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FNB UFH-Blues Captain, Onke Dubase, believes his players have taken in all the criticism and hope to use it as a motivation for their upcoming fixture against log-leaders, CUT Ixias on Monday 10 March 2014 at the Davidson Stadium in Alice. "It's up to the players now. I've been with this team for three seasons now, and have seen it all but have never experienced what I saw this week", said Dubase. "I saw resolve – its like now or never, and its visible from their faces and during practice sessions", said Dubase.

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With years and years of interrupted attempts at recovery behind me, I have finally become ready to do whatever it takes to maintain my sobriety. Maybe it was knowing that the physical and mental effects would soon be irreversible. Maybe it was knowing that I would lose my job and my partner if I kept it up. Maybe it was another moment of grace of which I've been afforded many on this long journey.
I've put all my misgivings about AA behind me and am using it as one of my primary recovery tools. I'm still participating in my on-line secular recovery group as well and I'm revisiting Charlotte Kasl's 16 steps to empowerment. Being pagan at heart, Addiction Alchemy is also a recovery model that speaks to me of hope, recovery and wellness
In the weeks ahead I'll be looking at the first 3 steps of AA and Charlotte's empowerment steps as well as the Addiction Alchemy approach.
They are:
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood him.
Empowerment Steps
1. We admit we were out of control with our addiction, but have the power to take charge of our lives and stop being dependent on substances or other people for our self-esteem and security.
2. We come to believe that God/Goddess/Universe/Great Spirit/Higher Power awakens the healing wisdom within us when we open ourselves to that power.
3. We make a decision to become our authentic Selves and trust in the healing power of the truth.
Addiction Alchemy
East Points: Awareness, Realization, Surrender
Intention: I come into full awareness that suffering is due to attachments (addictions) which ultimately form as a result of the denial of my interconnectedness of all that is and my rightful place in the Universe.
Affirmation: I have come to the realization through personal experience that the intelligence of mankind is not the only intelligence at work in the Universe.
Result: I am committed to seek the truth in all things in order to restore my connection with my Center and to reconnect my Will with that of my highest purpose.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Doing Whatever It Takes
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You are in my thoughts. ((hug))
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Hallo all,
I'm trying to rebuild/imitate another site in Javascript (mostly just to edumacate myself) and I've run into something.
I have an absolutely-positioned anchor with an onclick event. If it's clicked, a hidden <select> appears and opens. The focus() is moved to this select immediately.
I can arrow up and down through the select options, and I can click on any of those options with a mouse and trigger the onclick() event I've set on the options (I have also tried with setting the onclick event on the select itself, same problem). Hitting ENTER does not seem to trigger the event though (FF7/Debian for now). I have no idea why, since that should be the normal event in a dropdown select when the ENTER key is hit anyway, as far as I can tell.
Am I wrong in this?
Should I explicitly write an onkeyup and check for the Enter key and add an onclick there? (seems like overkill)
Here is the code I'm working with:
I originally had the label outside the select and may move it back out; it was originally wrapped to try something else out. I don't think it matters here but maybe??Code:
Refine term:
<select id="refineSelect" name="refineSelect">
<option value="foo">Foo</option>
<option value="bar">Bar</option>
<optgroup label="-- Try on --">
<option value="amazon">Amazon</option>
<option value="bing">Images - Bing</option>
<option value="google">Images - Google</option>
<option value="maps">Maps</option>
<option value="news">News</option>
<option value="wikipedia">Wikipedia</option>
<option value="youtube">YouTube</option>
<optgroup label="-- Show all --">
<option value="baz">Baz</option>
<option value="quux">Quux</option>
The CSS isn't anything special, the anchor is absolutely positioned and so is the select.
Javascript (currently leaving out the bits that are not part of this function):
So, when the anchor gets a click event (works with mouse or Enter keys), the select dropdown appears and focus is automatically moved to it. This all works (so far, not widely tested).Code:
(inside Object Foo)
init: function() {
var refineAnchor = document.getElementById('refa'),
s = document.getElementById('refineSelect'),
q = document.getElementById('q');
Basis.addClass(s, 'hidden');
Basis.addEventListener(refineAnchor, 'click', Foo.refineClickListener(s, q));
Basis.addEventListener(s, 'blur', Foo.sBlurListener);
showRefineSelect: function(s, q) {
var opt;
Basis.removeClass(s, 'hidden');
s.size = s.length;
//loop through s's options and add click listeners
for(var i=0; i<s.options.length; i++) {
opt = s.options[i];
opt.onclick = (function(opt,s,q){
return function() {
submitParams: function(opt, s, q) {
alert(q.nodeName + ', value is ' + q.value); //for now, my test to see that click event happened
hideRefineSelect: function(s) {
Basis.addClass(s, 'hidden');
refineClickListener: function(s, q) {
return function() {
Foo.showRefineSelect(s, q);
sBlurListener: function(event) {
I can arrow around the options, which I want.
I can click an option with the mouse and see the result of my click event that I've placed on the options.
I cannot hit Enter and see the result of my click event. I see in my debugger that yes, each option is getting the click event assigned to it.
Before adding click events to the options I had tried the simpler add-click-event-to-select. This hadn't worked originally which is why I thought maybe I needed to add directly to the options.
Is there something I'm obviously missing here? My brain is in a fog.
Also, I'm doing this partially to better learn Javascript. I don't care if there's some 500kb downloadable jQuery whatsit that does it all for me. That defeats the purpose really.


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Stern throws us a bone for all of the drama we've been through these past few years, and our pick ends up being #3. The Nets pick ends up at #5.
With the third pick we take Bradley Beal, and plug him in at our starting shooting guard spot. We then trade the 5th pick, Wesley Matthews, and next years first rounder (top 5 protected), to the Celtics for Rajon Rondo and a 2nd round pick.
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It seems folks are still divided on Joe Wright's undeniably audacious take on Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina." After a trailer and a generous six minute clip, some haven't cottoned to Wright's approach, while this writer, at least, has fallen for what has been on display so far, something that at least looks like a fresh approach to literary drama tropes. And with the film just over a month away from its U.K. release and festival bow on this side of the ocean, another peek at the movie has arrived.
Focus Features has dropped a new featurette for the film, one that goes behind the scenes of the production, offering up a good amount of new snippets of footage along with interviews with the director and cast. In case you missed out on your lit class in high school or college, "Anna Karenina" is a tragic love story about the titular married Russian aristocrat who causes a scandal when she falls for an army officer outside of her rank and class. Shot mostly on a soundstage utilizing interconnected sets and a unique visual style, Wright suggests that his choice to make it this way reflects the egos of the upper crust that are portrayed in the film. But whether it works or not, we'll soon see.
Starring Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Johnson, Kelly Macdonald, Olivia Williams, Ruth Wilson, Holliday Grainger and more, the film opens in the U.S. on November 9th. Take a look below.
Claire | August 28, 2012 7:41 PM
i can not wait for this move
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Anna | July 29, 2012 5:24 PM
I really can't wait to see this movie. Filming most of it on a stage in a theater is incredibly, visually creative. Never have I seen a movie made by one director who placed all the sequences of the movie in a theater. That is just very creative, I have a feeling many around the world will love this film adaptation of the novel of Anna Karenina.
Bruce Spencer | July 29, 2012 4:13 PM
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Timothy Kessler, a recent resident of Washington, DC , has announced he is hiring a private army to end the genocide in Syria by capturing President Bashar al-Assad and taking him to The Hague for trial. There he will be tried for the slaughter of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
He said, âHopefully, this monster will be given a swift trial and then hanged. His unspeakable and reprehensible misdeeds must be stopped now. While the shelling and suffering are watched by millions on television, the impotent United Nations does nothing but engage in mindless babel. Iâm mad as hell and Iâm not going to take it any longer!â
Mr. Kessler had put out a discreet call to veterans from the Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan Wars to join his crusade. They will serve as mercenaries and he is also footing the bill for transportation, food, housing, weapons and ammunition. He is not willing to reveal where this Special Forces Unit will train, nor how or when they will strike. His commander is a decorated retired Brigadier General.
Kesslerâs German background includes a grandfather who served in World War II with Col. Otto Skorzeny, until he defected to join the French Underground. His diary reveals the intimate details for Skorzenyâs capture of Benito Mussolini.
âI can only say,â he continued, âthat for the past six weeks Iâve had confidential meetings with former Navy Seals, Green Berets and CIA operatives. We have developed a secret attack strategy along with an exit plan for the highly skilled brave soldiers and sailors . They are willing to put their lives on the line, as will loyal Syrian rebels helping us launch this covert operation.â
Mr. Kessler admits he will face some chagrin from the White House and Pentagon for revealing his intentions. But he adds, âThese are times when decent citizens have to take action. Otherwise we are all guilty of malfeasance and obstruction of justice, standing by as thousands are dying from bullets, bombs and deprivation in Syria.â
Although this Special Forces Unit has already reached its full complement of volunteers, applications for substitutes will be accepted on a website presently under construction.
Julia | July 28, 2012 11:42 AM
Kevin, please read the book before you write a review on the movie. Vronsky and Anna Karenina belong to the same "rank and class", that is how they met and fell in love with each other. But, it was unacceptable to leave the family and ask for divorce at that society.
Gemini71 | July 28, 2012 10:39 AM
Are there any photos of Holliday Grainger as The Baroness around? I require one for the blog dedicated to Miss Grainger that I set up. You can find the blog here:
Oogle monster | July 28, 2012 10:00 AM
I think it looks great. Curious why it is skipping the festival circuit as of now...?
Jackie | July 28, 2012 12:47 AM
I, too, thought Aaron Johnson went by his wife's name now?
c | July 27, 2012 7:59 PM
Again, he is now Aaron Taylor-Johnson.


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In a crowded room at the Marriott Courtyard Hotel in Bridgeport Aug. 24, members of the Legislature, parents, teachers, school board members and concerned citizens gathered for an open Common Core curriculum town hall forum, featuring Sandra Stotsky. More>>
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At the Nexus for Leadership Program-Innovations in Leadership: Moving Forward From Where You Are, more than 40 academic, business leaders, military personnel and first responders from around the country gathered at the University of Charleston in June. More>>
Wheeling Jesuit University receives $1.2 million over the next five years to create, pilot test and disseminate instructional activities related to the project Pandem-Sim: Saving the World With Biology. More>>
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Peter Checkovich, president of Blue Ridge Community and Technical College, and Suzanne Shipley, president of Shepherd University, will sign the agreement in the Presidential Board Room, located at the Blue Ridge CTC main campus. More>>
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The invention of one of the most famous brands of cereal was an accident. In 1877, two brothers named John Harvey Kellogg and Keith Kellogg were experimenting with food made with boiled wheat. They left a batch out overnight and returned to find it stale. Instead of throwing it away, they rolled it out and discovered that each wheat berry formed its own flake. They tried the same process with corn, and created the first dry breakfast cereal, which we now know as Kellogg's Corn Flakes.
Of the more than 294 million people in the us, 49% start their day with a bowl of cereal.
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ONGC Ltd is exploring the possibilities of investing in oil sand extraction projects. Oil sands or tar sands, a mined product found mostly in Canada and Venezuela, are deposits of bitumen (a heavy black viscous oil), which is treated to produce crude oil.
According to available estimates, the Alberta province of Canada holds the second biggest oil reserve after Saudi Arabia through its oil sand deposits.
Though denying having taken up any specific investment proposal in this regard, ONGC sources confirmed that the company was exploring investment possibilities in oil sand. Notes were also exchanged on the issue between the Indian exploration and production major and its overseas joint venture ONGC Mittal Energy Ltd (OMEL).
"We (ONGC) have been discussing about the possibilities of investing in oil sand projects for some time. However, we are yet to identify any proven technology for extracting oil from the same, without which no firm decision can be taken," an ONGC official told Business Line, adding that oil sand extraction technology was still in a nascent state. "We are continuing our search for technology," the official said.
Meanwhile, oil sand has attracted the attention of global energy majors, courtesy the high crude oil prices. Leading the pack is China, India's rival in global energy acquisition projects.
In April 2005, China National Offshore Oil Corporation had invested $121 million to acquire a 16.69 per cent stake in Calgary-based MEG Energy Corp, which in turn holds oil sand leases on 13,300 hectares in Alberta, estimated to contain four billion barrels of bitumen, which can be processed into two billion barrels of crude oil.
In June 2005, China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation had proposed Canadian $150 million investment in oil sand projects in Canada through its joint venture SinoCanada Petroleum Corp.
According to a Canadian government Web site on energy, oil sand currently represents 54 per cent of Alberta's total oil production, and about one-third of all the oil produced in Canada. By 2005, oil sands production is expected to represent 50 per cent of Canada's total crude oil output, and 10 per cent of North American production.
Apart from Canada and Venezuela, oil sand is also available in smaller deposits in 68 other countries including the CIS countries, Cuba, Indonesia, Brazil, Jordan, Madagascar, Trinidad, Colombia, Albania, Romania, Spain, Portugal, Nigeria and Argentina.
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Kutztown Area High School held graduation ceremonies Thursday.
The valedictorian was Zachary Davis Owen and the salutatorian was Emily Kathleen Finke.
Graduates are: Ross Michael Adam, Mandy Leigh Ann Adams, Portia Elizabeth Adamson, Anthony Lee Akers, Christopher Tyler Alesi, Dustin Michael Arnold, Kyle Scott Bailey, Rebecca Lynn Batarick, West Hunter Bauman, Emily Ann Behm, Aaron Jeffrey Bollinger, Alex Samuel Bollinger, Thomas Paul Bond, Johnèe Catherine Border, Jessie Kyle Borneman, Michael James Boyer, Jay Edward Bricker, Keshia Marie Brobst, Alec Corey Campbell, Cassandra Jane Cann, Aubree May Chilcote, Chantelle Nicolete Coates, Kayla Avery Corman, Brittany Marie Cronrath, Andrew Austin Crow, Zachary Allen Cutlip and Lauren Lynn Cwik.


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Foreclosure activity in the 26 states where the courts are involved in the process increased dramatically in February, according to a new report.
The RealtyTrac U.S. Foreclosure Market Report said activity in the "judicial" foreclosure states was up 2 percent from January and 24 percent from February 2011. In the 24 other states, foreclosure activity was down 5 percent for the month and 23 percent for the last 12 months.
The largest judicial foreclosure states are Florida, Illinois, New York and New Jersey. Activity increased in all those states except New York.
Overall, filings were down 2 percent for the month and 8 percent for the year. The total was 206,900 properties.
Half of the country's 20 largest metro areas posted year-over-year increases in foreclosure activity. Here is the list, with the metro area, number of filings in February, ratio of foreclosures to all housing units, percentage change in filings from January and percentage change in filings from February 2011:
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I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, but I've noticed Brandon getting some endorsement love lately. I was going to Cytosport's website and it's front page was announcing their endorsement deal with Brandon. (http://www.cytosport.com).
Also, Brandon is getting love from Nike, namely in their new Sparq training commercial. This is more (positive) national attention a Blazer player has recieved than I can remember in quite some time.
Lastly, it is refreshing to see a person like Brandon getting the love from these companies. Specifically since he is more a blue-collar, business oriented type guy that doesn't put flashy play or his own personal stats infront of his team and city.


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Mr. Lake was born Dec. 1, 1931, in Danbury, son of Charles and Mary (Brill) Lake.
He attended Danbury schools and was a U.S. Army veteran serving from 1952 to 1954; he was honorably discharged as a corporal.
He was a tree surgeon with Hissong and Weyant of Danbury, retiring in 1996.
A former member of the Arion Singing Society, he was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars of Danbury and St. James' Episcopal Church.
Mr. Lake is survived by four sons, Richard and his wife Judith Lake of Danbury, Capt. Glen and his wife Lori Lake of Sherman, Albert and his wife Ann Lake of Danbury and Fred and his wife Maryann Lake of Kissimmee, Fla.; three daughters, Patricia and her husband Gordon Olsen and Donna and her husband Robert Barnwell, both of New Milford and Brenda and her husband Andrew Schlemmer of Danbury; a stepdaughter, Valerie and her husband Sal Salevicius of Bethel; a sister, Katherine Mallard of Newtown; his former wife, Lyda and her husband William Piskura of Danbury; 20 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
In addition to his parents, Mr. Lake is predeceased by his stepfather, Daniel Woodin.
A celebration of life will take place today (Friday), noon to 3 p.m. at the V.F.W. Hall, 5 Byron St., Danbury.
The Jowdy-Kane Funeral Home of Danbury was in charge of arrangements.
Memorials may be made to the Regional Hospice of Western Connecticut, Home Care Program, 405 Main St., Danbury, CT 06810.


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A Coweta County woman is accused of making moonshine. Police said they stumbled on the moonshine distillery while searching for a missing elderly woman.Allyson McClendon was arrested Tuesday morning after being accused of manufacturing and selling alcohol. Police are still looking for her son, William Chattam, who faces the same charges. Authorities said they also found some marijuana plants. "These were potted in the backyard," said John Curtis, an investigator at the Coweta County Sheriff's Office. "Inside the residence, there was marijuana plants drying as well as marijuana plants packaged in baggies."McClendon's friend, Rufus Kittle, insisted that there was no moonshine-making going on. He said that McClendon was only purifying water. Kittle also denied that the mother and son were growing marijuana plants."Probably came out of some bird seeds or something, but they were nothing to be bragging about," said Kittle.Authorities said that McClendon and her son face felony charges for the marijuana and moonshine.
A fifth arrest has been made in connection with the murder of a 13-year-old in his own bedroom on Sunday.
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When Barbara Morris first heard the tiny little mewing sounds coming from inside the "Lincoln Memorial," she thought there was not anything to worry about. When she returned to work the next day at the Presidents Hall of Fame Museum in Clermont, and heard the mews again, she knew something was wrong.She says, "The first time I thought mommy will come and get him. But then, he was still here."That's when Morris called the Minneola Fire Department to ask if they had any suggestions how to get the kitten out of the massive memorial replica."All I did was call and ask if they did that, because animal control is not open on weekends when this happened. 5 minutes later the fire truck was here!" says Morris.The fire department cut a hole in the top of the statue's base then lowered a firefighter down inside to rescue the kitten.The little feline was about 2-3 weeks old and dehydrated. Firefighters fed him with a dropper then the Humane Society of Lake County took over. The kitten is now named "Little Abe" and is living in a foster home until he's strong enough and old enough to be adopted out. That will happen sometime around the first of the year.If you're interested in giving "Little Abe" a good home you can reach the Humane Society of Lake County at: 352-589-7400.
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Slender Night Review
Slender Night
What You Should Know
Slender Night is a product that promises to help you slim down while you sleep. Distributed by Pharmavita, Slender Night is pure liquid collagen. The company does not offer a 100% guarantee that the product will work, especially if you are dealing with yeast issues in the body or having problems with your thyroid. In fact, they only guarantee that at least 50% of their users will see results in the first month. Marketed mostly in Canada and the UK, Slender Night averages around $60.
When using this product you can't eat or drink anything other than water after your last meal for the night. The product is taken three to four hours after your last snack or meal, or right before you go to bed. You can take the product after four hours as long as you don't have anything to eat right before taking it. The company recommends keeping a constant weight and measurements log to track your progress. The minimum recommended time on the product is three months.
Slender Night contains: Purified Water, Collagen Hydrolysate, Aloe Vera Juice, Glycerin, Powdered Wild Yam, Potassium Sorbate, Methyl p-hydroxybenzoate, and Propyl p-hydroxybenzoate.
Product Features
Working off the fact that the body repairs itself naturally at night, Slender Night believes that it's liquid collagen will help increase the rate at which the body repairs itself, helping to burn extra calories and fat during the process. The products also states that it helps build strength and endurance, improves sleep, increases energy, and reduces pain. The company states that users will see more results on a tape measure than on a weight scale, since the collagen helps create lean muscle.
- Users only have to take the product once a day rather than before or after every meal.
- The company claims the product works even without exercise.
- The powdered yam in the ingredients will help the body naturally dispose of wastes to help increase weight loss.
- There are no money back guarantees or even any guarantees that the product works.
- Users must drink large amounts of water when taking this product.
- Women who want to lose weight after giving birth cannot use this product unless they choose not to breastfeed.
A liquid diet that works while you sleep is ideal for most everyone. However, the scientific proof that these sorts of collagen diets actually work isn't yet available. This product depends on the user drinking lots of water and negating their caloric intake after dinner. Anyone who reduces their caloric intake to such extremes is bound to lose some weight, with or without nighttime liquid collagen.


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Christus Santa Rosa Health System has locked affiliation agreements with a pair of renowned Houston-based institutions for its new Children's Hospital of San Antonio. Texas Children's Hospital and the Baylor College of Medicine will anchor what Christus is characterizing as a three-way partnership for the downtown hospital, which is set to open next year. Christus will own and operate the Children's Hospital of San Antonio and is covering all of the development costs.
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The Victims of Change
The Question:
"How do you suggest we deal with the victims of the changes we embrace?"
The Details:
"We produce a magazine. A new application offers too many advantages for us to ignore. With decreased markets, we must be very cost conscious if we're to survive. This new solution will almost totally eliminate the need for our current Grpahic Designer
The downside to this new way of doing business is the loss of significant annual income for this designer.
I am looking at transitional solutions, but all so far are only temporary, and seem to delay the inevitable loss of income for this person.
Do you have any suggestions or broader perspectives that might help me find transitional strategies that are more acceptable to both parties? (Us and the Designer)."
That you even feel the need to ask the question means that you're doing more in this area than most. Whether you can take comfort in that or not is up to you. The question is a real one, New technologies often displace workers – as you point out in your description, there is an inevitable loss of income for the individual(s) being displaced. You also recognize that it's the transition that's most painful. The bad news is that unless we, both employers and employees, plan in advance for these types of transitions, then there is little we can do to mitigate the pain unless the organization is willing to assume the bulk of the burden and carry the employee through the transition. MOst organizations don't choose this course.
The organization, for the reasons you offered, must more forward with any process that legitimately reduces costs without compromising quality of products & services. An organization can, either through incompetence or deliberate intent (or a combination of both), delay the deployment of an advantageous advance, but to do so for too long places the organization at risk.
To seize upon a displacing technology without considering the impact on the employees is not uncommon. As to whether or not it is 'moral' is another matter entirely, one I'll leave for ethicists to debate. Regardless of whether or not such practices are moral or not, they do have inevitable consequences.
The survivors of any one particular round of technological displacement will inevitably ask themselves, "Is this how the organization will treat me when something comes along to replace what I do?". The amount of loyalty & dedication they afford the organization in the future is in proportion to the amount of caring and compassion the organization displayed to them in the past. It's not a complicated equation – and it's one that the organization creates, and they control all the variables.
Putting aside the contentious questions of what an organization is obligated to do for their employees, there's the legitimate question of what they're capable of doing.
Helping an employee transition via re-training is one option. Another is to reposition the employee in some other capacity within the organization. This is one of those situations where the employee's ability and willingness to learn new things is crucial. If the employee fundamentally does not want to learn a new skill, then they are deciding that obsolescence is preferable to change. An irrational, though common, response to this type of change.
The other side of the coin is that the employee can, I'm reluctant to use the word 'must', take responsibility for their own future. Unlike 'Diamonds', there is no guarantee that any skill is "forever"… A flint knapper has no place in a modern knife factory – a pen & paper draughtsman has no place in a modern architect's office. The list is endless, and endlessly growing. Almost all the skills we have today WILL be obsolete before we retire. Anyone who thinks otherwise is going to be stunned and surprised by each transition.
It might sound like a cliché, but if an organization wishes to assist their employees through this type of change, then glorifying our ability to learn new things is a good first step. This means, that training budgets must increase beyond today's paltry pittance, and such budgets must acquire a certain robustness that allows them to survive at consistent levels through downturns in business.
If the desire is to increase an organization's ability to Change, then it must increase its ablity to learn.
Baseballs, Mars and Strategic Planning
My interest is in the Future, because
I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles F. Kettering
1876-1958 American Inventor
At the foundation of most Strategic Plans there rests a simple question, "Where do we want our organization to be in five years, and what must we do, and when must we do it, to get there?"
That question looks like a good one. The answer will have all the attributes of a sound objective. Asking, "Where do we want our organization to be in five years?" entices us to paint a picture of what we want to achieve. We can call this picture our "Vision" or "Vision Statement", in either case it creates a target worthy of our attention.
Since these things don't happen by accident, "What must we do, and when must we do it, to get there?", outlines our footsteps towards a rudimentary project plan. Since we know what we want to achieve, we now define the "what" and the "when" of our "To Do" list for the next few years.
Most strategic planners would agree that this question lies at the core of the strategic planning process. It is certainly the most common approach, and while sometimes the objectives we choose are overly simplistic, perhaps even ambiguous i.e., "We want to be the world leader in 'X'", they provide something to work towards.
And that's the issue. Unless the next problem is addressed by some hidden assumption, this type of planning cannot succeed other than by luck, no matter much effort is put into that project plan.
Here's the problematic snag, we cannot answer the question, "Where do we want our organization to be in five years?", unless we first answer a bigger and more complex question, "Where will the World be in five years?"
Crafting a Strategic Plan is sort of like trying to get to Mars, or running to catch a baseball, you don't go to where it is now, but to where it will be, when you finally get there.
Obvious? Of course it is. Yet most Strategic Plans make no attempt to determine where the World will be, they plan as if the World stands still in time, when in reality it is rocketing off in some unknown direction under the influence of Moore's Law, politics, demographic trends, diminishing resources, new opportunities, aging populations, shifting alliances and a thousand other trivial and humungous forces.
If we do try to target the future, we plan for it based upon our understanding of the past. ie. Transactions have been growing at a rate of 10% per year, so we will plan for similar growth in the coming years.
New developments, "wild cards" if you wish, can erase all credibility from this type of reasoning. The rise of digital music and the ease, with which it is shared over the Internet, eroded the relevance of all historical sales figures for the music industry.
Of course, our real problem is that answering the question, "Where will the World be in five years?" is a challenge… as Yogi Berra, the great Philosopher King and sometime baseball player said, "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future."
Tough? Yes, definitely. Impossible? No. Even if we choose to ignore them, there are developments we know will affect us in the future. Here are a few worthy of consideration;
The Collapse of Constraints: (The result of Moore's Law)
Computer and telecommunication technology is going to get more powerful, faster, cheaper, more reliable, more accessible, smaller, cooler (in more ways than one), better and more convenient.
The Implications?
What technologies would you like to implement in your organization today, but can't because of some limitation? Chances are that within the next five years, the natural advance of technology will collapse those constraints. Then what? Here are some reminders from our recent past, imminent future, their impact and possible implications;
Digital Music => Copyright => Music Industry Sales?
Telecommunications => Offshore Outsourcing => Local White Collar Work?
Voice over IP => Personal Communications => Phone Companies?
RFID => Inventory Costs => Privacy & Security?
Flat Screen TVs => Redesign of living space => Furniture Sales?
(An off topic question we might ask ourselves, "Which solutions implemented a decade ago, are the wrong solutions considering current technology?")
The Passage of Time: (Demographics)
We're getting older… all of us, soon the elderly will outnumber the young whippersnappers.
The Implications?
No secret here, as we get older we change in predictable ways. How do you differ from your parents? Imagine their buying habits and lifestyle rolled out as the norm. Imagine the bulk of marketing targeted at something other than teenage tastes, how does that affect your business… more importantly, the business of your clients.
Not to mention of course, the financial impact on poorly designed, naïve and idealistic Social Security programmes.
New Markets & New Competitors: (The Third World is no longer Third)
One word: China. Okay… two words: India.
The Implications?
According to some statistics, America makes up 5% of the world population and consumes 30% of the world resources. Imagine a new nation (or two), with the buying power, consumption, resources and production capability of 5-10 USAs.
Now… Can you imagine a Future where these new juggernaut nations do NOT affect your business?
These are just three of the many developments you might choose to incorporate into your strategic plan. Which ones do you factor into your planning? That depends on how far you choose to cast your attention. What could provide a threat or opportunity to your business? Or are you convinced that tomorrow is just today, plus another day?
How exactly do you factor in these future forces? There are no easy answers, yet there are lots of different approaches, tools and methodologies; from generic Scenario Planning, to Joel Barker's Implication Wheel; from simple 'What If' sessions to more involved Brainstorming. The goal is not to do the impossible, we cannot predict with great accuracy what tomorrow will bring, but we can get a sense of what tomorrow might have in store for us and put together a Strategic Plan which will perform well against a handful of likely future possibilities.
No matter how we factor them in, the sooner we do it the better. As the quote at the start suggested, we're going to live in the Future; we might as well look forward to it.
Simple Wisdoms… Difficult Lessons?
We call them many things, from adages and aphorisms, to maxims, proverbs, old sayings and memorable quotations, but regardless of how we've labeled these sage old saws, they all deliver exactly the same thing. They are all, snippets of wisdom, lessons learnt, sometimes at great expense through hard won life experience. Together they provide a large library of life lessons, all neatly encapsulated into pithy phrases. Sometimes they're repeated so often, they lose meaning through excessive exposure.
Somewhere along the line we arrived at a point where we shun the simple in favour of the complex.
We'd rather take a long, expensive University course on Ethics, than adhere to the ancient Golden Rule, "Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you."
We'd rather invest in extensive quality programmes, than follow the advice of an old carpenter, "Measure twice, cut once." And we need to be beaten into submission before taking regular backups, rather than remembering, "An ounce of prevention, is worth a pound of cure."
Despite our proven reluctance to follow these inherently simple bits of advice, all of them demonstrate a remarkable ability to survive in our global consciousness. Every country, every culture has a variation on, "Look before you leap!", "A stitch in time saves nine" and "Slow and steady wins the race." They persist from one generation to another because, even though we don't always pay them any heed, we offer them as our best possible advice. We practice a bizarre contradiction, we know these sayings contain deep truths, but we choose to ignore both our own knowledge and the wisdom of the past.
While there are many management (and personal) challenges, the most important of them all, and perhaps the most intractable, is the answer to the question, "Why don't we do, what we know we should do?"
While I don't think there's a simple answer to the question as to why we ignore what we know, I do believe there's a proven strategy to overcome this human flaw. Pay conscious attention to what we're doing, and compare what we're doing, to what we know we should be doing.
That's so obviously true that it's almost one of the maxims we're discussing. In a sense it's nothing more than a verbose variation of "Look before you leap!" or even "An ounce of prevention, is worth a pound of cure." Is it any less true because of that similarity?
One could examine our organizations and identify problems solvable and avoidable if only we consistently followed a set of simple maxims, but that could get awfully complicated faster than we could blink. Imagine having a "Department of Aphorism Audits & Accounting", or an "Administration of Adept Adages"? The mind boggles and things just get silly.
A simpler approach, (and that's the goal… right?) is to adopt a personal motto and measure all our actions against its succinct guidance. No, my personal motto isn't, "Keep it Simple Stupid" (although it could be as evidenced by this article), mine is a little more suited to the world's laziest man, "Never do today, what you can put off until tomorrow!" (Consider this advice carefully, it doesn't necessarily mean what most people take it to mean. As an exercise for the reader, think of it in terms of Pareto's 80/20 Principle and a rationally prioritized to-do list.)
The obstacle to all of this sage advice (the traditional proverbs and maxims, not my ramblings) is still the point identified in the second paragraph; we shun the simple, and insist on elevating the importance of the complicated, and costly. The phrase, "This can't work, it's too simple" is heard frequently in most organizations, along with another thought, "If it costs more, it must be better." (The retailers of the world salute this thought process.)
So? If all the accumulated wisdom of the world is to have any value, we have to pay attention to at least one small snippet of it. What truth will you make your own? What one bit of advice will you measure all your actions against?
If you get comfortable enough with that concept, what one truth would you select as the foundation of how your team, department or organization operates? Start with just one, and if that becomes second nature, then add another one, move slow and steady and win the race. Remember big trees fall under small strokes. Aw heck… you get the idea.
Making a Date with a Crisis
Regardless of our circumstances we often share the same thoughts. The notion "It can't happen here", is such a common way of looking at disaster, that even Kissinger got into the act with his famous "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
Humor aside, disasters happen regardless of what you had planned for the week. How badly they affect us, is determined by our ability to respond without warning to crisis situations.
The traditional approach to disaster planning is to create a methodology, install contingency plans, ensure that proper backups of crucial data are made, and place all this documentation in yellow binders on a shelf. If we're diligent, we take it out once a year for some exercise.
This way of planning for disaster, while it provides many benefits, also contains a serious flaw. It's not so much the cost – insurance of any type always costs money. The flaw is more subtle, but it is potentially serious enough to scuttle the best laid plan.
It is this, Disasters by their very nature, happen unexpectedly. Our success on the day is based upon how we react when we're confused and don't know what's going on. Planning allows us to think through the process of what to do if (when?) something happens, before it actually occurs. That thought process alone is the central core of any contingency plan, but just thinking about it, isn't enough. We have to go into the water before we know how to swim. We have to live it, to learn from it. Planning for the experience is not the same as experiencing the plan.
How to improve a disaster recovery plan? Given the stated nature of disasters, 'unexpectedly and without warning' seems like the right approach.
At 9:00am on a Monday morning, inform 50% (or a mere dozen if that would be too disruptive) of your management team, individually and personally, that they're leaving immediately for an off site location for an emergency meeting. No prior warning. No details provided. No excuses accepted. All meetings regardless of importance are ignored. No notification to secretaries/assistants or clients allowed. All cell phones and blackberries collected. In other words, just like a real life crisis.
When they arrive via the waiting bus, they're told of the 'disaster' that has taken place. They are to respond to this 'disaster' over the next day or two. What is the 'disaster'? That depends on how severe you want it to be and what you think would provide the best information.
There's a certain beauty to this exercise – NO PREPARATION IS REQUIRED. (except possibly for the bus) The Exercise starts at 9:00am when your employees are informed. NO hotel is booked – no coffee pre-ordered, no Flip Charts on site.
I already hear the objections… we need to book the hotel in advance otherwise…
Question… on the day our building is on fire, bombed, flooded, the senior exec team all killed in an air crash, captured by ninjas etc. etc. will we already have a room booked? If we cannot manage this minuscule exercise in crisis – then we are fundamentally incapable of handling a real emergency.
Back at the office the remainder of the management team can take the exercise one step further and pretend the entire off site team are victims of a disaster. This secondary exercise might be more than your organization can handle without severely impacting day-to-day operations. The alternative is to merely explain what is going on and cope with their unexpected absence for two days (week?). There is learning even this minimalist approach.
The exercise provides two benefits. First? An immediate and relatively inexpensive evaluation of how well your management team responds to an unexpected crisis.
Secondly? In a very short period of time, with minimal impact to your organization, you highlight those areas most vulnerable to the 'disaster' you selected. With that in hand you can now move forward to a 'real' contingency plan with specific objectives in mind.
The objections to this exercise are many and obvious. You can't afford the time. The board would object. You can't afford the negative impact to the business. Your schedule is full next week.
Work Flows Downhill
"The Internet ignores both political and geographic boundaries!" To anyone with even a minimal level of technical expertise, this statement is nothing more than a grade level observation. Yet if we use it as a lens to examine the future, it offers a few interesting implications. Especially if we have a minimal level of technical experience, and are living outside of what we refer to as the "third world".
As a writer with regular columns in computer magazines for the past few decades, I receive many e-mails requesting my view of trends in IT employment opportunities. I repeatedly get asked by people who should have the answer within their reach, if the current down turn in North American IT opportunities will end… and when?
The reasons for the down turn are many: a recession, an oversupply of capability, a recent house cleaning in most IT shops worldwide, the trend to outsourcing and the real threat, the rise of off shore services in the white collar arena.
Will the downturn end? Look back to the opening line of this article… "The Internet is ignorant of both political and geographic boundaries!" now add an additional ingredient. The cost of living in third world countries is significantly less than it is here in North America and Europe.
This results in the following prediction: IT employment opportunities for particular skill sets will continue to plummet. There will be no turn-around. Technology is the great equalizer. Just as heat travels from hotter to colder, and a high pressure zone will equalize with a low pressure zone if given the chance, by eliminating the geographic boundaries, telecommunications allows "work" to seek out the most hospitable climate.
The "work" affected is not restricted to application development, it includes the following categories; Data Entry, Call Centers, Back-Office Operations, Document Imaging etc.
One response to this is… "We'll do it better! We'll be more efficient! We'll use technology!" and the counter strategy is… "Anything you can do, we can do cheaper… because we have an advantage — our standard of living is lower." Another response is to attempt to legislate a solution, which only serves to create a black market of opportunity.
There is no new force at work here. We've seen this happen before. People from China were shipped into NA to build the great railroads because they were cheaper than local labour. This time we're shipping out the work, instead of shipping in the people. Exactly the same concept, just implemented differently.
The world is filled with economic inequalities; there are the Haves and the Havenots; the "1st World" and the "3rd World". With the stated goal of working towards some sort of economic balance, we go to great lengths to provide loans to developing companies, and according to many, these loans do little to redress the balance. Meanwhile the global telecommunications network, part of which we know as the "Internet", is becoming the unexpected solution.
Of course, there isn't any solution which isn't seen by some as a new and threatening problem. If you're someone in North America who is losing, or has already "lost", their job to a programmer in India, Pakistan, China, Poland etc. (the list is long… but then so was the imbalance) then you'll have an understandably different view of this rising trend. From your perspective you're losing your livelihood to an outsider, to someone who doesn't even live in your country.
There are many who argue that off shore outsourcing is unpatriotic. That work generated in "insert country of your choice" should remain in that country. That argument, while compelling at various levels, ignores the economic reality. While there are many who only "buy" products made in their own country, there are very few who would support a boycott of sales to ALL other countries. Question? MS Windows is developed in the USA… should we stop selling it to other countries, because it has put their O/S programmers out of work?
1st law of economic entropy: Work flows from higher to lower standards of living. The Internet facilitates this process.
On the Mechanics of one Election
Asimov's classic "Foundation" is the purest form of SF. It takes a fundamental desire – our need to predict the future – then presents a "What if?" scenario and pushes it to the boundaries of belief. Whenever I've read "Foundation", I've always spent more time wrestling with the central idea than actually enjoying the story line.
Is it possible, will it ever be possible, to predict how people will react to a specific event, to any useful degree of accuracy? Are there rules, perhaps waiting for a Seldon to discover and formalize for human behaviour? Will it be possible to use an understanding of those rules to shape the future? Could our tomorrows become manufactured products of calculated action?
I first read "Foundation" during my second last year of high school. I was, by any reasonable definition, a 'geek'… not quite of the pocket protector crowd, but I owned a slide rule and knew how to use it. My buddies at the time were also addicted to SF and we spent many hours arguing over the possibilities presented by the science of Psychohistory.
We were then presented with an opportunity to use our high school as a grand experiment.
Like most high schools we had a Student council, elected by the students, and responsible for school activities such as parties, fund raising, proms and concerts. We also, like many other schools, had a raging case of student body apathy. Nobody attended school functions, sports events or concerts. School spirit was non-existent.
We, a cadre of invisible students, devoid of popularity, suffering from a dearth of cool, decided to fix this problem.
While the formal tools of Asimov's Psychohistory were beyond our reach, there were some basic rules of human behaviour we could use in our social re-engineering project. The rule which best fit our situation, was the concept of the swinging pendulum. The notion that popular opinion/behaviour swings from one extreme to the other. The 'trick' is to identify the extreme 'states' and then apply just enough 'force' to nudge the system into one of these 'states'.
We ran for student council on the platform that student councils were a tool of the administration to distract our attention from the real problems of poor education, over-crowding etc. etc. If WE were elected we would abdicate our responsibility, we would shut down the council, we would do nothing for the following year, and we would ban all future student councils… Anarchy would Rule!
The administration hated us… therefore the students loved us. We geeks won by a landslide. We abandoned the student council. Phase I of our project was complete. Now we waited.
Winning this election was an accomplishment of sorts. We had no prior status or influence within the student body, yet we beat much more popular and influential jocks, cheerleaders and divas. Rule #1? It's easy to get elected if that is your ONLY goal… Just promise the people whatever they want. Some of our politicians are very good at this.
Throughout our elected year, we threw not a single party, flew no banners, we raised no funds. The first 2-3 months everything was 'fine'. Then slowly but surely, discontent festered in the land. The value of a student council grew conspicuous by its absence. It grew in importance, because it didn't exist. Phase II of our project was well on the way to completion.
That was our final year before we scattered to our universities, but we kept an eye on our little experiment to see if it would develop as we expected.
It did.
At the end of our last year, the students demanded a student council election. We knew someone, would step into the breach at the appropriate time. A full council was elected. The next year our school experienced a huge increase in student involvement. Parties, event attendance, fund raising all reached historical highs. The Pendulum had swung from abject apathy to total commitment. Phase III complete. Mission accomplished. Apathy defeated. Hari Seldom would have been proud.
Were there unintended consequences to our little experiment? Two of them come to mind.
Fact: The individual who became student council president… went on to become a Member of the Canadian Parliament.
Fact: I now speak for a living. My topic? Change Management.
The Predictor's Paradox
Predict vb: To declare in advance
"Can we predict the Future?" In many ways that's a loaded question (it's also redundant since we don't 'predict' the present or the past). There's an implicit assumption that the question means "Predict accurately", and when we make that assumption explicit, most people answer that predicting the future is impossible. That's where the "paradox" starts to creep in.
We make predictions all the time, from the incredibly mundane "If I throw this coin up into the air, it will fall back to the ground", to the more interesting "If we build a Dam 'here', water levels will rise 'there', and within five years, the economy will improve around this region." – (and we'll force animals, people included, to relocate… )
The coin falling example is so incredibly boring, most people won't even allow us to call it a real 'prediction.' They'll respond with "Of course it will fall to the ground! You're not 'predicting' anything; you're merely stating the obvious!"
At the other end of the spectrum, if we flip a coin and we dare to categorically declare the result, heads or tails, in advance… then we're told that's impossible to predict…
Between stating the obvious, and voicing the impossible, there's an interesting category of predictions. Let's approach them from the perspective of how impressive an accurate prediction appears to the reader.
The impression made by an accurate prediction
is more a function of the reader's ignorance,
than of the speaker's ability to predict.
Consider the following thought experiment. With some solid knowledge of how to calculate eclipses, travel back in time a bit more than 2,000 years and use your knowledge to 'predict' an upcoming Solar Eclipse. Chances are you will be either killed or raised up as some sort of Wizard/Sorcerer – or worse… a God. Good luck in any case. I doubt Godhood is all it's made out to be. There are reportedly far too many people asking for mutually exclusive and contradictory favours.
Now come back to today and calculate the next Solar eclipse… the response is a general 'Ho-Hum'… it's not that the reader will necessarily know how to perform the calculations, but they'll know that such things are readily doable and/or accessible.
From one situation to the other, your prediction first generated general wonderment to then sheer boredom. The only variable was the audience's knowledge of eclipse calculations.
In other words, a prediction is only impressive if the audience doesn't know how you came to that conclusion. This is the same concept underlying every stage magician's act. Come to think of it, it's almost a corollary to Clarke's Law "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Why do we make predictions? To impress, or to inform?
If we make them to impress people, then we must recognize that the degree to which an accurate (or reasonably so) prediction makes an impression is directly proportional to the amount of disbelief it engenders when they first hear it.
The question arises, what is the use of a highly accurate prediction… if nobody believes it in advance of the event? If you did 'predict' Sept/11 or the failure of the Levees, but nobody believed you, what good did you achieve?
If on the other hand we make predictions in order to inform the listener, perhaps in order to change behaviour, then the less the prediction looks like a rabbit pulled out of a hat, the better.
Here's the paradox in full bloom, if you could have predicted Sept/11 and got everyone to believe it in advance, then it would not have been seen as a prediction… it would have been perceived as a statement of the obvious.
In other words, the best soothsayers make predictions which sound obvious, sometimes to the degree that neither the prediction nor the predictor registers on the listener's consciousness as something extraordinary.
Once more with feeling? We'll believe anything, if we also believe we thought of it first… and give no credit to the one who convinced us it was our idea.
Project Management by GPS
I've become a bit of a GPS addict. I now have maps for both all of North America and the UK and Ireland. I can't imagine driving to someplace new, without the assistance of strange unseen satellites.
Despite the benefits, there is a peculiar downside to these navigation units. With a map, you always have some sense of where you are, with Mapquest type instructions, you have some sense of where you're going… but with a GPS? You only have a moment to moment sense of where you go next. If (when… I have a story to tell the next time we meet in a pub) the device breaks down, you are completely, totally – almost permanently – lost.
Benefits and disadvantages aside, there are a few things we can learn about project management from the lowly GPS.
This is the very first 'strange' thing that I noticed when I first used the GPS. When you make a mistake and go 'off route' (or off plan if we're replating this to PM), no matter how many times you make that mistake, the voice giving you directions remains calm, cool and unfluttered.
"Well of course it does!", Someone mutters from the back of the room… "It's a machine!", and my response is, yes I know that, but when I make a mistake I've come to expect that the response will communicate someone's displeasure. And, that expectation of a negative response to a mistake is the primary reason why status reporting is so difficult. We're afraid of the negative response so we 'shade the truth' to make ourselves look better.
Constant Monitoring
I would not suggest for a moment, that your project is monitored as closely as GPS monitors your location, but the lesson is plain. Knowing where you are, is crucial to getting to where you need to be according to your plan.
Regardless of the effort it takes to where we are against the plan, it's something we have to do. If it's not done, then we're not managing the project. I'm not sure what we think we're doing, but whatever it is, it isn't project management.
Track the project isn't administrivia is the heart of the PM concept. To state it even more plainly; everything done in the name of PM, is done to make it possible to know where we are. To do all the difficult preliminary work and then not track our progress is a form of insanity.
Not allowing time in the plan to track and report progress against the plan, is to state publicly that our planning activities are a farce… something we do to merely 'look' like professionals. The solution is obvious; learn what we can from the GPS
Retracing vs. RePlanning
When you go off route with a GPS, it will, for a period of time, do nothing more than try to get you back on the original route. It's do this, until you get so far off the correct path, that it's better to replan the trip.
That's a great PM lesson. If we're off the plan, how long do we just try to get back on the original plan… before we sit do and replan the project? Frankly, not enough replanning is done, in it's place there's a lot of wishful thinking – we'll catch up on the weekend.
Macro vs. Detail views
If you're paying close attention to the GPS, and that's what we usually do, you'll notice that when the next 'check point' is far away, then it zooms out to an overview, but when the next turn is just a little bit ahead, the instructions happen faster, the map zooms closer, proving you more detail of what's ahead.
Project management can emulate that approach. Having a project status report 'every three' months works reasonably well when the work between markers is much of the same… but when key deliverables arrive more rapidly, when they get bunched up on the Gantt Chart, then more frequent status updates are advised.
While this is a tongue in cheek comparison, there's some truth here. Driving from Dublin to Sligo has much in common with a project where both the starting date and deliverables are known. One difference? There are more Pubs on the road to Sligo.
Six Billion Nation States
When Archimedes said, "Give me a lever long enough, and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world". I'm sure he knew he was right in theory only; that his vision of "world moving" was forever beyond the physical reach of individuals. Yet he was perfectly correct in another sense. Individuals, by applying the right technology in the right way, can move the world.
In many ways this is an observation of the obvious, or at least it should be. The category of human achievement we label as "technology", is nothing more than a collection of tools leveraging every aspect of human ability: Cars, trains, planes and ships, leverage our ability to move; Microscopes and telescopes leverage our sight; Hydraulic pumps leverage physical effort; Computers leverage every aspect of the mind, from reasoning to memory … The list goes on, yet people are continually and genuinely surprised when individuals achieve what was once achievable only by corporations, industries and Nation States.
Technological progress continually increases personal ability. It makes us more capable than those who went before us. Even more powerful than the companies, infrastructures and governments they erected to increase their capability.
A transportation example: I've visited more than three dozen countries, crossed the Atlantic at least 200 times, and traveled a great global circle twice. A century ago, I would have been the envy of Presidents and Kings. Today this achievement is practically without merit. I barely qualify as an elite frequent flyer.
Immersed in capability, we lose sight of what technology has made possible. Constant acquaintance with the amazing, immunizes us against awe.
Familiarity doesn't breed contempt; because contempt requires conscious recognition. Familiarity breeds apathy, even ignorance of the wondrous. Once upon a time, only governments and big business could send a message around the world. Today the most disadvantaged of us, the homeless, own cell phones. Ho hum.
Because of this dramatic increase of leveraged ability, individuals can now compete with corporations, even industries. The almost exhausted example of Napster… an application developed by two students in a dorm room on a personal computer, placed the multi-billion dollar music industry at the edge of a precipice in less than a decade.
Even the loosely organized Fourth Estate is challenged by an individual's ability to communicate on a global scale. Matt Drudge and his Drudge Report was as much a legitimate news source during the Clinton scandal, as the New York Times or the Washington Post. Personal Web Blogging by individuals has awoken and is considered as much a reasonable source of news and opinion as the major distributors, by a generation disenchanted with these traditional media channels.
This ability to leverage is not restricted to the domains of commerce. The world's largest military machine is at war with an individual and his relatively small network of like minded ' associates'. Paul Rogers, Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University, and author of "Losing Control – Global Security in the 21st Century" (Pluto Press), acknowledges this shift in power when he recognizes: "the capability for relatively weak groups, whether states or sub-state actors (italics mine), to be able to exercise political violence against advanced urban-industrial states."
There is a growing awareness that through their increased ability to wage war, individuals can demand equality with the Nation State. Given the current world stage, it is difficult to argue they haven't already succeeded.
Our shared fear is that these individuals will gain control of WMD. This acquisition immediately elevates them to the status of world powers. The military experts have even coined a perfectly appropriate term "Asymmetric Warfare"… while it was meant to describe those situations where smaller forces apply their strength against the weakest defenses of stronger forces, it aptly describes any situation where governments must devote their full attention to the attacks from what were once considered gnats.
Nor is the ability to wage war totally dependent on mere acquisition of ready made WMD. We now have the ability to create WMD in the back room. Specifically the weapons of biological, and chemical warfare. Germ warfare has always been an option, it's nothing new. Poisoning a well, contaminating a food supply or distributing infected blankets are all low tech, historical versions of modern biological warfare, accessible to anyone with malicious intent, but technology has once again, raised the ante.
A team of researchers, at the University of New York, led by Dr. Eckard Wimmer have assembled a viable Polio virus from tailor-made sequences ordered from a supply house. Their 'blueprint' came from the Internet. According to one of the researchers, Jeronimo Cello, "It was very easy to do." While the more dangerous viruses we know of are more complex, and therefore more difficult to assemble, the researchers admit that constructing such viruses is a distinct possibility.
As stated in the beginning, none of this should surprise us; these developments merely echo the trend of democratizing political power. Kingdoms once concentrated the power to shape and change the world in a single individual, now all individuals can move the world. Today we're all Heads of State.
Archimedes' lever, much to his eternal surprise, is now a common reality.
Why do we GO to work?
One of our local newspapers recently ran a series of articles on the phenomenon of 'commuting' and how some people spend 3-5 hours of their day travelling to and from 'work'. While the focus of the series was mostly the 'human interest' angle the question that kept intruding into my thoughts was 'Why?'… Why are we still flowing into small geographical areas in the morning and then flowing out to find our beds in the evening? An alien looking down from on high would be very curious as to the our reasons for the daily migration
Thankfully, I no longer work in a corporate cubical, but I have taken the time to reflect on what I used to do day in and day out, and as a white collar worker there was VERY little I did, that I could not do from a desk located on the other side of the city – if not the other side of the world. This was true as a regular grunt in the organization and as a high mucky muck.
As a white collar worker – I moved nothing from one location to another, I did not physically manipulate the world, I really had no good, persistent reason to physically travel from my home to the 'office' on a daily basis.
This is driven home today where my reality is that as long as there is electrical power and internet access, my office is wherever I, and my trusty laptop, are ensconced.
While I'm a card carrying techno geek, I'm not one of those who believe that all meetings are replaceable by 'virtual meetings' – that wouldn't be much fun – I speak for a living – there is something about sitting across the table from someone that pixels on a screen cannot replace. More is communicated in a handshake (or a hug) than is possible to transmit on a 50gb optical cable. That said, It is possible to shift all those types of meetings to a single day each week, allowing most people to remain at home, in a properly equipped office, most of the time.
As I've discussed the topic of telecommuting with people over the years, the #1 objection/fear that I've heard (the one that is the real reason IMO that Telecommuting hasn't taken off) is that we don't trust our employees to produce if we aren't looking over their shoulders all the time. That's it in a nutshell. We don't trust either our employees to produce at a distance OR we don't believe our managers are competent enough to manage remotely.
There's an irony here – and that is that management usually lets people work entirely on their own for weeks at a time. All too often managers have admitted to me that they don't have regular 1-on-1 meetings with their staff… in fact they rarely meet with their staff.
Sometimes other reasons for not moving into telecommuting are raised, cost, security, privacy, etc. but there are more 'excuses' than they are legitimate objections. Many of these, possibly all of these, are solved via technology.
And then there's another irony in the resistance towards telecommuting… any time we 'outsource' something – not to mention 'offshore outsourcing' then we are making a decision to do the work generated at this location in a remote location… 'outsourcing' is nothing but telecommuting on a grand scale.
So? Why the post? I'd like to ask two sets of questions…
1) What is it that you do at the office that you cannot do at home? Assume you have access to power, internet and a phone at home.
What % of your time in the office are you engaged in that activity?
2) Has your organization even considered the possibility of telecommuting?
If you have… what's the status of that thinking?
Contribute if you wish, either in the comments (preferred) or off line (happy to start a few conversations – email@example.com)
I'll assume that the benefits of Telecommuting are well known… let me know if listing a few would add value to the conversation.


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Before Zak Stacy hit the NFL stage, the Ram's offense didn't click very well. Once Stacy burst on the scene, the Rams went from a pseudo spread offense to a TE heavy blocking rushing machine. I thought our Tight Ends blocked pretty well. But when it comes to lead blockers there is nothing like an Old Fashion Smash-Mouth Fullback.
Good News Rams Fans! Fullbacks are as cheap as calculators in 2014. Back in the 70's the Rams had several superior Fullbacks. Remember Jim Bertelsen and Cullen Bryant? And who can forget John Cappelletti's tear jerker Heisman Trophy Speech? These guys opened holes for Ram's RB's like Willie Ellison and Lawrence McCutcheon for years. How can one not fondly remember the dual backfield of Bertelsen and McCutcheon. Remember the pound and ground, touchdown drives that almost consumed entire Quarters?
But I digress. Let's move on to the modern fullback. Like the rhinoceros, fullbacks have almost gone extinct. But I believe they can make a partial comeback.
Should the Rams consider drafting a fullback in the 5th-7th rounds? What are the pros and cons? The biggest con is a fullback may not be able to catch the ball out of the backfield as well as an TE H-back.
The pros? Fullbacks open wider holes and run the ball better in short yardage situations. Fullbacks are cheap! Do you want to look at some rhino's?
Trey Millard, FB, Oklahoma
Height: 6-2. Weight: 249.
Projected 40 Time: 4.68.
Trey is the top ranked fullback. And this despite a season ending ALC injury. Just a thought. If he didn't work out as a fullback. Would he make a good LB. Anthony Barr was a little know fullback before he became the top linebacker in the draft!
Jay Prosch, FB, Auburn
Height: 6-0. Weight: 260.
Projected 40 Time: 4.85.
Here is my favorite. Jay is a hellacious blocker. What are fullbacks for? And Jay is superb in special teams. I don't know about you, but I want the Rams special teams to be # 1 for years to come. How would you like to be hit by a 260 pound cannon ball a half second after you caught a punt? BOOM!
J.C. Copeland, FB, LSU
Height: 6-1. Weight: 280.
Projected 40 Time: 4.77
Still too small? Look at Copeland's size and speed. What the F#%K!?! Again you can't help wonder, could this guy play Defense? Inside Linebacker maybe? I dunno. Copeland really needs to trim down to 270 for the NFL. He blasted opened holes for all the LSU running backs.
All three of these guys can catch the ball in a pinch. Trey is probably the best running back. Trey averaged 5.7 yards a carry. But then again, what do you want a fullback for? Me? I want a devastating blocking back first. Pass and run blocking. Then I want a special team superstar. Then I want a runner/receiver.
Then I want a guy who could maybe play defense. There's a little Dr. Frankenstein in all of us! Anthony Barr caught 12 receptions during his first two seasons as UCLA's fullback! And then he switched to defense. The rest, as they say is His story.


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California Police Academy Study Guide – Download Your Prep Book
California Police Academy Study Guide – Download Your Prep Book
If you want to become a police officer for the state of California, be aware it is not going to be easy. Not only will you be subjected to the military-type drill sergeant mind games, but you'll also be required to be in good physical condition as well as be able to pass all of the course curriculum at the academy.
The problem with the academy is everything is so rapid-fire that sometimes you forget some of the material from one day to the other. I know some recruits could handle it without any problems but some struggle and as a result they flunk out. That's why I encourage every cadet heading to the academy to Download a Police Academy Study Guide in advance.
Well as I explained above, the information coming your way can be overwhelming. Not only that, but you are expected to recall all of that information when taking the course exams. If you fail, you'll be sent home.
The law enforcement study guide goes over actual course materials you'll likely see at the California police academy and on the test. So once you are actually at the academy, all you're really doing is going over information you've already learned and possibly new information from the instructor. You are getting exposed to the material twice. How cool is that my friend?
Ideally, you'll want to get started about two to four weeks before you head off to the academy. If you are a self-sponsored recruit meaning that you are paying your own way, a police academy study guide is absolutely crucial. You don't want to be sent home after spending all that money on enrollment do you? If you are already at the academy, I would still buy a police academy study. It is not ideal but it is better than nothing.
I'm not trying to scare you, but I know I had a tough time at the police academy and my academy class wasn't in California. I know the academy in California is ten times harder physically and mentally.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
About The Author
Officer Forestal has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice, 8 years law enforcement experience and is a graduate of the 2002 Police Corps, where he was recognized as an expert shooter. Former Collegiate all-American, certifield personal trainer and author of several fitness and police related books such as the Police Oral Interview Secrets, and Police Exam For Dummies. As a Law Enforcement enthusiast, E.L. has helped hundreds of candidates "ACE" their respective entrance exam and the oral board interview. Learn More...
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Restaurant Mon Feb 04 2008
Pho 777
Having moved to Chicago from South Florida, my experience with Vietnamese food was very limited. In the year that I have lived here so far I have taken every opportunity to stuff my face at any Asian establishment anyone recommends and Pho 777 on Argyle was the first one in a very long line.
There is one very simple reason I keep returning to 777. Stock, plain and simple.
The French cherish their stocks and consider them the foundation of all their cooking. In the same way a well prepared stock is the building block of a great bowl of pho. The mouth feel and taste of good gelatinous broth lifts the dish to a totally different level. Some other more popular (don't ask me why) establishments on Argyle obviously use a base/mix, bleh! From the first bite you can taste, even see the difference. A stock made with care will have thick, almost fatty consistency that coats the inside of your mouth while the mixes are watery and taste of excess sodium. Frankly, the stock at 777 is so thick that I challenge you to eat a bowl and not fall into a food induced coma while you struggle to pay the bill.
The most important thing to remember is that fat carries flavor, why do you think everything tastes better with butter?! Without this glorious broth pho is just a bowl of noodles and some very cheap cuts of beef. Subtlety is the name of the game in this dish. No one ingredient overpowers another and it is all tied together by the silky lubrication of that glorious broth. Now, the dish pictured above is Bun Bo Hue which is not technically pho, and there is nothing subtle about it! Just order one and some extra towels to wipe the sweat and you'll see what I'm talking about. But the same idea applies, the fat is a conduit for the chili oil and rounds out the flavor, making it a little more tolerable.
To sum it all up, just go and eat, and stay away from the "Check Please" madness and their shortcuts. Its BYOB, but I wouldn't bother. Nothing goes better with pho then a tall glass of fresh squeezed lime juice and club soda.


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Mary Regester
Mary was born on June 19, 1925 in Scottsbluff to John Gallawa, Sr. and Mary (Weimer) Gallawa. She was the 9th of 12 children. She received her education in the Scottsbluff Public Schools. She was confirmed at Salem Congregational Church on March17, 1940. Mary was married to Lorenzo Charles (Cash) Regester on August 28, 1951 at the Salem Congregational Church in Scottsbluff. Mary was always at Cash's side as his banking position took him from Gering to Garden City, KS. They were a happy team.
She was employed with F.W. Woolworth for a lot of years. After they moved to Garden City, KS, they were part owners in a Hallmark Card and Gift Shop which Mary liked so much. She always had such good ideas as what the shop could sell. When retirement came, the move was made back to Scottsbluff. Mary liked reading and listening to all kinds of music. She was The Keeper of all the Gallawa Family History with Cash's help.
She is survived by her sisters Martha Whitlock of Pueblo, CO, Esther Corcoran of Baltimore, MD, brothers Jack Gallawa of Pensacola, FL, John (Dorothy) Gallawa of Scottsbluff, Robert (Donaline) Gallawa of Boulder, CO, Walter (Francine) Gallawa of Sacramento, CA; sister in law Elizabeth (John) Erickson of Edmond, OK; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Mary loved all family and was very proud of them.
Her parents, husband Cash, sisters Marie Gallawa and Katherine (Ed) Williams, Leah (George) Hilzer, brothers Alex (Mary Ann) Gallawa, Adam Gallawa, sisters in law Glenna (Joe) Smith and Imogene (Dick) Lewis, brothers in law Howard Whitlock, Robert Corcoran, Richard (Sandy) Regester, aunts and uncles Mr.& Mrs. Jacob & Katherine (Stephan) Weimer and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews preceded her in death.
Mary is now with her beloved "Cash" where she has longed to be. Mary was a very giving and caring person. She will be missed by all who knew her.
Good-Bye to our Mary...
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UPDATE: 1:49 p.m.
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Rustburg, VA – An accident has closed the north lanes of US 501 in Rustburg, VDOT says.
Northbound traffic is being diverted onto Route 686.
The accident is near Virginia 24 (Village Highway).
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I'm a 23 year old grad student getting a masters in biostatistics who is just learning how wonderful and crazy life is. I believe in the power of love and life chats and have an undying love for the Mets and USWNT. Oh and I'm as liberal as they come. Peace. Love. Equality.
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I had no idea who that was in the middle… wow LP
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Food Court
The Food Court on Level 3 at intu Lakeside is the perfect pit stop.
There's a huge choice of outlets from pie & mash, fish & chips and burgers to indulgent Chinese, Italian and American cuisine. Featuring some big names like Five Guys, Pizza Express, Taco Bell and KFC you're sure to find something to suit your tastes. Service is quick and everything on the menu is excellent value.
Our Food Court restaurants are:
- Burger King
- Chopstix
- Ed's Easy Diner
- Five Guys
- Patisserie Valerie
- Pizza Express
- Pizza Hut Express
- Rhythm Kitchen
- Sainsy's Pie & Mash
- Taco Bell
- Thai Express
- Tortilla
Coming Soon:
- Harper's British Classics
- My Pasta Bar
- Nando's
- Wasabi
You can view them on our interactive map here.