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Less than a quarter of U.S. online adult today state that sales associates are the best source for product information. But give those workers more technology and shoppers view them with more respect.
As part of Forrester's ongoing research on the 'the digital store,' we recently examined the role of retail sales associates to understand their impact in the age of the customer. There's no doubt that technology has dramatically impacted the way in which consumers discover, explore, buy, and engage with brands, products, and services. However, the impact of technology on sales associates is unclear, as is the degree to which the role of the sales associate needs to evolve to leverage these new capabilities. However a number of trends have become clear while researching this role, including:
The role of the associate will change from an information provider to a facilitator of engagement. The sales associate is no longer the sole provider of information in stores: Customers can now find product information via their mobile device without the help of an associate. This scenario provides an opportunity for the sales associate to pivot and drive increased engagement with the customer.
Digitally connected sales associates are trusted. Less than a quarter of U.S. online adult today state that sales associates are the best source for product information. However, when armed with mobile devices, the associate is seen as a trusted advisor. The breadth of information available to sales associates via mobile devices allows them to consider a broader array of information when making product recommendations to customers in the store.
The associate is the conduit between enterprise data and the customer. Along with leveraging product and customer information to provide a more personalized and relevant experience, the associate has an opportunity to collect customer intelligence and report that insight back to the enterprise. By making associates more strategic, omnichannel retailers can gain a competitive advantage over eCommerce pure plays and allow the organization to leverage the personal interactions in the store to provide relevant messaging in all touchpoints.
There are many roadblocks still in the way of enabling a digitally enabled sales associate. Product and customer data often isn't visible across the enterprise, legacy systems are hard-wired and cannot incorporate new capabilities without significant upgrades, and a lack of associate training means execution is challenging and in some cases unsuccessful. But while we are still in the early stages of the digital store transformation, we expect a steady stream of innovation to occur in regards to the digital store and the sales associate.
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TCL called the pocket internet cafes. My mind immediately recalled those cheap Windows CE "UMPCs" displayed at CES, which were basically poor quality no-name devices that were never heard from again, but after some googling turned up a number of results from relatively well known Chinese tech sites, I decided to look into it further.
I can't make heads or tails of the "pocket internet cafes" moniker, but the 9.1-ounce device has been christened the iOpen-081A by its maker. Most of its specs are nothing to write home about (Win CE 5.0, ARM926 processor, 2GB NAND flash, 64MB SDRAM), but its integrated wi-fi, GPS, USB host/device ports, digital camera (still and video), and SD card slot aren't too shabby for 2300 yuan (~$336).
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Run : 1, a backlight, will be transferred to middle life time is about eight hours ; 2, with no backlight circumstances, life time is about 10 hours
Whether rechargeable : Rechargeable
It is powered by Windows CE 5.0 operating system and will retail for approximately $336. I think you'll be able to get a decent surfing experience with this device, although I would rather fork out a wee bit more and get a much more satisfying experience with a netbook. The price point is really strange, since the branded Mylo 2 is cheaper and seems to be much more desirable.


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Oklahoma football notebook: Frank Shannon practicing, will play against Baylor
Oklahoma sophomore linebacker Frank Shannon was a full participant in practice Saturday and will play in the Sooners' game Thursday night against Baylor, defensive coordinator Mike Stoops said.
"Frank will play," Stoops said. "He practiced today, so he's in good shape."
Shannon left last weekend's win over Texas Tech with an injury and didn't return.
"They initially thought when they took him to the hospital, right away they thought it was a spleen injury," coach Bob Stoops said Monday. "But that checked out OK. The last I'd heard was a deep tissue bruise."
Shannon leads Oklahoma with 53 tackles this season.
Mike Stoops said that if his unit is on the field Thursday against Baylor's offense for more than 90 snaps, he doesn't like the Sooners' chances to win.
"You can't win a game, I don't believe, playing Baylor if we've gotta play 90 to 100 snaps," Stoops said. "That's not a game you want to be in. You hope that your offense can control the football and you can control the game."
Baylor is averaging about 79 offensive snaps per game, and has only hit the 90-play mark twice this season — in wins over West Virginia and Iowa State.
Baylor's passing attack gets most of the attention, but junior running back Lache Seastrunk is one of the Bears' most dangerous offensive weapons.
He's rushed for 869 yards and 11 touchdowns this season. Last year against Oklahoma, he picked up 91 yards and three touchdowns on the ground.
"They space you out so far, and then they have such a great running back, when he gets the ball with any kind of space, he's strong to run through you," Bob Stoops said. "He's fast to run by you or around you. So, you know, that's a big part of the challenge is being able to be in position to tackle him and to have your feet and hips in position to tackle him."
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Dunya is just fifteen years of age when her father, the Grand Vizier, gives her over to the mad Sultan for his bride. Ninety-eight Sultanas before Dunya have been executed at the break of dawn following their first night with their new husband. But on her own wedding night, the ninety-ninth bride finds help from the mysterious and beautiful Zahra, who proposes to tell the Sultan a story...
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AVVENTURA. Dai 9 anni in su. Moshe è un cavallo che cerca un miraggio. Cerca quello che suo padre gli ha detto essere la sua terra. Scopre che quella terra è già occupata, ma un posticino lo trova, spettatore di un conflitto che travolge la sua famiglia e quella del suo amico Ahmed. La storia di Moshe e Ahmed simboleggia il conflitto attuale Arabo-Israeliano.
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The Genie's Gift is a lighthearted action novel set in the fifteenth-century Middle East, drawing on the mythology of The Arabian Nights. Shy Anise seeks the Genie Shakayak to claim the Gift of Sweet Speech. How will she get past a vicious she-ghoul, a sorceress who turns people to stone, and mysterious sea monsters, when she can't even speak in front of strangers?
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Long, long ago in a land at the edge of a desert that howls against the walls of the village, a poor young boy named Samir is sent to work for a strange old man who stays up all night listening to the stars. This imaginative reconstruction of the tale of the Magi will appeal to children aged six and over, and draws on real astronomical research into the real Christmas Star.


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Shaina's supporters have raised more than $12,000 sincer her bike accident on July 13.
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On the afternoon of July 13, Shaina Briscoe was riding in an alley-cat bike race downtown when she collided with a car. She was rushed to Hennepin County Medical Center, where doctors diagnosed a traumatic brain injury and a broken jaw.
But before she made it to the hospital, dozens of cyclists gathered around her at the Hennepin and Washington intersection, offering whatever help they could. In the nearly two weeks since the crash, that same cycling community has turned out to support Briscoe's recovery.
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On July 18, about 100 friends gathered at Gold Medal Park downtown, and rode their bikes down to the MIA, where they made spoke cards in Briscoe's honor, and then over to HCMC. On Sunday, a group of friends, family, and bike mechanics built a new bike for Briscoe -- a yellow-framed beauty -- from donated parts.
And now, Briscoe's supporters have created a "Shaina Store," selling men's and women's t-shirts and tank tops, buttons, and spoke cards, all to raise funds for Briscoe's recovery.
The shirts, which are going for $15, come in heather grey and a turquoise green, and are stamped with "I Bike for Shaina."
Options from the Shaina store include the "Lady Tank," right, and the "Dude T-shirt."
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Proceeds from the store will get added to an already-substantial fund. After the accident, Briscoe's friends and family created a Give Forward fundraising page with a goal of $7,500. When they passed that mark in 26 hours, they set a second goal of $10,000.
Now, Briscoe's supporters have put more than $12,000 toward, as the page's description explains, "medical expenses and the unknown and a BIG 'OL RECOVERY PARTY."
Even more important than that generosity, though, is the fact that Briscoe is improving. She made it through a four-hour jaw surgery, she's breathing on her own, and while she still hasn't opened her eyes, that's to be expected.
She's stabilized enough to leave the ICU at HCMC. This morning, according to updates from her father, David Briscoe, on her CaringBridge page, she is getting moved to Bethesda Hospital in St. Paul for long-term care.
"The ICU has told us: 'Shaina is,'" David wrote. "Bethesda will tell us: 'Who Shaina will be.'"
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You see, their morals, their code...it's a bad joke, dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these...These "civilized" people...they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve
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Food for thought: if you aren't dead by 2050, you and your entire family will be within a few years from starvation. Now that is a cruel gift to leave for your offspring. ;)
I love to eat them almost bloody rare.
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Car Phones Getting Smarter
Auto Makers Push Tighter Integration With Devices, but Safety Concerns Remain
These are not your father's car phones.
Smartphones are slowly replacing the bulky attachments of old and finding a more important role in the driving experience. It goes beyond making phone calls in your car, or even using the cellphone as a navigation system.
From remotely setting the temperature of the air conditioner to running mobile programs such as Pandora's Internet radio service through the dashboard, smartphones are bringing their Swiss Army Knife-like capabilities to the car.
Car makers see the tighter integration of technology as a way to improve safety and head off heightened scrutiny over distracted driving. The National Safety Council last month released a study showing that the brain can't safely juggle using a cellphone while driving a car.
Auto makers acknowledge the issue, but still believe the smartphone can play a crucial role for drivers.
"It's about keeping your hands on the wheel and eyes on the road, and Sync helps with that," said Julius Marchwicki, a product development engineer for Ford Motor Co. F 1.03 % 's car entertainment system, called Sync.
Ford allows a driver to connect an iPhone, Android device or BlackBerry to Sync, but automatically locks the phone when it connects, forcing the driver to use voice commands through Sync to run media and other applications.
"This was designed to be used at 70 miles per hour," said Mr. Marchwicki.
The early version of Sync, however, was plagued by clumsy voice controls that didn't always recognize the correct command. Ford this month showed an improved version at the New York International Auto Show.
General Motors Corp. plans to offer a similar service in the coming months. Micky Bly, who runs GM's global electrical systems arm, said he expects to have a more polished product at launch, but was light on details. "We're going very aggressive after the ability to have a safe environment with significant voice recognition capabilities," said Mr. Bly.
OnStar, which lets drivers speak with agents using a wireless link built into the dashboard, has been shifting many of its car assistance and safety services to the smartphone.
"Smartphones represent a new way" for drivers to interact with OnStar, said Tim Nixon, director of engineering systems and operations for OnStar, which is a GM unit.
Skeptics abound that smartphones can make driving safer. "There's a risk of technology enabling more distractions or it could create a false sense of security," said Lincoln Merrihew, an analyst at market researcher Compete Inc.
The auto makers envision more than just a safer drive. Ford in January released a software development kit that allows developers to tweak their smartphone applications so they would be able to work with Sync's radio controls, voice commands and navigation system.
Internet radio programs Pandora and Stitcher and Twitter program OpenBeak plan versions that are able to work with Sync. Mr. Marchwicki said there will be more applications, including ones that can tell the car's fuel efficiency, or leave "breadcrumbs," through global positioning system data that friends can follow.
OnStar sees the opportunity for more features once the electricity-powered Chevrolet Volt launches later this year. It plans to launch an app that allows drivers to remotely unlock the doors, or check how much energy is left on the car's battery.
Japan's Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. has similar plans to have similar a iPhone app ready for the launch of its first electric vehicle, the Leaf, slated for December. Like the OnStar program, it allows drivers to remotely set charge times, as well as control the air conditioner or heat to pre-set the temperature.
Luxury car maker Mercedes Benz, a unit of Daimler AG, has a car assistance service called Mbrace, which comes with an application for the iPhone or BlackBerry that can help locate a car in a crowded parking lot. Rasheq Zarif, head of product strategy for Mercedes Benz said, "most features in the car are bleeding into the smartphone."
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A Wilmington woman has given birth to quintuplets at an Arizona hospital.
Officials with Banner Desert Medical Center in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa say 33-year-old Carmen Milam Matthews delivered the five babies Thursday after a 34-week pregnancy.
The three boys and two girls are receiving care in the neonatal intensive care unit at Cardon Children's Medical Center on the Banner campus.
Their birth weights ranged from 2 pounds 2 ounces to 4 pounds 13 ounces.
At a news conference Friday, the 33-year-old Matthews said she had always wanted five children but not necessarily at the same time.
The Arizona Republic says Matthews and her husband, Mike, are from Wilmington, N.C.
The couple says they came to Mesa so perinatologist Dr. John Elliott could assist in the deliveries.


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To perk up your ears, check out the live video of my performance of "What Might Have Been" with special guest Robby Hecht. The footage is from our release party at 3rd & Lindsley in Nashville. Good times!Read More
Grab one of these new lyric tees on tour! Hey all! Who's got cabin fever?! I DO! So, after what feels like a long winter, I'm itching to get back on the road. Looks like I'm going to be logging plenty of miles on the road and in the air this spring. The dates are really starting to pile up … from some of my favorite cities to even a few new ones (check it out, I'm going to Alaska [...]Read More
Watch Jennifer's TEDx talk about LGBT issues of faith, including performance of three songs.Read More
Merry Christmas, everyone! It's that wonderful time of year again, where I dust off the ole trumpet and practice my backing harmonies! This year Margaret Becker and I will be performing The Hymns of Christmas live and online. No need to brave the cold, just turn on your computers, make a batch of eggnog and invite all your friends over! The Hymns of Christmas record is, of course, available. So make sure you get yours so you'll be ready to [...]Read More
Hey all! I wanted to take a minute and let you know how meaningful all the positive feedback over Set Me Free and Facing The Music has been. My knees have finally stopped shaking and I'm really enjoying all the great responses I've received. I'm always grateful to get a glimpse into how music and storytelling can inform, encourage, and inspire us as we go about our crazy lives. It's not just personally encouraging to know how much you've enjoyed [...]Read More


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May 24, 2016
Florida receives more than $350 million a year from its settlement with Big Tobacco. In the beginning, up to $70 million a year was spent on highly successful ads.
Middle and high school tobacco use plummeted. Then the funding got cut to next to nothing, so now the same people who successfully passed a smoking ban in restaurants and public places want to require the Legislature to use 15 percent of the tobacco settlement for anti-smoking efforts.
Adrian Abner was around when the first campaign was in its heyday.
Adrian Abner of Students Working Against Tobacco says, "And I know firsthand that it helped insure my friends, and I didn't need to smoke to be considered cool."
The group, which must collect 611,000 signatures by February, says it tried to work with lawmakers.
Brenda Olson of the Florida Lung Association says, "And we just haven't been successful, and this is the only avenue we have to ensure the tobacco dollars are being used as intended to help prevent kids from ever starting to smoke."
Advocates can't argue the number of young people starting to smoke has gone up since this program was cut to the bone, but what they can argue is that the downward trend has been stopped in its tracks.
Statistics show nine out of 10 adult smokers started as teenagers.
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Posts tagged with 'art'
Atta Kwami fan shares her excitement about 'Prints in Counterpoint' exhibition!
11 May 2015 by Zachary
Our current exhibition 'Prints in Counterpoint' has been popular with visitors to our World Cultures gallery, where it is showing in the introductory area of the Africa section of the gallery at World Museum until October. Read more…
Behind closed doors at the Lady Lever Art Gallery South End redevelopment
8 May 2015 by Ann
I've been talking about our exciting project to restore and redevelop the South End galleries at the Lady Lever for quite a few months now and have been itching to get on site to see how the work is progressing. Read more…
Fresh Perspectives at the Lady Lever Art Gallery
15 April 2015 by Ann
Angelica Vanasse, Education Project Assistant for the Lady Lever Art Gallery has been working with local schools and their art departments on a very special exhibition, now in the final week of the 'Fresh Perspectives: Art from Wirral Schools' she tells you why you need to make time to see the work of our young local artists. Read more…
Our paintings on tour in Japan
1 April 2015 by Lisa
We think it's great to sometimes have the opportunity to show off our collections in other countries.
Our art gallery curators are excited to be working with a Japanese organisation to tour 68 works from the fine art collections to four exhibitions venues in Japan.
Everybody Razzle Dazzle
2 February 2015 by Lucy
We are really excited to be involved in a new project announced today, to 'dazzle' one of the Mersey Ferries, and even more so because it involves Sir Peter Blake.
Peter Blake is perhaps most famous for designing the cover of The Beatles' album, 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' (1967). However, he has been a prolific artist during his career and his status in the art world far exceeds Sgt. Pepper's.
Sir Peter is a leading figure in the development of British pop art, and became the first Patron of the John Moores Painting Prize – held every two years at the Walker Art Gallery – in 2011. Read more…
Crisis art group mural
18 December 2014 by Lucy Johnson
Throughout 2014, an art group run by the charity Crisis have visited exhibitions across our museums and galleries. Inspired by what they have seen, the group members have spent the last 12 weeks working together in their workshop on a mural which celebrates the city of Liverpool. I attended the unveiling of the fantastic artwork and got the chance to see other paintings the group have produced. There were some wonderful creations!
Their favourite exhibitions this year were Grayson Perry: The Vanity of Small Differences and the John Moores Painting Prize at the Walker Art Gallery; both provided the group with a wealth of discussion, debate and ideas for their own work. The group spoke very passionately about their experiences of visiting our venues and it was very rewarding to see how our exhibitions can inform, challenge and inspire people.
A big thank you to Crisis art group and we hope to see you in 2015!
UK Disability History Month – Artist, Peter N Spencer (1924 – 1987)
11 December 2014 by Kay
This is our second feature for UK Disability History Month, 2014. This year's theme is War and Impairment: The Social Consequences of Disablement.
Peter Spencer, a well-known foot and mouth artist, painted this image of a Starways Viscount aircraft in flight in 1964. Peter had been a pilot during the Second World War and lost the use of his arms and hands following an aircraft accident 27 March 1945.
With great dedication and endurance, he learned to paint and to draw holding the brush in his mouth. His works were exhibited widely and he was awarded an MBE in 1980 for his human and artistic achievements.
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Funding award to highlight LGBT collections
We are delighted to announce that National Museums Liverpool has been awarded a significant grant to fund research into its Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) collections in its art galleries and urban history items at the Museum of Liverpool.
The £91,863 grant from the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund will be used to support the 'Pride and Prejudice' project, which we will develop with partner Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove, based within one of the UK's most prominent LGBT communities.
'Pride and Prejudice' is a two-year project, that will tackle the challenges faced across the museum sector, by realising the full potential of LGBT collections to ensure that objects and stories within these collections are fully researched, sensitively interpreted and made accessible online and through display to a wide and diverse audience. Read more…
Polish Christmas festivities
There are more than 10,000 Polish people living in Merseyside, and we are really pleased to be involved in their Christmas celebrations this year, working with Polish community group Merseyside Polonia, to put on some fantastic activities at the Museum of Liverpool and Sudley House.
Christmas in Poland is a truly magical and important time of year. Poles are famous for their hospitality, especially at Christmas when strangers are welcomed to share 'Wigilia' (the Polish word for Christmas Eve meaning 'to await' in Latin) and an additional seat is always left at the table for someone unknown. Read more…
Family connection to Empress of Ireland inspires art student
25 November 2014 by Jen
One the most interesting aspects of working in museums is getting to hear people's stories and explore the personal side of historic events, including the impact they often still have today.
The sinking of the Empress of Ireland on 29 May 1914 was one of the worst maritime disasters of the twentieth century. Though overshadowed now by the loss of Titanic and Lusitania this sinking resulted in more passenger deaths than either of those more famous tragedies, with a loss of 840 passengers and 172 members of crew. Many of the crew were from the Liverpool area so, like Titanic before it and Lusitania in the following year, the tragedy had strong local connections and was keenly felt in the city. Read more…


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PSN Update TOS Protects Sony from Lawsuits
In the wake of criticism over its network hack and outage, Sony tries to avoid class-action litigation by users in future situations.
Considering that the Federation doesn't use money, it seems somewhat fitting that Star Trek Online is going towards the free-to-play model later this year.
Some tough decisions were made, but we have a new list of the top 15 iPad games, including the likes of Fruit Ninja HD, Rage HD, and Sworcery. Did your favorite make the cut?
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Sony's going to be pretty busy at the Tokyo Game Show this year.
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Situated in 9 de Julio Avenue within a 10-minute walk of Barolo Palace and Obelisco, BA Stop Hostel is a budget city center Buenos Aires hostel. Staying here, you'll also be within a short walk of Teatro Colon and Plaza de Mayo.
Along with free continental breakfast, this hostel offers free WiFi and wired Internet access. Multilingual staff can provide tour/ticket assistance, express check-in and express check-out.
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NCAA Game Day: Sizing Up OSU-Georgia Tech
By John Helsley
MILWAUKEE – Here in the nation's Dairyland, those analyzing tonight's Midwest Regional matchup between OSU and Georgia Tech are focused on one aspect: size.
Or the Cowboys' lack of it.
Is it key? Yes… and no.
The Cowboys have faced long and athletic frontlines before — and slayed the giants.
Cole Aldrich, Marcus Morris and Co. with Kansas. Luis Colon and all his lanky legions at Kansas State. Baylor's Ekpe Udoh and Anthony Jones and Josh Lomers. And others.
Are those combinations as talented as Tech's duo of Derrick Favors and Gani Lawal? Potentially, no, with both projected as first-round NBA draft picks.
But the boys from the Big 12 are far more accomplished than the Yellow Jackets' pair, who hardly dominated as Tech went just 7-9 in a down ACC. Favors and Lawal haven't consistently put their potential in place.
"We're not the biggest team in the world," said Cowboys coach Travis Ford. "But our guys have figured out how to compete. We've played against some big teams. Kansas was big and Texas was big and Baylor's big. You go down the line, there's some big teams in the Big 12.
"And our guys, at times, they've figured it out. And at times we haven't. But we understand going into these situations that we've got to be overachievers, that we're going to have to make up for some lack of height and some different things at some point. And we understand that."
Understand this: Georgia Tech faces matchup issues as well, with the pressure on to chase OSU's shooters on the perimeter. And one of those big men will have to join in the chase.
That's a mismatch, too, for a Tech team that has at times struggled to defend the 3-point line against a team with James Anderson, Obi Muonelo and Keiton Page that has gunned down better big teams already.
"Obviously, that's crucial," said Jackets coach Paul Hewitt. "Because they're a great 3-point shooting team, one of the better 3-point shooting teams we've seen all year. When we've struggled, we've really allowed people to get going from 3."
This is a far better matchup than Sunday's possible showdown with Ohio State, which also starts four guards, but has big athletic guards who will contest shots and pressure the Cowboys to work hard with screens and cuts to create open shots.
Tonight, as it's been much of the year, it's not about any OSU weakness inside, but one of the Cowboys' strengths: the 3-point shot.
If they're on, they're through to Round 2.
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Re-upping the Contract with Sociology: Charles Mills's Racial Contract Revisited a Decade Later
Version of Record online: 22 AUG 2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00013.x
Sociology Compass
Volume 1, Issue 1, pages 255–264, September 2007
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Thomas, J. M. (2007), Re-upping the Contract with Sociology: Charles Mills's Racial Contract Revisited a Decade Later. Sociology Compass, 1: 255–264. doi: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00013.x
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- Sociology Compass 1/1 (2007): 255–264, 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00013.x
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Since its publishing in 1997, Charles Mills's The Racial Contract has changed the way in which sociologists think about and practice the study of race and racism. Nevertheless, it is my belief that this work has not received its rightful place among other canonical works within the field. This article, then, is an attempt to show the utility and creativity within which this work has been used by a number of scholars within the critical race discourse. For it is this body of work that holds the most promise for not only opening new doors in the study of race and racism, but also for liberating us from the racial contract under which we live.


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Folks for years have found the fonts and formatting change as they open old documents. The reason why is well discussed but in case you missed it I'll give the short version.
When we open an old version the fonts may be unavailable so font changes happen. Along with this, you may not have the same printer so Word re-formats the document to give you the WYSIWYG of how it will show up given your current PC and printer.
That had nothing to do with Microsoft and folk come away a little bruised about that.
If you need "formatting" to stick around you would never use Word but a type setting program.
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Man 1: What happened to Fred after the party? Man 2: Oh, he became a skante warrior. He looks like a alligator with all those scabs. Man 1: Hey, I kept some meth from the party. Wanna try it? Man 2: Bro, you crazy?!?!? Fred and his pack can smell that shit! Man 1: Oh shit, here he comes. Run bro!!! *gunshots and stabbing sounds*
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In 'Hereafter,' Clint Eastwood asks eternal questions but offers no answers
NEW YORK – As an actor, Clint Eastwood has dispatched more than his share of fictional adversaries into the great beyond. But as a director, when it comes to the mysterious passage from life to death, he admits he doesn't have any answers. Only questions.
And those are posed with admirable art, rigorous curiosity and glancing uncertainty in his new film "Hereafter," a moody, yearning examination of life's most nagging question: What happens to us after we die?
At a press conference hosted by Warner Bros. before the film's closing-night premiere at the New York Film Festival, director Eastwood and his cast engaged in a rambling exchange with film journalists that sometimes smacked of an airy New Age seminar on the afterlife.
"Most religions seem to ponder the afterlife, but I thought this was interesting because it wasn't really a religious project," Eastwood said. "It had a spirituality about it, but it was not necessarily tied in with any particular organized thought.
"And I think everybody, whether you believe in the afterlife or the chance of this near-death experience and coming back, whether that has really happened or not, I don't know, certainly everyone has thought about it at some point in time," he said. "And it's a fantasy that if there is anything out there like that it would be terrific. But that remains to be seen."
"Hereafter," which stars Matt Damon as a self-questioning San Francisco psychic, interweaves the stories of three unrelated people in far-flung locales struggling with the overwhelming tragedy of sudden death and seeking to find answers about eternal life.
"It was a terrific script," Damon said of Peter Morgan's speculative screenplay. "It was really tight. It read like a play in a sense where sometimes when you do a play you just explore the material and every answer you need is there. I'm somebody who does a lot of research normally on my own, but in this case I really didn't want to go down the rabbit hole. It was really all on the page."
"The film is really a story of inquiry and curiosity and a feeling of incompleteness and a feeling of living with mystery," said Morgan, whose resume includes celebrated scripts for "Frost/Nixon" and "The Queen." "And that's something that unites every one of us. Other than the act of being born, none of us know where we're going. None of us has any idea, and we're going to do all of it alone. I thought it would be quite interesting just to provoke those questions without offering any answers. You know, it's very private."
Eastwood emphasized that the film poses mysteries with no concrete solutions.
"The questions are there," he said. "You pose the questions and then it's up to the audience to meet you half way and think about it in terms their own lives and what their thoughts are or what experiences they might have had."
For his part, Eastwood said he has had a couple of brushes with death that left him vaguely wondering about eternity.
"I remember when I was very young, my dad was taking me into the surf on his shoulders and I fell off," the director said. "And I can still remember today, even though I was probably 4 or 5 years old, I can still remember the color of the water and everything as I was being washed around in the surf before I popped to the surface again. But at that age you don't think too much about (death).
"And then years later, when I was 21 years old, I was in a plane and we had to ditch off the coast of Northern California in the wintertime," he recalled. "And I must say that as I was going in to shore I was thinking that I should be thinking about my demise, but all I was thinking about, as I saw some lights in the far distance, I said, 'somebody is in there having a beer and sitting next to a fireplace, and I just want to be in there. So I'm going to make it.'
"And that was the determination," he continued. "but there was no sense of fate out there. I don't think you get a chance to think that much. When you get that much time to think you're usually going to be OK."
Eastwood, 80, whose burgeoning resume has put him in the director's chair for both personal, human-scale dramas and epic, action-packed sagas, said he had to perform a delicate balancing act in "Hereafter." The film opens with a stunningly realistic, large-scale depiction of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people before segueing into the more intimate, intermingling stories of his characters' tortured questing.
"I thought an unusual aspect of the script was taking actual events and placing them into a fictional story," Eastwood said. "And so the tsunami of 2004 out in the Pacific was one and then the London bombings of 2005, of course. I thought that was a unique thing to do.
"But the tsunami sequence was very difficult to do," he said. "I thought that would be prohibitive and where would we do that. In the old days I suppose you would have done that on the set and you'd have done little set pieces and turned a lot of water lose.
"But with the element now of computer-generated effects you could go ahead and do it. Even though water is probably the most difficult thing to do in a CGI basis," he said. "I have a guy named Michael Owens who worked with me on 'Letters From Iwo Jima,' 'Flags of Our Fathers' and back as far as 'Space Cowboys,' and he kept very much hip on the technology as it had been improving over the years. And we went through it and figured out what shots we would need to do live, and then we did it. But it took us a lot of different places."
Eastwood said they shot some live sequences in a giant water tank in London and then went to Maui and shot in the ocean and on the streets of Lahaina.
"From then on it was piecing all the elements together with the connective shots," he said. "If you don't pre-plan, CGI is the most expensive thing in the world. So you have to plan every single shot, and that's normally not the way I shoot. But this time it worked out rather well."
Eastwood admitted the tonal difference between the tsunami sequence depicted in the film's preview trailers and the smaller-scale story that follows might be confusing to some film goers.
"With trailers you're most of the time fighting the studio because they want to tell the whole story in a matter of 30 seconds," the director said.
"Any marketing department is always going to want to show the scope," said Damon. "And (the tsunami) is an incredible sequence. I understand you want people to be totally surprised by it, but at the end of the day they're in that situation where they want people to come see the movie. With 'The Informant' I kind of jokingly went on David Letterman and intercut scenes from 'Transformers' into the trailer to try to get people to go, just to say, 'yeah, it's about a whistleblower but a lot of (stuff) blows up, too.'"
"Yeah," Eastwood agreed. "I would have preferred not showing the tsunami (in the trailer) and just having it sprung on everybody, but that's just not the practicalities of life. You do want people to come in and see it and hopefully they'll enjoy it."


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Posted on 05/28/2010 1:05:46 PM PDT by EveningStar
When used correctly Photoshop has the ability to make people appear thinner and more beautiful, as well as the power to give millions an inferiority complex. It seems every image in every magazine has been Photoshopped these days, and this has led to what must be amateurs being let loose on images that are going to print...
20 Worst Photoshop Mistakes
15 More Worst Photoshop Mistakes
Is this a story about the AP?
Links don't work.
Link-y no work-y
Worst Linking Mistakes!.....uh....right here.....
Link works, just very very slow to load
Great stuff here, too:
Obama's manboob-reduction job for that photo op on the beach in Hawaii has to rank right up there.
Keep trying. They both just now worked for me.
Keep trying. They worked for me.
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What I got with both: Error establishing a database connection
Neither of the links works for me.
The first one was hilarious, but the rest were sort of ho-hum. One was a deliberate "high concept" cloning of legs, and it actually didn't look all that bad.
Neither one worked for me... just errors.
Well, since those links don't work, here's another set of bad Photoshops:
The links are good. The server seems to be having problems.
"My" links do work - sporadically. But I like "your" links better. :)
awesome! Are those foundry spartans?
Are those the troops Obama plans to send to the Mexican border? I assume the spears are photoshopped in since I doubt they are allowed to carry weapons.
I prefer 1:72 scale soft plastic 'troops' myself. :)
... where I messed up a perfectly good dog's a55.
Oh. My. Gawd. That is hilarious!
Some of these are hilarious,
Links working fine.
thanks for sharing :)
Always my favorite. I remember roaring when you first posted it!
Nope: Dan Rather.
Special Ops Cody doll thinks of Barbie one last time before he meets his ghastly end.
What a strange coincidence, that Giant Cat Guy was visiting NYC on that day.
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Volunteers of America will pay tribute to local homeless vets today at
the 10th annual "Capital Area Stand Down for Homeless Veterans."
A hot lunch, free haircuts, legal services, and even employment assistance will be offered.
The goal is to help veterans get back on their feet. A "stand down" is a tradition that dates back to early war times when soldiers were given a chance to rest from combat.
According to US data, veterans make up about 13% of homeless adults, and while vets may have fallen on hard times, the goal of today's event is to lift their spirits, and give them a hand up.
In addition to the free hair cuts and employment assistance, free dental screenings will be available, as well as housing referrals and counseling services.
A local boy scout troop will also be handing out blankets to veterans.
The event at Adado Riverfront Park runs from 10 AM-2 PM. It's also open to non-veteran homeless as well.
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Cincinnati's Opera Fusion Workshops New Opera
Anne Arenstein
0 Comments · Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Jake Heggie is one busy composer — a rarity in itself. That he's a busy — and successful — opera composer is even more noteworthy.
Opera Fusion: New Works Enables Completion of Daniel Catán Work
Anne Arenstein
0 Comments · Wednesday, January 28, 2015
In 2008, the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music and Cincinnati Opera launched Opera Fusion, an initiative to share resources and nurture emerging talent in artistic and technical areas.
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Cincinnati's artsy Tin Man gets a heart, plus art, theater, dance, music and film picks
0 Comments · Wednesday, August 20, 2014
A giant robot will soon be descending on the city. Metrobot, the interactive aluminum sculpture by Nam June Paik, once greeted visitors outside the Contemporary Arts Center's former space at Fifth and Walnut streets downtown.
by Anne Arenstein
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REVIEW: Cincinnati Opera's 'La Calisto'
Continues through July 27 at SCPA
Don't walk. Run to the School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) to catch the remaining performances of La Calisto, an opera composed in 1653 that's equal parts romance and raunch, performed by a superb cast of singers, instrumentalists and dancers who are all clearly having a wonderful time.Composer Franceso Cavalli was savvy enough to take opera out of palaces and into public theaters, where he made a fortune. He used the story of virgin Calisto, a follower of the goddess Diana, who is seduced by Jove and transformed into a bear by the vengeful Juno. Diana has her own problems with hormones and so does another of her followers. There's not much sacred and a lot of profane, not to mention profanity.There's a lot of transformation going on: Jove disguises himself as Diana to get it on with Calisto, meaning that bass baritone Daniel Okulitch puts on a long white robe, dons a wig and sings in convincing falsetto. A horny follower of Diana is sung by a male, a high soprano takes on the role of a frustrated satyr — and just what gender are the rest of Pan's satyrs and Diana's huntresses? Ted Huffman's staging is witty and occasionally wild; the battle between Pan's and Diana's tribes seems to involve more than the six or seven dancers onstage, thanks to the acrobatic choreography of Zack Winokur.Okulitch sings Jove with the requisite authority and gravitas, which also renders him ridiculous when lust for Calisto overtakes him. Okulitch is equally adept singing in falsetto, which is no easy task when it involves vocal ornamentation. Andrew Garland, a great recitalist with innate comic instincts, is a natural as Jove's gofer Mercury. Aaron Blake may be diminutive in stature but he has a huge, ringing tenor, and he was a hilarious Pan. Michael Maniaci sang Diana's lover Endymion, his pure male soprano giving the role genuine tenderness. Lyric tenor Thomas Michael Allen sang the role of libidinous nymph Linfea.The women are all excellent, especially soprano Nathalie Paulin, a convincingly innocent Calisto. Mezzo Jennifer Johnson Cano was a formidable Diana, singing with authority and melting emotion. Alisa Jordheim's agile soprano easily handled the demands of the frustrated Satirino, and Alexandra Deshorties embodies vengeance and fury as Juno.The chamber orchestra is joined by the phenomenal Catacoustic Consort and during intermission, a lot of the audience stopped by the orchestra pit to check out the theorbos, Baroque harp, lirone and viola da gamba. Conductor David Bates led a lively, nuanced reading of the score.The action plays out on a unit set used for last year's Galileo Galilei, with a wonderful star curtain that descends as Calisto ascends to the heavens to become Ursa Major, or the Big Dipper.La Calisto is Cincinnati Opera's first Baroque opera and they couldn't have made a better choice. It's heavenly.La Calisto, presented by Cincinnati Opera, continues July 23, 25 and 27 at SCPA's Corbett Theater. More info here.
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Stage Door: Opera, Dinner Theater and More
I saw Cincinnati Opera's production of Silent Night on Thursday evening. It's the regional premiere of a work that won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for music, and our local opera is doing a bang-up job of presenting it. And "bang-up" is the operative term: This opera is set during some of the darkest days of World War I, and the opening segment of the production reproduces the violent and deadly combat between troops from England (actually a regiment from Scotland), France and Germany. You're not likely to see a more gripping onstage representation of battle than what's happening at Music Hall. Before Thursday's performance I listened to composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell talk about how to "musicalize" such a scene: Their research included studying the opening sequence of the Saving Private Ryan, the graphic, Academy Award-winning film of the D-Day invasion during World War II. It's a powerfully real scene, a perfect opening to the moving tale of soldiers pitted as enemies who found common ground in one another's humanity on Christmas Eve 1914. You can get good seats for the concluding performance on Saturday evening (7:30 p.m.) for $30-$45 by calling the Opera's box office: 513-241-2742. Area high school students are the talent in onstage for Commonwealth Artists Summer Theatre (C.A.S.T.) at Highlands High School (2400 Memorial Pkwy., Fort Thomas). Starting tonight is a two-week run (July 11-20) of The Addams Family, a Broadway musical based on cartoonist Charles Addams' bizarre and beloved family of characters. The group is headed up by Fort Thomas theater instructor Jason Burgess, who has assembled theater kids from the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky who are eager to develop their skills in performance and production. Tickets: $10 (http://www.showtix4u.com) or at the door. The Tony Award-winning musical next to normal, about a woman with bipolar disorder, gets not one but two productions by Cincinnati-area community theaters: Sunset Players on the West Side and Paradise Players for East Side siders. You can choose between them tonight. The venerable Sunset Players, which presents shows at the Dunham Arts Center (in the Dunham Recreation Complex, 4320 Guerley Rd., Price Hill), has performances through July 26, mostly at 8 p.m. Tickets ($14-$16): 513-588-4988. Meanwhile, Paradise Players, a newish group offering summer productions at McNicholas High School's Jeanne Spurlock Theatre (6536 Beechmont Ave.), is presenting its rendition of the show this weekend only, tonight at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $15 (http://mcnhs.seatyourself.biz). Tickets tend to be a bit harder to come by at Northern Kentucky University for a dinner-theater production by Commonwealth Theatre Company of Route 66. It's about a band traveling from Chicago to the West Coast in the 1960s along one of America's most legendary highways. Along the way, they meet a lot of colorful characters and see a lot of America. The production features four solid local performers: Wes Carman, Roderick Justice, Dain Alan Paige and Joshua Steele are likely to make this a very entertaining evening. Through July 27. Dinner and the show ($30): 859-572-5464.
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Your Weekend To Do List: 6/20-6/22
Two annual festivals descend on the Ohio River this weekend: Paddlefest and RoeblingFest. The 13th annual Ohio River Paddlefest takes over Coney Island — and the nearby river — Friday through Sunday, bringing hundreds of canoes, kayaks, boats and lovers of the outdoors. The weekend kicks off with the ninth annual Kids Outdoor Adventure Expo on Friday (9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.). The Paddlefest Outdoor Expo and Roots on the River Music Festival runs 10 a.m.-midnight Saturday and the main event is Sunday, where more than 1400 human-powered boats will take the trip from Coney to the Public Landing downtown. Go here for daily event lineups. RoeblingFest is in its 10th year of celebrating the John A. Roebling Bridge, which connects downtown Cincinnati with Covington, Ky. The festival first and foremost highlights the bridge's historic relevance, and guests can take guided tours of the bridge and surrounding murals, landmarks and statues as well as browse informational displays with photos and artifacts from area museums and organizations. There will also be art for sale, children's activities, food from local restaurants and live music, all from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday. The fun takes place on Court Street between Third and Fourth streets and Park Place between Scott and Greenup streets. Find more info here. MidPoint Indie Summer is in full swing. This week's acts include Those Darlins, The Harlequins, The Frankl Project and Those Crosstown Rivals. Music starts at 7 p.m. Friday on Fountain Square. If you don't have your MPMF wristbands yet, purchase those on the square and get access to all these killer acts. Summer Solstice is Saturday, and the Cincinnati Observatory is offering a unique way to ring in the season. Visitors can enjoy wine, snacks and a killer view during Celestial Sips 8-10:30 p.m. Saturday. Shannon Depenbrock of D.E.P.'s Fine Wines will sample four organic, biodynamic wines (which means the grapes are planted and harvested according to the moon's phases) and, pending clear skies, guests can view Saturn's rings through America's first telescope. Tickets are $60 and space is limited; call 513-321-5186 or go here to RSVP. Cincinnati Opera's season opener Carmen continues through this weekend. Performances are Friday and Sunday. Get tickets and full summer opera season information here. The U.S. takes on Portugal in their second World Cup game this Sunday. Fans can join Cincinnati Saints, the city's pro soccer team, at Fountain Square to watch the game on the jumbo screen, listen to music and enjoy food and beer from noon to 9 p.m. Sunday. The game kicks off at 6 p.m. Read this week's cover story on the Cup here. For more art openings, parties, festivals and other stuff to do this weekend, check out our To Do picks, full calendar and Rick Pender's Stage Door for weekend theater offerings.
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Seeing Opera (and the World) Through Jay Bolotin's Eyes
Steven Rosen
0 Comments · Wednesday, July 24, 2013
The complexity, mysterious beauty, level of accomplishment and downright strangeness of Jay Bolotin's art is continually amazing.
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Your Weekend To Do List: 7/19-7/21
Sawyer Point turns 25 this weekend, celebrating with a big birthday bash Saturday. The party will feature live music, food and beer, a kids entertainment area with Cincinnati Circus and inflatable rides and all the other playgrounds and park features Sawyer Point has to offer. The Sawyer Point Rockin' Birthday Bash runs noon-10 p.m. Saturday and admission is $3. Cincinnati Opera closes its summer season with Aida, Giuseppe Verdi's grand opera about an Ethiopian princess mixed up in an epic love triangle. Aida is onstage Saturday at Music Hall and continues next week. Find tickets and more info here. Considering how much time most of us spend typing — on a computer at work or school, on a phone texting friends — the average kid today probably types faster than a professional secretary 50 years ago. Think you've got the fastest fingers in the city? Test 'em out in the Cincy Typing Challenge. Typists and texters will compete in the qualifying round Saturday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Cincinnati Museum Center. Finals are July 25 and the grand prize is $500, so register now, as same-day registration is limited. Let your Francophile flag fly Saturday at Montgomery's annual Bastille Day celebration. Montgomery's sister city is Neuilly-Plaisance, France and for 24 years the city celebrates this relationship with food, beer and wine, kids activities and lots of live entertainment. The free fête is noon-11 p.m. Saturday along Montgomery Road between Remington and Cooper roads. Bonne Bastille!Butler County, Warren County and Kenton County all host their respective fairs this weekend. Rides, games, animals and tractor pulls abound!For more art openings, theater shows, summer festivals and other stuff to do this weekend, check out our To Do picks and full calendar.
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Your Weekend To Do List: 6/14-6/16
Father's Day is June 16, so make sure you get out there and show Dad (or the Dad-like guy in your life) a good time this weekend. There's lots going on the next few days: stuff to do with Pops, and plenty to check out on your own once Dad starts talking about how wrecked the government is and how tough he had it when he was a kid (sorry, Dad, but it gets old). Newport's Italianfest runs Friday-Sunday on the Levee. Food is obviously a highlight at this annual fest; expect plenty of pizza, pasta, cannoli and gelato from area restaurants. There will also be live music, cooking and eating contests, rides and games and a photo exhibit of Italians that settled in Newport generations ago. Admission is free; go here for hours and more info.Cincinnati Opera's summer season kicks off with Mozart's comic drama, Don Giovanni. The opener's second showing is Saturday. Read our full Opera season preview here. Jungle Jim's is known for being the go-to grocery store for exotic types of meats, fancy cheeses, rare candy and produce from around the world, but it also has an extensive beer selection. Friday and Saturday, Jim's hosts an International Beer Fest featuring 350 beers from 100 breweries across the globe. Tickets are $40 for Friday, $45 for Saturday, $15 for designated drivers and can be purchased at the store's beer and wine department while they last (online sales have ended). The City Flea takes over Washington Park Saturday. Browse furniture, clothing, housewares, accessories and other vintage, antique, local and handmade goodies, plus food from local vendors and food trucks from 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Does your father love pork? Of course he does, this is America! Bring Dad to Covington for MainStrasse Village's "Original" Goettafest Friday-Sunday. Find ample versions of the sausagey Cincinnati stable along with plenty of beer, music, shopping and other festival favorites. Go here for details. For more stuff to do this weekend, check out our To Do picks full calendar and Rick Pender's Stage Door for weekend theater offerings.More to look forward to: Peep our Summer Guide, tucked into this week's issue, for all sorts of seasonal goodness to keep you busy all summer long. And be sure to get tickets to next Wednesday's Margarita Madness celebration at Newport on the Levee. Admission is $20 in advance ($25 at the Levee, if there are still tickets available) and includes ample tequila and margarita samples, summery bites from area restaurants and live music and DJs, all from 5:30-9 p.m. June 19. Get tickets and more info here.
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Four Innovative Opera Performances
Anne Arenstein
0 Comments · Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Opera is the operative word for June. Cincinnati Opera kicks off its 93rd season with expanded venues, programming and some of the hottest singers on the scene.
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Space-Centric Maintenance Planning
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Today's blog comes from David Turner, worldwide industry lead for Maximo government solutions.
Recent involvement with some shipyard maintenance initiatives and continued excitement over the IBM acquisition of Tririga spurred me to remember a conundrum from my days as a naval engineer in the U.S. Coast Guard. Specifically, I remembered how difficult it was to plan extensive maintenance work in a shipyard under compressed schedules in the tight quarters a ship provides. So how does the IBM acquisition of Tririga, a world-class real estate and facility management solution, get me thinking about shipyards?
One of Tririga's main features is space management and space is a premium aboard ships, both during operations and maintenance execution. When I was a young lieutenant, serving as the engineering officer about a Coast Guard cutter, we planned a dry dock maintenance availability with well over 100 major maintenance tasks to be completed within six weeks in a small Houston area shipyard. Reviewing the work, I was convinced it would be impossible to complete in six weeks (having spent four previous years working in shipyards on a daily basis). Of course the naval engineers and contracting people in far away New York City insisted that the project was easily attainable because the shipyard provided a nifty work plan detailing the scheduled dates, resources, etc. for all of the planned work. Indeed, the plan had properly scheduled predecessor/successor relationships for all the tasks and resource estimates were spot-on. What wasn't considered is WHERE each task on the work plan would be executed.
Using a very rough schematic sketch of ship's compartments, I plotted the task numbers of all the work to demonstrate that the shipyard planned to have 15 to 20 painters, welders, electricians and mechanics working simultaneously in compartments not much larger than my bathroom… er head. To make a long story short, I was right. Many jobs were re-scheduled due to space confinement constraints and the maintenance availability ended up taking almost twice the estimated duration.
Project scheduling engines like Primavera, MS Project and even the Maximo Scheduling product don't readily enable the maintenance planner to see the constraints that space imposes on work schedules. Some manufacturing and product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions provide simulation capabilities to overcome this hurdle in the construction and manufacturing industries, but I'm not aware of any organizations using such features routinely for maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) work. I checked with colleagues and clients in the shipyards and such a capability still eludes them… but everyone agrees it would be a time and money saver!
Applying the space parameter to maintenance planning, along with leveling resources and performing critical path management (CPM) methods, is now achievable. The tools and data to do such are available in the IBM Maximo product lines with the Scheduler or scheduling system adapters and Tririga space management.,
So the gauntlet is set, we now have the tools to implement this capability. One term I heard for this concept was "butts per square inch." I'm not sure you'll ever see that on a Maximo screen, but I'm looking forward to hearing more about the interest level in such a capability, whether in ships, facilities, tunnels or other structures or environments where space management is critical to maintenance planning and execution.
The following graphic is something I scraped together as a potential method of mapping work order task resources to space. This would represent a single shift, with the idea that the maintenance planner could flip through shifts during a given time period where work orders have been scheduled. I'm not sure it makes sense to try to automate the scheduling engine to "level' the usage of space. I'm not a big fan of taking away the human factor. A skilled maintenance planner, familiar with the work at hand, may purposely schedule multiple tasks in a confined space despite analysis indicating conflicts. The nature of the work may allow the tradesmen on site to deal with it. Just like we do today! Tell me what you think by commenting on this blog entry.
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The Canadian Energy Systems Simulator (CanESS), developed by whatIf? Technologies Inc., is an integrated, multi-fuel, multi-sector, provincially-disaggregated energy systems model for Canada. CanESS enables bottom-up accounting for energy supply and demand, including energy feedstocks (e.g. coal, oil, gas), energy consuming service technology stocks (e.g. vehicles, appliances, dwellings) and all intermediate energy flows. Energy is used when and where technologies are employed, and that is also the time and place for emissions to occur (see Fig. 4).
Fig. 4. Schematic representation of an energy system by means of stocks of harvesting, conversion, and service technologies supplying or demanding energy and the resulting energy flows
Fig. 5 below illustrates how the model accounts for changes in technologies and the resulting changes in energy flows. The primary drivers for changes in energy use are demographic and macro-economic dynamics. Together these two model components determine the final demand in the residential, commercial, transport and industrial sector. These sectors set the demand for energy currencies (electricity, refined petroleum products, natural gas, biofuels, hydrogen, steam) to which energy producers respond. The production of these energy commodities subsequently sets the demand for primary energy sources (crude oil, natural gas, coal, uranium, and biomass) and other renewables (solar, hydro, geothermal, and wind). A balanced supply and demand of energy currencies and energy feedstock is achieved through trade.
Fig. 5. Computational structure of the CanESS model
CanESS is calibrated with observed historical data from 1978 to the present in one year steps, and it enables projection of scenarios forward to 2050 and beyond, again in one year steps. The calibration process combines observed data from many different sources to derive historical values for the stock, flow, and parameter variables in CanESS. Major data sources used to populate the model variables are CANSIM and the Energy Efficiency Trends Analysis Database from the Office of Energy Efficiency of Natural Resources Canada. All data are integrated, and model parameters are adjusted to ensure tracking on the Report on Energy Supply and Demand (RESD) from CANSIM in terms of energy use, and on the National Inventory Report from Environment Canada in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.
Calibration is an indispensable step in the creation of a simulation model because it not only validates the model, it also provides a technology stock as well as a historical trend for the model variables from which simulation inputs may be derived. A reference scenario is created by extending the observed historical trends (most often with certain saturation limits) into simulation time with an overlay of known developments in the foreseeable future such as committed production capacity to be built, regulations and standards, and communicated policies.
The reference scenario provides a benchmark to assess alternative energy futures that may result from changes in assumed rates of population or GDP growth, changes in harvesting, conversion or service technologies, or changes in policy instruments that affect behaviour. CanESS is a powerful accounting tool to assess energy future scenarios that will inform policy and investment decisions by government as well as industries from a wide range of sectors.
For more information on the CanESS model see www.caness.ca.