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Fire corals get their common name from the painful stings they inflict on divers (2). Approximately 50 species of fire coral have been described, which express an array of growth forms. Growth forms range from colonies composed of tree-like branches, solid colonies that are typically dome-shaped, or colonies that adhere closely to the substrate (2). These reef-building (hermatypic) corals can be green, cream or yellow, and those species with branches have hollow cores, containing oxygen, that can be easily broken (2) (3). Other species form thick and sturdy colonies capable of withstanding the strongest wave action (3).
Fire corals are hydrozoans, and thus have different type of polyps with different functions than anthozoan corals. The polyps of hydrozoans are near microscopic size and are mostly imbedded in the skeleton and connected by a network of minute canals. All that is visible on the smooth surface are pores of two sizes: gastropores and dactylopores. In fact, Millepora means 'many pores'. Dactylopores have long fine hairs that protrude from the skeleton. The hairs possess clusters of stinging cells (nematocysts) that inflict the stings on human skin. These hairs capture prey, which is then engulfed by gastrozooids, or feeding polyps, situated within the gastropores (2). As well as capturing prey, fire corals gain nutrients via their special symbiotic relationship with algae known as zooxanthellae. The zooxanthellae live inside the tissues of the coral, and provide the coral with food, which they produce through photosynthesis, and therefore require sunlight. In return, the coral provides the algae with protection and access to sunlight.
Reproduction in fire corals is more complex than in other reef-building corals. The polyps reproduce asexually, producing jellyfish-like medusae, which are released into the water from special cup-like structures known as ampullae. The medusae contain the reproductive organs that release eggs and sperm into the water. Fertilised eggs develop into free-swimming larvae that will eventually settle on the substrate and form new colonies. Fire corals can also reproduce asexually by fragmentation (4) (5).
Occurs in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans (2).
Fire corals form extensive outcrops on projecting parts of the reef where the tidal currents are strong. They are also abundant on upper reef slopes and in lagoons (3), and occur down to depths of 40 metres (4).
Listed on Appendix II of CITES (1).
Fire corals face the many threats that are impacting coral reefs globally. It is estimated that 20 percent of the world's coral reefs have already been effectively destroyed and show no immediate prospects of recovery, and 24 percent of the world's reefs are under imminent risk of collapse due to human pressures. These human impacts include poor land management practices that are releasing more sediment, nutrients and pollutants into the oceans and stressing the fragile reef ecosystem. Overfishing has 'knock-on' effects that result in the increase of macro-algae that can out-compete and smother corals, and fishing using destructive methods physically devastates the reef. A further potential threat is the increase of coral bleaching events, as a result of global climate change (6).
Most fire coral species have brittle skeletons that can easily be broken, for example, during storms, or by divers (2). Divers can easily break the branches of fire corals when diving for leisure, or when collecting fish for the aquarium trade. For instance, the yellowtail damselfish tends to dwell close to the branching fire coral colonies, and retreats into its branches when threatened. In Brazil, fire coral colonies are extensively damaged when harvesting the yellowtail damselfish, as the corals are often deliberately smashed and fishes hiding amongst the branches are 'shaken out' into plastic bags (7).
Fire corals are listed on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which means that trade in these species should be carefully regulated (1). Indonesia and Fiji both have quota systems for corals, monitored though CITES (1). The aim of the quotas are to ensure harvests are kept at a sustainable level, but in reality they are hard to set at the right level due to a lack of knowledge regarding coral biology. Fire corals will form part of the marine community in many Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), which offer coral reefs a degree of protection, and there are many calls from non-governmental organisations for larger MPAs to ensure the persistence of these unique and fascinating ecosystems (6).
For further information on this species see Veron, J.E.N. (1986) Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus and Robertson Publishers, UK.
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Rachel Carson's 1962 book, which focused on what she saw as the widespread and detrimental use of pesticides, is credited as being the catalyst for the modern environmental movement and helping to lead to the creation of the EPA in 1970.
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(CNN) -- He took on "the Dark Side," overcame a plane-load of rogue reptiles and struck down his enemies with "great vengeance and furious anger."
However, Hollywood star Samuel L. Jackson is more at home on the genteel fairways of a golf course.
The actor, whose numerous film credits include Pulp Fiction, the Star Wars prequels and, yes, Snakes On A Plane, is so dedicated to perfecting his game that he has a clause written into his contracts that allows him time off to play golf.
"They have to let me play at least twice a week," Jackson told CNN's Living Golf. "Generally they either move me onto a golf course or I join a club so I can play there."
The 64-year-old plays off a six-handicap and is a regular at celebrity pro-am tournaments, having lined up at famed courses such as St. Andrews and Pebble Beach.
Jackson has teed off alongside peers such as Clint Eastwood and Don Cheadle, as well as saxophonist Kenny G -- the man he rates the best amateur golfer he has played against -- but his favorite round was with 14-time major winner Tiger Woods.
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"The first time I played St. Andrews (in Scotland) I actually played with Tiger," Jackson said. "That's kind of a big deal.
"The first time I met him I played with him at the Dunhill (Championship) and I think his advice to me was 'Follow me' -- and I actually did.
"I didn't hit the ball as far as he did but I kind of hit the same balls."
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Jackson was born in Washington D.C and studied in Atlanta before moving to New York to pursue an acting career.
But it was in Los Angeles, the city he has now made his home, where he first discovered golf -- although it took some cunning and persuasion for friends to pique his interest.
"I had never played and they kept trying to get me to go out, and I wouldn't," Jackson recalled.
"They tricked me one day and told me they were going somewhere else and we ended up on a golf course.
"I didn't like the fact that they could do something that I couldn't and I started playing -- now they don't play with me!"
Jackson told the PGA Tour website that when he's not working he plays golf every day, sometimes shooting 27 holes at a time.
But, despite playing the game around the globe, there is one course that Jackson rates as pretty special.
"The best course in the world I've played? That would be Augusta National where they play the Masters," he explained.
"When I was shooting Freedomland (filmed in the state of New York) the producers gave me as my wrap gift three rounds of golf at Augusta."
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Jackson's love of golf is now such an intrinsic part of his off-screen character that the profile on his Twitter page shows him channeling movie star in a sharp black suit -- while he holds a putter behind his back.
He also blends his celebrity status with his golf game to raise funds in his annual Shooting Stars charity fundraiser.
The 2013 event, held just outside London, raised funds for the Alzheimer's Association -- a charity that has a personal meaning for the actor.
"My mum passed from Alzheimer's last year -- my grandfather had it, her sister's got it, her brother had it, my paternal grandmother had it, so it seems like I'm kind of surrounded by it," Jackson explained.
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As henchman Jules Winnfield in 1994's breakthrough Pulp Fiction performance, Jackson memorably quoted the Bible as he sought "the path of the righteous man" -- and he also has advice for those seeking the perfect golf stroke.
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I working on a file that invokes <sys/stat>. I've gotten a lot I needed but for the life of me I can't figure where:
struct stat sb;
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#include "wifimgr.h" #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <pwd.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #ifndef WITHOUT_NLS #include <libintl.h> #else #define gettext(x) (x) #endif #define PATH "/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin" main(int argc, char ** argv) { char line[1024]; char cmd[1024]; int auth = 0; int copy_stdout; char * arg; int xst; #ifndef WITHOUT_NLS /* set output character set */ bind_textdomain_codeset("wifimgr", "UTF-8"); /* set language catalog domain */ textdomain("wifimgr"); #endif if (isatty(0) || isatty(1)) { fprintf(stderr, gettext("wifimgrsu: for invocation by wifimgr(8) only\n")); exit(1); } /* set line buffering */ setvbuf(stdin, (char *) NULL, _IOLBF, 0); setvbuf(stdout, (char *) NULL, _IOLBF, 0); /* set safe PATH (required for shell scripts such as /etc/rc.d/netif) */ setenv("PATH", PATH, 1); /* loop reading commands */ while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdin) != NULL) { chop(line); if (strncmp(line, "password ", 9) == 0) { char * pass; char * su_pass; pass = strdup(index(line, ' ') + 1); su_pass = strdup(getpwnam("root")->pw_passwd); if (strcmp(crypt(pass, su_pass), su_pass) != 0) printf("FAIL %s\n", gettext("invalid password")); else { auth = 1; printf("OK\n"); } continue; } /* go no further unless authorization passed */ if (!auth) { printf("FAIL %s\n", gettext("not authorized")); continue; } /* flag for commands that produce stdout */ copy_stdout = 0; if (strcmp(line, "cat_netfile") == 0) { if (stat(file, &sb) >= 0) sprintf(cmd, "%s %s", PATH_CAT, NETWORKS_FILE); else sprintf(cmd, ""); copy_stdout = 1; } else if (strncmp(line, "write_netfile ", 14) == 0) { arg = index(line, ' ') + 1; sprintf(cmd, "%s %s %s", PATH_CP, arg, NETWORKS_FILE); } else if (strcmp(line, "diff_netfile") == 0) sprintf(cmd, "%s -q %s %s.save >/dev/null", PATH_DIFF, NETWORKS_FILE, NETWORKS_FILE); else if (strcmp(line, "backup_netfile") == 0) sprintf(cmd, "%s -p %s %s.save", PATH_CP, NETWORKS_FILE, NETWORKS_FILE); else if (strncmp(line, "restart_netif ", 14) == 0) { arg = index(line, ' ') + 1; sprintf(cmd, "%s restart %s >/dev/null 2>&1", PATH_NETIF, arg); } else if (strncmp(line, "start_netif ", 12) == 0) { arg = index(line, ' ') + 1; sprintf(cmd, "%s start %s >/dev/null 2>&1", PATH_NETIF, arg); } else if (strncmp(line, "stop_netif ", 11) == 0) { arg = index(line, ' ') + 1; sprintf(cmd, "%s stop %s >/dev/null 2>&1", PATH_NETIF, arg); } else { printf("FAIL %s\n", gettext("invalid command")); continue; } xst = system(cmd); if (copy_stdout) printf("EOF\n"); if (WEXITSTATUS(xst) == 0) printf("OK\n"); else printf("FAIL %s %d\n", gettext("exit status"), WEXITSTATUS(xst)); } }
If I remember my C correctly, all variables must be declared at the beginning of the function they're used in. In your case it appears to be used in main.
A daemon in need is a daemon indeed.
They can be declared at the start of a block too, though whether that style is acceptable depends on who you're coding with. I like it as a C++ programmer -- the principle being that the smaller the visibility of the variable the simpler the analysis of program when reading it over for errors -- but it doesn't seem like a principle many C programmers agree with. For instance, the OpenBSD style man page has this to say:
" Parts of a for loop may be left empty. Don't put declarations inside blocks unless the routine is unusually complicated."
Oh and if you can use C99 the variable definitions can be intermixed with the statements like in C++, so if you wanted to you could wait to define it until the last possible place. But in the program above the last possible place is the same as the beginning of the if block enclosing the stat call, so there's no difference.
One more thing. This code is rife with potential null pointer references and buffer overflows from trusting its input and assuming functions (e.g. index) don't fail and using error prone functions like sprintf.
Say, it wouldn't happen to come from the source code of PHP would it?
maybe its defined in "wifimgr.h"
A daemon in need is a daemon indeed.
Last edited by classicmanpro; 30th March 2011 at 07:10 PM. Reason: Made my reply more explicit
Yeah, I think it being defined in the header or declared in the header and defined in some other module can be ruled out. The code isn't good, but it's not that out there.
like someone said: learn the rules then break them ;-)
if (some_other_predicate(...)) { struct stat sb; if (stat(fname, &sb) == -1) handle the error. else act on file or directory or whatever thing is. maybe sb has something in it you want to look at, hmm. } else ...
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Twitter has gotten kudos for fighting the U.S. government on behalf of its users over free-speech issues. Today, it appears that it may be gearing up for another legal battle. It says the recent government decision to allow companies to disclose the number of national security requests they receive is not enough, and that it may sue.
In a blog post announcing its latest transparency report - which discloses numbers of government requests for user information and takedown requests around the world - Twitter said it is "considering legal options we may have to seek to defend our First Amendment rights." The San Francisco-based company says being unable to disclose more information about U.S. national security requests and FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) court orders in a narrower context is meaningless and "violates our First Amendment right to free expression and open discussion of government affairs."
After the Edward Snowden leaks that revealed massive NSA spying that includes the collection of Internet users' information, tech companies including Google and Yahoo sued the government in a push to allow them to disclose the number of national security requests they receive. Last week, the government relented, but as Brandon Bailey wrote, an Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer called it a "very small step."
Twitter agrees, calling it "a step in the right direction" but pointing out that letting the companies disclose numbers in "broad ranges do not provide meaningful or sufficient transparency for the public, especially for entities that do not receive a significant number of – or any – national security requests." For example, it wants to be able to publish information on secret government requests separately from other types of requests.
The Next Web rounded up the numbers released by tech companies after last week's decision. The companies can only report the requests in groups of a thousand. For example, Yahoo reported that in the first six months of 2013, it received 0-999 FISA requests. So did Facebook. So you can see where Twitter's coming from when it says the numbers don't really do much good.
Twitter's frankness is in line with its track record. We've written that Twitter fought a court order to turn over information about an Occupy Wall Street protester a couple of years ago. In 2011, the company also fought a gag order preventing it from disclosing a secret subpoena for information about an Iceland parliament member with ties to whistleblower website WikiLeaks. Although Twitter eventually had to give up the information in both instances, it won praise for its efforts.
Clarification: This post previously referred to national security requests as national security letters. Companies were allowed to disclose national security letters last year, but they were not allowed to disclose other types of national security requests separately.


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Re: How can I unshare something?by renodino (Curate)
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threads::shared can't handle blobs. Whatever they are.
Um, care to elaborate ? Is that "blobs" as in database large binary objects ? Or something else ? A Perl object, perhaps ? Your blanket statement may hide some misassumptions; it certainly makes it difficult to diagnose your issue.
That said, I fear there's currently no unshare API. Though it might be a useful addition, its difficult to define the behavior of something that would be unshared if some other thread still has a reference to it. Does unshare() apply globally, and suddenly every thread's reference becomes private again ? Or does it simply mean the single thread dissociates its private proxy from the shared version, but retains a copy of everything in it ? Plus there may be other housekeeping issues (what happens when you deref a reference to previously shared element; does it grab a copy from the shared version, or the unshared version ?).
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In the middle of national hearings on birth control access and the passage of state laws punishing women who receive abortions, Utah has been doing something stupid. Most of us were distracted. April Gardner was not. I followed events through her Twitter feed and asked her to write a guest post since most people still don't know this happened.
Utah's Legislators Ignore the Purpose of Education and Expose Students to Harm
Over the last month, Utah's conservative legislators in the House of Representatives have made a mission of pushing conservative morals into an education policy that is a solution in search of a problem. What's more, in doing so they have not only ignored the entire purpose of educating the next generation, but they have created an environment that will leave Utah's youths far more vulnerable than they are under the current curriculum standards.
Utah's existing approach to sex education in high school already allows parents with strong religious or moral feelings on human sexuality to keep their children ignorant about their own bodies and sexuality; in order to participate in sex education, parents must opt their children into the classes. The default path for students is ignorance. And the current Utah state curriculum is arguably already abstinence-only in its implementation. Utah Administrative Code R277-474 requires:
- Prior written parental consent must be obtained before including any aspect of contraception in the curriculum.
- Teachers may not teach the advocacy or encouragement of contraceptive methods or devices.
Preventing advocacy or encouragement of contraceptive methods is so close to abstinence-only education as makes no difference. All that is left to discuss if you ban encouragement or advocacy is to point out the existence of contraception and note rates of failure compared to abstinence. We already do our children a terrible disservice in providing incomplete approaches to human sexuality, but for the very conservative religious politicians, the current approach does not allow them great enough control over the state's adolescents. The Utah House passed a bill making things worse last Wednesday.
There is no demand by local schools, parents or communities that our current (and shamefully incomplete) approach to health education be altered to align with conservative moral ideals. The state's Republican governor has publicly stated he thinks the current standards are working fine for Utah's schools. The bill's sponsor, Representative Bill Wright (R-Holden) acknowledged to the Salt Lake Tribune that his bill to allow schools to discontinue any sex education (rather than stick to abstinence only) was his idea and no school or district had supported or asked for such a move.
In an article published Saturday, March 3rd, the Tribune found that although parents have the option of withholding permission to attend health classes, virtually none do so. In that piece, Wright was unable to point to any sort of parental outcry that led him to propose this legislation. (In fact, the state Parent Teacher Association and Utah Education Association oppose this legislation as harmful.) He justified this by speculating that despite state law requiring parents to be notified two weeks in advance of what will be covered in health curriculum, they may not be provided with sufficient detail about the health curriculum to be covered.
During the initial House committee hearing for this bill on the 9th of February, it became clear that the only vocal proponents of this measure are ultra-conservative lawmakers and moral crusading busybodies from groups like The Sutherland Institute, United Families Utah and Utah's Eagle Forum. It is depressing to see an institution like the Sutherland Institute that doesn't support public education having so much influence on the very institutions it seeks to undermine. Critics of the bill did not even question the importance of promoting abstinence over all other options, but simply tried to point out the damage the bill would do while proposing amendments to mitigate the harm. I felt great ambivalence when BYU professor Cougar Hall was a voice of reason, pointing out not only that we already have opt-in abstinence only education, but going on:
It's immoral to withhold life-saving information from a segment of our population because it doesn't fit our value system.
The committee successfully appended two amendments to the bill to mandate parental involvement in creating sex-education curriculum, clarify that the legislation can only affect health curriculum (it was pointed out that it could ban many works of literature as written) and strike language that prevented any discussion of non-abstinence. The version of the bill that passed the Utah House of Representatives manages to remove public schools' already limited ability to teach sex education by prohibiting any instruction on contraception. It also gives school administrators the option to skip even abstinence education unilaterally, cripples teachers' and administrators' ability to aid students needing counseling or guidance by legislating limits on speech, massively increases risk of transmission of STDs and rates of unwanted pregnancy through ignorance, and creates an environment in which anti-gay bigotry and bullying can thrive as we've seen in Minnesota's Anoka-Hennepin school district (recently covered in Rolling Stone.)
In a year where we have seen an unprecedented attack on women, sexual health and reproductive freedoms, it's striking just how transparent and honest religious conservatives are about their motives. It's all about sex and how much they don't want you to enjoy the freedom to fuck if you want to, or at the very least, you should suffer consequences for being a slut who couldn't keep your legs closed. Wright, for example, made this abundantly clear:
We've been culturally watered down to think we have to teach about sex, about having sex and how to get away with it, which is intellectually dishonest. Why don't we just be honest with them upfront that sex outside marriage is devastating? [emphasis added]
For all the talk of keeping our children innocent and being able to instruct our children what we believe as a matter of private religious freedom, the fact remains that this is all irrelevant to the purpose of education. It has always bothered me that sex education is unique in the way it is discussed when compared to other subjects: it's exclusively discussed in terms of the present. But education is for the future. We don't promote the learning of mathematics, history, literature, science or art simply for their own sake now, but because doing so prepares young people for their lives as adults and gives them tools to advance and contribute to society.
Yet when we discuss the healthy development of human sexuality, it is always forgotten that education is meant to prepare students for adulthood; the conversation shifts about how we "shouldn't be teaching kids how to have sex." (Thanks, Sutherland Institute for highlighting the conservative idiocy that claims if you don't teach kids about sex, they just won't have any!) Conservatives would rather take advantage of religious conscience and parental control ideas to shroud sexuality, sexual fulfillment and life satisfaction in layers of shame, gender conformity and authoritarian control than to take proactive and useful steps to help teens grow up to be healthy and responsible adults. It is just too easy to claim to think of the children and their lost innocence to prevent anyone from taking a long hard look at the goal of demonizing sex for everyone.
Just listen to how Representative Wright speaks so prudishly (the middle school curriculum was so dirty he can't even talk about it on the radio, seriously?) on local NPR program Radio West, where he suggests that individuals have no need to learn the "nuts and bolts" of sex education until marriage, and from what I can tell, there's no need to learn about controlling fertility at all. After all, Representative Wright has ten children.
Of course, the fact that education is primarily about the future of students does not mean the present is irrelevant in regards to teaching about responsible human sexuality. The ages at which people begin sexual activity and rates of teen pregnancy and STD infection make that abundantly clear. We have more than enough evidence to show that
abstinence ignorance only education does not work. Nothing more should need to be said, yet here we are again.
Many also raised concerns that educators would be unable to adequately address the needs of students experiencing sexual and domestic violence, STIs or who find themselves pregnant. Sadly these concerns are well founded. Utah's rates for STIs largely increased from 2006-2010. We've already seen how health outcomes worsen when schools are only allowed to teach abstinence only education for teens, and it is completely unconscionable to reduce the options open to those in schools to aid students.
I'm particularly heartbroken how dismissive many Republican legislators were given Utah's dismal record for sexual violence. While Utah has been below the national average for non-sexual violent crime for more than fifty years, Utah's sexual violence rates exceeded the national average in 1990 and has remained there ever since. The Utah Department of Health has a surprisingly well constructed breakdown of the state of sexual violence in Utah, making it abundantly clear that this a serious problem of great scope.
Rape is the only violent crime in Utah that occurs at a higher rate than the rest of the nation. One in three Utah women will experience some type of sexual assault in their lifetime and one in eight will be raped. In 2008, Utah's reported rape rate was 63.7 per 100,000 females compared to the U.S. rate of 57.4 per 100,000 females. However, the majority of rapes (88.2%) are never reported to law enforcement, indicating that sexual violence in Utah is grossly underestimated.
I can only imagine how much more we compound the problems of shame, untreated infection, unwanted pregnancy and underreporting of sexual violence by irrevocably tying sex to moral depravity. Sadly it doesn't surprise me that only 12.7% of sexual assault victims in Utah seek medical exams following their attacks. Making sex seem even more immoral to Utah's teenagers can only exacerbate these problems.
I've been disappointed that in most of the news coverage and analysis of House bill 363, most people focus so heavily on the extreme abstinence element that they miss some of the other elements of the bill, including the option for schools and districts to fail in their duties as educators by simply remove all sex education and codifying into law the idea that being gay is wrong and immoral by preventing teachers from even suggesting it is normal or a healthy variant of human sexuality. Even more disturbing, the bill was originally written to forbid even discussing sex outside of marriage or homosexuality. Wright was championing a bill that was anti-sex-education and our own version of a "don't say gay" bill rolled all into one.
That we got a watered down version of the anti-gay prejudice than what was originally sought is no cause for cheer. As we have seen in Anoka-Hennepin, a legal ban against any interaction that seems to "advocate or encourage" being gay leads to educators so confused and fearful of what constitutes encouragement that they do nothing at all as GLBT teens are falling apart. The conservatives in our legislature are asking school teachers, guidance counselors and administrators to betray their duty to do what is best for Utah's children and it is nothing short of theocratic malice.
In fact, malice is a good way to describe almost everything about this bill. It is a perfect example of unnecessary and overreaching policy that no one wants but religious extremists and which does significant harm. In the horrific series of attacks on women's bodies and freedoms to control their lives and fertility, a seemingly routine push by a conservative state to move to even more strictly abstinence system of education has understandably not sparked the same level of scrutiny and outrage it really deserves. We need to shift the way that we discuss sex education to recognize that we are giving students tools to become healthy, happy and responsible adults and keep religion out of the equation entirely.
I've more or less given up hope that my legislators will consider my opinions when considering legislation; our respective values are so out of sync that we may as well be from different planets. But it's one thing to reject the opinions of a constituent that is a feminist, sex-positive, atheist… It's quite another to ignore the wishes of the vast majority of conservative Utah parents who go through the hassle of opting their children into what little sex education is offered year after year. I only hope that by speaking out, our elected representatives will remember that they work for our best interests and will reconsider making this monstrosity law.


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- In every civil case (except one originating in Family Court) in which a notice of appeal is filed or an order granting leave to appeal to the Appellate Division entered, or an order transferring an Article 78 proceeding to the Appellate Division is entered, counsel for the appellant or petitioner shall file, together with the above, a pre-argument statement, proof of service and, where applicable, a copy of the opinion or short form order which contains a memorandum.
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- The clerk of the court from which the appeal is taken shall promptly transmit to the Appellate Division the pre-argument statement and a copy of the notice of appeal or order granting leave or transferral.
- By order of the Court, counsel and the parties to the actions may be directed to attend a preargument conference before a judicial administrative officer or such other person as may be designated by the Appellate Division.
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There was a nice, thick layer of snow close to home today. I'm getting ready to tear down The Goat to fix the rear wheel.
I snapped these on the way home. Ah, the hustle and bustle of the highway. I wouldn't likely trade my snowy multi-mode commute for the I-35 parking lot again.
I saw one more cyclist on the road today, on 87th st. I know plenty of my friends local and elsewhere are tearing it up in the snow as well.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
There was a nice, thick layer of snow close to home today. I'm getting ready to tear down The Goat to fix the rear wheel.
5 comments:
- Apertome said...
Nice shots. We are getting some good snow -- I just got back from riding in it. I love it!
- December 16, 2008 10:02 PM
- James Oiler said...
I'm so enjoying your snow adventures.
I wanted to be sure you knew about a handy tip for that broken rear wheel (driveside) spoke.
When next you are at your local bike shop pick up about a half dozen spokes that are three eights of an inch too long for your wheel.
Clip off the little button that keeps the spoke from pulling through the hole in the hub.
Now the tricky part, form an "S" bend on that end. This "S" bend will allow you to insert the spoke in the drive side hole and give some tension to get the wheel to stop rubbing the chain stay. This is a temporary solution (I've ridden one of these for a few days at a stretch) but, can really save your bacon in a pinch.
The cold weather you're riding in may make this all impossible.
Keep up the good work!
Jim Oiler
- December 17, 2008 9:59 AM
- Noah said...
That's not a bad idea. I just opened up the V-brakes a bit and that worked fine. I only had 3 miles or so to go. On my road bike, I once tightened the surrounding drive-side spokes and slightly loosened the non-drive-side and got the wheel true enough to ride on, then I bent the broken spoke around an adjacent one to keep it from flopping around and tearing anything else up. I rode like that also for a few days over last summer.
I used my last spare spoke last night, but the wheel's true and tight once again. I probably need to go buy more spokes. I found one length that I can use on both drive and non-drive side while keeping dish and tension sane.
- December 17, 2008 10:07 AM
I had some awesome snow rides too. My coworkers said, "You are still riding?" I told them it's better on a bike - my commute times hav only gone up five or ten minutes.
- December 17, 2008 7:59 PM
- Sairen said...
I gave up for the winter, but I admire you guys tremendously and look forward to hopping back on my bike once we start getting a bit warmer!
- December 18, 2008 1:14 PM
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Season 2, Episode 1: Laura Letinsky
I don't like to propagate ideas about photography that I don't believe in, which is that photography is an ideal that can never be attained ...
Danny sits down with Laura Letinsky and gets serious about art, gardening, and the perfect bowl for fish soup.
Laura Letinsky obtained her MFA at Yale School of Art. Her work has been exhibited around the world, including in the J.P. Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and Hermes Collection, Paris. She is a Professor in the University of Chicago's Department of Visual Arts.
Danny Volk was born in Akron, OH and currently lives and works in Chicago. He graduated from Kent State University in 2006 with a BA in theater studies and in 2014 graduated from the University of Chicago with an MFA in visual arts. Volk's performance-based work has been exhibited in Chicago at High Concept Laboratories, PSA Projects, The Logan Center Gallery, and Links Hall. Outside of Chicago, he's shown at Centro Desarrollo delas Artes Visuales Plaza Vieja in Havana, Cuba and Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Publisher's Note: The lastest reports coming to The Black Star News today is that Mychal Bell may be released on bail soon. Some protestors say they will not leave Jena until Bell is released and charges dropped. The Black Star News will post news throughout the day...Protestors on one podium alone raised $15,000 towards the Jena Six Fund...
The ongoing legal battle of six African American teenagers against trumped up charges in Jena, Louisiana makes it even clearer that racism and its systemic aggression against Black Americans continues to grow in this country.
In Georgia, over two thousand people rallied in Douglas County to demand justice for Genarlow Wilson. On September 20th, we will put tens of thousands more in the streets in Jena, to demand justice for Mychal Bell and the Jena 6. This time the demand for justice will resonate throughout the land.
In addition to the over thirty organizations and churches that have endorsed this effort, students and community members throughout the state will join in solidarity with a national coalition for justice called for by Detroit City Councilman Kwame Kenyatta and activist radio personality, Bob Law.
This national coalition not only stands in solidarity with the Jena 6 but also with The Katrina International Tribunal and the many others fighting for justice in Louisiana.
While the conviction of Mychal Bell, one of the six Black youngsters in Jena, has been thrown out by the Third District Court of Appeals, the struggle for justice is far from over.
Our concern is that the racist double standard remains intact allowing whites to commit acts of aggression against Blacks with impunity, while Black youngsters face unjust prosecutions and harsher prison sentences.
We will stand in solidarity on September 20th, the day Mychal Bell was scheduled to be sentenced for a bogus second degree battery conviction, with not only the tens of thousands that will march in Jena, but with those gathering around the country including St Louis, Kansas City, New York, Detroit, Philadelphia, Newark, and more. We stand in solidarity with activists nationally calling on the mayor of each American city, as well as everyone with a national voice and influence, to publicly denounce the judicial farce taking place in Jena, Louisiana.
We encourage city councils nationwide to follow the lead of Atlanta, Georgia, Cambridge, Maryland and Detroit, Michigan and pass resolutions in the interest of justice, calling for the dismissal of all charges against the Jena 6 and not just another trial in juvenile court.
Additionally, we call on the corporations in Louisiana that are the recipients of millions of Black consumer dollars, to denounce the injustice and blatant racism in Jena, Louisiana, in New Orleans generally, and in the Ninth Ward in particular. Some communities have already begun to say, "No justice, No profit!"
Across the country we say, "Enough is Enough!" We draw the line against racism and injustice here and now. We will continue to strengthen this coalition of organizations across the country, fighting to challenge racism, whenever and wherever it raises its ugly head.
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Things are going pretty well since my first progress report: route synchronization feature is almost complete! Marble users can store their routes on ownCloud easily now. All they have to do is to click to "upload to cloud" button when viewing a route. But first they need to tell Marble which server it will use for synchronization purposes. Users can use Marble's own configuration dialog to do that:
By the way, adding KWallet support is on my to-do list.
Users can use "cloud routes" dialog to manage their cloud routes.
The first route is a route which is on the cloud and ready to use offline. The second route is already saved to user's device, but isn't on the cloud. For example routes which are created when offline will be in that situation. Users can upload those kind of routes manually by clicking to "upload to cloud" button. After I implement bookmark synchronization, I will also enhance route synchronization so Marble will upload those routes when there is a network available. The third route is on the cloud but not saved to the device. Users can download those routes to their device by simply clicking to "load" button. Also, when I enhance route synchronization those routes will be downloaded automatically by Marble. Don't worry though, I will add an option to settings dialog so users can disable those automatic actions to preserve their precious data plans.
You can test the things I mentioned above yourself (and see how awesome they are :P) by cloning Marble's master git branch. You can get the 3rd party ownCloud application that you need to install from Andrei Duma's GitHub repository. We plan to setup a demo server with the Marble ownCloud application later as well.
That's all for this update. Stay tuned.


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I finally heard back from my doctor yesterday regarding the blood work that was done over a month ago testing for Rheumatoid Arthritis. The tests showed that certain things were "high", but not definitive enough to state that Rheumatoid Arthritis is the problem. However, because it was inconclusive, I have been referred to a specialist and have an appointment on Wednesday. I am so relieved, you have no idea.
After have done some research on the type of specialist, and reading what I could, I have learned a few things. The problem that I am having is not going to be easy to diagnose, and it may take several visits and trial/error things before we know what's causing my pain and can look for a solution. Rhuematologists do more than arthritis – they do an extra three years of medical training in the diagnosis and treatment of joint and soft tissue maladies. In addition to arthritis, they also are "experts" in things like fibromyalgia and tendonitis.
Needless to say I am thrilled to finally get to a doctor that is going to understand the pain that I have and is hopefully going to be able to help find solutions to help relieve it. Also, somewhat needless to say, I am in the market for a new primary care physician. The length of time it took for my doctor to get back to me and refer me to a specialist was unacceptable. She had my test results on June 30th, and signed off on them at that time. Yet it took another full month for an assistant – not even her – to call me, and only after I called to inquire about them (and even then it took another three business days before I was called). This was the last of many things that have drove me to this decision, but it was the one that finally pushed me to make a change. As such, if you happen to know of any great doctors in the Seattle/Redmond area, I'd love to hear about them. I got a few great suggestions from Twitter yesterday that I'm checking out, but I want to explore all of my options!
As for my hands, I took a picture this morning. It's a little hard to see some of the swelling – but I thought I'd let you see what you could (and if nothing else, you can look and go "god Beru, manicures – have you heard of them?!). The swelling is the least in the morning, and only grows worse throughout the day, with the worst being in the evenings, often regardless of if I've spent 3 hours or 30 minutes at the keyboard.
So probably the most obvious thing that you can see is the swelling in the knuckles on my fingers. They get so big at times that when I type or do other things with my hands my knuckles actually knock into each other. You can see some of the swelling in the soft tissue of my fingers, but not much. Where I have the sharpest pain is between where my finger meets my hand and that first knuckle.
What is harder to see is that the top of my hand also swells. With the soft tissue surrounding the knuckles on the top of my hand sometimes doubling in size. The top of my hand never has sharp pain, but lately has sometimes taken to have a burning sensation. Sometimes my hands feel very cold and sometimes they tingle just a little, and I'm not even sure that "tingle" is the best description for the feeling. I do not believe that I have numbness.
Advil and the Topricin that I use can stunt the swelling some, but never completely alleviates it.
I never have wrist pain. I never have elbow pain. I never have shoulder pain. It is always only just my hands.
Hopefully I'll have some answers on Wednesday. Or at least a better way to deal with the pain, and a path/plan to work through what is causing the pain. At the very least I'll know that we are working on a better solution.
As soon as I learn more, I will offer another update! Until then, you'll be glad to know that I finally got some video of Heroic Shannox that I'm comfortable using for a guide – even if the riplimb tank died at 8% and his dog ate my face at 2%. BAD DOG! 😉


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August 20, 2013
In Oregon, construction industry employers receive more citations for violations of lead, asbestos, hazard communication, and respiratory protection standards than other health standards. Typically, one or two paragraphs in each standard account for most of the citations.
This is the first in a series of articles in the Construction Depot that explain the requirements of each standard's most frequently cited paragraphs.
Your employees are about to start a major remodeling project on an older home. Do you know how to assess their exposure?
You need to determine if lead is present in the home. If the home was built before 1978, it's possible that lead paint is present. To be certain that lead is present, you should do one of the following: hire a certified lead-based paint inspector or a risk assessor, have samples of the paint analyzed by an environmental lab, or use a lead check stick (lead check sticks can be helpful, but they may not be 100 percent reliable).
If lead is present, you need to determine whether your employees' work will expose them to lead at or above what's called the action level (30 micrograms per cubic meter of air averaged over eight hours). The most common way to do this is to sample the air your employees breathe with air-monitoring equipment while they are working. You can do air monitoring yourself if you know how to do it and if you have the right equipment, which you can rent. You can also hire a consultant, or your workers' compensation insurance carrier may be able to help.
There's a big problem, however, with monitoring your employees' exposure to lead while they are working: they could be overexposed to lead – and you don't want that to happen unless they are protected.
So, while you are doing air monitoring, you must assume that your employees are exposed to lead above the action level and you must do a minimum of SIX things (known as interim protective measures) to ensure that your employees are protected. These six things are:
If your employees do any of the following jobs, you must also do the minimum six protective measures.
Your employees' air monitoring results will tell you the level of their exposure to lead while they are doing the remodeling work. If they are exposed at or above the action level, you must provide protective measures, including additional air monitoring, medical surveillance, and training.
You must also ensure that your employees are not exposed to lead at levels greater than 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air averaged over eight hours – that's the maximum permissible exposure limit (PEL). You can use engineering and administrative controls to keep your employees' exposures to lead at or below the PEL.
Engineering controls include tools that can reduce your employees' exposure to lead. Using a sander attached to a HEPA vacuum to reduce dust is an example. Administrative controls change employees' work practices and temporarily reduce their exposures. Prohibiting workers from working in areas that expose them to lead above the action level is an example. If engineering and administrative controls are not effective, then your employees must also use appropriate respirators.
For more information about controlling lead hazards in construction work, see A quick guide to 1926.62 Oregon OSHA's construction industry rule for controlling exposure to lead.
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Scholarly Journals: Put Them to Use
Don't be shy about using them
If your instructor says you need to find scholarly information for your paper, you should look for articles in scholarly journals rather than a popular magazine.
Even if they're not required, scholarly journals can provide specific types of information that you may not find in other types of sources.
Sure, they can be tougher to read than popular magazines, but scholarly journals fill a niche where no other information is quite right.
Use scholarly journals when you need:
- original, primary research on a specific topic
- articles and essays written by scholars or subject experts
- factual, documented information to reinforce a position
- bibliographies that point you to other relevant research
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What's going on at Dodger Stadium for the three game series against the San Francisco Giants?
Monday, October 1 - 7:10 p.m.
"Entertainment Tonight" host Nancy O'Dell will throw the ceremonial first pitch. Professional Motocross and Supercross racer Mike Alessi will throw an honorary first pitch.
Model, TV personality and jockey in North American Thoroughbred horse racing Chantal Sutherland will throw an honorary first pitch.
The Veteran of the Game is U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant Major Juan M. Hidalgo Jr. of San Diego, CA. Hidalgo has served in various deployments in California and Kentucky. Hidalgo is the recipient of several awards, including the Meritorious Service Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Army Achievement Medal and Combat Action Ribbon.
Tuesday, October 2 - 7:10 p.m.
It is Dodger Giveaway Night. Fans with the first 30,000 tickets will receive a giveaway item.
Wednesday, October 3 - 4:15 p.m.
The Dodgers will take on their arch-rivals for the last game of the 2012 regular season.
Los Angeles Clippers point guard Chris Paul will throw the ceremonial first pitch and officially start the game with "It's Time for Dodger Baseball!"
Monday, October 1, 2012
Upcoming Series vs Giants - Giveaway Night & Chris Paul
1 comment:
- MarcoS. said...
I've told by my rep giveaway items will be blankets, hats, and bobbleheads. What item you get will depend on your section. My rep had no idea what bobbleheads will be given away, but judging by what I saw this season I'm going to assume it's Koufax and Karros, maybe some older bobbleheads too.
- October 2, 2012 at 9:58 AM
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This article shows you:
- what growth hacking is
- a list of the most recommended growth hacking tools, with prices and deals attached
Growth hacking is the art of creatively Acquiring users, Activating them, Retaining them on your website, getting them to Refer you to their friends and colleagues whilst paying for your service (Revenue). It's also an extremely analytical and test based approach that necessitates tools. You should also check out this community of growth hackers powered by the man who coined the term, Sean Ellis.
Ideally you should have growth in mind before you even choose your website name – check out this basic list of what your website needs before moving on to the rest of the list!
Finding the best growth hacking tools takes time, patience, reading, testing and recommendations. Based on all these we've attempted to come up with an extensive list of all of the tools we thought were important to analyze, measure, build, test and help grow your business. This post was largely influenced by Joseph Bou Younes' awesome slide. We're striving to make a more detailed and clickable version on top of his slide. Bear in mind that growth hacking requires the mobilization of these tools in the correct combination, rather than a step-by-step order. The order is close to the implementation order that would adapt to your sales funnel. For example, I tried using AAARR Pirate metrics as a framework but didn't succeed.
Disclaimer: choose the right combination of tools for your company, not all of them! Please feel free to recommend more tools and categories in the comments section.
1. Landing page optimization and A/B testing.
Landing page optimization and AB testing - SO important as it is at the top of your sales funnel. Increase conversion sign-ups and reduce your bounce rate by optimizing the landing page
The marketer's tool for building a landing pages. "Unbounce is designed to give non-developers full control, while not affecting the core site or application when making changes." (full review here)
- 30 day free trial
- Basic plan: $49 p/m
- F6S deal, YES!!! 80% off for 4 months/50% off for 6 months
Google content experiments
A great tool to create A/B tests from within Google Analytics (full review here)
- Free
Instantly generate and deploy changes, and track engagement. "Provides a dead simple way to get up and running with AB and MVT testing " (full review here)
- 30 day free trial
- Basic plan: €14 p/m
Visual Wesbite Optimizer
A bit more expensive than Optimizely and Unbounce but has more features. It's users say it's worth the extra money. Includes heatmaps and behavioural targeting. (full review here)
- 30 day free trial up to 1000 visitors
- Basic plan $49 p/m
- F6S deal, YES!!! 25% off bronze and silver plans
2. Metrics (see our complete guide to SaaS metrics here)
One of the best tools out there to start tracking your funnel metrics. Offers engagement plans (general users) and people plans (specific individuals). They're also super friendly and will not hesitate to Skype with you to help you out (full review here)
- Free up to 25,000 data points/become a partner
- Basic plan: $150 p/m
The other "reference" tool for metrics. See the actions of every individual on your site. Also super friendly and ready to help you out (full review here)
- 14 day free trial
- Basic plan: $150 p/m (billed annually)
Heap Analytics
Another great analytics tool similar to KissMetrics of Mixpanel.
- Free up to 25000 monthly visits
- Pro plan: $149 p/m
Big data analytics to allow developers to build better apps. "Makes it easier for companies to follow the metrics that matter most to them, whether that's user retention after three or seven days or the number of users who complete a transaction" (full review here)
- Free
Google analytics
Google's website analytics. The most commonly used tool for web analytics. (full review here)
- Free
Customer analytics for data-driven and lean startups. "It is optimized for easy "pirate metrics," which refers to their "AARRR" acronym: Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Revenue, and Referrals." (review here)
- Free up to 250 people
- Basic plan: $19 p/m
Analytics for SEO-heads (full review here)
- 30 day free trial
- Basic plan: $99
- F6S deal, YES!!! 90/120 days free use
Marketing and analytics platform for mobile and web apps, including relationship management. "help not just with customer acquisition, but also with monitoring and maintaining customer relationships over the lifetime of an app." (full review here)
- Free up to 10,000 monthly visitors
- Basic plan: $200
Keen IO
An API for custom analytics (review here).
- Free up to 50,000 events p/m
- Basic plan: $40 p/m
- F6S deal, YES!!! $125/$1000 credit
Adobe analytics
all-round business analytics including realtime and mobile (review here)
- Pricing: unknown – broken website links
- F6S deal? No
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Advanced mobile analytics. "Give social and mobile developers a dashboard so that they can better engage and monetize users." (full review here)
- Pricing: contact the team
3. SaaS needs. For the many SaaS-based companies; identify user needs
Helps you engage with customers throughout their life cycle. "Engaging customer, understanding how they interact with your application, and crafting specific products and marketing strategies for customers" (full review here)
- 30 day free trial
- Basic plan: need to contact through a form
Integrate and visualize multiple data sources. "is used to integrate multiple data sources and create visualizations and dashboards to drive key business decisions." (review here)
- 30 day free trial
- Basic plan: prices not stated
4. On-site retention. Retain your customers by encouraging them to return and use your service
Bounce exchange
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Stop people from exiting your website. "Uses a combination of invisible javascript receptors, mouse gestures and acceleration to determine when a visitor is going to bounce off a website," (full review here)
- Free demo
- Prices calculated by monthly pageview volume
5. Email optimisation: get your emails read more often and grow your community of followers
An awesome all-in-one solution to replace your helpdesk, email marketing app and customer engagement tool. Easy to use and full of cool features and reports.
- Free up to 250 active users
- Basic plan: $49/month
Track customers on your website and send emails based on what they do.
- 14 day free trial
- Basic plan: $99/month (up to 20000 emails a month)
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From the makers of Mailchimp, the fastest way to deal with transactional emails. (full review here)
- Free up to 12000 emails per month
- Basic plan: $0.2 per additional 1000 emails
Send with us
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Simple A/B testing for email campaigns (integrated with MailChimp) "make transactional email better" (review not found)
- Basic plan: $19 p/m
User fox
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A/B email testing without the need for developers. "making split testing easy for anyone to explore." (full review here)
- Free trial (unknown length)
- Basic plan: $49 p/m
Email sending service based on what customers are [not] doing on your app (full review here)
- Free up to 100 customers/500 emails a month
- Basic plan: $75 p/m
Email target groups of customers and measure the impact; integrated with MailChimp (review here)
- 14 day free trial
- Basic plan: $299 p/m
6. User analytics. See what each customer does, how much they cost, what causes them to drop off
Fox metrics
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Realtime web/mobile app customer analytics with metrics. "It is a real-time platform that not just collects and stores, but also analyzes the data to let you have more sales through a higher conversion rate." (review here)
- Free 2 week trial
- Basic plan: $20 p/m
Analyse customer behaviour in real-time (review here)
- Free up to 30,000 actions p/m
- Basic plan: $79,95 p/m
7. Integration. Multiple types of analytics tools customisable into your preferred order
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An analytics API for developers (review here)
- Free for 100,000 API calls (1 week data)
- Basic plan: $29 p/m
8. Customer experience. Visualizing what your users/customers do on the webpage (e.g. heatmaps)
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Free testing for mobile developers (review here – it's a little old, but everyone loves TestFlight anyway, so just use it!)
- Free
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Visualize page behaviour (review here)
- Free up to 5,000 page views p/m
- Basic plan: customized pricing plans
- F6S deal, YES!!! 30% off all annual plans
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Heatmaps, scrollmaps, overlays and confetti views (review here)
- 30 day free trial
- Basic plan $9
- F6S deal? YES!!! 45/60/90 free day trial
9. Survey. Collect soft data to build your company and tool on.
Understand and harness visitor intent with cool little surveys that pop up according to a user's behaviour (review here)
- 14 day free trial
- Basic plan: $199
Part of Qualaroo. Extremely powerful tool to test whether you have product/market fit.
10. Realtime. What is happening right now on your website
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Analyse every visitor in realtime (review here)
- Free for 1 website/3,000 daily page views
- Basic plan: $9.99 p/m or $79,99 p/a
Realtime analytics with more knowledge than Google Analytics (review here)
- 14 day free trial
- Basic plan: $24 p/m
Realtime data updates with no page refresh needed (review here)
- 30 day free trial
- Request pricing (only large corporate team prices available)
The list is never complete, it will be maintained…
Growth hacking tools are always evolving. Times are always changing. If we've missed anything out, if anything becomes obsolete over time or if you think one of the sections here is badly named, please tell us as we'll try to maintain this list as much as possible.
Happy growth hacking!