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Inspiring Creativity in Others
If you want to push others – such as colleagues, team members, children, students, sweethearts or friends – to be more creative, there are a few simple things you can do.Read More »
Tech is Destroying the Line between Manufacturing & Services
Manufacturing will grow in the U.S. when we accelerate the use of technology to increase productivity, enable new business models designed for mass customization and unleash the manufacturers in all of us.Read More »
Drag Racing Behavior
Our productivity-by-the-minute culture is killing us. In business speed is king, and with it comes our short-sighted drag racing behavior.Read More »
What Drives Innovation and Who Owns It?
Ownership key to Innovation Implementation and success, it's an imperative of Innovation. Most would agree that innovation is everyone's responsibility, but employees can't innovate unless their leaders empower them to do so.Read More »
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Solicitor General Elena Kagan will be the center of Washington's attention this week at her confirmation hearings to become the 112th Supreme Court Justice. She is President Obama's nominee to take the seat of retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, one of the more liberal voices on the court. At her hearings, liberals will seek assurance that she is truly one of their own, while conservatives will test whether she's acceptably within their definition of the mainstream. Thus far, her candidacy has been a bit of a bore; a recent poll found that 42% of Americans had no opinion on whether Kagan should be confirmed. And confirmation hearings tend to be so stage-managed these days that Kagan herself once called them exercises in "vacuity and farce." But as Clarence Thomas learned, there is always the potential for them to turn ugly fast.
In recent weeks, Republicans have hardened their rhetoric on Kagan. Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said two weeks ago that he wasn't ruling out a filibuster. Conservatives are arguing that too much of Kagan's career has been in politics. If confirmed, she would be the first Justice in nearly 40 years who has no experience on the bench. Thus there is little known about Kagan; her lack of judicial experience also means a lack of decisions through which her judicial philosophy might be gleaned. Her six academic papers, the memos she wrote while clerking for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the reams of e-mails sent during her tenure as deputy counsel and adviser for domestic policy in the Clinton Administration and, perhaps most important, her confirmation hearings to be Solicitor General offer some clues. But Kagan enters her hearing on Monday a bigger mystery than nearly any other nominee in the past 30 years. Here are five hot topics she will surely be grilled on as Senators try to get to know her better:
1. Gun Rights
Enough has emerged from Kagan's papers to make the National Rifle Association (NRA) nervous. As a clerk for Marshall, Kagan wrote that she was "not sympathetic" to a constitutional challenge of Washington, D.C.,'s gun-control law, which the court overturned in 2008 in D.C. v. Heller. In her confirmation hearings to be Solicitor General, Kagan reversed herself, saying she would uphold D.C. v. Heller, calling the decision "settled law." Still, Senators are likely to take D.C. v. Heller a step further and ask her about McDonald v. City of Chicago, a case the Supreme Court decided on Monday that overturned Chicago's ban on handguns and established that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies to state and local gun-control laws.
Kagan will also face questions about a paper she wrote in the Clinton Administration that paved the way for an Executive Order banning dozens of semiautomatic weapons, though the White House argues that she was simply acting as counsel and giving advice, not creating policy. Another two memos found in Kagan's papers related to the Volunteer Protection Act, which, when it passed, shielded some nonprofits' volunteer workers from tort liability in certain cases. In those memos, the Clinton Administration worried that "bad guy orgs" such as the NRA and the Ku Klux Klan might also benefit from the law, though it's unclear if these were Kagan's words or an aide's, as the memo is unsigned.
2. Wise Jew?
During her confirmation hearings, Justice Sonia Sotomayor was grilled for saying that she'd like to see diversity on the court and would rather hear from a "wise Latina" than another bland white guy. Sotomayor was confirmed to be the third woman on the court last year. Kagan seeks to become the fourth woman and the eighth Jew on the court. There is much debate about what Obama has labeled the "empathy" standard, or how much Justices should be swayed by modern circumstance. Many conservatives contend that all judges should interpret the Constitution according to the founders' intent and that their personal backgrounds should be irrelevant to this pursuit. As Chief Justice John Roberts put it in his confirmation hearings, "It's my job to call balls and strikes and not to pitch or bat." In her master's thesis at Oxford University, Kagan seemed to agree with Sotomayor. "As men and as participants in American life, judges will have opinions, prejudices, values," Kagan wrote. "Perhaps most important, judges will have goals. And because this is so, judges will often try to mold and steer the law in order to promote certain ethical values and achieve certain social ends. Such activity is not necessarily wrong or invalid."
Kagan later lamented that she was just a "dumb" kid when she wrote that thesis. And at her confirmation hearings to be Solicitor General she wrote, "It is a great deal better for the elected branches to take the lead in creating a more just society than for the courts to do so."

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Hanshin Tigers: April 13, 2010
by Gen on Apr.13, 2010 @ 8:44 pm, under NPB
...Atsushi Nomi has a 5-game winning streak on the line against the Yomiuri Giants. As of this posting, the Giants have a 7-5 lead over the Tigers. Nomi was knocked out after 2.1 and the Giants have yet to give up the lead. just given up the lead on a 3-run to Kodai Sakurai in the top of the 8th, meaning Nomi is now off the hook.
...Kenji Jojima's three focal points for the upcoming series against the Giants:
- don't give up the first pitch so easily, continue to attack the zone on the first pitch.
- avoid walks at all costs -- no sense in giving them more chances to score.
- be prepared / don't be afraid to give up solo home runs.
...Tomoyuki Kubota is slated to start on Wednesday.
...Tomoaki Kanemoto worked on his swing for about 30 minutes at the indoor Koshien training facilities during optional practice for non-pitchers on Monday.
...Casey Fossum met up with the Ichi-gun team on Sunday for practice, but appears to have taken the day off on Monday. He could start a game against the Giants on the 15th.
...The Tigers OB Junior Baseball School will be holding a special overnight (8/20 - 8/21) baseball clinic for 15-20 elementary school kids. Two former Tigers will be coaching the clinic.


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Microsoft talks tough, gains little on VMware
Microsoft's Hyper-V growth rate in units shipped outstripped VMware's vSphere as of the first quarter of 2012, according to IDC data. But do these numbers tell the whole story?
Microsoft has lured some VMware vSphere customers over to Hyper-V, and the company boasts server virtualization market share growth, but Microsoft still has a lot to prove before the tide turns in its favor.
Hyper-V accounted for 22.5% of virtualization software units shipped during the first calendar quarter of 2011, according to a Worldwide Quarterly Server Virtualization Software Tracker report by IDC Corp. In the first quarter of 2012, that number rose to 26.6%, the IDC reported.
Hyper-V is taking a little bit of the growth … but it doesn't mean that VMware is declining.
Gary Chen,
analyst, IDC
By comparison, VMware's server virtualization software units shipped accounted for 53.6% in Q1 2011 and 52.4% in Q1 2012.
Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner made hay with these figures in a keynote speech to a Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) audience Wednesday morning, according to bloggers who documented the presentation.
The company points to customers who have recently made a wholesale swap-out of VMware virtualization products in favor of Hyper-V, such as Pella Windows and Doors.
Pella Corp., which has done case studies with Microsoft in the past, chose VMware in 2004 because at that time it had superior virtualization software.
"From 2004 to 2008, we believed VMware was the better product -- more features, more effective, better scalability," said Jim Thomas, Pella's director of IT operations. Still, Microsoft remained one of the company's "key IT partners," and Thomas pledged to keep an open mind about Hyper-V.
When the features in Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V roadmap matched up with VMware vSphere, Hyper-V was able to meet the 30:1 consolidation ratio that Pella needed.
Ultimately, it wasn't Hyper-V itself, but the new integration of the System Center suite that convinced Thomas to adopt Hyper-V. His administrators were already familiar with parts of the suite, including Configuration Manager and Operations Manager, and if Pella was going to move to a private and eventually hybrid cloud with Microsoft, it seemed wise to standardize on Hyper-V as well.
"VMware clearly sold us a good product," he added. "But we don't have the same relationship with VMware that we do with Microsoft."
No sea change for virtualization market share -- yet
Meanwhile, most enterprises stand up mixed-hypervisor environments rather than completely dropping one product for another.
One Fortune 300 company on the West Coast is conducting a proof of concept with Microsoft's Azure public cloud as well as with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) for non-production workloads.
"We have a very large investment in VMware, but we have a much larger partnership with Microsoft," said Christian Metz, systems administrator at a West Coast-based company. Thus, when it came to experimenting with things like the public private clouds for test and development, "Microsoft came in and offered a lot of cool stuff, a lot of consultant help, a lot of freebies, and VMware just didn't quite match that," Metz said.
Still, the company remains firmly based on VMware for production workloads, and Metz expects to keep VMware in production and Hyper-V in test and development, through at least 2015.
"It can be a huge effort to migrate 3,500 VMs," he said.
Furthermore, IDC analysts cautioned that the data doesn't indicate any kind of major swap-out of vSphere for Hyper-V in the market.
"Hyper-V is taking a little bit of the growth, a little bit of the share away from other platforms, but it doesn't mean that VMware is declining in terms of revenue or number of licenses shipped," said Gary Chen, research manager for enterprise virtualization software at Framingham, Mass.-based IDC.
If the virtualization market is a big pie, the size of the slices each vendor takes relative to one another continues to change, Chen explained.
But "the pie keeps getting bigger. [VMware] is not losing units, they're not experiencing negative growth … in an absolute view, both of those platforms are still growing," he said.
One fact remains without doubt: Microsoft has gotten more aggressive in its messaging around Hyper-V as it gears up for the launch of Windows Server 2012 in September. Also announced this week at WPC was a new "Switch to Hyper-V" program that trains channel partners to take out VMware installations in customer data centers.
"With Windows Server 2012, I think you'll see Hyper-V's numbers grow much faster," Chen said.
VMware did not comment as of press time.
Beth Pariseau is a senior news writer for SearchServerVirtualization.com and SearchDataCenter.com. Write to her at email@example.com or follow @PariseauTT on Twitter.


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Brian Johnstone is a Scottish poet. He has published three full-length collections – The Lizard Silence (Scottish Cultural Press 1996), The Book of Belongings (Arc 2009), and Dry Stone Work (Arc 2014).
He was a founder of the Edinburgh Shore Poets in the 1990's and also the StAnza Poetry Festival in 1998, where he served as Festival Director from 2001 to 2010.
Hi Brian. Thanks for taking the time to chat. Congratulations on your latest collection Dry Stone Work. How would you describe the poems in this book and do you think they are in dialogue with the poems of your previous collection The Book of Belongings in any way?
Thanks for the congratulations. I'm very pleased with how Dry Stone Work has come out – it was a tricky collection to sequence as the subject matter is quite diverse – much more so than The Book of Belongings, in fact. There are a few themes that carry over from one book to the other – war poems, for example, and poems on the natural world and on one of my main interests, archaeology. But at the same time, there is, I feel anyway, a lot of new ground covered in Dry Stone Work.
The collection is actually a mix of very new poems and older poems I was keeping until I had a collection they'd fit into – roughly three quarters to one quarter in favour of the former. So to some extent the subjects of the older poems tended to inform where I went with the new writing – more narrative in nature, more looking at popular culture and so on.
Since my previous collection I've become much more interested in narrative as seen, say, in my sequence of circus poems 'The Ring Cycle' – really fun to work on – and others such as my Billie Holiday and Beach Boys poems, which are examples of several on music subjects in the book. Narrative is still something that holds my attention, though I sense I'm beginning to start on a new tack recently.
You collaborated with Chrys Salt a couple of years ago on a project called 'The Fields of War' to mark the centenary of the First World War. Seamus Heaney once famously said 'no lyric every stopped a tank', but I wonder if you have thoughts on what makes poetry the ideal genre to tackle such a thorny subject and its inherent tensions, conflict of emotions, and contradictions?
As I say above, war poetry has always been a fixation of mine. It's more or less where I started writing as an adolescent, influenced by Owen, Sassoon etc. And since getting back to writing in my forties, it has returned as a major theme. It's a topic I examine in some depth in my new book.
I'm not sure I would say that poetry is 'the ideal genre' to approach this subject – and Heaney is, of course, right in what he said (as was Auden in his famous 'makes nothing happen' remark) – but where I think poetry, especially live poetry, scores in this is the direct connection it can make.
At the end of the last performance of 'The Fields of War' that Chrys and I gave there was a stunned silence of nearly a minute's duration before any applause. And we've had many audience members – often from a non-poetry background – saying how evocative and inspiring of empathy the performance was.
So I think the nature of the show, which combines our poetry with film, original music and prose extracts, is ideal to deliver the very real experiences we're talking about directly to the audience's imagination.
Another collaboration you are involved in this year is the Scotia Extremis project with Andy Jackson – exploring the soul of Scotland and its various dichotomies. Could you tell us a bit more about the genesis of the project and how you pulled together all the themes for the participating poets to work on, and have the resulting poems surprised you in any way?
Well, to answer your last question first – I've been amazed by the diversity of styles and approaches from the commissioned poets, and equally amazed by the enthusiasm of everyone taking up the challenge.
The project developed more or less out of two recent anthologies Andy edited for Red Squirrel Press which paired up characters from TV, film and other areas of popular culture. I was asked to write poems for both of those, so I was delighted when Andy approached me to ask if I'd like to co-edit this latest venture.
Scotia Extremis is basically an online anthology taking the same pairing approach to a broad-based list of 'icons' of Scottish culture – from the Forth Bridge to J K Rowling to The White Heather Club to Joseph Knight. The title comes from Hugh MacDiarmid's famous remark – I'll aye be whaur extremes meet – which seemed to us to capture that underlying duality in the country's character.
Through that notion, we have paired up all of our topics in themes where the two poems published each week are as far apart as possible, but also linked in some often oblique way. The anthology has been online since the start of the year and, naturally, I'd encourage all of your readers to take a look and sign up to follow it if they like what they see.
I understand you perform as part of the jazz poetry collective Trio Verso whose mission statement is to 'refocus the ideas behind the 1950s poetry & jazz movement for a 21st century audience'. I'm curious how far back your interest in jazz music stretches and what you feel it adds to the performances?
For me – as a long-term jazz fan, Trio Verso is a dream come true. Its main thrust is very much connected with the purpose behind the two projects above – to connect poetry with audiences in new and different ways, something I've always believed in and worked towards.
I've collaborated with musicians before to this end – most notably with the clarsach player Wendy Stewart in the '90s – so the opportunity to work with two superb jazz improvisers was one I couldn't miss. I've been a follower of jazz since my teenage years and remember listening to various poetry & jazz performances by both American and English poets back in the '60s, and the chance to tackle this myself was very attractive.
The two forms go very well together. All the music is improvised so it differs with every performance. This ensures I express the text differently in direct response to the music each time we perform. That gives the whole thing a real sense of freshness and spontaneity – good for me as a performer and also, I think, good for the audience who respond to that very freshness of approach. And it's great fun!
Tracks can be heard across at my website.
What does the rest of the year hold for you in the world of poetry? Are there any dates in the diary you are looking forward to?
I feel slightly traitorous in answering your first question here! While I'm by no means deserting poetry, the rest of the year will see me completing the editorial work for my next publication – which is, in fact, my first ever prose book.
My memoir Double Exposure is due out with the Glasgow publisher Saraband early in 2017, so I'll be doing all the final polishing and proof reading in the second half of 2016.
The book, however, does include poetry – one poem per chapter, in fact – so I don't feel I'm deserting the form entirely. And much of the story has sprung from elements which have appeared in various poems in the past – they've become like a sort of story board to the content of the new book.
Other than that I have one or two readings lined up and a (to be confirmed) Trio Verso gig down south – fingers crossed for that. Scotia Extremis will also take up more time over the rest of the year and I hope to get back to a couple of nascent projects with an artist and a film-maker which are on hold just now.
Finally, can you tell us a little about the poem you've submitted to Poetry Spotlight?
I've already fessed up to being a jazz fan and have mentioned my interest in writing music poems and narrative poems, so I thought combining those and submitting a narrative poem about jazz would be a good way to tie some of the threads together.
So here's a poem about one of the greatest jazz musicians ever – Louis Armstrong. The poem tells the story of Satchmo as a young man when he was summoned from his home town of New Orleans to Chicago to play with his mentor King Oliver.
I enjoy transforming a story like this into a poem, stripping it down to its physical and verbal essentials, making the verses take the steps of the characters as they move through the narrative and turning the ending on the implications, in this case what the future held.
It's a fairly recent poem that was published last year in The Fenland Reed, a new East Anglian literary magazine.
Armstrong's Arrival in Chicago
You get there late, looking for Joe, guessing
you should've made the early train, missed
for a Storyville funeral. Better late, you say,
than never: Little Louis, fresh from the Delta,
spotted by a Red Cap there in the concourse,
give-away cornet case hugged under an arm.
Man, are you for the King? The new second horn?
That porter is right first time. You're reeling
to hear Joe Oliver's boast, the rank he's fixed
for himself. And reeling again at this place,
at its pace, eyeing the buildings and thinking:
Sure do reach the sky. Soon you're off in a cab,
bound for the club – where they're on stage
already, Joe and the boys. And you're driving
down State Street, on track for the show till
you're up there, the best of them, that much
you know. Making a mark on the new world
of jazz, you'll set it to spin when you blow.


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What's with the price increase with the switch to Stripe (with respect to bitcoin)? Very recently the price for a one-month access token when paying via BTC was $3.86 or thereabouts---right under two-thirds of the current price. Used to, there was a discount for paying with BTC but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
I had planned on buying another one-month access token this month and already purchased enough BTC (or so I thought) to do so and then I find out about this. My annoyance is that it takes me a non-insignificant amount of time from payment to reception of BTC, which means I'm SOL for the time being.
Thanks Obama.


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or: A Musician Grumbles About the State of the Avant Garde and Radio
What does it mean to have an avant garde which expects to receive grants to produce their art? If they submit to the approval of committees or administrators how can they be avant garde? It used to be that an avant garde artist expected to have a day job to support their art. They knew that their art was not going to be a financial success and that it wouldn't be supported by foundations or the government. They produced their art for many reasons. Expecting to become rich was a pipedream of many of them but it obviously wasn't their first motive or they'd have gone into finance.
As a musician, I'll point out that non-support is taken as a given by us in most circumstances. Arnold Schoenberg's great opera Moses Und Aron* exists without its final act because he couldn't get a grant to give him the 'leisure' to finish it. And he was one of the most famous composers in the world at the time. Funding situations have changed and it is more common for composers to get some kind of grant support but it is far from the typical method of a composer earning their living. It never has and almost certainly never will be the major source of support for most musicians' work. No one pays us to practice.
Visual artists who produce a thing that can be owned, shown off easily and sold at a profit have a much higher status than their equivalent in music. I'm talking about non-commercial music, mind, what the late and wonderful Arthur Berger puckishly referred to as "unpopular music", when asked what kind of music he wrote. So visual artists get a lot more attention from the media and, at least in part as a result, from funding sources.
I will mention one of the more absurd consequences of this. NPR in the form of Susan Stramburg** constantly has pieces on about high status visual art, even about art which the average LISTENER probably has no chance of knowing or seeing . This RADIO network does this while ignoring composers of enormous ability and stature. From NPR's*** work you would never know that the past sixty years in the United States has been a period of one masterwork after another produced by a series of great composers. Even composers of lesser stature are producing work of the highest quality. I would hazard the judgement that never in the history of music has the secondary composer been better. Yet it is only if there is some non-musical reason to pay attention, a Pulitzer, a MacArthur, an anniversary, etc. does National Public RADIO pay attention to an art that it can convey with remarkable fidelity. Susan, I hate to break it to you, yet again, but you cannot string together enough cliches to give people an idea of what something they've never seen really LOOKS like. Your attempts are bound to be misleading, you should stop it if the art itself is your subject.
Ok, back on topic.
Really, can you have an avant garde approved by the establishment? The government, for the love of Mike. It isn't a sin to not be in the avant garde but art needs to have radical artists whose work is box office poison and who know that they're not working with a net. Isn't there enough of a smug intelligentsia anymore which wants to be ahead of the critical and commercial curve? Do we have an intelligentsia without any sense of daring? That would explain a lot.
*I am going to be posting a review of a recent recording but dealing with a piece this important and this huge is going to take many listening. This is Schoenberg's spelling, he had a fear of the number thirteen.
** See my point?
*** Sadly, you can see the same thing in the nyt corp owned Boston Globe these days. You could read a months' worth of Globes and not realize that Boston was one of the great musical cities of the world. The nyt corp fascination with fashion takes up much more space than serious music coverage since they purged its long term employees. The Globe spends many times more column space on the product of Hollywood than it does its local musicians.
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Britain is to be at the forefront of a new initiative to persuade America to stand up and admit that climate change is a serious issue.
In a major change of strategy, the move will ignore the Bush administration and appeal directly to individual US states to join the EU carbon trading scheme.
Environment minister David Miliband will lead a group of MPs hoping to persuade California, and as many as nine other states, to join the EU carbon trading scheme.
New Yorker governor George Pataki has joined California's Arnold Schwarzenegger in indicating that his state might well be interested in joining the scheme.
The British politicians will also take advantage of the new Democrat-dominated Senate to push the climate change message home on Capitol Hill.
Stephen Byers MP spoke about the planned attempt to get US states to join the EU scheme: "Some of the proposals will bypass the White House, others will engage with sympathetic Republicans," he said. "We are seeking to put pressure on President Bush."
David Miliband also commented, "The science is moving faster than the politics now. In 2007 we need significant progress at the international level. The UK is showing continued leadership with its Climate Change Bill, the EU is showing leadership and we hope other legislatures across the world will take similar action."
Thanks to inel for highlighting this news over at 'Global Cool'.


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The Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless has been fighting since 1984 to end
homelessness in Minnesota. Through its community education, legislative advocacy,
and organizing activities the Coalition works to prevent homelessness by helping
communities design homeless response systems that meet their needs.
This summer I worked on the coalitionтАЩs annual conference тАЬOur Way HomeтА? which will take place on September 29 & 30, 2003 at RuttgerтАЩs Bay Lake Lodge. Attendees will participate in a series of workshops and institutes designed to highlight partnerships communities have formed to bridge the gap between people experiencing homelessness, homeless service providers, and those who control the financial, political and human resources that must be utilized to end it. It is an opportunity for all attendees to learn, organize, and network.
Because of the severe economic crisis in Minnesota is currently facing, it is particularly important that service providers, organizers, and people experiencing homelessness come together to develop campaigns and services in order to achieve the most effective plans possible while preventing overlap of resources that often takes place between related organizations and efforts. The Coalition for the Homeless' conference is geared towards a broad range of groups including people who have or are experiencing homelessness, homeless service providers, mainstream service providers, community activists, funders, communities of faith, advocates, case managers, grassroots organizers, and policy makers. As Coalition staff, we believe that bringing these diverse groups together, to combine their efforts, will allow limited budgets to bring about significant social change.
My personal contributions in planning the Coalition's "Our Way Home" Conference include helping to develop 30 workshops that highlight new and innovative ways that groups have come together to combat homelessness throughout the state as well as workshops that respond to the hopes and needs of people experiencing homelessness and frontline homeless service providers. Workshops such as тАЬRevealing Homelessness to Rural Governments,тА? тАЬWorking for Systemic Change,тА? and тАЬGrassroots Organizing Made FunтА? will be included in this year's conference, which will offer new approaches to ending homelessness.
After conducting numerous board meetings and making countless phone calls to determine the 30 workshops that would be most important to include in the conference, I contacted key staff and board members to locate presenters who were experienced with innovative approaches that addressed the conferenceтАЩs theme. We already have presenters from academia and from the field, from urban and rural Minnesota, and presenters who are experiencing homelessness and other who have worked for years along side of those who have.
I also played a significant role in developing our conference brochure and manual. This yearтАЩs conference brochure was more comprehensive than the brochures the Coalition has provided for the conference in the past. Unlike previous years, where the Coalition did not have an intern working primarily on the conference, we were able to provide potential attendees with a complete list of the exact workshops that would be offered at the conference, as well as detailed information on keynote and plenary speakers, and the conference agenda. In the past, the brochure has been a somewhat vague resource, which provided potential workshop topics and often did not include the conferenceтАЩs highlighted presenters (because by the time the brochure went out these presenters were still unconfirmed). It was important that we were able to provide this information to potential attendees this year, because the limited budgets of social service agencies will force them to be extremely selective in choosing the staff development opportunities, which they will utilize.
In preparing the conference resource manual, which all attendees receive, I strived to include almost exclusively, practical information and trainings that would be of long-term value. For example, guides on how to write an editorial, contact a congressperson, maintain and respect religious and cultural boundaries, and help homeless youth access school services will all be provided to all conference attendees.
Perhaps most importantly, I wrote grants to organizations such as Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless (OYH) and Headwaters Fund for Social Change in order to provide scholarships for people experiencing homelessness to participate in our conference and for other general conference costs. We have already received confirmation from OYH that they will provide us with the $5,000 dollars for which we applied!
Upon my departure from the Coalition, things for the conference were well underway. Plenary and Keynote speakers had been confirmed, about 75% of the conference workshop speakers were set, grant money was coming in, we were receiving a number of conference registrations, and unfinished logistical tasks were sufficiently distributed amongst other Coalition staff.
My experience working the Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless was extremely valuable in that it provided me with a solid knowledge base of what the issues were that were creating homelessness in Minnesota, who was experiencing it, and what was and was not being done on both the state and federal levels. Because of the vast array of work the Coalition does: organizing people experiencing homelessness and community activists, planning events to bring awareness to the issues causing homelessness and potential solutions, developing curriculum for classrooms to educate youth on homelessness, lobbying at the capitol, and much more, I was given significant responsibilities in preparing the conference.
Through this experience I greatly improved my communication, researching, grant writing, organizational skills while augmenting my understanding of homelessness. I left the Coalition with a solid knowledge base of the policies that are helping and those that are hurting people experiencing homelessness. I am excited about the new perspectives and insights my experience at the Coalition provided.
One thing I lacked at the Coalition, however, was significant interaction with people experiencing homelessness. I worked in an office that at times felt somewhat distant from the people we were working to help. At times, I longed for interaction with the folks who were living on the streets so that I might be in meaningful relationship with them.
It is because of this desire, that I feel excited and eager to embrace every new day at my new full-time place of work, JOIN. JOIN is a non-profit organization that helps people experiencing homelessness to transition off the streets and into sustainable housing. JOIN also operates a daytime drop-in center, where people can have shower, get a locker or just a have a cup of coffee. Our drop-in center serves as one means for people experiencing homelessness to get connected with a JOIN outreach worker, after which, housing can hopefully be found for the individual or family who has been living outside.
Working at JOIN, allows me to befriend people who are experiencing the hardships of homelessness. It is in these relationships that I truly find a passion in working towards social justice and systemic change surrounding homelessness, an issue that I see as a culmination of a huge number of societal ills: individualism, racism, sexism, classism, etc. Prior to working at JOIN, I had little on which to base my understanding of homelessness and even less to go on to develop potential answers to the problem. Now, after just two weeks of working with direct service I know I have a better understanding of the issue than I ever have and feel more capable of asserting new means to addressing the issueтАЩs root causes.
My experiences at the Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless and at JOIN complement each other beautiful, one providing a legislative/policy based perspective and the other- a relational, experiential understanding. I think these two experiences together have provided me a solid basis on which to live and act in ways that will help to accompany people experiencing homelessness in creating systemic changes for one of societies most neglected populations.
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Are We Real? Martin Rees Explores Simulation Hypothesis
In this very cool video, Martin Rees, an esteemed British cosmologist, explores this hypothesis, first postulated by Nick Bostrom. It's a five-part, one-hour Channel Four production. Check it out below.
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- Jeff said...
Will have to watch this over the weekend. Sounds rather matrix-esque, but this is what I meant when I was thinking about how I would actually find out that a/the singularity had happened. What if it already has? Then yes implication is that our universe at some fundamental level is a simularcum. This just seems to be a post-modern way of expressing or re-expressing a lot of old ideas though. I mean - isn't it turtles all the way down... ?
- Bob Mottram said...
I don't think these ideas originally came from Bostrom. They're things which philosophers and gurus have thought about for centuries. I remember when I was a teenager at school over 20 years ago having conversations with friends which were exactly along these lines - is what we're experiencing real? Why are the constants of physics and chemistry the way they are and not some completely different numbers? Are there multiple universes, or universes within universes? and so on.
I think what's happening here is that the idea of the life we experience being a sub-universe (a simulation within a larger universe) is far more comprehensible and believable to most people now than it was a couple of decades ago, since you can play a computer game or something like Second Life and imagine that if these things were just a few orders of magnitude more complex they'd be mirror images of the kind of world that we assume is the "real" one.


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So, you want an app?
Earlier this year, I was lucky enough to meet Josh Clark at FOWD. I'd been reading his articles about flagship apps and content first, and I was very keen to have a chat with him about a discussion I'd had with a client. I had been discussing which platform they should be targeting, and depending upon who I was talking to at the client (and their opinions on the goals of the project) the decision on a choice of platform was different.
Josh, and his mobile vs native talk, positioned this decision as an "audience/content/budget" question, which matched the conversations I'd been having with my client. At the end of his talk I said to Josh, "this would make a great flow-chart, like that one that Jessica Hische did!", "Yeah, that'd be awesome!", said Josh.
I'm very pleased to say, that after some delay, it's ready for public consumption.
With a lot of help from my company and colleagues Ed Hartwell-Goose, Fin Edridge and Simon Dring we made an interactive flow-chart to guide our clients, other industry professionals and their clients through the minefield that is choosing the platform for your app. We called it, "So, you want an app?".
It's still a simplification of the whole process but, in researching it, three things became abundantly clear:
- You must know your audience – there are no exceptions to this. People use different phones for very different things. Blackberries are used by teenagers for BBM and by corporations because of it's security and low data usage; iPhones are very high-end consumer devices; and Android phones are thought of as being for very technically minded people, but they're also entry-level smart phones. Picking a platform without knowing what your content and its audience is a recipe for disaster.
- Your content needs to be simple to access – all end-points on the flow-chart will need some form of content platform behind them to drive engagement, re-use and to keep the app up-to-date. If you've got an old CMS, you may have to build a light-weight web service to let your app access the content easily, quickly and efficiently. People use apps to get at content, and whether they're a game or social media, your content is king.
- You cannot do this half-heartedly – and by that I mean you've got to have a decent budget. Also at FOWD, Matt Gifford was joking that the £50 website was now a £75 website; apps are suffering this problem. Apps are viewed as small, simple bits of functionality that you can knock-up in a weekend; this is simply not true. Apps are often full-sized websites with the added complexity of fitting the core content onto a tiny screen, but since they look small clients think they're easy to make and do, and are therefore cheap. Stories in the news of 14-year-olds making games in the app store top 10 aren't helping either. Start with a 5-figure sum, and keep going upwards if you want your app to really succeed.
I also mention PhoneGap a lot in the flow-chart, and that'd because I genuinely believe it's a great solution to the "discoverability" problem. This is where you have a mobile web site that isn't getting enough exposure as people think of "apps" as items in the "app store". PhoneGap fills this hole nicely, and gives you access to device hardware as a brilliant bonus. The tools are easy to use and PhoneGap Build now takes all of the hard bits of building for Blackberry and Windows Phone away.
Still, there are gray areas in the platform selection process, especially when it comes to tight budgets and enterprise apps. If there's only one thing you take away from this tool it should be this: Content is King, know your audience and how they will use your app. The rest flows from there.
You can find the tool here: www.paconsulting.com/so-you-want-an-app – I'll post the full poster version here when it's completed.
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Hoey B A (2005) From Pi to Pie: Moral Narratives of Noneconomic Migration and Starting Over in the Postindustrial Midwest. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 34(5) 586-624.
Research introduced here examines the impact of social and structural transitions during the past three decades on middle-class working families in the United States. Through the telling narrative of an especially iconic case of urban-to-rural migration and career change, this article explores the meaning of relocation away from metropolitan areas and corporate careers to growing ex-urban, small-town communities. The author interprets this life-style migration as a manner of personally negotiating tension between experience of material demands in pursuit of a livelihood within the flexible New Economy and prevailing cultural conventions for the good life that shape the moral narratives that define individual character. Drawing on two years of ethnographic research involving interview and observation of recent migrants to Northern Michigan, this article contributes to our understanding of non-economic migration and its part in the changing moral meanings of work in postindustrial America


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Retail IT - The Challenges and Opportunities
It is both a tough and exciting time for retail companies. Whether it is just more evolution in a market sector that has had to constantly evolve to survive, or approaching revolution is open to conjecture. What is clear, however, is that the way retail engages with its customers has radically changed in recent years.
We are frequently told that High Street retail traffic has fallen and that the fall is dramatic. It seems that bodies in stores do not directly link to High Street sales; yet consumers are still spending, so retailers are 'uber' busy ensuring that they are active across all retail channels in order to capture as much of this consumer traffic as possible.


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OK. I am not so sure about this training-like-an-athlete thing. Or maybe it's cycling. I complained about weather getting in the way last time, and, well, I could do that again today, except I don't want to complain about the weather. I like weather. I like rain and snow along with cool summer days with lots of sun. Either would be repressive without the respite of the other.
But the pressure of riding all the time warps my affection for all kinds of weather. I am struggling to get enough riding in and fine myself dreading the rain which my new expensive garden needs so much. That's just wrong. You know what else is wrong? Scheduling your activities around training. Hmm, should we go on that camping trip?…it might put me behind on my riding. Dumb.
All this is an excuse though. Really, I am just tired after riding 70 miles yesterday and I was thrilled when it was snowing this morning–yay! No riding for me today! So, how am I doing?
Week of the 30th March- around 71 miles in four rides. Actually rode in the snow!
Week of 6 April – 42 miles in three rides. Rode twice one of those days.
Week of 13 April – 57 miles in three rides. One was a relaxing town bike ride. Noticing a trend here…this is weeks of barely training. It was the weather I tell you.
Week of 20 April – - 151 miles in 6 rides. One was an earth day commute on a town bike, but honestly, it was pretty tiring. The other big ride was the afore mentioned 71 miles.
That was a good week. That's what I supposed to do all the time. Except, whew, it's tiring. 71 miles is the longest this year. I chose flats and rolling hills because of the wind, which changed direction during the day so that I was able to enjoy a headwind–in both directions! It's not a little bit scary that 70 miles represents around half of the big stupid ride (Triple Bypass). I was completely pooped 10 miles later than my previous long ride this year (which is 10 miles before the ride was over, unfortunately). I'll call that progress.


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Diffraction limit is manifested in the loss of high spatial frequency information that results from decay of evanescent waves. As a result, conventional far-field optics yields no information about an object's subwavelength features. Here we propose a novel approach to recovering evanescent waves in the far field, thereby enabling subwavelength-resolved imaging and spatial spectroscopy. Our approach relies on shifting the frequency and the wave vector of near-field components via scattering on acoustic phonons. This process effectively removes the spatial frequency cut-off for unambiguous far field detection. This technique can be adapted for digital holography, making it possible to perform phase-sensitive subwavelength imaging. We discuss the implementation of such a system in the mid-IR and THz bands, with possible extension to other spectral regions.
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Lady Rosamund Painswick. What a name! And what a character. It's good to have her back in Season 5 of Downton Abbey, after the actress who plays her, Samantha Bond, took time off from Downton last season to appear in a West End play.
Like most - if not all - of the British actors we see, the 53-year-old Bond trained for a stage career. Initially she had wanted to become a ballet dancer, but her auditioning for dance schools at the age of 15 coincided with puppy fat, which put paid to that ambition. Instead she trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic, thereby continuing the family tradition.
Bond's father is actor Philip Bond who starred in The Onedin Line and most recently as Dr. Wyatt in an episode of Midsomer Murders called "Death in a Chocolate Box." Her mother was television producer Pat Sandys who was also an actress for many years, before the birth of her three children. Abigail, Bond's sister, is also an actress, while her brother Matthew broke with tradition and became a journalist.
Bond's husband Alexander Hanson is also an actor and their two children, Molly and Tom, have also recently embarked on acting careers, which is something Bond finds a little worrisome. "You're excited, but you're frightened and you're nervous, because it's such a precarious occupation," she says. "My stomach is turning over just thinking about it. It isn't just about being good; it's about luck as well."
Bond considers herself "very lucky", although getting her first job after she left drama school didn't come easy. She applied to every repertory theatre in the country and went through 12 auditions before landing a job in 1983 in the original production of the comedy musical Daisy Pulls It Off. The same year she was cast as Maria Bertram in a BBC adaptation of Mansfield Park and in Rumpole of the Bailey where she played Rumpole's pupil, "Mizz" Liz Probert. Within three years, the fledgling actress had appeared in 35 professional plays. She then ramped up her television work and you might remember her in the Masterpiece Theatre presentations, The Ginger Tree, where she played a young Scottish woman, Mary MacKenzie and as Miss Taylor/Mrs. Weston in Emma. Bond has also appeared in numerous Mystery series, including Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, Inspector Morse, and Midsomer Murders.
In 1994 Bond was cast as Miss Moneypenny in four James Bond films, with Pierce Brosnan playing 007. She only retired from the role when Brosnan himself stepped down in 2005. According to Bond (Samantha, not James!) one of the best things that came out of her playing Miss Moneypenny was that it gave her a chance to get involved in more charity work. One of the charities she has supported for a number of years now is Action Aid. She got involved in the charity when she and her children were sitting at home one cold winter's evening when an Action Aid supporter knocked on the door to see if she would consider sponsoring a child until they reached their mid-teens. Urged on by her children, the actress agreed to sponsor a boy called Brandon, and she is now sponsoring another boy called Kelvin, who lives in Kenya.
Given her love of children and family life, it's obvious that in real-life Bond is nothing like Aunt Angela, the character she plays in the semi-improvised comedy series, Outnumbered. Despite all her career achievements, which also includes being a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Bond still considers her biggest success to be her two children. Maybe we'll be seeing them on our screens in the future. In the meantime you can enjoy seeing Bond as the meddling Rosamund in Downton Abbey which airs Sunday nights at 9pm.
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I hope that you all had a good summer break, enjoyed the good weather and had some quality time with your children. I'd like to extend a special welcome to all new pupils, parents and staff. This year Mary Rose is celebrating its 10th anniversary. We've started to plan a range of exciting birthday themed events for everyone to enjoy throughout the year.
These will range from working with visiting artists, whole school celebration days and of course occasions for parents and carers to come in and celebrate with us. We had two successful staff developments days before the pupils returned. This time was used to plan the anniversary activities, develop our Curriculum and focus on the elements of high quality teaching and learning. We were also joined by Richard Hirstwood from Hirstwood training who focused on the importance of sensory learning. This ran alongside first aid training, pool safety and Makaton workshops. A very busy couple of days.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank our Site team who worked hard throughout the summer to ensure our school was looking at its best for when the pupils returned. We were very lucky to be supported by a team of volunteers from H&S Aviation who gave up their time and helped with a range of projects within school.
I look forward to seeing you in school soon and working with you throughout the year.
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Why fight the bad weather outside if you don't have to? Try curling up with a good book in this shabby chic Blotter chair by Anthropologie. ($5,200)
When the thermostat drops, it's time to stack those light and breezy throws back in the closet and bring out this heavy-duty Italian Wool and Alpaca Knit throw from Restoration Hardware to keep you toasty. ($170–190)
If you don't have the luxury of a fireplace, the warm glow and candle-like flicker of this Cozy Lamp designed by Muuto and Harri Koskinen might be the next best thing. ($200 at A+R Store)
Sausalito-based Heath Ceramics has gained quite the reputation for creating beautiful and functional housewares. This small teapot is perfect for brewing a cup of a chamomile on chilly winter nights. ($75)
When you think of rocking chairs, you might think of grandma sitting by the fire, but this Snowboard Rocker encourages kids to rock out—no knitting strings attached. ($275 at Uncommon Goods)
Don't let your winter coats pile up on the bed, instead let them hang in style from Crate & Barrel's new Easley coat rack. ($369)
These carved Alabaster votive holders from Serena & Lily cast a warm glow that instantly makes any home feel festive or romantic at the strike of a match ($28 for set of four)
The winter months are a time for gathering with family and friends, which often requires some extra seating. This french country-inspired Bordeaux pouf from Urban Outfitters makes a great space-saving seat or side table. ($119)
This set of Whiskey Stones designed by Andrew Hellman, allows you to keep your spirits cool without worrying about melting your ice too quickly by the fire. ($20 for set of nine)
Flowers usually conjures up images of spring and summer months, but this Winter Floral duvet from West Elm provides comfort for the botanical lover while still fitting the season. ($89–119)
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The zoo generates considerable amount of Bio waste which is generally degradable and this is collected from different enclosures and dumped in the garbage decomposition yard.Read More
The converted compost is utilized as manure for the fodder bank and for regeneration and maintenance of lawns and trees. A team comprised of 4 people collects the garbage and is being transported by a tractor to the dump yard every day. The visitors are being screened at the entrance for plastics. The plastics are replaced with paper bags. The biodegradable and non-biodegradable wastes are separated and carefully dumped in the waste disposable decomposition yard. The decomposed manures are being used for enrichment of fodder bank and other planting works. All the waste recycled from Hippopotamus and Aviaries are properly utilized for irrigation purpose. Feed are carried in green plastic tub and wastes are carried away by red bins. The raised stainless steel feed and water troughs are being provided to all herbivores with roofed sheet to avoid contamination of food.
The 602 ha zoo is having priceless property and rare and endangered animals. The zoo security is mainly looked after by the Forest sub-ordinate staff comprising of Rangers, Foresters and Forest guards along with Zoo security staff.Read More
The zoo is bounded by wall on all sides. Regular patrolling of animal enclosures, stores and other buildings is conducted by the security staff and special night patrol parties are deployed to safeguard the zoo property. Night security is being carried out under the head of one Range officer and other subordinates every day.
Most of the animal houses of carnivores were constructed during 1985 required replacement due to the rusting of iron. The rusted gates and grills were causing injuries to the animals while scratching during the expression of territorial behaviour.Read More
Hence the rusted iron gates and grills were replaced with stainless steel material to ensure safety and durability as directed by the Hon'ble Chief Minister and Chair person of Zoo Authority of Tamil Nadu. This is the first of its kind to be done in any zoo in the country.
Entire 6 lakhs litre per day of water requirement including the requirement for three dedicated fodder banks, is being met from sources within the zoo.Read More
Extensive networking of rain water harvesting structures numbering 28 have been carried out to capture entire precipitation falling in the zoo.
The Central Zoo Authority has provided funds for developing surveillance system in zoo as part of funding under the "Centre For Excellence" and all works have been completed and closed circuit cameras have been installed at ten vulnerable points to monitor free ranging animals...Read More
The Central Zoo Authority has provided funds for developing surveillance system in zoo as part of funding under the "Centre For Excellence" and all works have been completed and closed circuit cameras have been installed at ten vulnerable points to monitor free ranging animals inside the zoo, stray animals like dog, movement of feed and meat for zoo animals and other illegal trespassers. CCTV surveillance cameras are fitted in the following places inside the zoo:-
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2. Aquarium junction
3. Indian gaur junction
4. Sloth bear road junction
5. Vedanthangal birds aviary junction
6. Serpentarium
7. Veterinary Hospital road junction
8. Range No.II office
9. Pongal gate
10. Quarters gate
All the loop roads and circular roads inside the zoo have been re-laid using bitumen mixed with plastic with financial assistance from Environmental Protection and Renewable Energy Development Fund, operated by Department of Environment, Government of Tamil Nadu.Read More