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In early 2001, CVS announced its intention to break into the western markets, with plans to open stores in Phoenix and Las Vegas by the end of 2001 and mid-2002, respectively. The retailer commissioned Carter & Burgess to mastermind the rollout."Rollout" programs combine stealth and speed to help retailers move multiple projects from concept to grand opening as efficiently as possible.
"By using a prototype design that can easily be adapted to multiple sites and jurisdictions, projects can be rolled out all at once with shorter development schedules and consolidated resources," says Phil Pryor, an architect and program manager in Carter & Burgess' national retail & distribution division.
At mid-2001, CVS prototype concepts, architectural design and civil engineering were ongoing, while dirt was being turned in Las Vegas. But idiosyncrasies in the western markets created challenges for CVS and Carter & Burgess to overcome. "Their entire world has been east of the Mississippi," says Hale. "These new markets are foreign to them."
Greg Smith, CVS Pharmacy's director of architecture and engineering, has been working closely with Carter & Burgess' team to launch the western states rollout.
"Relationships are very key as well as the timeliness of what is being produced," he says. "We operate under very demanding deadlines."
Like many retail entities that do not want to give their competition even a hint of what they are planning, Smith says his company keeps its expansion plans under wrap until the very last minute — a practice that creates a heightened sense of urgency when a rollout is planned.
To manage the rushed CVS rollout program, Carter & Burgess used a "real time" scheduling and updating system that Hale's group has developed and posted on the program's private website.
"We have developed a scheduling format that will utilize a website in order to share updated schedules and other information," says Hale. "We've developed a Prolog-based website that allows us to share data and post prototypical standards and schedules for sharing of information within these offices. We can post that and then send along a person on the team to help train a new office and get them up to speed very quickly. You can just go to the website and grab the latest and greatest information."
Hale says his team is investigating the possibility of expanding the website so the client and developer can get access for communications purposes. "We're using it as a vehicle to move documents around in the web," he explains. "It's a great way to link our offices."
"By doing everything in a systematic process with forethought and with the process driving everything, it takes away a lot of opportunity for error," Hale explains.
Pat Berry is a Dallas-based writer.


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Saturday, September 08, 2007
Transcript of speech Osama bin Laden
Due to popular believe, Al Qaeda is seen in many circles as a mainly political movement with a political agenda. Basically, these people say, Al Qaeda is an organisation which uses terror (or resistance) to give a voice to oppressed muslims. The moment the West stops oppressing muslims, Al-Qaeda will stop too.
I wish that was true. But it is, unfortunately, not the case.
Al-Qaeda is very much a medieval Doomsday sect with surprisingly little politics in it. If you really want to understand what Al-Qaeda is all about, you have to step away from politics, away from life in the 21st century. Al-Qaeda is all about a mix of religion (rigidly imitating the Prophet Muhammad), cultural elements (keeping the Arab world and muslim South Asia as backward as possible) and an immense fear factor (for Western-led globalisation and its effects on the muslim mind)
I wish Al-Qaeda was political. Then at least there would be an end in sight to the war. But, as I said, it is not and thus much more difficult to stop.
In his latest speech Bin Laden immediately makes my point. He asks himself how the War in Iraq can be stopped?
You might answer: Well, maybe if the Americans pull out of Iraq.
Or if the US would stop supporting Israel.
Or if the Palestinians get their own state.
Well, Osama's answer is none of the above. His solution: Either we step up our attacks and win the war militarily or you Americans reject your democratic system and embrace Islam.
Wow - that is soooo realistic. Luckily he doesn't want us to perform the silly walk during weekdays.
Anyway, hope you will read my article on September 11th(Tuesday). For those interested in Bin Ladens weird world, please read the full transcript of his speech:
"All praise is due to God, who built the heavens and earth in justice, and created man as a favor and grace from Him. And from His ways is that the days rotate between the people, and from His Law is retaliation in kind: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth and the killer is killed. And all praise is due to God, who awakened His slaves' desire for the Garden, and all of them will enter it except those who refuse. And whoever obeys Him alone in all of his affairs will enter the Garden, and whoever disobeys Him will have refused."
For rest of speech: click here
You can get it as well in a pdf file, although the text is not very clear. for pdf, click here.
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- Ingmar said...
why is there in de poll not an option to kill one of them and arrest the other guy? But thats maybe cruel, although...
But besides that, is't still a lot of fun to read you blog for a refreshing view on the world.
- tigermarks said...
While I do agree with you that Al-Qaeda would not cease its attacks on the "west" if perceived injustices towards the "Muslim" world were to be dealt with, I think that support for it would diminish dramatically. As a result, recruiting would be reduced and it would be in effect harder to for Al-Qaeda to continue its activity at present levels. So, while Al-Qaeda's core are ideologically driven in spite of what US and European policy does, its agenda would indeed be weakened notably if the Muslim public were to perceive a more accommodative and inclusive attitude from the "west". This would include a genuinely more sympathetic attitude vis-a-vis Palestine.
- Harald Doornbos said...
@ tigermarks
Good and valid point. But it smells a little bit like giving in to terror. I mean, if the world would become more pro-Palestinian and more anti-Israel hoping this would isolate Al Qaeda, then Bin laden could be - kind of rightfully - being accredited as having achieved more for the Palestinian cause than Yasser Arafat.
You theory for sure makes sense, but how far do we have to go to? Israel isn't the only topic.
thanks though for comment.
- Harald Doornbos said...
@ ingmar
well, I didn't want to make this blog to morbid. Agree with you though.
that said - kill one, arrest the other - that must be Bin Laden dead, Karadzic arrested.
Because we will never be able to arrest Bin Laden and get him a live. I have pretty good sources in pakistan and one told me that Bin Laden has, at any time, a suicide belt strapped around his body. This makes a lot of sense.
1. According to Bin Ladens religious dogma, it would be entirely 'haram' that a kaffir (an unbeliever) would ever touch his corpse.
2. By blowing himself up in case of imminent arrest, he will live on forever. Sure, an arrested Bin Laden in some kind of New York prison - that is utter defeat and humiliation. But by blowing yourself up, there's no corpse, no real evidence. Only a beard and some DNA.
In that case nobody will ever believe Bin Laden is dead. How often is Elvis spotted every year?!
Thanks and take care,
Harald and tigermarks
Terrorists in Spain talked about not having any more terror attacks after Spain will take his troops out of Iraq. Spain did that. I have read that there were couple of terrorist attempts later.
Some muslims blame west for every bad things which happened to the muslims or umma from the Crusades onward, and many muslims believe that umma is now under attack from the west. Now, Quran says that the defensive war is allowed, meaning not only the military (or terrorist) actions but also other support for such actions is allowed. If some muslims believe that umma is under attack than terrorists attacks will not end when/if palestine problem will be solved and/or american troops will move out of Iraq. There will be Afghanistan, Chechnya, Kashmir and so on and so forth.
Furthermore this kind of thinking not only pertains to Al Qaeda but also to other such organisations and even to some states, for example, many clerics in KSA object to terrorist actions against the west not because of their aims but because they are not controlled by "competent authorities" and because they do more harm than good for umma at the moment
I think it is wrong to think of Al Qaeda only as a specific organization (although it is that as well)without taking into account the way many muslims think of Osama and Al Qaeda. I think that for some al Qaeda symbolizes a war muslims are fighting with the west, with USA as its symbol.
ps. sorry for a long post.
- Riemer Brouwer said...
Harald, two suggestions for your upcoming article:
1. Osama's call to the west to convert to Muslim is in accordance with the profet's sayings, namely that you should always try to convert your opponents. If they don't want to, then and only then you can attack them. Hence, the call for conversion takes on a sinister meaning: Osama has tried to convert the west. Now that they don't listen, they are responsible for the consequences, not Osama. (in his opinion, that is)
2. Osama has painted his beard. This is interesting since painting your beard is haram (forbidden) in traditional Muslim belief and would even prevent you from entering Paradise. This has something to do with accepting the fact that you grow older with all its consequences (like graying hair) and painting your beard would be equal to objecting to the life God is giving you.
For both cases, check with Muslim experts to be fully sure about them. Just thought they might be interesting for your upcoming article
- Harald Doornbos said...
hey riemer,
I am not an expert but
Ibn 'Abbaas reported the Allah's Messenger (pbuh) as saying: At the end of time there will be people who will use this black dye like the crops of birds; they will not experience the fragrance of Paradise." [Sunan Abu Dawood Vol.3 Chapter 1569 Hadith No.4200]
However Qaradawi wrote
"Some of the early Muslims, including some sahabah [companions of Muhammad] such as Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, 'Uqbah ibn 'Amr, al-Hassan, al-Hussein, Jarir, and others permitted the use of black dye. Some scholars, on the other hand, do not consider the use of black dye as permissible except during time of war, when the enemy might be impressed by the fact that all the soldiers of the Muslim army look young."
It seems that there is an agreement among muslims scholars (with probable exception of Shafi school) that muslims may colour their hair during times of war.
As for the first point it is, I think, more or less correct. One should invite non-muslims to accept Islam, if they do not agree one should ask them to pay jizya, if they do not agree then one is allowed to start a fight.
- Riemer Brouwer said...
Thanks for clarifying this. It was already a bit strange to realize that Osama would be in violation of his faith. With your explanation, the coloring of the hair makes much more sense. It looks now that he's intending to make clear he's at war: he even colored his beard.


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That's what happened with a star named Alphard. It's the brightest star of Hydra, the water snake, which wriggles most of the way across the southern sky as darkness falls on spring evenings.
The star is nearing the end of its life, so it's puffed up to many times the size of the Sun. Eventually, it'll shed its outer layers of gas, leaving behind only its hot, dense core -- a white dwarf.
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Three months ago, I went to the funeral for the father of several friends of mine. One of them is Janet, a classmate from high school. She is not just any classmate, though. Janet is the one who was in the car with me for driver's ed. That is a relationship that can be extremely good if the two of you end up improving the work of the other, extremely bad if there is too much one-upmanship or a competitive nature between you, or somewhere in between.
Right offhand, I don't recall a whole lot about our driving experience, so it must have been pretty good. The one thing I do remember was our first time out on the open road. Our school had two instructors for the driving portion of the class. One of them was a by-the-book guy who was in the car and taught the classroom portion of the course and nothing else. The other one was a history and government teacher who had a few free periods when he would handle the car portion of the class, but never taught any of the classroom portions. He was a tad more free-wheeling than the other instructor. They were sort of a Major Frank Burns and Captain Hawkeye Pierce pairing.
For instance, during the first session behind the wheel, students would usually get familiar with the car and maybe do a few laps around the parking lot to make sure they knew how to operate everything and let the instructor get a feel for their skills. That's how Major Burns worked. Pierce, on the other hand, would size you up on the way out to the car and, if you passed his eyeball exam, he'd have you drive downtown to get his dry cleaning, or over to the car dealership to check on his personal car's service work being done, or maybe to the bakery or the hardware store.
Surprise, surprise, Janet and I ended up with Pierce. He would also tend to pump you for all kinds of information as you drove — how soon would we start planting, how much was this or that farm renting for, who farmed this place, what we were up to on the farm recently, not to mention any list of things going on at school or in the neighborhood. Since he lived relatively close to me, he figured the education thing was a two-way street for him in this deal.
When it was time to head out to the open road, the plan was to avoid the major highway in the area — Highway 9 — and head to Highway 139 instead for some less congested work. That was more of a minor blacktop with lots of curves to it than the more heavily traveled Highway 9. Both Rand and McNally would send their 15-year-olds down 139 instead of 9 to start their learning curve, as it were.
When it was our turn to drive, I ended up in the driver's seat first. A couple miles into our trip, after about the third 90-degree curve that I took at 55 mph, Pierce looked at me with a smirk and asked, "You've driven this before, haven't you?"
Oh yeah, lots of times. It's the route The Chairman and I took to get to Coldwater Creek to go trout fishing all the time. I almost always had to drive in those situations, and no one wants to show up late for trout.
We kept making good time down the road, never really slowing down to a blue-haired-old-lady pace through the curves. Pierce was looking pretty comfortable and relaxed. He rested his right elbow on the door and then sort of propped his chin up with his hand as we kept motoring.
We made it around the last curve outside of Kendallville when I looked over at Pierce, fully expecting instructions to turn around at the next corner. No such instructions were given. Pierce, as it turned out, was sound asleep! Curvy roads in a sweet ride like we had will do that to you. I looked in the mirror to get Janet's attention and shrugged at her about what to do. She returned the shrug. Neither of us wanted to be the one to wake up Hawkeye, so I kept driving.
A couple more miles down the road, we came upon the state line. The thing that was going through my head was that I had an Iowa learner's permit, and I was driving an official government vehicle, I figured, which would surely be some kind of massive violation when we ultimately encountered The Heat in Minnesota. That meant kidnapping charges and I'd ultimately end up at a federal facility in Kansas spending all of my best years turning very large rocks into very small rocks.
My worst-case scenario did not come true. As with most government entities, interagency cooperation and communication is in short supply. When the state of Minnesota laid out its road system in another century, and the state of Iowa laid out its road system that same century, the two straight lines did not meet up perfectly. They were off by a few yards. Rather than re-grade or re-route either one to meet in a straight line, they added a nice little zigzag on the Iowa side a few yards or so before you got to the border. Perhaps it was meant to make Iowans stop and think if they were really, really committed to making the trip to Minnesota. Or maybe it was designed to make us just a little dizzy before we got there so that things would make more sense once we did.
Either way, it was not a straight shot from one state to the other. That minor change in course was juuuuust enough to cause Pierce's elbow to slip off the door as I zipped through the curve at 55. He jerked his head and looked around to see where we were right as we sailed past the elaborate "Welcome to Minnesota" sign.
"Let's pull in up here and turn around," he said as he pointed at a field driveway, as though that had been his original plan all along.
Janet and I hopped out of the car and traded places, exchanging a knowing glance as we passed. She and I were probably both wondering how far we might have gone had it not been for that last curve.
Our answer came later when we were discussing our adventure with other classmates. One of them had moved to Cresco after he had his license already. He originally came from Marshalltown in central Iowa. His school put three students in the car with the instructor for their driving portion of the class. When they did the highway portion, they went out to beautiful four-lane Highway 30 and headed west. It wasn't long before they realized their instructor had fallen asleep. No one wanted to be the short straw who had to wake up the instructor, so they just kept driving.
The Highway 30 corridor in central Iowa is not exactly the Bonneville Salt Flats, but it's sure not Highway 139 to Kendallville, either. Curves are hard to come by. Sharp curves that wake up a dozing instructor are even harder to come by.
All three students chose to keep quiet in the car. Their instructor finally woke up and realized it was time to switch drivers and turn around. By that time, they were west of Boone, almost 70 miles from their school! When they got back to school, their instructor had to provide them with tardy slips for the class they showed up late for, plus the TWO others they missed before that one.
Obviously, more schools should have a driver's ed fleet of vintage Volkswagen dune buggies like the GuyNo2Mobile. My experience has shown that no one falls asleep in a buggy!
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Holidays and chocolate seem to go together. For birthdays, anniversaries, Mother's Day and many other holidays -- chocolate is everywhere. But, there is someplace chocolate should never be, and that's in your dog. Chocolate is toxic to dogs and can kill them. And since a lot of the chocolate treats might be the kids', make sure to pass along the message to them to never give chocolate to Rover.
Here's why chocolate is so dangerous for dogs:
Chocolate contains theobromine, a compound in the same family as caffeine. In certain quantities, theobromine is toxic to dogs. In general, the minimum toxic theobromine dose in dogs ranges from 46 to 68 milligrams/pound (mg/lb). Half the dogs that consume 114 to 228 mg/lb or greater of theobromine will die. Lots of things can play a role in whether your dog will have a toxic reaction including the amount of chocolate your dog ate, your dog's size, and whether your dog happens to be extra-sensitive to theobromine. One of the most important things in chocolate toxicity is the kind of chocolate your dog ate. For instance:
- Milk chocolate contains 44 mg of theobromine per oz. (704 mg theobromine/lb milk chocolate)
- Semisweet chocolate chips contain 150mg/oz. (2400 mg theobromine/lb semisweet chocolate)
- Baking chocolate contains 390mg/oz. (6240 mg theobromine/lb baking chocolate)
So, if we do the math, Rover is eyeing the ears and tail from a leftover chocolate bunny. How much would he have to eat to get a 46 mg/lb dose of theobromine? Depending on the type of chocolate, he'd have to eat:
- 1 ounce per 1 pound of his body weight of milk chocolate bunny
- 1 ounce per 3 pounds of his body weight of semisweet chocolate bunny, or
- 1 ounce per 9 pounds of his body weight of baking chocolate bunny.
And, if Rover eats enough chocolate, he might show signs of chocolate toxicity:
Theobromine toxicity can cause a variety of signs ranging from mild to severe. These signs can include vomiting, diarrhea, rapid heart rate, restlessness, hyperactivity, urinating more, muscle spasms and seizures.
If you think your dog has eaten chocolate call your veterinarian immediately! Only your veterinarian can determine the proper treatment for your pet.
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The 2012 corn crop delivered many of the problems that were foreseen throughout last year's growing season. Decreased yields, variable quality and mycotoxins have affected livestock production throughout North America. However, this crop may still be causing trouble as we dig deeper into the storage bins.
Alltech's 37+ Program surveyed 329 samples from July 1 through Dec. 31, 2012. Only one percent of the samples analyzed were free of mycotoxin contamination; 94% were contaminated with two to 10 mycotoxins. In corn grain samples, 95% contained fumonisin and 48% contained deoxynivalenol or DON. In corn silage, 90% contained fumonisin and 84% contained DON. The distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS) samples contained 100% of both fumonisin and DON. In all samples tested, aflatoxin was present in 18%.
"The 'take home' out of this data set is that the 2012 corn crop is widely contaminated with multiple mycotoxins that can decrease animal performance and health," says Max Hawkins, Alltech Myctoxin Management Team. "However, as aflatoxins' allowable level in feed and its metabolite M1 in milk are legislated, its presence is not as widespread and is more regionalized."
According to Hawkins, 37+ analyses conducted since Jan.1 have shown similar results but with an interesting new finding. The numbers of mycotoxins present are increasing.
"This increase in the total numbers of mycotoxins over time can be attributed to areas such as poor fermentation and inadequate packing or face management that can contribute to further mold growth and mycotoxin production," Hawkins says.
At harvest time, it was recommended that mycotoxin- contaminated grain be dried to 14% moisture within 24 to 48 hours to stabilize mold growth and ensure adequate grain storage. By limiting mold growth, mycotoxin production can be stabilized, but any mycotoxins already present would remain.
According to Hawkins, as temperatures remained warm in the fall, many growers aerated the bins and discovered that the mold and mycotoxin levels increased rapidly. As storage facilities have been emptied this spring, high levels of mycotoxins have been found in the lower levels of the facilities, where the fines and cracked kernels tend to concentrate.
Hawkins recommends these five tips for producers using the last of their 2012 crop:
- Only run aeration fans during the coolest times of day or night. Hold grain at 50 degrees Fahrenheit or less and 14% moisture or less.
- Mold growth in storage is greater where there are leaks in facilities and where fines and damaged kernels are concentrated.
- The south side and tops of grain bins warm quicker as daytime temperatures begin to increase.
- New mold growth will increase temperature and moisture in surrounding grain.
- Continually monitor stored grain for temperature, moisture and mycotoxins.


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It's important to keep in mind that, if possible, you should do your best to provide a satisfactory explanation for your immediate resignation – especially if you want to maintain a positive relationship with the employer in the future.
Know that you do not owe your employer all the specific details of your circumstances. However, if you do want to provide a bit more information on your circumstances, you can keep your letter vague (e.g., you are leaving due to "personal reasons" or "family circumstances") and then offer a further explanation in a follow-up conversation, though this is not necessary.
Since sudden resignations can be troublesome for companies, it is important to be highly professional in your letter. If you want to try to leave on good terms despite the circumstances, then offer your apologies and your willingness to do your best to assist with the transition.
However, if your situation would limit you from being involved in the transition, be honest about this. You don't want to overpromise something you cannot deliver. Even if you are leaving because of a conflict, refrain from saying anything negative about an employee or a supervisor and keep your communication neutral.
Read on for two sample letters you can use as inspiration to write your own resignation letter.
Immediate Resignation Letter Sample - Personal Reasons
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Your Email
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Dear Mr./Ms. Last Name:
I regret to inform you that I am resigning from my position here immediately as a Business Development Consultant for personal reasons. My last day will be tomorrow. I know this is unexpected, but am happy to assist you in the replacement process to help alleviate the transition.
I cannot thank you enough for the opportunities this company has provided me. Working here for the last five years has been incredibly instrumental in my personal growth, and I will never forget the colleagues and friends I have made here.
I will miss both the customers and the company alike very much.
If there is anything I can do to help make this transition easier, please let me know. I do not intend to inconvenience you with this news, and I hope you will accept my most sincere apologies in making June 1st my final day here.
If necessary, I can be available for phone and email inquiries from home on a limited basis for the weeks following my departure date.
Thank you so much for your understanding in this matter. I have loved my job, and I will look back on my time here with wonderful memories.
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There's a moment near the start of Joseph Haydn's classical masterpiece The Creation, after the bass soloist slowly sings, "In the beginning, God made Heaven and Earth," and after the angelic choir softly joins in with "And God said: Let there be light." There is silence, and then the choir returns to intone, almost mistily, "And there was light."
On that last word, "light," the choir and orchestra explode in a fortissimo C-major chord to create an experience that is both gorgeous and transcendent.
If you close your eyes, you can almost imagine the Big Bang erupting around you.
Of that musical moment, the late physicist Victor Weisskopf once said, "There cannot be a more beautiful and impressive artistic rendition of the beginning of everything." Weisskopf, a crucial figure in the development of both the atomic bomb and the nuclear disarmament movement that followed it, regularly played the oratorio for his students at MIT.
He was a lover of classical music. But on the cosmic question of how it all began, this giant of science knew there was another reason to seek insight from a deeply religious 18th-century composer. Weisskopf and his fellow 20th-century scientists fundamentally had no answer for how the universe began.
The theory that came to be known as the Big Bang started its long gestation nearly a century ago. Eventually, it won the backing of science and, after it got its catchy name on a BBC broadcast in 1949, the general public. Today, most of us walk around assuming that the Big Bang explains how the universe began. But look at it closely, and you realize it doesn't.
The Big Bang theory offers an explanation for how the early universe expanded and cooled and how matter congealed, from a primordial soup into stars, planets, and galaxies. What it describes, then, is the aftermath of the Bang. But it is effectively silent on why or how that first massive expansion happened or where all the original matter came from.
As Alan Guth, the physicist who holds the MIT professorship named after Weisskopf, puts it, "The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged." Guth has been using that line for years, and it almost always draws an appreciative laugh from his audience, whether that audience is made up of scientists or laypeople. It has a piercing quality to it, reminding us that we'd overlooked something that should have been obvious, like leaving the house with a freshly pressed shirt and perfectly knotted tie but no pants.
Guth (rhymes with "truth") has had opportunity to trot out some version of that line for more than three decades now, ever since he came up with his revolutionary prequel to the Big Bang theory. For most of that time, Guth, a short, slightly rumpled man who displays a refreshing mix of modesty and self-confidence, has been making his case in academic lectures. He began using flimsy overhead transparencies and later moved to PDFs, but the message has remained the same. He has continued to promote it with undiminished enthusiasm, even as observational evidence remained elusive and seemed unlikely to emerge in his lifetime, if ever.
Then in March, he received an e-mail from Harvard astrophysicist John Kovac, who had spent a good chunk of the past eight years looking at data from highly sophisticated telescopes planted on the South Pole. "Dear Alan," the e-mail began, "I am eager to talk to you about a topic that concerns both your research and mine. It is important and somewhat urgent, and I would be grateful if you would keep my request to speak with you confidential."
The next day, Kovac appeared in Guth's MIT office, having used a back staircase to avoid detection. A week after that, Alan Guth, at age 67, became an academic celebrity, treated not just as a scientist who finally had backing for his theory, but also as a sort of seer who could help explain our place in the cosmos.
PERHAPS YOU WENT TO SCHOOL WITH someone like Alan Guth, a child so preternaturally gifted that the teachers didn't know what to do with him. He grew up in Highland Park, New Jersey, occasionally helping his father at the family dry cleaning business but clearly destined for greater things. In his junior year of high school, his physics teacher gave him a college textbook and sent him and a couple of other smart kids into a back room, telling them to teach themselves. Just before he took his high school sweetheart, Susan, to the junior prom, he was stunned to learn he wouldn't be coming back for his senior year. His soon-to-be chemistry teacher, no doubt dreading a year of pesky questions he might not be able to answer, had conspired with the guidance office to get Guth accepted to MIT. So Guth said goodbye to Susan and Highland Park and headed for Cambridge.
He continued to excel at MIT, earning his bachelor's, master's, and PhD in physics there. He carried that enormous promise with him when he left Cambridge at the dawn of the 1970s for a postdoctoral researcher position at Princeton. But by the end of that decade, his rapid ascent had reversed direction. He had cycled through a series of postdoc slots around the country, three years at Princeton, three years at Columbia, two years at Cornell, and a year at Stanford — elite shops, all of them, but despite his best efforts, he couldn't land a job with any kind of future. He was starting to look like a dented can. When Guth asked one Cornell theorist to write him a recommendation for an assistant professor position, the man said the strongest letter he could honestly write would be "kindly but vague."
Part of the problem had to do with his area of research. Rather than follow the postdoc playbook of concentrating on subjects likely to lead quickly to publishable papers, Guth let his curiosity guide him. He spent a lot of time wrestling with abstract mathematical problems relating to the theory of elementary particles. And when a fellow physics postdoc at Cornell, Henry Tye, approached him in 1978 with a puzzling question relating to the early universe, Guth began searching for an answer, even if it lay way outside his field. "I knew only a little about cosmology," Tye recalls, "and Alan knew even less." (While astronomy focuses on the observation and study of the planets, stars, and galaxies, cosmology explores the mysterious roots of the universe — and its future.)
As it happened, two leading lights in cosmology gave talks at Cornell, deepening Guth's interest in the field. For one of those talks, by Robert Dicke, a professor at Princeton, Tye arrived so late that the only seats available were way in the back. The room was hot, and he could barely hear the speaker, so he got nothing out of it. But Guth had arrived early, got a good seat, and took extensive notes. At home that night, he logged an entry in his diary about the talk, pronouncing it "fascinating."
What made it so was the Princeton professor's identification of the "flatness problem" with the Big Bang theory. The flatness refers to the geometry of our continually expanding universe, where its mass density and expansion rate remain exquisitely balanced. If that balance tipped even slightly in either direction, the universe would either fly apart or collapse on itself. Yet because the universe has been expanding for 14 billion years, even slight variations in the beginning should have become exaggerated by now, to disastrous effect. Dicke pointed out that for our universe to look anything like it does today, at one second after the Big Bang, the number describing the balance would have to have been within 15 decimal places of one, lying in the minuscule interval between 0.999999999999999 and 1.000000000000001.
Yet the Big Bang theory offered absolutely no explanation for how that exceedingly precise balance might have come about. It would seem crazy to assume that it was just a coincidence.
ANOTHER TALK, BY THEN Harvard physicist and future Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg, convinced Guth that there was important science to be done pondering the universe's first infinitesimal fraction of a second. Other researchers dismissed this as impossible to study and best left to science-fiction writers.
And then there was that question that his postdoc pal Henry Tye had asked him. It concerned whether a new class of theories gaining traction in physics called grand unified theories would dictate the existence of something called magnetic monopoles. These are magnets with isolated North or South poles rather than normal equal-strength North-South poles. Working together, Guth and Tye concluded that the early universe should have been so overrun by magnetic monopoles that it would have collapsed.
In the fall of 1979, Guth left Cornell for the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and he and Tye continued to talk by phone, hoping to get a publishable paper out of their monopole research. Their task was made harder because another young researcher had scooped them with a paper highlighting this monopole problem. So they were scrambling to salvage their work, hoping to write about possible solutions to the problem.
Guth was living in a rented house in Menlo Park with Susan, his high school sweetheart who had become his wife, and their son, Larry, who was just shy of his second birthday. Weighing heavily on Guth's mind were his dim prospects for landing a job the following year.
Inspiration visited Guth around 1 a.m. on December 7, as Susan and Larry lay sleeping in the next room. Later that morning, he raced on his bike to work, setting a personal record of 9 minutes 32 seconds (Guth leaves very little in his life undocumented). After doing further number crunching relating to his early-morning epiphany, he wrote in large block letters in his notebook "SPECTACULAR REALIZATION," drawing a double box around the words for emphasis.
His theory was what he would come to call inflation, the exponential expansion of the universe within its first fraction of a second. (More on that later.) He phoned Tye at Cornell and excitedly told him that this inflationary model solved not just the monopole problem but also the flatness problem.
At the time, Tye was preparing to leave for a long trip to his native China, so what he most wanted Guth to do was finish his revisions to their monopole paper. It was already far too long, and time was running short, so they agreed they wouldn't include anything about inflation. Guth was disappointed that he couldn't seem to get Tye excited about his new theory. What neither of them realized then, though, was that by sitting in the back for that Princeton professor's lecture, Tye had completely missed the man's explanation of the flatness problem. "When Alan told me he had solved the flatness problem," Tye recalls, "I had no idea what he was talking about."
Before Tye left for China, Guth asked him whether he minded if he continued to work on this inflation idea and tried to publish a paper while Tye was gone. "Of course not," Tye replied.
At lunch at Stanford a few weeks later, Guth heard a few colleagues talking about another cosmology problem he'd never heard of. "The horizon problem" describes the implication of the Big Bang theory that the universe began in near-perfect uniformity, even if that would seem to be completely improbable. After a big bang, you would expect to get a clumpy universe, not one that is uniform in temperature and form, in every direction.
Guth made more scratches in his notebook. Then, like a child amazed to learn that his skeleton key opens every door in the house, he was delighted to discover that his new inflationary model could solve this problem as elegantly as it had the others.
On January 23, 1980, slightly more than a month after his "SPECTACULAR REALIZATION," Guth took his model public, delivering a lecture at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Among the attendees was Sidney Coleman, a respected Harvard physicist who was spending the year there. Afterward, he told Guth "every word was pure gold."
By the next day, Guth had a couple of job offers, as well as invitations to take his lecture to campuses across the country. Over the next few months, this long-neglected academic was suddenly hot again, with official and unofficial job offers pouring in from Harvard, Princeton, and a half dozen other universities. Still, his dream job was back at his intellectual home of MIT. But there were no physics teaching posts open there.
In the spring, after the last stop on his lecture circuit, his hosts at the University of Maryland took him out to a Chinese restaurant. When he cracked open his fortune cookie, it read "An exciting opportunity lies just ahead if you are not too timid." After mulling it over for a weekend, Guth picked up the phone that Monday morning and called someone he knew at MIT. Allergic to self-promotion, Guth mustered the confidence to let it be known that if MIT could find a position for him, he would be very interested in accepting it. The next day, MIT called back and offered him not an entry-level position as an assistant professor but rather a tenure-track associate professorship.
In the matter of just a few months, his career trajectory had returned to warp speed. After accepting the offer from MIT to join the faculty in the fall of 1980, he spent the rest of his time at Stanford working on a paper describing his inflationary model.
In June, however, he was alarmed to discover that one piece of his model didn't hold up. While his skeleton key still opened the doors to solve the flatness and monopole problems, it got jammed inside the horizon problem's keyhole.
After his months-long run as the hot new property in the physics world, he felt a giant "Oh, crap" pit in his stomach, wondering if he might be headed back to obscurity. Still, he remained optimistic that a solution would emerge. "And I knew," he says, "that at least I had already gotten the job at MIT."
ON THE LAST TUESDAY IN MARCH of this year, Alan Guth sits in the back seat of his Honda Accord. Susan is in the front passenger seat while their daughter, Jenny, is behind the wheel. Jenny (who did her graduate work in mathematical neuroscience) is 29 years old, so she wasn't even born when Guth came up with the idea of inflation. Her brother, Larry, is now a 36-year-old mathematician and full professor at MIT.
I'm riding in the back with Guth as we head to Harvard. There, he'll be giving a talk with John Kovac of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who led the multi-institution team that came up with that long-elusive evidence. I ask Susan, a friendly woman who teaches English to adult foreigners, how comfortable she has become in explaining her husband's work. "I don't know the math, and I don't know the fundamental science," she says in a slow speaking style that her students must appreciate, "but if it's well explained, I can follow the ideas." Even after three decades of hearing her husband explain his theory, though, she admits that she still finds it difficult to grasp both the immensity of the universe that his theory suggests and the tininess of its starting point.
She turns her head to face her husband. "Alan, you used to say it all started from this singularity that was much smaller than an atom and that it got as big as a grapefruit" during inflation. "But now you say it was a marble?"
"That's right," he replies. "I've changed the grapefruit to a marble." Then, in response to what sounds like whimsy with metaphors (but which is really the result of refined estimates from certain grand unified theories), he laughs, though Guth laughter is closer to a series of exuberant cackles.
Here, in language that you, Susan, and I can understand, is how Guth's model of the inflationary universe works: Using the theories of Einstein and others, Guth points out that at extremely high energies, there are forms of matter that upend everything we learned about gravity in high school. Rather than being the ultimate force of attraction that Newton and his falling apple taught us, gravity in this case is an incredibly potent force of repulsion. And that repulsive gravity was the fuel that powered the Big Bang.
The universe is roughly 13.8 billion years old, and it began from a patch of material packed with this repulsive gravity. The patch was, as Susan notes, tiny — one 100-billionth the size of a single proton. But the repulsive gravity was like a magic wand, doubling the patch in size every tenth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second. And it waved its doubling power over the patch about 100 times in a row, until it got to the size of that marble. All that happened within a hundredth of a billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second. As a point of comparison, the smallest fraction of time that the average human can detect is about one-tenth of a second.
The ingredients of what would become our entire observable universe were packed inside that marble. While the density of ordinary material being put through that kind of exponential expansion would thin out to almost nothing, a quirk of this repulsive-gravity material allowed it to maintain a constant density as it kept growing. But at a certain point — while the universe was still a tiny fraction of a second old — inflation ended. That happened because the repulsive-gravity material was unstable, and, like a radioactive substance, it began to decay. As it decayed, it released energy that produced ordinary particles, which in turn formed the dense, hot "primordial soup." At that point, after Guth's model has explained what banged, why it banged, and what happened before it banged, he takes a bow and lets the standard Big Bang theory take over from there.
About a year after Guth joined the MIT faculty in 1980, the "Oh, crap" pit in his stomach finally went away. That's when he received a preprint of a paper from Andrei Linde, a physicist in Moscow. Linde, who is now at Stanford, had figured out an ingenious way to use inflation to solve the "horizon problem" that had tripped up Guth. "It saved my model," Guth says now.
Guth and a few colleagues made another big advance the following year in a paper showing that inflation, which remained pure theory, could conceivably be proved. That's because inflation would have left a unique imprint on the expanding matter of the Big Bang. And this imprint could be seen in the oldest light of the universe — that is, if modern science could build tools sophisticated enough to detect the imprint. But Guth doubted that would happen in his lifetime.
Jenny pulls the Honda up to the edge of the Harvard campus and lets her father and me out before she and her mom continue the hunt for street parking, which in Harvard Square can sometimes feel as elusive as the universe's ancient light. Guth blows a kiss to his wife and daughter and then begins his march to the Science Center.
Before long, Guth and Kovac are standing together in front of a packed auditorium, with all 350 seats occupied, along with scores of students sitting on the floor, clogging the aisles, and another 150 or so in the next room watching on a closed-circuit feed. Faculty members, many of them graybeards on the back nine of their careers, crowd in the front, while a diverse collection of students fills the rest of the room.
Physically, the two scientists are quite a contrast. The 43-year-old Kovac is tall and trim, with short brown hair, perfect posture, and the earnest presentation of a church youth director. At 67, Guth has a slight stoop that makes him look shorter, a glorious swoop of gray hair, and a navy blazer that is a bit too long in the sleeves.
I never made it to Kovac's office, but my guess is it's orderly. Guth's is a chaotic collection of piles. In fairness, though, it looks markedly better than it did back in 2005, when he won Boston.com's "messiest office" contest, which earned a free makeover of his MIT quarters by a design consultant. The designer clearly never made it to his home office in Brookline, though. There, an unruly pile of papers erupts from the center of the floor, calling to mind the mashed-potato mountain from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Despite the physical differences between Guth and Kovac, their soft-spoken, polite personalities make them as complementary as their streams of research. Although back in 2006 scientists using a NASA satellite had produced a map of the early universe that strongly suggested Guth was on the right track with his theory, the new evidence from Kovac's team is the kind of rock-solid confirmation that theoreticians dream of. While acknowledging that the findings will need to be corroborated, Guth calls the new data "fantastically secure results."
In what another scientist termed "a telegram from the first moments of time," Kovac's team found the smoking gun for inflation: evidence of gravitational radiation, or more specifically, swirling patterns in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background. In the viewfinder of their telescope on the South Pole was light formed just 380,000 years after our universe banged onto the scene. And in that ancient light they detected gravitational radiation that is far older, having been emitted during the universe's first fraction of a second of existence.
In his Harvard talk, Guth employs the kind of fog-free language that made his 1997 book, The Inflationary Universe, understandable to readers without graduate degrees. After the talk, as a throng encircles Guth and both graybeards and young students begin peppering him with questions, I pull Kovac aside and ask what drew him to this research. "There are no bigger questions," he says, than how it all began. Kovac's own curiosity about inflation dates at least to his junior year of high school in Tampa, when he chose the geometry of the universe as the subject of an English term paper.
Because of all the attention surrounding his research, he says, his 9-year-old son is now grappling with inflation. That's the beauty of cosmology: Scientists working at the top of the field are on the hunt for answers to the questions rattling around in the brains of 9-year-olds.
A FEW DAYS AFTER the Harvard talk, I walk with Guth into the basement of a two-story brick building at the edge of the MIT campus. It's a lab for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, which has sites in four states. Our guide is Nergis Mavalvala, a professor of astrophysics, who shows us a laser and a vacuum chamber housing a mirror so superbly stable that it moves about 100 million times less than the floor we're standing on.
The goal of the observatory is to detect the kind of gravitational waves that Einstein predicted nearly a century ago. They've been at work for about 20 years and have in total spent about $1 billion of federal research money. "We still haven't seen one," Mavalvala says.
While that might lead some budget cutters in Washington to want to start slashing, she stresses that investment in science often takes time to pay out, but the rewards of patience can be tremendous.
Guth knows that as well as anyone. He waited 35 years for evidence to support his theory. And he points out that it took nearly 50 years for proof of the "God particle," the Higgs boson, a linchpin for physicists trying to fathom the mass and diversity of particles in the universe. That particle had been first theorized by British physicist Peter Higgs and others back in 1964, but it wasn't until 2012 that scientists at the multibillion-dollar Large Hadron Collider found evidence of it. Last year, at age 84, Higgs shared the Nobel Prize in physics.
It will probably take even longer to find evidence to support the breakthrough theories of tomorrow. "We've already understood," Guth says, "the things that are close by" — the universe's low-hanging fruit. "We have to wait."
A little while later, as we walk through a different building on campus, an emeritus professor spots Guth and flags him down. "You know that when you win a Nobel, you lose a year of your life," the man says. "So get ready."
Guth flashes a polite but puzzled smile. I wonder whether this senior scientist is going to cite some kind of depressing actuarial table showing reduced lifespan for laureates.
"You've been to the Nobel ceremony before, right?" he asks Guth.
"Um, actually, I haven't."
The man, who later asks me not to use his name, explains that he had traveled to Stockholm when a friend won. "First of all, it's winter, and there's no sun, so they get you drinking!"
"Oh," Guth replies. "I don't drink very much."
"And then the Swedes have you speak at every damn college in the country," he says. "They get their money's worth!"
By now, it's clear that the man is not predicting a shortened life but rather a year of research lost to obligations of ceremony and speaking.
This kind of Cambridge shoptalk doesn't appear to be something Guth is eager to engage in. He's a self-effacing guy. Besides, who wouldn't worry about the possibility of jinxing himself by acting too presumptuous?
Still, the prevailing view in the scientific community is that it's hard to see how Guth won't be one of the people getting an invite to Stockholm. Henry Tye, the former postdoc who put Guth on the path of inquiry that led to inflation, admits that he regrets he hadn't grasped the significance of what his pal was trying to tell him back in 1979. But Tye, who went on to a distinguished career at Cornell that continues now in Hong Kong, says there can be no disputing how big a paradigm shift Guth's inflationary model has made to science's understanding of how it all began.
Later that same day, over sodas in the Museum of Science cafe, I revisit with Guth the issue of the Nobel. Although it comes with a coveted $1 million-plus purse, Guth says that wouldn't make a major difference in his life. Two years ago, he won a brand new award, the Fundamental Physics Prize, which came with a stunning $3 million check. Nonetheless, Guth continues to drive a Honda sedan. But he admits the psychic benefits of the Nobel would be enormously rewarding. "It would be a final confirmation," he says, "that a large portion of the world feels that the theory is right."
And with proof that inflation is right, it starts to get even more interesting. In the lobby outside the museum planetarium, there's a diorama display titled "Where in the Universe Are We?" It has a series of connected boxes, going from Earth to Solar System to Sun's Neighborhood to Milky Way Galaxy to Local Group to Universe. Above the boxes is this message, "The universe is such an enormous place, it's easy to get lost."
But in Guth's mind, that message understates things to a staggering degree. We already know that our sun is just one of at least 100 billion stars in our galaxy and our galaxy is just one of 100 billion in the observable universe. But Guth says the most plausible models of inflation suggest something called eternal inflation. That means that once inflation starts producing universes, it never stops.
And, by extension, Guth says, that would mean that we're not just part of a vast universe, but that ours is merely one "pocket" universe in an ever-expanding multiverse. So if you've just come to terms with how infinitesimal a speck we earthlings are in the whole cosmic scheme of things, get ready to feel even smaller.
At this point, Guth's thinking on the multiverse remains just theory and is by no means universally accepted in the physics world. But it's already drawn influential backers, and even those who haven't fully signed on yet find themselves intrigued. "It's a very attractive picture, very plausible, and it leads to very interesting consequences," says Steven Weinberg, the Nobel laureate whose talk at Cornell helped inspire Guth. "But we don't have any way now of confirming those theories."
Then again, that's what people said about Guth's revolutionary idea 35 years ago. So whether it takes 10 years or 50 years or 100 years for the evidence to emerge, the people who design the museum exhibits probably shouldn't get too attached to their current signs presuming a single universe. As for the rest of us, rather than wallowing in our smallness, we might as well kick back and put on some Haydn to feel big once again.
Neil Swidey is a Globe Magazine staff writer. E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com and follow him on Twitter @neilswidey.


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Opinion: Beyond the ObamaCare 'Glitches'
Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Avik Roy on the growing number of problems in the ObamaCare exchange rollout. Photos: Healthcare.gov
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If you're the wagering type and you're getting geared up for a Golden Globes pool on Sunday night, here's a tip: Bet on the baby boomers. The critical and commercial success of Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" have made that movie's talent the favorites to win in just about every category where they're nominated, according to Wynn Las Vegas bookmaker John Avello, a Hollywood odds specialist (interviewed here by The Sporting News). And that roster of nominees represents a veritable Boomer Army of the Potomac.
Spielberg (nominated for best director), Sally Field (best supporting actress) and Tommy Lee Jones (best supporting actor and, unofficially, most terrifying wig) were all born in 1946, the first year of the postwar demographic wave. Daniel Day-Lewis (best actor) was born in 1957, which puts him right in the heart of the boomer cadre. Of that foursome, the only one who isn't the odds-makers' favorite is Field—she trails Gen Y whippersnapper Anne Hathaway ("Les Miserables"). But regardless of what happens Sunday, Field deserves a special baby boomer honorable mention for convincingly playing Mary Todd Lincoln—a character who was 20 years younger in 1865 than Field is today.
Because the Golden Globes give out separate motion picture awards for "comedy or musical" and drama, the selection committee nominates 30 actors and actresses for awards each year, compared to 20 for the Oscars. This year, boomer men are benefiting more than boomer women from the extra slots. Richard Gere ("Arbitrage"), John Hawkes ("The Sessions") and Bill Murray ("Hyde Park on Hudson"), all snubbed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, are all on the Golden Globe slate, though none is favored to win.
In contrast, for best actress, a category that tends to favor either the young and on-the-rise or the very well-seasoned, only one of the 10 Golden Globe nominees is a boomer – Meryl Streep ("Hope Springs"). Streep won both the Globe and the Oscar in 2012 for playing Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady," but she's considered a long-shot this year, trailing Jennifer Lawrence ("Silver Linings Playbook"), who's – sigh – only 22. None of this year's five best-actress Oscar nominees is a baby boomer.
Field and Helen Hunt ("The Sessions") are each nominated for both Golden Globes and Oscars in the best supporting actress category. Other boomers on both lists: Denzel Washington (best actor, "Flight") and Christoph Waltz (best supporting actor, "Django Unchained").
The television Golden Globes get a lot of attention, too, of course, and here there are a few contending boomers: Julia Louis-Dreyfus is a favorite for best actress in a comedy, for "Veep"; while Bryan Cranston (best actor, drama, "Breaking Bad") and Alec Baldwin (best supporting actor, comedy or musical, "30 Rock") are close seconds in their respective categories – close enough for a pool participant to take a flyer on, I'd say. May the best, most gracefully aging performers win.


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Was reading my news over the last 5 years. It looks pretty pathetic. I haven't been able to finish anything new in almost 7 years. Don't hold your breath. I'm working on a new programming style and a code generator for it. If it goes well I may be ambitious enough to redo the site then. I really want to, honest!
Still here... My ambition for programming after work has been non-existent, but it might be starting to come back finally! :)
Hey, all. I am 100% going to redo the site within the next 5 months! Yay! :) I finally have a large block of uninterrupted time coming up and I plan on using it for this!
FYI: Database will be down for the site on 10/24/2015 from 7 PM to 11 PM CST.
If any of you out there have Super Mario Maker, check out my levels! (Warning: They are pretty difficult) Gears of War - 0515-0000-0052-3C68 Gears of War 2 - BB88-0000-0078-A6B4 Scarejump! - 9015-0000-004D-D625 Blowser - 67D6-0000-0026-D144 The Great Chase! - DC2A-0000-0024-3808
Hey all. The site re-write is looking like it'll be around the October-November time frame. Too many work related things are taking over my free time for me to be able to focus on this. My only hope is that when I finally do get back to redoing the site, people will still come back to it! :)
Check out https://github.com/MetalKid/QueryFilter for a nifty, simply way to build complex queries with IQueryable<>, including Entity Framework! :)
Check out https://github.com/MetalKid/ClassyMapper for C# developers that want a way to auto map properties between different classes! It even runs faster than Automapper! :)
Update: I'm still working on the database. I had to design it in a way to support new data for new games easily (without altering data from previous games to fit) and support multiple languages. I'm going to release the database (SQL Server) as a download on the site so anyone can use it.
Just wanted to let people know that I finally have time to work on the site again! Yay! I have all the Pokemon data ready to be put into my database. Thus, I'm working on building the database now. Once that is done, I'll be able to start working on the actual site! :)
I am slowly working on the code for the new site. I haven't given up, but I've been coding so much at work that I don't want to look at any code when I get home. I'll keep pushing!
Oh, I also forgot to mention the website will support mobile devices, too! Including a Mobile friendly IV Calculator! :)
Hey guys! Just wanted to let you know that I am currently working on a new version of the site. I have the general layout finished and am adding some bells and whistles to the design. The menu will work on all devices, including touch-only. You will have full control over the Theme with the ability to create, save, and even share your themes with others. There will be a built in chat on the site (Rooms, PMs, logs, etc), along with Chatango for those that want it. The site will have the most in-depth Pokedex search on the Internet! (Pokemon that learn these move(s) with this Ability that is Strong to Fire, Weak to Water, with min Def Base stat of 89 would be possible.) IV Calculator will get a big face lift and I'll make a YouTube video on how to use it. The Pokemon League will be built into this site with a map to explore and fight Gym Leaders, a tournament, Elite 4, and a Champion! There will be a gym for every type. The league system will also be able to support multiple leagues (not right away), so many people can create/run their own leagues! This is ambitious, but I'll have a lot of time to work on it over the next week or so!
Hey, guys! I decided to go with Serebii's Base Stat numbers for the IV Calculator. They are currently in. Let me know if any numbers don't come out right!
Hey all! My wife decided to go back to school to be a teacher, so my schedule ended up being even tighter than before. This probably means I won't be able to get a new site done before Pokemon X/Y. (A shame, too. The IV Calculator is going to get a sweet overhaul, making it usable offline and also auto calculating whenever you change a number.) The only good news I have is that I will update the current IV Calculator with all the new Pokemon numbers as soon as they become available (I will MAKE time for this update no matter what).
Hey guys! Just wanted to let you all know that this site hasn't been abandoned! I have been too busy as of late. I will be trying to do the site again next week when I finally have some free time. Hopefully, things will go well!
If you see this message, then www.metalkid.info is now on a new host! It costs half of my old host and is better in every way! It has unlimited space/bandwidth, I can have 25 databases up to 10 gig each, and I now have a test area that you can all go to see the latest build of the new site I'm building! It is at http://stage.metalkid.info Right now, most of the Digimon section works and also Other -> Theme has some nifty functionality. Feel free to investigate! :)
Looks like someone was able to hack the site via the Digimon World 2 pages. Thus, I removed that entire section. They couldn't get the database, but could take over those pages and redirect you to a malware site. From what I can tell, I believe a Google bot found the vulnerability. They injected code into some javascript files I had in the Digimon directory. I am currently rewritting the site in MVC 4, so Digimon World 2 data won't be available until then.
Take a look at the new header of the new site at http://s179701485.onlinehome.us/Index.html Let me know what you think via email at email@example.com or leave a message for me via Chatango.
Hello, everyone. I know I haven't been around much. I've been busy with work and a child. I wanted to let you know that I was able to get all the Digimon sprites put together for Digimon World 2. I don't have time to add them directly to the site, so I'm uploading them to http://www.metalkid.info/Digimon/Sprites.zip It is a 24 meg file with 4 side views of all the Digimon in the game!
While you are waiting for me to get my sorry ass in gear to redo site and give you interactive Pokemon League, you can start battling now at a forum hosted by players that frequent this site. It is located at http://z13.invisionfree.com/MK_League/index.php?act=idx Everything you do will be moved into the league when I get it finished. The league will automate a lot of tedious things and allow you to travel around on our own map! (Maybe even a few other cool features in the future...) I'm also working on creating my own chat system. I will have complete control over everything about it. I'll be able to look at the logs and give both Ban and Kick support. It'll be tied to your user name you use to log into this site with. Chatango will still be here, so don't worry about losing it! :)
I just created a 100% javascript version of my IV Calculator! You can consider it in beta status. It is located at http://www.metalkid.info/Test/ Let me know if you have any issues!
Oh, I also forgot to mention that I plan on making a mobile version of this site, too! That means if you connect to the site with some sort of mobile device, the UI will change based upon that (more user friendly).
I'm learning how to code in Android for work. I may try to port my IV Calculator to Android because of it. I am also planning on redoing this site a bit. It is organized rather poorly and I want to expand into other things than just Pokemon. Also, I don't want to screw up my existing data whenever a new Pokemon comes along. I plan on getting EVERYTHING working (including the league) up and running before I push it online. The general layout of the site won't change all that much (might be prettier). Finally, I'm going to try to code a javascript only IV Calc (like Serebii's, only it won't suck) so people can use it offline. :)
Hey all. I've gotten sucked into Dragon Quest Monster: Joker 2 and am working on the database for that. I'm pretty far. I will be changing the site slightly to make it so that each game is under a dropdown menu and that each game has its own menu items across the top. For example, instead of seeing News, Pokemon, Digimon World 2 when you are on the Pokemon site, you would see Menu, Pokedex, Calculators, etc.
Hey all! I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm still working on the league. I may have just finished the last of the Administration part of the site in order to setup leagues! (Yes, the way everything is setup, this site can support multiple leagues running at the same time!) I will try and upload the changes tonight (CST) and try to get all the Towns, Gyms, and Badges setup. Then we'll see if we can get all the different routes entered from town to town. Once all the information has been entered, I can start working on trying to get the actual league pages up and running!
Plan Pokemon page should now have all the Moves and Items available to choose. Let me know if that is not the case!
I fixed the news page. Not really sure how it got overwritten and uploaded, but it is fixed now. I am currently working on the MK League database and pages. It is coming along faster than even I had hoped.
You can now Plan your Pokemon under Pokemon -> My Data -> Plan Pokemon! You can keep a Planned version and then the Actual version, allowing you to design your Pokemon up-front (i.e. define the EVs you want) and then you can track your progress against it. The MK Pokemon League will utilize the data you enter on this page for defining your teams. On the List Pokemon page, you can click on Track EVs to track your EVs as you fight to make sure you know your exact total.
I also updated the Ability names and was able to create the Abilities page that lists all the abilities, their description, and the Pokemon that have them.
Finally got the names of the various Moves updated.
I added Base Experience and Max Experience of all Pokemon to the Pokemon - Charts - Experience page.
Just wanted to let you know I applied two fixes/enhancements based on input people gave thru the Other - Suggestions/Bugs page. First, I fixed the issue on the IV Calculator where it was not saving the Ability. Second, I added the ability to filter for only the last evolutions of Pokemon on the Pokedex page.
I've been quite busy as of late (And watching too much Stargate SG1). I wanted to get the league portion of the site up and running, but I have to overcome a big hurdle, first. This site's database runs off the data from Veekun's GIT repository. Since the first time I imported it, Veekun has changed the structure of his entire database. I now have to re-code my importer in order to account for his new structure. That will take me days. I currently have some data that is in English and Japanese, so I have to fix that. There is so much I can do to improve this site, so I hope I can get enough ambition to get past this issue soon!
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Friday, December 04, 2009
Should You Allow Someone to Resign from Church Membership When They Are About to Be Disciplined?
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- Anonymous said...
You could refuse they're resignation and pursue in hopes of disciplining and restoring. As disheartening as someone leaving a church family is, you can't stop them from leaving if they've decided to leave. You can only hope that they leave for the right reasons. In this case if they are leaving a church that believes and practices church discipline this day and age, their reason(s) for leaving most likely won't be good ones. I would elect to discipline that person before they've resigned or before bringing the matter of resignation before the church members and allow them to resign afterwards if it's still their desire. It would not be good for the body of Christ and the brother/sister, if they entered into another church body (if they're not apostatizing), not having a sin which needed church discipline to be implemented, addressed.
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