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"India has grown in badminton and it shows in our recent performances. Days are not far when we can win five-six medals in Olympics, like China," added the world number four.
Danish doubles specialist Mathias Boe, who will represent Lucknow, said the league's long-term success would depend on how the inaugural edition goes.
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Nehwal said Indian players had to keep producing on the big stage to ensure the tournament is a success.
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I have an aluminum flat handlebar with a slight sweep on my touring bike. It has a shallow gouge/scratch about 1/2 way around the bar right at the union between the bar and the left side of the stem. The bar is 6061T6 heat treated aluminum and fairly thin compared to the no-name aluminum bar on my beater bike. The gouge/scratch appears to have come from someone rotating the bar in the clamp without sufficiently loosening the clamp first and is deep enough to easily feel when running the tip of my fingernail across it. I have about 500 miles on this bike with the bar in that condition and have hit potholes and other assorted road hazards and the damage has not changed and it doesn't look like there is a crack. I've also put a lot of pressure on the bar in several directions to see if there was any flex or change and there was not.
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New York City can be a lonely place. When I first moved into the Big Apple I barely knew a soul, and I soon discovered that it was much harder to meet people here than in a university city where students and twenty-somethings tend to hang out in the same bars and coffee shops. It seems counter-intuitive, but in a city of millions it is easy to feel completely alone.
When walking through sea of unfamiliar people all rushing to get from A to B, the faceless crowds merge into a giant mass. But stop at a streetside café and in just five minutes you can witness a thousand different personalities busily rushing by. New Yorkers are an incredibly diverse bunch, and there are always characters to see; from well-shod ladies lunching in Louboutins to graffiti artists scrambling into dark corners to find a space for their next project, New York has it all. And all of these people – even the most dull looking commuters in suits – have stories to tell, opinions to offer, and lives to recount.
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Humans of New York is a great reminder that there are eight million individuals walking the streets of New York City. From Brooklyn to Harlem, in Queens, the Bronx, and central Manhattan – and everywhere in between – blocks and avenues bustle with life. The same is true in cities, towns and even tiny villages across the world. For those of us who have made the scary move across seas and border crossings to make new lives in unfamiliar places, we need to find a way of discovering the humanity in our new home, so we can make friends and get to know people. So perhaps we should all pick up a camera and get snapping.
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Hard to believe it is already October. Hope readers of this got at
least some vacation during the summer. Since my last post I have
been to SHARE, zExpo as well as many customer visits. At this time
the OMEGAMON family v 5.1 release now include Messaging, IMS and
Storage as well as CICS, zOS and DB2. The last of the releases,
Mainframe Networks, is about to come out the door. Many of the
companies are already in production and using the new enhanced
3270 user interface as well as the other features and functions of
the portfolio including zIIP enablement and the use of specialty
processors if they are available. I am amazed that the OEM vendors
claim that they use less MIPS because they leverage specialty processors
and leave out the fact that OMEGAMON does this also. It seems to be
that this is something they are the only vendor to provide when in fact,
that is not the case. Hopefully, when folks understand where you compare
apples to apples versus apples to starfish, OMEGAMON is not the villain
that some vendors make it out to be on MIPS usage. Most of these discussions
are what I would call a marketecture vs reality.
Meantime, on developerworks, I have placed some documentation. An updated
Parmgen reference upgrade guide, some e3270ui workspace reference layouts.
Kind of a cheat sheet to understand the layouts. Also, many of you
have taken advantage of the OMEGAMON open house events that have taken
place around the world.
Pulse is coming, March 3-6 and abstracts are being called for. We continue
to add z content to this event. This year the Automated Operations Technical
Conference will be joint located in the Pulse conference. Just like last year.
Also the Parmgen lab will be repeated.
Well, I will promise to update this a bit more regular than lately.
Here is the link to the System z Management team room on Developerworks.
go get registered and get the latest and greatest tidbits and advice.
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October 10, 2012 10:17 AM
Mike Goodman 270001BMTD email@example.com Tags:  smc systems omegamon z tivoli pulse availability management performance 898 Visits
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Mike Goodman 270001BMTD email@example.com Tags:  systems tivoli omegamon management z/os cics performance 722 Visits
well, a long time between updates but with traveling and customer calls it has
been very busy. A lot of buzz on the newest releases of OMEGAMON v 5.1. Some
nice analysis from Joe Clabby and Richard Ptak. A Google search on them will
bring you to their reports. Since going to Pulse and SHARE, I have been traveling
to different customers throughout Europe and the States. Talking with the
system programmers about the new releases, it generates a good discussion on how
the new v 5.1 releases are being adopted. The new enhanced 3270 user interface
is gaining favor with both the long time OMEGAMON users and also those that have
been using different vendors products. The user interface has been designed to
be an intuitive UI that doesn't take much effort to learn and use. If you at
IMPACT this week in Vegas, visit the Ped's area where there is the ability to
view and asked questions on the OMEGAMON XE for CICS v 5.1 as well as the z/OS
Currently for those customer around the Chicago area there is a come and drive
scheduled for May of the OMEGAMON v 5.1s. A way to sit down and play with the
products so that is always a good thing to do. The early access programs are
still ongoing with the rest of the OMEGAMON family and next releases on the
monthly calls to solicit systems programmers feedback on what we build and deliver
in the upcoming months.
Steps to participate:
1. A completed nomination form should be completed and submitted.
For Customers and Business Partners, please use the following link
(you will need to login with your IBM Web ID):
February 7, 2012 7:09 PM
Mike Goodman 270001BMTD email@example.com Tags:  management it tivoli systems performance z omegamon ism 843 Visits
Today Tivoli announced the OMEGAMON v5.1 CICS and z/OS products. I have been working with
customers and development for over 16 months on concepts, design and a usability. Much like
monitors that have grown up over time, Customers have asked, we need this metric, we need
that metric and the randomness of how subject matter experts perceived where this should be
viewed was almost always up to the individual developer. In deciding to change the course
and structure of the OMEGAMON portfolio, we decided we needed to talk with the system
programmers that used our tools to solve performance problems. Talk about folks that had
a lot of concerns to discuss. It wasn't about being able to view data splashes of huge
rows of data, it was about being innovative and how to organize metrics into information.
In some cases, the discussion was that we need to pull 90 thousand rows of data, then we
filter and sort all the while eating MIPS to find a single user who was hung or a single
transaction. That is the way it was done in the past, so thinking about what problem
they were trying to solve, a new find command. So don't return huge amounts of data,
simply return what I am trying to find. Most users can remember their user id. Even the
help desk folks could use this ability to free sessions and users . It was discussions
in early adopter programs and reviews with outside in design and interviews
with the SMEs that use our tools that generated what is the basis for the 5.1 releases.
The refresh of the portfolio was a little overdue and while some might think that enhancing
a green screen is a thing of the past, when you look at resource monitors across the
different technologies whether open systems or z, updates are always appreciated. There
is up and coming work for more early adopters programs and designs for this brand and
we will continue to enhance and deliver the changes required for SMEs for today's problems.
Here is an opportunity for system programmers responsible for solving today's performance problems on today's systems to
work with development to help design a tool that solves what they need to accomplish. Over
100 pieces of feedback went into these releases. We reviewed every month with the customers
who recommend changes in the design, metrics, use cases. One customers said he needed to
be able to work with web services. Agile means that bubbled to the top on the priority list
and was delivered in this CICS 5.1 release. I encourage others that as we update the
other branded OMEGAMONs and even start work on the next phase of CICS and z/OS that you
participate. Make sure that Tivoli is working to deliver tools that you find effective and
will solve today's performance problems. It is somewhat easy to add metrics, but innovation is using KPI data
and changing it to information to streamline how you solve problems and that is an important
part of the discussion that are ongoing with our agile development work. Most of today's
monitors were built awhile ago. Some are older than the young system programmer using them to
try and solve problems. Leveraging your knowledge and being innovative is a better path. While
looking at the past, we can make effective changes to revise and change the design the tools
you require for the job of the future. SME designed tools for SMEs that Tivoli builds and delivers. Neat.
If your at Pulse or SHARE, there are demos and presentations available and look me up. I will
be at both.
for our IMS gear heads
Mike Goodman 270001BMTD email@example.com Tags:  ism omegamon ibm performance z/os ims tivoli systems 859 Visits
For our IMS folks.
OMEGAMON XE for IMS v420 IF3 just was made generally availablebased on processing all 10 messages.
and is focused on two areas: Improved granularity for
application metrics and usability enhancements to Application Trace.
OMEGAMON collected application metrics previously based on an application
schedule. That is, if an application was scheduled and processed 10 messages
before terminating the application metrics displayed were cumulative
IF3 has modified this and now displays application metrics based on unit of recovery (UOR).
In this fashion, runaway applications are easier to spot. In addition twenty-five new metrics
have been added to the OMEGAMON 3270 and TEP views. Some of these include new IMS
application calls (ICAL), external subsystem calls, elapsed times for intent conflicts,
pool space, and application scheduling as well as VSAM/OSAM I/O counts.
OMEGAMON XE for IMS v420 greatly enhanced the application trace capabilities. OMEGAMON XE
for IMS v420 IF2 added CPU and elapsted times for DL/I, DB2, and MQSeries calls. We've
enhanced these capabilities in IF3 by making them a bit easier to use. An application trace
repository has been added which retains all application trace requests. These requests,
once activated, will remain active across OMEGAMON starts if so desired. The management of
application traces is easier with an updated management interface.
This updated interface allows more trace filtering options as well as the ability to
add, delete and clone trace requests. In addition, the interface allows viewing by trace
request saving screen switching. The trace filtering interface has also been greatly enhanced.
One can specify multiple transactions, programs, abend codes, scheduling classes, among others.
New to filtering is the ability to filter by region type and elapsed and/or CPU time, either
total or by DL/I, DB2, or MQSeries call type,
The largest enhancement to application trace in IF3 is the exception journal. One can setup
an exception trace specifying service level commitments in total application elapsed time,
abend conditions, elapsed time by call time (DL/I, DB2, and/or MQSeries), and total CPU time
for the application or by call type. This is an especially useful feature for higher volume
shops where 99.9% of the applications run within the defined service level commitment times.
For those problem transaction instances, application trace will capture the trace data and save
this off in a new exception repository. This should make finding mis-behaving transaction
quicker to locate.
The best thing about this IF3 is that it had a beta with several customers, and the input on how
it should work, act and function was part of the agile process of development and reviewed monthly
with the customers requesting these functions which enabled them to retire another vendors
OMEGAMON XE tuning doc available
Mike Goodman 270001BMTD email@example.com Tags:  xe tivoli performance z ism omegamon system tuning zenterprise 806 Visits
So for those folks going to zSymposium in Vienna, please look me up as I will be there covering a topic
entitled "the new Virtualized Data Center". It seems as IT organizations move to use virtualization to
save costs, floor space all those benefits, some groups run on their own so instead of having a virtualized
platform, they end up creating even more silo's with in the IT groups. A lot of choices out there for
hypervisors, OS support, etc. A lot of good data on why zVM and linux on z is the most cost effective if
your IT shop has z/VM. Another thing for our OMEGAMON XE users is that we have been working on a
performance tuning document. I always chuckle when I listen to all the hype about a vendors claim
about how they use less MIPS then a Tivoli solution. The concern that I see is that the
depth and breadth of what is monitored is in the eye of the system programmers. When you actually get
down to getting the research or comparable apple to apple monitoring, much of it is the same, one
monitor might be less on z/OS, but use more with monitoring CICS. The approach seems to be to discuss
one monitor where it might be true, but then use that to justify all the monitors. There is a point
where in most cases, a full suite of performance monitors for the zOS systems and subsystems including
z/VM and Linux are not available from most vendors like they are with OMEGAMON. For this reason, systems that were installed
5 years ago or even last year, still need to be tuned as z platforms change. The field technical support
folks who travel and work with customers to help reduce MIPS consumption by doing health checks on
the production level z using the OMEGAMON portfolio and giving tuning recommendations
have help put together a best practices tuning book. The pdf is located on developer works at this url
System Hygiene is important so this document will help as it gives you tips and hints on how to reduce
MIPS usage. A must read for system programmers. I know it will help.
being proactive vs reactive
Mike Goodman 270001BMTD email@example.com Tags:  tivoli performance z/os proactive service omegamon management 533 Visits
As I mentioned before there seems to be two strategies about monitoring
in general and I have had this discussion with many z sys progs. There
is the group that says the fastest resolution is to wait for a failure to
happen and then start working on fixing the problem which is the
best way to use their skills. The latest discussion I had on this
was with a group of customers in Toronto last month. I was talking about
the idea of finding loopers running on the z and some new techniques
with the OMEGAMON XE on z/OS v4.20 release. Some creative use of monitoring
buckets to pick them off as early as possible which by doing
this could save MIPS which is saving money versus using
the cycles for something that is going to be cancelled eventually.
That generated a whole group discussion on what happens if you generate
some false positives meaning that there isn't a looping job and it is
better to let a failure happen then generate these false positives where
the staff would be working on a perceived problem and not the real thing.
Some were for being proactive and had actually seen results with the looper
situation and others were pretty steadfast in only working on failures. In
the discussion a bit about different IT organizations came up as there
are strict department areas of control between say a group focused on
performance versus a group focused on automation. Some have performance
groups only for z and a different performance group for distributed and networks
Other groups have a silo'd approach to their area of control
and things outside their domain are not in their control and hence, not our job.
That discussion also brought up the point that to tie automation
and performance for proactive management would span several departments
which may have other priorities.
In general, the attendees viewed it important to ensure that
the z platform is inclusive of an enterprise wide strategy for achieving
the business goals that are imposed on IT and they need to work
across the silos but there are only so many hours in the week.
I know many customers have established performance automation routines
using OMEGAMON products where if a problem is uncovered with situations
where a proactive recovery routine is started or notification to the IT
staff for them to take a specified action to prevent an outage or degradation
of the system to take place. Although OMEGAMON products can deploy the "eyes"
into the systems by not needing a message to be issued to kick off an event.
The sister products like NetView on z/OS and Systems Automation actually
perform the automated actions, but how in a silo'd group does this
get accomplished for the benefit of all?
Again they all had their different domains and areas of responsibility but
With the discussion it was interesting how people react. I have
already discussed how to integrate the different managing IT staff with
different domain responsibilities by getting them to share the same view
of the problem on a piece of glass at a console. Even then some of the
attendees see no value in this. Some viewed this as a loss of control of
being in charge of their domain. I still think this saves both time and
money and could be leveraged effectively based on defining a business process.
The next step would be to integrate the performance tooling to work as a
business process to be able to sense a problem, isolate the problem,
diagnose and then repair the problem as an integrated process.
Many companies are using business process modelers to streamline actions
and provide for a competitive advantage of how a line of business manager
can generate an exacting control based on business needs.
When you think about your IT business processes, Change, Configuration, Problem,
Performance, Availability, how integrated is the IT staff and the process
to resolve events about these processes whether they are on the z platform
or from distributed platforms.
The group in Toronto all identified areas where this would help
with their jobs, but they all said, how much time in the week can you do
your job and still have time left over to talk about an automated process. There
has got to be an easier way. I guess that will be the next discussion.
Old age and the z
Mike Goodman 270001BMTD firstname.lastname@example.com Tags:  green systems ibm omegamon tivoli screen performance management 798 Visits
Well, they say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Things that have existed for years
and decades will simply continue to exist. Why do something new or change?
So I am a guy who has worked in IBM for 36 years, but has changed jobs and
positions every 5 years or so. I guess I have job hopped within the same business
and been luckier than most to be able to do it. The one thing that has been pretty
constant in all of this is that the z platform was here before I started with IBM and
will be here long after I leave IBM. I guess you can call it a survivor even though
there seems to be articles every year that are touting its impending doom. I think like
my job hopping, you pick up new skills, address new challenges and adapt to
keeping yourself valuable to the business. It would seem to me that the z has done
the same and continues to adapt and change, but keeps the same value proposal
that major business requires as it moves through time.
One of the interesting ideas that changing times is creating is a big stir for the z and all z
users. Is the green screen the only presentation service that is required or that
will ever be required for the z subject matter experts? This has created different
opinions from many of the businesses I talk with as well as operations folks,
tooling support folks and others in IT that are starting to see alternatives show
up on the doorstep, regardless of whether it is needed or not. As far as I have read,
a lot of the details or say the imperative of alternatives to green screens
would be that all the kids (I myself am far from a kid) or people entering the IT world
are from a gaming background or are so trained in web browsers and pop ups that
the only way to keep the business going is to change the old technologies to
adapt or adopt to make IT support and the z platform viable and to have a way to
bring new talent into the IT business.
In particular, the z stands out in this because of the vast green screens being
used today and the idea that with a greying workforce (that could be me), there
is a critical shortage of upcoming people who would find it appealing enough
to work on z systems or subsystems if it were just that plain old green screen.
That to me is pretty interesting as part of a product manager team with
Tivoli and OMEGAMON and and discussing System Management requirements
with customers because I think that down the road, there will be requirements
where both the green screen and the vast arrays of GUIs with web 2.0 and beyond
will have a pretty dramatic impact on the IT folks who support the z and z subsystems.
I think the idea of having a reach and range of information about how IT systems
are working or not working will create what I call a funnel system that works
in several ways.
Funneling in.
A basic premise is that if you want to manage the business effectively and with
an eye on the TCO of all the running technologies deployed, you integrate an
end-to-end perspective, and ensure that any bump in the night generates an
event/alert and that gets sent to a focal point where someone or some automation
routine is running. This seems to be a standard operation within a mature systems
management IT shop. This data is filtered, reduced and hopefully has
a meaningful message when it gets to the end of the funnel and someone looks at it.
Since we are talking and end-to-end view and consolidation of this information....
Should it be a green screen? A MCS for the enterprise?
I think that the diverse information being received precludes that from ever becoming
a reality in IT. As companies staff help desks and customer service centers, it would
seem that graphics and Web GUIs are taking the predominant role with all sorts of
capabilies to sort, or display and relate impacts on the business.
In fact, this area keeps changing, it seems, every 6 months with new internet technologies
being introduced all the time. There are different use cases and personas using this
web technology that are the first line of awareness even if the trouble ticket is cut
automatically when something goes bump in the night. The event shows up at this
integrated web/portal based GUI orin some business several portals/GUIs where
the different personas might have a different IT process to work on. So, I think the case
of only having this in a green screen has passed in time.
Now the issue is if the bump in the night happened on the z or a z subsystem...haste
and speed to resolve are a priority because of the potential loss of $$. So if the bump
in the night is shown in a nice graphical web based portal, and we all know that web
response time is not what you call as dynamic as a green screen, it creates the dilemma
that IT people are discussing. Is there only one choice here or multiple?
Is it better to have a wide range of data available to view or is it better that we need a
quick reach into the z system and subsystems with speed?
Next up Funneling out..


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Sting journalism plunged to a new low when a television reporter, out to score with a sting of his own, had two women arrested after posing as a sex client and taping his conversation with them.
Police said journalist Rakesh Kumar, employed with television channel A2Z News, visited the Dwarka house of the women on Sunday with an offer, taped his conversation with them and then filed a police complaint.
The women have been booked under sections of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act following the reporters complaint.
Additional Commissioner of Police (Southwest) A K Ojha said: Our officers reached the spot and verified the evidence submitted by the complainant. We arrested the two women on the basis of the evidence, which was recorded on tape.
Rakesh told police he received a tip-off from one of his sources. The first information report (FIR) quotes him as saying, My source told me that a woman was running a prostitution racket from her first-floor apartment in Dwarka Sector-19B. I also got her two mobile phone numbers from my source (and) I made a call.
Rakesh told police the woman introduced herself when he spoke to her over the phone on November 2. Two days later, he called her again and she told him good girls had come. She asked him to meet her near a school in Dwarka.
He said after deciding on the place of meeting, he informed his cameraman and senior colleagues in the television channel.
Rakesh told police a woman colleague accompanied him to the spot where they waited for the caller. But she asked him to come to the apartment.
In his statement Rakesh said, When I was walking into the apartment (complex) with my cameraman, she waved at me and signalled me. We went inside her flat and the woman told us her name. Later she brought another woman and she told us her name. There was another girl whose name I do not know.
The woman allegedly told Rakesh he would have to pay Rs 2,500 for the girl. However, they told the woman they were carrying Rs 700 in cash and would need to withdraw more money from an ATM.
We got out on the pretext of withdrawing money from the ATM. Later my crew, along with our woman colleague, entered the house and told her that we had captured the entire conversation on our hidden cameras, Rakesh told police.
In his complaint he also said while they were trying to inform the police, one of the girls escaped. Police have recovered the notes on which I have signed my name. The note was recovered from the possession of the woman, reads Rakeshs statement to police.
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Mukesh said he was asked by the office to find out if Naveen had been blackmailing builders in the area.
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As her frenemy Teresa Giudice faces a whole host of fraud charges, Melissa Gorga is busy making her own important financial decisions. Her latest involves the sale of her New Jersey mansion. The returns are nothing to scoff at, as the Real Housewives of New Jersey star is now nearly $4 million richer!
Joe and Melissa Gorga are officially able to breathe a sigh of relief, as they recently managed to snag the full asking price of $3.8 million for their New Jersey mansion. This is quite the increase over the $950,000 the Gorgas spent when initially purchasing the home in 2007. Of course, to be fair, the family put a lot of work into the mansion, so it makes sense that their asking price would be somewhat higher. And the new owners get plenty for their money, with the mansion boasting a total of 9,500 square feet, not to mention six bedrooms, seven bathrooms and an in-home theater.
The next plan for Joe and Melissa Gorga? Building their ultimate dream home. The reality couple has already purchased property in Franklin Lakes, where they will be living right next to fellow Real Housewives star Caroline Manzo. The planning process is well underway, with Melissa explaining to Radar Online that, "It's going to be a lot of work designing and building the new home, but Joe is an incredible builder and I'm excited to go back to where we started our family."
Until the dream home is completed, the family will rent another home in the area. Melissa has done all the requisite research and feels that Franklin Lakes will be a great place for her kids to get the ultimate education. "I feel like this was meant to be. It happened just in time for the kids to start their first of day of school."
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chuck Says:
August 21st, 2013 at 8:41 am
good for them.. they got there family back together, joes now speaking to his sister again all the kids playing again , life works out.. its a weird journey but .. it all comes together.. im very happy for the family.. I think its wonderfull. now they have everyone back together , they can make new memories in there new home… beautifull , blessed family
doogal Says:
August 21st, 2013 at 9:55 am
Wow the new owners must have not seen the episode where they found out the bathroom vanity was made of plywood, it cracked up and turned to dust when a potential buyer looked at the home. Talk about paid too much, let that buyer beware!
Shirley Says:
August 21st, 2013 at 11:32 am
It's nice they were able to sell their home. Lucky them for getting full asking price.
I'm curious if anyone else thinks that some of these women are getting darker and darker in every season. Do they own their own tanning beds or what?
Paula Says:
August 24th, 2013 at 5:32 pm
doogal, that episode was explained on "watch what happens live". The so called vanity falling apart was in the children's playroom. I'm guessing in REALIY, there was a home inspection and am guessing since they got full asking price, the house was pretty darned nice.
TruthBeTold Says:
September 1st, 2013 at 3:13 pm
If Tre and Juicy go to jail, I hope the show doesn't get cancelled then what they gonna do for money? Seriously, because if Tre is not on the show, there is no RHONJ.
TruthBeTold Says:
September 1st, 2013 at 3:14 pm
The Gorga's net worth was -$1.5 million. So, they are not worth $4 million when they were in the hole. The media lies so damn much.
Romo Says:
September 3rd, 2013 at 9:40 pm
Melissa's new manager, Johnny Wright bought their house. Joe repaired the home a bit right before they sold it. My source: stoopidhousewives.com she has the scoop on everything.
buttercup Says:
September 14th, 2013 at 4:05 pm
life is wondreful its amazing that they can not live without caroline wow
Kyli Says:
September 15th, 2013 at 8:30 am
Oh great like we need these clowns in our town, what happened to you and your big singing career going to Hollywood ?
Harper67 Says:
September 19th, 2013 at 9:22 am
They didn't sell their house. They are moving money issues and hustling. They make Teresa's money issues look like child's play! That's what they get when you try to be something you aren't,,,,
Harper67 Says:
September 19th, 2013 at 9:23 am
They didn't sell their house. They are moving money issues and hustling. They make Teresa's money issues look like child's play! That's what they get when you try to be something you aren't,
Prettypinkie Says:
September 27th, 2013 at 9:44 am
Melissa is a joke just like her book she as fake as they come an on top of it she can't sing, everyone is saying it all over Twitter , lol !!!


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WASHINGTON-In the space of two hours of oral arguments, the U.S. Supreme Court seemed ready to overturn the center of the healthcare law. But Democrats comforted themselves that oral arguments often don't express the court's position.
The high court heard arguments on the cornerstone of the 2010 legislation Tuesday: the individual mandate, which 26 states as well as the National Federation of Independent Business had challenged (download a PDF of the court's transcript). The mandate requires every American to buy health insurance beginning in 2014, or pay a penalty that ranges from $95 to $695, and up to $2,085 for a family. The key legal question is whether the federal government has authority under the U.S. Constitution's Commerce Clause to require people to buy health insurance, and most of the justices seemed to think it did not.
"If the government can do this, what else can it not do?" asked Justice Antonin Scalia, who suggested that the government could next require people to join gyms and exercise in order to lower everyone's health costs. The liberal justices likened the mandate to the requirement that everyone pay into Social Security, and said that the uninsured are already receiving health benefits without paying, raising other people's premiums.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, the key voice and possible swing vote, asked in his first question, "Can you create commerce in order to regulate it?" That question was exactly lawyer Paul Clement's argument on behalf of the 26 states challenging the law: that the government could not create commerce, forcing people to buy insurance. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. argued on behalf of the government that the commerce already exists because everyone is a participant in the healthcare market at some point in their lives.
The liberals on the court-Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan-appeared supportive of the mandate. The conservatives-Chief Justice John Roberts as well as Justices Scalia and Samuel Alito (Justice Clarence Thomas traditionally does not speak during oral arguments)-indicated that they believe the mandate is unconstitutional. The remaining justice, Kennedy, said at one point that the mandate "changes the relationship of the federal government to the individual in a very fundamental way." He also asked whether the mandate is "a step beyond what our cases allow," meaning that it wasn't permitted under legal precedent.
"That's not what's going on here," replied Verrilli, adding that before the law the health insurance market was too expensive and prevented some individuals from entering the market. The conservative justices countered that the government was requiring individuals to enter the insurance market when they didn't want to.
"Both sides staked out their positions prior to the arguments," said attorney Michael Carvin afterward. Carvin argued before the justices on behalf of the National Federation of Independent Business, opposing the mandate.
If the oral arguments did matter in deciding any justice's opinion, the lawyers opposing the mandate seemed to have the upper hand. Clement, the attorney arguing for the 26 states opposing the mandate, is a star in the conservative legal firmament, arguing a number of blockbuster Supreme Court cases this term, including the Arizona immigration law case next month.
By all accounts, Clement shone, while Solicitor General Verrilli seemed unprepared for certain questions and perhaps even nervous, stuttering and repeating words at times. In fact at certain points the liberal justices jumped in to make Verrilli's arguments for him, with Ginsburg at one point saying, "I thought that your main point is. …"
Roberts, without mentioning the contraceptive mandate, touched on the wider issue of requiring individuals to purchase insurance that covers items they don't want or need.
"If I understand the law, the policies that you're requiring people to purchase must contain provision for maternity and newborn care, pediatric services, and substance use treatment," he said. "It seems to me that you cannot say that everybody is going to need substance use treatment, pediatric services, and yet that is part of what you require them to purchase."
Verrilli replied, "[The statute] is trying to define minimum essential coverage. …"
"But your theory is that there is a market in which everyone participates because everybody might need a certain range of healthcare services," Roberts said. "And yet you're requiring people who are never going to need pediatric or maternity services to participate in that market."
Though none of the justices mentioned the contraceptive issue-that isn't the subject of any of the cases the court agreed to hear-that was the central issue for most protestors outside the court Tuesday. Most of the several hundred protestors were associated with Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America, and carried pink printed signs that said, "Protect Women's Health," and others that said, "BC4M: Birth Control for Me." Fewer-and less organized-protestors battled with homemade signs that said, "Obamacare: War on Religion," and, "Is it your right to take my money to kill the unborn? No!"
Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., came by the Supreme Court at one point and commented on the protestors, "The proponents of the law are trying to make this not about religious freedom or the mandate." Harris, a doctor, won his seat in 2010 after he made the healthcare law a centerpiece of his campaign.
If the court overturned the individual mandate, the contraceptive controversy would become moot. But the court is notoriously unpredictable, even when observers think the justices have tipped their hands in arguments.
"I don't make predictions," demurred Carvin, who was nonetheless pleased with the challengers' performance in court.
"I don't want to describe any justice as predictable," said Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, who attended the arguments. Lee clerked for Alito before serving in Congress.
Lyle Denniston, one of the most trusted analysts of the Supreme Court, wrote that "expecting the demise of the mandate seemed decidedly premature."
The country will know the justices' thoughts in June or July, when they will issue their decision. The court will hear the last of the arguments Wednesday, first on the "severability" of the healthcare law, or whether the rest of the law can stand without the individual mandate, and then on whether the law's new Medicaid requirements unfairly burden states.
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Dunmore – Because of the bridge replacement project on Interstate 81 over SR 315, the following closures will take place throughout the rest of this week:
4 p.m. to 7 p.m. – The ramp from SR 315 South to I-81 South will be closed at three different times in order to move a crane and 6 flatbed trucks down the ramp. Because the crane and trucks will need to move the opposite direction of traffic, the ramp will be completely closed for approximately 30 minutes at three different times. During this same time, there will be rolling roadblocks on Interstate 81 South to move the crane and the flatbed trucks from Interstate 81, down the onramp and on to SR 315 South.
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The Auxiliary of Stockley, in existence since 1916, is a statewide organization serving people with developmental disabilities in Delaware. After relocation of Stockley Center residents to different communities in Delaware, the Auxiliary has been supportive of the Division of Developmental Disabilities Services day programs. There are four centers: Georgetown Center, Georgetown; First State Senior Center, Milford; Woodside Center, Woodside; and New Edge Center, Bear.
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Long Dated Bonds Surge To 3.77% - 2 Year Highs
Equities appear to be celebrating the bond market's rapid collapse today but there are already unintended consequences. With the entire complex seeing yields spike the most in a month (cracking back above yesterday's post-FOMC spike highs), 30Y yields have broken to new two-year high levels at 3.77%. As rates rise, issuers are struggling. Whether it is because of Detroit concerns or the sell-off in bonds, Michigan's Genesee County just pulled its $53mm muni offering as "investors wanted a much higher interest rate than the county wanted to pay." The offering didn't attract buyers for a 29-year bond, the longest maturity in the deal, at an interest rate or 5.34%. Perhaps they should have issued stock?
On a side-note, as AAPL enjoys one of its best runs since it equity price collapse, AAPL's bonds have lost almost 12% of their value since issuance...
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Hence the discussion here. To make those that start from scratch not default to big ball of mud design.
So what do you do under these constraints, do you just dump it in the too hard basket, because you can't make your change as cleanly as you'd like?
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First light Takahashi TSA-120 & Televue Ethos
Posted 21 April 2013 - 12:32 AM
That said a deal came up on a TAK TSA-120 that I couldn't pass up. Sadly a part of that deal involved me trading my ES 102mm and 127mm CF. I do miss those two scopes. Especially the 102 since it was where I had so many firsts including M57 the Ring Nebula. But this isn't about them...
This is about my first light with my new TSA-120 and the Televue Ethos 13mm and 17mm I have on loan from my local shoppe pending my friend returning with the same EP's he's picking up for me at the NEAF price.
I decided to pull the trigger on the Tak because it would allow me to consolidate my 102mm and 127mm into one OTA. With the TOA-130 focal reducer the Tak goes from a 900mm f/7.5 to a 672mm f/5.6 so I would have a loss of about 7mm (1/4") in scope size for visual but gain almost a full f-stop for AP with a slightly deeper penetration due to focal length. Plus it was much lighter and more importantly shorter than the 127mm which means that even at f/7.5 I could image with it on my AVX which was an important consideration. All in all not a bad trade in my mind.
Seeing was average to good with a 1/4 moon and LP at about Red Zone level with transparency average. The moon was high up with Jupiter just setting and Saturn just coming up. The transparency didn't really lend itself to using the 13mm so I spent most of the time just using the 17mm.
A side note on the TV's. They are 100* EP's and I had been thinking about an upgrade to the ES 100*'s for a while now. The pricing on the TV's for NEAF did make them much more attractive so since I had just picked up an insanely silly priced OTA I figured I might as well pick up some insanely priced EP's to go with it. I tried the Naglers first and didn't like the eye relief then I tried the Delos and had massive Kidney beaning. Finally I tried the Ethos. And while they will kidney bean if I don't have my eye just right they did provide the best eye relief of all of them and such wonderfully wide views. So much so that I have aligned my 8" SCT and the Tak using the 17mm instead of my usual 40mm stock Celestron EP.
First target after alignment... The moon. Just had to be done. I was almost floored (as in fell on my arse) looking through the 17mm Ethos. The level of detail was frightening even at 17mm. And when I say frightening I mean that I was seeing detail that I had never seen before. As a test I popped my 8.8 ES EP in and while the view was magnified it wasn't as detailed as the 17mm. It was just better in the 17mm. And I spent quite a bit more time than I planned to just looking at the moon. The shadows were incredible and I saw what I call the Question Mark since the mountain range looks like a ?. Never saw that before.
There was quite a bit of CA on the fringe of the EP but I didn't buy these EP's for looking at the moon. I have my ES 8.8-4.7 for that. Even so as I said the sharpness and level of clarity was stunning.
Off to Jupiter. A real disappointment. Just too much darn water in the air and hot air currents. Looked like Jupiter was under water. Moving on to...
...Orion. Very close to the view I got with my ES 127mm using the ES 18mm 82* with three critical differences. Even at 17mm I could clearly see 4 stars in the trapezium instead of 3 plus one that would fade in and out and the number of background stars. The, for lack of better term because it wasn't so much contrast as it was something else, crispness of the surrounding space was much different. Different in that it was multiple shades of grey instead of flat black plus it just looked... well... more crisp. Lastly I was seeing stars, even in the 17mm, that were not visible before. To the point where the quote from 2001 A Space Odyssey jumped into my head... "My God! It's full of stars!"
Next up was M13 and M5. Both very tiny puff balls but that wasn't unexpected because of the aperture. Again though "My God! It's full of stars!" Not the clusters themselves which were very faint but the surrounding space.
Finally Saturn was high enough to take a go at but same problem with Jupiter. Just too much water and hot air. So I ended up gazing at the moon for a good hour or so coupled with quite a bit of contented sighing.
I am not sure how much of that increase in stars and crispness of view was due to the glass in the Tak and how much was due to the Televue EP's. I didn't get a chance to use the Televue's in my ES scopes. Since both of my ES scopes went to friends of mine as a part of the trade in I plan to give it a try in them at the next star party.
I think overall I am happy with my decision and this scope combined with my 8" Edge SCT give me the views I really enjoy.
Finally the scope pr0n...
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Posted 21 April 2013 - 02:03 AM
The focuser worked fine for me. Once I adjusted the tension correctly. Enjoy your new scope I think you will be pleasantly surprised by it. It will make a good counter to your 16" Zambuto.
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Clear skies
Posted 21 April 2013 - 03:54 PM
The Takahashi TSA120 is a scope that will be a 'classic' for future generations to collect. So much performance in a relatively light weight package.
Mine is currently for visual only, sitting on a T-Rex mount with Vixen's beautiful lanthanum LVW eyepieces.
Look forward to seeing more of your reports.
Posted 21 April 2013 - 04:05 PM
90x on the Tak
203x on the Edge
69x (rounded) on the Tak
156x on the Edge
53x (rounded) on the Tak
120x (rounded) on the Edge
This way I can go wide or doubles with the Tak and deep with the Edge. For example the Pleiades and double cluster just fits in the 17mm on the Tak but I would need to go up to a 30+ for the Edge. And the Ghost of Jupiter is a small dot with the Tak but takes on a good size in the Edge. A real compliment to each other.
And with those purchases my wallet is now flat so it's going to be a while before I can afford the FR I want for the Tak... Sigh.
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Posted 22 April 2013 - 11:38 AM
First, Enjoy Your New scope.
As you traded your ES 127 CF for the TSA I have a question for you.
How do you compare the views through the 127 to the views through the TSA 120 ?
(I mean at Similar magnifications using high quality Eyepieces).
Is your impression that the Tak is optically sharper and provides extra contrast as compared to the 127 ?
As an owner of the 127ED ( Aluminum tube) I really like the scope optically (I know it cannot be compared to a Tak Mechanically, but I am more interested in comparing the optics and final image quality ). I was simply wondering if the downsizing in aperture is optically compensated for by the lense having better figuring or color correction ?
Posted 22 April 2013 - 12:38 PM
The short answer is yes it is better optically than the 127 with premium EP's. I saw more and fainter stars in the FOV than I did with the ES and the color of the sky was more shades of grey than flat black. The loss of 7mm did not impact the view substantially enough to justify a move to a larger OTA to compensate.
But the more important question is the one where one asks if it is worth the $2,500-$4,000[1] price differential? The answer is, in my opinion, yes but only with the upper end EP's to go along with it and it is not a multiple order of magnitude differential. At most it's an order of magnitude.
[1] $2,500 assumes a price of $2,000 for the ES and $4,500 for the Tak. $4,000 assumes the purchase of Televue or similar EP's in the Ethos line in the 10mm 13mm 17mm and 21mm range.
Posted 25 April 2013 - 07:07 AM
That makes sense to me.
If I ever sell my ES 127 - it would be to finance another high end 130-140 mm refractor ( TMB 130, TSA 130 and TEC 140 come to mind here), AP Starfire 130 or Grand Tourismo also comes to mind - but I will probably need to rob a bank first
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Posted 26 April 2013 - 04:05 PM
I meant a used one. I am too old to put my name on the famous waiting list
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Posted 26 April 2013 - 09:21 PM
Sean, aye wasn't that just bloody amazing. Met the TV rep today at my local shoppe when I was picking up the 10mm and we had a long talk in which he confessed regarding TV's use of Unicorns, virgin sacrifice, and black magic deals with the devil to make them...


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Internet blocks return in Iran after brief opening
TEHRAN, Iran Word of the opening of Iran's blocked social media sites was spread, of course, by social media itself: in celebratory tweets and breathless Facebook posts. Hours later, the same sites Tuesday chewed over the sobering reality that the four-year-old firewalls were back in place.
Iran's Internet overseers blamed a "technical" glitch on the brief window to the Web.
But others interpreted the seesaw events as signs of growing internal struggles between the moderate-leaning President Hasan Rouhani - who has promised to ease Iran's cyber-censorship - and hard-liners in the Islamic establishment who see no benefit in lifting restrictions intended to foil potential political opponents and reformists.
The chances are highly unlikely that Iran's secretive Web watchers will provide a full accounting of the brief freedoms, which allowed users to access banned sites such as Twitter and Facebook directly rather than having to use proxy servers that bypass Iranian controls.
The semiofficial Mehr news agency quoted Abdolsamad Khoramabadi, a member of the board overseeing the Internet, as saying the filters were temporarily removed late Monday by a "technical failure regarding some Internet service providers." He warned, too, that an investigation will also study the possibility of an inside job.
"We are probing it," he said.
Later, a telecommunications official, Hasan Karimi, said the Web openings were caused by Internet address changes by Facebook that required taking down the filters to install new firewalls..
Facebook did not immediately respond to an Associated Press request for comment.
Some Rouhani backers, however, believe the Iranian government had a hand in freeing up the Internet, even if briefly.
Scores of Facebook users quickly posted "Rouhani, Mochakerim," or Farsi for "Thank you, Rouhani."
"God liberated Facebook," wrote Mohammad Reza on his Facebook account.
"This isn't really about a glitch even if one really happened," said Scott Lucas, an Iranian affairs expert at Britain's Birmingham University and editor of EAWorldView, a foreign policy website. "The bigger picture is that the Internet is central to the political battles inside the country in both the direction of domestic and foreign affairs."
The clampdown on Iran's social media was in response to the street riots and unrest after the disputed 2009 re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose opponents were among the first in the Middle East to harness the Web to organize protests.
Ironically, Iranian officials also have recognized the usefulness of the social media they consider too dangerous to be allowed in the public domain.
Accounts carrying the name of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei typically churn out dozens of comments a day. Authorities insist Khamenei does not maintain his own accounts, but he has not disavowed them - raising speculation that they are fed by close aides and have his tacit approval.
On Tuesday, the Khamenei-branded Twitter account equated diplomacy to a wrestling match. It's good to grapple, it said, but important to member you are still foes - an apparent reference to possible increased outreach to the U.S. during Rouhani's trip to New York later this month for the U.N. General Assembly. The comment was similar to an earlier state TV report quoting Khamenei.
Khamenei's top aides, including former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, were ahead of even Rouhani in embracing social media during this year's presidential race.
"Now some of the group that has been resisting (social media) is changing its mind," said Tehran-based political analyst Saeed Leilaz.
But there are powerful hard-line factions that want no official cracks in what U.S. President Barack Obama once called Iran's "electronic curtain."
Iran's Supreme Council for Cyberspace, the main oversight body, is directly linked to the Revolutionary Guard and the ruling clerics. Both groups have given no signals of interest in easing the Internet blocks on millions of websites that range from opposition voices to the BBC's Persian Service.


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How to navigate potholes on the dieting highway without gaining a pound.
It's the all-you-can-eat buffet at your favorite restaurant, or the vacation where you just want to let loose. Or, worse yet, it's Aunt Sophie piling mega-portions of her secret-recipe garlic butter mashed potatoes on your plate at the weekly family dinner.
Whatever your own personal ''diet disaster zone,'' it's a person, place, or situation that can leave you heavy with guilt and extra pounds.
Here are some common potholes along the dieting highway that you should be wary of, along with tips from experts on how to navigate around them without gaining a pound.
Restaurant Ruination
The Disaster: Your favorite restaurant, offering up an all-you-can-eat buffet bar or portions of creamy, buttery pasta that are too big for three people, let alone one.
''Restaurants are tricky,'' says Rick Hall, a registered dietitian in Phoenix. ''We feel our pocketbooks itching on our legs because we're paying so much for the food, so we feel like we can't let it go to waste. Even if they bring you a huge portion, you feel like you need to eat it all because you're paying $50, $60 or more for what's in front of you.''
The appetizers don't help, especially when they come in the form of baskets brimming with bread (with butter on the side, of course).
''What happens is you're so hungry when you get there, that when the waiter brings out the bread, you fill up on it,'' says Hall, who lectures on nutrition issues at Arizona State University. ''But then you still eat a full meal.''
Coping Strategies: ''First and foremost, skip the bread,'' says Hall. ''In fact, ask the waiter not even to bring it out to the table.''
Next, ask the waiter how generous the portion sizes are. If they're big enough to feed a small army, share the wealth.
''Ask the server what the portion sizes are, and if you can share -- most places these days will let you do that,'' says Hall. ''And the good news is that if you share your main course, you can share a dessert as well.'' (Of course, if your dining companions aren't into sharing, there's always the doggie bag.)


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The Most Exciting Singaporean Startups to Watch in 2013
by Guest Author on February 20, 2013
Singapore has blossomed as a key business center in Southeast Asia in recent years, and is attracting scores of investors from around the world eager to cash in on the opportunities available in this rapidly expanding economic hub. This is an especially exciting time for entrepreneurs, and start-ups have been popping up across the city even faster than the new skyscrapers transforming the cityscape. Last year, the country hosted its first ever Singaporean Startup Weekend for women, to complement the male-dominated event that has been such a success in the past few years. Startup Asia–Singapore 2013 is scheduled for early April of this year, and will bring together a network of important minds and resources focused on launching a new wave of innovative startups in 2013.
With so much entrepreneurial activity centered in one place, Singapore is producing some remarkable new business ventures. Here are the top five Singaporean startups to keep an eye on in 2013:
Having already attracted several powerhouse investors, including Novartis and British American Tobacco, IDENTIFI is growing fast. In 2012, they launched DiscoverMatch, a visual directory of business- and job-listings designed to showcase company culture, individual employees, and office spaces. The goal of the site is something altogether new when it comes to connecting jobseekers and employers: an online platform dedicated to helping businesses attract top talent.
Already featured in a number of spotlight reports by CNBC, SG Entrepreneurs, and YoungStartups, TradeGecko is causing quite a buzz. They've developed a sleek and efficient online inventory and order management software suite, which does invoicing, sales orders, purchase orders, and shipping labels. Propelled by more than $800K in initial startup funding, they hit the ground running and are expanding fast.
Milaap not only built a solid business model, they created an inspiring model for positive social change on an international scale. Their online platform facilitates crowd-sourced low-interest lending to India's underprivileged, and operates on the belief that 'a hand up is always better than a handout.' Users give zero interest microloans, which they can reinvest in other projects after being paid back. Loan recipients use the funds to develop electric, sanitation, healthcare, and sustainable farming projects in their villages, and repay the loan at .6% interest when the community-building project is completed.
Launched in 2012, this iPhone app helps users capture, share, and browse through memorable food moments. By recording the place, date, and details of the meal, the network of users can create food journals, review local eateries, find great meals, and even just indulge in the simple joy of browsing food porn. With a sleek and easy-to-use interface, Burpple has already attracted a lot of attention from foodies around the globe.
Online travel agencies are frustrating, time consuming, and inefficient. GottaGetaway hopes to change that by launching its own proprietary search engine, which they say will offer a faster, more streamlined solution to travel booking. Founder Ric Shreves––author of several books on open source technology and a frequent speaker at web and travel industry events––is spearheading the project. The site is due to launch in a few months, and is certain to change the travel industry if it can live up to expectations.
For investors, entrepreneurs, and consumers alike, 2013 is shaping up to be an exciting year. It is rare to see such an explosion of business concentrated in one small area, and the results of the boom are certain to produce some great new ventures. If these startups live up to the enthusiasm they have already provoked in the business world, they are certain to leave some important marks on the financial world.
If you're visiting Singapore on business then the Swissotel Merchant Court, located within a stone's throw of Raffles Place, offers five-star luxury and comfort, and is ideally catered to the needs of business professionals.
About the Author
Jon Turling is a travelling business blogger, currently residing in Singapore. If you're visiting Singapore on business then the Swissotel Merchant Court, located within a stone's throw of Raffles Place, offers five-star luxury and comfort, and is ideally catered to the needs of business professionals.


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A light-weight JavaScript library to help you make sense of your A/B test results.
Confidence.js is a light-weight JavaScript library to help you make sense of your A/B Test results. Given an A/B test (or "Split Test") result set, Confidence.js will tell you if a statistical "winner" can be determined.
confidence.js in your HTML.
<script src="path/to/confidence.js"></script>
You're all ready! Start testing... with confidence.
We have many examples in the API Reference. Here's a simple one to get you started:
// Create a new test result var myConfidence = ; // Add variant A results myConfidenceaddVariant id: 'A' name: 'Variant A' conversionCount: 2500 eventCount: 3000; // Add variant B results myConfidenceaddVariant id: 'B' name: 'Variant B' conversionCount: 1500 eventCount: 3000; // Get results, using Z-Test method zTestResult = myConfidencegetResult;/*{ hasWinner: true, hasEnoughData: true, winnerID: 'A', winnerName: 'Variant A', confidencePercent: 95.00, confidenceInterval: { min: 82, max: 84.67 }, readable: 'With 95% confidence, the true population parameter of the "Variant A" variant will fall between 82% and 84.67%.'}*/
Confidence.js provides two methods for evaluating an A/B test:
Selecting an appropriate method depends on your data set and use case - both have advantages.
Learn how each method works here.
npm installnpm test
removeVariant function
Found a bug? Create an issue here on GitHub!
For general questions, tweet me @jessicaraygun.
Developed and maintained by Jessica Thomas, Data Scientist @ sendwithus.com, with guidance and tutelage from Statistics Mastermind Emily Malcolm.


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