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Posts by Richard
35 posts • joined 24 Sep 2007
Remembering the true* first portable computer
@The missile knows where it is at all times
At which point does it turn into a chrysanthemum?
BT static IP customers get nothing but static
Do colleges use BT Business for their ISP? I'd have thought that they'd be hooked up via local government and whatever fibre provider they use.
Facebook eliminates parts of Wales
@Mark Daniels
"Wales... ... is not a country anyway, any more than Yorkshire is."
When I read this article I resigned myself to reading such anti-Welsh comments. Wales is a separate country (though practically considered to be a Principality) within the UK -- I take it you've heard of the various Acts of Union between 1536 and 1564: "The country of Wales justly and righteously is … incorporated, annexed, united and subject to and under the imperial Crown of the Realm, as a very member and joint of the same." Indeed Wales is thankfully a separate country to get away from cretins like you.
I don't mind if you keep Cardiff, though. It and the valleys are about as Welsh as Ulan Bator.
Beeb tech boss seeks to expand TV licence online
No title
What I expect will happen is that the licence fee laws will be changed so that a levy will be made on ISPs bills for broadband connections.
Beeb borrows copyrighted Flickr image
BBC idiocy
"I would note the website from which the image was sourced appeared to make no reference to copyright and had no facility for copyright to be enquired about or validated, although I understand that the image has now been removed from that website."
Somebody should let this David person know that any website that they pinched the image from does NOT have to have a copyright reference in order for the image to be copyrighted -- he seems to be saying that because the website didn't have this copyright reference, the image wasn't copyrighted. Absolute nonsense. Under English and Welsh IP law, a copyright is attached to an image or any work of IP and to the creator as soon as it is created. It doesn't have to be registered anywhere, it is automatically assumed to be copyrighted by the creator. Thus this David is talking out of his backside.
"and had no facility for copyright to be enquired about or validated" -- again, nonsense. If the site had no facility to contact you about rights usage (which is what he's really referring to), then plainly and simply they should NOT have used it. Even for internal testing of the CSO equipment.
First 'fully accurate' totally voice-controlled phone unveiled
Prior art?
Er, Wildfire, anyone? Before it canned by Orange? Apparently there were plans to expand into non-voice areas, such as reading out email and text, but the plug got pulled. It shouldn't have been too difficult to get her to take dictation and send it out as a text or email.
Toyota USA goes all chatty
After screaming "SHUT THE FUCK UP!!" a few times at it, I think attention in the form of some wire snippers may be required. Or remove the optical storage banks while in zero G. "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do."
London and Wales to get fast fibre
@Why would the Welsh need it
Whitchurch is a well-heeled middle-class suburb of Cardiff. It really is quite tiring to see any story which references Wales automatically triggering comments about sheep...
Meanwhile for the rest of us without Whitchurch and London have to struggle on using ADSL (of varying speed) or even Ye Olde Dyall-uppe.
500,000 oppose Red Arrows Olympic ban
"Not to mention the other 5m people who had to waste 3 seconds deleting each and every forward that came into their inbox."
My method of dealing with the brain-dead is to reply to everyone, including any email addresses I can find in the multiply-forwarded mail, and tell them that the mail is viral, and a hoax, and cite a URL for the hoax. It's wonderfully cathartic, as are the emails of apology I sometimes get. I really do wonder how these people are allowed a vote, or how they're able to breathe without instruction: "diaphragm up, diaphragm down, and repeat." No, they won't know what a diaphragm is.
Government told: Release secret Iraq documents
Richard Thomas
If I were him, I'd avoid going for walks in woods in the future.
Burned by Chrome - Fire put out
Not only MS and Google
Adobe tried this a while ago with some version of Photoshop, where they tried to do a rights grab uploaded to Adobe's online photogallery via this software. They got shot down in flames for it.
Wünderbra! German policewomen take 'Action Brassiere'
UK boffins roll out video periodic table
"The melting point of Sodium is around 96 degrees". And? Kelvin, Celsius, or Fahrenheit? (Yes, I know it's Celsius, but that's not the point.)
This video reminds me of a story I was told about the sodium store at Nottingham Uni. I was told it in the early 1990s but don't know when the alleged incident happened. The sodium store was underground, and it got flooded. All the doddery old chemistry profs were in a right flap, apparently. I bet it was a sight to see!
Microsoft chases satnav market
Considering how much computing power is needed to run this, you'll need to clear out your boot (trunk) to install a PC to run it, and plumb it into your car's radiator system. You'll also need to install a new alternator on the engine rated at 5kW. I'd hate to imagine what that would do to your fuel consumption, but at least the journey will be leisurely enoguh for Fista to be able to keep up with plotting your current position.
Pentax K20D digital SLR
"I suspect that has nothing to do with the software per se, but I could be wrong. It's probably information store in the EXIF section of the file, and can be opened by any competent software (I don't know whether Photoshop is any good, but I'd suspect they support such a basic thing as EXIF tags)."
Adobe Camera Raw supports the K20D so it should read every last scrap of info in the EXIF tags. If ACR/Photoshop can't read the white balance info from the raw file, then nothing will. It's also useful that the K20D has the option of saving to the open source DNG format. Kudos to them for that.
MPs urge action as spooky caller ID-faking services hit UK
Verifying incoming calls
There's actually a simple way of verifying if an incoming call is from your bank's call centre, or indeed any company's call centre. Sadly, I don't know if I'd be able to get it patented.
Wii can conduct an orchestra too
Except there isn't much of a correlation between arm activity and tempo, or even orchestra activity. An orchestra could be going hell-for-leather through a piece and the conductor nary makes a movement. And sometimes the opposite applies. As a rule of thumb, the less arm-waiving a conductor does, the better they are, and the better their relationship with the orchestra. And again, the opposite applies.
China promises censor-free Olympic media
New Olympic sport
"And now we cross live to Lhasa for the new Olympic sport of "Torture a Tibetan". This is the first time that it has been incorporated into the Olympic games, and oddly enough, only China have entered a team."
Teachers crucified by coughing pupils
Mr Mills
Ah, the good old days in the mid-80s. He had a car rear-view mirror attached to the wooden frame of his blackboard, and if he spotted any misbehaviour taking place behind him, a millisecond later the perpretator collided with the blackboard rubber at a rather large velocity (Mr Mills was a science teacher). There was also a *rumour* that he dropped a kid out of the 1st floor window because he wouldn't behave. Needless to say, all the kids respected Mr Mills, and he had no trouble from them. And he was only 5' 3".
A third of online shops undermine consumer rights
Retailers and manufactuers
Retailers need to get it into their thick skulls that when something is faulty or missing it's up to THEM to rectify the situation and not the manufacturer. When a sale takes place, the contract is between the buyer and seller, NOT the manufacturer.
A few years ago I bought a Parrot Bluetooth car kit from blueunplugged.com. The kit arrived with several items missing, but fortunately, not essential to its operation. They were listed and pictured on the box, but weren't inside it. I contacted blueunplugged.com about it and asked them if they could send me the parts. They told me that they wouldn't be able to do that, and that I'd need to contact Parrot directly if I wanted the "allegedly" missing parts. I pointed out to them that under consumer protection law, my contract was with blueunplugged.com and as such they had to deal with the matter, not Parrot. Again, I got fobbed off. I contacted Trading Standards, who confirmed what I'd been saying, who said they might write to blueunplugged.com. When I gave them a chance to redeem themselves, by saying that I'd let Trading Standards know that the matter had been resolved if they were willing to, they gave me a load of abuse for having contacted Trading Standards about them!
Government set to 'destroy' UK radio astronomy
"Well they got in three times!!!! Someone voted for 'em... so someones lying!!!!"
In the 2005 General Election, nationally only something like 22% of the eligible elctorate voted for Labour. So it's the unrepresented 78% who are complaining on the various forums you mention.
Pure Highway in-car DAB radio
Re: Moving
"Actually, one main benefit of DAB is that it *can* be used on the move without ever retuning, and this has always been the case..."
My Kenwood FM RDS radio does this very nicely as well. And I've driven many times cross-country without having to manually retune Radio 2 I usually listen to, or indeed having to touch the head unit at all.
US dairyman inaugurates bovine biogas plant
Nothing new here
A farmer a few miles down the road from here has been doing this for the past 15 years:
Disintegrating wind turbine caught on camera
Plugged into the mains?
Perhaps someone decided to wire the generator into a transformer, upped the volts, to spin it out of control? Of course they didn't, but anyone who's seen those "The Thick of It" Christmas specials from 2006 will know what I mean. (The Opposition minister was forced by his party leader into buying a wind turbine to install on the roof of his house. He commented that it was costing him a fortune in leccy bills to keep the thing rotating...)
Vodafone, Orange to share UK mast sites
Re: Oranges for Everyone?
No, read the article again: "The companies insist, however, that the deal is not a merger nor an amalgamation of networks."
They'll just be sharing the steel towers. Both will have their own separate pieces of kit and backhaul from each site.
Secret printer ID codes may breach EU privacy laws
The Lives of Others
Just watched this on DVD, belatedly. Didn't the US congratulate the German people for breaking down the Berlin Wall? Only to then try to recreate the functions of the Stasi for themselves back in the "land of the free"? Thought so.
Starbucks mocha clocked at 628 calories
@ Ben Lancaster
"I've also attempted to convince people that Yorkshire Tea is grown on the yorkshire dales. At time of writing I'm yet to find anyone stupid enough."
It's already happening (well, Harrogate anyway):
A tea company in the northern English county of Yorkshire has sought help from India in its plans to develop one of the UK's first tea gardens.
Taylors of Harrogate turned to experts from the state of Assam in its efforts to grow tea in "God's own county".
They gave advice to UK staff on what kind of soil the tea bushes would thrive in and also on how best to care for them in an unfavourable climate.
And so on. I prefer a nice cup of Twinings tea myself to most coffees.
100Mbit/s sewer broadband rollout coming your way
@ JonB
"Why do people who live in nice countryside areas seem to think that the rest of us have to subsidise their obviously more expensive service provision?"
I'll give you a clue: it's called "being a civilised country," but of course, that concept is anathema people obsessed with greed and who couldn't care about the consequences should the rural economy shut down completely, and we'd have to import all our food from abroad, and with nobody left to make the countryside look neat and tidy for when the townies visit. (Another clue: the nice countryside doesn't happen by accident, it's as a result of farming.) I suppose you also advocate Royal Mail dropping its Universal Service Obligation? Of course it would be cheaper all round if everybody lived in large urban areas, and didn't that Ceauceascu bloke have this idea? I wonder what happened to him...
Every building?
"Sewers are deep underground where cable would be protected from clumsy drilling. They also run into the heart of virtually every building in Britain."
I think you'll find that there's an awful lot of properties which have no mains sewerage connection, and have to rely on septic tanks. But of course, this is yet again another urban solution. BTW, we're on mains sewers here, and have an excellent ADSL connection to the town's exchange.
Swedes to probe cow-belch threat to planet
"The usual ta very much to Mike Richards for the tip-off about this "top Scandinavian boffinry", as he puts it."
Surely you mean "top Scandinavian bovinery"?
Mine's the leather jacket, thanks.
YouTube biker clocked at 189mph
I can't help but wonder that his clutch is slipping once he goes past 140, as the acceleration on the speedo doesn't seem to match the rate at which the scenery is passing by. At least this one is in mph, unlike the Woodhead Pass video, which was in kph. That video was shown on some ITV programme recently, and the token traffic plod and that Edmund King bloke were both fooled by it, thinking it was a mph readout on the speedo.
Skull and crossbones for obvious reasons. Had it been the Nurburgring, then fair dos.
IE's Acid trip back to conflict
Firefox 3 Beta 2...
... passed Acid2 just fine on my system (XP SP2).
Brown promises simultaneous liberty and security
Bill of Not Wrongs
When you think about it, it could revolutionise policing... Stick everything into the Bill of Rights that you don't want to prohibit (keep it short, though!), and everything not in the BoR is automatically an offence, so the police only need to keep an eye out for people observing the BoR. Cuts down the time and effort in drafting new laws, doesn't it? It's all rather ironic that he quoted Orwell though, isn't it?
Free-market think tank urges EU to unbundle Windows
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned OS/2 so far. What's needed is for Windows to be opened up, or at least for MS to publish its APIs so other Windows-compatible OSes could be written. What I'd like to see is a situation where Windows is available in various distributions like Linux is.
Judge parks 172mph Porsche driver for 10 weeks
@Martin Benson
"You seriously think that driving along a dual carriageway (not even a motorway) at 172mph doesn't deserve a jail sentence? He's travelling at 84 yards a second. If someone travelling at seventy decides to pull into the same lane as him, he's still going at a ton relative to that car - if the car is fifty yards away, he'll run into the back of him in a second."
Perhaps he was "familiarising" himself with the car, a la PC Milton at 159mph on the two-carriageway M54, at 3m, in an unmarked Vauxhall Omega?
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Well, well, well, it seems Ms. Lindsay Lohan reads our fabulous Bag Lady blog, as in the last few days the paps have snapped her in London toting a very familiar bag. Any guesses? It's the quilted Balenciaga Motorcycle bag that I wrote about 2 weeks ago! Hi there Lilo, if you're reading, and please, take notice of our friendly advice over on Star Trip, and wear some ruddy knickers in future please!!

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text: In a message dated 7/1/98 2:12:28 PM Central Daylight Time, russmax at cowboy.net writes: << . However, I do think that, in the future, heavy and light combat within the SCA will gradually wane in importance. In fact, this is already happening. >> As long as we choose our monarchs in trial by combat, fighting will remain the essential heart of the SCA. And I, for one, have no interest is changing this. Yes, thousands of other people, costumers, calligraphers, heralds, smiths, and dozens of others, contribute to the game as we know it, but we started as a tournament. Compare the attendance at any of the specialized "arts" events such as a heraldry symposium, or Kingdom A & S with one of the big tourneys like Steppes Warlord, and then tell me interest in fighting is waning. HL Oriana Corbizzi ============================================================================ Go to http://lists.ansteorra.org/lists.html to perform mailing list tasks.


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DALTON, Ga. — Losing their first two matches in the quarterfinals of the Region 7-AAA tournament Wednesday, the Dalton girls' tennis team was in danger of not advancing to the state playoffs for the first time in coach David Hilley's eight years as head coach.
Thanks to the efforts of their doubles' teams and senior Makala Awad, that won't be the case.
Awad outlasted Cedartown's Valerie DeWandel in three sets in the day's final match, giving the Lady Catamounts a 3-2 victory over the Lady Bulldogs and setting them up today for a semifinal match against sixth-ranked Allatoona at Lakeshore Tennis Courts in Dalton.
"I thought we really stepped up big," Hilley said. "We didn't play great, but I'll take a 3-2 win."
LaFayette also won their quarterfinal match, defeating Murray County 3-1. The Lady Ramblers will battle seventh-ranked Cartersville, who defeated Ringgold 3-0 in another quarterfinal.
Dalton and Heritage's boys' teams advanced to the semifinals, with the Catamounts defeating Cedartown 3-0 and the Generals defeating Murray County 3-0. Dalton will face Allatoona today in a 10 a.m. semifinal, while Heritage will battle Cartersville.
"We were a top seed last year, so it was a lot harder to advance this time around," Heritage coach Darren Miller said. "I was glad we were able to get the win."
LaFayette coach Clint Harrison's team got wins from Madeline Ensley and Bailey Clements, while the No. 1 doubles team of Kelly Jones and Lindsey Hannah dropped their first set before win 6-0, 6-3 in the final two.
"I thought we looked pretty good against a strong Murray County team," Harrison said. "It looked pretty dark when we lost the first set in doubles, but we fought throught and looked good at the end.
"I'm proud of my girls."
Calhoun victorious
The Calhoun tennis teams both won the Region 7-AA tournament Wednesday at Calhoun Recreation Center. The Class AA second-ranked Lady Yellow Jackets defeated Pepperell 5-0, but the boys' team had a harder time, yet were able to outlast Model 3-2.
The No. 1 doubles team of Ben Lamb and Adam Griffith claimed the decisive victory for the Yellow Jackets.
"This was huge for us," Calhoun coach Lynn Davis said. "Our girls have been consistent all year, but for our boys to get this win was big because all of their matches were close."


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Mia Farrow and Bernard-Henri Levy had never met. One of the first things they said when Guernica's editors introduced them before their Tuesday PEN World Voices event, Crisis Darfur, was to remark how strange it was they hadn't. And before parting for radio appearances and dentist appointments, the two had resolved to focus on something concrete and simple to break through the impunity that has met the Sudanese government's rampant killing of civilians in Darfur. On the spot, with Mike and me there to take notes and tweak the phrasing, they wrote out a joint demand on their governments. They proved themselves an effective team, with Levy asking Farrow if she had ideas and Farrow enthusiastically pulling folded notes out of her bag.
Here's a write-up of the beginning of that process, which continued through the afternoon. Then onto the event, where a filled Alliance Francaise was moved to tears at the pair's pictures from their dozen or so collective visits to the region and pushed intellectually by Dinaw Mengestu's challenging questions. To listen to the whole hour and a half program go here. (The joint demand can be found at the bottom of this note.)
Meanwhile, new magazine content went up in April, two newsletters went out, other sites picked up Guernica features en mass, resulting in the magazine's best month in terms of readers. So thanks!
Among those readers were an NPR reporter (who invited one of our feature writers onto his Boston/NPR radio show), an Australian radio producer (who invited the same writer onto her equivalent of an NPR program there), and an Indian conservationist (who wrote us that "high-level government bureaucrats" in India were holding up a printout of Mark Dowie's Guernica essay, "Eviction Slip," trying to leverage their opposition with it). Guernica features were featured on AL Daily, and Akshay Ahuja's "Death Metal and Indian Identity" started a dialog about culture and the Indian diaspora, and was lauded on Salon.com.
May promises more great features, interviews, art, poetry and fiction. More on that shortly. Meanwhile, thanks for coming to our PEN events. Below is the text of the Farrow-Levy joint demand (write to this address to sign) followed by a few pictures.
- "Given the paralysis of the international community in the face of mass atrocities ongoing in the Darfur region of Sudan for more than five years…
"Given the egregious impunity of the Khartoum regime and its allies on the Security Council—which have rendered toothless all resolutions to protect the people of Darfur and end the killing,
"Given the most recent ploy of Khartoum to place every possible obstacle in the path of an effective deployment of peacekeepers, including the perverse twisting of the words and intentions of last July's UN resolution, which stated that the UN protection force should be "predominantly" of African origin, not "exclusively," as Khartoum would have it,
"Finally, given the fact that the African countries providing the protection battalions lack, by their own admission, the technical and logistical capacity to ensure the success of their mission to protect the defenseless civilians of Darfur,
"In the face of all these, we implore our governments – that is, the current French and American administrations – to act without delay and to partner with those African battalions needing assistance and to provide them with the essential training, the logistical support, the trucks, helicopters, weapons, etc., without which their mission will only be a terrible farce.
"We call on respective governments to hear this appeal and take responsibility without, once again, hiding behind the mysteries and bureaucratic inertia of the UN.
"This is undoubtedly the last chance to put an end to the bloodshed in Darfur."


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Ring in 2012 with a British Invasion by the EC Twins at SET Miami Beach for a night of sexy house, high fashion, and glamour galore. The iconic duo responsible for bringing their energetic brand of electronic dance music to the US via Los Angeles will take over SET's turntables as jetsetters and VIPs alike ring in 2012. Join the EC Twins at SET on Thursday, December 31st for its most decadent night yet complete with limited VIP table seating's, whisky-a-go-go dancers, open bar til midnight, a champagne toast and house music all night long.
New Year's Eve 2012 | EC Twins at SET Nightclub from The Opium Group on Vimeo.


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"The Classic Hero of Imagination"
Everyone knows who Superman is. they make movies and cartoons to go with his comics. the best part of this is your imagination is at work. each person individually sees what they want to see as the cast of this great show only gives you basic ideas for what he is doing. we see the speed he can fly. we imagine how superman sees in the dark (me i personally envision night vision goggle mode) and we sore around the world beside our childhood hero
The only down side is right now there is only four volumes, four adventures of the superman story. the show ran almost every day for 11 years, if Audible can get more of this classic show i would love to buy more.
"Another finish"
Rick Riordan is finishing another great series with our Greek hero and his friends.
we know someone is going to die, do you know who? No one can die, Everyone is important, Yet someone will. but there is hope. can they get what they need before its to late? Also Nico has his own mission now with helping return the Statue of Athena. Will everyone succeed or will they all fail? (lets be honest what book does the hero's fail)
Also there is a mysterious hint to another book he is writing, I had to have my sister clarify it but there is another set of hero's with God powers that will be in this world. I wonder what Riordan is working towards with all these different godlings (demi god, magicians channeling the gods, godly decendants) running around who will they fight?
This book I listened to in only a few short days and it was worth it.
"Sequel curses"
This follow up to me failed to live up to my expectations. Adam Mansbach wrote a beautiful story with Go The F*ck to sleep that shows the parents struggle with putting children to sleep. This novel is about feeding kids and I feel like he had to much pressure put on his shoulders to write a sequel.
Bryan Cranston did a fantastic job reading this novel and it was very entertaining. I much prefer Samuel L Jackson to have done this again but we cant always win.
"War, now politics"
The King is sick, the Last Duke is about to make his move. But the Princess has a trick up her sleeve too. she was used as a pawn by the Last Duke but pawns can fight back too. Winter, Marcus and Janus come back in time to help but they don't know what the princess is doing.
Marcus is in charge of a group of men that have a spy inside it. Winter is on a special mission where she must give up her disguise and be a girl.
As I continue to read this I cant help but get a feeling that there is a something hidden in the story. What is happening with the Thousand Names what is Janus doing? So much mystery to find out.
"Thousand words"
This is a interesting book. Django Wexler has merged the world of magic with the weaponry of colonial age of the Americas. And though there is magic in this novel, not everyone can use it, and everyone that has magic is different.
The clashes are well described in detail but not to much. Musket wars are a tough battle to describe and he has done his research to make sure that they are as realistic sounding as possible.
The story has two points of view Winter and Marcus they are amazing. There is not only the Redeemer army to worry about but also people in their own army as well. new recruits with no training, and old recruits who just ran away must work together to get better.
I have a tell me to get these book saying I would love them. I bought them a while back but always had a book I wanted to listen to first. Finally I got to this book and started it on Tuesday. Saturday I finished it as soon as I finished doing my home work. Every free minute I had I was listening to this book.
Most books I have read Necromancy is a evil magic, raising the dead and controlling them and making them follow your will. Here Sabriel is trained in the art of Necromancy to put the dead to rest. A interesting twist with the fight to stop the dead.
Tim Curry is the narrator here and he happens to be one of my favorite actors. From Home Alone 2 to Annie. He makes it so this story comes to life. adding to the magic of the world.
I love and recommend this book to anyone who loves fantasy.
"The Roman Camp"
Jason now knows where Percy must be. We join Percy in making his way down to the Roman camp. ITS HUGE full of families and they still dress roman. The Romans have traditions and though most are similar they are very different. Percy makes new friends and there is a face he knows but he is not sure how. its driving him nuts.
"The Next Great Prophecy"
Amnesia, the son of Jupiter no wait Zeus. Wait this is very confusing and where is Percy. To many questions to few answers. whats with the gold coin/magic sword spear thing.
The earth is waking, giants are coming back, and so are the dead. Heroes had it hard before. well that was easy compared to now good thing they had a warm up game and new demigods to help.
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Days left till the final battle. Demigods prepare to fight the impossible war that is coming and the Gods are busy fighting another threat. How do you win a war with the Titans when the Gods are not there.
a exciting end to the series. with twists no one would expect. Just a few more hours till you get to the end make sure you have time to listen to this because its going to be painful if you have to stop lots while you listen.
One more challenge. Why cant summer camp just be normal. Oh yeah Percy Jackson is a demigod one of the few at camp half blood. and when the evil Titan king is raising and he hates you and your camp. well you got to fight for survival. Defenses are up but there is one disadvantage. A secret door into the camp will let monsters in past the tree.
In this book Jesse Bernstein makes a change up. He goes from pronouncing Hera the American way to pronouncing it the Greek way. this is a big confusing moment to listeners but after a while you get use to it
What happens when a recruitment mission goes bad, and that your best human friend gets kidnapped. Percy would chase after her and try to get her free. when everyone else goes on the quest Percy has to stay. and when he tries to run way Mr. D catches him. what will Percy do?
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If I had a nickel for every time a client said "I don't understand why people can't just…" I would be rich.
Last week a coaching client related her struggles with her co-workers. She manages projects and has higher standards than almost anyone else in the firm.
When others manage projects, the work gets done late and sloppy. There's a terrible last-minute rush to finish it before the deadline, and there are inevitably change orders — to fix the sloppy errors created during the rush — that destroy the profitability of the project.
When my client manages a project, there are lots of early deadlines, work gets done on time, and she demands high quality at every step. Those projects finish easily, on time, with great results — and they make the firm money.
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The problem is, every time my client manages a project, her co-workers push back against all her good practices. They dislike the early deadlines. They resent the demand for quality. They are "too busy" with the other, behind-schedule projects to work on his project in a timely way.
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As my client put it, "I don't understand why people can't just see how they are creating bad outcomes with their bad habits. And it makes no sense for them to resist my practices when they are obviously going to result in a happier outcome."
Folks, any time you start a sentence with "I don't understand," you're confessing your own ignorance, and your focus needs to come OFF the other people and ONTO your understanding.
Your co-workers are not starting this journey at the destination. They are starting at some other point. Your role may be to guide them to the destination. Standing around expressing your bafflement that they aren't already there, is a waste of your time, and it's a distraction for you.
Of course they aren't already doing it the new way. That's what makes the new way "new" — we aren't doing it yet.
Reverse your thinking and start with the facts — your co-workers have crummy project habits. That's because that's all they really know how to do. If they found it easy to do it your way, they would. If they saw the "obvious" connection between better habits and better outcomes, they wouldn't resist you.
The key facts are:
1. They are not yet doing the new behaviors
From these facts we can infer that the new behaviors are somewhat difficult and scary for them.
And in fact you are being arrogant — because these behaviors are easy for you, because the connection from good behaviors to good outcomes is obvious to you, you somehow expect everybody else to know what you know and be good at what you're good at.
You're expecting them to start at the destination. It's absurd.
Here's a better way.
First, acknowledge that both they and you don't know certain things. They don't know good practices, and you don't know why. Or they find good practices hard, and you find understanding them hard.
Next, remember that everybody (who isn't a sociopath) is doing their best. They are. You are.
Now, acknowledge that they are doing their best, and that if they aren't behaving in an effective way, it's going to be because of one (or more) of three reasons:
They don't know what to do (exactly)
When they push back, it's often because of discomfort at one of these three points. And you've done it too — you've balked at doing things where the expectations on you were unclear (organized your office yet?), or where the behavior was difficult (how's that diet coming?), or where it seemed unimportant (just floss the teeth you want to keep).
Once you let go of your own sense of superiority — your arrogance — and return to the level of being human, you become more effective. Once you let them out of jail — when you see them as good people doing their best — and return them to the level of being human, you can better connect with them.
All that's left is to determine which thing is stopping them, and coach them through it.
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Today (1 November), BT announced that it had added 21,000 customers in its second quarter of 2012, which ended 30 September, meaning BT Vision now has more than 750,00 customers.
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Nitin is a an electrical engineer with high-speed board design experience at Hewlett Packard and Cisco since 2000. He has an undergrad from Bangalore University, a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and also an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management at Bangalore. He has been with Mentor Graphics for a year and supports the DDR Wizard in HyperLynx.
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Getaway Guide: Weekend Trip to Pawley's Island
When people in the Carolinas think about going to the beach, they usually think about Wilmington, Myrtle Beach or Charleston. South of Myrte Beach and north of Charleston, sits a little place perfect for a great weekend getaway, however. Pawley's Island is one of the oldest summer resorts on the Atlantic Coast. When rice farmers first settled on nearby rivers and built plantations, they realized it was unhealthy to live there in the summer months: Malaria posed a huge threat. They knew it was healthier at the seashore, so they moved everything to Pawley's Island in May and stayed there until the first frost in November. The laid-back attitude survives to today (along with 12 residences in the historic district dating to the 1700s and 1800s), making it the perfect spot to get away from it all and just relax.
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Downtown Old Town
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Mixed Green Salad
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Steak & Potato Mash
Grilled to order, topped with a Barolo sauce and served with mashed potatoes, and grilled zucchini
Chicken & Onions Tagine
Baked and served over saffron basmati rice
Stuffed Pepper
Stuffed bell pepper seasoned with lemon-thyme and Italian parsley, served with a chickpea ragout and pesto puree
Pan seared salmon, served on Moroccan melted tomatoes with couscous
Almond Briouats
Baked Apple Cake
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