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Saturday, December 14. 2013Google buys military robot companyIts not often that two of the fairly unrelated areas we watch come together like this....Google has bought the military Robot maker Boston Dynamics, maker of walking robots (we first featured them in 2008 on Broadstuff) - Engagdget:
On reflection I suspect its Google trying to get a fast track on the sort of technology that will make robot cars more plausible (though why they are doing "civilian" robot cars in the first place is also a matter for some head scratching - you just know the military is going to be the first customer). But as Engagdget notes, it may be for something else far more mundane:
Or are we going to be invaded by large walking robotic billboards..... (Hat Tip Mike Butcher) Friday, December 6. 2013Don't Cry, the Beloved CountryThe Onion's Nelson Mandela Obituary Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Rolihlala, his given Xhosa forename, means "troublemaker" by the way ) died yesterday. I've never been a fan of the "Great Man" theory of history, believing that it is systemic - but in this one case, I'd make an exception. There is no need for the Beloved Country to cry, but to rejoice in what he has achieved, not least the prevention of bloody civil war. In my view the principles of Truth and Reconciliation should be made globally mandatory after any conflict. Satire has a marvellous way of telling deep truths via humour, and internet newspaper The Onion sums up Madiba's impact perfectly (above) RIP Madiba (We went to the same university, so I like to think I walked in his footsteps just a tiny bit - mainly to the canteen, I suspect, in my case......) Wednesday, December 4. 2013If data is the new Oil, is Google the new Standard Oil?
We are told fairly frequently these days that data is the new Oil (or not?). If it is, then is Google the new Standard Oil?
To refresh everyone's memories (Wikipedia): Standard Oil Co. Inc. was an American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870 as a corporation in Ohio, it was the largest oil refiner in the world. By 1890, Standard Oil controlled 88 percent of the refined oil flows in the United States.Its controversial history as one of the world's first and largest multinational corporations ended in 1911, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that Standard was an illegal monopoly. In other words, Standard Oil built up a near monopoly position in oil, not unlike Google's near monopoly position in digital data. Like Standard, Google also uses profits in one area (advertising) to offer free services in many other areas, making it very difficult for competition to emerge in those spaces. Opinions are still divided about the breakup of Standard by the way: Some economic historians have observed that Standard Oil was in the process of losing its monopoly at the time of its breakup in 1911. Although Standard had 90 percent of American refining capacity in 1880, by 1911 that had shrunk to between 60 and 65 percent, due to the expansion in capacity by competitors. Numerous regional competitors had organized themselves into competitive vertically integrated oil companies, the industry structure pioneered years earlier by Standard itself. In addition, demand for petroleum products was increasing more rapidly than the ability of Standard to expand. The result was that although in 1911 Standard still controlled most production in the older US regions of the Appalachian Basin (78 percent share, down from 92 percent in 1880), Lima-Indiana (90 percent, down from 95 percent in 1906), and the Illinois Basin (83 percent, down from 100 percent in 1906), its share was much lower in the rapidly expanding new regions that would dominate US oil production in the 20th century. We are certainly seeing China emerge as an independent digital data region, and othes are splitting off various segments of the digital data mining and refining business. It remains to be seen whether the expected rapid growth in digital data moves at such a pace that Google can no longer supply it all. That will probably be the acid test in the Digital Oil business. Interestingly, after the breakup, bits of Standard slowly got together again - Two of the resulting companies were Jersey Standard ("Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey"), which eventually became Exxon, and Socony ("Standard Oil Co. of New York"), which eventually became Mobil. They are now Exxon-Mobil. Other Standard spin offs re-combined to form Amoco and Chevron. Microsoft, came under antitrust investigation for being inherently too large for market competition. The only company since the breakup of Standard Oil that was broken up like Standard Oil was AT&T, and as with the breakup of Standard Oil, many of the "Baby Bells" ended up merging together after changes in regulations and technology, with one of them eventually buying AT&T and adopting the AT&T name. But, little surprise that Google is ramping up its lobbyist engine in Washington, as reported today: Google Inc. is moving its Washington office closer to Capitol Hill after spending $18.2 million on lobbying, more than Northrop Grumman Corp. and enough to rank the technology company as the eighth-biggest advocacy spender. Google is one company that understands that those that forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Monday, December 2. 2013Amazon Reinvents Santa Claus
As part of our monitoring the Internet of Flying Things, news just in that Amazon is thinking of delivery drones (see BBC video below), and its 1st of December not 1st of April
There are a few inconvenient truths for now, however: - Most countries aviation regulation authorities are very against licencing civil/domestic non piloted drones, at best its lots of accidents waiting to happen, at worst its a snoopers charter (plus a lot of accidents waiting to happen) - and these are on the big end, one of these through your windscreen would be no joke. Still, its a sign of the things to come. No doubt early customers will pay a lot for very fast delivery. Longer term, who needs elves and reindeer when you have robots and drones. Or Santa Claus when you have a one-click-to-buy patent and a website. Broadstuff understands the first Amazon drones will be called Dancer, Prancer, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolf.... Social Business and the McKinsey 7S ModelMcKinsey 7S model - annoying alliterations and all Ever since our last Patchwork Elephant conference, I've been playing around with an overall framework to think about Social Business, and have found the old McKinsey 7S model quite useful, as it forces thought about both the "soft" and "hard" areas I see in SB. Bad news it was somewhat shot down after its failure in "In Search of Excellence" but I think that was due to the authors looking only at the past, not seeing businesses as dynamic systems (a separate but probably related discussion for another post). Anyway, the model is shown above, some thoughts are below: Hard Systems Strategy: What is the organization's strategy seeking to accomplish, and how does the organization plan to use its resources and capabilities to deliver that?
Structure: How is the organization organized, and what are the reporting and working relationships? How are decisions made? How is information shared (formal and informal channels) across the organization? Social tools/methods can potentially move information more quickly through an organisation than previous tools, and can connect to and from both formal and informal channels Systems: What are the primary business and technical systems that drive the organization? Social technologies are emerging, at present they tend to be "point of use" – the challenge is to integrate them to each other Soft Systems Style: What is the management/leadership style like? Are there real teams functioning within the organization or are they just nominal groups? What behaviours, tasks and deliverables does management/leadership reward? Social technologies/methods force a real change in behaviour, both from the managers – and the managed. Staff: What is the size of the organization? Are there gaps in required capabilities or resources? What is the plan to address those needs? Economics of modern work mean attention to multi skilling, multi location working, associates not employees etc Skills: What skills are required to deliver the core products and/or services? Are these skills sufficiently present and available? How are skills monitored, assessed, and improved? There is increasing evidence that Social skills are desired by customers, and can create competitive advantage Cornerstone - Shared Values Shared Values – What is the mission of the organization, and what is the vision to get there? What are the ideal versus real values and how do the values play out in daily life? How deeply rooted is this culture, and what real impact does it have? Shared Values help to synchronise decisions, ensure that everything is "pointing in the same direction"/"on the same page" – they improve operating efficiency We also see the benefit in Social Business in solving the following issues Global versus local company culture, ensuring common understanding is key as the culture of global organisations may be interpreted differently by employees based internationally A business that doesn't "walk the talk" however, will soon lose any benefits the above accrues. The culture has to be ingrained, not grafted on for convenience. Discuss..... Friday, November 29. 2013The Internet of Siloed ThingsInternet of Things - Broadsight's simple value chain I gave 2 talks in 2 recent conferences (its been Conference Season in November, hence blogging dearth) on developments in the Internet of Things world. One was the overall industry, one was based around open source. My overall impression from both conferences is that the Internet of Things is being held up by obfuscation and confusion - every single special interest group/alliance/manufacturer/etc is asserting they are a critical part of any solution (It was ever thus, IPTV was the same in the early 2000's for example). Of course the market eventually sorts out who is real and who isn't, but it has the effect of making a lot of potential customers sit on their hands and wait until more clarity emerges. This is especially true with networked systems where the cost of device installation or removal is vastly more than the cost of the devices. So in a nutshell, here is my view of the IoT state-of-play as it now stands - referring to the Broadsight "4 box model" of the IoT above: Input Systems There are a very wide variety of devices that will want to connect to this IoT, as noted in the diagram's left hand box. Many are very different to each other. There are few agreed standards for connecting devices of a similar nature, never mind those of a different type. This massively reduces the utility and increases the cost. Distribution Systems As above, there is such a plethora of competing technologies that don't Inter-Network easily - as one analyst pointed out to me, the industry is currently better termed "The Siloes of Things" as there is very little Internet happening if many players can avoid it. Aggregation Systems Yet again. the aim seems to be to have as much walled gardening going on as possible. Everyone believes in standard platforms, so long as its got them in the centre. Even the open source community is not immune from this, open source does not automatically mean inter-operational end to end. Not all of this is deliberate, some is just necessary - for example, given no standard data taxonomies exist, to make workable systems people just have to get on with it and define their own. End User Environment Here too there is confusion, with multiple players asserting their right to be put in front of the end user, though of course many systems "end user" will be bots, decision algorithms and so on. To an extent the difficulty with defining standards upstream is due to the huge variety of end applications, all requiring very different end to end system designs. So what might the IoT endgame be? In our view the final endgame is a set of common standards, but other industries suggets that there will be several moves in the dance before we get there. Here are some predicted steps: 1. Some siloes will take off early There are some industry segments where the value that can be created and/or cost saved are too great to ignore, and its worth acting soon. As the only viable end to end solutions today are usually proprietary, these will be used and potentially ripped out (or hybridised) later. Diverse taxonomies will also appear (see the development of the ODI industry into multiple ODI's) at various times for various applications 2. The Open Source industry will take a long time to deliver end to end solutions As a movement the OS advocates have extremely high creativity and ability. As an industry they they tend to operate disjointedly, building point solutions. The IoT needs highly reliable End to End solutions, and the semi anarchic nature of this industry will mean that this takes a long time - unles a major body forces the speed (cf DARPA with Inter-Networking technologies, or the EU with 2G Mobile standards) and then gives it away for free/mandates a standard 3. Some "poster child" use cases are phantoms, it will take off in unexpected areas Two poster children are the Automated Home (see our satire on Mrs Fridge), and the Internet of Health. In our view these will be slow to take off as in the former case there is no compelling reason (its been possible for a decade, no one has really bothered) and in the latter, the issue is a combination of data confidentiality and the very severe consequences if systems are not working properly. What we expect is niche use cases - home security rather than home automation, or operating on the margins - in my opinion the "porn case" (dedicated users pushing the boundaries) in this space is coming from the Quantified Self movement, and what they drive will probably be the early Internet of Health applications. The real early applications will, in our view, be twofold: - Classic (Geoffrey) Moore "over the Chasm" industries - areas of high returns on any efforts; so the issues of workability, reliability, standards etc are small beer compared to the potential benefits. High value plant and processes or very large reduction is labour costs are obvious areas. 4. A Standard (or two) eventually emerge Whether it is de Facto (a market dominance emerges, like the DOs operating system or LAMP protocols in the web space) or de Jure (a set of standards is universally adopted) remains to be seen. Looking at all teh parties jostling for position, somehow we suspect it will be de Facto. 5. Everyone will build a Middleware Where complexity and non standardisation proliferates, then the temptation is to build a middle ware layer that just translates all the functions of disparate systems and presents them as a common UI. Only problem is, everyone wants to own the middleware layer so there will be multiple non-collaborational middlewars 6. Privacy/Hackability is going to be a major issue There are two things that will drive this - firstly, many of the projecst mooted seem to be about building things because it is possible, rather than because it's what users/citizens/employees etc want, and these systems can impinge on privacy. Also, many of the early devices sare being built with a sort of naive assumption that just because no oane has hacked them yet (abeacuse they don't exist/there is no value etc) no one will. As any securty system expert will tell you, increasing the Internet by 50 billion odd devices increases the security risk by the same amount In essence I think we are in for a few years of smoke, mirrors and obfuscation and if I had to bet on a first "Proper Internet" of things. it will be largely "over the top" and using as few systems as possible. Monday, November 11. 2013Dulce et Decorum Est.......or not. But if we cannot remember the past, we are doomed to repeat it. And some modern trends look worryingly like trends in the 1910's and 1930s. Sunday, November 10. 2013Innovation in these Financial Times - Part 1
Its been a very busy last few weeks what with conference season. work and whatnot so stories ave been piling up in the Broadfstuff inbox. First to go out then is the notes from the FT Innovate Conference. I found this year the best one of all those I have been to over the years as I think its really beginning to sink in that Innovation does NOT mean doing what you did last year, just a bit better, if you want to survive in the modern world order - especially if you a re a high wage, low growth OECD country.
Anyways, notes from Day One here. As per usual, I select what really struck me as new/novel. Coca Cola - Innovation is increasingly about getting products to the remoter areas, and finding new products to push through the channels ( aka fuller understanding of the consumer.....). Werner Vogels, Amazon The talks was on the Amazon Cloud - Pay as you Go, stick to core competencies, hire flexibly when you need something, great for small companies etc etc but really its basically an argument for the asset rental model. As Nick Carr predicted, someone had to do it, I'm more interested that it remains Amazon in the forefront rather than Telco or a Hoster after several years. I guess they already have the asset base doing something else, so can cost optimise retail hosting at offset prices. Vogels says Amazon Cloud operation has No CIO, No R&D, no innovation teams etc - but the business units are under pressure to improve performance. Sounds like its still small, or it runs on top of an Amazons infrastructure platform that is managed elsewhere. Having been part of large scale Web Hosting in my time, no way do I believe that you can run something like this without a CIO, a large Ops staff and a control room that looks like Cape Canaveral somewhere in the architecture CapGemini report on Cloud based disruption Report over here 3 main Cloud drivers: Alec Ross, on various trends - Data is the raw material of the information age, as land was for the agricultural economy - No shift of power to east, shift of power to data owners - from heirarchy to heterarchy (question from me.....how does one prevent robber barons capturing all the data) - Wide difference in attitudes to entrepreneurial activity, Europe lowest. Too much "grey twilight" in Europe - nothing ventured, nothing lost. Quotes Disraeli - success is the child of audacity - The best strategy for any society is one that reduces barriers to participation of women in the economy - 50% of brainpower (is this true - see more money chasing same things) - But girls fall away from STEM very rapidly post 16 y/o - Need to manage pregnancy and childrearing as part of corporation operation, ditto mentoring - Next generation will be a very tough time for middle class - need to learn how to change with the winds, learn new skills etc. Don't havevto be an entrepreneur, but need to know how to work for them. - The Cloud is just another means of driving labour costs down. If Europe puts up privacy requirements they will go elsewhere. - Government procurement via lowest cost provider is like buying cheap clothes for a big date - Government is poor at surgical intervention, good at big picture intervention eg allow SEs to grow to MEs. - Baby boomers are slowing innovation, high youth countries are increasing innovation. Robotics is being driven by needs of old people care Gerd Leonard, on various trends 3 - 5 years out Privacy/Security - Faustian bargain, we are increasingly reneging now - market in tools emerging - biometrics future? GL thinks there will be limited adoption until it is settled who owns the data and the exchange - digital bill of rights. Technologies not backed up by social contract won't take off Increasing automation will take rote knowledge jobs away eg Gerds bookkeeper with Xero. Machines will start to do our thinking Increasing issue around trusting the facts Shell - looks at 30 years horizon, big infrastructure plays tend to do this How to force thinking in scenarios - wildcard game (similar to our high sensitivity analysis) Existing players try to use current tools (eg legislation, regulation) to put off short term changes (online music example) China - safer? GL thinks they will have to play by global village rules Opportunities - efficiencies, solutions to major issues UK is the most tracked country - why? We are a more dysfunctional model, UK bases itself on what US used to do. Use of data in organisations - the quantified employee - but does it measure the qualified employee. Qualified employee is "economical with the truth" Can you use this to create a super-intelligent business, but need permission and payback Startups Session XL - hard to get data out of old systems, not always accurate in company need to think out the box, size matters but so does innovation and speed Burberry - some bits very innovative, some bits startup HSBC - no shortage of ideas, how do you make innovation happen Shell - good at innovation in own business, harder to work with emergent non traditional models Ericsson - ex startup guy, how to get mentality in large companies Independent guy - Reputation management Decoded (Facilitators) - teach people to code in a day, give people ability to code, changes mindsets of people. Argues that anyone can be one...seems to me they are selling a dream of a startup stereotype though (Developer Rockstar, big spiel around salary jump) Genesis was people who can't code/do computing in companies desperately feeling they need to know. Is this due to structural problem in UK culture/education. Demand is global. How should innovation happen - everybody, or in a department. Can you manage it in, or can you just cultivate it. Challenge for large Cos is affording the huge number of wasted work and deaths in an innovative startup ecosystem - what are legal risks of deploying failures Do you need to have a VC mentality in management, bet on probabilities Burberry - councils with younger members (more involved in detail, digital natives) to think about solutions Kimberly Holmes XL - Big Data Big Data is like teenage sex - lots of talk, not a lot of action. But no currency in talking about small data anymore Companies who use data driven models are more likely to be correct - models show 6% increase in profit, 5% in productivity. Big data has real ROIs You can't see patterns in small chunks, eg lots of datapoint arrayed correctly is a movie Plan for the Big Data, it will come - too many wins for people not to use it - Billy Bean, Moneyball example. Knew he couldnt win otherwise. Biggest risk is doing nothing XL is first company in space to have centralised analytical team, big benefits quickly. Aim is not to outrun the bear, but to outrun the others. Execution is an issue, eg - Correlation is not causality - need subject matter experts to interpret Innovation in these Financial Times - Part 2
Notes from Day 2 of the FT Innovate Conference
Hal Gregersen Survey - 7000 respondents, mapped behaviour of innovators. Some points on characteristics: - Ask disruptive questions ie questions they dont know answers to. Drucker - need to know what questions to ask. Other points - Innovation is a Combinatorial Play (Einstein allusion) - putting new combinations/permutation Lynda Grattan, LBS London Business School - Future of Work trends - 32 trends on future of work (book The Shift - website Hotspots), 10 big ones now: 1. People going on line - growth of online 2x faster than growth of PC usage ie hugely mobile 2. Connectivity drives brain cycles available, 14yo poor Pakistani girl wrote exams for Stanford online, not possible 5 yrs ago. India does have a way to get this talent identified at 13 (does Britain?). Baby boomers did not have to compete with the global talent pool. Lecturer - one of her kids did Medicine, "he is fine". Business school books increasingly not US/EU focus. 3. Innovation is created in 2 structures - people who are experts getting together - diverse people getting together - Globalization/online collaboration will drive huge innovation. 4. Data being available online means brains anywhere can see data these day and work/ learn/make impact. 5. Hollowing out of work in the medium skill area (used to have 1/3 splitbof skilled, medium skill and unskilled. Outsourcing is moving to more skilled work now. Rise of the Specialist, and it's becoming an Art based world. Low Skill jobs will also always be salary limited by new immigrants 6. urbanization is increasing, the dream of electronic cottages is not true (is this due to - but not all cities are the same, seeing creative clusters (patents filed very spiky by city). Specialists need to be near each other. great cities need to attract great people, need great schools, lifestyle etc 7. Demographics/Generation Groups - Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y etc are different. Also look at demographic pyramid. Huge numbers of unemployed educated men equals massive instability. There is no demographic dividend if you don't educate people. Kids today will live to 100, will have to work to 83 to pay for pension at 50% - impossible. What are demographics of companies, and how does that impact things? 8. Huge rise of developing world middle class while hollowed out middle class in West is disappearing. 9. Need to build intangible assets/resilience - educational - social - vitality/emotional No signals in western countries on what kids should study - art history will no longer get you a job. Have to be educated to be able to transition. 10. Climate change is a fact (even if it isn't, but perception = reality) driving lots of silliness. Other notes Social Media is a huge enabler. Patents are a poor measure of Innovation,also look at R&D budgets Panel on New Era Workforce 1. Strategos - founded 20 years ago, Gary Hamell. Innovation - not enough to get talented people, but need to follow through when they want to do stuff or they will bugger off/lose motivation. 2. Grundfos 2 options globally to deal with global differences: - Franchisers recruit locally - Corporations try and mandate global cultures Pumps are not cutting edge.....but are 10% of energy consumption in world. Message to potential recruits is they want to contribute to sustainable world via innovations - very attractive message to talented people. Be crystal clear on how Grundfos changes the world, motivates and inspires. Key to getting output is leadership - giving people freedom, setting up communities that share knowledge. 3. Funding Circle Allows investors to lend directly to small busineses, c £180m throng it so far, recently started in US. 4. Index Ventures Real shortage is execution ability. Looking for Doers, ideas is not enough. Isn't this just for small startups? Bias is energy over wisdom, youth over experience - main tell though is making stuff happen with severe capital constraints. Grundfos - measure young on output, older on targets - can't use one model for all. Thing you do for all is create common understanding of the why. 2 types of innovation - exploration and exploitation. Exploitation only goes to local optima, very exciting as feedback loops are faster, but need to keep eye on exploration. Questions Q. Conference focusses on Technology innovation,what about Management innovation (are despots like Jobs better than democrats - tent pole companies tend to be led by despots)? A. Too much focus here on former. Q. Source of the Skilled Workforce? A. Grundfos - Universities are not preparing people for future, are still in the industrial paradigm. Not seeing speed of change in Education market. This is not being debated in public forum, esp how to have high skills in West? A. LSE - universities can never produce the workers that companies need Now! Can only play on longer trends. Companies need to do some of the training themselves,again,as theyonce did. A. Strategos - kids need broader exposure than narrow pipe courses A. Index - many small startups in Europe are people who have worked with each other awhile, impossible to do in Valley - Cohesiveness as competitive advantage. Some points from Samsung Experience of Innovation and reserach done 3 Pillars: Crisis Awareness (6 months) Creativity & Innovation bridges gap between 6 month and 10 years Future Thinking (10 years) Crisis today is in delivery, usually because ambition is too high, funding is too low. Lockheed Skunkworks was very well resourced and funded. Another Crisis is in consumer research, it's too facile. Ethographic research is very expensive, consumer research can be lied to. Big Data is like Big Oil, to be useful it needs to be separated into constituent parts. Using Black Swan Co to help with data mining. Biggest issue is Experience. Different people see different pictures eg human researcher, consumer researcher, technologist, commercial analyst all see world differently, need all to experience everything. Anybody can buy the process of innovation, what is hard is the management knowing when to persevere vs drop something - entrepreneurs good at that, companies less so. What are your peoples experience? Users? Process alone gives you gadgets, need experience to get innovative. Experience is a flow chain from product via company, partners and consumers, very few see across this value chain. Kickstarter is a great pre-test of innovation of "virtual products", great way to test viabiliity of products before you've made them. Also being used as "moral patents". Web being used to float virtual product. "Experience Farm" - pooling innovation between non competing companies. What is impact on IP though? IP should only be to protect investment in innovation. Innovation in Developing Markets Singapore - is small, has to be high value innovation, has to be nimble, multi racial/culture. 3.5% of GDP in public innovation. See integration of design to manufacturing/technology. Nation is doubling support for small companies. Set up institute of consumer insight. Asia is a Different market, different people - even to skin and hair type. A lot of US/EU data mining/biz model assumptions just don't work Latin America In last 10 years 20% of LA consumers became middle class, while there is 15% population growth = 160% market growth. Huge upgrade in quality of life. What is signal of cost/benefit - in EU it's the product, in LA it's the brand. Older technologies in US/EU still very attractive, also adoption of stuff by demographic is very different owing to culture. Favela people have very high hygiene/beauty standards, poor people buying US Middle Class stuff (signal of status as they can't afford more expensive signals) Big lesson is that OECD HQ stuff won't work in these markets, needs local change ie innovation. Eg hygiene habits differ, need different products. There are infrastructure gaps in Asia and LA, but it differs by country so different products have different problems. Quite easy in large companies like P&G to see same habits in different country, need to join the dots between products that work and similar countries - key is analysing data. Tuesday, October 15. 2013Ada Lovelace day - RIP Elaine Morgan
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, celebrating women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. Elaine Morgan died this year, she helped develop a fascinating thesis of a part of human evolutuion, and was a very talented woman.
On her thesis - like many I was curious about why, of all the land mammals, only humans and pigs have little body hair and do have subcutaneous fat, whereas all sea living mammals have them. Morgan wrote about the Aquatic Ape theory. (Wikipedia): Morgan first became drawn into scientific writing when reading popularizers of the savannah hypothesis of human evolution such as Desmond Morris. She described her reaction as one of irritation because the explanations were largely male-centered. For instance, she thought that if humans lost their hair because they needed to sweat while chasing game on the savannah that did not explain why women should also lose their hair as, according to the savannah hypothesis, they would be looking after the children. On re-reading Desmond Morris's The Naked Ape she encountered a reference to a hypothesis that humans had for a time gone through a water phase, the so-called aquatic ape hypothesis. She contacted Morris on this and he directed her to Alister Hardy. Her first book The Descent of Woman (1972) was originally planned to pave the way for Hardy's more academic book, but Hardy never published his book. I remember being delighted when I read "The Descent of Woman" in the late 70's, as it was clear it was both a fascinating hypothesis and tweaked the nose of the existing heirarchy. The theory is still at the sidelines of scientific thought (though there is still no good explanation of why we and pigs are more like Dolphins in so many ways), but good for Elaine for squaring up to the scientific establishment and rocking it. She was also a fascinating character and quite the Renaissance woman (Wikipedia again) :
RIP Elaine, Renaissance Woman in an over specialised age.
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The women's 4x100m and 4x400m relay teams will run for the NCAA Championship
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The NCAA East Preliminary Round will be contested from Thursday through Saturday, May 23-25 in Greensboro, N.C.
Peake's Time in the 400 meters was 1.2 Seconds Faster than the Previous CCU Record
2012 Track & Field: Won the high jump at the Winthrop Twilight with a season-best height of 6'8.75" ... Runner-up in the high jump at the North Florida Invitational and placed sixth at the Big South Championships ...Finished the season ranked fourth in the conference in the high jump ... Notched a time of 24.67 in the 200 meters, his lone meet in the event ... Named to 2011-12 Big South Presidential Honor Roll.
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September 10, 2005, Richmond, Ind. - The Tigers built a 4-0 first-half advantage and withstood three straight Earlham goals on the way to a 5-3 win at Earlham. The win lifts the Tigers' record to 2-0-1 headed into Sunday's game at Wittenberg.
Blake Porter scored twice in the opening eight minutes with the first goal assisted by Criag Lippincott and the second coming on a double assist by Lippincott and John Cross. Lippincott made it 3-0 at 19:55 on an assist from Nick Noel before Noel capped the first-half scoring at 30:03 with an unassisted goal.
Earlham's Leland Gyr scored in the final minute of the first half before Victor Anciano closed the gap to 4-3 with a pair of second-half scores. Lippincott's penalty kick at 87:28 concluded the scoring.
Lippincott finished with two goals and two assists with Porter adding two scores, while Noel totaled a goal and an assist.
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In meditation on the Word of God and in following it there is great reward—greater than much fine gold.
In meditation on the Word of God and in following it there is great reward—greater than much fine gold.
Don't live for comforts, live for justice and compassion.
We are saved only by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus. It's the kind of truth that either makes converts or makes enemies.
We are not called to win; we are called to witness.
For people who desire the salvation of sinners, the magnifying of God's glory, and the vindication of Jesus' name, this is the way to pray.
Faking faith in the presence of God is a fearful thing.
God wants us to pray for signs and wonders today.
The preciousness of spiritual power is that it is finally in God's control, not ours.
We are not big. But we are part of something big.
What does building a new worship building have to do with real worship?
A major threat to the Christian movement is whatever threatens the ministry of the Word.
How did Jesus destroy the temple? Why did saying so cost Stephen his life?
The greatest news in all the world is in order to make you happy and glorify Jesus, God raised him from the dead to reign forevermore.
God is not eager to punish; he is eager to forgive. But there is an end to his patience.
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God is more powerful than all the gods and he is more powerful than all the nations. On God's side you cannot lose.
God makes persecution and suffering serve the unstoppable mission of the church.
There is a "faith" or a "believing" that does not save, even though it rises in the presence of true preaching and true miracles.
Luke expects the receiving of the Holy Spirit to be a real, identifiable experience, not just a logical inference from a human act of will.
God has yet more wonders to show us in the work of evangelism and world missions than we can imagine.
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God's design in converting Paul is to give you hope for yourself and for the people you want to see converted.
The steadfast love of the Lord has been the same through all the changes of the last 120 years.
Something is wrong with a private God. But if our God is great, we go public with our worship.
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One of the reasons we invest our lives in some insignificant ways is that we never become still enough to let the great realities hit us.
If you want the Spirit's power in your life, make Jesus the center of your life.
The grace of God does not spare his people suffering in this age, but rather uses suffering to bring people to himself.
If we stay with Jesus, we win, and if we oppose him, we lose.
God is not aloof or passive or indecisive. He is a searching and saving God, a God on a mission.
Everything, without exception, has to do with God, and gets its main meaning from God.
Jesus frees us from sin, which is one of seven reasons for why you should trust him.
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Lancia Stratos at the Concours d' Elegance of America outside Detroit. The Stratos is a rare Italian rally homologation from the 1970s.. Its striking design was penned by Bertone, and its power came from the same 2.4L Ferrari V6 found in the 246 Dino. Weighing just 2100lbs it made the most of its 192hp, with racing versions winning the World Rally Champioship in 1974, 1975, and 1976. A total of 492 Stratos' were produced in total. This is only the 2nd one I have ever seen in person, enjoy the pics.


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September 6th, 2013 Kelly Forrister - Staff ContributorCategories | Getting Things Done | Implementation
When I was first learning GTD, I remember it took me a while to understand the gap between project outcomes (the finish line) and next actions (what's next). Where do those go? How do I not lose them? What gets me back to them? I recall asking David Allen one day, "What reminds you to buy that plane ticket for that trip 3 months from now? You're not going to buy it now, and it doesn't go on a next actions list if you can't do it yet, so what's your trigger?" His two-word reply, "Weekly Review."
That was many years ago, but it made a lasting impression on me that:
1. David had a process to make sure he'd see it
2. It was parked in a leak-proof system he trusts
Here's how I work that myself:
Example: I am attending workshop in December
Outcome on my Project list: Attend Photography Workshop – due 12/5/13
Next Action on my @Computer list: Register for Photography Workshop on @Computer
This is a pretty simple project right now, from what I know, but what's in the "gap" between outcome and next action is to book my flight. I'm not going to book it until about a month before hand. So I have a couple of choices:
1. Trust seeing the project on my Projects list in my Weekly Review to trigger me to ask, "What's next?" (only works if I am doing weekly reviews of course)
2. Put a calendar trigger/tickler 4 weeks prior telling me to buy the ticket (only works if I'm looking at my calendar daily)
The gap could also be called your project plans, notes, ideas or future actions. Doesn't matter what you call it or where you put it (really!), as long as you have a process to get back to it and you trust where you are putting it.
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On Thursday, The Canadian Press ran a story about an Edmonton teacher who was suspended for giving zeros for incomplete work.
And if that didn't make your jaw drop, he feared a second teacher would also be met with the same fate.
The suspended teacher was disciplined last month after he refused to follow school policy that forbids teachers from handing out zeros for work or tests not done, the story says. It goes on to say that school policy states the mark not be counted and the student be expected to make up the work.
That's exactly how we should teach our children, isn't it? Let's teach them that every time in life they feel they simply don't want to do something, they're off the hook.
Heck, let's give them a second chance! And even if it takes double the time, let's give them the same grade as the student who worked so hard to pass in his/her assignment on time, or showed up for that test they so dreaded.
That's not the way it works in the real world.
That is a terrible thing to teach our children – the very people we are going to rely on in the coming years. When we're no longer able to give them handouts, then what?
We've taken "fair" to a whole new level, and perhaps with good intentions, but is it going as planned?
Students are marked differently these days, they're moved through the grades when they should have been held back – and do we all really think the best way to help children feel included is by not giving them failing grades?
Part of the benefits of our school years is growing as individuals, not just learning.
We need to sit outside the class and feel ashamed for being sent there – it makes us learn right from wrong.
We need to want to keep up with the physically fit children in gym class – it helps us learn the importance of physical activity.
Students need to learn that if they didn't put in the effort their peers did, then they do not deserve a passing grade.
It sounds harsh, but it's reality.
We're raising a new generation that will never know the value of hard work, or the satisfaction of seeing it pay off. Graduating high school, successfully making it through post-secondary, and landing a good job requires a tremendous amount of work, and seeing it through is one of life's greatest lessons.
Once you've taken off that book bag to trade it in for a car, house, bills and responsibility, that's when the reality will become too much. God knows if you decide not to pay your bills, you won't get an extension, a pat on the back, and a bright, shiny, gold star sticker with an A+.
If we really want our children to feel good about themselves during their school years and part of the class, let's focus on organized sport that's affordable for each of them.
Why not bring back the school uniform – if they all look the same, how could they bully based on looks? If they all look the same, how could they determine whose family might have more money than theirs?
School teaches you to read, write, spell, add, multiply and subtract, but it also prepares you for life.
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SATURDAY, April 2, 1881--9 a. m.The Lieutenant Governor, ex-officio, President of the Senate, took the chair at 9 o'clock.
The reading of the Secretary's journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.
Leaves of absence were obtained for several Senators till Monday noon, till Tuesday, and later.
Mr. COMPTON from the Special Committee thereon, returned Section 177 of the bill [S. 351] concerning the settlement and distribution of decedents' estates, recommending a substitute therefor.
"The Court may make allowance to such executor or administrator when he makes his report in partial or final statement for his services as the Court thinks just and reasonable, including expenses in the discharge of his duties, and a reasonable attorney's fee when he employs an attorney, but in no case shall such attorneys' fees be included in the allowance to such executor or administrator for his personal services."
The substitute was adopted.
Mr. COMPTON moved to amend Section 159 by adding thereto among preferred claims, as item 6, these words: "A sum not exceeding $50 for wages due any employe for work and labor performed for decedent within two months prior to his death."
Mr. BELL favored the amendment. The bankrupt law in this country and in England always preferred this class of claims.
Mr. TRAYLOR is satisfied the emergency to apply this provision would not occur in one case out of 500.
Mr. CHAPMAN insisted there was no right to administer the estate of a decedent so as to change the character of the obligations made during the lifetime of the deceased. Presumably a man's life is of more value to him than anything else, and so the claims for medicine and medical attendance are always preferred claims.
Mr. VAN VORHIS thought under this amendment laboring men will get their money earlier than otherwise, and with that view would favor the amendment.
Mr. HENRY had no objection to its being made the sixth item, but objected to its being made fifth. He made a motion to that effect.
Mr. COMPTON so changed his amendment.
The amendment was agreed to.
Mr. BUNDY proposed to amend so as to allow the executor or administrator to pay a claim he knows is just and right without placing the same on the appearance docket.
Mr. MENZIES insisted the creditor should have the right to a record to avoid any after overhauling
Mr. TRAYLOR opposed the amendment. Claimants employ no attorney, usually, and the administrator sometimes without proper inquiry pays more than is just. For instance, payments made on notes and not credited. The creditor will accept all the administator will pay, as a general thing.
Mr. VIEHE believed all claims should be filed in the Clerk's office so they may be subjected to inspection by all parties interested.
Mr. HENRY reninded Senators that the administrator was responsible on his bond.
The amendment was rejected.
The bill was ordered engrossed for the third reading.
On motion by Mr. CHAPMAN, the bill [H. R. 247] in relation to satisfaction of mortgages was read the first time and referred to the Judiciary Committee.
On motion by Mr. VOYLES, the House amendments to his 3 per cent. fund distribution bill [S. 72] were concurred in.
On motion by Mr. KRAMER, the bill [H. R. 51] to authorize Trustees to purchase school books for their own Townships, towns or cities, was read the first time.
On motion by Mr. BUNDY, the bill [H. R. 273] to legalize the acts of officers of Ridgeville, Randolph County, was read the second time.
On motion by Mr. RISTINE, the bill [H. R. 359] to aid the United States coast and geological sur- page: 123[View Page 123] vey in the State of Indiana, was read the first time.
On motion by Mr. GRAHAM, the bill [H. R. 367--see pages 225, 232, and 237] concerning procedure in criminal cases was taken up. By direction of the Lieutenant Governor, the Clerk read only such sections as are amended or as embrace new matter.
The Committee amendment to Section 4, proposing to strike out the words "counsel or advice," the perpetration of an offense in another State, being read-
Mr. HENRY opposed the amendment.
Mr. COMSTOCK favored its adoption.
The report was concurred in.
On motion of Mr. BROWN, the bill was ordered to be read section by section, the Committee amendments as they occur to be first considered.
On motion of Mr. BROWN, Section 12, declaring that "When a public offense has been committed on the boundary of two or more Counties, or so near the same that it is uncertain on which side thereof the offense was committed, the jurisdiction is in either County,' was stricken out.
Section 14, allowing jurisdiction over any public offense committed on railway trains in any county through which the train passes, was also stricken out, on recommendation of the Committee.
Mr. CHAPMAN moved to strike out Section 13, authorizing prosecutions for carrying game in violation of law.
Mr. BROWN moved to refer the section to a Committee with instructions to amend so as to apply to game killed in this State, etc.
This motion was agreed to, and the Lieutenant Governor made the Committee to consist of Messrs. Brown, Chapman and Wilson.
On motion by Mr. MENZIES, Section 23 was amended so as to require prosecutions for the desecration of the Sabbath to be commenced within six months after the commission of the offense, instead of one year, as the present law stands.
A Committee amendment to Section 31, reducing the time a fugitive from justice shall be retained in custody awaiting the arrival of an officer from another State or Territory, from six months to ninety days, was concurred in.
Sections 26, 27 and 28 were referred to a special Committee, viz., Messrs. Viehe, Brown and Chapman.
The word "substantially" was stricken out of Line 1, Section 37: where it occurs twice in Section 51; in Line 1, of Section 52: in Line 1, of Section 57; in Line 1, of Section 58.
Mr. VIEHE moved to strike out Section 37, embracing a simple form of complaint.
Mr. HENRY objected--many such complaints are filed by persons but little acquainted with the forms of law.
Mr. URMSTON favored the motion to strike out. The results from following forms have frequently been productive of trouble, and many cases have failed in consequence.
Mr. GRUBBS opposed the motion to strike out.
Mr. WILSON gave considerations in favor of the motion.
Mr. BROWN cited authorities to sustain his position that this section was useless. The Legislature for twenty-five years has left it to the pettifogger or Justice of the Peace to define the form of complaint for sureties of the peace.
The motion to strike out was rejected.
On motion by Mr. BROWN, the word "substantially" in the first line of Section 37 was stricken out.
On motion by Mr. HENRY, Section 46, requiring Trustees to notify the Prosecuting Attorney to appear in all cases of surety of the peace, was stricken out.
Mr. MENZIES moved to strike out Section 60, requiring Justices to give the defendant an opportunity to employ counsel.
The motion was agreed to.
Mr. GRAHAM moved to amend Section 61, so it shall be optional with Justices to recognize witnesses in the same manner as criminals.
Mr. CHAPMAN opposed this motion. Witnesses may be neighbors to the Justice, and unless the law is imperative the people may suffer.
The motion to amend was rejected.
Mr. W1LSON moved to strike from the same section the clause requiring witnesses to be recognized for their appearance at the Circuit or other Courts.
Mr. MENZIES could see no harm from allowng the section to stand as is.
The amendment was rejected.
On motion by Mr. GRUBBS, the House amendments to Mr. Kahlo's Cass County Circuit Court bill [S. 366] were concurred in.
Mr. GRUBBS moved to take up the bill [H. R. 124] concening the sales of property by infants.
Mr. MENZIES objected. That bill proposes a radical change in the law of infancy, and should not be considered except in a full Senate and after a full and fair discussion.
On motion by Mr. GRUBBS, it was made the special order for Monday at 10 o'clock a. m .
On motion by Mr. MAJOR, his bill [S. 269] relinquishing the State's title to certain lands in Beaver Lake, Newton County, was made the special order for Tuesday at 10:30 o'clock a. m.
were laid on the Secretary's table, under the rule, from Grant County by Mr. HENRY; from Allen and Whitley Counties by Mr. BELL, and from Warrick County by Mr. HART, which were severally referred to the Committee on Temperance.
Mr. KRAMER presented a petition in favor of woman's suffrage, which was referred to the Committee on Rights and Privileges.
Then came an adjournment till 10 o'clock Monday.
SATURDAY, April 2, 1881--9 a. m.The session was opened with prayer by Rev. G. M. Coonbar.
The reading of the Clerk's journal was dispensed with.
Senator Comstock's bill [S. 79--see page 178 of these Reports] for the purchase of toll roads and providing for the maintenance of free roads, was read the third time.
Mr. KENNER said the people of the State have come to the conclusion that they want free grael roads. Of all the bills introduced in this Assembly this bill is the most mild. It provides that if a majority of the voters of a Township declare that they wish to buy a toll road, the Board of County Cmmissioners may cause it to be appraised, and if in their discretion the appraisement is a fair one they may act upon it. If they deem it too high they may reject it, and have another appraisement, Then it is in their discretion whether they will purchase it or not. It also guards against the purchase of a road if the County is in debt for a road previously bought. This bill is of the utmost interest to the whole State and I hope it will pass.
Mr. CARR, of White, said: There are some things in this House that have been neglected during this session. With all the eloquence displayed, not one single man has ever raised his voice here in the interest of the tax-payer of the State of Indiana--not one single word has been heard. Because of the fact that the bill is well page: 124[View Page 124] guarded, is no evidence at all that it is right, This is almost like the law we had a few years ago, to allow Counties to vote taxes to aid railroad corporations. We soon saw where that we t to, and repealed the law, and now here are similar bills, for the voting of taxes to aid in the construction of gravel roads. It will lead the same thing. We have turnpikes running from our Township into the city of Lafayette. Under this bill we would have the power to tax all the balance of the County, where there is not a single gravel road, for the construction of a gravel road from our Township to Lafayette. I submit that this would work a great hardship. I hope the bill will not pass.
Mr. MEREDITH--This bill is in the interest of my people and I think in the interest of the people throughout the whole State, who like free roads. I have, as well as many others here, advocated the cuuse of the tax-payers and poor people of the State, and I think the assertion of the gentlemen [Mr. Carr] is a broad one to make--that there is no one here to advocate the interest of the tax-payer. There are plenty of us here who are standing between the people and these expenditures just as well as the gentleman from White. I think it would be carrying out the wish and desire of the people to pass this bill.
Mr. WILSON, of Montgomery, said his constituents were anxious to have some such legislation upon the subject of roads as is contained in this bill. He favored its passage.
Mr. EDWINS said personally he favored such a bill, but the people of his County being opposed to it because of the taxation upon people distant from the roads, he would vote against it on that account.
Mr. SINCLAIR--There are some toll roads that are not paying which must be sold. If that is the case--if these roads do not pay for the keeping of them--let the owners have the County take them and keep them up. It looks to me as though there was some job in this matter--that somebody wants to sell out their roads; therefore, I shall vote against the bill.
Mr. ROBERTS spoke in favor of the passage of the bill.
The bill passed--yeas, 53; nays, 29.
Mr. CAUTHORNE moved to suspend the constitutonal rule, which was agreed to--yeas, 68; nays, 18--and the bill [S. 369] defining the Thirty-first Judicial Circuit and fixing the time for holding terms of Court therein was read the first and second times by title, and the third time by sections.
Mr. FANCHER said: This bill has not taken me by surprise. It was introduced in the Senate and rushed through under suspension of the consttiutional rules. Judge Field is opposed to the passage of this bill. By tacking Stark County to St. Joe and Laporte it makes it just as convenient for the Judge of those Counties to get to Stark County as it will our Judge. Judge Field has been opposing this bill all through, and many people are opposed to it. This matter is being rushed. through too hastily. Let's have a little time to consider the matter. If this bill can not be amended a new bill can be introduced, so as to tack Stark County to St. Joe and Laporte, thereby equalizing the work of the Judges of those two Districts. In all fairness between man and man that should be the case.
Mr CAUTHORNE--I call the gentleman's attention to the fact that this matter was thoroughly discussed in 1879, when both political parties resolved that the Superior Court of Cass County should be abolished [see pages 167 and 188, Vol 17 of these Reports], when the people there were almost united in the sentiment that it should be abolished on the ground of economy, and they came here and asked that it should be done. The Republican Members were almost universally in favor of abolishing the Court, and to-day they are proposing to make the same change. It was not a Democratic measure. It was fought by the Democrats and defeated because it would legislate a Democratic Judge out of office. I was ashamed that members of my party took the ground they did and not rise above party question, but simply because they had a Democratic Judge in the Superior Curt who would have been thrown out of office, they refused to accommodate the people and make this important change.
Mr. BEATTY said he never heard the Judge of his County (Stark), express any dissatisfaction in any shape or manner, in regard to the proposed change. He favored the passage of the bill,
The bill passed--yeas, 70; nays, 10.
On motion of Mr CAUTHORNE, the constitutional rule was suspended--yeas, 68; nays, 18--and the bill [S. 366] to create the Twenty-ninth Judicial Circuit of the State of Indiana, and providing for the transfer and completion of business pending in the Circuit Court, was read the first and second time by title.
Mr. CAUTHORNE moved an amendment, which was adopted, by appropriately isserting the following: "Provided that in 1881 the spring term shall be held the third Monday in April, and continue for twelve weeks."
The amendment was adopted.
The bill was read the third time and passed--yeas, 82; nays, 0.
Mr. Moody's bill [H. R. 397], fixing the time for holding Courts in the Thirty-fifth Judicial Circuits, was read the third time and passed--yeas, 79; nays, 1.
Senator Chapman's bill [S. 368] to amend Section 1 of an act regulating foreign Insurance Companies, was read the first time and referred to the Committee on Insurance, with instructions to report the same back as soon as possible.
The SPEAKER announced the special order to be consideration of Mr. Taylor's [of Lagrange] bill [H. R. 147] to enable owners of wet lands to reclaim them when the same can not be done without affecting the land of others, which was read the third time.
Mr. KENNER said--We have two bills before the House upon the subject of wet lands. This bill, as I understand, is a remodeling of the law of 1875, which I think was the best ditch law we have had in the State of Indiana. While we must decide upon some law (and i believe we must have some relief upon this subject), from investigation of both these bills and testing the sense of the people, I have come to the conclusion that the bill just read is the one which ought to be passed by this House. This bill remedies the defects of the ditch law of 1875.
The bill passed--yeas, 78; nays, 0.
Mr. Kenner's bill [H. R. 305] to allow the owners of real estate to petition for the improvement of streets, highways, etc., by a majority land owners, was read the third time.
Mr. KENNER said--I introduced this bill upon the request of a large number of people. it is out of the line of gravel road bills. A great many people who live along roads would gradually like to gravel it, but they do not want to gravel a portion of it and then have some corporation come along and complete the work and charge toll.
This bill simply gives them the privilege to improve a road of their own accord gratuitously, and the Board of Commissioners must give them the right of way when they do that so that no corporation or Company can come along, complete the work and take it away from them. They make the road for their own convenience. There have been instances of that kind in our County, where in course of four or five years several miles were page: 125[View Page 125] graveled, after which corporations got control of the road and reaped the benefit of the work.
The bill passed--yeas, 68; nays, 0.
Mr. MORGAN called up Mr. Johnson's bill [H. R. 241] amending Section 1 and 2 of an act legalizing the assessment, equalization, levy and collection of municipal taxes for the years 1873 and 1874. He said: "This is a law legalizing the assessment of taxes. It is a general law, but will affect to no great extent no city, so far as I am informed, except Terre Haute. The officers of that city are having trouble in collecting the municipal taxes, including the tax levied for school purposes, and it is feared that were the matters tested in the Supreme Court the party refusing to pay his just taxes might be successful. The bill simply is to provide that every man shall pay his just and fair taxes, and to prevent vexatious litigation. I hope no gentleman will vote against the bill.
The bill passed--yeas, 70; nays, 0.
Mr. CAUTHORNE made a motion, which was agreed to, that when the House adjourn it will be to meet again on Monday at 2 p. m.
Mr. HUSTON made an ineffectual motion to take up the bill [H. R. 380] amending Section 6 of Water Works act.
The Committee on Banks reported on the bill [S. 149] amending Section 29 of the act concerning the organization of Saving Banks, recommending its passage.
The report was concurred in.
The Committee on Prisons reported on the bill [H. R. 471] in relation to good behavior of prisoners, recommending its passage.
The bill was read the second time and laid on the table.
The Committee on Claims reported on the bill [H. R. 363] to appropriate $3,800 to reimburse Adjutant General for the employment of a Deputy, recommending that the bill lie on the table, for reason that they could find no law authorizing the appointment of a Deputy.
The report was concurred in.
The Committee on Prisons report on the bill [H. R. 440] to lease and hire convict labor, recommending the indefinite postponement of the bill.
Mr. EDWINS--The Committee make this report thus from the fact that the subject matter is embodied in the other prison bill. They think the other bill ought to be brought before the House the early part of next week, and not take up the time of the House with side issue bills.
Mr. KENNER said: This is a bill to prohibit the Directors of the State Prisons from letting prison labor at a less compensation than so much. The State of Indiana may just as well have $125,000 from the Northern Prison as $78,000. We can just as well get sixty or seventy cents for each day's labor performed by prisoners as thirty or forty cents. This bill is a proper one, and I hope the House will lay the report on the table and let the bill be considered as any other bill; let it stand upon its merits. I want the House to go upon record and say whether the honest laboring men of the State shall be compelled to compete with prison labor at forty cents a day.
Mr. FANCHER--There is now a bill before this House which provides for the reorganization of our Prisons--prescribing that the Governor shall appoint five Directors, three of whom shall be Republicans and two Democrats, etc. I am opposed to this bill, and hope the report will be concurred in.
The House adjourned until Monday at 2 p. m.


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6:00am Saturday 30th June 2012 in Sport By Sam Morshead
IF Swindon Town's players can adapt mentally to the gruelling challenge of a pre-season tour to Italy under Paolo Di Canio, their manager is convinced they will have nothing to fear when it comes to the rigours of a League One campaign.
The Robins jet off to Lake Garda tomorrow for two weeks of intense fitness and conditioning work, with a small dose of football thrown in, in the rustic idyll of northern Italy.
Di Canio feels the coming fortnight could be the making of a team capable of pushing for back to back promotions next term, but only if they employ the right attitude in training.
He said: "For some of them it will be more mentally difficult than physically. They are athletes, you can see that they are all physically strong. The problem is all in their heads, it's all in there.
"If they understand this, in one month or 45 days they will feel absolutely full of energy and you can imagine, with their talent, everybody has to be worried."
Di Canio stressed that the emphasis of Town's two-week stay in the Veneto region of his native country will be on stamina rather than skill, as he looks to move away from what he sees as an inherent flaw in English pre-season training.
"It's typical in England in general you don't spend a lot of time and a lot of days running without the ball," he said. "It's difficult but to reach some targets you want to get to you can't work only with the ball.
"The new way to work in modern football is 80 per cent of the time during pre-season with the ball, but what we want is to let them become really fit.
"Aerobic, anaerobic, resistance, strength and speed - you can do this only if you have distance and time to cover, otherwise it's difficult."
And Di Canio told the seven new players he has signed this summer that this could be their toughest pre-season yet.
"It's a hard job under me and under us because the pre-season is a bit harder," he said. "Tommy (Miller) has already told me he has many experiences at this level but maybe James (Collins) I don't know, I don't think so - especially Troy (Archibald-Henville) and a few others."
- Don't miss our comprehensive coverage of all things Swindon Town over the course of the next fortnight - in your Adver six days a week, on our website www.thisisstfc.co.uk every day and via Twitter, where you can follow me by typing @SamMorshead_SA into the search bar.
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS covering about all of Allegheny county. Here's a pic….stay indoors for now – twitpic.com/68kqgl—
Scott Harbaugh (@WPXIScott) August 19, 2011
@WPXIScott Re: twitpic.com/68kqgl — OMG! WATER. IS. FALLING. FROM. THE. SKY!!!—
Eric Carroll (@AiXeLsyD13) August 19, 2011
@AiXeLsyD13 It's not so much the water as it is the wind and hail. ;)—
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FLASH FLOOD WARNING until 7:15 p.m. for Allegheny county. If you live in a flood-prone area….HEADS UP.—
Scott Harbaugh (@WPXIScott) August 19, 2011
@WPXIScott Ha ha. Sorry. Just seems like the news tries to incite a riot over weather sometimes. Ha ha.—
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Severe weather moving through PGH. When the storms subside and everything is safe, send us us your weather pics: ulocal.wtae.com—
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Greylite: Greylisting for Qmail
Version 1.1 of Greylite, a greylisting implementation for the Qmail mail server was released a couple of days ago.
Greylite is not a patch for the mail server but resides in the Qmail chain. Greylite requires an Sqlite 3 database and Qmail running on the Tcpserver super server which listens for incoming connections and understand access restrictions like Tcpwrapper.
Greylisting involves denying all initial delivery attempts. Regular MTAs will attempt to redeliver, spammers and wormers will typically not, and this makes greylisting a useful technique for fighting spam. To avoid unnecessary delays to legitimate mail, Greylite uses a variant on this techniqe: servers that have passed the test once before are added to a whitelist and can deliver mail without restrictions in future.
The C source code of the program is available from the project homepage under the revised BSD license. In the few days since version 1.0 was released, the developers have made a number of improvements: Greylite no longer waits infinitely if the other end fails to respond but removes obsolete requests from the database.
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Abstract: In this article, the author proposes a reading of 'Force of Law' from two angles: boundless desire and the 'law' of language. The author contends that an analysis from these perspectives casts new light on the notion of the 'mystical', as well as repetition, singularity and good/evil as they appear in Derrida's text. In exploring the 'notion' of desire, the article focuses specifically on Derrida's analysis of Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle in To Speculate – On Freud where the death drive is explored. The author shows the importance of this essay for an understanding of the relation between justice and law. The mystical and justice, the author contends, is to be understood with reference to the death drive, and repetition or law enforcement as its return. Law enforcement could also be viewed in terms of the 'notion' of iterability in Derrida's texts on language. These perspectives furthermore allow for an understanding of singularity in terms of unconditionality and of justice as beyond good and evil. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10566/302 Files in this item: 1
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PEF Endorses Cuomo for Governor
Albany - The New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) announced its endorsement of Democrat Andrew Cuomo for governor at the New York State AFL-CIO COPE Convention held at The Desmond in Colonie. The endorsement was the result of a vote by PEF's Executive Board at its quarterly meeting.
"Andrew Cuomo earned our endorsement because of his positions on two key issues for us - reducing the state's wasteful use of consultants, and his plan to rein in hundreds of unaccountable public authorities that are packed with patronage appointments and duplicate services provided by state agencies," said PEF President Kenneth Brynien.
"We agree with Mr. Cuomo that New York deserves better government especially on these issues."
"Our members working in the state Department of Law have found state Attorney General Cuomo supportive of PEF's efforts to save the taxpayers' money by reducing the state's reliance on costly private consultants."
"We expect Mr. Cuomo to continue to reduce the state's reliance on consultants when he becomes governor."
"We support Andrew Cuomo's candidacy for governor and look forward to working with him in January," Brynien added.
Full list of PEF endorsements for 2010 are available on the PAC web site