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Intranet Usability: The Trillion-Dollar Question
Summary: The average mid-sized company could gain $5 million per year in employee productivity by improving its intranet design to the top quartile level of a cross-company intranet usability study. The return on investment? One thousand percent or more.
We have conducted an international study of intranet usability, running user tests with employees in 14 companies to learn what worked and what didn't in a wide range of intranet designs. We conducted 10 of the studies in the United States, 3 in Europe, and 1 in Asia. This may be the most comprehensive intranet usability research ever performed.
Executive Support and Budget
In our study, we found that a lack of good management support for intranets had a great impact on quality. In particular, companies with ailing intranet usability rarely had a well-funded central intranet group with clear ownership of the design. Instead, they typically had many intranets that were not unified by a single navigation system with a single starting point.
When interviewing intranet designers, our sense was that intranets were often given lower priority than the corporate website. With all due respect for customer-facing design, the idea that it's a promotion to be transferred from the intranet to the dot-com team hurts company productivity.
Productivity was also injured by an overemphasis on branding at some companies. People already work at the company; there is no need to sell them or hype up features. In particular, usability was always best when features had plain, descriptive labels rather than catchy, made-up names. On the positive side, visual design was typically clean and restrained, without the excesses often found on public websites.
Intranet teams can only accomplish so much through heroic efforts. Management must give them the budget to buy necessary software, to develop design standards and conduct usability studies, and to write content and implement tools that help employees increase their productivity. Intranet teams must also have the authority to enforce design standards and ensure a unified intranet.
One of our positive findings was the wide availability of search. Not all intranets provided a search box on every page — which we recommend — but they all had search in some form.
Poor search was the greatest single cause of reduced usability across intranets we have seen, aside from the general lack of executive support and budget. Search usability accounted for an estimated 43% of the difference in employee productivity between intranets with high and low usability.
Deficiencies in all main aspects of search usability created problems for users:
- Some search features didn't index all the intranet's pages; on other sites, users had to rely on two different searches to cover everything.
- Search results were poorly prioritized, and we rarely found the recommended "best bets" feature, which calls out particularly salient hits at the top of the list.
- Page titles were poorly written, and thus users could not quickly scan a search results list to pick out items of interest.
- Page summaries were sometimes even worse than the titles, and failed to accurately summarize the content of each search hit.
Improved search usability requires two basic initiatives: (1) Invest in a good search engine that compiles a unified index of the entire intranet and prioritizes search results appropriately. (2) Educate all content contributors on the importance of page titles and summaries, and train them to write for online readers, who typically scan search lists.
Some intranets made an excellent effort, providing mostly consistent page appearance and navigation across the intranet. But, for many intranets, lack of consistent navigation was a big issue. Users had difficulties using the inconsistent designs and the drastically changing look-and-feel of different department pages. A small, persistent set of global navigation controls was helpful when available, as were breadcrumbs.
Many of the oldest recommendations for Web usability turned up again in the intranet study: links and buttons must be highly visible for clickability, and links should be color-coded to indicate when they lead to pages that the user has already visited. Violations of these two guidelines caused substantial navigational confusion; users overlooked choices or went in circles because they couldn't see where they'd been before.
Intranet navigation should serve a dual purpose: First, and most important, it should support task performance and give users access to tools and content. Employees should not have to know which department supports which features, nor should they have to navigate according to the organizational chart. Second, because people sometimes do need information about departments and company organization, you should provide navigation via an org chart as well.
In particular, information about departments such as human resources and IT should be segregated from the task-oriented information they provide employees. Users should be able to find the HR and IT tools they need in a task-based information architecture that resides outside the department hierarchy.
Content Usability
Search and navigation exist for one reason: to help users find content. Many intranets were good at providing updated news about the company. This feature is helpful in overcoming a key intranet usability issue: getting employees to use the intranet in the first place. Most intranets, however, were substantially less successful at dealing with old news, archiving it, and integrating it with the main intranet areas.
To ensure a steady supply of good intranet content, make it easy for employees to add and update content. Department-level pages and employees' personal pages contribute much more value to the intranet when they are kept up-to-date, but since few people have intranet content provision as their main job description, good content will only happen if providing it is easy and fast.
PDF Morass
Special mention must be reserved for a single, simple design mistake that caused huge usability problems for the users in our study: unconverted PDF files. These files were especially troublesome when they were used to post an entire employee handbook or other massive document on the intranet in a single unnavigable and overwhelming mass.
PDF is great for printing. And it's fine to have printable documents available on the intranet, which saves distribution costs and gives employees instant access to print out whatever they need. But don't take the lazy way out and just stick a PDF handbook on the intranet; give users other options for accessing the information as well. Search, navigation, and online reading are all enhanced when you convert content into well-designed intranet pages, each containing a meaningful chunk of information about a specific topic with cross-reference links to related material.
Productivity and Return on Investment
We measured users' task performance for sixteen common employee tasks across the fourteen intranets. As one might expect, usability varied widely, and some designs supported much faster performance than others.
When salaries and overhead costs were taken into account, we calculated that a company with one of the least usable designs in our study would spend $3,042 per employee annually to cover time spent on the sixteen tasks we measured.
In contrast, the average company would spend $2,069 per employee per year, and a company that was among the best in usability would spend $1,563.
The total annual cost of intranet use can be estimated by multiplying by the number of employees. For companies with 10,000 intranet users, the annual costs are as follows:
- High usability (among the best 25%): $15.6 million
- Average usability: $20.7 million
- Low usability (among the worst 25%): $30.4 million
Clearly, the biggest productivity gains are found by moving a company with bad intranet usability to a design with average usability. But the gains for improving from average to good usability are significant as well.
Intranets typically support mission-critical applications and other specialized tasks that differ between companies and cannot be included in a cross-company comparison. We assume that these company-specific tasks account for the same amount of intranet usage as the sixteen general tasks we studied. Thus, the full costs are likely twice as big as the ones listed in the table.
To improve intranet quality, a company with 10,000 users would have to invest about $500,000 in usability. Thus, the return on investment for intranet usability ranges from a factor of 20 (for a company that starts out low and moves to average) to a factor of 10 (for a company that starts out average and moves to high).
Impact on World Economy
If we improved all the intranets in the world to the usability level achieved by the best 25% in our study, the world economy would save $311,294,070,513 per year for the sixteen test tasks alone. Adding the likely savings from company-specific tasks leads us to an estimated $600 billion in total annual productivity improvements. This level of intranet productivity is a modest goal; we could realistically achieve it with an investment of about $31 billion per year in intranet usability.
Assuming further usability improvements — up to the very best level we found for each study task — could save the world economy $1.3 trillion per year when we include estimated improvements in company-specific tasks.
For more info, see the detailed report from our intranet user research, with hundreds of UX design guidelines. Note that the current edition of the report has been much revised, based on subsequent research at many more companies than those covered in the present article.
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quote: My favorite line of that article is that these new measures would stop one person from buying a game and passing it to all his friends so that they can install it... This is bull sh*t plain and simple.
quote: Don't forget: YOU NEED TO SIGN IN WHEN YOU WANT TO PLAY YOUR GAME :)
quote: Under the model of allowing users to install the game to the hard drive and play from disc, there has to be a new form of authentication, otherwise you can simply allow anyone to run your copy of the game. Even with a one-time verification during install, nothing prevents you from walking to a buddies house, signing in, installing the game, and switching accounts. Piracy would go insane.
quote: Why is this such a huge deal? There are no fees required to use an xbox live silver account. If you have an internet connection at all this should never ever be a problem. Auto logon when the console turns on and you're done. Steam has been doing this for years and nobody seems to have an issue with it.
quote: I don't know why you keep comparing XBOX to Steam. Steam is a service. XBOX is a ~$500 piece of dedicated electronic merchandise. The two are very different.When you make a huge investment in a piece of hardware, it should not behave like a service.
quote: Sorry, but this is pure BS and it almost seems that you are trying to confuse people.
quote: I don't know why you keep comparing XBOX to Steam. Steam is a service. XBOX is a ~$500 piece of dedicated electronic merchandise. The two are very different.
quote: MS is going after the used game market, plain and simple. As a result, XBOX users lose A LOT of liberty in how they use their device. This has NOTHING to do with piracy or creating a better user experience.

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6 Reasons The NFL Is The Trashiest Reality Show on TV
Football fans and reality shows are natural enemies, a situation not helped by TV commentators' tendency to promote Dancing With The Stars in the middle of a crucial game-changing drive.
"They're going for it on 4th! He takes the snap...
now here to talk with us about Dancing With The Stars is Emmitt Smith."
The dirty little secret is that even though most football fans consider the reality/soap world of shows like The Hills and celebrity gossip to be, in their vocabulary, "gay", deep down those worlds are a lot closer than you'd think.
A few years ago I started dating a guy who watched football, so I started watching football, because I don't have a mind of my own. I still barely understand football (is a safety a guy or a play?) but I find myself watching every week.
Because it turns out at least half of football isn't about football at all, it's about drama. Cheap, nasty, drama. It's the same as how nobody who watches Survivor gives a shit about surviving, and people don't tune in to Hell's Kitchen to learn about food, they tune in to watch Gordon Ramsay take arrogant cooks down a notch by calling them stupid donkeys.
NFL games are only played two days a week, usually. The rest of the week, football fans that would turn up their nose at soap operas, reality shows and celebrity gossip will cluster excitedly around the water cooler to discuss the latest Tim Tebow faux pas.
Of which there are many.
Here's some things any spectator can watch while eating popcorn, even those who don't know a third down from, I don't know, a cat maybe?
#6. Cartoonish Heroes and Villains
You have to start with the villains here, as some of the most popular reality shows (and "reality" shows) are all villains, like The Hills and Jersey Shore, which apparently people watch by the millions just to stare at people they hate.
The same reason Grey's Anatomy promos keep promising you one of the characters is going to die.
This why people from around America will watch a Dallas Cowboys game, in the hope that someone gets hurt. Dallas is consistently the most hated team in the NFL, a phenomenon I have explored scientifically using charts.
All the stars aligned a few years ago when the NFL's most hated concentrated mass of douchiness, Terrell Owens signed with the Cowboys. When not publicly insulting his less famous teammates, or publicly outing the guy who throws him the ball so he can continue to make millions of dollars and who isn't gay, Owens is well known for classy touchdown celebrations like hurling snow at the fans, tearing down fan signs and dumping a fan's popcorn into his helmet. If this were reality TV, you would have immediately assumed it was staged.
And taking a nap on the field.
But the "showboating big-mouthed attention whore" villains are just the start. There's "frat boy bully from a movie" Philip Rivers, for instance.
Hey you guys, I heard LT used to be poor.
Seriously, just look at that face. When he isn't taunting opposing players, officials, or fans, he can often be seen yelling at his own teammates, because, according to many commentators, he is a real "competitor." I understand. You can't swear on the air. He is probably one of the biggest "competitors" in the NFL. But that's just my opinion, and opinions are like "competitors," everyone has one.
The point is, reality TV makes you wait an entire season to see Snooki get punched in the face. You get to see Rivers get crushed by multiple 300-pound men on a fairly regular basis every week and no one gets arrested.
Of course, it wouldn't be TV for stupid people without the heroic side of the overly simplistic and exaggerated morality play. Take the Saints in last year's Super Bowl, who got the same weepy, soft-focus, treatment that on reality TV is reserved for the last two people left on American Idol (and probably done by the same video production team.)
It's pretty simple, you add one lens flare for every hardship he has overcome.
It was a great story, but you don't need to single handily heal the wounds of Hurricane Katrina to get the hero treatment. Before the Saints, you had Kurt Warner, whose supposed true life story of personal struggles, dark tragedies, repeated rejections and persistence got boiled down to one retarded sound bite: "A bag boy dreamed hard enough that he became a quarterback one day."
"Attention shoppers! Our quarterback has just been injured! Can anyone here throw a football?"
#5. Heroes That Become Villains
Scientists have postulated that the juiciest celebrity story is when a once-beloved hero becomes a villain, as evidenced by the way every celebrity news outlet jumps on every landmark of Mel Gibson's descent into madness.
Brett Favre spent 16 seasons as the Green Bay Packers' quarterback, and giving white males between the ages of 18 and 65 a weekly boner. Then he decided to retire, and after everyone had gone through the five stages of grief, he decided to unretire.
After retiring and unretiring approximately 50 times over the next two years, while jumping teams and constantly making passive-aggressive comments to the media about his current and past teams, the one time hero was starting to come across as a real "competitor." It didn't help that the sports media, a notoriously risk averse bunch, fellated him verbally and jumped obediently to attention every time he said he was thinking about retiring or unretiring again.
A brief summary of Favre's career.
Not that we can blame them. Favre's return to Green Bay, as the star quarterback for their hated rivals, drew more viewers than the simultaneous World Series baseball game. He was booed heartily, at the stadium and through television screens everywhere, but unfortunately won.
Audiences were satisfied, however, when he lost to (and was injured by) the Saints in the NFC championship game. The only way it could have been more perfectly scripted was if Farve had revealed at the opening Coin Toss that he was Saints Quarterback Drew Brees's father.
#4. Sex Scandals
I know it's stupidly obvious to say that celebrity followers love a scandal, but the thing is, there are so many scandals these days that they've got to have that extra layer of stupid to get any attention. Like finding out that Jersey Shore's stereotyped Italians aren't even Italian.
Yeah, Chilean. I know, the once proud nation of Chile can't believe it either.
But the NFL has the best scandals. The best. And here "best" means "most ridiculous." Just when you've decided you don't want to read about any more football players running over people, buying hookers, or being arrested for drugs, someone like Plaxico Burress draws you in by getting shot in the leg. Oh no, not by someone else, you see, he was at a nightclub, and he of course had a gun in his sweatpants. It started to slip down his leg. So he had to catch it. And it went off while pointed at his leg. You know how it is. Could happen to anyone.
Even this level-headed fellow.
He learned his lesson: Don't wear sweatpants to a nightclub, you lazy slob. But he also had to serve time for carrying an unlicensed gun, and everyone knows prison can be tough, so he hired a prison coach to get him up to speed. Seriously.
But of course the real gold in the world of celebrity scandals is the sex scandal, and holy shit does the NFL deliver. You may remember the 2005 Minnesota Vikings "Sex Boat" (also a 1980 movie). The title is a little inaccurate, there were actually two boats. Seventeen Vikings players rented two boats and a metric ton of hookers, took the hookers on the boats and had a lot of sex. It was a simple plan.
The police first heard of it when a nearby homeowner called to say that "seven black men" were urinating in her yard. The team and NFL yelled at them a lot but all that came out of it was some fines and misdemeanor charges.
And then you have the lovely sideline reporters. Now, I'd never suggest that the NFL employs these women purely to facilitate sexy scandals, but it certainly hasn't hurt.
Sideline reporters are mostly women because football watchers are mostly men. Sideline reporters stand on the field near the players and ask them insightful questions during the game, like "How does it feel to be winning?" or "How does it feel to not be winning?"
Worst case scenario: male viewers have a nice-looking lady to look at. Best case scenario: a drunken NFL legend tries to kiss the reporter.
More recently, former sideline reporter Jenn Sterger was allegedly the victim of Brett Favre sexting, which blew up big time despite fairly sketchy evidence, because there was a sexy lady (yay), there was Brett Favre (boo) and there was the thought of someone sending someone else pictures of their dong while wearing nothing but Crocs (haha).
I bet you'd want to send a text message to that, amirite? I don't know. I'm just guessing here, I'm not a guy.


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If you've spent a fair amount of time on your DS or 3DS over the past few years then it's likely that you've crossed paths with the Professor Layton and Ace Attorney series at some point. The central cast of both these franchises will soon be converging in Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney where both puzzles and contradictions will give you plenty to mull over during this mysterious tale set against the backdrop of a medieval town called Labyrinth City.
Nintendo recently released a teaser trailer showcasing snippets of the game's beautifully crafted cutscenes produced by anime studio Bones. Check it out below:
Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney will be released on March 28th in PAL territories and later in the year elsewhere. Head over here for El33tonline's previous coverage of this highly anticipated crossover adventure game from Capcom and Level-5.
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text: 05 March 2012 archive See all show photos STELLA MCCARTNEY showed what must have been her best collection yet this morning, as the last few days of Paris Fashion Week – and possibly the most important ones – got underway. What a good way to start the week. Sporty, luxe and elegant, all at the same time, it was a lovely tight and focused collection full of wonderful oversized coats – which we have been seeing a lot of during Paris – with shots of electric blue and pink, flippy skirts and American-style varsity bomber jackets. Really beautiful skating dresses were strong, but not aggressive, and came cut-through with tweed. There was lots of white in mock croc details and electric blue mascara when it came to hair. Karlie Kloss was the epitome of Stella's strong, elegant woman in an pure blue skirt and a lean shirt. Stella knows how to dress women and always manages to strike the right balance between smart and sporty – and this collection was no different, honing in on that streamlined silhouette she does so well and wrapping it up in spongy fabrics and trompe l'oeil leaves, slouchy trousers that bagged at the crotch or those that were skinny, long and tight. Typical Stella, but taken up a notch, it was feminine and modern and, as Vogue's Lucinda Chambers, described "what everyone wants to wear right now". It's going to be a big year for Stella – her involvement with that little thing called the Olympics (she's the creative director of Adidas' Team GB collection) – and she's off to a good start. SEE THE STELLA MCCARTNEY SHOW ARCHIVE Join Stella McCartney at the first ever Vogue Festival in April. Buy your tickets here. Jessica Bumpus Continue reading Back to top


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Ebola and Breast Cancer
That caught your attention. To be clear, breast cancer does not lead to an Ebola infection nor does Ebola put you at increased risk for breast cancer. However, they share the importance of monitoring yourself and being vigilant to stay well.
With Ebola, if one has traveled to certain countries and develops symptoms, they need to seek medical attention to save their life.
With breast disease, if one detects a lump or a change, it is imperative to seek medical attention to save one's life.
Men as well as women can develop breast cancer, so men should not ignore changes.
You know your body better than anyone else, so you will be the best to detect subtle changes or irregularities. These changes will not be detectable overnight, but may arise over a period of a month. It is recommended that a particular day of the month; 1st, 15th or last day of the month be your day for self-examination. For women, it is best to schedule your self-exam several days after the last day of your menstrual cycle. It will be easiest to detect changes at that time.
Breast self-examination is easily performed by you in the shower with a liquid soap. It is important to include the entire breast, the area beneath the breast and the armpit. One should be one alert for a bloody discharge, or a different discharge and changes in the skin of the nipple. These nipple changes may be a rash, scaling or an unusual skin tag. You can visit Teton Valley Health Care's breast health information webpage for more information about self exams and general breast health. Teton Valley Hospital can also provide you additional information with diagrams to assist you.
Mammograms are an excellent partner for breast self-examination. This partnership is critical as approximately 15% of all breast cancers are not detectable by mammography. Current recommendations for mammograms begin at age 40 and at intervals of one to two years. If one waits until that age or the next mammogram to have a lump evaluated valuable time is lost, and options may radically change. Unfortunately, many are fearful of finding a lump or that if a lump is detected a biopsy will be necessary. The sooner one finds a cancer, the more options are available. Biopsies should not be feared. Today, most biopsies are performed under local anesthesia through a nick in the skin, with minimal discomfort and a tiny scar.
It is imperative that you do not ignore a potential change you may detect during a self-exam, and that your provider listens to your concerns.
In breast cancer: earlier is better than later, smaller is better than larger, know and trust what you body tells you.
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Miklos Szilagyi's curator insight, October 10, 2014 11:56 AM
Curation within curation... clever...:-)))
Jim Signorelli,Story-Lab's curator insight, July 2, 1:57 PM
Have you ever given a presentation that you thought was air-tight, yet ended up with no sale? The reason could be what's referred to "The Flaw of Rationality."
This article will show you what that is and how to counter it through storytelling.
Jim Signorelli is a business storytelling consultant/trainer and best-selling author on the subject of storytelling applied to business communication. Visit Jim's website at www.story-lab.net to learn more about his practice.
Art Jones's curator insight, July 29, 5:14 PM
This post contains many interesting quotes as shared by 15 great writers. #storytelling
Art Jones's curator insight, July 13, 10:41 AM
We humans have been sharing stories since the beginning of time. We've always known that stories have a captivating way of calling people to take action.
Today science provides us with proof of the power of story. This article dissects one short video and illustrates for us those scenes that evoke emotion and are stored into our long term memory and the parts we pass on.
Cathryn Wellner's curator insight, July 12, 11:29 AM
Good find, Karen Dietz! These videos are amazing and inspiring.
Russell Roberts's curator insight, July 3, 1:11 AM
Thanks to business marketing consultant Karen Dietz for this fascinating story of how Francis Scott Key created the words to "The Star Spangled Banner." By the way, the melody is based on an old drinking song called "To Anacreon in Heaven." Just part of our often strange American history.
Karen Dietz's comment, June 29, 4:34 PM
Thank you Karen. I always wrestle with this. Since the word is in the author's original title, there is something to preserving that instead of censoring it. Then you can decide on your own your view of the author. I appreciate the feedback though.
Karen Bowden's comment, June 29, 4:56 PM
It's funny. I was just talking to a young future writer this past weekend about this very topic. He and I are of the same opinion about profanity in many of today's online articles.
Karen Dietz's comment, June 29, 6:47 PM
Yes, it can be problematic. So often it's just for shock value, and nothing more. If it were my own article, I'd probably just say, "horse hockey" :)


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Endometrial Cancer and Inheritance
Please use for reference only.
Paul C. Liu, JD, MD and Allan J. Jacobs, MD
Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York
Last Modified: November 1, 2001
In 1996, endometrial carcinoma is the most common gynecological cancer and the fourth most frequently diagnosed cancer among American women. In 1991, approximately 33,000 new cases were diagnosed and some 5,500 deaths occurred (1). It is well established that prolonged exposure to unopposed estrogen; obesity; diabetes mellitus; and hypertension are risk factors in the development of endometrial cancer (2-5).
In addition to the traditional risk factors identified above, as early as 1966, Henry Lynch suggested that inheritance of certain genetic factors may also be a risk factor for the development of endometrial cancer (6). Lynch and his colleagues reviewed the charts of 154 patients with histologically documented endometrial cancer who were seen at Creighton University of Nebraska Hospital over a 20-year period. It was noted that 20 of 154 (13%) patients had one or more first degree relatives with endometrial cancer. In one family, three sisters had histologically confirmed endometrial cancer and in two families, a mother and daughter had endometrial cancer. In a separate study, Lynch et al. (7) examined the pedigree of two "cancer families" and noted that in one family of 147 members, there were 43 carcinoma of many different sites including the colon, endometrium and ovary. From this observation, Lynch postulated that development of some cancers may be more likely as a result of inheritance of certain genetic factors. In this manner, Lynch Type II familial cancer syndrome became described. Presently, this syndrome is also known as hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC).
It is unclear if there is a group of endometrial cancer patients who develop endometrial carcinoma as a result of genetic predisposition (inheritance of mutated genes). At this point it seems unlikely that site-specific inherited form of endometrial cancer exists. Instead, it appears that endometrial cancers associated with a genetic prediposition are a component of the HNPCC syndrome. Molecular studies have identified four genes which, when mutated, contribute to development of HNPCC (8-10). However, it is not entirely clear whether there is an inheritable genetic mutation that increases the risk of an individual for the development of endometrial cancer only, separate and distinct from the HNPCC pattern.
In 1992, Sandles et al. (11) performed pedigree analysis of 64 probands with endometrial cancer. The results showed that there were 4 families in which endometrial carcinoma was diagnosed in at least one first degree relative (mother, daughter, sister) of the proband, and none of whom had either colon or ovarian cancer. There were 4 other families in which first degree relatives of the proband had multiple carcinomas of the endometrium, colon, and ovary. From this data, Sandles concluded that there are at least two forms of inheritable endometrial cancer. The first form is an inheritable pattern as described by Lynch Type II familial cancer syndrome or HNPCC and the second form is an inheritable site-specific endometrial cancer, separate and distinct from Lynch II syndrome. Boltenberg et al. (12) in a pedigree analysis of 51 probands with endometrial cancer noted a similar pattern supporting the hypothesis that at least two genetic models may play a role in the development of endometrial cancer: The cancer family syndrome and a separate mutation leading to predisposition of endometrial cancer alone.
It is generally recognized that there are at least two major variants of endometrial cancer; one that tends to be estrogen dependent and one that is estrogen independent. The tumors that are associated with estrogen use usually demonstrate favorable characteristics, including lower grade tumors, earlier stage at diagnosis and fewer instances of myometrial invasion. Although the numbers were small, both Sandles and Boltenberg noted that the endometrial cancer occurring in families tended to be of poorer grade and more anaplastic, the so called "high risk" endometrial cancers, leading to decreased survival. In contrast, others have noted that familial endometrial cancer tended to occur in a younger population and with a more favorable prognosis (13, 14).
Development of cancer is a multi-step process. This has been supported by experimental, clinical and epidemiological observations. In 1971, Knudson in a seminal paper (15) proposed the "two mutation hypothesis". He postulated that retinoblastoma results from an inherited mutation and an acquired mutation, usually from exposure to environmental factors. This cumulative, two mutation hypothesis has become the basis of many subsequent genetic analysis models. From this conceptual framework, it has become apparent that certain individuals are in fact at increased risk of developing cancer by the virtue of already having inherited a mutation from the germ cell line such as the BRCA 1 mutation in breast cancer.
Based on the available data at the present, family history of endometrial cancer in a first degree relative may increase the risk of that individual in the development of endometrial cancer. While it had been postulated that there may be a mutation which is responsible for site-specific endometrial cancer, it is likely that a genetic disposition for the development of endometrial cancer stems from mutations associated with the HNPCC syndrome.
1. Boring, C.C., Squires, T.S. Cancer Statistics, 1991, Cancer J. Clin. 41, 19-36 (1991).
2. McDonald,T. et al. Exogenous estrogen and endometrial carcinoma: Case-control and incidence study Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. 127: 572, 1977.
3. Silverberg, S.G., Mullen, D., Faraci, J. et al. Endometrial Carcinoma: Clinical-Pathologic comparison of cases in postmenopausal women receiving and not receiving exogenous estrogen. Cancer 45 : 3018, 1980.
4. Hulka, B. et al. Estrogen and Endometrial Cancer: Cases and Two Control Groups from North Carolina Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. 137: 92, 1980.
5. Elliot, E. and Matanoski, G. Body Fat Patterning in Women with Endometrial Cancer, Gynecol. Oncol. 39, 253-258 (1990).
6. Lynch, H.T. et al. Endometrial Carcinoma: Multiple Primary Malignancies, Constitutional Factors, and Heredity. Am. J. Med Sci. 252 : 381 (1966).
7. Lynch, H.T., et al. Arch.Int. Med. 117, 206, 1966.
8. Risinger, J.I., Berchuck, A., Kohler, M.F., Watson, P., Lynch, H.T., and Boyd, J. Genetic Instability of microsatellites in endometrial carcinoma. Cancer Res., 53: 5100-5103, 1993.
9. Burks, R.T., Kessis, T.D., Cho, K.R., and Hedrick, L. Microsatellite instability in endometrial carcinoma. Oncogene, 9: 1163-1166, 1994.
10. Liu, B., Nicolaides, N.C., Markowitz, S., Wilson, J.K.V., Parsons, R.E., Jen, J., Papadopoulos, N., Peltomaki, P., de la Chapelle, A., Hamilton, S.R., Kinzler, K.W., and Vogelstein, B. Mismatch repair gene defects in sporadic colorectal cancers with microsatellite instability. Nat. Genet., 9 : 48-55, 1995.
11. Sandles, L.G., Shulman, L.P., Elias, S., Photopolus, G. J., Smiley, L.M., Posten, W.M., and Simpson, J.L. Endometrial Adenocarcinoma : Genetic Analysis Suggesting Heritable Site-Specific Uterine Cancer, Gynecol Oncol 47, 167-171 (1992).
12. Boltenberg, A., Furgyik, S., and Kullander, S. Familial cancer Aggregation in Cases of Adenocarcinoma Corporis Uteri, Acta Obstet. Gynecol. Scand. 69, 249-258 (1990).
13. Watson, P., Vasen, H.F.A., Mecklin, J.P., Tarvinen, H., Lynch, H.T. Risk of Endometrial Cancer in Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer Am. J. Med. 96 : 516-520 (1994).
14. Vasen, H.F.A., Watson, P., Mecklin, J.P., Jass, J.R., Green, J.S., Nomizu, T., Muller, H., Lynch, H.T. Epidemiology of endometrial cancer in hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer Anticancer Res 14 : 1675-1678 (1994).
15. Knudson, A.G. Mutation and Cancer: Statistical Study of Retinoblastoma Pro. Nat. Acad. Sci. vol. 68. No. 4, pp820-823 (1971).


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My rep went over 2,000 today which meant I could edit other people's posts. Great! Then I added a bounty to a previous question, which brought me back down to 1,984...and I can no longer edit other posts. Should this changed? Or is this ideal?
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
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What's the point of putting your reputation on the line for a bounty if there is no consequence of losing it?
Based on Jeff's explanation of the community and hit points and privileges it sounds like SO does not work correctly.
The way it works now a user is to be trusted LESS for giving away bounty points - even though he is participating even more in the community. Jeff has repeatedly stated that hitpoints and privileges are an indicator of how much the site "Trusts" a user.
I'd argue that once you reach a threshold it is more consistent with Jeff's statements that the privileges be left intact even if the hitpoints go below that threshold.
For example - if a user has 12000 hitpoints and then decides to give away 10000 in bounty for a bunch of questions, how does this affect their level of commitment to the site and the community's level of trust? It shouldn't.
I think the functionality is broken.
In reality this is probably not a big deal. No one is spending that much on bounties and most people will continue to gain hitpoints and will not likely lose so much that they can't get back to where they were in short order.
Again, fundamentally, the current policy is inconsistent with Jeff's comments on hitpoints and privileges .
From the description of privileges, it says that reputation is a measure of:
Placing a bounty on a question doesn't change any of these above characteristics. Therefore, retracting any privilege in this case doesn't make sense to me.
Most privileges are offered to empower the person to make even larger contributions to the community, and the hope is that (s)he has gained the trust to do so appropriately. Just because (s)he has placed a bounty on a question doesn't make him/her any "less trustworthy".
On the other hand, if your reputation decreases because of poor questions/answers (or similar), then it is true that your trust within the community and the quality of your answers has decreased, and so should your reputation points and privileges.
Perhaps there should be a finer distinction made between the two cases?
I don't think this should be changed. If you drop below a specific threshold I do not believe that you should continue to have those abilities. If it was just a fluke occurrence, it should not be difficult to get yourself boosted back up above the mark again.
I think that it's ideal. That way, if somebody's gotten up to 2,000 rep, and then all of the sudden gets downvoted to oblivion (or Bolivian, depending on your preference), then they should lose that editing privilege.
However, you did do this to yourself, which remains slightly amusing. I'll give you a +1 to get back to that point, though, since distinguishing between voting and bounty rep may be a good idea, as has been brought up by folks who hit the rep cap quickly after garnering a bounty in the morning.
I'd think it fair -- after all, if you'd lost the reputation through a string of downvoting, where the community is showing they're losing faith, it would seem silly to retain "superpowers" (read: extra features entrusted to the more widely respected members of the community)
I think there's a key point here that everyone is missing, which is the purpose of a bounty. It is to give one answer otherwise-undue attention – to override the system by which questions are normally sorted, by votes.
Every time you place a bounty on a question, you are giving it an advantage over other questions of the same quality or thoughtfulness, and you are attracting attention that could be spent on other questions instead.
In short, it's a selfish thing to do – a bounty makes the site more useful for the person who placed it and probably no-one else. So I'm quite happy to penalise them for prioritising their own interests over others'.
If everyone placed more bounties, the bounty system would become less useful, so we need some way of limiting its use.
Look at it like this: you get to choose whether for 2000 rep you get the privilege of editing questions, or you get the privilege of making a question of your choice more visible.
It should be like Phase-locked loop.
Say you cross reputation score of 2000 and you got edit privileges. These privileges should remain unless you go below 1800. And those will be granted again at 2000.
By my opinion, it would be more natural if the privileges are persistent once gained. The user is given privileges once he was "tested" by the community, for being trustworthy. He has to spend some time at the site to gain reputation and see how it works.
Once we consider person trustworthy, what makes him untrustworthy when he spends his reputation on bounties? Does he become a beginner then? Will he suddenly forget everything he learned at SO?
P.S.: I would understand it for negative points from downvotes (or penalties, if there are any). But when placing bounties.... or when your answers are migrated (I don't know if you lose points in this situation) I don't really see any reason to lose privileges.
From my point of view I prefer KISS at it is.
I gain rep for constructive and well fitting answers.
Referring to first statement "simple": It needs much more tracking and a more complex database on any different way like now. What for? Some rare moments I had also myself, when I got privilege to comment everywhere, gave a stupid answer, lost some rep and had to write next comment as answer. Well, don't lost anything I care. Later got new rep.
Feature-request: make privileges remain after placing bounties. Reputation and total offered reputation should be summarized and then privileges calculated.
For example, it is important for me because I would have as many privileges as 4,440 rep user. The rep I offer is my rep, I don't lose it because of downvotes, for example. I give it.


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Jacuzzi SIA6636BCXXXXY Oyster 66" x 36" Sia® Drop In Soaking Bathtub with Center Drain
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Technical Specs
|Installation Guide
|Specification Sheet
|Jacuzzi University
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|Basic Controls
|Capacity (Gallons)
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|Drain Placement
|Installation Type
|Drop In, Undermount
|LCD Controls
|Luxury Controls
|Luxury Whirlpool
|Made in America
|Number Of Bathers
|Overflow Height
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|Pure Air
|Salon Spa
|Self Leveling Base
|Sound Dampening
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- 66"L x 36"W x 25"H
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A traditional bathing experience is the foundation of hydrotherapy and is as simple as being enveloped in warm water. Jacuzzi's® classic Italian designs provide the perfect vessel for this treatment. Jacuzzi's® soaking tubs will enhance your bathroom and more importantly improve your quality of life. The traditional Soaking bath is a non jetted, non Pure Air® tub.
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- Tub Does not Come Pre-Drilled with Faucet Holes - Mounting on tub lip or surround is OK and will not void warranty.
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- Installation Types - Drop in, undermount, alcove, corner, freestanding, walk-in
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- Bath Therapy Types (Experiences) - Soaking, Pure Air®, Whirlpool, Salon Spa
- Pump and Drain Placement - The relationship between the two
- Lighting - Chromatherapy, Illumatherapy
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Our SKU: SIA6636 BCX XXX
This product is listed under the following manufacturer number(s):
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*Denotes a finish or option that has been discontinued
6 Questions from the Community
The recommended drain assembly for the Jacuzzi SIA6636 BCX XXX is a Jacuzzi HP55.
Can you recommend an overflow and drain for this tub in nickel finish?
A. The recommended drain assembly for the Jacuzzi SIA6636 BCX XXX is a Jacuzzi HP55.
The part number for the drain you will need is HP55. I went ahead and sent you a quote in your email well you an open it and see both the tub and the drain. You can order it directly through the quote! My contact info will be below if you would like to place it over the phone with me! Thanks.
Does drain have to be ordered separately? If so, what is (are) the part number(s)?
A. The part number for the drain you will need is HP55. I went ahead and sent you a quote in your email well you an open it and see both the tub and the drain. You can order it directly through the quote! My contact info will be below if you would like to place it over the phone with me! Thanks.
The deck width is 5".
How many inches is the lip around the tub?
A. The deck width is 5".
The Jacuzzi SIA6636 BCX XXX has a height of 24"
what is depth
A. The Jacuzzi SIA6636 BCX XXX has a height of 24"
The Jacuzzi SIA6636 BCX XXX is a soaking tub, there is no air pump or jets.
Can this tub be provided as tub only, no air system
A. The Jacuzzi SIA6636 BCX XXX is a soaking tub, there is no air pump or jets.
The Jacuzzi SIA6636 BCX XXX inside measurement is 42.5"L x 22"W.
What are the dimensions of the tub basin at the bottom of the tub?
The Jacuzzi SIA6636 BCX XXX inside measurement is 42.5"L x 22"W.
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Jacuzzi Whirlpool Bath (Jacuzzi) provides a limited warranty to the consumer. The warranty applies to the bath, pump, motor and most attached fittings and plumbing. In general, Jacuzzi, without charge, will repair or replace (at their option) any new unit or component which proves defective in material or workmanship or does not operate in accordance with written performance specifications stated on the unit. Their warranty has specific limitations.
Excluded from their warranty are certain damages including but not limited to shipping damage; damage occurring during or after installation; damage resulting from installation or use not in accordance with our published instructions and specifications for the product; damage from use of chemicals bath oil additives, or improper cleaning agents; incidental or consequential damages or losses, and damages from product modifications, careless handling or product use for other than personal, family or household purposes. Nor is Jacuzzi responsible for minor blemishes, pitting or crazing or for cost incurred in the removal and/or installation of a unit.
Their warranty does not cover damage or loss resulting from modification. A copy of their entire warranty is available from any of their authorized Dealers and Distributors. They urge each prospective consumer to read their warranty carefully to assure that they enjoy the full benefits of the protection their warranty provides and understands its limitations, the purchase's obligations, and the obligations of other. Be sure to check for local code compliance.


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Let $\langle M_i:i<\theta\rangle$ be an increasing chain of Banach spaces, where each $M_i$ has density character $\mu$ (i.e.,the mininum cardinality of a dense subset of $M_i$ is $\mu$). Let $B_i\subset M_i$ be a dense subset of $M_i$ of cardinality $B_i$. Notice that $\bigcup_{i<\theta}B_i$ is a dense subset of $\overline{\bigcup_{i<\theta}M_i}=:M$, so $density-character(M)\le \mu$. Is it possible to prove that $density-character(M)=\mu$? Thank you.
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If $X$ is any metric space and $Y$ is any subspace of $X$ then $dc(Y) \leq dc(X)$.


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Application server performance on the Sun X2270 and X4170
By Kevin Kelly on Apr 20, 2009
These new platforms used open source software components such as the OpenSolaris 2008.11 Operating System, Sun GlassFish V2.1 Application Server, and MySQL 5.1 Database Server to obtain this benchmark result. These software components can be freely downloaded from http://www.sun.com. The Sun Java JDK 1.6.0_14 Performance Release is expected to be available for download June 2009.
This blog describes some details of the configuration.
Benchmark ConfigurationThe following diagram illustrates the configuration used to achieve this result:
Application Server Configuration Summary:Sun Fire X2270
\* 2x 2.93GHz Intel Xeon X5570
\* 24 GB memory
\* 1x 10GbE Dual Port NIC
\* 2x Gbit NIC (onboard)
\* 4x 500 GB SATA disks
\* OpenSolaris 2008.11
\* Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server V2.1
\* JDK 1.6.0_14 Performance Release
Database Server Configuration Summary:Sun Fire X4170
\* 2x 2.93GHz Intel Xeon X5570
\* 48 GB memory
\* 1x 146Gb 10K RPM SAS disk
\* 1x 10GbE Dual Port NIC
\* 4x GBit NIC (onboard)
\* 1x Dual Port FC/AL card
\* 1x Sun StorageTek 2540 FC Array
\* OpenSolaris 2008.11
\* MySQL 5.1.30 Database Server
Application Server Configuration DetailsThe Sun Fire X2270 was configured using Solaris Containers into 4 separate zones to host 4 separate GlassFish application server instances. Solaris Containers is a virtualization technology in Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris which enable consolidation of multiple applications to improve system utilization and system efficiency.
The processes from two zones were bound to a processor set, consisting of 4 cores (1 chip) using the command "psrset -b PSET PID". The processes in the other 2 zones, were left to run on the remaining 4 cores on the second cpu chip and referred to as the default processor set.
The processor ID numbers for the processor set are obtained using the command "psrinfo -vp" and assigned to the processor set using the command "psrset -c [list of processor ids]". Each core in the Xeon X5570 supports 2 threads which are represented in Solaris as separate processor IDs. The list of running processes for each zone were obtained using the command "pgrep -z ZONENAME.
This binding technique of processes to a processor set in this way, enables the system to make efficient use of system resources for better performance. By running an application server process in a processor set consisting of 1 processor chip, the process is able to benefit by accessing memory local to the processor as well as the 8MB cache in the cpu chip.
To handle the network traffic between the driver systems and the 4 application server instances, a 10GbE dual port network card was configured in the Sun Fire X2270, where both ports were connected to the 10Gbit switch as shown in the diagram above. Two 1 Gbit network connections were configured on the X2270 system to handle the network traffic for the database transactions.
Each of the zones was configured with 2 separate virtual or logical network interfaces. Two zones shared one of 2 ports on the physical 10Gbit NIC and the other 2 zones shared the second port on the 10Gbit NIC for one of the virtual network interfaces for the transaction requests from the driver systems. On the database side, two zones shared separate 1 Gbit NICs for the other virtual network interface. The information to implement this network configuration is included in the full disclosure file for this benchmark result.
Each application server instance was configured to use the Sun Hotspot JVM JDK 1.6.0_14 Performance Release soon to be available for download from java.sun.com. Each JVM was run in the FX scheduling class using the command "priocntl -e -c FX [command]" when starting the application server instance. This benchmark result used the 64-bit version of the JVM.
Tuning of the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1 included sizing of the application server threads and JDBC connections, GlassFish parameters and JVM options. This information is also included in the benchmark report full disclosure file.
The following system and network tunings were applied:
System Tuning in /etc/system:
set ddi_msix_alloc_limit=8
set pcplusmp:apic_multi_msi_max=8
set pcplusmp:apic_msix_max=8
set pcplusmp:apic_intr_policy=1
Network Tuning:
ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_conn_req_max_q 16384
ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_conn_req_max_q0 16384
ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_xmit_hiwat 524288
ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_recv_hiwat 524288
ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_naglim_def 1
Additional details on tuning options can be found at:
Database Server Configuration Details:The Sun X4170 was configured with MySQL 5.1.30 database server which is a multi-threaded single process and run in the FX scheduling class using the command "priocntl -s -c FX -i pid [process ID of mysqld]".
The database storage consisted of a Sun StorageTek 2540 FC array and was configured to host the database files and transaction logs using the ZFS filesystem.
Configuration and tuning parameters for the MySQL 5.1.30 database were implemented using the file /etc/my.cnf which is included in the benchmark disclosure form.
Two of the 4 onboard network controllers on the X4170 were connected directly to the application server for the database transactions. The Sun X4170 used the same system and network tunings as the application server listed above.
The database system also acted as a DNS server, to enable the workload to be distributed across the four application server instances using round-robin DNS.
Benchmark Description:SPECjAppServer2004 (Java Application Server) is a multi-tier benchmark for measuring the performance of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology-based application servers. SPECjAppServer2004 is an end-to-end application which exercises all major J2EE technologies implemented by compliant application servers as follows:
\* The web container, including servlets and JSPs
\* The EJB container
\* EJB2.0 Container Managed Persistence
\* JMS and Message Driven Beans
\* Transaction management
\* Database connectivity
Disclosure Statement:
Sun Fire X2270 (2 chips, 8 cores) 2925.18 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
SPEC, SPECjAppServer reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
Results from www.spec.org as of 4/20/09.


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Naftopidil has affinity for both α1A- and α1D-adrenoreceptors for the treatment of benign prostatic obstruction and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) associated with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). It was originally developed as an α-adrenoceptor antagonistic anti-hypertensive drug. It has been evaluated in both prazosin-controlled and double-blind-controlled trials in Japan that verified dose-dependent effects, and therefore has had an indication for treatment of BPH in Japan, China, and South Korea. Several tamsulosin-controlled trials have suggested a potentially higher efficacy for alleviating storage symptoms with naftopidil. The optimal dose is 50-75mg per day according to characteristics including baseline IPSS. Well-designed randomized trials are warranted to confirm long-term outcomes regarding management of men with storage symptoms including nocturia, through comparisons of quality of life measures with other α-adrenergic blockers.
Reference: Hara N, Mizusawa T, Obara K, Takahashi K. The role of naftopidil in the management of benign prostatic hyperplasia. Ther Adv Urol 2013;5(2)111-119.


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6 'Based on a True Story' Movies with Unpleasant Epilogues
When Hollywood has exhausted its creativity producing prequels and sequels, it often turns to unbelievable real-life events for inspiration. Unfortunately, as we've pointed out twice before, many of these stories are total bullshit.
That doesn't mean every single one is fantasy -- in fact, some of the most notable "true life" movies are relatively factual. Unfortunately, however, these amazing stories often have terrible aftermaths that even Hollywood wouldn't dare to film.
#6. Erin Brockovich's Firm Kept Millions That Could Have Gone to Victims
The Story You Saw: Erin Brockovich
Julia Roberts, venturing outside of her comfort zone by playing someone we're supposed to like, is Erin Brockovich, an unemployed and divorced mother of three. She gets a low-level job as a clerk at a law firm and devotes herself to standing up for the little guy.
With no legal training to speak of and a closet full of shirts that push her breasts out like they haven't paid rent in three months, she proceeds to bring a huge class-action lawsuit against major gas company PG&E for poisoning the water supply of Hinkley, California. Erin and her boss, Ed, work tirelessly to bring justice for the town's residents, and in the end, Brockovich wins $333 million for 648 residents and receives a $2 million bonus check.
"Wow. Guess I can pay Richard Gere back for those clothes. Too bad I still dress like a hooker."
The Unpleasant Epilogue
As soon as she received that check, the real-life Brockovich became exactly like the film's rich-dick villains, only richer and dickier, like when Shredder turned into Super Shredder.
Instead of taking PG&E to court in full view of the public, Brockovich's firm convinced the residents of Hinkley to settle through private arbitration, where everything would be secret and the lawyers were basically accountable to nobody. After settling on the $333 million, the money wasn't given to the townspeople to pay for their medical bills until six months later. That's how long Erin's firm held onto the cash, giving the lawyers just enough time to have their way with each and every $100 bill.
"The money needed time to marinate. In our juices."
When Hinkley's residents contacted Erin about their concerns ("concerns" is a term that here means "money for our cancer bills"), they found that their one-time advocate was now unreachable. Once they finally received the money, they noticed that it was far less than they expected. That's because the law firm, wanting more than the agreed-upon 40 percent of the settlement ($133 million), took an extra $10 million for "expenses."
Then, in an act that would make Satan himself issue a public apology, Brockovich's firm screwed the kids with cancer by taking a third of their settlements, even though it's an extraordinarily unusual and universally frowned upon practice to take more than 25 percent. Hinkley's residents also noticed that there was no rationale behind how much money each resident received, but the rules of private arbitration prevented them from finding out the formula used to determine the settlements.
"We just shoot babies at random numbers and jot down the results."
In the meantime, Brockovich has used the movie's portrayal of herself to launch successful careers as an environmental activist and motivational speaker, although we're assuming she leaves the whole "ripping off cancer patients" thing out.
Clubbing baby seals on her days off probably gets a mention, though.
#5. The Moneyball Guy Gives His Formula to the Competition, Starts Losing
The Story You Saw: Moneyball
Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) is the brilliant general manager of the Oakland Athletics who hates every piece of furniture he comes into contact with.
"Fuuuuuuuck ..."
"... yoooooooou!"
Beane is tasked with assembling a winning team despite having the third-lowest payroll in the league. Realizing that he is totally screwed by every conventional definition of the term, Beane adopts a radical new method of evaluating players called sabermetrics, a system that values statistical analysis over the traditional practice of sitting around and deciding which guy looks best in uniform.
"He's got the ass of a champion!"
Ridiculed by industry professionals at every turn, the A's eventually prevail, winning 103 games during the regular season and earning a spot in the playoffs. Despite not making it to the World Series, Beane's fancy book-learning theories gain recognition for their genius and he flips over the entire inventory of an Office Depot in celebration.
The Unpleasant Epilogue
After the struggling Athletics made the playoffs three years in a row, other teams got suspicious and wanted to figure out exactly what Beane was up to. Evidently eager to help them out, Beane authorized the publication of a 288-page book, Moneyball, which provided some very specific details about Beane's thought process throughout the 2002 season. And by specific details, we mean it explained which statistics he thought were the most important and why, which players he liked and didn't like, his trading strategies and the ways he inflated the values of his players. It would be like Coca-Cola hand-delivering its secret formula to Pepsi, or the Weekly World News disclosing its investigative techniques to the CIA.
"In our research we found that KFC's special ingredient is just ground up baseballs and dead mascots."
Not surprisingly, other teams began to use the same strategies outlined in the book. Nine teams hired sabermetric analysts following Moneyball's publication. This included not only poor teams that were looking to level the playing field, but also some of baseball's richest franchises, like the Mets, Red Sox and Yankees.
Pictured: The Yankees, winning one for the little guys.
Predictably, the Athletics began to suck really fast, making the playoffs only once since 2003 and ranking among the worst in the league for the last five years. Despite this, their payroll actually increased and is now only the 10th worst in the league. Moneyball's author, Michael Lewis, has openly admitted that the book "probably cost the A's an opportunity or two," which is something that he maybe should have mentioned before the book was written.
#4. Oskar Schindler Becomes a Failure
The Story You Saw: Schindler's List
Oskar Schindler, as played by Liam Neeson, is a money-obsessed industrialist in early 1940s Germany. His munitions factory is poised to make a killing using free Jewish labor when Schindler suddenly snaps out of the money-induced coma he's been in for the previous five years and realizes that his free work force is made up of real, actual human beings who are being exterminated by the Nazi regime.
"Wow, Jewish people come in technicolor now."
Schindler then does everything in his power to collect as many Jews as he can to work in his factories and keep them protected, including making friends with Lord Voldemort. By war's end, Schindler has saved over 1,000 Jews, has spent all of his money and is a shoe-in for sainthood on the first ballot. However, since he is ostensibly a member of the Nazi Party, Schindler is considered a war criminal by the Allies and is forced to flee to avoid capture, presumably in a van with Bradley Cooper and Quinton "Rampage" Jackson.
"I love it when a plan falls apart in a mess of misunderstandings."
The Unpleasant Epilogue
OskarSchindler.com sensitively describes Schindler's post-war life as "a long series of failures," which might be the gentlest euphemism since your parents "took Barkley to the farm." Despite Schindler's remarkable feats, he was only known to the rest of the world as one of the many ex-Nazis who were not to be trusted. He was unemployed for a long time and survived solely on the care packages sent to him by the people he had saved.
Eventually he was given full welfare from the Joint Distribution Committee, a Jewish relief organization, and after receiving some not-too-pleasant love letters from embittered former Nazis, Schindler left for Buenos Aires to start a farm. He brought along his wife, some of the Jews he saved and his mistress, which must have been history's most awkward plane ride next to the one that carried home all the survivors of that rugby team from Alive.
"Hey baby, what's a nice girl like you doing in a -- oh God, never mind. Really sorry. Hey, have a job."
Growing crops and raising pigs proved too challenging for the man who fooled the most oppressive regime in history by running a munitions factory that never produced a single shell, and the farm quickly went bankrupt. Schindler packed his bags and flew back to Europe, stranding his wife and mistress in Argentina without so much as saying "Adios." In fact he never spoke to or saw his wife ever again.
"I'm gone. Hook up with Mengele or something."
Back in Europe, Schindler tried to establish a cement factory, but that also went bankrupt. He continued to bum around like a hobo, surviving on nothing but donations and care packages from Jewish people, because telling Oskar Schindler to get his shit together would be like telling Gandhi to eat a McDouble.
"Wait, you're in this movie, too?"
Don't take any of this to mean we're diminishing what he did during the war -- the sad epilogue in Schindler's life actually makes his heroism during the Holocaust all the more remarkable. This was not a particularly competent or driven or talented man -- he had no other successes to his name. But goddamn did the guy step up when the human race needed him to.


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7 Nov 2011 5:35 AM #1
Unanswered: Parse error - There is a problem parsing the package
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I have created Android application using PhoneGap and Sencha Touch 1.1
When I test the application, on several phones I get an error:
Parsing Error:
There is a problem parsing the package
What could be the problem?
The OS of the phone that throws error:
* Android 2.1 upgraded from 1.6
* Android 2.3.3
Application is compiled to work on Android v2.1
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This seems to be because of PhoneGap and the packaging it does. Can't really help with that info.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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It may be because of the way you send the app to the phone. I used to use email and Android Mail app to read the apk. It used to work but since the last update of the app, it doesn't. However Gmail works fine.
9 Jul 2012 9:51 PM #4
yes this problem occurs when we send our mail through gmail or any mail system and download it through android app, I have seen these problem on Android version 2.1 with native development as well.
15 Oct 2013 12:38 AM #5
Fixed Parsing error
I have also faced this problem, in my case its because of the androidAPILevel, in my packager.json file i gave api version 17 bug my phone is only 15, so i got a error message "There is problem in parsing the package".


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There are many questions here on how to enter the field of IT Security. What are some reasons why people have left or are trying to get out of an IT Security position? This may be useful to know in figuring out whether this is a good career path.
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Because they feel they have found something more interesting to do. Maybe they find developing something a lot more fun or they have shifter more towards management and they end up being in a broader position. For instance CSO to CIO.


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The Berenstain Bears' New Kitten (Library Binding)
Brother Bear may have gone looking for bullfrogs, but he found a tiny, helpless kitten instead. After Mama Bear gets the new kitten all cleaned up, the Bear family is ready to adopt her as long as Little Lady, the puppy, doesn't mind.
With a little extra love, the Berenstains are sure their pets will be great friends The Berenstains are charmed by this little kitten, and beginning readers will be, too
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Since their inception, the Berenstain Bears stories have expanded to include picture books, beginning readers, and chapter bookseven a hit TV show on PBS. Writing and illustrating the books has become a Berenstain family affair. Mike joined with his parents as a creative team in the late 1980s. The Bear family has expanded over the years as well. Sister Bear arrived in 1974, and baby Honey joined the family in 2000.
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Icons - More Variety?
Loving the system, here is something that could help.
I know this is a work in progress, hopefully this helps in some respect...
There are a few things I do not like about the Project Inspector / Icons.
- Icons change to Folders
- Very not helpful, the arrow is enough to show sub-items
- Here are some that change
- Controllers ( add any behavior )
- Stores ( add a Proxy )
- select fields ( add a behavior )
- Similar icons
- Some more differences in icons would help
- Something like the stores? With the {} and <> and such...
- Here are some ideas
- Behaviors - Use the f, change the x
- a for application
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- e for basic event
- c for controller
- r for reference
- d for delegate event binding
- Validation
- similar to stores, overlay some "text"
- add a @ for email validation
- add a - for exclusion
- add a + for inclusion
- Models
- add a 1 for has one
- add a + for has many
- add a 123 for sequential generator
- Proxies
- add the same overlays as the similar stores?
- Behaviors - Use the f, change the x
- Icons change to Folders
25 Jan 2012 11:33 PM #2
Thank you! this is actually quite good, I'm going to pass this feedback to the artist that's working on a complete new set of icons for the toolbox.--
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27 Jan 2012 7:44 AM #3
Yes as always artistan good feedback.
The folders indicate we haven't added a custom icon yet and should be resolved close or at open Beta launchPhil Strong
31 Jan 2012 5:00 AM #4
Loving the new icons in build 257.
I would still recommend customizing the Proxies since they can be applied to Models. On a store it is obvious which proxy they would be, but not on a model.
Custom icons for the Data Model Validations would be nice also.
Thanks for all the excellent tweaks/updates!!!!
I really like the...
- collapsible filters
- hide option on the Toolbar
- New view changing toolbar (little bright though)
- Grouping icons for...
- Controllers
- Views
- Stores
- Models
- Shrink to Fit!!!
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Khloe Kardashian said she told her "The X Factor" co-host, Mario Lopez, to make sure to spend time alone with his bride at their wedding.
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George Marcus, associate professor of physics (center), works with senior physics majors Sara Gearhart and Jacob Wirth in the department's optics lab. Geneseo surpassed all other undergraduate institutions in the country in the number of graduates majoring in physics in 2011-12, according to American Institute of Physics data.
GENESEO, N.Y. – SUNY Geneseo's Department of Physics and Astronomy awarded more bachelor's degrees in physics during the 2011-12 academic year than any other physics departments in the country in which a bachelor's is the highest physics degree offered, according to recently compiled data by the American Institute of Physics.
Geneseo graduated 33 physics majors during the year – besting the U.S. Naval Academy, which had 31 and other colleges, including several well-known private institutions. It marks the third time since the 1987-88 school year that Geneseo has graduated more than 30 students with a physics degree.
"We have built a strong department over the years with faculty who are both outstanding researchers and teachers," said Charlie Freeman, chair of the department, who was honored this year with a SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. "Good teaching attracts good students and we are pleased to see our major growing and so many of our students excelling in either graduate school, industry or other fields requiring physics training."
About two-thirds of Geneseo physics graduates proceed to graduate school immediately after graduation, contributing to Geneseo's ranking of fifth in the nation among its master's school peers in the number of STEM graduates (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) who earned doctorates between 2001-10. The department has more than 200 majors and nine full-time faculty members.
Geneseo physics students regularly participate in undergraduate research, both on campus and at other labs around the country. The college has one of the few particle accelerators at a liberal arts college, allowing undergraduate students to get hands-on experience in a state-of-the-art laboratory. The department also boasts a 20-inch reflecting telescope, mounted on the rooftop of the Integrated Science Center.
Among Geneseo's prominent physics alumni are Brian DeMarco from the Class of 1996, associate professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who, at the age of 25, earned recognition in 1999 for helping to discover a new form of matter, and Ben Kilminster from the Class of 1987, associate professor at the University of Zurich, featured in the film "The Atom Smashers," for his research regarding the Higgs boson, or so-called "God particle."
Two physics department faculty members have been named SUNY distinguished teaching professors within the past six years: Kurt Fletcher and Stephen Padalino. A third faculty member, David Meisel, was named a SUNY distinguished professor of computational astrophysics in 2001. He retired in 2005 but continues his academic work, including recently co-authoring a textbook for undergraduate students titled "Astrophysics through Computation." Professor Emeritus Jerry Reber was named a SUNY distinguished teaching professor in 1995.
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Is learnt UK English and learned US? Is it that simple?
I'm used to using learnt, but my US spellchecker says it is wrong.
Is learnt UK English and learned US? Is it that simple?
I'm used to using learnt, but my US spellchecker says it is wrong.
Merriam-Webster marks learnt as "chiefly British", and Wiktionary as "UK", adding that learned is the "Standard US English spelling". Quoting a linguist's comment from elsewhere,
So it's not like learnt is completely unheard of in Americal English, but learned has always been more popular, and according to the COHA timetable, the usage of learnt has been on a more or less steady decline since 1820:
(X axis: year, Y axis: incidences per million words.)
Nowadays, according to the Corpus of Contemporary American English, learnt is most popular in the context of fiction and academic publications, and least popular in newspapers:
What's more, even the British National Corpus has more cites for learned than for learnt. The stats look as follows:
It is worth noting that Merriam-Webster, Wiktionary, the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, and Collins English Dictionary all list learned as both a verb form and an adjective, but learnt only as a verb form.
Lastly, here's a related question: Dreamed vs. Dreamt, Leaped vs. Leapt, Lighted vs. Lit.
In American English, "learned" is the usual spelling; "learnt" is too rare.
In British English, both "learned" and "learnt" exist for the verb, but the adjective (as in "the learned professor") is always "learned". (Sometimes, especially archaically, "learnèd".)