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What recommendations can you give me on a new sleeping pad? I hear Big Agnes is the way to go. Inflatable or foam? Any help is greatly appreciated.
What recommendations can you give me on a new sleeping pad? I hear Big Agnes is the way to go. Inflatable or foam? Any help is greatly appreciated.
I just picked up the Big Agnes Insulated Air Core. I did quite a bit of research before hand as well. I got the long mummy style. So far its awesome. There are tons of options out there though. Good luck!
My big agnes has had a slow leak ever since I got it and cant find it for the life of me. Any tips on finding it? I have to fill it up ever 3 hours or so during the night.
If you cant find it, Id fill out this form( https://forms.netsuite.com/app/site/...ipt_redirect=T ) and get it fixed or replaced by them!
Jon - my cousin had the same issue. It ended up being a super slow leak at the valve.
diy - I really love my neo air pad. If you don't mind the loud crunchy noise from the material, it is super nice!
I'm going to try the NeoAir XLite this year. Hopefully I'll be able to avoid the leak. I've kind of had bad experiences in the past on inflatables leaking over time but I'm going to give it another go. The ultra packable, lightweight and R-value enticed me to give it another try. Time will tell if I revert back to a foam pad.
Ahh crap, this is my first inflatable pad...now I am worried! I am sleeping on that sucker in my room tonight to check for leaks!
I have a thermarest inflatable. My son bought it for me for christmas a few years back. He bought himself one also. He has had a couple of leaks easily repaired with a patch kit. I have never had a problem. It is heavier than most but the horses are usually carrying it (they are also carrying my cot, I use to really rough it but not any more). When you put them in the panniers just make sure you dont put it where the horse is going to scrape it against trees
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Personally, I'd be happy to start with the first win, but I'll take positive national pub anytime!
I thought we could last year and that didn't get us very far.
I'd just love to get one and have a shot at Kansas.
I'll get on board with that prediction!
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Might as well!!
Are you a member?
Give me 1 and I'll be happy. We haven't won a game in the tournament in so long it's embarrassing.
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Hope Pat and I are right.
In 1984, I was hospitalized for approaching perfection.
We got Hilton Magic back. Might as well go reclaim Hilton South.
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Give me 1 and I'll be happy. We haven't won a game in the tournament in so long it's embarrassing.
It's annoying, but I don't want to label it as embarassing to Hoiberg since he is only responsible for 2 of those years.
I actually think that this team could do it. They seem to save their best for the biggest games.
I'm starting to think Forde is mostly tryin to rile up KU fans. Didn't be graduate from Missouri?
no matter his motive, I hope he's right.
Man I hope so, I don't even know what I would do if we won.
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Surprising pick. I just want 1 win.
There's not a team we haven't beat or can't beat now, so it's not a huge reach.
I want at least 2 wins. And if they are getting 2 wins, might as well make it 3. I don't want to lose to Kansas again.
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LOL - "2010 or '11?" Anyway, it took 13 tries but the underrated Kolya finally pulled it off. And after beating Rafa earlier in the week and making his second straight final here the Russian must be feeling pretty good.
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I also like this part of his presser (somebody misses Marat)
Q. At what time did you go to sleep yesterday?
NIKOLAY Davydenko: At 3. Because I was coming at 1, do massage, one and a half hour. But if you see, I play three times the night session. That was always the same time I go to sleep. Today I sleep just seven hours, but feeling okay really. Seven hours was enough.
Q. Sleeping alone?
NIKOLAY Davydenko: Come on. I have wife. Come on, come on. What do you want, two girls, three girls, four girls?
Q. You are a Russian.
NIKOLAY Davydenko: I came Russian, but I'm not Safin (smiling
Congrats. It'd be cool if he could take the title after being runner up last year. I don't feel bad for Roger he had a great year.ReplyDelete
He did it!
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Thanks for the the food for thought.
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Thanks for the article.
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After reading it, I'd like to suggest a new title for Doug: "Mr. Metaphor"...
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I might give something like this a shot in the future. Would be a bit of all right to have something you could just sit down and use..
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 08:32 AM
Great article and a neat little telescope.
I have a 4.5" ball scope that has served me as a lap scope from time to time. Mounting the laser pointer makes it easier to position objects in the field of view. Just click on the laser and point. Carefully look in the eyepiece without moving the scope and you have your object. Years ago, my first view of M78 - Casper the Friendly Ghost - was through my lap scope.
But yes, you do have to control your breathing if you want a nonpulsating image. And I'm afraid the lap scope is pretty much limited to warm weather viewing. I've yet to find a green laser pointer that will continue to work below about 40 degrees F.
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I hauled out my 5" f/5 OTA and spent about 20 minutes lap scoping. It was a pretty darned interesting experience. The views were surprisingly good. I had thought the scope would be all over the place and hard to steady, but I found that by sort of gently pulling down into my lap I could hold it as steady or steadier than my 70mm binocular. With a 32mm Plossl the view was sort of like a binocular on steroids (albeit with just one eye).
Navigating was confusing. I had a *very* hard time reconciling the motions of the scope and the FOV. I've been using dobs since day one so I didn't expect that, but somehow going handheld changed the game. I have an image-erector somewhere that came with my second-hand Astroscan--I will dig that out and see if the workings are any more intuitive with an erect image.
Oddly enough, the navigating confusion didn't make the experience any less enjoyable. In fact, it was kinda cool to be lost in the sky again, just panning around and seeing what I could find. I liked it enough to want to try it again, image erector or no. One more tool in my observing toolkit, and for that I am grateful.
I am out fairly frequently with people who haven't stargazed before. I like the idea of parking someone with the scope and the Milky Way and just having them go nuts.
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It also goes without saying - but I'll say it anyway! - that a lap scope pretty much has got to be a short-tube Newt.
Quite! And the Newt in question needs to be appropriately sized for the observer. I've seen ads in which people use an Astroscan as a lap scope, but I'm 6'2". If I set the Astroscan in my lap it is hard to get my collarbones to the eyepiece, let alone my eyes!
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That is just plain clever. Thanks for sharing your ideas and experiences. Beats the heck out of oversized binos IMO.
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Thanks for the great Article Doug!
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I especially like the way you captured the wonder of visually observing. The comparison to great art is a good analogy.


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St. Louis, MO (Sports Network) - Carlos Beltran belted two of four home runs
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — Jockey Calvin Borel is approaching his 5,000th victory and Hot Springs is marking the event by putting his image on a trading card.
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The two biggest challenges for me that I need to work on are getting the star relative brightnesses better. I seem to have two "magnitudes:" bright and dim. I've also noticed it is very easy to get the proportions off when one starts plotting down the first few stars. I need to work on that. But what I especially need to practice is drawing dots, not these weird quasi-crescent shapes that manifest themselves when I try to draw stars!
All in all, this is a great beginning cluster. Very sparse field with several cool asterisms, including one I labeled a radio telescope in the northeast of the field.
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Have a friend thats close to the Iowa City West program and he's told me that Charlie Rodgers is leaving ISU at semester. He didn't know where to or wheter or not he would be playing fooball but just he was unhappy in Ames.
Judging by some of his recent tweets I would not be surprised if he doesn't return this spring
Charlie Rogers@CharlieJ_Rogers 2 months.
Charlie Rogers@CharlieJ_Rogers
So ready to just say F___ this
Charlie Rogers@CharlieJ_Rogers
Feels like I made the wrong decision, Contemplating..
Charlie Rogers@CharlieJ_Rogers
Too much be going through my head...
Charlie Rogers@CharlieJ_Rogers
I'm going to do what I want to do
would not be surprised....there will always be some attrition.
Carrying the banner for ISU.
What position and would it be a bad loss?
Originally Posted by Messi
Charlie Rogers@CharlieJ_Rogers
So ready to just say F___ this
if that's really what he is like, whoever he transfers to will be getting a great attitude/work ethic it sounds like...
Yeah I've seen some of those tweets.. its too bad. He was one of the four rumored that the coaching staff thought was an NFL talent from the last class.
Follow this guy on Twitter @Daddy_Rusty
He is listed a DB, was recruited as an athlete. It happens, seems like he is home sick and misses high school just based off his tweets.
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What position and would it be a bad loss?
DB. We already have 4 more DBs signed for this class and I would say it is a deep position for us. Maybe he doesn't foresee PT? Could be he just doesn't like it in Ames. Who knows.
Originally Posted by zrh2012
He is listed a DB, was recruited as an athlete. It happens, seems like he is home sick and misses high school just based off his tweets.
Home sick and he is from 3 hours away?
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Home sick and he is from 3 hours away?
It happens. He may be one of those people where he is use to all the attention being on him and being the man. Now he is in the college ranks and to anyone on campus or anyone that cares about ISU football is an unheard of.
No. Please no. Please don't do this. Yes, it's a big loss, IMO.
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Originally Posted by Tre4ISU
No. Please no. Please don't do this. Yes, it's a big loss, IMO.
Huge, huge loss if true.
Hope it's not true. I heard him and Daley are the two most talented freshmen
All in or get out.
Don't understand this. He was really excited to go to ISU. I went to the same high school as him. Won't believe it until it's true. You sure your friend isn't a hawk fan trying to trick you?
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He's probably starting talent at UI
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While reviewing my presentation to Japanese management, the translator became frustrated because, as she said, "too many words". Always ready to lend a hand, she leaned forward to better see the computer screen. .
"Don't you like to explain the slides?"
She explained that Oriental people are visual learners. It is in their DNA, even their written language is very ornate and intricate. Japanese style presentations are crammed full of colorful charts, drawings, and schematics all depicting life with very few written words. Almost anyone of any nationality can follow their presentations because it is depicted in pictures, not detailed in the words.
That night, I was studying Queen Esther, one of my favorite books of the bible. But I was having trouble figuring out where God was in the book. He is never mentioned. I thought back to the translator and the color coded charts and graphs. How great would it be to have a bible that color coded passages about God speaking or things related to God speaking? I wondered how many times I missed God speaking in the Bible, just because I couldn't visually connect the dots.
The current Bibles on the market don't make it easy to know exactly when God is speaking; he could be speaking through dreams, another person, angels, himself, or others speaking on God's behalf, which makes it confusing. It is easy to see how Christians can fall under the spell of thinking that God doesn't speak to his people anymore; that God is just out there somewhere in space watching, but not interacting with his creation
Did you know only 10% of Christians hear God, whether from reading the Bible, prayer, dreams or other people? One reason for this is they are not taught how to hear God speak.
How best to teach people how to listen to God? A great way is to associate color with God speaking. When ideas, concepts, data and other information are associated with images, techniques and color, the benefits are abundant. Some of the many benefits of learning visually are: people remember and recall information better; reading comprehension improves; learning skills improve; and critical thinking skills are enhanced. Think of the possibilities of applying these benefits to bible study and learning to hear God!
Reading a regular study Bible could be viewed as boring to the visual reader. There is nothing there to help connect the concepts. A new Bible on the market, the God Speaks Bible, helps to visually make a connection to God speaking through and to people; people just like everyone else, people who wanted to know God's will. Every believer who puts in a little effort to read the bible wants to hear God, to know God's will for them in their current situation. This bible is color coded to help the reader distinguish who is talking; God directly, a situation talking about God speaking, man speaking on God's behalf, angels speaking on God's behalf, and Jesus speaking.
Having this knowledge color coded helps us to connect with the Bible stories in new ways, opens up our minds to all the color of God. God speaks in so many different ways to so many different people of social stature that it can be missed sometimes or excused. If studying regular information in visual ways increases critical thinking, learning skills, comprehension, memory and recall, imagine what studying the Bible this way could open up; hearing God and applying scripture to everyday situations.
Want to help promote the reading of God's Word and encourage people to learn how to hear God's voice? Imagine a color coded study Bible and multi-media application highlighting when God speaks to you. Operation Light Force (OLF) is a ministry devoted to equipping people to do what Jesus did, setting captives free, healing and preaching. Richard Mull is the President and Founder of OLF and the General Editor of the God Speaks Bible and many other books and was featured on TV and media. Help us spread the word.


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Continuing with this week's coverage of nonproliferation programs that supported President Obama's Four-Year Effort, NNSA's Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) describes the various challenges they faced during operations to remove and secure vulnerable nuclear material around the world. GTRI was at the forefront of implementing the President's Four-Year Effort, and completion required the hard work and dedication of hundreds of individuals from DOE, the national laboratories, the U.S. federal government and international partners in 27 countries.
The completion of a typical nuclear material removal or elimination project includes a variety of political, technical, and regulatory activities. Throughout this effort, GTRI and its partners overcame several significant technical obstacles. The program's noteworthy technical achievements included several firsts, including:
These achievements allowed GTRI to address additional forms of nuclear material and accelerate activities to remove material more quickly to achieve the goals laid out in the Four-Year Effort.
In addition, the program had to overcome numerous bureaucratic obstacles (often before or during a shipment), including having a shipment canceled by the foreign government after the spent fuel had been packaged and was ready for transport, having overflight permits canceled at the last minute, and having a transit permit canceled while a shipment was ongoing. In each case, GTRI and its partners were able to quickly implement contingency plans to ensure shipments were completed successfully.
Finally, GTRI and its partners overcame environmental impediments, such as an earthquake in Chile three days before a shipment, a blizzard in Russia that closed airports, and a typhoon that jeopardized a shipment from Vietnam.
In all cases, to make the President's words reality, the task required the technical expertise, creativity, flexibility, perseverance, teamwork, and dedication of the hundreds of people who worked across the globe on the Four-Year Effort. The world now is a safer place because of their contributions.
Click here to read highlights of GTRI's contributions to President Obama's Four-Year Effort to secure vulnerable nuclear material around the world. See which countries and areas have had HEU or plutonium removed and secured by GTRI with this interactive map.
The United States and Russia are today commemorating the completion of the 1993 U.S.-Russia HEU Purchase Agreement, commonly known as the Megatons to Megawatts Program. Under this agreement, more than 500 metric tons of weapons-origin highly enriched uranium from Russian nuclear warheads was downblended and shipped to the U.S. to fuel nuclear reactors. Over the past fifteen years, ten percent of all U.S. electricity has been supplied by fuel containing material from former Russian nuclear weapons. The final shipment of low enriched uranium under the agreement arrived in Baltimore this week, signaling the start of a new era of collaborative work between the U.S. and Russia.
Read more here. See additional photos of yesterday's shipment here.
Pantex scientists Barry Hill, left, and Matt Reyes demonstrate the properties of matter to a group of fifth graders at a recent Windows on a Wider World event at the Don Harrington Discover Center in Amarillo. Hill and Reyes, who both work in the Explosives Technology Division at Pantex, put on the "What's the Matter" demonstration using liquid nitrogen to freeze a variety of items – including balloons, a banana and a racquetball – to demonstrate the different properties of matter and how they can be changed.
B&W Pantex supports a variety of educational outreach events throughout the year in an effort to foster an interest in science and math among students in the Texas Panhandle.
"Today I am announcing a new international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years. We will set new standards, expand our cooperation with Russia, pursue new partnerships to lock down these sensitive materials."
- President Barack ObamaPrague, Czech Republic April 5, 2009
As President Obama's Four-Year Effort comes to a close this month, NNSA is highlighting the work carried out by its nonproliferation programs to reduce the threat of vulnerable nuclear material around the world. In support of the Four-Year Effort, NNSA's Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) led the effort to secure and, when possible, eliminate these dangerous materials. Working at civilian sites in more than 100 countries, GTRI executes its mission by converting research reactors and isotope production facilities from using HEU to using low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel/targets, removing and/ or dispositioning excess nuclear and radiological materials, and protecting nuclear and radiological materials from theft. As such, GTRI was at the forefront of implementing the Four-Year Effort.
Under the effort, GTRI accomplished the following major tasks:
By Ben Dotson, Project Coordinator for Digital Reform, DOE Public Affairs
For more than 60 years, the Energy Department's National Labs have played a crucial role in the national security of the United States. Founded during the immense investment in scientific research and technical innovation in the period preceding World War II, the National Labs conduct cutting edge research in a diverse variety of fields, advancing the safety and security of the American public. This month on energy.gov, we're highlighting that great work -- from cybersecurity to robotics and beyond.
One of the key missions of the Energy Department is guaranteeing the safety, security and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear stockpile. At Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories, scientists develop and employ the tools, technologies and high performance computing resources necessary to support the stockpile stewardship program.
The National Labs also support U.S. national security in other equally important ways. Argonne National Lab has helped local and state governments develop emergency plans, run drills for pandemic outbreaks, and analyzed ways to enhance security at plants and factories across the country. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers study counterterrorism and the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. They have developed a first-of-its-kind framework for major metropolitan areas that covers natural threats and the long term complications arising from biological, chemical and radiological incidents. Scientists and researchers at Idaho National Laboratory have developed a new flash x-ray system that can reveal how a projectile or weapon interacts with armor at the moment of impact.
The national security and public safety work performed at the labs has been recognized with a number of R&D 100 awards, the "Oscars of Innovation." Throughout the month of December, keep checking energy.gov as we feature the National Labs and their innovative work supporting U.S. national security and public safety. To learn more about the National Labs, visit energy.gov/labs.
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A new planning tool that minimizes required on-hand inventory, while ensuring that the right product with the right quality is delivered at the right time, has been implemented at Pantex. The NNSA Integrated Production Planning and Execution System (IPRO) was delivered seven months ahead of schedule and approximately $8 million below projected cost.
Pantex developed and deployed IPRO to modernize its Enterprise Resource Planning tool system and reduce cost while improving operational visibility and inventory accuracy. IPRO provides a major hardware and software system upgrade that integrates management of mission critical functions.
The program not only replaces software management systems dating back nearly 25 years, it provides a portable, customizable and flexible ERP solution to sustain the ever-evolving electronic workplace.
See more.
Dr. Kevin Greenaugh, Deputy Assistant Deputy Administrator for NNSA's Office of Stockpile Management, recently received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Mercer University.
The award is presented to an alum who has served his/her profession in an outstanding manner, serving as an excellent representative of Mercer University in the process. Recipients are recognized for their exceptional service to humanity and dedication, ideals fostered at Mercer University.
Last year's recipient was Nancy Grace of CNN's Nancy Grace Show.
Read more.
About the photo: Mercer University President William D. Underwood presents Kevin Greenaugh with the Distinguished Alumnus Award.
For the tenth consecutive year, Y‑12 received the National Safety Council's Occupational Excellence Achievement award. The award recognizes companies, units or facilities with no fatalities during a calendar year and 50 percent or fewer reported lost-time injuries and illnesses than the Bureau of Labor Statistics rating for their industry.
The second award received was the U.S. Department of Energy Voluntary Protection Program Star of Excellence. As the award states, employees have "achieved an outstanding level of performance in meeting established safety and health goals, actively conducting outreach to others and in achieving an injury and illness rate significantly below the average of similar businesses and operations."


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3-Channel Mixing Keyboard Amplifier
A.Yes, you can simultaneously input signals to both the phone jack and XLR jack on the CH 1 input.
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Pictures of the Setup
- Tilting servo: Robotis Servo (typically we use RX-28) http://www.crustcrawler.com/motors/RX28/index.php?prod=66
- Hokuyo UTM.
- Bracket to mount the Hokuyo on to the servo.
- ROS (http://www.ros.org)
- You will need the following ROS packages from our public ROS repository (available at http://code.google.com/p/gt-ros-pkg/wiki/hrl_content_summary)
- robotis
- hrl_hokuyo (requires hokuyo_node - http://www.ros.org/wiki/hokuyo_node)
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MARRIAGE DIGEST: Maryland A.G.'s opinion on out-of-state 'gay marriages' criticized
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (BP)--In a decision that likely will lead to a lawsuit, Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler issued a 53-page opinion Wednesday saying the state could recognize out-of-state "gay marriages" despite a state law that explicitly says marriage is only between a man and a woman.
Gansler's opinion does not mean the state will begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples; the state's highest court, the Court of Appeals, in 2005 upheld current law and refused to legalize such relationships. But Gansler's opinion -- unless challenged -- does mean the state may begin recognizing "gay marriages" from the five states that have legalized it, such as Massachusetts.
His opinion is not a complete surprise to conservatives. In 2008 he publicly backed a bill that would have legalized "gay marriage."
"Maryland courts observe 'the general rule that a marriage valid where contracted or solemnized is valid everywhere, unless it is contrary to the public policy,'" Gansler's opinion read, adding that Maryland has no law stating "gay marriage" is contrary to the state's public policy. "... [T]here are many restrictions in the State's marriage statutes and the Court of Appeals has not construed the public policy exception to encompass all those restrictions."
For example, Gansler, a Democrat, said Maryland has in the past recognized a marriage between an uncle and a niece, even though he said such a marriage would not be allowed to be performed in-state.
Conservatives quickly criticized Gansler's opinion and pointed not only to the court's 2005 opinion but also to Maryland law, which states: "Only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid in this State."
David Lee, executive director of the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware, said he was "deeply saddened" by Gansler's opinion.
"It is my opinion that this decision goes beyond just legal issues and stands in direct opposition to God's Word," Lee told Baptist Press. "While we seek to extend God's love to every Maryland resident, Maryland/Delaware Baptists must stand on the biblical principles of family. I am grateful for our legislators in Annapolis who are standing strong for the traditional and biblical definition of marriage currently stated in Maryland law."
Republican Del. Donald H. Dwyer Jr. also criticized Gansler's opinion.
"It is not up to the attorney general, and that's the reason I will be bringing charges of impeachment," Dwyer said, according to The Washington Post. "The opinion doesn't change the law. It in effect usurps law."
The 2005 ruling by the Maryland Court of Appeals came via a 4-3 decision and was widely applauded by conservatives because it tied the need for traditional marriage laws to procreation.
"[V]irtually every Supreme Court case recognizing as fundamental the right to marry indicates as the basis for the conclusion the institution's inextricable link to procreation, which necessarily and biologically involves participation (in ways either intimate or remote) by a man and a woman," the majority opinion read.
Two of the four justices who signed that opinion have retired.
AUSTRALIA SAYS NO TO 'GAY MARRIAGE' -- Australia's Senate easily defeated a bill Thursday that would have legalized "gay marriage" by a vote of 45-5, The Age newspaper reported.
Worldwide, seven countries recognize "gay marriage": the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Canada, South Africa, Norway and Sweden.
Michael Foust is an assistant editor of Baptist Press. With reporting by Erin Roach, staff writer for Baptist Press.


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Tale of Two Careers: James Wilby & Colin Firth
James Wilby is two years older than Colin Firth, but odds are you don't know his name or even his face. Even his Wikipedia entry lacks a photo. So off we go to IMDB. I fell for him in Tale of Two Cities in which he played the tragic Sydney Carton with just the right level of sarcasm and self-loathing. So I sought him out which was hard the pre-Internet era. Le Video saved me!
Keeping Pace
For a while Wilby and Firth had the same sort of career. They starred in Dutch Girls together but Wilby was already typecast as the preppy jerk. They both did a series of small British movies, playing emotionally repressed men.
Wilby starred in Maurice, in which he plays a young man desperately trying to suppress his homosexuality, only to have Hugh Grant's character undermine his resolve and self-confidence. Ultimately he finds self-fulfillment and true love with a better man (in Canada!).
Firth starred in Apartment Zero, playing an emotional cripple who rents a room to a possible serial killer. He was also a shell-shocked WWI vet restoring an old mural in A Month in the Country. Both actors seemed stuck period pieces.
A Series of Prigs
Unfortunately for Wilby's fans, he has never gotten another role as cool as Sydney Carton. He usually plays upper-crust men who are either weak or rigid. A Handful of Dust is especially painful, given his character grows a spine towards the end of the movie and it all ends badly in the Amazon jungle, thanks to Evelyn Waugh's mean-spirited humor. He's plain fussy in Howard's End and Gosford Park and creepy as the crippled husband in Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Romance Wins
Colin Firth has played plenty of cads, but his smoldering Mr. Darcy and his lovelorn Mark Darcy in the Bridget Jones films overshadowed his earlier roles. He muddled through some American films, carried a sword in The Last Legion, but he finally revived career playing a man grieving for his partner in A Single Man. This year he was triumphant as King George VI in The King's Speech, a role for which he won almost every acting award available.
James Wilby also played King George VI in the charming BBC television film Bertie and Elizabeth. It's difficult to compare the performances; it's a different kind of movie, more about his relationship with his family and his wife, but he finally gets to play a really good man who isn't a loser, so it's a win for his fans.
Breaking Form
Wilby's next big project is a Titanic mini-series in which he probably plays a White Star Line company man who insists that third class passengers don't really need lifeboats since the ship will never sink.
It would be lovely to see him break out of type now that he's fifty-two. He's played a few modern-day roles on television, but rarely in a movie. He'd be good as the civil-servant lover in Little Bee and he could wear jeans! Or he could pair up with a good director like Stephen Frears, Danny Boyle, or even Tom Ford if he chooses to direct another movie. Colin Firth proved you only need a few good roles to get to Oscar night.
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I was dreaming in Spanish, at least I was dreaming I was dreaming Spanish. As I slowly woke and came back into reality it occured to me I could not be dreaming in Spanish for obvious reasons. Then the lyrical strains of the harmonious Spanish language again floated through my bedroom window. The vineyard outside my bedroom window was alive with pickers in the pre-dawn glow and their happy chatter filled the air. How anybody can be that happy before dawn and facing hours of backbreaking work always amazes me.
That was about ten days ago and those crews were the first wave, picking grapes bound for sparkling wine. However, now those first ripples are getting ready to turn into a tsunami of harvesting as the Napa Valley gets ready for the main event: the Cabernet Sauvignon harvest. There has been scattered activity around the valley as first the grapes for sparkling wine and then some of the white varieties were harvested. We picked the grapes for our Cornerstone Sauvignon Blanc early last week, in perfect conditions. This was our first harvest of Sauvignon Blanc from the Talcott Vineyard just outside of St. Helena (not too far from Taylor's Refresher), so I was out there at first light to watch the pick. It never ceases to stun me how hard the picking crews work. None of what we do could be possible without them. Every time I watch a harvest crew in action I want to punch Lou Dobbs in the mouth. I'd like to see him survive even a half-hour, while these crews work at breakneck speed hour after hour until the mid-day sun forces the picking to a merciful end.
Tonight our new Sauvignon Blanc is slowly bubbling away in a cold stainless steel fermemter, while the pickers themselves sleep the sleep that only exhaustion can bring as they prepare to hit the vineyards tomorrow before the morning light illuminates the seemingly endless rows of vines waiting for them. Today we scheduled the pick of our Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon for this coming Tuesday and our Oakville blocks will be right behind. It's going to be a busy two weeks for us, but it's nothing compared to the ultra-marathon our pickers have already embarked on.
This is a wine outside of your (and almost everyone's) comfort zone. Slightly oxidized and dry-as-a-bone, you'd be hard pressed to find a white wine more outside today's popular profile. First of all it's from the eastern part of France in the Jura region, home to wines loved by only the geeky-ist of wine geeks, on top of that it's an oxidized style of wine like the great Fino and Manzanilla wines of Spain's woefully under-appreciated Sherry region. Unlike those great wines, it is not fortified, which makes it even more confusing as it just does not fit into any easy marketing category.
The 2006 Domaine de la Tournelle Fleur de Savagnin Arbois from vignerons Evelyne et Pascal Clariet is an extraordinary white wine. It is such an interesting and compelling wine that almost everyone you let taste this wine will hate it. However, if like Steve Martin in LA Story you, "let your mind go and your body will follow" - or in this case let your palate go and your body will follow, you will be treated to a wonderful glass of wine. Nutty and layered with endless layers of complexity, the firm dryness of this wine is almost jarring to palates numbed and dumbed by extremely fruity wines or those that claim dryness, but actually have significant residual sugar.
Just in case this wine needed something to confuse the drinker even more it's made from the Savagnin variety, which as nothing to do with Sauvignon Blanc and may (or may not) be related to the traminer variety, more recently of Gewurz fame.
None of that matters for this is wine at its best: compelling, interesting, delicious and, most of all, unique and distinct to its variety, vineyard and tradition. What else matters?
I'm trying to remember the first year I visited this estate - 82? 83? In those days Einaudi was ultra-traditional and in the 80's that meant erratic. While those days are often a bit over romanticized, there is no debate that great wines have always been produced by the Einaudi estate - most of the time. Rustic would have been an over-polite way to describe the old Einaudi winery of the early eighties, but today's Einaudi wines are produced in a sparkling clean modern winery. While some may debate the plusses and minuses of that, you cannot debate the pleasures of their wonderful dolcetto wines and the fact that the ups-and-downs of previous decades are no more. The Dogliani region of Piemonte is well established as a premier dolcetto region and Einaudi's are among the very best wines from this region. The 2006 Einaudi Dolcetto di Dogliani is as brilliant and brightly fruity as you could hope for, but offers a lot more than that. Under the dense black fruit is a hard edge that comes not only from the electric acidity, but from a delicious warm earthiness that makes this wine reach beyond the simple fruity offered by so many of its siblings. Drink this wine up now before it dries out.
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While Julie and Julia may be more a puff pastry than a plat principal, it is a light pleasure that no foodie should deprive themselves of indulging in. The main beauty of the movie is that people are actually cooking in it -- thinking about cooking, dreaming about cooking, really cooking and most of all, really eating and eating with gusto. That's a good feeling in an era where people are more likely to spend time watching competitive cooking than actually cooking themselves. I left the movie feeling good and, best of all, hungry. A wonderful feeling that television shows like Iron Chef and its ilk do not leave me with. If the one good thing that comes out of this movie is that a few people actually pick up those copies of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, that are sitting, clean as they day they were purchased, on their bookshelves and actually cook something then it's a great movie.
Never trust someone who calls themselves a foodie whose cookbooks are not stained and worn.
In my last post I criticized the 2002 Paolo Scavino Bricco Ambrigio Barolo. I didn't like the wine, but it is my hope that they never change the way they make it. By that I don't mean the barrels or yeasts they use, but that they never change the fact that they make their wines with passion and vision. It matters not one bit that I do not share their vision for what makes Barolo great. The only thing that matters is that in their soul they believe in the wine they make. If I don't like it I don't have to drink it.
There is an important difference between wines cynically manipulated to get points and those made by winemakers that feel in their gut that they are making the greatest expression of variety and vineyard they can attain. That sometimes those are the same characteristics that get points does not diminish their vision.
As wine critics tear apart the passion play that is winemaking it is important for them to remember that it matters not one bit if you like the wine, but only if it is made with great care and, most of all passion and vision. A critic does not need to share that vision to appreciate that wine. Such is the case here with the Scavino Barolo, the fact that I don't enjoy it does not mean that it is not great wine. It only means it is not great wine for me.
Everyone seems to love this wine, but me. Huge points always seem to accompany Paolo Scavino's Baroli, yet to me they have very serious problems - they don't taste like they were produced in Barolo or produced from the nebbiolo variety. This time the wine was being served by the glass so, while expensive, it was not as big a of hit as buying a whole bottle of pricy wine I was unlikely to enjoy. Being by the glass it gave me a chance to give the wine another chance. I was also hopeful as it was from the lighter 2002 vintage, so I hoped it would have escaped the extremes of the Scavino style. No go. The first glass was clearly oxidized. I just thought it had been opened too long, but the bartender insisted that it had only been opened three or four hours before. A second glass, from a newly opened bottle, was fresher, but the fact that a Barolo that had been opened for only a short period was already shot shows you what happens when you put the wrong variety in new barrels. This newly opened wine showed lots of new oak flavors over a pruney, simple vague overripe fruity flavor. You can buy the same thing for a lot less money, done a lot better if you like that style, from Australia and California.Paolo Scavino is clearly a passionate winemaker, but for me, his choices simply do not work. I just cannot give up the idea that Barolo should taste like Barolo. These wines could come from anywhere.
Soon the grapes for California bubbly will start being picked. They're always the first as they're more interested in acidity than sugar and flavor. Here signs at the gates of Domaine Chandon are ready to direct the fleet of trucks that will soon be arriving.
As harvest approaches excess crop is dropped and leaves are pulled from the fruit zone. Here bunches of Cabernet lie on the ground in Yountville.
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LOUDON, N.H. � What a wretched day for Fords in general and its flagship team, Roush Fenway Racing, specifically, at Sunday�s Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
The team�s Chase drivers, Matt Kenseth and Greg Biffle, finished 14thand 18threspectively. Carl Edwards was 19th. Kenseth was at the top of the Ford class.
Chase drivers took the top seven positions: in order, Denny Hamlin, Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Clint Bowyer, Kasey Kahne, Brad Keselowski and Tony Stewart.
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Express delivery �Hamlin looked bulletproof all weekend, the sole exception being his qualifying performance, in which his crew inexplicably botched the tire pressures. He flexed his muscles from the very beginning on Sunday, needing only 94 laps to drive from 32ndplace to the lead.
Hamlin led 193 of the 300 laps, including 193 out of the final 206.
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Same old story � Edwards languished again, falling from fifth at the start to 20thplace by the halfway point. As noted, he wound up 19th.
Edwards� best finish in the last five races was a 17that Richmond.
The dream lives � Jimmie Johnson is two-for-two. He has finished second in the first two Chase races. Eight more times and he�ll win the championship without winning a race.
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AMES, Iowa – Iowa State tennis head coach Armando Espinosa has announced the signing of English teen Lydia Green to a National Letter of Intent.
Green, a Melton, England native, spent the last two years training at IMG Academy in Florida, which has produced six Division I players in the last two years and is widely considered one of the top training academies in the United States.
"With the addition of Lydia we add a player that has been trained at a very high level," Espinosa said. "She adds depth to our lineup and we expect her to have an impact on our team because she is a hard worker."
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Colorado Health Connections, a local home health agency, will be holding a community forum Wednesday, Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. at the Peerless Theatre.
The community is invited to learn about home health services and how it can benefit individuals or their loved ones. Refreshments will be served at the forum, located in the gym in the back of the Peerless.
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Model A Frame Of My Modified ProjectWritten by on October 1, 2011 The Modified Gets Shock Absorbers And Steering
We left off last month with the front axle and springs mounted to the Model A frame of my Modified project, which means the next logical step is steering and shock absorbers. With a normal cross spring-suspended I-beam, selecting steering arms and the tie rod is pretty straightforward, as there's usually only one place the tie rod will fit; under (or through) the radius rods and under the chassis. The choice of cross steering, with something like a Vega box and universal joints connecting the steering column, or a solid column and box, such as an F-1 or stock '32-34 box, will determine whether or not you'll use a drag link from the left-hand spindle leading back to the steering box and pitman arm or not.
I'm aiming to build this roadster with as vintage an appearance as possible while using some new parts, so I opted for a solid column and box (which I have yet to source) and a drag link. Not wanting to place my tie rod ahead of the axle, out in front where it could suffer damage, meant it had to run across above the split wishbones, as well as over the quarter-elliptical springs I'd chosen to use. This meant careful selection of steering arms to ensure no interference between the tie rods and other components. I was lucky enough that Vintage Reproduction Parts sent me three sets of steering arms to make my selection from, and now I have done just that. I know this is something not everyone can do, so hopefully my following findings will help with selection for your projects.
OK, onto the shock absorbers. Modern thinking would dictate tubular shocks, which are available these days with built-in and/or adjustable compression and rebound adjustment (check out Rob's Fleetline suspension story on page 42, for instance), but not only did I want to run lever arm shocks to continue the vintage theme, I'd also been hoarding a swap meet–sourced set for over a decade that I wanted to use on just such a project. They're not early Ford Houdaille-type shocks; in fact, I'm not sure what they're from. They're Armstrong units, and by the shape of the arms on the front pair, they're from an Austin Healey Sprite or Ford Anglia, but the rears, with their curved arms, are a complete mystery to me.
I was pleasantly surprised, however, while attempting to identify them with the help of Google, that they have two valves, one for compression damping and one for rebound damping, and are easily adjustable. So nothing's new . . .
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This pair would have worked if I could pass the tie-rod end through from above, but it was tapered from the underside, meaning the tie rod and wishbones wanted to occupy the same space.This 1 3/4-inch dropped pair, intended for '28-34 Fords, had the taper reamed from both below and above, meaning I could mount the tie rod over the top of the wishbones and springs.For reasons I'll explain, I elected to make my own tie rod. First, I measured the distance between the wheels, both at the front (shown), and at the back of the rim, to ensure they were parallel. I then measured between the eyes of the steering arms, to give me the total length of my tie rod.Speedway Motors sells tie rods of various lengths, but they use a jam nut to secure the tie-rod ends. I wanted to use the stock Ford clamps and slotted ends on the tie rod for a period look. Whenever I see tie rods, or badly cobbled together rods like this one at swap meets, I always buy them, as the ends are reusable. With the tie-rod ends in place on the steering arms, I could determine how much of the end of each rod I wanted to use, and subtract these lengths from the overall length I determined in the previous step.I ended up requiring a 39-inch length of 7/8-inch DOM (seamless) tubing, which I drilled at each end in order to plug-weld to an internal sleeve. I also chamfered the ends for better weld penetration.With the DOM tubing on the left, and a short length of an old tie rod on the right, you can see the internal sleeve inside each piece. Remember to use one left-handed and one right-hand threaded end from old tie rods, to facilitate adjusting the toe-in/toe-out during alignment.I MIG-welded the plug welds, and tacked the actual joint, which I'll TIG-weld at a later date. My tie rod now appears old, with the clamps at each end. The slots that allow the threads to be clamped are on the underside.My tried-and-tested method of joining two lengths of tubing of the same diameter is to clamp them vertically and horizontally to a length of angle iron to align them while welding. Ensure the slots on each end piece of tubing are aligned.With the cross steering sorted, I moved to the business of actually getting the wheels to turn. These tubular steering arms (which I may or may not end up using, depending on the steering ratio) are available from a number of sources. That's an old tie rod connected to it, used as a drag link for illustration purposes.
The drag link is almost perfectly positioned directly above the radius rod, supported here at its rear end by a jackstand in lieu of a steering box.The pitman arm on the box should be positioned directly above the rear pivot point of the radius rod to eliminate any bumpsteer, illustrated by the set square.With the steering completed, except for the actual steering box, which I have yet to source, I moved onto mounting the shock absorbers. Of note here, I could have used any of the steering arms discussed earlier that bolt to the spindle, if I'd run the tie rod across in front of the axle. I didn't want to do that, however, as it always makes me nervous of what may happen if someone backs into your car, or you drive into something, and bend the tie rod.My plan from the outset had been to mount the lever arm shock absorbers using the same bolt that locates the rear of the Posies quarter-elliptical springs. However, during assembly it became obvious that this provided insufficient clearance between the radius rods and the shock where the arm pivots. I elected to make brackets to weld to the spring housings and raise the shocks by a couple of inches.The Lincoln Electric 375 plasma cutter at our Tech Center made light work of cutting the 1/4-inch plate from which I made the brackets.With the brackets cut out, and the edges dressed they were held in place using 90-degree magnets, and then tack-welded. Final welding will wait until the chassis nears completion.The shock absorbers were bolted in place, and a set square used to determine the amount the links needed to be extended to mount underneath the wishbones, with the arms horizontal. These shocks have a lot of travel; way more than they'll need in this application, but I still checked they wouldn't bottom out in use.Once again, angle iron was used to hold the links while I TIG-welded a 2 1/4-inch length of tubing in place. I sandblasted the links first, taking care to tape up the ends.
As the links had tapered connectors, much like a tie-rod end, I fabricated a couple of brackets from 1/2-inch mild steel, thick enough to accept a taper. I always make pairs of brackets together like this, so they're the same shape. Shame the plasma cutter wasn't capable of cutting 1/2-inch material; I had to fab these using an angle grinder and file.After drilling a 1/2-inch hole, I used a taper reamer from Speedway Motors to ream the taper. The tape is my high-tech depth gauge!Voíla! Lever arm shock absorbers mounted to the split wishbones. You can also see here how I had to cut and bend the arms slightly (arrow), as originally they pointed out toward the front wheels. They now both point straight ahead, and align with the wishbones, not to mention look way nicer. All welds are tacks for now.I mounted the second pair of lever arm shock absorbers at the rear of the chassis, but first fabricated a pair of these plates from 1/2-inch mild steel (yes, again with a cutting wheel in a grinder!), then drilled and tapped them to mount the shock body.This pair of shocks had these crazy curved arms that I figured would look neat going over the axle, but I didn't want them protruding too far above the chassis (taking into account the arm will rise in operation) as I'll be mounting my gas tank here. The mounting plate solved three problems: It was thick enough to drill and tap, meaning the bolts wouldn't have to run into the chassis at all; I could mount it at an angle so the arm of the shock was perpendicular to the axlehousing; and it served as a reinforcing plate for the joint where I Z'd the frame.Another pair of brackets, similar to those welded to the wishbones up front, mount the shocks to the rearend.


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Now that kind of thing, apart from making me feel old (which is, admittedly, a fair enough feeling at my age) also made me look back and think on where we (the ITIL community) have come from and where we are now.
The first thing that occurs to me in thinking back to the early days of ITIL is that we now find ourselves in a place that none of us imagined we would. Don't get me wrong, the original inventors and drivers[1] of the ITIL idea were not short on confidence or vision, nor in seeing the benefits that documenting this aspect of best practice would bring. But I suspect that world domination of this industry sector by the word 'ITIL' was beyond even their best possible visions.
The key to the expansion of ITIL was that it quickly became about more than just the books. The ITIL advertising leaflets produced in the mid 90s coined the term 'ITIL philosophy' to represent this expanded
scope of ITIL. I suppose I should confess that I invented that phrase and also the diagram that went with it – a version from about 1997 is shown here. The accompanying words suggested that, even back then, less than 1% of 'ITIL-related sales' were about the actual ITIL books, and the rest were evolved services.
The fact that I couldn't even hazard a guess at what that percentage might be today indicates a few, pretty self-evident truths:
- When I was writing those things in 1996-1998, I felt I could pretty much 'take-in' what was going on related to ITIL, and even know most of the people developing and delivering new ideas. Nowadays no-one can honestly claim to be able to do that.
- What is 'ITIL-related' has become a much more debatable concept. Whatever its faults might have been (and there were many) ITIL was just about alone in its market space. The initiatives kicked-off by ITIL have spawned fellow travellers, such as COBIT, ISO20000 and others. The fact that I could easily start a long running – and probably vitriolic – debate[2] on the social media pages by asserting which are and which are not ITIL derived, ITIL alternatives etc indicates that this is now a loosely bounded region. That makes any assessment of its scale, scope and success very hard
Some other things have changed too.
Nowadays the maturity of the ITIL ideas means most players are focused on market share rather than growing the sector itself. That means more competition than there used to be. Nonetheless there are still lots of examples of that collaboration still easily found. Probably the best example is the 'Back2ITSM' facebook group – a place where free advice, constructive debate and openly shared thoughts are still the norm[3].
The itSMF was born in 1991, and played – probably – the major coordinating role is promoting the idea, importance and approaches of service management. Like ITIL, itSMF predates the term 'service management', having started as the ITIMF. Even here we have seen a lot more competition during the last third of its lifetime: both competition from other community organisations and also considerable internal competition. I hope itSMF will evolve form this to carry on delivering benefit to its members. I am a bit too frightened to work out what percentage of my time has been given to itSMF over the last 17 years – or at least frightened what my employers over that period might think. But that commitment does make me wish hard for its future health.
So, looking back should makes us appreciate where we are now – nostalgia can be deceptive for usually the past wasn't better; because progress is exactly that – going forward and getting more. And wherever ITIL is now, IT Service management has come a wondrous way in the last 20 years. Global technology changes have made a difference to that journey; we've seen personal computing and the internet make all but unbelievable levels of change. We may well see Cloud do the same; personally I think cloud might do that by freeing us from some of the technical baggage and letting us see and address real service management issues, without the obfuscation of technology issues or the opportunity to hide behind them any more.
We've seen a move from books being the go-to source of wisdom when ITIL started to an amazing range of information sources. Nowadays your typical service management will expect their influences to come via social media, electronically delivered white papers and the like. Interestingly, in many cases, they would also expect them to come for free, and that throws a real challenge on the thought leadership business. If ITIL 4 ever happens I think it will be a radically different entity from versions1-3.
Where I want to see ITSM going is towards SM. IT is now so pervasive that it is everywhere, which to me means that ITSM cannot be a subsection of overall SM anymore because it logically applies to everything, since all services now depend on IT. Nevertheless, IT has treated SM well, and – after some effort –has taken it seriously. I hope those lessons will work their way into broader adoption and we will see an improved – and critically an integrated – approach to service management across enterprises because of that. I am driven to optimism in this (not my natural state you understand so it is noteworthy) by the fact that, alongside this blog, I am involved just in this same month in a webinar and an article for IBM's SMIA series on the idea that IT is now spreading its ideas – and delivering its technology and specifically its evolved software solutions – to the broader enterprise needs.
I wonder what we will be saying in another 20 years looking back – maybe ITIL will survive another 20 years, maybe not, but I am certain service management will progress and improve.
[1] And the top two names I would put here are Pete Skinner and John Stewart – perhaps our least sung heroes, especially the late Mr Skinner – but pivotal all the same.
[2] I don't plan to, and hope no-one else is tempted – there are far more constructive things for intelligent service management practitioners to progress knowledge about.
[3] And if you are interested (sad?) enough to be reading this then you should be part of that group if you aren't already.