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The prime objective of a business case is to persuade senior management to invest the company's money, time and resources in your investment project rather than in a competing one. Business cases come in all shapes and sizes, whether you're developing a new product, justifying the next version of an existing IT system, or aiming to explain the rationale for buying up another company. Some are mostly words, others mostly numbers. However, most business cases that product managers create aim to persuade their company to develop or enhance a product.
A business case is a fundamental part of the product development process. It is normal for business cases to go through a series of iterations of increasing rigour throughout the product innovation stage. A 'high-level' business case is often further refined in the lead-up to development as assumptions and costs become clearer.
When you set out you may not know whether your business case will 'stack up', however by the time you finish you should have a detailed understanding of the business opportunities and risks for your product.
Most business cases start as a business idea validated with some market research, anecdotal customer evidence or your gut feel. The first step is to find an executive sponsor who cares about your success and who can provide guidance and support throughout the project. Your next step is to find out what has to be done by when, the scope and constraints you have to work within and the process to follow. The output of this stage should be a plan that shows how you will develop and deliver the final business case. You may have to do this yourself or if you are lucky you may have a project manager to support you.
To build the plan you need to be able to answer the following questions:
• Who needs to be involved in the team to produce the business case eg. Finance?
• Is there a prescribed process or template to follow ?
• Are there any key dates for which the business case must be ready e.g. a gate meeting?
• Who are the key decision makers and what's important to them?
• What deliverables need to be produced and by when?
• Are there any generally understood criteria that must be met, such as that all projects need to pay-back within two years?
Understanding how the people who judge your business case will make their decisions is vital. If you don't know what their criteria are it's like playing darts on a board without numbers. There are different business benefits to aim at but you don't know which ones to target. It's unlikely that you'll ever get a perfect view of the relative importance of each business benefit, but the more you know, the more you can craft your business case towards them. You may be able to find out what's important by talking to decision makers directly, by talking with your stakeholders or the business case process owners. Equally, they may not want to reveal anything and bias your case, which doesn't mean you shouldn't dig anyway! If all else fails, speak to your executive sponsor to understand their perception on stakeholders drivers.
Industry comment
"In my view, high-quality business cases are absolutely vital for the long-term health of an organisation. They prioritise investment decisions and the products that are delivered create the profits that are needed to keep the business going in the future."
Andrew Spence, Head of Wholesale Products, O2
The second stage is about gathering the inputs you need to prepare the business case. This is the data you will use to construct your financial model and word-based justification. Some of this will be known but the rest of it may need to be assumed. In a small business you must do much of this yourself; in larger businesses there are lots of other people to talk to. This is your opportunity to gather evidence from within and outside the business to support the assumptions that are made. This evidence must convince people that any assumptions are realistic, credible and objective.
Industry comment
"In my experience producing a business case is like a 'hunting licence' in that it gives you permission to talk to all areas of the business about your project and get their time, expertise and buy-in."
Andrew Spence Head of Wholesale Products, O2
For business strategy and market input you will need to talk to:
• Anyone with access to market forecasts or research reports.
• Anyone with access to competitor info (or research this yourself).
• The strategy team (or whoever owns the business strategy).
• Product marketing, to learn how your product will be positioned against other products and propositions.
• Marketing, to learn about any other planned launches or promotions that might compete for resources. (This may provide you opportunities to align and grab some of their resources.)
• Business development, sales and channel managers.
For sales and revenue input you will need to talk to:
• Relevant sales channels to get a view of the sales they believe they could make.
• Finance to get a view on factors such as churn or ARPU (Average monthly Revenue Per User).
• Other product managers to get their experience of take-up rates and also the assumptions they have used in their previous business cases.
For cost input you must talk to:
• Development and/or suppliers.
• Marketing to understand the cost of marketing activities such as launching and promotions.
• Support functions to understand the cost of providing support eg. any recruitment required, any necessary IT system updates.
If your data and assumptions come from experts across the company or independent research they become much more credible than facts and figures you 'pull out of the air'.
In the best companies you will be provided with an input pack from Finance that includes a set of data and assumptions already validated by the business and to be used in all business cases. Alternatively there may be someone assigned from Finance to work with you on the business case.
In many business development processes there is a domain representative assigned to all new product developments whose function is to provide expertise and input from their area, e.g. someone from Customer Services who understand their cost model, training needs, system requirements, utilisation levels etc... The key objective of this stage is to gather the data you will need to construct the business case, document any assumptions and show buy-in from relevant teams.
During the analysis stage you study the inputs you've now gathered to build a detailed model of your product and your development project. The contents of a typical business case are shown in Fig 4. You will need to build a spreadsheet which will allow you to model various scenarios and understand sensitivity analysis. A typical business case financial model is broken down into a section on assumptions, a section on income (revenue), a section on costs and then a section that calculates the project value in terms of profit or payback.
The final stage of the business case process is to present or deliver the business case to the appropriate decision maker(s). This may be through a presentation where you have the chance to explain your business case in detail or through the delivery of a document for review. The challenge is to keep the story clear, objective and believable. If a decision maker doesn't understand it, they may not publicly admit this, but are unlikely to believe it.
If you can, it is often worth lobbying decision makers before a meeting to understand if they are on-board, if they have any concerns and if they believe that input from their areas has been adequately represented. Fundamentally, a business case is a tool to sell your investment project (eg. your new product) to the business. No-one can predict the future so your success rests on the credibility of the case you make – the assumptions you use, the evidence you can gather, the support you line-up, the rigour of your analysis and your personal credibility.
There are always many ways to spend the company's money so most businesses have a standard process to produce business cases – with the aim of being able to compare one against the other and make it easy to say 'yes' to the right ones and 'no' to the wrong ones.
However the true value of business cases is that they are the most rigorous assessment of a new product that is done during the development process and so force a level of investigation and analysis that should ensure (as far as is possible) the product is a success.
In an ideal world, the financial model, its assumptions and sensitivities become a tool that can be used to manage the product through it's lifecyle. This is the ideal approach shown in Fig.5 above however in our experience the more common approach is often taken.
Industry comment
"In my experience a business case is like a court case where the facts are documented but the final presentation is critical. Less experienced product managers often fail to clearly state their case and assumptions. They then get dragged off track into avoidable and damaging debates that unpick their underlying assumptions."
Jonathan Wright,
Director of Wholesale Products, Interoute


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Thursday, July 26, 2012
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Three Westminster College librarians attended the American Library Association Annual Conference June 21-26 in Anaheim, Calif.
Dorita Bolger, reference librarian and professor, attended the SAGE Reference Review Board Meeting. SAGE is one of the premiere publishers of books and journals in the social sciences. In 2001 Rolf Janke, SAGE Vice President and Westminster alumnus, created the advisory board, which advises the publisher on subject matter to be covered, platforms in which they should be provided, pricing structure, format and more.
Membership on the board is by invitation only and highly selective. Only 12 members from among the many libraries in the U.S. are selected to be on the board.
Jamie Kohler, cataloging and acquisitions librarian and assistant professor, presented "Training Friendly Student Employees - What Works?" She shared tips on using online tools and technologies to teach student employees good customer service skills when a library has limited staff, time and budgets available for training.
Erin Smith, director of the library and associate professor, chaired the College Information on Policy and Practice Committee (CLIPP) meeting. CLIPP is a monographic series that provides college and small university libraries with in-depth analysis of important trends in library administration. This month Smith was appointed to a second term as chair of the CLIPP committee.
Smith also attended several lectures and discussions, including a panel discussion about new trends in reference services and a presentation on recent advances in the arena of "discovery services," which is best described as Google for libraries.
The librarians also networked with colleagues from various academic libraries, and heard research on topics such as instruction, interlibrary loans and reference. There were also presentations on web management tools, and the newest interlibrary loan tools; information pavilions, including one providing help to libraries that want to go "green;" and a chance to meet many well-known authors. Those present included: John Irving, author of The Cider House Rules; Chris Colfer from GLEE and author of his first children's book; Jodi Picoult, author of My Sister's Keeper; and Dan Rather, award winning journalist and author of Rather Outspoken.
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Kuster, 57, said she can still remember her older sisters only having cheerleading available to them as a school sport.
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Women and girls need to know they can try and fail and that they don't have to be perfect, she said.
"It's different. Men can get gray. They can age gracefully, but we're supposed to keep our hair colored. We're supposed to keep as young as possible because that's what we're competing with," Lafond said.
Kuster said it's hard for people to imagine that it is legal and that some people still think that way, but said she believes it happens in subtle ways.
"It's amazing how we're still doing this," Gaal said. "Can Hilary run in 2016 because she's going to be a grandmother? You would never ask a man that. … Nobody asked Romney if he should be running for president when he has so many grandchildren."
According to Kuster, women in New Hampshire and across the country continue to make only 77 cents for every dollar made by their male counterparts.
The company has a unique and successful "Babies at Work" program that allows employees to bring newborns to work.
The company has been successful even during the recession and has extremely loyal employees because its family friendly policies.
Kuster said she also supports The Fair Minimum Wage Act. Raising the minimum wage would also have an effect on the pay gap since women represent nearly two-thirds of minimum wage workers, she said.
Wednesday afternoon Charlie Arlinghaus at the Josiah Bartlett Center said there is no point to the Pay Check Fairness Act.
"It would be illegal today to pay women less than men for the same job," he said. "Many of the statics on this are misleading."
Even in President Barack Obama's White House women are paid about 80 cents on the dollar to men, but that is because the women have different jobs, he said. "It not that President Obama has chosen to discriminate, it's because the jobs are different."
What it comes done to is seniority in the workplace, Arlinghaus said, women will leave the workplace to have children, or start a different career after they have children and the results in them having less seniority in the workplace.
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Mercer Gets 4 Hits And Walk-Off; Cunningham Homers In The 12th
Less action than planned on Tuesday for the Pirates' lower minor league affiliates, mostly due to rain in the Bradenton area.� The Marauders' game against the St. Lucie Mets was postponed.� They will try for two tomorrow.� Yesterday's game between the Fort Myer Miracle and the Marauders was also rained out, as well as the game that they tried to start on Sunday (but only got into the second inning).� Those games will not be made up.� The GCL Braves at GCL Pirates games were washed out yesterday.� They tried to play two today, but only got one of the games in.
GCL Braves� 5,� GCL Pirates� 1 ..� (box)
Each team had 6 hits this afternoon, but the one that counted was the Braves' walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the 7th.� The Pirates began the scoring with a run in the 3rd inning.� SS Kevin Mort led off with a double, then advanced to third base on DH Justin Howard's single into right field.� The two pulled off a double steal, with Mort scoring on the steal of home.� The Braves tied the score in the bottom of the 4th with a solo home run.
The Pirates loaded the bases in the 5th, on singles by Howard and CF Junior Sosa, and a walk by 2B Jorge Bishop. A strikeout ended that threat.� Sosa also singled in the 1st inning and stole second base.� LF Exicardo Cayonez also singled in the 4th, but was thrown out trying to steal second.� 1B Jared Lakind made his pro debut, but went 0-for-3 at the plate.
Joely Rodriguez pitched 5 innings in his start, and scattered 3 hits, no walks.� One of those hits was the solo homer in the 4th.� Ryan Hafner also made his pro debut, pitching the 6th inning.� He gave up a lead-off single in the 6th, then got a grounder force out and struck out the next two batters to end the inning and continue the tie.� Hafner began the 7th inning with a single and a walk.� Fraylin Campos relieved Hafner, but he hit the first batter he faced to load the bases.� That set up Braves' 3B Brandon Drury for the game-winning grand slam.
Gonzalez's Walk-Off Homer, Krol's 30th Save
A busy Friday for the Pirates' minor league affiliates:
Bradenton Marauders� 5,� Jupiter Hammerheads� 3 (box)
The Marauders posted 14 hits, with each member of the line-up collecting at least one.� C Eric Fryer had a perfect 4-for-4 night, with all four hits singles.� SS Greg Picart had 2 singles, and LF Quincy Latimore doubled and homered.� They scored only 5 runs on those 14 hits, though, leaving 13 runners on base.
Bradenton began scoring in the 2nd inning, on Fryer's first single and an RBI double by 1B Calvin Anderson. Latimore's double and a single by DH Jeremy Farrell to score Latimore added another run in the 3rd.� Latimore's home run over the left field wall made it 3-0 in the 5th inning.� The Marauders took advantage of an error by the Hammerheads to score agin in the 6th.� With one out, Greg Picart singled and 2B Shelby Ford reached on a fielding error in left field, which let the speedy Picart score from first base.� Ford went to third base on the error, and he scored on RF Robbie Grossman's RBI single.
Nate Baker earned his 2nd win with the Marauders, going 6 shutout innings and allowing only 2 hits, with 4 walks and 5 strikeouts.� Three of those walks came in the bottom of the 1st inning, but Baker got out of that bases-loaded jam with a pop out and two fly outs.� He had two more runners in scoring position in the 2nd, with a walk and a double, but got out of that jam too.� The other single he allowed came with two outs in the 3rd.� After that single, Baker retired the next 10 batters he faced, to finish his night.
Craig Hansen came on in relief of Baker to begin the 7th.� He kept Jupiter from scoring in the 7th, despite two runners in scoring position from a hit batter, a single, and a wild pitch.� The Hammerheads' only runs came in the 8th, and only one of the three runs was earned.� A double and two walks loaded the bases, and a sacrifice fly brought in the earned run.� After a second out, Hansen was relieved by Duke Welker. The first batter Welker faced took a ball into center field, but an error by CF Starling Marte caused two unearned runs to score.� Welker finished that inning with a line out to short.
Noah Krol earned his 30th save of the season with a perfect 9th inning.� He leads the Florida State League in saves — #2 has 28 saves and #3 has 21 saves.� How many saves do you need to have before you get promoted?
Spikes Throw One-Hitter; Wilson K's 11
Saturday's action with the Pirates' lower minor league affiliates…� The West Virginia Power and Lexington Legends were rained out tonight.� They will go for two tomorrow.
State College� 1,� Aberdeen IronBirds� 0 (box)
Pitchers Tyler Waldron, Ryan Beckman, and Brooks Pounders combined to one-hit the IronBirds tonight.� Waldron made the start with 5 nearly-perfect innings.� The first IronBirds batter of the game was the only one to reach base against Waldron, and he got on when C Matthew Skirving dropped strike three, then made a throwing error when he fired the ball down to first base.� Waldron immediately erased that base runner in a double play, then retired all the rest of the batters he faced, including one more strikeout.
Beckman took the 6th inning, and he also retired the side in order.� Pounders pitched the final three innings.� He gave up back to back walks with one out in the 7th, but left both runners stranded.� Pounders also retired the side in order in the 8th.� The no-hitter was lost in the 9th, when the first batter of the inning doubled into right field.� Pounders retired the next three batters in order, leaving the runner on second base.� Waldron earned his 3rd win of the season, and Pounders earned his first save.
The Spikes batters collected 6 hits and 4 walks, but fell victim to double plays and outfield assists, so they scored only one run.� In the 2nd inning, 1B Matt Curry walked, but was erased in a double play, and LF Pat Irvine singled, but was thrown out trying to stretch it into a double.� Curry walked again in the 4th, but was caught stealing.� SS Gift Ngoepe singled in the 9th, but was thrown out trying for two bases. The lone Spikes' run came in the 6th inning.� With one out, CF Mel Rojas worked a walk, then DH Gerlis Rodriguez drove a triple into center field, scoring Rojas.� Curry walked for the third time in the game in the 9th, and RF Cole White singled, but both were left on base.� White was the only Spikes' batter to have two hits.� 2B Kelson Brown also singled.
Spikes Come From Behind; Morris Wins #5 With Curve
Not a lot of action for the lower minor league affiliates today.� The West Virginia Power and the GCL Pirates had a scheduled day off, and the Bradenton Marauders were rained out — they will play two games on Monday.
State College Spikes� 7,� Auburn Doubledays� 6 (box)
SS Walker Gourley and LF Pat Irvine led the Spikes with 3 hits each as they came from behind to erase a 6-run lead.� It was the largest deficit overcome for a win in the team's history.
Zack Dodson pitched 4 innings and gave up 6 runs (5 earned) to give Auburn the early lead.� A triple, a single, and a 3-run homer gave Auburn a 3-0 lead in the 1st inning.� Dodson retired the side in order in both the 2nd and 3rd innings, but got into trouble again in the 4th.� A double, a throwing error by 3B Andy Vasquez, a single, and a wild pitch brought in one run.� A passed ball and another single added two more runs, and Auburn had a 6-0 lead.
The Spikes had runners on base in 5 of the first 7 innings, but were not able to push any of their base runners around to score.� They had the bases loaded with one out in the 5th, on a single by Vasquez, a walk to CF Mel Rojas, and a single through the hole into right field by Gourley.� A strikeout and a grounder force out ended the inning without a run scoring.
Then the Spikes got going in the 8th.� RF Adalberto Santos led off with a triple, and 1B Matt Curry walked.� Pat Irvine singled, scoring Santos.� Curry had moved to second base on a wild pitch, then on to third on Irvine's single, and he and Irvine both scored when DH Chase Lyles smashed the second triple of the inning.� C Matt Skirving doubled, bringing in Lyles, and Andy Vasquez brought in Skirving with a sacrifice fly.� The Spikes had moved to within one run of Auburn, 6-5.
Walker Gourley started the 9th inning rally with a bunt single.� In a strange play, Santos grounded up the middle and was safe at first base, but Gourley, who tried to reach third base on the play, was ruled out because he'd missed touching second base as he was running.� Spikes' manager Gary Robinson argued, but to no avail, and he was ejected for his efforts.� Santos advanced to second base on a balk, and he scored the tying run when Irvine doubled into center field.
Sandobal Septimo had pitched one scoreless inning, and Trent Stevenson gave the Spikes 3 more scoreless frames.� Jhonatan Ramos came on to pitch a 1-2-3 bottom of the 9th, sending the game into extra innings.� With one out in the top of the 10th, Vasquez dropped down a bunt and beat it out to first base.� A wild pitch moved him to second base, and both Rojas and Gourley walked, loading the bases.� Santos popped up, and was called out on the infield fly rule, but Matt Curry was the hero, with a single to short that allowed Vasquez to score the go-ahead run.� Ramos kept the Doubledays from scoring in the bottom of the inning, and the Spikes had their come-from-behind win.
Big First Inning For Curve; Power Win In Extras
Two early games on Wednesday, plus a few more in the evening:
Altoona Curve� 6,� Erie SeaWolves� 3 (box)
The Curve and the SeaWolves played early and scored early this afternoon.� All the scoring was done by the middle of the 3rd inning.� The Curve began the game with 4 runs in the top of the 1st.� SS Chase d'Arnaud went 3-for-4 in the game, and he opened the game by beating out an infield single to short.� He then stole his 19th and 20th bases of the season, then scored from third on 2B Jordy Mercer's sacrifice fly.�� 1B Matt Hague followed with a solo home run over the left-center field wall.� C Hector Gimenez, who had missed a few games due to illness, walked after the homer, and he scored when RF Miles Durham hit the second home run of the inning over the left field wall.
Erie came right back in the bottom of the inning, scoring 2 runs after 2 outs had been recorded.� After a hit batter and a walk, a grounder to third should have been the end of the inning, but a throwing error by 3B Jose De Los Santos resulted in two runs scoring.
Erie did more 2-out scoring in the 2nd inning, and it was even more costly for the Curve.� OF Gorkys Hernandez is already out for the rest of the season with a broken right ring finger, and now another key player, 2B Jordy Mercer, had to be removed from the game after being injured on a play.� With two outs in the 2nd, a pop up into short left field was "deflected" by Mercer, and fell in for a double as Mercer had to leave the game.� Much defensive shuffling ensued — De Los Santos moved to second base, Josh Harrison came in to play third base, Brandon Jones moved from DH to right field, Miles Durham moved to center field, Anthony Norman came out of the game, and pitcher Justin Wilson had to move into the batting order with no more DH.� After all the rearranging, Erie got two back-to-back singles, scoring a run.
The Curve were still up by one run, but they added some insurance in the top of the 3rd.� Matt Hague doubled and Hector Gimenez singled then stole second base, giving the Curve two runners in scoring position.� Miles Durham's sacrifice fly plated Hague, then Brandon Jones doubled, bringing in Durham.
That was all the scoring.� The Curve collected only two more hits in the rest of the game — Chase d'Arnaud singled to begin the 4th and moved to second base on a wild pitch, but was left there; LF Yung Chi Chen singled in the 8th, but was forced out at second.� The 8th inning was the closest the Curve came to scoring again.� After Chen was forced out on Jose De Los Santos' grounder, walks to d'Arnaud and Josh Harrison loaded the bases, but relief pitcher Tom Boleska, in what was probably his first pro at-bat, struck out to end the inning.
Starter Justin Wilson pitched 6 innings and allowed the 3 runs, only one of which was earned.� He allowed 6 hits and 2 walks, with 4 strikeouts.� After the 2nd inning, he gave up only a walk and two hits in the rest of his outing.� Tom Boleska had much better luck on the mound than he did at the plate.� He pitched 3 scoreless and hitless innings, striking out 3 batters.� He allowed only a walk, and immediately erased that runner with a double play to end the game.
Altoona's RHP Derek Hankins has been promoted to AAA Indianapolis today.� He will join the Indians in Syracuse.� Hankins has made 6 starts and 20 relief appearances for the Curve this season and has earned a 5-3 record with 5 saves, and a 1.82 ERA.� Opposing batters have been hitting .215 against Hankins, who has allowed 58 hits in 79 innings of work, with 27 walks and 48 strikeouts.� To make room for Hankins, reliever Brian Bass will be assigned to Altoona, though this might be on paper only.


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There's also the matter of Chandler still being relatively underrated at his position, the same position where failure is in abundance, which has made the Chandlers of the NFL ideal value mining gold. He's been quite productive as a mid-tier TE, catching six touchdown passes this year. Sure, only two of those scores have come since Week 4, but Chandler had 129 receiving yards over the last two weeks, and he's had at least one 20-yard reception in five of his last seven games.
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Global Warming: It's A Myth
August 29, 2009
Martin McCauley writes: Where has our summer gone? Last August in Britain was the wettest on record. And the winter of 2007 had proven to be the coldest in North America for the last 30 years.
So why is there still all this talk about global warming which is supposed to put our planet in mortal danger? The facts would suggest the exact opposite. I know it is politically incorrect to challenge the established view, promoted by our politicians and many scientists, that global warming exists. However, a good scientist is aware that knowledge always evolves: today's wisdom becomes tomorrow's nonsense. And as for politicians, they have an uncanny ability to get things wrong.
Why, you may ask, do I reject the concept of global warming or anthropomorphic climate change? There is simply no hard scientific evidence to prove that it is happening. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its so-called ground breaking report in November 2007 argues that global temperatures have risen by 0.7 degrees Celsius since 1880. The problem with this is that there were not many thermometers around in 1880 and, even more importantly, they were not standardised. Many assumptions were made in calculating an average.
In order to ensure that their calculations are reliable scientists aim for a P (probability of error) of 0.05 or 5 per cent. If they are under 0.05 it means the results are not due to mere chance. In the case of global warming the P value is 800. This means that there is no direct link between the data and the conclusions that were made. This renders the IPCC study useless from a scientific point of view. But even despite this many scientists proceed to lay down instructions for policy makers.
What evidence do the doom and gloom mongers present to support their argument that global warming is taking place? Well, they say that the Arctic ice is at its lowest level for thousands of years. This has led to the Northwest Passage in Canada becoming free of ice. The problem with this is that the Northwest Passage was open in the 19th century and in the 1930s. The Canadian government is about to launch a search operation for two British ships, captained by Sir John Franklin, with 128 men on board, which sank in an attempt to sail through the Passage in 1845-48.
Then there is the problem of carbon dioxide (CO2). Mankind produces about 4 per cent of the atmospheric CO2 in any given year. The natural variation in CO2 is higher than the total CO2 production of humankind. There is no evidence that CO2 causes temperatures to rise. Indeed, the evidence points to elevated temperatures raising CO2.
What about the question of the shrinking ozone layer? We are told that there is a huge hole up there and that it is growing all the time. Actually, the hole in the ozone layer may always have been there. Who knows when it first formed? There is no reliable scientific data to answer this question.
The IPCC study is careful not to claim omniscience about global warming. Its conclusions are full of statements which begin: 'It is likely' or 'It is very likely'. This is science speak for 'we don't know'. It attempts to estimate the global economic effects of climate change. Here again the scientists are in the realm of pure speculation. Economists have a dismal record when attempting to predict what will happen in the near future. Hence one can safely say that predicting what effect climate warming will have in two or three decades is not worth the paper it is written on.
But, you may say, our climate is changing. Of course it is. Climate is always changing. A few years ago a huge mammoth was detected in the permafrost region of Siberia. How could such a huge beast survive in that inhospitable environment? Prior to permafrost, deciduous forests and grasslands had predominated in northern Siberia. Even more striking, in northern Canada remains of deciduous trees have been found. Again such forests had covered the region centuries ago.
No one disputes that pollution is a real problem. But does it induce global warming? Does it even affect climate change? Some experts believe that climate change is independent of environmental factors. There is no proven scientific way of determining at present if there is a link between our present lifestyle and climate change. It is almost impossible to destabilise the equilibrium of the environment, including the oceans. So the good news is that you can relax and get rid of your guilt complex that you are contributing to climate change and global warming.
The myth of global has another side to it: scientists can only obtain official funding if they subscribe to this myth. Before Galileo no one dared argue against the view that we inhabited a heliocentric world. In other words, the sun revolved around the earth. There has always been political correctness. If one were a cynic I would say that many scientists have discovered that global warming is, in Arthur Daley's immortal phrase, 'a nice, little earner'. Scare everyone with some scientific babble and the money will roll in.
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In this episode of Boars in the Vineyard Pastors Polzin and Price play "Meology vs. Theology." Pr. Price "preaches" one of the funniest parody's of a mega-church sermon I've ever heard. Sadly, part of the humor is that you can imagine someone actually preaching it.


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The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg is Germany's largest port, with a proud tradition of independence dating back to the Middle Ages. A bold plan to redevelop its HafenCity quarter, situated right on the harbor, is still a work in progress, but completed portions have already formed a vibrant waterfront community. It seemed an ideal location for fledgling boutique company 25hours Hotels—who has developed unconventional design hotels in Frankfurt, Zurich, and Vienna—to open a new property. To honor the area's heritage, the company settled on a maritime theme and hired British designer Stephen Williams, a Hamburg transplant since 1994, to lead an interdisciplinary design team. Bruno Marti, head of communications for 25hours Hotels, says, "Williams and his team brought in a storyteller, a specialist in visual communications, and a set designer to provide creative input."
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Stephen Williams Associates drew on its experience designing workspaces for creative clients such as music and advertising companies, as well as a series of showrooms for Bosch and Siemens household appliances. The 25hours concept, however, goes further than any previous Williams project. "We wanted to create a web of meaning with signs and symbols referring to seafaring and harbor life, " says Williams. "A place where old and new stories come to life." Another goal was to create an inclusive atmosphere, where a hip young road warrior and an elderly couple visiting the big city for a show would feel equally welcome.
For six weeks, Williams hosted workshops with colleagues and consultants to develop the "marine nomad" theme. He likens the process to the pre-production of a movie, in which ideas are turned into a script and each scene is designed, storyboarded, and fitted together to create a compelling drama. It was a challenge for 25hours and the designers to convince the Frankfurt developer and his investors that their vision was viable, but they won over skeptics and spent a full year researching old sailors' stories, making these an integral part of the design. "To use architecture as a form of communication, one must realize the symbolism of objects," Williams explains. "Spaces are made from many elements, and you have to understand the relationships between forms, colors, light, and surface."
A delicate balance between reproducing and reusing
The funky mix of vintage furniture, rusted steel, and reclaimed wood evokes the romance of a sailor's life, but also ensures a high level of sustainability. Williams insisted that materials be locally sourced or fabricated wherever possible, though because Germany has few vintage furniture outlets, they crossed the border into Belgium to find the pieces they needed. The team aimed for a timeless design that would not go out of style with durable elements that would withstand hard use and last for 20 years. Williams observes that too much sustainable building is driven by dogma. "It can be more environmentally friendly to use a new locally made material than to recycle something that needs to be transported, cleaned, and cut to size," he says. Sustainable strategies range from specifying standard-size panels to minimize waste, to making the most of windows to draw natural light deep into the building.
Since Hamburg is full of old warehouses, many of which are protected landmarks with deep floor-plates that would be difficult to adapt, the hotel selected a new seven-story building with a brick facade for this 25hours Hotel. Inside, steel, concrete, and stenciled lettering are combined with wood boxes, carpets, and marine memorabilia to achieve a stimulating mix of austerity, nostalgia, and warmth.
Adjacent to the lobby is the restaurant-bar, named Heimat to recall the yearning of a homesick sailor. Hamburg-based shipping company Hapag-Lloyd donated a shipping container that contains one of the conference rooms that can double as a dining space for the restaurant. The movable container wall is hoisted up to the ceiling to allow access. The Vinyl Room is a popular music lounge where guests can spin favorite discs and grab a beer late into the night. A rusty container on the rooftop houses the hotel's sauna, adjacent to a punching bag and an outdoor shower.
Each of the 170 guest rooms, intended to have a cabin-like feel, has a wall niche for storing personal effects and toiletries, and a sea chest that opens up to reveal a desk, reading lamp, minibar, power outlets, and an interactive log book.
As Williams admits, "architecture can only be the backdrop for human activity and not an end in itself." He and his team have provided a durable stage set in which guests can act out their fantasies, and as Marti observes, "Stephen Williams Associates created not just a design hotel, but a place with a Hanseatic heart and soul."
Key Design Highlights
- To create a timeless look that also recalls past eras, the designers selected an eclectic mix of furnishings, materials, and objects with maritime undertones.
- Elements such as reclaimed wood, repurposed shipping containers, and vintage furniture tie into the sustainable and funky design theme.
- A playful piece in all the guestrooms, sea chests cleverly conceal a writing desk, power outlets, a reading lamp, and minibar.
- The design concept was developed like a film with a script and storyboarded scenes.
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264On March 2, 2012, Timothy wrote about University of Michigan Professor J. Alex Halderman and his contention that there is no way to have secure voting over the Internet using current technology. In this video, Alex explains what he meant and tells us about an experiment (that some might call a prank) he and his students did back in 2010, when they (legally) hacked a Washington D.C. online voting pilot project. This is, of course, a "professional driver on closed course; do not attempt" kind of thing. If you mess with voting software without permission, you might suddenly find the FBI coming through your door at 4 a.m., so please don't do it.


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Gitmo Prisoner: 'We all died when Obama indefinitely detained us'
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Carl Warner, an attorney defending 11 Guantanamo detainees, appeared in an interview with Russia Today and read a statement from one of his clients, Faiz al-Kandari, who remains detained despite having his charges dropped last year.
Kandari's statement was the following:
"I scare myself when I look in the mirror. Let them kill us as we have nothing to lose. We died when Obama indefinitely detained us. Respect us or kill us. It is your choice. The US must take off its mask and kill us."
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Sat, Jun 6, 09 at 9:53
I take a lot of garden pictures, mostly to post on the Florida Garden Forum. Occasionally I get one that seems just right - composition, color, subject and a fair dose of luck. I've struggled with taking well-focused pictures with my Canon S3IS, but I'm happy with this one! Much thanks to the bee who chose to stay still for 2 seconds.
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
School of Art graphic design students, past and present, won many Creative Lightning Awards, which are sponsored by Oklahoma State University Advertising Club. Of the over 60 entries from five Oklahoma universities, our students won about a third of the prizes. The award ceremony was held on Saturday, March 27th, 2011, at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. Gold Award Winners include Madeline McKeever for the black and white photography Warrior, Jill Christensen for 2-d design Untitled, Eryn Sweeney-Demezas for magazine ad Old Spice, Luca Cavallaro for logo design Swan Lake, Taylor Smith for the brochure Visual Thinking and for the brochure Tulsa Performing Art Center Trust, Annalise Brady for motion graphics Too Many Daves, John Stern for the illustration campaign Red Heat Poster and Invite, and Sean Terska for the magazine layout Tuna's End.Silver Award Winners include Andrea Maduro poster design Rocky Horror, Sean Terska for Personal Postcards, poster design Springfest and Typeface, Eryn Sweeney-Demezas for poster design Cherry Street Farmers' Market, logo design Gottfried Prairie and Arboretum, and Personal Postcard Series Bronze Award Winners include Luca Cavallaro for Eye of God, Annalise Brady for poster design Lust, John Stern for Man From Nebraska Poster and logo design Newblock Park, Eryn Sweeney-Demezas for illustration Typeface, Amanda Morton for invitation design Beautiful Night Neighborhood/Kendall Whittier, Andrea Maduro for motion graphics Sensemaya. Two students were awarded Certificates of Merit at the Brass Ring Awards for the University of Oklahoma in Norman: Taylor Smith for Addy 44 Book and Sean Terska for Dreams.In addition, TU Ad Program won a Gold award for State Farm Plans Book and a Silver award Cool Old Guy at the DISTRICT level Addy Awards.
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I am planning a sort of bog with cardinal flower, mimulus, lychnis, monarda and maybe a fountain to attract hummingbirds. Since my soil usually dries out in summer I was going to use a rubber liner or maybe a wading pool with some slits for drainage. But I am concerned about hardiness regarding winter drainage - the garden would either be muck or a block of ice for about six months. Would this be a problem?
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My bog garden becomes a block of ice. I've had no problems with plants surviving, and have had several plants survive that I was told would never survive our winters! Plants like Cardinal lobelia are used to growing in wet areas in the wild and do sometimes freeze solid...so it they can hack it in the wild they ought be able to take in in a garden. |
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"When people like Rachel Kane stand up to bullies, it makes it a little bit easier for each and every one of us to stand up to bullies," writes Ken at Popehat about the blogger who runs a site making fun of some of the wares of the fashion chain Forever 21, and who's not knuckling under despite a cease-and-desist letter from the store's lawyer. More coverage: Atlantic Wire; press roundup at WTForever 21.
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- 1 06.21.11 at 6:44 am
Surely Miss Kane should thank the kind people at 21 Forever (or however it's written), for all the publicity.
- 2 06.21.11 at 8:36 am
Another example of the Streisand affect?
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Does sound travel better threw liquids, gases or solids?
In general, sound travels fastest through solids, slightly less fast through liquids, and slower through gases.
This is because the particles (atoms or molecules) in a solid are touching each other and rather fixed together. That is why a solid is "solid." Since the particles are bonded together, a sound wave moving one, immediately transfers the motion the one touching it. A sound wave hitting one, is almost immediately transferred to a neighbor.
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Dylan Carlson of Earth talks about the importance of the slow pace in his music
You have talked about Fairport Convention in that interview on your website with your cellist, Lori Goldston. Specifically how they write tragedy in a major key. How has their music impacted what you've done?
I've always liked darker stuff done that way because it's not maudlin. "Oh, it's a sad song in a minor key" -- that sounds kind of obvious and schmaltzy. They're coming out of the folk thing, the modal playing, I like that sort of suspended feel that they have as well. My goal, whether I achieve it or not is up to other people, is to create music that's timeless.
Even though its new music, there's that thing that makes it sounds familiar like a pastiche, but "I don't know this song but it seems like it's always existed." It doesn't fade with time. That's why I like the English folk rock bands where they'll do a really old song or a newer song and it doesn't date. Unlike, say, a protest song about this or that. To me, that stuff becomes dated as soon as it's done.
That sort of topical folk song thing or any kind of topical, political song becomes so dated quickly. Then you can think of songs that don't like "Fortunate Son" by Credence Clearwater Revival -- that's just a great song all the way around, and it applies all the time rather than being specific. They managed to transcend that trap of being dated immediately.
It's like the idea of a lullaby; the idea's been around forever. Trying to do a melody that's numinous and seems so familiar but makes you realize that maybe you have never heard it. Rather than making something that's the latest style or about this or that right now, I think music can communicate so much information without having to make it that specific. I think when you make it that specific you're limiting your, I don't know what to call it, shelf life.
How did you meet Karl Blau, and what do you think he brings to what you're doing?
I met Karl through our manager, Clyde Petersen. He was playing drums with Clyde's project Your Heart Breaks. I had a couple of his albums and I just think he's an amazing and talented person. Originally we had talked about recording the album with him as an engineer. That didn't happen, and we had already a two week tour with that line-up.
We just really liked what he did as a bassist. He really gelled with the line-up. We ended up not using him in his producer and engineer capacity. Unfortunately, we're not touring with him or Lori because both of them have children. After the European tour, Lori decided she didn't want to tour anymore or not the rock band kind of tour anymore. Karl also has so much going on with his solo stuff. Who knows?
In the future, either might play with us again. The door is always open for either of them. When I tour, I tend to hit it hard with long tours where we try to play every night. That can wear on people. We're touring again with Don McGreevy and Steve Moore from the Bees line-up. The eastern tour of New Zealand, Australia and Japan we did as a trio with me, Adrienne and Steve.
You recorded both parts of Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light at the same time. Have you had the time to work on anything new since then?
We've got about five new songs. We've been doing two or three depending on if there's on encore on this tour. Although two of them we sort of segue with stuff off Angels. Probably next year sometime we'll be recording a new Earth record. This year it's been a lot of touring and I've been doing solo stuff as well. I did a solo tour of the UK in October and as soon as I got home we went on the Earth tour.
For Angels, perhaps this was mentioned in The Skinny out of the U.K., you had been into reading Welsh, English and Irish fairy tale stories. What is it about that stuff that kind of inspired you?
I come from mostly Scotch English descent. My grandmother came over after the war, and she married my grandpa. She used to tell us stories. My grandfather when he was over there during the war, had had sort of an encounter with one of those "white ladies," a death omen, so that's probably where my interest originated.
I've always been into history, like I said, and too much heavy metal and fantasy literature. Obviously I'm more interested in the historical side of it, the serious side of it, but I've always been attracted to that kind of stuff for whatever reason. It's sort of a genetic predisposition. A friend of mine introduced me to this Scottish music that they call "the high music," and rather than being the dance tunes and stuff like that, it's all songs about battles and chieftains and that sort of thing.
But it's interesting because it's all much longer pieces than the, for lack of a better term, party music. It's slower and it's interesting because there's the drone of the bagpipes and they repeat the same figure melodically for a long time before introducing subtle variations. It's very Earth-like in that way. Or Earth is very like that in that way.
I realize that I've written this more theme and variation thing rather than verse-chorus-verse-chorus. I do a riff and a variation of the riff and stuff like that. So it was interesting to hear stuff like that. I've always, for some reason, liked drones and music played against this static background. So I guess there is a genetic link.
There's a song called "Sigil of Brass" on Angels II that resonates with pre-Islamic folk stories and legends from the Middle East. Was that something you'd been reading as well?
Yeah, I've always admired Sir Richard Burton's translation of Arabian Nights and all of that. Then being interested in mysticism and religion. Also in English occult practice they had what they called lamin, which was the piece of metal that they wore with the sigil on it for summoning what they called "treasure spirits."
I generally try to assign titles that have a certain resonance and multiple interpretations, I guess, all along a certain path. That's what I find interesting about music. With words you have to really be careful to find stuff like that that resonates like that whereas music seems to automatically communicate on a number of different levels. Whereas with language it seems more difficult to hit that resonance.
What about the slow pace of your music allows you to express better?
I don't know why I've always gravitate to music that's slower. Not exclusively but it's always appealed to me more. I just like music with a lot of space. I've always liked music with subtle dynamics. In the 90s there was that whole soft-loud thing and I found that really annoying because there's a whole bunch of other ways to do dynamics. That's what I always really liked about The Grateful Dead. There's peaks and valleys and they're don't go, "Here's quiet part, here's the loud part." You can just feel when the band links up and is really hitting it or if they go off.
In jazz or in R&B or country, there are those pregnant pauses and the space between the notes is just as important. I find that sometimes by restricting the amount of material you have allows you to focus and work that material more rather than trying to do as many notes as possible, as fast as possible.
When I was starting Earth, it was the time, and right before that, it was that period where everyone was trying to be as fast as possible. When that happens then it sort of reduces music to an athletic event rather than, you know, music. Then obviously the opposite has happened and now there's bands that are, "Oh, we're the slowest band of all of time. We're slower than them. We're so slow." Whoopty doo. Whatever. Is it listenable? Is it good? You know what I mean? It's funny when these non-musical criteria become the be all and end all of the project and that just doesn't really make sense.
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On this trip, I visited Botswana & Zimbabwe between 4-Sep-2013 and 16-Sep-2013 and I travelled with 1 other person.
First we thought Nick advised us well to start at Victoria Falls then move on to the camps. The pre-holiday information sent by Expert Africa was extremely informative and useful and Nick was always prompt in answering our queries.
The three Kwando camps were uniformly excellent but different in their own ways. The common denominator was the positive and welcoming attitude of all the staff. No exceptions. We can't praise them too highly. All were extremely helpful, worked hard and really seemed to want to contribute to the enjoyment of your holiday.
We were apprehensive when setting out as to how we would cope as vegetarians but we enjoyed every meal. We have seen negative reviews about the food but literally everything is cooked or prepared from scratch and we found it extraordinary how such delicious things are prepared in the middle of nowhere.
A small point but we think Kwando are missing an opportunity in the camp shops where there is little choice of local crafts as mementoes. Indeed no-one seemed to know what if anything had been made in Botswana.
This was our first visit to Africa and would probably be difficult to beat. Everything went smoothly from the moment we landed at Victoria Falls to our return flight to Maun. We saw everything that we wanted to see and more and returned home with more than 1600 photographs and memories that will be with us for a long time. Kwando's policy of a maximum six people per jeep makes for memorable and intimate sightings. On a couple of occasions we were the only ones in the jeep. Being so close to the wildlife with no-one else about was magical.
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Ilala Lodge, Zimbabwe 5-Sep-2013 review: Great location for Victoria Falls |
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Lebala Camp, Botswana 7-Sep-2013 review: Great introduction to Kwando camps |
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Lagoon Camp, Botswana 9-Sep-2013 review: Superb location and sumptuous accommodation |
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Little Kwara, Botswana 11-Sep-2013 review: Little Kwara ... big experience |
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