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Presented JOHANNESSEN O.M., Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Project code: by: Center (NERSC) / Geophysical Institute, University of PP.N3 Bergen Edvard Griegsvei 3a N-5037 Solheimsvik, Norway, PP2.N1 T. +47 5529 7288, F. +47 5520 0050, firstname.lastname@example.com Co SANDVEN S., E. firstname.lastname@example.com authors: MELENTYEV V.V., Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NIERSC) Korpusnaya str. 18, 197042 St. Petersburg, Russia. F. +7 812 230 7994 Keywords: Sea ice, monitoring, ship routeing
ICEWATCH Ice SAR Monitoring of the Northern Sea Route
Use of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images from satellites is a technology which is playing an increasingly important role in operational sea ice monitoring. SAR images, with a resolution of 100 m, can distinguish different ice types and map leads, polynyas, shear zones, landfast ice, drifting ice and location of the ice edge. The SAR is the only instrument which provide high resolution images different cloud and light conditions. The ERS-1 satellite, launched by the European Space Agency in 1991, is the first satellite which has provided extensive SAR coverage in most of the ice-covered areas in the worlds. The Russian Arctic Ocean is one of the most important areas for ice monitoring, because the ice conditions off the Siberian coast impose severe restrictions on sea transportation, ice navigation and offshore operations. The Russian icebreaker fleet, which assists all sea transportation in the area, uses an extensive ice monitoring and forecasting service in the navigation.
In several demonstration projects the Nansen Center in Bergen and St. Petersburg have used ERS-1 SAR images to monitor sea ice conditions in near realtime at different times of the year. The SAR images are used in combination with passive microwave data (SSM/I data) which provide large scale maps of ice extent and concentration at a resolution of about 30 km. The SAR images have shown good capability to map ice features which are important in ice navigation such as multiyear ice, firstyear ice, landfast ice, thin ice, leads/polynyas and areas of ridges. The demonstration projects have been supported by the European Space Agency, Murmansk Shipping Company and the INSROP program.
The expected result of the demonstration project will be a documentation that ERS SAR data plays an important role for improved mapping of the ice conditions along the Siberian coast. A longer term objective is to make SAR data from ERS-2 and ENVISAT available for the Russian Ice Service on an operational basis.
Presented LEHNER S., DLR WT-DA-FE P.B. 11 16, D-82230 Project code: by: Oberpfaffenhofen Germany AO2.D110 T. +49 815 328 2895, F. +49 8153 2828 1445 Commercial Co HASSELMANN K., Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie, Hamburg, authors: BRUNS. T., SWA, Hamburg Keywords: Ship routeing
Test of a new onboard ship routing system
An onboard ship routeing system is being developed in cooperation between the MPI f. Meteorologie, the Dornier GmbH, the German Weather Service and the Hapag Lloyd AG. The new system, consisting of a Bellman-type cost optimization scheme combined with an interactive graphical interface, uses operational state-of-the-art ECMWF wave forecasts to enable a master to determine the most secure and economic route for his ship. ERS-1 SAR inverted wave mode spectra are assimilated into the global third generation wave model WAM to further improve the wave forecasts. In order to reduce the data for transmission the forecast spectra are partitioned into their dominant windsea and swell components (significant waveheights, directions and periods).
The ship routeing system was successfully tested onboard the container ship BONN EXPRESS during two cruises across the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. 10-day ECMWF wind and wave forecasts were transmitted once a day. Simultaneously, the master received route recommendations from the German Marine Weather Service. Optimal routes with respect to fuel consumption, speed and safety are intercompared with the recommended and the actual route. The results confirm the economic benefits of the optimization system. A future operational application is discussed.
Presented FREMBGEN U., DORNIER GmbH, Satellite Systems, Project code: by: Earth Observation, D-88039 Friedrichshafen Germany AO2.D110 T. +49 754 585 732, F. +49 754 582 687 Commercial Co authors: Keywords: Ship routeing
Marketing aspects for an operational onboard ship routeing system
A prototype for an onboard ship routeing system was successfully being tested on the container ship "BONN EXPRESS" of Hapag Lloyd during a far east cruise across the North Atlantic and North Pacific in summer this year. The main idea of operating the prototype was to investigate the economical and operational relevance the new routing system for a near future launch on the route consulting market.
For marketing activities the whole attention has to be given to the clientele. From interviews with ship owners and shipmasters we had to focus the following user requirements for the development of the prototype.
The test phase in summer was too short to give a final analysis of the profitable use of the onboard routing system. Additional route consulting is therefore planned from November 95 to May 96, when strong low pressure systems create heavy sea state conditions in the northern hemisphere.
Presented HEIMBACH P., Max-Planck Institut fuer Meteorlogie Project code: by: Bundesstr.55, D-20146 Hamburg 13, Germany AO2.D110 T. +49 4041 173 377, +49 4041 173 298, E. firstname.lastname@example.com, W. http://www.dkrz.de Co HASSELMANN S., authors: BRÜNING C. HASSELMANN K. Keywords: Metocean
The use of ERS SAR wave mode spectra for wind/wave assimilation into WAM and for statistical and dynamical comparison
The inversion algorithm to retrieve ocean wave spectra from the nonlinearly related observed ERS-1 SAR wave mode imagette spectra was improved. The cost function of the inverse problem was extended by a third term which minimizes the error in the azimuthal clutter cut-off wavelength.
For inverted wave spectra whose best estimate image spectra still differ essentially from the observed image spectra, an algorithm was developed which iteratively adjusts the input wave spectrum to the SAR inverted wave spectrum thus yielding a new input spectrum for a consecutive inversion. Therefore the inverted and first guess 2-dim. wave spectra are partitioned into their subsystems. These are reduced to their characteristic parameters (significant waveheight, mean wavelength, mean direction). Each first guess wave system is then modified to agree in the characteristic parameters with the inverted wave system thus yielding an improved input spectrum for a subsequent inversion.
The retrieved ERS-1 wave spectra from a three year period are compared with spectra, computed by the third generation WAM model (cycle 4). There is an overall good agreement. The distinction between windsea and swell however reveals an overestimation of the windsea and an underestimation of the swell systems of the WAM model as compared to ERS-1 SAR observations.
In addition to statistical analysis dynamical intercomparisons are performed by investigating the propagation paths of individual swell systems. This allows the identification of model shortcomings in the source function on large propagation scales.
A wind and wave data assimilation scheme was developed, assimilating 2-dim. SAR retrieved wave spectra into the WAM model. A field of analyzed characteristic parameters is created by optimal interpolation. First guess wave systems are adjusted to these parameters thus yielding a field of analyzed wave spectra. Wind field corrections are retrieved from the corrections in the windsea systems. Results are presented for a two month assimilation period.
Presented BAUER E., Institut fur Meereskunde Project code: by: Troplowitzstr. 7, D-22529 Hamburg, Germany, AO2.D110 T. +49 4041 236 518, F. +49 4041 235 713 Co HASSELMANN S., HASSELMANN K. authors: Keywords: Wave forecasting
An operational wave forecast system using wind and wave data
The Green's function assimilation method is developed for the operational assimilation of observed ocean wave spectra into the ocean wave model WAM. The observed ocean wave spectra are retrieved from ERS-1 SAR wave mode spectra by a non-linear inversion scheme. From differences between observed and modeled wave spectra the Green's function method yields corrections of wind speeds and directions with respect to the wind fields driving the wave model. The most effective position and time of a wind correction is determined by the spectral wave age. Energy deviations of the young wind waves are corrected by the local wind, and deviations of swell energy are corrected by the wind at the position and time of origin of the swell waves, respectively.
It can be shown, that deviations between wave spectra obtained from ERS-1 SAR wave mode data and modeled spectra, which are located along a propagation ray of a wave system, produce consistent wind corrections. In most cases wind corrections refer to strong storm cases. To further assess the calculated wind corrections various data are used for comparison. For the global validation the significant wave heights of the ERS-1 and the TOPEX altimeter are compared with wave heights retrieved from the ERS-1 SAR data, and the wind corrections are compared with the winds of the ERS-1 scatterometer. The assimilation of spectra from the ERS-1 wave mode data by the Green's function assimilation method clearly appears useful to detect errors in the wind field.
Presented PARTINGTON K.C., GEC-Marconi Research Centre, Project code: by: Ice Applications Section West Hanning Field Road, PP.UK7/B/C/D CM28HN Great Baddow, UK T. +44 1245 473 331, F. +44 1245 475 244, E. email@example.com Co HODSON W., REES W.G., authors: GRAVES A., Matra Marconi Space, Anchorage Road, PO35PU Portsmouth, UK T. +44 1705 674 468, F. +44 1705 764 642 LARSEN M. Keywords: Ship routeing, sea ice
Ship routeing with near real-time ERS-1 derived ice charts
UK Pilot Project 7 b/c/d was initiated in 1992 with the aim of promoting the commercialization of radar data for ship routing in polar waters. The project was funded by the British National Space Centre, managed by DRA Farnborough and involved BP, Canarctic Shipping, Nunaoil, SAIC and the University of Cambridge Scott Polar Research Institute, as well as GEC-Marconi Research Centre.
The project was completed in April 1995, and further demonstration activities are planned, notably with Radarsat and with bulletin board and ship-borne ice chart display and manipulation facilities. The pilot project demonstrated the technical feasibility of operational ice products from ERS-1 and provided a clear indication of how an operational ice service may be operated.
In this final presentation for the ERS-1 supported phase of the project, example products will be provided, a near real time demonstration described and the way forward discussed.
Presented HÅKANSSON B., Swedish Meteorological and Project code: by: Hydrological Institute (SMHI) Research & Development PP2.S2 Section, S-60176 Norrkoping, Sweden T. +46 1115 8385, F. +46 1117 0207 Co MOBERG M., SMHI, T. +46 1115 8318 authors: Keywords: Ship routeing, sea ice
Potentials of SAR for sea ice ship routeing based on experiences obtained with ERS-1 SAR in the Baltic Sea
Seasonal ice cover occurs every winter in the Baltic Sea. Depending on the severity of the ice season, shipping is more or less obstructed. Substantial resources are allocated in Sweden to facilitate winter navigation in forms of a huge icebreaker fleet. In optimizing icebreaker operations a thorough knowledge of present and future ice conditions as well as weather forecasts is required. To meet this demand the Ice Service at SMHI are using all possible sources of information on the ice conditions as observers on the coast and on ships as well as remote sensing information from air and satellite.
As a part of the BEERS (Baltic Experiment for Ers-1) program, application experiments were carried out during two winter seasons using ERS-1 SAR imagery. The results obtained were encouraging, especially regarding the operational use onboard the icebreakers in matters of optimizing the route in the icefields when convoying and conveying route information to merchant ships going by there own. A considerable gain in optimization of icebreaker operations can be achieved with the additional information provided by the SAR imagery. Considering that the total cost for the icebreaker service during the winter 1993/94, which engaged up to six icebreakers simultaneously, was approx. 140 MSEK of which just bunker expenditures amounted to 20 MSEK, it is obvious that even minor improvements in icebreaker tactics will give a substantial cost reduction. In times with more dynamic ice conditions, access to SAR data can surely contribute even more in reducing costs.
With the forthcoming launch of Radarsat, SAR information can be accessible on an operational basis. Time and coverage are the crucial issues whether the usefulness of SAR information can be fully utilized for operational use. SAR sea ice data should cover all the area of interest once a day and the data should be available within 2 to 3 hours at the Ice Service Center. Experiences show that segmentation/classification of the imagery is not crucial for the interpretation onboard the icebreakers since this is done by highly skilled officers, but of course such derived SAR image products could be valuable complements in the future. Of great importance is, however, that the SAR imagery can be distributed within a reasonable transmission time and presented in a way onboard the icebreakers that suits navigational needs of the users.
Keywords: ESA European Space Agency - Agence spatiale europeenne, observation de la terre, earth observation, satellite remote sensing, teledetection, geophysique, altimetrie, radar, chimique atmospherique, geophysics, altimetry, radar, atmospheric chemistry
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ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) -- Long time city council president Dennis Hanson was taken off life support at Saint Marys Hospital Wednesday afternoon around 3:30.
Hanson suffered a brain aneurysm at his home around 1:45 a.m. Wednesday and was quickly transported to St. Mary's where he was put on life support and later died.
Denny Hanson grew up here in Rochester and is a Mayo High School Graduate.
He was elected to represent the 1st Ward of Rochester in 1999.
Aside from serving as president of city council he also works at Carpet One as Vice President of Business Development.
Today Mayor Brede spoke words of kindness as he discussed how knowledgeable and important Hanson is on the council and the overall great persona he emulates throughout the community.
Mayor Brede says, "He is very popular, he is very outgoing. Denny is a friend of everybody and likes to have a good time. That's Denny, but at the same time I have been very impressed, he wanted to make sure that everybody gets their voice heard and he's a friend. We just wish the best that's for sure."
He is married with six children and six grandchildren.
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Pride; Good or Bad?
Pride, in religion, is often referred to as the universal sin. But why is it considered so? I don't believe I am sinning when I say, "I'm proud of my son" or "I'm proud of my self for accomplishing my goals today". What do you think?
I also think that, regardless of religion, the culture of modern day society scrutinizes pride. Why is that?
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Aug 23 2012: Pride fuels self-importance. Self-imporance requires us to spend much of our life being offended by someone. Such and such said this about me, so and so did that. Most of these things would have no effect on us save for the fact they hurt our pride.
Being proud of our children is second nature but it is really just another way of stoking out self-importance. If we weren't such awesome parents then our kids wouldn't have done the great things that made us proud.
As far as religion goes it is maybe because God makes and does all so what would you have to be proud of?
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Ocean County College's 47th Annual Commencement Ceremony took place on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at 6:00 pm at the Pine Belt Arena, Toms River
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Ocean County College's 47th Annual Commencement Ceremony took place on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. an the Pine Belt Arena in Toms River.
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Diplomas are not distributed at the Commencement Ceremony. Students can pick up their diplomas in the Office of Registration and Records. You will be asked for identification when you pick up your diploma.
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Community managers we speak with often have trouble differentiating between what Google Analytics measures versus what Argyle Social measures. That's more than understandable, as there is definitely some overlap between the data that both products give you. Even so, social analytics tools and web analytics tools measure fundamentally different things.
Fortunately, I whipped up a super-fancy Venn diagram (in MS Word!) that will hopefully clear this whole thing right up:
Web analytics tools track hits to your website. Social analytics tools track your social activity. Each helps you answer a distinct set of questions.
Web analytics tools are great at answering questions like:
Social analytics tools can't answer these questions and don't try to. If you want to answer a question like this, turn to your web analytics tool.
Social analytics tools are great at answering questions like:
Web analytics tools have no clue what's going on within your social networks, so they can't help you here. If you want to answer one of these questions, turn to your social analytics tool.
There is always an overlap in any Venn diagram. In this one, the overlap between web and social analytics is the handoff between your social channel and your website.
Most community managers spend a majority of time curating content from other sources. But good ones also link back to their own websites. Linking to your own website is an absolute must if you want to generate leads or sales from your social activity.
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Fallout 3
The day you're born, you find yourself awake, startled, staring down a man in a doctor's mask. He tells you he's your father, says whether you're a boy or a girl, and gives you a name. Just then, something goes wrong and your mother dies. Your father leaves your side to help, but it's too late. She's gone. A year later, you're with your father again, now more aware of your surroundings. You live inside the nuclear bomb shelter Vault 101. Steel walls encase your existence, but you're naturally curious, venturing out of your confinement to explore this cold, metal world. The sad truth is that you cannot go beyond these walls. You can never go outside. The outside world is a dangerous place, practically a myth to the society dwelling within the Vault.
Nine years pass, then another six, and another three. Over this time, you take tests, learn skills, grow into an adult -- but one day, out of nowhere, your father disappears. No one knows how. No one has ever left Vault 101, and the citizens are in a panic. They think you're to blame, that you had something to do with it. It's up to you now. You have to venture out into the forbidden, the world above the only one you've ever known -- and you find the remnants of a society gone mad, a nuclear wasteland in which an even more frightening war still rages. In this hell on earth you must locate your father, and somehow survive.
This chilling series of events makes up the first 40 or so minutes of Fallout 3, the long-awaited sequel to Interplay's much-beloved series of PC role-playing games currently in development at Bethesda Softworks. Though the game doesn't directly resemble those classics of the computer role-playing genre, an air of familiarity is bound to hit you with this one, as it shares a great deal in common with Bethesda's wildly successful The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Swap out the high fantasy setting and magical powers with a post-apocalyptic world and a whole lot of heavy weaponry, and you'll get the idea -- however, this isn't just an Oblivion redux. There are a lot of differing elements on display in Fallout 3, some staples of the series, some brand-new. While this sort of blending of a heralded franchise with a highly different gameplay engine could potentially spell disaster for longtime fans, if the demo we saw recently is any indication, Fallout 3 could very well avoid that pitfall and deliver a game both Fallout fans and newcomers to the series will enjoy.
The first thing shown in our demo was the aforementioned introductory sequence, in which your character is born. While all of this is obviously heavily story-driven, these scenes also help you build your character. On your day of birth, you choose the sex and name (and, if you're bored and looking for something to do, you can press a button to cry on command). When you're a year old and wandering around your home, you find a children's educational book that you can use to assign your initial statistical points in the categories of strength, perception, endurance, charisma, intelligence, agility and luck (fans certainly know this as the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. system). On your 10th birthday, you get the Pip Boy 3000, a wrist-bound PDA device you'll find yourself using a great deal. Finally, you'll take the General Occupational Aptitude Test, or GOAT, to determine what kind of character you'll be. It might just be the most involved gaming childhood ever created, and it seems like a pretty well-executed way to combine tutorial contrivances with early plot exposition.
The storyline itself takes place 30 years or so after the events in Fallout 2. The location has shifted from the West Coast locales of the earlier games to Washington, D.C. Outside you'll encounter a fully-realized portrait of the aftermath of nuclear war. One sequence we saw took place in downtown D.C., with a thoroughly wrecked Washington Monument (in which you can apparently take an elevator to the top) and Capitol building. The environmental detail looked spectacular everywhere, whether it was in a burnt-out old junkyard or a thrashed office building full of ghouls, but seeing those decayed monuments up close and personal was particularly breathtaking. Make no mistake, you'll be seeing plenty of those spectacular environments, as the world of Fallout 3 is huge. It's purported to be a smidgen smaller than Oblivion's game world, but considering the sprawling nature of that game's environment, and how much better this game is looking graphically compared to Oblivion, that's still pretty amazing.
One of the first gameplay sequences Bethesda showed us was in that junkyard, and it's something about which old Fallout fans might crack a smile. Over the course of the game, you'll be able to acquire companions to help you, and it just so happens that the one we got to see in action was a helpful canine named Dogmeat. Now, of course, this isn't the same Dogmeat from the previous games -- otherwise this would be the oldest dog in history. Rather, he's the canine compatriot of an NPC you find being attacked. The Dogmeat encounter is a random one, but Bethesda says every player will encounter it at some point. Once you save Dogmeat from his attacker, you can decide whether or not you want him to join you, and if you do, he can do everything from attacking enemies to sniffing out food and weapons in the surrounding area.
You'll also be able to gain a few different human companions over time. Obviously their roles are similar, though they'll likely be better suited for attacking enemies than Dogmeat would be. Incidentally, your companions are entirely mortal, meaning once they die, they're dead. From what we saw with Dogmeat, you'll be able to command him to stay put or even go back to the entrance to Vault 101 if you're about to go somewhere dangerous and don't want him to get hurt. If you're the sort that found the man/dog relationship in "I Am Legend" a bit emotionally draining, you'll probably want to take full advantage of those commands, lest you end up sobbing like a wrecked widow.
The people with whom you're able to align yourself depends largely on your character's karma. Karma is tracked through every action you perform in the game. If you frequently help NPCs in trouble and do good deeds, you'll be a good guy. If you're a cold-blooded killer who murders ruthlessly and talks mean to people, you'll be a bad guy. If you try to avoid conflict and rarely take sides, you'll be neutral. Decisions you make in the game are key to determining your karma, and also affect how the game itself will play out. One of the examples Bethesda showed at E3 last year was a city called Megaton, a village of religious fanatics who built their town and faith around an unexploded nuke. You have the choice to either help a psychotic real estate developer destroy the town to make way for a new, "better" living environment, or warn the town of the plot and save them. Different quest trees open up depending on which way you choose to go.
Your ending will also be greatly affected by how you choose to carry yourself. Bethesda was careful not to spoil anything for us, but they emphasized that the game will contain literally hundreds of different possible endings, based entirely on how you play the game. Every key moment from your quest will factor into it, creating a unique, yet definitive conclusion. It sounds incredibly ambitious and perhaps a little insane, but Bethesda says they've pulled it off. Here's to hoping.
The last two levels shown to us in our demo displayed a number of combat sequences against different types of foes. The first was the office building inhabited by ghouls we mentioned before. These ghouls are emaciated, rotted humans that are the result of heavy radiation poisoning. A few select ghouls still have some semblance of humanity buried within their frail bodies, and these creatures will be NPCs with which you can interact. The rest are purely animalistic, more zombie than anything else. They come in two varieties: standard ghouls and glowing ghouls. The glowers are walking radiation, and when you encounter them a strange thing happens: A quick flash through their eyes shows what life was like at the final moments before their environment was destroyed. We didn't get a clear explanation of what exactly causes this, but clearly there's something going on there.
Combat itself is an interesting animal. Obviously the game is running on the Oblivion engine, but since this is a world of guns and blunt objects as opposed to a world of swords and magic, you'd be right to wonder how it would all come together. The result seems to be a hybrid of the role-playing genre's odds-based combat functionality, and straight-up shooter action. When wandering around an environment, you can simply choose to shoot at any enemy that comes your way in real time or you can opt to use the VATS targeting system.
Short for the Vault-Tec Assisted Targeting System, VATS allows you effectively pause combat and target individual places on an enemy's body. Percentages display to show your likelihood of hitting each spot. Once you've inputted your command, your attack commences outside of your control, and if the dice roll in your favor, you'll kill whatever's coming at you. It sounds slightly bizarre, almost like an automatic death every time, but that's not the case, thankfully, since you have to maintain action points to use the VATS system. Action points are shown in a meter on your HUD, and using VATS attacks depletes it. It replenishes over time, so you just have to keep an eye on it.
Combat looked pretty intense from what we saw. The scene in the building with the ghouls featured plenty of gory, brutal battles, though even more were on display in the sequence set in downtown D.C. Here, we encountered super-mutants: gigantic, hulking creatures with massive armor and heavy weaponry. These dudes don't mess around. They shoot guns, fire rockets, and come at you with giant hammers, all while you're ducking in and out of trenches, trying to make your way to the Capitol building. These sequences also gave us a look at some of the different weapons you'll get to use, from submachine guns to mini-guns to rocket launchers and, our favorite, the Fat Man. This weapon essentially launches a miniature nuke at whatever you're aiming to obliterate, and its destructive power is hysterically entertaining. If watching mutants blow apart or seeing burnt out cars explode with spectacular effect ever gets old, then we'd like to grow old right along with it.
Another thing this stage displayed is how the world of post-apocalyptic D.C. will operate. On a couple of occasions, we got to see battles erupting between NPC factions of humans and mutants. As mentioned before, you can get involved in these battles, or choose to stay out of them entirely. Incidentally, you won't be able to join any specific faction within the game. Bethesda was quick to point out that Fallout 3 won't use the same sort of membership system that Oblivion did, so there's nothing like the Thieves' Guild to the top of which you can rise. You can make allegiances based on your karma, but beyond that, you're just a man on a mission.
All told, we came away from our demo session with high hopes for Fallout 3. If we had to name a concern, it's simply that the unique combat system might not completely pan out. It could strike a great balance between RPG conventions and traditional action, or it could end up being a case of, "You got your shooter in my RPG, dammit!" We think it looks like a cool system, but we'll reserve judgment until we get real hands-on time with the game, something we're hoping we get to do sooner rather than later. We can't yet say with any certainty whether or not Fallout 3 will truly end up being the modern Fallout game for which fans have been desperately pining, but we can say that what we saw gave us a great deal of confidence and optimism. We'll endeavor to bring you more on Fallout 3 in the coming months.
This preview was based on a developer-hosted demo featuring an alpha build of the Xbox 360 version of the game.


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Posts tagged "solitude"
Mar 22, 2013
Mar 03, 2013
Literature is, in that way, a solitary act of being with your own conscience. And yet, reading is also a conversation — it's a conversation over the ages. You are speaking to the brightest and the best without the cumbersomeness of their presence… We begin with the solitude of reading which leads to the necessity of leaking, as it were, the pleasure you have to friends and the people around you, which then leads us back again to going deeper into the work… Sometimes I think I would say that we should live with these things ourselves, and not in the public realm. But I can't keep myself from conversation. I urge you to read in solitude, but I also want to pull you out of that solitude and create some sort of dialogue.
Dec 27, 2012
Aug 10, 2012
Silence is still my favorite sound. When I turn my aids off my thoughts become more clear and it's absolutely peaceful. I hope that one day hearing people get the opportunity to experience utter silence.
— Austin Chapman, who, for the first time ever, is able to hear music
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May 21, 2012
The only solution [to social media addiction] is not one that most people want to face, which is to become lovers of solitude and silence… I love to spend time alone in my room, and in my ideal world the first hour of every day would be in bed, writing down thoughts, harvesting dreams, before anyone phones or you have any internet access. I write on paper, cause if you write on a laptop, it's too tempting to go online. You look up a word and then an hour later you remember why you went on…
— V. Vale
Mar 03, 2012
Stop the madness for group work. Just stop it.
Jan 15, 2012
Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me … they live in their heads. They're almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone …. I'm going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone… Not on a committee. Not on a team.
— Steve Wozniak, quoted in an article about the creative benefits of solitude. cf. Pablo Picasso: "Without great solitude, no serious work is possible." (The author of the article, Susan Cain, has a new book coming out: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking)
Jan 06, 2012
The great contemporary terror is anonymity. If Lionel Trilling was right, if the property that grounded the self, in Romanticism, was sincerity, and in modernism it was authenticity, then in postmodernism it is visibility. So we live exclusively in relation to others, and what disappears from our lives is solitude.
— William Deresiewicz, "The End of Solitude"
Nov 10, 2011
Nov 10, 2009
» Quitting the Paint Factory by Mark Slouka
Great essay about the importance of idleness.
Idleness is not just a psychological necessity, requisite to the construction of a complete human being; it constitutes as well a kind of political space, a space as necessary to the workings of an actual democracy as, say, a free press. How does it do this? By allowing us time to figure out who we are, and what we believe; by allowing us time to consider what is unjust, and what we might do about it. By giving the inner life (in whose precincts we are most ourselves) its due. Which is precisely what makes idleness dangerous. All manner of things can grow out of that fallow soil. Not for nothing did our mothers grow suspicious when we had "too much time on our hands." They knew we might be up to something. And not for nothing did we whisper to each other, when we were up to something, "Quick, look busy."
The title of the essay alludes to Sherwood Anderson:
the writer Sherwood Anderson found himself, at the age of thirty-six, the chief owner and general manager of a paint factory in Elyria, Ohio. Having made something of a reputation for himself as a copywriter in a Chicago advertising agency, he'd moved up a rung. He was on his way, as they say, a businessman in the making, perhaps even a tycoon in embryo. There was only one problem: he couldn't seem to shake the notion that the work he was doing (writing circulars extolling the virtues of his line of paints) was patently absurd, undignified; that it amounted to a kind of prison sentence. Lacking the rationalizing gene, incapable of numbing himself sufficiently to make the days and the years pass without pain, he suffered and flailed. Eventually he snapped.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A company with an operation in Charleston is seeking to hire 250 more customer service representatives at its facility.
WCHS-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1bYJuD4 ) that IBEX Global already has 400 employees at the facility. Officials say the goal is to eventually boost the number of workers to 700 to 800.
IBEX Global is scheduled to have an open house on Monday. The customer service representatives being hired will provide Internet technical support.
The company also has operations in Beckley and Elkins.
IBEX Global is headquartered in Washington, D.C. It provides teleservices, email and chat support, account management and back office solutions in five countries.
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Gods Aren't The Only Things To Eat In This Gods Eater Burst DLCBy Ishaan . March 8, 2011 . 3:41pm
Gods Eater Burst players in Japan got some sweet (literally) free DLC earlier today.
Gods Eater Burst players in Japan got some sweet (literally) free DLC earlier today.
First screenshots of Caligula, one of the two Aragami in the Gods Eater Burst pre-order DLC pack, and the weapons you can build from slaying the creature.
Set years before the events in Gods Eater Burst, this prequel video shows Soma on his first mission. Lindow from the Fenrir Far East Branch and his older sister Tsubaki join him on the Aragami assault.
In Gods Eater Burst, your custom character is part of a group of Gods Eaters. Fenrir, the group purging the Aragmi, has branches around the world or what's left of it after the Aragami attacks.
Tales of Graces costumes are coming to Gods Eater Burst in Japan.
I met up with D3 Publisher to check out the localized version of Gods Eater Burst. Before starting a hunt, I watched the localized cutscenes, which had English voice acting and the original opening theme
While I was playing Gods Eater Burst with a staff member from D3 Publisher, I asked if there was going to be an English demo. Unfortunately, the answer is no.
Vajra is one of the first large Arigami you'll fight and devour in Gods Eater Burst when D3 Publisher releases it in March.
And exclusive Gamestop pre-order DLC, too.
And Tomodachi Collection and God Eater were the best-selling new franchises for the year.
Venus has the upper body of a beautiful woman, while her lower body is a mish-mash of various other Aragami characteristics.
This week's sales chart looks nice and healthy. Diverse, too. Oh, and there's a PlayStation 2 game in it.
Check out God Eater Burst's wide range of costumes.
In Japan, God Eater Burst is being promoted using two separate covers, depending on which version you buy.
Help your fellow readers familiarize themselves with the God Eater Burst demo!
Namco Bandai put a massive God Eater Burst demo online. How massive? The official God Eater blog says its basically the opening of the PSP game.


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Hours of Reckoning
Trucking industry sounds off about impact of proposed hours-of-service changes
As the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration postponed releasing its latest drivers hours-of-service rules rewrite, the industry is wondering what is behind the current regulatory revision. Many believe Congress may have to legislate a solution.
Since the FMCSA announced creation of the latest proposal to revisit HOS regulations in December to satisfy terms of its December 2009 court settlement with advocacy groups challenging the current rule, industry groups have noted inconsistencies in the way FMCSA has supported the changes with cost/benefit analysis. "As proposed, the rule is not at all satisfactory to the industry," says Dave Osiecki, vice president of safety, security and operations for the American Trucking Associations. "There's no basis for the changes as far as we can tell. We can only come to the conclusion that the changes are more politically driven than based on science or data."
Many drivers echo the ATA. "When is enough, enough?" asks Landstar-leased owner-operator Andy Soucy, based in Lebanon, Tenn. "What is it that they want? They want to change [the hours of service] mainly to get interest groups off the government's back. … People don't like trucks. They fear trucks. We're the big kid on the block that they want to pick on. They'll never be happy, though we're now the safest we've ever been in history."
What's more, Osiecki says, law enforcement, represented nationally by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, "has said, 'Hey, these rules are working. Let's just enforce them better than we have been.'"
CVSA noted in a press release that, if implemented, FMCSA's proposal could well have the "unintended consequence of reducing overall CMV and motorist safety. According to CVSA, the changes could make roadside enforcement more complex and open the door toward more drivers falsifying their records."
Said CVSA Executive Director Stephen A. Keppler: "The consensus from our state and jurisdictional enforcement members regarding these proposed rules is that they are confusing and not easily understood. The proposed rules, in our view, will be more difficult to enforce roadside than the rules in place today."If changes are made law as proposed, carriers will have to adjust schedules, negotiate new terms with shippers, buy more equipment and hire more drivers. Drivers will face the prospect of running more miles to make the same pay or pushing for higher pay. FMCSA reopened the public docket through June 8 to obtain comments on four additional studies that analyze driver crash risk as it relates to duration of driving and fatigue. FMCSA rep Candice Tolliver notes that the agency advised the parties to the settlement agreement of the need to reopen the comment period. FMCSA "will provide additional details on the rulemaking schedule in the coming weeks." Osiecki says he expects the delay to be a brief one.
Unintended consequences
Drivers who commented on the proposed changes pointed out numerous potential unintended consequences of the rules. Trucker Howard Brawley, for instance, writing in April, noted the revision to the restart rules to include two midnight-to-6 a.m. periods could add to daytime congestion woes on highways as former nighttime haulers find themselves forced into a daylight schedule.
To a certain extent, this has already happened. Regulators locked in the 14-hour rule years ago to conform hours regulations to the human biological clock. "I can understand that," says Soucy. "I don't agree with a company saying your time off is up at two o'clock in the morning and you need to get to work. Let the man sleep until six o'clock." At the same time, he adds, "the hours of service that were imposed on us back then, well, they seem to be working. They're achieving what FMCSA wants. I see many more drivers off the road at seven, eight o'clock at night. Then again, I see more drivers on the road during peak congestion times."
Testing proposed rules
The potential productivity loss from hours revision, with both higher costs and time spent adjusting to a third set of regulations in seven years, concerns many in the industry. At an FMCSA listening session in February, trucking representatives and drivers mostly urged regulators to leave current rules in place.
While many in the industry speculated how the proposals might harm their operations, one driver presented specific information about how the rules affected his work. Allen Parker, a 24-year driver for Werner Enterprises, operated for four weeks as if the hours proposals were real.
In the test set up by Werner, Parker said he had to drive more days to complete his regular routes and arrived home later than normal, which extended his weekend rest break. His extra time off didn't give him more rest but more time to find things to do, leading to more stress, he said. "In the 30 days, I can count three days of production I lost."
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Library Cupola Restored!
DC Literati is thrilled to see that the restoration of the cupola atop the Georgetown Library has been completed! The original cupola was destroyed in the fire of 2007. Click through to see a comparison of the new to the original. Pretty swell job!
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Lincoln - The Husker Volleyball Team is back in Lincoln after traveling to St. Louis for a weekend tournament.
The team won two matches, but all anyone seems to be talking about is the team's loss to Auburn Saturday morning.
The Huskers fell to No. 13 in the American Volleyball Coaches Association poll. They were previously ranked No. 10 in the preseason rankings.
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We're so happy this has somehow turned into a sport.
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Chick points a GoPro at her rack and goes to the gym - We're unsure about the shower before the workout but in this circumstance we are happy to let it slide.
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Best barmaid ever - That feeling you're feeling? That's love.
Korea has its own butt competition called the "2014 Miss Sexy Back Contest" - So sit back, relax and watch 15 solid minutes of chicks showing off their assets.
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Chick chokes out a dude twice her size with one arm - The best bit is where it looks like he is having a seizure and the class just laughs hysterically...
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Venice Biennale 2007 : Toril Goksøyr and Camilla Martens on their Participation in the Upcoming Venice Biennale
For the Nordic Pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale, international curator René Block has selected Toril Goksøyr and Camilla Martens to be included within an expanded project. The project, referred to under the title, Welfare - Fare Well, will include the work, It would be nice to do something political from 2002.
Goksøyr and Martens are both educated as actors and artists, and have been collaborating on developing performance based art projects since 1997. The performative figures into and permeates their work and in the production while also integrating video or photography. These performances have predominantly been staged in the theatre or a gallery space but are not limited to these contexts.
The artistic collaboration of Goksøyr and Martens is a common product. Having started working together still at the Art Academy in Oslo, the artists feel that their shared educational background makes their collaboration easier resulting out of a dialogue arrived to without a need for great negotiation. The artists' intention is for their work, often inspired by the documentary, to be theatrical, political, feminist. Their respective background as actors makes them both aware and frustrated about how theatre is made today, how people working in this field think, and how artists working within performance-based art exhibit little knowledge about theatre. Goksøyr and Martens react to the somewhat exclusive separation of the two fields - theatre and performance - and as such, their inclination is to bring their knowledge from the theatre into performance art. In their opinion, much performance-based art neglects a consciousness about the performer's position in relation to the audience. This doesn't necessarily imply that Goksøyr and Martens perform themselves within a given project or work with professionally trained actors. In particular circumstances, they specifically choose to work with amateurs in an effort to raise awareness about the very utilization of an actor in art.
It would be nice to do something political was originally produced in 2002 and has been shown in various cities since then. It is a project and a work that changes according to where, how and in which context it is shown, at times offering itself as a societal critique, and at others, an institutional critique. It would be nice to do something political was first shown within the window of Tempo Limit, located within the Der Spiegel building in Hamburg. The window faced a heavily trafficked road with few pedestrians passing by. As such, the aspect of duration became essential to the reading of the work, as the viewers were essentially drivers passing by in their cars. Located across the street from the installed work, hung a monumental billboard for H&M that in many ways did not look altogether different from the image produced by Goksøyr and Martens further complicating the reading of the work as an artwork. The project was more recently duplicated in René Block's Belgrade Biennale, which opened in September 2006. Installed in a shop window within the streets of a city less economically well off than Hamburg, it took on another meeting for the viewer. In its future installation in the Giardini within the Venice Biennale, the work will be located in yet an altogether different context than previously. In the upcoming venue, the viewers will clearly understand the work within an art context. This situation may, according to the artists, prompt one to focus on how the artists are trying to communicate and how they are attempting to produce meaning, making the work more self-referential. In this sense, the artists hope to convey the work's more ironic commentary on the correctness in acting politically as an artist. Goksøyr and Martens feel Block's selection of title for the Nordic Pavilion Welfare - Fare Well, amplifies the political dimension of their work.
Goksøyr and Martens are among the few female artists selected to represent Norway at the Nordic Pavilion. Since opening in 1962, the Nordic representation has included only five female artists selected prior to the participation of Goksøyr and Martens. They are only to enthusiastic to accompany a line up of artists in this edition of the Venice Biennale that includes Tracy Emin (British Pavilion), Isa Genzken (German Pavilion) and Sophie Calle (French Pavilion).
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Breathtaking panorama of Maca Maca from the base of VNL WorldGSM™ Rural BTS site for Entel -300 meters above the settlements in the picture. Notice the winding road that leads to the site (right hand bottom corner).
Rollouts are underway for deploying 86 GSM sites for Entel S.A.,Bolivia's state-run telecom operator under the Cobertura Movil Rural (Rural Mobile Coverage - CMR) project. VNL's solar powered WorldGSM™ telecommunications infrastructure solution will help Entel deliver sustainable mobile services to people in rural and remote locations across several provinces in Bolivia.
The VNL WorldGSM™ RBTS site overlooks Maca Maca
Entel's multi-million dollar investment in VNL's sustainable rural telecommunications solutions reflects Bolivia's commitment to economic and social development of its people through telecommunications. Located at the highest altitudes of South America, Bolivia is a land locked country, rich in natural resources. However penetration of mobile and internet services is a concern with huge gaps in coverage in sub-urban areas, rural areas and mining and production centers that are vital for the economy.
A picturesque municipality – Maca Maca,Bolivia
As Entel embarks on a nationwide expansion program, integration of unconnected rural areas into the development mainstream and empowerment of disadvantaged sections of society is top priority .It's efforts to expand its footprint are guided by the Political Constitution of the State which recognizes telecommunications as a basic right and emphasizes access and universal service obligations.
VNL's Bolivia journey began in 2011 with successful trials for the Bolivian Government in two remote locations, Rio Seco and Yatarenda, falling under the city of Santa Cruz.
Base of the VNL WorldGSM™ Rural Site with solar panels and battery bank in view
One of the VNL WorldGSM™ Rural Sites deployed for Entel is located in the mountains overlooking the picturesque Municipality of Maca Maca, in Loayza Province Of La Paz Department, Bolivia. The site can only be accessed by a tough, winding road that climbs to the base of the tower perched on a slope 300 meters above the community (see pictures). The site brings Entel's GSM network within reach of the 200 inhabitants of Maca Maca and 50 inhabitants in the small village of Caracato close by.
Maca Maca has just 200 inhabitants. The Entel site deployed by VNL is located in the mountains in the background
People in Maca Maca now have a choice after having shared a single phone booth that worked on the old DECT technology, all these years. Residents of Caracato are even more delighted because the village has never had any telecom service till now. Entel's GSM network is a first for them, and a big step to empowerment in their daily lives.
VNL WorldGSM™ RBTS
Watch this space for more on Entel Bolivia deployments in the coming weeks.
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Enterprise India, sponsored by the Indian Embassy and CII, started with a ribbon cutting ceremony performed by His Excellency Dr. Y. S. Seshadri, India's Ambassador to Myanmar, His Excellency Mr. Soe Thane (Ministry of Industry I &II), His Excellency, Win Myint (Ministry of Commerce), and His Excellency Myint Swe (Yangon Division Prime Minister) and Sanjay Kirloskar, Mission Leader and Chairman of CII ASEAN/ANZ Regional Committee.
Ravi Ailawadhi, CEO of Shyam Networks represented both VNL and Shyam at the show. He personally introduced the Ambassador and Ministers to VNL's Village Site and explained how VNL can help transform the lives of Myanmar's villagers living in rural areas, while at the same time enabling mobile operators to make a profit even at very low ARPUs. They were very interested in learning more about how VNL's systems require no connections to the electrical grid, or any expensive diesel generators. They were very happy to learn that VNL is interested in finding local manufacturing partners to source components of VNL's systems within Myanmar itself.
During the first day, Mr. Ailawadhi was also interviewed by SkyNet, one of Myanmar's major TV channels where he discussed VNL's offering for Myanmar and how access to telephony services and broadband can dramatically change a village for the better, opening up e-learning and e-health, expose locals to potential job opportunities, as well as providing a platform for local business to expand their market range. These types of added benefits is a vital end result of VNL's GSM & broadband plan for Myanmar's rural areas.
On the second day of the show, Mr. Ailawadhi introduced VNL's solution to His Excellency, Thura Thiha Tin Aung Myint Oo, Vice President of the Union of the Republic of Myanmar. Minister of Ministries, His Excellency Myint Swe, accompanied the Vice President.
Later in the day, VNL had the pleasure of meeting with Aung Myint Htun, Joint Secretary General of the Mandalay Region Chamber of Commerce & Industry. Jeanne-Elise M. Heydecker, AVP Marketing for VNL, explained the value proposition of VNL's solution and detailed some of the benefits of bringing affordable telecommunications and internet to the villages of Myanmar. Mr. Htun videotaped the presentation in order to share the information with the Chambers' members at their next meeting.
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Administrator USOF Mr. Ajay Bhattacharya handing over the
Certificate of Completion to Mr. Rajiv Mehrotra, Chairman & CEO of VNL.
New Delhi, August 10 2011
The Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF), Department of Telecommunications, Government of India, has awarded certificate of successful completion of project to Vihaan Networks Limited (VNL), an Indian manufacturer of telecommunications infrastructure equipment, establishing benefits of its new technological development of GSM Cellular Rural Telephony Solution to address the challenges of the rural telecom sector. The certificate was presented to VNL by the Administrator USOF Mr. Ajay Bhattacharya, who expressed his happiness on the successful completion of the project.
The USOF has found VNL's WorldGSM™ solution to be: environmentally-friendly and suitable for deployment in Rural and Remote villages; industrial areas with low capacity requirement; and isolated areas which have limited or no grid power and poor infrastructure.
VNL's WorldGSM™ telecom network infrastructure solution for remote locations, villages and small towns provides both voice and data (broadband).
VNL had entered into a MoU with the USOF in September 2009, and has successfully completed the Pilot Project for demonstration of the capabilities of its Rural Mobile GSM Solution in Alwar District of Rajasthan, India, in association with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL).
According to the USOF, the VNL system successfully demonstrated the following salient features:
The USO certificate was awarded following a year long deployment of VNL's solar-powered, zero OPEX GSM system developed specifically for remote rural areas where there is little or no electricity and ARPUs are less than $2-3 a month.
VNL's zero opex network solution was used to provide mobile services to around 30 villages in Alwar District, Rajasthan, across an area of 200 square kilometers, not covered by BSNL's existing network. It was tested by a team comprising officers of the Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC), Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT) and USOF.
Rajiv Mehrotra, Chairman & CEO of VNL said, "As an Indian company involved in innovation and manufacturing of high tech telecom infrastructure solutions, we are proud to receive this Certificate from USO. VNL is on a mission to connect the unconnected using sustainable models and we are delighted with the results in Rajasthan. We are grateful to the Government of India, USOF and BSNL, for encouraging us to demonstrate the capabilities of our rural GSM and broadband solution".
VNL's pioneering work has been widely praised; In 2010, it was named as a Technology Pioneer by The World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org) and the third most innovative company - and the most innovative telecoms company – in the world in the Wall Street Journal's annual Technology Innovation Awards, 2009. VNL was selected as a 2009 Top Pick and named as a company to watch in the wireless infrastructure market by Light Reading, a specialist telecoms analyst and publishing house. VNL also won the "best technology foresight" category at the World Communications Awards and came second in the "Green Network Hardware and Infrastructure" category at the CTIA Wireless E-Tech Awards.
VNL equipment is also deployed in networks in South Asia, Africa, Central and South America.
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For years, operators and GSM equipment vendors have struggled with the same problem: Traditional telecom equipment is not designed for the unique challenges posed by remote rural areas. It costs too much, is too expensive to run, uses too much power and is too difficult to deploy (especially in areas with no electricity, poor roads and a lack of trained engineers).
VNL has spent the last six years re-engineering GSM to overcome these challenges. The result is WorldGSMTM – the world's first truly environmentally sustainable voice and data network.
VNL is a member of the Shyam group of companies – India's leading diversified telecommunications group (www.shyam.co.in)
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India's overall economic growth has dramatically increased rural India's purchasing power. Marketers are now looking at smart ways to reach the rural market. Some Indian companies have modified their offerings specifically for the needs of rural markets.
Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL) is a good example with successful rural marketing projects like 'Project Shakti' and 'Operation Bharat'. The main emhasis of HLL's strategy has been to focus on penetrating the market down the line and focusing on price point. Hindustan Lever relies heavily on its own company-organised media. These are promotional events organised by stockists.
Coca Cola India entered the rural market by introducing bottles priced at Rs. 5. The campaign was backed with ads featuring well-known actor Aamir Khan. During the Aamir Khan ad-campaign, they also used local language in advertising. A combination of TV, cinema and radio was used to increase the reach to rural consumers. Coca Cola have also used banners and posters, and tapped many local forms of entertainment. Because of the common lack of electricity and refrigerators in rural areas, Coca Cola provides low-cost ice boxes — a tin box for new outlets and thermocool box for seasonal outlets.
A thorough understanding of the rural consumer is a crucial key to rural marketing success. Rural marketeers also need to take the large diversity of customs and language into account. Ideas and techniques used in urban areas just won't work for rural consumers.
Mobile telephony can better enable rural marketing in the following ways:
Clearly there are many advantages to marketers if the mobile telephone density increases in rural India. With VNL's solar powered GSM system – WorldGSM™ – mobile operators can finally provide rural mobile telephony services to India's villages. This will in turn will enable better rural marketing specifically designed for rural consumers.
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Urbanization is a subjective concept and has a different meaning in every individual's mind; but what remains common is the idea that urbanization defines a change in the way people think, live, and interact.
All those of you who have studied Sociology must be well aware of how urbanization is changing the rural landscape, as the latter expands to merge into urban areas. What is more interesting is the 'city lifestyle' which is redefining the way rural folks live.
I'd like to look at the business side first – with SEZs (Special Economic Zones) being set up across the remote regions in the country, the rural population has not only been blessed with employment opportunities, but also higher wages and a better standard of living. A majority of the people who migrate from rural to urban areas do so for the job opportunities that cities have to offer. But with BPOs and manufacturing units setting up shop next door, the rural youth don't seem to be complaining. In fact, the BPOs have started a new trend in rural India, one which prevailed in the metros, and then trickled down to the tier II and III cities – earning enough money not only to support family needs, but also to engage oneself in small indulgences. The income earned is also giving many the opportunity to study further with the money they save up.
The rural business story also has another side, where some of the biggest retail and FMCG brands have opened their chains in rural and remote areas, because as urban markets reach their peak, and begin to stabilize, rural India is on a high. As technology penetrates into the semi-urban and non-urban regions, and TV sets, PCs and mobile phones enter rural homes, there is an increase in the way that individuals and families are emulating the lifestyle of city people.
From a consumer's perspective, people in rural India have enough reasons to smile; after all, they are the next billion users of every product and service that companies across sectors have to offer. The economic slowdown has accelerated this development, as even the biggest corporate houses are eyeing the domestic market. In all this, the telecom industry is one of the few that has already touched lives in rural India, mainly because it was one of the first sectors to realize the potential that the untapped rural market held.
Rural urbanization can not only ease the pressure of surplus labour in rural areas and change the way India lives, but it also curbs the flow of rural laborers into big cities and helps stimulate national economic development.
So, where is your next business venture headed?
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With entrepreneurship penetrating every sector of the Indian market, rural India is not far behind.
In fact, the government, NGOs and the private sector unanimously agree that rural entrepreneurship = rural development. For the government and the NGOs, this is possibly the best way to uplift the rural community, and for the corporates, it provides value addition by giving them the opportunity to reach into remote areas.
There are a number of platforms in the urban areas that have a positive impact on the entrepreneurial environment – there are investors who are looking out for that one great idea that deserves their money; and there are networking events, where various entrepreneurs come together to understand various business models, and to discuss their own. A quick glance at the rural market, in comparison, shows that though entrepreneurship is headed in the right direction, there is still a long way to go.
The most critical factor in this context is the availability of viable and sustainable investment opportunities, and the lack of communication facilities in remote areas. The most common businesses that are initiated are those that are started by external groups, and entail textile production, agri-tourism, small retail businesses, craftsmanship etc. However, even though the NGOs and government bodies have collaborated to establish self-help groups to alleviate rural poverty, the lack of confidence amongst most of the rural population has proved to be a deterrent to the idea of innovative rural entrepreneurship.
Some of the main issues that the rural community faces while setting up their unique businesses include lack of knowledge about profit yielding industries, and of access to capital. Limited knowledge and experience about the resources available to build their business has also stopped the already apprehensive rural community to embrace the spirit of entrepreneurship.
I'd like to give a couple of examples of successful rural entrepreneurship – one that is led by Unilever, and the other which is a self-driven initiative by an individual in Tamil Nadu. Unilever connects self-help groups with business opportunities through Project Shakti. It specifically gives the women groups a chance to become small-scale sellers of its products, wherein each entrepreneur buys a small stock of items that are then sold direct to consumers in their homes. In association with the local district authorities, Unilever also provides free training on the basics of business management and sales. Piloted in 2002, Project Shakti saw immense popularity with more than 45,000 entrepreneurs covering 3 million homes in 100,000 villages in 15 states in India.
The other interesting instance is about a rural entrepreneur: T. Mariappan, a banana grower in a village close to Tiruchi, who designed a banana dehydrator by trial and error method, to produce a type of sweet from the fruit. Impressed by what Mr. Mariappan had to offer, the Indian Overseas Bank has sanctioned Rs. 11 lakh for his project. Currently marketing the produce in 400-kg packs and in sachets, the rural entrepreneur's future plan is to use a solar energy-operated dehydrator for large-scale production.
According to a report by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on entrepreneurship;
"From the perspective of the process of entrepreneurship, whether the location is urban, semi-rural or rural, is not important in itself. For example, the needs of a would be entrepreneur or an existing small business do not differ much from those in an urban area. To realise their entrepreneurial ideas or to grow and sustain in business, they all need access to capital, labour, markets and good management skills. What differs is the availability of markets for other inputs."
And it is exactly this gap that needs to be filled if the rural entrepreneurs are to walk shoulder-to-shoulder with urban entrepreneurs.
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Rise Up and Move: Are You Ready?
- Tuesday, February 22, 2011
R.I.S.E. God is calling us to rise up and move. Are you ready?
Well, it's that time again: going to my doctor for my regular visit. I simply dread it. I dread hearing from her what I am not doing right. That I am eating way too much fatty foods, not getting enough exercise or enough water. That my blood pressure could come down not to mention my cholesterol. I know she is going to fuss at my weight as she shakes her finger and rolls her eyes.
It was a Tuesday, and I had come the week before for my blood work. I wonder if I could eat a Twinkie now that my blood work has been recorded. I just love Twinkies with that soft yellow cake and white gooey cream inside. But I didn't eat a Twinkie because, well, I've started to make some changes in my life. As much as I wanted a Twinkie, the power it had over me had started to wane. As I sat in the waiting room I was getting anxious, especially dreading the scale. I had told a friend the day before that I was not going to get on the scale. And if they made me I was going to walk out. I mean, I am a grown up and I shouldn't have to get on any scale. She reminded me that the doctor needed those numbers. I was like, "Ugh. Alright, but they had better not tell me what it is. I just don't want to know."It will only depress me.
I then heard my name and started to walk down the long hallway to her office. I was like, "OK, just tell me how bad I am, how much I have failed, I'm ready for it." Then she said something that blew me away. She said Kris, your numbers have really improved since you were here last. I was like, "What?" She ran down each area from how much Vitamin D I had in my body to my liver, my kidneys and so on. She told me that each area was either the same or had improved. She then said, "And on top of this all you lost ten pounds, too." I started to cry. She was like, I have never had a patient cry because she had lost weight. I then, in the power of the Lord, was able to share some of my journey. The journey of RISE.
For some of my readers you may know I have diabetes 2. I have been on insulin for longer than I can remember. My daily life is a series of counting carbs and taking insulin as well as other "preventative" medications for long-term living with this disease. It is my thorn in my side that I have asked the Lord to take from me as well as the rose of fragrance as I have been able to share with so many others due to my disease. Diabetes has not stopped me from living a full life, however, it has limited me in some areas. A year ago I realized my diabetes was out of control. My present doctor had given up on how to treat me. He diagnosed a new insulin that didn't work and as a result, my sugars were very high. For several months I suffered with several side effects. These effects could have killed me if it wasn't for the Lord and so many prayers of others. I switched doctors and my new doctor immediately started to work at making changes in all my meds. Her goal was to get my sugars even, not in a month but over time. As each month passed I saw my numbers go down, more adjustments being made requiring more changes on my part.
Then in the fall, I ran into a friend who has lost a ton of weight. I almost didn't recognize her as she had changed so much. We quickly swapped phone numbers and set up a time to have lunch. I was so curious about what she had done. I figured she must have had that stomach surgery but no, she said, "To be honest Kris, it's taken me four years to lose the weight. But please understand, it's never been just about the weight. It's been about a transformation from the inside out through the power of the Lord." I was like, "OK, I'm listening." She proceeded to share with me a simple acronym. In fact, she didn't know where she got it from. The acronym was RISE. Something easy to remember and apply. RISE stands for:
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