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May 10, 2012/Holland Sentinel
Sentinel editorial board
Holland — The key driver of economic development in the world today is human capital. In a "flat" world where production can be shipped almost anywhere, education is the factor that gives one geographic area a long-term advantage over another. The availability of a well-educated workforce is the reason technology companies still congregate in places such as Massachusetts and California, states whose tax rates and high cost of living would otherwise make them uncompetitive.
Yet in a time when developing human capital is critical, Michigan has turned its back on higher education. The Legislature cut state support for higher education by nearly 50 percent, about $1 billion, between 2001 and 2011. Several years ago we gained the dubious distinction of being one of the few states that spends more money on prisons than universities — 76 percent more this year. The result has been spiraling tuition rates that make it increasingly difficult for Michigan residents to afford the education they need to compete in the modern economy.
Reversing that trend was the subject of a conference in Lansing Monday sponsored by Business Leaders of Michigan. Several speakers drew contrasts between Michigan and North Carolina, a state with comparable demographics and economics. While Michigan spends $1.1 billion a year on public universities, North Carolina provides $2.5 billion. Grand Valley State University President Thomas Haas noted that his school is getting $2,365 per student in state funding this year, while the University of North Carolina gets $11,000.
Not surprisingly, a public university education in North Carolina is a whole lot more affordable than it is in Michigan. According to the State Higher Education Executive Officers, it costs an average of $38,125 in tuition and fees to earn a four-year degree at a public university in Michigan, compared to $18,877 in North Carolina.
Guess which state produces more college graduates?
Higher education is a concern for Business Leaders of Michigan because its members know they need an educated workforce to remain competitive. Domino's CEO J. Patrick Doyle said at the meeting that Michigan needs nearly 1 million more two-year or four-year graduates by 2025 and has to turn things around. "Our state cannot afford to continue its recent trend of declining investment in the talent pool of tomorrow," he said.
We understand that our one-state recession made past levels of state support impossible in Michigan's "Lost Decade." And we don't believe that universities have done all they can to control costs and hold down tuition rates. But the connection between declining support and higher tuition is clear — in fact, tuition increases and state funding cuts were nearly equal in the last decade.
We know Gov. Rick Snyder "gets it." He received three degrees from the University of Michigan and speaks frequently of the importance of developing a talented workforce in the state. That's one reason the 15 percent cut in funding public universities got in the current state budget was so galling. Now, as Michigan's economy recovers and a little more money becomes available to state government, Snyder and the Legislature must start directing more money to public universities. Of course we shouldn't just throw money at them with no strings attached — the state has to set clear standards on cost controls and make sure that schools rein in tuition increases. But the trend must be reversed.
Members of Business Leaders of Michigan understand that a state that fails to invest in producing educated workers is a state doomed to long-term economic mediocrity. If we're short-sighted enough to let current trends continue, we'll deserve that status.


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Each Christmas, my family receives more greetings and gifts from my Muslim friends than from fellow Christians. We treasure many handmade cards by Muslim children who do not celebrate Christmas. We cannot trivialise these efforts as tokenistic as they are annual and original. They are well-worded messages of peace in English and Arabic. I only wish we took the time to reciprocate this goodwill gesture at the two Islamic Eids each year.
Throughout my childhood, we would be visited by Lebanese Muslim friends laden with gifts. This did not mean they suddenly elevated the prophet Issa to Jesus the son of God. Their faith was not compromised. As I write this article, there is a knock on the door as Ahmad, my late father's carer during his disabling Alzheimer's, arrives looking like a bearded, smiling Santa bearing gifts. When asked, ''You do this but you are a Muslim?'', he replies, ''I do this because I am a Muslim''.
Twice this year, Australian Muslim leaders were swift to disown rather than explain behaviour that was both un-Islamic and un-Australian.
Before the unauthorised and short-lived Facebook fatwa on Christmas greetings, there was September protest that was notorious for its ''behead all those who insult the prophet'' placard. On both occasions, leaders were swift to extinguish the flames, learning from past experiences that a flame can quickly morph into an international inferno through modern media.
The leaders need to be congratulated for their damage control and their voice of reason. The Facebook post was promptly removed and their Christmas greeting was written high in the sky - literally.
The Grand Mufti of Australia, Ibrahim Abu Mohammad, wisely provided perspective and disarmed the stone throwers with the comments that ''there is difference between showing respect for someone's belief and sharing those beliefs'' and that the ''foundations of Islam were peace, co-operation, respect and holding others in esteem''.
This contrasts with the temporary message that was posted on the Lebanese Muslim Association Facebook page, which was borrowed verbatim from an international website. The Fatwa section at Islamweb.net was asked if it was haraam, or sinful, for Muslims to celebrate or congratulate Christians during Christmas. Its response was: ''The disbelievers spare no efforts to draw the Muslims away from the straight path … celebrating such feasts is actually imitating disbelievers … whoever imitates a nation is one of them … a Muslim is neither allowed to celebrate the Christmas Day nor is he allowed to congratulate them.'' It's a view not shared by Australian Muslim leaders, a diversity that is not unusual in all religious teachings.
Islamweb is ''designed to enrich the viewer's knowledge and appreciation of Islam … [among] Muslims and non-Muslims alike about the mission of Islam'' by adopting ''balanced and moderate views, devoid of bias and extremism''. But this all needs to be put into perspective before being imported into the Australian context, highlighting the growing dangers of the instant, borderless, copy-paste, digital age.
Let any Australian religious order that has never innocently copy-pasted from a global site throw the first stone. Even from church pulpits, our priests have been critical of non-Christian practices, cautioning about staying on the straight path, avoiding the consumer culture of Christmas celebrations, and putting Christ back into Xmas, literally.
When I greet my Muslim friends for Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr, it does not mean I share in the celebration or I am losing my religion. I am merely extending goodwill and am happy that they are happy.
This is not the first time Australian Muslims have copy-pasted concepts from abroad and inadvertently caused controversy for failing to consider the context of Australia. Only 18 months ago, the Islamic evangelical initiative MyPeace mounted billboards stating ''Islam: Got questions? Get answers'', followed by ''Jesus Prophet of Islam'', which provoked outrage and vandalism. The posters were adopted directly from the Chicago-based GainPeace, which was keen to demonstrate that ''Islam is not synonymous with terrorism''.
The public relations damage to the Muslim community is difficult to undo. Which is why all responsible leaders need to think twice before borrowing from overseas contexts. They may be copy-pasting a viral problem, not a safe solution.
>> Joseph Wakim, a Sydney writer, is a founder of Australian Arabic Council.

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its pricey enough in high season at just under £3000 for a week, but if you had 3 couples going it doesn't seem so bad... and low season is more reasonable at £1000 for the week.
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I have stayed here on holiday and enjoyed a wonderful meal outside with the owners. Their smaller 'cabanon' adjacent to the Petite Bastide is one of my all-time favourite holiday homes, my children learned to swim there and although it's only 1 1/2 hr from home, it feels as if I'm in paradise!ReplyDelete
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Fine arts - the great Russian landscape painter. Born in 1850 in the Russian Empire.
Unfortunately, in 1870 he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Society for the Promotion of Arts has provided a means for treatment in the Crimea. The artist, having spent time in Yalta, painted some of his best works. That hard work has gone to the detriment of the great artist. In 1873, at age 23, he died in Yalta, where he was buried.


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Orangutan Takes Tourist's Shirt – Then Wears It [VIDEO]
When I go to the zoo, one of my favorite things to do is look at the monkeys. Some are cute and cuddly, some are funny looking, and some are just really entertaining. Take Carlo the orangutan for example.
While the guy in this video probably doesn't think it's all that funny, everyone else sure does. At first it seems frightening and the man has no idea what to do. But when Carlo starts mocking him, you can't help but laugh. The orangutan is even entertained by himself! He's a smart little fellow. Hey, some people believe we came from monkeys right?
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Let no presuming railer tax
Creative wisdom, as if aught was form'd
In vain, or not for admirable ends.
So long as we possess the power to struggle, hope is the last feeling to
desert the human mind. Men are endowed with every gradation of courage,
from the calm energy of reflection, which is rendered still more effective
by physical firmness, to the headlong precipitation of reckless spirit:
from the resolution that grows more imposing and more respectable as there
is greater occasion for its exercise, to the fearful and ill-directed
energies of despair. But no description with the pen can give the reader a
just idea of the chill that comes over the heart when accidental causes
rob us, suddenly and without notice, of those resources on which we have
been habitually accustomed to rely. The mariner without his course or
compass loses his audacity and coolness, though the momentary danger be
the same; the soldier will fly, if you deprive him of his arms; and the
hunter of our own forests who has lost his landmarks, is transformed from
the bold and determined foe of its tenants, into an anxious and dependent
fugitive, timidly seeking the means of retreat. In short, the customary
associations of the mind being rudely and suddenly destroyed, we are made
to feel that reason, while it elevates us so far above the brutes as to
make man their lord and governor, becomes a quality less valuable than
instinct, when the connecting link in its train of causes and effects is
It was no more than a natural consequence of his greater experience, that
Pierre Dumont understood the horrors of their present situation far better
than any with him. It is true, there yet remained enough light to enable
him to pick his way over the rocks and stones, but he had sufficient
experience to understand that there was less risk in remaining stationary
than in moving; for, while there was only one direction that led towards
the Refuge, all the rest would conduct them to a greater distance from the
shelter, which was now the only hope. On the other hand, a very few
minutes of the intense cold, and of the searching wind to which they were
exposed, would most probably freeze the currents of life in the feebler of
those intrusted to his care.
"Hast thou aught to advise?" asked Melchior de Willading, folding Adelheid
to his bosom, beneath his ample cloak, and communicating, with a father's
love, a small portion of the meagre warmth that still remained in his own
aged frame to that of his drooping daughter--"canst thou bethink thee of
nothing, that may be done, in this awful strait?"
"If the good monks have been active--" returned the wavering Pierre. "I
fear me that the dogs have not yet been exercised, on the paths, this
"Has it then come to this! Are our lives indeed dependent on the uncertain
sagacity of brutes!"
"Mein Herr, I would bless the Virgin, and her holy Son, if it were so! But
I fear this storm has been so sudden and unexpected, that we may not even
hope for their succor."
Melchior groaned. He folded his child still nearer to his heart, while the
athletic Sigismund shielded his drooping sister, as the fowl shelters its
young beneath the wing.
"Delay is death," rejoined the Signor Grimaldi. "I have heard of muleteers
that have been driven to kill their beasts, that shelter and warmth might
be found in their entrails."
"The alternative is horrible!" interrupted Sigismund. "Is return
impossible? By always descending, we must, in time reach the village
"That time would be fatal," answered Pierre. "I know of only one resource
that remains. If the party will keep together, and answer my shouts I will
make another effort to find the path."
This proposal was gladly accepted, for energy and hope go hand-in-hand,
and the guide was about to quit the group, when he felt the strong grasp
of Sigismund on his arm.
"I will be thy companion," said the soldier firmly.
"Thou hast not done me justice, young man," answered Pierre, with severe
reproach in his manner. "Had I been base enough to desert my trust, these
limbs and this strength are yet sufficient to carry me safely down the
mountain; but though a guide of the Alps may freeze like another man, the
last throb of his heart will be in behalf of those he serves!"
"A thousand pardons brave old man--a thousand pardons; still, will I be
thy companion; the search that is conducted by two will be more likely to
succeed, than that on which thou goes alone."
The offended Pierre, who liked the spirit of the youth as much as he
disliked his previous suspicions, met the apology frankly. He extended his
hand and forgot the feelings, that, even amid the tempests of those wild
mountains, were excited by a distrust of his honesty. After this short
concession to the ever-burning, though smothered volcano, of human
passion, they left the group together, in order to make a last search for
their course.
The snow by this time was many inches deep, and as the road was at best
but a faint bridle-path that could scarcely be distinguished by day-light
from the débris which strewed the ravines, the undertaking would have been
utterly hopeless, had not Pierre known that there was the chance of still
meeting with some signs of the many mules that daily went up and down the
mountain. The guide called to the muleteers, who answered his cries every
minute, for so long as they kept within the sound of each other's voices,
there was no danger of their becoming entirely separated. But, amid the
hollow roaring of the wind, and the incessant pelting of the storm, it was
neither safe nor practicable to venture far asunder. Several little stony
knolls were ascended and descended, and a rippling rill was found, but
without bringing with it any traces of the path. The heart of Pierre began
to chill with the decreasing; warmth of his body, and the firm old man,
overwhelmed with his responsibility while his truant thoughts would
unbidden recur to those whom he had left in his cottage at the foot of the
mountain, gave way at last to his emotions in a paroxysm of grief,
wringing his hands, weeping and calling loudly on God for succor. This
fearful evidence of their extremity worked upon the feelings of Sigismund
until they were wrought up nearly to frenzy. His great physical force
still sustained him, and in an access of energy that was fearfully allied
to madness, he rushed forward into the vortex of snow and hail, as if
determined to leave all to the Providence of God, disappearing from the
eyes of his companion. This incident recalled the guide to his senses. He
called earnestly on the thoughtless youth to return. No answer was given,
and Pierre hastened back to the motionless and shivering party, in order
to unite all their voices in a last effort to be heard. Cry upon cry was
raised, but each shout was answered merely by the hoarse rushing of the
"Sigismund! Sigismund!" called one after another, in hurried and alarmed
"The noble boy will be irretrievably lost!" exclaimed the Signor Grimaldi,
in despair, the services already rendered by the youth, together with his
manly qualities, having insensibly and closely wound themselves around his
heart. "He will die a miserable death, and without the consolation of
meeting his fate in communion with his fellow-sufferers!"
A shout from Sigismund came whirling past, as if the sound were embodied
in the gale.
"Blessed ruler of the earth, this is alone the mercy!" exclaimed Melchior
de Willading,--"he has found the path!"
"And honor to thee, Maria--thou mother of God!" murmured the Italian.
At that moment, a dog came leaping and barking through the snow. It
immediately was scenting and whining among the frozen travellers. The
exclamations of joy and surprise were scarcely uttered before Sigismund,
accompanied by another, joined the party.
"Honor and thanks to the good Augustines!" cried the delighted guide;
"this is the third good office of the kind, for which I am their debtor!"
"I would it were true, honest Pierre," answered the stranger. "But Maso
and Nettuno are poor substitutes, in a tempest like this, for the servants
and beasts of St. Bernard. I am a wanderer, and lost like yourselves, and
my presence brings little other relief than that which is known to be the
fruit of companionship in misery. The saints have brought me a second time
into your company when matters were hanging between life and death!"
Maso made this last remark when, by drawing nearer the group, he had been
able to ascertain, by the remains of the light, of whom the party was
"If it is to be as useful now as thou hast already been," answered the
Genoese, "it will be happier for us all, thyself included: bethink thee
quickly of thy expedients, and I will make thee an equal sharer of all
that a generous Providence hath bestowed."
Il Maledetto rarely listened to the voice of the Signor Grimaldi, without
a manner of interest and curiosity which, as already mentioned, had more
than once struck the latter himself, but which he quite naturally
attributed to the circumstance of his person being known to one who had
declared himself to be a native of Genoa. Even at this terrible moment,
the same manner was evident and the noble, thinking it a favorable
symptom, renewed the already neglected offer of fortune, with a view to
quicken a zeal which he reasonably enough supposed would be most likely to
be awakened by the hopes of a substantial reward.
"Were there question here, illustrious Signore," answered Maso, "of
steering a barge, of shortenning sail, or of handling a craft of any rig
or construction, in gale, squall, hurricane, or a calm among breakers, my
skill and experience might be turned to good account; but setting aside
the difference in our strength and hardihood, even that lily which is in
so much danger of being nipped by the frosts, is not more helpless than I
am myself at this moment. I am no better than yourselves, Signori, and,
though a better mountaineer perhaps, I rely on the favor of the saints to
be succored, or my time must finish among the snows instead of in the surf
of a sea-shore, as, until now, I had always believed would be my fate."
"But the dog--thy admirable dog!"
"Ah, eccellenza, Nettuno is but a useless beast, here! God has given him a
thicker mantle, and a warmer dress than to us Christians, but even this
advantage will soon prove a curse to my poor friend. The long hair he
carries will quickly be covered with icicles, and, as the snow deepens, it
will retard his movements. The dogs of St. Bernard are smoother, have
longer limbs, a truer scent and possess the advantage of being trained to
the paths."
A tremendous shout of Sigismund's interrupted Maso,--the youth, on finding
that the accidental meeting with the mariner was not likely to lead to any
immediate advantages, having instantly, accompanied by Pierre and one of
his assistants, renewed the search. The cry was echoed from the guide and
the muleteer, and then all three were seen flying through the snow,
preceded by a powerful mastiff. Nettuno, who had been crouching with his
bushy tail between his legs, barked, seemed to arouse with renewed
courage, and then leaped with evident joy and good-will upon the back of
his old antagonist Uberto.
The dog of St. Bernard was alone. But his air and all his actions were
those of an animal whose consciousness was wrought up to the highest pitch
permitted by the limits nature had set to the intelligence of a brute. He
ran from one to another, rubbed his glossy and solid side against the
limbs of all, wagged his tail, and betrayed the usual signs that creatures
of his species manifest, when their instinct is most alive. Luckily he had
a good interpreter of his meaning in the guide, who, knowing the habits,
and, if it may be so expressed, the intentions of the mastiff, feeling
there was not a moment to lose if they would still preserve the feebler
members of their party, begged the others to hasten the necessary
dispositions to profit by this happy meeting. The females were supported
as before, the mules fastened together, and Pierre, placing himself in
front, called cheerfully to the dog, encouraging him to lead the way.
"Is it quite prudent to confide so implicitly to the guidance of this
brute?" asked the Signor Grimaldi a little doubtingly, when he saw the
arrangement on which, by the increasing gloom and the growing intensity of
the cold, it was but too apparent, even to one as little accustomed to the
mountains as himself, that the lives of the whole party depended.
"Fear not to trust to old Uberto, Signore," answered Pierre, moving onward
as he spoke, for to think of further delay was out of the question; "fear
nothing for the faith or the knowledge of the dog. These animals are
trained by the servants of the convent to know and keep the paths, even
when the snows lie on them fathoms deep. God has given them stout hearts,
long limbs, and short hair expressly, as it has often seemed to me, for
this end; and nobly do they use the gifts! I am acquainted with all their
ways, for we guides commonly learn the ravines of St. Bernard by first
serving the claviers of the convent, and many a day have I gone up and
down these rocks with a couple of these animals in training for this very
purpose. The father and mother of Uberto were my favorite companions, and
their son will hardly play an old friend of the family false."
The travellers followed their leader with more confidence, though blindly.
Uberto appeared to perform his duty with the sobriety and steadiness that
became his years, and which, indeed, were very necessary for the
circumstances in which they were placed. Instead of bounding ahead and
becoming lost to view, as most probably would have happened with a younger
animal, the noble and half-reasoning brute maintained a pace that was
suited to the slow march of those who supported the females, occasionally
stopping to look back, as if to make sure that none were left.
The dogs of St. Bernard are, or it might perhaps be better to say
were,--for it is affirmed that the ancient race is lost,--chosen for their
size, their limbs, and the shortness of their coats, as has just been
stated by Pierre; the former being necessary to convey the succor with
which they were often charged, as well as to overcome the difficulties of
the mountains, and the two latter that they might the better wade through,
and resist the influence of, the snows. Their training consisted in
rendering them familiar with, and attached to, the human race; in teaching
them to know and to keep the paths on all occasions, except such as called
for a higher exercise of their instinct, and to discover the position of
those who had been overwhelmed by the avalanches; and; to assist in
disinterring their bodies. In all these duties Uberto had been so long
exercised, that he was universally know to be the most sagacious and the
most trusty animal on the mountain. Pierre followed his steps with so much
greater-reliance on his intelligence, from being perfectly acquainted with
the character of the dog. When, therefore, he saw the mastiff turn at
right angles to the course he had just been taking, the guide, on reaching
the spot, imitated his example, and, first removing the snow to make sure
of the fact, he joyfully proclaimed to those who came after him that the
lost path was found. This intelligence sounded like a reprieve from death,
though the mountaineers well knew that more than an hour of painful and
increasing toil was still necessary to reach the hospice. The chilled
blood of the tender beings who were fast dropping into the terrible sleep
which is the forerunner of death, was quickened in their veins, however,
when they heard the shout of delight that spontaneously broke from all
their male companions, on learning the glad tidings.
The movement was now faster, though embarrassed and difficult on account
of the incessant pelting of the storm and the influence of the biting
cold, which were difficult to be withstood by even the strongest of the
party. Sigismund groaned inwardly, as he thought of Adelheid and his
sister's being exposed to a tempest which shook the stoutest frame and the
most manly heart among them. He encircled the latter with an arm, rather
carrying than leading her along, for the young soldier had sufficient
knowledge of the localities of the mountain to understand that they were
still at a fearful distance from the Col, and that the strength of
Christine was absolutely unequal to the task of reaching it unsupported.
Occasionally Pierre spoke to the dogs, Nettuno keeping close to the side
of Uberto in order to prevent separation, since the path was no longer
discernible without constant examination, the darkness having so far
increased as to reduce the sight to very narrow limits. Each time the name
of the latter was pronounced, the animal would stop, wag his tail, or give
some other sign of recognition, as if to reassure his followers of his
intelligence and fidelity. After one of these short halts, old Uberto and
his companion unexpectedly refused to proceed. The guide, the two old
nobles, and at length the whole party, were around them, and no cry or
encouragement of the mountaineers could induce the dogs to quit their
"Are we again lost?" asked the Baron de Willading, pressing Adelheid
closer to his beating heart, nearly ready to submit to their common fate
in despair. "Has God at length forsaken us?--my daughter--my beloved
This touching appeal was answered by a howl from Uberto, who leaped madly
away and disappeared. Nettuno followed, barking wildly and with a deep
throat. Pierre did not hesitate about following, and Sigismund, believing
that the movement of the guide was to arrest the flight of the dogs, was
quickly on his heels. Maso moved with greater deliberation.
"Nettuno is not apt to raise that bark with nothing but hail, and snow,
and wind in his nostrils," said the calculating Italian. "We are either
near another party of travellers, for such are on the mountains as I know"
"God forbid! Art sure of this?" demanded the Signor Grimaldi, observing
that the other had suddenly checked himself.
"Sure that others _were_, Signore," returned the mariner deliberately, as
if he measured well the meaning of each word. "Ah, here comes the trusty
beast, and Pierre, and the Captain, with their tidings, be they good or be
they evil."
The two just named rejoined their friends a Maso ceased speaking. They
hurriedly informed the shivering travellers that the much desired Refuge
was near, and that nothing but the darkness and the driving snow prevented
it from being seen.
"It was a blessed thought, and one that came from St. Augustine himself,
which led the holy monks to raise this shelter!" exclaimed the delighted
Pierre, no longer considering it necessary to conceal the extent of the
danger they had run. "I would not answer even for my own power to reach
the hospice in a time like this. You are of mother church, Signore, being
of Italy?"
"I am one of her unworthy children," returned the Genoese.
"This unmerited favor must have come from the prayers of St. Augustine,
and a vow I made to send a fair offering to our Lady of Einsiedeln; for
never before have I known a dog of St. Bernard lead the traveller to the
Refuge! Their business is to find the frozen, and to guide the traveller
along the paths to the hospice. Even Uberto had his doubts, as you saw,
but the vow prevailed; or, I know not--it might, indeed, have been the
The Signor Grimaldi was too eager to get Adelheid under cover, and, in
good sooth, to be there himself, to waste the time in discussing the
knotty point of which of two means that were equally orthodox, had been
the most efficacious in bringing about their rescue. In common with the
others, he followed the pious and confiding Pierre in silence, making the
best of his way after the credit lous guide. The latter had not yet seen
the Refuge himself, for so these places are well termed on the Alpine
passes, but the information of the ground had satisfied him of its
proximity. Once reassured as to his precise position, all the surrounding
localities presented themselves to his mind with the familiarity the
seaman manifests with every cord in the intricate maze of his rigging, in
the darkest night, or, to produce a parallel of more common use, with the
readiness which all manifest in the intricacies of their own habitations.
The broken chain of association being repaired and joined, every thing
became clear, again to his apprehension, and, in diverging from the path
on this occasion, the old man held his way as directly toward the spot he
sought, as if he were journeying under a bright sun. There was a rough but
short descent, a similar rise, and the long-desired goal was reached.
We shall not stop to dwell upon the emotions with which the travellers
first touched this place of comparative security. Humility, and dependence
on the providence of God, were the pre-dominant sensations even with the
rude muleteers, while the pearly exhausted females were just able to
express in murmurs their fervent gratitude to the omnipotent power that
had permitted its agents so unexpectedly to interpose between them and
death. The Refuge was not seen until Pierre laid his hand on the roof, now
white with snow, and proclaimed its character with a loud, warm, and
devout thanksgiving.
"Enter and thank God!" he said. "Another hopeless half-hour would have
brought down from his pride the stoutest among us--enter, and thank God!"
As is the fact with all the edifices of that region the building was
entirely of stone, even to the roof having the form of those vaulted
cellars which in this country are use for the preservation of vegetables.
It was quite free from humidity, however, the clearness of the atmosphere
and the entire absence of soil preventing the accumulation of moisture,
and it offered no more than the naked protection of its walls to those who
sought its cover. But shelter on such a night was everything, and this it
effectually afforded. The place had only one outlet, being simply formed
of four walls and the roof; but it was sufficiently large to shelter a
party twice as numerous as that which had now reached it.
The transition from the biting cold and piercing winds of the mountain to
the shelter of this inartificial building, was so great as to produce
something like a general sensation of warmth. The advantage gained in this
change of feeling was judiciously improved by the application of friction
and of restoratives under the direction of Pierre. Uberto carried a small
supply of the latter attached to his collar, and before half an hour had
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Marriage - whatever the parties' sexuality - is about obligation to others and society, write Peter van Onselen and Wayne Errington.
Despite a rearguard action from Sydney's Anglican Archbishop, Peter Jensen, and his Catholic counterpart, George Pell, and despite the continuing reign of Australia's self-proclaimed "most conservative prime minister ever", progress continues to be made towards removing the stigma surrounding homosexual relationships.
The Federal Opposition Leader, Mark Latham, told the Herald recently that "the basic ingredient of a good relationship is love and care; whether it is a same sex or different sex relationship - I don't draw a distinction".
Surprisingly, these comments barely caused a ripple of public comment.
Continuing to lead the way in progressive policy making, the ACT Assembly will soon enact legislation allowing gay and lesbian couples to adopt children. Unlike territory proposals for a heroin trial and legal euthanasia, this time round there is no prospect of a Federal Government veto.
Contrary to the view that we are living in conservative times, public acceptance of homosexuality is growing to the extent that legal marriage for gay couples can't be too far away. The growing recognition that homosexuals are pretty much just like the rest of us leaves those opposed to gay marriage with pretty weak arguments.
Realising that he could no longer count on public bigotry towards gays, the Prime Minister last year fell back on procreation as the bedrock of marriage. If John Howard is so concerned about the "survival of the species", you would think he would enact paid maternity leave to encourage all those working women to have more kids, or even diplomatically rebuff the Chinese President because of his country's one-child policy.
Targeting gay couples as a threat to procreation is only valid if one expects them to deny their personal tendencies and marry heterosexually anyway - not a good ingredient for stable family policy by any reckoning.
Arguments against gay marriage based on procreation or religion usually rest on the assumption that legitimising homosexuality only encourages it. Well, popular culture has spoken. The popularity of queer makeovers, the gay Survivor winner and "the boys" from The Block attest to public respect for, and not just tolerance of, homosexuality. This kind of generational change could overwhelm a government whose base lies in those over 55. Why then, has Latham stopped short of endorsing gay marriage?
As Latham has identified, there is a growing fatigue in the electorate for what he calls the "rights agenda of the left". To gain public acceptance, progressive ideas need to be tied up in notions of fairness rather than rights. To claim something as a right is to substitute dogmatism for argument.
The Tasmanian activist Rodney Croome argued in reply to Howard's defence of existing marriage laws that "not allowing gays and lesbians to marry is as morally reprehensible as denying women the vote or making black people sit at the back of the bus". Well, no, it isn't, as the ambivalence of many gay couples towards marriage testifies.
Not allowing gays and lesbians to vote would be as morally reprehensible as denying women the vote. Not allowing them to get married is letting gays and lesbians off the hook. Why shouldn't we expect gay and lesbian couples to make the same commitments to each other and to society that we expect of everybody else?
Rights talk also inevitably leads us down the path of judicial activism. These matters are much more appropriately settled in our democratic legislatures than waiting for judges to fill the void, as is beginning to happen in the United States.
Marriage represents the antithesis of the individualism that blights modern society. The participants make commitments not just to each other, but to their families and the community. Marriage is all about obligations, not rights. It is no surprise that such a demanding social institution is suffering under the weight of modernity, with high divorce rates and so many young couples not bothering to make the commitment. Conservatives should welcome the fact that a section of society wants in on this institution in decline.
The gay community has for many years taken family values rhetoric head-on, contributing directly to our understanding of the diversity of Australian families. The language of morality should not be left for conservatives to monopolise.
Similarly, endorsing gay marriage as an affirmation of community stability and mutual respect, and retrieving gay and lesbian issues from the ghetto of identity politics, from where they will never gain the support of the majority of Australians, is the way to go.
Peter van Onselen and Wayne Errington are political scientists from the University of NSW and the Australian National University.
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I think your distinction between "observational" and "participatory" memories is a good one, and, after reading that, I immediately knew you had genuine experience with this issue. I'd like to add, however, that inserted or altered memories may have a distinctive feel to them and sets them apart from "true" native memory. Based on my personal experience with the visitors, non-native memory can have an "especially true" quality to it; it is apparently imbued with that feeling to compensate for shortcomings. For example, a fictional event may be remembered as absolutely true especially when there is a marked lack of corroborating evidence to support it.
I should add that experiencers who have "observational" type memories might try and examine the memory's "point of view," that is, how the mind's eye is pointed at the scene. Observational memories, I've found, may have subtle defects: False childhood memories may have a point of view as if a tall adult was viewing the scene, which would be impossible if the experiencer was a small child. Other imperfections may be noted as well, including points of view that literally move up and down or side to side, as you are seeing the memory in your mind's eye. What the source of this movement is and why it occurs I can't say.
Thanks very much for your columns, Whitely, your thoughts on such subtle and subjective experiences like visitor-affected memory are spot on.
Real memories are a tricky business to begin with. We don't need anybody putting false ones in our head.
Whitley, I can REMEMBER being in the front yard of my childhood home and sitting on the steps. (Probably no older then five or eight years of age). It was dark outside and I was looking up at the stars. My thoughts were.....How far does the sky go, does it end somewhere or does it go on forever. THEN, I was overcome by an overwhelming sense of loneliness although my family was close by, inside the house. I had this feeling of being abandoned; what people today might call, 'SEPARATION ANXIETY.' Strange how I can still feel the emotion of that evening after so many years.
Whitley, thank you for bringing up the subject of implanted memories. What about implanted dreams? A friend of mine, the late Karla Turner, Ph.D., a UFO researcher and contactee, wrote a book called Taken: Inside the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda. It has a foreword by Linda Moulton Howe. Karla discovered that there are actually three dreams that are common among UFO abductees. I'm among a group of contactees that I know personally that have had the same dream. We've had a dream about the "skies being full of UFOs." In our dream, the UFOs were almost touching each other they were so close together. Karla calls it "The Night of Lights." The second dream shows scenes of a coming disaster and chaos on the planet, and in some cases the abductees are led to believe that their upcoming "jobs" will be carried out at the time of destruction. The third dream type is prophetic, showing events which come to pass after the dream.
Have you heard of these dream scenarios and have you had one the three I mentioned? Anyone else?
I have some areas of my childhood that are just blank, not much in the way of memories. I wonder if something wiped them and never bothered to put in screen memories, or if I'm just blocking something really traumatic? I've thought about finding a good hypnotherapist to work with, but at this point I feel like it's better left alone. I wouldn't be surprised about installing memories. There are so many parts of the brain that subtle energy can influence IMO....
That light is used to imprint these types of memories is a clue, methinks. Science and the visitors may be able to burn memories upon the very structure of the brain tissue (which is fundamentally connected to the fabric of space-time). However, they may not be able to etch false memories upon the upper reaches of a human being's consciousness, where the stream of energy leaves our local space-time realm. While the imprinting of local memories may make someone a puppet to a degree, they may not be able to reach higher dimensions of mind. This of course would mean that humans are essentially free if they remain in their higher states of consciousness. Tampering may only be able to be applied to a degree.
I, too, am aware that some type of disaster is coming, but I don't have any conscious memory of how I received the information. I don't know what will cause the disaster. My intellect tells me it could be climate change, but there are certainly other possible scenarios, such as a Coronal Mass Ejection or comet impact. Karla Turner was only half correct about prophetic dreams being a type of dream connected with contactees. You don't have to be a contactee to have precognitive dreams. Most contactees that I know are very intuitive - psychic experiences are common. The disaster "memory" is also common among contactees, but I don't know how the information comes to most people.
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I was just reading through the comments and when I got to the part about 'Experiencers' having a common thread of three different but distinct dreams, the one dream about seeing a night sky filled with UFO's chilled me to the bone! I have been having that particular dream for decades now along with a dream of a 'Super weapon' being detonated just outside of our atmosphere that destroys mankind. The dreams are always the same of seeing all of those UFO's and commenting to myself in the dream that "It's true - all of it is true !" and still remembering the dream almost completely once I wake up - and never forgetting the 'experience' in the dream(s). I also remember the exact time and day that I was 'switched on' mentally and began an almost feverish quest to study in depth all things ET and UFO, and then starting to see the damn UFO's in the sky during the daytime hours in Phoenix for months on end, every single day. That was only 6 short years ago, just a few months before I was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer (that is currently in remission - YAY !) The more I learn, the less I know and it's frustrating to me that the ET's don't let me see them or remember what has transpired if indeed I too am an Experiencer. Thanks folks - just wanted to add my own little bit to this, our patchwork of events and ideas in this subject.
Whitley, I have had strange experiences since childhood, some of them would be waking up from sleep with a strange panic that would set in even my skin would vibrate and I would try to wake my parents and couldnt get them to wake when I would ask them about it the next morning they would just blow it off as a bad dream .I was told that I would sleep walk and they would find me in the woods behind my home. I later was sent to an therapist for night terrors.Iam now 38 years old and still have strange events usually at night . I just want to thankyou for what you are doing this site and your podcast mean so much to me and my family .
I have been in touch with an alien grey, a Zeta Reticulan from 39 light years away, had a discussion with the being......it told me that it's brain had been sculpted to think only certain things, which doesn't bother the alien at all, it's got no ego........so Zeta Reticulan masters do use that technological/scientific development......it was if this being just transmits a watchful development of mankind, but that seems to be important enough to them to place someone here, like Britain's MI5 place secret "funny men" all over the world, there is one MI5 'funny man' in every major city on Earth - the MI5 man I met had been on duty in Vienna, & believes that extra-terrestrials tailed him there, that's what actually made him leave MI5, it was so frightening. That's all very confidential stuff.
Even real memories can be remembered from points of view that don't hold to cold logic. Our minds are creative beasties. Further muddying the waters I suppose, but easy answers seem few and far between in this life.
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The modernisation programme seeks to create an information-driven compelling compliance regime that will promote voluntary compliance and at the same time quickly identify and correct delinquency by habitually visiting such delinquency with all the penal and legal consequences.
The project has passed the planning mode and is now in the implementation mode and will be implemented, in the first phase, in six clusters spread across the country in the next 24 months against an inflexible timetable.
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The product is quite difficult to set up and version 1.1 still needs some fixings.
Once installed, functionality, stability and performance are all right.
If some minor improvements are made on future releases hipergate can be a good alternative for Open Source Java based intranets.
Good Java Suite
I had been looking for a Groupware and Contact Manager solution for a while. I used to ignore those based on Java but now I realize that there are good alternatives to PHP+MySQL.
This is quite a complete and impressive suite.
It is a bit cumbersome to install and some parts need futher improvement and refinement.
English documentation is also poor, been available only in spanish, altought it seems that they are progressing fast on translating it.
A Fluent OpenStack client API for Java.
A TWiki appliance that is easy to use and lightweight.


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Cygwin or msysgit Command-Line Usage on Windows
In a Windows environment, a shell environment lets you do things you might not otherwise be able to do, and lets you follow instructions just as if you were in a Mac or Linux environment.
There are at least two key ways to get a good command-line environment in Windows, and you should choose one of them. Cygwin is a fine environment that provides a rich set of tools. However, the MSysGit toolkit also comes with all the tools you need for basic Git usage and is an excellent, though more limited environment. (If you're using Tortoise Git you already have MSysGit.) Both will work fine for basic Git operations.
Using the shell will make it easier for you to follow handbook instructions, understand what is happening 'under-the-hood' and work under different operating systems.
Setting Up msysgit
To set up msysgit, simply download and install it, accepting the defaults at each point in the wizard. You'll end up with a start menu entry called "Git Bash", which is a command-line Bash shell which has a current version of Git and will work fine for any activity in the Git instructions. Everything should "just work".
For example, in a Git Bash window:
git clone http://git.drupal.org/project/examples.git --branch 6.x-1.x
cd examples
git log
Cygwin setup
Cygwin offers an enormous number of packages, but you can do most Drupal activities with just a few beyond the basic install.
If you already have Cygwin on your computer, but don't have all the packages you need, you will need to run the setup file again -- so follow along with these instructions.
- Get the setup.exe file from http://cygwin.com
- Run setup.exe and proceed through the screens.
- At the title screen just click 'Next'
- Choose 'Install from Internet'
- Root directory is usually best kept as default as are the other defaults
- Choose a location for downloading the installation files
- Select your Internet connection settings (probably the default 'Direct connection')
- Choose a download mirror
- Select packages either by section or by searching. Add at least openssh, git, rxvt, patch, patchutils, telnet, unzip, nano, vim, wget
- Click "Install"
- Run "Rxvt Native" from the start menu. (On Windows Vista, Windows 7 or later, you need to right-click and run it as administrator this time because we'll be setting up links in a privileged directory). The first time you do this it will install default profile files for you.
- In rxvt we'll now set up symbolic links to the Windows filesystem. Do this for each drive you have... I'm showing the C: and D: drives here:
cd / ln -s /cygdrive/c ln -s /cygdrive/d
- Now you can navigate into the Windows filesystem to wherever your Drupal install is. /c is the root of the C: drive; /d is the root of the D: drive. For example, if you have Acquia's DAMP installed, it might be in /c/Users/rfay/Documents/Sites/acquia-drupal or something like that.
Cygwin is now installed on your system. If you want to add further packages later, you will need to run setup.exe again; so you may want to keep hold of the setup file. But you can always get the setup.exe again.
Basic Cygwin Configuration
Simple Cygwin Usage
Once you have Cygwin, you can do nearly anything you would do on the Linux command line.
- Using git, I could check out the Examples project, for example:
git clone http://git.drupal.org:project/examples.git --branch master
- Or apply a patch using patch.... or using git apply or git am. All the normal patching instructions on project pages will "just work"
You have the easy-to-use editor nano if you want to edit within Cygwin, but you can just use the Windows editor of your choice as well.


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Sabic will be hoping demand grows quickly to soak up production from its new low density polyethylene (LDPE) chemical plant at Wilton, Teesside, UK.This long-delayed project is now scheduled for startup in September, according to the UK's Institute of Chemical Engineers.With all the other chemical plant closures at the UK site, Saudi Arabia's Sabic will […]
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Artenius Wilton workers lobby in Spain
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Beleaguered workers from the Artenius site at Wilton, Teesside, are going to Spain in the hope of convincing parent company La Seda de Barcelona's shareholders that this site is worth saving.The blog is not convinced: the Artenius PTA plant relied on Sabic's aromatics unit at Wilton for paraxylene feedstocks. This site closed at the end […]
Closures at Wilton, Teesside, chemical site threaten UK industrial base
By Will Beacham on 31 July, 2009 in Uncategorised
The blog has been researching an article on the Wilton, Teesside chemical cluster. This site – a key part of the UK chemical industry – has suffered a spate of closures in the last 12 months, accelerating in the last few weeks.With little scope for exporting large amounts of surplus ethylene, the future of Sabic's […]
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Happy birthday, Facebook! Hard to believe, but it was 10 years ago, on February 4th, 2004, that Mark Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook" from his dorm room at Harvard. Just a mere ten years later, Facebook has over 1 billion users and Mark Zuckerberg is now worth just under $30 billion.
Love Facebook or hate it, you can't deny the impact it's had on the world. It would seem appropriate, then, to commemorate its first ten years somehow or another. Allow me to suggest 10 different things you can do to celebrate Facebook's first 10 years, aside from actually poking around on Facebook itself.
Take a virtual tour of Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California
If you're near Cambridge, Massachusetts, have a slice of pizza at Mark Zuckerberg's favorite college pizza place
Also if you're in Cambridge, swing by his old college dorm - and the birthplace of Facebook - Harvard's Kirkland House
Check out some vintage Facebook source code
Watch 2010's The Social Network, which you can stream right now on Amazon
Consider how Facebook's changing privacy policy has eroded your own privacy
Watch a lecture by a Facebook engineer on their history of code design
Read about what it's like to have a one-on-one meeting with Mark Zuckerbeg, or to attend a hackathon with him
Dig into the technical architecture behind Facebook
Play some Starcraft 2, which, you never know, could lead to a Facebook internship
Hopefully, that should be enough Facebook-y activities for even the biggest fans. Have fun!
Read more of Phil Johnson's #Tech blog and follow the latest IT news at ITworld. Follow Phil on Twitter at @itwphiljohnson. For the latest IT news, analysis and how-tos, follow ITworld on Twitter and Facebook.


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Chris Smithwrote a review of MSR WhisperLite International Multi-Fuel Stove on September 17, 2011
wore out by storing
i just lit mine after 2 months short of being in storage for 22 years -(early Aug '11) nada problem - mind you i did store the tank w/ a load of amoco unleaded premium - just dumped that into my grill for an evening meal (and my storage bucket for old fuel) - fillled it back w some knockdown Colemans i bought a couple few years ago (oh it pains me - they had 33 g cans at 1.99 each and i was too cheap to buy it all.)
the little guy fired right up and no problems for 4 days for 3 of us - and we do like to eat and drink coffee- stationery campsite fishing.
Good piece of kit and MSR is outstanding in their customer service!
the same time we were going on this trip i pulled out the dromedary that we bought back in 89 - we packed some beverage into our campsite and had to throw the potatoe juice away -bad taste - MSR replaced - no questions asked!! after 22 years.
you cannot get any better than that!!
outstanding product back-up
and we have 2 river bags that we bought when we were going 'way up N back in 88/89 and used them on this trip and they are still supple and waterproof!
I could not recommend MSR more highly.
they might be from up there in the liberal tight corner of the country - but their products and especially their customer service are second to none - good old fashioned do it the right way!!
but that will never compensate for someone who doesn't get that O-rings dry out if they are stored dry - you can't compensate for that....course they could send a bottle nipple; some dry enfamil; and a couple o-rings with some silicone grease in the zip-lock... or maybe some RPJ - that might give a hint...wish i could have been in that guys' trash bin - ohhh - sorry his recycle bin. You just cannot compensate for ignorance ( sorry for insulting you - but this is supposed to be - i trust - a fair review of products and the companies that supply them - without apologizing to the users: - this has been my experience - great company and fine products) gee whiz i forgot - you need to add the water to the enfamil to the guy who trashed two from being wore out from storing.


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|Fact Sheet
Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
Washington, DC
August 29, 2006
U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS)
The Global Positioning System (GPS), managed and operated by the U.S. Government, is used for a wide array of economic, scientific, and military applications. GPS consists of a constellation of 24 satellites and associated ground support facilities. The satellites send signals that can be converted into precise positioning, navigation, and timing information anywhere in the world.
Available Free to the Public Worldwide
The civil GPS signals are available in the United States and abroad at no charge, free of direct user fees. The United States also makes available without restriction the technical specifications for the civil GPS signals—enabling businesses, scientific institutions, and government entities anywhere in the world to develop products, services, and research tools on an equal basis. These policies have helped spur rapid growth in the global market for GPS goods and services. The United States is committed to providing reliable, uninterrupted service to civil users of GPS around the world.
Multi-Use System
Over the past decade, GPS has grown into a global utility whose multi-use services are integral to U.S. national security, economic growth, transportation safety, and homeland security, and are an essential element of the worldwide economic infrastructure.
GPS technology can be found in everything from cars and planes to cell phones and wristwatches. It is being used to improve productivity in areas as diverse as farming, mining, construction, surveying, taxicab management, and package delivery. It is enhancing public safety by preventing transportation accidents and by reducing the response times of ambulances, firefighters, and other emergency services. GPS is also furthering scientific aims such as weather forecasting, earthquake prediction, and environmental protection. Furthermore, the precise GPS time signal, derived from atomic clocks, is being applied to critical economic activities such as synchronizing communication networks, managing power grids, and authenticating electronic transactions. This same technology, whether designed for military capabilities or not, provides inherent capabilities that can be used by adversaries, including enemy forces and terrorist groups. As such, the United States is committed to developing a range of capabilities to prevent potential hostile use of GPS services while protecting access to U.S./Allied national security services and preserving peaceful use of civil services outside an area of conflict.
Looking Ahead: GPS Modernization
GPS currently provides positioning data with accuracy within 10 meters or less. Advanced techniques and augmentations allow users to obtain positioning accuracy in the millimeter range. The U.S. Government began fielding new civil signals into the GPS constellation in 2005, and will continue upgrading the system with new capabilities over the coming years. When fully operational, these added signals will increase the robustness of the civil service and improve basic accuracy to within 3-5 meters. Additional upgrades being planned for the next generation of satellites, known as GPS III, are designed to ensure that GPS remains a state-of-the-art system for the civil user community. More information on GPS can be found at the following websites: www.pnt.gov, www.navcen.uscg.gov, gps.losangeles.af.mil, and gps.faa.gov.
GPS and Europe's Galileo System
The European Union (EU) plans to build its own global navigation satellite system called Galileo, currently projected to become operational in the 2010-2012 timeframe. Galileo is slated to be a civil system that will be operated by a commercial Galileo concessionaire. In June 2004, the United States and the EU reached an agreement covering their satellite navigation services. The historic agreement protects Allied security interests, while paving the way for an eventual doubling of satellites that will broadcast a common civil signal worldwide, thereby promoting better and more comprehensive service for all users. The agreement ensures that Galileo's signals will not harm the navigation warfare capabilities of the United States and NATO military forces, ensures that both the United States and the EU can address individual and mutual security concerns, and calls for non-discrimination and open markets in terms of trade in civil satellite navigation-related goods and services. The additional availability, precision, and robustness that will be provided by dual GPS-Galileo receivers lays the foundation for a new generation of satellite-based applications and services, promoting research, development, and investment that will benefit business, science, governments, and recreational users alike.


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Altimeter calls this "social CRM," which Owyang says comprises the following five fundamental processes:
- Monitoring.
- Mapping (linking social profiles to customer records).
- Management (creating business rules and processes).
- Middleware (enabling data to flow between systems and dashboards).
- Measurement (using BI tools to identify trends, gauge sentiment and make predictions).
Suresh Vittal, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc., argues that social monitoring platforms gather data but don't provide marketing insights. "Marketing teams need a process in place to interpret and analyze data and produce actionable insight," he wrote in a recent report. "This means sharing insights with all front-end and back-end systems like CRM, call centers and Web sites that influence customer interactions." While it's possible to share such insights manually, he wrote, "eventually marketers must budget for systems integration."
Vendors last year began integrating their social analysis platforms with CRM applications, particularly Salesforce.com, Gilliatt says. With those systems, users can create or update entries in the CRM application without leaving the social media analysis tool and send the information to customer support teams. The episode is captured in the customer record for future reference. Most of the platforms also offer APIs for custom integration with other software systems, Gilliatt says.
Recovering a fumble
DirecTV Inc. is a good example of a company that's integrating social media data throughout the organization. The company began investing in social platforms more than five years ago, says Charles Miller, director of digital care and social media strategy, and today it uses several monitoring tools. One is Visible Technologies' online monitoring platform, which, Miller says, converts qualitative comments into a quantitative structure to help measure consumer sentiment and identify trends.
Online monitoring has proved to be an early-warning system that allows DirecTV to respond to problems quickly. On the opening night of the 2009 college football season, Miller recalls, DirecTV's social media group noted chatter about the loss of a high-definition version of a popular sports channel. "Within two to three minutes of spotting this, we notified our broadcast team, who went into immediate channel-recovery mode," Miller says.
Through forums and other online venues, the team advised viewers to watch the standard version until HD could be restored. Simultaneously, it notified customer care representatives of the issue and the resolution. "When this was solved, we directed followers back to the HD channel," Miller says.
DirecTV's IT group integrates customers' social attributes into its CRM system so that data can be mined for insights later. "As CRM social integration deepens, IT will be more and more involved," Miller says.
Social media insights also influence product design. DirecTV's engineering team gets comments about beta offerings from its customer-run online community and incorporates those suggestions in the company's products, Miller says. "We have also built relationships with brand advocates and influencers," he says. For example, he adds, "sharing our mobile DVR scheduler with iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Palm enthusiasts has been particularly effective in driving adoption rates and getting feedback on the [mobile] apps."
In the future, the key differentiator will be how organizations take what they learn from monitoring social media and share it with product managers, Miller says.
Gartner's Bell agrees. "Even companies that think they don't have a consumer-facing product will be surprised to know they're still being reviewed or reacted to," he says. "And if you [aren't] participating in that, it will have a negative effect."
Brandel is a Computerworld contributing writer. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Read more about SaaS in Computerworld's SaaS Topic Center.
This story, "How Savvy Firms Monitor Customers' Online Chatter" was originally published by Computerworld.


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The itchy skin diseases in this table are characterized by constant scratching, licking, and biting at the skin, and rubbing up against objects to relieve the itch. There will be crusty areas produced by scratching.
- Allergic contact dermatitis: Similar to contact dermatitis, but rash may spread beyond the area of contact. Requires repeated or continuous exposure to allergen.
- Chiggers: Itching and severe skin irritation between the toes and around the ears and mouth. Look for barely visible red, yellow, or orange chiggers (the larvae).
- Contact dermatitis: Red, itchy bumps and inflamed skin at the site of contact with a chemical, detergent, paint, or other irritant. Can also be caused by rubber or plastic food dishes. There may be scales and hair loss.
- Ear mites (ododectes): Head tilting and shaking, and scratching at the ears. Excessive brown, waxy, or purulent material in the ear canals.
- Feline miliary dermatitis: Small bumps and crusts around the head, neck, and back felt beneath the haircoat. May be associated with fleas. May be complicated by
- Flea allergy dermatitis: Red, itchy pimplelike bumps over the base of the tail, back of rear legs, and inner thighs. Scratching continues after fleas have been killed.
- Fleas: Itching and scratching along the back, and around the tail and hindquarters. Look for fleas, or black and white gritty specks in hair (flea feces and eggs).
- Food allergy dermatitis: Severe itching over the head, neck, and back. Swelling of eyelids. May only show as reddened ears. Often complicated by hair loss and oozing sores from constant scratching and biting.
- Inhalant allergy (atopic dermatitis): Appearance is similar to feline miliary dermatitis. May have symmetrical hair loss over body.
- Lice: Two-millimeter-long insects, or white grains of sandy material (nits) attached to the hair. Found beneath matted coats in poorly kept cats. May have bare spots where hair has been rubbed off.
- Maggots (myiasis): Soft-bodied, legless fly larvae found in damp matted fur or open wounds. May be complicated by pyoderma.
- Scabies (sarcoptic mange): Intense itching around the head, face, neck, and edges of the ears. Hair is rubbed off. Typical thick gray to yellow crusts. May be complicated by pyoderma.
- Ticks: Large or very small insects attached to the skin, or possibly walking slowly through the hair. May swell up to the size of a pea. Often found around the ears, along the back, and between the toes.
- Walking dandruff (cheyletiella mange): Large amounts of dry, scaly, flaky skin over the neck, back, and sides. Itching may be mild.


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The Huntsman: Winter's War looks good-ish?
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Lainey and I have been going back and forth for the last few days about The Huntsman: Winter's War. I think it has the potential to be Pan levels of bad—no one is asking for this movie, and the first entry into the franchise, Snow White and the Huntsman, was only okay. It's not like this is expanding from a smash hit widely popular movie. Full Story
Check out Emily Blunt as Evil Elsa
The sequel-prequel-whatever no one asked for, The Huntsman, has an official title, an official release date, and official character posters, including Emily Blunt as the Ice Queen. This thing is now called The Huntsman: Winter's War, it will open on April 22, 2016, and you can check out the four character posters below. Full Story
Smutty Social Media, Thursday November 5, 2015
Leo's boys have been posting photos all over Asia, so I can only assume that they have joined him in India, where he met with environmentalist and activist Sunita Narain. He rarely posts photos of himself on Instagram so you know he's being serious. It's nice to see him on vacation minus the yacht/model entourage. Full Story
Tom Hiddleston (is wasted) in Crimson Peak
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I didn't like Guillermo Del Toro's Pacific Rim as much as I wanted to, because no matter how cool it looks, the story is really dumb. And you can't say "oh it's just supposed to be fun" in an era where we're seeing some really quality populist films, from Marvel and the Dark Knight trilogy, to the revival of Bond and Mission: Impossible, to movies like Inception and The Martian, that don't draw a line between "popular" and "smart". Full Story
Tom in street clothes
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Tom Hiddleston, along with Jessica Chastain and Mia Wasikowska, have been promoting Crimson Peak, opening wide this weekend. You know what's/who's missing from that equation? Charlie Hunnam! Charlie's been in Belfast shooting The Lost City Of Z. You know what this means though? It means he doesn't have to do any promotion until Knights Of The Round Table next year. Full Story
The Martian & James McAvoy
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The cast of The Martian, led by Matt Damon, was in London tonight for the UK premiere. So far the reviews for The Martian have been quite strong. Sarah saw it at TIFF and liked it a lot and Sarah's hard to please. But when I saw her after the screening, she wasn't angry at all about spending two hours in the theatre watching it. Full Story
TIFF Review: The Martian
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The last time I outright enjoyed a Ridley Scott movie, no reservations, no qualifications or conditions, was American Gangster in 2007. Since then he's given us Grimdark Robin Hood, the space-magic bullsh*t of Prometheus, and the super messy but ambitious The Counselor, plus some other stuff no one cares about (AHEM EXODUS). Full Story
Matt's in town
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The Martian premieres tonight at TIFF. Sarah saw it today but she's got four films on her schedule so her review for it will be posted on Monday. Her review for Jake Gyllenhaal's Demolition is coming up soon. Ahead of the gala, Matt Damon and the cast of The Martian were at the Lightbox for the press conference this afternoon. Full Story
Friday Hunnam
It's Friday. And normally on Fridays Guy Ritchie posts a photo of Charlie Hunnam on Instagram to make our weekend but he's wrapped on Knights Of The Round Table so that probably won't be happening so much anymore. Happily though, Charlie delivered for us instead. He went to a hookah bar in London last night with some friends. Full Story
Smutty Social Media, Friday July 10, 2015
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Of course I Can't Ariana Grande's brother is going to jump in and paint her as a victim. Of course it's being labeled as harsh judgment. Of course he used the hashtag #weforgiveyouariana. Of course they won't acknowledge how unbelievably rude and entitled she acted. Full Story
The Martian: Also NOPE
I called Everest a big bag of NOPE after watching the first trailer, and after sitting through Fox's three minute-plus first trailer for The Martian, I am adding this movie to the NOPE bag, too. Directed by Ridley Scott, The Martian is based on Andy Weir's novel (adapted by Drew Goddard) about an astronaut who gets stranded on Mars after a manned mission is forced to abort. Full Story