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Dreams Nail Lacquers are a new line from Dreams Cosmetics. Dreams Cosmetics is a line of nail polishes and nail care items and can be found on FabulouStreet's website. This is where I bought my Nfu Oh shades many moons ago. Their nail enamels are big 3-free and cruelty free.
Dreams has three "collections" right now and today I've got some from their Horoscope collection. I've also got a great deal going on with them for the next month, so stay tuned until the end of the post for that information!
All of these shades are glitters. They are all in a clear base, but are really glittery, so you can get full coverage with three coats on their own. Or you could layer them. They all feature one or two micro-glitter shades along with larger hex holographic glitter and some also contain micro-holographic glitter. I swatched most of them over a plain black but I also did one on its own so you can see what that looks like.
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Seattle quartet Mal de Mer is still in its infancy, and the band's enthusiastic sound reflects that novelty. But don't be fooled. None of these musicians are wet behind the ears. All four come armed with impressive credentials: Bassist Jimmy Curran cut his teeth in the Divorce, drummer Eric Wennberg keeps time for Slender Means, and keyboard player Lesli Wood is much beloved for leading the bands Ms. Led and the Redwood Plan. The four friends' chemistry is undeniable. Within months of forming, Trent Moorman observed in The Stranger that Mal de Mer already sounded "like they've been a band for years."
At the front is singer-guitarist Michael Lee. A fixture on the Emerald City music scene since the mid-90′s, Lee got his start in Subminute: Radio, a quintet of adolescents that garnered extensive media and industry attention for playing polished modern rock that belied their young ages. In the interim since that act's dissolution, Lee has remained an active member of the local scene—for seven years, he could be found tending bar at the old Crocodile Café—but only recently resumed making music for public consumption. When he decided to return to the fray, Lee didn't need to search too hard to find other musicians that were excited to play with him.
"Often when I hear a song that I really love, I wish that I had written it, because I want to be the one that gets to play that song," observes Wood. "With Mal de Mer, I wanted the opportunity to perform, and contribute to, some of the catchiest pop songs I had heard in a while." Even though she had her hands full with the Redwood Plan, she couldn't say no to participating in Mal de Mer, too. "This isn't just some little local band. This is going to be the new favorite that everyone's talking about, while wondering why they never noticed before that Michael Lee, that sweet bartender, is Seattle's next big thing."
Likewise, to describe the band's modest front man as "excited" about this informal super group would be an understatement. "This is a collaboration between people who have all known each other for a long time, some better than others, that finally came together in a way that is very special for all of us." Although Lee composes the bulk of the foursome's music, and comes to practice armed with demos of rough arrangements for new material, he acknowledges that Mal de Mer is greater than the sum of its individual parts. "Most of the songs are mine, but they become a whole other thing once I bring them to the group."
Hailed as "pure, unabashed pop with a dark side" by influential radio vet Marco Collins (KNDD, KEXP), Mal de Mer's sound reflects Lee's distinctive aesthetic, one where Michael Jackson and Elliott Smith stand shoulder-to-shoulder in his estimation. "I was obsessed with Michael Jackson as a child and I just can't shake that," he admits. When the late King of Pop cancelled all three Tacoma dates of his 1988 Bad World Tour, eight year-old Lee was so devastated he boycotted Halloween that year. "I was too distraught to go trick-or-treating. That and Jim Henson's death are my first two memories of disappointment."
Happily, his relationship with Elliott Smith wasn't quite as fraught with sorrow. Subminute: Radio supported Smith's old band, Heatmiser, on their last Seattle date, and their 1996 album Mic City Sons was an important touchstone in Lee's teenage record collection, as were Smith's solo albums like Either/Or and XO. "His songs were speaking to experiences that perhaps I couldn't relate to, but I knew the music was coming from a very real place. Scarily so, sometimes."
Like both those icons, Lee is blessed with an inimitable singing voice. More importantly, he aspires to make pop music that is honest, refined, and unpredictable, as evidenced by Mal de Mer's debut single "Bubble Bobble"/"All That I Want." With its chugging three-quarter time verses and stripped-down, invigorating chorus, the former spotlights Lee's fondness for unconventional song structure, while the latter is a sun-dappled ditty propelled by crisp drumming and a sense of adventure. Like much of Mal de Mer's catalog, these songs took shape during a period of optimistic reflection in 2010 that re-energized Lee's attitude towards making music overall. The band's name, a nod to Lee's childhood in the maritime community of Gig Harbor, also harks back to an earlier time in his life.
Having already been through the entertainment industry wringer once, and at a tender age, Lee is pursuing a much more organic approach as he plots the course of Mal de Mer. "A lot of things happened very quickly in Subminute: Radio, exposure and meeting people and discovering the world of rock and roll," he recalls. "For better or worse, that experience showed me how to prioritize my goals this time around." Which is good. Because if the initial reaction to Mal de Mer is any indication of what lies ahead, the adventure is just beginning.

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There are three broad ways that people try to change their lives. The first is hard, the second is popular, the third gives you your best chance of happiness. 1. Change The Universe If we could only change the world to fit in with our expectations. Make it sunny for the picnic on Sunday, make […] Read more »
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A friend of mine, who I was trying to help, remarked that I wasn't taking her difficulty seriously because I was trying to fix it rather than acknowledge it. On reflection I think she was right. Just to emphasize the point the universe, in the shape of Bill O'Hanlon, sent me this: DEEP LISTENING: How […] Read more »
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"I think, therefore I am" – Descartes "I am what I am!" – Popeye When we grow up we sort through masses of experience to come up with an understanding of the world and ourselves. Part of this understanding is of the aspects of our experience we label 'I', 'myself', 'me' – names for parts […] Read more »
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We (IntegrityNLP) have just finished our ten month NLP Practitioner training, which we started way back in September last year. As part of the celebration weekend we normally exchange feedback and hand out the well earned NLP Practitioner Certificates to the trainees. Before we were able to do that our trainees handed Nigel, Harry, Shirley […] Read more »
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Germany's `Tough Talk' Helps to Widen Bond Spreads, Credit Agricole Says
The yield difference between bonds from Europe's most indebted countries and German securities may widen further unless Germany scales back its "tough talk," according to Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank.
The difference in yield, or spread, between 10-year Irish bonds and similar-maturity bunds widened to a record 554 basis points today. Portuguese 10-year bonds fell, pushing the yield up 20 basis points to 7.02 percent, the highest on record, according to Bloomberg generic data.
"The main reason why spreads have remained under pressure is not further divergence in budget fundamentals," wrote Luca Jellinek, head of European interest-rate strategy at Credit Agricole in London. "Rather, it stems from fresh evidence that inter-government solidarity within the European monetary union remains limited and possibly fragile."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel last month proposed a two- step mechanism to make bondholders pay for any future euro-area crisis. Her message clashes with European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet, who says such talk risks exacerbating the situation for indebted euro-area nations such as Ireland and Greece as they try to narrow their budget gaps.
Bundesbank President Axel Weber said on Oct. 13 that the ECB should terminate a peripheral-bond purchase program, which was introduced to help restore order to financial market rattled by Greece's fiscal crisis.
Investors may sell risky assets as they arrange their accounts for the end of the year, which "could further punish the peripheral 'midgets' unless" Germany decides to "backtrack on its tough talk," wrote Jellinek.
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This is the diary entry I hoped I wouldn't have to write for a very long time. I know all our furbabies have to leave at some stage and make their journey to the bridge and that is never easy to cope with. When my tiny baby Alfie passed having FIP my heart felt it had been ripped from my chest. He was such a baby. Then when Buzz was taken unexpectedly I thought I would never recover from all the grief. Through all the sadness came the opportunity to home two more beautiful furs in the shape of Freddie and Flossie. Gradually the home became a happy and beautifully catified place again.
In June our world was turned upside down again when early one morning Ollie had a fit which was followed by 2 hours of hissing, spitting and growling at something only he could see. I was told by the emergency vet hospital that I couldn't take him down while he was in that condition and had to wait until he came out of it. When my own vets opened at 8am I just couldn't wait for it to stop so I gently placed him in the carrier and took him to the vets. He was diagnosed with idiopathic epilepsy and they gave him the best of care. He had an overnight stay in the hospital and we brought him home the next day. It seems that Ollie had suffered a stroke. His early recovery was remarkable. He learned to walk properly, use a litter tray, eat again and most of all he got his meow back although that took a month. Everything looked really rosy for Ollie. His 17th birthday came and we were delighted. We hoped he would live to be at least 20, but his recovery was short lived and he soon began to deteriorate with head pressing against the wall, he lost his sight and his hearing. He didn't know where he was and he seemed to be living his life in darkness and in fear. When I picked him up for a cuddle he knew who I was and I could feel his body relax against me and he sighed as if to say thank you.
I knew it was Ollie's time about a week before I took him to the vet. I begged for a miracle but I knew only too well that it wasn't coming. I took little video clips of his decline to show the vet. On that final Saturday morning I took Ollie to the vet and showed him the footage I had taken that morning. He agreed that it was not kind to let him continue. It was with a heavy heart that I said goodbye to my beautiful furbaby Ollie. My wonderful furfriend companion. The king of the cats, who no other cat in the close dare challenge.
He was my beautiful rufty, tufty cat. A true character who stole my heart as a 6 week old kitten.
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What drug lords learned from big business.
How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the $300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students of the strategy and tactics used by corporations such as Walmart, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola.
And what can government learn to combat this scourge? By analyzing the cartels as companies, law enforcers might better understand how they work - and stop throwing away $100 billion a year in a futile effort to win the "war" against this global, highly organized business.
Your intrepid guide to the most exotic and brutal industry on earth is Tom Wainwright. Picking his way through Andean cocaine fields, Central American prisons, Colorado pot shops, and the online drug dens of the Dark Web, Wainwright provides a fresh, innovative look into the drug trade and its 250 million customers.
The cast of characters includes "Bin Laden", the Bolivian coca guide; "Old Lin", the Salvadoran gang leader; "Starboy", the millionaire New Zealand pill maker; and a cozy Mexican grandmother who cooks blueberry pancakes while plotting murder. Along with presidents, cops, and teenage hit men, they explain such matters as the business purpose for head-to-toe tattoos, how gangs decide whether to compete or collude, and why cartels care a surprising amount about corporate social responsibility.
More than just an investigation of how drug cartels do business, Narconomics is also a blueprint for how to defeat them.
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A brilliant peek behind the curtain into an industry that has affected almost everyone on the planet.
"Great book!!"
Well worth a listen. Gives a very fresh and interesting look at the world of drugs. Should be compulsory reading for politicians and policy makers!
"Really interesting!"
I really enjoyed it, and now have a much more nuanced view of a complex issue.
"Worthy book in the "economics explains X" genre"
Since Freakonomics, there have been a lot of books that use economics to explain aspects of history or society, but Narconomics is one of the best of this genre. It examines drug cartels as if they were regular companies, and looks at how they deal with issues like hiring, distribution, and marketing (who would have thought of tattoos as an employee retention strategy?). Not only is the result engaging, but it also provides one of the most illuminating discussions of drug policy I have read.
I should mention that I am not particularly interested in the topic of drugs and drug dealers (I think I am the only person who has never seen either the Wire or Breaking Bad), but Wainwright made the subject deeply engaging, not just with breezy writing, but also by traveling to the locations and offering compelling interviews and reporting. I am, however, trained in economics, and I know a number of the scholars and papers he cites. Here Wainwright deserves a lot of credit for interpreting this material accurately and with remarkable clarity. Thus, even if you aren't interested in drugs, but just interested in economics and society in general, I think this is a great listen.
If this book has a downside, it is mostly that it is a little disjointed. It is loosely organized around topics like human resource, production, and distribution, but there isn't really a narrative to pull everything together. Still, I found myself listening for long stretches and found a lot of compelling concepts and arguments that were new to me. Wainwright is also very clear-eyed about the topic, dealing even evenhandedly with hot-button issues such as legalization and US policy in Latin America.
"Narconomics" is about the business of illegal drugs. Tom Wainwright notes drug cartels are modern businesses that benefit one-percenters while liberally rewarding middle class managers with money, power, and prestige. However, these one-percenters brutally terrorize employees and kill their customers. These business moguls systematically bribe and brutalize the public.
The manufacture and sale of illegal drugs is a growth industry, diversifying its practices and products while becoming global enterprises. An irony of Wainwright's story is the ugliness and economic success of an illegal business is abetted by governments that support the war on drugs. The substance of Wainwright's book is that cartels are run with many of the fundamental principles (aside from terror and murder) that make international companies like Wal-Mart richly successful.
Wainwright offers a compelling argument for attacking drug cartels by removing the source of their profits. The source of profits is the consuming public; not the illegal drug manufacturers and distributors. The illegal drug manufacturers and distributors are just the cost of doing business; not the source of profit.
Wainwright notes that drug cartels have already diversified; i.e. they are human traffickers, and extortion consortiums. The glimmer of hope is that human trafficking and extortion do not pander to the human desire for escape offered by drugs. Government agencies and the general public are equally repulsed by human trafficking, murder, and extortion. Governments and the general public are more likely to cooperate in eradicating that type of criminal activity; less so with drug addiction.
Decriminalize drug use, cure the public of its need for drugs or at least treat the addicted, and drug cartels have no motive to be in the business. There is no simple or cheap alternative to "the war on drugs" but there is a history that shows war on manufacturers and distributors of illegal drugs does not work. As long as the consumer wants the product, manufacturers and distributors will figure out how to supply the demand. Consumer demand is the driver behind the wheel of "Narconomics". Treat the drug addicted, decriminalize and govern the use of drugs, and educate the public on the consequence of drug use. These actions, like the ban on smoking in public areas, will not end addiction but it will change the drug cartel industry into a criminal enterprise that most will recognize and despise.
"Fantastic and challenging read"
Tom Wainwright has penned an outstanding book looking at drugs as business. What he finds challenges many of our deepest held assumptions on how to tackle drugs policy. It's a great book that everyone, especially policymakers, should read.
As for the narration, Brian Hutchison does an excellent job, although it is odd to hear Briticisms in an American accent.
"Great book, miscast narrator"
The book is excellent, it explains very clearly how the narcotics business works and which are its weak points. The narrator does a good job, but is sadly miscast: the american accent would not be a problem if the author did not mention he is British so often, and some foreign words were so mispronounced as to be unrecognizeable.
"Very interesting information and well researched."
Very interesting book, although i don't think it was the authors' intent but it makes a strong case for legalization of all narcotics, in my opinion. Although it does lean more toward pro government action, in my view after reading the book I get the feeling governments are essentially useless and powerless to stop the industry. If they can't even keep it out of prisons, facilities which are completely dominated by government, there is no way governments can even slow it down in the rest of the economy. This is proven by the growing usage statistics from around the world. Instead the only real solution is education and rehab. Book does a great job exploring the industry. learned a lot
"Extremely interesting"
Very interesting. A very progressive way of looking at the economy of drugs. A lot of logical wisdom packed in here.
"Awesome book"
If you like Freakonomics or Gladwell, you'll love this book. I wish Tom Wainwright had written another book--I'd be buying it right now.
"Great book"
Wonderfully thought out and made easy to understand. This is a topic touching so many people. The timing is impeccable. The economic portion was made simple enough for anyone to understand. I do not agree with the portion that knowledge of how the drug trade effects Central and South America will change the behavior of Americans and Europeans. I do however believe that regulation and taxation can lead to a windfall in the public sector just in time to save some of our failing infrastructure.
"Educational and Entertaining"
I CANNOT recommend this book enough!! SERIOUSLY! It is the most entertaining and intellectual book/study I've ever read. It compares the dark world of drugs, cartels, gangs, human trafficking, etc. to corporations and basic business practices to shed a light on the economic impact of decisions that both sides are making, and how the real world cause and effects don't always correlate with the logical solutions being implemented. We attack supply instead of addressing demand. We focus on enforcement instead of prevention or treatment. We save money now but pay exponentially for it later. It's studies like this that we need to educate ourselves and each other, to make informed decisions to create and change public policy that will actually make a difference. Numbers don't lie.
"Excellent performance and fun to listen to"
This book really hit the sweet spot of engaging narrative that is informative, but still easy to follow while listening. I primarily listened to it while cycling, and never felt like I couldn't follow the chapters.
"Superb and thought-provoking"
One of the worlds most dangerous and pervasive businesses, analysed through a business journalist lens. You'll never be able to look at it the same way.
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this was one of the best audio books I have ever heard. Utilising both statistics and stories to tell a rich and compelling narrative regarding the war on drugs. It went so far to change my opinions on specific core issues, such as core legalisation and the treatment of prisoners. This is the kind of audio book you want every single citizen to hear.
"Great work"
Very interesting and very well written. I'll look out for more by this author
"Brilliant - politicians the world over should read this book."
Excellent and challenging work. This illustrates in a very engaging way, where policy makers may have taken a wrong turn in battle against narcotics and organised crime.
Very informative with captivating narrative and easy to understand real world comparisons. Asks many questions about the effectiveness of past and current strategies on dealing with global drugs issues.
"Entertaining and eye-opening"
Enjoyable, illuminating and level-headed. Not the lascivious exposé of the daily workings of drug smuggling I might have hoped for but really good nonetheless. Centred around the Latin American cocaine and marajuana business. Other drugs, most notably legal highs, are examined, but in less detail. The subtitle is a publisher's flourish - this is a populist economics book first and foremost and better for it. Very well narrated though I would have preferred a British voice for a British author.
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Absolutely - changed the way I think of drug use
The way we get it so wrong on addicts and gangstas
Sarcasm and humour
Yes both times
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Climate change and tar sands activists opposing Keystone XL need to wake up to a new reality - the pipeline has already been eclipsed by rail transport which is both cheaper and more flexible, writes Justin Mikulka. The expanded production and export of tar sands oil just got a whole lot more likely.
Tar sands bitumen transport is so well-suited for rail over pipelines that it is now cheaper to move tar sands bitumen by rail than it is by pipeline.
"Rail can get you just about anywhere. It's like the Harry Potter stairway. You get on the stairs at one end and they move to wherever you need to go.
"That's the beauty of the railway. You get on at one end here, with your bitumen or dilbit, and then you can end up in different places depending on what are the best markets."
That quote is from Pete Sametz, president of Connacher Oil and Gas, speaking to the Daily Oil Bulletin about the appeal of moving tar sands oil by rail. And Sametz isn't alone in his enthusiasm for rail transportation options for bitumen.
At the Canadian Institute's North American Pipeline Symposium in June, Randy Meyer of Canadian National railway, told the conference how this situation appeared to him.
"It's kind of amusing when I read in the paper that there's this angst and gnashing of teeth about Keystone and I'm going, 'My goodness, we're already there.' We can go there and we are. We are shipping product there."
Rail vs pipeline - a 16% price advantage
Aside from the magical Harry Potter flexibility of rail compared to pipelines, rail also offers the option of moving bitumen without having to dilute it, as is required for pipelines, which makes it cheaper as explained by Randy Meyer.
"We did a study where we took the American Association of Railway's published rates, which averaged out all the traffic that moves and all its products. That average ... is about 16 per cent less than pipeline costs."
The reality is that tar sands bitumen transport is so well-suited for rail over pipelines that it is now cheaper to move tar sands bitumen by rail than it is by pipeline.
If you're a tar sands industry executive, this is your light-bulb moment: Who needs the Keystone XL headache when you can bypass the controversy entirely using existing rail lines?
Heating bitumen for railcars costs less than diluting it for pipelines
This reality and the recent revelations that the impact of the tar sands oil will be much greater than initially predicted, present a grim picture for the environment, although apparently an amusing and exciting one for oil and rail executives. Companies like Grizzly Oil Sands outline their plans on their website.
"Grizzly is excited at the range of benefits to be generated from its oil-by-rail bitumen marketing strategy. The Company believes its approach can achieve economics superior to using the Keystone XL pipeline, if built."
On their site Grizzly mentions purchasing new rail cars to move bitumen as well as completing a rail-to-barge facility on the Mississippi in Louisiana.
And despite predictions in the new proposed oil-by-rail regulations that the DOT-111 cars that will eventually not be allowed to carry the much more volatile Bakken crude oil would instead be repurposed to carry tar sands oil, this is unlikely. The most profitable way to move bitumen by rail is in thermally-jacketed cars that allow for the oil to be heated.
The current DOT-111 cars don't have this capacity and retrofitting them would be too costly. Heating the bitumen versus diluting it is where the industry sees the cost advantages.
Tar sands oil 'exempt' from new testing requirements
And while the new proposed regulations for moving volatile crude oil and ethanol mention that tar sands oil may be transported in DOT-111s in the future, the proposed changes do not apply to tar sands oil in any way.
When the DOT first announced new testing requirements for crude oil being shipped by rail in February of this year, there was immediate push back from the industry because of the impact it may have on moving tar sands by rail.
The government quickly clarified that tar sands oil would be exempt from the requirements, a move that at the time was described by the president of the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers as a "judicious response".
The cost advantages and flexibility of moving heated bitumen by rail and are spurring significant new investment in the oil-by-rail industry.
As reported by Oil Change International in their report Runaway Train, the planned expansion is massive and would increase the currently oil-by-rail capacity of one million barrels of oil per day to five times that amount. While much of this is also for lighter crudes like Bakken, it also is being driven by the desire to move tar sands oil by rail.
Trains give access to export oil terminals
As previously noted on DeSmogBlog, the additional reason that rail is appealing to tar sands producers is that they ultimately want to sell their product overseas. And while there is an export ban on oil produced in the US, this does not apply to the tar sands oil from Canada.
And the trains currently give access to the East, West and Gulf coasts where the oil can be loaded onto ocean going vessels and sent to the highest bidder on the world market.
Global Partners is currently one of the top capacity oil-by-rail companies with a terminal on the East coast in Albany, NY, on the West coast in Oregon and with plans to build a new facility in Texas and another in New Windsor, NY. And despite their current business of moving Bakken crude, they are actively promoting tar sands by rail to the industry.
Global Partners CEO Eric Slifka recently made the sales pitch for tars sands by rail at an industry conference saying, "we can take pure heavy crude oil, put it in a heated rail car ... and move it directly."
Global's recent expansion plans in Texas resulted in the following headline in the Houston Business Journal: "Keystone? Who needs it? Railroad plans fuel terminal for Port Arthur".
If the current economics of moving tar sands oil by rail can be proven to be scalable, and it would appear they can, rail appears to be faster, cheaper and more flexible as an option to get Canadian tar sands oil onto the international market.
Which means the producers can get higher prices, which in turn makes the expanded extraction and consumption of the tar sands that much more likely.
Justin Mikulka is a freelance writer, audio and video producer living in Albany, NY. Justin lends his Internet expertise to the group Gas Free Seneca which is working to prevent large LPG storage facilities in the Finger Lakes region of NY. He has a degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JustinMikulka
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I hardwired in BRK's throughout the house in 2002. I was going to replace all of the detectors with new ones in the coming year but I have decided to use the fire zones on my security system and install all new low voltage detectors which are much less prone to false tripping than line voltage type. I am planning on running new 18/2 fire alarm cable but I was wondering if it would be acceptable to disconnect and remove the 14/2 NM from the power source and run the fire alarm cable from the alarm panel in it's place. I would then use two of the conductors in the remaining 14/3 NM (red and black capping off the white conductor) throughout the house for the low voltage detectors. Any technical or code reason why I should not do this?
I know the local code they do not have to remain.
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Thanks for the replies. I am not asking about detector requirements or placement. I have a photoelectric smoke inside every bedroom as well as one in the hallway within ten feet of each bedroom doorway. I could have installed only one in the hallway and have met the code but I put one inside of every bedroom as well. CO's are allowed to be separate from the smoke detectors and can be either battery, hardwired, or the plug in type. We have a plug in type on every level of living space within the home as allowed by Mass Law as well as the local AHJ.
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What goes into making food kosher?
The debate over this question has recently raged in America after the poor working conditions at the Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse were exposed. The new Magen Tzedek certification has proposed that kosher food follow certain labor and environmental standards, but many Orthodox rabbis have disputed whether kosher certification can encompass anything more than the strict rules of kashrut.
Israelis are having their own version of this debate, looking at whether kosher certification should look at more than how the food is prepared. The chief rabbinate in Israel, which provides most kosher certification in the country, wanted to pull its kosher certification of a bakery owned by a Messianic Jew — a Jew for Jesus. The Israeli Supreme Court said that the chief rabbinate could not hold this baker to a higher standard than any other baker: "The Kashrut Law states clearly that only legal deliberations directly related to what makes the food kosher are relevant, not wider concerns unrelated to food preparation."
In making its decision, the court cited a famous previous decision about an American-émigré belly dancer. In that decision, the court had ruled that the performances of the belly dancer at a hotel or catering hall could not be used to disqualify the site for kosher supervision.
Meanwhile, in Europe, the debate over kashrut has taken a different form during a European Union session on creating unified standards for animal slaughter. Last month, the British Farm Animal Welfare Council released a report stating that kosher and halal slaughter did cause animals "significant pain and distress." In the end, though, the European Union passed a regulation protecting kosher slaughter in all EU member states — thus exempting religious slaughter from a requirement that all animals be stunned before they are killed.
No word came from Brussels on the belly dancing issue.
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There are two views of the decision by the Daily Mail General Trust to put Northcliffe Newspapers, its big regional paper business, up for sale. One patronisingly places Lord Rothermere as a prisoner of his executives, forced to sell a large part of a newspaper estate built by his father and grandfather. The other puts him in charge of the decision, making a move that allows the company to invest for the new media world by getting top price for assets that will never be so attractive again.
The former account has a poignancy that is naturally attractive to journalists. You have only to wander through the great Northcliffe estate (you can do it from your desk, at thisisnorthcliffe.co.uk) to feel the sentimental currents that ripple beneath the skin of all reporters. Here is a world that JB Priestley would recognise, a world that has miraculously avoided the homogeneity of modern Britain.
In Stoke, we learn that "few newspapers have the rich materials of geography, history and strong community to help them secure a special place in the hearts of their readers. The Sentinel has an abundance of all three ... from small weekly beginnings in one Potteries town 150 years ago ..."
Over in the West Country, the Cornishman talks still of acquiring the St Ives Weekly Summary, Redruth Advertiser and Cornubia County Times in 1903 and continues to celebrate its scoop of 1918: "The paper had a world exclusive when it reported the assassination of the Russian Royal Family many months before the news was officially released. The story had been revealed by a local man visiting Russia at the time."
Then to the north, where the Grimsby Telegraph refers to the fishing industry and the Hull Daily Mail to the East Riding of Yorkshire, before returning west, where the Bath Chronicle simply points out that it has "been covering life in and around Bath since 1760".
And what of Scotland, where James Boswell - never mind Priestley - comes to mind? "The Press & Journal is the oldest regional morning newspaper in circulation, dating back to 1747, and the best selling in Scotland. In its time, it has reported on events such as the Battle of Culloden, French Revolution, inventions such as powered flight, photography and telephone, to the deaths of Burns, Beethoven and Nelson, while also reflecting life in the North of Scotland."
Now if the Trinity Mirror boss Sly Bailey were flogging off her company's local papers, we would not be engaging in this sentimentality, though the titles in her portfolio have no less heritage than those belonging to Northcliffe. Regional newspapers need a strong local identity, but few of their readers know who ultimately owns them.
It is the fact that Northcliffe is an old press dynasty, with no less than a lord, a real, live press baron at its head, that makes this more than a story about the latest carve up of regional newspaper assets, a process that has been going on vigorously for more than 100 years. Lord Rothermere will indeed be sad to see these papers go, but that doesn't mean his board held a gun to his head to make him say goodbye.
At this point, readers may be confused about the purpose of selling all these profitable local papers. If the future is bright, why would a newspaper company sell them? If the future is not bright, why would other newspaper companies want to pay more than £1.2bn to buy them?
Selling would make good sense if the future looks bleak, and it is true that the whole newspaper world goes to work each day with the slightly sick feeling that the internet is about to make it redundant. Really scary companies such as Google are going local, classified advertising is going online, circulations are falling.
The more optimistic view is that the future is bright, provided companies work out ways of working with the internet and other new technologies. What is needed, everyone agrees, is further consolidation of the market - buying more newspaper groups - to create further economies of scale. What is also needed at Northcliffe, everyone can see, is further cost cutting. Northcliffe has been working through £30m worth of cuts that, if achieved, will take its profit margin from 20 to 25%. Trinity Mirror operates at 29%, Johnston Press at more than 35.
This, says DMGT, is where it bows out. It can't afford the high cost of further consolidation, so it makes sense to sell to groups that can. Its company philosophy - unfashionably rooted in editorial primacy - militates against the level of cost cutting that the industry now expects, so let buyers who believe business comes first handle that.
Who will those buyers be? Many business reporters have suggested that the big regional players - Trinity Mirror, Newsquest and Johnston - will be ruled out by the competition regulations. But the groups will argue that, given the local nature of these titles, their acquisition would make no difference to the balance of power. They may be inclined to buy and take the risk that they will be asked to dispose of other titles further down the line, though whether they can find the money to come up with such a large purchase is another matter. Money would present no such problem to the big private equity houses, which would seek to raise profit by reducing costs before disposing of the papers around different trade buyers.
Reducing costs? Yes, that tends to mean journalists. A big sale offers proof that the newspapers are far from death's door. The important thing will be to ensure that grassroots journalism continues to flourish too.
Stoppard and English
Tom Stoppard, a cub reporter on the Western Daily Press before it became a Northcliffe title, talks engagingly about newspapers to Bill Hagerty in the latest issue of British Journalism Review. I particularly like his account of meeting David English for the first time.
The late Daily Mail editor loved showbusiness - like so many Fleet Street editors, he had a camp side to him - but learned that, two days before their chance meeting, the fashionable playwright had broken a 45-year habit and cancelled his order for the Mail.
Stoppard describes English's reaction: "He said: 'Do you want to come in and talk to my people about that?' And I said 'If you like,' and he must have gone back and said: 'I met Tom Stoppard and he's stopped reading us because we're doing a Saturday paper every day and I said he should come in and tell us what he is talking about.' And, quite clearly, everybody said: 'Tell him to go and fuck himself,' because two days later I got a letter from him saying he was going away."
That is the authentic world of the press, English all feline and affable front of house, the cast putting Stoppard in his place backstage. Stoppard, as a former newspaperman, expresses neither surprise nor rancour. If only all readers could be dealt with so easily.
Up the gerontocracy
The older I get, the more gerontocracy seems to be the natural order of things. Let us have no more carping about changes at the Telegraph Group. In giving age its head, the Barclay brothers have not only created a management that truly understands the concerns of its readership but also found employment for a generation in danger of being forgotten. It is an industrial model that entirely validates the pension proposals of Lord Turner. Those old enough to have seen George Best play - and didn't they bore us with that last week - need the Telegraph experiment to succeed. Otherwise, the proprietors will turn to youth, denying us the big jobs that suddenly seemed attainable in the autumn of our lives.
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THREE Catalytic converters!!!! Oh my! I just cut the converter off my 02 TDI Beetle and what a big difference in power that made!
Wonder if we can do the ventdectomy on this model and get the extra 2 gallons of fuel capacity like we did in the New Beetles?
I hate the TDI badge, so plain!
I wish the TDI came with the independent rear suspension. I hate the ride of the torsion beam suspension, especially going over train tracks or any washboard.
Keep it German.
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Auto insurance can be expensive. That's why it's best to get as many quotes as possible to make sure you're getting the best rate. If you look for cheap auto insurance online, you stand the best chance of finding a low rate.
Finding low-cost auto insurance online does not necessarily mean getting an online quote. Some insurance agents have online sites where they will gather your information and contact you with a quote. Their local agent will help you get a cheap insurance policy.
In most cases, you'll be getting an online quote from an insurance company. When looking for cheap auto insurance online you need to be careful about who you share your personal information with. Only put in your driver's license number and social security card, if the site is secure and you know the company is reputable.
By looking online for your car insurance you increase the chances of finding the right policy whether you want to use a local insurance agent or if you want all of your transactions to be online.
When looking for a cheap policy, you need to make sure you are getting the right amount of coverage. Each state has limits which the insurance company will require you to follow. You may also need to comply with the requirements of your lender if you financed or leased your vehicle.
Even if you don't have a lender, you should consider the best policy by looking at how much you're protected. The whole point of getting an insurance policy is to protect you in the case of an accident or disaster.
Make sure your policy covers you properly. This may mean getting extra coverage. However, since you're getting cheap auto insurance, this should not increase your premiums by much (I do compare auto insurance quotes, do you?).


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Of course, Durka-Durkastan.
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Roboticist Auke Ijspeert designs biorobots, machines modeled after real animals that are capable of handling complex terrain and would appear at home in the pages of a sci-fi novel. The process of creating these robots leads to better automata that can be used for fieldwork, service, and search and rescue. But these robots don't just mimic the natural world — they help us understand our own biology better, unlocking previously unknown secrets of the spinal cord.
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After three generations in one of the most historic buildings in the neighborhood, the Swan family has grown accustomed to the reaction people have when they walk into their furniture store - especially the cathedral room.
'Everybody just goes goofy when they see that room. It looks like a church,' said Scott Swan, owner of Swan Furniture & Interiors.
In fact, the building was a chapel for a funeral parlor in the mid-1800s.
By the time Swan's grandfather, William Taft Swan, took it over in 1948, the building had been home to a beauty shop. Another part of it was a living space, where Swan's father, Peter William Swan, grew up.
The cathedral room even had an incarnation as a fish market and deli.
When the Swans moved in, the room's vaulted ceilings, distinctive beams and stained glass windows proved the perfect backdrop for their high-end furniture.
'You walk in, you just feel the history,' said Sarah Steltenpohl, a designer who has been with the Swans since 1989.
When Swan's father died at age 48, his mother took over the business. Almost 10 years later, in 1997, Swan took over - embracing not only the roles of builder and deliveryman, but also business manager.
'We don't carry any junk in here,' Swan said. 'And by junk I mean cheap Chinese furniture. The stuff we have is expensive. It's the kind of thing you'll be able to hand down to your children and their children.'
'My mother was bringing me here when I was 5, saying, 'Don't touch that!' ' Steltenpohl said. Today 'we are dealing with the children of the people that I used to bill years ago.'
And Steltenpohl thinks she knows why.
'We try to be everything that everyone else isn't,' Steltenpohl said. 'We don't like to say, 'No.' If you can imagine it, we will find a way.'
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The Island of Doctor Moreauby H. G. Wells, Michael Moorcock (Editor)
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This is a unique edition of Moreau. The text of the first (American) printed version (1896), with appended footnotes recording all variants up to 1924 and annotations of whatever strictly needs such, takes up little more than a third of its pages. Seven appendices provide the only available transcription of Wells's first draft, details of the emendations that he made before 1900 and reportedly intended to incorporate in a future edition of the book, accounts of six film versions and one stage adaptation of Moreau, critical synopses of Moreau's literary "children," etc. Preceding all this are almost 50pp. on Wells's life and thoughts, with particular reference to Moreau.
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"A master writer." —Guardian
"The Island of Doctor Moreau is one of those books that, once read, is rarely forgotten." —Margaret Atwood
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In The Dingey Of The "Lady Vain."
I DO not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain." As everyone knows, she collided with a derelict when ten days out from Callao. The longboat, with seven of the crew, was picked up eighteen days after by H. M. gunboat "Myrtle," and the story of their terrible privations has become quite as well known as the far more horrible "Medusa" case. But I have to add to the published story of the "Lady Vain" another, possibly as horrible and far stranger. It has hitherto been supposed that the four men who were in the dingey perished, but this is incorrect. I have the best of evidence for this assertion: I was one of the four men.
But in the first place I must state that there never were four men in the dingey,--the number was three. Constans, who was "seen by the captain to jump into the gig," luckily for us and unluckily for himself did not reach us. He came down out of the tangle of ropes under the stays of the smashed bowsprit, some small rope caught his heel as he let go, and he hung for a moment head downward, and then fell and struck a block or spar floating in the water. We pulled towards him, but he never came up.
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I say lucky for us he did not reach us, and I might almost say luckily for himself; for we had only a small breaker of water and some soddened ship's biscuits with us, so sudden had been the alarm, so unprepared the ship for any disaster. We thought the people on the launch would be better provisioned (though it seems they were not), and we tried to hail them. Theycould not have heard us, and the next morning when the drizzle cleared,-- which was not until past midday,--we could see nothing of them. We could not stand up to look about us, because of the pitching of the boat. The two other men who had escaped so far with me were a man named Helmar, a passenger like myself, and a seaman whose name I don't know,-- a short sturdy man, with a stammer.
We drifted famishing, and, after our water had come to an end, tormented by an intolerable thirst, for eight days altogether. After the second day the sea subsided slowly to a glassy calm. It is quite impossible for the ordinary reader to imagine those eight days. He has not, luckily for himself, anything in his memory to imagine with. After the first day we said little to one another, and lay in our places in the boat and stared at the horizon, or watched, with eyes that grew larger and more haggard every day, the misery and weakness gaining upon our companions. The sun became pitiless. The water ended on the fourth day, and we were already thinking strange things and saying them with our eyes; but it was, I think, the sixth before Helmar gave voice to the thing we had all been thinking. I remember our voices were dry and thin, so that we bent towards one another and spared our words. I stood out against it with all my might, was rather for scuttling the boat and perishing together among the sharks that followed us; but when Helmar said that if his proposal was accepted we should have drink, the sailor came round to him.
I would not draw lots however, and in the night the sailor whispered to Helmar again and again, and I sat in the bows with my clasp-knife in my hand, though I doubt if I had the stuff in me to fight; and in the morning I agreed to Helmar's proposal, and we handed halfpence to find the odd man. The lot fell upon the sailor; but he was the strongest of us and would not abide by it, and attacked Helmar with his hands. They grappled together and almost stood up. I crawled along the boat to them, intending to help Helmar by grasping the sailor's leg; but the sailor stumbled with the swaying of the boat, and the two fell upon the gunwale and rolled overboard together. They sank like stones. I remember laughing at that, and wondering why I laughed. The laugh caught me suddenly like a thing from without.
I lay across one of the thwarts for I know not how long, thinking that if I had the strength I would drink sea-water and madden myself to die quickly. And even as I lay there I saw, with no more interest than if it had been a picture, a sail come up towards me over the sky-line. My mind must have been wandering, and yet I remember all that happened, quite distinctly. I remember how my head swayed with the seas, and the horizon with the sail above it danced up and down; but I also remember as distinctly that I had a persuasion that I was dead, and that I thought what a jest it was that they should come too late by such a little to catch me in my body.
For an endless period, as it seemed to me, I lay with my head on the thwart watching the schooner (she was a little ship, schooner-rigged fore and aft) come up out of the sea. She kept tacking to and fro in a widening compass, for she was sailing dead into the wind. It never entered my head to attempt to attract attention, and I do not remember anything distinctly after the sight of her side until I found myself in a little cabin aft. There's a dim half-memory of being lifted up to the gangway, and of a big red countenance covered with freckles and surrounded with red hair staring at me over the bulwarks. I also had a disconnected impression of a dark face, with extraordinary eyes, close to mine; but that I thought was a nightmare, until I met it again. I fancy I recollect some stuff being poured in between my teeth; and that is all.
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A very nice effort by H.G. Wells. This is a quick read that would be ideal for boys ages 13 and up. The tale is about Dr. Moreau, a scientist, who has been forced out of England for his strange experiments. His experiments consist of taking animals and through surgical processes giving them human like intelligence and form. However, his creations are imperfect and it is these imperfections that help cause his downfall. Fast paced and full of action. Also, on a deeper level it makes you think if there are places science should not travel. Moreau played God. Are we doing the same today with cloning, for example? These connections make the book very current.
A very interesting take on genetic engineering. A pretty good read overall. I reccomend this short book to all.
Pity the poor science fiction writer. She or he builds on the scientific knowledge of the day to extrapolate into the future . . . only to be undermined by shifts in scientific understanding. As a result, the careful development of science fiction becomes irrelevant in light of more advanced knowledge. Those writers who do this best, like H.G. Wells, are able to capture some more important theme that remains compelling . . . and the modern reader doesn¿t mind all of the incorrect science in the book. The Island of Dr. Moreau is a very thoughtful consideration of what a human is . . . and isn¿t. This question is considered at the level of physiology, emotions, thinking, psychology, and behavior. If that were not enough, H.G. Wells was among the first to raise the important question of what the limits should be of animal experimentation. As I read this novel, I was reminded of Dr. Jane Goodall¿s writing about the conditions of chimpanzees in some scientific laboratories. At its most ethereal level, H.G. Wells also focuses our attention on what the foundations of human happiness are. The inhumanity that recurs in the book may seem hard to take. Be patient. What may upset you in the beginning turns out to have importance in developing the book¿s major ideas and plot. Those who are upset by reading about violence or cruelty should probably think twice before reading this book. I found myself musing about why English authors in the 19th century were so fond of putting their stories onto uncharted or unfrequented South Sea islands. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had no problem putting on a full scheme of horrors into London for Sherlock Holmes to deal with. Why were others reluctant to do the same? Donald Mitchell, co-author of The 2,000 Percent Solution and The Irresistible Growth Enterprise
The novel that I read was The Island of Dr. Moreau and let me tell you that if you read this book, wear a seatbelt because your going to be on the edge of your seat! This juicy novel is an excellent story of adventure, treachery and action-filled exciting thrills. My favorite thing in the book was how well they explained what was going on, and I like books like that. I would say that The Island of Dr. Moreau is one of the best books I've ever read. That's why I recommend you read it.
This is a must read book. If you are into sci-fi and like books that keep you on the edge, read the Island of Dr. Moreau. You won't want to put this down until you finish.
An entertaining novel; a classic; difficult to rate, as it was written in a very different age from today, yet written by one of the earliest writers of science fiction.
A bit disappointed with this particular publication of the book only because the description is very deceiving in that it mentions appended footnotes, annotations, and seven appendecies none of which appear in this volume. I'm a collector of books who enjoys when a publisher makes an effort of providing a volume with footnotes, annotations and an appendix or two explaining the text and background of the writing providing insights that might otherwise be missed. Having purchased this particular edition for this, based on the description, it was, to say the least, a bit of a let down to discover none of this was part and parcel of the work. All this aside, the book is nicely printed, the fonts and layout are visually very pleasing to the eye making this a nicely produced piece of literature.


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Don't You Even Think Of It!
For those who love bluebirds, the sight of a house sparrow eyeing a bluebird box is both maddening and frightening.
House sparrows are cavity nesters, just like bluebirds, but they are far more aggressive. They are so territorial that they'll claim multiple boxes and exclude all others from nesting even though they can't possibly use them all. What's worse is that male house sparrows will kill adult bluebirds inside the nest box and peck the chicks to death as part of this territorial behavior.
Many are the sad stories of house sparrow attacks and dead baby bluebirds. Beakless Bluebirds and Featherless Penguins by Sister Barbara Ann tells of the success she had in raising two beakless bluebirds who survived an attack thanks to her care. Not everyone has the time or skill to do this.
As bluebird monitors will tell you, there is no real way to exclude house sparrows because they are nearly the same size as bluebirds. The only effective method is to trap every house sparrow and remove it. It is illegal to trap native birds without a permit, but house sparrows are non-native and invasive. They can be trapped and removed.
There are many Internet resources that explain how to do this. Try the Bluebird Society of Pennsylvania and Sialis.org for starters.
Right now is bluebird nesting season. It's time to trap this house sparrow.
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# Donnaon 20 Apr 2010 at 1:08 pm
Thanks for the great resources on attracting bluebirds. Since we all can't have peregrines in our backyards, we can attract bluebirds!
# Margeon 23 Apr 2010 at 9:19 pm
Like that picture!! They do try their best to usurp bluebird boxes. There are 27 bluebird boxes at Crooked Creek and so far a total of 30 bluebird eggs, 6 little white Chicadee eggs, and only 3 house sparrow eggs. I watched the house sparrows vie for one near the park office but chased them once and noticed the bluebirds hanging around same day so perhaps they managed to get started before the sparrows were successful there as they have 3 eggs in a bluebird box other side of the road. I do think tho' that the pretty tree swallows are nesting in another box.
# Davidon 26 Apr 2010 at 8:24 pm
I've read that tree swallows also create problems for bluebirds (within their overlapping ranges) around nestbox competition.
We have both tree swallows and bluebirds in Albany NY area (of course house sparrows are EVERYWHERE). Is that a problem in W.PA?
# Kate St. Johnon 27 Apr 2010 at 6:30 am
Tree swallows will nest in bluebird boxes but they don't pose a problem if the boxes are erected in pairs. In this arrangement, tree swallows take one box, bluebirds take the other and they happily coexist. Here's more on how that works:


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Brick making is a traditional, unorganised industry, generally confined to rural and peri-urban areas (Singh A.L 2004). Apart from coal and briquettes, brick kilns use fuelwood, rice husk and dry dung for firing bricks. Agricultural biomass has many supporters now and competition for biomass use has been gradually emerging in the area. In this context, this paper constructs the prevailing and emergent market systems for agricultural biomass through market mapping technique. It provides a comparative account of biomass value chain along with supporting services and enabling business environment for two emerging uses of biomass, electricity production and brick making. Additionally, the article explores the market drivers and restraints that determine the biomass flow to the respective value chains.
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Posted by Brian Hopkins on April 19, 2012
In our Forrsights Business Decision-Makers Survey, Q4 2011, 79% of business executive respondents said that technology will be a key source of innovation for their company, while 71% said that it will be a competitive differentiator. So how well positioned is IT to help firms meet these expectations? Forty-six percent thought that their current IT organization was not well positioned to meet these needs, and 41% thought IT was overly bureaucratic.
I could go on with more data, but the message is clear — business is starving for technology to help it be more innovative, create market differentiation, and lower costs. In the midst of this, IT is mired in a technology mess created by years of underinvestment and business growth by acquisition. What's going to happen?
The thing I want you to remember is something a client said to me not too long ago that stuck with me, "Starving people will find food." So the question is: do we feed our starving business or tell them to stay on a diet? And if the latter, what will be the impact if they go scavenging the countryside? We think the answer involves flexibly and rapidly introducing new technology to take advantage of strategic opportunities, while still protecting data, mission-critical applications, and our most precious TCO reduction goals.
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We sure do talk a lot about enterprise architecture (EA) maturity. When I think about it, every piece of research we create is in some way intended to help EA leaders mature their practice. But alas, reading alone isn't what matures an EA practice. Somebody, somewhere (likely, you) has the difficult task of implementing these EA concepts as processes, artifacts, methodologies, etc. And there arises the challenge: Simply building a "new thing" such as a business capability map or a set of reference architectures isn't where maturity comes from. Rather, it's about getting these "new things" out there, seeing them used, making sure they're relevant, and realizing an impact.
For the many EA practices that want to evolve their practices toward a strategy- and business-driven role, actually getting that done means going outside of EA's current scope. In order to execute on this vision, EA must consider three competencies to see them through their maturity journey, all of which are fraught with boundaries:
Posted by Clay Richardson on April 12, 2012
Nowadays, there are two topics that I'm very passionate about. The first is the fact that spring is finally here and it's time to dust off my clubs to take in my few first few rounds of golf. The second topic that I'm currently passionate about is the research I've been doing around the connection between big data and big process.
While most enterprise architects are familiar with the promise — and, unfortunately, the hype — of big data, very few are familiar with the newer concept of "big process." Forrester first coined this term back in August of 2011 to describe the shift we see in organizations moving from siloed approaches to BPM and process improvement to more holistic approaches that stitch all the pieces together to drive business transformation.
Our working definition for big process is:
"Methods and techniques that provide a more holistic approach to process improvement and process transformation initiatives."
Posted by Brian Hopkins on April 11, 2012
In our Forrsights Business Decision-Makers Survey, Q4 2011, we asked business technology leaders to rate IT's ability to establish an architecture that can accommodate changes to business strategy. While 45% of IT rated its ability positively, only 30% of business respondents did. Clearly, both think there is room for improvement, but business is more concerned about it.
So are we agile? Only 21% of enterprise architects in our September 2011 Global State Of Enterprise Architecture Online Survey reported being even modestly agile, so I think we all know the answer.
What do we do about it? Continue to focus on technology standardization and cost reduction? Give up on that and focus on tactical business needs? Gridlock in the middle because we can't make the business case to invest in agility? This is the struggle EA organizations face today.
To act with agility, firms must create a foundation for it, and three barriers can get in the way:
Posted by Alex Cullen on April 6, 2012
I just recently had a conversation with Peter Hinssen, one of our keynote speakers at Forrester's colocated CIO Forum and EA Forum in Las Vegas (May 3-4) and our EMEA CIO Forum and EA Forum in Paris (June 19-20).
Peter is both a dynamic speaker and a provocative thought-leader on the rapidly changing relationship of technology, business, and "the business function called IT." Here's a short summary of this conversation — and a preview of what he will be talking about at our forums.
On "The New Normal":
Technology has stopped being "technology," and digital has just become "normal": We've entered the world of the "New Normal." The rate of change of the technology world has become the beat to which markets transform. But the rate of change "outside" companies is now faster than the internal velocity of organizations. But how will companies evolve to cope with the changes as a result of the New Normal? How will organizations evolve to respond quickly enough when markets turn into networks of intelligence?
What this means for IT:
Posted by Craig Le Clair on April 4, 2012
The answer is a simply no. I'm finding that enterprise architectures are not well-grounded in this emerging area. Many enterprise architects, and particularly those who focus on business architecture, think that dynamic case management (DCM) is a newfangled marketing term to describe an old, worn-out idea — a glorified electronic file folder with workflow. Yes, enterprise architects can be a cynical bunch. But DCM goes far beyond a simplistic technology marketing term — it's a new way of thinking about how complex work gets done, and often enterprise architects are so consumed with technology planning that they may not see new patterns of work emerging in the business that require new ways of thinking.
"Dynamic" describes the reality of how organizations serve customers and build products in a world that is changing constantly. If you doubt that assertion, think about volcanoes disrupting airlines, oil rigs exploding, product recalls, executives being investigated for fraud, new healthcare legislation, or more common events such as mergers and acquisitions. Most knowledge work requires unique processing, and processes need to adapt to situations — not the other way around. For enterprises, DCM provides a transformational opportunity to take the drudgery out of work and enable high-value, ad hoc knowledge work — much as enterprise resource planning (ERP) did for transactional processes. And, in fact, our research points to a growing use of DCM to add agility to systems of record including packaged apps and legacy transaction systems.


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William O. Kearse
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LUBBOCK, TEXAS — Bill was born in Camp Wheeler, Georgia, to William O., M.D., and Ethel D. Kearse. He grew up in Canton, where he lived until age 24, graduating from Canton High School. Thereafter followed a B.S. in medicine and M.D. degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After four years of post-doctoral training at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver, he served three years in the U.S. Air Force, two years at Lajes AFB, the Azores, Portugal, and one at Hill AFB, Utah. Subsequently, he practiced internal medicine for one year in Burmington, Vermont, nine years in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, concluding with 27 years in Lubbock, Texas.
Bill is survived by his wife of 20 years, Barbara Follis Kearse. Surviving him in Haywood County are sisters, Karen Fisher (Kay), and Lynn Lamar (Bill); brother, Bob (Pam); four nieces and three nephews. Also surviving him are daughters, Courtney Todea (Nathaniel), and Ashley Byno (David), of Salt Lake City; son, Shad (Lisa), of Elma, Washington, Kara McKay (Mark), and Kayla Bouffard (Travis) of Lubbock. Dearest to him are 13 grandchildren: Emme and Chloe Todea; Hayley and Ben Byno; Savannah, Autumn, and Sadie Kearse; James, Katie, and Brooke McKay; Nathan, Brynlee and Braelyn Bouffard; his mother-in-law, LaJoy Follis, and his four-legged friends, Charlie and Raider.
A memorial service is scheduled 4 p.m. Saturday, April 5, at Morning Star United Methodist Church social hall, 2535 Dutch Cove Road, Canton. In lieu of flowers, contributions to KTTZ-FM Public Radio or Doctors Without Borders would be appreciated.
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