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In personal branding, "why?" is the most important question
Over the past couple of years, hordes of Baby Boomers found Facebook; this year, half the people I've ever worked with seem to have had the same "Aha!" concerning their personal branding.
After spending twenty or twenty-five years without giving a thought to their personal brands, these folks came to the realization in 2012 that they can't carry on without one. I think it's great — anything that promotes self-awareness and intention is a good thing in my book. At the same time, a lot of folks are confused about personal branding.
They write to me and ask me to give them spicier, sexier words for their resumes or their LinkedIn profiles. "But I don't know you," I protest, and they reply "But as you can see, I'm a versatile Business Professional with a bottom-line orientation…"
One gentleman called me to talk personal brands not long ago, and I gave him this piece of advice. "The words that describe you come at the end of the process," I said. "There is a much more interesting piece of work to do first. You could call it exploration or self-discovery or career reinvention." "I'm not interested in any of that," said the fellow. "I just need to beef up my LinkedIn profile with some specifics."
"I will help you," I said, "if you'll answer a set of questions I've got for you. Are you game?"
"I am game," he said. "Let's go."
ME: So, why are you interested in your brand right now? You've lived a perfectly happy life thus far without a personal brand, haven't you?
HIM: I guess so, but I need to get my LinkedIn profile up to snuff now.
ME: Why is that?
HIM: It's just time.
ME: What signal did you get that told you it was time?
HIM: Oh, I just want to put more of my professional credentials out there.
ME: I'm curious about that. Is there a reason why this is top of mind right now?
HIM: Well, I think my profile is kind of wan. It's lacking something.
ME: And why is that a problem?
HIM: People who read my LinkedIn profile won't know what I've accomplished.
ME: And is that bad?
HIM: Well, it's not the greatest.
ME: Why is it a problem? Who are these people who won't know what you've accomplished?
HIM: Anyone.
ME: And we care about what anyone thinks because…
HIM: I'd like my boss to know more about what I've done professionally, for one thing.
ME: Okay, great. Does your boss give you signals that he or she isn't aware of your background?
HIM: You could say that.
ME: How did you get that feeling?
HIM: I got passed over for a very good assignment that is right up my alley.
ME: Oh no! I am sorry to hear that. That must have been frustrating.
HIM: I was beyond irritated. I still am. It's really not fair.
ME: But your boss — surely your boss knows what you've done professionally?
HIM: You'd hope so, but apparently not.
ME: Is this a new boss?
HIM: Yeah, he's been here for a year.
ME: He's been in the organization for a year?
HIM: Yeah.
ME: And in that year, the two of you have never talked about your background?
HIM: No. He hit the ground running. He figured out who his favorites were within a few weeks. I guess I'm kind of on the lower tier.
ME: Oh, that sounds hard to deal with. It must sting.
HIM: Totally, because in my field I have twice as much credibility as the guy who actually got the excellent assignment.
ME: How frustrating!
HIM: Because the guy is the boss's favorite guy, with half the experience I have in that area.
ME: And what sort of work do you do?
HIM: I'm a scientist.
ME: Is your new boss a scientist, too?
HIM: No, he is an administrator, and he doesn't know Jack about the work, and that is another frustration.
ME: So we're talking about a boss who didn't inquire about your background over the course of a year, and has marginalized you, and has obvious favorites….and we're upgrading and polishing your LinkedIn profile for him?
HIM: I — I guess I thought that if he saw what I've actually done, the papers I've written…he'd respect me more.
ME: Because this guy is going to look at your updated LinkedIn profile, and that's how he's going to see your brilliance, after he managed you for a year and never asked you about your background, and never looked at your bio or your resume?
HIM: Now that you mention it, I guess my plan is kind of irrational.
ME: That's okay. You're feeling emotion, and it doesn't always synch up with the rational brain. But anyway, why are we talking about your boss? Do you really care what he thinks about you?
HIM: As we're talking about it, I'm wondering.
ME: If your boss saw your new LinkedIn profile or if he came into your office right now and said "Oh my gosh, I've made a terrible mistake, and you get the assignment after all" would it really help? Would you want to work for the guy then?
HIM: I don't want to work for him. I can't stand him and I don't respect him.
ME: Okay. Good observation. So the LinkedIn profile update you're thinking about – do you want to just forget it?
HIM: I want to work on my LinkedIn profile, and I want to get out of here as fast as I can.
ME: Is this "Aha!" a new realization for you?
HIM: It just hit me like a ton of bricks. Thanks for that.
ME: This is why I ask so many questions. It's helpful to have someone walk you through the questions, because our rational brain says "Oh, LinkedIn profile out of date, better update it" and we don't always do the rest of the work unless someone is there to guide or prod us a little bit.
HIM: This is huge. It's scary, though.
ME: It's huge! I know it's a little scary.
HIM: But it's cool. I think I was avoiding coming to that realization, because of the scary part.
ME: I understand that. Now we have a new question. If we aren't branding you to impress the toad guy, who are we talking to in your new LinkedIn profile?
HIM: Other employers.
ME: So we need to know what you want to do next professionally….
HIM: An even bigger question.
ME: Exactly. Do you want to think about it and talk again?
HIM: Do you have time for coffee?
ME: I do. But I should send you some exercises in advance of that, to get you thinking.
HIM: Ha! I just called you because I wanted a few words to jazz up my profile.
ME: The words are the last part of the project. The words are easy, at that point.
HIM: How long will it take for me to get the words?
ME: I couldn't say. This is reinvention time — why rush it?
HIM: Because I hate my job and I want a new one.
ME: Does it matter what job you get, or would you take any old job?
HIM: It matters!
ME: There you go. You're worth a great job, right?
HIM: I've never felt so sure of that.
ME: And this is the function of toad bosses who show up in our paths — to remind us that we deserve more in a boss than what they can give us.
HIM: I knew that guy had a function.


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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign had a practice run for what's to come when they host the 2013 NCAA Championships as the Boys' 18 Team National Championship brought all the USTA sections together to compete in college format.
The first round showed no surprises as all of the higher seeds advanced. Round two saw a different result as the middle of the draw contained two upsets, with Eastern (5-8) eliminating Northern California (3), 4-3, and Midwest (5-8) taking out Southern (4) by the same score. Eastern would fall to Texas in the semis, but Midwest took it all the way to the finals for their third final in four years, by causing yet another upset. This one was over top-seeded Southern California, a team that had won this title every year from 2004 to 2008.
It would take the Texas team, led by Texas A&M Coach Steve Denton, four and a half hours to get past Midwest for the title. The doubles alone took more than an hour, ending with Midwest taking the point with wins at No. 2 and No. 3. That lead would not last long, though, as Paul Oosterbaan was forced to retire with an injury at No. 4 singles, leaving the score tied at 1-1.
Konrad Zieba would bring in another point for Midwest and No. 6, followed by yet another at No. 3 by incoming Illini Brian Page. The Midwest team was up 3-1 and it looked like they would repeat their 2009 championship.
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Kevin MacMillan: The transition from Burning Man to the 'Default World'
As I hopped off Interstate 80 to make the final exhausting home stretch Sunday evening toward Lake Tahoe, I saw a cyclist cruising down Highway 267 toward the Martis Valley.
A normal sight for our region, no doubt. But, while bits of dust fluttered off my SUV's windshield as I passed him, I found myself thinking, "what in the world is wrong with this guy?"
"Why are you not wearing a ridiculous outfit, and why is your bike not lit up with El Wire and decorated with some wacky stuffed animal or multi-colored parasol," I mused to myself, my thoughts still scrambled from a lack of sleep and a lack of, I guess we'll call it, "real-world clarity."
The scene became more surreal as I floated along Highway 28 through Kings Beach. Pedestrians were everywhere, converging on the town's restaurants and businesses, some still dripping wet from a day on the lake, others donning casual shorts and T-shirts.
They were doing, well, "normal" things.
Rolling the windows down, I found my ears searching for the growing sounds of electronic music wafting from DJ sets.
But there was no Opulent Temple or Robot Heart here — all I heard was the regular chatter that comes with locals and visitors enjoying a jam-packed holiday weekend at Lake Tahoe.
Besides what was caked inside and all over my car, the only "dust" I could see was from the small remnants of gravel and dirt left over from the week's Kings Beach Core highway project work.
It was at that very moment I knew I had begun my official return to what I've learned is referred to as the "Default World."
Roughly six hours earlier, I began my journey home after attending my first-ever Burning Man arts, culture, music — and everything-else-you-could-ever-imagine-in-the-world festival.
It was endless hours of costumes and art cars and funky music, set against a backdrop of the Sierra Nevada lit aglow by the most colorful lights you can imagine.
It was a diverse world of carefree people lost in the desert, surviving the heat and alkaline-laden playa by doing nothing more than being nice and giving to one another.
It was camps upon camps of tents, RVs, yurts and shade structures, full of joyful and charismatic characters staying up all night to party and celebrate as massive structures burned safely around them.
It was a city divided among streets, where you give directions by only telling a friend — who maybe goes by a playa name like "Soft Cheeks" or "Pickles" — to arrive at a time and letter.
Honestly, I could sit and write for days about what went on all last week at Black Rock City (which morphs into Nevada's third-largest city during Burning Man) where my address was simply known as, "4:45 and H."
But for those who've never been, my stories and descriptions wouldn't make much sense. And for those who have, well, there's just no way I can put together the perfect string of adjectives and adverbs to even remotely do it justice.
I talked to a friend of mine for awhile Monday night about the experience we had in our camp — a group of 60 or so people amid the 65,922 who reportedly attended this year's festival — and after trying to explain things, all she could muster was, "it's like going to a different planet."
It's true. It's a planet I've wanted to visit the past few years, and after finally doing so, the only thing I can say is that if you've never been, I suggest you make plans to land there soon.
Clichés be damned — it is an experience like no other, and one you will never forget.
Burning Man defines "Default World" as "the rest of the world that is not the playa during the Burning Man event."
I suppose that's one way of saying that, "while you are doing your thing, we are doing ours" — and I can't possibly come up with enough differences between the two.
To put it in another, more humorous way, when we were asked to share the most "ridiculous story of the week," one of my camp-mates shared his: "Me blotting a nosebleed with a grilled cheese sandwich while dancing on a spaceship at sunrise."
I suppose that's pretty much all you need to know when it comes to summing up our stay in the desert.
It's funny. As I finished this column Tuesday afternoon, an employee for one of our local government districts emailed me, asking for our newspaper's logo to run with a promotional flier on an upcoming event we're excited to sponsor.
The employee — knowing from talking with me before I left that I was spending my vacation on the playa — started her email like this: "Hey Burner … welcome home."
I had to shake my head and laugh. And I guarantee anyone, whether a first-timer or long-timer, who's ever been to Burning Man and is reading this right now is doing the same thing.
Burners know: The only time you're truly welcomed home is the moment you're greeted each year at the entrance of the dust and delight of the desert.
Everything else is, well, just default.
— Kevin MacMillan is managing editor of the Sierra Sun and North Lake Tahoe Bonanza, and he does not yet have a playa name. Reach him for comment at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Luca Giordano
Italian, 1634 - 1705
The Entombment, 1650-1653
Italian Painting
Oil on canvas
115 1/4 x 79 1/2 in. (292.7 x 201.9 cm)
Marion Stratton Gould Fund, Maurice R. and Maxine B. Forman Fund, Gallery Purchase Fund, gift of Whitney F. Hoyt, by exchange, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hollister Spencer, by exchange, 2005.34
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Originally an altarpiece, this painting illustrates the New Testament scene of the Entombment of Christ, one of the most emotional and dramatic events in the Christian faith. Joseph of Arimathea, who is holding Jesus and clasping him in a shroud, and Nicodemus, who supports Jesus' legs, are placing him in a stone sarcophagus. Saint John the Evangelist, cloaked in red, is in the foreground with his back to the viewer. Christ's mother, the Virgin Mary, dressed in a blue robe, collapses in despair at the left. She is surrounded by Holy Women, including Mary Magdalene who wrings her hands in sorrow. Other grieving figures in the background of the painting engage each other in conversation, enhancing both the devotional and dramatic character of the painting.
Luca Giordano was one of the most celebrated artists in Naples. He produced a huge quantity of work, including altarpieces, mythological paintings and decorative fresco cycles. Giordano was internationally successful and traveled widely, working in Naples, Venice, Florence and Madrid. This altarpiece was painted early in Giordano's career when he was only in his late teens. It shows the influence of the equally well-known and prolific painter Jusepe de Ribera, with whom he may have trained.
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Republicans, with an eye on the majority, tout six legislative candidates
Colorado Republicans, determined to keep the majority in the state House and regain control of the state Senate, today released the name of six legislative candidates to "keep an eye on."
The six are the first to reach "On the Radar" status as part of the GOP Trailblazer program.
"Similar to the National Republican Congressional Committee's 'Young Guns' program, the Trailblazer program was announced earlier this year with the intent of helping candidates reach benchmarks and goals to run strong and efficient campaigns," the Colorado GOP said in a news release.
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Rev up your snapping fingers and web-shooters - the multi-million dollar Spider-Man musical, "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark," has a date.
The musical, allegedly costing $31 million, is all set to launch on February 18, 2010. Which means they have a full year to tweak the laser show and high wire flying Spidey (I'm assuming that's where the money will be spent).
Actress Evan Rachel Wood is signed on as Mary Jane and working with Across The Universe director Julie Taymor to bring this giant act to light (please get co-star Jim Sturgess for the role of Peter Parker). The score was dreamed up by U2's Bono and Edge, but we've yet to hear anything as of right now - but fingers crossed it's at least catchy.
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FAIR LAWN, N.J. — Naomi Kutin of Fair Lawn didn't understand the magnitude of what she had just done.
Fair Lawn's strongest 82-pound 9-year-old had broken her first world record, squatting three times her body weight in the 2011 Anti Drugs Athletes United national competition.
It was not until hours later, though, that the accomplishment resonated to a degree while being tucked into bed by her mother, Neshama.
"Mommy," Naomi said from under the covers. "What's your world record in?"
It was all just the beginning for the Naomi Kutin, now a sophomore at Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School in Teaneck.
She rarely struggles with the weights, but keeping track of all of her world records has proven difficult. Literally, she can't remember. But for Kutin, it's never been about the numbers.
"I just like lifting weights — picking them up and putting them down," said Kutin with a laugh quoting the renowned Arnold Schwarzenegger. "It's a very good feeling but it's not something that you can so easily explain."
It's just what Kutin has known.
A documentary profiling Kutin , nicknamed "Supergirl" by her parents, is making its way around the United States. It will air on PBS on Monday, Dec. 18, at 10 p.m.
The powerlifter, the fourth of five children, was 8 years old when she and her family first discovered her innate strength.
Kutin's father, Ed, watched through the window of his daughter's karate class as the rising athlete exploded through push-up after push-up with nearly perfect form.
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"People are very surprised when they find out," said Kutin of her natural ability to squat, deadlift and bench upwards of 300 pounds. "I don't even look like I have muscles."
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But it was too late.
"By the time I realized people thought that way, I didn't care," Kutin said. "I do it because it's fun."
The all-around athlete joined the Ma'Ayanot track team and placed first in her only two events, the 100- and 200-meter sprints, earlier this week at her first meet.
Her father says running track is a "good accessory" to powerlifting, but Kutin knows weights will always be the main event.
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On Exhibit: Rocky Shore
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Scientific Name
Anthopleura elegantissima
Animal Type
copepods, isopods, amphipods
column diameter to 2.5 inches (60 mm); crown to 3.5 inches (80 mm)
jellies, plumed anemones, fish-eating anemones; Phylum: Cnidaria; Class: Anthozoa
Alaska to Baja California intertidal zone to about 60 feet (18 m)
Natural History
Aggregating anemones, elegant flowerlike animals, have a tube-shaped body crowned with tentacles. Two types of microscopic algae live in the anemones' tissues and give them their green color—anemones without algae are white. The algae supply food to the anemones, and the anemones bend toward or away from the light to provide the algae with the proper amount of light needed for photosynthesis.
Anemones are voracious feeders that eat almost anything. Stinging cells (nematocysts) on their tentacles paralyze small prey animals. Anemones can even ingest small crabs and then spew out the shells.
Because aggregating anemones can rapidly clone themselves, they're abundant on the rocky shore. If they're buried by drifting sand, they can survive for more than three months. Oil spills or oil from storm drains, however, can destroy anemone habitats—and it can take two years or more for habitats to recover from such catastrophes. If you go tidepooling, be careful not to walk on or disturb anemones or other tide pool creatures.
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Although they live side by side, clonemates from different groups are enemies. Warrior anemones with knoblike swellings packed with large stinging cells border each group. If a warrior comes in contact with an enemy warrior, they exchange a barrage of poison darts, causing injury to both. The warriors withdraw, leaving behind a "demilitarized zone."
Anemones exposed to air retract their tentacles and shrink in size. Sticky bumps on their bodies collect sand and bits of shells, which provide camouflage and prevent them from drying out. Remember to watch your step when tidepooling—more than one tired tidepooler has sat down on a rock for a short rest, only to discover she's sitting on a wet and squishy anemone.
Aggregating anemones live on rocks in tide pools and crevices, either alone or in dense masses. Each mass is a group of clones that are genetically identical and of the same sex. To clone themselves, anemones split in half—literally tearing themselves apart (asexual reproduction). Asexual reproduction spreads new animals rapidly over rocks. Aggregating anemones also reproduce sexually by broadcasting eggs and sperm. Sexual reproduction results in new combinations of genes, and larvae that establish new colonies in other locations.


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Most bloggers and small content-providers do not expect to earn money that way. They do it for the fun of it, writing about things close to their heart. But everyone needs to feel the love, and so bloggers take comfort in the rising number of visitors, the search terms that led visitors to the website, and by the comments left.
When that initial love fades, many bloggers post a PayPal donation button or an Amazon Honor System paybox, to allow readers to leave small cash tips as a way of saying thank you for the content provided. The thing is, as most people read multiple blogs daily, it usually takes an extraordinary event to make a reader step out of his comfort zone, login to his PayPal account and actually send a buck.
This is where TipJoy, an exciting new startup comes to the rescue: readers are not required to create an account to leave a tip, so the initial friction is removed. They just click the button and type in their email address, thus starting to build up an account debit – one single account for tips left in multiple websites. Eventually readers can pay that debit off via PayPal, although no one comes after you if you choose to skip out on the bill. Readers can also start to ask for tips on their own site, and anything people leave for them offsets what they have given to others.
That is the magical simplicity of TipJoy: Did you read something that made you laugh? Tip the blogger 10 cents. Someone posted a scoop you enjoyed reading? Click to tip them. At the end of the month, go to your TipJoy account, and pay your entire 3 dollar bill in a single PayPal transaction.
frgdr.com added TipJoy's 'tip this' buttons to its posts. We'll see how it goes.
Hat tip to TechCrunch.


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It's been awhile since we've posted but I've had a piece simmering in my head for a few weeks and finally am getting some time to sit down and write it. Have a look and give us your thoughts in the comments:
Like millions of my fellow Americans, I participated in the National Day of Service this year, which is held annually in conjunction with the Martin Luther King Day holiday weekend and which President Obama has tried, through each of his inaugural celebrations, to establish as a quadrennial presidential tradition as well. Across the country on Saturday, January 19, groups of citizens large and small volunteered with a range of organizations, each different in its particular mission but contributing in its own way to the Greater Good.
After finding that a smaller event we had tried to sign up for was filled to capacity, my girlfriend and I ended up at the DC Armory, where thousands of volunteers helped to pack care kits for US military troops. It was a huge event, sponsored most prominently by Target, and it even included a visit from Vice President Biden and his family. There were DJs, musical acts by school bands and other groups who had traveled from locations across the country to be there, and a stage to accommodate all of this entertainment for the morning's eager volunteers.
So many people showed up, in fact, that there was a 30 minute wait to even get inside the building, followed by some additional waiting indoors as all of the volunteers were funneled through metal detectors and given wristbands. Once inside, volunteers stood in rows organized by letters and numbers, waiting another 15-20 to be ushered to the front of the crowd, where each volunteer picked up a plastic pouch and held it open while event coordinators stationed behind a series of carefully marked boxes smiled and deposited various personal care items – soap, toothpaste, etc. – inside.
It was, in many ways, assembly line volunteerism. As one of the country's largest retailers introduced its factory-style efficiency to the community service experience, volunteers waited in line to do their part, and if they felt as if they had more time when they were finished, waited in line and did it again. When we left after about 2 1/2 hours, my girlfriend and I had been through the line twice and helped pack about 8 kits each. In total, 100,000 kits were packed on the day.
The following is not to diminish what was accomplished on that Saturday, but merely to ask some questions. Among them:
How many people does it honestly take to assemble 100,000 military kits? Was there something more useful that the thousands waiting in line at the Armory to hold a pouch open could have done instead to better their communities? Is waiting in line really volunteering? Am I just being curmudgeonly?
The answers to these questions will, of course, depend on who's answering them, but here's an honest reading of the situation that I think gives credit where it's due: Target and other major sponsors put on an event that was intended to be big, it was successful in its mission, the event organizers did a great job running everything as smoothly as possible, and US troops got 100,000 care kits that they didn't have previously. A-plus all around.
Still, this leads us to a more complicated and fundamental question – was such a large, industrial-scale event the best way to get people out and volunteering on a brisk Saturday? What else could all of those people packed into the DC Armory have done if they were dispersed instead of consolidated?
We live in a big country, and much of the national discourse revolves around our big institutions. Big business dominates the economy, big banks hold most of our assets, big government is seen as hero or villain depending on who you talk to, all while big foundations increasingly present themselves as the saviors of those who fall through the cracks. We live in big cities. Most of us shop at big stores. And when it comes to the political and economic decisions that affect the country and the communities within it, most subscribe to the logic of big. A big federal program here, a big business recruitment success there, big new generating capacity and transmission infrastructure to account for our future energy needs, big companies that can operate at large economies of scale and offer big savings to the consumer. A big service event on a cold day in January to help keep us all humble.
But what if this wasn't the way forward? What if the blatant inefficiency of all those people spending 80 percent of their volunteer time waiting in line was actually the ugly truth lurking behind most of the big assumptions we passively accept? What if this was more or less a proxy for what we get when we trust that big, corporate-scale solutions are what's needed to solve problems best dealt with in a smaller capacity? A job-starved community spends countless time and resources to recruit a big outside company that promises to create hundreds of new jobs, offering a lucrative package of tax incentives to help seal the deal, while vesting all of its economic hopes with one business in one industry that will reinvest its profits elsewhere. An environmental activist chooses to invest their time dreaming up big, utility scale energy projects in faraway parts of the country, seeking transformative solutions and seeing few alternatives. The average consumer takes their business to a big box retailer, convinced that no one else can offer the same level of convenience and savings. Are these the actions that will re-invigorate our communities and help us rebuild for the 21st century?
Big will always play an important role. Some big businesses will remain large employers. Some tasks are best done by large-scale entities. Regardless of whose politics win the day, the federal government will remain big, because in a country of over 300 million, there really are few other alternatives. And on Saturday, January 19, 2013, many of the thousands who showed up at the DC Armory needed somewhere to go if they wanted to help out; several of DC's great service organizations had such a supply of volunteers that they simply had to say no to anyone else who asked.
But what if we could imagine the results of thinking smaller – and saw these not as feeble attempts to chip away at a problem that is beyond our solving, but as small pieces to a larger, more meaningful solution? Thousands of rooftop solar installments. Local support not for big businesses trying to locate but for small ones trying to compete locally – the source of a much larger economic multiplier when they are successful. Policies to help leverage the economic impact of home-based businesses and self-employed professionals. Education initiatives tailored to the needs of kids in specific schools rather than those determined by public bureaucrats and big private benefactors. What if millions of these actions, undertaken by communities across the country, could collectively have a greater impact on our country than waiting for our big institutions to act? What if acting locally were the only way to bring about positive change within many of the places most desperate for it?
As a country, we've been through the boom and bust cycle of big. It sounds like it was a great ride while it lasted. Either way, its aftermath has a name befitting of the scale at which our nation has chosen to operate: The Great Recession. And as our big companies downsized and our big government saw its tax receipts drop while its obligations and deficits rose, it may have become even harder, for a brief moment, to see a way out of this mess that wasn't as big as the way in. But with big crises come new thinking, and with big longstanding challenges come the necessities of drawing up new solutions. Mix in the internet, the most decentralizing force the world has ever known, along with an emerging recognition that many local problems will never be solved without local solutions, and there is a recipe for an entirely new model of development and prosperity that puts our existing political and economic institutions to far better use.
What if on a chilly Saturday morning, I could spend 2.5 hours truly maximizing my impact, rather than just waiting around hearing thank-yous that I may or may not have earned? I contributed something on this year's National Day of Service, but I think that everyone who was there in the Armory knows that we all could have done more. When it comes to the decisions we make about our communities, we should be just as discerning.


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In a movie all about outrageous girl rockers, how does a man manage to steal the show?
In the case of Michael Shannon's fantastic performance in "The Runaways" (in theaters March 19), he takes rock and roll crazy, adds the crafty and delivers it with wild-eyed zeal. Shannon has made a career of playing transfixing nut jobs -- the Oscar-nominated role as the institutionalized truth-teller in 2008's "Revolutionairy Road" stands out. But he outdoes himself here. From screen moment one, Shannon takes center stage even if he's playing glam-tastic manager Kim Fowley.
This might be the girls' story and much of the attention is focused on Kristen Stewarts breakaway from her "Twilight" self -- but Shannon's Foley is the motivation behind most every move the girl-band made to get noticed before they erupted in the 70s. One stroke of creative genius -- getting local boys to pelt the girls in rehearsals to get them used to owning the stage under any condition.
It's hard to imagine in the years after the business-packaged Spice Girls how radical this concept truly was at the time. But Fowley is a calculating rock and roll machine who has the foresight to see the potential in a sexed-up, underage girl band. "It's not about women's lib," he urges a prude Dakota Fanning, telling her to sing from her lower regions. "It's about women's libido."
Fowley's Svengali vision is realized, even if his creation eventually rebels against his control. Far from caring, he expects it.
After all, it's only rock and roll. Just like Shannon's perfectly-captured performance.


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City of Riverdale integrates public safety data
RIVERDALE – April 4, 2007 – In Clayton County, Ga., the Riverdale Police Department is using a new high-tech software system from Spillman Technologies, a leading public safety software provider headquartered in Salt Lake City.
With 36 sworn officers and 20 civilian personnel, the department is armed with cutting-edge solutions for computer-aided dispatch, records management, and mobile communications.
Spillman is the final leg of a four-year process to integrate the collection of data between our police, fire, courts, and code enforcement teams, while providing the highest level of on-demand access to all of our public safety professionals," said Michael Lockett, director of technology and voice communications for the City of Riverdale.
Located 20 minutes south of Atlanta and five minutes south of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Riverdale's relatively small police department continually faces the challenges of widespread growth, requiring greater efficiency on the part of all public safety agencies. Now that the new software is in place, Lockett said he is reminded daily that his decision to purchase and implement the Spillman system was the right choice.
I'm most pleased when an officer discovers yet another solution that better allows him or her to improve their performance," said Lockett. With a total of 14 years of professional experience in information and technology that has included large-scale technology implementations, I believe that utilizing Spillman's technological expertise has been one of the best decisions that I've made in my career."
The city spent three years researching other public safety software providers and contacting local agencies using the Spillman solution.
We quickly found that it worked well, beyond the expectations of the command staff and patrolmen, providing a real technical advantage to all," said Lockett. It's truly a first-rate solution that addresses all the needs of a local government agency from first responders to the office staff … it's an all-in-one, completely integrated package."
Using Spillman's mobile solution, the department has increased the visibility of patrol officers by tracking each unit's position in the field. Additionally, each patrol officer has the ability to access all system data tools, such as creating reports on-scene. Lockett said the department has also significantly improved its records management and workflow processes.
Case numbers are now generated with the original call for service and then managed through the whole process to the close of the case or involvement," said Lockett.
But above all, Lockett said he is most impressed with how Spillman employees demonstrated such a high level of customer service throughout his experience purchasing and implementing the new software.
Our experience has been exceptional," said Lockett. We feel we've established a true partnership with Spillman that will aid us in improving the quality of life for our citizens and protect the lives of our public safety professionals."
We're very pleased to be able to assist Riverdale Police Department with its dispatch, records, and mobile technology needs," said Joe Lunt, vice president of sales and marketing for Spillman Technologies. The department is taking advantage of cutting-edge tools that greatly expand daily operations, and we look forward to our ongoing partnership with the agency's personnel."
The Riverdale Police Department has been using the new system since December 4, 2006. The police department joins 11 other public safety agencies in Georgia using Spillman solutions.
Spillman Technologies provides a full range of software solutions for public safety agencies, including Computer-Aided Dispatch, Records Management, Mobile Communications, Corrections Management, Fire/EMS Management, Resource Management, and Data Sharing. The software is installed at more than 600 agencies nationwide.


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Playwright, author and screenwriter Tom DeTitta has been named the 2014 Artist-in-Residence for Fairmont State University. With a specialty in historical drama, he has written two plays with content closely connected to this area, "Monongah," which is about an immigrant family affected by the 1907 mine disaster, and "Street of Gold," which is about a coal mining family in Western Pennsylvania.
DeTitta's residency on campus begins Monday, Jan. 27. During his time on campus this semester, he will teach a playwriting class and will speak with students in the Honors Program and Folklore Studies.
At 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, at the Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center on campus, DeTitta will offer a public presentation on his career, the playwriting process and the historical plays he has written. Students from the Department of Theatre will give a reading of part of DeTitta's play, "Monongah." Light refreshments will be served. Admission is free and open to the public.
DeTitta, who resides in Americus, Ga., has written and had produced more than 10 plays throughout the U.S. He won the North Carolina Arts Council Playwrights Fellowship in 1998. His play, "Reach of Song," was named State Historic Drama by the Georgia Legislature.
Since 1992, he has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times; The Atlanta Journal/Constitution; Duke Magazine; The Raleigh News and Observer; and the Phnom Penh Post. He is the author of the book, "I Think I'll Drop You Off in Deadwood," and has worked personally with President Jimmy Carter on a play about his life.
DeTitta earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts from Duke University in 1982 and a Master of Arts degree in Professional Writing from Kennesaw State University in 2003. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild and the National Eagle Scout Association.
From 1986 to 1987, DeTitta was the editor for North Georgia News, one of the largest circulation weekly newspapers in North Georgia. In 1987, he founded The Reach of Song Drama/ Appalachian Educational Society and served as its artistic director until 1995.
In 1993, DeTitta founded World Communities Theatre and currently serves as director of that international theater company with associates from around the world. The company creates plays from significant historic events. Through university residencies, he works across the curriculum to provide opportunities in theater for students and faculty from a variety of disciplines. He developed the idea of Human Rights Theater, through which both the process and the product of theater is meant to illuminate and to heal.
DeTitta was founder and director of World Communities at the Center for Community Based Theater at Georgia Southwestern Stat University from 1996 to 2004. During this residency, he wrote five plays, including "Transcendence: The Jimmy Carter Story," in consultation with President Carter, and "Darkness Lifting," in celebration of Habitat for Humanity's 25th Anniversary. He developed symposiums, study abroad opportunities and brought in noted international artists. He created a permanent oral history collection surrounding the civil rights conflicts that helped to define President Carter. He also served as a part-time professor in the English and Fine Arts departments.
The Artist-in-Residence Program at FSU is designed to enhance the academic and curricular arts programs of the University, provide the opportunity for faculty development and growth and provide a valuable intellectual and cultural resource for the community. The program is made possible by an annual stipend from the Fairmont State Foundation, Inc.
Successful residency programs have been provided in recent years by British musician Emma Peake; stage director Jeffrey Ingman; poet Maggie Anderson; sculptor Wayne Trapp; the late local jazz legend Johnnie Johnson; British actor Roger Jerome; freelance artist Patricia Musick; opera singers Maryanne Talese and Stephen Lusmann; portrait artist Elizabeth McLain; writers Jaimy Gordon and Meredith Sue Willis; pianist Nada Loutfi; landscape painter Ann Templeton; singer-songwriter Larry Groce; professional dulcimer player Stephen Seifert; Russian-American soprano Dina Kuznetsova; and animator and cartoonist Gary Leib. Residencies have included mentoring of FSU students, well-received performances and exhibitions for the college and community and workshops for public school students and teachers.
For more information about Tom DeTitta, visit http://tomdetitta.com.


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Announcing the Upcoming Release of New Customized KDE Software Compilations
Dialog for the Dwarfed Freedom Edition
KDE has enjoyed great success over the years and today marks another important step in the evolution of our growing community. Many years ago when KDE was just beginning we had a small user base and similar expectations of how the software should work. But with growth and success also comes new users and new expectations. As an effort to meet the growing demands of our user community KDE has identified 3 key areas in which we would like to better cater to users' needs. In order to achieve this it has been determined that there will be, going forward, 3 separate releases of each Software Compilation tailored to these areas.
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The second focus area is aimed at users who enjoy the freedom of open source, but prefer a simple set of default behavior from their software so that they are not bombarded with constant decision making and choices when setting up their software. This version of the KDE SC has been code named "Dwarfed Freedom Edition". This compilation will bring all of the normal KDE software you've come to love, but with scaled back numbers of options in all desktop environment and application menus so as to make life a little bit simpler for our users.
Basic Freedom Edition
Last but not least, we would like to reach out to new users transitioning to KDE from outside the world of open source. We know that many people in this category could probably care less about messing with any options at all and want their computer to "just work". To better meet this group's needs we will be releasing KDE SC "Basic Freedom Edition". This compilation will focus on providing rock solid functionality without any customization that might impair their ability to operate the computer. For your protection this compilation will be closed source, not allow you to access root level functionality, and will fully enforce security through obscurity thanks to the "black box" development processes that will be used in creating this edition.
We are very excited to bring to you these great new compilations in the coming months and will continue to bring up to the minute coverage here on the Dot as the KDE community continues to drive software development into the future!
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i always wanted a rotation button in kate:) but does it rotate the whole text or just a word? that would be very handy to see if a word is a palindrome :)
By Beat Wolf at Thu, 2010/04/01 - 11:38am
My good sir, that is KWrite
My good sir, that is KWrite :) It rotates the whole text but if you've got a word selected it will only rotate that word. All text is rendered as a raster bitmap format, unless you select "Use Scalable format" in the system settings under Advanced->Programs->KWrite->Configuration->Advanced->Text Rendering->More options.
By Dion Moult at Thu, 2010/04/01 - 11:44am
correction and alternative
It's actually Advanced->Programs->KWrite->Configuration->Advanced->Text Rendering->More options->Even more options->Propellerheads->Details->Are you kidding me?->Yes->Configuration
Or just open the kconf editor, enter "dbd46848b31f34fe4fc0503d5ab28a98" and set the value to 23.
By Sebastian Kügler at Thu, 2010/04/01 - 12:49pm
You clearly have never tried
You clearly have never tried to find the option. After careful deliberation, it has been decided to put this on the toolbar. After all, it's a poweruser version, and all options should be on the toolbar.
Of course, this poweruser version of Kate is only usable on 1920x1080 screens as smaller screens would only show the toolbar with the options (an over 2500 pixels wide screen is recommended to actually USE kate).
By Jos Poortvliet at Thu, 2010/04/01 - 1:09pm
Congratulations! That's a very good april fools day joke!
By Simas at Thu, 2010/04/01 - 3:30pm
Step in the right direction
I've used kde for years, and seeing the direction change into the KDE 4 release, and now branching off like this, I can honestly say that this is a step in the right direction. Customization is one of the major reasons why KDE is my ultimate DE. I've used GNOME, Fluxbox, XMonad, and XFCE. Going back to its roots reaffirms my belief that KDE will always be superior for a productive environment.
I like this new direction. Congrats KDE team!
EDIT: Oh god please don't let this be an april fools joke... do you know how awesome this would be? o_
By PeonDevelopments at Thu, 2010/04/01 - 4:07pm
Re: Step in the right direction
There is certainly a market for a midget themed desktop with limited settings and lordly-appointed defaults. But I am afraid it would be a tough market, with entrenced competition.
By carewolf at Thu, 2010/04/01 - 10:41pm
Why wait for SC 5
Why not make it possible for me to get KDE SC UFE with the upcoming release? Since the release of 4.0 I have really been missing this ultimate freedom. For example, I would like to configure the panel to look like the MAC Dock with zoom icons and all that. It's a step in the right direction though ;)
By Bobby at Thu, 2010/04/01 - 6:39pm
Then why don't ya configure
Then why don't ya configure the panel to have zoom icons ;-)
There is a bunch of widgets which let you do that, try daisy or fancy-tasks...
By Jos Poortvliet at Sat, 2010/04/03 - 5:58am
Closed Source? What?
This is an April Fools joke, right? You're not going to make this project, made by COMMUNITY MEMBERS closed source, right?
By Correnos at Thu, 2010/04/01 - 10:24pm


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Even when it's freshly washed, my guy's hair smells like the inside of a baseball hat. Are there any scented shampoos for dudes?
Pass on the floral or fruity potions in favor of one that says "clean" or "fresh" on the label. Also, make sure the word fragrance is in the ingredients. "It means the scent is concentrated and will last longer," says stylist Charles Worthington. Of course, washing his hat would help too.


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How can one get the street address and/or coordinates of any location on Google Maps with a minimum of fuss?
Google Calendar will spawn a window with a map to the location one specifies in the "where" field, however a lot of the time the location it picks is wrong. If you append the "where" with coordinates in the form of "Whitehorse Fish Ladder @60.69635,-135.0404" or use a street address it gets it right, but what if you don't have the address at the tip of your fingers?


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This weeks meal plan called for grilled cheese and tomato soup. This was one meal my littles were definitely looking forward to. I wanted to share the recipe I used for our tomato soup. It was a crowd pleaser.
Homemade Tomato Soup
1 can of tomato sauce (15 oz)
1/2 can of water
1/2 can of milk
1 tsp chicken bouillon
1 tsp garlic
1 tsp flax seed (optional)
salt and pepper to taste
Combine all ingredients in a medium sauce pan and cook till bubbly.
Serve with hot grilled cheese and enjoy the little smiles that will appear after it is all gobbled up. Have a wonderful Saturday lovelies. I am working on next weeks meal plan tonight. Can't wait to share on Monday! Oh and features will be up this evening!
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Mr. Jefferson Regrets
Thomas Jefferson was an advocate of public schooling, after a fashion. He knew that an educated public was the only protection against government abuses, and he assumed that a state‐run, state‐funded school system would provide that essential education. If he could only see public schooling today.
The Arizona‐based Goldwater Institute has just released a study on the civics knowledge of that state's high school students. Matt Ladner, Goldwater's head of research, administered the same trivial test that's given to immigrants applying for citizenship, using the same trivial pass/fail threshold. [I know it's trivial, 'cause I took it a few years ago.] The results of Goldwater's little experiment… Oh. My. God. Becky:
96.5 percent of AZ public high school students failed
Honestly, why did anyone — especially Thomas Jefferson — ever imagine that a government monopoly would be a good way to educate kids about a democratic republic and protect them from abuses of government power?


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The history of measurement
|Alphabetical list of History Topics
|History Topics Index
This article looks at the problems surrounding systems of measurement which grew up over many centuries, and looks at the introduction of the metric system. Let us first comment on what, in broad terms, is the meaning of measurement. It is associating numbers with physical quantities and so the earliest forms of measurement constitute the first steps towards mathematics. Once the step of associating numbers with physical objects has been made, it becomes possible to compare the objects by comparing the associated numbers. This leads to the development of methods of working with numbers.
The earliest weights seem to have been based on the objects being weighed, for example seeds and beans. Ancient measurement of length was based on the human body, for example the length of a foot, the length of a stride, the span of a hand, and the breadth of a thumb. There were unbelievably many different measurement systems developed in early times, most of them only being used in a small locality. One which gained a certain universal nature was that of the Egyptian cubit developed around 3000 BC. Based on the human body, it was taken to be the length of an arm from the elbow to the extended fingertips. Since different people have different lengths of arm, the Egyptians developed a standard royal cubit which was preserved in the form of a black granite rod against which everyone could standardise their own measuring rods.
To measure smaller lengths required subdivisions of the royal cubit. Although we might think there is an inescapable logic in dividing it in a systematic manner, this ignores the way that measuring grew up with people measuring shorter lengths using other parts of the human body. The digit was the smallest basic unit, being the breadth of a finger. There were 28 digits in a cubit, 4 digits in a palm, 5 digits in a hand, 3 palms (so 12 digits) in a small span, 14 digits (or a half cubit) in a large span, 24 digits in a small cubit, and several other similar measurements. Now one might want measures smaller than a digit, and for this the Egyptians used measures composed of unit fractions.
It is not surprising that the earliest mathematics which comes down to us is concerned with problems about weights and measures for this indeed must have been one of the earliest reasons to develop the subject. Egyptian papyri, for example, contain methods for solving equations which arise from problems about weights and measures.
A later civilisation whose weights and measures had a wide influence was that of the Babylonians around 1700 BC. Their basic unit of length was, like the Egyptians, the cubit. The Babylonian cubit (530 mm), however, was very slightly longer than the Egyptian cubit (524 mm). The Babylonian cubit was divided into 30 kus which is interesting since the kus must have been about a finger's breadth but the fraction 1/30 is one which is also closely connected to the Babylonian base 60 number system. A Babylonian foot was 2/3 of a Babylonian cubit.
Now we commented in the previous paragraph about a subdivision of a Babylonian unit which was closely related to their number system. This presents a problem as we look at developing systems of measures. Many early number systems tended to be based on ten for the obvious reason that we have ten fingers on which to count. Most such systems were not positional systems, so the reason to use multiples of ten in measurement subdivision was less strong. Also ten is an unfortunate number into which to divide a unit of measurement since it only divides naturally into 1/2 , 1/5 , 1/10 . Basing subdivisions on 12, mean that 1/2 , 1/3 , 1/4 , 1/6 , 1/12 are natural subdivisions, giving much more range for trading quantities. However, since most measuring systems seem to have grown up as a combination of different "natural" measures, no decision about a number to subdivide by would arise. One exception, and the earliest known decimal system of weights and measures, is the Harappan system.
Harappan civilisation flourished in the Punjab between 2500 BC and 1700 BC. The Harappans appear to have adopted a uniform system of weights and measures. An analysis of the weights discovered in excavations suggests that they had two different series, both decimal in nature, with each decimal number multiplied and divided by two. The main series has ratios of 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, and 500. Several scales for the measurement of length were also discovered during excavations. One was a decimal scale based on a unit of measurement of 1.32 inches (3.35 centimetres) which has been called the "Indus inch". Of course ten units is then 13.2 inches (33.5 centimetres) which is quite believable as the measure of a "foot", although this suggests the Harappans had rather large feet! Another scale was discovered when a bronze rod was found to have marks in lengths of 0.367 inches. It is certainly surprising the accuracy with which these scales are marked. Now 100 units of this measure is 36.7 inches (93 centimetres) which is about the length of a stride. Measurements of the ruins of the buildings which have been excavated show that these units of length were accurately used by the Harappans in their construction.
European systems of measurement were originally based on Roman measures, which in turn were based on those of Greece. The Greeks used as their basic measure of length the breadth of a finger (about 19.3 mm), with 16 fingers in a foot, and 24 fingers in a Greek cubit. These units of length, as were the Greek units of weight and volume, were derived from the Egyptian and Babylonian units. Trade, of course, was the main reason why units of measurement were spread more widely than their local areas. In around 400 BC Athens was a centre of trade from a wide area. The Agora was the commercial centre of the city and we know from the plays of Aristophanes the type of noisy dealing which went on there. Most disputes would arise over the weights and measures of the goods being traded, and there a standard set of measures kept in order that such disputes might be settled fairly. The size of a container to measure nuts, dates, beans, and other such items, had been laid down by law and if a container were found which did not conform to the standard, its contents were confiscated and the container destroyed.
The Romans adapted the Greek system. They had as a basis the foot which was divided into 12 inches (or ounces for the words are in fact the same). The Romans did not use the cubit but, perhaps because most of the longer measurements were derived from marching, they had five feet equal to one pace (which was a double step, that is the distance between two consecutive positions of where the right foot lands as one walks). Then 1,000 paces measured a Roman mile which is reasonably close to the British mile as used today. This Roman system was adopted, with local variations, throughout Europe as the Roman Empire spread. However, if one looks at a country like England, it was invaded at different times by many peoples bringing their own measures. The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes brought measures such as the perch, rod and furlong. The fathom has a Danish origin, and was the distance from fingertip to fingertip of outstretched arms while the ell was originally a German measure of woollen cloth.
In England and France measures developed in rather different ways. We have seen above how the problem of standardisation of measures always presented problems, and in early 13th century England a royal ordinance Assize of Weights and Measures gave a long list of definitions of measurement to be used. On one hand it was an extremely successfully attempt at standardisation for its definitions lasted for nearly 600 years. The Act of Union between England and Scotland decreed that these standards would hold across the whole of Great Britain. Locally, however, these standards were not always adhered to and districts still retained their own measures. Of course, although an attempt had been made to standardise measures, no attempt had been made to rationalise them and Great Britain retained a bewildering array of measures which were defined by the ordinance as rather strange subdivisions of each other. Scientists had long seen the benefits of rationalising measures and those such as Wren had proposed a new system based on the yard defined as the length of a pendulum beating at the rate of one second in the Tower of London.
In France, on the other hand, there was no standardisation and as late as 1788 Arthur Young wrote in "Travels during the years 1787, 1788, 1789" published in 1793:-
In France the infinite perplexity of the measures exceeds all comprehension. They differ not only in every province, but in every district and almost every town.In fact it has been estimated that France had about 800 different names for measures at this time, and taking into account their different values in different towns, around 250,000 differently sized units. To a certain extent this reflected the powers which resided in the hands of local nobles who had resisted all attempts by the French King over centuries to standardise measures. Diderot and d'Alembert in their Encyclopédie greatly regretted the diversity, but saw no possible acceptable solution to the problem. Some French scientists had proposed uniform systems at least 100 years before the French Revolution. Gabriel Mouton, in 1670, had suggested that the world should adopt a uniform scale of measurement based on the mille, which he defined as the length of one minute of the Earth's arc. He proposed that decimal subdivisions should be used to determine the lengths of shorter units of length. Lalande, in April 1789, proposed that the measures used in Paris should become national ones, an attempt at standardisation but not rationalisation. This proposal was put to the National Assembly in February 1790 but in March a different suggestion was made. Talleyrand put to the National Assembly a proposal due to Condorcet, namely that a new measurement system be adopted based on a length from nature. The system should have decimal subdivisions, all measures of area, volume, weight etc should be linked to the fundamental unit of length. The basic length should be that of a pendulum which beat at the rate of one second. The proposal was adopted.
This proposal was not designed to bring in a French system of measurement but to design an international system of measurement, so agreement was sought from other countries. An immediate problem was that the pendulum length depended on the latitude at which the experiment was performed so a latitude had to be chosen. The French proposed 45° which conveniently fell in France, the British proposed London, and the United States proposed the 38th parallel which was conveniently close to Thomas Jefferson's estate. Diplomatic wording allowed an international agreement to be reached, but in March 1791 Borda, as chairman of the Commission of Weights and Measures, proposed using instead of the length of a pendulum, the length of 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the pole to the equator of the Earth. They might have got international agreement on this had they not declared that this distance would be determined by an accurate survey of the distance between Dunkerque and Barcelona. The Royal Society in London declared this was based on a measurement of France, the Americans were not prepared to accept the word of the French mathematicians for its length and even in France it was claimed that the whole project was really proposed in order to gain information on the shape of the Earth. Indeed, probably Laplace and others were more interested in finding the shape of the Earth rather than the length of the metre.
Delambre and Méchain measured the meridian from Dunkerque and Barcelona between 1792 and 1798. However between these dates the French Revolution progressed to the stage where the Académie des Sciences was abolished in August 1793 but before that Borda, Lagrange and Laplace had computed a provisional value for the metre based on the survey carried out by Cassini de Thury in 1740. The metric system was passed into law by the National Assembly and a metre bar together with a kilogram weight were dispatched to the United States in the expectation that they would adopt the new measures. Congress hesitated because the standards were provisional. Britain became hostile to the metre as did Germany which wanted a standard based on the pendulum.
An International Commission began work in September 1798 to replace the provisional values with precise ones computed from the data collected by Delambre and Méchain. By June of the following year the Commission had produced a platinum bar which became the official definition of the metre, and in September 1799 the metre was required by law to be used in the Paris region. However, as one might expect, introducing the new measure was easier said than done. Part of the problem was that Greek and Latin prefixes like kilo- and centi- had been proposed to help make the new system internationally acceptable but were strongly disliked in France. It was also a law which was essentially impossible to enforce and, again as one might expect, many traders took the opportunity to cheat their customers. Teaching the metric system became compulsory in schools and the hope was that at least the next generation would accept it even if the current generation would not.
In November 1800 an attempt was made to make the system more acceptable by dropping the Greek and Latin prefixes and reinstating the older names for measures but with new metric values. In September of the following year it became illegal to use any other system of weights and measures anywhere in France but it was largely ignored. It did not last long for, on 12 February 1812, Napoleon returned the country to its former units. The metre standard was still used in the sense that a fathom was declared to be 2 metres, there were 6 feet in a fathom and 12 inches in a foot.
Now, despite this retrograde move, Napoleon had a major effect on the spread of the metric system. French conquests of the Low Countries had seen the metric system introduced there and, on the defeat of Napoleon and the restoring of monarchy in those countries, they retained the system. The decimal metric system was required to be used by law in the Low Countries in 1820. In 1830 Belgium became independent of Holland and made the metric system, together with its former Greek and Latin prefixes, the only legal measurement system. Perhaps the fact that the French had scrapped the system they invented, helped its acceptance in other European countries. In 1840 the French government reintroduced the metric system but it took many years before use of the old measures died out.
In the 1860s Britain, the United States and the German states all made moves towards adopting the metric system. It became legal in Britain in 1864 but a law which was passed by the House of Commons to require its use throughout the British Empire never made it through its final stages on to the statute books. Similarly in the United States it became legal in 1866, although its use was not made compulsory. The German states passed legislation in 1868 which meant that on the unification of these states to form Germany, use of the metric system was made compulsory.
It is interesting that many leading British scientists were opposed to the introduction of the metric system in Britain in 1864, which is one reason that it only became legal but not compulsory. George Airy and John Herschel argued strongly against it, as did William Rankine who composed the poem The Three-Foot Rule :-
Some talk of millimetres, and some of kilograms,In 1870 an International Conference was convened by the French in Paris. Invitations had been sent to scientists from countries around the world with the aim of improving international scientific cooperation by having the metric system as the world-wide standard. War broke out between France and Prussia just before the delegates were due to arrive, however, and the German delegation did not attend. Wishing that any decision be a truly international one, the conference was postponed and met again in 1872. The outcome was the setting up of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, to be situated in Paris, and the Convention of the Metre of 1875 which was signed by seventeen nations. Further countries signed up over the following years.
And some of decilitres, to measure beer and drams;
But I'm a British Workman, too old to go to school,
So by pounds I'll eat, and by quarts I'll drink, and I'll work by my three foot rule.
A party of astronomers went measuring the Earth,
And forty million metres they took to be its girth;
Five hundred million inches, though, go through from Pole to Pole;
So lets stick to inches, feet and yards, and the good old three foot rule.
In 1889 the International Bureau of Weights and Measures replaced the original metre bar in Paris by a new one and at the same time had copies of the bar sent to every country which had signed up to the Convention of the Metre. The definition now became the distance between two lines marked on a standard bar made from 90 percent platinum and 10 percent iridium. This remained the standard until 1960 when the International Bureau of Weights and Measures adopted a more accurate standard for international science when it defined the metre in terms of the wavelength of light emitted by the krypton-86 atom, namely 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red line in the spectrum of the atom in a vacuum. The metre was redefined again in 1983, this time as the distance which light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 seconds. This remains the current definition. Note that in all these redefinitions, the length of the metre was always taken as close as possible to the value fixed in 1799 by data from the Delambre-Méchain survey.
Notice that the current definition defines the metre in terms of the second. Now Borda had argued against using the length of a pendulum which beats at the rate of one second to define the metre in 1791 on the reasonable grounds that the second was not a fixed unit but could change with time. Indeed the second, then defined as 1/86,400 of the mean solar day, does change but a fixed definition was introduced in 1956 by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, as 1/31,556,925.9747 of the length of the tropical year 1900. Although this fixed the value, it was seen as an unsatisfactory definition since the length of the year 1900 could never be measured after 1900. It was changed in 1964 to 9,192,631,770 cycles of radiation associated with a particular change of state of the caesium-133 atom. By 1983 when the metre was defined in terms of the second, Borda's objection was no longer valid as the definition of the second by then did not have the astronomical definition which was indeed variable.
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As the city moves towards achieving a World Class City status, various changes are happening in the City's Layout plans. Our reporter Bothwell Petro (BP) chats with Town Planner Mr Samuel Nyabezi (SN) on the recent changes to the Avondale Master Plan.
BP: What are the main changes that have happened to the Avondale master plan?
SN: We had a scheme which used to guide development in the Avondale Area. This town planning scheme was superseded by the new local plan which became operative on 3 March 2015. The major highlights of the local plan are the rezoning of properties along certain roads in the area. If you are going to apply for offices along those roads you are not required to apply for special consent as in the previous town planning set up. It is a straight forward application where you apply and within a week you get your permit.
This scheme is now allowing offices meaning that small enterprises are able to establish themselves within the areas around the CBD and enjoy relatively low rates and rentals which will help their survival or growth.
The other major highlight in the plan is the expansion of both Avondale and Kensington shopping centres. In the new local plan we now have more than a third of Avondale being rezoned for flats meaning that we are now able to increase density.
BP: Does that mean that property owners can actually build flats and develop the current properties into apartments in the Avondale area?
SN: They can also do further subdivisions. This local plan has actually opened up Avondale to further development and further investment. We have actually unlocked value in this area.
BP: What happens when someone subdivides his or her piece of land? Do they sell the land or it becomes council land?
SN: If someone sub divides his piece of land, he can sell that piece of land to any person who may want to buy it. It does not mean that if one subdivides it becomes council property. It will still remain council private land and that person will sell it to whoever is the highest bidder. If one decides to build flats he or she can engage institutional investors. There are a number of banks or and institutional investors prepared to partner with individuals to build cluster houses.
BP Does that mean that we are likely to see other developments like this around the City Centre besides the Avondale Master plan?
SN: Yes, we are in the process of revising the city centre local development plan. The revision covers areas like Eastlea, Hillside, Arcadia, parts of Belvedere, Newlands, Braeside, Milton Park and the Avenues. We are going to replicate depending on the studies carried out.
BP: Can we then conclude that we are expanding our Central Business District?
SN: We are simply relaxing the planning frameworks in those areas so that it will be easier to establish businesses. At present the operative schemes do not allow businesses in those areas but we are sympathetic to entrepreneurs who may want to establish businesses.
BP So how can we link this development with our ease of doing business initiative and decentralisation?
SN: Previously, it was not possible for one to get a permit for offices. But now one can apply for a permit for offices and get it within a week. We also now allow restaurants in some of the areas for the convenience of the public.
We have areas around Kensington and Avondale Shopping Centre where no commercial activities were allowed. Now it is easy. One can simply convert his property to commercial without having to make an application to City of Harare. One will just need to do building plans, have them approved then establish his commercial business. So it has actually been made easier to establish businesses in the Avondale area.
BP: You said something about the expansion of Avondale and Kensington shopping areas, what is going to happen around those areas?
SN: We are allowing more commercial activities around those areas and setting of professional offices something which the previous scheme did not allow. With respect to the previous scheme, it was not possible to convert your property into offices.
BP: While this might appear like a new initiative along these areas if you move around you will find that some people had already converted some buildings around Avondale and Kensington. What is the difference now?
SN: We are saying if you were operating illegally now you can simply write a letter informing us of the conversion. We will respond within a week. We will then change the rating of your property to commercial rates.
This local plan has regularised commercial activities that were happening within the Avondale area.