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(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - The roads Ryan Reser (Colorado Springs, Colo. / USA Judo National Training Site at the Olympic Training Center / 73kg) and Travis Stevens (Glenville, N.Y. / USA Judo National Training Site at the Jason Morris Judo Center / 81kg) have taken may be different, but on Saturday, the results were both the same - Pan American Games gold.
Reser's a veteran with two Pan Am Championship titles under his belt and the top seed going into today's competition.Stevens was unseeded and competing on his first senior international team after earning his spot in a best-of-three fight-off at the Pan American Games Trials.
"It feels really good to have won," Stevens said. "It's kind of a relief because I was definitely afraid of how I'd do coming into today, but I'm very happy."
Reser advanced to the medal rounds in the span of 24 seconds and took only 60 seconds to win gold after throwing his first two opponents, Richard Leon (VEN) and Marco Figuereo (DOM) in six and 18 seconds, respectively.
The only stumbling block in his path to the final turned out to be Abraham Negrete (MEX) who was the only player to take Reser the full five minutes before losing by a yuko (quarter-point) score and penalties in the semifinals.
Stevens threw his first opponent, Abderraman Brenes la Roche (PUR) for a yuko (quarter-point) score with an ippon seoi nage (shoulder throw) and threw Victor Palafox (MEX) for ippon (instant win) in the third minute to advance to the semifinals.
One thing both players faced was the difficulty of fighting not only top Brazilian players in front of a home crowd, but Reser and Stevens both found themselves fighting Brazilians who also won bronze medalists at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
And again, while the final results were the same - victories by ippon - the methods of getting there were different.
Stevens fought his Brazilian in the semifinals. His opponent, Flavio Canto, is one of the biggest and most loved stars on the Brazilian team and is considered one of the top players in the world.
Stevens, held is own though, holding Canto scoreless as he tried to beat Stevens both on his feet and on the ground until Stevens came in for a throw in the corner of the mat as the match wound down to the last minute. Considered out of bounds, Stevens didn't receive a score, but Canto was visibly injured in the process.
Although he continued the fight, Stevens caught him off the grip on the next exchange and threw Canto with an koshi guruma (head and arm throw) to win the match with 53 seconds remaining.
"I really wish he hadn't gotten hurt," Stevens said. "I would've liked to have seen how things would've gone for the rest of the match."
The win moved Stevens into the final against Mario Valles (COL) who he threw for ippon to win the title.
"I was really nervous for the final," Stevens said. "He's really quick with his feet so I was worried I'd get caught."
Reser's match with the Brazilian in his division took place in the final when he fought Leandro Guilheiro (BRA) who made the international community take notice when he won bronze shortly after his 21st birthday in Athens.
Although Reser and Guilheiro are two of the top players in the Pan Am region, they hadn't fought until Saturday.
"I knew he was going to be tough, so I definitely prepared for him," Reser said.
The match started off technically with both players feeling each other out until Reser threw Guilheiro for ippon at the one-minute mark.
"I hoped it would end that fast, but then again that's what you always want. In reality, I thought it would be a hard, long, grueling match," Reser said. "He's a good player and then you're fighting the crowd favorite in the finals and it's always going to be hard."
Combined with his gold medal at the Pan Am Championships in Montreal in May, the United States has a near lock on qualifying the 73kg division for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
"I'm feeling pretty confident... Now I can focus more on preparing for Trials and going to camps and events where I can focus on how I'm going to prepare for those guys who I would see at the Olympics," Reser said.
Valerie Gotay (Harlingen , Texas / USA Judo National Training Site at Harlingen) won the third medal for Team USA on Saturday, earning a silver medal in the 57kg division.
After a first-round bye, Gotay fought Roxana Garcia (PUR) in the semifinals. Garcia was given a penalty early in the match and then Gotay scored a koka (smallest points) and yuko (quarter-point) off pins to win the match.
In the semifinal, Gotay threw Yagnelys Mestre (CUB), a Pan Am Championships medalist in Montreal , for a waza-ari (half-point) after the score was tied with a penalty apiece.
Like Reser, Gotay's final match was against a Brazilian - Danielle Zangrando who she defeated in the final of the Pan Ams in Montreal.
Gotay was given an early penalty and couldn't make up ground, losing by a koka.
"She fought how it was to be expected. We've played each other before and we're both very familiar with each other, so I knew how she'd fight," Gotay said. "I came here expecting to win, but congratulations to Zangrando."
Combined with yesterday's gold medal performance by Ronda Rousey (Wakefield, Mass. / NYAC / USA Judo National Team FORCE / 70kg) and Rick Hawn's (Wakefield , Mass. / USA Judo National Team FORCE) bronze medal win in the 90kg division, Team USA is on track to have one of it's most successful Pan American Games in history and is tied with Cuba for the nation with the most gold medals behind Brazil.
"The U.S. Team is improving," Stevens said. "Thanks to USA Judo, we're starting to send teams to train and compete in Europe and South American and we're getting a better handle on international players."
Marti Malloy (San Jose, Calif. / USA Judo National Training Site at San Jose State University ) fought for a bronze, but lost by a waza-ari (half-point) to 2003 World Champion Daniela Krukower (ARG).
In her first match, Malloy lost to Ysis Barreto (VEN) by a waza-ari, but pushed through to fight for bronze when she defeated Yennifer Dominguez (GUA) by a koka and three penalties.
Tomorrow, judo competition concludes with the lightweight divisions. Taraje Williams-Murray (Bronx, N.Y. / NYAC / Spartak Sports Club / 60kg), Justin Flores (Glenville, N.Y. / USA Judo National Training Site at the Jason Morris Judo Center / 66kg), Grace Ohashi (Colorado Springs, Colo. / USA Judo National Training Site at the Olympic Training Center / 52kg) and Jeanette Rodriguez (Coral Springs, Fla. / USA Judo National Training Site at North Miami) all will compete.
The tournament starts with preliminaries at 10 a.m. at Rio Centro Pavilion 4 and continues with finals at 2 p.m.
Complete results are as follows:
Completed Draws
Men's 73kg
1. Ryan Reser (Colorado Springs, Colo. / USA Judo National Training Site at the Olympic Training Center)
2. Leandro Guilheiro (BRA)
3. Ronald Girones (CUB)
3. Nicholas Tritton (CAN)
5. Abraham Negrete (MEX)
5. Marcos Figuereo (DOM)
7. Eduardo Novoa (CHI)
7. Mariano Bertolotti (ARG)
Men's 81kg
1. Travis Stevens (Glenville, N.Y. / USA Judo National Training Site at the Jason Morris Judo Center)
2. Mario Valles (COL)
3. Franklin Cisneros (ESA)
3. Oscar Cardenas (CUB)
5. Flavio Canto (BRA)
5. Emanel Lucenti (BRA)
7. Francisco Ayala (CHI)
7. Abderraman Brenes (PUR)
Women's 57kg
1. Danielle Zangrando (BRA)
2. Valerie Gotay (Harlingen, Texas / USA Judo National Training Site at Harlingen)
3. Diana Villavicencio (ECU)
3. Yagnelis Mestre (CUB)
5. Yadinis Amaris (COL)
5. Zarina Bielakowicz (ARG)
Women's 63kg
1. Driulis Gonzalez (CUB)
2. Danielli Yuri Barbosa (BRA)
3. Daniela Krukower (ARG)
3. Isis Barreto (VEN)
5. Jessica Garcia (PUR)
5. Marti Malloy (San Jose, Calif. / USA Judo National Training Site at San Jose State University)


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The notion of feminisation of a profession signifies a variety of meanings. In much of the literature, a profession is feminised when women constitute the majority of its practitioners. However, Menkel-Meadow1 identifies two other meanings: those who recognise certain attributes as uniquely feminine regard the profession as feminised 'when traits such as empathy, relatedness, nurturance and collectiveness are recognised, valued and expressed in the performance of professional tasks and functions'. Women purportedly impart these traits when they join a profession. Then there is the feminist premise that a profession is feminised not by stereotypic attribution of gender qualities, but when its practice and substantive rules adapt and change in such a manner that women who enter the profession do not have to conform to a male model of what it means to be a professional. This editorial considers feminisation of the South African medical profession from all three perspectives.
The increasing presence of women in the medical profession in South Africa has been confirmed in several studies. According to the 2007 figures (the latest available) on medical school enrolments, females now form 56.2% of overall enrolments, up from a minority of 49.7% in 1999, and the proportion of women graduating from medical school has increased from 46.6% to 55.1% during the same period.2 In this regard South Africa is in line with global trends. In the USA, for example, women make up more than 50% of matriculating medical students and 25% of practising doctors.3
The foreseeable eventuality of women becoming a majority in the profession is generating angst in some quarters. Globally, women doctors work fewer hours in all age groups than their male counterparts, and take time off for child rearing. McKinstry et al.4 fret that 'the rapidly increasing proportion of women in general practice [in Scotland] may lead to an increasing shortfall of medical availability in the future if current work patterns are maintained'. The feminist response might be that such work patterns should not be maintained, but should rather be adapted to be in harmony with the changing professional demographics, taking into account inter alia that women generally stay in the workforce longer and retire later in life.
Some worry about the impact of feminisation on the status of medicine. Citing the experience in former Soviet Union countries where medicine has long been dominated by women, and where the profession is generally regarded as a low-status occupation, some speculate that feminisation will lead to the erosion of the profession's prestige. Others, however, counter that medicine is feminising precisely because, for a complex set of reasons, the profession has already lost some of its gloss and has consequently become less attractive to men.
There is some evidence that the growing participation of women in the medical profession has a favourable transformative impact on medical practice. A much-cited paper by Levinson and Lurie3 predicts notable changes in four domains: the patient-physician relationship, the local delivery of care, the societal delivery of care, and the medical profession itself. Studies show that female doctors are more likely than their male counterparts to engage patients as active partners in their care and to be sensitive not only to patients' biomedical concerns but also to their emotional and social concerns. Women are generally more likely to practise in primary care settings and to serve less advantaged populations. Women are changing the profession itself by forging new pathways to allow doctors - women as well as men - to balance career and family responsibilities.]]>
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Yet gender equity within the profession remains elusive. Women have not achieved leadership positions in academia and professional societies, nor have they attained representation within the medical specialties, in numbers that are commensurate with their growing numerical strength. The proportion of women graduates entering specialist training remains much lower than that for men, with women trainees largely gravitating towards the less well-remunerated, so-called 'soft' primary care specialties such as family medicine, paediatrics and public health. In what has been called 'internal segregation', women remain under-represented in the male-gendered so-called 'hard' surgical disciplines.
Opinions differ as to why this is so. One view holds that 'the choice of a specialty depends on a variety of considerations that may be different for women, who often take family responsibilities and social roles into account, than for men'.5 Such a choice is not necessarily free, but more likely reflects the human tendency to adjust one's desires to what is attainable. For the profession to become gender-neutral will require fundamental transformation in society and the profession.
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1. Menkel-Meadow C. Feminization of the legal profession - the comparative sociology of women lawyers. In: Abel RL, Lewis PSC, eds. Lawyers in Society - Comparative Theories. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996: 196. [ Links ]
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Measuring Customer Happiness: Dharmesh Shah's 2010 Business of Software Conference Presentation
Measuring Customer Happiness: Dharmesh Shah's 2010 Business of Software Conference Presentation
This post is part of a series of posts from the 2010 Business of Software conference (BoS2010). For a summary of the conference, and an index to the other presentations, click here.
Dharmesh's 2010 Business of Software presentation: "Building A Great Software Business: Notes From The Field"
I'm a big fan of Dharmesh. I've been following him for sometime now, so I was really looking forward to his presentation.
Before heading out to Boston, I watched Dharmesh's 2009 and 2008 BoS presentations (to see the videos go to the end of this post). It was nice to see some recurring topics in his presentations, because that indicated to me that these were important enough ideas for him to repeat.
Dharmesh's 2010 talk was packed full of insights – customer acquisition, customer retention, customer data, transparency, and venture capital. Dharmesh provided us with lots of useful equations and data throughout his presentation.
How to Measure Customer Happiness
To have a successful software business, you need happy customers. It's simply not enough to just acquire lots of customers – you need to retain them. And to retain your customers, you need to make them happy.
Let's look at customer acquisition first, and then customer retention.
Customer Acquisition
The total Cost Of Customer Acquisition (COCA) is determined by dividing the number of dollars spent on Smarketing by the total number of customers. Smarketing, as defined by Dharmesh, is the total cost of sales and marketing.
The Lifetime Value (LTV) of a customer is the value, in terms of dollars, that you get from a customer for the expected length of time he's your customer. For example, if you have a customer that pays $10/month, and you expect him to be a paying customer for 4 years, then the Lifetime Value of that customer is $480.
LTV = annual revenue from customer * expected length as customer
A customer's LTV should be greater than your COCA. If it's not, that means it's costing you more money to acquire a customer than you're making from that customer. That's a bad business model…and sure to fail! If the LTV is much greater than the COCA, then it's time to start pumping more money into the business to start acquiring more customers.
These may seem like obvious points, the problem is that very few of us actually take the time to do these calculations. Keeping an eye on these numbers will help you make better business decisions.
Customer Retention
It takes a fair amount of capital to obtain a customer. Therefore, once you acquire a customer, it's important to retain him as a customer for as long as possible. Customer churn, or customer turnover, is the rate at which your leaving customers are replaced by incoming customers.
Customer churn can be measured in several ways. The simplest way is to look at what percentage of customers are actually staying onboard versus leaving. Another way to measure customer churn is to look at what percentage of leaving customers are high paying customers versus customers on your lower priced plans.
When looking at customer churn, the higher the number of customers staying on compared to the number of customers leaving, the better. However, the above methods of looking at customer churn can lead to deceiving numbers. A better way to measure customer churn is to measure the discretionary churn.
Discretionary churn measures how many users actually have the option of canceling your service. For example, a customer tied into a 6 month subscription plan, may not be happy with your service, however, he won't have the option to cancel for another 6 months. So, discretionary churn is a much better way of measuring customer churn than the above methods.
Customer churn can be a good measure of a customer's happiness with your product or service. However, it is imperfect, because the absence of churn doesn't necessarily indicate customer happiness. And this takes us to HubSpot's Customer Happiness Index (CHI).
What Is the Customer Happiness Index
The guys at HubSpot created the Customer Happiness Index (CHI). CHI is a number from 0 to 100 that measures the probability any given customer will cancel, given the option to cancel. CHI is determined by three factors:
- Frequency of product use: By looking at the frequency of use, you can assume that the more a customer uses your product, the happier they are with it, and the less likely they are to cancel.
- Breadth of product use: By looking at the breadth of use, you can assume that the customers who use more features, are happier with your product, and again are less likely to cancel.
- Sticky product features: This one is important, and probably not so obvious. Sticky features are features that provide a lot of value to your customers, especially when compared to your competition. Those customers that use sticky features are likely to be happier, and thus less likely to cancel. HubSpot has found that this factor is more important than frequency of use and breadth of use – irregular users that use sticky features tend to stick around longer than those that use frequently and use lots of features.
By religiously following the CHI scores of customers, HubSpot can identify early on which customers are unhappy. They can then take a proactive step towards fixing the problem by calling up the customer before they cancel. This action has helped HubSpot keep about 33% of their previously unhappy customers.
Dharmesh did warn against taking their success rate too much to heart. Although they may have prevented a customer from canceling this month, if the customer's happiness level isn't brought up significantly, odds are that customer may still cancel the following month.
The cool thing about CHI is that it can be used to measure other aspects of your business, not just which customers are likely to cancel. You can also use CHI to:
- Measure the quality of the leads generated by your marketing efforts
- Make decisions on which product features to keep, remove, add, enhance, etc
- Make decisions on how much to compensate your sales folks.
How to Improve the Customer Happiness Index
"Invest in the experience, not the product, and everyone wins."
Dharmesh used a quote from Kathy Sierra's 2009 BoS presentation to set the mood:
Don't make ___(fill in the blank)____ software. Make ___(fill in the blank)____ superstars. For example, don't make marketing software. Make marketing superstars.
The key is to think about your customers. Think about what they want out of your software, what they want to accomplish. Make them awesome at what they do. Case in point, meet Molly:
The stuffed teddy bear in the picture is Molly. Molly is the customer's stand in, and is required for quorum at all of HubSpot's management meetings. Most meetings don't happen without someone saying, "What would Molly say?". It's a good way to remember that your software is really about your customers, and making them great at what they do.
However, Dharmesh did point out that although customers are very good at finding problems, they are not so good at finding solutions for those problems. So remember that it is your job to find solutions to their problems. (Side note: This reminds me of the old project management cartoon about project requirements 🙂 )
Increasing Customer Happiness Through Services
Another way to increase a customer's CHI score is by providing consulting services. HubSpot decided to not only offer consulting services to their customers, but to also charge for those services. Why charge? If a customer pays several hundred dollars for a few hours of consulting they will:
- See more value in it, than if it were a free service. Something that costs $500 is definitely better than something that costs $0, right?
- Get more out of their consulting session. If the customer is paying $500 for consulting you better believe that they are going to get their money's worth out of the session. The customer will ask questions, and make sure they understand everything, just because they paid for the service.
A customer that knows how to get the most out of your product will be a happy customer (assuming you have a good product), which will increase their use of your product, as well as their LTV. Therefore, you should work towards making that happen – whether you charge for it or not.
HubSpot's profit margins on consulting are actually very low. However, they continue to offer these services because it increases their customers' CHI scores, which in the long run means greater overall profits for the business.
How to Gain (and Keep) Customers With Branding
Your brand is an important part of your business – and of acquiring and retaining customers. The most important thing your business can do (aside from creating a brilliant product) is to not screw with your customers. Dharmesh strongly advises against the Salesforce philosophy – don't trick people into buying your product. To put it in Dharmesh's words, "Brand is what people say about you after you have left the room."
HubSpot Tidbits
Dharmesh shared some HubSpot philosophies, including how much company information they share, and why they decided to accept venture capital.
Transparency Trumps Secrecy
Except for salary information, all of HubSpot's data is available to all employees. All data! This includes financial information. (Side note: This seems to work for HubSpot. I recently saw the below tweets from HubSpot employees.)
Although HubSpot makes all of their data available to its employees, the data is off limits to the public. The reason is that they don't see any real benefit to doing so.
The Evilness of Venture Capital
HubSpot is not Dharmesh's first startup, but it is his first venture backed startup. Most of us think of pure evil when we think of Venture Capitalists, but VCs can play an important role in some businesses. Most software startups don't need venture capital, and are actually doing themselves a disservice by pursuing it. But there are a few select startups that can benefit from venture capital.
If you are aiming for quick, high growth (like Facebook), or are starting a business that requires a lot of upfront capital (like a hardware business), then it might make sense to obtain venture capital. At HubSpot, they made a decision early on that they:
- Wanted to become the dominant player in the industry.
- Were looking for rapid growth.
Because you need a lot of money to accomplish both of these goals, they chose to look for venture capital. A key part of HubSpot's strategy was to acquire these funds before they actually needed the money. The reason being that:
- It is easier to obtain venture capital before you need it, than it is if you are already in need of it.
- You get better terms early on because since you aren't desperate for the money you can always back out.
Do note that once you take VC funds, you move from solving your customers' problems to solving your investors' problems. And the two rarely align with each other.
Key Takeaways From Dharmesh's BoS2010 Presentation
These are the main points I got out of Dharmesh's BoS2010 talk:
- Log as much data as you have, even if you can't use it now. You may be able to use it in the future.
- Measure your customers' happiness. Come up with your own metrics if you have to, but look at those numbers closely. Determine what makes happy customers, and what doesn't, and adjust your business model accordingly.
- Dream big, and execute small. If someone offers to buy your company, seriously consider it, even if it's not what you dreamed of. Selling gives you cash, which allows you to move on to your next dream 🙂
Memorable Quotes
Some memorable quotes from Dharmesh's BoS2010 presentation:
- "Don't make customers happy. Make happy customers."
- "Brand is what people say about you after you've left the room."
- "Venture capital isneither necessary nor evil."
- "Services are low margin…except when they're not."
- "Invest in the experience, not the product, and everyone wins."
- "Customers are very good at finding problems, not at finding solutions for those problems."
- "Transparency trumps secrecy."
- "Dream Big. Execute Small."
More on Dharmesh Shah
Dharmesh Shah is the founder and CTO of HubSpot, a venture-backed software company offering a hosted software service for inbound marketing. Prior to HubSpot, Dharmesh was the founder and CEO of Pyramid Digital Solutions. Pyramid was a three time recipient of the Inc. 500 award and was acquired by SunGard Data Systems in 2005. Dharmesh is also the author of OnStartups.com, a top-ranking startup blog with over 20,000 subscribers and 100,000 members in its online community. Dharmesh is the co-author of Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media and Blogs.
You can find Dharmesh's startup blog here.
Follow Dharmesh on Twitter here.
Dharmesh's summary of his 2009 BoS presentation can be found here, on his blog. And his summary of his 2008 Business of Software presentation can also be found on his blog.
What are your thoughts on Dharmesh's presentation? If you attended BoS2010, did I miss an important point? What was your favorite part of Dharmesh's presentation? What was your key takeaway from his talk?


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Zoe Saldana reveals whom she wants to see shirtless in Star Trek 2. Marc Webb explains how he built the world of The Amazing Spider-Man. Plus key World War Z details and the first look at Superman's adoptive dad!
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Top image from The Amazing Spider-Man.
The Dark Knight Rises
Here are a whole bunch of set photos. The first set shows various actors spotted in the Pittsburgh locations, while the second set shows some various sites that have been used for filming. [Superhero Hype, MovieWeb, and RTE]
Despite the fact that Christopher Nolan has already categorically stated the Riddler won't be in the movie, rumors of Edward Nygma's involvement just won't go away. The latest comes from a supposed cast list, which lists Nygma as a character - strangely enough, with no actor attached to the role. Anyway, I would say this rumor is pretty much 100% definitely false, and it's probably just a reheated version of one of the equally untrue stories that was floating around earlier this year, back when it was at least still vaguely plausible that the character's presence could still be revealed. [ScreenRant]
The Amazing Spider-Man
Director Marc Webb discusses how they created their own particular take on Spider-Man, including whether they retained the comics notion that Peter's parents abandoned him because they were CIA agents:
"We're creating a world of our own devising, but we take cues from the comics. In terms of the CIA-secret-agent thing, we're not really going down that road in particular," Webb said. "Not in this movie. There is a lot of stuff to explore and design, and that was part of the fun in creating this universe in a new and different way. There's a relationship with Oscorp that's deeper and more interesting. There's a lot to explore with Peter Parker as a character that I think is really fascinating. The trickster component and punk-rock instinct he has I'm really excited to get out there. We had many discussions about how to create a universe that could sustain over a few films."
Producer Matthew Tomlach also drops a general clue about where the sequels will go:
"There are also those moments that are teased. But there are emotional questions to be resolved within Peter and within other characters in the movie. I think that's also what's going to make for subsequent movies."
The Avengers
Here's a report on the Cleveland filming.
Man of Steel
Here's a blurry first look at Kevin Costner as Pa Kent. [Cinema Blend]
Here's a set video.
Star Trek 2
Zoe Saldana discusses - in less than completely serious terms - what she wants to see in the sequel:
"For some reason, I'm not like a mushy person, but I kind of want Spock and Uhura to get it on...Not in that sense! But you really want to see more of that love affair...Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) should definitely take off his shirt. Along with Sulu (John Cho). And I think Uhura should kick some ass."
World War Z
Paramount has put out this official release about the movie, which includes a brief cast list and synopsis. There's no mention of rumored addition Bryan Cranston, but it looks like Matthew Fox didn't drop out of the movie after all:
Starring [Brad] Pitt (Moneyball), Mireille Enos (AMC's "The Killing"), Daniella Kertesz in her feature film debut, James Badge Dale (The Departed) and Matthew Fox ("Lost")...The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself. Enos plays Gerry's wife Karen Lane; Kertesz is his comrade in arms, Segen.
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
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The Darkest Hour
Here's some more concept art for the Moscow-set alien invasion movie. [HeyUGuys.co.uk]
Men in Black III
Nicole Scherzinger discusses her role in the movie:
I've finished shooting it already. I have a cameo and I open the movie. So it was an honor to work with Barry Sonnenfeld, the director, and Jemaine Clement who's my costar... I had to create a whole other character for this role. In order to do that I had to pull from the rock star inside of me and create this whole diva, like this whole action bad girl kind of character...She's actually a woman in black and leather. A woman in black leather actually. I remembered when I was doing a lot of the scenes. In some of the scenes I'm walking and you'll see with some serious hardcore rocket launcher. It's crazy.
Doctor Who
The Daily Star quotes a supposed inside source on what will become of Amy and Rory in the next series:
"There are going to be a lot of tears in the finale. The Doc will set off in the Tardis for his next adventure on his own. Amy and Rory will be reunited with their baby Melody Pond and they make a decision to stay on Earth to settle down as a family. But TV bosses are well aware the couple have been popular so this won't be the last you see of them."
The idea supposedly being batted around is to make them "stay-at-home assistants" who would help out the Doctor whenever he visited contemporary Earth, which sounds a lot like how Martha was used in series four. The basic parameters of this rumor sound like they make some sense - Karen Gillan did say she would be back for series seven, but didn't elaborate beyond that, and some set photos did seem to indicate some sort of tearful farewell between the Ponds and the Doctor. So yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if this particular rumor turns out to be true...but it's still very much just a rumor. [Daily Star]
Torchwood: Miracle Day
Here are some promo photos for the next episode, "The Middle Men." [Life, Doctor Who, and Combom]
Game of Thrones
British actor Robert Pugh, who has previously appeared in Master & Commander and Robin Hood, has reportedly been cast as Craster, "craggy old wildling who lives North of The Wall, but is hospitable to members of the Night's Watch." [EW]
Here are some additional details on Smallville actor Justin Hartley's episode two guest spot, which we reported on yesterday:
Hartley will play Wesley Sneijder, the handsome younger brother of Karl. He is a Dartmouth and Oxford-education anthropologist, who has done everything he can to stay out of his brother's business.
Here are some promo photos from next week's episode, "Of Mites and Men." [SpoilerTV]
There were some rumors yesterday that the show had been canceled, but Syfy has categorically denied them. [SpoilerTV]
Here's a sneak peek at tomorrow night's episode, "Roots."
And here's a spoiler-y photo.
The Nine Lives of Chloe King
Here are three sneak peeks and a promo for the season finale, "Beautiful Day."
The Secret Circle
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BMC BladeLogic Server Automation is a leading platform for the management, control, and enforcement of configuration changes in the datacenter. Using this platform administrators can manage both physical and virtual servers. This course is designed for BladeLogic Server Automation administrators and users responsible for implementing and managing client/server business applications, managing contention servers, and ensuring compliance with company or government policies related to Configuration Management.
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Getting Started with BMC BladeLogic Server Automation (BSA)
- Explain the general tasks that BSA can perform
- Describe the basic BSA architectural components
- Review the basic building blocks of objects
- Access related product documentation including how-to guides
Working with BSA Jobs
- Describe the range of Job types available in BSA
- Create a Job using the BSA Console
- Save a Job to an appropriate Jobs folder
- Execute a Job using the BSA Console
- Execute a Job using the BSA Portal
- View the execution status results of a Job using the BSA Console
- View the execution status results of a Job using the BSA Portal
- Apply appropriate permission settings to a Job
Working with Properties
- Describe the Property Dictionary
- Explain some of the uses of Server Properties
- Make use of object Properties in the creation of Smart Groups
- Add a Property to the Property Dictionary
- Manually assign a value to a Property
Managing Server Objects
- Use the BSA Console to manage Server Objects using the Live Browse view
- Describe the functions of the Network Shell
- Apply commands in a Network Shell session
- Create Configuration File Objects and Extended Objects using the Configuration Object Dictionary
Basic Deployment
- Describe basic file deployment
- Create a File Deploy Job
- Define a BLPackage
- Walk through the steps of a BLPackage deployment
- Use External Commands in a BLPackage deployment
- Discuss the additional options available for File and BLPackage Jobs
- Identify pros and cons of File Deploy and BLPackage Deploy Jobs
- Apply parameterized deployment using a BLPackage local Property
Deploying Software
- Describe basic file deployment
- Adjust a standard software deployment
- Apply stacked software deployments
Working with Components
- Describe the purpose of a BSA Component
- Create and configure a Component Template
- Execute a Component Discovery Job
- Apply permission controls to the resulting components
- Configure the components for active use
Basic Compliance Using Audit and Snapshot Jobs
- Describe the purpose of an Audit job
- Create and execute a Live Server object Audit job
- Describe some of the Audit options
- Create and execute a Component-based Audit job
- Describe the purpose of a Snapshot job
- Create and execute a Snapshot-based Audit job
- Remediate a non-compliant server object
Rules-based Compliance – Snapshot Jobs
- Use the Component Template Rules Editor
- Execute a Compliance job
- Describe the Results view of a Compliance job
- Apply an exception
- Configure rules-based remediation
- Describe the industry-standard BSA compliance content
- Describe SecOps
- Explain SecOps Workflow
- Describe BladeLogic Portal
- Describe Threat Director
Windows and Linux Patch Management
- Define patch management and the patching process
- Identify internal patch repositories and BSA Patch Global Configuration
- Create a Patch Catalog and identify Patch Catalog options
- Define offline Patch Catalogs
- Execute a Patch Analysis job using a Catalog
- Describe the BladeLogic Portal, BSA Administrators, and BladeLogic Portal users
- Access the BladeLogic Portal
- Create a Deploy Operation and view Deploy Operation results
Health Dashboards
- Describe the usefulness of the Health and Value Dashboards
- Use the Health Dashboard
Overview of Live Reporting
- List Live Reporting features
- Describe the various Live Reporting Users and Roles
- Explain how to access Live Reporting Dashboard
- Describe BMC Live Reporting Elements
- Describe the various types of reports available in the Live Reporting Dashboard
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- Describe the purpose of the virtual manager objects
- Create a Virtual Guest Package
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Tips for a beginner
So I laced up my skates and went outside.
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Skating is fun.
Not sure why I'm struggling with basic skills like T-stop. Maybe I need to bend my knees more? How bent and how low should I go? Are there any rough guidelines.
I've been told about a flat smooth level track a mile away so will try to get to that on the weekend.
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Ya need a local expert to show you where your going wrong, or to video yourself and watch videos of expert skaters to see what your doing wrong.
Stopping skills are #1 priority, always. If they are good enough, virtually no downhill obstacle is too much.
Dont roll feet side by side. Stagger them, one in front, one slightly behind. The forward foot "searches" if you will, for bad ground. If it gets hung up it gives you time to lift the rear foot and exchange it with the forward foot that gets stuck. Like catching yourself during a trip up when walking. Imagine trying to take a 30 inch step, but your foot got snagged at 25 inches out instead of the full stride, well, its similar. The ground tries to drag your foot back, and out from under you, with it forward, youll feel that resistance sooner and be able to adjust for it.
One can keep their feet pretty close together(just dont clip your own wheels), your not going to be negotiating lateral disturbaces, mainly fore/aft stability issues. So constant striding, or feet staggered with the body in the middle of them is prime.
Falling does suck. Learn to fall correctly. EVERYONE FALLS. 20 years of skating and I still fall once in a while, usually from simple things lol.
Spend time just walking around on carpet in your skates. Learn where your clearances are, and how the skates differ from barefoot or shoes. This way you get used to their proximity in various situations and stepping. This will minimize clipping them and reduce fall potential.
When standing still, ALWAYS hold 2 different angles of attack. Skates should never be parallel to each other. That is a recipe for disaster. If skates are positioned pointing at differe t anggles you will be able to hold your position or modulate it by squeezing ypur legs together, or pushing them apart.
When you execute a T stop, do it slowly. Speed will come.
There are some "prerequisites " though.
#1 balance on 1 foot.
If you can't remain stable on one foot for a few seconds, doing a T stop will be difficult.
#2 edging.
If you cant use your edges to counter the braking torque from using only 1 side of your body, youll either turn while doing it, or end up doing a spin stop.
When doing a T stop with the right foot for instance , you will slow down the right side of your body and the left side that is just coasting will still be going slightly faster. This makes you turn to the right. To stop this from happening, simply use the "outside edge" with your left foot. IE- stand on the "blade" of your left foot and lift the arch (inside edge). This will cause the quad skate to turn to the left slightly and balance out the T stop, making it more stable.
Remember, less is more. Better form first, then you can add more weight and power to that braking foot. You will also need to stiffen your abs to keep your core from twisting.
During a T stop , dont try to make a perfect T. Thats actuslly a bad thing. Its more like an L or a 70 to 85 deg angle. If the skate is perpendicular to the line of travel you could develop flat spots on your wheels. They can stop spinning if they aren't held at an angle. I usually pull my heels toward each other, not my instep/arch in behind my heel. It makes for a constricted posture and is harder to recover from.
Faster stops are spin stops, plow stops, and hockey stops.
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|January 20th, 2016, 04:15 PM
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I love this post.
I agree with Mort.
So if you skated yesterday in January....when most of the country is below freezing including North Florida (27 degrees this morning) where are you skating?
Another tip is to try to keep your weight on your heels. That way your front wheels float over debris. Go faster when faced with a debris covered path and get low. The speed will help carry you over stuff on the ground and the low center of gravity will help you to not fall over and if you do you are closer to the ground.
Use a soft outdoor wheel (78a). This will help with the vibration issue and the rolling over acorn thing.
|January 20th, 2016, 06:37 PM
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I was skating in the UK and it was below freezing. Puddles on the paths were frozen.
Thanks for the advice - I spoke to my brother (who is in Australia and used to skate a lot), and determined that I'm also really not bending my knees enough (ie, hardly at all).
I've found out there is a flat clean track not far away. I'll go and practise on there this weekend, should be easier than non-flat rough paths with twigs.
|January 20th, 2016, 11:11 PM
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I skate year round in NH, USA If there's no snow during winter months, temp is relative, just keep the knees and ankles warm.
First...you need softer wheels so you roll over debris, and wrist guards till you get comfortable.
|January 21st, 2016, 03:56 PM
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Getting chilled just thinking about skating with ice. I'm working up to skating when its less than 65 degrees.
|January 21st, 2016, 05:26 PM
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Urethane loses a LOT of rebound as the temp drops, so sustaining speed on rough rolling surfaces at below freezing is a real challenge, not to mention the vibration increase when wheels harden up from the cold.
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|January 23rd, 2016, 12:22 PM
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Thanks all.
Been for a 2 mile skate round a racecourse (there is a service track inside of the grass horse track). No falls, managed to start to work on a T stop, drag toe stop. The trace is a bit muddy and rough so I'm not sure I'll bother going to it again.
Bent knees and other tips helped tremendously.
|January 23rd, 2016, 12:43 PM
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I never skated stairs... dang gotta try that! Outdoor basketball courts or pavilions are good to skate at. Most parking lots are too rough or too much trash. There is a park in town that has 2 covered cement floors. Smooth clean and not oily like some basketball courts get.
|January 25th, 2016, 04:18 PM
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Glad to hear you braved the elements to skate outside again. Try not to drag your toe stop behind you. It's just bad form. Toe stops are to be used for stopping going backwards.
I've skated upstairs or rather toe stop walked up stairs. I've also skated (toe-stop walked) over a cattle break.
I'm always on the look out for good outdoor skating surfaces that I won't get thrown out of for trespassing. My current challenge is finding outdoor skating areas that have lights. Got Sk8s and I live out in the country and it gets DARK out here.
I'd be nice if malls would allow skating after stores are closed.
|January 26th, 2016, 03:05 AM
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|January 29th, 2016, 03:44 AM
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Morts post is most excellent. Great advice. I do have a spin on his suggestion to watch expert skaters. Years ago while watching the Olympic Games I was totally impressed by the rhythmic style and smooth form of the ice skaters, especially Apolo Ohno. On my next skate, I tried to apply this and pretended that I was ice skating instead of roller skating. I skated very slow at first, not my usual choppy burning race to full speed, but a lot more graceful and relaxed. Anyway, I liked it a lot and have stayed with it ever since. It made skating more enjoyable for me. Strangely, it is not reality, it is just an attitude toward the pavement and how you move over it. Ha!
|January 29th, 2016, 12:31 PM
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Smoothness and precision. Thats what its all about.. when I skate I pretend to be a kungfu master. Lol but seriously. How choreographed moves are in say the "IP man" movies. So smooth, and flowing. That is what one should strive for. Form and technique over power and speed. Both speed and power will come with practice.
It takes a LOT of time to develop the skillset to be able to manipulate your speed and movments on a whim in any direction.
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|February 19th, 2016, 03:30 PM
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Outdoor wheels. I love skating outdoors, and have a set of Atom Pulses that I currently use. (going to get some of those bigger orange wheels, when I remember what they are!) Anyway, they have recently re-asphlated our neighborhood streets and it is a nice surface. Only slightly rougher than the river path I use at times. Great to be able to go right out the door on skates. I am still working on the stopping part when on a downhill. Fortunately my street is not very busy, and I usually zig-zag pretty hard until I get close to the bottom and can feel safe going around the corner!
Yes, falling hurts. More as you get older. Been skating almost 50 years now and it hurts a little more than it used to. I do wear all the gear, including a bum saver when I skate outside. Been warm here in OKC, so an evening or two I attack the street with one or two of my kids.
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|February 26th, 2016, 02:24 PM
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My tip to myself would be "Wear wristguards".
Still got 2 weeks in plaster, there is a chance my wrist will be permanently crooked and weak.
|March 17th, 2016, 05:45 AM
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|April 15th, 2016, 08:11 AM
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I wear wrist and knee guards and a helmet outdoors; I am in the same situation as you injury-wise with my left knee, in that it has had bursitis now for nearly two years (injury May 2014, I didn't really follow up medically, second injury June 2015 and bursitis confirmed with x-ray six weeks post-injury) and I am not sure if it will ever recover fully. Both times skating without knee guard, both times hitting a rock while gliding on one foot, first time outdoors and second time indoors. And I am sure I would have hurt my wrists without the wrist guards; my old guards when I got rid of them were a sight to behold, the plastic was almost worn through with scratches. I am even considering longboard slide gloves for some skating routes to avoid the lacerations/asphalt burn to my hands AROUND the guards. I also feel that the sliding action would help to disperse some of the momentum from a fall when skating fast, however I'm also worried it might compromise the natural ability to use your hands to protect your head/jaw if you are really in danger of falling "flat on your face". (Jaw fractures are also nasty beasts...)
Helmet is simply because, while I feel they're less common in skating than knee/wrist injuries, head injuries are nasty to behold and to experience. Ice skating since age 14 and then roller the last few years, I have seen this happen (and heard it - skull on ice or concrete, not a nice sound) and also known people who have been through them due to other causes. Just upgraded to the Nutcase bike/skate helmet because their 64cm size is the only one that actually properly fits my ginormous cranium.
I hope your wrist gets better! Let us know if you get back to outdoor skating or have any more questions!
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|April 16th, 2016, 12:54 AM
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Skating→One foot down; Coasting→two feet down
This tip on rolling outdoors with staggered feet needs a little clarification.
First of all, when you are really SKATING outdoors and sustaining a decent speed - i.e. propelling yourself forward with push strokes - you will only have ONE skate down on the rolling surface at a time as you alternate legs with each push stroke.
You lose speed outdoors so much faster than indoors, so you really need to keep pumping your strokes to hold speed, and there is often not all that that much time spend coasting, at least not where I skate.
When you are COASTING outdoors, usually on down grades, you will typically have two skates down and rolling. In this scenario, the staggered foot placement stance, will certainly have you better prepared for handling anything that the rolling surface might send at you.
Now when you are skating & pushing strokes, with only one foot down at a time, and you notice some irregularities with the rolling surface up ahead that could cause problems for you, that is when you may find it useful to drop the up skate into the staggered position and briefly coast with less weight on the forward skate, until the rough surface issue gets behind you.
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|April 16th, 2016, 01:04 PM
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Well, the question is asked by a beginner, I'd bet money that 90% of all outdoor roller skating isn't racing in a "drone like" manner going nowhere, but is in fact people just tooling along dancing, so with that in mind, never put both feet together below yourself, it's to easy to touch wheels or rollover some impediment or another, only one out of eight wheels locked up will put you to ground, if you insist on skating on just one skate at a time, keep your eyes on the road ahead, go around or over debris, it's simple, don't fall.
Wrist guards work, knee pads are useful if you fall to your knees a lot, and only fools fall to their knees a lot, clean the bearing frequently, the outdoors is dusty and oily and wet.
Practice flipping around backwards and applying the toe stops, instant stop.
|April 17th, 2016, 08:05 AM
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In the case of both of the above-mentioned knee injuries, I was skating on one foot for the purpose of something other than stroking (the first time was while following a line on the ground with one foot, very little speed so I fell straight down, the second after doing a "bunny hop" type jump during art skating).
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Extending the Visual Studio 11 Web Browser Chooser and Browse With Menu to include Developer Profiles
I talked about some new features that have snuck made their way into the free version of Visual Studio for Web. One of the more useful ones is the Browser Chooser that allows you to quickly launch debug sessions with different browsers from within VS. I've actually been pushing on this for about 18 months, and even blogged about it in August of 2010 in "how to change the default browser in Visual Studio programmatically with PowerShell and possibly poke yourself in the eye."
In Visual Studio 11 Beta you get a nice dropdown with all the browsers (plus the new Page Inspector).
However, I got a good comment from blog reader Abhijit who said:
The browser is a welcome addition (though past versions of VS do something similar). I'd like to make one suggestion though.
I use multiple Firefox and Google Chrome profiles. One for regular browsing and another for web development/debugging.
For ex: To launch a profile named 'dev' in Firefox, you'd use
firefox -p dev --no-remote in the shortcut/command line
This ensures that I don't mess up my history/profile/cookies etc with my development activities. However, the feature you've described launches the browser with no command line parameters.
So, is there a way I can add/update/customize the parameters used to launch the different browsers? And if not, is too late to suggest this as a feature request for VS11?
This is a not only a great tip, but a very useful bug/feature request. The tip is to use different profiles for when developing so you aren't accidentally combining your history and cookies for development with your personal stuff.
The feature is interesting because he wants to know how to customize the Browser Chooser. Digging into it, it turns out that it's totally possible but totally not discoverable. That means there's an opportunity to make this feature WAY WAY more useful.
First, here's the way to change it today on the Beta. Then I'll suggest a possible change to the feature to make it easier.
That list is initially auto-populated with the browsers we find on your system. You can add to the list with the "Browse With..." menu that you get when you right click on an .ASPX file in Visual Studio. Ah! But there's where the trouble starts. You can currently only see that menu when you right click on an ASPX page. This is great for Web Forms folks, but if you don't have an .ASPX file in your project then you're out of luck.
So, for now, add an ASPX file (you can delete it later) and right click:
That brings you to the list of browsers in the Browse With dialog:
At this point you can add your dev profile browser. (It would be nice if you could edit also, but you can't today.) Here I'm adding Firefox with a "dev" profile. Note that I'm naming it differently from existing browsers.
Here's my updated Browse With using the new Firefox dev profile. You could do with this Chrome also if you like.
Now my browser chooser menu in the toolbar is updated with the my new browser. You can put whatever you like in that menu.
Ok that's today with the Visual Studio 11 Beta. Here's a Paint.NET proposal of what I'd like to see. It'd be nice for the "Browse With..." to appear inline in the drop down menu. Having in the Right Click menu is too confusing.
This is just a Paint.NET but you get the idea. Thoughts?
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