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Today i get new thing in my project that use FileSystemWatcher Class, so here i explain how to monitoring the file system,
You can use the FileSystemWatcher class (part of the System.IO namespace) to respond to updated files, new files, renamed files, and other updates to the file system. First, create an instance of FileSystemWatcher by providing the path to be monitored. Then, configure roperties of the FileSystemWatcher instance to control whether to monitor subdirectories and which types of changes to monitor. Next, add a method as an event handler. Finally, set the FileSystemWatcher.EnableRaisingEvent property to true. The following code sample demonstrates a basic usage.
// Create an instance of FileSystemWatcher FileSystemWatcher fsw = new FileSystemWatcher(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("USERPROFILE")); // Set the FileSystemWatcher properties fsw.IncludeSubdirectories = true; fsw.NotifyFilter = NotifyFilters.FileName | NotifyFilters.LastWrite; // Add the Changed event handler fsw.Changed += new FileSystemEventHandler(fsw_Changed); // Start monitoring events fsw.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
Handling FileSystemWatcher Events When a file is changed that meets the criteria you specify, the CLR calls the FileSystemWatcher.Changed event handler for all changes, creations, and deletions. For files and folders that are renamed, the CLR calls the FileSystemWatcher.Renamed event handler. The previous code sample added the fsw_Changed method to handle the Changed event. The following code sample shows a simple way to handle the event:
static void fsw_Changed(object sender, FileSystemEventArgs e) { // Write the path of a changed file to the console Console.WriteLine(e.ChangeType + ": " + e.FullPath); }
You can use a single event handler for the Changed, Created, and Deleted events. The FileSystemEventArgs parameter provides the path to the updated file and the type of change that occurred. If you need to respond to files that are renamed, you need to create an event handler that accepts a RenamedEventArgs parameter instead of a FileSystemEventArgs parameter, as the following code sample demonstrates:
static void fsw_Renamed(object sender, RenamedEventArgs e) { // Write the path of a changed file to the console Console.WriteLine(e.ChangeType + " from " + e.OldFullPath + " to " + e.Name); }
Configuring : FileSystemWatcher Properties You can configure the following properties of the FileSystemWatcher class to control which types of updates cause the CLR to throw the Changed event:
Filter : Used to configure the filenames that trigger events. To watch for changes in all files, set the Filter property to an empty string ("") or use wildcards ("*.*"). To watch a specific file, set the Filter property to the filename. For example, to watch for changes in the file MyDoc.txt, set the Filter property to "MyDoc.txt". You can also watch for changes in a certain type of file. For example, to watch for changes in text files, set the Filter property to "*.txt".
NotifyFilter Configure the types of changes for which to throw events by setting NotifyFilter to one or more of these values:
- FileName
- DirectoryName
- Attributes
- Size
- LastWrite
- LastAccess
- CreationTime
- Security
Path : Used to define the folder to be monitored. You can define the path using the FileSystemWatcher constructor. You can watch for the renaming, deletion, or creation of files or directories. For example, to watch for the renaming of text files, set the Filter property to "*.txt" and call the WaitForChanged method with a Renamed value specified for its parameter.


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This recipe by Jim Meehan is courtesy of Bon Appetit. An excellent cocktail all fall and winter long.
Cranberry Cobbler
Makes 6
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup fresh or frozen cranberries
1 lemon, cut into wedges
1/2 orange, sliced into thin rounds
1 1/2 cups London dry gin (such as Beefeater or Tanqueray)
1/2 cup plus 1 Tbsp. off-dry Sherry (such as Lustau East India Solera)
6 mint sprigs
Bring sugar and 3/4 cup water to a boil in a medium saucepan; stir until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat. Pour off all but 1 cup simple syrup; refrigerate remaining syrup for another use.
Heat syrup in pan almost to a boil; reduce heat to medium. Add cranberries and simmer until they just begin to burst, 2-3 minutes. Let cool in syrup.
Place 2 Tbsp. drained cranberries and 6 Tbsp. cranberry syrup in a large pitcher. Add lemon wedges and orange slices. Using a muddler or wooden spoon, vigorously mash fruit. Stir in gin and Sherry. Let steep for 5 minutes.
Strain into a medium pitcher. Fill 3 glasses with crushed ice. Pour half of mixture into a cocktail shaker. Fill with ice; shake vigorously for 10 seconds. Strain into prepared glasses, then mound with more crushed ice. Garnish each with a mint sprig and 3 cranberries. Repeat to make 3 more cocktails.
Nutritional information:
One serving contains:
Calories (kcal) 236.1
Calories from Fat 0.0
Fat (g) 0.0
Saturated Fat (g) 0.0
Cholesterol (mg) 0
Carbohydrates (g) 19.4
Dietary Fiber (g) 0.3
Total Sugars (g) 18.4
Net Carbs (g) 18.9
Protein (g) 0.2
Sodium (mg) 3.2
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SOURCE: Theravance, Inc.
February 09, 2012 16:05 ET
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 9, 2012) - Theravance, Inc. (NASDAQ: THRX) reported today its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2011. Revenue for the full year was $24.5 million. Net loss for the fourth quarter and full year of 2011 was $37.0 million and $115.3 million, respectively, compared with $19.3 million and $83.9 million for the same periods of 2010. Net loss per share was $0.45 and $1.41 for the fourth quarter and full year of 2011, respectively, compared with a net loss per share of $0.25 and $1.16 for the same periods of 2010. Cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities totaled $240.9 million as of December 31, 2011, a decrease of $68.7 million since December 31, 2010.
"I am very pleased with the progress Theravance has made since the beginning of 2011 and I am excited by our potential milestones in 2012," said Rick E Winningham, Chief Executive Officer. "In our two lead respiratory programs with GSK, we expect GSK to submit regulatory filings for RELOVAIR™ in both COPD and asthma, and to complete the Phase 3 registrational program with LAMA/LABA this year. Recently, GSK announced the completion of a low-dose Phase 2b study in COPD with '719 and that the results of this study support the doses and dosing regimen being studied in Phase 3. Together, these programs provide the opportunity to treat a wide range of patients suffering from these serious diseases. We look forward to another productive and successful year."
Program Highlights
Respiratory Programs with GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK)
RELOVAIR™ is an investigational once-daily inhaled corticosteroid (ICS)/long-acting beta2 agonist (LABA) combination treatment, comprising fluticasone furoate and vilanterol (FF/VI), currently in development for the treatment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma.
In January 2012, Theravance and GSK announced that GSK intends to commence global regulatory filings in COPD and asthma beginning in mid-2012 based upon the initial outcomes from pivotal Phase 3 studies for once-daily RELOVAIR™ in COPD and asthma. For asthma, GSK will continue discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the regulatory requirements for a U.S. asthma indication.
LAMA/LABA Combination (GSK573719/Vilanterol or '719/VI)
Enrollment is complete for the seven ongoing studies in the Phase 3a program for the once-daily LAMA/LABA dual bronchodilator '719/VI. '719/VI combines two bronchodilators currently under development -- '719, a long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA) and VI, a LABA. These two molecules provide two mechanisms of bronchodilation for patients with COPD: antagonism of acetylcholine muscarinic receptors and agonism of beta2 adrenoreceptors.
The LAMA/LABA Phase 3a program, which will evaluate over 5,000 patients with COPD globally, consists of a 52-week study to evaluate the long term safety and tolerability of '719 (125mcg) alone, as well as the combination '719/VI (125/25mcg), two large 6-month pivotal studies that will compare improvements in lung function between '719/VI, its components and placebo, two 6-month studies to compare the combination with its components and tiotropium and two studies to assess the effect of '719/VI on exercise endurance. The Phase 3 program will investigate two doses of '719 (125mcg and 62.5mcg) and two doses of the combination '719/VI (125/25mcg and 62.5/25mcg). The LAMA/LABA Phase 3 program is expected to be completed in 2012.
In October 2011, data from a Phase 2b study of '719 was presented at CHEST, the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), in Honolulu, Hawaii. Recently, GSK announced the completion of a Phase 2b study evaluating lower doses of '719 in COPD. The results of this study support the doses and dosing regimen being studied in Phase 3.
Inhaled Bifunctional Muscarinic Antagonist-Beta2 Agonist (MABA)
'081 is a single molecule bifunctional bronchodilator with both muscarinic antagonist and beta2 receptor agonist activity. GSK recently completed a Phase 2b study with '081 and Theravance expects to report topline data during the first half of 2012. In addition, a Phase 1 study with '081 in combination with fluticasone propionate (FP), an ICS, has been completed, and a number of non-clinical studies are ongoing.
In October 2011, Theravance and GSK amended the 2004 Strategic Alliance Agreement to expand the MABA program. Theravance granted to GSK an exclusive license to develop and commercialize additional preclinical MABA compounds discovered by Theravance. Theravance received an upfront payment of $1.0 million and has the potential to receive clinical, regulatory and commercial milestone payments as well as royalties on worldwide net sales if one of these MABA compounds is successfully commercialized. In connection with this amendment, Theravance regained full rights to its MonoAmine Reuptake INhibitor (MARIN) program, which is currently in Phase 2 development, and its Angiotensin Receptor-NEP Inhibitor (ARNI) program in preclinical development.
Theravance Respiratory Program
Long-Acting Muscarinic Antagonist (LAMA) -- TD-4208
In November 2011, Theravance announced positive topline results from a Phase 2a single-dose COPD study of TD-4208, an investigational inhaled LAMA discovered by Theravance. In this study, TD-4208 met the primary endpoint by demonstrating a statistically significant mean change from baseline in peak forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) compared to placebo, and was generally well-tolerated.
Bacterial Infections
VIBATIV® (telavancin) for injection
On January 6, 2012, Theravance regained full global rights to VIBATIV®, a bactericidal, once-daily injectable lipoglycopeptide antibiotic discovered by Theravance and approved for use in the U.S., Canada and the European Union. Theravance is evaluating global commercialization alternatives for VIBATIV® either alone or with partners.
Central Nervous System (CNS)/Pain Program
Oral Peripheral Mu Opioid Receptor Antagonist (PµMA) -- TD-1211
Enrollment is progressing in the Phase 2b program, which will assess the safety, tolerability and clinical activity of TD-1211 in patients with opioid-induced constipation (OIC). This program is evaluating several doses and dosing regimens to provide information for the design of the Phase 3 program. TD-1211 is an investigational once-daily, orally-administered, peripherally selective, multivalent inhibitor of the mu opioid receptor designed to alleviate gastrointestinal side effects of opioid therapy without affecting analgesia.
MonoAmine Reuptake INhibitor (MARIN) -- TD-9855
In December 2011, Theravance announced the initiation of an Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Phase 2 proof-of-concept study with TD-9855, the lead compound in Theravance's MARIN program. This Phase 2 study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of two different doses of TD-9855 in adults with ADHD. TD-9855 is an investigational norepinephrine and serotonin reuptake inhibitor (NSRI) discovered by Theravance for the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) conditions such as ADHD and chronic pain.
Financial Results
Revenue was $5.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2011 compared with $6.9 million for the same period in 2010, a decrease of $1.5 million. During the fourth quarter, $0.3 million of royalty revenue was earned from VIBATIV® net sales of $1.6 million. For the full year of 2011, revenue was $24.5 million, compared with $24.2 million for the full year of 2010.
Research and Development
Research and development expense for the fourth quarter of 2011 increased to $32.5 million compared with $17.5 million for the same period in 2010. For the full year of 2011, research and development expense was $103.5 million compared with $75.1 million for the full year 2010. The increase in the fourth quarter and the full year of 2011 was primarily due to clinical costs related to our PµMA and MARIN programs and preclinical expenses related to our Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and cardiovascular programs in late-stage discovery. Total external research and development expense for the fourth quarter and full year of 2011 was $12.9 million and $30.8 million, respectively, compared with $1.3 million and $12.2 million, respectively, for the fourth quarter and full year 2010. Total research and development stock-based compensation expense for the fourth quarter and full year 2011 was $3.4 million and $13.4 million, respectively, compared with $2.6 million and $10.3 million, respectively, for the fourth quarter and full year 2010.
General and Administrative
General and administrative expense for the fourth quarter of 2011 increased to $8.5 million from $7.4 million for the same period in 2010. For the full year of 2011, general and administrative expense was $30.7 million compared with $27.5 million for the full year of 2010. The increase in the fourth quarter and the full year of 2011 was primarily due to higher employee-related and external expenses offset by lower facilities-related costs. Total general and administrative stock-based compensation expense for the fourth quarter and full year of 2011 was $2.8 million and $11.5 million, respectively, compared with $2.1 million and $8.7 million, respectively, for the fourth quarter and full year of 2010.
Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities totaled $240.9 million as of December 31, 2011, a decrease of $24.3 million during the fourth quarter. This decrease was primarily due to cash used in operations offset by the $1.0 million upfront license fee received from GSK upon licensing the preclinical MABAs in October 2011 and $1.3 million received from GSK for the purchase of common stock in November 2011.
Conference Call and Webcast Information
As previously announced, the Company has scheduled a conference call to discuss this announcement beginning at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. To participate in the live call by telephone, please dial (877) 837-3908 from the U.S., or (973) 890-8166 for international callers. Those interested in listening to the conference call live via the internet may do so by visiting the company's web site at www.theravance.com. To listen to the live call, please go to the web site 15 minutes prior to its start to register, download, and install any necessary audio software.
A replay of the conference call will be available on the company's web site for 30 days through March 10, 2012. An audio replay will also be available through 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on February 16, 2012 by dialing (855) 859-2056 from the U.S., or (404) 537-3406 for international callers, and entering confirmation code 43487593.
About Theravance
Theravance is a biopharmaceutical company with a pipeline of internally discovered product candidates and strategic collaborations with pharmaceutical companies. Theravance is focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of small molecule medicines across a number of therapeutic areas including respiratory disease, bacterial infections, and central nervous system (CNS)/pain. The Company's key programs include: RELOVAIR™, LAMA/LABA ('719/vilanterol (VI)) and MABA (Bifunctional Muscarinic Antagonist-Beta2 Agonist), each partnered with GlaxoSmithKline plc, and its oral Peripheral Mu Opioid Receptor Antagonist (PµMA) program. By leveraging its proprietary insight of multivalency to drug discovery, Theravance is pursuing a best-in-class strategy designed to discover superior medicines in areas of significant unmet medical need. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.theravance.com.
THERAVANCE®, the Theravance logo, and MEDICINES THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE® are registered trademarks of Theravance, Inc.
RELOVAIR™ is a trademark of the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies.
VIBATIV® is a registered trademark of Astellas Pharma Inc.
This press release contains and the conference call will contain certain "forward-looking" statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding, among other things, statements relating to goals, plans, objectives and future events. Theravance intends such forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in Section 21E of the Exchange Act and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Examples of such statements include statements relating to the timing of clinical studies, data analysis and communication, statements regarding the potential benefits and mechanisms of action of drug candidates, statements concerning the timing of seeking regulatory approval of our product candidates, statements concerning enabling capabilities of Theravance's approach to drug discovery and its proprietary insights, statements concerning expectations for product candidates through development and commercialization and projections of revenue, expenses and other financial items. These statements are based on the current estimates and assumptions of the management of Theravance as of the date of this press release and the conference call and are subject to risks, uncertainties, changes in circumstances, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results of Theravance to be materially different from those reflected in its forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements include, among others, risks related to delays or difficulties in commencing or completing clinical studies, the potential that results of clinical or non-clinical studies indicate product candidates are unsafe or ineffective, our dependence on third parties in the conduct of our clinical studies, delays or failure to achieve regulatory approvals for product candidates, risks of relying on third-party manufacturers for the supply of our product and product candidates and risks of collaborating with third parties to develop and commercialize products. These and other risks are described in greater detail under the heading "Risk Factors" contained in Theravance's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on November 2, 2011 and the risks discussed in our other period filings with SEC. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Theravance assumes no obligation to update its forward-looking statements.
Contact Information:Michael W. Aguiar
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
650-808-4100 Email Contact
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Normally, Wimbledon sets up like boxing betting, with two heavy favorites among the men and women expected to duke it out – Nadal/Federer and Williams/Williams. This year, things look more intriguing, with multiple players legitimately in the hunt. How do the old faves' chances look against the newcomers?
Roger Federer (+112)
The Swiss Mister is on the cusp of all-time greatness. His French Open win tied him with Pete Sampras for the all-time lead in Grand Slam titles, so he'll be extra hungry to win the elusive 15th and cement his legacy.
Andy Murray (+350)
Could the Brit be Federer's top challenger in Wimbledon betting this year? The locals think so. It would be a great storyline if Murray pulled it off, as he'd be the first "home" champion since 1936.
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We're still waiting on final word from the Spaniard after he tested his knee against Lleyton Hewitt and did not fare well, losing in straight sets. If he plays, he clearly won't be at 100 per cent, but you could consider taking a flier on his better-than-normal odds when you make your sports predictions.
Pick: Federer
Venus Williams (+250)
Last year's camp seems to be getting a lot of mileage out of past accomplishments; she failed miserably at the Aussie Open and French Open, losing in the first week. She does have two minor tourney wins this season, so her game isn't at rock bottom. She may not be worth the low value, though.
Serena Williams (+275)
After losing to her sister in last year's final, she's out for revenge and could very well get it. She never seems to fare well outside the Grand Slams but she saves her best performances for when it matters.
Maria Sharapova (+700)
Picking past champs always makes for good betting management and Sharapova took the Wimbledon crown in 2004. However, she's still gradually working her way back to form after she missed 10 months with a recurring shoulder injury. You still have to consider her because of the +700 value.


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Predictive analytics has been around for a while, as has machine learning, but it's only now with the profusion of cloud-based software in marketing that this form of data analysis has started to take off.
AgilOne is a US company, launched 2012, now branching into the UK, that provides predictive analytics software. I spoke to CMO Dominique Levin to find out more about this technology.
Is it powerful enough to make one-to-one marketing a possibility and not a fallacy?
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Data is of course the foundation of marketing. Data cleansing might be a fairly dry subject, but it's important.
"Send duplicate catalogues to a customer, get their gender wrong, or try to sell them lawnmowers when they live in an apartment", Dominique pointed out, and you'll soon compromise your marketing ROI.
With clean data, accurate segmentation of your customer base is possible. To achieve sophisticated segmentation of a large database is, however, resource heavy. You'll need data warehousing, a data scientist (not exactly ten-a-penny at the moment) and plenty of time set aside.
Rules based segmentation can get longwinded as it entails digging deeply into traditional measures of RFM (recency, frequency, monetary value) as well as product mix and reverse-engineering marketing spend.
That might be something, though, that's set to change with the coming of machine learning and predictive analytics.
Of course, machine learning doesn't make the use of rules-based data science redundant, but the power of computing in the cloud means predictive analytics software often trumps what can be achieved in-house.
Dominique referred to this technology as a 'democratizing power' for marketers. But what exactly is machine learning and predictive analytics?
What is machine learning?
Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, concerns the construction and study of systems that can learn from data.
A core objective of a learner is to generalize from its experience.[5][6] Generalization in this context is the ability of a learning machine to perform accurately on new, unseen examples/tasks after having experienced a learning data set.
How is it used?
AgilOne's solution has a number of different algorithms for analysing data:
- A clustering algorithm
- surfaces segments of an audience exhibiting certain behaviours. This modelling also helps to group company's products and brands.
- Propensity modelling
- gauges a customer's likelihood to buy (lead scoring), whether they have money left to spend with you, how likely they are to convert or unsubscribe.
- A recommendation engine, like Amazon's
- surfaces other products or services a customer might be interested in.
- Marketing spend analysis
- determines the most successful acquisition and retention methods by looking at how existing customers were caught and kept.
One of the main uses of these algorithms is to plug the results into an email service provider (or more broadly into a customer experience management package)
As with many SAAS solutions, the possibilities for tying predictive analytics into other solutions are manifold, whether in ecommerce, B2B CRM etc.
Third party data can also be included in analysis, from loyalty schemes to local weather. Ultimately, the power of the single customer view is only as powerful as the analysis one can then perform with it.
The data can also be used with social media, allowing a company to better target social audiences that perfectly match an 'ideal' customer base (for whatever product, offer or service is in question).
Future uses?
Dominique rightly pointed at that what excites marketers is tailoring a message to an audience.
The logical culmination of this is tailoring content to individual people in the market. In practice, this may never occur, but certainly fine segmentation is a goal.
Machine learning may eventually allow even for automated content creation and curation at an individual level. The goal is ensuring there's nothing in your brand communications that isn't compelling.
What about the uncanny valley?
At the moment, the software works with registered users and doesn't use anonymous visitor data. There's a lot of talk in personalisation about the 'uncanny valley' and how much is too much?
Many believe that behaviour-based personalisation (other than transactional) is a step too far, because many customers are already shopping with intent.
Especially if the user arrives through search, they already have an idea of what they want to achieve, and pushing them somewhere may interrupt this journey.
It's also the case that the uncanny valley is felt more by customers who aren't registered, because they may wonder just how the company has information about them that they feel they haven't explicitly provided.
And what are the implications?
Well, one might infer that this software does so much of the legwork that it could turf some marketers out of a job (that's the line I tried with Dominique).
But truth be told, if these solutions mean that marketing at a personal level becomes more sophisticated, then for now, the strategy, content creation and customer service involved will only increase.
Increasingly sophisticated marketing means its success and importance will increase, which is surely a great thing for all marketers.
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Interesting. I agree wholeheartedly that it will create more work for marketers to create and manage the process - however, one question is whether existing marketers can learn to work within this new world, as they haven't shown any real signs of being able to get to grips with tailored customer management strategies, or whether it will require a new breed of marketers to be trained and developed.
An excellent article Ben. Clearly the book on doing it right is still being written. To truly deliver 1:1 personalisation in real-time, requires gathering all of the interaction data in the most simple way possible, not just that which you tagged for. It then requires you to build a dynamic session and customer state on the fly, integrate with a real-time decision (RTD) system and then having an ability to take the decision from the RTD and affect an appropriate action in real-time i.e. sub 150ms. Those actions could be injecting targeted, personalised content into a website either directly or via the CMS or triggering an appropriate call from the contact centre or CRM/email system or any combination of these. No small task I am sure you will agree and one that requires the more technically savvy Enterprises to get to grips. It is however, one that many Banks and Retailers are now embarking on, as true 1:1 personalisation is for sure the new battleground.
We at Celebrus have been pioneering this exact capability with our OEM partners Teradata and SAS and our resellers for some time now and as someone said to us recently in a major Banking client, "the requirement to react to a users interactions "in session" is now an absolute given". The tailoring of content to an individual is a reality today, although a step too far for many. The uncanny valley you mentioned above i.e. anonymous data, is one of the keys here. If you were to base decisions solely on a users transactions or the fact that you know them, this would discount literally millions of individuals visiting your website. If however, you could build a users profile over time and talk to them in each and every stage of their lifecycle, surely this was always the promise of the web! The true beauty of the web is that you don't need to know the user to know what interests them, but the challenge is to use that information in real-time to then talk to the customer in a relevant, targeted and appropriate way.
Nice article Ben. I think the difficulty for a lot of advertisers is that while the concept of being able to provide real time, dynamic, one to one personalisation is really appealing, the difficulty lies in the cost and resource requirement to achieve it as it centres around capturing and collecting clean and accurate data.
As a result, while I'm sure some companies will start to lap this up, I also suspect that the majority will stick to continuing with their more basic but potentially safer RFM models.


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I'm starting to wonder about one of my neighbor's kids. I've done a google.com search to find out what are the typical symptoms of child abuse. What I've read, it hits about 50-50. Some things apply, but some don't. Of course, I wouldn't expect to see ALL signs and symptoms, but I have no idea what "normal" behavior is for a kid! It's been a long time since I've had a peds case. And, I don't have any kids. Can anyone give me some clues here? I don't want to call DFS quite yet, especially when I feel so stupid about children!
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Joined: Nov '00; Posts: 931; Likes: 18Oct 4, '02I say follow your gut. We nurses have very good intuition. Make the call and leave it to protective services to decide whether or not the children are in danger.Oct 4, '02I agree If you wait too long these children may have permanent psychological wounds and believe me it is better to be wrong then to have regrets later. Youth protection is unfortunately not always capable to follow trough all the cases submitted to them, but they will evaluate and if they feel there is potentiel life treatning issues they will be right in. Good luckOct 4, '02Youda,
If you suspect, report. Actually, in my state (and I assume in all) as a nurse, you are REQUIRED to report suspicious abuse.
You didn't say the age of the child..don't know what info you're wanting. I would advise to report, but if you're still hesitant to report, then let us know what your suspicions are..maybe we can help you. I deal with them on a daily basis, and let me tell you...
it's much better to report and be wrong than to not report and be right..
someone HAS to protect these kids...bless their heartsOct 4, '02Yeah, that's what I thought everyone would say. That's what I'd tell me to do, too, if it wasn't me we were talking about!
nurs4kids, what I'm seeing that is the most disturbing is cruelty to animals, far past the age when you could just shrug it off as too little to know better. Kicking a cat. Hitting a cat on the head with a rock. Then, there's a speech impediment, more like still talking "baby talk" at about age 5-6. Don't kids usually start talking clearer by that age? No hearing problems, I sorta already "tested" for that by talking quietly behind him and he heard me just fine. No visible bruising. But, I've seen the wife smack and kick the husband a few times, so makes me think it's happening to the kids, too.
Aw heck! As I write this, I realize what I'm writing, and it just makes me sick at the heart. I'm gonna have to do something.Oct 4, '02Yep Youda.....you are definitely going to have to do something, soooo....make that call.......I've been abused as a child......I say call.......better safe than sorry for that child. You may be his only way out of an abusive situation. Bless you for caring and reporting your suspicions. It's our job as nurses to report things like this.....and social services job to carry out the investigation into the child's home. ((((((((((to that child)))))) and all children suffering abuse right this very minute hoping someone will notice and rescue them from the abuse. :kiss
Nighty night!Oct 5, '02Youda,
For online info r/e child abuse, I know 2 great sites, and one less great - good site. First. look up Dave Pelzer - he has 4 sites - one for each book he has written (the first one is "A Child Called It". The second site - www.survivingtothrive.com has an excellent list of verbal, physical, and sexual abuse descriptions. The last site is www.ascasupport.org. I have used these sites myself. If you have the suspicion, you state law probably requires you to report. If you are concerned about reporting, Call child protection in the presence of a corroborating person, preferablly your family attorney. Good Luck - frankieApr 10, '04If you have a suspicion then follow it up. An anonymous report has got to be better than the possibility of seeing a body bag carried out of the house - all because you weren't sure.
It makes me really angry when I see patients come into my PICU with the most awful injuries, knowing that neighbours and relatives could have prevented such pain.Apr 11, '04Report is def the answer. God forbid but if anything happened to those children and you know you could have prevented it. you will feel so bad im sure. So go with your gut instinct and report
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The Great Shift is coming…. are you ready to Jump?
Fast forward to the the year 2242; A world in which death, disease, war and famine have been conquered, and where everything, including humans, are devices on Neuro, a complex network operating system that is controlled via human thought. Adam Winter has lived for nearly two hundred years in an eHuman body–a man of metal, fiber optics and plastic, on a world where no one dies and no one is born. Paradise on earth, until Adam discovers that the World Government is cutting power to entire cities, and his own city is on the list!
Trapped in a body that must recharge on the network, Adam is swept up into the underworld of an eHuman anti World Government resistance, led by Dawn, the very first eHuman created. While the Resistance wages war against those in power, Dawn reveals to Adam a shocking secret about their past that not only bonds them together, but is also the Resistance's ticket to gaining control over Neuro and taking down the World Government once and for all.
Caught between the past and the future, Adam must rise up, claim his inheritance, and face his destiny– before eHumanity is powered down, forever.
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On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont excoriated thirteen of his Democratic colleagues for opposing a non-binding budget amendment he and Sen. Amy Klobuchar proposed to create a deficit-neutral reserve fund in order to allow Americans to import cheaper prescription medications from Canada. It's an almost universally popular idea among members of both parties. Bernie Sanders likes it. Donald Trump likes it. Heck, even Ted Cruz likes it.
So why on earth would 13 Democrats oppose it?
Sen. Sanders thinks he knows the reason. "The Democratic Party has got to make it very clear that they are prepared to stand up to powerful special interests like the pharmaceutical industry and like Wall Street," he said (bold mine), "and they're not going to win elections and they're not going to be doing the right thing for the American people unless they have the guts to do that." It's a facile explanation, a riff on a message he'd recited hundreds of times while on the campaign trail.
It's also complete nonsense and a public smear against his colleagues, whose opposition had nothing to do with protecting the pharmaceutical industry and everything to do with writing a law that actually works, not just one that grabs headlines for a single politician.
The left-wing media reflexively ran with Sanders's explanation as gospel truth, slamming Sen. Cory Booker, in particular, for his perceived betrayal. "Progressives Outraged Over Booker, Democrats' Vote On Prescription Drugs From Canada," Roll Call reported. "Cory Booker's Bogus Excuse Betrays Progressives," claimed Michael Sainato of The Observer. Similarly, on social media, Booker was slammed as a "traitor," a "sell-out," and "a corporate shill."
Notably, this all occurred only a day after progressives and leftists had universally praised Booker for testifying against the confirmation of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General, in a daring and historic break from protocol. No member of the Senate had ever before testified against one of his colleagues in a confirmation hearing.
One day, he is hailed for his tenacity and integrity in opposing a nominee for Attorney General who had already been rejected once for a seat on the federal bench because of his racist statements. The next day, he is blasted as a tool of Big Pharma because he, along with 12 of his other Democratic colleagues, voted against a non-binding budget amendment authored by Bernie Sanders. Before he even had an opportunity to explain his vote, Sanders was on the attack.
It is true that in 2014, when he first ran for Senate, Cory Booker received $329,000 from the pharmaceutical industry. It placed him near the top of the list that year in industry donations. It's also not too surprising: New Jersey is home to 46 different pharmaceutical companies, including the headquarters of Johnson & Johnson, Merck, and Wyeth. $329,000 is a lot of money, and it's also the same amount of money the industry has donated to first-term Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, home to exactly zero pharmaceutical company headquarters. That money goes much further in Louisiana than it does in New Jersey.
It's also significantly less than the $4.5 million that then-Sen. Barack Obama raised from the pharmaceutical industry when he ran for President in 2008.
Last year, during his campaign for President, Bernie Sanders received $309,575 from the pharmaceutical industry. Of the 100 members of the Senate, he ranked third in donations from the industry.
For what it's worth, the 30 Democratic members who voted in favor of Sanders's amendment received a combined total of $1,038,971 from the pharmaceutical industry last year alone; if you include the donations Sanders, an Independent, received, the grand total is $1,348,546.
On the other hand, the 13 Democratic members who voted against his amendment raised a total of $1,039,339 from the industry.
But these aggregate totals are somewhat deceptive, because they belie the fact that nearly half of the amendment's Democratic supporters received either no donations or less than $10,000 from the industry, while over a dozen of them received anywhere between $40,000 to $240,000.
In other words, there isn't a direct correlation between a member's individual vote and the size of the donations they received from the industry. The largest beneficiary of campaign donations from the industry voted against it, and the second and third largest beneficiaries voted for it.
Sanders's explanation may sound good- that this was nothing more than a coup by the monied interests of Big Pharma; it certainly appeals to his base. But it's nothing more than a petulant excuse to cover for his failure to craft smart legislation on an issue with which almost everyone agrees in principle.
In obfuscating the true concerns about the amendment, Sanders leads his newly-created movement down a rabbit hole of innuendo and personal attacks, instead of encouraging civil collaboration on perfecting a piece of important legislation.
The amendment failed 46-52, and it required 60 votes for passage, which means that the 13 dissenting Democrats didn't actually affect the ultimate outcome whatsoever.
So, why did it fail?
Well, for starters, Sanders couldn't figure out if he wanted to create a fund to import drugs from Canada or the entire world. In its initial iteration, his amendment sought to establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to allow for the importation of drugs from "Canada and other countries." Amy Klobuchar subsequently cleaned up the language and eliminated "other countries" from its title.
But, aside from the confusion about the scope of this proposed reserve fund, the primary reason it failed is that Sanders misapprehended the mechanisms necessary to establish an importation process that conforms with FDA guidelines. It's not enough to say "these drugs must be safe;" there needs to be funding for quality control and compliance, which was never addressed.
Sure, this was a non-binding budget amendment, and some will argue that things could have simply been cleaned up later on. But it was ostensibly designed to be a funding mechanism, and instead, it read like a milquetoast resolution. There were a number of other amendments introduced that very day that included provisions for the Food and Drug Administration; Sanders's didn't, and it needed to.
In making the case for this legislation, Sanders spoke almost exclusively about the re-importation of patented American pharmaceuticals, and to be fair, that is an enormous part of the equation; it's also what most American consumers demand. However, it doesn't capture the entirety of the market. In some cases, American consumers may turn to Canadian compounding pharmacies for cheaper specialized medications; in others, Americans may want to purchase generic medications that are no longer patented and can be manufactured independently at a lower cost. And that's why we need FDA oversight and compliance.
It's easy to say, "Well, if Canada already approved these drugs, then why do we need the FDA to get involved?" Simple answer: Because the Canadian regulatory agency is responsible for protecting Canadian citizens, and the FDA is responsible for protecting American citizens.
Right now, we basically take foreign drug importers at their word. We require that they register, that they fill out some paperwork, that they label their products, and that they adhere to international best practice standards in manufacturing. But there's no way we can really guarantee any of that.
The demand for cheaper drugs from Canada has already created a boutique industry of online pharmacies that market almost exclusively to Americans, and most of these pharmacies are fraudulent. The drugs they sell may be deadly. Recently, a Canadian drug manufacturer was caught selling fake cancer drugs to American doctors.
And that is precisely why it's so important to get this legislation right, from the beginning.
If Bernie Sanders is serious about reducing drug prices, he should stop smearing his colleagues for rejecting his flawed amendment and instead start listening to them.


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