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Tiger Woods woke up feeling good, so he'll give the BMW Championship a go
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14 August 2019, 6:15 am
Tiger Woods will play at the BMW Championships and 'give it a go.' (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
Tiger Woods woke up Tuesday and decided play the BMW Championship after withdrawing from last week's The Northern Trust.
The championships are the second of three FedExCup Playoff events and begin Thursday at Medinah Country Club in Illinois.
Tiger Woods: 'I feel good'
Woods appeared at the club Tuesday afternoon and told reporters it wasn't until that morning he decided he would compete. Via Golfweek:
"I feel good. Feel a lot better than I felt last week. Felt good this morning, so I thought I'd give it a go."
Woods planned to get treatment on Tuesday and wasn't anticipating taking a practice round, according to ESPN. He would instead try and work on his short game if there was a chance, per ESPN.
Woods has a 7:50 a.m. ET tee time Wednesday for the Gardner Heidrick Pro-Am. He'll tee off Thursday at 12:54 p.m. ET with C.T. Pan and Billy Horschel in the first round.
Woods dealing with mild oblique strain
Woods withdrew from last week's tournament due to a mild oblique strain that caused pain and stiffness. He struggled through a plus-4 in the first round, 13 strokes behind the leader.
It was the first time he withdrew from a tournament since having spinal fusion surgery in April 2017.
Mark Steinberg, Woods' agent, said last week he was "being smart." Via ESPN:
"I've said in the past, years ago, he just would have continued to play through all of this. If he had the same mentality he had years and years ago, he wouldn't be playing golf at all right now. He said it again the other day, this is the new normal. He's had multiple surgeries all over his body. These things now are not debilitating enough to keep him out for months at a time, but just enough that he can't compete at the level he needs to compete at. He shouldn't put himself in a position where he could put himself out for a long period of time. If you feel you should not go, you should not go."
Woods avoids playing back-to-back tournaments but announced last month he would make a run at The Tour Championships title, which he won last year. It was his first victory since 2013.
He's currently 38th in the FedEx Cup standings and will need a good showing to advance to the Tour Championship in Atlanta. The top 30 in the cup standings after the BMW Championship advance to The Tour Championship.
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Further, Growth Matrix gave in the report brings an insight into the investment areas that existing or new market players can consider.Report Findings1) Drivers The increasing healthcare expenditure and advancements in the technology and technique to treat patients by minimally invasive methodsSystems help in decreasing chronic pain and hospital stay, and upsurges the accuracy of surgery, hence being a preferred option 2) Restraints The high cost of installation and maintenance of the medical robotic system 3) Opportunities The increasing geriatric populations, who are more prone to higher risk injuries owing to their weak skeletal system Segment CoveredThe global medical robotic systems market is segmented on the basis of type, and application.The Global Medical Robotic Systems Market by Type Surgical RobotsNon-Invasive Radiosurgery Robotic SystemsProsthetics/ExoskeletonsAssistive and Rehabilitation SystemsNon-medical Robotics in Hospitals The Global Medical Robotic Systems Market by Application NeurologyOrthopedics Robotic SystemsLaparoscopySpecial Education What does this Report Deliver?1. Comprehensive analysis of the global as well as regional markets of the medical robotic systems market.2. Complete coverage of all the segments in the medical robotic systems market to analyze the trends, developments in the global market and forecast of market size up to 2026.3. Comprehensive analysis of the companies operating in the global medical robotic systems market. The company profile includes analysis of product portfolio, revenue, SWOT analysis and latest developments of the company.4. Growth Matrix presents an analysis of the product segments and geographies that market players should focus to invest, consolidate, expand and/or diversify. Key Topics Covered: 1. Preface1.1. Report Description1.2. Research Methods1.3. Research Approaches2. Executive Summary2.1. Medical Robotic Systems Market Highlights2.2. Medical Robotic Systems Market Projection2.3. Medical Robotic Systems Market Regional Highlights3. Global Medical Robotic Systems Market Overview3.1. Introduction3.2. Market Dynamics3.2.1. Drivers3.2.2. Restraints3.2.3. Opportunities3.3. Analysis of COVID-19 impact on the Medical Robotic Systems Market3.4. Porter's Five Forces Analysis3.5. Growth Matrix Analysis3.5.1. Growth Matrix Analysis by Type3.5.2. Growth Matrix Analysis by Application 3.5.3. Growth Matrix Analysis by Region3.6. Value Chain Analysis of Medical Robotic Systems Market4. Medical Robotic Systems Market Macro Indicator Analysis5. Global Medical Robotic Systems Market by Type5.1. Surgical Robots5.2. Non-Invasive Radiosurgery Robotic Systems5.3. Prosthetics/Exoskeletons5.4. Assistive and Rehabilitation Systems5.5. Non-medical Robotics in Hospitals6. Global Medical Robotic Systems Market by Application 6.1. Neurology6.2. Orthopedics Robotic Systems6.3. Laparoscopy6.4. Special Education7. Global Medical Robotic Systems Market by Region 2020-20267.1. North America 7.1.1. North America Medical Robotic Systems Market by Type7.1.2. North America Medical Robotic Systems Market by Application7.1.3. North America Medical Robotic Systems Market by Country7.2. Europe 7.2.1. Europe Medical Robotic Systems Market by Type7.2.2. Europe Medical Robotic Systems Market by Application7.2.3. Europe Medical Robotic Systems Market by Country7.3. Asia-Pacific 7.3.1. Asia-Pacific Medical Robotic Systems Market by Type7.3.2. Asia-Pacific Medical Robotic Systems Market by Application7.3.3. Asia-Pacific Medical Robotic Systems Market by Country7.4. RoW 7.4.1. RoW Medical Robotic Systems Market by Type7.4.2. RoW Medical Robotic Systems Market by Application7.4.3. RoW Medical Robotic Systems Market by Sub-region8. Company Profiles and Competitive Landscape8.1. Competitive Landscape in the Global Medical Robotic Systems Market8.2. Companies Profiled8.2.1. Stryker Corporation8.2.2. Intuitive Surgical8.2.3. Medtronic Plc8.2.4. Kinova Robotics8.2.5. Accuray Inc8.2.6. Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc.8.2.7. MAKO Surgical Corp8.2.8. 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Joe Biden said on Saturday he would never use the military "as a shield or private militia" as president and accused President Donald Trump of using US forces to settle "personal vendettas" and abuse the rights of civilians. In a virtual address to the general conference of the United States National Guard Organization, the Democratic presidential candidate said Trump suggested "that you should be mobilized to quote, 'dominate,' your fellow citizens for expressing their right to demonstrate peacefully."
In addressing the conference, Biden did not repeat the statement but vowed to restore the distinction between civilian and military forces which he called "the cornerstone principle of our republic." "It's been tested lately, but I promise you, as president, I'll never put you in the middle of politics or personal vendettas," the former vice president. "I'll never use the military as a prop or as a private militia to violate rights of fellow citizens. That's not law and order."
Trump also announced this week that federal troops were being sent to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where protests erupted after Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man, shot by police last weekend. Biden said that he was considering traveling to Wisconsin in an effort to ease the situation, but only if it could be done "safely" and without "on the ground" inflammation.
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Xinlei Xia1,
Wei Zhu1,
Xiang Jin1 &
Xiaosheng Ma1
An ideal animal model has always been the key to research the pathogenesis and treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), while available methods have obvious disadvantages. The deficiency of melatonin has been proved relating to AIS. In this research, we intended to apply Luzindole, the melatonin antagonist, in bipedal rat model, for the block of combination of melatonin and its receptor, to inhibit the melatonin effect, and then to understand whether this method can effectively improve the scoliosis rate of bipedal rat model, and investigate the role of melatonin in scoliosis. To investigate the feasibility of improving the success rate of bipedal rat scoliosis model via intraperitoneal injection of melatonin antagonist (Luzindole).
A total of 60 3-weeks-old Sprague-Dawley rats were included in this study, and were divided into 3 groups (A, B and C). Each group included 20 rats. Osteotomy of the bilateral proximal humerus and proximal tailbone was performed in group A and group B; intraperitoneal injection of Luzindole (0.2 mg/kg) was performed in group A and group C. X-rays were taken before the surgery, 1 month after the surgery, 3 months after the surgery, and 6 months after the surgery, to calculate the Cobb's angle of the spine (>10° was considered scoliosis). The weight of every rat was also measured at the same time. Rats were euthanized 6 months after surgery to determine the calmodulin level in thrombocytes.
The rate of scoliosis in group A (14/20) was significantly higher than those in group B (6/20) and group C (0/20) (P < 0.05). The differences in the weights of the 3 groups were non-significant; as were differences in the calmodulin level in thrombocytes.
The application of the melatonin antagonist of Luzindole can improve the success rate of the bipedal rat scoliosis model. Meanwhile, this study indicates that a decreased melatonin level is not the primary cause of scoliosis, but that it may increase the likelihood and severity of scoliosis.
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a three-dimensional spinal deformity that occurs around the puberty, though the cause is currently unclear [1, 2]. However, related randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies in humans are unethical [3]. Therefore, an ideal animal model has always been the key to researching the pathogenesis and treatment of AIS.
The bipedal rat model was established by Goff in 1957. In Goff's study, osteotomy of the bilateral proximal humerus and proximal tailbone was performed to make bipedal rats, and scoliosis could develop due to continuous weight bearing. Its beneficial qualities, including ease of induction, low cost, and the similar anatomical construction of rats to human beings, led to the widespread use of the bipedal rat model in studies on AIS [4]. However, due to a low success rate, the establishment of the bipedal rat model requires additional factors to increase the success rate [3, 5–8].
In 1959, Thillard unintentionally discovered that after pineal body excision, chickens always develop scoliosis, which indicates that abnormality of the melatonin level has a certain correlation with scoliosis [9]. Recent studies have shown that AIS patients have a lower melatonin level compared to individuals of the same age group, which indicates that a lower melatonin level has an explicit correlation with AIS [10, 11]. Therefore, a bipedal rat model with melatonin inhibition has been one of the major methods used to establish a scoliosis animal model. However, commonly used methods, such as pineal body excision [12, 13], continuous illumination [11, 14], and C57BL mice [7], still have some disadvantages, including their high cost, complicated preparation, and high mortality rate, among others etc. Some studies have even proved that a decreased melatonin level alone cannot effectively induce scoliosis [5], perhaps because the blood melatonin level has been partially inhibited, but the effect of melatonin has not been impacted.
Therefore, in this study, we administered Luzindole, a melatonin antagonist that blocks melatonin binding to its receptor, in the bipedal rat model, in order to inhibit the effects of melatonin. We sought to understand whether this method can effectively increase the scoliosis rate of bipedal rat model, and to investigate the role of melatonin in scoliosis.
This study was approved by the Ethic Committee of Fudan University, and all the procedures were completed in the Experimental Animals Department of Medical College of Fudan University. This study used 60 3-week-old Sprague-Dawley rats (SPF level), which were purchased from the Experimental Animals Department of the Medical College of Fudan University.
The rats used for the experiment were randomly separated into 3 groups (A, B and C), with 20 included in each group. All the rats were kept in indoor in cages with a room temperature of 22 ± 2 °C. Natural light or light was available from 8:00 – 20:00, and the lights were off during the remaining hours. Groups A and B were fed in raised cages by a qualified person, with adequate food and water. The height at which food and water were placed was modified based on the growth rate of the rats. After 1 week of adaptive growth, groups A and B underwent osteotomy of the bilateral proximal humerus and proximal tailbone following anesthetization (10% chloral hydrate 3 ml/kg intraperitoneal injection) [4, 13]. Rats in Group A and Group C received an intraperitoneal injection of the melatonin antagonist (Luzindole) (sigma, USA) at 0.2 mg/kg [15].
Weight was measured before the surgery, 1 month after the surgery, 3 months after the surgery, and 6 months after the surgery. X-rays (41kv, 2.80mAs) of the full spine were taken to calculate the Cobb's angle of the spine (>10° was considered scoliosis) at the same time. At the end of the experiment (6 months after the surgery), all rats were euthanized by overdose anesthetics, and thrombocytes were centrifugalized from venous blood to determine the calmodulin level by ELISA.
SPSS 12.0 was used for statistical analysis. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to determine whether the data of each group conformed to a Gaussian distribution. At each time point, the Kruskal-Wallis test was used to compare Cobb's angle, weight, and thrombocyte calmodulin level between groups. The scoliosis rates of different groups were compared using the chi-square test. A p value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
One rat in Group A died as a result of anesthetization, 1 rat in Group B died of infection, and all other rats lived to the end of experiment in healthy condition (data in Table 1). Before the surgery, scoliosis or other deformity was not observed in any of the rats (Cobb's angle: 2.7 ± 2.1°).
Table 1 Cobb's angle of each group at different time
There were no significant differences in scoliosis rate or severity of scoliosis between Group A and Group B (P > 0.05) (Fig. 1) at 1 month after surgery. At 3 months after surgery, the scoliosis rate in Group A was significantly higher than that in Group B (P < 0.05), but the difference in the severity of scoliosis was non-significant (Fig. 1). At 6 months after surgery, the scoliosis rate in Group A was significantly higher than that in Group B (P < 0.05), and the Cobb's angle of Group A was significantly greater than that of Group B (P < 0.05) (Fig. 1; Fig. 2). During the whole experiment, rats in Group C did not show any scoliosis, and the Cobb's angle of Group C was significantly smaller than those of Group A and Group B at any time point (P < 0.05) (Table 1).
Cobb's angles in each group of bipedal rats at different time. There were no significant differences between the Cobb's angle of Group A and Group B at the time before surgery, 1 month after surgery and 3 months after surgery (P > 0.05); At the time of 1 month after surgery, 3 months after surgery, 6 months after surgery, the Cobb's angle of both Group A and Group B was significantly bigger than that in Group C (P < 0.05)
X-ray films of bipedal rats in Group A and Group B 6 months after surgery. The scoliosis was more severe in the Luzindole-injected bipedal rats
The differences of the calmodulin level in thrombocyte among three groups were non-significant (Group A: 140.0 ± 9.6; Group B: 137.4 ± 8.6; Group C: 138.4 ± 7.8).As such no significant difference was found in data of weight among three groups (Table 2) (P > 0.05).
Table 2 Weight of each group at different time
This study proves that the application of the melatonin antagonist Luzindole can improve the success rate of the bipedal rat scoliosis model.
Compared to the non-injection group, most rats in the Luzindole injection group developed scoliosis by 3 months after surgery. This confirmed that the decrease in melatonin level during early growth facilitated scoliosis or the tendency to develop scoliosis. With weight gain, scoliosis may be aggravated because of the biomechanical factors of imbalance. Additionally, no additional rats in Group A developed scoliosis after 3 months after surgery and the increase in Cobb's angle was much greater than that in Group B.
However, in this study, we also showed that Luzindole injection alone could not induce scoliosis in rats, indicating that melatonin deficiency or inhibition is not sufficient to induce scoliosis. O'Kelly's study showed that the fore feet rats did not develop scoliosis after pineal body excision [5], which indicates that the role of melatonin deficiency in the pathogenesis of scoliosis is mostly synergistic; Wu's study has confirmed this finding [16].
In this study, the scoliosis rate in the Luzindole injection group was approximately 70%, and the remaining rats in the group did not show scoliosis at the end of the experiment. This may be attributable to a partial block of the melatonin receptor. Melatonin has two receptor subtypes in human body, MT1B and MT1A. Luzindole only blocks the high-affinity receptor, MT1B, while leaving the low-affinity receptor, MT1A, uninhibited [17]. This may impact the scoliosis rate. As such, there are two peaks in the melatonin level during the course of a day (12:00 and 18:00-20:00) [15, 16], and we only inhibited the second peak, while the first peak was not inhibited, which may have led to the low scoliosis rate. In addition, according to Benitez-King's report, melatonin can act as an antagonist of calmodulin, and calmodulin can also play an important role in the pathogenesis of scoliosis [18]. Akel's study proved that the application of a calmodulin antagonist can protect mice from scoliosis [19]. Therefore, after using Luzindole to block the melatonin receptor, there would be spare melatonin in the body, which may act as an antagonist of calmodulin to prevent scoliosis [20]. However, in this study, the calmodulin level did not show significant difference between the groups, which indicates that Luzindole was not overused. However, the most suitable dose remains to be investigated.
The small sample size is an additional limitation to the injection dose issue. More accurate results will require larger a sample size and a more refined group division. Meanwhile, the scoliosis rate may improve if Luzindole were injected at both daily melatonin peaks. This will need further study to determine.
AIS:
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
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This research is sponsored by Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (Project no.14140903800).
The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
SY and XM conceived and designed the study. XX, WZ and XJ performed the experiments. CZ, JJ and FL analyzed the data. SY and CZ wrote the manuscript. XM, JJ and FL reviewed and edited the manuscript. SY and CZ are co-first authors. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
The Ethic Committee of Fudan University has approved this study (No.TVII0036-2014036).
Department of Orthopedics, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, No.12, Middle Wulumuqi Road, Shanghai, 200040, China
Shuo Yang, Chaojun Zheng, Jianyuan Jiang, Feizhou Lu, Xinlei Xia, Wei Zhu, Xiang Jin & Xiaosheng Ma
Department of Orthopedics, The Fifth People's Hospital, Fudan University, No.128, Ruili Road, Shanghai, 200240, China
Feizhou Lu
Shuo Yang
Chaojun Zheng
Jianyuan Jiang
Xinlei Xia
Wei Zhu
Xiang Jin
Xiaosheng Ma
Correspondence to Xiaosheng Ma.
Yang, S., Zheng, C., Jiang, J. et al. The value of applying a melatonin antagonist (Luzindole) in improving the success rate of the bipedal rat scoliosis model. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 18, 137 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-017-1500-x
Received: 23 January 2017
Accepted: 22 March 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-017-1500-x
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Hackers Reportedly Got Ahold of People's Disney+ Log-Ins Almost Instantly
Locked out of their accounts, some subscribers have reported long waits to reach customer service
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On November 12, just hours after Disney launched its new streaming service, Disney+, complaints began surfacing that new subscribers—all of them desperate to watch The Mandalorian, no doubt—had been locked out of their accounts.
"Many users reported that hackers were accessing their accounts, logging them out of all devices, and then changing the account's email and password, effectively taking over the account and locking the previous owner out," ZDNet reports. According to the site's investigation, some people reported reusing passwords that hackers may have been able to obtain from others sites, while several claim they created unique passwords. In those cases, ZDNet says, "Disney+ credentials might have been obtained from users infected with keylogging or info-stealing malware."
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"Disney takes the privacy and security of our users' data very seriously," a company spokesperson said in a statement on Monday, "and if a customer suspects something else is going on, they should reach out to customer support immediately."
The problem is that it isn't easy to reach customer support. Disney apparently never anticipated it would register a mind-boggling 10 million subscribers the first day, and the customer support infrastructure has been inadequate. As a result, subscribers whose passwords were up for sale from $3 to $11, or available for free, on the Dark Net, have waited hours to report the incident, change their passwords, and regain service.
On November 15, one user tweeted, "Disney + launch has been absolutely horrible. Their customer service is no help at all and apparently hundreds of accounts were hacked and sold online. My account got hacked & email/password changed, thankfully I cancelled my subscription before the hack."
In its official statement, Disney was able to report that while customers were having trouble, it is not because of a technical error on Disney's part.
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If Disney does see "suspicious" activity, it shuts the account down: "As part of our standard operating procedures, if our systems notice suspicious login activity on a user's online account with the Walt Disney Company, as a precaution, we will lock their account and request a password reset."
"The speed at which hackers have mobilized to monetize Disney+ accounts is astounding," adds ZDNet. "Accounts were put up for sale on hacking forums within hours after the service's launch. As of this article's writing, hacking forums have been flooded with Disney+ accounts, with ads offering access to thousands of account credentials."
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The Service Pavilion first started out late summer of 2001 as the Arai Helmets Service Pavilion. The idea was brought to life by Robert through many experiences working with Arai helmet owners, racers and potential customers over the phone at the Arai office, at race events and anywhere else riders were!
The first time the pavilion was unveiled was at the 2001 AMA Superbike Road Race in Alton, VA at the Virginia International Raceway (VIR). (See photo above.) The reception was tremendous! The fans and consumers of Arai products were in amazement. It was a very successful weekend for everyone. Specialty fitting, technical services, warranties addressed, questions answered, very rare Arai apparel for sale, and even some great autograph sessions from Eric Bostrom, Tommy, Nicky, Roger Hayden and Jake Zemke just to name a few.
Well with that huge success, the decision back at Arai HQ was to continue this service on the road over the winter at the Cycle World International Motorcycle Shows Tour which traveled all over the USA. The momentum just continued to build. At the end of the tour during the 2002 Bike Week in Daytona Beach, FL, the decision to take it on the road to the AMA Superbike Series was made. This led to more success in ways no one had expected.
By the end of the 2002 racing season Robert had some job offers to move elsewhere in the industry. But he also had shown signs of wanting to go independent and possibly carry on the "pavilion torch" on his own. And the decision was made. "The Service Pavilion" was made its own entity from Arai Helmet Americas.
Everyone at Arai was in full support of the move. It was the best for everyone in every possible scenario. So on October 1st, 2002 THE SERVICE PAVILION was born!
-Here is a side story from Robert on things before 2001 and the creation of The Service Pavilion.
I had spent 99% of the 1990's working on and racing motorcycles professionally in the flat track genre. Trying to build my own professional career in racing with the support and help of my family and close group of friends in the motorcycling community. I had many successes and gains. I had some set-backs and losses. But would do it exactly the same way I think again. There is nothing I regret or question that I can think of at the moment.
Well I guess we'll start this off by taking you back to Fall of 2000. I was still racing professionally in the Grand National Flat Track Championship. I was in Portland, Oregon racing at Portland Speedway ½ mile on a brand new bike in a series then called "SuperTrackers". The new chassis was built by Richard Pollock from Poway, CA of MULE Motorcycle. –Check out www.mulemotorcycles.net to see his work! (See photos of the bike at the end of this article.) With a 1000cc Harley Davidson engine that the late Tim Russell and a few others had been helping us develop, I was having a really good day on the track. The new bike was working really well, the lap times were fast! But late in the one practice session I was involved in a bad crash from what I was told. I do not recall a lot of that situation. But here is an interesting detail. Jim Duffner of Trident Films had spoken to me about wearing a helmet cam for the race event. I said sure! Here is a YouTube link to that footage.
http://youtu.be/unD6FysoNnI
Every time I watch it, I seem to pull a little more detail of where things are. If you watch the video, at about the 2:50 minute mark the crash begins. Nothing spectacular I say from the view, but the mess that happens afterwards is the interesting stuff.
That was a day I'll always remember, and glad I do in many ways! Lonnie Kopp's engine locked up coming off turn 4 in practice. That's why you see his bike's rear end sliding in front of me in the video. The radar gun showed a 97 MPH impact speed when I hit him. We were down and at that point I was out cold. Told from there 3 other riders ran into the bikes, bodies & parts flying everywhere.
At the 3:00 minute mark on the video it goes to an infield camera view. The body you initially see in yellow and red leathers is me laying there. The camera pans up the straight away and you see people going to two other peoples bodies. Bikes were laying everywhere. But no one was really attending to me. Some other people there (Chris Carr and his crew of Kenny Tolbert and Travis Smith) have told me many times they thought I was" gone" already. With so many in the crash, track crew and emergency staff were going to the riders that were moving. They thought by the way my head and legs were twisted and turned, not much was going on with me.
What some people tell me now, it seemed like an eternity that no one was checking on me, but then I started moving and it surprised and even scared some of the emergency people. Not sure about Eli Price and Troy Rose's exact injuries, but I ended up with a pretty bad concussion. I remember waking up to someone telling me "Stay still." I said "OK". Then I remember going asleep again, (at least I felt like I did), then woke up to the guy telling my leg is broken. I said "OK" and thought to myself that's not too bad. I know I had some head injuries. Been there before! Went to sleep again and woke up to the guy telling me "Your leg's not broken but your leg is 4 inches shorter than your other one." I thought to myself, ok! That's not real bad, at least my legs not broke. Once in the hospital I learned my knee was torn apart. Tib and fib were up beside my femur! Only thing not torn was my main artery and the main nerve through the leg was partially torn. What can be gathered from the evidence from the accident is, I was laying on the track unconscious and a front wheel ran into the side of my knee. The leather kept my leg attached, but tore the knee apart from the impact and forced everything below the knee joint up beside my femur. Well in a nutshell, spent a week in the hospital in Oregon. Then I was flown home to PA. Then had my knee rebuilt. I spent the next 12 months in therapy and rehabilitation. I wish I would have broken my leg!
From that weekend all 6 of the riders survived the crash but 3 of us never made a return to professional dirt track racing, myself included. The rest is history...now just riding and racing for fun!!!
Jump to sometime after the accident in the fall of 2000. I was just about to take job that I was offered at Howell's Harley Davidson in New Kingstown, PA. Jim and Gwen Howell had been a big part of my professional racing career through the 90's and are like family to me to this very day. Just as I was about to take that job, I got a phone call from Brian Weston (Director) of Arai Helmets Americas. All said and done, I went to work for Arai. So over the next year and half I was led over a very steep learning curve experiencing the many facets of what goes on within a company such as Arai. I was brought in as a technical and racing service representative. What I learned and experienced was amazing. Learning from Brian with his almost 20 years of working around Arai helmets at that time with his father Roger Weston and Bruce Porter was priceless. And also his continuous developments with Arai Helmet Japan in the product and consumer support was something I could never learn any other way, then getting to watch and listen to Brian. Looking back on that all was a truly awesome experience!
So October 2002 is when The Service Pavilion was born. Over the next 12 years Robert would take TSP to as many events in a year's time that was possible. In the busiest years TSP was at 32 events a year! Through multiple trucks, transmissions, trailers, tires, thousands of gallons of gasoline and thousands of gallons of diesel fuel used to travel all over the country. With fifty-thousand plus miles driven some of those years! Robert just tracked his full one-way drives across the country, coast to coast. As of the summer of 2013 Robert has driven 98 times across the U.S. Taking the display and bringing TSP's service of Arai helmets to as many people as possible.
Over the past 12 years Mark, Moon, Ed, Kareem, Jeanie, Kerry, Heather Vegas, Heather Colorado, Jenh & Arai, Paul, Crystal, Todd, Mike (Master Bates), Sloth, Sammy, Sterling, Kurt, Sponseller, Kayla, Emma, Kate, Jess, Tim, Jen Joe, Dennis (Robert's Father) and Brianna (Whom is now Robert's Wife!) have all been a part of TSP working. All of the people we have sold helmets to have made this work. All of the people we helped by fixing their helmets made this work. All of the people we taught a little something about helmets and fit to them made this work. The 23,000+ people TSP have fit for Arai helmets made this work. As of late 2014 over 10,000 Arai helmets have been sold by TSP since 2002 have make this work!


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Forest River Rpod Problems I have been holding off submitting this to the forum until I heard back from the dealer (PoulsboRV) and Forest River. On October 22, 2017 we purchased a brand new 2017 Rpod 180RB for our trip to Palm Springs. I immediately found some things wrong and took it back to PoulsboRV to get fixed before our trip. After taking the unit back to PoulsboRV with problems two times, over several weeks. We were unable to get the work scheduled or have parts in prior to our departure date of 12-14-17. Despite extending our departure date we left with repairs undone and many questions. At this point in time it was either go the way it was or cancel the trip we had been planning for a year AND all reservations were already made and paid for. We went on the trip which, because of the Rpod problems and weather, will forever be remembered as the vacation from ***. We finally cut the vacation short, took our loses, and came home. As soon as we got home I delivered the Rpod back to PoulsboRV for the repair work on 1-12-17. Got word today, 2-2-17, from PoulsboRV (and indirectly from Forest River) that they were finished and we could pick up our Rpod. We picked it up on 2-7-17 with most of the repairs being denied by Forest River and so PoulsboRV refused to fix. Here are the problems that we had and the results & comments. 1: When we got the unit home after purchasing on Oct 22. it sat in the driveway for 2 days before we had time to start loading it. When I turned the lights on they were dim so I checked the battery voltage and it was 10.4 volts. What the heck! I plugged the shore power in and the built in charger picked up the load. While connected to power I was trying to listen to the AM radio and the noise was so loud the radio was useless. Finally figured out that the "converter" in the unit has so much RF noise that it totally blanks the radio. (This is common in the cheap solid state switching type chargers with poor filtering - OK for battery chargers but not OK for radio because of the noise it generates) With the AC power disconnected the radio was fine. Result: I was told the "converter" was within specs, per FR, so PoulsboRV would not do anything about it. At this point the battery is probably shot and they will not replace it either. I was also told by the service department that the "converter" was known to be faulty by Forest River and had been replaced with a different one. If I wanted the new one I would have to pay for it myself..... On a unit I had used once. I had previously asked PoulsboRV if they could do a load check on the battery as I suspect that with the deep discharge it might be ruined. I was told that I would have to pay for the load test if Forest River would not pay for it. PoulsboRV did not do a battery load test. SOLUTION: On 3/10/17 I replaced the "converter" with a MJF power supply at a cost of $109. The radio now works perfectly and I have a voltmeter and ampmeter on the MFJ. Moving right along. 2: With the power off for the night, having charging all day, the next day the battery was dead again. I traced it to a ½ amp load on the battery ALL THE TIME. There are some house loads that DO NOT GO THROUGH THE DC FUSE BLOCK. The ONLY way to keep the battery from going dead is to disconnect the battery. In a car this would be like not being able to turn your parking lights off…..unless you disconnect the battery. Result: PoulsboRV did not even look at this after telling them about the problem. SOLUTION: I installed a disconnect on the battery. 3: When we got to Palm Springs after a couple of showers my wife questioned where all the water in the bathroom floor was coming from. I removed the inspection plate on the shower stall and the floor was flooded. The next shower my wife took, I was watching the plumbing under the shower and water was running all over the place from the drain piping. Found out that the shower stall was only supported on the edges and while taking a shower it felt like you were on a trampoline. The plumbing is all rigid ABS plumbing which does not tolerate flexing so it was broken. (I GUESS I COULD HAVE JUST CUT A HOLE IN THE FLOOR UNDER THE P-TRAP TO THE OUTSIDE AND THE PROBLEM WOULD BE SOLVED) 4 pieces of 1"x2" in the corner is the total shower support and with the hole for the drain cut in the middle of the plywood it is very unstable. A RV repairman was found in Palm Springs and he replaced all the piping with new AND then added three additional pieces of 2X4 putting them under the shower floor in the center to give it some additional support. This was to get us through the trip. Note: Forest River did pay for this because we were extremely insistent it was their failure and we were 200 miles from the nearest dealer. They initially expected us to take it to a dealer which would mean leaving our paid for RV park, driving 400 miles round trip, and just hoping that the dealer could get us in and could fix the problem. This would of course force us into a motel. Result: After looking at the repair done in Palm Springs, PoulsboRV (not us) wanted to take the shower stall out and reinforce the support. They were told by Forest River that the shower was installed per spec and would not pay for it so PoulsboRV would not do it. SOLUTION: PoulsoboRV did re-replace the fittings ("customer gratis" as they said) as they said it was still leaking (which it wasn't). I then added 4 more braces under the shower to further steady it up to prevent further damage. I hope this is sufficient. 4: The cord that plugs into the tow vehicle had about 3/4" of the wiring exposed at the plug. Result: PoulsboRV replaced the cord. But why was it sent out this way? 5: All of the pull down night shades were installed crooked. Result: Dealer said they adjusted the shades. But why was it sent out this way? COMMENT: The shades look just as crooked after the adjustment as they did before so they are still crooked and this is unresolved. 6: The brake/tail lights had LED segments that were not working. I noticed this when we took delivery and it was noted by PoulsboRV at that time. They did not have any in stock so I had to leave it till we got home. Result: Lamps were replaced COMMENT: Seems to be OK 7: Just before leaving on our trip, the propane detector started going off and it COULD NOT be silenced nor reset. I had to remove it from the wall and cut the power wire to the unit to silence it. This is one of the loads that do not go through the fuse block and is part of the "phantom load" in the unit. Result: PoulsboRV replaced the unit just before we left. They said FR had gotten some bad units from the manufacturer. They did not comment on the constant load it presents. COMMENT: Battery switch I added solved the problem. 8: The brackets that hold the kitchen Venetian blinds were incorrectly installed as the brackets were installed wider than the blinds. Therefore the blinds could not be secured at the bottom and flopped around. Result: They remounted the bottom brackets. But why was it sent out this way? 9: The factory installed wires that connect to the battery were not crimped properly and were totally corroded and covered with a green corrosion and this was before a battery was even installed in the unit. The battery was installed AFTER we bought the unit from PoulsboRV. COMMENT: Before leaving on the trip I cleaned off the corrosion, re-crimped the wires and soldered the connection. But why was it sent out this way? 10: It was almost impossible to get the propane tank cover off and on. Prior to my taking delivery of the 180 it had deep gouges in the plastic cover which was cutting the plastic deeply when you tried to remove or install the cover, which will be required every time you fill the tank. Result: It was being gouged by the over length bolts that were used to bolt on the plate that holds the pressure regulator. I simply reversed the bolts. Poor Installation. But why was it sent out this way? COMMENT: PoulsboRV decided to replace the torn up cover "gratis" 11: The door stop for the bathroom door was the door knob hitting the mirror mounted on the closet door. VERY POOR design. COMMENTS: To prevent the mirror being broken by the door knob, I mounted a bumper on the bottom of the bath room door so that now it hits the on the floor mounted fire extinguisher instead of the mirror. But why was it sent out this way? 12: I am installing a second battery in the space behind the power panel and converter AND installing a battery switch so I can disconnect the batteries. As far as factory wiring is concerned this involved installing the battery switch in 1 existing wire. Result: I was told by the service rep at PoulsboRV that this modification has now voided the factory warranty on the electrical system. Be aware folks… make any electrical change and you have voided your warranty. 13: Except for the exposed floor the 180 was filthy. Sawdust and construction debris in all the storage areas, in the storage lockers, in the hot water tank area, in the water pump area, in the drawers, in the over counter storage areas..... Looks like the only thing done by Forest River and PoulsboRV was to vacuum the floor that you could see. COMMENT: My wife spent a day cleaning the unit. Imagine delivering a unit in this condition to a customer... VERY POOR consideration for the customer by Forest River and/or PoulsboRV, which ever was supposed to clean the unit. But why was it sent out this way? 14: The hot water is so hot it will scald you. I asked if it could be turned down. Result: I was told by PoulsboRV that they would have to see if Forest River would pay for checking the water temperature... if they wouldn't I would have to pay for that. Today I was told that it was between 120 and 140 degrees that it was with in factory spec so they would not do anything. COMMENT: Still unresolved but one added item. We used the unit for 1 month and the anode in the water heater is over 50% gone. I have purchased a new one which I will put in when we next use the unit. Over the years, and I am 80 so there have been many of them, I have owned; 1 truck/cab-over camper, 1 Scamp trailer, 3 Class B RVs, 2 Class C RVs, 1 Class A, and now this Rpod. Most have had some initial problems but all the dealers made them good with no problems and no arguments. This is the ONLY one of the bunch that I am totally disgusted with. The design and layout is great but the factory craftsmanship is poor, Forest River does not support their customer, and PoulsoboRV will not do ANYTHING on their own. Really great customer service all around don't you think? Before my problems were apparent a friend saw mine just after I brought it home and he purchased an identical unit from PoulsboRV a week later. I just talked to him and he is experiencing some of the same problems I have had. At this point if we could return the unit and get our money back we would. I cannot recommend to anyone the purchase an Rpod, or Forest River product without a warning that you are on your own. I am also very disappointed in the attitude of PoulsboRV. All promises when you buy and abandoned when you need service. WE ARE NOT HAPPY RPOD OWNERS and with all the bent axles being reported I'll have something else to watch for. Oh goody. I know that from now on I am on my own with any problems with this Rpod and have totally written off Forest River and PoulsboRV. Bottom line: Today I took the 180 to a RV repair shop that has an EXCELLENT reputation who believe that the customer comes first. I'll let you know how it goes.
We bought our 378FB in September 2016. Before it could ever be delivered it was kept two extra weeks for a rear panel delamination issue. We pleaded for a new unit since that's what we bought but were assured it would be perfect when we got it. HUGE mistake. The day after delivery the AC unit started leaking into the kitchen through the return air vents. The 1/2 bath door wouldn't shut, ceiling panels were loose, drawers fell apart, handles came off. Within weeks the roof started showing staples pushing up thru the membrane. Several months go by and we had many visits to repair things. Then we see the caulking on the roof and vent covers are dry rotted cracking and falling to pieces. Letters, e-mails, complaints to no avail. 5 Months in the #2 black tank falls right out the bottom and tears the underside down, hoses wiring pipes and all. Forest River offers to come get it and repair it, and pay for a hotel while it's being fixed. Estimated time 2-3 weeks. 6 WEEKS later we get the unit back supposedly fixed. We are personally out 4900 in hotel fees with nothing re imbursed. And 1 day after back in the AC is leaking back into the kitchen AGAIN. None of the holding tanks read properly and the roof looks like a 3 yr old caulked it and they didn't even bother to remove the old cracked caulking! A class action is the least these people deserve. Misrepresentation of a product "well built", "quality control". I can only hope this will help someone in their decision of an RV to buy. Never again will we get a Forest River product.


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United Airlines: PR Crisis Management
By Ayush Harlalka
In the days following 9th April 2017, United Airlines Inc., the fourth-largest airline by fleet size and the number of routes faced one of its worst PR crisis ever. As Warren Buffet says, "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it."
A great deal of transition developed in business objectives worldwide as we set foot in the era of technology. Apart from the profit motive, corporates started emphasizing societal benefits, consumer satisfaction, and Public Relations (PR) Management. While there may nevertheless be few industry leaders who still don't weigh the significance of PR Management that high, those who have experienced a crisis are unquestionably aware of its adverse effects. A PR crisis can turn out as a nightmare scenario that can dethrone well-known market share leaders. A century-long brand image, reputation, trust, and consumer satisfaction can be washed off in a single incident. Even worse for some businesses, the start of a PR crisis might trigger their end.
The rise of social media, influencers, and blogging has shaped the PR landscape over the previous decade. Public Relations (PR) refers to a strategic communication practice of building brand reputation and mutually beneficial relationships with the public by spreading positive information about the company. A PR crisis can take place due to faults in operations and business, insensitive remarks, and shortcoming in demand satisfaction. Therefore, conglomerates nowadays prepare a crisis management strategy to avoid such crisis.
DESCRIPTION OF THE INCIDENT
There's a common practice whereby airlines sell more tickets than available seats based on the past stats of no-shows and if the flight gets full they offer compensation in return. The trouble on 9th April 2017, set about due to a policy of airlines that allows it to stop passengers from boarding their flight if it's overbooked. The part of the problem is that we agree with this policy while booking our tickets. Four crew members were required to board United Express Flight 3411 to Louisville from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago so that they can work another flight scheduled the next day which would have got cancelled otherwise.
Initially, an offer of US$ 400 was given to those willing to volunteer for the subsequent flight 21 hours later but upon lack of acceptance, it was increased to US$ 800. Since none volunteered, four passengers were selected forcibly. While three left immediately, 69 years old Vietnamese-American Dr. David Dao refused to leave citing his appointments the next day. A conflict arose between four members of the Chicago Department of Aviation Security and Dr. Dao and he was dragged out of the aircraft mercilessly that resulted in several injuries to his mouth and head, a broken nose, and minor concussions. Passengers onboard filmed the entire incident and circulated it online triggering the PR crisis. One of the videos went viral with more than 7 million views in a day and a social media storm followed leading to outrage and unwelcoming trends from all around the world.
RESPONSE OF THE AIRLINE
It's crucial to understand where things went wrong for United Airlines. Even more than the incident itself, the response of Mr. Oscar Munoz (CEO of United Airlines: 2015-May 2020) was the troubling part and the fuel to the fire. His first response on 10th April was an apology to "re-accommodate customers" and didn't mention any use of force or Dr. Dao's injury. It turned out to be a very tone-deaf response from the "Communicator of The Year" by PRWeek and backfired as people felt the lack of empathy in his apology. Later an internal email sent to airline employees surfaced online that defended the response of the crew and called the passenger with a bloodied face, "disruptive and belligerent" despite him being very polite.
People started sharing images of their ripped loyalty cards, criticized the 94 year old airline for its response, vowed to boycott it, and expressed their fear. The U.S. President Donald Trump criticized the airline and referred its treatment of Dr. Dao as "horrible". The airline itself complicated the situation by contradicting its previous statement saying that neither the flight was overbooked or oversold, nor was force used against Dr. Dao. This incident with Dr. Dao took place two weeks post the incident where the airlines' slogan "Fly with Friendly Skies" was targeted for barring two teenage girls wearing leggings to board a flight. In another incident in 2018, a passenger's dog died after the airline forced to keep the bag that had a dog in it in the overhead cabin. Such incidents have weakened consumer confidence in the airline.
RECOVERY FROM THE CRISIS
Such incidents when revisited in social media, can create outrage even years later. It is imperative to understand that transparency, accuracy, and consistency play a crucial role in post-crisis and recovery period. It wasn't until a few days after the incident that Mr. Munoz gave a full-fledged apology taking full responsibility, promising to "do better", calling the episode "truly horrific" and adding that "No one should be treated this way". He pledged to conduct a review of the matter and release the report by 30th April. His acceptance helped United's parent company's crashing stock price to recover from the initial loss of nearly US$ 1 Billion. Munoz then appeared on Good Morning America and issued another apology. The airlines reiterated its apologies, confirmed that law enforcement will not be used to remove passengers unless for safety reasons, and changed its overbooking policy. Apart from this, the airlines provided compensation worth the cost of their tickets to all passengers on Flight 3411 and fired two security officers involved. On 27th April 2017, Dr. Dao and United Airlines reached a confidential settlement.
Several policy changes were then announced by the airline to ensure customer satisfaction and better service. Public Relations Professionals believe that United could have handled the situation well by making a quick move and being genuinely apologetic from the beginning. Although the later response was highly appreciative, a PR crisis plan and loyal customer base plays important role in combating such a crisis. With time, customer sentiment improved from the lows of April 2017 the airlines recovered from their PR Crisis. Years of service and policy changes certainly played a role in its recovery.
While thousands of voluntary customer swaps occur daily, 46000 travelers were involuntarily bumped from flights in 2015 alone according to data from the Department of Transportation of the United States. This is a common practice by airline companies to increase their revenue. United Airlines could have prevented the crisis through simple crisis management approach, investment in social monitoring tools and quick response. It's imperative to understand that during a crisis, every second is important. Sometimes, a positive and decent apology from the company head does the work. Aviation analysts believe that the incident had a negligible effect on the demand of the airlines. While it recovered from the PR crisis, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll. It will be interesting to analyze how it overcomes this global crisis.
Ayush Harlalka
Ambitious to become a successful entrepreneur one day, Ayush is a confident and dedicated soul. Enthusiastic in everything he does, success for him lies in perfection.
KFC: PR Crisis Management
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Queen Elizabeth II has the power to get rid of the Australian government. As Australia's head of state, Her Majesty has special powers over its government and therefore can fire the Prime Minister, as well as the rest of the government.


Amanda Giroux has crowned Miss USA Utah 2019 by Narine Ishhanov at the Kingsbury Hall, Salt Lake City on Saturday night of 26th January 2019. 22 beauties competed for the title, 'Miss USA Utah 2019'.
Amanda will represent Utah at the Miss USA 2019 beauty contest where Sarah Rose will crown her successor.
The Grand Finale of Miss USA Utah 2019 hosted by Dean Peterson and Teale Shawn Murdock Brown. Elizabeth Cardillo, Gretchen Polhemus, Tiffany Fallon, Ryan Miles, and Thom Brodeur-Kazanjian were in Judges panel.
Amanda lives in Columbus, Ohio. She is an Honors Graduate from Ohio University.


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The only drawback to having 13 months is that, whatever day of the week you're born on, that's the one you're stuck with. At least, now, everyone gets a weekend every once in a while. With 13 months in a year, Monday babies would always be Monday babies.
But, this is the thing, there are no decisions that impact a lot of people that don't have some negative impacts. I can't express how much better it would be to always know what day of the week the 19th would be!! Just...think of how much extra certainty that would add to our lives!
Maybe that's a bit of a drawback too though..I dunno.
I do love the idea of that six day week though...I bet people would get up to all kinds of nonsense.
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Good morning, John. So next week, a particularly unhinged episode of Dear Hank and John is gonna go up. We were just a total mess, because we accidentally talked for 90 minutes before the podcast started, so we didn't have enough time to record the podcast.
And I think that the first question that was asked was from Avery, who asked, " I was wondering how or if we know that the Earth is straight up and down with the Northern hemisphere on top and the Southern hemisphere on the bottom," which led to much hilarity, but to continue a discussion that you have not heard yet, because the podcast isn't out, I wanna talk about a time when we humans got something right.
Now, Avery, there is no up. It's all arbitrary. It's just stuff that we sort of feel and decide. For example, I live in a river valley where three rivers come together, and if you're gonna go into the Bitter Root Valley and you're from Missoula, you can actually tell something about a person by what they say. If they are new to town and don't have a lot of relationship with the land, they say that they're gonna go down the Bitter Root, whereas if they've been around for a while or they have a deeper connection to the land, they say they're gonna go up the Bitter Root.
This is because, when you're going from Missoula to the Bitter Root Valley, you are going south, but you are also going upstream and uphill. The Bitter Root River, unlike most rivers in America, though this is just by coincidence, flows from south to north. And weirdly, this feels a little weird to us, even though there's no reason why a river should go in any particular direction. Like, the Nile also goes from south to north.
This confusion implicates as faulty the entire idea of south as down, and, of course, south is very, very much not down. Globes and maps only show north as on top because someone decided that. Who? I don't know, but I wanna make the very strong case that, if they had to choose, and I think they did, they made - get this - the right decision.
Things are a mess in this world, and we understandably focus a lot on the things that we got wrong, for example, like that there are 12 months in a year. This is terrible. If there were 13 months instead of 12 every month would be - get this - 28 days long, except for one, which would be 27 days long. And 28 days divided by 7 is 4, so every month would have exactly 4 weeks in it. Every month would start on a Monday and end on a Sunday. Every holiday would happen on the same day every year, and then, at the end of the year, we'd have one month that was one day short, we'd have one week that was one day short, and we'd all be like, "Ah, this is the cute fun week where we all act weird, 'cause there's only six days."
This is a historical screw-up that we all have to live with forever, but maps in the past often would have either west or east at the top, and if we had ended up in the universe where we got stuck with this, it would've been historically bad, because we spin, so the actual, like, location of where west is moves around in space. I can't even get my head around how hard it would be to conceive of how the Earth is if I imagined that west was up. Like, it just breaks me.
So we absolutely dodged a cosmic bullet here. Now, if it had ended up with south on the top, this would not have broken my brain, but it would have been a subpar choice to having north on the top, because the Southern hemisphere is 80% ocean while the Northern hemisphere is just 60% ocean, so there's twice as much land in the Northern hemisphere. Also, 90% of the people live in the Northern hemisphere.
Now, what I'm not saying is that this has no drawbacks. There are negative consequences to having settled on north as up on maps. For example, no one knows whether or not to say up or down the Bitter Root. More importantly, we show some unconscious bias toward things in the Southern hemisphere, and when researchers test people, they unconsciously assign more value to places that are further north. But also there is huge value in having some kind of standardization here, where we all agree that one part of the map is always up, and so we don't have to be thinking about it and getting it wrong.
There were pros and cons to this choice. It had negative effects, but we made the right call, and we ended up avoiding a problem that we never have to think about, whereas I always have to think about the fact that we could have lived in a world where Halloween was always on a Friday night every year. John, I'll see you on Tuesday, which is some random day of the month.
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