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SA-born man talks about surviving mysterious paralysis after 12 years 'trapped'
(UPDATE) Since the writing of this article, Martin's wife has given birth to a baby boy
We are absolutely delighted to welcome our son, Sebastian Albert Pistorius into the world - Hi is such an incredible blessing! pic.twitter.com/9kYkko5LXC— Martin Pistorius (@martinpistorius) December 13, 2018
South African-born Martin Pistorius has shared the incredible story of how he recovered from a mysterious illness that left him unable to move or speak.
Pistorius was left in a virtual coma for at least 10 years of his life after he was diagnosed with a mysterious illness when he was 12.
Pistorius lost his voice, along with his ability to walk, to sit up, to reach out and touch someone.
He had locked-in syndrome and was trapped inside his mind for more than a decade, unable to move his body or communicate.
He could see and hear everything, but no-one knew he was conscious.
He spent a decade at home and in day care centers.
Pistorius shared the story of his eventual recovery in his book Ghost Boy, published in 2013.
He now lives in the UK where he has a full and independent life. He is married to a social worker, Joanna, and works as a freelance web developer and IT consultant.
He is also a father-to-be, and their first child is due in November.
There has still been no conclusive diagnosis for his mystery illness, and Pistorius says that he is okay with that.
To be honest, the mystery behind my illness doesn't bother me at all. I am who I am, and I'm okay with that.Martin Pistorius, author of 'Ghost Boy'
I don't dwell on the past or even really think about it.Martin Pistorius, author of 'Ghost Boy'
I live and enjoy life and much and as best as I can.Martin Pistorius, author of 'Ghost Boy'
My body weakened and I lost the ability to speak and control my movements. Within months I slipped away, being trapped inside my own body.Martin Pistorius, author of 'Ghost Boy'
He was interviewed by CapeTalk host Pippa Hudson and answered with the help of a device that speaks the words he types into a computer.
Listen to the inspiring interview on The Pippa Hudson Show:
All images from: Martin Pistorius website.


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1. Chicken Broth or Vegetable Broth – A quick and easy way to get extra instant flavor in your quinoa is to use part chicken or vegetable broth instead of water when cooking your quinoa.
2. Garlic/Olive Oil – Many people saute their quinoa with garlic and olive oil before boiling to freshen and enliven the taste. (The quinoa aborbs the flavor).
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Finally, remember to rinse your quinoa! – There is alot of debate online about whether or not your should be rinsing it. The answer: most cooks will tell you yes, you should rinse it. Quinoa has an outer coat of a chemical called saponin – this is a natural chemical, but to a person's palate, it has a very bitter taste. If you don't rinse it off, your quinoa will taste bitter. If the quinoa you're eating does not taste bitter and you have not been rinsing it, chances are that it has already been rinsed! Manufacturers of many companies will pre-rinse the quinoa prior to packaging! (or course, there's nothing wrong with rinsing again! 🙂


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How to Hide and Remove Tagged Photos on Instagram
Instagram is online social media which allows a person to share photos to their profile. If a user is posting a photo with other people including then you can tag that person also. What if someone tags you in a photo in which you are not present. It is better to remove tag and remove the photo from profile. Now you can Hide and Remove Tagged Photos on Instagram.
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- In the screen, you will see the navigation bar at bottom where the last icon in the right side is the profile icon. You need to tap on it and then you will see your profile in the screen.
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Maid, Barry M. "Creating Two Departments of Writing: One Past and One Future." In A Field of Dreams: Independent Writing Programs and the Future of Composition Studies. Ed. Peggy O'Neill, Angela Crow, and Larry W. Burton. Logan: Utah State UP, 2002. 130-149. Print.
Maid explains the difficulties and pitfalls in creating independent writing departments, using his experiences at University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Arizona State University East, where he helped develop stand-alone writing and rhetoric departments.
Notes and Quotes
3 independent departments of writing in spring 1993: University of Texas at Austin, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and San Diego State University (w/ Shirly Rose and Sherry Little, discussed in Hindman's article in this same collection.)
Methodology: insider account, was the WPA from 1982-1987; chair of the huge English Department from 1987-1993.
Warns that every story is individual to the institution, must be taken into context.
"In many ways, it's easier to start a new program from scratch than to try to piece together remnants of other programs" (147).
Heartache, in-fighting, anger, ugliness
position of non-tenure-track instructors in the governance of a department


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Friday, November 13, 2009
Min-Max Evaluation Function For Magic
Below is copy and pasted from a private discussion. I did not write it. I'm still working on my own version of min-max and Magic.
I got a lot of requests asking me the AI evaluation function in (private Magic program). I will try to explain a little bit of the function here. You may need to have a basic understanding of how Minimax algorithm works first before you can totally understanding how to apply this to your program.
In the very first engine I have created, my evaluation function is very simple. Basically it counts how many cards in-play for the player and combine that with the player's life. Since life is more important than how many cards a player has put in-play, the life total is multiplied. The result is what I called a score and each area contributing to this score is a component. This calculation is also done for the other player and is subtracted. So for example:
Player 1 - 3 in-play cards - 20 life -> 3 + 20 * 100 = 2003
Player 2 - 10 in-play cards - 18 life -> 10 + 18 * 100 = 1810
Score for player 1 at this stage is 2003 - 1810 = 193 (score for player 2 will be -193)
You will be surprised by how Minimax can perform some amazing things with such a simple evaluation function. There are some special cases in the equation I am not mentioning here. These cases are used to handle losing conditions besides a zero or negative life, e.g. draw with no cards in library, losing condition set by a card, etc. In those cases a lowest possible negative number is used for the player's score regardless of other components.
As a side note, if my computer is infinitely fast and can evaluate the whole game from start to finish in a reasonable time, the evaluation function can be as simple as using just players' life total (plus the win/lose special score.) This is because A.I. can foresee all the consequences of each move and number of in-play cards is not needed to make a sensible decision.
Since our computer can only do a limited amount of calculation and MTG is not a simple game like tic-tac-toe, we need to guide the Minimax/alpha-beta algorithm to an approximated score when an end-game state cannot be achieved. The in-play card scoring part in the above example is one of the approximation. Now you can find many example of winning a game without a single card in-play (e.g. using red.) However in a more general sense the player life part of the equation is kind of balancing this out. So either you are putting cards out or reducing your opponent's life. If you are not doing both, you are not in a good position.
After the first version of the evaluation function, I quickly found out that not all cards are equal and I shouldn't give them equal scores. Ideally, if a card's purpose is to reduce an opponent's life and is effective about it (directly or indirectly), the opponent's life decrease should reflect in the evaluation function and so the merit of one card will be obvious against another card which cannot achieve the same thing. However, when there are too many possibilities and time is limited, Minimax may not be able to reach such a conclusion.
At first I tried to give a card more points when it has more abilities and in case of creatures considering their power and toughness. Later I changed to a more generic 'base' score by just looking at a card's casting cost. The calculation is simple, 150 points for colored cost and 100 points for generic cost. This simple calculation can usually account for how powerful a cards is. However if a card has an unreasonable cost, e.g. Black Lotus, this calculation will not give Minimax a good representation of the card. Hopefully in those case the power of the card (or the lack of) will be reflected in other evaluated parts. Besides the base score, a few bonus points will be added for creatures' power and toughness points.
Besides in-play cards, there are points given to cards in hand and library.
I want to get back to the multiplier given to the life component in the above example. When I add more and more components to the score, it becomes easier for components' scores to 'overlap.' In the above example, using a multipier of 100 will not be enough if all the in-play cards' score total is exceeding 100. Once that is happening, Minimax will behave weird and no longer to preserve a player's life but to put more cards on the table!
To create a solution which is once and for all, I have created a separate score class to deal with scores rather than just use a single integer number. Basically the class has multiple layers of sub-scores. Sub-scores in the upper layer are more important than sub-scores in the lower layers. Each sub-score value is by itself an integer which will allow me to have more precision in tinkering. These are the current list of all the sub-scores:
Limits - represents boundary situations, highest significance
Wins - represents win/lose situations
Creatures - a special sub-score to allow a less conservative play in early game situations
Life - represents play life
Library - represents cards in libraries
InPlay - sub-score for in-play cards
InHand - sub-score for hand cards
Misc - minor scores to prevent indecisive situations, lowest significance
Comparisons of two scores is performed by comparing the highest significant sub-scores against each other first. If they are the same, the next lower significant sub-scores are compared and so on.
6 comments:
- DennisBergkamp said...
Interesting read, I'm curious now what "private MTG program" this is :)
The first example seemed a little bit funky though, I'm probably missing something here, but is one point of life really worth 100 cards? If this were the case, Ancestral Recall would be worth a lot less than Healing Salve :D
- November 13, 2009 at 2:05 PM
- zerker2000 said...
"I promise to write a normal article about MTG Forge next time." >:|
About life, yes: under such evaluation, painlands will never be used, all spells requiring payment of life(that don't damage the opponent for more) will sit dead in hand, all burn will be targeted directly at opponent, etc. Since the algorithm probably doesn't calculate with trustworthy accuracy something as complicated as next turn's combat results, I think more worth should be given to creatures, esp in the most common case of one player having more of them (and thus the ability to get ~∑^(∆№Creats)(LowestCreats_k.pow) damage through during combat).
- November 13, 2009 at 10:16 PM
- ParkerLewis said...
I basically agree with previous comments.
Also, if the layer system has proven more simple (thus also maybe more effective at this stage), it's obvious that a "ideal" AI shouldn't decide moves solely on a "manual lexicographic order" between different variables, but actually have a formule to mix and match them globally. Although the "perfect" Magic formula is only a dream, it looks like there is a "good compromise" in between. Like, keeping the most extremes "layers", and have an evaluation function for other variables.
Concerning life/cards in a particular, a better representation of life's value could be with a sqrt or ln function, which would help represent how a one life point difference is worth more when you're at low life than when you're at high life. ln(max(life,1E-10)) also has the beauty of directly implying that less than 1 life, ie death, is infinitely bad : )
- November 15, 2009 at 6:05 AM
- ParkerLewis said...
(...and sorry for the accidental publishing of previous unfinished comments)
Cards in hand could be valued at something like (ncih = number of cards in hand, v is for value)
if ncih<=7
to reflect how the cards in excess of seven are worth less than the first seven (considering 1) diminishing returns (same thing as for life, the difference between 10 and 11 cards in hand is not the same as compared to 2 and 3 cards), and 2) you'll eventually have to discard to 7 anyway)
Then the composite evaluation function could be something like
5*ln(max(life,1E-10))+alpha*vcih +your current formula to evaluate on board position (as long as a card on board is worth more than a card in hand)
Where alpha is a coefficient around 1 could be used in front of vcih to reflect capability of playing spells. Something simple like
alpha=sqrt(1+(number of lands you control - mcmc)/mcmc)
where mcmc is the mean of your deck's cards' cmc. (just make sure it doesn't grow big enough to make cards in hand worth more than cards in play).
Thus, at around 5 life or less, one point of life starts to be more important than a "normal" (ie pre 7 cards) card in hand. Maybe it shouldn't be exactly 5 life, but the "general" answer is surely in between 5 and 8.
- November 15, 2009 at 6:37 AM
- Incantus said...
Hey Rares,
It's good you got permission to repost this article from the author, but you should make clear which part is reproduced from the other post (everything after the first paragraph). Otherwise it seems like you wrote it all.
- November 16, 2009 at 8:56 PM
- Unknown said...
If you are really interested in learning AI, the way you evolve your eval function is by having random weights assigned to your different variables (number of cards, life totals, etc), then having computer play games against itself. After each game weights become adjusted based on the winner and back propogated through previous turns. After enough games played your weights should be much more accurate then trying to set them by hand. Also it gives your AI an opportunity to learn different decks and even assign weight value for each card in the deck if you want to go that far.
- November 17, 2009 at 11:46 AM


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McLean is located in Virginia. McLean, Virginia has a population of 48,078. McLean is more family-centric than the surrounding county with 42% of the households containing married families with children. The county average for households married with children is 41%.
The median household income in McLean, Virginia is $188,639. The median household income for the surrounding county is $112,102 compared to the national median of $53,482. The median age of people living in McLean is 46 years.
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20 + Premium Personal Page WordPress Themes 2019
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Writing, SEO Writing, Content Marketing, and Inbound Marketing with Karen Cioffi
Writing for Success
Writing is now big business. It has the world-wide stage, a global market. Spin-off businesses like tutors, publicists and agents spring up and prosper.
The writer and writing have always been commodities to be marketed. The difference now is that morebooks are published per day than used to be published annually.
It is the best of times but also the worst of times for writers--and especially for those of us who choose
to write fiction.
Difficulties of marketing fiction
In the main, fiction writers write to entertain, tell stories that encapsulate human experience. They have something to say--a message to share. This idea of theme pervades all successful writing.
But if you are writing to make money, you'll be very lucky to become one of the big hitters on Kindle, no
matter what the marketers and publicists tell you.
You are competing against millions of books, both new and from successful authors' backlists as well as those which are sourced from the public domain, or are written to order.
So how can you make money to fund your writing?
Think about it--money is being made in copy writing, ghost writing and to some extent blogging or contentwriting for websites.
Profit can be made from spin-offs--webinars, teaching writing courses, even writing lots for others.
But often the best money can be made at home through networking.
Talk to librarians, local schools, clubs, businesses. Discuss courses/ visits and talks on your area of expertise.
Offer to run a reading and writing hour in school or as an after-school activity, suggest a talk on self-
publishing to attract more people to the library, promote your services as a business writer, enhancing staff communication skills or providing new website content on a regular basis.
As a bonus, whatever the result, you'll be gaining new experiences, meeting new people and finding even more ideas and customers for that new novel.
Anne Duguid is a freelance content editor with MuseItUp Publishing and she tries to pass on helpful writing,editing and publishing tips at Slow and Steady Writers.
Originnaly posted at Writers on the Move: http://www.writersonthemove.com/2013/10/writing-for-success.html
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Back in the 1990's one of the best sex toys in the world was something that looked like an 18-inch replica of Gene Simmon's tongue. Invented by a housewife with five kids in the suburbs of Toronto The Tongue by Lady Calston toys was something completely new in the area of women's romance items. "The idea came to me in the middle of the night" said Darryl Brown, the inventor, during an interview with me in 1993. "Women didn't need a vibrating penis, what we wanted was a tongue." She requested that her engineering husband design and manufacture it for women and it was the subject of a number of articles including one in Playgirl (back when people read Playgirl), and Cosmo.
It was funny looking, loud and undulated in a strange way. It was slightly off putting with a large nubby cow-like tongue at the end. But it was the closest thing I had ever found to replicate oral sex. Until now!
It turns out that just this month LELO launched in the U.S. a new oral-sex simulator that mimics a tongue's movement with a little "flicking button". ORA, the newest addition to the Swedish LELO luxury product line is a slight departure from the brand's typical renditions of couples' vibrators and "for her" stimulators.
There are so many different kinds of sex toys for women. Walk into any sex shop and you'll see walls of toys in all colors, shapes and with types of vibration. Women are the focus of the sex toy industry, as opposed to male toys. Male toys are all variations on a tube and a hole with the occasional ring thrown in. But what should women choose when looking for a new toy? If you are a woman who enjoys oral sex (and who doesn't?), you might want to look into the new Ora to add to your toy collection. This new product is definitely something beyond the same old vibration toy.
Lelo makes sturdy, well-made toys with that usual Swedish practicality. This continues with the Ora. It's small, circular and easy to handle. It is rechargeable and it comes in a fetching purple color. It both vibrates gently and has a slight bulge at the bottom that moves back and forth in a flicking motion. Place it against your clitoris for any length of time and I guarantee it will start your motor. It is soft enough to be a first toy for women who are little alarmed by the size of most vaginal toys. It certainly doesn't have the zero to sixty energy of a magic wand or pocket rocket variation, but for a new, unique toy it is a very fun addition to an inquiring woman's toybox. It certainly held my attention.


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The neatest bits of history can turn up just around the corner. Most of my musings have focused on grand historic sites around the world, but as I explore my new surroundings I can see that I don't need to travel 2,000 miles to see something cool.
I haven't had much time to comment on history lately because I've been too busy teaching history. Last August I decided to give up my cushy analyst's job and get my license to teach history. It was a tough 16 weeks but I finished the program thanks to Troops to Teachers. After a two week vacation to New England and Canada I began my job search in earnest. At first I thought I was going to accept a job at Virginia Beach, but instead decided to teach in a small town in Virginia.
Teaching World History to High School students is no easy task, but it is certainly rewarding. I think it helps that I have been to many of the places that I teach. With all of that going on, plus getting all of the new teacher illnesses, I haven't had much time to travel. I thought I was going to go on a holiday tour to Turkey, but decided to save my money for summer vacation. Now that I have a semester of teaching under my belt, I've had time to go out and explore my new surroundings.
This weekend I had a chance to visit Sperryville, Virginia. I've been through this little town several times going to and from Shenandoah National Park, but I didn't pay it much attention until last weekend. I discovered several hidden gems within a few blocks' walking distance. I ended up having lunch at the Thornton River Grille and the food is insanely good! They have burgers, salads, delicious sweet tea and everything in between. The restaurant is of course in a historc building that also houses a pizza parlor and a country store. The history of this building alone makes Sperryville worth the visit.
What better way to top off lunch than a coffee? Not just any coffee but a coffee roasted right here in town. I passed what I thought was a coffee shop when trying to decide what to eat for lunch. We thought that it was just a short walk up the road. Little did I know that the journey to the coffee roaster would be a 1.5 mile walk along US 211, with no sidewalk in 30 degree weather. After 30 minutes of trekking we finally arrived at a place that smelled like coffee heaven. The name of the place is Central Coffee Roasters, and I can honestly say that I have never smelled anything as good. Sampling is free and a full cup is only $1.00. I had a hard time deciding but I finally selected the Peruvian Blend. I could use this coffee as an air freshener; it smells so good. As I was checking out I mentioned to the guy behind the counter (who was super nice and helpful) that I was going to use the beans for my Aero Press. He took the coffee to the back and ground it specifically for the press. You can't ask for better service (or better coffee).
Even though lunch and coffee really made the day, the trip was about Sperryville's history. The town is right on the Virginia Civil War Trails, and historic homes line the streets. One story from the Civil War that I doubt is told very often is the story of Caroline Terry, aka Sister Caroline. She was born into slavery in 1833, and died a respected member of the community in 1941. The historic marker describing her life is right next to Copper Fox Antiques, and the Headmaster's Pub, both of which are located in an old schoolhouse. I almost didn't walk down to view the marker, but once I did it led to another adventure (to find her grave).
Sister Caroline wasn't born in Sperryville, but she spent much of her life there. She seems to have been a collector of military relics, some of which remain in the possession of her descendants. Caroline acquired a Union soldier's revolver and binoculars, which she reportedly hid under her maternity clothes while assisting in the soldier's burial. Caroline was eventually freed, bought a small house and ended up helping establish Hopewell Baptist Church. She is buried about a mile down the road from her historic marker. Not content to just read about her life, I was moved to find her grave before leaving Sperryville. The cemetery where she is buried is on a steep hill on Oven Top Road. You'll miss the family cemetery (as I did) if you don't pay attention. The site is in the woods on the left hand side a short distance up Oven Top Road. My little Nissan Rouge actually made it up the hill in two inches of snow with no problems. Right up the hill (along with hundreds of animal tracks) lies the final resting place of this fascinating figure.
I'm sure the little I know about Caroline Terry is just a fraction of the story of her life. Her great-grandson published a collection of her stories in Beyond the Rim: From Slavery to Redemption in Rappahannock County, Virginia, which I intend to read. I would like to know and share more about the life of this interesting woman in Sperryville's history. Sister Caroline's story, like the stories of so many others whose lives and histories are ignored in the shadow of great events, deserves to be heard.
If you're driving through Rappahannock County on the way to Shenandoah National Park, be sure to stop in Sperryville for the food and coffee, stay for the history, and pay your respects to Sister Caroline's burial site.
Listen to Caroline Terry Remembered on YouTube
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The sight is a disturbing one: Hounds turned loose into a field known to have coyotes either in a den or hiding in bushes. The coyotes run away or defend their territory, depending on the circumstances. If they are defending a den, coyotes will chase after the hounds in an attempt to shoo them away. These hounds (often greyhounds or greyhound mixes) have been trained to decoy the coyotes out of hiding, then run toward their handlers who are armed with high-powered rifles. The hound handlers shoot the coyotes just to wound them, then turn loose the hounds again. The wounded coyotes are then mauled to death by the trained hounds. Sometimes the coyotes get in a bite or two on the hounds and sometimes the hounds turn on each other in the frenetic attack. The coyotes always end up dead, and the hounds generally will come away with some puncture wounds, but ready for their next outing If the hounds are too wounded or don't come back when called, they are often abandoned in these killing fields - left to die or perhaps be rescued by someone who happens to find them and take them to the nearest animal shelter. Such is the case for a greyhound left with a gaping neck wound in a New Mexico area popular for coyote hunters. This greyhound was found and taken to a shelter where she was scheduled for euthanasia the next day. Luckily, she lifted her head to watch as the staff members came in to give treats. She was not ready to give up. The shelter contacted a greyhound rescue group to see if they would take in this dog lucky enough to survive her wounds. She ended up in a loving home and lived to a ripe old age as a companion. Her photo is above in the heading.
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This scene unfolds almost daily in many states as it has become a popular past-time among those who enjoy the sight of animals fighting - unfortunately there is no shortage of humans who have a penchant for torturing animals. These videos (warning: graphic video) are proudly displayed on numerous Facebook pages. Two hunters in Michigan may get animal abuse charges thrown at them for their participation in a grisly video they posted on Facebook which attracted the attention of authorities. The video is now in the hands of the Gogebic County prosecutor, after the story broke in June, 2014.
Let's hope laws will soon be adopted to ban this torture of wildlife and the hounds put in harm's way every time they are sent out for the kill. Maybe Michigan will set the precedent in the Gogebic County case.


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A journal designed with a clever package to resemble Atari's best-selling 2600 games
Officially licensed and designed to look like the original game cartridge, ADVENTURE: The Atari 2600 Game Journal features endpapers with color screenshots of gameplay (including an Easter egg planted by the designer) as well as an insert with instructions from the original game manual. With black-edged pages and sticker artwork showcasing the iconic orange dragon, ADVENTURE: The Atari 2600 Game Journal is a pixilated trip down memory lane.
In 1977, Atari released their first programmable cartridge system, the VCS, in a daring attempt to bring gaming from arcade halls to living rooms. Later rebranded the Atari 2600, the gaming system became an essential part of 80's culture, selling millions of units until its remodel in 1992. Despite the variations that followed, the Atari 2600 games are seen as the pioneers of video gaming, and are the foundation for many game designs, platforms, and systems in rotation today.


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It's strange in this modern day that people take such pride in the negative things about humanity. There is that quote that people often attribute to Marilyn Monroe that goes "if you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best". I understand, as do many people, the intention behind it. It's trying to make it clear that people, as a whole, are flawed. The thing is, it's unlikely that there has ever been a time when people didn't know that. Everybody knows that every person that they encounter has their own set of problems, difficulties, and things that make them less than perfectly appealing to be around.
The problem that has become apparent,however, is that far too many people use that quote and others as an excuse to be lazy about their interactions with people, or to be less pleasant. Most people that are encountered on a daily basis are decent people. They're willing to have a conversation with a complete stranger, and don't at all put up a front that suggests that they might have misanthropic tendencies. There are, however, a very few people however, who believe it is their duty to show the world and everyone in it just how crazy or angry they are. They hold it close to their heart as part of their identity. They go so far as to tattoo it on their body. They take any opportunity they can to tell you how "Loco" they are. Facebook would suggest that these people are the majority. Reality makes it clear that this is simply not the case.
I Miss Mayberry
It used to be that people put on their best face when they left the house. No matter what was going on in their home, they wanted everyone to believe that everything was going perfectly. The term "fake it till you make it" seems to apply pretty well here. The glut of TV shows and other media that suggest that every family is a dysfunctional band of misanthropes that has become popular in the past decade or so is disheartening. The Cosby Show was a wholesome program that did not center on race, people's various mental problems, or disgusting things that people do. Instead it focused on creating good habits and following good patterns. There was even an episode in which Cliff taught Rudy how to mop the floor. Real, actual parenting happened right on the screen in front of all of America.
Full House was another of these shows. Bad things would happen, and instead of succumbing to the difficulties found, the characters would find ways to overcome. Oddly enough, the show featured a family that was far from normal as well, yet they were not portrayed as dysfunctional.
With the advent of Netflix, the show Fuller House has shown that this sort of wholesome programming is not only still acceptable, but popular.
Why, then, do we focus on the negative so readily?
A popular argument that has been bandied about for years is that we crave things that make us feel better about our own selves without having to actually do anything. This is why people still have losers from high school as friends on Facebook, even though they wouldn't be caught dead associating with them in real life. It's also why reality TV is such a big deal: we love to watch awful people be awful to each other so that by comparison our somewhat dysfunctional normalcy looks like an example.
That's great for most people, but what about the ones who actually do go around being awful in real life?
Short answer: some people are just naturally assholes.
The long answer is a little more entangled. Due to Asperger's, high functioning autism, or simply having had a bad upbringing with useless parents, some people just don't know how to function normally within society. The problem comes when an Internet and a media full of people like that try to make it look normal, and suggest that it's actually normal people who are abnormal.
Suddenly, treating people like human beings instead of treating them like statistics is frowned upon. This point will be expanded upon in a future article.
In short, normalcy is being attacked, as is decency, because those who are incapable or simply too lazy to do it are trying to make their version of normal into everybody's. It's just like the Healthy At Every Size movement. They simply can't or won't take the effort, and so try to normalize it while stigmatizing anything else.
Oddly enough, they take a lot of effort in doing so.


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There's an assumption in our industry about customer success (CS) that says that companies wanting to establish CS organizations need to quickly decide on the type of engagement model they'll deploy for their various segments. The debate typically argues the merits and demerits of a high touch strategy versus low touch. The answer always boils down to people (high touch) versus technology (low touch).
Intelligent and helpful examples of blended models have been proposed, but it seems that the more variations entertained, the longer it takes to come to a conclusion that the company feels suits their needs. Therefore, close attention is directed at determining which customers will receive high touch and then relegating everyone else to low. Or maybe a model is designed that sees a well-defined high touch, an ill-defined and very squishy medium, and a low that looks like, well, just about every generic campaign ever designed and executed by a marketing organization.
Confused? So are your customers. And, by the way, they may also be insulted.
Would you be able to tell?
While the segmentation exercise offers speed and certainty for the company, it tends to reinforce preexisting biases and often suffers from faulty logic. In the end, this can result in very limited value to the average customer that can take many months to play out. And (here's where temperatures rise) this applies even with a company's most strategic customers.
A rebuttal to my point (I can hear it being yelled) is that vendors must preserve the ability for their highest ARR (annual recurring revenue) customers to be successful at all costs and that high touch programs offer the level of attention those customers expect and require. That's fine, I get it. But if you honestly probed the subject of what level of attention those strategic customers expect and require, you might be surprised. Your customers' definition of what constitutes success is likely different than your assumptions.
Let's expand on that point.
In our Voice of the Customer program, we've explored this topic and have learned that, sadly, customers are often left frustrated even when CSMs deliver consistently against all those items listed above. Why would they still be frustrated? Don't they realize the amount of effort and energy the CSM is expending to serve them?
Actually, they do.
Time and again, I hear from executives who say they love their assigned CSM, and that they do X, Y, and Z (the items listed above) phenomenally well. It's just that they feel their own teams have not made enough progress with adopting the solution and they wish the CSM could get in front of the challenges. In a nutshell, they feel there isn't enough proactive guidance to help them achieve their goals.
Before any competitors read this and declare a scoop, let's all be honest and admit that our company is not unique in this regard. My own experience with previous employers, big and small, my time spent in a research firm talking with hundreds of executives, and the research from industry firms (e.g. TSIA, SiriusDecisions, IDC, Forrester, etc.) have all made the correlation between the limitations of existing customer success models and persistent high rates of churn. Those findings are also supported in the countless stories CSMs tell at conferences and meetups. There just hasn't been enough demonstrable future-oriented business impacting value in the existing dynamic. That's why we've rolled out a new model to address the imbalances of that dynamic.
We believe that what's been missing all along has been customer-generated and controlled data, data that we should be able to consume to turn back around and provide more relevant and personalized service.
As a relevant aside, it might surprise you to read that for B2B enterprises, the world of global financial trading offers good guidance on this topic. Whether an engagement is high touch or low, the engine that powers the engagement must be a firm layer of customer data-driven insights and appropriate automation that acts upon it. We believe that philosophy will reveal what's missing from high touch and will make low touch a more powerful and relevant experience for all customers.
What we envision is this.
We believe all our customers deserve the best service, and we also believe that the best can only be provided by getting close to our customers, by listening to them, by partnering with them, and by improving our capabilities based on what we can learn from them. We have confidence this is the right approach because we hear our customers express this desire in the comments they make in our customer satisfaction surveys, during the in-depth interviews in our Voice of the Customer program, and from the insights we glean and extrapolate from engagement data collected in our digital interfaces.
Whether it's high touch or low touch, our new approach means we'll provide consistent, and proactive, expert guidance.
Customer success should not be about heroically supporting and leading the charge against escalations. Don't get me wrong, customers applaud that and are grateful for it, but they'd much rather the escalations never happened. They believe customer success should become more instrumental in preventing escalations from ever occurring.
Customer success is about simplicity and speed, it's about clarity of process structure and language, and it's about an accountability for those deliverables that will drive momentum toward the achievement of customer business goals.
That's what customers want. That's what we're going to deliver.
Check out our recent announcement of our new service model.


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The year is 1999. Y2K mania is at a fever pitch as people terrifyingly wait for the computers to take over (I was eight so I don't actually know why people were scared for Y2K but I imagine it was something along the lines of the plot of Terminator 2 maybe?). You're walking to the movie theater to go see Star Wars Episode 1, which is for sure going to be the coolest movie of all time because how could they possibly screw it up? Have you seen how badass Darth Maul looks? Anyway, you're accompanied on your walk by your handy portable CD player. What are you listening to? Why, smash hit "Smooth" by Santana featuring Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty, of course. Like most of the country, it's your favorite song and you can't sop listening to it. All of a sudden, you trip and fall down through a manhole into the sewers underground. You're trapped there, and you don't have a cell phone because I don't think they were invented yet. So you live down there. For 17 years you survive (basically becoming a Ninja Turtle except you're not actually a turtle and you're definitely not a ninja). Finally, in the year 2016, you're rescued and brought back to the normal world. You acclimate yourself to a world that has gone through insane changes since you were last there. You boot up the Internet since Y2K was apparently a bust, and take a look around. Then you see it. "Smooth". Everywhere. Memes based on the song. Shirts that simply have the song title on it. Kids who were barely even born when the song was released referencing it. What's going on?
Now, you're probably wondering "Nick, why did you make me read an entire paragraph of that dumb story? An introduction is supposed to draw the reader in, not make them actively hate you as they trudge through your weird 300-word fan fiction about the song "Smooth" by Santana featuring Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty."
The answer is simply to set the stage. Isn't it weird that a track that came out 17 years ago has recently become the internet's theme song? Why is this happening? Is it a joke? Or is it truly the greatest song ever recorded?
(Also that was kind of an elevator pitch for the screenplay I'm working on. I don't have a ton of the details ironed out yet but I will say that ideally Vin Diesel would be playing several different roles a la Eddie Murphy in Norbit.
Anyway, here are five reasons why "Smooth" by Santana featuring Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty is the greatest song of all time.
1) Matchbox Twenty Is Kind Of A Rad Band
Growing up in Houston there was a radio station called Mix 96.5 that specialized in playing your favorites from the 80s, 90s and today. It was basically the soundtrack to the suburbs so it was accordingly on every time I got into the car. Sometimes they played good songs. Other times they played Guns N' Roses. But one thing they played a lot of was Matchbox Twenty. I wouldn't call myself a huge fan of the band, but I've heard a bunch of their big singles and I'm willing to step out on a limb here and call them kind of rad. "Push" and "3 A.M." are certified bangers and the riff on "Real World" is killer (Wikipedia calls the band "post-grunge" several times and if that's the case I'm willing to put any of their singles over anything Nirvana ever made. Don't @ me). So yeah, Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty carries a lot of star power with him, something every 90s kid knows.
2) Rob Thomas's Wardrobe In The Music Video
Simply put, dude is killing it. In half the video he's wearing a button up shirt with a dragon down the side of it, a wardrobe choice normally reserved for nerds who get shoved in trash cans for playing Yu-Gi-Oh at lunch, but here an iconic rock star look.
For the other half he's inexplicably wearing a cowboy hat. I have no idea why. There's nothing western about this song or the video. They're performing in the middle of the street in a city. But does Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty care about this?
3) Carlos Santana Is The Coolest Human To Have Ever Walked This Earth
Carlos Santana is a true legend. Arguably one of the greatest Mexican-American musicians of all time (Selena is number one. Forever. No questions asked. Anything for Selenas.). He has been a groundbreaking musician since the 60's, so for him to carry his career all the way to collaborating with pop stars at the turn of the millennium is extraordinarily impressive.
And just look at this guy.
You will never be as cool as Carlos Santana. Never in a million years. Carlos Santana is the cool tio you always wished you had.
4) The Lyrics Are Pure Poetry In Motion
First off, "Man, it's a hot one" is an iconic opening line, up there with "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" from Charles Dickens and "I came in with my dick in my hand" from Mystikal.
Then it moves on to "If you say this life ain't good enough/I would give my world to lift you up". Beautiful. What an upstanding gentleman Rob Thomas from Matchbox Twenty is.
The most memorable line, however, comes with "It's just like the ocean under the moon/It's the same as the emotion that I get from you". The most impressive lines are the ones that get the listener thinking and asking questions. Like "What does this even mean?" or "What emotion should I be getting from looking at the ocean under the moon?' or "Has he ever seen the ocean under the moon? I feel like it just looks like an ocean except it's dark and also oh yeah there's the moon". Rob Thomas from Matchbox Twenty is modern day philosopher.
5) The Song Unironically, Genuinely Rips
Look, I know it's hard to parse through the layers upon layers of irony that make up internet culture. What do people like versus what do people like to say they like because it makes other people laugh. I'd say "Smooth"'s position in 2016 is about 50% in each of those camps. The internet is weird. It takes things and morphs them around into something else entirely. I know I've spent 1,000 words cracking jokes about the song, but don't get it twisted: "Smooth" is a truly fantastic song. It's great. It's insanely catchy. It has some gnarly solos from a guitar legend. Hell, don't just listen to me, look at it's chart performances. It was the number two Hot 100 hit OF THE 20TH CENTURY. Billboard ranked it as the second most successful song OF ALL TIME. So no, it's not an exaggeration. I'm making a ruling. "Smooth" by Santana featuring Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty is the greatest song ever recorded in the history of mankind.
It is decided.


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"Leigh Dance and I have worked together on many projects, facilitating practical exchanges and promoting critical thinking among business lawyers globally. We share the same objective: to advance the structures, management and transparency of corporate legal services to meet the needs of the changing world around us. I have met few individuals that have been as closely involved as Leigh Dance in the many developments in our industry globally— both as they affect corporate legal teams and law firms. Through her consultancy she has contributed significantly to the high quality of international corporate legal advice. The outstanding list of legal luminaries that readily agreed to write essays specifically for this book is the best testimony to Leigh's talents."
- Jan Eijsbouts, former General Counsel, Akzo Nobel (from the foreword, Bright Ideas: Insights from Legal Luminaries Worldwide)
For 16 years Leigh Dance has led ELD International, Inc., a consultancy advising global law firms on international expansion and global client development. She has worked with many of the world's top law firm leadership on creating and executing competitive growth strategies internationally, new market penetration, and improving the performance of existing international offices. Dance has unparalleled international legal services experience, having worked on projects in more than 30 countries in her career. She has lived partly in Europe and partly in the US for the last 15 years.
The concept for Bright Ideas: Insights from Legal Luminaries Worldwide was inspired by Leigh Dance's ongoing work with top inside and outside counsel around the world. On the occasion of ELD International's 15th birthday, she decided to invite a number of colleagues from diverse regions to write essays on topics of mutual interest. Each of these individuals had impressed her as 'big thinkers' and she wanted to put their diverse perspectives together to present a valued book on the key issues facing global law firms and corporate law departments today. A communicator by training and experience, Leigh assumed the role of the book's editor.
In addition to its work with global law firms, ELD International also advises global corporate law departments on structuring and managing to achieve better results for their companies. Leigh Dance has worked with dozens of top global corporate legal functions on leadership and training for global counsel, best practices to enhance productivity and reduce costs, cross-border corporate legal services delivery, global law firm partnering and convergence, and compliance and ethics programs. She leads projects with support from the ELD team and a number of strategic allies.
With LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell, Leigh co-founded and organizes the highly-regarded international series Counsel To Counsel: A Forum on Best Practices in Corporate Legal Services. Since 2000 Leigh has moderated more than 75 roundtables of senior corporate counsel in more than 25 cities on all continents. Additionally, ELD International developed and produced the Global Counsellors College with PLC and Howrey, and co-chaired four global compliance conferences in the US and Europe in 2007 and 2008. She developed and co-chaired the 2008 Wake Up to the Future: How Global Corporate Legal Services Must Change conference hosted by Eversheds and ACC in New York City.
Prior to founding ELD International in 1993, Leigh had nearly 14 years of work experience in international development and public policy in Washington and New York, where she worked with the Overseas Education Fund and the Executive Counsel on Foreign Diplomats. During this time she edited a book on credit and women's economic development. In New York, the UK and France she worked as a Vice President of The Chase Manhattan Bank with corporate communications, strategic planning, investment product management and marketing management assignments in 13 countries. She was then head of marketing for a US Midwest law firm. Leigh has a BA with honors from University of Delaware, Publications Specialist Certification from George Washington University, and an International MBA with high honors from Thunderbird School of International Management. She also studied in Aix-en-Provence. Leigh speaks English, French and Italian.
Insight and judgment are two of the most rare yet critical skills required for global legal management - Leigh Dance has been blessed with both.
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Leigh is the rare industry insider whose access to the upper echelon of leadership is a testimony to the intrinsic value she provides. She has a seat at the table because her insights and perspective are on the leading edge of the change curve. She knows what's happening on multiple continents ahead of the rest of the crowd.
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ELD International's clients are primarily global law firms, multinational corporate law departments and the organizations that serve in-house counsel. ELD clients have activities and operations around the world. ELD International operates from offices in New York, Brussels and London.
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World Law Group: ELD guided development of a long-term strategic plan for the World Law Group, a premier global network of 50 law firms. ELD facilitated the strategy project with the Group's Board of Directors and staff, and led the main contact partners from member firms at the annual meeting in Israel.
Accenture: Legal team: ongoing global strategic and operational projects with Accenture senior legal executives
Global 50 law firm: Preparation and presentation to senior management of international growth market investment recommendations and guidance on approach and priorities.
K&L Gates: a range of projects with the global firm and its practices such as Global Government Solutions, in various markets worldwide. ELD supported K&L Gates on its very successful September conference in London on financial services reform in the US, the UK and Europe.
Lex Mundi: Client Summit, Amsterdam. Leigh Dance assisted in program development and panel preparation and facilitation for the meeting on "Global Corporate Counseling 2010: Increasing Value and Lowering Cost."
Webber Wentzel: Partner conference in Cape Town. "Building Better Client Relationships Today: Change and Opportunity." ELD International developed the program and led a two-day partner meeting with this premier South African law firm. Dance gave the keynote presentation and facilitated two panels of prominent global corporate counsel.
Gianni Origoni Grippo & Partners: ELD International is advising on international strategy for this top Italian law firm with offices in five Italian cities, Brussels, London and New York.
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"Respect Those Who Protect" is the message members of the Connecticut Public Safety Employees Coalition hope lawmakers will hear at today's rally at the State Capitol.
Governor Dannel Malloy wants the unions that represent court security, corrections officers, firefighters and police to renegotiate their pension and health-care benefits.
But Charles DellaRocco, a Connecticut Judicial Branch police officer, says when the state asked for sacrifices in those areas five years ago, they came through.
"And we gave $1.6 billion in concessions back then," says DellaRocco. "And we also signed within that contract that it would not be opened up until 2022."
Faced with a $220 million shortfall in this year's budget, and a $900 million deficit in the next, Gov. Malloy says without cuts to state workers' benefits, the state may be forced to lay off thousands.
But according to DellaRocco, more concessions won't close the gaps and, unless the state looks elsewhere for income, workers will still be laid off, putting public safety at risk.
"With the numbers that they're talking, 4,000 to 5,000, that's going to hit Connecticut pretty hard and cause a lot of issues," he says. "I just don't know if the workforce can actually sustain that. I think that's way too much."
DellaRocco points out that pubic employees are taxpayers too, and says the state should find new ways to raise revenue, rather than making state workers once again bear the burden of closing budget gaps.
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