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Thirlestane Castle Transported Back to Civil War Era
The Sealed Knot, the UK's oldest re-enactment group, are spending the weekend (24th/25th June) at Thirlestane Castle to show what life would have been like in the 1600s.
There will be a living history camp with cooking demonstrations, military drills with muskets and pikes, and even the odd skirmish!
Join us at the castle for a whole weekend of family entertainment. Watch camp food being cooked over open fires, try on some armour and even let your children wield a pike if you dare!
Here's the rough schedule from The Sealed Knot Society although this may be subject to change:
10:00 Camp opens
10:15 Military march to the castle
10:30 Musket Drill
11:00 Pike Drill - including Kids Pikes
11:30 Drum Display
12:00 Artillery Drill
12:30 Musket & Pike Drill - including Kids Pikes
13:30 Costumes Explained
14:00 Skirmish/Cameos
16:00 Camp closes
It will be the same schedule both days.
The castle will also be open both days and is included in your entry ticket.
Pre-book a picnic (up until 5pm on Thursday 22nd June) or bring your own to enjoy in the grounds.
The tea room will be open as normal serving light lunches but if you are looking for something different then The Juicy Meat Co will be here. You can also cool off with an ice cream from Over Langshaw Farmhouse.
Tickets can be purchased on the gate and are the normal castle admission prices of £8 for adults, £6.50 for seniors, £3.50 for children and a family ticket (2 adults and 3 children) is £20.
Well-behaved dogs on a lead are welcome in the grounds but only assistance dogs are permitted in the castle or tea room.
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This is a post from Dustin "The Character Queen" Hayes. Be sure to like his Facebook Page. Here's Dustin...
Walt Disney World is often regarded as a place on Earth where everyone who visits is a child again. However, one activity offered is still often looked down upon by older visitors to the parks: character meet and greets.
Believe me, there was a time where I thought this, too, and I'd just run by any characters out meeting guests on my way to my next FastPass, but one day, I spontaneously chose to get in line to meet Peter Pan at Magic Kingdom and I was immediately (pun intended) hooked!
Whether you're traveling by yourself, with a group of adults, or with kids in tow, character meets can be a magical experience for everyone. Here are a few tips and tricks to make the most of your time with your new friends.
1. Check times
Use the My Disney Experience app to check times and locations for characters throughout all four parks. Meet times and locations will vary by day, and nearly every time can be found on the app. If you aren't sure of a certain time or location, check with Guest Relations at any of the parks and they will be able to tell you when and where they will be.
Not all characters are listed on the app, so if there is a character you want to meet but are not sure of whether they'll be in the park that day, this is also a good questions for your friends in plaid at Guest Relations.
2. Use FastPass+
Use FP+ for more popular character meets if they are offered. Anna and Elsa are still the most popular of all in the Magic Kingdom, but recently it's not uncommon to find a couple of FastPasses available to meet them 1 or 2 days before!
Be sure to use the app to your advantage and check often to see if any FastPasses for meet and greets have opened up.
3. Learn about the characters
Do your homework before meeting with the characters so you have things to talk with them about. If you're set on meeting Princess Aurora during your visit, watch Sleeping Beauty at home to re-familiarize yourself with her story!
Being able to have a real conversation with characters about both themselves and yourself can go a long way with creating magical moments for your visit.
4. Take advantage of low wait times
Save the most popular meet and greets (if you aren't able to get FPs for them) for later in the day, before park close, or during an event such as the Festival of Fantasy Parade. It's not uncommon that the line to meet Anna and Elsa can be as low as 15 minutes when you get closer to the time Magic Kingdom closes.
5. Bring props
When applicable, bring props to share with your character friends for your photo opportunities.
Ariel loves seeing stuffed versions of her friend Flounder, wear your own tiara if you have one, take your own umbrella to pose with Mary Poppins, or do what I did and take a sandwich in to Princess Fairytale Hall to meet Anna! (I still smile remembering her reaction to that).
6. Let them lead
Let the characters speak first and guide the conversation. This makes it much easier for both them and you, especially if you happen to get tongue tied when trying to think of something to say (believe me, I still get flustered from time to time myself!)
7. Speak up!
Don't be afraid to ask the characters to pose with you for your picture a certain way (provided it is appropriate and pertains to their story). Standing next to Peter Pan can be fun and all, but how would it be to have a picture of you together where you're acting like you're flying?
8. Respect the blueberries
Always show your appreciation for the character attendants that are hanging out with them during your visit. They are very fun people themselves and have one of the hardest roles in all of Walt Disney World! They deserve love too!
Blueberries deserve a lot of love. They are some of the hardest working CMs at the WDW resort! That's why I'll be posting pictures with character attendants I've met along the way! Met @nicholasarthurblack today while in line to meet Belle today. Thanks for letting me take a selfie with you! #Epcot #WorldShowcase #FrancePavilion
Now that you have a basic idea of how to make the best of your time at character meets, I hope you put some of these ideas to the test for your next visit and that you have just as much fun as I do! Happy Character Hunting!


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March 3, 2006
The Reality Of India-US Nuclear Deal (Binu Mathew, 03 March, 2006, Countercurrents.org)
The deal has come through at a time of soaring petroleum prices and also when the threat of peak oil has come to be accepted as a reality by trade pundits. The last decade saw the growing economies of India and China putting pressure on the global supply of fossil fuels consuming ever larger quantities. As the threat of peak oil lurk in the not so distant future it was imperative for the world's lone super power to shut the rivals out of the competition. It has been the corner stone of American foreign policy of the recent past, invading Iraq and Afghanistan, pampering the house of Saud's , threatening Iran and Venezuela, playing murky games in Darfur.
The nuclear deal with India is not a benevolent gift from the emperor to a client state. It was a clever move to put India out of the competition for fossil fuels which is getting ever scarcer. Bush spelt it out very cleverly in New Delhi - "It's in our economic interests that India have a civilian nuclear power industry to help take the pressure off the global demand for energy.To the extent that we can reduce demand for fossil fuels, it will help the American consumer."
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The client in this Western Digital My Book data recovery case had a terminally slow hard drive. Eventually, after a few weeks of life in the slow lane, the client's hard drive finally became inaccessible. Unfortunately, the client hadn't managed to pull off their critical data before that day came, leaving them empty-handed when their hard drive shed its mortal coil. So they brought their unresponsive hard drive to Gillware Data Recovery for our hard drive repair services.
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Like people, hard drives tend to slow down as they get older. Their parts get worn out. They can't think quite as quickly. But what makes your hard drive slow down? Rarely is the spindle motor that spins your hard disk platters the culprit. Your hard disk platters still comfortably spin at their designated speed (usually 5,400 or 7,200 RPM). No, what makes your hard drive slower are usually its read/write heads.
Hard drive performance decreases with age, especially as the drive fills up and the data on it becomes more spread out across the disks. The more data you have, and the more spread-out it is, the harder your read/write heads have to work and the longer they have to search to find it. Not only does this lead to increased latency and seek times, but it also puts increased stress on your read/write heads. The headstack is already the most delicate of your hard drive's internal components.
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Pradeep Rau
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Pradeep A. Rau is professor of marketing and international business at the George Washington University School of Business in Washington, D.C., where he has been on the faculty since 1990. Earlier he taught at The University of Delaware and Kent State University starting in 1978. He has a B. Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; a Master of Business Administration from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and a Doctorate in business administration from Kent State University, Ohio. Before his academic career, he worked for several years at Larsen and Toubro, Bombay. His teaching interests are in marketing research, product management and social marketing and his research has mainly focused on international marketing strategy and marketing research.
He has published over twenty articles in scholarly journals (including in Journal of International Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Advertising Research, International Journal of Advertising, International Marketing Review and Management International Review among others) and co-authored three books including India Business: Finding Opportunities in this Big Emerging Market (Ithaca, N.Y.: Paramount Books, 2002) and Marketing Strategies for the New Europe (Chicago, Ill.: American Marketing Association/Dow Jones-Irwin, 1990) . He has consulted with a number of organizations in the public and private sectors (including Du Pont, Target Wireless, U.S. Peace Corps., among others) and he has spoken before student and executive groups in a number of countries including Brazil, China, Colombia, Denmark, Egypt, Malaysia and Russia besides India where he has taught at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Tata Management Training Centre, Pune and the Indian Institutes of Management in Ahmedabad and Bangalore.
Joined GW: 1990
Joined GWSB: 1990
- PRIDE Award for Undergraduate Innovation in Education, Teaching Center, the George Washington University, 1992.
- University Facilitating Fund Faculty Research Grant, the George Washington University, 1991. Listed in Marquis Who's Who in Advertising, 1990
- Phi Kappa Phi, University of Delaware, Spring 1988.
- Beta Gamma Sigma, Kent State University, Spring 1984.
- Delta Sigma Pi Teacher of the Year Award, Kent State University, 1980-81.
- International Management Doctoral Consortium Fellow, Academy of Management Meeting, San Diego, August 1981.
- American Marketing Association Doctoral Consortium Fellow, College Park, Md., August 1981. Graduate Student Research Award, Graduate Student Senate, Kent State University, 1980.
- "Three Models of Consumer Behavior – A Critique." Paper selected for the first place award in the Student Paper Contest, Academy of Marketing Science Annual Conference, Miami Beach, Fla., May 1979.
- Marketing Research
- Marketing Strategy
- International Marketing
- Social Marketing
D.B.A., Kent State University, 1983
M.B.A., Indian Institute of Management, 1974
B.S., Indian Institute of Technology, 1972
John K. Ryans, Jr. and Pradeep A. Rau, Marketing Strategies for the New Europe: A North American Perspective on 1992, Chicago: American Marketing Association/Dow Jones-Irwin, 1990. (Republished by NTC Business Books, 1997).
Aruna Chandra, Pradeep A. Rau and John K. Ryans, Jr., India Business: Finding Opportunities in this Big Emerging Market, Ithaca, N.Y. : Paramount Books, 2002
Pradeep A. Rau, Overview of book – Analysis of Experience – Review of Public-Private Partnerships in HIV/AIDS Treatment, Programming , co-authors Muhiuddin Haider and Ahila Subramanian, University Press of America, 2004
Aruna Chandra, Pradeep A. Rau and John K. Ryans, Jr., India Business: Finding Opportunities in this Big Emerging Market, Ithaca, N.Y.: Paramount Books, Amazon Kindle Edition, 2011
P. A. Rau, "Rigor, Relevance, Readability and Possibly … Some Rethinking," Marketing Educator, Spring 1996
P.A.Rau, "OnLine/OffLine(Hybrid) Customers and the Attention Economy," Thunderbird International Business Review, March-April 2004.
A. Chandra, T. Fealey and P. Rau, "National Barriers to Global Competitiveness : The Case of the IT Industry in India," Competitiveness Review, #1, 2006, 1-7
A.N.M. Waheeduzzaman and Pradeep A. Rau, "Market Characteristics and Foreign Direct Investment – Exploring the Link in Developing Countries," Advances in Competitiveness Research, 2006
Mary Schoonmaker, Pradeep Rau and Elias Carayannis, "Role of Marketing Activities During the Fuzzy Front End of Innovation," Journal of Technology Transfer, 2012
Pradeep A. Rau, Review of Being Middle Class in India, edited by Henrike Donner, (London: Routledge) Journal of the SDM Institute, Vol. 3, No. 2. September 2012, pp 111-114
Pradeep A. Rau and Daniel R. Kane, "Marketing Research Ethics," in Applied Ethics in Management (ed.) S. Chatterjee and S.K. Chakraborty, Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1999
Herremans, I, J. K. Ryans, Jr. and P. A. Rau, "Canadian Business Perspective on NAFTA," in North American Free Trade Agreement (ed.) K. Fatemi and D. Salvatore, Pergamon Press, 1994
Krum, J.R. and P.A. Rau, "Organizational Responses of U.S. Multinationals to EC-1992," in Readings in International Marketing, Whittier Publications, 1994
P. A. Rau, "Introduction Stage," and "Maturity Stage," in Beacham's Marketing Reference, ed. W. Beacham, R. T. Hise and H. Tongren, Washington, D.C.: Research Publishing, 1986, 359-363, 423-428, 542-547.
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Marketing
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Marketing Research
Ad Hoc Reviewer – International Journal of Marketing, continuing.
Reviewer and Discussant, American Marketing Association Summer Educators' Meeting, August 2000
Reviewer and Discussant, American Marketing Association International Marketing Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 29, 2000
Reviewer, Global Marketing Track, American Marketing Association Summer Marketing Educators' Conference, 1997.
Reviewer, Marketing Encyclopedia, London: Routledge, 1995
Reviewer – Marketing Management by Sheth and Cravens, Harper and Row, 1992.
Reviewer – Marketing Research in a Marketing Environment 2/e by Dillon, Madden and Firtle, Irwin, 1990.
Reviewer – International Marketing Management by Jeannet and Hennessey, Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
Reviewer – International Marketing 4/e by Vern Terpstra, The Dryden Press, 1986.
Reviewer, Discussant and Session Chair – International Marketing Track, Southern Marketing Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, La., 1994.
Reviewer and Discussant – International Marketing Track, Southern Marketing Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, Ga., 1993.
Reviewer and Discussant – Creating Global Perspectives Track, American Marketing Association Winter Educators' Conference, Orlando, Fla., 1991.
Special Session Chair & Reviewer – Marketing Strategy Track, American Marketing Association Summer Marketing Educators' Conference, Washington, D.C., 1990.
Reviewer – Marketing Track, Western Decision Sciences Institute Meeting, Hawaii, March 1991.
Reviewer – Association for Consumer Research, Annual Conference, New York, N.Y., 1990.
Reviewer – Association for Consumer Research, Annual Conference, New Orleans, La., 1989.
Reviewer – Marketing Research Track, Southern Marketing Association, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, La.,
November 1987.
Reviewer – Marketing Track, American Institute for Decision Sciences, National Meeting, Las Vegas, Nev.,
November 1985.
Reviewer and Discussant – International Business Track, Eastern Academy of Management, Annual Meeting,
Boston, Mass., May 1987.
Track Chairperson – Marketing, Midwest American Institute for Decision Sciences Meeting, Akron, Ohio, May
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The Santa Ana winds are here. They blow dry and warm through this belated Southern California autumn, whipping fall leaves, in all their colored glory, into a frenzy of a last stand before dropping to blanket the earth in their next step toward renewal. It was a beautiful show. As I watched their final and beautiful performance, it occurred to me that we don't "do" dying well in our society. Instead of seeing the profound accumulation of wisdom gained from a life well-lived, we focus on what is fresh and new and "next." Rather than embrace their well-earned wrinkled faces, their hands which have toiled to build the foundation on which we thrive, we hide our wizened elders away in "Sunrise" Senior Living Centers (if we're lucky enough to have the finances to send them there). And yet, to my thinking, as incredible as the spring growth may be, it compares not at all to the stunning beauty of the changing leaves, a natural state of their pending demise. When we accept that dying is an outgrowth of living, the accumulation of knowledge and experience and passion, when we acknowledge how much there is to learn from the final "hurrah" of our elders, we ourselves will be wiser for it.
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Senior Vice President, Strategy | Vista Equity Partners | San Francisco
Justin Hirsch joined Vista Equity Partners in 2016. In his role, Mr. Hirsch is involved in firm strategy, growth initiatives, and other firm priorities.
Prior to Vista, Mr. Hirsch was a Vice President at Evercore, where he advised alternative asset managers on minority investments and other strategies to meet growth objectives. He was also a member of the Financial Sponsors group that focused coverage on technology assets. Mr. Hirsch began his career in the Principal Transaction group at Macquarie Capital.
B.A. in Human Biology, Stanford University
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There exists the notion that victory speaks only of joy, peace, love, rest in their counterfeit forms, the wishy-washy, mushy-gushy kind that has no place in reality. This song expresses the reality. There is war before victory. With war comes bloodshed, hard times, threatenings, loss and destruction, but the victory is there in real terms, earned and established by the Lord.
We wash our feet in the blood of our enemies;
Not in vain have we believed for our victories;
Though the trek has been long and full of miseries,
Still the worth has been there all the time.
We are crowned with the helmet of His glory,
Our scabbard filled with the power of His Word;
Though the battle is bloody and gory,
His life He gives by the good news which is heard.
Not in vengeance nor in spite do we revel;
We wrestle not with flesh and blood but the devil;
We fill the valleys and the mountains we do level;
Our goal is righteousness and peace in all the earth.
There was a time when on our backs all men did trample,
At times unbearable if only but a sample,
But His grace He gave to us was more than ample;
He is the Captain of the hosts and our Lord.
Let the powers of Hell advance and do their utmost.
Here on earth we will stand guard at our outpost.
Standing for us, all around us is the Lord's host;
There is nothing in this whole world to fear.
Lethbridge, AB; February 12, 1985


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Briefly Speaking
Moral Courage Project launches 'Ferguson Voices' website and podcast. Upcoming events feature the Marian library and institute, ArtsLive concerts and professional development.
The University of Dayton Human Rights Center and PROOF: Media for Social Justice have launched a "Ferguson Voices: Disrupting the Frame" website and podcast that expands on an exhibit unveiled in January and is now traveling the nation. "Ferguson Voices" emerges from the work of the Moral Courage Project, a team of University of Dayton students and program coordinators who collected oral histories in Ferguson, Missouri, in May 2016. "The exhibit, website and podcast illustrate the story of Ferguson by focusing on the contributions of average people who found the courage to stand up during moments of unrest," said Joel Pruce, University of Dayton assistant professor of human rights who oversaw the project. Visit the related links for the Moral Courage Project Facebook page, website and podcast. For interviews, contact Shawn Robinson, associate director of news and communication, at 937-229-3391 or email@example.com.
The International Marian Research Institute (IMRI) has announced "Mary in Asia and Africa" as the theme for its next Marian Forum on Oct. 20 at the University of Dayton. The two-hour event will be the fifth in a continuing series of free academic gatherings that IMRI has sponsored on the Internet to promote the study of the Blessed Virgin Mary. "We are producing our Marian forums to present fresh research and to stimulate creative energies in the study of the mother of Jesus Christ," said the Rev. Johann Roten, S.M., director of research, art and special projects. "We decided on Africa and Asia for the theme of our next forum because we want to move beyond Eurocentrism and open new avenues of study. The great diversity of peoples in Africa and Asia makes these continents ideal for looking at how local culture influences the reception of Mary." Admission is free, but IMRI requires participants to register online at the related link. For interviews, contact Meagan Pant at 937-229-3256 or email@example.com.
ArtsLIVE CONCERT SEASON BEGINS OCT. 1
The University of Dayton's 56th season of professional arts programming opens Oct. 1 and features a wide variety of international musicians. The University's ArtsLIVE program presents an eight-concert series through April 2018 that includes jazz, tango, classical chamber music, contemporary percussion and "bachata" music from the Dominican Republic. Performances are held on campus and are open to the public. Tickets are available starting Sept. 1 for individual performances, as well as subscription and multi-show packages. This season's highlights include the acclaimed New York City classical chamber group the Claremont Trio, Grammy Award-winning Chicago group Third Coast Percussion, a Dominican bachata ensemble led by Joan Soriano and Israeli jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen. More information is available at the related link. For interviews, contact Meagan Pant at 937-229-3256 or email@example.com.
Supervisory Leadership Certificate Program
The Center for Leadership is accepting applications for the Supervisory Leadership Certificate program that starts Aug. 22 in Dublin, Ohio, and Sept. 27 in Dayton, Ohio. The program is 10-sessions spanning six months for leaders in public, private and not-for-profit organizations. It will assist front-line leaders or anyone preparing for a leadership role in developing skills to help them maximize individual and team performance. Upon completion of the program, participants also receive two additional days of Supervisor and Professional Development programs. The cost is $4,300; $4,000 for partner organizations. The session starting in August will be in Dublin, Ohio. Supervisory Leadership Certificate facilitators average a 4.5 on a five-point scale in participant reviews. Participants in the most recently completed cohort report a 43.5 percent increase in their competency level. One participant said: "I have found most valuable the ability to listen to and to be exposed to individuals from all over the region, as well as to be able to share in their insights and gain an appreciation for the similarities and differences among us."
Professional Development Programs
Aug. 30: "Going from Peer to Supervisor." Executive coach Chuck Bushnell will guide new supervisors through the transition from individual contributor to leader. Through self-assessments, small group exercises, group discussion and role playing, Bushnell will teach strategies, behaviors and critical interactions that lead to becoming an effective supervisor.
Aug. 30: "Assertiveness. Communicating with Impact" This program will help leaders identify their preference for one of the four personal influence styles and learn how individual styles may hamper interpersonal communication.
The cost for a professional development program is $395 for the general public, $345 for University of Dayton alumni and $299 for center partners.
All sessions for every program run all day, unless otherwise noted, and will be on the University of Dayton River Campus at the 1700 South Patterson Building.
For more information about Center for Leadership programs and to register, call 937-229-3115 or visit the related link.


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What quantity of food does my dog need?
All manufacturers provide food tables on their packaging, from which you can conveniently read the recommended quantity of food for your dog. However, these figures are merely guideline values that must be adjusted to take account of individual influences such as weather, breed, age, movement level and dog size. For this reason, we provide numerous tips below on how to interpret the recommended quantity of food for your dog correctly.
How do dog food producers calculate the correct quantity of food for dogs?
The recommended quantity of food on the dog food packaging is calculated based on a scientific formula, which determines the daily requirement of a quiet, fully-grown dog. The formula is as follows:
Body mass (kg) ^ 0.75 x 100 kilocalories (kcal) = daily requirement
Example: A dog weighs 30 kg. 30 kg to the power of 0.75 is 12.82 kg. The number 12.82 is multiplied by 100 kcal. In other words, this quiet, fully-grown dog has a daily intake requirement of around 1282 kcal.
What quantity of food is right for your dog?
Every dog is unique! Therefore, you should only take the recommended quantity of food on the dog food packaging as a guideline. Although these figures are calculated according to the latest scientific recommendations, the quantity of food must be adjusted to suit the individual needs of your dog (high or low activity level, weather conditions and lots more).
How do you feed in practice?
Please try not to adhere to the recommended quantity of food too strictly. Instead, observe and feel your dog at regular intervals, and ration the quantity of dog food based on dog's ribs! If you can feel the last 3-4 pairs of ribs of the rib cage easily without pressure (or can almost see the ribs if there wasn't any hair on them) there is no fat layer on the ribs, and the weight of your dog is correct. Consequently, the quantity of dog food is also correct! As a handy reminder, place a mark on the measuring cup for the quantity of food after you weigh it for the first time. Don't worry about the number of grams - the food is only "visually" apportioned. Put in a little more or a little less depending on the weight of the dog, i.e. just above or below the line on the measuring cup.
What to do about an underweight dog?
As a general rule, dogs can vary greatly in their energy-metabolic rate. In many cases – as is also the case with humans – genetic predispositions play a major role. However, environmental influences are also extremely important: A sledge dog, which is exposed to ice and snow, generally consumes a large amount of energy simply to maintain its body temperature. Apart from increasing the daily ration (moderately), it may help to select a food with a higher fat content if your dog is underweight. If this also has no effect, you should consult a vet because the weight loss may be related to an illness: An infestation with parasites or dysfunctional pancreas or thyroid glands among other things could be the cause. Persistent stress can also be the cause of an excessively high energy metabolism. In these cases, the only solution is to identify and, if possible, remedy the cause.
What to do with an overweight dog?
If you have to press in order to feel your dog's ribs, there is too much fat on the ribs. Your dog is therefore overweight. Consequently, several additional exercise sessions should follow and, if necessary, the quantity of dog food should be reduced as soon as possible. Special light foods such as Meradog care light dog food help you introduce a successful diet for your dog that does not involve starvation. Overweight in dogs is a comprehensive topic and more and more dogs suffer from this condition. You can find additional information on the subject of excess weight here.
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"He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken."
Isaiah 25:8 ESV
"He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken."
Isaiah 25:8 ESV
"For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, …" (1 Corinthians 15:3-4 ESV)
This is the view from deep inside a cave in a mountainside. Darkness. When Jesus was sealed in the tomb of Nicodemus, this is what it would have been like.
Darkness descended when he died. But hear this…
"Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly." (Romans 5:3-6 ESV)
Sunday's comin'!
"Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.""
Hosea 6:3 ESV
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His faithfulness is stronger than the mountains.
"For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken."
Psalms 62:1-2 ESV
A couple of posts back I suggested Scripture meditation as a response to anxiety. One Bible text has really been a help to me through the years as I've meditated on God using the text. I didn't know it at the time but I was training my heart and mind to trust God.
The picture above was discovered recently in an old photo album. I took it while on a morning walk back in the 20th century using a film camera. It was January 1986. The reason I chose it for this post is the tree. It's a village in South Korea. In the distance is the NakDong river. Here's the verse for your consideration:
Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,
whose trust is the LORD.
He is like a tree planted by water,
that sends out its roots by the stream,
and does not fear when heat comes,
for its leaves remain green,
and is not anxious in the year of drought,
for it does not cease to bear fruit.
(Jeremiah 17:7-8)
Watch what dignity, strength and humility look like.
Be careful what you let define you.
Life in this broken down world is full of circumstances that pull us down. It might news that a friend is unwell, or a child whose bad decisions have gotten them into struggles (several of my friends are in this boat) or we just can't make ends meet financially.
It is in these times that the discipline of meditating on Scripture would serve us well. (Note, where Eastern Meditation focuses on emptying, Scripture meditation focuses on filling.)
Meditating on Scripture is not easy because it's not busy. It's about the process of stopping, focusing, and dwelling on the Lord using His word.
I've been meditating on certain scriptures for over a decade. Admittedly, mine is more reactive than proactive. I use it to return me to a focus on Him when I stray in focusing on the world. And I do this as often as I need to.
Process? Simple.
Identify Scripture that lift you to Him.
Sit still, and SLOWLY read the text over and over (as though you were trying to memorize it but just to dwell, not memorize). If you're like a friend of mine you might pace (I've been known to do this on the treadmill at the gym).
Don't study. Just slowly read the text over and again. Ask your Father in Heaven to make the truth of the Bible clear to you as you read it.
For me, whenever is practice this, I am filled and encouraged. It may take you a few times to figure out how this process works best for you, but the key words are quiet, focused, unhurried and listening.
Below are three texts to get you started.
"Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth." (Colossians 3:2 ESV)
"To you I lift up my eyes, O you who are enthroned in the heavens!" (Psalms 123:1) ESV
"Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth!" (Psalms 57:5 ESV)
I've put them in a Google Doc for you to open and look at on your phone. They are spaced out so that the only thing on your screen is the Scripture. Click Here
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Why Twitter, Facebook and Google Are the Antisocial Networks
December 27, 2017
In today's Outside the Box we resume our eight-part Strategic Investment Conference Speaker Series with my friend Niall Ferguson, senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford and the Center for European Studies at Harvard. Niall has a cautionary tale for us on the topic of social networks.
The problem, in a nutshell:
Facebook certainly made an impact last year, but not quite the impact the young Zuckerberg had in mind in his Harvard dorm. A committed believer in globalisation who tends to wear his liberal politics on his T-shirt sleeve, Zuckerberg is reeling. Not only did the masterminds behind the Brexit and Trump campaigns successfully use Facebook advertising to hone and target their ultimately victorious campaign messages; worse, the Russian government appears to have used Facebook in the same way, seeking to depress voter support for Hillary Clinton. Worse still, neo-Nazis seem to have been using the social network to spread their own distinctive brand of hate.
Niall – ever the history prof – can't help chiding Mr. Zuckerberg on his choice of majors at Harvard:
Yet the architects of the biggest social networks to have existed should not have been surprised. If he had studied history at Harvard rather than psychology and computer science, Zuckerberg might have foreseen the ways in which Facebook and its ilk would be used and abused.
And then Niall treats us to a wonderful historical excursion that commences in 16th-century Germany, when that powerful predecessor of social media, the printing press, took viral the message of a notorious thorn in the side of the Catholic Church. With unexpected consequences.
Today, Niall notes, "our networking revolution is much faster and more geographically extensive than the wave of revolutions unleashed by the German printing press." And the social, political, and geopolitical consquences pile up more quickly and powerfully, too.
To hear the next chapter in this fast-evolving tale directly from Niall's lips, you'll want to be front and center at my upcoming Strategic Investment Conference, next March 6–9 in San Diego. Niall has lit up the room at several past SICs, and he'll be with us again – as will the other seven luminaries we've been featuring in this eight-part SIC Speaker Series. You can reserve your seat right here.
And this year will be special. I think it was about five years ago that I had the center-right Scotsman Niall and the center-left Irishman David McWilliams in my suite at the end of the conference, and they sat down at the table and held one of the most fascinating conversations I've ever been witness to. Scheduling was tricky this time around, but I've been able to get both of them for this conference. They'll each make a presentation and then sit down together on stage to take up where they left off five years ago in my suite.
These guys are witty, articulate, and eminently knowledgable on their topics – which are many. David is the next head central banker for the Bank of Ireland and was selected as the most influential young person under 40 in that country. Niall has done it all, from professorships at Harvard, the London School of Economics, and Stanford to the PBS series The Ascent of Money, which won the International Emmy for best documentary. Not only will David and Niall's little chat be entertaining, you will walk away with a better understanding of the true dilemma facing Europe and the directions it might take in addressing its problems. And the direction they choose will have a major impact on the rest of the world and especially the United States.
Christmas was generally quiet at the Mauldin household. Shane and I will celebrate New Year's Eve with David Tice and his family and friends, and then the next day we'll open our house to our neighbors and friends between noon and five for all the black-eyed peas, ham, and cornbread they can eat.
For those not from the United States are not familiar with the Southern tradition, black-eyed peas were only considered hog food up north and were certainly not served in polite company much in the 1800s in the South. But over time, the tradition has grown up to have black-eyed peas on New Year's Day for luck for the coming year. Throw in a ham hock and maybe a slab of bacon, some seasonings, and simmer for a long time, and you have something that is actually extraordinarily good. We will probably make seven or eight gallons, and one of those big pots will be well-laced with jalapenos, too, for a little extra kick. And, of course, there will be a small vegetarian pot for those with that preference. If you're reading this letter and you're in the Dallas area, then you're one of my one million closest friends, so just drop me a note – you're invited.
I wish you the best for the New Year, and now I will get back to work on my personal forecast issue for 2018. Watch for it this weekend! Have a great week.
Your feeling optimistic today analyst,
John Mauldin, Editor
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Why Twitter, Facebook and Google Are the Antisocial Networks
By Niall Ferguson
Originally published in The Sunday Times, October 1, 2017
Just as Martin Luther's utopian vision and the invention of the printing press led to an era of religious war and turmoil, the internet, hailed as a portal to a better world, is threatening democracy
Russians assumed to be acting for Vladimir Putin used Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook to influence the US election - AP
The hyperconnected world was not supposed to be like this. In May, Evan Williams, one of the founders of Twitter, told The New York Times: "I thought once everybody could speak freely and exchange information and ideas, the world is automatically going to be a better place. I was wrong about that."
In September Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, acknowledged that the company's online tools had allowed advertisers to target self-described "Jew haters". "We never intended or anticipated this functionality being used this way," she admitted, "and that is on us."
Surprise! The men and women who built the internet-based social networks that have so transformed our lives thought everything would be awesome if only we could all be connected. Speaking at Harvard's degree ceremony in May, Facebook's co-founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, looked back on his undergraduate ambition to "connect the whole world". "This idea was so clear to us," he recalled, "that all people want to connect . . . My hope was never to build a company, but to make an impact."
Yet the architects of the biggest social networks to have existed should not have been surprised. If he had studied history at Harvard rather than psychology and computer science, Zuckerberg might have foreseen the ways in which Facebook and its ilk would be used and abused.
Five hundred years ago this year, Martin Luther sent his critique of corrupt church practices as a letter to the Archbishop of Mainz. It is not wholly clear if Luther also nailed a copy to the door of All Saints' Church, Wittenberg, but it scarcely matters. Thanks to the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg, that mode of publishing had been superseded.
Before 1517 was out, versions of Luther's original Latin text had been printed in Basel, Leipzig and Nuremberg. By the time Luther was officially condemned as a heretic by the Edict of Worms in 1521, his writings were all over German-speaking Europe. In the course of the 16th century, German printers produced almost 5,000 editions of Luther's works.
Luther's vision was utopian. Just as Zuckerberg today dreams of creating a single "global community", so Luther believed that his Reformation would produce a "priesthood of all believers", all reading the Bible, all in a direct relationship to the one, true God.
It didn't turn out that way. The Reformation unleashed a wave of religious revolt against the authority of the Roman Catholic Church. As it spread from reform-minded clergymen and scholars to urban elites to illiterate peasants, it threw first Germany and then all of northwestern Europe into turmoil.
In 1524 a full-blown peasants' revolt broke out. By 1531 there were enough Protestant princes to form an alliance (the Schmalkaldic League) against the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V. Although defeated, the Protestants were powerful enough to preserve the Reformation in a patchwork of territories.
Religious conflict erupted again in the Thirty Years' War, a conflict that turned central Europe into a charnel house. Especially in northwestern Europe – in England, Scotland and the Dutch Republic – it proved impossible to re-establish Roman Catholicism, even when Rome turned the technologies and networking strategy of the Reformation against it, in addition to the more traditional array of cruel tortures and punishments that had long been the church's forte.
The global impact of the internet has few analogues in history better than the impact of printing on 16th-century Europe. The personal computer and smartphone have empowered networks as much as the pamphlet and the book did in Luther's time.
Indeed, the trajectories for the production and price of PCs in America between 1977 and 2004 are remarkably similar to the trajectories for the production and price of printed books in England from 1490 to 1630.
In the era of the Reformation and thereafter, connectivity was enhanced exponentially by rising literacy, so that a growing share of the population was able to access printed literature of all kinds, rather than having to rely on orators and preachers to convey new ideas to them.
There are three major differences between our networked age and the era that followed the advent of European printing. First, and most obviously, our networking revolution is much faster and more geographically extensive than the wave of revolutions unleashed by the German printing press.
In a far shorter space of time than it took for 84% of the world's adults to become literate, a remarkably large proportion of humanity has gained access to the internet. As recently as 1998 only about 2% of the world's population were online. Today the proportion is two in five. The pace of change is roughly an order of magnitude faster than in the post-Gutenberg period: what took centuries after 1490 took just decades after 1990.
Google started life in a garage in Menlo Park, California, in 1998. Today it has the capacity to process more than 4.2bn search requests every day. In 2005 YouTube was a start-up in a room above a pizzeria in San Mateo. Today it allows people to watch 8.8bn videos a day. Facebook was dreamt up at Harvard just over a decade ago. Today it has more than 2bn users who log on at least once a month.
It used to be said that there were six degrees of separation between any two individuals on the planet – say, between yourself and Monica Lewinsky. On Facebook there are just 3.57 degrees of separation, meaning that any two of the 2bn Facebook users can get in touch by taking fewer than four steps through the network. The world is indeed connected as never before. We are all friends of friends of friends of friends.
Second, the distributional consequences of our revolution are quite different from those of the early-modern revolution. Early modern Europe was not an ideal place to enforce intellectual property rights, which in those days existed only when technologies could be secretively monopolised by a guild. The printing press created no billionaires.
Johannes Gutenberg was not Bill Gates (indeed, by 1456 he was effectively bankrupt). Moreover, only a subset of the media made possible by the printing press – the newspapers and magazines invented in the 18th century – sought to make money from advertising, whereas all the most important ones made possible by the internet do. Few people foresaw that these giant networks would be so profoundly inegalitarian.
To be sure, innovation has driven down the costs of information technology. Globally, the costs of computing and digital storage fell at annual rates of, respectively, 33% and 38% between 1992 and 2012. Everyone has benefited from that. However, oligopolies have developed in the realms of both hardware and software, as well as service provision and wireless networks.
The ownership of the world's electronic network is extraordinarily concentrated. Google (or rather the renamed parent company, Alphabet Inc) is worth $669bn by market capitalisation. About 16% of its shares, worth around $106bn, are owned by its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The market capitalisation of Facebook is approaching $500bn; 475 million of the shares, worth about $81bn, are owned by its T-shirt-loving founder.
Unlike in the past, there are now two kinds of people in the world: those who own and run the networks, and those who merely use them.
Third, the printing press had the effect of disrupting religious life in western Christendom before it disrupted anything else. By contrast, the internet began by disrupting commerce; only very recently did it begin to disrupt politics, and it has really disrupted only one religion, namely Islam.
The political disruption reached a climax last year, when social networks helped to topple David Cameron in the Brexit referendum and to defeat Hillary Clinton in the US presidential election.
In the American case, a number of networks were operating. There was the grassroots network of support that the Trump campaign built – and that built itself – on the platforms of Facebook and Twitter. These were the "forgotten" men and women who turned out on November 8 to defeat the "failed and corrupt political establishment" that Trump's opponent was said to personify.
A role was also played by the jihadist network, as the Isis-affiliated terror attacks during the election year lent credibility to Trump's pledges to "strip out the support networks for radical Islam" and to ban Muslim immigration.
Yet in two respects there is a clear similarity between our time and the revolutionary period that followed the advent of printing. Like the printing press, modern information technology is transforming not only the market – most recently, by facilitating the sharing of cars and homes – but also the public sphere. Never before have so many people been connected in an instantly responsive network through which "memes" can spread even more rapidly than natural viruses.
But the notion that taking the whole world online would create a utopia of netizens, all equal in cyber-space, was always a fantasy – as much a delusion as Luther's vision of a "priesthood of all believers". The reality is that the global network has become a transmission mechanism for all kinds of manias and panics, just as the combination of printing and literacy for a time increased the prevalence of millenarian sects and witch crazes. The cruelties of Isis seem less idiosyncratic when compared with those of some governments and sects in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Second, our time is seeing an erosion of territorial sovereignty. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Europe was plunged into a series of religious wars. Spain and France tried by fair means and foul to bring England back to the Roman Catholic fold. As late as 1745, a French-backed army of Scottish Highlanders invaded England with a view to restoring the old faith in the British Isles.
In the 21st century, we see a similar phenomenon of escalating intervention in the domestic affairs of sovereign states. There was, after all, a further network involved in the US election of 2016, and that was Russia's intelligence network.
It is clear that the Russian government did its utmost to maximise the damage to Clinton's reputation stemming from her and her campaign's sloppy email security, using WikiLeaks as the conduit through which stolen documents were passed to the western media. Russian hackers and trolls last year posed a threat to American democracy similar to the one that Jesuit priests posed to the English Reformation: a threat from within sponsored from without.
Leave aside the question of whether or not the Russian interference decided the election in favour of Trump; suffice to say it helped him, though both fake and real news damaging to Clinton was also disseminated without Russia's involvement. Leave aside, too, the as yet unresolved questions of how many members of the Trump campaign were complicit in the Russian operation, and how much they knew.
The critical point is Facebook itself may have decided the outcome of an election that would have gone the other way if about 40,000 voters in just three states had chosen Clinton over Trump.
No, it wasn't meant to be this way. This was not what Silicon Valley envisaged when it set out to build "a planet where everything is connected" – the motto of Eric Schmidt's foundation.
But then Luther didn't set out to cause 130 years of bloody religious warfare either.
© Niall Ferguson 2017
Extracted from The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power by Niall Ferguson


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Amour de l'ile translates to 'Love from the Island'. It is a fashion label that imports its good from the beautiful island of Bali. Inspired by the relaxed nature of the island we went with a simple identity using an existing script font.
We took a very simplistic approach to this brand as we needed to consider that the font and brand elements would be used by Indonesian suppliers, creating leather stamps for shoes, labels for clothing etc.
This project involved branding and producing all supporting material the owners would use in Australia. A strong style guide was developed to help Indonesian suppliers successfully maintain brand integrity.
Amour de l'ile feel confident they have a professional brand that represents their business. They have branched out into wholesaling and I continue as their brand custodian.


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Medicare Part A coverage is your hospital benefit plan. When you are admitted to the hospital as an inpatient, your Medicare Part A benefit covers most of you hospital inpatient health care needs. Part A includes hospital care, skilled nursing facility coverage and other various inpatient expenses.
Medicare Part A Premiums
Most people over age 65 generally do not pay any monthly premiums for Medicare Part A coverage. Medicare taxes were included in your monthly payroll deductions, so your monthly taxes were used to finance your health insurance when you become Medicare eligible.
If you do not qualify for premium-free Part A coverage through Medicare you can "buy in" to Medicare. If you do not qualify for premium-free Part A Medicare coverage, you can still purchase Part A coverage under certain conditions.
You usually cannot purchase Part A coverage without Part B coverage. This means that you have to pay monthly premiums for both Part A and Part B coverage. In some situations you may qualify for assistance in paying your premiums.
Medicare Part A Doesn't Cover Everything
Most hospital inpatient services are covered by Part A. There are also some outpatient, hospital related services covered by Medicare Part A.
Nursing and home-based health care services are usually covered but your care must be ordered by a doctor. In addition, the services must be provided by an agency that has been approved and certified by Medicare.
Part A also covers hospice care if you are certified as having a terminal condition by your doctor.
Medicare Part A program is for general coverage that assists in paying for many of your in-hospital expenses. This includes the hospital services that you receive such as a semi-private room, your inpatient medication and meals, nursing services while in hospital and other many other hospital services.
Supplement Plans Cover What Medicare Part A Doesn't
Medicare Supplements Plans provide coverage for many expenses that are not covered by standard Part A and Part B Medicare plans. Use this link to shop and compare Georgia Medicare supplement plans and rates.


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"Most of the great battles are fought in the creases of topographical maps."
That is the introductory quote for the novel. And, yes, it is a novel. But its subject matter and detail certainly suggest recent history, post WWII history, in and around London during and after the war. To get a good sense of the time and place I suggest reading the four pages of "Acknowledgements" at the end of the book where information about sources is extensive and useful.
Two personal notes before writing about the book: first, I want to say it is a beautifully written, often heartbreaking work that should be read slowly with pauses to consider and think about the overwhelming emotional response created by the beautiful construction and words of the book; and second, I remember warmly the evening long ago when Michael Ondaatje gave a reading at Malaspina University- College in Nanaimo, BC, and then joined a few of us at my home for discussion and refreshments. He made a lasting impression on our teenaged daughter as a few of us sat on the floor and discussed his reading and importantly – legumes! I do not remember why legumes, but our daughter remembers the legume discussion and confirmed my recollection.
This thought-provoking novel begins in 1945 post war London where Nathaniel and his sister Rachel are told that their parents will be leaving them for some time: "In 1945 our parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals." Nathaniel and Rachel will be left behind. From time to time we are reminded that Nathaniel, who is telling the story, is telling it from some time later in his life as he tries to make sense of the events and characters he is introduced to in those post war years. One subject considered carefully is the memory as a means to the truth. ("There are times these years later, as I write all this down, when I feel as if I do so by candlelight.") The puzzles, the enigma, the mystery is compounded by the absence of the parents and by their being replaced by men who, it seems could be criminals involved in dog racing and the transfer of illicit goods by boat on the Thames. These men are called The Moth and The Darter and seem to have no other names. Who are they? What are they? The Moth takes care of the kids. Who is he?
In fact, truth is a central subject of the work. We are reminded of the difficulty of knowing the truth about another person ("There's a photograph I have of my mother in which her features are barely revealed.") We talk of "truth" in philosophy classes as if it were a simple notion, "truth is the direct correspondence between words in a statement and states of affairs in the world" – but, of course, both sides of that formula are subject to interpretation and consideration. And in this novel, where events and names, actions and intentions, are purposely disguised it is even more difficult (and interesting) to untangle the truth. For example at one point (104) Arthur McCash tells Nathaniel, "Your mother is away. Doing something important." Who is Arthur? What is Rose doing that is important?
Part One ends with a violent encounter that suggests the war is not really finished.
Part Two: INHERITANCE
November 1959. Nathaniel now 28 years old is in Suffolk village looking to buy a house which is being sold by Mrs. Malakite, the wife of Sam Malakite, who looked after Nathaniel when he was a boy. Nathaniel creates a map of the gardens, indicating where certain plants resided ("Sam Malakite remained a mystery to me. No one really understands another's life or even death." 127) He purchases the home and commutes to London to work for the government "to review various files in the archives covering the war and post-partum years." It is there that he learns more about his mother, her work during and after the war and the various other characters she surrounded him with while asway doing her secret work. Camouflage, fake airfields, maps that hide things … and the loss of Agnes, The Darter, and the others. These also are at the center of the book.
Further parts begin to reveal more about the war time efforts of Nathaniel's mother. Even about the danger and the eventual death of Rose/Viola.
"Ondaatje is a skilfully deliberate writer, and these secrets inevitably generate a certain degree of suspense. Over the years his style has purified a good deal, so elements that over decorate the prose of The English Patient are largely absent here. But so regular is the pattern of uncertainty in this opening section of the novel, and so deep is the shading of motive and consequence, that it's hard not to feel a degree of impatience. This feeling is compounded in the second section, in which we are transported to Suffolk in 1959 to watch the now 28-year-old Nathaniel buying a cottage from the elderly Linette Malakite – who, it turns out, was formerly married to Sam Malakite, another uncertain sort of fellow, who was deputed by Nathaniel's mother to look after him during their previous rural sojourn." (Source)
The remaining parts begin to clear the clouds away, allow us to see more clearly what Nathaniel's mother was doing and the danger she encountered while doing it.
Michael Ondaatje, as the books back flap reminds us, is the author of several award-winning novels, as well as a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. Among other accolades, his novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize. Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto. Canada.
WARLIGHT is a first-rate novel and I recommend it highly! It has been a long time since I read a novel that made me think - and feel so deeply as this one.
© 2019 Bob Lane
Bob Lane is an emeritus philosopher at Vancouver Island University.
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Tim Wallach, 1994 Topps Stadium Club
Name: Tim Wallach
Team: Los Angeles Dodgers
Position: Third base
Value of card: Not enough to get caught in that netting
Key 1993 stat: Could have used some more batting practice
Read this man's mind: What's Tim Wallach thinking in this photo?
A) "This is as close to home plate as I've been all year."
B) "This Astroturf tastes nothing like real grass."
C) "Uh oh, Lasorda's out of cannolis again. Run!"
D) "Hi mom!"
E) Holy crap, according to the back of the card, it actually is "Hi mom!" You must be psychic!
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Is distributed content management working for you?
This is the fourth installment of a series of articles on content management assessment. The most recent article ("Is your workflow working for you?") showed how to assess the effectiveness of the workflow that you configured in your CMS. In this installment, we will discuss how realistic your expectations for distributed content contribution are.
A common justification for a new CMS is to "remove the webmaster bottleneck" by enabling content contribution from across the organization. Baked into this reasoning is the assumption is that the organization is filled with stifled contributors who are banging on the door with content to publish. But that isn't always the case; in fact, it often isn't. More common is a situation where the webmaster needs to drag content out of departments who are prioritizing other work higher than contributing to the website. It is only after the CMS is deployed that the organization realizes that the webmaster's key value wasn't just coding HTML but was writing content based on whatever raw information he was able to drag out of the business units. I have written about this phenomenon a few times before in "The Myth of the Occasional User" and "Ways to Fail."
If you are still building your business case around the "webmaster bottleneck" issue, be sure that you have not confused a bottleneck with an empty bottle.
Talk to your webmaster (or web coordinator) to understand how he spends his time. Is it requesting content or is he working down a queue of content requests.
See if there is a backlog of finished content that is waiting for publication.
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Ask how involved the business units are with reviewing and finalizing the content.
Try putting up a wiki or blog to see how contributors respond to frictionless publishing. Remember to keep the experiment going past the time that the novelty wears off.
If it looks like the content originators in your organization need a lot of help developing content, distributed authoring will probably not work for you and you should probably take that out of your business case. That doesn't mean you don't need a CMS, better tools will make your webmaster/web coordinator more effective. Beyond the business case, knowing your organization's aptitude for distributed contribution will help with your technology selection. If the CMS will only be used by a dedicated web team, you may want to value power and flexibility over simplicity and intuitiveness; power users will have a greater propensity and desire to learn the platform and stretch its capabilities than the occasional user.
If you went ahead and deployed a CMS with a business case that relied on solving the webmaster bottleneck, it is probably a good idea to test that assumption before you think about enhancing your solution. Some good questions to ask are:
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Does the site owner/coordinator feel like he is steering or pushing the content bus? Talk to the web coordinator about the timeliness, quality, and quantity of content coming from the business units.
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Has the quality and timeliness of the content increased or decreased with the new system? With content, more is not always better. Just as important as the volume is the ability to be responsive to specific content needs. You want to see reduced lead-times from content-event to publication. For example, lets say there is some company news such as a new acquisition. How long did it take to respond to that news with content (press release, feature on home page, change in leadership)? This is a measurement of your whole content management process, not just the technology platform.
I would say that unrealistic "webmaster bottleneck elimination" goals are the leading cause of perceived failure in content management initiatives. Be careful before you promise this benefit. If you already made this mistake, don't jump to blame platform usability and focus all your remediation efforts on user interface work. Instead, invest in the people and processes to create good content. Shape the tools to serve the people in your organization who are willing and able to shoulder the responsibility of content publishing.


text: Hi Cole, thanks for your answer, I developed and inspected at the optical microscope my chip: everything seemed fine: I could see very small stitching error in underexposed lines, but I think that it was within specs (really hard to see). I wrote a few patterns (800 um-long waveguides) over ~1x1.5 cm^2 and no visible errors in any of them. Some of the lines far away from my focus points were slightly rough but I assume that's because I was starting to go out of focus (sample tilted). So, in conclusion, at least at the optical microscope, everything seems normal. I received also a notice from another user, Charis: > > hi guys, > > i noticed in my write today that the raith is takin unusually long. > it even stops in empty write fields and shows 'stitching wait' for 3s. > what is this 'stitching wait' and how do i turn it off? thanks. > > cheers, > charis. > Can you say anything about that? It happened to me in past that some patterns which should write fast were actually written very slow and sometimes with errors: it looked actually like there was an error in the interpretation of the gds pattern, although it was displayed correctly in the editor. It's a bit complicate to explain by email, but I can call you or send you some detailed explanations if you want. Anyway, the time required to write those patterns seemed to be pattern- and size-depent. That's it for now, I will be able to give you more info about the sample in a week or so (after finishing processing it and SEM it), if you need. Thanks Luigi PS: I haven't checked the beam current at all aperture yet, I'll try to do that this week On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Cole Loomis wrote: > Hi Luigi, > > Thank you for the system update. I would like to hear how your exposure > turns out, so please keep me posted. In reference to your > questions/comments below, my comments are in BLUE. > > Thanks again, > > Cole Loomis > Service Engineer > ---------------------------------- > Raith USA, Inc. > 2805 Veteran's Hwy - Suite 23 > Ronkonkoma, NY 11779 > > Office: (631) 738-9500 EXT: 16 > Fax: (631) 738-2055 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Luigi Scaccabarozzi [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 10:01 PM > To: email@example.com > Cc: email@example.com > Subject: raith status > > > Hi ... (sorry, I'm not sure how to spell your name), > I got your voice mail. I've been away the past two days, however this is > what I can tell you: I just started an overnight write, everything seemed ok > (beam quality, spot size, align writefield...) except one detail: the V zoom > factor for 100um WF, 600X, 5mm WD, 10um aperture, 10keV was 1.52 whereas > the U zoom factor was 1.49. I remember in past the two numbers were about > the same (~1.49). A few weeks ago we had the problem of V zoom factor > exceeding the range (which, BTW, is close to 1.52), and we could not write > at 600x, but only at, say 570X. After a while the problem misteriously > disappeared and zoom V factor got back to normal values (~1.49). This time > the V factor didn't exceed the limit, so I started the write anyway. > > This zoom value depends on the calibration of the Electro-Optics board; > which was replaced last week and recalibrated over several iterations. It > is normal for these values to be slightly different, so if your > align-writefield is working at a mag of 570, then leave it there. Please > verify that the magnification display is correct: On the LEO PC, go to > "Tools > User Preferences > SEM Conditions > Magnification Display" Make > sure this is set to "Polaroid 545". > > Another comment is about the current: at 10 keV, 10um , after cleaning and > bake I would expect a current of at least 0.025nA, whereas I measured only > 0.0175 nA... has the column already got that bad? > > What are the beam current values for all apertures at 10keV? If they are > all a little low, we could adjust the extractor voltage to increase the beam > current. I highly doubt that the column is already contaminated. Since > there were a few extractor trips on the system last week, the gun parameters > might need some minor tweaking. > > Otherwise I didn't hear of any complain from other users. > I will develop tomorrow morning and I'll be able to tell you more. > > I haev also one question about the piezos: I'm using small pieces (~ 1x 2 > cm) and trying to write on most of that area. I use the standard clips and I > notice that it's hard to keep the focus over such area. Can I use the piezos > for this purpose, or the piece is too small? what's the standard position of > the piezos, for which the stage itself is flat? Should I "center the piezos" > at the beginning of the session or leave them as they are after the warm up? > Thanks! > > The leveling piezo's are intended to level larger samples/wafers (2.5" and > greater). As far as starting with a level sample holder...the Universal > Sample Holder itself was not machined to the level of accuracy needed for > leveling with these piezo's. In general, the system admin must go through > the calibration procedure for each sample holder. In the window "Height > Control", you can select the sample holder you are using, then select > "LEVEL". This should adjust the piezo's to the pre-calibrated values. > Before the recent service issues with the column, James was planning on > calibrating the electro-static chuck. Once this is done, you will be able > to level entire wafers. Another idea...if you are using the clips to secure > your sample, try using larger samples. The further in the clip is on your > sample, the less the sample will tilt. > > When James returns, ask him if he has calibrated the piezo's in the Height > Control window. In the meantime, I would center the piezo's after loading a > sample. > > > > I'll write/call you tomorrow after developing tonight's sample. Regards > Luigi > > > > > >


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Excellent Colt M1849 Pocket, .31 Percussion
Manufactured in 1863, this is an excellent, 4-inch barrel, 6-shot Colt 1849 pocket model. The barrel and cylinder retain about 70% original blue, and the case colors on the frame, rammer and hammer are exceptional. The cylinder scene is sharp and crisp. About 50% tarnished silver on the grip frame, 90% original varnish, tight wood to metal fit. One of the finest '49's I have ever come across! The action is crisp, the springs are strong, the barrel is shiny and rifling is sharp. A near-perfect bore. It looks unfired to me. There is no corrosion on the nipples, and no signs of disfigurement. All matching numbers including the rammer and wedge. Single line New York address. Crisp markings throughout.
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