UPDATE: The 2018 Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic has been released.
I'm delighted to release the 2017 edition of the marketing technology landscape, which we've nicknamed the Martech 5000, here at the MarTech conference in San Francisco.
This year, I was fortunate to have Anand Thaker collaborate with me on this project, from the research through to the origami-like folding of thousands of logos into a single slide. I'm incredibly grateful for his contributions.
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This graphic is only our personal approximation of the marketing technology space and is surely rife with errors and omissions (our apologies). It is intended only to stir discussion.
That's a non-trivial amount of churn, but still for this year, the rate by which new companies were added exceeds the rate by which others were removed.
So for those who assumed most of these companies are tiny, it's worth noting that over 300 are enterprises of significant scale. It's also true that over 2,300 others have received some sort of investor funding — which implies scale beyond a couple of rouge developers in a garage (or, for a more modern-day cliché, two people in a coffee shop).
I'm actually most intrigued by the 2,000+ that are private companies that appear to be fully bootstrapped. I've written about the dynamics of modern software and marketing that make this feasible for a few years. But for a second opinion, I highly recommend reading The Rise of Non "VC compatible" SaaS Companies by Clement Vouillon, a research analyst at Point Nine Capital. The barriers to entry are extremely low.
This long tail distribution above is interesting, because it reflects a pattern that we commonly see in open digital platforms: a few massive blockbusters and a vast stretch of niche offerings. Quintessential examples of this pattern are books on Amazon, music on Spotify, movies on Netflix, apps on Apple's iOS app store, and so on.
But the spectacular scope explosion of marketing — and the rate at which new disruptions and innovations continue to roil marketing and business at large — has made it impossible for any one vendor to deliver everything that every marketer needs in a digital world.
Almost all of the major providers now acknowledge this, and they've shifted their strategies to embrace the ecosystem — becoming true "platforms" that make it easier for marketers to plug in a variety of more specialized and vertical solutions.
Most of these platforms/suites/clouds — based around CRM, marketing automation (MAP), and content management systems (CMS) — look a lot like classic platforms: they're centralized repositories of data and services that other solutions plug into. Gartner's vision of a "digital marketing hub" nicely captures this approach. Adobe, HubSpot, IBM, Marketo, Oracle, Salesforce, Sitecore, etc., are examples of leading centralized platforms.
But alternate approaches to platformizing martech have emerged as well. On the other end of the spectrum from centralized platforms, integration-platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) solutions let companies create "distributed" platforms — dynamically piping data between marketing applications and their own independent marketing data lakes.
While these distributed architectures are conceptually more complicated than a centralized platform, they offer a number of benefits, which I described in the section on microservices in my ebook 5 Disruptions Reshaping Marketing as We Know It — above all, tremendous flexibility to adapt to change. Vendors like Dell Boomi, Informatica, Jitterbit, Mulesoft, Segment, and Zapier are good examples of iPaaS and microservice platform enablers.
And yet another group of platforms sit between these two extremes, blending centralized and distributed philosophies: data management platforms (DMP), customer data platforms (CDPs), and real-time interaction management (RTIM) solutions. CDPs include firms like AgilOne, Lytics, RedPoint, Tealium, Treasure Data, and Usermind. Adobe, Oracle, and Salesforce all offer DMPs, but so do stand-alone vendors such as DataXu, MediaMath, Neustar, Rocketfuel, etc. RTIMs include Experian, Infor, Pegasystems, SAS, and Teradata.
The companies named above are just examples — see the landscape for a more thorough set.
The upshot of this platformization of marketing is that marketers are able to more easily build best-of-breed marketing stacks. Instead of choosing suite or best-of-breed, many marketers are now taking a suite and best-of-breed approach — using the suites as digital marketing hubs and then augmenting them with a range of more specialized products to bake their own, special marketing and customer experience cake.
Remember, marketing is about differentiation.
Instead of choosing suite or best-of-breed, many marketers are now taking a suite and best-of-breed approach.
For more examples, check out the other 57 marketing stacks from this year's Stackies Awards.
But ironically, consolidation at the platform level will facilitate greater diversity and innovation at the next level up, as more specialized and vertical market developers build on top of those foundations. As a result, I hypothesize that the martech landscape will remain quite large for some time — but it will increasingly have more structure in how it's organized, both in the market and in marketers' operations.
It's going to continue to be a fascinating space for quite some time ahead.
Feel free to cut-and-paste this data and use it as a starting point for your own research. We'd love to hear about what you discover.
Amazing job. This is truly a monumental task.
Been looking forward to this for a while. Thank you so much Scott and Anand.
This has become a highlight of the year for me, and 2017 did not disappoint! Thanks for this amazing contribution to the Martech community, and the spreadsheet is a really nice bonus.
If there is a typo (Website) within how best to contact to have it fixed?
LeadiD (not Lead ID) and should be LeadiD.com (not .net). The firm rebranded the site LeadiD.com still work, it will redirect to their new brand name JORNAYA, Jornaya.com – same services (Predictive Analytics, Sales Enablement Data, B2C Consumer Journey Insights). You can delete these posts just wanted to provide you the accurate spelling and website. Thank you.
Thanks. The 3rd link is not a PDF.
Simply amazing! Thanks for this great article and your love and passion for marketing technology!
Great work! Just a quick note that the highres PDF link isn't working (point to a JPG now). The correct link is https://cdn.chiefmartec.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/marketing_technology_landscape_2017.pdf.
@Scott: Thanks so much for including us (again) this year in the ABM category. I would like to know what it takes to get considered for additional categories in the future. Our platform crosses a couple of additional area. Thanks! And great job with this!
I can't see name of Streamlyn media.
They have a great grip in APAC market.
Clever click through on the Google sheet. Great work. And I thought 2011 was complex!
Thanks so much also for sharing the Google Sheet of source data. It's super helpful to be able to quickly search by name than "logo hunting". Much appreciated!
Great work on the report. The whole sector has exploded as predictions. Also thanks for the reference to "The Rise of Non 'VC compatible' SaaS Companies by Clement Vouillon"; we are an "awesome Bootstrapped SaaS company" with a lean and profitable SaaS business.
Oh there it is! Workzone updated our logo…so we'll have to get that over to you guys, thanks!
I jokingly said "Great, we need solutions to help select solutions." Then, I noticed the Vendor Analysis section in the bottom right. We've come to that.
Great work. I can only imagine the level of effort here.
In the part of eCommerce there is an image of our company FANPLAYR but then is not in the list of the spreadsheet.
Another year where Datarista hasn't made it. Next year we are going to be on the radar!
This is great work! Thanks for sharing. although some of the vendors seem out of place. I don't think there's anything about Host Analytics or Workday make them Martech?
Nice work! We are LeadsRx, a marketing attribution vendor who also happens to qualify for your "Bootstrapped SaaS Company" category. Let us know what we can provide to get on your wonderful chart for next time!
Thanks a lot for the report and your effort! It's really helpful to have a spreadsheet to check out the whole list. However, I'm surprised that MOCA Platform is missing from this list for Mobile Marketing, Retail & Proximity Marketing or Mobile Analytics category. We are a SaaS Mobile Marketing platform focused on location targeting and behavioural data and last year we were honored at the prestigious GLOMO Awards as the Best Mobile Cloud Service.
Please, check it out for the next report https://mocaplatform.com/ Thanks and again..great job!
Could this be of interest for all 5000 Marketing Technologies?
Hi Scott, Congratulations. Great work on this herculean tasks. Appreciate the idea of adding the google sheet, it really helps. And thanks very much for featuring 'Fiind' (http://www.fiind.com ) under Predictive Analytics category. We hope to find ourselves in other categories where we are expanding. Congratulations again.
Where is Amazon in any of the categories? They seem to be a player in multiple areas with the broken out groupings these days.
Great list of market players. It will definitely help us to get a better overview and connect to all the companies more easily. Maybe ayetstudios.com will make it on the list next year as well.
Great list, really comprehensive. Could you please add aklamio.com next year to the Referral category?
Great list. I think you forgot to include https://mention-me.com/ in the Advocacy, Loyalty and Referrals section 😉 Maybe next year?
Scott and Anand, Thank you for putting this together. Could you please add Quaero (www.quaero.com) to your list of Customer Data Platforms? Thanks.
Great graphic. Is there a tool that will help you make that "supergraphic"? I'd like to create one for my own industry.
Hello Scott. Great work on this but you seem to be missing 3Cinteractive, https://www.3cinteractive.com/. Hope to see it on your list next year.
A vertical market CRM called Wild Apricot could be added under CRMs. The taget market for Wild Apricot is associations and clubs. Blackbaud is a similar competitor already in the CRM subcategory.
Obviously, a lot of time and energy to compile the list (and logos) 🙂 Good work! BUT wow… that is a big list. I'll keep the page bookmarked. Thanks!
Hi Scott, thanks for the list – great resource!
Where is Oracle Service Cloud in the Experience, Service & Success section?
This has been helpful and I will be linking to this page in a forthcoming post. Btw, you are very gracious to those of us who don't bother to use the Google sheet to lookup whether our company is listed there.
There's a glaring hole in the "Community & Reviews" section. You're missing ConsumerAffairs.com which was named the #1 reputation management tool in 2016 by Entrepreneur.
Had a nice conversation with Anand at the MarTech event in SF about Automat and the work we're doing with Conversational Marketing (http://www.automat.ai/what-is-conversational-marketing.html). This new category of marketing is really coming into its own based on work we're doing with L'Oreal, Covergirl, National Bank of Canada and others. We also just raised a Series A led by Brandtech group You & Mr Jones to accelerate our product and market development. Would be great to be included in the next iteration of the landscape.
This is immensely helpful and major kudos goes out to Scott and Anan.
Is anyone able to download the spreadsheet? I'm not familiar with google sheet and having a hard time transfering to excel. Thanks in advance for any help!
Great work, Scott. Innovation is seen in all categories.
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Amazing job. thanks a lot and keep it up.
It would be nice if the spreadsheet data was on github so others could contribute.
One landscape that is always underreported is the mobile landscape.
sense360 sense360.com Bluetooth beacon advertising stuff for apps.
I have about 350 DNS records I've blocked so far on my phone and these were just in the first 20 I've logged.
I just think the mobile space is very much underreported not only from a list such as this but also in ad blocking efforts. I know my motivation goes against what you all do but viewing DNS queries from a phone tells me how many new companies are cropping up due to mobile advertising and analytics and I can guarantee I could list dozens more without trying.
A github page would really be beneficial for culling lists. We could submit url's, classification, domain name, logo, etc. for approval to submit.
I'd also suggest relevant additional domain names because, as you probably know, mergers and acquisitions, etc. lead to multiple sources ending up under 1 true company.
https://filterlists.com/ maintains a list of… lists of DNS hosts file lists and adblock filters to block network traffic to such companies.
We're talking hundreds of thousands of known analytics and advertising companies (along with malware hosting sites and junk.) I don't think one team could even come close to putting together an actual list of a current landscape.
Even with all of these lists I'd have to parse out the duplicates, verify active WHOIS domain registrations, and then investigate each record to see the parent company and what they actually do.
Anyways, I know it's the opposite of what you all do but I figured it might reveal some other ways to find the same sorts of info.
Browser add-ons such as UBlock Origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin is where these sorts of lists are used.
Scott, what an amazing overview! I am in a process of evaluating a few systems, and this info that you have put together is extremely helpful! Would you consider any updates to this list?
Our marketing management and collaboration platform CrossCap (www.crosscap.com) is not featured but could be a nice addition to your fantastic research! Thank you so much again for putting this together!
Does anyone know if there is some sort of glossary that defines each of the sub-categories in the landscape?
It is only when you see the technology vendors on your visual chart each year that you get a true appreciation of the growth and size of this technology space. I can only imagine the time and research that goes into it each year – incredible!
I would love to see admation (www.admation.com) included on the 2018 SuperGraphic.
Admation falls in the marketing project management category. Admation is a private company that is fully bootstrapped, that provides project management and marketing approval workflow software to a range of global brands and ad agencies. Any details on how we could be added to your growing list would be truely appreciated.
Seems like several of the Gartner leaders and market share leaders were left out of Email Marketing Category. (Salesforce (ExactTarget), Oracle (Responsys) Am I missing something?
I agree with Justin. We are using https://www.newsletter2go.com. They do only email marketing and they are not on the report either.
Always a fascinating topic. I love the piece about Microsoft's ideal stack. One can have the best Martech in the world, but if it is not compatible or not relevant to your field – it will do little good. Usage, people, and vision all play a role in effective and profitable marketing technology. Many come and go, but any that are worthwhile either grow or get purchased.
BTW Incredible job to vet so many companies!!
Thanks for including us amongst such great company in your list of recommendations!
Hi – Lanyon is there twice.
Hi Scott, Unbelievable job pulling all this together!
Quick name change correction: iJento is now Fospha. We sit primarily in 'Marketing Analytics, Performance & Attribution', 'Customer Data Platform' and 'Business/Customer Intelligence & Data Science' boxes.
Great stuff Scott. These landscapes have really inspired our content strategy lately. Having watched you progress with these over the years really got us thinking on what the future of industry reviews and visuals look like.


Whilst it wasn't on quite as grand a scale as William and Catherine's nuptials, but the latest royal wedding on Saturday (30 July) between Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall was still a spectacular affair. Surrounded by friends and family, the couple married at Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh, before heading on to Holyrood House for their wedding reception.
See our photo diary of Zara and Mike's big day, from the all-important dress (made by the Royal couturier Stewart Parvin) to what other members of the Royal Family and the A-list guests wore, below. Click an image to open the gallery.
The Queen arrives at Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh in a floral dress, pink jacket and shoes.
Prince Phillip arrives at the wedding.
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge arrives at the ceremony in a Jane Troughton gold brocade coat and wide-rimmed hat.
Princess Beatrice arrives at the ceremony in an Angela Kelly turquoise hat and jacket, and skirt with embroidered flowers.
Princess Eugenie arrives at the ceremony in an Angela Kelly brown and cream skirt-suit, with a brown fascinator.
Princess Beatrice and Eugenie enter Canongate Kirk.
The Duchess of Cornwall arrives in an Anna Valentina dress and jacket, with a floral headpiece.
Princess Anna in a floral jacket and pleated skirt, accompanied by Phil Tindall.
Prince Andrew talks to Reverend Neil Gardner.
Princess Beatrice's long-term boyfriend Dave Clark.
The Saturdays singer Una Healy in a floral dress and white hat.
TV presenter Natalie Pinkham in a pink dress and gold hat.
Rugby star Jonny Wilkinson with his girlfriend.
Best Man Iain Balshaw and Chief Bridesmaid Dolly Maude arrive at the ceremony.
The bridesmaids arrive at the ceremony.
Wearing an ivory dress by Edinburgh-trained designer Stewart Parvin, and the Meander Tiara, lent to her by mother Princess Anne, Zara Phillips arrives at the church.
Zara Phillips waves to photographers.
After the ceremony, the newly married couple are pictured holding hands.
The wedding party leave the church.
A guest hold the wedding programme.
Kirsty Gallacher in a floral patterned dress and green fascinator.
Lady Sarah Chatto pictured in Jasper Conran, after the ceremony.
The bride's sister-in-law Autumn Phillips and David Chatto.
Prince Harry, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge chat outside Canongate Kirk.
The Duke and Duchess and Cambridge share a moment after the ceremony.
Sophie, Countess of Wessex in a light pink ensemble and matching hat, leaves the church.
English Skeleton Racer Amy Williams and Olympic Gold medallist in a pink pleated gown and gold mesh hat.
Coronation Street actress Katherine Kelly in a pink ruffled dress and wide-brimmed orange hat and matching clutch.
The bride is given help fitting her veil and train into the car.
Edinburgh locals wait for a glimpse of the happy couple.


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I am really new to EXTJS and I have a very basic problem.
I have read that is god to use namespace and this is what I did.
It seems that with the EXT.get(...) this is not possible because I am under a namespace.
Thus I have found a way aroudn this by simply using document.getEementById but I know that this is not the best way.
Could you please explain me how to do this ?
Ext.get() uses document.getElementById, so they should behave identical!
Hello Condor thank you for the quick reply.
When I use Ext.get that points to a hidden tag it returns undefined but when I do document.getElementById it works.
I have tried the Ext.get with a simpler script no namespace and it worked as well so I thought that the problem coudl be somewhere there.


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Afternoon Ethics Warm-Up, April 2, 2019: Maddow, Schultz, Pugh, Fosse, AOC, And All That Jazz…
April 2, 2019 April 2, 2019 / Jack Marshall
1. If anyone cared, this would do in Rachel Maddow. The fact that so many of my otherwise intelligent and reasonable liberal friends insist that Rachel Maddow is God'd gift to journalism was a mystery to me when she first brought her perpetual smirk to MSNBC. It perplexed me greatly as she so obviously hyped and twisted her commentary, and once she became the #1 Russia-Trump conspiracy theorist on TV, I admit that I have lost the edge of respect for anyone who still watches her. Rachel Maddow bottomed out, I'd say, yesterday, when she was saying this last week:
"It's hard to believe that they'd leave the newly appointed Attorney General William Barr to himself to personally pick through the [Mueller] report to try to figure out which mentions in this 400-page report might pertain to an open case"They wouldn't leave that to Barr to do that. Mueller would have done that!
Mueller's team would have done that as part of producing anything that they handed over outside their own offices. They've done that with every other document they have produced in the course of this investigation. You'd assume they'd be able to do that for this document too. But William Barr says, [exaggerated sigh] it's taking him a really long time because he's having to do all that himself."
While was saying that it was suspicious that Barr wouldn't seek Mueller's assistance with the redactions, the chyron underneath her read,
"Barr: Special Counsel Is Assisting with Redactions"
Unlike the much-mocked Fox News gaffe, in which the talking heads were correctly reciting the story while the chyron said that Trump was pulling aid from "three Mexican countries", this time the chyron was right, and the talking head was wrong. It might just be me, but I'd rather the actual reporters to be telling the truth, and graphics be messed up.
2. Well, that's one more old white guy who won't be President. This morning I heard Howard Schultz, the Starbucks CEO purporting to be running for President as an Independent, say that he absolutely believed that controlling illegal immigration at the border was essential, but that he believed that the issue of illegal immigration was more than just law but "humanity," and that immigration was what made America great. Huh. So that's what an independent is, is it: A candidate that advocates all sides of a controversial issue simultaneously?
As if that wasn't enough, Schultz, whom I had never heard speak before, has all the charisma of Steve Forbes.
3. What this struggling, racially divided city needs is a corrupt African American mayor! Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, whose self-dealing prompted Gov. Larry Hogan to call for criminal investigation,, announced Monday that she will take an indefinite leave of absence because of her, ah, cough, cough, (eye roll) health. She had been revealed to have negotiated a no-bid deal with the University of Maryland Medical System to purchase self-published books she had authored featuring a young girl named Healthy Holly, aimed at promoting exercise and good diet. Under the deal with the medical system, UMMS, which included Pugh on its board, paid the mayor $500,000 for copies of the books, $100,000 in each of five transactions in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2018, buying 20,000 copies at $5 per book. to be fair, she wasn't the only crook on the board: nine members of the 30-person UMMS board had contracts or other business deals with the medical system.
The Democratic mayor's office issued a statement yesterday:
"With the mayor's health deteriorating, she feels as though she is unable to fulfill her obligations as mayor of Baltimore city.To that end, Mayor Pugh will be taking an indefinite leave of absence to recuperate from this serious illness."
The statement did not address the scandal over the books, which I'm sure had nothing to do with the mayor's decision. By not resigning but only going on "indefinite leave," Pugh gets to keep receiving her salary.
4. Even New York Times features are fake news now. In a piece headlined, "'Fosse/Verdon' Has Magic to Do. And Undo," the New York Times explains that finally, the true story of how iconic Broadway choreographer Bob Fosse abused everyone in his life and himself:
"[Verdon's] inclusion…suggests a narrative informed by the #MeToo movement, a way to reframe the myth of the lone male auteur, of the man who behaves badly, but still, my God, those steps. If "Fosse/Verdon" succeeds, it could inform how we now tell stories about men like Fosse. Assuming we should tell these stories at all. Because if Fosse was a great man, he wasn't necessarily a good one. He had genius, he had charm, but coercion and scapegoating colored his rehearsals, and he rarely met a chorus girl he didn't try to bed. (Would he take no for answer? More or less. But his seductions often constituted an ugly abuse of power.)"
Hmmmm...that story sounds like one I saw in a movie once. What was it? It's right in the tip of my tongue–oh yeah! The movie was called "All That Jazz," which won four Oscars in 1980 while also being nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, and it was written and directed by Fosse himself as a brutal, self-damning indictment of his miserable conduct. Wouldn't you think that a puff piece about a new series covering exactly the same ground with exactly the same intention might mention, for those not up on their theater history, that this has been done before, and not only that, that the film was an all-time classic that had the added authority of being made by the very man it was eviscerating? Even more bizarre is the fact that the Times piece refers to the film once without saying what it was, and in another place, includes the sentence, " [Fosse's} addictions — pills, sex, all that jazz — were legion."
What is this, a game? Blue's Clues?The idea is to mislead readers into thinking the series covers new ground when it isn't, but to leave little hints for those in the know?
5. Signature significance:
Anyone who thinks this is a cogent, logical or coherent argument is incapable of critical thought. The Congresswoman's response to the widespread mockery her nonsense received? This:
"GOP taking every tweet so earnestly, making my point for me. It's not an argument against the price of a croissant – it's about the value of human worth. But I guess that idea is foreign to them since their policies treat people as disposable anyway."
No, the issue is that it's unethical for any elected officials, House members of Congress members, to issue stupid tweets that cause the public to think they are being governed by the brain-damaged.
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14 thoughts on "Afternoon Ethics Warm-Up, April 2, 2019: Maddow, Schultz, Pugh, Fosse, AOC, And All That Jazz…"
Paul W. Schlecht
1-Did you mean "this time the chyron was right, and the talking head was wrong"?
5-If air travel is EVIL, what's Ocasio-Cortez doing in an airport?
Trying to buy breakfast?
How'd she get there; wind sled, gossamer wings…magic carpet?
Anywho, better not any hamburger in that breakfast; or in lunch or dinner for that matter.
If there wasn't a CHEOC in this election cycle, she'd need to be invented.
Isn't that what I wrote??? ARGHHH…I'll fix it.
Tim LeVier
#2 – is it bad to say that illegal immigration is bad while saying legal immigration is good? Or did I misread the reference material?
No, that's just what he said, and it's the old bait and switch. The discussion was about illegal immigration. Saying "the nation was built by immigrants" is either a non-sequitur, or it's a deliberate effort to confound the issue by blurring the material distinction between legal and illegal. That's wrong. Slimy, in fact.
1. Maddow
It might just be me, but I'd rather the actual reporters to be telling the truth, and graphics be messed up.
It's not just you, let's get that right. Of course, your so-called "friends" on Facebook might prefer the alternative just as long as it's not their ox being gored, and Trump is getting his due dose of conspiracy theories and invective.
2. Howard Schultz
Huh. So that's what an independent is, is it: A candidate that advocates all sides of a controversial issue simultaneously?
Now you know.
3. Catherine Pugh
Sounds about right. How many Democrat mayors have been purveyors of rampant corruption in the last 12 months? Let's see:
1. Ed Pawlowski, Allentown PA
2. Ed Murray, Seattle WA
3. Rahm Emanuel, Chicago IL
4. Megan Berry, Nashville TN
5. Robert Meyer, New Roads, LA
6. Joey Torres, Patterson NJ
7. Luis Aguinaga, South El Monte, CA
8. Ken Harycki, Stillwater, MN
9. Catherine Pugh, Chicago, IL
That's a good start. I've probably left out a dozen or three.
5. AOC
You mean we're not??
Howard Schultz was lamenting the fact that so many Americans are $400 away from a catastrophic event. When he starts suggesting that 5 dollar cups of coffee are luxuries these poor Americans should do without then I will pay attention to his proclamations about wealth disparities.
He claims to be a centrist but has yet to suggest any common sense methods the average American can employ to increase their own personal wealth. One that works for me is not spending my income on things with short useful lives like expensive coffee or overpriced cellphones that give me the opportunity to increase the amount of time I spend on leisure relative to income generating time (work).
Economists have long used an outmoded, complicated series of measures to determine the value of labor. I've been saying all along that we should go to the croissant system.
Perhaps AOC will promote the idea that employers need only to compensate the actual time the employee is creating value with their dedicated human labor.
We can use time and motion studies to determine how much time it takes to do any particular task. Then we count the number of tasks completed and total up the time and then pay $15/hr for actual dedicated value creating labor.
JutGory
Chris Marschner:
Two things: you can't pay just for the value creating part because there is still an investment of time, even if it is unproductive. A very important lesson I learned when I was 16 years old was: "sometimes, waiting is the job." That lesson has given me solace while sitting in an hours-long courtroom cattle call.
The other problem is that your analysis indulges her simple-minded thinking. You cannot simply isolate one factor for comparison. That $7.00 does not simply go to pay the labor that created it. It covers the materials purchased, the lease at La Guardia (how much do you think that is?), equipment costs; vendors, licenses, insurance.
I suspect you know this, Chris Marschner; I expect she does too, but, like Jack said, she is leading the public to think she is an idiot.
-Jut
First, let me be clear: Twitter is a swirling cesspool of nonsense and idiocy. But seeing people offer up to Ocasio-Cortez links to less-expensive croissants she can buy from Amazon almost makes the whole data-collecting, thought-policing, brain-deadening exercise worthwhile.
The sad thing is that you could show the segment with the chyron to a bunch of Democrats and most would insist that Barr was the only person reading and interpreting the report. I sat in a meeting once with 150 people. A person stood up with a spreadsheet of numbers behind them on the projector screen and proceeded to state the OPPOSITE of what the numbers on the screen stated. The data was unit and revenue data for the current year and previous year. The presenter stated that we brought in less money this year than last year, and the budgets were the same for the two years, so we couldn't get raises next year either because of the shortfall. The numbers clearly showed a 15% increase in revenue over the previous year (less units, but higher price) and a fixed budget, therefore a surplus. Only one other person agreed with me that the numbers showed there was an increase in revenue. Because the presenter said so, that must be the truth. The large spreadsheet of numbers (prepared by the same person) must obviously be wrong.
People will believe what they are told to believe, even to the point of not believing their own eyes.
slickwilly
Wait… AOC has a degree in economics, no?

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Project Veritas Election Fraud Sting Results In Arrest!
Image Credits: Tx AG Ken Paxton.
By Kelen McBreen | INFOWARS.COM Wednesday, January 13, 2021
In a victory for election integrity in America, a Project Veritas undercover video prompted Texas officials to investigate and arrest a San Antonio woman for allegedly engaging in voter fraud.
The arrest was announced by the Attorney General of Texas Ken Paxton on Wednesday.
In a press release, the AG's office wrote, "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton today announced the arrest of Rachel Rodriguez for election fraud, illegal voting, unlawfully assisting people voting by mail, and unlawfully possessing an official ballot. Each charge constitutes a felony under the Texas Election Code."
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The case should be easily resolved as Rodriguez admitted on camera that she "could go to jail" for engaging in what she called "illegal" activity.
Infowars wrote about the undercover footage in October of 2020, highlighting the fact that Rodriguez posed as a Republican while her comments were "openly anti-Trump."
The GOP consultant told Veritas she stands with Biden and Democratic Senate candidate Mary Jennings "MJ" Hegar.
Speaking about the arrest, Paxton said, "Many continue to claim that there's no such thing as election fraud. We've always known that such a claim is false and misleading, and today we have additional hard evidence. This is a victory for election integrity and a strong signal that anyone who attempts to defraud the people of Texas, deprive them of their vote, or undermine the integrity of elections will be brought to justice. The shocking and blatantly illegal action documented by Project Veritas demonstrates a form of election fraud my office continually investigates and prosecutes. I am fiercely committed to ensuring the voting process is secure and fair throughout the state, and my office is prepared to assist any Texas county in combating this insidious, un-American form of fraud."


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1998.11.03 Blue Cross Arena Rochester, NY
1. Big Yellow Taxi
2. Just Like This Train (incomplete)
3. Just Like This Train
5. Harry's House
8. Face Lift
11. The Magdelene Laundries
12. Trouble Man
14. Woodstock
From JM.com's Official Reporter Adam S. Glasser
I'm running to the car in the freezing cold. Darting to the car with my fleece wrapped around me, I pull on my gloves and try to sip my 32 oz. Coke. Bad idea. Half the Coke spills all over me just as I'm about to get in the car. After cleaning myself off, we get to the concert just as Dave Alvin is taking the stage. He was a fun opener, lots of little guitar jams and some emotion filled songs, not to mention that they guy playing the slide guitar looks just like Neil Young around 1975. The crowd was still coming in as Joni Mitchell took the stage. When she did come on, she performed a wonderful Big Yellow Taxi. During one verse, she did her best Bob Dylan impression after explaining that he wrote that specific verse. In the middle of the next song, Just Like This Train, she abruptly stopped and asked people to take their seats as it was hard for her to concentrate with so many people moving around. When she did resume playing, she delighted the crowd.
I'm not going to go into each song she played because she sticks to a pretty consistent routine. Instead I'll give you my perspective on the entire concert in general. I'm 21 years old and a junior in college. Joni Mitchell is before my time, but I'm not a stranger to her music. I found two things incredible about her music and the concert. First, each song has such a rich story. Most people my age aren't used to understanding a musician's message or story without reading about it in Rolling Stone. But with Joni it was simple. Some of her songs I had never heard before, such as her travelling song, Amelia. But I loved the song and the story it was about. Second, even though her voice has changed from her earlier days with years of smoking, her voice was still beautiful and her emotion made up for the difference. She even tried out a Billie Holliday song, Comes Love, and did it in a cool, jazzy voice with a lit cigarette in her left hand.
Rochester was a wonderful show. Joni came out and showed younger people like myself why she is such a legend, while at the same time inspired the crowd with her beautiful voice.
(From:Dan Rasp -hello wally,
I just saw Joni at the Blue Cross Arena, here in Rochester last night, the 3rd. The show was incredible. I am a Freshman at RIT. I've been a fan since middle school. She played a very similar set to Syracuse. During her solo version of Just Like This Train, she stopped for the people who were trying to find their seats or leaving to get Beer. She said, "You're either in or out! You're wrecking my concentration!" and then started the song over. This was met by a very positive applause from all of her fans. Larry Klein was perfect and the band over-all was wonderful. This was my first time seeing Joni. I lived in the Midwest and I was too young to make any of the shows for Turbulent Indigo. I was glad to hear a lot from Hejira and the Billie Holiday cover even excited the Dylan-Jerks. I wish she had played more from Taming the Tiger. I think it is a fantastic, honest album. Would have liked to hear Harlem in Havana, and My Best to You. She said that being on the road made her feel like pulling out all the old material. I had read, on your page that she was opening shows with Big Yellow Taxi, this in not one of my favorites but, Joni's new version, solo with her Parker Fly was astounding. I liked how concerned she was with the audience's manors. A lot of arena shows are ruined by jerks with reefer or beer, she didn't let them trample on the nearly religious mood of her show. Good job Joni. I love you!
Dan Rasp.
(From:Dizliz39)-1) Big Yellow Taxi 2) Just Like this Train 3) Harry's House (almost thought we would hear Centerpiece too! ) 4) Black Crow ( awesome w/ band.... ooooo) 5) Sex Kills 6)Amelia 7) Hapiness is better than a face lift (sorry....title ????) 8) HEIJIRA ( I flew out of the room....) 9) MAGDALINA........ 10)DEATH TROUBLE AND TAXES ???? with a butt in hand, haha, no smoking in this place........ hahahaha 11) Then comes love? LOVE COMES/ COMES love- awesome 12) Encore : WOODSTOCK (without people talking loudly ,this time.......) Joni Played and Imitated Bob Dylan at the beginning of the show, very funny , until she was so distracted by the rude fans...... milling about , she said " OH no noooooo Joni, we dont wanna dooooo that.......(imitating BOB) the mix was great, she was beautiful..though.. "FLU- ish"
(From:KCooper984@aol.com)-Hi Everyone!
I'm coming out from the quiet corner of lurking to say that I went to the Rochester concert last night! It was great! I had great seats centered on the floor about 12 rows back. The setlist was the same as Syracuse minus Don Juan's Reckless Daughter. I watched most of the concert through the eyes of binoculars and saw every expression and every move. I was in Joni heaven!
Joni came out in a two piece dark green (velour?, soft, cozy looking material.) It was a two piece outfit with a long skirt and she had a gray shirt on underneath. She also sported her trademark silver belt as well as silver nail polish. Joni also set her hair for the occasion. She looked so beautiful!
After the first song she started Just Like This Train and then stopped playing. She started to complain about all the people milling about....in other words get in your chairs or leave! (not her words...mine) She said it was very distracting! (I was waiting for her to start shouting obscenities, but she refrained from that!!!) She looked very tired too. The first couple of songs she looked as though she was straining to do her best. At the end of the song through the binoculars I even saw the looks she gave Larry and the other band members. At the end of Just Like this Train she smiled at Larry and she walked over and put her head onto his shoulder. He gave her this encouraging look which I interpreted as "You can do this,Joan. You're fine. You can get through this." It was so touching. Later in the concert she apologized for her voice because she said she had the flu...........although she still did light up her cigarette for Trouble Man and Comes Love! Her speaking voice sounded more hoarse but her singing voice sounded great to me. I just love her voice's progression of sound over the years.
After she got into a few songs she looked more into it. I was impressed with the rest of the band as well. I've always liked how Larry compliments her but I really liked Brian Blade. He really is a wonderful addition to Joni's sound and played out emotion.
Joni didn't talk alot either before the songs. She talked about the traveling songs going across the country from Hejira and Amelia. Guys shouted out "We love you, Joni" and she said "Thank you". Someone else screamed "Happy Birthday" and she also said "yeah, it's Friday!" At the end of the concert before her encore of Woodstock she said that the crowd had been very "warm". At the end of Woodstock before she left the stage she made some comment about "innocence renewed." I don't have an actual quote but I'm hoping someone will know what she said. It was beautiful.
There were two people behind me that were definately there to watch Bob Dylan and talked throughout the set. The guy next to me turned and told them to be quiet! During the break between the Joni and Bob set the people behind me started asking me if I was a Joni fan. One of the girls was mouthy and said that she didn't like Joni's attitude....(when Joni stopped the song to tell the people to sit down) You definately could see the difference between the two sets because the Bob Dylan crowd was a lot more rowdy. I had floor seats and everyone remained seated for the most part when Joni played. When Bob came out most people were standing or trying to get up front.(I would have loved to have gone forward to get right up close to Joni but didn't for fear of a reprimand!!!!)
I am so happy that I got to see Joni for the second time. I was so happy to hear her sing Amelia again which touched me so. I have to say each song I enjoyed but I really felt Joni arrived when she sang Trouble Man and Comes Love. She was hot! You could just feel the energy and the electricity through these songs. She was brilliant. Thank you Joni for coming to Rochester again. I love you!
(From:Thomas.Sheehan@usa.xerox.com)-Joan Mitchell 11/3/98 Rochester Blue Cross Arena
Straining against late-comers, a cold, and the third venue in as many days, Ms. Mitchell appeared. The audience cheered wildly. She opened with the almost obligatory "Big Yellow Taxi". She then began struggling with "This Train". Voice frail and cracking, she managed several bars then stopped abruptly with an admonishment that seemed biblical in force. As if issuing a commandment she advised, "OK, I'm having trouble concentrating with all this movement. Move in or move out, I'll give you a minute..." Five seconds of shocked silence dissolved into applause for her commandment, 'Thou shalt not move'. After another 30 stomach-turning seconds, she resumed. I think the audience would have understood and appreciated an up front admission from Joan regarding her health. They were a bit put off by the stern notice she blurted, though sometimes that may be a good way to quiet things down.
But the struggle continued during "Harry's House". I leaned to my sister and said, "She's on the edge, we could lose her any minute". Upon finishing the song she retreated several steps from the lights. With the binoculars I saw her troubled face as she shook her head toward bassist (and ex-husband) Larry Klein. He moved to her and patted her on the arm. She moved forward into the lights...and the show went on. It was still tense and touchy, but began to heat up when "Black Crow" exploded from the stage. When that was cheered, she took the mike and introduced the band: Brain Blade on drums, Larry Klein on Bass, Chris Botti on horns, and Greg Liesz on guitars. Then she offered what almost sounded like an apology, "I'm sorry for my honky tone tonight..." -"We love you!" a scream advised- ... "thanks, I just got this bad cold." She told the story of her 1976 trip back across the country to California during which the Hejira songs were born. She then rendered "Amelia" in a slow and less enveloping style than the original. But "Hejira" came through strong.
I don't clearly remember the order of the songs, but I think she then did "Magdalene Laundries" beautifully. "Happiness Is the Best Facelift" came off all right, and "Sex Kills" struck ominous and harsh as it should. Then she put down the VG-8, picked up the inevitable cigarette and launched into two songs, "Trouble Man" and "Comes Love, Nothing Can Be Done", that peeled two layers of clothes from my back and melted the ice under the floor covering the rink. Wild applause. The band came together and took a long graceful bow, and exited. Joan was forced back for an encore. She returned saying, "Thank you, you've been very warm and appreciative. It's just that l feel I'm on the border of delirium with this flu... But we made it!" More applause as she finished with "Woodstock".
It was disappointing and just bad luck not hearing her at her best. Still, I happy to have seen one of the best composers and singers of our time.
Joan, come back to Rochester when you're well. And stop smokin' them butts! We'd like you around for another fifty years.
(From:smi2726@ibm.net)-Joni was sounding very stuffed up (but the voice was beautiful) and she said something about not being well and did a much shorter set than i have been reading about so far on this tour. however, i won't complain as this is the first i have seen her perform since '83 and just to actually SEE her sing is always a rare delight. i was left with the ghost of an ethereal presence who wafts in and then is gone. the voice and the sensibility are as familiar to me as my own name and yet to see the artist perform (or is it create?- yes, i prefer that term) is a rare thing i have only had 5 times in the 28 years i have been following this woman's output. i hope i don't have to wait 15 more years, but, if i do have to, i'll be there. bob dylan. had i known back in high school, ('70-'72), i would see these two on the same bill, i would not have been able to comprehend it. it would have been akin to seeing the beatles and the stones on the same show in '69. if you can imagine. this is the fourth time i've seen dylan in the last two years and he just blows me away. he just has this amazing body of work and he gets out and plays it. intensely. i almost wish joan would take this approach to performing but at the same time i appreciate the way that she doesn't. it's all the difference in the thickness of the skin and the sensibility and the priorities. you hadda be there.
(From:erhslib@monroe.edu)-Hey Wally -just discovered your page. Love it! I've got some impressions to add from the Rochester show. There was a bit of irony in the air for me. The events of the evening really made me feel old, and I'm only 30!! Here's the thing: I was there to see Joni. I've been a huge fan since my teen years, and never really expected to have the opportunity to see her live. We got the tickets online and landed 15th row floor. I'm a musician, and I attended with three other musicians. I consider Joni to be one of the true "artists" of the rock era, and I felt like it was a beautiful and rare opportunity to be inspired by someone who has achieved heights I can only dream of.
I'm not going to recap the music, as others before me have done a nice job of it. Suffice it to say that I was entranced by her performance in a way I haven't been since I was a teenager. Unfortunately, the evening as a whole was really marred by other members of the audience. Next to me and behind me was a group of college kids who were there to see Dylan. They spent most of Joni's set talking and smoking. I guess I'm kind of a rabid non-smoker, but the fact is the arena is no smoking and most of us there were happily enjoying the clean air. As soon as the lights went down, the kids lit up. I asked them nicely to not smoke and they got all belligerent about it and looked at me like I must be some kind of tight-ass Republican country club lizard type and proceeded to spend most of the rest of the set blowing smoke in my direction and whining about jerks like me who don't want them to have a good time.
The irony here is that in doing so they prevented me from having the good time I had hoped for. It never ceases to amaze me how the nicotine addiction can make otherwise intelligent people into sniveling whiny punks (but I'm not bitter, really....). I even had to laugh when Joni lit up for her torch songs (WHEN is she going to do an album of this stuff??? fabulous...) and I heard a chorus of "gee, it's alright for her so I guess it's alright for us" from behind me. I guess they weren't sophisticated enough to recognize a stage prop when they saw one.
So anyway, by the time Dylan came on I had developed a pretty good headache and we wound up leaving about four songs in. Gotta be honest, legend or no, the guy is a very average guitarist and a lousy singer. Anyway, my point in all this whining is that despite their common ancestry in the folk scene of the 60's, Joni and Bob attract very different audiences. She is a stellar performer and a consummate artist and deserved to be presented in a more subdued and yea, even reverent setting. Perhaps if some other young folks (ach! the irony) read this they'll be a little more considerate next time they see some old duffers like me at a show. I promise to leave before the mosh pit gets going.
Rock & Roll Librarian


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The 'Ryder Cup' has evolved into one of the most revered and eagerly anticipated global sports events. The three-day event, beginning this year on 28 September, has become synonymous with unwavering passion, bitter rivalry and partisan atmosphere. Amidst raucous crowds, European players compete ferociously against their American counterparts and vice-versa. In the heat of intense battle, some golfers rise to the occasion and play beyond their usual limits, whilst others falter and shrivel up in the proverbial pressure cooker. For one week biennially, players and fans abandon their typically restrained decorum and let loose amongst unparalleled excitement and drama. Put simply the 'Ryder Cup' is a golf competition, but not as you know it.
An event steeped in rich history, 'Team USA' dominated the early 'Ryder Cup' encounters against their British and Irish opponents. But since their opposition was expanded to include the whole of Europe, this US dominance was first arrested and then entirely reversed. Whilst the USA may be the current holders, Europe have won eight of the last eleven ties and the US are without a win on European soil since 1993. Evidently, the magnitude of the task facing the current US team is significant notwithstanding that they do appear a stronger and more unified outfit this time round.
Central to the hype and anticipation surrounding the upcoming Europe/ US battle is the compelling evolution of both sides' structures and systems. The respective teams have learned from past mistakes and remodelled their qualification processes to ensure that the best twelve players were ultimately selected this time round. For example, there was no repeat of Billy Horschel's omission in 2014, where the then recently crowned FedEx Cup champion was left out of the US team due to Captain Tom Watson selecting his wildcards before the Playoff events. Horschel duly won two of these events and was the most in-form player on the planet, and his absence substantially hindered the US team. However, such a scenario could not arise again given that both sides pushed back announcing their wildcards until the first week in September. Moreover, increasing the number of picks to four allowed each Captain to attain his desired blend of form and experience, whilst the reweighting of the qualification points system to favour more recent events precluded players from hanging on to a place based on good results from nearly a year previous, à la Andy Sullivan in 2016.
Furthermore, the efforts of Keith Pelley (CEO of 'The European Tour') in incentivising US-based European players, like Paul Casey, to become eligible for 'Ryder Cup' selection meant such top players could once more qualify for and, no doubt, bolster 'Team Europe'. Essentially, both teams' improved systems eliminated the prospect of having unwanted absentees and has ensured both teams will arrive in Paris with their best possible consortium.
'Team USA' are the undisputed favourites to lift the coveted golden trophy. Nine of its players are major champions, with all of them occupying places in the top twenty-five of the world rankings. Utterly dominant in the most recent Ryder and President's Cups, the Americans appear to have found a camaraderie and togetherness unmatched even by the renowned European spirit. The establishment and implementation of the 'Task Force' (in which US golfing icons collaborate and pool knowledge to decide on policy and strategy) has worked tremendously and transformed the dynamic of 'Team USA' to embody positivity, harmony and high-achievement. The US have found a template which allows their stars to blossom and, aided by the resurgence of the great Tiger Woods, will be formidable opponents.
The European side does not possess the same depth of talent as their US counterparts. Nevertheless, global superstars Rory McIlroy, Justin Rose and Francesco Molinari will command the respect of any opponent, whilst the emergence of Jon Rahm, a truly world-class player, in the last two years is a major boost to European hopes. With five rookies on the team, Captain Thomas Bjorn's selection of Garcia, Stenson, Casey and Poulter as wildcards will lend valuable experience to complement his novices' youthful exuberance. Undoubtedly, Bjorn will hope that the very tight and highly challenging layout at 'Le Golf National' will work to his team's advantage. The golf course rewards accuracy and precision; qualities which his team have in abundance and which are sometimes lacking from the all-out power game of the American players. Consistent, pure ball-striking is of particular importance in the foursomes matches and, as in 2010 and 2014, the Europeans must dominate these sessions to stand any chance of victory.
The 'Ryder Cup' is a truly unique sports event which rarely fails to match the anticipation and hype it engenders. But the modern-day meticulous planning and preparation makes this upcoming edition feel even extra special. Both sides have exhausted all avenues to give themselves the best possible chance of securing victory and, whilst the US have the stronger personnel, Europe will be confident that the the likes of Poulter and Garcia will once more lift their games to levels rarely seen outside of this biennial competition. Moreover, the boisterous European crowd will do all they can to motivate their heroes and test the temperament of the US players. Such intangible, variable factors like passion and intensity render predicting outcomes virtually impossible. The only thing guaranteed is high-level drama and unrivalled sporting theatre. And so, may the curtain soon descend on 'The Greatest Show on Earth.'
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And today I finally got the SMS levels checked out. Good chuck went into debugging my flashing hardware which turned out to be faulty in the end.
I got measuremests from SMS1, SMS2, MD1 and MD2.
MD1 and 2 produced same results, SMS1 and 2 I had a bit of different measurement points. The usual point at voltage divider gave huge DC offset on SMS2 and I couldn't do measurements properly because of it so I measured the VDP output instead.
Note that the MD measuremests DO NOT match any of the MD native mode output, there is some analog trickery going on or there's separate DACs used for SMS mode output.
TmEE co.(TM) wrote: Note that the MD measuremests DO NOT match any of the MD native mode output, there is some analog trickery going on or there's separate DACs used for SMS mode output.
...actually, that'd make sense if the VDP needs to use different levels in mode 4.


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Leonid Soybelman (born 20 July 1966 in Balti, USSR (now Moldova)) Leonoid is a Berlin-based musician and film composer, leader of the band Ne Zhdali. The guitarist and singer, he also collaborated with Alec Kopyt in the "Poza" project, with bands Auktyon,  The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet and many others. His musical style has roots from eastern European traditional Yiddish folk music, yet is played in more modern arrangements on the electric guitar, often accompanied by a band. His work, especially with Ne Zhdali, is well known in Russia and countries of the former Soviet Union.

Originally from Moldavia, he grew up in Tallinn, USSR (now Estonia), where he founded in the late 1980s the band Ne Zhdali together with his classmate Ilya Komarov. Later Soybelman moved to Berlin, Germany and Komarov to Zürich, Switzerland. In the 1990s they reunited with Ne Zhdali in Western Europe, continuing touring and producing new albums.

As frontman of "Kletka Red" he performed together with  Tony Buck, Andy Ex and Joe Williamson. Their album Hijacking was produced by John Zorn at his label Tzadik Records in the "Radical Jewish Culture" series.

Soybelman composed the music for the Czech film Something like happiness (Czech: Štěstí) 2005, portraying the melancholy lives of four friends who grew up together in the same block of flats in a former industrial town in northern Bohemia. The somewhat bleak backdrop of the film fits snugly with Soybelman's sombre and heartfelt music.

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AS HISTORY HAS SHOWN, ONLY A HANDFUL OF TECHNOLOGY TRENDS HAVE TRUE STAYING POWER. MANY INNOVATIONS – SOME SIGNIFICANT, SOME NOVEL – EVENTUALLY FADE FROM THE SCENE. BUT LOOKING TOWARDS 2019, ONE TREND LIKELY TO ENDURE IS THE GROWING IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) AND MACHINE LEARNING ON FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN AREAS SUCH AS CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE, RESEARCH AND ADVISORY, OPERATIONAL PROCESSES, COMPLIANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT.
The big change now is that we're moving rapidly from a world in which machines automate heavy lifting and 'muscle work,' to one in which algorithms conduct tasks requiring some level of cognitive skills – much like humans.
Given these changes, over the next few years financial institutions will apply an increasingly diverse range of algorithms to a broader set of service offerings, unleashing unimaginable efficiency gains, although these gains will be tempered by the inevitable upheaval from some jobs becoming redundant.
As ever, changes will occur at a breath-taking pace. For evidence of this pace, look no further than the recent history of Nokia and Apple. In 2007, Fortune magazine crowned the then telecommunications giant Nokia "the king of cell phones" on its front cover; meanwhile in California, Apple released the first generation iPhone. Come 2018, the market value of Apple crossed the US$1 trillion mark, iPhones are one of the dominant icons of the tech revolution and Microsoft (which acquired Nokia in 2014) has written off most of the acquisition price it paid for Nokia.
A key lesson from this is that the future, especially when it comes to technological advancements, is rarely linear, so it would be prudent not to take all of today's extrapolations into the future as a given. It took only eleven years for Nokia to go from the undisputed king of mobile, to being completely usurped by new entrants like Apple and Android phone makers.
The key ingredients of AI innovations are (1) data; (2) computing power; and (3) algorithms. Data in many ways is the hardest part as it tends to be inherently flawed and based on the structural biases from the past. The need for better, and cleaner data and more computing power requires significant amounts of capital.
To get a sense of where we're headed in the next few years, it's helpful to first look at the numbers.
The World Economic Forum, in a recent publication, estimates at least USD $58 billion in global AI investment by 2021, including USD $10 billion from financial institutions. These estimates represent a 48 percent CAGR in global cross-sector AI investment over that time-period.
As investment increases, the range of algorithms used for commercial purposes will also expand accordingly. There are two major groups of algorithms to consider: 'supervised' and 'unsupervised.' Supervised means input and output variables are clearly defined; the algorithms map patterns to make predictions within predetermined parameters. For unsupervised algorithms, outcomes are not clearly defined; algorithms are left on their own to decipher and decode trends in large data sets.
The following table sets out the different types of algorithms and some sample real life applications.
HOW CAN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS APPLY THESE ALGORITHMS OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS?
One place to start is client – or for retail banks, customer – feedback mapping. In the digital era customers often express their views of a bank's service on a range of social media platforms and websites. Given its volume, banks have no way of aggregating or analysing this data, and its value is lost.
Banks can use a range of algorithms, e.g. clustering, to draw insights from this data, such as how to improve service in a certain area, or to identify how certain customer or client segments experience or perceive a particular service category. This could not only drive better customer engagement, but could uncover new revenue growth opportunities as well.
Another area of AI application, particularly using Neural Networks, is the automation of customer assistance, for example in online banking services. Robots can solve customer problems by analysing user-specific problems and configuring tailor-made solutions.
Yet another area ripe for AI-driven innovation is in the area of equities or Investment Research. Millions of data points can feed into the assessment of a particular security – not only balance sheets and profitability ratios, but also social media feeds, conference calls, public statements by senior executives, and historical circumstances and context.
Given the volume of information, it is very challenging for a human analyst to distil such a large volume of data into a succinct conclusion in a short time. But in the blink of an eye, an Artificial Neural Network algorithm with Natural Language Understanding can synthesise millions of data points and generate inferences and conclusions in a report much like the one on Starbucks below.
Related to the above, Neural Network algorithms can also construct portfolios, including ETFs and other tradeable securities based on a series of risk-based inputs and commands. For example, "Companies with an elevated competition risk in China" generates the outputs shown in figure 4. AI can do this much quicker – and with a much higher degree of accuracy – than any human, even the brightest minds among us.
Where human brains are limited by capacity and processing speed, machines overcome this limitation by their ability to synthesise large amounts of data in very short time frames. This incredible speed differential is where AI and machine learning can complement human cognitive capabilities.
it is also wise to temper that excitement with a sober view of how AI can cause damage if it isn't managed properly. For example, high frequency trading algorithms can cause massive losses due to amplification of errors in machine time. We saw this play out in real life in 2012 when an AI-driven malfunction caused Knight Capital to incur USD $440 million in trading losses in mere minutes, leading to the firm's sudden and irreversible collapse.
As Weiner's Law puts it: Automation will routinely tidy up ordinary messes but will occasionally create an extraordinary mess.
As with any significant trend – especially one straight out of the pages of science fiction – a mixture of hype and hysteria surrounds AI evolution. But there's good news for professionals worried about being displaced by robots, and that is: As prediction and data analysis become cheaper, the value of human judgement increases.
The hope for humans in this new paradigm is in more nuanced and creative processes; circumstances in which the combination of AI and human abilities produces superior results.
The opportunities seem endless for more effective AI and human partnerships as we look into the next decade.
As a start, it is obvious financial institutions could benefit from image recognition applications that improve Security IDs and ease the burden of insurance claims. Meanwhile, AI natural language understanding could improve the accuracy and depth of investment research and trading, and also unleash new efficiencies within the legal and compliance disciplines.
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Brave Irene
A Picture Book
William Steig; Illustrated by the author
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Brave Irene is Irene Bobbin, the dressmaker's daughter. Her mother, Mrs. Bobbin, isn't feeling so well and can't possibly deliver the beautiful ball gown she's made for the duchess to wear that very evening. So plucky Irene volunteers to get the gown to the palace on time, in spite of the fierce snowstorm that's brewing-- quite an errand for a little girl.
But where there's a will, there's a way, as Irene proves in the danger-fraught adventure that follows. She must defy the wiles of the wicked wind, her most formidable opponent, and overcome many obstacles before she completes her mission. Surely, this winning heroine will inspire every child to cheer her on.
William Steig's Brave Irene is a 1986 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year.
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Praise for Brave Irene
"Despite a raging snowstorm, Irene, a dressmaker's daughter, offers to deliver the duchess's newly finished ball gown...With sure writing and well-composed, riveting art, Steig keeps readers with Irene every step of the long way." —Starred, Booklist
"One of Steig's simplest stories [and] one of his best, a tale that has the force of a legend." —Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"As an artist and as a storyteller for children, Steig stands alone. In such classics as Amos and Boris, The Amazing Bone, Doctor De Soto, and many others, Steig presents a unique vision of the world-- a place full of joy and grand adventure, where terrible evil exists and the powerful forces of nature rule, but where beauty and magic make life special and meaningful." —Diane Roback, Newsday
William Steig (1907-2003) was a cartoonist, illustrator and author of award-winning books for children, including Shrek!, on which the DreamWorks movies are based; the Caldecott Medal-winner Sylvester and the Magic Pebble; The Caldecott Honor book The Amazing Bone; and the Newbury Honor Books Abel's Island and Doctor De Soto. Stieg also published thirteen collections of drawings for adults, including The Lonely Ones, Male/Female, and Our Miserable Life.
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The Express Wins Six Awards in National Contest
by Express Staff
Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:55 AM
The Express has won six awards for journalism excellence in the Association of Alternative Newsmedia's 2014 national contest. The Express won the most awards of any alt-weekly in California, and tied for the third most honors nationwide among all alt-weeklies. In all, the Express took home one first-place, two second-place, and three third-place awards.
The Express Hires New Managing Editor and Music Editor
Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:41 AM
The Express is pleased to announce the hiring of Anna Pulley as the paper's new managing editor and Sam Lefebvre as its new music editor. In addition, longtime co-editor Robert Gammon is now the editor of the publication.
The Express Wins Nine Awards
Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 1:35 PM
The Express won nine awards for journalism excellence, including six first-place honors, in the 37th Annual Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards. The Express won the most awards overall and the most first place honors by any Bay Area weekly news publication. The awards were announced over the weekend by the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club.
Tuesday Must Reads: AC Transit Official Charged with Stealing Church Funds; Oakland Parks Consider Selling Naming Rights to Raise Money
by Robert Gammon
Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:08 AM
Media / Law Enforcement & Crime / Environment
Stories you shouldn't miss:
1. Prosecutors have charged AC Transit's chief financial officer, Lewis Clinton Jr., with felony theft and say he embezzled $500,000 from Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland, the Chron and Trib$ report. Clinton, who was arraigned Monday in court, is accused of using his position as board president of two church-run nonprofits that provide housing to low-income Oakland residents to steal money. The charges do not relate to his position with AC Transit, but the bus agency put Clinton on paid leave on Monday.
Federal Communications Commission Chair Comes to Oakland for First Town Hall
by Sam Levin
Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:16 AM
Two months after starting the job, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler is coming to Oakland this week for his first town hall meeting — a rare opportunity for the public and media advocates to speak directly to the head of an influential federal agency.
Voices for Internet Freedom, Center for Media Justice, Free Press, ColorOfChange, and the National Hispanic Media Coalition are hosting the event, titled, "Oakland Voices: A Town Hall on Our Right to Communicate." The program, which happens tomorrow from 7-9 p.m. at Nile Hall in Preservation Park, is sold out, but you can sign up for a waitlist here. The talk will also be live-streamed here.
"Too often, the media and telecommunication policy debates are dominated by corporate lobbyists," said Chancellar Williams, associate policy director of Free Press, who will emcee the event. "The most important thing for us is to really put a focus on the community."
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The Express Wins a National Journalism Award for Science Reporting
Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 2:50 PM
Media / Science & Technology
The Express has won a national award for journalism excellence in science reporting from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The paper won for Azeen Ghorayshi's May 1 cover story "Warning: Quake in 60 Seconds." Her in-depth report explored efforts by scientists at UC Berkeley to develop a statewide early warning system for earthquakes.
The Express Wins More Awards for Journalism Excellence
Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:59 PM
The Express has won two awards for journalism excellence from the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter. The paper won in the investigative journalism category for Darwin BondGraham's report "Public Research for Private Gain." The paper also won an award for arts and culture reporting for Ellen Cushing's story, "The Bacon-Wrapped Economy." Both awards were in the print/small newspaper division for publications with a circulation of less than 100,000.
Chronicle Needs to Correct Headline on Oakland Black Males Story
Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:36 PM
Media / Law Enforcement & Crime / Education
The San Francisco Chronicle is making big waves this week with its three-part series, highlighting the Oakland school district's innovative response to the problem of young black men being suspended, expelled, and dropping out of high school — at a time when so many black males are being killed each year in the city. The stories are well-done, and feature excellent photojournalism, but they contain a major error: The headline on the first story of the series "Even Odds" and the subheadlines on both the first and second stories are wildly inaccurate and grossly overstate the chances of a black male being killed in Oakland.
Three KTVU Producers Fired Over Asiana Pilot Name Blunder
by Kathleen Richards
Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:29 AM
Three veteran KTVU producers were fired yesterday over the on-air gaffe regarding the names of the Asiana Airlines pilots involved in the July 6 crash at SFO, reports San Francisco Chronicle's Matier & Ross. KTVU investigative producer Roland DeWolk, special projects producer Cristina Gastelu, and producer Brad Belstock were fired over the July 12 incident, in which anchor Tori Campbell read the obviously incorrect names "Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk and Bang Ding Ow," on air, even though the real names of the pilots had already been made public. Asiana Airlines threatened to sue the station over the blunder, but then dropped the idea.
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The Express Wins Two Awards in National Contest
Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:33 AM
The Express won two awards in the annual Association of Alternative Newsmedia contest, the results of which were announced last weekend. Contributor (and former music editor) Rachel Swan won a first-place award in the arts feature category for her cover story, "The Shrinking Stage," which detailed how Bay Area theater companies were forced to book one-person shows to save money during the recesssion. And co-editor Kathleen Richards won a third-place award in the long-form news category for her cover story, "How Much Garbage Does It Take to Treat a Patient?" Her report shed light on the fact that the medical industry has been slow to recycle.
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JetBlue ends service at Oakland Airport
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ICE subverts Bonta's private prison law
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Edward Ladd Betts
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Edward Ladd Betts (1815-1872) of Peto and Betts
1815 June 5th. Born at Bucklands, Dover, the son of William Betts (1790-1867) and his wife Elizabeth Hayward Ladd ( -1847)
1836 Resident supervisor for Hugh McIntosh on the construction of Dutton Viaduct[1]
1843 July 6th. Married Ann (1821-1861), the youngest daughter of William Peto, of Cannon Court, Cookham, Berks, and the sister of Samuel Morton Peto.[2]
1844 Birth of son Edward Peto Betts
1846 Birth of daughter Elizabeth Peto Betts
1847 Birth of son Morton Peto Betts
1849 Birth of daughter Alice Peto Betts
1850 Birth of son Ernest William Peto Betts
c1850 Bought a 'palatial residence', Preston Hall near Aylesford in Kent, and had it rebuilt in a Jacobean style, where he employed a staff of 18 in addition to his home at 29 Tavistock Square, London.
1851 Living at 29 Tavistock Square, London: Edward Ladd Betts (age 35 born Buckland, Kent), Engineer. With his wife Ann Betts (age 30 born Great Marlow) and their children Edward Peto Betts (age 6 born Wateringbury, Kent), Elizabeth Peto Betts (age 5 born St. Pancras), Morton Peto Betts (age 4 born St. Pancras), Alice Peto Betts (age 2 born Cookham), Ernest William Peto Betts (age 6 Months born Aylesford). Eight servants.[3]
1856 Birth of Percy Campbell Betts
1857 Birth of son Herbert Peto Betts
1858 Birth of daughter Annie Gertrude Betts
1861 Staying at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth: Edward Ladd Betts (age 45 born Buckland, Kent), Deputy Lieut. and Magistrate, Civil Engineer. With Ann Betts (age 40 born Great Marlow), Edward Peto Betts (age 16 born Wateringbury, Kent), and Elizabeth Peto Betts (age 15 born London).[4]
1866 Peto, Betts and Crampton had agreed to build a line between London Bridge and Victoria for the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, to be paid entirely in the company's shares and debentures. To raise the funds for construction they became involved in complicated finance-raising schemes but overstretched themselves. Consequently, they were probably the most prominent casualties of the collapse of the bank Overend, Gurney and Co and the ensuing banking crisis when railway stocks were particularly badly affected. They were unable to pay their creditors and became insolvent in the following year.
1867 Sir Samuel Morton Peto, Bart., Edward Ladd Betts, and Thomas Russell Crampton, all of Great George-street, Westminster, in the county of Middlesex, being Traders, and carrying on business in copartnership as Contractors for Constructing Public Works, and Builders, under the style or firm of Peto, Betts and Crampton, were adjudicated bankrupts on the 3rd day of July, 1867.[5]
1872 January 21st. Died at Aswan, Egypt
1872 Burial at Aylesford, Kent
1873 Obituary [6]
. . . born at Bucklands, near Dover, on the 5th of June, 1815. He was the eldest son of Mr. William Betts, of Sandown, Kent. At an early age he was apprenticed to a builder named Richardson, in Lincoln, and showed great aptitude for mechanical pursuits, having constructed a small working model of a steam-engine.
The first contract on which he was practically engaged, under the superintendence of his father, who was for many years associated with the eminent contractor, Mr. M'Intosh, was the erection of the Black Rock Lighthouse, near Beaumaris, North Wales.
On the completion of this work, when only eighteen years old, he superintended the construction of the Dutton Viaduct, on the Liverpool and Birmingham railway, at first under Mr. George Stephenson, and afterwards under his successor, the late Mr. Joseph Locke, M.P., Past-President Inst. C.E. This was a work of considerable magnitude, executed at a time when the facilities in use at the present day for carrying out such an undertaking were unknown.
From this period to the close of his life Mr. Betts was continually engaged in various railway works, many of which were of a difficult character, requiring organization of no ordinary nature, but for which his talents were peculiarly adapted.
The Midland railway from Rugby to Leicester, the South-Eastern from Reigate to Dover, the line from Paddock Wood to Maidstone, and the North Wales mineral railway from Chester to Wrexham, followed in rapid succession.
In the year 1845 Mr. Betts entered into a contract for the first section of the Chester and Holyhead, and the [[Mold Railway|Chester and Mold railways[[. These works, together with the line through the island of Anglesea to Holyhead, were carried out under the direction of the late Mr. A. M. Hoss, who was associated with the late Mr. Robert Stephenson, Past-President Inst. C.E.
On the completion of the last-named contract E. Betts entered into partnership with Sir S. Morton Peto, Bart., and constructed the Great Northern loop line from Peterborough, through Boston, Lincoln, and Gainsborough, to Doncaster ; the East Lincolnshire railway from Boston to Louth; the Oxford and Birmingham; the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton; the Great Southern of Buenos Ayres; and the Dunaburg and Witepsk railway, in Russia; also the line from Algiers to Bledah, for the French Government, and many smaller works, including the Netherlands land drainage.
It was at the suggestion of Sir S. Morton Peto, during the war in the Crimea, that the English Government was induced to give an order for the construction of a railway from Balaclava to the camp, for the purpose of conveying material and ammunition for the siege of Sebastopol. Mr. Betts undertook the entire organization of this important enterprise, and with such energy, that in a few weeks from its commencement the line was in working order.
Many large and important works were executed by Messrs. Peto and Betts in connection with the late Mr. Brassey. The Grand Trunk Railway of Canada (including the Victoria Tubular Bridge across the River St. Lawrence at Montreal) may be mentioned as one of great magnitude.
The Jutland and North and South Schleswig railways, in Denmark; the Lyons and Avignon, in France; the Tilbury and Southend; the Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester ; the South London and Crystal Palace railways; the Victoria (London) Docks; the Thames Graving Docks ; and many other works, were successfully carried to completion, principally under Mr. Betts' personal supervision. The firm of Peto and Betts, in partnership with Mr. Crampton, constructed the whole of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, including two bridges across the Thames. Those only who are practically acquainted with the execution of large works, requiring constant and unremitting attention, can in any measure appreciate the amount of energy and mental labour expended by Mr. Betts on these various enterprises.
Mr. Betts was elected an Associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers the 26th of June, 1849.
In 1851 and l852 he filled the office of Chairman of the Eastern Counties Railway Company. This was a period of great anxiety to him, and a strike of the engine-drivers employed on the line added to the difficulties of the management. His vigour and determination were never more forcibly shown than on this occasion, when he not only completely suppressed the movement, and prevented it extending to other railways (as it was feared it might), but at the same time carried on the traffic with little interruption.
An accident, which affected his eyesight, compelled him to resign the position he had held with so much benefit to the company.
Mr. Betts married, in 1843, the youngest daughter of William Peto, of Cookham, Berks.
He was a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for the county of Kent, and in 1858 served as high sheriff for that county. In the year 1865 he contested the representation of Maidstone in the Conservative interest. . . .
↑ A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and ..., Volume 1 edited by A. W. Skempton
↑ Reading Mercury - Saturday 08 July 1843
↑ London Gazette 10 July 1868
↑ 1873 Institution of Civil Engineers: Obituaries
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Q: Question about square-wheeled cars It's kind of an infamous problem in differential equations to find the correct road surface so that a car with square wheels (and an axle located in the center) keeps its axle level as it drives along.  I hope I won't offend anybody by saying that one smooth piece of the solution (for a wheel with sides of length 2) is $y = -\cosh(x)$
If you actually take this solution and describe the position of the axle at any given point, unless I have calculated incorrectly you find that the axle is always positioned directly over the point where the wheel makes contact with the road.  I've been unable to come up with a physical justification of this phenomenon and it seems fairly non-obvious to me.
Is there a straightforward reason why this must be true?  Is it specific to this wheel shape?

A: The physical justification is quite simple. The point of contact between the wheel and the road is instantaneously stationary. Since the wheel moves rigidly, the velocity of any point on the wheel is as though the wheel were rotating about the point of contact. In particular, the velocity of the axle is perpendicular to the line joining it to the point of contact. Since we require that the axle stays level, it velocity must be purely horizontal, so it has to be directly above the contact point.

A: Quite an exposition is in Stan Wagon's paper  If you look at Fig 13, it appears that the axle of the ellipse is not over the contact point.

A: This is supposed to be in reply to Rahul's second comment, but it got too long.
I would suppose that the requirement of Hall and Wagon for the axle to have the same horizontal displacement as the contact point of the road and wheel is a generalization of the concept of a circle rolling on a line. In that situation it is obvious that the axle is indeed directly above the point of contact.
Remember that rolling without slip can be decomposed as a translation, followed by a rotation, and then another translation.
For the case of the wheel parametrically defined as $(x\qquad y)^T=(\sin\;t\qquad 1-\cos\;t)^T$, the axle is initially at $(0\;1)^T$. If we look at the expression
$$\bigl(\begin{smallmatrix}t\\0\end{smallmatrix}\bigr)+\bigl(\begin{smallmatrix}\cos\;t&\sin\;t\\-\sin\;t&\cos\;t\end{smallmatrix}\bigr)\cdot\left(\bigl(\begin{smallmatrix}0\\1\end{smallmatrix}\bigr)-\bigl(\begin{smallmatrix}\sin\;t\\1-\cos\;t\end{smallmatrix}\bigr)\right)$$
(in English: translate axle to the point on the circle that would be the future point of contact of the circle with the road, rotate by some angle, and then translate by an amount equal to the length of the arc subtended by said angle horizontally)
we find that this whole mess simplifies to the vector $(t\qquad 1)^T$ which indeed has the same x-coordinate as the current point of contact $(t\qquad 0)$.

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The Man Who Killed 99 People
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Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri {May Allah be pleased with him} reported that the Prophet of Allah {Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him} said:
"There was a man from among a nation before you who killed ninety-nine people and then made an inquiry about the most learned person on the earth. He was directed to a monk. He came to him and told him that he had killed ninety-nine people and asked him if therewas any chance for his repentance to be accepted. He replied in the negative and the man killed him also completing one hundred. He then asked about the most learned man in the earth. He was directed to a scholar. He told him that he had killed one hundred people and asked him if there was any chance for his repentance to be accepted. He replied in the affirmative and asked, `Who stands between you and repentance? Go to such and such land; there (you will find) people devoted to prayer and worship of Allah, join them in worship, and do not come back to your land because it is an evil place.' So he went away and hardly had he covered half the distance when death overtook him; and there was a dispute between the angels of mercy and the angels of torment. The angels of mercy pleaded, 'This man has come with a repenting heart to Allah,' and the angels of punishment argued, 'He never did a virtuous deed in his life.' Then there appeared another angel in the form of a human being and the contending angels agreed to make him arbiter between them. He said, `Measure the distance between the two lands. He will be considered belonging to the land to which he is nearer.' They measured and found him closer to the land (land of piety) where he intended to go, and so the angels of mercy collected his soul".
{Sahih Bukhari & Muslim ~ Riyadus Saliheen ~ The Book Of Miscellany Chapter 2}
In another version:
"He was found to be nearer to the locality of the pious by a cubit and was thus included among them".
Another version says:
"Allah commanded (the land which he wanted to leave) to move away and commanded the other land (his destination) to draw nearer and then He said: 'Now measure the distance between them.' It was found that he was nearer to his goal by a hand's span and was thus forgiven."
It is also narrated that he drew closer by a slight movement on his chest.
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