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By Allen Brown, President and CEO, The Open Group
I have heard and read the opinions of a number of people about what is Business Architecture, as I am sure many of us have but I wanted to understand it from the perspective of people who actually had Business Architect in their job title. So I wrote to 183 people in Australia and New Zealand and asked them.
I chose Australia and New Zealand because of our conference in Sydney that was coming up at the time. It is also worth mentioning that when counting the number of individuals in each country who have achieved TOGAF®9 certification, Australia is ranked 4th in the world and New Zealand is 20th.
I explained that I had thought of constructing a survey instrument but I always think that such an approach is only really suitable when you want to measure opinion on things that you know. Since I really wanted to have an open mind, I asked everyone for their thoughts and provided a small number of open questions that showed the sort of thing I was interested in learning.
These were:
- What is Business Architecture in the context of your organization?
- Do you have Enterprise Architects in your organization? If so, what is it that you do that they do not? If not, how do you see Business Architecture differently from Enterprise Architecture?
- Who do you report to? Is your line of reporting up to the CIO, the COO if you have one, or other senior level person?
- How is Business Architecture perceived in your organization? It would also help me if I knew something about your organization.
- Which industry are you in? e.g. IT, Oil, Finance, Healthcare, National or Local Government, etc.?
- Is your organization primarily a consumer of Business Architecture or a supplier? e.g. consultant, trainer, vendor etc.
- What type of organization do you work in? e.g. a for-profit entity, a government department, a charity, etc.
- How big is the organization? Some idea of revenue or budget, number of employees – doesn't have to be precise. You could just say small, medium or large.
- How many Business Architects, Enterprise Architects or other architects are there in your organization? And perhaps a little about yourself.
- Your background e.g. Operations, Business Analysis, Project Management, IT, Finance etc.
- Were you recruited for the role or did you develop into it?
- I don't wish to take up too much of your time but anything you can share would be very helpful. And please feel free to add anything else that you feel is relevant.
I have so far received 24 responses which is what I was hoping for but I am open to any other views people who are performing this role might have. 16 of the responses came from people employed by organizations that I think of as consumers of IT products and services (government departments, telcos, banks, accountants, energy companies, and mutuals) and 8 came from suppliers.
The responses were amazing and thank you to everyone who took the time to do so. They included some wonderful insights into their role and into their organization, without of course divulging anything that they should not have. But of course because I asked open questions, the responses are, at the same time both more complex and more interesting. It's a case of be careful of what you wish for – but I am really glad that I did.
So far I have been able to summarize the views of the consumers. I will turn to the suppliers next. It will be really interesting to see where the similarities and variations lay.
It is important to note that I am still in the process of seeking to understand, so I would be really pleased to hear from anyone who has such a role, to correct any misunderstandings I might have or erroneous conclusions I may have drawn.
A number of comments jumped out at me. One example came from a Business Architect in a government department. The reason it stood out was very simple. Many times I am told that Business Architecture only applies to commercial business and cannot apply to governments or non-profits. Which is strange to me, since I lead a non-profit and when I was at business school, part-time of course, a good proportion of my classmates were from the public sector. The comment was in response to the question: who do you report to? The answer was, "we report to the Secretary but all reporting lines are business focused".
The first level of analysis, which should come as no surprise is that Business Architecture is a relatively new discipline for most organizations: in most cases it has been around for between 1 and 5 years. Described by some as a growing capability, or as immature, or even as "largely missing". One respondent describes herself quite rightly as a pioneer.
A recurring theme was that the ability to have a company-wide or industry-wide model was critical as it provides a common terminology across the board to what the organization actually does and enables understanding of the implications of any changes. Another was that the success or lack of it in Business Architecture really came down to the expertise of the people in the team; and another was that Business Architects acted very much, like internal consultants and often had a consulting background.
What Business Architects do is exactly that – their focus is on the "What". Some of the comments included:
- Understanding strategic themes and drivers
- Modeling value chains, value streams, configurations
- Context modeling e.g. external interactions
- Capabilities, including business capability, service capability (including both business and IT capabilities), capability maturity, targets and gaps
- Calling out the interdependencies of all the business and architecture domains: strategy, governance, market, distribution, product, capability
- Design – entities, people (organization structure, incentives), process, systems, functions, roles
- Linking with and supporting the strategy and injecting into the investment planning cycle
- The Business Architect provides processes, part of the input and information for the business to determine whether or not any investment will be made within their organisation
The "How" is in the domain of the Solution Architects, Application, Data and Technology Architects and the Business Analysts: business, process and data.
The crucial element is how well the Business Architects are integrated with the other architects and with the analysts. In many cases Business Architecture was within the Enterprise Architecture function – as an aside it was pointed out by one or two respondents that they considered Enterprise Architecture as a function rather than a person – in other cases it was not.
The reporting lines for Business Architects varies from organization to organization. Some reporting lines ultimately end up with the CIO or CTO, others to the COO and others did not. In many cases they reported directly to a GM or Head of change management, transformation or business strategy or improvement.
In those cases where Business Architecture was not embedded within the Enterprise Architecture function the relationship was enabled via a forum or committee that brought the Business Architects together with those working on the other disciplines. Gaining agreement on a common content framework, on business modeling standards and on governance procedures were cited as approaches that supported the collaboration.
Although in one case, Business Architecture was relegated to a sub-discipline of IT architecture to focus on the "business stuff". In most cases the Business Architects described a differentiated focus or role.
- A focus on business performance, process design, organization design, strategy and planning
- The documentation and governance of business processes, organizational elements, business requirements, regulatory requirements, business rules and risks
- The description of what we are trying to do, what value it adds and how it can be done
The difference from the other architecture domains was often described under the general heading of technology.
- Technical architecture and governance
- Strategic solutioning
- Information, application, data architecture
- Portfolio management
- The enterprise stack of tools
- Innovation through new technology
Business Architecture often demands a certain amount of analysis work and in one case it was seen as glorified business analysis. I have also heard "industry experts" say that they do not understand the difference between Business Architects and Business Analysts. But that is unfair both to the Business Architects and to the Business Analysts. They are both important functions in their own right. In fact it has been emphasized that you need all three disciplines: Business Analyst, Business Architect and the Solution, Information, Technology Architect.
Perhaps in smaller organizations you might get by with a Jack of all trades but the size of the organization represented by these respondents ranged from 1,500 employees to 50,000 employees and they need the benefit of the three different specializations.
While the Business Analysts are the source of the very detailed information needed, the Business Architect brings the skills needed to distil that information and discuss it with the business leaders. The people they are talking with are the senior leaders, the strategic solutioning teams, the program directors of large change programs and others who need pragmatic, easily digestible information. They need to understand the implications and gaps, the dependencies, the opportunities and the limitations.
As one person said, "the success gauge for Business Architecture is an organization that starts solving business problems by defining them within the organization's context across the spectrum of change areas, minus the technology change area, and then works toward the technology, rather than starting at a technology solution that might solve the problem and playing catch-up from there. I continue to hold to the view that investing in the Business Architecture up front saves on people, process and technology cost at the end."
Again, I would like to thank everyone for taking the time to respond. Everyone has a valuable story to tell and everyone is fully committed to the role and function of the Business Architect. If I have misunderstood anything, please do not hesitate to correct me. I look forward to hearing your comments.
Allen Brown is President and CEO, The Open Group – a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through IT standards. For over 14 years Allen has been responsible for driving The Open Group's strategic plan and day-to-day operations, including extending its reach into new global markets, such as China, the Middle East, South Africa and India. In addition, he was instrumental in the creation of the AEA, which was formed to increase job opportunities for all of its members and elevate their market value by advancing professional excellence.


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Historian Eric Foner will deliver "Abraham Lincoln and the End of American Slavery," a public lecture on Lincoln's transformations on slavery and race, on Mon., Nov. 19, 7-9 p.m. at New York University's Center for the Study of Transformative Lives (20 Cooper Square, 7th Floor Auditorium, between 5th and 6th Streets).
On the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, will examine the fascinating and contested relationship between individual and social agency in bringing about societal transformation. He will discuss how Lincoln came to emancipation during the Civil War, the various pressures on him -- military, and political as well as from slaves themselves -- and how emancipation changed the nature of the Civil War as well as Lincoln's own outlook on the place of African-Americans in American society.
The free event is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Transformative Lives, the Humanities Initiative at NYU, and the university's Biography Seminar. An RSVP is required to firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information, call 212.998.4291. Subways: 6 (Astor Place); N, R (8th Street).
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In his teaching and scholarship, Foner focuses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th century America. His Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 won the Bancroft, Parkman, and Los Angeles Times Book prizes and remains the standard history of the period. In 2011, his The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History as well as the Bancroft and the Lincoln prizes.
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The run is the prime place for quick improvement without drastic changes to your program.
Here are three great workouts for building killer speed over the Olympic distance run:
Mile RepeatsFrequency: Once per week.
Workout: 6x1 mile or 10x1K or 5x2K
If you have not done anything like this before, you should begin with fewer repeats (such as 4x1 mile and build up to the full volume of this workout). You may consider choosing a different rep-to-distance format each week to avoid monotony. Also, you don't have to do this on a track. If you have a park or road with a measured distance, this would be preferred since--as a triathlete--you won't be running on a track.
Rest: 1:1; in other words if your interval pace is seven minutes, then your rest should be at least five minutes and up to seven minutes.
Pace: 10K pace or slightly faster. Do not exceed faster than 100 percent VO2 max pace. If your splits are not consistent and you slow down throughout the workout, you are running too fast. Start conservatively and build into it. It is OK to speed up, but if you start slowing down you are missing the objective the workout.
Purpose: Physiologically this type of workout serves to build aerobic capacity--make you more efficient at race pace. You can either run faster over a given distance or you can run further at a given pace.
When I was in college running under legendary coach Joe Vigil at Adams State College, every Thursday was "Religion Day." Thursday was mile repeat day. And you could count on them every single week of the season "religiously." We knew it was on when coach would lumber out of his truck, with a stopwatch around his neck and announce, "Gentleman, today we get tough." However, "Religion Day" may also have meant a bit of prayer on our part hoping that just once we might have a week off. Somehow that never happened.
As a freshman, Thursday was not my favorite day of the week. In fact, I dreaded it. I would stress the entire day waiting for 2 o'clock to roll around. When it finally did, I made the rookie mistake of going out too hard early in the workout in trying to hang with post-collegiate pro runners and our upper-classmen (most of whom were All-Americans, National Champions or both).
I would end up suffering like a dog though the second half of the workout, which totally destroyed the workout's whole purpose.
As I matured and eventually became a triathlete, I grew to love mile repeats for the simple reason that they work. And they will make you fast. It's a tough workout--one that will take a few sessions to get right--but nothing will give you the strength and efficiency to finish strong like good ol' mile repeats.
4X4X4Frequency: Once per week in addition to mile repeats. Don't do in the same week as hills.
Workout: Four sets of four 400's followed by four 200's. As in, run four 400's then four 200's. Rest five minutes and repeat three more times. The 16 400's and 16 200's combine for a six mile total workout distance. This workout can be mentally demanding. It is a good idea to start with half the workout (2 sets 4x400, 4x200), and add a set each time you do the workout.
Rest: One to two minute jogs for the 400's. Jog an easy 200 for the 200's. Take five minutes very easy between each set.
Pace: Run these faster than 10K pace and closer to what you can do for 5K. This will feel slow early in the workout but will catch up with you.
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Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/St. Thecla
Benedictine Abbess of Kitzingen and Ochsenfurt; date of birth unknown; d. at Kitzingen about 790 or later. St. Boniface, Apostle of Germany, kept up a constant intimate correspondence with the community of Wimborne, Dorset, and from the abbess, Tetta, in 748-49, he obtained monastic colonies for Germany. Among these nuns one of the most illustrious for sanctity and learnmg was Thecla, a relative of St. Lioba, whom she accompanied from Wimborne and under whose rule she lived for some time at Tauberbischofsheim, until St. Boniface appointed her abbess of the newly founded abbey at Ochsenfurt. Later, on the death of St. Adelheid, or Hadelonga, the foundress and first Abbess of Kitzingen on the Main, she was called to rule that abbey while still retaining the government of Ochsenfurt. The Roman as well as the English and Benedictine Martyrology commemorate her on 15 October; others on 27 or 28 September. The name Thecla does not appear on the list of the abbesses of Kitzingen, but it is generally thought that she is designated as Heilga, or "the saint"; unless we admit this, the list must be considered interpolated. Among Boniface's letters is one addressed to Lioba, Thecla, and Cynehilde, as the heads of separate religious communities. Its tone reveals how far the nuns had entered as intelligent fellow-labourers into his apostolate. St. Boniface seems to have had a threefold purpose in summoning these Anglo-Saxon nuns as his auxiliaries: to propagate the full observance of the Benedictine Rule by new foundations; to introduce it into already founded monasteries, and to restore its observance in others; and finally to bring their gentle influence to bear on the fierce Teuton women, both by example and by the education imparted to their children. The ruined Chapel of St. Thecla, on an islet in the Severn, may have been dedicated to her, as Walstod, a Saxon bishop, was set over that part at this time. Some have tried to prove St. Thecla one of the nuns of Barking to whom St. Aldhelm dedicated his "Treatise on Virginity , but as this treatise was written before 705, and as St. Lioba went to Germany about 748-49, it is evident that her disciple who survived her was not this nun of Barking.
Ochsenfurt gradually declined, most probably owing to its proximity to Kitzingen. There is no record of its having any other abbess after St. Thecla. Kitzingen was used for secular purposes by the margraves of Brandenburg, to whom it had been mortgaged from 1440 to 1629, when it was redeemed by Philip Adolphus, Bishop of Würzburg, and restored by John Godfrey of Guttenberg as a school for the Ursulines. In 1803 the institute of the Ursulines was secularized, and today the abbey church is in the hands of Protestants and serves as their parish church. The tombs of St. Thecla and St. Adelheid in this church were profaned in the Peasants War,1525; a fanatic of Kitzingen used the heads to play at skittles; when the church was rebuilt (1695), the venerable bodies were covered with rubbish. The monastery contains a Catholic and a Protestant school for girls, a Protestant school for boys, apartments for some teachers,and the district court. The abbess's castle is private property.
Acta SS., Oct., VIII; KYLIE, The English Correspondence of St. Boniface (London, 1911); ANON., Life of St. Lioba (London); HOPE, St. Boniface and the Conversion of Germany (London, 1877); KURTH, St. Boniface (Paris, 1902); SEITERS, Bonifatius, der Apostel der Deutschen (Mainz, 1845); SCHNÜRER, Bonifatius (Mainz, 1909).
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Summer and Snakes
With summer comes the need to be aware of the places that snakes usually inhabit.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham recently treated its first snakebite case of the season, noted Dr. Janyce Sanford, chair of the university's department of emergency medicine.
"That is a usual pattern. As soon as the weather starts to warm up, snakes begin to get active and we begin seeing a bite or two. Still, we only see a few each spring, and people have a much greater chance of being stung by a bee or wasp or being bitten by a tick than being bitten by a snake," Sanford said in a university news release.
If you're in the woods or near rivers and creeks, keep an eye out for snakes and wear boots and long pants, she warned. It's also a good idea to carry a cellphone.
"Get to an emergency department as quickly as you safely can, and that can often be accomplished by calling 911," Sanford said. "Snap a picture of the snake with the cell phone if possible, but leave the snake behind. The last thing we need in a crowded emergency room is a snake, dead or alive."
Emergency doctors do not need to see the snake that caused the bite. A large number of bites are dry — with no venom injected — or are from nonpoisonous snakes, Sanford noted. By monitoring the wound for a few hours, doctors can tell if venom is present, and appropriate antivenin can then be given to the patient.
Most bites by snakes are not fatal. Those at higher risk include the elderly, very young children and people with underlying medical problems", Sanford said.
More information:
The U.S. National Library of Medicine has more about snakebites.
SOURCE: University of Alabama at Birmingham, news release, April 24, 2014


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NC Farmers get a helping hand with diversification grants
28 Western North Carolina farmers received nearly $150,000 total in grants to help diversify their farm businesses. The money was awarded by WNC AgOptions grant program, which is funded through the N.C. Tobacco Trust Fund Commission.
Most of the awards were $6,000, given to farmers undertaking projects that are unique to their counties or innovative for agriculture nationwide. Joe Ward, one of the recipients, in Jackson County is establishing a no-till planting system in an area where few farmers use this method. In no-till fields, soil erosion and runoff are decreased.
A grant also helped sustain several significant farms, such as a Bethel Valley farm that has been in the family Joseph Cathey for more than 200 years. Grants include:
• Macon County, $6,000 to Rabbit Creek Bee Company for pollination services.
• Haywood County, $3,000 to Walnut Cove Farms Sustainable for vegetable production.
• Swain County, $6,000 to Balltown Bee Farm Pizza Love for a mobile pizza-making oven.
• Swain County, $6,000 to Van Winkle Farm for shiitake and goldenseal production.
• Jackson County, $6,000 to Ward Farm for a customized Kinze row planting system.


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Guest report from occasional contributor Susan
A month or so ago, I noticed that my iPhone 3G was not updating when I made changes to either my Address Book or iCal on my one year old MacBook, so I made an appointment at my local Tucson Apple Store. Things have changed at the perpetually busy Genius Bar; iPhone techs now meet their clients at the front of the store, which is always very crowded with customers. These days, there are often more people in the Apple Store than in the rest of the stores combined in the upscale shopping plaza where Apple is located. Sad for those others, but I wish Apple would move into larger premises.
The first iPhone staffer was puzzled by my problem and eventually called over two of his colleagues. Of course, they checked to ensure that all my programs were up to date. At some point during their ministrations, my iPhone lost my Address Book and iCal altogether. Whoa! That was scary, but the techs made me an appointment at the Genius Bar so I didn't worry. However, although I've always had great success there, the Genius was unable to solve my problem, and asked me to come back. A second and then a third appointment failed to find a solution. The Genius suggested an iChat session with an expert at MobileMe. Both he and other people I spoke to briefly at AppleCare told me that the MobileMe technicians are extremely knowledgable.
iChat sessions are time-consuming and quite frustrating. Each person has to wait quite a long time to see on the screen what the other has to say. Why is it not possible to speak to MobileMe technicians on the telephone? Despite my slight annoyance with the process, I found James, the expert I got, to be extremely patient and pleasant to deal with throughout the more than an hour and a half of back and forth. He even waited while I went to the washroom. Eventually, James restored the Address Book and iCal to my iPhone. I thought I was now a happy camper but, no, the next day I discovered that they still did not sync; the MobileMe and iPhone versions did not get updated when I made changes on my MacBook. Neither did any of my Groups reappear on me.com or on my iPhone.
Another iPhone appointment at the Apple Store. As if my syncing problems were not enough, I then lost all my apps too because one tech restored my phone to its factory settings, hoping that would resolve the issues. It didn't, and the tech told me I might have to load all my previously purchased apps manually. I thought, well, if that's so, I'm not going to load those apps one by one into a 3G phone. My husband and I had been debating buying iPhone 4s. Because our contracts were almost up, we could get them at the lowest price.
As it turned out, of course, I was able to load all my apps automatically on my new iPhone 4, although doing that was not quite as easy as it should have been. My husband and I were both in time to load the app for free cases through the Apple iCase program. I can hear the detractors now—"You had all those problems and you bought new iPhones! Geez, how stupid, fangirl!"
My syncing problem transferred to my iPhone 4, so I now had proof positive that the issue had nothing to do with the iPhone hardware, although no one ever suggested it did. I took my brand new iPhone with its Address Book and iCal that would not update back to the Genius Bar. One session solved the iCal syncing issue (don't ask me how!) but not the problem with my Contacts. Nicolas, my Genius, suggested I book three back-to-back sessions, something I did not know I could do. Luckily, when I returned, I got Nicolas again, so I did not have to inform him about what was going on. Regardless, we did not have a solution to my Contacts syncing problem when I left. Please do not think that Nicolas is incompetent. Quite the contrary!. He previously solved many very thorny problems for me, but, for the time being, at any rate, this one stumped him.
I booked another triple session at the Apple Store. If I count each appointment, I think I had a dozen or more sessions over the course of the three or four weeks. Fortunately, I did not have to lug a desktop computer with me, just my laptop and my iPhone. All told, I worked with four different guys at the Genius Bar and about four additional techs at the store who work on iPhone issues, plus the very long iChat with the MobileMe technician and yet another session with someone on the phone at AppleCare. Everyone was extremely patient and talked with me in English, not Geek. Although everyone seemed very knowledgable, the eventual answer to the riddle eluded each of them. But now my iPhone syncing problem is finally solved!
Nicolas handed me over to Andrew, a Genius with whom I'd often dealt previously, though not on this problem. Andrew is, apparently, the go-to person at the Apple Store for software issues. He conferred at length with Nicolas and, when he started to work with me, said he had an idea what was causing the problem but was unsure whether what he planned to do would work. Three-quarters of an hour later we had liftoff.
When I asked Andrew what he did, he said he didn't really know! I'm guessing he did know, but probably didn't want to spend the time telling me the complicated details because another client was waiting in the wings. Or maybe he tried several things and didn't really remember which one worked. I was standing right there while he worked, but couldn't follow all the moves on the screen. I should say "screens,†because Andrew worked fast, and on my MacBook, my iPhone, and his own computer, which might have been showing my MobileMe account or Apple technical documents. I couldn't have seen everything, even if I had been able to follow all that was going on.
Basically, I think most of the people who worked on the problem tried to change my settings, figuring that some of them were conflicting. There seem to be a lot of settings in MobileMe, iTunes, Address Book and elsewhere, buried in screens that you reach through numerous, sometimes hidden, menus. Maybe what each person did often just went back and forth with the various settings. The guys seemed to think that iTunes and MobileMe were conflicting. Maybe they were. Who knows? Some of the guys turned off iTunes syncing, some of them turned it back on.
When I congratulated Andrew on achieving what no one else had been able to accomplish, he modestly said that all the guys have different strengths. He figured that my Address Book was corrupted, so, somehow or other, he removed it, replaced it and reconstituted it. Because the replacement came from the MobileMe version, I did lose some additions to my MacBook database that I'd made in the interim, but I remembered what they were and was able to reconstitute them. End of story, right? Well, no, not quite.
When James helped me during the iChat, he either was not able to reconstitute my Groups or he forgot to do it. Andrew used my MobileMe database to replace my corrupted Address Book and the MobileMe database, which never did get my Groups. Consequently, I lost all my Groups everywhere in the process, except in my backups.
Back to the Genius Bar yet again, this time for an appointment with Pierre, who, I was told, used to work there as a Creative, but likes more of a challenge. Well, I gave him one. Syncing is complicated if you have a MobileMe account because it involves iTunes, but I am still uncertain as to how iTunes and MobileMe interact. I had several backup copies of my Address Book–on my desktop, on Time Machine, and on a separate backup drive. Pierre thought, as I did, that the backup copies would transfer the corrupt bits, getting us back into the same mess, but he decided to give it a try.
Pierre used a USB stick to get a copy of my Address Book and transferred the file to another computer. Unfortunately, our fears were realized; the backup copy did not sync, so there was no totally happy end to my long syncing saga. However, Pierre patiently printed out all my Groups for me. Now, all I need is a long free weekend to recreate those Groups and manually transfer all their members.
I run a small business, so I keep my mailing list on my computer. I am also (for my sins) on the board of my homeowner association and keep contact information for all our residents. In addition, I am active in a couple of other organizations and need to communicate with the membership. Pierre said that syncing with MobileMe is not ideal for someone like me who has over 1000 contacts.
Pierre set things up on all those hidden menus so that everything syncs with MobileMe except my Contacts, which will sync via iTunes and a cable. That's hardly a problem, because I plug my iPhone into my MacBook to recharge it; that's a bit slower than plugging it into a wall outlet but otherwise works well because my MacBook is plugged in when I do this. I have no quarrel with syncing my contacts via the cable instead of MobileMe, but I would have liked to have known in advance that, because of my large Address Book, I should do that.
I told all the guys who worked with me that I was not unhappy or frustrated. I love the energy at the Apple Store and really enjoy hanging out there, watching and listening to the people of all ages. Almost everyone is smiling. While I'm there, I lust over the iPad, the Apple TV, the enormous display screens, the books, the software. It's simply amazing to me how hard the staff members work trying to solve all the problems. They're so smart that it gives me a bit of a kick to stump them. No boring, everyday problems from me!
I suppose many people would sneer. "What! You needed a dozen appointments to solve one problem and you're happy with that?" Well, yes, I am. Some problems are really tough ones. I'm quite certain that I would not get that quality or amount of help elsewhere, even if I paid for it, which I didn't at the Apple Store, remember. Only one of my telephone calls was covered by my AppleCare insurance. Ironically, this call was brief and added little to the eventual solution. The rest of my appointments were free of charge just because I'm an Apple customer. As I always tell everyone, the service Apple customers receive is reason enough to buy an Apple product, even if there weren't many other good reasons. Am I a fangirl? Yes, I am!


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"Inner light that always shines and never fades" is a message for yogis by yogis. This poster was designed with love to inspire the reader to see the light inside each human. Features a mystical, abstract watercolor and beautiful saying. This yoga art is a great gift for yogis.
This art print is available in two standard sizes to be ready-to-frame.
– 8″ x 10″ or 11″ x 14″
– 80# cover watercolor paper
– Packaged in an acid free, archival sleeve with backer board in a sturdy mailer
*Does not include hanging equipment.
All designs © Hand-Painted Yoga


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Terms and Conditions
Terms and conditions for purchasing and playing the game(s) and using
the HintHunt Website.
1.1. The website http://hinthunt.co.uk is owned and operated by HintHunt (WhyMCA Ltd). The
company holds the right to amend or vary these Terms and conditions including any of the contents
of the website from time to time at its sole discretion without prior notice.
1.2. The hereinafter terms apply to the use by any visitor of the
HintHunt Website and should be read carefully before any use.
1.3. HintHunt does its best to supply you with the most current and
accurate information on its website.
1.4. The HintHunt's website is for your personal and non-commercial use. You may not modify, copy,
distribute, transmit, display, perform,
reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer or
sell any information obtained from this website.
1.5. You are not permitted to link to or use all or any part of the
HintHunt's website for any purpose which is fraudulent, unlawful,
defamatory, harmful, obscene or objectionable.
1.6. You accept that the Internet is not fully secure. HintHunt will
take all appropriate steps to protect the security of any payment card
information though HintHunt shall not be liable for any damage that you may suffer as a result of the
loss of confidentiality of any such information, in case HintHunt is not at the origin of the loss.
1.7. HintHunt shall not be liable to any person for any direct or
indirect, consequential or incidental damages, including (without
limitation) lost profits or revenues, loss of opportunity, costs of
replacement goods or services, loss or damage to data or business
interruption, arising out of any use of the website, in case HintHunt is not at the origine of the
2.1. Nothing in these terms and conditions is intended to affect your
statutory rights.
2.2. The game is designed for a team of 3-5 people per room.
2.3 The trade marks and logos displayed on the website are the property of HintHunt. You are not
permitted to use these without the prior written permission of HintHunt and you accept that any
such use may constitute an infringement of the relevant proprietor's rights.
2.4. These terms and conditions and any contract concluded incorporating these terms and
conditions shall be governed by English law and all disputes shall be submitted to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the English courts.
2.5. Nothing contained in any contract is intended to be enforceable
pursuant to the contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 by any
third party.
2.6. All the terms of any contract are included or assigned to within
these terms and conditions.
2.7. HintHunt's website may contain hyperlinks to third party websites .
The operation of those websites is out of HintHunt's control and you use them at your own risk.
2.8. HintHunt collects and stores your personal details without
disclosing it to any 3rd party and is dedicated to ensure that the
privacy of your personal information is protected.
2.9. Due to limited reception area HintHunt recommends teams to arrive on time, not earlier than 5
minutes and not later than the beginning time of the booking. However, you can opt-out of the
sollicitation list by putting your name down at the following address: http://www.bloctel.gouv.fr/
2.10. Due to the nature of the game no recordings can be taken inside
the room.
2.11. HintHunt expects her visitors not to disclose any details of the
game directly or indirectly to the public.
2.12. HintHunt may contact you from time to time with offers and
promotions via email or phone.
2.13. HintHunt is entitled to charge the guests for any damage which is
intentional or caused by misuse of items.
2.14. While your are on our premises, you must ensure to conform to our codes and regulations,
adopt proper standards of behaviour, and
cooperate with our employees having security responsibilities.
2.15. HintHunt doesn't tolerate any kind of bullying or harassment
towards its employees.
2.16.In case of litigation, you can ask for the sales mediator at the following address:
3.1. The only language available for the conclusion of a contract online
is English.
3.2. Only person(s) who are at least 18 years of age are permitted to
book a Game.
3.3. It is your responsibility to check that any Games issued to you are
3.4. Any purchase of Game is only valid when processed by HintHunt.
3.5. If you wish to transfer your Game(s) into someone else's name, you must contact HintHunt by
either email or telephone at least two hours before the start of the game. This facility may be refused
by HintHunt.
3.6. Games may not be transferred or resold for commercial purposes or at a premium. If a Game is
transferred or resold in breach of this
condition, the bearer of the Game or the person claiming the right to
attend the event will be refused admission to the game.
3.7. You are entirely responsible for entering your details correctly on
the Online Booking Form. By submitting an Online Booking Form you
warrant to HintHunt that all details supplied by you are true and accurate.
3.8. You receive the confirmation of your booking via email only.
HintHunt is not sending confirmation via post or text message.
3.9. Online bookings can be made only 90 days in advance, exception may happen if contacting
HintHunt via email or phone.
3.9. A booking becomes a no-show and entry will be declined if the team
4.1. The price (excluding VAT) of a game is stated on the HintHunt
website of the Booking section.
4.2. The price is set according to number of people in a room (maximum 5 persons) and to the timing
of the week.
4.3. Bookings can be made online on the HintHunt website, via phone,
email or in person.
4.4. Any major credit or debit card and also PayPal account is accepted
to settle the payment.
4.5. Full payment is required at the time of booking.
4.6. HintHunt is a live event so once the booking is confirmed refunds,
cancellations or reschedules are not accepted.
4.7. In case less people attending the game than it is booked for the
price difference will not be reimbursed.
4.8. If more people attending the game than it is booked for (up to 5
persons a room) the price difference can be settled upon arrival to the
game (20€ additional per person)
If you need to contact HintHunt you can do so using any of the following methods:
– email: firstname.lastname@example.com
– by post: HintHunt, 62 rue beaubourg, 75009 Paris
6.1. Each HintHunt player will be instructed before their game by their
assigned local GameMaster. After learning the rules of the game, each
player will participate in the game at their own risk. Also, HintHunt is
not liable for any (personal or equipment) damages caused by game room misuse or not following
the rules described before the game.
6.2. If you are late for more than 30 minutes of the original time of
your booking, the reservation becomes a no-show automatically and you won't be able to start your
game. To re-book another slot must be of your own expenses and according to current availability.
6.3. People under influence of alcohol or undescribed drugs might be
turned away and there game stated as no-show.
6.4. Drinks and food may not be brought into the Game Rooms.
6.5. To be admitted you must confirm the full name of the booker and
might be asked to confirm phone number and email address.
6.6. Children age of between 9- 15 has to be accompanied at least by 1
adult per game, children under the age of 9 are not permitted to enter
the Game Rooms.
6.7. HintHunt suggests customers to wear comfortable clothing for the
game therefore high heeled shoes are not recommended.


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level 1 plagiarism there with the paper being retracted in January 2013 for being a greater than 50% plagiarism of prior work.
VroniPlag Wiki researchers applied the fragmentation technique to the paper in order to visualize the plagiarism (PDF) in a perhaps more understandable manner.
- grau=Komplettplagiat: the source of the text parallel is not given, the copy is verbatim.
- rot=Verschleierung: the source of the text parallel is not given, the copied text will be somewhat modified.
- gelb=Bauernopfer: the source of the text parallel is mentioned, but the extent and/or closeness of the copying is not made clear by the reference.
"Joe talks to Jack" in the source becomes "Atta talks with Khalid" to give the text a better terrorist feel:
|Original Katz et al. (2004)
A paper about criminals gets reworded to address terrorists in the introduction:
|Xu & Chen (2003)
Why would a scientific publisher (and not a junk journal or other shady operation) not swiftly remove such a paper from their online offerings once they learn of it? They seem to be condoning it by playing down the seriousness of the offense, just speaking of an erratum and only focusing on the table. Do scientific standards and aspects of quality not count for anything these days?
Update: Link added, type 1 -> level 1, attempt to fix the formatting. Thanks to G. Hindemith!


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BOZEMAN, Mont.—Inside the student union at Montana State University, freshmen and sophomores dig into pizza and espresso brownies and listen to motivational speeches while the marching band belts out the fight song ("We've got the vim, we're here to win!").
It's just what it looks and sounds like: a pep rally. But not the conventional kind.
The students in this room are on academic probation, have poor grades or are struggling to adjust to college. All are at risk of dropping out. They're being exhorted to keep trying, lured here by dinner, entertainment, prizes, even $50 apiece in cash, for coaching in time management, study skills and test-taking.
Thanks to this event, along with a relentless barrage of free tutoring, "success advising" and other support, an estimated three-quarters of these potential dropouts will buck the odds and stay in school, up from barely half who once did.
They're accomplishing something else, too: helping Montana increase the proportion of its population with college degrees faster than any other state, three years after doing so became a goal of the Obama administration.
While policymakers and university officials in other states continue to haggle over such things as making it easier for students to transfer their academic credits from one school to another, Montana has simply and quietly done them. In the process, it has raised the percentage of its 25- to 64-year-olds who have finished college by more than 6 percent over the last three years, the biggest improvement in the nation, during a time when the rest of the country barely edged up on this measure by 1 percent. Fifteen states actually lost ground.
The economic stakes of this are huge. The United States has fallen from first to 16th in the world in the proportion of the population with college degrees, and the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce projects a shortfall of three million college-educated educated workers by 2018. That gap could grow to 24 million by 2025, with a cost to the U.S. economy of $600 billion a year in lost wages and income taxes, according to the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems.
There's even greater urgency in Montana, where per-capita income is 41st among the 50 states and the number of jobs in agriculture, forestry and mining is declining while there's been a surge in demand in higher-skill fields such as engineering. Yet Montana's population is the fourth oldest in the country, with huge numbers of baby boomers nearing retirement and needing to be replaced by younger workers. Unless it can increase its ranks of college graduates, Montana will be short 96,000 of them by 2018—in a state with a population of about 1 million people—according to projections by Georgetown researchers.
"This is about making sure we have a generation that is knowledgeable, that will contribute to the workforce," said Carina Beck, Montana State's director of career, internship and student employment services. "Because if we don't do that, we're in trouble."
So are many other states. But they've been paralyzed by budget cuts and mired in arguments over how to fix the problem. Nationwide, barely half of four-year college students graduate within six years, and fewer than one in five at two-year community colleges finish in three. Only 38 percent of Americans have college degrees, when about 60 percent of jobs are expected to require them by 2018.
Montana's success in closing this gap hasn't resulted from some secret formula, said Judy Heiman, who has worked with Montana officials as an outside consultant on this issue. It's come from a willingness in this no-nonsense state simply to adopt the ideas that education advocates have been urging for years—but that policymakers, university administrators and faculty elsewhere continue to debate.
By comparison, after she laid out some suggestions to the governor's education advisor, Heiman recalled, she was taken aback at his abrupt response.
"Let's get 'er done," he said, as if preparing to herd cattle on a ranch.
"There really is that sort of approach there," she said—"that this is what we need to do, so let's just do it."
Montana started its push to churn out more degree-holders by bolstering its system of two-year colleges. Like other states, it had to overcome perceptions that two-year colleges are little more than trade schools for students whose grades aren't good enough to go to four-year universities—a matter made worse in Montana, where many of them were, in fact, vocational high schools before being transformed, in the mid-1990s, into so-called "colleges of technology."
The two-year colleges were "the red-headed stepchildren" of the higher-education system, said Daniel Bingham, dean of the one in the state capital, Helena.
Some of that reputation was deserved, said Bingham, who once taught prison inmates. "This felt like the state penitentiary when I walked in the door," he said, gesturing around at the college's main building, which has since been renovated.
The state legislature allocated enough money so that the two-year colleges could freeze tuition, even as the cost of public higher education nationwide skyrocketed. Today they're about half the price of four-year universities, which makes them attractive places to earn the first two years' worth of credits needed for a bachelor's degree.
But unlike at other institutions, where students often aren't sure what their degrees will get them, the biggest draw is a sharply focused bright light at the end of the tunnel.
Those who want to learn practical skills that require training and for which there are good jobs in Montana, such as welding and advanced machining, are given information about workplace demand and how much money they're likely to make when they graduate. Those who want to move on to a four-year university and get that bachelor's degree can see their futures plainly, too, since the state has standardized the names and numbers of 90 percent of the undergraduate courses at its public colleges and universities, making credits easy to transfer.
"Having a clear path is very motivating," said Heiman, a principal analyst in the California Legislative Analyst's Office. "Students are much more likely to get lost in the system if they start taking something and find out it's not going to transfer. It's just so easy to get discouraged and just give up."
The inability to transfer credits is a huge reason why many students in other states never graduate, education experts agree. Yet faculty often resist accepting credits from other institutions, even within the same university system, because of concerns about quality control.
Montana is one of only seven states that have taken the seemingly simple step of giving identical courses the same names and numbers system-wide. And there was resistance even there.
"It took some fist-banging," said Tyler Trevor, associate commissioner for planning and analysis in the Montana University System. "It pisses off some old-school faculty. It's about control, and it's about faculty control."
Yet before they were brought into comprehensible alignment, Montana's various public colleges and universities had 11 different names and numbers for an identical introductory English course, and 22 for introductory algebra, said Trevor. "And they were all the same class."
All of these changes have helped to double the number of students enrolling in Montana's two-year colleges—an increase so great that the college of technology in Missoula had to put carpentry students to work adding modular offices and classrooms. And a much higher proportion of them are making it to graduation than before.
"I wish I could roll out some 10-step program with a long name in academic terminology" to account for this, said Bingham. "But, no. We concentrate on the one person. And we cut out the extras."
That's another ironic advantage Montana has going for it: not a lot of extras. The state has historically invested comparatively little in higher education. It's 43rd in per-capita support for colleges and universities, with some of the nation's lowest salaries for faculty and staff. Montana's entire public higher-education system has fewer students than some individual university campuses in other states—47,500 in all, even after a 13 percent increase in enrollment over the last three years. (The Ohio State University, by contrast, has more than 64,000 students.) And, unlike other states, for better or worse, Montana has few obscure, low-enrollment programs, focusing instead on practical disciplines like engineering.
"We never strayed from the basics," said Donald Blackketter, chancellor of Montana Tech.
Blackketter's university, which sits on a hill overlooking the onetime copper-mining hub of Butte, with a statue of the copper baron Marcus Daly at the entrance, specializes in such disciplines as natural-resource engineering, restoration and ecology, and health care. It has an enviable 97 percent employment rate among recent graduates.
"We don't offer degrees in which you can't get a job," Blackketter said.
That's an outgrowth of the no-nonsense nature of this frontier state, said Gov. Brian Schweitzer, a Democrat, who has a bumper sticker on his office door that reads, "Montana is for engineers."
"I understand that we need a certain number of philosophers, and I understand that it's important to have a certain number of people who study history. But we're not currently creating a lot of jobs in those areas. So we have to look at what curriculums we really need," said Schweitzer, a soil scientist by training. "People who are getting degrees in philosophy and history, God bless them, it's wonderful that they're critical thinkers. But now they're going back to a college of technology to get a life skill to get a job."
The state has taken other steps to increase the proportion of its population with degrees. It lets some students get college credits out of the way while still in high school, having cut through red tape that would have barred university faculty from teaching them because of public-school teacher-certification requirements. It has expanded distance learning to reach far-flung rural residents, with more than 700 courses and 90 degrees available online. Twenty percent of Montana's college students are enrolled online.
There are still significant challenges. High-paying jobs in the booming eastern Montana oil fields threaten to divert potential students, slowing the enrollment surge. Only 3 percent of adults over 25 take college courses, the lowest rate in the West. And while it may be doing better at increasing the number of college graduates than every other state, Montana is still projected to fall short of the number it needs by 2018—but not for lack of trying.
Montana State, surrounded by breathtaking views of the snow-capped Bridger Mountains and Hyalite Peak in the Rocky Mountains, provided 6,500 hours of free tutoring in the 2011-12 year, and fields an army of "success advisors." It has changed the name of its Office of Student Services to the "Office of Student Success," whose walls are plastered with inspirational messages and photos of successful alumni. With research showing that many freshmen drop out of college because they feel isolated or homesick, students who participate in the greatest number of extracurricular activities are rewarded with T-shirts, TVs and a grand prize of $1,000 toward tuition.
"It's focus, focus on why we're here and what are some of the things we can start doing now," said the university's president, Waded Cruzado. "What we have to do is to surround our students with a network of support, the tools to succeed."
That seems surprisingly simple, conceded Matthew Caires, dean of students. "You would think so," Caires said. "You would think a notion that we're here to serve students would be sort of obvious."
In many other states, however, budget cuts have eliminated precisely those forms of support, making colleges and universities increasingly impersonal and difficult to navigate. Seeing an advisor, for example, can be an exercise in frustration. Academic advisors at community colleges may be responsible for more than 1,000 students apiece. At some California institutions, there are 1,700 students per counselor.
Montana State has even added webinars for hovering parents, enlisting them in the campaign to watch for warning signs that their children might be contemplating dropping out. ("If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," Caires said.) It counsels faculty to spot problems, too—something Caires said few are trained to do in doctoral programs that focus on their disciplines, not their teaching.
"I get this all the time" from faculty he encourages to report repeat absences or other problems among their students, Caires said: " 'Can I do that?' Well, what are they going to do—sue you for caring too much?"
Last year, this "early alert" system reported 1,100 students, who were invited to see a dean or an advisor to help sort things out. Half took up the offer.
Montana's notable friendliness helps, too. This is a state where a student's mother once knitted a sweater for a statue of Montana State's mascot, a bobcat.
"Can we quantify the effect of that kind of support from the community?" asked Caires. "No. But I think it has to help."
What seems to be making a difference in Montana, in fact, is the combination of small changes that are adding up to big improvements.
"It didn't surprise us that these were the results," said Schweitzer, the governor. "We just decided that it was going to happen."
This story also appeared on MSNBC on June 27, 2012.


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Recently [Rodger] has found new joy in making movie props come to life with the help of today's technology. He started with Project Thunderball — a flying James Bond mannequin with a jet pack. From there he brought us the Marty McFly working hover-board, and now an X-Wing Fighter, his biggest flying machine yet.
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With the release of a new graphics driver with full OpenGL 4.3 support by AMD for Windows and Linux, I couldn't resist to test compute shaders, one of the media features of OpenGL 4.3.
I did two tests: one under Windows 8 64-bit with a Radeon HD 7970 and a second under Linux Mint 15 with a Radeon HD 7770. For the tests, I used GLSL Hacker and loaded two demos of the Code Sample Pack: GLSL_Compute_Shaders_PostFX/ and GLSL_Compute_Shaders_Particles/.
The first compute shader test (GLSL_Compute_Shaders_PostFX/) performs a post processing effect and uses the imageStore() function to write the new data into the destination texture. The test worked fine with HD 7970 (Win8) and HD 7770 (Linux Mint 15).
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The second compute shader test (GLSL_Compute_Shaders_Particles/) deforms a grid of vertices using some sin+cos functions. Once again, the test worked perfectly fine on the HD 7970 (Win8) and HD 7770 (Linux Mint 15).
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#version 430 #extension GL_ARB_compute_shader : enable #extension GL_ARB_shader_storage_buffer_object : enable struct particle { vec4 pos; vec4 c; vec4 n; vec4 t; }; layout(std430, binding=0) buffer particles { particle p[]; }; uniform uint max_particles; uniform float time; layout (local_size_x = 128, local_size_y = 1, local_size_z = 1) in; void main() { uint gid = gl_GlobalInvocationID.x; if (gid <= max_particles) { particle part = p[gid]; part.pos.y = 2.0 * cos(time + part.pos.x * 0.1) + sin(time + part.pos.z * 0.1); part.pos.y *= 2.0 * sin(time + part.pos.x * 0.1) + cos(time + part.pos.z * 0.1); p[gid] = part; } }
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The connection with the popular social music network Last.fm doesn't stop there, since the company is pushing to become the "Last.fm for research", which means the startup essentially aims to enable academics to manage and sharing their research paper inventory and at the same time discover like-minded people and papers thanks to a recommendation and matching algorithm.
I registered for the service and downloaded the Windows version of the desktop app (it's available for Mac OSX and Linux too) to give it a whirl. First thing I noticed is that you can easily invite fellow academics from your network to join Mendeley based on existing accounts for LinkedIn, Gmail, Windows Live, etc. I also took note of the fact that your profile settings, which include information about your field of research, a CV, etc. automatically has you signed up for the company newsletter, which I think should be optional. My entirely fake public profile can be located here.
The desktop app is actually quite nice: after installation, you can import PDF files using the tool's "Automatic Medata Extraction" or import your existing library from EndNote XML, BibTeX or RIS files. Mendeley also features a Word Plugin which lets you insert citations and create formatted bibliographies in documents using Microsoft Word 2003/2007. Academics can also upload their own research papers and syncing files and information with the web-based version with just one click of the mouse. Mendeley also boasts features that let members connect with their peers online, and – taking a page from Facebook – the tool also features a newsfeed that displays newly shared or uploaded documents etc.
Mendeley claims to have "scrobbled" data on almost 3 million research papers in just two months, so it's likely to become one hell of a resource if growth continues and enough academics take notice.
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As Hanukkah draws to an end in Israel and the Jewish Diaspora, we remember the miracle of the oil lamp lasting for 8 days every night as we light our Hanukkah candles. It's a time of hope and thinking about the miraculous.
This reminds me of a conversation I was involved in several years ago at an interreligious conference in Palermo, Italy. It was the Annual Meeting of People and Religions, sponsored by the Community of Saint Egidio, a wonderful Catholic community engaged in prayer and social action in many parts of the world. I attended their annual meetings several times, and not only came away spiritually inspired but also more hopeful about humanity.
At this conference, there was a morning plenum on Religion and Peace which offered wonderful presentations by Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders from Israel and elsewhere. I thought that it was a challenging and uplifting symposium.
But over lunch I was engaged in a discussion with an American journalist and Prof. Sari Nusseibeh, who is President of Al Quds University in Jerusalem and a distinguished scholar of Islamic thought and culture. He is a well-known cultural figure in Jerusalem, who, among other things is known for his secular/cultural outlook on life, but he is not a "religious†person, at least not in the sense of religious observance.
At lunch, the journalist asked Professor Nusseibeh what he thought about the lectures by religious leaders in the morning. He surprised him by responding negatively and saying that he did not like their speeches and he went on to ask – what have they really done for peace in our region? The journalist, who was a bit taken aback, nevertheless persisted and asked, "So, what do YOU think is the solution for peace in the Middle East?†Prof. Nusseibeh thought for a moment, then gave a wink and a smile and said sardonically responded, "We need a miracle!â€.
I always remember this episode on Hanukkah. What did he mean by a miracle? Certainly not a supernatural event but rather something of extraordinary human dimensions that would radically surprise us.
When Sadat came to Jerusalem, this was a miracle. It was a great surprise. No one would have predicted it, even days or weeks before it happened. It led to the peace treaty with Egypt which has lasted more than 30 years!
When Prime Minister Yizhak Rabin, of blessed memory, shook hands with Yasir Arafat (head of the PLO) on the White House lawn on September 13, 1993, just over 19 years ago – and gave one of the most inspiring speeches of his life, sharing hopes and dreams for peace of the Jewish People in Israel and worldwide – this too was a miracle since it was totally unexpected, and this became the beginning of the Peace Process in our region.
So, I agree with Prof. Nusseibeh. It is time for a miracle! It is time for our leaders on both sides to seize the courage and creativity to make peace, for us and our grandchildren and for the future. Not just a "piece of paper,†i.e. a formal treaty between us and the Palestinian people, but a sustainable peace, which will include ways and means of learning to live together in peace, now and for the decades to come.
I suggest that you don't read the daily news to look for this miracle. Rather, one must believe in the creative power of human beings to make miracles, as has been done in the past.
No one in Northern Ireland ever believed that their conflict would be resolved; nor in South Africa, or in Bosnia. But conflicts do get resolved, and not always in predicable ways.
So light a candle for peace this year, or even eight of them, and continue to believe in miracles.


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"Connection" – Diversity of the details which form many symmetrical layers you see though the torii, the archway of the Shinto shrine. You will be surrounded by the eternal sacredness and beautifully fresh air. The hair salon is located along the approach to the small shrine called Tetori Shrine. "tetorigarden" was named after it. "Danpatsu", the act of the haircut used to be concerned to be very sacred in Japan. Torii, the archway of Tetori Shrine and the huge window of the hair salon with the frame of hinoki cypress. They stand along the same approach to the shrine as they face each other. They both seem to be the frames cutting the space inside and showing it in close-up as well as "Kekkai" the spiritual barriers. With the counterpart of the shrine, we wanted to create the mental and spatial connection between the sacred and creative daily work of two places along the same approach.


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One of my husband's fa-vor-ite dishes in Disney World is this super creamy clam chowder from Liberty Tree Tavern in the Magic Kingdom!
It's a New England style clam chowder, which means it's made with milk and ends up creamy instead of brothy in the end. This delicious goodie has been a staple on the Liberty Tree Tavern menu for years, and it's a guest favorite.
But here's a DFB Tip: don't have time for a long lunch? Head on over to Columbia Harbour House nearby to get a similarly delicious chowder fix, counter-service style!
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New England Clam Chowder
Liberty Tree Tavern, Magic KingdomIngredients (Makes 6 Servings):
1/2 cup celery, diced small
1/2 cup onions, diced small
1/2 cup green bell pepper, diced small
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
24 ounces clam juice
1 12-ounce can chopped clams, with juice
1 quart milk
1/8 teaspoon thyme
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon white pepper
2 cups potatoes, cooked, cut in 1/2-inch cubes
In a 4-quart saucepan, melt butter or margarine. Add celery, onions, and green peppers. Saute about 5 minutes until tender. Add flour and cook an additional 5 minutes to form a roux. Stir in clam juice, chopped clams, and milk and bring to a boil. Reduce heat immediately and simmer for 15 minutes. Continue stirring while chowder thickens. Season with thyme, salt, and pepper and add cubed, cooked potatoes.
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Recipe taken from Mickey's Gourmet Cookbook: The Most Popular Recipes from Walt Disney World and Disneyland, copyright 1994


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