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24 January 2014
Dear Father Thomas,
I have been reading your books for a long time now, and also listening to conferences given by you as I drive about my diocese. I have heard all 24 CDs of your The Contemplative Journey series at least twice, so I think I have a reasonable grasp of your teaching. I have found your words enormously encouraging and informative; you are without a doubt the wisest man I've never met. But you know how these things go: you hear something and it makes perfect sense and you understand it completely, but somehow it doesn't quite make that 18 inch journey from the head to the heart. There is a depth of knowing, a deep interior understanding that comes sporadically if it comes at all.
This week has been for me a time of such deep knowing. I have been reading your little book Invitation to Love. Of course there is nothing in the book that is new to me. You outline again the workings of the false self and in particular the emotional programs for happiness with which we are all wired. You talk of these hopeless schemes we all have, to find happiness through the relentless pursuit of security and survival, esteem and affection, power and control. I know this. But somehow I didn't know this until last night, and I'm not sure what made the difference.
Perhaps it was one sentence in your book: The emotions faithfully respond to what our value system is - not what we would like it to be or what we think it is. This has been a week where for one reason or another my emotions have been fairly fully engaged, and the thought that they might give a sort of a topographic map of the false self system lying beneath them was revelatory. Perhaps it was my temporary suspension of Centering Prayer (sorry) in favour of walking the streets of my lovely little city while saying the Jesus Prayer: allowing the ancient prayer of the staretz to enter on my inbreath and allowing my acknowledgement of Jesus as Lord and redeemer to be proclaimed on my outbreath. Perhaps it is just that this time has arrived.
I went to sleep last night thinking of my emotional responses to the events of the week and woke at 2 am. No, I was awakened at 2 am. I lay, totally alert, in the dark with the sound of the wind outside and my wife softly sleeping beside me. And I saw myself. With astonishing clarity and detail I saw myself in all my ridiculousness and absurdity. I was like Dorothy looking behind the screen and seeing what really lay behind Oz the Magnificent. It was as though I saw the coin in the palm of the magician and in an instant realised not only how the trick was done, but also what a wonderful and clever trick it was. I lay there astonished at my own ingenuity and absurdity and foolishness, but this wasn't in any sense self pitying or self deprecatory. It was uproariously funny. It was as though I was being let in on a fine joke, and I wanted to laugh as the angels were laughing. I saw my emotional programs for happiness - well, one of them anyway - laid out in all their glory. There was a magnificent, ornate, gilded superstructure which I had spent a lifetime building and polishing and protecting and I peeped underneath it to see the cheap clockwork mechanism with which it worked, all held together with string and bits of chewing gum. I am absurd! And I felt overwhelming gratitude for my absurdity. I drifted back to sleep, one arm around my oldest and dearest friend, cocooned in goosedown and joy and liberation .
So Father Thomas, I wanted to write. Often in your conferences I have heard you chortling away at the great cosmic joke of your own absurdity. I wanted, in a virtual way, to wink at you and nudge you in the ribs and acknowledge conspirationally to you, Oh! So THIS is what you meant!
I woke in joy. I walked 7 km in about an hour and breathed Jesus in and out. I went for a blood test, then headed for a cafe for breakfast (bacon and eggs but for goodness sake keep that to yourself. My wife and daughters would skin me alive if they knew). I have been a pilgrim for long enough to know the dynamic: I haven't actually arrived anywhere. There will be a day or two's euphoria while this new learning is consolidated before the Holy Spirit urges me to shoulder my pack and follow along the road to tackle the next obstacle I have erected between myself and God's love.
I will be in Snowmass, God willing, in about a year to undertake a Centering Prayer Intensive, but of course I wouldn't presume to be able to see you. But I just needed to write today and thank you for the gift of Christ, and the gift of myself.
With love and gratitude,
your son in Christ,


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Category — Pacquiao-Mayweather
About Saturday Night
Manny Pacquiao was a heavy favorite (as much as 3-1) to defeat Juan Manuel Marquez heading into Saturday's showdown at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Then Marquez shook up the world, and the betting public, sending Pacquiao face down and knocking him out for the 1st time since Medgoen Singsurat (who?) dropped him in the 3rd round 13 years ago.
This might not put an end to what was once a much-anticipated bout with Floyd Mayweather—despite Marquez and Pac Man discussing Round 5 of their duels—but who cares now? If anything, "Money" lost any chance of a meaningful fight with Pacquiao by running for years. The luster of it and a huge payday to boot just couldn't coax Mayweather into the ring. You have to wonder how many millions did he hear rattling down the drain Saturday night.
Admittedly, we've been longtime Pacquiao fans. And like many, we were stunned with how the boxing legend hit the canvas like a bad habit.
Further, it ended the reign of 1 of the greatest punchers to come down the pike in decades. Fighters who suffer devastating knockouts like this never recover. Add Pacquiao to this long list.
He might fight several more times, particularly with the speculation he is having financial trouble, and he might win a few. But Pacquiao won't ever recapture the glory and invincibility with which he fought before. Which is why Floyd won't be running anymore.
Speaking of scumbags, could you believe Bob Arum had the audacity to pitch a 5th fight between Pacquiao and Marquez before Manny could even clear his head? We should be talking a 3rd Mayweather-Pacquiao bout, but instead we're left listening to this carnival barker try to sell us more nonsense.
I refused to buy the 4th fight between Marquez-Pacquiao, so a 5th is out of the question too. Unless you're asking me to take the 5th, and thank you very much, I'll drink to that.
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Ring Tones
So Bob Arum says Pacquiao-Mayweather will happen in 2013? And what gave him that idea? Surely not Floyd Mayweather Jr., who continues to sit in a Las Vegas jail serving out his 3-month sentence for smacking around the mother of his kids.
Arum, who has been as big a problem as Mayweather has in staging the fight, believes the cold war between the 2 camps is thawing. We're sure Arum has had plenty to do with that. As we've said before, we should be talking trilogy between these 2, but since we're not, we'll believe it when the fight happens. Just another credibility issue that plagues boxing.
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Shock The World?
Despite being a 4-1 underdog to Manny Pacquiao, unbeaten Tim Bradley is confident he'll prevail in Saturday's showdown at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
June 7, 2012 No Comments
Is he getting the Barry Bonds head? Didn't think so.
Mayweather beats Cotto? Yawn. Manny beats Tim Bradley. Then what? Still that song and dance about Pac Man won't "take" $40 mill cuz Floyd says so? Won't do as Floyd says? How dare Manny.
SB Nation
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Pacquiao: 'He Doesn't Want The Fight'
We listened to the Floyd Mayweather and his fans swear Manny Pacquiao was too chicken to fight "Pretty Boy" in May. We weren't convinced since it seemed so strange that Mayweather suddenly wanted to fight after running for the past 3 years or so. We figured he believed Juan Manuel Marquez had provided a blueprint to beat Pacquaio and now Mayweather finally would come out from behind his Uncle Roger's skirt, but we know he still won't come out to play.
Pacquiao also says he's a liar. We believe it. Mayweather rarely fights any fighter in his prime because he's so protective of his unbeaten record. And in this case, he's still afraid of getting his ass kicked.
Regardless, we don't have a bout between these 2 when we should be talking trilogy. Can someone, anyone, arrange for this to happen for the boxing public? Didn't think so.
Pacquiao offers some interesting insight and comments regarding Mayweather.
Yahoo Sports
February 20, 2012 No Comments
Pacquiao-Bradley June 9
Someone mentioned our silence on all of the recent talk of a possible Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather showdown, but like we've said before, we'll believe it when the 2 get in the ring. All of the jockeying and barking about a May clash before Floyd heads off to jail was another chapter of their non-sense and more hot air.
Timothy Bradley? Well you could see this coming a mile away when Bob Arum welcomed the undefeated fighter to his camp last year. Bradley and Pac Man will face off June 9 at the MGM Grand for Pacquiao's WBO welterweight title.
USA Today
February 7, 2012 No Comments
Promises, Promises
Some 2012 predictions, including Phil Jackson returning to coaching just in the Knick of time.
January 2, 2012 No Comments
What Kind Of Bird Doesn't Fly?
With Floyd Mayweather Jr. heading to jail for 3 months (unless an appeal bails him out), will this be another nail in the coffin of a Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao showdown?
Yahoo Sports
December 22, 2011 No Comments
Just Boxing As Usual
Finally got around to watching the Amir Khan-Lamont Peterson fight, which Peterson won Saturday, but he received a major assist from referee Joe Cooper. Cooper foolishly took away 2 points from Khan for "pushing." Those 2 points cost Khan the fight.
This also might have screwed up the plans for Floyd Mayweather Jr., who we believed was banking on Khan for a fight next year instead of Manny Pacquiao.
December 13, 2011 1 Comment
Fight's Over Bob
For what? Seriously.
Just as we've suspected, Bob Arum continues to hold up the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather fight. He hasn't been the only problem, but he's become the biggest 1. Remember, he hates Mayweather.
As Oscar De La Hoya says, for the sake of boxing Bob, step aside and let saner heads prevail.
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Hana Enterprise Cloud - Pro and Cons
Posted by Stefan Ried on May 7, 2013
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Prior to its annual Sapphire event next week, SAP today announced the new SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud. As I have followed SAP's platform and cloud strategy for years and covered platform-as-a-service (PaaS) in general for Forrester since the beginning, I'd like to quickly share my point of view:
SAP is targeting the very large enterprise market with the Hana Enterprise Cloud.
Vishal pointed out today that some of the largest SAP customers run SAP systems on their premises that, with a single tenant, are far bigger than many of the native SaaS apps – with all of their tenants. All SAP products are available on Amazon's AWS; however, many SAP customers use it just for dev, test, and disaster recovery. SAP's message is based on the trust relationship it has by combining an ISV and managed service provider in one company. Amazon won't care about any of the issues that customers might have with larger HANA systems on their general-purpose hardware. So, we are talking about a trust relationship between customers and SAP, which is more similar to salesforce.com than to Amazon.
Half-baked business model
The Hana Cloud is a very careful move to a new business model. It is not disruptive and will NOT accelerate Hana usage to the many more customers who have been struggling with Hana on-premises because of its licensing.
The announced Hana Enterprise Cloud follows the "Bring Your Own License" paradigm. While this is great for customers that already have a Hana license and would like to relocate it into the cloud, it is useless for customers that might have largely fluctuating data volumes or user numbers and might specifically use a cloud because of its elastic business model.
SAP should have seen the problems that, for example, Tibco had with its Tibco Silver cloud offering based on a similar license policy. SAP could really disrupt the enterprise market — not only with the Hana technology but also with a disruptive cloud business model.
It's open for any SAP application.
Customers could run "any" SAP application on the HANA cloud and connect it to the Hana database. This offers great freedom to customers and follows the very traditional customers and mindset of managed services.
Hana Cloud is not SaaS.
Customers could run "any" SAP application on the Hana cloud and connect it to the Hana database. Oops; doesn't this sound rather like an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering? Yes, actually it is closer to IaaS or (better) PaaS than to SaaS. Bringing your own licenses and application versions literally destroys the economy of scale for the provider at a higher level. To turn the Business Suite on the Hana Cloud into a SaaS offering, SAP should only support a single version, based on a modern SaaS license model, in its new cloud.
SAP realized the architectural shortcomings of Hana.
Since Hana became available, I have talked to many service providers and CIOs who wanted to operate Hana in a shared way for many customers, tenants, or business divisions. Unfortunately, until today, Hana was basically bound to physical hardware. Virtualization concepts or shared resource pools of memory did not really work. SAP seems to have addressed this with an advanced management layer on top of the existing Hana software stack – otherwise, its own operation would not be possible at a reasonable margin.
SAP is going its own way and isn't following open standards for cloud management.
Although it's good to have advanced management capabilities for large Hana environments, the mainstream large-scale cloud providers are evaluating or already following OpenStack. For example, Oracle acquired cloud management expert Nimbula so that it could build its future public and private cloud offerings on the open-source-based OpenStack. SAP is restricting its ecosystem to the certified hardware vendors and is trying to deliver the full software stack on bare metal on its own this time – this should give some cause for concern.
A strategy for hosting providers was not announced.
A major share of SAP Business Suite installations are hosted by hosting providers, partly already with an opex-driven cloud-style dynamic business model. Forrester assumes that SAP will productize its Hana management stack and share this IP as a blueprint with its large SAP hosting partners. Vishal indicated in a conversation with analysts earlier today that SAP is also considering a managed service offering for on-premises installations. This would be similar to what Rackspace and others offer with their OpenStack private cloud service. SAP needs to turn this into partner channel value before the mainstream partners get frustrated – it needs to learn from Microsoft's Azure market strategy failure.
The Hana software ecosystem is slowly emerging.
Running your data warehouse or simply the SAP Business Suite brings mainly high-performance acceleration and enables, in many cases, real-time computing of complex business logic, which has been restricted to the batch level until now.
However, some of the most exciting new applications are actually coming form new ISVs – some of them totally unrelated to SAP's Business Suite. The more ISVs that SAP can attract to the Hana Enterprise Cloud, the more that SAP will become visible as a new platform vendor. Until now, the market perception of Hana has largely been restricted to that of an enabling technology stack underneath SAP business applications – similar to NetWeaver on premises. Maybe the Hana Enterprise Cloud could change this.
Hybrid integration isn't ready — yet.
If customers run SAP middleware and SAP business applications in the Hana cloud, they will very likely also keep some apps and (NetWeaver) middleware on premise. SAP has the potential to offer prepackaged integration based on its iFlow technology.
Hopefully, this will be announced next week at Sapphire – and this weakness could easily turn into another strength. Clients can read more about Forrester's research on hybrid integration here.
The SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud is version 2 of the initial Hana in-memory database, but the cloud offering based on "Bring Your Own License" is more version 0.1 of a cloud business model.
Please leave a comment and let us know what you would like to use the new Hana Enterprise Cloud for.
PS: SAP just published this FAQ
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Is that a voice in the wilderness I hear?
Comment from Mark Montgomery on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 07:19
Thanks for this -- I have old friends at SAP and quite a few involved in the ecosystem, but attempted to work with them due primarily to HANA and found it among the most frustrating experiences of my professional career. Customers of theirs were interested in integrating Kyield, and internally we saw a lot of support, but after a year it became obvious that rather than embracing standards, they were primarily in CI mode in attempt to extend their proprietary language and standards across the global economy. It was in hindsight reminiscent of MS in the mid to late 90s in response to the Internet--quite similar in many respects.
The problem, of course, is the total cost of the ecosystem to customers, not HANA itself, which is as you point out and publicly acknowledged by Hasso--intended to save the company. The quarterly results so far have been quite good in comparison to competitors, but we'll have to see moving forward. Other than standards, my biggest problem with HANA is the enormous spend across the industry with questionable relationships in media, consulting, bloggers, and affiliate partners.
All that said, as a stand alone product it looks fine, but there are at least a dozen products and systems that appear to perform similarly in financial analytics for what would be a fraction of the cost of the SAP ecosystem, and a few perform far more in terms of use case value.
As I shared in a LI discussion recently on the topic, the question for customers then becomes how and when to start replacing the entire ecosystem. This is the big bang disruption threat that is very difficult to see when inside such an environment, but from my perspective--talking to large customers--risk is increasing rapidly across the entire enterprise IT industry. I think the ecosystem has simply become too big and expensive to be sustainable for an increasingly large portion of the market, and if that is true--strong evidence of it, then attempts to consolidate that power and grow might be precisely the wrong strategy in the mid-term.
It could well be that in hindsight for not just SAP but other incumbents, what they should have been doing during the past few years was to have been downsizing, rightsizing, and refocusing on customer's long term needs, not their own legacies, egos, and Wall St. -- easier said than done, of course.
Snabe's response
Comment from Stefan Ried on Mon, 05/27/2013 - 14:45
It's interesting to see what controversial discussion I kicked off with this post. See here Computerworld writing about Snabe's response to my blog.
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My mother in law suffered terribly from cripling arthritis She always wanted her grandsons to provide some herbal relief Hope you can enjoy it Welby And I.hope your nurses are kind and terribly attractive I am married to my nurse. I also have a number of family members who fit the bill who have been saints.
Anyone who has have ever had the chance to experience the medicinal qualities of pot while undergoing treatment for cancer.....you don't need a lot to be changed to the believers. To quote Craig Finn....."One time baby, 1 Time!!!!"""
Looking forward to more drugs Eilleen
I was just trying to be as succint as possible while tossing in a bit of levity. So here we go: yes I have a terminal disease It ain't getting better. I won't be answering question about it. I have no time limit, but it's around the same as Freebird If there is a tour after this, please, no bedsheets. That is all You may not get born again/ but at least you'll get high as hell.
Further proof that Dan puts up the best unintentionally funny stuff....ever! That or he's off his meds again. I always like to visualize Dan running down a Main Street, carrying a fire hose, threatening to set himself on fire if somomeone will lend him some matches.
It ain't gonna be that simple.
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Kickstarter - Star Command
Von Paulus suggests the Kickstarter for Star Command is worth a look because of the RPG elements. I'm not sure how true that is but it certainly looks like fun for space fans. This campaign is to fund a desktop version based on the current iOS game:
There's an IOS and naked hairy legs joke in there somewhere, but I will leave it as an exercise for the student. ;)
Even CoD has RPG elements, after all.:p
The concept seems interesting, and I like the retro look.
So it will be available next month (aug 2012) and that development will cost them $100,000(!). How could they fund iOS version for $20,000 with almost a year of development time? Funny how the kickstarter iOS version was supposed to be out last year and it's still not out.
Guess they arent very confident it will get good reviews so they're trying a cash grab from the PC crowd too before iOS version hits the market? If they would've been confident they would have released iOS version first, get good reviews etc and then start a PC kickstarter..
Hopefully i'm wrong, the concept is nice.
Oh, I was under the impression the iOS version had successfully launched. I guess I didn't read it very well.
They will have to add features for the PC version because on PC, there is some anteriority and the IOS version seems light.
I have been waiting for a spaceship game with crew recruitment but what…
Not sure i'd agree adding hi-res UI and mouse support is "a whole new version".. And i still don't get how this is suddenly $100.000 when the rest of the game was $20.000 and for a much longer development time. But whatever.. To me it sounds a bit odd.
I too agree that it sounds strange August to be the release date, unless they have already half finished the game in PC.
In that mini faq they also say:
Personally I only believe in the JFK conspiracy theory, but I admit that use of these words, "after the dust settles", is a little awkward. ;)
Added to that:
Got sucked in by the enormous storage space that could hint at a complete overhaul of the game. But with the will to make savegames compatible between IOS and PC versions and the possibility to resume a game from one version to another, games mechanics shall not be that different.
I like kickstarter, really I do. But this is either scammy, or irresponsible. I feel for these developers, they got themselves into a hole. And they are honest about it, I appreciate that. But a second kickstarter, -supposedly for a PC Port, which in reality looks like just to get funding to finish the game- doesn't feel right to me.
I like how it looks, but how does it play? Tactical combat needs to be turn-based.
Thing is, the action is taking part in several different places at once, making TBWP combat even less attractive than usual.
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Why wait around until dessert to have pumpkin pie, when you can have it for breakfast, too? Pumpkin pie is a custard-type pie with a filling made with pumpkin puree, eggs, milk, sugar and spices. French toast also has a custard base, made with milk and eggs. It is not a big leap to convert one into the other – and that is exactly what ... Read More »
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I heard these guys last year – they opened for Los Lobos on a cool summer evening (I know, a rarity in San Antonio) at Plaza Guadalupe. They're called Bombasta, and they're billed as a barriobigband, give 'em a listen, you'll know why. They almost blew the windows out of the neighbors' houses. These guys


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Last year, when "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," arrived, I said it was very hard to judge the film on its own, since it only provided one third of the story, giving us plenty of introductions, including Bilbo Bagins (Martin Freeman) and the troupe of dwarves bent on reclaiming their homeland from the dragon Smaug, but could not give us a satisfying conclusion since it was, and could only be, one third of a movie.
With the arrival of "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," however, we have now passed the halfway point, pushing the story forward enough that we've actually reach our destination, if not the conclusion of our quest. With several new characters and additional side plots, this film feels much more cohesive and streamlined, despite being once again more than two and a half hours.
This time, with the setup complete, we are dropped immediately into the action which paused at the end of "An Unexpected Journey" and the quest to reach the Lonely Mountain begins again. Although we have another one-year wait until "The Hobbit: There and Back Again" concludes Jackson's latest trilogy and the fact that "Desolation of Smaug" ends on a particularly nail-biting cliffhanger, it left me with a much better feeling than the rather anticlimactic ending of "An Unexpected Journey."
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Michael Phelps, who six months ago became the first man to win five titles at one United States swimming championships, completed the feat a second time at the weekend as the US spring nationals concluded.
Phelps, 18, wrapped up a sweetheart of a meeting on Valentine's Day with victory in the 200 metres individual medley.
His time of one minute 56.8 seconds was well outside his world record, but secured him the men's award for high points for the fourth time since 2001.
"It was all right," Phelps said of his week.
"Some things could have gone better, but we learned from things that happened - stroke technique, how I can hold my stroke together, endurance - those are some of the things we took away. As much as I want to, I can't go out and swim a world record every single race, but it's always a goal of mine."
Another goal driving Phelps this year: Olympic gold in Athens in August. He said his five-title tally here was "a huge accomplishment", but also just "another little step to the big picture at the end of the year".
Japan's Sachiko Yamada completed a freestyle treble, winning the 1500 freestyle in 16:06.13. She had already won the 400 and 800 metres freestyles.
Britain's David Davies won the men's 1500 freestyle, overtaking favorite Larsen Jensen at the 1300-metre mark. Davies finished a few seconds outside the British record with a time of 15:02.63.
Saturday's two freestyle sprints also went overseas: Australian Michelle Engelsman won the women's 50 metres freestyle in 25.17 and Roland Schoeman of South Africa won the men's in 22.12.
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May 27 (Reuters) - Wall Street rose on Friday and capped off its strongest week since March after U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said an interest-rate hike would likely be appropriate "in the coming months."
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Your budget, time-plan and experience will determine what you should do. If you have little/no experience then I would suggest picking up a 30ish foot mono to learn the ropes on. After you get accustomed to sailing or if you already have experience then go for the cat. For a couple, 50' would probably be the maximum with the sweet spot being 38'-44'. Older boats will require more refitting to bring up to safe cruising standards. Generally cat design has not changed much from 2003 but anything much older and you will be sacrificing structural integrity, headroom, amenities, weight capacity etc not that these are just with old boats, many new boats are just plain not suited for cruising.
Your exact budget will determine what brands you would be looking at.
You can learn more about peoples experiences with cruising cats by reading their blogs, since you show an interest in the anteres, check out this link: SALARN
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Hi Michael & Welcome
I am new to this thing myself. I did the lesson / school thing. I have only been actively moving towards my goal for a little over tree years. With limited connection into the sailing world other than the net and tons of magazines I had opinions of what would be my ideal boat. I deliberatly chose a school that had no intersest in chartering or selling boats. Intitially I got much information and opinions from instructiors that had crised extensively, then I joined the schools sailing association and got more feedback and opinions, then I walked the docks and alot of talking and went day sailing with friends. The net result after tons of inofrmation and opinions is that my ideas of what would be the perfect boat have changed extensively. As far as charter boats go in my experience I did put one into the "rocks" with no apparent damage. I would not want to buy that boat on the used market!!!!!
Catamaran Questions from a Newbie
OK. For all of you sailors with plenty of blue water sailing under your belts -- Let me first say, I salute you for living your passion. Next, I'd like to get some seasoned advice from your experience.
My wife and I are looking to purchase our first boat. We have no real sailing experience. The plan is to buy a liveaboard that we can learn the ropes with, perhaps a year or so in 'gentle' waters of the Caribbean, and then off to points around the globe. Lessons, of course, are part of the plan.
We've decided that a sailing catamaran makes the most sense for us as they are more stable, safer, etc..
I would like to know what advice as to what is the minimum and maximum size we should consider for our first boat? We do not want to hire a crew.
I've been looking at the Antare's 44, but question if it is really big enough for extended blue water cruising and comfortable liveaboard? What are the equipment and features that should be considered absolutely necessary, and what equipment/features are desireable, but not really necessary? What is the maximum size catamaran 2 can reasonably handle in the Caribbean without additional crew members? And for trans-pacific or trans-atlantic crossing, what is the minimum number of crew for safe passage?
Also, I am wondering if technology has really advanced all that much in the last 10 years -- is a Catamaran built before, say, 2003 going to be less safe/comfortable/enjoyable than a newer model. We will, of course have a professional survey done before any purchase.
We are leaning towards a used Cat. Used 'Owners versions' seem to be significantly more expensive than 'charter' boats. Other than the obvious upgraded amenities, are charter boats in generally poorer structural/mechanical shape?
Finally, is there a Catamaran model or company that you particularly like and would recommend?
Thanks, your insight is most appreciated.
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From Aging to Ageless: Spring Cleaning from the Inside Out
From Aging to Ageless: Spring Cleaning from the Inside Out
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Last month nutritionist Donna Gates and Neurosurgeon Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride told us "Fix The Gut First" in order to stay well or begin to cure disease. This month I want to share with you what these leading edge women and others have to say about how to fix our guts.
In 1962 Rachel Carson's now famous "Silent Spring" with its warning that we are "slowly destroying the balance of our planet's ecosystem," was published. In 1996 Donna Gates first published "The Body Ecology Diet" wherein she began Part 1 with the title "A Silent Spring Within."
You've heard the expression "so without, so within." This is exactly what Gates wants us to hear — what we have been doing (and many would say still are doing) to our planet we are also doing to ourselves.
In Gates' own words, "We are destroying the delicate balance of the ecosystem that exists within our own bodies." The positive here is a relatively easy and inexpensive way to restore balance to our gut flora and thus health to our inner ecosystem.
That easy way of restoration is, in my personal opinion, also quite delicious. If you haven't guessed, we're talking about fermented foods like sauerkraut and other fermented veggies, yogurt, cottage cheese, kefir, to name a few.
Since we are fresh into spring, it seems the perfect time to talk about an internal Spring Cleaning, another way of saying — it's a good time to detox. Eating fermented foods just happens to be possibly the best and most enjoyable way to cleanse and get rid of unhealthy pathogens in our guts.
In the 1920s and 1930s a dentist by the name of Dr. Weston A. Price began to see an increase of tooth decay, gum and jaw problems among his patients. He questioned why this was happening.
Could there be a correlation between increased oral disease and the new "processed food" being introduced into the American diet, Price wondered? Thus began his travels around the world to study primitive cultures untouched by these "new" processed foods; a trip that spanned more than nine years and included 14 groups of native people.
You see, Dr. Price held a very advanced belief that a person's overall health directly affected their dental health. The healthier the body, the healthier the teeth was his hypothesis which he sought to confirm by exploring the health and diet of people untouched by what he saw as a modern American diet compromised by the processing of natural foods.
Processed foods that we saw as potentially harmful were foods that have been boxed or packaged filled with chemicals to enhance flavor or preserve shelf life and thus severely altered from their original natural form; foods also high in sugar and white flour. His research published in his book "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" is being recommended today, some 70 plus years later, as extremely interesting and containing excellent information about diet and health.
At the time of publication, 1939, his research was highly criticized. In general, he found that native peoples, around the world, before being introduced to western industrialized foods were much healthier than those who began consuming compromised processed foods and so were their teeth.
One finding, which cannot be refuted, is having a rebirth of attention and validation today — that of fermentation. Every single culture that Price observed consumed fermented foods daily.
Lacto-fermented foods, and that is the type of fermentation we're discussing, are loaded with probiotic bacteria — microorganisms that when ingested provide a chelation action that removes toxic metals from the body.
In addition probiotics capture chemicals — those that cause cancer as well as other ailments. According to Dr. Champbell-McBride, "If they (probiotics) cannot neutralize them (chemicals), they hold them until they can be taken out of the body" through natural bodily elimination.
Donna Gates' explains the work performed by these microbiotics this way, "…they get down inside you and they make B vitamins. They extract the minerals from the food you're eating, and they make Vitamin K, as well, and they keep the gut clean. They're very intelligent the way they work together and communicate with each other…They actually know that you need certain things, let's say you're low in calcium, they'll take another mineral and make calcium for you."
Speaking of calcium takes us back to bones and teeth. Osteopath Dr. Joseph Mercola had been plagued with a "very aggressive bacteria in his mouth" most of his life. This condition created excessive plaque and demanded that he see a dental hygienist once a month.
After consuming fermented vegetables for a little over a month his hygienist reported that for the first time ever the amount of plaque in his mouth had decreased by 50 percent. Fermenting your own foods, especially vegetables, is quite easy and inexpensive. I won't go into the steps of fermentation. Numerous books and websites will walk you through the process.
You might want to check out Donna Gates' book "The Body Ecology Diet" or Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBrides' book "The Gut and Psychology Syndrome." Another is "Nourishing Traditions" by Sally Fallon, the founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation.
One thing you should keep in mind is that probiotics in fermented food are very powerful and there will be what is called "die off." That is where toxins are being flushed out of the body. Take it slow. Start with small amounts and you can avoid too many toxins being removed at one time and thus feeling worst before you feel better.
Next month's topic will be focus on Autism and the gut, brain connection. Until next month—keep busy growing ageless.


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Higher Learning with The Band Perry
The Band Perry are offering free school concerts through the new Celebrate My Drive campaign, which promotes safe driving.
Administrators can register their schools at CelebrateMyDrive.com, and in mid-October, teens and community members can pledge to drive safely once a day in support of their favorite high school.
Two schools will win private Band Perry concerts, and 100 others will have a shot at winning $25,000 and $100,000 grants.
Kimberly Perry says, "We love this because we feel like it puts the emphasis on our fans. And every night we're standing on stage, I feel like we're looking at so many teenage drivers. It's really important to us that they get to and from places safely."
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O2 sensor FYI
Maybe this can help someone.I have a barely used O2 sensor that Im going to put into my Camaro.I have one of those green,yellow,red o2 gauges (its a wide band) .The o2 sens.is a Bosch 4 wire,didn't know what wires were what so grab my v/meter the 2 white wires are the heater wires,they had resistance.The gray & black wires read o2 gases,gray is for the gauge,black is ground.When I put my meter on the gry. & blk. wire an ohm. them,it was open,so I applied heat to the working end of the sens.,changed meter to read voltage an got some low voltage readings.Im only using one o2 sens.I welded in one of those chingadaras for spark plugs, anti fouler things, use a 14mm.I welded it into the collector facing upwards.I don't see a need for a narrow band gauge if all your using it for is to get your carb. into the ballpark.Its been a big,big help in understanding & tuning the carb. Gauge was around 30.00,anti fouler was like 8.00, 02 sensors are (really all that is needed is a 1 wire sensor) about 35.00.
When I replace an O2 with a generic one, naturally the wire colors/orientation are a question.Ohming it for the heater circuit is a good way.
Also like you said, I use a propane torch and a DVOM on volts setting to check the O2 sensor output, heat the sensor, let the heatstream from the torch pass across the vents or flutes of the business end of the sensor, and Voila...sensor generates a voltage.
Chinga dera, chingadara not sure how it is spelled, but it is a a funny way to say " a thing for which I know not of what it is called." LOL :thumbup:
Later Vato. :D
love threads like this.I wonder how long until its moved?
That's a heated narrow band sensor, not a wide band.
The main reason for using a heated wideband sensor is that you have more flexibility on where to locate it since it does not depend on engine heat. Simple 1 or two wire sensors need engine heat to get to operating temps.
A heated sensor can be put almost anywhere in the pipe (even in the tailpipe) and it will still get a good reading. Just make sure its mounted in the top of the pipe with the electrical plug pointed upward or 30 degrees either side of straight up, so that moisture does not settle on the sensor.
Not all of the mods are full of bull, many of them do a good job, but a few of the bad ones get more notice.
I forgot it is a wide band sensor,also if you use one of those anti fouler female couplers,it needs to be cut about 1/8 in. or less below the hex to get as much expoesure to the sensor as possible. It needs to be brazed or welded,no solder.
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Removing asphalt shingles
What is the easiest way to remove roof shingles. 3 layers.
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Or a spade/shovel with this type of teeth configuration. Most have a pry wedge on the back...
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Or follow this LINK to see some other styles...but the short of it is there is NO easy way....but you can take the sting out by having your dumpster close, cover the ground with tarps....those things help some...
It's only 2 squares so I should get it done in a day...I hope.
Stupid question. Do you rip going up where you get it under the shingles or going down.
2 squares, what'ca wait'n for...get with it! :wheelchair:
I usually start working from the top to the bottom taking about 3 courses as I go....BUT you do what works....you may find with that many layers you only remove one or two first then the bottom...you'll just have to feel it out.
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|Donald M. Russo (Vice Chair) is the Senior Vice President of Oracle's Insurance Global Business, a division of Oracle's Financial Services Global Business Unit. His experience includes over 35 years in the software industry split evenly between working for major financial institutions and consulting to a number of industries. Mr. Russo served as Vice President at Salomon Brothers and then at Merrill Lynch, where he worked in both Finance and IT and was responsible for key systems such as Finance, Credit, Risk Management and Support for Trading Operations. He led the acquisition of Oracle's Major Banking and Insurance assets including i-Flex, Adminserver and Skywire. Prior to his current role, he was one of three Senior Vice Presidents running Oracle's Global Financial Services Business. Mr. Russo has an MBA from the Wharton School and a BA from Boston College.
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|Cafo Boga, CPA is a community member. He is a Senior Operations and Finance Executive with a 20+ year career spanning multiple industries including banking, investments, information technology, business process outsourcing and real estate. Upon passing the CPA exam he joined Peat Marwick (now KPMG Peat Marwick) where he served as an Audit Manager until joining The National Bank of Kuwait S.A.K. in New York as Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer. From 1987 to 2001, he was employed by LBS Bank New York as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. In 2001, he joined i-flex solutions, inc. (now known as Oracle Financial Services Software, Inc.) and served as Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and was a member of the Board of Directors until 2009. His career also reflects solid international experience; he has conducted business in Canada, England, India, Chile and all Balkan countries. He speaks Albanian, Serbo-Croatian, Russian, Italian, Slovenian, and Spanish . Cafo founded the Albanian-American Culture Foundation, currently serves as Chairman of the Board, and was a charter member of the National Albanian American Council. For the past 12 years he has been a member of the Board of Albanian-American Enterprise Fund – a prestigious appointment he received from Former President Bill Clinton. Currently, he also serves on the Board of Albanian American development Foundation, Albanian American Chamber of Commerce, International Virtual e-Hospital Foundation and few other community based organizations.
|Rick Chou, DO is a parent member. His daughter, Celeste, attends the Granite Avenue site. He is a family practice physician caring for patients in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. He has been active in community concerns, fundraising, education and events as a member of the Bay Ridge community Council and as an active physician. He has been elected to leadership roles in several institutions in which he has practiced. His professional expertise in medicine and teaching has offered him the opportunity to have a unique perspective on autism education and support.
|Chris Drewes, Esq.is a community member. He is an attorney with Kelley Drye in Manhattan. His practice focuses on all aspects of commercial real estate, including financing, acquisition, development, and leasing. He has substantial representation in the areas of bankruptcy, reorganization, and hospital and health care. He also has wide experience in the areas of not-for-profit organizations and foundations. He is a member of the Bar Association of the City of New York. He is also a board member of St. Joseph's College, NY and is on their Executive and Finance Committees.
|Stephanie Dussel is a parent member. Her daughter, Samantha, attends the Genesis school and also resides at the Dix Hills Road residence. She is a registered nurse since 1981. Her nursing background includes critical care, long term care consulting and quality management. She is currently consulting for St. Mary's Hospital for Children Home Care Division in their quality assurance department. From 1996-2004 she was a SEPTA board member for North Shore Schools. She held both the vice president and president positions. In 1998 she joined EDEN II in their endeavor to open the first resident on Long Island and actively participated in all aspects of the project.
|Robert J. Fitzsimmons Jr. is a community member. He acquired his Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with a Marketing concentration from Marist College. The excitement behind the "art of the sale" and strong family ties drew him to GATEWAY ARMS, where, in 4 years, he has accumulated more than 4 Million Dollars in total sales while overseeing the daily operations of a large-scale commercial / residential property management office. Robert and his family have a long history of service to the not-for-profit community on Staten Island.
|Michael Giangregorio is a parent member. His son, Nicholas, attends the Genesis school. He and his wife recently chaired the fundraising event for the school. He is Vice President of JP Morgan in the Financing and Markets Products Division. He joined JP Morgan in 2006 as a senior trader on the U.S.Fixed Income Lending Desk and is accountable for the lending of U.S. Agency, Mortgage-backed and Corporate Securities. Michael has have over 20 years experience in the Financial Industry. He is married with two children. He is a volunteer leader with Autism Speaks and serves as Chair of the Executive Committee for the Long Island Region. He is also involved in advocacy and has lobbied in Washington and Albany on topics ranging from increase funding for research, family services, insurance reform and adult issues. He serves President of the Board of Trustees of the ELIJA School which is a private school for children with autism. He is a member of the Long Island Family Support Consumer Council.
|LouAnne Haley is a parent member. Her daughter, Kerry, attends the Genesis school. LouAnne was the Genesis school PTO President for three years and is presently a board member of the Long Island Family Support Consumer Council, a volunteer organization that reaches out to families on Long Island to help educate the community on how to apply for and receive services from the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. Every fall she and her husband, Bob, volunteer and are members of the planning committee for the annual Autism Speaks Walkathon at Jones beach.
|John Lavelle is a parent member. His son, Zachary, attends the program. He is currently a consultant to nonprofit agencies concentrating on organizational development, fundraising and management. He has served in the offices of the New York State Senate, the New York City Office of the Public Advocate and the New York City Council. John and his wife, Amy, reside in New Brighton with Zachary and his brother Jacob.
Laura Moretti is a parent member. Her son, Anthony, attends the Granite Avenue site. She has an Associates Degree in Science from the College of Staten Island/CUNY. She has co-chaired the Dr. Anthony Moretti memorial golf Outing for the past 3 years, in honor of her late husband who was widely respected. The proceeds of the golf outing benefit the Eden II and Genesis Foundation. Laura is also very involved in the Staten Island dinner dance fundraising event, assuming the responsibilities of the Journal Chairperson. She is also involved in the school's PTO. Laura manages the accounts of Moretti & Racco Medical Associates. She also owns and co-manages a small real estate company with her partner Dr. Frank Lacqua in Brooklyn.
Bernardo Pace, Ph.D. is a parent member. His daughter, Gina, attends the Forest Avenue site. Bernardo is a Professor of English, at CUNY. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies, and an MA in English. Working at the City University of NY for 30 years, he has served on and chaired a number of committees, including an advocacy project for poor children in NYC with autism, called Project Equity. Bernardo served on the Board of Trustees of EDEN II from 2002-2009 and has been an active member of the Development Committee up through the present time. He has written several grants for the Agency, including some proposals for our first capital campaign at Wright Ave. He and his daughter live on Staten Island.
|John Rudin is a parent member. His son attends the Genesis School. He holds a degree in Accounting from Queens College and is a Certified Cash Manager. He has been the Corporate Controller for Associated Global Systems in New Hyde Park since 2000. He has 29 Years of financial management experience including credit, financial systems implementation, financial reporting, cash management, banking relations, budgeting, audit and tax. He has developed, presented and monitored business plans and budgets in complex multidivisional organizations. He was elected as a parent member to the Developmental Disabilities Institute board and served on its Finance committee. John lives in Smithtown, NY.
|Terry Tarangelo is an Associate Group Director/Vice President Signature Bank on Staten Island. She career spent 29 years with Staten Island Savings Bank/SI Bank & Trust in the residential and commercial lending departments. As a 5 year member of the South Shore Rotary Club, she is a recipient of the CAR Rosenberger "Service Above Self" Award, performs with the Cast in their yearly shows and is a coordinator with the Festa Italiana committee. In addition, she serves on the Richmond University Medical Center Diabetes Community Advisory Board and the Board of Advisors of the Staten Island Region of the American Cancer Society and is active in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk. Terry is a member of the Staten Island Economic Development Corp's Women's Leadership Council and is an Area Coordinator for the Tunnel to Towers Run. She is a past recipient of The Staten Island Friends for Hospice Care "Celebrate Life Award" and is a member of the St. Joseph By The Sea Alumni Hall of Fame. She is currently a Board Member of the Miss New York State Scholarship pageant and also Past President of the Miss Staten Island Scholarship and Miss New York's Outstanding Teen Pageants.
|Christina D. Thivierge is a co-founding partner and principal of Thivierge & Rothberg, P.C., a private law firm founded in 2008 in New York City that handles exclusively special education matters. From 2000 through 2008, Christina was the Senior Associate at a Mayerson & Associates, where she handled special education matters (primarily for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders and related disabilities). Christina received her Juris Doctorate from the City University of New York School of Law and her Bachelors degree from Central Connecticut State University. She is admitted to practice law in the state and federal courts of New York and New Jersey, as well as a number of federal Courts of Appeal. Prior to attending law school, Christina worked for nine years with adults diagnosed with autism and other disabilities through the Central Connecticut ARC. While working at Central Connecticut ARC Christina was a job coach and a group home manager.
|Anthony Tucci, Esq. is a parent board member. Anthony is an Attorney and Certified Public Accountant with a private practice located on Staten Island. Mr. Tucci's firm has successfully negotiated multi-million dollar exemptions for a wide variety of properties including industrial and commercial facilities owned by large corporate clients. Mr. Tucci is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey. He is actively involved as a cabinet member of Staten Island Economic Development Corporation. Mr. Tucci is also the executive director of the the Autism Awareness & Support Foundation, and served on the board of the San Bernardino Society for a ten year period. He is a member of the American Association of Attorney-CPAs and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Wagner College.


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Lods Angeles, July 4 : Five years after retiring from top-level tennis, Pete Sampras is confident he can still challenge the best over three sets on his favourite grasscourt surface.
The former world number one bemoans the dearth of serve-and-volley players in the modern game and is eager to take on Roger Federer in a series of exhibition matches later this year.
''Grass is such a unique surface, I can probably still be competitive against anyone in a two-out-of-three (sets) match,'' Sampras said during a World TeamTennis conference call yesterday.
''I can still hold serve and I am volleying pretty well. Grass is definitely a surface that is a bit of an advantage (considering) the guys staying back like they are today, you know.
''I would like to play a set with one of these guys and see,'' added the 35-year-old, who retired after winning the 2002 US Open final against fellow American Andre Agassi in his last professional match.
''Certainly a hard court would be a little bit different. But on grass, when I was playing, when I saw guys stay back, that's when I started licking my chops.'' Sampras, who won 14 grand slam titles and more than 43 million dollar in prize money during his 15-year career, regrets the disappearance of genuine serve-and-volley players from Wimbledon.
''It is sad for me to see everyone staying back, to see that sort of game being extended,'' the seven-times Wimbledon champion said. ''There is not one serve-and-volleyer playing.
''I felt grasscourt tennis is the attacking guy, the serve-and-volley guy. In my generation, that's what everyone did.'' Sampras, an unabashed fan of Federer who is bidding to win his fifth successive Wimbledon title, is looking forward to locking horns with the Swiss in Asia later this year.
The two men are scheduled to compete in a series of exhibition matches, starting in Malaysia in October.
''People are going to be interested in the outcome,'' Sampras said. ''I don't think I am going to win any of these matches but if I can push him to a few (tie) breakers, I would feel ecstatic.'' Sampras, who will be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame on July 14, acquitted himself well in a practice match with Federer in Los Angeles earlier this year.
''I was serving quite well and holding serve pretty handily,'' the American added. ''If there is anything Roger doesn't like to see it is someone coming in and serving and volleying, someone putting pressure on him.
''I think my game matched up reasonably well against his."


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and the only thing users care about
By Peter Merholz
"You press the button, we do the rest."
In 1888, an inventor named George Eastman designed, manufactured, and marketed a camera that changed not only photography, but consumer products—forever.Four years earlier, Eastman invented a new kind of film, roll film, that was much easier to handle than fragile photographic plates. Now, had Eastman taken a typical engineering approach to designing a camera that used roll film, he would have copied the typical camera of the time, just on a smaller scale, providing an incremental improvement on his predecessors. Instead, he focused on the experience he wanted to deliver, captured in his advertising slogan, "You press the button, we do the rest."
Transcendent product design is a matter of philosophy and approach. The reason product development has gone wrong is that people stop at the worst time—when the solutions are most convoluted. What Eastman knew, what Jobs knows, is that you have to go beyond; you have to think about the experience people are having.
Thanks to this new film, the new camera's functioning was extremely simple. Unlike earlier cameras, the user never needed to open this camera, and there were only three steps to take a picture: Pull the Cord (to prepare the shutter), Turn the Key (to advance the film), and Press the Button (to release the shutter). After 100 exposures were used, you sent the camera (or just the film roll) into Eastman, waited a while, and had your film professionally developed and printed for you.
This level of accessibility began the consumer revolution in photography, and this camera, the Kodak, became one of the first consumer technology brands. By approaching design with the customer in mind, and not simply as a collection of functional requirements, Eastman arrived at a radically different result.
Take another look at that phrase—"You press the button, we do the rest." Eastman marketed the camera based on this promise of experience. But in order to achieve that result, Eastman couldn't just design a simpler product. That would only address the first half of the phrase.
On its own, a simple camera is meaningless, because the entire photographic process (loading a camera, exposing the light-sensitive material, removing that material, processing the material, printing images from that material) could not get any simpler. Eastman's genius was in designing his system so customers could do what mattered most to them—capturing the image ("You press the button"). Eastman located other functions elsewhere in the system ("We do the rest"), allowing the Kodak camera to be remarkably straightforward to use.
In order to meet his goals for delivering the desired experience, Eastman developed relationships with his customers that ensured they remained satisfied. He couldn't think of Kodak as a product, but as a service. This necessitated a factory unlike any seen before, one that could handle complex processing and printing capabilities. Investing in such an operation was an immense risk, but necessary if Eastman were to deliver on his promise to "Do the rest."
For the customer to continue to use the product, she needed to send it in to get the photos processed and printed, and for the new roll to be loaded. Cameras, which were once standalone products, now became points of entry into a service.
Why is it that what Eastman figured out over 100 years ago seems forgotten today? Why do so few products seem concerned with how they fit into the lives of their customers? (Been to a consumer electronics event recently?) Why is it that people still approach products as isolated entities, unconnected with the world around them?
Why can't we learn?
Why is it that what Eastman figured out over 100 years ago seems forgotten today? Why do so few products seem concerned with how they fit into the lives of their customers? (Been to a consumer electronics event recently?) Why is it that people still approach products as isolated entities, unconnected with the world around them?
A comment that sheds light on this comes from Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple:
When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't
really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get into the
problem, and you see that it's really complicated, and you come up with
all these convoluted solutions. That's sort of the middle, and that's where
most people stop....
But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem—and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.
That's what we wanted to do with Mac.
—from Insanely Great, written by Steven Levy
Until the last sentence, you might have thought he was taking about the iPod or even the iPhone. But the quote came from 1984, and demonstrates that transcendent product design is a matter of philosophy and approach. The reason product development has gone wrong is that people stop at the worst time—when the solutions are most convoluted.
What Eastman knew, what Jobs knows, is that you have to go beyond; you have to think about the experience people are having.
Photo: Steven Erat
Technology, Features, Experience
Products, necessarily, begin with the technology that makes them possible. And the introduction of a new technology is all that is needed to establish oneself in the market. When VCRs came on the consumer market in the late 70s, all that really mattered is that it did something you could never do before—record television shows so that you could play them back at a time of your choosing. It didn't matter that it took up a lot of space and didn't look pretty and wasn't particularly easy to use. It's the talking dog syndrome—the dog doesn't talk well, but all that matters is that it talks at all.
Eventually, though, competitors mimic your technology, and features become the important differentiator. You load your offering with more stuff, and it fills the product's packaging with bullet points. In the 1980s and into the 1990s, VCRs began loading up on functionality, things like VCR Plus, on-screen menus, various playback speeds, child locks, jog wheels, 21-day timers, the ability to record one frame at a time, and more. There's a reason the blinking 12:00 became the icon of poorly designed consumer electronics, and most folks used the VCR as simply a VCP—video cassette player, viewing whatever they rented.
At some point, product categories require a quantum evolution—beyond technology and features—to the satisfaction of a customer experience. The VCR begat the DVR, and TiVo, the leading DVR brand, is successful because they began with an experience mindset, and developed the product to suit that.
In some ways, it's unfair to compare TiVo with earlier VCRs, because the underlying technology is fundamentally different. But, like George Eastman did with his roll film, TiVo took a new technology (hard drive-based digital video recording) and didn't simply copy prior models, but applied an experience mindset that lead to a fundamental rethinking of people's relationship to television.
Now, Kodak, Apple, and Tivo are pretty hoary examples of success in product design. But they keep coming up because so few products work so well. And what unites these three are defining visions to orient their efforts toward.
You Need An Experience Strategy
Now, Kodak, Apple, and Tivo are pretty hoary examples of success in product design. But they keep coming up because so few products work so well. And what unites these three are defining visions to orient their efforts toward.
At best, most product organizations have a list of requirements to meet, and, more typically, they simply have a set of features to develop. Designing and developing to requirements and feature lists leads to unsatisfactory experiences, because you're no longer oriented to the perspective of the user. As you make decisions along the way, your concerns for features, data, and technology trumps serving the customer. This is in large part because you have those requirements and feature lists in front of you, but nothing to represent the experiential point of view.
This is where experience strategy comes into play. As my colleague Jesse James Garrett has commented, experience strategy serves as "a star to sail your ship by." An experience strategy is a clearly articulated touchstone that influences all the decisions made about technology, features, and interfaces. Whether in the initial design process, or as the product is being developed, such a strategy guides the team and ensures that the customer's perspective is maintained throughout.
An experience strategy can take many forms. At heart it is a vision, an expression of the experience you hope customers will have. The ur-experience strategy is George Eastman's slogan for Kodak, "You press the button, we do the rest." As a description of the desired experience, it's not particularly soulful or nuanced—nothing poetic about capturing memories. But it oriented Eastman's delivery for an entire photographic system that supported this simple experiential goal.
Photo: Bart
Another option is to embody the experience strategy in some kind of prototype. A recent example, quickly becoming a classic, involves Deborah Adler's Masters Thesis in design school. Looking for a suitable subject, she found out that her grandmother had taken her grandfather's medication by mistake. She realized such mix-ups were too easy; prescription bottles used haphazard typefaces on labels affixed to curved surfaces that were hard to read. At first glance, all bottles from the same pharmacy look the same. Research showed her that 60% of people taking prescriptions have committed such errors.
Her thesis project, named SafeRX, reconceptualized the pharmacy bottle, incorporating modern typefaces, visual hierarchy, color coding, and improved bottle design. Shopping it around after graduation, she found an interested suitor in Target. Working with Klaus Rosburg at Sonic Design, the initial concepts turned into ClearRX.
You've probably heard this story before, but what's rarely stressed is the importance of the vision embedded in her original SafeRX design. It served as an experience strategy—a guiding light for all those developing the systems that would eventually make the bottle work. When changes needed to be made, it was always with an eye to how to maintain the experience. For instance, Adler's initial concept involved color-coding the labels, to distinguish the medication of each family member. When color printing proved too costly, the idea was maintained through colored rings affixed to the bottle's neck.
Experience strategies also come in the form of mission statements. Mission statements don't have to be dreadful—it's just that most are. The photo sharing service Flickr arrived in 2004, at a moment of surprising complexity in the world of digital photography. Sales of digital cameras had surpassed film cameras, hard drives were loading up with images, cameraphones were everywhere, some people wanted prints, others just wanted to email, others wanted to start photo blogs.
Flickr emerged as an interface to this complex system, coordinating components that had been built separately, tying them together in its giant database.
Flickr's meteoric rise is now legendary. But, given the potential chaos that surrounds the service, it offers remarkable coherence in its experience. How does it not fracture?
Flickr is driven by explicit experience strategy. Two in fact, written right there on its About Page:
1. We want to help people make their photos available to the people who matter to them.
2. We want to enable new ways of organizing photos.
In support of the first goal is this very telling sentence: "To do this, we want to get photos into and out of the system in as many ways as we can: from the web, from mobile devices, from the users' home computers and from whatever software they are using to manage their photos." Flickr understands that you have a collection of tools that you're using, and has no desire to replicate their functionality—it wants to capitalize on their functionality to offer new opportunities for sharing.
Actually, Flickr does want to replicate, or rather, surpass, the functionality of one kind of existing tool—photo management software. Flickr recognized that existing management tools are stuck in outmoded ways of considering pictures—rolls and albums. When faced with hundreds or thousands of photos, new means are necessary. And since no one else was stepping up, they did. Their experience strategy drove new offerings, such as tagging, photo sets, groups, and maps.
Stop Designing Products
When you start with the idea of making a thing, you're artificially limiting what you can deliver. The reason that many of these exemplar's forward-thinking product design succeed is explicitly because they don't design products. Products are realized only as necessary artifacts to address customer needs. What Flickr, Kodak, Apple, and Target all realize is that the experience is the product we deliver, and the only thing that our customers care about.
Peter Merholz works with Adaptive Path, an experience strategy and design firm. Since 1998, he's published thoughts on design, technology, and people at his personal site, www.peterme.com.