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Hi, in a nut shell, I'm creating a space-themed browser-based casual strategy game. I'm looking for talented illustrators to create images for "hyperspace cruisers" ... think: large ships, like imperial star destroyers (star wars ... see Google images) ... I"m NOT looking for smaller combat ships, like x-wing or tie fighters. The images should look like winning entries from this 99Designs contest: http://99designs.com/contests/10561 ... (i.e., black and white) ... and final winning entries should be vectors in .ai format.
Hi all, I'm working on a casual browser-based, futuristic, outer-space game ... think "Age of Empires" in space ... in a browser. At any rate, I'm looking for talented designers skilled in Adobe Illustrator (or similar drawing tool) that can create images that will be used to represent hyperspace cruisers ... large ships that can hold other smaller ships, cargo, crew, soldiers, etc. I'm looking for creative ideas ... alien, futuristic images that are less detailed but evoke a strong idea. IMPORTANT: I need all the images to look similar in style to the winning entries from this 99Designs contest.
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If you would prefer to submit a scanned sketch first before you do a lot of Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop work, I think that would be great. Ultimately, we'll be awarding the prize to the best finished VECTOR images and will require .ai files of the three ship designs.
** Example artwork that I think would work well ... I apologize in advance if it's bad form to use DeviantArt for this purpose. It's the best I could find in a pinch. PLEASE be original ... my intent is NOT that you copy these, only to show you things I think look cool as sources of inspiration.
IMPORTANTI'm not looking for 3D, colorful images like these examples ... I'm only providing these examples to demonstrate forms of ships I find interesting. All contest entries must be black and white and resemble my previous contest winner! http://99designs.com/contests/10561
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Around CNBC's global branches, there are many counterparts of Market Watch in the world.
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Asia Market Watch was a business news programme aired on CNBC Asia from 9 a.m. to noon, Hong Kong/Singapore/Taiwan time. The programme, presented by Amanda Drury, took its name from the previous CNBC US programme Market Watch. The programme was also aired in part on CNBC Europe and in its entirety in the US on CNBC World.
Although it was referred to as Asia Market Watch in programme listings and by some presenters, the programme's title sequence and graphics referred to the programme only as Market Watch since 30 October 2000. The programme, which debuted a new logo on 30 October 2006, then used the theme music previously adopted by Street Signs (as the same as formerly Business Center).
When the programme debuted in April 2000, it was entitled Asia Market Watch and only lasted for 1 hour with the 2nd half-hour a replay of the 1st half-hour. However, in October 2000, as part of CNBC Asia's extension of live regional programming, it was simply renamed Market Watch and aired live for 3½ hours on Weekdays (2 hours in the morning from 10–12 SIN time and 1½ hours from 14–15.30 SIN time). Prior to 2 January 2001, CNBC Asia used graphics for the show different from the one used by CNBC US.
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Last January, Governor Patrick announced a budget proposal for 2014 that would increase state taxes annually by $1.9 billion for the purpose of funding an "investment" in "education, innovation, and infrastructure." The governor also recommended a number of tax changes, which, he says, would provide for "a more progressive, equitable and transparent tax structure."
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Now House and Senate leaders have countered with a plan that would raise just $500 million in new tax revenue to be spent on transportation. Under this plan, the Legislature would combine a few of the governor's original proposals (including new taxes on tobacco and on computer services) with an increase in the gas tax.
The governor is threatening to veto this measure. If he does, the Legislature should override his veto.
The Beacon Hill Institute has issued reports over the last 12 years in which we compare Massachusetts' competitiveness against that of the other 49 states. Patrick has noted on several occasions that Massachusetts usually ranks first on our competitiveness index, as it did in our latest report. The index gives a substantial amount of weight to those factors — in particular, education and infrastructure — whose importance the governor emphasizes in his 2014 budget proposal. It also, however, recognizes the negative effects of higher taxes on competitiveness.
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The House-Senate plan is imperfect. It does raise taxes, after all, and in an arguably infelicitous fashion, when it would have been possible to free up $500 million in transportation revenue by belt tightening elsewhere. But state legislators can feel comfortable overriding the governor's veto and living with what their leaders have produced, in that they will thereby avoid delivering a far more severe blow to the state's economy.David G. Tuerck is Executive Director of the Beacon Hill Institute and Chairman and Professor of Economics at Suffolk University. Rosolino Candela is a PhD student in economics at Suffolk University.


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The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against a Highway Patrol trooper's same-sex partner who was seeking survivor benefits.
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The statute governing survivor benefits defines marriage as between a man and woman. Missouri also has a prohibition on same-sex marriage in the state constitution and in state law.
Engelhard's partner, Kelly Glossip, did not receive the benefit. Glossip argued that it violated the equal protection clause of the state constitution.
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"If Glossip and the patrolman had been of different sexes, Glossip would have still been denied benefits no matter how long or close their relationship had been," the Supreme Court wrote. "The result cannot be any different here simply because Glossip and the patrolman were of the same sex. The statute discriminates solely on the basis of marital status, not sexual orientation."
Tony Rothert, an attorney who represented Glossip, said it is disrespectful for the state to treat the men as strangers. Glossip and Engelhard lived together since 1995.
"We are hopeful that the people of Missouri will see how important it is to pass legislation to prevent discrimination against lesbians and gays," said Rothert, the legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri.
Judges Richard B. Teitelman and George W. Draper III dissented from the high court's majority ruling, which was not attributed to any particular judge.
"The plain meaning and intended application … is to specifically discriminate against gay men and lesbians by categorically denying them crucial state benefits when their partner dies in the line of duty," Teitelman wrote. "This type of intentional, invidious and specifically targeted discrimination is fundamentally inconsistent with the constitutional guarantee of equal protection under the law."


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FS#884 - Tool for copying/pasting selected entities along a path
Not sure how complicated this one might be to develop/implement ?
But a tool for copying/pasting entities along a given path would be great. In the attached snapshot you can see what I am trying to acheive - to copy/paste the brick along a wall contour. A dedicated tool for doing something like this would be great...sure I can do it with the tools provided in QCAD already but it sure would make life so much easier if there was a tool specific for this kind of thing.
I am actually working on some 'real'work projects with these requirements and it does take a bit of time to get correct!
Or maybe an additional Points tool option to plant points along a curve would be good!
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I tried starting one of these about 6 months ago, but it didn't go so well and quickly got locked. Let's try this again because I have a lot of work frustrations that I would like to get out and feel like starting a work/business/finance specific thread instead of using the Lounge thread.
I'm about to piss someone off at work royally because I'm upstaging them. There is a person at work that writes reports and he's pretty much the only person that is capable of writing reports. Also, this is pretty much his only responsibility as well. However, whenever someone requests a report from him, he gets all pissy and says that he has too much work to do, it'll take too long, he has more important things to do, etc. Also, you have to hound him mercilessly and then he'll get you your report 3 months after you needed it. I've since manage all the requests through his boss who sits across the cube row from me since this guy's To Do list keeps growing because he completes things from the list at a VERY slow rate. This is extremely frustrating and his boss also shares this frustration. Now, I've volunteered to learn the reporting system that he uses. I've started writing a report that he says will take at least a day, maybe two, to complete. Well, I've gotten 80% of the work done on the report in an hour today and I just started learning this system and I don't know that much about programming SQL that well. I'm purposely trying to make this guy look bad by getting things done in a few hours that he says take a few days to do and I'm not being bashful about letting people know about it as well. I don't care if this guy gets pissed off at me because he's the type of guy where if you give him $20, he'll get pissed at you for being a cheapskate because you didn't give him $50. I'm completely upstaging this guy and he'll either get pissed off and quit or his productivity will greatly increase. Either way, I'm happy because work is getting done more quickly.
I tried starting one of these about 6 months ago, but it didn't go so well and quickly got locked. Let's try this again because I have a lot of work frustrations that I would like to get out and feel like starting a work/business/finance specific thread instead of using the Lounge thread.
^^ Showing initiative and taking leadership should always be rewarded. If you work for a comapny that does not recognize this, run as fast as you can. If you're a boss that punishes initiative and leadership, I hope you have superior networking skills because that's all you have going for you in your "career".
This guy's boss is actually wants me to help out because he also feels the frustration of the lazy guy. Now, my boss doesn't really want me doing stuff like this because it is not my group's responsibility to do the report writing. However, my customers are very frustrated because they request reports to be written that are very easy to write, but they don't get done for 4 months. I'm pretty customer service oriented, I have the ambition, I'm willing to learn the skills, and I want to be responsive to my customers and that is why I'm taking on this extra work. Also, my boss doesn't have to know that I'm taking on this responsibility until I'm already doing it. There are lots of things that I do that he doesn't know about and wouldn't be happy if he knew, but I like getting things done at my job and if I have to step on some toes and go behind some backs when I need to, I'll do that.
When I see someone giving their attention to an area that needs improvement outside of their core work (and assuming they are fully delivering on their core work) it says a few things. Mainly, the fact you have enough time to do this extra work means your core assignment is not utilizing you 100%. If your direct manager does not have enough work/respobilities to give to you then he should be open to the possibility of letting you flow to where you can be utilized.
+1 Caehlan. You must perform your core responsibilities at a high level, period. Gold plated reports will get you nowhere when you get fired for not shoveling mulch like your job description says.
Trust me, my core responsibilities are getting done and my internal customers keep telling my boss how good of a job that I'm doing. Because of my work, I've saved about $7mil in capital purchases this year. I'm definitely earning my salary.
Great job documenting that. It's now one of your top three resume bullets!
Also, the lazy guy does get bombarded with requests. However, most of these are quick, easy report requests that get bumped for harder, more time consuming requests. The way that I see it is that I'll be able to turn around the quick, easy requests quickly and easily and he can work on the harder reports. Then, my customers are happy because they get a report they asked for within a few days instead of 4 months later when they don't need it anymore.
If you're in competition with the other guy with regard to the number of reports you produce, it sounds like you're going to be on a rather uneven playing field. Removing all the irrelevant "this guy is such an asshole" stuff, it sounds like he's going to be treated rather unfairly. It seems like it will be a hollow victory if you succeed in producing a greater number of reports than he does.
On the other hand, it sounds like the whole situation might be coming about because your boss is looking for a quantifiable reason to shitcan this guy. I guess you can be proud of doing your bit to speed that process along.
I could make Sepracor more than $1 billion by the end of 2008 if they hired me as their CEO.
My original goal is to get more of these reports done in a timely manner because they aren't being done at the moment. That is by far my top priority for doing this. My secondary goal is to get this guy to change his attitude because he sees his job security threatened because it's apparent that he's lazy and that report writing is not that difficult or that we find someone else to write reports whether it be me or we hire someone else to write these reports after lazy guy quits or gets fired.
It doesn't sound like the guy is lazy, so much as either he or his boss are horrible at prioritizing his work.
That type of bold statement requires some backing. 'Splain!
Interesting comments from Mervyn King on the role of central banks in the credit markets.
They're sitting on a goldmine, but they're not taking advantage of it.
At the end of 2007, CFC inhalers will no longer be made, leaving nothing but brand-name HFA inhalers on the market. For albuterol, that means you've got Proair, Ventolin, and Proventil.
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Where the hell did all this work suddenly come from??!?!?
It still doesn't matter. It'd be trivial to make it up in volume.
But doing it soley to make someone else look bad is just being a jerk.
Arrogance is a pretty shitty quality to have in the working world. Drop it, or you're no better than the other guy.
Ever try doing that? It ain't easy.
Most HMO formularies require prescriptions to be filled with generics over name brands. If you cut your price to undercut generics, you'd make no $$. The generic market is based around razor thin margins, but high volume. You can't beat them at that game.
You're a master of the obvious. Naturally it's not easy. But it can and is done every day. Ever wondered why your copay abruptly changed on a drug you've been getting, or stopped being covered altogether in favor of something else?
Happens all the time. Not to mention making the formularies at institutions. There's a goldmine there, too.
I think you missed the part where there won't be any generics as of January 1, 2008.
And you can beat them at that game. Merck did it with Zocor, actually. And then there're instances of Big Pharma companies owning their own generic companies. For example, Novartis recently acquired Sandoz, a generic drugmaker.
That's pretty funny coming from you.
I don't like the fact you want to HELP Big Pharma because they should all be opperating on the razors edge. They should make enough money to pay their employees fair wages and continue research not post record profits year after year and pay high level execs millions.
Capitalism beats not-for-profit R&D any day of the week. The Cold War is a prime example of this.
Medicine is driven by R&D. Without the possibility of profit, there's no incentive to take risk. And drug development is VERY risky business.
"Negotiate" would be a better word than "force". They tell X PBM that if they make them a preferred drug, they'll give them Y discount.
Oh, and when you go to a hospital, they're working from a FAR more limited formulary than your insurance company has. Probably one drug in each class, and that's about it.
For clinical purposes, it's as strong as regular Prilosec. And there's no harm in taking it constantly. That was a worry when it first came out, but not anymore. The warning is on the box because if you need to take Prilosec constantly, you want to make sure you don't have a more serious problem.
How much is your health worth? When it costs $500-1000 million dollars to develop a drug, how do you pay for it? What about the drugs that fail during those (very expensive) clinical trials? Patents are a positive thing for capitalism. Patents that last forever + 1 day are not. Thankfully, drug patents do not fall into this category.
These feel-good bullshit about medicine not being subject to the same economic principles as the rest of the world is just that: bullshit. It costs money to invent new treatments, and there's no reason one should not profit by making people healthy. And as soon as the profit incentive is removed from the equation, there's zero motivation to develop new treatments.
Did I read it wrong? I thought it said it was being cut to price match the generic.
All those things are tightly contested markets. It takes a shitload of time, effot, and price reduction to get on formulary with, say, the VA or something
Zocor had a higher efficacy. The best way to get on formulary is to show efficay improvements, which involved clinical trials, which cost millions of dollars. Not saying it can;t be done, but it's not as easy as saying "Man, if we were on formulary at the VA, we'd make billions! Why didn't we think of that before?"
Also, where have you been in every single pharma thread I've been involved in? I could have used the backup, since we seem to have pretty identical feelings about the industry. help a bro out!
Who pays for new drugs?
You have no right to health, or health care, in this country. None. Not saying thats a good or bad thing, but it's a fact.
And as hanser said, private vs publically funded R&D is pretty one sided when it comes to past results.
Our R&D head characterizes it like this: "Drug Development is like trying to hit a bullseye on a dartboard 100 feet away, with one eye closed. So, they best way to do that is to grab a whole fistful of darts and throw them all at the board, hoping one gets a bullseye. The problem is, each dart costs about 10 million dollars"
You;re focusing on cost, not value. Is $5 an acceptable price for you to pay to not suufer the ailment the drug is preventing/treating?
People pay $6 for starbucks, but have problems paying $5 for a pill that will help them live longer.
Presciption drugs only get the limelight because they are one of the very few areas of medicine where a patient sees an out of pocket cost. If Drugs cost DOUBLE what they did now, but were covered 100% by insurance companies (which then passed the cost on to you and to your employer through higher premiums) no one would give a shit about them.
I would because that sounds like a ridiculos amount of money. What are they milking unicorns or something? how much are people who do research on new drugs paid? If it costs $500 million to develope one drug, I'm in the wrong god damn line of business since even with 5,000 working on it thats $100,000 a person and I doubt companies have 5,000 working on one drug.
Before you people flame me some more I don't LIKE the reality of it, and wish for something better, so don't get all up on my back about "how it is." I don't care how it is, it just seems like bullshit to me.
Legal and regulatory affairs are VERY expensive things.
Then educate yourself.
I'm considering buying into Northern Rock
Give it a couple more days and they'll probably sell it to you.
I just had a conversation with an engineer here. He re-engineered a process here to reduce cycle time, improve yield by 1.5%, reduced maintenanec costs by 25%, and increased throughput enough to cancel a tool purchase of $2.5mil. All that he got was a $200 bonus and a t-shirt.
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Hell, that whole thing should be ON the t-shirt
If it takes those 5,000 people 10 years to get the drug to the point where they can sell it, then that's just $10,000 a year.
Yes, of course there aren't 5,000 people working on 1 drug (at least not directly or exclusively), but there are all kinds of variables that go into R&D that aren't necessarily clear from the outside, not to mention the regulatory hurdles and the cost of the R&D for the drugs that never make it to market.
Yes, I admit that it can be kind of galling when a pharmaceuticals company rakes in cash hand over fist charging what most of the country can barely afford, and what much of the world can't afford at all... but I can't, off the top of my head, think of a better way to do it. If the "right" price is the generic price, then I'd rather the people who can't afford the drug while it's under patent wait and be able to access it down the line when patent protection has ended, since the alternative seems to be that the drug isn't produced at all, and no one ever gets to benefit now or in the future.
If you have a better solution, I'd be glad to hear it.
Well, several of you mentioned Regulatory hurdles and costs. Is there a way the .gov could reduce those hurdles and costs WITHOUT reducing safety? If so it seems like an area they should be focusing on, but the FDA isnt known for its bulletproof credibility anymore.
If the pharma division has another department paying their bills, they have no incentive to keep their costs under control. There rich brother department will always bail them out.
Furthermore, having another department (say medical equipment) pay for a drug doesn't help consumers at all. What's the point of saving X on a drug if you have to pay X more at the hospital because all the hospital's medical equipment cost more.
I know the SVP of Drug Development Sciences at GSK's R+D group and I can most assuredly tell you that drug production is a legal minefield littered with many, many hurdles. While he loves his job, one of the most difficult parts of it is pricing a drug to recoup fixed costs and make a profit for the shareholders while trying to keep it affordable.
This is what happens already. The blockbusters carry the company for the drugs that fail, or the drugs that make it to market but are niche, and not especially profitable so they don't break even. This is how all companies function, especially when they're taking new risks, like MS's console division.
Most pharmaceutical companies have aid programs to help those without the means get access to lifesaving drugs. Most of the population doesn't meet that criteria because this is such a rich country.
Drugs aren't the driving force behind higher healthcare costs, by the way. That'd be your medical procedures/tests/interventions. People bitch about drug costs because it's really the only thing they think they know something about when it comes to paying for their healthcare. Everything else is hidden. Drugs went up by 5%, on average, and everything else went up by 10%.
This is the real problem. We should have some concept of what things cost before we do them, but that's not the way the system is set up.
I disagree, what about all those $50 tylenol at the hospital
I actually do look at all the medical bills including what the total amount that gets paid in the end is. I agree a 30 min doctor office visit runs in the $200 range, but I don't know enough about how an average private pratice doctors finances work to say if thats overpriced or not. I don't see many one office pratice doctors on the TOP 100 RICHES lists, yet I see many Pharma CEOs and such, so from a stupid laypersons point of view thats where I see more waste.
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|Home Sweet Home
Vincenzo Cilli and Toni Cipriani walking to Cilli's black Kuruma.
|GTA Liberty City Stories
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|Atlantic Quays, Portland, Liberty City
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Home Sweet Home is the first mission in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, given to protagonist Toni Cipriani by Vincenzo Cilli. The mission is triggered automatically at the start of the game, following the opening introduction.
The mission begins after Toni, who had just returned to Liberty City, and Vincenzo leave Salvatore Leone's Gentlemen's Club. Vincenzo tells Toni to drive to the new apartment he has rented for him and then to take him to his warehouse in Atlantic Quays. After the drive to the apartment, Toni enters and changes into a new set of clothes. Toni then drives Vincenzo to his warehouse, with Vincenzo reminding him that he is the boss.
Completion of the mission opens up the free roam gameplay outside of the mission for the first time. The mission Slacker, also for Vincenzo, is unlocked. The Casual Clothes Outfit and the Leone's Suit outfit are both unlocked in the wardrobe of the apartment in Saint Marks. The monetary reward for the mission is $100.
- Like most other games, the player need not follow Vincenzo Cilli's instruction to drive the car.
- The Kuruma is fireproof but there is no way to keep it after the mission.
- The first car you drive is the Kuruma, the same car you need to drive in the beginning of GTA III.
- The song playing while Toni is on the phone are two different remixes to the GTA III theme.
- Toni's casuals resemble Claude's.
- During this mission it is impossible to get a wanted level.
Toni Cipriani entering Vincenzo Cilli's black Kuruma.
Toni Cipriani and Vincenzo Cilli arriving at Toni's new safehouse.
Vincenzo Cilli telling Toni Cipriani about his new safehouse.
Toni Cipriani about to enter his new safehouse.
The player being introduced to saving the game, with Toni Cipriani in the background.
Toni Cipriani in his new clothes, the Leone Outfit.
Toni Cipriani and Vincenzo Cilli driving towards Cilli's warehouse.
Toni Cipriani and Vincenzo Cilli outside Cilli's warehouse in Atlantic Quays.
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Act-On Insight Lets Businesses See How They're Seen Online
Jun 29, 2012 5:00 AM PT
Marketing automation provider Act-On Software has added a unique feature to its product lineup that allows users to track, compare, and then take action on what is being said online and in social media about their company or executives.
Act-On Insight lets users benchmark and track these mentions, as well as other online marketing metrics, from one dashboard. The feature is important to small and medium-sized businesses, a space that happens to be Act-On's core focus, said Atri Chatterjee, chief marketing officer.
"The SMB segment is very underpenetrated with marketing solutions that cater to this segment," he told CRM Buyer. "That is why this feature is proving to be very popular with our users."
Act-On Insight answers key questions for these businesses, Chatterjee continued. "All marketers want to know, 'How am I doing? What does my marketing look like to prospective customers? Where am I ranked? What is my competition doing that I am not doing?'"
Act-on Insight can answer these questions via its one dashboard, he said. "We do this by aggregating the information that can be found on the Web. Then we present it to the marketer in a simple, easy-to-understand format."
Blogs, Social Networks, YouTube and Search Terms
Act-On Insight tracks several online elements that give businesses a sense of how and where they stand in their particular universe. It provides reporting and improvement tracking on the site's popularity, as well as search terms or keywords that are important to a particular company.
"For example, I might decide to track such keywords as "marketing automation" or "demand generation," Chatterjee said. "I can compare how well Act-On does with those keywords and how well our competitors do."
Elements that Act-on Insight measures include blogs -- a user's own and its competitors. Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, of course, are essential metrics that are also looked at and analyzed in terms of popularity as well. Ditto a YouTube channel -- a user can track, measure and compare its channel with any number of competitors.
Once this comparative data is in hand, the analysis can lead a company in all sorts of directions, Chatterjee said. "For example, you might see that XYZ company -- your competition -- is doing better than you in a particular search term or in a particular conversation. Ultimately, you might determine that is because it has several excellent white papers available for download on its site."
Another benefit to the product is that it makes it easy for a company to identify influencers in its space, he added.
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Act-On Insight is available for free to the company's users. The product itself starts its subscriptions at US$500 a month. It is a remarkably cheap deal considering what it provides -- and the fact that there are few companies that offer anything comparable, Ian Michiels, principal analyst at Gleanster Research, told CRM Buyer.
"For some reason, monitoring and ranking of social media popularity is still an emerging technology, even though other elements of social media technology are rapidly maturing," he said.
"The closest comparable product I have seen is offered by HubSpot," noted Michiels, "which offers users similar competitive benchmarks."
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It is surprising that there aren't more products or features likes these, Michiels said.
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The Elf on the Shelf® may SEEM like a simple creature -- an elf/minion of Santa Claus who comes out every year on Thanksgiving and switches places each night so children can enjoy searching for him every morning. It's a holiday "tradition" that started just a few years ago when writer Carol Aebersold self-published a book about her own holiday tradition.
The idea is simple in her original book -- The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition®. The elf watches the family and observes their behavior, flying back nightly to Santa to report on their behavior and then coming back to a new position to watch the family again.
It all seems so innocuous! So innocent! So whimsical! So why are SO many moms turning this into the new mommy wars?
The amount of backlash around this darn elf would be comical were it not real and highly contentious. In one camp there are the "cool" moms and, in the other, the Betty Crocker wannabes who hide the doll with home baked cookies, gifts, and unique accessories.
It is, admittedly, exhausting if you play it that way. But who does that? We did the Elf last year (this year it's in storage as we are mid-move) and it was fun. But we never told our kids the elf was "watching them" or reporting on their behavior. We just said he was a cute elf visiting for December and they could look for him. My husband and I did minimal effort, hiding him in the same places multiple times, and my kids thought it was hilarious.
That's as deep as it went, people. That's it. And most of my friends who DO do it have similar stories. Of course, though, like any other lightning rod parenting issue, this elf has its haters.
Naturally, there is some real snobbery and sanctimony inherent to the Elf on the Shelf® hatred. There is a "kind" of woman who does it and a "kind" of woman who doesn't. The latter are way too cool for school and spend a lot of time hating on the former kind. As Mary Elizabeth Williams says in her column for Salon:
... he's an Orwellian nightmare. Let's teach our children that privacy is meaningless! I may have grown up with a Santa who sees you when you're sleeping and knows when you're awake, but my Santa was never lurking around in my house, keeping tabs on me for weeks at a time. I don't know, I just find the whole concept of an advent-long period of intense scrutiny by some judgmental little voyeur in a pointy hat creepy.
But does he have to be? Couldn't he just be a fun little scavenger hunt for kids? Couldn't he just be a bit of magic and excitement in the morning and nothing more? Why does everyone have to take everything so darn seriously?
Obviously, at some schools where this elf is de rigueur, it's a competition that adds stress to an already hectic holiday month. In addition, it's an artificial "tradition" that is marketed to the hilt. But it was once Aebersold's own tradition, something her parents did for her. And presumably she wanted to share it not to get rich, but to share something that meant something to her.
There is pressure to do the best elf hiding places and presents and on and on, and sure, that is annoying. It feels like one more huge thing in a month that is already chock-full of "huge things" between buying gifts for family, friends, and teachers; attending parties; and baking non-stop. But that pressure is self-created. I half assed the whole thing last year and my kids still loved it. We can't do everything with our kids and that has to be OK.
I think the hatred of the elf has more to do with our own perceived failings and mom guilt than with anything else. Not everything has to be done just so. Sometimes just doing it can be fun. Or not. If you hate it, don't do it. But don't walk around writing essays about how stupid the elf is or how awful the moms who do it are. Why not just live and let live? Do you and I'll do me, thanks.
One thing I know for sure this holiday season: If I need a darn elf to tell me what "kind" of mom I am or what "kind of woman" -- urban versus suburban, a mom with a life versus Betty Crocker -- then I have bigger problems than just a lack of holiday spirit.
Do you like or dislike the elf? Why do you think people are so obsessed with it?
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James Murrell signs to play tennis for Lipscomb
July 25, 2007
James Murrell from Franklin, Tenn., has signed to play tennis for the Lipscomb Bisons.
James, 5-8 ½, was born in the Philippines. He is a graduate of Faith Academy. He won the National Junior Open title in the Philippines.
His brother William played for the Bisons.
James plans to major in Business.
"I chose Lipscomb because it was close to home, had a great tennis program and a great campus," James said.
His parents are Deborah and Steve Murrell. He also has a younger brother, Jonathan.


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Fact Sheet
Drug Names and Manufacturers
September 23, 2013
Combination medications: Some manufacturers have combined more than one drug into a single tablet or capsule. Combinations within a single class are listed below. Combinations of more than one type of drug are discussed in Fact Sheet 470.
1. Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors ("Nukes")
The first anti-HIV drugs. They block reverse transcription (the creation of viral DNA from RNA) by providing "decoy" building blocks that interrupt the process. Most are nucleoside analogs; tenofovir is a nucleotide analog.
2. Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
These also interrupt reverse transcription, by binding to the reverse transcriptase enzyme and restricting its activity.
3. Protease Inhibitors
Block the action of protease, an enzyme that cuts HIV protein chains into specific proteins needed to assemble a new copy of the virus. NOTE: when you see "/r" after the name of a protease inhibitor, that means it is boosted with a small dose of ritonavir. For example, SQV/r means saquinavir boosted with ritonavir. At present, only lopinavir and ritonavir are available in a single pill.
4. Integrase Inhibitors
Block the action of integrase, an enzyme that inserts the viral DNA into the infected cell's DNA strands.
5. Attachment and Fusion Inhibitors
Prevent HIV from attaching to a cell.
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The sleek Range Rover Evoque two-door compact SUV debuted this afternoon, looking quite a bit like the LRX concept that previewed it. The company promises it'll be fuel efficient and highly capable, but a FWD Range Rover is slightly blasphemous.
The new Range Rover Evoque debuted in coupe form with none other than Posh Spice (a.k.a. Victoria Beckham) on hand, which should give some hint as to the direction the car is going.
The model is available in both two-door and four-door form. Base Evoques will be offered with FWD — making it the first two-wheel-drive Range Rover in history, though it's not a lock that this version will be available in the United States. Engines will be a low-C02 diesel mill for Europe and a V6 for the U.S., but we're not yet sure where the six-cylinder will come from.


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Re: Squad 1 - Wrath Squadron
I'll try >.>
I'll do my best. My handiwork is 1 so I have a decent chance of succeeding, but it isn't guaranteed.BFett wrote:Taelupis please assist chazz with fixing my suit and helmet. I'll die half way through the turn if the helmet remains unsealed.
There really isn't much you can do right now, as far as i can tell. Wait 'till we patch you up and then I guess you can go explore the room we are in.Grimm wrote:I'm struggling a bit with actions for Kalah, is there anything I should do? She isn't in much shape to do..well, anything.
She probably won't do this the best, her perception is 0 and on top of that she'll almost certainly get a malus for the duct tape over her helmet. Not like it's needed, anyway - the only major thing in the room seems to be the crucible. I can comb over parts of the room for small objects and doorways after I'm done checking out the crucible, though.BFett wrote: Also, please examine the room for me, Try to see what is in it and what might be useful. I have no idea what's in here.
Yeah, you've got a point there.BFett wrote:Well, it's practically a free action since she can't move or do anything else this turn. Even if she can just see basic details such as what the floor and walls are made of, where the light sources are coming from, and possibly the size of this room and where it seems to lead.
(This is all stuff I'd be doing if I was awake, and a bad roll really isn't going to kill anyone.)
Do not remove your helmet!!!!BFett wrote:Maybe bite down hard on a cloth
I have to agree with Cha0zz, ignore the idea about biting down on a cloth. Just grit your teeth and hope for the best.Cha0zz wrote:Do not remove your helmet!!!!BFett wrote:Maybe bite down hard on a cloth
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Dr. Grumpy: "Have you had any neck pain?"
Mr. Awesome: "I have no idea."
Dr. Grumpy: "You don't know if you have neck pain?"
Mr. Awesome: "Look, doc, I'm 89. If you pay attention to every ache and pain at my age you become a fucking hypochondriac."
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
Mr. Awesome is aptly named.
Not quite that many years yet, but approaching at a rapid rate. I do check for the usual aches and pains on awakening - just to make sure I am awake and not recently deceased. Learned the hard way that if something that used to be on the list suddenly disappears it could be a sign of trouble. So all those twinges have become fast friends. It's the new interlopers and the deserters I worry about.
stay safe.
Hah! My grandmother lived to be 85 years old and she said to me (I'm one of her granddaughters)"My memory doesn't work like it used to, I don't feel well most of the time, but I'm old, so that's the way it is". I miss her. For being 'old' she was pretty cool.
Yep, pretty much, your patient is awesome.
That's going to be my new motto (well, I'm not close to 89, but I hope I remember it as I get closer).
My mother age 92, living alone in her own home until about 3 months ago, had to go into a rehab, to get back on her feet--so now going home again--which she greatly wants--said to me, I have to take better care of myself so that doesn't happen again, but it seems like in the last year everything has fallen apart. Rock on Mom.
Hahahahah! Props to Mr. Awesome! I wish more of my patients were like him! Would make the decision to transport much easier.
Truer words were never said.
shouldn't he receive Patient Of The Month Award?
At my age (75) all I can say after ROFLMAO is you go Mr. Awesome !!
That is the BEST pt quote EVER!!!! It's very true though, wish more pt's would have the very same outlook
Patient of the year award. After all the twenty-somethings who come in the urgent care because of twitching eyelids and a vague pain in the back or a runny nose that's lasted over a week!
My grandmother made it to mid 90s and I can see her saying the same thing. She told her cardiologist he had to be her primary doc because she'd outlived her last two internists. He agreed to make her his exception.
Give that man a cee-gar!!! Definitely "Patient-of-the-Year"!!!
So, SO, awesome!! Great nickname.
Dude, seriously. I'm nowhere near his age, but I've got enough aches and ows that if I spent time worrying over every little one I'd be a frequent flyer pissing off the local ER.
10 minutes after an ow has hit I've forgotten all about it. I'm about to hit my 10th week of apparently idiopathic vertigo and I no longer even notice when it hits. Unless it's a lasting 12 on the 1-10 pain scale, I'm not gonna remember it. It's just part of life.
I'm only 66 but my tennis partner and I laugh about every sweet young thing we defeat who starts blaming her loss on some minor injury or ailment.
After a certain age (and it's a lot younger than 89), most people never have a day w/o some ache, pain or other malaise.
You ignore it or you don't have a live.
That was a smile I needed today.
Mr. A:
You da man!
Grumpy: Hope you get a couple more like him! It'll keep you entertained!
I am like Moose. I'm only 30 but have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and a handful other "fun" and mostly painful disorders. I have been told by a few specialists that I should keep a pain and injury 'journal' but just can't do it as it would be too depressing to keep track of it all and my non-eds knowledgable doctors would think I was greatly over exaggerating things (I wish!). I love this guys response and going to have to remember it.
I've declared a 'no winge zone' while I'm on a family holiday. I refuse to complain, or acknowledge the symptoms of my chronic condition, except to take meds, and appropriate action to alliviate discomfort where this won't interfere with the current activity. It's working really well for all of us, though my gran was a little surprised the first time I fell over in front of her and everyone just ignored that it had happened.
Pretending to be well (and having everyone else pretend with me) might not be a functional long-term strategy, but it's making me feel like I have a holiday from my illness.
I want patients like that!
The F-bomb drop done right. Take notes.
5 points for Mr. Awesome. Its the truth!
My hero! Will share this with my 80 year old father who is of the same mind-set.
Can I bottle that and hand it out to some of my hypochondriacs? Please?
Mr Awesome is awesome. Reminds me of a fellow I saw a few weeks ago.
Last I saw he was a somewhat frail 83 year old with type two diabetes and numerous other issues, but he was a tough old logger.
At the end of a 9 hour shift, and I am very fatigued, in he walks - now 87 years old.
"I know what you are thinking," he says, "You think I believed all those rumours that you had died, so you can't imagine how glad I am to see you are still alive and practicing pharmacy."
I cracked up laughing and we had a good talk. What a character.
I once admitted (as in I was the nursing doing the admission assessment and paperwork) a 97 year old woman to the hospital after a syncopal episode. Her medication list was, "Well I do have a bottle of aspirin in the cabinet, I think I took two last fall" She answered "no" to all of my long list of questions about medical conditions. Then I asked her about back pain. "Well, when I moved up here to Castle Gardens, my grandson bought me 50 tulip bulbs. There are so many rocks there, by the time I was done planting those bulbs I had a pile this high. (about 3 feet). That night, my back did pain me some. " That was the only positive answer to all my questions. She did tell me she had lived too long, that everyone she knew had died. It turned out her heart was finally getting weak. They put her on digoxin, but she was dubious about the idea of taking a pill every day even when she felt OK. I don't know any more of her story. It was just such a contrast to all the 59 and 63 and 71 year old people on 30 medications who we usually had as patients. I wondered if those other people were just unlucky, or if just having the attitude that one didn't need pills made one healthier.
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About IVDB
Influenza virus (IV) is the causative agent of several serious influenza pandemics. Recently, a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (AIV; H5N1) has resulted in the death of more than 100 people and the slaughter of millions of poultry in Asia, Europe, and Africa. The Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has been sequencing various influenza viruses collected by scientists of different institutions from different parts of China. We have sequenced isolates of AIV subtype H5N1 from 1997 to 2005 in different hosts found in China, such as wild birds, poultry, water fowls, and mammals. BIG also has an on-going effort to generate more AIV/IV sequences. Meanwhile, significant international efforts in sequencing the viral isolates have been made worldwide that the number of IV sequences has been rising rapidly in public resources.
Frequent outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza and the increasing data for comparative analysis require a central database specialized in influenza virus. We established the Influenza Virus Database (IVDB) to integrate information and to create an analysis platform for genetic, genomic, and phylogenetic studies of the virus. IVDB hosts complete genome sequences of influenza A virus generated by Beijing Institute of Genomics and curates all other published influenza virus sequences after expert annotations. For the convenience of efficient data utilization, our Q-Filter system classifies and ranks all nucleotide sequences into 7 categories according to sequence content and integrity. IVDB provides a series of tools and viewers for analyzing the viral genomes, genes, genetic polymorphisms and phylogenetic relationships comparatively. A searching system is developed for users to retrieve a combination of different data types by setting various search options. To facilitate analysis of the global viral transmission and evolution, the IV Sequence Distribution Tool (IVDT) is developed to display worldwide geographic distribution of the viral genotypes and to couple genomic data with epidemiological data. The BLAST, multiple sequence alignment tools and phylogenetic analysis tools were integrated for online data analysis. Furthermore, IVDB offers instant access to the pre-computed alignments and polymorphism analysis of influenza virus genes and proteins and presents the results by SNP distribution plots and minor allele distributions.IVDB continues to make enhancements to its data quality, utility and functionality, aiming to be a powerful information resource and an analysis workbench for scientists working on IV genetics, evolution, diagnostics, vaccine development, and drug design.
Data Sources & Data Curation
As an integrated IV information resource, IVDB contains both BIG's data and data from public resources. BIG data have been submitted to NCBI and are being processed now. Data from NCBI Influenza Virus Resource (by U.S. National Institute of Health) form the backbone of the database. Since ISD (Influenza Sequence Database, by Los Alamos National Laboratory of the U.S.) accepts direct submission and contains some IV sequences that are absent in NCBI's Influenza Virus Resource, IVDB integrates additional 2,242 sequence segments from ISD. The current protein 3-D structural data are mainly from PDB (Protein Data Bank). More 3-D data will be acquired from our collaborators expertized in protein 3-D modeling.
All data in IVDB have been curated manually since data quality is of crucial importance for analysis. The main data curations include:
Furthermore, we utilized the self-developed Influenza Virus Sequence Quality
Filter System (Q-Filter) to classify nucleotide sequences into 7 categories
for the convenience of efficient data utilization.
Tools & Analysis
As an IV analysis platform, except for the powerful searching system, IVDB
provides a series of tools and viewers for analyzing genomes, genes and
functions, polymorphisms, and phylogenetic relationship individually or in a
comparative context.
Authors of IVDB:
CHANG Suhua ZHANG Jiajie LIAO Xiaoyun
Dr WANG Jing Dr YU Jun ZHU Xinxing WANG Dahai WANG Zizhu
Thanks: RUAN Jue, YUAN Haifeng and LI Zhao for the technical support. We are indebted to all our collaborators, IV sample providers and other IV sequence producers for their contribution and kind support to the IVDB database.
IVDB is supported by institutional grant from Beijing Institute of Genomics, CAS Feedback


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The Olympics are just days away. In anticipation, we're compiled a primer for the London Games, outlining much of what you need to know. Consider it an Olympics FAQ.
When are they, and where?
The 2012 Games, the third Olympics to be held in London, begin July 27 and end Aug. 12. More than 10,000 athletes from 204 countries will compete in 26 sports at 34 venues, mostly on the main Olympics campus in east London. Two sports actually have preliminary rounds before the games officially begin: women's soccer on July 25, men's soccer on July 26, and men's and women's archery on July 27, hours before the opening ceremony.
What will the opening ceremony be like?
Danny Boyle, who won an Oscar for "Slumdog Millionaire," is preparing a three-hour, $42 million spectacle to kick off the games at the Olympic Stadium July 27. The opening scene, meant to present an idealized vision of pastoral England, will replicate a country meadow, with real grass, tilling farmers and grazing livestock -- horses, cows, goats, chickens, ducks, geese and sheep. From there, the stage will morph into more contemporary scenes. The show involves 900 schoolchildren, 10,000 adults, 13,000 props, a million-watt PA system and a performance from Paul McCartney.
How can I watch?
This is the first Olympics when every minute of every event will be streamed live online – on nbcolympics.com and on NBC's Live Extra apps, which requires subscription to a cable or satellite service. On television, NBC will broadcast signature events, including swimming, track and field, gymnastics, diving and beach volleyball. Coverage there begins with the opening ceremony at 7:30 p.m. ET on July 27. NBC's cable channels – NBC Sports, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo and Telemundo – will provide supplemental coverage. Bravo, for example, will focus on tennis, and CNBC will feature boxing. For more information on television listings, go here and for online listings, here.
Anything new this year?
With the addition of women's boxing, London 2012 will be the first Olympics in which female athletes will compete in all the same sports as men. That's reason to celebrate, but critics point out that the women's field will be much more limited. There will be only three weight classes, compared to 10 for men. Olympics officials say they're open to the possibility of adding divisions in 2016.
Another addition is mixed doubles tennis, which will be played at the Olympics for the first time since 1968, when it was included as an exhibition event. The last time mixed doubles was a medal event was 1924, when Americans Hazel Wightman and R. Norris Williams won gold.
What's missing?
Two sports, baseball and softball, have been dropped since the last games in 2008. The IOC voted both out in narrow votes seven years ago, and ever since leaders of the two sports have been lobbying to get them reinstated. Their next chance is for the 2020 Olympics.
Is there a risk of terrorism?
Officials say they know of no specific threat against the Olympics. The government's official threat level remains at "substantial," meaning that there is a strong possibility of an attack, but not an imminent one. The government has developed a massive but intricate security network -- at an estimated cost of $854 million -- to keep the Olympics safe. The plans include a helicopter carrier stationed on the Thames River, Royal Air Force jets ready to scramble at moment's notice, and the deployment of thousands of soldiers, police officers and private guards. The defense ministry will also install surface-to-air missiles, capable of downing a hijacked airplane, on the roof of a public housing complex near the Olympic village. In recent weeks, authorities have arrested 14 people on suspicion of terrorism, but their alleged plots are not believed to be associated with the games. Two weeks before the opening ceremony, G4S, a private security company with a government contract to provide coverage at Olympic sites, revealed that it didn't have enough personnel to meet its mission, and the government had to send in 3,500 British troops to fill the gap. Officials say everything will be in place in time for fans' arrival.
How many Americans will compete?
Team USA includes 530 athletes, enough to compete in 246 of 302 total medal events. They range in age from 15 to 54, and represent 45 states.
Among the most durable of the Team USA members are seven athletes who have been to four previous Olympics. Five of them are women: high jumper Amy Acuff, archer Khatuna Lorig, equestrian Karen O'Connor, volleyball player Danielle Scott-Arruda and shooter Kim Rhode. The men are equestrian Phillip Dutton and shooter Emil Milev. Another 21 Americans are returning for their fourth Olympics.
What events should I follow?
Part of the joy of the Olympics is stumbling upon events that you'd never otherwise see. But there are also many matchups that we consider required watching. Here are a few:
Phelps/Lochte: Perhaps the greatest rivalry this year. Michael Phelps, who is poised to break the record for most all-time Olympic medals, went 3-1 against Ryan Lochte at the Olympic trials. In London, they'll likely go head-to-head in two events, the 200m and 400m medleys.
The women's 200m: Every year since 2004, either in the Olympics or the world track and field championships, sprinters Allyson Felix and Veronica Campbell Brown have finished first and second. Felix, an American, has won three times at the worlds, while Campbell Brown took two Olympic golds. Their showdown in London is one of the 2012's most anticipated matchups.
The women's 100m hurdles: Yes, everyone will be watching to see if Lolo Jones can atone for her stumble in the finals at Beijing four years ago. But the woman who won gold that day, and who beat Jones in the Olympic trials this year, is Dawn Harper, who will be out to prove that 2008 wasn't a fluke. Australian Sally Pearson is another big threat, as is Jamaican Brigitte Foster-Hylton.
The men's 100m: This is the signature event for Jamaican Usain Bolt, the fastest man in the world, and the reigning Olympic champion from 2008. This year, Bolt has serious competition: American Tyson Gay, who beat Bolt in 2010, and countryman Yohan Blake, who edged out Bolt in both the 100m and 200m at the Olympic trials. London might be the place where Bolt's reign ends.
Women's soccer: Led by top scorer Alex Morgan and goalkeeper Hope Solo, the American team is the favorites to win gold, as they did in the last two Olympics. Their biggest obstacle remains Japan, whom the Americans beat earlier this year.
Women's gymnastics: The U.S. team, anchored by Jordyn Wieber, is considered the front-runner, with China, the 2008 team gold winner, a close second. Don't count the Russians out either; they came in second to the Americans at last year's world championships.
Walsh Jennings/May-Treanor: The beach volleyball team of Kerri Walsh Jennings and Misty May-Treanor is back to defend their back-to-back gold medals at Athens and Beijing, an incredible run in which they didn't lose a single match. But momentum isn't necessarily on their side. Walsh Jennings took time out after Beijing to have a child. May-Treanor injured her Achilles tendon. They didn't start playing together again until last year.
Men's gymnastics: This will likely come down to a battle between China and Japan, with America trying to stay in the mix. China has dominated the sport so consistently for so long that they are enter the games as the favorites for gold. Japan, however, is a rising power, led by all around 2008 Olympic champion Kohei Uchimura.


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I have just finished re-watching The Last Days of Disco. This underrated movie contains a favourite exchange of mine, that is worth reposting.
CHARLOTTE: Saturday, I took my niece, who's seven, to see the Disney movie Lady and the Tramp. She loved it! It was so cute. I'm beginning to fall in love with the whole idea of having kids.
ALICE: I hate that movie.
CHARLOTTE: What?
ALICE: It's so tacky. Not to mention depressing.
CHARLOTTE: This sweet movie about cute cartoon dogs you found depressing?
JOSH: There is something depressing about it, and it's not really about dogs. Except for some superficial bow-wow stuff at the start, the dogs all represent human types, which is where it gets into real trouble. Lady, the ostensible protagonist, is a fluffy blonde cocker spaniel with absolutely nothing on her mind. She's great looking but, let's be honest, incredibly insipid. Tramp, the love interest, is a smarmy braggart of the most obnoxious kind. An oily jailbird, out for a piece of tail, or whatever he can get.
CHARLOTTE: Oh, c'mon.
JOSH: No, he's a self-confessed chicken thief—an all around sleaze ball. What's the function of a film of this kind? Essentially it's a primer on love and marriage directed at very young people; imprinting on their little psyches the idea that smooth talking delinquents, recently escaped from the local pound, are a good match for nice girls from sheltered homes. When in ten years, the icky human version of Tramp shows up around the house, their hormones will be racing, and no one will understand why. Films like this program woman to adore jerks.
DES: God, you're nuts!
JOSH: The only sympathetic character, the little Scotty who's so loyal and concerned about Lady, is mocked as old-fashioned and irrelevant, and shunted off to the side.
DES: Isn't the whole point that Tramp changes? OK, maybe in the past he stole chickens, ran around without a license, and wasn't always sincere with members of the opposite sex. But through his love for Lady, and beneficent influences of Fatherhood and Matrimony, he changes and becomes a valued member of that rather idealic household.
JOSH: I don't think people really change that way. We can change our context, but we can't change ourselves.
ALICE: I agree with Josh. Scotty is the only admirable character. It would have been a much better movie if Lady ended up with him.
DES: I'm really surprised. I think Tramp really changed.
JOSH: Maybe he wanted to change, or tried to change, but there is not a lot of integrity there. First he'd be hanging around the house, drinking, watching ball games, maybe knocking Lady around a little bit. But pretty soon, he'd be back at the town dump chasing tail.
DES: Oh give me a break! Are you taking your medication? Because what you're saying is completely nuts!