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Five for Friday: How Avaya Messaging Service Beats WhatsApp for Business
By now, you've probably heard whassup about WhatsApp, why both Facebook and, apparently, Google would be willing to spend $19 billion (or more!) for this 5-year-old startup.
I bet none of those plaudits concerned what WhatsApp brings to the table for businesses. Like Apple with its iPhone, WhatsApp doesn't win business customers by design, but accident. The most obvious case being small, thrifty companies with employees or business partners scattered across different countries. They use WhatsApp to keep in touch. Of course, these are the same kinds of firms that put up with jittery pictures and murky sound on Skype rather than adopt a solution like our Scopia where the IT manager has full control over the Quality-of-Service.
Related article: Finally! Avaya Messaging Service Brings Texting into the Business World
But in general, WhatsApp is aimed squarely at consumers. It's not true enterprise mobile messaging. If your company is looking for a real business-class platform, consider the Avaya Messaging Service, which bests WhatsApp in these 5 ways.
(Thanks to Tac Berry, Avaya Messaging Service product marketing manager, and Jeffrey Hodson, AMS chief architect at Avaya, for their input.)
1. More Platforms. WhatsApp users can only send and receive messages from smartphones. Avaya Messaging Service users can send and receive texts from a wide spectrum of hardware, including smartphones, tablets and PCs. In other words:
2. Larger Reach. Facebook spent $19 billion on WhatsApp mostly because of its large, active user base – 450 million users each month, with 70% (315 million) logging in every single day. Well, with Avaya Messaging Service, users can text not just other AMS users (such as your co-workers), but also any of the other 6.8 billion SMS users worldwide. That's 15x greater reach with AMS. With WhatsApp, you can't easily message new sales prospects, provide support to customers or even colleagues in your company. With AMS, you can.
3. Full One Number Support. Employees love BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). But they don't necessarily want to give out their personal cellphone number to every potential customer or partner, especially if the relationship is sensitive or potentially tricky. Similarly, businesses aren't wild about employees putting their personal cellphone numbers, or, worse, their WhatsApp contact info, on their business cards, for image reasons.
With Avaya Aura and AMS, employees can now give out a single telephone number to their business contacts. They can be reached at this lone number, whether via phone call, videochat, fax, personal mobile phone, and now, text message. That's elegant simplicity. A number of universities have expressed strong interest in using AMS so that students can text their professors at their office telephone numbers, rather than their pestering them on their personal devices. By contrast, WhatsApp a) forces you to use your cellphone number, including possibly your personal cellphone, as your account ID; b) grows, rather than simplifies, the messy proliferation of channels that you can be contacted on.
4. Better History of Security and Privacy. AMS messages are stored in a secure, hosted environment. Moreover, messages sent between AMS users on the same corporate domain are encrypted. Since August 2012, WhatsApp also encrypts all messages while they are being sent. However, none of its messages are stored on its servers. For regulatory reasons, businesses are often required to keep a record of all employee communications (think Sarbanes-Oxley). Also, WhatsApp has an ongoing history of hacker break-ins, malware infections and other security holes. It's so bad that Ars Technica ran an article today headlined, "Crypto weaknesses in WhatsApp 'the kind of stuff the NSA would love'." Harsh.
Moreover, WhatsApp aggressively tries to link you to potential friends by uploading your entire mobile phone address book to its servers so it can 'scrape' your contacts. That is convenient, but it's also privacy-intruding, and as a result has been subject to Canadian-Dutch government investigation. For businesses, WhatsApp's tactics can go against business regulations that touch upon data privacy or storage, such as HIPAA or the aforementioned Sarbanes-Oxley.
5. Better Enterprise IT Support. IT managers are control freaks. And for good reason: every single application running on their networks and systems has the potential to negatively affect or take down their other systems. AMS gives administrators strong control over the service: Which employees' numbers should be activated, whether or not images and audio recordings can be sent across the corporate network or outside to external regular SMS users, etc. WhatsApp doesn't give IT managers any such control. Under Facebook, I can't imagine WhatsApp getting MORE business-oriented, but instead going down the opposite way.
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Who's the Real Number One in Business Telephony?
The telephone is far from dead. You know who still loves to call people? Family members, close friends and…the Pope. No joke: 76-year-old Pope Francis has startled a quite a few strangers with a call from a Vatican landline in which he simply announces, "It's the Pope." It's happened to enough people that the Corriere della Sera, a leading newspaper in my native Italy, published a front-page article offering tips on how to make small talk if His Holiness calls (tip #1: talk about soccer).
You know who else loves the telephone? Businesspeople. Unified Communications may be a diverse, ever-growing set of tools and technologies, but the channel that started it all still plays a central role. It's why there's a never-ending stream of articles advising how to schmooze colleagues on the phone, how to run your phone meetings, how to close sales deals on the phone, how to ace telephone job interviews, etc. The stakes are high, which is why telephony remains such a hotly-contested market.
Last week, Microsoft put out a blog claiming it is "now shipping more enterprise telephone lines than any other technology company in the world." It was a bold claim. So bold that longtime industry expert, Eric Krapf of No Jitter, felt compelled to investigate. One respected market watcher, Infonetics' Diane Myers, told Krapf that her own research – which shows Cisco and Avaya neck-and-neck far above other rivals in telephony – made her "struggle" with Microsoft's claims. When Krapf confronted Microsoft's spokespeople, they admitted that Redmond's claim to have shipped the most telephony lines was based on different data, revenue. As anyone familiar with software bundling knows, revenue alone can paint a deceptive picture.
However, revenue COMBINED with other data CAN be illuminating. While Microsoft and Cisco bicker, they are ignoring what's really going on in the voice market. According to the well-known telecom market research firm, the Dell'Oro Group, Avaya passed Cisco in Q2 this year in telephony according to two key metrics. First, powered by growth in our small and midsized UC solution, IP Office, the number of telephone lines Avaya shipped grew 10% quarter/quarter to 1.8 million, while Cisco's slipped for the 3rd-straight quarter, according to Dell'Oro:
Source: Dell'Oro Group
As a result, Avaya had a commanding lead of the global enterprise telephony market by revenue, both for Q2 2013:
Actually, Avaya led Cisco by the same margin for all of calendar year 2012, too:
How come Microsoft's nowhere to be found? We asked Alan Weckel, Vice President, Enterprise Telephony & Ethernet Switch Market Research at Dell'Oro and author of the report, who "confirmed that Dell'Oro Group does track Microsoft in the report. While Dell'Oro group does not break out Microsoft call control directly, based on the size of the remaining market, Microsoft would not be amongst the largest vendors on the charts."
Why is Avaya gaining telephone users and increasing sales revenue? For a number of reasons:
1)The rock-solid quality of our flagship Avaya Aura platform (read how billion-dollar real estate firm Forest City Enterprises virtualized Avaya Aura software onto VMware and cut costs and increased reliability);
2)The cutting-edge advances in the Aura platform, including the new Collaboration Environment platform to enable developers to quickly build communications apps, and the Avaya Messaging Service that finally brings texting into the enterprise world (and supports any vendor's system, even Cisco);
3)The quality and cost-competitiveness of Avaya IP Office;
4)The increasing attractiveness of IP Office 9.0 to the fast-growing mid-market segment;
Importantly, we see many customers that use the Microsoft Lync solution for IM and presence turning to Avaya for voice. Rather than deploying Lync software all the way or integrating with Cisco, hundreds of enterprises are trusting the Avaya Client Applications (ACA) plug-in, which offers scalability, 'Five 9s' of high-availability, technical features such as open call control, protection for your other communication investments, and tight integration with our contact center solution, which happens to be number one in the market according to Gartner.
Related article: Avaya's New Wireless LAN 9100 Mutes the Sucking Sound of Network Downtime
ACA is not a tactical solution, either. Providing a comprehensive, open alternative for customers who wish to avoid vendor lock-in is part of the Avaya long-term strategy. Simply put, we want to be the best Lync integrator in the industry.
Lync software undoubtedly excels at IM and presence. But as Cisco Collaboration chief Rowan Trollope pointed out last week, IM and presence are last decade's news. The future is things like enterprise-friendly text messaging (like Avaya Messaging Service) and open collaboration platforms that let businesses pick the best technologies for their needs.
So when you're thinking about your UC solution, don't think it's only about Lync software vs. Cisco vs. Avaya. The telephone isn't going away anytime soon. And if telephony is important to your business, the right solution might very well be a combination of a Lync client and Avaya.
5 for Friday: The Five Biggest News Articles About Avaya This Week
For the past 5 years, Avaya has been on a steady march, transforming itself from a telephone-based hardware company into a software and services company, focusing on mobile applications, video collaboration and enterprise communications.
We unveiled a number of new software products this week, and invited reporters to delve deeper into the new Avaya. After reading the extensive coverage of the company this week, here are my picks for the 5 biggest news articles about the company's transformation:
#5: Avaya Cozies Up to Developers (Network World)
The company is announcing Avaya Aura Collaboration Environment, which is made up of both a set of developer tools and also software that interfaces communications-enabled apps with Avaya Aura unified communications infrastructure that actually delivers the communication link.
The result, Avaya says, would be applications that can trigger a range of communications actions such as instant messaging, conference calls and video calls. For example, an intelligent-building control application could be enabled to set up a conference call among key building staff when the air conditioning system goes on the fritz.
#4: Avaya Helps Developers Add Collaboration To Apps (InformationWeek)
The Collaboration Environment is designed to help application developers invoke messaging, chat, video and other streaming media, or other collaborative services, including services out on the Web, and build them into an application. The platform simplifies their addition by automatically applying the plumbing that allows the application to connect to the service when needed. It allows messages and alerts to move out to a variety of end-user devices as well.
#3: Avaya Eyes Midmarket Gains With Bulked-Up IP Office (CRN)
The new IP Office 9.0, like its predecessors, is being positioned as Avaya's flagship collaboration offering for the midmarket and SMB space. But, IP Office 9.0, according to Avaya, is the first version that can scale to support up to 2,000 users — double that of prior-generation IP Office 8.1 — meaning Avaya, and its partners, can now cast a much wider net when selling into the midmarket.
#2: Avaya Makes UC Easier for Developers, Midmarket (eWeek)
Avaya is rolling out an aggressive expansion of its unified communications offerings that touches on everything from the cloud and midmarket businesses to application development and text messaging. The new and enhanced offerings, announced Oct. 15, are part of Avaya's six-year-old effort to transform itself from a telecommunications company to one that provides open communication and collaboration solutions designed for and aimed at businesses.
#1: Avaya Now Plays in Hot Silicon Valley Segment (Wall Street Journal)
The most important factor, Kennedy says, is that the focus of the market has changed from room-based conferencing systems with specialized hardware to less-expensive, flexible systems that let people tap in to online meetings from smartphones and tablets. "It's really about mobile," he says.
It's also about building a Valley-style company that is much more efficient than the Bell days of yore. Kennedy estimates that Avaya, which now has just under 15,000 workers, runs at about $320,000 to $330,000 in revenue per employee.
Finally! Avaya Messaging Service Brings Texting into the Business World
Everyone knows how popular texting is. Nearly 10 trillion text messages were sent last year. Of all U.S. cellphone owners, 80 percent of them use text messaging, also known as SMS (short message service). Its popularity among 18-24 year olds is the subject of many humorous comics and ads, as well as serious research: that cohort averages 4,000 text messages a month.
(This is a guest post by Mark Monday, Vice-President and General Manager for Collaboration Platforms at Avaya.)
Unsurprisingly, texting has become an essential collaboration tool for work, too. But texting remains a clumsy fit inside the office. Text messages from employee or customer to an employee may offer meaningful business information, contacts and schedules, but they almost always arrive to a personal mobile number; lack a corporate identity; and may or may not be attributable to a specific office location. This creates potential breaches of corporate security and compliance policies.
Mobilizing workers is a key goal for any business, but mobility without business identity or security is like walking down the street talking to oneself. Businesses can learn to live with BYOD as long as it is secure and provides an archive of the messages. Even mobile emails carry a corporate identity and security. Until now, texting did not live up to the standards set by lowly e-mail, and has not been ready for business.
The Avaya Messaging Service (AMS) enables true One Number communications for the SMS era. Employees at companies using Avaya Messaging Service can send texts and multimedia messages with photos or audio clips and have them appear to come from the worker's office telephone extension. Those intra-office AMS messages are sent securely over an IP or cellular data network and encrypted. The recipient can be another employee using Avaya Messaging Service, or anyone in the world with a textable phone number. Moreover, anyone with a textable cell phone can now text your office phone number and have those messages displayed on your mobile phone, tablet or PC.
Avaya Messaging Service doesn't require fancy technology. Any size business with conventional +1 Direct Inward Dial (DID) phone extensions can use Avaya Messaging Service. Based in the cloud, Avaya Messaging Service only requires workers to download a smartphone or PC client application. For IT, there's no servers, no hardware, no maintenance, no installation. User apps are available for iOS, Android, Windows and the Mac operating systems. On your smartphone, the Avaya Messaging Service app will conveniently sit next to where you get your personal texts, while looking different enough so that there's no confusion between personal texts and business texts.
The employee just downloads the app from the appropriate app store, enables the license from Avaya (each company has its own administration web site for easy activation and management) and customers or coworkers will immediately be able to text your office number. You'll have a true One Number, which as I mentioned before, now bundles together your voice, fax and mobile phone numbers as well as your text messaging and instant messaging as well. Companies can also save on the cost of carrier-based text messaging plans because messages between co-workers only travel over the AMS network. Text messages originating from AMS only incur additional charges if sent to an international telephone number.
Besides being corporate identifiable, business texts have to be secure and ubiquitous. As mentioned earlier, Avaya Messaging Service provides a texting network in which all messages between users are encrypted, archived and attributable to a worker's specific office telephone number. AMS also connects to workers' existing corporate contact lists. And it supports all of the major mobile and PC platforms. Below is a
diagram depicting AMS, which any IT expert will vouch as being streamlined and simple:
There are would-be alternatives to Avaya Messaging Service. All lack key features, such as the ability to text non-subscribers, or limited security or lack of support for existing corporate DID numbering plans. Some use limited SMS short codes for one-way out messaging. All of these limitations create unnecessary friction that will rankle your employees and drive them back to plain old text messaging, costing your company more in the short and long run.
The Avaya Messaging Service is available for any enterprise whether it is an Avaya customer today or not. It is part of our mobile collaboration solution that helps businesses become more productive, responsive and better-equipped to grow and communicate. That's due to AMS's simplicity and low risk, both for the employee and the IT department. Contact Avaya and let us demonstrate how texting can become a valuable business collaboration tool for you, too.


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Im working on a new Xbox.
Version 1.1
I plan to complete a TSOP flash with the X2 4981 Bios.
The 4981 Bios is a 256k file but i need to make it 1024k for the Version 1.1 Bios chip.
I have used Xbtool in the past to work on 256k Bios files with great results.
I noticed that there is a setting within Xbtool to set the Bios file size to 1024k
I tested this by creating a 'Test' Bios file and set Xbtool to 1024k
The Bios file produced was 1024k in size.
Is this Bios file safe to flash to the Version 1.1 Bios chip?
I just read this in the post below mine Duh!
So i can:
Write enable the motherboard via soldering as usual. A 1.1 has two points to bridge on top of the board and two underneath.
Softmod the Xbox with the Slayers disk.
Install the EvolutionX dashboard.
Flash the 256k Bios file to the Bios chip with the EvolutionX dashboard, EvolutionX will auto resize the 256k Bios file to 1024k.
I think thats right.....?
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Published: Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 9:02 a.m.
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Hazel Gaubert Peltier Mire, 87, a native of Assumption Parish and resident of Thibodaux, died Friday, April 2, 2010.
Funeral services were held April 5 at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, with burial in the church cemetery.
She is survived by her husband of 43 years, Chester Mire; one son, Lawrence Peltier and wife, Shirley; one daughter, Doris Peltier Gauthier; 13 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; and four great-great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her first husband, Clerfe Peltier; her parents, Ellis Gaubert and Lea LeBlanc Gaubert; a son-in-law, Kermit Gauthier; two brothers, Lionel and Russell Gaubert; and three sisters, Hilda Gaubert Adams, Nelda Gaubert Naquin and Lucille Gaubert Peltier.
She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. She will be deeply missed by everyone.
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Solutions for Chapter 8
One study looked at the effects of ginkgo extract on reducing the post lunch dip in mental alertness. The study assigned healthy people aged 18 to 40 to either a ginkgo extract or placebo group. Following lunch they are all given seven pages of random letters and asked to put an X over every 'e'.
The individuals in this study are the healthy people aged 18 to 40 who are taking either ginkgo or the placebo. The treatment for these subjects is a pill of either ginkgo or the placebo. And the response variable in this experiment is the number of misses when counting the X's placed over the 'e' in the reading material.


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my blog is hosted on wordpress...so is there a version? Do I update? how?
Okay, that's not my problem though.
In the past week or so, when I edit a draft-post, about 75% of the time, it will freeze (spinning gray circle) when I try to save the draft. The URL doesn't even start to change, it's still the long URL with "edit" in the address. I could wait forever and it will never save. My only recourse is to copy all the text, reload the page (which takes away all my changes) and then past the content back into the post and try saving again. This will often work.
(I searched the "support" page and couldn't find an answer to this, but if it's already been addressed, please just let me know where to look...)
It's almost like I have one "save" I can do on a post, and then I have to completely leave the edit page and come back to it before I can save again. It didn't used to do this...it only started in the past week...possibly two.
I'm on a mac and I'm using Safari. my blog is at
This is my first post on this forum, so I apologize if I've left off any details that will help.
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National Distribution
Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
Type of Residency: Year-round
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Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
Type of Residency: Year-round
Global Range: (>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)) At least Vermont (Richardson, 2008) to British Columbia south to Florida, Texas, and the mountains of northern Arizona (Schmidt and Jacobson, 2005). The distribution westward is a bit uncertain due to confusion with B. nevadensis, but B. auricomus is or was statewide as far west as Nebraska--one of several places they overlap. B. auricomus probably replaces B. nevadensis completely east of the Mississippi River. Mitchell (1962) reported the eastern range as Minnesota to New York and Georgia.
Flowering Plants Visited by Bombus auricomus in Illinois
(observations are from Robertson, Graenicher, Reed, Betz et al., Haddock & Chaplin, Clinebell & Bernhardt, and Macior)
Anacardiaceae: Rhus glabra [pist sn] (Rb); Apiaceae: Cicuta maculata sn (Rb), Zizia aurea sn (Rb); Asclepiadaceae: Asclepias incarnata [plpr sn fq] (Rb, Btz), Asclepias sullivanti [plpr sn] (Rb), Asclepias syriaca [plab sn] (Rb); Asteraceae: Achillea millefolium cp (Rb), Aster pilosus sn (Rb), Aster turbinellus sn (Rb), Bidens aristosa sn (Rb), Cirsium altissimum sn cp (Rb, Gr), Cirsium discolor sn cp fq (Rb, Re), Cirsium vulgare sn (Rb), Echinacea pallida sn (Rb), Echinacea purpurea sn (Rb), Eupatoriadelphus purpureus sn (Rb), Helianthus grosseserratus sn (Rb), Helianthus tuberosus sn (Rb), Lactuca floridana sn (Rb), Liatris aspera (Re), Liatris spicata sn cp (Gr), Oligoneuron rigidum (Re), Ratibida pinnata (Re), Rudbeckia triloba sn (Rb), Solidago nemoralis sn (Rb), Solidago speciosa sn (Rb), Verbesina helianthoides sn (Rb), Vernonia fasciculata sn (Rb); Boraginaceae: Mertensia virginica sn (Rb); Brassicaceae: Cardamine bulbosa sn (Rb); Caesalpiniaceae: Chamaecrista fasciculata [flwr cp fq] (Rb); Campanulaceae: Lobelia siphilitica (Mc); Commelinaceae: Tradescantia virginiensis cp (Rb); Convolvulaceae: Ipomoea pandurata sn fq (Rb); Cornaceae: Cornus racemosa cp (Rb); Ebenaceae: Diospyros virginiana [pist sn] (Rb); Fabaceae: Astragalus canadensis sn cp fq (Rb), Astragalus crassicarpus trichocalyx sn cp (Rb), Baptisia leucophaea (HC), Cercis canadensis sn fq (Rb), Dalea candida sn (Rb), Dalea purpurea sn cp (Rb, Re), Desmodium illinoense cp (Rb), Melilotus alba sn (Rb), Orbexilum onobrychis sn (Rb), Robinia pseudoacacia sn fq (Rb), Trifolium pratense sn (Rb, Mc); Fumariaceae: Dicentra cucullaria sn fq (Rb); Grossulariaceae: Ribes missouriense sn fq (Rb); Hippocastanaceae: Aesculus glabra sn fq (Rb), Aesculus hippocastanum sn fq (Rb); Hydrophyllaceae: Hydrophyllum appendiculatum sn (Rb); Hypericaceae: Hypericum sphaerocarpum cp (Rb); Iridaceae: Iris versicolor shrevei sn (Rb), Sisyrinchium angustifolium sn (Rb); Lamiaceae: Agastache scrophulariaefolia cp (Rb), Blephilia ciliata sn cp (Rb), Blephilia hirsuta sn (Rb), Leonurus cardiaca sn (Rb), Monarda bradburiana sn fq (Rb), Monarda fistulosa sn fq (Rb, Re), Nepeta cataria sn (Rb), Pycnanthemum tenuifolium sn cp fq icp (Rb), Pycnanthemum virginianum (Re), Scutellaria incana sn (Rb), Stachys palustris sn (Rb); Liliaceae: Camassia scilloides sn (Rb); Malvaceae: Hibiscus trionum sn (Rb), Malva neglecta sn (Rb); Oxalidaceae: Oxalis violacea sn (Rb); Polemoniaceae: Phlox pilosa sn fq (Rb), Polemonium reptans sn (Rb); Portulacaceae: Claytonia virginica sn (Rb); Primulaceae: Dodecatheon meadia cp exp (Rb, Mc); Ranunculaceae: Aquilegia canadensis sn (Mc), Clematis pitcheri sn cp (Rb), Delphinium carolinianum virescens (Re), Delphinium tricorne sn fq (Rb, Mc); Rhamnaceae: Ceanothus americanus cp (Rb); Rosaceae: Crataegus crus-galli sn (Rb), Malus coronaria sn (Rb), Rosa setigera cp (Rb), Rubus allegheniensis sn (Rb); Rubiaceae: Cephalanthus occidentalis sn fq (Rb); Rutaceae: Ptelea trifoliata sn cp (Rb); Salicaceae: Salix interior [stam sn] (Rb); Scrophulariaceae: Aureolaria grandiflora cp (Rb), Collinsia verna sn (Rb), Linaria vulgaris fq (Mc), Pedicularis canadensis sn cp fq (Mc), Penstemon cobaea cobaea sn (CB), Penstemon digitalis sn (Rb), Penstemon grandiflorus (Re), Penstemon hirsutus sn fq (Rb), Penstemon pallidus sn (CB), Tomanthera auriculata sn (Rb); Verbenaceae: Verbena hastata sn (Rb), Verbena stricta sn (Rb); Violaceae: Viola striata sn np (Rb)
Population Biology
Number of Occurrences
Note: For many non-migratory species, occurrences are roughly equivalent to populations.
Estimated Number of Occurrences: > 300
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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Bombus auricomus
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 3
Species With Barcodes: 1
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Rounded National Status Rank: N4 - Apparently Secure
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Rounded National Status Rank: N4 - Apparently Secure
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Rounded Global Status Rank: G4 - Apparently Secure
Reasons: As far as is known, this is still a common and widespread bumble bee, especially in the western parts of its range. No species of this subgenus are reported to be declining. A conservation status rank of G5 is probably the appropriate rank, but given declines of other bumblebees and pollinators in general, and pending a more thorough evaluation, G4G5 is suggested for now.
Intrinsic Vulnerability: Not intrinsically vulnerable
Environmental Specificity: Broad. Generalist or community with all key requirements common.
Global Short Term Trend: Relatively stable (=10% change)
Comments: May be declining in Vermont (Richardson, 2008), but this generally more western bee may be naturally uncommon in that peripheral area as it is in Ontario (current rank is S2S3). Otherwise no reports of decline. Still very common in South Dakota (Johnson, 2009) and has not declined much in Illinois (Grixti et al. (2009).
Global Long Term Trend: Decline of 30-50%
Comments: Obviously some habitat loss.
Degree of Threat: Medium
Global Protection: Very many (>40) occurrences appropriately protected and managed
Bombus auricomus
The black-and-gold bumblebee[2] (Bombus auricomus) is a North American bumblebee of the family Apidae. Its range includes eastern and central North America, east to the Rocky Mountains.[2] It is treated as conspecific with the Nevada bumblebee (Bombus nevadensis).[2]
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- ^ "Bombus auricomus (Robertson, 1903)". Biolib.cz. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
- ^ a b c Black-and-gold Bumble Bee, BugGuide
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Comments: Subgenus: Bombias
B. nevadensis and B. auricomus have been regarded as both as conspecific (e.g. LaBerge and Webb 1962, Milliron 1971, Thorp et al. 1983, Laverty and Harder 1988) and as separate species (e.g. Franklin 1913, Rasmont 1988, Scholl, Thorp, Owen and Obrecht 1992, Poole 1996, Williams 2008). They are treated here as separate following Williams (2008) and Cameron et al. (2007), although more study is needed. Scholl et al. (1992) point out that supposed intergrades are based solely on coat color and they propose an alternate explanation of convergence (or Mullerian Mimicry) in overlap areas. They report that electrophoretic enzyme studies from the supposed intergrade areas indicate distinct species status. Similarly Golik and Ellis (2006) report no intergrades in Nebraska even based on coat color.
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Rafa must go - only serious comments please.
My arguement is that it is time for Rafa to stand aside. Ok he won the CL in 2005 but this does not make him untouchable, I have read on here so many times that we should have faith because of that night but surely even the people that say this will soon get fed up if we do not win anything this year.
I know that we also won the FA Cup in 2006 but did we really win either of those due to Rafa, no, Stevie G won both those for us and my big concern is what will happen to him if we keep going in the same direction we currently are. I for one would rather keep Gerrard and lose Rafa than vice versa.
Some people argue that we should keep Benitez as he has improved our squad. I agree that the squad now is stonger than in the past few seasons, but this just reinforces the case to get rid of him in my opinion. We need a manager who is able to get the best out of the players that we have and can also play them in their best positions (e.g Gerrard).
I think that if we had a better manager we do have the basis for a premiership winning side with maybe just one or two signings.
This is just my opinion and everybody is entitled to theirs, I would be interested in hearing sensible replies.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
A Yahoo! User Mar 5, 2007 20:55 Flag
Are you mad ? rafa has to be the best thing thats happened to us in a long time. Considering he hasnt been able to compete with moneybags chelsea and utd in the transfer market i think he"s done a great job..now that there is some serious money available to him i think we will make that step up. Remember fergie took a long time to win the league and build an empire at utd as did shankley when he come to us ok chelsea bought the league but what happened to blackburn??bought the league then dissapeared.
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A Yahoo! User Mar 5, 2007 21:07 Flag
How many people will be calling for Rafa to go if and hopefully when we beat Barca and then go on to win the ECL again?
A Yahoo! User Mar 5, 2007 08:06 Flag
come back thomo all is forgiven but if not keep raffa,greed now rules football.you either pay huge amounts or grow your own.
A Yahoo! User Jan 22, 2007 03:22 Flag
You are typical of the fair weather supporters. To qoute "if you had a brain you would be dangerous" Rafa Benitez is the best manager Liverpool have had since Bob Paisley he should be supported by the board and the fans 150%. What gives me the right to say it is that I have been a Liverpool supporter for over 60 years and can remember the humiliation of being in the old second division and having to suffer the taunts of that other football side that try to play nearby.
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Now he has the cash to compete for the best players...lets give him a couple of seasons and see where he takes us. only then should we be having this conversation.
A Yahoo! User Jan 21, 2007 20:57 Flag
HAHAHAHA redjackal..i think that its time for u to go and support the chelski swine or the mannure scum...we dont need scum like u supporting the reds u prick...lfc4ever and RAFA BENITEZ YOU STUPID COCK
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has rafa made mistakes? yes and they have cost us 2 cups this term and some points in the prem
but are liverpool fc moving forward? again yes we have a stronger squad with better players and after the 2-0 win over chavski we are playing some attractive football
so to answer the thread NO rafa should not go, keep the faith and watch us finish this season strong and then take another step up next season
A Yahoo! User Jan 21, 2007 19:03 Flag
if a pin put a hole in a ship would you be running around shouting abandon ship.i may not agree with some of his tactics but we have lost no ground with him and got silverware.perfection costs money and liverpool do not have chelseas money and if they did i would be ashamed if we used it in the same way.i think we have a good squad but they dont play enough together to build up an understanding with each other.
A Yahoo! User Jan 21, 2007 05:00 Flag
don't know what you're talking about who else is there better than rafa
A Yahoo! User Jan 21, 2007 00:56 Flag
Rafa Benitez has done more for liverpool in two years than
anyone else in the last twenty,have some respect if they were winning everything you would'nt be bitchin, I'm gettin really sick of this crap loose a couple of games and call for his head how blind you are.How long did it take ferguson
to win the league when he first went to utd,your just like chelsea you want it all now.Oh ye who have little faith..............................
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A Yahoo! User Mar 5, 2007 01:49 Flag
What do u mean "just like Chelsea and want success now".
The Champ's League was an unexpected bonus as Rafa does look to know how to win cups.Trouble is Liverpool have always measured themselves against domestic teams just as much as Euro teams, so they do expect to win the odd league title now and again...Yet again under Rafa, Houlier or whoever, Liverpool are a country mile short.If they had cup success and were snapping at the top 2's heals then i would agree that patience is needed but the choice is clear..Either you choose to have your best chance in the cups but no chance in the league, or you try and achieve both which means a different manager?
A Yahoo! User Jan 21, 2007 00:14 Flag
This is why he shouldnt go just yet.
Get off his back and support the man.
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Now I'm a Rafa fan, but here lies our problem, losing 1 in 4 prem games is not a record to be proud of. Back in the 80's and 90's you could get away with losing 6 or 7 in season and still win the league, now the bar has been lifted you need close to ninety points to win (that would mean Liverpool winning their remaining games to hit 88); as we are already on the losing 1 in 4 pattern again this term.
Sorry guys but Rafa really needs to sort his tatics out away from home, particularly against the teams in the top half; we have lost 18 out of 21 points this season so far.
On the plus side, if we can continue winning at home we only have to play Portsmouth and Reading from the top half away from home, all the rest are in the bottom half.
**Do you believe in miracles?**
A Yahoo! User Jan 18, 2007 21:08 Flag
Rafa did improve the squad these few years. But i really don't think that Rafa should go. He is better than gerard houllier though. He does screw up sometimes but everybody makes mistakes right? I don't think keep changing players in the match is a good idea. But that is his own decision. Maybe he already got the plan for winning the match. We should support him too, as well we support the players.
A Yahoo! User Jan 18, 2007 20:41 Flag
You wanted serious comments ,yet your post is utter rubbish...i have something serious for you....GO FUCK YOURSELF..now thats serious!
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Photos Of A Family Dream: Opera Houses Around The World
Anton Gutman dreamed of being a singer. Trained after WWII by a famous operatic tenor, he hoped that with proper training he might one day travel the world like his Swedish contemporary, the acclaimed Jussi Bjorling. But Gutman had neither Bjorling's luck nor his larynx.
Detained at a prisoner-of-war camp in the Soviet Union, he performed when he could — for prisoners and officers. And, as his grandson David Leventi recalls, Gutman spent the rest of his life filling the house with music. Today, echoes of Gutman's voice and dreams resound in his grandson's photographs; Leventi's photo series, Bjorling Larynx, shows empty opera houses from around the world.
Hide captionRomanian Antheneum, Bucharest, Romania, 2007David Leventi
Hide captionCurtain, Palais Garnier, Paris, France, 2009David Leventi
Hide captionCurtain, Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008David Leventi
Hide captionDrottningholm Palace Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008David Leventi
Hide captionEstates Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic, 2008David Leventi
Hide captionLa Fenice, Venice, Italy, 2008David Leventi
Hide captionMargravial Opera House, Bayreuth, Germany, 2008David Leventi
Hide captionMariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2009David Leventi
Hide captionMetropolitan Opera House, New York, New York, 2008David Leventi
Hide captionPalais, Garnier, Paris, France, 2009David Leventi
Hide captionTeatro Comunale di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 2010David Leventi
Hide captionTeatro di San Carlo, Naples, Italy, 2009David Leventi
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The photographs, all shot on medium and large-format film to maximize detail, present the same ineffable beauty that an opera performance might. Each room has seen hundreds of performances by legendary musicians and composers; housed thousands of viewers; withstood the years of lavish despotism or war-torn strife. Each house is like the city's architectural great-grandmother, comfortable to just sit in its old age and jewelry, filled with stories and secrets but no real need to share them. "As the son of two architects," Leventi adds in his artist statement, "I experience an almost religious feeling walking into a grand space such as an opera house."
There's a reverence for the houses both as tangible cultural monuments, and as symbols of a family dream. But in a sense, Leventi fulfilled his grandfather's wish by spending time in these houses, performing in his own way — with a camera. His series is now on display at Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans.


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A more realistic way than sampling continuous signals x(t) with
a train of δ-impulses is via the
use of a train of rectangular pulses p(t). The system that performs this sampling is called S/H
(Sample and Hold) system and produces the signal x0(t) from x(t) like in Figure 7.5.
Figure 7.5
a) Sketch the impulse response h(t) of the S/H system (Figure 7.6(a))
Figure 7.6 (a)
b) Show that the FT of the S/H system is given by Eq. 7.7
Eqn 7.7
c) Show that if we want to get the continuous signal x(t) back
from the sampled signal x0(t)
we have to use a filter (system) with frequency response Hr(jω) given by Eq. 7.8 (this
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2008 U.S. congressional elections (Georgia)
In the 110th Congress, Georgia had 6 Democrats and 7 Republicans in the U.S. House and two Republican senators.[1]
In the 2008 elections, Georgia (currently) elected 6 Democrats and 7 Republicans to the U.S. House and was still undecided on its Republican incumbent Senator.[2]
Incumbent (Republican): Saxby Chambliss
- Democratic candidate: Jim Martin
- Republican candidate: Saxby Chambliss
- Libertarian candidate: Allen Buckley
District 1
Incumbent (Republican): Jack Kingston
Winner: Jack Kingston
- Democratic candidate: Bill Gillespie
- Republican candidate:Jack Kingston
- Libertarian candidate: None
District 2
Incumbent (Democrat): Sanford Bishop
Winner: Sanford Bishop
- Democratic candidate: Sanford Bishop
- Republican candidate: Lee Ferrell
- Libertarian candidate: None
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Incumbent (Republican): Lynn Westmoreland
Winner: Lynn Westmoreland
- Democratic candidate: Stephen Camp
- Republican candidate: Lynn Westmoreland
- Libertarian candidate: None
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Incumbent (Democrat): Hank Johnson
Winner: Hank Johnson
- Democratic candidate:Hank Johnson
- Republican candidate: none.
- Independent candidate: Faye Coffield
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Incumbent (Democrat): John Lewis
Winner: John Lewis
- Democratic candidate: John Lewis
- Republican candidate: None
- Libertarian candidate: None
District 6
Incumbent (Republican): Tom Price
Winner: Tom Price
- Democratic candidate: Bill Jones
- Republican candidate: Tom Price
- Libertarian candidate: None
District 7
Incumbent (Republican): John Linder
Winner: John Linder
- Democratic candidate: Doug Heckman
- Republican candidate: John Linder
- Libertarian candidate: None
District 8
Incumbent (Democrat): Jim Marshall
Winner: Jim Marshall
- Democratic candidate: Jim Marshall
- Republican candidate: Rick Goddard
- Libertarian candidate: None
District 9
Incumbent (Republican): Nathan Deal
Winner: Nathan Deal
- Democratic candidate: Jeff Scott
- Republican candidate: Nathan Deal
- Libertarian candidate: None
District 10
Incumbent (Republican): Paul Broun
Winner: Paul Broun
- Democratic candidate: Bobby Saxon
- Republican candidate: Paul Broun
- Independent candidate: James Mason
District 11
Incumbent (Republican): Phil Gingrey
Winner: Phil Gingrey
- Democratic candidate: Bud Gammon
- Republican candidate: Phil Gingrey
- Libertarian candidate: None
District 12
Incumbent (Democrat): John Barrow
Winner: John Barrow
- Democratic candidate: John Barrow
- Republican candidate: John E. Stone II
- Libertarian candidate: None
District 13
Incumbent (Democrat): David Scott
Winner: David Scott
- Democratic candidate: David Scott
- Republican candidate: Deborah Honeycutt
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Claim: Few people will ride the trains.
Fact: Amtrak continues to break its annual ridership records, carrying a best-ever 30.9 million passengers for FY 2014. In 2010, ridership increased on every single Amtrak route, with several experiencing double-digit growth.
- According to a widely quoted study, Americans in 2025 are projected to take 112 million trips on high-speed rail, traveling more than 25 billion passenger miles, resulting in 29 million fewer automobile trips, nearly 500,000 fewer flights, and a potential reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2.7 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent.
- Not everyone has to use a service to make it worthy of government support. A fraction of Americans use community colleges, fire departments, or public libraries, but all are considered important institutions worthy of investment. One in five Americans has never flown in a commercial airplane, yet few would argue we should not have airports.
Claim: High-speed rail is less energy efficient than driving.
Fact: Trains are 3 times as energy efficient as cars and 6 times as efficient as planes on a per-passenger-mile basis.
- A DOE study found that intercity passenger rail is more energy-efficient than intercity auto trips, even after adjustments are made for the different driving circumstances of intercity trips.
- Adding passengers to a train is done with almost no additional energy use, while adding car travelers means more cars on the road, with their own additional costs and pollution.
Claim: Unlike Europe and Asia, the U.S. does not have the population density to support high-speed rail.
Fact: The U.S. population is densely clustered in the Northeast, Midwest, Southeast, and California – precisely the areas where high-speed rail projects are advancing.
- The Paris-Lyon high-speed rail line serves a combined population of 11.7 million people 255 miles apart. The population density along the Chicago-Detroit corridor closely resembles this, serving 14.5 million people 304 miles apart.
Claim: People will not be able to get to their final destination from the train station.
Fact: Because train stations are almost always located downtown, they can provide seamless door-to-door transportation.
- The single largest employment zone in almost every metropolitan area is downtown, as are most convention centers, sports arenas, museums, and parks. This is precisely where rail stations are located.
Claim: High-speed rail will require huge government subsidies.
Fact: Every form of transportation requires government investment.
- Since the Federal Aviation Administration's predecessor was established in 1926, Congress has subsidized the aviation industry with funds from the U.S. Treasury's General Fund. According to a coalition of major players in the aviation industry, "the use of revenues from the General Fund of the U.S. Treasury to pay for a significant portion of the FAA's costs is long-established national policy." In almost every year, taxpayer subsidies are larger than airline profits.
Claim: We would be better off spending high-speed rail funds on urban transit.
Fact: This is not an 'either or' discussion. High-speed rail and urban transit work together to provide seamless transportation from origin to destination. Investments in transit can boost high-speed rail ridership and vice versa.
Claim: If we build high-speed passenger rail, we will take away capacity for freight rail, resulting in more trucks and more pollution.
Fact: On the contrary, the track and signal upgrades that are part and parcel of high-speed rail plans will enable passenger trains to be more frequent and dependable, which will ultimately allow more freight trains on the tracks, traveling faster, according to a Transportation Economics and Management Systems report.


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"Si vis pacem, para bellum" ("If you want peace, prepare for war")
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"Si vis pacem, para bellum" ("If you want peace, prepare for war")
In my lifetime, Republicans blamed Democrats for "losing" China to communists and not winning in Korea while Democrats blamed Republicans for losing Vietnam and want to blame the GOP for losing Iraq.
For months now, ISIS has sold oil on the international market through Turkey, and Russian President Vladimir Putin is furious with petroleum prices plunging along with Russia's economy. Consider that context as we consider the following.
Iran acts like a Persian Gulf hegemon because it can.
Tehran's military, while capable of making a less-than-concerted attack costly, would be overmatched by the armed forces of the United States and those of the Persian Gulf states and crumble quickly along with its regime.
"We have tried since the birth of our nation to promote our love of peace by a display of weakness. This course has failed us utterly." — Gen. George C. Marshall, 1945
[Editor's note: This article first appeared at Breitbart.com.]
In the early morning of Sept. 23, 2014, American air forces — joined by the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Jordan — began striking targets in Syria as part of ongoing operations against the terrorist group ISIS.
"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."
— President John F. Kennedy
President Obama in his Sept. 10 speech did not deliver a viable war-fighting strategy against ISIS. In fact, the president doesn't seem to understand that ISIS is at war with the U.S.
In August 1961, while the Soviets erected the Berlin Wall to plunge the Cold War into the deep freeze, President John F. Kennedy ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to devise a nuclear-first strike plan.
President Barack Obama has spent a lot of TV face time opining on race relations in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2009, on the George Zimmerman trial of 2012-13, on the riots in a St. Louis suburb last month, and plenty more.
Nov. 22 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of Camelot. During its tenure, President John F. Kennedy's administration set national security precedents that have influenced the way Washington has approached military commitments to the present day.
On July 23, 2012, Syria — one of seven nations not to sign the Chemical Weapons Convention — admitted owning a stockpile of chemical and biological weapons. A foreign ministry spokesman warned that Damascus would use these weapons against any force intervening in its civil war.
[Editor's note: This is Part II of Dr. Tilford's series on "Restructuring the Department of Defense.]
In 1914, on the eve of the Great War, the Duke of Cambridge wrote, There is a time for all things. There is even a time for change; and that is when it can no longer be avoided.


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Two small groups of people heading through Georgia are detoured to a small town where nothing is what it seems.
The Facts
I first heard of this movie when I was reading a preview for another mvoie known as 2001 Maniacs. 2000 Maniacs was made in 1964 by writer and director Herschell Gordon Lewis. This movie was supposed to be one of those "shocker" horror films. The tagline was, "An entire town bathed in pulsing human blood! Madmen crazed for carnage!" Supposedly back in the 60's this movie was a big deal because it was raw, bloody, and very disgusting. By todays standards, it's just an outdated film that serves nothing more than a chuckle or two, here and there.
My Thoughts
First off I wasn't expecting a lot from this film, just blood, guts, and gore (the entire reason I rented it), but I didn't get much. Everybody in this movie, is horrible. If you haven't heard of this movie which is probable because I don't think it's very well known, this is about 6 yankees getting lured via a detour sign in the middle of the road where they end up in this town known as Pleasant Valley. Pleasant Valley is holding a centennial celebration which is basically...these people were killed 100 years ago by Yankee soldiers during the Civil War so now they've returned to reap their bloody vengeance by slaughtering, even eating these 6 Yankee people.
Among the Yankees to be "detoured" is a couple who cheats on one another, a couple who love another a lot and a hitchhiking school teacher who caught a ride with a blonde woman (played by Playboy Playmate at the time Connie Mason!) They both also begin to fall in love, but unfortunately no nudity from Miss Mason.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong but isn't there like a test you need to take to become a school teacher? This guy is a fucking moron in this movie. His name is Tom White and the Playmate's name is Terry Adams.
Tom White: Has it occurred to you that nobody has told us what this centennial is all about? Now, this is 1965, and a hundred years ago it was 1865, right? So, what happened in 1865?
Terry Adams: It was the ending of Civil War. The war between states!
Tom White: Well then you tell me why would a southern town want northerners as guests of honor at the centennial. It must has something to do with what happened a hundred years ago. So, something is very wrong with this town.
Now after all of this great dialogue between these two characters, he goes to the telephone in the room and tries to call out of town to a Teaching Convention that he's supposed to go to...of course the operator can't do it. So what does he do? He goes to a payphone, calls the same operator only he "disguises" his voice in hopes of getting through. He tries to reach the exact same place he just asked the operator to connect to as "himself" before he decided to be Super Spy! Now...how many of these stupid stereo typed southerners are going to ask to be patched through with a hotel in Atlanta that is housing a teacher's convention? I think it might be the one who can't seem to understand that a potato sack is not a pair of pants and that his shirt is not a rag for excess "tobacco" juice.
This movie is so horribly acted, but nothing I believe is more horrible than the fact that none of these characters fight back or really offer any real protest. They keep getting grabbed, poked, prodded, picked up and hauled off somewhere without any question, dragged to their rooms or off to an activity in the celebration. I mean, c'mon...unless all of these people think that they're in some kind of kinky sexual situation and they love being dominated and just made to do whatever someone else wants...shouldn't they offer a little protest. I don't know, I guess I'm not into the whole Southern Person Grabs Me and Makes Me Their Bitch For a Day. Also, the Southerner's in this movie are hilarious, but not in a good way. They're so sterotyped and offensive to southerner's. All of the sterotypes are there even with the bad acting taking place.
The gore in this movie, I just wanted more. More gore, more violence, more anything. Granted that this movie is a little sick for some people (I can stomach almost anything), it wasn't anything that people have to see. There's a woman who gets cannibalized, a man who get's quartered, a man who gets rolled down a hill in a barrel full of nails and even a woman who is smashed by a boulder. These scenes are kind of gory by todays standards, but they are explicit for yester years standards.
Nothing to brag about here, nothing yet has beaten Peter Jackson's Dead/Alive for me. If you want to laugh at southerner's, are a southerner looking to be offended, or you would like to check out what was "shocking" in the 60's check this movie out. All others, you'd probably not be interested and it's best to stay away.


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Retrospection may be futile, but it's inevitable
Published: Monday, November 16, 2009 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 8:26 p.m.
What have I done with my life?
I find myself in the season of life where this question pops up as regularly as a bank statement, insisting I settle my accounts and take a hard look at the bottom line. What have I been doing with the years I've been given?
As I sit before my computer, I'm taken aback by the image I see in its mirror-like screen. Since no one else is sitting in front of it, I'm forced to conclude the woman with the gently sagging chin line and thinning hair is me.
The computer's stark honesty catches me off guard. My eyes have trained themselves to look between the age spots on my hands and self-preservation forces me to walk gingerly past full-length mirrors.
I am even more struck at how little time there actually is in one short lifetime. No one tells you at the beginning of the journey that the process of getting from one day to the next is a full-time job in itself, or that it will take most of your waking hours just to get through the preliminaries like an education, a career, raising a family and simply taking care of your own body -- eating, sleeping, grooming.
The moments left when you can actually do something with your life are achingly few and are interspersed so compactly between the "must dos" and the "gotta haves" that we tend to squander them on frivolous, trivial nonsense instead of using them to make an impact on the world and the people around us.
And so I sit, 60 years old, wondering what I've done to make the world a better place for my stay here. It's a sobering thought. The president of the United States is younger than I am. So is his top financial advisor and even my doctor.
What have I been doing with my life while all these people have been doing something solid and substantial with theirs? As disquieting as this question is, I dare not defer answering it any longer.
How do you measure the quality of a life? If this were a movie, we'd shift the camera now to well-known images of the noble men and women who have changed the world, Mohandas Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Sojourner Truth and the like, and watch with reverence the recounting of their heroic sacrifices.
But, lacking that technology, the theater of our own minds will have to do, and in truth, there is no one better able to document what we've done with the time allotted to us than our own selves, in the quiet chambers of our own souls.
The question comes to me again: What have I done with the years I've been given? Even more important, what will I do with the brief time I have left?
Like most people, I've raised a family. Back in 1 B.C. (the year before children), no one really explained to me the people I brought into the world would come fully-equipped with minds of their own and would refuse to live the lives I laid out for them. They would choose their own paths, and in so doing, force me to stick to running my own life, not theirs.
Again, I square off with the person in the mirror. Have I done something of value with my life? It's the kind of question it's almost impossible to answer for ourselves, yet is there any question in life that matters more?
There's a small, two-shelf bookcase in my bedroom that I wouldn't trade for any other piece of furniture. It serves me now as a place to keep the books I'm interested in reading next. But it used to house a beautiful set of the American People's Encyclopedia.
I grew up with those encyclopedias, pouring through their pages as a little girl, wondering with awe how anyone could get all the information that everyone needed to know about the whole world into one set of books.
Although those encyclopedias were out-of-date before I could ever use them effectively, they represented faith, hope and commitment. My father told me of the day he bought them, excited to know he was purchasing the latest body of knowledge for his baby girls. I wasn't even walking, yet.
Growing up with that outdated knowledge meant nothing compared to the faith it represented. My father believed in my sister and me enough to scrape up money he couldn't afford to feed our growing minds.
My sister became a lifelong reader, and the walls of my home are lined with bookcases to this day. It was not the ever-changing information that mattered, but the faith behind it. My father believed in us.
I have come to the conclusion the letters behind a person's name are not nearly as important as the name behind the letters. The way I live my life is my letter to the world.
The great irony is that it's almost impossible to understand the meaning of a letter that is still being written. I will probably never know this side of heaven what my life has meant to others.
What I can know is that it is the love of others for me, their faith in me, the hands and hearts that have kept me afloat when I would have sunk to the bottom without them, have been worth living for.
The mirrors showing us our true selves are the eyes of our friends, our children, our loved ones. If I can find love when I look into these, I will let others decide what my life was all about.
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