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No water my kenmore dishwasher is not getting any water. when we try to select normal wash or water miser cycle, the motor turns on, I can tell water is getting to the dishwasher because i can hear it running under the sink and feel it in the flexpipe that feeds the dishwasher. It is not getting anything inside though. Just wondering if you have any ideas. Thanks
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No water my kenmore dishwasher is not getting any water. when we try to select normal wash or water miser cycle, the motor turns on, I can tell water is getting to the dishwasher because i can hear it running under the sink and feel it in the flexpipe that feeds the dishwasher. It is not getting anything inside though. Just wondering if you have any ideas. Thanks
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My dishwasher after the cycle is over still have a bit of dirty water remaining on the bottom. After few hours is getting more and more dirty water. I have a feeling that some kind of the valve is not working correctly which allows the water from the sink drain to come back? Am I right? Is it a big re[pair or marginal? My dishwasher is about 20 + years old and still the greates one I owned ( I had before Bosh ). I own the dishwaser for last 4 years but previous owner loved it and never repair
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Asko diswasher Dishwasher will not get water. Lines all checked, water on. Pump runs even when in off. Problem started when there was a water clog in the sink next to the dishwasher, and the dishwasher backfilled with water. We used a shop vac to get the dirty water out. Next day tried to use dishwasher, runs, but no water and empying pump will not stop running. Ideas?
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Our Whirlpool KUDP01ILBS2 dishwasher isn't working like it used to. Dishes seem to be getting partially clean, they aren't getting dry at all and it seems they may be being rinsed/washed with dirty water. There is plenty of water in the machine when I interupt the cleaning cycle. I always run the hot water in the sink before I start the dishwasher so the first water into the dishwasher is as hot as possible. Also the sani-rinse light is flashing when the cycle "completes".
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It appears that the dishwasher is not getting enough water. I have made sure that there is nothing blocking the door area so that the soap can dispense and I have reduced the amount of detergent to maybe a 1/2 Tablespoon. Have tried both powder and liquid detergents. Ran a sani clean cycle with the Jet Dry product for dishwasher used in the rural. I also run the hot water in the sink prior to starting the dishwasher to ensure the water is hot when it comes into the dishwasher. The detergent
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My Frigidaire Dishwasher FDB1050RES2 gets stuck in a rinse cycle. The light on the front will be lit "clean" but the bottom of the washer is full of water. Opening the door does not turn off the "clean" light. For me to get it to run, I have to unplug it, plug it back in, push the start button until the ?washing? light comes on. I then push the start button once more and the dishwasher will begin to drain. I open the door as soon as I hear the water stop draining into the sink drain. This
By the descrition you are giving you will need to replace the main control board.Part number 154568401.you may also need to check the float switch.The part will run about 110.00 dollars from a local parts store ... Frigidaire 24 in. FDB1050RE Built-in Dishwasher
My tappan dishwasher is only 1 1/2 yr old and its not getting at least 1/2 of dishes clean. We have tried everything from changing to liquid soap, increasing water pressure at meter, not using while washing clothes. We used a dishwasher cleaner to remove calcium, and run hot water in sink before using. We know the wand, pump and drain are working. It is model TDB210RFB5 with 1.1A motor. Is the motor too small to clean dishes? I wish I could get my money back or exchange for an upgrade. Thanks!
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Kenmore dishwasher. The upper rack is not getting clean. Even very light residue remains. And, detergent is left in door at end of cycle. The bottom is filling up, so I don't think it's the intake valve. Also, all the blade openings appear clear. I am noticing that hot water is not filling the dishwasher when I first run the cycle. Even if I have hot water running in the sink, the dishwasher fills with cold or warm water. So, I think this is the problem. What should I do? Thank you in advance!
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LG dishwasher I have just installed an LG dishwasher. When I try to run the dishwasher it sounds as if it is getting no water. I checked the water supply line twice, and nothing is blocking it. The line is attached to the hot water under the sink and is open.
I bought a stainless steel Lg less than 15 months ago for 800.00and it stopped working. The manufacture said so sorry even though you didn't take delivery until the end of Jan. your warranty goes by purchase date. I would of been better of with a may ... LG 24 in. LDF 7811 Stainless Steel Built-in Dishwasher
Not getting enough water flow into the dishwasher, suspect that a filter is clogged due to recent work on the waterline in the kitchen sink. Need to know where the filter might be located (on the dishwasher or on the intake valve before the connection to the dishwasher hose)? Also would I need to disconnect the water supply to pull out the dishwasher for access to such a filter.
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I have a Bosch dishwasher model #SHU3032UC/U12 It is not pulling water from the water pipe to wash the dishes the motor wants to go thru cycles. It starts to pull the water by the sounds from the sink but no water gets into the dishwasher.
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My Bosch diswasher is hanging up in the cycle (at 102 mins. in normal cycle and 38 mins in quick cycle). I hear what sounds like a one second pumping of water into the sink area, a pause, and then another one second pumping of water, on and on, but there's no progression beyond this point. One possible cause: a few weeks ago someone turned off the hot water at the heater and another person tried to run the dishwasher. The dishwasher did not function because it could not get hot water. Perhaps
Hi\015\012\015\012 \015\012\015\012Thanks\015\012for using FixYa. To start with check the water inlet valve which is located\015\012behind the lower access panel on the left or right side of the Di ... Bosch 24 in. SHU66C02 / SHU66C06 Built-in Dishwasher
Dishwasher: Whirlpool Gold Quiet Partner. Has worked fine until had a house plumbing blockage which made water pool in the bottom of the dishwasher as well as kitchen sink. Tried to get it to drain at first using keypad. Drain light clicked on and then off because there was nowhere for water to do. Manually emptied most of the water, then "Cancel/Drain" worked if I held it down quite a while. House plumbing is now fixed. However the keypad only works sporadically now. Some buttons do so
\015\012Ok so your dishwasher won't do anything... it justs sits there and "Hums" you can't make it respond to any controls, and the ONLY way to Stop it. is to unplug the unit, replugging back in it simply "Hums" again and will do nothing. ... Whirlpool Gold 24 in. Built-In Dishwasher Dishwasher
I have a Whirlpool GU2500XTPQ3 dishwasher that is about 5 years old. The dishes in the top basket do not get clean. I checked the water tube that feeds the upper spray arm and the top spray and there aren't any obstructions. Our water pressure and temperature are suitable. Could the pump be plugged or otherwise lose its ability to circulate enough water to adequately feed the upper sprayers? How can I check on that?
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Broken dishwasher We recently had a plumbing problem that resulted in the kitchen sink overflowing and flooding the kitchen. The cabinets to the left of the sink were full of water and the dishwasher to the right of the sink will not work. It says it is washing and using two different washing modes, but I cannot get it to start over. What can I do? It is a Kenmore Quiet Guard 2.
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I get water all over my counter when dishwasher gets rid of water. There is a feature on my sink of which water comes out. This just started...
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Dishwasher water just ozes from the sink spout during draining no pressure to push water into the sink, so it get all over thecounter top and on to the floor.
DUH ... Kenmore 15894 Built-in Dishwasher
I have had a repairman come out and look at this and he says all the diagnostic test say everything is okay. My problem: my dishes come out dripping wet...like it hasnt dried anything. Sometimes dishes are still dirty. I don't think there is any heat getting to anything. I run the water in the sink beforehand to try to get the water hot. I used this dishwasher for 1-1/2 years with no problems and now I have this problem. What is going on?
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Dishwasher - Bosche - SHV43A03GB - When the main power switch is ON, even with the door open the pump/motor continues to run (ie. Stop-cycle does not operate). However, the wash-program itself does not run, even with the door closed (ie. No water entering the dishwasher, even though water supply is on and feed lines are clear - not kinked). It is like the program is 'stuck' and I cannot seem to get it to reset.
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Hi! My bosch SHE43 built in dishwasher is about 2.5 yrs old, dishes aren't getting clean anymore. We have *really* hard water so I use the max rinse agent, but doesn't help. I clean the little canister filter with each wash, and just washed off that grate in the bottom. I also just cleaned the trap under the sink, but it didn't look bad at all. The problem is a grit left on glasses and things just not getting all the way clean. When I remove the grate at the bottom, there's a bit of water
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My Professional series dishwasher does not work properly. It is only 1.5 years old and glasses on top rack get sprayed with fine layer of particles every time I use it. Other items, top and bottom, are often not clean as well, but glasses are the hardest to re-clean. I have tried evacuating the water left at the bottom of the dishwasher before running, pre-running the hot water in the sink and ensuring that the disposal was run, removing and cleaning the filter at the bottom of the washer. None
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I own a build-in LG Stainless Dishwasher (modle: LDF1178ST). It stopped draining water during its recent startup due to its idle (no operation) for about a year:). I can only feel the hose full of water by touching the drain hose between the washer and the sink desposal. It's hard to check other part of dish washer since it's built in our cabinet. Could any dishwasher expert help to advise how to trouble shoot or fix this problem. Thanks, Alex Chen 571-220-7484
There is a float in the bottom of the dishwasher that tell the motor to turn on and pump out the water. I would check the float first to see if it is hung up and not raising to tell the dishwasher that there is water in the base. Check the check valv ... LG Dishwashers
My dish washer isn't cleaning the dishes well. There are little particals inside of every cup and on dishes after it is done. I just emptied and and now I'm running it with bleach. But before I started it I looked at the drain hose under the sink. The drain hose had water in it. The drain hose is going uphill from the dishwasher to the sink so I don't know if this is normal to have some water in the drain hose when the washer completes since it's not would have to pump uphill to get to the garba
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Hi, my dishwasher is a GE model PDW9280l00SS. Problem is water comes out of spinner arms but they dont spin, water presure is good too the sink. same hook up.I get thumping sounds from the inlet hose.I opened the door and pushed the switch in to watch the water to the arms hardely no water coming out.
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Mo. Repeals Teacher-Student Internet Restrictions
JEFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has signed legislation repealing a contentious law that had limited online discussions between teachers and students.
Nixon's signature Friday will delete a law enacted earlier this year barring teachers from using websites that allow "exclusive access" with current or former students 18 or younger.
Some teachers raised concerns that they would be restricted from using social media sites such as Facebook, which allow private messages.
The new legislation also requires school districts to develop policies on the use of electronic media between employees and students.
A Missouri judge had placed a temporary hold on the Internet law shortly before it was to take effect in August.
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A.G. (Tassos) Malliaris, PhD, specializes in financial economics and has taught and written books and papers in the areas of futures and options markets, asset price bubbles and monetary policy. He is a Professor of Economics and Finance and holds the Walter F. Mullady Sr. Chair in Business Administration at Loyola University Chicago's Quinlan School of Business.
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How do you justify investing in an active, high-conviction strategy when a lower-cost ETF or index-tracking fund offers comparable returns? Let the data drive better conversations and better outcomes.
We looked at the universe of investment strategies in developed international and emerging market equities and in examining the risk and return characteristics, found that high-conviction strategies can offer more than you may think.HERE'S WHAT WE FOUND
The Return To Normal
2017: Not the norm
With 2017's extraordinary returns across international equity markets, investors could easily justify even more enthusiasm for passive investing. But indexers beware; the unusually favorable environment in 2017 is not the norm.
Extraordinary returns and low volatility
Return percentages in 2017
The return to normal
As investors and portfolios readjust to normal levels of risk and return, we think it is valuable to take a closer look at the subset of the investment universe we call "high-conviction" strategies.
Defining high-conviction:
Analysts utilize a range of data and criteria to identify strategies that diverge from broad market benchmarks.
How to identify high-conviction
In our analysis, we used composite data as reported to Morningstar1 and focused on international developed markets and emerging markets.
Characteristics to define the high-conviction universe:
Tracking error
3-year tracking error in the top 20% more than 50% of the time.
The difference between the performance of a strategy and its benchmark.
3-year beta in the top and bottom 10% more than 50% of the time
A measure of a strategy's volatility in relation to the market or a benchmark.
3-year R-squared in the bottom 25% more than 50% of the time
A measure of a strategy's movements that can be explained by movements in a benchmark index.
Up/down capture
3-year upside/downside capture in the top/bottom 20% more than 50% of the time
Evaluates strategy performance against the benchmark in periods when the benchmark return is positive/negative. A 100% ratio shows strategy performance in line with the benchmark.
Active share
Top decile of full universe sorted by highest to lowest active share
A measure of the percentage of stock holdings in a manager's portfolio that differs from the benchmark index.
To establish the high-conviction universe, we included composites that appeared in three out of the five groups created by these filtering guidelines.
International developed markets
22/141 strategies qualified as high-conviction
Emerging markets
26/132 strategies qualified as high-conviction
Risk/return observations
The subset of high-conviction strategies that met our criteria returned both higher returns and lower risk (standard deviation) when compared to the full universe. See how the high-conviction strategies compared to other subsets.
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Patience pays off for high-conviction investors.
For those investors with a long-term investment perspective, the story becomes more clear.
How often are high-conviction strategies top-quartile performers?
How do high-conviction strategies respond after underperformance?
Three years after delivering bottom-quartile performance, the probability of delivering top-quartile performance:
How do high-conviction strategies respond after outperformance?
Three years after delivering top-quartile performance, the probability of delivering bottom-quartile performance:
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For clients able to understand and accept some variation in short-term performance, high-conviction strategies offer the opportunity to improve their portfolio. In the full report, we provide a practical application of high-conviction strategies to a portfolio, showing the risk/return benefits of a 50% EFT/50% HC portfolio:
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LONDON — World champion Karsten Warholm used the absence of Qatar rival Abderrahman Samba to finally win a 400-meter hurdles at the Anniversary Games on Saturday.
And in a Norwegian record, too.
Warholm was runner-up to Samba in the previous Diamond League meetings in Rome, Oslo, Stockholm, Paris, and Lausanne. But Samba preferred to try the 400 without hurdles at London Stadium, and registered a personal-best in coming fifth.
Warholm won the hurdles comfortably in 47.65, more than half a second off Samba's best this year.
Meanwhile, Abdallelah Haroun won the 400 in a Qatar-record 44.07.
In the women's 100-meter final, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won in 10.98 seconds, her season best.
The Jamaican, a two-time Olympic champion, had a baby boy last August.
"I haven't raced for ages and I'm happy that the run today was under 11 seconds," Fraser-Pryce said.
"Being a mother is my first priority and to come back and be flexible with my training is wonderful, and I'm so excited about next year now."
Dezerea Bryant of the United States was second in 11.04.
Ronnie Baker of the U.S. won the men's 100 in 9.90 for his fourth win of this Diamond League.
Zharnel Hughes was second in 9.93, and Commonwealth champion Akani Simbine of South Africa was third. Jamaica's Yohan Blake was fourth. Christian Coleman, who won silver at the worlds last year, pulled out with a hamstring injury.
Olympic silver and world bronze medallist Paul Chelimo of the U.S. edged the 5,000 from Ethiopian duo Edris Muktar and Yomif Kejelcha.
World pole vault champion Sam Kendricks of the U.S. cleared 5.92 to hold Renaud Lavillenie and Armand Duplantis.
Shara Proctor of Britain won the women's long jump, and world bronze medallist Lye Huihui of China won the javelin.


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The Three Versions of the Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid
Hyundai has taken several steps to make it possible for us to enjoy more features and a higher-quality driving in the models offered. This includes the hybrid versions offered, which Hyundai is showing expertise with the Ioniq models. There are three different versions of the Ioniq to give you the drive and the feeling you … Read moreThe Three Versions of the Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid


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A Machine Learning Approach to Predict Gas Oil Ratio Based on Advanced Mud Gas Data
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- Tao Yang (Equinor ASA) | Ibnu Hafidz Arief (Equinor ASA) | Martin Niemann (Equinor ASA) | Marianne Houbiers (Equinor ASA) | Knut Kristian Meisingset (Equinor ASA) | Andre Martins (Teradata) | Laura Froelich (Teradata)
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- Society of Petroleum Engineers
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- 2019
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- English
- 978-1-61399-661-4
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- 2019. Society of Petroleum Engineers
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- GOR, PVT, Machine Learning, Mud Gas Data, Fluid database
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Mud gas data from drilling operations provide the very first indication of the presence of hydrocarbons in the reservoir. It has been a dream for decades in the oil industry to predict reservoir gas and oil properties from mud gas data, because it would provide knowledge of the reservoir fluid properties in an early stage, continuously for all reservoir zones, and at low costs. Previous efforts reported in the literature did not lead to a reliable method for quantitative prediction of the reservoir fluid properties from mud gas data. In this paper, we propose a novel approach based on machine learning which enables us to predict gas oil ratio (GOR) from advanced mud gas (AMG) data.
The current work is based on a previous successful pilot in unconventional (shale) reservoirs. Our aim is to extend the results of the pilot study to conventional reservoirs. In general, prediction of reservoir fluid properties is more challenging for conventional reservoirs than for unconventional reservoirs, due to the complexity of petroleum systems in conventional reservoirs. Instead of building a model directly from AMG data, we trained a machine learning model using a well-established reservoir fluid database with more than 2000 PVT samples. After thorough investigation of compositional similarity between PVT samples and AMG data, we applied the model developed from PVT samples to AMG data.
The predicted GORs from AMG data were compared with GOR measurements from corresponding PVT samples to assess the accuracy of the GOR predictions. The results from 22 wells with both AMG data and corresponding PVT samples show large agreement between prediction vs. measurement. The accuracy of the predictive model is much higher than previous results reported in the literature. In addition, a Quality Check (QC) metric was developed to efficiently flag low-quality AMG data. The QC metric is vital to give confidence level for GOR prediction based on AMG data when PVT samples are not available.
The study confirms that AMG data can be used as a new data source to quantitatively predict continuous reservoir fluid properties in the drilling phase. The method can be used to optimize wireline operations and for some cases, it provides a unique opportunity to acquire reservoir fluid data when conventional fluid sampling or use of wireline tools is not possible. After high-quality PVT data becomes available in the wireline logging phase, the continuous GOR prediction can be further improved and used to determine reservoir fluid gradient and reservoir compartmentalization.
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Arief, I. H.,Forest, T., & Meisingset, K. K. (2017, April 5). Estimating Fluid Properties Using Surrogate Models and Fluid Database. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/185937-MS
Caroli, E.,Lafaurie, C.,Barraud, B., & Segalini, G. (2013, September 30). Quantitative Mud Gas Reconciliation with Downhole Fluid Analysis: Towards a Quantitative Fluid Log. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/166246-MS
Elshahawi, H.,Hows, M. P.,Dong, C.,Venkatramanan, L.,Mullins, O. C.,McKinney, D. E., … Hashem, M. N. (2007, January 1). Integration of Geochemical, Mud Gas and Downhole Fluid Analyses for the Assessment of Compositional Grading - Case Studies. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/109684-MS
Kyi, K. K.,Lynn, C. S.,Haddad, S.,Chouya, S.,Wa, W. W., & Gligorijevic, A. (2014, January 19). Integration of Downhole Fluid Analysis and Advanced Mud Gas Logging Reduces Uncertainty in Reservoir Evaluation. International Petroleum Technology Conference. doi:10.2523/IPTC-17485-MS
McKinney, D. E.,Flannery, M.,Elshahawi, H.,Stankiewicz, A.,Clarke, E.,Breviere, J., & Sharma, S. (2007, January 1). Advanced Mud Gas Logging in Combination with Wireline Formation Testing and Geochemical Fingerprinting for an Improved Understanding of Reservoir Architecture. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/109861-MS
Møller, J. B.,Meisingset, K. K., & Arief, I. H. (2018, April 18). An Improved Correlation Approach to Predict Viscosity of Crude Oil Systems on the NCS. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi:10.2118/191296-MS
Yang, T.,Basquet, R.,Callejon, A.,Van Roosmalen, J. J., & Bartusiak, B. (2014, August 25). Shale PVT Estimation Based on Readily Available Field Data. Unconventional Resources Technology Conference. doi:10.15530/URTEC-2014-1884129


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The following is from Patterico's Pontifications. He is right that folks should not be assuming anything about this issue. I have pretty good reason to believe at this point that it really is a case of curiousity killed the cat.
Don't Make Assumptions About the Passport Flap
Regarding the flap over the passports, the Washington Times reports:
The State Department last night said one of the persons responsible for the inappropriate behavior was employed by an information technology firm headed by one of Mr. Obama's foreign intelligence advisors.
Of course, this doesn't establish that Obama was behind the snooping — and people are finding tenuous connections between the two firms and each one of the candidates. Just something to keep in mind: we don't know who's behind this yet.
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One of my professors had said this on Monday. I said this to myself before my workout yesterday. It worked. I just have to get my body moving, get over the initial resistance, and then I start enjoying myself. Starting is the hardest part, especially since I'm feeling unmotivated lately. I'm tired of the same exercise DVD/videos, but money is scarce so I don't want to buy more. My alternative forms of exercise are biking, jogging, and walking, but each has their drawbacks and obstacles. Biking. I don't own a bike, so I only can bike when I can borrow from my sister, then I have to figure out who will take care of the kiddies. Walking is easiest to do. I use to do a lot of it, but I tend to slack off and go below my target heart rate range. In addition, it takes longer to burn calories to do this form of exercise, because it's so low intensity. Jogging is the most effective and efficient, but my history of plantar fasciitis has made me wary of it, so I only do it on occasion. I've been thinking about rejoining Baby Bootcamp, an interval aerobics/weight training class done outside with a stroller. My friend just had a baby, and his wife called expressing her interest in it. I use to do Baby Bootcamp, but when Teresa turned 6 months old, she became inconsolable when the ladies looked at her, so I stopped. When I did, I discovered that I could do Baby Bootcamp by myself. Now I wonder if I should return. Teresa is braver now and exercising with others is always motivating. I just don't know if I can come to grips with the cost of it…
Hmmm....Maybe I'll just continue to play mind games for motivation. Here are others I say to myself…
Exercise is great for stress management
Exercise will give me energy so I can do more chores and play with the kids
Exercise will make me happy
Exericse is the wonder drug
Strength training will make me strong so I can carry the kids longer
Strength training will improve my posture
Just do it
No excuses! (except when very sick or injured)
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Bring your body and your mind will follow.
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NITI Aayog, a think-tank that will replace the Planning Commission. The new body is the result of "extensive consultations" the Centre held with state governments, domain experts and other relevant institutions. It was suggested that instead of a "Control Commission", the new body should play the role of a catalyst and provide a platform to the Centre, states and experts to discuss issues and come out with the best solutions.
The new National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) will act more like a think tank or forum, say its supporters, in contrast with the Commission which imposed five-year-plans and allocated resources to hit set economic targets.
NITI will include leaders of India's 29 states and seven union territories. But its full-time staff – a deputy chairman, Chief Executive Officer and experts – will answer directly to the 64-year-old Prime Minister, who will be chairman.
The Cabinet resolution, which provides the ideological framework, invokes
Mahatma Gandhi on constant development in life,
BJP ideologue late Deen Dayal Upadhyaya for uplifting the downtrodden,
Swami Vivekananda, Constitution's architect Dr Ambedkar and Tamil poet and philosopher Thiruvalluvar, to let the NITI Ayog act as the "pillars" that provide a "Bharatiya approach to development." It prescribes 13 objectives on which the NITI Ayog has to remain focussed.
Views on Anti-Planning Commission
From being a simple planning body to a powerful 'control-commission' to a fiscal decentralisation instrument to an official think-tank, the voices had begun to grow louder for an overhaul even before the new government took charge in May 2014.
The Commission's power in allocating central funds to states and sanctioning capital spending of the central government was deeply resented by states and various government departments.
The commission had remained powerful over the decades because it had emerged as a sort of parallel cabinet with the Prime Minister as its head.
How will NITI differ from Planning Commission?
Unlike the Planning Commission, the new body is for governance across the public and private domains, the resolution says. "Everyone has a stake in ensuring good governance and effective delivery of services. Tt, becomes crucial for people's initiative.
In the past, governance may have been rather narrowly construed as public governance. In today's changed dynamics – with 'public' services often being delivered by 'private' entities, and the greater scope for 'participative citizenry', governance encompasses and involves everyone."
The NITI Aayog will also seek to put an end to slow and tardy implementation of policy, by fostering better inter-ministry and better Centre-State coordination.
1. The Planning Commission, established by Jawaharlal Nehru 65 years ago to formulate Five-Year Plans, has been criticised for being a Socialist era vestige, which became irrelevant in a more globalised and market-focussed economy.
2. It will provide a critical directional and strategic input into the development process". It will act as a "think-tank" and advise the Centre and states on policy matters.
3. The Aayog seeks to end "slow and tardy implementation of policy, by fostering better Inter-Ministry coordination and better Centre-State coordination.
4. It will also monitor and evaluate the implementation of programmes. NITI stands for National Institution for Transforming India.
5. It focus more on co-operative federalism. The term co-operative federalism denotes a two-way relationship between the Centre and state governments in matters related to economic policy and development.
6.NITI Aayog is expected to "help evolve a shared vision of national development priorities", in keeping with the spirit of such a federal structure.
7. Constitution:
The new body has state chief ministers and lieutenant governors as members in the governing council.
NITI Aayog will also have a vice-chairperson and a CEO in addition to five full-time members and two part-time members.
Four union ministers would also serve as ex-officio members. The Planning Commission had a Deputy Chairman and full-time members with a member secretary as a convener.
The structure of the Planning Commission as proposed in the new resolution of the Cabinet is almost similar to the earlier one, except that the Planning Commission was reporting to the National Development Council consisting of the state chief ministers and Lieutenant Governors of Indian territory. But now there is a governing council which consists of the state Chief Ministers and Lieutenant Governors.
There is nothing new even in the constitution of a regional council. Even during the Planning Commission era, consultative panels were formed whenever issues cropped up between states.
So then what is the real break from the past?
Instead of Planning Commission formulating a plan and then asking the states whether they agree with this or not, this is going to be something where states would have much more input at the earlier level of plan formulation.
In all likelihood, it is not. The true spirit of decentralisation lies in giving away the power to plan and implement developmental programmes to local bodies. The central and state governments should remain as enablers.
In short, as of now, there is no reason to believe that the NITI Aayog will bring about a major difference on the ground in planning and implementation of developmental policies.
The new body's acronym-based name means 'Policy Commission' in Hindi, suggesting a less bold departure than the English version does.


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Sep 8th, 2015 by starjoes
Robert and Ryan welcome Jon Thurmond and Shannon Gallant on as official co-hosts of the show this episode...God help us all. In this "suck" episode, the guys talk about a lot of Star Wars news. Jon gets REALLY excited about a Rogue One actor. Then the guys wrap up with some movie sequel talk. It's a hilarious time that will have your ass kneeling before Zod. Enjoy!


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By Mara Windstar
This morning (Monday June 3, 2013) was the second TAGteach session with my new friend, for the process of learning ways in which he can get his needs met when traveling on the MAX train. This goal includes asking for a place to sit if there are no seats available.
Today's session was focused on him identifying how he might ask for a seat in a way that would be comfortable and natural for him. From my experience, this can be very difficult to come up with out of the blue for quite a few people. The TAGteach approach I took was different than I had done before.
Choosing the Tag Point
He decided what the tag point would be, and he would be the one to tag me verbalizing various requests for asking if I could have a seat.
He identified the tag point as: what I'm hearing is what I could say. (his interpretation was "that one!")
My goal was for him to be looking for how he wanted to express himself, as opposed to thinking "I would never say that!"
After 12 tags, he had a couple of key words that he could start with.
These included variations of...
Keywords that would work form him: anyone, offer, safety/prevent.
"is there anyone that could offer their seat for me please, to prevent a fall?"
"Thank you!!"
He was very excited about this. The key factor that he found working for him was "anyone". Asking a particular person felt very rejecting to him if it didn't work, and could easily trigger a response similar to the one that preceded our working on this. Also, eye contact can be very difficult, so he could pan a bit to look at people vs. eye contact with one specific person.
Practicing in a Real-Life Situation
Sequence 1
We met again this morning and boarded and exited the MAX numerous times. Our sequence went as follows:
1. Mara's chair parked in wheelchair location and Mara sitting on the aisle side seat in front of her chair.
2. Person asks if anyone could offer a seat, I responded confirming I could do that, and I moved into my chair.
3. Person thanked me for the offer.
4. We did this with the 2 configurations within the area for seniors and people with disabilities.
Sequences 2-4
Sequence 2, 3 and 4. with person boarding at different MAX train stops.
1. Mara seated in powerchair in designated area.
2. Person enters and asks "Could anyone please offer their seat for my needs?"
3. someone offered. and stood up
4. Person Thanked them for allowing him to prevent a fall!
Sequence 5
1. Mara seated in powerchair in designated area.
2. Person enters and goes to an area that is not in the accessible designated area and asks "Could anyone please offer their seat so I don't fall?)
3. someone offered. and stood up
4. Person Thanked them for allowing him to prevent a fall!
Going Solo
We made our way several miles and back. He feels he is ready to solo and is going to let me know how it goes. He also commented that he spoke to a person on the train on the last ride, which I also saw from a distance. He's never spoken to anyone on the train before, he's just been too uncomfortable!
These are exactly the kind of things that have been helpful for me to bridge outside of myself in conversations that I otherwise worried about.
Confidence really breaks down barriers... within ourselves.
Every day a new experience.


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Oct 11 (7-9pm), 12 (8am-4pm), 13 (10am-4pm). West Carleton Arts Society's fall art show and sale.
Entrance is free, as is parking.
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State of the VRooM, 2014
ProjectVRM 2014-09-02
As of today, ProjectVRM is eight years old.
So now seems like a good time for a comprehensive (or at least long) report on what we've been doing all this time, how we've been doing it, and what we've been learning along the way.
My job here is to instigate. So look at everything below as a draft requiring improvement. Bring on the edits, by email (dsearls at cyber dot law dot harvard dot edu) or by commenting.
Here are some shortcuts to each section:
ProjectVRM is one of many research projects at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. It started when I began a four-year fellowship at Berkman in September, 2006. In those days Berkman fellows were encouraged to work on a project. I had lots of guidance from Berkman staff and other veterans; but what best focused my purpose was something Terry Fisher said at one of the orientation talks: that Berkman did its best to be neutral about the subjects it studies, but also that "we do look for effects."
The effect-generating work for which I was best known at the time was The Cluetrain Manifesto, which I co-authored seven years earlier with Chris Locke, David Weinberger and Rick Levine. By most measures Cluetrain was a huge success. The original website launched a meme that won't quit, and the book that followed was a bestseller.(It still sells well today). But I felt that its alpha clue, written by Chris Locke, still wasn't true. It said,
we are not seats or eyeballs or end users or consumers. we are human beings and our reach exceeds your grasp. deal with it.
There is a theory in there that says the Internet gives human beings (the first person we) the reach they need to exceed the grasp of marketers (the second person your).
So either the theory wasn't true, or the Internet was a necessary but insufficient condition for the theory to prove out. I went with the latter and decided to to work on the missing stuff.
That stuff couldn't come from marketers, because they were on the second person side. In legal terms, they were the second party, not the first. This is why their embrace of Cluetrain's "markets are conversations" couldn't do the job. Demand needed help that Supply couldn't provide. What we needed, as individuals, were first party solutions — ones that worked for us.
The more I thought about the absence of first party solutions, the more I realized that this was a huge hole in the marketplace: one that was hard to see from the client-server perspective, always drawn like this:
While handy and normative, client-server is also retro. Here's a graphic from Virtual Teams: People Working Across Boundaries with Technology (Jessical Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps, 2000, p. 47) that puts it in perspective:
Client-server is hierarchical, bureaucratic industrial and agricultural (see the image below). But it's also most of what we experience on the Web, and also where the entirety of the supply side sits. So, even if Cluetrain is right when it says (in Thesis #7) "hyperlinks subvert hierarchy," subversion goes slow when the people running the servers are in near-absolute control and hardly care at all about links. In less abstract terms, what we have on the Web is this:
As clients we go to servers for the milk of text, graphics, sound and videos. We get all those, plus cookies (and other tracking methods) to remember who we are and where we were the last time we showed up. And, since we're just clients, and servers do all the heavy lifting (and with technology what can be done will be done) the commercial Web's ranch has turned into what Bruce Schneier calls Our Internet surveillance state.
By 2006 it was already clear to me that we could make the whole marketplace a lot bigger if individuals were fully capable human beings and not just calves — if we equipped Demand to drive Supply at least as well as Supply drives Demand.
To help people imagine what will happen when Demand reaches full power, I wrote a Linux Journal column a few months earlier, titled "The Intention Economy." Here's the gist of it:
The Intention Economy grows around buyers, not sellers. It leverages the simple fact that buyers are the first source of money, and that they come ready-made. You don't need advertising to make them.
The Intention Economy is about markets, not marketing. You don't need marketing to make Intention Markets.
The Intention Economy is built around truly open markets, not a collection of silos. In The Intention Economy, customers don't have to fly from silo to silo, like a bees from flower to flower, collecting deal info (and unavoidable hype) like so much pollen. In The Intention Economy, the buyer notifies the market of the intent to buy, and sellers compete for the buyer's purchase. Simple as that.
The Intention Economy is built around more than transactions. Conversations matter. So do relationships. So do reputation, authority and respect. Those virtues, however, are earned by sellers (as well as buyers) and not just "branded" by sellers on the minds of buyers like the symbols of ranchers burned on the hides of cattle.
The Intention Economy is about buyers finding sellers, not sellers finding (or "capturing") buyers.
In The Intention Economy, a car rental customer should be able to say to the car rental market, "I'll be skiing in Park City from March 20-25. I want to rent a 4-wheel drive SUV. I belong to Avis Wizard, Budget FastBreak and Hertz 1 Club. I don't want to pay up front for gas or get any insurance. What can any of you companies do for me?" — and have the sellers compete for the buyer's business.
This car rental use case is one I've used to illustrate what would be made possible by "user-centric" or "independent" identity, which was also the subject of the cover story in last October's Linux Journal, plus this piece a year earlier, and various keynotes I've given at Digital Identity World, going back to 2002. It is also the use case against which the new open source Higgins project was framed.
Even though I've been thinking out loud about Independent Identity for years, I didn't have a one-word adjective for the kind of market economy it would yield, or where it would thrive. Now, thanks to all the unclear talk at eTech about attention, intentional is that adjective, because intent is the noun that matters most in any economy that gives full respect to what only customers can do, which is buy.
Like so many other things that I write about (including everything I've written about identity), The Intention Economy is a provisional idea. It's an observation that might have no traction at all. Or, it might be a snowball: an core idea with enough heft to roll, and with enough adhesion to grow, so others add their own thoughts and ideas to it.
So that's the purpose I chose for my new Berkman project: to get a snowball of development rolling toward the Intention Economy.
The project was lightweight from the start, consisting of myself and volunteers. Our instruments were this blog, a wiki, a mailing list and events. In gatherings of project volunteers at Berkman and elsewhere, we narrowed our focus to encouraging development of tools for independence and engagement. That is, tools that would make individuals both independent of other entities (especially companies) and better able to engage with them. These shaped the principles, goals and tools listed on our wiki.
The term VRM came about accidentally. I was talking about my still-nameless project on a Gillmor Gang podcast in October 2006. Another guest on the show, Mike Vizard, started using the term VRM, for Vendor Relationship Management — or the customer-side counterpart of CRM, for Customer Relationship Management, which was then about a $6.2 billion B2B software and services industry. (It's now past $20 billion.) The Gillmor Gang is a popular show, and the term stuck. It wasn't perfect (we wanted a broader focus than "vendors," which is also a B2B term, rather than C2B). But the market made a decision and we ran with it. Since then VRM has gained a broader meaning anyway. Every thing (hardware, software, policies, legal moves) that enables an individual to interact with full agency in any relationship is a VRM thing. "RM" turns out to be handy for sub-categories as well, such as GRM (government relationship management) and HRM (health relationship management).
ProjectVRM has always been unusual for Berkman in two ways. One is that it has been focused on business — the commercial side of the "society" in Berkman's name. The other is that it put the development horse ahead of the research cart. So, while we always wanted to do research (and did some along the way, such as with ListenLog), we felt it was important to create research-worthy effects first.
My first mistake was thinking we would have those effects within a year. My second mistake was thinking we would have them within four years — the length of my fellowship. It has taken twice that long, and still requires one more piece. More about that below, in the Research and Opportunities sections.
In its early years, when it was pure pioneering, ProjectVRM had a lot of volunteer organizational help. There were weekly conference calls and meetings, and events held in Cambridge, London, San Francisco and elsewhere. But the main gatherings from the start were at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW), an unconference I co-organize at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. (Our next VRM Day is 27 October. Register here.)
IIW also started with Berkman help. It was first convened as a group I pulled together for a December 31, 2004 Gillmor Gang podcast on identity. Steve Gillmor called the nine participants in the show "The Identity Gang." The conversation continued by phone and email, with growing energy. So we convened again, this time in person with a larger group, in February 2005 at Esther Dyson's PC Forum in Scottsdale, Arizona. It was there that John Clippinger asked if we would like "a clubhouse" at Berkman. I said yes, and John had Paul Trevithick create a Berkman site for the gang. As interest collected around the site and its list, three members — Phil Windley (then CIO of Utah), Kaliya Hamlin (aka "IdentityWoman") and I morphed the gang meetings into IIW, which met for the first time in Fall of 2005. Our 19th is coming up on 28-30 October. (Register here.) It tends to have 180-250 participants from all over the world. While identity remains the central theme, as an unconference its topics can be whatever participants choose. VRM is always a main focus, however. And we always have a "VRM Day" at the Museum the day before IIW. The next is on 27 October. It's free.
The Identity Gang also grew out of other efforts by a number of individuals and groups:
- Digital ID World, a yearly conference started in 2002 by Andre Durand and Phil Becker, and organized by Eric Norlin. I gave the closing keynotes for most of them.
- Identity Commons, which started in 2001. Kaliya Hamlin, Owen Davis and Drummond Reed were all active in it. Kaliya, aka IdentityWoman, introduced me to it in the summer of 2004.
- The Social Physics Project and Eclipse/Higgins (an open source project led by Paul Trevithick and Mary Ruddy), which John Clippinger tied in with the Berkman Center (as he did me as well). John unpacks this a bit in his book A Crowd of One. SocialPhysics.org is now an MIT Media Lab thing, and the subject of a new Sandy Pentland book by the same name. John is also at the Media Lab now.)
- The Open Identity Exchange (OIX).
- The Information Card Foundation, which grew out of Microsoft's work on Identity, building especially on Kim Cameron's thinking and architecture.
I'll leave it at those for now. Others can add to it and help me connect the dots later. What matters is that ProjectVRM has both roots and branches that intertwine with the digital identity movement. I unpack more in the Community section below. Meanwhile it is essential to note that Kim Cameron's Seven Laws of Identity had a large guiding influence on ProjectVRM. This is partly because they were all good laws, but mostly because they came from the individual's side:
- User control and consent
- Minimal disclosure for a constrained use
- Justifiable parties ("disclosure of identifying information is limited to parties having a necessary and justifiable place in a given identity relationship")
- Directed identity ("facilitating discovery while preventing unnecessary release of correlation handles")
- Pluralism of operators and technologies
- Human integration
- Consistent experience across contexts
As you see, all of those should apply just as well to VRM tools and services.
We have had two interns in our history, both hugely helpful. The first was Doug Kochelek, an HLS law student with a BS and a EE from Rice. He came on board at the very beginning, in September 2006. He's the guy who worked with Berkman's Geek Cave to create the wiki, the blog and the list. He also shook down many technical problems along the way. The second was Alan Gregory, a 2009 summer intern and a law student at the University of Florida. Alan helped with research on the chilling effects of copyright expansion on Web streaming, which was a focus of a research project we did with PRX called ListenLog — a self-tracking feature installed in PRX's Public Media Player iPhone app. (Here's a presentation Alan and I did at a Fellows Hour.) ListenLog was the brainchild of Keith Hopper, then of NPR, and was years ahead of its time. Work on those projects was funded by a grant from the Surdna Foundation.
To keep its weight light and its work focused on development and relevant issues, ProjectVRM does not have its own presence on Twitter or Facebook. Its social media activity is instead comprised of postings by individual participants in the project, and the memes they drive. #VRM, for example, gets tweeted plenty, and has come to serve as shorthand for individual empowerment.
In 2007 we did a good job of publicizing what VRM and ProjectVRM were about, and got a lot of buzz. It was premature, and our first big lesson: it's not good to publicize anything for which the code isn't ready. In the absence of code, it's easy for commentators (such as here) to assume that what we're trying to do can't be done.
So we got more heads-down after that, and avoided publicity for its own sake.
Still, the idea of VRM is attractive, especially to folks at the leading edge of CRM. This is what caused nearly an entire issue of CRM magazine to be devoted to VRM ,in May 2010. It too was ahead of its time, but it helped. So did two books that came out the same year: John Hagel's The Power of Pull, and David Siegel's Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web to Transform Your Business. John also helped in June 2012 with The Rise of Vendor Relationship Management.
That essay was a review of The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge, which arrived in May from Harvard Business Review Press. The book reported on VRM development progress and detailed the projected shifts in market power that I first called for in my 2006 column with the same title.
While The Cluetrain Manifesto has been a bigger seller, The Intention Economy has had plenty of effects. Currently, for example, it is informing the work of Mozilla's commercial arm, headed by Darren Herman, who this year hired @SeanBohan from the VRM talent pool. (Here's a talk I gave at Mozilla in New York last month.) On the publicity side, the book was compressed to a Wall Street Journal full-page Review section cover essay titled "The Customer as a God."
So far ProjectVRM has one spin-off: Customer Commons, a California-based nonprofit. Its mission is "restore the balance of power, respect and trust between individuals and organizations that serve them." CuCo is a membership organization with the immodest ambition of attracting "the 100%." In other words, all customers. And it is modeled to some degree on Creative Commons (a successful early Berkman spin-off), by serving as the neutral place where machine- and person-readable versions of personal terms, conditions, policies and preferences of the individual can be maintained. Among those terms will be those restricting or preventing unwanted tracking, and among those policies will be those establishing the boundaries we call privacy. Customer Commons is a client of the Cyberlaw Clinic, which is helping develop both. But much more can be done. We'll visit that in the Opportunities section below.
The list of VRM developers is now up to many dozens. While most don't use the term "VRM" in marketing their offerings (nor do we push it), the term is gathering steam. For example, while updating the developers list a few minutes ago, I found two new companies that use VRM in the description of their offerings: InformationAnswers ("Where CRM meets VRM.") and PeerCraft ("The main purpose for PeerCraft is to support Vendor Relation Management.")
Some developers on our list are now familiar brands, though none started that way, and most did not exist when ProjectVRM began. Some of the successes (e.g. Uber and Lyft) have not been directly engaged with ProjectVRM, but are listed because they are what we call "VRooMy." Other successes (e.g. Personal.com, Reputation.com and GetSatisfaction) have been engaged, one way or another. One that got a lot of notice lately is Thumbtack, for picking up a $100 million investment from Google. That's atop the $30 million they got earlier this year.
In fact many VRM developers are now having an easier time getting money, thanks to a trend on which ProjectVRM has had influence: a shift of market interest away from "push" (e.g. advertising) and toward "pull" (e.g. VRM). (More about investment below.)
Several years ago, a bunch of VRM developers (and I) worked on developing SWIFT's Digital Asset Grid. (SWIFT is the main international system for moving money around, and is headquartered in Belgium.) The code is open source, as is other VRooMy work in the financial sector. (Such as the stuff being done by the Romanian company I wrote about here.) OIX also maintains a set of "trust frameworks," one of which is at the heart of the Respect Network, which I'll unpack below.
While there is a lot of development in the U.S., and there are VRM startups scattered around the world, the three main hotbeds of activity are the UK, France and Oceania (Australia and New Zealand). Each is a community of its own, cohering in different ways. It's helpful to visit each, because they represent unique contexts and resources for moving forward.
The UK
In the UK, government is central, through a role one official there calls "being a giant consumer of personal data from citizens." It gets that data either from individuals directly or from companies that provide individuals with what are called variously called personal clouds, data stores, lockers and vaults. While all these companies perform as intermediaries, they work primarily for the individual. To differentiate this new class of company from traditional intermediaries, ProjectVRM calls them "fourth parties". (That term is alien to lawyers, but is catching on anyway. For example, there is a new VRM company in Australia with the name "4th Party.")
Leading the UK government in a VRooMy direction from the inside is in the Efficiency and Reform Group of the Government Digital Service (GDS) in the Cabinet Office. In this presentation by Chris Ferguson, Deputy Director of the GDS we see the government pulling in big companies (e.g. Google, Equifax, Lexis-Nexis, Experian, Paypal, Royal Mail, BT, Amazon, O2, Symantec) to legitimize and engage fourth parties serving individuals (e.g. Mydex, Paoga and Allfiled).
Two outside groups working with the UK government are Ctrl-Shift and OIX (Open Identity Exchange). Ctrl-Shift is a research consultancy that has been engaged with ProjectVRM from the beginning. OIX is a Washington-based international .org focused on 'building trust in online transactions.'
VRM is a familiar and well-understood concept in France. There are meetups (such as this one) and many VRooMy startups, such as Privowny (led by French folk and HQ'd in Palo Alto), CozyCloud, and OneCub. A big organizational driver of VRM in France is Fing.org, a think tank that brings together large companies (e.g. Carrefour, Societe General, Orange and LaPoste) with small companies such as the ones I just mentioned. They do this around research projects. For example, ProjectVRM informed Fing's Mesinfos research project (described here).
If we were to produce a heat map of VRM activity, perhaps the brightest area would be Australia and New Zealand. I've been down that way three times since June of last year, to help developers and participate in meetings and events. As with the UK, government in Australia is very supportive of VRM development, and with empowering individuals generally. (We met with three agencies on one of the trips: one with the federal government in Canberra and two with the New South Wales government in Sydney. One of them called citizens "customers" of government services, because "they pay for them.") Startups there include Flamingo, Meeco, Welcomer, Geddup,4th Party, Fifth Quadrant, Onexus and the New Zealand based MyWave.
Recent changes in Australian privacy policy also attract and support VRM development. Australian companies (and government agencies) collecting personal data from people on the Web (or anywhere) are now required to make that data available to those people to use as they please. (Or so I understand it.) This gives Canberra-based Welcomer, for example, a reason to exist. Welcomer makes "private data dashboards" that "show collected summaries of the personal data held by organisations and by individuals including the person themselves. The dashboard gives a summary of personal data with the ability to link through to the source data (where required)."
This summer, the first commercial community to grow out of ProjectVRM work, the Respect Network (which Privacy By Design (PbD) calls the "World's First Global Private Cloud Network") held a world tour to launch the community and stimulate funding for members' common goals, standards and code development. I was on the tour (London, San Francisco, Sydney, Tel Aviv), and wrote a report on the ProjectVRM blog. (Naturally, I shot pictures. Those are here. I also spoke at each venue. One of my Sydney talks is here.)
To understand where ProjectVRM fits in the world, and how it works, I like the Competing Values Framework by Kim S. Cameron (no relation to the one above), Robert E. Quinn, Jeff DeGraff and Anjan Thakor:
While there are many VRM developers operating in the lower half of that graphic, what ProjectVRM does is in the upper half of that diagram. We have a collaborative clan of flexible and creative individuals in an adhocracy, working together on long-term transformational change.
Pretty much everything that gets criticized about our efforts falls in the lower half. That's because we have no hierarchy and don't work to control what anybody does. And progress on the whole has been slow. (Though there are exceptions, such as Uber, Lyft and Thumbtack.)
That graphic is just one of many helpful ones in David Ronfeldt's Organizational forms compared, which he's been updating since first publishing it in May 2009. One reason it is helpful is that the hierarchical short-term stuff is obvious and easily understood, while collaborative long term stuff is much harder to grok. It's like the difference between weather and geology. Which makes me think that graphic should be flipped vertically: slow stuff on the bottom, fast stuff at the top. That's what the Long Now foundation does with this graphic, which I've always loved:
The change we want most is down in the culture, governance and infrastructure layers, even though our focus is on commerce. This also explains why we run into trouble when we play with fashion. The last thing we want is for VRM to be cool. (This is also a lesson I learned and re-learned over two decades of watching Linux, free software and open source for Linux Journal.)
The following graphics are all from David Ronfeldt's scholastic gatherings. Each in its own way helps explain how our community works — and how it doesn't. First, from one of Bob Jessop's many papers on governance and metagovernance (this one from 2003):
That's our column on the right.
Then there is this, from Federico Iannacci and Eve Mitleton–Kelly's Beyond markets and firms: the emergence of Open Source networks (First Monday, May, 2005):
That's us in the middle. We're a stable and decentralized heterarchy that coordinates by mutual adjustment.
Then there is this from Karen Stephenson's Neither Hierarchy nor Network: An Argument for Heterarchy (in Ross Dawson's Trends in the Living Networks, April, 2009):
Again that's us on the right.
Something I like about those last two is the respect they give to heterarchy, which has been a focus for many years of Adriana Lukas, another VRM stalwart who has been with the project since before the beginning. Here's her TED talk on the subject.
Finally, there is this graphic, from Clay Spinuzzi's Toward a Typology of Activities (2013):
In Spinuzzi's Losing by Expanding: Corralling the Runaway Object, an object is identified as "a material or problem that is cyclically transformed by collective activity." With our tacit, inductive and flexible approach, this also characterizes the way our community works.
One can see all this at work on the ProjectVRM mailing list, an active collection of 615 subscribers. We also meet in person twice a year at IIW, starting one day in advance of the event, with "VRM Day." This adds up to a total of at least eight days per year of in-person collaboration time.
Most of the rest of the VRM community meets locally, or through the organizing work of organizations such as Respect Network (U.S. based, but spanning the world) and Fifth Quadrant (Sydney based, and focused on Australia and New Zealand).
If things go the way I expect, Mozilla will also emerge as a center of VRM interest and development as well. (For example, I expect VRM to be a topic in October at MozFestival in the U.K.
Nearly all VRM influence derives from the work of its volunteers and its developers. "Markets are conversations," Cluetrain said, and we drive a lot of those. But they rarely get driven exactly the way I, or we, would like. Conversations are like that. So are heterarchical networks. Everybody wants to come at issues from their own angle, and often with their own vocabulary. We see that especially with analysts and think tanks. None of them like the term VRM. (In fact lots of developers avoid it as well. I don't blame them, but we're stuck with it.) Ctrl-Shift, for example, calls fourth parties PIMS, for Personal Information Management Services. Kuppinger-Cole, which gave ProjectVRM an award in 2008 (that's the trophy on the right), insists on the term "Life Management Platforms." (I pushed it for awhile. Didn't take.) Here in the U.S., Forrester Research calls the same category PIDM for Personal Identity and Data Management. We don't care, because we look for effects.
As for the influence of others on ProjectVRM, there are too many to list.
Privacy is the biggest one right now. (A Google search brings up more than five billion results). We've done a lot to drive interest in the topic, and have brought thought leadership to the topic as well. (Here is one example.) On behalf of ProjectVRM, I've participated in many privacy-focused events, such as the Data Privacy Hackathon earlier this year, and at GovLab gatherings such as the one reported on here. I'm also in Helen Nissenbaum's Privacy Research Group at the NYU Law School, where I presented ProjectVRM developers' privacy work on February 26 of this year.
Tied in with privacy online, or lack of it, is users' need to submit to onerous terms of service and meaningless privacy policies. Those terms, also called contracts of adhesion, have been normative ever since industry won the industrial revolution, but have become especially egregious in the online world. Today there is a crying need both for better terms on the sites' and services' side, and for terms individuals can asset on their side. From the beginning ProjectVRM has been focused mostly on the latter.
Trust is another huge issue, also tied with privacy. ProjectVRM has both encouraged and influenced the growth of "trust frameworks" such as the Respect Trust Framework and others (there are five) at OIX, as well as Open Mustard Seed and OpenPDS under IDcubed at the MIT Media Lab.
VRM+CRM has been a focus from the start, but the timing has not been right until now. At the beginning, we expected CRM companies to welcome VRM. Press and analysts in the CRM space were encouraging from the start (CRM Magazine devoted an entire issue to it in 2010), but the big CRM companies showed little interest, until this year.
Sitting between VRM and CRM is a category variously called CX (for Customer Experience), CRX (for Customer Relationship Experience), EM (for Experience Management) CEM or CXM (for Customer Experience Management) and other two and three-letter initialisms. Another happening in the midst of all these is "co-creation" of experience management. The purpose here is to bring customers and companies together to co-create experience in a lab-like setting where research can be done. This is what Flamingo does in Australia. In a similar way, MyWave in New Zealand (with developers in Australia) "puts the customer in charge of their data and the experience" for a "direct 'segment of one' relationship with businesses."
With the Internet of Things (IoT) heating up as a topic, there is also an increased focus, on the "own cycle," rather than the "buy cycle" of the customer experience. I explain the difference here, using this graphic from Esteban Kolsky:
In our lives the own cycle is in fact the largest, because we own things — lots of them — all the time and are buying things only some of the time. In fact, most of the time we aren't buying anything, or even close to looking. This is a festering problem with the advertising-driven commercial Web, which assumes that we are constantly in the market for whatever it is they push at us. In addition to not buying stuff all the time, we are employing more and more ways of turning advertising off (ad blockers are the top browser extensions). For advertising and ad-supported companies, including millions of ad-supported publishers on the Web, this is a mounting crisis. According to an August 2013 PageFair report, "up to 30% of web visitors are blocking ads, and that the number of adblocking users is growing at an astonishing 43% per year." In The Intention Economy, I called online advertising a "bubble" and I stand by the claim. It's just a matter of time.
As the stuff we own gets smart, and as more of it finds its way onto the Net service becomes far more important to companies than sales. And VRM developers are laying important groundwork in service. I wrote about this in Linux Journal last year, drawing special attention to the pioneering work led by Phil Windley, who has been a VRM stalwart since before the beginning. In fact it's Phil's work that makes clear that things themselves don't need to be smart to exist on the Internet. All they need is clouds that are smart, which Phil calls picos for persistent computing objects. In this HBR post I explain how the shared clouds of products can be platforms for relationship between company and customers , with learnings flowing in both directions.
This was the first for VRM, and it's still a primary interest. We need tools on the individual's side for managing many relationships. There still is not a good "relationship dashboard," though there are a number of efforts in this direction. But as soon as we have code on the VRM side that matches up with code on the CRM side (including, for example, call centers, which are also interested in VRM), we'll rock.
Even though ProjectVRM's mission is centered around relationship and conversation, transaction has always been on the table as well. Our first efforts, starting in 2006, were around making it as easy as possible for individuals to donate money in one standard way to many different public radio stations.
We have been involved in many meetings and discussions around payments and secure data transactions, and some projects as well. We worked with SWIFT on the Digital Asset Grid, and have been in conversations with banks (e.g. Chase) and VISA Europe for a long time as well. With the rise of alternative currencies (e.g. Bitcoin), distributed accounting (e.g. Blockchain), digital wallets and other new means for transacting and accounting, there are many ways for VRM developments to play.
In what is being called "post-Snowden time," many new secure and encrypted email approaches have evolved. While some are listed on the ProjectVRM developers list, we haven't been very involved with them — at least not yet. But we are involved with developers working on privacy-protecting tools that can either be embedded in existing email systems or offer alternative communications "tunnels."
Personal information Management
There are two breeds of development here.
One is fourth party services and code bases for managing and sharing personal data selectively online. There are now many of these. Some support self-hosting as well. (ProjectVRM has always been supportive of free software, open source, and the "first person technology" and "indie" movements.) One organization, the Respect Network, was created to provide a framework for substitutability of services and apps.
The other is code the individual uses to manage his or her own life, and connections out to the world. This is where calendar, email, IM, to-do lists, password managers and other convenience-producing apps for the connected world come together. There is no leader here, though there are many players, including Apple, Microsoft and Google.
A test case for VRM that applies to both kinds of solutions is this: being able to change my address, my last name or my phone number for many services in one move. This is exactly what the UK government is calling for from citizens' personal information management systems (what Ctrl-Shift calls PIMS). A citizen should be able to change her address for the Royal Mail, the Passport Office and the National Health Service, all at once. Bonus links: Making things open, making things better, by Mike Bracken in the Gov.UK Government Digital Service blog, where Mike's prior post, Reading the Digital Revolution featured this illustration by our old friend Paul Downey:
Apple's HealthKit and HomeKit, which go live with the release of iOS 8on 9 September, also have some VRM developers excited, because it will make this kind of integration at the individual end easy to do in two verticals: Health and Home Automation.
Early on with ProjectVRM, I avoided health as an issue, because I wanted to see real progress in my lifetime — and I felt that the situation in the U.S. was fubar. But other VRM folk did not agree, and have pushed VRM forward very aggressively in the health field. Dr. Adrian Gropper and Dr. Deborah Peel of Patient Privacy Rights have done a remarkable job of carrying the VRM flag up a very steep and slippery hill. Berkman veteran John Wilbanks is another active ProjectVRM volunteer whose work in health is broad, deep, influential and at the leading edge of the pioneering space where personal agency engages the wild and broken world of the U.S. health care system. Brian Behlendorf, the primary developer of the Apache Web server (which hosts the largest share of the world's Web sites and services) and the CONNECT open source code base for health service collaboration, is also an active participant in ProjectVRM.
A number of VRM developers are working with, or paying close attention to, Apple's HealthKit. In the words of one of those developers, "It's very VRooMy." HealthKit developments go live when Apple rolls out iOS 8 on 9 September.
While a number of car makers are eager to spy on drivers, Volkswagen has put a stake in the ground. In March, Volkswagen CEO Martin Winkerhorn gave a keynote at the Cebit show that drew this headline: "Das Auto darf nicht zur Datenkrake warden." My rusty Deutsch tells me he's saying the car shouldn't be a data octopus.
Toward that end, Phil Windley's Kickstarter-based Fuse will give drivers and car owners all the data churned out of their cars' ODB-II port, which was created originally for diagnostics at car dealers and service stations.
Real Estate
The only products that cost us more than cars are homes. Here too we have a VRM greenfield. The leading mover and shaker here is Bill Wendell of Real Estate Café. He has always been way ahead of his time, but it's clear his time is coming. (Here's Bill leading a session at IIW 18 in May.)
There is an upswing of investment in start-ups on the "pull" — the individual's — side of the marketplace. There is also a lot of angel money being spread around. One reason is that VCs on the whole today are more focused on late stage rounds than on early ones. (Watch Crunchbase to see this at work.) The other is that there seems to be a surfeit of wealthy people eager to make high-risk investments. In some cases government is also involved. In the UK, for example, the SEIS (Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme) program offers huge tax incentives to angel investors.
There is also work going on now toward a VRM fund. This is one of the outcomes of the last IIW (in May of this year), where investment emerged as a big theme, with a number of investors for the first time stepping up and participating in sessions. I'm involved in planning the fund, which is still in its preliminary stages. If it moves forward (which I believe it will), it should come into shape before next year, and perhaps even before the next IIW in late October.
This has always been the future focus for ProjectVRM. This academic year is when I hope we get started on it in a major way. Read on.
There are a zillion things we could work on, but I'd like to focus on just one: personal terms individuals proffer and sites and services can agree to. The Cyberlaw Clinic is already involved, though its work with Customer Commons, but much more can be done — and needs to be done, soon. The timing is totally right for this.
Respect Network is already working on a safe and private substitute for the "social login" buttons we get from Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. The Respect Connect button (explained here) is based onXDI , a protocol that employs "link contracts." Drummond Reed, the father of XDI (and CEO of the Respect Network) describes link contracts as "machine-readable XDI descriptions of the permissions an individual is giving to another party for access to and usage of the owner's personal data." Very handy. And binding. In code.
So, what are those permissions — those terms? Lets come up with them between now and the end of this academic year.
Thinking out loud here…
We could host focused discussions and invite participants (including law folk — especially students, from anywhere) to vet terms the way the IETF vets Internet standards: with RFCs, or Requests for Comments. At the end of the project we will have both standard terms for posting at Customer Commons and reference implementations hosted by Berkman, or shared by Berkman over Github or some other data repository.
We'd also work with Mozilla (which has Persona, and other browser makers, if they want to get on board — which they should, and with Berkman's convening power probably will.
And we'd bring to the table many dozens of developers already eager to see increased agency and term-proffering power on the individual's side. I can easily see privacy dashboards, on both the client and the server sides of websites.
This work would also separate respectful actors on the supply side of the marketplace from ones that want to stick with the surveillance model. Some open source code for this already exists with Adblock Plus's white list for non-surveillance-based advertisers. I would hope they'd be eager to participate as well. We (ProjectVRM, the Berkman Center or Customer Commons) could publish lists of conformant requirements for website and Web service providers, and lists (or databases) of conformant ones.
While there are lots of things we could do, this is the one I know will have the most leverage in the shortest time, and would be great fun as well.
It is also highly cross-disciplinary, with many lines of cooperation and collaboration within the university and out to the rest of the world. Right at Berkman we have the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project and its many connections to other centers at Harvard. Its mission — "to help enable the collection, analysis, and sharing of personal data for research in social science and other fields while providing privacy for individual subjects" — is up many VRM development alleys, especially around health care.
So let us know what you think.


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The aroma of all the seasonings in this dish with lentils, chickpeas, and jasmine rice is so amazing. This dish is simple, and one of my favorites to share with loved ones, or if I'm craving some take-out; this is my go to recipe. This is a vegetarian and vegan friendly dish.
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½ tsp. ground ginger
1 quart vegetable stock
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