After emerging victorious for four games straight, the RBHS boys' baseball team fell against the Staley Falcons, 6-4, and are now at 21-6 for the season.
Early on in the game, the tide appeared to be in favor of the Bruins. Junior Nick Wohlbold added the first two runs of the game for RBHS in the first inning. For the first three innings, it appeared as if RBHS had a hefty chance of increasing their winning streak to five.
In the top of the fourth inning, however, was when the tables began to turn against the Bruins, when the Falcons went on an offensive rampage and added five points to the scoreboard. By the end of the fourth, they led RBHS 5-2, and later tacked on another run in the fifth inning to increase their lead to four runs.
RBHS saw a beacon of hope in the seventh inning when senior Cole Evans managed to add two runs to the desperate Bruins, reducing the Falcons' lead to 6-4. However, Staley was too much for the Bruins to contain, and eventually fell 6-4.
"I thought the team did pitch well and played great defense all game, but the bats just couldn't get the job done," Wohlbold said.
The next match on schedule for RBHS will be taking place on May 3 at home, in which RBHS will host the Jefferson City Jays. That game will also be senior night for baseball as well. Wohlbold hopes the team will achieve a solid win against the Jays, who possess a similar record as the Bruins.


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Q: Disabling blinking cursor in Headless Chrome (using puppeteer) I am capturing screenshots of webpages using the puppeteer node module.
Some pages have an input field that automatically gets the focus.
I would like the blinking cursor to not appear on the screenshot. Is there an option to do so?

A: You can implement this answer in puppeteer using addStyleTag:
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RV News & Notes: March 2010
Buddy Gregg built a family of successful motorhome dealerships.
Buddy Gregg: Industry Icon
Buddy Gregg, founder and president of Buddy Gregg Motor Homes Inc., passed away on December 30, 2009, at his home in Frisco, Texas. He was 69.
Buddy and his wife, Carole, opened their first RV dealership in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1984. In 1986 they moved the operation to Knoxville, Tennessee, beginning what would become one of the most successful high-line motorhome dealerships in the United States. Since its inception, Buddy Gregg Motor Homes has sold and serviced more than 100,000 recreation vehicles.
Currently the company, which is owned by private equity group, operates a second dealership in Lewisville, Texas. At one time Buddy also had dealerships in Junction City, Oregon, and Lakeland, Florida.
As an innovator and leader, Buddy built a reputation for providing quality service before and after the sale. Under his direction, the company was a perennial recipient of top 10 dealer awards from Monaco Coach and Country Coach, and Buddy Gregg Motor Homes earned renown as a high-volume and high-quality-service dealer. Buddy was a dealer at some point during his career for Blue Bird, Liberty Coach, Royale Coach, Millennium Coach, Fleetwood, Beaver, Monaco Coach, Country Coach, Newmar, and Itasca.
Buddy Gregg was a longtime supporter of FMCA. The dealership signed on as a commercial member in 1986, and Buddy served as a member of FMCA's Commercial Council from 1987 through 1996.
"Buddy thought [his relationship with FMCA] was very important," said Brian Griffitt, vice president of sales for Buddy Gregg Motor Homes, and Buddy's son-in-law. "For years we were one of the major clients advertising in [Family Motor Coaching] magazine. He thought the hard-copy medium was one of the best ways to let customers know about the company.
"We were also at the [international conventions], either with sales representatives working in the manufacturer displays or in our own display. In 1994 there weren't many dealers who had their own display. But Buddy thought we should have our own separate area where we could talk to customers and let them know about Buddy Gregg Motor Homes. He thought the relationship with FMCA was important, since nine out of 10 people that we would consider our customer base were members of FMCA."
Buddy loved University of Tennessee football, reading, and watching his grandsons play high school football in Texas. *
Buddy is survived by his wife, Dorothy Carole Gregg; daughter Marla Carole Griffitt and her husband, Brian Griffitt; son Gregory; grandchildren Brian Griffitt II and Aaron Griffitt; brother Thomas; and sisters Ruth Ishe and Mary Cheatham. Memorial contributions may be made in Buddy's name to the Mission of Hope, P.O. Box 51824, Knoxville, TN 37950.
RVIA's "Centennial Charlie" To Appear At FMCA Convention
As America's RV industry revs up for a year's worth of celebrations in recognition of its 2010 Centennial, the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA) is sending the "Official Ambassador of the 2010 RV Centennial" on a road trip. "Centennial Charlie," a 34-inch American black bear stuffed animal, will honor the people who love RVing and the workers who are at the heart and soul of the RV industry.
In February RV companies and consumer shows participating in "Centennial Charlie's Cross-Country Caravan" were to begin hosting the 2010 RV Centennial mascot for a few days before sending him on to his next stop during the 100-day tour. The stuffed bear is scheduled to make an appearance at FMCA's 83rd International Convention, the "Albuquerque Fiesta," which will take place March 22 through 25 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
"When Charlie comes to visit RVIA member companies and consumer shows, he will be our industry's ambassador in honoring both its industry workers and enthusiasts, so they, too, can celebrate the RV Centennial in a novel, exciting way," Gary LaBella, RVIA vice president and chief marketing officer, said.
During Charlie's visits, the staff at RV manufacturing companies and consumer shows will take photos of the bear with workers and show attendees. At the conclusion of Charlie's journey, RVIA will produce a video chronicling the mascot's tour, which will include photographs taken on his travels. The video will be shared with the RV industry at its June 7 celebration at the RV/MH Hall of Fame and Museum in Elkhart, Indiana, and later will be posted on YouTube.
The American black bear is native to North America and lives in most areas of the United States. An American black bear named "Charlie" appeared in the 2006–2009 "What Will You Discover? Go RVing" television commercials. An animated American black bear appears in the Go RVing 2010 "Ambassadors of Affordability" advertising campaign, which was set to launch in mid-February.
RV Park Owners Anticipate Good Business In 2010
Even in the face of economic uncertainties, campgrounds and RV parks have remained economically resilient.
"We are very grateful for the level of business we've had," said Jayne Cohen, president of Adventure Bound Camping Resorts in Center Harbor, New Hampshire, which owns and operates nine RV resorts, located in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Arizona. "When we closed down our November [2009] numbers," she said, "we were even with last year in revenue."
That's a significant accomplishment, Ms. Cohen said, not only in this economy, but given the fact that most of her company's parks are in areas that suffered unusually cold and wet weather last summer. "We strongly feel that if we had not had bad weather, we would have been ahead of last year's figures," she said.
Most of the nation's campgrounds, in fact, reported business levels in 2009 that were stable or slightly ahead of 2008 figures, and most private park operators expect their business levels to remain steady or experience continued growth in 2010.
"I'm very optimistic and very grateful for how we finished out [2009]," said Mark D. Anderson, president of Camp Chautauqua Camping Resort in Stow, New York. "Our reservations are looking very good for [2010]. We're already just about full for Fourth of July weekend. And to be almost full at this time of year is pretty good."
David L. Berg, chairman of the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds, said he is also optimistic about the level of consumer interest in camping in 2010. "I think we're looking across the country to an improved camping season [this] year," he said. "The state of the affairs of our economy has not hurt the camping business at all."
Some park operators remain cautious, however.
Bruce Aljets, who owns Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park Camp-Resort in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, experienced a 17 percent jump in business in 2009, despite the recession. "I don't know what to expect [this] year," he said. "Being in South Dakota, we generally lag behind the rest of the country. But I'm going to hope for the best."
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Birthday Number 9
" I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."
Bruce Lee was a Hong Kong American martial artist, actor, philosopher, filmmaker, and founder of the martial art Jeet Kune Do, who is widely considered to be one of the most influential martial artists of all time, and a pop culture icon of the 20th century.
He was born on Wednesday November 27th 1940, in Chinatown, San Francisco, California, United States.
Bruce Lee is broad-minded, idealistic, and compassionate. He should obtain a wide education, especially in the arts. Lee is highly creative. Many great artists are found under this number.
Bruce must come to truly understand life to be of greater service to society. He has a greater social role to play that will require a blend of the practical and the humanitarian. Bruce Lee must have a keen sense of what will work, but at the same time directing those efforts toward some greater good.
His challenge is to find a place for himself that has some direct benefit to others. The more Lee can be of service to humanity, the greater will be his personal reward on all levels - from the material to the spiritual.
Bruce Lee is socially oriented and has a gift of charm. He is well-liked and even admired by others. Bruce can relate to people in all walks of life. He has also a broad vision of the world and can see the grand scheme of things, including international politics and great social movements.
Bruce Lee expresses his feelings well, but sometimes can be a bit dramatic. He has a strong interest in philosophy and metaphysics.
Nines tend to attract money from other sources, such as inheritance or a stroke of "luck". Also, there is an element of sacrifice in the number 9 that demands that Lee learns forgiveness and unconditional love. He must avoid negative attachments. Bruce Lee must not hold on to people or situations just because he feels that justice has not yet been done, or that someone still owes him something. Bruce Lee's task in life is to truly let the universe judge such situations, and rely on his own forward-moving life path to bring him the necessities and rewards he deserve.
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About Bruce's Birthday number
Bruce's day of birth is one of his four core numbers - the Life Path, Expression, and Heart's Desire being the other three. It is the least significant of the four core numbers, but perhaps the most finite, in that it reveals a specific ability Bruce Lee possesses in a marked degree.
Read more about our numerological interpretation of Bruce Lee's birthday number . . .
Other celebrities with the birthday number 9 as Bruce Lee
A New York City-based American sportswear fashion designer who is the honorary chairman and chief creative officer for his company that sells women's and men's ready-to-wear, accessories, jewelry, footwear and fragrance
Khloé Kardashian (1984)
An American entrepreneur and television personality who have starred with her family since 2007 in the reality television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and now is involved in the retail and fashion industries with her sisters
Kate Middleton (1982)
The wife of Prince William who was in 2012 and 2013 by Time magazine as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World", due to the impact she has upon British and American fashion, which has been termed the "Kate Middleton effect"
Lil Wayne (1982)
An American hip hop recording artist who joined at the age of 9 Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label, and half of the duo The B.G.'z, and is one of the best-selling artists of all time selling over 100 million records worldwide
Kourtney Kardashian (1979)
An American television personality and model who is involved with her sisters Kim and Khloé in the retail and fashion industries, having launched several clothing collections and fragrances
Blake Shelton (1976)
An American country music singer and television personality who is also known for his role as a judge on the televised singing competitions Nashville Star, Clash of the Choirs, and The Voice
Johnny Depp (1963)
An American actor, producer, and musician who is regarded as one of the world's biggest film stars, became a teen idol with the 1980s television series 21 Jump Street, and has won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor
Mariah Carey (1970)
An American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress who was titled "songbird supreme" by the Guinness World Records, due to her five-octave vocal range, power, melismatic style and signature use of the whistle register
Anna Kendrick (1985)
An American actress and singer who rose to international fame after her performance as Natalie Keener in Up in the Air, for which she received Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress
Zac Efron (1987)
An American actor, singer, and producer, best known for his leading role in the High School Musical franchise (2006–08), starring as Link Larkin in the musical film Hairspray (2007) and as the teen Mike O'Donnell in the comedy film 17 Again (2009)
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Market My Market
Our conversation with Mr. Frans Johansson was somewhat of a seminal moment for us on the podcast. We've had amazing speakers over the past 3 years (if you can believe it has been 3 years already), many of which were authors. It just happened that The Medici Effect was one of the biggest personal influences for me in 2021.
This text inspired a few of my favorite articles over the past year, including What if "What Makes You Different" Isn't as Different as You Think, helping us consider "Intersectional Ideas" to propel new concepts and approaches to our marketing, advertising, business operations, company culture, and just about everything in between.
It was a real pleasure speaking with Frans and talking about how his creativity can apply to the legal sector. When we're in a rut conceptualizing how to take our business to the next level, the conversations in both this podcast and his own collection of publications will be sure to set you out on a unique, inspiring track.
The following interview has been transcribed for our readers from rev.com. Please excuse any discrepancies from the transcription.
Frans Johansson:
AI's going to impact every single aspect of the legal system over time, and so the question is, do you want to be part of that or do you want to be leading in it? Wherever you see your role in that space, you're going to be in it one way or another. Can you take that and recombine it with some of your assets, skillsets, processes to create something new?
Chase Williams:
Today on the Legal Mastermind Podcast, we have Frans Johansson, CEO, speaker, and author of The Medici Effect and The Click Moment. Welcome to the Legal Mastermind Podcast.
Thank you very much. Excited to be here.
Frans, for our listeners that aren't familiar with who you are or what you do, can you give us a brief rundown?
Sure. So, I am the CEO of The Medici Group. We help organizations drive change at scale to innovate at scale inexpensively and effectively, we have a platform to help organizations do that. They do that based upon principles that I developed in my book, The Medici Effect. So that book, I'm sure we'll dig into it here, but that's really the background of where I am at today.
Awesome. Core focus we're really going to speak about is going to be how to innovate, which ties into your book, and then what diversity inclusion actually looks like. I thought it was interesting, me and Ryan were speaking beforehand, we're talking about diversity and people are so focused on diversity, and looking that from a level of female, male, black, white, and what we're talking about is something totally different.
So for those listeners that think we're going to be talking about diversity in that sense, we're not. We're talking about diversity in terms of background, in terms of … and we'll get into it, but I'm going to let Ryan ask the first question, because he's read your book and he said it was one of his favorite books he read in all of 2021. How many books did you read last year, Ryan?
Ryan Klein:
It's not as impressive. You're really put on a pedestal here, it's probably 50 books. I was shooting for one a week and-
Oh, only 50? Ryan, what are you doing with your time?
[inaudible 00:02:22] a team that casually say 200, but definitely, Frans, you made a great point in the pre-interview too, we were talking about how, especially in industry such as legal, back in 2013, '14, people were talking about the should we innovate? Since then, it's changed a lot too. It's been [inaudible 00:02:42] for a while, so now it's not really should, because the answer's clearly been yes, so now it's how? So, I think that we want to start there and see how that's already changed so much in the past six or seven years.
Yeah, and the forces that are driving change are just everywhere and they're multiplying, so this is why we're going from the should to the how, right? Whether it's AI and blockchain, which has the technological forces, or whether it is cultural forces like diversity, equity, inclusion, or new ways of working, business model innovation. So, all this is happening at once. You're seeing layers upon layers and it is really driving this need.
So, anybody listening to this are probably finding themselves caught up in one or two or three or more of these forces right now. Once one is recognizing that we have to innovate, we have to change in some way, I think it pretty quickly gets to, well, how? What does that mean? What are the approaches to it?
The core central point in the book that I wrote, The Medici Effect, and I also wrote a sequel called The Quick Moment, but the core of those ideas are really that we have the best shot at innovating at the intersection of different fields, cultures, industries, perspectives, backgrounds. When we're able to bring together to disparate concepts and find a way to make them connect, that we sort of really are upping the game on it.
I can give you an example kind of right off the bat here of how one can think about this. This is an example I'd like to give for organizations sort of similar to law firms. So there's this hospital in Cambridge, in the UK, and they have a problem, and the issue that they have is that when they're transferring patients from the surgical unit to the intensive care unit, you have two separate teams working on this patient.
But because of that, there's sometimes a lack of collaboration, a lack of coordination, and when that happens, there are flaws or errors introduced, and sometimes those errors are fatal. So, now the hospital's trying to solve this problem. Now, what would be the obvious thing for the hospital to do? It would be to reach out to other hospitals and say, how have you solved this problem? What have you done? What are best practices?
But they didn't. Instead, they teamed up with a pit stop crew from a Formula 1 car racing team, from McLaren actually, and they said, how do you as a pit stop crew think about collaboration, about coordination, and are there lessons that we can borrow from that? Are there concepts, processes, ideas? It turns out that there were, and they started to really drop this error rate, bring it way down, and so now the pit stop model became one that started spreading to hospitals around the world.
This is what I mean by bringing together two seemingly disparate fields, Formula 1 and hospitals or healthcare, and through that actually developing something new, something innovative.
I think that's what I love about the concept of intersectional ideas is that there are only so many fields of study or disciplines or areas of expertise that exist, and they don't come around too often. You're not going to come up with the next geology or biology, and if you do, it's not going to happen probably anytime soon, so you work with what exists.
There's just really interesting, and frankly, innovative things when you kind of try to meld it together, and that does happen in law. You did mention with AI, where in law and AI's using algorithms to help judges make decisions about the outcomes of criminal and civil cases, and blockchain for safer contracts or more secure contracts. So it exists and it's happening, it's a matter of who's going to get there first.
That's right. I think that often when we interact with leaders in organizations, so there's tons of ways to approach this, but one way literally is to, when you're thinking about a new technology or a new cultural norm, just pick those two categories, because I think they are really pervasive now, both of them are driving innovation. When you think of new technology or norm, explore it, take it, ask yourself, is there any way that we could make use of this? If you wanted to find a place to start.
Because AI, you mentioned impacting judges' decisions. That is absolutely true, but we're also seeing it impacting document review, right? So, you're able to just step up and be able to get a lot of the really would've been thousands of man hours try to review documents. Well, some of that can now be done increasingly through an automated way, but that's just scratching the surface. AI's going to impact every single aspect of the legal system over time.
So the question is, do you want to be part of that or do you want to be leading in it? Wherever you see your role in that space, you're going to be in it one way or another. Can you take that and recombine it with some of your assets, skillsets, processes to create something new?
I think a lot of lawyers think that they're innovative by implementing a new CRM, or a new I'm in the cloud now, and that's really not innovation. I listened to one of your YouTube keynotes and you brought this great example up about the car companies and how Volvo, and I'm going to butcher it if I try to replicate it, but it was basically a rat race. One lawyer does this, the next lawyer is going to do the exact same thing. So, how do you differentiate yourself when you're such … I mean, legal's such a crowded marketplace and the easiest way to differentiate is you pay, but-
That's right. You just, "Hey, I can do it cheaper." "Oh, okay."
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So yeah, the point that you were sort of getting at about the cars, really the point that I'm making there is this, that one of the biggest traps around innovation is unfortunately logic. If you do an illogical analysis as to what you need to do next, it is pretty obvious that you're going to land at the same place basically all other law firms are landing on, because it's a logical place to be. So, what is really happening is that really at best you're just keeping up with other law firms.
That's at absolute best, because presumably there are some law firms that started a particular trend, that started a particular move somewhere. They're the ones that are sort of leading ahead, and so it gets to the key question you're asking, if you're looking to break out, stand apart and you don't want to use your fees as the way to do that, something else needs to give, right? What is that least likely to be? It is insights from other law firms as to what they're doing. This is the counterintuitive idea.
So if you find yourself always talking to lawyers, if you find yourself going to legal conferences all the time … I'm not saying you shouldn't do some of that. That makes absolute sense, but that can't be your only source of inspiration from how to differentiate yourself, because you're really just talking to each other and effectively arbitration ideas, concepts, moves. "Oh, we're using this software, oh, we can use that too." "We sign up for that, oh, we can do that." Oh, we're doing Slack? Oh, Slack, great."
So this becomes the idea that can sort of quickly spread, but it's not really a differentiator. It's not something that you necessarily could charge more for or be better able to gain new clients from. For that, you need something else, you need to really stand apart.
So I think that there are barriers of course to innovation, and for a law firm it can be just a stubborn partner or old school partner that says I don't want to do any of this. That's a very obvious one, but then it could be the environment and it could be the people, which I know that we'll talk about further along.
I also think that people just don't even really know the best way to kind of execute the brainstorming or ideas. You have exercises that you actually have that are just things I would never think of, frankly, in a million years. Do you think that there's any particular maybe exercise or way to even approach it to get people thinking on the team that you see working maybe more often?
Oh, absolutely. I mean, in fact, our whole sort of … we took our, just to give you a sense of a service innovation can look like. A couple years ago, my company was a service company, it was a consulting firm, and today we're a SAS platform. It took us three years to go from one to the other. Very painful I will say, so, I mean, it wasn't like it was a walk in the park to make this happen.
This platform what we call Renaissance, because Medici Effect and these things are connected, this platform really enables teams and organizations to adopt what we call moves. These are really tools, what you sort of call tools or approaches to accomplish various types of business goals and turn them into habits. What are some of those moves? What are some of those tools?
I'll just give you one example here, because I think it's easy to … I'll give you two on this podcast, because it'll be easy to visualize for a listener. One is the idea of reversing assumptions. There are a lot of built-in assumptions about how something needs to get done when you're starting on any project, any engagement. They tend to be so encoded into how we operate that you might even think of as assumptions, these are just foundations for how the legal industry works and you're not really even reflecting upon it.
A good exercise to get yourself out of that mindset is to identify assumptions and then reverse them to see if you can still solve this problem. So, in the book I share the example of a restaurant, and there's some assumptions that we might make about restaurants, that they have menus or that they charge money for food, or that they serve food, right?
Yeah, if you go to a restaurant, I want some food, but what you can then ask yourself is what happens if I reverse these assumptions? The restaurant does not have menus, it does not charge money for food or it does not serve food. Now, where can you go with that? What happens is that when you try to solve that problem, you open yourself up for new ideas. It's basically a mental hack to give you access to new concepts.
What happens? Well, all of a sudden if the restaurant does not serve food, well, maybe it is some other type of experience where you're going somewhere, because in a city maybe it's difficult to get to a picnic outdoors, so maybe you can do that in the restaurant, and it's really an experience that's being sold. You're not charging for food, you're charging for an experience. That can sort of set you off and start thinking about how to solve for that.
Well, the same thing could be done if you're a lawyer or in a law firm, what are some of the assumptions that you make? Write them down, literally just take out a pen or type it down on a screen, and then ask yourself if I reverse this assumption, what would happen? How would I solve for that? Some of these ideas would seem as completely outlandish, but some of them would be, you know what? That's not bad. I think we can do that, and then you would start running with it.
For the reverse assumptions, I was thinking for a personal injury law firm, if someone's in a terrible accident and they're going to have to go to the doctor for a lot of treatment, the reverse would of course not be to not go to treatment, that'd be a horrible direction for that, but what happens if they're one of the only law firms that actually arranges for treatment to come to you?
Because people are always having to go out when they're hurt and have all these injuries and they have to keep on going to the doctor. What if you're the one that arranges the doctor to go to them?
There you go.
That's how these ideas get started. It's sad, but-
No, Ryan, no joke.
It's a start. It's a start.
Honestly, no joke. I mean, I think that is really it. Let me tell you something about our ability to make a judgment call on whether an idea is good or not. I mean, people say when we ideate then brainstorm, there are no bad ideas, but it turns out that nobody can really hold to that rule, because they would like to sort of start cutting down ideas before it's even been articulated.
But let me just say that most ideas that today are game-changing, they didn't appear that way when they started. It's only in the retrospects when we can look back at it and go, "Oh wow." They didn't realize that that was where it was going to go. That this was the possibility of this, that we could take it all the way there.
It's very rare that an idea is baked, and not only baked, but it is obvious to you how this idea can be game-changing. So even as you say that, even as you take your idea and you're sharing, and you're talking about how to actually make that happen and whether it's good or not, the key is that that idea can lead to other ideas. If you're trying it, if you start putting it into practice, you start realizing other pieces of this puzzle that you didn't see or do before.
This gets to the second part of innovation. I talk a lot about this in my second book, The Click Moment, so much of innovation is in the act of doing. It's not just coming up with the perfect idea, because as I said, you won't even able to tell when you see it, it's in the act of the doing, of trying, of testing, of experimenting. I have something, I'd like to try something different. When you do that, it may or may not work out, but in either way you're likely to think of new things simply because you did that one thing. It's the thing that gets you to the thing.
So to really innovate, it obviously helps to hire people with different backgrounds, educations, values, beliefs, thought processes. How do you actually find these people? Because if I'm a law firm looking for somebody, a paralegal, I'm going to want somebody that's a paralegal before, or I'm going to want somebody with this specific background that has a law degree. How can that translate over to the legal field?
So first, let me take a brief moment here to define what we mean by diversity, and certainly in our company. We have sort of four dimensions of diversity that we classify. The first one is who you are. So that is your gender, your race, your age, your sexual orientation, and so on. The second one is what you do. That's your education, your function, your industry, and so on.
The third one is how you do it. That's your are you extroverted? Are you introverted? There's lots of other types of neurodiversity dimension stuff beginning to learn about now. The fourth one is with whom do you do it? The with whom part has to do with the networks that you built in your community, in your industry, in your company. So, these are the four dimensions that we find are really, really effective to think about in a work context.
So now, now that you have these four, you can start asking yourself, where are we strong or where are we weak on the diversity? Are we able to bring together people from different fields or industries, or different sectors even, or can we bring in people from different backgrounds, whether it has to do with their age or gender or race? Or do we have some sort of mix of extroverts and introverts?
So, basically what that really gives you is a way of thinking about where's the delta, the biggest, if you will? Where do we have some of our greatest challenges? It can help you start thinking about how can you fill in that diversity along some of those dimensions. So, that's one piece around it.
Now what happens when you do that is quite fascinating, because I believe that across the board we tend to be overestimating the value of hiring somebody like ourselves, or who we've seen be a good hire from the past. Now, why do I say that? I say that, because the world is aesthetic. If the world was static, didn't change at all, then hiring somebody that did really well in the past, hiring another person just like that might be a good move, but the world is aesthetic, so it is constantly changing.
That tells you that actually if you're doing that, you're kind of hiring for the world the way it used to look. What you really need to be hiring for the world as it is today and into the future. That means that our experience from virtually every industry is that when you start asking about people's intuition on these matters, and that's often how hiring decisions are made, where they sit, their intuitions before that worked in the past.
Basically, it is likely that when people are struggling finding talent, the struggle could be real, but it could be eased if they open the aperture a bit about who can actually contribute within your firm. Who can be a contributor? Yes, it is very likely that if they're going to be a lawyer, they need to have a law degree. That seems to be a very high likelihood of that. Although, I guess it's technically possible to pass the bar and get away with that, but you're likely to see a lot of people with law degrees.
That's sort of same thing if you go to a hospital, you're likely to see a lot of people with MDs and RNs, nursing degrees, because you kind of need it. That's an entry requirement for it. But once you have that, you can start asking yourself, how do I think about diversifying that pool?
Let me also add, I do think that there is a place for people to add in, particularly for somewhat larger firms that have a little bit of a maneuverability, to have people that could have other backgrounds than legal and have them actually be part of helping you think through how you're serving your clients, how you're attracting clients, because again, you're likely to just get most of those ideas from other lawyers. Make use of the people in your firm that have different backgrounds from you and tap into them to ask how can we think about this differently?
I completely agree that a team should be comprised of those unique backgrounds and experiences too in their own networks. We've heard of law firms that hire people that are more client-facing, non-lawyers, but they're client-facing potentially doing sales, and they're like, "Yeah, I hired a hostess that was super charismatic, or barista or a server that just had a big personality." They didn't even care what they were doing before, and it just turns out to most of time be a good hire. It just-
No, I mean-
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No joke. I think that is a great way of starting to think about it. Asking yourself, how do we think about the process? How do we innovate it? How do we get creative with it? Because it is very likely that even as we speak right now, there are hundreds, thousands of experiments going on on how to innovate on that process. Whether it has to do with client acquisition, client retention, talent acquisition, talent retention, making sure that you stay abreast around all types of new laws or impacts that has to do with on your clients.
So new techniques to run discovery, the list goes on and on and on. Law firms are involved in a tremendous amount of pieces, and traditionally it's kind of been up to one person to handle all of it. "I'm going to do everything." I think you're going to find increasingly that each and every one of those elements are innovated upon.
So I'd like to ask you one more question, and we covered a lot and appreciate your time up to this. It's been a great conversation. I definitely think that a lot of people are doing great things to create a unique team. That's not always the you were a paralegal 30 years ago and I want a paralegal with 30 years experience. No offense to anyone that's been doing it decades, but I don't know if they're in that position to want to innovate or be as expressive with what can change within a firm. That might not always be the case, but there's different things at work there.
So as far as the team, there's lots to be done, and as far as individual, we were talking about your networks and then going to conferences. I want to touch on that briefly, because, I mean, Chase and I know from doing this for a while, that there's a lot of conferences and they're a good time to meet up with your buddies and play some golf, and catch a couple drinks, eat dinner, and it's the same crew, same speakers, same thing. The point of it is also partially to get more ideas or learn a couple things you bring back to the firm. Sometimes that's not always the case if it's literally a replica of the same event more or less every year.
I mean, actually, I'm being brought in to speak at the LMA in a couple of weeks in Vegas, and part of that is to bring in diversity, bring in a different perspective, different thought to the legal field and provide that to the people that are there. So, I'm very excited about that. But how do we think about this from a more systemic perspective? I would say that start looking into conferences that are not necessarily 100% always legal.
I talk about this in my second book a lot, a lot of the best innovative ideas are serendipitous, they come to us unexpectedly. So you have to ask yourself, how often do you do something that invites unexpected? Because if you're doing the expected thing, you're basically eliminating the chances of unexpected pieces happening. I.e, in other words, what would it look like if you went to a marketing conference, or what would it look like if you went to an accounting conference? Or what would it look like if you went to design conference? Or what would it look like if you went to a hostess conference, or a hotel and entertainment conference?
What's going to happen is this, as you go, you are going to start making connections between what you're seeing and hearing to what it is that you're doing. It will start happening automatically. Wow, this is how marketing agencies interact with their clients. Is there something here that we could pick up? Basically seek out your pit stop crews, right? Seek out who it is that is doing something that maybe on a process way might be similar to what you're doing, but they're approaching it completely differently, and start building networks in those conferences. Break out of the networks that you have now, or at least broaden them, diversify them, because that is going to be an engine of new ideas, of new concepts that you might be able to use to drive innovation within your own firm.
Thank you so much, Frans, for your time. Do you have any final parting words for our listeners?
I would say innovation is not just here, it is accelerating, so I would be really focused on trying to understand how you yourself can innovate. Tap into diversity, tap into different perspectives, different backgrounds, and if you happen to go to the LMA conference in Vegas, I'll see you there.
Also, people should buy both your books. Very important.
Oh, that too.
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Q: How can I spin down external hard drive? I want to spin down external hard drive from the terminal before unmounting.
It is an sata drive connected through usb.
Running hdparm gives this
 ry@G62x:/media$ hdparm -S10 937b2299-48ff-4a9c-8228-67ed4453e8fb/

 937b2299-48ff-4a9c-8228-67ed4453e8fb/:
 setting standby to 10 (50 seconds)
 HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setidle) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

A: This answer is based on a lot of assumptions, as I do not remember the source of it. But here it is:

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*SATA is actually hot-pluggable, but most of controllers do not support it, while SATA drives should.

*Based on point above: If a drive is unmounted, it is safe to unplug it. Base reason for that is point #3.

*Modern drives have enough power to remove drive heads from the platters in case of emergency power off that is detected.

At least this is what I do. And also, from time to time I do a long S.M.A.R.T. test on the disk, to see if the health of the drive is OK.

A: If it is 2.5" drive you should be able to hear your drive make click sound about 15 seconds after unmout. That is when drive parked reading/writing heads aside and you can safely remove it. If it is 3.5" drive then there is no way to make removing safer by spinning the drive down.

A: You can safely unmount and spin-down an external hard disk from the terminal most easily by using the command-line functionality of udisks, which does not require the use of sudo if your system is set up correctly. (To list your device names, enter mount in the terminal first.)
When you have found your external drive, use the following commands. You must first unmount the partition (use sdb1 or whatever mount showed as the location):
udisks --unmount /dev/sdb1

Then to safely remove (i.e. spindown- you will hear it click and spin-down), use only sdb, for example:
udisks --detach /dev/sdb

NOTE: It is of crucial importance here that you use sdb or sdc without a partition number when using the detach option; i.e. sdb1 or sdc1 will not work. The partition must be unmounted first and then the disk itself spun down as the examples show.
The udisks commands work successfully for all my pata and sata external hard disks.

A: For external USB disks, use
sg_start --stop /dev/sdb

Install using
sudo apt-get install sg3-utils

Works for my WD My Book Essential Disks.

A: The udisk option did not work in my case but the following did:
sudo umount /dev/sdb1
sudo hdparm -y /dev/sdb

I make use of these commands when remotely shutting down a headless Linux server with an external USB drive. Security is not a concern in my case, so the server password is in the script.
For a Ubuntu server and Windows client the following batch file, assuming PuTTY is installed:
C:\"Program Files (x86)\PuTTY\plink.exe" -ssh -t -l SERVERUSERNAME -pw PASSWORD -noagent 192.168.2.22 "echo PASSWORD | sudo umount /dev/sdb1 ; sudo -S hdparm -y /dev/sdb; sudo -S halt -i now"

For a Debian server, replace sudo halt -i now with shutdown -h -P; in both cases the network card stays awake, so it can be awaken later.

A: If you right-click the drive's icon and select Safely Remove Drive, that should do it (as already stated, it takes 15 seconds or so).
If you don't have that option, right-click and unmount the drive. Then start Disk Utility; select the drive in the left panel; select Safe Removal in the right panel. Again, wait 15 seconds or so. (Alternatively, you can Unmount Volume from Disk Utility before Safe Removal if that is easier for you.)

A: It worked in xfce4 on Fedora 17 for powering down external hard disk:
udisks --detach /dev/sdc
Palimpsest used to have power off option in Fedora 14, but not in Fedora 17.
Useful features go out with OS upgrade in both Windows and Linux.


Bankruptcy : A Nanny State Protection for Me But Not You, But Where is Personal Responsibility?
Bankruptcy has long been a feature of Anglo-American law, owing to creditors' need for a lawful, orderly way of involuntarily dispossessing debtors, all merchants, of properties and freedom in the late sixteenth century. In the United States, most bankruptcy laws passed within the first half of the nineteenth reflected this philosophy, exhibited in court battles wherein state-directed debt relief remained under debate. With the ascent of the Whig party in the 1840 elections, the federal government established voluntary bankruptcy protections in an 1841 act; the government repealed the act a mere two years later, but the philosophy clearly was shifting. By 1867, debts of the confederate states left northern states clamoring for more legislation. It turns out that the many pushes for changes to bankruptcy laws often follow an economic downturn, generally at the request of large creditors; this ping-pong persisted well into the twentieth century, with repeal efforts following any slight accommodation for debtors. In 1910, Congress offered corporations voluntary mechanisms for voluntary debt discharge, something fought vehemently by creditors hoping for harsher provisions. For twenty years, the battle waged on, edging finally into the Great Depression during Herbert Hoover's administration. As expected, creditors and debtors alike rushed to the nanny state for new protections in light of unforeseen, devastating economic realities. By 1938, sufficient support was available to pass the Chandler Act, named for its primary advocate Congressman Walter Chandler, Democrat from Tennessee, reviewed in an article appearing in The Fordham Law Review in 1940. Though we'll pass over the technical details, suffice it to say the Chandler Act represented a study-driven overhaul aimed at updating the Nelson Act of 1898. For forty years, minor changes appeared here and there, until the passage of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, a culmination of ten years of hearings and studies, replacing the Nelson Act entirely. In the years to follow, Congress continued adjustments here and there, representative of the dual difficulties in corporations and creditors fighting to further ensnare debtors while often suffering the same fate themselves. The complete history is quite interesting, and one can find a worthy read in Charles Jordan Tabb's The History of the Bankruptcy Laws of the United States.
Further, according to Jeremy Simon while writing for CreditCards.com , the so-called bankruptcy reform passed in 2005, misleadingly called "Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act," increases the deluge of credit offers to recent filers of bankruptcy : the longer waiting period and tighter restrictions for a subsequent filing offers these sharks the opportunity to bathe in the blood of consumers.
Baker attacks the absurd bankruptcy reform from a different perspective : first, true proselytes of the free market should not want government protection for lenders who make bad choices; in a free market, they would naturally default themselves. Second, this very protection expands conservative nanny state's role in the economy rather significantly by empowering it further as a debt collector, contravening further the argument that smaller government is a genuine objective. As suggested above, the leap in national credit card debt in recent years can't possibly follow the capacity for repayment, so these lending institutions generally need not concern themselves with stated objectives of offering credit; upon failure to collect bad debts, they can, as Noam Chomsky says, "run cap in hand to the nanny state." The bankruptcy bill is one such startling example, though the ugliest hypocrisy of all followed with the bank bailout during the financial crisis : banks need the government to help them crush consumers, but when they run aground, they require a big, powerful state to save them.
ensure that creditors are protected.
In a more competitive environment, any creditor could loan any nation needed funds, easily undercutting adversary firms with lower interest rates. Creditors instead unionize through the IMF to drive nations into bankruptcy. Baker argues that risk is the business of lenders, and they should suffer the consequences for making bad choices.
Baker takes up the topic of tort reform, a favorite windmill the quixotic chicken-littles of the nanny state frequently fan in the faces of the public. We're told frequently that greedy lawyers and ne'er-do-wells are robbing hardworking industrialists blind, and that the nanny state must artificially curtail the requisite damages paid by these innocent business elites. It's most reminiscent of Ronald Reagan's inane, racist complaint that "welfare queens" are driving "welfare Cadillacs". In fact, the conservative nanny state caters to a host of fascinating topics losing the good hard-working conservatives hours of sleep at nightly, including criminal innocence-by-insanity, lazy people loafing off disability benefits, and, most recently, insistence that illegal immigrants are committing vicious, hideous crimes, a blatant and highly destructive lie repeated ad nauseum by Donald Trump. It turns out, quite expectedly for anyone willing to devote a paltry few minutes to research, that none of these would-be blights on society actually exist to any appreciable extent. In fact, tax fraud by wealthy elites is a far more pervasive problem than any of the strawmen aforementioned.
And yet these myths leave an indelible imprint on the impressionable minds of the nanny state's protectors. Take torts for instance; Baker describes two stories I remember growing up hearing, the black woman who sued McDonald's for burning her with coffee, and the story of a property owner sued by an intruder who was injured on the owner's property in the course of a burglary. Astonishingly powerful is the propaganda surrounding the cases, as we in a poorer segment of society literally would fall over ourselves to defend the honor of McDonald's and this property owner.
I happened upon the McDonald's case again during a legal presentation at Southern Methodist University; the legal scholar offered a piece of the case I hadn't heard in my household : the woman only asked for medical coverage from McDonald's, as they had received hundreds (more likely thousands) of complaints through the years that coffee served at 180 degrees Fahrenheit is dangerously hot. Baker points out one more piece of the puzzle : McDonald's served their coffee at such a high temperature to mask the bad taste of a cheap brew, thereby increasing profits while distributing the cost to burned consumers. Again, this is reminiscent of the Ford Pinto case we discussed previously.
The Consumer Attorneys of California offer a good read on the McDonald's case; suffice it to say a 79 year-old woman spilled the coffee on her thighs, burning herself so badly that she required skin grafting. McDonald's, putting customers first, refused to help her until a court compelled them to make up for their mistakes. The case of the burglary really was about a high school student climbing on the roof of a gym on school property, and a skylight, painted over, gave way when he stepped on it. A court correctly asserted that public facilities ought to have better protections in place.
Both of these cases are rare instances in which a court awards damages for torts, or wrongs leading to civil liability. It turns out that less than three percent of civil cases ever lead to a jury trial, as most are decided much earlier, generally through settlement. It's revealing to consider a favorite of the tort reformists, medical malpractice. In the last four decades, tort reform aimed at streamlining the malpractice liability system has managed to shift larger and larger profits into the pockets of insurance companies; Kenneth Thorpe, professor at Emory, published an article in Health Affairs discussing trends in states adopting caps on medical damages, finding a statistically significant decrease in premiums but inconclusive on whether the liability system is genuinely deterring substandard care. Further, it might come as a surprise that few victims of malpractice actually sue; a Harvard study published some years ago found that only one in eight victims ever leverage the court system. More recent work appearing in Medscape suggests the number is closer to one in twelve, and that doctors have at their disposable proven means of reducing the probability of lawsuits. Interestingly, members of my family have had opportunities here and there to sue for malpractice, yet they never did, often citing the "litigious" nature of society, a win for propagandists.
Baker continues the discussion with a partial explanation of the more general costs associated with the current legal system, and that standardizing law and removing much arcane procedure could drive down prices. But he contends, I think correctly, that limiting fees for lawyers' services contravenes market ideology. Fighting corporations is nasty business, as anyone who's ever had to deal with a medical insurance company knows. And despite what nanny state conservatives may tell us, the deck is very heavily stacked in their favor.
He also points to the importance of punitive damages, in that suing and punishing a corporation for endangering the public is, in fact, a public service. It's hard to even quantify the damage done by McDonald's broiling hot coffee policy, all in the name of profits. I'm reminded of all the time one waits on hold when trying to reach customer service for any company, be it cell phone providers, internet providers, or, as mentioned before, insurance companies. In the interest of profits, these companies understaff their departments, using badly recorded music and automated menus to delay customers for several minutes, sometimes hours. These hidden costs, or externalities, don't directly figure into their budgets, as someone else pays that price. Punishing them for bad service seems perfectly in keeping with market ideology.
Baker ends the chapter with a short discussion on "takings," or costs exacted by the government in exchange for property confiscation or laws and regulations which reduce the value of property. That is, so-called property owners, or corporations, might be quite unhappy when the government enforces regulation limiting how much they can pollute on their property, perhaps cutting down profits or lessening the value of owning the property. And yet, when government intervention substantially increases the value of property through infrastructure and habitat clean-up, property owners happily accept the benefits without a direct repayment to the taxpayer. For instance, farmland along the major interstate near my hometown, Interstate 35, was not particularly valuable before the interstate was constructed. Commercial zones along the interstate are quite a boon for landowners, as gas stations become quite important along long stretches of highways.
The major point here is that nanny state conservatives dislike any regulatory action diminishing property value but freely accept every last penny they can bilk from beneficial government action. Baker nicely suggests that true devotees of market ideology ought to accept freely that lessening of property values due to government intervention is a cost of doing business, and if they were savvier customers, they'd have foreseen it, harkening to the dogma of personal responsibility they hold so dear.
Next time, we'll conclude this series with a brief summary of Baker's discussion on small businesses and taxes.


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Local animal shelter officials warn pets are not temporary Christmas gifts
By Heather Ruppe
This is the time of year when kids tend to ask Santa for the one big object: a puppy. Unfortunately, the puppy tends to become a burden after the joy of Christmas morning and can sometimes be pounded once the friendliness of the puppy wears off or the animal becomes annoying.
Animals are not gifts or toys. These are lifelong responsibilities, just like children. "Currently, the main reasons people give as to why they abandon their pets at the shelter are the fact that they have a puppy that has grown to a size that makes it difficult for the parent of the pet to manage. change in life situations such as entering an assisted living facility or moving in with moving family and family members and leaving a pet behind, "said Laura Clark, director of animal services at Colleton County.
"I think all of this points to decisions to have a pet without fully considering an animal's lifespan."
According to Clark, dogs and cats live an average of 12 to 15 years. "It is heartbreaking for humans, and especially for pets, when these decisions to give up a pet are made," she said. "We also encourage potential dog owners to research the dog breeds they are considering and determine if they can meet the training, daily exercise and containment needs that this breed will require.
"Buying or adopting a dog strictly on its appearance can result in a bad match," Clark said.
Clark encourages the use of websites, such as https://dogtime.com/dog-breeds, to help people make the best decision in choosing the right dog for them.
Some things to consider when buying a pet are the emotional needs of the animal and the cost of caring for a pet.
All research indicates that dogs are extremely intelligent. In a June 2021 study published in the Journal of Current Biology, even an 8-week-old puppy can understand human emotions through facial expressions, and the puppy could follow a pointing finger and enjoy socializing with people, the puppy says. 'study.
Additionally, future pet owners should consider that raising a pet can cost $ 2,750 to $ 3,400 per year. Pet insurance helps pay bigger medical bills, but it's an additional monthly expense.
What will become of pandemic pets?
Federal government destroys suspected dog-fighting site in Placerville – Times-Herald
Daniel Henney finds forever home for former breeding dog
Do you have a hot dog? Some breeds are more vulnerable to heat, says BC SPCA – Coast Mountain News
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Decimals are the core fundamental of all financial markets. All decimals have dots, sometimes called periods, the dot or period indicates a place value that is less than the ones place. In the case of money, a decimal point indicates the cents. The decimal point separates numbers that are less than one from numbers that are smaller. Anything to the left of decimal is more than one and anything to the right of the decimal place is a value that is less than one.
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How to Sell RSS (Or Where the Feed Fanboys Drop the Ball)
written by Brian Clark
I see these lists all the time, and they never cease to amaze me.
Steve Rubel offers us a post entitled "35 Ways You Can Use RSS Today."
Here's a few samples:
Get hotel deals from Marriott
Learn a new word every day using RSS
Track the latest sales with Dealcatcher
Subscribe to the Target circular
Subscribe to movie reviews
Go ahead and check out all 35 if you'd like.
Now, tell me — couldn't you rewrite that headline to read:
"35 Ways People Used Email in 1998 (And Still Do Today)"
I mean, come on. Just as an obvious example, people have been learning a new word via email for forever. And heck, even I published an aggregated movie review ezine back in the 90s!
Worse, every single one of the 35 listed by Rubel can be done with email today. It's not like opt-in content delivery originated with RSS feeds.
Here's the point.
Recently released studies re-affirm that people love getting content by email, and don't get why they should switch to RSS. Of course when you ask the question "Do you want to aggregate RSS feeds?" and get a negative response, it's as if you had asked "Do you want to access Web pages with HTTP?" in 1995 (good one, Scott!).
Regardless, people simply don't like change. And when you tout RSS on the basis that it does the exact same thing as email when it comes to content delivery, you'll get nothing more than a shrug and a blank look.
The way to sell RSS is to tell people why it's better than email for them.
Or, as Kevin O'Keefe of LexBlog correctly commented, RSS "beats email all to heck." Now, we just need to tell people why.
And I agree that we've got to stop calling it RSS. It's just not going to fly with the masses.
I'm warming up to "content feed" myself. What do you think?
Please feel free to offer any brilliant feed branding ideas in the comments. 🙂
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Mike Sansone says
Content Feeds is a good term, though it gets the same quizzical look.
Elevator Pitch: If Knowledge is Power and Time is Money, think of Content Feeds as a way to gain Knowledge without wasting Time.
Porch Pitch: Gain Knowledge. Save Time.
Brian says
The term "Email" got quizzical looks in 1995.
How many times have we said it…
There are no new ideas, just new implementations/adaptations.
Same song, new dude covering it.
I did learn something, though….you have a great page you're letting us steal ( RSS info ) and all we have to do is link back.
I'm gonna steal the HTML, link back and then steal the idea of creating a page to let people steal for a link !
David Krug says
I think it just has to do with the concept. It's so geeky. We need to make RSS as simple as email. Or more simple. The nice thing about RSS is its spamless.
The nice thing about email is its a concept everyone has already bought into.
Kevin OKeefe says
RSS is its name and it's not going to change. Hell in '96, I had no idea what the Internet or the WWW were. They sounded very geeky, something akin to some national security people working with connected computers.
RSS will be common place when Microsoft gets its software out with RSS incorporated into its very core – outlook, IE, and word. That'll start with IE 7 later this year.
Until then RSS will be spread virally, even if it is slowly.
kareem says
Having worked for big media for the last 3+ years, and talking w/ users, I've come to understand that most ppl don't use the word "content"–it's very industry-specific.
Plus, it's somewhat redundant. Everything you get from an RSS feed is content.
So… how about, simply, "feeds"?
Robert Bruce says
RSS is the delivery kid on the bike.
An aggregator is the porch he throws your newspaper on.
Too long, I know.
Like email, but no spam.
Maybe that is totally wrong, but I like it.
Markus says
"Fast Feed" or "Clean Feed"
I think the word "content" in "content feed" is still too out there for the average user. Sell them on benefit (fast) while maintaining some semblence of originating terminology (feed).
Jason Yip says
I'd agree that you shouldn't use RSS to describe content feeds since that's just the technology that enables it and it's not the only one. For example, Blogger only provides Atom feeds by default.
I like "content feeds". I like the "no spam" pitch. But really, I don't see why I would want to bother "selling RSS".
I subscribe to feeds because I get too much e-mail and too much spam and some of the content isn't available otherwise (unless I visit the site directly which I'm not going to do) and I like aggregation.
I don't subscribe to feeds to get junk info that wastes my nearly non-existent free time.
Great ideas and thoughts everyone. Kevin, you're right… and I've written before about waiting for Microsoft to get it together and ship IE7 and Vista.
It really annoys me to wait on MS though. 🙂
Jason, the only reason you'd want to "sell RSS" is as a publisher. Although people love getting content by email, they don't trust all that many people with their email address. That lack of trust can negatively impact subscription numbers, while RSS solves everyone's problems.
Baxter says
As a developer, the most compelling thing about RSS to me is the ability to pull a lot of stuff from a lot of disparate sources into one place, and then – since they're in a standardized format – use them to my hearts content.
One example you see fairly often is pulling the National Weather Service feed and creating an image representing the weather (see http://www.ljworld.com/).
In other words, you can do a lot of cool stuff with it.
Patsi Krakoff says
What's in a name? How can you sell something called RSS?
Reminds me of 'global warming'…sounds so 'nice' nobody gets upset, until they really find out what it means.
Somebody please come up with a better name than RSS! Benefits oriented please.
It's ironic that we are discussing making RSS more user friendly when you consider what RSS actually stands for.
Jake Hobsen says
I've seen the future of RSS. It's a Web 2.0 (the real kind) interface that never uses the phrase RSS…but it is working it hard in the background. I've been asked to work on a testing team and it is amazing for the normal person. Geeks might not like it, but isn't that the point, getting it to the regular people.
I know that the team is going to release beta next Monday to their pre-registered users, so signup if you want to see it.
Sorry to pitch it, not my product, but I haven't been this amazed since…uh..email came out.
chartreuse says
RSS, Agreggators and stuff like that confuses the hell out of us regular folks.
Instead of telling me why RSS is better than email, show me.
The spam free comment someone made was good. But something tells me that may not be enough.
And I have no idea what an agreggator is. Really.
Jim Logan says
It's not what's better about RSS, it's how I benefit from the difference.
That's what's missing from the RSS sales pitch.
The examples of use I've seen numerous places, Rubel's post included, miss the point. It's not that I can get an update on a hotel deal…if that's all RSS gives me…why use it?
Jim, exactly. That's why my approach to an RSS tutorial started with the reader asking "Why should I care?"
Chartreuse, I know you use an RSS aggregator. It's called My Yahoo. Most popular one there is out there for "regular folks."
>>>Instead of telling me why RSS is better than email, show me.
>>>Give me an example.
Click through the links in the post (or above in this comment) and you'll see I've tried to do just that.
And you can remix it for free on your blog.
Really. 🙂
Rob in Denver says
While I agree that the names of these things poses a problem for a lot of people (neither my dad nor my wife will ever get it), I have the feeling we're sort of stuck with them. It's too bad:"RSS" makes for a nice abbreviation, but it doesn't read well.
Although, just using "feeds" might be the eventual term that's accepted into idiom. "Newsreader" and "Newsfeed," even though they're not wholly accurate terms, might also work. It's not like its never happened before where the online world is concerned (eg. World Wide Web vs. Internet).
da5id says
Lets call it "Push Technology" 😉
>>>Lets call it "Push Technology" 😉
Just in case anyone's confused, that's a joke!
What a complete blunder "push" was…
Ara Pehlivanian says
I think "feed" works best and when pushing your content I think "subscribe" is the word to use. When someone decides they'd like to subscribe, then they have the option of choosing either the feed or by email.
You're right though, nobody says "send it to me by smtp" 😉
At the time email was coined, everyone knew what was meant by the term "mail". Email, then, was mail sent electronically. The word is helpful because it used a word/concept that people were familiar with. Stick an "e" on the front and people began to understand that this was simply a different way to get "mail".
RSS has no base word to connect to the psyche of the masses. Feed is not such a word. Most people when they hear "feed" are going to think of a farm and pigs. "News feed" is redundant, plus "feed" is involved. One suggestion would be "enews". Though that is too general a term. "Enews" could be a website, email or RSS. Similar terms could be "einfo", "escoop", "eessay","efeature", "estory".
David Jackmanson says
I saw the study a couple of days ago on Problogger.net and immediately changed the words 'RSS' feed on my blog to:
"Use this RSS feed to send new stories on Lets Take Over to a feed reader like bloglines.com – its a simple way to get stories from lots of sites sent to the one place, instead of visiting lots of websites yourself."
Personally, I prefer the less intrusive nature of RSS feeds, compared to email. I wonder if that is one of the killer selling points you demand?
David, that's exactly the killer selling point (with a bit of elaboration of course).
Briscoe says
I would describe it as someone can "subscribe" to a "feed" and view it through a "feed reader".
Doug Cummings says
It seems that the name RSS refers to an enabling technology, and the components of the RSS ecosystem will be broken apart and given names in their own right. Briscoe probably nails it when he says "feeds", "readers". As Feeds become more complex and able to do more than just transmit info, we'll see more specialized names for these.
One more thing; there are lots of differences between RSS and email. When you subscribe to a new feed, you also get access to all the Poster's old posts, but when you subscribe to a new email, you only get future emails. RSS readers take care of organizing content based on who sent it, where email requires user intervention to do so. RSS feeds allow updating of information, whereas an email is an artifact once it is sent. RSS also allows community alteration of a message, where email suffers in this regard. And much more. I can actually see a future where RSS replaces email in ways beyond simply broadcasting information.
>>One more thing; there are lots of differences between RSS and email.
No argument there, Doug. Maybe someone should tell Steve Rubel. 🙂
I think the point of the post was more about marketing than explaining what the terms mean. The difference?
Would you go to the grocery store and buy something that was labeled "lycopersicon lycopersicum soup" or would you buy something called "tomato soup"?
"RSS", "feed", "subscribe" are all terms of our technical field. They do not jive with beginners or the masses. While I'm not necessarily advocating dumbing down, one does need to find words that connect with potential users.
Neil J. Squillante says
RSS feeds need to become invisible to the user. This scenario already exists on iTunes for podcasts and vodcasts. Very few people understand what lies behind their favorite podcasts.
Blogs present a problem, however. I just don't see Microsoft building a searchable library of blogs into Outlook since Outlook is an enterprise product at heart. No other email program has a large enough installed base to make subscribing to text RSS feeds as widespread as subscribing to audio/video feeds in iTunes. And Web browsers don't make good RSS readers.
For this reason, I believe podcasts and vodcasts will surpass blogs in terms of audience size. Plus, most people prefer listening/watching to reading anyway. In short, a blog's best friend will remain the search engine, not the RSS feed.
jf says
I toss into the ring "email feed" or any similar name that builds off email since at least some of the functionality will be understood. That's one foot in the door. And put the word under the icon until the two become melded & then you can ditch the email feed or other buzz bite words.
Also a talking gecko to promote it…oh wait that's already been done…
Interesting perspective in your last paragraph Neil, with which I respectfully disagree (you must be listening to Anne Holland).
It's not that audio and video are not the next big thing, because they already are. It's just incorrect cause-and-effect thinking that results in people declaring blogs and RSS as on the way out simply because audio and video are being deployed.
Kinda like TV would kill radio, right?
Look for a post very soon regarding my thoughts on this, and then you can tell me if I'm wrong. 🙂
And Joseph, I love that gecko (even though I ditched Geico for Progressive).
Dirk Plantinga says
Today, RSS subscriber is often a stronger relationship than an e-mail newsletter recipient. If you get someone to subscribe to your feed, you are relevant to them. And you're not likely to be lost in the clutter of their inbox.
ann michael says
One problem with RSS is that if you haven't determined that you have a need to pull content together – it's irrelevant. Combine that with the fact that aggregation forces the average "content consumer" to have to go somewhere outside of their normal routine and you have another roadblock.
I use a Google homepage – even though it's NOW where I spend a lot of the day – it wasn't 5 months ago. What made me change my ways? It was discovering quality blog content that I wanted to follow. So either give people the need to pull resources together so they look for a solution or wait until Outlook provides the aggregation platform (which is probably one way the "early/late majority" will discover blog content).
Glenn (Customer Service Experience)Ross says
I'm of the belief that "it's not what you sell, it's how you sell it." Let's push the term "RSS" into the background right next to HTML. Taking a cue from the commenter who talked about how the "e" was put in front of "mail" because "mail was a recognizable term, let's call it "r-mail." (No, you don't want to call it "F-mail:-)
I can see a tutorial: "Use e-mail when you want… Use r-mail when you want…"
You've got a hell of a debate going Brian. But this has been debated between Dave Winer and Microsoft before. As Dave said, you don't need to give something that already has a name a new name. It's RSS.
RSS already has orange buttons all over the net. If Yahoo believed for a minute that it would not be called RSS, they would not have changed their buttons' text from 'XML' to RSS. Expect the New York Times to fall in place soon.
Heh… Kevin, I don't even think there's an answer to be had. I just love hearing what everyone thinks. 🙂
Des Walsh says
Very stimulating post and discussion. I don't like 'RSS' but then who really likes 'blog' as a word?
What I'm starting to find is that some people get overwhelmed by even the thought of trying to keep up with what's appearing on various blogs and other websites. The ability to create their 'own newspaper' which actually picks up the stories and delivers or holds an exandable list of headlines and excerpts for them seems appealing. I ask, do you read everything in your daily paper or skim for what you are interested in? Same thing. As has been said here a few times, benefits not techtalk.
Brian, you misunderstood my point. Blogs will continue to grow, not decline. It's just that podcasts/vodcasts will likely grow faster (thanks in large part to iTunes). It's kind of like the Mac's market share slipping despite Apple selling more computers than ever before — the market for Windows PCs grows even faster.
As for Anne Holland, I like her a lot and recently spoke at one of her conferences, but I'm quite capable of forming my own opinions about online media.
Neil, gotcha. In that case, we agree completely.
As people get more confortable with audio and video creation, the blog (which will return to being called a website) and RSS (which will be the behind the scenes subscription engine) will be the foundation and the launch pad for an entire array of multimedia interactions between author and audience.
Hmm. Who said r-mail? I like that, but I think someone tried it last year.
feedmail?
webfeedmail
textfeed
What I like, though, is that there are so many passionate people who want to see RSS succeed, regardless of its name.
It's dawning on me now that maybe in this case, due to the lack of a name the average (non-techy) Internet user can follow, publishers may simply have to sell the features of RSS.
But don't exclude the term "RSS" in promotions. The use of at least a common graphic (the orange button) will probably have to do for now for cueing readers that they can subscribe to a website.
Anand Dhingra says
Why not call it "Webcasting"?
Tammy Ames says
As someone that is on the other side of the coin – I love reading blogs, I love blogging and I know that RSS is by its name and design – SIMPLE but I prefer to subscribe to blogs via feedblitz because I like it to arrive in my email.
The issue with that is the time delay and not getting the comments but I get an initial view like I'm on your blog.
If I'm a hard sell when it comes to dealing with readers then yes – there has to be a much better reason to adapt to the technology. Bloglines is my first step closer to that.
Great discussion. Tammy
Shelly says
Personally, I just call it a subscription when discussing it with people who don't get rss. "Feeds" is part of the hangup for them. Subscriptions, they understand. I explain that they can subscribe to something through email, which will clutter their email box if they read more than a few blogs or services (news, weather, whatever). This usually resonates with people who get overwhelmed by the volume of email they receive.
Whereas, a newsreader of some sort will congregate their subs all in one place and can include things they can't access via email. Sometimes, when I explain this in person, I can almost see the little lightbulb go off over their head.
KayJay Shelley says
I love communication riddles.
I like the idea of -mail, because eMail is concise, familiar, memorable, and ubiquitous.
Since email is the to and fro of static messages, couldn't RSS feeds become synonymous with the to and fro of "dynamic" messages?
I think it already does. It's a simple but powerful distinction, yet allows the technology room to do (and mean) more to folks down the road – as long as it denotes dynamic rather than static content:
zMail (z for zipper or xyZ dimensional)
dMail (d for dynamic)
tMail (t for ticker or time, time-based)
Each rhymes with eMail too. I think phonetic similarity adds to recognition, memory, and resonance of meaning too.
Hope Leman says
It is very unfair to Steve Rubel to attack for not going into the subject of email given that his post was about RSS. Besides, thanks to Rmail and FeedYes and similar tools, most everything that has an RSS feed can be turned into an email alert. Rubel is doing valuable work in publicizing the value of RSS.
How about calling aggreating, "chunking"? "Whoa, I am behind on my chunks." "I forwarded a great chunk to you today." "Subscribe to this chunkalunk." "Great text chunk. Is there a pod chunk one?"
Hope, you've hopelessly missed the point (no pun intended). I certainly don't want Rubel to talk about email… but by listing a bunch of non-revolutionary things that RSS can do, that's what he essentially did. He told people that RSS does what email already does, without explaining why RSS is better than email, and therefore why anyone should care.
Get it? 🙂
I'm not even going to touch "chunking."
Brian: Thank you for your nice note. I can see your point better now except that I don't think the services Rubel listed are offered in email form. Therefore, RSS is the gateway to utilizing them via email via Rmail and other tools. That is why RSS is so useful and that is what I think Rubel was getting at. And most people are not inclined to the revolutionary. They like the mundane and that is what Rubel is realistic about.
But I am known for not getting the point and I appreciate your courteous elucidation of these things.
Most, if not all, of the items on the list have been, or are still currently, delivered by email, either from the same source or some other source.
And I hope I didn't offend you… I was being very cheeky in my previous response, but I know I can come across the wrong way when I do that. 🙂
Not offended. You are very sweet.
Very interesting discussion. Wonderful blog.
RePeet says
What is happening with RSS FEEDS?
You are being fed with information…
So, why not just call it "FEED ME"!!!
Have a Good One*
Alexis Bellido says
Great discussion.
I think "feed", "subscribe to feed" and "RSS" should continue to be used.
When words like "email", "www" and "website" (a web? that's what spiders do, right?) appeared some years ago, they also sounded geekish.
Now we can hear people saying, "hey!, why don't you just visit double u, double u, double u, whatever dot com…" I mean, they even spell the three "w", although we don't need it anymore.
Let's keep telling our readers, friends, wife (mine still doesn't get it) and everybody else about the benefits of RSS.
Once they get it and start using feeds everyday, the terms will be just business as usual, like "fax", "email", "ipod" and "pda".
Trying to find, or invent, new fancy words would just add to the confusion.
Besides, we can't compare these days to the nineties. When email and the web arrived we had nothing to compare to.
Now, the average Joe and Jane are a little more techie than last decade and their kids were born in the Internet era. I think they can get it easier. It's just a matter of time.
Patricia Crabtree says
After I finally figured out how to use and read the thing, like e-mail, I do like the concept. And I do agree, that RSS needs another name…so here's my two cents — Qik-mail or Q-mail, and oh yes, I like R-mail too.
See ya.
Gayle Alvis says
Observing trends — it doesn't have to be descriptive just pronouncable: NASA, laser, modem. Make it rsyn, riss, or whatever — it will join the vernacular.


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Germany's Julia Zorn played internationally both as a goaltender and as a forward. Photo: Andre Ringuette / HHOF-IIHF Images
7 April 2012. In the history of international hockey there has been but one player who has appeared as both a goaltender and a skater: Germany's Julia Zorn.
The 25-year-old from Grafeling started her international career at the first ever U18 Women's World Championship, in Calgary in 2008. That year she was a goaltender, playing all five games for Germany and compiling a 3-0-2 record, allowing just 12 goals. The Germans finished a respectable fifth, going home without a medal but knowing they'd remain in the top pool for 2009.
"I started being a goalie at age seven," Zorn related later. "My coach gave me a goalie stick as a present, so after that I wanted to play goal. I used player skates for the first three years. I didn't get goalie skates until I was ten."
But almost as soon as she started playing with the junior national team as a goalie, she was already thinking about tossing aside the pads.
"I always wanted to be a skater," she continued. "I stickhandled a lot in my free time because it's fun. My friends and I would play street hockey, and I was always a shooter, not a goalie. Then I had a foot injury, and I couldn't play goal because the movement was difficult. So my coach suggested that I just start to skate first to get into shape and get back on the ice because he knew I could skate. It was so much fun for me, so I decided to be a skater. This was 2008/09."
Zorn made the senior national team the very next year, playing in Division I, and in 2011 she helped the team win that event to qualify for the top pool in Burlington, Vermont for 2012.
When she stepped on the ice as a forward in her first game, on 7th April 2012, against Switzerland, she made IIHF history. And late in the second period, she scored the game-winning goal in a 3-2 win.
Even though she was still learning how to play forward, her four goals in 2012 was top on the team and among the tournament leaders. In 2013, the Germans finished fifth, and at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Zorn managed to score once, the former goalie now an Olympic scorer.
"I would always choose being a skater," she admitted. "It's more fun, maybe because of the way it is in the German league for women. When I was a goalie, my team was strong, so sometimes we would win games 16-0, and I was just standing in goal for an hour doing nothing."
Barring unforeseen circumstances, Zorn will be back with Germany when it travels to Malmo for the 2015 Women's Worlds, her career as a skater firmly entrenched, but her history as a goaltender something made for the record books.


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7th President of the University of Virginia
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Alma mater B.A. from University of Virginia (1965)
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Casteen served as Virginia's Secretary of Education from 1982 to 1985. Following that position, he was president of the University of Connecticut[1].
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Casteen received the Paul Goodloe McIntire Citizenship Award in 2009 for his service to the community. [3] [4]
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