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The National Retail Federation's Big Show attracted tens of thousands of attendees . Far from resigning themselves to conquest by market places they are determined to make the right investments to thrive and survive.
Three years ago we found retail CIOs most concerned about innovation and security
At the NRF show in 2018 it was evident that they are still looking to innovation to drive customer engagement and a healthy bottom line.
As store and online shopping converge, retailers need innovative applications to deliver distinctive customer intimacy and a choice of exciting new merchandise. The NRF 2018 show convinced Forrester that:
1) Myriad point solutions will coalesce into retail applications ecosystems. Retailers, especially those selling branded merchandise, differentiate through process and experience, so they are reluctant to consign all their applications to a single vendor. They have to experiment with point solutions and in-store gadgets, but face challenges to scale and integrate the winners into their legacy enterprise stack. Emerging retail applications ecosystems help retailers to capitalize on opportunities more quickly by delivering preconfigured integration between leading solutions in each domain.
For example, Dunnhumby and JDA demonstrated 'transformational' assortment planning, applying Dunnhumby's powerful customer segmentation to JDA's proven assortment planning and execution platform. Salesforce Commerce Cloud demonstrated its ability to integrate Instagram and the Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
2) (Almost) every process now includes embedded "AI".
For years retailers lacked the infrastructure to store large volumes of granular data such as basket analysis, click stream, or social data. They used weighted moving averages to predict sales at the SKU and store level – a bit like driving while looking only in the rear view mirror. They lacked the computing power to develop, test, and run predictive models. They lacked trust in the predictive power of data generated by millions of "natural experiments", recording the outcome in terms of sales uplift from combinations of causal factors. But widespread adoption of cloud computing in retail opens a new world in which applications can recommend pricing, promotion, assortment, and space plans, based on systematic understanding of multiple independent causal factors. Somewhat confusingly, vendors and retailers lump into the term "AI" multiple capabilities, driving a transition from descriptive to prescriptive retail management systems.
3) Stores are becoming logistical hubs as well as showrooms. Retailers like Rent the Runway are transforming stores from showrooms for item sale or rental to logistical hubs for unlimited subscribers to drop off items and check out new ones, all through self-service tablets.
As enterprises strive to stay on a path of digital evolution, the consulting and systems integration marketplace is rapidly transforming as well to deliver a new generation of digital services. Forrester data shows that services buyers are focused on the right priorities: improving customer experience and digitally reinventing the business for growth. But the path to deliver against those priorities is becoming increasingly complex. Most companies have already attacked the low-hanging fruit in the form of front-end design for digital experiences, but improving scale and providing contextualized experiences is even harder.
For the new generation of digital evolution, these are two examples of pitfalls to watch out for on service provider engagements:
- Don't make the same mistake with immersive experiences as you did with mobile. Many organizations are already experimenting with technologies like bots and intelligent agents to deliver immersive CX. But remember the great race to create a mobile app? That proved there's no implicit value in developing a new channel alone. There's no value in content without context, and you can't deliver context without operational excellence too. Your services engagements should include alignment between the operational core and digital CX initiatives in order to deliver holistic, meaningful experiences at scale.
- Watch out for legacy tech buying processes interfering with agility. Services providers have made significant growth in building out new engagement models for working with clients and expanding their ecosystems to bring in non-traditional partners, like startups or academia. Despite desire on the client side to work in new ways, I often hear innovation-heavy projects face huge stumbling blocks when it's time to sign on the dotted line. The next challenge for services buyers is to develop new sourcing and buying processes that enable flexibility without sacrificing security.
One additional consequence of a new set of digital services for buyers is that sifting through these offerings is getting more complex too. I can't remember the last time I spoke with a vendor that didn't mention "end-to-end" capabilities. Agencies, management consultants, and tech services firms all speak in the language of digital transformation, and all are acquiring capabilities across the spectrum from design to cloud optimization.
Why The Right Web Analytics Platform Is (Even More) Business Critical
Forrester just recently published The Forrester Wave™: Web Analytics, Q4 2017. In it we rank the leading web analytics platform provides including Adobe, AT Internet, Cooladata, Google, IBM, Mixpanel, and Webtrekk.
"Why should I care?", you may ask. After all when it comes to understanding customers on digital touchpoints most businesses have extended their intelligence capablities beyond browser analytics to now include app, social, media, ads, and much more including even IoT. Digital intelligence practices have certainly continued to evolve over the past 2 decades.
The fact is that web analytics tech and approaches have continued to modernize in step with the customer digital engagement and digital transformation journeys that firms are undergoing. In this latest research comparing the leading web analytics enterprise vendors we report that:
- Modern web analytics technologies now form the core of the digital intelligence stack. Today's digital practitioners are using their web analytics systems for a lot more including: to aid behavioral targeting & personalization; manage their digital data; integrate it with testing; understand app engagement; and for cross-channel attribution (see Figure 1).
- Web analytics remains the single-most dominate digital intelligence technique. Almost three-quarters of respondents in Forrester's Q2 2017 Global Digital Intelligence Platforms Forrester Wave™ Customer Reference Online Survey used web analytics from their DI platform providers. Web analytics adoption is significantly greater than the next three dominant digital intelligence techniques which were: application analytics (48%), interaction analytics (43%), and cross-channel attribution (41%).
- Web engagement is still critical to business success. Since the late 90's, there has been significant shift of digital customer engagement beyond the browser & email (e.g. to mobile apps, social, kiosks and IoT). Yet the clear majority of active internet users still interact via browsers, which remains the most important digital channel for consumers to make online purchases.In a major new research report, The Technology-Augmented Employee, I take on a problem that's vexing CIOs and government leaders alike. In aggregate, US companies face a productivity paradox: Despite billions of dollars invested in technology, growth in employee productivity has slowed since 2004. Even though global technology spending will for the first time pass $3 trillion globally in 2018, this productivity paradox should concern CIOs and other decision-makers: For all these investments, shouldn't we expect a return in the form of more effective employees?As it turns out, not all those technology investments make their way down to employees — at least not effectively. While employees commonly have devices — 6 out of 10 information workers have a PC, and the same proportion have a smartphone — too few of them have adequate apps beyond just the basics: Forrester's Business Technographics data shows that fewer than 1 in 10 have job-specific applications they use daily. Emerging technology time-savers like voice applications enjoy moribund usage, despite the recent boom in Amazon Alexa applications. Instead, employees use just the basics, like email and calendars, on their devices.
But the problem runs deeper than apps or voice control. Tectonic shifts are underway in our economy and how we work. Forrester forecasts a world in which automation cannibalizes 17% of US jobs by 2027, partly offset by the growth of 10% new jobs from the automation economy. A transformed workforce, comprised of human-machine teams, is already emerging. More and more human employees find themselves working side-by-side with robotic colleagues — today.
What's required to succeed in this new world is, in part, a new way of thinking. CIOs and other leaders must think about how a given technology will help an employee solve problems, across three possible dimensions:
- Decision Context: First, design experiences providing information to help employees act. Making informed, timely decisions is difficult. Done right, technology can help a great deal. Increasingly, smart software can offer next-best action advice across the employee journey.
- Execution Support: A second level of augmentation occurs when machines take on part of the workload. In the 1960s, a Budget Director spent a lot of time calculating a budget by hand. Today, Microsoft Excel or financial software takes that arduous task off their plate.
- Human-managed machines: Finally, with machines taking over entire workflows, some humans are becoming robot-managers. As robotics process automation (RPA) deployments proliferate, humans who formerly did routine work are being promoted to overseeing exception-handling and process improvement, training the bots to be even more effective.
Once you've determined the appropriate context for augmenting an employee's activities with technology, you face a new challenge: An ever-increasing panoply of emerging technologies that can help solve previously intractable problems. Making decisions about these technologies requires you to ask numerous questions and to perform a proof of concept trial. How mature is this new technology, and have other companies succeeded with it? How will it impact the employee and customer experiences? What's the total economic impact and business case of deployment?
Augmenting workers — more frequently, with more sophisticated tools — will require an upgrade in employees' skills. RQ (robotics quotient) will join IQ (intelligence quotient) and EQ (emotional quotient) in the lexicon of human resources, business, and technology leaders everywhere. That's because RQ measures the skill set that human workers have when working with automated and semiautonomous systems; people who are adaptable, flexible, pick up new smart tools quickly, and who can problem solve have higher RQ. Companies with high RQ among their staffs will create more top-line revenue and profits than those with lower RQ ratings. In many cases, these organizations will need to invest in training and learning and development efforts to raise RQ, even if they don't know it yet.
For more insights, please check out my new report, The Technology-Augmented Employee.
J. P. Gownder is a vice president and principal analyst serving CIOs. He leads Forrester's research on the impact that robots, AI, and automation technologies have on employment, the economy, and the future of work. He also covers innovation in the context of disruptive devices and interfaces — from PCs to mobile devices, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), digital signage, and intelligent agents. He was named one of the five most important people in the world in the area of wearable computing. Follow him on Twitter .
Enterprise Trends In 2018… The year 2017 was a landmark year for the Enterprise IT. On one hand, technologies like Software Defined Networking (SDN), Internet of Things(IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) came in the mainstream. On the other hand, SMEs have also started leveraging technology to serve their customers in a better way. The inclusion of enterprise IT has made the SMEs more competitive than ever.
The start of 2018 brings a lot of expectations and predictions in the technology domain. It is interesting to jot down the top tech trends that are capable to transform the thriving enterprise IT into the sector that can offer tangible benefits.
Here are top five technology trends that are going to impact the enterprise IT in 2018:
- IoT will Get AI and Robotics Advantage
AI and machine learning, after passing through various stages of evolution, are ready to drive innovation across various industry sectors and IT arena. A report published by IDC has revealed that over half of the enterprise infrastructure would use cognitive and AI in one or other form by 2021 to improve productivity at a reduced cost. The prediction comes as we witness a rapid incorporation of AI in the corporate world.
IoT will play a major role in the organization in 2018. Now, the challenge is to integrate the device management into the existing IT infrastructure without causing disruption. Here AI and robotics come into the picture. Both these technologies would offer intelligent automation to manage IoT devices efficiently.
- SDN is Ready to Take Off
As the SDN advances, companies around the globe have started exploring the possibilities of virtual network services. We can see the broader adoption of SDN in the near future. The software-defined model will take charge of entire IT infrastructure soon. Also, the application-aware networking concept will play a major role in managing the performance, functionalities, and security of apps in the complex digital world.
When the cloud, 5G, and IoT technologies will converge, they will give rise to both machine learning and SDN solutions. They will improve the overall experience of consumers and enable expansion of B2B model.
- DevSecOps Approach will Prevail
Let's face it. Security concerns loom larger than before due to increasing incidences of cyber attacks. Companies may need to consider the security while adopting the DevOps approach in IT operations. The DevSecOps approach addresses this requirement and will gain strength in 2018. There is no exaggeration in predicting 2018 as the year of DevSecOps because security teams, which are equipped with the next-gen IT security tools, rely heavily on the insertion of security in the development lifecycle.
As we attempt to prevent high-profile data breaches and malware attacks on the business IT system, the nascent DevSecOps approach will become more important in the near future.
- Augmented Reality will Rule at Workplace
The phenomenal success of Pokémon Go has paved the way for Augmented Reality (AR) in our daily life. As per the prediction of Deloitte Global, tens of thousands of apps with AR capability will be available during 2018. Talking about the industries, auto, real estate, and manufacturing sectors will remain the biggest beneficiaries of AR.
However, experts believe that AR will find its way across various industry sectors. In the IT sector, for example, AR tutorials can help professionals to maintain and deploy hardware in data centers.
- Edge Computing is Here to Stay
Low latency and high throughput are much in demand for high-end, edge applications. It gives rise to edge computing. Let's take an example of a self-driving car to understand the importance of edge computing. A self-driving car may need a real-time computation to take direction-based judgments. It is only possible when a car can access a server and the computation completes in milliseconds. This type of latency requires edge computing architecture.
We can apply the same principle to enhance the workload management capabilities at the workplace. Companies can leverage the highly distributed edge computing network in 2018 and beyond to increase scalability and productivity.
Along with these trends, we can see the prevalence of other technical aspects like interoperability and automation this year.
Your law firm is a business. Like all businesses, growth and profitability is paramount. You want to see your client base grow and your profits increase, year on year. Even more importantly, you don't want to go backwards just because you are so busy working in the business that you don't notice what is happening. You may have other goals – opening another office or being recognized as an expert in a niche field. Whatever your measure of success is, you want it to be sustainable.
But creating consistent, long-term growth can prove elusive. Many businesses hire more staff in an effort to kickstart stagnating revenue. They will continue doing the things that have brought them success so far, failing to realize that, just as they made an improvement or streamlined a process before, so they will need to do it again if they want to continue growing.
The only true way to generate long-term growth is through the regular introduction of change to create new ways of doing things. For many businesses, including law firms, the clearest path to innovation is through the regular implementation of new technology in an ongoing cycle.
This needs a culture of innovation so that your whole firm is accustomed to continuous improvement.
You can visually plot the impact of innovation on growth and the inevitable progress through to decline using what is called the Sigmoid Curve.
The Sigmoid Curve is a representation of time and activity – in this case, growth.
It can be widely applied to the rise and fall of empires, countries, products and businesses, including law firms.
The introduction of change phase
This is the period in which change is introduced.
In an established New York or New Jersey law firm, this phase might occur when you begin investigating potential areas of improvement in your firm. You may consider how you can re-organize your processes using a technological solution. During this time, you will put in a lot of effort with little apparent return. The phase culminates in selecting a solution to provide growth and implementing it.
The Growth phase
Your firm experiences sharp growth. The reprocesses results in a dramatic increase in efficiency, productivity and billing. Improved customer service leads to an expanding client base.
The Success phase
Your firm in New York or New Jersey is more profitable than ever and is the peak of success. Complacency is the danger. For many businesses, the elation that comes with success makes it difficult to appreciate that without further innovation, this growth will eventually decline. Your firm doesn't look for ways to improve or prolong its growth. You believe your success will last long-term.
The Stagnation phase
Your New York or New Jersey law firm hits a plateau. Growth and revenue stagnates.
You are still benefitting from the last technology change, but previous efficiencies gained are not having the same impact that they once did, and areas that need improvement for you to keep competitive are now becoming an issue.
The Decline phase
The markers of success are in decline. Revenue is shrinking and your firm is no longer as profitable as it once was. At this point, it is increasingly difficult to initiate a change event.
The decline of growth is not inevitable. The issue lies in businesses reaching a peak and rather than finding ways to improve, they remain stagnant. They fail to consider that success doesn't last forever, so they are unable to objectively identify areas of potential improvement in their business.
To achieve long-term growth in your law New York or New Jersey law firm, don't fall into the trap of thinking the process of decline doesn't apply to you. Much larger firms have declined and been merged away or even gone out of business, because they believed the process did not apply to them, and they did not adapt or innovate.
The best time to start a new 'curve' is before you reach the peak of your existing one. That way, you will be starting something new when you still have the resources, and the spirit, to take it to new heights. In contrast, most people think of doing something new only when they have reached the bottom of what they are presently involved in and it is costly and hard.
The key to avoiding decline is to initiate a new curve right before your firm hits the success phase of the first curve.
In many respects, law is a slow-moving profession. This can have a negative impact on your business, particularly when your clients have adapted to evolving technologies but you haven't. If you want to stay competitive in the 21st century, you need to consider how you can meet the expectations of the modern client, as well as the ways you can improve your practice using technology.
Seeking a legal software provider for your firm that is committed to innovation will allow your firm to enjoy natural and repeated cycles of growth through new efficiencies. By having a single provider, you will not have to worry about constantly changing providers to access the efficiencies offered by new technologies.
LEAP invests more than 10 million dollars a year in research and development for small law firms in New York and New Jersey. We are continuously innovating solutions that keep our clients from being stuck in the stagnation to decline phases.
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We went to Greece in October 2006. We stayed three days in Athens and ten days in Oia, on Santorini Island. This has been my favorite trip so far. Ryan said Fiji is still his favorite.
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The Amazing Stories of Houston Women
A collaboration of organizations telling, showing, dancing, and singing the many ways HOUSTON WOMEN have ROCKED THE WORLD.
The Houston History Alliance (HHA) is reaching out to organizations in Houston to coordinate a multi-day collection of collaboratively-built programming for Fall of 2018 exploring the extraordinary stories of how our city's women have impacted all areas of the city's growth and development: the arts, business and entrepreneurship, civic life, etc.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
New Day #118
Yesterday I visited DJ Tara Dublin at 94/7 fm Alternative Portland and I got to choose a song list. What's more, I even got to push the button to make the music happen.Apparently, I'm easily amused.
Shameless self-promoter that I am, I chose four songs that reflect my books. We started off with a Frankie Goes to Hollywood cover of Springsteen's "Born to Run" because Attack of the Theater People features a Springsteen cover band called Almost Bruce. Next, I chose the Beatles' cover of "Till There Was You," the only show tune I believe they ever recorded, because Attack of the Theater Peoplealso includes an ill-conceived avant-garde production of The Music Man starring a deaf actor and a blind actress.
I included my favorite diva Storm Large's crazy stalker version of "Hopelessly Devoted to You" because the kids in my first novel, How I Paid for College perform in Grease. (And, according to their parents, it's really, really good.)
Finally, I threw in Mike Doughty's hilarious "27 Jennifers" because anyone who grew up in the 1980s went to school with, well, 27 Jennifers.
Sidebar: I'm fascinated by the shifting popularity of names, and frequently consult the Social Security Administration baby name site when christening characters. Be forewarned, you could waste a lot of time studying how, say, "Jennifer" went from number 987 (in 1938) to number 1 each year from 1970 to 1984.
Speaking of Jennifers, click here to see what I have to say about Jen Weiner and chick lit.
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- Debbi said...
The same goes for Debbi/Debbie/Debby/or any other way you might spell it.
I am let us say, mid forties. I work with four other Debbies who are the SAME age. What the heck? couldn't our parents think of any other names in 1960 through 1963?
I understand Debbie Reyonalds and Debra Carr were all the rage, but come on people.
- April 23, 2008 at 2:23 PM
- drsloan59 said...
The name reaching its pinnacle, of sorts, with Styx's semi-hit "Jennifer" in 1976. Dennis DeYoung got a little creepy with these lyrics:
She drinks her sherry wine
She keeps her lady's love for me all the time
She's seventeen, barely old enough to cry
A child in her father's eyes
A woman every night
- April 23, 2008 at 11:00 PM
- Step Right Up said...
Goodness Marc! Are you okay?! It looks like there may have been a short in that equipment your touching and you perhaps got a shock!
Oh, and I'm jealous you got to do a playlist!
- April 24, 2008 at 6:36 AM
- David said...
Being a "David" I've had three college roommates or suite mates named David, one or more David in whichever office I've ever worked in, dated three Davids, shared post-college residences with two Davids, and have a first cousin and several second cousins named David.
You take a lot of photos with your mouth open.
- April 24, 2008 at 8:16 AM
I'd get a kick out of getting to make a play list too. Of course, I'd probably be overwhelmed by the task. I like your list. I like the meaning behind the songs better.
- April 24, 2008 at 8:47 PM


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The Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) valve is an important part of the exhaust circulation system of a vehicle. EGR valves have been in use in the United States since the 1960s, when car companies were seeking ways to increase the efficiency of vehicles while also decreasing pollution. When the EGR valve is clogged or malfunctioning, it can cause irregularities in engine performance such as rough idling or valve knock, indicating that the EGR valve should be inspected.
The EGR valve works by routing a small amount of exhaust back into the combustion chamber, where it can be reused. This is done for a number of reasons. The primary reason is that a certain temperature is required in the combustion chamber, and exhaust is much warmer than air taken in from the outside. As a result, the engine need not work as hard to heat the combustion chamber to optimal temperature. The second reason is that the use of an EGR valve helps to reduce nitrogen oxides, which will combine with elements in the atmosphere to form smog.
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If the EGR valve is stuck closed, emissions of nitrogen oxides will rise, and the car may start to knock. Spark knock happens when the fuel mixture in the combustion chamber ignites before it has been reached by the explosion in the cylinder, resulting in a disruption of the engine timing. In this instance, the engine should be warmed up and revved to see if the EGR valve will move.
In both cases, simple repairs are possible. The EGR valve can be clogged, and a simple cleaning of a mechanical EGR valve may solve the problem. In the case of an electrically controlled EGR valve or a more complex mechanical problem, replacement of the valve may be needed. The EGR valve is an expensive motor vehicle component, and care should be taken to ensure that it needs to be replaced rather than repaired. A reputable mechanic should advise you appropriately.
Failure to repair or replace the EGR valve will not lead to a life threatening condition, although it will reduce the life of your car and increase the potential emissions. Especially in areas which require smog testing, an automobile with a malfunctioning EGR valve may not pass.
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SOURCE: 1995 GMC sonoma 4.3v6 z code air charge temp sensor location
look at air filter box on inside it should be 2 wires that hooks to it on the out side.
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SOURCE: getting to much gas to engine in chevy s10 blazer
You have TBI, check the two injectors for a "V" or cone style, spray pattern. There shouldn't be any dripping. Also check the TBI assembly for any leaks. The fuel pressure regulator is mount at the rear part f the TBI. If the diaphram is damaged it could cause exsesive fuel to dump into the engine.
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The dear old Methodist Church has seen better days.
The roof will need replacing soon and in this post earthquake era the insurance for such buildings has quadrupled in recent years. So the Otago Goldfields Heritage Trust and the other main user of the building the Cromwell Genealogy Group are looking for new office space.
Now it just so happens that the Cromwell i-Site is soon to be relocated to a fancy, new, purpose built location but leaving behind the museum . . . Gee, who would want to take on office space that included a museum?
That's how we find ourselves in the near perfect win-win situation for everybody. A new trust is being set up to re-invigorate the current Cromwell museum and encourage its use and expansion by locals and visitors alike. Of particular usefulness will be the addition of a ''research room'' where people will be able to come in search of information about their family's genealogy, their history in the goldfields or other historical data.
The Cromwell Genealogists and the Otago Goldfields Heritage Trust look forward to their modern, new
Terry Davis, secretary of the Otago Goldfields Heritage Trust and Edith Mckay convenor of the Cromwell Genealogy Group look over the current plans of the Cromwell museum and i-Site. offices and being more accessible.
If you would like to know more, have questions or ideas, or could see yourself as a volunteer, please come along on Monday, July 7 to the conference room at the Golden Gate Lodge in Cromwell at 7.30pm to an initial public meeting. All those with heritage links to Cromwell and it's districts (Tarras, Lowburn, Bannockburn, the Nevis, Ripponvale, Mt Pisa) are encouraged to attend. ◗ For more info contact the Otago Goldfields Heritage Trust chairman Martin Anderson on 445 0611 or Cromwell Genealogy Group chairwoman Edith Mckay on 445 3411.


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Hi Aldo,
The St. George tinnie represents a DRL sportsfest that was held in Saarbrucken in August 1935 to commemorate the liberation of the Saar region from France a long time before. The significance of George and the dragon is unclear, but it is associated with Saarbrucken.
Some say that the stylized image of St. George in full armour killing the dragon, represents Germany defeating France. The image is carved on one of the bridges crossing the river Saar in Saarbrucken itself today.
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Life in the Desert
We celebrated our twelfth wedding anniversary on Sunday, so that means it's been 12 years since 9/11/01. There are lots of posts about 9/11 on my Facebook feed this morning, prayers for peace, and "I will never forget" badges and the like. Me, I'm going to be spending the day trying to get organized for the kindergarten party on Saturday, getting the Battle of the Books stuff done, and paying bills. I think that's ok. Life goes on.
I was in Arizona over the weekend. It was 80 bazillion degrees the day we got there – the heat was so intense as soon as we got off the plane, it felt like being punched in the gut. The desert is beautiful, albeit not beautiful in the way my Wisconsin soul typically imagines beautiful. We climbed a mountain, a little one anyway, on Saturday morning. I took pictures of every cactus I saw, fascinated by their foreignness. On Saturday night it rained, just a little, and by Sunday morning, the brown and seemingly barren mountain was green. It had exploded with life in the space of 24 hours.
I think we humans are the same way. Give us half a chance, and like the desert with that tiny bit of rain, we won't just choose life, we'll seize it. There are moments when life seems fragile, but paradoxically, it's tenacious at the same time. We're tenacious. We have to be.
So here we are, 12 years on, and our country is considering military action in Syria. I don't have the answer. (Wouldn't that be awesome if I did? Middle-aged suburban housewife solves Syria question. Sigh.) All I can tell you is what I'm trying to do, what I'm trying to teach my children to do: Choose life. Choose peace. Grow.
Baseball Blues
Tom Hanks famously said "There's no crying in baseball" in the 1992 movie "A League of Their Own." Well, I'm here to tell you that's not exactly true. It's possibly a prepositional problem. There has been plenty of crying over baseball Chez Belfry today. There has been crying about baseball. There has been crying concerning baseball. Here's what happened.
My eight-year-old son, the one who wakes up and reads about baseball in the newspaper every morning, the one who has spent all summer playing baseball, the one who goes to bed listening to baseball, the one who is absolutely convinced that he will be a Major League Baseball player when he grows up, ideally for the Brewers of course, tried out for a club-level team on Sunday. And today, after three of the longest days of my life, ("Mommy! Did you get an email yet? What about now? Can you check again?") he gave up hope that he made the team. (Note to The Powers That Be – go ahead and send an email to the kids that don't make the team too. Don't just make them wait. Seriously. They're eight. Henry said at dinner tonight, "well, maybe there's still a chance?" It's bordering on child cruelty, you guys.)
Henry, a pretty practical kid, asked me what his chances were the night before he tried out. "Well, you have no chance if you don't try," I said, copping out.
"But do you think I'll make it?" he asked earnestly and seriously and thoughtfully, the way he asks all questions.
I looked into his sweet face. "I don't know, Henry," I said. "Of course you have a chance." I paused, wondering how honest I should be. "But you're not the fastest, or the hardest hitter." His face fell. "Wait, listen. What you are is the hardest worker…the most determined…the stubbornest. I love that about you…but it might be hard for the coaches to see in an hour-long tryout."
Well, they didn't. And he didn't. And I had to tell him.
I hated telling him he didn't make it…because I wasn't just telling him he didn't make a baseball team. I was telling him that the world is a little less shiny than he thought. I was telling him life is hard, and sometimes you can want something with all of your heart and still not get it. I was telling him that I'm not actually magic – I can't make all of his hurts go away with a kiss and a hug anymore. It's a lesson we all learn eventually – I'm not sure I learned it at age eight, but Henry sure has.
I do have to tell you what happened next though, especially since I've written about Henry and sportsmanship before here. This morning after finding out his good buddy made the team and he didn't, Henry swallowed hard and said, "Way to go Mason. Good job." And you know what they did this afternoon? They played ball, the way they have all summer long, and the way they will for many summers to come, I hope.
But I'm sorry, sometimes there will be crying in baseball.
The Lesson of Martha – take 2
I had Children's Liturgy of the Word today, and why that always happens the morning after a late night, I do not know. I was grateful though, because as I drank a few cups of coffee and looked over the readings for today, I had a new thought about today's gospel story about Mary and Martha.
I've written about this story before. And I have a draft of another post about it too. So it's obviously one that sticks with me. And if I'm totally honest, it has always kind of bugged me.
Luke 10:38-42
Jesus entered a village
where a woman whose name was Martha welcomed him.
She had a sister named Mary
who sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak.
Martha, burdened with much serving, came to him and said,
"Lord, do you not care
that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving?
Tell her to help me."
The Lord said to her in reply,
"Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things.
There is need of only one thing.
Mary has chosen the better part
and it will not be taken from her."
I'm such a Martha. I recently saw a sign somewhere, probably Pinterest, the source of all stress, that said "Good moms have sticky floors, messy kitchens, laundry piles, dirty ovens and happy kids." I'm a terrible mom by that yardstick! I can't abide a mess. Can't we all be happy in a nice clean and tidy house? In fact wouldn't we be happiER in one?
Anyway. The same goes for today's gospel – I always find myself sympathizing with Martha. I'm certain that Martha made Jesus and Mary and the other guests more comfortable with her efforts. I'm sure that she fed them well and saw to their needs. You can just tell. And I've always felt like Jesus was saying in the story that Martha shouldn't have done that stuff and should have sat and listened with Mary. But today I wondered if maybe I've been reading it wrong. I think Jesus rebuked Martha not for doing the serving, her job, but for not valuing it, for not recognizing her contributions.
Well, and maybe a little for being a whiner.
Why I Am Still a Catholic
It's a question I get asked a fair amount. How can you stay in the Church, after the child abuse scandal? when they won't ordain women? with their stance on homosexuality/health care/contraception?
I sometimes feel like I'm targeted in a special way since I'm a political liberal, and that's supposed to make me above religion, or beyond it, or something.
I answer that question differently based on the questioner, the day, and maybe especially, my mood, but today my answer would for sure be "the personnel."
I was sitting with my oldest child before her audition. She was calmly flipping through the pages of a fashion magazine, (and how do I have a child old enough to care about fashion magazines?) and I was freaking out. Not outwardly of course. Outwardly I was able to maintain some semblance of cool thanks to a miracle of multitasking, as I both looked at these shoes, that bag and especially this nail polish, and simultaneously offered up prayers to Saints Genesius, Vitus and Cecilia.
Genesius was a 4th century Roman actor who was performing in a play satirizing Christian baptism when he himself felt the truth of what he was mocking and converted on the spot. Unfortunately the emperor Diocletian was not amused and ordered his execution. Talk about a bad review. Ba dum bum.
Vitus was also executed by Diocletian as it turns out. He wasn't a performer himself, but became known as the patron of dancers when a cult from the Middle Ages prayed by dancing before his statue. Rather more unfortunately, it also gave his name to a neurological disorder, but nobody's perfect.
Cecilia is the patroness of music and musicians, also a martyr, and the most well-known of the three I expect. However, I didn't know until just now that she wasn't a musician herself, but rather she heard "heavenly music" in her heart. The dates aren't right for that music to have been J.S. Bach, but whatever. The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Anyway, I passed the fifteen minutes before my daughter went in for her audition, and the half an hour it took until it was over, saying a few prayers, researching who Saints Genesius, Vitus and Cecilia were, and writing this post. I texted my Jewish husband, asking him, "What do non-Catholics do in situations like this?" He ignored me, being well practiced in that art. But seriously, I was so grateful to have some company while I waited. And there is a saint for every situation and every occasion, always there for the asking. Before I knew it, she was done, it was over, and I had only sprouted two or three new grey hairs.
So you can keep your lonely religions, and your no religions. That's totally fine by me, I promise! Me, I'm too much of a basketcase. I need at least a saint a day – look, today I needed three in the space of 45 minutes! So I'm a Catholic. Check in with me a different day and I'll give you a different reason.
Porch Time
This one is from deep, deep in the archives. Seriously, it's twenty years old. And other than the fact that I am now one of those "matrons" rushing around, the horror! my opinion hasn't changed in the slightest.
In summer, every neighborhood has one perfect porch, one place to which the whole flock of friends migrates. Perhaps it is the coolest, being conveniently shaded on three sides by artfully planted trees. Perhaps it is the most comfortable, boasting two easy chairs, a sofa, AND a hammock. Or perhaps it is the most central, the point where all the radii converge and no one is more than five minutes away. Most likely it is a combination thereof, with an indefinable x-factor thrown in to confuse the issue. It has something to do with whose porch it is, although one is never quite certain to whom the perfect porch belongs. Somewhere in the menagerie of sun-browned skin, sweaty limbs holding sweatier beer bottles, and plastic debris from a carton of flavor-ice popsicles, lurks a host or at least someone who answers the phone, but it is enough that the porch be provided, and questions of ownership are relatively unimportant, as are questions of aesthetics. Some of the most perfect porches I have known were much less appetizing than the Better Homes and Gardens model across the way, yet that one porch on the block always attracts a gathering of friends, no matter how homely it is.
Porch utopia has something to do with the way lazy talk, and lazier silence, float on the fan-made breeze; the way people drop by to say, "hi," and six hours later bashfully shuffle down the steps, mockingly shouting to one another, "what a waste of a day/afternoon/evening," all the while aware that they will be back tomorrow. This is no gathering of stiff-assed matrons who wait to be offered tea before politely declining and rushing off to the next destination on their list of things to do. This is summer in a college town, and none of us has anything better to do, or any place better to be, than the front porch.
Teaching the Kids to Cuss
My ten-year-old had lice during Easter break. It was kind of funny actually, by which I mean not funny at all, but rather skin-crawlingly gross. But I did have to laugh when I described it to a friend as "biblical" and then went, "No seriously, it's biblical! Lice was one of the plagues during the Passover." So Riley's timing continues to be impeccable.
Anyway, we had a good decade of kids before having lice in the house, so I feel like we had a pretty decent run. Riley found a louse right before bedtime on the Wednesday before Easter. Sam ran out to get stuff to deal with it. I'm pretty crunchy, but when he called from the store asking whether he should get a treatment with or without harsh chemicals, I yelled into the phone, "We're going nuclear here, Sam!" I hate to toot my own horn, which is awkward for a blog-writer, but I quickly became a lice expert, and while I can't guarantee my methodology for anyone else, it certainly worked for us.
This blog post wasn't meant to be about lice, but in case you have to deal with it, here's what I did. I used the nuclear-strength treatment, which annihilated all the living lice in her hair. This was the worst step by far, one. because it was really expletive disgusting combing dead bugs out of my child's hair, and two, because the chemicals are really strong and they hurt her scalp and stung her eyes. Then I combed out all the eggs using a special lice comb and the crunchy organic non-chemical lice treatment. Then, and this was my own innovation, I flat-ironed her hair. I just thought, "What can it hurt? I'm going to try and fry those expletives." The next morning, I went through with the comb and the crunchy stuff again, and then the flat-iron again, and by the next morning she was lice-free.
Ok, back to the regularly scheduled blog post. This whole process took a really long time, and since we started at bedtime, Riley was up really, really late that first night. She was weeping with exhaustion, but she's such a good kid, she couldn't help but see the humor in the situation. She'd cry a little, and then crack a joke, like "Oh, no big deal, my mom is just combing dead bugs out of my hair at 11 pm. Hair's dead anyway, so she's combing dead bugs out of my dead hair." I was DYING, she was so funny. Come to think of it, I may have been a little slappy too, but I think I probably would have done what I did anyway, even if I hadn't been. Poor Riley sat there in the bathroom, while I picked through her hair for nits, and she was so unhappy…I said to her, "Riley, this is why God invented swearing."
"Mommy, God didn't invent swearing."
"Fine, this is why people invented swearing, and God invented people, so basically God invented swearing." This is of course terrible logic, and will probably get me into horrible trouble later on with my steel-trap-mind of a daughter, but as I've said, it was late…and gross. "So which swear words do you know?"
Her brown eyes, squinty with tiredness, opened wide. "The "s" one?" she asked.
"Let it rip," I said.
"SHIT!!!!!" she hollered, and fell apart giggling. "Oh my gosh Mommy, that felt amazing!"
And like that, my daughter learned a little more about the power of the spoken language, and the timing of a good four-letter word. So, you know, I'm teaching the important stuff over here.
The Coach Gaveth, and the Mother Tooketh Away
I feel like the worst mother in the world. Henry got the game ball at his baseball game last night, and I made him give it back. But you know what? If I could rewind, I'd do it again.
Henry's in his second year of playing Little League. Henry loves baseball like the Pope is Catholic. He reads the sports section over his breakfast in the morning, looking both like my husband and my father as he pores over statistics. He watches Brewers games on TV when we let him, and listens to them on the radio as he goes to bed. He has it all planned out – he'll play baseball at Notre Dame and then in the minors and then in the majors. (I looked up the 2013-2014 tuition at Notre Dame when he told me that. Let's just say we're going to need that baseball scholarship money). I had this bedtime story I'd tell him of how the Yankees would want him, would pay any price for him, but he'd want to play for his hometown team, so he'd stay a Brewer. He liked that one, and so did I. He'll play outside in the backyard with the neighbors for hours, and when they're done, he'll keep playing on his own, throwing up high balls and diving for them, pitching grounders and running to scoop them up. "Mommy/Daddy/Baba will you play catch with me?" is his incessant refrain from when the snow melts to when it flies again.
Henry got in trouble once this year at school for getting into it with a classmate on the playground. He was mortified when the recess monitor didn't believe his account of what happened. His teacher was sympathetic, but banned him from playing team sports for a week or so, because he just "cared a little too much." (Luckily for Henry, that week coincided with a bout of bad weather and indoor recess). He is uber-competitive, and he cares deeply about whatever game he's playing, but especially baseball.
Henry plays for the Durham Bulls. It is a great group of kids, and a great group of parents, and a great group of coaches. They move the kids around quite a bit at this age so they get experience all over the diamond. Henry played the last two innings last night at first base. These kids don't know what they do to us – I couldn't sit still on the bleachers and wandered over to the fence next to first. I guess I'm glad I did, but I saw some things I didn't want to see while I was there. A kid threw wide to him, Henry couldn't grab it and he got visibly frustrated with his teammate. And then it happened again on a couple of plays he wasn't involved in.
His team won, though really I shouldn't even write that, because it doesn't matter. Henry plays baseball because he loves it, yes, but also because his father and I believe that playing team sports can teach you important life lessons. You have to work together, because no man is an island. (Who'd a thunk John Donne was a baseball fan?) You have to work hard, because other people are depending on you. And you have to be a good sport, fercryinoutloud. I get it, I promise I do – it's hard to be a good sport when you feel it so, so much. It's especially hard when you give your all every single time – perhaps Henry's finest quality – and you suspect others aren't doing the same thing. But that's a rotten way to live. I want Henry to assume that the people he meets are doing their best, even when it seems…unlikely. A quote made the rounds of the interwebs a while back: "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." It was attributed to Plato, but I couldn't find it, not that you should imagine me exhaustively reading my Greek. I don't care who made it up, it's one of my favorite sayings ever, and I want my son to believe it with every fiber of his competitive being.
Anyway, after the game and after the team meeting, when the coaches gave Henry the game ball, I pulled him aside. I asked him if he'd been a good sport during the game, and I asked him if he deserved the game ball. My brave boy answered no to both questions. I told him he could earn it back, not by playing well – he's a decent little ballplayer, and that's not the point – but by being a leader on his team. By cheering on his teammates. By setting a good example. By being a good sport. It was a tough talk, but he took it on the chin…I was proud of him. He's a good kid, and he can learn this. He has to.
Honey, I shrunk!
I went to the doctor this morning for a physical and I was shocked to find that I had shrunk over an inch since the last time I was measured.
"Five eight-and-a-half," said the nurse as I stepped off the scale, oblivious to my look of horror.
"Gravity's a bitch," shrugged my doctor, when I complained. (I love my doctor). "You have to start taking vitamin D and calcium. You're still tall."
But I'm not, not really. I've described myself as just under 5'10" since I unexpectedly grew two inches my first year at college. "That can't happen," said my 5'2″ mother at the time. "Five nine-and-three-quarters," said the nurse at the doctor's office.
I agonized over my height when I first shot up in high school, relegated to the back row in choir, towering over my friends in ballet class, cast as Charlemagne in Pippen. I would have gladly shrunk an inch then. "Laurie, come out from behind that Amazon," said my ballet teacher. "Maybe try jazz," said another, as I was well over six feet en pointe.
Something funny has happened since those long ago days. I started to like being tall. I could care less that I'm an inch or so taller than my husband. I wear heels as often as my wretched feet let me (thanks again, ballet). My oldest daughter, one of the shortest in her class, envies my height.
Be careful what you wish for. And I guess I'll just buy higher heels.
Why I'm looking at Property in the North Woods
My daughter asked me if her legs were fat yesterday.
We were in the car, on the way home from soccer practice, which was directly after tennis, which took place after choir, which was right after school. (And I still persist in thinking that I'm winning the fight against over-scheduling. Let's just say I have a rich and full fantasy life…but I digress).
"Mom," I heard from the back seat. "Are my legs fat?"
Don't worry, I was cool. I didn't rear-end the car in front of me, or rupture a vein screaming to the heavens above, or drop a string of profanity so blue I scarred her for life…although all were very possible and even likely reactions.
"No," I answered, with the "oah" vowel peculiar to my Upper Midwest peoples, and in the tone of Bart Simpson saying "Duh."
"Why?" I asked, trying not to make a big deal out of it, and grateful that the other two kids weren't in the car.
"Well, when I sit down, my legs just sort of…spread out. And there's all this jiggly stuff." She was utterly sincere. I felt like crying…and raging. Again, I did neither. Who knew my acting background was going to prove so critical to my parenting?
"Riley, those are your strong muscles, that helped you walk to school today, and run at recess, and play soccer and tennis after school," I said calmly. "They're not fat. You're not fat. You're perfectly made, the way God meant you to be."
She believed me I think, because she's only ten, and I haven't gotten completely stupid in the way that teenagers' parents are completely stupid.
Did you get that? She's ten. My ten-year-old asked me if she was fat. My ten-year-old, who has never been higher than the 25th percentile on the weight chart at the doctor's office. My ten-year-old, who was a baby so slight of frame that my dear friend called her the "Pilates Baby."
So my ten-year-old (TEN!) has entered into the ranks of the (by some accounts) 97% of American women who are dissatisfied with their bodies. (I'm not making that statistic up. Google it.)
And here's my question…Where did that come from? We watch almost no television. I don't subscribe to Vogue, or any of those magazines filled with pubescent girls modeling women's clothing. Her diet of movies is by and large animated. She was never a big Barbie girl. I would swear on a stack of Bibles that I haven't ever, ever, EVER mentioned the word "fat" when talking about myself, at least not in her presence. Where is it coming from?
I knew this was coming, because I have two daughters and I live in America…I just didn't realize it was coming so soon. And I have to admit, I don't know how to combat it anymore than I already am, except for maybe by throwing in the towel and moving off the grid Up North somewhere. And actually, that would solve the over-scheduling too.


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Huh. Biggest decline since 2003. Goobieman, can you provide a single post of yours criticizing Bush? After all, you were posting here during the same time. Same goes for you American and Harshaw.
Correction: American, you are exempted. I know you don't care about being consistent.


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The following pages chronicle the journey of the sailing vessel Pelagic and her crew. We are a family of 5; Michael, Amy, Zander, Porter and Anakena, taking our 42' Hallberg Rassy as far as we can comfortably go in three years. We left Oregon in September 2014, participated in the 2014 Baja Haha, continued on through the Panama Canal, into the Caribbean, up the coast of the US to Maritime Canada and from there crossed the Atlantic. After an arrival in Ireland we toured Scotland, then sailed down to France, Portugal and on to Morocco. In January of 2016 we slowed down considerably and enrolled the kids in a local Spanish school in Sanlucar de Guadiana for a few months. In the spring of 2016 we crossed the Atlantic towards the Caribbean. We are now in the Pacific, officially on our way home, albeit via a very circuitous path. We are currently in French Polynesia and looking at weather windows to Hawaii before finally making landfall back in the Pacific Northwest.
Currently our exact location is not available. Our spot coverage will pick us back up in Hawaii towards the end of May, 2017.
Our favorite sailing quote:
"If anythings gonna happen, it's gonna happen out there boss!" Captain Ron
Monday, December 22, 2014
At sea, December 19, 2014
It is about 1 am, and I am alone, sailing on my watch while all of my family is asleep, snug in their bunks. There is no moon, and it is so dark you could sail over the end of the earth and not see it coming. I hate not having a moon on watch. The moon feels like company or an old friend, it feels like I am not alone out here, and it lessens the eebie jeebie coefficient for me by a factor of at least 10! I still don't like the dark; I envision a whale breaching right under us or hitting a submerged container, all of which could just as well happen in the light of day, Michael always assures me. Less likely, but equally terrifying, is the surfacing of a megladon shark, powering up from the dark abyss, swallowing our small boat in one mighty bite! Although unlikely, why couldn't there be a prehistoric monster lurking out there somewhere, hidden away from prying scientific eyes for thousands of years! Anyway, this is what happens when I have too much time to think! It is dark, as dark as well.....night! I'll try to focus on the stars, they are amazing and it almost seems like there is a whole layer of distant stars past the ones I normally stare at. They seem so close I could reach up and pluck one out of the sky. The bioluminescence is also spectacular tonight and the sights below the boat are similar to those overhead. The sea and sky are one tonight! Should be at Isabella by morning.
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