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by Kurt Vonnegut
The Stars
Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
You don't often come across stars-as-symbols without getting into some seriously cosmic philosophizing. It's just that hyper-symbolic stars are usually actual stars... those twinkly balls of gas that make nighttime so pretty.
Not so in Slaughterhouse-Five. The stars at play here are really only glorified asterisks. But they're still more symbolically loaded than an apple in the Garden of Eden.
A Crash Course in Tralfamadorian Lit
You may have noticed that the tiny sections in Slaughterhouse-Five are separated by little rows of three stars. These are not just there for decoration; Billy Pilgrim discovers that all Tralfamadorian books are laid out this way (5.3). The Tralfamadorians tell Billy that the stars contain their own short messages to create a single, beautiful scene.
Slaughterhouse-Five uses a lot of elements from the fictional part of the novel, and specifically from Billy's experiences on Tralfamadore, to structure the book as a whole. Not only do the stars in the Tralfamadorian novel appear throughout Slaughterhouse-Five, but the fact that the book is told out of chronological order fits the Tralfamadorian concept of time. (Check out Billy Pilgrim's "Character Analysis" for more on this.)
And the Tralfamadorian idea that there is no point in moralizing since we can't change the past or the future may explain why Slaughterhouse-Five does not offer a single, easy moral lesson.
By using elements from the made-up part of the novel to structure both the autobiographical and the fictional sections of Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut suggests to the reader that all of Billy Pilgrim's adventures are part of the same overall narrative. The plot may distinguish between the narrator's and Billy's stories, but they both emerge from the same place: Vonnegut's efforts to write about the firebombing of Dresden. The structure of Slaughterhouse-Five never lets us forget that "Billy Pilgrim" is a thinly disguised fictional device Vonnegut uses to ponder the trauma of war—and the big questions of life and death—while still telling a pretty good story.


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PrimalCon Vacation Tulum [8] March 1st-6th is filling up quickly with only 38 rooms left at the resort. We'll have a big announcement next week about four new presenters added to the lineup! Check in with us [9] immediately if you are thinking of getting down there so we can discuss room options.
Research of the Week
It looks like hunter-gatherers weren't necessarily free from tooth decay, particularly if they ate a ton of starchy sweets [10].
Famine is actually more common among agriculturalists [11] than hunter-gatherers.
83.3% of studies from researchers without financial ties to sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) find that the drinks may increase the risk of obesity. 83.3% of studies from researchers with financial ties to sugar-sweetened beverages conclude that the evidence is insufficient to support a connection between SSB and obesity. Who to believe [12]?
Interesting Blog Posts
This is an awesome analysis [13] of how and why some people have to squat differently than others, using photos of actual bones and joints to explain the anatomical differences.
Why one man runs and sprints (when he hunts [14]).
Media, Schmedia
Sorry, folks: you're officially eating the worst diet in the world [15]. I'm moving to Weight Watchers. (Be sure to read Ancestralize Me's take on the report [16] if you're seriously worried.)
Somehow, Kellan Lutz was able to obtain a Herculean physique [17] eating the worst diet in the world. Go figure.
A website apparently thinks [18] I'm pretty influential in the realm of health and fitness.
Everything Else
I guess I'll have to slum it with some 18-month gouda or mediocre triple cream brie, what with the looming Velveeta shortage [19] and all.
Talk about live long, drop dead [20]…
Preaching the gospel of the forest-fed pig [21].
I think I'd get along with this guy [22].
Who says we can't have non-partisan cooperation when it really matters? Both Democrats and Republicans freely embrace sugar subsidies [23].
Recipe Corner
- I'd probably make this coconut lemongrass pulled pork [24] in the pressure cooker rather than the suggested slow cooker, but that's only because I'm impatient.
- No excuse not to eat a decent breakfast when you can just make easy paleo egg cups [25].
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One year ago (Jan 13 – Jan 19)
- Co-Sleeping: The Risks and the Benefits [26] – What are the pros and the cons of sharing a bed with your kids?
- 16 Things You Should Have Never Stopped Doing [27] – Go down the list to see if there's anything you're missing out on. I wager you'll find at least a few things.
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I like that approach. Live in the now. Zen get on with your day.
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Milaap unites the moneyed and the cashless
Three city-based young men have started precisely such an enterprise that connects those with the money and the desire to help with those who need money to improve their lives.
Sourabh Sharma, Anoj Vishwanathan and Mayukh Choudhury formed Milaap to address the pressing needs of people in the rural areas such as clean drinking water, sanitation, electricity, education and healthcare through micro-finance.
Unlike the regular micro-credit, these are not business loans but those given only for basic needs.
Milaap acts as a facilitator between people who want to make a contribution for a social cause and the rural poor who want to take a loan to fulfil their needs.
"We realised that there are a lot of people out there who want to give their hard-earned money for a good cause but are probably not doing so because they have no way of knowing if their contribution is being utilised well. Giving credit is a great idea because it brings in more accountability and also gives the lender the satisfaction of having helped a needy person," says Sourabh.
basic amenities
The initiative works on the premise that charity money alone is not enough to bring about major changes and take care of the basic amenities of a large number of people such as building a toilet, buying a solar lamp etc. "From our field visits and research, we realised that water & sanitation, education and electricity are pressing needs for a lot of rural poor but taking a loan at high interest rates (as much as 30-50 per cent) is definitely not feasible," said Anoj, who is also the co-founder of Microfinance Society in Singapore.
improving quality of life
"Many of them wait forever for grants, which never come their way. But if a weaver gets a loan at a lower interest rate to buy a solar-powered lamp, it can translate into higher income because he can spend more time at work. Therefore, this not only promotes a better quality of life but also cleaner and greener energy," he says.
Both Anoj and Sourabh are degree-holders from the National University of Singapore. Mayukh is an IIMB pass-out. Milaap is based out of IIM, Bangalore.
how it works
Milaap and its field partners work towards identifying beneficiaries and the field partners do the screening, collect entrepreneur stories, pictures and loan details and post them on www.milaap.org. "Lenders browse the profile of the borrowers and choose who they want to give their money to. Profiles are on the website for up to 30 days. The money is disbursed by the field partners, who have a good rapport with the borrower," says Mayukh.
Launched six months ago, the trio have already found success — they started with a pilot project that looked at financing poor women from Sholapur in Maharashtra who wanted to sell solar-powered lamps in their village. Through friends and contacts, Milaap held an awareness event at National University of Singapore, where people contributed generously. "These loans have already been disbursed to these women. They have already started repaying it. Our aim is to reach a large number of beneficiaries," says Sourabh. Those interested to help can look up www.milaap.org.
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Eudyptes chrysocome occurs as two similar subspecies. E. c. chrysocome breeds on the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) and a number of offshore islands in southern Chile and Argentina (Staten Island:173,793 pairs in 199915, Isla Ildefonso: 86,400 pairs in 2002, Diego Ramirez : 132,721 pairs in 2002, Isla Noir: 134,000 pairs in 2003, Isla Pinguino: 414 pairs in 200015). Subspecies E. c. filholi breeds on Prince Edward and Marion Islands (South Africa), Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Islands (French Southern Territories), Heard Island (Heard and McDonald Islands [to Australia]), Macquarie Island (Australia) (32 000-43 000 pairs in 2006/07 - much lower than previous estimates) and Campbell, Auckland and Antipodes Islands (New Zealand), where declines have been noted on all islands and now perhaps only a couple of hundred thousand birds remain. Other than the populations in Chile and Argentina, where population trends are unclear (although there have been declines at least locally12), all other subpopulations have undergone severe declines2: for example, 90% in 60 years in the Falklands (declined from 1.5 million pairs in the 1930's to 210,418 pairs in 2007), 40% in 13 years (1985-1998) on Marion (150,000)2, and 94% since the 1940s on Campbell (51,500 in 1985)1,14.
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— Apart from perinatal infection of mother and fetus, Listeria monocytogenes preferentially infects patients with impaired cellmediated immunity. Patients with malignant lymphoma and Hodgkin's disease1 and kidney transplant recipients2.3 succumb most often to this infection. Meningoencephalitis,4 endocarditis, septicemia, and peritonitis1 are the most common clinical forms of infection. Ampicillin sodium remains the treatment of choice; it probably acts synergistically with tobramycin sulfate.5Hemochromatosis was not known to pose special susceptibility to listerial infections. However, a patient was recently described who had hemochromatosis and meningitis with L monocytogenes.6 We have attended another patient with hemochromatosis and listerial sepsis.Our patient was a 61-year-old man with hemochromatosis and micronodular cirrhosis of the liver. He was admitted with the suspicion of malignant hepatoma. Previously he had suffered from chronic infections of his hip prosthesis. After paracentesis, he suffered an acute myocardial infarction and became
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My dh likes Marleen nn Marlee better than Marlene nn Marley. I usually like double letter names but it just doesn't look right to me. What do you ladies think?
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I voted MARLENE, nn MARLEY. Very nice name with a cute nn.
The "ee" spellings do look awkward & like the "ees' are trying too hard to make the name "unique"! MARLENE is such a pretty name, it would be a shame to be "creative" with her for the sake of a "different" spelling. It's still the same name!
If dh presses the issue, at least spell the formal name MARLENE & compromise with the nn being spelled MARLEE. BUT only if dh makes a big deal out of it! Goodluck!
Mom to "M" ( 1974), "C" ( 1976), "A" (1985) & "Glamma" to "C" ('2007) & "M" ('2010) & "J" (2012)
I like the nickname Marley but not so much Marlene. What about Marlow/Marlo/Marlowe?
MARLENE. The "ee" spelling to me just looks like a misspelling, so I agree with you that it doesn't look "right" - just off a bit.
I think you can still use the Marley spelling for her NN if you want, even if you do name her Marleen. But really, that and Marlee just look weird to me!
I voted for Marlee. Although I would still prefer Marlene as the fullname.
To me Marley just looks too masculine. I'm not usually one to change spellings to feminize, but in this case I would.
Have you considered just Marleigh?


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Tommy Amaker believes the possibilities are endless for his Harvard Crimson.
That shouldn't be surprising. What else do you expect him to say?
The Crimson won their third straight Ivy League title, played in their second straight NCAA tournament and won their first NCAA tourney game in 2012-13, even though they lost two key players before the season even started.
And now that the dust has settled for Harvard after a 74-51 loss to No. 6-seed Arizona in the third round of the NCAAs, it's time to look ahead to 2013-14.
The picture does look fairly rosy for the Crimson.
Amaker and his staff had to scramble in September when Kyle Casey and Brandyn Curry withdrew from school after being implicated in an academic cheating scandal that involved more than 100 students.
Young players like Wesley Saunders, Steve Moundou-Missi and Kenyatta Smith had to take on larger roles than they would've, and freshman Siyani Chambers was thrust into the starting lineup at the point. Laurent Rivard and Christian Webster, the only senior on the roster and as such the only player the Crimson will lose this offseason, were named co-captains.
The coaches called it an opportunity and started a mantra that went like this: "We may not have what we had, but we have enough."
Did they ever.
In his postseason wrap-up session with the media Wednesday in the lounge at Lavietes Pavilion, Amaker said he wasn't surprised by the improvements players like Saunders and Chambers made.
"One of the things that you try not to do is have something as a cap, or what you think could be the ceiling of something," Amaker said. "I've learned that through the years: You learn to put your philosophy in and put your blueprint down and then who knows where this thing could go?
"We believe that being here at Harvard allows us that opportunity that anything is possible."
Without Casey and Curry, the Crimson offense actually improved. In 2011-12, the Crimson averaged 65.6 points per game, third in the Ivy League; in 2012-13, the Crimson averaged 68.3 points per game, first in the Ivy League.
Though the defense slipped a bit, falling from first in the Ivy (55.6 points allowed per game) to third (64.1 points allowed per game), the Crimson made up for it with better 3-point shooting (39.8 percent as a team, first in the Ivy, up from 35.7 percent, fifth).
Chambers won the Ivy Rookie of the Year award, and Saunders led the Ivy in scoring. And now the Crimson get to add Casey (former Ivy Rookie of the Year, Harvard's leading scorer in 2011-12) and Curry (Ivy leader in assist-to-turnover ratio and Harvard's assist leader in 2011-12) to the mix, along with top recruit Zena Edosomwan.
"They've been as good as anybody in our league when they were here," Amaker said of Casey and Curry. "So having those guys return -- we have open arms.
"And [we] can't be any more excited for their return, for them to come back and be a part of our program, our school, our community and to finish what they came here to do, which is to be a Harvard graduate. Those things are very exciting to think about."
As to how exactly the pair will fit in with the new dynamic (Curry and Chambers play the same position; Casey and Saunders both have proven they can be go-to scorers), Amaker wasn't sure. And at this point, he's not getting hung up on the details.
After all, the Crimson haven't even started their offseason workout program yet.
"I haven't given it as much thought, certainly as you can imagine, as to the pieces of the puzzle for our team, but we certainly know they're going to be good players," he said. "They've done that throughout their time here and I don't anticipate that changing in the least bit when we get those guys back."
How much of a difference might having those two players back make? It's hard to say for sure, but at the very least the addition lengthens the rotation and spreads the burden a little more broadly.
In 2011-12, Harvard didn't have a single player among the top 10 in the Ivy in minutes played; in 2012-13, Harvard had four players among the top 10, including three of the top 5 (Chambers, first, 37.8 minutes per game; Saunders, third, 37.3; Rivard, fifth, 35.4).
Though Amaker praised his players for being responsible and preserving their strength throughout the season -- hinting that often players get worn down as much for off-the-court activities as they do on the court -- and admitted the Crimson got lucky not to suffer any serious injuries, the shortened rotation had to affect the team's play at times.
"I think we've had moments this past season where we weren't as sharp, we weren't as good. And that's gonna happen," Amaker said. "But certainly we're hopeful that we can learn and grow from moments that we weren't as good, we weren't as ready. We certainly can do a lot better and be a lot better. We had a handful of games that we felt we controlled down the end and couldn't close."
Of the Crimson's 10 losses, six were by eight points or fewer.
"There are a lot of things there that I think we can certainly look toward as areas where we can get better," Amaker said. "The depth of our team, the roster, the different combination of things that we're hoping to be able to present next year, [all those are areas] that can be possibilities for us to be a better basketball team and program."
Perhaps, as Amaker said, the possibilities really are endless.
Jack McCluskey is an editor for ESPN.com and a frequent contributor to ESPNBoston.com. Follow him on Twitter @jack_mccluskey.


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The couple also claim that Longoria owes them 186,670 pounds that she borrowed from them to fund the restaurant"s construction. They are requesting repayment of the loan, in addition to damages for breach of contract, assault and false imprisonment. They have also requested to be re-appointed as managers of the restaurant. Longoria"s representative has not made any comment.


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The data presented by Wenger et al on current physician practice in management of patients with uncomplicated myocardial infarctions (224:511, 1973) are largely confirmed by the data in our ongoing prospective case registry involving 53 of 96 licensed Washington hospitals and a case volume of over 7,700 per year admitted to special cardiac care units for all causes.There appears to be a significant difference in the median length of total hospital stay that is reported as 21 days in the Wenger paper and is found to be 17 days in our study, including a mean stay in the cardiac care units of 6.6 days (with definite infarcts).I would like to comment on standard exercise tests following uncomplicated myocardial infarction. Though we agree with the authors that clinical judgment has limitations in assessing cardiac function and that standardized exercise tests are useful, we would also like
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New London - In a move he said was made to avoid any appearance of voter intimidation, Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio said he requested a police vehicle be moved away from its very visible location outside the high school polling place on election night.
The move was criticized by the police union this week, another example of the friction between the mayor and union leadership.
"The constant bashing of police officers by this mayor is incessant," according to a post-election update posted by the union's political director Chuck Flynn on the union's website.
"His latest episode was accusing officers on election night of voter intimidation against minorities who could potentially fear a visible police presence in the high school parking despite the fact the police department hired an officer overtime assignment for polling station visibility," the posting reads.
Finizio said he's aware of political tactics used in the past in which police officers were used to intimidate minority voters. He cited past cases in New Jersey where the strategy was used by Republicans.
Finizio said he was not accusing police of any impropriety, only that "visibility is a factor we consider to ensure we don't have an appearance of intimidation ... something that could detract from voter turnout."
Police typically have some presence around Election Day polling places to ensure public safety and manage traffic, he said. Prior to Election Day, however, Finizio said he spoke with Chief Margaret Ackley about keeping police presence discreet where possible.
"I want to make sure everyone going to the polls feels comfortable," Finizio said.
At the high school, prior to the end of voting, Finizio said he received word that a patrol vehicle was parked near the entrance of the school, which also happens to be situated in a voting district with a high minority population. He said he called the chief and asked that the vehicle be moved.
"There was no problem, but I felt this was potentially in violation of what I discussed earlier with the chief," he said. "I had concerns and the problem was addressed."
Local Union President Officer Todd Lynch said Finizio's actions serve to hinder, and not heal, race relations.
"The mayor is throwing a racist accusation at the police department. How is a police car intimidating minorities?" Lynch said. "He's using race when there was no problem at all."
Lynch said he thought it was problematic to have a mayor, who was campaigning for his party, directing police action on the night of the elections.
"Our superiors should direct police what the police should do, not the mayor who is involved in the election," Lynch said. "We have a chief. We have a deputy chief and command staff. The mayor should not be directing police operations."
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Alanis Obomsawin is one of Canada's most distinguished documentary filmmakers. A member of the Abenaki Nation, whose territory originally extended from New England to Quebec, Obamsawin was born in New Hampshire in 1932 and raised on the Odanak reservation northeast of Montreal. Deeply absorbed in the history, traditional stories, and songs of her ancestors, she began her career as a singer, writer, and storyteller. In 1971 she made her first film, Christmas at Moose Factory, a documentary about Cree children. Since then, she has worked with the National Film Board of Canada to make over thirty documentaries on issues affecting First Nations peoples.
Obomsawin first chronicled conflicts over land and political rights between aboriginal peoples and other communities in Canada with Incident at Restigouche (1984). Her 1993 film Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, about the Mohawk protest against the expansion of a golf course into sacred burial lands, received international acclaim. Interweaving drawings, songs, music, and interviews, her films are distinguished by their original research, meticulous attention to historical detail, compassion for their contemporary subjects, and insight into the rights and lives of First Nations peoples. In May 2008, Obomsawin receives the Governor General's Performing Arts Award, one of Canada's highest honors. All films are from Canada and are written and directed by Obomsawin.
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"Sir, sir – a monkey pooped on your shoe!" was the first thing that brought my attention to the large, wet mound on my casual walking shoe.
Ick. Not a convenient development when walking around Connaught Place in New Delhi.
Interestingly, the next thing I heard was "Shoe shine – only 500."
Despite the jet lag, I was able to immediately recognize the scam. The fact that the same person who pointed out the poop before I noticed it also happened to have a shoe shine kit was a pretty good clue. Never did see the accused monkey, although I strongly suspect it was actually the person who I begrudgingly paid INR 500 for that shoe clean-up and shine!
I filed it away as a humorous lesson and forgot about it until mentioning it some colleagues in our India office the next week. They were aghast and surprised that I would pay so much for the shoe service (about US$10 at the time, and 20% of the value of the shoes – which I had never previously considered deserving of a shine). From their perspective, I had paid far above market value (10-15 times the market rate) and should have negotiated the price down. From my perspective, I had no idea of the market price and just wanted the issue fixed quickly despite knowing the painful truth that the source of the problem was also the solution to the problem.
I was recently reflecting on this for reasons completely unknown to me (er, might have come about while changing a baby diaper…you get the idea). I was struck by the fact that my colleagues, the shoe shiner, and I all had different thoughts upon the value exchange. In an effort to demonstrate exactly how much I over-analyze life, I distilled this to three lessons.
The shoe shine from my perspective cost US$10 and allowed me to get back to enjoying the sights and sounds of Delhi. Frustrating, but well worth the money from a functional perspective that had nothing to do with the shoes themselves, but rather to remove a nuisance and enable me to do other things. From my colleagues' perspective, it was 10x the market rate. From my experience, it was about 2X the market rate (US$5) in the U.S., so I did not mind the rate too much. If I had been asked to pay 10X the U.S. rate or US$50, I would have resisted and likely gone ballistic. For the shoe shiner, ignoring raw material costs of the poop, it was tremendous profit and a highly valuable exchange.
Depending upon one's perspective, the financial price of a value exchange and the utility from the value are viewed differently.
No wonder we struggle to put a price to value in outsourcing!
Although the shoe shiner definitely helped solve the issue and did so quickly, I could not be pleased with the value received; the context of the need for the services completely undermined his shoe shining contribution.
If this had not been a scam and I accidentally stepped into something and a shoe shiner happened to be nearby and solved the issue, then I would have thanked him profusely and happily paid the INR 500. However, instead of thanking him, I left grumbling and scowling because of the context in how the value was created for me.
In other words, if you cause the problem, your perceived value in solving the problem is less than if you solve problems created by others.
After starting to reflect on this, I pulled out these old shoes (see photo), which I have not worn much in recent years. Ironically, they look pretty good. In fact, I believe the leather is softer and better looking than when I first bought them. They have also avoided collecting as much dust as before the unplanned shoe shine.
In other words, they benefited from the shoe shine and it appears to have been a decent shoe shine.
But I can't give the shoe shiner any credit for this because the experience was such a turn-off.
So, solve the problem, but also ensure the experience of problem resolution is appreciated by the recipient.
Outsourcing is fundamentally a service provided by one complex organization to another complex organization. The situation is ripe with many factors (mis-communications, mis-aligned stakeholders, budget pressures, turnover, etc.) to limit the chance for perceived value exchange between organizations. Although we need to ensure the work completed creates value, we should not forgot that how we treat each other and manage our interactions can completely undermine the appreciation of value. If you solve a problem, don't expect credit if you created the problem – solve problems beyond your scope. If you solve a problem, don't expect much credit if the experience is suboptimal – own the problem and the service experience.
Originally posted on the National Outsourcing Association (NOA) blog
Insights from the NOA "Benchmarking" Special Interests Group with Everest Group
Benchmarking is a worthwhile endeavour. When conducted properly, the practice will give you a baseline indicator of where your business is currently, where it is headed on its current trajectory, where you need to be to maximise gains and how you can get there.
Benchmarking can also act as the catalyst for a more fruitful long-term outsourcing relationship, by highlight areas that must be focused on moving forward. On the other hand, it is not the solution to every problem that relationship might have. The term is frequently misunderstood and the practice is even more frequently misused.
At the NOA's Special Interests Group on Benchmarking in association with Everest Group, benchmarking experts led a roundtable discussion on when benchmarking is necessary, how it is best carried out and what the practice does to help business relationships between clients and their providers.
Timing can be crucial. I recently blogged about trends that are powerful enough to drive substantial changes in the services industry, even to the point of restructuring the hierarchy of the industry. We at Everest Group believe these are very important trends and service providers must develop their strategies for reacting. Here is our guidance to avoid overreacting to the impending changes.
As a provider, if you react to the challenges by putting new emphasis on new models too fast, you will lose focus on your core business. But if you don't change quickly enough or are not able to make the requisite changes, you run the risk of becoming a dinosaur. The industry saw this happen 15 years ago when the Indian ISPs with their labor arbitrage and factory models caused tremendous disruption in the MNCs that dominated the industry at that time (e.g., Capgemini, CSC, EDS, HP).
Organizations struggle when changing business models. It's difficult to change a services organization without losing its identity and value. There are basically two strategy paths providers can take in dealing with the industry changes.
First, don't fall into the temptation of trying to make your company be something it's not. For example, most of the Indian ISPs are effectively talent companies; they manage and deliver talent. There will always be a need for talent. The kind of talent and the work the talent undertakes will change, but there will still be a need for talent. So one potential strategy is to stay true to your company's identity and value and manage talent.
Another strategy is to try to develop completely new business offerings and intellectual property (IP).
However, this strategy carries several risks, and some companies that take this route run into significant problems. Some try to build a new business model but use philosophies and structures that evolved for the talent-pool model instead of digital-age models. Others rethink their philosophies and structures and also change their IP, investment model and pricing structure. They also must change their customer interaction model.
It is particularly instructive that there are very few examples where companies were able to develop their new IP in house. IBM is an example of changing IP numerous times, but they tend to do it through acquisitions, not through developing new vehicles in house. If that's the strategy other providers adopt in reacting to the impending changes, we can look for a big spree of well-funded service firms buying software or as-a-service products.
However, providers need to change their acquisition strategies. Yesterday's strategy was to buy tuck-in companies at low valuations and leverage them for customer access, but today it's necessary to buy technology. Should you buy an early-stage startup that's affordable but hasn't fleshed out its business model and hasn't honed its pricing structure or built market momentum; or should you buy one that has – and pay a premium for it? Obviously there is a huge difference in valuation. And the valuation can change in the course of three months for a fast-moving tech company. So the pace at which you make the valuations has to change, and the risk is different. As I mentioned earlier, timing is crucial.
Another acquisition issue: should you nurture the company and hold it separate so it doesn't get cannibalized and shut down? Should you let them have an independent sales force and marketing arm, or should you roll them under your existing teams?
So there are substantial challenges and some daunting issues along the road to evolving to an IP-driven organization. There will be a huge learning curve at every level of change.
You basically have three choices in strategies for dealing with the impending industry changes:
All the necessary change I described above is a difficult and risk-filled proposition. But it's even more difficult to try to sustain both models at the same time.
The consequence of option #1, to stay the course with talent, could be that your company ends up on the sidelines and has to watch your talent get commoditized, deal with reduced earnings and slower growth while other providers soar to huge valuations.
The consequence of option #2, shifting to the digital-age models, include a huge learning curve. Can you make that pivot fast enough to offset the revenue runoffs or the lack of growth from your shift in direction? Will it confuse your existing client base? Can you learn the new business model quickly enough to compete successfully?
The consequence of option #3, trying to maintain the old while shifting to the new, will feel and look schizophrenic. You'll have a split focus in every aspect of your business. And all the while, each model will seek supremacy. If you allow that to happen, you'll lose focus on the other model.
There is no obvious "right" answer to which strategy your company should undertake in dealing with the impending industry changes. Choose the one that you can best execute on and is the best choice for maximizing shareholder value and growth opportunities.
Sole sourcing can deliver multiple benefits, including reduced cost- and time-to-decision, elimination of the need to manage a large portfolio of providers, and likelihood of reaping greater value from a closer relationship with a single services delivery partner. Yet the sole-source process can quickly unravel if not carefully designed and managed by the buyer, even (or perhaps, especially) when a strong relationship between the buyer and provider already exists.
Several factors are critical to sole sourcing success.
While mutual respect, aligned interests, commitment, and trust are critical in any outsourcing relationship, they assume greater importance in a sole-source situation. Why? Buyers look to sole source to achieve collaborative, insights-based solutions, rather than merely receiving a table stakes collection of transactions. Buyers achieve this by openly sharing their desired outcomes and concerns, and building an outcomes-focused, value-oriented foundation during the solutioning and negotiation process. This depth of relationship must be nurtured throughout the tenure of the engagement. This applies whether looking to transform the relationship or simply update it. Alignment of both organizations to the objectives is key to a successful sole-source.
Senior leadership from both the buyer and supplier need to set the initial goals for the relationship as they deepen it, and then continue to reinforce the desired outcomes to their teams throughout the sole sourcing process. Institutionalizing these objectives will ensure that they become the parameters that guide behavior in all interactions. This takes significant and persistent effort at all levels, and will require some spot coaching to realign team members who fall back to the old ways of doing things.
Given their role as stewards of an enterprise's activities, boards of directors may balk at the idea of sole sourcing. To avoid delays and additional fact gathering expenses – and even the requirement to tender an RFP to multiple providers – the buyer should present the opportunity to its board as early as possible in the process. The buyer must understand the concerns the board might have around the value of a competitive process, and address them through external benchmarking, leveraging current market information about suppliers and services, and a thorough understanding of the value of the current relationship. An early confirmation from the board that this is worth considering will avoid wasting time, resources, money, and momentum.
As one of the key advantages of sole sourcing is time-to-execution of the agreement, buyers need to focus on three factors during the sourcing process: a strong, solid, and accurate business case that is easily explained to the organization; confidence (through benchmarking and external validation) that the service provider, scope, and pricing are market-competitive and aligned to the desired outcomes; and a robust contract that focuses negotiations on the most relevant terms.
To attain buy-in from senior leadership, the board, and the overall organization, the buyer's business case must include: a baseline to demonstrate the full current service delivery costs; projections for the contract duration; dynamic modeling for real-time solutioning; an accounting of direct cost, business, and strategic benefits; and multi-dimensional risk measures. The business case must include a comparison to a competitive process, ensuring that the organization understands the value of the sole-source. And while it must cover all these bases, the resulting information must be presented in a clear, simple, direct, and compelling manner.
The onus is on the buyer to ensure that the scope, pricing, and value are reasonable. As the buyer, you need to know what you want from the provider's services, and how they'll help you achieve your goals. After analyzing all through a market-comparative lens, you should work hand-in-hand with the provider to set specific (and quantifiable!) solution targets, making it clear that under-achieved goals may re-open a multi-provider sourcing process.
By taking ownership of the engagement process to set specific milestones and goals, the buyer maintains control of the decision and problem solving involved in reaching the goal, and eliminates any ambiguities relating to timing, scope, responsibilities, metrics, and targets. But a bit of buyer beware: Everest Group has identified 31 relevant contractual terms that sourcing negotiations should address.
For more specifics on attaining sole-sourcing success, please read our paper, "Sole Source Outsourcing – Ensuring a Successful Outcome."
The cloud experiment is over and the debate in enterprises about its benefits and risks is settled. We know it works, it's more flexible and cheaper, and it makes it easier for IT to align with business needs. So should buyers put their applications into a cloud environment?
My advice: Don't rearchitect your legacy applications that were designed and implemented in a legacy environment and port them over to the cloud. Organization of all sizes have been waiting for providers' porting solutions. Unfortunately, that's sort of like the Samuel Beckett tragicomedy play, "Waiting for Godot," in which two characters wait days for Godot even though they don't know where or when he might arrive. Buyers wait, thinking cloud porting solutions will arrive in the market, but it just doesn't happen. That's because porting is really expensive and really risky.
I've blogged in the past about CSS Corp Cloud Services and Redwood Software platforms for easily migrating legacy apps to the cloud. But as we get further into the cloud story, it looks like replatforming offerings will be far rarer than we anticipated. I'm not saying they won't exist; I'm just saying they won't be the dominant model.
As the smoke clears from cloud experimenting and pilots, the best-practice dominant model for moving into the cloud is shaping up as follows:
This strategy of adding virtualization and automation may get your legacy environment into a private cloud, but it doesn't get you into the agile low-cost public cloud environment. However, it allows you to improve the efficiency and resiliency of the existing legacy environment without the huge cost and risk of rearchitecting.
The strategy also helps CIO organizations regain some of the influence and credibility they've lost with business units as they've addressed new functionalities enabling where the business is moving. It enables the organization to be more agile, better aligned and do so with lower cost, which significantly relieves the tension of having to get a huge amount of funding for a set of high-risk legacy projects.
The fact is for many legacy applications the best you can do is make incremental progress. You can move them out of dedicated hardware into virtualized hardware. And other than some potential cost savings, there is little to no business benefit from taking on the risk of reengineering them for a public infrastructure or shared environment.
We saw this same best-practice model happen with distributed computing; new applications went into distributed computing and eventually we reached a tipping point where we needed to move legacy apps. I anticipate the new functionalities, new work will similarly drive the shift from legacy to cloud.
Going forward until the tipping point occurs, put all your efforts into standing up your organization's new environment to take full advantage of the business alignment, flexibility and cost that the cloud family offers and just make incremental changes to your legacy environment. If you wait for a huge re-platforming surge of cloud porting solutions, I believe you'll be waiting for Godot.


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I bought a 2008 Pontiac G6 from Carmax Plano and my experience with them turned into a nightmare. After I purchased the car, I started hearing noises from the front of the car and noticed the car wobbled when I applied the brakes. I took the car to Christian Brothers Automotive and the mechanic said that the car needed these items repaired.
All brake pads replaced
Both tie rods replaced (part of the steering linkage)
All four rotors needed to be replaced as they were warped beyond repair
Transmission fluid was dirty and needed to be changed
Brake fluid was very dirty and needed to be changed
I took the car back to Carmax Plano and left the car with them along with the list of the repairs needed. My service advisor, James, called me later that day and said that the car was unsafe to drive because of the tie rods (which are part of the steering linkage) were bad and needed to be replaced. He also agreed that the brakes were bad and all four rotors were bad.
James refused to change the transmission fluid and brake fluid and would only resurface the rotors, not replace them as the mechanic said is what needed to be done. So they put a car that was unsafe to drive on their lot for sale. What about their so-called 125 point inspection that they claim is done on every car?
They gave me a loaner car to drive for about five days while my was being repaired. When I finally got the car back, I noticed a rattling noise coming from under the car. I took it back to them and they had to take it to a GM dealer to find out that a brake cable had come loose.
Got the car back and there was another rattling noise. Took it back to Carmax and they found that a heat shield by the muffler was loose. This was repaired.
Got the car back and noticed another rattling noise that I could hear when the windows were down. Again, I took the car back to Carmax Plano and they could not find anything wrong with it. I took it to a GM dealer myself and they found out that Carmax had replaced the brake pads with the wrong ones. The dealer installed the correct brake pads.
James had promised me he would order a replacement remote control as one was broken. On one of my numerous trips to Carmax Plano, I asked if it had arrived yet, only to find out James had never ordered it.
I had enough at this point and asked to speak to the manager, Nate. I asked Nate him for his assistance to help me get the remote. Much to my astonishment, he said I have 180 employees and over 3000 customers per month and I dont have time. He said I would have to deal with the service advisor, James, to which I replied that was the reason I was talking him, because I was not having much luck with James.
I asked Nate that if I could not get this small issue resolved with James, would he step in to help. He flat out said no. I could not believe a manager had this type of attitude problem and wondered how someone with his personality became a manager.
I called the Carmax corporate office and spoke with a lady in customer service about everything that had happened. She said she was taking notes and would get back with me. Never heard from her but was not surprised at this point.
So with was my experience with Carmax Plano and if you dont want to possibly go through what I went through, buy your car from somewhere else.
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• Saturday, April 19, 2014.
• Starts at 9:00 a.m. at the Town Hall Parking Lot.
On the evening of February 19th, the Town held a Special Town Meeting for the purpose discussing and acting on a petition that had been presented to the Board of Selectmen. The petition called for the repeal of a Town Ordinance that created the combined position of the combined position of Town Planner/Zoning Enforcement Officer and Inland/Wetlands and water courses Enforcement Officer. An informative discussion was held at the meeting, and the final vote of the citizens present at the meeting was to NOT repeal the current ordinance. It was generally agreed that the wording of the current ordinance should be "tweaked" to reflect the most current needs of the Town, but the ordinance should remain in place until a new, revised ordinance ready to be put into its place.
My personal wishes to each of you and your families for a safe and Happy Thanksgiving. As you gather around your table, giving thanks for all that are close to you, please take a moment to say a prayer for all of our service members stationed overseas and say a special prayer for their safe return home.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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It has been my sincere pleasure to serve the great Town of Canterbury.
Brian Sear
Canterbury and Lisbon are holding a shared Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day at the Lisbon Central School from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, October 26.
Any type of paint, paint thinner, old gasoline, pesticides, herbicides, old anti-freeze, insecticides, photo chemicals are accepted.
Electronics are also accepted; however, you can also dispose of electronics at our town transfer station during our regular station hours.
Please bring a driver's license or other proof of residency.
Brian Sear
At last night's Board of Finance meeting, the Board voted to send forward a budget set at 21.7 mils, which includes restoring General Government funds cut in the last budget round, as well as obtaining a healthy Net Fund Balance (surplus) of $76,151.
At our next Selectmen's meeting on Tuesday, September 3, we will be scheduling an upcoming Town Meeting and Referendum.
Brian Sear
At Tuesday's meeting, The Board of Selectmen was pleased to restore several cuts to the General Government budget made in the last budget round without increasing spending. Funds were restored to the original requests made in Senior Activities, Senior Citizen Expense (Canterbury Seniors), wages to cover current Town Hall hours, Library Operating, and Library Staff.
Restoration was possible due to savings achieved in Town Health Insurance costs.
The cut made to the Transfer station line was maintained, but hours at the station will not be cut. Savings achieved through a new contract I negotiated with WilliWaste and efficiencies achieved through new compactors made this possible.
The new General Government budget will be included in the next Board of Finance meeting, scheduled for August 28. Thanks to all who participated in the budget discussion process.
Brian Sear
Tax bills were mailed last week and you probably have received yours by now.
Several times in recent years we have had three rounds before a budget has passed. In each case, we were able to prepare and send out tax bills in early to mid-August. This year the first three budgets were not passed. To keep the Town operating, and avoid having to borrow operating funds, the Board of Selectmen set a "bil rate". Based on the following perspective, the bil rate was set at .5 mil increase.
+1.5 Mil Services Maintained Healthy Not approved
+1.0 Mil Public Works cut Modest Not approved
Education Cut
+ .3 Mil Transfer Station cut Precarious Not approved
Library cut
Town Hall hours cut
More public works cut
Seniors cut
More education cut
There was a general outcry against the proposed cuts. At setting the bill rate at .5 mil, we tried to approximate a situation where the raise could be minimized while restoring as many cuts as possible, and obtaining a healthy fund balance.
We have been able to achieve no tax rate increase for five years without significant cuts and while adding key services. Last year we paid from available funds approximately $280,000 for a new 50-year roof for the elementary school. This saved us considerable borrowing costs, but did remove those funds from our balance. The only long-term debt the Town currently has is payment on the Municipal Building construction loan.
For a home with a value of approximately $204,000 (assessed at $142,800), the .5 mil increase is an additional $71.
Brian Sear
Canterbury is partnering with Connecticut Conference of Municipalities to offer Prescription Discount Cards to all Town residents. These cards have been mailed to all residents and are available in the Selectmen's office.
The Canterbury Prescription Drug Card is for those who don't have prescription insurance, or for drug purchases that are not covered by a current program.
All pharmacies in the area honor this program. Present your card when placing prescriptions, and the pharmacy will advise you as to the possible savings.
Be well!
Brian Sear
Canterbury Town Hall Office Hours:
Monday - Wednesday 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, Thursday 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM, Friday 9:00 AM - 1:30 PM


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Buying a new vehicle can be a tedious process, however not at Davis Chevrolet Claresholm. Clayton & Corrie were friendly, professional, patient and attentive to our expressed needs. Clayton definitely went the 'extra mile' in thoughtfully explaining the technology features of my wife's new vehicle. Bradly was professional, expedient and thorough in [...]


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I would check with your dr to see how they want to handle this. Eating during the night can help fasting numbers sometimes, but I think the bigger issue is that you're waking up hungry during the night. Most times when I get up at 1am, I'm hungry, but a few sips of water help. Sometimes it doesnt but I fall asleep anyways. I would def check woth your dr, they may tell you to have something all protein at 3am then test as normal.
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Prior to getting diagnosed, I had a few weeks during this pregnancy like what you're describing where I would just wake up starving around 3am. Dr said it was completely normal to go through phases like this and baby was probably just having a growth spurt.
The few items I've woken up in the middle of the night hungry since getting diagnosed, I just put a note next to my fasting number (usually 5-10pts higher than normal) that I ate food at X time. The only time someone has ever said something about it she said something to the effect of "This one is higher because you ate, so it doesn't count as a 'high' fasting number" and she moved on.
Just let them know and I'm sure they'll work with you - gotta keep baby and mommy fed even despite fasting numbers! :)
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I have a problem on my wp blog (www.mercredie.com): all my links redirect to the homepage (since Monday). I've tried to change theme and desactivate all plugins but no change... It's still impossible to browse (previous/next articles), open a specific article (by clicking on its title), leave a comment or change category (pages on top of my page). Everything end up at the homepage.
I've seen some references to similar issues, but none of the answers I've seen help...
Two strange things that i noticed:
1. My "like" facebook button (under each articles) seems to go crazy as I already have 50 "likes" when I post an article. I thought it could have a consequence on my links problem so I desactivated and deleted it but no change.
2. The problem started the same day that my host (ovh) moved my database to another server (because the previous one had too many problems). Could this have a link with my links pb?
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New qb
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Rookies because this year rookies are a bunch of scrubs. All of them
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Originally posted by Shaj:
I just want the top pick in the draft, so we can get a real QB. Is that asking too much?
Originally posted by Marvin49:Originally posted by Joecool:
I agree 100% with this thread. We have a lot of young talent that an established/experienced veteran coach who has had success would salivate to shine the light on. Now add that to higher picks in each round and we are very tempting to any coach out there.
Of course, we have that one MAJOR issue: QB.
I hope we sign Alex as a well-defined backup while we acquire an established starter. Either way, if we don't get a starter, then we develop the youngster while Alex becomes Steve Deberg. If he excels under the new coach, then we have two QB's the league will desire and are even in a better place.
Alex either becomes Steve DeBerg or Drew Brees (the Chargers version when pushed by Phillip Rivers). Its win-win.
Originally posted by Brew:
New qb
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Rookies because this year rookies are a bunch of scrubs. All of them
Originally posted by Marvin49:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeDCk2XVhZAOriginally posted by lamontb:
They need to hire a GM before they get a coach. Or at least make sure they get a combo that will work well together.
They have to solve the problem at qb then worry about the rest of your problems. Everything can't be fixed in one off season. Never thought I'd be saying this but they need to take a page out of the Redskins book. Get a skilled coach and decent GM. Then go out and get a serviceable qb with leadership skills and maturity that others will follow. Now instead of the skins losing all of the close games they are winning close games that they are actually being outplayed in. There o line is as bad but yet a veteran qb makes world of difference. McNabb doesn't even have great numbers but they have wins. Not sure who will be available but they need to take aggressive steps to improve this position. Sing a good free agent or trade just improve the position. If those options aren't good then a rookie qb will get a strong look from the team.
Manusky, Manny and Parys all need to go if they will continue to run the 3-4. sorry but Manusky's play calling is very suspect. You can't play a 3-4 and wait til the second half to actually blitzes or make any adjustments. It's been 3/4 years and they are just adjusting to defending the screen play. and Manny and Parys just can't cut it as full time OLB starters in a 3-4. There is no depth at all with the CB's. the fact that this team didn't add any cb talent except Will James is just laughable. whoever made that observation should be fired.
And Nate Clements as a Ed Reed type safety is the funniest thing I've heard in a awhile. He has no discipline at all, And doesn't have the speed to get over top of wr's and make plays. You can't have a safety that falls for double moves all day.
Team has talent they need a qb, and some coaching intelligence and strategy to be right back in the mix next year. Then you work and build to solve all other problems.
I didn't say he's be Ed Reed. I said Ed Reed Type....IE a roving center fielder type with ball skills. As for the double move thing....its VERY different playing safety than corner. The play he made in Atlanta prior to his fumble is what I'm talking about. He came off his reciever entirely because he saw where the play was going and made what should have been the game ending pick.
He also very good in run support and forces turnovers.
That tells me he may have a future at FS. I think he's become problematic at corner.
As for the lack of speed....NFL history is full of CBs who lost their speed and made the switch to FS and played very well. Rod Woodson is one off the top of my head.
There are times when Nate looks like a great player and there are times when his gambling style gets him in trouble. At Free Safety, he can use that platymaking ability and not be as much of a liability when he gambles.


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I know there was a lot of hubub over the future of IxDA, and some calls for the death of the email list...was sentence carried out? I haven't gotten an IxDA email in days, but it looks like there are new threads...
I think it's symptomatic of a larger problem...I still feel connected to the people I know in IxDA, mostly through twitter, but I no longer feel connected to the org, and I'm not sure I'm interested in going looking for it on Quora.
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Is there anybody out there? Am I just shouting into the void?
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Please! I suspect I'm not the only person who enjoys the speed and
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Maybe it's because I "grew up" on text-only forums like USENET/LISTSERV,
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Hi folks,
We are indeed experiencing some major bumps in the transition to our new website, mainly around Discussion/email integration. Primarily, many people who had previously unsubscribed from emails were inadvertently given a subscription that delivers emails. Additionally, the "Daily" send interval that we thought would behave like the former website's "digest" option is not behaving as expected.
So what is up with the IxDA forum, why is it made the way it is?
Its really the most confusing thing I have ever experienced.
I seem to have problems with reading all threads, sometimes I can see
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Is there anything I am missing here? Is it legacy from old mail list
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wouldn't be able to keep up with this list. I find that Outlook doesn't
always sort properly, particularly because of the RE: infront of email
I don't see much of a structure to posts here (no subject formatting, such
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I mostly want to hear from people that actually played the D&Dn-v0.01 rules at DDXP. Most of what I have read was excitedly optimistic.
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Racial ability scores: It seems to me obvious that members of different races should have wildly different averages when it comes to their ability scores. In the past, this was often dealt with via a simple +2/-2 modifier to certain ability scores. But with people freely able to arrange ability scores however they liked, these sorts of racial modifiers usually get sort of 'lost in the mix'.
Another way to do it may be to not allow players to assign their rolled scores however they like. On the contrary, ability scores must be rolled in order. Of course, this could easily wind up giving you scores that are highly inconvenient for your previously planned out character concept. So you could allow a player to re-roll 1 or 2 scores if they wish (but they must keep the re-rolled scores whether they are higher or lower).
If you do this, you wouldn't be constrained by 4d6 drop 1 roll for all scores. 4d6 drop 1 gives you the HUMAN range of scores. However, for a dwarf, you could be rolling say 5d6 drop 2 on constitution, and a straight up 3d6 for charisma. This would give different averages for different ability scores without going above or below the 3-18 standard limits.
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My earlier post may have sounded slightly off topic, not helped because I falied to make a point.
Rolling ability scores has its flaws and poor rolls have ruined may players' games. The point buy system is what we use and I can't see this not being included - but if not, then house rule.
I like races to feel different and as no race should be perfect, having bonuses and penalties is fine with me. To support this, the reliance on ability scores needs to be more critical else any penalised score would be a dump stat, and hence not really a penalty. This is one of elements of 4e that contributed to my feeling of not D&D.
I don't think that D&D has ever really mastered non-combat skills and so I remain hopefull that the next iteration will be improved and what I've heard so far sounds OK.
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A balance needs to be reached. If every stat is important, no stat will be special, to misquote a fine movie. If I can't afford to give my Fighter a good strength lest his low Int kill him, everything will be 12s. Trade offs give choice: I know a low score may hurt me, but there is a gulf between hurt and debilitate.The 3/4E styles seemed fine to me. What did they do wrong (or conversely, who did it right)?I don't think that D&D has ever really mastered non-combat skills and so I remain hopefull that the next iteration will be improved and what I've heard so far sounds OK.
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The Fed Provides Unexpected Help for Dollar
Going back to the old faithful.
That is what investors will do now as concerns over the global recovery intensify and risk, once again, is taken off the table.
The problem is that this time around there are fewer safe havens to choose from.
With both the Bank of Japan and the Swiss National Bank threatening more intervention to cap the gains of the yen and the franc, investors are likely to turn more wary about these currencies.
Despite the U.S. credit downgrade, despite the greater risk of more quantitative easing and despite disappointment over the rate of the U.S. economic recovery this leaves only one real alternative for them–the dollar.
Yes, there is still talk that major central banks will continue to diversify into the euro. But they do so at their peril. The future of the single currency is still far from assured and with core countries such as France coming under the microscope now, the threat of default hasn't gone away.
Sterling has found itself promoted to the club of safe havens, given the fiscal discipline pursued by the government. However, doubts over whether this discipline can be preserved as the economy slows and social unrest becomes an issue, may well relegate the pound to second-tier status.
Evidence that investors aren't prepared to ditch the dollar came as the Federal Reserve admitted Tuesday that interest rates will need to stay down until 2013 and that further easing measures could still be adopted.
The impact on the dollar should have been negative. But, apart from an early glitch, that wasn't the case.
U.S. money markets have long discounted a long period of low rates and suggestions of the need for more quantitative easing were hardly new.
Stock markets across the world may have taken some comfort from the prospect of lower lending costs, but investors appeared to latch on to the Fed's admission that the economic outlook had deteriorated instead. Their reaction was simple, pulling in their risk horns even further in the hunt for even safer havens.
U.S. Treasury yields were pushed to a new record low as bond markets were again back in favor and, in currencies, higher-yielders came under renewed selling pressure.
In other words, fear about the global recovery–or lack of it–is once again stalking the corridors of the investment world. And much of it is looking justified.
Apart from the slowdown in most major western economies, there is also the slowdown in China, which can no longer be relied upon to pull the rest of the world out of recession. Recent data show that an unfortunate mix of higher inflation and slower growth means that tighter monetary policy is on its way, as China tries to stop inflation getting out of hand.
So while global investors may have been keen previously to look elsewhere for an alternative, they are now more likely to turn back to the dollar.
This should help the currency's index, which has bounced around in a narrow trading range since the middle of May, to possibly break out on the upside and start reversing some of its longer-term losses in the months to come.


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