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UPS Management Software
The leading UPS management packages for Windows NT provide varying degrees of interactivity, reporting, and testing/shutdown capabilities. Keep two caveats in mind:
- Except for PowerMon II, each package works only with its own company's UPS products.
- When setting up your system, determine if the package you select works with NT's UPS service--not all of them do. You can save considerable time and trouble if you find this out ahead of time in addition to selecting which serial port to use, at what speed, and what authentication that service will use. Taking the default settings at installation time might not catch these items.
In general, installing these programs was a simple and straightforward process, requiring no more than a typical systems administrator would know. Each program has self-guided routines that prompt for home directories and so forth, and then auto-configure a service that boots with the server/workstation. The documentation for these packages is good, providing explanations of all the major features and screen examples. Once you become familiar with the interfaces on the programs, they are all easy to use.
APC's PowerChute Plus
PowerChute Plus was the most impressive package I tested (see screens 3 and 4 on page 49). Although all the packages have their strong points in UI design, price, or number of features, PowerChute has the best combination, as well as thorough reporting options, testing and condition logging, and network support. It lacks certain features, such as power status graphing, statistics/ power history graphing--These would be really nice additions! Hint! Hint!--and a battery-conservation mode, but its clean interface and ease of use make it an excellent piece of management software.
If you are running an APC SmartUPS--vs. the standard BackUPS--you can access enhanced management features, which will communicate PowerChute's status directly to your server via a special serial cable. Among its capabilities are event notification (power failures, system status, etc.) and system-status reports through Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and paging. You can also get specific operating information from the UPS, such as environmental conditions, that tell you about impending system problems (e.g., if the temperature is too high).
PowerChute Plus
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Contact: American Power Conversion (APC)
$99 OnliNet
Standard Windows NT Server/Workstation
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Standard Windows NT Server/Workstation
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Standard Windows NT Server/Workstation
Contact: Hewlett-Packard * 800-533-1333
PowerMon II
Standard Windows NT Server/Workstation
Contact: System Enhancements * 314-532-2855
Power Alert Plus
Standard Windows NT Server/Workstation
Contact: Tripp Lite * 312-755-5401
More customization options are available using PowerChute's system-control capabilities. You can schedule shutdowns and powerups, monitor and manage other servers and workstations on your network that are equipped with UPSs, and, best of all, schedule (or run manually) regular self-tests to maintain the integrity of the UPS. (The options are complete, including simulated power failures and alarm tests.)
APC's FlexEvents provide outstanding control over user notification and condition handling. There are several dozen events, ranging from service startup to system failure, which are completely configurable, allowing you to select a variety of actions: Log Event, Notify Administrators, Notify Users, Run Command File, Send E-Mail, Page Users, and Shut Down Server. These are particularly handy when testing a system: You can determine whether broadcast messages are to be sent on any or all events, so that the domain users aren't barraged with alert boxes while you're adjusting the UPS. Each of these actions (except Log Event) is configurable as to which users, administrators, files, etc. receive which responses.
PowerChute Plus also supports SNMP for more advanced networking features, such as remote management under other operating systems. The only major drawback to the otherwise inexhaustible list of features in this package is that--reportedly--it works only with APC power supplies and IBM's smaller UPSs.
Exide Electronics' OnliNet
OnliNet implements a good range of UPS management functions and adds a few handy UI features which display a considerable amount of sampled data. Like the others, OnliNet has its own NT Service which must be enabled before it will operate. You must also specifically engage data collection before you can perform most functions.
The main screen is simple (see Screen A), but it gives you access to a number of different real-time graphs simultaneously, including battery voltage, I/O frequency, etc., all from the Screens-Meters box. You can also view the UPS's operation graphically.
There are event and alarm logs that you can configure to monitor specific events at specific intervals, and OnliNet will monitor UPSs scattered across your network. For security and power-use optimization, you can set up a regular schedule of system shutdowns, with a special warning message to users and a password.
Despite OnliNet's extensive power-monitoring capabilities with many different kinds of data to reveal trends and problems, it lacks any UPS testing capabilities or configurable user notification. It does support a shutdown command file but needs special text files to display warning messages.
HP's PowerWise
The Hewlett-Packard (HP) PowerWise package sports a type of interface (see Screen B) common to most HP equipment, such as engineering testing hardware--oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, etc.--thus scoring high with a former electrical engineer who has used HP machines. Its only major hangup is that it supports only an HP UPS.
With this exception, PowerWise offers a variety of advanced UPS management features that enable you to take full advantage of HP power supplies, including full testing, battery status, SNMP (with installed card), and others. The interface is clean and straightforward with displays of all major UPS activity: line voltage, load, battery charge, a power-quality graph, power frequency, operational readiness, available runtime, and model number (in case you have multiple units you need to monitor). PowerWise also lists recent events in a scroll window and shows any scheduled shutdown and restart times.
In addition to having full logging capabilities for faults, power events, system status, and so forth, you can graph statistics over time from a log file (again, in a display which looks suspiciously like an HP digital oscilloscope's), and display them as either line graphs--sampled data--or bar charts--numbers of events.
Although it has an excellent interface and full implementation of the features found in the other packages (see PowerMon II on this page), PowerWise could not be my first choice because it lacks configurable user notification. Despite modifiable warning messages, it does not permit you to select specific users to be notified for the wide variety of events available in PowerChute Plus. Thus, when an event occurs (and only the major ones are covered, such as line voltage low, on battery, etc.), all the users on the network receive the information, even if it doesn't affect them.
Para Systems--MinuteMan's LANMaster
LANMaster (now in Beta release)--based on the Systems Enhancements' PowerMon II engine--gives you access to testing, environmental conditions, graphing, and UPS status through an attractive interface using a bar-graph metaphor (see Screen C).
On the main Control Center screen, you see displays of estimated runtime, UPS temperature, load, input/output/ battery voltage, charge percentage/status--whether it's good or bad--UPS type/mode, power frequency, and even the age of the battery--you set the date at installation time; it can help you diagnose problems right on the screen if your unit is malfunctioning.
Also in the Control Center is a history graph of load and input voltage and a testing button that brings up a configuration dialog to either test your UPS immediately or schedule regular tests. Alarms resulting from tests, or those generated by the UPS itself, are displayed on the screen in a pop-up dialog until they are acknowledged. They are posted to the event log as well.
LANMaster has some more advanced statistics and graphing features than the other packages: Not only can you display and print according to specific data (power events, alarms, communications, and other items), but you can also store multiple log files and bring them up for history graphing. You can select input voltage, output voltage and current, input frequency, battery voltage, UPS temperature, or all of these. You can display averages, maximum and minimum, or a specific time period. Log-file specifics, such as sampling intervals, are set from the Log menu.
The shutdown and restart capabilities for LANMaster are carry-overs from the SE base. They include scheduled up and down times and shutdown command-file macros.
SE's PowerMon II
This comprehensive package will work with almost any UPS capable of handling serial communications, including those from Intellipower, Best Power, Liebert, Oneac, Sola, Superior Electric, TSI, and Upsonic. Some vendors who have their own packages, such as Exide Electronics, build their software around the engine designed by Systems Enhancements (SE) which is then modified to provide additional features or a different interface. SE sells its product to other UPS vendors, such as Controlled Power, who then bundle the software as-is with their own units.
PowerMon II (see Screen D) works as a replacement for the standard NT UPS service and handles the communications and hardware interfacing by itself. Although its UI is less than exciting, PowerMon goes above and beyond what NT itself provides, including such features as printable color-coded event logging, statistics graphing, power history and power status graphs, network broadcast messages, configurable actions/responses/messages to events, and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) support to monitor UPSs on other systems or networks (regardless of operating system). PowerMon also gives you a graphical look at current UPS status and provides a useful Calendar view for monitoring power events over a longer period of time.
Other features include scheduled/manual shutdowns--with a manual "pause" during shutdown to perform other tasks--paging and modem dial-out on system failure, and power event logging in the server error log. For shutdown, you can run a custom command file to make a graceful exit from NT. PowerMon even has a mode that conserves battery power while you're running from the UPS. The package comes with a serial cable that can be used with most UPSs.
The following are other UPS manufacturers who either build on PowerMon II, ship it or NetMon/MultiMon/ SensiMon products for SNMP support and remote manipulation with their units, or recommend its use: Acme Electric, Toshiba, Deltec, Merlin Gerin, AT&T, Para Systems, IPM, Square D-EDE/ Topaz, Data Sphere, International Power Technologies, EFI Electronics, PowerCom America, SanRex, Power VAR, Mitsubishi, Perfect Power, General Power, United Power, Clary Corporation, C-Power, On-Line Power, MESTA Electronics, ETI, Cyberex, Computer Power Inc., Control Technology, AST, Compaq, Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Emerson, and Intergraph.
Tripp Lite's Power Alert Plus
Power Alert Plus adds useful features that greatly enhance its capabilities over the standard NT UPS service. These features include testing, administrative security, remote/network UPS management with central alarm logging for the whole network, and notification by modem (which, by adding Tripp Lite's RT-2 adapter, can also provide remote startup or reboot by modem). Custom shutdown commands can be performed with macros; you can record your own or use the ones included with the product.
The Monitoring Center, albeit generic-looking, is the main graphical interface for the package (see Screen E), providing access to all information and views for voltage, load, and charge capacity. You can set it up to show in a graph the history of either the unit's line voltage or the battery capacity over time.
In addition to alert logging, viewing, and printing, scheduled shutdowns, statistics, SNMP support, and other standard features found in comparable products, Power Alert Plus includes printable history graphs, testing capabilities, alarm thresholds, and configurable messaging. You can perform testing either immediately or on a regularly scheduled basis, and the results are posted to both the log file and the Monitoring Center screen. You can set tolerances according to alarm thresholds so the system will notify you if an event (Input Voltage Low/High, Load Percentage, Battery Percentage, or Temperature) crosses that threshold. You can edit the messages by predetermining what the alarm messages will say, which events they will appear on, and which users--none, local domain only, or all network users--they will go to. However, you don't have the wide variety of options that are available in PowerChute Plus.
\[Editor's Note: There are two other UPS management packages currently available for Windows NT but we were unable to obtain copies of them for testing. See the "2308 Vendor Directory" on page 54 for Deltec Electronics (LANSafe III) and Alpha Technologies (UPS Management Plus). Merlin Gerin, from Square D, soon to be released for Windows NT, is another package based on the SE PowerMon II engine.\]


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You can star a message with different colors to indicate the means if followup needed. For example by phone or email or star messages to separate family versus customers. It's really completely up to you. To star a message, it will show up in the Inbox next to the Important's marker. You can click on the star icon and that will star a message, By default, we have a one star system in Gmail. However, in Settings you can completely customize it. Click the gear icon in the top right hand side and choose Settings.
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Key Verse: "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him" (Job 13:15).
One Bible verse that both Christians and non-Christians always regale to recite is Matthew 7:1, which says: "Judge not, that ye be not judged". They aptly wield this verse against critics of their actions, words or deeds. For unbelievers, their emphasis on this Scripture is to excuse their actions, words and deeds of indiscretion, sin, rebellion or heresies, which they cannot easily part with. But for Christians, it is to enthrone godly virtue to avoid erring before the sight of God who alone has the right to judge.
This does not imply that corrections should be thrown overboard, for it helps to reshape and make one a better Christian. God wants us to be cautioned, lest we slip off. The Scripture says: "if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted" (Galatians 6:1). Job's friends lacked this tact. They sharply criticized him because they felt his suffering was a just punishment for his sins. They wrongly applied a true principle, ignoring the differences in human circumstances. Believers should be careful how they judge others. Meanwhile, Job decided to defend himself because he was certain that his predicament was not due to any sin he committed. He resorted to plead with God to reason with him and alleviate his sufferings.
However, this audacity to prove his cause does not imply that we should question God over the challenges we face. The moment we go into His presence to defend ourselves, we lose our case. Rather, when we stand before Him, we should only plead with Him. The guilty will get deserved punishment, but the righteous will be shown mercy.
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We used to say Rx brand names sounded like planets visited by the Starship Enterprise, and we now have an example in Xarelto (pronounced "Czar-rel-toe"). But Xarelto's DTC campaign is humanizing the brand and making it memorable—at least for its target group of men 65 and over who have AFib and take blood thinners.
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Data replication plays a key part in many organizations' disaster recovery strategies. There are a number of ways of achieving it, including the following:
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Many larger enterprises use array-based replication, but its appeal to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) is limited because it tends to be very expensive. That's because of:
- High upfront hardware costs: array-based replication generally requires a homogenous storage environment at both the primary and secondary storage sites (two identical and costly storage arrays.)
- High array replication software licensing costs: it's certainly the case that license fees for array-based replication software have come down over time — and some vendors package it in the cost of the array so that it appears free — but it can still represent a significant extra cost. Vendors themselves aren't even consistent in their approach between storage lines. For example, IBM's XIV includes both synchronous and asynchronous replication in the base price of the hardware, but for other products you could end up paying thousands of dollars per terabyte.
- Extra hardware costs: arrays replicate over Fibre Chanel, which means it may be necessary to buy costly extra hardware to replicate over an IP network to a remote site.
Host-Based Replication — a Lower-Cost Alternative for SMBs
Many SMBs use host-based replication because it is relatively inexpensive. The process involves installing a replication agent onto the operating systems of the servers to be replicated. This agent processes and replicates I/O traffic on any storage systems (NAS, DAS, SAN and so on) to a secondary replication target system, which use storage of any type, from any vendor.
Host-based software vendors include CA, CommVault, Vision Solutions, Neverfail and SIOS, as well as backup solution vendors such as Symantec.
It saves money compared to array-based replication because licensing host-based replication software is much less expensive than for most array-based replication systems. Also, there's no need to go to the expense of purchasing a second storage array that's identical to the primary one.
"If you can buy one nice expensive array at your primary site and get away with a much cheaper one at your secondary site, that really does make data replication a whole lot less expensive," says Rachel Dines, a senior analyst at Forrester. It is in effect a form of storage virtualization to the extent that secondary storage is just that: storage, which can be used irrespective of the manufacturer of the primary storage array.
In fact host-based replication can allow SMBs to get away without buying a secondary array at all. That's due to this storage virtualization effect. Once you are free to replicate to any storage hardware using host-based replication, you can replicate to storage resources hosted by a cloud storage provider, as long as the provider offers the same host-based replication software at the cloud end. "Host-based replication is a big enabler of cloud based disaster recovery," Dines adds.
One final benefit is that with host-based replication you can get continuous data protection (CDP) capabilities, says Dines. "If you have a corrupted file on the primary site, it will get replicated to the second. With CDP you can roll back to an earlier version, and with most array-based replication systems that's simply not possible," she says.
Many SMBs use agent-based backup systems, and for that reason many SMB backup solutions offer host-based replication as an add-on, Dine says. "The future is almost certainly going to see host-based replication moving in to backup suites. At the very least that's where it will be controlled and managed," she says.
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So why don't large enterprises use host based replication more widely? There are two main reasons, according Dines.
The first is simply that host based replication is less scalable. A host-based replication agent runs of the operating system of each server and this takes up considerable resources. Some vendors talk of an overhead of about 3 percent or so, but Dines says that 10 percent to 20 percent is a more realistic figure. Whatever the true figure, when it's multiplied by a large number of servers, there's potentially a huge amount of computing power being "wasted." That waste be reclaimed by using array-based replication, which carries out the underlying processing in the array hardware itself, not on the host's processor.
Storage vendor tactics also play a role, Dines believes: array makers sometimes behave a little like drug dealers. "Storage vendors have a huge amount of power in the enterprise," she says. "Even if host-based replication were to become attractive to large enterprises, the array vendors would be sure to respond by cutting prices. Occasionally you hear of array vendors throwing in a secondary array for free to get customers hooked on the two array mode. Then when it comes to replacing them, they'll be sure to buy two more."


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Dylan & Levi
Easy-going but hard to tell apart – twins Dylan and Levi were born with a double dose of heart trouble. Just hours old, they came to Children's Hospital and Medical Center.
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|Jesus' use of power to restore honour
Because of prejudice or ignorance, the majority of women are excluded from the decision-making that impacts their lives, giving them a sense of worthlessness...
Women usually do not have the same social power in church circles or society as men do. Because social power is interpersonal, social interaction is the place where conflict between the sexes is most visible. It is here that women are regularly reminded what their "place" is and here that they are put back in their place, should they dare to move out?
Since the space of social interaction serves as the most common means of social control employed against women, the interactions in social space define who is seen and heard and valued, and who is not, who has power and who does not. Power is constructed and communicated in social space through interactions. Our cultural practices repeatedly remind women of their inferior status in their interactions with others, and women are continually compelled to acknowledge that status in their own patterns of behaviour. The tragic story is that many women internalize the cultural definitions of them as inferior so completely that they are often ignorant of what their status is. Inferiority becomes habitual.
For instance women contribute 62% of all hours worked and yet they receive 10% of the global income. In developed countries women working outside the home earn 40-70% of men's earnings. 1. Women own less than 1% of the world's property. According to the development institute for Women, 70% of the world's absolute poor are women. As reported by Shari Kelly, "Poverty still wears a woman's face." 2. 75% of the world's illiterates are women. The Indian medical Association estimates that five million female foetuses are aborted every year. According to a UNICEF report in 2006, in India "an estimated 7,000 fewer girls are born every day because of the spread of cheap, prenatal sex determination technology."
Access to medical care, food, and education is limited for poor women worldwide. Because of prejudice or ignorance, the majority of women are excluded from the decision-making that impacts their lives, giving them a sense of worthlessness. The cultural stigma against women, often based on Religious views of their lesser value, leads even to the gendercide of women either through violence, abortion, or female infanticide. However, if the message and mission of Jesus Christ is "to bring good news to the poor, to proclaim release to the captives, and to let the oppressed go free," (luke 4:18) then we have a responsibility to restore dignity and power to women. Jesus is our model.
Power is essential for life and leadership
Power is the capacity to cause or prevent change, without it leaders cannot lead. Power is like a tool Wielded to make something happen and more like the water we drink to stay alive. Personal power for self-definition and self-determination is essential to our health and wellbeing.
Since brahmanical caste hierarchy defined and destined Dr. B. R. Ambedkar to the status of a low caste untouchable, he converted. He chose to define himself, as he stated, i was born a Hindu but I will not die a Hindu. Caste hierarchy views power as "power over" which creates a relationship of domination and subjugation. This is a practice bound up with social and cultural practices of everyday and entire society is caught up in it. Personal power leads to the freedom to exercise power in social settings, which is often denied particularly to women.
Power exercised in social space is dynamic
The gospels describe Jesus in social space. His teaching, preaching, healing and deliverance ministry happened in socially gathered space. Hospitality events, such as meals, were in particular important places for power dynamics between Jesus and others present. In social space people are relationally oriented, as participants, or as observers and interpreters. During Jesus' time, power interactions in public and social settings mostly happened between males. The observers would decide who had authority and value and therefore, who would have the power to influence them, who would have honour.
Jesus exercised power in social settings
Jesus regularly exercised his power in social settings to challenge traditional group customs. One such case is recorded in Luke 7:36-50, which portrays Jesus' use of power to restore a woman to a position of honour! There are three vital characters in this story. The lord Jesus, the woman and Simon, who was a Pharisee. It is from these characters and their relationship with each other that the message of the story is to be found.
Jesus is invited to the house of Simon the Pharisee for a meal. It is possible, since Jesus had gained a reputation of a famous teacher, this may have led to the invitation by Simon. The open doors of the host's house to such events gave opportunity to the uninvited to come in as they desired. Not like the invited guests who would recline at the banquet table, they would sit or stand around the room. The Pharisees knew that Jesus had sinners as followers and that he ate with tax collectors (Luke 15), yet still they invited him to a banquet. The woman who was an uninvited guest at the banquet was there long enough to observe Simon's treatment of Jesus.
The "woman who had led a sinful life", came expecting to anoint Jesus as a sign of gratitude after the traditional social formalities were extended. The text says she brought the alabaster jar of perfume with her. She must have heard Jesus speak about God's love for sinners and the forgiveness Jesus offers. And she wanted to show her gratitude. Besides her gender and sinner status in the town, nothing is known about her. Her lack of specific identity in that social space meant she had no power to influence. She was noticed, but not valued.
Jesus, like Simon, also had power in that social setting. He was watched by all. He was known for his knowledge of the scriptures and with his ability to confront his opponents with logic, parables, and returned questions. He was known for his righteousness. Persons flocked to hear his teachings and were touched by his miraculous powers. Wherever Jesus travelled, he used his power to catalyze a re- formation of thinking about hospitality, outsiders, interpretation of the law, economic systems, and the practice of the religious system.
For whatever reason Simon may have invited Jesus for a meal, he visibly omitted the traditional hospitalities extended to a guest. Jesus should have been greeted with a kiss, his feet should have been washed, and his head anointed with oil. By withholding the hospitality rituals, he had challenged Jesus' honour in public. He did not consider Jesus to be a prophet!
Jesus reclined for meal without the ritual cleansing. the woman, who observed the omissions and who had come prepared to add the anointing of her perfume at the end of the hospitality rituals, moved to make up for Simon's neglect. The woman, not having water or towel, used her tears and hair to extend hospitality to Jesus. Standing behind Jesus, she risked more shame by uncovering her hair, and by touching the feet of a holy man. The woman offered wordless worship by her silent action. Jesus dignified her by allowing her to serve him. Jesus signalled an acceptance of her gesture of love and gratitude.
Jesus turned to Simon and told a parable, asked a question, and then turned to the woman, comparing the quality of her hospitality to Simon's. Jesus used her actions to shame Simon's lack of action. Jesus' use of her public actions also suggested that she became the righteous one, rather than Simon, as she was the one bestowing the hospitality. Simon, the righteous Pharisee, became the sinner, who acted to preserve his own status at the expense of Jesus and the woman. Jesus exercised his power and lost nothing. The audacity of the woman's loving act illustrates the capacity of even the powerless to influence change in a social setting, if someone in power acknowledges the act. It's the bounded duty of the leader to involve those on the margins in decision making process, by making them active participants in the social space.
Jesus invited others to his personal space
Jesus used it in social settings to invite others into his personal space. acknowledging the haemorrhaging woman who touched him, touching the leper, calling the poor blind Bartimaeus over to him, demonstrate the ways Jesus invited the powerless, the outsider, and the desperate into the sacred personal space around him. By his doing so, the individual would be given status and would have access to what Jesus could offer. Physical nearness with Jesus had the power to heal and restore these persons to meaningful roles in the community.
In Church circles leaders exercise power in social and public space. The temptation is to use it to maintain current religious and social systems which ensure status and authority. Jesus' use of power led to public display of honour to the marginalized. Jesus used his power to invite others in by creating a spirit of hospitality which Jesus modelled. Power must not be used to promote a spirit of personal elitism, where others are excluded.
As stated in the introduction, the most pronounced place of injustice in power dynamics is between men and women. These power dynamics have moral implications for gender relations, especially in the church, society and home. Males are usually given more power than females. For instance, many churches value more male expertise and role power, for major decision making concerns. Women's expertise is not as valued. Men can serve as pastors or elders and women often cannot. Women are considered too emotional or illogical to be trusted.
Cultures give more status to males than females, therefore, males are usually given more power to change and influence than females in social settings. However, Jesus used his considerable power to empower and subvert the status quo, not to maintain it. Preserving status and power is contrary to Jesus' use of power to restore. He used social space to subvert unequal power relations and injustices because of his great love.
In the social space, it is critical for Church's health and future to learn to use power well. The persons having a large amount of social power have the ability to bring the powerless into their space. Therefore, power is not to be shunned or hidden. Acquiring power is an important act of spiritual stewardship. In fact, a person cannot serve as a leader without the power and personal capacity to influence. Servant leadership comes not through the giving up of power, but through bringing the marginalized and shunned into one's power circle for redemptive purposes. Jesus did not give up his authority. He gave up his right to exercise his authority for self-serving purposes. Men in the church who have personal power can use social space to bring women into leadership conversations, not as a token presence but as real contributors to the decision-making and influencing processes of the church. Women have a perspective and strength essential to the well-being of the community. Disregarding this puts the community and males and females at risk for failure.
Jesus approved a woman into his personal space as a gesture of his acceptance of her humanity, dignity and equal value to that of Simon a prominent male religious leader. Jesus reconstructed the identity and status of a woman in social space by naming her service and contribution. By adopting the model of Jesus, those with large amounts of social power have a primary responsibility to steward it for the benefit of the oppressed. If we as Bible believing Christians took seriously the plight of women in the world, as a response of love, we could also make as profound a difference as did Jesus Christ.


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Cut 1 1/2 apples into chunks and dice the remaining 1/2 apple into small cubes. Set aside.
Add 2 tablespoons of the butter to a saucepan over medium-high heat and stir in the shallots. Saute for a minute or so, then add the apple chunks and cook until slightly golden. Stir in the parsnips, season with salt and pepper, to taste, and cook until caramelized. Once brown on all sides, add the sage leaves and cover with water. Simmer until soft or fork tender. Discard the sage and puree mixture and cooking liquid in a food processor until smooth. Taste for seasoning and adjust, if necessary.
In a small saute pan, melt and brown the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter. Add the diced apple, season with a pinch of salt only and saute until the apples are coated and just tender.
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The Atlanta beverage giant last week expanded the responsibility of Chief Creative Officer Esther Lee. She will captain development of what it's calling a "new advertising and brand-communication model that allows our system to better leverage fewer, bigger creative ideas that work across more geographies," said Chief Global Marketing Officer Chuck Fruit in a Jan. 5 internal memo. Previously, Ms. Lee's main charge was advertising development for North America; a successor for that post will be named.
In reality, the model isn't so new. While Ms. Lee will focus exclusively on global creative projects with the goal of reducing the number of ads for global universal concepts, the result is that agencies will compete in jump balls to create these universal campaigns. That process is already unofficially under way at Coke; the company has been reviewing three such efforts for the Coke icon, as well as soccer and holiday. And the jump ball process is already a staple for McDonald's and A-B.
Ms. Lee will lead a team of 25 to 30 along with VP-Coca-Cola Franchise Marc Mathieu, whose own role was created to manage the worldwide brand. About half the team is based in Atlanta and the rest are in various countries. While the team doesn't have any profit and loss accountability, the unit is funded out of the company's $1.4 billion marketing coffers.
"The new model can be described in one word and that is collaboration," said a spokesman. "The whole collaborative aspect that this has created with a global team breaks down barriers of what is corporate vs. what is field [marketing]," he added.
Coca-Cola also announced the resignation of Javier Benito as president of U.S. retail and chief marketing officer for Coca-Cola North America. His job was split into two roles, with Melody Justice named president of the U.S. retail division and John Hackett as senior VP-Coca-Cola North America marketing. The unit also announced it would launch Coca-Cola with Lime during the first quarter. WPP Group's Berlin Cameron/Red Cell, New York, has been awarded that assignment, although Coke wouldn't confirm that.
In the past, Coca-Cola had a centralized marketing function under which creative was developed in the U.S. and shipped around the world. Under the "think local, act local" model created by former Chairman-CEO Doug Daft, creative was developed locally for each country.
More than a year ago, Coke began consolidating its regions into a series of hubs. Today, Coke uses local marketing support for each regional hub, but has added a global team to oversee work that can easily travel across borders with as few executions as possible.
Advertising industry watchers have lamented the flight of global marketers like Coke from a single agency partner to a cadre of boutique creative shops and project assignments.
"The ability to generate world class creative from agency networks has become difficult," said John Swan, an associate professor of marketing at St. John's University. "Creative ideation is an investment and since [big] agencies don't run that model themselves, Coke is forcing that investment."
David Beals, president of agency consultant Jones Lundin Beals, Chicago, is surprised more marketers haven't done the same. "At the end of the day, great ideas come from small groups rather than one egg in the basket."


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Could There be 100 Billion Potentially Habitable Planets in the Galaxy?
As we've reported recently, the likelihood of findings habitable Earth-sized worlds just seems to keep getting better and better. But now the latest calculations from a new paper out this week are almost mind-bending. Using what the authors call a "very careful extrapolation" of the rate of small planets observed around M dwarf stars by the Kepler spacecraft, they estimate there could be upwards of 100 billion Earth-sized worlds in the habitable zones of M dwarf or red dwarf stars in our galaxy. And since the population of these stars themselves are estimated to be around 100 billion in the Milky Way, that's – on average – an Earth-sized world for every red dwarf star in our galaxy.
And since our solar system is surrounded by red dwarfs – very cool, very dim stars not visible to the naked eye (less than a thousandth the brightness of the Sun) — these worlds could be close by, perhaps as close as 7 light-years away.
With the help of astronomer Darin Ragozzine, a postdoctoral associate at the University of Florida who works with the Kepler mission (see our Hangout interview with him last year), let's take a look back at the recent findings that brought about this latest stunning projection.
Back in February, we reported on the findings from Courtney Dressing and Dave Charbonneau from the Center for Astrophysics that said about 6% of red dwarf stars could host Earth-size habitable planets. But since then, Dressing and Charbonneau realized they had a bug in their code and they have revised the frequency to 15%, not 6%. That more than doubles the estimates.
Then, just this week we reported how Ravi Kopparapu from at Penn State University and the Virtual Planetary Lab at University of Washington suggested that the habitable zone around planets should be redefined, based on new, more precise data that puts the habitable zones farther away from the stars than previously thought. Applying the new habitable zone to red dwarfs pushes the fraction of red dwarfs having habitable planets closer to 50%.
But now, the new paper submitted to arXiv this week, "The Radius Distribution of Small Planets Around Cool Stars" by Tim Morton and Jonathan Swift (a grad student and postdoc from Caltech's ExoLab) finds there is an additional correction to the numbers by Dressing and Charbonneau numbers.
"This is basically due to the fact that there are more small planets than we thought because Kepler isn't yet sensitive to a large number that take longer to orbit," Ragozzine told Universe Today. "Accounting for this effect and enhancing the calculation using some nice new statistical techniques, they estimate that the Dressing and Charbonneau numbers are actually too small by a factor of 2. This puts the number at 30% in the old habitable zone, and now up to about 100% in the new habitable zone."
Now, it is important to point out a few things about this.
As Morton noted in an email to Universe Today, it's important to realize that this is not yet a direct measurement of the habitable zone rate, "but it is what I would classify as a very careful extrapolation of the rate of small planets we have observed at shorter periods around M dwarfs."
And as Ragozzine and Morton confirmed for us, all of these numbers are based on Kepler results only, and so far, while there confirmed planets around M dwarfs, there are none confirmed so far in the habitable zone.
"They do not use any results from Radial Velocity (HARPS, etc.)," Ragozzine said. "As such, these are all candidates and not planets. That is, the numbers are based on an assumption that most/all of the Kepler candidates are true planets. There are varying opinions about what the false positive rate would be, especially for this particular subset of stars, but there's no question that the numbers may go down because some of these candidates turn out to be something else other than HZ Earth-size planets."
Other caveats need to be considered, as well.
"Everyone needs to be careful about what "100%" means," Ragozzine said. "It does not mean that every M dwarf has a HZ Earth-size planet. It means that, on average, there is 1 HZ-Earth size planet for every M dwarf. The difference comes from the fact that these small stars tend to have planets that come in packs of 3-5. If, on average, the number of planets per star is one, and the typical M star has 5 planets, then only 20% of M stars have planetary systems."
The point is subtle but important. For example, if you want to plan new telescope missions to observe these planets, understanding their distribution is critical, Ragozzine said.
"I'm very interested in understanding what kinds of planetary systems host these planets as this opens a number of interesting scientific questions. Discerning their frequency and distribution are both valuable."
Additionally, the new definition of the habitable zone from Kopparapu et al. makes a big difference.
As Ragozzine points out:
"This is really starting to point out that the definition of the HZ is based on mostly theoretical arguments that are hard to rigorously justify," Ragozzine said. "For example, a recent paper came out showing that atmospheric pressure makes a big difference but there's no way to estimate what the pressure will be on a distant world. (Even in the best cases, we can barely tell that the whole planet isn't one giant puffy atmosphere.) Work by Kopparapu and others is clearly necessary and, from an astrobiological point of view, we have no choice but to use the best theory and assumptions available. Still, some of us in the field are starting to become really wary of the "H-word" (as Mike Brown calls it), wondering if it is just too speculative. Incidentally, I much, much prefer that these worlds be referred to as potentially habitable, since that's really what we're trying to say."
However, Morten told Universe Today that he feels the biggest difference in their work was the careful extrapolation from short period planets to longer periods. "This is why we get occurrence rates for the smaller planets that are twice as large as Dressing or Kopparapu," he said via email.
He also thinks the most interesting thing in their paper is not just the overall occurrence rate or the HZ occurrence rate even, but the fact that, for the first time, they've identified some interesting structure in the distribution of exoplanet radii.
"For example, we show that it appears that planets of roughly 1 Earth radius are actually the most common size of planet around these cool stars," Morton said. "This makes some intuitive sense given the rocky bodies in our Solar System—there are two planets about the size of Earth, making it the most common size of small planet in our system too! Also, we find that there are lots and lots of planets around M dwarfs that are just beyond the detection threshold of current ground-based transiting surveys—this means that as more sensitive instruments and surveys are designed, we will just keep finding more and more of these exciting planets!"
But Ragozzine told us that even with all aforementioned caveats, the exciting thing is that the main gist of these new numbers probably won't change much.
"No one is expecting that the answer will be different by more than a factor of a few – i.e., the true range is almost certainly between 30-300% and very likely between 70-130%," Ragozzine said. "As the Kepler candidate list improves in quantity (due to new data), purity, and uniformity, the main goal will be to justify these statements and to significantly reduce that range."
Another fun aspect is that this new work is being done by the young generation of astronomers, grad students and postdocs.
"I'm sure this group and others will continue producing great things… the exciting scientific results are just beginning!" Ragozzine said.
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Wow. That is all.
this is massive and there is around 200 billion galaxies in the known universe as well, this is massive beyond all imagination
100 milliards de planetes potentiellement habitables DANS NOTRE Galaxie qui hébergerait Environ 900 MILLES civilisations Intelligentes!
DANS Notre univers combien de galaxies? QUELQUES milliards x 900 milles civilisations. FAITES le calcul? si on rajoute les milliards d'univers (multivers et parallèles) le Chiffre devient ……. infini!
The inevitable question… What effect do these new findings have for 'dark matter' calculations? Sounds like since there's a whole lot more MACHO's out there. the numbers need to be revisited?
"Dark matter" isn't just made up of one thing. It's a combination of everything we can't see, or can see but can't accurately account for.
That said, these planets are utterly immaterial. Their combined mass is so small that it's irrelevant.
If "baryonic" dark matter existed in large enough quantities to produce the observed results (like the bullet cluster), it wouldn't be invisible. It would glow enough in the infrared that we'd see it. Therefore, baryonic dark matter on its own cannot explain the observed weirdness. Even adding up every weird source of normal-ish stuff you can think of, like brown dwarfs, rogue planets, wandering black holes, and neutroinos you can't get anywhere even close to the total amount of mass needed to wipe out the need for more exotic types of dark matter.
It is only "inevitable" if you haven't familiarized yourself with dark matter and the surveys that shows that no amount of baryonic matter can account for DM.
It is also, IIRC, directly derivable from the WMAP observations – DM is seen to not (to any large degree) be baryonic matter.
Time for a little old fact check and refresher? http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/dark_matter.html
When scientists say habitable, do they mean for whoever lives on those planets, or habitable for human living and breathing?
Where liquid water can exist on the planet's surface.
Conditions for liquid water. If the planet looks anything like Earth it will have alkaline hydrothermal vents, and that is now believed to suffice for chemical evolution to inevitably result in cells (aka biological evolution) within some 10-100 of thousand years.
To get to complex multicellular life it is also believed that you need an oxygenated atmosphere and oceans.
Photosynthesis can give that.
Basic photosynthesis is not too complex and it seems life got there early. The earlier controversial status of the Isua metamorphic (heat changed) sediments of 3.7 – 3.8 Ga bp [billion years before present] has likely been resolved as fossil deposits:
"The rocks of this formation can be 3.7-3.8 billion years old, and include the oldest known BIFs on Earth. Ultimately, the isotopic signatures in the rocks suggested that oxidation of Fe(II) was most likely the result of anoxygenic photosynthesis (i.e. photosynthesis that doesn't produce oxygen)."
This makes likely all BIFs signifying fossils, and these fossils may now be the earliest known life. Validating how easy but powerfully environmentally changing photosynthesis is.
However, oxygenating photosynthesis is another history. In principle it is not so complicated as what eventually evolved. You need to exchange other metal ions in the photosensitive compound to manganese. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosystem_II ]
It is believed that the anoxygenic photosynthesis changed the oxidation state of the oceans sufficiently that manganese eventually became available in the bulk water volume. [Sorry, can't find the ref right now.]
Then cyanobacteria, which themselves evolved multicellularity (albeit simple such) during the oxygenation of the atmosphere, evolved since oxygen as the name implies is a good end member for energetic reduction-oxidation chemistry. In short order the cyanobacteria. which originated around 2.8 – 2.5 Ga bp, oxygenated the atmosphere to (an initially small excess) between 2.45 – 2.32 Ga bp. ["Evolution of multicellularity with increased diversification of cyanobacteria and the Great Oxidation Event", Schirrmeister et al, PNAS 2012]
So first you need to have habitability on a roughly Earth sized planet. Then you need to wait ~ 2 billion years for the atmosphere to turn oxygenated.
The rest of the waiting time until you see complex multicellulars is presumedly waiting to get larger volumes of the ocean oxygenated. That is a more messy affair.
– You need to sequester (capture and bind) sulphides, that kept the oxygenation down by making the oceans toxic. Cyanobacteria did that too, by using nitrates in their specialized nitrogen fixating cells. (Multicellular, remember?)
""We've shown here how feedbacks arising from the fact that life uses nitrate as both a nutrient, and in respiration, controlled the interchange between two ocean states. For as long as sulphidic conditions remained frequent, Earth's oceans were inhospitable towards complex life."" [ http://www.astrobiology.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=40261 ]
– You need to sequester carbon, too much methane kept the oxygenation down too. There are ideas that the first minutely sized calcified sponges were doing that, by sedimenting carbon away.
So you need to wait another ~ 1 -1.5 billion years for the oceans to turn oxygenated.
So while a habitable planet may turn inhabitated in short order, it will take some 3 – 4 billion years before you can expect large complex multicellular lifeforms evolving.
There is as of yet little statistics on habitable planet ages. The Habitable Exoplanet database have 4 out of 7 planet/candidates as older than 4 Ga, and 1 as younger than 3 Ga.
I wonder if the inhabitants to red dwarf systems rule out bright stars for life, because red dwarves are so common.
And red dwarfs seem to be one of the most stable entities in the known universe. They might think that our yellow dwarf star is too unstable for life, even though yellow dwarf stars are very stable compared to larger stars.
The bigger question is how many of these potentially habitable planets really are habitable? There are many ways that a planet in the habitable zone can turn out to be nothing like Earth. We need spectral data of their atmospheres to help answer this question.
Ok, now just to resolve a small problem, how to get there ….
Why? These planets are immensely valuable for science as they are, helping constrain planet system, planet formation and life formation theories.
Visiting is more tied to other social values, such as economy. Can you afford visiting them, when you can't afford visiting the Moon?
That seems about right.
The earlier 100 – 200 total billion planets figure was a lower limit. But the surveys of Kepler's pipeline implied that there are tens of planets per star on average.
And our own system has 25 % Earth-sized planets (2 out of 8), implying there are at 1-3 Earth-sized planets per star on average. Most of those would, like ours, have a fair chance to be parked in the new, extensive habitable zone.
This would be based on best estimates (aka handwaving) and that Kepler's baseline has a confirmed ~ 90 % accuracy between candidates and planets. So it is good to see other estimates getting to the same neighborhood.
It is alos good to see how the discussion about habitables have moved beyond the dubitable "tidally locked" presumed showstopper into discussing the problems of diverse (very diverse!) planets in the habitable zone of stars. I like the proposed classification of potentially habitable vs validated habitable (say, Earth-massed planet within the HZ of a G star), but it may also be too coarse to be useful.
this new work is being done by the young generation
Heh. The young stars.
Then if we extrapolate about E.T. the Fermi paradoxe become even more relevant.
That's what I was thinking.
The universe is so young that we don't even know what long term effect these stable red dwarf systems will have when/if the red dwarfs survive their host galaxies. If some form of humans exist when the sun dies, the red dwarf might be our destiny. The light from larger, more unstable stars lights up the universe. Just as the mountains in the distance tell us that life is more difficult than on flat ground, the bright lights might suggest a place where it is possible to survive, but not preferred. These numbers suggest that our yellow dwarf neighborhood could be the less common environment where most life in the universe originated.
Yellow dwarfs are believed to live for 10 billion years. Compared to what? 100 billion for a red dwarf? A trillion? Statistically, this is like finding at least 10 yellow dwarf stars when you include the time for opportunities for life to get started. Our system is only 5 billion years old. It took half of our star's life cycle for humans to show up. This new age of red dwarf awareness does so much more than add mere numbers to the habitable systems available for odds calculations. If each red dwarf lives for 100 billion years on average, it seems to me that the odds for life increase 10 fold when compared to a yellow dwarf system.
See the last paragraph of the "Variability" section at
M dwarf's flare a lot, emit CME's and the planets in the Habitable Zone are close in, tidally locked and hence have no magnetic field to protect their atmospheres.


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Eugene O'Neill was an American dramatist, winner of four Pulitzer Prizes, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. He was married three times, to Kathleen Pitt-Smith (with whom he had a son, Eugene O'Neill, Jr.), to Agnes Boulton (with whom he had a son, Shane Rudraighe O'Neill, and a daughter, Oona, who married Charlie Chaplin), and to Carlotta Monterey O'Neill. His best-known plays include Anna Christie (1920), The Emperor Jones (1920), Strange Interlude (1928), Mourning Becomes Electra (1931), The Iceman Cometh (1939), and Long Day's Journey Into Night (1941).
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Historically, the Eugene O'Neill Papers at the Beinecke Library were comprised of a number of different collections grouped together. These materials were processed between 1997 and 1998; at that time, they were separated by provenance into four collections: Eugene O'Neill Papers (YCAL MSS 123); Eugene O'Neill Collection (YCAL MSS 124); Agnes Boulton Collection of Eugene O'Neill (YCAL MSS 122); and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. Collection (YCAL MSS 126). Currently, only a portion of these collections related to Eugene O'Neill are available online.
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By lena_mae1983
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March 9, 2009 11:52am CST
I've been searching for more websites where you can play games to earn points and then redeem them for gift cards or prizes(no lotto entries). I'm not having much luck on finding legitimate sites that actually send you what you have earned. Any suggests? Do you have proof? I came across Microsoft Live Search Club where you play games, earn tickets and then redeem them. Does anyone know anything about this one? Do they really send the items? I found one review period dealing with the prize redemption aspect and that person said they did not receive anything, but of course you can't go by just one single review either. Much help on this would be greatly appreciated.
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• United States
9 Mar 09
Have you actually received things from the ones listed on your profile?
@dlr297 (5415)
• United States
10 Mar 09
yes i have, swagbucks i am working on my 3rd gift certificate, moola i am working on my second payout. cool contests i have won a few little things, have not won cash yet, but a bracelet, and some stickers, and a daily planner. I am also in winster as mentioned above and have been paid by them 5 or 6 times. as for the rest i have been paid many times by them over the last few years.
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• United States
9 Mar 09
winster is one. My sister uses it and loves it but I dont like it because you have to run your spyware removal tool way more often. There is all kinds of junk on the site, but she loves it and gets gift cards all the time.
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9 Mar 09
I already play at Winster. I like the site but it seems to take forever to earn the points you need because you only have so many spins per day. It is good to here however that someone is receiving things they earn from there. I was still curious as to if it was a scam or not. Thanks!
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One site that fits the description of what your looking for is http://www.clubbing.com. My daughter and I got our Xbox360 from there last spring. They said the shipping time would be 8-12 weeks, but it arrived on our doorstep after only three weeks. Since last year, they've reduced the maximum daily tickets from 1,000 to 500 but it's still a good site. I've also ordered frequent flyer miles from them. Currently I'm saving up for the Dell laptop. :) Another site that we've recently started exploring is http://www.skilladdiction.com. There's no limit on the amount of tokens you can get in a day and there's more variety in the games than at Club Bing. I ordered a $10.00 Wal-Mart gift card around the 11th of this month and it arrived in my email yesterday. It took about two weeks for me to get enough tickets to redeem for the gift card. I've also already used the card over at walmart.com. My daughter and I have a blog where we are sharing gaming information that includes information on sites like these. If you're interested in keeping up with what we find, feel free to follow us at http://gamereviewsbychicks.blogspot.com. Happy Gaming!
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A friend of mine plays on http://www.skilll.com it's hard to get an invite though, they seem to be quite strict for security/reputation reasons... Thanks for the other links though and good luck
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Canadian writer says, "No Marley for me"
A Canadian writer plans to avoid seeing the movie Marley & Me, just as he avoided reading the book. His reasons?
"Spot. Josette. Lulu. Nipper. Paddy. Orly. Brownie. Bijou. Byng. Avery. Tiger. Barkley. Wiggins. Sidney. Those are some of the real-life dogs who've departed on my watch."
Craig MacInnes, in an opinion piece for the Ottawa Citizen, says he, for one, has seen enough dogs die during his life. Why go to the movies to see it again?
"Figuratively speaking, dogs rarely make it to the end-credits of our human lifetimes, preceding us to the hereafter in what is surely Nature's cruelest, most screwed-up plan. Innocent, loyal and trusting, they are rewarded for their blind devotion with a lousy 10 to 15 years, while we get to dither and careen through seven or eight full decades, a journey collectively freighted by the nagging ache of all our losses."
MacInnis, after seeing a little too much dog death — real and cinematic, starting in childhood with with Old Yeller — has launched his own personal boycott against movies in which the dog doesn't make it to the end.
"I have a lifelong aversion to movies about dogs in peril, or worse, movies in which a beloved canine protagonist doesn't make it to the closing credits."
A real dog death in the family is difficult to cope with — the pain from his most recent, in 2003, still reemerges every February, he says — but movie dog death, in a way, is even nastier.
"Movie pain is different, which is to say it's more insidious because it is calculated, by the devious pathos merchants in Hollywood, to achieve the thing dog lovers wish to avoid at any cost: confronting animal loss."
Posted by John Woestendiek December 25th, 2008 under Muttsblog.
Tags: animals, avoid, bereavement, book, boycott, column, death, dog, dog movies, dogs, heroes, loss, marley, marley & me, mourning, movie, opinion, pain, pet, yellow lab
Comment from Anne-n-Spencer
Time December 26, 2008 at 12:54 pm
I agree with Mr. MacInnis completely and will probably not be going to see "Marley and Me" for that reason. Apparently my parents, or at least my mother, felt the same way years ago about "Old Yeller." I simply wasn't allowed to see it as a child. I also think I see what the reviewer in the other post meant when she said a "long, flat arc." I loved the book "Marley and Me." But Marley's decline and eventual death, seemed to take up too much of the book. I could see the first hints of it, and after that, with every turn of the page, I was steeling myself for the inevitable end. It was a fine book, but it might have been a bit shorter. I can see it being unbearably sad in a movie. All this made me think of a poem of Kipling's, "The Power of the Dog." So I looked it up:
There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and women to fill our day;
And when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.


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Altia Systems Launches PanaCast 2s, the First Panoramic-5K 180º Real-time Intelligent Vision Platform
PanaCast 2s video enables lossless digital zoom up to 16 feet at 720p
Dec 05, 2017, 07:00 EST
CUPERTINO, Calif., Dec. 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Altia Systems, creators of PanaCast 2, the world's first Panoramic-4K plug-and-play video camera system, today launched PanaCast 2s, the first software-defined Panoramic-5K (5120 x 1440 pixels per frame) video camera system that produces 78% higher resolution than Panoramic-4K video. PanaCast 2s is a software-scalable intelligent vision end-point platform designed for use in medium to large conference rooms, compatible with any video collaboration service.
PanaCast 2s complements PanaCast 2 and extends the range of the PanaCast family of products to address all collaboration spaces.
PanaCast 2s, recognized as a CES 2017 Innovation Awards Honoree, implements the PanaCast video processor as a PanaCast Computer Vision Engine (PCVE), an industry first implementation with an OpenCL pipeline, which uses CPU and GPU processing to achieve high performance, low latency video. It delivers 4x lossless digital zoom up to 16 feet at 720p and 30 frames per second.
The platform enables easy integration of artificial intelligence technologies such as machine vision for video collaboration and distance learning applications.
The 180º field of view combined with intelligent vision capabilities such as 'people counting' and 'facial recognition' improve range and accuracy of object recognition and tracking. The low latency flow-through software delivers an immersive experience in applications such as video collaboration, education, telemedicine and virtual/augmented reality.
PanaCast 2s is recommended to be used with an Intel® Core™ i7 processor based NUC mini PC. With Intel's initial guidance on the OpenCL pipeline, Altia Systems developed the PCVE software for PanaCast 2s on Intel Core™ i7 processor based NUC.
"Intel and Altia Systems have collaborated to optimize and deliver an industry leading OpenCL based real-time, scalable, ultra-high definition panoramic camera pipeline for PanaCast 2s on the Intel Core™ i-series processor family to enable more immersive collaboration and computer vision usages," said Praveen Vishakantaiah, VP and GM of Intel Client Computing Group R&D division.
"The PanaCast 2s camera system breaks new ground with its technology capabilities for the enterprise, industrial and consumer markets. The ultra-high definition real-time immersive video of PanaCast 2s combined with the processing powers of Intel Core™ i7 processor based NUC platform enables intelligent vision capabilities that transform the conference room experience allowing participants to have a more natural meeting," said Naveed Alam, VP of Software Engineering. "Products like Intelligent Zoom allow the camera to autonomously zoom in and out depending on the number of participants, enabling smoother and more effective meetings."
The PanaCast 2s intelligent vision platform supports Altia Systems' software products, including Intelligent Zoom and PanaCast Vivid. Soon it will support PanaCast Whiteboard, people recognition and API for artificial intelligence and machine learning based applications.
The PanaCast 2s intelligent vision platform is available as a bundled offering through the company's Authorized Intelligent Vision Providers (AIVP), including Synnex Corporation, Starin Marketing Inc., NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation (NESIC).
"The PanaCast 2s Intelligent Vision platform enables us to deliver 180° immersive video solutions with exceptional Panoramic-5K quality and built-in artificial intelligence capabilities for our enterprise customers. It aligns very well with our EmpoweredOffice vision," said Osamu Kikuchi, Senior Manager at NESIC. "We are excited to work with Altia Systems as an Authorized Intelligent Vision Provider to deliver industry-first solutions to our customers."
For more information, visit www.getpanacast.com/p2s.
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Altia Systems®, a Cupertino-based company, is the creator of PanaCast® 2, the world's first Panoramic-4K plug-and-play camera system that delivers a 180° wide field of view, replicating the natural human visual perspective.
Funded by Intel Capital and other leading investors, Altia Systems' PanaCast systems and Intelligent Vision software products deliver real-time 180° panoramic video from multi-camera arrays to enable machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities which deliver a unique experience in video collaboration, education, AR/VR, live broadcasting, and high-growth markets for real-time, immersive, intelligent vision. PanaCast system devices are designed and assembled in the U.S., and have received awards such as CES Innovation Awards Honoree, Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation, GOOD DESIGN award and Gartner Cool Vendor in Unified Communications.
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Experiencing the Angelic Realm
By John English
Throughout recorded human history shamans, mystics, saints and sages of every culture have reported working with the angelic realm. They speak of beings that are of an etheric nature who are deeply interested in the path of humanity as a whole. These sages have reported their experiences with angels and how they are dedicated to helping humanity achieve its potential. This is a beautiful thing.
Walking the path of the shaman or medicine person is about experience. Consequently, the apprentice is taught to honor his or her experience above everything else. A good teacher will constantly remind the apprentice that it is the experience of the teachings that allows a person to embody the power and use it as knowledge on the physical plane.
I always tell my students it is my wish for them that they would know through their own experience how thoroughly they are loved and how much help they have from the world of spirit. This help from the world of spirit includes the angelic beings of various angelic realms.
I have found that it is important for us to keep everything as simple as possible. There are many advantages to this approach. When we keep things simple it is easier for us to stay out of mind and ego and stay centered in our power. I have also taken this approach when it comes to the angelic realm. I know many people have spent a lot of time and energy mapping out the angelic realms and I am grateful for their efforts.
As a shaman and mystic, I use the angelic realm as much as anybody, but I endeavor to keep it as simple as possible so that I don¹t become confused or drawn into illusion. This also makes it easier for me to relate my experiences with angels to other people.
It has been my experience that we all have at least one guardian angel and this is a great place for people to begin their work with the angelic realm.
I can see a person¹s guardian angels when I work on the person. These angels let me know when I am on the right track with our work. I have found that our guardian angels have a very loving and protective presence and that our relationship with them goes back to before we were born. I feel they are involved with us in planning our lifetime and they have agreed to help guide us in our plan. This is, of course, very helpful as most of us have completely forgotten our plan for this lifetime during the eclipse in consciousness that happens at our birth.
There are some simple ways to work with your guardian angels and develop a relationship with them. The first and one of the most important ways to work with your angels is to pay attention to how you feel, especially when it comes to important decision-making. Reach out to your guardian angels and ask them for help interpreting your feelings surrounding your path in life.
Another way to use your guardian angels is to ask for their help in releasing the personal issues you may struggle with. You will be amazed at what you can eliminate from your life by filling in the blank when you say the following simple prayer: "I give myself permission to release _______________ and I ask my guardian angels to help me release it. Thank you." I have found that by using our guardian angels to help us release something it becomes much easier for us to choose differently.
The other angels I work with are the archangels. I personally work with Metatron, Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Ariel and Uriel. Archangels have an extremely high vibration and to my knowledge have never incarnated, although many people have reported them showing up temporarily in human form to help.
I suggest that before you read about the archangels you first develop a relationship with them during your meditation time and ask for their assistance to help you move into your power and innate divinity. By working with them first and then reading about them you will be honoring your experience above information.
There are beings in the angelic realm that have incarnated from time to time in human form and my experience has led me to believe that there are several of these angelic beings here now. This gives me great hope for humanity despite any evidence I see to the contrary. I feel this is humanity¹s hour of power and it benefits us collectively and individually, to reach out to the guardians who have been watching out for us for so long. Reach out to the angelic realms on all levels and I am sure you will find an enormous amount of loving help just as the mystics have throughout the ages.
John English is a modern day shaman who teaches and writes about energy medicine, shamanism and the Medicine Wheel. He is the award-winning author of "The Shift: An Awakening." He is available for private sessions and can be contacted through the websites www.dtpublications.com or www.NoSpiritLeftBehind.com
Join John on January 9th in Sedona at the "Finding the Gift in Shift" conference by Stellar Productions, LLC. Visit: www.stellar productionslive.com
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