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Pokemon SoulSilver Version - Pokewalker FAQ
Pokéwalker FAQ (archived from) http://boards.ign.com/pokemon/b5012/190331150/p1 Okay, let's just compile a Pokéwalker FAQ already because apparently people lack the ability to just seek out one of the fifteen other topics on the board that already have the words, "I HAVE A POKEWALKER QUESTION" in the title. So, if you have a relevant Pokéwalker question, ask it here and we'll get an answer for you. Or, if you have relevant Pokéwalker information that you know is commonly asked, go ahead and post it. Honestly, I'm fairly certain people are just asking the same 5 questions over and over, but assuming there are more than that, we'll put them together in a FAQ and maybe put it somewhere you can't miss it, like the top of the page... so people can still miss it, but then feel stupid when we point it out to them after the fact. Q: Is this Pokewalker is this something you get for pre-ordering the game or is this something you get regardless weather you pre-order the game or not? A: The Pokéwalker comes in the box along with the game. It's standard issue Poképaraphernalia. Q: Nobody answered my question about how the Pokéwalker affects Pokémon happiness. A: If I understand correctly, Pokémon slowly gain happiness as you walk with them in the Pokéwalker. Q: Can I use the pokewalker with older style DS? I don't see the little port thing for it. A: The infra red detector is in the HG/SS game card itself, so it should work with any DS. Q: When using the pokewalker and a pokemon levels up to where it would learn a new move, does it still learn that move? From my experience, it passes it up. A: You're right, it misses the new move. Q: I don't like the sound of that. You mean I'll have to go find a heart scale, like in Diamond, if I want it to learn that move? A: Pokemon can only gain one level per outing on the PokeWalker. As long as you keep track of what level your Pokemon learns important moves, there shouldn't be a problem. Or you can just send some random useless Pokemon to the PokeWalker like most people do. Q: Ok, and how do you transfer them? A: Infrared link between the game cartridge and PokeWalker. Q: I have already defeated a 3rd gym, so when can I access the pokewalker? I went to that national park and all the people mention it. A: You can access it as soon as you catch a Pokemon. It's in the menu past the title screen. You can send a pokemon over to the walker as soon as you can put 1 pokemon in the computer. If you attempt to use the Pokewalker, it'll either let you or it'll say "Please come back once you have placed at least one Pokemon in a PC Box." Q: Does the switched pokemon 'leave' my actual game? A: Yes, it does. Q: Can you catch more than one pokémon on the pokéwalker? If so, does it store them until you turn on your DS to the game, or how does that work? A: You can catch up to three, at which point your PokeWalker will be "full" and you'll have to transfer your caught Pokemon over to a DS game before you can catch more. Q: What does 'other pokemon will join you' posted earlier in the thread mean? I will get 'free' pokemon randomly via the walker? A: If there's no Pokemon in your PokeWalker, then yes, occasionally a Pokemon will show up randomly. Q: Can you collect Watts when no Pokemon are in the device? A: Yes, even without a pokemon in the walker you can still get watts, a pokemon may even decide to join you for the walk, that pokemon will transfer to your box when you move you watts over. You use Watts to unlock more courses when you transfer them to the main game. Q: Oh, and does it automatically transfer the pokémon to your HG/SS when the game is on or do you have to click a certain button? A: When you start up the game, instead of continuing your main quest you can choose a different menu option to connect to the PokeWalker. Q: Does the Pokewalker allow you to catch shinies? A: According to testing, no. It's a bit more involved than that, but you can read up on it in this thread http://boards.ign.com/pokemon/b5012/185633984/p1/ A while back Kiera supplied me with some Pokéwalker Pokémon and I checked their PIDs in an effort to determine whether or not shininess is possible. The 'conclusion' is that it is very unlikely, however this is not confirmed as the RNG method for generating PokéWalker Pokes is not understood. My best advice, however, is not to count on it. We figured that the PID for every Pokemon a certain game receives from PokeWalkers appears to be fixed, right? So either none of the Pokemon you catch will be shiny, or all of them will be. Which is quite bizarre, and it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It would take a whole lot of testing to try and figure it out, and the chances of that being done are slim seeing as the only real merit to unraveling its mysteries would be for Selfdestruct Munchlax and Surf/Fly Pikachu, as all the other Pokémon are just normal, catchable things, anyway. Granted you can get Surf Pikachu from PBR, but it has a fixed Hardy nature so it's essentially worthless. Unless the PID is intentionally set to not match with the trainer ID. Just thought it was worth pointing out, though - for anyone hoping to get a shiny from their PokeWalker, if your first PokeWalker Pokemon isn't shiny, you're never going to get one. Also, resetting the PokeWalker or using a different PokeWalker won't help. It's also entirely possible that even if your Pokéwalker was ready to spit out endless shiny Pokémon, the ARNG will just adjust the PID of every single Pokémon to make them normal each and every time, as with the Pokémon Ranger Manaphy. Actually, the Manaphy Egg is regular Method 1, and can be shiny. However, normally you are correct in that Wonder Card Pokémon cannot ever be shiny unless they are specifically intended to be (Milotic, Pichu). If I understand the process correctly, manipulating Manaphy to be shiny requires transferring the egg to a different cartridge than the one it was originally received on, though. Q: when I shake it nothing happens? When I take it out and point it at my DS while shaking it, no pokémon come out. A: There are several possibilities here, all of which point to the fact that you're doing it wrong. Let's trouble shoot: A.) Have you pulled the tab that prevents the battery from touching the metal connectors? If not, do that, problem solved. B.) Is the Pokéwalker on? If not, turn the device on, problem solved. C.) Have you connected it with your DS game yet? If not, deposit one Pokémon in your PC box, then access the option on the main menu to connect the Pokéwalker to your game. D.) Work on your technique, then try again. E.) Consult the manual that came with the device. Q: If I were to transfer a pokemon into the walker, delete my profile, and start a new game, would my pokemon still be in the walker and could I transfer it to my new game? A: When you go to start a new game file, the game warns you that all Pokéwalker information will be lost, before it allows you to continue. You'd be able to keep using the Pokemon in the PokeWalker, and transfer watts and items earned or Pokemon caught to any DS game. But you wouldn't be able to send your main, walking Pokemon back to any DS game. You can only send your walking Pokemon back to the game it was originally from. Q: Do you still get effort points while using the pokewalker? A: You would only gain Effort Points if you attack and faint another Pokémon. Q: Does each watt count as 1 exp? If so, than it would take 30,000 watts/steps to lv up a lv 99. A: One exp point per step, one watt per twenty steps. A Pokemon can only gain one level per outing though; once it levels up it will stop gaining exp until you return it to the DS game and send it back out to the PokeWalker. Fun Fact: Your steps will max out at 99,999 in one day but, you can still gain watts on the walker even though your steps aren't showing that they are adding up. And you may have noticed that your steps reset every night at midnight, but your watts don't reset every night, but as far as I can tell, your watts will max out at 9,999 on your walker so you have to transfer that over in order to gain more watts on your walker. From bulbapedia: Returning a Pokémon: Press and hold Up, Select, and R A Pokémon can be restored to the game it was taken from if a Pokéwalker is lost or broken by pressing the above buttons at the Pokéwalker connection screen. Resetting a Pokéwalker: Press and hold Down, X, and L Ot the Pokéwalker connection screen. Replacing the battery: The Pokéwalker uses a CR 2032 3V watch battery. Removing the battery will cause all steps taken and watts obtained to be cleared. The Pokémon inside will not be erased. Q: Can you put an egg in the pokewalker? A: No, you can't. You'll just have to stick to hatching them the old fashioned way. Q: quick question, which pokewalker courses have been released if any at all? A: If you're talking special event courses, so far just the one that the GameStop Jirachi unlocks (Night Sky's Edge) and the Yellow Forest will be available starting April 1st. Q: When you transfer your watts to the game and unlock new courses, what happens to any extra watts you had? Do they disappear or is the total cumulative? I have a very large amount of watts at the moment, and if they're just going to be wasted, I'd rather find items and stuff with them. A: The watts do add up. Turns out, if you pay attention to what it says on the top screen when you go to the connect to Pokewalker option, it tells how many you've collected so far, how many steps you've walked, and how many watts you need to open the next course. I never bothered to see that before, for some reason. Q: I am taking a stroll on the Beyond the Sea course, I have walked more then 2500 steps and am using my watts with the pokeradar and all i'm finding are corsolas is there any reason i'm not running into Horsea. I want the pikachu with surf or fly and they're both "group A". I've taken all the steps I need and I have an electric type in there, which according to serebii will cut down the steps by 25%. Is there any way to catch a "group A" pokemon faster? Adding to this, I spent nearly 400 watts today so far and only managed to get three Flail Pikachus. Thus far I have gotten only 1 Surf Pikachu since April 1st and 0 Fly Pikachus. Do the 'Group A' Surf/Fly Pikachu ONLY come out with a four grass '!' sequence? I have never managed to get one on a 3 shake encounter. If I'm in the Yellow Forest and I want to catch the Flying Pikachu, it says I need 10,000+ steps... is that all in one day or can if be total over a few days since I never leave the Yellow Forest? Also, I have three pikachu's caught right now, can I transfer them to my DS without transferring watts or steps or is it that every three you catch, you have to start over on your search to the high step Pikachu's? A: It has to be all in the same day, because the step counter resets to zero at midnight. Must be all in one day, before the steps reset at midnight. So make sure you do everything you need to and share with the game before then, especially if you're trying to keep a record of your total number of steps. I lost 20,000 steps the other day because I forgot to transfer until it was too late. Your watts stay the same, though. If you communicate with your DS, your watts will automatically transfer but your steps will stay the same (unless it's been an entire day). If you haven't caught any good Pokemon yet, you can just keep catching them and replace the old ones instead of moving them to the game. You can tell which class/group it is from how many exclamation points there are over the patches of grass. The more exclamation points there are, the better the group. So for catching surfing or flying Pikachu, your best bet is !!! patches. I wouldn't worry about the percentages on that chart. It's just saying you won't get them in group C, they're extremely uncommon in group B, and they're guaranteed in group A. I think that's how it goes, anyway... When you transfer them your watts will also be transferred, but your steps won't. Your steps will stay as they are until they reset at midnight. When you send your Pokemon to Yellow Forest, the game secretly chooses one Pikachu from group A, one from group B, and one from group C that it will be possible to encounter on your walk. The choice is random. The percentages give you the possibility of encountering each of those Pokemon, depending on how many steps you currently have. As an example, let's say you get randomly assigned the male from each group: Fly Pikachu, Flail Pikachu, and the Group C Pokachu with Thunder Wave. Your chances of encountering the Group C Pikachu depend on what the other randomly assigned Pikachus were; in this case look under the Fly/Flail heading. This shows you that if you have less than 2000 steps you have a 100% chance of seeing the Group C Pikcahu, if you have between 2000 and 10000 steps you have a 65% chance of seeing the Group C Pikachu, and if you have over 10000 steps you have a 63.7% chance of seeing the Group C Pikachu. Your chances of encountering the Pikachu with Flail (Group B) also depend on the randomly assigned Pikachu in Group A; in this case look under the Fly heading. At 0-2000 steps your chances are 0%, at 2000-10000 steps your chances are 35%, and at over 10000 steps your chances are 34.3%. Finally your chances of seeing Fly Pikachu are zero below 10000 steps, and 2% above 10000 steps. Q: I always look in the grass each time, sometimes though it doesn't count and it pops up a new II message. Do I need to try each time and let it sometimes change on me or will I lose the pokemon if I don't choose the first guy to come around and instead I waited for a !! or a !!!. Do you know what I'm saying? A: If I understand your question correctly, you need to click on each one that comes up or you just lose it all. If you're lucky, you won't actually get an encounter until you get a good patch. The way the game works is when you activate the radar it'll ransomly show a patch with a '!' and you have a time limit to click on it. If you don't click on it, the mini-game will end and those ten watts would've been in vain. If you do click on it it'll show you another/rarer patch or it'll start a battle. Basically it all boils down to luck on whether or not it'll display a '!!!' and there's nothing else you can do to force it to happen. you can bring in an advantegous(sp?) type to increase your chances. (For the yellow forest they're ground electric and grass.) But other than that, nothing. Q: Okay, my Pokewalker has no pokemon in it at all yet the DS has the options of return from stroll which it shouldnt so no pokemon can be sent to it and theres nothing to send back, any hep on what to do? A: It'll always have the option to 'return from stroll' because sometimes a pokemon may join you if walk without a pokemon in the walker, see an '!' and press the middle button. ____________________________________________________________________________________ _Acdc_123 Awesomeness101 BlackMageHadoken bronxBombers119 darkchewy Flanjygo Hothersall kiera2 NintendoGamemaster rampaging_tyranitar Rename_Card rome_raven SryMzJackson4 The_Sigh VoltDriven watsahappawitchu wow_67 X XShadowBeastX Zer0_Digits


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Eric Kavanagh, Bloor Group CEO, chatted with TIBCO Analytics Senior VP and General Manager Brian Gentile on April 1, 2015. This Inside Analysis interview covers the subject of putting analytics to work to gain faster, smarter insights throughout the organization.
Eric Kavanagh: Ladies and gentlemen, hello and welcome back once again to Inside Analysis. My name is Eric Kavanagh. I will be your host for what's going to be a really interesting conversation with Brian Gentile, the Senior Vice President and General Manager of TIBCO Analytics. He came in from the Jaspersoft acquisition, so Brian, welcome to the show.
Brian Gentile: Thanks Eric, it's really great to be with you.
Eric: Sure thing. We were just talking before we hit the record button that you've been on the road, and you've just come back from a multi-country tour and heard the latest. What's going on about analytics in the world today?
Brian: It's fascinating to actually get with customers, those who are taking the theory of analytics and putting it into action, that intersection is so valuable. I'm always excited about meeting with and learning through the lens of our customers. I can tell you that the starting point for most of the conversations today is about how quickly they need to put data to work in order to capture more of its value. It's the velocity angle, the velocity vector of analytics and data that we start with. We don't end there, but starting with how quickly must we put data to work to capture its value is typically the starting point.
Eric: When we're talking about analytics, I come out of this whole data warehousing business intelligence history. That's a very specific kind of intelligence, and analytics, in my mind at least, is much broader than that because you can focus on businesses processes. You can focus on all kinds of data, not just that traditional transactional data that's stored in a relational database, for example. How would you define analytics? What is the spectrum of solutions that you talk about with customers?
Brian: This is it precisely. How quickly must we put the data to work in order to gain value? That's my definition of velocity of data. With customers, we talk about it across a spectrum from fast data to rich data. Different applications have different needs for putting data to work. It is a bit of a speed versus richness debate. Some applications must have data put to work in seconds or subseconds in order to really get value. The contextual value of that data degrades very quickly after the period of a few seconds. That's a fast data application by definition. The other side of that spectrum is the data needs to accumulate over time, and it needs to be defined richly for greater value to be assigned to it so that temporally, it can be explored to look for patterns and trends. This is a rich data application.
It's no less valuable and, in fact, in some ways more valuable than a fast data application. It just requires an understanding of how quickly must the data be put to work before it becomes stale. That's why we look at the spectrum as fast data versus rich data, and we believe at TIBCO that we are expert at solutions across that spectrum of need.
Eric: With TIBCO, you've got this history in fast-moving data and technologies like complex event processing, so it seems that TIBCO is uniquely suited to address some of these business analytics challenges, because you've got a history of focusing on data in motion and understanding data in motion.
As I recall, what spawned the idea for us to do this conversation was our discussion of some of the latest updates coming out of TIBCO. I realized that on the visualization side you would have a very keen perspective on how to use visualization to help people understand not just static reports, but data in motion or data over periods of time, because time is such an important component of understanding a business to your point of fast versus rich. Can you talk about how the TIBCO legacy of understanding moving data is now being woven into your ability to show data visually and to allow people better insights through analytics?
Brian: This is right. It's about three prongs of equally important processes and activities with the data. TIBCO brings enormous experience to these three prongs. It's about integration of data, intelligent events and definition of those events for the data, and then analytics on the data. So integration, events and analytics, each define a pillar of need. TIBCO began as an integration and data integration company. The ability to pull data from a wide variety of sources in real time or in rich time, and then the ability to define it intelligently, thresholds, milestones and intelligently designing those thresholds to be meaningful in a business process is the idea of defining events.
Ultimately, using insightful analytics to visualize the data and make some sort of thought-based action, some insight-based decision, on that data. This is about putting fast data or rich data into work in an organization under an integration event and analytics framework. I heard and saw lots of examples as I traveled from customers that are doing precisely this in the area of drug discovery and energy exploration and financial services, putting the integration events and analytics together to create a really powerful return for their business and their customers.
Eric: I love this concept of events. This is something that my partner, Dr. Robin Bloor, has been talking about for the last few years. It used to be that the transaction itself, meaning something going over the trans and money flying in one direction, product goes in the other direction, that was a transaction. You could call it an event. Now, we're viewing the concept of event in a much broader perspective. Does that make sense?
Brian: It does.
Eric: Now you can, for example, understand someone moving through your website and picking up a telephone. You can get that richness and that texture around a transaction to better understand why the transaction took place or why it didn't take place, why shopping carts are left empty, that kind of thing. This is where I was going with the window of time – when you put those markers down and say, "I want to be assessing what's happening within 60-second intervals on my website." That's the kind of thing that this history at TIBCO really allows you to understand better than maybe some of the other players in the market, but what do you think?
Brian: That's exactly right. Today, we simply have a temporal time zone that is far more specific than ever before. Several years ago, a company or an organization would have been doing well to design events and integrate them in a way that allowed you to act maybe with one day of delay. Today, it's literally in seconds or maybe even subseconds. The applications of this type of temporal fast data use is incredibly broad, everything from marketing related applications, where consumer interaction is being measured and monitored in real time, through to financial services, where you're watching underlying financial information and transactions flow, through to process manufacturing, where you're looking at yield information, perhaps in subseconds, through the course of some sort of process manufacturing.
Across all these different industries, the fundamental changes occurred as the ability to shrink the amount of time that can be necessary to analyze and put data to work. Designing intelligent events around these thresholds and intelligent definitions is what's making all the difference.
Eric: You just hit a really good point right there, intelligent definitions, because that's what we're really talking about – understanding the nature of a kind of event that we're looking for, and then the definition boils down to a set of business rules that are driven by the business model, right?
Brian: That's right. Precisely.
Eric: You mentioned an energy example. Maybe walk through what some of those folks are doing from start to finish, or from data to insight.
Brian: Yes, energy exploration is a particularly rich field for putting data to work. You can imagine and you can uncover real-time examples where, during the course of energy exploration, constant feedback from drilling for a new reserve could trigger modifications to the techniques used to uncover that reserve based upon yield information or geological information uncovered during the course of a drilling day. You can imagine how that would have an immediate impact on the success and the costs of exploiting some new energy reserve. You can also imagine over a lengthier period of time how quality data and production capacity data could be accumulated around a certain new reserve to determine whether or not that is a generally fruitful area to be exploring later or whether it should be capped and you should move on.
There are just so many varieties of ways to use analytics to make the entire energy exploration equation more successful, lower cost, higher yielding. It's one of the most fascinating areas for data.
Eric: Of course, the issue, too, with energy is that you have this physical supply chain that's so important. You have prices going up and down and different kinds of refining processes and locations, and then even turmoil in the Mideast is a factor, so you really need to build a very sophisticated model to understand what's happening, and then to optimize your processes and optimize your pricing, right?
Brian: That's exactly right. Some of the world's most sophisticated energy companies are using TIBCO Spotfire, for instance, to build out these predictive models, weighing in with a wide variety of factors, geopolitical, geological, yield-based information, to determine the success, the profitability of certain exploration techniques or reserves that they're considering.
Eric: That's really cool stuff. What are some other stories from the road that you've heard?
Brian: One of they key threads I learned across financial services firms, for instance, is the need to keep up with very modern techniques for fraud detection, both looking at patterns of fraudulent data from the past to predict what might come in the future and, at the same time, monitoring in real time a wide variety of transactions and quick streams to be looking for the next likely threat and the next likely fraudulent transaction. It's an amazingly costly endeavor for financial services firms, and anything that can be done to help manage and control it more fully is being sought after today. A lot of the conversations in financial services go to applications near to fraud and fraud detection.
Eric: That is such a difficult nut to crack, because what a lot of people don't realize is that there is an entire industry that is focused on stealing electronically. There are certain countries where there is a higher percentage of these hackers than others, but the fact is there is a really well-orchestrated effort on the part of many individuals and organizations to undermine the security of financial transactions done online. You constantly have to stay on top of that. I'm just fascinated by the whole process and what can be done. I guess it gets back to this whole concept of pattern analysis, of looking for certain patterns of behavior of people who enter into a particular system and do certain things, and then you just have to have some awareness when a new pattern arises that might be worthwhile, right?
Brian: That's right. It's made it a lot more complicated to be competitive, because today financial services firms must offer a growing array of access points into their systems. At the same time, every new point of access creates another dimension for potential fraud. It grows exponentially with the number of users and the number of access points. In many ways, it's the very nature of the competition that forces more and more sophisticated techniques for predicting, managing and controlling potential fraud.
Eric: Have you noticed any trends that are specific to countries, or are we all facing the same challenges in that regard?
Brian: I think that different countries have different interests across consumption techniques for analytics. For instance, in some countries in Asia Pacific, we're seeing a faster uptake and interest in consuming cloud-based or cloud-delivered analytics, almost as if they're skipping some of the infrastructure building that took place elsewhere in the world in the last decade or two.
In Europe, we see quite a lot of focus and concern around the location of the storage of data. If it's cloud-consumed, where is my data? Is it in my country or some other country? There's a lot of nationalism at work in different countries in Europe around that concept. It can be both a plus and a minus as it relates to advancing and creating a more sophisticated architecture.
In the United States, we're surprisingly a little more relaxed about it all. We're consuming more of a variety of cloud-delivered analytics in different forms, in different applications. I'd say that's maybe one of the biggest differences as I traveled around the globe is the interest in different techniques for deploying and consuming analytics, either on premises or in the cloud.
Eric: Cloud computing is just amazing. I think it's still like the sleeping giant out there. Three years ago, it was interesting that cloud still did not really register on too many radar screens out there, less than I would have thought, honestly. We're starting now to see, and we track this stuff because we deal with our audience on a regular basis through webcasts and through email newsletters and via Twitter, that everyone is getting the cloud religion and realizing that you can leverage the power of the cloud and benefit from some of the cost savings associated with it and the fast on-ramp time, that's a very seriously big deal. I guess I'd ask, how big is cloud for you guys going forward in terms of delivering analytics?
Brian: I've always said that the consumption of analytics in the cloud will grow as cloud-originated data grows. In other words, companies and organizations typically don't want to move their data into the cloud in order to analyze it. If their data is on premises, they're probably going to want to choose an on-premises tool for analysis. As cloud-originated data grows, and we become more comfortable with originating transactional application data in the cloud and therefore our quotient of cloud-originated data shifts to the cloud, then we're going to be more and more comfortable with using a tool that is also cloud-hosted.
I use that as a context setter for saying that cloud analytics is incredibly important to TIBCO. We have already placed ourselves in a leadership position with our tools being available in the cloud and being built for the cloud. So the customer has a no-compromise experience, a beautiful cloud-based experience for using either TIBCO Spotfire or TIBCO Jaspersoft from and within the cloud and, in fact, whatever cloud environment they're most interested in. You'll watch us continue to shift toward a higher percentage of features and functionality and delivery, because we know that as customers originate more data in the cloud, they're going to be more and more interested in using a cloud-based, cloud-delivered analytics tool for finding insight among that data.
Eric: Yes, that's great. You've reminded me that or two or three years ago, I was talking with some of the folks from Jaspersoft, Brian Boyarsky in particular, about this concept of the intelligence inside and focusing on embedded analytics.
I thought that was an absolutely brilliant strategy, in part because I use lots of different cloud-based solutions that frankly do not provide very good analytical environments for understanding what's happening. The idea, as I recall, was to work with companies that are developing various kinds of operational software, maybe financial software or industry-specific solutions and embedding some analytical capability into those applications to bring the analytics right to people in their working environment, where they can start slicing and dicing and better understanding their own unique line of business. Let's face it, operational software is everywhere, and it's unique to the industry. It's often unique to companies. You'll even getlots of home-grown solutions out there still to this day.
I thought that was a very clever strategy, and I'm guessing that's still a focus for you guys. Can you talk about that for a second?
Brian: Yes, you actually summarized it very nicely, Eric. The truth is that if we purely look at the penetration rates, the usage rates of analytics over the last two decades, we could summarize that the analytics industry has failed its audience. Today, only 20% to 25%, best case, of knowledge workers in an organization use an analytics tool to analyze any amount of data. Instead of looking at the world through the lens of an analytics tool and saying, "Well, we have to make these tools more broadly available so more people can use them," we probably now just have to admit that 75% of the audience in an enterprise is not going to leave their day-to-day production application, their day-to-day system of whatever it is they're working within. They're not going to leave that system for another separate system that is designed to analyze data.
The way I like to say it is that in order to succeed, analytics must become a thing that you do, not a place that you go. Herein lies the challenge for those of us who build tools. We have to let go of the concept of it's about the tool. It's not. It's about the analytics. It's about putting analytics in the right place, in the right time, with just the right amount of context – not too much, not too little – so that everyone in an organization can be made more capably analytic, even if it's just for a small slice of day that they need in order to make a decision based on data and insight. That might be used just once or twice during a day, but if we can do that, we will have succeeded where everyone else has failed.
This is the charter, in a sense, of TIBCO Analytics, to reach the 75% who, today, have no interest, no ability, even, to go to a separate application to analyze data, and at the same time, we want to make the lives of those 25% whose job it is to analyze data even more delightful. Our job overall is to reach 100% of those in an enterprise.
Eric: Yes, and I really like this idea of bringing the analytics to the user in their existing application.
Brian: That's right.
Eric: Because the fact is, that's where they live most of the time if they're doing their job. So if you can deliver underneath the covers and through the user interface that they are accustomed to using, that's a huge victory. Even if you did go out and buy a high-powered analytical tool, even if you bought 500 licenses, such that all of your line-of-business managers and their direct reports could use it, you have to train those people, you have to disrupt their workflow, get them going from one application to another, or if it's all in the same screen, and they can see some analysis or maybe drill down a little bit and better understand why is this order late, why did this happen, why did that happen, to me. It so incredibly lowers the barrier to analysis that you've suddenly changed workflow. You've changed how people think, and to me, that is the pathway to fostering this culture of what you might call analytical awareness, right?
Brian: That's it. If we do our jobs right, people won't even think of what they just did as an analytic artifact. They'll just think that they were going through the normal process of working through their day. Analytic information was delivered to them inside of that process or inside of that application, to which they responded or acted, and it made for a more successful outcome. In their mind, that is fully analytics, although they might not ever really recognize that's what they were doing.
Eric: Right. The other interesting thread that I've been following these days revolves around this whole story line of machines and rise of machine learning. There are, in my opinion, some scare tactics out there to make people afraid of machines. I have to say, I don't care how good your analytical tool is. There will always be a need for people to be involved, because we are the ones who can understand the context of an event, understand the business model as such, and then make decisions. I really don't see any threat to the human workforce by machines, no matter how powerful their analytical processes might be, because, again, we're just enabling people to make better decisions with more useful information and better insights, right?
Brian: Yes. This is exactly right. The whole concept of using the logic of algorithms to improve our lives, we're just the very forefront of that today. Using machine-generated data has this incredible hope, this incredible possibility of allowing us to more quickly assimilate useful facts from the day and making a more capable software system emerge. Within TIBCO Spotfire, for instance, we have recently released a new class of functionality that we refer to as recommendations. Recommendations is actually a really powerful artificial intelligence-like engine that during the data ingestion process, the recommendations engine actually runs through about 2,000 algorithms, characterizing this data that is being ingested.
By the time Spotfire has pulled all of your data into its memory, it knows far more about your data than you do. In fact, so much more that it's able to immediately start recommending specific visualizations and best practices to you as a starting point. We see this as a Step 1 in putting algorithm-based heuristic data to work in a way that makes for a much better human experience, and it's Step 1, and it's an incredibly powerful feature set all by itself.
Eric: I really like that as well, because I think the first step is often the hardest for people if they're trying to understand, especially if they're new to this business or to the industry. Maybe they're businesspeople who are joining a company that has this analytical mindset. They have the tools. A senior executive says, "Okay, we've given you access to these tools." That first step of just throwing some visualizations on top of some prepared data, that's a daunting thing, but if it's done for you, and especially if the graphic itself is interactive with slider bars, for example, which are one of my favorite tools to use for understanding data, or any other kind of interactivity, that really helps get the juices flowing and helps people realize, "Oh, wait, there is something underneath here. I just have to play around to find it." Right?
Brian: That's right. Immediately putting live data to work, especially to a business user, invites them into a dialogue, into a conversation. The tool should be able to have that dialogue with you in a way that yields much richer insight more quickly and essentially makes you as the businessperson a better analyst. Ultimately, that's what we need in order for everyone to be more capably analytic.
Eric: Yes, that's good stuff. I think that there is a tendency to either overplay or underplay the possibilities with analytics, and one key point I like to remind people about is that if you're going to do a good job with analytics, it does take time. You're not going to get the best idea in the first five minutes. It usually takes a fairly significant discussion back and forth with the data to understand some patterns and to start to map things together in your head to understand where the possibilities are, because it's not just some pattern in the data. It has to be a meaningful pattern in the data that represents some opportunity for change in your business. I think that's a pretty fair assessment. What do you think?
Brian: I think you're right. The faster time to insight is very real today. It literally can happen in seconds, especially with something like the recommendation engine, but then usually what happens is a conversation, a series, or iteration where you start exploring ever more fully, and that's what leads to fundamental change. Even though the insights can come in seconds now, it's about the dialogue that you get pulled into that creates much better business outcomes. That does take more time. At least, though, the software is helping to pull you into that dialogue.
Eric: Maybe, to close out, what about closing the loop and getting people to change what they do in the business? Any given business analyst only has so much influence over the management team or over people who actually run operations. If you're going to get value, you have to change something at some point, if you're to get value from analytics. What's some advice you can offer to the people out there who get all this stuff, who understand it, and just are having a hard time persuading either someone above them or someone below them or someone adjacent to them to change what they're doing?
Brian: I think we've already talked about two concepts that I'll summarize, and then I'll offer a third that is maybe the most important specifically for your question. The two concepts we've already talked about that are valuable here would be: understanding the fast data versus rich data spectrum and knowing where along that spectrum is the specific application or business problem you're trying to solve. The second concept is putting integrated data intelligently defined around event thresholds together with analytics to enable really a fast enterprise to emerge, the kind of power you can bring to a solution in your market is probably unparalleled in this second concept of integration, events and analytics.
The third here I think, which we haven't talked about, but broadens the lens for every organization is what I refer to as use all the data now. Today like never before we can use all of the data that is available to us. If you think about even several decades of computing power and information technology, we have been forced into environments where, based on costs and compute capacity, we had to use a subset of the data for a wide variety of reasons. Today, those limitations are removed. In effect, the only limitation on using all the data is essentially the size of our ideas and the quality of what it is we want to put to work.
Using all the data today is something that every company has to get comfortable with and embrace. Big data, small data, fast data, rich data, all of it can be turned into competitive advantage and value. It's up to us. It's almost like a new responsibility of all business leaders to understand in their organization and their market and industry how can they put all of the data to work in a way that creates more value for their customers, their partners, their shareholders or whomever.
Eric: That makes a lot of sense. I like this new responsibility concept, and I really liked the intelligent events concept as well. I think that's where the future of analytics is going, and it's going to improve life for businesses and users and for the population in general.
Brian: Yes, ultimately!
Eric: Folks, we've been talking to Brian Gentile, Senior VP and General Manager of TIBCO Analytics. Find out more about them online. Look up TIBCO at www.tibco.com and Spotfire, and of course, TIBCO Analytics. Thank you so much for your time, Brian.
Brian: Thank you, Eric. It's always good to speak with you.
Eric: Okay, folks, you've been listening to Inside Analysis. Take care. Bye-bye.

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BRIGHTON, N.Y. – SUNY Geneseo sophomore forward Arthur Gordon totaled a goal and an assist to lead the No. 5 Knights to a 3-2 season-opening victory at Nazareth, Friday, at the Bill Gray's Regional Iceplex.
Senior forward Jack Ceglarski and senior forward Trevor Hills also tallied a goal apiece while sophomore goalie Devin McDonald compiled 21 saves to preserve the victory.
After a scoreless first period, Ceglarski got the Knights (1-0) on the board in the second following a pair of Nazareth (0-1) penalties. The captain converted the two-man advantage, finishing off a right-wing feed from Gordon with a low-slot shot inside the right post with 11:07 on the clock.
Nazareth evened the score with 6:31 left in the period. Geneseo went on the power play following a Golden Flyer tripping penalty, but it was sophomore forward Brad Pizzey taking control of the ensuing face-off and beating McDonald for the short-handed goal.
The Knights answered with a short-handed goal of their own less than four minutes later. Junior defenseman Braxton Bilous caused a turnover in the neutral zone where Gordon took control of the puck and out-skated a Golden Flyer defender to beat Nazareth senior goalie Brandon Lane with a low shot with 3:04 on the clock.
Hills got into the action with 57 second left in the period, finishing an odd-man rush off a feed from senior forward Stephen Collins to stake the visitors to a 3-1 edge heading into the third period.
Nazareth made it a one-goal game with under eight minutes left in regulation. Following a Geneseo goalie interference penalty, senior forward Justin Lacorte scored the power-play tally, but the Knights were able prevent any further damage to clinch the victory.
Geneseo returns to action next Friday (Nov. 4), hosting SUNYAC-rival Cortland at 7:00 p.m. in the home-opener.


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Project and Sales Engineer
Fritz Energy Ltd
Purpose of Job
Fritz Energy Ltd a local leader in the provision of Engineering Services to the petroleum filling stations is seeking the services of a Warranted Mechanical Engineer to complement a team of skilled Sales and Engineering professionals.
Working in a team environment the candidate will be responsible for the preparation of project designs, cost estimates and project quotations in compliance with the client's needs and in conformance to the regulatory bodies' guidelines and with the established industry standards and best engineering practices.
Furthermore, an essential and integral part of the job includes the review of the latest norms, guidelines and specifications governing the target market and the provision of professional advice to the existing and new clientele.
Core Tasks
- Liaise and update the company officials,
- Liaise and keeping abreast with clients and technology vendors,
- Prepare project designs, cost estimates and quotations,
- Keeping abreast with the latest norms, specifications and best engineering practices,
- Organising sales visits demonstrating/presenting products and solutions,
- Establish new business contacts and strengthen existing ones.
Qualifications & Experience
- In possession of a Mechanical Engineering Degree.
- In possession of a Mechanical Engineering Warrant.
- Fluent in Maltese and in English (both written and spoken).
- Proficient in ACAD (2D) design.
Employee Attributes
- Good communicator, clear thinking and motivated character.
- Displays a positive and flexible attitude in the day-to-day work.
- Establishes harmonious and organised working relationships with team members.
- Understands the professional development process and becomes actively involved by setting challenging goals and meeting them through continuous learning.
- Seeks input from mentors and supervisors.
- Actively applies feedback received to day-to-day work and strives to improve performance.


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Just the other day I was in a conversation with several Literacy Coaches. Majority of the conversation surrounded one central concept – lack of time. Each of the literacy coaches shared how they were being used in many different ways to complete district and state initiatives. The conversation then led to the fact that now that they have all of this (extra) work, that they are far too busy to get in as much coaching as they would like, specifically with the more advanced teachers. This conversation left me asking questions. I was concerned that more advanced teachers might not be receiving the coaching they needed to continue to grow as educators. So, immediately following this conversation I went in search of some possible solutions.
My inquiry led me into a text called Systems for Change in Literacy Education, written by Lyons and Pinnell (2001). After a quick glance over the table of contents, I found a chapter that looked promising: "Supporting and Extending Learning." It was in chapter 13, where the authors touched on the importance of reaching out and supporting our advanced teachers. They offered five very practical solutions for supporting these advanced learners and engaging them in meaningful professional development built around their own inquiries (2001).
Below, I will share Lyons' and Pinnell's five different extended learning contexts and a brief description of each. My hope is that you are already engaging your staff members in these extended learning contexts, and if not, I hope you find one below that works well with what you currently have in place and decide to learn more about it.
- Study Groups – As a coach you bring together a group of learners around a common inquiry. The group establishes a leader and together, they plan their course of action. Study groups are extremely practical and the content studied by the group is driven by the groups' inquiry.
- Action Research – This extended learning context can be broken down into two types:
a. Research around a specific
problem that a grade level team or group of teachers share. Together they use student data to plan a
course of action.
b. Research directed towards assessing the effectiveness of a building, or district program.
- Peer Coaching – There are two types of peer coaching, but both have two or more teachers working together to analyze an aspect of teaching and/or student learning.
- Special Initiatives – This can be a building, district wide project or initiative that brings everyone together around a common course of action.
- Continuing Professional Development – The Literacy Coach offers different opportunities within their professional development time to meet the needs of the various learners with which they work.


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Halloween is a great time to dye your hair and have some fun with it, whether it's Halloween wigs, spray colour, clip-ins extensions, hair falls or hair dyes…
Halloween. Time for pumpkins, trick-or-treat, broomsticks, bonfires, toffee apples, costume parties and best of all… wild hair colour! So here are some ideas and tips for Halloween hair styles to help you get in the mood and prepare for your party…
Witch Halloween hairstyles?
Traditionally witch's hair has always been black or green, but if you want to try something different with your hair dye this Halloween, here are a few suggestions.
White witch hair: For this 'good girl gone bad' look, bleach your hair up to blonde and use the Fudge Dye 'Whiter Shade of Pale' to get that pure white colour. (Note: NEVER bleach your hair to white, it will fall out.) Alternatively for a no commitment option use a wig or synthetic hair such as Kanekalon to create a look similar to Ophelia-Overdose's below…
Halloween hairstyles tip: If you decide you want to dye your hair black for a classic witch, I would recommend you only use semi-permanent (e.g. 2-3 washes). Permanent black is a massive commitment and should only be removed by a professional.
Pumpkin witch hair: For this cheeky Halloween character, dye your hair orange and add some streaks of black around the front, or if you want something more subtle and have naturally dark hair, just add a streak of orange to the fringe. Or for a total pumpkin head check out Jacky-Hell-Oween's hair design below. If you want to try this yourself I suggest you dye the hair orange first. Then use a spray on temporary black hair spray colour. Then do a home made cut out stencil to create the clean lines in the eye and the mouth.
Thirsty for Vampire hair…
Black hair with a white stripe is the classic vampire hair. For something more modern, try flowing, red, fiery hair.
Lovers of gothic vampire hairstyles take note… did you know that during the Middle Ages it was believed that red hair and green eyes were the sign of a vampire?
Red is the one colour that can make the crossover from the realm of natural hair colours to alternative colour. If you want to stand out and fancy red, try a more vibrant dye – like Special Effects 'Blood Red'.
If you're not so daring but you like red, how about dyeing the tips of your hair red, so it looks like they have been dipped in blood?
Halloween hairstyles tip: The great thing with just dyeing the ends of your hair is that they are easily trimmed off later if you have work or school to go back to.
Movie-based ideas for Halloween hairstyles
Film characters are always a favourite at Halloween fancy dress parties. So here are some ideas for film characters with fantastic colourful hair…
Tim Burton's films have some wonderful characters that make for perfect halloween costumes. 'Alice in Wonderland' has some wonderful hair inspiration. The Mad Hatter with his fantastically curly and fluorescent orange hair. Cheshire Cat's glowing stripy fur and White Queens snowy locks are perfect for Halloween fancy dress parties. Above are my own take on these three characters. The Mad Hatter hairstyle was braided after being dyed a blood orange shade, then the braids were left in overnight. Once the braids were taken out, the hair was brushed out and then teased with hairspray to create the Mad Hatter 's wild look.
The Corpse Bride (Emily) played by Helena Bonham Carter in Tim Burton's animated film is a wonderful character for a more classic Halloween costume. Her flowing, midnight blue hair gives her that creepy, cold, undead look. Use True Blue Raw Hair Dye to get this cool hair colour.
Why so serious? The Joker as played by Heath Ledger in 'Dark Night' has the most sinister, matted, washed-out lime-green hair. Get his wicked look with Directions 'Apple Green' Semi-Permanent Hair Dye.
Whatever you decide to go for, I hope you have a happy Halloween!
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I was on a role making sun dried tomato pesto and putting sun dried tomato in just about everything when I realized, it could taste phenomenal with mashed beans. Beans are great, they can adapt tastes pretty nicely, they're cheap (yay!) and they have lots of protein and are quite filling when buying meat isn't in the stars. After all, meat can be expensive.
So, I decided on a casserole for this idea, added some pasta and threw some veggies on top. I ran out of cheese when I was making it, so we decided to do the vegan thing… just this once. Needless to say, if you aren't lactose intolerant and love cheese, add some into this recipe on top. If you are a vegan, adding some nutritional yeast on the top of the casserole can give it a nice cheesy zing. Hope you enjoy!
You'll need:
- 1 lb spaghetti, or whatever pasta you would like to use
- 1 tomato very thinly sliced
- ~1/2 a zucchini, very thinly sliced
- bread crumbs
- cilantro
- olive oil
For THE {White-Bean Pasta} SAUCE:
- 1 1/2 cups dry white beans (I used white kidney beans)
*Note, if you'd like to use canned beans, this is all much easier. Advance to step 4*
- 2 to 4 cups vegetable stock (depends on how cooked beans are)
- 1/3 cup of onion
- 1t minced garlic
- several sun-dried tomatoes (I used around 5)
- salt & pepper
- Overnight, soak beans in water. Place beans in dish, and fill pan with 1″ water covering them.
- When you're reading to prepare the rest of the casserole, preheat over to 350*F
- In the morning, take your beans and place them in a medium saucepan with sliced sun-dried tomatoes, onion, garlic, a few dashes of olive oil, and salt. Fill the pan with stock so it covers the beans 1″ in liquid. Cook at a simmer until the water has evaporated and the beans are soft. While the beans are cooking, you can cook your pasta.
- In a food processor, combine the beans, sun-dried tomatoes, onion, garlic, salt, and olive oil mixture with more stock and pulse several times. Add more stock as you wish to give it a creamy consistency. Add some spices if you wish. I love curry, so I added some. As well as salt. As well as Sriracha…what?
- Toss this mixture in your cooked pasta to cover every strand. Then, place in casserole dish.
- Place a layer of sliced vegetables, atop breadcrumbs, and finally place in the oven for about 30 minutes.
- Top with cilantro, nutritional yeast, or whatever you like.


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As the 747 Begins Its Final Approach, a Pilot Takes a Flight Down Memory Lane
The hopes and fears of the era that gave us the 747 can seem distant. Nor is it easy, in the age of the internet, to feel the same awe at the 747's ability to shrink and connect the world. Looking back, it's perhaps enough to marvel at the billions of reunions, migrations, exchanges and collaborations of all manner that were made possible, or at least more affordable, by this aircraft. Today, the equivalent of around half the planet's population has flown on a 747. The jets have also served in firefighting, military and humanitarian roles. In 1991, as part of Operation Solomon, about 1,100 Ethiopian Jews boarded the 747 that would take them to Israel. Never before had an aircraft carried so many passengers — including, by the time the jet touched down, several babies born midair.
If the 747's place in history is assured, so too, it seems, is its cultural stature. The jet remains a go-to synonym for aerial enormity, one that a "Game of Thrones" director recently deployed to suggest the dimensions of a dragon. The 747 also endures as a symbol of speed, escape and, frankly, sexiness, one that — along with the pleasingly palindromic rhythm of its number-name — has appealed in particular to singers. A 747 playlist might include Prince ("you are flying aboard the seduction 747"); Earth, Wind and Fire ("just move yourself and glide like a 747"); and Joni Mitchell, who gave perhaps my favorite tribute to 747s ("…over geometric farms.")
The jet also seems certain to be remembered as an icon of modern design. "This is one of the great ones," said Charles Lindbergh of the aircraft that many consider to be uniquely good-looking. I am surely not the first to speculate that the jet's distinctive hump (fashioned to facilitate cargo-loading in a future that many expected to be dominated by supersonic passenger jets) suggests the graceful head of an avian archetype. Frequently, looking up from my cockpit paperwork, I'll spot several passengers in the terminal photographing the very jet in which I am sitting. I often see even senior 747 pilots disembark the aircraft that they've just spent 11 hours flying to Cape Town or Los Angeles, and then pause, turn around and photograph it.
Indeed, the jet may be most esteemed by those who have been lucky enough to fly it. The very first to do so, the test pilot Jack Waddell, described it as "a pilot's dream" and a "two-finger airplane" — one that can be flown with just the forefinger and thumb on the control wheel; it is hard to imagine higher praise for such an enormous aircraft. Personally, I find the aircraft to be both smooth and maneuverable, a joy to fly and to land.
Like every 747 pilot since, Mr. Waddell also took a keen interest in how the plane looked. Remarkably, he did so even as he was piloting the new jet on that first-ever flight. "What kind of a looking ship is this from out there, Paul?" he said over the radio to Paul Bennett, a pilot in the "chase" aircraft that was following the newborn 747 through the skies of the Pacific Northwest. The reply from Mr. Bennett echoes through aviation history: "It's very good looking, Jack. Fantastic!"
Many 747 pilots feel the same, and are pleased, but not surprised, to hear that the British architect Norman Foster once named the aircraft his favorite building of the 20th century. Now, well into the 21st century, I asked Mr. Foster for an update. The 747 "still moves me now as it did then," he told me in an email. "Perhaps with the passage of time, and in an age of 'look-alikes,' even more so."
Mr. Foster has plenty of company. At the start of my first book, a sort of love letter to my job as a pilot, I invited readers to send me their favorite window seat photographs. Many also wrote to share their particular passion for the 747. One reader detailed his first 747 flight, on Alitalia, bound for Rome in 1971. "I have been hooked ever since," he said. Another, Andrew Flowers, a 42-year-old South African writer who lives in Helsinki, wrote that the 747s he saw as a child in Cape Town stood for what "I wanted most in the world: a way to Europe, to adventure, to freedom."
When Mr. Foster emailed me, he also attached a transcript of remarks he made about the 747 in a 1991 BBC documentary. "I suppose it's the grandeur, the scale; it's heroic, it's also pure sculpture," he said then of the jet. "It does not really need to fly, it could sit on the ground, it could be in a museum."
Today the first 747 is indeed in a museum — the Museum of Flight in Seattle. When I last visited, I couldn't stay long. (Inevitably, I had a flight to catch.) But if you see me there another time — perhaps in a few decades when I myself am retired, with more time, I hope, to sit on benches and listen to Joni Mitchell — come say hello. I'll tell you how much I loved this plane, and how sorry I was that my parents did not live to join me on one of my flights. Perhaps you'll tell me about the first time you ever saw a 747, or flew on one, and together we'll marvel at how it towers above us even at its lowest altitude, even as it rests on the world.
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WASHINGTON — The White House said more than 64,000 people watched President Obama answer questions on Thursday in the first live Internet video chat by an American president. But in declaring itself "Open for Questions," on the economy, the White House learned it must be careful what it wishes for.
More than 100,000 questions were submitted, with the idea that Mr. Obama would answer those that were most popular. But after 3.6 million votes were cast, one of the top questions turned out to be a query on whether legalizing marijuana might stimulate the economy by allowing the government to regulate and tax the drug.
"I don't know what this says about the online audience," Mr. Obama said, drawing a laugh from an audience gathered in the East Room, which included teachers, nurses and small-business people. "The answer is no, I don't think that is a good strategy to grow the economy."
The marijuana question later took up a good chunk of the daily White House press briefing, where Robert Gibbs, the press secretary, suggested that advocates for legalizing marijuana had mounted a drive to rack up votes for the question.
Those advocates included Norml, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, which urged supporters to "let the president know that millions of American voters believe that the time has come to tax and regulate marijuana."Continue reading the main story
But however the marijuana query rose to the top of the White House list, it provided one of the livelier moments in the mostly staid 70-minute event.
Mr. Obama did make a sliver of news, disclosing that he intended to announce in the next couple of days what kind of help his administration would give the auto industry. A senior White House official said no decision had yet been made; Mr. Gibbs hinted that the announcement would most likely occur on Monday.
"We will provide them some help," Mr. Obama said, as he has in the past, while also talking tough, as he has done previously, by insisting that the auto makers would have to make "drastic changes" to restructure the way they do business.
"If they're not willing to make the changes and the restructurings that are necessary," Mr. Obama said, he will be unwilling to "have taxpayer money chase after bad money."
Thursday's session, which had been advertised on the White House Web site since Tuesday, is the latest example of efforts by the Obama team to replicate its creative use of the Internet in the election campaign.
Mr. Obama has been trying to make the case for his economic agenda in a variety of forums, from Jay Leno's late-night television show to the CBS program "60 Minutes" to a prime-time news conference on Tuesday. The Internet chat, streamed live on the White House Web site, was a chance for Mr. Obama to bypass the news media entirely.
"This is an experiment," the president said in a video promoting the event, "but it's also an exciting opportunity for me to look at a computer and get a snapshot of what Americans across the country care about.
"So, America, what do you want to know about the economy? Just go to whitehouse.gov and ask."
Mr. Obama, of course, was not looking at a computer himself. Jared Bernstein, an economic adviser to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., moderated the event, reading some of the most popular written questions and cuing video questions.
Macon Phillips, the White House director of new media, said in an interview afterward that he was pleased with "the experiment," which he said was part of Mr. Obama's mission to open the government to greater citizen involvement.
"Anytime you ask if people will engage and 100,000 people show up, it's a big deal," Mr. Phillips said.
Yet at times, the forum had a canned feel, perhaps because most Americans tend to be more polite in their questions than news reporters, perhaps because they lacked any opportunity to follow up.
The first question, on education, prompted Mr. Obama to promise higher pay and more support for teachers, without specifics. The second, on what benefits his stimulus plan offered to struggling homeowners, prompted a recitation of the president's recently announced housing plan. The third was a video question, from "Harriet in Georgia," who asked the president what he was doing to bring back jobs that had been outsourced.
"Thank you so much for all your hard work," Harriet told the president. "God bless you."Continue reading the main story


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Sunday evening. Sky still gray from those southern spring torrential thunderstorms. Driving the now familiar route from the little red brick ranch we call home, past Athens Regional where people scurry from the cold sterile hospital corridors to the parking deck. Down Prince where a cluster of fast food joints mar the entrance to Normaltown. Wait at the light that lets me turn down Chase. Past the medical complexes, the local elementary school, a new costume store (Guise and Dolls), and then onto a road of industrial architecture. A plumbing company guards the tracks, and then the opening of the old warehouses transformed into a miracle of wonder: yoga studios, hairstylists, homemade rap pops, art studios, and the place we come to the most often: Canopy. Trapeze. Ariel dance. The high space that has transformed my daughters' lives in wonderful ways. Maybe mine too.
Tonight I stand with a clipboard and a tiny plastic container filled with blue paper tickets, the ones you used to use to get into the movies. Admit one they say in black ink. I chat with the people as I check off their names, making sure to hand tickets to the children. Having your own ticket to hand over adds to the magic of what is to come. Unlike the last time, I performed this job, I recognize many of the people who come through the doors. Some are wonderful people on their way to becoming friends, like Ann whom I last saw waiting for the baby who is now earth side. Others I recognize from Facebook encounters. Most I just know from around town: stores, festivals, shows. Athens is still small enough to allow that familiarity. One woman, a local doctor we meet at a lawn sale, tells me she saw H walking with the kids on Saturday.
In the midst of all this checking in, the magic seeps out into the hallway. The Fourth Doctor complete with scarf scurries about and I hope he offers me a jelly baby. I always love being backstage. Performers in various states of costuming rushing about trailing behind some of their secret spells mingled with the kiss of real life. People I know from so many hours spent watching my girls practice on the bar now transformed into super heroes, comic book characters and scifi movie personalities. The magic weaves its spell before I am relieved of the clipboard and urged to find a seat which I do towards the back under the silver pole that extends from ceiling to floor.
Inside the studio, the space is wide open and even though the ground is on the small side, the up extends high enough to make you feel free. I love the industrial feel of the black steel cross beams that hold the knotted ropes from which hang a multitude of bars but also silk drapes, ropes, and iron ladders. Tonight the windows that line the top of the outer wall have been covered, and when the lights turn low darkness falls. The music swells, and the crowd tenses in excited anticipation. A glad cry rises as the performers no longer the mundane teachers we know march out onto the floor.
What follows is nearly impossible to describe in words, or perhaps it's just that it would be too many words. For the next two hours, I watch the human body do amazing, magical things. Bodies twist and propel on bars, held up right with just arms and legs. Women hang from bars with just the top of their feet. Superman shows a vulnerable side with what can be described only as a dance with two silk drapes. Cat woman steals a diamond bracelet after walking a tight robe. A charming, funny routine happens with two steam punk beauties on a steel ladder. Wonder Woman and her invisible jet leave the crowd cheering with an impressive display of acrobatic feats including the jet bouncing and moving Wonder Woman with her feet. The woman who do the Star Trek portion create a dance with robes and near perfect symmetry. Everyone performs with grace, strength, and a perfect sense of drama.
What occurs to me as I sit there like a little kid with my mouth open, lost in both wonderment and envy, is that this moment encapsulates what Athens means to me. There was a reason my main characters meet at Canopy. When we first moved here, I described my ambiguity about the town as loving the town but not feeling the people. I struggled with a heavy depression, and a profound sense of isolation and loneliness. While it took years to make friends in Charlotte, I had made them eventually, and relocating to Athens started that whole process again. But my heart loved the town even in the midst of that sadness which hung over me. She won me over with her charming old houses, her quirkiness, her sense of rock and roll.
And somewhere along the way, I started to make friends, connections. People knew me in stores. When the girls started to take classes at Trapeze, I found myself loving their teachers not just for their wonderfulness with my children but because of who they were as people. And this happened at other places. Treehouse Craft. Freedom to Grow. I meet wonderful women at these places: Kristin who had the vision for an amazing toy store that taught art and crafts, Mary Katherine who embraced Piper and taught her to sew. Hope the beautiful, gifted artist who won Camille's heart in one class. Michelle whose artwork blows me away and who taught Rowena to take risks. Ann who worked with Camille, drawing her out and planting in her a desire to go ever further with trapeze. Ellen who is not just a business manager but a friend and a comfort. MJ whose words gave me the final push to try trapeze myself. Megan who got Rowena to flip upside down. Lora whose dream of unschooling so closely mirrors my own. And so many other woman who have made me see Athens is more than just it's spirit but also it's people.
As I watch the display before me, I feel that warmth, that joy, that exuberance for life and art and beauty. It is a special place. Not just this studio but the whole town. I remember a man once told me that Athens holds special children and I thought later that Athens allows children to be special, to be more, to be magic. It does this for us all if we just let ourselves get caught up in the splendor of it's soul. And after the show when I congratulate the performers and get to have some magic rubbed off on me, I think again as I always do how this is a place to nourish my own creative self. I want to stay here and grow roots in this glittery sparkle stuff that makes amazing things grow. I want Jude, who someone once told me was like a superstar, to grow roots here as well. And Camille. Here where their souls are honored not because they are the same but because they are different.


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A 60's Night Out 2012 featuring
Dave Berry - Tony Crane (Merseybeats) - Chris Farlowe - The New Amen Corner
A brand new show featuring million selling hit records, rock'n'roll, blues and soul.
Not only did the artistes have some of the era's biggest hits, they have all continued to flourish with their own iconic songs but gained new audiences with their diverse careers.
With the wonderful New Amen Corner complete with their brass section then this show will have you movin' and a groovin'.
A truly magical night of the best music around!!
'....what a great night out, just like it used to be.....'
The Cream Of Black Country Entertainment on tour!!
The legendary Moody Blue on tour in 2016
Bev Bevan's Zing Band...get ready to rock!!
Tony Christie - Golden Anniversary Tour
PRINCE Revelation. The No.1 Prince Tribute Show In The World Today
Jasper Carrott is on the road with a great new show...not to...
Bank Holiday August Weekend 23-26 FREE LIVE MUSIC


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Here are some *NEW* simple little night lights that I've recently posted in my etsy shop...
I've already sold two of the "home sweet home" ones! I really like that they are so simple! I have more of them to list with different says to...hopefully I can get them added soon! What do you think of these night lights? I would love to have any feedback that you might have!
A Little Christmas Magic (Part 1)
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Midway through January now, and I'm getting really excited about the upcoming competition season. Not only do I have a powerlifting meet coming up in seven weeks- the South Bay Open- but I've decided to compete in the WNBF, rather than NPC, in the figure division this year. My first show will be May 28, and I'm hoping to compete twice more this year as well.
One of those creepy "this day in history" Facebook thing alerted me that one year ago today, I was at the top of my bulk- in fact, it was the very last day of it, and I was asked to do a last-minute photo shoot. Hesitantly, I agreed- I would meet the photographer as soon as I left work that day. I had never done a photo shoot at anything less than optimal body composition, and having eaten above maintenance for the first time in about 5 year, for the preceding 8 weeks, I was feeling just a little bit uncomfortable in my skin- chubby, even.
The resulting photos, however, showed a confident, strong athlete. Sure I had a little bit of "fluff," in comparison to what I typically carried, my waist was a bit thick, but that's not what came through as a whole. I looked confident. Capable. Strong. Powerful.
It is this photo that convinced me to repeat the process this winter, bulking up a bit and trying to gain some muscle mass, before cutting down again to compete. So today, I once again find myself nearing the end of an offseason diet- I wouldn't go so far as to call it a "bulk," in the traditional sense, but I have been eating at or slightly above maintenance for a couple of months, following a successful reverse diet back up to maintenance. My weight is up, nearing the top of my weight class for powerlifting, but I'm not concerned about it; my lifts are stronger than ever, and it's almost time to start cutting to compete again.
I checked back in my prep log notebook from last year to compare it to this year, and I took some measurements to compare and see how the last year has changed for me. And this prompted me, then, to take a comparison photo. Of course, it's iPhone quality versus professional quality, and the pose isn't perfect (forgive me, I snapped it quick on my way to the gym this morning!) but the comparison stands, I think.
It may The differences aren't huge, but here's what I see:
- I'm holding slightly less fat around the midsection
- My traps are noticeably larger
- My delts and biceps both have a bit more size
- My quads look slightly larger
- I should smile, at least with my eyes, so I don't look mad. I'm learning more and more than I suffer from Resting Bitch Face.
After studying the two photos, I broke out my old prep notebook, and I was surprised to find that I had recorded my weight as 118.8 last year in that photo, whereas today, I'm just 2 pounds heavier. This took me slightly aback, because my average daily intake is over 200 calories more, now!
In comparing the measurements I took My waist measurement is the same- 25.5 inches- but my bust and hip measurements have both increased by nearly an inch! Obviously my boobs didn't grow any, so this additional chest girth can likely be attributed to thickness and width in my back. And my quads are up 3/4 of an inch, too! I can't compare the caliper body fat measurements, because I used to different calipers (my old ones broke) and I have noticed my new one gives slightly different results than my old one did. But these stats are, though maybe the shouldn't be, absolutely shocking to me. How did I not notice this progress happening?
I find myself now 7 weeks out from my first powerlifting meet of the year and 19 weeks out from my first figure competition, whereas last year I was 9 weeks out from my first figure competition. I'm lifting and pushing myself harder than I have in ages, under the guidance and programming of my recently acquired coach, Derek; maintaining my weight, via an attempted (I say attempted because I've not previously tried this!) recomp- eating a bit below TDEE on rest days and a bit above on training days to theoretically stimulate simultaneous muscle growth and and fat loss. I am, metabolically and body compositionally, in perhaps the best position I have ever been in, going into contest prep. I feel so much relief right now, and validation. All of the time and stress over reverse dieting, building muscle, maintaining and then building strength while not sacrificing aesthetics… I've done it all. I've set myself up to have a successful competition season, I've improved, if not my physique, at least my metabolic health. I have built my calories up to a point where cutting will not bring them detrimentally low, and I've learned so much this year. Is it arrogant to say I'm damn proud of myself? Because I am.
Competition season, here I come. USPA and WNBF, you ain't ready for this.


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A 'Complaints Manager Dalek' in the window of a vintage hi-fi shop in London
Image © Matt Salusbury, Daleks created by Terry Nation/BBC
NOVEMBER 23 sees the fiftieth anniversary of the broadcast of the first Doctor Who episode. Freelances will no doubt be interested in the details one of the lesser-known aspects of Doctor Who's genesis all those years ago - the Copyright of the Daleks.
Under normal circumstances, most secondary rights and neighbouring rights on a Doctor Who script written for the BBC should have stayed with the BBC. In-house BBC designer Raymond Cusick - a staffer - got nothing beyond his usual salary for designing the Daleks. Years later, he got a retrospective goodwill payment of a few hundred pounds (in 1980s money) for his Dalek designs.
The case of the scriptwriter who created the first Dalek series, however, was a very different matter. Failed comic Terry Nation, who wrote material for flawed comic genius Tony Hancock, worked as a freelance for Associated Scripts Ltd, a scriptwriting agency round the corner from the BBC, set up by Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes and Steptoe and Son writer Ray Galton. They negotiated with the BBC on behalf of their writers over the terms of their writers' contracts, and took a cut from the writers on their books.
Nation initially turned down an offer to write a story for a new children's sci-fi drama series in 1963, as he believed he had a steady supply of writing work for Hancock. Hancock, however, was rather difficult to work with, and the inevitable Hancockian falling-out soon followed. Nation took up the offer of writing what become the first Dalek story for Who, the offer still being on the table, as the BBC were by then one Who story short in their rapidly approaching first season, and needed a script rather desperately. Nation took on the Who scriptwriting gig as a Saturday job: writing gags for an Eric Sykes touring revue being his day job.
As The Man Who Invented the Daleks, Alwyn Turner's recent biography of Nation, reveals, so desperate were the BBC that they seem to have overlooked an obscure clause in Nation's contract. They drew up an apparently fairly standard contract for Nation and sent it to his agents. The secretary at Associated Scripts, Beryl Vertue, crossed out the bit in Nation's Doctor Who scriptwriting contract about "merchandising," telling the BBC such a clause was unnecessary. It seems the BBC failed to grasp the then new concept of merchandising, or the implications of Associated Scripts crossing out the clause.
The result was that Nation got the rights to Dalek-related product merchandising, and by Christmas 1965, Dalekmania had become almost as huge as the contemporary Beatlemania, with Daleks represented on everything from slippers to sweets to wallpaper. The rumoured seven-figure sum (in 1960s money) that Nation made before Dalekmania peaked is now thought to be an exaggeration, but when Nation moved with his family to Los Angeles in the 1980s, he didn't do much work there - nor did he need to. He was apparently still living off Dalek revenues.
The moral of the story? When they're desperate for material, they're really desperate, and you can use it to your advantage. Your understanding of copyright and other rights issues, it turns out, can often be better than "theirs". And there will always be newly evolving bits of the market - new media, new markets, new niches - that a fleet-footed freelance can get their head round quicker than a big organisation that takes a lot of time to turn round, like an oil tanker.
Beryl Vertue, the secretary who put a line through the BBC's merchandising clause on Nation's behalf, went on to become a successful TV producer in her own right.
© Matt Salusbury
The Freelance's assistant editor with a Dalek at the Doctor Who Experience in 2011


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Current & Forthcoming
Freespace Fest
13.12.2019 to 15.12.2019, Freespace and Art Park, West Kowloon
Freespace Fest on 13-15 December 2019 (Friday-Sunday) will be rescheduled. Details will be announced on the West Kowloon Cultural District website www.westkowloon.hk in due course
Boh Boh's New Friends
14.12.2019 to 15.12.2019, The Studio, Freespace
Boh Boh's New Friends is an interactive bi-lingual performance that takes children on an intergalactic space adventure with Boh Boh the alien puppet. Dancing and singing songs in Cantonese and English, the audience accompany Boh Boh on his journey through space, and helping him make new friends
Freespace Little Stage Managers
14.12.2019 to 22.12.2019, Freespace, West Kowloon
This interactive role-play workshop introduces children to the behind-the-scenes world of performing arts production at Freespace. Acting as mini assistant stage managers, participants explore the Freespace venue and learn fun facts about performing arts
Beyond Words
21.12.2019 to 22.12.2019, The Room, Freespace
Take centre stage in a communicative art experience that brings together hearing and hearing-impaired participants and encourages new perspectives on inclusivity. A participatory art experience created by local interdisciplinary artist Kingsley Ng and graduate students of the Hong Kong Baptist University
M+ Rover 2020
03.02.2020 to 03.07.2020
This year's programme is designed for primary schools, and it will see M+ Rover visiting local schools from February to July 2020
West Kowloon Young Fellows Scheme (Performing Arts) 2020
The West Kowloon Young Fellows Scheme supports young and aspiring talents to develop arts learning, public participation, community engagement and audience building projects that expand and contribute to the performing arts ecology in Hong Kong


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The Y-3 Yohji Socks create a distinct look with a graphic on the ankle stemming from a series of paintings by Yohji Yamamoto. Made of a nylon blend with added stretch, they feature built-in arch compression for all-day comfort.
Arch compression; Stretch knit; Love Yohji Yamamoto graphic printed on back; 44% nylon / 29% polyester / 23% cotton / 4% elastane; Anti-odour fabric with Polygiene technology for a fresh feel


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It's the BIG CHOP all over again! Ever since we met, Josh has said that he would love to see me with short hair. He had seen pictures of me with short hair from college, but had never seen it in person. You see, in college my hair was actually the longest it had ever been since I was a kid, but after a friend of mine donated hers to Locks of Love, I looked into it and thought I'd go for it. Fast forward six years later and I'm at it again... and this time, it means much much more to me. I did a little more research this time around and found that Pantene also has a program, but your hair is donated to women instead of children. Don't get me wrong, I love children, but after living with my mom while she went through chemo and knowing how her fabulous wig made her feel better about it, the idea greatly appealed to me. My family has seen three women battle cancer, including my Aunt B who is currently fighting, and I realize that there is a very good chance that my sisters or I might have to face the ugly "C" word one day in our future. Cancer stinks, and it doesn't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon (although we all hope and pray that it does!), so chopping off my hair again for a woman who needs it tugs at my heart strings these days. I hope and pray that the woman who receives the wig that my hair is a part of feel stronger, empowered, more secure, confident, and beautiful every time she puts it on. Because what is more beautiful than a woman who is beating cancer? As much as I despise the illness, I admire and adore those who conquer it. In those moments, it is really great to be a woman.
So without further to do...
Here is the unveiling of the BIG CHOP 2009.
Here is the unveiling of the BIG CHOP 2009.
And a flashback to the first BIG CHOP 2003...
not a whole lot has changed!
not a whole lot has changed!
And just for fun (although she might kill me)... a photo of my mom in her fabulous wig! As a funny sidenote, she had more compliments on her hair while she had her wig on than ever in her life. She one time looked at me and asked, "Was my hair really that bad before?" Hilarious... and it kind of makes me want one for those bad hair days!
But even better... my mom these days post-chemo. And we all LOVE the sassy gray! She is one hot mama, but even more so, one beautiful survivor! We love you, Mom!


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I said I would, so I did. Last weekend I climbed a mountain! The third highest mountain in the UK for that matter, 1085ft and 17km of mountain to be precise!
Last Friday night, Rebecca, Sarah, Kate and I drove down to Wales to a lovely stone cottage, before waking up early to meet Terri at Pen-y-pass and start the climb.
It was a long climb up the Pyg Track but the views were absolutely incredible; We were blessed with beautiful sunshine instead of the forecasted rain, which was stupidly lucky. With various photo stops and snack breaks along the way, it was actually a lot easier than I was expecting, even with the scrambling.
It took us about 3 hours to reach the summit where we then queued like good polite Brits to get our obligatory top of a mountain selfies- Snowdon gets pretty crowded on a sunny day but it was amazing to actually get right up the top.
After lunch in the sun, wrapped up in our jackets at the top, we then made the trek down the Miner's path. This has a steep scramble down before a much more gentle, winding path alongside the lakes.
I'm still feeling a little amazed that I've done it- actually set a date, done the training and done the hike. It feels like I've been hitting a lot of goals this year and this was a pretty big one; I'm so incredibly grateful to these babes for making the journey with me.
However, what I'm most proud of is that we've managed to raise over £250 so far for Refuge. If you want to celebrate with me, I'm keeping the fundraising page open for another week. Now, I just need to figure out my next goal!


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Piles of Snow Fleas
We tend to associate snow fleas, a type of springtail, with winter, as that is when we can easily see their tiny black bodies against the white snow. However, these insects don't magically appear when it snows – they are in the leaf litter and soil all year round. Snow fleas are considered to be one of the most numerous land animals on earth, with several hundred thousand inhabiting a cubic yard. Even so, it was with amazement that I found several piles of snow fleas at the base of my garage door this morning – it's the wrong time of year, and most of the individual snow fleas were not scattered apart from each other. Several solid black patches of snow fleas, one patch measuring roughly 6" by 2 ½ ", piled 1/8" high, had appeared overnight. Something about the warm, humid air this morning may have caused them to leave the safety of the forest floor and for some unknown reason gather in piles on the cement. Once the garage door was raised, the piles disappeared within five minutes, as each tiny snow flea catapulted itself several inches away and disappeared into fallen leaves.
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Mary — Your blogs are terrific! I recommend them to my friends all the time. The detail and interesting facts that I've never seen anywhere else – absolutely wonderful!
Your snow flea blog brings to mind a question. If you know the answer, maybe you can work it into a blog at some time in the future. No need to answer me individually. Twice I have had the experience while out in my small sail boat on a bay in Gloucester MA where the wind is blowing from one direction, then it changes abruptly and blows from nearly the opposite direction. I begin to feel these little things (like grains of sand) pelting me. I look down on my white deck and there are hundreds of tiny dead insects, all the same kind. Probably no see-ums. Wish I had a picture. Somehow they seem to have been pummeled to death by colliding wind currents. Is there a better or more detailed explanation? Thanks. Sue
October 27, 2012 at 2:26 pm
wow! That's amazing. I never thought about where the snow fleas were when there was no snow….
October 27, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Hi Mary…I have seen them so many times in winter, and growing up I always wonder how could these tiny things be alive and jumping around in snow : )…as I have learned since then what a amazing insect they are !!
What a gathering you found at your garage door .. it is a gorgeous day and week it has been ….perhaps the fleas are looking for shelter from the pending storm!! : ))
Thanks for sharing this with us !!!
October 27, 2012 at 5:06 pm
How amazing. Good thing you were the one to find these in your garage; the rest of us would have been mystified, even horrified. Strange how quickly they disappeared. Nature is nifty!
October 27, 2012 at 6:03 pm
Mary, what can you tell me about deer kegs??? Was on a walk today and this is the first I've ever head of them.
October 27, 2012 at 10:33 pm
My friend and I tried eating springtails that we found thickly clustered on the surface of the water of a stream early last spring. Don't taste like much and definitely not filling. Thanks for a wonderful account.
October 28, 2012 at 1:21 am