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....and whiskers on kittens....well, on this overcast Saturday there has been a bit of rain to leave refreshing drops on the rose petals, and because of the cooler day my kitty has spent time sleeping on the couch beside me and I am just that wicked that I had to tease her by tickling her whiskers and see how comically she twitches and pulls away in her sleep *grins wickedly*
I hope tomorrow is nicer weather because we're going to the church BBQ after the service and then a staff BBQ in the evening. Tis the season for outdoor cooking and delectable food. Mmmmm!
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
Raindrops on Roses....
....and whiskers on kittens....well, on this overcast Saturday there has been a bit of rain to leave refreshing drops on the rose petals, and because of the cooler day my kitty has spent time sleeping on the couch beside me and I am just that wicked that I had to tease her by tickling her whiskers and see how comically she twitches and pulls away in her sleep *grins wickedly*
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Time Marches On
Another weekend past and a new week ahead. It was a good weekend. On Sat. aft Hubby, Mom and I went to my brother's 50th Birthday Party. How fun!! We ate great food, had a slice of yummy Black Forest birthday Cake and laughed at all the humorous cards and a few gag gifts.
Sunday after church turned into a quiet, restful afternoon. It's a time to catch up on some Zzzz's and maybe some yard work.
Yesterday I went with Mom to the Doc and she got clearance to travel. The Doc filled in a "Travel Assistant" form to fax off to Air Canada, meaning I can now travel for virtually free as Mom's Medical Assistant. Our first trip will be to my youngest Sister's home in Ontario, on the beautiful Lake-of-the-Woods. Our plans are to spend lots of time at the beach, on the sail boat and her porch, sipping frosty drinks and maybe a glass of wine or two :)
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Thursday, June 3, 2010
Mid-life is when the growth of hair on our legs slows down. This gives us plenty of time to care for our newly acquired mustache.
In mid-life women no longer have upper arms, we have wing spans. We are no longer women in sleeveless shirts, we are flying squirrels in drag.
Mid-life is when you can stand naked in front of a mirror
and you can see your rear without turning around.
Mid-life is when you go for a mammogram and you realize
that this is the only time someone will ask you to appear topless.
Mid-life is when you want to grab every firm young lovely
in a tube top and scream, 'Listen, honey, even the Roman
empire fell and those will too.'
Mid-life brings wisdom to know that life throws us curves
and we're sitting on our biggest ones.
Mid-life is when you look at your know-it-all, cellphone
carrying teenager and think, 'For this I have stretch marks?'
In mid-life your memory starts to go. In fact the only
thing we can retain is water.
Mid-life means that your Body By Jake now includes Legs By
Rand McNally--more red and blue lines than an accurately
scaled map of Wisconsin .
Mid-life means that you become more reflective. You start
pondering the 'big' questions. What is life? Why am I
here? How much Healthy Choice ice cream can I eat before
it's no longer a healthy choice?
But mid-life also brings with it an appreciation for what
is important. We realize that breasts sag, hips expand,
and chins double, but our loved ones make the journey
worthwhile. Would any of you trade the knowledge that you
have now, for the body you had way back when? Maybe our
bodies simply have to expand to hold all the wisdom and
love we've acquired..
That's my philosophy and I'm
sticking to it!
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Welcome June!
So, looking forward to this new month.
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Sunday, August 06, 2006
Bringing Up Kids!
Bringing up kids is like taking drugs or having too much to drink. They give you a headache but they fill your life with joy and fantasy. They also tend to make you forget a little about the present. Time sure flies with them around. I would've been on a different path in life hasn't it been for them. One that could've been more exciting perhaps but nowhere near as gratifying. So I gave up some and took a lot in return. I'm not a free person anymore. I could never follow up on an instant urge, pack my stuff and just go in search of another campground, something I cherish no matter where I happen to be. Somehow, I don't feel utterly disappointed with the missed chances, although they tend to get more stretched apart as the days go by.
I know that there will come one day when the kids have all grown up and gone. Would I be miserable then without them filling my life? Would I regret the unfulfilled dreams, the inaccessible roads, the uncharted lands? Could I soar in the infinite leeways of space and time once alone and untethered?
Twenty years ago, I didn't know what I'd be doing today. I was a very happy young man then. Still, I wouldn't trade my lot in life with all the treasures and adventures I've surely missed. I assume that as we grow older and our bodies get frailer, we tend to compensate for the shortcomings of our fate with something far more dazzling than mere words or thoughts: hope. And, this is exactly what kids give us, hope in the face of a nameless future. We all go through life knowing full well that there's only death at the end. Yet, we persist despite our grief for those we loose along the way. We chisel happiness from the solid rock of an uncompromising veracity.
They'll be alright… the kids I mean. We'll manage somehow without them as well. If nature were to follow its normal course, we'll reach our winter when their summer just begins.
|What do you think?
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- Karin said...
WOW ... you're one heck of a
philosopher!! Do I read a wee-bit of resignation or sadness - only a hint - in your last sentence?
I think in order to lead a content life, one has to be capable to accept the mistakes one made! In my views, mistakes are something positive, NOT negetive at all as they give us a chance to learn - they serve a purpose! If we take that chance or not, is up to us! In other words, mistakes are important and positive - IF accepted and used to grow.
I made my share ... but got myself to follow my "self-knitted" rules.
Kids are a very important part, you're right. I find it important not to tie them down at a time they get "fully fledged" and give them the chance to make their own experiences, even though it pinches. I escaped the "nest" when I was 18 and wanted to "see the world" which to some extent I did (combined with studies, backpacking, youth-hostels ect) - and retrospectively seen, I am glad .. though I gave hell of tough time to my poor parents!
I like your post a lot - thanks SO MUCH for sharing!
- Unknown said...
I'm a very happy and sad person. This is how I can describe myself to the best of my knowledge.
I, too, broke free early in life. I went away when I was 17 in search of my dreams & returned 8 years later to the place where it all started. I made many "happy" mistakes in my life and I've done my share of "sad" yet correct choices. I've also went through the exact opposite. You're right, they were all part of the learning process.
But with kids, it's different, it's as if a part of life is on hold. I don't really mind it at all. It just seems natural. There's still ahead the October (my favorite month) of my life which I really look forward to.
Thank you for reading...
- Karin said...
The "October" of your life? Do you mean to say the "autumn" of it?
October, BTW, is a lovely month .. I like it too! The summer-heat is gone and the leaves change their color ... the air gets cooler - a REAL great month!
With kids ... I don't know if I'd say "life is on hold"! They grow So FAST ... they kind of give you the "wake up and smell the coffee" feeling and make you realize, you're getting older as well! I have two grown boys ... I remember so well when they were born, when I held them the first time, when they walked their first steps - and it all seems like day before yesterday!
It's up to the individual and in a way a matter of personality if one does have a problem with the age or not .. I sure do NOT belong to this category!
- Unknown said...
because i love Ocotber so much, what i meant was that the best is yet to come (a sign of optimism).
as for a "part" of life being on hold while bringing up the kids, i think that in most cases, parents have to give up a "part" of their, let's say, wishes to accomodate for those of their kids.
Great post Abufares
"Would I regret the unfulfilled dreams, the inaccessible roads, the uncharted lands? Could I soar in the infinite leeways of space and time once alone and untethered?"
You didn't answer your own puzzling questions.
I await eagerly a post with full answers.
- Karin said...
Ha-ha .. you'rean even greater philosopher that meets the eye!!
Believe me I happily gave up many of my "aspirations" for my kids and the fact they both turned out to be GREAT guys is MORE than I hoped and wished for!
I am a hopeless optimist .. I guess this attitude did several times protect me from going insane.
GREAT POST abufares!!
- Unknown said...
Dear Anonymous
You caught me off guard! When I paused these questions I didn't entertain the idea of answering them. BUT, I promise to answer them in due time.
Thank you for your support. I love to hear from you "ALWAYS".
- Karin said...
Hi abufares,
I'm sittinghere a while already, looking at all your pics (Flickr) and have to telll you, they're GREAT! I have a few questions though:
1) There's a pyramid on one pic ... was that taken in Tartous or ... Egypt maybe??
2) Race cars ... is there a race-track in Tartous?
3) The lil kids ... are they yours? They're so precious!!
4) There are two gondolas on one pic ... IN TARTOUS??
5) The last ... you and your son? How old is he? Two GREAT guys ...
I like the city ... I like the combination new/old! It has atmosphere ... it breathes history! GREAT!!! Thanks so much for sharing!!
P.S.: Just one more ... are there many refugees from Lebanon in Tartous at present?
- Unknown said...
Hi Karin
I've replied to all of your questions by email.
- Ascribo said...
Great post as usual... full of wisdom, full of self-satisfaction.
I may not be able to say more about your philosophy, but I feel sad to say that seasons are losing the "cutting-edge" recently...all over the globe
Mistakes are a great chance to learn...sometimes are the only chance. You'll never be able to know that you did it right if you don't know how the "WRONG" will look like. Mistakes will give you the power of comparison, and the ability to change...
- Karin said...
I forgot to ask ... who's the sweetie-pie in this picture??
- Unknown said...
Thank You Ascribo for visiting. I wish you the best of luck in your new blog and look forward reading your posts regularly.
- Unknown said...
Hi Karin
I should've mentioned this I guess. This is little Fares when he was a few months old.
- Karin said...
That was my wild guess!! Thanks anyway for telling ... !!


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You are in a season of your life when you are making some of your most important decisions. Because you are being bombarded with so many incorrect messages about who you are, you need some additional guidance. You can learn more about your life and mission on earth and the light that is in you by preparing to receive and then studying your patriarchal blessing.
You are never too young to start learning about patriarchal blessings. 5 I am glad I received my blessing before I was too heavily influenced by the confusing and incorrect messages in the world. I came away from that experience with the comforting assurance that the Lord loved me and knew me, and from that day onward I began to think more often in terms of eternity than popularity.
This is the season for young women to prepare and then receive their patriarchal blessing. Your bishop and parents can help you decide when the right time is for you, because the age and readiness are different for each person. 6 When you understand the meaning and purpose of a patriarchal blessing and have a sincere desire to do the work of the Lord, you should be mature enough to receive your blessing. 7 Sometimes people wait longer than is needed to receive their blessing, thinking that they need to qualify for it in some special way. If you can qualify to receive a recommend to do baptisms at the temple, then you should be able to qualify for a patriarchal blessing. It is important to prepare for your blessing with fasting and prayer so that your spirit is humble and teachable. Your personal preparation is very important.
When you receive your blessing, you get a glimpse of eternity. You begin to see a picture of what lies ahead for you because your blessing will refer to your eternal purpose and journey. The patriarch who gives you your blessing does not know what your blessing will be until he gives it. He depends on the Spirit to tell him what to say. In your blessing, you are told about your ancestry in the house of Israel. That's your family line and your family line is sometimes called a tribe. All of the tribes go back to the great patriarch Abraham. Your lineage is important. It means that you are included in the promises given to Abraham that through him all the nations of the world would be blessed. 8
Your lineage is a "blood relationship." 9 That makes you literally "children of the prophets" 10 with a noble birthright. That is why we often say that you are "youth of the noble birthright" 11 and belong to a royal, "chosen generation." 12
A friend of mine said: "When I joined the Church at age 16, I began to learn about my identity. I received my patriarchal blessing and was told I was of the house of Israel. At the time, I did not know what that meant, but over the years I have come to learn that I have a great privilege to be directly descended from the prophets. I have a precious heritage and the best opportunities."
Like Abraham, you seek a blessing so you can possess greater knowledge and receive instructions from the Lord. 13 When you receive your blessing, you will discover that the Lord knows you by name. In the early days of the Church, many people wanted Joseph Smith to ask the Lord for a specific direction in their lives. Some of those revelations are now part of the Doctrine and Covenants. Just like the early Saints, you can regard your patriarchal blessing as your own "personal scripture." 14 You should keep it sacred and not share it outside of your immediate family. 15
The patriarch can foresee the development and conditions of your life and can give you a blessing that relates to those. As one young woman told me, "There were things said about me in my blessing that even my parents did not know." President James E. Faust said that each patriarchal blessing is inspired, "personal revelation from God." Each is "a star to follow, . . . an anchor to our souls." They reveal our capabilities and potential. 16
President Packer says that our blessings are a "[paragraph] from the book of [our] possibilities." 17 President Monson calls our blessing "a Liahona of light." 18
Because a patriarchal blessing is not meant to be a prediction of all that will occur in the life of the recipient, we should seek and follow the guidance of the Holy Ghost to receive greater understanding for our course in life. The teachings of the gospel are always a guide to a full understanding of our destiny and privileges. For example, patriarchal blessings may not mention that a person will be married or have children, but we are taught in the gospel to marry in the temple and have families. We can follow these gospel teachings on our own, without specific personal direction.
When I was in high school, a counselor read the results of my test scores and told me she did not think I would do well in college. But after I prayerfully studied my patriarchal blessing, I felt I should not abandon my lifelong goal. So, because I had insight into the Lord's plan for me, I had hope in my heart, and I was able to move ahead confidently. I discovered that I was successful in that setting, and I earned a university diploma. When we know who we are and what we are supposed to do, it is easier to make important decisions about education, careers, and marriage. It is easier to shine our light in our families, with our friends, and in all other places.
The Savior said: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, I give unto you to be the light of this people. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.
"Behold, do men light a candle and put it under a bushel? Nay, but on a candlestick, and it giveth light to all that are in the house;
"Therefore let your light so shine before this people, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven." 19
When you know who you are and what you should be doing with your life, you don't want to hide your light.
For instance, you would not want to "hide your light" by wearing clothing that diminishes your royal potential. You would not use improper language or stories or mar your body with tattoos or other procedures debasing for a daughter of royal birth. You would not cheapen your birthright by taking into your body any substance that is harmful or addictive. Neither would you view or participate in any behavior which is immoral and lowers your noble stature. You seek all that is praiseworthy and virtuous and lovely and of good report 20 because you know you have a noble heritage.
You are treasured children of the promise. If you will keep the Lord's statutes and commandments and hearken to His voice, He has promised that He will make you high above the nations in name and honor and praise. 21 Your patriarchal blessing should inspire you to make changes in your life when they are needed. It contains promises that you can receive only through your faithfulness. If you are not faithful, you cannot plan on your blessing being fulfilled.
Sometimes young women think that because they have made mistakes, they are not worthy to receive a patriarchal blessing or that they have disqualified themselves from the blessing they have already been given. Remember, the foundational teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ is faith in Him and His power to atone for our sins. "Satan wants you to think that you cannot repent, but that is absolutely not true." 22 When we take the sacrament each week, we commit to change our lives for the better. We should always be trying to become a new person who is more like our Savior Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul calls this "[walking] in newness of life." 23 If you have made serious mistakes that could disqualify you from your noble birthright, be willing to take your tears of sorrow to your bishop. He is your friend in the repentance process and is set apart to act as a judge here on earth in the place of the Savior, who is the Eternal Judge. Repentance is like a giant eraser, and it can erase permanent ink! It is not easy, but it is possible. 24 The Lord said, "He who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more." 25
Young women, your patriarchal blessing will help you know that you have a noble birthright. As you get older, you will see the prophecies in your blessing taking shape in your life. The Lord has important and exciting things for you to do. This is your time to "arise and shine forth, that [your] light may be a standard for the nations." 26 "Therefore let your light so shine before this people, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven." 27 In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Notes 1. Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, 2nd ed. (1966), 589.
2. See "The Family: A Proclamation to the World," Liahona, Oct. 2004, 49; Ensign, Nov. 1995, 102.
3. See D&C 138:56.
4. See Abr. 3:25; Bible Dictionary, "Election," 662.
5. See "Teaching Children about Patriarchal Blessings," Ensign, Oct. 1987, 54. President Spencer W. Kimball taught: "Do you prepare your children for [their patriarchal blessings], or do you let them just happen on to it? . . . I would think that every mother would begin to talk about patriarchal blessings to her children when they get just a few years old, so that they will be prepared for it" (in Conference Report, Manchester England Area Conference, June 1976, 23).
6. See Ezra Taft Benson, Sermons and Writings of President Ezra Taft Benson (2003), 149.
7. See Ensign, Oct. 1987, 55.
8. See Gen. 26:4; Abr. 2:9.
9. Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, comp. Bruce R. McConkie, 3 vols. (1954-56), 3:248-49.
10. 3 Ne. 20:25.
11. "Carry On," Hymns, no. 255.
12. 1 Pet. 2:9.
13. See Abr. 1:2-3.
14. Sermons and Writings of President Ezra Taft Benson, 149.
15. See True to the Faith: A Gospel Reference (2004), 113.
16. In Conference Report, Oct. 1995, 81-82; or Ensign, Nov. 1995, 63.
17. "The Stake Patriarch," Liahona and Ensign, Nov. 2002, 44.
18. In Conference Report, Oct. 1986, 83; or Ensign, Nov. 1986, 67.
19. 3 Ne. 12:14-16.
20. See A of F 1:13.
21. See Deut. 26:17-19.
22. For the Strength of Youth (2001), 30.
23. Rom. 6:4.
24. See True to the Faith, 132-35.
27. 3 Ne. 12:16.


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CAIRO, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- A Canadian doctor and a filmmaker are believed to have been arrested by authorities in Cairo, wrote a friend of the two on his blog, Haaretz reported Monday.
Tarek Loubani, an emergency room doctor at the University of Western Ontario and John Greyson, a professor at the Department of Film at York University, had planned to visit the Gaza Strip and were last heard from on Friday, their friend, Justin Podur, an associate professor at the York University of Environmental Studies, wrote on his Internet journal, the Israeli newspaper said.
Podur said Loubani is also one of the architects of a joint Canadian-Gazan collaboration project that trains doctors in Gaza in Advanced Life Support and Advanced Trauma Life Support.
He said Loubani called him Friday night to say they were being arrested, and since then their whereabouts are unknown.
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Caitlin Workman, a Canadian government spokesperson, told CBC News that she is aware two Canadians were arrested in Egypt and said "I can confirm the Embassy of Canada in Cairo is in contact with local authorities and is providing consular assistance," Haaretz said.


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You recently reviewed an iPad app that lets you use Microsoft Office programs on an iPad. But does this support the "Track Changes" feature of Office, which I cannot find on any of the office-type apps I've tried on the iPad?
Yes, it does. And tracked changes are synchronized with your PC or Mac.
As I noted in the review, the new app, called OnLive Desktop, gives you the complete Windows version of Office on an iPad, via the cloud. So all features in the Windows version, including the tracking of changes, are available.
I am a new Mac user and would like to become a Quicken user. I read your February 2010 critique of Mac Quicken. Is there a new and improved version of Mac Quicken?
Intuit, the maker of the stripped-down Quicken Essentials for Mac I reviewed then, has improved the product. But more important, the company now says its last full version of Quicken for the Mac, called Quicken 2007, will soon be revised so that it runs with Lion, the latest version of the Macintosh operating system.
There was outrage from Mac Quicken users when Intuit earlier had declined to rewrite the full version to work with Lion.
Could you please tell me which smartphone today is a must if my last phone was the iPhone 4? Your review of the iPhone 4S indicated it wasn't a "must" upgrade for iPhone 4 owners.
Changing to a different phone would only be a "must" for you if you were unhappy with your iPhone, or wanted one of a couple of key features only available on competing phones.
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A recess in a wall to allow passage of a sliding door hanging on a track.
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(building construction)
A recess in a wall designed to receive a folding or sliding door in the open position.
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One of the several receptacles into which punched cards are fed by a card sorter.
A cavity that contains a deposit such as a gas or an ore.
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3. A recess at the head or jamb of a wall opening to receive a curtain.
4. A recess in the interior jamb of a window to receive a folding shutter when open.
5. A recess in a wall to receive a folding door in the open position.
6.See stage pocket.
7. A well-defined opening between the annual rings which develops during the growth of a tree.
From a Freudian point of view, pockets may symbolize the female reproductive organs. However, for many people this dream may have an entirely different meaning. The pockets in your dreams could represent those things that you keep just for yourself: your memory, your secrecy, your valuable possessions, or your inner resources. If you were hiding your hands in the pockets, it suggests that you may feel a degree of helplessness or guilt in regard to some situation in daily life.


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The Georgia legislature jumped into the fray over illegal immigration late Thursday, approving a comprehensive "papers, please" immigration law akin to the one in Arizona that the Obama administration is challenging in court.
Led by the Republican majorities in both chambers, lawmakers voted to allow local and state police to ascertain the residency status of those suspected to be in the country illegally. A similar provision in the controversial Arizona law has prompted two federal courts to prevent its implementation.
The Georgia measure also requires employers with more than 10 employees to use the federal E-Verify database to ensure that all new hires are legally eligible to work, and it makes it a crime to harbor and transport illegal immigrants – or to encourage them to come to Georgia. The legislation calls for punishing those found guilty of using fake work documents with up to 15 years in jail.
The vote, which fell mainly along party lines, came as lawmakers in Georgia, Indiana, and several other states weigh the legal and political consequences of cracking down illegal immigrants within state borders. Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R), who has not said if he'll sign the bill, campaigned on getting tougher on illegal immigrants, while Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) this week said he opposed using state and local law enforcement to ferret out immigration lawbreakers.
The bill – which lawmakers approved just hours before a 40-day legislative session ended – is likely to be challenged, as was the Arizona law, in federal court. But some say its passage is also likely to fuel efforts elsewhere, such as Alabama and Florida, to challenge federal authority over immigration control.
"This will be an important step toward increasing state [immigration] regulation," says Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a nonpartisan Washington think tank that highlights the consequences of legal and illegal immigration.
Georgia has seen an influx of immigrants, many of them illegal, come to work in its fields and restaurants in the past two decades. The state has an estimated 480,000 illegal immigrants, more than Arizona. Overall, some 12 million people are believed to be in the United States illegally.
"It's a great day for Georgia," state Rep. Matt Ramsey (R), the bill's author, tells Politico. "We think we have done our job that our constituents asked us to do to address the costs and the social consequences that have been visited upon our state by the federal government's failure to secure our nation's borders." The legislation passed convincingly, 112 to 59 in the House and 37 to 19 in the Senate.
Agribusiness and some local chambers of commerce largely opposed the measure, saying it could lead to unpicked onion fields and convention boycotts. Critics say the bill is unconstitutional and will encourage racial profiling and discrimination in a New South state that has sought to play down its segregated past.
"You have crafted a bill that insists on demonizing people of brown skin and with Spanish accents," state Sen. Nan Orrock (D) tells the Associated Press.
Some Georgia Republicans from rural areas felt the measure could hurt the farm industry, a sign that Republicans nationally are hardly in lock-step over the use of state and local police to do the job of border patrol agents.
"[Governor] Deal would really want to sign a bill that ... does have some of these police-related provisions, but [Gov.] Mitch Daniels in Indiana is calling for his legislature to do exactly the opposite, to focus on employers and get rid of the police-related stuff that they got from Arizona," says Mr. Krikorian. "I'm not sure how you can explain that."


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Posted: Wed 25 May 2005, 03:55
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Puppy Power Forum
This is a new forum to Promote Puppy, called "Puppy Power"
If you have Ideas. If everyone else has helped you. Would you like to be part of the Advance team of Puppy scouts. Perhaps you would like to say woof woof to new people arriving on this forum?
Or offer a helping paw to new users of our IRC chat.
Join in and suggest your promotions
We did create a Private Puppy forum with Michaels help - but that seems a little elitist - and Puppy is open and free.
Some of the things we wish to explore is increasing our user and developer base and creating more co-operation and partnering with similar projects. For example we are now using Vector Linux to compile with.
You lucky Puppy People
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Posted: Wed 25 May 2005, 13:53
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As stated the forum Puppy Power - open to everyone is here
The A team (which Loves it when a plan comes together) will be kept focussed on ways to develop and promote the wider acceptance and take up of Puppy.
Our initial goals are the adoption of Puppy, using something like the Firefox promotion to get our little dog out there.
Even though we are an elite forum of crack Puppys (or in my case a cracked Puppy), we welcome all suggestions and all offers of help.
Leads will not be required (bring your own bones)
Puppy Power - you know it makes sense
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Posted: Sat 28 May 2005, 06:15
Post subject: Open source is eh . . . like open
I have decided I am just not happy being part of a private group that is focussed people only . . .
However I want to fully support and develop Michaels ideas and expertise . . .
Is there such a thing as open source marketing?
this is more me . . .
and this . . .
Am I just being idealistic? (hope so)
Would welcome some ideas - Do we need to promote the Puppy? Should this be done in open court?
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Posted: Sat 28 May 2005, 07:40
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"Never hide your light under a Bushel "
firstly I apologise for quoting scripture on the internet. Science and Religion aren't usually best friends. But in this case I think it's appropriate.
Barry has created something very special here. Not just a 'use by appointment' piece of software, but a lightning fast ,fully functional alternative to bulkier Linux distros - or Windows for that matter. As puppy continues to evolve, surely anything that raises it's profile and attracts other users ( hence more evolution ) is a good thing. World Domination??? maybe not. But it shouldn't end up as one of the best kept secrets , only known by a lucky handful .
There are many suggestions put forward about what apps should be included in the future, but I thought that the DotPups were for that sort of thing mainly.
with that in mind, any sort of promotional ideas or discussion is welcome. Personally, I think that keeping this sort of thing on a separate forum is a superb idea. It's a more 'behind the scenes' thing and if I needed help with an application or bug etc, then I'd rather not have to sift through a forum full of everything to find an answer. This forum is for users, for growth and improvement ( and Help )........ the other forum adresses Spreading the Word.
We recently had a General Election in England. Every tv and radio station marketed voting to the hilt.........although it's something we already knew about, not a commercial venture, and something we already had a right to do anyway.
Marketing can ( and does ) exist without commercialism.
just a guess here......but there are plenty of different skill sets from Puppy Users. We're not all programmer geniuses, but that doesn't mean we can't be of any use. The fact that Michael has expressed an interest in promotion/marketing/awareness suggests that he has a skill that can be utilised to benefit all of us.
I could wait until puppy needs a pick and place machine engineer ( although this is highly unlikely ), or try to involve myself a bit more - helping on the forum in the unlikely event that i know the answer etc.
Marketing/Awareness/Promotion/Profile is a broad definition, and encompasses a lot of different things - some of which are more useful and practical than others. defining it as Marketing doesn't necessarily mean commercialisation. It's a canopy to work under, rather than getting bogged down in semantics.
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If you build it, they will come.
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Posted: Sun 29 May 2005, 06:24
Post subject: Wot say U?
Thanks guys . . .
After recently trying to watch a movie with an mplayer dotpup that insisted that Spanish was a good default language (maybe so) I downloaded the "popcorn" version of SLAX Linux (I am trying to ease myself into Vector Linux) The merchandising is just not Puppy IMO.
The idea of Barry offering signed postcards for $500 is a little (Just not Puppy . . .)
SLAX did not like my mouse - so I am sulking BUT (you knew I would get to it eventually) two nice things in Slax for Power Puppy
1. The clean web design - delightful.
2. Webconfigure and webrestore
Clean web design is based on fonts. Simple graphics. So that is something we might consider investing into the wiki - a makeover . . .
The second option is nothing too complex and dependent on secure web space. Which directory would have to be tarballed and sent - is it that easy? (in theory)
I can understand making Puppy more presentable. I can understand offering features or services that MAY (but up to now have not) require finances. I can understand promotion and I feel the most credible idea so far (which I think DSL offers) is a Puppy on a key drive . . .
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hmm, yes, a possibility that has occurred to me, as I have a cheap source here, 128M for A$19, single units, quantity discounts. A$19 is about US$15.
That price includes our 10% sales tax, which would be removed if they are sold overseas.
So, yes, I have considered it!
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i think Slax i built using MySLAX Creator
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Thanks Rich for those comments. My views exactly.
Given the other stated opinions though, and the lack of enthusiasm for a private forum, I'll shut it down shortly and join the discussion here. That way I'll save some storage and bandwidth.
There's some discussion on the other forum about a logo competition, which I'll save and copy here if requested.
Can the moderator please remove the link at the start of this thread?
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Posted: Thu 16 Jun 2005, 03:13
Post subject: Smile :) Puppy
Hey what happened to the A-team?
well we started as an elite team of frisky pups but suddenly ended up a closed cabbal
Then we went public.
So now we are all the A-team - there now that feels a lot more Open
I am very uncomfortable with non-gift promotion
Read this and see what you think . . .
Our idea with this forum is finding ways to introduce potential Puppys to Puppy Linux.
Is that a good plan? Eh . . . what is the rest of the plan again?
Ideas required
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...umm, Lobster, I only scanned through that article ...something about paying volunteers?
Okay, I'm selling some CDs, but as it is only about two CDs per week, it is hardly big bucks (Puppy is just too easy to download!).
Donations? ...well, hardly anything, with the exception of Ian who has been embarassingly generous.
So, I don't know where we get money from anyway.
We don't want to get into the mugs and T-shirts thing do we?
...or maybe we do?
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I agree with the conclusions of the article to a fair extent.
I feel that people who contribute to a project such as Puppy get much satisfaction and a great sense of pride when they see the results knowing that they have helped to produce those results.
Even a small thing like a suggestion helps the cause and ideas are more fruitful when they come from someone who is not under pressure to produce.
As for donations, I do what I can when I can and will continue to do so.
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Surely paying volunteers would, by definition, be paying non-volunteers.
As Ian said , the satisfaction and pride of contributing to something is payment enough for most. If it wasn't then I reckon Linux in general wouldn't have got anywhere near the level it's up to now.
I want my computer to work, to do everything I want to do, and Puppy does this, and provides a friendly community of people who help each other - not for reward, just for growth and enhancement of our chosen Distro.
If I tweak the engine and remap the ECU on my car to get more performance, then I benefit from it . I wouldn't expect anyone to pay me to tinker with my own car though.
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8- Elizabeth Hurley is associated with which cosmetics brand that awarded her the first modeling job at the age of 29?
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9- From where (city) was the first FM radio Service started in India?
10- 'Blyk' is a mobile messaging media service targeted at the youth. Which cellular operator provides the service in India?
11- 'Sure' in UK, 'Shield' in SouthAfrica, 'Reward' in Nigeria. How do we know it in India?
12- What was unveiled by Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009 at the "All things digital Conference' in San Diegeo?
13- Who owns 'Instone' nutritional supplements & also editor of the men's magazine 'Sly'?
14- Small car manufacturer 'Daihatsu' is owned by which company?
15- Which business house based in Kerala was started by Ninan Mathai & M. George in 1887?
16- Which Malaysia based airliner headed by Tony Fernandes is Asia's largest low-cost no frills carrier?
17 – Founded in 1783 in Geneva & named after its founder who was a jeweler & amateur scientist. He invented the Geneva system for producing pure bottled water through Carbonization. Identify the brand.
18 – Which venture started as "Indian Ahoy' a site which is still used to attract high leisure travelers from overseas? But later it was rechristened to better suit the Indian market.
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text: Over the weekend we gave Luk Chai another new ball to roll about with. This time we chose a yellow fitness ball filled with air because he loves to squash things with his belly. Before we gave him the ball, one of the Keepers let some of the air out so it wouldn't make a loud bang if he did manage to pop it. Today he was back at it, resting his tummy on the ball with his legs sprayed out and rolling about. Not surprisingly the ball couldn't support 232 kilos of elephant and popped. It took Luk Chai by surprise and he looked at it for moment before standing up and heading back to his paddle pool in the barn. We went and grabbed him another one of his toys to play with – his blue shaggy ball.


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The man in the rubber boots
In the Land of Irrigation
Where the Desert blossoms as the rose
There dwells a Knight in armor
Whom everyone loves that knows.
He guides the little streamlets
To the famished stems and roots,
He carries life in his shovel -
The man in the rubber boots
From "The Man in the Rubber Boots"
by Agnes Just Reid (1947)
When it rains in my town you can smell sagebrush.
It happens on hot July afternoons, when thunderclouds sprout like mushrooms from a loamy blue sky; by the end of the day their white heads pile up to unfathomable heights, even as their dark underbellies drag over the darkening mountains. Then a crackle and rumble, and sometimes, like today, a release of heavy, dust-raising drops to the parched earth.
That's when I catch a whiff of the pungent pale green shrub. It reminds me that this corner of the Rocky Mountains is part of the dry sagebrush country that covers much of the American West. I live in a desert.
You wouldn't know it walking through town. Shade trees line most of the streets, and almost all of the lawns are emerald green, despite the scant 12 inches of precipitation that fall each year. It's so lush here that if the entire town were lifted up whole and plunked down somewhere east of the 100th Meridian, few would think it out of place.
All because of irrigation.
When we bought our house in western Colorado, I was surprised to find that it came with stock shares in a local ditch company. I knew the ditch above town from walks along its scrubby banks. It was a nice sort of stream, though it ran a murky brown, when it ran at all. Bankside willows, cottonwoods and box elders offered welcome cover for humans and animals. In the muddy lane that runs alongside the ditch, I often found the tracks and droppings of mule deer, and coyotes, mixed with the markings of four-wheelers and hiking boots.
But the ditch took on added significance when I realized I owned part of it. And what a deal it was: For less than $20 a year, my wife and I had access to enough water to douse our entire half acre, 24 hours a day, all summer long.
Like stingy millionaires, we went slow with our new wealth at first. We sprinkled in the early mornings, and only when plants showed signs of water distress. But we soon noticed that our neighbors were more profligate. They watered day and night, until sheets of water ran down the street. Apparently, our water wealth would never run dry.
And so we became bona fide Westerners, consuming quantities of water that even Mother Nature would have trouble matching back East. To the giant elms and maples, we added dogwood, spirea, boxwood and other water-loving species. Sitting under our grape arbor, listening to songbirds and the gentle whoosh of sprinklers, we could forget the dull, hot sagebrush hills just outside town. They were a place to travel through, a stark foreground to the picturesque tree-clad mountains beyond. But not a place to live.
My new appreciation for irrigation helped me piece together how water has been harnessed for our little civilization. Upvalley, rivers and reservoirs swollen with snowmelt are diverted into smaller canals like the one above my town, which in turn feed thousands of capillary ditches and pipes that snake across the land. An amazing circulatory system, and one that explained so much about my community.
Why, for instance, on the hottest, driest days of summer, grown men walk around town wearing rubber boots as they pick up mail and supplies. They have come in from fields where, like kids at a water park, they have sloshed around in mountain waters, using gravity and grade to direct the flows across the land.
It explained why agriculture is revered around here, even though coal mining, sandal manufacturing, schools and pensions are the real economic engines; agricultural water has made a humid people feel at home in an inhospitable land.
And it explained some darker phenomenon, such as why the river that flows north of town turns from a raging torrent in late May to a series of puddles by August. Often there isn't enough water to dilute our town's treated sewage; ammonia levels frequently exceed state health standards.
And all because irrigators have had more rights to water than any other living creature in the valley for the past 100 years. Unlike other parts of the West, we don't have any endangered species with which to wrest some water from ditches back into the river. Sometimes, I wish we did.
The conflicts inherent in the irrigated West have hit me harder since we sold our house and bought a larger place outside town. It's a wide-open parcel on the edge of sagebrush country. But in the summer it is a green oasis. Alfalfa stands belly high in the hay field, and there's even a series of wetlands where redwing blackbirds chase each other through cattails from spring till fall. All nourished by irrigation waters, of course.
In a good year, the ditch water arrives in May and lasts through September. This spring the former owner of the property invited me out to help "bring in the water." One late afternoon, we drove to a quiet place where an empty dirt ditch crossed under a narrow road, and we waited. About an hour later, two wet dogs, pink tongues frothing, appeared out of a willow thicket. A minute later, a man in a baseball cap and rubber boots emerged, a pitchfork laid jauntily over one shoulder. "She's all yours now," he said. "I'd have been here sooner if there was more."
A few feet behind him, a low wall of brown water crept down the dry ditch bed, pushing before it a writhing pile of leaves and twigs. Rich and I grabbed pitchforks out of the truck bed and began pulling out this "trash."
After five minutes of hard forking in the ever deepening water, we started walking down the ditch lane, staying just ahead of the water. "Some years I've pulled out dead cows and dogs, all sorts of stuff," Rich said, as we came to the first headgate, where a metal divider separated water for a rancher's alfalfa fields below.
I probed gingerly into the murk. "Maybe I'll be that lucky some day, too."
We only pulled out vegetative matter that day, though we had a brief staredown with a live cow. Along the way, two neighbors joined us. They talked of crops and the light snowpack in the mountains. And they groused about their neighbors: "I told him to come out at 6, but goddamn, he never shows."
At one juncture we encountered a plugged-up gate. "Hey, Rich," I said, "the water isn't flowing too good through this guy's gate. Should I clean it out?"
"Nah. Let him come do it. Besides, it means more water for us."
"Whiskey is for drinking, and water is for fighting" came to mind, but as we walked the final stretch of the ditch, another notion took hold. By then, the rhythm of work, talk and water seemed as natural as the sun-drenched clouds, as satisfying as the sight of bright green grass rising in the ranchers' fields. I was partaking in a ritual as old, and as basic, as Western civilization. Water, no doubt, is for community.
But communities change, and so, inevitably, will the direction of the waters that support them. People are pouring into this agricultural area, planting homes into the middle of hay fields. Already water is becoming more valuable for drinking and soaking golf courses than for spreading lavishly on agricultural fields. The age of ditches may soon be over.
It won't be all bad. If urban areas use water more efficiently than ranchers and farmers, the river might recover some of its original grandeur, roaring bigger in the spring, flowing longer through the summer. That would be good for fish, fowl and all manner of creatures adapted to an honest-to-God Western river. And some desert wildlife - such as mule deer, prairie dogs and badgers - might do better, as their former habitat rebounds.
Still, the loss of the agricultural landscape and culture will be tough to stomach. Like Dorothy returning to Kansas, we will watch the vivid green pastures fade out to dull tans and grays. Sagebrush and rabbitbrush will return with a vengeance around the sodded courtyards of new homes. The great cottonwoods will wither and die, their skeletons providing roosts for eagles and vultures.
When we reached the barbed-wire border of my new home, I heard the cry of killdeers and the eerie whirring of a snipe somewhere out on the pasture that was about to receive its first life-giving flood of the season. Some forms of life have adapted just fine to this watered desert.
For now, I'm one of them.
Paul Larmer is editor of High Country News.


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First of all, let me say, I will try my best to limit the BS in this post.
Secondly, why is company culture being featured on a digital marketing and ecommerce blog?
The answer is simply because the biggest challenges to the majority of companies (aside from continuing economic stress) are:
- Moving to the cloud.
- Advertising/marketing/selling in a multichannel 'userverse' (maybe a bit of BS there).
One and two are enmeshed, of course. They both pose questions for any company's technology and culture.
Last question before we go on to discuss seemingly simple decisions (on the face of it) is 'what qualifies me to give this advice?' I have never run a business, let alone a multinational.
The simple answer is because I've been looking at lots of feedback from our Econsultancy user survey in which box 33 asked 'Please tell us whether there is a particular digital-related challenge your organisation is facing'.
Our users left a lot of valuable feedback, and much of it about their culture.
The other thing that qualifies me to talk about changing company culture is because funnily enough, to me it appears quite simple.
Any part of company change inevitably involves consultants who are useful precisely because they are not burdened with the history of the company and they do not worship false prophets.
Cultural change is easy in theory and difficult in practice. So, I'll be playing the devil here, and suggesting everything is easily said and done.
Ok? So on we go. How can you improve your company culture with simple decisions?
1. Get rid of some of your offices
I mean offices like the ones in Mad Men. Or the cheap ones that cut out noise and assert someone's seniority.
Agile start-ups don't have offices. Some senior figures of course need offices, especially if they conduct a lot of secret business on the telephone.
But, in the Econsultancy London office of 60 people, the most important part (apart from hiring policy) of keeping our friendly, industrious and honest culture (yuk yuk) is having the CEO and senior bods in amongst us.
And if your CEO isn't the type you want to sit near, maybe you have the wrong CEO.
2. Allow some teams to work from home
I agree with Marissa Meyer (who outlawed working from home at Yahoo!) that bumping into colleagues and having stand-up meetings by chance is advantageous and benefits the team.
However, working from home shouldn't be outlawed. If it is, undoubtedly there will be grumbling when a senior member of staff does it anyway and expects everyone else not to notice the hypocrisy.
Staff should be allowed to work from home as long as there is confidence they can do their job to the same standard as in the office.
Working from home may not be appropriate for sales teams. They need to be able to go to meets and be off-site, and new tech will certainly allow them to do their jobs from home, but sales requires a camaraderie and a focus that your office space should engender. If it doesn't engender that spirit, you have to improve the office.
Working from home can work for most teams, including tech, editorial, marketing, finance (gasp!), HR etc. WFH allowance should theoretically be unlimited.
If you state in your guidelines that holiday is not necessary if deliveries have to be taken at home, or work done to the boiler, or the dog or child taken to the vet, that's half the battle.
Working from home is about letting staff know you don't mind what they do as long as they work well with colleagues and get the job done.
3. Give unfettered web access to everybody
This doesn't just apply to office-based staff. If you are in retail, your shop-floor staff should be able to access the web, or they won't be able to provide good customer service.
Financial services has been an area with great restrictions and way too much governance surrounding web access. This is a sector that is starting to understand that just because the network doesn't allow users to access Facebook, this doesn't mean staff can't simply do it on their phones.
The only reason I can see for web restrictions is perceived procrastination, but the trust placed in staff by allowing them access to the whole of the web will be repaid to you with a healthier, more productive atmosphere.
Restricted access does not equal security.
4. Allow staff to select their own training
Training is one of the issues most often raised by our survey respondents. The issue of raising the standard of knowledge across the whole organisation is heard again and again. Here's a selection of comments:
[Our challenge is] lack of up to date knowledge.
The challenge we face is getting the buy in of others as they don't understand the new technology, so we have to train on why, how and the benefits before we get buy in. its time consuming and stops us being proactive.
Many members of the organisation still doesn't (sic) understand digital nor social media. While the top management sees its benefits, many of the other members of the staff/ managers are somewhat ignorant.
Digital education across the whole business [is a challenge].
Knowledge varies greatly across all levels of the business.
A total black hole where awareness should live (of best practise email marketing, digital UX, and brand.)
There are many things that HR should be doing about this. E-learning, educational speakers at away days and staff events, conference tickets for staff. Basically, make sure the budget for training is sizeable enough to worry the bean counter.
But not for the sake of it. This budget has to be corralled effectively. As we're talking about culture, I'll posit that it's not enough to do an induction course then point staff to online resources (that they might not look at). It's also not enough to just point staff to preferred suppliers such as QA, KnowledgePool or even the Econsultancy's of this world (!), when they ask for some training.
There's room for HR or L&D to compile a veritable Argos catalogue of training options, imagine a sort of book of dreams: away days, including small training days with agencies, to solid skills days with big providers, to conferences across the year, to behind-the-scenes trips en masse to a tech or marketing insider.
It might not be feasible to give everyone access to the book of dreams, but training options should be visible and encouraged.
This is important, if you don't skill people up, how will you maintain a knowledge base despite an inevitable degree of turnover? Don't let any staff accuse your company of…
Lack of budget and lack of funding for training.
5. Hire more digital staff
It's a simple as that. And it can be simple, can't it? Don't change the budgets, just add some team members, they'll work it out. If you have to, get rid of a consultant who's employed too much to project manage something and goes home at 4pm.
In our survey we saw a lot of this:
We just don't ever have enough time for digital marketing, whether that is reporting or doing.
And here's an important organisational point. Look at this comment:
[The challenge is] ensuring digital brand activity/social activity supports both wholesale and ecommerce equally.
If there's tension created by who gets the most love from your digital team, it needs to be bigger or it needs to move from 'centre of excellence' to 'hub and spoke', with more digital staff dispersed through the org.
Employ graduates and educate them.
6. Change the way you recruit senior staff: use social media
Follow Lyle & Scott's example and recruit your next CEO through digital, or solely through social media.
Social has been around properly for a decade now. Do you really want to recruit senior staff that don't have a LinkedIn or Twitter account? Missing one is acceptable, but is both? You might think they're trivial but I don't.
They show willingness to engage with new technology, new tech that, let's not forget, has changed the world (Arab Spring, closure of NOTW).
If you don't recruit senior staff in the right way, expect to hear more of this:
[Our problem is] getting understood at the top of the importance of alignment across the whole organisation.
Lack of investment in the area to date from both a budget and resource perspective means that this area is left behind and neglected. Lack of understanding within organisation for the opportunities that digital offers and general lack of buy in.
The primary challenge within our organisation is that digital and the benefits of data are not being fully embraced by management as initiatives of value. Thus they fail to deliver their potential. Senior levels can't see clearly how all departments need to interact to make digital work well at all levels and so it isn't seen as critical. Digital is failing to live up to it's potential because it can't be embraced without top down support.
Lack of high quality digital marketing staff at senior levels in the company. Severe lack of technical understanding. Poor use of data. I could go on…
Decision makers / purse string holders are not educated enough to understand modern digital concepts, let alone innovative concepts, to be able to approve personnel/projects/budgets required to make them possible.
No longer do CEOs have to be accountants. Bean counters are important, but if that's all you want, don't be surprised when tech budgets are squeezed and the customer experience suffers.
WANTED: #CEO for our iconic british brand. £250k basic salary http://t.co/Nl6BzuYKoO'. Corporate Journeymen need not apply. #NextGreatLeader
— Lyle & Scott (@Lyle_and_Scott) August 29, 2013
7. Get a CDO if you can't get rid of the CEO
Econsultancy CEO Ashley Friedlein has written about why you don't need a CDO. But, if none of your C-suite know digital, perhaps it's the way out?
Here's an example:
I followed a recent debate on Econsultancy with interest around whether a chief digital officer is necessary, and sometimes I feel someone with real senior clout and a deep understanding of digital could make a big difference.
The person who left this comment prefaced it with this:
When you must rely on separate agencies/consultancies to lead you on SEO, web, digital advertising etc this may bring some benefits, but also means digital PR/marketing/customer service can feel quite fragmented.
Which brings us nicely on to the next decision.
8. Bring something back in-house
Why is this a cultural issue? Well, because of the above comment. If your teams don't have a good picture of how marketing and sales works, then how can improvement and education occur?
It also takes some satisfaction out of the job for your marketing teams, and can be done cheaper (in most cases) by hiring someone.
A good example is PPC. If you're invested in earned and owned media, surely you need to have real-time reporting and insight into PPC, to check how it's performing with your SEO and to adapt and save or spend more.
Agency involvement is often great value for research, appropriate builds (if handover done well), design and more, but as for day-to-day digital, maybe it's time to bring it back.
9. Give new staff small but appreciated benefits
It's hard to find the right staff, as these two comments make clear:
[Difficult] finding the talent to keep us progressing.
There need to be people to take up the mantle when knowledgeable staff leave.
So if you're employing young blood and training them correctly as discussed, you'll also have to make their environment nice if you don't have the biggest bucks to spend on salary.
This is going to sound trivial but at Econsultancy we greatly appreciate:
- Milk (including for cereal).
- Fruit.
- Bread (the odd slice here and there for elevenses or tea).
- Phone calls.
- A beer on a Friday.
- A top quality chair to sit in.
- A shared commitment to bring cake into the office once a week.
Each is small on its own, but together they give us a great base on which to enjoy working as a team. That list does make us sound like prisoners.
OK, this is the trivial side, but alongside season ticket loans and bicycle purchase schemes and a pension, there sit the small things like beer that keep people going.
10. Encourage personal branding
[The biggest challenge is] giving people confidence to use social media as an individual, not just organisation.
Sales teams and B2B marketers in particular need to be empowered to do this. If you are selling printers or office phones, get on social media and do it softly.
OK, a lot of your business is still going to be via the phone, but fleshing out your personal profiles will give a footprint online and be enjoyable. Try reading 'Sales Organization of the Future'.
11. Remember the techies rule!
Very poor organisational processes, leading to the web team – who are the most experienced digital professionals in the organisation – being continually overruled by other areas of the organisation who have no knowledge or experience of digital, but strong opinions and organisational clout.
We all recognise this. Spend more money on your techies and make sure they don't have eight different bosses.
Which leads me on to…
12. Get rid of some managers
Management buy in biggest hurdle plus the loose structure of business. Too many managers and not enough decision makers.


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|Cirrhipathes (1)
Also known as whip or wire corals, Cirrhipathes species are long, unbranched corals, which extend up to three metres or more, from a base attached to the reef. They may be straight or form attractive and peculiar twisted or coiled shapes (2) (3). The colour of these corals is variable, including pale green, yellow, brown and grey (2). Like all other black corals (those belonging to the order Antipatharia), Cirrhipathes species have a dark skeleton, after which they are named, covered with polyps, the soft bodied, colourful part of the coral. Each polyp is attached to the skeleton at the base, while the other end bears a mouth surrounded by tentacles (4). Unlike many corals which retract their polyps during the day or night, Cirrhipathes species can only partly retract their polyps, giving the coral a barbed-wire-like appearance (2).
Some Cirrhipathes corals have microscopic algae (zooxanthellae) living within their tissues (3). Through photosynthesis, these symbiotic algae produce energy-rich molecules that the coral polyps can use as nutrition. In return, the coral provides the zooxanthellae with protection and access to sunlight (4) (5). Those species without zooxanthellae must gain nutrition by another means, by capturing prey in their tentacles. Cirrhipathes species are known to capture any small organism floating in the ocean that measures up to two millimeters long, as well as large marine worms that may be over one centimetre in length (6).
Cirrhipathes corals appear to provide a suitable environment for a number of species to inhabit, resulting in a number of fascinating relationships. The shrimps Pontonides unciger and Dasycaris zanzibarica are believed to only be able to survive living within a Cirrhipathes coral, while the male golden damselfish (Amblyglyphidodon aureus) bites off some of the living coral tissue to expose the bare skeleton beneath, where the female will lay her eggs. (6) The crab Xenocarcinus tuberculatus is also often found on Cirrhipathes corals, where it collects and covers itself with some of the coral polyps, in an ingenious attempt at camouflaging itself (6).
Cirrhipathes corals are found in the Indian and Pacific oceans (3).
These corals are found on reefs in tropical and subtropical waters (3).
Listed on Appendix II of CITES (1).
All black corals are harvested to be made into jewellery, carvings and tourist souvenirs (7), its popularity and high value coming from its dark skeleton, which can be polished to a lustrous sheen (8). Cirrhipathes anguina is known to be one of the most commonly traded black coral species, but otherwise, it can be hard to determine the extent to which Cirrhipathes species are affected by such exploitation as identification of black corals in the trade down to the level of genus is difficult (8). Black corals around the world are also known to be impacted by habitat degradation, and recently, a small trade in live specimens for aquariums has been reported (8).
Cirrhipathes corals are listed on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which means that trade in this species should be carefully regulated (1).
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Eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables is good for your health, and it may reduce your risk for many chronic illnesses. Here's how to choose produce at the peak of its freshness so you'll enjoy it even more.
Fresh tip: For fresher and more flavorful fruits and veggies, try to buy local produce when possible. Ask the produce manager at your grocery store what's grown locally, or visit nearby farmers markets or farm stands.
Apples: Look for apples that are firm to the touch and the right color for their variety. Soft apples tend to have a mealy texture. Store ripe apples in plastic bags in the crisper of your fridge.
Avocados: Ripe avocados will yield to gentle pressure. The color will range from green to black. Unripe avocados will ripen in a few days when left out at room temperature.
Bananas: Look for bananas that are firm, without bruises. Choose those that are yellow, tinged with a bit of green. Brown specks give ripe bananas a fuller flavor. Once ripe, store in the fridge. The skin will turn dark, but the flesh will not.
Beets: Choose firm, round beets with fresh-looking tops and deep red roots. Avoid beets with rough areas and long roots, as they may be tough. You can store them for one to two weeks in the fridge.
Brussels sprouts: Look for small sprouts with compact, bright green heads. Fresher sprouts have a better flavor, but you can store them for up to a week in the fridge.
Cantaloupe: Ripe cantaloupes will have a delicate aroma. Choose fruit with a thick netting pattern that's raised against the yellow skin underneath.
Coconuts: A ripe coconut is heavy for its size. Avoid those with eyes that are moldy or wet. Once you cut it open, there should be milk inside. A coconut without milk has spoiled.
Pineapples: Look for a fruit that's golden yellow and slightly soft. A green pineapple may not ripen. The fruit should have a slightly piney aroma. Pineapples that are overripe may have soft or dark spots.


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The American Dream Has Been Outsourced
Do you remember how Hunter S. Thompson was searching for the American Dream in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?
Well, the American Dream has been outsourced overseas. In what country it resides is a mystery. With all the bad economy, dream seekers have gotten the hell outta Dodge.
You say, "This is an outrage!" Yeah, it is an outrage.
Our nation is the most divided it has been since probably the Civil War or at least the 1960s. In 2009, we aren't killing each other as in the Civil War but a war IS going on and I don't mean the Iraq or Afghanistan Wars.
The present war is a war of ideas, principles, and the American Dream is quickly being put to shame.
The Framers in the Declaration of Independence guaranteed the following:
"That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
It further states that, "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Folks, something is completely out of whack as they say and we must do something.
Read your Declaration of Independence here: