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Jul 1, 2006 15:31
Four Winds wrote...
>>> But you should agree Eden is everywhere, even if the simple
>>> contemplation
>>> of my garden does not offer T.V. adds. Considering the circumstances,
>>> I'm harmonizing a more Zen understanding.. Like the lama wearing a
>>> watch,
>>> using train planes and automobiles.
>>### - we can call it anything you like, the original world (and awareness)
>>is still there, all the animals are still there living in it, it's just
>>humans who have moved away from it (perceptually) by superimposing their
>>versions on top until only our own versions of it (our own rational
>>explanations) is all that appears to exist for us
> I see your point. In fact it is rather cristal clear you will not accept
> 'rational'
> explanations as representing what it all really is and even really means.
### - that's correct... the best 'reason' (language) can ever manage do is
to 'allude' to something it can never fully and/or 'difinitively' describe
because what it seeks to describe actually exists beyond it's ability to
'conceptualise' (iow conceptualisations are by their own nature not
> That which is often considered modern scientific thinking is probably
> considered a sad, or very rough theory of everything.
> Basically again I can agree with you, and already said 'there is more than
> meet the eye', and that the whole is more than the sum of its parts.
> But while you maybe starting to give-up on reason itself along your path
> to
> become some sort of Buddhist monk; I think it barely needs hope and
> a greater vision of the whole.
> I'm going to come back to what 'Science' can offer in comparison to
> The Religious thinking 'ASSUMED' by most of their beleivers.
> (..)
>>>>### - 2 versions there... life & being-alive from the existential pov
>>>>life & being-alive from the rational pov (i.e. it's the rational pov
>>>>ruined everything for us by corrupting our former perception of the
>>>>whole in favour of the multifaceted partial)
>>> Here you say that the rational pov ruined everything. And I don't want
>>> to
>>> just prove you wrong on that, but you will agree it quickly becomes
>>> paradoxal.
>>> I personally think 'Buddhism' is serving a rationalization on just about
>>> everything, and often appealing from its simplicity and apparent truth.
>>> It really feels like the ancient great sophists who could prove just
>>> about
>>> everything using ambiguities of a language.
>>> Somehow, I agree the buddhist teachers use that 'reason' to their goals
>>> which are indeed to bring detachment to it. That's the hidden paradox,
>>> trying to make one reason the reason he should not use reasonning,
>>> for that same rational ruins everything.
>>### - buddhism in that sense is like a half-way house, you gradually move
>>there from the usual rational, and then once you are fully there it's much
>>easier to leave reason (the form) behind altogether using only a small
> With all due respect; This sounds to me like the progression of just about
> anything else we can learn. Even mental illness can grow like that until
> the person goes 'whoops-i-doo.', straightjacket.
> You know the mind is quite plastic already; You said it yourself.
> I'm not surprized Buddhism can offer to unlearn whatever form of reason
> it choses; If the radical Islamists/Christians can turn some of theirs
> into
> kamikaze/martyrs, in the name of some invisible dogmatic concept.
### - which is why i suggested that buddhism is 'sane' as compared to many
because it seeks to liberate its members instead of keeping them, for
example, until after they are dead :)
>>iow we all start off using some form of rationality, usually
>>undisciplined... buddhism is an alternate + very disciplined form of
>>cultivated rationality designed to gradually entice reason into having
>>certain realisations about itself & the way it functions, thus one is
>>slowly learning detachment to the 'language' of reason while at the same
>>time being introduced to something a little bit more direct in terms of
> Very interesting... The problem is that while I'm just about your age to
> be able to fancy pop music group 'Genesis'; I have never noticed a
> Buddhist with that kind of detachment; Not being acting like a little
> brainwashed automaton, kneeling down to some ceremony, smelling
> incents, and koanning around in real detachment.
### - i have seen & met them... only they were no longer buddhists (or
'anything' come to that:) they had become just very strange aloof people...
some might even say (and did say) that they were (or appeared to be) mad...
but they weren't mad, just very different :)
> I think they are no more than Extremely learnes and skilled human
> beings in that field of Buddhism, which deals with peace and harmony
> including a lot of specialized knowledge from the ancient books.
> I can treat them with respect and some admiration, like I would for a
> great scientist or a formidable acrobat. I consider them a bit higher
> in the scale of 'innate' wisdom than most of the priests of other
> religions.
> The last ones not denouncing the radicalism and rampant contradictions
> being applied now.
### - this just describes the 'outer' form (the appearance) of buddhism
while totally neglecting its stated goals... which is liberation 'from' the
outward organised form (i.e. none of the other organised religions
offer this 'before' death for example :)
> *Unfortunately* - Humans are limited in choice and time...
> Then they may be born in India and Buddhism may make greater sense,
> or be born in America where society is keener to a freedom of thought,
> free of dogmas through Scientific thinking alone... Of course, most people
> eventually seek 'Absolutes' and get sucked in by Gurus or religious
> institutions.
### - absolutes make more rational sense than having nothing at all hehehe
(i.e. in that case reason goes for absolutes as an extreme solution rather
than accepting its own potential demise, reason is entirely self-serving :)
> Merlin says to Arthur: "Looking at the cake is like looking at the future,
> until
> you've tasted it you don't know what it's like, and then of course, ...
> Unfortunately, some cakes are fruits for the nuts.
### - lol :)
>>> I'm saying it does not ruin it for me, and I don't think it was
>>> meant/created
>>> to ruin, like I don't think my hands were meant to fight or my mouth to
>>> insult.
>>> "Un esprit saint dans un corps saint." // 'Healthy mind in an healthy
>>> body.'
>>> Mind is required.. Even if it means 'human error' can derive from it
>>### - i think we can have both... but to remain sane the order they
>>in is important - e.g. the current/standard order is to place reason first
>>in any form and intuition 2nd, to the point that the intuition side of
>>awareness hardly exists for most people... iow the other/natural side of
>>our awareness is badly undeveloped/totally dominated by the over-developed
> I totally agree, but there are a good number of natural born gifted ones
> in each domains. There is the old cliche which is not so wrong about
> women in general being more intuitive than men.
> I agree we could all learn(*) a great deal from some Shikantaza practice.
> (*) Learn to unlearn a lot, while developping awareness and intuition.
### - nature always produces the whole spectrum/range from natural moron to
natural genius, the average being somewhere in the middle for most... (i.e.
average intelligence is more than enough to accomplish everything depending
on how it's trained)
>>### - we can understand the universe only from the pov of being part of
>>whole, not from the rational pov which by nature is divisive and thus
>>separates itself from the whole in order to... think :)
> You are hopefully right, even if it appears impossible to explain this
> from any language point of view. But the materialistic part of reality
> often makes it a logical/reasonnable priority to fix the roof first
> because
> we are not made to swim as well as the fishes in the sea.
> Rational is considered a better way to gain benefits from any situation.
> Benefits include life saving.
> Of course, if one starts to think the only worthy benefits are
> materialistic,
> they may be missing on the whole idea of Life. I agree.
### - all that appears to exist from the pov of rationality... is more
+ it is all & everything that rationality ever expects to find
plus when it 'does' find something different to its own criteria for
acceptance, it either just totally ignores it, and/or tries to force it to
fit into an as-rational-as-possible box (the bottom drawer/curious anomaly
box with very low priority attached and so it's usually forgotten pretty
quickly as being an isolated event : an 'un-connected' event)
>>> You use the word 'conflict' to stretch your own pov. It is not a logical
>>> deduction,
>>> but an emotional one. I have two hands and see no conflict.
>>### - if you see/count 2 hands then one become the left & the other the
>>right and so the conflicts begin... (e.g. if thine eye be single then the
>>whole body will be full of light etc, a seeming paradox when everyone has
> I understand what you are talking about.
> A former Guru talked about "hearing the sound of a single hand
> clapping.".. LOL
> Unfortunately, I'm not convinced this kind of non-reasonning can be
> constructive as the answer to the original question.
### - (laughing:) but it's not meant to be constructive but
'de-constructive' hehehe :)
> I'll have to leave you to see multiplicity as a necessary conflict, and
> continue to consider it plain diversity bound in part with intelligible
> and
> in-intelligible harmony (rational/non-rational bounds) (causal /
> a-causal).
### - imho that's just the rational mind at-work going around 'counting' the
things it has so far managed to perceptually separate from the whole until
it has a 'collection' of such identified + acceptable criteria-responding
items, which it then reserves for its own use by justifying itself (a kind
of built-in self-survival program that occasionally has to rely on
subterfuges to skip-over the blank (unrecognised/un-catalogued) areas in
its search for a connection, for a 'unity' between all the pieces in its
collection, a rational self-justification for its own existence)
>>> Done that a long time ago.
>>> I'm not a slave of my made language. I've got that part of me which is
>>> invoqued upon thinking "Who am I.", before that God in which I believe.
>>> There is no more language required beyond that moment.
>>> The real 'Me' speaks no language but thought itself.
>>> Then I go on with the given circumstances, of course. :)
### - by default we only know our self in a rational way, and so it
automatically seems like that is all there is to us... after which we of
course expand on that by filling it up with more & more of the same kinds of
rationally recognisable + identifiable things (so called facts) until our
whole perception seems to consist of that entirely...
then one day we might have a very strange experience too powerful to just
ignore, and then one of several things may happen as a result... e.g. unless
they happened to have some sort of inner discipline already, people under
those circumstances sometimes drop the ball (of rationality) altogether...
in which case a nervous breakdown is not uncommon
but if a person has already learned to stand very calmly right in the core
of themselves (in the core of their awareness) then if rationality breaks
down or disappears then so what! you just carry on doing the best you can
under the circumstances, that's what:)
>>### - there is a perception beyond thoughts & thinking that requires no
>>justification other than it IS... it is a perception where the actions
>>themselves are more important (more immediate) than just thinking about
>>acting... one 'acts' and then one 'knows' in that order, whereas the
>>intellectual ties himself up with knowing everything beforehand and thus
>>becomes impossible for him to act 'beyond' his knowledge except by
>>hehe :)
> Hehe indeed.
> I see no point argueing this point of view if in the end 'either'
> individual
> can end-up commiting accidents.
>>> Is Eden Paradise ?.. If not, then one must accept them both as part of
>>> the
>>> whole and if one is lesser; Surely none the less necessary.
>>> Therefore I am humble and seek not to make my Life more complete.
>>> I seek to Live it, even if it hurts, even if I can momentarily know
>>> without
>>> words, this is Eden.
>>> "It only hurts when I laugh." -Old joke
>>### - smile... once the world looked like a garden to us... now it looks
>>like a factory and we only have dreams/stories about a lovely garden where
>>no one had to work for as living (i'll go into this bit about 'reasoning'
>>not to reason a bit more in the new thread)
> I don't think so.
> I have a beautiful garden just outside my house, full of blooming flowers,
> trees and fine arrangements, plus insects, birds and all.
> There are beautiful forests around, mountains and lakes. Parks inside
> the cities and amusement parks for the little ones.... It's only your pov
> if you feel like we are missing more wilderness.
> Do you see Buddhist monks in GreenPeace movement, trying to save
> fauna or flora ?... No. Well; the rational people are working on it to
> prevent some mistakes while we agree nobody is there yet...
> But we are, just not seeing it.
### - it's not about missing more wilderness, it's about huge cities dumped
on top of the existing wilderness until it appears no wilderness exists...
but it's still there underneath all that concrete... plus if you look
carefully you will easily see the occasional blade of grass poking up
through the cracks + also the quiet team of people that have been hired to
go around getting rid of them (usually at night) in order to maintain the
illusion that the glorious city is all there is and ever was :)
>>> I'm fine with this Slider.
>>> It is supreme to allow beings construct partial explanations that are
>>> meant for the mind.
>>> What is required is simply Understanding of the whole process.
>>### - yes, this is the crucial insight (into it's own nature) that reason
>>requires in order to become detached about having the final say in
>>absolutely everything... and because after this lesson reason is able to
>>allow itself to stand to one side for a moment in order to let something
>>else in our nature come forward and act... (reason at this point becomes
>>merely a recorder, an intelligent + observing witness etc, not so
> I see we can share this thought... And share this name 'Understanding'.
> Although I would not go as far as pretending my Understanding is
> always on the ready; As the proper practice of Shikan taza suggests.
### - it IS there all the time even if we are not there to see it hehe...
>>> What is more important is to learn to fix the roof before the rain
>>> comes.
>>### - certainly hehe, but only after you get wet a few times comes the
>>clear idea to fix it, smile :)
> Eh. <:) :)
>>>>i.e. the only 'better' i know (and incidentally the only thing that
>>>>'actually' do any good for the world/makes it actually any better etc)
>>>>just fix up yourself first, to evolve yourself first
>>> I stop this here. That's the idea.
>>> Remember I spoke of 'Human error' and you seemed perplexed as to
>>> what circumstances / context.. What you are talking about here is how
>>> it always begins. :D
>>> You should know better; Or do you really ?
>>### - all i know is that it's possible to get carried away with fixing the
>>world as being something rationally 'good' to do and yet never really
>>achieve anything, when really the best thing anyone could ever do for the
>>world is to just become correct themselves (hardly anyone bothers to do
>>i mean:)
> I'm not going to argue with you on that. It makes perfect sense while not
> always obvious. I just wanted to put the emphasis on 'human error'.
> Even trying to fix ourself first may not be so obvious. Why not feel a
> need to change religion, or seek a Guru for help; Then one may end-up
> in a pond with the fishes, or with a neat explosive belt with no refunds
> possible.
> .. Or one can grow self pitty, selfish or selfless...
> Or like most; Sleepless over it.
>>> Somehow, it is also an illusion to consider mistakes and human
>>> errors because somehow even if we can do better, we may not
>>> always be fully aware how; Therefore we already did the best we knew,
>>> or we thought we knew.
>>### - it's a good habit to cultivate
> I'm not sure I understand. But if this is a suggestion to 'cultivate' the
> success we do, then it would not prevent spiralling to worse.
> If this means cultivating awareness, then I can agree.
> In fact, this is quite an excellent reminder for me right here and now.
> I have a huge place in my mind, garden of awareness, yet I do not
> visit the place often enough to benefit from its produce.
> But I also agree there is room for even more culture of this kind.
### - it's a good habit to cultivate honestly doing the best one can under
the circumstances + realising that is the case and no more... (there's no
need to be any more 'complex' than that i mean)
> A fine thought for today... Thanks !
>>>>### - ahhh you're right on it guy... it's right there... plus let's see
>>>>we can't give it a little tweak hehe :)
>>> I may need a hundred slaves to pull that beam out of the way.
>>> Make them 'cute' females, and we'll be tweaking together to heaven.
>>> ;)
>>### - cute females tweaking my beam sounds like heaven to me! lol i'm
>>let's go! :)
> I'm glad you can also share that sense of humor with a dash of ridicule.
> To me; It shows a mind with fertile ground and open fields ready for more.
> But Coming to think of this; If we can feel 'happy and amused';
> Why did you previously replied when I suggested it was also okay to
> feel sad or imperfect ?
### - happy & amused is a fairly safe state of awareness to hold (unless you
become giddy/drunk on it and start doing stupid things to spoil it i mean)
other moods need to be observed first for their total effect upon perception
> ---------------
> ### - Namaste for sure... just don't do anything about feeling sad or
> imperfect or lonely whatever... just 'observe' it is fine... moods are
> very important indicators of our differing + changing states of awareness
> &
> resulting perception if we can learn to 'read' them instead of routinely
> reacting 'to' them :)
> ----------------
> I would think a natural reaction to sadness is to cry.
> And a natural reaction to amusement is to laugh.
> Both feelings happen even if they only mean changing states of awareness.
> Buddha never refrained from laughing (in general); So I suggest it is
> also a good idea to cry when the mood calls.
> One of the smartest song Lyric Madonna wrote is:
> "Express yourself, don't repress yourself."
### - which is fine for people brought up in a prison where self-expression
has been deliberately crushed for the purposes of running everything
smoothly hehe...
but as much as some people are able to use drink to consciously enter into
an altered state of awareness instead of for the kicks, some people are also
able to use the doors created by (or just indicated by) their
differing/changing moods instead of thinking that's how they must really
feel and then start looking around for 'reason's for their sadness or
whatever, i.e. acting it out instead of just acknowledging it as a change of
> But now is the time to laugh about it and gain awareness these
> silly thoughts are simply going by.
> (..)
>>> In the sense, I tweak by not getting to much involved with
>>> that part of myself. Not renouncing it, but focusing on that
>>> which I hope is 'better'.
>>### - one honestly does the best one can under the circumstances which
>>perforce improves over time and with practice... and because we all get
>>stuck sometimes and don't know what to do about a given situation and all
>>one has to do is to again just ask oneself what then is the best i can do
>>under the circumstances, and instead of being stuck everything begins to
>>move along again... easy to remember, easy to apply :)
> I know you are right..
> I know I need more discipline..
> I picked another reminder of yours "It's a good habit to cultivate.";
> I linked it to my own garden of awareness I'm neglecting.
> Both are obviously linked... Seeking awareness from this
> garden figure of speech. Seeking what I should be aware NOW,
> that is right there for me to pick, because the 'Better' guides me.
> But I do not accept the purist, spitritual as the one true path.
> I acknowledge, laughter as well as sorrow if it also means
> I can laugh or cry when time comes.
### - one can feel desperately hungry and so is driven to find food... or
one can just notice that the body requires feeding rather badly... one mode
is filled with (for example) panic, the other doesn't lose it's calm
composure and as such is more likely to survive/find food
> It is very tempting for me to go along and try to reason that
> to the fullest I can. Then I would find more reasonnable in the
> context to seek completion to my career, or at least faster
> achievements possible. Then again, I could value my detachment
> and allow for what I hope a greater happening shall happen.
> It is not rational, but still needs more discipline.
> So I'm not going to extend my reason to its fullest (stupidity)
> but allow discipline to perforce because you shed this light where
> I know all things are. Indeed, that's where no justification is needed,
> but in full understanding of your words; Action is.
> Still... It is not 'obvious' to _act discipline_ without trying to know
> what
> has to be done first. (in respect to your earlier comment ###3).
> My first guess is that I already know without words, and should simply
> act with this thought in mind.
### - to let go and just go-along with the flow (kind of thing) isn't easy
for the strictly 'rational' man who quite naturally looks for some kind of
way to rationally steer/guide everything within his field of view...
>>> I failed a number of times and wish I could have done differently
>>> sometimes.
>>### - such a philosophy (as doing your best etc) doesn't leave any room
>>wishing and/or hoping to have done any better than you did at the time,
>>if later with hindsight you can see now something better you could have
>>then you have definitely learned something for next time (the best one can
>>do under the circumstances then is to not beat yourself up over it but of
>>course to just try to apply it next time... thus one advances because it
>>becomes 'possible' to advance in a steady + completely conscious manner
>>which 'also' improves over time, a win/win situation one has created for
> I really don't have much to add to your teaching here, except that I found
> difficult to snip it out; Just because I would not argue with this gem.
> The perfect application is now just to advance forward.
>>> If there were only one Better and one Truth,
>>> That God of mine sure made a awfully big Universe to place it.
>>> I mean; What is Harmony without Diversity.
>>### - i totally agree with you, and because without diversity (below)
>>something like the lotus wouldn't grow up out of it :)
> Feels good to be appreciated from time to time. :)
>>> Yet.. You brought the thought of the Buddha pointing at the
>>> Lotus growing on a pile of turd.
>>> Let's rename 'turd', fertilizer' and agree.
>>> But above all; We both can understand you made your point well,
>>> and indeed that Lotus is 'bettering/growing' not by changing the
>>> outside 'shit', but taking the 'good' from it.
>>### - more... maybe even 'because' of the shit comes a lotus?
> Ah; Yes.. I see that too.
> But we should be prudent not to stretch the allegory too much
> and rationalize to justify one's actions. Because Lotus do not shit,
> while men do.
### - lol :)
Somehow this last comment still agrees with your
> suggestion: "it's just the humans who have moved away from it
> (perceptually) by superimposing their own versions on top until
> only our own versions of it "..In other words, we brought our own
> shit on top of the one naturally feeding.
> While the former is natural the later man made version is overabundant
> and proven toxic.
### - what the hell is going on someone asked, and buddha just pointed to
the pure while lotus appearing out of the muck (buddha was one of those
white lotus's if you understand + said he was only the 83rd or something ;)
>>>>### - i will always accept the best a person can do under the
>>>>circumstances :)
>>> Hahaha !
>>> Which makes me think I have a fine bottle of wine to celebrate Lotus &
>>> Friends.
>>> Don't worry.. I know you said the circumstances, not the influences.. ;)
>>### - "Nothing is True. Everything is permitted." --last words of the wise
>>old man on the mountain ;-)
> Hush... There are fools who could misinterpret you on that, especially
> the everything is permitted part.
### - there are certainly people who would use that to justify crappy
behaviour, but we wont even consider those types :)
> We live in a rainbow of chaos. - Paul Cezanne
> Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive,
> but what they conceal is vital.
> - Aaron Levenstein
> Use what talent you possess. The woods would be very
> silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
> - Henry Van Dyke
### - heh heh heh, plus try/taste this one from a rather astute observer:)
"All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like
the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal." --- Albert Einstein :)
"We paved paradise and put up a parking lott." (popular song :)
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The Pools of YouthRecover water from the Pools of Youth.
|The Water of Youth
DescriptionThe mogu found the Pools of Youth!
Mama Bramblestaff used to tell me old stories about those. During the mogu empire they would use the waters to extend life.
Thing is those stories never ended well for some reason. As if the waters were cursed.
Either way, we should investigate. There is a good chance those waters might help Leza.
It looks like the Pools of Youth are on the northwestern side of the ruins.
Leza's pain is immense. Only powers beyond my own can save her and the baby now.
At this point I am willing to try anything. This land is claiming my wife and unborn child. I need all the help I can get.
You will be able to choose one of these rewards:
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|Waterfall Drape
|Canopy Drape
|Greenback Cape
|Balmy Drape
GainsUpon completion of this quest you will gain:
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Globalization Culture and Team Diversity
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Adoption of Agile as a software development methodology is one of the most critical trends in the industry. A look at why is this important or relevant as it relates to the much larger topic of globalization?
List of Key Agile Principles and How they support Globalization
The outsourcing industry is filled with key phrases and terms designed to describe it's challenges, benefits and future direction. Recently the term "globalization" is resurfacing over and over as we are entering, what many believe, is the next era of the outsourcing market where the requirement to delivery services consistently on a global scale will be the primary decision making criteria for many companies that see outsourcing as a fundamental component of their IT and business strategy.
When we look at the key principles of Agile we find both an approach and a structure in support of globalization.
Collaboration and Cooperation
The nature of this methodology is indeed a higher level of collaboration and communication across teams, whether they are local, dispersed within the building or located around the globe. Agile is disruptive and often requires changes in the behavior of teams and people yet it drives the formation of relationships, problem resolution, decision making, consistent delivery of software and time-to-market faster than any other approach.
IT & Business Alignment
Iterative development allows both IT and the Business to see working software sooner thus being able to adapt changes in support of market conditions and trends, validate initial requirements and get to a mutually agreed upon business value sooner. Agile continues to be instrumental in helping these two organizations communicate at a much higher level with better results.
Risk Mitigation
The process of testing early and often within Agile projects that deliver incremental releases provides an integrated approach to identify problems very early and get to immediate resolution. With automated testing, test driven development (XP) and involvement from QA teams, risk is controlled, managed and communicated continuously
Financial Management
Managing costs is only one side of the project objective. The other is determining a measurable business value on what you are actually making. Companies looking to implement a globalization strategy around software delivery need to pay attention to this principle. There are strategies for introducing methods to determine business value and in turn those strategies drive not only management of costs, but also how contracts are managed between company and service providers and what determines agreement on global delivery
Diversity in Agile Teams
Diversity is important on effective teams, and not just gender diversity – Johanna Rothman (www.jrothman.com) is one commentator who has a series of posts on the value and importance of diversity – some of the key points she makes include:
- Women tend to bring more collaborative skills and more empathy skills to a team. (That's a gross generalization. I realize that.)
- The more complex the problem, the more personality and experience diversity you want on your team. That's because different approaches to solving problems and backgrounds help the team see what their options are.
- I once worked with a team who were all introverted, quick to come to decisions, and all had the same kind of product experience. When it came time to develop a brand new product, they had trouble. They had no one who came up with wacko ideas on the spur of the moment, and no one who could keep options open for a while. They hired someone who liked to wait longer to come to decisions. That person also connected problems and solutions differently than the original team members did, so he was a very helpful addition to the team
- New grads have a huge advantage over experienced people: They don't know the problem you need solved can't be solved. They've been trained through 4 years of university that all problems can be solved before the end of the semester. They will bring that optimism to work.
- If you only look for senior people who've done the same kind of thing you have, you may get the people you want. But instead of pigeon-holing people, consider experience diversity to increase team capability.
Underestimating the impacts of cultural diversity on your team can be disastrous, creating barriers and even team breakdown. Most leaders arenpsilat aware of the influences that cultural differences can have on team dynamics. These impacts can be even more pronounced on agile self organizing teams. Respective team members should explore these differences and addressed them on a timely basis.


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Rockwall girls basketball team only used one player off bench, but her 3-pointer was key in state semifinals
Despite center Alyssa Lang getting into foul trouble in Thursday's 4A state semifinal, the Rockwall girls basketball team only used one player off the bench. Paige Turner, Kayla Smith and Morghen Day all played the entire 32 minutes and Sara Williamson played 28, so they'll appreciate the day off today before Saturday's championship against Mansfield Summit.
Lang only played 21 minutes because of foul trouble, which created more time for sophomore guard Ellen Baker — Rockwall's top reserve (and only reserve Thursday). She played 15 minutes and hit one of the biggest shots of the game. It came when Victoria East trimmed Rockwall's lead to 35-32 early in the fourth quarter.
Baker got open in the left corner for a 3-pointer and swished it. Rockwall's only 3-pointer of the game gave the Yellowjackets a 38-32 lead and a little more breathing room against Victoria East, which had beaten Rockwall in a December tournament.


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For further resources go to the village of Allouez website at villageofallouez.com/depts/parks-and-forestry/emerald-ash-tree
What is a sense of well being worth to you? Residents of Allouezs Sunlight Park neighborhood, and for that matter all of Brown County, are being asked this question.
Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), an insect native to Asia, will kill ash trees unless treated with systemic insecticide. Remember the loss of elm trees? This threatens to be worse. Ask people of Fort Wayne, Ind., or Chicago suburbs that have seen thousands of their ash trees die because they were not treated.
More than 1 in 5 trees in Brown County is an ash tree, and we are most likely at a tipping point. Community after communitys hind-sighted advice is they wished they had acted sooner. We are fortunate to have many community-based EAB plans in place along with professional urban foresters that deserve public support. EAB was first found in downtown Green Bay in 2009 near Wisconsin Public Service. In 2012 a sizable infestation was found near the original detection site.
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A look at the village of Allouezs Sunlight Park neighborhoods publicly owned (park and street-lined) ash trees show a count of 74. The small Sunlight Park (corner of Arrowhead and Park Drive) has 10 trees of which seven are ash. The bigger the tree the more value it provides to our urban forest. If untreated, these trees will be cut down and replaced by small trees. Residents Bill Stevens, Barbara Brown and Yvonne Lied would miss these trees on their morning walks and the mid-day shade an ash tree provides for their grandchildren on playground equipment. Areas that have a high density of ash trees on their block are going to be most affected unless treatment is sought.
Allouez Against Bad Bugs is a collaborative partnership including NEW Master Gardener volunteers, the village of Allouez, UW- Extension and a DNR Urban Forestry Department matching grant. Allouez Against Bad Bugs is spearheading a pilot project to visibly tag 74 ash trees and distribute 500 door hangers explaining the plight of ash trees in the Sunlight Park neighborhood today. This will be followed up with two meetings at the Village Hall on April 29 and May 12; 6:30 p.m. when all village residents are encouraged attend.
Objectives of this meeting include:
Identify ash trees and clarify management options including treatment by professional and do-it-yourself homeowners.
Forging a program for citizens and businesses to adopt publically owned tree treatments
Enlisting tree treatment services, at a discounted rate, as a group.
Ash trees are green infrastructure that support our well-being and provide resilience to our challenged urban landscape. Ash trees should be selectively treated to conserve the benefits trees provide us. A significant case in point is that climate scientists predict that Wisconsin is expected to have warmer and wetter weather with more extreme precipitation events. Large trees can help mitigate such events.
Ash tree conservation is going to require all stakeholders to step up with cooperation, imagination and investment for the best possible outcomes. Hopefully this challenge can lead to larger initiatives to support the benefits that urban trees offer.
John Hermanson is a master gardener volunteer and project coordinator for Allouez Against Bad Bugs.


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NPR CEO Knell Bolts To National Geographic
Gary Knell, president and CEO of National Public Radio (NPR), will step down from the job after just 18 months to take the same role at National Geographic Society. Both organizations are in Washington, D.C.
Knell succeeds John M. Fahey as president and chief executive officer. Fahey will continue to serve as chairman of the board. Knell's appointment will occur later this year.
He joined NPR during a turbulent time. Vivian Schiller resigned as CEO and president earlier that year, after two high-profile controversies led NPR's board of directors to conclude that she could no longer effectively lead the organization. The event included the dismissal of popular commentator Juan Williams.
In a letter to NPR's employees Knell, who became president and CEO in 2011, that he accepted the unsolicited offer from National Geographic after a "great deal of personal reflection," and that he was confident that NPR will chart an "ambitious path" for the future.
"NPR is and will always be a beacon of journalistic integrity, commitment and courage," Knell wrote. "Thank you for giving me the opportunity to work with you."
In his two years with NPR, Knell worked with the network's leadership team to develop a strategic plan to strengthen the organization by engaging NPR's network of member stations, generating cross-platform journalism and programming, finding new sources of philanthropic and corporate underwriting support, and attracting new audiences.


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Ruxton front-wheel-drive cars to take the spotlight at Pebble Beach
Photo courtesy Barrett-Jackson.
While the Ruxton may have played second fiddle in many aspects to rival Cord – the latter beat it to market, sold more examples, and has certainly been the subject of more articles and attention in the ensuing years – the front-wheel-drive also-ran at least had its distinctive multi-hue banded color schemes going for it, some of which are sure to be in display when Ruxtons take the field as one of the featured classes at next year's Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
Developed at roughly the same time as Cord's pioneering front-wheel-drive L-29, the Ruxton also took its inspiration from the success of Harry Miller's front-wheel-drive race cars, which began to make a splash at Indy and throughout the racing world in the latter half of the 1920s. Where Cord simply bought Miller's – and later, Van Ranst's – front-wheel-drive transaxle patent rights, however, the Ruxton's gestation proved more difficult.
It began, more or less, with Bill Muller, a development engineer for Budd in Philadelphia. Around 1926, he began to investigate the idea of a front-wheel-drive passenger car and, with Budd's support, a couple years later built a running prototype that used a Studebaker engine, Warner four-speed transmission, and de Dion front axle running through Weiss constant-velocity joints. Crude as it was, it ran, and Budd body engineer Joseph Ledwinka modified a Wolseley sedan body to fit it. Budd, however, only intended on supplying the body and concept to another company, which would then assemble and market the car, and one of Budd's directors, Archie Andrews, tried pitching it to a number of carmakers, including Peerless, Hupmobile, and Gardner. Rebuffed by each, he and Muller then decided to form a company, New Era Motors, and build the car themselves.
Among those on the board of directors were William Ruxton, who Andrews named the car after, and Childe Harold Wills, who would help Muller develop an improved transaxle that would both shorten the lengthy drivetrain by more than a foot and allow the Ruxton to achieve a much better front/rear weight distribution than the L-29. Andrews announced the Ruxton in spring 1929 and promised that production would begin that July, but Muller wouldn't finish the first Ruxton Model A prototype until August, right around the same time the Cord L-29 entered production.
Photo by Richard Lentinello.
All along, Andrews had to figure out exactly how New Era Motors would build the Ruxton. Budd would of course supply the bodies, and the Ruxton would use a Continental straight-eight engine, but New Era didn't have any production facilities of its own. So Andrews, who made his millions leveraging buyouts of marginal car companies, bought up Moon of St. Louis and persuaded the company to build the Ruxton; as a fallback, he also convinced Hartford, Wisconsin's Kissel to chip in.
Ruxton production did begin in June 1930, and Andrews recruited Broadway set designer Josef Urban to design eye-catching paint schemes for Ruxton's show cars, schemes that used horizontal bands of varying colors, usually in a gradation pattern, to emphasize both its length and its lowness, the latter a chief selling point of the car. Though hampered by the tough economic climate, the Ruxton did find buyers – either somewhere around 300 or 500, depending on the source – and some even preferred it over the larger and heavier Cord L-29. Michael Lamm, in comparing the two for Special Interest Autos #128, March 1992, noted that the Ruxton "takes a noticeably lighter touch, it's at least as responsive, much easier to drive, and while its styling isn't quite so sophisticated and well wrought as the L-29's, it's still quite an impressive, harmonious job of design." In fact, Ruxton production came to a halt in November 1930 not because of the car itself, but because both Moon and Kissel went out of business.
Along with Ruxtons, next year's Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance will also feature Tatras, steam cars, Maseratis, Ferrari 250 Testa Rossas, and cars wearing Fernandez et Darrin coachwork. The 2014 Pebble Beach Concours will take place Sunday, August 17, and entry applications are due by January 24. For more information, visit PebbleBeachConcours.net.


text: [[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/powerpack-realistic.jpg]][-[[caption-width-right:300:They look pretty {{Badass}} for a group of little kids.]]-]''Power Pack'' was a 1980s comic book series by Marvel Comics that starred four child superheroes. While this concept is not unusual in WesternAnimation, it was new for the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. Unlike those of TV cartoon super-kids, most of the Pack's adventures were straight superhero action, with deeper real-world themes as well, such as child abuse, guns in school, bullying, and genocide - the kids were unwilling witnesses to the mass-murder of the sewer-dwelling Morlocks. The mood was lighter than other Marvel fare, but darker than typical super-kid stories.The series was about the four children of one Prof. Power, a scientist who had invented an antimatter generator. However, a horselike alien named Whitemane tried to warn him that a similar machine had blown up his homeworld. Unfortunately, "Whitey" (as the kids named him) was mortally wounded by his enemies, the alien Snarks, and couldn't prevent them from kidnapping the children's parents. Dying, Whitey had no choice but to pass on his superpowers to the Power children and hope that they could save the Earth ''and'' rescue their parents. With help from Whitey's living spaceship, Friday, they succeeded, and without their parents finding out about their new powers, to boot! The four of them then decided to keep their powers a secret, and continued to adventure around New York City as the "Power Pack".[[hardline]]The kids, from oldest to youngest, and their (original) powers are:* Alex -- age 12 original version, age 13 all-ages version -- who could control gravity by touch; he called himself '''Gee'''.* Julie -- age 10 original version, age 12 all-ages version -- who could fly (leaving a colored trail behind) called herself '''Lightspeed'''* Jack -- age 8 original version, age 10 all-ages version -- who could increase his body's density (thus shrinking down) or decrease it (becoming a living cloud) named himself '''Mass Master'''* Katie -- age 5 original version, age 8 all-ages version -- who could turn matter into energy, called herself '''Energizer'''They would later find out that they could switch their powers around--or even give them all to a single person--as well.While never a major Marvel series, Power Pack lasted a surprisingly long time and had a loyal following. The series lasted for 62 issues (August, 1984-February, 1991)At one point, Franklin Richards (son of Mr. Fantastic and The Invisible Woman of the ComicBook/FantasticFour) joined them for a while under the name ''Tattletale'' (his godlike powers were at the time reduced to just telepathy, precognitive dreaming, and a ghost body). The Pack met various other heroes, including Spider-Man and Wolverine. Strangely, for a long while few people called them on being superheroes at such a young age (Katie was only ''five years old!'') or going around without adult supervision (unless you count Friday's) much less doing dangerous stuff behind their parents' backs.Their parents do eventually find out, however, and the family has to deal with it - by going insane and turning into catatonic wrecks. It's later revealed that the race of space-horses (no, really) who gave the kids their powers created mental blocks to stop their parents ever realizing that the children were superheroes, even if they showed up with a teenage alien runaway and a talking spaceship in tow or something. Which they did.Although canceled years ago, the Pack characters have resurfaced in other comics such as ''NewWarriors'' and ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' (as teenagers). There was an attempt in 2005 to reintroduce the team to regular Marvel continuity in an unashamedly all-ages series of books, but this was later sideways-retconned into an out-of-continuity series, as the writer of Marvel's ''Runaways'' comic introduced a version of one of the Pack characters in that book which didn't match up with the all-ages character (namely, Julie as a teenager) - or even the character from previous appearances.Now, it appears as a regular series of mini-series in Marvel's ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures'' imprint and it seems to have found its niche with fun stories complemented with adorable mangaesque art. Alex Power is also a member of Reed Richards's Future Foundation (as seen in the ''FF'' book) and is a regular feature of that book's supporting cast.There was a failed {{Pilot}} for television series version, but it was never aired in the US, though it did appear on overseas channels and has circulated as a bootleg among fans for years. As of now, Marvel's new owner, WaltDisneyPictures, is wondering if this kid team would be an obvious property to develop for a film.Making a return in the pages of ''FF'' in February 2012 (the issue's title is even "[[TheOneWith The One Where]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Power Pack Shows Up]]"), the first time the whole team's been together in the mainline Marvel Universe in more than a decade (real-world time, at least).Not to be confused with a type of battery, or with the Matrix in the [[BlindIdiotTranslation very poor dub]] of ''Anime/TransformersHeadmasters''.----!!This series provides examples of:* AmbiguousGender: Sort of; Friday doesn't actually have a gender, but the kids use "him" or "her" according to their own gender. * AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Issue 47 of the original comic is entirely about Katie entering a cartoon bizarro universe straight out of ComicStrip/LittleNemo, and trying to escape. Continuity doesn't really reference it much afterwards, yet it's the only issue to explain the costume changes.* ArbitrarySkepticism: All over the first few issues. News of a UFO is readily dismissed despite several alien invasions by that point. Also, perhaps most {{egregious}}, is the fact that at one point Jack dismisses the idea that his new-found ability to understand the Snarks' language must mean Friday built translators into their costumes as "[[ThisIsReality too much like science fiction]]"--while he's a [[SuperSmoke cloud-boy]] floating next to an alien spaceship.* AuthorAvatar: The Power kids' parents are ''really obviously'' a young Walter and Louise Simonson, and Julie is named after Louise Simonson's daughter.* BadassAdorable: All of the kids in the out-of-continuity stories, but Katie Power is this in pretty much any appearance.* BadassNormal: In contrast to his mainline-Marvel counterpart, in the all-ages series, Franklin Richards has no superpowers (save perhaps for an intellect on par with his dad's and a whole lot of gadgets).* BareYourMidriff: Julie since her appearance in ''Runaways''.* BaseballEpisode: Nearly an entire issue of the original series takes place at or near Shea Stadium, and a baseball game ([[WritingAroundTrademarks the "Mecs" vs. the "Clubs"]]) figures into the plot.* BequeathedPower: * BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Alex/Katie, Jack and Julie.* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:This happens to Carmody, who is transformed into a demon. This also apparently happens to Alex, though it turns out to have been a copy.]]* CanonImmigrant: Franklin's RobotBuddy Herbie (all-ages version only) * CheerfulChild: All the kids in the Marvel Adventures series are cute, but Katie is the epitome of cute as a button.* CreateYourOwnVillain: [[spoiler:The Pack's ArchEnemy, Douglas Carmody aka "The Bogeyman", is already something of a villain when we first see him (planning to weaponize Dr. Power's converter technology rather than using it to provide cheap power [[StrawCharacter and calling Dr. Power a "hippie" for wanting to do any less]]), but he descends into full-blown supervillainy after the converter is destroyed, descending into madness, losing the remnants of his fortune, his marriage, and basically his whole life... which he blames the Powers for.]]* CuteBruiser: Katie. The only reason she isn't one of the scariest people in the Marvel Universe is that she's a little kid.* DarkerAndEdgier: Even though ''Power Pack'' always took itself seriously and wasn't afraid to portray its young heroes realistically and even put them in violent danger, apparently this wasn't enough for some people. At one point, the comic took an angsty turn and started shoving BodyHorror and NightmareFuel all over the place, which was ultimately [[{{Retcon}} retconned]] out of existence by the original creators in a "holiday special", which returned the stories to the "not too dark, not too light" mood it originally had.* {{Expy}}: James and Margaret Power are based visually on Walt and Louise Simonson.** The Power kids themselves bear an uncanny similarity to [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia the Pevensie siblings]].* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In the all-ages books, Katie and Jack are usually doing something silly while their older siblings are working. In ''Thor and the Warriors Four'', for instance, Jack and [[ComicBook/TheInhumans Lockjaw]] teleport away to get drinks from Hawaii, and then Katie rubs Lockjaw's belly until he falls asleep.* GenderEqualEnsemble: * GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Queen-Mother Maraud of the Snarks.* HealingFactor: In the original series, if the kids were in the same general vicinity, they could concentrate and vastly reduce the time it took for them to recover from injuries or diseases. Katie gets over a broken arm in a couple of days, and one issue has Jack and Alex suffering from a cold that they only still have because Julie is out of town.* ImprobableAge: While the characters are definitely childlike and think and act like actual children most of the time (a rarity in KidHero stories), they sometimes do things that are, at least, several years older than their age. Such as 5-year-old Katie's belief at one time that because she seriously hurt someone else, she didn't deserve to live (or something almost as dramatic).* ImprovisedMicrogravityManeuvering: A variation--though not done in space, Alex manages to push himself around while degravitized using just about anything he can find with a spray nozzle, though he gets the most mileage out of a fire extinguisher. Later, inspired by lessons in his science class, he begins to experiment with momentary increases and reductions in his personal gravity, using inertia to direct and alter his movements.** Also not in space, but Jack took the gravity power in another direction--rather than simulated flight, he managed to simulate near-Olympic-level acrobatics by reducing the effects of gravity on himself while in motion.* InstantCostumeChange: The kids' costumes are stored in the alternate dimension of "Elsewhere"; saying "Costume on/off" instantly switches them with street clothes. (Conveniently, Elsewhere also cleans and repairs them.)* KarmaHoudini: Jack, in the Power Pack/Fantastic Four miniseries.* KidHero: The whole premise, played mostly realistically.* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: Whitey's fondness for Lewis Carroll, and Kofi's love of Earth food.* LearntEnglishFromWatchingTelevision: The all-ages version has Whitemane learning English this way. It helps that he gets to be [[KlingonsLoveShakespeare something of a movie buff]]. The original has him learn it from reading human literature.* LighterAndSofter: The out-of-normal-continuity stories are unashamedly "all-ages." They're not bad, actually.* LonelyTogether: In the original series, at one point the kids' mother is badly injured, and their father spends Thanksgiving with her at the hospital. Figuring being lonely together is better than being lonely separately, Katie contacts a number of people the kids have met up to that point (Kitty Pryde and Wolverine, Cloak and Dagger, Leech and Annalee of the Morlocks, even Spider-Man) and invites them to Thanksgiving dinner. Though Spidey never shows up (and [[ContinuityNod apologizes for it in a later issue]]), everyone else does.* MagicPants: The costumes are made of "unstable molecules" (or "[[MythologyGag pseudoplasm]]" in the all-ages comics), which allows for [[PowersAsPrograms whoever has the density power at the moment]] to not have to worry about losing their clothes when they enter cloud form.** MySuitIsAlsoSuper: Functionally bottomless pockets, can (apparently) self-repair when switched off and back on, connected to a, um, pocket dimension...* MoralityPet: Katie is this to, of all people, {{Wolverine}}.** This is par for the course for Wolverine, though.* MostWritersAreAdults: Handled far better than in most series involving [[KidHero Kid Heroes]]. The characters actually act like kids and show childlike reactions to the things that happen around them and to them much of the time, but not all of the time. Personality-wise, they act childlike enough to be believable, while still being competent heroes. Dialog-wise, they're... a little smart for their age, though they still say childlike things. Of course, they ''are'' the kids of a genius.* MotherNatureFatherScience* NeverMyFault: Carmody refuses to accept any responsibility for the converter not being ready and nearly blowing up the planet, instead blaming the Pack and carrying out a vendetta against them that is implied to have destroyed his career and even his marriage.* NeverWakeUpASleepwalker: Invoked. The children bring Franklin back to Avengers Mansion after witnessing the Morlock Massacre. When the adults find out about this, Franklin claims he was sleepwalking, and the other children say that they didn't wake him because it would be dangerous.* OhCrap: After one of the team power shuffles, Snark Queen Mother Maraud has a moment of this when Jack acquires the energy power, and she realizes that he's just mature enough not to accidentally lose control of it (as Katie sometimes did), but still enough of a kid that he's not going to overthink the ramifications of the power (as Alex often did)--in essence, he's fully capable of just disintegrating and/or blowing stuff up until nothing's left standing.* OnePersonOnePower: Played straight for the whole main series, with the kids getting one power each. However, it turns out that someone could easily [[AllYourPowersCombined hold all four at once]], just like Whitemane did.* ParentalObliviousness: At one point late in the story, enforced by mental blocks.* PubertySuperpower: Averted; the oldest of them was twelve [[spoiler:though the arc where Alex apparently turned into a Kymellian invoked this trope]].* PuppyLove: For a while, the comic seemed to be setting up a relationship between Franklin and Katie... despite them both being no older than five.* RedHeadedHero: Julie* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: The Snarks are reptilian.* SapientShip: The group had a sentient "smartship" called Friday.* SapientCetaceans: In a particularly {{Anvilicious}} GreenAesop story, the Powers run into a whole pod of these.* SheIsAllGrownUp: In the ''Avengers'' crossover mini-series with the future story, future Katie has traded her cuteness for smoking hot.** Also Julie in the pages of ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy''.* ShoutOut: The Snarks are named after the Creator/LewisCarroll poem "The Hunting of the Snark". Other ShoutOuts to Carroll show up over the course of the series.** Friday is named for Literature/RobinsonCrusoe's servant in the original version, Rosalind Russell's character in ''Film/HisGirlFriday'' in the all-ages version.* SiblingTeam** BashBrothers* SixthRanger: Franklin, and later Kofi.* SuperFamilyTeam:* TemporalParadox: Happens in the new all-ages series, specifically in ''Avengers & Power Pack Assemble'' #4. [[spoiler:The Pack are thrown 10 years into the future by Kang the Conqueror who goes on to defeat The Avengers and other heroes and conquer the world. The Pack meanwhile encounter none other than their future selves 10 years older.]]* TouchedByVorlons: An alien gives the kids their special powers in the first issue.* TranslatorMicrobes: It's implied that the kids' costumes have universal translators built in.* TrialBalloonQuestion: Seeking assurance from her mother, Julie (who has super-speed and flight [[PowersAsPrograms at the time]]) is told she would still be loved "even if you grew wings and flew".* VerySpecialEpisode: The Pack starred in one special anti-child-abuse comic book.** As well as another with Cloak and Dagger centering on runaways.* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld* WhatTheHellHero: Whitemane's entire race gets this when the Power Pack discovers what was done to their parents, in addition to discovering certain... glaring moral deficiencies in their society.** Among other things, this includes Kofi's uncle essentially tricking the Power Pack--who are a bunch of primary-school children--into fighting against fully-trained adults in a gladiatorial arena without any form of defined limits or even actual ''consent''.** Not to mention they have grown so used to artificial environments as a consequence of destroying their world that natural environments are actually repellent to most of them. Whitemane, it seems, was ''not'' a typical example of his race.* WhoopiGoldberg: The original run introduced the character of Numinus, reputed to be more powerful than Galactus and looking remarkably like a certain up-and-coming African American actress. While her first appearance was a bit of a head-scratcher, she later showed up to help the Kymellians reform, moving out of their "flying shopping mall" and onto a new planet that "just happened" to become habitable. This significantly lowered the jerkass-quotient of the race.* WolverinePublicity: Both exemplified and inverted. Wolverine was a regular guest, even notoriously showing up on a cover of ''Uncanny X-Men'' looking as if he were about to skewer Katie like an olive in a martini. But everyone guest-starred in ''their'' book during its original run (though they did make appearances in ''Uncanny X-Men'', ''Excalibur'', ''Thor'', and ''ComicBook/SecretWarsII''), and the new miniseries are almost all team-ups.* XCalledTheyWantTheirYBack: Taskmaster's reaction to the Power Pack's costumes in the all-ages series. More specifically, "1991 called, they want their big metal boots ba-AAAAAAAAAAACK!"* YourFavorite: When Franklin and Friday head into space to rescue the Powers, the Fantastic Four search for him. At the time, the Richards family was staying at Avengers Mansion, and with his parents often absent, Franklin had bonded with the Avengers' resident butler, Jarvis. Hoping they will find Franklin (and, at that point, knowing and loving Franklin as well as any of his family), buys as many of of Franklin's favorite foods as he can remember to welcome him home.** "Oboy! My favorite!" became a catchphrase for Franklin under writer/artist Jon Bogdanove's tenure on the series, representing Franklin's willingness to try any food (and most activities) that the Power family put before him (a minor facet of Bogdanove's portrayal of Franklin as a ''very'' lonely little boy, as at the time he had almost become an incidental character in ''The Fantastic Four'', a series where ''his own parents'' were starring characters).----


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The vivid responses of a new generation of Chinese photographers and video artists to the rapid cultural, political, social and economic changes taking place in China will be on view in a compelling and varied exhibition at the V&A this autumn.
'Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China' is the first comprehensive survey of Chinese photography and video from the past decade. As well as introducing an extraordinary body of work to a UK audience, the exhibition will provide remarkable insight into the dynamics of Chinese culture at the start of the 21st century.
Featuring 80 works by 40 artists, the exhibition reflects the energy of younger Chinese artists. The works, by both rising stars and established artists, are often monumental in scale and experimental in nature.
The exhibition has four thematic sections: History and Memory; Re-imagining the Body; People and Place; Performing the Self.
HISTORY AND MEMORY, the opening section, explores China's past. It features works which update themes from traditional Chinese art, and also explores China's turbulent recent history, such as events in Tiananmen Square.
Song Dong, a Beijing-based artist, lay for 40 minutes face-down in Tiananmen Square breathing onto the paving until a thin layer of ice formed beneath his mouth - a symbolic attempt to breathe new life into a place associated with political protest. The record of the event is presented as a large-scale light box 'Breathing Part 1 and Part 2' accompanied by an audio tape of the artist's breathing.
Liu Zheng captures a dark vision of his countrymen in a series of photographs informed by the work of August Sander and Diane Arbus.
PERFORMING THE SELF contains photographs and videos that reflect the urgent search for new forms of individual identity in a rapidly changing society.
In 'Night Revels of Lao Li' an imposing 31-foot photograph, Wang Qingsong reinterprets a famous 10th century scroll painting about a disillusioned government official, replacing him with Li Xianting, a well-known critic who was sacked from an official art magazine for championing experimental art.
RE-IMAGINING THE BODY looks at the striking ways in which Chinese artists have used the body as a vehicle for self-expression and social critique.
In Rong Rong's 'East Village, Beijing, No. 20' the photographer captures a celebrated performance entitled 'Twelve Square Metres' by Beijing-based performance artist Zhang Huan. The title refers to the size of the public toilet in which Zhang Huan, coated in honey, spent an hour, slowly becoming covered by flies. The performance enabled him, he said, to imagine his 'essential existence' reduced to the level of waste.
PEOPLE AND PLACE, the final section in the exhibition, explores ways in which photographers and video artists have responded to the dramatic changes taking place in the environment, and in particular the transformation of China's urban centres.
In 'Demolition: Forbidden City, Beijing' (1998), Zhang Dali captures the course of Beijing's massive urban transformation. A photographer and graffiti artist, Zhang spray paints an outline of his own head onto buildings scheduled for demolition. He knocks out the large head-shaped hole, through which can be glimpsed the roofs of the Forbidden City, dramatically contrasting the vanishing and emerging architecture of China's capital city.
The exhibition is curated by Wu Hung, the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago and Christopher Phillips, Curator, International Center of Photography, New York. The exhibition has been adapted for the V&A by Kate Best, Curator, Photographs.
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While the videos (on Samsung Mobile's YouTube channel) reveal very little about what we can expect from the Note 4, we have a good idea of what to expect thanks to the hardworking rumor mill. In addition to a possible metal body and curved QHD display, the Galaxy Note 4 is reported to carry a speedy Snapdragon 805 processor and a sharp 16-megapixel rear camera.
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A new type of malware that is using sound to transmit itself has been developed by scientists and it seems that the Linux systems are the only ones that can be protected against this kind of attacks.
Scientists Michael Hanspach and Michael Goetz from Fraunhofer FKIE, Wachtberg, Germany, have developed a technique capable of infecting other computers with malware that transmits itself using just speakers and microphones.
"Covert channels can be used to circumvent system and network policies by establishing communications that have not been considered in the design of the computing system. We construct a covert channel between different computing systems that utilizes audio modulation/demodulation to exchange data between the computing systems over the air medium," reads the paper that they published in the Journal of Communications.
This would prove a very powerful method of infecting computers, especially because they don't even have to be linked in a network. All that is needed for the method to work is proximity.
Another problem is that there is virtually no protection embedded in today's operating systems for such malware. The good news is that Linux users can make a few small modifications in order to gain that much needed protection.
The developers have explained that Linux systems can be programed, rather easily, to adapt to this new form of attacks.
"If audio input and output devices cannot be switched off, implementation of audio filtering options may be an alternative approach to counter maliciously triggered participation in covert networks. "
"In Linux-based operating systems, a software-defined audio filter can be implemented with ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) in conjunction with the LADSPA (Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API)," the scientists say in the paper.
Sound-transmitted malware is something very new and it's no wonder that there is no protection against it, but it goes to show why Linux systems are considered safer.


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- 5 Pool
- Massage services
- Live entertainment
- Pool Bar
- Game room
- Coffee shop
- Elevators
- Exercise gym
- Non-smoking rooms (generic)
- Internet services
- Hairdresser/barber
- Hair dryer
- On-Site parking
- Playground
- Dry cleaning
- Safe deposit box
- Business center
- Sauna
- Nightclub
- Beauty shop/salon
- Ironing board
- Laundry/Valet service
- Room service
- 7 Lounges/bars
- 13 Restaurant
- Shop
Other facilities
• Monorail Service
• Two 18-hole golf courses
• Beachers Madhouse - choose the early or late show, both offering non-stop entertainment, opening days vary.
Dining information
• Features 13 restaurants, cafes and grills, which include Wolfgang Puck and Emeril Lagasses signature restaurants
• CRUSH - a cosmopolitan-style menu, with selections inspired by traditional favourites as well as standouts from around the world, CRUSH offers dishes, like great experiences, that are meant to be shared
• Hakkasan at MGM Grand - an exhilarating new concept in dining and entertainment. This unique fusion of incredible cuisine and must-see nightlife spans over 75,000-square-feet across five levels.
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BOSTON (CBS) – Is the assault on Libya a bad idea? Rep. Lynch says it is. He sat down with Dan Rea in studio to talk about where the U.S. stands and how he believes we should proceed. Originally broadcast March 21st, 2011.
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