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Can't wait to read Josh Green's article on the Bush polling operation? Your wait is over! Here it is.
Can't wait to read Josh Green's article on the Bush polling operation? Your wait is over! Here it is.
As I once noted in the context of the bogus White House vandalism story, the stories that really get traction aren't so much the ones that are true as they are the ones that resonate with journalists' preexisting prejudices and assumptions.
Case in point: Bush and polling.
The reigning assumption in DC is that Bush makes little use of pollsters or doesn't pay much attention to them if he does. Even many reporters think the president's pollster is Matthew Dowd. None of these points turns out to be true. But until now no one took the time to ask the obvious question: who's the president's pollster?
No one, that is, until Josh Green -- esteemed TPM associate -- decided to take up the challenge. As Josh discovered, Bush's pollster is a guy named Jan van Lohuizen. Bush and Rove hooked up with him back in 1991 when Rove hired him to work on a campaign to raise the local sales tax in Arlington, Texas, to help pay for a new baseball stadium for Bush's team, the Texas Rangers.
Here's one fun snippet from his soon-to-be-published article in the Washington Monthly ...
Like previous presidential pollsters, van Lohuizen also serves corporate clients, including Wal-Mart, Qwest, Anheuser-Busch, and Microsoft. And like his predecessors, this presents potential conflicts of interest. For example, van Lohuizen polls for Americans for Technology Leadership, a Microsoft-backed advocacy group that commissioned a van Lohuizen poll last July purporting to show strong public support for ending the government's suit against the company. At the time, Bush's Justice Department was deciding to do just that. Clinton pollster Mark Penn also did work for Microsoft and Clinton took heat for it. Bush has avoided criticism because few people realize he even has a pollster.
The White House has gone to great lengths to keep its polling operation and its pollster under wraps. And pretty much everybody in the DC press corps decided this was cool by them.
Of course, the fact that Bill Clinton's pollsters got so much more attention might have something to do with the fact that his post-1994 pollsters (Greenberg's cool by me) were both fabulously cartoonish blowhards. But let's not make this post more complicated than it needs to be.
I'll be linking to the story tomorrow.
Ralph Nader has a new book out on his 2000 presidential bid, Crashing the Party. Here's my review of it in the new issue of the Washington Monthly.
Here's a snippet from the review:
The mood of the book is unmistakably "onward and upward with activism." And, for those inclined to be thus inspired, that mood will likely prove inspiring. For others not under the spell, however, the mix of cliché, nostalgia, and reunion will likely have a quite different effect. For them, much of the book, particularly the first half, will have the feel and cadence of one of those early '80s TV movies where the cast of some '60s-era sitcom reassembles for one last adventure. Picture a graying Gilligan flying from city to city pitching the professor, Mary Ann, and other worthies on some quixotic quest to save the Island.
More on going-ons in Taiwan, Hong Kong and other places. As we reported last night, there is a major scandal brewing in Taiwan, which will almost certainly lead to at least some embarrassment for various political officials in the United States. But there's also more here than meets the eye. Is some of this being ginned up by pro-Beijing forces in Hong Kong in order to embarrass the Bush administration for its extremely supportive stance toward Taiwan? More on that later.
So back to the burgeoning scandal in Taiwan and how it might make it to Washington, DC. At this point the details remain murky. But here's some of what's been reported.
According to reports in Hong Kong's Sing Tao Daily and the South China Morning Post, three years ago James Kelly -- now Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific -- helped high-ranking members of the Taiwanese government use secret slush fund money to take care of a friendly Japanese politician, Masahiro Akiyama, after he had been forced to resign from the government. Akiyama had helped Taiwan leverage its way into a proposed US Theater Missile Defense.
(This article in Singapore's Straits Times says the Taiwanese also paid off Masahiro and then-Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto for their assistance helping Taiwan on Missile Defense.)
What's being alleged about Kelly is very specific. So I'm just going to quote at length from the relevant passage in the article in today's South China Morning Post:
The documents said Mr Lee [former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui] in February 1999 authorised the NSB [the National Security Bureau] to pay US$100,000 (HK$780,000) to the Pacific Forum at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington think-tank with close ties to the US military establishment, to support former Japanese vice-minister for defence Masahiro Akiyama's two-year study at Harvard University after his forced resignation in October 1998 in a defence contracting scandal. Mr Kelly was then Pacific Forum president.More to come...
The report alleges the funds served as a payback for Mr Akiyama's work with Taiwan and US military officials in pushing for Taiwan's possible inclusion in the Theatre Missile Defence System provision in the Japan-US Joint Declaration on Security treaty of 1998.
In the secret document dated December 15, 1999, then NSB director Ting Yu-chou authorised the NSB to give US$100,000 to Peng Run-tzu, president of the Taiwan Transport Machinery Corporation and a close personal confident of Mr Lee, to transfer to CSIS. Mr Peng allegedly deposited the US$100,000 into a CSIS account on December 20.
In another document dated February 2, 2000, Mr Ting confirmed the transfer occurred after Mr Kelly met Mr Peng in January 15, 2000, in a Los Angeles restaurant to confirm the deposit.
Taiwan is being rocked by a big-time slush fund scandal. Is the scandal about to hit the Bush administration too?
For the last week or more, Taiwan has been in the throes of the early stages of a major, perhaps a watershed, political scandal.
Here's the essence of it: the Taiwanese government had a slush fund -- operated through part of the state security apparatus -- which the Taiwanese leadership used to pay off, support, and assist friends and allies in other countries who were friendly to Taiwan. Oh, and also for overseas lobbying and espionage.
The existence of these funds is hardly a surprise to those familiar with Taiwanese politics. But last week a collection of documents relating to the slush fund were leaked to the Taiwan press. And that's when, well ... that's when the you-know-what hit the fan.
The government of President Chen Shui-bian reacted by seizing copies of one magazine which was publishing the documents and banning the publication of a newspaper which reported the story. Protecting national security has been the justification for these actions. And charges of treason are even a possibility.
All of this may be only a matter of passing concern unless you're a devotee of Taiwanese politics. But the scandal is now spilling over onto several senior political appointees in the Bush administration. And, truth be told, it could reach quite a bit further into the American political system.
The Bush administration connection coming later tonight ...
There's a serious political scandal brewing in Taiwan centering on illegal slush funds used to lobby and patronize political figures in and outside of Taiwan. And the South China Morning Post (the major English language daily in Hong Kong) is apparently set to publish an article (likely tomorrow, which means later today in North America) tying a senior political appointee at the US State Department to the scandal.
We've been sitting for a couple weeks on our latest addition to the TPM Document Collection. So let me just introduce it now, though only with a minimal introduction. The new dossier is our first installment of the foreign agent's registration for Richard Schechter and Wyatt Stewart on behalf of Bogoljub Karic and the Karic companies.
Karic was a big-time crony of Slobodan Milosevic who made billions of dollars in the uneven, jagged privatization of the Yugoslav economy.
This filing illustrates an extremely common practice in the foreign agency game: foreign leaders who don't want to hire DC representation themselves will often get a businessman crony to do it for them. In this case what Karic et al. wanted was very clear: they were trying to get sanctions lifted.
Schechter is a lawyer and apparently something of a real estate developer. Stewart, meanwhile was pretty clearly brought on board because of the juice he had with Republican heavies in Washington, DC. Stewart is a storied DC Republican political operative who was with the National Republican Congressional Committee back into the mid-1970s. Here's Republican uber-insider Rich Galen calling Stewart the man "whom Washington insiders know as the man who, for all intents and purposes, invented the use of direct mail in politics."
I'm still working over these documents to get a handle on precisely what was going on. But the basic outline is pretty clear. Schechter and Stewart were trying to work the Contract-With-America-era Republican power structure to make the Yugoslav sanctions into a partisan issue and hopefully get them lifted.
Here you can see how one part of the deal was that Schechter was supposed to set up a front group called the "International Committee for Peace in the Balkans" in Washington, DC.
Here you can see how he's supposed to hook Karic up with Ted Turner and Larry King.
Here you can see how Schechter was trying to pitch Karic on some hot real estate properties in Texas.
And, finally, here you can see how Schechter and Stewart were trying to convince Karic that their "very substantial relationships with the large fruit companies active in South America" could help him set up some other lucrative venture. (Sort of sounds like a set-piece for a lefty college course on Latin America, doesn't it?)
We've talked a lot about Tom White in recent weeks. White, of course, is the former career army officer and former Enron Energy Services vice chairman who now serves as Secretary of the Army. What I didn't know, though, is that White is also the "interim executive agent for homeland security." In other words, he's the guy at the Pentagon in charge of protecting the mainland until they devise a new appointive position and/or military command to oversee the task.
Also on the Tom White front, you'll remember that a couple weeks ago we reported that Public Citizen was preparing to unleash a report on White's service at Enron Energy Services. They were telling folks that the report would cost White his job. "A bombshell" was how one person familiar with the report described it to me.
A week later we reported that the Public Citizen report was focused on the company's role in fomenting or exacerbating last year's California energy crisis.
So where's the report? Good question!
I've been keeping tabs on this and the word has been that they're taking their time letting the lawyers go over the report with a fine-tooth comb to make sure that everything is kosher. But it's been a while now and you start to wonder.
Maybe White dodges this bullet? Is there some problem with the report? What's the hold up exactly?
I've gotten an amazing amount of feedback about my series of posts on dual-citizenship.
I'll try to address the various points in a series of posts.
The first question to tackle is whether what we're talking about is principally an issue of 'loyalty.' I don't think it is. Unlike many conservatives I'm not worried that today's immigrants are essentially different from those of 25, 50, or 100 years ago in their basic desire to become Americans and assimilate. We could dredge up the silly and well-worn question of whether Mexican-Americans would choose Mexico or America if the two countries went to war, or whether American Jews would fight for Israel or America, or Irish-Americans for Ireland or America.
But I find these scenarios as irrelevant as they are improbable. (I'm not saying it's never an issue, just not the most important one.) We've had a long national debate over whether it's a good thing that "ethnic" Americans (if we can use that deeply problematic phrase) maintain deep social and cultural attachments to their native countries. I think it's just fine. In fact, I think it's a very good thing, a very American thing.
But it's a different issue than the question of citizenship.
Many of the responses I've gotten have raised very good points. But what strikes me about most of the ones that disagree with me is that their authors have a quite thin and what seems to me impoverished idea of citizenship.
I've received a number of emails from dual citizens who have the status because of a foreign-born parent or spouse or some similar reason. And from many of these folks the response is something like this: 'I'm an American citizen but I've also got this French or German or Sudanese citizenship sort of in my back pocket, as it were. Why is it such a big deal?'
In a sense I suppose it's not a very big deal. But doesn't this trivialize what it should mean to be a citizen of one of those countries? It's sounds less like a civic, national identity than a sort of heritage knickknack or heirloom. Citizenship isn't just about having a standing right of residency or something you have because you have some attachment or family connection to a particular country. I think it's something more than that -- particularly in the context of American citizenship.
Let me try to sketch out my idea of citizenship. I see the American national community as a sort of club. A very large one, yes. A very diverse one. And one in which we'll only ever meet a very small fraction of the members. But a club nonetheless. It trivializes what this means to reduce it to questions of which side would you fight on if the two countries went to war. Or sneering questions about loyalty and disloyalty.
The basis of the club and our membership in it is our fundamental equality. And the essence of that equality, as I see it, is that we've all thrown in our lots together. Some of us who were born here do it implicitly others who are newcomers did explicitly. But we've all committed ourselves to this group, this enterprise, this club, this nation. If some of us are American citizens and others of us are citizens of this and another country then we're not quite equal anymore. The basis of our equality and citizenship is challenged.
More on the dual citizenship question in a bit, and also dual-citizenship in the context of 9/11 and globalization.


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Yemen PM congratulates Turkey's Erdogan on election win
By Maarib al-Ward, Tuesday, April 01, 2014
SANAA – Yemeni Prime Minister Mohamed Salim Basindawa on Tuesday congratulated Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan for recent gains by the latter's Justice and Development (AK) Party in Turkey's local elections.
In a cable of congratulations, Basindawa wished Erdogan's AK Party further electoral successes, according to Yemen's official news agency.
The Yemeni premier also reiterated his keenness to bolster his country's relations with Turkey in all fields.
According to preliminary vote results, Erdogan's AK Party garnered 45 percent of the vote, putting it well ahead of the main opposition Republican People's Party, which secured around 28 percent.
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Graham on UA's Carey: 'He is pretty special'
In his past two games, Arizona Wildcats running back Ka'Deem Carey's 570 yards on the ground is more than two FBS teams (Washington State and Tulane) have on the entire season.
The Canyon del Oro High School alum has gotten hot just in time for the team's annual battle with Arizona State for the Territorial Cup.
Sun Devil head coach Todd Graham joined Arizona Sports 620's Burns and Gambo and talked about why he considers Carey to be the best back in the Pac-12,maybe the nation.
"Probably down for down, not faster than the guys at Oregon, but you can't say there is anybody else in this country or this league that is a better running back than him," Graham said. "I think he is right up there."
Carey leads the nation in rushing with 1,585 yards and is fourth in touchdowns with 19.
Graham feels that Carey is more than just a talented runner. He also described the sophomore running back as a "tremendous blocker" and a "great receiver out of the backfield."
"I'm not sure that he is not the best back if you just look at the all-around, how he dominates the teams that he plays," Graham said. He is the leading rusher in the nation, so obviously he is pretty special."
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Hospitality takes a hit
Hotel projects in the GCC are being cancelled or put on hold; only 39 percent of the total will be built on time.
March 25, 2009 3:14 by Dana El Baltaji
A staggering 33 percent of hotel projects planned in the GCC are on hold for longer than six months, and only 39 percent will meet their completion dates, TRI Hospitality Consulting revealed on Wednesday in a report.
The consulting firm also claimed that 13 percent of projects are on hold and 15 percent have been cancelled, reports Arabian Business.
The cancellations and construction delays showcase the effects of the financial crisis on the region's once booming hospitality sector.
"It is expected that several projects, particularly those not yet under construction, and due to open from 2011 will be subject to further delays or be cancelled," Emma Davey, associate director of TRI Hospitality Consulting said. "The main pressure on new developments is availability of project financing."
"The future hotel supply situation will continue to change as developers watch the performance of local and global economies," she added.
In early March, Maggie Moore, Director of The Hotel Show in Dubai, announced that a total of 61 hotel developments worth $8.8 billion (AED32.3 billion) are due for completion before the end of 2010; 35 hotels will be built in the UAE.
"These are challenging times for everyone but these latest figures show that hotel suppliers continue to have an expanding market in the Middle East," Moore said at the time.
It is unclear, however, whether the 61 hotels are part of the 39 percent the TRI Hospitality Consulting claims will be built on time, or if that number has now dwindled.
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United States Patent [191 Watkins [4 1 Sept. 9, 1975 AIR-FUEL SPRAY NOZZLE [75] Inventor: Sidney C. Watkins, Bridgeport,
[73] Assignec: Avco Corporation, Stratford, Conn.
[22] Filed? Dec. 5, 1973 [21] App]. No.: 422,094
[52] US. Cl 239/405; 60/39.74 R; 239/431 [51] Int. Cl. B0513 7/10; B05B 7/06 [58] Field of Search 239/399, 403, 405, 406,
[56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 7/1924 Wright 239/430 X 7/1936 Tracy 239/405 X 2,682,302 6/1954 Cote 60/3974 R 2,855,033 10/1958 Furczyk.. 239/406 2,878,065 3/1959 Watkins 239/405 X 3,608,831 9/1971 Accrington 239/406 3,713,588 1/1973 Sharpe 239/406 X 3,735,778 5/1973 Garnier 239/425 X 3,790,086 2/1974 Masai 239/406 Primary ExaminerM. Henson Wood, Jr.
Assistant Examiner-Andres Kashnikow Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Charles M. Hogan; lrwin P. Garfinkle; Eugene C. Goodale 57 ABSTRACT A spray nozzle is disclosed for obtaining an air-fuel mixture within the confines of the nozzle. Fuel is directed radially outwardly from a central housing into a helical passage about the central housing. Air passing in the helical passage between the central housing and outer wall mixes with the fuel so that a uniform mixture of fuel and air exits from the nozzle into the surrounding area.
2 Claims, 4 Drawing Figures PATENTED SEP 91975 FIG.4
AIR-FUEL SPRAY NOZZLE BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates generally to fuel atomizing nozzles, but more particularly to air-fuel spray nozzles to provide a uniformly atomized air-fuel mixture.
The use of air-spray fuel injection systems is widely known particularly in the internal combustion engine field, where it is important to insure that finely atomized fuel, at the correct air-fuel ratio, is supplied to the engine for ignition. Gas turbine engines, however, have similar requirements for ignition, but somewhat less stringent requirements after ignition is achieved. In one particular type of combustor it is necessary to supply a fuel-air mixture of substantially constant richness ratio having a uniform droplet size into the primary zone through an annular duct. The means of fuel atomization must not allow any of the fuel droplets produced to wet the walls of the duct, since wet walls provide big drops that will sooner or later enter the combustor and pass through it, largely unburnt. All prior type pressure atomizing nozzles can achieve the level of atomization required, but some fuel droplets will possess sufficient momentum to pass through the airstream, and impinge on the duct walls. Streaky sprays, normally acceptable, contain large drops which cannot follow the airstream, and either impinge on the duct walls or enter the primary zone and burn poorly, or not at all.
Accordingly, it is the object of this invention to provide an air-fuel spray nozzle which permits the air and fuel to be mixed within the space of the nozzle.
A further object of this invention is to provide an airfuel spray nozzle which will atomize the fuel for mixture with the air.
A still further object of this invention is to provide an air-fuel spray nozzle which provides a uniformly distributed air-fuel mixture exiting from the nozzle.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION This invention provides an improved air-fuel spray nozzle having particular utility in gas turbine engines. The nozzle directs fuel radially outwardly from a central housing into helical passages formed between the central housing and outer wall. Air passing through the helical passages mixes with the fuel therein such that a uniformly distributed air-fuel mixture exits from the nozzle into the surrounding area. Means are provided to equalize and insure that an equal mixture occurs.
Other objects, details, uses and advantages of this invention will become apparent as the following description of one exemplary embodiment thereof presented in the accompanying drawings proceeds.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The accompanying drawings show a present exemplary embodiment of this invention in which:
FIG. 1 is a partial cross-sectional view of a gas turbine combustor incorporating the nozzle of this invention;
FIG. 2 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the spray nozzle of this invention;
FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken along line 33 of DESCRIPTION OF ILLUSTRATED EMBODIMENT Reference is now made to FIG. 1 of the drawings which illustrates one exemplary embodiment of the improved air-fuel spray nozzle of this invention, which is designated generally by the reference numeral 10. The nozzle 10 is mounted within an air passage 11 of a typical combustor generally designated as 13, the combustor 13 being mounted within the primary air flow path 15 of a gas turbine engine upstream of the compressor turbine stage.
As particularly seen in FIGS. 2-4, the nozzle 10 comprises a central portion or housing 12. An outer wall or cap 14 is secured coaxially with the central housing 12 and is supported thereabout by a plurality of helically extending vanes 16. The passageways defined by the respective vanes 16 and outer wall 14 are open at each end thereby providing an air passageway therethrough.
Fuel is supplied to the nozzle 10 through a suitable line 18 which is secured by suitable means such as brazing or the like, to the central housing 12. The housing 12 includes a restrictor 20 between the fuel line 18 and an open fuel chamber 22. A cap or plug 24 seals the one end of the chamber 22. Extending radially outwardly from the fuel chamber 22 and extending through the housing 12 is a plurality of apertures or bores 26. The bores 26 provide communication between the fuel chamber 22 and the helical air passageways. As particularly seen in FIG. 3, a bore 26 is in communication with each of the respectively helical air passageways.
When fuel is delivered to the nozzle 10, the restrictor 20 equalizes such fuel supplied and meters the amount of fuel to the fuel chamber 22. Fuel is transmitted radially outwardly through the respective bores 26 into each passageway defined by the respective vanes 16. The vanes form a helical passageway through the nozzle 10 such that air passing therethrough is caused to move in a rotary or screw fashion. The fuel exiting from the bores 26 is atomized and mixed with the air moving through the respectively helical passageways thereby forming a swirling ring of air-fuel mixture in the space defined by the end of the housing 12 and the inwardly projecting lip 28 of the wall 14. Thus, an air-fuel mixture is discharged from the orifice formed by the lip 28 into the turbulent air in the passage 11 (FIG. 1) downstream of the nozzle where further fuel break up and mixing occur.
It is thus seen that the nozzle provides for an initial mixing of the air and fuel within the confines of the nozzle itself. The air-fuel mixture that is discharged from the nozzle is less likely to impinge on the walls of the combustor and is more easily mixed with the added air in the airstream.
Accordingly, it is seen that the objectives hereinbefore set forth have been accomplished.
While a present exemplary embodiment of this invention has been illustrated and described, it will be recognized that this invention may be otherwise variously embodied and practiced by those skilled in the art.
What is claimed is:
l. A spray nozzle for mixing fuel and air therein, said nozzle comprising:
a cylindrical housing having an inner chamber on the axis thereof, a plurality of circumferentially spaced helical vanes radially extending outwardly from said housing, said vanes extending over essentially the entire length of said housing, said chamber having a fuel inlet and a plurality of fuel outlets, each of said fuel outlets extending radially through said whereby all of said fuel flows radially into said helihousing into the spaces between said vanes; l passages; d a cylindrical wall mounted coaxially with said cylinmeans f fl i i through i helical passages drical housing Said Wan being Spaced from said whereby all of said fuel supplied to said chamber is housing by said vanes, said vanes contacting said 5 housing throughout the entire length of said vanes to provide a plurality of helical passages, each of said fuel outlets communicating with a respective passage, said housing having an air inlet at one end and an outlet at the other end, the outlet end of 1 i i i l 1 being f d i a radially by said restrictor to insure uniform distribution of fuel inwardly projecting lip; to the chamber. means supplying fuel to said chamber under pressure,
mixed with air moving through said passages, and mixed fuel and air exits from said outlet.
2. The nozzle as set forth in claim 1 further comprising restrictor means in the inlet end of said central 0 housing wherein fuel passing therethrough is metered
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Democrat Rep. Wants to Amend Constitution to Deny Free Speech (Video)Submitted by emalvini on Fri, 11/30/2012 - 14:01
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Pretty sure he's talking about "free speech" as money
He just wants citizens united managed or overturned.. that's not quite as insidious as the title to this post led me to believe.
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One would hope they would be clever enough to go find out and get back to you - just like I had to do.
One would hope they would be clever enough to go find out and get back to you - just like I had to do.
So there are secret hidden commands within command reporter? I do hope they involve fixing dates, and time periods.
Losojos - ask your local support team to contact me directly and we will get it resolved quickly for you.
same applies - ask your local support team to contact me directly with the SIMS areas that you wish to read or write.
It documentated so a programmer would understand, the rest of us mere mortals have to ask for help.
EDIT: that's not to say that I'll understand it, but I'd at least like the chance! I'll be contacting my local support and asking them to contact @David_Grashoff for details soon
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I'm not saying you won't, I'm just saying it's not easy. It's not like most Capita stuff where they've got loads of documentation and great simple examples - it's not aimed at end-users it's aimed (C#) programmers, scripters (ie me) will need help and this isn't something you can post in the public domain - ie here. More then anything I'm saying good luck.
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I think you underestimate how many programmers we have here, it may be difficult, but we've got a pretty good little clique of scripters here who i'm sure could muddle through things. I would imagine, anything that we produce here that helps access to the software is a good thing overall. I do see howerver, it needs keeping in check, so we aren't running around writing tools to hack into the system, which is then picked up by a mortal and it corrupts their system.
I agree. Alot of people do repeat alot of work and we do need to get people grouped together and organised so we have a single "free" solution that uses the best method rather then having a lot of crooked methods. I don't think a public forum would be best place for this as you would be posting copyright material that isn't allowed in the public domain. If EduGeek\SupportNet had a private area so we could have a community effort, where people are vetted, I would be happy to help out and I'm sure a lot of others would. No one wants to work on a project that gets shutdown midway through because of copyright.
Ideally I would see it as a private forum which someone has to approve the user (so we know who they really are and they will actually help the community project), a private SVN\Git repository (and ideally a build server), a ticket system for logging bugs\problems and a public forum. And of course Edugeek to host the final install files I would hope Capita would commit some sort of resource towards this, such as a x no of dev hours beyond support and ideally a separate support contract - indepent of our individual schools\la - just so they could track how much resources we've used more than anything.
Ideally we want to move away from people using SQL scripts to pull data right out of the database and the first option should be, and always be, the report engine followed by the business objects. SIMS reports are easy, quick and safe to edit by all SIMS users and therefore business objects should be used as a last resort, not because you can.
Sorry if it sounds like I'm negative towards the idea, I'm really not, I'm really pro a community idea it's just I want to do it right and not a half heart attempt which only serves a few individual agendas.
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The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) [LinkedIn]
After having received many queries inviting my thoughts on the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) . . . (read more)
We are Alive!
I love Robin Williams! Not merely for what he did as an artist (actor, comedian, etc.), but for the quintessential truth he endlessly echoed in everything he did — We are Alive! He fully embraced the mystery called life through caring, being aware, expressing appreciation (for the bad, the good, the happy, the sad, etc.), being so intuitive and improvising in every situation, …, so free!
Reminded of David Foster Wallace…
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
And as Robin Williams struggled with his own daemons — as much as we each struggle with our own daemons — he and his whole life were cathartic to/for others…
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
(Robin Williams)
Thank You dear Soul for reminding us each of our own little "spark"!
What will your verse be?
Seize the day!
Real lose… love somethign more than you love yourself!
When did you know? … I don't regret…
His wife, Susan Schneider…
This morning, I lost my husband and my best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings. I am utterly heartbroken. On behalf of Robin's family, we are asking for privacy during our time of profound grief. As he is remembered, it is our hope the focus will not be on Robin's death, but on the countless moments of joy and laughter he gave to millions.
The White House…
Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind. He arrived in our lives as an alien – but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. He made us laugh. He made us cry. He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most – from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets. The Obama family offers our condolences to Robin's family, his friends, and everyone who found their voice and their verse thanks to Robin Williams.
The Ownership Pyramid
Throughout our individual journeys, we encounter many people whose contributions readily go unnoticed. I've had the privilege of working with Peter Simon whose Ownership Pyramid is definitely worth exploring. Herein are a few questions that Peter addressed…
What is the Ownership Pyramid?
The Ownership Pyramid is the result of an attempt to address a bigger socio-economic problem that has become apparent over the past 10 to 15 years. Whether it's big government or big business, the end result has always been a stripping of an individual's ability to own. As we enter a new age of politics and economics, the importance and understanding of ownership has been lost and needs to be restored. The Ownership Pyramid is a framework to guide people in understanding how to achieve and maintain ownership, without abusing its power.
What is the purpose of the Ownership Pyramid?
The Ownership Pyramid stemmed from my experiences in technology Project Management, where I experienced and was actually trained to collaborate with multiple application users and developers to gather requirements, but speak to each group separately, while trying to communicate a clear picture of what each group needed.
Looking back, project managers should have been called magicians, because after taking pieces of information from each group without anyone actually speaking directly to each other, it was expected that 6 months later, a product working to perfection was to magically appear. The only real magic performed was making project budgets disappear and changing project status colors from green to red. Presto! After pulling a rabbit out the hat during one too many stakeholder meetings, I felt it was time for a change in how the whole process works.
I wasn't aware of Agile development or Agility at the time, but when I was first introduced to the Agile values, principles, practices, and frameworks, I embraced them and never looked back. Agility involves many paradigm shifts from the traditional model, but the one that stood out for me was the concept of the Product Owner (in Scrum, or Customer in Extreme Programming).
As a Libertarian, it hit me hard, and I became somewhat obsessed with the concept of ownership in general. Over time and through personal experiences, I realized how little ownership actually exists in society. Did the level of ownership change over time? How can ownership be measured within a society?
These were difficult questions to answer, but I thought that a fundamental framework could be valuable to guide a person in understanding ownership, maintaining ownership, and assessing whether ownership has been achieved or even existed. And that's when the Ownership Pyramid concept was born. The Ownership Pyramid allows an individual to take steps to achieve greater ownership, assess their level of ownership, and practice actual ownership; with the widespread purpose of promoting and realizing humanities strengths through the process of achieving ownership.
What are the guiding organizing principles (how are the concepts organized)?
The Ownership Pyramid is structured to provide the steps for achieving ownership. Each building block of the pyramid is in an input/output relationship; meaning that the inputs in a particular level result in the outputs in the subsequent higher level. I tried to keep the structure as simple as possible, yet streamline it into a story with a continuous purpose and goal, the process doesn't end when you reach Self-Assessment, rather it is only beginning.
The base of the pyramid is crucial, I place great importance on Respect and Forgiveness. Without these inputs, the entire pyramid eventually collapses as ownership is lost. To begin, understanding of the human spirit, nature, and potential is critical in progressing towards achieving ownership. Next is setting a course and absorbing enough information to begin formulating processes to produce the desired output. Finally the resulting product is created and continuously perfected using self-assessment techniques. The Self-Assessment is the final and most important step; if one can be strong enough to assess themselves as a human being they are able to discern value from cost and lead in a direction that is best for them and others impacted by their process, product and actions.
The Ownership Pyramid can be thought of as a base process that can spawn processes within processes, all seeking the same resulting goal. For example, the pyramid can be used to solve a problem, then used to create the concept for a product, then be used to develop the product — all while fostering ownership.
There's an intersection point in the pyramid as well. Where the People come together, so do each of their pyramids. When each of the people effectively utilizes the pyramid, a masterful team emerges; at times we are fortunate enough to witness this achievement in sports, business, and relationships.
How do you use the Ownership Pyramid (in practice)?
The Ownership Pyramid can be used in a variety of industries. My expertise is in product delivery, specifically software applications. Because these types of delivery processes are highly dependent on the level of ownership within a team, I use the Ownership Pyramid as a means to assess the team's strengths and weaknesses, and each individual's sense of ownership relating to the overall goals of the team. For example, if the team members lack respect for each other, there are most certainly larger obstacles waiting around the corner.
Why "Ownership" not "Leadership" (especially when there is some much being talked about and done around leadership today)?
I'm really glad you asked this question. I personally believe that today's concept of leadership is a dangerous mindset to promote. The idea that there are born leaders has been repeated to us for so many years now, its almost embedded in our DNA that their are those among us that will lead and all others must follow. When people are expecting a leader to be named, it can lead to a lack of commitment from the "followers" and a sense of hopelessness in having control over one's destiny.
In too many circumstances, today's definition of Leadership negates the concept of ownership; you don't have to look far to see where ownerless leaders have taken over industries and governments. A leader lacking ownership can be identified when witnessing people using leadership as a control grab for their own benefit, at the expense of the group as a whole; when a corporate or government policy causes harm to the masses, and no one is held responsible.
Many of the today's concepts regarding leadership reside under the pyramid. A leader lacking ownership is an enforcer, the leader achieving ownership is a coach, a promoter, a mentor. I do believe we are all leaders in our own way, and the Ownership Pyramid thrives on this underlying concept. Some lead quietly, while others are able to reign in a crowd through public speaking. We all have our strengths and weaknesses, so its important as leaders to recognize that we are human, and because of that we all have human potential. I believe the characteristics of a leader will evolve from someone who dictates and enforces to someone who looks to help all people realize fulfillment and leadership through ownership.
This can be applied to a parent and child relationship, to a teacher and student relationship. Again, where the People intersect, if ownership has been achieved by all members of the team, then everyone on the team is a leader of their respective role and responsibility. And they in turn can coach others in their respective fields to understand and practice the steps to attain ownership.
Another way to conceptualize the ownership-leadership relationship, is by perceiving the pyramid as an engine, with one of the many outputs being Leadership; unfortunately today, the engine behind leadership is missing in today's leadership concept.
An important tangent to leadership is Identity. Identity, like leadership, is also an output of the pyramid, and in many instances is missing from today's leader. Foundational steps (respect and forgiveness) lead to direction, focus, effort, knowledge which involve responsibilities being combined among People and their roles; culminating to reach Identity. Each step in the pyramid, along with iterations through the pyramid, ultimately leads one closer to understanding their Identity; and at the intersection among People, one's identity becomes clearly visible. Combining a sense of Identity with Leadership ultimately results in a true understanding of Ownership, and that will allow for Self-Assessment to be incorporated into one's daily process, enabling that person to maximize their agility and human potential. Committing to practicing the principles of the Ownership Pyramid is the beginning of a journey, a journey worth taking.
Agility Schmagility & Agile Schmagile
Reminded of Piet Hein's The Road to Wisdom?
The road to wisdom? — Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.
In 2009, we encountered "Agility Schmagility," (Julian Keith Loren @jkloren) which inspired clarifying our approach to agility (Agility Distilled). Now, in 2014, we again encounter "Agile Schmagile," (Tweet this!) (Nassim N. Taleb @nntaleb per Elinor Slomba @artsint via a tweet) which likewise inspires clarifying our approach to agility and even more-so antifragility (Conscious Agility with @brad_barton and @mark4ro — and Anti-fragility Distilled coming soon!) — Antifragile / Antifragility is a post-agile / post-agility concpet. The road goes on and we may contribute . . . http://twitter.com/artsint/status/464010573584162817
As many organizations continue to confront the challenges of achieving greater agility (Agility Model and Manifesto for Agility) at scale in a VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) world (which arouses fear), various options have emerged (and are gaining recognition), including:
- Scott Ambler's Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)
- Craig Larman's and Bass Vodde's Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)
- Dean Leffingwell's Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) (SAFe 3.0)
- Ken Schwaber's Agility Path
- Jeff Sutherland's ScrumPLoP ("Scrum at Scale")
While each of these approaches advances a particular world view, they don't particularly provide a means for adopting, scaling, and sustaining agility.
Conscious Agility
Conscious Agility — which emerges from Conscious Capitalism, Business Agility, and Antifragility with experience fully rooted in decades of practice across many industry domains — is a design-thinking approach for business ecosystems that integrates awareness with intuition, orientation, and improvisation so that individuals and collectives may benefit from uncertainty, disorder, and the unknown.
Conscious Agility intentionally uses the concept of a fresh Canvas, a description of reality that reflects how stakeholder work together (are being and doing) within an ecosystem. Each Conscious Agility initiative begins with a fresh canvas which:
- First gains shape, perspective, and breadth (for example, as a sketch);
- Then contrast and depth (for example, shading the sketch); and
- Finally detail and focus (for example, texturing the shaded sketch).
And within a Conscious Agility initiative, the contents of these approaches (SAFe, DAD, LeSS, etc.) may be appropriately used to evolve the canvas.
See Conscious Agility: A Brief Introduction for more information.
Conscious Agility for . . .
Alternatively, Conscious Agility could be used more explicitly while focusing on one of these approaches (SAFe, DAD, LeSS, etc.) — Conscious Agility for SAFe (CA-SAFe) or Conscious Agility for DAD (CA-DAD) or Conscious Agility for Lethe approaches (SS (CA-LeSS) — while offering a proven options for adopting, scaling, and sustaining agility.
For example, SAFe clearly acknowledges that "SAFe does note implement itself and indeed makes no attempt to describe the significant organizational change management, cultural impacts, implementation strategies, and training and services provisioning that are typically required for successful implementation" but offers brief "recommendations for implementation," Conscious Agility or Conscious Agility for SAFe (CA-SAFe) would fill this void and guide an implementation team in exploring the various elements from the Team, Program, and Portfolio levels that might be implemented as well as consider the significant organizational change management, cultural impacts, implementation strategies, etc. required for successful implementation.
Keeping the "Human Element" Paramount
Additionally, not only does Conscious Agility offer a means for adopting, scaling, and sustaining agility, but it also offers the ability to
- Integrate aspects from any of the above approaches (among others) together
- Explicitly recognize and appreciate the nuances of the context in which adopting, scaling, and sustaining is to occur.
And Conscious Agility's uniqueness in being agnostic and embracing an all-inclusive viewpoint, integrating relevant perspectives yet keeping the "human element" paramount, makes it only that much more essential for successfully adopting, scaling, and sustaining agility.
We live in a VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) world where we are challenged to be thriving on chaos in an age of discontinuity — where the past is plagued with incoherence & inconsistency, the present is plagued with chaos & ambiguity, and the future is plagued with unpredictability & uncertainty!
The Agile Model (Nick Horney and Tom O'Shea), our notion of Agility (The Agility Model) (Si Alhir), and The Manifesto for Agility are well aligned.
The Agile Model
The Agile Model focuses on "five characteristics needed for organizations to be capable of anticipating and responding to changing demands and adapting to new requirements . . . in real time." That is, these critical capabilities across three enterprise domains (people, processes, and technology).
For the Agile Model, "pay attention to multiple dynamics" . . .
Anticipate Change: Interpret the potential impact of business turbulence and trends along with the implications to the enterprise. — Visioning, Sensing, and Monitoring
. . . "address issues" . . .
Generate Confidence: Create a culture of confidence and engagement with all stakeholders especially associates in effective and collaborative teams. — Connecting, Aligning, and Engaging
. . . "ensure there is a shared mindset . . . urgency for getting stuff done . . . positive accountability for doing so" . . .
Initiate Action: Provide the fuel and the systems to enable things to happen proactively and responsively, at all levels of the organization. — Bias for Action, Decision-Making capability, Collaborating
. . . "ensure openness" . . .
Liberate Thinking: Create the climate and conditions for fresh innovative solutions by empowering, encouraging, teaching and expecting others to be innovative. — Bias for Innovation, Focusing on Customers, and Idea Diversity
. . . "identify critical metrics for success . . . learn . . . to improve."
Evaluate Results: Maintaining a strong focus and feedback system to continuously learn and improve from actions and changing dynamics. — Creating Expectations, Real time Feedback, Fact Based Measures
The Agile Model is holistic: "A comprehensive approach, meaning each driver is a vital force only when combined with the others. Applying one or two drivers in the absence of the others is an incomplete solution and will not result in Agility."
The Agility Model
The Agility Model focuses on "Responsiveness and the ability to continuously Re-orient as we Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act. Agility is not merely about Speed . . . not merely about Reactiveness . . . is about Responsiveness!"
For the Agility Model, the essence of Agility is expressed using three aspects (as patterns).
The Results/Value-oriented pattern:
To maximize Value, foster Focus, leverage Feedback, and foster Balance. This must blend opportunity-seeking with stability-creating.
Focus on results, which can only be achieved by iterating and leveraging feedback within context such that people balance competing forces.
The Context-aware pattern:
To foster Focus, lead through collaboration (contribution and confirmation). This is opportunity-seeking.
Lead within context, which can only be achieved by collaborating with people such that they contribute to and confirm results; leadership is essential for focusing on results.
The People/Team-centric pattern:
To foster Balance, empower people. This is stability-creating.
Empower people who are able to achieve results within context; empowerment is essential for balancing competing forces.
These patterns are interdependent:
These patterns are interdependent. Without Leadership through Collaboration, we jeopardize Focus; without Empowerment, we jeopardize the ability to Balance; without Iterating, we jeopardize the degree of Feedback; and ultimately we jeopardize Value!
The Manifesto for Agility
The Manifesto for Agility emphasizes that "Agility is a value system (mindset) that emphasizes people, results, collaboration, and responsiveness."
The Agile Model, Agility Model, and Manifesto for Agility
The Agile Model and the Agility Model consider Agility or Responsiveness as emergent properties from the capabilities/drivers or aspects/patterns while the Manifesto for Agility identifies Responsiveness explicitly.
The Agile Model's People domain relates to the Agility Model's People pattern.
The Agile Model's Anticipate Change capability relates to the Agility Model's Context pattern. The Agility Model's concept of leadership is congruent with the Agile Model's concepts of potential impact, turbulence, trends, and implications.
The Agile Model's Generate Confidence, Initiate Action, and Liberate Thinking capabilities relate to the Agility Model's People pattern. The Agility Model's concepts of empowerment is congruent with the Agile Model's concepts of engagement, enablement, empowering, encouraging, and teaching.
The Agile Model's Evaluate Results capability relates to the Agility Model's Results patterns. The Agility Model's concepts of focus and feedback are congruent with the Agile Model's concepts of focus and feedback.
The Agile Model's Generate Confidence, Initiate Action, and Liberate Thinking capabilities relate to the Agility Model's patterns interdependence.
- That is, "leadership through collaboration" (The Agility Model, Context-Results pattern interdependence) is essential to "create a culture of confidence and engagement" (The Agile Model, Generate Confidence).
- That is, "empowerment . . . ability to balance" (The Agility Model, People-Results pattern interdependence) is essential to "create the climate and conditions for fresh innovative solutions" (The Agile Model, Liberate Thinking).
- That is, "iterating . . . feedback" (The Agility Model, Results pattern interdependence on iterating for feedback) is essential to "provide the fuel and the systems to enable things to happen" (The Agile Model, Initiate Acton).
Fundamentally, Agility is realized by
- anticipating change, generating confidence, initiating action, liberating thinking, and evaluating results; or by
- fostering focus by leading through collaboration in context, leveraging feedback by iterating on results, and fostering balance by empowering people.
Zappos and Holacracy: No Holy Grail and No Silver Bullet!
By Si Alhir (@SAlhir), Brad Barton (@Brad_Barton), and Mark Ferraro (@mark4ro)
Zappos has had an exciting history — inception in 1999, growth from 1999 to 2009, acquisition by Amazon.com in 2009, and continued success.
In 2010, Zappos' Tony Hseih's Delivering Happiness (and more) book shared Zappos' story and lessons learned from its journey so others could benefit from Zappos' experience (@TonyHsieh). In 2008, Zappos championed Tribal Leadership (2008) and fueled CultureSync's Tribal Leadership book and CultureSync's success (@CultureSync and @DaveLogan1). And now in 2014, Zappos is championing Holacracy and may ultimately fuel some "Holacracy book" and HolacracyOne's success (@HolacracyOne and @h1brian [Brian Robertson])!
While these techniques are valuable, there is no "holy grail" or "silver bullet" for success! As Tribal Leadership gained popularity, it often became the end versus a means to an end for far too many people! And now as Holacracy gains popularity, it may also often become the end versus a means to an end for far too many people! Additionally, as valuable as these techniques may be for Zappos, they may not necessarily be as valuable (in the same form) for other organizations!
Success and transforming to becoming more successful requires a journey of discovering what works best for an organization or enterprise, its various collective groups, and its individual people. Success and the transformative journey to become more successful cannot be reduced to a mere few bodies of knowledge or experience but may practically leverage the wisdom of many — for example, Judith E. Glaser (@CreatingWE) (WE-Centric Leadership and Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ)), Leandro Herrero (@LeandroEHerrero) (Viral Change), Peter Fuda (@PeterFuda) (Transformation and Leadership Framework/Model/Cycle), William Isaacs (Dialogue), Edgar Henry Schein (Humble Inquiry), David Rock (@davidrock101) (NeuroLeadership Institute), Barbara Trautlein (@btrautlein) (Change Intelligence (CQ)), Tim Kuppler (@TimKuppler) (Build the Culture Advantage), Carol Dweck (@mindsetworks and @Brainology) (Mindset), and many others (Human Leadership, Human Enterprise, etc.) — while embracing the imperative of being open versus closed in that journey of discovery around a community.
For example, CultureSync's "process" and Holacracy's "implementation" approaches are rooted in their perspectives and philosophies versus being open to discovering what may be best for their clients, etc.
To be clear, we are not against or for any perspective (Tribal Leadership and Holacracy (with roots in Sociocracy), etc.) but are for being agnostic and embracing an all-inclusive viewpoint, integrating relevant perspectives yet keeping the "human element" paramount (rooted in "human nature"), and embracing a journey (Conscious Agility (Conscious Capitalism + Business Agility = Antifragility) and A Brief Introduction) to discover what works for an organization or enterprise or community, its various collective groups, and its individual people — "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" (Aristotle) and "Life is a journey, not a destination" (Ralph Waldo Emerson)!


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Apartment on the River Vecht by Remy Meijers
By Magaly • Oct 7, 2013
Designed by Remy Meijers, this sophisticated apartment is located on the banks of the River Vecht, in the village of Loenen, the Netherlands.
The interior is simple and elegant, but with a few very interesting decorative accessories that serve to give the space a touch of character.
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It's been a long time since last talking about MythTV with the last major release occurring 18 months back, but the release candidate for the next version of MythTV has finally surfaced. The release candidate for MythTV 0.22 is available along with 0.22 RCs for MythPlugins and MythThemes. The major changes in MythTV 0.22 include the user-interface now using the the new MythUI library and the new features that it brings, MythTV being built upon Qt 4.4+, automatic scheduler prioritization, support for the Hauppauge HD-PVR, and
While there are just these five major features, MythTV 0.22 has over 5,000 commits since the 0.21 release that bring other improvements too like an improved channel scanner, updated FFmpeg libraries, DVD speed control, and various fixes.
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When I saw Joe Swanberg's Drinking Buddies at SXSW, I was in heaven. The all-improvised film about employees working at a small brewery was teriffic and I loved every second of it. You can read my review here
In his new film, Happy Christmas, Swanberg once again teams up with Kendrick and grabs one of the lead roles for himself. He even features his real-life son, Jude, who might just be the cutest baby ever. This is coming from a person who hates babies in movies.
The story starts when Jenny (Kendrick) moves in with her brother, Jeff (Swanberg), and sister-in-law, Kelly (Melanie Lynskey), after a breaking up with her boyfriend. Kelly's aimless and a big drinker, causing the families quiet life to quickly go to pot. Speaking of pot, Jenny starts to causally date Kelly's pot dealer/baby sitter (Mark Webber). The longer she stays and the more irresponsible she becomes, the more Kelly begins not to trust her, especially around the baby (who again, is the cutest kid EVER). Things start to change as Kelly and her friend, Carson (Lena Dunham), encourage her to start writing her long-gestating novel.
The film, like Drinking Buddies, all-improvised and ultra-realistic. It's like if a reality show were actually real and not staged, it would be like this. It's just immensely interesting to see how Swanberg can grab these performances. There are no actor-y moments here.
Unfortunately, the story is lacking. There's no real plot to move the story forward and at times it feels like it's treading water. As an audience member, I need something to hold on to. I need to feel like we're watching a story with a beginning, middle and end. Here, it feels like we only got to the end of Act 2.
Also, I didn't buy the relationship with Kelly and the pot dealer. Kelly only hooks up with him because he's the only guy around and it just didn't seem plausible. There was nothing interesting at all in their scenes and I even caught myself drifting off the couple scenes they had together.
Swanberg is a gifted director (and surprisingly great actor) and even though this is a bit of a stumble, if you're a fan, you this is definitely well worth a look.
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Mark Webber, Lena Dunham, Joe Swanberg
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Visiting a garden, below, in Jamaica last week I knew I had met a kindred spirit speaking Gardenese.
Without words, saying, "Come this way."
Gardens are architecture. Rooms, halls, foyers, parlors, mudrooms, and entry ways.
Entry ways are potent in gardens. Without this entry, above, do you really know you're invited in? From a distance, would you know there is a path?
Upon further inquiry, with entry ways in gardens, decades ago, while studying abroad and in books/magazines, I had the epiphany about the world's best gardens. It's easy & obvious, but too often ignored, or worse, not realized.
The more entry ways a garden has, the better a garden is.
And, with richness you'll discover, gardens have entry ways, no exits.
Not matter the direction, see above, you are entering.
Lovely Gardenese.
Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
Often, when hired to work an established garden, entry ways are the solution. Plenty of plants but no entry ways, hence no, foyers, living rooms, parlors & etc.
Another way to think of entry ways. They are focal points with maximum subtlety. Ironically, the rule about focal points, 'one focal point per area', is annihilated by the rule for entry ways, 'you cannot have too many entry ways.' Love Gardenese quirks of language. They will keep me in work, always! Gardenese, easy yet counterintuitive, seemingly simple yet complex, straightforward yet leaving you doubting your perception of how to create what you see.
Had to let go of my ego to learn Gardenese. And that took years.
For a beautiful garden & home filling you with joy, become my client, local/on-line.
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Knew before computers/cell phones, sitting in Atlanta traffic on way to a client, 'I must reach a larger audience with the same amount of effort.' Soon after that epiphany I signed my CBS-TV, and, books contracts on the same day.
Then I read an article in the NYTimes about something called 'blogging'. Saved the article for a year before reading it. Studied all the blogs they mentioned, hired a computer expert they quoted, and attended a blogging seminar.
Blogging 2.0 has arrived, my knowledge is 1.0. A believer in copying the best historic gardens across the globe it flows into every arena of life. Watching Maria Killam grow her career/blog/life over the past 3 years made its impact. Signed up for a year's course with her blogging expert, Jon Morrow.
Changes will be slow, plodding is my adored method. Pulling triggers here/there is spice in the mix.
What do YOU want?
Nothing is too small, too big, or too ego crushing to mention.
Passion lies in sharing what has filled me to the depths of grace, joy & atonement, the best landscapes created over the last 2,000+ years.
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Brad Keselowski looked to have victory in hand with an eight-car-length lead with about five laps left. Mark Martin spun out, bringing out a caution flag as well as a Green-White-Checkered finish. Johnson had a great jump at the restart to take the win for the second time at Texas (his first was in 2007). Keselowski would settle for second place followed by Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth and Tony Stewart rounding out the top five.
With the win, Johnson increased his slim lead over Keselowski from two to seven points. The two will battle it out again next week in Phoenix, as we wind down to the last two races of the season.
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"Horrible Bosses 2" is just another unnecessary sequel.
"Foxcatcher" is a dull and plodding film and Steve Carell's performance just measure up,
Because they are funny and lovable, the scene-stealing penguins from DreamWorks' three highly-successful "Madagascar" movies have earned their own flick.
In "Foxcatcher," based on the grim true story of the wealthy loner John du Pont and his involvement with members of the 1988 United States Olympic Wrestling Team, Carell distances himself from anything comic.
Aniston reprises her role as dentist Julia Harris in "Horrible Bosses 2," which opens Wednesday.
Matthew VanDyke took a 35,000-mile trek through the Middle East on the back of a motorcycle with a camera on his helmet. Along the way, he ended up in a Libyan jail cell.
Take a quick peek at the latest feature films.
For fans, this next-to-last installment in "The Hunger Games" holds not much more than a chance to spend a couple hours with characters you really, really like.
Jones directed, co-wrote, and stars in "The Homesman," which opens Friday.
Eddie Redmayne gives a bravura performance in the Stephen Hawking bipic, "Theory of Everything,"
Jon Stewart's directorial debut is the story of Maziar Bahari, a journalist who was accused of being a spy after filming the Iranian government's violent response to protests following the controversial re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
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Decent pay. Negotiate hard coming in because what you get is what you get...with a minor COLA every year. If you are a younger applicant just starting your career then it is an excellent move. As far as other companies in the sector and geographic location (DC/Baltimore metro) it is above average for pay but still below union scale.
I.T. is horrible. Your computer/laptop is a detriment to production and is one step above a boat anchor. At time of this posting (September 22nd 2013) still using XP as the operating system. 30 minute boot times are not uncommon when connected to corporate network. I hate my company issued vehicle. It is not practical for the work I perform.
Consolidate consolidate consolidate. In Beltsville Maryland there is an office full of people, if we really need that much overhead and management then there is an issue. Hopefully new CEO realizes no future in highly fragmented system. If your field service people spend a majority of time in their vehicle, some form of comfort should come into the equation. Then again the hardest seats on an airline I've ever experienced is Lufthansa. Maybe it's a German thing? Also Joe Kaeser is Chief Executive Officer, Siemens AG, Munich since August 1, 2013 anyone giving the former CEO a thumbs up should be questioned. Glassdoor needs to update this selection as my option is choosing a thumbs up or thumbs down for the past CEO.
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While some are still speculating that the high-def format wars could continue, Variety is reporting that there could soon be two more nails coming for HD DVD's coffin.
Apparently, Universal has ended its exclusivity with the flailing format, with rumors that Paramount has an escape clause contingent on which side Warner went with. We all know the outcome of that story…
Whether the death clock has started its countdown or not, both studios are hoping to keep the cash flow coming, at least for the time being. That could mean more titles, fire sales, etc. Variety also says that HD DVD players could start to disappear from shelves, with retailers nervous about devoting shelf space to a dying format.
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