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Chris Leone is senior vice president of development for Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management, Oracle Taleo Enterprise Cloud Service, and Oracle Taleo Social Sourcing Cloud Service.
Steven Woods is group vice president of software development at Oracle. He was the CTO of Eloqua prior to its acquisition by Oracle. He is also the author of the book Digital Body Language.
Chris Leone and Steven Woods of Oracle forecast how digital body language is reshaping applications.
Interview conducted by Vinod Baya and Bo Parker
PwC: Chris and Steve, collectively you represent ownership of a wide range of applications at Oracle. From your viewpoint, what trends are defining their future?
CL: We focus on developing solutions that help managers and employees do their jobs better. Many emerging technologies are playing a role, such as cloud, mobility, big data, and social. It really comes down to the consumerization of the application experience. Users spend their off-hours on consumer services such as Facebook or LinkedIn, or shopping on Amazon. They expect to have similar experiences in their business work with business applications.
Another significant trend impacting applications is the use of tablets is increasing. Tablets are displacing PCs. The majority of executives at Oracle use tablets for their work. They have their PCs, which they leave at their desks, but they get a lot done on a tablet. Everybody also does work on their smartphones. Where it makes sense, I think we'll see more and more processes move to the mobile form factors. So we're designing for those usage patterns today. In our latest release of HCM [Human Capital Management], every single self-service function is available on any mobile device.
SW: In addition to what Chris has said, a key trend that is shaping the future of applications is what I call digital body language. We use this concept in our marketing automation product, but it is increasingly applicable to all functions.
If you look at information flows in buying and selling, they were very different before the Internet compared with the way they are today. Before the digital era, information was a fairly rare commodity. To learn about a vendor, you had to interact with the vendor via a series of conversations. With that interaction, a professional salesperson had the opportunity to understand buyers and their interests through their body language and their reactions and so on.
Fast-forward to today, and the information flows are fascinatingly different. The buyers have complete control over where they get their information; they search, read reviews, and compare specifications and opinions. The digital channels disintermediate the conversation that sales was able to have. Salespeople can no longer read a buyer's body language and understand their interests.
Salespeople still need to get the insights that they used to get. That is where the concept of digital body language comes in. A marketer should use online behavior information to understand the hot buttons and interest levels of every potential buyer and put together a view of that buyer's digital body language. Then they can engage their peers and the sales organization and say, "Here are the people you should be talking to. Here's what they're interested in, and so on." I think organizations that can piece together that view of a customer based on the aggregate of their digital behavior and then use that information in all aspects of their organization—those are the organizations that are really well set up for success in the future.
PwC: What characteristics are new for applications today compared with the past?
CL: One key characteristic is the ability to look ahead and predict user interests or anticipate actions. Again borrowing from the consumer world, when you go to Amazon, for example, there is a prediction engine that says people like you also bought this other product. Essentially, the prediction engine helps customers get the right kind of products based on predictions from patterns learned from a broad population of consumers. We've taken that model and applied it to human resources [HR], as an example.
Techniques such as the digital body language that Steve described are also a resource for looking ahead. We use data we collect in the HR system around a person, and we try to predict answers to questions such as: What is the likelihood that this individual will be an overachiever? What is the likelihood they might succeed in this organization?
SW: I agree that prediction is a key new characteristic. Anticipating human behavior involves two major themes. One is the comprehensiveness with which we understand the individual. The other is an understanding of who else in the ecosystem is most like an individual and what their interests and next steps were. That really gets back to broadening the understanding across all aspects of your business. Everywhere the business interacts with an individual should be part of a single view of that individual. So the predictions are based on a valid data set.
CL: Social is another significant trend impacting the future of applications. In our next-generation cloud applications, every single major object is what I call socially active or socially aware. As an example in sales, if I am interacting with an opportunity, everybody who is participating around that opportunity receives updates in their activity stream. If an opportunity state changes from 50 percent to 80 percent probability of closing on a contract, everybody gets updated. Everyone starts to respond and react faster since important business events are placed into the social data stream.
PwC: What design principles are defining the development of your apps today?
CL: We're developing for a SaaS [software-as-a-service] world, especially for Fusion and other cloud applications. We're developing and optimizing for customers to run in a public cloud SaaS environment. We make it easier to set up, have public APIs [application programming interfaces], and enable extensibility. You can go very deep with extensibility and still be on a common code base. The design principle is the consumerization of IT in a cloud world.
SW: In a world overwhelmed with media and messages, the important thing is access to interests of the user. If you start looking into the psychology of interests, it's highly dependent on the context of that user's world at that moment in time. If I have a certain problem that I'm dealing with right now, then there's a certain universe of information that I'm interested in right now. If I get that kind of information, I will be very interested in it.
But if you put the same piece of information in front of me at a different moment in time, at a different stage in the projects I'm working on, I'm going to tune it out very, very quickly. This attention really correlates with what is on people's minds rather than purely the internal workflows of the organization.
PwC: So in some sense, the flow of the user's thinking, or their mindflow, is driving the application design rather than the process workflow?
SW: I think that is right. That's really where we've tried to drive our philosophical thinking. The design of any application for any business function will exist within the same intensive world of information and media bombardment. They all need to catch the user's interest and thinking at the moment in time so as to cause the user to take an action that will move them forward in the work they are doing, whether as a consumer or employee.
PwC: How is such mindflow represented or used in your solution, and how do you get at the mindflows?
SW: Campaign Canvas is our tool for designing and modeling the flow of the mind states of the customer. Its design is really predicated on our observations of marketers discussing and designing campaigns. Marketers live on a whiteboard: Here are the buyers I have. Here are the events that I can understand in their lives. Here's what I want to have happen to them based on those events and following those events. They visually draw this flow on the whiteboard.
The challenge that we observed, however, was when they sat down from the whiteboard, they didn't have any easy way to say, "Now I want to go build that conversation with the buyer that I just designed. How do I go build it?" So the paradigm for the interaction architecture in Canvas was really designed to model, as best as we could, how a marketer worked on the whiteboard to the point that it's not just the flow but the sequence of thoughts of the marketer.
It's really modeled around how the marketer thinks. I think that's how today's software should be designed. How does a human think given a certain task, and how will software mold that thought process?
PwC: How does the notion of mindflow and digital body language apply to other domains?
SW: Many of the situations in business are similar, whether you're onboarding a new employee, a new distribution partner, a new user, or others. Success is predicated on the dissemination of increasingly complex bodies of knowledge to advance further. You must guide a person from the early definitive, "Go here, click this, do this," to that second stage where they just need to know the way around and how to get answers to their questions. They're going from sort of a novice to an expert in whatever the knowledge domain is. It's the same structure of knowledge flow in all these situations.
The notion of digital body language applies here, because so much of what happens in an enterprise today happens interactively in digital environments. Somebody who's struggling in an onboarding process or a partner development process will have a pattern. They'll be searching internal knowledge sources. They'll be sending e-mails to people with questions in them, and so on. So we definitely have seen people use the digital body language concept to resolve other kinds of knowledge challenges.
PwC: Chris, you said you are developing for a cloud future. How is the development different?
CL: There are principally two key differences. First, in a SaaS deployment model, we have a lot more information available to us that we can use to provide insights back to our customers. This is big data and includes external as well as internal data. For instance, in Taleo we have data on about 300 million job applications during the last 10 years. That is 10 years of data. We are categorizing some of the key job descriptions, and we will provide certain benchmark information back to our customers that are subscribing to the service—information about the best sources to hire, the time it takes to hire a new candidate or onboard a new candidate, and so on.
Second, we focus our development efforts on areas that need it the most. Because of the common cloud infrastructure, we have data on what features are used more than others. From a new development perspective, I can simplify the features used more frequently, invest more in them, and prioritize testing on them to ensure the best experience. We also track metrics on the response time on features—by time, by size of customer, and so on. I use this information to optimize certain areas in development.
PwC: How does the use of contextual information, such as location, impact the applications?
CL: Context makes the applications smarter. For example, we can look at the location of a person and if it is a location they usually do not visit, and they have time on their calendar, then we can see if there are others in their network who are in the building and who they haven't met recently. We can suggest, "You might want to stop by and meet with this person, as you haven't met with this person for some time." Such features are simple today but will become sophisticated over time. Another example is time and labor. You can imagine when a user passes the time clock, it automatically clocks in the user. This capability is something we have as a future deliverable, so clocking in and out can become seamless and accurate.
PwC: Steve, what is the role of the CIO in marketing automation?
SW: I think the role of the CIO in modern marketing is a critical one if they're able to engage. For example, the logistics industry moved from being orchestrated around people who understood how to catalog things in warehouses and how to drive trucks to one that was essentially an IT-driven industry. Marketing is the same way. The only way to understand buyer behavior is to look at the digital data. The only way to work with that data and get in front of the mindflows is to analyze, process, and build flows based on that digital data. We have two paths to get there: either marketing teams become more technology oriented, or IT teams become more marketing oriented.
PwC: Chris, what should CIOs focus on with respect to the future of enterprise applications and how they enable their enterprises?
CL: I think the best CIOs will be those who can generate insights across disciplines. If you are a CIO and your effect on marketing is constrained within the bucket of things marketing, then you really are not a CIO; you're IT support for the marketing department.
If you're a CIO with a horizontal mandate and you say, "Here are insights that our business collects about who our customers are, what the market trends are, where our products are coming from, and what's happening with components down the supply chain," then you are a CIO who actually has executed on a modern CIO mandate and can bring insights to the business that are new, novel, and game changing. By definition, the crux of that is very, very deep, flexible, data flows and integration between line-of-business applications.


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As a journalist, I had a wonderful window on the world.
"Ah ... forgotten but not gone." — Playwright George Kaufman, 1930s.
Some of you thought I should have written this farewell column much earlier. More than two decades ago, a "fan" sent me the Kaufman one-liner above, suggesting I shove off.
But for 24 years — 1,282 uninterrupted weeks — I talked plainly with you in this space. Many of you talked back, agreeing or disagreeing. So I kept it up, for better or worse.
As a journalist, I had a wonderful window on the world. Sharing with you what I saw, and liked or didn't like, has been an awesome opportunity and responsibility.
Now the time has come to say goodbye. So this is my eulogy to you.
You helped make most of my life a lark. Kudos for the whole shebang.
Thanks to you on the prairies of my native South Dakota, where I spent the first 18 years of my life. To those on the beaches of Florida where I spent most of the last 24 years. To those in between, in all 50 states and on all six continents.
We often took the road less traveled. We often used maverick ways and sometimes wayward means. But we usually won. And we always had fun.
Many of you were very, very helpful as we traveled those highways and byways. You have my warmest thanks.
Some of you tried to put roadblocks in my way. But I thank you, too. You added spice to my life and kept me from getting bored.
Professionally, I was very lucky. In my personal life, even more fortunate.
To my dear, dear family members, young and old, I leave a legacy of limitless love. You gave me happiness far beyond the hope of any husband or father or grandfather.
Good luck and Godspeed to you all. See most of you again one of these years. But don't hurry and don't worry.
"Al's love was limitless, as was his courage, kindness, determination and generosity. He lived his life to the fullest, and his legacy will live on through all who knew him."
-- Al Neuharth's family
"Al Neuharth, with his wry smile and that twinkle in his eye, is gone. His enterprising spirit and his devotion and loyalty to his friends will live on in memories."
-- Marilyn Hagerty, Neuharth's first editor at "The Volante," the University of South Dakota's student newspaper
"Get-it-first, but get-it-right journalism was the hallmark of our association. ... We were just two old editors looking for new challenges, and with the help of many bright young journalists, we found it in USA TODAY."
-- John Quinn, former USA TODAY editor in chief and longtime chief news executive for Neuharth
"Al was loyal to his people. He gave them what they needed to succeed, and when they did, he threw a helluva party."
-- Tom Curley, former USA TODAY publisher and former president of the Associated Press
"Al was the last of the great American newspaper publishers, as important in his own unique way as Hearst or Pulitzer, or the Graham or Sulzberger families. And he had a hell of a lot of fun while he did it. What a life! We won't see his like again."
-- Peter S. Prichard, chairman, Newseum, editor, USA TODAY, 1988 to 1995, author, "The Making of McPaper"
"He had unbridled enthusiasm and support for the space program and (Florida's) Space Coast. It always came up in speeches. He always talked about it. He was just a lover of that whole program."
-- Mike Coleman, former publisher, Florida Today, also founded by Neuharth
"Al, as a kid from Eureka, South Dakota, you challenged us to dream big dreams and to never, ever, give up.
Your life was your message and what a message it was for us all."
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Chapter 42
Job repents in dust and ashes—He sees the Lord with his eyes—The Lord chastises Job's friends, accepts Job, blesses him, and makes his latter days greater than his beginning.
1 Then Job answered the Lord, and said,
2 I know that thou canst
3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too
4 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and
7 ¶And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt
9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lord commanded them: the Lord also
10 And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he
11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
12 So the Lord
13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.
15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
16 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.


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The Bears selected a middle linebacker in the second round Friday – and no, it was not Notre Dame's Manti Te'o.
Instead, the Bears selected Jonathan Bostic from the Florida Gators with the No. 50 overall pick of the second round. Bostic might not be as much of a household name as Te'o, but he was a productive four-year player for one of the top teams in the SEC.
During his college career, Bostic (6-0, 245) started 32 of 51 games at middle linebacker and finished with 237 tackles, eight sacks, 19.5 tackles for loss, five interceptions and a touchdown. The Wellington, Fla., native finished his college career with six tackles against Louisville in the 2013 Sugar Bowl.
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Sometimes, some people play in "old" mode, in this mode, you play with no pillz, on french message board a tournament was organised earlier by a player. and i can tell you GHEIST can be a good clan =) (Vladimir,xu,and Vryer with a -att power)
ps: sorry i'm french so my english isn't perfect =)
LOL sure Vryer might be usefull when you use 0 pillz, but then again how will he do against a Aurelia with 7 attack and 8 bonus ? Gheists pretty good dmg averages if you count up the clan but you need to be able to win a head to head first to do dmg
Sure they cancel abilities but other clan's bonuses still overmatch them. 8 attacks, -2 dmg, -12 attack
Correct me if I'm wrong but does even 1 GHEIST have 8 power ?


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Skip to comments.Hundreds evacuated after US levee breaks; people on roofs awaiting rescue
Posted on 10/30/2012 4:42:33 AM PDT by Kartographer
Hundreds of people are being evacuated after a levee broke in a northern New Jersey town early Tuesday. Bergen County executive chief of staff Jeanne Baratta tells The Record newspaper the entire town of Moonachie is under water and as many as 1,000 people could need to be evacuated.
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...right around Met Life stadium
WHY does this scene play out during every hurriane?
WHY don't folks evacuate?
Is it because of the traffic?
That was pointed out to me just before Katrina - that the traffic was so horrible that folks would run out of gas and be stranded trying to evacuate.
Maybe because like so many of the 'experts' on FR they decided that the storm was fake?
Hussein's fault!
Why did they have to sit on roofs? where were the boats?
Can't those fools do anything right?
Barry hates white people.
No doubt... I was really disappointed by some of the posts I've read on the threads over the last 24 hours. Don't people get it? It's not JUST RAIN - especially when you've got so many millions of people packed into such a small area. The risks associated with damage FROM the storm - like fire (as we're seeing in Rockaway Beach), from downed power lines, collapsing buildings, etc... Sad that so many didn't seem to listen to the warnings - makes the FDNY and other department's jobs so much harder, too.
Prayers!!! It must be COLD there also.
Moonachie is not on the coast and I'm pretty certain they didn't have an evacuation order.
It would have been physically impossible to evacuate the entire NYC metro area.
Gov. Christie just said that it was not a levee but a natural berm the was overcome by the storm surge.
got Google earth?..
basically the river on the right overflow (surge).....Teteboro airport (mentioned in Sullenberger videos)on left...
I could not believe those threads and some of those posters; they are pretty much silent now.
You have to be aware of where you live.
You have to be aware of the limits of your home.
Would you rather sit in your home where you have a generator, a tractor,a chain saw, your own supply of food and water, you are above the flood plain,or go to a shelter and place yourself at the mercy of the Government with a pack of strangers in a school building that was probably built by a low bidder?
I'm ok. No power in the Bronx but safe. Cooking on a Coleman grill.
It's because the main stream media, particulalry in the NYC area, over-hypes every weather hiccup, so that when the big storm really does bear down on the area, the people shrug their shoulders and yawn.
Good points....We choose where we live. I chose on a rock,
on a hill. It has strategic, as well as physical advantages.
Those who choose low ground, or flood plains just have to be prepared to leave, before the SHTF.
I am noticing that any serious damage done by this storm is limited to a pretty tight area. NYC had some flooding, a bunch of row houses were burned down by the same fire in Queens, and now this levee. Anything else I'm missing?
Was this, at a national scale, a non-event? Seems like the Colorado fires were a MUCH worse disaster.
I actually don't know if I should laugh or cry.
Not really. There's damage and power outages from New England to North Carolina and west into West Virginia and Pennsylvania, and it's not over yet...there's still the potential for inland flooding in Pennsylvania, upstate New York, and New England on up into Canada as Sandy heads west and then north.
It served up a worst-case scenario for the NYC metro area in that Sandy hit near high tide on a night with a full moon to make the tides even worse. The tide gauge at Battery Park broke the 52-year-old record from Hurricane Donna by almost *four feet*. A lot of the NYC metro area is without power, the subways are flooded, the underground infrastructure is flooded.
This is not a Katrina or an Andrew in terms of massive loss of life or leveling everything in sight. But it is a very large storm that is going to cause a lot of financial damage due to the flooding in densely-populated urban areas, and a lot of disruption.
Thousands of houses on the Jersey shore are going to be a total loss. There's enormous amounts of damage where the media haven't been - like Staten Island. Fire Island has likely been savaged.
Colorado fire damage will end up being trivial in comparison. The population density of this area is beyond belief. The media right now will be focusing on the most photogenic areas.
I truly believe that if the Yellowstone super volcano was to explode in a Krakatoa like event that there are a solid group of FReepers who will thump their chest and tell you it isnt all that bad or outright claim the whole thing is exaggerated. I wouldnt be surprise to hear them go up to the Lord after Armageddon and say: Lord why all the hype in the Book of Revelations? I mean it wasnt all that bad.
Worse yet is all of the ODS Ive seen here on FR. Yes Bama is horrible, yes he HAS GOT TO GO, but these people act like Bama either conjurered up the storm or the whole thing is some Machiavellian plot out of a bad suspense novel. LIFE goes on, things happen. The storm doesnt know or care that its election time or what BAMA has done to this country.
I wouldnt be surprised to hear of people who believed so much that the hurricane is just some leftist plot that they are caught unprepared for the storm and dying as a result of it crying out Its Obamas fault with their last breath!
Some seem to have reached a point where if they go to the doctor next week and he tells them that they have cancer it will be Obamas fault! Or if they have a flat tire on the way to work next week it will be Obamas fault! If you step on a crack and break your mothers back it will be Obamas fault!
To me this is the talk, methods and the mindset of the leftist. Its the same shill BS they spewed against George Bush. I thought we are better than that. I know we should be better than that. I am sure that we can be better than that.
The other thing I notice is that is the me, me, me mindset so many seem to be taking with this storm. Hell this storm will most likely KILL people and heres people who are supposedly conservatives sounding like leftist. Everything is me me me. How is the Hurricane going to effect the election? And so on its sickening. So people are going to die and homes get lost and peoples lives get turned upside down and inside out, well thats bad but how is it going to effect me? I guess it doesnt matter what losses occur as long as it doesnt effect the election. Seems many on FR have their priorities screwed up.
Plenty of people here yesterday saying it was over hyped.
I don't think the town of Moonachie was under an evac order... until they were underwater.
They're at an elevation of like 10', as I recall.
There are large swathes of New Jersey's coastline that are at low elevations above sea level, and a really large storm surge at high tide (which is what happened here) are going to make a bunch of the rivers and major streams in that area of NJ literally run backwards - which lots of people don't expect or plan for.
So you're a municipal official, thinking "Hey, we're dozens of miles inland off the shore... we don't have much to worry about except the drenching rain and the usual minor flooding we have every other year in the spring rains around here..."
Until the river or stream runs uphill, and you find out that, yes, there were reasons to be very worried.
Yeah I guess it's nothing.
Water in the streets around Wall Street; probably thousands of homes damaged severely, a huge amount of the US population at an economic standstill.
It's nothing really; I guess....
That's pretty much my perspective as well. People in the upper midwest were without power in some places for weeks on end, in bitterly freezing temps... and there was no hyperventilation about it.
The Teton Dam burst above Rexburg and the entire town was under feet of water in minutes... and the national news moved in, reported it and went on with their NYC/DC soap operas.
And on and on and on.
The people of the NYC/DC axis think they're oh so very special. Every little popcorn fart of inconvenience is a huge event to them.
The rest of the country has to carry on without the drama and spectacle of the NYC/DC news cycle.
I thought of how many vehicles were destroyed. That can mess up people's lives, too.
Im glad to hear that! Glad you have that Coleman grill thats a good thing to have in an emergency. Stay safe.
Im still waiting for news about my cousin and his family who live in Little Flower where there has been evacuations and rescues, flooding due to a levee break and from my brother who lives just west of Point Pleasant.
It made me very angry to see some people here saying that a major disaster in the NE would be no big deal because all those people are just liberals, they live in Blue States and so they deserve it. I know a lot of people, much like you and my cousin and brother in the NE who are conservatives. But in any case, I dont wish death, property damage and misery on anyone.
The town of Moonachie in northern NJ floods out periodically. The town sits on a flood plain and any significant rain causes flooding ...
Why wasn't the Corp of Engineers prepared for this, the new the strom surge was coming for days?[/end DNC mode]
Why hadn't they increased the height of this levee?
Why wasn't Presidnt Obama more prepared for this?
Where is FEMA and the Coast Guard for these people?
Why wren't they pre-positioned to thos very site, knowing that a lvee could break?
This is exactly what they did to Bush during Katrina at every turn.
And Obama does nothing.
We were without electric power for about four days after a big snow storm took down power lines across Missouri a few years ago. I had some frozen soup that was easy to prepare on our wood stove.
After things were repaired, the utility cut back thousands of trees that had grown up in the power line rights of ways.
Population is population. More people live in Brooklyn than in North and South Dakota and Montana COMBINED.
Shockingly, the more people that live somewhere, the more coverage it gets.
After the gov. told everyone to leave all the barrier islands, the mayor of AC told HIS PEOPLE to stay put.
It mayor Naygen all over again.
One thing to think about with Sandy...this one weather system, hurricane, Frankenstorm, whatever you call it, was producing flooding and hurricane wind conditions in New York City, heavy snow in the mountains of northeast Tennessee, and massive waves on Lake Michigan AT THE SAME TIME. That's not "just a cat 1 hurricane" no matter how you slice it.
Some people don't stop to think about the population density here.
It's not like a wildfire running through the west where the population density is maybe 1/100th of this area.
well, we in Louisiana deal with this alot. We have never evacuated. It is harder than you can imagine to leave your home, your history, all you have. Somehow you want to be there to protect it as best you can. And given the large population affected, few die. Even Katrina, there were relatively few deaths considering the sheer number of people affected. The aftermath is horrible but I feel better about being in my place ready to protect it than veing in a shelter not knowing.
I guess you have to be there.
Bush broke another levy?? /jk
No, not really.
There's pretty good sized cities in the midwest that have disasters that befall them, and the news is over and done in two days.
The NYC media complex engages in self-centered naval gazing as their favorite pastime. They're widely known around the world of over-hyping their own sense of importance.
It's also why they can't imagine anyone voting for Romney (or any Republican). They're all Democrats, they live among almost all Democrats, who is stupid enough to not see what they see?
A lot more of us than you realize. It's that we are outnumbered
In Wyoming, because we so frequently get winds as high or higher than what NYC/NJ is coping with right now (and we don't call them 'hurricanes' - we call it 'winter' and it comes for months every year) the utilities ruthlessly prune trees that are in the power line right-of-ways every year.
I mean *ruthlessly* prune. They're not above taking down the top half of a tree and leaving you to ponder what to do with the bottom half.
As a result, the power reliabilities are pretty good, all things considered.
People still, allegedly, have freedom in this country.
The government is not on the hook for theft from your property if it survives one of these events.
It is not government's job to rescue you from your bad choices.
It is not government's job to reap the rewards of your good choices.
If one chooses to ride out an event like this they are on their own.
It is pretty simple...government (local, state, feral) makes an announcement that fire and police WILL NOT be responding to calls during an event other than actual fires or a crime in progress.
Simple. You are an adult and you make a choice. You reap the benefits or the consequences of your choice.
(and for those that cannot exist without the government tit, we get the added benefit of chlorinating the gene pool...they won't survive.)
Yes, and some turned back and headed home. My brother lives slightly north of Houston and he knew backroads to take and got out in record time.
Sandy looks devastating.
I haven't seen that. I have seen people making fun of the media for acting like NYC is the center of the universe. A year or two ago, big floods hit Kentucky and got almost no media coverage.
I checked a webcam last night and Times Square still had power, I would think you should all show up there. Mayor Nanny will no doubt provide everything the residents need beside salt and soda.
This is easily 20 Rexburgs in terms of scale. You lack perspective.
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