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The definition of an "engaged user" varies from product to product.
For a to-do app an engaged user should be logging in every day to add and complete items whereas for an invoicing app an engaged user might only log in once per month. There is no consistent quantifiable definition of engagement across different products.
Unlike page views, visitors, returning visitors, and conversions, there's also no analytics app that can instantly tell you what you need to know. But ignore engagement at your peril.
Google+ claims 170,000,000 users, which gets them a few news stories, but ignores a very real problem. Almost none of their users are engaged. They're just people who clicked a link titled "Ok" when faced with Google+. It's similar to newspapers goosing up their page views using hacks like slideshows. At some point you have to wonder who you're really fooling.
Why is engagement important?
Most customers who sign up will use a product only once. This is true for every product with a free trial. This isn't surprising; it's the fallacy of funnels in action. When you strip every barrier away from signing up, what you get is lots of sign-ups. Unfortunately lots of sign-ups doesn't translate to lots of customers. Customers are the result of a series of events. Here is a simple overview:
Engagement is just one piece of the puzzle, but it is so frequently ignored that there's lots of quick wins to be had. Here's four ways to increase user engagement.
1. Make a Strong First Impression
Every day a potential customer is seeing your interface for the very first time. This can be forgotten within teams that are always designing for themselves. The first screen your users see has 3 important jobs…
- Explain how your application works.
- Motivate your users to get started.
- Let your users know how to get help, if and when they need it.
Web applications that do none of the above get the exact behaviour that they designed for. The users will log out and most likely never return.
There are lots of great ways to welcome a user to your app and show them around. There are blank slates, tutorials, dummy data, etc. A good first step that we encourage Intercom customers to do is to post a welcome message to greet each new sign up personally. This works great for starting conversations, which in turn increases conversions.
Always Show a Welcome Message
In Intercom we show the above welcome message to users after they sign up. It is a personal note explaining that we are always available to help. This single message is responsible for over 400 conversations that simply wouldn't have happened otherwise. Some people just write thanks, and we reply. Some ask how to set up a welcome message, and we reply. Some ask questions, and spot bugs and, again, we reply.
Simply communicating with your users is a great way to encourage them to ask questions, try out features, and stick around. By starting a dialogue they're far more likely to say things like "How can I do email inactive users" or "How should I use tags?".
At best you'll win yourself more customers, and at worst you learn what's missing or misunderstood in your application.
2. Gradually expose the depth of your product
Every worthwhile application has features that aren't immediately apparent or useful. These can include quick-wins such as email notifications and alerts, third-party integrations, export features, and even small optimisations like keyboard shortcuts.
These deeper benefits can't be called out immediately. After all, who cares about data export before they have data, or keyboard shortcuts before they've used any features?
Most product owners tend to try to expose these features either through badly timed email blasts, documentation, or an FAQ. None of these approaches work well.
Emails arrive out of context, out of time, and are more likely to interrupt a user than to interest them. Their response is to archive your message and stop reading future emails.
Leaving features explained and promoted in your FAQ or help sections means their only chance of exposure is when a user has experienced an issue with a part of your product. This isn't the ideal time to distract them with other features.
Define a Message Schedule
We advise our customers to create message schedules to gradually promote certain features. When you have good insight into your userbase you can work out which secondary features delight users and at what point they're useful. Once you've done that it's just a matter of timely communication. Intercom lets you stagger messages over a series of sessions. This means each time a user logs in you're showing them more and more reasons to stick around.
Here's an example engagement routine from one of our customers:
Always end each message by letting your customers know that you're there to help if they have any questions. This is key to getting feedback, which helps you tweak your engagement routine.
3. Announce features and improvements in-app
Users don't notice when your product development slows down. They're logging in to use your product, not monitor your development progress. However, if things go quiet for long enough, they'll be easily distracted when a competitor releases a new feature, whether valuable or frivolous.
The only time your users care about features or improvements is in your application, so that's exactly where you should be announcing them.
Anecdotally, we see a 10x increase in communications (as do our customers) from in-app messages over email announcements, and there are other, softer, benefits too. For example when we announced the map and gallery features in Intercom, our users clicked straight through, were immediately impressed and started tweeting screenshots. I can't imagine an email achieving a similar effect.
4. Talk with customers during trials
Startups tend to fall into two categories: those that solve a problem people experience, and those that are nice to have or fun to use. Don Dodge famously labeled the two categories as vitamins and painkillers. If your product is a painkiller, then you can learn lots from your trial users.
There are two types of users in your 30-day trial. There are tyre-kicker who might sign up after seeing some praise on Twitter or a link on Hacker News. They don't have your problem, and are only here to have a quick look around at the solution you've created. These guys aren't prospects, and will rarely have valuable feedback for you. Never listen to theoretical customers.
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We've seen first hand the effect of these four simple steps towards engaging with your customers. Each takes no more than an hour and pays back many times over. What other tips and techniques have you seen? Let us know in the comments.


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April 9, 1969
TOKYO SANSEI (NEW YORK), INC., et al., Plaintiffs,
P. A. ESPERDY, etc., Defendants
Frankel, District Judge.
FRANKEL, District Judge.
The question before the court is whether plaintiff Jiro Takizawa is entitled to judicial reversal or modification of an administrative decision (by defendant District Director, affirmed by the Regional Commissioner, of the Immigration and Naturalization Service) denying his application to be classified as a "nonimmigrant alien" in the category of "treaty trader" under § 101(a)(15)(E)(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15)(E)(i). The proceeding from which this issue has crystallized began with a motion by all four of the named plaintiffs for a temporary injunction against threatened hurts which have now been postponed, if not eliminated as threats, by agreement of the parties. It is unnecessary now to detail fully the discussions and the stipulated arrangements by which the original motion has been transmuted into cross-motions for summary judgment.
Suffice it to say that there are no material issues of fact; that the undisputed question for the court is whether the decision of the Service denying the claim to "treaty trader" status was "arbitrary" or "capricious," 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(A); Nippon Express U.S.A., Inc. v. Esperdy, 261 F. Supp. 561, 565-566 (S.D.N.Y.1966); and that the parties and the court perceive nothing to prevent, or to warrant postponing decision of that question.
The statutory definition of treaty traders in 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(15)(E) - along with the succeeding definition of "treaty investors," a category of minor and incidental interest here - is embraced in the following clauses:
"The term 'immigrant' means every alien except an alien who is within one of the following classes of nonimmigrant aliens -
* * *
"(E) an alien entitled to enter the United States under and in pursuance of the provisions of a treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States and the foreign state of which he is a national * * *: (i) solely to carry on substantial trade principally between the United States and the foreign state of which he is a national; or (ii) solely to develop and direct the operations of an enterprise in which he has invested, or of an enterprise in which he is actively in the process of investing, a substantial amount of capital * * *."
The statute derives from Section 3(6) of the Immigration Act of 1924, 43 Stat. 153, passed at a time when the country's hospitableness to long-term sojourns of aliens was not at its zenith. It has not been changed in any liberalizing or otherwise pertinent respect.
As is apparent from the nature of the subject matter, the according of treaty trader status is primarily and normally a matter for State Department officials. While it is permissible and by no means uncommon for the classification to be given by the Immigration Service to one already within our borders (the action sought by plaintiff Takizawa), the Service defers to and follows the relevant rulings of the State Department. See Nippon Express U.S.A. Inc. v. Esperdy, 261 F. Supp. 561, 564 (S.D.N.Y.1966); Immigration & Naturalization Service Operations Instructions § 248.6 (renumbered as of Jan. 29, 1969). For that reason, and on familiar principles of statutory construction, Zemel v. Rusk, 381 U.S. 1, 11, 85 S. Ct. 1271, 14 L. Ed. 2d 179 (1965); Udall v. Tallman, 380 U.S. 1, 16, 85 S. Ct. 792, 13 L. Ed. 2d 616 (1965); Massachusetts Trustees of Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates v. United States, 377 U.S. 235, 241, 84 S. Ct. 1236, 12 L. Ed. 2d 268 (1964); Power Reactor Development Co. v. International Union of Electricians, Radio & Machine Workers, 367 U.S. 396, 408, 81 S. Ct. 1529, 6 L. Ed. 2d 924 (1961); Alaska Steamship Co. v. United States, 290 U.S. 256, 262, 54 S. Ct. 159, 78 L. Ed. 302 (1933), the longstanding views of the Department are germane for our problem. Thus, the parties and the court have referred and given weight to the more detailed definition in State Department Regulations, 22 C.F.R. § 41.40:
"§ 41.40 Treaty traders.
(a) An alien shall be classifiable as a nonimmigrant treaty trader if he establishes to the satisfaction of the consular officer that he qualifies under the provisions of section 101(a)(15)(E)(i) of the Act and that: (1) He intends to depart from the United States upon the termination of his status; and (2) If he is employed by a foreign person or organization having the nationality of the treaty country which is engaged in substantial trade as contemplated by section 101(a)(15)(E)(i), he will be engaged in duties of a supervisory or executive character, or, if he is or will be employed in a minor capacity, he has special qualifications that will make his services essential to the efficient operation of the employer's enterprise and will not be employed solely in an unskilled manual capacity."
Particularizing still further for the guidance of consular officers, Volume 9 of the Department's Foreign Affairs Manual (Part II, Annotated Nonimmigrant Visa Regulations) contains the following Notes to 22 C.F.R. § 41.40:
"10.1 Highly trained and specially qualified technicians employed by firms qualifying as treaty traders who are engaged in the training or supervision of persons employed in manufacturing, maintenance and repair functions are entitled to treaty trader status regardless of the fact that such technicians may themselves perform some manual duties.
"10.2 Qualified technicians coming to the United States to perform warranty repairs on intricate and complex products sold in the course of trade between the United States and the treaty country are entitled to treaty trader status if the employing firm establishes that it can not obtain the services of American technicians qualified to perform such repairs. The employing firms will be expected to plan for training American personnel to make such repairs and to utilize them as they become available for the performance of such functions. Consular officers should inquire of the employing firm regarding the training of American personnel at the time applications are made for visas for additional technicians."
To complete the catalogue of basic legal materials, a trade treaty between the United States and Japan, effective since 1953, 4 U.S.T. 2063, provides in relevant part:
"Article I
"1. Nationals of either Party shall be permitted to enter the territories of the other Party and to remain therein: (a) for the purpose of carrying on trade between the territories of the two Parties and engaging in related commercial activities * * *.
"Article VII
"1. Nationals and companies of either Party shall be accorded national treatment with respect to engaging in all types of commercial, industrial, financial and other business activities within the territories of the other Party, whether directly or by agent or through the medium of any form of lawful juridical entity. Accordingly, such nationals and companies shall be permitted within such territories: (a) to establish and maintain branches, agencies, offices, factories and other establishments appropriate to the conduct of their business; (b) to organize companies under the general company laws of such other Party, and to acquire majority interests in companies of such other Party; and (c) to control and manage enterprises which they have established or acquired. Moreover, enterprises which they control, whether in the form of individual proprietorships, companies or otherwise, shall, in all that relates to the conduct of the activities thereof, be accorded treatment no less favorable than that accorded like enterprises controlled by nationals and companies of such other Party.
"Article VIII
" 1. Nationals and companies of either Party shall be permitted to engage, within the territories of the other Party, accountants and other technical experts, executive personnel, attorneys, agents and other specialists of their choice. Moreover, such nationals and companies shall be permitted to engage accountants and other technical experts regardless of the extent to which they may have qualified for the practice of a profession within the territories of such other Party, for the particular purpose of making examinations, audits and technical investigations exclusively for, and rendering reports to, such nationals and companies in connection with the planning and operation of their enterprises, and enterprises in which they have a financial interest, within such territories.
"Article XXI
"4. Nationals of either Party admitted into the territories of the other Party for limited purposes shall not enjoy rights to engage in gainful occupations in contravention of limitations expressly imposed, according to law, as a condition of their admittance."
Tokyo Sansei (New York), Inc., which appears and insists upon remaining as a named plaintiff along with Takizawa and the two other plaintiff individuals whose immigration status is in issue,
is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a Japanese corporation, Tokyo Trading Co., Ltd. The latter sells and distributes radios, phonographs, tape recorders, and other electronic equipment and component parts manufactured in Japan. Tokyo Sansei has been accorded treaty trader status. It serves in effect as the American arm of Tokyo Trading, handling the latter's sales, distribution, and technical advice to American technicians on the repair and servicing of the various products.
Tokyo Sansei, with its headquarters in New York City, employs, apparently as its entire staff, eight Japanese nationals. It and they claim for all of them status as either treaty traders or treaty investors. It appears that this classification has been granted without difficulty to the general manager and personnel manager. For at least the three plaintiffs herein, however, the claim has thus far been denied. The immediate concern of the court, as has been stated, is plaintiff Takizawa.
This plaintiff first came to the United States in February 1966, admitted by certification of our Tokyo Embassy, not as a treaty trader, but as a treaty investor. He claims now that this classification resulted from an error by the American officials in Tokyo. The error seems to have been replicated a year later (February 12, 1967) when, after a visit to Brazil, he was again admitted on the same documents, as a treaty investor entitled to remain in this status until February 11, 1968. On January 30, 1968, he applied for a change of status to treaty trader. The denial of that application by defendant District Director, affirmed by the Regional Commissioner, brings Takizawa here.
The undisputed facts, as summarized by the Regional Commissioner, show that Takizawa is employed by Tokyo Sansei as one of five "technician-sales consultants."
Describing his duties and qualifications in an affidavit, Takizawa said:
"* * * My specialty is phonographs and cartridge tape players. My duties involve examining merchandise samples received by Tokyo Sansei to see that they are in good working order and assisting our sales manager in discussing with customers their technical requirements for phonographs and cartridge tape players and communicating those requirements in Japanese to Tokyo Trading, the parent company in Japan. In addition, I review and examine phonographs and tape players which compete with products distributed by my employer, review damages which occur in shipment and recommend ways to avoid this, and make recommendations to my employer as to technical improvements to these Japanese products to make them more suitable for use in the United States. When necessary, I inspect and make final adjustments to the products after they are delivered to the customer."
Estimates by the Executive Director of Tokyo Sansei and by Takizawa himself indicate that he spends about 30% of his time assisting his superiors by working directly with them, about 30% in office paper work, and about 40% in adjusting and modifying merchandise arriving from Japan.
There is no evidence that Takizawa's functions are in any sense supervisory or executive. His education has been relevant to his work, but apparently suited to no more than the "technician's" position he occupies. After graduation from high school, he took a one-year course in basic electronics. Then, from 1961 to 1964, evidently while he worked full-time during the day, he took evening courses in the field of "production control," described only generally in his affidavit supporting his application here in issue, and largely or wholly unrelated to his work here in the United States.
In sum, such concrete details as were permitted to emerge from the vague and general assertions by Takizawa and his employer about his high status and vital position all tended to diminish or belie the claims. Contrary to counsel's view that crass matters like pay are irrelevant to appraisals of business capacities, the officials of the Service were entitled to note, as they did, that Takizawa was paid $380 per month during his first two years or so in the United States and rose to a monthly salary of $490 thereafter. These modest earnings might comport, to be sure, with indispensably unique talents. But the officials charged with the primary administrative responsibility were entitled to consider the possible pressure toward a different inference.
In appealing to the Regional Commissioner the District Director's denial of Takizawa's application, his counsel urged that Takizawa's "work is not manual and cannot in any manner be done by local radio repairmen and technicians, aside from the fact that such repairmen and technicians are in short supply." While those conclusory assertions might, if accepted, have carried the day, the District Director and Regional Commissioner had powerful grounds for rejecting them. As the latter official said:
"The applicant's own affidavit [and, it might have been added, those of his superior, indicate] * * * that normally the merchandise received by the employer consists of samples, but that he spends a large part of his time working on products, primarily radios and tape recorders, which have been received by United States customers from the parent company in Japan.
"The entire record, including the representations made on appeal, has been carefully considered. The evening courses which the applicant took in production control were not directly related to servicing electronic equipment. His related technical training consisted only of a one-year basic electronics course. No explanation is given of the termination of his employment with an electronic manufacturer in November 1964 nor of his activity thereafter until he started working for Tokyo Trading (Japan) in August 1965. His experience on cartridge tape recorders was acquired in the United States. He has been and will be engaged primarily in repairing and servicing radios and tape recorders, items apparently mass-produced in Japan. The evidence does not establish further that he will be engaged in performing warranty repairs on intricate or complex products sold in the course of trade between the United States and Japan; nor that the employer has been unable to obtain the services of qualified technicians in the United States. It cannot be found solely by reason of his knowledge of Japanese that he has the 'special qualifications' contemplated by the regulations as being necessary to his employer's enterprise. Matter of Konishi, 11 I. & N.Dec. 815; Nippon Express U.S.A., Inc. v. Esperdy, U.S.D.C., N.Y., 261 F. Supp. 561 (1966).
"It is concluded that the applicant has not established (1) that he is continuing to maintain the nonimmigrant status under which he was admitted and (2) that he is eligible for classification as a nonimmigrant treaty trader. The appeal will, therefore, be dismissed."
It seems evident without long discussion that the ruling by the Service against Takizawa is rational, entirely within the range of allowable judgment, and in no remote sense arbitrary or capricious. As Takizawa's counsel recognized in her appeal to the Regional Commissioner, the burden was to show at least that he possessed skills enabling him to perform tasks which cannot "be done by local * * * repairmen and technicians * * *." And even had he shown that, there would have been a further, and serious, question whether nobody entitled to permanent residence in the United States could have been trained to take over the duties Takizawa was sent here to perform as a "nonimmigrant" for an estimated two years.
The application failed in both respects. As Judge McLean said of another applicant in an analogous case, Takizawa's "special skills are not special enough, and no one individual who possesses these limited skills is essential enough." Nippon Express, supra, 261 F. Supp. at 565.
The suggestion that we have a shortage of technicians like Takizawa may or may not be correct. Assuming it is, it is not significant for the subject at hand. The existence of such a shortage - probably remediable in the case of any given employer by training people from the ranks of the unemployed - might justify the entry of a man like Takizawa as an immigrant under the statutory provisions for that different species of concern. But that was not the question before the Service, and it is not the question before this court. See note 4, supra.
On the only question now presented, the court would probably reach the result ordered by the Service if the task of initial decision belonged here. The far narrower scope of the court's reviewing authority makes clear that the administrative judgment must be sustained.
The motion of plaintiff Takizawa is denied. Defendant's motion is granted. Takizawa's complaint - or, perhaps more precisely, the claim of Takizawa tendered in the single complaint - will be dismissed. There being no just reason for delay, a judgment of dismissal will be entered under Fed.R.Civ.P. 54(b) in accordance with this decision.
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this river cruise is too ordinary.. while conducted in English its content just fall short..ther isn't much along this river..also my trip was marred with audio problems and the performance was cancelled as a result without a sincere word of apology..this shouldn't happened if they have a backup,, solve this to save the cruise
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- n. Lactuca sativa longifolia, a type of lettuce having long crisp leaves forming a slender head. Also known as Romaine lettuce, Cos lettuce, or Cos, after the Greek island of Cos (Kos).
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Analysis of candidate genes in Polish families with obesity
Citation Information: Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine. Volume 42, Issue 5, Pages 487–493, ISSN (Print) 1434-6621, DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2004.083, June 2005
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This study analyzes the relationship between risk factors related to overweight/obesity, insulin resistance, lipid tolerance, hypertension, endothelial function and genetic polymorphisms associated with: i) appetite regulation (leptin, melanocortin-3-receptor (MCR-3), dopamine receptor 2 (D2R)); ii) adipocyte differentiation and insulin sensitivity (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ2 (PPAR-γ2), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α)); iii) thermogenesis and free fatty acid (FFA) transport/catabolism (uncoupling protein-1 (UCP1), lipoprotein lipase (LPL), β2- and β3-adrenergic receptor (β2AR, β3AR), fatty acid transport protein-1 (FATP-1) and iv) lipoproteins (apoliprotein E (apoE), apo CIII).
The 122 members of 40 obese Caucasian families from southern Poland participated in the study. The genotypes were analyzed by restriction fragment length polymorphism-polymerase chain reaction (RFLP-PCR) or by direct sequencing. Phenotypes related to obesity (body mass index (BMI), fat/lean body mass composition, waist-to-hip ratio (WHR)), fasting lipids, glucose, leptin and insulin, as well as insulin during oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) (4 points within 2 hours) and during oral lipid tolerance test (OLTT) (5 points within 8 hours) were assessed. The insulin sensitivity indexes: homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance, whole body insulin sensitivity index, hepatic insulin sensitivity and early secretory response to an oral glucose load (HOMA-IR, ISI-COMP, ISI-HOMA and DELTA) were calculated.
The single gene mutations such as C105 T OB and Pro115 Gln PPAR-γ2 linked to morbid obesity were not detected in our group. A weak correlation between obesity and certain gene polymorphisms was observed. Being overweight (25<BMI≤30 kg/m2) significantly correlated with worse FFA tolerance in male PPAR-γ2 12Pro, LPL-H (G) allele carriers. Insulin resistance was found in female PPAR-γ2 Pro12, TNF-α (−308A) and LPL-H (G) allele carriers. Hypertension linked to the PPAR-γ2 Pro allele carriers was characterized by high leptin output during OLTT.
We conclude that the polymorphisms we investigated were weakly correlated with obesity but significantly modified the risk factors of the metabolic syndrome.
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It's possible for genre spoof movies to be funny. Naked Gun proved that. Some would argue that being funny is the point of a spoof. But after stealing a copy of the Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer genre spoof Meet The Spartans, I found myself so entranced that I did the unthinkable: I watched Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, and Superhero Movie.
All of these movies have several incredible things in common with each other. The most impressive is the fact that none of them feature any jokes. Not. One. Joke. They have references to other movies, commercials and pop culture phenomena, sure, but they don't even try to make humorous observations about them. For instance:
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom of I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills
Disaster Movie features one particular scene "lampooning" Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that for some reason takes place on the set of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. The characters look at a cave wall and see the shadow of a figure putting on the trademark Indiana Jones hat as the Indy theme swells up. We zoom out and we realize we were tricked! It's not Indiana Jones at all, but the black midget from Bad Santa.
"You're Indiana Jones?" asks one of the main characters. "Indiana Jones, my ass!" the midget responds, then he proceeds to poorly use his whip and then get slammed into a wall. And that is the end. That is the entire scene. And that is what's so fascinating about these movies. In a bad comedy, that exchange might go: "You're Indiana Jones?" asks one of the main characters. "No," the midget says. "I'm Rhode Island Jones." That would be a joke. Because it's another state and he's MOTHERFUCKING TINY! Sure, it's not a very good joke, but at least it's a joke. If I thought about it for more than five seconds, I might have even been able to come up with something better but I'm not a "successful" screenwriter, so I won't waste my time--just like Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer didn't waste theirs.
But they are not simply doing a bad job. They are not doing a job at all. They are comedy writers who haven't even bothered to write comedy. This is unprecedented, not just in the film world, but in the entire history of employment. And this is not one scene in one movie. It is every scene in every movie they have ever made. Don't believe me?
You Can Tell They're Thinking About Making a Joke ...
There is another specific scene from Disaster Movie that deserves your attention, but I feel like you've had enough for now, so let's briefly (yeah, right) move on to Superhero Movie. This scene involves that Topher Grace-looking motherfucker from Date Movie and Epic Movie playing a mutant quite similar to the mutant Angel (but with a hilarious twist!). [Editor's Note: This scene is actually from Epic Movie. We decided not to tell Cody or correct the mistake because no one would have even realized if we hadn't pointed this out, right now.]
He begins the scene hitting on the Mystique character played by Carmen Electra, who I'm pretty sure is the most bangable woman on the planet with also the worst sense of humor on the planet, because she has huge tits and she has so far appeared in Scary Movie, Superhero Movie, Date Movie, Scary Movie 4, Epic Movie, Meet The Spartans and Disaster Movie (she was not in Not Another Teen Movie, though, because that was actually pretty funny).
Anyway, the Topher Grace-looking motherfucker asks her out and she literally says "As if!" Cue the entrance of Faux-Wolverine, Faux-Storm, Faux-Rouge and Faux-Cyclops, who all look surprisingly accurate except for the fact that Cyclops's sunglasses aren't red, which doesn't make any fucking sense.
Faux-Wolverine, of course, gives the Topher Grace-looking motherfucker the business because Wolverine's dating Mystique for some reason, and then walks away. The Topher Grace-looking motherfucker delivers a real zinger as they walk away, shouting "Asshole!" You shouldn't have said that, Topher Grace-looking motherfucker, because you just made Wolverine angry, and you wouldn't like Wolverine when he's angry. They didn't actually say this in the movie, of course, but I figured they might as well have because they're so awful at making things accurate in this piece of shit that they should have gone the extra mile and fucked up the characters' catchphrases. At least then I might have actually laughed. I wish Mystique had called everyone "Bub."
So as angry Faux-Wolverine turns around, he extends his Adamantium claws and... wait for it... here comes the joke... he puts the two outside claws back in so it looks like he's giving the Topher Grace-looking motherfucker the finger!
Oh, wait, that's not a joke, because Wolverine ALREADY DID THAT IN THE FIRST X-MEN MOVIE! The Topher Grace-looking motherfucker's response to this is to use his powers. Everyone gets ready for a fight as a worried Faux-Storm shouts, "He's gonna sprout angel wings!" (because that alone is terrifying, right?... God, Angel sucks... ). He doesn't sprout angel wings, though. He clucks and then sprouts chicken wings. "More like chicken wings," chides Mystique, quite cleverly, and they all laugh louder, because the joke here is that a character stated what we the audience just saw happen. Comedy gold at its goldest.
Another problem facing these movies (that is closely tied to the lack of jokes) is the overwhelming use of references, hence "reference movie." Every second of each film is a reference to another, better movie. They do not make jokes about these movies. They simply present the movie as it was originally seen and then throw in a quick commercial for Pepsi, a dance-off or a moment where a head-shaven Britney Spears sings to a doll. Again, no jokes. Just things we recognize as things. Disaster Movie does this perhaps the most beautifully by having the main characters be the main chick from Enchanted, Juno from Juno and who I THINK is supposed to be Fat Albert (Because we all saw the Fat Albert movie, right?). These characters from movies that are not disaster movies go on an adventure experiencing disasters that are from disaster movies.


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The FBI investigation provides plenty of ammunition for the election. It makes it crystal clear that Hillary Clinton lied about not sending classified emails. But it also states that it isn't going to do a thing about it.
Here's Comey trying to sum up the classified email abuses
FBI investigators have also read all of the approximately 30,000 e-mails provided by Secretary Clinton to the State Department in December 2014. Where an e-mail was assessed as possibly containing classified information, the FBI referred the e-mail to any U.S. government agency that was a likely "owner" of information in the e-mail, so that agency could make a determination as to whether the e-mail contained classified information at the time it was sent or received, or whether there was reason to classify the e-mail now, even if its content was not classified at the time it was sent (that is the process sometimes referred to as "up-classifying").
From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were "up-classified" to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent.
The FBI also discovered several thousand work-related e-mails that were not in the group of 30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 2014. We found those additional e-mails in a variety of ways. Some had been deleted over the years and we found traces of them on devices that supported or were connected to the private e-mail domain. Others we found by reviewing the archived government e-mail accounts of people who had been government employees at the same time as Secretary Clinton, including high-ranking officials at other agencies, people with whom a Secretary of State might naturally correspond.
This helped us recover work-related e-mails that were not among the 30,000 produced to State. Still others we recovered from the laborious review of the millions of e-mail fragments dumped into the slack space of the server decommissioned in 2013.
With respect to the thousands of e-mails we found that were not among those produced to State, agencies have concluded that three of those were classified at the time they were sent or received, one at the Secret level and two at the Confidential level. There were no additional Top Secret e-mails found. Finally, none of those we found have since been "up-classified."
Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.
For example, seven e-mail chains concern matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and received. These chains involved Secretary Clinton both sending e-mails about those matters and receiving e-mails from others about the same matters. There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton's position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation. In addition to this highly sensitive information, we also found information that was properly classified as Secret by the U.S. Intelligence Community at the time it was discussed on e-mail (that is, excluding the later "up-classified" e-mails).
None of these e-mails should have been on any kind of unclassified system, but their presence is especially concerning because all of these e-mails were housed on unclassified personal servers not even supported by full-time security staff, like those found at Departments and Agencies of the U.S. Government—or even with a commercial service like Gmail.
Separately, it is important to say something about the marking of classified information. Only a very small number of the e-mails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information. But even if information is not marked "classified" in an e-mail, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.
The clear evidence standard is of course absurd, because Clinton and her people knew the regulations and clearly violated them. That standard would apply to any other employee, yet Hillary is allowed to act as if she had no idea of what the law was or that she was violating it.
So Comey demolishes Hillary's lies about classified emails on the one hand and then shrugs the whole thing off on the other. You can see that as the action of a man in an impossible spot who does his job demolishing the alibi and then walks away having provided the information while knowing that it can be used politically, but not criminally.
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"You people!" says Eliot Deacon sadly, and with a touch of frustration. He is referring to the dead. They are whiners. They're not ready to die, they've got unfinished business, there are things they still desire, the death certificate is mistaken, and on and on and on. Deacon, as a mortician, has to put up with this.
Take Anna as an example. She drove away from a disastrous dinner with her boyfriend, was speeding on a rainy night, and was killed in a crash. Now here she is on a porcelain slab in his prep room, telling him there's been some mistake. Deacon tries to reason with her. He even shows her the coroner's signature on the death certificate. But no. She's alive, as he can clearly see. Besides, if he's so sure she's dead, why does he carefully lock the door from the outside whenever he leaves the room?
"After.Life" is a strange movie that never clearly declares whether Anna (Christina Ricci) is dead or alive. Well, not alive in the traditional sense, but alive in a sort of middle state between life and death. Her body is presumably dead. She has no pulse, and we assume her blood has been replaced by embalming fluid. Yet she protests, argues, can sit up and move around. Is Deacon (Liam Neeson) the only one who can see this? Maybe he's fantasizing? No, the little boy Jack (Chandler Canterbury) sees her too, through a window.
Jack tells her boyfriend Paul (Justin Long). He believes it. He's had a great deal of difficulty accepting her death. He still has the engagement ring he planned to offer her on that fateful night. He tries to break into the funeral home. He causes a scene at the police station. He sounds like a madman to them.
"After.Life" is a horror film involving the familiar theme of being alive when the world thinks you're dead. It couples that with a possibility that has chilled me ever since the day when, at far too young an age, I pulled down Poe from my dad's bookshelf, looked at the Table of Contents, and turned straight to "The Premature Burial." From her point of view, she's still alive when the earth starts thudding on the coffin. From Deacon's point of view? Yes, I think from his POV too.
From ours? The director, Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo, says audiences split about half and half. That's how I split. Half of me seizes on evidence that she's still alive, and the other half notices how the film diabolically undercuts all that evidence. I think the correct solution is: Anna is a character in a horror film that leaves her state deliberately ambiguous.
Neeson's performance as Deacon is ambiguous but sincere. He has been working with these people for years. He explains he has the "gift" of speaking with them. And little Jack, the eyewitness? Oh, but Deacon thinks he has the gift, too. So once again, you don't know what to believe. Perhaps the gift is supernatural, or perhaps it's madness or a delusion.
The film has many of the classic scenes of horror movies set in mortuaries. The chilling stainless steel paraphernalia. The work late at night. The moonlit graveyard. The burial. The Opened Grave. Even her desperate nails shredding the lining inside the coffin -- although we see that from Anna's POV and no one else's.
I think, in a way, the film short-changes itself by not coming down on one side or the other. As it stands, it's a framework for horror situations but cannot be anything deeper. Yes, we can debate it endlessly -- but pointlessly, because there is no solution. We can enjoy the suspense of the opening scenes, and some of the drama. The performances are in keeping with the material. But toward the end, when we realize that the entire reality of the film is problematical, there is a certain impatience. It's as if our chain is being yanked.
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