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An increasing number of commentators on both lean New Product Development (NPD) and agile software development have noted efforts to combine the two. A key reason for the interest in the combination is that lean has long been entrenched in the manufacturing process (e.g., via Kanban and ERP), while agile development has recently established itself as an effective software development strategy, and a major segment of NPD now involves software-only products, software-infused products, or software-plus-hardware solutions. A recent Aberdeen Group study notes that 66% of today's NPD uses software to drive innovation, and the number is rising rapidly. Meanwhile, several efforts are being made to apply lean-only to software development (cf. Hibbs, Jewett, Sullivan, "The Art of Lean Software Development").
At first glance, lean is a very good complement for agile. Users have concerns about agile's ability to scale; lean makes sure that developer "resources" are available for each iterative step in a flexible and cost-effective way. Lean allows a different process time-line each time depending on what resources are available when; agile "spirals" in towards a solution, ensuring a different process timeline for each iteration of a solution "guesstimate". Both aim to increase value to the customer; both emphasize incremental improvements.
However, a reading of the blogs on lean and agile betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the agile mindset. Here's a quote from Martin Heller (http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/should-software-development-be-lean-or-agile-284): "They both strive to improve software quality, reduce waste, increase developer productivity, accept changes to requirements, and prize meeting the customer's real needs." Agile doesn't strive to improve software quality; it strives to improve software usefulness. It doesn't aim to reduce waste; it aims to increase "wasteful" experimentation, which turns out actually to reduce the time-to-value, as a side-effect. Its way of increasing developer productivity – ensuring that development is more in sync with customer needs – is the opposite of lean's attempt to improve developer productivity by eliminating bottlenecks (and customer interference is potentially a bottleneck). Lean accepts changes to requirements as a necessary part of incremental manufacturing process improvement; agile welcomes and emphasizes changes to requirements as part of improving product design. Lean views customer needs as consisting primarily of quality; agile views customer needs as consisting primarily of rapidly-changing functionality.
Moreover, we have already seen how an emphasis on Deming-like quality can retard product development to the detriment of a firm, as when Motorola lost its race to dominate processors to Intel by being late and customer-insensitive with the design of a "quality"-manufactured product. I can't quote figures from my recent study under Aberdeen auspices of agile software development vs. other processes; but I can certify that a focus on software quality improvement was far less effective in improving product TCO, ROI, customer value, and ongoing agility than an agile process; in fact, there was no clear long-term benefit to ROI of quality-improving processes at all.
I wish I could say that this is a side-issue, and that once agile is properly understood, lean and agile are indeed complements. After all, some of the confusion about agile stems from a lean mindset that views everything from the lens of the manufacturing process. In many companies, integrating NPD and the manufacturing process has indeed reaped rewards, and lean has been a part of that improvement. Agile, by contrast, is effective at NPD and R&D/innovation, and will probably never be applicable to manufacturing – imagine asking the NC machine to "spiral in on" the correct product each time! Surely, a compromise can be worked out in which lean resource allocation is applied to agile software development and lean manufacturing becomes much more nimble at producing prototypes. However, I regretfully conclude that in the real world, mixing lean and agile is likely to produce worse results than applying agile alone.
Consider the idea of applying just-in-time resource allocation to an agile process. In each iteration, the agile process is going to change the specs during the "sprint." Thus, half the time, allocation of resources will be inadequate, causing more bottlenecks than a "wasteful" strategy.
More fundamentally, lean increases the need for tight control over and visibility into costs and resources. This kind of oversight, as developers well know, slows things down. As per my study, it also yields nothing in improved productivity, TCO, ROI, or customer satisfaction.
Above all, the mindset of lean and agile are antithetical. Lean is reactive, prescriptive, and cost-oriented, despite its attempts to connect to the customer. It works where requirements change little from iteration to iteration, as in a manufacturing process. Agile is proactive, creative, and customer-value-oriented. It works where customer needs are constantly changing – which is a much better description of the real world of customers, as opposed to the artificial "turn off the spigot until we've finished" world of much of today's NPD.
In the end, however, the conflict of lean and agile is only one instance of the difficulties companies have with processes like agile when the command-and-control approach has become entrenched. As I noted in a recent post, it may well be caused by budgeting processes that constrain business flexibility. But whatever the reason, there is strong cultural resistance to increasing corporate results long-term by adopting processes that increase business agility, such as agile development.
In an old story whose author I cannot unfortunately remember, a manager is called in to turn the efforts of R&D types into profit. The first thing he notices was that they seem to spend a lot of time with their feet on their desks, thinking – a highly wasteful practice. How can he change that? He puts his legs up on his desk and leans back, thinking … In this story, as in the real world, lean is more the enemy than the partner of agile; and trying to constrain agile via lean will cost the company much more in the long run than it seems to gain according to short-term cost measures.
A recent product announcement by IBM and a series of excellent (or at least interesting) articles in Sloan Management Review have set me to musing on one unexamined assumption in most assessments: that increased process speed equals increased business agility. My initial take: this is true in most cases, but not in all, and can be misleading as a cookie-cutter strategy. The IBM announcement centered around integration of their business-process management (BPM) capabilities, in order to achieve agility by speeding up business processes. What was notably missing was integration with IBM's capabilities for New Product Development (NPD) – Rational and the like. However, my initial definition and application of KAIs (key agility indicators) at a business level suggests that speeding up NPD, including development of new business processes, has far more of an impact on long-term business agility than speeding up existing processes. To put it another way, increasing the Titanic's ability to turn sharply is far more likely to avert disaster than increasing its top speed charging straight ahead – in fact, increasing its speed makes it more likely to crash into an iceberg. A similar assumption seems to have been made in SMR's latest issue, in the article entitled "Which Innovation Efforts Will Pay?" The message of this article appears to be that improving innovation efforts is primarily a matter of focusing more on the "healthy innovation" middle region of internally-developed modest "base hits", with little or no effect from speeding up internal innovation processes or expanding them to include outside innovation. By contrast, the article "Does IP Strategy Have to Cripple Open Innovation?" suggests that collaborative strategies across organizational lines focused on NPD make users far more agile and businesses far better off, despite requiring as much (or more) time to implement as in-house efforts. And finally, we might cite a study in SMR suggesting that users estimating inventory-refill needs were more likely to make sub-optimal decisions when fed data daily than when fed a weekly summary, or the recent book on system dynamics by Donella Meadows that argued that increasing the speed of a process was often accomplished by increasing its rigidity (constraining the process in order to optimize the typical case right now), which made future disasters, as the system inevitably grows, less avoidable and more life-threatening. All of this suggests that (a) people are assuming that increased process speed automatically translates to increased business agility, and (b) on the contrary, in many cases it translates to insignificant improvements or significant decreases in agility. But how do we tell when speed equals agility, and when not? What rules of thumb are there to tell us when increased speed does not positively impact business agility, and, in those cases, what should we do? I don't pretend to have the final answers for these questions. But I do have some initial thoughts on typical situations that lead to increased speed but decreased agility, and on how to assess and improve business investment strategies in those cases. If it isn't sustainable it isn't agile. Let us suppose that we improve a business process by applying technology that speeds the process by decreasing the need for human resources. Further, suppose that the technology involves increased carbon or energy use – a 1/1 replacement of people-hours by computing power, say. Over the long run, this increased energy use will need to be dealt with, adding costs for future business-process redesign and decreasing the money available for future innovation. The obvious rejoinder is that cost savings will fund those future costs; except that today, most organizations are still digging themselves deeper into an energy hole, while operational IT costs, driven by an increased need for storage, continue to exert upward pressure and crowd out new-app development. As the most recent SMR issue notes, the way to handle this problem is to build sustainability into every business process. If lack of sustainability decreases agility, then the converse is also true: building sustainability into the company, including both ongoing processes and NPD, increases revenues, decreases costs – and increases agility. If it's less open it's less agile. In some ways, this is a tautology: if an organization changes a business process so as to preclude some key inputs in the name of speed, it will be less successful in identifying problems that call for adaptation. However, it does get at one of the subtler causes of organizational rigidity: the need to do something, anything, quickly in order to survive. A new online banking feature may make check processing much more rapid, but if customers are not listened to adequately, it may be rejected in the marketplace, or cost the business market share. Detecting and correcting this type of problem is hard, because organizational politics points everyone to the lesson only after the process has already been implemented and has gained a toehold – and because businesses may draw the wrong conclusion (e.g., it's about better design, not about ensuring open collaboration). The best fix is probably a strong, consistent, from-the-top emphasis on collaboration, agile processes, and not shooting the messenger. Those are the main ways I have seen in which increased speed can actually make things worse. I want to add one more suggestion, which affects not so much situations where speed has negative consequences, but rather cases in which speed and agility can be improved more cost-effectively: upgrading the development process is better. That is, even if you are redesigning an existing business process like disaster recovery for better speed, you get a better long-term bang for your buck by also improving the agility of the process by which you create and implement the speedier solution. Not only does this have an immediate impact in making the solution itself more agile; it also bleeds over into the next project to improve a business process, or a product or service. And the best way I've found so far to improve development-process speed, quality, and effectiveness is an agile process.
I frequently receive questions about the TCO/ROI studies that I conduct, and in particular about the ways in which they differ from the typical studies that I see. Here's a brief summary:
- I try to focus on narrower use cases. Frequently, this will involve a "typical" small business and/or a typical medium-sized business – 10-50 users at a single site, or 1000 users in a distributed configuration (50 sites in 50 states, 20 users at each site). I believe that this approach helps to identify situations in which a typical survey averaging over all sizes of company obscures the strengths of a solution for a particular customer need.
- I try to break down the numbers into categories that are simple and reflect the user's point of view. I vary these categories slightly according to the type of user (IT, ISV/VAR). Thus, for example, for IT users I typically break TCO down into license costs, development/installation costs, upgrade costs, administration costs, and support/maintenance contract costs. I think that these tend to be more meaningful to users than, say, "vendor" and "operational" costs.
- In my ROI computation, I include "opportunity cost savings", and use a what-if number based on organization size for revenues, rather than attempting to determine revenues ex ante. Opportunity cost savings are estimated as TCO cost savings of a solution (compared to "doing nothing") reinvested in a project with a 30% ROI. Considering opportunity cost savings gives a more complete picture of (typically 3-year) ROI. Comparing ROIs when revenues are equal allows the user to zero in on how faster implementation and better TCO translate into better profits.
- My numbers are more strongly based on qualitative data from in-depth, open-ended user interviews. Open-ended means that the interviewee is asked to "tell a story" rather than answer "choose among" and "on a scale of" questions, thus giving the interviewee every opportunity to point out flaws in initial research assumptions. I have typically found that a few such interviews yield numbers that are as accurate as, if not more accurate than, 100-respondent surveys.
Let me now, at the end of this summary, dwell for a moment on the advantages of open-ended user interviews. They allow me to focus on a narrower set of use cases without worrying as much about smaller survey size. By avoiding constraining the user to a narrow set of answers, they make sure that I am getting accurate data, and all the data that I need. They allow me to fine-tune and correct the survey as I go along. They surface key facts not anticipated in the survey design. They motivate the interviewee, and encourage greater honesty – everyone likes to "tell their story." They also provide additional advice to other users – advice of high value to readers that gives additional credibility to the study conclusions.


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The outfit opted to show treble-winning custodian Julio Cesar the door in the summer after choosing to sign the Udinese shot-stopper.
"He's very effective, he has presence and personality," Walter Zenga told the Gazzetta dello Sport on Wednesday.
"He is up to the task. It wasn't easy to replace someone like Julio Cesar, but he's been able to do that because the squad is strong.
"When that is the case then it makes you more secure – and vice-versa."
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Ticket #5782 (closed Bug: fixed)
FF: 0xc1f30001 (NS_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED) [nsIDOMNSHTMLDocument.designMode]
Reported by: | wwalc | Owned by: | garry.yao |
Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | CKEditor 3.3.1 |
Component: | General | Version: | 3.3 |
Keywords: | Confirmed Review+ | Cc: |
Description (last modified by wwalc) (diff)
This is a regression bug introduced in CKEditor 3.3. It occurs when doing some specific DOM operations on the node that contains the editor. We had a similar problem in #5660.
Please check the attached files (unpack them in the _samples directory) to reproduce this issue. Works fine in CKEditor 3.2.1, 3.0 and all previous releases.
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comment:3 Changed 5 years ago by garry.yao
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- Owner set to garry.yao
The DOM operations could be reduced to only CSS 'display' change, we need to understand that there's no way for us to know such change is happened in the parent tree, so programming in a defensive style helps.
comment:4 Changed 5 years ago by alfonsoml
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I have two questions/doubts with the patch:
The first function adds a
at the end. Is it really needed? Other tickets have tried to avoid changing the focus as long as it's possible, so in order to have those issues back it would be better to know if it's needed and the drawbacks.
The second function finish with a call to blinkCursor() again. I think that the idea is that: function 1 fails, then function 2 is executed and then calling function 1 will work. Do we know that it's true and it won't start an endless loop of function 1 failing and executing function 2 over and over again?
comment:5 Changed 5 years ago by garry.yao
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Review of quality, the focus body is necessary to avoid having a dumb cursor when clicking on non-body area, for safety, I've included a anti dead-loop check.
comment:7 Changed 5 years ago by alfonsoml
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I didn't realize that it's replacing a call to doc.getBody().focus(), and the other place where it's being called seems to work correctly.
Anyway, the patch creates a new problem: load the test case or just replacebyclass, and without clicking or focusing the content, just press the Source button. It generates this error:
editor.document is null http://localhost/ckeditor/_source/plugins/wysiwygarea/plugin.js Line 832
comment:8 Changed 5 years ago by garry.yao
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That's a careful catch while pretty an edge case though.
comment:10 Changed 5 years ago by garry.yao
- Status changed from assigned to closed
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Fixed with [5566].


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AT&T tackles hunger with football STAR Jordy Nelson
December 4, 2011 // 0 CommentsFootball star Jordy Nelson to Sign Autographs at two Milwaukee area AT&T Stores December 6
MADISON, WI – This holiday shopping season AT&T is working with wide receiver Jordy Nelson to help fight hunger. Nelson will be on hand to sign photographs at the Brookfield and Glendale AT&T stores on December 6. AT&T will also be collecting canned goods for the Milwaukee Hunger Task Force's food program during the events.
"AT&T is thrilled to welcome wide receiver Jordy Nelson to Milwaukee as we fight hunger this holiday season," said AT&T Wisconsin President Scott VanderSanden. "Our employees work tirelessly to serve our customers across the state and invest heavily in our community. Special events like these are another great way to give back this holiday season."
The AT&T Brookfield store is located at 3825 N. 124th Street, and Jordy Nelson will be there from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm. He will then make an appearance at the AT&T Glendale store, located at 6150 N. Port Washington Rd., from 3:30 pm to 5 pm. As part of the events, consumers can check out all of AT&T's holiday discounts and enter to win giveaways for the new Samsung Galaxy 8.9(tm) tablet and the new Samsung Focus S(tm) smartphone at each store.
"We are pleased to welcome Jordy Nelson to two of our Milwaukee locations for these special appearances," said Dave Fine, VP/GM for AT&T in Illinois and Wisconsin. "Not only will this give local fans the opportunity to meet the wide receiver, it also provides the opportunity for them to be a part of a charitable event during the holidays by donating canned goods to fight hunger in the Milwaukee area."
There are 21 AT&T-owned stores in Wisconsin. AT&T's products and services are also available at a number of authorized dealer and national retail locations.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are essentially the bringers of the end of the world in the Book of Revelations.
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I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, "Come and see!" I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.
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This is a Bumblebee pipe made for smoking hash oil. It was a collaboration piece between Banjo (fun fact: I used to own a Banjo stemless bubbler many moons ago!) and Bluegrass Man. As beautifully crafted as it is, pieces like this always give me the heebie jeebies. Amazing, ... / Continue →
Brazilian artist Fernando de la Rocque (pronounced 'hockey' and not 'roach' like it should be) creates art with pot smoke by repeatedly blowing the smoke at a piece of paper with a stencil taped to it. :/ Art, ladies and gentlemen! It takes him a week to do a single print -- ... / Continue →
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Opinions on the Airoh trr
I am in the market for my first trials helmet. I have searched most of the trials forums, and did not find much on the Airoh, except what was on Web Bike World. They gave it a good evaluation at a premium cost, but I am looking for some real world history. From what I have learned, protection and ventilation are important, but can this be achieved with a lesser priced helmet, such as the Shiro? I am still waiting for a return call from Lewissport on this question. Thanks for the input. |
Have had mine for about six months and very happy. Lightest helmet I've ever owned, excellent ventilation and comfort. Only downside is the price.
Trouble is finding a helmet isn't just the right size, it is also fit. I was lucky in our local trials supplier (plug, Hard Rock Trials Supply) had a decent assortment of helmets in stock. It was amazing the number of different fits there were from different manufacturers. Some fit like I put a salad bowl on my head.It was on for a second and was off just as fast.
That is where the flaw in internet mail order comes in. You see pictures, read reviews. But when it comes to something that has to interface with your body you really need to feel it first hand. You cannot fit a helmet by size alone. So keep that in mind when you read reviews of a said helmet. Recently I needed to add a knee brace to my gear collection. The shops in town with the best selections of gear had one make, model and size on the shelf. But they could order anything I wanted, so long as I paid for it first. But they would give me my money back if I didn't want it. I knew of a store about 5 hours away that had stock. Next time I did a road trip that way I stopped in and tried on all of the knee braces. I did at least a half dozen different models. They all "fit" but only 2 "fit right". How I miss good brick and mortar stores with selection. I know it is nearly impossible to keep up with the internet as people will go to lengths just to save a buck, the online selection is so much larger, but the personalized attention is gone. So with whatever helmet you get, make sure it not only fits, but fits right. I have a street helmet bought off the internet that fits, and fits OK, but after about an hour it gives me headaches. Good thing work is only 15 minutes away. But it does keep me from taking longer rides. I really should get something that is more comfortable, but I am giving up on most of my street riding to enjoy trials instead. |
I couldn't agree more with your assesment. However, with a niche market like ours, finding a near by shop with trials gear is non existent. I have talked to others and found decent feed back, but since this is such an individual choice, we can only go on reviews and opinions.
Third rule of economics: you get what you pay for. Like others, I found this out the hard way and use this during my selection process. The search continues. I will post my results when the final decision is made. Thanks. |
I would like to let you know. I've had one ordered for over a month and haven't received it yet. I tried a buddies on and fit my head perfect and was light.
Thanks for the info. Just curious, where did you order it from? The US or overseas?
As I said, I tried a buddies on and fit me well and was just a cool helmet. I've got an old carbon NZI that's seen better days. It's light, but not as well vented as the Airoh. I had to swallow hard at the price though. |
The Trr should be a great helmet, there is a useful review on wbw: http://www.webbikeworld.com/r2/motor...met/airoh-trr/
prices start from 210 usd directly from Italy: Airoh Trr |
I like mine fine, size chart on the web site was accurate.
Not sure what else to tell you, it came, I put it on, it fit, I rode? |
After riding trials for 2 years in a pre-90s Arai, I ordered a TRR from DritBikeExpress in UK thru Ebay. Major saving over price quoted by a State side trials shop. Firgured E-bay would take some risk out of sending money overseas. Took almost 2 weeks to receive.
I have a "long oval" shape head, no issues with the shape of the TRR. The TRR is more oval than an Arai XD3. I wear XXL in all but one of my helmets. After research and refering to the size chart I got a XL in the TRR and it's a little snug. The liner padding is thicker than most helmets and should compress some with use. Still for the price I did not want it uncomfortably tight. So, for less than the cost to ship it back to UK I ordered the XXL liner to try. Love the quick release strap, this will make taking off my helmet to scout a section an option now. I really had issue with getting too hot in my old Arai. |
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This vintage medal for the Broad Jump is made of a silver colored metal. On the front is a nicely detailed picture apt for a track and field event. It looks like three men in running stride. On the back it reads; Broad Jump - 20' 9 ½" Lemp 1928. At the bottom it has the company name, The Robbins Co. Attleboro, Mass.. It hangs from a grosgrain ribbon that has a large safety pin attached to the top edge. It comes in a presentation box with the company name on the inside of the lid. Printed in pencil on the inside of the lid is information regarding the high hurdles. This came from an estate sale in Boise, Idaho.
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> Paragraph Attack
Lets see how big a story we could make if each person put a paragraph to a dragonlance story on here. Make it original with no old characters, and well see what twists we can make. Anyone brave enough to start it off?
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SOUNDS COOL! Im gonna do it, but ummm... I dont wanna start :)
The day started off fairly cool, as it always did in the fall. The sun would soon warm Solace however, and the citizens of the fair town would venture out, winding around the sacred vallenwoods on some type of buisness. Today was a special day however. The Fall festival was to start today, and everyone looked forward to the games, good humor, and special display of arms. Everyone that is, except one young human boy. Nicknamed Twig for his small stature, and decidedly scrawny body, he was not looking forward to being around others larger than he (even his younger SISTER boasted more girth and muscle), watching men wield weapons he was sure he could never even hope to be able to pick up!
Ya'lls turn...make it good!
You guys should probably move this to the roleplaying forum before it gets locked. In the past whenever anyone has tried something similar a moderator has stopped it. :)
You guys should probably move this to the roleplaying forum before it gets locked. In the past whenever anyone has tried something similar a moderator has stopped it. :)
Its not roleplaying though, its a story. And It's dragonlance.
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A story counts as role-playing here, trust me we've tried doing pretty much the exact same thing a couple times in the past and each time it got locked/moved and we had our ears scorched of from a blistering lecture from the mods...;):DThe early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.>:)
Now 100% less Masculin!;)
Twig swung his scrawy legs out of his thin bed. He sat up and stretched his back, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. Sounds of merryment could already be heard down below. Children were laughing while parents yelled for them to be careful. Occasionally a scream would filter up through the thick foliage that called the Vallenwood trees their home. But even cuts and scrapes couldn't stop today's fun.
"Keely must already be down at the fair," Twig muttered, looking at his sister's empty bed. Quickly pulling on a clean shirt, and fitting himself into a pair of cotton pants, Twig made his way out the door.... "Nothing seems to satisfy.
I don't want it.
I just need it.
To breath, to feel, to know I'm alive."
*moving to DL Roleplaying*"Who wants or needs any gods at all? I certainly don't. No divine force controls my life, and that's the way I like it. I choose my own destiny. I am slave to no man. Why should I be a slave to a god and let some priest or cleric tell me how to live?" ---- Kitiara uth Matar
Oh the scorching!That which is Joe's is given unto Joe. That which is not of Joe's shalt be given unto Joe. All that is, all that will be, shall be given unto Joe. For his is the hand that guides the world, and his is the heart that rules it.
-- Prophecies of Joe, Special Ego-Buffer Vision, Verse IV
He immediately found himself in a huge crowd of people. Seeing the burly, broad shouldered Solamnic Knights, he felt envious. He had always dreamed of being a Knight, but being so scrawny, and not being from Solamnia, he knew it wasnt a possiblility.
As he made his way through the crowd of humans, elves, kender, and the occasional dwarf, he could see everyone was having a grand time. The annual Fall Festival was always one of the biggest festivals all year, with the exception of Yule and Spring Dawning festival.
Just then, a Kender caught his eye. He was stuffing Twig's wallet down the front of his shirt...
Twig's eyes were blinded red by anger. He chased after the giggling kender, but the hafling always managed to elude his grasp. The brown topknot waved in front of his nose, swishing back and forth, enticing him on. The kender disappeared into the crowd.
Twig slipped easily through the throng of people, but he stopped abruptly as he saw what they were gathered around. The kender was standing before a man dressed in shimmering black robes. The mans beard was sparkling white, cascading down to his waist. Twig stared not at the man, but at the ball the man was flitting through his fingers. It was as blue as the ocean, but sparkled with an inner glow.
The kender scampered up, giggling as he reached for the ball. Twig gasped. The kender had vanished, seeming to melt into the blue ball. The man turned and looked directly at Twig, and then winked. Twig felt something heavy in his hand. It was the ball. He looked up, but the man was nowhere to be seen, vanishing as quickly as the kender... * * *
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It was just then Twig noticed the crowd moving back from him fearfully.
"Surely he is chosen of the evil ones!" gasped a lady, a stranger to the town, as she pulled her small child closer to her.
"We should burn him!" Bellowed a broad shouldered blacksmith from the neighboring town. "who knows what evil he will bring among us now?"
"BURN HIM!" roared the crowd, as a few willing volunteers ran to Twig. Panicking, he thrust out his hands, one of which was still clasping the wizard's ball tightly. He closed his eyes, expecting to feel rough hands grab him at any moment. After nothing happened for several minutes, he cautiously opened an eye, and looked around. The noise of the fair was still all around him, but the people had all faded into shaplesses masses of mist. Only two in the crowd stood out sharply. One was the kender, the other the black robed one.
"Ah you see Lockpicker? I told you the boy would figure it out"
The kender walked up to Twig and extended his hand. "Lockpicker Burrfoot, distant, distant nephew of the famous Trapspringer...and who are you?"And so into the shadow and not your shadow but the eager grayness expecting light, I ride the storm away.
Twig didn't answer. He was too confused to comprehend what was going on.
"What the...? Where did everyone go!" Twig sounded confused.
The dark robed man walked up to Twig, slowly, and put his hand on his shoulder.
"I... am Lepolis. You have been summoned, Twig. Lockpicker's job was to lure you here. My job is to take you to Her."
Twig stood, staring, wide eyed at Lepolis. "Who is 'Her'?" he said, even more confused than before.
"Ahhhhh! I expected you would ask that. Come with me. I will explain on our way." Lepolis stated, in his roughled, old sounding voice.
Twig pushed away from Lepolis, and started to back away slowly. Lepolis didn't move.
After severel moments, Lepolis spoke.
"Well, I can't FORCE you to fulfill your destiny..."
[Edited by Dhamon on Monday, June 17, 2002 3:54 PM]
"Destiny?" cried Twig incredulously. "Look Mister, you've got the wrong guy. Look at me! Do I look like someone who should go off on an adventure in search of 'destiny'?"
"Looks can be decieving my son." counciled Lepolis, but Twig paid him no attention.
"...and besides, Destiny is just a way to lure me off. I'm not rich mister, so its no use robbing me, and you don't LOOK like the kind of guy that goes in for boys, so why don;t you just undo whatever it is you did, and let me go home?"
"HOME? Back to people that want to burn you?" asked Lepolis.
"Only becuase of your magic!" raged Twig.
"Ah, but thats the interesting thing" laughed Lepolis, "It wasn't MY magic!"
And so into the shadow and not your shadow but the eager grayness expecting light, I ride the storm away.
"Y...you mean..." Twig paused.
"Ah, yes, my boy. It was your magic!" stated Lepolis in a humorous way.
"M...my...my magic? But how...?"
By now the Kender had wandered off. Lepolis and Twig were alone.
Twigs mind was racing. This has to be a dream! This can't be happening! I don't want to leave! All these questions and more came to him at that moment.
"Magic is a complex thing, boy. Not just anyone can become skilled in the art. The truly gifted are born with it. It runs in their veins. You, my friend, are one of the gifted."
"I can't believe this," astonished, "you can't be serious."
"Oh but I am. I know this must be truly shocking for you, but if we are going, we must leave soon. We wouldnt want to be late, and upset her, now would we?."
[Edited by Dhamon on Monday, June 17, 2002 3:58 PM]
"Wait a minute." Twig said, trying desperately to grasp what the old man was saying. "HOW could it be my magic? I didnt do anything!"
"Oh you didn;t?" Asked Lepolis. "Didnt you close your eyes and think very hard about escaping?"
"I wished they couldn;t see me so i could sneak away, but i don't see...." Twig stopped, his mouth agape.
"There now, now that we have settled that, do you mind if we continue on? We musn't be late, and we have quite a journey to make." Lepolis began looking for his map. "Lets see, now where did I put it...second pocket to the right, first pocket down...take the square root of pi and divide by 6.....LOCKPICKER!!! LOCKPICKER BURRFOOT! Bring that map back here at once!" Thundered Lepolis.
"Map? Oh I do recall seeing you drop a map. Its a good thing I picked it up for you. You really must learn to be more careful with your things Lepolis!" said the kender quite seriously as he handed over the parchment. Then he turned to Twig.
"Are you going to magick us somewhere? I remember how once, Lepolis almost magicked us somewhere, only then..." Lepolis loudly cleared his throat.
"Uh...then he just..uh, didn't" finished up Lock.
"I don't know how!" cried Twig. "And I cant just leave here, I've got a family!"
"I guess we'll have to do this the hard way." said Lepolis sadly to Lock. "I didn't want it to come to this, but we can't risk being late, and we're obviously getting nowhere." The robed man stooped slightly to whisper in the kender's ear. Lock nodded, then reached into a pouch and removed a blue ball. Twig looked down, surprised to find the ball he had held in his hand was gone. He was almost certain it was the same one. Leoplis had moved off to stand slightly behind Twig, as Lock suddenly began chanting in a mysterious fashion, all the while waving the ball around wildly.
"Ooglety-poodle, moravian cookie, abra-cadabra-la-fa-so-la-te-do..."
As Twig tried to figure out just what the halfling was doing, he felt a sharp pain, and everything suddenly went dark.And so into the shadow and not your shadow but the eager grayness expecting light, I ride the storm away.
OOC: Flandrake, may i ask that u delete ur reply, because it got all muddled with yours. Post after saphires please.
Twig woke up in a dizzy state. "Uhhh.... what happened?"
"Ahh, your awake."
"Wha, who are you?"
"Why it's me Lepolis, I'm sorry Lock had to do that but we were in a big hurry. Come now sit up you should eat something."
Twig sat up and looked around he was in a field with scattered trees, bushes and other plants. He was next to a campfire and he could see Lunitarai high in the sky.
"Where are we?"
"We are in a field far from Solace."
"At least tell me where we're going."
"No, but you will find out soon enough. Here." Lepolis handed Twig a bowl of soup. Twig started to slurp it down slowly.
"Is that a mage Kurni?"
"Yes sir, it is and there is a small boy and a kender as well."
The hobgoblin scratched his arm and said, " We attack when they sleep, ready the others."
"Yes sir", Kurni says and then goes down the hill to their campsit.
Tanlansulner, a wood elven ranger, looked down at the hobgoblin, from a tree he was sitting in.
"I better keep an eye on them."
"What did you say Taner?" said Skye, a hawk that was enhanced by a wizard.
"Oh nothing, go back to sleep." Taner lay back down on a branch and looked at the stars.
"Now after your done go back to sleep and we can start to travel again in the morning."
"Do, or do not, there is no try" -Yoda "Empire Strikes Back"
OOC: Ok, now its time to get the evil lurking in the background..here we go.
The small, goblin ran quickly down the dark, slightly slippery tunnel. Turning his pig-like eyes to the minotaur guarding the door at the end of the pathway, Gooru nodded his head, and rather importantly displayed his token of passage...a dead bird with a stick in its mouth. The minotaur nodded, and quickly stepped aside, allowing Gorru to step through the door into complete inky blackness. The red minotaur never once let his expression of disgust slide from his face.
"Ssshut the door." Came a deep menacing voice from somewhere in the darkness. Hurrying to obey, Gooru managed to shut his toes in the door.
"Thatsss better. The light hurtsss my eyesss, and we wouldn't want anything to hurt me, now would we?"
Gooru stuttered nervously "N-no Mighty-ness, no!"
"It isss how I thought then. Did you find the onesss I ssseek?"
"Y-yes master." Gooru's voice was a shrill whine.
"Exssscccellent. Bring them to me. You have quessstionsss?"
"Why do you want them Mighty One?"
"I mussst have him..."And so into the shadow and not your shadow but the eager grayness expecting light, I ride the storm away.
OOC again: all instances of "Him" (as in the mysteriously unamed...) have been changed to "Her" because me and Saphire have been planning this out. Her is going to be the Forestmaster, and when they meet, she will give him his quest.
[Edited by Dhamon on Monday, June 17, 2002 4:05 PM]
It was late. Very late. Twig couldn't sleep. Both Lepolis and Lock were asleep in their tent, and he knew he needed the rest, but he just couldn't sleep. He was thinking about Solace. His home, his friends, family, wondering if he would ever see them again. If he knew which way Solace was, he would sneak out, and run home, but he didn't. He had been unconsious during their whole trip here, wherever here was.
Twig jumped up out of his bed. He could hear heavy footsteps in the distance outside his tent. He had to go tell Lepolis someone was coming. Trying to be as stealthy as possible, he stepped out of his tent, and made his way towards Lepolis's tent when he saw them. A goblin raiding party was on the move, heading straight for them. Forgeting about being stealthy, he ran as fast as he could to the other tent. When he was inside, he immediately started shaking Lepolis and Lock trying to wake them up.
"Whats going on?" Lepolis mumbled sleepily. "Go back to sleep, we are leaving at dawn, and you will need the rest."
"Lepolis! You have to get up! A group of about 20 goblins is headed straight for us!
"What? Where?"
Twig pointed to his left. "They are coming from that direction. They are close too, about a half mile away."
"We will have to fight. They are too close to run. Here" Lepolis handed him a dagger. "Use this. If we get through this, I will have to start your magic lessons."
"Well of course" Lepolis said absently. "Its a battle, and battles are always filled with uncertainities." He turned around and kicked Lock in the ribs firmly. "Wake up you lazy second-rate theif of a kender!" Lock didn't move. Bending down, Lepolis loudly spoke in his ear. "There are goblins on the way....get up!!!!" Lock's eyes fluttered slightly, and he began to snore in an exaggerated fashion. Twig was fairly certain the halfling was only pretending to sleep, but the joke seemed to be in bad taste considering the approaching danger. He leaned down and whispered lightly.
"Leave him Lepolis! Maybe the goblins will just steal his things and leave us alone."
Lock's eyes sprang open, and he quickly rolled out of his blankets. "NEVER!" He shrieked. "I'll never allow those bat eating, pig-eyed, over-fed second cousins to a gully dwarf TOUCH my things...." He began rummaging in his pack. "Ahhh here it is, the Kender Spoon of Turning. It was passed down from my Uncle Tas! I'll go take care of those goblins, so you two can just head back to bed."
Twig was suitably impressed, until he noted Lepolis's expression of disgust. Taking a closer look, he noticed that the spoon was only a regular eating spoon, probably acquired at any wayward inn.
"Yes Lock, that is a good idea, and normally I'd agree....but......er...these are regular goblins.....not magical ones...so perhaps your dagger or hoopak would be a better choice." Lepolis said diplomatically.
"True...." Lock looked at the spoon with regret. "Perhaps after we kill them, I should get out the Spoon of Turning, just incase they try to come back and fight again...."
"I hate to interrupt." Twig said, "But they are getting closer....shouldnt we do something?"
Lepolis exited the tent, with Lockpicker and Twig trailing behind him. They took up positions in front of the fire, which would force the goblins to look directly into the light, severely effecting their vision on the moon-less night.
As the goblins came into view, Lepolis snorted in disgust.
"I thought you said twenty." he muttered to Twig. "This is more like ten."
"Well I was nervous..." Twig began, but just then the goblins charged. Lock's hoopak whirled challenging as he sprang to meet the first goblins. Nearby, Leoplis was casting a spell. A small goblin ran towards Twig, its eyes blazing red as the firelight reflected off them. Thrusting his arm out in front of him, Twig felt the dagger connect with flesh. Looking up he saw the hilt of the small knife sticking out of the throat of his enemy. Instinct had obviously taken over. Wrenching back his arm, Twig ignored the body crumpled at his feet as he stared at the blood on his blade. Suddenly, he felt arms enfold him from behind...And so into the shadow and not your shadow but the eager grayness expecting light, I ride the storm away.
Twig looked back, and saw a large, extremely ugly goblin, trying to carry him off.
"Lepolis, Lock, help me!" Twig called, but his voice was drowned out by the sound of Lock's hoopack wailing, and the battle cries of the goblins. He was shaking a trying to wiggle free, but the goblin's firm grip didn't give. Just as he was about to give up, and go willinginly, he heard a whoosh behind him, and blood spurted on the back of his head. He fell to the ground, the goblin falling on top of him, dead. An arrow straight through the side of its head.
Twig hurled the heavy goblin off him with all his strength. Lepolis and Lock were doing well. Lock was getting them angry, hurling insults, and large rocks with his hoopak at the goblins. Lepolis was hurling fireballs, and magical arrows. At first, Twig had thought the arrow that killed the goblin whom took hold of him, but then he realized that there were other arrows, coming from the opposite direction from which Lepolis was fending off goblins. Over on the hill, he could faintly see the outline of an elf, firing arrow after arrow, with a bird by his side. Twig got up and began to run towards Lepolis and Lock. They had almost finished off the goblins, but looking back, twig saw more coming from behind them. This had to be, most definately, the worst day of Twig's life...
This had to be, most definately, the worst day of Twig's life...
but then again, that went without saying. Blood ran into his eyes, and he realized that when he had fallen, he'd gashed open his forhead on a rock. Twig walked slowly over to a tree, and put his back up against it. His legs seemed to give, and he slowly fell to the ground. The world seemed obscured in a light haze, and he watched the rest of the battle detachedly. The bird had entered the fray, and was busy flying about the heads of the goblin, forcing them to defend their eyes as the elf continued to shot arrows. Lepolis had killed several goblins, and they lay around him, some scorched, while others showed evidence that the senior mage and been using his dagger as well as magic. Lock's hoopak had also done its deadly work and goblins lay in their own blood. Then Twig noticed a goblin running towards him, bloodlust evident on his face, his features twisted into an expression even more cruel then usual. His eyes suddenly widened in pain and shock, and he fell in front of Twig, an arrow protruding from his back. Lepolis came running to check on Twig, as Lockpicker scampered off in an attempt to make friends with the mysterious bowman.
And so into the shadow and not your shadow but the eager grayness expecting light, I ride the storm away.
Once they reached the elf they saw he was wearing studded leather and had a longsword and dagger at his sides. An arrow flew straight at the elf but the eagle caught it and tossed it in the elf's quiver.
"Thank you for the help," said as Lock outstreched his hand in a greeting.
"No problem,the names Taner."
Lepolis said, "No time for introductions," as he turned and mumbled words of magic to handle some of the oncoming goblins.....
"Do, or do not, there is no try" -Yoda "Empire Strikes Back"
[Edited by Flandrake on Thursday, June 20, 2002 3:08 PM]
Suddenly the goblins vanished. Twig turned to look at Lepolis in amazement.
"Just how powerful are you?" he asked. "That was amazing, you just made them..."
"I didn't do that." Lepolis asserted. "They were nothing but illusions, but for what purpose?"
"Hey where did that elf go?" Lockpicker chimed in.
Spinning around quickly, Twig saw that there was no sign of where the elf had disappeared to. If there had not been arrows protruding from the backs of several goblins, he wouldnt even have believed the bowman had been there.
"What happened to him?" Twig asked, not really expecting an answer.
"Why not ask his little friend there." Lepolis said dryly, pointing to a small tree several yards away. The elf's hawk sat perched there, preening his feathers. As Twig approached, the hawk looked up and fixed a bright eye on the young man. Screaming out a call, the hawk fluttered to a large rock not far away, and looked back, obviously expecting to be followed. Lepolis looked around and sighed.
"Lets pack up our camp." He said. "Its beginning to get light anyway, and we've obviously found our guide." The other two looked at him in some confusion, but not wanting to argue, they turned to go back to the camp.And so into the shadow and not your shadow but the eager grayness expecting light, I ride the storm away.
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The UM System Board of Curators has agreed to pay recently resigned MU men's basketball coach Quin Snyder $574,000 as part of a settlement package, Snyder's lawyer confirmed Monday.
As of Monday night, the university had not officially released the figures for the settlement, which was reportedly agreed upon Sunday morning during a meeting attended by Athletic Director Mike Alden, UM System President Elson Floyd and MU Chancellor Brady Deaton.
But Wally Bley, the Columbia lawyer representing Snyder, confirmed the amount of the settlement Monday, saying he expects it to be signed and completed sometime today.
Snyder had been scheduled to hold a press conference Sunday night to discuss his departure from the men's basketball program, but the conference was canceled because his agreement with the university had not been signed.
Under the terms of his contract, which runs through April 2008, Snyder was to receive a base salary of $195,000 a year, in addition to payments from athletic apparel manufacturers and for broadcasting appearances and work at summer basketball camps. Bley declined to comment on the details of the agreement but acknowledged that a third party is examining the settlement. He declined to identify the third party.
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Until that happens, Bley said Snyder would not comment on the situation.
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Thanks Kurt, I will try to give you a call as soon as i can get away from the office. I appreciate your help very greatly. I am going to try to see if i can make the class coming up in april in IL if at all possible.
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Thanks Kurt, I will try to give you a call as soon as i can get away from the office. I appreciate your help very greatly. I am going to try to see if i can make the class coming up in april in IL if at all possible.
Sent you a PM, not real sure it went through though. My email is email@example.com
Quick question. How long does it take for the award to come once you have received and answered the 5 questions?
Thanks. I forgot the timing.
A little birdie told me we were on the award list for this Friday, but I don't recall receiving my five questions email yet, unless it was part of the 1199 process.
Received notice from Senator today of a big regional for our county for portable radios. Doing the Happy Dance!!! Big thanks to Kurt for his wisdom. Attended his class last year in Johnstown PA. It helped immensely. If you've never been, make arrangements to attend one NOW.
The Johnstown PA class is really paying off. Glad we could host it.
Click up, just found an Update that wasn't there at 9am CST.
Found an update on a regional communications grant this morning. Would have posted in the past 3-4 days
No joy here unless the updating is taking its dear sweet time across the US.:(
Just found one dated today.
Found one hose project for PA.:)
Found a nice county FD SCBA 1199A, packs, masks, and RIT SCBA for $250k. Finally some higher priority ones. Maybe tomorrow I'll have time to do the whole list, running out of hours in the day. Hopefully can hire some good additional office help next month, last time around invited 24 to interview, 3 showed, hired person didn't show 3 of the 6 days scheduled. Wouldn't think it would be so hard to find good help in this economy....
Just found an new 1199A for a local department for a Gear Washer, Gear Dryer, and a Thermal Imager.
Picked up a couple more this morning that were not there yesterday.Vehicle exhaust system was a pleasant surprise:D
2 more SCBA, a PPE, and pleasantly surprised like Kurt about an exhaust that also showed up today. Definitely a nice start to the week.
One more today :)
Just found a 2012 reference for SCBA and TIC however the SCBA has been zeroed out and the grant reduced to $9000. Would it be possible to contact them and plead the case to get the full grant reinstated?
Most likely the SCBA didn't make peer and therefor won't be eligible to get reinstated. What was the age of the SCBA and have you received an SCBA previously?
We requested 14 which would bring us to 100% compliance for year 2002 or newer for all riding positions. We have a total of 26. We have 10 that were bought between 2002 and 2006 including 4 on a grant in 2003 before I took over the grants for our department and 6 that were bought along with our aerial. I stated in the narrative that these 10 would remain in service. The remaining packs are a mix of a couple low hose from the 80's and the rest were bought 1994-2000.
Your narrative justification is a moot point as it was not reviewed if your SCBA was cut. I'd suspect that with > 50% of your SCBA being less than 2 NFPA cycles old, your score was quite low.
While not your "fault," back in 2003 there should have been a 100% solution for the project, not just 6.
The nice thing about the way the new scoring works, you previously would have not gotten your TIC, but now only the non-priority items are cut. :)


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Here for your listening pleasure are some more audio clips taken from The 50 minute fun and fact finding interview The Mouth did with Ex-Ranger and present Ranger Blogger extroadanaire Chris Kotsopoulos On WUSB 90.1 FM radio this past Tuesday.
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(aka "Highway to Hell" or "Makin' It" or "On the Run" or "Lucky 13" )
directed by Mark Griffiths
Eric Stoltz plays Danny, a young man convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of his father (actually committed by his sister). A stripper Charlene aka Lucky 13 (Monica Carrico) falls in love with him from afar and writes to him in prison. When Danny makes a daring escape and shows up on her door, the two tragic lovers take to the road on the run from a relentless cop Trent (Stuart Margolin) who of course will stop at nothing to recapture Danny. RUNNING HOT is, against expectations, actually a well-made little action movie. Griffiths (touted as the producer of the Fox TV drama THE O.C.) is an assured director even if the blocking of the escape scene is a bit contrived and the film has to slow down Margolin's search to allow for some tender scenes between the two leads. Stoltz's central performance is more than a bit bland but Carrico is quite good (her willingness to do frequent nudity is actually rewarded with a meaty role and it might have been more interesting had this film been scripted with a central focus on her character) and Margolin makes more out of his "sadistic cop" role than required of the material. Not an essential viewing experience (minus the nudity, it has the air of an early eighties TV movie) but a mostly solid effort. |
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Touted as being transferred from the original camera negatives, RUNNING HOT looks good given the mostly bland cinematography apart from a vertical line running down the right side of one of the earlier reels (which says a lot about the state of preservation of some of these films). The second capture suggests that the film was shot with video in mind as the framing does not always allow for cropping to 16:9 dimensions (less so, 1.85:1). The title sequence bears the LUCKY 13 title card (the RUNNING HOT title card is included in the extras from an inferior source). Code Red's regular commentary moderator Lee Christian is on board for the commentary track with the producer and writer/director and does a good job keeping them talking. Among the interesting anecdotes is that the SAG cast worked on deferment and the producer elevated the crew members to the positions they wanted to be credited as to compensate for the deferred pay. Writer/director Griffiths is also featured in an on-camera interview (the quality of which is one of the things Code Red needs to improve across their catalog) which is intercut with squeezed 4:3 timecoded clips from the film. Strangely, this disc lacks the plentiful collection of Code Red trailers seen on other releases. |
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Code Red Region 0 - NTSC |