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New Record of the Giant Timber Flies (Diptera: Pantophathalmidae) from Sartenejas Valley, Miranda, Venezuela
Humberto Carvajal-Chitty1, *, Aivlé C. Cabrera G.2
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:Year: 2019
Volume: 7
First Page: 21
Last Page: 24
Publisher Id: TOBIOJ-7-21
Article History:Received Date: 14/03/2019
Revision Received Date: 22/06/2019
Acceptance Date: 04/07/2019
Electronic publication date: 31/07/2019
Collection year: 2019
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Giant timber fly Pantophthalmus bellardii (Austen 1923) have been collected at 1200 meters above sea level, at Sartenejas Valley, a campus of the Universidad Simón Bolívar, Miranda State, Venezuela. Giant timber flies are very difficult to find in nature and rarer yet in the urban environments. Their biology and interactions with environmental variables are virtually unknown. In Venezuela, these flies have been observed from 100 to 1100 meters above sea level. This record extends the geographical distribution of this rare timber fly within Venezuelan territory. An updated distribution map for P. bellardii in Venezuela is provided.
Pantophathalmidae or giant timber flies are among the largest Diptera, with wingspan up to 10 cm [1-3]. Giant timber flies (Diptera: Pantophathalmidae) are very rare [1] and are endemic in Neotropical region [2]. Actually, only 20 valid species are recognized in two genera: Opetiops (Enderlei, 1921) and Pantophthalmus (Thunberg 1919) [2,3]. Tradi tionally, large size has been the most notable characteristic trait of the Pantophathalmidae.
Giant timber flies are living on dead or still alive trees [2] on which their larvae feed of accumulated organic matter or the wood fermentation products. The adults emerge for the reproduction only and are aphagus (do not feed past larval stage).
Their regional geographical distribution has been covered by Val [4] and recently Amat [5] has added important data about Panthopthalmidae distribution in Mexico and their biology in the Red Oak forest (for Pantophthalmus roseni (Enderlein 1931) within Mexico. Pujol-Luz and Souto Morgado [2] offer new data about Pantophthalmus pictus (Wiedeann 1821) records from central Brazil. Despite the recent progress on giant timber flies studies, very little information is available regarding their distribution in Venezuela.
Here we are reporting a rare case of the Pantophthalmidae urban record in Venezuela. Such record was made for the first time for Pantophthalmus bellardii for Sartenejas Valley (Miranda, Venezuela) at 1.200 meters above sea level [3], at the campus of Universidad Simón Bolívar (Fig. 1).
1.1. Collected Material
The University is inside a valley surrounded by evergreen primary forest. The main campus is encircled by the plantations of Pinus caribea, P. pseudostrobus and P.patula [6]. Nowadays, it is a very stable conifer forest that keeps the climate constant and protects the original forest.
Two specimens of Pantophthalmus bellardii (Austen 1923) [3], a male and a female, (Fig. 2) were found dead on the roof of the Química y Procesos building (QYP) at the central area of the campus.
The genus identification was done by Dr. Torsten Dikow, (Research Entomologist for Diptera of Smithsonian Institution Natural Museum of Natural History) and Val [4] was used for the final identification of the species.
The female was a 4.5 cm long (from tip of head to tip ovipositor) (Fig. 3), curve ovipositor; 3.6 cm length (Fig. 4). Abdomen coloration varies from black (female) to pale orange (male). Both specimens have beige parallel lines at the mesonotum. As it was noted by Val [4], the female is larger than the male.
The presence of P. bellardii at Sartenejas Valley (Miranda Venezuela) at 1200 meters above sea level, is an important extension of the altitudinal profile of the Panthopthalmidae records in Venezuela. It is also the first record of this family for the Miranda State.
|Fig. (1). Venezuela map with the location of the Universidad Simón Bolívar where the specimens were found.
|Fig. (2). Dorsal view of the male (upper) and female (lower) of P. bellardii collected at Sartenejas Valley, Miranda Venezuela.
|Fig. (3). Female coloration and characteristics of P. bellardii.
|Fig. (4). Male coloration and characteristics of P. bellardii.
|Fig. (5). Location of the current record of Pantophthalmus bellardii in Northern Venezuela (see legend inside the map).
1.2. Summary of the Pantophthalmus bellardii records in Venezuela
Panthopthalmidae are currently reported from only a handful of sites in Venezuela. Báez [1] recorded P. bellardii in Choroní (100 meters above sea level, Aragua State), El Limón (450 meters above sea level), Ocumare de La Costa (400 meters above sea level, Aragua), Rancho Grande (1100 meters above sea level, Aragua, Henri Pittier National Park) and Sierra de Perijá (800 meters above sea level, Zulia). Fig. (5) shows the current updated location and distribution of this species along the country.
The current distribution records of the Pantophthalmus bellardii [2], [3] extends the current knowledge of the species distribution alongside the records from Colombia [5], Brazil [3] and Venezuela of the timber giant fly [1]. It is also the highest altitude above sea level at which the species have been encountered so far in Venezuela. This new record is important for the studies of the Giant Timber flies, which probably act as an important ecosystem engineers and forestry pests, facilitating organic matter flow in the Neotropical forests.
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The authors declare no conflict of interest, financial or otherwise.
We thank the identification to genus level to Dr. Torsten Dikow, (Research Entomologist for Diptera of Smithsonian Institution Natural Museum of Natural History) which kindly help us with this material. Also to Dr. Solange Issa for her comments and suggestions for the present note. To Dr. M. Báez (Departamento de Biología Animal, Edafología y Geología, Universidad de La Laguna, España) y Dr. José Clavijo (Facultad de Agronomía Universidad Central de Venezuela) for their help in the search for bibliography associated with the giant timber flies in Venezuela and Dr. Viktor Banarov for suggestions regarding the manuscript.
|Báez M. Contribución al conocimiento de los Pantophthalmidae de Venezuela (Insecta, Diptera). Bol Ent Venez NS 1983; 2(18): 133-6.
|Pujol-Luz JR, Souto Morgado G. 2019. New record of Pantophthalmus pictus (Wiedemann, 1821) (Diptera, Pantophthalmidae) in the Cerrado vegetation of central Brazil. Pap Avulsos Zool 2018; 58e20185828
|Austen EE. A revision of the family Pantophthalmidae (Diptera) with descriptions of new species and a new genus. Proc Zool Soc Lond 1923; 551-98. Available from: https:// w ww.ma p re ss.co m/j/ zt/article/view/zootaxa.4122.1.25
|Val FC. Systematics and evolution of the Pantophthalmidae (Diptera, Brachycera). Arq Zool S Paulo 1976; 27(2): 51-164.
|Amat EC. New records of Timber flies (Dipetra: Pantophthalmidae) from Colombia. Entomotrópica 2005; 20(2): 95-6. Available from: http://www.bioline.org.br/pdf?em05017
|Baruch Z, Nozawa S. Abandoned coffee plantations: Biodiversity conservation or path for nonnative species? Case study in a neotropical montane forest. Interciencia 2014; 39(8): 554-61. Available from: https://www.interciencia.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/554-Baruch-8.pdf

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Nas has announced that his debut album Illmatic will be re-released as Illmatic XX as a special 20th anniversary edition.
The collection will be comprised of a 2CD set, which will feature several rare remixes, unreleased demos and freestyles to commemorate the anniversary.
It is set to be released on April 15, while Nas will also tour the US to perform Illmatic from start to finish.
Speaking about the album, Nas said: "With Illmatic, I didn't think about it. I just did it. I believe everybody has good instincts.
"Now I'm a man from that past and I'm supremely grateful. There's a Nigerian proverb 'What is past is prologue'. I'm here today because of Illmatic."
The tour will kick off with special performances this spring at both the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as well as this year's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.
Further details surrounding the tour have yet to be confirmed.
Meanwhile, Time Is Illmatic – a feature length documentary film that examines the album – will also be released this year.
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Gone are the days when fingerprint sensors on phones could only be used for unlocking them. Thanks to Android updates and OEMs in-house implementations like in Redmi Note 5 Pro, fingerprint scanners can now be used for gestures like pulling down the notification panel, taking a selfie and even lock apps.
Asus Zenfone Max features a fingerprint scanner but misses on any native implementation to lock apps since it comes with stock Android. So, in this post, we will share how you can lock apps using the fingerprint scanner on Asus ZenFone Max Pro.
How to Lock Apps Using the Fingerprint Scanner on Asus Zenfone Max Pro
Step 1: Make sure to add register fingerprint with the phone. You can do so by going to Settings > Security & location > fingerprint. When doing so, you will need to also add additional security which could be a password, PIN or Swipe. Make sure you remember it.
Step 2: Go to the Play Store and download App Lock. When setting it up for the first time, you will need to enter your email ID along with an unlock pattern. Email ID can be used to reset AppLock in case you ever forget the unlock pattern.
Remember to keep this pattern lock should be different from your phone's pattern lock for best security experience.
Step 2: Once done, you will see two tabs here. First is the Privacy tab which lists all the applications available on the phone, and can be locked. You can also lock parts of settings, quick actions, and so on. As soon as you tap on any of the apps you want to lock, for the first time, you will get a prompt to grant App Lock Permit usage access.
Tap Permit, followed by App Lock and toggle on 'Permit Usage Access'
Step 3: Once you switch on the toggle, you will be instantly taken back to the app. You can now test app lock by opening that particular app and you will see that you will have to enter the unlock pattern to use the app. To enable unlock and lock using the fingerprint sensor, you need to enable one setting.
Step 4: Switch to Protect Tab and toggle Fingerprint Lock to on. Now when you try to unlock an app, you should see a fingerprint icon on the top left along with pattern option to unlock.
Here's another tip, an App Lock setting that I would highly recommend you to change. Right now, every time you switch between the apps, you will have to unlock the app which is annoying. Under Protect > General, set Allow a brief exit to 15 seconds. This will make sure you are not repeatedly prompted to unlock any locked app.
However, there is no way to maintain privacy. Anybody who shuffles between apps can see an overview of the app when he or she switches between app.
Now, every time you open a locked application, you can either unlock it by simply verifying your fingerprint or by entering the unlock pattern. You can use the same set of fingerprint you had registered with the phone.


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Written DirectionsThe route starts in Mckinney at the intersection of 75 and 380. Go east on 380 and turn left on to W New Hope Road (1827). In Altoga go straight thru a 4-way onto 470 (do not turn left). From 470 turn left onto 1377 at the stop sign. From 1377, turn right onto 545 and go into Blue Ridge. In Blue Ridge, turn left at the stop sign onto Bus 78 and then after 1/2 mile, turn right onto 981 just before the cemetery. Follow 981 until it turns into 1562 to Celeste. Turn right onto 69 in Celeste and just as you come out of town turn left onto 272 (just before the Audie Murphy marker on the right). Follow 272 to Hickory Creek (a crossroads with a couple of houses), turn right onto 816 East at the four way intersection. Follow 816 into Wolf City and in the center of town turn left onto 34 at the light. From 34 turn left onto 217 toward Bonham. 271 takes you all the way to Bonham State Park. In Gober, be sure to turn right just before the historical marker sign to stay on 217. From Bonham State Park you can go onto Bonham .
SceneryOn this road you will see rural Texas country homes, ranches and farmland. Highway 271 yields expansive views from atop a ridge line. Celeste has an historical marker for Audie Murphy just past the corner of 69 and 272. Bonham State Park is a beautiful and a scenic place to picnic. Notes: This is my favorite route to get away from hectic city life and relax. Road 470 is a little tree lined road worth the extra complication. Be careful in Wolfe City - they have more cops than residents. For an extra stop with Texas prairie scenery, stop at Parkhill Prairie, 2 miles south of highway 981 on CR 669 and 668 just before Lane, Texas.
Drive EnjoymentFor being as flat as it is, Texas has some of the best twists and turns. There are sweepers, sharp 90 degree corners, and blind decreasing radius S curves on this route.
Tourism OpportunitiesBlue Ridge has the Cattleman's Cafe on the square. Celeste has gas but after that it's very rural. Wolfe City has a gas station and a small cafe. Bonham has all the usual amenities.
Motorcycle Road Additional info- View the weather forecast for this area from Yahoo weather .
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Just a heads up. FM 981 N from Lenard has a large pothole that nearly threw my passenger off the bike. It was as in the shade and we did not see it until it was too late.
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The intersection of 34 and 271 past Wolfe City is marked 68 - you don't see a 271 sign for three miles along that road. (My GPS indicated that it was 68/271 if I went to a higher-resolution setting, but not at the inch-to-two-mile setting I usually prefer. Early stretches of 271 are also a little coarse and uneven due to recent patchwork, but not unsettling, even on a 900+ lb. motorcycle.
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My friends and I ride a route similar to this. Since we live in Greenville, we take 69 up to 272 in Celeste, continue North on 816 to Bailey, then take the long straight 78 to Leonard where we catch 272 cutting back across just on the outside of town. Running this loop is a blast! The traffic is low, the twisties intense and the ride is amazing!
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Reading David Heinemeier's post, it got me thinking.
In short (my words):
Since the meaning is what important, it doesn't matter whether you use Curse Words or their 'polite' euphemisms. The saying 'What the fuck is that' represents an honest question, while saying 'We should exile all those socially challengedforeigners'. Using Politically-Correct words in an outrageous sentence is much worse than a naive 'It's fucking great'.
Favorite quote from David's post:
…fake euphemisms that are actually much worse than the honest words they're trying to put a fig leave to.
Anyway, while thinking about that, a (bit far fetched) analogy came to my mind.
Many developers refer to 'HTML', 'DHTML' and 'Javascript' as curse words.
So they come up with euphemisms like Script#, RJS, WebForms and others, and by that, applying badlyleaking abstractions on top of simple things. (HTML and Javascript are quite simple. you can see 13 year old kids that master those, but much less 13 years old master server OO languages).
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In a White House press briefing Monday, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he will try to ensure so-called sanctuary cities do not receive federal grants from the Department of Justice.
An executive order from President Trump already spelled out plans to cut off federal funding to cities and counties that restrict their staff from cooperating with immigration agents.
Sessions reiterated the administration's position that counties and cities that do not honor ICE detainers put the nation at risk.
"DUIs, assaults, burglaries, drug crimes, gang crimes, rapes, crimes against children and murders. Countless Americans would be alive today — and countless loved ones would not be grieving today — if the policies of these sanctuary jurisdictions were ended," he said.
Portland and Multnomah County declared themselves sanctuary jurisdictions that limit their cooperation with federal immigration authorities, and the entire state of Oregon is sometimes referred to as a "sanctuary state."
County sheriffs in Oregon, citing a 2014 Oregon court case, say they can no longer comply with ICE detainers — essentially, a request from the federal government to hold a person in jail past their scheduled release date to coordinate transfer into immigration detention.
In his remarks Monday, Sessions gave a more detailed explanation of how the DOJ will try to penalize sanctuary jurisdictions.
He said cities and counties that want to receive grants from the Department of Justice will have to prove they comply with federal law — specifically 8 U.S. Code § 1373, which requires them to share information with immigration authorities.
"The Department of Justice will also take all lawful steps to claw back any funds awarded to a jurisdiction that willfully violates 1373," Sessions said.
That part of the U.S. code has received attention from Republican lawmakers, including Sessions, in the past.
Last year, lawmakers asked the DOJ inspector general to investigate whether sanctuary jurisdictions were violating that law. The inspector general concluded that some jurisdictions could be violating it.
Local leaders in the Portland area dismissed the attorney general's remarks as political showmanship.
"I think it's just a continued effort on the part of the Trump administration to distract the public from the real issues," said Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury. "President Trump has just been handed a major defeat by his own party."
Multnomah County receives approximately $2.5 million in federal funding and does not expect to lose any of it.
Kafoury said the county is not aware of any new restrictions placed on federal grants. She said the county complies with all federal laws, including 8 U.S.C. 1373.
"Current law does not require states to assist federal immigration authorities. That is because the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits the federal government from commandeering state resources and personnel to carry out federal policy objectives," she noted.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler called Sessions' remarks "inaccurate and harmful."
He noted that over the weekend ICE arrested a young Oregon man, Francisco J. Rodriguez Dominguez, who was participating in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Rodriguez-Dominguez had been arrested for drunk driving, a misdemeanor, and was participating in a diversion program. He works with Mulntomah County's Sun Schools program and coaches a soccer team at Glenfair elementary, according to a press release from the ACLU of Oregon.
"Far from being a violent criminal, Francisco is a respected member of the community, a student, and a volunteer. This arrest does nothing to promote public safety," Wheeler said.
Rodriguez-Dominguez will be released on bond, the Associated Press reported Monday afternoon.
The city of Portland has received about $3 million worth of DOJ grants in recent years.


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By Harry Sykes
Paul Gladon has joined Wolves from Dutch side Heracles, it has been announced.
The Championship club have confirmed on their official website that the 24-year-old striker has completed a move from the Eredivisie outfit and signed a three-year contract with the option of a fourth year.
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Gladon, 6ft 2in, becomes the second Dutchman to move to Molineux this week after Ola John joined from Benfica on loan.
He is the ninth summer addition at Wolves and the eighth since the £30million takeover by the Chinese investment group Fosun but was unavailable for Saturday's defeat to Huddersfield.
Gladon helped Heracles to a sixth place finish in the Dutch Eredivisie in 2015-16. He scored six goals in 26 matches in all competitions, although only four of those appearances were starts.
The nine summer signings are Andy Lonergan, Helder Costa, Silvio, Joao Teixeira, Jon Dadi Bodvarsson, Prince Oniangue, Cameron Borthwick-Jackson, John and Gladon.
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037 – Fortran reveals Hidden Figures
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Dorothy Vaughan was a mathematician who worked for NASA during the 1960s. Her story provides an excellent example of the importance of continually learning and effectively responding to disruption.
Happy New Year! We took two weeks off over the holiday period to relax and recharge. Now, we're back and ready for a big year!
Here is the first episode of Anecdotally Speaking for 2019! This year, we're excited to hear more stories from guests all over the world who have completed our training programs. But before we do, we'd like to share a few stories we've discovered and rediscovered over our short break.
In this episode, Mark shares the story of Dorothy Vaughan, a mathematician who worked as a 'human computer' for NASA during the 1960s. When NASA installed their first IBM mainframe computer, Dorothy feared she and her team would soon become redundant, but predicted NASA's need for a programming team. She taught herself the FORTRAN programming language, then taught it to her team, who became NASA's programming team. The true story features in the 2016 film Hidden Figures, directed by Theodore Melfi.
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In the early 1960s, Dorothy Vaughan, an African American woman, was working as a 'human computer' for NASA. She was based in their Langley Research Centre.
Dorothy was the informal leader of a group of 'human computers'. They were responsible for completing the very complicated manual mathematical calculations which supported NASA's space program.
One day, NASA installed a brand new IBM mainframe computer. It took up an entire room. No one really knew how it worked, but a group of IBM technicians were on site for some time setting it up.
Dorothy saw the computer, and spoke to the technicians, and realised the computer would soon replace her and her team. The computer could automatically complete the calculations they were responsible for.
Dorothy kept this knowledge to herself, but decided to learn as much as she could about the machine after hours. She learnt that it used a programming language known as FORTRAN, and that NASA would need a programming team to use it.
Dorothy decided to learn FORTRAN. She visited her local library, but the only book on FORTRAN was in the whites only section. Her only option was to steal the book. She did, and eventually taught herself the language, practicing her programming after hours on the IBM machine. She then taught her team.
When NASA announced their need for a programming team to their employees, Dorothy raised her hand.
She said, "You don't need a team, you have a team. Your human computers, they all know how to program this machine".
The human computers then became NASA's programming team, and Dorothy their supervisor.
Podcast Transcript
So welcome back to Anecdotally Speaking, our podcast to help you build your business story repertoire. Hi, I'm Shawn Callahan.
And I'm Mark Schenk.
So welcome back everyone. Hey, it's 2019, happy new year. Hope you had a great sort of break and had a bit of a rest. I know Mark and I did. We got away a little bit, didn't we?
Yeah it was fantastic and recharged, ready for a big 2019.
Absolutely. So, we're back with some more stories for you, stories you can use to build up that repertoire and really tell anywhere in a business setting and one of the things that I'm really keen for us to do this year, Mark, is to get a few more interviews from different people. You know, our customers who are having you know, sort of I guess, making great progress with their business storytelling. So that is on its way. But let's jump straight into the story, right. Now, Mark I believe you've got one for us. Why don't you set it up and kick it off?
Okay, so today's story is one that's taken from a movie. In this case, it's the 2016 movie, Hidden Figures. The movie is directed by Theodore Melfi and it's a historical story but it's, it's not historically accurate. There are some, they've taken some poetic licences with some bits of the story.
Well that's most movies unless it's a documentary, right?
Yeah, so I'm going to talk about one thread from the movie and the context is that it's the early 1960s and NASA are involved in the space race with the Russians and it's putting a lot of effort into getting spaceships into orbit around Earth and getting them safely back. NASA had a research centre in Langley and there was a team of people who did the calculations, manual calculations of flight trajectory, re-entry speeds, heat absorption, all this very, very complicated, they invented some mathematical approaches to deal with some of the stuff. And the, this was a team of African American women and they were, they were expert mathematicians performing all these complex calculations supporting the space program. So, they're pretty smart.
Clearly, clearly.
They're pretty smart people. Now it's not the best working environment. They're working in a gender and a racially segregated working environment so there's also a lot less opportunities for advancement for the African American women and for example, this team of computers and they called them, computers.
What, the people actually doing the calculations?
The women who were doing the calculations, "Oh I'm a computer".
They're human computers.
Yeah, absolutely. Now, the head of the group is a lady called Dorothy Vaughn. And I say head of the group, she's the unofficial head because she's African American woman, she's not been formally appointed to the supervisor role. So, this team's doing their work, been doing it for a few years, they're really good at it. But in those early 1960s, the early days of computers and NASA installed a brand-new IBM mainframe computer.
Put it into its own room and in those early days, no one knew what a computer was, no one knew how it worked. And so they had some IBM technicians who were in there playing with it, getting it set up, and Dorothy saw this and Dorothy saw that that computer as she'd learn more about it, because she would, she just went and talked to the technicians and talking, "What can it do?", etcetera and she realised, after a little while, that this computer was going to replace her entire team. And so, all the manual calculations that they did would be done automatically by this, by this machine. She saw that her team, her world, were about to be disrupted. But she didn't tell anyone, she just kept it to herself and what she did is she just learned as much as she could about the machine. She was the only one who initially was able to figure out how to turn it on for example.
Yeah well that's a good start, isn't it?
She was playing with it after hours, again, talking to the technicians and she realised that it was, it had a programming language that enabled it to use its computing power and that language was Fortran. Now, I know you and I know Fortran because that was your first computing language, I understand?
Scarily, yes.
I actually learned basic first and then Cobol, I never graduated to Fortran, thank goodness. So, Dorothy sees that she's about to be disrupted as is all the members of her team and she decides to do something about it, she decides to learn how to program in Fortran. So, she goes to the local library and she goes, she looks for a book on programming and library did have a book on programming Fortran but she wasn't allowed to borrow it because it was in the 'Whites Only' section.
Get out.
Yeah. So, she stole it. Stuck it in her jumper, walked out. Teaches herself how to program in Fortran. Practices after hours on the IBM machine and gets it working. Starts figuring out how to do some basic stuff and it's kind of good so she teaches herself how to program Fortran. And I don't know about you but like, that's no small thing.
It's no small thing learning Fortran from a book with no one to show you how to do it. She becomes sufficiently competent that she teaches her team how to program in Fortran and sometime later, NASA realise that they need a programming team to run this monstrosity of a machine that they've invested in and they didn't have a team. Of course, until Dorothy put up her hand and said, "You do have a team. These computers. The human computers, they are your programming team. They all know how to program in Fortran and so she became the supervisor of the brand-new NASA programming team and thirty of her human computers, of her team, became the programming team for the IBM mainframe. And so, she, by taking the initiative, essentially saved her team from disruption.
Wow, that's great. I love that story. That's lovely. I did love that movie you know, it was just a cracker of a movie. If you haven't seen it, get out and see Hidden Figures, I'm sure you can get it on I Tunes or something like that.
Yeah because and this thread here, this is only one of the threads.
Yeah, it's about three women, right?
Three of these maths brilliant people, so, it's fantastic. Great, okay. So, let's think about that story. What are the things in that story that really make it work?
Yeah. Why does it work, what makes it good? Well, I'm going to start with thinking about one of the limitations of using that story.
And that is that Hidden Figures is not a hugely well-known movie. It's not like Star Wars, you know, that sort of thing.
Where everybody knows the plot line and you can just say, "When Obi Wan Kenobi gets killed".
Pretty, you know, most people, a lot of people have got a good idea of what that is. You might need, because Hidden Figures is not as well known, you might need to give a bit more detail, you need to have more background.
With very, very well-known movies, you can pretty much leap straight into the action.
Yeah, yeah. I think one of the other really strong parts is it's a real story, you know? It's actually happened. So, you're recounting a little bit of history, a little slice of history. But you know, like any sort of history, it's so nice when you can bring it down to one specific person, facing one specific situation and how they overcome it. I mean, it's got those elements. There's definitely an obstacle for her to overcome and you know, we know that that makes for a better story, right?
Yeah, the high stakes thing.
Yes. I think the other thing which I like about it is that, it's not just about her. It's actually her helping her team as well. I mean yeah, she clearly you know, sort of put herself in a great position to do that but she was always thinking in the back of her mind, you know? I watched a movie just recently called, 'The Dawn Wall', right. It's a documentary of this crazy fellow who is a rock climber and he works out the way to climb up the rock wall. This massive rock wall, it's like 3000 feet high in the Yosemite National Park, right. And he does it with this other guy. And the great thing about, this is a bit of a spoiler alert actually, but the great thing about the story is that it gets to a point where his partner can't you know, get past this one part of the wall and he must've had like, I don't know, twenty, thirty goes at it, fail, fail, fail, right. And then finally, his buddy comes back down and says, "No, I'm going to wait here until you get over that and we're not going to get to the top until we do it together". You know, you just felt like, "Hey, this is, there's this guy, we're in it together" right. You know, he could have easily gone up and finished it.
So, I think, those sort of elements of people helping other people, that is you know, it's a characteristic in humans that we really appreciate.
You bet ya! And I'm assuming in that movie, 'The Dawn Wall', that they were not, they must have had ropes because you don't fail to, on a climb like that twenty times.
Yeah, they had ropes but they do free climb, so they're not using the ropes to climb. Yeah, they fall off many, many times. They actually spent like three weeks on this one. Anyway, I'm diverting. Let's get it back to Hidden Figures.
So, back to Hidden Figures, one of the things that's great about this story is that it's an underdog.
It's against the odds.
She's up against it, right?
She's up against the culture, she's up against the you know, attitudes, all that is really pushing against her so she has to do it like a subterfuge right?
At night time, after hours, etcetera.
Another thing I like about that is kind of the, when I recall when I first watched the movie, my surprise at the fact that those calculations, those incredibly complex mathematical calculations were being done manually. Slide rules, paper, pages and pages and pages and pages of calculations that needed to be checked and rechecked because they were being used as the basis of sending a spaceship into, a spacecraft into space.
Yes, yeah. There's a lot of pencil and paper there.
Oh yeah.
Hey, yeah so, I think they're some of the things that make it work but in terms of making it even better, I watched a TED video on the weekend and it was Malcolm Gladwell talking about essentially the invention and use of a bomb site. Bomb siting. How do you use that?
Oh, so the site that they use in a bomber to figure out…
To drop bombs. But the thing I noticed about, and he's such a great storyteller, he's a bit really understated sort of guy but what he does at the beginning which I think is really powerful, is that he gives you a snapshot image so you can picture the person, right. So, he's talking about this Swiss guy and he says he's a very upstanding Swiss guy with a Swiss moustache and very you know, he's an engineer and he builds up the character of the person a little bit and I think in that story it actually, to know she was middle-aged, know a little bit more about her as a person I think would make it even better.
Yeah, indeed, indeed. We love to know the character so that we can relate to it.
Yeah, yeah.
So definitely, making the story better by adding the character. Now, I just want to go back, you said that you were talking about Malcolm Gladwell describing the bomb site, his bomb site, is that correct? Because you really threw me for that because that's the term I use to describe my daughter's bedroom.
Oh, the bomb site, right, okay. Yeah, you know, so go and have a look at that story, it's a really, it's a cracker. It's got a really good point at the end too.
And another thing you could do is to talk about the computer, how huge it was.
It was like it took up the entire floor of a building. The room was environmentally sealed. It's incredibly imposing.
Yeah, all those fluorescent lights and you know, the machine sitting into this big room sort of by itself, you know.
An enormous hum of transistors and resistors and…
Yeah, that's right. Exactly. So, there's that picture of the computer. Which is kind of like the antagonist in this story, right? You know, so you know, that's what she's up against. The, I think the other thing that you know, could make the story you know, even better, I guess it's just how much and this is a choice thing more than anything, but how much do you build the drama of the computer being the bad guy? Right? And I think we'll talk about this later but I think there's an opportunity there to build it up so that when she overcomes that, you go, "Okay well that's a big thing that she's overcome". But I think, I love the story.
There were a number of ways she could…
These are just little things you could do, right?
So, there were a number of ways you could make that story even better.
Great, great. Now, let's talk about application because the idea of this podcast is that we give people stories that they can use in a business situation. So, what's a business situation where we might use this story?
Well I think you know, if you were doing a leadership development program and you just wanted to give people that sense of what you needed to do to tackle disruption in the workplace, you know. If they've seen it in the 1960s with computers, imagine what we see today, you know in terms of you know, new businesses just coming out of nowhere and become major competitors or whatever that disruption might be. But just her attitude. I love the fact that A) she didn't you know, sort of put out this you know, warning to all of her staff that a terrible thing is going to happen. No, she just took action and turned it around and so she had these people you know, sort of following her into a better world that she was helping create. So to me, that would be one of the areas I'd look to.
And a great example of leadership.
You could use it.
And tackling disruption.
Yeah. I guess there's another, or there's a range of different things you could illustrate using that story. Things like, the importance of taking the initiative when something bad happens. It's how you respond to it that matters.
And this, this lady chose a growth mindset. She chose to tackle this by taking it head on and doing something about it.
Yeah. I guess and the growth mindset too, that idea of, it's important to be continually learning, right. You don't sort of say, "Oh yeah, I did my degree, I did my training and I'm done". It is no, you're learning all the time. She was you know, from the movie, I would have picked her as a middle-aged women, kids, you know, probably you know, 8-10 or something like that and so she was learning a whole new computer language at that age and that's what you've got to do. And the pace of it has stepped up you know the amount of learning you have to do. So yeah that would be another one.
And of course, using it in an inspirational way and in fact, when we came across the, this specific story for the first time, it was being used by a CEO as part of a speech to try to inspire people to be on the lookout for and respond effectively to disruptions.
And it was an interesting story that we heard because there was an outgoing CEO and an incoming CEO and we heard about it because the incoming CEO called us after the event. He'd had a beautiful slide deck, he had a very well-crafted presentation, had a lot of effort put into it from a graphic design perspective, really comprehensive graphs.
Lots of graphs.
Lots of graphs, lots of facts and data. But after the session, no one was talking about his presentation. Everyone was talking about the outgoing CEO because the outgoing CEO had told this story and he'd said at the end, his point was, "Folks, there's a lot of things out there that are going to disrupt the businesses that we work with. We need to figure out how to respond to that. We need to be aware of those things happening and we need to figure out what's our Fortran. Think about that. What's our Fortran?"
Yeah, that's it. And it became a catchphrase, didn't it?
Exactly, people were talking, "Yeah, what is our Fortran?" and they were sending messages on the Yammer site saying, "Ah we got our team together and we worked out our Fortran to be dot, dot, dot", you know? It was just this language that just started to build up there and the incoming CEO just went, "Oh my God…
"No one's talking about what I said".
My presentation at all, you know." And it's the difference between a really well-crafted presentation and an effective story.
Now it's not an either-or thing as well.
That's right.
I think this is the thing people sometimes mistake, they think oh you have to have it all story and what about all the facts and the details and the graphics? No, no. A really top-notch presenter in a business setting has those graphs, but they tell a story about them. You know, and they add other stories to add that you know, richness and excitement and memorability to it. So, I think you know, getting that nice combination is vital.
Indeed. It's everything in moderation and the big opportunity for business, for people in business, is to bring a little bit more story into their communications, into their presentations.
Yeah, yeah, definitely. What else? Are there any other places we would use it, Mark?
I think that pretty much covers it. So, one thing in this discussion that's revealed to me is that it is in fact quite a versatile story.
Yeah, yeah.
And I could easily see, I'm running a leadership program in Kuala Lumpur next week and I can easily see this story…
How you can share this story.
Being used as part of that.
Good, excellent.
Okay now,
Yeah ratings. I think we give this a rating since you told it I get to kick off and you know, again, just reminder it's 2019, you know, what do we have to remember about our ratings? I think it's about usefulness, you know, impact, the relatability, tell ability.
Is there such a word? Just made that up. I really love this, I love actually telling stories of movies so I'm giving it an eight, eight out of ten.
I think this is a cracker of a story to have in your back pocket. Put it in your story bank, absolutely.
Indeed. And to do that, all you need to do is to go to our, our blog page, there is a transcription of these stories so you can just cut and paste it straight into your story bank.
Now my rating. I'm very tempted to give it an eight but I don't want to seem, you know I don't want to…but I will. I'm going to.
Give it an eight.
I'll give it an eight.
If that's what you think it is.
I like the story, I like the overcoming the against the odds nature of it.
And its versatility and I think you can tell it pretty quickly.
Yeah. Good.
Fantastic. Now, I recommend people go out and watch Hidden Figures.
Oh yes.
Check that out.
Well I recommend that people go and visit our website and our events page because we have just put, we've just launched our public events program for 2019 and so that's on the events page of our website so if you're interested in any of our events during the year, please go there. We do update it regularly as things change and more things come onto the calendar.
Very good. Very good. Yeah, that's going to be great. Well, I think we'll wrap things up there Mark, that's fantastic. The, I guess you know, all we can say no is it's great to be back here in 2019, it's great to actually you know, be back on the podcast so thanks again for listening to Anecdotally Speaking and of course, tune in next week where we'll have another episode for you of how to put stories to work.
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The Apple Nazis are letting one thread remain - started the day after, trying to tear down Consumer Reports. Something like forcing people to line the streets for a parade.
So nice to have volunteers at the ready when your back's up against the wall.
Jobs Mob has responded with its usual hamfisted censorship of the Apple forum, purging any mention of the Consumer Reports comments. - Nick Farrell
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