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The death of the digital marketer
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," wrote William Shakespeare. The often quoted line from "Romeo and Juliet" reflects Juliet's conviction that the label of a thing has little or no bearing on its substance. What really matters is the qualities of the thing itself. Today's marketing professional bearing the word "digital" in his or her title might relate to Juliet's sentiment; I know I do. We, the digital marketers, are experts at the tools that make up the segment of marketing currently known as "digital marketing," but these days, most things are either digital or are able to be extended and amplified through digital technology. So where does that leave the digital marketer in the overarching ecosystem of marketing? Let's start by taking a look at the core discipline.
According to Wikipedia (the only true source of credible information on the planet), essential to the role of the marketer is the "process of communicating the value of a product or service to customers, for the purpose of selling the product or service."
This definition is void of reference to technology, media, or anything related to the way in which the communication occurs, and while the digital marketer may be an expert at communicating via technologically enabled channels, we are still held to the standard of our core function: Marketing. Hence, one must ask whether the modifier "digital" is essential to one's title.
The need for experts in specialist areas of marketing is incontestable. Ten years ago, when digital marketers were thought of in the same light as IT professionals, there was a need for a differentiated role. Much to my chagrin, this need still exists today, so I continue to wear the "digital marketer" moniker with pride. How long will this be the case? My prediction is that the need for large digital marketing teams will reach a peak followed by a stark decline beginning in three to five years. Why this time frame? Well, we still have a lot of work to do in mobile and other "tradigital" arenas (apologies for the use of a silly buzz phrase).
Beyond the aforementioned three- to five-year timeline, I predict we will see a resurgence of the clichéd and much maligned discipline, "emerging media and marketing" (a moniker I also wore for years). This role will solely focus on cutting edge trends in disciplines like computer vision, artificial intelligence, and new ways to search for and discover the information in the world around us. This role will focus, as it did in the past, on the integration of the latest and greatest tech into brand marketing, but it will not be like the era in which we saw this title run rampant. Advances in technology will continue to grow exponentially, but the ramifications will not be as significant for mainstream marketing as they were in the years when mobile and social first took center stage.
My advice for those currently working in digital marketing is to begin to build bridges to all disciplines adjacent to your own (i.e., communications, sponsorships, consumer research/ insights, and public relations). Take stock of your strengths and weaknesses, and begin to think about how your knowledge can bring new energy to these tried and true disciplines. Acknowledge that the professionals that once needed your guidance with all things digital are beginning to think digitally themselves. One day soon, you will either be called on for your general creativity, knowledge, and ability to formulate and execute a strategy, or you may not be called on at all.
We still have about 10 years before deep digital skills are an expectation of all marketers. Some companies are closer than others, but at the outer limits, my estimate is that in 10 years the title "digital marketer" will be completely absorbed into other core marketing disciplines. This is significant for digital and non-digital marketers alike. This article could have just as easily been titled "The death of the traditional marketer," but it would have been no fun to write and certainly would not have gotten your attention as easily.
Adam Broitman is VP global digital media at MasterCard.
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One of the central aims of social security organizations is to optimize their models for serving citizens, providing new, efficient, modern, accessible channels for contact and management. The institutions are using financial, technological and human resources to achieve this.
In this context, the two-day technical seminar Improving Social Security Service Provision, was held on Wednesday and Thursday 10 and 11 April. Its main focus was to analyze the different models of one-stop shop in the region. The event was opened by the regional coordinator, Mariano Brener; the head of the Southern Cone office, Alejo Maxit; and the consultant Rodrigo Assumpção. 17 social security bodies from Argentina, Aruba, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay attended, as well as specialists on the issue from Canada, Mexico and Portugal who took part by videoconference.
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The Third season is still in production
The official website for the third season of the anime "Food Wars" has uploaded a new promo for it, enjoy it:
It is still unknown how many chapters and when this third season will come.
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"Ever since he was a child, fifteen-year-old Souma Yukihira has helped his father by working as the sous chef in the restaurant his father runs and owns. Throughout the years, Souma developed a passion for entertaining his customers with his creative, skilled, and daring culinary creations. His dream is to someday own his family's restaurant as its head chef.
Yet when his father suddenly decides to close the restaurant to test his cooking abilities in restaurants around the world, he sends Souma to Tootsuki Culinary Academy, an elite cooking school where only 10 percent of the students graduate. The institution is famous for its "Shokugeki" or "food wars," where students face off in intense, high-stakes cooking showdowns.
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Each year, the Indiana Dunes attracts over 3.5 million visitors to Porter County and is responsible for pumping nearly half a billion dollars into the economy. Our job at Indiana Dunes Tourism is to get those visitors to, "Shake off the sand south of the Dunes," and visit you.
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Rainfed and irrigated rice production in Thailand
We have just heard Dr. Chu Thai Hoanh discuss some of the impacts of rice intensification, particularly on water quality and availability. This article presents a closer examination of the environmental impacts, as well as the relative resource productivity, of wet-season rainfed, wet-season irrigated, and dry-season irrigated rice production in Northeast Thailand.
Rice is the staple food of Southeast Asia. Thailand is the world's sixth largest rice producer and number one exporter, growing rice on about 10 million hectares, more than half of it in the Northeast (Isaan). Isaan produces about 80% of Thailand's Jasmine rice and other high-value varieties for domestic use and export. The vast majority is rainfed, grown only in the wet season; the rest is irrigated, with small amounts of dry-season production.
Overall, paddy irrigation uses 80% of freshwater extractions in Thailand, and pollution from pesticide runoff has become a major concern. Yet there are plans to expand irrigation in Isaan. To understand the implications of such plans, a recent study conducted a life-cycle analysis* of existing rice production, looking at both resource use and environmental impacts. Specifically the analysis measured energy use, freshwater use, and land use, as well as eutrophication and acidification of nearby water bodies, methane emissions (using a 100-year global warming potential), freshwater aquatic ecotoxicity, and ozone depletion.
Data were collected in 2010 from 45 diverse rice cropping systems in the Lam Sieo Yai Basin. The area has a tropical savannah climate, with a dry season that often features severe droughts, and a wet season between May and October. Rainfall varies greatly year to year; 2010 was very wet.
In the basin, 75% of the paddy fields are irrigated, with controlled water supply; the rest are rainfed, cropped under flooding conditions with no control of water supply, using only "green" water (rain, soil moisture and natural runoff). Fields were classified as wet-season rainfed (Rw), wet-season irrigated (Iw) and dry-season irrigated (Id).
Although cropping practices were similar for all fields, they differed greatly in resource productivity and environmental impacts. The Rw system produced more rice per unit of labour, pesticides and total energy. Return on investment (mass of rice produced per production cost) was slightly higher in the Iw system than in the Rw system, and was lowest in the Id system. Land productivity ranged from 2,625 kg/ha in the Iw system to 2,375 in the Rw system, and 2,188 in the Id system. The amount of rice farmers needed to produce per 1 baht (~35THB = 1USD) of net income was 0.297 kg for Iw; 0.310 for Rw; and 0.662 kg for Id. In other words, Id was both the least-productive system, and by far the least profitable.
In terms of methane emissions, Iw showed the highest impact on a per-hectare basis, but Id rated higher on a rice-mass basis. In most other impact categories, Rw systems had lower impacts per hectare than Iw and Id systems, and Id had the highest impacts. However, acidification, ozone depletion and total water use (including "green" water) were about the same for all.
A contribution analysis found acidification, eutrophication and freshwater ecotoxicity were linked to direct emissions from rice fields, while methane emissions depended on water management practices, and other emissions were linked to both agro-chemical and water management.
A key argument for expanding irrigation in Isaan is that rainfed systems force farmers to find alternative livelihoods in the dry season. From a societal perspective, expanding irrigation is a way to achieve higher production overall and discourage out-migration. Yet from farmers' point of view, dry-season irrigated rice involves more inputs, higher costs and labour, at a time when there is also scarce labour and rural livelihoods are diversifying. From an environmental perspective, dry-season production is clearly not the best option.
*A life-cycle analysis is a systematic method for quantifying the emissions, resources used, and environmental and health impacts associated with the production and use of goods and services.
Perret, S.-R., Thanawong, K., Basset-Mens, C. and Mungkung, R. (2013). The environmental impacts of lowland paddy rice: A case study comparison between rainfed and irrigated rice in Thailand. Cahiers Agricultures, 22(5). 369–77.
Image Source: "Rice paddies and recently cleared forest land in the Thanon Thong Chai Range, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand" by Takeaway / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Blake Griffin breaks hand — while punching Clippers employee
The bad news for the Los Angeles Clippers is that they'll be without superstar power forward Blake Griffin for up to six weeks as the team figuratively dukes it out in a brutal Western Conference playoff race.
The worse news is that Griffin broke a bone in his hand while literally duking it out with a Clippers team employee, according to multiple reports Tuesday.
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Griffin injured himself in a fight with Clippers equipment manager Matias Testi while the team was on a road trip in Toronto, sources told both ESPN and USA Today. The Clippers confirmed on the record to ESPN that Griffin hurt himself throwing a punch Saturday in Toronto.
Griffin and Testi are reportedly friends and no police report was filed. The bizarre incident is a surreal turn in the wrong direction for the Clippers at the season's midpoint. Los Angeles, with a record of 28-16, was fourth in the Western Conference as of Tuesday.
"It's frustrating," coach Doc Rivers told ESPN. "You don't want it to happen to anyone and you obviously don't want it to happen during the season or even when the season is not going on. This type of stuff shouldn't happen but it did and it's real life and you have to deal with real life sometimes in our make-believe world."
Social media posts more than two years old seem to confirm that Griffin and Testi were friends who enjoyed giving one another a hard time. In this Instagram photo from June, Griffin wishes Testi happy birthday and adds, "put some clothes on please."
Griffin and Testi got into an argument at a Toronto restaurant Saturday, according to ESPN. Griffin then reportedly hit Testi inside the restaurant before following him outside and hitting him again, leaving "visible injuries to his face."
Griffin apologized via Twitter on Tuesday night.
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I imagine you are all having giveaway and guest post withdrawals after Something Wicked Comes, so I am excited to introduce you all to Daniel Marks author of Velveteen. I reviewed this book yesterday, you can see it here. This is a snarky, complex book with solid world building, and a sweet, unexpected romance. I was surprised by this book and discouraged that many people are giving up on it because they are expecting the entire book to revolve around Bonesaw. I can tell you the serial killer storyline is just one thread in this intelligent and complex book. I hope you will give it a try! If you like excellent world building, layered story lines and a delightful romance, this book fits the bill. I invited Daniel here today and he comes bearing goodies for you all!
Here is a bit more on Daniel:
Daniel Marks writes young adult horror and fantasy, spends way too much time glued to the internets and collects books obsessively (occasionally reading them). He's been a psychotherapist for children and adolescents, and survived earthquakes, volcanoes and typhoons to get where he is today, which is to say, in his messy office surrounded by half empty coffee cups. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, Caroline, and three furry monsters with no regard for quality carpeting. None.
Wow! He is definitely an interesting guy, and I always appreciate authors who have a soft spot for the furry friends, even if they are not kind to the carpet.
Daniel graciously wrote up a post during his hectic travel week. Thanks, Daniel!
Here he is:
I'm blogging today from sunny Las Vegas (edit: or sunny Long Beach, since this post has
been a long time comin'). Now, normally this would be a good thing. You'd think. I'm from the Pacific Northwest, after all, and bogged down by the doom and gloom of the constant rain. I should be happy. Perky. A veritable breath of fresh air. But things aren't always what they seem.
Over the last couple of weeks I've had to make a gigantic shift. The book came out on the 9th and while that was magical and fantastic and filled my head with wonder and all that, the high didn't last long and things happen to bring you back down to earth. I've been working on the next book (not a Velveteen sequel, that's probably not going to happen unless word spreads about my bad ass ghosty) but another, a standalone YA horror book that I was really enthusiastic about but is SUPREMELY edgy, very dark and limit-pushing and needs a very steady hand to pull off. My hand is little shaky.
So…I got word that I'm going to need to put that one aside.
It's not dead, I refuse to believe it's going to be one of those trunk novels, but it just won't be the next book. So I'm scrambling. The book should not only have been written by now, it should have been edited and in full on revision sequence. So, while I'm promoting Velveteen, I'm also scrambling for ideas and I think I've come up with something pretty badass that suits my sensibilities (dark, humorous, possibly gross, vastly inappropriate).
My outlining/brainstorming mode it's like a racquetball court, ideas bouncing around everywhere, craziness. But then, when it's time to jump back into promo, I, like many authors, am like a dear in the headlights. Blogpost? I have no ideas. All the balls drop. They're still on the floor.
So I hope this was worth your read and I'm happy to offer a prize for just wading your way through it!
Well, Daniel, best of luck with the brainstorming. I, for one, want a Velveteen sequel! So all of you out there if you want an intelligent, edgy YA title, pick this one up!
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Yesterday, Sony detailed the contents of its "Welcome Back" package, offering a variety of free games to consumers to make up for the PlayStation Network downtime. Sony was actually pretty decent about offering a solid mix of retail games and downloads, but inevitably, people weren't pleased.
Some gamers have been angry about the fact that the offered games weren't brand new (seriously? Who expected that?) and Sony has addressed the criticism, apologizing to those who own everything, but standing by its decision.
"I'm really sorry tha there is nothing there that you want," said SCEE's Nick Caplin. "We've tried really hard to put together a list of high quality BD games, rather than simply offering cheaper PSN titles. The average metacritic rating for these games is over 84%, so these are high quality games. Unfortunately with a user base of 77m people, it is really hard to offer something for everyone."
That's perfectly fair enough. When Xbox Live went down -- a service we pay for -- all consumers got was crappy Undertow, with no choice in the matter. I think Sony did well with its offer, and this is coming from someone who has either played or doesn't care about the particular games available.


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Wed, 23 September 2015
039: Tom Dante – Speaks to the competitiveness of trading and essential skill sets for profitability
This week, for episode 39 I had the great pleasure of speaking with Tom Dante (who you may already know from Twitter as @Trader_Dante).
But if you don't, that's cool – I'll give you a real quick snapshot now…
Tom's a day trader from London, who tells it exactly how it is, he makes no attempt to soften the blow from the harsh realities of trading.
He's got a really interesting and unique story about how he got started trading, which was around 1999. And from that point on there was a period of about 7 years, where Tom struggled to gain consistency with his trading results (we speak at lengths about this during the first part of the interview).
After developing a track record of profitability, Tom joined a prop trading firm, where he learnt many of the solid trading principals that have shaped him into the trader he is today – many of which are discussed during this episode.
Now days, Tom is an independent trader who focuses mostly on the Bund market intraday, as well as other futures.
Besides the few points I've already mentioned, we of course discuss much more, including; the competitiveness of professional trading, the importance of learning from your mistakes quickly, and the real cost of becoming a great trader.
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Wed, 16 September 2015
038: Kevin Davey – The development process of an algo trading strategy, from objectives to live trading
This week on the podcast I have algorithmic trader, Kevin Davey. Who like many guests in the past, he comes from a background in engineering – there's something about these engineers, they seem to make really great traders…
After getting off to a bumpy start 25 years ago, Kevin has come a very long way. Between 2005 and 2007 Kevin competed in the World Cup of Futures Trading Championship, where he finished in first place once, and second place twice. Each time with returns in excess of 100%!
Kevin is also the author of Building Winning Algorithmic Trading Systems, a book which has been well-received by the trading community and has plenty of 5-star ratings and reviews on Amazon.
During this interview we cover the great focus Kevin places on trading multiple strategies in multiple markets to achieve a smoother equity curve. And he also walks us through his development process for taking an algorithmic strategy from objectives and initial idea, through to total automation. Plus plenty more, and even if you're not familiar with this side of trading, you shouldn't have too much trouble keeping up, because Kevin does an excellent job of explaining everything.
Also, I'm going to ask again… If you haven't already done so, could you please leave a very brief review on the podcast in iTunes while you're listening. Just go to chatwithtraders.com/itunes, if you'd like to support the show.
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Wed, 9 September 2015
037: Futures Trader 71 – Understanding areas of acceptance, thinking in probabilities, and creating a legacy
This week I had the pleasure of speaking to another brilliant trader, who has been heavily requested – his name is Morad, but many know him best as Futures Trader 71 (or FT for short).
To give you the 30 second rundown, FT has been an active trader since 2000, when he started out scalping NASDAQ stocks among the original SOES Bandits. A few years in he made the transition to trading futures, and later started his own proprietary trading firm, where he funded and mentored a team of traders.
These days FT runs a brokerage, where he provides continuous education and risk control to a structured community. And of course, he remains an active futures trader, with a great focus on reading market profile and volume profile – which we get into during this interview.
While you're listening, I'd love it if you could please leave a brief review on the podcast in iTunes. This helps in a huge way to increase rankings and reach more listeners!
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Wed, 2 September 2015
I can promise you right now, this one will not disappoint…
My guest today is the legendary trader, Peter Brandt.
Peter first started trading around 1975 (which I'm sure is before many of you listening were even born – that's certainly the case for me). So that's 5 decades involved with markets, i.e. '70's, '80's, '90's… – a very long time!
To give you an idea of Peter's performance during this time, he has achieved a compounding annual growth rate of approximately 42%, with his best year returning well over 600%. Of course we want to know about his worst years also, well there has only been three of them, which were all drawdowns of less than 8%.
During this interview we discuss Peter's early years working at the Chicago Board of Trade, and classical charting patterns (which form the roots of his trading methodology). We also get into Peter's views on high frequency trading operations, why he has the default assumption that every trade will be a losing bet and some of the common misconceptions about super-traders.
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EAR-DRIVE performance cars under $50K with a standard limited-slip diff? There's a few of 'em. Toyota 86 GTS, Mazda MX-5, XR6 Turbo, SS Commodore. Can name a few front-drivers as well. So it does strike one as unusual the $63K BMW M135i doesn't come with a standard limited slip differential. In Australia, a highpower rear-driver with an open diff is just not cricket.
But the M135i gets away with it surprisingly well. Driven in an aggressive manner yet displaying some semblance of restraint, traction is strong. Punch it and it'll light up an inside wheel before the electronics clamp down, but you rarely find yourself cursing that there isn't a bundle of happy cogs at the end of the tailshaft. There's still fun to be had.
In its half-off ESP setting, Dynamic Traction Control, and in Sport Plus, the M135i can also play a little on the throttle, though you'll have to already be heavily loaded up mid-corner, and it's more a brief wriggle necessitating a steering input than anything close to a big smoky slide.
Those, though, are possible on the track. BMW engineers have tried their best to simulate an LSD, using the chassis electronics, with the DCT switched all the way off. It works surprisingly well. Yet it's no match for the reliable locking feel of a proper R LSD, such that on the road, its slight lack of consistency might be a tad more frightening than fun.
It's not difficult to understand why BMW hasn't offered the LSD as standard; as a figure, $62,900 is mighty nice-sounding. Surely only a small percentage of customers would care, and even fewer notice, that a proper differential is not included.
To some extent, for drivers the kind who'd never visit a track, it doesn't need an LSD. Straight-line punch is strong from the rear 245s and there is still some playfulness available. It's hardly single-spinner city.
But based on MOTOR's experience with the M235i fitted with the optional limited-slip differential, the $4300 is money well spent – especially for a MOTOR reader.
I'd certainly spend it, and it's telling that this month I found myself looking up finance options for $70K. I have to be careful I don't start gushing here.
Having now driven it on the freeway at length, on track, around town and in anger up some decent roads, I can say honestly I'd own an M135i. Its faults are few and easy to overlook. And when you do that, there's a mega car to be found.
But first, those faults. I don't know about you but the looks I'm on the fence about. The new one is probably an improvement on the old 'rodent' face, but perhaps it's now swung too hard in a conservative direction. I'd have to crack the knuckles and do some aftermarket-assisted restyling myself, I think.
It would also take you a very long time to get fully used to the variable steering in the urban environment. It's darty, hyperactive and takes a long time to adjust to if you've come out of anything conventional. But the bigger issue – and perhaps my main gripe with the car – is the brakes. Around town, they're initially a little grabby and the pedal assistance is calibrated such that it's basically impossible to brake to a smooth stop,. The aroundtown pedal feel needs more work.
But, truly, these are minor complaints. And I certainly wouldn't not buy the car because of it.
The steering and brakes, in a performance context, are mega. So is the rest of the car, in fact. The M135i surely has one of the best interiors in a car less than $65K. It rides uncommonly well for a performance car. The 240kW, 450Nm single-turbo 3.0-litre N55 straight-six has a very satisfying amount of grunt (to the tune of 0-100km/h in 4.84sec). The eight-speed tranny does one of the best twin-clutch impersonations I've ever felt from a torque converter auto.
Perhaps most impressive of all, the chassis: the M135i's limits are not too low, not too high. And up to, and at them, the car never feels flustered and is always honest. Confidence is central to having fun driving fast, and the M135i pumps you full of it.
It's so fun and friendly, and so sorted in its drivetrain, steering and chassis, I can truly think of little that might offer major improvement.
Well, there is one thing. – DC
It's so easy and friendly to drive fast. Big on confidence, this little blue thing.
Loving it
Jury still out on styling for me
Hearing exhaust from the outside at start-up.
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"Yes, I am a Trump supporter," Etana said in the interview. "And I know a lot of people will probably be like, 'What do you say about Trump being prejudice.'
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Friday September 30, 2016 – Conscious-singing reggae artist Etana has come under immense pressure following her endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, whose statements about minorities have led to a widespread belief that he is a racist.
Etana, 32, born Shauna McKenzie, is a native of Jamaica and naturalized U.S. Citizen. She told ubiquitous Jamaican journalist and Entertainment Report TV show host, Anthony Miller, that she would be voting for Trump.
"Yes, I am a Trump supporter," Etana said in the interview. "And I know a lot of people will probably be like, 'What do you say about Trump being prejudice.' He's not prejudice, for me anyway, [being] frank, straight to the point, cut and dry, black and white, it is what it is, say what it is. Don't beat around the bush; you don't like a certain thing, you don't like it, that's it. End of story. And the reason why I'm a Trump supporter is because he's all of that and more."
Challenged by Miller about Trump's remarks that Mexicans are rapists, Etana shot back: "No, he's referring to those that are."
Questioned Trump's remarks that Mexicans are drug dealers, Etana responded as swiftly, stating that Trump was "referring to those that are."
She went on: "There are quite a number of maybe Mexicans, Spanish people, Black people — all kinds of different races, right? Who are in the country illegally, who are doing things that they are not supposed to do, and he's just saying, 'Hey, look, we cannot afford ourselves in America, why are we letting in all of these people? And then we sit down and fret if they're going to bomb us tomorrow.'"
Etana added that she was not a prejudice person and believe in the unification of different races coming into America to build a stronger union.
"However, think about it, you're in your house and you have to take a flight tomorrow, and you're looking around — and don't tell me that you don't do this, cause if you're in America flying anywhere, you're going to look around at everybody to see anybody who fits the stereotype of a terrorist, and you're going to fret or you're going to consider not taking that flight."
Asked if people should be racially profiled, Etana said no, but added, "Why must we live that way, then, and allow all these people to come into the country when you don't know? Because these people come into the country in America, they get jobs, they go to school, they raise families, they do all kinds of things and then all of a sudden, 'dem' just strike."
Backlash has been far and wide. Many have said that the singer's stance that singing about roots and culture and yet voting for Trump was not contradictory, is hypocritical.
"My music has nothing to do with what I believe in. Like, okay, because I believe in a certain way or life, or because I think that I should be a Trump supporter, has nothing to do with what I sing about or write about," Etana said. "My music is for the world and for the people, but this is just a personal thought."
Etana later tried to backpedal, apologizing to anyone that she had offended and stressing that her music remains about unity. She did not attempt to change her stance about voting for Trump.


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1972 Alfa Romeo GTV Series 105 for Heavy Restoration or Parts No Reserve
Price: - Item location: Flanders, New Jersey, United States
- Make: Alfa Romeo
- Model: GTV
- Type: Coupe
- Trim: GTV Series 105
- Year: 1972
- Mileage: 87,000
- Color: Gray
- Engine size: 2000 cc
- Transmission: Manual
- Drive type: RWD
- Interior color: Blue
- Vehicle Title: Clear Want to buy? Contact seller!
1972 Alfa Romeo GTV
This is a car that I held for some time and itmay be restored with a lot of love and care, or used for parts.It is 1972 Alfa Romeo GTV, series 105. This car is complete but has not run in many years. Engine and transmission are complete. The interior is complete but will need full restoration. The dash, gauges, wiring are relatively complete. The car does not steer. and roll. The wheels seem to be detached from the rack (they point to different directions).The body has rust all over but all repairable. The floors have holes. The doors open and close OK. The wheelsare good but tires are junk.
The car is sold AS IS WHERE IS. Potential buyers should come and inspect it or send someone else to do it for them.


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Award winning Green Valley Custom Homes will build your dream home on this exceedingly private 20.5 acre lot in a fabulous location in the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District. Choose from any one of their four spacious models, which are fully customizable or bring your own plans! The Lafayette floorplan features a 4BR, 3.2BA, 3 car garage, 16x16 low-maintenance composite deck, 2x6 exterior walls, silent floor system and turn around driveway. The first floor features two entryways with covered porches, large open foyer with U-shaped staircase, fireplace in Living and Family Rooms, back staircase into Family Room area, Pantry and Butlers Pantry, 60k allowance towards Kitchen, Bath and Laundry Room cabinets, granite tops for Kitchen, Full Baths and Laundry, 15k allowance towards appliances, coffered ceiling in Dining Room, 3 piece molding for Dining Room, 2 piece chair rail for Ding Room and Formal Powder Room, 7 1/2 baseboards and site finished hardwood floors for entire first floor. The second floor features large Master Suite with Sitting Room, Master Bath with shower stall, freestanding soaking tub, double sink, water closet, two large walk in closets, 3 spacious secondary Bedrooms with 1 private Bath and a Jack & Jill Bathroom, second floor Laundry, optional Bonus Room and Bathroom, 5 1/2 baseboards, tray ceiling for Master Bedroom, 12x12 tile for full Bathrooms, site finished hardwood for hallway and Master Bedroom. Pricing includes land costs as well as construction costs. Property has perced. Call for more details and get started on customizing your home today. Check out a 3D tour of a previously built Lafayette floorplan at my.matterport.com/show/?m=Cak187cVDF1&brand=0 ***Exterior home pictures are of previous built home and may show custom changes or upgrades.


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EPA research has shown moderate or severe corrosion in the majority of USTs studied.
Corrosion in Underground Storage Tanks (USTs) is an insidious issue which can often go unnoticed. A recent report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Underground Storage Tanks (July 2016) found that corrosion in USTs is much more common than previously expected:
Observations from the EPA's 2016 research, which examined 42 operational UST systems storing diesel fuel across the country, show a significant prevalence of corrosion of metal
components inside those tanks. The preliminary results categorized 35 of 42 – or 83 percent – of the examined diesel fuel tanks exhibiting moderate or severe metal corrosion. Less than 25 percent of UST owners involved in the research reported corrosion prior to the internal inspection.
- Corrosion of metal components in UST systems storing diesel appears to be common.
- Many owners are likely not aware of corrosion in their diesel UST systems.
- The corrosion affects UST systems with steel tanks and with fiberglass tanks, and poses a risk to most internal metal components.
- Ethanol was present in 90 percent of 42 samples, suggesting that cross-contamination of diesel fuel with ethanol is likely the norm, not the exception.
- The quality of the diesel fuel stored in USTs was mixed; high quality and low quality fuel were equally likely to cause corrosion.
- Particulates and water content in the fuel were closest to being statistically significant predictive factors for metal corrosion, but causation cannot be discerned.
- EPA recommends owners visually inspect USTs storing diesel as part of routine monitoring.
- Microbial Influenced Corrosion (MIC) could be involved as hypothesized by previous research.
Franklin Fueling Systems designed their new FE PETRO® Advanced Protection pump specifically to combat the effects of accelerated corrosion in-tank and in-sump caused by the acetic byproduct of MIC activity.
While not mentioned in the EPA report, Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD) and high ethanol fuel are more prone to microbial activity, which produces an acetic by-product when the feedstock is ethanol, as found in 90% of the studied USTs. Building on the internal AlcoholGasoline (AG) construction for biofuel compatibility, the Advanced Protection
option combats accelerated corrosion with powder-coated and e-coated finishes to protect the exterior cast surfaces, as well as stainless steel fasteners, riser, coupler, and
variable length column pipe assembly.
Intake Filter Screens (IFS) can provide an added defense against in-tank debris that can be associated with accelerated corrosion issues. The IFS prevents debris as small as a grain of sand (0.009" openings) from entering the pumping system, without reducing the output performance of the submersible. Adding just one inch to the length of the pump motor assembly, the IFS can be factory installed as our 'K' option or easily field retrofitted onto FE PETRO® or competitive four inch pump motor assemblies.
Investigation of Corrosion-Influencing Factors in Underground Storage Tanks with Diesel Service, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Underground Storage Tanks (July 2016) EPA 510-R-16-001
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GoPro Motorplex Karting Challenge Round 10, Series Finale and Championship Banquet, Nov. 9
This Saturday, Nov. 9 will be a monumental day as Round 10 of the GoPro Motorplex Karting Challenge determines which drivers will be crowned our inaugural 2013 series champions later that night during a special Championship Banquet.
2013 Championship Banquet –
GoPro Motorplex will host a special banquet for GoPro Motorplex Karting Challenge competitors following the Round 10 racing action on Nov. 9 from 6-8 p.m. We ask that all competitors and their team members join us at a banquet to celebrate the achievements of the top-three competitors in each division's championship. We will also award a Competitor Sportsmanship Award and Most Improved Driver of the Year Award with recipients announced at the banquet.
WHAT: 2013 GoPro Motorplex Karting Challenge Series Championship Banquet
WHEN: Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013; Reception, 5:30 p.m. (Refreshments Served) Banquet, 6-8 p.m.
WHERE: GoPro Motorplex, 130 Motorplex Drive Mooresville, NC 28115
WHO: To award the top-three competitors in each division, as well as honor both a Competitor Sportsmanship Award and Most Improved Driver of the Year Award.
COST: $20/per person in advance, $25/per person at the door.
The banquet will include a catered dinner, door prizes and the awards ceremony.
Competitors can pre-register for Round Ten of the GoPro Motorplex Karting Challenge and purchase tickets for the banquet in advance through MotorsportReg.com. Pre-registration and discounted, advance ticket sales will end at 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 8. To pre-register for Round Ten and purchase banquet tickets, CLICK HERE.
For the current 2013 GoPro Motorplex Karting Challenge points standings, CLICK HERE. The Drop Rule has not been factored into these standings and will only be applied following Round 10 on Nov. 9.
GoPro Motorplex Karting Challenge Round Ten, Series Finale –
The GoPro Motorplex Karting Challenge features club racing for 13 popular karting classes. Round Ten will consist of two rounds of practice, qualifying, prefinal and final races for all classes. Competitors can pre-register for Round Ten of the GoPro Motorplex Karting Challenge through MotorsportReg.com. Pre-registration will close at 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 8. Registration will be $60 for every class, with the additional options to rent transponders for $20 and purchase pit passes for $10.To pre-register for Round Ten, CLICK HERE.
Competitors are strongly encouraged to register early, but event registration will be available on the day of the event. However, event registration on the day of the event will increase to $75 per class.
All competitors must run a transponder, if you do not have your own, you will be able to rent one from GoPro Motorplex for $20. All transponder rentals must be purchased with a credit card.
Round Ten of the GoPro Motorplex Karting Challenge will follow an event schedule with on-track activity beginning at 9 a.m. and concluding at approximately 5 p.m. To view the minute-by-minute event schedule, CLICK HERE.
There will be a $10 Facility Entrance Fee for all spectators and crew members. Individuals who have a GoPro Motorplex Membership and competitors will not be charged a Facility Entrance Fee. Kids 10 and under will be free.
GoPro Motorplex will offer camping to any teams wishing to stay inside the facility for $25 per night. Camping at GoPro Motorplex does not include any electrical or water hookups. Please review the Camping Rules if your team plans to camp during the event, CLICK HERE.
GoPro Motorplex has partnered with several local hotels in an effort to provide competitors with the most affordable lodging accommodations as possible. We strive to make our race events affordable for all teams, so please mention "GoPro Motorplex" when you make your reservation to receive the discounted rate. For the list of partnering hotels, CLICK HERE.
Before registering for the GoPro Motorplex Karting Challenge, please review the RULES and SPORTING REGULATIONS for each class.
The GoPro Motorplex Karting Challenge Pre-Tech Requirement form is available to download and complete prior to the event: CLICK HERE.
If you won't be able to join us for the racing excitement, you can follow the LIVE Timing/Scoring available on the homepage of our website on race day: CLICK HERE. Live timing/scoring is also available through the Race Monitor application for Smart Phones. Simply type "GoPro Motorplex Karting Challenge" in the search bar.
Complete Round Ten event results and the final championship points standings will be posted on our website immediately following the event: CLICK HERE.
For live updates during the GoPro Motorplex Karting Challenge, follow GoPro Motorplex on Twitter. Also, follow #GoProMXChallenge or to join in on the conversation, simply include #GoProMXChallenge in your tweet.
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When a new canola oil producer decided to construct a new, state-of-the-art canola seed crushing facility, POWER Engineers was approached to provide engineering for the plant. This project was completed utilizing a design-build model. The facility is designed to produce over 300,000,000 pounds of canola oil annually both for food and renewable fuel applications. The plant crushes over 350,000 metric tonnes of canola seed a year, and provides protein-rich canola meal to the feed market as a by-product of the process.
POWER provided all civil, structural, architectural, limited process, main service electrical design, and owner's engineer oversight for controls engineering for this facility. Our complete C/S/A design provided the client with site plans, grading and drainage, erosion and storm water control, water and sewer systems, structural steel, building and equipment foundations, as well as code review and analysis. POWER provided 3-D modeling for structural and process design as well as complete electrical and control systems design for the facility. Additionally, our team executed engineering coordination for the process equipment and on-site construction support, as required, while the facility was being built. POWER provided the client with a single point of contact for the design operations, streamlining the process on a project involving a number of players. POWER's design was completed on a fast-track, expediting the schedule wherever possible to avoid the potential impact of poor weather during construction.
The project included areas for bulk seed receiving and storage, canola seed processing, meal (by product) storage and load-out, oil refinery, oil storage and loading, as well as boilers, coolers, compressors, and water treatment systems.


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Advances in Elastomers and Rubber Elasticity
Springer US, Jul 3, 2013 - Science - 444 pages
The present book is a sequel to "Elastomers and Rubber Elasticity," edited by J.E. Mark and J. Lal and published by the American Chemical Society in 1982. It is also based on papers presented at an ACS Symposium, sponsored by the Division of Polymer Chemistry, Inc., in this case one held in Chicago in September of 1985. The keynote speaker was to have been Pro fessor Paul J. Flory, and his untimely death just prior to the symposium was a tremendous loss to all of polymer science, in particular to those in terested in elastomeric materials. It is to his memory that this book is dedicated. There has been a great deal of progress in preparing and studying elas tomers since the preceding symposium, which was in 1981. In the case of the synthesis and curing of elastomers, much of the background necessary to an appreciation of these advances is given in the first, introductory chapter.
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In one Guatemalan community, helping children grow now includes helping a garden grow as well. Small herb and vegetable plots have become part of a World Vision program to help counter malnutrition in children.
Weight and height monitoring is part of the community's strategy to keep an eye on childhood nutrition, and is conducted on all children under the age of five.
Marta, a mother of four girls – Karina Yaneth, 15, Floina Oneida, 13, Damaris Yanira, 6 and Carmen Adelaidea, 2 – sought the help of the World Vision health units when Damaris Yanira started to get sick aged three. Staff there warned Marta that her daughter was losing weight and becoming malnourished. Not only did Marta get the training and help she needed to help her daughter, she was also given the means to establish a small vegetable garden so her children would have an ongoing source of nutritious food. Currently, 200 families with low-weight children produce vegetables this way.
World Vision's technical staff train all families about how to build the container to grow their veggies in, ways to plant, about crops, harvest and ways to prepare food for consumption. Marta said the garden had made a big difference to her life.
"With training and experience I noticed that food production at home produces many benefits. One of them is we do not have to spend money to purchase herbs at the market as we produce them at home."
"We always have food for consumption and sometimes I can sell some to help with other family needs. I also learned to obtain my own seeds from some plants and other times I purchase seeds for the vegetables I sell," said Marta.
Today she also manages her own orchard with her neighbors, and both Damaris Yanira and Carmen Adelaida are healthy because Marta keeps good weight and height control, applies better health and nutrition practices, and produces vegetables at home that help provide diverse food for her children.


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An impossible adventure begins when a young boy sneaks out of George Washington's encampment to find his father, a soldier who does not return from the Battle of Monmouth. A game of draughts may save the young boy's life and bring him home.
Based on letters and diaries from the period, "Elijah and George" is an adventurous, at-times humorous, heartfelt story about family, freedom, and home. The screenplay was written and adapted from the popular Illustrated Children's Book "George Washington's Army and Me" by renowned Author and Illustrator Michael Dooling.
Based on letters and diaries from the period, "Elijah and George" is an adventurous, at-times humorous, heartfelt story about family, freedom, and home. The screenplay was written and adapted from the popular Illustrated Children's Book "George Washington's Army and Me" by renowned Author and Illustrator Michael Dooling.
GENRE: Action, War (Novel Adaptation)
When a segregated black artillery unit in WWII has to master the army's deadliest gun, they distinguish themselves fighting the Germans, but also must endure prejudice from their own army. They eventually sacrifice everything for freedom.
As we open in 1942 in the "Jim Crow" south, black soldiers who've enlisted in the 333rd are caught up in a deadly army race riot pitting black soldiers against white in a bloody confrontation that leaves a lasting scar. Fighting against hatred and prejudice in boot camp, the 333rd is ordered against the wishes of their commander to learn the most complicated artillery weapon in the army, the 155mm howitzer. Struggling through intensive training, they master the weapon by devising their own innovative approach.
Landing at Normandy just days after the invasion, the 333rd fight their way across Europe, earning the reputation as one of the most accurate field artillery battalions in the US Army. Their devastating killing ability attracts the attention of Yank Magazine, which devotes a full article to them in September 1944.
During the surprise German attack at the outset of the Battle of the Bulge, the 333rd is overrun and captured after fighting nearly to the last man. Eleven 333rd soldiers escape, and embark on a freezing 10-mile trek to a small Belgian town. Sheltered by a farmer and his family, they are forced to choose between life and death when the Nazis arrive on their doorstep.
THE LOST ELEVEN is the Civil War film GLORY set in WWII.
*Adapted from the narrative nonfiction novel published by Penguin / Random House.
*Adapted from the narrative nonfiction novel published by Penguin / Random House.
When an FBI agent is betrayed by everyone he knows he goes out for blood taking down the Philadelphia mob in the process.
The bodies are piling high -- 36 unsolved gangland murders at last count -- and FBI Supervisor Hans Bauer has to do the unthinkable: put tough,
independent Special Agent Frank Murray back on the squad he was twice kicked out of, Organized Crime.
Mafia Kingpin Nick Scarponi is back from prison and orchestrating the bloodiest reign of mob killings in Philadelphia history and Frank Murray, who tossed
Scarponi in the can three years earlier, is his #1 target.
The taunt, tense, visually gritty story leaps off the page and grabs you by the throat.
Blood Betrayal is a classic, big city mafia crime story that cuts to the bone. It feels all too real because it is. The story is based on an historic FBI
prosecution and investigation led by Charles "Bud" Warner the real life Frank Murray. FBI Director William Sessions, Attorney General Janet Reno and
President Bill Clinton all commended him for his extraordinary work on this case.
Blood Betrayal is a thrill ride of twists and turns and vividly drawn characters such as "Center City" Charlie, mob con man Nick "The Crow" Consiglioni and
Murray's wife, Marlene, a gold-digger whose affair with a doctor is brought to a screeching halt by Murray in a scene that has to be read to be believed.
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When a brash, 20 year old immigrant joins General Washington's staff little does our first President know that the ambitious young man will lead the final charge that wins the Revolutionary War.
As we open, Hamilton finds himself thrown into the fire of Revolution as the last man in the line of defense against the on-rushing tide of British infantry.
Born a bastard and poor in the Caribbean, his circumstances ignite an insatiable ambition that reveals his true talents and leads local merchants to sponsor his education in America.
Catching the attention of George Washington, he joins the General's inner circle. In one daring mission after another Hamilton's stature grows, creating
great political mistrust among his rivals. When ambition overtakes him, he threatens to overthrow the government and his world nearly collapses. With characteristic bravado, he challenges a Congressman to a duel.
With the end of the war looming and his visions of glory fading, Hamilton becomes determined to return to the battlefield. Washington, the only man who can help him, does all in his power to deny him. One assignment remains, however, that will determine the outcome of the battle and the war. It is at a place called Yorktown.
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Its pretty clear this isn t a first draft. The descriptions are concise and clear. The dialogue manages to evoke a time long since past without sounding stilted and archaic and the writing manages to balance the action scenes with the character moments. Its easy to see that theres a lot of talent behind this script. --Script Shark
HAMILTON, was declared and "Official Finalist" in the Los Angeles based 2011 Hollywood Screenplay Contest in the Biography and Historical category.
When an American Parachute Infantry Regiment is ordered to do the impossible through sheer blood and guts they claim the first American victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (82nd Airborne) is on the move. They have been ordered during the third day of Battle of the Bulge by American General Gavin to do the impossible strike and hold a heavily fortified German occupied town. They are outnumbered more than two to one.
The Americans have to advance across 1000 yards of open, snow covered ground and fourteen rows of barbed wire to attack the enemy. Col. Reuben "Retreat Hell!" Tucker in charge of the 504th, a grizzled combat vet knows for many of his men this attack will be their last. They are completely overmatched by a massive German arsenal of 20mm cannons; 105mm howitzers, armored half-tracks, mortars and MG 42 machine guns.
Two companies of the 504th, B & C attack Cheneux in four assault waves storming the heavily armed enemy. A majority of the American troops are horrifically cut to pieces in just the first 35 minutes of battle. One Sergeant reports, "The men fell like flies.
Major Wolf the German commander at Cheneux is at a loss to explain the ferocity of the American attack to Colonel Pieper. "We mow them down five and six at a time and still they do not halt."
At Cheneux with dog-faced determination and many out of ammunition the undaunted 504th turn to primal hand-to-hand combat. The Germans match their intensity. Trench knives slit throats, rifle butts crack skulls and bayonet thrusts spill guts.
By the time killing at Cheneux ends, the First Battalion of the 504th Parachute Infantry has destroyed five companies of German SS Armored troops and large quantities of artillery, vehicles and one Mark VI tank. The 504th incurs 225 casualties in 2 days. In the 1st battalion "B" company no officers remain while only 18 enlisted men survive. Only 3 officers with 38 enlisted men in "C" company walk away.
The 504th had written a page in history that few would ever know about. On Christmas Eve, three days after the battle at Cheneux Hitler's Ardennes Offensive ends. The 1st Battalion of the 504th would claim not only the first American victory in the Battle of the Bulge but the most decisive.


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Look at your watch: Does it just tell time, or can it also display how many steps you've taken? How about help you schedule texts and navigate city streets?
The same smartwatch technology that tracks heartbeat and calendars can also enable real-time display of the KPIs that effectively run your business. Digital device innovation enables "KPIs everywhere" — for example, "Alexa/Siri/Cortana, how does this week's ARPU compare with last week's?" Such mobile KPI platforms won't just transform how we think about dashboards — they'll transform leadership behavior.
However, as stated in our recent research report, "Leading With Next Generation Key Performance Indicators," we were startled to find that only 45% of survey respondents can monitor KPIs on their smartphones. That seems unsustainable. Doing KPI "drill-downs" — that is, examining the KPIs' underlying data components — on smartphones should be as simple and easy as booking a flight. Alexa, for example, should have the "skills" to respond to KPI update requests. The technologies exist, and the conceptual and technical ambitions for dashboards are growing. The most sophisticated KPI-driven organizations in our global executive survey say they constantly look for ways to get greater value and insight from their KPIs.
Expanding how people engage and interact with dashboards will expand how people engage and interact with KPIs. That's powerful. As one contemporary definition puts it, "A dashboard is a visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives, consolidated and arranged on a single screen so the information can be monitored at a glance." But multimedia device innovation simultaneously extends and subverts that design ethos. Dashboard infographics have just begun to reflect and respect interactive potential.
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As surely as innovation in automation and autonomy will reframe airplane and automobile dashboard design, machine learning and AI algorithms will reinvent how KPI dashboards can steer organizations. Dashboards are becoming smarter, more anticipatory, and more personalized. The visual remains vital, but it's just one part of a KPI platform ecosystem.
The Netflix-ification of KPI Dashboards
The same techniques and technologies that have transformed video viewing will transform KPI engagement. KPI dashboards will be designed to explicitly learn about their users, make data-driven recommendations, and, yes, encourage KPI "binge-watching." More than 60% of Netflix survey participants, for example, say they binge-watch regularly. What portion of senior management might KPI binge-watch in pursuit of better insights and decisions? When appropriately configured, KPIs — individually and collectively — become engaging content that analytically enlightens CFOs, CMOs, and boards. You can Netflix-ify dashboards by highlighting — or even animating — particular KPI sequences: Swipe left for KPIs that meet expectations; swipe right for those requiring further review; tap twice to replay the last 10 days of these KPIs. Feature engineering techniques and recommender system algorithms make this possible.
Continuous customization and personalization — not just content — is at the heart of Netflix's success. Netflix assiduously tracks user interactions. A "view" describing a collection of events is created each time a subscriber starts watching a movie or TV episode. Netflix's system gathers signals throughout each view to determine whether viewers are, in fact, watching the show. The system also tracks individual searches, ratings, geolocation data, device information, browsing behavior, time of day and week, when shows are abandoned, and when they pause or fast-forward.
Serious data-driven managers should want to know how they actually view and interact with their KPI dashboards. Instrumenting and networking the dashboard — à la Netflix — creates a wealth of value-added transformational opportunities.
Netflix-ified KPI data and metadata should similarly prove helpful in assessing how reliably managers monitor KPIs. Several flavors of KPI dashboard innovation not only become possible but desirable.
KPI Dashboards as Recommender Systems
Netflix's views data powers the platform's exceptionally successful recommendations. "Seventy-five percent of users select movies based on the company's recommendations," observes one senior Netflix data scientist, "and Netflix wants to make that number even higher."
Technically, there's no reason why recommender systems couldn't similarly prioritize, personalize, and contextualize KPIs for executive attention: Executives who look at these Net Promoter Scores look at those customers; managers who monitor this strategic marketing KPI might be interested in viewing these functional financial KPIs; when this KPI decreases by more than 10% in a week, adjust expectations for those KPIs by 5% next month.
The purpose here isn't to persuade users to sample new shows but to expose managers to novel KPI relationships they otherwise might have missed. Their dashboards learn over time to personalize and customize the most interesting and relevant KPI ensembles. How valuable might that be? Netflix-ified KPI dashboard recommenders succeed when managers and executives discover actionable insights that change minds and behaviors.
KPI Dashboards as 'Nudges'
How might organizations help ensure their people use KPI dashboards effectively? Nobel Prize winning behavioral economics research suggests dashboards can be designed to "nudge" users into productively reviewing and responding to KPIs. That is, KPIs can be presented in ways that improve outcomes for both managers and the enterprise alike. Instead of simply displaying information, dashboards can prompt better behaviors.
"A nudge is any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people's behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives," observe Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein and 2017 Nobel Laureate economist Richard Thaler in their 2008 book of the same title. "To count as a mere nudge, the intervention must be easy and cheap to avoid. Nudges are not mandates. Putting fruit at eye level counts as a nudge. Banning junk food does not."
A KPI dashboard nudge might be a share button that makes sending a KPI — with a comment or annotation — easy, or a default that sends a time-stamped summary of all your KPI dashboard-related activity to your in-box at either day's end or the beginning of the next workday, if that's more effective. Encouraging constructive engagement with KPIs without overt coercion is the goal.
Critics and supporters of nudges often describe the concept as an example of libertarian paternalism — that is, individuals are nudged toward choices that are normatively in their best interest without actually limiting choice. That said, more command-and-control-oriented organizations might consider digital "shoves" to guarantee or enforce KPI compliance. Rising KPI ubiquity assures that choice architectures become dramatically more important for influencing managerial behavior. KPI dashboards become "decision cathedrals" for choice architects.
KPI Dashboards as Training and Education Platforms
KPIs are the essential metrics through which the organization holds itself accountable. Their underlying rationales can be complicated and their supporting data and algorithms complex. But gaining greater understanding and insight into KPIs can improve decision-making competence and confidence.
As KPIs and their underlying data coevolve, why not KPI wikis or FAQs to explain their dependencies? Tap a KPI and see the data sets that go into its creation. Tap again and get a YouTube-like tutorial on how that KPI is compiled and computed. Check the wiki or FAQ to learn what data quality issues hurt the KPI's reliability. Curious about possible correlations between the organization's Net Promoter Scores and its marketing KPIs? Post questions on the organization's internal KPI Quora and see who answers.
HR staff, for example, cannot be presumed to understand why marketing leaders disproportionately emphasize one set of marketing KPIs over others. Similarly, sales teams may not understand the rationales for customer success team KPIs. Consequently, the ability to read, review, and even contribute to KPI wikis, FAQs, and Quoras can prove tremendously important to organizational collaboration and alignment. Serious HR departments would want to facilitate and encourage this. Promoting teamwork and onboarding new hires become easier when KPI dashboards become portals for training and professional development. Another desirable outcome: Ongoing digital tutorials and explanations become a dynamic source of KPI metadata for the enterprise.
KPI Dashboards as Early Warning Systems
One of our most significant survey findings was that KPIs are being used as much to anticipate and predict future performance as to retrospectively review past performance. Instead of helping managers and executives better analyze what went wrong, AI-enriched KPIs could alert leaders to potential problems and upcoming opportunities. At the simplest level, at-risk KPIs could flicker, change color, or otherwise call attention to themselves — texting to one's phone, for example, saying, "You need to look at me as soon as possible."
This analogizes to sophisticated airplane cockpits where human pilots not only passively monitor flight indicators but are proactively alerted when undesirable risks threaten — for example, commercial airliners descending at inappropriate rates or angles trigger acoustic "Pull up! Pull up!" cockpit warnings. For some cutting-edge aircraft, the automatic pilot literally takes over from the human one. Determining what risk levels justify such technical intervention increasingly shapes aviation safety debates.
Comparable circumstances and questions apply to commercial KPI dashboards: What deviations from performance expectations merit proactive alerts or outright intervention? At several companies we spoke with, notably GoDaddy and 1-800-Flowers, KPI dashboards directly tie into automated decisioning systems. As with airline cockpits, certain events or circumstances can trigger not just warnings but preprogrammed KPI-driven digital decisions. Note: These are done predictively — in anticipation of a business risk or scenario — not just in response to a bad event.
These systems can be opportunistic as well. Subtle shifts in KPIs may suggest that certain clients or customer segments are ripe for a sales approach or an upgrade offer. Again, the ongoing creation of predictive/anticipatory KPIs suggests that dashboard users will be spending more time marshaling resources for future action than past performance review.
KPI Dashboards as Communication Platforms
Another common theme and critical research survey finding was that sophisticated data-driven organizations promote greater transparency and alignment around KPIs. In effect, KPIs are used to communicate and coordinate enterprise expectations and actions. Yes, individual executives have their own KPI dashboards to manage their business, but effectively communicating those KPIs to colleagues and subordinates across the enterprise is essential to getting the job done.
KPI ubiquity makes communication around KPIs even more important. Indeed, KPI ubiquity is itself a form of communication — wherever people turn on their devices, KPIs are there. How best to communicate them with others? Should KPIs have their own Slack or Chatter channels? To what extent are key meetings built or organized around KPIs. The organization needs to be comfortable not just with the quality and timeliness of its KPIs but with the communication surrounding them.
Using KPI dashboards as conversational interfaces, enablers, and tools is essential as KPI ubiquity becomes a new normal. When someone's smartwatch signals a balky KPI, that person needs to be able to immediately and appropriately share the signal.
KPI dashboard Netflix-ification can't — and shouldn't — be separate or distinct from the institutional imperative (or desire) to nudge, educate, or warn. The technological opportunities to get dramatically greater value from KPIs are there. Indeed, the opportunity to actually measure how organizations can get greater value from their KPIs is there as well.
But most important is remembering that KPI dashboards are a means to an end. The purpose is not to have better dashboards or more ubiquitous KPIs — it's being able to convert greater KPI awareness and capability into greater business value. In essence, better dashboards should lead to better outcomes. That is the KPI that matters most.


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Actress ANNA KENDRICK has a "battle scar" to remind her of her time filming WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING after chopping off her fingernail during a competitive cooking lesson with co-star CHACE CRAWFORD.
Kendrick and Crawford play food truck chefs in the romantic comedy and they enrolled in culinary classes to brush up on their kitchen skills ahead of the shoot.
But the Up in the Air star suffered a nasty cut as she raced through a slicing task - and tried to brush off the pain before realising just how serious her injury was.
She tells WENN, "Yes I did cut my fingernail off which is super f**king gross! It's not a cute battle scar where you want to show off.
"Chace and I took some cooking lessons and when I did it we were in that kind of competitive place. I was so embarrassed that I cut myself that I was like, 'No big deal, I'll just throw a Band Aid (bandage) on this.'
"It wasn't until I got home later that I saw this fingernail was almost completely gone. It literally woke me up in the middle of the night because it hurt so bad. It's just your finger so I felt like a wuss but it's fine now."


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Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2019, 16(6): 6426-6437. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2019321.
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Integrated network analysis to explore the key mRNAs and lncRNAs in acute myocardial infarction
1 Department of Cardiology, Anji People's hospital, Huzhou, 313300, Zhejiang Province, China
2 Anji Branch Institute of The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University, Huzhou, 313300, Zhejiang Province, China
3 Department of Cardiology, Zhejiang hospital, Hangzhou, 310000, Zhejiang Province, China
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Keywords: differentially expressed gene; long non-coding RNA; acute myocardial infarction; protein-protein interaction analysis
Citation: Lishui Shen, Xiaofeng Hu, Ting Chen, Guilin Shen, Dong Cheng. Integrated network analysis to explore the key mRNAs and lncRNAs in acute myocardial infarction. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2019, 16(6): 6426-6437. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2019321
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