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What is the most popular digital marketing technology in 2018?
So it's hard to describe them as a new trend or innovation. However, technologies such as large data and analysis, content marketing and automated email / marketing continue to grow very important and will be used by many big and small businesses. We also take marketing machine learning as a new trend. It seems Nang's trend this year, he's going to be the theme of integration. In our Digital Marketing Management study using AI – Artificial Intelligence (another free download), you can see that only 6% of companies think their merging process is fully optimized, but many aggressively aggregate. Our visuals can help you use a variety of tools throughout your customer's lifecycle to plan, manage, and optimize your digital marketing strategies: All these will cover in our HRDF Claimable Digital Marketing Course!
Get ready to get feedback faster – and make changes faster – Maximize your digital marketing results? You have all the strategies you need to grow your hacker.In the first part of the course, you will gain important "full image" skills, including developing your clients, interviewing your target market, and analyzing your "Buyer Center" (your purchasing power in the most targeted markets Strong person). Next, you will learn how to analyze your results. Try any hacker attack and you always want to know what it is to work, where it works, and what needs to be changed. To do this, you need digital marketing tools such as website traffic analytics and lean analytics. Finally, you'll find a very effective tool to take the burden of new clients – rich people on your online ecosystem. This includes the concept of digital transformation funnels, lifetime customer value (LTV), and customer acquisition costs (CAC).
Fortunately, in the last 15 to 20 years, they have followed some of the most dramatic changes in digital marketing and technology. I believe you will be able to enjoy life, follow and change these changes. Remember that we look at organic search, then pay, and then the staggering social media growth and incredible growth that's happening around the world, especially for smartphones.
Which market trends will be the most important to you and your business in 2018?
Not surprisingly, to look at the top of content marketing, because in every year we run this survey, it's the top three. We look at content marketing as "participation" fuel for all digital communications from search to social marketing to email marketing and to create a converted web experience. Our Content Marketing Toolbox is very popular as members want to learn more organized ways to map content to people in a customer's journey.
Even more surprising is that Big Data is in second place. I think this is because marketers are aware of the potential of using data, which we call "operational insights." To help decide which technology to choose, we expand the short tags we see in some surveys to better define the scope of the response. Big Data is a vague term, but as we broaden our definition of input and prediction analysis, it demonstrates the value of large data-specific marketing techniques, which helps explain why this does not exist.
Ranked third in the artificial intelligence and machine learning. We added this interest in this year's survey and continue to rank third. It is good to look at the interest in these technologies, and this year we learned a lot from our blogs and expert resources. In our eighth trend, we showed how to map different AI technologies to the customer's lifecycle.
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There is no new top marketing technology, so it's hard to describe it as a new trend or innovation. However, technologies such as large data and analysis, content marketing and automated email / marketing continue to grow very important and will be used by many businesses. So when we look at the trend this year 2018, we will focus on integration. In our review of Digital Marketing Management (other free member downloads) you can see that only 6% of companies think their merging process is fully optimized, but many aggressively combine. Well, let's look at 10 trends. In these predictions you will see that I will refer to both human learning and machine learning. This is the biggest trend I think will be considered next year. There are many festivals in 2017 and we are beginning to understand this opportunity. By 2018, there will be more choices for solutions and implementation.
Well, let's look at 10 trends. In these predictions you will see that I will refer to both human learning and machine learning. This is the biggest trend I think will be considered next year. There are many festivals in 2017 and we are beginning to understand this opportunity. By 2018, there will be more choices for solutions and implementation. To support this, I would like to think about how to improve the effectiveness of digital marketing by thinking from a customer perspective about the opportunities available for different types of business through the customer lifecycle. We designed this thinking tool to help experts figure out all potential point of contact on all paid, owned and accessible media. You can then "gap analyze" the use and effectiveness of life cycle communications you use to improve the relevance and responsiveness of your communications.
In view of the increased complexity of digital marketing and marketing, technologies such as customer travel mapping for different people are increasingly important to help identify the most relevant communications and experiences for different touch points in a customer journey.To support this, I would like to think about how to improve the effectiveness of digital marketing by looking at the customer's perspective on communication opportunities available for different types of businesses during customer lifecycle. Create managed communications or relationship strategies to prioritize and integrate various marketing communications and experience networks to support customer prospects and acquisitions using techniques such as personal perception and persuasive reconstruction. We designed this thinking tool to help the thinker pass all the potential points of contact in the paid, owned and acquired media. You can then "gap analyze" the use and effectiveness of the lifecycle you use to improve the relevance and responsiveness of communication.
In order to improve the relevance and responsiveness of the communication, the website's personality has been widely used for electronic commerce for a long time, such as retail, travel and finance services. Recently, using a variety of solutions has led to lower price options. Various network personalities can take different forms. The customized options of SaaS customization integrated into analytic solutions can be integrated with your CMS and Analyze integration.
Personalization can also be used throughout the e-mail life cycle. However, our survey of email marketing shows that despite the widespread use of e-mail and marketing automation systems, many companies are unable to provide a complete life-cycle system, as shown in the visual life cycle above. We evaluate e-mail segments and locations based on the standard number of non-existent to dynamic content usage.
The results of our email marketing status report surprising: half (50%) did not use any goals, less than one-third (29%) targeted using basic categories, less than 15% segmentation rules and personalized use Specific audiences in the database . This means that they may have missed the opportunity to automatically send email with dynamic content to meet and develop prospects and customers. Although email marketing automation is another technique for more artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. Using machine learning offers the opportunity to automate the location as it does for web personalization. However, personality may be more difficult because of more complicated email ideas. These figures show that many businesses are not ready to use AI and machine learning in e-mail marketing, and they need to use the basic triggering automation feature first.
The growing use of messaging applications is a trend that we mentioned in previous trends. According to a recent survey by Market Ofcom Communications, more than half of mobile users use Facebook Messenger (61%) and half use WhatsApp (50%). Both of these properties are owned by Facebook. Snapchat mobile apps reach 28% and have 10.1 million unique visitors. We saw some early adopters of this social messaging application marketing application in Smart Insights. Examples include Pizza Hut reservation desk using Messenger and IKEA customer inquiries.
Videos are also increasingly encouraged by the community. The breakdown of Google's popularity shows YouTube's dominance. We have said that YouTube is the second-largest search engine, but this figure shows that it is now more popular with Google Search than the number of users per month (also via comScore Ofcom panel). This visual reminder gives us the opportunity to use video marketing (with just one option, Google has 10 video ad choices), site descriptive ads, and video redirects through the lifecycle of our customers' pre-roll ads on YouTube. Reality and virtual reality are closely related to video interaction, but even though we track this point, we see fewer examples and case studies this year.
Video is just one type of content, although important. Content marketing has become a hit in the past when it came to evaluating the technologies that will make the biggest future improvements. The trend I see here is that businesses are increasingly looking to content as a source of strategy, which means using different media shown in the lifecycle diagram above to develop a client engagement strategy and, at the practical level, using content such as perceptions for different audiences And content mapping technology. Our research shows that this customer-centric analytics technology is becoming more and more important and should be a good thing for both consumers and businesses!
If we look at top digital sales channels, search marketing dominates. Social media is lagging behind most industries, though it remains popular among consumers. Now that we know that in many industries, social media can be a great way for your audience to understand your brand, improve your sense of well-being, and your awareness, but usually do not drive sales or sales. So I did not give my own part to social media, though integration is still relevant to other channels like web, search and email marketing.
In natural search, the trend marketers should be aware of is the SERP look and feel, as shown by Mozcast's SERPs feature update showing the types of links in the top 10k keywords they monitor. It shows the importance of technology, such as knowledge panels (local brands and businesses essential); related issues; rich features / snippets / quick answers and comments. We found that this change in the top three to five places can dramatically change the number of visits to search information. In AdWords, citing a list of new Google features shows more innovation. Much of the content moves around the report compared to the new mobile ad features of previous years, but there are new options like ECPC bidding and smart display campaigns. Here are examples of different types of Google learning machine, including automatic bidding based on Target CPA; auto-targeting means that your ads show you more of your building blocks (such as titles, descriptions, logos, and images) for most business and automated ads.
If you follow the marketing techniques, you will certainly see the landscape, which has more than 5,000 suppliers this year.
You might expect a trend toward increased use of marketing cloud, but our research shows that it is not widely used.
As we mentioned in this article, machine learning and artificial intelligence are one of the biggest trends here, see this article and the technical infographic for the entire life cycle.


For a long time, opening a preschool was a mere thought to Renee and Richard Goldman.
But today -- 2 1/2 years after they first began to search for a school building -- the Plantation couple's dreams are close to reality.
The Goldmans, both educators, anxiously await today's grand opening of their $1-million center here, called Another Generation Enterprises.
"We both had been working for other people for a long time and decided we wanted to do something together," said Renee, who has directed preschool centers in Pittsburgh and Akron, Ohio and taught kindergarten and elementary school here.
The couple saved about $60,000 over the years for the project and borrowed the remainder from a bank.
"This is a fulfillment of a dream," she said.
Construction crews have spent the past few weeks putting final touches on the building -- a circular, 10,000 square-foot structure on Oakland Park Boulevard near the northeast corner of Nob Hill Road.
Inside the building, eight classrooms meet at a central room, where parents and visitors can look on through windows.
A teaching team -- one head instructor, two teachers and two assistants -- will supervise every two classrooms, connected by a set of Dutch doors. The youngest children will begin courses at one end of the circle and will rotate to the other rooms as they grow older, Richard said.
Outside, a bike path wraps around the school, which has two fully equipped playgrounds.
At the center, Renee will put her expertise to work as the school's director, while Richard will stand by as a silent partner.
Richard, director of the Center for the Advancement of Education at Nova University, designed the first university-level master's program for day-care administrators there. During his career, he also has consulted for day-care centers throughout the country and written articles and five books for teachers.
The Goldmans say the center is unique, since unlike many child-care centers, 12 teachers with early childhood development training have been hired.
They point to a planned infant program for toddlers between 2 and 24 months.
"Few such programs exist at this level due to the cost of operation and the difficulty in locating trained staff," Renee said. "The care for children from 2 months to 2 years is the most critical need for working parents."
She said the rise in single-parent families and the need for both parents to work have increased the need for child care.
As such, the center will cater to infants and preschool children ages 2 to 5. The center also will have an afterschool program for kindergarten through fifth-grade students.
This year, the center will provide a summer camp for children ages 5 to 10 as well.
Within two years, the Goldmans expect the school to grow. They have outlined 14 potential programs -- ranging from grandparent programs, where elderly people would volunteer and act as role models for the children, to parent- effectiveness training programs.
Eventually, they hope to offer tutoring for students in kindergarten through high school, computer literacy training and college preparatory courses.
Though the center's $75-a-week price is higher than most day-care centers in the area -- which average $50 a week -- the Goldmans say they are not worried about attracting students.
Fifty youngsters already are registered for today's first set of classes. The Goldmans also have received nearly 350 inquiries about the program. And they say they are optimistic the school will be filled to its 200-student capacity by September.
For more information, call 749-1333.


A teen's alleged joy ride turned into Class A misdemeanor charges this afternoon after Ramapo PD arrested the youth for operating his vehicle on a local baseball field.
The Ramapo officer on patrol observed the vehicle being operated on the Orchard Hill Park Baseball Field at approximately 1:15 p.m.. The field was damaged as a result, RPD said.
The officer arrested the vehicle operator, an 18-year-old male from Suffern, and charged him with criminal mischief in the fourth degree, a Class A misdemeanor. He is currently being held in the Town of Ramapo Police lockup.


The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 3.1.0. This release is an API stable release for 3.1. 3.1 delivers a number of improvements to the 3.x release series.
A big part of 3.1 was making the ORM even more awesome than it already is.
// Later on after some logic has run.
// We can load additional associations.
// Find articles with no comments.
Mailers allow you to create reusable emails throughout your application. They can also be used to contain multiple email configurations in one location. This helps keep your code DRYer and keeps email configuration noise out of other areas in your application. See the Mailer Documentation for more information.
// Add a template with the help placeholder.
// Output some data as a table.
// Get a helper from a plugin.
// Get and use the Progress Helper.
CakePHP provides a Progress and Table helper that you can use to make your CLI tools look better.
The styling used in the application skeleton have been streamlined and offer improved rendering on smaller devices. In addition to cleaner visuals, bake templates have been updated to create cleaner markup as well.
The above screenshot gives you a taste of what the new default styles look like.
FlashComponent now stacks Flash messages created with the set() or __call() methods. This means that the structure in the Session for stored Flash messages has changed.
New configuration option storage has been added. It contains the storage class name that AuthComponent uses to store user record. By default SessionStorage is used. If using a stateless authenticator you should configure AuthComponent to use MemoryStorage instead.
You can now also configure AuthComponent to do the auth check before controller's beforeFilter() callback is run using the checkAuthIn configuration. This is particularly useful when using stateless authenticators.
RequestHandlerComponent now switches the layout and template based on the parsed extension or Accept-Type header in the beforeRender() callback instead of startup() callback.
The default mime-type used when sending requests has changed in HttpClient. Previously multipart/form-data would always be used. In 3.1, multipart/form-data is only used when file uploads are present. When there are no file uploads, application/x-www-form-urlencoded is used.
The default route class has been changed to DashedRoute in the cakephp/app repository. Your current code base is not affected by this, but it is recommended to use this route class from now on.
The breakpoint() helper function has been added. This function provides a snippet of code that can be put into eval() to trigger an interactive console.
Shell::dispatchShell() no longer outputs the welcome message from the dispatched shell.
You can now set _serialized to true for JsonView and XmlView to serialize all view variables instead of explicitly specifying them.
Time::fromNow() has been added. This method makes it easier to calculate differences from 'now'.
Time::i18nFormat() now supports non-gregorian calendars when formatting dates.
Validation::latitude(), and Validation::longitude() were added.
Validation::ascii(), Validation::utf8(), and Validation::isInteger() were added.
Cache::add() was ported from 2.x. This method allows you to atomically add data to a cache backend if the key did not already exist.
Time::listTimezones() now supports options to display timezone abbreviations.
Hash::get() now supports objects implementing ArrayAccess.
Hash::sort() supports case-insensitive sorting through a new ignoreCase option.
The SessionHelper has been deprecated. You can use $this->request->session() directly.
Instead of setting these properties on your controllers, you should set them using the ViewBuilder.
The 3.1 migration guide has a full list of all the changes in 3.1.0 and is recommended reading for those considering upgrading.
This will install the new core libraries, update bake and DebugKit. You should then address any deprecation warnings in your application, as deprecated features will be removed in the future. If you are using the default CSS provided with the application skeleton, you should also pull in the most recent CSS in cakephp/app as the default styling and bake templates have been refreshed.


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Wednesday Links!
* CFP: Reading Lovecraft in the 21st Century. CFP: JOSF Special Issue on Environmental Studies.
* I saw some tweets tweets last night that turned my head a bit on the statement from the Tiptree Motherboard. I feel very conflicted.
* Academics calling for a boycott against Disability and Society.
* The latest from the Marquette free speech tire fire: University, attorneys differ on 'permission' in demonstration policy.
* Student debt is transforming the American family.
* No child grows up wanting to be a management consultant, and the fact that high levels of educational achievement strongly correlate with becoming a management consultant doesn't mean people who become management consultants are any smarter than dental hygienists or taxi drivers or the unemployed. That's where any honest accounting of meritocracy has to land, but the author can't manage it.
* Wait — there are ethics in college admissions?
* U.S., France, Britain may be complicit in Yemen war crimes, U.N. report says.
* How Has Climate Change Affected Hurricane Dorian?
* How Does Waffle House Stay Open During Disasters?
* Incredible image of the devastating flooding in The Bahamas. Yellow lines are original coastline. Look at what's left. Dorian's incredible stall over the island of Grand Bahama appears to set a new record for the slowest moving major hurricane over any 24-hour period since records began in 1851. Climate change is slowing hurricanes. Our first images of Abaco from air.
Our first images of Abaco from air. pic.twitter.com/rPmXuKDrSD
— Travis C-Carroll (@TravisCC) September 3, 2019
* As Rising Heat Bakes U.S. Cities, The Poor Often Feel It Most. New Elevation Measure Shows Climate Change Could Quickly Swamp the Mekong Delta.
* All good news is also bad news: Joe Manchin Will Stay in the Senate Because He Could Become Its Most Powerful Member.
* The wild corruption of Trump's golf courses deserves more scrutiny. This Ireland one really is outrageously bad.
* Never a single misstep.
* The protesters engaged in a "rolling picket" on August 27, rallying at branches of HSBC, Vanguard, BlackRock, and Prudential in order to pressure the companies to divest from CoreCivic and GEO Group, which imprison immigrants for ICE.
* Under the law, a 16-year-old who has sex with a willing 13-year-old—a crime in Alabama, since the 13-year-old isn't old enough to consent—could also lose parental rights decades later if he ever has a child, says Gar Blume, a longtime attorney in Tuscaloosa who has received national honors for his work on juvenile law. "It is so broad," he says of the legislation, "that anybody ever convicted of a sex offense essentially is having their right to parenthood severely constrained, or there's the potential for that to occur." He described the law as "blatantly unconstitutional."
* Nation that never abolished slavery getting a little angsty about it.
* South Dakota had a Democratic senator four years ago.
* Democracy Dies From Bad Fact-Checking.
* The voting machines don't help, either.
* At least a little good news: North Carolina Court Says The State's Districts Are Illegal Partisan Gerrymanders. North Carolina Court Strikes Down Gerrymander, Citing Smoking Gun Evidence in the Hofeller Files.
* "I feel like my kids have been part of a huge massive experiment I have no control over."
This is literally every cohort of kids for the last forty years or more. Dumb fads sweep through again and again, chewing up valuable time in the ONE CHANCE that these kids have to get a basic education. https://t.co/Hl9jSiv8A0
— Adam Kotsko (@adamkotsko) September 3, 2019
* Neal Stephenson Wants To Tell Big Stories.
* Yeah, that sounds like a really bad show!
Richard Gere was set to star as one of two elderly Vietnam vets and best friends who find their monotonous lives upended when a woman they both loved 50 years ago is killed by a car. Their lifelong regrets and secrets collide with their resentment of today's self-absorbed millennials and the duo then go on a shooting spree.
* She spent more than $110,000 on drug rehab. Her son still died.
* In Flint, Schools Overwhelmed by Special Ed. Needs in Aftermath of Lead Crisis.
* Facing a labor shortage, restaurants are turning to on-demand services for line cooks, dishwashers and other trained workers.
* The app went down, so I couldn't unlock my car.
* "Ben & Jerry's new ice cream flavor is inspired by racism in the criminal justice system."
* Grenada's Revolution at 40.
* Never say die!
* A glossary of dirty tricks websites use against their readers.
* There is something inherently entertaining about the self-proclaimed defender of uncomfortable speech on college campuses coming unglued when he found a sentence on the Internet that he didn't like.
* Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.
* A review of Atwood's Handmaid's Tale sequel in the wild! I was told they weren't giving copies to reviewers. Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale Sequel Is Already Being Developed by Hulu.
* The Book of Prince.
* This is a hell of a thread. If you're concerned about unprovoked violence against peaceful demonstrators at political protests, you need to understand that the primary instigators of such violence are the police.
This is a hell of a thread. If you're concerned about unprovoked violence against peaceful demonstrators at political protests, you need to understand that the primary instigators of such violence are the police. https://t.co/SiwwLEh8jo
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) September 3, 2019
* And there's no idea so bad you can't make it worse.
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* CFP: SFRA 2017. CFP: 14th Annual Tolkien at UVM Conference. CFP: Toxic Fans. CFP: Whiteness and the American Superhero. CFP: The Gibson Critics Don't See. Call for Applications: R.D. Mullen Fellowships. CFP for MLA 2018: Creative Economies of Science Fiction. And also at MLA 18, the science fiction panel I'll be chairing: Satire and Science Fiction in Dystopian Times.
* This thread on Gene Roddenberry and Grace Lee Whitney makes some flat assertions that are actually just well-supported speculations, but is nonetheless is a shocking and dispiriting revisionist history of Trek that's well worth considering.
* The part I was born to play.
* Race and Zootopia.
* Rick & Morty and theodicy.
* Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data.
* The novel in the age of Obama.
* The Life-Changing Magic of Decluttering in a Post-Apocalyptic World.
* Aid in reverse: how poor countries develop rich countries.
* From my colleague Rebecca Nowacek: Don't Retreat. Teach Citizenship.
* Student evaluations: still bad.
* Keywords for the Age of Austerity: Alternative.
* I'm not normally one to defend college admin, but: Trade school fires president after he let homeless student stay in library during sub-zero weather.
* Without communism, there's something missing from dystopian stories.
* Junot Diaz remembers Octavia Butler.
* Legislation in two states seeks to end tenure at public colleges and universities. Missouri Lawmaker Who Wants to Eliminate Tenure Says It's 'Un-American.'
* The university as asylum. The university and the class system.
* The Changing English Major. The collapse of history as a discipline. A liberal arts college without English majors? Massive cuts at the University of Alberta.
* MLA Rejects Israel Boycott. MLA by the numbers (from the right).
* When a school hires adjuncts, where does the money go?
* UBI already exists for the 1%.
* 26, 171.
* Shockingly enough, legalizing murder means more murders.
* Bill Perry Is Terrified. Why Aren't You?
* Somali refugee in Milwaukee publishes book.
* When the homeless die, it's up to forensic investigators to find their families.
* The End of the Rural Hospital.
* Secrets of my success: Cracking a Joke at Work Can Make You Seem More Competent.
* The FBI has been using the Geek Squad as all-purpose informants.
* Trump Promised to Resign From His Companies — But There's No Record He's Done So. Congress moves to give away national lands, discounting billions in revenue. Mark Hamill, National Treasure. Searching for Time-Travelers on the Eve of the Trump Inauguration. Donald Trump, David Foster Wallace, and the hobbling of shame. A mere 34. It would be crazy not to impeach him. Keep America Great. Oh, you think? The DeVos Democrats. That'll solve it. Here's What You Can Do to Beat Trump. Preventing 2017 America from becoming like 1934 Germany: A watchlist. Philip K. Dick vs the Time of Trump. Here's what Sci-Fi Can Teach Us About Fascism. Stop making sense, or, writing in the age of Trump. The stories coming out of this White House are bananas. Watch this story. And this one! How jokes won the election. This is fine. This is fine. This is fine. This is fine. This is fine. This is fine. This is fine. This is fine. This is fine. This is fine. This is fine. This is fine. This is fine. UPDATE: This is fine.
* Seems legit.
* This one too.
* But this one takes the cake.
* Meanwhile, the 2020 Dem frontrunner…
* But Jeet Heer thinks we can do even worse.
* Democrats in the Wilderness. Oh, they've got this.
* The Electoral College Is Even Worse Than You Think. But it can always be worse.
* What Would Happen in the Minutes and Hours After North Korea Nuked the United States?
* The Obama speeches. A politics that surrenders every level of government to its opposition cannot win the future. It has already lost the present. But this was good.
* Want to Raise Successful Boys? Science Says Do This (But Their Schools Probably Won't).
* Teachers who drink and drinkers who teach.
* Bumblebee is first bee in continental US to be listed as endangered.
* The Suburbanization of the US Working Class.
* You Can Write a Best-Seller and Still Go Broke.
* Thousands of Skittles end up on an icy road. But that's not the surprising part.
* Forced to watch child porn for their job, Microsoft employees developed PTSD, they say. The people behind the AI curtain.
* Ha ha ha, he's the sheriff of my county, what a character, this is not frightening at all.
* Lessons from Octavia Butler: Surviving Trump.
* I still think every adult who let this get to trial should be utterly ashamed of themselves.
* MST3K is that for me. It saved my life, at least twice. There's no hyperbole in that declaration.
* Sherlock's bizarrely self-aware problem with women.
* About that biometric password you're born with and will never be able to change.
* Women only said 27% of the words in 2016's biggest movies.
* Most primate species are now threatened with extinction.
* Neanderthals were people too.
* When a Video-Game World Ends.
* Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich.
* Twilight of the cruelty factory circus.
* "We Will Miss Antibiotics When They're Gone."
* "Genderless Nipples account frustrates Instagram."
* Disability and as-seen-on-TV.
* Wolf-Sized Otters Prowled the World Six Million Years Ago.
* Not all that long ago, as the editor in chief of Gawker.com, Daulerio was among the most influential and feared figures in media. Now the forty-two-year-old is unemployed, his bank has frozen his life savings of $1,500, and a $1,200-per-month one-bedroom is all he can afford. He's renting here, he says, to be near the counselors and support network he has come to rely on lately.
* I still believe in Arrested Development Season Five.
* Your blast from the past: Prodigy Online's MadMaze.
* Superheroes and the kids today.
* Episode 8 has a name.
* Autism causes vaccines.
* And RIP, Mark Fisher. A memorial fund for his wife and son. His piece on depression.
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* In case you missed it yesterday: "Universities, Mismanagement, and Permanent Crisis."
* Chomsky: How America's Great University System Is Being Destroyed.
* "Faculty and Students Are Walking Out Today for Catholic Identity."
* CFP: Porn Studies Special Issue: Porn and Labour.
* Igbinedion's production company Igodo Films recently shared Oya: Rise of The Orishas in full online. They also revealed that the Oya project has been adapted for the silver screen with principal photography on the feature-length film version scheduled to begin later this year in Brazil. The London-based filmmaker shared in a recentinterview that he made the short film in order to prove that there is a market for sci-fi films revolving around African characters and storylines. In this regard, Oya joins Ethiopian post-apocalyptic flick Crumbs in forging a path for future film projects from the continent within the realm of speculative fiction. In addition to the full-length project, Oya's creators have also confirmed plans for a comic book adaptation of the film, which is currently available for pre-order.
* Neil Gaiman reviews Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant. Sounds bizarre and great.
* Study: Killers are less likely to be executed if their victims are black. What could explain it?
* First full body transplant is two years away, surgeon claims.
* London, the city that privatised itself to death.
* Once-homeless Baylor player ineligible, allegedly for accepting a place to live.
* How Facebook is changing the ways we feel.
* The creators of that (great!) Mighty Morphin Power Rangers fan film might be in trouble.
* Meanwhile everything old is new again: Duck Tales, Inspector Gadget, even Danger Mouse.
* The day we all feared is upon us.
* It's important that the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots succeed, either at achieving an outright ban or at sparking debate resulting in some other sensible and effective regulation. This is vital not just to prevent fully autonomous weapons from causing harm; an effective movement will also show us how to proactively ban other future military technology.
* Meet Your Republican 2016 Front-Runner.
* Canada, petrostate.
* Thousands of oil refinery workers are striking for safer working conditions. Their fight is central to the struggle against climate change.
* Choose Your Own Adventure: So You've Accidentally Gotten Pregnant in South Dakota.
* And xkcd maps the future and the past.
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Saturday!
* Malala Yousafzai charms Jon Stewart, confronts Obama, advocates socialism.
* Just another massive early-autumn blizzard in South Dakota, nothing to see here.
* New drug could prevent cell death from Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's.
* This Is Your Brain On Poetry.
* Professors and Adjuncts Unite, Win Raises, Job Security in First Contract.
* Boy, 15, kills himself after 'facing expulsion and being put on sex offender registry' for STREAKING at high school football game.
* There's No Crying at the Pee Wee Super Bowl: The Rigors of Youth Football. High School Football Coach Encourages Player To Shake Off Cognitive Impairment.
* Finally: House Members Announce New Path Forward to Open the Government through a Discharge Petition. Shutdown's Quiet Toll, From Idled Research to Closed Wallets. But the first thing we do, let's kill all the mice.
* Old continuity or I crash the economy: Bob Orci is reportedly talking to CBS about a new Star Trek TV series.
* Comedian pranks TedX at Drexel University.
* France's Ban On Fracking Is 'Absolute.'
* South Carolina Man Gets Off Thanks To 'Stand Your Ground' After Shooting And Killing Innocent Bystander.
* Living Man Told He Is Legally Dead By Court.
* I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss,.
* While we celebrate the ghouls and goblins of October, Elaine M. Will's webcomic Look Straight Ahead depicts a different sort of horror. High school senior Jeremy loses his connection with reality as he falls into the grips of bipolar disorder.
* …for the true and democratically minded critic, "technology" is just a slick, depoliticized euphemism for the neoliberal regime itself. To attack technology today is not to attack the Enlightenment – no, it is to attack neoliberalism itself.
* I'm taking a quick break from ignoring Glenn Beck to note how terrible a person Glenn Beck is.
* And a New California Law Will Allow Children More Than Two Legal Parents. As long as none of the parents is Glenn Beck, I'm on board.
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Six for Friday
* The dark side of dual enrollment. There's some interesting stuff here on how testing practices deform learning, too:
We talked a little bit about the class, her performance, and where she should go next. The student explained that my class is not compatible with her "learning method." She said that she prefers "that multiplying method, you know, where there are letters, A, B, C."
I said, "You mean, multiple choice?"
"Yes, that's the one," she said. "That's the method where I learn best. I'm good at figuring out which letters aren't the right ones."
She said she was good at multiple choice because she has learned to eliminate wrong answers and get the choices down to one or two and then make a good guess. She has transferred into Sam Houston State University with 65 credit hours (two years!) of "college" classes, all earned at a nearby community college. With possibly one exception (part of a math class), all her community-college classes used multiple choice. She said she didn't learn well with my "method."
This student spent 15 years of standardized tests learning how to discriminate between pre-presented choices — an utterly useless skill.
* Ideology vs. how random number generators work.
* Hollywood misogyny is somehow getting worse.
* Via Facebook: Genocide in South Dakota?
* Perry Anderson in New Left Review with a nice history of the two-party system in America.
* And Business Week has a capitalism-with-a-human-face profile of CostCo.
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Later Wednesday Night
* Occupy Durham: We Are the 99%.
* Genocide in South Dakota: In South Dakota, Native American children make up only 15 percent of the child population, yet they make up more than half the children in foster care. An NPR News investigation has found that the state is removing 700 native children every year, sometimes in questionable circumstances. According to a review of state records, it is also largely failing to place native children with their relatives or tribes.
According to state records, almost 90 percent of the kids in family foster care are in non-native homes or group care. (via)
* The astounding true story of how Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars so her advisor could receive a Nobel Prize.
* In 1961, the Amateur Athletic Union prohibited American women from competing officially in road races. When sympathetic race organizers allowed them entry, their results did not count. Even in the Olympics, women were not allowed to run more than a half-mile lest, it was believed, they would risk their femininity and reproductive health. The most alarmist officials warned that a woman who ran a more ambitious distance might cause her uterus to fall out. (via)
* And did McDonald's disgusting food lead to a decline in violent crime in America? The price was too high! The price was too high! (via)
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Where It's Going
A law under consideration in South Dakota would expand the definition of "justifiable homicide" to include killings that are intended to prevent harm to a fetus—a move that could make it legal to kill doctors who perform abortions. The Republican-backed legislation, House Bill 1171, has passed out of committee on a nine-to-three party-line vote, and is expected to face a floor vote in the state's GOP-dominated House of Representatives soon. Thanks Julie.
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The producer, Mervyn LeRoy, reportedly was very close to casting a man to play Toto. It sounds strange, but then again, is it any stranger than the rest of the cast?
It worked out well for the real Toto, (a girl named Terry), as she earned her owners $125 per week of filming. Not bad for a pup considering each Munchkin actor received only $50.


I first encountered Alexandra Pacula's big, bold, colorful paintings in 2009 at the Governors Island Art Fair. Since then, we have become friends, and I have had a chance to visit her studio in Bushwick as well. She was born in Poland, emigrated to the U.S. at the age of 14, studied painting with Julie Heffernan at Rutgers, and received her MFA from Montclair State. Last year Alexandra received a fellowship from the The New York Foundation for the Arts, and moved into a big studio in Dumbo, provided by the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. The Dumbo studio is where the following conversation took place. We discussed her intentions, her technique, and dragons.
Joe Heaps Nelson: One of the things about being a painter is you want to make paintings that will stand out, and you want to develop a style that is recognizably your own. I think you may have found your "thing". Tell me, Alexandra, what is your "thing"?
Alexandra Pacula: The style I have been working with and developing for the past 6 years I call Visual Intoxication. It's Visual Intoxication because it's enticing to the viewer. With brushwork, and vibrant colors, and seductive... They capture nightlife, the city at night. That in itself is pretty enticing. I want to capture that in my paintings.
Heaps: You do night paintings, mostly, and artificial light, the built environment. They are New York paintings, but what you don't see is people.
Pacula: It's not about people so much as the experience of the place, you just have to project your own vision. There are suggestions (of people), some shadows, but I want to concentrate more on the light.
Heaps: It brings you there. Whenever I am in Times Square at night, I think of you.
Pacula: Yeah, that's the thing, that's what I want. I want to capture that feeling, that craziness, that energy that's there. That overwhelming kind of atmosphere. You have so much light there that those paintings of Times Square are more vibrant.
Heaps: These are paintings based on photographs. Do you ever take pictures from a moving car, or a train? There is a lot of movement in these pictures.
Pacula: Sometimes I drive and take pictures, but a lot of times I just walk around, and I want them to be like snapshots. I take the picture as if someone just had their digital camera and was just walking around the town, and I use the ones that are not successful, like the ones you would throw out, because they are blurred. But I think that's the most significant thing, the blurred ones, the off-center ones, because they really show the moment, the energy of nightlife.
Heaps: Where the camera is moving, that gives you the opportunity to do some expressive and interesting brushwork.
Pacula: Definitely I am inspired by the light, the way the light is kind of painted on the photograph. So, that's what I want to paint, the light.
Heaps: Tell you what, I have been to your studio before, in Bushwick, but I have never seen one of your paintings under construction. Do you even use underpainting?
Pacula: When I paint, I look at the photograph, and when I start painting I lay it out, sketch it in with turpentine, and then I come in with really thick paint, and I start putting in all the finishes. On top of that, once it dries a little bit, I put in the light. Unless there's a specific area of light, then I'll do it from the beginning. On top of that, glazes, to make the painting glowing and really luminous.
Heaps (looking at paintings): They really draw you in. I guess you use pretty much pure color, though sometimes there is some white in there.
Pacula: I'm comfortable with oil paint, because I have been using it since I was 12, so I know how to create that glow.
Heaps: You come from Poland, right? How long have you lived in New York?
Pacula: I have been in New York for 19 years now. I was young when I came over, with my parents.
I want to talk about why I shoot digital. Basically I want to show our time, early 21st century. Right now everybody has digital cameras, and people take thousands of pictures, and that's how we see the world. People take a picture and look at the screen on the camera, instead of actually seeing the scene in front of them. Now we view the world through a digital image, a lot of the time.
Heaps: Does anybody even carry a sketchbook any more?
Pacula: Well, a couple people. In order to capture our day, I work from technology, digital imagery, viewing the world through a lens.
Heaps: Do you print these out, and then scale them up?
Pacula: Yeah, I print little pictures, but I don't want the paintings to be exact, or photorealism, at all. It's just a small reference. The shapes change. Once I start painting they become much more stylized, also they have much more of the painterly motion of the hand. They're not that tight.
Heaps: I think the paintings come across well in reproduction, but to me they look much better in real life, because it's so much about the vigorous brushwork.
Pacula: Yeah, they are pretty loose, and they're painterly.
Heaps: That saves them from falling into the trap of photorealism.
Pacula: Right. It becomes more expressionist, impressionist, and photorealist, a combination of the 3, in one painting.
Heaps: Still, the artificial light is really the subject of the painting. And I see that you love bright colors; you use the full spectrum of colors.
Pacula: It's about getting lost in your environment.
Pacula: Dazzled, that's what it is. That's the kind of Visual Intoxication I'm talking about.
[We discuss her idea for a giant painting which would surround the viewer. I mention that in the 19th century, there were 360 degree paintings, which would move, but I can't remember what they were called. The word I was seeking was "diorama".
Pacula: They are round, and they go as fast as you want, or as slow, also they go fast at first and it slows down and you get a different view of the image.
Heaps: That is fun, and unusual, because normally, paintings don't move.
Pacula: I wanted it to be kind of interactive.
Taylor James Pierce: It's about attack and decay. You can see each brushstroke. You hit the canvas and pull up. Do you make corrections, or is each brushstroke sacred?
Pacula: Yeah! Each brushstroke is sacred, but sometimes if I do a brushstroke and I'm not happy with it, I'll wipe it out and restart the whole process.
Heaps: But you would do it right away, and not wait until the next day.
Pacula: No, because my brushstrokes are pretty thick, even if I go over it with another brushstroke, there will be ghosts, and I don't want ghosts.
Heaps: Did that answer your question? Thank you sir. If you remember what that thing is called, call back!
Heaps: OK, Alexandra, tell me about this one!
Pacula: It's a piece I'm working on for Landfill Art, a project. I think about a thousand artists will be in it. It's organized by a guy from Pennsylvania. I'm doing it to bring awareness to all the garbage, we need to recycle it, do something with it, and clean up the world. There's going to be a big show and it's going to go on tour.
Heaps: This, too, is round. You are getting interested in round.
Pacula: Yeah, I didn't know what I was going to do when I signed up for it, then he sends me a hubcap, and I'm like, oh, cool. It's a round thing and it's got depth too, it's convex. I thought I would do a little spinning painting inside, it kind of looks like it rolled off the car, through the city. It gave me a chance to create a vortex.
Heaps: And this is even more abstract. This seems like it's going further in that direction. I can see what is up and what is down, but it kind of doesn't matter.
Heaps: Do you think about painting stuff that's not New York?
Heaps: Tell me about Poland. You are from Krakow. Do you remember any castles, or anything like that?
Pacula: There's a castle in Krakow, and there's a story of a dragon who lived in a cave, under it. He would steal virgins from the little town, when Krakow was a village, and bring them back and eat them. So everybody was really upset, and then there was a little kid, I think his name was Johnny, so he got a sheep and he filled it up with, kind of combustible, yellow stuff... What's in a bullet?
Heaps: In a bullet? Lead.
Pacula: Yeah, he filled it up with lead. So then he brings it to the dragon, and so the dragon eats it, and blows up! Because it had fire in it. Now there's a statue of the dragon outside the little cave and they blow smoke out of it. Every five minutes there's smoke coming out of the dragon.


A lightly oxidised Oolong from Taiwan. Processed by hand this tea is rolled into tight balls and is good for several infusions. The flavours released change with each infusion with fresh floral notes mixing with a very delicate sweetness. A tea to get to know slowly.


Speaking to BJP Karyakartas from Jaipur (Rural), Nawada, Ghaziabad, Hazaribagh, Arunachal West BJP via video conference, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi shared that few days back, the National Executive Meeting was held which was very productive and he was glad to witness the energy and enthusiasm of our Karyakartas.
Our message is very clear, and our Vijay Yatra till date proves that our strength lies in the Mantra 'Mera Booth Sabse Mazboot', said PM Modi while interacting with Karyakartas. 'Ajay Bharat, Atal Bharat' is a source of inspiration for all of us, he added furthermore.
Prime Minister Modi acknowledged the contribution of the BJP Karyakartas, he said the heights that BJP party has managed to reach today is credited to all our Karyakartas. This is a result of their sheer commitment.
Attacking the opposition, the PM said many times I feel pity for the numerous Congress party workers, who have struggled and worked on ground level; I empathize with them. Their struggles and compassion are limited to serving one family only. Best of the best have been sacrificed towards the growth of a single family.
In a video interaction with BJP Karyakarta from Ghaziabad, Shri Modi stressed on Sabka Sath Sabka Vikas is not just a slogan for us, instead, it is a sacred target, like a Mantra. BJP is not a party that merely shouts slogans, rather we work at the grassroots to turn our promises into reality.
PM Modi highlighted the various schemes of the centre, he said that more than 5 Crore poor families that are benefiting from free gas connection under Ujjwala Yojana includes a Sarita, a Sabina, and some Sofia as well. Also, under the Mudra scheme, 13 crores loans beneficiaries are from every caste, creed and sect.
Lashing out at Congress, PM Modi said that the corruption of Congress and many of their associates have been stripped naked in the past four years. Initially, the public ousted the party because of their failed governance, incapability to take decisions and corruptions; and now that they are seated in the opposition, they continue to fail in that role as well.
While interacting with one of the Karyakartas from Hazaribagh, he said earlier we used to enquire that how much public's money has been lost to scams? But today it is asked that how much money has been replenished in the government's treasury. Earlier, nobody had the mentality to think that poor people should own a bank account. But today, people search for those homes that do not own a single bank account.
PM Modi also acclaimed the success of Surgical strike, he said it proved the bravery and strength of our Army. It not only showcases their tactical capabilities but also gives us an opportunity to take pride in our nation.
Emphasising the role of the centre in development of North-East, PM Modi said a lot of work is being done in the north-east for the first time. Airplanes, trains, and electricity are visiting many places for the first time. Of the 18 thousand villages that we have succeeded to electrify, more than 5 thousand of them belong to North-East.


Indianapolis class-action attorney Irwin Levin just helped lead a legal team that is going to collect more than $6.7 million in fees in a high-profile Iowa lawsuit involving price fixing in the concrete industry.
That in itself is great news for Levin and his firm, Cohen & Malad. So perhaps it's icing on the cake that the judge, in his Nov. 9 order approving the fees, lavished praise on all the attorneys in the case.
He said class counsel achieved "fabulous results with incredible efficiency" and that he had never been more proud of his profession in his 36-year legal career.
Bennett isn't some country judge who has never seen a big case before. Appointed in 1994 by President Clinton, he is a former chief judge for the district and is widely regarded as a candidate for a federal appeals court judgeship.
While serving on a special, three-judge panel in 2000, Bennett wrote a "brilliant and detailed" dissent in a criminal case that became the basis for the U.S. Supreme Court's later reversal, Slate magazine wrote in a 2008 profile of standout judges.
The judge on Nov. 1 approved an $18.5 million settlement to resolve the case brought by Iowa buyers of ready-mix concrete against five concrete companies and three executives who had pleaded guilty to price-fixing.
The topic of the case probably rings a bell. Levin waged a similar battle in Indiana after prosecutors brought price-fixing charges in the state in 2004. The last of seven defendants settled last year, bringing the total recovery to more than $60 million. The legal team—led by Levin and Stephen Susman of Susman Godfrey in Houston—received $18 million in fees.
Iowa is the only other state where prosecutors have brought similar concrete price-fixing charges. In that litigation, Levin—working closely with Cohen & Malad's Scott Gilchrist—served as co-lead counsel with Gregory Hansel of Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios of Portland, Maine.
He also noted that the settlement was so large that plaintiffs recovered all their losses, even after paying attorneys' fees. And that's based on the loss estimate provided by plaintiffs' expert witness. The Justice Department had estimated the total volume of commerce affected by the price-fixing conspiracy was just $5.7 million.
Despite the favorable outcome for plaintiffs, Bennett said in his order that attorneys for the defendants—including Krieg DeVault in Indianapolis—did a bang-up job as well.
"These exceptionally knowledgeable and sophisticated defense antitrust counsel provided their clients—from rural northwest Iowa small businessmen to an international conglomerate—with invaluable and insightful guidance and representation, sparing their clients likely treble damages, years upon years of litigation stress, and millions of dollars in litigation costs," Bennett wrote.
Things weren't always looking so good for Cohen & Malad. Plaintiffs lost on a key motion early on, forcing attorneys to replead the case in a different way.
Given that early setback and the speedy resolution of the case, at first blush the attorneys' request for more than $6 million in fees "might read more like a ubiquitous Nigerian e-mail scam than the highly meritorious motion it has turned out to be," Bennett wrote.
Analysts' predictions that the fate of an experimental Alzheimer's drug would have a big impact on Eli Lilly and Co.'s stock price are starting to come true, even before next year's release of Phase III results.
Lilly shares rocketed to $39.63 on Dec. 7, one day after Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Tim Anderson said in a report that success with the drug, solanezumab, could boost Lilly's stock price 50 percent to 100 percent. Over two days, the shares advanced 5 percent.


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Trash removed by the tons from Kauai's Kalalau Valley in cleanup efforts
July 26, 2017 at 7:25 PM HST - Updated August 10 at 4:10 AM
(Image: DLNR)
By Darius Kila
HNN Summer Intern
KALALAU, KAUAI (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Department of Land and Natural Resources removed nearly 11 tons of garbage from the Napali Coast in ongoing efforts to clean up the area DLNR officials reported Wednesday.
The Kalalau section of the coast has seen monthly cleanups since the beginning of this year. June alone had five designated clean up days.
Over the last couple of years, DOCARE officers under the DLNR have cited and arrested illegal squatters in the area. They've also dismantled illegal campsites that were polluting Kalalau valley.
"We've made it very clear that we have zero tolerance for illegal activity in our state's largest and most remote state park," said State Park Administrator Curt Cottrell. "Over the past two years we've made significant progress in dismantling illegal, long-term camps both at Kalalau beach and in more remote locations in Kalalau Valley."
Park staff are also concerned about environmental degradation and health risks associated with public defecation in the forest and along the streams.
Regular monthly maintenance operations consist of rubbish and human waste removal, weed trimming and upkeep of signage and camp trails and comfort stations.
The Division of State Parks plans to renew its request to the Hawaii State Legislature next year for permanent staffing at Kalalau to maintain the park's wilderness character, protect cultural sites and to provide visitor information.
The 11-mile trail is open to the public but requires proper permits to camp overnight.
The public is urged to report all illegal activity to law enforcement.


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open organization
An open organization as defined by open-organizations.org, is one that is organized around predictable organization protocols and not around any particular group of people. It extends the open project and open campaign idea, and is an outlier example of democratic structuring and quality management. The concept was defined by Richard Malter, Benjamin Geer, Toni Prug and others on the openorg-dev mailing list.
open party, for instance
carries out processes
politics as choices about processes
dynamic power structure
excluding - extraordinary
Inter-Working Group (IWG) processes
Eight functional rules
open participation
respect for skill
public ownership of knowledge
affirmative terms
most questionable
this bad example, again
An open party is in part an example, though it does not satisfy all the criteria applied by open-organizations.org, it is a structure "that people can choose to adopt in part or whole when working together. It can also be used as a tool to analyse other organizations and related theoretical concepts and frameworks." This is exactly the intent of the open party and open politics in force definitions as well.
Both projects are a "result of observing and distilling the patterns, or processes, in the functioning of existing organizations. It is developing according to the understanding that theory and practice rely on each other." See organization protocol for more on this issue.
The definition seems to be an extreme form of democratic structuring.
The open organization "attempts to embody" certain "core values", and "possible formal agreement on those, are being discussed at our openorg-dev mailing list."
The organization only carries out processes:
"processes are functional: people must carry them out continuously, (there are never 'fixed' states) - the organization is a self-organizing system
because they are functional, processes and their effects can be measured
processes are a necessary way to understand organizations in the light of the scientific knowledge we have today of our world"
The open-organizations.org group proposes a definition of politics itself: that "politics on any scale means essentially the deliberate organization of interactions between people. Whenever people form a group and deliberately organize their interactions in a certain way it is a political decision." This definition includes all of group dynamics and ethics.
It focuses on "Interactions (relationships) between people" as active exchanges - dialogue is thus a process, and in this definition, politics becomes "choices about processes". And nothing more than that.
The party protocol model proposed by Efficient Civics Guild implements this idea.
Questions about ending or replacing concepts are deliberately disallowed by this model, just as focus on product is disallowed by service economy and on process is required by ((total quality management). All these models focus people on "the processes (tasks) they continually carry out create and maintain their organization."
[+] dynamic power structure
A power structure supposedly becomes less static: "When processes are deliberately selected by people forming an organization, they are chosen on the basis that they make certain preferred outcomes more probable. These outcomes include both internal ones - for the organization itself, and external ones - for the organization's outward effects. The outcomes are aimed for because they are valued; the values given to these outcomes are political values." ''In Bernard Crick's and George Lakoff's models these are moral values that become political due to being carried out in public.
In open-organizations.org's view, values of any organization are always wholly political and all decisions thus public. They list "four regular processes (and a fifth extraordinary process) for all working groups, a set of regular ongoing task-processes for Inter-Working Groups, and eight functional rules for an Open Organization." These are quite extreme.
"Within each working group, decisions are made by rough consensus. This takes place whilst tasks are being worked on and carried out. Otherwise those tasks might never begin or progress. Tasks are adjusted, adapted, expanded and contracted by rough consensus, but they are not interrupted or stopped by decision making about them, they are always ongoing.
Different levels of formality and complexity are possible, but the essence of consensus is that anyone can make a proposal, and anyone can veto any proposal. Silence means assent - if nobody vetoes a proposal or decision then it goes ahead.
A proposal or decision can only be stopped by an objection that it would contradict an Open Organization process and/or functional rule and/or that it would endanger the existence of some part or the whole organization.
A proposal must have a certain time period defined for decision about it from the beginning. The proposed task must define measurable goals, a time frame for completion (or progress if it is to be continuous), and a notice period that will be given if it is discontinued."
"Your working group regularly searches for (possible) effects of its actions on other groups. It adapts its work to prevent adverse effects on others. If your group is told about an adverse effect of its actions on others, your group reacts as if it found the effect. When groups communicate about this, the group that is affected decides what is adverse to it. This makes your group, by choice, accountable to others.
More generally, accountability means that those who are affected by a decision can participate in making that decision. It sets limits to self-management by allowing others who are affected by a project to overrule those who are working on it, and even to cancel the project if a major problem arises. An adverse effect of your group's work might also be when others depend on the success of your work. Conflicts can often be avoided if people are aware of the potential consequences of their own work."
"Your working group regularly publishes, in a readily accessible form, summaries of the work you are doing and of the knowledge gained from that work. This is part of the public ownership of knowledge.
This allows others to recognize interdependencies between you and other groups because they can see what you are doing. People can identify possible consequences of your work (even during its planning stages) and hold your group accountable for its work. Also, you need to know what other groups are doing so that you can understand how their work relates to what you are doing. In the process of accountability, it might be necessary for one group to intervene in the decision-making processes of another group. To do this effectively, it must first understand the work they've done so far and the discussions currently taking place, as well as relevant lessons learned from previous issues. For these reasons, transparency is necessary for accountability."
This task needs to be carried out in each working group. The key tasks are: keeping track of what work is being done by whom, keeping track of any active proposals, and writing regular summaries of what work has been done and why, and of the main discussions taking place. Coordinating work can be done by one person or be shared in different ways within the working group.
"This is an extraordinary process. If an individual or a whole group repeatedly does not fulfil commitments, the other members of the group or the organization as a whole can exclude that person or group from current tasks.
If a working group seems to be breaking its charter or that of the organization, or if an unforeseen problem arises, a process must be formulated and carried out by the organization for examining the issue and resolving the problem. This could result in modification of the group's charter, and possibly even of the organization's charter. The organization can also decide to dissolve the group, or suspend its activities until the problem is resolved. However, in the main, as long as there are no complaints, each working group remains self-managing. "
"IWGs are needed because both the mass of information generated by Working Groups (WGs) in a large organization, and the complexity of the interdependencies, will be enormous. IWGs:
Technically/practicably facilitate WG tasks.
Facilitate inter-WG communication and cooperation - routing (and organize) informational 'traffic' as needed and/or requested by WGs.
Monitor tasks of WGs; facilitate and maintain agreements between them - providing support for keeping collaboration within the scope that WGs initially agreed on.
Facilitate breach of agreement complaints resolution and other process-related problems when they occur. Also generally look to uncover and analyse patterns of interactions throughout the organization, identify potential problems and ways that processes can be improved; assist WGs making and carrying out proposals to make those improvements.
(Technically) facilitate decision making between WGs when requested.
IWGs are formed on the same basis as any other WG. In addition, in order not to create patterns of power between IWGs and WGs, it is mandatory that all members of IWGs:
a) have past working experience and are current working members of a minimum of one non-Inter WG
b) maintain a defined ratio that applies equally to all IWGs, of IWG work to WG implementation work. A minimun of 1/3 of total working time in non-Inter WG's is the recommended lower limit of this ratio."
"An Open Organization must have a published written charter which sets out how it choses to implement, given its particular circumstances, the processes (and therefore values) which make it an Open Organization. Within the organization, people form Working Groups to take on particular tasks. Each working group must also have a written published charter which must be compatible with the organization's charter. It must define the working group's methods of implementation and measurable goals for its chosen task(s). It must be approved by the organization as a whole."
"Anyone can work in the organization if they agree to the organization's charter and have the necessary skills. This means that full advantage is gained from people's available skills and enthusiasm.
Open participation is based on the 'trust first' principle: the underlying premise that people are sociable and want to contribute to society, and should therefore be trusted to do what they undertake to do, knowing that they are accountable for what they do. The 'trust first' attitude is always maintained and calibrated to the circumstances. For example, implementation work may be shared between a number of people when a task is so important that error or wrongdoing might jeopardize the organization.
This group of people can consist of experts (see Respect for skill below) and/or peers. Approaches other than 'trust first' are likely to be needed when computer passwords, potentially dangerous tools, etc. are being used."
"The people in an organization within the working groups, who do or will contribute to implementation work on the different tasks, decide amongst themselves how, what work is to be done in their decision-making
In this way, work is guided and done by those who know it best. It also means that those doing the work, who are immediately affected by working practices, are able to decide on those practices themselves.
Implementation work is defined as the various steps taken after the design stage (discussion, advice, consultation) involved in the production or maintaining of a task. Making a summary of a discussion about a task from the design stage that enables the implementation of a task to begin is also implementation work."
"Life is a very functional business: if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. For any particular task, there is usually only a handful of commonly recognized best practices and people with expertise in that task will probably be familiar with all of them (but see diversity) It is easier to seek out best practices if there is public ownership of knowledge."
"One kind of knowledge can be gained, for example, by reading a book, or a transcript of a discussion. Another kind, which is usually called 'expertise', 'experience' or 'skill' in a certain activity, must be acquired by working with someone who already has this expertise. To benefit from expertise, we have to first acknowledge it in those who have it and give proportional attention and weight to their views in decision-making.
By doing this we release the full power of everyone's abilities rather than adopting a superficial notion of equality. We grant skilled people a type of power, in proportion to their knowledge, (rather than giving them the right to dominate us or others). Respecting skill not only allows a group to function and solve problems better and more quickly, it also allows those with expertise to teach others by example. Thus, their knowledge is passed on, and can be publicly owned as well."
"The knowledge produced by an organization, including its internal debates and the lessons learnt from them, must be recorded and maintained in publicly accessible archives, so that people inside and outside the organization, and in future generations, can benefit from it. This history should also be organized and presented in a way that minimises the difficulty of learning from it. This allows knowledge to circulate where it is needed, providing the maximum benefit to the organization and to society. The result is public ownership of knowledge. Both respect for skill and public ownership of knowledge require transparency."
"Different approaches to carrying out tasks and solving problems can coexist (without hindering one another), and learn from each other. There can be cooperation and collaboration between different working practices. Diversity increases the probability of success in reaching goals and of the discovery of new working practices. Diversity also allows us to challenge and improve the best practices in any speciality."
"The use of only affirmative (positive) terms in describing both goals and ways of working. Defining always what an Open Organization and its Working Groups are for", rather than "against".
"Otherwise terms such as 'non-hierarchical' and 'destroying' might be used to define organization and work. The first term is practicably useless and meaningless, as it is impossible to build positive, creative structures and practices, based on the conceptual idea of the negating of a structure. Furthermore, despite the opposite intention of the term 'non-hierarchical', the concept of 'hierarchy' is conceptually entrenched by repeatedly referring to it - even in a negated form. The second term, 'destroying' could not lead to work that furthers the organization's charter."
These are extremely questionable premises and not compatible with the open party or open campaign models at all. Certainly bad process can be destroyed, and detrimental institutions must also be eliminated when they have outlived their usefulness. The phrases "creative destruction" or "business process eradication" have certainly been constructively employed in many organizations, even in the public sector. However, referring to the destruction or eradication of processes or institutions entirely outside the organization's own mandate, is probably as detrimental as claimed by open-organizations.org, simply because it leads to ideology dominating and changing the organization protocols in use, twisting them to attempt to achieve impossible goals.
For instance, the Green Party of Canada's attempt to re-form itself along the lines of a ruling party in 2004-5 ended disastrously, with the total failure of most of its internal governance, and its candidacies and leadership captured by persons overly concerned with a single issue, the seal hunt. This actually proves both points: they sought to eradicate something not promote something, but at the same time, sought to tackle something out of scope for their size.
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"May blessing (praise, laudation, and eulogy) be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) Who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual (given by the Holy Spirit) blessing in the heavenly realm! 4 Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love. 5 For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [because it pleased Him and was His kind intent] — 6 [So that we might be] to the praise and the commendation of His glorious grace (favor and mercy), which He so freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. 7 In Him we have redemption (deliverance and salvation) through His blood, the remission (forgiveness) of our offenses (shortcomings and trespasses), in accordance with the riches and the generosity of His gracious favor, 8 Which He lavished upon us in every kind of wisdom and understanding (practical insight and prudence), 9 Making known to us the mystery (secret) of His will (of His plan, of His purpose). [And it is this:] In accordance with His good pleasure (His merciful intention) which He had previously purposed and set forth in Him, 10 [He planned] for the maturity of the times and the climax of the ages to unify all things and head them up and consummate them in Christ, [both] things in heaven and things on the earth. 11 In Him we also were made [God's] heritage (portion) and we obtained an inheritance; for we had been foreordained (chosen and appointed beforehand) in accordance with His purpose, Who works out everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His [own] will, 12 So that we who first hoped in Christ [who first put our confidence in Him have been destined and appointed to] live for the praise of His glory! 13 In Him you also who have heard the Word of Truth, the glad tidings (Gospel) of your salvation, and have believed in and adhered to and relied on Him, were stamped with the seal of the long-promised Holy Spirit. 14 That [Spirit] is the guarantee of our inheritance [the firstfruits, the pledge and foretaste, the down payment on our heritage], in anticipation of its full redemption and our acquiring [complete] possession of it — to the praise of His glory."
1. He has BLESSED us (Ephesians 1:3).
Father God has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm.
PLEASE TAKE NOTE: ..."God HAS blessed us..." PAST TENSE...IT IS DONE!!!
This means that, in Christ, we have received ALL the benefits of a relationship with Him.
We have: been chosen as His; received His salvation; been adopted as His children; been forgiven; received insight into the things of the Spirit; received the power to serve God and do His will; received the gifts of the Spirit; and the hope of living forever with Him.
We can enjoy these blessings NOW, because we have an intimate relationship with Him.
Spiritual blessings in the "heavenly realms", means that these blessings are ETERNAL, not temporal.
2. He has CHOSEN us (Ephesians 1:4).
YOU DID NOT CHOOSE HIM...HE CHOSE YOU!
Father God "chose us in him" to emphasize that salvation depends totally on HIM, and not us.
We are not saved because our works deserve it, but because of God's free and gracious salvation.
We could not and did not influence God's decision to save us, but He saved us according to His own plan.
We can't take the credit – all we can do is express our gratefulness and thanks for His wonderful love for us.
3. He has PREDESTINED us (Ephesians 1:5 &11).
"Predestined" means "marked out beforehand", and is another way of saying that salvation is all God's work and none our own doing.
In His infinite love, and through Jesus' sacrifice, God has brought us into His family, adopted us His own children and made us heirs along with Jesus.
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ECCLES.3:14,15 Amp. - "I know that whatever God does, it endures forever; nothing can be added to it nor anything taken from it. And God does it so that men will [reverently] fear Him [revere and worship Him, knowing that He is].
That which is now already has been, and that which is to be already has been; and God seeks that which has passed by [so that history repeats itself]."
4. He has made us ACCEPTED in the Beloved. (Ephesians 1:6).
Father God freely and graciously accepts us even if we don't deserve it.
Not only that, He loves us as much as He loves Jesus (John 17:23).
5. He has REDEEMED us (Ephesians 1:7).
Jesus blood' represents Jesus' death.
Through His death and the riches and generosity of His gracious favor, He paid the price for us to receive both redemption and forgiveness.
Redemption was the price paid to gain freedom for a slave.
We are released from our slavery to sin and brought into the freedom of forgiveness and right-standing with God.
6. He has ABOUNDED toward us (Ephesians 1:8).
God's grace has been LAVISHED on us.
We have received a generous, over-abundance of God's love, grace and favor!
7. He has made KNOWN unto us (Ephesians 1:9).
In His love and mercy, Father God planned to save and redeem us from the foundation of the earth.
His plan of salvation was consummated in Jesus Christ and could only be fully understood by us after Jesus rose from the dead.
When you receive Jesus as Lord and Savior, through God's word, the Holy Spirit reveals to you the Father's plan for you.
8. He has given us an INHERITANCE (Ephesians 1:11,14).
An inheritance is something you don't earn.
It's bestowed upon you at the discretion of another.
We have inherited the Kingdom of God and all of God's wonderful promises and blessings with it!
9. He has SEALED us (Ephesians 1:13).
The Holy Spirit is the seal and also the "earnest" or "pledge" of our inheritance.
The word "seal" means: to stamp (with a signet or private mark) for security or preservation (literally or figuratively); to keep secret; to attest.
We use the word "seal" to denote several things: we seal things for security, to hide them, to confirm or testify to something, and to confirm ownership.
We are SEALED by the blessed Holy Spirit!
The word "earnest" or "pledge" is used to indicate part of the purchase-money or property given in advance as security for the rest.
The Holy Spirit is the guarantee – the "earnest" or "pledge" – of our glorious inheritance!
NOW IT'S TIME TO WALK AND LIVE WITH THIS REVELATION OF YOUR TRUE POSITION AND IDENTITY "IN CHRIST".


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Haghartsin
Haghartsin is a 13th century monastery located near the town of Dilijan in the Tavush Province of Armenia. It was built between the 10th and 14th century (in the 12th under Khachatur of Taron); much of it under the patronage of the Bagratuni Dynasty –
St. Astvatsatsin Church
St. Astvatsatsin Church in Haghardzin (1281) is the largest building and the dominant artistic feature. The sixteen-faced dome is decorated with arches, the bases of whose columns are connected by triangular ledges and spheres, with a band around the drum's bottom. This adds to the optical height of the dome and creates the impression that its drum is weightless. The platband of the southern portal's architrave is framed with rows of trefoils.
The sculptural group of the church's eastern facade differs in composition from the similar bas-reliefs of Sanahin, Haghpat, and Harich. It shows two men in monks' attire who point with their hands at a church model and a picture of a dove with half-spread wings placed between them. The umbrella roofing of the model's dome shows the original look of the dome of Astvatsatsin church. The figures are shown wearing different dresses — the one standing right is dressed more richly than the one standing left. The faces, with their long whiskers, luxuriant combed beards and large almond shaped eyes, are also executed in different manners. These are probably the founders of the church, the Father Superior and his assistant.
St. Astvatsatsin Church Gavit
The gavit of St. Astvatsatsin Church is severely damaged. The ruins show clearly where it stood; however, the walls are almost completely destroyed.
St. Gregory Church
The oldest large structure of the complex, the St. Grigor Church, is accessible through its gavit
St. Gregory Church Gavit
The twelfth-century gavit abutting St. Grigor Church is of the most common type of plan. It is a square building, with roofing supported by four internal abutments, and with squat octahedral tents above the central sections, somewhat similar to the Armenian peasant home of the "glkhatun" type. The gavit has ornamented corner sections. Decorated with rosettes, these sections contain sculptures of human figures in monks' attires, carrying crosses, staffs, and birds. The framing of the central window of Haghardzin's gavit is cross-shaped. Placed right above the portal of the main entrance, it emphasizes the central part of the facade.
One of the half-columns along the right hand wall towards the back has come forward, showing that it is hollow. According to legend, this was swung open and shut in the past and monastery riches were hidden inside at times of war and invasion.
St. Stepanos Church
The small St. Stepanos Church dates back to 1244.
Bagratuni sepulchre
The Bagratuni sepulchre is where some of the Bagratuni royalty are buried.
Like the Haghpat's refectory, the refectory of Haghardzin, built by the architect Minas in 1248, is divided by pillars into two square-plan parts roofed with intersecting arches.
The walls are lined with stone benches, and at the western butt wall, next to the door, there is a broad archway for the numerous pilgrims to navigate. Decoration is concentrated only in the central sections of the roofing, near the main lighting apertures.
The transition from the rectangle of their base to the octagon of the top is decorated with tre- and quatrefoils. The low abutments determine the size of the upstretched arches. The proportionally diminishing architectural shapes create the impression of airiness and space. Today this space has large wooden log tables and chairs, and is where receptions take place after marriages or baptisms at the monastery. The monastery of Haghartsin, together with that of Goshavank, may become part of a natural site based on the state protected area of Dilijan National Park, an important forest in north-eastern Armenia.