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The arguments for and against climate engineering, and reveals the extent of vested interests linking researchers, venture capitalists and corporations with Clive Hamilton, professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia, He's the author of Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Ag, e of Climate Engineering. There's virtually no regulation of geoengineering. And when it comes to sulfate aerosol spraying, there's nothing to prevent a government, any government, or even a corporation or a billionaire with a messiah complex, from launching a program of taking control of the Earth's weather by installing this kind of solar shield. So the absence of governance, the absence of regulation and the exclusion, particularly of people from poor and vulnerable countries, is a very serious concern…. http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/20/geoengineering_can_we_save_the_planet
- March 4, 2013 – BBC Future – Science & Environment –
The Trouble With Climate Geoengineering: Goldilocks effect to cloud seeding http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130304-the-trouble-with-cloud-seeding
- ROGUE GEOENGINEERING COULD LEAD TO AN UNPREDICTABLE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS – John Vidal – The Guardian Environment – January 8, 2013
- Geoengineering science fiction and fact: Kim Stanley Robinson on how we are already terraforming Earth Dec. 3, 2012 Slate
- Bill Gates admits funding climate geoengineering – Chemtrails in Our Skies
- World's biggest geoengineering experiment 'violates' UN rules October 15, 2012, Guardian
- Spraying The Skies
- DISCOVERY CHANNEL: Chemtrail/Climate Geoengineering Programs discussed on Discovery Channel – YouTube
- USA For-Profit GEOENGINEERING company to spray sun-reflecting CHEMICALS from 80,000 feet over Fort Sumner, New Mexico NO REGULATIONS. NO OVERSIGHT
- The pros and cons of geoengineering – New Scientist Cons Outweigh the Pros
- Big Names Behind US Push For Geoengineering – John Vidal, guardian.co.uk
- SEE: Chemtrails: Why in the World are They Spraying? When Will They Learn?
- WATCH: Skywatcher: Contrails, Chemtrails and Artificial Clouds Explained – YouTube
"WHY In The World Are They Spraying?" NEW Full Length Documentary 1:12:55
"ChemTrails" and Climate GeoEngineering: Long Held as a "conspiracy theory" evidence is now emerging that Climate Engineering is already happening around the world, and has been for years. Why has this information been withheld? Could this "climate remediation", "solar radiation management" experiment be further cause for the increasingly violent and extreme weather around the world? Who is behind it? The following videos, articles and investigations lay out indisputable evidence that climate remediation/climate geoengineering is already underway and we should all be outraged at this secretive, potentially devastating assault on our planet without serious, independent scientific peer reviewed studies. The only way to stop the impending adverse affects of climate change is to stop doing what is creating it, not further destroying our atmosphere and environment, or finding bandaid "solutions" that allow us to keep on with the industrial pollutions and environmental degradations that created it in the first place.
Link: SlideShare presentation : "Chemtrails – experiments in weather control"
The World of Geoengineering | ETC Group Maps of Known Earth System Experimentations ETC Group publishes a world map of geoengineering — the large-scale manipulation of earth or climate systems. While there is no complete record of the scores of weather and climate control projects in dozens of countries, this map is the first attempt to document the expanding scope of research and experimentation. Almost 300 geoengineering projects/experiments are represented on the map belonging to 10 different types of climate-altering technologies.
SEE: Chemtrails: Why in the World are They Spraying? When Will They Learn? – Wake Up World
"WHAT In The World Are They Spraying?" Full Length Investigation (1hr38sec)
Comment by @pdjmoo: "Even the idea of manipulating our climate makes my hair stand on end. We humans have so little knowledge about the grand intricacies of how our natural world and atmosphere work. It is all interconnected in such intricate ways and science is just in the infancy stages of understanding it. Remembering that the atmosphere has no boundaries, nor can we humans control the wind or ocean patterns, the prospect of a devastating domino affect on land and sea could literally wipe out all life on earth. There is only one way to address climate change…and that is to stop doing what is creating it. Trying to address the symptom instead of the cause is like treating sun-stroke instead of staying out of the sun"…pdjmoo SEE My "Urgent Memo To The World" Read the rest of this entry »


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To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
~William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
A tiny mantis larva in an American poppy flower
This photo was taken by Fabien Bravin. It is one of the entries in the 2012 National Geographic Photography Contest that ends today (Nov. 30).
H/t FOTM's igor

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Equity futures are higher again this morning as the G7 steps in to intervene in the currency markets:
Officials of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and the European Central Bank said in a statement that they will join with Japan in "concerted intervention in exchange markets."
"As we have long stated, excess volatility and disorderly movements in exchange rates have adverse implications for economic and financial stability," the ministers said in the statement. "We will monitor exchange markets closely and will cooperate as appropriate."
This action has caused the Yen to drop, but the dollar is also dropping. Once again, the markets are anything but "free," they are captured completely by the central banks.
And the result? Oil continues to spike higher, now well back above $100, gold & silver continue higher; Rice, Wheat, Corn, and all food commodities race skywards! Inflation rages, yet incomes in real terms are falling. The population is growing, but yet there are fewer people employed. Statistics are growing again, but mostly those that are measured in dollars.
My current journey into "the hot zone" has produced nothing but sticker shock. Rising prices are everywhere, from gas, to dog grooming, dog food, more expensive dinner, on and on. To add insult to injury, I received a $25 parking ticket because I failed to notice that the spots in front of the Tacoma Spaghetti Factory where I have parked free for years and years were now pay for parking with tiny signs that had small print indicating that you now walk half a block to the little pay station. None of the 6 of us noticed, and thus the ticket upon completion of the meal. Slowly but surely, the city is turning into a police state with ticket by mail cameras everywhere and simply more and more attempts to squeeze every last unit of revenue out of you they can. My reaction? After more than 40 years of going there with family, that will probably be my last time – and letters to the chain's CEO and the Mayor will be in the mail by tomorrow letting them know how they are driving revenue away. Of course I already moved away, and am glad that I did.
While I have never been one living on the margins, I am now beginning to feel very unsecure with the relationship of rising costs and steady income. I am trying to imagine what it will be like if gas, food, and most other things rise by say another 50% in cost. That type of a move will put the vast majority of Americans on the margins if they weren't already there, and right now, I can only see one central banker action after another to get us there. The one notable central banker exception is in China where more tightening occurred this morning, but they are so far gone off the deep end of money creation it's not even funny.
Today is options expiration, no data releases until next week.
The markets did produce a short term Dow Theory sell signal when both the Industrials and the Transports made new closing lows. Now we are bouncing on intervention once again, and this has caused the VIX to close back inside the range of the Bollinger bands, and thus a new market buy signal has been generated:
Just-in-time has shown its vulnerability as GM has been forced to close a truck assembly line in Shreveport, LA due to a lack of parts coming from Japan. I think events there are dire for the world economy, the ripple has just begun.
And now the U.N. has authorized the creation of a "No-Fly Zone" in Libya. That'll mean another war front for our military and yet another big question mark for the Middle-East. I'm not entirely sure how to read events there, I get the feeling that there's a lot more to it than just the spreading of freedom – I believe "freedom" has become as manipulated as our "free" markets – and the manipulation is coming from the same exact few individuals WHO control the production of money around the globe.


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Friday, December 18, 2009
Bill Still's movie "The Secret of Oz" is a must see movie to understand the history of our money. His line, "It's not WHAT backs our money, it's WHO controls the QUANTITY" really opened my mind to the possibilities outlined below. My hope is that those who have not seen the movie yet will do so, it will give the ideas that follow more meaning. You can get his movie at the following link - "The Secret of Oz."
Understanding our money and our economy is difficult, no doubt. There are a lot of pieces to the puzzle, but no piece is as perplexing and as troubling as backing our money with debt. I explain this everyday here at Economic Edge, it is at the root of our current and future problems. The "WHO" behind our money have used their self-generating debt money to influence politics to an unprecedented degree, thus the other main trunk of the problems' root.
For quite some time I have seen the debt saturation and I could see where it is leading. Those places are dark places no one wants to visit. Without altering our current path I see much pain and historic events to follow. What I could not see until I really examined Bill's line, was a way to get past the debt to a sustainable and prosperous system that works for the people going forward without crashing the world's economy in the process! No easy feat, for sure! Most who understand the extent of the debt and how the math no longer works will likely say that it cannot be done.
It can be. The way to do it can be found in the outlines below. The key is repairing the root causes of the problem. The symptoms will then take care of themselves.
Still, it is no easy undertaking moving from a highly leveraged, debt saturated, and derivative entangled world to a prosperous future. That means that as you read these outlines you'll have to think the parts through one at a time. Then ask yourself what each part means, what it does, and how it works in concert with the other elements of the proposal.
Over the past several weeks I have spent countless hours developing, tinkering, constructing, twisting, and sharing my thoughts with Bill Still and others to come up with these outlines. My full outline is now roughly 40 pages long - so much that I know the average person won't even think about getting through it. So, I boiled all that down to its essence and developed what I call the "minimal" version below. It gives a very quick overview primarily of the monetary reform portion of the proposal. Hopefully it will motivate and inspire you, but I know it will leave you with many questions. That's why I created the "medium" length version you'll find below that. It will fill in the detail. I hope you will take the time to MAKE IT ALL THE WAY TO THE END. It will take some time, but I think you will find it worth it.
If you haven't read the introduction to these proposals yet, I recommend that you do so either before or after you read the minimal outline below - FREEDOM'S VISION - Introduction…
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These are called the American Party Papers or Freedom's Vision. The hope is that they explain the basis for change in the same way that the Federalist Papers did when Hamilton and Madison were exchanging ideas about the Constitution. Thus, we await and welcome your ideas, and even your criticisms. In fact, we thrive on it! Each hole you find, each recommendation, works to make it that much more bullet proof. And no, we don't have all the answers and we've left enough room for other experts to weigh in, to take ownership of a piece of the program.
I have some audio coming in the next few days to help further explain the thinking and to add additional background. Please check back for those, I'll post links in the Freedom's Vision spot in the upper right hand corner of this site. By the way, there's a new web site on the way dedicated to the implementation of these proposals. It will also play the part of SWARM central!
EVERYONE is a part of the solution! We all have a role to fill in creating a stable and prosperous future, even if that role is simply participating in the "SWARMS" that are coming.
If you recognize the need for change and see these proposals as a way forward, I would ask that you please take it to the next step. No one is going to do it for you, it is you, it is me. WE must all take ACTION. The action you can take is to volunteer your time to help organize others, to go out onto the web and link these proposals for others to see. To directly ask other bloggers, organizations, and media to support these proposals and to spread the word. We need them to go viral, we need to organize, and we need to get the swarms focused on their targets, one state, and one politician at a time.
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On the 13th July 2011, the Barbican Centre will host a special live show, Rain Dogs Revisited, with a host of guest artists reinterpreting tracks from Tom Waits' legendary album. David Coulter, the multi-instrumentalist who worked with Tom Waits on The Black Rider, will be the concert's musical director, joined by a host of guests, including St Vincent, The Tiger Lillies, Seb Rochford, Arthur H, and Camille O'Sullivan.
Christophe Chabert spoke to David about his history with Tom Waits and his approach to revisiting the album for the new show...
Interview with David Coulter by Christophe Chabert
When did you discover the album Rain Dogs?
I had been a fan of Tom Waits for quite a while. The first time I remember actually seeing him was performing on the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test. I was 17 years old, it was in 1979 and he was incanting 'Burma Shave', a bit "à la Jack Kerouac" and it really amazed me. I heard this indescribable voice and imagined it was some old bluesman and then when I saw who it was I discovered a young old man wearing a beaten up second-hand suit and a battered hat. I followed his career after that and on the day Rain Dogs came out, I took the train up to London and headed straight for the Virgin Megastore where I bought the album both on vinyl and on cassette. When I got home and listened to it for the first time, it blew me away!
Did this record surprise you compared to what you already knew about Tom Waits?
Not exactly. Two years before that, he had released Swordfishtrombones and that album was really different from what he had done up until then. It was much more exotic with a hugely varied and unusual instrumentation. At that time, I wasn't really a musician. As a young child, I learned to play the violin but I quit when I was 14 or 15 years old. And it I suppose it was listening to Swordfishtrombones and Rain Dogs that encouraged me to start playing music again. I could hear sounds that corresponded exactly to what was in my head and that I wasn't hearing in any other music I was listening to at that time. It was a new kind of music but which seemed to have its roots in older styles of music. I was very into folk music and could hear elements of that but also these sublime melodies, bold and radical instrumentations and extraordinary lyrics plus this unbelievable "otherness".
Rain Dogs and the trilogy from which it is taken are completely out of the musical fashion of that time – there are no synthesizers for instance and an organic style. Was that what aroused your interest?
Absolutely. I love acoustic music; I love to hear people who master their instruments, who really know how to play, who can really express themselves. It was the first time I heard the playing of Marc Ribot, who I didn't know at that point; he was a relatively unknown guitarist at that time and was one of the key elements to the sound of Rain Dogs. There were many other styles of music at that time but in the mid 80s, pop music was by and large pretty dreadful. Punk was already history. Waits was possessed of a true Punk spirit and I really admired his attitude towards the Music Industry: he had clearly decided to remain outside the system. When you have spent twenty or thirty years listening to his music, you begin to recognize where he draws his influences from, you listen to some of the things that have inspired him, but at that time Waits' universe seemed experimental and unconventional to me. I loved it!
You were brought to work with Tom Waits on The Black Rider. How did this experience change your view about Tom Waits' music?
This happened much later on, almost twenty years later. In 2004, I was asked to put together a band for Tom and Robert Wilson for the Barbican's resurrection of the stage version of The Black Rider. Tom knew of my work with The Pogues and he had listened to a solo album I had made and he must have appreciated my musical universe. So I formed this band and chose people I knew, people I had already worked with before. And I had the amazing opportunity to work with Tom. When you meet your hero, it can be either fantastic or terrible. With Tom, it felt as if we already knew each other. I must also mention Tom's wife Kathleen Brennan, they are true partners; they are like yin and yang. I worked with them and Robert Wilson whose work I had studied at College. It was thanks to record of The Black Rider released in 1993 that I started to learn to play the musical saw; and that's one of the ways I have earned my living for more than ten years. It was a great honor to have been involved with this project. It was an incredible adventure.
You are a multi-instrumentalist. Does your thirst to play so many instruments come from the influence of Rain Dogs – knowingly or unknowingly?
I was very influenced by that record and by the other two albums in that trilogy Swordfishtrombones and Frank's Wild Years. That's when I started to play around with exotic instruments. I played the violin, the Jew's harp. I always had a tendency to pick up instruments; when I was over at someone's place and there was an instrument lying around, I would try to produce sounds out of it. I was a kind of exploration for me. Rain Dogs inspired me to experiment, to find other ways of getting sounds out of instruments. I had found an old broken mandolin at my grandmother's place, my father gave me an old acoustic guitar and after that I tried to learn to play a different weirder instrument every year. Shortly after this I met Arthur H. and ended up playing in his band for a few years. When we first met in London at the end of the 1980s, one of the first things we discovered that we had in common was a shared love of the album Rain Dogs. Arthur's own first album is often compared to Tom Waits and I don't think it was purely by chance that we met.
How were you offered the project of doing a live version of Rain Dogs and how did you react?
Marc Cardonnel from Les Nuits de Fourvière knew of my work with Damon Albarn, Hal Willner and Marianne Faithfull and Richard Hawley among others. Last year I was asked to be the musical director for the production Let It Be live which was apparently a great success for the festival. We had decided to try and work on something else this year. There were many ideas floating around but we quickly came to focus on Tom Waits. I suggested a tribute night dedicated to Waits' career. In the end, we thought that taking probably his best known record, containing songs such as 'Singapore' or 'Tango Till They're Sore' would be a good solution. It is the second in what will hopefully become a series of album-tribute concerts that we want to go beyond being just carbon-copies of the originals. We will however respect the Spirit of Waits: songs are living things; the version you listen to on the record is merely the reference version, the archive. Tom rarely performs his songs with the same musical arrangements; he often changes the style, the groove, and the instrumentation. He revisits his own music constantly.
Were you worried about how he might react to the project?
I said I would only agree to do the project if Tom and Kathleen gave me their blessing. I wrote to them and they said: "Do what you want with it, good luck and bon voyage!" I would not have wanted to undertake this journey without Tom and Kathleen's agreement. I hope it means they trust me!
How did the idea of the concert unfold? What were the directions?
I always start with the musicians. The ideal scenario is to work with incredible players who are filled with the same sense of adventure and exploration as me. The music of Rain Dogs demands a free and open-minded spirit. My address book is filled with brilliant musicians I have worked with over the last 20 years or so, so I started to put together my ideal band but I also had to think about the featured guests. I knew I couldn't have 19 guests, one for each piece. I have to think about how things will evolve and to work out strategies, like devising a piece of theatre. It was like a big casting, Marc and I were exchanging recordings of people we liked, we made lists, we started editing the lists and made our enquiries. Many of the people we asked said yes, fortunately. In the end, we ended up with a cast of very diverse artists who all have a radical spirit and who are all fans of Waits's musical universe. Camille and Arthur are both old friends but what is interesting and exciting for me is to get the chance to work with artists I've wanted to work with for a long time. As I listened to their records I started to think about the songs which would fit into their own musical landscapes
You are the one suggesting the songs rather than them asking for certain ones instead of others?
It's a little bit of both. With Let It Be live, I asked the guests what songs they might want to do. With Rain Dogs, each of the artists could interpret all of the songs on the album in their own style. Some made suggestions. For instance, when I spoke to Erika Stucky for the first time, she spontaneously made a list of the three songs she was interested in, explaining that her main reason for picking those particular songs was that she thought that probably no one else would want to try them! Arthur H. had also spoken to me ahead of time and suggested two or three. He was the first artist to agree to the project and I figured it was ok to let him decide on the songs he wanted to perform. The concert takes place in July; we have time to find our way of adapting the pieces and of re-telling these stories. And we'll take the time to explore the sounds that we'll have on stage. I don't want to reproduce exactly the same instrumentation as in the album. That's the 'revisited' dimension. All the musicians in the band are both friends and musical colleagues and they are all astonishing artists in their own fields: Steve Nieve, who's been accompanying Elvis Costello for many years as well as playing with countless other great singers, is a sublime pianist and he's also incredibly creative in his playing. To continue the connection with The Black Rider, Thomas Bloch whose other worldly instruments of ondes Martenot, cristal Bachet and Glassharmonica; as well as Terry Edwards, an extraordinary London-based multi-instrumentist whom will play pocket trumpet, baritone saxophone and guitar will be providing their unique contributions. And we'll also have one of the best rhythm sections since Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare: the illustrious and genre-defying Seb Rochford drummer/percussionist and leader of band Polar Bear and finally Polar Bear's bassist and synthesizer master Tom Herbert. We needed to create an ensemble that can respond to Tom Waits' with the same sense of adventure, of experimentation, an ensemble that can both respect his music but can also allow it to be pushed even further, adding its own new colors and spices
Free interpretation of Rain Dogs and faithfulness towards Tom Waits: is that a good sum up?
Yes. Or at least, I hope to achieve that!
You can see 'Rain Dogs Revisited' on the following dates:
July 11th : Montreux Jazz Festival
July 13th: Barbican Centre, London
November 20th : Muziegebouw Frits Philips, Eindhoven
November 22th : Salle Pleyel, Paris


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Andra Waagmeester published a paper on his work on a semantic web version of the WikiPathways (doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004989). The paper outlines the design decisions, shows the SPARQL endpoint, and several examples SPARQL queries. These include federates queries, like a mashup with DisGeNET (doi:10.1093/database/bav028) and EMBL-EBI's Expression Atlas. That results in nice visualisations like this:
If you have the relevant information in the pathway, these pathways can help a lot in helping understanding of what is biologically going on. And, of course, used for exactly that a lot.
Press release
Because press releases have become an interesting tool in knowledge dissemination, I wanted to learn what it involved to get one out. This involved the people as PLOS Computational Biology and the press offices of the Gladstone Institutes and our Maastricht University (press release 1, press release 2 EN/NL). There is already one thing I learned in retrospect, and I am pissed with myself that I did not think of this: you should always have a graphics supporting your story. I have been doing this for a long time in my blog now (sometimes I still forget), but did not think of that in the press release. The press release was picked up by three outlets, though all basically as we presented it to them (thanks to Altmetric.com):
But what makes me appreciate this piece of work, and WikiPathways itself, is how it creates a central hub of biological knowledge. Pathway databases capture knowledge not easily embedded an generally structured (relational) databases. As such, expression this in the RDF format seems simple enough. The thing I really love about this approach, is that your queries become machine readable stories, particularly when you start using human readable variants of SPARQL for this. And you can share these queries with the online scientific community with, for example, myExperiment.
There are two applications how I have used SPARQL on WikiPathways data for metabolomics: 1. curation; 2. statistics. Data analysis is harder, because in the RDF world resources scientific lenses are needed to accommodate for the chemical structural-temporal complexity of metabolites. For curation, we have long used SPARQL for unit tests to support the curation of WikiPathways. Moreover, I have manually used the SPARQL end point to find curation tasks. But now that the paper is out, I can blog about this more. For now, many examples SPARQL queries can be found in the WikiPathways wiki. It features several queries showing statistics, but also some for curation. This is an example query I use to improve the interoperability of WikiPathways with Wikidata (also for BridgeDb):
SELECT DISTINCT ?metabolite WHERE {
?metabolite a wp:Metabolite .
OPTIONAL { ?metabolite wp:bdbWikidata ?wikidata . }
FILTER (!BOUND(?wikidata))
Feel free to give this query a go at sparql.wikipathways.org!
This papers completes a nice triptych of three papers about WikiPathways in the past 6 months. Thanks to whole community and the very many contributors! All three papers are linked below.
Waagmeester, A., Kutmon, M., Riutta, A., Miller, R., Willighagen, E. L., Evelo, C. T., Pico, A. R., Jun. 2016. Using the semantic web for rapid integration of WikiPathways with other biological online data resources. PLoS Comput Biol 12 (6), e1004989+. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004989
Bohler, A., Wu, G., Kutmon, M., Pradhana, L. A., Coort, S. L., Hanspers, K., Haw, R., Pico, A. R., Evelo, C. T., May 2016. Reactome from a WikiPathways perspective. PLoS Comput Biol 12 (5), e1004941+. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004941
Kutmon, M., Riutta, A., Nunes, N., Hanspers, K., Willighagen, E. L., Bohler, A., Mélius, J., Waagmeester, A., Sinha, S. R., Miller, R., Coort, S. L., Cirillo, E., Smeets, B., Evelo, C. T., Pico, A. R., Jan. 2016. WikiPathways: capturing the full diversity of pathway knowledge. Nucleic Acids Research 44 (D1), D488-D494. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkv1024


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X-based VNC serverMake sure you've read 'Getting Started' for introductory information.
Xvnc is the Unix VNC server, which is based on a standard X server. Applications can display themselves on it as if it were a normal X display, but they will actually appear on any connected VNC viewers rather than on a physical screen.
So Xvnc is really two servers in one. To the applications it is an X server, and to the remote VNC users it is a VNC server. By convention we have arranged that the VNC server display number will be the same as the X server display number, which means you can use eg. snoopy:2 to refer to display 2 on machine 'snoopy' in both the X world and the VNC world.
Normally you will start Xvnc using the vncserver script, which is designed to simplify the process, and which is written in Perl. You will probably want to edit this to suit your preferences and local conditions. We recommend using vncserver rather than running Xvnc directly, but Xvnc has essentially the same options as a standard X server, with a few extensions. Running Xvnc -h will display a list.
As mentioned in Getting Started , vncserver can be run with no options at all. In this case it will choose the first available display number, start Xvnc as that display, and run a couple of basic applications to get you started. You can also specify the display number, in which case it will use that number if it is available and exit if not, eg:
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Run with the -help argument to see the other options. The important ones are as follows:
In general, you can specify standard X server arguments to vncserver, and they will be passed through to Xvnc. Again, Xvnc -help will list its options, including:.
The script ~/.vnc/xstartup is executed after the server starts. If you want to change the window manager used in your VNC desktop, for example, this is where you should do it.
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Smoke rises from Gaza power plant after being hit by an Israeli Strike | AP Adel Hana
Israeli assaults from air, land and sea in the last 24 hours were considered by Gazans to be one of the heaviest since the start of 'Operation Protective Edge', according to Al Jazeera correspondent Imtiaz Tyab.
In a televised announcement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated the "need to be prepared for a protracted campaign. We will continue to act with force and discretion until our mission is accomplished".
Destruction of infrastructure
Gaza's only power plant was shut down today as a fuel container caught fire after an Israeli strike. The power plant provided Gaza residents with only a few hours of electricity a day after it was hit in an air strike last week, which reduced its working capacity to only twenty per cent. The plant supplies two-thirds of the Strip with energy. Its director, Mohammed Al-Sharif said that the power plant "was finished" and added that the local fire brigade had a hard time extinguishing the fire because they lacked proper equipment.
Earlier this morning, the house of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was shelled. No casualties were reported. Haniyeh was not home at the time but made a statement saying "my house is not dearer than any of the houses of our people. The destruction of stones will not break our will and we will continue our resistance until we gain freedom."
Other buildings shelled were the finance ministry and the building of Al-Aqsa TV, Hamas' main broadcasting outlet.
Innocent victims
Nine children were killed in Al-Shati Refugee Camp in Gaza when an airstrike hit the compound they were playing in late Monday night. All children were under the age of twelve, the Gaza Health Ministry reports. One adult died and 46 persons were wounded in the attack.
Hamas officials told the Associated Press that the missiles were fired from Israel, and hit the children as they were playing on a swing. Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri reportedly called the attack a "war crime" and added it was "a result of the silence of the international community."
The spokesperson from the Israeli military has stated that the missiles were targeted for Israel but hit buildings in the Gaza Strip instead. "Gaza terrorists fired rockets today hoping to kill Israelis. Instead, they hit a hospital & a refugee camp in Gaza", the spokespersons' tweetreads.
American criticism
The Obama administration criticized the Israeli government on Monday for critiquing American Secretary of State and peace negotiator John Kerry and leaking a renewed Egyptian ceasefire draft. State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki argued that it is "simply not the way allies and partners treat each other".
Psaki stated that the Israeli critique that the proposal did not include the problem of Hamas tunnels heading into Israel was unfounded, since this was not mentioned in the first Egyptian ceasefire proposal either, which the Israeli government approved.
When referring to the criticism that Kerry met with the Foreign Ministers of Turkey and Qatar to draft up a proposal, Psaki said that "when people are dying, people are living under threat every day, it's important to engage parties that have influence on Hamas."
At least 1,170 Palestinians have been killed during 'Operation Protective Edge' according to Al Jazeera, most of them civilians. The confirmation of the death of five Israeli soldiers on Monday makes a total of 55 Israeli deaths, among whom three civilians.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — José Soto, associate professor of psychology in the College of the Liberal Arts, has been selected to receive the 2014 Dr. James Robinson Equal Opportunity Award.
The award, sponsored by the Penn State Alumni Association, was established in 1988 and renamed in 1998 to honor the late James Robinson, a distinguished alumnus and former member of the Alumni Council. It recognizes a full-time faculty or staff member with at least two years of active service who has promoted equal opportunity through affirmative action and/or contributes to enhancing the educational environment of the University through improving cross-cultural understanding.
Shortly after his arrival at Penn State nine years ago, Soto organized a workgroup within the clinical psychology program charged with assessing the program climate with respect to diversity. As a result, he founded and continues to serve as advisor for the Diversity Action Workgroup, now known as BRIDGE. This group of faculty and students works to enhance the Department of Psychology's training, recruitment and retention of diverse faculty and students. Activities include meetings with prospective graduate students, supporting current students via various events, and sponsoring a diversity-focused speaker series.
"Dr. Soto and BRIDGE signal to prospective and current students our commitment to diversity as an area of scholarship, as an aspect of training and as a value," one nominator said.
In addition to his work with BRIDGE, Soto teaches an upper-level course on multicultural perspectives within clinical psychology. His program of research focuses on the interplay between culture, health and emotion. For example, he has examined how minority group membership influences healthy functioning either directly or by altering different aspects of emotional functioning.
Soto has received the Diversity Recognition Award from the Multicultural Research Center and the Charles and Shirley Thomas Award from Division 45 of the American Psychological Association for his work on behalf of equal opportunity and cultural understanding.


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It seems Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker can't make a media appearance these days without being asked one question in particular: When are we going to see Strikeforce vs. UFC fights?
The short answer? Not anytime soon.
Still, Coker holds out hope for crossover bouts in the future. And he's not talking about just champion vs. champion affairs. The Strikeforce boss said he'd like to see matchups up and down the roster.
"Personally, I'd like to see them all happen – not just the champions fighting the champions, but how about Fedor Emelianenko fighting Randy Couture?" Coker asked MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). "That was supposed to happen a few years ago. Why not do it now? How about Antonio 'Bigfoot' Silva against Brock Lesnar or Shane Carwin? I think there are some amazing fights. Not just our champion versus their champion, but fighters in our lineup fighting fighters from their lineup going two or three deep. I think all those fights would be fantastic.
"I'd love to see Cung Le fight Chris Leben. Wouldn't that be fun to watch? I would love to do it, but for now, we'll just see what happens."
Of course, it was the the sale of Strikeforce to the UFC's parent company that made discussions such as this possible, and fans immediately called for Strikeforce's best to make their way to the UFC octagon. When former Strikeforce champ Nick Diaz then successfully negotiated passage to the UFC, those fan calls became even louder.
Coker said the company's current plans simply don't call for the migration of its athletes to the UFC. However, he also said don't rule it out somewhere down the line.
"For right now, there's no other fighters that are going to crossover," Coker said. "For now, that's going to be the company policy. We have a business to run, and that business is Strikeforce, along with working with Showtime television. We have obligations to them to produce these great fights for them. We're going to need the roster to be there to fight. I think in time, those fights will all happen, but I think fans need to be patient."
Some MMA pundits have predicted those contests will only take place when Strikeforce, like the WEC before it, eventually shutters its doors and folds into the UFC. Coker declined to speculate on any potential merger, instead focusing on the positives that Strikeforce has gained by residing under the UFC umbrella.
"It's still a very new transition and very early in the game," Coker said. "I think as we start building some momentum heading into the semifinals of the heavyweight grand prix, not to mention some of the other big fights we're doing, I think you're going to see some better results, some bigger results.
"We've got an amazing marketing team and resources. We didn't have that available to us when we were just Strikeforce without the UFC. Now I think we're going to see some better results. And I think what it comes down to is that we just keep doing a great job of putting great numbers up for Showtime, which I think we've been delivering great fights and great ratings. I see that as an important key to see Strikeforce continue to move forward."
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The Supreme Court said Monday that patients who claim their HMOs wouldn't pay for recommended medical care cannot sue for big malpractice damages, removing a weapon that trial lawyers and patient rights advocates said was crucial to keep the insurers honest.
The court was unanimous in saying that two HMO patients in Texas cannot pursue big malpractice or negligence cases against their insurers in state court, as they claimed a Texas patient protection law allowed them to do.
The case involves an issue that has stymied Congress, which has tried and failed to pass national patients' rights legislation. Some states have passed their own patient protection laws in the meantime, but the scope of protection varies.
The biggest question unresolved until Monday was whether patients could seek hefty damage awards in state courts, or whether they are limited only to federal courts, as insurers claimed.
The choice is significant, because state court juries can often be generous to sympathetic victims. Insurers have claimed that patients could only go to federal court, and then only to recover the value of whatever benefit the HMO denied.
The ruling weakens the Texas patient protection law and those of other states.
Ruling based on 30-year-old federal law
The court based its ruling on the language of a 30-year-old federal law, originally meant to protect employee pensions and other benefits, but now applied to the managed care industry.
The law, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act or ERISA, forces the HMO patients at issue in the case to sue only in federal courts, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the court.
The insurance industry had argued that ERISA trumps state patient protection laws or other state laws that allow medical negligence suits in local courts, and lower courts were divided on the issue.
The case concerns a gray area of medicine and insurance, in which decisions about what treatment to pursue and what coverage to offer are mingled. The situation arises frequently in managed care, where doctors belong to a closed network of providers overseen by administrators who may not be doctors but who nonetheless decide what the company will pay for.
The court ruled against a hysterectomy patient, Ruby Calad, who had claimed that Cigna Healthcare of Texas essentially evicted her from a Houston hospital after only one day of recovery.
The HMO would not pay for a longer stay, even though her doctor recommended it.
Complications set in after discharge
She was back in the hospital a few days later, suffering complications she claims could have been avoided had she remained hospitalized longer after surgery. She later went to court, seeking to make the HMO pay a price for what she called negligent care.
The Supreme Court did not decide whether Calad deserved better — only whether and where she could bring her lawsuit.
Trial lawyers, patient rights advocates and others had argued that HMOs need the threat of hefty jury awards to keep them honest.
Health insurers, backed by the Chamber of Commerce and others, argued that lawsuits drive up the cost of health care for everyone, and HMOs must draw the line somewhere.
In the Calad case and a companion one involving post-polio patient Juan Davila, insurers tried to pull their lawsuits out of state court and then sought to have the complaints dismissed in federal court.
Davila took what he claims was inferior but cheaper pain medication, instead of the Vioxx his doctor had recommended, because his Aetna Health plan would not pay for the more expensive drug right away.
The cheaper medication caused bleeding ulcers, and he almost had a heart attack, Davila said.
HMOs an increasingly popular option
Employers provide most private health insurance to American workers, and HMOs or other managed care options are increasingly popular choices as health care costs rise.
Texas and nine other states regulate HMOs, making decisions about whether treatment is medically necessary, state attorneys general backing Calad and Davila argued in a friend of the court brief. Other states have passed some form of consumer protection from HMO decisions, and still more states are considering such laws, the state lawyers wrote.
Arizona, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Washington and West Virginia have laws similar to Texas's.
The cases are Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila, 02-1845 and Cigna Healthcare of Texas Inc. v. Calad, 03-83.


text: bentoni 1 Posted February 20, 2013 As a press photographer, I am very proud to have won third place in the 'Nature' category of the World Press Photo competition recently. This is a very competitive competition with over 5,000 photographers entering from around the world. You can see my entry at the following link: http://www.worldpressphoto.org/awards/2013?category=54 and I have uploaded it here as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Its another typical day for the crew at Rådhuspladsen (Town Hall Square) in Copenhagen, where the Museum of Copenhagen (www.copenhagen.dk) has been conducting a major excavation since January 2011. Soon to be completed, the excavation – conducted in advance of the construction of a new Metro station – has seen remains of perhaps the earliest urban activity in this area, from the 1100s, as well as fragments of the city's medieval and post-medieval western gates, city moat, bridge remains and a host of later archaeological structures including a seventeenth century mill building and even some World War 2 bomb shelters. Amazing organic preservation is one of the key features of the site, with textiles, leather shoes, book covers and a host of other everyday items from the late medieval and post-medieval periods surviving in excellent condition, particularly in the waterlogged moat deposits.
This site is one of four major excavations being carried out by the Museum of Copenhagen as part of the advance works of the new Metro City-Ring Project. The others included Kongens Nytorv (The Kings New Square) where the city's eastern defences and former gate structures were revealed, Assistens Kirkegard cemetery excavation, and the ongoing excavation at Gammel Strand (Old Beach) where part of the citys old harbour area is being uncovered.
With a crew of c.40, this is one of the largest archaeological excavation projects carried out in Denmark to date, and has seen the Museum of Copenhagen expand its archaeology section greatly, with the assembly of an international crew including English, Swedish, Norwegians, Polish and Irish members to compliment the Danish core. By the time all of the excavations have been completed in 2013, a wealth of new knowledge about the birth and growth of Copenhagen will have been gained. In the meantime, information about the ongoing excavations are being shared with the public on a regular basis on the museum's interactive website http://vaeggen.copenhagen.dk/media/76182.


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Club hopes breakout game gets Hicks clicking
Twins rookie center fielder robs home run, swats pair of solo shots
MINNEAPOLIS -- With a breakout game against the White Sox on Monday, the Twins are hoping rookie Aaron Hicks can get on a roll.
Hicks, who entered Monday's game with a .137 average and one homer, had his best game in the Majors, hitting two homers and robbing a potential game-tying homer in center with a leaping catch.
Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said he's hoping it can be a springboard for Hicks, who registered not only his first career multihomer game but his first multihit game.
"It can be," Gardenhire said. "It's just day by day. But the thing about baseball is that you can't take it with you. When you play a game, you have turn around and do it again the next night. So it's about consistency and he understands that part of it. So he has to turn the page and move on, but confidence is a huge part of baseball and right now I would imagine his confidence is at a peak."
Twins first baseman Justin Morneau was impressed by Hicks' performance and thought he was helped by missing two games with a hyperextended elbow to clear his head.
"I think having the couple days off allowed him to regroup and sit back," Morneau said. "We don't need him to be Superman. We just need him to be Aaron Hicks and that's good enough for us. He's capable of being a Major League Baseball player. He doesn't need to be a superstar as soon as he gets here. He just needs to keep working hard and keep trying to get better and he's doing that. I think he's got a lot of good days ahead of him."


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Photographer's Note
Bologna is the largest city and capital of Emilia-Romagna Region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy, located in the heart of a metropolitan area officially recognized by the Italian government as a città metropolitana of about one million.
The city, the first settlements of which date back to at least 1000 BC, has always been an important urban centre, first under the Etruscans (Velzna/Felsina) and the Celts (Bona), then under the Romans (Bononia), then again in the Middle Ages, as a free municipality. For one century it was the fifth largest European city based on population.
Home to the oldest university in the world, University of Bologna, founded in 1088, Bologna hosts thousands of students who enrich the social and cultural life of the city. Famous for its towers and lengthy arcades, Bologna has a large well-preserved historical centre thanks to a careful restoration and conservation policy which began at the end of the 1970s on the heels of serious damage done by the urban demolition at the end of the 19th century as well as that caused by war.
An important cultural and artistic centre, its importance in terms of landmarks can be attributed to its homogeneous mixture of monuments, buildings and architectural styles as well as works of art which are the result of a first class architectural and artistic history.
Bologna is also an important transportation crossroad for the roads and trains of Northern Italy, where many important mechanical, electronic and nutritional industries have sited their headquarters. According to the most recent data gathered by the European Regional Economic Growth Index (E-REGI) of 2009, Bologna is the first Italian city and the 47th European city in terms of its economic growth rate.
Bologna is also home to prestigious cultural, economic and political institutions as well as one of the most impressive trade fair districts in Europe. In 2000 it was declared European capital of culture and in 2006, a UNESCO city of music. Bologna is also one of the wealthiest cities in Italy, often ranking as one of the top cities in terms of quality of life in the country: in 2011 it ranked 1st out of 107 Italian cities.
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jurek1951 (42198) 2014-01-20 0:22
Hi Stephen,
a splendid photo with beautiful colours and lights, the composition is very spectacular. Great shot,
No_One (4) 2014-01-20 0:28
Hi Stephen,
This is a great perspective, not only for the view down the corridor, but also the inclusion of the finely vaulted roof here. The light pouring in from the right looks very fine too, and highlights the nice colors of this place. I like that you included so much of the foreground too, as its texture is really beautiful.
Thanks as always
Giustiniani (3650) 2014-01-20 1:09
Bonjour Stephen,
un beau rendu, cette perspective est superbe. J'aime beaucoup la texture du sol et du plafond qui ressortent parfaitement. Couleurs et lumière superbes également.
Bonne journée, amicalement,
Subhogen (4067) 2014-01-20 1:19
Hello Stephen,
A nice study in perspective and depth with these series of columns and arches. They seem to go on and on. I like warm earthy colours of the place as well. Thanks for sharing.
tedesse (25147) 2014-01-20 2:40
Hello Stephen!
Beautiful arcades.
Good POV and great perspective, beautiful colors and light, good sharpness.
carlo62 (81265) 2014-01-20 5:01
Ciao Stephen
bella inquadratura dei famosi porticati.
Bella la luce e ottima la qualità, ci sono molti dettagli, comprese le persone che rendono tutto più naturale.
Sergiom (117241) 2014-01-20 5:31
Bonjour Stephen,
J'aime beaucoup ces galeries italiennes qui généralement bordent les belles places ensoleillées. Ici, j'aime beaucoup le jeu des ombres et de la lumière ainsi que la belle profondeur de l'ensemble.
Nicou (193806) 2014-01-20 7:11
quelle vue sous ces arches sueprbe vue et iamge quelle compo e tiamge quelle vue avec ce rouge ce rendu sur le sol quelle iamge splendide.
Bravo et amitié
Royaldevon (73742) 2014-01-20 7:24
Hello Stephen,
Again, I see similarities with Florence, with the collonaded walkway and the reddy brown colours.
You have used a fine angle, with diverging lines, to give a sense of perspective, whilst the inclusion of the figures gives lots of human interest.
Did you encounter lots of coloured street vendors?
They were remarkable in their ability to quickly change produce: sunglasses, jewellery, fans, in sunshine; macs, umbrellas, galoshes, took over immediately if it started to rain!
My warm regards,
Bev :-)
Fis2 (154079) 2014-01-20 8:18
Witaj Stephen!
Curious gallery, beautiful pillars.
Excellent perspective.
I like colors and light.
Nicely photo.
Have a nice evening
Silvio1953 (203806) 2014-01-20 11:11
Ciao Stephen, great perspective on lovely porch, excellent clarity, splendid light and wonderful colors, very well done my friend, ciao Silvio
williewhistler (16606) 2014-01-20 12:28
Hello Stephen,
the long view along the colonnade gives the image a really nice depth with the warm tones adding their charm to a well exposed shot.
Corry (4508) 2014-01-20 21:19
Bonsoir Stephen
Belle vue sur cette longue galerie à arcades. Les couleurs sont superbes. Salutations.
saxo042 (38078) 2014-01-21 0:05
Hi Stephen,
A very good capture of this impressive arcade. The focal point is well positioned at a third and there are many enjoyable details in the ceiling construction. An interesting note.
Kind regards
timecapturer (49288) 2014-01-21 2:13
Hi Stephen
lovely and enticing perspective here, with that real Italian flavour to it. Love the colours and textures in the symmetry too it is so full of the historical character of the City. Excellent presentation.
trevormoffiet (3112) 2014-01-21 2:59
Hello Stephen,
A beautiful composition with classic Italian colours. I just love these images with deep perspective. I did 'Tech drawing' as a subject when I was a high school student in the 60's. Perspective drawing was one of my favourite topics. In these images I always follow the lines of perspective to find their vanishing point on the horizon.
Best regards,
dkmurphys (77892) 2014-01-21 6:21
Hi Stephen,
Very beautiful scene, I like the peaceful walk of the couple through the nice old arcades.
Enjoy a fine afternoon.
subhendu_bagchi (26091) 2014-01-21 6:47
what a fine shot here. Like your composition with the repeatative arches. Great light management and very good colour tone. Captured with a nice timing with those person in nice place in the frame. Superb work. Tfs.
fabbs99 (17179) 2014-01-21 12:29
Hello Stephen,
Superb shot of the corridor with colored flooring and exquisite looking pillars.The depth of field is excellently shown in this image with strong colors.Very well done,TFS.
Romano46 (18472) 2014-01-23 8:40
Ciao Stephen
in questa foto c'è la perfetta sintesi della città di Bologna nella quale la caratteristica dominante sono i portici.
La scelta del POV è stata essenziale per la riuscita di questa foto alla quale ben si addicono anche i toni caldi del colore.
Ottima sia la composizione che la prospettiva.
Ciao e buona serata
Hi Stephen,
i live two hours by car from this city but i have always passed through but never had the chance to stop.
from what i have red of this city the red colors predominates in the buildings as we can see in this shot.
nice p.o.v. and light.
Cricri (176) 2014-01-26 9:58
Hi Stephen
Une perspective très réussie par un bon cadrage, les détails des colonnes, les arcades, une lumières et des couleurs superbe aussi, belle réalisation
Belle soirée
ourania (51103) 2014-02-26 13:01
Hello Stephen,
a very well framed view of this elegant portico. You have made great use of the perspectives and the repeating patterns, your picture has amazing depth and is very clear, solid and inviting. The walking couple draw us into the frame too with their movement, the bright exit in the distance makes an effective focal point and the reflection adds interest in the foreground. The soft lighting and the rich, warm colours are superb. Congratulations and thank you!
All the best, have a lovely evening,
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- Date Taken: 2013-09-00
- Categories: Vida Diária, Arquitectura
- Camera: Canon EOS 1100D, Canon 18-55mm EF-S f/3.5-5.6 IS
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Interview: Kobe Bryant's greatest fear? Yup, bees
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- He has taken a bigger role on defense in recent games
LOS ANGELES – He is 34 now, about to play the 1,420th NBA game of his 17-year career, including playoff games, and these days Kobe Bryant conducts long, cordial postgame interviews in front of his locker with his feet in an ice bucket, bags of ice bandaged to both knees and occasionally adorned with a bonus bag of ice, like the one bandaged to his left shoulder Tuesday night.
"There's nothing really troubling physically," Bryant said Wednesday in an exclusive interview with USA TODAY Sports on the eve of a game against the NBA champion Miami Heat.
"Just general 34-year-old soreness."
There's nothing really troubling his basketball game, either.
Just extraordinary 34-year-old excellence.
At an age when most players begin to decline, and playing almost 39 minutes a night, and playing for a team with a 17-21 record, Bryant is having one of the best seasons of his career. He leads the league in scoring at 29.9 points per game. His shooting percentage – 47.8% -- is the best of his career. And, recently, he has been reminding everyone that he can still be an elite defender.
"It's remarkable," Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak said of Bryant's play. "It really is. He's 34, right? I want to be 34."
Despite the Lakers' failure so far to become a championship-caliber team after the additions of Dwight Howard and Steve Nash, Bryant has become more cooperative and relaxed with the local news media, leading to the impression that the famously reserved and sometimes-prickly superstar has become kinder and gentler.
Not so, Bryant said.
"I'm not any kinder than I have been in the past. A lot of it is just perception, how people view me. I think throughout my years of being here, I think people, especially the media, have accepted how I am. You know, the dry humor, the sarcasm, all this other stuff, I think it's just becoming a little more accepted. But I have been much more patient with my teammates in understanding the difficulties of going through this season."
Bryant talked candidly about many subjects -- leadership, this disappointing season, his aches and pains, the ups and downs of Howard, how easy it is for him to score -- and even confessed a single vulnerability when asked if the fact that his free-throw attempts are up indicates he's not afraid to still drive into the lane.
"The only thing I'm afraid of is bees," he said. "I don't like bees. I'm allergic to them."
If the Lakers can keep the bees away, this could become one of Bryant's best seasons statistically while also being one of his most challenging.
"It's the most challenging in terms of trying to figure out which button to push to try to get us turned around, from a leadership perspective," Bryant said. "Physically, it's probably the most taxing one."
Bryant just made it more taxing by agreeing with coach Mike D'Antoni that the team needs him to take on a ball-hawking role at the top of the Lakers much-shredded defense, disrupting point guards or denying the ball to shooting guards, basically gluing himself to the opponents' best perimeter offensive player.
It's something he has done before. He's a nine-time first-team All-Defensive pick. But he hadn't done it recently, and those days seemed over.
Not to Bryant. He knew he could still lock down defensively.
"I knew it was there," he said. "During the summer, you can feel it."
Now Kyrie Irving and Brandon Jennings know it, too. On Sunday, the Lakers ended a six-game losing streak when Irving, the Cleveland Cavaliers' explosive star, averaging 23 points a game, was held mostly by Bryant to 15 in a 20-point Lakers victory. On Tuesday, Bryant did the same to the Milwaukee Bucks' dynamic Jennings, holding him to 12 points, six below his average.
Bryant also produced two of his most efficient offensive games of the year at the same time, hitting a combined 21 of 33 shots for 54 points.
This is age-defying stuff, so what does Bryant's age-defying teammate, point guard Steve Nash, think of it?
"He's our most athletic player still at age, what, 34? Hey, he's still young," Nash, who turns 39 next month, said.
Of Bryant taking on a difficult defensive challenge, Nash said, "When you give him a challenge, he's a better defender. And when you put athleticism and length on smaller players, I can speak from experience, it's difficult. It helps our team on that end of the floor. I think it helps him really be engaged.
"And hopefully, he's finding a lot of comfort in this offense. It's not as difficult for him in some ways. With the efficiency he's playing with, and the athleticism he still has, he should be able to feast."
But can he keep it up, at age 34, playing 39 minutes a game, for the rest of the season?
"I don't know," Bryant said. "I'm in great shape. Physically I feel fine. Obviously, after the games, I'm sore as hell. But I do quite a bit to recover and by the next game, I'm fine."
Taking on the defensive role was a natural for Bryant for two reasons. It's a leadership move, and Bryant, despite his critics in this area, takes his leadership responsibilities seriously. And it's an individual challenge, and nothing gets Bryant pumped up like a challenge.
Maybe at one point in his career he wanted scoring titles, and he won two of them. If the focus on defense costs him a third scoring title, it's of no concern to him.
"I've never been that way," he said. "That's just not in my nature. I'm extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that ... it sounds, well, I don't care how it sounds, to me, scoring comes easy. It's not a challenge to me to win the scoring title because I know I can. The challenge is getting this team through this funk and elevating us to the ultimate level of winning a championship. That's the challenge that excites me."
His leadership came into question recently by Lakers legend Magic Johnson, who declined comment for this story. Bryant shrugged it off.
"I don't pay any attention to that," he said. "Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I'm pretty sure we both know what we're doing."
Kupchak, asked if Bryant is a good leader, paused long and said, "I would say he's a good leader, but he's not the type to go out to lunch with you and put his arm around you. He's an old-school leader. It's follow me and I'll take you where you want to go."
Bryant disagreed with Kupchak's assessment of him as a distant leader.
"That's a misconception," he said. "I drive a hard bargain. That's probably the thing that stands out the most. But it's impossible to drive a hard bargain without first establishing a relationship. He's right in the sense that I'm a taskmaster and I'm going to drive them hard. But you can't drive somebody hard and have them respond to you without having a relationship."
Building a relationship with Howard is a work in process. The serious, intense Bryant and the outgoing, giggly Howard, 27, couldn't be more different in some ways.
Howard, who had back surgery last spring, has been something of a disappointment, not dominating the way the Lakers had hoped. And there was a story earlier this month, denied by all the Lakers, in the New York Daily News that the two almost came to blows after a New Year's Day loss.
"For people who think we're having problems because of losing and they're trying to point the finger at us two, I think it's ridiculous," Howard said.
Maybe it's just a coincidence, but Bryant's defensive ferocity the past two games has been accompanied by two of Howard's best games of the season.
"I think it's helped him to see, 'Look, I will do whatever it takes to win championships,' " Bryant said. "That's how I've been successful. The team needs me to defend? I'm going to defend. If my offense suffers from it, so be it. For him to see that helps him play burden-free. He doesn't feel like he has to put up a certain amount of numbers so people don't criticize him. It helps him to relax and just go out there and say, 'I'm just going to play hard.'
"The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful. And I'm trying to instill in them some of the DNA qualities that I have – being extremely stubborn, being extremely competitive, and getting the job done by any means necessary. No excuses. No poor me. No none of that. It just has to get done."
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All too often we think the advisory process is going really well, when in actuality the client doesn't feel heard or understood and is dissatisfied with the way things are proceeding. That can lead not just to missed opportunities, but to lost business.
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Some advisors create an advisory board to solicit ideas, gripes and comments from their clients. Jennifer Lazarus, principal of Lazarus Financial Planning in Durham, N.C., said she has had success with a client advisory council. "I invited clients who really 'get me' and who epitomize my ideal client," she says. "It makes your best clients feel good that you have asked them for their input."
When I asked how the council helped her as a leader, Lazarus told me, "They help me see what I'm not seeing myself. Their insights have been extraordinary—giving me the right words to convey what I do for them, showing me the way around a mental roadblock, brainstorming solutions to improve the client experience and helping me flesh out a new service I will launch in 2012." (For more advisors' comments about the value of advisory boards, see "Advisors Weigh in on Client Advisory Boards" on AdvisorOne.com.)
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Suppose you want to find out what a wider spectrum of clients are feeling, or you need more candid opinions than they may be willing to express in your presence. In these situations, a client survey can be an excellent tool.
You may want to put together a survey of your own, but unless the sample size is quite small, it's no easy feat to handle the survey dissemination, follow up, analysis and action-step determination that are part of this process. A third-party firm can not only save you time, but provide greater objectivity and a degree of anonymity that may encourage more forthright feedback.
These considerations led me to Advisor Impact Inc., in Toronto. My interview with its president, Julie Littlechild, produced some unexpected insights about polling clients.
Olivia Mellan: Julie, what does your company do?
Julie Littlechild: We help advisors solicit client feedback through a personalized program that includes customized questions and reports, which enables them to create more engaged client relationships.
OM: Why is engagement so valuable?
JL: We've done a lot of research on what drives the deepest and most profitable relationships—"engaged clients," as we call them. They are not only the most satisfied and loyal, but they drive almost all referrals.
We also found that one of the primary drivers in building engagement is client feedback. However, very few advisors actually ask their clients for comments. They may feel they don't have time, or they don't have the expertise to do it well, or there's a bit of a fear factor: They're not sure they want to know the answers.
We can fill that gap with a client audit.
OM: What is a client audit?
JL: This is our term for a client feedback program that is tailored to an individual advisor's needs. Based on their particular objectives, advisors can choose the questions they want to ask.
We develop the survey they send to their clients, and we provide survey reports, along with tools, resources and guidance to help the advisor leverage the information.
For example, one of our reports is called a Personalized Meeting Planner. This allows an advisor to automatically generate an agenda for the next meeting. The agenda will show how satisfied each client is, what they expect in terms of direct contact and reviews, and if they are interested in other services.
This report also shows the advisor's share of each client's wallet. In addition, we ask if the client is comfortable making a referral and confirm whether the client has provided a referral in the past year.
OM: What is the best channel (or channels) for a client survey or audit?
JL: Some advisors feel surveying clients face-to-face puts them on the spot. At times, face-to-face critiques can hurt. Or you may get platitudes: "Everything's fine."
Asking your questions in email or mail through a third party avoids these problems and adds a level of credibility to the process.
OM: Is it possible to handle this process badly?
JL: You could say that any feedback is good feedback, but there's a broad range of value between "It didn't hurt" and "It transformed my business."
We see four common mistakes in advisors' questionnaires:
- Failing to ask what is most important to your clients. Advisors sometimes inquire how satisfied a client is about X, Y and Z, but don't ask how important these things are to the client. For example, they may ask the client to rate the quality of their newsletter, but don't ask how important it is to the client. As a result, they could spend a lot of time and energy fixing something the client really doesn't care about.
- Asking questions that can't be clearly linked to action. Questions need to be meaningful in order to elicit answers you can act on.
- Failing to ask questions that identify new opportunities. Advisors are sometimes so focused on measuring client satisfaction that they forget to ask about other needs that could lead to expansion of the relationship.
- Asking two questions in one. When clients are asked, "How knowledgeable and effective is your advisor?", they don't know if they're supposed to rate knowledge or effectiveness, which means you can't really interpret the results.
OM: How can advisors use this client feedback?
JL: One way to get real value out of the process is to write to all clients, whether they responded to the survey or not, expressing thanks for the feedback and describing any changes that are going to be made as a result. These follow-ups send the message that the advisor takes feedback seriously and is listening carefully to clients.
On an individual client level, the findings can be valuable as the basis for a better, more deeply probing review meeting. The advisor may also be able to capitalize on untapped potential through cross-selling and referrals.
Finally, the survey will help identify a client at risk and determine the reasons why, allowing advisors to decide whether the relationship is salvageable.
What surprises advisors most is how much opportunity an audit can uncover. For example, when an advisor asked his clients whether they had provided a referral to him in the last 12 months, 45% said yes. But the advisor told me he had received referrals from only about 5% of his clients. In other words, many of his clients were making referrals, but those prospects weren't contacting him. As a result of the audit, he could see who had made a referral and could follow up with them.
OM: How regularly should an advisor ask for feedback?
JL: Typically, every 12 to 18 months. It's important to recognize that soliciting feedback is an ongoing process, not a one-time event. It's about communicating to clients that you care all the time. You want to create the expectation that this is how you do business.


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It may have a lovely coat, but what about its personality? Is it
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Is it active, aloof, bold, calm, friendly, intolerant, shy, stubborn, tolerant, or trainable?
Active, aloof, bold, calm, friendly, intolerant, shy, stubborn, tolerant, or trainable?
Psychology researcher Mikel Delgado and her coauthors created a survey to ask people similar questions. They recruited 189 participants, and asked them to rank how much they thought white, tortoiseshell, and orange cats possessed the ten traits above. The study also included black cats and bi-colored cats ("questions about bi-colored cats would show whether the presence of white patches might impact attitudes to cat personality"). The general goal was to find out whether, and how, humans judged cats by their coats.
If you thought the orange cat looked friendly, you're in good company — survey respondents were more likely to attribute friendliness to orange cats than to the other colors (except bi-colored, who are apparently also seen as friendly). The study authors found this a bit surprising, since "depictions of some of the most well-known orange cats in American culture, such as Morris, 'The world's most finicky cat' and Garfield, who is described as lazy and cynical, are not positive." However, it's possible that "the tendency for orange cats to be highly anthropomorphized in advertising and other popular media influences their popularity. For example, both Morris and Garfield are depicted as being able to talk."
White cats, meanwhile, were more likely than others to be seen as aloof, calm, and shy. Tortoiseshell cats were aloof and intolerant. Black cats were just average at everything — no traits stood out as being more commonly applied to them.
Delgado and her coauthors note that these perceptions actually matter to kitties' well-being, since they could influence whether people adopt cats from shelters. They suggest that shelter employees take people's color biases into account and adjust accordingly: for instance, they "may want to promote white and tortoiseshell cats by emphasizing positive personality traits, recognizing that people may hold negative biases about these colors of cats." They could also put up Garfield cartoons to remind people that orange cats can be total jerks.