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Hello. My name is Melissa Carr and I have been teaching in the Coventry Local School District for 26 years. I am married and have two daughters, Hannah and Haley. I also have a black dog named Marshall and 8 chickens.
When I am not teaching, I like to take walks, ride my bike and go to the beach.
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*What time does my first grader eat lunch? 12:35
*Why a healthy snack? I know that not all research supports my belief that sugar affects children's behavior however I use this as an opportunity to teach kids about healthy food choices.
*Why no toys? Almost all first graders are distracted by toys in the classroom. Even if they are in their lockers, they are talking about them or heading back to their locker to sneak a peek. Trading toys inevitably ends in tears, too.
*How can I help my child with reading? practice reading the words in their word bags nightly, read books to and with your first grader that are on their level (less than 5 mistakes in the first 100 words), be patient as it will click when they are ready
*Where is the spelling list? There is not a set spelling list rather we teach a weekly skill and all of the words on the test contain that skill.
*How can I help my child be a better writer? Take them shopping for a really cool journal and encourage them to write a few sentences each night.
Keep in mind their sentences should start with a capital and end with proper punctuation.
*Why is the math so hard? Our new math is based on the new national education standards which focus on problem solving. Go over your child's homework and if they seem as though they are struggling, give them additional problems on
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Is my child ready for second grade? First graders must be reading at or near a level 18 to be successful in second grade. They must be fluent readers at this level, reading with expression and understanding. Students must also show mastery in math, spelling and writing.
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Available February 2014
What would MacGyver do if he was stranded on Mars? Well, astronaut Mark Watney answers this question after he is stranded in a dust storm during a mission to Mars, left by his crewmates who mistakenly believe he is dead. In The Martian, by Andy Weir, Watney wakes up to find himself alone, unable to communicate with his crew or Earth, and with limited food supplies. Even if a rescue mission could be sent, he would starve to death before they ever arrived.
Being a resourceful engineer and botanist has its advantages, however, and Watney manages to find a way to generate oxygen without blowing himself up, make water, fix the solar cells for power, create soil with viable bacteria, and grow potatoes from 12 food potatoes left behind. He even manages to find the abandoned Pathfinder Rover and rigs it up so that he can communicate with NASA. Eventually (a year and a half later) he manages to drive the rover from his mission 3200 kilometers to where there is another base from which he can connect with a flyby mission. It's one disaster after another, but the MacGyver of Mars always manages to find a solution.
I liked this novel, mostly. I wanted to like it more. I liked it more for various parts, than the sum total. At first I found Watney's conversational style irritating, but it grew on me, and I often found myself laughing at his humor. I really did want to find out What Happens Next, so the book was hard to put down. I found myself skimming the text when descriptions of chemical reactions and numbers seemed to take over the page; I have a scientific background, but I don't really want to read a blow-by-blow description of the breakdown of CO2 to make oxygen, and the conversion of the rocket fuel hydrazine to make hydrogen, and the subsequent combination of hydrogen and oxygen to make water. Nor am I particularly interested in reading about why 62 square meters of soil are needed to grow 150 kilograms of potatoes in 400 days.
However, I didn't know that Mars has no magnetic field! And I really enjoyed the sense of place that I got from the text: the utter sense of being alone, the alien landscape, the silence. I like hard science fiction, but my tastes tend to run to Kim Stanley Robinson or Stephen Baxter. I don't think I would recommend this novel as a hardcover, but I might recommend it as a paperback. And I do think this would appeal to a reader who likes thrillers, or maybe someone who remembers watching MacGyver back in the day.
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- Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy on flickr
- Heritage Parkscape on flickr
- Public Art at the Los Angeles State Historic Park
- Artist Judy Baca and Baldwin Park Residents Defend First Amendment Freedoms Against Terrorist Tactics
- Watts Towers
- Public Art Blog
Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy
Cultural, historical and artistic monuments should reflect the diversity of a place and its people. People of color and women have been vital to the creation of Los Angeles throughout the history of the City and the area. Yet with almost 900 official cultural and historical landmarks in the City of Los Angeles as of January 2008, only about 76 relate to people of color, women, and Native American tribes. Images of 60 of those diverse monuments are shown in the The City Project's Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy set on flickr.
Things are not getting any better as Los Angeles gets increasingly diverse — only about 16 out of 199 monuments since 2000 relate to people of color or women.
In contrast, community members, activists and advocates have identified over 100 links along the Heritage Parkscape to serve as a "family album" for diverse communities from the Great Wall of Los Angeles to the Rio de Los Angeles State Park, the Los Angeles State Historic Park, and El Pueblo de Los Angeles.
Prof. Judy Baca and SPARC, Mujeres de la Tierra, and The City Project presented public comments to the Los Angeles Culture and Heritage Commission on April 17, 2008. The comments make two major recommendations. The first is to redefine the criteria for designating monuments. The second is to redefine the responsibilities of the Commission. Both should promote cultural, historical, and artistic monuments that reflect diversity and democracy.
The Ordinance should be revised to reflect the following principles. The collection of monuments should faithfully, completely, and accurately depict the history and diversity of Los Angeles, including people of color, women, and workers. Monuments should stimulate and provoke a greater understanding of, and dialogue on, diversity, democracy, and freedom. The Commission should provide leadership for the protection and interpretation of such monuments, resources, and places.
Best practice examples of monuments and public art that celebrate diversity, democracy, and freedom include the Great Wall of Los Angeles, Manzanar, Biddy Mason Park, Little Tokyo, and Colonel Allensworth State Park.
(The study of diverse monuments is based on a review of several sources. There were 700 landmarks as of 2000, which are described in the book Landmark L.A. published by the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department in 2002. Another 199 landmarks had been added as of January 2008. These landmarks are described in the list by the City Planning Department, in the newsletters of the Office of Historic Resources, and other sources.)
Public Art at the Los Angeles State Historic Park
Public art in the new Los Angeles State Historic Park at the Cornfield site should highlight the struggles, hopes, and triumphs of the generations who have entered Los Angeles through El Pueblo and the Cornfield to reflect the dreams of the community, the purpose of the park, and the vision of the Cornfield Advisory Committee. "Public Art in the Public Park: People, Place, Power in the Los Angeles State Historic Park" sets forth the vision for the park as expressed by the communities that struggled to create it.
Public art in the public park should reflect the values at stake to bring people together – providing children the simple joys of playing in the park, improving recreation and health, equal access to public resources, democratic participation in deciding the future of the community and park, educating the public, local jobs for local workers and economic vitality for all, spiritual values of promoting peace and justice, and providing the clean air, water, and ground benefits of safe and healthy urban parks.
Artist Judy Baca and Baldwin Park Residents Defend First Amendment
Freedoms Against Terrorist Tactics
Judy Baca writes:
"SPARC's mural in three movements, "You are my other me," (pictured above) is truly a case of art begetting art. Many thanks to all the volunteers who helped conceive, construct, and perform the mural, which premiered on Saturday at the 'Reconquest of Justice, Peace, Liberty and Love.'
– "The first of three movements, 'Speaking Back,' ridicules the anti-humanitarian ideas of SOS with quotes submitted from supporters to our website.
– "In the second movement, 'Turn Our Back,' we illustrate America turning its back on hate-groups and hate-speech, with the decisive show of disrespect coming from silhouettes labeled according to the models' ancestry: Native-American, Mexican-Irish-American, Cuban-American, etc.
– "Finally, in the third movement, 'Reconciliation,' we offer Spanish and English translations of a Mayan concept-word, 'in lak ech' that means 'you are my other me,' and 'tu éres mi otro yo,' to signify that whether we like it or not, we all share a common humanity, and that even the most vitriolic hatred doesn't change our connection to others who think differently."
On June 25, 2005, over 600 peaceful demonstrators sang, danced, chanted, and beat drums to urge tolerance and support for our client, artist Judith F. Baca, Founder and Artistic Director of SPARC (Social and Public Art Resource Center). The City of Baldwin Park presented Ms. Baca with a proclamation to keep the Danzas Indigenas monument intact and declared the matter closed. Sixty members of the anti-immigrant hate group Save Our State—Sink Our State would be more appropriate—staged another unsuccessful protest against the Danzas Indigenas public art monument in Baldwin Park and Ms. Baca. On May 14, 2005, twelve to twenty outside agitators from the hate group traveled to Baldwin Park where they encountered over 1,000 supporters of the monument. The hate group has charged that the twelve-year old monument to multicultural understanding is racially charged, seditious, and anti-American.
Ms. Baca facilitated a community process with members of the Baldwin
Park community that ultimately created the public art project to
reflect the dreams, past, and future of Baldwin Park.
The hate group using terrorist tactics threatens to take action if two statements are not removed. The group's diatribe against one quote reflects its own ignorance: "It was better before they came." The group berates that statement because it laments the presence of whites in America, but in fact the quote is from a non-Hispanic white resident who was speaking about Mexican immigrants arriving after World War II, according to Ms. Baca. The ambiguity of the statement as it appears on the monument is the point: about which "they" is the anonymous voice speaking?
On the front of the monument representing the past is a quote from the Chicana author Gloria Andzuldua, "This land was Mexican once, was Indian always, and is, and will be again." The quote reflects the fact the monument is one mile from Mission San Gabriel, and descendents of the native Tongva/Gabrielinos still live in the region, making the quote particularly relevant to the increasing indigenous population. The reference is to the land being Native American, and does not advocate a return to Mexico, contrary to the ignorant ravings of the hate group, which dismisses the author as a "dead lesbian."
Baldwin Park Councilman Bill Van Cleave stated that "there is no race problem in Baldwin Park," but that the Ventura
County-based hate group "was bringing one." The group "threatened my life and told me they were going to bury me in brown soil," said Councilman Van Cleave, the only non-Hispanic White on the council.
All members of the council have received death threats. The hate group's web site is filled with violent images of a man shooting at the viewer, people used as target practice, and people beaten and bloodied.
The City Project will continue to represent Ms. Baca and SPARC so that artists, public officials, and community members will not be left to face death threats and attacks on their well-being because of a work of public art that was created in a public process, and approved by an art committee in the city and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Watts Towers
A universally acclaimed artistic and cultural masterpiece, the Watts Towers were constructed by hand over a 33-year period by Simon Rodia, an immigrant artist. The City Project supports the ongoing efforts to restore and maintain Watts Towers.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa summed up the importance of the Watts Towers in his inauguration speech this way:
"I've lived here all my life, and there are many places I love around the city. But whenever I go through South Los Angeles, I always try to catch a glimpse of Nuestro Pueblo, which is Spanish for 'Our Town.' It describes a series of towers that rise over Watts like some improbable dream.
The Watts Towers were a 33-year labor of love, built by the Italian artist and immigrant Simon Rodia. He used simple tools and cast-off materials. He worked without the aid of scaffolding or the benefit of cultural and architectural designs. And he raised his towers up, from the ground up.
And for over half a century, the Watts Towers have stood. They've withstood natural and man-made catastrophes. They've survived despite the efforts of critics and the ravages of earthquakes and the proximity of civil unrest. And they've stood. They've stood as both a tribute to individual imagination and as a monument to the power of difference.
Seen from afar, the Watts Towers rise like the spires of a great cathedral. But close up, you're immediately drawn in by the amazing complexity of their design. Embedded in those walls are thousands of cast-off objects, representing every imaginable color, shape, texture and form. They're made from bed frames and bottles and broken glass-pot shards and ceramic tiles.
When I see those towers soaring over Watts, my thoughts always return to the pieces that make up that beautiful whole. To the value in those things that people, in their haste, are apt to cast away. To the awesome power of disparate elements working together to achieve such dazzling harmony.
Fellow Angelenos, I will never forget where I came from. And I will always believe in the value of every Angeleno. This is truly our town. And we all have a contribution to make.
Simon Rodia was asked late in his life to explain the meaning of his work, and he offered this simple reply: 'I had in mind to do something big, and I did it.'"


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Mentioned a couple posts back, I joined a secret society on facebook where beauty lovers all around the world connect and correspond. Through that, I met the lovely Jenny from UK and we planned a swap. These are the highlights of what she sent me. ;) The "&" will always appear funny so I replace all of them with "and".
|200 Champagne on the left, 202 Golden Mauve on the right
Kiko, And Other Stories
Kiko Water Eyeshadow 200 Champagne (3 g)
Kiko Water Eyeshadow 202 Golden Mauve (3 g)
Kiko Long Lasting Stick Eyeshadow - 05 Rosy Brown (1.64 g)
Kiko Long Lasting Stick Eyeshadow - 06 Golden Brown (1.64 g)
and other Stories Lip Balm - Dungaree Rose (4 g) - Made in Italy
and other Stories Body Lotion - Lemon Daydream (12 ml) - Made in Italy
and other Stories Blusher - Applebloom Pink (5.5 g) - Made in Italy
Yummy Delicacy
Out of all the sweet treats, Galaxy Chocolate Minstrels are my absolute favourites! They look exactly like Go (the chess game), and they taste like heaven... Can't stop savouring this stuff, officially addicted! I'm saving the lovely candles for later, for my new home later this year. :)
Yankee Candle - Love me, Love me not (49 g)
Yankee Candle - Lakeside Birch
Kringle Candle Company Fragrant Tea Light Candle - Hot Chocolate (14 g)
Kringle Candle Company Fragrant Tea Light Candle - Frosted Cake (14 g)
Other amazing things I managed to forget taking photos of - epic fail
Veryme Vinyl Lip Gloss - Spicy Red (10 ml)
Weleda Wild Rose Smoothing Night Cream (5 ml)
Dr. Hauschka Hand Cream (2.5 ml)
KMS California Add Volume Volumizing Spray (30 ml)
Burt's Bees Hand Salve (8.5 g)
Dr. Hauschka Hand Cream (2.5 ml)
Dainty Doll Blusher - 001 Hippy Shake (7 g)Anatomicals Don't Just Clean it Woman, Scrub it Body Scrub (75 ml)
KMS California Add Volume Volumizing Spray (30 ml)
Burt's Bees Hand Salve (8.5 g)
Yves Rocher Radiant Complexion Treatment (I don't do peeling, I prefer scrubbing)Vivo Trio Eyeshadow Palette - Be-Dazzled (grey and black don't flatter me as much as browns)
NYC Liquid Lipshine - 579 Fashion Ave Fuchsia
NYC Eyeliner Duo - 880 Mockingbird
NYC City Duet Eye Shadows - 805B Vivid Impact
Pop Beauty Glitter Stix - Fog
Sweet Snuggles Chocolate Vanilla Hand Cream
Have you tried anything from Kiko or And Other Stories? What is your favourite treats/chocolate, or the most popular from your place?
Beautiful wishes,
Lazy silly Jacq :")


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Andy wasn't joking when he said most of the two thick coats of primer that Jan and I applied 8 months ago would be rubbed off as part of the preparation for painting.
Waiouru had a second detailed sanding today with particular emphasis on the "fiddly bits". Some areas can only be reached by hand and I now have blisters! She was also swept down twice. The damned boat seems to be getting longer each time she is shown the broom!
The roof from the stern
Port side
The mastic around the glued in steel plate on each side has been removed and the filler has been sanded back.
This next photo gives some idea of the 'blemishes' in the plate. The surface has now been sanded back and is smooth as an new born baby's bum! The flecks of primer have filled in the pits in the steel plate.
This is actually a smooth surface!
The side hatches had numerous 'nooks and crannies' which took a considerable amount of time to sand back.
Mid afternoon 'Postman Pat' delivered a parcel to the boatyard which was addressed to us. It was the solar controller from Hong Kong which had been ordered on EBay. A considerable amount of research was conducted before deciding on this particular controller. It's a Tracer and we ordered the 20A model with the optional remote LCD panel.
The coke can is there to give some idea of size. The 20A controller can cope with a maximum of 260 watts and we intend to have two 100w panels. Because roof space is limited we want maximum effective electricity from the panels which is why we decided on a MPPT controller. There are numerous advertised controllers which claim to have the MPPT functionality. However the MPPT function in many of the cheaper controllers will probably fail or not work correctly due to poor design. The Tracer wasn't the cheapest MPPT controller, but is the most cost effective one we could find.
The back of the Tracer (see next photo) has a rather substantial heat sink. The whole back of the case is metal, along with the fins on the heat sink.
As you can see in the photo, we also purchased the remote control. It connects to the solar controller using a two metre data cable. The solar controller will go under the spare bed in the same ventilated compartment as the Victron combi inverter/charger and the remote will go on the instrument and gauge panel above.
For two reasons, the two 100w solar panels haven't yet been purchased. First, we have no roof space on Waiouru whilst she is being painted (we're also in a tent); and second; the price of solar panels is steadily dropping! The longer we delay….. the cheaper the price… we hope!


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Regina Browne Burns, 86, of Yazoo City passed away Monday, November 11, 2019 at the Martha Coker Green House Homes.
Regina Browne Burns, 86, of Yazoo City passed away Monday, November 11, 2019 at the Martha Coker Green House Homes.
Rea Thomas Waters, 86, entered the gates of Heaven on November 8, 2019.
Visitation is Saturday, November 16 from 10 a.m. to noon, with service at noon at Stricklin-King Funeral Home in Yazoo City. Graveside service and fellowship is at Bethlehem Baptist Church.
One sitting supervisor was defeated while the remaining supervisors vying to keep their posts held onto their seats in this week's county election.
This month, two sites in the Yazoo Delta area will be among 5,000 drop-off locations collecting shoebox gifts for children overseas during Operation Christmas Child's National Collection Week, Nov. 18 – 25.
The Millsaps College Arts and Lecture Series on November 12 will feature the unique Delta culture and some of the writers who have shared their stories of the Delta.
A suspect in a New England murder case was arrested in Yazoo County this week by the United States Marshal Service.
A burglary suspect was held at gunpoint by his female victim after he was accused of attempting to set up residency inside her vacant camper.
Marshall Scott, 33, was charged with breaking and entering of an unoccupied dwelling last Thursday.
A homeowner declined to press charges against two suspects after they repaired and paid for the damages they caused during a burglary.
The Yazoo City Police Department will be receiving over $40,000 worth of new equipment, which will bring the agency into updated technology geared to improve its services to the community.
The qualifying deadline for the city's special election ended this week with six potential candidates turning in their proper paperwork.


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- on Hobby & Modelling
- Published in issue 5/2009 on page 32
Automatic Running-in Bench, part 2
the test bench, actuators and detectors
Last month, we began constructing a running-in bench for i/c engines for scale models with the description and wiring of the electronics boards. Now we need to build a chassis capable of housing our new boards, the engine to be run-in, and all the essential accessories.
Building the boards led us to make intensive use of the soldering iron and measuring instruments in our electronics lab.This month, the saw, drill, and screwdrivers are coming to the fore. To get the best out of these boards, it's vital to have a bench that is perfectly suited to this very specific activity of running-in model engines.
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Have you ever wondered what makes growth hacking different from digital marketing?
Is it the process? The tools? The mindset? The product?
Don't worry—you're not the only one thinking about these questions.
In this article, we will explain to you what these widely used terms mean and give you profiles of both growth hackers and digital marketers.
By the end of this article, you'll know exactly what the differences between these two are.
So, let's begin!
Perhaps it's better to start with growth hacking definition and explain how it works through examples later on.
Growth hacking is a process of rapid experimentation across marketing channels and product development to identify the most effective, efficient ways to grow a business.
Growth hacking is usually linked to startups because they are the ones who need growth the most to "survive", but they are not the only ones to benefit from it. In fact, this process (more of a mindset, really) can be used by all smart marketers and forward-thinking businesses.
Most people think that growth hacking is all about finding the ultimate idea that will bring them huge success overnight. Naturally, this isn't the case. What led to such thinking is a number of articles talking only about big, successful growth hacking examples created by companies such as Uber, Airbnb, and Dropbox.
Tactics are important, sure, but it's completely wrong to think that growth happens overnight.
What you actually need to think about is the process that can be tested, measured, and scaled.
In order to come up with a growth hacking process, it's necessary to define the most important areas of your project that directly affect the growth.
If you have an eCommerce website those areas could be:
After defining your key areas, you'll need to set a goal for the area that currently has the greatest impact on growth and progress of the project.
If it's retention, your goal can be to improve it by 20% in the first month.
The next step is to brainstorm how to achieve this goal.
For example, you can do it with email notifications, retargeting, and loyalty cards.
When it comes to email notifications, you can try "thank you" emails, email notifications for similar products, or emails with information about discounts.
You will test your ideas and implement the best solution.
With analytics and data you can measure actions, track behaviors, optimize the user experience, efficiently repeat past successes, and better predict the future.
This whole process is about practice and experimentation in order for you to achieve stable and long-term growth. You get to set your objectives, run an experiment, use some growth hacking tools, measure the effects, and move quickly towards new objectives in order to find uncovered growth options for traffic, sales, retention, views, backlinks, shares, comments and more.
Don't be afraid to try, fail (often), and then move to another option. Even if the experiment fails, you will gather a lot of helpful information which you can later use in your future experiments.
The ultimate goal is to find exactly what works for you—which channel and tactic delivers the highest ROI and then completely focus on it.
After a couple of years, when your project becomes successful, someone will probably write that you did it overnight, with that ultimate growth strategy.
One of the most common growth hacking strategies for attracting new users is leveraging 'giants' on which your target audience hangs out. This is exactly what Airbnb did with the Craigslist platform integration.
Moreover, statistics say that businesses that use partnerships to access large, established audiences have six to one return on their investment. Partnerships in the online world include integrations, access to user base, cross-promotion, etc.
Dropbox increased their signups by 60% with a referral tactic. Namely, they offered their existing users the possibility to get more storage space. How? By inviting their friends to join Dropbox. Those friends would then get extra storage space, as well, if they used a friend referral link to sign up to Dropbox.
This way, they spread the story about Dropbox all over the world.
Skype did a similar thing using a viral loop tactic. When people start using Skype, they invite their friends and family in order to stay in touch with them, who then do the same, i.e. invite their own network to join Skype.
Some products and services are ideal for sharing, others aren't, but you can always learn from success stories.
Check out Popular Growth Hacking Sucess Stories and take a look at this list of 128 Marketing Growth Strategies to find out how to make optimization work.
Keep this in mind: just because these strategies worked for someone else, doesn't mean that they will work for you, too. You need to try them out and test them to see what works and what doesn't.
Let's say that a growth hacker is a cross-functional, multi-tasking person focused on achieving a certain objective.
They can be a programmer with an excellent understanding of marketing and analytics, but also a marketer with strong programming skills.
The skills required for this profession are actually a combination of marketing, data analyzing, product understanding, and creative and analytical thinking. Combined together, they need to provide you with a solution that might have been overlooked by others.
Building a brand step by step and community engagement take too long, mass media campaigns are too expensive, and growth hackers usually don't have enough time and money for any of this. That's why they are always after innovative marketing techniques.
What growth hackers do is try to come up with a unique strategy to create hacks which will spread the word about their products, bring new users and increase revenue, without them spending too much money.
Successful growth hacks are rarely replicable. It's simple – the first inventor gets the greatest advantage. After that, everybody copies the hack from the inventor and at one point, it stops being a hack.
In the process of growth hacking, growth hackers rely on different techniques and skills, including search engine optimization, website analytics, content marketing, copywriting, remarketing, referral, A/B testing, users feedback, guest blogging, social media campaigns, paid search optimization, viral loops, word-of-mouth marketing, etc.
You can easily recognize a growth hacker by their way of thinking.
How to produce better results? How to save money? How to do this faster? How to automate this process?
A growth hacker needs to be:
They are scrappy, resilient, creative, analytical, and they hustle.
You get the point.
Now is the time for us to move on to digital marketing.
Digital marketing is a global term used to describe the process of promoting brands, companies, products or services via different online media, channels, tools and tactics.
Basically, it's the process of using different digital marketing strategies to communicate specific information to an audience.
All of these strategies are there to drive relevant traffic to a business and then convert a one-time visitor into a returning loyal customer.
Types of digital marketing include:
Social media marketing – developing an online presence by attracting large numbers of internet followers through social media channels such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.
Content marketing – creating and sharing online material such as blogs, videos, and social media posts. Content isn't there to simply promote a brand or a company; it's more about getting an audience interested in products or services.
Email marketing – using emails to send advertisements, but also to build loyalty, trust, or brand awareness.
Search engine optimization (SEO) – developing strategies to increase the number of visitors to a website by achieving high-ranking positions in search results.
Pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns – paid online advertising as a way of buying visits to your site rather than earning them organically.
Mobile marketing – developing strategies for targeting audience on their mobile devices through social media, websites, emails, SMS, MMS, and apps.
Affiliate marketing – a business rewarding other businesses (affiliates) for each visitor or customer they brought to them.Digital marketers can either work in all these areas or specialize in a few – it all depends on what a certain company needs.
Let's look at a digital marketer's profile in more detail.
Marketers know that data doesn't have all the answers.
After all, how can you put a metric on the feeling you get after engaging with a brand?
Marketers are more focused on branding, storytelling, long-term thinking, and emotions.
Their job is to create, develop, and implement multi-channel communication strategies that will boost the online presence of a business, brand, or product.
In order to do that, they use almost the same channels as growth hackers: Google Analytics, link building, CRM, video marketing, landing page conversions, Google AdWords, blogging, search engine optimization, etc.
A digital marketer needs to be:
Like we mentioned above, growth hackers and digital marketers may use the same channels and have similar personal traits, but their ideologies about work are very different.
Digital marketers are usually focused only on customer acquisition, while growth hackers focus on all phases of sales/product funnel.
While marketers follow a long-term path and focus on a brand and connections, growth hackers are focused on one thing only—growth.
Building a brand requires a lot of time, but it can be destroyed in a second. That's why digital marketers don't have a high tolerance for risk, but growth hackers do.
Digital marketing teams are usually composed of non-technical people that often rely on developers, designers, and data scientists to implement their ideas. On the other hand, growth hacking teams are made of people that generate ideas and execute them from start to finish. While digital marketers sometimes rely on purely intuition and guesswork, growth hackers test, measure, and optimize everything. Their technical background helps them see opportunities where marketers cannot.
As you can see, growth hacking lies somewhere between marketing and technical knowledge, which is why digital marketers can become growth hackers if they have a strong analytical and technical mind.
Here's the thing: all successful growth hackers are marketers, but not all marketers are growth hackers. This isn't the case simply because they can't code—it has more to do with them not focusing on growing a business.
Do you follow digital marketing trends? Want to create your online presence and build a strong brand, or are you looking for quick growth strategies? If you are having doubts about whether you need to hire (or to become) a digital marketer or a growth hacker, you should define your needs first.
If you are a startup or about to launch a new product/concept, but can't afford the time and/or money for expensive marketing campaigns, growth hacking is probably the best solution for you.
On the other hand, long-standing companies are usually satisfied with their growth rate and are more focused on maintaining brand reputation, i.e. they need digital marketing.
That's all for now! We hope this article has helped you understand the difference between growth hacking and digital marketing.
She joined the team because she heard about their cool (non-existant) dress code, and now she's found a new passion in growth hacking. Before that she worked as a PR&Marketing Manager in a couple of different places, finding most joy in organizing events and speaking publicly. Besides digital marketing, she enjoys singing (and not just under the shower). For more, find her on the popular social networks – she's everywhere.
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Bravo Janjo 🙂
Thank you Vlada 🙂
Very nice article.
Hi Janja,
It's a great article about growth hacking. You give me few ideas about The Growth Hacking Process. Thanks.
Keep working and sharing content like that. It's awesome.
Nice post.
Growth Hacking vs. Digital Marketing?
Generally a messy discussion to have, lots of people have their own ideas. But this post does a great job at rounding that out.
I honestly think its just a rebranding play for marketing.
Similar to gorilla marketing.
Easier to dominate the space if you coin a new term.
What an old fashioned view of digital marketers. I see growth hackers as just another term for digital marketers. I think you are confusing digital marketers with traditional marketers.
In ten years time or a lot earlier I hope, this discussion will be like the following! "Iq vs emotional intelligence".
Everything start from core marketing! Growth hacking is just another polar as digital marketing is.
Wonderful article, thank you for an insight.
The best post i ever have read about !
Thanks a lot for the explanation
Super cool article Jenny! Went in depth and drafted it really well. The concluding sections were I liked it the most, "all successful growth hackers are marketers, but not all marketers are growth hackers. "
Would have been great if our clients too understood the differences! 🙂
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From the fast-paced, over-the-top clubs of Brazil, to new levels of luxury in the fashion capitol of Milan—global partygoers, international socialites, and adventurous travellers stay privy to the top nightclubs in the world.
A good nightclub is one that delivers its theme or purpose in the most effective way possible. A high-end, exclusive club for socialites and celebrities must cater to a specific audience that is a lot different from the kind of casual dance-club where jeans and T-shirts are acceptable. Yet a casual club that delivers its promises could outrank a luxury club that fails to excite the patrons.
So whether it's relaxing in the lap of luxury or dancing with some hot stranger in a casual atmosphere, all of these clubs effectively deliver what they were made to do, and often provide stunning visuals and amazing customer service to make the patrons feel on top of the world.
The best nightclubs in Tokyo, Japan combine the constantly changing fashions of Tokyo street culture with the eclectic music that helps to make Japan famous.
Bangkok, Thailand is a place where dedicated partygoers flock. From high-end luxury lounges to some of the world's most famous dance-floors, Thailand can be an unforgettable experience.
The nightclubs of Los Angeles, California provide opportunities to meet celebrities and revel in the golden age of Hollywood, recreated through historically themed venues. Not to mention lots of dancing.
The best nightclubs in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil represent the classy and sexy world of South American dance-clubs where partying is non-stop until sunrise. In addition, Brazil offers some of the most luxurious lounges and high-end clubs.
The nightclubs of Milan, Italy offer the chance to socialise within the heart of the fashion industry, where it's possible to rub shoulders with names as big as Giorgio Armani. Just remember to dress nicely.
London nightclubs include some of the most famous stomping grounds in the world, where celebrity actors and musicians routinely frequent. In addition, London dance-clubs typically feature some of the best House and Dubstep mixes of anywhere on the globe.
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On July 21st at 300 suns at 6pm Brian Will debate Andy over the issue of Star Wars v Star Trek. Andy will be taking the Trek side.
Davie is a super fascinating and talented artist. He's also an active member of LHAG (The Left hand Artist Group).
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In which the Scholars chat with the concentrated light and sweetness that is Bonnie Sims and hear the tales of a sassy baby tornado.
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Mystery Diner: Prohibition Junction offers trip down memory lane, spirits, and a delicious meal
The Mystery Diner starts this week's review with a little historical vocabulary.
Who's heard of a "speakeasy?"
The term speakeasy originally referred to the illicit drinking houses that rose to prominence during the Prohibition era of the United States. Alcohol was discreetly sold behind closed doors to a chosen few at locations with no signs and hidden entrances.
This week's Mystery Diner adventure takes us to an establishment inspired by that roaring 1920s era, Prohibition Junction Sports Bar & Grill at 1031 Station Drive. The restaurant, under new management for a couple years, is located right off of Orchard Road near Route 30 in Oswego.
Decor can really set a fun mood for a restaurant. The Mystery Diner and fellow companions found that to be the case as we ventured out on a cold winter evening.
The cozy establishment's walls are adorned with pictures of figures from the Prohibition era. Tabletops follow along with the theme, and so does the menu. Entrees are brought out in dishes lined with paper decorated like a 1920s newspaper. For those in the mood to catch a sports event, Prohibition Junction features a bank of TVs behind its bar area inside the dining room.
Prohibition Junction's extensive drink selections keep that spirit. There are fun cocktails like the Prohibition Berry and Banana Popsicle, specialty drinks like the Moscow mule and Black Fedora and a large selection of martinis.
Our party arrived hungry, though, and Prohibition Junction more than sated our appetites.
While munching on some fresh popped popcorn from the popcorn machine, we first perused the large selection of appetizer options, which include traditional bar fare like chips and mozzarella sticks. Prohibition Junction's wings are available regular, naked or hand-battered, lathered in any one of five sauces. We went with regular BBQ, which we happily found to be sweet-tasting and tangy.
The Mystery Diner's companion also opted to try the stuffed mushrooms. The dish is a meal in itself, stuffed with borso cheese and fried until golden brown.
Moving on the main course, Prohibition Junction's menu features a large selection of "gourmet bootleg burgers," sandwiches, wraps and dinners ranging from prohibition tacos to coconut shrimp and chicken Parmesan.
My companion went with the "incognito chicken sandwich." The sandwich is served grilled with sauteed garlic, buttered spinach and Parmesan cheese with pesto. Pesto is a personal favorite of the Mystery Diner's companion, and her taste buds weren't disappointed.
The Mystery Diner opted for the "prohibition bacon burger." Prohibition Junction touts all its burgers as a special blend done locally; this particular burger was hand-packed and mixed with crumbled bacon. The sandwich is filled with plenty of meaty goodness that the Mystery Diner devoured.
We were both full, but our pleasant waitress had a dessert offer we simply could not refuse.
Fried Oreos.
This was not the Mystery Diner's first rodeo with this fried, gooey deliciousness, and we were happily delighted once again. We didn't leave a crumb.
For those in the mood for a trip down memory lane to the bygone era of the roaring 1920s, and a good meal, Prohibition Junction is recommended.
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Cyclone Wilma was the first "tropical cyclone" in recorded history to ever hit New Zealand and it topped off a month that saw the tropics quite literally move into the upper North Island.
While many of us remember cyclones Drena, Fergus and Bola - or even Giselle (causing the 1968 Wahine disaster) - those storms were what we call "extra tropical". They started off as tropical cyclones but changed when they lost their tropical characteristics. Sounds like a minor technicality but it is a significant change in the power and energy inside the storm.
Most of the storms in New Zealand are lows - deep and stormy, but with a different structure to tropical cyclones, which are far more aggressive.
The closeness of the isobars in cyclones makes them so dangerous. Like an ice figure skater pulling their arms into spin faster, the tighter the isobars get the faster a cyclone spins. The more spread out the isobars are, the more spread out the winds are - and the air doesn't spin as fast. Extra-tropical is when the skater opens her arms and the winds spread out and generally become weaker.
I've spoken to numerous people in the know and we can find no records that show any other tropical cyclone hitting New Zealand.
So Wilma was a tropical cyclone when she arrived but Zelia and Vania were not. Incredible after so many years of no cyclones we had three named storms in just three weeks.
And Niwa's monthly climate report shows some parts of the North Island had 400 per cent of their January rainfall, which included Auckland, eastern Northland, the Firth of Thames, Coromandel and western Bay of Plenty - with many new records set. In contrast, it was dry for parts of inland south Canterbury and the Nelson Ranges.
Country99TV viewer Gael, from the Bay of Plenty, said she recorded a staggering 415mm of rain in January. "I thought the 178mm we got in 2010 was excessive!".
Our weather pattern has now shifted into a "spring-like" westerly. It's created huge temperatures - Gisborne reached 36C on Wednesday while that same morning Timaru started the day at 29C at 5am.
Our website WeatherWatch.co.nz had its biggest ever month in January with 500,000 page views and almost 200,000 visits. Cyclone Yasi on Wednesday saw our biggest single day of traffic with 25,000 visits and 65,000 page views in just 24 hours.
Cyclone Wilma was the first "tropical cyclone" in recorded history to ever hit New Zealand and it topped off a month that saw the tropics quite literally move into the upper North Island.
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Bicicletear La Habana is Havana's Critical Mass. Its goal is to promote the use of bicycles as a legitimate means of transportation and to offer a safe ride around Havana. Anyone may join, and it is free!
A Critical Mass is a spontaneous, leaderless bike ride that begins at specific times and locations in various cities around the world. Since there is no fixed leadership, there are no agenda or demands. A Critical Mass is not a protest, it is a celebration, filling the streets with bicycles, clean air, and happiness.
Havana's Critical Mass starts every first Sunday of the month from Parque de los Mártires, located on the corners of San Lázaro and Infanta.
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Empire has snagged the latest UK teaser poster for the highly-anticipated insane-action-comic-book flick Kick-Ass. Those lucky sons of bitches will be getting the film on March 26th while us poor sods here in the states have to wait until April 16th.
It isn't enough that they're getting the film early, but now they have this sweet looking teaser poster to boot. The poster features Chloe Moretz as Hit-Girl, an 11-year-old assassin who murders the shit out of bad guys (as seen in the great red-band trailer). The tagline on this poster is: "Cute. Adorable. DEADLY." It also works as an epitaph.
Hit the jump to check out the new teaser along with the official synopsis.
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For those just tuning in, here's the official synopsis for Kick-Ass:
"Kick-Ass" tells the story of average teenager Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), a comic-book fanboy who decides to take his obsession as inspiration to become a real-life superhero. As any good superhero would, he chooses a new name — Kick-Ass — assembles a suit and mask to wear, and gets to work fighting crime. There's only one problem standing in his way: Kick-Ass has absolutely no superpowers.
His life is forever changed as he inspires a subculture of copy cats, is hunted by assorted violent and unpleasant characters, and meets up with a pair of crazed vigilantes, including an 11-year-old sword-wielding dynamo, Hit Girl (Moretz) and her father, Big Daddy (Cage).


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It was lovely to see such a good attendance at our meeting last Saturday. Welcome to our new junior lacemaker and to our two new adult lacemakers. It was great to meet you and see your beautiful work.
Our next meeting takes place on Saturday, 3 June, when Pauline Hardwick, of Polly Jane Yarns, will entertain us at 11:00. We're keeping the content a surprise! Pauline will also bring a selection of her yarns and other products for us to buy. A number of you have shown the wonderful items you produced after buying yarns and patterns at Polly Jane Yarns' last visit.
If you are not a member and are thinking you might like to consider joining the group, you are most welcome to attend. The price for visitors is £1.
Preston Lacemakers are a friendly group of people who meet to share their enthusiasm and enjoyment in the art and craft of lace, in all its variations. Our group includes young and old and beginners to experienced. Throughout the year we have talks about and workshops in both lace and other craft techniques. We also promote lace through exhibitions and giving demonstrations.
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Dillon – Fresh off of his official entry into the South Carolina gubernatorial election, Lt. Governor André Bauer began his issue roll-out this week with what he is calling his "big idea" to bring our state into the 21st century.
"I'm here at the world famous South of the Border today to introduce South Carolina to an idea whose time has come," said Bauer, addressing a handful of reporters joining him on top of Pedro's sombrero. "I am proposing that we embark on a major road construction project to install a high-speed-vehicle (HSV) lanes on all of the interstate highways that run through our state. We have been a slow moving state for far too long and it's time we picked up the pace."
Borrowing a phrase from a satirical article aimed at him during his last election, Bauer has nicknamed the proposed network of highways the "Andrébahn." In 2006, the left-leaning blog "Barbecue & Politics" published a humorous entry stating that the legislature had approved a $12 million highway for the sole use of André Bauer.
"From a PR standpoint, this is brilliant," said Ben Tillman, political science professor at Furman University. "He's taking one of his biggest perceived weaknesses and 'owning' it. If he can successfully convince people that this 'Andrébahn' is a good idea, then he will have completely removed that weapon from any potential opponents' arsenal. That's a really, really big 'if' though."
According to the draft proposal Bauer distributed at the press conference, a minimum of two lanes would be added to every interstate highway in the state. Those two lanes would be policed in a similar fashion to the German autobahn in that cars would be legally required to drive to the right and only pass in the left lane. Speed limits would gradually increase as you drove away from urban areas and would be eliminated altogether in rural areas between the major cities.
"This plan is good for South Carolina for a number of reasons," Bauer continued. "Everyone likes to drive fast, so we'll definitely get some more folks moving here, maybe even some of those NASCAR drivers. Also, the faster you drive, the more gas you burn, and that means more money in the pockets of our small business owners operating gas stations adjacent to the highways."
Bauer acknowledged that there would be environmental and safety concerns but that he was satisfied that the positives would far outweigh the negatives.
"I've put a lot of thought into this and done my homework. The stretch of I-95 that traverses our state from Georgia to North Carolina is about 200 miles and I'm told if you travel at the posted speed limit it takes about three hours to drive. If you take away that speed limit (that averages about 65 miles per hour) and imagine those tens of thousands of trucks are whipping through our state at 100 miles per hour, then that three hours becomes two hours and you've reduced the environmental impact on our state by one-third. Ditto for the safety concerns. The less time drivers spend in our state, the fewer problems they will cause — it's simple math."
"On a personal note," Bauer continued, "I know you guys in the press have given me a lot of guff over the years about my driving record and it would be really easy to jump to some conclusion about my motives with this, but I assure you, it's quite the opposite. I know that you know my history with speeding and you know that I know you know that. I would have to be a complete idiot to propose something like this just to be able to drive a bit faster. This is about jobs and commerce and the future of our state."
Bauer declined to answer any further questions, stating he was expected at a similar press conference in Hardeeville in about an hour.


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Fetch is a library that allows your data fetches to be written in a concise, composable way while executing efficiently. You don't need to use any explicit concurrency construct but existing idioms: applicative for concurrency and monad for sequencing.
Oftentimes, our applications read and manipulate data from a variety of different sources such as databases, web services or file systems. These data sources are subject to latency, and we'd prefer to query them efficiently.
If we are just reading data, we can make a series of optimizations such as:
- batching requests to the same data source - requesting independent data from different sources in parallel - caching previously seen results
However, if we mix these optimizations with the code that fetches the data we may end up trading clarity for performance. Furthermore, we are mixing low-level (optimization) and high-level (business logic with the data we read) concerns.
To begin, add the following dependency to your SBT build file:
"com.47deg" %% "fetch" % "0.6.0"
Or, if using Scala.js:
"com.47deg" %%% "fetch" % "0.6.0"
Now you'll have Fetch available in both Scala and Scala.js.
In order to tell Fetch how to retrieve data, we must implement the
DataSource typeclass.
import cats.data.NonEmptyList
trait DataSource[Identity, Result] {
def fetchOne(id: Identity): Query[Option[Result]]
def fetchMany(ids: NonEmptyList[Identity]): Query[Map[Identity, Result]]
It takes two type parameters:
Identity: the identity we want to fetch (a
UserId if we were fetching users)
Result: the type of the data we retrieve (a
User if we were fetching users)
There are two methods:
fetchOne and
fetchOne receives one identity and must return
Query containing
an optional result. Returning an
Option Fetch can detect whether an identity couldn't be
fetched or no longer exists.
fetchMany method takes a non-empty list of identities and must return a
Query containing
a map from identities to results. Accepting a list of identities gives Fetch the ability to batch requests to
the same data source, and returning a mapping from identities to results, Fetch can detect whenever an identity
couldn't be fetched or no longer exists.
Query makes it possible to run a fetch independently of the target monad.
Now that we know about the
DataSource typeclass, let's write our first data source! We'll start by
implementing a data source for fetching users given their id.
The first thing we'll do is define the types for user ids and users.
type UserId = Int
case class User(id: UserId, username: String)
We'll simulate unpredictable latency with this function.
def latency[A](result: A, msg: String) = {
val id = Thread.currentThread.getId
println(s"~~> [$id] $msg")
println(s"<~~ [$id] $msg")
And now we're ready to write our user data source; we'll emulate a database with an in-memory map.
import cats.data.NonEmptyList
import cats.instances.list._
import fetch._
val userDatabase: Map[UserId, User] = Map(
1 -> User(1, "@one"),
2 -> User(2, "@two"),
3 -> User(3, "@three"),
4 -> User(4, "@four")
implicit object UserSource extends DataSource[UserId, User] {
override def name = "User"
override def fetchOne(id: UserId): Query[Option[User]] = {
latency(userDatabase.get(id), s"One User $id")
override def fetchMany(ids: NonEmptyList[UserId]): Query[Map[UserId, User]] = {
latency(userDatabase.filterKeys(ids.toList.contains), s"Many Users $ids")
Now that we have a data source we can write a function for fetching users
given an id, we just have to pass a
UserId as an argument to
def getUser(id: UserId): Fetch[User] = Fetch(id) // or, more explicitly: Fetch(id)(UserSource)
If your data source doesn't support batching, you can use the
DataSource#batchingNotSupported method as the
implementation of
fetchMany. Note that it will use the
implementation for requesting identities one at a time.
implicit object UnbatchedSource extends DataSource[Int, Int] {
override def name = "Unbatched"
override def fetchOne(id: Int): Query[Option[Int]] = {
override def fetchMany(ids: NonEmptyList[Int]): Query[Map[Int, Int]] = {
If your data source only supports querying it in batches, you can implement
fetchOne in terms of
implicit object OnlyBatchedSource extends DataSource[Int, Int] {
override def name = "OnlyBatched"
override def fetchOne(id: Int): Query[Option[Int]] =
override def fetchMany(ids: NonEmptyList[Int]): Query[Map[Int, Int]] =
Query.sync(ids.toList.map((x) => (x, x)).toMap)
We are now ready to create and run fetches. Note the distinction between Fetch creation and execution.
When we are creating and combining
Fetch values, we are just constructing a recipe of our data
val fetchUser: Fetch[User] = getUser(1)
Fetch is just a value, and in order to be able to get its value we need to run it to a monad first. The
target monad
M[_] must be able to lift a
Query[A] to
M[A], evaluating the query in the monad's context.
We'll run
fetchUser using
Id as our target monad, so let's do some imports first. Note that interpreting
a fetch to a non-concurrency monad like
Id or
Eval is only recommended for trying things out in a Scala
console, that's why for using them you need to import
import cats.Id
import fetch.unsafe.implicits._
import fetch.syntax._
Note that running a fetch to non-concurrency monads like
Id or
Eval is not supported in Scala.js.
In real-life scenarios you'll want to run your fetches to
Future or a
Task type provided by a library like
Monix or fs2, both of which
are supported in Fetch.
We can now run the fetch and see its result:
val fetchUser: Fetch[User] = getUser(1)
fetchUser.runA[Id] shouldBe res0
When we have two fetches that depend on each other, we can use
flatMap to combine them.
The most straightforward way is to use a for comprehension.
When composing fetches with
flatMap we are telling Fetch that the second one depends on the previous one,
so it isn't able to make any optimizations. When running the below fetch, we will query the user data source
in two rounds: one for the user with id 1 and another for the user with id 2.
val fetchTwoUsers: Fetch[(User, User)] = for {
aUser <- getUser(1)
anotherUser <- getUser(aUser.id + 1)
} yield (aUser, anotherUser)
val (env, result) = fetchTwoUsers.runF[Id]
result shouldBe res0
If we combine two independent requests to the same data source, Fetch will automatically batch them together into a single request. Applicative operations like the product of two fetches help us tell the library that those fetches are independent, and thus can be batched if they use the same data source:
Both ids (1 and 2) are requested in a single query to the data source when executing the fetch.
import cats.syntax.cartesian._
val fetchProduct: Fetch[(User, User)] = getUser(1).product(getUser(2))
//Note how both ids (1 and 2) are requested in a single query to the data source when executing the fetch.
fetchProduct.runA[Id] shouldBe res0
If two independent requests ask for the same identity, Fetch will detect it and deduplicate the id. Note that when running the fetch, the identity 1 is only requested once even when it is needed by both fetches.
val fetchDuped: Fetch[(User, User)] = getUser(1).product(getUser(1))
fetchDuped.runA[Id] shouldBe res0
During the execution of a fetch, previously requested results are implicitly cached. This allows us to write fetches in a very modular way, asking for all the data they need as if it was in memory; furthermore, it also avoids re-fetching an identity that may have changed during the course of a fetch execution, which can lead to inconsistencies in the data.
val fetchCached: Fetch[(User, User)] = for {
aUser <- getUser(1)
anotherUser <- getUser(1)
} yield (aUser, anotherUser)
As you can see, the
User with id 1 is fetched only once in a single round-trip. The next
time it was needed we used the cached versions, thus avoiding another request to the user data
val fetchCached: Fetch[(User, User)] = for {
aUser <- getUser(1)
anotherUser <- getUser(1)
} yield (aUser, anotherUser)
fetchCached.runA[Id] shouldBe res0
Queries are a way of separating the computation required to read a piece of data from the context in which is run. Let's look at the various ways we have of constructing queries.
A query can be synchronous, and we may want to evaluate it when
fetchOne and
are called. We can do so with
Query.sync({ println("Computing 42"); 42 })
Synchronous queries simply wrap a Cats'
Eval instance, which captures the
notion of a lazy synchronous computation.
You can lift an
Eval[A] into a
Query[A] too:
import cats.Eval
Query.eval(Eval.always({ println("Computing 42"); 42 }))
Asynchronous queries are constructed passing a function that accepts a callback (
A => Unit) and an errback
Throwable => Unit) and performs the asynchronous computation. Note that you must ensure that either the
callback or the errback are called.
def asynchronous(res0: Boolean) = {
Query.async((ok: (Int => Unit), fail) => {
Now that we know about some of the optimizations that Fetch can perform to read data efficiently, let's look at how we can combine more than one data source.
Imagine that we are rendering a blog and have the following types for posts:
type PostId = Int
case class Post(id: PostId, author: UserId, content: String)
As you can see, every
Post has an author, but it refers to the author by its id.
We'll implement a data source for retrieving a post given a post id.
val postDatabase: Map[PostId, Post] = Map(
1 -> Post(1, 2, "An article"),
2 -> Post(2, 3, "Another article"),
3 -> Post(3, 4, "Yet another article")
implicit object PostSource extends DataSource[PostId, Post] {
override def fetchOne(id: PostId): Query[Option[Post]] = {
latency(postDatabase.get(id), s"One Post $id")
override def fetchMany(ids: NonEmptyList[PostId]): Query[Map[PostId, Post]] = {
latency(postDatabase.filterKeys(ids.toList.contains), s"Many Posts $ids")
def getPost(id: PostId): Fetch[Post] = Fetch(id)
We can also implement a function for fetching a post's author given a post:
def getAuthor(p: Post): Fetch[User] = Fetch(p.author)
Apart from posts, we are going to add another data source: one for post topics.
type PostTopic = String
We'll implement a data source for retrieving a post topic given a post id.
implicit object PostTopicSource extends DataSource[Post, PostTopic] {
override def name = "Post topic"
override def fetchOne(id: Post): Query[Option[PostTopic]] = {
val topic = if (id.id % 2 == 0) "monad" else "applicative"
override def fetchMany(ids: NonEmptyList[Post]): Query[Map[Post, PostTopic]] = {
val result = ids.toList.map(id => (id, if (id.id % 2 == 0) "monad" else "applicative")).toMap
def getPostTopic(post: Post): Fetch[PostTopic] = Fetch(post)
Now that we have multiple sources let's mix them in the same fetch. In the following example, we are fetching a post given its id and then fetching its topic. This data could come from entirely different places, but Fetch makes working with heterogeneous sources of data very easy.
val fetchMulti: Fetch[(Post, PostTopic)] = for {
post <- getPost(1)
topic <- getPostTopic(post)
} yield (post, topic)
fetchMulti.runA[Id] shouldBe res0
Combining multiple independent requests to the same data source can have two outcomes:
- if the data sources are the same, the request is batched - otherwise, both data sources are queried at the same time
The below example combines data from two different sources, and the library knows they are independent.
val fetchConcurrent: Fetch[(Post, User)] = getPost(1).product(getUser(2))
fetchConcurrent.runA[Id] shouldBe res0
Since we are running the fetch to
Id, we couldn't exploit parallelism
for reading from both sources at the same time.
Let's do some imports in order to be able to run fetches to a
import scala.concurrent._
import ExecutionContext.Implicits.global
import scala.concurrent.duration._
Let's see what happens when running the same fetch to a
note that you cannot block for a future's result in Scala.js.
import fetch.implicits._
Await.result(fetchConcurrent.runA[Future], Duration.Inf)
res: (Post, User) = (Post(1,2,An article),User(2,@two))
As you can see, each independent request ran in its own logical thread.
flatMap for sequencing fetches and
product for running them concurrently,
Fetch provides a number of other combinators.
Whenever we have a list of fetches of the same type and want to run them concurrently, we can use the
combinator. It takes a
List[Fetch[A]] and gives you back a
Fetch[List[A]], batching the fetches to the same
data source and running fetches to different sources in parallel.
Note that the
sequence combinator is more general and works not only on lists but on any type that
has a Traverse instance.
sequence uses applicative operations internally, the library is able to perform optimizations
across all the sequenced fetches.
import cats.instances.list._
import cats.syntax.traverse._
val fetchSequence: Fetch[List[User]] = List(getUser(1), getUser(2), getUser(3)).sequence
fetchSequence.runA[Id] shouldBe res0
Another interesting combinator is
traverse, which is the composition of
map and
All the optimizations made by
sequence still apply when using
val fetchTraverse: Fetch[List[User]] = List(1, 2, 3).traverse(getUser)
fetchTraverse.runA[Id] shouldBe res0


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Matinga Ragatz, a teacher with roots in Equatorial Guinea and the 2010-11 Michigan Teacher of the Year, is on a national education tour in the U.S. giving talks about the direction of education in the U.S. and school development in the 20th century.
Matinga Ragatz is a Social Studies and World Language teacher at Grand Ledge High School. She is the founder and Project Management Director of Interface Global Alliance, a non-profit organization that promotes economic development in underprivileged communities through project-based education. The proud Equatoguinean has been using a hybrid classroom platform to teach, and creating innovation in technology-assisted learning for over ten years. "My audience includes officials in the departments of education. The main focus of my educational models starts from the economic development through education," said Ms. Ragatz in a recent interview with Guinea Ecuatorial Press.
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Ragatz travels frequently to Equatorial Guinea, where she is working on various education projects, particularly foreign-language education, and is working on a proposal to open a teaching center in the capital, Malabo, for students who want to learn English. She is also the daughter of author and university professor Morgades Trinidad, the first woman from Equatorial Guinea to earn a college degree. "Going back to Guinea is the dream of Guineans all over the world... The people, music, food, culture, the sea... all this is in your blood and you feel it even thousands of miles away. My family is in Equatorial Guinea and I hope to return to serve my country."
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