazing views), antiquing & checking out local arts & crafts, visiting unique mountain towns, eating amazing food, and trying out new things (gem mining!). We hope to return to The Guest House again soon!
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The location is close to Franklin, where there is plenty to see and do. Other towns with activities are only a few miles further. We took a day trip to Gatlinburg; went antiquing in Dillard, and found some great flea market buys in Clayton. It was pleasant to be busy in the day and come back to sit on the porch relaxing with a book or playing games. There is wifi and cell service, how great is that!!
Stephanie visited us once early on to make sure all was well, instructed us to call her if we needed her, then left us to ourselves. A most excellent hostess!
I would definitely recommend this property to my friends and relatives.
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What a gorgous setting, nestled high atop the mountain, with views of all the splendors of nature. What a view to wake up to every morning. Had coffee on the porch every morning before we headed out.
We were able to take long walks on the property and to rest afterwards in the gazebo.
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The House is conveniently located. So we enjoyed all Franklin and nearby towns had to offer.
We are taking our family to greet the New Year in this beautiful home and maybe some snow will enhance our visit. We can't wait to return to this paradise.
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