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008. The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part VIII: Eliminate The Impossible: 1892-1905, Paperback
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Part VIII - Eliminate the Impossible: 1892-1905 features contributions by: Deana Baran, Tim Symonds, Sandor Jay Sonnen, Ben Cardall, Andrew Lane, Michael Mallory, Wendy C. Fries, Aaron Smith, Arthur Hall, Robert Perret, Nick Cardillo, Paul D. Gilbert, Cindy Dye, Tracy Revels, Derrick Belanger, William Meikle, Marcia Wilson, David Friend, Roger Riccard, Craig Janacek, Jeremy Branton Holstein, Will Murray, David Ruffle, Daniel McGachey, and David Marcum, with a poem by Christopher James, and forewords by David Marcum, Lee Child, Rand Lee, Michael Cox, and Melissa Farnham.
In 2015, The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories burst upon the scene, featuring adventures set within the correct time period, and written by many of today's leading Sherlockian authors from around the world. Those first three volumes were overwhelmingly received, and there were soon calls for additional collections. Since then, their popularity has only continued to grow, with six volumes already released, and now two more, Eliminate the Impossible, featuring tales of Holmes's encounters with seemingly impossible events – ghosts and hauntings, curses and mythical beasts, and more.
In "The Sussex Vampire", Holmes tells Watson: "This agency stands flat-footed upon the ground, and there it must remain. The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply." In each of the stories presented in this massive two-volume collection, Holmes approaches the varied problems with one of his favorite maxims firmly in place: ". . . . when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth . . . ." But what, exactly, is the truth?
2017 is the 130th anniversary of the publication of A Study in Scarlet, the first recorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson. What an amazing journey it's been! In addition to the pitifully few sixty tales originally presented in The Canon, published between 1887 and 1927, there have been literally thousands of additional Holmes adventures in the form of books, short stories, radio and television episodes, movies, manuscripts, comics, and fan fiction. And yet, for those who are true friends and admirers of the Master Detective of Baker Street, where it is always 1895 (or a few decades on either side of that!) these stories are not enough. Give us more!
The forty-eight stories in these two companion volumes represent some of the finest new Holmesian storytelling to be found, and honor the man described by Watson as "the best and wisest . . . whom I have ever known."
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Traditional brick-and-mortar stores alone are not enough tostay ahead in the digital era. America's shoppers want convenient, hassle-free experiences.
Walmart and Nordstrom are building physical stores that don't actually sell anything. The two retailers are creating small hubs in big cities and dense suburban areas for shoppers to retrieve their online grocery and clothing orders. These new locations give them access to shoppers who want their stuff in a hurry without schlepping out to regular big-box stores or waiting around for home delivery.
Earlier this month, Walmart opened Walmart Pickup Point, a 40,000 square-foot prototype store outside of Chicago in Lincolnwood, Illinois, to cater to customers' online pickups and deliveries. Customers drive up to the site to designated parking spots, and a Walmart worker will load up their trunk with their order.
The inside of the Lincolnwood locations looks like a Walmart with groceries and everyday items such as diapers, household cleaners and pet supplies. Unlike a traditional Walmart, however, customers won't be able go inside. It is also testing a similar model near its Arkansas headquarters.
The new location "gives busy customers the ability to shop how, when and where they want," store manager Nicole Olson said in a release.
The new Walmart locations share similarities with Nordstrom Local, a concept Nordstrom first introduced in Los Angeles in 2017.
Nordstrom Local hubs are smaller than its traditional department stores. They give customers a place to make pickups and returns and take advantage of Nordstrom's alteration and tailoring services. Nordstrom has three Local stores in Los Angeles and is slated to open its first two in New York City in September.
Walmart and Nordstrom's innovations are the latest examples of how retailers are attempting to create distinctive services to fight off Amazon.
Buy online, pickup in store grows
Retailers have been successfully expanding online pickup options in their stores in recent years.
Nordstrom offers pickup at all its more than 100 full-priced locations around the United States, while Walmart is on track to offer pickup at more than 3,000 of its stores by the end of 2019.
Walmart Pickup Point and Nordstrom Local are another way these retailers are trying to capitalize on the growth of pickup, especially among younger and wealthier shoppers.
More than 15% of US shoppers have already tried online pickup, and sales will hit $35 billion annually by next year, Cowen analysts estimated in a report.
Curbside pickup is the "natural evolution of the traditional in-store shopping experience," Cowen analysts said in the report.
Pickup appeals to shoppers who want to grab their stuff and go without waiting in checkout lines or interacting with sales workers on the floor, analysts say. Picking up orders from stores can also be faster than home delivery.
For retailers, pickup is a better economic model for them than delivery because they can avoid paying expensive shipping fees. Many retailers' profit margins have dipped in recent years due to investments in their e-commerce supply chains.
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Walmart points out that its Lincolnwood hub broadens its ability to attract shoppers in an area where it can't fit one of its 178,000 square-foot jumbo stores.
For Nordstrom, customers who visit Local stores spend two and a half times more on average than regular customers, according to the company. Customers also tend to be younger and more frequent Nordstrom shoppers than those who don't shop at Local.
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Bank of Canada signals low rates for longer
The Bank of Canada announced on July 16th, 2014 that it was keeping its trend-setting overnight lending rate at 1 per cent.
The overnight rate has not moved in almost four years, and the Bank's July announcement and accompanying Monetary Policy Report (MPR) suggest the most likely scenario right now is that the overnight rate will remain parked where it is for at least another year and a half.
That said, the Bank made clear that it was "neutral" with respect to not only the timing but also the direction of any future change to the policy rate. The Bank is taking a wait and see approach at this point, saying that any future moves "will depend on how new information influences the outlook and assessment of risks."
With inflation having "moved up to the 2 per cent target in recent months, sooner than expected," talk of a rate cut has all but gone away; however, the Bank attributes the recent rise in inflation to temporary effects, specifically higher energy prices, a lower Canadian dollar, and other sector-specific shocks rather than to any change in domestic economic fundamentals.
As such, headline inflation is expected to continue to bounce around in the 2 per cent range over the next two years, while under the surface there will be a symmetrical unwinding as the temporary effects currently pushing it up gradually fade away and the economic fundamentals currently holding it down, namely slack in the economy and elevated retail competition, also become less of a factor.
The Bank noted that global economic growth has been on a lower track than was forecast in the April MPR, and the forecast for global growth has been lowered accordingly, specifically this year but also for next year. The forecast for Canadian economic growth has likewise been trimmed from the 2 ½ per cent range this year and next to 2 ¼ per cent on average this year and next and into 2016 as well.
As a result, the economy is now not expected to get back to full capacity until mid-2016 compared to the April MPR's prediction of early 2016. As such, bets on when the first interest rate hike could come will likely be pushed from mid-2015 to later in the year and possibly even into early 2016. The bottom line is, once again, interest rates will be lower for longer.
The Bank still expects that "the lower Canadian dollar and a projected strengthening in global demand will lead to a pickup in Canadian exports and business investment and, eventually, a more sustainable growth track," although this may take a little longer than expected to materialize with the Canadian dollar having recently popped back up a bit and the forecast for global growth, and particularly growth in the U.S., having been downgraded.
The Bank also re-iterated that "household imbalances continue to evolve constructively and recent data are broadly consistent with a soft landing in Canada's housing market."
As of July 16th, 2014, the advertised five-year lending rate stood at 4.79 per cent, unchanged from the previous Bank rate announcement on June 4th, 2014 and down 0.35 percentage points from the same time one year ago.
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Dr Dan Burisch, Project Lotus
And Disclosure Of The
Extraterrestrial Presence
Exopolitical Comment #12
By Michael Salla, PhD
On April 8, 2004, an article began to circulate among media organizations and the internet claiming that Daniel [Catselas] Burisch, PhD., a microbiologist who has worked in the 'black projects' that deal with extraterrestrial races and technologies wants to disclose information of his classified activities to the US Congress (<http://www.rense.com/general51/dan.htm). Such testimony would presumably disclose an extraterrestrial presence on Earth that has been suppressed from public knowledge for over five decades. Such testimony if it occurred, would formally begin a post-disclosure world where the general public would have to suddenly deal with a myriad number of issues associated with the extraterrestrial presence.
Dan Burisch is no stranger to those working on disclosure of the extraterrestrial presence due to a co-authored book of his titled, Eagles Disobey: The Case for Inca City Mars (1998) that released information on ancient artifacts on Mars to the public. This was the first instance of Burisch coming forth into the public arena with information that is not released through the national security system, and of someone with a conscience that wants to help in promoting disclosure of the extraterrestrial presence. More recently, Burisch is associated with Project Lotus which is based at Area 51, Nevada, and deals with the creation of life, and in particular with something called the 'Ganesh Particle' (http://www.rense.com/general33/searcasdh.htm).
This mysterious particle is supposed to be the key to opening up the most powerful force in creation which is the 'seed of life' itself, and has the ability to heal damaged cells. So we have echoes of the Epic of Gilgamesh where the hero Gilgamesh set out on a quest for the secret of immortality, and got tantalizingly close to success before being robbed by a wily serpent. As a modern day version of Gilgamesh, Dr Burisch comes across as a very principled and spiritual man who wants to make sure that this esoteric and scientific knowledge is used in a responsible way since it has nothing less than the original creative force behind it, and can be used either for creation or great destruction. This thus raises religious issues such as the 'Seed of Life', 'Kerubim' (angelic protectors), 'Book of Genesis', etc. (http://www.skywatch-research.org/message.htm )
Burisch is opposed by those inside the management system created to deal with extraterrestrials, the Committee of the Majority, who apparently want to manipulate this technology for the typical range of military-industrial uses that national security types are obsessed about in terms of credible 'threat scenarios'. Imagine any threat possible, and if you can justify it as plausible, then you will have resources literally thrown at you as the national security system comes up with the advanced technology to deal with the new threat. In the process, of course, one unwittingly enhances the very threat that one is trying to prevent. This self-fulfilling process has the unfortunate effect of mesmerizing national security strategists into believing the latest spin put to them by their 'strategists' or 'corporate consultants' who constantly dream up new technological responses to the latest threat scenario, and how this can be done without precipitating the very threat being prepared for. Thus grows the military-industrial complex, a powerful hydra that secretly consumes billions of dollars as effortlessly as former Tyco executives ratchet up 'necessary' corporate expenses such as $6,000 shower curtains.
Dan Burisch has also worked with one extraterrestrial biological entity, a 'Gray' he called J-Rod, with whom he had a close working relationship with at Area 51. This J-Rod essentially performed a 'mind-meld' with him where he downloaded much valuable information on the genesis of life (http://www.skywatch-research.org/message.htm ).
The interesting thing about Burisch is that a number of independent researchers have been able to work with him and even had face to face interviews, etc, thereby leaking all this highly classified information out to the general community. These include researchers such as BJ Wolf, Bill Hamilton, and more recently individuals from the popular Godlike Production forum, Harry Dschaak & Sterling D. Allan. Clearly all these researchers have detected something of profound importance happening in the Burisch case, while their access to Burisch and the leaking of material suggests that they have insider support. Prominent individuals within the 'Committe of the Majority' are facilitating access, and enabling the distribution of the Burisch material. According to Burisch's supporters, this is because Dan is insisting on the information being distributed to the public, otherwise he wouldn't cooperate in Project Lotus which is essential since he apparently is the only microbiologist with the requisite knowledge to deal with the Ganesh particle. What is one to make of all the material that has been distributed on the Burisch case since it is enigmatic, very complex, quite long with a lot of rambling, and is possibly based on much disinformation?
Some of the major themes coming through the Burisch saga are that there are two factions of J-Rods or Grays. One faction is apparently helping Burisch in his research and is benign, and wants the knowledge disseminated in a way that helps humanity, and also assists the Grays/J-Rods themselves in repairing their own damaged DNA. The other faction of J-Rods/Grays is helping more reactionary national security types in getting more control of the Ganesh Particle so it can be utilised for the usual range of self-serving reasons around the usual formula of power, greed and exploitation.
So we basically have a scenario of deep conflict within the management system set up for extraterrestrials involving 'progressive controllers' and their J-Rod allies, set up against reactionary extraterrestrial controllers and 'their' J-Rods/Grays. In the meantime, many are putting their attention on this saga believing that the very fate of the planet is being decided here, and people are being subtly encouraged to take sides. Of course, that means supporting the progressives and Dan Burisch, in their difficult struggle against the reactionaries and their J-Rod allies.
This has echoes of the present Democratic and Republican contested elections in the US where we have a progressive John Kerry, pitted against a reactionary, George Bush, where the future of the US, and indeed the planet will be decided. Now there are certainly progressive elements in John Kerry's policy platform suggesting a more internationally responsible US administration. However, both Kerry and Bush both are members of 'Skull and Bones', and therefore one might not unreasonably infer that there is a deeper agenda here where two factions of the same secretive organization is battling for domination. I think that the Burisch saga has powerful echoes of this which is why I would assume many of us who have been following extraterrestrial issues for some time would side more with the progressives in this saga since we instinctively desire disclosure and accountability.
However, we need to be aware that there is a deeper agenda here. One where there is legitimacy and acknowledgement given to one faction of the elite controllers of the extraterrestrial presence, and the particular spin they are putting on the extraterrestrial presence. That there is a spin happening in all this is pretty apparent to me since the saga appears to hinge on two factions of Grays/J-Rods pitted against each other, and their respective human allies. In all this conflict, there is no mention of other extraterrestrial races who have been watching and interacting with humanity for millennia in some cases. No mention of Pleiadians, Sirians, Andromedans, Arcturians, the Galactic Federation, etc., mentioned by numerous other researchers exploring the extraterrestrial presence (<http://exopolitics.org/Study-Paper1.htm>http://exopolitics.org/Study-Paper1.htm ). It's as though we are being conditioned to accept that the only extraterrestrials that are relevant to the human condition are the J-Rods/Grays.
This in my view is a dangerous spin on the extraterrestrial presence that suggests that the ultimate goal is to justify disclosure of the extraterrestrial presence which will enable one side of the extraterrestrial controllers to say that the 'good guys' (progressives and friendly J-Rods) have won in ensuring disclosure, and that they need help in removing whatever residual threat posed by the losing reactionaries and their extraterrestrial allies. In that sense we would have the necessary formula for a repressive national security system that monitors, controls and exercises coercive power in which extraterrestrial groups are allowed to operate here, and interact with civilians.
Essentially, the national security system will have ensured disclosure on 'their terms' where 'witnesses', 'contactees', and different extraterrestrial races would all have to meet the approval of the 'progressive extraterrestrial controllers' and their J-Rod supporters. Essentially, a group of friendly extraterrestrials from the Galactic Federation or other interplanetary associations that never participated in the secret agreements reached between governments and Gray extraterrestrials (<http://exopolitics.org/Study-Paper-8.htm>http://exopolitics.org/Study-Paper-8.htm ), for example, could be claimed to be merely a front for the reactionary J-Rods and thereby proscribed from interacting with civilians. Any civilians caught communicating or contacting with extraterrestrials deemed to be 'unfriendly', would be liable to imprisonment, repression, etc.
As you may have guessed by now, I'm very skeptical about the 'benign' intentions of those within the extraterrestrial management system who are leaking information on Dan Burisch, and basically engaging in a public relations exercise to promote their perspective or 'spin' to the general population. While I see some merit in what the progressives in the extraterrestrial management system are doing to promote disclosure, I also smell a trap and wish to alert others that we are being spun a tale that will legitimize enough of the present national security system so that it survives any disclosure announcement with minimal damage and calls for change. Furthermore, accountability would be limited to some 'scapegoats' who are discredited and punished, and where there will be no real 'transparency' since this would be deemed to be a national security threat. Essentially, we would have something akin to a Marxist-Leninist 'dictatorship of the proletariat' or Platonic 'Council of Guardians', that would be filled by the ranks of the elite controllers to guard us against 'reactionary' or 'unfriendly' extraterrestrials and their 'human assets' wanting to destabilize humanity and enslave us. All of course to promote the continued operation and functionality of a secretive national security system that operates with minimal transparency and accountability. A further result would be to legitimize one faction of J-Rods/Grays as extraterrestrials that are worthy allies, despite the fact that these extraterrestrials participated for decades in secret agreements that involved human abductions, experiments and hybridization programs.
So in conclusion, while the Burisch saga indicates a struggle that appears genuine enough, and has progressive and reactionary components, we need to be alert to the deeper agenda that is playing itself out here and which has two important aspects. The first is to legitimize 'progressive' factions among elite human controllers and Grays/J-Rods for a post-disclosure world. The second agenda is to create a national security system that excludes from interacting with humans and national governments those extraterrestrial races that never agreed to participate in secret agreements for reasons that appear to be highly principled and sound.
If we remain alert of this underlying agenda, then we can still participate in the disclosure process which is very important, but in that way we ensure that the so called 'progressives' don't just put a spin on the extraterrestrial presence that results in them legitimizing themselves and their 'extraterrestrial friends', and creating a superficially more transparent and accountable national security system. What we need to focus on is full disclosure of all the extraterrestrial races that are operating on Earth, and not just two factions of the Grays/J-Rods supposedly battling for the benefit or detriment of all humanity. Disclosure that is made with the Dan Burisch scenario at its core, is something that is so highly contrived, that it would amount to little more than two small steps forward followed quickly by one large step back. At the end, we wouldn't know if we were better off or not. After five decades of secrecy over the extraterrestrial presence, humanity deserves a more honest reckoning of what has been happening behind the scenes with the extraterrestrial presence, and an unambiguous step forward into a post-disclosure world.
Copyright © Michael E. Salla, PhD (April 10, 2004)
"Area 51 Microbiologist Dr. Dan Burisch Ready To Talk," http://www.rense.com/general51/dan.htm
"Mystery Of Dr. Dan Burisch - Beginning To End," http://www.rense.com/general42/mssy.htm
"Last Letter from Dan Burisch," http://www.skywatch-research.org/message.htm
"Mystery S-4 Scientist Dr. Dan Burisch Is Alive!" http://www.rense.com/general34/alive.htm
"Burisch's Ganesh Particle Acknowledged By Caltech," http://www.rense.com/general33/searcasdh.htm
"New Mars 'Inca City' Photographs Reveal More Mystery," http://www.rense.com/general28/inca.htm.
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From James Ballester
Read with much amusement the latest article by Mr. Michael Salla, PhD (really!). When he mentioned the Galactic Federation I really got excited! Is this the same Federation where Darth Vader is part of the Executive Board of Directors? Heck, this is really something else! How can I send these guys an e-mail?
I found a really revealing Galactic Code in his article: Burish is to Garish as Bullshit is to Garbage. I know, I know - this merits further scientific research and peer review, but shocking nevertheless! (Bible Code, eat your heart out).
Really Jeff, I know your site if free and wonderfully interesting and entertaining, but can someone (you) research these loony toon articles before posting them?
Hope my last e-mail made you laugh or at least smile and did not offend. ( the Pravda.ru one).
Most importantly - Happy Easter!
Jaime Ballester
P.S. May the Garesh Particle be with you.
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In this latest image acquired by ESA's Envisat on Thursday at 16:23 UTC, oil from the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico can be seen as a dark blue swirl advancing toward the Louisiana coast.
On Thursday night, the oil spill — five times larger than first estimated — had spread to just under 5 km from the coast, threatening environmental disaster.
As efforts are being made by all available resources to help avert the feared environmental catastrophe, Envisat images are being provided to U.S. authorities immediately after they are acquired through the International Charter Space and Major Disasters.
On 22 April the U.S. Geological Survey, on behalf of the U.S. Coast Guard, requested the Charter to provide rapid access to radar and optical satellite imagery of the oil slick. In response, a series of space sensors, including Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) and Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR), have been tasked to monitor the situation.
Since this date, Envisat MERIS and ASAR data were provided in near real time and have been used by the U.S.'s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The Charter is an international collaboration between worldwide space agencies to put satellite remote sensing at the service of civil protection agencies and others in response to natural and man-made disasters.
In the black-and-white radar image, acquired by ASAR on Wednesday at 03:45 UTC, the oil spill is visible as a lighter grey whirl on the left side of the large black pattern stretching across the Gulf. The colour image was acquired by MERIS.
Radar is especially suited for detecting oil spills as it works day and night, is able to see through clouds, unlike optical sensors, and is especially sensitive to the smoother water surface caused by the presence of oil. Depending on the situation, oil is harder to detect in optical satellite observations as the changes on the water surface are not as pronounced.
To see the latest MERIS images of the oil spill, visit our MIRAVI website. MIRAVI, which is free and requires no registration, generates images from the raw data collected by MERIS and provides them online quickly after acquisition. The next MERIS acquisitions of the oil spill are scheduled for late Saturday and Sunday morning (U.S. Louisiana time), if clouds are not blocking the satellite's view.


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CBN.com MISSION TRENDS Tim says the focus of world missions is on unreached peoples. Unreached people can be defined as a group of people that speak a common language and share a common culture. They think of themselves as "us" and they do not have among them enough Christians to evangelize the group, typically less than 2%, if any. Demographers have identified almost 17,000 distinct people groups around the globe and nearly 7,000 of these groups are considered "unreached." This is around 2.8 billion people. The church's missions task is far from done. Among the best resources for getting involved with unreached peoples are the Joshua Project, Adopt-a-People Foundation, and Aims Foundation.
Missions have become less Western-oriented and much more Southern-oriented. In years past, most missionaries came from Europe and North America. Now the movement is toward more missionaries being sent from Latin America, Asia, and Africa. If trends continue, South Korea will soon be sending more missionaries than the United States. The trend of missions is investing more of its funds in leadership development. In any area where growth is happening and the church is maturing, it is the result of a strong, well-prepared leader.
Because of the global economy, Tim says world missions are now different with much belt-tightening. Because of global financial situations, less income is available to mission-sending agencies. Now in the West, there are more short-term missions. There is a shift to reach those in the "4/14 Window" which are children from ages 4-14. Tim says this is a hot demographic that is mushrooming in growth. TRENDS IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND CHRISTIAN MISSIONS Here are trends Tim is seeing. Most of the statistics are from Pew Research Center; Barna Research and Joshua Project. The rate of overall global population growth is 1.2 % a year. In terms of religion:
Buddhism is growing at 1.3%. Hinduism is growing at 1.2%. Islam is growing at 1.9%. Christianity is growing at 1.2%. Evangelical Christianity is growing at 2.6%
The world's population is slightly over 7 billion. Of that number, approximately one-third are Christians (of all kinds, e.g., Catholic, Orthodox, etc). In 1960, 3 percent of the world was comprised of evangelical Christians; by 2012, that percentage had grown to 8 percent. Evangelicals are growing in a healthy manner, 2.6%.
The downside of these figures is that 86% of Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and tribal peoples do not know one single Christian. That number mounts up to 41% of the world, or 2.8 billion, who have not heard the gospel of Christ and who will not hear unless an outsider goes to them.
STATE OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE UNITED STATES Here is some data compiled about Christianity in the U.S.: 1) A great majority of Christians are biblically and theologically illiterate; they profess to be believers, but they know little of the faith they claim.
2) Christians are more ingrown and private, and they are not interested in any kind of outreach. This is a change from past years.
3) Many Christians, especially "Millennials" (those born between 1983 and 2002) are more interested in social justice and social service than earlier generations.
4) Christians have been negatively affected by the secular movement toward "tolerance," until many do not have strong standards of belief and behavior, i.e., they believe people have a right to do what they want to do, without outside restrictions.
5) There does not seem to be much visible influence on the world by the teachings and practices of Christian churches.
Here are more statistics about the U.S. Christian population in general: 1) 75% of adults in the U.S. say they have been influenced negatively by the economy, and they do not anticipate an upswing in the near future.
2) 84% of Millennials say they make no connection between the Bible and their lives.
3) "Digital addiction" is a new phenomenon that has been identified by psychiatrists. Teens and young adults average 60 hours a week engaged with some kind of media. This will have long-term effects.
4) Christians self-identify as not being committed. Only 20% claim that they consider themselves "committed" to their faith.
COG MISSIONS UPDATE Over the last few years, Tim has been the General Director of the World Missions for the Church of God (COG). In the last six months he has been to 12 nations and the last country he visited was India. Now he is preparing to go to Cambodia where the Church of God is going to build a city in Phnom Penh with a water system, housing, etc.
Tim also says COG churches are planting churches around the world every six hours. Their work efforts are strong, complete with establishing Bible schools, etc. The Church of God has congregations in 177 countries and territories with almost 6 million members. Although they have many missionaries, the leaders in most countries are nationals. In Indonesia, the Church of God is twice the numerical size of the church in the United States. Several churches have thousands of members, one with more than 100,000. In Guatemala, total adult membership exceeds the membership of the total members in the six largest states of the U.S. In Bolivia, where COG had only 42 churches in 2010, it has started 30 new churches, and they are still planting churches there.
COG also reaches out to about 5,500 children in 120 orphanages around the world. Marcelly's Dream is one of COG's ministries that reaches out to orphans. Marcelly Thompson, the seven-year-old adopted daughter of one of their missionary couples to Brazil, is the inspiration for this ministry. She dreamed she saw Jesus telling her she would be bringing the Gospel to the children of Africa. Parts of the outreach are to put a Bible in the hand of every orphan as well as dig wells of clean, safe water; build walls to protect these areas, and offer wellness programs in the orphanages.
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(Translated in English, this means, "Everything is Possible."
On a small piece of paper, write down a worry that has been bothering you.
Fold the paper in half and place it in the box.
Leave that worry to other forces and move on to this moment.
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Billaudot publisher, score in sell: GB 6984
Commission of the "Association des professeurs de saxophone A. Sax". Premiere of the version for Saxophone: C.N.R. d'Amiens, S. Bertocchi and his class, 07/02/2000.
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III.- Le p'tit prince a dit
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These short works for teaching purposes are duets written for a teacher and his/her student who have been studying for at least two years. The tempo should be chosen depending on the level of the student.
In concert, for a group of six students, each student will play his piece with the teacher, and will conduct the last piece, Pour la classe. If they are sufficiently capable, the six students will be seated around the public (as indicated in «Pour la classe»), and the teacher will move from student to student before going to the centre to conduct this last work.
Katajjaq: formulas will be chosen depending on the students' capability (the most difficult formulas could be eliminated).


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Why Trump Is Routing the Free Traders
A Commentary by Patrick J. Buchanan
In Tuesday's indictment of free trade as virtual economic treason, The Donald has really set the cat down among the pigeons.
For, in denouncing NAFTA, the WTO, MFN for China and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, all backed by Bush I and II, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, Trump is all but calling his own party leaders dunderheads and losers.
And he seems to be winning the argument.
As he calls for the repudiation of "globalism" and a return to "Americanism," a Republican Congress renders itself mute on whether it will even vote on the TPP this year.
On trade, Bernie Sanders is closer to Trump. Even Hillary Clinton has begun to renounce a TPP she once called the "gold standard" of trade deals.
Where have all the troubadours of free trade gone? Why do economic patriots seem ascendant? Is this like the Cold War, where the other side gets up and goes home?
Answer. As Trump pointed out in Monessen in the Mon Valley of Pennsylvania, the returns from free trade are in, and the results are rotten.
Since Bush I, we have run $12 trillion in trade deficits, $4 trillion with China. Once a Maoist dump, China has become the greatest manufacturing power on earth. Meanwhile, the U.S. has lost 50,000 factories and a third of its manufacturing jobs.
Trump is going to start a "trade war," wail the critics.
But the damage wreaked upon U.S. industry by free traders already rivals what Arthur "Bomber" Harris did for German industry in the Ruhr.
In recent decades, every major U.S. trade partner -- China, Japan, Canada, Mexico, EU -- has run annual trade surpluses at our expense. How do 40 years of trade deficits in goods, run by a nation that rarely ran one for a century before, make us stronger or wealthier?
Or is what is best for the world now more important than what is best for America?
And here we come to the heart of the argument.
Washington, Hamilton, and Henry Clay, father of the "American System," and Lincoln and every Republican president up to Eisenhower, crafted trade policies to promote manufacturing to grow the wealth of the USA.
They were patriots not globalists.
They knew that America's political independence required economic independence of all other nations. They wanted to build an economy where Americans would cut their bonds to foreign lands and come to rely upon one another for the needs and necessities of their national life. They sought to make us independent, so that we could not be dragged by economic ties into the inevitable wars of the Old World.
And they succeeded magnificently.
Britain, which embraced free trade in the 1840s, became so reliant on imports that a few dozen German submarines almost knocked her out of World War I. Protectionist America had to come pull her chestnuts out of the fire.
Free trade ideology is not America-made. It is an alien faith, a cargo cult, smuggled in from the old continent, the work of men Edmund Burke called "sophisters, economists, and calculators."
David Ricardo, James and John Stuart Mill, Richard Cobden, all chatterers and scribblers, none of whom ever built a great nation, declared free trade to be the new New Testament, the salvation of mankind.
These men in whose souls the old faith was dying seized on a utopian belief that world government and free trade would be the salvation of mankind. The Economist magazine was founded to preach the heresy.
Before the modern era, Americans never bought into it. But now, our elites have. And, undeniably, there are beneficiaries to free trade.
There are first the owners, operators and shareholders of companies who, to be rid of high-wage American labor, moved production to China or Mexico or where the costs are lower and regulations near nonexistent.
Transnational companies, their K Street lobbyists, and media that survive on their advertising dollars, are the biggest boosters of free trade, as they are the biggest beneficiaries.
Consumers, too, at least initially, see more products down at the mall, selling at lower prices. Cheap consumer goods are the bribes free traders proffer to patriots to sell out their country and countrymen to capitalists who have no country.
But we are not simply consumers. We are Americans. We are fellow citizens. We are neighbors. We have duties to one another.
When a factory shuts down and a town begins to die, workers are laid off. The local tax base shrinks, education and social services are cut. Folks go on unemployment and food stamps. We all pay for that.
Wives go to work and kids come home from school to empty houses, and families break up, and move away. Social disintegration follows.
"Creative destruction" is the antiseptic term free traders use to describe what they have done and are doing to the America we grew up in.
Southeast of the old Steel City, in the Mon Valley of Pennsylvania, where my mother and her six brothers and her sister grew up, folks describe what happened more poignantly and graphically.
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book "The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority." To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.
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Author: Catherine Stine
Genre: paranormal historical suspense
Publisher: Konjur Road Press
Date of Publication: March 16, 2016
Number of pages: 265
Word Count: 76K
Cover Artist: Mae I Designs
Book Description:
Fiera was born a sea witch with no inkling of her power. And now it might be too late.
Witch of the Cards is historical, supernatural romantic suspense set in 1932 on the Jersey shore. Twenty-two year-old Fiera has recently left the Brooklyn orphanage where she was raised, and works in Manhattan as a nanny. She gets a lucky break when her boss pays for her short vacation in Asbury Park. One evening, Fiera and her new friend Dulcie wander down the boardwalk and into Peter Dune's Tarot & Séance, where they attend a card reading.
Fiera has always had an unsettling ability to know things before they happen and sense people's hidden agendas. She longs to either find out the origin of her powers or else banish them because as is, they make her feel crazy. When, during the reading, her energies somehow bond with Peter Dune's and form an undeniable ethereal force, a chain of revelations and dangerous events begin to unspool. For one, Fiera finds out she is a witch from a powerful sea clan, but that someone is out to stop her blossoming power forever. And though she is falling in love with Peter, he also has a secret side. He's no card reader, but a private detective working to expose mediums. Despite this terrible betrayal, Fiera must make the choice to save Peter from a tragic Morro Cruise boat fire, or let him perish with his fellow investigators. Told in alternating viewpoints, we hear Fiera and Peter each struggle against their deep attraction. Secrets, lies, even murder, lace this dark fantasy.
The absinthe put me in a dreamy state. Added to the mix was the sensual comfort of sitting next to Peter, who served as a buffer between Alyse and me.
Somewhere in the room, a chorus of faint voices floated around, high and sweet. Or was the sound merely in my head? How could it be? Peter asked me a question, but it took three repetitions for me to understand him over the low-slung jazz notes infused with the chorus of invisible soprano cherubs singing at me.
"Have you always had a talent for the unseen?" I heard him ask.
"Whatever do you mean? It was you who saw things that weren't there." I had to right myself because I found myself swooning so much I nearly fell into Peter's lap.
"But it was you who eked it out of me."
"Little old me?" I giggled.
"Yes, you," Alyse agreed. "I was there, too. You have some strange talent. Can you describe how it works? You must be aware of it."
Everything was turning light and frothy like a magical cake icing. The barkeep was chatting up the fellows at his counter, the card players exhaled in cheery gusts of laughter, and the waitresses flounced around like so many sunny meadow flowers. I didn't see the harm. "I do sense things. Always have."
"What kind of things?" Peter and Alyse asked in tandem. Their unexpected accord matched the soprano voices singing harmoniously in and around my head.
I giggled again. "Do you hear them?"
"Hear what?" Peter looked around, spooked.
"Children, little voices."
Alyse's brows creased. "What are they saying?"
"They're singing." But the entire mood of the room had changed in an instant. Their radiant energy soured.
The children of the ether weren't singing any more. They were starting to weep, over something very sad.
Over me.
How did I know this? No idea. A hard frost shot through my bones. I took a big gulp of the absinthe. Perhaps it would block out the voices, the wailing of innocents.
"What is it?" Peter took my hand. His concerned touch cut through the horrible, chilling ache and melted me. "What's the matter, Fiera?" His face paled, and right then, I knew he heard them too. "They're crying, aren't they?" he whispered in my ear, tickling my soft lobe. "Crying over you."
"Yes." I leaned on him, letting the voices cry for me.
We hugged and I swear I felt his sudden, hot tears melt through the shoulder fabric of my dress. It was infinitely sad, infinitely tender.
The invisible cherubs whirring inside my head took translucent form and slipped out of me. They soared around the room like hardscrabble angels, flitting past Dulcie as she danced; sliding, their soft baby feet gliding over the long bar counter, and right through the man with the hookah. He glanced up for a moment as if he, too, felt the supernatural breeze. Then he bowed his head back down and took a pensive draw on his smoking device. Eyes closed, I saw green paisleys and floating leaves, the rushing of a cold stream bubbling under me, which filled me with terror. I came to with a gasp.
"What is it?" Alyse asked. How could I tell her of this suffering, shot through with spectacular floating objects, and my strange, sudden affinity with Mr. Dune?
"I see children weeping," I admitted. "They've been hurt."
"How?" Her voice grew anxious.
I silently asked them. "They're babies. They can't say."
When I looked over at Peter, it was obvious he was in the same deep trance he'd been in when we first met. His eyes were glazed as if whatever he was experiencing was far from this basement speakeasy. "What is it? What do you see?" I whispered.
"They're fading. They're dying. They're being—"
"Snap out of it, Mr. Dune." Alyse gave him a stern shaking. "You've had too much absinthe."
"It's not that!" I insisted.
"Then tell me what it is, Fiera," she said.
"It's a vision. Of something real from long ago."
"How long ago?"
"As long ago as there is a long ago." I sounded ridiculous. Alyse Bone was right. The absinthe was crazy making. Or was it the taffy? I leaned into Peter's limp shoulder, reached over and shook him, too, but with more patience than Alyse had.
His eyes fluttered open, and he gazed at me with that same calm as when he awoke after the séance. As before, his expression was clear of emotion, blissfully unaware of what he'd whispered to me minutes ago.
"Well, there you are," he slurred. "You look positively ravishing. Dance?"
"Thanks, don't mind if I do." I bumbled to my feet.
"You two really drank the coffin varnish." Alyse gave an unbecoming snort as she rose and drifted away.
Perhaps I was too far-gone, but I didn't care. Peter and I danced and danced. The speakeasy filled with the overflow from the convention hall dance—young lovers, bootleggers with wide ties and cigars, older women with twinkling earrings and heavy bosoms, even a prostitute or two. They wore too much rouge and sat brazenly up at the bar with the gin rummies.
This time, I couldn't say whether I stepped on Mr. Dune's polished wingtips. He probably couldn't be sure if he knocked his bony legs into mine. We had more nips of absinthe, and I wolfed down another green-swirl taffy. Before I knew it, I was leaning provocatively against Peter and laughing like a wild banshee.
I remember gaping up at him to see his black hair all disheveled and him indistinctly mumbling. And thinking that he was the most gorgeous human being I'd ever seen. I remember Peter and I howling at the crescent moon over the ocean, and the shocked sideways glance of the hotel proprietor as we stumbled in.
I recall pulling out the Tarot, and laying them out on my rug. I recall babbling at him—about a witch and a swindler and a boat. I can still picture his expression of shocked surprise.
And I remember Peter's lips branding my forehead—how could I ever forget that—while shocks of his lush black hair dangled deliciously on my burning cheeks. The last thing I recall before things went dark was kicking off my shoes.
Catherine Stine's novels span the range from futuristic to supernatural to contemporary. Her YA sci-fi thrillers Fireseed One and Ruby's Fire are Amazon bestsellers and indie award winners. Her YA, Dorianna won Best Horror Book in the Kindle Hub Awards. Heart in a Box, her contemporary YA was an Amazon Hot New Release in Teen and Alternative Family for over eight weeks. She also writes romance as Kitsy Clare. Her Art of Love series includes Model Position and Private Internship. Book three, Girl and the Gamer, launches this summer. She suspects her love of dark fantasy came from her father reading Edgar Allen Poe to her as a child, and her love of contemporary fiction comes from being a jubilant realist. To unwind she loves to watch "bad" reality TV and travel to offbeat places.


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Versions vs Milestones
Added by Maxim Krušina over 16 years ago
From my point of view there is better to use Milestones than Versions. Why? We're using Redmine for lot of activities, not only for SW development. When we're using Redmine for things like DTP and advertising management, basicaly any non-sw projects, there are milestones rather than versions. I think that version is hust one kind of milestone. Or, there can be both milestones and versions, like in Trac. What others think?
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RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Jos Yule over 16 years ago
What functionality is different between versions and milestones? How does Trac differentiate them?
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Maxim Krušina over 16 years ago
For example, you have SomeApp in version 1.0 and 1.1 and now you are working on 2.0.
It's bigger púroject, so you have to divide development into phases - milestones. You need to have deadline for each milestone, and you need to track how much work is done in each milestone, so you can track both nr of issues open/solved per milestone and time estimated/done/remining.
Versions are reserved relly for SW versions. Also, versions are in tickets when reporting bugs, because you need to track in which version was bug found, in which version you would like to fix it and actually, in which version it was fixed.
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Jos Yule over 16 years ago
I see what you are saying. However, i don't see how you couldn't just use "versions" for this as well. Or sub-projects, one for each milestone. Could you not create a version for each milestone? 1.0.1, 1.0.2 ... and so on? You could still assign tickets (issues) for each thing that needs to be done (script or document written) to a version, which can be given a date, and think of it as a milestone. I'm not arguing for not having milestones, i'm just trying to see if there is a way to get most of what you want using the current tool.
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Ronald Connor over 16 years ago
Hope you don't mind my jumping in here but I also tend to favour the name change from Version to Milestone.
I understand both sides of the argument but I think something as simple as changing the word from Version to Milestone would help a lot.
Milestones are more generic and opens up Redmine to a new set of users who are not involved with managing software projects. I personally use it to manage software and non-software projects and feel the term Version is a misnomer when applied to non-software projects.
Along the same lines, but slightly off topic, is the concept of iterations. In agile software development, iterations are used frequently and I do not see how to apply this concept in Redmine. Therefore, I think it would be very useful to add support for Iterations in Redmine. In my view, it would take several iterations to complete a Milestone. To simplify these combined changes, one could treat Milestones as a container for Versions (where Versions could then become synonymous with iterations).
I've not added this as an official request because I'd like to see what others think of this idea first and maybe have it fleshed out here through discussions first.
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Jos Yule over 16 years ago
First of all, i'm all for changing "versions" to "milestones". That seems like an easy win.
That said, i still don't understand why one can't create a series of smaller milestones? Why do you need a hierarchical grouping of milestones? If i were doing Scrumm or Agile dev, once you've come up with the changes for the current "iteration", create a new milestone, and assign tickets with the needed changes to that milestone. Why do you need "smaller" units of work? The real question is, to quote Ronald:
"In agile software development, iterations are used frequently and I do not see how to apply this concept in Redmine."
What don't milestones get you that this "new" idea of iterations would? You don't really spell it out, what the functionality of "iterations" would be in redmine.
Here is an example of using Milestones/Versions to do what i hear you want to do (keeping in mind that i don't really have any idea what it is you want to do ;)
You want to get to milestone 1.0. You create point milestones for each iteration towards 1.0 - 0.1, 0.2 ... 0.2345. Or to use more English sounding milestones:
"Finished Project" - 1.0
Iterations to reach "Finished Project" - "Iteration Week 1", "Iteraction Week 2"...
I'm interested to hear more about this whole subject - keep up the discussion!
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Thomas Löber over 16 years ago
Will it be sufficient to have a dropdown box (when adding/editing a version) to define if this object will be called "Version", "Milestone" or "Iteration"?
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Maxim Krušina over 16 years ago
And what about simillar solution like in Trac: there can be both Version and Milestone, but there are visible only when there are some milestones/versions defined, so for projects where are no milestones defined the look of issue will be same. Anyway, I think that it's better to have support for both versions and milestones at the same time rather that select for name. It's because we can have project with tho majour versions (1.0 and 2.0) but we need to plan some milestones to somplete project.
In my point of view, versions are really tighly bond to SW versions, so it's usefull for reporting in which version exactly was bug found or in which version we wopuld like to fix it. Milestones act just for organizational purposes, so it's not actually bond to exact version. One of milestone can be "Finish complete translation", but this milestone can be postponed etc, while mail development continues.
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Jos Yule over 16 years ago
Maxim - what's keeping you from using Versions as a general organizational tool now? Yes, they can be tightly associated with a release/code, but they don't have to be. You can use them as a simple "all these things are related to this" tool.
It really just seems to be a difference in terms/language, rather then a difference in function. I've yet to read anyone detail what the functional difference, in redmine, would be between versions and milestones.
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Jos Yule over 16 years ago
Sooo, any more discussion on this? Anyone? ;)
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Maxim Krušina over 16 years ago
Errrg, I'm just using versions for mile-stoning now ;)
I still think that milestone is more descriptive term, but there are probably more important issues to solve now...
Again, thanx to all for great app!
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Nikolay Solakov over 16 years ago
Maybe it has to be configurable setting :)
If the functionality is the same, it's just a label.
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Thomas Lecavelier over 16 years ago
You perfectly get my point: it's just a damn label :)
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Mark Thomas about 16 years ago
I recently went through the process of converting Version to Milestone, but found that the version label is also being used for document revisions. "Milestone" in that context doesn't make sense. When I upgrade to 0.7 I'll see about splitting this into different labels, and perhaps submitting a patch.
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Tom Mil about 16 years ago
i would like to see both.
version 2.0 (3 Milestones), Version 2.5 (1 Milestone)
For finishing Version 2.0 there are a few milestones to finish before
Milestone1: planning
Milestone2. programming
Milestone3. beta testing
So if Milestone 1 is not reached its not possible to start/finish milestone2.
If Milestone2 needs to pushed back all following milestones and Versions are pushed back as well.
So you could see all open tasks for Version 2 (all Milestones) to finish or just the tasks for Version2/Milestone 2 to finish.
RE: RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Thomas Lecavelier about 16 years ago
No offense, but your example is a non-sens: every project is a heavy iterative process. So if you can't do anything in M2 if M1 is not ended, that means that you forbid to work again on M1 once you start M2. Hard blocking work on a milestone because an other set of milestones don't make sens: the better approach is to explain how you want user your tracker to your team rather to take technical restriction.
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Tom Mil about 16 years ago
Yes youre right, my explanation was weak ;)
Ok, ill try to make it more understandable:
1. See the Gantt-Project ... these relations would be very usefull (see demo)
2. To reach a version a few milestones are needed. A customer giving feedback knows about the version (version 1 is already in productive use, version 2 is the development), but for sure he cannot (and should not) target the milestones with his request.
So he can post a ticket to the correct version, the team decides to which milestone this ticket must be assigned.
Other example:
You build a website. following stages (milestones) for version 2.0
1. planning
2. programming of the backend
3. programming of the frontend
4. get content from customer
5. content into cms
6. beta
7. launch
Here some of the milestones can be started and worked on together independend (2 - 4), but 5 cannot be started bevore 2-4 are finished
What would be really helpfull would be a integration of the Gantt-project or similar functionality. So if one task needs longer all other timings get adjusted.
Usual szenario: you get needed data from your customer 1 week late. So you adjust and can hand him out the new timing schedule.
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Eric Voisard almost 15 years ago
Hi all,
I'm bumping this thread up because I think it's a pertinent discussion.
Like some others, we use Redmine not only for software projects but also as a more general PMS.
We're also missing a milestone functionality and I don't think versions can replace it. Milestones are somehow places on a timeline, phases of a project like in the traditional model of PM theories:
- Project initiation stage;
- Project planning or design stage;
- Project execution or production stage;
- Project monitoring and controlling systems;
- Project completion stage.
Or even in the waterfall model that's used in software development:
1. Requirements specification
2. Design
3. Construction (AKA implementation or coding)
4. Integration
5. Testing and debugging (AKA Validation)
6. Installation
7. Maintenance
Software versions are not phases of a process, they can be worked on in parallel, you can open issues for all versions, etc...
Not exactly what we need as we'd like to be able to place due dates at the project level, for the planning phase, execution/development/production/testing phase, delivery, closing etc...
Really, for example I don't see how installing a project's final product by a customer and doing acceptance tests can be considered "versions"...
I like the idea of having Versions and Milestones.
If we have to stick to Redmine's versions, then at least we should be able to lock them so that nothing new can be added to phases that are finished, to milestones that are in the past, and we need to know in which stage of a project we actually are (timeline, gantt,...).
I've seen a Feature Request that could address a part of the problem:
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by frank huang almost 15 years ago
It is a pity that REDMINE does not have the milestone function.
The Version is not help for my using on the none-sw project.
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Holger Just over 14 years ago
First, sorry for hijacking this rather old thread. And sorry or forcing you to read such a long blob of text. But I try to keep it to the point...
I think versions as currently implemented in Redmine could indeed be used as milestones or iterations / sprint.
However, after reading this thread as well as the comments on the issues #724 and #4178 I conclude for myself that we should split up that functionality into separate parts. I am willing to create a plugin and/or a patch to Redmine, once we can agree on a desired feature set.
From what I have read, learned and experienced till now, I think, the following features and concepts are suitable to enhance Redmine to a full-fledged project planning suite usable for any type of project.
Versions are mainly used in engineering or software projects where multiple versions of a product are maintained at the same time.
- Issues can today be assigned to exactly one version. Is this enough? What about a bug present in multiple versions of a software product? What about a tree-like inclusion, such as "Version 2.3 includes Version 2.3.1 and 2.3.2". It would be nice, if I could e.g. express a bug to be valid from version 1.3.7 till 1.3.11 where it was finally fixed.
- Versions can be closed and locked today. This can be used as a kind of life-cycle. However, I think we should allow to maintain a complete product life-cycle like Development, Beta, RC, General Availability, Phase Out, EOL. These statuses and the transitions between should be individually definable like the ticket statuses and the workflow allow today. They should also change the version behavior (like closed or fixed does today). E.g. there could be no new features on a version in Phase out state. The end of each of the life-cycle phases of a version could represent a milestone (see below)
Milestones are a mean to structure a complete project into small, usable parts. Traditionally, a milestone is thereby tied to something fix like date, a certain budget, or a given feature set. A milestone is just the fixed point at which the project phase leading to the milestone is finished.
Milestones are normally defined before the start of a project and are used to define and check the progress of a project. They can depend on each other, thus implying a certain serialization but it is still possible to perform the actions leading to the milestones in parallel.
To be able to assign issues and time entries to a milestone (or better, to its phase), we should introduce the concept of a project phase
- As Milestones are a traditional mean to structure a project (mainly used in serial models like waterfall or the V-model), they should be present in places like the GANT-chart, the time reports and the roadmap.
- Milestones should be usable without requiring versions. E.g. a graphic design project can be finished after some time. It could have the milestones Contract sign-off, Got Customer Input, Initial Draft, Final Draft, Project finished. In this example all milestones are serialized so work is done only in the current phase leading to the next milestone. However, issues could be assigned to the current or any later phase .
- The GANT chart could be used to reflect the current time planning. So if new issues with estimated time are assigned to a project phase, the milestone date is going to move.
- This however depends on the number of person-hours done per real time (and maybe some overhead). So, if I assume 4 person hours on an issue but have two people working on it, the milestone moves 2 hours (a quarter day) behind.
- As state above, there should be one or more active or current phases where work is done. Once the phase is closed and its respective milestone is reached, no new issues or time can be assigned to the phase.
- From what I can observe there are already some plugins for Redmine which allow to select issues to work on and keep a personal schedule for each of the project members. So we should look out for integration points here.
Conclusion. After writing this (and reading it again), I think, the Versions as implemented today in Redmine resemble milestone phases much more than they resemble real product versions as defined above. So I think we should try to transform the current versions into real phases with a milestone at the end and introduce a new concept of versions as defined above.
What do you think?
Disclaimer. My perspective on a project currently was mainly the of a developer. So it is very well possible that I miss crucial functionality needed by the project manager on the other side of the table. If anyone of you has any further insight, please let me know.
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Jérémie Delaitre over 14 years ago
This perfectly fit my needs and this is really an important feature to me. Thanks for planning to develop this!
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Eric Voisard over 14 years ago
Holger, I really like your definition of a milestone being a fixed point in time (for example) that marks the end of a phase in a project. It makes it clear that a software version is neither a phase nor a milestone.
You made a pretty good synthesis of the definitions for phases and milestones of a project, as well as versions.
To make redmine more open to any type of projects without finding ourselves stuck somewhere in each others management process would indeed require such fine definitions (and their implementation).
If I considere our own PM needs (for our software and non-software projects):
It would be nice if we could define phases and milestones in a project without requiring versions.
When we use versions, it would be nice to be able to define phases and milestones to the different versions in that project.
You also pointed out an important thing with issues actually being assignable to a single "version" only...
Though, the tree-like inclusion you propose wouldn't fit with our versions numbering/naming. It would be better if we could select multiple versions in a list.
But is it possible to implement all these features as a plugin?
Or wouldn't a patch require deep modifications in Redmine's core?
Well, is it feasible to implement such features?...
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Holger Just over 14 years ago
Redmine has an open core, so everything can be implemented as a plugin first, and then maybe ported into the core.
I have some additions to my earlier proposal:
- After skimming over my project managements notes from the uni, I saw that milestones can be at the beginning, at the end, and also somewhere in the middle of a phase. To ease the definition of a phase, I think, we should allow milestones to be at the beginning and the end of a phase only (defined by a specific user-defined date or floating from its issues) only.
- What should be done, if I define a fixed date but am not able to match that date, i.e. have still open issues at the end. Should the following/dependent phases automatically moved? How is this implemented in MS project et al.?
- Versions and milestones/phases should indeed be independent concepts, which can optionally be defined together. So, if I define some versions, I should be able to connect them with phases or certain milestones derived from the phases. But I should not be required to do so.
- Regarding the version tree: I think, the feature itself is rather useful. It has to be further thought through though :). I think, the tree should be freely definable and not be tied to a specific naming schema (implemented like the project tree in trunk today). The inheritance could then be implemented to work in three ways:
- Down the tree, so that issues assigned to a top version also apply to all the child versions, or
- Towards the top, like the issue display inheritance works today with projects, so issues assigned to versions at a leaf of the tree are also displayed in less granular versions
- Both of the above
- Not at all
- Having multiple versions to assign an issue to would be a first step towards more usability though.
I I find time over the holidays, I try to create a first prototype or at least a screen mockup.
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Eric Voisard over 14 years ago
Pfew, there are so many points of view on that subject that about every situation and management method should be envisaged! About everything should be tie-able to about everything...
It seems the most "versatile" item are versions because they can be worked on in processes that can be parallel, iterative or cycling. Indeed we should be able to tie versions to phases/milestones but I'm still wondering if the inverse (that is defining phases/milestones for versions as I proposed) is such a good idea. Well, it would make (some) sense in case of parallel versions. Though, parallel versions are versions of a same product (if not, then they should be different projects). As I see it, every project is made of phases (e.g. initiation, development, EOL, etc), whatever the adopted method is, so parallel versions in a project should belong to one (or more) phases of that project... Sorry, I'm thinking loud here and I may be wrong... say it's brainstorming!
Regarding overdue dates, I think they should be handled on a case by case basis because sometimes you can slip the whole project due date but sometimes you can't and subsequent phases (e.g. software testing ;-) must be shortened, or they must begin while previous phase is still open. We should indeed be informed on the overdues, but we should then decide what to do (possibly after a team meeting, a discussion with the stakeholders, etc...)
As for the version tree, insofar as we can organise our version tree as we want, it'd be fine...
But are you envisaging to modify the meaning and the behavior of actual 'version' field in Redmine? No risk of breaking the operation of some other plugins, for example?..
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Shane Pearlman over 14 years ago
Bless you all. This might be a long one so buckle in.
I'm quite glad I decided to scan the list tonight. For the last year, Peter & I have been preparing our budget plugin to become a contract management plugin. The goal is to help anyone running a project to effectively execute the terms of the contract with the client. To create accountability for project managers the way issues do for technicians.
All of our contracts have three fundamental items:
Scope (deliverables / issues)
Time (milestones)
Budget (deliverables / time * rate plugin)
As part of this plugin we have been examining the role that milestones play and how they should be implemented. It would seem that we have landed in the exact same place as you folks (holger and eric). We decided that a milestone is really best defined by something that needs to happen on or by a specific date. Almost a calendar date tracked by the system. It can be complicated and be tied to a number of actions like a version, or as simple (and critical) as an invoice date. We split milestones into three categories:
Client Dependency
We probably could have gone significantly more detailed but decided to split them by who would need to act. Financial is dealt with by the ap/ar folks (or pm if they wear that hat too). Client dependency by the account rep (or pm if they wear that hat too). Event is a catch all for things the pm is accountable for. I'd be curious on your thoughts. I am going to include our milestone scope notes below. They are a bit long but you might find them useful. I am also attaching a working wireframe of our contracts plugin. It is a doozie to digest and has quite a lot of working parts, but about 3/4 of the way down the page you will see our milestones section.
Question: Where and how are you planning to use milestones? Should they show in the Gantt and calendar? Where else? Also let me know if I should create a new thread for the contracts plugin and invite discussion.
Milestones Spec
- Title
- Date
- Description (Wiki Formatted)
- Type (Financial, Event, Client Dependency)
- Complete (checkbox or button)
- Amount (if Financial)
- Invoiced / Paid (checkbox or button for financial user)
- PM Alert (emails Managers with link to Contract)
o End of Day (default)
o Beginning of Day
o 1 Day Before
o 2 Days Before
o 3 Days Before
o 4 Days Before
o 5 Days Before
o 1 Week Before
o 2 Weeks Before
o 3 Weeks Before
o 4 Weeks Before
Milestones should generate an ical calendar.
Financial Milestones should also be globally accessible to financial people in a central location. (Phase II) Financial milestones should only be available to admins and managers. All other milestones are available to anyone on the project.
Ajax Checkbox / Button
The Milestones can be marked as Approved/Complete by checking the box in the Contract Overview. This should happen without page reload. This can be done using images or a checkbox.
- Incomplete milestones can be clicked.
- The button/checkbox turns into a loading graphic.
- When loading is complete, the button/checkbox reappears as checked.
- The complete milestone can be toggled... the same loading process applies in reverse.
Dynamic Milestones
Dynamically generated milestones should exist for the following.
- Deliverable Start Date???? Not sure we care.
- Deliverable Warranty Date
- Deliverable End Date
- Contract Start Date
- Contract End Date
- What about financial milestones??? Like monthly milestones for monthly deliverables?
RE: Versions vs Milestones - Added by Peter Chester over 14 years ago
On that note, i do also want to point out that the term "Milestone" is derived from markers on the side of the road that allow you to gauge where you are. I've always seen Milestones as markers in time. You can use them for PM events, financial events, external events, or really anything that you and everyone (or some subset of people) on your team need to be coordinated about.


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T-Mobile sees growth in sales on strength of iOS in the US
T-Mobile grew to 13.2% of smartphone sales in the U.S. market in the 3 month period ending August 2013, marking its highest share of sales over the past year, and realized a growth of 1.1% points, reversing an on-going trend of year-on-year decline, according to data released today by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech.
The sales growth comes as a result of strong iOS sales and strategic discounts, based upon analysis by the company.
In smartphone sales, Android has retained its lead for the 3 month period ending August 2013, with a 55.1% sales share of the smartphone market. iOS follows with 39.3% sale share, an increase of 5.4% versus the same period a year ago.
Little movement is seen among the other operating systems in the market. Windows saw 3.0% of sales in the August period, while BlackBerry was down to 1.8% of sales.
Verizon is the top carrier, with a 37.1% share of smartphone sales in the 3 months ending August 2013 (seeing growth of 6.9% points). AT&T maintained second at 21.7%, and Sprint third with 14.6% of smartphone sales.
The data is derived from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech USA's consumer panel, which is the largest continuous consumer research mobile phone panel of its kind in the world, conducting more than 240,000 interviews per year in the U.S. alone. ComTech tracks mobile phone behavior and the customer journey, including purchasing of phones, mobile phone bills/airtime, and source of purchase and phone usage. This data is exclusively focused on the sales within this 3 month period rather than market share figures. Sales shares exemplify more forward focused trends and should represent the market share for these brands in future.
Kantar Worldpanel ComTech Global Strategic Insight Director, Dominic Sunnebo states, "When iOS first debuted on T-Mobile in mid-April, the majority of sales came from consumers upgrading from a featurephone to their first smartphone. However, looking at those who purchased an iPhone in the August period, 56% of those consumers came from another smartphone, including 38.5% from an Android device."
For the 3 months ending August 2013, the iPhone 5 remained the top-selling smartphone at T-Mobile, with 17.1% of sales.
Still, the majority of phones sold on T-Mobile run Android, including the Samsung Galaxy series, and the HTC One, which saw deep discounts in August.
As part of T-Mobile's 'uncarrier' strategy, smartphones are being offered at a smaller up-front cost, with the ability to pay off the rest of the phone over the next two years. The HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4 were debuted for $99.99 up front, $100 less expensive than other major carriers with a 2 year contract. In August, both of these phones were offered at $0 down, and saw sales increase.
Sunnebo continues "The discounts seen in August may have been in response to AT&T and Verizon, which have followed suite with similar programs, debuting at the end of July and August, respectively. With these carriers once again on a level playing field, it will be interesting to see if T-Mobile can continue its upward trajectory."
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