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This article shows you:
- the 5 approaches to metrics by Lars Logfren, Dave McClure, David Skok, Aaron Beashel and Tomasz Tunguz
- a fast and comprehensible guide to SaaS startup metrics for people with little time to waste
Months after launching the first version of Twoodo we learned again and again to talk to our customers and to set up metrics to start measuring. Metrics, KPIs, metrics, KPIs! They enable you to analyze your user's behavior, track progress, show traction, find bottlenecks and know what part of the sales funnel needs the most improvement.
Easier said than done.
You can easily get lost in what you should be tracking or how to track it. I know we did. So we sat down and decided to take care of it once and for all, and we came up with this guide to SaaS startup metrics.
We had read and stored tons and tons of articles on metrics. We finally decided to lay them down and summarize what we had learned in order to decide on what metrics were right for us early on in the game. We found that there were five approaches to SaaS metrics that really stood out. They would all be useful depending on what we trying to get out of it:
- metrics to improve you product on,
- metrics to impress VCs,
- metrics for board meetings,
- metrics for the fun of metrics etc.
We know that startup CEOs generally have very little time on their hands. Jumping into the metrics game can be quite daunting. That's why we'd like to share with you our findings and hopefully help you save some precious time. It'll then be up to you as to which approach you want to integrate and how much time you want to spend on it. This is in no way an exhaustive list. I'm more than open to being corrected or to receiving additional information to this guide to SaaS startup metrics.
A Guide to SaaS startup metrics
1. The practical: Lars Lofgren
Lars Logfren has a very practical approach to metrics. It was an eye-opener for us. Basically put, the metrics you measure should depend on the advancement of your startup. For example, "If you've only had paying customers for 2 months, it doesn't make much sense to track lifetime value. But later on lifetime value is essential". The great thing about these metrics is that they incorporate what stage your startup is in. That's golden when you're not certain about what you should be measuring. Here I've tried to summarize the 5 stages but you can see the full article here.
Stage 1 – Before product/market fit
This is when you still haven't pinpointed who your ideal customer is. Carrying out customer interviews should help you validate who that ideal customer is. These customer development interviews are basically meetings or preferably Skype chats (less time-consuming) with potential users. They enable you to find out who the user is, what his main pain point are and whether your solution is solving that pain. The great thing is you can have an analytical approach to these meetings in order to come up with metrics.
Product-Market Fit Conversion rate =
Total # of potential users you interviewed who, liked your solution and decided to start using it / Total # of customer development interviews you carried out
>> "YES/NO this is our ideal target customer"
Stage 2 – When you think you have product/market fit
Sean Ellis came up with a survey question that allows to quantify and measure product market fit. It's so simple and ready to implement that we used this technique over and over. The question should be asked to any users who have used your tool/website more than twice. Here is the question and multiple choice:If we took away our product from you right now and forever. How would you feel?
- Very disappointed
- Slightly disappointed
- Not disappointed
- Not using the product (N/A)
Product/market fit rate =
Total # of users who replied "Very disappointed" / Total # of users interviewed
"You should have more than 40% here. If not you don't have product/market fit yet."
Don't despair. It took us some time to get to that 40% rate. Read Sean Ellis' article to see what you could do if you don't get those 40%.
By the way, the survey is all ready to use and implement here. All you'll have to do is put in your company name.
Stage 3 – When you're certain you have product/market fit
Now that you've reached this stage, you're starting to scale and experience serious growth. There are two main metrics you'll want to look at.
Monthly Recurring Revenue which is the total revenue earned from the sum of all monthly subscriptions
Monthly recurring revenue (MRR) =
Total revenue earned from the sum of all monthly subscriptions
"Your target should be to keep this growing, always."
Churn: This is the monthly number of paying customer who drop off. This number has a negative impact on your MRR. This number should stay under 2%. If it doesn't, drop all else and concentrate on getting it under that level.
Your monthly customer churn rate (Churn) =
Number of subscribers cancelling their paid subscription this month / Total # of paying customers
"This number should stay under 2%. If it doesn't, drop all else and concentrate on getting it under that level."
Stage 4 – Growth has slowed down
At this point, growth from your main acquisition channels has slowed down. You start exploring new, riskier acquisition channels.
Customer Lifetime Value (LTV): How much money does a customer bring you before he leaves your product?
Customer Lifetime Value =
MRR / # of paying users x how long on average a customer keeps paying for your product before he drops off
Customer Acquisition Cost: The total cost it takes to acquire a paying customer from a particular acquisition source.
Customer Acquisition Cost =
Sum of all expenses made on a particular acquisition channel / # of new paying customers added through that channel
"A common rule is to keep CAC under a third of LTV and that a customer should become profitable within 12 months."
Here are some more awesome insights from Lars.
2. The well-rounded: AARRR Pirate metrics
Pirate metrics is a funnel based approach to metrics developed by Dave McClure. It's pretty awesome and almost totally straightforward. I wouldn't recommend it before you're at least at the stage 2 we mentioned above. It goes like this: AARRR = First concentrate on Acquiring users, then Activating them, Retaining them, getting them to Refer you to other people and finally getting them to pay (Revenue). Here's a pic of what is called The Sales Funnel stolen from Ash Maurya's blog post on the subject.
Acquisition channels = How many unique visitors are you getting each month from each channels they are coming from. Here's a very basic example.
Organic search = 2000 unique visitors per month
- Keyword 1 = 1000 uv/m
- Keyword 2 = 500 uv/m
- etc..
Paid search = 1000 unique visitors per month
- Adwords = 400 uv/m
- Display campaign = 300 uv/m
- Retargeting campaign = 200 uv/m
- Linkedin ads = 100 uv/m
Referral = 1000 unique visitors per month
- Twitter = 400 uv/m
- Techcrunch = 300 uv/m
- Guest blogged article = 300 uv/m
- etc..
Direct = 1000 unique visitors per month
Acquisition conversion rate: Out of all the unique visitors who visited your website from each channel, how many performed a basic action to start using your tool? (such as, and/or…created an account, clicked on a link, commented on a post, downloaded your app, stayed more than 2 minutes etc..)
Acquisition conversion rate =
Total # of users who signed up to your website from a channel / Total # unique visitors to your website
Measure these for a certain period of time, month, week etc.
Activation rate: Out of all the unique visitors who visited your website, how many had an awesome first time experience? (this can be determined by tracking certain events. For example: and/or …created an account + gave you their email address + clicked on a certain feature + stayed more than 5 minutes + added an avatar picture + added their first and last name + finished the walk-through).
Activation rate =
Total # of users who signed up to your website and had a great first time experience on your website / Total # unique visitors to your website
(For a certain period of time, month, week etc.)
Retention rate = Out of all the unique visitors who visited your website for a specific Month (M) how many keep coming back and using your tool actively in later months M+1 M+2 M+3?
Retention rates are measured in cohorts. It's a scary term at first but it's actually super simple. Christoph Janz is the king of cohorts. A cohort is just a group of people within a specific period of time. Everyone who signed up in April = The April cohort.
May retention rate % for the April cohort =
Total # of users who signed up to the website in April + were activated + are still coming back to the website in May and actively using it / Total # unique visitors to your website in April
June retention rate % for the April cohort =
Total # of users who signed up to the website in April + were activated + are still coming back to the website in May and actively using it / Total # unique visitors to your website in April
Referral rate = Let's put this very basically, for every 10 new visitors who sign up to your website, how many people do they invite to your website? Then how many of those invited over actually create an account?
Referral rate =
# of people who signed up after being invited over / Total # of people who signed up during that period (of course, excluding the invited ones)
This number is super important. Let's say you have a referral rate of 50%. That means that for every 10 visitors who sign up, you're actually gaining 15 new users. A referral rate over 100% means you have achieved viral growth. You can also calculate this the way Dave McClure does:
Revenue = How many users are paying for your product monthly (MRR), how long will they keep paying (CLTV), and how much did it cost you to acquire them (CAC) as paying users. Hey wait! Isn't that similar to the Lars Logfren style? Yup it is. You'll see more and more cross over from now on.
Monthly recurring revenue (MRR) =
Total revenue earned from the sum of all monthly subscriptions
"Your target should be to keep this growing, always."
Customer Lifetime Value =
MRR / # of paying customers x how long on average a customer keeps paying for your product before he drops off
Customer Acquisition Cost =
Sum of all expenses made to acquire new customers / # of new paying customers
If you like this, here are some other (more in-depth) resources for pirate metrics:
- http://practicetrumpstheory.com/2010/07/3-rules-to-actionable-metrics/
3. The VC / Skocket scientist: David Skok (sorry for the bad pun)
Meet David Skok, a SaaS metrics guru. His blog posts have some of the most exhaustive and detailed explanations on what metrics to look out for, and most importantly how to set them up. VCs and entrepreneurs alike follow his lead. Almost all the metrics explained above were deciphered using his formulas.
David Skok puts great emphasis on two extremely important metrics:
LTV : What is the monetary lifetime value of a customer
CAC : How much does it cost to acquire a typical customer
In one of his blog post comments he details some of the most important metrics to present when meeting with VCs.
MRR Churn Rate =
Churned MRR / MRR from previous month
Total of all sales and marketing channels to acquire users / Number of new customers added
Average MRR per account / Average Customer lifetime duration
LTV:CAC ratio =
Months to recover CAC =
CAC / Average MRR per account
MRR Graph = MRR evolution over time
Net New MRR Graph (showing the three component parts as well: New MRR, Churned MRR, Expansion MRR) =
Evolution of: (Churned MRR – Expansion MRR) / MRR from previous month
To go into more detail, I'll invite you to read these three blog articles. Even though we don't yet use all of the metrics provided, they've given us a whole new perspective on the SaaS startup game.
- www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas-metrics/
- www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas-metrics-2/
- Definitions: www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas-metrics-2-definitions/
- Christoph Janz: http://christophjanz.blogspot.de/2013/04/a-kpi-dashboard-for-early-stage-saas.html
4. The creative binge-eater: Aaron Beashel
While most articles would advise you to concentrate only on the most important metrics, Aaron Beashel does exactly the opposite. He gives us everything. I've highlighted here some of the most interesting and creative ones. I find it particularly interesting the way he uses Time.
Average Revenue Per Customer – Average revenue an individual customer generates over the given time period
Time to Purchase – Average time it takes people to go from sign-up to purchase
Time to activation – Total time it takes to go from sign-up to activation
Logins to activation – How many times a user logs in between sign-up and activation when coming from the selected customer acquisition channel
Logins to Purchase – Total number of times a user logs in to the application before Purchase.
Time to paying – Average time it takes people to go from sign-up to paying customer from the selected customer acquisition channel
If you're feeling creative, you're gonna love his style.
5. The board member: Tomasz Tunguz
Tomas Tunguz is one of my favorite people to read on the internet. He's all about data and no BS. This approach to metrics is used to answer high level questions (by investors, board members, VCs) on how your business is doing. It's extremely straight forward.
The metrics are cut into three groups:
To calculate these you should also understand the concept of "Trailing six month average" (TSM). TSM is just the average growth rate over the last 6 months. So for example if your rates are consecutively 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% your TSM is (5%+10%+15%+20%+25%+30%)/6 = 17,5%
There's no real point in me copy-pasting more of his findings here. Like I said he's very easy to read. So I suggest just go to his post which are always pleasantly clear and concise.
If you've made it this far congrats. I'll leave you with a few tools that we use and recommend when setting up your metrics tracking.
- Mixpanel
- Kissmetrics
- Google analytics
- This excel sheet by Christoph Janz found on this post by Andrew Chen
I hope this guide to SaaS startup metrics will be useful for you!
Also check out this epic slide deck by Andreas Klinger


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December 24 – Christmas Eve
I went to Plaza Indonesia to have some late lunch at The Playground before buying movie tickets (The Man with the Iron Fists, not recommended btw). They have fun decorations that resemble kids' playgrounds and what I love the most about them is their Aglio Olio. I always request for it to be extra spicy and extra mushrooms, and they never disappoint me.
Romwe Green Houndstooth Jacket | Forever21 Floral Top | ZARA White Slim Bag | Romwe Reindeer Necklace | Forever21 Boots | Studded Burgundy Shorts from Japan
|The Aglio Olio and Iced Lychee Tea.
|I was wearing Princess Mimi Bambi (WMM-305) soft lenses from GOWI LENS♥
December 25 – Christmas
Kristine's Collection Brocade Printed Dress | Do-A-Fashion Navy Coat | DKNY Gold Purse | Romwe Reindeer Necklace | Swaychic red velvet platforms
Had a simple dinner at The Ritz-Carlton (Pacific Place) Hotel with Jess, Yansen, and Jess' boyfriend. The food quality and the service are excellent as expected from them. And it's not too crowded, so that's another plus point for me. Anyway, I used to work there as an intern for 3 months hehe...
Btw New Years Eve is around the corner! Do you already have plans? Well Jess and I are going to have dinner with our big family at Mandarin Hotel, but we still haven't decided yet what are we going to do after that (for the countdown), whether partying with friends or playing fireworks with family or maybe just watching some dvds peacefully. Either way, we will surely express our gratitude to God because 2012 has been an amazing year for us! See you next year! :D
Elle Yamada

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Ben Affleck is back behind the camera for another crime drama set in his hometown, joined by an impressive cast. And truth be told, the trailer for "The Town" doesn't look half bad.
In addition to directing, Affleck co-wrote and stars in the film based on Chuck Hogan's "Prince of Thieves." Here's the synopsis form the film's Facebook page:
Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck) is an unrepentant criminal, the de facto leader of a group of ruthless bank robbers who pride themselves in stealing what they want and getting out clean. With no real attachments, Doug never has to fear losing anyone close to him. But that all changed on the gang's latest job, when they briefly took a hostage bank manager, Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall). Though they let her go unharmed, Claire is nervously aware that the robbers know her name and where she lives. But she lets her guard down when she meets an unassuming and rather charming man named Doug not realizing that he is the same man who only days earlier had terrorized her. The instant attraction between them gradually turns into a passionate romance that threatens to take them both down a dangerous, and potentially deadly, path.
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The day's top national and international news.
We first saw this clip Saturday night before "Inception" (yes, we liked it so much we went to see it again), and it looked great. Good pace, nice action, great actors... It looks to be a solid genre film.
In addition to Affleck and the always good Hall, the cast includes Jeremy Renner in his first post-"Hurt Locker" role, Jon Hamm (who desperately needs to stop playing serious men who wear suits), Blake Lively looking totally believable as a Chuck Town local (there's a compliment in there somewhere), and Chris Cooper.
Affleck does a crackerjack Boston accent (as he should), and we're digging the nuns with machine guns, we just hope this wasn't just some elaborate ruse by Affleck to stage a robbery at his beloved Fenway Park.


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Ten years ago, the world was preparing for Y2K, rocking out to Ricky Martin, and watching Fight Club in slow-mo to see the dirty parts. AND… I was graduating from high school.
A whole decade has passed since I was a chronically overachieving, dorky high school senior. Now I've become a chronically overachieving, dorky stay-at-home-mom. We all have to grow up sometime.
Like the overachiever I am, I took on the job of planning our 10 year class reunion by myself. Also because I am an idiot. Planning class reunions are loads of work. Tracking down lost classmates, bugging them to respond to emails, yada yada yada. (Wahoo for '90s-isms!)
Mostly, I was looking forward to decorating for the big party. I wanted everybody to have a good time, and I have always found that people have more fun if you keep things casual. I wanted the decorations to be kinda funky and whimsical, not too formal and definitely not too on the nose (aka NO "Party Like It's 1999" signs).
Yet again, my search of the internets was mostly fruitless. Am I just searching for weird things or what? Why can't I ever find what I am looking for? Eventually I happened on this picture on the Every Day with Rachael Ray magazine website.
I just love this idea. It's fun and inexpensive without looking cheap. I had found a winner. I liked that it is school-related without screaming THIS IS A SCHOOL THEMED CENTERPIECE!
To make class reunion centerpieces, you will need:
scrapbook paper in your school colors
floral wire (preferably NOT off a spool)
bud vases
paper clips
mirror tiles
old school photos
small binder clips
I cut my red and white (Red and White, FIGHT FIGHT!) scrapbook paper into various sized squares and rectangles. Then I spent a ridiculous amount of time folding paper airplanes. The process really isn't hard – 4th graders do everyday – but it is time consuming. I found that the final product looks best if you use the same procedure to fold all the planes.
Next, poke the floral wire through the base of the planes, about 1/3 of the way from the back of the plane, and twist the wire around itself. When you arrange the planes in the bud vases, you will probably end up cutting the wires to different lengths, just like you would if you were arranging fresh flowers. To keep with the subtle school-inspired theme, I used black and white paper clips from the dollar store as vase filler to keep the floral wires steady.
Plop the vase down in the middle of a mirror tile that has been sitting in your mom's basement since your wedding. Time to go digging through your old photo albums.
I had a blast going through my old pictures and picking out photos to display at the reunion. So much plaid flannel! I had quite a few classmates send in photos of their own, and I really tried to have the whole class represented in a picture somewhere.
Since I was trying to keep the per person cost of the reunion down, I couldn't afford to frame every single candid photo I wanted to have as part of the centerpieces. I also didn't want to just scatter the photos all over the table. My solution was also in the school-supplies aisle of the dollar store. Binder clips! (in my best Austin Powers impression) Yeah, baby!
All I had to do was clip a tiny binder clip to the bottom corner of each photo, and they stood up on their own at a jaunty little angle.
Since I already had the bud vases and mirror tiles on hand, the centerpieces themselves ended up costing me something like a dollar apiece. Everybody really enjoyed walking around from table to table looking at all the photos, which was good to get everybody mingling.
The reunion went off without a hitch, and people really seemed to have a great time. And, yes, we did party like it was 1999.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Friday's looming budget cuts could force layoffs of park rangers and weekday access at area national parks.
Fort Caroline National Monument, Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve and the Castillo de San Marcos may not be regular stops for northeast Florida residents, but they do attract visitors to the area.
"We plan vacation where there are national parks because we love to hike and learn about our history," said park visitor Bonnie Bahlhuser. "That is why we came to Jacksonville for our vacation this week."
Park managers say they are working on a plan if their budget gets cut as part of the mandatory spending cuts known in Washington D.C. as the sequester, but they hope it won't mean closing of the parks.
Among the first things to go would be five park rangers, and the weekday tours that 6,000 school children visit every year.
"It means cutting our daily programs and providing them on weekends. That's over 20,000 visitors," said Barbara Goodman, superintendent of Fort Caroline National Monument. "It also means cutting ranger-led school groups."
The cuts make little sense to visitors.
"We spend so little, very little of our tax money on the parks, and yet they are one of the most important pieces of history, nature, and it would be a shame," visitor Teri Lewis said.


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Chilean film making has become both prolific and successful. This is due, in large part, to the achievements of Raúl Ruiz, famous film director raised in France, and Alejandro Jodorowsky, an author of several great films.
Their work inspires the young artists that today create movies, documentaries, short films. Today, the film industry in Chile produces over 20 films each year.
The most common topics for these films relate to national history, social revision, child animation, comedy, and drama. Pablo Larraín, Andrés Wood, Silvio Caiozzi, and Gonzalo Justiniano are some of the names most recognized names for fictional productions. Patricio Guzmán, Carmen Luz Parot and Ignacio Agüero are highly respected for their documentary work.
In recent months Chilean cinema has been very highlighted in several international festivals, especially films like La Nana (The Maid) by Sebastian Silva, Tony Manero by Pablo Larraín and La buena vida (The Good Life) by Andres Wood.
The First Steps
The history of Chilean film begins in 1910 and the making of the El Húsar de la Muerte (The Fighter of Death). It was directed and
starred by Pedro Sienna and recalls the life of Manuel Rodriguez, a key contributor in the country's fight for independence. In that same year, fifteen films were completed, an unusually high number that would not again be repeated until recently. In the past decade, Chile's landscape has proved an attractive backdrop for an increasing number of foreign films, as well.
Prolific Years
From 2008 until now, twenty four new Chilean movies were presented before large audiences. The majority were shown at international festivals, which proved an effective venue for garnering critical acclaim. A recurring theme in these movies has been recent history, the military dictatorship and hardships of life during that period.
Machuca, directed by Andrés Wood, depicts the politically and socially polarized environment during the years of the Salvador Allende government, and the repression that quickly emerged after the military coup in 1973.
La Frontera (The Border) by Ricardo Larraín, tells the story of a teacher turned political exile in the southern region of Chile, and the emotional breakdown that ensue during that period of exile.
Mi mejor enemigo (My Best Enemy), by Alex Bowen, delves into the conflict between Argentina and Chile in 1978. A major topic in this movie is the situations that young soldiers must tolerate during the threat of imminent war.
Tony Manero, directed by Pablo Larraín depicts the social unease that accompanies the high unemployment during those years through a character that participates in a contest to best imitate John Travolta.
Other people like Ignacio Agüero, Patricio Guzmán, and Carmen Luz Parot were also leading figures in the film industry during those times.
Transition Films
When dictatorship finally gave way to democracy in the early 1990's, the new political environment provided the film industry with a new type of creative impulse. Notable examples include: El Chacotero Sentimental (The Sentimental Troublemaker") by Cristián Galaz, a 90's sex comedy; Caluga o Menta, (Mint or Candy) directed by Gonzalo Justiniano, and Taxi para tres, (Taxi For Three) by Orlando Lübbert, which highlights social alienation and dark humor; La nana, (The Maid) by Sebastián Silva, a self-portrait of a Latin American housekeeper that grapples with modern life and social differences.
Outstanding Films
In 1929, Jorge Délano, better known as Coke, combined acting with animation in his film La calle del ensueño (Daydream Street). The film received an award in the Sevilla International Exposition. He also made a film in 1934 entitled, North and South, which was the first film with sound in South America. The movie represents a peak of national film production because it would be more than three decades before the arrival of Nuevo Cine Chileno, (New Chilean Film Making) – films that focus on reality and social conflicts.
Some of these films include Largo Viaje, directed by Patricio Kaulen in 1967; Tres tristes tigres (Tree Sad Tigers) by Raúl Ruiz in1968; Valparaíso mi amor (Valparaiso, My Love), by Aldo Francia in 1969; and El Chacal de Nahueltoro (The Nahueltoro Jackal) by Miguel Littin in 1969.
Salvador Allende's government and its social process are evident in many of these films. The two most notable examples are Voto más fusil (Vote Plus Rifle) by Helvio Soto in 1971 and Ya no basta con rezar (Praying Is Not Enough Anymore) by Aldo Francia in 1972.
The military coup paralyzes the film industry in the country. Many former leaders are exiled. However, despite the new challenges of these times, movie production continues. In 1979, director Silvio Caiozzi presented Julio comienza en Julio (July Starts In July). Over the next 25 years, he produces a set of four films based on written work by Jose Donoso's: Historia de un roble solo, (the Story of An Old Lonely Oak) in 1982; La luna en el espejo (The Moon in the Mirror) in 1990; Coronación (Coronation) in 2000, and Cachimba in 2004.
Documentaries in Chile have a special relevance for their audience because they tend to focus on ethnic, religious, and modern historical matters that remain in the popular memory. Many have also focused on such controversial issues as human rights violations during the military dictatorship.
Nieves Yankovic and Jorge di Lauro produced Andacollo in 1961, a popular religious documentary that incorporated music by Violeta Parra. Their film, along with films by Pedro Chaskel, Sergio Bravo and Héctor Ríos, marked the beginning of a productive period for Chilean documentary filmmaking.
During the years of Salvador Allende's government, the cultural and political environment stimulated such works as Primer año (First year) and La respuesta de octubre, (October's Response).
The transition and military dictatorship are recurrent themes in hundreds of documentaries produced in Chile and also Chileans living in exile abroad. La batalla de Chile, (The Battle of Chile) by Patricio Guzmán shows the political tension in the country during Allendes' government. Over the years, Guzman would also produce documentaries about Allende and the detention of Augusto Pinochet in London.
In the film Cien niños esperando un tren, (One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train) by Ignacio Agüero, the filmmaker effectively maintains solidarity despite restrictions and censure. In Baila Domingo, (Dancing Sundays), by Ricardo Larraín, memory is a main theme. In La Flaca Alejandra by Carmen Castillo, she reveals the disturbing story of the political treason of a young woman. In Calle Santa Fe, (Santa Fe Street) another film by Castillo, she recounts the circumstances of the death of her husband, Miguel Enríquez, a leader of the Communist Revolutionary Movement, MIR.
Two other filmmakers focused on the experiences of prisoners in the months following the military dictatorship. Specifically, Carmen Luz Parot and Gastón Ancelovici directed Estadio Nacional, (National Stadium) and «Chacabuco, memoria del silencio» (Chacabuco, Memory of Silence), respectively.
Sebastián Alarcón produced «La ciudad de los fotógrafos» (Photographer's City). The focus of the work is the risks that photographers take when covering social protests during the 1980's in Santiago, Chile's capital.
Ignacio Agüero produced «El diario de Agustín» (Agustín's Newspaper), Renato Villegas directed «La batalla de Plaza Italia,» (Plaza Italia Battle) a documentary about the war against the construction of a memorial tribute to Jaime Guzmán, an ideological formulator of the military regime.
Film Development and Promotion
Many Chilean films are partially or fully financed by the state's film and media fund. The purpose of these funds is to facilitate the production of films with diverse themes and styles. Examples include «Faros chilenos: viaje al fin del mundo,» (Chilean Light Houses: A Journey to the End of the World) by Claudio Marchant.
In the film, the filmmaker travels to the some of the most remote lighthouses on the planet and befriends native Indians in Chile's extreme south. Another film, «Aquí se construye» (Under Construction) by Ignacio Agüero, tells of how a neighborhood house is replaced by a modern building.


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Best of 2018 - TOP 10 Top Companies
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However, this means competition can be fierce and choosing the right place to work is all the more important. Based on reviews from current or former employees, U.S. employment search engine company Indeed has ranked the top technology companies to work for in India.
"The companies featured on our Best Places to Work Tech Companies in India list are not only industry leaders, but also firms known for valuing their employees and offering them great opportunities for career progression," said Sashi Kumar, managing director of Indeed India.
He added that they also placed a strong emphasis on leadership programs and company culture.
"Companies that can attract the best talent across sectors are able to create and maintain a strong sense of community and provide capable mentorship. This is especially true of technology firms which strive to create a productive environment for their employees, ensuring optimum levels of job satisfaction," he said.
Here's a breakdown of the top companies:
10. Cognizant Technology Solutions
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Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. office in Chennai, India.
Cognizant Technology Solutions provides IT services, such as digital, technology, consulting and operations services.
Offices: Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Mangalore, Mumbai and Pune.
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A man passes a Hewlett Packard display at a technology conference
Information technology company HP was established in 1939, and in 2015 was split into two divisions: HP Inc, which develops personal computers, printers and 3D printing solutions; and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which focuses on providing business services and financial services.
Offices: Bangalore, Chennai, Gurgaon, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, New Delhi and Udham Singh Nagar.
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The SAP office buildings in Bangalore, India
Software company SAP produces computer software to manage business operations and customer relations.
Offices: Bangalore, Chandigarh, Gurgaon, Kolkata, Mumbai and New Delhi.
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The Microsoft logo is illuminated on a wall during a Microsoft launch event to introduce the new Microsoft Surface laptop
Technology company Microsoft develops, manufactures, supports and sells computer software, electronics, personal computers and services. Its most recognized products include the Microsoft Windows operating systems and the Internet Explorer browser.
Offices: Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Kochi, Kolkata, New Delhi and Pune.
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Here's the full NFL statement confirming the two-game suspension and fine of an additional game check for Ray Rice, for knocking his then-fiancée unconscious in a casino elevator. It is fucking ballsy.
It is phrased to make it seem as if crusader for justice Roger Goodell went above and beyond what was required to appropriately punish Rice.
Despite the court's decision not to impose criminal punishment, the Commissioner determined, as he advised Rice, that the conduct was incompatible with NFL policies and warranted disciplinary action.
The whole thing is full of tough language that reads as if the NFL truly threw the book at Rice. (Adam Schefter agrees!)
In a letter to Rice, Commissioner Goodell stated:
"As you acknowledged during our meeting, your conduct was unquestionably inconsistent with league polices and the standard of behavior required of everyone who is part of the NFL. The league is an entity that depends on integrity and in the confidence of the public and we simply cannot tolerate conduct that endangers others or reflects negatively on our game. This is particularly true with respect to domestic violence and other forms of violence against women."
The NFL really, really wants your takeaway from today to be that the league does not tolerate domestic violence. It is a wonder the statement wasn't written in Newspeak.


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Fire guts former Columbia Electric Supply in Taunton
3-alarm fire draws onlookers in Taunton
A fire that bystanders say appeared to begin at the roof line of the former Columbia Electric Supply building on Oak Street completely destroyed the empty, four-story structure late Saturday afternoon, our news partners at the Taunton Gazette reported.
The smoky three-alarm blaze broke out just after 4 p.m. Seven fire engines, including a tower truck each from Bridgewater and Raynham, responded.
No injuries were reported.
State Fire Marshall Stephen Coan was on scene to oversee the start of an investigation as to the cause of the fire, according to TFD private Tom Cordeiro.
Billowing plumes of smoke extending hundreds of feet into the air attracted scores of curious onlookers, many of whom used smart phones to photograph the event.
Taunton Police Sgt. Kevin Medas said police and fire investigators had already begun investigating the possibility of arson. Medas said in addition to himself, all five available police cruisers from the day shift responded.
Work crews from Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant also responded to repair damaged power lines.
"I could feel the heat as soon as I opened the door," said Steve St. John of Boston.
St. John, 36, said he was visiting friends at 79 Wales St. when he heard fire trucks pull up and slam on their brakes.
He said the Wales Street home he was in temporarily lost power because of a damaged utility pole.
"It turned out to be an exciting day," St. John said.
Mike Parker of Taunton said smoke was visible from as far away as Interstate 495 and Route 138.
"You could see it for miles," Parker said.
By 5 p.m. the entire top floor of the building had collapsed. But because there was virtually no wind on Saturday, the flames never threatened surrounding homes or businesses.
Cordeiro said investigators would likely remain on scene until close to midnight.
Taunton Fire Chief Timothy Bradshaw and Taunton Police Chief Edward Walsh were on scene but were not available for comment.
The fire created a headache for drivers who got caught up in traffic that backed up as fire engines raced to the scene. All five Taunton fire stations received mutual-aid assistance from local fire departments.
The building had sat vacant for at least two years after Columbia Electric Supply relocated into a new facility at Liberty & Union Industrial Park in East Taunton.


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- Felony fraud charges dropped against professor, DA says
- Professor was accused of taking money to teach classes that didn't exist
- UNC pushed athletes toward the fake classes, whistle-blower says
The only criminal charge to come out of the academic fraud scandal at the University of North Carolina has been dropped.
Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall announced on Thursday that ex-professor Julius Nyang'oro would no longer be facing a felony fraud charge. He was accused of taking money to teach classes that didn't exist.
Woodall said the decision was based on Nyang'oro's cooperation, both with the criminal investigation, which is over, and the university-sanctioned investigation being done by former federal prosecutor Ken Wainstein.
Wainstein was hired this year by UNC to do another internal investigation, since past investigations pinning the sole blame on Nyang'oro have not satisfied questions and curiosity from the community and from critics of UNC who think the scope of the fake classes was much bigger than UNC admits.
The so called "paper classes" scandal involves hundreds of classes that never met and required little work, and even though many athletes were enrolled in them, UNC and the NCAA have been criticized for saying the issue had nothing to do with athletics.
That all makes the cooperation of Nyang'oro a game-changer in the quest to find answers, and Woodall said last week that is the reason he had been considering dropping the charges.
He said he felt it was better for the community to understand who else knew about the fake classes and who created them than it was for one professor to be punished criminally.
"Even though it's a noncriminal investigation, that is more important than this," Woodall said, referring to Wainstein's review.
Nyang'oro's cooperation also led to the NCAA announcing it would reopen its investigation into academic fraud at UNC. It previously had found no athletic scandal.
But in the last few months, a flurry of reporting has called that into question. Several athletes have said they were pushed into the fake classes by athletic advisers, and whistle-blower Mary Willingham has said that many star athletes were kept eligible by taking the classes.
"That's not just Julius Nyang'oro," Willingham said. "It's what we, the university, used to keep athletes eligible and that just is the truth." Willingham was a UNC employee who told reporters about the classes. She has since quit her job and filed suit against the university.
Wainstein said Nyang'oro's cooperation has been very valuable.
"He has answered all of our questions regarding the academic and athletic dimensions of the irregular courses offered in the department of African and Afro-American Studies, and he has provided important insights and information we would otherwise not have received," Wainstein said.
Wainstein said last week that his team has so far collected 1.5 million e-mails and documents, talked to 30 people in the athletic-academic areas of UNC and is looking at athlete transcripts going back to the 1980s.
That's something no other UNC investigation had done.
"UNC is the mother of all academic fraud violations," said Gerald Gurney, president of the Drake Group for Academic Integrity in College Sport. "...Theres no doubt in my mind about cooperation of friendly faculty and the cover-up and the excuses of this kind of behavior that has gone on in the university. ... It's egregious.
"It's quite likely that if it is shown that this is a long-term systematic scheme on the part of the university that UNC will need to vacate wins," Gurney said.


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Larry McPherson, longtime Nevada Day Parade voice, dies at 81
Former Lyon County Commissioner Larry McPherson wore many hats during his career and retirement, but it was his cowboy hat he was most proud of.
So say friends and family members of the Stagecoach man, who died June 7 after suffering a stroke five days earlier. He was 81.
McPherson was a familiar face — and voice — to Nevada Day Parade attendees. He announced the annual event in front of the Legislative Building for 16 years.
The Pony Express was one of McPherson's passions, and he spearheaded the construction of the metal horse-rider silhouette that drivers see when heading east from Carson City. He also represented the National Pony Express Association in parades and participated in the annual Pony Express re-ride for 14 years. His ashes are set to be spread in a private ceremony near the silhouette.
McPherson, a commissioner from 2007-11, also is credited with getting the V&T Railroad track completed to where it runs today. He was active in trying to extend USA Parkway to U.S. Highway 50 in Silver Springs. He was part of the Lyon County Sheriff's Mounted Posse and Lyon County Sheriff's Search & Rescue, establishing the Yerington unit. He was involved with the Historical Society of Dayton Valley, the Comstock Historic District Commission and the Kiwanis Club. McPherson also served on the Stagecoach Town Board and Lahontan Medical Center board.
Former Lyon County Commissioner Don Tibbals said McPherson always had the public's best interest in mind.
"He was honest, and if it wasn't right, he didn't go for it," he said.
Before retiring, McPherson was a production manager with McDonnell Douglas. He later worked for Boeing and eventually became an owner-operator in the trucking business. He was an aircraft mechanic in the Bay Area and served as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division in Fort Bragg, N.C.
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Bell helped McPherson get the Pony Express silhouette reinstalled after it fell in 2011. He said McPherson was a history buff who gave talks, and that his appearance on the cover of Nevada Magazine in 2011 was one of his biggest sources of pride.
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Melbourne secures Australian GP until 2020
Melbourne will continue to host the Australian Grand Prix until at least 2020 after organisers agreed a new deal for the race.
After a year of negotiations a new contract from 2016-2020 was signed with Formula One Management in London last week to keep the venue on the calendar. State Premier Denis Napthine confirmed the deal had been struck, which includes the right for Australia to remain as the season opener.
"This is a terrific announcement that reaffirms Melbourne and Victoria as the sporting and events capital of the world," he told the 3AW radio station. "We've secured another five-year deal for the grand prix and we've secured a great deal for the people of Victoria that's a better deal than the existing deal.
"The new deal is on the same terms as the existing contract in that it will be the first race of the season, it will be in March each year."
In recent years Ecclestone has threatened to axe the race, but in a press release he was supportive of the event.
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This weekend my wife and I start some weird cleanse and I'm not allowed to have caffeine or alcohol for 4 weeks. I have only myself to blame for this because it was my idea. I just want you to know this in case next week's news is awful. Well more awful then it usually is. You've been warned.
Sad news today, "Scary Movie 5" has had its release date pushed from April 20th of this year all the way to January 11th of 2013. The sad news though is that Gary Carter died yesterday afternoon. The "Scary Movie 5" thing is great news because who the hell wants to see that, seriously.
Exorcism flicks... am I right? But hold up before you go groaning because "The Seventh Son" is set in the 1700's and stars Jeff Bridges as a teacher of the Exorcism arts. We all love him in a "lock him up in our basement and make him quote "The Big Lebowski" and "Tron" all day" sort of way. The film was announced a while back but the exiting news today is that it's officially set to start filming in a couple weeks. Does anyone know his home address?
I had no idea there was a new Zorro movie in the works but it looks like spicy hot actor Gael Garcia Bernal has been cast in the lead role of "Zorro Reborn". The film promises to be a grittier version of the original TV series and numerous films on the masked one. It'll apparently also be set in the future. And not in Mexico. And he won't be called Zorro I assume.
I've been talking about ABC's "666 Park Avenue" for a while now. To anyone who will listen really. People next to me at the urinal for instance. I'm not allowed in a number of bars anymore. But they need to know that Terry O'Quinn, of "Lost" fame has just been cast as one half of a couple that moves to NYC to run an apartment building that just so happens to house a number of residents who have made deals with the devil. I have to go tell them now.
Here's a heartwarming story about an Ohio woman who was taken into custody after threatening to cut her boyfriend up after he didn't give her a Valentine's Day gift for her. She sounds so sweet, too. I don't know what this guy's deal is. Doesn't he like being happy?
I have never been to a Wendy's that didn't have an angry prick working behind the counter. So I love this guy in Ohio who took a sledgehammer to his local burger shop simply because "Wendy's is making him mad". I wish I could high five him.


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In his 1967 paper A convenient category of topological spaces, Norman Steenrod introduced the category CGH of compactly generated Hausdorff spaces as a good replacement of the category Top topological spaces, in order to do homotopy theory.
The most important difference between CGH and Top is that in CGH there is a functorial homeomorphism $$\mathrm{map}(X,\mathrm{map}(Y,Z))\cong \mathrm{map}(X\times Y,Z),$$ a fact that is only true in Top under the extra assumption that $Y$ is locally compact.
But in more recent papers, I see that people use CGWH spaces instead of CGH spaces...
Could someone explain to me what goes wrong in CGH spaces
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and explain how the "w" fixes everything?
Also (following Jeff's comment), to whom should the "w" be attributed?
One more wish: can someone give me an example of a CGWH space that isn't CGH?


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Iceland remains largely uninhabited, with more than half of its 320.000 inhabitants living in the capital city. In fact, a mere twenty minute drive from Reykjavik center takes you out of the hubbub of city life and into the seclution of Iceland's spectacular landscapes, which inspireadventures from its shores to its mountain tops. But the landscape is not just for gaping at; Iceland's rivers are perfect for rafting, fishing, diving and snorkeling; its mountains, volcanoes and glaciers are good for hiking, climbing, dog-sledding, and snowmobiling; its snowy hills for skiing and snowboarding; its waves for surfing; its caves for exploring; and its barren highlands for jeep safaris.
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Iceland was the last country in Europe to be settled. To this day, it is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world. Located in the middle of the North Atlantic, Iceland was settled by emigrants from Scandinavia and the British Isles in the tenth century. Due to Iceland's geographical location, it was mostly outside the influence of contemporary culture in Europe and America, until the late nineteenth century.
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PHOTOPHILE- Over-Weening: Band opens Pavilion season
Despite a sound too playful, diverse, and strange to ever achieve pop status, the 22-year-old band Ween continues to earn a dedicated following.
"Ween is a modern-day Beatles," said concertgoer Patrick Smith. "They play all genres of music."
Singer Gene Ween had what sounded like a case of laryngitis on Thursday, April 13, when his band kicked off the summer season at the Charlottesville Pavilion. But the hundreds of people in the audience didn't seem to mind. Lighters and cell phones came out for many songs, and the crowd sang along and screamed "Ween!" throughout the show.
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- Thinking of Twinking a level 19 Warlock?
- Can't be bothered leveling another toon to 70 with WoLK around the corner?
- Can't remember the challenges of a low level toon?
- Want the challenge of limited toon abilities supported by (your) awesome skill and top notch gear?
Well this is the guide for you!
There's a lot to twinking a level 19 toon. It isn't as simple as grinding out 19 levels. It's a tight match of grinding levels in bursts, while preventing xp gain, while maximising loot in quest collection at other times.
If you are already level 10 or above, you might want to consider rerolling. Necessary – No, but you want to get full benefit of your levels.
Anyway, this guide will be broken down into the following sections:
- Part 1. Introduction
- Part 2. Guiding your twink around the world.
- Part 3. Twink "Epic" gear
- Part 4. Enchanting your Twink
- Part 5. Twink Spells
- An Interlude…
- Part 6. Heirloom Items
- 3.1 update
- Part 7. Twink Talents
- Part 8. Twink Pets
- Part 9. Twink BG Strategies
- Part 10. The Professional Twink
- Part 11. Acknowledgments
- This is not a love song…This is not a Lock Blog…
- I gathered this information over a period of time while I was considering twinking. it came from numerous sources, and bits & pieces have been cut & pasted together to form this guide (with a few personal touches). Thus I apologise up front if I don't acknowledge original sources. I will attempt to point you back to various sources in the last section of the guide.
- This is from the perspective of the Alliance, particularly Human, but the majority of concepts and even quests are applicable no matter what faction or race.
- At the time of writing this guide, I haven't made it to level 19. This is a backburner side project. So although I have gathered all the gear and enchanting mats, I haven't actually hit level 19 twink "end game"
- Twinking will cost you a boatload of gold. Generally it is too risky to grind the gear with your twink (too much XP involved), and too time consuming to grind with your main. So get your main to cash up and buyout all the twink gear on the Auction House.
- You will need at least 1 high level mate (more only required to save them boredom). A level 70 Mage or other AoE class is ideal. Sure any high level toon will cut through level 19 mobs like butter, but the early instances are long, with lots of mobs. being able to take out 20-30 mobs at a time is much quicker than 1-2 at a time (and less risk for the twink). My level 70 mage helped a friend, and his level 70 Druid helped me. I was clearing 1-2 rooms at a time, him 1-2 groups at at time.
OK, so on with the guide… Well off to the next part anwyay, in which you will learn where to travel and when. When to grind, when to quest and when to do an instance.
Gnomer and Out!
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They talk during lunch. Sometimes the conversation flows freely, and sometimes long periods of silence occur. The silence is broken, sometimes after a time period that feels like minutes, rather than seconds. Oliver imagines how they all think, intensely, about a new topic to bring up, and when one of them is brave enough to break the silence, a new discussion can start.
They mostly talk about facts. They do not talk about feelings. No one says "did you read that book, it was truly fantastic, it gave me a complete new picture of the Chinese culture." Perhaps someone says "did you know that there is a golf player who can reach 300 meters using only his putter." This may be followed by comments like "did he do it in a contest?" and "can he control his muscles or does he hit that hard all the time?" Someone may even joke, like "I was kidding, it was 300 yards, not 300 meters."
Sometimes they talk about airplanes, or cars. They are not so interested in the design of cars, or if the cars are beautiful, or ugly. They are more interested in the internal, technical properties, of a car. Oliver remembers a discussion that ended with the phrase "it is called toe-in." He remembers that it had to do with how the wheels are oriented, and toe-in meant that the wheels are oriented inwards. He imagined the wheels like the feet of a shy child, standing in front of an angry parent, and he did not hear when he was asked for his views on the matter.
He looks out of the window, and his mind wanders away. His colleagues continue their talking. Their discussion has shifted, and the current topic concerns methods for cleaning a roof from moss. They give lengthy descriptions of their favourite methods, involving manual work, performed while standing on tall and unsteady ladders, but also machine-assisted work, performed with the aid of high-pressure water hoses, aimed with precision at the unwanted weeds, and used with success thanks to their automatically generated, fluid-carried, force.
Oliver sees the grey clouds, and he remembers the start of the semester, in the midst of August, when the sun was shining and he travelled to work on his newly acquired bicycle. He continued using his bicycle until the beginning of November, and his goal was to use it also when he returned from Munich.
He remembers one August morning, a few days before the start of the fall semester. He was approaching the University building where his office is located, and his pace was slow and relaxing. He was travelling along the bike road, with its winding path through the campus lawns and the small groups of planted trees. He saw the students, marching, and he recognised what he had seen before, at the start of each fall semester.
It was the annual ceremonies and rituals for the new students of Engineering. He looked at the spectacle, and he tried to convince himself that it was interesting and meaningful, and that it gave the students a chance to meet new friends, and relax, before their demanding studies took off.
He did not participate in such ceremonies when he started his own studies. He found them ridiculous, and he wanted to concentrate on his school work, already from the first day. Some of his friends have reminded him, later in life, of his decision to put studies first, and to be very restrictive with social activities, and they have let him know that he perhaps made a bad choice.
"You see," they said, "those years were the starting point for some really good networking."
A grey, almost black, cloud enters his field of view. It moves slowly, eastwards, along the sky. Oliver wonders, silently, if some of his former student colleagues have utilised their networking experiences for the purpose of coordinated actions and confidential meetings, with the specific goal of unlawful extraction of data from National databases. He is confident that their academic competence, as well as their connections in different parts of the society, would be useful ingredients to ensure the success of such a task.
The tapping of a government-owned pen towards the wooden table alerts him. He turns, from the window, and looks towards his colleagues. They sit, around their lunch table, and some of them look directly at him. He sees the Department Administrator rise, and after a while he hears her voice.
"Oliver," the Department Administrator says. "Dear Oliver, I should say."
She stands, next to her seat, in one of the corners of the table. There is a light, from behind her, and Oliver realises that it is the winter sun. It has appeared, magically and without warning, and it blinds him a bit, so that the contours of her body, and her head, become a bit blurry.
He shifts his body, so that he can look at her more from the side. He straightens his back, and his view is more clear now. He lets his gaze move from the Department Administrator, towards some of his colleagues. He sees their faces, and some of them smile, slightly. They do not look in his direction. There are no eyes that meets his own, and he decides to focus his gaze on the Department Administrator.


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Update 3:30 11/05/09: Glenn Younger of Grah Safe & Lock, forwarded me this piece from the RiverFrontTimes that details the scam and the charges. It's a great read. A snippet:
The complaint alleges that telephone dispatchers for Dependable Locks were instructed by managers to quote a price of $54 for a car lockout, while the responding technician was instructed by managers to charge up to $179 once services had been provided.
The telephone dispatchers were instructed to misrepresent or understate the possibility of additional charges above the price quoted. The market rate for a standard car lockout is typically about $60. The locksmiths were instructed to charge significantly more than the price quoted, and significantly more than usual market rates. Technicians use techniques such as accusing the consumer who objects to the overcharge of "theft of services," threatening to call the police, withholding the customer's keys or driver's license, or following the customer to an ATM machine to ensure payment.
The locksmith technicians allegedly are allowed to split the profits of the fraudulently procured locksmith services with the company, typically 50/50 or 60/40, and that the technicians are required to remit the company's share of the proceeds by regularly purchasing and shipping money orders to the Dependable Locks location in Clearwater.
The affidavit states that Eliyahu Barhanun, David Peer and Moshe Aharoni conspired with the managers of Dependable Locks to implement a scheme to procure overcharges for locksmith services.
On November 4th, US Postal Inspectors stormed Dependable Locksmith's headquarters in Clearwater, Fl. Dependable has been one of the companies frequently mentioned as it related to the national locksmith scams. The raid was coordinated with authorities in Missouri and apparently more arrests are to made. This is the same company that the Missouri Attorney General charged with "deceiving and overcharging customers in Kansas City" in April of this year. Their BBB report includes an F Rating and numerous complaints and has more the look of a rap sheet than a business review.
Things seem to be looking up in the Locksmith industry and legitimate locksmiths must, for the first time in several years, be seeing a glimmer of hope. It appears that Google is also making progress in their efforts to control and minimize the damage that scammers in this industry have wrought. More on that in a later post.Federal Bust of Dependable Locksmith in Florida Strikes at Heart of National Locksmith Scams by Mike Blumenthal


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Cystocele (Prolapsed Bladder)
On this page:
- What is a cystocele?
- What causes a cystocele?
- What are the symptoms of a cystocele?
- How is a cystocele diagnosed?
- How is a cystocele treated?
- Eating, Diet, and Nutrition
- Clinical Trials
What is a cystocele?
A cystocele, also called a prolapsed or dropped bladder, is the bulging or dropping of the bladder into the vagina. The bladder, located in the pelvis between the pelvic bones, is a hollow, muscular, balloon-shaped organ that expands as it fills with urine. During urination, also called voiding, the bladder empties through the urethra, located at the bottom of the bladder. The urethra is the tube that carries urine outside of the body. The vagina is the tube in a woman's body that runs beside the urethra and connects the womb, or uterus, to the outside of the body. Read about the urinary tract and how it works.
What causes a cystocele?
A cystocele occurs when the muscles and supportive tissues between a woman's bladder and vagina weaken and stretch, letting the bladder sag from its normal position and bulge into the vagina or through the vaginal opening. In a cystocele, the bladder tissue remains covered by the vaginal skin. A cystocele may result from damage to the muscles and tissues that hold the pelvic organs up inside the pelvis. A woman's pelvic organs include the vagina, cervix, uterus, bladder, urethra, and small intestine. Damage to or weakening of the pelvic muscles and supportive tissues may occur after vaginal childbirth and with conditions that repeatedly strain or increase pressure in the pelvic area, such as
- repetitive straining for bowel movements
- constipation
- chronic or violent coughing
- heavy lifting
- being overweight or obese
A woman's chances of developing a cystocele increase with age, possibly because of weakening muscles and supportive tissues from aging. Whether menopause increases a woman's chances of developing a cystocele is unclear.
What are the symptoms of a cystocele?
The symptoms of a cystocele may include
- a vaginal bulge
- the feeling that something is falling out of the vagina
- the sensation of pelvic heaviness or fullness
- difficulty starting a urine stream
- a feeling of incomplete urination
- frequent or urgent urination
Women who have a cystocele may also leak some urine as a result of movements that put pressure on the bladder, called stress urinary incontinence. These movements can include coughing, sneezing, laughing, or physical activity, such as walking. Urinary retention—the inability to empty the bladder completely—may occur with more severe cystoceles if the cystocele creates a kink in the woman's urethra and blocks urine flow.
Women with mild cystoceles often do not have any symptoms.
How is a cystocele diagnosed?
Diagnosing a cystocele requires medical tests and a physical exam of the vagina. Medical tests take place in a health care provider's office, an outpatient center, or a hospital. The health care provider will ask about symptoms and medical history. A health care provider uses a grading system to determine the severity of a woman's cystocele. A cystocele receives one of three grades depending on how far a woman's bladder has dropped into her vagina:
- grade 1—mild, when the bladder drops only a short way into the vagina
- grade 2—moderate, when the bladder drops far enough to reach the opening of the vagina
- grade 3—most advanced, when the bladder bulges out through the opening of the vagina
If a woman has difficulty emptying her bladder, a health care provider may measure the amount of urine left in the woman's bladder after she urinates. The remaining urine is called the postvoid residual. A health care provider can measure postvoid residual with a bladder ultrasound. A bladder ultrasound uses a device, called a transducer, that bounces safe, painless sound waves off the bladder to create an image and show the amount of remaining urine. A specially trained technician performs the procedure, and a radiologist—a doctor who specializes in medical imaging—interprets the images. A woman does not need anesthesia.
A health care provider can also use a catheter—a thin, flexible tube—to measure a woman's postvoid residual. The health care provider inserts the catheter through the woman's urethra into her bladder to remove and measure the amount of remaining urine after the woman has urinated. A postvoid residual of 100 mL or more is a sign that the woman is not completely emptying her bladder. A woman receives local anesthesia.
A health care provider may use a voiding cystourethrogram—an x-ray exam of the bladder—to diagnose a cystocele as well. A woman gets a voiding cystourethrogram while urinating. The x-ray images show the shape of the woman's bladder and let the health care provider see any problems that might block normal urine flow. An x-ray technician performs a voiding cystourethrogram, and a radiologist interprets the images. A woman does not need anesthesia; however, some women may receive sedation. A health care provider may order additional tests to rule out problems in other parts of a woman's urinary tract.
How is a cystocele treated?
Cystocele treatment depends on the severity of the cystocele and whether a woman has symptoms. If a woman's cystocele does not bother her, a health care provider may recommend only that she avoid heavy lifting or straining, which could worsen her cystocele. If a woman has symptoms that bother her and wants treatment, the health care provider may recommend pelvic muscle exercises, a vaginal pessary, or surgery.
Pelvic floor, or Kegel, exercises involve strengthening pelvic floor muscles. Strong pelvic floor muscles more effectively hold pelvic organs in place. A woman does not need special equipment for Kegel exercises.
The exercises involve tightening and relaxing the muscles that support pelvic organs. A health care provider can help a woman learn proper technique.
A vaginal pessary is a small, silicone medical device placed in the vagina that supports the vaginal wall and holds the bladder in place. Pessaries come in a number of shapes and sizes. A health care provider has many options to choose from to find the most comfortable pessary for a woman.
A heath care provider may recommend surgery to repair the vaginal wall support and reposition the woman's bladder to its normal position. The most common cystocele repair is an anterior vaginal repair—or anterior colporrhaphy. The surgeon makes an incision in the wall of the woman's vagina and repairs the defect by folding over and sewing together extra supportive tissue between the vagina and bladder. The repair tightens the layers of tissue that separate the organs, creating more support for the bladder. A surgeon who specializes in the urinary tract or female reproductive system performs an anterior vaginal repair in a hospital. The woman receives either regional or general anesthesia. The woman may stay overnight in the hospital, and full recovery may take up to 4 to 6 weeks.
Eating, Diet, and Nutrition
Researchers have not found that eating, diet, and nutrition play a role in causing or preventing a cystocele.
Clinical Trials
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and other components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) conduct and support research into many diseases and conditions.
What are clinical trials, and are they right for you?
Clinical trials are part of clinical research and at the heart of all medical advances. Clinical trials look at new ways to prevent, detect, or treat disease. Researchers also use clinical trials to look at other aspects of care, such as improving the quality of life for people with chronic illnesses. Find out if clinical trials are right for you.
What clinical trials are open?
Clinical trials that are currently open and are recruiting can be viewed at www.ClinicalTrials.gov.
This content is provided as a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
(NIDDK), part of the National Institutes of Health. The NIDDK translates and disseminates research findings to increase knowledge and understanding about health and disease among patients, health professionals, and the public. Content produced by the NIDDK is carefully reviewed by NIDDK scientists and other experts.
The NIDDK would like to thank:
Catherine S. Bradley, M.D., M.S.C.E., University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine


text: From Deadline. Target date: August 1, 2014. No title (but is there anything wrong with Guardians of the Galaxy?) Yay, that's on my list! Now they just need to do Doctor Strange, The Inhumans and The Sub-Mariner. Adam Warlock, my long-lost love! (Oh they better not frak up the casting.) PS, warning, the article contains "that" spoiler from the end of The Avengers...no, not the shawarma scene... Spoiler: that spoiler is It appears the plan is to have the Guardians fight Thanos, the grinning evil purple character seen after the credits in this year's The Avengers.


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When American voters cannot agree that if a president violates his oath of office to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, he should be disqualified from consideration for reelection, there exists a serious problem. Similarly, when a candidate for the presidency seeking to challenge the incumbent makes clear his intention to maintain the status quo and perpetuate the existing criminal establishment order, and American voters cannot agree that this should disqualify him from consideration, there exists a serious problem.
The standard argument one comes across when confronted with individuals who plan on voting for either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney is that "We must vote for the lesser of two evils!" One hears this standard refrain time and time again, the reasoning being that if we don't vote for the "lesser" evil, then the "greater" evil will gain power. The argument goes that if you don't vote for either evil, then you are "throwing away your vote" and thereby effectively voting for the "greater" evil for not helping to increase the chances that the "lesser" evil will win. Consequently, you will be responsible for the even more disastrous consequences of the policies that the "greater" evil will pursue.
When confronted with the "lesser of evils" argument, one might be tempted to inquire: Why must we vote for evil? Shouldn't we rather oppose it and not vote for it? After all, it takes no great feat of cognition to recognize that this logic serves only to perpetuate evil on an ever increasing scale as Americans incrementally lower their standards every election cycle for what currently existing evils they are willing to accept and tolerate in order to supposedly prevent even worse evils in the future.
Now, when one points this out to someone who has just offered up the standard "lesser of evils" argument, a typical response is for them to try to backtrack by saying something like, "Well, I don't really think (insert candidate) is 'evil'." They then will list things their candidate has done or positions they have that they think are good, and perhaps add a comment like, "It's unrealistic to expect there to be a candidate who is perfect", or something similar—which will bring the conversation right back around to the above points about candidates doing certain criminal things or having certain unjustifiable positions that should disqualify them from consideration. And then if you therefore ask such individuals if their standards are so low that they consider a president violating his oath of office to be merely "imperfection", they will typically say something like, "Well, I'm not voting for those bad policies, I'm only voting for his good policies." And then if you point out that they just contradicted their own argument that if you don't vote for the "lesser" evil with them, then you will be responsible for all the bad things that the "greater" evil will do, they will probably begin to start saying slightly less predictable things, such as telling you what a naïve idealist you are for believing in utopian fantasies, and so on.
The Devil himself would be hard pressed to come up with a more effective means by which to corrupt an entire nation—to make a society into a people without principle, a people who meaninglessly spout empty words about moral values while accepting and even defending the lawlessness of their government and actively struggling to maintain the criminal establishment order—than to convince the masses that they "must vote for the lesser of two evils".
And if the existing establishment order wished to overthrow the Constitution, turn the U.S. into a totalitarian police state, and enslave the population, it would be the simplest thing for it to do, so long as Americans continued to cling to this logic. All it would need to do would be to create an illusion of "choice" each election cycle between two amenable, pro-establishment candidates who would both continue down this path towards tyranny, albeit each at a slightly different pace or with different sounding rhetoric, and the American sheeple, content to bicker with each other over which of these two candidates would pursue their enslavement at the slower pace, would just continue to vote in favor of legitimizing and further entrenching the violations of the Constitution, loss of their Liberty, illegal wars, murderous criminality, etc., that had occurred over the previous four years in order to supposedly prevent the very same from hypothetically occurring in the future on an even greater scale under the other guy. So long as the establishment would present one candidate who adopts positions that are even more extreme than the other, even more frightening to contemplate than the horrors that exist under the present status quo, then Americans would be incrementally made into obedient serfs who would vote to have themselves shackled and chained so long as it meant keeping the guy from their party in power. And in the end, it wouldn't really matter which party's candidate a plurality of Americans decided was the "lesser" evil, because the ship of state would remain steady on course regardless.
What people who make the "lesser of evils" argument are really saying, if we translate it into meaningful terms, is that for the president to repeatedly violate his oath of office, trample the Constitution, violate international law, murder innocent civilians abroad, continue the nation down the road to economic ruin, etc., is all acceptable to them, just so long as the president is a member of their party. Thus, when Romney supporters say we must vote for Romney to prevent Obama from getting reelected, what they are really saying is that maintaining the criminal establishment order is acceptable to them so long as a Republican is president. And when Obama supporters say we must vote for Obama to prevent Romney from gaining office, what they are really saying is that maintaining the criminal establishment order is acceptable to them so long as a Democrat is president.
It is remarkable that this kind of commitment to ideology straight down party lines exists in this day and age, the age of information and the internet, and yet one may still come across many Americans who consider the Democratic party to be the yin to the Republican party's yang. The very language used in political discourse of "left" vs. "right" reinforces this downright delusional paradigm. Then there are Americans who recognize that there is largely a consensus across party lines on pretty much all of the most crucial issues, but they tend to focus on those areas where there are subtle differences, real or perceived. Missing the forest for the trees, they argue that we must feed this monster rather than that one, to stop that one from devouring us, all the while failing to see how futile this is since they are just two heads of the same hydra, and the only way to stop it from further devastation is to just stop feeding the beast altogether.
We may see how application of this "lesser of evils" logic has worked out so far this century. In the 2000 election, anyone who did not vote for either of the two pro-establishment candidates was considered to have "thrown away" their vote. But where is the logic in the argument that having voted for either of the two pro-establishment candidates and thus having voted to perpetuate the status quo was not throwing away their vote? One would think that, if the goal was actually to effect real and meaningful change, it would be more logical to say that anyone who voted for the Democratic or the Republican candidate wasted their vote. In that election, it was not exactly clear which candidate a plurality of Americans actually viewed as the lesser evil, so the Supreme Court stepped in and decided for them.
And then after four years of Bush, a plurality of Americans cast their votes to reelect him to a second term, thereby signaling to the establishment that the trampling of the Constitution, the loss of Liberty, the torturing of prisoners, the murderous war on Iraq, etc., was acceptable to them, just so long as a Republican was in the Oval Office. The message received by Washington was that the president could violate his oath of office and commit high crimes for which the Constitution demands he be impeached and for which he should be tried for war crimes under international law, and this was all okay with the American people and could be carried out in their name. The message received in Washington was confirmation that Americans would accept the extraordinary criminality of the existing establishment so long as a plurality of them voted to legitimize it on the basis of the belief that not doing so would result in some even greater evil if the other party's candidate won.
Although Bush was elected into office on a platform of limited government, free markets, minding our own affairs internationally, "no nation building", etc., and although he proceeded to put the lie to his rhetoric by implementing opposite policies, his supporters continued to back him anyway and voted to reelect him in 2004 simply because he was their party's guy, and if they voted for a third-party candidate, the Democratic party's guy might win. This blind loyalty to party was—it should by now be uncontroversial to say—absolutely disastrous for the country. By voting to reelect Bush, a plurality of Americans were responsible for legitimizing, in the eyes of the establishment order, the violent crimes and authoritarian usurpations of power by the U.S. government.
Even so, by the end of Bush's second term, Americans were finally beginning to wake up to the realities of just how disastrous eight years of Bush had been. Even many conservative voters had become disillusioned with what had transpired under his two terms, and the liberals and independents had begun to effectively mobilize against the government's criminal policies. And then along came Obama, with his empty rhetoric about "hope" and "change", perfectly transparent at the time to anyone who took the time to parse his words and analyze them for any real underlying meaning. Even many of those who largely recognized the vacuousness of his lofty-sounding rhetoric were convinced that he was the "lesser evil". All it took for the establishment to ensure that there was no rollback of the policies that were implemented under Bush was to pit Obama against someone who would be regarded by more Americans as the "greater evil". Enter Bush-policy advocate and warmongerer extraordinaire John McCain.
Unsurprisingly, Obama won, and many liberals went back to sleep, satisfying themselves in their sense of accomplishment and false sense of security that now that they had cast their ballot and a Democrat was in the White House, rather than one of these Republican warmongers, things would be okay. And then, rather than rolling them back, Obama proceeded to complete the institutionalization of Bush's policies so as to cement them into permanency.
By declaring his empty promise to close Guantanamo, for instance, he succeeded in obtaining Americans' acquiescence for the system of military detentions, which he made clear from the beginning he would continue. He succeeded in gaining Americans' acceptance of the usurpation of Executive authority under which this system was established and the basic framework under which it operated. He ended, so far as we know, the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques"—otherwise known as torture—while refusing to renounce the assumed unconstitutional power of the Executive to authorize such human rights abuses and while preventing those responsible for implementing this policy from being held accountable for violating U.S. and international law.


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- 3 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 7 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 5 1/2 to 6 cups all-purpose flour (plus more for dusting)
- 1 1/2 cups of warm milk (whole is best, low-fat is ok too)
- 3 eggs + 1 for the glaze
- 6 tablespoons of olive oil + 1 teaspoon for greasing the bowl and another for the glaze
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 tablespoons honey
- Vanilla turbinado sugar, for sprinkling on top (optional)
In a large bowl using a whisk combine the yeast, sugar, salt and 1 1/2 cups of the flour. Add the warm milk, 3 eggs, 6 tablespoons of olive oil, then the honey and vanilla. (Add the olive oil first, then use the same measuring spoon to add the honey – residual oil on the spoon will make the honey slide right out.) Vigorously mix the ingredients until smooth, scraping the sides of the bowl halfway through, about 3 minutes. Add the remaining flour, 1/2 cup at a time, switching to a wooden spoon when the dough becomes too thick for the whisk. Continue mixing the dough until it is too stiff to stir.
Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until soft and springy, about 4 minutes. If the dough is sticky, dust with flour 1 tablespoon at a time – just enough to prevent it from sticking to the surface. The dough is done when it's smooth and small air bubbles show under the skin. If you press your thumb into it the impression should bounce back. This is a slightly firm dough, which is exactly what you want for easy shaping later on.
Place the dough in a deep container greased with 1 tsp of olive oil. Turn the dough once to coat the top and cover with plastic wrap. Allow it to rise at room temperature until doubled in bulk, about 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
Grease a standard sized springform pan with baking spray, such as PAM. Gently deflate the dough and roll egg-sized sections into smooth balls. Line the edges of the pan with the balls, then work your way towards the center of the pan. Once the first layer is done arrange any remaining balls of dough on top. (I placed four in the center and two on either side of the four balls in the center.)
Lightly spray a sheet or saran wrap with PAM and cover the dough, sprayed side down. Allow the dough to rise until almost doubled in bulk, about 40 minutes to an hour.
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Just before the rising time has finished whisk together 1 egg and 1 teaspoon of olive oil, this is going to be the glaze for your bread.
Gently brush the dough with a thick layer of egg wash. Sprinkle granulated sugar on top of the glaze, about 1 to 2 tablespoons or as much as you want. If you like, you can add about 1 tablespoon of vanilla turbinado sugar on top of this.
Place the dough in the oven and bake for 35 to 45 minutes, or until the bread is a deep golden brown and sounds hollow when you thump it on the bottom. If the bread browns too quickly, tent with aluminum foil to allow the inside of the bread to finish baking.
Transfer to a baking rack to cool. This bread is especially satisfying warm from the oven.