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Psalm 103:8 The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.
Psalm 111:4 He has caused his wonders to be remembered; the Lord is gracious and compassionate.
Psalm 86:15 But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.
Psalm 116:5 The Lord is gracious and righteous; our God is full of compassion.
Psalm 145:8 The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love.
Exodus 34:6 And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness,
Deuteronomy 28:54 Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children,
2 Chronicles 30:9 If you return to the Lord, then your fellow Israelites and your children will be shown compassion by their captors and will return to this land, for the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face from you if you return to him."
Nehemiah 9:17 They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. Therefore you did not desert them,
Psalm 51:1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.
Psalm 77:9 Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?"
Psalm 90:13 Relent, Lord! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants.
Psalm 103:4 who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion,
Psalm 103:13 As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him;
Psalm 112:4 Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for those who are gracious and compassionate and righteous.
Psalm 119:77 Let your compassion come to me that I may live, for your law is my delight.
Psalm 119:156 Your compassion, Lord, is great; preserve my life according to your laws.
Psalm 135:14 For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants.
Isaiah 27:11 For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
Isaiah 30:18 Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!
Isaiah 49:15 "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!
Isaiah 54:7 "For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with deep compassion I will bring you back.
Isaiah 54:8 In a surge of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you," says the Lord your Redeemer.
Isaiah 54:10 Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed," says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Isaiah 63:15 Look down from heaven and see, from your lofty throne, holy and glorious. Where are your zeal and your might? Your tenderness and compassion are withheld from us.
Lamentations 3:22 Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.
Lamentations 3:32 Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love.
Lamentations 4:10 With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed.
Hosea 2:19 I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion.
Hosea 11:8 "How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I treat you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboyim? My heart is changed within me; all my compassion is aroused.
Joel 2:13 Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.
Jonah 4:2 He prayed to the Lord, "Isn't this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity.
Micah 7:19 You will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.
Zechariah 7:9 "This is what the Lord Almighty said: 'Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.
Matthew 14:14 When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick.
Matthew 15:32 Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way."
Matthew 20:34 Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him.
Mark 6:34 When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.
Luke 15:20 So he got up and went to his father. "But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.
Romans 9:15 For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."
2 Corinthians 1:3 [ Praise to the God of All Comfort ] Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
Ephesians 4:32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Philippians 2:1 [ Imitating Christ's Humility ] Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,
Colossians 3:12 Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
James 5:11 As you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
1 Peter 3:8 [ Suffering for Doing Good ] Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.

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As a part of our Sonlight curriculum, we have read a couple of new books this week. The first one was this:
|"The Doughnuts" from Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
We are also reading about Abraham and Lot in our bible stories. Abraham, for those of you who are not aware or cannot remember, is famous for sharing. Anyway, to tie the two stories together, we, as a family, made doughnuts and glazed them. Once they were done, Dan and the girls delivered them to some of our neighbors (along with some homemade tomatillo salsa that I had made earlier that day). The girls received gracious thank yous and also got to experience what it feels like to share on a grander scale than their own toys with each other.
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Don't confuse me
I tend to think of conservatism as an intellectual tradition and tendency that I respect but do not endorse for reasons that I can give at some length. But 'conservative' as used of you and me has nothing to do with actual conservatism. In this all-too familiar commons-room usage, the term only means *unprincipled* or *vulgar*. It has no intellectual content at all. ... It's sheer incomprehension, from people who ought to know -- and teach -- better.Slight correction: it's sheer willful incomprehension. I remember my mother putting up one of those refrigerator magnets that said "My mind's made up. Please don't confuse me with facts." I had no idea that was a research agenda.


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Classifying Exceptional Children and Adolescents.
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Presented in the paper are U.S. Office of Education data relevant to the kinds and numbers of handicapped youths (ages 5 to 19 years), and the corresponding special education teachers needed. Also considered are psychological and educational evaluations in the areas of achievement; aptitude; intelligence; interest, preference, and value; temperament, adjustment, maturity; study habit, and motivation; and creativity. It is stated that evaluations should help and should not harm persons, including the poor (the so-called disadvantaged), who are often penalized by middle class tests. A treatment model (developmental, corrective, remedial, educational, and vocational) is advocated. Operant conditioning procedures are especially recommended. (Author)
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WASHINGTON — Washington. -- It is about as hazardous to be on Florence King's good side as on her bad side, but here goes: If Mencken were alive, he would be her.
She can like that praise or lump it, but it fits this caustic wit who last August wrote: ''If, as countless elegies to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis claimed, 'she taught us how to behave with taste,' how come it didn't take? If 'she taught us how to grieve LTC with dignity,' why is everyone crying on television?''
Before we are buried beneath a mudslide of routine blather, let's pay attention to Ms. King, who knows why someone has actually said, ''We can't balance the budget on the backs of the Titanic.'' Hey, ''the backs of the poor,'' ''the deck chairs on the Titanic'' -- what's the difference? When civic life is saturated with cliches and banalities, Ms. King believes, public speech becomes fungible noise, as when someone protesting restrictions on the entry into this country of HIV-positive people says, ''Travel doesn't cause HIV.''


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Not bad for someone less than three years on the job.
Here in Ms. Bachmann's district, and in much of the country, that outsized celebrity has boiled down to this: They adore her or they loathe her.
As the health care overhaul moves closer to a full debate in Congress, Ms. Bachmann is under attack from the
"People are struggling to stay in their homes, and she's off trying to be on Fox News," said one of those Democrats, Tarryl L. Clark, a state senator.
Some of Ms. Bachmann's fellow Republicans, meanwhile, are drawing glowing comparisons between her and
Ms. Bachmann's admirers point to her uncompromising, unvarnished stances against big spending, big government programs,
"This is the thing with her," said Brad Biers, a supporter of Ms. Bachmann who is active in the state
What is beyond dispute is that Ms. Bachmann's remarks are seldom dull. She has encouraged an "orderly revolution" against the Democratic establishment and has suggested that she fears that the Obama administration is trying to do away with the dollar.
Last week, she called on
In recent months, Ms. Bachmann has been particularly outspoken against Democrats' proposals on health care. She has questioned whether Congress has the constitutional authority to set such policy in the first place. She has suggested that one proposal's privacy rules for school-based clinics could open the way for young girls' getting referrals for abortions. And she has said that illegal immigrants will get access to taxpayer-subsidized health care, one among a list of comments by Ms. Bachmann that the Democratic National Committee has attacked as false.
On Capitol Hill, Ms. Bachmann is viewed with disdain by Democrats who see her as a wacky purveyor of outrageous claims and criticisms. Leading Republicans wince occasionally at her appearances on the floor and on television, but they also see her as someone with telegenic appeal who can energize conservatives and aggravate Democrats and they are not likely to rein her in.
In Minnesota, some believe the national attention around Ms. Bachmann may hint at hopes for a higher office. When Gov.
Asked whether she might consider an office beyond the House, Ms. Bachmann, who has announced plans to seek re-election, did not address other possibilities. "I am focused 100 percent on representing Minnesota's Sixth Congressional District and ensuring their voices are heard in Washington," she wrote in an e-mail response to questions.
Still, Ms. Bachmann, a lawyer, former state senator and mother of five who with her husband, Marcus, a clinical therapist, has opened their home to 23 foster children, has not so far objected to the speculation, particularly the comparisons to Ms. Palin.
"Sarah Palin is a dedicated mother, committed public servant and strong political figure who has fought hard to protect life, the family budget, and freedom," Ms. Bachmann said, noting that Ms. Palin's book — not yet out — was already selling in enormous numbers, while "
From a distance, it may be hard to picture how Minnesota, the state with the longest-running streak of picking Democrats for president (since 1976), could also have elected Ms. Bachmann, who was found in a study by The National Journal to be the 31st-most-conservative member of the House based on her votes in 2008.
But Ms. Bachmann's district, stretching from the northern suburbs of the Twin Cities, through middle-income exurbs, farmland and into St. Cloud, is defined by social conservatism, an independent, populist streak, and a significant Roman Catholic population. While the state voted for
In serving the district, a spokeswoman for Ms. Bachmann said, the congresswoman is most proud of "providing the best constituent service" and pushing to obtain a veterans health clinic.
Still, in Ms. Bachmann's first bid for re-election in 2008, many speculated that she was in serious trouble. Shortly before the election, she said on
One of her Democratic opponents next year, Maureen Reed, said Ms. Bachmann "injects fear and anger in people, and people don't solve problems well when they're fearful and angry." Ms. Reed said her goal was to "dial down the fear, dial down the anger."
Constance Carlson, a resident of Buffalo, seemed ready for such a change.
"I try to avoid listening to her," Ms. Carlson said of Ms. Bachmann. "Some of her comments are just distracting, conspiracy-type stuff."
"I'd much rather hear her say, 'I don't agree and here's my solution,' " she added.
But others here say they wonder whether a Democrat really has a chance.
"She fits this district well," said King Banaian, a Bachmann supporter in St. Cloud. "I think there are a lot of people who want straight talk and she appeals to them."Continue reading the main story


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"What is ALEC?" asked New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on March 25. "Despite claims that it's nonpartisan, it's very much a movement-conservative organization, funded by the usual suspects: the Kochs, Exxon Mobil, and so on. Unlike other such groups, however, it doesn't just influence laws, it literally writes them, supplying fully drafted bills to state legislators. In Virginia, for example, more than 50 ALEC-written bills have been introduced, many almost word for word. And these bills often become law." ..
ALEC's dirty work deserves more exposure
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State seeks appeal, stay, of PLA ruling
The ruling, a major victory for organized labor, overturned a Republican-backed state law adopted last July that made it illegal for the State of Michigan, cities, townships, counties, school boards and universities in Michigan to enter into project labor agreements on taxpayer-financed construction projects.
There were two developments in the case from last month. On March 6, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette filed an appeal of the ruling with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. On March 30, Schuette filed a motion for a stay of the ruling before Judge Roberts – essentially asking the judge to suspend her own ruling because of purported financial harm that would be done to the state.
"It's a counterintuitive argument," said Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council attorney John Canzano, who argued the case before Judge Roberts. He said the State of Michigan is essentially arguing that it is being harmed financially by the ruling, even though the judge has already said that the state is not being harmed.
"The building trades were suing to overturn the law because we were being harmed financially," Canzano said. "If the state or a local unit of government doesn't want to enter into a PLA, they don't have to. No one is forcing them to do anything. I really don't think the judge is going to issue a stay."
Canzano said Roberts' ruling on the stay request would likely take at least a month, and the Appeals Court ruling would likely take many months.
Roberts' original ruling striking down Michigan's "Fair and Open Competition in Governmental Construction Act" (Public Act 98, 2011) said that the law "impermissibly interferes with the comprehensive regulatory scheme" established by the National Labor Relations Act. In other words, it violates federal labor law.
The judge's ruling essentially turns back the clock on state law, which now permits local project labor agreements. Following Judge Roberts' ruling, Wayne State University lifted its ban on PLAs.Project labor agreements are generally sought by property owners (or municipal officials or school boards) and the construction contractors they hire. The agreements with the construction labor force can vary from project to project, but generally establish for the duration of the project, wage rates, hours, and usually prohibit strikes or lockouts. The agreements can also include language that spells out standards for safety or skills training for workers, as well as drug and alcohol testing requirements.
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Americans of a certain age remember the FBI's counter-intelligence operation, COINTELPRO, which, during its years of operation from 1956 to 1971, surveilled, infiltrated, manipulated, and tried to provoke criminal activities by entirely lawful civil rights and anti-war demonstrators exercising their First Amendment rights to oppose government policies.
In the 1970s, the Senate Select Committee to Study Government Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities so exposed FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's relentless violations of the Bill of Rights, very much including the First Amendment, that Attorney General Edward Levi - the best constitutionalist in that office in our history - established new FBI guidelines to keep its agents within the bounds of the Constitution.
And Senator Frank Church of Idaho, chairman of that Select Committee on Intelligence Activities, pledged in 1975, "The American people need to be reassured that never again will an agency of the government be permitted to conduct a secret war against those citizens it considers a threat to the established order."
Attorney General John Ashcroft has broken that pledge more times than I can count, because so much of his surveillance of we the people is done in secret. But Ashcroft's overturning of the Levi FBI guidelines was perpetrated publicly in May 2002, when he set new FBI guidelines in the spirit of COINTELPRO. As a May 31, 2002, New York Times editorial charged: The FBI now has "nearly unbridled power to poke into the affairs of anyone in the United States, even when there is no evidence of illegal activity."
As further evidence of how FBI director Robert Mueller continues morphing into J. Edgar Hoover, on November 23, 2003, New York Times warned, in a front-page story by its invaluable legal affairs reporter Eric Lichtblau, "the Federal Bureau of Investigation has collected extensive information on the tactics, training and organization of antiwar demonstrators and has advised local law enforcement officials to report any suspicious activity at protests to its counterterrorism squads, according to interviews and a confidential bureau memorandum."
This is not news to those of us who track the FBI tracking us. But the importance of this coverage of the continuous contempt of Frank Church's 1975 pledge to the American people by Robert Mueller and his boss, John Ashcroft, is revealed in a sentence deep in that New York Times story. "The FBI memorandum … appears to offer the first corroboration of a coordinated nationwide effort to collect intelligence regarding demonstrations."
Analyzing this classified confidential FBI memorandum, FBI Intelligence Bulletin no. 89, (of which I too have a copy), the October 15, 2003, Times quotes ACLU executive director Anthony Romero. "This bulletin confirms that the federal government is targeting innocent Americans engaged in nothing more than lawful protest and dissent. . . . It is troubling that the FBI is advocating spying on peaceful protesters, but even protesters who engage in civil disobedience or other disruptive acts should not be treated like potential terrorists."
Among the "tactics" the FBI advises local law enforcement agencies to track in this intelligence bulletin on "current, relevant terrorism information" is the frequent use by protesters of "the Internet to recruit, raise funds, and coordinate their activities prior to demonstrations."
This is exactly how the nation's Bill of Rights Defence Committees coordinate - and provide organizing tools for the formation of new BORDC committees - to protest Ashcroft's USA Patriot Act and subsequent executive orders in messages to their members of Congress.
And when the attorney general went on his "victory tour" - speaking only to law enforcement agencies on the virtues of the Patriot Act - BORDC and ACLU members used the Internet, exercising their First Amendment rights, to recruit demonstrators at various stops on Ashcroft's barnstorming trek.
In what part of the Constitution does the FBI have the authority to put in its databases the names of protesters using the Internet to organize peaceful demonstrations?
Beneath the visible paramilitarism of the ?New American Century?, the powers and extent of secret meta-government organisations has mushroomed under the Bush administration.
FBI Intelligence Bulletin no. 89 also alerts local police that "activists often communicate with one another using cell phones or radios to coordinate activities or to update colleagues about ongoing events. Other types of media equipment (video cameras, photogenic equipment, audiotape recorders, microphones, and computer and radio equipment) may be used for documenting potential cases of police brutality and for distribution of information over the Internet."
Good grief! These persons under suspicion actually document out-of-control police during demonstrations - and they also communicate with each other in the course of a demonstration!
This FBI "Law Enforcement Sensitive Bulletin" ends, "Law enforcement agencies should be alert to these possible indicators of protest activity and report any potentially illegal acts to the nearest FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force." But why does this brooding FBI bulletin contain so many references to entirely legal protest activities? Like this one: "Activists may use intimidation techniques such as videotaping" during demonstrations. Who is intimidating whom?
Referring to these FBI instructions on how to deal with the "tactics" of protesting demonstrators, Senator Ted Kennedy - on ABC-TV's This Week, November 23 - said, "How could we be fighting abroad to defend our freedoms, and diminishing those freedoms here at home?"
Adds the ACLU's Anthony Romero, "What is the chilling effect that will be felt by Americans all across the country if they think they will come under FBI scrutiny just by going to a protest?" Will somebody in the elite Washington press corps ask George W. Bush if he's heard about the fifth freedom in the First Amendment, "the right of the people peaceably to assemble"?
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Alan and I finally got off our duffs and recorded a podcast. Can you believe it? We have the evidence right here in our grimy little podcasting hands to prove it. But, you'll have to listen to believe it for yourself.
In podcast #54 Alan and I are back to our old antics, and discuss:
Alan and I also take some time to put a plug in there for the news about the origins of Stonehenge, and NASA's Mars Phoenix lander. We also pay homage to two greats who passed in the last few days, comedian Harvey Korman and director/actor Sidney Pollack. "That's Headley!" Thanks for the wonderful years, guys.
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Like everyone else who's connected with software development in one form or another, I'm constantly bombarded by various firms interested in a "partnership" to funnel some development, QA or other work to an India firm. In different jobs, I've frequently entertained outsourcing various kinds of work to India and have done so in a few cases. Various of my compatriots have done this too, with every kind of success and horror story you can imagine.
But one theme I've found consistent in almost every firm that's contacted me is that Symantec is one of their banner clients. Symantec's almost always one of the first companies mentioned, proudly held up making that firm legit because they've done work for Symantec. These days, I regularly tell callers that having Symantec as a client is not a differentiator. Everybody tells me Symantec is their client. They must hire every India outsourcing firm on the planet, well at least the ones in India. 🙂 Having a large facility in Pune also probably has a lot to do with it.
The other reason naming Symantec as your client isn't helpful is I don't work for companies that look much like or operate like Symantec. Entrepreneurial and startup companies have much different needs and capabilities than corporate behemoths like Symantec. Because you've done work for Symantec doesn't necessarily mean your firm would be the best fit for my situation. I'd much rather hear about companies in my space, and that are closer to my size, or were and how you helped them succeed to produce more revenue.
This week my company where I'm CTO, Absolute Performance, made a couple of announcements. First, we are attending the Parallels Summit 2008 conference in Washington D.C. where Absolute CEO Jerry Champlin had a talk today about exploiting the explosion of opportunities in the SaaS market. At the show we announced Absolute is adding support for Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, which is how Parallels virtualizes applications above the operating system level, sometimes referred to as OS virtualization. Containers abstract the OS from the application, rather than just the hardware as hypervisors do, allowing you to use the OS as a service to applications in multiple containers. Absolute has already announced support for instrumenting VMware ESX and with the addition of Virtuozzo Containers we'll begin to provide deep instrumentation of virtualized Parallels environments.
How do you rapidly deploy applications, when they all install, have various requirements, and are managed differently? The effort to install applications can be complex and time consuming. The Application Packaging Standard is a standard, created by Parallels which they are now turning into an industry supported standard, which allows you to package an application once. Control panels, provisioning information, etc., are all standardized through APS. There are also useful services within APS, such as the APS Catalog (lists applications in one place with all their associated updates), APS Identity Service for single sign on for APS apps, and APS licensing (under development) for centralizing and standardizing licensing. There are about 150 applications within the APS catalog today. Absolute Performance announced our support for the APS standard, and also that we will have templates for instrumenting some APS right out the box. After some more research into which are the most widely utilized, we'll start releasing templates for APS apps in the APS Catalog. Lastly, we announced we are deepening our partnership with Parallels and will work together on future initiatives to help managed services and hosting partners effectively thrive in the world of SaaS.
We also announced our partnership with FORTRUST, a Colorado data center services and collocation facilities provider, who brought out their FORTRUST Managed Services. We're exciting about partnering with them because they clearly recognize the move towards providing high value services to customers. And not just the typical basic monitoring either, but the full suite of monitoring, management, pre-production load testing, end user experience validation and reporting functions of its managed services offering. FORTRUST has some of the highest quality facilities you'll see and I think you'll find the same true of their managed services offerings. All my best to the team there and the new managed services offerings.
As I've talked about previously in my NWW blog, SaaS is all about partnering and without effective partnering strategies, it's a tough go to be a one-vendor show. Partnerships, like those we announced this week, show why it's the case.
Friday was one of those truly fabulous days. I was able to spend all dayFriday in the recording studio. We were laying down the rhythm tracks for someChristian music written by fellow guitar player, songwriter, and goodfriend, Ike Elliott. Ike has a post up about Friday on his blog too. The music ispart of a non-profit company I'm involved in called The Kingdom Project. I'lltell you more about that in a bit.
Ike's been writing some songs over the past year or so, all of which I likevery much. He has a real gift, writing in a style somewhere between TheBeatles and Newsboys. After soliciting various opinions, the songs were whittleddown to seven which we recorded the basic tracks for on Friday.
Recording music is a fascinating process. I've recorded in my home studio andprofessional studios. But the process is pretty much the same. The songwriterhas a message and a vision woven into their songs. If you are recording your ownsongs, you get to decide the next steps. But here comes the courageous part. Toreally do a song justice you have to free it into the hands of other musicianswho are part of the recording and creative process. That can be scary or it canbe a very liberating experience. It's all comes down to communicating the visionof the music, and the kind of connection you have with your fellow musicians.
The process in the studio can become very technical at times, becomingall about dialing in the instruments, keeping in time with the pulse, playingthe right chords and notes, keeping it in the pocket, etc. Recording is likelooking into the mirror – it doesn't lie. What's recorded is what you played. Ifyou were ahead of the pulse, even just a little bit, it all shows up. If themusicians aren't connecting, you can hear it. And when the are connecting, themusic just flows. The best part is seeing what other musicians do with the songand the ideas from the producer and songwriter.
Each person brings their own talents, ideas, roots in music, etc. Mostimportantly is a desire to try and achieve what the producer and songwriterare looking for. They may give you freedom to do whatever you feel would work,or they may say "give me a tasty David Gilmour kind of lick right there." At onepoint during our recording, the producer, Jeremiah Horner, asked me to give him"the biggest pick slide you've ever done." I set my Strat so it would get thekind of sound I thought he wanted, and let'er rip as he punched it into therecording. We all had a huge laugh at just how over the top the pick slide was,but you know, it worked in the song and it's what Jeremiah had in mind. And weall liked it. It was a fun moment that everyone got a lot of enjoymentfrom.
We spent from 9am to 8pm in the studio and the time just flew by. I onlychecked the clock twice; once at 12:45pm when my stomach started growling, andthen again at 6pm. Each time it only seemed like an hour or so had gone by. Timein the studio goes fast because you're so focused on what you're doing, andbecause you're having so much fun.
We're planning to go back in the studio in June to do some doubling,overdubs, vocals and solos. That's yet another kind of creative process that I'mlooking forward to. In the mean time, I'll be practicing using the rough mixesJeremiah gave us on Sunday.
A little bit more about the project… This recording is part of a non-profitcompany called The Kingdom Project. KP is all about helping emerging Christianartists get their music produced, recorded and promoted. We're developing a website with all kinds of resources to help new songwriters get a leg up on the insand outs of copyrighting their music, and getting a demo or a CD made, andconnecting with others who can help them. We also connect folks interested insponsoring new artists or projects with songwriters, producers and musicians.Ike's recording is the first project we've initiated. We'll plan to begin oursecond project sometime later this year.
So if you are interested in learning more or getting involved, please feelfree to contact me. We're looking for songwriters, sponsors, and help with theweb site and content.
With the eminent round of additional layoffs coming at Sun, there have to besome real rock stars out their looking for their next move. So… if you are arock star pre-sales engineer who knows how to sell solutions and would like toget into the exploding SaaS market… or you are a top QA engineer wholoves testing, automation, and digging out the toughest to find bugs… you oweit to yourself to check out these open positions at my new company, AbsolutePerformance.
Send your information to firstname.lastname@example.com. Tell 'em you read about it on The Converging Network blog.
Rock On!
With the soaring interest in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), we are alreadyseeing the same metaphor used for other service offerings.Platform-as-a-Service, or PaaS, is becoming a common place term. Now I've alsoseen IaaS, or Infrastructure-as-a-Service. As I like to say, no good idea goesun-copied. What that means is we should all expect to be overrun by the use ofXaaS terms, where X equals whatever word or phrase any vendor, analyst ormarketer chooses to promote their product or service. If Sausage-as-a-Servicewill help sell more processed meats, you can bet someone will jump on thebandwagon and leverage XaaS to their benefit.
If imitation (being copied) is the most sincere form of flattery, then I'dsay SaaS is gaining enough traction that others are coping the XaaS term fortheir use. But we shouldn't forget, what this all really means to us is thatsoftware, infrastructure, data, etc., etc,. are all moving into the cloud, beingoffered as a service.
So if anyone needs any Blogging-as-a-Service, you know where to contact me.:)
I was shocked today because I had two very strange but similar experiences with passwords. Both involved accounts with online web sites/services, and both involved some pretty fundamentally bad password limitations. I'm half tempted to name the sites here but elected to contact them privately about the issues. What were the issues?
Absurd limitations in user account passwords. The first site would not allow a user password longer than 10 characters. Ah… last I heard, longer passwords (to some extent) are generally better, as long as other policies like requiring caps and numbers mixed in. All of these, including password length, help against brute force attacks. The second site did not allow special characters in the password. Adding a special character here or there is another common method of making passwords more difficult to crack. I just found it strange to run into two sites with such odd password limitations.
Wikipedia has some good information on basic password security. I hope it can be of help to the sites I visited today.
Last week a close friend lost her spouse very unexpectedly. All of us whoparticipate under her leadership in our music program (band) at church wereshocked and grieved for such a devastating loss for a close friend. It was trulyheartbreaking. The experience is one I would of course not want to have gothrough if given the choice, but it did reawakened for mesomething I've believed about leadership for some time. So I share thesethoughts about leadership, keeping in mind they pale in comparison tothe gravity of last week's events.
There are many ways to assess, evaluate and measure leadership. Bottom lineresults, leadership style, strengths surveys, 360 degree performance reviews,action under fire… I could go on and on. But one measurement that is oftenoverlooked is, what happens when the leader's not there?
I enjoy, respect and thrive under many leadership styles, but value much lesscharismatic and personality driven teams. They rarely hold up in the long term,and usually hit some ceiling frequently not surpassable without a significantchange of leadership. Those approaches are usually too dependent upon thecapabilities and characteristics of one person. Leadership solely vested in thatone person also means you live with their limitations too. At least that's beenmy view.
I believe leadership is about enabling the team and organization to achieveits best results, growing and thriving in the process. Flourishing is a greatway to describe a high performance team. It's about enabling people tosucceed. It's also about creating a shared vision, with clarity of purpose,goals and a high degree of mutual accountability within and outside the team. Ialso subscribe to the view that if you believe in people, truly believe in theirpower to succeed, they'll do just that, and more.
Want to see how effective leadership is? Remove the leader and see whathappens. You'll quickly spot where there's deficiencies in communications,continuity, goals, empowerment, decision making and many other areas. You'll seebottlenecks or pent up issues pretty quickly. If the team can't continueto excel, at least for a reasonably short time, you don't have a team, you havea group of followers. Now, see what happens when a curve ball shows up. Thatalso gives great insight into how effective the team's leadership is.
So, bringing this all back home to last week's experiences. Sunday's serviceswent off without a hitch, even without the week's normal 2 1/2 hour rehearsal.Some band members had never even heard the music prior to Sunday's earlyrehearsal. Everyone involved (probably 25-30 people) all to a person stepped upand volunteered to help out in whatever way was needed. Teammembers changed previous commitments to be available. And we'll continue thisand more until our leader returns, whether that's one week or six weeks fromnow. We have a shared vision and purpose for our music, we know how to executeand fill in when someone suddenly needs to step out, we know how to adjust(flexibility is one of our key attributes), and there are many capable leaderswithin the team who can step up and fill the gap until she returns.
Most importantly, none of us wants to let down the leaders in ourorganization. Our mission is to continue delivering on our goals without a drop inthe quality or capabilities of our music. Matter of fact, our goal stillcontinues to be raising the bar of our music program. We value our leaders toomuch to do anything less.
Well, I'm fresh back from my unannounced trip to Hiatus. It's a long, sortedand torrid story. To make a long story short, I was held captive in a primitivecave in the mountains of Afghanistan. But thanks to my recent training at RSA, Iwas able to communicate an SOS via a crudely crafted, low-fi Web 2.0 webservice. Fortunately, some Yahoo! stockholders happened across my plea, andaided in my rescue in the hopes that after returning to civilization I might beable to use my Network World blog to sway Microsoft and Yahoo back into activemerger talks. Alas, despite my best efforts, Yahoo continues to stumble along onits own, suffering a 14% devaluation in the markets today. None the less, it'sgreat to be back!
Okay, seriously… I wasn't in Hiatus, but just on hiatus from blogging herefor a bit. ("Back from Hiatus" is an old joke from one of Alan andmy podcasts a whileback.) I've just been overwhelmed recently with all kinds of work and personalactivities, that includes attending four different conferences in the last 2months, practicing for an upcoming CD recording project (we're in the studiothis Friday), launching a new product release for Absolute Performance, setting up several new partnerships, rebuilding a corporate web site, diggingdeep into Microsoft's Live Mesh strategy, and building up my blog readershipon my Network Worldblog. No excuses, but that's some of the things which have been occupying mytime.
So… back to more blogging on The Converging Network. I'm really energizedabout what I've learned from the SaaS marketplace, and activities by the likesof Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and Yahoo. Some of it also comes from readingNicholas Carr's book, The Big Switch. And of course, I have a lot to say aboutsecurity, networking, virtualization and creating products.
It's good to be back.


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Awareness and Presence
Paper From Awareness to Connectedness: The Design and Deployment of Presence Displays
Describes user-centered process for designing awareness displays and evaluation demonstrating these displays improve sense of awareness and connectedness. Assists display designers in building displays that effectively support awareness and connectedness.
Anind Dey
Note Negotiating Presence-in-Absence: Contact, Content and Context
Develops an analytic framework integrating previous HCI findings on intimate communication and illustrates it with a case study. Offers a design space for social presence systems.
Steve Howard
Note Using Linguistic Features to Measure Presence in Computer-Mediated Communication
Presents a new technique for measuring presence in computer-mediated communication using linguistic features of dialogues. Provides an easy-to-use method for assessing the effects of communications technologies on presence.
Adam Kramer
Paper The Paradox of the Assisted User: Guidance can be Counterproductive
This paper contributes to the empirical and cognitive foundation of principles underlying human computer interaction. It shows that guidance in interfaces by externalizing information does not always yield better performance.
Christof van Nimwegen
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If you recently purchased a home and one of the window's wood blinds has a broken slat, then you will be pleased to know that this is a simple repair to make. Even if you do not have any experience with fixing things around your home, this is a very simple repair to make and doesn't require any special tools.
To repair your wooden blinds in the simplest way possible, first you should remove them from your window. It is much easier to work on the blinds when they are laying on the ground or on top of a table.
Once you have removed the blinds from the window, then follow this procedure to repair them:
Step 1: Remove the Blind Lifting String Plugs
To remove the broken slat and replace it with a different one, you will need to remove the lifting strings from your blinds all the way up to the damaged slat. Once you have done this, then you can use the bottom slat on the blinds to replace the broken one.
You can remove the lifting spring plugs with a screwdriver. Remove the screws and then remove the strings for each slat moving upward until you have removed the broken slat.
Since you have the blinds apart, this is a great opportunity to wipe all of the accumulated dust and dirt off of the blinds. Use a soft damp cloth when you clean the blinds and never use bleach or harsh chemicals on wooden blinds because they will ruin the wood and discolor the blinds.
Step 2: Replace the Broken Slat with One from the Bottom of the Blinds
Once you have removed the broken slat, then you should string on the one from the bottom of the string. Place the first slat in place and then string on all of the remaining slats until you get all the way to the bottom. When you reach the bottom of the string, then place a small knot below the last slat to hold them in place.
Step 3: Replace the Lifting String Plugs
Once you have restrung the wooden blinds, then feed the lifting string back through the bottom of the blinds and reinstall the lifting string plugs. Use your screwdriver and screw in the plugs just enough to hold the strings in place and not too tight to where you risk cracking the wooden blind slat at the bottom.Share


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Democrats win New Jersey, Virginia governor race
Democrats scored two key victories in the gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia on Tuesday, making a comeback in the first statewide elections held under the Trump regime.
The race, particularly in Virginia, was being viewed as a referendum on U.S. President Donald Trump's governance as the victorious Democrat Ralph Northam attempted to leverage the leader's unpopularity in the territory that was a swing state in elections last year, writes ABC News.
The results, which are also a preview to next year's midterm congressional elections, should be a reason for Republicans to worry as Democrat supporters vote in large numbers negating the legions of rural voters who backed Trump in 2016, notes the BBC.


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Xoddam Trucking LLC,
A growing company that is on the rise to become a top transportation company with the leadership of bringing new jobs to the economy.
- Stage Product In Development
- Industry Mobile
- Location Lithia Springs, GA, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded December 2012
- Employees 31
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Company Summary
We will be the innovative leader in providing customer satisfaction. In partnership with our customers,associates,vendors,and sister companies,we will achieve mutually profitable growth. We will continue to operate with honesty and integrity as we support our partners and community. With God's help we will fulfill our mission.Shipping and Receiving of General Freight ,LTL Full and Partial Loads Storage load for crossdock freight .
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Houston CaribFest was established in October 2002. It seeks to celebrate cultural diversity of the Greater Houston area with festivities celebrating life through song, dance and artistic expression.
Houston CaribFest is your one-stop for Caribbean entertainment, while simultaneously providing a window to other Caribbean activities all across the globe!
The Houston CaribFest committee hopes its activities will positively impact Houston communities over the long term through community-based programs (scholarships etc.) and cooperative efforts with other organizations.
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Camouflage, Sienna Hall Houston
Official ULTRA GLO, Phoenix Event Center Houston
J' Ouvert, The Truck Yard Houston
Soca Xtreme, Milan Pavillion Houston
Parade of the Bands, Tom Bass Park
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I feel FANTASTIC!!!
Can I just say... I lost 3.7 lbs this past week! I worked so hard with cardio everyday & made sure I stuck to my Jenny Craig menu EXACTLY & was so happy to see 3.7 lbs! This week I also discovered that shovelling snow is a GREAT workout. We had a lot of snow fall this week & in the beginning I dreaded having to do it, but once I saw how many calories I was burning (thanks to my Jenny Craig armband) I was burning & then looked forward to getting some done each night in addition to the elliptical I was doing in the mornings. Last night I wanted to do some more, but our walkway & sidewalk were already done... so I did the entire sidewalk on our street & my neighbour's walkway. Tonight I'll be doing our back deck...Alex tells me the snow is up to his waist! He wants me to put it all in one place so he can try to make a snow cave. I'll be sure to take pictures.
Grande Prairie is having a BIGGEST LOSER competition. One of the radio stations here (the one that Alex used to work at) is pairing up with one of the gyms here in town (V02 Max) & their having a Biggest Loser competition with some big, BIG prizes... $6000.00 worth... And guess what? I totally applied to be a contestant! The prizes are $1000 cash, $1000 in Subway GC, a year membership at VO2 Max, and Treadmill valued at $2000 from Canadian Tire.
So... the first thing I have to do is get chosen as a contestant... then I'm gonna tear it up with eating perfectly & doing so much cardio it'll make your head spin! AND THEN... I'm gonna WIN! My goal is to mimic the weight loss I had this week (3.7 lbs) & lose a total of at least 30 lbs in the 8 weeks of the contest. I'll be doing my regular cardio in the morning, the stairs at work at lunch time & more cardio in the evenings & on weekends. I'm going to meet with my personal trainer, Dustin (Aftershock Fitness... he's also the manager at my gym, Snap Fitness) to find out how much cardio I can do without dying!
So stay tuned... if I'm chosen, you'll get to check out my bio & they're even going to be posting the weigh-ins on YouTube...so I'll make sure you guys get that info. Wish me luck & I know I'll totally need your support to do well :)
Friday, January 21, 2011
Week 12 - BIGGEST NEWS EVER!!!
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YOU are doing awesome..
I have been tempted with Jenny Craig.. It's been the money for the food which has been putting me off.. how do you find it with your previous budget?? Also I don't have an outlet anywhere near me, so??? Do they ship you the food?
- AnonymousJanuary 21, 2011 at 3:56 PM
Congrats!!! I say that as I am sitting here eating my pudding cups.....yes -that is CUPS. Seriously -how fo you have the energy to do that much cardio??ReplyDelete
Keep it up!!!
Good for you. It's a lot work I know! I always thought you were beautiful anyway. Here's fingers crossed you get to compete. Good luckReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 25, 2011 at 11:47 AM
Good luck Kellie! You've been doing great so far. Keep up the good work ( :ReplyDelete
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Bomb Scare
We had a bomb scare here earlier this week! Only... we weren't scared... we didn't know about it until one of the girls from yoga asked me if we'd had to evacuate... So the story! Earlier this week or late last week, a whole neighborhood very near our house (right around the supermarket Frente, if that means anything to anyone) was evacuated because a bomb was found. It's not what you're probably thinking, though - this was an American bomb presumably dropped during World War II that was somehow unearthed and had to be disarmed. Crazy!! Unexploded bombs are things I think of in places like Vietnam and Cambodia, not an industrialized country like Japan! But when I did a search for "Nagoya" and "bomb" on the Japan Times website, I found other stories that were quite similar. It shouldn't be surprising, I suppose; we bombed Nagoya quite heavily during World War II. One reason downtown is so entirely new is that essentially all of the old was wiped out. When I think about it, this probably still happens in Europe, as well. It's just something that never occurs to me because I grew up in Michigan. Let's see, when was the last time that Michigan was embroiled in a war... Certainly neither world war, Vietnam, nor Korea... the Civil War was too far south, as was the Spanish American War... looks like it'd have to be the War of 1812! It's pretty amazing, really, how blessed we Michiganders are to live in a place that's been free of significant conflict for so very long.
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One of the first things you notices about a person is their hair. This is why, it is so important that you know how to keep it in good shape. If you wants to know how? The following article will teach you all you need to know about caring for your hair.
You'll want to eschew heavy conditioning products if your hair is particularly delicate or fine. The weight of the conditioner acts to flatten and minimize the appearance of the hair. Light conditioners work better to add volume, without making the hair greasy or heavy.
Refrain from using too many appliances on your hair to keep it strong and healthy. Curling irons and blow dryers can strain your hair, causing it to be impossible or hard to repair. Periodically, don't heat your hair and give it a rest!
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If you have dry hair, or just don't want to have dry hair in the future, then you want to avoid using any hair care products that contain alcohol. This is because the alcohol can make your hair even more dry. This can make your hair very brittle and easily breakable.
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During the summer months, it's crucial that you put extra effort into caring for your hair. Always take the time to wash your hair after swimming or spending time in the sun. It's also a good idea to keep your hair covered with a bandanna or a loose cap, if you plan on being out all day.
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As was mentioned in the start of this article, your hair is one of the main features on your body. People notice is when they meet you. Even if you never knew how to care for your hair before, you do now. Seeing as you have read the advice in the above article.


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Middle school meets the Dark Side in this painfully funny survival story of social misfit Clark Sherman. When Clark crash-lands on the inhospitable planet of Festus Middle School, he soon learns the natives don't take kindly to newcomers . . . particularly ones who practice Jedi mind tricks and follow nerdy TV shows like Star Survivors. As he faces a conspiring group of violent bullies, browbeaten teachers and a fiendish principal, Clark knows he'll be lucky just to survive eighth grade. Then, hope appears on the horizon: there is Les, the enigmatic boy who seems to disappear at will; Ricki, a fellow Star Survivors fan; and the independent-minded librarian, Ms. Beacon. When Clark and his newfound allies are imperiled, he gathers his courage and the consequences of his actions ripple through the galaxy in life-altering ways.
Michael Merschel is an editor at The Dallas Morning News. He's also written plays, contributed to A Prairie Home Companion and composed an out-of-office reply that appeared in The New York Times and on NPR. Although he was featured on Humans of New York, he lives in Texas with his wife and three kids, who tell him he is not all that funny, usually.
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Caribee Boat Sales and Marina is located in the heart of downtown Islamorada, the "Sportfishing Capital of the World," making it a perfect place to store your boat. Storing indoors at Caribee, you're only minutes away from a secluded flat in the backcountry of Florida Bay, or from the cobalt blue depths of the Gulf Stream.
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Hybrid-powered generators help Thames keep the noise down
Thames Water is using pioneering hybrid-powered generators to help reduce emissions and noise on constructions sites.
The virtually silent Hybrid Power Pods are being successfully used in the streets of Hackney and Slough for water main diversion work, to allow longer working hours and minimal noise disruption.
The pods' battery technology replaces a traditional generator once a pre-programmed time of day or energy level is reached. The pod is so advanced, it then automatically shuts the diesel generator off completely. As in hybrid cars, the battery charges when the generator (or engine) is running.
Dr Keith Colquhoun, climate change and sustainability manager for Thames Water, said: "We're always looking for ways to more efficiently power our activities and reduce our environmental impact. These Hybrid Power Pods have been a revelation as they are portable, and provide power wherever we need it without disrupting our customers, especially at night time to support being a good neighbour."
Hannah Rose, Thames Water environment manager, added: "We're measuring the efficiency of the pods closely, tracking and capturing data. But between July and December last year, these pods saved over 30,000 litres of red diesel and more than 80 tonnes of carbon, reducing our overall greenhouse gas emissions."
The new addition to Thames Water's power supply has been made possible through a partnership with Power Savings Solutions, who design, manufacture and supply hybrid generators to the construction industry.