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This is another shot from Iceland from this paast June, I was trying to use the s-curve that was there in the FG , I also liked how the color seemed split. Thanks for looking and your comments.
amazing artwork!
Beautiful view, great capture... I especially love the contrasting colours in the sky, and I like how you integrated the curving stream naturally into the composition. Well done
Did you had some colours or contrast with PS or no ?
Awesome work, very clear.
Like two worlds coming together! Beautiful
The vast landscape is magnificent! <3
The colours are astonishing, I can see what you mean by them seeming slit. It looks fantastic! I especially love the sky and how the pink and blue colours seem to blend. Great details. I love the S-formed river and the rocks, makes a great 'split' in the colours. Fantastic!
beautiful scene!
Grass is greener on the other side herpderp
Awesome colors!
Love the impression the reflection gives at the top of the S
Incredible! As my dad would have said this shot brings my eyes back to the middle of the photo.
That is a fairly impressive effect you have going there. The title suits the composition.
wanna be there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I seriously got chills when I saw this. It is BEAUTIFUL. Really really good job.
beautiful work Brett....
Amazing. How much photoshoping, if any, went into this ?
Oh my wow o.o Stunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnning ^__^
very pretty picture.
I like this one
Wow ! That's amazing !
Epic breath. Must :]
wow. the colors are amazing and the angle is perfect!
Very good!
ahhh my wonderfull homeland ♥ c:
great shot, edited and stuff, it looks gorgeos
great shot, edited and stuff, it looks gorgeos
wow this so really beautiful!!
The composition is beatuful, the textures, colors...I wish I could be there.
It would be nice if you mention where is the place.
It would be nice if you mention where is the place.
Really nice shoot!
Breathtaking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!More, please, more!!!!!!!!!!!!
i love the two colors in the sky!
Beautiful! Now I'm going to check out the rest of your pictures!


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Congrats!!! We had Daphne Valora on 8/2/13 =)
Congrats!!! We had Daphne Valora on 8/2/13 =)
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Thanks everyone, good to know that it isn't...
Thanks everyone, good to know that it isn't impossible to do, some of my friends are all about the paci
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Complicated Labor ended with
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YAY!! So glad he came, hopefully he gets out of...
YAY!! So glad he came, hopefully he gets out of nicu soon and you guys get to go home!!!
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Rin, hoping you are having that baby!!! So...
Rin, hoping you are having that baby!!!
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I am 38 weeks and 5 days just had my appt. Baby heart rate was lower than it has been at 131 it normally has been right about 146, my bp is the same as last week so still a little high, but swelling...
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Congrats Lineksa! What an awesome delivery!
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All my friends have had their babies...still waiting on mine =)
In the last couple weeks many of the people I am friends with have had their babies!
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Why is the following $$f(x|\theta) = \theta^{-1} \exp(1-(x/\theta)), \ \ 0 < \theta < x <\infty$$ not an exponential family? We know that $$f(x| \theta) = h(x)c(\theta) \exp(w(\theta)t(x))$$ where $h(x) = e, \ c(\theta) = \theta^{-1}, w(\theta) = \theta^{-1}$ and $t(x) = -x$.
It depends on your definition of exponential family, but the problem is that the support of the distribution depends on $\theta$. You cannot enforce that $f(x|\theta)=0$ when $x\le \theta$ with functions that depend solely on $x$ or $\theta$ and not both.
A more formal version of deinst's argument: Assume $f(x|\theta)=h(x)c(\theta)\exp(w(\theta) t(x))$. For any fixed $\theta$ and $x<\theta$ we have $$f(x|\theta)=h(x)c(\theta)\exp(w(\theta) t(x))=0,$$ but on the other hand $f(x|\theta)>0$ for all $x>\theta$. This implies $c(\theta)>0$ and $h(x)=0$ for all $x<\theta$. Since $\theta$ was arbitrary, we get $h(x)\equiv 0$, a contradiction.


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Interview: 'Mad Men' co-star John Slattery
After I watched the "Mad Men" premiere (which I reviewed here), I did a couple of interviews about the events of it that I agreed to run the morning after it aired. One was with creator Matthew Weiner, and this one is with Roger Sterling himself, John Slattery. Slattery and I spoke about Roger's position in the agency, his reaction to a familiar character's return to the office, and, in non-spoiler territory, about his experience directing his third episode this season (he and I discussed his directorial debut last season), and how Jon Hamm did when he followed in Slattery's footsteps and got behind the camera, all coming up just as soon as I buy myself a very beautiful picture of something to look at...
Without Lucky Strike, and with the company in the position it's in, what value does Roger offer at this point?
I think that's up for grabs. I think if you look at the first episode, he's just trying to hang onto his office. Pete Campbell puts up a good argument. He's the one bringing in all the business. And Roger, despite the fact that he had the account that kept the lights on in the place for years, that's not the case anymore. It's "What have you done for me lately?" And there's no argument against it. Pete's right. I have to figure out my own way to go around that. I think he is scrambling. I'm trying to figure out what to do.
You have to take his age into account, too. It's hard to start over, to regroup like that at that point. So that's basically where he is. I think he's on unsteady ground.
Well, how worried is he about his position? There's a sense that he makes that deal with Harry to try to head off bigger trouble with Pete.
His name is on the building, but does he care? That's the bigger question. You could argue that his nose hasn't been to the grindstone for the last few years anyway. Maintaining that account was his only job. So he could sail off into the sunset. He has the money, doesn't need to work. So that's basically what remains to be seen.
There's that great moment in the premiere where Roger asks Jane why she doesn't sing like Megan, and she asks him why he doesn't look like Don. What exactly happened to that relationship in the last four years?
I will quote someone later in the season who says, "You know what happiness is? Happiness is the moment before you want more happiness." Happiness only lasts so long.
So is this something that Don should be worrying about down the line with Megan?
I don't want to go that far. If you look what's happened before, and what these characters have come through. It's interesting; the whole season is about change. Obviously, we're getting into this iconic period of the '60s, and change is all around them, and who decides to go with the flow and who decides to dig their feet in and try to remain who they are.
I don't know how much you can say about this, but when Joan brings the baby to the office and Roger marches up with a smile on his face and says the "There's my baby!" line, what exactly were you playing there? What's going through Roger's head?
What I'll say is that the thing that appeals to me about Roger is that he isn't someone who gets rattled easily. There's a potentially overwhelming theme. Whether it's a front or not, he seems to take it all in stride, as though people bring in his babies every day. Maybe he goes back to his office and starts shaking. But I think he has to keep up appearances.
Did you direct any episodes this year?
I directed the fifth episode.
And how did you feel, confidence-wise, compared to the two you did last season?
I think I felt the most confident this time. I knew what to expect time-wise a little better. It's never easy. You think you've got it wired, and you're presented with a whole new series of challenges: location, casting, etc. This one, I lucked out with an amazing script, and I prepared a little earlier all the stuff I had to do on camera. I knew better to get that out of the way, so that I didn't have to worry about my performance in a moment to moment sense as much. And you have these people, these actors: Vincent and Elisabeth and Jared and Jon, of course, and Christina. You don't have to do too much. Turn the camera on and get out of the way. And then it's just a series of adjustments; try one like this, like that, and give you some options. I think it turned out very well.
And when Hamm directed his episode, did everyone give him an easier or a harder time than they gave you last season?
We tried to punk him a little bit. But there's also 50 other people standing around, and everyone knows how little time there is to shoot everything. I think Vinny started doing the scene and mouthing the lines with no volume, and Hamm came in and said, "What the hell are you doing?" We had good intentions of punking him, and I chickened out. He's an authoritative guy. He stepped right into that without skipping a beat, and he knows how to be brief and to the point, and knows that, "Okay, we have that one, now let's try one like this, one like that, and then wer'e done." It was a pretty seamless transition.
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If you've seen any of the promos so far for Survivor: Marquesas you know that it's back to the beach for the fourth million-dollar game in the CBS reality TV series. But what sets this show, which debuts Thursday, apart from the original is what's on the menu.
"The biggest change for this Survivor is, we're not giving them any food, we're not giving them any water, we're not giving them any fire. So whatever they get, they're going to have to find, or create, or make on their own," explains Survivor host Jeff Probst. Tough talk considering the conditions past contestants have had to endure.
"I'm concerned it will be a bit gamey," said former Survivor Greg Buis about his meal. "We don't have the gravy we were looking for. Because when cooking rat, sauce is of the utmost importance."
Though Richard Hatch, winner of the first game, boasted about the weight he lost, Jerri Manthey, a contestant in the second game. was not too happy about it. "The whole hunger thing for me has been a huge hurdle."
Tina Wesson, winner of the second game,. explained best when she said, "nutritionally, our bodies are going into shock."
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"This is a natural produce isle. There are coconuts, pineapples, bananas, and, of course, the mango. The list is endless. We have a lot of fruits here," says Tracy Teuria. She is a Nuku Hiva local who gave the contestants a crash course on what was edible on the island of abundance.
"There's plenty of protein around. It's just a matter of catching it. We have wild roosters and chickens; we have wild goat in the mountains. Fish in the sea? No problem," she says.
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Bernard's Blog Bernard's blog. All things business value and business productivity with a twist of software + services and a hint of lemon freshness.http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/atom.aspxTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)2008-04-23T23:14:00ZTHE BI Blog : Tracking Swine Flu with Microsoft Virtual Earth and Live Searchhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2009/05/05/the-bi-blog-tracking-swine-flu-with-microsoft-virtual-earth-and-live-search.aspx2009-05-05T21:11:03Z2009-05-05T21:11:03Z
I'm quite certain that more people are trying to cure Swine Flu than will every catch it. I'm also reasonably certain I'll end up regretting saying that.

However, its interesting to see how a multitude of more modern technology is being applied to the issue.

We can see from the Microsoft Virtual Earth heatmap that statistical data takes on a completely new life when combined with geographical data:

Microsoft Live Search Maps highlights reported cases

Virtual Earth Swine Flu Mashup

This concept is not entirely new in the world of BI. Indeed, visual representations of statistical data is a big part of what modern BI is all about.

It also highlights the value of giving BI to everyone. The more people looking at this data, the more potential solutions.

It makes sense therefore to think about the possibilities that adding a communications and collaboration platform alongside the BI solution so that those looking at the problem in different ways can discuss it and work together to solve it.

Are all of your employees able to look at your critical business problems together? Are they all able to get all the available and relevant insight? Are they able to discuss it and work together on ways to solve it?

Its not a huge leap for the imagination to draw a line between the threat Swine Flu poses to world health and the threat the financial crisis posed to the World economy.

THE BI Blog : Tracking Swine Flu with Microsoft Virtual Earth and Live Search
bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxProductivity, Innovation at the NHS - Windows Livehttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2009/05/01/productivity-innovation-at-the-nhs-windows-live.aspx2009-05-01T08:35:48Z2009-05-01T08:35:48Z
Some interesting insights from Dan Rasmus on Productivity, Efficiency and Patient Care at the NHS.

Measuring productivity gains in meaningful and tangible business oriented outcomes is an ongoing challenge.

"It isn't good enough to create correlations informed by intuition. We need to understand where productivity morphs into something else and we need to be able to put a name on that and understand its attributes so that we can more effectively craft the business environments of the knowledge economy."

Dan takes the angle that measuring the outputs of productivity are different in the knowledge economy in contrast to the industrial age. It's not all about doing more, or doing the same things better. In some case it can be both and in many cases its about doing things entirely differently.

Productivity, Innovation at the NHS - Windows Live
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This article from freshbusinessthinking.com would suggest it could be.

http://www.freshbusinessthinking.com/business_advice.php?AID=2375&Title=SharePoint+Steers+Companies+Through+Economic+Downturn

SharePoint forms the cornerstone of Microsoft's Business Productivity Infrastructure. It delivers the foundation for Collaboration, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Search and Enterprise Content Management solutions from Microsoft. Having all of these capabilities delivered by one product makes SharePoint a fantastic opportunity to get a lot of ROI in a lot of places with one single investment.

The challenge, however, is understanding which challenges to address with SharePoint first.

This whitepaper tells the tale of a few customers who have used SharePoint to help them save money. Perhaps one of them is the inspiration you've been looking for.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=6c9db923-139c-4d0c-8111-a6b8c9478c1b
bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxTwo birds with one stonehttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2009/04/27/two-birds-with-one-stone.aspx2009-04-27T06:45:20Z2009-04-27T06:45:20Z
If there are two things we're all desperate to save right now it is money and the environment.

How fortunate it is, therefore, that by enabling the workforce to work from any place and at any time Unified Communications technology can save both travel expenses and the associated carbon emissions.

The UC team have prepared this whitepaper to help understand the magnitude of savings on offer:

Achieving Cost and Resource Savings with UC White Paper
bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxTHE BI Blog : Microsoft Business Intelligence Vision and Strategy Slideshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2009/04/27/the-bi-blog-microsoft-business-intelligence-vision-and-strategy-slides.aspx2009-04-27T06:40:26Z2009-04-27T06:40:26Z
I think our BI vision is one of the most clearly defined market visions Microsoft has. I also think that it is a market where we can really add value and change the dynamics of the market.

Making BI commercially viable enough for every employee to utilize it is a key factor.

This deck is much recommended reading (and for good measure it is only 12 slides long - also a fantastic achievement for a Microsoft marketing division...)

THE BI Blog : Microsoft Business Intelligence Vision and Strategy Slides
bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxTHE BI Blog : Top 10 demos for Microsoft BIhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2009/04/27/the-bi-blog-top-10-demos-for-microsoft-bi.aspx2009-04-27T06:35:38Z2009-04-27T06:35:38Z
Somehow the BI team seem to corner some of our most exciting demos. Thanks to Nic for compiling this top-ten list in one place. http://blogs.msdn.com/bi/archive/2009/04/23/top-10-demos-for-microsoft-bi.aspx

As a side note,  its worth noting that the best demos show how combining BI with other Business Productivity capabilities makes the whole activity so much more valuable (and the demo that bit cooler...)

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bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxRecession, recalibration or reset?http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2009/04/27/recession-recalibration-or-reset.aspx2009-04-27T06:31:27Z2009-04-27T06:31:27Z
While no one is under any doubt whether that we are now experiencing a set of economic conditions we have not experienced for a generation (if not more), there is a growing debate on the nature of these conditions and for how long we should plan for "recovery".

This article captures the mood quite well:

The way your business generates results is different, now.

Your customers think differently, now.

Your customers care about different things, now.

Your customers act differently, now.

Your customers may actually be different people, now.

Customers aren't disposable anymore; more than ever, you have to create sustainable customer relationships.

Everything is different now.

Microsoft's current business outlook is one of an economic reset. We're not sure that we've reached the bottom and even if we have, we don't expect to bounce back to the level of supposed economic prosperity we enjoyed a year or so ago.

So what should we all do in the interim? Clearly doing nothing is not an option, but with all the uncertainty what are the right steps to take?

According to Steve Ballmer, prior experience would suggest that it is the companies who invest in the trends that transcend economic cycles and will extend well into the future. For RCA during the Great Depression it was investing in television. For Microsoft it is investing in Software + Services. Regardless of the economic conditions that shift is going to take place and one way to look at it is that we have no choice but to invest in that. Microsoft's future prosperity will depend on being as successful in delivering Software + Services as we have in delivering Software for the past 30 odd years. The economy may take a year or 10 years to recover, but we won't be in the game if we haven't invested in Software + Services.

Other businesses are faced with similar industry shifts. Whether it is green alternatives to current transportation or a completely new landscape for financial services the innovator's dilemma pervades. That disruptive innovation still lurks. The real decision for most businesses is not by how much they reduce costs, it is whether they have taken their eye off of the disruptive influences in their market.

Unsurprisingly, technology has a key role to play in forming and executing these decisions. The vision for Business Productivity Infrastructure is to bring together the necessary information work tools that enable each individual to inform the decision process, collaborate effectively to ensure absolute customer focus and enable the organization as a whole to remain agile and responsive to a turbulent market.

In this cost focused world the one thing no company can afford is to have inefficient tools shackling the organization to outdated and ineffective behaviors.

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bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxBBC NEWS | Business | Bosses 'should embrace Facebook'http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2008/10/29/bbc-news-business-bosses-should-embrace-facebook.aspx2008-10-29T08:28:06Z2008-10-29T08:28:06Z
I feel validated!

"Banning Facebook and the like goes against the grain of how people want to interact. Often people are friends with colleagues through these networks and it is how some develop their relationships."

Using technology to build closer links with ex-employees and potential customers could also boost productivity, innovation and create a more democratic working environment, Mr Bradwell added.

"In today's difficult business environment, the instinctive reaction can be to batten down the hatches and return to the traditional command-and-control techniques that enable managers to closely monitor and measure productivity.

"Allowing workers to have more freedom and flexibility might seem counter-intuitive, but it appears to create businesses more capable of maintaining stability."

steve clayton- geek in disguise - Unilever staff use Facebook

BBC NEWS | Business | Bosses 'should embrace Facebook'
bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxHow CIOs Are Setting IT Strategy Amid Economic Uncertainty -- IT And The Economy -- InformationWeekhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2008/10/14/how-cios-are-setting-it-strategy-amid-economic-uncertainty-it-and-the-economy-informationweek.aspx2008-10-14T05:54:44Z2008-10-14T05:54:44Z
With the endless resurrection of the "ghosts of 1929" I'm starting to believe that even the dead have failed to miss the economic events of the past few weeks.

Typically, in times of economic uncertainty and downturn, IT braces itself for an uncomfortable series of budget cuts.

The mood this time seems notably calmer.

Is this a broad acceptance of the inevitable? "When aren't I faced with cuts?"

Perhaps. Whatever your view, now is the time to start pitching IT as the opportunity to be the strategic driving force that will not only keep your organization safe, but help it take advantages of the growth opportunities that appear as the market starts to recover (an ever braver premise, I know...).

InformationWeek has some useful pointers:

Have a playbook.
Emerson Electric's business planning includes creating "playbooks" that anticipate changing events, and IT follows a similar process. CIO Steve Hassell says the key is a "balanced portfolio of projects" prioritized by a variety of factors--cost, resources, technology, time frame, risk--so managers can see their choices as business conditions change.

Not the same old drill.
Three to five years ago, options such as cloud computing and software as a service didn't exist, says Shaklee CIO Ken Harris. But they take time to put in place. Which is why Harris' IT team is evaluating them now, in case a tougher economic climate forces spending cuts and new approaches. "If and when things tighten, it will likely happen quickly," he says.

Rogues are reality.
At Lauth, Ton knows his smaller IT team can't respond as fast as he'd like, so business units may start rogue projects outside IT. "Some of that you might have to 'allow,' to let the business go forward, but you don't want it to run rampant," he says.

Fine-tune.
Spectrum Laboratory Network, a medical lab group, has been growing 20% or more annually for years. But seeing a slight downturn in physician office visits, CIO David Moore is edging back some capital spending, pushing into next year upgrades to some 4-year-old servers. Emerson is continuing long-term strategic projects, including a global data center consolidation, but it's "biasing" its new-project selection over the next few quarters toward shorter-duration, lower-risk projects so the company can respond quickly to economic changes, Hassell says.

Honestly assess the company's attitude toward IT.
Is IT a competitive advantage, where spending can help with business problems related to tightening credit and cash flow? Carl Weddle, IT director at Quality Trailer Products, knows the company sees IT mostly as a cost to be contained in a slowdown, so he gets why his team is being pushed to finish projects without additional funding, and why no new hires are likely. "It is hunker-down time," he says.

The fantastic thing about IT, is the pace of innovation allows us to spend to save in ways we can't do with other investment. Better management tools reduce the IT administration and management overheads (TCO). Productivity innovation enables organizations to maximize their human asset. In growth periods this maximizes the ability to seize the opportunity, in downturns this helps to do the same with much less - maximizing efficiency. Maybe regardless of the situation you want to do both. Whichever your strategy, IT can drive success.

The problem is risk. IT has the potential to solve all, but the success rate is poor.

We hope with the Infrastructure Optimization model, the IP we've gathered and the investment we've made globally we can minimize that risk using methods we've proved to work.

BPIO is our focus on people productivity. There hasn't been a time for more than two generations that you'll be so dependent on your people to deliver like they've never delivered before.

IT Optimization could be what defines your organization's future.

How CIOs Are Setting IT Strategy Amid Economic Uncertainty -- IT And The Economy -- InformationWeek
bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxJason Langridge's WebLog - MR Mobile! : Nearly half of Britons suffer "discomgoogolation"http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2008/09/05/jason-langridge-s-weblog-mr-mobile-nearly-half-of-britons-suffer-discomgoogolation.aspx2008-09-05T04:17:10Z2008-09-05T04:17:10Z

Nearly half of Britons -- 44 percent -- are discomgoogolation sufferers, according to a survey, with over a quarter -- 27 percent -- admitting to rising stress levels when they are unable to go online.

Interesting statistics. It appears that not having access to technology we depend on actually creates physiological side-effects. In the same context, with reference to "Software Consumerization", I wonder whether people experience real distress when they come into work and can't use the technology they feel to be key to their work life?

Jason Langridge's WebLog - MR Mobile! : Nearly half of Britons suffer "discomgoogolation"
bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx//steve clayton: geek in disguise : Unilever staff use Facebookhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2008/09/02/steve-clayton-geek-in-disguise-unilever-staff-use-facebook.aspx2008-09-02T23:54:00Z2008-09-02T23:54:00Z
Another good spot from Steve.

I blogged about Software Consumarization before. The Unilever example is not atypical. Businesses from all walks of life are finding it challenging to integrate a digitally enabled workforce into an organization viewed by that workforce as digitally disabled.

Call them Gen-Y, Digital Natives, Millennials, whatever you want - a changing workforce has changing expectations. I personally don't believe in such classifications (I am one of the so-called Gen-Y workers) as I think technology driven/enabled changes in lifestyles are a constant change. And that change is increasing in velocity.

Meeting the expectations of a fresh workforce is becoming increasingly difficult.

There's understandable inertia to much of this "technology populism" (as coined by Forrester). Much of it is due to a clash of cultures. Many business leaders would consider Instant Messaging or Social Computing as anti-productivity tools. This is an understandable viewpoint. But it is driven by an industrial-age view of productivity and it's value. It's an industrial view that says that if you are not sat at your desk (or your machine) you are not making things and you are not creating value. Time spent talking (on the phone, IM or at the water cooler) is not productive. I've heard many customers say exactly that.

"What's the point in me creating an extra x minutes a week of time savings? That just means people will spend more time stood by the water cooler".

Perhaps.

But maybe that's exactly what they ought to be doing. My team's made most of the progress in our work through chance encounters with people by the coffee machine. When I develop an idea, most of that development is driven by ad-hoc conversations with people I happen to bump into. I'm also far more likely to bounce an idea off of people I know, on a personal level. After all, team-building days are not new. It's well recognized that a team that works well on a personal/social level works well on a professional level.

So why are personal/social computing tools resisted?

Inertia. Change is difficult.

And there's clash of cultures.

Perhaps Einstein put it best: "I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."

It's not the first time that differing cultures and expectations have collided. There was significant upheaval in labor practice over the first 50-60 years of the 20th century. The expectations of the workforce shifted towards ideas of fairness and equality and a more respectful employer-employee relationship. That was a tough change.

When the telephone entered the office it was viewed as a distraction. So was the computer, the Internet and e-mail. Now they are widely accepted essentials.

Now social and consumer technology is entering the workplace.

'At Unilever, half of the desktop software and services used by employees comes from outside the company, and a lot of it shouldn't be there—Skype (EBAY) and iTunes, to name just a couple. "We can't stop them," says Chris Turner, Unilever's chief technology officer. "They're not accepting no as an answer."'

It's perfectly understandable to fear this "infestation" of non-corporate technology. The productivity "benefits" aside, the compliancy and regulatory difficulties made possible through consumer technology are chilling.

But consider the benefits first. These tools aren't popular because they change the way "young people" or "Gen-Y" thinks. They are popular because they compliment exactly the way we think. Human beings are classed as social mammals. We are more like dogs than cats. We evolved as a species to work together, for our own protection and for our own advancement. This is stone-age instinct being leveraged by a digital age.

Using non-corporate technology always carries risk. Compliance and security just two of them. But don't resist the idea of social computing purely because it conjures the image of Facebook and Live Messenger. Corporate social computing is a reality, and a reality made available in BPI.

'Unilever is still testing how to give employees more digital freedom. It may move users outside the corporate firewall and allow them to connect via their own computers, provided they're using certain security technologies. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the savings could be millions of dollars. "We see this as a real opportunity to start altering the cost model to deliver IT," says Turner.'

Henry Ford is famous for the expression "we don't pay you to think". Well thinking is pretty much the core of what I get paid to do. Some of that comes out in this blog, some of it through our campaigns, some of it in helping others to solve their own puzzles. Most of your workforce is probably in the business of thinking also. Help them think together.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_34/b4097065813253.htm

//steve clayton: geek in disguise : Unilever staff use Facebook
bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxCIOs On Cloud Computing - Cloud Computing Blog - InformationWeekhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2008/08/26/cios-on-cloud-computing-cloud-computing-blog-informationweek.aspx2008-08-26T23:23:09Z2008-08-26T23:23:09Z
There's been much press on this lately.

We've long held that whilst there's a future in cloud computing and software-as-a-service, the current limitations in reliability and privacy mean a pure-play cloud solution is unlikely to ever be truly viable.

That's why we prefer the software+services model. Giving choice between hosted and on-premise should ensure we get the best of both worlds.

CIOs On Cloud Computing - Cloud Computing Blog - InformationWeek
bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxBusiness Intelligence Is Not An Oxymoron - CIOs Uncensored Blog - InformationWeekhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2008/08/13/business-intelligence-is-not-an-oxymoron-cios-uncensored-blog-informationweek.aspx2008-08-14T01:12:54Z2008-08-14T01:12:54Z
I'm a little tardy picking this one up...

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/business_intell_2.html?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL

... but I love stories like this. BI is very much a productivity exercise.  In this case it's more about productivity than it is about business insight and performance.

"district managers, who typically run eight to 12 restaurants, were spending as much as two hours every morning going through e-mails, voice mails, spreadsheets, etc. 'They'd spend a significant amount of time getting that [data] together,' Valle says, 'and then another half hour doing something with it.'"

That final statement is notable. "doing something about it". In this case acting on insight is a focal point. More of a focal point than gathering and understand the data to any level of scientific detail.

Implementing productivity as infrastructure gives us the flexibility to "do the BI" and then "do the collaboration".

It's a shame they're using Cognos, but hey, at least they have SQL at the back-end :)

Business Intelligence Is Not An Oxymoron - CIOs Uncensored Blog - InformationWeek
bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxJason Langridge's WebLog - MR Mobile! : How quickly do you expect a response on email?http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2008/07/16/jason-langridge-s-weblog-mr-mobile-how-quickly-do-you-expect-a-response-on-email.aspx2008-07-16T03:15:04Z2008-07-16T03:15:04Z
Good find by Jason.

In line with my previous post, customers have far greater expectations on how rapidly organizations can react to their needs. That can range from delivering a product to replying to e-mail.

One very powerful tool that BPI offers is the delivery of that information directly to all levels of the organization.

The hardest thing about answering an e-mail is generally finding the answer to the question the sender asked. If it's not at your fingertips the asynchronous nature of e-mail allows us to postpone our response and procrastinate in a way the phone doesn't allow us. That's not to say that we're not under the same strain on the phone. It is costly to spend any more time than is necessary on the phone, and doesn't leave customers any more satisfied either.

BPI can help get important information to everyone's fingertips. Customer's expect your organization to have that capability.

Jason Langridge's WebLog - MR Mobile! : How quickly do you expect a response on email?
bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxAre the risk averse most at risk?http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2008/07/15/are-the-risk-averse-most-at-risk.aspx2008-07-16T01:29:34Z2008-07-16T01:29:34Z
In IBM's "The Enterprise of the Future" there is a profile of "financial outperformers" and "underperformers" driven by research from the Global CEO Study series. This is accompanied by the statement "financial outperformers are making bolder plays".

Thus the piece defines the "Enterprise of the Future" as:

Hungry for change

Innovative beyond customer imagination

Globally Integrated

Disruptive by nature

Genuine, not just generous

This got me thinking: most of these are risky pursuits. Certainly innovating beyond your customer's imagination carries the risk that you innovate beyond your customer's needs and end up with rather arbitrary products.

Statistically, however, it would seem that the most successful companies are the ones who thrust themselves into those risks.

Einstein is quoted as saying that ideas are "1% inspiration, 99% perspiration". We can liken this to modern innovation and maintaining competitive edge - "1% inspiration, 99% waste and junk". Most investors would probably bet against those odds, but it's just those odds that are separating the successful with the not-so-successful.

Most of this is driven by an industrial-era view of manufacturing. Customers are asked for their requirements, products and services are designed and defined both those requirements and then the product is built.

That's not fast enough in the digital age.

Products need to be "innovative beyond customer imagination".

There maybe some salvation for the risk-wary, particularly in the treacherous economic waters that lay ahead.

Customers are keener than ever, and - thanks to the web - more able than ever to be involved in defining and expressing their preferences. This ranges from broad and far-reaching reviews of what they like and do not like (read blogs, Amazon reviews, community sites - Apple iPhone?) to actual collaborating with their vendors in the innovation process.

Many pharmaceutical companies now take an "open source" approach to drugs manufacturing. Pools of global talent are wielded into the design process. The Nintendo Wii console is cited as being designed with just this sort of open approach. Communities of gamers were involved in the development, tantalized by early releases and other incentives into offering "sage" like advice to Nintendo.

This de-risks everything. Although we still need to be "disruptive", "hungry for change" and "innovating beyond customer imagination" we can do so iteratively. We can involve customers every step of the way, offering them the chance to define their products. This transparency also brings customers closer to your brand.

So what does any of this have to do with BPI?

In order to manage all this effort, organizations need to have visibility into this process. Employees need to have a view and be made aware of how well their "innovations" are performing in real-time. Then they need to communicate and collaborate quickly and effectively between themselves, partners and engage with customer communities.

BPI is the infrastructure for enabling the rapid reactions and change that the Enterprise of the Future will need.
bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxWhat is Search?http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2008/07/03/what-is-search.aspx2008-07-03T03:05:40Z2008-07-03T03:05:40Z
Examining the Oxford English Dictionary, there are more definitions than one might expect.

It's no surprise, therefore, with so many definitions of "search" in the English language, that defining it in the context of a technology solution and its value to business can be challenging.

Most of us when we think of search technology think about Google. We think of an engine which has indexed and cataloged our target content in a smart enough way that when we ask it the right questions it will tell us where to find the right answer.

But should we think more about the context of search? Maybe we should think of search in terms of the goal rather than the quest. If I know the content I want exists, or I have specificity in my question, search is a set of cross-hairs. I set my aim and the engine fires me to the target.

There's often a broader ambition to search, however. I might be searching for a product, service or business. I might be searching for information, written or multi-media. I might be searching for all of those things, but I might not know what I'm searching for until I find it.

I might be searching for inspiration.

Inspiration is the igniting spark behind innovation. It's the sudden burst of original thought where the human mind conceives of that which is not.

Search can be simply described as "the process of gaining insight". By no means comprehensive, but focuses more on the goal of search than the process. For this reason I think it's important for us to think about the role of Business Intelligence in the "search ecosystem". As well as searching for people and content, I also want to find results, reports and dashboards. If we think about this concept as "Maximizing Impact" we then need to think about what happens next. What do I do when I have found what I wanted? What do I need to do now that I have found inspiration?

I need to act. I need to affect change. I need to take what I now know, and with it do something of value.

To do those things I probably need to collaborate with my colleagues. I need to exchange the information and insight I now have, as well as my opinion.

From this example we can see how two of the key pillars of BPI (Search and BI) combine together to "maximize insight" - the breadth and accuracy of information I now have that I did not have before - with two other key pillars, Collaboration and Unified Communications. By forging these together I now have all the things I need to realize value from all of them. I am collaborating on the right things because I have been furnished with the latest intelligence, and I am making the most of the intelligence and insight I have because I can connect with the right people and processes to act on it.

If we through Content Management in the mix to make sure that the content I build is made available to the rest of my organization, we can make sure what I found out and what I did are things that other people in my organization can learn from.

Optimizing Search may not be having the best algorithm and the most effective set of cross-hairs. It may be providing the capabilities necessary for action and innovation to take forth from where search began.
bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx//steve clayton: geek in disguise : The End Of The IT Department – Is It In The Cloud?http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2008/06/03/steve-clayton-geek-in-disguise-the-end-of-the-it-department-is-it-in-the-cloud.aspx2008-06-04T01:21:32Z2008-06-04T01:21:32Z
Some good commentary from Steve on cloud-computing and Tom Austin's view of it in ComputerWeekly.com.

There's certainly no shortage of pundits when it comes to cloud-computing and Software-as-a-Service. There does seem to be a definite shift away from the hyperbole to a more balanced perspective. I think Microsoft's Software+Services story has always taken this balanced approach. Cloud-computing and SaaS have enormous potential and will no doubt be hugely disruptive. But that's not to say that on-premise or personal computing is dead. Both can play a significant role in the future of IT.

I would also continue to assert that most of the interest in SaaS is about finding a healthy balance in the two extremes of value perception Minimum Cost<->Maximum Functionality.

The "innovators dilemma" articulates this well. When customers stop believing in the unique value of a product or service and view it as a commodity they begin to step down their investment across three tiers:

Top Functionality/Maximum Value "I will pay a premium, I am investing"

Convenience "I want it to be easier"

Minimum Cost "I want to pay the least that I can get away with"

SaaS falls neatly into the convenience box, Open Source very much in the minimum cost box. At least that used to be the case. Now that a more comprehensive assessment of SaaS is taking place, the perception is shifting towards the unique value that it might bring. Now that the focus is back on providing value and as a category of investment a more balanced opinion is immerging. Its less about "get rid of my IT department and all it's servers, they're costing me a fortune" and more about "how can this help me transform my business?".

//steve clayton: geek in disguise : The End Of The IT Department – Is It In The Cloud?
bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxTHE BI Blog : Beyond Business Intelligence @ Microsoft CEO Summithttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2008/05/28/the-bi-blog-beyond-business-intelligence-microsoft-ceo-summit.aspx2008-05-28T22:40:26Z2008-05-28T22:40:26Z
Thanks to Pej for posting this one.

It really is a good demonstration of how each of the five capabilities of BPI work best when they are applied together to provide this kind of synergy. It adds weight to the argument that you can't do BI without having some form of Collaboration and Unified Comms capability to enable people to act on the knowledge.

Good BI isn't having the knowledge, it's having the power to act on it.

I might feel inclined to remind him that it's Business Productivity Infrastructure, not Business Productivity Framework though... :)

THE BI Blog : Beyond Business Intelligence @ Microsoft CEO Summit
bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxWhat CIOs Say About Innovation And Web 2.0 Tools - CIOs Uncensored Blog - InformationWeekhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2008/05/22/what-cios-say-about-innovation-and-web-2-0-tools-cios-uncensored-blog-informationweek.aspx2008-05-22T20:54:03Z2008-05-22T20:54:03Z
Some interesting thoughts from InformationWeek.

Collaboration is a challenge/solution/capability applied to a variety of business processes. One that's increasingly common is innovation.

There's a very definite momentum gathering in the formalization of technology driving the innovation process at the creative level.

I've talked before about creativity and how humans need the right tools to be creative. Innovation is the output of creativity and it can be as pronounced as a new product or a disruptive technology, or it can be a fresh approach to a marketing campaign or a business proposal.

Innovation is definitely a collaborative process. The great thing about a multi-faceted Business Productivity Infrastructure is the way it facilitates the collaborative, communicative and research-based components of idea generation and development.

Deborah Hopkins was recently appointed Chief Innovation Officer at Citi. A recognition of IT's role in innovation and the importance of innovation as an enabler of business advantage if ever I saw one.

What CIOs Say About Innovation And Web 2.0 Tools - CIOs Uncensored Blog - InformationWeek
bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxMicrosoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 to provide native support for ODF and PDF document format standardshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2008/05/22/microsoft-sharepoint-products-and-technologies-team-blog-microsoft-office-2007-sp2-to-provide-native-support-for-odf-and-pdf-document-format-standards.aspx2008-05-22T20:21:56Z2008-05-22T20:21:56Z
Putting our money where our mouth is...

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 to provide native support for ODF and PDF document format standards
bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxI'll be at WPChttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2008/05/20/i-ll-be-at-wpc.aspx2008-05-20T02:12:29Z2008-05-20T02:12:29Z
I'm really excited to have the opportunity to present at this year's Microsoft WorldWide Partner Conference in Houston.

The topic of my presentation will be:

Become a "Chemical Synapse". Use the combined proposition of BPIO and Microsoft's Dynamics applications to better connect with Customers and their requirements.

Learn how to be a "chemical synapse" by better connecting Microsoft's BPIO and Dynamics value propositions with your customers. Hear how Ascentium Corp. combined Microsoft's emerging Business Productivity Infrastructure category with business applications such as Microsoft Dynamics CRM to fuel significant growth. Also hear from Microsoft campaigns teams about our FY09 strategy for communicating the Business Productivity Infrastructure story.

For those of you still guessing the "chemical synapses" metaphor, a chemical synapse is a connection between different brain cells which enable extensive neurological networks. The relationship to the session, therefore, is how BPIO enables Microsoft and it's partners to better connect with our customers and their requirements.

As you'll probably gather from the description I'll be presenting with Ascentium who have done a phenomenal job of delivering solutions to customers that really deliver on the end-to-end technology stack required for customers to realize business value.
bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxNicholas Bate: Productivity 1http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2008/04/30/nicholas-bate-productivity-1.aspx2008-04-30T20:36:52Z2008-04-30T20:36:52Z
I had the pleasure of attending one of Nick's classes several years ago. I was quite young and impressionable at the time and much of what he said has stayed with me since and I've found it all very valuable.

Much of what we discuss with productivity is technology. If we're good we talk about process and the business logic behind it.

Nick works almost exclusively in the people aspect which is arguably the most important of all.

Take a holistic approach to productivity, and take some time to listen to an expert... http://nicholasbate.typepad.com/

Oh, and Nick... those damn "pegs" are still with me!

Nicholas Bate: Productivity 1
bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxMicrosoft Office Labshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2008/04/29/microsoft-office-labs.aspx2008-04-29T03:55:05Z2008-04-29T03:55:05Z
One of the great things about Microsoft Office is its extensibility. Part of what makes it a great choice for Business Productivity Infrastructure is the capability to run it as an application platform also.

Office Labs showcases some of the tools developed "for fun".

This is my favorite: http://www.officelabs.com/projects/searchcommands/Pages/default.aspx
bernardchttp://blogs.msdn.com/bernardc/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxTHE BI Blog : PerformancePoint: Implementation web cast serieshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/bernardc/archive/2008/04/25/the-bi-blog-performancepoint-implementation-web-cast-series.aspx2008-04-25T20:57:23Z2008-04-25T20:57:23Z
I've always found our BI webcasts to be incredibly valuable and so I thoroughly recommend signing up for the upcoming set:

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The essential concept of the alignment trap is that a poorly performing or excessively complex IT organization won't accomplish the desired business outcomes regardless of how well aligned IT is to those outcomes.

I would also argue that the concept of BPI is to consolidate and simplify discrete productivity applications into a combined entity such that it can be more simply managed and easier to align to business goals.

Optimizing infrastructure improves it's performance and should move the IT org into the "Well-oiled" quadrant. This is both sound portfolio management and a significant step forward in delivering IT effectiveness. Once you have "optimized", alignment to business goals is both simpler and, according to the quadrant above, should move you towards "IT-enabled growth".

Realizing a tangible ROI from IT investments is by no means simple and certainly not generic. The organizations that achieve the best returns are those with the closest alignment between their IT portfolio and their business goals.

The alignment trap is an insightful piece of work that identifies the organizations that get the alignment right, but don't make the right investments in their IT fundamentals.

Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization is designed to get those fundamentals right.

The current economic climate drives a lot of organizations towards cost reduction. IT is well accustomed to finding its budget on the chopping board. Demonstrating that the money being spent on IT can not only reduce operational costs moving forwards but also deliver long-term business benefit should be an essential part of the dialog between IT and "the business".

"With IT both effective and aligned, these companies have put IT where it belongs in the 21st Century: at the heart of the business processes that define a company's position in the marketplace."

Therein lies the purpose of Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization.

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Doom's Ice Capades
X-Men #98 is famous for the amount of easter eggs in it. So famous that I have mostly steered away from it. However, Chris G caught an easter egg from Dave Cockrum in the issue that I never noticed before, so I figure I have to share it.
Check out the first page of the issue. Look beyond all the other cameos on the page and look to see who happens to be skating on the ice in the background…
Hilarious. Thanks for the e-mail suggestion, Chris!
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Reader Jonathan S. picked this one up from last week's Heroes for Hire #9. My guess is that it was inker Bob Almond and not penciler Kyle Hotz, but I could be wrong. In any event, check out the name of the propane cylinder…
"Strickland Propane," the name of the company that Hank Hill worked for on King of the Hill.
Thanks to Jonathan for the e-mail suggestion!
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So, Tony Stark decides to try to barter with Odin. He offers up his sobriety as a sacrifice (neat idea by Matt Fraction).
Reader Stephen M. notes that the name of the bottle he drinks out of is "Démon dans use Bouteille" which is French for "Demon in a bottle," the name of the classic storyline where Tony first grappled with alcoholism. There's even a little Iron Man figure on the bottle with horns. Very clever stuff by Stuart Immonen (at least I presume that was him).
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"une bouteille", not "use bouteille".
He offers up his sobriety as a sacrifice (neat idea by Matt Fraction)
Really? I thought it was kinda hamfisted myself, and it continued the awful trend of Characters-Who-From-Now-On-Will-Only-Be-Known-For-One-Thing. Why not just have Hank Pym dig up his wife's corpse while we're at it and bring it Asgard so that he can smack it up in front of Odin too?
Fraction says the bottle was an error in his Newsarama Q&A about Fear Itself #4: "That is a [Fear Itself colorist] Laura Martin touch that we caught too late in the production process. It'll be patched for the trade. It's actually a bottle of booze he got a couple of issues back in Invincible Iron Man. Laura was being magnificent Laura, but hadn't read Iron Man, and didn't know that the bottle of hooch was actually canon."
Has there ever been a depiction in fiction of an alcoholic character who opted for the moderation approach rather than the total abstinence approach?
Some people swear abstinence is the only way, that alcoholics are incapable of moderation so shouldn't even try. Others say that if you have to totally abstain and obsess over not drinking again ever, then alcohol is still controlling your life and "beating" you, and that the end goal should be learning to moderate. Only when you do that can you really say you're "beaten" the problem.
I don't really come down on one side or the other, as I'm not qualified to say which is better, but I do think it's an interesting debate and I can see the merits of both sides. That's why I think a much more daring, and risky, and dramatic story if you wanted to write about Stark and alcoholism again is to show him deciding to go the moderation route rather than the cliched "instant fall from grace from one drink" route. I think it would have been a fiction first.
You know what's odd to me? To hear Tony Stark refer to himself as a "scientist." I never really looked at him that way. An inventor? Yes. Innovator, corporate maven, etc., yes. But scientist? I don't think I've ever read him being referred to that way, mainly because unlike, say, Reed Richards or Hank Pym, Stark doesn't have a Ph.D. (he's just inherently intuitive)
always found the shot of doom ice skating hilerious since doom would never interact with others unless he was going to use the ice as a weapon. the bottle in fear itsself even if it is a mistake its still speaks how far iron man is willing to go now to pull off a win. that iron fist pannel first thought was some one must be a king of the hill fan to use strickland propane on the tank
T.: In "Leverage," the show on TNT, Timothy Hutton's character is an alcoholic who still drinks. They do a pretty good job of showing the other characters disapproving but not having any influence over Hutton's character's drinking. Every so often they hint that it might cause trouble for him, but so far, they've resisted the urge. It's kind of refreshing, actually.
Can someone point out the other cameos in the X-Men panel. The only one that i can recognize is Nick Fury. Thanks!
I read that X-Men story once in an Essential, but I never noticed Doom in the background. I never noticed Nick Fury in the foreground, either.
(I do remember seeing Stan and Jack, but those are the only cameos I remember.)
T – I know of no addicts who can indulge safely. I suspect if you can you're not really an alcoholic.
Greg – That is cool. I think that's the first time in fiction I've seen an alcoholic opt for moderation. Be interesting to see where they take it.
Dominic – Some ex-alcoholics claim to be able to do it in moderation. Drew Barrymore for example:
I do know there are alcoholics who believe in moderation who exist. Like I said, I'm not saying they're RIGHT, just that I'd love to see their view mentioned more in fiction rather than the one-sided conventional wisdom we see presented currently.
Would that be Kirby standing behind Storm, or Jim Shooter? I think Stan was taller than Jack, wasn't he?
Is that Byrne at lower right with the beard? Who is the man at middle right pointing?
Also, though I haven't heard Stark refer to himself as a scientist as many times as an inventor, he is on the record multiple times saying stuff like, "I hate magic", as in fighting Morgan Le Fay's dragon in the first Doom/King Arthur story (was it IM #150?).
No wait, take that back. It's not Stan and anybody, that's Kurt in his image-projected Errol Flynn disguise and Peter in a cap. Oops.
When I referred to recognising Stan and Jack in that story, I was talking about their appearance on a later page, not in the panel shown here. Sorry if I misled you.
I always considered Stark an engineer, not a scientist, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of Marvel writers don't know the difference.
@Mary – Agreed. "Man of science," yes. "Scientist?" Stark creates things (mostly) for profit, not for the sake of scientific discovery.
But we're splitting hairs here. I guess it's just another example of how some fans have their "version" of a character, and some writers deviate when writing "their" version.
Carlos Pacheco is a HUGE on hiding easter eggs. Here's a few of them I remember.
Carl Winslow, from TV series Family Matters appeared as a police officer in Pacheco and Ostrander Bishop limited series.
Avengers Forever, the limited series written by Kurt Busiek, was LOADED with easter eggs, the ones I remember the most are ones regarding two superhero teams Pacheco created for a publisher in Spain, Triada Vertice and Iberia Inc. , in the second issue, where Songbird explains where she's from, the characters from Triada Vertice appear, and in one of the last issues, in a splash page fiolled with past, present and future Avengers, the captain of Iberia Inc., Trueno, appears. It was a cool easter for Pacheco spanish fans. Here's a link to it; http://www.imakinarium.net/autores/p/pacheco_carlos/06_avengers/cpavengerslaberinto.htm
Was that X-Men before "History of the World: Part One" and its blurb at the end for Part Two's "Hitler on Ice"?
Of course, it would have to be Hate-monger skating for it to be that….
@danjack: The guy with the glasses is supposed to be Matt Murdock, I believe, then Dave and Patty Cockrum, followed by Nick Fury and Val, if I'm remembering my Official Marvel Index correctly (I don't have it handy).
I'd love to see their view mentioned more in fiction rather than the one-sided conventional wisdom we see presented currently
I suspect a lot of it has to do with the old "one drink=fallen off the wagon" approach being a lot easier to depict (and being more overtly dramatic) than the moderation approach, especially in comic books.
Which isn't to say that that being easier makes the lack of any other approach okay, just that it probably has more to do with that any philosophical differences regarding addiction on the part of the writers.
Score! The Strickland Propane find was mine!
Nice, mine got on here! I wonder if Tony will continue to drink?
T~ as for your question well the thing is if you are an alcoholic there is no half measures, see the thing is you can lie to yourself over and over again that Yes I can handle this, and you know what sometimes it works, and it can work for a long while…and then it doesn't see someone who is addicted to alcohol will finally hit a point were the bottle doesn't stop. the drinking just goes on and the bad self demoralizing behavior takes command of who you are, when a normal person indulges too much it can be written off but when an alcoholic goes on a bender it affects those who have been traumatized by that persons actions in the past…to be honest Tony giving up his hard fought sobriety ( hell the man spent a good portion of his time on the streets wearing a tux and hating himself) to Odin to gain an audience to me struck a real cord but hey what do i know i'm only 8 years sober myself. i mean how could i draw on a life of experience of "self-moderation" to explain the trouble with the law, the loss of trust, the loss of friends and family…fiction works when it is based on real life and tony's desire to help save the world at the cost of losing who he is…yeah your just an ignorant asshole who has no life experience and feeds off of what other create…oh and by the by the real world holds people to those "one-note" types of behavior no matter how much a person may have grown or changed, cause they see who they saw before be it a drinker, abuser or dumb dipshit internet troll
Whoa, that one went off the rails pretty suddenly.
sorry when some one who has no idea what they are taking about and say conventional wisdom regarding a real diseas…you would say to someone with diabetes, hell have cookies and cake that probably won't matter, alcoholism is about being aware you have a real problem and those who don't well they either go down a dark road or they were never truly alcoholics, just people who have a problem with alcohol in the first place yet use it as a scape goat …sorry soap box taken down and T may have gotten a little personal for a question sorry didn't mean to just this is something that if you don't live it you can't understand it
The guy in the cape who's skating could also pass for Thor…
@T. – I suspect that Drew Barrymore is a different case and that she's not necessarily an addict in the truest sense. In spite of her past behavior, she doesn't strike me as being the type of person with an addictive personality. If anything, she falls into the category of somebody who got way too much, way too fast. Worse yet, she was a child being asked to live in an adult world – complete with all of its vices.
As a kid, she didn't have the proper tools to moderate herself back. This is the sort of skill which one develops over years. Look at how many college students drink excessively. Look at how few of them actually become alcoholics as they mature. People learn through trial and error. That's what happened with Drew. She grew up and realized that this sort of lifestyle wasn't healthy for her.
One of the hallmarks of addiction is being unable to stop even when you want to. It could be food. It could be booze. It could be drugs. It could be pr0n/sex. Whatever. You tell yourself that tomorrow will be different and that you'll NEVER do that sort of thing again. Then, tomorrow rolls around and you fall back into the same pattern. You don't want to and you feel weak for having done so, but there it is. When what you're addicted to has power over you and you have none or little…. That's addiction.
The brains of addicts are wired differently than the brains of non-addicts. This is a fact. There have been numerous studies on this. That's why some people can smoke, drink, or do "soft" drugs and never become addicted ever. They won't ever take it to the next level. Addiction is more than behavioral or environmental. It's chemical. Some people are prone to addiction and others aren't.
I smoked for 7 years. One day, I said, "Damn! This is just getting too expensive." That same day, I quit. That was 14 years ago. I can have a cigar once or twice a year, but never once feel compelled to do so. Mostly because I enjoy the taste of a good Cuban. My maternal uncle has been smoking for 30 years and has tried to quit MANY times, yet failed with each attempt. Genetics plays a big part in this too. He's got Emphysema and will probably get cancer in due course. My maternal great-grandmother smoked like a chimney. 3 or 4 cigars a day for the better part of 80 years. She never got Emphysema, cancer, or any of that. She lived to the ripe old age of 105.
My point is: Everybody is different.
Drew Barrymore had a crazy youth. So did Angelina Jolie and any number of other big celebs. They grew out of those phases and learned to moderate. That doesn't mean that they were addicts. It just means that they went a little wild and didn't know how to tame the beast. True addicts, like Lindsay Lohan or Amy Winehouse, are a different story. They fail each time they try to quit. They claim they want to, but the source of their addiction has all of the power. They like and stay in an environment that keeps them from getting healthy. And, if they ever were to successfully quit, they could NEVER indulge in even the occasional drink or whatever. One "small drink" leads to another, which leads to another, which leads to another, and so on.
Addicts CAN'T stop once they start. That's just how it is. Moderation is for regular people, non-addicts. Actual addicts have control problems. Trust me. My grandfather was a hardcore alcoholic from the time he was a young teen til the day he died in his 70s. He got so bad that quitting was never an option and he ended up in the hospital numerous times over his drinking.
My father is an alcoholic too. He can't just have a beer once in a while. It may sound cliched, but it's true: once he starts with that one little can of beer, it's unavoidable that he will drink himself to the state where he will make a scene or even lose consciousness.
Same thing with my brother. I would smoke a joint with him and his friends once in a while and walk away, but he just didn't know how to stop.
Hey All,
i like the topic of addiction vs. abuse, but remember, T. didn't say one way of handling it was good/bad/right wrong. Just that he would be interested in seeing a different approach. i would also be interested as i have 10 years of working with teenaged addicts in a no tolerance program, but have seen our graduates occasionally go to a very limited approach to drinking [with various results].
Too bad they're relabeling the bottle. It's very 'Casanova' and I assumed it was Fraction's doing.
I think it's sad that they'll edit the bottle label because that bottle is not canon.
That X-Men 98 page made me laugh. Doom just skating his stresses away..
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'The CIEH have a great reputation within the Food Sector and have actually listened to the trainers to see how the CIEH can improve the training and activity materials.'Jaqui Graham, East Riding College
"We appreciate the ease of use, accessibility and support that CIEH provide and we could clearly see the immediate benefits for our business . . . The introduction of CIEH has accelerated the pace in which we can deliver essential training to our team.'Shaun Cremins
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The CIEH now enables trainers and centre's to offer comprehensive CIEH food safety training efficiently and effectively from 'farm to fork'. Whether food is being produced, prepared, cooked, served, stored or distributed the CIEH has developed food safety training to suit employees in all types of food business.
Everyone who works with food has a special responsibility for safeguarding the health of consumers and ensure that the food they serve or sell is perfectly safe to eat.
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