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Paul K. Chappell is an international peace educator and serves as the Peace Leadership Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. He graduated from West Point, was deployed to Iraq, and left active duty as a Captain. He is the author of the seven-book Road to Peace series about ending war, waging peace, the art of living, and our shared humanity. The first five published books in this series are Will War Ever End?, The End of War, Peaceful Revolution, The Art of Waging Peace, and The Cosmic Ocean. Lecturing across the United States and internationally, he also teaches courses and workshops on peace leadership and peace literacy.
Chappell grew up in Alabama, the son of a half-black and half-white father who fought in the Korean and Vietnam wars, and a Korean mother. Having grown up in a violent household, Chappell has forged a new understanding of war and peace, rage and trauma, and vision, purpose, and hope. His website is www.peacefulrevolution.com.
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Picture taken with Paula Garb, co-director and co-founder of UC Irvine's Center for Citizen Peacebuilding during Peace Week at UC Irvine (January 2015)
Picture taken with Vietnam veteran Dan Gallagher at the Peace and Justice Studies Association conference in San Diego. He is featured in the film "Beyond the Divide," a documentary about healing the divide between veterans and peace activists. (October 2014)
Global Peace Convention in Kenya (November 19, 2010)
Pictured above is my friend Lagilagi, who served in the Fijian military in Special Forces. He was tortured, had seven ribs and the bones in his face broken, and spent eight years in prison, but he has learned to forgive and is now an inspiring soldier of peace. He told me that when soldiers leave the military, they are still duty-bound to serve others, and he feels duty-bound to work for peace. His wise words remind me of the philosophy of West Point, which taught me that life is about serving others. (August 11, 2010)
In Cleveland, Ohio with Chico (dog), James (who served as a medic in Iraq), and Reuben (June 2010)
Ralph and Christine Dull with Paul K. Chappell (October 2009)
Fort Bliss, Texas (February 2009)
Command Photo (July 2008)
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Mascot—Yume (which means "dream" in Japanese).
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GOVERNMENT Minister David Willetts was guest of honour when Bournemouth University launched its exciting Festival of Learning.
The Minister for Universities and Science toured the Talbot campus, stopping to try out some of the 150 events and activities taking place between now and Sunday, June 15.
He joined pupils from Winton School in a VeggiEAT session, to explore why people do or don't like vegetables and to find out whether they are super-tasters.
His memory skills were also put to the test in a super-recogniser experiment and he toured a graduate exhibition organised by BA Interactive Media Production students.
Mr Willetts met students and senior staff before listening to speeches from Bournemouth West MP Conor Burns and the university's Chancellor, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers.
Mr Willetts then performed an opening speech in which he praised Bournemouth University's research and the range of festival themes.
He said: "I am delighted to be here at the start of Bournemouth University's Festival of Learning, a celebration of the huge variety of research going on at this university. This year we are focusing on university research and how it shapes the world around us.
"Many of your events offer the chance to be personally involved in an experiment or to debate controversial issues. Perhaps the ultimate opportunity to get one's hands dirty comes on Sunday with the bio-blitz on Studland Bay, in which anyone can contribute to a mass survey of wildlife. This is a great example of what we call citizen science."
Mr Burns told the audience: "Bournemouth University is a priceless asset to our town, our conurbation and our region. We are at the cutting edge in important things such as the creative industries."
He said Bournemouth is leading the university sector in community engagement and added: "I am delighted that the minister's visit is shining a spotlight on how fortunate we are to have our two universities deeply embedded in the life of our town."

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BEIJING – The recent historic launch of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has been highly anticipated – and rightly so. With the start of operations, the AIIB joined the family of multilateral financial institutions in supporting broad-based economic and social development in Asia. Sound and sustainable infrastructure investment will lead to better development outcomes, improve the lives and livelihoods of Asia's citizens, and generate positive spillover effects in other parts of the world.
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M2A1Assignment 1: Discussion—Cost Accumulation System
When companies accumulate costs, they generally use either a job order or a process costing system. The type of system used often varies based on the type of product or service provided. Examine your experiences with a current or former employer and a product or service provided by this employer.
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- Identify and describe the type of cost accumulation system that was used.
- Explain how the system was used and, specifically, how overhead was allocated.
Support your responses with reasons and examples.
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I am always getting users that say it is taking a long time for them to get an email, one just told me she had to wait a whole 22 minutes for one.
I personally think that is not a long time, email is not instant messaging. Especially if the email has attachments.
So is there a standard of what is an acceptable length of time an email should take before being received? Does it change based on size?
Does anyone else get this complaint from users?
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Dec 6, 2008 at 7:13 UTC
akp982 is an IT service provider.
There are sooo many things that can affect the speed
- Speed off your internet connection
- Speed off senders internet connection
- Size of email - lots of text
- Size of email - lots of attachments
- Speed of the route - if its coming from aussie compared to next door (even if its next door it will still travel miles)
There is no rough time, we have emails that take anywhere from 1min to 45min, sometimes people moan but with a 20mb dedicated line we have no issues this end its just one of those things.
There smtp server could be done and the user might not know even?
Dec 6, 2008 at 7:35 UTC
In my experience, "it's slow" will often be applied by staff to anything that takes longer than a few seconds. 22 minutes isn't too long, I think.
We have a pretty pitiful connection at work and we're looking to trial a mail scrubbing service, so we're not downloading all the spam before running it through mimesweeper ourselves. It will be interesting to see any impact that has on things.
Dec 7, 2008 at 11:41 UTC
I am always getting users that say it is taking a long time for them to get an email, one just told me she had to wait a whole 22 minutes for one.
I personally think that is not a long time, email is not instant messaging. Especially if the email has attachments.
Does anyone else get this complaint from users?
22 minutes is not that long. We have our server set to keep in Queue for 60 minutes max, then if it fails it will forward that message to a mail forwarding service and it will then get sent from there if it doest fail there.
All the Domains that we host on our server will only take <5 minutes if the email is internal only.
Dec 8, 2008 at 1:27 UTC
Outermost Systems, LLC is an IT service provider.
22 minutes is not too long.
Another factor that can delay mail is greylisting. We use it and rely on well configured mail servers to resend email in response to a "service temporarily unavailable, please try again" message. (sender/Mail server pairs that do resend are thereafter whitelisted) Occasionally we see mail servers that take hours to retry or never retry. Virtually all of the "email took too long" calls (and they are few and far between) relate to greylisting and I can blame them on the sender's mail server.
Dec 8, 2008 at 3:04 UTC
interesting responces in here,
I personally find 22 minutes excessive, but I am running in house exchange, with hosted virus protection thru Symantec, on both internal and external mail.
I routinely get 3+ MB email that take less than 2 minutes. Most happen quicker.
The key to this is that I do not queue messages. Now if the sending party is using a queue, then that time will slide based upon how they queue. a server that sends messages every 60 minutes will cause the recieving party to not get the message for upto 60 minutes (based upon where you are in the queue when the message was sent.
Dec 9, 2008 at 8:09 UTC
Harry4506, I know what you are saying with greylisting, but I can't tell you how many times I have been told to find a fix for the issue when I know it's not on our side. Certain users don't care about technical details, it just HAS to work. NOW.
Dec 9, 2008 at 10:40 UTC
Messages sent within our organization are just about instantaneous. Sending out messages is very quick too, unless the attachment is large and sent to lots of our clients.
I dont think 22 minutes is too long if the message was sent externally to your organization. I know some email services like hotmail or gmail take much longer to send/receive messages than what he have here at work (exchange 2007, 120 mailboxes, 4 t1 lines).
However, if it was an internal email, it may indicate a bottleneck somewhere along the network path, maybe a switch is getting overwhelmed at one point.
Dec 9, 2008 at 11:43 UTC
Looking at this post, I am not sure I agree with everyone else here. We used to have emails taking 20-30 minutes to come in, but we have re-vamped some things (including routing all of our emails through MXLogic, a hosted filtering server). Now, for a plain text email we see it taking about 5-10 seconds to arrive on average. For attachments, even those have a VERY little delay. We have people here that send themselves test messages all the time, and a 22 minute delay would be considered unacceptable by my users/management. Granted, as people said, it is also dependant upon the other end. You cannot control their bandwidth or their servers...but, if you do whatever you can to maximize your efficiencies, then users will not consider it routine when a message takes that long.
What is your mail set up right now, that may have a lot do with it.
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Japan's prime minister is likely to nominate an advocate of aggressive monetary policy easing – Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda – as the next central bank governor to step up his fight to finally rid the country of deflation.
Shinzo Abe won a big election victory in December promising to revive the fortunes of an economy stuck in the doldrums for most of the past two decades. He has repeatedly called for a more aggressive central bank willing to take radical steps.
The yen fell on the nomination news to a 33-month low and yields on five-year government bonds hit a record low as markets moved to factor in bolder monetary policy.
"Kuroda is a fan of a weaker yen and of deflation bashing," said Kit Juckes, a strategist at Societe Generale in London.
Sources said the government is likely to nominate Kuroda and two deputies this week for parliamentary approval. It is also lining up Kikuo Iwata, an academic who advocates unorthodox monetary easing steps, and BOJ Executive Director Hiroshi Nakaso, who now oversees the central bank's international operations, as deputy governors, a source familiar with the process said. Iwata told reporters he had been offered the job and he would accept it.
Like the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan has cut interest rates close to zero. Since then it has adopted unusual measures to inject cash into the economy, currently in its fourth recession since 2000, to try to stimulate growth.
But Kuroda has long criticized the BOJ as too slow to expand stimulus, so he is expected to push for more radical efforts to achieve a 2 per cent inflation target set in January.
"Kuroda's nomination won't change the course that has been dictated by Abe in recent months – that is aggressive monetary policy, but perhaps thanks to the inclusion of Iwata the market will expect more eye-catching bold easing measures," said Masamichi Adachi, senior economist at JPMorgan Securities in Tokyo.
The nominations to lead the BOJ must be approved by both houses of parliament, which means Abe will need opposition support because his ruling-bloc lacks a majority in the upper house. The incumbents leave March 19.
The main opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) is likely to support Kuroda, although some in the party may oppose the choice of Iwata on grounds that his reflationary views are too extreme, party officials say.
Among other beliefs, Iwata has argued the central bank is mostly to blame for prolonging deflation by not being aggressive enough in easing policy.
If approved, the nominations increase the chances that the BOJ will ease monetary policy on April 3-4, the first rate review under the new leadership, say officials with knowledge of the central bank's thinking.
"Monetary easing is pretty much a given. The question is what specifically the BOJ will do," said one official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.
The BOJ has already pledged to pump 101 trillion yen ($1-trillion) into the economy by the end of this year by buying assets and through a lending program and to shift to open-ended purchases from next year.
To underline a more aggressive policy in April, the most likely options include starting the open-ended buying sooner than planned and increasing the amount of monthly asset purchases, the officials said.
Extending government bond purchases to maturities beyond the current three-years or buying more risky assets, such as exchange traded funds, are also options.
A drastic overhaul in the way the BOJ buys assets could take some time to materialize, while foreign bond purchases is also unlikely as Kuroda has ruled it out as an option, they say.
Kuroda, 68, has been considered a strong candidate to replace current BOJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa because of his extensive experience in international policy and his calls for more aggressive monetary easing that matched the views of Abe.
As Japan's top financial diplomat from 1999 to 2003, he aggressively intervened in the exchange-rate market to weaken the yen to support the country's export-reliant economy, a sign he will be keen to keep any sharp yen rises in check.
He has called for the BOJ to achieve its 2 per cent inflation target in two years by pumping money into the economy through unorthodox steps, such as expanding government bond purchases and buying shares. Inflation in Japan has rarely reached 2 per cent since the early 1990s.
There are several hundred trillion yen worth of domestic financial assets that the BOJ could buy to expand its quantitative easing, he said on Feb. 11.
The yen has weakened nearly 20 per cent against the U.S. dollar since November, when Abe began calling for bolder monetary easing.
The cheaper yen has helped improve profits at Japanese exporters, notably auto makers like Mazda Motor Corp, which raised its operating profit outlook for the year ending in March by 80 per cent.
But it has also sparked international concern the fall could prompt competitive currency devaluations as many countries are struggling for growth and to reduce debt following the global financial crisis.
Shirakawa's last rate review will be on March 6-7. The BOJ meets twice in April, once on April 3-4 and then on April 26.
Abe has stressed the need for the new governor to have international contacts, suggesting he prefers someone with experience in financial diplomacy, like Kuroda who, as president of the 67-member ADB rubs shoulders with policymakers around the world.
In nominating a BOJ governor, the premier usually respects the views of the finance minister and the ministry's bureaucrats because they work closely with the central bank on economic policy.
The finance ministry lobbied for former financial bureaucrat Toshiro Muto, but was likely turned down by Abe and his aides who saw him as lacking international contacts and less willing to experiment with untried monetary easing steps.Report Typo/Error


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Sunday, July 10, 2016
Welfare Reform, For-Profit Education, and Community Colleges
Did welfare reform lead to a rise in for-profit education?
I hadn't connected those dots before, but in retrospect, should have.
Marketplace has been running a new spinoff podcast called The Uncertain Hour, and I can't recommend it highly enough. The first season, which just ended (but is still available for download), is devoted to looking at welfare reform with the benefit of twenty years of hindsight. The last episode starts with a discussion with Tressie McMillan Cottom, a rising-star sociologist at VCU (and a personal friend), about the connection between welfare reform and for-profits. Check it out, but briefly, Cottom notes that the welfare reform act of 1996 put strict time limits on any education or training that recipients could get, and also required that it lead directly to jobs.
In practice, that meant that even a two-year degree was far too long. Certificates of less than a year, in clearly defined occupational areas, were the only things that fit. And in the late 90's, those were largely the domain of for-profits. If you could get, say, a cosmetology certificate in a few months, that was fine, but going for, say, a Nursing degree was out of the question.
At the time, community colleges' short-term certificate programs were relatively limited, and often relatively unknown when they did exist. An abrupt legislative mandate suddenly gave the for-profits an opening.
With twenty years' hindsight, it's obvious that encouraging the poorest of the poor to take on five-figure student loan debts for certificates that may or may not lead to jobs that pay a little over minimum wage (when you can find them at all) was ill-advised. But the cultural panic around welfare dependency was such that nuanced arguments were simply ignored. Several domestic policy advisors in the Clinton administration quit when their multifaceted advice was cherry-picked for the most regressive possible impact; that was the climate at the time.
Since the mid-90's, community colleges have become much more focused on short-term certificates, though it isn't always obvious from the statistics that many people use. That's because when we talk about "graduates," we typically refer to students in programs that bear academic credit. But short-term certificates may or may not bear credit. Most colleges count credit and non-credit numbers separately, so the true magnitude can be easy to miss.
Non-credit areas have certain freedoms that credit-bearing areas don't. They aren't wedded to a particular calendar, for example, so you don't have the issue of someone who gets laid off in February being told to come back in September when the semester starts. They don't have to use the credit hour, so they can allocate different amounts of time for different skills. (Certain practitioner-oriented fields, such as health care, still have time requirements for clinicals or work experiences, but the larger point still stands.) They don't typically have the same requirements for instructor credentials, so it's often possible to hire an instructor in a technical field who has a bachelor's and lots of experience, even without a graduate degree.
But non-credit sides of colleges are also expected to carry their own weight economically, or even to turn a profit. In other words, even if the community college as a whole is non-profit and subsidized, the side of the college that runs non-credit programs is still expected to behave like a business. It's a business selling empowerment, but it's a business.
In practice, many short-term training programs are either run in partnership with particular employers, or funded by various grants, both public and private. The tuition for students is usually far lower than a for-profit institution would charge, but most of the costs are still there. They're just shifted.
And that's where I wish The Uncertain Hour had gone a little deeper. It spends six episodes ably outlining ways in which welfare reform has either bypassed the poor entirely -- the episode on the "love styles" workshop nearly made me drive off the road -- or has made life harder for them. It notes that while some programs may have nudged people into work, most of the ones pushed into work didn't get out of poverty. The expectation that a job, any job, is the route out of poverty is much too simplistic. The "working poor" stand as living refutation of that.
I'm old enough to remember the debate and the climate in the mid-1990's. The earnest question that Krissy Clark, the host of the podcast, keeps asking is largely off-point. Although there was talk of helping the poor "escape" poverty, the real point of the enterprise was to get them off welfare. What happened after that was left to the fates.
If you accept that interpretation, then the otherwise-puzzling policy of steering the poor into for-profit providers that charged five figures makes sense. The point wasn't really to benefit the poor; the point was to stop paying for them. Shifting the cost of job training from employers or the state to the poor themselves accomplished that. The late 90's boom briefly masked the failure of that model, but the 2008 collapse made it obvious. The cost-shifting model fails when the folks to whom costs were shifted can't pay. Community colleges have picked up some of the slack through a series of separate workforce grants (TAACCCT, for example) and an internal separation that effectively moves those programs off-book, but our political discourse only vaguely understands what happened.
Now within the community college world, "credit for prior learning" and "prior learning assessment" are gaining steam as ways to break down the walls between the non-credit and credit sides. Students who started in short-term workforce programs sometimes discover a taste for education (and/or an ambition for promotion), and want some recognition of the work they've done. "Stackable" credentials and non-credit to credit conversions are emerging to make that crossover possible. Some of us see credit for prior learning as a social justice issue.
From the standpoint of 2016, we have a piecemeal but large and growing non-credit operation at most community colleges that has emerged as an unintended consequence of a shortsighted policy decision in 1996. Thank you, Prof. Cottom, for connecting the dots. And let's try to learn the right lessons this time, whether applied to "skin in the game" or "performance funding," so we don't find ourselves doing a similar post-mortem in 2036.
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The Uncertain Hour is so, so great. And Tressie McMillan Cottom makes it so much greater.
Except- fair warning to those who are planning to check it out- the welfare jingles are terrible awful earworms that will make you question humanity.
Except- fair warning to those who are planning to check it out- the welfare jingles are terrible awful earworms that will make you question humanity.
Yes, I remember the rhetoric around the "welfare reform" of the mid-Nineties. That common claim that forcing people off the rolls would "end the cycle of dependence." Because, doncha know, so many people were on welfare because their work ethics had been weakened by so long on the dole. The poors didn't work not because they couldn't find jobs or the jobs around were so bad and low-paying it wasn't worth it. No, it was a culture issue, by gum! Forcing them into the job market wasn't about cutting government costs or depressing wages, oh no, it was about re-introducing the spirit of hard work to the poors! Once they got a taste of the dignity afforded by honest work, they would of course rise in the world, thereby ending poverty in America.
This untreated sewage river of an argument was the popular wisdom of the day.
Good thing we've come so far since then.
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Hell of a season the Nationals are having, eh?
This untreated sewage river of an argument was the popular wisdom of the day.
Good thing we've come so far since then.
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Hell of a season the Nationals are having, eh?
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Calculating Date Differentials In Neo4j
(Or calculating date differentials in any environment where you don't have a date object)
For all the awesomeness of graph databases and Neo4j, the lack of a native date object seems a glaring omission and makes it difficult to calculate date differentials if you have two date strings and did not have the foresight to store it as a numeric value.
To get around this, you will need to either update all of your relevant nodes to calculate a numeric value which can be used for date operations. Alternatively, you can use the magic of Julian Dates! Why Julian? Because it's a continuous numeric value starting from the beginning of the Julian Period and can be "easily" calculated given a date string.
Consider a case where we have a task and a state and we want the average number of days between the created date of the task and the created date of the state.
In the sample Cypher below, the dates are stored in yyyy-MM-dd format:
MATCH (task:Task)-[:HAS_STATE]-(state:TaskState) WITH toInt(substring(task.CreatedUtc, 0, 4)) AS task_year, toInt(substring(task.CreatedUtc, 5, 2)) AS task_month, toInt(substring(task.CreatedUtc, 8, 2)) AS task_day, toInt(substring(state.CreatedUtc, 0, 4)) AS state_year, toInt(substring(state.CreatedUtc, 5, 2)) AS state_month, toInt(substring(state.CreatedUtc, 8, 2)) AS state_day, substring(task.CreatedUtc, 0, 10) AS task_created, substring(state.CreatedUtc, 0, 10) AS state_created WITH task_year, task_month, task_day, floor((14-task_month)/12) AS task_a, state_year, state_month, state_day, floor((14-state_month)/12) AS state_a, task_created, state_created WITH task_year, task_month, task_day, task_a, task_year + 4800 - task_a AS task_y, task_month + (12 * task_a) - 3 AS task_m, state_year, state_month, state_day, state_a, state_year + 4800 - state_a AS state_y, state_month + (12 * state_a) - 3 AS state_m, task_created, state_created WITH task_day + floor(((153 * task_m) + 2)/5) + (365 * task_y) + floor(task_y/4) - floor(task_y/100) + floor(task_y/400) - 32045 AS task_jd, state_day + floor(((153 * state_m) + 2)/5) + (365 * state_y) + floor(state_y/4) - floor(state_y/100) + floor(state_y/400) - 32045 AS state_jd, task_created, state_created RETURN avg(state_jd - task_jd) AS averageTimeToCompletionForScope
The actual algorithm is included below from the Wiki article:
Why Cursive Should be Taught in the Age of STEM
It's a topic that comes up from time to time in various channels on the topic of education and modern curricula. NPR just had an article today on it and how Alabama passed a law requiring it to be taught. Some might see that as a backwards policy from a backwards state. Do we have a need nowadays for something as outdated as cursive? Wouldn't it be better to spend that time focusing on math, science, or reading instead? Won't our kids in the future just use voice dictation or typing -- why bother with handwriting?
Actually, I think there is a very good reason why cursive handwriting should continue to be taught and graded: fine motor skills and dexterity. Even in the digital age, we still need these skills as it is a precursor to touch typing and necessary for the skills needed to manipulate small objects that are still very relevant in the age of STEM (motors, wires, circuitry, microscopes, pipettes, scalpels, transistors, etc.). It brings to mind an awesome video of a show called "Supreme Skills" out of Japan that pitted aerospace engineers against machinists to see who could design and build a more precise spinning top:
(I've sometimes wondered if the reason why Asians are stereotypically good at musical instruments or manufacturing electronics and goods is because Asian languages are much more difficult to write with more patterns and strokes required to be learned and executed.)
Some argue that you can develop those skills through other means like using a mouse instead. Imagine a simple, timed game where a child has to click or touch precisely to score. But there are practical reasons why this doesn't work so well like cost, for example, and also having a mouse available at every desk (which implies a laptop or workstation at every desk) would be a logistical nightmare. Cursive? It's cheap and practical; all you need is a $0.10 pencil and a $0.001 sheet of paper to teach and practice. Every child can practice writing cursive at home, regardless of their socico-economic background and it doesn't require much of an expense at all. Even as the cost and prevalence of tablets and phones becomes ubiquitous and ever cheaper, it's hard to beat practically free.
Observing my 5 year-old, I can see the purpose in a lot of activities that otherwise seem like they are just for fun. Even as a child colors or cuts shapes or glues balls of cotton to a piece of paper, all of these activities are training for precision and fine motor skills that are required for all sorts of more complex activities from playing an instrument, to being able to touch type, to having the ability to manipulate minute electronics. These activities are not just for fun; it's how they learn to precisely control their fingers for pressure and motion. Anyone that's had a child knows that young kids will have trouble pushing together or separating Legos or they'll squeeze out too much glue or they have trouble drawing a straight line or they can't copy shapes precisely or their cuts will be jagged and off the line. In repeatedly performing these types of activities through the course of play, they develop the fine motor skills they need later on in life; I tend to see cursive handwriting as a natural extension of these types of activities and necessary for all young children.
So even in the digital age, as a parent, I would welcome cursive into my child's curriculum because the purpose isn't to learn cursive, but to develop the fine motor skills that will be required to perform more complex digital manipulations as my child matures.
Thought of the Day
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A Recipe for Execution in Crunch Time
For many small software teams with loose (or non-existent) project management, "crunch time" usually leads to the unraveling of the project to some degree and inevitable crisis management.
In most of these cases, crunch time is the result of:
- Poor initial scoping - putting too much work into too little time or insufficient resource load
- Poor project methodology - poor tracking of estimates to reality, no mechanism of measuring progress
- Bad luck (or good luck?) - team is spread too thin due to unforeseen circumstances like a critical bug or landing a big contract with a new customer
- Poor communication and setting of customer expectations - if your team can't deliver, always communicate reality (assuming you know it) as early as possible so that there is no surprise and all parties can make sound, rational decisions.
So what do you do once you find yourself in crunch time, up against a deadline? My recipe is simple:
- Find the gap - get the stakeholders together and identify the functional gap that remains. The BA's, the SME's, the developers, the testers, maybe the customer -- get everyone together in room (or conference call) and identify the work that remains. There must be agreement so that nothing is left un-considered.
- Estimate the gap - once the gap is identified, the next job is to estimate how much work remains in the functional gap. Again, all stakeholders should be involved as testing and documentation must also be factored into the remaining work.
- Prioritize the remaining work - whether the gap estimate is less than the remaining time or greater than the remaining time, it is important to prioritize the remaining work so that the most important functional gaps are addressed first, just in case other unforeseen circumstances arise.
- De-scope or move timelines - if more work remains than the time available, there are really only two options: de-scope some functionality or move the timeline. It is rarely the case that you can solve issues in crunch time by adding more resources. Even if there is less work than time available, it often makes sense to create some breathing room by de-scoping
- Communicate - once reality has been clearly mapped out, communicate with the client to manage expectations and make sure all parties agree that it makes sense to move some less important features off into a future release. Focus the conversation and communications on quality and ensure that the customer understands that the decisions are for the sake of software quality and the end users.
Fred Brooks summarized this decades ago in The Mythical Man-Month:
More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined. Why is this cause of disaster so common?
First, our techniques for estimating are poorly developed. More seriously, they reflect unvoiced assumption which is quite untrue, i.e., that all will go well.
Second, our estimating techniques fallaciously confuse effort with progress, hiding the assumption that men and months are interchangeable.
Third, because we are uncertain of our estimates, software managers often lack the courteous stubbornness of Antoine's chef.
Fourth, schedule progress is poorly monitored. Techniques proven and routine in other engineering disciplines are considered radical innovations in software engineering.
Fifth, when schedule slippage is recognized, the natural (and traditional) response is to add manpower. Like dousing a fire with gasoline, this makes matters worse, much worse.
Brooks' reference to "Antoine's chef" is a reference to a quote:
Good cooking takes time. If you are made to wait, it is to serve you better, and to please you.
- Menu of Restaurant Antoine, New Orleans
He adds, later:
Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actual completion. An omelette promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices -- wait or eat it raw. Software customers have had the same choices.
The cook has another choice; he can turn up the heat. The result is often an omelette nothing can save -- burned in one part, raw in another.
Brooks provides other thoughts on this topic, of course, but my take is to realize that the "omelette" will be delayed and communicate the reality to the customer and let her make the call: does she still want it if it will be late? Can we bring out other parts of the meal before the omelette? Or will she sacrifice the "done-ness" to get it on schedule?
But of course, job one is to recognize that it will be late and then identify how late; nothing can progress until those two activities are accomplished.
One of the More Creative Ways to Advertise Career Opportunities
As seen on Soundcloud.com as I was examining why the page wasn't loading...
Adding The Google Test to Your Interviews
On a message board, I read a thread where a poster -- a research scientist -- was describing how he ended up becoming the defacto IT guy in his department simply because of his superior Google skills and willingness to Google for and apply solutions to fix issues for his colleagues.
This is something I've personally never been asked to do in an interview nor have I thought to ask others when I interview them, but it seems that being able to quickly Google and sift through results quickly to separate the wheat from the chaff is a skill that is supremely underrated in today's world of software engineering.
The fact is that developers and technology specialists today need to deal with so many technologies and understand deep nuances, Google is often the only way that any of us can get anything done, especially with obscure errors and what not that Microsoft and SharePoint loooove to throw at you.
In fact, I'm quite surprised that I've never been asked to do a Google search speed and accuracy test.
How would one design such a test to be effective at measuring a candidate's speed and accuracy at using Google? Should the topics be relevant to the candidates job domain? Or should it be more generic? Should it test a candidate's knowledge of Google's advanced features?
Indoor Rock Climbing – Try It!
One of my recently discovered activities that I'm falling in love with is indoor rock climbing (though I suppose I may try outdoor rock climbing and bouldering one day, too).
In a weird way, it's the ultimate thinking person's type of sport that is physically demanding, but also mentally challenging as well. Climbers like to talk in terminology like "problems", "projects", and "solutions" and it's entirely accurate and applicable way to describe what climbing is all about. If you walk into a bouldering area in a gym, you will see climbers just sitting around, planning routes, thinking about how to position their bodies to make the right move and attacking routes over and over again. Difficult routes demand that you plan and think about how you can make your way up a vertical face while expending the least amount of energy.
It's odd, but I also think that it's a very "romantic" (or "bromantic"?) activity because you'll have the most fun climbing with someone else. There is a lot of communication and trust involved when one person is controlling the safety and well-being of another person suspended 40 feet in the air. For that same reason, it's a great team building activity for companies because to climb, you need to be able to work together, communicate, and have trust in your partners.
To get started, you can look up Google Maps and find some nearby rock climbing gyms and just call and take a class. I took my first class at Rockreation in Costa Mesa, CA where you had to schedule ahead and the classes are far more formalized, but there are also places like Rockville back home in NJ, where the classes are much more informal and you can just show up and take a short intro class.
Most intro classes will teach you the basic elements of indoor climbing:
- Using harnesses and shoes
- Basic double-figure-8 knot tying
- Belaying
- Basic safety including verbal commands and communications.
But in looking through some videos, I've found that there is LOT more to learn and I've developed an even deeper appreciation for it. Take a look for yourself:
Five Fundamentals of Indoor Rock Climbing
How to Grip Indoor Climbing Holds
Footwork for Climbing
Five Advanced Bouldering Techniques
What I hope that you can get from this is that there is a real art to this that is beautiful to watch in action. In that last video, the Bat Hang at 1:45 is a thing of beauty. Seasoned climbers make it look easy, but it really takes a lot of practice, experience, and creativity to move around like Cliff Simanski does in the video.
I've also learned that I've been wrecking my forearms because I've basically been muscling my way up the walls with my upper body strength alone. A strong grip and upper body are certainly beneficial for climbing, but you need far more than that to advance in the sport.
In a sense, rock climbing has a lot in common with dance or gymnastics: it demands creative body movement, flexibility, balance, body awareness, and spatial awareness (maybe even more so because your life is on the line in some cases).
It's a great activity for kids of all ages (Charlotte is 3.5 years old) to enjoy.
What Alan Watts Can Teach Us About Leadership
I was listening to a talk by Alan Watts and found one bit of advice that really connected to what I've learned about leading others.
The principle is that any time you -- as it were -- voluntarily let up control.
In other words, cease to cling to yourself; you have an excess of power because you are wasting energy all the time in self defense.
Trying to manage things, trying to force things to conform to your will.
The moment you stop doing that, that wasted energy is available.
Therefore you are in that sense -- having that energy available -- you are one with the divine principle; you have the energy.
When you are trying, however, to act as if you were god, that is to say you don't trust anybody and you are the dictator and you have to keep everybody in line you lose the divine energy because what you are simply doing is defending yourself.
One mistake that I've been guilty of is to try to force things to conform to my will on various projects (I still do it to varying degrees!). It is usually with the best of intentions -- for a cleaner framework, a better product, a more efficient process -- but at the same time, it is true that a lot of energy is spent wasted in doing so.
What is the alternative, then?
I think Watts is right that a level of trust has to exist that the team around you can help you achieve your project goals. Instead of expending the energy in controlling the members of the team, spend the energy in building that trust through training, mentorship, guidance, and giving up not just control, but responsibility.
Sometimes that trust will be unwarranted, but sometimes, that trust will pay itself back many-fold.
Stateless vs. Appccelerate.StateMachine
I've been investigating workflow engines lately (specifically, state machine libraries) and it's come down to Stateless vs. Appcelerate.StateMachine.
First, a digression on why I'm avoiding Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). It's true that there's tons of documentation, support from Microsoft, perhaps lots of experienced developers, but I count myself as one among many who feel burned by our experience with WF. I've used the first release of WF on FirstPoint and mostly ended up regretting it for the poor performance and complexity (making it hard for new developers to pick it up). I've also used the first release on various other SharePoint projects since then on top of Nintex and, again, it's been dogged by hard to trace bugs, poor performance, and stuff that's generally cumbersome (like deployment, for instance).
Microsoft seems to have addressed a lot of these issues by totally rewriting WF in .NET 4.0, but this in and of itself raises a serious question: how stable is the framework? Sure, Microsoft provided a migration path from legacy WFs to new WFs, but it's still a headache. Aside from that, even just looking at the APIs, it's clear that it's extremely heavy and does nothing to alleviate the poor practices which are possible with WF.
Thus enters my search for alternatives including Amazon Simple Workflow. In the end, I've narrowed it down to Stateless and Appccelerate.StateMachine.
To test the intuitiveness, ease of use, and performance, I wrote a simple example with both of them. I modeled the phone example from the Stateless documentation and ran it in a loop of 1,000,000.
The loop looks like so:
internal class Program { private static void Main(string[] args) { var stopwatch = new Stopwatch(); stopwatch.Start(); for (int i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) { var phone = new Phone(); phone.CallDialed(); phone.CallConnected(); phone.PlacedOnHold(); phone.TakenOffHold(); phone.HungUp(); } stopwatch.Stop(); Console.Out.WriteLine(stopwatch.ElapsedMilliseconds); } }
The implementation of the phone in Stateless looks like so (common parts omitted for brevity):
namespace StatelessTest { public class Phone { private readonly StateMachine<State, Trigger> _phone = new StateMachine<State, Trigger>(State.OffHook); private readonly Stopwatch _stopwatch = new Stopwatch(); public Phone() { _phone.Configure(State.OffHook) .Permit(Trigger.CallDialed, State.Ringing); _phone.Configure(State.Ringing) .Permit(Trigger.HungUp, State.OffHook) .Permit(Trigger.CallConnected, State.Connected); _phone.Configure(State.Connected) .OnEntry(StartCallTimer) .OnExit(StopCallTimer) .Permit(Trigger.LeftMessage, State.OffHook) .Permit(Trigger.HungUp, State.OffHook) .Permit(Trigger.PlacedOnHold, State.OnHold); _phone.Configure(State.OnHold) .SubstateOf(State.Connected) .Permit(Trigger.TakenOffHold, State.Connected) .Permit(Trigger.HungUp, State.OffHook) .Permit(Trigger.PhoneHurledAgainstWall, State.PhoneDestroyed); } private void StartCallTimer() { _stopwatch.Start(); } private void StopCallTimer() { _stopwatch.Stop(); } public void CallDialed() { _phone.Fire(Trigger.CallDialed); //Console.Out.WriteLine("Dialed"); } public void CallConnected() { _phone.Fire(Trigger.CallConnected); //Console.Out.WriteLine("Connected"); } public void PlacedOnHold() { _phone.Fire(Trigger.PlacedOnHold); //Console.Out.WriteLine("On Hold"); } public void TakenOffHold() { _phone.Fire(Trigger.TakenOffHold); //Console.Out.WriteLine("Off Hold"); } public void HungUp() { _phone.Fire(Trigger.HungUp); //Console.Out.WriteLine("Hung Up"); } } // Define enums here }
The implementation of the phone in Appccelerate.StateMachine looks like so:
namespace StateMachineTest { public class Phone { private readonly PassiveStateMachine<State, Trigger> _phone = new PassiveStateMachine<State, Trigger>(); private readonly Stopwatch _stopwatch = new Stopwatch(); public Phone() { _phone.In(State.OffHook) .On(Trigger.CallDialed).Goto(State.Ringing); _phone.In(State.Ringing) .On(Trigger.HungUp).Goto(State.OffHook) .On(Trigger.CallConnected).Goto(State.Connected); _phone.In(State.Connected) .ExecuteOnEntry(StartCallTimer) .ExecuteOnExit(StopCallTimer) .On(Trigger.LeftMessage).Goto(State.OffHook) .On(Trigger.HungUp).Goto(State.OffHook) .On(Trigger.PlacedOnHold).Goto(State.OnHold); _phone.DefineHierarchyOn(State.Connected) .WithHistoryType(HistoryType.None) .WithInitialSubState(State.OnHold); _phone.In(State.OnHold) .On(Trigger.TakenOffHold).Goto(State.Connected) .On(Trigger.HungUp).Goto(State.OffHook) .On(Trigger.PhoneHurledAgainstWall).Goto(State.PhoneDestroyed); } private void StartCallTimer() { _stopwatch.Start(); } private void StopCallTimer() { _stopwatch.Stop(); } public void CallDialed() { _phone.Fire(Trigger.CallDialed); //Console.Out.WriteLine("Dialed"); } public void CallConnected() { _phone.Fire(Trigger.CallConnected); //Console.Out.WriteLine("Connected"); } public void PlacedOnHold() { _phone.Fire(Trigger.PlacedOnHold); //Console.Out.WriteLine("On Hold"); } public void TakenOffHold() { _phone.Fire(Trigger.TakenOffHold); //Console.Out.WriteLine("Off Hold"); } public void HungUp() { _phone.Fire(Trigger.HungUp); //Console.Out.WriteLine("Hung Up"); } } // Define enums here }
And here are the results:
Here are my observations:
- Stateless is about 4x faster than Appccelerate.StateMachine
- Stateless syntax is a little bit more intuitive for creating hierarchies
- Appccelerate.StateMachine documentation is much more thorough and much more complete than Stateless
- But Stateless has more downloads (thus more users) and more presence on StackOverflow (should you need it)
- Appccelerate.StateMachine has some cool features around logging and extensibility, but quite honestly, I don't think they are needed given that if you use a composite pattern around your state machine, you can really manage that yourself much more concisely.
- The external persistence infrastructure of Stateless is simple, but not very intuitive or well documented
- The Appccelerate.StateMachine Nuget package did not work with the package manager console and Visual Studio 2012, requiring me to manually download and compile the source (which I don't mind, but raises some doubt)
All said and done, I think we will use Stateless as it is a very barebones and highly performant state machine, which is perfect for our needs. Look for more Stateless posts in the future!
Attached is the sample code: StateMachineTest
Damn It, Microsoft (SharePoint)
Came across an interesting quirk today with regards to AddFieldAsXml in the SharePoint API.
It turns out that SharePoint doesn't really give a damn what you want to call your field when it adds it to the list; it's going to damn well do whatever it damn well pleases!
You see, in the MSDN documentation, it implies that you can specify the display name and the internal name (just look at that sample code).
However this isn't the case and, as Bill Simser points out, this has been an issue going back to 2005.
Thankfully, as commenter Morten Bundgaard Pedersen points out, you can use the SPAddFieldOptions.AddFieldInternalNameHint option to force SharePoint to use the name value that you specify in the XML.
Seems kind of silly to me given that this is the most likely use case and should be enabled by default given that the intent -- in specifying the Name and StaticName fields would be to, you know, use them when creating the field.
Damn it, Microsoft.


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Trains on the Cranbourne line were delayed for more than an hour after two meandering dogs wandered onto the tracks and were killed.
The dogs were at the Greens Road, Lynbrook, level crossing when they were struck by a Dandenong-Cranbourne shuttle train at 5.20am on Thursday, a Metro Trains spokeswoman said.
She said the owner appeared not to be with the dogs at the time.
The dogs damaged the train's mechanics at the front of the train and it needed to be repaired on site before it could be moved to Dandenong about 5.40am.
The incident caused a delay of 45 minutes before services returned at 6.45am.


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The new tour includes the New Zealand native's performances at Lollapalooza and Osheaga festivals in early August.
Lorde is returning to the U.S. for a new round of her tour later this year. After selling out her 16 North American shows back in March, the New Zealand teen announces a string of new tour dates scheduled for this fall.
The tour is beginning with Lorde's performances at Lollapalooza Music Festival in Chicago on August 1 and at Osheaga Music Festival in Montreal, Quebec, on August 3. It will then continue on September 5 at Mann Center in Philadelphia.
The tour includes three stops in New York, with a two-night show taking place at the city's United Palace Theater on September 15 and 16. The 17-year-old singer will bring it to some other cities across the U.S. as well as Canada before wrapping it up on October 12 at Austin City Limits in Texas. Tickets go on sale on Tuesday, June 3.
Lorde is still enjoying the success of her debut album, "Pure Heroine", which was released last year. The record has spawned a number of hits, including her breakthrough single "Royals".
- Aug. 1 Chicago, IL (Lollapalooza)
- Aug. 3 Montreal, Quebec (Osheaga Music Festival)
- Sept. 5 Philadelphia, PA (Mann Center)
- Sept. 7 Boston, MA (Boston Calling)
- Sept. 11 Ottawa, Ontario (Ottawa Folk Fest)
- Sept. 12 Toronto, Ontario (TD Echo Beach)
- Sept. 14 New York, NY (Pier 91)
- Sept. 15 New York, NY (United Palace Theater)
- Sept. 16 New York, NY (United Palace Theater)
- Sept. 19 Raleigh, NC (Red Hat Amphitheater)
- Sept. 22 Nashville, TN (Grand Ole Opry House)
- Sept. 23 Columbus, OH (LC Pavilion)
- Sept. 24 Cleveland, OH (Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica)
- Sept. 26 Milwaukee, WI (BMO Harris Pavilion)
- Sept. 27 Councils Bluff, IA (Stir Cove)
- Sept. 28 Broomfield, CO (1st Bank Center)
- Sept. 30 Las Vegas, NV (The Joint)
- Oct. 2 Berkeley, CA (The Greek)
- Oct. 6 Berkeley, CA (The Greek)
- Oct. 9 Santa Barbara, CA (Santa Barbara Bowl)
- Oct. 10 San Diego, CA (Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre)
- Oct. 12 Austin, TX (Austin City Limits)


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Jungle Curry
Recipe by PalatablePastime
This is a nicely spiced vegan curry that one can easily add bean curd or slices of meat or seafood to if they wished. They call this jungle curry because it has no coconut milk, and no coconuts grow in the jungles of northern Thailand. Not every curry needs coconut milk, and this is even great for those on a heart-healthy diet.
Top Review by Karen Elizabeth
Oh my goodness, we loved this :D I didn't have broccoli, so substituted zucchini, which seemed to work well. I wasn't sure if the sugar quantities quoted are correct, or just doubled up, so I compromised and put in 3 tsps, which was fine! Otherwise, I stuck to recipe, and we very much enjoyed a healthy and flavourful supper, quicly prepared and served over noodles. I halved the quantities, since it was just DH and I, and still had enough over for my lunch today, yum, looking forward to that treat! Thanks, Sue!
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Ingredients Nutrition
For the Curry Paste
- 4 fresh Thai red chili peppers or 4 serrano chilies
- 4 garlic cloves
- 2 stalks lemongrass, sliced thin (white part only)
- 2 inches fresh galangal, peeled and chopped (ginger may also be used)
- 1 red onion, coarsely chopped
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons ground coriander
For the Curry
- 4 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 5 ounces baby sweet corn cobs, split lengthwise
- 2 red bell peppers, thinly sliced
- 8 ounces fresh green beans, halved
- 8 ounces fresh button mushrooms, halved
- 2 small broccoli, cut into florets
- 1 1⁄2 cups vegetable stock
- 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce
- 4 kaffir lime leaves, thinly sliced
- 2 teaspoons palm sugar, vegan brown sugar or 2 teaspoons brown sugar
- 1⁄2-1 teaspoon salt (to taste)
- 1⁄4 cup chopped fresh cilantro (for garnish)
- 3 -4 fresh Thai red chili peppers (for garnish) or 3 -4 serrano chilies, sliced into rings (for garnish)
- steamed rice or cooked noodles
Directions See How It's Made
- Prepare curry paste by mixing in a food processor or blender.
- Heat oil in a wok or deep skillet and add curry paste, cooking until fragrant.
- Add vegetables, coating thoroughly with curry paste, and cooking until almost crisp-tender.
- Add stock, soy sauce, lime leaves, sugar, and salt.
- Cook until vegetables are done to your liking.
- Serve garnished with cilantro and sliced chiles, over steamed rice or noodles.


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Megan Greeson, Assistant Professor of Psychology at DePaul University, presents preliminary findings via webinar for NSVRC staff and advisors on a research project about Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs) in rural communities.
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DES MOINES — The Iowa Senate voted Wednesday to provide a bigger state income tax break for working families earning $45,000 a year or less.
Senators, by a 35-15 margin, agreed to boost the earned income tax credit from the state's current 7 percent tax credit to 20 percent of the federal tax credit for working poor families after turning back a Republican effort to broaden the break substantially.
Sen. Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City, said the 20 percent earned income tax credit contained in Senate File 422 would benefit about 210,000 Iowa households, which are home to about 40 percent of the state's children.
"The tax relief is going to people who pay more than their fair share," said Bolkcom, the bill's manager who argued that Iowa has a significant poverty issue and the tax relief in the measure will target those working families struggling to make ends meet. "They need help, and they're getting it today. It's the right thing to do."
According to a fiscal note prepared by the Legislative Fiscal Agency, Senate File 422 would provide $56 million in relief in fiscal 2014, $54 million in fiscal 2015, $53.2 million in fiscal 2016 and $52.3 million in fiscal 2017. The current 7 percent earned income tax credit is estimated to carry a $30.2 million cost in fiscal 2013.
The bill applies retroactively to Jan. 1, 2013, for tax years beginning on or after that date.
Sen. Randy Feenstra, R-Hull, one of 15 GOP senators who opposed the bill on final passage, tried unsuccessfully to amend the bill by increasing the refundable earned income tax credit from 7 percent to 10 percent or providing a separate option whereby income taxpayers could receive a 1 percent reduction on their first $40,000 in yearly taxable income and 2 percent on the first $60,000.
Feenstra said his approach, which failed on a 24-26 verdict, would provide tax relief for 770,000 Iowans that could total $800 per single filer and $1,600 per couple. However, Bolkcom said the amendment would cut the benefit to lower-income households by half and dilute the economic impact of the tax relief.
The bill now goes to the Iowa House, where GOP senators doubted the bill would get consideration. Republicans control the House by a 53-47 majority.


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I don't pretend creating actual subdomains. It would only be a shortcut for visitors. There is going to be hundreds or thousands of names, and it's impossible to create subdomains by hand...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
The Yardage Debate: Bushnell vs. SkyCaddie
Recently, I got my hands on two rangefinders, the Bushnell Tour V2, Slope Edition, and the SkyCaddie SG5, and my goal was simple. Which one of these works best for what player?
Here is what I came up with.
Why It's Important to Own One
People might think owning a $300 or $400 device that just gives yardages is a little expensive and unnecessary. Up until a month ago, I never owned a device, I'd just borrow them if I was playing in a tournament that allowed them. I was always excited, however, to be playing in a group where someone pulled a rangefinder out of their bag.
"156 to the pin," they'd say and I'd be comfortable knowing that the yardage was spot on, so my shot needed to be just as exact. It's a different style of confidence that you can't find by using the yardages on a course.
The problem with stepping yardages off is it isn't an exact science. People take different strides, so the "yards" aren't always yards, and even the plates can be a bit off if the hole has change or the green has been altered. Using these devices, I had instances where my "step" yardage was nearly 10 yards off (almost a full club) than what I was getting from my rangefinder. That isn't just a shot that comes up short or long, it's probably a dropped shot. If that happens twice a round, and you place four times a month, you're talking eight shots you lose a month because of inferior equipment.
Which One Suits My Game?
Messing around with both devices, it was easy for me to understand what people of different handicaps should buy.
The SkyCaddie is a more popular device for higher handicappers, as it should be. When your goal is to get it on the green, not necessarily near the pin, you want a device that will give you yardages to the front, center and back of the green. Using the SkyCaddie was beneficial in this regard. Playing on a golf course with large, firm greens, the SkyCaddie is helpful because you might not know how far it is to the pin, but you'll be able to hone in on how far to hit a certain shot to a certain distance. "I don't want to go over, so if it's 196 to the back, I need to hit the club that, at best, will only fly 190."
For someone that enjoys golf but isn't necessarily breaking course records, I would suggest the SkyCaddie. When you buy the device, you have software you must download on a computer. Setting all this up was easy and didn't take too long, and after you purchase the plans for the SkyCaddie, you are off and running. Also, who doesn't love another icon on their desktop?
One of the other things I loved about carrying this around was with errant tee shots. Many times, you're going to miss fairways and in the rough and in the trees, it isn't always easy to find a yardage marker. This will give you exact yardage, so even if you have to punch out, you know how far to hit it so that you're at a comfortable yardage for your next shot. Bonus all around.
For lower handicappers, I have to suggest going with the Bushnell. I will say, older people I know have struggled with shooting yardages with this thing, and I don't blame them. It took me four or five rounds to get comfortable enough with the V2 to shoot the pin and get a consistent yardage, but once you get the hang of it, it's pretty darn easy (Easy tip -- don't shoot at the flag, shoot just above it at the top of the pin).
While front and back yardages are helpful, being able to sit in a fairway and shoot the pin, knowing exactly how far you have, is as good as it gets. Along with that, I used the Bushnell during my U.S. Open qualifier practice round to fire at trees off tees that I wanted to stay short of, and bunkers near greens that I wanted to keep back of (Not to dismiss the SkyCaddie in this regard -- they also have a feature where you can see how far it is to certain bunkers and how far you just hit a tee shot. That helps if you just muscled a drive and want to brag to your buddies that you're the next Tiger Woods. If they roll their eyes, that's your bad.)
If you are able to hit a shot to a yardage fairly consistently, I'd have to say the Bushnell device is the best around. While the "slope" feature isn't allowed in tournament play, clicking it off is an option that you can use so that you don't have to ditch the device.
Also, during the practice rounds that I caddied for Erica Blasberg in, we used the Bushnell device's slope feature to understand how far up and down certain greens were, noting that in the yardage book so we could remember it in tournament play.
Where Can I Buy One?
If you want the Bushnell V2 ($431.99), click right here and you can get it sent to your house. I'm not sure about this, but they might include a picture of me in the box.
If you are interesting in purchasing the SkyCaddie SG5 ($399.95), you can get one right here. Picture of me doing a handstand, not included.
Should I Buy One?
If you want to improve your golf game, and not waste time stepping yardages like you're a caveman, yes, yes you should.
10 comments:
- Cash said...
Spot on, old chap... Great review and I think an accurate bit of advice. One bit that I would add - for less than $300 smokes, you can snag a Nikon made, Callaway branded rangefinder that rocks...plus it comes in a coll azz yellow color toi match those LoudMouth pants you have been ogling
- May 13, 2009 at 1:19 PM
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- Lucas said...
I use the golf guru, which is a handheld gps device and it works fantastic and the support has been outstanding. $250
A gps definitely saves you a few strokes during your round. You still have to hit the shot and putt though.
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Ousted "Two and a Half Men" star Charlie Sheen is speaking up about CBS and Warner Bros. hiring Ashton Kutcher to replace him on the hit sitcom. He shared some kind words about the younger actor to TMZ, saying, "Kutcher is a sweetheart and a brilliant comedic performer." Then he got a bit snarky.
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Malaysia to Make Biofuel Mandatory by 2008 - Report
Date: 07-Oct-05
Country: MALAYSIA
With crude oil prices expected to remain high, Malaysia is seeking to encourage national use of a biofuel that is made from 95 percent diesel and 5 percent processed palm oil.
Legislators are expected to pass a law next year to introduce the new product, and give motorists a year to try it out before making it mandatory, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Peter Chin told The Star.
"We will enforce it and make everyone comply," the minister was quoted as saying.
"There will no longer be unadulterated diesel on sale," he said, referring to the planned switch of diesel to the new blend.
The head of the government-run Malaysian Palm Oil Board told Reuters last month that biofuel would be ready at domestic pumps and for export by October 2006.
Biofuels are taking on new importance worldwide as the cost of petroleum products rise and as countries seek to cut emissions to meet the UN Kyoto Protocol. Burning the biofuel is considered to be carbon-dioxide neutral and does not require emissions rights.
Malaysia, a net exporter of oil and gas, heavily subsidies pump prices of petrol and diesel, putting a serious strain on its budget as the cost of fossil fuels has surged.
The government estimates that it will spend 16 billion ringgit ($4.2 billion) on fuel subsidies in 2005, a 34 percent jump from last year.
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A public warning was issued today by the Lawyers Association of Hesse, to all firms employing Jewish lawyers and even to firms employing Jewish war veterans, that this was contrary to the national spirit.
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The same paper is publishing lists of Christian girls who are still keeping company with Jews and alleges that a large number of Christian girls still prefer to spend their time with Jews, in cinemas and at week ends at seashore resorts.
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The student association of Erlanger University has issued a manifesto urging all German students to join Julius Streicher, fanatic anti-Semite and editor of the notorious paper, Der Stuermer, in his fight against the Jews, declaring, "the Jews are the deadly enemies of the German race."
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Ireland has put a huge dent in Welsh hopes of a record third Six Nations title in a row, with a clinical display in Dublin's Lansdowne Road as they ran out 26-3 winners.
Warren Gatland's men simply never got close to the hosts, who tactically outmanoeuvred the giants in red, and boasted raw strength and aggression to complete the rout.
Ireland have not begun a Six Nations with back-to-back victories since the Grand Slam year of 2009, and this comprehensive result will have them dreaming in Dublin.
"Well it always helps to have the first two games at home and we would be disappointed not to have four points," said Ireland's outstanding captain Paul O'Connell.
"Still it puts us in great heart for what will be a tremendous challenge against England at Twickenham in a fortnight," added the lock.
Jonny Sexton's boot dominated the game, but the performances of Peter O'Mahony, O'Connell, Andrew Trimble and Rob Kearney will give England boss Stuart Lancaster plenty to ponder ahead of the mammoth clash in Twickenham in two weeks time.
"It was a very disciplined performance," said O'Connell.
"I thought we were excellent all round but from now on it gets a lot harder."
Wales's Sam Warburton was gracious in defeat.
"We were definitely outplayed, full credit to Ireland they were fantastic really," said the flanker.
"Now it will be a real test of character for us to pull ourselves together for the France match in a fortnight."
Warburton, though, said their dreams of a third successive title were far from over.
"We won the title with four wins last year and we can do the same this year."
Ireland were already in confident mood following their 28-6 opening day win over Scotland.
They were the only team to beat Wales in 11 Six Nations clashes, but the hype surrounding this game was not about the theme of Welsh revenge, but an altogether different grudge match, pitting the 'coldhearted' Lions boss Gatland v 'scorned' centre O'Driscoll and Ireland's eight Lions v Wales' 12.
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By MELINDA WILLIAMS
Pulaski Town Council Tuesday gave its stamp of approval to a citizen-led Redevelopment and Renewal Plan for downtown Pulaski without committing any taxpayer money to the effort.
"The first step is to start the ball rolling and see what interest there is from the private sector," Councilman David Clark said before making a motion to give council's affirmation to the project "in principle" so that efforts can begin to form "Pulaski Champions," the citizen group that will oversee the project.
The motion unanimously passed although Vice Mayor Joseph Goodman at first suggested it might be best to hold off to see what Pulaski County Board of Supervisors thinks of the plan. "I hear there are reservations at the county level. Before we take action I think it would be a good idea to find out what our friends a couple of blocks away are thinking," he said.
Pulaski County Economic Development Director John White pointed out that the nature of the plan is not dependent upon the county.
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"We're not committing anything other than saying lets start the clock and see if there are citizens who can get behind this – The Champions," he added.
North Carolina architect David Gall, who prepared the plan, presented it to town council, most members of the board of supervisors, citizens, and other community leaders at a special meeting held May 13. At that time, Gall noted the first, and one of the most important, steps is affirmation by the town council and the board of supervisors.
The plan was not discussed at the supervisors' May meeting and does not appear to be on the agenda for its meeting Monday night.
White asked the council to consider affirming the plan so that the "clock" can begin by establishing Pulaski Champions. He said the plan is about growing revenue, growing the town and saving its assets.
"We have some incredible assets we're going to lose if we don't act quickly," he said, noting that the owners of one town asset (Dalton Theatre) allowed it to crumble. He said it could have "been a magnet for Pulaski on the par of the Lincoln Theatre in Marion."
Although a group of interested citizens saved the town's other theatre, he said the theatre alone cannot draw the magnitude of people that are needed to help the town recover.
Councilman Greg East called Gall's plan a "neat concept" that is "really sound."
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He said he has spoken with a couple of developers who feel the "clock" or timeline set forth in the plan is "too fast" and "not realistic" because of the amount of time it takes to get federal grants and permits, plus raising money to make the plan happen.
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Goodman said the issue of whether there will be a wellness or aquatics center, as proposed, also has to be addressed.
Prior to the motion and vote, Mayor Jeff Worrell agreed with East and Goodman's comments, but added, "I would like to see us go ahead with this. I'd kind of like to see the county follow our lead for a change."
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