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When searching for information about a specific problem, view results by post, and tweak your choice of keywords until you get a reasonable number of results. If you still get too many redundant posts, consider excluding the Newbie forum. I found "view results by post" very useful, so I clicked on "save search preferences" on the Search page so that it is set by default on my account.
When searching for "official" information or releases of a specific project, use one or more of the following options: search thread titles only, view results by thread, or limit search to the files, support, and development forums (exclude the Newbie forum). Ignore the results that don't look "official," and aim for threads that say: RELEASE, SUPPORT, DEVELOPMENT, etc.
Example: searching for "superpatch" shows you 175 threads. Searching thread titles only outside the Newbie forum produces only 9 threads, many of which are relevant.
Also, sorting by date, ascending, helps you pinpoint the first mention of a topic (and thus the early/release information, when appropriate). This is especially useful when dealing with topics or projects that originated on DDB. Example: searching for "mfs_ftp" with the default settings will yield hundreds of results. Searching for "mfs_ftp", by posts, sorted by date in ascending order, leads you directly to the thread in which it was announced and is supported. The search facility isn't perfect, but it IS quite powerful (especially in comparison to, say, the search engine on TCF). Use it to your advantage.
The forum software offers a "search this thread" option above the first post on the page. Use it. Complaining that the answer to your question is buried deep within a long thread will win you no sympathy.
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2011 Superbowl Darth Vader Commercial (Video) | New Star Wars Kid For Volkswagen
This commercial is cute, but even more heartwarming when you know the story behind it.
Max Page, who plays the young vader in this ad, was born with a heart defect and has a pacemaker. In fact, he's never even seen a Star Wars movie in his life!
Since this ad aired on the Superbowl (which I didn't care to watch), it has gotten 15 million views! Not bad considering it hasn't even been 24 hours since it was on TV.
Who knows, maybe we'll see Max in more Volkswagon ads from now on.

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In Academic Year 2010-11, CAP is offering the following four courses:
- Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, and Juvenile Justice (Fall)
- Child, Family, and State (Spring)
- Child Advocacy Clinic (Winter/Spring OR Spring)
- Future of the Family: Adoption, Reproduction, and Child Welfare: Seminar (Spring)
Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education and Juvenile Justice
Fall term
Th 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Austin West, Austin Hall
Professor Elizabeth Bartholet and Ms. Jessica Budnitz
2 classroom credits LAW-30691A
This course deals with strategies for changing law and policy, focusing on the areas of child welfare (abuse and neglect, foster care, adoption), education, and juvenile justice. We will bring into the classroom as visiting lecturers leaders from the worlds of policy, practice, and academia — people who have themselves operated as successful change agents, and who represent different disciplines, career paths, and strategies for change. We will explore some of the most significant reform initiatives in our targeted areas, and debate with the speakers and each other how best to advance children's interests. Receptions will follow the class meetings, enabling students to talk informally with the visiting speakers, as well as with the HLS Faculty and those from the Boston-area child advocacy community who form a regular part of our audience. Each student will have the opportunity to attend one of the dinners involving the visiting speakers, the faculty, and interested others, that will take place after the reception.
Course requirements consist of brief questions/reactions related to the readings and class presentations, turned in weekly.
This course is part of the Child Advocacy Program (CAP), whose other courses are: Child, Family, and State, the Child Advocacy Clinic, and the Future of the Family seminar. Students participating in this Art of Social Change course will get a preference for admission to the Winter-Spring and Spring versions of the Child Advocacy Clinic and related fieldwork placements, and to the Future of the Family seminar. Enrollment in all CAP courses is encouraged but not required.
Cross-registrants are welcome.
Child, Family, and State
Spring term
Professor Elizabeth Bartholet
3 classroom credits LAW-32000A
This course will focus on children's rights and interests in the context of family and child welfare, looking also at education and juvenile justice, and consider how our society shapes the meaning of childhood. We will look at what role the government does and does not play in supporting families so that they can provide children with appropriate nurture, and we will assess the potential of programs designed to provide special support to fragile families, such as early home visitation and family preservation. We will look at how law divides responsibility for children between parents and the state, and consider how the balance should be drawn. We will look at law and policy governing parent rights, child abuse and neglect, foster care, adoption (domestic and international), education, and juvenile justice. Throughout we will think about how we could change law and policy to create a better world for children and families.
This course is part of the Child Advocacy Program (CAP), whose other courses are: The Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, & Juvenile Justice, the Child Advocacy Clinic, and the Future of the Family seminar. Students participating in this Child, Family, and State course will get a preference for admission to the Winter-Spring and Spring versions of the Child Advocacy Clinic and related fieldwork placements, and to the Future of the Family seminar. Enrollment in all the CAP courses is encouraged but not required.
There will be a take-home examination for this course.
Cross-registrants are welcome.
Child Advocacy Clinic
Spring term
Ms. Jessica Budnitz
2 classroom credits LAW-32080A
3 or 4 required clinical credits Spring LAW-32080C
2 optional clinical credits Winter
The CAP clinic is designed to educate students about a range of social change strategies and to encourage critical thinking about the pros and cons of different approaches. The course includes both a classroom and a fieldwork component. A variety of substantive areas impacting the lives of children will be addressed, with a focus on child welfare (abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption), education, and juvenile justice. The course is relevant for students with a particular interest in children's issues but also for those more generally interested in law reform and social change.
Enrollment Options: Students have two options, which correspond to different course listings: Child Advocacy Clinic (Spring only) or Child Advocacy Clinic (Winter-Spring). All students will be required to take 2 Spring classroom credits. Additionally, all students will engage in part-time clinical work during the Spring term, registering for 3 or 4 Spring clinical credits (which roughly translates to 15 or 20 hours of work each week). Winter/Spring students will engage in full-time clinical work during the Winter term, in addition to their part-time Spring clinical work.
Enrollment Procedures: Enrollment will occur during clinical registration. Please note that the Child Advocacy Clinic has EARLIER drop/add deadlines than other clinicals. Once enrolled in the clinic, students will be provided a description of the various fieldwork options, and students will be placed to the degree possible in accord with their preferences.
Fieldwork Component: Students will be placed in a wide array of fieldwork settings, ranging from organizations providing individual advocacy, to those promoting systemic change through impact litigation and legislative reform, to grassroots organizing initiatives. Some students will work for reform from within the system and others from outside. Students will work on different types of projects such as: developing legislative reform proposals, participating in mediations, doing in-court advocacy work, drafting legal briefs, analyzing social science and psychological research, leveraging the media and writing op-ed articles, investigating new policy initiatives. For instance:
- In the child welfare area, students may work at the state agency charged with protecting children from abuse and neglect, with private lawyers representing children in the foster care system, with a model early home visitation program focused on supporting fragile families, or with the district attorney's office prosecuting parents accused of child maltreatment.
- In the education area, students may work with a program that weds social science with the promotion of policy reform, with a project advocating for the special needs of children exposed to violence, or with the state agency charged with overseeing schools on issues such as charter schools, school finance, assessment and accountability, student rights, and school discipline.
- In the juvenile justice area, students may work on legislative and policy initiatives aimed at improving the justice system for youth of color, on an initiative providing alternatives to detention, or with a model juvenile defender organization.
- Many placements cut across substantive areas. Students may work as a law clerk in the juvenile court, with a state legislative committee focused on child welfare and education, or with a medical-legal collaborative aimed at improving child well-being.
Winter Term Fieldwork Option: The Winter Term opens up the possibility of placement with model organizations throughout the U.S. and even internationally. Most Winter-Spring students will be placed in a distant placement for the Winter Term, and then return to continue their fieldwork in the form of a research and writing project in the Spring. A small number of Winter-Spring students will be placed locally, working full-time in the Winter and then part-time at the same organization in the Spring.
Classroom Component: During the Spring term, students will bring their varied fieldwork experiences into the classroom so that all can learn from the rich combination of clinical experiences and debate the value of different approaches. Each student will give one presentation during the term — often in combination with the fieldwork supervisor describing his/her clinical work, his/her organization, and how his/her project fits within the organization's larger child advocacy agenda.
Course Requirements: Regular attendance and active participation in discussion is required. Grading will be based on a combination of each student's presentation and related packet, contributions to class discussion throughout the term, and clinical fieldwork.
Early add/drop deadline: This clinical course has early add/drop deadlines, dates TBD.
Enrollment in the course will be capped at 24 students. There are no pre-requisites.
Future of the Family: Adoption, Reproduction and Child Welfare: Seminar
Spring term
Professor Elizabeth Bartholet
2 classroom credits LAW-93971A
This seminar is for students interested in writing a research paper on any issue related to the above range of topics, as well as for students interested in doing papers on ideas explored in connection with any Child Advocacy Program (CAP) course (Child, Family & State, The Art of Social Change, CAP Clinic). Initial class sessions will focus on readings related to general research and writing issues, and later sessions will focus on student work. Students will receive extensive guidance and feedback on their writing.
Students are encouraged to meet with the Professor prior to the start of the Spring term to discuss potential paper topics. Possible issue areas include but are not limited to: parenting and procreation; child abuse and neglect; family preservation policy; high-tech infertility treatment; the commercialization of reproduction (sale of eggs, sperm, embryos and pregnancy services); non-traditional family forms (single parenting, gay/lesbian parenting, same-sex unions and marriage, transracial and international adoption); and fetal abuse, sex selection, cloning, stem cell research and the new eugenics options.
Requirements include: regular attendance, active participation, presentation of own work, feedback on others' work, and a research paper. Students are encouraged to write a substantial paper for an additional credit; this can be used to satisfy the School's Written Work Requirement.
This seminar is part of the Child Advocacy Program (CAP), whose other courses are: Child, Family, and State, the Art of Social Change, and the Child Advocacy Clinic. Students participating in this seminar will get a preference for admission to the Winter-Spring and Spring versions of the Child Advocacy Clinic and related fieldwork placements. Enrollment in all CAP courses is encouraged but not required.


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Penn State's annual Undergraduate Exhibition communicates and celebrates the participation of undergraduate students from across the University in scholarly inquiry, research, and creative endeavors. The next Undergraduate Exhibition will take place in April 2019.
Students from all Penn State campuses are eligible to enter one of three formats for sharing research and creative inquiry:
- poster presentation: traditional research poster
- oral presentation: students will present their research/creative work in 5 minutes using one PowerPoint slide or one visual display (i.e. an original piece of visual art)
- performance: limited to 5 minutes
Questions about the Undergraduate Exhibition may be directed to Alan Rieck, Assistant Vice President and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education, at 814-863-1864 or email@example.com.
2018 Award Recipients
Gerard A. Hauser Award
Ethan Liu, Logan Staley, Eberly College of Science — "Exploring the Economic Utilization of Invasive Species to Improve the Select Health of Ecosystems in Cuba," faculty sponsor Jacqueline McLaughlin
Arts and Humanities
Makaela Bigley, College of Engineering — "Cahal Pech: Recreating Ruins with Structure from Motion Mapping," faculty sponsor Alexander Klippel
1. (Tie) Melissa Mercado, Eberly College of Science — "Bacillus Strains Used as a Biological Control for Trichoderma Aggressivum Aggressivum," faculty sponsor John Pecchia
1. (Tie) Rachel Crowley, Rachel Gaddis, Christi Geisler, Rachel Gimuriman, Ryan Metz, Smeal College of Business — "DowDuPont Corian Quartz Process Improvement Project," faculty sponsor David Lenze
1. Ashley Castell, College of Engineering — "Advanced Turbine Measurement System Design for Rotating Instrumentation," faculty sponsor Reid Berdanier
2. Michael Szczesniak, College of Engineering — e Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) Utilizing a Low Cost, Closed Loop Current Control System," faculty sponsor Guha Manogharan
Health and Life Science
1. Mary Sievers, Eberly College of Science — "Investigating Environmental Factors that Impact Bacterial Antagonism," faculty sponsor Sarah Ades
2. Amanda Williams, Eberly College of Science — "Investigating Environmental Factors that Impact Bacterial Antagonism," faculty sponsor Timothy Miyashiro
3. Daniel Ferriss, Sophia Landaeta, Rachel Swope, Eberly College of Science — "Investigating Axonal Neuroprotection and Dendritic Response to Injury in Drosophila Neurons," faculty sponsor Melissa Rolls
Oral and Performances
1. Rachel Fleischer, College of Arts and Architecture — "Movements from Poema del Pastor Coya by Angel Lasala," faculty sponsor Naomi Seidman
2. Thomas Wert, College of Arts and Architecture — "Re-envisioning Johnston Square," faculty sponsor Stephen Mainzer
3. Lucas Tranchita, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences — "Potential Wetland Sites to Reduce Flooding along the Buffalo Bayou in Houston, TX," faculty sponsor Stephen Mainzer
Physical Sciences
1. Matthew Tracey, Eberly College of Science — "Small Oligonucleotide Models of the Twister Ribozyme Active Site Reveal No Intrinsic Activity of CA and UA Linkages," faculty sponsor Philip Bevilacqua
2. Jenna Mandel, Eberly College of Science — "Neurons Survive and Regenerate After Injury to Both Axons and Dendrites," faculty sponsor Melissa Rolls
3. Anna Whitaker, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences — "Gradient Analysis of Upper Ordovician Fossil Assemblages in the Taconic Foreland Basin: Comparison of Central Pennsylvania and Virginia," faculty sponsor Mark Patzkowsky
Social and Behavioral Sciences
1. (Tie) Alisha Pushinsky, College of Agricultural Sciences — "Determining Zebrafish Preference of Food or Novel Object Presentation Through Behavioral Observations," faculty sponsor Victoria Braithwaite
1. (Tie) Joseph Sheaffer, College of the Liberal Arts — "Individual Political Ideology Informing the Consumption of Outrage Media," faculty sponsor Mark Major
3. Rachel Fleischer, College of the Liberal Arts — "Exploring the Passage of Immigration Legislation in the Modern Political Era," faculty sponsor Michael Nelson
University Fellowships and Phi Kappa Phi Peter T. Luckie Awards for Outstanding Juniors
Arts and Humanities
Lindsey Kircher, College of Arts and Architecture — "The Role of Sign and Symbol in Contemporary Painting," faculty sponsor John Bowman
Sciences and Engineering
Karina Grullon-Perez, Eberly College of Science — "Determining the Role of mthl3 in Dendrite Regeneration," faculty sponsor Melissa Rolls
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Alexander Rembalsky, College of the Liberal Arts — "The Relationship Between Lesion Recovery and Functional Connectivity in Traumatic Brain Injury," faculty sponsor Frank Hillary
University Library Awards for Information Literacy
Grand Prize
Seamus Wagner, College of the Liberal Arts — "Partisan Bias in Electoral Conflict: Tanzania's Kawe Constituency," faculty sponsor Elizabeth Carlson
First place
Emily Seiger, College of Agricultural Sciences — "The Effects of Iron on Mood, Stress, and Quality of Life in Women of Reproductive Age," faculty sponsor Laura Murray-Kolb
Second place
Sean Clees, College of Engineering — "Vortex Core Dynamics in a Swirling Jet Near Vortex Breakdown," faculty sponsor Jacqueline O'Connor
Third place
Cristina Frass, College of Arts and Architecture — "Tackling Flooding Issues in Houston," faculty sponsor Stephen Mainzer
Honorable mentions
Madeline Nyblade, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences — "Numerical Modeling of the Agricultural-Hydrologic System in Punjab," faculty sponsor Ludmil Zikatanov
Rachel Bruning and Joaquim Santos, Eberly College of Science — "Investigation of Microbial Diversity Within the Mutualistic Symbiosis Between the Hawaiian Squid and Vibrio Fscheri," faculty sponsor Timothy Miyashiro
Heather Bair, College of Agricultural Sciences — "Reducing Phosphorous Loading in Lake Erie by Identifying Land Areas Suitable for Wetland Construction," faculty sponsor Stephen Mainzer
Danielle Jones, College of Health and Human Development — "Assessing Physical Activity Promotion Among Church Youth Programs," faculty sponsor Melissa Bopp
Sarah Mohammed and Matthew Adams, Altoona Campus — "Showcasing Internships: The Art of Scientific Presentations," faculty sponsor Nick Rowland
The application for the 2019 Undergraduate Exhibition will be available January 21 - March 24, 2019.
Gerard A. Hauser Award
The Gerald A. Hauser Award is given to the exhibition entry judged to be the best overall. Named in honor of a former director of Penn State's honors program, it is accompanied by a $500 prize.
Category Awards
First, second, and third place is awarded in each of the Exhibition's entry categories, including arts and humanities, course-based projects, engineering, health and life sciences, physical sciences, social and behavioral sciences, and oral presentations and performances.
University Fellowships and Phi Kappa Phi Peter T. Luckie Award for Outstanding Juniors
The University Fellowships and Phi Kappa Phi Peter T. Luckie Award for Outstanding Juniors is sponsored by the University Fellowships Office and the Penn State Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society. The award recognizes an outstanding junior entry in each of the three following areas: health and life sciences, humanities and social sciences, and physical sciences and engineering. Each award is accompanied by a $200 prize.
Phi Kappa Phi was founded in 1900 and initiates junior and senior students from all disciplines who have demonstrated academic excellence. The society lives up to its motto, "Let the love of learning rule humanity," by sponsoring fellowships and academic services and providing support to encourage the pursuit of learning in all disciplines and at all levels. Information about the Penn State chapter may be found at www.phikappaphi.psu.edu.
University Libraries Award for Information Literacy
The Libraries Information Literacy Award recognizes scholarly work based on a foundation of careful background research and literature review. The award is given to entries that demonstrate excellence in information literacy through the following: showcasing your research process and strategies; selection of sources that contribute to your argument and ideas; social, ethical, or economic considerations in accessing information; and credit and proper citation for any quotes, tables, graphs, images, and other content displayed.
Criteria definitions
Source selection
We want to know about the sources you selected to back up your research or sources that informed the work you did. Did the sources you selected support your project in a relevant and appropriate way?
Research process and search strategies
Before you began your project and during your project, how did you find information to support your research? What was your process in finding sources? We are interested in where you found your sources, what keywords you used to find your sources, and any other help you sought out in these stages of the research process.
Source integration
Research is not done in isolation. Your project is a part of a larger conversation in your discipline. We are looking at how you integrated previous research into your own work. How have you connected work done before you to your project? How have you helped your viewer understand the arguments and ideas you are putting forth in your project?
In your project, you should have proper citations for all graphs, images, charts, and other visual elements. Citations should also be included for any references you make to other scholarship or sources used to explain your project.
Social, ethical, or economic considerations in accessing information
Information is not always free. We are curious to know how you paid for or accessed the information you used for your project. How would your research have changed if you were only able to use open access or other free sources?
Still have questions? The University Libraries is here to help! If you have more questions feel free to contact your Student Engagement Librarian, Hailley Fargo (email@example.com).


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While 2009 celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Rolex Kentucky 3-Day Event, it was all a first for me! A New England born-and-bred hunter/jumper rider, I had never truly experienced horse country or 3-day eventing. This year's Rolex was also the first time I had ever traveled with SmartPak to a horseshow!
I had visited the Kentucky Horse Park many years ago for a hunter/jumper show but remembered very little about it. I was thrilled to see massive, rolling, green fields with new moms and their adorable foals as soon as we left the Lexington airport (and our very bumpy plane) behind. You just don't see things like that in Massachusetts; our biggest fields are mere postage stamps on a Kentucky-sized field! The show grounds themselves are also a sight to behold, especially with the addition of the brand new outdoor stadium and spectator areas! Again, facilities like these don't just exist up north. It's really something else to be smack in the middle of horse country, at one of the most premier equine venues, during one of the biggest 3-day events in the world!
After a day and a half of setting up house, the SmartPak Store was ready for business and the show opened to the public. For those who weren't able to stop by the booth, we were very excited to feature many of our SmartPak exclusive products, including the brand new SmartSlim, the new SmartPak line of bridles and martingales and Vineyard Vines Totes, Flip-Flops and Belts with horsey patterns! We were also sure to bring along lots of examples of all our custom products like the Custom Photo Panel, Custom Mattes Pads, High Point Custom Saddle Pads and Custom Safety Vests.
The second day of the show brought with it the SmartPak cross-country coursewalk with Kim Severson and Jan Byyny, as well as some heated competition in the dressage arena. Now I don't know much about 3-day eventing but when I heard Bettina Hoy and Ringwood Cockatoo's dressage score of 28.8 over the loud speaker, I knew it was a big deal! Therefore, I was very excited when I got to head out to the cross-country course Saturday afternoon to watch a bit and realized I would see Hoy and Ringwood Cockatoo come through the Head of the Lake obstacle. I have to be honest, I didn't even realize that some of the jumps were not just decoration until the horse was actually jumping them! I did also get a chance to see Lucinda Fredericks and Headley Britannia (or should I say a flash of bright pink) racing down one of the galloping lanes to gain the lead! The ability and athleticism of these horses on the cross-country course left me awestruck. I am so glad that after 17 years of riding, I was finally able to witness some cross-country action firsthand!
Sunday came and we were all excited to be a part of Poggio II's retirement ceremony. Our embroidery department did another amazing job capturing a handful of his victories on a cooler presented to Pogi, Amy Tryon and owner Mark Hart during the ceremony. It was a heartfelt ceremony for most, but not for Pogi…he was ready to go run Cross-Country! In Pogi's name, SmartPak dedicated a year's worth of SmartSupplements to the Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center in Woodinville, WA.
As the show came to an end on Sunday and everyone flocked to the stadium to watch Fredericks and Headley Britannia take their place in the history books as champions of Rolex 2009, I took a moment to reflect on the week. What a whirlwind! In addition to experiencing a whole new discipline of riding, it was great to finally meet some of our customers face-to-face! I also got a chance to meet many of our canine friends and even one baby goat! You never know what might happen at Rolex and I can't wait for what's in store for next year!
On a more somber note, our sincere condolences go out to Mike Winter and all involved in the life and training of Kingpin, who's tragic passing occurred early Saturday morning. Our thoughts are with them during this sad and difficult time.


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|Breakfast tinned peaches
|Matron! A big banana after doing the weekly shop and feeling mighty rough today with gunky eye
|Snacking whilst putting the shopping away
|Scrummy lunch of wholemeal pitta with 130 g of prawns and 130g of salmon, tomato and a bread stick from buddy - how thoroughly middle class of me as the hubster would say
|Low fat yogurt - not intentionally though as studies have shown having the low fat and sweetener stuff is actually bad for you - it makes you crave sugar that's why I don't drink diet drinks anymore. I need to swap the yogurts to proper ones
|Its shopping day what can I say!
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- Appr. Date: 12th c. (12th c.)
- Genres: Canon law
- Illustrations: No
Hardwick & Luard no. 1046 (vol. 2, pp. 142-164)
Halliwell Ee.iv.29 (p. 125)
Double columns in a unique and very beautiful hand, the alphas being particularly noteworthy.
For a very full description of the manuscript, see the twenty-three pages in Hardwick & Luard (bibliography and online resources). Greek numeration besides that of the university (the latter followed here); for example, ξθ' (69) = library 61, &c. (cf. beginning of Hardwick & Luard entry for explanation).
60v-65r Tome of Union (Hardwick & Luard subsection 15, p. 146), titled at the top of recto pages «Ἕνωσις τῆς (τοῦ) Χριστοῦ Ἐκκλησίας». For the modern edition, see Opusculum 200B in Nicolaus I Mysticus (1981, ed. Westerink) in the bibliography. For the history surrounding the document, see Hussey in bibliography: part 1, ch. 4.


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As far as I'm concerned this is finally done.
"The day you fail I can capture your soul."
As far as I'm concerned this is finally done.
A Damar Class Cruiser gets an escort through Bajoran space by two Bajoran Intercepters.
Here is another cool poster for Captain America. It just looks like they are getting every thing right with this movie. Please don't suck.
Well I probably won't be posting for awhile. Last night I found out that my brother is dieing. He wasn't expected to live through the night. I'm not close to my brother and for very good reasons so I'm not really bothered by it. But I will need to do some things to protect my self finacially and legally. I'm not paying any of his bills and If he somehow comes out of it and lives I have enough trouble taking care of my father with alzheimers. I'm not going to take responsability for someone I stopped talking to more than a decade ago.
But anyway here are some new pictures of Gizmo fresh from the groomer.
While going through all my unfinished files thinking about what to do next I came acroos my old Klingon ship. I rebuilt the neck and started to add more detail.
Now this I can get behind.
Ok. Here it is all finished.


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Have you ever pondered how truly creative God is? Have your small group members consider the following points:
- Every leaf on every tree is completely unique.
- There are thousands of different types of trees.
- Every blade of grass is one of a kind.
- There are hundreds of different types of grasses.
- Every grain of sand on the beach is different too.
- Every flower on every bush is unique and different.
- Think about how many different types of animals there are.
- Now consider every animal is different from every other one.
Is there an end to God's creatively? God is definitely creative.
Ask your small group to think of other statements such as the ones described above. Each member make their own list.
Discuss this: If God was this creative with plants and animals, do you think His creatively stop when He made people? How does this perspective of God's creatively help you see people in a different light?


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This is the final post of a triple on CCP influence in Australia and New Zealand. The first two pieces introduce former PRC diplomat Chen Yonglin's 2016 China in Perspective piece on Australia as "China's backyard", presented for the first time in English.
0. Leading from the back end
1. The cis-Tasman yard
2. Chen Yonglin: Australia as China's backyard
Chen Yonglin 陈用林 is a former consular official who defected to Australia in 2005 and aired a series of claims about persecution of dissidents and spying on Australian soil. A parliamentary inquiry ensued; the documents show how perfunctorily he was treated, initially being denied political asylum, then refused police protection and even advised by immigration officials to go back to his consulate.
In 2016, Chen wrote a piece for China in perspective (纵览中国), an online publication under the Princeton China Initiative. The article, titled "Australia is in the process of becoming China's backyard" (澳大利亚正在沦为中国的后院), discusses more recent developments, such as the lease of the Darwin port. Although it might not be possible to verify some of his claims based on open sources, Chen's insights as a former diplomat make his thoughts worth reading, as they are relevant to the ongoing debate on the extent of CCP influence in Australia.
The original piece in Chinese is available on the website of China in perspective. I particularly liked the epithet 舔屎族 (coprolictae).
An English translation is given below, revised by the author. I'm grateful to the author and translator for their permission to reproduce the article. Needless to say, it reflects the author's views, rather than mine.
Australia is in the Process of Becoming China's Backyard
Chen Yonglin
The original Chinese-language version of this article appeared under the title "陈用林:澳大利亚正在沦为中国的后院" in China in Perspective 纵览中国, dated 31 August 2016.
Not long ago I was chatting with some friends about how the Chinese New Year Parade organised by the City of Sydney in 2015 was the 12th such annual parade, and how with Chinese government support in terms of people and funding, the event has become larger and more lively every year. It was also noted that at that time the PRC Consulate General in Sydney had arranged for some ethnic Chinese who were close to the Communist Party of China (CPC) to sign a petition rejecting the City of Sydney's proposal to localize the procession, under the name of the "Lunar New Year Procession". In fact the CPC's all-out infiltration of Australia started in that year of 2004. Over these 12 years we have seen a process by which Australia has gradually and increasingly been turned into China's backyard.
When Fu Ying was the PRC ambassador to Australia, she repeatedly said to Australian government officials and media that China wants Australia to become a stable and reliable resources and energy supplier. Australia's only concern at that time was that China would stop buying Australia's resources.
In mainstream Australian society, the Northern Territory Government has recently been counting its money. The money comes from leasing the operating rights over the port of Darwin to a Chinese company for 99 years! The port of Darwin is the most important Australian military base for countering attacks from the north. Did the Northern Territory Government have the right to represent Australia in submissively giving the port to China? The Northern Territory Government received a little money but the national security interests of Australia were seriously harmed. Most Westerners, and particularly Australians, do not understand the significance of the 99 years. However, the ethnic Chinese close to the CPC and the United Front people will certainly feel a sense of revenge as we clearly remember that 99 years was the length of lease over Hong Kong's Kowloon and New Territories which Britain demanded from China though it could be normal practice in leasing land in the West.
The media has also recently revealed a list of 30 Chinese persons who have made political donations in Australia. The most prominent are Chau Chak Wing of the Kingold group (the proprietor of the pro-CPC newspaper Australian New Express Daily) and Huang Xiangmo of the Yuhu Group (the Chairman of the Australian Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China). Many of these donors are members of the Australian Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China. Studies show that formerly some prominent political figures such as the former NSW premier Bob Carr were looked upon very kindly by the CPC, and seen as "tomorrow's star". He then became Foreign Minister in the Gillard Government and today he is pretty well-off. There is also the former NSW Treasurer Eric Roozendaal who has become the deputy chairman of the Yuhu Group responsible for strategic planning. With the support of funding from the Chinese government, Chinese companies are buying huge swathes of Australian farms and large numbers of livestock. Australians are also aghast wondering how it is that Chinese persons have purchased all the property along George Street in Sydney.
Today, Australia not only provides China with cheap resources and energy but also with the raw material for manufacturing nuclear weapons, uranium. According to high-level sources, on several occasions, Australian uranium nominally exported to India actually went to China. The Australian government, even after investigating the facts, did not take any measures to restrict this commercial activity which threatened the country's security. I consider that China has already used Australian uranium to manufacture nuclear weapons.
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In the middle of August 2004, the 10th meeting of China's envoys based abroad was held in Beijing. In his speech, the CPC party secretary Hu Jintao put forward the instruction that Australia should be included in the category of China's "overall periphery". In February 2005, in order to implement the spirit of the envoys' meeting, Zhou Wenzhong 周文重, a vice minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs convened a meeting in Canberra of senior officials at the PRC embassies in Australia and New Zealand and high level foreign ministry staff. I participated together with Consul-General Qiu Shaofang 邱少芳. The contents of the meeting I have already detailed in an interview by the RFA in June 2005, under the title 'RFA Interviews Chen Yonglin (Part 2): The US-Australia Alliance is Loosening". Unfortunately, apart from a small number of Western scholars, few people have paid this much attention. Essentially, in accordance with their fixed strategic plans, the Communist Party of China had begun a structured effort to infiltrate Australia in a systematic way.
In looking at Australia, the Chinese government saw only one thing: Australia is rich in high-grade mineral and energy resources. It will serve as an inexhaustible supply base for China over the next 20 years of development, and it will provide an overall logistical safeguard for China's economic development.
Australia was also the earliest experimental base for the Chinese Communists in expanding their soft power abroad because Australia has advantages in four respects: 1. Geopolitical advantage. It is the nearest major Western democratic polity to China with a stable political environment, relatively weak national power and is the weak link in the western camp. 2. Advantage in terms of Chinese migrants from the PRC. After 1989, over 40,000 Chinese students in Australia obtained residence rights. Adding their immediate relatives, more than 100,000 Chinese persons became Australians. Naturally these people have intimate and diverse links with the PRC, have often been ideologically trained, and a majority have a strong sense of Chinese chauvinism. It is thus that, through their fear of Chinese political power and gangsters, they can be easily coerced. 3. The advantage of multicultural policies. Australia's Racial Discrimination Act allows minorities to assert a certain confidence. Under the pompous claim of promoting Chinese national culture, they often engage in ideological propaganda. 4. There is no Foreign Agents Registration Act. The US Foreign Agents Registration Act is a trump card in opposing infiltration by foreigners. Australia has no such tool.
China's political infiltration of Australia involves three spheres: 1. Chinese community organisations; 2. Student and scholar associations; and 3. The Confucius Institute system.
Working with Chinese community organisations is the most important task. The CPC uses Chinese community organisations which are pro-Communist as their base, and from there they radiate into society. "Blood is thicker than water" and ethnic affiliation can be used to influence people. As long as people have Chinese faces, the CPC feels that they have an opportunity to influence and utilise them. Today in Australia, regardless of whether we speak of the Chinese community, political circles, commercial groups, scholarly bodies, literary and arts organisations, news organisations, or even public schools, there will be Chinese agents 代理人 within. The CPC agents are everywhere, with their fear-inducing actions, their lies, their corruption and their cold-blooded ways. Australia's key values have already begun to be attacked and corroded. For example, in June 2015, the Western Australian Senator Dio Wang, when being interviewed by the Australian Financial Review, spoke in defence of the CPC over the massacre in Tiananmen in 1989.
The key pro-Communist Chinese organisation in Australia is the Australian Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China (ACPPRC), which has a pyramid structure with control at every level. The ACPPRC is under the leadership of the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification, which in turn is an official organ under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee's United Front Work Department. The chairman of the China Council is Yu Zhengsheng 俞正声 who is both a member of the CPC Politburo Standing Committee and chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Key members of the Australian Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China have been directly appointed as "Non-Voting Members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference". For example William Chiu 邱维廉, a former chairman of ACPPRC, was appointed as a Non-Voting Member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, but has since been replaced by the ACPPRC executive vice president Victor Tian 田飞. The Australian Council of Chinese Organizations 华人团体协会 was originally set up to strengthen control over the Australian Chinese community, aid infiltration of mainstream society and to oppose the overall sanctions imposed by western countries as a result of the June 4 massacre. However, with the grand creation of the ACPPRC, the Australian Council of Chinese Organizations was hollowed out, and its president Dr Tony C. M. Goh 吴昌茂 had to make great efforts to revive his reputation.
The Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) is an organisation which is directly controlled by the CPC through the embassy in Canberra. In order to make control easier, in addition to establishing CSSA bodies in each university, a national Australian Chinese Students and Scholars Association has been created, below which are the NSW CSSA, the Australian Capital CSSA and so on, in a pyramid hierarchy. All are directed by the Education Office of the Chinese Embassy in Canberra and the Education Section of the PRC Consulate General in Sydney, and the appointment and election of CSSA leaders is all carried out under the management of the embassy or Consulate General. On the NSW CSSA website, one can read of the nature of the organisation: "The NSW CSSA was initiated by Consul Bai Gang of the Education Section of the PRC Consulate General in Sydney…"
In 2008, Bai Gang 白刚 the Education Consul of the PRC Consulate General in Sydney also established the Australian Chinese Professionals Association 澳大利亚华人专业人士协会. This association was specifically established for the Chinese students who stayed in Australia after graduation, so as to allow them to continue to 'make a contribution to the motherland."
Originally, the Confucius Institute system was established to compete with the Taiwan Chinese-language education materials presented in full-form traditional characters. However, subsequently it was used to recruit agents and establish a pro-Communist network, and it became a major tool for infiltrating mainstream society. Unfortunately, the Australian governments at both the Federal and state levels saw Chinese assistance in providing Chinese language training assistance as a "free lunch" without any conditions. In particular, as the Confucius Classrooms have been widely expanded, the CPC ideological element of education has been further introduced. For China, this means "achieving major aims with a small amount of funds." This small amount of financial support will result in Australia losing its next generations. The short-sightedness of Australian politicians forms a sharp contrast with the long-term strategies of the Communist Party of China.
There is another secret aspect of the CPC's overseas deployments. I can't count the number of people who have expressed scepticism about my claim in 2005 that the CPC has over 1,000 agents and informers in Australia. The Chinese ambassador to Australia at that time Fu Ying said to journalists that: "If I was overseeing the work of so many spies, would I have time to meet with you all here?" Those who believed this remark have no idea of how professional secret agents work. What answer would we get if we asked the US ambassador in Beijing: "Are you the person who oversees the CIA and FBI agents?" In Australia, the CPC has three avenues of intelligence gathering: the PLA's General Staff Headquarters, the Ministry of State Security and the Ministry of Public Security. With the embassy itself added to this, there are actually four avenues. Each avenue operates independently and in principle does not overlap with the others. If there is some overlap in respect of some politically sensitive issue, the matter is worked out through inter-departmental coordination among the Ministry of State Security, the Ministry of Public Security and the embassy. The PLA's General Staff Headquarters generally does not intervene in political matters except on the top national strategy. However, in counter-terrorist activities, there is some cross-over involvement, because this is a cash cow for obtaining rewards for achievements. Because they are corrupt or limited in terms of the funds allocated to them, the CPC agents often have close contacts with major corrupt figures or wealthy businessmen who have migrated to Australia. However, the Australian intelligence agencies generally just observe these links and allow these contacts to occur. The Chinese agents in Australia thus do not really know whether they are already under surveillance. Because of the development of voice sampling technology, Chinese agents can be monitored and recorded no matter what form of telephone line they are using. Further the former ploy of using telephone switching to avoid GPS location identification no long works. I am quite familiar with this aspect of the embassy and consulates. The embassy has a military officer who was sent by the PLA's General Staff Headquarters. Everyone knows this. However many people do not know that there is another person sent by the General Staff Headquarters and based in Sydney. This officer operates independently and his expenses are provided in US dollars, sent by diplomatic bag. Since I left the diplomatic service, every major consulate has increased its staffing of Ministry of State Security personnel. For example, Sydney now has a second Deputy Consul General whose main function is to supervise the staff at the Consulate General, prevent defections and deal with orders from the Ministry of State Security. These Ministry of State Security and General Staff Headquarters personnel are sent to work in the embassy and consulates under the alias of local foreign affairs office staff or major state-owned enterprise staff. The work of Ministry of Public Security staff abroad mainly involves capturing fugitives and counter money-laundering tasks. But if you do not have any money, these officers will unlikely be going out of their way to abduct you. As part of the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement exchanges, the Australian government is now promoting the passage of a "Treaty on Extradition between Australia and the People's Republic of China". It is possible that in future, this Treaty will be abused and employed to extradite political exiles. As soon as this treaty is passed, people such as the former Yunnan Provincial Party Committee Secretary Gao Yan 高严 will have to start shuddering. Most of the things mentioned above are fairly common knowledge. Working on a figure of 100-plus persons involved in each security branch, that means that there are 300-500 professional secret agents in Australia. If we add the 500-700 external "informers" in Chinese community organisations, student groups, Guangming ribao, Xinhua, China Association for Science and Technology affiliates and so on, a figure of over 1,000 persons involved in intelligence activities is very likely. Through over 10 years of operation, this contingent has expanded greatly. The majority of Australian intelligence agency funding is likely still directed at counter-terrorism activities, but I believe that the funding which is assigned to those beginners engaged in Chinese matters is far below that needed to counter the secret infiltration being carried out by China.
For a long time, the vast majority of Overseas Chinese have pursued a social philosophy where they seek individual security at the expense of principle, and they have allowed themselves to be "represented" by a few low-life Chinese persons who prostrate themselves before the CPC. Over the last 10-plus years, more and more Chinese Communist propaganda has been visited upon the great land of Australia, hijacking the local Chinese. Actually, those who ingratiate themselves with and fawn on the CPC are becoming much more widespread right across the globe. It is just that they are most numerous in Australia.
There is a song0 which goes: "If you close your eyes, nothing will you see. If you cover your ears, not a thing will you hear. But if truth be in your heart and hurt be in your chest, how long can you bear it and how long can you remain silent?"
In recent times, the 'Australian Values Alliance' has come to wide public attention because of its efforts to prevent a concert lauding Mao Zedong. This induced great anger among many young Chinese Australians! Further, on the second day after the Australian Bureau of Statistics website suffered hacking attacks from abroad, the Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison declared that, based on national security considerations, he was blocking the sale of Ausgrid to a Chinese and a Hong Kong company. Does this mean that the Australian government has now recognised that maintaining the integrity of Australian values is key to ensuring the country's overall, long-term national security?
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0"The wound of history" (历史的伤口), recorded by various Taiwanese artists in 1989 to support the Tian'anmen demonstrators.


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American Girl (1977)
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
"American Girl" is a song that moves quickly through visions of youth's restlessness to despair to – at least an imagination of – suicide, and finally ends up at the possibility of redemption. It's set to a jaunty, juiced-up tune, that comes hard out of the gate, with a popping surging beat.
The song is one part early Byrds, one part Beatles' vocal influence, one part New Wave courtesy of David Bowie, and one part Bo Diddley's driving, scratching guitar riffs.
The girl in the song has been:
…raised on promises
She couldn't help thinkin'
That there was a little more
to life somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
Yeah and if she had to die tryin'
She had one little promise she was gonna keep
Listen to "American Girl"
It is the promise she was going to keep that preoccupies the middle of the song. What was the promise? To change, perhaps. To rediscover a love she lost before going to the big city (Los Angeles), a love somewhere back in the American night? Or, if she couldn't overcome her sadness and sorrow, to commit suicide as a final act of escape and courage?
The upbeat music keeps us from getting at the somber truth, because no matter how deep the apprehension set up early on, we are told over and over:
O yeah, all right
Take it easy, baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
In many ways, "American Girl" is a celebration of a youth twisting in the wind of love, although this girl struggles to cope with the past…
One desperate moment there
[When] he crept back in her memory
God it's so painful something that's so close
Is still so out of reach
There is something percolating under the song, though, other than a bare-bones telling of a pilgrim girl's journey. It becomes a commentary on the American Dream, its overpromising nature, and the inevitable disappointment it brings when one understands the emptiness of the end result.
The interpretation brings a broader meaning to the lines, Take it easy baby, Make it last all night. There is a slight hint that in life we all just have to move on and make things work better than they were working before. The song closes with a brief, sparkling guitar solo that allows just enough time to contemplate the critique of American society – and promises too large ever to be kept.
- Roger McGuinn, founding member of the Byrds, joked when he first heard the song: "When did I write that?"
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers played "American Girl" to open their appearance at the 2008 Super Bowl.


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No matter what all our individual food tastes are there is one thing that most of us can agree on and that is the fact that pizza is the king of all foods.
You could make a good case for burgers, steak or Mexican but give us carbs, tomato sauce and melted cheese any day of the week.
While Dublin has always had a good pizza scene, things have drastically improved in 2016 with the addition of some cracking new spots.
You probably won't be able to do these all in one weekend but you certainly should start working your way through this list with great haste.
Time to live the good life...
1. The Yarn
Any place that pitches themselves as having amazing pizza and cocktails is always going to get our vote. Add in a slick terrace and this is heaven.
2. The New Da Mimmo's
Not exactly a new find for most people but since they have moved to a new bigger restaurant they have taken things to another level. Eating a pizza in here is like heaven on earth.
3. Gaillot And Gray
A beautiful local restaurant which started out of town but is now creating amazing pizzas in Dublin 8.
We'll be back @gg_pizza Pizza fans you need a slice ???????? #lovindublin #foodie #pizzapartyday pic.twitter.com/0eskCbLqcS
— Gemma (@Beautynookie) May 19, 2016
4. Cirollo's
Been open for a while on Baggot Street but the taste of their epic pizzas is just not getting old. Good value and high on taste.
5. The Dublin Pizza Company
A tiny venue on the newly hip Aungier Street. The masses have been descending on this place and their pizzas are absolutely to die for.
6. Tiger Pizza
We've been raving about this new Rathmines spot. But you'll just have to try it for yourself.
7. Pallet Pizza
Another excellent pizza place on cool Camden street. What more could you want?
Bon appétit!
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In the previous post, I highlighted the two emerging trends that will shape the future of the supply chains. This article follows up on the first of these two main trends that affect us. Quoting from Zakaria, I called the trend "Rise of the Rest" as it really summarizes the impact of this trend on the supply chains for the future.
Rise of the Rest is based on the premise that the world as a whole is evolving in all possible aspects: politically, financially, socially, and culturally. While all these aspects of this evolution are important the one we are most interested in evaluating is the economic aspects of this evolution. Growing economies around the world affect how the corporate supply chains will emerge and grow with it. It affects all aspects of the supply chains including sourcing, purchasing, suppliers, logistics, assortments, and selling.
As economies grow, so does the consumption. The new demand-supply equation affect the costs till the equilibrium is reached again. This change in costs and their management is one the trends that I believe will affect the supply chains directly.
The two largest components of costs for retailers are the cost of purchase, and the cost of distribution. Right now both of them are trending up, as they have done for most part of this year and the last year. While supply chains have always focused on costs, and cost savings through more efficient planning and operations has been their core value proposition -- till now, supply chain costs have been evaluated in isolation. I believe that is about to change. Pioneers will start looking at a more holistic picture of cost of "doing business" rather than focusing on specific supply chain areas such as logistics. This broader view of the costs will cause evolution of processes that go across merchandising, supply chain and sales; and would provide a common sense of cost and profitability to the corporations of tomorrow.
While these changes could be driven from various points of view, driving them from the supply chain point of view may be most logical as the discipline already provides a framework for modeling costs, networks, processes and leverages mathematical optimization.
The Rising Costs of "doing business"
We mentioned above that the two largest components of costs for Retailers are the cost of merchandise, and cost of distribution. Cost of distribution is easier to understand as it is largely related to warehousing and transportation. The rising cost of energy has kept the focus sharp and clear on this part of the cost equation. The other cost, namely the cost of merchandise is the one that is defined in very narrow terms today, and needs to be expanded and evaluated with sharper focus.
Most corporations with advanced supply chain teams focus on both of these costs through optimizing various supply chains functions such as Sourcing, Inventory Planning, Replenishment Planning, Warehousing and Transportation. The current processes, however evaluate these costs in silos and even when optimized, the models do not provide any global evaluation of these costs or any ability to compare scenarios and predict long term effect of decisions.
I believe that this the next big opportunity for cost savings. The continuing pressure on costs with a weak economy and resulting inability to pass on costs to consumers are going to drive the companies to evolve these processes further to squeeze as much cost from their eco-systems as possible. Today there is almost no visibility or understanding of the "total costs" of the merchandise and in fact, most retailers lack the information, inclination and the capacity to do this.
To provide a better context, we will borrow from the concept of "customer life-time value" (CLV). The objective of determining the life-time value of a customer is to focus on long term customer service/satisfaction for an overall higher profits from the relationship, rather than maximizing short-term sales revenues. And putting such programs actually work -- ask Harley-Davidson.
Total Life-time Cost
So what is the "total life-time costs" of a product? The question may not sound as interesting as CLV though it is a pertinent question to ask. The life-time costs of a product will include not only the cost of purchase, but cost of planning the assortment, planning the demand, sourcing and evaluating the suppliers, actual purchase costs over the whole season or life of the product, cost of distribution, cost of marketing, cost of mark-downs, cost of returns, cost of customer relationships due to gaps in the customer expectations and product functions, etc. This is what I call the "total life-time cost" picture for the merchandise and it is this picture that will be enabled by the processes of the new supply chains. It is this picture that will then become the basis for product portfolio and profitability analysis that should ideally drive the assortment decisions for the retailers in future.
Let us again go back to the "cost of distribution" for a minute. This has attracted and retained put attention not because it is the largest part of the cost ion the equation but simply because it is easier to measure and control. Most companies can track what they pay to their carriers, and how much doers of cost them to run their warehousing operations. Anything that is easily understood and measured gets our attention. Even though the "actual" costs of distribution for a specific merchandise is debatable due to crude cost-allocation practices, we at least know the total costs across the enterprise related to distribution. As far the cost allocations go, that will be the subject of another article.
Now let us look at the "cost of merchandise". Is this the cost that is paid to the suppliers against the purchase orders? What about the cost of creating and processing the purchase orders? What about the cost of planning the replenishments? What about cost of inventory planning that determines the final replenishment numbers? What about the cost comparisons among suppliers that have contracts with price-breaks going over a few seasons, and affect the total costs over the life of the product? What about the cost of signing a contract that goes bad and needs re-negotiating or legal action? What about cost fluctuations due to currency variations for merchandise bought foreign suppliers, and transported by foreign carriers? What about customer returns, mark-downs, marketing, cost of bad assortment decisions, etc, etc. There are just too many pieces to this cost that are very fuzzily defined in today's cost accounting processes, and therefore fail to provide any sense of "what does it really cost me". These processes need to be defined better and tied together in the definition of "cost of merchandise" so that a merchant can actually make decisions that are objective and based on data rather than instinct and experience.
Understanding these costs will affect almost all processes -- the way we assess the product profitability, assortments, sourcing, replenishment strategies, inventory policies and of course the logistics.
New View of the World
Another aspect of life that changes for supply chain strategist as a result of the "rise of the rest" is the procurement strategy. For almost two decades now, China has been the focus for cheap manufactured goods. Prior to that it was Japan. Cost equation simply worked that way. The depressed wages, cheaper energy prices, an abundance of labor, and almost non-existent middle class to drive local consumption -- all of these factors favored China to be the manufacturing hub of the world.
Almost all these factors have changed in recent years with consistent trends. Refer to my previous post where I have provided links establishing the facts. Wages in China have doubled, energy prices have quadrupled, commodity prices have almost doubled, and China's middle class has emerged as a substantial "consumer" in its own right.
The changes in each of these factors will cause changes in the procurement strategies. These changes will make the cost equation more equitable, and allow more regions of the world to participate in global commerce. What that means to the supply chain strategist is that the supply chains will grow to many more regions of the world, bringing in more complexity in ocean routes, port management, trade terms, compliance, foreign currency planning, cultural factors, financing and settlement. The increased complexity then will cause companies to re-evaluate the tools of the trade and invest in applications that help them address and grow with the new set of supply rules.
The Integrated View of Costs
Now imagine a hypothetical application that actually can project all the cost components mentioned above over the useful life-cycle of a product. And think how this will change the process of evaluating and launching a product. Also think about how such a process will have an integrated view of the currently siloed processes of product life-cycle management, merchandising and supply chains. You might shorten a season just a week to reduce the cost of mark-downs; you might split your purchases just so to optimize your seasonal ramp-down efforts in north-east that start a few weeks prior to ramping-down in south-east; you could just predict the total cost of merchandise procurement over the whole season because you know your projected demand at various nodes and command suppliers to use preferred warehouses for supplies; you could buy a week ahead to avoid the projected currency exchange rates that favor your supplier.....and so on.
Jog your imagination and see for yourself the possibilities of the future supply chain strategies and decide how to evolve to that next level.
©2008; Vivek Sehgal


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