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Techtronic: "We Have The Vision To Be No. 1"
Five years ago, Ryobi's limited offering of cordless drills accounted for a tiny piece of the U.S. market. Now, Ryobi Ltd. boasts one of the broadest and best-selling product lines at Home Depot Inc. (HD ). In three years, sales of power tools bearing Emerson Electric Co.'s RIDGID brand have tripled. Last year, Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. helped revolutionize its industry by being among the first companies to introduce cordless tools that use light, long-lasting, rechargeable lithium ion batteries.
The common element in all these successes is Techtronic Industries Co. The Hong Kong company illustrates how far a determined challenger can go by targeting a narrow industry segment -- and then seeking to dominate. By leveraging a huge manufacturing and engineering base in China to drive down costs and speed innovation, it now is shifting into overdrive through acquisitions. Since 2000, Techtronic's sales have surged fivefold, to $3 billion. In that time, its share of the $6 billion U.S. electric power tool market has grown from less than 5% to more than 20%, says market research firm Freedonia Group Inc. Black & Decker Corp. (BDK ) still holds a commanding 30% share, but Techtronic is thinking big. "We have the vision to be No. 1, and we believe we can do it," says Chairman Horst J. Pudwill, a former Volkswagen executive.
Pudwill co-founded the company in 1985 as a maker of rechargeable battery packs for cordless tools. It then made tools for do-it-yourselfers on a contract basis for Sears Holdings Corp.'s (SHLD ) Craftsman brand, among others. Then it bought control of brands, including rights to the Ryobi name outside Japan, Royal vacuum cleaners, and Homelite garden tools. The big move was the $626 million purchase of Milwaukee Electric Tool and Germany's AEG Power Tools -- both premier brands used by professionals -- from Atlas Copco.
More important, though, is what Techtronic has done with those brands. By shifting most production to its massive factories in South China, where it has 16,000 workers and engineers, it constantly cuts costs while loading its products with new features. Techtronic can also take new tools from the conceptual stage to production in as little as six months, thanks to 24/7 collaboration among designers in Asia and Techtronic's "concept centers" in Hong Kong, South Carolina, Germany, and Britain. That allows the company to expand its product lines dramatically.
Ryobi, aimed at do-it-yourself hobbyists, is a good example of how Techtronic can transform a brand. In 2004 it teamed up with Home Depot to launch the hugely popular "one plus" system, which lets 30 different cordless tools, from drills to fans, run off the same rechargeable battery. A Ryobi kit with an 18-volt drill, circular saw, reciprocating saw, flashlight, vacuum, and two batteries retails for just $169. Techtronic figures the innovation helped sell 25 million Ryobi tools in three years. The company "brought innovation and freshness at a time when the tool industry really needed it," says Craig Menear, Home Depot's senior vice-president for merchandising. "We've seen the competition really step up, and that's healthy." That may be the clearest sign that a game-changing multinational is on the way.
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After using IBM Installation Manager to uninstall Rational ClearQuest, the files segments.gen and segment_1 are left behind on the system
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After performing an uninstall of IBM Rational ClearQuest, the files segments.gen and segment_1 are left on the system and subsequent install attempts to the same location result in a message about the install location directory not being empty or non-existent.
The segments.gen and segment_1 files are created by the Full Text Search indexing service during install and upgrade operations for IBM Rational ClearQuest version 7.1.x. When Rational ClearQuest is uninstalled, these files are left in their original install locations.
Microsoft Windows system where an IBM Rational ClearQuest package that includes the Full Text Search feature has been removed using the Installation Manager uninstall operation.
Diagnosing the problem
After using IBM Installation Manager to remove IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.1.x,, check your system files to determine if the following files are found in the specified directory:
$INSTALL_LOCATION\ClearQuest\CQ.Solr\SAMPL\Solr\solr\data\index\segments.gen $INSTALL_LOCATION\ClearQuest\CQ.Solr\SAMPL\Solr\solr\data\index\segment_1
If these files are present, the next time you install Rational ClearQuest you will get an error message about the install directory not being empty or being non-existent.
Resolving the problem
Before trying to resolve this problem, restart the system to make sure the IBM Rational ClearQuest uninstall operation is complete. Restarting the system ensures that any remaining file and resource locks are removed from the system.
After restarting, delete the following folder to remove the Full Text Search files and any remaining files that might cause problems when reinstalling IBM Rational ClearQuest.
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Maslow And EMail Marketing
by editor , David Baker on Apr 14, 1:30 PM
We all likely know Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory -- usually reserved for sales training to understand the state of consumer needs and how they apply to consumer decisions. Yet if email is a notification agent, an influencer to purchase and change, an educational and motivation outlet and a promotional tool, shouldn't you consider the customer state and how email can influence drives to satisfy needs?
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Email Production: Keeping the Wheels On Your Program
by Aaron Smith on Apr 10, 2:00 AM
Most anyone who's driven an email program would agree: it's a volatile, high-speed, NASCAR-style ride. As you zoom along the racetrack -- avoiding the potholes of ever-changing business goals, competing stakeholders, deliverability issues and rendering errors -- keeping the wheels on requires precision, a tough hide, plain old elbow grease and dumb luck.
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Email, like life, is "like a box of chocolates": Sometimes you get things that are hard to chew. In the last year or so, my fellow Insider columnists and I have written about why email is neither dead nor dying, despite what naysayers insist. What will wound email is the enemy within: not spam, regulation or even the SMS/Facebook/MySpace generation, but our own ignorant practices. Stupid is as stupid does. If Forrest Gump were an email marketer instead of a shrimper, he would explain that when otherwise smart marketers do stupid things, they are, in essence, stupid.
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Email On A Budget
by daniel.c , Melinda Krueger on Apr 8, 2:00 AM
Dear Email Diva: I am a communications manager who does it all for my art museum: creative, art direction, media, traffic, PR, promotions and all the rest. I oversee the Web site and about five years ago, developed an email program as a part of my master's thesis. It's time to grow again. I need to construct a policy and am looking for some guidelines. I don't have funds to go to a conference or hire a consultant.
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Help Wanted: Email Marketing Manager
by editor , David Baker on Apr 7, 2:01 AM
Seeking skilled professional with extensive knowledge of email marketing, including all aspects of customer segmentation, deliverability, ISP relations, authentication, email delivery systems, creative design, HTML coding and campaign management skills. No need to understand reporting or analytics, as we really don't do much with the results. Must have strong communication skills, with ability to spin useless open rates into meaningful information and correlate it to great customer experiences that mean something to the business. Must have strong work ethic and thick skin, as you will be overworked and under-appreciated....
Is this job description really so far from the truth?
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Calling The Cops On The Housekeeper They No Longer Want
by Chad White on Apr 3, 2:00 AM
There are still a lot of marketers that just don't understand that they have to send emails that are relevant and not overly frequent unless they want to be reported as spam, even though the people they're sending to opted in to receive those emails.Just recently there was yet another study quantifying this shift. A new study by Q Interactive found that 56% of consumers consider marketing messages from known senders to be spam if the message is "just not interesting to me" and 50% consider "too frequent emails from companies I know" to be spam.
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Making It Personal
by Aaron Smith on Apr 2, 2:00 AM
Last week we discussed simple ways to layer segmented content into batch and blast email programs. Personalization is another advanced but easy-to-implement tactic proven to produce more relevant campaigns, inspiring recipient engagement and stimulating program performance.
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Why Won't You Get On My Mailing List?
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Dear Email Diva: Working in the health-care industry can make it difficult to market to the people in one's community. We incorporate e-newsletters in various health services including cancer, heart, women's services and others -- but what steps can we take to grow our email list to the general public in the area? We have an "Add me to Mailing List" link on our left nav, but how can I help grow that list? Any ideas?
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Authorities overnight removed the large metal letters spelling out the action star-turned-politician's name from the 15,300-seat stadium in the southern city of Graz, taking advantage of the Christmas lull to avoid attracting attention. They timed the work to take advantage of the Christmas lull to avoid attracting attention "and keep the media from taking photos," a local city hall official who declined to be named told Austrian television.
Schwarzenegger had written to the mayor of Graz a week ago asking that his name be removed after local activists called for the stadium to be renamed because of the governor's refusal to block the Dec. 13 execution of convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams.
Capital punishment is illegal in Austria, where many people consider it barbaric. Opposition had run especially high in Graz, whose official slogan is "City of Human Rights."
After Williams' execution triggered a firestorm in Europe and reignited calls for Graz's stadium to be stripped of Schwarzenegger's name, the governor opted for a pre-emptive strike: A week ago, he dashed off a letter to local officials ordering his name to be removed and said he was returning an ornate ring of honor that Graz officials gave him in 1999.
With the Hollywood star's name gone, the sign atop the stadium in Graz, about 120 miles south of Vienna, read simply: "Stadium Graz Liebenau." Officials had renamed the arena in Schwarzenegger's honor in 1997.
Calls to the city hall in Graz went unanswered Monday, a national holiday in Austria.
Last week, Graz Mayor Siegfried Nagl wrote to Schwarzenegger urging him to reconsider his decision to cut ties to the city and to keep the ring. Nagl said he reassured Schwarzenegger that he remains admired by most local residents despite the fierce opposition to his support of the death penalty.
Nagl said he was worried that severing ties to Schwarzenegger, one of Austria's most famous sons, potentially could cost the city millions in tourist revenue.
But a movement to scrap Schwarzenegger's name from the stadium had gained momentum in recent weeks, and a majority of the city council in Graz was said to support the idea, making Schwarzenegger's demand a pre-emptive move.
The ring arrived at Graz's city hall late last week, and officials were considering putting it on display at a local museum, Nagl told the weekly newspaper Die Woche.
Many Europeans have scorned the United States' use of capital punishment in general, and Schwarzenegger's refusal to grant clemency to convicts on California's death row in particular. They are now waiting to see how Schwarzenegger deals with the scheduled Jan. 17 execution of 75-year-old Clarence Ray Allen.
Schwarzenegger was born in 1947 in the village of Thal just outside Graz, where he began his bodybuilding career. He emigrated to the United States in 1968 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1984, but has retained his Austrian citizenship.
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But many Austrians began to sour on him last January after he allowed California's first execution in three years to go forward.
Donald Beardslee, 61, was given a lethal injection at San Quentin State Prison north of San Francisco. His Jan. 19 execution triggered protests in front of the U.S. Embassy in Vienna.


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On Wednesday it was announced that consent had been granted to build a $350 million, 209 metre skyscraper on the empty site at the corner of Victoria, Albert and Elliott streets. This site is location right up against Aotea Station on the City Rail Link, which will be dug out underneath Albert Street in the block between Wellesley and Victoria Streets.
The map below shows the site's location in relation to Aotea Station:
We've said previously, including in our submission on the CRL's designation application, that a pedestrian entrance to Aotea Station through this site is an absolute no-brainer – especially an entrance that lined up with where Darby Street meets Elliott Street so there's a 'line of sight' level way of accessing Aotea Station from Queen Street. Whether it can go straight from Darby into the station or whether it needs to be on some sort of angle probably depends on whether the stupid slip lane on Albert Street is retained or not. But different options for some pedestrian connection through the site could work like what's shown below:
The obvious way to provide the link (whether it's the blue option or the red one) is through some sort of retail arcade at ground level. This is a "win win" situation as it provides a high quality connection between Queen Street and Aotea Station that is flat (rather than people having to trek up Victoria Street) while also creating a huge amount of foot traffic for a successful retail area for the building owner.
A risk that may arise from any delay to the construction of CRL is the possibility that we may lose this opportunity. As Auckland Transport haven't designated for access to the station across this site, we are reliant upon the goodwill of the developer to provide the connection (although obviously it's to their advantage due to the foot traffic). But would they build a major retail arcade without the far end of it linking with Auckland's busiest train station? There may also be helpful synergies of building both the tower and the station at the same time – in terms of underground services, traffic disruption as well as how the two might link together at the Albert Street boundary.
Compared to the dependency of Precinct's development on the timing of the CRL this is a fairly minor issue. However there do appear to be some important links between the new skyscraper and Aotea Station – particularly in relation to getting the pedestrian links right. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure the developer of the site wouldn't exactly want a giant construction site right next to their recently opened hotel during the first few years after it's completed.


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Spotless Object - Poem by Hasmukh Amathalal
Spotless object
I saw spotless emerging object
Very much silvery and natural act
Slowly rising from the bottom of the sky
With full size and feeling very shy
Beauty can seldom be narrated
Now with any of the object equated
Such a beautiful scene with no blockade
Whole of sky illuminated with no sign of shade
I saw spotless character
As if highly integrated as lady actor
What a beautiful show altogether!
In fine atmosphere with cool weather
Not a single person can resist temptation
Few words in praise with so much elation
How come an object rise with so much of elegance?
Lovers across the world give so much of importance
Stars have no place to twinkle
Only moon has space and capable
Complete sway over millions of hearts
An object seen as unparallel natural art
Can you imagine few spots on the face?
As if cried for few minutes in waiting race
The smile was clearly reflected as sign of happiness
That is why there was brightness all over on the face
The sadness and pain was left all behind
We have no means to point out or find
The wonders behind such a artful show
Where you find all inspirations with glow
Such a humble and all round show in universe
Where all love hungry people see and converse
Express their desire with full of promises
Not to part with any of the reasons with slight miss
I shall depict it as heavenly creature
Where only peace and love resides for future
No hatred but enough of space for future generations
With a sole aim to rise again for maintaining relation
We may miss such a scene for times to come
If not adhere to in our life and welcome
What we need to see at this object and learn!
We must enjoy it with peace leaving behind all concerns
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People simply cannot be treated as a number. It is important to thank them by mail and assure them that the office is there to help in anyway possible.
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"The use of the latest technology today is very important when trying to make your practice remain successful," said Chhoda. "However, remaining in the past with the older file and paper system can seriously hinder long-term survival and efficiency of a practice."
Chhoda states that for any PT or other physician's office to remain efficient, it must have goals set for its long-term survival. Chhoda stressed the importance for the office staff to remain in contact with all of the clientele on a regular basis. Using the most modern EMR system software can do this for any office.
Chhoda also stressed the need of real compassion in any PT office and that human beings naturally need assurance. "People simply cannot be treated as a number," says Chhoda. "It is important to thank them by mail and assure them that the office is there to help in anyway possible. This can be helped along with EMR documentation software as well. And while large offices may see this as a large task, it really isn't.
Physical therapy offices must utilize all modern customizable systems with electronic medical record keeping, the software does a lot of this for you." Chhoda also stated that many EMR systems could help the staff with communications reminders alerts by text or even via social media and other mobile electronic devices.
Chhoda's office can be reached by phone at 201-535-4475. For more information, visit the website at http://www.emrnews.com.
Nitin Chhoda PT, DPT is a licensed physical therapist, a certified strength and conditioning specialist and an entrepreneur. He is the author of "Physical Therapy Marketing For The New Economy" and "Marketing for Physical Therapy Clinics" and is a prolific speaker, writer and creator of products and systems to streamline medical billing and coding, electronic medical records, health care practice management and marketing to increase referrals. He has been featured in numerous industry magazines, major radio and broadcast media, and is the founder of Referral Ignition training systems and the annual Private Practice Summit. Chhoda speaks extensively throughout the U.S., Canada and Asia. He is also the creator of the Therapy Newsletter and Clinical Contact, both web-based services to help private practices improve communication with patients, delivery better quality of care and boost patient retention.


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The trust sign still available for purchase at Paris Hotel Boutique, here.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
"Props" to Pottery Barn
Have you ever noticed the interesting antique props in various home catalogs? Many of them are rented from antique shops/dealers. Well, a customer pointed out to me that our antique glass 'Trust' sign is in the August Pottery Barn catalog on page 32. It was one of the items that Pottery Barn rented.
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- Tracie~MyPetiteMaison said...
That is so neat, Lynn. I will have to look through the current catalog & see your sign on the printed page here too.
One of the houses down the street is emptied out every once in a while and Pottery Barn goods brought in to photograph there for catalogs... I wonder if your sign could have been among the goods there too, here in town.
Your Trust sign is beautiful, just the perfect amount of wear.
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Oh my God? Seriously? She admitted that? Out loud? To you? She likes the grandchildren who look like her better?
Maybe that is part of what's going on here! My son, except for his coloring, looks like me. His hair color and complexion come from his dad's side, but the bone structure, face, physical features, eyes are me, me, me. Maybe that is why they don't like him.
By contrast, his cousin the same age whom they visit frequently is the spitting image of BIL who looks like FIL.
I don't know how much weight this has, but you might be on to something. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised, I guess!
That was always my opinion. Until MIL started saying things like "we don't visit because you work and SIL is a stay at home mom."
I should just take that attitude and forget about DS in terms of a grandparent relationship. DS has me, his teachers, his friends, my friends. I guess that will have to be enough.
Oh, yeah! I would LOVE if my inlaws did this. If they came and stayed in a hotel, and came over, we did something for a while, they returned to the hotel for a nap or some downtime, then they returned later or the next day. Heaven. I've invited them to do this. They have said no. They don't want to do that.
We have hotels within 5 minutes of our house. Affordable ones, too.
I've also asked them what they want to do and they never say anything and FIL gets antsy just sitting and won't take off his coat and paces around the room.
I think I will just focus on not having them be a part of our lives. That's what I've been doing the last few months and, really, we don't miss out on much and things are much easier without them. No worries...just a missed opportunity.
It's not the most horrible thing in the world. Actually - from my point of view - it's easier not dealing with them. I was just trying to improve things for my DS. But I should count my blessings.
I should just take that attitude and forget about DS in terms of a grandparent relationship. DS has me, his teachers, his friends, my friends. I guess that will have to be enough.
Wife of 1. Mom of 3. Conquering disability challenges, one achievement at a time.
Pick up any book about it and you will swear that it was written about your family.
savithny, 42 year old moderate mom to DS Primo (age 12) and DD Secunda (age 9).
I wanted to clarify my relationship with my MIL (and FIL) and answer a question about what I do for them. What do you do for your inlaws to foster the relationship with their grandchild(ren)? Please, before posting, please do not say you do not believe grandparents don't have to treat grandchildren fairly or that you leave it up to your DH/partner. I need to foster the relationship and improve the connection between my inlaws for my child's sake. Thanks. I am not looking for them to lavish attention on my child. I'm simply seeking some level of fairness in how they treat all of their grandchildren and an improvement in the relationship/connection/bond.
What I do for MIL (and FIL):
- I do have a very nice place for MIL to sleep and I have always put out fresh sheets, blankets and pillows for her. Yes, it is an air mattress, but it is quite comfortable (more comfortable than where we sleep, actually) and it is clean and fresh and in a quiet area of the house.
- I go to the grocery store before her visit and get good things (just not meat) and usually I order pizza or other take-out for her and she chooses what she wants from the menu. More often than not, DH and I pay for it.
- I send them pictures of their grandchild, and lots of information on what is going on in their grandchild's life. Frequently.
- I used to send lots of cards (for things like Father's Day/Mother's Day, etc). For years. I send them art projects from school, drawings, special hand-made messages and cards from my child, etc.
- I invite them for field trips, for birthday parties, for playgroups. For holidays. For visits in general. I always extend the invitation to them both (both FIL and MIL).
- I try to engage FIL in conversation about things that interest him. His yard. His hobbies. The weather. What's going on in his home town.
- I try to engage MIL in conversation about things that interest her and I listen to what she says.
- I always offer to pay for things like take-out, pizza we order, the admission to places we go. More often than not, DH and I do pay. We never free load off of them and we always, always offer, which both MIL and FIL have remarked about and have said they really respect us for.
- I take MIL out for lunch, and pay. I take MIL out for coffee, and pay. I take MIL out for ice cream, and pay. I take MIL to movies, and pay.
- I ask what they would like to do first. I ask for their ideas about agendas for the day. I try to elicit ideas from them. What would you like to do? What do you enjoy? Oh, I don't know. Whatever is fine is always the reply. But they always say it's a problem or snipe about it after the fact. This has happened so many times. They don't speak up and I think they are fine with things, then learn later they didn't like it.
- I used to buy them gifts, special ones, from their grandchild - keepsakes, personalized things, special and meaningful books, framed photos, grandparent journals, etc. I made a real effort on that kind of stuff for about 4 years (my child is only 4.5).
- I have gone to visit them when they've requested over the years: holidays, Mother's Day, if they have relatives in town, family reunions.
- I've not complained and agreed it was necessary when DH had to go to their house, use his very limited vacation from work, and help them when they've had a few emergencies and other episodes. We're the only relatives close, and we do that for them and have for years. Granted, they don't ask for help often but when they have, we've been the family to do it. I feel that is what family does.
- I reached out to MIL and helped in every way DH asked me to and which I felt was appropriate without overstepping my bounds when MIL's mother passed away. We stayed with them, sent cards, called on the phone. That's what family does.
- When I go to MIL's house, I put up with their smoking and their lack of a guest room, and the tv being on loud into the night in the same room they set up the air mattress for me, DH, and DS. The last time the tv blared all night and other family members were watching it and DS (3 at the time) stayed up until 1 a.m. crying. I try to overlook things when at their house, within reason.
- I've tried to give MIL and FIL as much information to make things they don't understand as easy on them as possible, such as things about how we are parenting and choices we make.
I don't know - there's probably more, but this is a good attempt at a list of what I do for MIL and FIL.
In return, I am asking that they be fair and spend an equivalent amount of time and money on DS as they do on their other two grandchildren the same age who happen to live much further away.
I hope that answers your questions. And provides some food for thought. I'd be happy to read what you do for your MIL and FIL.
Thanks so much.
Maybe DH and I are freaks. Or losers. I don't know. It seems like a lot of people have pretty nice set ups with king size beds, 5 bedroom houses, and tvs and stuff.
I don't know. Where did I go wrong? I went to college, I have a career, I work in a decent enough field, I have a professional job. I just haven't ever had the money for these sorts of things.
I've never traveled. Anywhere. I don't own really anything nice. I can't see where we will have money at any point for a pool, a grill, a sectional, 5 bedrooms, or any of that stuff.
We do live, I guess, in a high cost area with high taxes. I mean, we pay over $6,000 a year in real estate taxes. It's a huge chunk of cash every year that I worry we won't be able to pay.
We are debt free, other than our mortgage and a tiny bit left on my student loan (very, very small now after paying it down for years).
Where did I go wrong??
I know that DH doesn't make that good of money, but it's not bad. We're not bad with our money - we just don't make enough and having a child has been expensive and drained down the savings we once had.
I'm starting to feel like we're losers. I mean, yes, I did say earlier part of this is philosophy. I truly don't believe in owning a lot of crap, but also the philosophy is living within our means, and to do that, well, we just can't buy a lot of stuff.
Are we losers??
Or do people have more debt than us? Honestly, how are you guys all paying for this stuff?
I wrote in to a forum of other parents to get ideas and perspective because - honestly - I don't feel I've been a terrible daughter-in-law to these people, and I feel like they could and should - and have said they would - do things for my son, and they haven't, and in my circle of working-mother friends I see how much different those inlaws are and in my circle of playgroup friends I see how much support their is from their inlaws and I think what the heck? What is going on with my inlaws? And they do so much for BIL and SIL who have more resources than we do and I think, boy, this situation sure could use a change.
This is what it is, it will not change.
Rarely people are almost perfect (usually in movies or fairy tales.) Most people are great with a few minor flaws. Some people are fairly flawed. Some people are extremely flawed. A few people are down right horrible.
IL are people.
There fore;
Rarely ILs are almost perfect (usually in movies or fairy tales.) Most ILs are great with a few minor flaws. Some ILs are fairly flawed. Some ILs are extremely flawed. A few ILs are down right horrible.
Yes, she did say it straight to me. At least she didn't say it to my DDs, I guess. What she actually said was that she had been waiting 20 years for a red headed grandchild. (There is a 20 year age gap between my oldest nephew and my sister's oldest child). When the second niece was also a redhead, she was ecstatic and told me how much she loved being with them because "everyone can tell at a glance that I am their grandmother and that is why they are my favorites."
|Of course, she also sees a lot more of them as they live in the same country.
This isn't to make excuses for her behavior (though some of that may be more what you are reading into what she has said, than what she really feels,) but simply to help you understand it better.
I'm a red head. After the basic "Hey, RED!" the phrase people utter most often is "So, where did the red hair come from?" Being that red hair is caused by recessive genes, this is a question that typically has no simple answer. It can be very awkward feeling to be the only one in the family.
Having red hair grand kids is an affirmation that she isn't some strange alien disconnected from everyone else. Being there fore her red head grand kids keeps them from feeling like they were dropped off by aliens.
It's much easier to become close to someone you get to spend a lot of time with. It also helps that they share a culture together in the same country. It is hard to have someone come for a short visit from another culture and expect to feel instantly close.
It is not showing that they love those grand kids more. They do bribe those grand kids more (possibly so SIL will put up with them.) How much they spend on BIL's kids, and how often they visit doesn't tell you how much more they love those kids, it tells you only how much more fun visiting BIL is.
Actually that they come to visit you even though you don't provide a resort like vacation in a city they enjoy, and you keep a dry house, says that they care enough to live with the minor discomfort of it.
The big question becomes: Should you start trying to provide them with the comfort level BIL provides them with?...
I say "H*LL NO!!!"
If you want people to visit you just b/c you provide a nice vacation open a B&B. If you run a B&B, you can even make a no smoking on the premises rule. Making your home so comfortable the ILs want to visit all the time, will not make them love your children more.
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Why does how much time your ILs want to spend with you reflect on your value as a human being? The reality is that it doesn't. Would being a door mat make you a better person?
She lives in the country with the highest proportion of redheads in the world, so I doubt she feels like an alien. It just happened that none of her kids, and only two of her grandkids inherited her coloring. It really doesn't bother me - she never hid the fact that she played favorites with her own kids, so we had no expectations of impartiality over the grandkids. That's OK - I like some of my siblings more than others too.
This definitely sounds all about the alcohol now that you added that piece of the puzzle. It makes perfect sense. Your FIL won't visit because he can't drink there. Your MIL is making excuses about the other parts of the visit because to her they are euphemisms and she is too embarrassed or something to make the real excuse of "he panics at your house because of not drinking."
I have had two extended-but-close (as in, physically nearby so I saw them fairly often) male family members who were alcoholics and both their wives made the same kinds of ridiculous excuses for them to family. Even though, again, everyone knew they were/ are alcoholics (mixed tense because one is living and one is dead). I don't get it but I'm sure there's some name for the phenomenon.
I think it can be easier to spend more money on the people/kids you spend more time with simply because there's more opportunity to. My SIL lives w/ my inlaws and her 7 yr old son lives there, too. My inlaws are great people who have always tried to be very fair in terms of gifts. Even so, having a kid right there in their home means they're probably spending more on him overall since they're likely to be out w/ him when he's hungry (so they'll feed him) or at a store with him when he sees a toy he likes (so they buy it). They also know him better just from being with him so much so I'm guessing it's just easier to buy stuff for him because they know his likes and needs better.
I guess the key difference between my situation and yours is that: my inlaws don't tell me about all the stuff they do for my nephew and we we're comfortable financially so we don't need anything from them. I can see where it would rankle me if we were in a different typ of situation.
I remember when I first had a baby that my mom said, "Now I have a real grandchild." And I pointed out my nephews and niece, my brother's kids, and she said that your daughter's kids are more like real grandkids than your son's kids. Which I think is very very sad. But maybe your MIL has weird issues like that too.
My FIL said that when we had our first baby. It was their 9th grandchild, but the first one to "carry on the name". (Dh has 3 sisters).
It makes me horribly uncomfortable because MY children are the favored ones. I don't really know what to do--they visit us more often, they buy more stuff, etc, etc. It's not the wonderful gravy train that you are imagining it to be. It's really not.
What I do for MIL (and FIL):
- I do have a very nice place for MIL to sleep and I have always put out fresh sheets, blankets and pillows for her. Yes, it is an air mattress, but it is quite comfortable (more comfortable than where we sleep, actually) ....
- I go to the grocery store before her visit and get good things (just not meat) and usually I order pizza or other take-out for her and she chooses what she wants from the menu. More often than not, DH and I pay for it.
....I try to overlook things when at their house, within reason.
In return, I am asking that they be fair and spend an equivalent amount of time and money on DS as they do on their other two grandchildren the same age who happen to live much further away.
Sometimes they pay, but we always offer, and we pay upwards of 50% of the time. I have cooked for MIL in the past, and she will say it's good, but cooking and the food we have has come up after the fact. I don't cook or buy meat. When I've cooked I have made them pasta, and it's fine until surprising comments later. That's why we often get take out and pizza. They can choose off the menu what they want and select the place.
Look, I know my house isn't the most accommodating, but we live here. Yeah, there are improvements I'd like to make for us, but we don't because of lack of time and money. I'm not choosing to NOT do these things for inlaws just because. There are real reasons, and, mostly, they are financial and to a lesser extent philosophical.
... We don't have a grill, but I do get them take-out. ...
I think I will just focus on not having them be a part of our lives. ....
I spelled out how I make an effort in my OP. I do make an effort.
Again, I think I will just focus on not having them be a part of our lives.
I think I will just focus on everything else in our full-plate lives, and not have them be a part of our lives for the most part.
So maybe here is another perspective. I will comment on a few of your comments, just to maybe put another light on things, to try to point out some things.
I do not mean to be rude. I think what you "do" for your IL's should be a given. This is what I have been taught to do for every guest. And more. Open any book on hospitality, and you can read the same. I do not put out linens; I make up the bed as nice as possible. And I would agree with a PP, that getting down to an air mattress can be very difficult for anyone (depending on health conditions), and over the age of 50 in general.
Of course it is your home, your finances.. so your choice to not buy another alternative. But then I would understand why someone wouldn't want to visit.
When people come to visit us, we pay for all food. None of 50-50. I think that the guests have already spent time and money to come visit us... so we "pay" for the visit. In general we do not do pizza. I think visits are special, so there is at least one nice dinner out. Then all dinners at home are nice. We eat meat, but if we didn't, I would still buy meat for my guests if they ate it. We can go meatless all the other times they are not visiting.
I too think it is too much to expect IL's to be fair.
For the record, my IL's vastly, hugely, abundantly favor SIL's kids over mine. Even when IL's visit, all they do is talk about SIL's kids, or DH's sibs. They spend (what it seems like) all their disposable income on SIL's kids.
This was very hard for me to swallow for the first 2.5 y of ds1's life. But I eventually realized that I can't control them. And I have no right to try. I also now realize I have no right to expect fairness. And since I let this go, a lot of bitter has left me. Whether you are bitter or not, I do not know. But it sounds like you are from reading your posts. And if someone is even a little bitter, it can be almost impossible to avoid showing it.
Again, it sounds like they want meat. I would then just buy it. If I truly cannot fix it, then I would fork over the money to buy excellent prepared meat dishes... which are available in any gourmet grocers in a city. And yes I am just as busy, and probably busier than the vast majority of other mothers.... but if I want someone to visit, then I think this is one of the things reasonable to do.
Also, when we take others out to eat, I plan to pay. I also remind DH before we sit down to grab the check. My only goals are to: 1. make pleasant conversation; 2. let guest choose the entrees (as in if it's shared, obviously if it's individual); 3. get the check before the guest. I remind DH if it looks like he is moving too slow to intercept. I also have two constantly moving little ds's, so things can be busy. But intercepting a check is easier than arguing over who pays.
I think "surprising comments" are okay... They give me clues on how I can change, to make the situation next better. And they give me clues to decipher the person speaking.
If your IL's really like to grill, you can get a Weber grill for $20-50 dollars. Probably really cheap from Craigslist or a thrift store.
How about not focusing at all. How about not focusing on them not being a part of your life and not not focusing. As in, just let it be.
This sounds like active intentional behavior on your part. What I am proposing is to step back and have no active intent. And to have no control. And to let go of "have."
In my situation, when I let go.... it was incredibly freeing. I like to have things in control. Under control. I think I have good judgment and often know what's best.
But sometimes life.... and the world... and others.... just don't follow what I think. There are of course many options on how to proceed. At this stage of my busy life, the most pain free and pleasant.... is to just let go.
Yes! He should move his crap out, not necessarily to the basement. He should have done that years ago. It's a major point of contention. I would love to make that space into an office, a playroom, or a guest bedroom. Something for the family, not just DH.
DH will never give up his self-proclaimed "man cave." Where would he play x-box? Keep all his dvds and cds and other things? He loves to collect and hang out and, frankly, while I'd love the space, I need a place to send DH so that he's not playing x-box and watching tv in the family space unless it's a family oriented show.
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1. Re: About MHP... few questions843851 Dec 23, 2005 1:41 AM (in response to 843851)1) Probably not any time soon. Until there is a reliable test suite for MHP 1.1, it's impossible to ensure that any MHP 1.1 implementation actually meets the spec. There are also interoperability issues that will need working on, and which will not be covered by the test suite. DVB are working on an MHP 1.1 test suite, which is due in early 2006 if I remember correctly, but there will still be a lot of work needed even after the test suite is availalbe.
Add to that the fact that there's not much real demand for MHP 1.1 at the moment. The Italian MHP profile uses the smart card API from MHP 1.2, and that seems to be the biggest thing that people wanted. DVB-HTML is still a mess, and so most people are using a downloaded microbrowser and some flavor of HTML 4 or XHTML.
This is, of course, just my opinion.
2) I don't know exact figures, but I was talking ot one of the Italian broadcasters a few weeks ago anfd they were prety positive. They said that something like 3 million MHP boxes had been shipped in Italy. This is a pretty good number, but it's still nowhere near some of the non-MHP systems out there (BSkyB in the UK for instance have ~8 million deployments, and Freeview have about 4 million). Unless you're willing to pay one of the market research companies for their reports in this area, I doubt that you would get an idea of the overall market share in Europe, but DVB publish a report that gives numbers for MHP deployments worldwide. This is available from http://www.mhp.org/about_mhp/who_is_using_mhp/index.xml (see the MHP Update link).
3) Most of the Italian MHP boxes support smart cards, but these are more for pay-TV access via pre-paid cards. It would be possible to extend these to normal subscription services, but there is no demand at the moment from the broadcasters. Integrating this into MHP is no more difficult than integrating it in to any other middleware stack, so there are no technical problems doing this. Apart from using the smart card and using passwords, I don't know of any other really reliable ways for user authentication.
2. Re: About MHP... few questions843851 Jan 11, 2006 8:16 AM (in response to 843851)Hi ,
First of all i would like to wish you guys an happy new year, all the best for 2006.
Would it be possible to autenthicate a STB based on the return channel ?
Would it be possible to get information from the STB chip (EPROM or whatever) using other languages C or C++ ?
How can i get the MAC address of the return channel?
thanks a lot
3. Re: About MHP... few questions843851 Jan 11, 2006 8:48 AM (in response to 843851)And a happy new year to you. To answer your questions:
1) Not directly based on the return channel. Using a username/password/PIN is still the easiest way to do this
2) Not in any kind of interoperable way (and not without support from hte middleware vendor & STB manufacturer). This would require platform-specific extensions to MHP, and so it's not a practical idea for wide deployments.
3) You can't. There is no guarantee that the return channel will even have a MAC address - for instance, connecting with PPP over a PSTN modem).
Probably not the answers you were hoping for, unfortunately.
4. Re: About MHP... few questions843851 Jan 13, 2006 3:24 PM (in response to 843851)Hi,
I have an ADB box MHP Receiver T75-DEV with OCF smartcard and MHP 1.0.3.
Would it be possible to use OCF from an MHP application?
How hard would it be to change the MHP stack so that it support smartcard(smartcard is said to be supported by MHP 1.1 but not MHP 1.0.3 i guess)?
thanks a lot
5. Re: About MHP... few questions843851 Jan 16, 2006 3:59 PM (in response to 843851)Hi Seb,
2/ What is the overall MHP market share in Europe ? I mean theThere are only three countries in europe, where regular services in MHP exist: Italy, Finland and Germany.
amount of MHP boxes compared to all possible digibox on the
Italy: up to mid of 2005 2.2Mio. Boxes with MHP (only DVB-T) where sold.
Finland: 50.000 Boxes with MHP are on the market.
Germany: 20.6% of all households (=7.2Mio.) have at least one digital receiver (cable, terrestric and sat, see: http://www.agf.de/daten/zuschauermarkt/digitaltv)
The GfK (Gesellschaft f�r Konsumforschung), Germanys largest institute for investigating consumer-behaviour, isn't able to give a correct number for the percentage of MHP-Boxes, because there are too little Boxes on the market, the number would be "statistical noise". Therefore it is numeralized with <0.1% (= < 7000 Boxes). I got this information from an acquaintance working for GfK, it is nowhere published.
With the beginning of 2006 the private TV-Station RTL stopped their broadcasting of MHP "until the market-conditions for interactive TV will change". Right now only the public Broadcasters ARD and ZDF are broadcasting MHP-applications.
In Media-Shops STB's with MHP are no longer offered since one year.
It doesn't look very good for MHP in Germany. In my opinion MHP was introduced too early with not accurately working STBs/applications and too little broadcasters supporting MHP. In 2001/2 an inflation of prophecies concerning MHP flooded the german press (SMS, e-government, e-learning, e-banking), none of these promises cood be fulfilled, so the potential customers lost their interest.
Where can i find such information ?I got the information about Finland and Italy from http://www.mhp-knowledgebase.org/publ/mhp-kdb_d1-ver-2.pdf (Report documenting the current situation of MHP usage)
6. Re: About MHP... few questions843851 Jan 18, 2006 7:07 AM (in response to 843851)Hi,
thanks a lot fot the information:
I have an ADB box MHP Receiver T75-DEV with OCF smartcard and MHP 1.0.3.
Would it be possible to use OCF from an MHP application?
How hard would it be to change the MHP stack so that it support smartcard(smartcard is said to be supported by MHP 1.1 but not MHP 1.0.3 i guess)?
7. Re: About MHP... few questions843851 Jan 23, 2006 7:10 AM (in response to 843851)It should be possible to use the OCF from an MHP application, but I've never used that particular developer box and so I can't be sure.
Changing the MHP stack really depends on who is doing the changes - for a middleware manufacturer, it's probably not too hard - there will be an internal smart card API anyway (possibly in native code) and so adding a smart card APi on top of this is relatively straightforward. Most of the complexity is introducted by the smart card API itself (OCF is very complicated - this is one of the factors that led to it being replaced by a subset of the SATSA API in MHP 1.1.2).
For an application developer, there is no practical way of adding smart card support to a middleware stack that doesn't have it.
8. Re: About MHP... few questions843851 Jan 25, 2006 1:11 PM (in response to 843851)I like the idea of the username and password. But how do I get the username and password stored in the STB? Is there a virable defined in the MHP specs of which I get the value?
Thanks for help!
9. Re: About MHP... few questions843851 Jan 26, 2006 10:53 AM (in response to 843851)"There are only three countries in europe, where regular services in MHP exist: Italy, Finland and Germany."
In Flanders(Belgium) Telenet is also using MHP for it's DVB-C Set-top boxes.
10. Re: About MHP... few questions843851 Jan 28, 2006 7:43 AM (in response to 843851)
In Flanders(Belgium) Telenet is also using MHP for it's DVB-C Set-top boxes.One can read this in several newsletters. But actually they are only selling a MHP-Box (from ADB), but no interactive Services are distributed. They plan to do so.
11. Re: About MHP... few questions843851 Aug 27, 2006 7:24 AM (in response to 843851)
Have a look at these apps:
In Flanders(Belgium) Telenet is also using MHP forit's DVB-C Set-top boxes.
One can read this in several newsletters. But
actually they are only selling a MHP-Box (from ADB),
but no interactive Services are distributed. They
plan to do so.
12. Re: About MHP... few questions843851 Jun 7, 2010 8:48 PM (in response to 843851)The link has changed: http://telenet.be/337/0/1/nl/thuis/televisie/voordelen%20digitale%20tv/interactieve%20diensten.html
Those MHP apps are in production since 2004~2005.


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text: On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:27:42 -0500, Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 at yahoo.com> wrote: > At the moment, if a function has an inout parameter, it must have an > inout return type. > > But this prevents doing stuff like > > void test(ref inout(int)[] x, inout(int)[] y) { > x = y; > } This is a legitimate request, I think there is an effort underway by myself Timon and Kenji to make this work. (well mostly Kenji and Timon) > or passing the constancy through to a delegate instead of a return value. > > A typical use case of the latter is to define an opApply that works > regardless of the constancy of this and allows the delegate to modify > the iterated-through objects _if_ this is mutable. > > int opApply(int delegate(ref inout(T)) dg) inout; What you ask isn't possible given the current design of inout. During inout function execution, inout is a special form of const, even if the object on which opApply is being called is mutable. > But then I realised a potential ambiguity: > (a) the constancy is passed through to the delegate > (b) the delegate has an inout parameter in its own right > > If we go by interpretation (b), then each signature contains only one > inout, so even if we relaxed the rules to allow this it would just be > equivalent to > > int opApply(int delegate(ref const(T)) dg) const; Yes, this is what I think it should be equivalent to. As I said, inside opApply, inout is like const, and is transitive. So you cannot "temporarily" make it mutable. > however, this won't always be true in the general case. > > The essence of functions with inout parameters is that they have a > hidden constancy parameter. This is essentially a template parameter, > except that only one instance of the function is generated, rather like > Java generics. If we made this parameter explicit in the code, we could > distinguish the two meanings: No the constancy is not a parameter (not even a hidden one). The magic of inout happens at the call, not inside the function. Inside, it's just another type of const. However, there is an entire part of delegates that is yet untapped -- implicit conversion of delegates. For example, int delegate(ref const int x) could be implicitly converted to int delegate(ref int x). Maybe there is something there that can be used to solve this problem. Maybe there is a rule we could apply when calling an inout-enabled function that allows implicit conversion of a delegate to an inout -flavored version of the delegate (as long as the normal delegate matches the decided inout constancy factor). But that violates transitivity. I'm not sure Walter would go for this. -Steve


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The U.S. Supreme court order a stay in the execution of Missouri death row inmate Herbert Smulls late Tuesday night, two-and-a-half hours before Smulls was to be executed.
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