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|2009-08-27, 04:18
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Kneel Before Your King!
And that wasn't really all that fair a judgment to begin with. If Koizumi were a girl, Kyon would've been a lot less antagonistic towards "her." Frankly, Koizumi is allowed to screw with Kyon whenever he wants in my book.
|2009-08-30, 15:21
|Link #43
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Berlin, Fatherland
Koizumi is interesting because he's so shady. You simply don't know what's behind his facade. You don't know when he's serious or when he's trolling. You don't now why it seems like he's stalking Kyon. After 9 novels, you still basically don't know anything about him.
Of course, that just fits right, since he's the "mysterious transfer student". Of course he has to be shady. The only question is if he's doing that intentionally and if not, wether her realizes that he fits his role.
Sometimes it looks like he's just a normal guy under everything, though.
|2009-09-02, 13:08
|Link #48
power tends to corrupt
Conversation has dead-ended; let's try a different track.
We know little to nothing about Koizumi's background and family situation. In Sighs, the scene by the pond is described as being "near Koizumi-kun's place", but it's never specified whether it's his apartment alone or his family's. (And despite its close proximity, they head to Tsuruya's house afterward instead of his.) He himself has never mentioned anything, aside from the small mention in Melancholy that:
"I don't know what really happened three years ago. All I do know is, I suddenly realized I possessed paranormal powers one day three years ago. I was really scared; I didn't know what to do. Luckily for me, it wasn't long before the 'Organization' took me in, or I would've killed myself thinking something was wrong with my brain."
(The official translation from Little, Brown writes the phrase in bold above as "The Agency soon took me in and gave me guidance".)
I've seen a couple different suggestions with (as far as I know) no real support to back them up -- one, that Koizumi was orphaned at some point and has no other family, thus the Organization literally "adopting" him so to speak. Another is that the Organization kidnapped him once they realized what he was. Another possibility might be that his family became part of the Organization after that day three (four) years ago. Or maybe, if he does indeed have a family, they're completely unaware of his powers and his connection with a frighteningly powerful and manipulative secret society.
What do you think? Are there other possibilities? Koizumi suggests that gaining esper powers was akin to winning the lottery -- random, with no other prerequisites. But do you suppose that Haruhi (assuming the theory that Haruhi-is-god and thus is responsible for the creation of espers) could have leaned more towards a certain type of person than another? That is, could she have preferred a tragic backstory for her chosen espers (those who became espers were orphans or had really horrible childhoods or some other heart-rending history) or a completely normal one (everyone she chose was utterly normal, with typical family and typical interests, that just happened to have bizarreness thrust upon them)?
Obviously, until we learn more from Word of God, this is all just speculation, but I'm curious about other thoughts on the matter.
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|2009-09-02, 14:33
|Link #49
The Last Loner
I pretty sure in one of the later stories he admits that he lives alone. He's never talked about his family, but from what I understand, it seem likely to me that they're still alive. Perhaps when he discovered his powers, his family was helpless to help deal with them until the organization came along and offered to help in exchange for him joining them.
|2009-09-02, 16:16
|Link #50
fire of fires
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Vesuvius
Now this is a conversation topic I like
Koizumi's daily life would be interesting to get into. We've been to Yuki's apartment a couple times, and Mikuru is established to be from the future and thus living alone, but other than the mention above, we know nothing about Koizumi
Until that mention, I thought we'd have a story sometime where we went to his house and it was completely normal, and his parents were all "We're so happy he has someone coming over, that hasn't happened in three years!" xD
But yeah, Koizumi's so calm and collected he must have stayed with the Organization for at least a little while and learned to be...so shady.
|2009-09-08, 03:03
|Link #52
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Bavaria
I don't know if I'm allowed to, but I'd like to request something:
Could someone please write down Koizumi's rank in the SOS Brigade (Vice Commander/Leader) in Japanese for me? If possible in roman letters...
I've already searched for it, but I couldn'd find it anywhere... Thank you!
|2009-09-08, 19:01
|Link #53
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Not to confuse topics here, but Koizumi's description of figuring out that he was an esper is not entirely unlike the coming-out stories of several gay people.
As for the other theories about his family, going back to the idea that he's gay, it wouldn't be unheard of (although certainly a very sad story) for a family to cut off their gay children.
|2009-09-10, 23:48
|Link #54
power tends to corrupt
Spoiler for Where Did the Cat Go?:
Something I'd forgotten in my original post is that in Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody, one of Koizumi's wishes has to do with "family" -- the Baka-Tsuki novel translation uses "harmonious family", while the anime subs say "the safety of my family" (DB_L-E) and "the peace and prosperity of my family" (a.f.k). The manga adaption uses the same phrase as the a.f.k sub. At first remembrance, I thought this meant that yes, Koizumi must have family somewhere (involved in the Organization or not), but then I figured... if he was obeying Haruhi's orders about making wishes that could be granted 16 or 25 years in the future, those could be about his own future family, which is also kind of interesting to consider. (Koizumi wants to have kids?) Alternatively, it could also maybe mean a metaphorical "family", within the Organization? (Mori-san?)
I honestly think there's something not quite right about him psychologically -- he's stated during one of his more serious talks with Kyon that even he's not sure when he started wearing his "mask". That seems to indicate that it probably didn't happen right when he transferred, because he would have remembered that. So it probably started before, but how long before is a mystery. Is it something he learned to do after the Organization scooped him up? Something he was started pre-Organization but post-esper powers, a kind of defense mechanism so that other people wouldn't think he was a complete freak?
Hm... I have to admit that I'm a little against the word "shady" to describe him. He, as much as Nagato and as much as Asahina-san, is still a puppet of his parent faction, so I think it's more that the Organization is shady rather than Koizumi, himself, being shady. A lot of what he does and says could be done and said on orders from his superiors, not necessarily because he wants to screw with Kyon's mind. It's true that he seems to have more freedom to work within those confines (he doesn't have to answer to any Data Overmind, and he's not a slave to maintaining the future), but he's nonetheless a subordinate, not a free agent.
(This brings up an interesting thought -- if and when his promise to Kyon about "standing by his side" and choosing the Brigade over the Organization needs to be fulfilled, just how is the Organization going to take that? If they're anywhere near as violent as Koizumi has hinted, it might not end well for him if he decides to defect. Not only would the Organization be losing their agent currently closest to Haruhi, they'd also be losing one of their prized espers. He's never been guaranteed the same protection the girls have (Haruhi is, you know, Haruhi; Kyon blackmailed Nagato's boss to keep her safe; assuming the future remains unchanged, (big) Asahina-san's existence would mean that nothing befalls her either), so of all of them to meet a Bad End, it might be him...)
Edit · Yes, I tl;dr. Frequently. I'm allowed to do that in the Koizumi thread, right?
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|2009-09-15, 00:07
|Link #55
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Hyrule
Age: 46
Spoiler for NekoDoko:
Itsuki is, after all, the character most likely to willingly turn against Kyon should his superiors deem it necessary. Note that I don't suggest he is the one most likely to turn against him (although I do believe that, personally). Yuki is very obviously in love with Kyon, but if the Overmind decides it's time to cash that card, her will in the matter may be irrelevant. Similarly, Mikuru's superiors may eventually find Kyon's temporal influence too dangerous to allow, leaving Mikuru(either) the unhappy choice of betrayal versus non-existence. But Itsuki has as much as stated that he personally resents Kyon's relationship with Haruhi. Should the situation arise where he has the chance to remove Kyon and elevate himself without endangering his personal status-quo, do you really think he wouldn't take it? That's a bit shady, no?
|2009-09-20, 09:09
|Link #58
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2009
Personally, my interpretation of Koizumi makes him the most stressed member of the SOS Brigade, even moreso than Mikuru and Kyon.
First of all, he has to handle everything the SOS Brigade does, as well as normal school life. On top of that, HE masterminded the
And now for the behind the scenes workings of the Organization itself. We know they have power and influence, and Koizumi has admitted to Kyon (in Sighs) that there have been many infights and wars amoung their members. I beleive it is entirely possible that the Organization had no intention of placing Koizumi in the SOS Brigade, but rather, Itsuki transfered to North High to save himself from any attacks against him. After all, once Haruhi took interest in him, that was it. No Esper is going to touch him in fear of Haruhi's retaliation. Didn't Koizumi explain that "I didn't intend to transfer so suddenly, but circumstances have changed." Koizumi might have placed himself in North High without Organization consent, and thus ensured his own safety.
|2009-09-20, 18:32
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The success of Kenyan athletes is, in fact, attributable to Hilary's observations, but there is a difference. They have no public transport in many areas of the country. They have to walk or run 10km to school and 10km back. That's a half-marathon a day for five days a week. So, from a very early age Kenyan boys and girls are running possibly 65 miles a week. There are plenty of softies here in the UK who would say that to subject school children here to such a regime is a recipe for getting "burnt out". Well, Kenyan children don't get burnt out, they get fired up instead to trounce most of the world's best runners by the time they are twenty.
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The strange thing is that the car as calculated to have an average speed of 5 miles per hour crossing London in the rush-hours. A walker can cover the same distance in the same time. A runner could cover twice the distance.
We often hear some athletes saying that they don't really have time to train. I recall a mediocre athlete many years ago with a best time of 4:12 / mile. His coach told him he should go for the 10km event, but the mileage the coach asked him to do was so extensive that the athlete, a carpenter by trade, who travelled long distances to work, could not fit it in. The answer was to run to and from work. However, at the time, his work-site was 15 miles away. He was undaunted by the prospect and ran the 30 miles involved daily, five days a week. He rested Saturday and Sunday. This athlete, Roger Matthews, became the 4th fastest 10km runner in the world in 1970.
So, start using your feet, gradually at first. We can start with running to and from work carrying our clothes in a rucksack, one day a week, then twice the next week and so on, until in five weeks we are running every day. Or, we can opt to run either to work daily or just to run home and graduate to two runs a day in due course.
The physiological facts are proven. An athlete who moves gradually from 20 miles per week to 50 mpw of just steady running will improve his or her VO2 max by 10 per cent. In practical terms, this means that if you at present can only run 4,000 metres in 15 minutes, you will run 4,500 metres in 15 minutes when you reach 50mpw. And, if you carry on to 80 mpw, you will improve your VO2 max by 2 per cent more: that's about 4650m in 15 minutes from 4,000m. It's the difference between running 5km in 18:45 to 16:40! Well worth the effort. If you like running, you will like it more as you get better at it. To do that, use your feet, and use your car and public transport for really long journeys. A long journey is more than 10 miles. You can run that distance in an hour!

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I picked up one of these cables to try:
I hooked up a USB A female-female adapter to the data/power end and to a dual PS/2 to USB keyboard/mouse adapter with a TypeMatrix 2020 keyboard on it.
I hooked the aux power line to my laptop.
While it worked, eventually the battery drained to deep discharge (I had WiFi enabled and GSM/BT/BPS disabled - Power Management was disabled).
When I looked at the power info on the Freerunner when it was still in normal USB mode, I found that the Aux line only supplies 100mA (charger_type file) and the chgmode file says "play-only".
Also, the directory for the charge info is /sys/devices/platform/s3c2440-i2c/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/ on the Freerunner and it appears the setting for fast charge mode is simply "fast" on the Freerunner instead of "fast_cccv" (at least that's what shows up in the chgmode file when hooked up USB).
--Techiem2 23:08, 24 July 2008
I put together a little pygtk app for changing USB Modes.
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Hi all. I am really going mad about this issue.I want to implement MSAA .I have read OpenGL super bible and some other articles where there are some examples.What I understood from most of that data was that I need to
set up another FBO ,render samples to texture ,then feed it into the default FBO ? I don't get it .Can't I do MSAA in the default FBO ? In Super Bible the example is very problematic as it is used to present post processing effects so it can't be understood from it if it can be done with the default frame buffer .Anyways I am trying to do this this way (using LQJGL API) :
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Code :_textureID = glGenTextures(); glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D_MULTISAMPLE, _textureID); glTexImage2DMultisample(GL_TEXTURE_2D_MULTISAMPLE, 8, GL_RGB32F, _textureW, _textureH, false); glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE); glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE); glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR); glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR); glFramebufferTexture2D(GL_DRAW_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0, GL_TEXTURE_2D_MULTISAMPLE, _textureID, 0);
Then in the render loop I do this:
Code :glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0); glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D_MULTISAMPLE, _textureID);
Now inside fragment shader I ,for now removed the sampling part and currently trying just to get the texture displayed on the plane because now it is black.So I just left this part:
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Code :#version 330 in vec2 uvsOut; uniform sampler2DMS origImage; uniform samplerBuffer sampleWeightSampler; uniform int sampleCount; uniform int useWeightedResolve; out vec4 outputColor; void main(void) { vec3 a5 =texelFetch(origImage, ivec2(uvsOut.xy),8).rgb; // outputColor = texelFetch(origImage, ivec2(uvsOut)); outputColor=vec4(a5.xyz,1.0); }
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It's not every day you're going for an evening stroll with your child and have to confront a creepy flasher! But that's exactly what happened to a woman in Longview, WA this past Wednesday evening, according to local police. The 35-year-old mom, her 6-year-old son, and their dog were reportedly taking a walk near Lake Sacajawea around 8:10 p.m. when a man approached her "aggressively," fumbling with his belt and saying, "Miss, miss. Could you watch this? You need to watch this." He then sat down and began performing a sex act, according to the woman. Ughhhh!
While I can imagine being totally freaked out and not knowing what to do when faced with something as bizarro as this, the brave mom took major charge of the situation -- and pulled a gun on the guy! She explained, "I put the magazine in my gun. I cocked it. I said, 'You need to leave or I'll shoot you. I'm going to blow your brains out.'" OMG!
The guy reacted just as you would hope/think he would -- by yelping, "Oh, [expletive]!" and running away. And after that, the woman sent her "well-trained Norwegian Buhund Hound" after him. Incredible!
Thankfully, the woman's son didn't seem too fazed by the unnerving series of events. She explained, "I had him turn and face toward me. I stayed calm. I didn't raise my voice. I don't think he knew what was going on." Whew ... Still, what a frightening episode to go through. And how lucky was it that she had thought to bring her gun with her?
Though this incident definitely proves that every woman should have some form of self-defense at her disposal. I'm not typically a huge proponent of owning a gun. Mace, pepper spray, some black belt moves, maybe. But clearly, this mom made the right choice when she did decide to bring her Ruger .380 with her to the lake. She said she'd never done that before, but she grabbed it on her way out the door this time, because it was foggy and dark. She also "just had a feeling." Well, there you have it ... Goes to show sometimes it really does pay to trust your gut -- and be prepared!
How brave is this mom?! Would you ever carry a gun with you like she did?
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Nora Doris Marsh, 89, a long time Brookfield resident, died Saturday, June 7, 2014, at Villa Ventura, Kansas City.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, June 11, 2014, at Wright-Baker-Hill Funeral Home, Brookfield, with Rev. David Blakely officiating. The family will receive friends from 10 a.m. until service time Wednesday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Park Lawn Cemetery in Brookfield.
Memorials to Siloam Chapel Cemetery may to left at or mailed to the funeral Home, P.O. Box 496, Brookfield, MO 64628.
Doris was born 1924 in Marceline, daughter of Russell Oldham and Ola Pollard.
She was raised in Kansas City and graduated from Northeast High School. She earned her B.A. and M.B.A. Degrees from Truman University and her Specialist degree from C.M.S.U. Teaching was always Doris' passion and she began her teaching career in a one-room schoolhouse near Mendon. She taught for over 50 years, most of it with the Brookfield School District. Family was also very important to Doris. Together she and her husband, Pete, raised two sons. She was especially proud that she was able to help each of her grandchildren receive a college degree. Doris was a strong believer that every person should be treated the same no matter their socioeconomic status or the color of their skin.
Survivors include her two sons, Bob and his partner, Tim Gingrich, and Jim and his wife, Debby (Hall) Marsh, all of Kansas City; a sister, Martha Oldham, Lawrence, Kansas; a granddaughter, Amanda Saxton and husband, Mike, and two great-grandsons, Carson and Keaton, Savannah; a granddaughter, Lauren Marsh, Kansas City; and a grandson, Pete Marsh and wife, Leighanna, Kansas City.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, sister, Dorothy Landtiser and one great grandchild.


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1. Respect the property of rural residents and ask before using it. Save fences, close gates and bars, go around planted fields.
2. People, livestock, trees, and birds were never meant to be target-practice backstops.
3. Respect the law. Catch enough legal fish to eat and then stop.
4. Clean up your camp. Don't litter the highway with trash.
5. Finish what you start. Carelessness with fires is cussedness.
6. Leave the flowers and shrubs for others to enjoy.
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The J. Paul Getty Museum has been without a director for two years, and acting Director David Bomford recently announced he'll also be gone by February. New Getty Trust President James Cuno hopes to name a permanent replacement by summer. Although the job seems to be a plum, the appointment won't be easy. That's because the Getty is the only major American art museum whose director reports to a paid president rather than a board of trustees. Full responsibility for the museum without full authority has caused friction in the past, partly explaining rapid turnover in the job: Including Bomford, four people have occupied the Getty director's office in just the 14 years since the Brentwood museum opened. -- Christopher Knight Pictured: View of the museum courtyard fountain in front of the West Pavilion of the Getty Center, seen from the terrace of the Exhibitions Pavilion, on July 29, 2007, in Los Angeles.
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Here's wishing Bryce Harper a speedy recovery and an unchanged approach.
There was bad news for Harper and his Washington Nationals on Monday. As first reported by ESPN.com, Harper's left thumb injury involves a torn ligament that will require surgery. He is expected to be out at least two months.
Here's wishing Bryce Harper a speedy recovery and an unchanged approach.
There was bad news for Harper and his Washington Nationals on Monday. As first reported by ESPN.com, Harper's left thumb injury involves a torn ligament that will require surgery. He is expected to be out at least two months.
Typically, Harper suffered the injury while going all-out. In this case, on a bases-loaded triple Friday night against the Padres. The thumb was injured when Harper made a headfirst slide into third.
There was nothing wrong with that triple, that slide, that approach.
"You can't question the way the kid plays the game," Nationals manager Matt Williams said. "He plays the game hard."
Harper may be only 21, but he has typically been old-school in his approach. Charlie Manuel, when he was managing the Phillies, had old-school covered. He was asked which contemporary player played the game the way it should be played.
"The left fielder for Washington," Manuel said, meaning Harper.
There was one notable break in that wall-to-wall effort earlier this month, when Harper failed to run out a comebacker to the pitcher. Williams removed Harper from the game. Harper said the manager had done the right thing. All parties rapidly moved on from the episode. It stood as a surprise, in that it differed so dramatically from Harper's usual level of effort, but it was not an issue that festered, or lingered, or created a long-term problem.
Harper has suffered other injuries as a result of his nonstop approach. He missed 44 games last season. Harper had a left knee injury, the result of running into an outfield wall at Dodger Stadium. The risk of injury will continue as long as he plays all-out, but neither the player nor the club would be well-served by having Harper turn into somebody else, somebody less, on the field.
Harper is running, but it's not like he's running for office. His public comments can be candid, perhaps too candid for his own good. But that candor beats the alternative.
When the Nats played the Angels last week, the comparisons with Mike Trout were inevitable, although not necessarily helpful to Harper. Asked what he thought about comparisons between the two players, Harper didn't pull any punches.
"I really don't care," he said. "I couldn't care less about opinions. If they like him, they like him. If they like me, they like me. If they like both of us, then they know the game. If they don't, they're crazy."
There is no question that Harper's injury damages the prospects of the Nationals. They were already missing third baseman Ryan Zimmerman, who is out with his own thumb injury, a fracture, suffered when he was diving into a base.
Catcher Wilson Ramos is out with a broken left hand. Starting pitcher Doug Fister is on a rehab assignment and may be back by next week.
Nate McLouth will be Harper's primary replacement in left. McLouth is a useful player, but there is no replacing the dynamic quality that Harper brings with him.
After this latest injury, there will undoubtedly be calls for Harper to ditch the headfirst slides and/or generally curtail his full-tilt style of play. Swell. If he did that, he would be somebody other than Bryce Harper. That is not what will win for the Nats.
There are no halfway measures in the game of Bryce Harper. If the Nationals and Harper are fortunate, he will return from the thumb injury as quickly as possible. And he will return playing the way Bryce Harper is supposed to play: full-speed ahead.
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Westerville, OH—Otterbein University will be hosting a series of events featuring student research and creative works by undergraduate and graduate students, including the third annual Cardinal Colloquium as the keynote event.
The Cardinal Colloquium, a multi-disciplinary celebration of research and creative works, will be held on Thursday, April 24 and Friday, April 25. The event features student work in a range of disciplines and departments. Students will present their work in a variety of formats, including performances, poster sessions, exhibits and panel presentations.
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The eleventh annual Accenture Global Consumer Pulse Survey measured the experiences of 24,489 customers in 33 countries and across 11 industries to assess consumer attitudes toward marketing, sales and customer service practices.
Our results show that even in the "digital age," human interaction remains a vital component of customer satisfaction. Eighty-three percent of U.S. consumers prefer dealing with human beings over digital channels.
Furthermore, fifty-two percent of consumers have switched providers in the past year due to poor customer service. In the U.S., the estimated cost of customers switching due to poor service is $1.6 trillion.
Reliance on digital technologies has resulted in "human-less" customer services:
Eighty-three percent of U.S. consumers prefer dealing with human beings.
Fifty-two percent have switched providers in the past year due to poor customer service.
In the United States the estimated cost of customers switching due to poor service is $1.6 trillion.
Human interaction is vital to customer satisfaction:
Seventy-seven percent of U.S. consumers prefer dealing with human beings for advice.
Forty-five percent are willing to pay more for better customer service.
Sixty-five percent agree in-store service is the best channel for tailored experiences.
Room for improvement in customer services delivery:
Seventy-three percent expect customer service to be easier and more convenient; 61 percent, faster.
Having switched, 68 percent of consumers will not go back.
Eighty percent of "switchers" feel the company could have done something to retain them—83 percent said better live/in-person customer service would have impacted their decision.
To optimize their growth potential and deliver the experiences customers demand, companies need to balance their digital exuberance with a human touch. What's needed is a strategic mix of digital and non-digital options that allows customers to engage with providers in multiple, highly satisfying ways.
To re-balance digital and traditional customer service channels, companies should:
Put the human and physical elements back into customer services by rethinking investment strategies to focus on delivering satisfying, integrated customer experiences across all channels.
Make it easy for customers to fluidly move from digital to human interactions to get the experiences they want.
Identify the customer experiences that have the greatest potential downside and leverage those insights to guide investment strategies.
Guarantee personal data security so that customers will be more willing to hand over personal information which can be leveraged to deliver better experiences.
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Hi, I have a 09 vibe (1.8L) brought brand-new (@26km) from GM dealer and I do all my maintenance and repair, I just started to replace my rear brakes and noticed that the rotors are smaller and the brake pad surface only contacts the bottom 75% of the pad. After doing some research I found out that the caliper assembly is from GT or AWD (2.4L) model, which has the 11†dia rotors (base has the 10.2†dia). Also my spare tire hits the caliper (found that out the hard way, on side of the highway with a rear flat tire). I guess the factory made a mistake during assembly, anyways I don't mind the larger brakes but the problem is GT/AWD models has the 5-bolt-4.5†circle while the base has 5-bolt-4†circle.
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A money transfer system at Bank of China (BOC) (3988.HK) (601988.SS), the country's third largest lender, temporarily failed on Monday, and some customers at Bank of Nanjing (601009.SS) also could not transfer money this week.
On Sunday, a nationwide outage of automatic tell machines (ATMs) and Point of Sales (POS) machines at China's biggest bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) (1398.HK)(601398.SS), were tweeted across China's popular Twitter-like Weibo.
BOC, Bank of Nanjing and ICBC have all said the outages were due to technical problems, but this did not allay customer concerns of a larger problem in the banking sector.
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Seeking to cut off funding to the unregulated "shadow banking" market, the central bank has not added significantly to the supply of cash recently, forcing short-term interest rates — the price of borrowing money — to rise sharply last week.
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While some bloggers were questioning whether a banking crisis was imminent, there was no sign of unusual queues at banks or ATMs in Shanghai on Tuesday.
ICBC said in a statement on Tuesday that Sunday's system outage was caused by a system upgrade the night before and a surge in business transactions that morning. It said that all businesses have returned to normal.
In an email, BOC said there had been a slowdown in its money transfer system with futures brokerages that had been rectified.
However on Weibo, bloggers complained they were still unable to withdraw money at some ATMs or even transfer funds at a branch.
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Discussions here indicate a loathing, by some, to accept UFOs (and flying saucers) as tangible objects; some interpretations centering on psychical manifestations, others centering on a mental interaction between percipient and the UFO (image).
There are other hypotheses, and one that should be addressed is the possibility that UFOs are intrusions of a quantum kind from other places in the Universe or psychic ether, if you want) that appear because of quantum non-locality.
To get a grasp of the thought and theorizing about quantum non-locality, click HERE for a 1997 paper about the topic by John G. Cramer of the Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
One paragraph focuses on what Bruce Duensing and Jose Caravaca call "observer-created reality" (which I eschew). Here's that paragraph:
The nonlocality of the quantum mechanics formalism is a source of some difficulty for the Copenhagen interpretation. It is accommodated in the CI through Heisenberg's "knowledge interpretation" which views the quantum mechanical state vector (y) as a mathematically-encoded description of the state of observer knowledge rather than as a description of the objective state of the system observed. For example, in 1960 Heisenberg wrote, "The act of recording, on the other hand, which leads to the reduction of the state, is not a physical, but rather, so to say, a mathematical process. With the sudden change of our knowledge also the mathematical presentation of our knowledge undergoes of course a sudden change." The knowledge interpretation's account of state vector collapse and nonlocality as changes in knowledge is internally consistent, but it is rather subjective, intellectually unappealing, and the source of much of the recent misuse of the Copenhagen interpretation (e.g., "observer-created reality").
I'm asserting that UFOs may become present when an object tangentially connected to our area of the Universe is made visible because an observer here is conveniently in situ to see the non-local inspired manifestation.
The UFO may even come about by a quantum intersect across dimensions or parallel universes, ours and theirs.
The quantum possibilities strike me as more reasonable (feasible) than the psychic hypotheses.
Psychical hypotheses are prosaic and mundane for me.
The human mind is given too much credence and power in the psychical response, and we all know, intuitively and intellectually, that psychism leaves a lot to be desired in repetitive and scientific experimentation.
UFO mavens want some control over the UFO phenomenon and applying a mind/UFO interaction allows that control to remain intact, somewhat.
This is akin to the Einstein approach about quantum mechanics, and John Cramer's paper will take you through Einstein's caveats and the quantum renunciation.
Einstein couldn't accept the quantum quirkiness, and those in the UFO community can't accept the UFO quirkiness, unless they keep control of the phenomenon by saying that it's the human mind that is needed for a manifestation of UFOs.
That view is unimaginative and errant.
The human mind is hardly able to deal with practical reality, let alone incomprehensible reality (such as that in the quantum world).
(Schizophrenics and paranoiacs display examples of what happens when the human mind accesses realities outside the norm.)
While quantum non-locality is best represented by light photons, there are indications that quantum artifacts can exceed the atomic level and are manifested macrocosmically.
(I've provided some of that information online here earlier.)
More importantly, perhaps, is the notion that UFOs may derive from intrusions, accidental or purposeful, across dimensions or between parallel universes, as string theory allows.
This would keep intact my preference for UFO tangibility, which is obvious and well-witnessed.
The psychic view of Jacques Vallee and his devotees is old-hat for me. It's something like the hysteria of the Salem witch trials or the insanity of the Catholic Inquisitional thrusts.
More on this approach to the UFO phenomenon will be ferreted out from other sources and pertinent quantum theorizing, and will be presented here upcoming.
Meanwhile, you "UFOs as psychic phenomena" people can have at it.
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There's good news for those who spent all weekend digging out following the largest snowfall this season — the snow might not be here to stay.
Dryer and cooler temperatures will move into Calgary on Monday and then make way for warm and sunny days for the rest of the week, said Stuart MacKay, meteorologist with Environment Canada.
"The pattern will rebound and we'll get more westerly flow from the Pacific," MacKay said, adding highs will hover between -2C and 4C until Saturday.
"The weather should be fairly sunny, we'll get moderate temperatures, and a lot of this snow could melt. It's not necessarily here to stay."
City crews also worked all weekend salting roads ahead of the Monday morning commute, focusing on priority 1 routes — major thoroughfares, bus routes, bridge decks and known trouble spots — and priority 2 routes or streets that connect to major communities.
The salt is preventing snow and ice from sticking to the roads, said city spokeswoman Carissa Vescio.
Much of the province, from Edmonton down to the southernmost parts of Alberta, was blanketed by snow on Saturday after an "intense" low-pressure system off the Pacific moved in from B.C., MacKay said.
By Sunday morning, Calgary got 10 to 15 cm of snow, the mountain parks received about 10 cm, and the Kananaskis area saw more than 20 cm fall.
But central Alberta was hit with the bulk of the snow, with some places reporting 20 to 30 cm. Red Deer reported receiving 29 cm, MacKay said.
The snow tapered off by Sunday evening as the system moved into Saskatchewan.
The blustery weather and slippery road conditions kept police and EMS busy all weekend with more than 130 collisions, including a rollover in northwest Calgary on Sunday morning that sent two children and a woman to hospital.
First responders were called to Symons Valley Road near Mountain View Road N.W. just after 9 a.m. to respond to an SUV that had flipped on its roof while carrying five family members.
When firefighters arrived, they had to extricate a girl who was trapped inside. The child and another girl — both believed to be around seven to 11 years old — were taken to the Alberta Children's Hospital in stable condition, said EMS spokesman Adam Loria.
A woman who was also injured in the crash was taken to Foothills Hospital in stable condition.
The remaining two occupants of the SUV were not hurt and did not need to be taken to hospital.
The rollover was added to seven injury and 127 non-injury crashes city police recorded between 6 a.m. Saturday and noon Sunday.
To put things in perspective, police normally record 30 to 50 crashes a day, said duty inspector Keith Cain.
Mounties also had their hands full and urged motorists to avoid unnecessary travel after responding to multiple collisions.
Outside the city, between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday, members of the Airdrie Integrated Traffic Unit responded to two injury collisions and another eight property damage crashes on Highway 2 between Calgary and Didsbury.
The first injury crash was at 12:20 p.m. on Highway 2 near Crossfield. A 1995 Geo car lost control on the southbound lanes, went through the cable barrier in the centre median and crashed into a northbound Ford F150.
Police said the female driver of the Geo was taken to hospital with minor injuries. The male driver of the Ford was not hurt.
Soon after, at about 2 p.m., officers were called to Highway 2 near Crossfield after a full-sized Toyota van heading south lost control and struck a Honda Civic, also southbound.
Two occupants in the Civic were taken to hospital in Calgary. The driver of the Toyota was not hurt.
Police say speed and weather conditions are being investigated as factors in both collisions.
Official road reports are updated at www.511.alberta.ca.
Vescio said motorists can also check www.calgary.ca/snow or download the city's road conditions app for updates.


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Adapting to Climate Sensitive Hazards through Architecture
Allison Hoadley Anderson
In architecture, mitigation reduces the magnitude of climate change by reducing demand for resources; anticipatory adaptation improves performance against hazards; and planned adaptation creates policies and codes to support adaptation.
Adaptation prepares for a future with intensifying climate conditions. The built environment must prepare for challenges that may be encountered during the service life of the building, and reduce human exposure to hazards. Structures are responsible for about 39% of the primary energy consumption worldwide and 24% of the greenhouse gas emissions, significantly contributing to the causes of climate change. Measures to reduce demand in the initial construction and over the life cycle of the building operation directly impact the climate.
Improving performance against hazards requires a suite of modifications to counter specific threats. Adaptation measures may address higher temperatures, extreme precipitation, stormwater flooding, sea-level rise, hurricanes, drought, soil subsidence, wildfires, extended pest ranges, and multiple hazards. Because resources to meet every threat are inadequate, actions with low costs now which offer high benefits under a range of predicted future climates become high-priority solutions.
Disaster risk is also reduced by aligning policies for planning and construction with anticipated hazards. Climate adaptation policies based on the local effects of climate change are a new tool to communicate risk and share resources. Building codes establish minimum standards for construction, so incorporating adaptation strategies into codes ensures that the resulting structures will survive a range of uncertain futures.
Agency Coordination and Cross-Sector Collaboration in Fragile States
Abdul-Akeem Sadiq and Jenna Tyler
Despite myriad descriptions and indicators used to define a fragile state, the international community has come to an agreement that a fragile state lacks the ability to maintain physical control of its territorial boundaries, provide basic public services, facilitate economic growth, and interact as a full member of the international community. Fragile states have historically experienced a disproportionate amount of natural disaster-related losses. For example, from 2005 to 2009, more than 50% of those impacted by a natural disaster lived in a fragile state, resulting in over $200 billion in losses. When natural disasters occur in such areas, they exacerbate already weak governance structures and further undermine their governments' capability to respond to the crisis while simultaneously addressing challenges related to poverty and conflict. To remedy these and other complex issues inherent in fragile states, scholars are beginning to recognize the importance of investigating how fragile states can mitigate natural disaster losses through effective agency coordination and cross-sector collaboration. Agency coordination, in the context of natural disaster response, refers to the integration of facilities, equipment, personnel, and communication by public agencies for supporting incident response activities. Cross-sector collaboration refers to the sharing of information and resources by organizations in two or more sectors to achieve an outcome that cannot be produced by organizations in one sector alone. Because forecasts suggest that natural disaster-related losses will only increase in fragile states owing to population growth, urbanization, and climate change, there is a pressing need to understand the ways public organizations not only coordinate before, during, and after a natural disaster, but also how they collaborate across organizational sectors.
Agenda Setting and Natural Hazards
Rob A. DeLeo
Agenda setting describes the process through which issues are selected for consideration by a decision-making body. Among the myriad of issues policymakers can consider, few are more vexing than natural hazards. By aggregating (or threatening to aggregate) death, destruction, and economic loss, natural hazards represent a serious and persistent threat to public safety. While citizens rightfully expect policymakers to protect them, many of the policy challenges associated natural hazards fail to reach the crowded government agenda. This article reviews the literature on agenda setting and natural hazards, including the strain between preparing for emerging hazards, on the one hand, and responding to existing disasters, on the other hand. It considers the extent to which natural hazards pose distinctive difficulties during the agenda-setting process, focusing specifically on the dynamics of issue identification, problem definition, venue shopping, and interest group mobilization in natural hazard domains. It closes by suggesting a number of future avenues of agenda-setting research.
Assessment and Adaptation to Climate Change-Related Flood Risks
Brenden Jongman, Hessel C. Winsemius, Stuart A. Fraser, Sanne Muis, and Philip J. Ward
The flooding of rivers and coastlines is the most frequent and damaging of all natural hazards. Between 1980 and 2016, total direct damages exceeded $1.6 trillion, and at least 225,000 people lost their lives. Recent events causing major economic losses include the 2011 river flooding in Thailand ($40 billion) and the 2013 coastal floods in the United States caused by Hurricane Sandy (over $50 billion). Flooding also triggers great humanitarian challenges. The 2015 Malawi floods were the worst in the country's history and were followed by food shortage across large parts of the country.
Flood losses are increasing rapidly in some world regions, driven by economic development in floodplains and increases in the frequency of extreme precipitation events and global sea level due to climate change. The largest increase in flood losses is seen in low-income countries, where population growth is rapid and many cities are expanding quickly. At the same time, evidence shows that adaptation to flood risk is already happening, and a large proportion of losses can be contained successfully by effective risk management strategies. Such risk management strategies may include floodplain zoning, construction and maintenance of flood defenses, reforestation of land draining into rivers, and use of early warning systems.
To reduce risk effectively, it is important to know the location and impact of potential floods under current and future social and environmental conditions. In a risk assessment, models can be used to map the flow of water over land after an intense rainfall event or storm surge (the hazard). Modeled for many different potential events, this provides estimates of potential inundation depth in flood-prone areas. Such maps can be constructed for various scenarios of climate change based on specific changes in rainfall, temperature, and sea level.
To assess the impact of the modeled hazard (e.g., cost of damage or lives lost), the potential exposure (including buildings, population, and infrastructure) must be mapped using land-use and population density data and construction information. Population growth and urban expansion can be simulated by increasing the density or extent of the urban area in the model. The effects of floods on people and different types of buildings and infrastructure are determined using a vulnerability function. This indicates the damage expected to occur to a structure or group of people as a function of flood intensity (e.g., inundation depth and flow velocity).
Potential adaptation measures such as land-use change or new flood defenses can be included in the model in order to understand how effective they may be in reducing flood risk. This way, risk assessments can demonstrate the possible approaches available to policymakers to build a less risky future.
Benefit-Cost Analysis of Economic Resilience Actions
Adam Rose
Economic resilience, in its static form, refers to utilizing remaining resources efficiently to maintain functionality of a household, business, industry, or entire economy after a disaster strikes, and, in its dynamic form, to effectively investing in repair and reconstruction to promote accelerated recovery. As such, economic resilience is oriented to implementing various post-disaster actions (tactics) to reduce business interruption (BI), in contrast to pre-disaster actions such as mitigation that are primarily oriented to preventing property damage. A number of static resilience tactics have been shown to be effective (e.g., conserving scarce inputs, finding substitutes from within and from outside the region, using inventories, and relocating activity to branch plants/offices or other sites). Efforts to measure the effectiveness of the various tactics are relatively new and aim to translate these estimates into dollar benefits, which can be juxtaposed to estimates of dollar costs of implementing the tactics. A comprehensive benefit-cost analysis can assist public- and private sector decision makers in determining the best set of resilience tactics to form an overall resilience strategy.
Bureaucratic Policymaking on Natural Hazards
Kristin O'Donovan
Bureaucratic politics, discretion, and decision-making for natural hazards governance present an important challenge of the use of autonomous bureaucratic discretion in the absence of political accountability. Understanding how these factors influence discretion and policymaking is of critical importance for natural hazards because the extent to which bureaucrats are able to make decisions means that communities will be safer in the face of disaster. But the extent to which they are held accountable for their decisions has significant implications for public risk and safety. Bureaucrats are unelected and cannot be voted out of office.
There are two significant areas that remain regarding the use of bureaucratic discretion in natural hazards policy. One key area is to consider the increasing emphasis on networked disaster governance on bureaucratic discretion and decision-making. The conventional wisdom is that networks facilitate disaster management much better than command and control approaches. However, the extent to which the use of bureaucratic discretion is important in the implementation of natural hazard policy, particularly for mitigation and preparedness, remains an open area of research.
The other key area is the influence of bureaucratic discretion and decision-making when communities learn after a disaster. The political nature of disasters and the professional expertise of public service professionals imply that in order to make communities safer, bureaucrats will have to use discretion to push forward more aggressive mitigation and preparedness policies. Bureaucratic discretion would need to be used for both political and policy purposes in order to engage in policy learning after disasters that produces a substantive change.
Challenges for Natural Hazard and Risk Management in Mountain Regions of Europe
Margreth Keiler and Sven Fuchs
European mountain regions are diverse, from gently rolling hills to high mountain areas, and from low populated rural areas to urban regions or from communities dependent on agricultural productions to hubs of tourist industry. Communities in European mountain regions are threatened by different hazard types: for example floods, landslides, or glacial hazards, mostly in a multi-hazard environment. Due to climate change and socioeconomic developments they are challenged by emerging and spatially as well as temporally highly dynamic risks. Consequently, over decades societies in European mountain ranges developed different hazard and risk management strategies on a national to local level, which are presented below focusing on the European Alps.
Until the late 19th century, the paradigm of hazard protection was related to engineering measures, mostly implemented in the catchments, and new authorities responsible for mitigation were founded. From the 19th century, more integrative strategies became prominent, becoming manifest in the 1960s with land-use management strategies targeted at a separation of hazardous areas and areas used for settlement and economic purpose. In research and in the application, the concept of hazard mitigation was step by step replaced by the concept of risk. The concept of risk includes three components (or drivers), apart from hazard analysis also the assessment and evaluation of exposure and vulnerability; thus, it addresses in the management of risk reduction all three components. These three drivers are all dynamic, while the concept of risk itself is thus far a static approach. The dynamic of risk drivers is a result of both climate change and socioeconomic change, leading through different combinations either to an increase or a decrease in risk. Consequently, natural hazard and risk management, defined since the 21st century using the complexity paradigm, should acknowledge such dynamics. Moreover, researchers from different disciplines as well as practitioners have to meet the challenges of sustainable development in the European mountains. Thus, they should consider the effects of dynamics in risk drivers (e.g., increasing exposure, increasing vulnerability, changes in magnitude, and frequency of hazard events), and possible effects on development areas. These challenges, furthermore, can be better met in the future by concepts of risk governance, including but not limited to improved land management strategies and adaptive risk management.
Children, Youth, and Disaster
Alice Fothergill
Children and youth are greatly affected by disasters, and as climate instability leads to more weather-related disasters, the risks to the youngest members of societies will continue to increase. Children are more likely to live in risky places, such as floodplains, coastal areas, and earthquake zones, and more likely to be poor than other groups of people. While children and youth in industrialized countries are experiencing increased risks, the children and youth in developing countries are the most at risk to disasters.
Children and youth are vulnerable before, during, and after a disaster. In a disaster, many children and youth experience simultaneous and ongoing disruptions in their families, schooling, housing, health and access to healthcare, friendships, and other key areas of their lives. Many are at risk to separation from guardians, long-term displacement, injury, illness, and even death. In disaster planning, there is often an assumption that parents will protect their children in a disaster event, and yet children are often separated from their parents when they are at school, childcare centers, home alone, with friends, and at work. Children do not have the resources or independence to prepare for disasters, so they are often reliant on adults to make evacuation decisions, secure shelter, and provide resources. Children also may hide or have trouble articulating their distress to adults after a disaster. In the disaster aftermath, it has been found that children and youth—no matter how personally resilient—cannot fully recover without the necessary resources and social support.
Social location—such as social class, race, gender, neighborhood, resources, and networks—prior to a disaster often determines, at least in part, many of the children's post-disaster outcomes. In other words, age intersects with many other factors. Girls, for example, are at risk to sexual violence and exploitation in some disaster aftermath situations. In addition, a child's experience in a disaster could also be affected by language, type of housing, immigration status, legal status, and disability issues. Those living in poverty have more difficulties preparing for disasters, do not have the resources to evacuate, and live in lower quality housing that is less able to withstand a disaster. Thus, it is crucial to consider the child's environment before and after the disaster, to realize that some children experience cumulative vulnerability, or an accumulation of risk factors, and that disasters may occur on top of other crises, such as drought, epidemics, political instability, violence, or a family crisis such as divorce or death.
Even as children and youth are vulnerable, they also demonstrate important and often unnoticed capacities, skills, and strengths, as they assist themselves and others before and after disaster strikes. Frequently, children are portrayed as helpless, fragile, passive, and powerless. But children and youth are creative social beings and active agents, and they have played important roles in preparedness activities and recovery for their families and communities. Thus, both children's vulnerabilities and capacities in disasters should be a research and policy priority.
Climatology of Flooding in the United States
Gabriele Villarini and Louise Slater
Flood losses in the United States have increased dramatically over the course of the past century, averaging US$7.96 billion in damages per year for the 30-year period ranging from 1985 to 2014. In terms of human fatalities, floods are the second largest weather-related hazard in the United States, causing approximately 80 deaths per year over the same period. Given the wide-reaching impacts of flooding across the United States, the evaluation of flood-generating mechanisms and of the drivers of changing flood hazard are two areas of active research.
Flood frequency analysis has traditionally been based on statistical analyses of the observed flood distributions that rarely distinguish among physical flood-generating processes. However, recent scientific advances have shown that flood frequency distributions are often characterized by "mixed populations" arising from multiple flood-generating mechanisms, which can be challenging to disentangle. Flood events can be driven by a variety of physical mechanisms, including rain and snowmelt, frontal systems, monsoons, intense tropical cyclones, and more generic cyclonic storms.
Temporal changes in the frequency and magnitude of flooding have also been the subject of a large body of work in recent decades. The science has moved from a focus on the detection of trends and shifts in flood peak distributions towards the attribution of these changes, with particular emphasis on climatic and anthropogenic factors, including urbanization and changes in agricultural practices. A better understanding of these temporal changes in flood peak distributions, as well as of the physical flood-generating mechanisms, will enable us to move forward with the estimation of future flood design values in the context of both climatic and anthropogenic change.
Collaboration and Cross-Sector Coordination for Humanitarian Assistance in a Disaster Recovery Setting
David Sanderson
While known to be important and essential for improved effectiveness and efficiency, cross-sector coordination and collaboration among different actors engaged in postdisaster recovery is fraught with complications. Among the challenges are (a) who leads, and how; (b) the capacity and roles of the host government; (c) governance structures within organizations (which may differ a great deal); (d) assumptions of power; (e) the trade-off between valuing relationships and "getting the job done"; and (f) the varying constraints (and opportunities) of accountability. Recognizing the need to improve joint actions for a better response, the Humanitarian Reform Agenda (HRA), begun in 2005, led to the remolding of collective models of disaster response and the adoption of the global cluster system, which is essentially organized around the delivery of goods and services (sectors) by traditional aid actors such as the United Nations (UN), nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. While the cluster system has largely been acknowledged as an improvement in collaboration among actors, a perennial challenge of cross-sector coordination remains. One of the opportunities for improvement lies in better and more predictable leadership, one of the key areas identified by the HRA. Another opportunity lies in changing the focus from a supply-driven approach of prioritizing what aid providers deliver to a demand-driven understanding, such as that offered by area-based approaches, wherein sectors are more closely aligned.
A common form of collaboration within aid is partnership between various actors (e.g., the United Nations or NGOs). Partnerships assume more than a constructing relationship: Effective partnerships emphasize the need for transparency and equity, along with being results-oriented and competent. Recognizing this, the Grand Bargain, resulting from the World Humanitarian Summit, noted that aid providers should engage with local and national responders in a spirit of partnership and aim to reinforce rather than replace local and national capacities.
Partnerships, however, fall short all too often, especially when one partner has power over the other, which is often the case. The report Time to Let Go, by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), notes, for instance, that "the relationships between donor and implementer, aid provider and recipient, remain controlling and asymmetrical, and partnerships and interactions remain transactional and competitive, rather than reciprocal and collective." The challenge remains to achieve the task at hand, while at the same time engaging in effective collaborative mechanisms that value the nature of the relationship. If this is not achieved, effective postdisaster recovery can be jeopardized.


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Southeast Texas Postcard Collection
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Finding Aid for the Southeast Texas Postcard Collection, circa 1900-1975
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|2012 September 04. Encoded in Exchanger XML Editor by Tyrrell Historical Library staff.
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|Tyrrell Historical Library, Beaumont Public Libraries, 695 Pearl St, Beaumont, TX 77701
|Kelly, Don, 1940-
|Southeast Texas Postcard Collection
|circa 1900-1975
|2 boxes, approximately 0.35 cubic feet
|Mr. Kelly collected these postcards of Southeast Texas from the years 1970-2000. They were acquired through flea markets, postcard shows, and mail order publications. They depict many aspects of life in Southeast Texas, including agricultural and industrial scenes, buildings, and shipping scenes, among others.
|Materials are in English.
Organization of CollectionThis collection is organized into categories, with the postcards numbered consecutively in each.
Scope and Content Note
This collection was pieced together by Mr. Don Kelly from postcards discovered at yard, antique, and estate sales over the period 1970-2000. The postcards range in subject from Beaumont agriculture, to buildings and street scenes, to churches and social organizations, to port and river scenes, to oil fields and airports. The time of postcard creation is from the early 1900s to circa 1980. The collection gives the patron an exceptional idea of the visual history of Beaumont as well as information about key elements of the city.
Biographical Note
Don Kelly was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 22, 1940. He was the first Executive Director of the South East Texas Regional Planning Commission, from 1970-2000. During that time, he served on many local and state Boards as president, including the Texas Gulf Coast Historical Society (1990-1992), Lamar University's Friends of the Arts, the Jefferson County Mental Health Association (four terms), the Golden Triangle Chapter of the United Nations Association, the Sabine Area Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Texas Assembly of Arts Councils, the Beaumont Steinhagen YMCA, the Volunteer Services Council of the Beaumont State Center, the Volunteers Service Council of the Jefferson County Youth Facility (Texas Youth Commission), the Diocese of Beaumont's Hospitality Center of South Jefferson County, and the Texas Association of Mayors' Committees for the Disabled.
Mr. Kelly was selected as an Olympic Torch Bearer for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. He ran a kilometer through the City of Liberty, Texas. He donated his official Olympic running garb and the Olympic torch he carried to the State of Texas, Sam Houston Archives, in Liberty, Texas. He also donated additional postcards of South East Texas to the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center Archive, now housed there as the "Don Kelly Postcard Collection".
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The Tyrrell Historical Library does not hold copyright for most of its collections. The researcher must secure permission to publish. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the Tyrrell Historical Library. The researcher assumes full responsibility for complying with copyright, literary property rights, and libel laws.
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Preferred Citation
Item, Folder, Box, Southeast Texas Postcard Collection, circa 1900-1975, AC-137, Tyrrell Historical Library, Beaumont, Texas.
Acquisition Information
Donated by Don Kelly of Beaumont, Texas. The bulk of the collection arrived in 1992, with some additions in 1997.
Processing Information
Processed by Tyrrell Historical Library staff.
Finding aid revised and encoded by Tyrrell Historical Library staff, 2012 September.


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Vice President Joe Biden has called tougher gun control laws on Thursday at a conference on gun violence just miles from Newtown, Connecticut, the town still reeling from the horrific shooting massacre at an elementary school there in December.
'There is a moral price for inaction,' Biden said during an impassioned speech. 'We can't remain silent… We have to speak for those twenty beautiful children.'
According to NBC the vice president told the conference that 1,900 Americans have died from gun violence since a 20-year-old with a set of high powered rifles massacred twenty first-grade children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14.
Biden said he anticipated that a lot of loud voices would be raised in the debate on gun control, but he promised the loudest voices will be for the people who lost their voice. 'We have an obligation to act,' he added.
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Discussions at the forum, which some parents of the children who had been shot dead attended, focused on expanding criminal background checks, including requiring them for ammunition sales and access to high-capacity magazines. Many attendees believed that assault weapons, or as one speaker at the conference described them, war weapons — ought to be taken off the streets.
Also under discussion at the conference were recommended changes in mental health services and initiatives.
The devastated parents of little Grace McDonnell, a 7-year-old killed in the Sandy Hook shooting, reportedly attended and received a standing ovation.
'We ask that our representatives remember 26 beautiful lives we lost and pass meaningful laws. I owe it to my daughter Grace,' Lynn McDonnell told audience members at the forum.
Biden said during his address that universal background checks are a necessity. He also called on the limited sale of high-capacity magazines. 'It makes a difference,' Biden said. The vice president added that he believed a federal gun trafficking law is needed, as well as more police on the streets.


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Ronnie V. (Hutch) Hutcheson
Ronnie V. (Hutch) Hutcheson, 70, of Benton died Sunday, Sept. 30. He was born Feb. 19, 1942, in Benton. Ronnie was a retired licensed psychiatric technician nurse and worked in the forensic unit at the Arkansas State Hospital, a Brick Mason and a member of Trinity Baptist Church. He loved fishing and deer hunting and was a local community football fan.
Ronnie was preceded in death by his parents, Albert and Doris Harris Hutcheson.
He is survived by his wife of 31 years, Barbara Kennedy Hutcheson, of Benton; daughters, Kim Mitchell and husband, Dennis, of Alexander; Rhonda Stane and husband, Brent, of Beebe; sister, Betty Wilkerson and husband, Arvill, of Benton; and two grandchildren, Colby Eddington and Brandon Stane.
Service will be 10 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 3 at Trinity Baptist Church, with burial at New Summit Cemetery. Minister will be Rev. Mike Titsworth. Pallbearers will be George Burks, Zachary Morales, Randy Long, John Roud, Richard Solomon, Ronnie Mac Smith, Nick Crowson and Matt Sample. Honorary pallbearers will be the Adult Sunday School Class #2, Bryer Sample and the deacons at Trinity Baptist Church.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2, at Ashby Funeral Home Chapel.
Memorials may be made to Make A Wish Foundation, 320 Executive Court, Suite 101, Little Rock, AR, 72205, or Trinity Baptist Church in Benton.
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