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On Face the Nation, Schieffer, VandeHei passed up ample opportunities to ask Lieberman about claim that Lamont's Iraq strategy will "strengthen" terrorists
On CBS' Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer let Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (CT) claim that he does "not [] play partisan politics" and that his opponent, businessman Ned Lamont, is engaged in a "smear partisan political game." Schieffer made no mention of Lieberman's own claim -- in the wake of arrests made over an alleged terror plot in London -- that Lamont's proposed Iraq exit-strategy "would strengthen [terrorists]" and allow them to "strike again."
On the August 20 edition [1] of CBS' Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer allowed independent candidate and incumbent Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (CT) to claim that he does "not [] play partisan politics" and that his opponent, businessman Ned Lamont, is engaged in a "smear partisan political game," without noting Lieberman's own claim [2] in the wake of arrests made over an alleged terror plot in London that Lamont's proposed Iraq exit strategy [3] "would strengthen [terrorists]" and allow them to "strike again." Schieffer did not mention Lieberman's accusation, though he did note that Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) recently accused Lieberman of "echoing the Republicans' intolerable rhetoric" -- a statement Kerry issued on August 17 in response to Lieberman's claim that Lamont's Iraq policy would "strengthen" the terrorists.
Washington Post staff writer Jim VandeHei joined Schieffer in interviewing Lieberman but also did not mention Lieberman's comments, despite noting that it "really ticks [Democratic senators] off" when Lieberman says "people who want timetables [for withdrawal from Iraq] are only making America less secure."
On August 10, CNN reported [2] Lieberman's comments about Lamont, which Lieberman made as he launched his independent candidacy for Senate:
LIEBERMAN: If we just pick up like Ned Lamont wants us to do, get out by a date certain, it will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this plot hatched in England. It will strengthen them, and they will strike again.
But Schieffer failed to mention Lieberman's comments, despite asking Lieberman if he is "comfortable" with the fact that he "basically g[ot] the endorsement of ...Vice President [Dick] Cheney." Like Lieberman's attack on Lamont, Cheney's "endorsement" included a suggestion [4] that Lamont's victory in the Democratic primary could encourage "Al Qaeda types":
CHENEY: [A]s I look at what happened yesterday, it strikes me that it's a perhaps unfortunate and significant development from the standpoint of the Democratic Party, that what it says about the direction the party appears to be heading in when they, in effect, purge a man like Joe Lieberman, who was just six years ago their nominee for vice president, is of concern, especially over the issue of Joe's support with respect to national efforts in the global war on terror.
The thing that's partly disturbing about it is the fact that, the standpoint of our adversaries, if you will, in this conflict, and the Al Qaeda types, they clearly are betting on the proposition that ultimately they can break the will of the American people in terms of our ability to stay in the fight and complete the task.
Schieffer even neglected to ask Lieberman about his attack on Lamont while noting Kerry's statement [5], in an email to supporters, that Lieberman has been "echoing the Republicans' intolerable rhetoric," such as "Dick Cheney claiming that Democratic candidates who dare to challenge the Bush White House on Iraq are 'emboldening terrorists' ":
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove should know better, but it's no surprise they don't. For almost five years now, every time they've got their backs to the wall politically, they play "the fear card." The latest example: Dick Cheney claiming that Democratic candidates who dare to challenge the Bush White House on Iraq are "emboldening terrorists."
What's worse, and startling, is that in Connecticut Joe Lieberman is now echoing their intolerable rhetoric attacking the Democratic Senate nominee.
As the Chicago Tribune noted [5] in an August 17 post to its political weblog, The Swamp, Kerry's email that day to Democratic supporters "specifically blast[ed] Lieberman for saying that Lamont's call to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq would encourage terrorists, a charge President Bush and other senior Republicans have leveled at Democrats." On Face the Nation, Lieberman claimed that Kerry's comments were "just plain politics by somebody who has ambitions of his own," adding, "I came to Washington to solve problems, not to play partisan politics."
From the August 20 edition [1] of CBS' Face the Nation:
SCHIEFFER: Were you satisfied -- are you comfortable when you basically get the endorsement of the vice president? Vice President Cheney?
LIEBERMAN: Well, it wasn't an endorsement. I haven't sought his endorsement, and I don't expect it. He commented on his interpretation of what happened in the primary in Connecticut. I got to tell you, Bob, that a lot of national political ears on both parties have been spinning the results of the primary of a week and a half ago. That's their business, it's not mine. I'm not going to let myself and my campaign become anybody's national political football. This is a question before the voters of Connecticut, and I've decided to continue this campaign because I feel so deeply that I can do a better job for my state and country than either of my opponents and I want all the voters to decide that, not just the 15 percent who participated in the Democratic primary. And I feel that way because of my experience --
SCHIEFFER: Well --
LIEBERMAN: --my seniority and most of all that I can work across partisan lines to get things done. I am as fed up as I think most of the American people are with the partisanship and polarization in Washington. That means we don't solve the people's problems. If you want another partisan polarizer, vote for Ned Lamont.
SCHIEFFER: Well, I mean the fact is --
LIEBERMAN: If you want somebody that can get something done, vote for me.
SCHIEFFER: -- the polls now show that you not only are leading in the race up there now, but that you have a sizable lead. But are you a de facto Republican as Ned Lamont said that you were?
LIEBERMAN: Well, obviously not. Again, my opponent's new at politics, but he's getting pretty good at the old-style Washington smear partisan political game. I'm a Democrat.
SCHIEFFER: Well, John Kerry also seems to suggest that. What did he say?
LIEBERMAN: With all -- with...
SCHIEFFER: He said, "What's worse than startling is that Connecticut's Joe Lieberman is now echoing the Republicans' intolerable rhetoric, attacking the Democrats."
LIEBERMAN: With all -- with all respect to John Kerry, an old friend, that's just plain politics by somebody who has ambitions of his own. I am a Democrat. Look at my voting record. I voted 90 percent of the time with the majority of Democrats in the United States Senate. But when I disagree, I'm going to have the courage of my convictions to say so. And most important of all, I came to Washington to solve problems, not to play partisan politics. We got a lot of problems. Health care system broken, people paying too much money for gasoline and home heating oil, public schools not what they ought to be, global warming threatening, fiscal deficits. The only way we're going to solve those problems is by working across party lines, and that's what I want to do.
VANDEHEI: What about the -- what about this argument that -- from Democrats, when I talk to senators what really ticks them off is that they feel like you are saying things that help Republicans. When you say that a lot of Democrats are outside the mainstream of America, or when you say the people who want timetables are only making America less secure. They're saying, well now Republicans just point to you and say, "Look, you have a Democrat who is saying precisely what we're saying." Are you at all worried that you're going to undermine your party's chances of winning back the House and Senate because of your rhetoric to beat Lamont?
LIEBERMAN: No, I'm not. I'm worried that my party may become what we accuse the Republicans of, a kind of litmus test party. "If you don't agree with us 100 percent of the time, you don't agree with us." I'm devoted to the Democratic Party.
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When in doubt - reef! Better to take the reef out after you are out in light wind, than trying to put the reef in after you are out in heavy wind!
If you didn't or couldn't reef and the wind gets too much for your comfort level, just let the boom out to dump the winfd out of the main (let the crew know so they can duck, and plan on a lot of noise from lufting), and drop the jib (just be sure to have one of your crew pulling it down as to not dump it in the drink!)
I can't comment on the J22 but I have owned, raced and cruised in a J24 and they are a good yacht that handles well when reefed. The reason I bought my J24 was the lack of windows, many nights sleeping dry proved it to be a good decision.
2 reefs in and I have safely got home in 30+ knots without crew.
As novices, its worth setting at least the first reef in before leaving the jetty if the winds outside are lively. Its easy to shake a reef out and you know how to set it again if needed.
Regarding the comments about inclinometers and heeling, what rubbish. A yacht needs to be sailed in a manner that keeps all onboard safe and comfortable.
My current 24 foot yacht sails flat and fast reaching hull speed close hauled from about 8 knot to 20 knot winds and properly sailed she stays flat and fast.
In 20 knot winds she reaches at 10 to 12 knots hull speed flat and fast on main and jib.
My best run was in 20-25 knot winds under main and jib at 8 to 10 knot hull speed, again flat and fast for over 2 hours.
Sail an old fashioned keel boat and some heel is understandable but get in a more modern lighter yacht and enjoy speeds bigger yachts dream of, while relaxed at the tiller and flat and fast.
So a good skipper manages the yacht so everyone feels safe and comfortable, if that means reefing or motorsailing to give crew time to get use to a yacht and its motion that is ok. Changing course or staying in protected waters has no shame compared with upsetting crew.
A light yacht like the J24 is very safe when reefed and it can be sailed in comfort without putting the decks under. They can be sailed with rail meat to the point they submarine and sink, that is something the skipper controls, its not a characteristic of any particular yacht.
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The time to reef is at the moment that you think it might be time to reef. If you are inexperienced (or your passengers or crew are inexperienced), reef early. Additionally if you are in heavy winds where the rudder is exposed, reefing will make the boat handle better and alloow you to sail faster. The boat wont be over powered and over heeled. Everyone will have a better time.
If it's blowing, or I think it will be when I get out of the sheltered area, I'll reef right at the dock or mooring. I don't even raise the sail all the way. And I use a working jib, not a genoa. ( I like hank ons!). It's amazing how well you will sail with reduced sail area, the boat stands up and flies. If you can hit hull speed reefed, there is no point in fighting things and struggling for control. You're supposed to be enjoying yourself.
If the wind drops, or turns out less than you thought, it's easy to shake out a reef. But trying to reef with scared help in high winds is not pleasant.
You will sail more if the wife is happy. Go in when she wants to.
Some times sailing is something you and your wife can not do together. My wife has trouble with sailing, so i go solo most of the time. We do other things together that we both enjoy.
|The time to reef is at the moment that you think it might be time to reef. If you are inexperienced (or your passengers or crew are inexperienced), reef early. Additionally if you are in heavy winds where the rudder is exposed, reefing will make the boat handle better and alloow you to sail faster. The boat wont be over powered and over heeled. Everyone will have a better time.
I have been in this exact situation. Panicking seasick wife, learning to sail under heavy air, J24 heeling to much for comfort. I did reef though, I couldn't find anything on the boat that looked like reefing gear, so I finally used the sailties by tying them together end to end from the reefpoint to the outhaul cleat. It worked and made the boat much more manageble, even though I didn't have perfect sail shape.
The Admiral insisted we go back early anyway.
Race boats like the J/22 and J/24 in strong breeze are designed to have an adequate crew actively hiking. Without that rail weight, and with a nervous significant other on board, reducing sail area has do be done much sooner than when in racing mode. One question that probably should be asked, given that this particular J/22 had sail controls in poor condition:
Was this particular boat set up for reefing? Some racing sails don't even have reef points. If a boat's sails aren't set up for reefing, then it would not be the best choice for a nervous beginner. And, with a hanked-on genoa or jib and a curved foredeck without a rail to provide confidence, I don't think your spouse would have polite words for you if you asked her to go forward to douse the headsail. And she might be just as nervous about you going forward and leaving her alone in control of the "monster".
PS, the concern about J/24s sinking seems partly based on older J/24s with cockpit locker doors that weren't secured, driven hard in race mode in heavy air (spinnaker wipeouts with an inattentive crew etc.). If you make sure that your boat has latchable lockers doors that secure properly, that will be good for peace of mind. Now, I think that if Bill had really meant to trash talk the 24s, he would have brought up the vermiculite... but now we're drifting well off course.
Oh, and if you really want your spouse to hate you, try teaching yourself aggressive spinnaker maneuvers in 20 knots while sailing short-handed (without a talented full-sized crew approaching the 275 kg/605 lb. J/22 class limit). It can be spectacular!
Originally Posted by MarkSF View Post
Does anyone have more of a heavy cruiser you can try chartering? My first time sailing the late (Hunt version) Cal 24 was a revelation after the lighter boats - stiff, stable, predictable, sea-kindly. Just what you need to get your SO some confidence.
She steered the Hunter almost the whole time even in 25 knots and was very proud of herself that she wasn't bothered at all.
The boat makes a really big difference.
What was interesting is that at first she was very leery of steering the bigger boat but after just a couple of hours she found it much easier to control since it had a wheel and everything was so much slower.
So now she likes the idea of a much bigger boat, Sigh!!
Originally Posted by anthemj24 View Post
The same could be said about the Santana 20, however you never seem to drag that into a thread.
From the Santana 20 class website
I am not at all defensive about J24s, but I will be vocal if someone is exaggerating the issues with the boat. It is not difficult to handle in heavy wind, and the sinking issue is solved be simply latching the cockpit lazarettes. If your intent is to be helpful, then you ought to include that simple bit of information on how to avoid sinking.
You took a racer out on a windy day and that's why you had a hard time of it.
J-22 has sail area / displacement ratio of 24 and weighs 1800lb with a 700lb keel. That puts it in the class of lightweight racer and it's going to need to be reefed earlier (at least if you want to keep the heeling down) than a heavier cruiser. With winds of 12-17 knots, your level of experience, and your SO on board, I'd have been reefing the main from the start.
Does anyone have more of a heavy cruiser you can try chartering? My first time sailing the late (Hunt version) Cal 24 was a revelation after the lighter boats - stiff, stable, predictable, sea-kindly. Just what you need to get your SO some confidence.
An important skill is heaving to so you can have a break, reef, a sandwich, whatever.
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Can I report the people who seem to be trolling the Newbie Forum?
Stuff like these 2 posts:
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Hostility in the Newbie Section.
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If you think there is a problem with a post, you report it. Better with too many reports than too little. That said, post 1 I agree with you, but post 2 I have mixed feelings about. He needed more info, and he gave an analogy. It was maybe a bit condescending, but I didnt see anything "hostile" with it. He seemed to actually want to help.
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Posted 27 December 2011 - 04:51 PM
Gotcha. I though I saw something similar to what he posted in another thread, too, but I couldn't find it. It may have been someone else posting it.
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Mandatory sentencing for drug crimes and the decriminalization of marijuana have been hot topics recently. Earlier this month U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told the American Bar Association he wants to "fundamentally rethink" mandatory minimum sentences for drug-related crimes. According to the Associated Press, Holder "instructed federal prosecutors to stop charging many nonviolent drug defendants with offenses that carry mandatory minimum sentences."
Some of these sentencing guidelines have been on the books since the 1980s as a cornerstone to the war on drugs. Now many, including Holder, blame these rules for what they say is the needless incarceration of hundreds of thousands of people, resulting in a severe strain on criminal justice budgets and significant overcrowding in federal prisons.
In June, the American Civil Liberties Union issued a report that called for states to legalize marijuana, license and regulate its production and distribution, and tax sales. The organization says enforcement of marijuana possession laws wastes billions of taxpayers' dollars.
Even Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has jumped into the debate. He joined Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy in March to introduce legislation to give federal judges more discretion in sentencing criminals where mandatory minimums may be unnecessary. One commentator says this is the second time Paul has outflanked the Obama Administration on the left.
These developments framed the discussion on Monday's edition of Kentucky Tonight. Our guests were Cherie Dawson-Edwards, Associate Professor in the University of Louisville Department of Justice Administration and past president of the ACLU of Kentucky; Fayette County Commonwealth's Attorney Ray Larson; Kentucky Justice Secretary J. Michael Brown; and Commonwealth's Attorney Matthew Leveridge, who serves Russell and Wayne Counties.
Kentucky Tonight will be pre-empted next week. Instead we'll air the special On Deadline: American Newspapers in the Digital Age, hosted by veteran journalist Marvin Kalb. If you care about the future of journalism and your morning paper, be sure to tune in Monday at 8 p.m.
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Microsoft: Cash Repatriation, Leverage Solutions to CEO Debate, Says Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley' s Keith Weiss this morning reiterated an Equal Weight rating on shares of Microsoft (MSFT), writing that some investors' hopes that there might be a break-up of parts of the business is misplaced, and that the stated strategy of building a "devices and services" business is likely to continue.
Given that, he proposes the company lever up, or pay taxes on foreign cash, to sooth impatient investors.
Following Weiss's conversations with Chris Suh, Microsoft's head of investor relations, Weiss comes away with the impression that the exit of Steve Ballmer as CEO doesn't mean a break-up.
Speculation in the past couple months has focused on Ford (F) CEO Alan Mulally as an outsider who might be amenable to a break-up or restructuring of some kind. Weiss notes that Mulally could be expected to scale back investment, boosting profit. I
It's widely believed that if Mulally comes on board, his focus will be on cost cutting and efficiency, similar to his focus at Ford, where he drove operating margin improvement from -9% in FY06 to +5% in FY13. MSFT has seen margins decline over the past several years, moving from 40% in FY06 to our estimate of 32% in FY14 […A Mulally appointment] assumes Microsoft cuts costs and scales back investments in emerging opportunities, reducing opex by ~10% from FY13 levels. The expense reduction leads to slower top-line growth and we assume that total revenue grows at a ~4% CAGR FY13-FY16 (vs. our base case of 8%), including revenue growth in its emerging opportunities slowing to ~8% (vs. our base case of 18%). However, with better gross and operating margins, EPS can grow ~13% from FY13-FY16e (vs. our base case of 6%). While opex cuts can lead to near-term upside to EPS, our view is MSFT needs to play in the large value pools like Devices and the Cloud in order remain relevant in the long-run tech discussion (and capable of durable growth) — and this requires near-term investment. Although this scenario yields mid teens EPS growth, the sustainability of its growth profile will likely be weakened.
But suggestions that Microsoft should scale back on some things, such as Xbox (which some have suggested Microsoft should sell), may be unrealistic:
There have been calls for Microsoft to split its consumer and enterprise businesses, most notably from co-founder Paul Allen who believes the company should sell the Xbox and Bing assets. We believe it would be difficult for Microsoft to sell its consumer businesses and maintain share in the enterprise space as consumer and enterprise constituents are increasingly influencing each others' purchasing decisions, most notably in the personal computing and smartphone space […] Microsoft went all-in on mobile with the announced acquisition of Nokia, which will likely close in Q1 CY14. While the timing of the acquisition wasn't ideal given the impending CEO transition, the acquisition secures the financial stability of Microsoft's most important mobile OEM partner and preserves a mobile option for the new CEO. Microsoft may need a strong mobile play to maintain the relevancy of the overall Windows franchise and Nokia could provide that path. But in the near-term, the integration of Nokia into Microsoft does represent some execution risks, which leaves us cautious.
A middle way, if you will, would be for Microsoft to simply borrow against its offshore cash balance, or take a tax hit, and ramp up its dividend and buybacks, as a short-term way to mollify investors:
MSFT has grown its net cash balance from $38.6B in FY10 to ~$76.7B in net cash as of 1FQ14, despite returning ~$61B over the same period. While MSFT's cash balance is high and cash flow generation is robust, ~90% of MSFT's cash is held offshore and not available for capital allocation purposes without a US tax impact. With interest rates at ~1%, it may make more sense to either: 1) take the tax hit, repatriate cash and increase the buyback and/or dividend or 2) increase leverage and ramp buybacks/dividends [...] While MSFT's EPS would take a one-time hit [under repatriation] due to the tax payment and lower interest income, EPS would move materially higher after Year 1, driving 10% upside to our FY16 base case EPS. If Microsoft repatriated 100% of its offshore cash and repurchased shares, FY16 EPS estimate would move >20% higher than our base case.
Weiss lays out the math of a repatriation of Microsoft's cash (click for larger image):
Microsoft shares today are down 14 cents, or 0.4%, at $36.75.


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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
KDE SC 4.6.1 to incorporate many bug fixes
"I'm really happy with how the number of bug reports coming in is not a massive deluge of different bugs, but mostly just endless repetition of the same handful", Seigo commented about an already apparent pattern in the bugs that are being filed for KDE SC 4.6.0. It´s good news that diversity in bugs is not overwhelming, for it will allow developers to concentrate on those few ones and make sure that fixes are properly tested before they go live. The target is for that most critical portion of bugs to completely go before KDE SC 4.6.1, allowing spring releases to go live with a nice and solid version of the K desktop. In Aaron words: "... we're smacking the bugs down as fast as we can so that next month's 4.6.1 release will be beautifully solid."
Perhaps even more interesting than bug fixing, which is to be expected after any major release like 4.6.0, is news about work already taking place for 4.7.0.
"I've put together an activities runner so that in 4.7 you can type thing like "activity" in KRunner to get a list of activities or follow that up with the name of (or start of the name of!) an activity to switch to it. Marco's been working on some Plasma application dashboard love and more QML goodies. We have "Apply" buttons in the Plasmoid config dialogs (shock! shock!). (...) One thing we already know is that we feel we're on the "right" track with activities now and will spend a significant investment of our resources in 4.7 to fleshing them out further."
If you are one of the many who doesn´t understand activities, or who (like me) doesn´t see what the big deal is to invest so much time and resources on them (specially when more basic areas of functionality are begging for some developer love), perhaps you are not that excited about this piece of news.
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- AnonymousFebruary 17, 2011 at 5:48 PM
Agreed on the last paragraph. I don't use activities and, so far, I feel they cater more to developer crowd than end-users. I am yet to fully exploit the power of multiple desktops/screens so activities are too futuristic for me.ReplyDelete
KDE should, IMO, concentrate on making it business/office friendly. Right now, it just does not play well in an office environment whether it be instant messaging, word processing or browsing (Konqueror etc)
For example, I use KDE at work but for IM I have to use pidgin (cause I need the SIPE plugin for MS Communicator) and of course, KOffice does not stand a chance against LibreOffice. Kexi and Krita seem for a completely different audience and these two apps seem to be getting most love from devs lately :)
- AnonymousFebruary 26, 2011 at 10:33 AM
I think features that benefit developers are the best features. Unless you pay them to do features for you, it otherwise is hard for them to stay motivated; to justify why they'd put in their skills and hard work.ReplyDelete
They just primarily need to do what benefits them- it is even the way to maximize the amount of time they additionally may be willing to spend on features that they do for purely altruist reasons.
And if anything is really bugging you, that's where you should come up with a patch or give someone an incentive to do it. This is not just a hollow slogan, but the genuine "way how it works".


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you faggot mother fucker that shit aint funny.Originally posted by TeK89MadeE781@Mar 17 2005, 07:39 AM
not really a joke but itd make a funny komersial in my oppinion, you know those adds where they say brought to you by?
The Nine-Eleven Tragedies: Brought To You By America Airlines
sorry to those who get offended, me and my friends were talkin bout 9-11 and came up wit a few but w/e
if your gonna tell a 9-11 joke make it a good one
what was the last thing the twin towers ordered from the pizza place?
2 large plains (planes)
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Questionable Content is a necessary part of my morning routine. It's a long-running comic that I've taken in with my morning coffee on a daily basis for almost four years now. One of the strongest points of the ongoing, 1600+ installment 7+ year story is author and artist Jeph Jacques' consistently thoughtful, moving, multifaceted portrayal of people with disabilities. Hannelore's obsessive-compulsive disorder and Faye's response to trauma are shown with sensitivity and nuance. It is not a coincidence that these two characters are fan favorites; their disabilities are realistic, present challenges, and act as a single facet of their whole character.
While Marten Reed is the protagonist of QC, assertive, full-figured Faye is probably a better-known and more crucial character to the script. Faye's depression and treatment (professional or otherwise) are as frequent a part of the story's twists and turns, and her character as her snark to customers and romantic entanglements. Faye's depression stems from some really horrible teenage trauma (her father killed herself in front of her) which is developed in one of the comic's most emotionally charged arcs.
Faye's trauma has caused her real and ongoing mental pain and trust issues that are validated as real and worthy of attention, care, and consideration. Her need to take time off for treatment is necessary, not some kind of special consideration. She seeks treatment without shame, and she and her friends discuss and make considerations for her needs in a normalized, matter-of-fact way.
She is not the model of self-care at all times: she struggles with alcoholism, though her choices regarding what and how often she drinks are up to her and usually not a matter on which she is judged (except by the other PWD in the cast, Hannelore).
However, Faye was and always has been more than her mental disability: she was the strip's main female character for three years before her disability was introduced. Her depression influences and emphasizes her snarky, assertive, prickly nature without defining it; it's a part of her life without being all of it.
Another character that's become the face, so to speak, of QC, is Hannelore Ellicot-Chatham. Hanners (as she's called by other characters) is funny, well-developed, and encouraging. She has OCD, and it's a big part of her life, but it does not stop her from being happy or doing what she wants to do: baking, drumming. Her disability is evident without being tragic or marginalizing. She is a chipper and determined woman with lots of energy; she is a loyal friend (the most highly valued characteristic in the QC universe). She is neither a stereotype nor an inspiration but a woman with disabilities.
Hannelore's OCD is a visible characteristic from soon after her introduction. Her focus on cleanliness is a little clichéd, but the portrayal is much deeper than "HAY GERMS". She exhibits symptoms of social anxiety and not just obsessive behavior but also intrusive thoughts. Hannelore makes reference to unwanted violent thoughts towards herself and her friends on more than one occasion. But it's accurately framed as a non-threat, and turned into a joke of which Hannelore is the butt: in one instance, Hannelore makes reference to an intrusive thought in which she pushes her friends into ongoing traffic. While Dora reacts poorly, Marten takes it and runs with it, coming up with funny ways to attack and counter-attack using the context of the Coffee of Doom. She's a little creepy. But the creepiness is not framed as dangerous or necessarily negative; it's simply a feature of her personality.
Her OCD is sometimes disabling. There are times when she is unable to function, when she is severely disturbed by a friend's hygiene or when she looks up the wrong thing on Wikipedia. But it's also something that she's shown challenging, fighting, and treating. She offhandedly mentions taking an anxiety reliever after she helps a sick friend. She actively challenges and contradicts her disability by confronting and participating in situations involving potential germs and infection.
Without getting into any superpower crap, Hannelore's OCD is often positioned as an asset. Her lucrative, fulfilling job involves counting. She learns drums very quickly, describing it as "counting using [her] whole body". Her attention to cleanliness is something she enjoys rather than suffers. It's also an asset on the social level most crucial to QC. Her cleaning leads to a great friendship with the less-than-clean Marigold, and she helps Faye by referring her to Dr. Corrine.
One commonality between these two characters that I'm slightly troubled by is their shared inability to get romantically involved. Hannelore is not asexual, but she has no desire to get involved in a physical relationship – a bit of a cliché for an OCD character. As mentioned above, Faye's depression was revealed and given as a reason for her to not date Marten, and she subsequently avoided both Sven and Angus because of it. This is a little troubling because the idea that women with mental disabilities are not suited to relationships is a common and harmful one.
Though this is slightly problematic, it is not monolithic and is, in some ways, constructive. Romantic challenges or lack thereof are a very common theme in QC, mostly recently with the frustrated Marigold. Hannelore's lack of romantic interest doesn't define her as an essentially lacking person; she's just not into lovin' right now. Avoiding emotional entanglement is framed as self-care for Faye and potential partners; her romantic activity is characterized, basically, by a desire to be as honest and open with her partners as possible: about her feelings from them, her boundaries, and her interests. She is not someone who plays games: she stated right off the batthat she didn't want anything romantic from Marten, and reiterated it, honestly, as a sign of respect and love, when she realized he was in love with her so that he could move on (to one of her best friends, a development she reacted to honestly and maturely). She's been honest with Angus about her issues and her interest in him. Her upfront, no-bullshit attitude is in many ways a powerful rebuttal to the very commonly enforced assumption that women with mental disabilities are inherently manipulative, inconsiderate, and self-centered in relationships.
Both Faye and Hannelore exhibit some internalized ableism. Hannelore at one point expresses a wish to be "normal", while I find this depiction of a charcter who is by all accounts quite charming and lovely to be problematic, it's also realistic – people with mental disabilities do have these feelings. But she does this while wearing a shirt saying "I'm OCDelightful!" (a shirt I wish Jacques would make, come on man!) which makes the depiction a little more complex.
My major issue with Questionable Content's depiction of PWD – and it is a major issue – is the complete lack of folks with physical or evident disabilities. No one uses any kind of mobility aid or has any kind of accessibility issues. This is erasure of a sort, and I'd like to see Jacques expand his portrayal of PWD to those with immediately obvious disabilities.
It would also be nice to see characters in the comic not use ableist language like lame and crazy. I don't really expect this - it's about twentysomethings, and that's how they talk. Still, though, it'd be nice. It would also be nice if Jacques made the site more accessible by linking to transcripts of the comics on Oh No Robot, as he used to. And there are other issues, here and there, and I am sure that other folks will have different and equally valid readings of Jacques' work. But, speaking as a reader with mental disabilities, the positive and complex framing of disabilities overrides these small objections.
Problems asides, Questionable Content is an excellent example of how writers with disabilities create meaningful and resonant characters with disabilities. Jacques has said in the past of Hannelore:
Hannelore, man, I don't know what the deal with her is. Well, I guess I do, it's just very wordy and complicated. For one thing, she's extremely fun to write. I can get away with just being incredibly cruel to her, but she's got this inner core of hope and resiliency that allows her to bounce back into shape -- she's the Wile E. Coyote of emotional trauma, I guess. I've got obsessive-compulsive disorder myself (nowhere near as bad as her, but enough that it is sometimes a problem) and so I can use some of my own tics and experiences to flesh out her problems.Hannelore and Faye's openness about their disability show a lack of shame and normalization that is rarely seen in the portrayal of folks with OCD and depression. Usually, we are just others, just weirdos, just crazy. The acceptance of Hannelore's aneurotypicality and Faye's response to trauma contribute to an environment in which disability is not othered, but just another variance in the makeup of personality.
*Note on language: While Hannelore explicitly has OCD, I don't know if Faye actively identifies herself as a PWMD. But she's a fictional character, and that is how I, a PWMD, sees her, and I think it's a valid interpretation. If Jacques does not identify as such, I will change the description of him.


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Rockies' struggles continue in loss to Phillies
Rockies' struggles continue in loss to Phillies
What remains is a four-man rotation, with each starter limited to roughly 75 pitches per outing.
"The only disappointing thing is that the reason we're doing it is cause we're not doing our job," left-hander Jeff Francis said.
But in Day 1 of Tracy's experiment, the plan didn't necessarily seem to matter much. That's because the Rockies' offense was unable to solve Cole Hamels, managing only two runs on six hits off the lefty in a 7-2 loss at Citizens Bank Park.
The defeat was the Rockies' 11th in their last 12 games. They are now 25-41.
Things were looking up for the struggling club early, as five of the first nine Rockies reached base. But from the middle of the second inning until Todd Helton walked midway through the sixth, Hamels retired 13 straight.
"It actually took him an inning to settle in, which you see sometimes with a lot of great starters. Because that's what he is: a great starter," Tracy said. "So when they're a little unsettled -- it looked to me like he was a little unsettled in the first inning -- you have to try to cash in and put a number on him. ... After the [Wilin Rosario] hit [in the second], we didn't get another hit until the sixth inning. He settled in and was throwing all his pitches for strikes."
"I was able to get it under control and get the outs when I needed to," said Hamels, who improved to 10-3.
Tracy stuck to his word, lifting starter Josh Outman with one out in the fifth inning after he had thrown just 72 pitches. Outman's pitching line included four runs on five hits, none more detrimental than John Mayberry Jr.'s two-run homer in the fourth inning.
With two outs and a runner on base, Outman, a former Phillies farmhand, got behind in the count, 2-0, to Mayberry. His next pitch was a 95-mph fastball that Mayberry crushed into the left-field seats, and the Rockies trailed the rest of the night.
"It was over the plate, and it's the wrong pitch to the guy," said Outman, who fell to 0-3. "There's a certain amount of strategy involved, and that pitch in that situation with the next hitter coming up, it's not the right pitch. He's a fastball hitter anyway. Sure, [if] I make a quality pitch there, a better pitch, better location, maybe he rolls it over. So you play the odds sometimes, and that's not a high-percentage pitch."
The Rockies faced a three-run deficit after the home run. They got one back in the sixth on a two-out RBI single by Chris Nelson, but the Phillies piled on against Adam Ottavino in the seventh. Hamels led off with a single, and Carlos Ruiz provided the highlight of the frame with a two-run blast.
The loss capped off an interesting day for the Rockies, whose rotation entered Tuesday with a Major League-worst 6.28 ERA, leaving Tracy concerned about the bullpen's heavy workload.
"They're trying to give us a better chance to win and compete day in and day out," Outman said. "They're trying to get the bullpen on a better schedule. This is what they think is going to work, so I'm onboard."
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Kristen Bell at the ballet.
The orange one himself, Valentino was also there.
Lindsay Lohan is just a woman with a water bottle. Filled with vodka.
Lucy hale and her boyfriend grabbed some lunch yesterday. Gently.
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Posted by Stephen Mann on April 30, 2013
I guess I should have expected this (but alas I didn't) – the Capita ITIL, the IT service management best practice framework, joint venture with the UK government wasn't big news. If anything, the story made ripples rather than waves; and from a UK government "finances" rather than IT service management (ITSM) best practice perspective.
It's interesting to consider why – particularly when enterprises are so adamant on requesting ITIL-alignment in ITSM tool selection RFPs. But first a few links:
Posted by Stephen Mann on April 17, 2013
In a previous blog post, SysAid – a provider of IT management solutions – was kind enough to share some metrics/performance snapshots collected from its customers. As a quick recap, SysAid captures service desk benchmarking information through its customers' use of its software (on an opt-in basis of course) for the benefit of all.
At some point we should sit down and compare the SysAid stats to those provided by HDI – a great independent source of service desk benchmarks – that's a challenge to you Roy Atkinson … BTW, I hope the HDI 2013 event is going well in Las Vegas this week (the Twitter hash tag is #hdiconf13 for people, like me, who aren't there). Anyway, back to those SysAid stats …
A selection of community-based service desk stats …
There are two points to note here: not all SysAid customers participate (according to its website, SysAid now has over 100,000 customer organizations); and I have cherry-picked a handful of the available stats from March 2013. There is also one caveat from me – there is no differentiation of organization size in these stats, we need to drill down further to account for any small or very large organization bias.
Percentage of incident tickets originating from the End User Portal, Average 60.31%
Posted by Stephen Mann on April 2, 2013
This blog has been contributed by Barclay Rae, an independent management consultant, and is the first of a new series of blogs written by IT service management (ITSM) thought leaders. Please read in Barclay's Scottish brogue ...
ITSMers often need help
Much of the demand for knowledge and support that I see in my regular consulting work centers around a simple request: "what are the key things to be doing for successful IT Service Management?"
People tell me they've read ITSM books and been trained (and certified) in ITIL and other frameworks, but because there's so much content, plus multiple processes and standards. They lack a clear understanding of where to start and how to focus on what is important and successful in practice.
Focus on the critical activities
For me there's a critical set of activities and actions that need to be achieved in order to deliver quality and effective service delivery – customer engagement, service definition, service desk quality, problem management, reporting and metrics, organizational change, and marketing. For many years this is what I've provided via workshops and consulting, and now I've turned this into a simple, straightforward, and practical approach and portfolio of knowledge – ITSMGoodness.


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Today, Google announced Google App Engine for Business, and integration with VMware's SpringSource offerings. On Monday, we got a preview of the news from David Glazer, Engineering Director at Google, and Jerry Chen, Senior Director Cloud Services at VMware.
For tech industry strategists, this is another step in the development of cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS). Java Spring developers now have a full platform-as-a-service host offering in Google App Engine for Business, the previously announced VMforce offering from salesforce.com, plus the options of running their own platform and OS stacks on premise or in virtual machines at service providers supporting vCloud Express, such as Terremark.
What's next? IBM and Oracle have yet to put up full Java PaaS offerings, so I expect that to show up sometime soon – feels late already for them to put up some kind of early developer version. And SAP is also likely to create their own PaaS offering. But it's not clear if any of them will put the same emphasis on portability and flexible, rich Web-facing apps that Google and VMware are.
So Google aims to expand into enterprise support – but will need more than the planned SQL support, SSL, and SLAs they are adding this year. They'll also need to figure out how to fully integrate into corporate networks, the way that CloudSwitch aims to do.


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Published: Friday, April 19, 2013 at 2:05 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, April 19, 2013 at 2:05 p.m.
TALLAHASSEE — The Florida House's budget panel has advanced a smaller state-funded health insurance plan for Florida's needy rather than a federally-funded Medicaid expansion.
The House Appropriations committee on Friday cleared the Florida Health Choices Plus bill (HB 7169) on a party line 16-8 vote.
The state-funded plan would cover 115,000 residents and cost about $237 million. A Medicaid expansion would be paid wholly by the federal government and cover up to 1.1 million residents.
Democrats lost a bid to amend the bill. It would have taken federal money to extend those covered up to 133 percent of the poverty level.
But Republicans oppose taking federal money. They say there's no guarantee the feds will keep paying. And they say it's borrowed money that adds to the federal deficit.
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The right one is a secret of this universe and God. Nobody would know who is the right one..
If we knew it, there wouldn't be divorce or loss in the world..
So, how are we able to know it?
Actually, it's not an easy topic, but let we talk about this step by step.
The right one is the person who makes you stop and think like these:
"I know you are not the perfect one, but I would like to be perfect together with you"
"You are not the super human, but I would like to help you are able to overcome the situation."
"I would give my strength to make you stronger from time to time, until the end of my life."
"Maybe I'm not the super human, but you would make me could do that."
"Even if I'm a boss at my office, you make me want to be a mother/father for our children, and wife/husband at our lovely home."
"You're the only one who make me want those authomatically."
"I choose you, not because you're the right one, perfect, a person who likes my ideal before, but it's because I want to grow together with you."
"Let me become older beside you. Laughing or crying beside you. But even if I cried by myself because of you, I would like to keep staying to wait for you, no matter what you make me cry."
"I would struggle to keep my vow to you, to keep my words the rest of my life."
"Even if there's a possibility you would leave me, You would find me stay on my feet to wait for you in the same place, except I die suddenly before you find me back."
The right one never exist, the right thing is you find someone who make you struggle and do those all authomatically by your own heart, without compulsion from other.
Everyone struggle for their love and heart to make that person as the right one. The actual love is struggle of the rest our life. Not easy, but you would have strength to do that, and find all the right result in the end. Remember, there're no struggle and sincerity without happy ending. We would smile in the end of our struggle.
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Arsène Wenger says his players must pour all their energy into getting close to the summit of the Premier League once again.
Arsenal lost ground on early-season pacesetters Chelsea after slipping to a disappointing 1-0 defeat at Norwich on Saturday.
The result puts them 10 points behind the league leaders, and Wenger insists his side must respond immediately if they are to make up the gap.
"At the moment I agree with you [that 10 points] is a lot," the manager said. "But we just have to focus on getting closer now.
"For us, it's not only the number of points, it is that the margin of error we have in front of us is very limited. With a result like [the defeat to Norwich] we have put huge pressure on our shoulders.
"It came at a period where we absolutely needed to win that game. The rest we are in a strong position, I am not too worried about the quality of the players coming back. What is very important is that we do not lose more ground."
Wenger admits the defeat at Carrow Road was "difficult to swallow" and says his side must stop conceding early goals if they are to move up the table.
"We made more than 600 passes in that game and I watched it again twice and they defended very well," he said. "We were not quick or sharp enough to create chances.
"After 20 minutes they were 1-0 up and we made it easy for them. It's now four times that we have been 1-0 down - against Montpellier, Chelsea, West Ham and Norwich.
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Jackam: I am assuming the cross bar from the frame is the bottom bar? I would like to be able to see the top of that frame, and I hope I am wrong for you, but that sure looks like it is all brood to me! Capped honey is usually white, with little squiggly lines of wax on the cappings. Look at the frame underneath that is still in the box....It looks like capped honey on the top 1/3rd of the frame, and brood on the balance. As I said, I hope I am wrong...but it looks like the queen is spending plenty of time up there!!! :?
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Re: Info. for Guests Aboard
I do a safety tour - where stuff is etc.. then depending on experience tell them to stay out of the way (where to sit to be out of the way even), touch no lines (ropes) and to obey the skipper at all times.
Then I tell them to take off their tops and see if it works.
After which my wife normally kicks me.
Just for the record, it's only worked for guys so far.
Re: Info. for Guests Aboard
Only on Sailnet would there be a discussion of what to put on a 3 page single spaced list for guests.
A on the dock briefing, with delegation of tasks and dry run through on dock 2-3 times. A bit of explaination on how to use winches and camcleats, where to grab hold. That is it.
If you need to explain more - than the individual isn't ready for the trip.
Re: Info. for Guests Aboard
Lots of good list items.
The 1st thing guests usually want to know is how to use the head..I take that as the opportunity to go over a number of the other list items already mentioned.
I don't know about ya'll but, having them wear non-marking shoes..is a biggie for me. Which needs to be told in advance. I long ago got tired of cleaning black scuff marks.
the other thing I find some people doing is Jumping on the boat. Jumping into the cockpit from the deck, jumping to the deck from the cabin top. I've added ..."there's no jumping on the boat" to my list. It's fiberglass..not steel!
Re: Info. for Guests Aboard
Show em yer pistols an' ye plank.
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Everybody (men & women) must sit when using the head.
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Everybody (men & women) must sit when using the head.
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Everybody (men & women) must sit when using the head.
Wow....Some of these items/lists
Here is what I do/Say:
Email directions/what to bring list to folks a few days ahead of time:
Summer list: (Depending on temp)
- Shorts/Lightweight UPF long pants
- Non marking shoes/sneakers
- Hat (We have extra on board)
- Short or Lightweight long sleeve shirt
- Sunglasses
- Any sunscreen that you like - We have some too, but if you like a special flavor, bring it.
- Take motion/seasick medication if you are prone to sick. We have some too, but it works best if you have it working before you get on the boat.
When on boat -
- Go below deck and store gear and then show where head is and instructions
- Show where fire extinguishers are
- Show where radio is and instructions on how to use (they are laminated next to radio). I may ask you to call for help if the situation arises.
- Hand out life jackets - Adjust
- Head top sides and pull out throwables.
- Go over MOB instructions which are: 1) Person seeing MOB is only responsible for thing - EYES ON PERSON AT ALL TIMES UNTIL PERSON IS BACK IN BOAT (That is stressed). 2) Other folks are to throw every floatation cushion overboard to person and instruct helmsman on location while maneuvering. 3) Person overboard to remain calm and not swim to boat unless instructed. Boat will come to you. Floatation device will keep you afloat.
- Talk about boat heel - Tell everyone if the feel uneasy about any heel angle, let me know. We can possibly minimize.
- Tell everyone if they feel nauseated or ill in anyway, let captain know. We will head in. Seasickness is something thing that doesn't quickly get better and you typically won't improve as the day goes on.
- No one out of cockpit unless okayed by captain.
- If I ask you to do something quickly, it's not because I want to make you work, it is either because your are doing something that could lead to something worse if not addressed immediately or you are in an unsafe situation.
- You can steer or pull lines as much or as little as you want. If you just want to do nothing, that is okay, we can do it all ourselves.
After all the questions are address and everyone is ready, I pull out a Learn To Sail book and ask one of the guests to turn to the part where talks about how to hoist the sail and read it to me. Gets a smile/laugh from everyone and hopefully puts them at ease.
Total time from coming aboard to when we are ready to start hoisting the mainsail and casting off about 8-10 minutes.
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Re: Guests bringing their own PFDs.
You are correct in saying: "Your guests don't need to BRING PFD's."
- We do have a sufficient number of approved PFDs for the number of crew.
- Each person is assigned their own "personal" PDF and it is adjusted to their fit.
- The suggestion was for those who prefer their own favourite brand of PFD.
- Since we sail in cold waters ( -3.5 deg C or 26 deg F in one instance), floater and survival suites are essential. Again they may have a favourite or prefer not to share the sweat of a pre-worn suite.
The rule is wear PFD's when out of the enclosed cockpit (with it's three foot sides and a permanent dodger/Bimini).
In anything but calm conditions use a harness as well (most PFD's have built in harness) and jackline.
In rough or windy conditions PFDs are also required in the cockpit.
In really rough or really windy conditions a PFD and harness are also required in the cockpit.
Re: Info. for Guests Aboard
Your guests don't need to BRING PFD's.
They should already be on the boat and easy to get to.
With strobe and whistle and maybe a dyepack.
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I want to offer up what I think would make a good three gun battery for survival use.
For starters, I have an old pump Winchester .22 rifle. It is probably around 100 years old. A neat feature of this firearm is that you can turn a knurled bolt on the side and break the gun into several parts. This makes storing it easier. It is a reliable old gun that is fun to shoot. There are newer versions (such as Henry) available. Everybody should have a .22 and thousands of rounds of ammo.
Next, I have two twelve gauge pump shotguns. One is a Mossberg and one is an old Smith & Wesson (Yes, at one time they did make shotguns!) The Mossberg is more versatile because it has 2 barrels- one of 18.5 inches and one that is 24 inches long. One for defense and one for hunting. I have never had any kind of failure with either of these.
Down through the years, Remington has made special pump-action rifles for police agencies. These are equipped with bull barrels and come with iron sight (the rear sight is a Ghost Ring sight). I believe that you can occasionally find high-capacity magazines for these rifles. Although they are available in several calibers, my choice would be .308 (7.62X51). J&G SALES recently was selling some of these gun but I cannot find any on their great web site now. I think Ill try Gunbroker.com.
Having all three of these guns with the same type of action should make practice easier as well as training you muscle memory. It could be confusing to some folks to have one gun be a bolt action, one a pump, and one a semi-auto.


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Okay, I try to avoid being the braggart but I have to say that this week our SOA Compass book that I co-authored with four other engineers from IBM is today's #1 in all computer books on the Barnes & Noble's site, amusingly enough even ahead of Lou Gerstner's Who says elephants can't dance?.
This is only for today and only on Barnes & Nobles rather than Bookscan or the NY Times list of course, but it put a smile on my face. After years of writing, this is about as good as it has gotten. This is a good day for developerWorks Books.
Amusingly enough, we are also #24 amongst all fiction and non-fiction books right after Stephen King's latest book Cell and ahead of other books I admire like Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point, Larry Bossidy's Execution: The discipline of getting things done and even Dan Brown's paperback version of Angels and Demons.
Okay, it's still not yet the top ten of all books alongside Friedman's The World is Flat, or Steven Levitt's Freakanomics.
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Community and social computing
We're #1: SOA Compass
The silliest open source strategy
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Business 2.0 list of 101 Dumbest Moments in Business #43. I don't like sniping at others, but that's just so darn funny.
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The Economist Jan 21st issue on The New Organization
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The Economist issue from last week has an 18-page in depth section on how people and organizations are evolving in the face of globalization, online Web 2.0 technologies, and changing ideas on organizing teams. This is one of the best articles I have seen on the subject (even better than Friedman's "The World is Flat")
You will need to be registered to access this premium content online, unfortunately.
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Tag-based ad-hoc communities
In a discussion with erik_k of help.com it seems apparent that tag-based communities are one of the premier forms of ad-hoc community building.
Rather than a formal process to start a community, people create tags around what they are working on or are interested in and it matches the folksonomy of others with the same tags, and what they collectively post about it.
This form of tag-based community isn't unique to help.com; there are other sites like 43 Things, del.icio.us, jeteye.com, etc. that all allow people to "bubble up" a community based on what they tag.
If people use the same keywords, they automatically become a collective or group of participants around the topic. With sites like Jeteye, you can create multiple types of content elements in each tag. Still others allow member of a shared tag to start a discussion area, etc.
This kind of ad-hoc process allows a population to rapidly organize and create communities around what they are working on. You can build quite a sizeable community this way if you have a general purpose site like help.com or del.icio.us.
The downside is that it can be chaotic and hard to track. Some tags get buried under others; there can be many, many tags that refer to the same thing but are disjoint, simply based on how you word the tag; there may not be a central or high-level navigation system. Finally, it's hard to "value" what one person creates over another.
The alternative is to have a formal community creation process and then build community tools around the created entity. This also has its weak points which primarily center around the fact that the process can become bureaucratic.
This isn't limited to just information, but also to other scenarios such as situational applications, where people get together to quickly prototype or build an application in a group setting. More on that later.
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Okay, I take that back. We're not behind Stephen King. Right now it's #21, ahead of Jim Collins' Good to Great.
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Someone's failed podcast strategy
Again with Business 2.0's 101 Dumbest Moments in Business. This time #53 on podcasting strategies that don't work.
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Social entreprenuerism is not just an activity for rural environments
I ran into someone who was taking an honors class in Social Entrepreneurism at the University. Their focus is on rural education and micro-economic enablement through micro-loan systems. If you have not heard about this concept, it was pioneered by Grameen Bank in Bangladesh a number of years ago and has since become a worldwide phenomenon.
As I was describing to them, however, social entrepreneurism (SE) isn't limited to helping the poor. There are other groups of people out there who need help and education just as much. Even dW is a form of SE in terms of helping emerging topics and technologies grow within the realm of software systems.
There are a great many valuable ideas out there initiated by people who know a lot about technology and software. However, not every developer knows what to do to keep a project running, sharing it with others, or getting recognition for their efforts.
We hear of many successful and innovative open source projects created purely on the basis of successful leadership, and even a hefty dose of good luck. However, there are tens of thousands of other projects which fall off the grid because the lead(s) of the team simply don't know what to do to get it to the next level.
Many technical people simply say "Oh well that's a marketing thing to get more people to use it", but that's only one element of it.
Towards that goal, the idea of dW started as one whereby we could help that kind of project that either came out of IBM or one we were involved in to help them grow and become more successful. It has grown in many ways beyond just the needs of IBM and we think that is a good thing for the whole industry.
Our community areas are no different. Our SE role is in the same domain: helping projects, topics and ideas to grow. That means we need to focus on providing tools, knowledge and other forms of assistance to fuel this.
Obviously, with a limited team there's a limit to how much you can do for anyone one group, and it always depends on the leaders of that group. However, by documenting successes, identifying best practices for different situations, we think we can help the situation for others. The learning and education here is not just in terms of solving a particular technical issue but addressing how to actually improve the human side of the equation.
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Situational applications rising
Cnet's article on Small is beautiful for Web 2.0 start-ups gives attention to the growing sentiment that the application development process needs to become more lightweight.
This is something that can go in several directions:
While Jason Fried of 37Signals believes the idea of enterprise software is "dead", it's more likely a space that small projects just don't play in. Also there may be a great many more small projects going compared to large projects but it's difficult to argue either way that a number of small projects equals one large project or vice-versa. (Obviously, I'm not defining what "small" and "large" means; think of those as what they mean to you)
On the other hand, small projects may be a difficult idea for some organizations to handle, especially when they are focused on going for large ones. It's a matter of overhead; With each small project, the relative size of the overhead for running the project may seem a lot higher than the overhead of a large project.
However, the techniques needed to operate a large project many not be the same as the ones needed for small ones.
The real winner is the one who figures out what kind of project management techniques are most appropriate for any given project, anticipating its complexity and size. Of course, if you could see the future and know how much work was involved right away, it'd be a simple trick.
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One week of brainstorming is over, another one coming up
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We just ended our weeklong meeting with the infrastructure, applications and design teams of our developerWorks. We have them once or twice a year bringing all the members of our distributed organization into a single physical location to talk about their projects, brainstorm, and engage each other in coordinating efforts.
This is our own internal community of developers and designers that help maintain and improve the extensive network of sites that is developerWorks, supporting over 5 million members, dozens of acclaimed topics, and many sites for other countries (locales). We call this collective "Scott McAllister's team" refering to the multiple teams and managers that report up to Scott. The event is our own Geek Week.
We have a whole other team of folks who do the great work behind creating our content on the many sites. That team is meeting at the end of February.
For my part, I talked extensively about our planned Community strategy, and the involvement of these teams. The plan is a holistic look at the evolution of communities, predicting what the next stage of evolution is, what that means to us in terms of future opportunities, what we should build, and even the next stages of what we could do.
Needless to say, Web 2.0 played a large part, but rather than in bits and pieces, I mapped out the overall solution that brings Web 2.0 to our whole site. I'd like to tell you the plan, but it's a secret. ;)
I can say that I get a number of people coming up to me and saying they really liked the presentation (gives me warm fuzzies :), some also wanted to know how they could get involved.
What I should say is that I had to consider what projects and experiments we were already considering and how it might relate to this plan. There are many smart people in our organization and many ways to interpret ideas. My strategy (behind the strategy) is to consider the many ideas and see if we can make good use of it in the overall plan. I like to be inclusive wherever possible.
That's actually much harder than it seems. For one, while we have a such a structure, we are not a strongly hierarchical organization (i.e., siloed) and have many cross-teams across the functional teams. This is not an unusual situation for many companies these days. One person may have different roles in several teams, so part of the time I'm trying to consider which role I'm talking to. We are also distributed across at least six different states in the US (not including the international teams), that makes it hard to just get appropriate time with people.
It's events like this week that greatly reinforce the "wholeness" of the team, as well as help spread ideas. It is a great offline community that most of our readers never hear about. It's when people connect that innovations--small or large--happen.
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New federal guidelines on online job hunting makes silly demands on job-hunting
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Maybe, I'm misunderstanding the goal of this new US federal guideline but it sounds like a bonehead idea to me. The goal of this guideline is to standardize how employers track data on diversity of job applications. However, it requires very specific aspects that makes it quite impractical to apply for jobs online.
Per this article on Money magazine, one item is that you need to exactly match the text in your resume to the exact qualifications that the job posting requires. Otherwise the employer will never see the application in the first place.
If you have written enough job postings before, you may know how challenging it is to describe exactly what you want. Not only that, the not everything is so exact that people describe the same skill by the same definition. So if the applicant doesn't understand what the potential employer means by it, they can rewrite their app to match but that doesn't mean that they have a proper match. This means false matches.
Another way to look at it, even if you do want to apply for a job, it has to be written exactly per the employers needs. While it's not a bad thing to design your resume around the employers needs but, just mechanically having to format your resume and application per each employer is just time consuming (and I argue wasted effort).
I don't know who was involved in this but it doesn't sound like they spent a lot of time researching the user experience on how people apply for jobs online.
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Is project collaboration across the globe a rarity?
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There are many examples for successful projects that are being built by a team of people across the globe (e.g., Skype). This is becoming less and less unusual. What is rare however, is an account of what this experience is like and what it takes to successfully carry out such a project.
This is project management to a new degree with people you may have never met before, who may not even be in your organization. Undoubtedly, our industry has advantages because it naturally allows this kind of collaboration using tools, and communication mechnisms that are cheap or even completely free.
What we don't hear about are the specifics:
It's these kind of questions that really bug me and generally where I think a lot of people need a lot of guidance. I do think that software tools are just the first step.
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How community groups interact
Whether formalized or ad-hoc, there are several common types of communities based on the goals of that group of people
Some of these types include:
The behavior of the groups, the tools they need, the processes they use, etc. are different. Some groups may start out as one type and change into another. It really helps the group to identify what they want to accomplish.
The failure of most groups to develop or encourage a healthy, growing community stems from not setting up that initial direction.
For example, a project-based community need tools help manage the project and the product they are developing. This can be software, but it can apply to any kind of product really. Having tools to monitor activity, define schedules, and record achievements are all hallmarks of a good project management system. However, not all projects need complex PM
tools; in fact they can be quite intimidating or cause bureaucratic overload, which just leads to frustration.
A community of practice needs means for the members to get together and collect their ideas and experiences. Very often, you see this happening in Wikis and other group editing tools.
A community of interest exists to gather more energy and followers to a topic but may not be focused as much on developing knowledge, just sharing experiences. Thus, regular communications through some form of discussion tool is quite healthy.
This is not to say that any of these require only one specific tool to achieve their goal. Quite the converse. You will find that many communities will use the same type of tool for different purposes and many will need multiple tools to interact.
This is one of the reasons why when developing a community, you cannot base it on a single tool like a forum or a wiki, and similar why a single tool does not signify the extent of the community. So far, I have not seen no one perfect solution for all communities.
If you're a community of many other communities like we are at developerWorks, then you will likely have each of these different subtypes within yourself, and then you really need to expand the tools that allow your community members to interact.
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From communities to encouraging innovation
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I'm not sure if you've seen this meme but I've come across it in several books both about online and offline communities:
Interactions in communities -->
Creates Understanding --------->
Develops Trust ----------------->
Allows Exploration & Entreprenuership ->
Sets stage for Innovation
The most recent place I saw this meme again, in a slightly varied form was near the last chapters of The World is Flat (ok, maybe I make references to this too often these days :)
Now these are "grand" notions that often follow in a sequence like this above. You need to have one stage happening before you can really reach the next stage. Thus you don't really jump ahead and ask "How do we innovate?" but need to ask "What are we doing to set up an environment such that innovation can happen?"
It's important to realize that the arrows in the diagram above are not trivial. In other words, when you have one stage, you need to do something to progress it to the next stage. That something could take a whole lot of effort. But in terms of managed innovation, it gives points where you can measure how your population is doing and how you can recognize if you've reach that stage.
There are many books out there describing how to innovate and get others to innovate, and I certainly have not read nearly enough of them. I still wonder if some of them consider going through that meme sequence above.
The somethings are also where the opportunities lie. Many innovation and leadership management trends have come and gone, and still many exist in parallel. I'm no certified expert at it and there are likely some really good sources out there too. (Okay, maybe people like Steven Covey)
Right now, I'm just trying to develop an idea for the early stages of this meme, those focused on the developing the community. Hopefully more smart people will come along to explain what to do next.
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Convertible notebooks need improvement
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Laptops are the ubiquitous tool of Networked Man. It's also how you identify them in the wild.
I'm a very heavy laptop user. I take it with me almost every day when I leave the house. Hence, I need something that won't drag me down in terms of weight. I've been using one kind of Thinkpad or another for years, honestly, because this is what they provide me at work. It seems to do the job well and isn't too heavy (current one is about 5 lbs).
On the other hand,I really like the idea of convertible notebooks or Tablet PCs where you can flip the screen over
and lay it flat on the keyboard and then write on it. IBM's PC division (before Lenovo) had one for a brief time together with a notepad, but that went away. In fact most Tablet PCs were similar size (12" screens), which was a little too small for me.
The one I see out there now is Gateway's 14" widescreen version. However, they haven't made a good docking station for it, just a port replicator.
I'd like to a tablet PC with a docking station you can just plug into vertically to turn the unit into a sort of
all-in-one monitor-PC. There'd be a keyboard, mouse and cabling connected to the dock of course. But the core idea would be to have a dock that works like an adjustable monitor base (turning it, raising it, etc.)
When you're on the go, you could simply suspend, unlock and lift it off and put it into a locking hard case/shell rather than having to strap into a laptop bag.
Honestly, the five minutes it takes for me to hibernate my computer, undocking, and pack it; then do the reverse when at my location turns out to be about an hour a week I've lost. That's 40-50 hours a year; i.e., a whole week of work.
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