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?Through loyalty programmes we aim to maintain the profitability of our customer?: Mark Spicer
Loyalty and incentive programmes from brands are not new to India, right from the points that one accumulates by swiping a credit card to the free recharge that groups such as the Future Group offer.
Multi-national loyalty and incentive programme player ICLP says that it helps customers connect and transact with brands in new ways every day and helps increase customer engagement with the brand.
ICLP India operations general manager Mark Spicer has over 20 years experience in the loyalty and incentives industry across all sectors with previous roles at Aimia, Maritz, Grass Roots and Skybridge Group. With particular experience in the telecoms and financial services sectors he has managed and delivered programmes for clients including Mobily, T-Mobile, O2 and Vodafone in addition to coalition programs and other pre-paid plastic card products. Spicer is responsible for managing the business, existing client relationships and driving continued commercial growth throughout India.
Excerpts of an interaction between Spicer and Tarachand Wanvari:
What are the various solutions that you offer? Could you elaborate with examples ? in India and other countries?
With over 25 years of global experience, ICLP has a unique understanding of loyalty and a fully comprehensive range of solutions and capabilities to enable brands to meet their business and marketing objectives. We offer a full range of B2C and B2B end-to-end loyalty services ? from consulting and understanding the clients business, through the customer journey right up to creating and development of a loyalty program to drive customer engagement and loyalty. The biggest part of the work we do is helping the client understand who their customers are by uncovering customer insights and analytics.
Are your loyalty solutions, card based or smartphone based or something else for the end consumer?
Our loyalty solution is customised based on the understanding of client?s business objectives and reasoning for the programme. Our solution can be anything from a simple card based system to non-card based system to digital/smartphone application but as per our experience ?cards based system? are still popular as it creates a sense of belonging and provide recognition to the customers. Take a look at some of the renowned frequent flyers programme like Miles and More, Asia Miles, Jet Privilege etc. there is a sense of pride among the higher tier members of owning a membership card.
What verticals are your target groups and why?
In the last few years, Indian market is going through considerable change. Companies have to adapt to the speed of the market to drive customer engagement and also to ensure customer returns. Indian companies that are focussing on acquiring and retaining their customers have become aggressive in implementing loyalty programmes.
We are targeting all the leading Indian MNCs across varied sectors but our core focus is financial services, telco and retail as they are highly competitive markets, customer churn rate is incredibly high and need the help in understanding their customer to ensure they remain loyal.
What according to you is the market size for your products/services in India? What kind of growth rates do you predict?
There are different estimations available in the market. As per our estimate, the exact size of the loyalty market in India is difficult to estimate or predict, as India is undergoing a lot of changes in terms of policies and processes. The loyalty market in India is still on a rise and at a nascent stage when compared to other developed countries.
There is tremendous scope of growth in this industry and at this stage estimation of the market size will not provide a correct picture.
You have entered quite late-there are a number of loyalty programmes already in India ?Reliance or the Star cards, or discount offers from medical dispensaries like Religare or Apollo Pharmacy, or retail such as Future group, petro cards, tie up with credit and debit cards, etc.
I would argue we have arrived at the right time! Whilst there are programmes that have been around for a long time, the Indian consumer is greatly informed and therefore it?s now that an understanding of the customer is even more critical.
With more competitors in the market place ? customers are shopping around and with the introduction of international brands, this too has increased competition ? our arrival is at the same time as the market place changes and we are able to help with Glocalisation i.e. global expertise to act local.
Indian brands often devalue the points that have accumulated? Why? Do you think that this is appropriate and will not lower/dilute brand trust/faith? Does this happen in other countries?
As a programme grows, develops and changes, the value of point changes over time. No different to the fluctuation of currencies. Points are a currency and their value changes over time, sometimes increasing and sometimes decreasing.
As with foreign currencies, it does affect brand trust so therefore the business model attached to the programme has to take into account potential fluctuations to avoid them.
What kind of growth rates do you think your customer could achieve using your business intelligence, solutions and tools?
Our focus is to help organisations demonstrate the positive commercial impact that loyalty marketing strategies have on their organisation. Each loyalty programme will have differing results ? but the goal is to at least maintain the profitability of the customer/actually keeping them as a customer. As the understanding of customers increases, then you can start to target them with offers which then potentially can increase their profitability.
One thing we do know ? status tiers ? once a customer has reached a high level of status tier, they try to maintain it. Therefore maintaining their level of profitability and ensuring they remain as a customer.
I understand that you intend to use inputs and data picked up from other geographies and use your experience in other countries for Indian brands. Do you think that you could slot businesses/brands catering to the Indian price sensitive consumer with other geographies?
We certainly spot similar behaviour across geographies and the example above is a great example of where customer behaviour is consistent across the globe.
Though India is particularly price sensitive market, these conditions are changing rapidly. With its young demographic pattern, India has a huge population in the younger age bracket and typical consumers in this group are ready to pay a price. They have large disposable income and earning more than yester years. Nobody could have thought of buying a cell phone for Rs 30,000+ years ago. Today, this age group across gender are buying iPhone, Samsung etc. all the latest gadgets.
India is in transition phase of being a smart market whereby the consumers are price sensitive but is also willing to pay a price for the right product suited to their needs. This has also become evident from our recent global consumer loyalty research that ICLP commissioned in association with Forrester Consulting - Crossing the Loyalty Chasm demonstrated that Indian consumers were more willing than consumers in any other market to pay a premium for products and services of brands that they are loyal to and are amongst the most likely to make recommendations and brand advocates.
What of consumer fatigue? What about the points accumulation/redemption infrastructure? A pique that one has often heard about point of sale (POS) expressing inability to swipe the points onto a card because of poor connectivity/infrastructure?
Nothing stays the same for long; therefore a loyalty programme must not stay the same. Programmes have to grow, develop, change and evolve in order to avoid consumer fatigue. Consumers are also changing at a fast rate so therefore it?s even more important that the programme changes at the same pace ? which is hard and tricky to do ? but doing nothing is not an option.
There are some great programmes in the Indian market, but customer expectations are continually increasing and therefore everything else has to keep up.


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But then, when we teleported out t'the woods with a few mercs in tow, expecting no more than a party and maybe the hope of some assistance, we find things've got all political. Some seer lady claims doomy doom will come if we take this schema off the Orcs, her exact words being something like: "The brutal ones will invade the sacred place; the brutal ones will defile the sacred place; the brutal ones will save the world". Loada hogswash if ya ask me, but she seems serious about it, an' the woodsy council took it in kind. Even with all m'friends fancy talkin', there was no help to be had. Still, I had a cheerful dance with a pretty lady, and that mead they had wasn' too bad either. An' if they ain' helpin' us, they don' get a share o' whatever loot these orcs've got, which suits me fine.

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Well, its suppose to be spring, with the temperatures warming up, the snow geese have moved through and the turkeys hunting season is in full swing.
This year, spring has come slowly, with heavy winds, then warmer temps followed by a freeze and an over abundance of rain which had Mother Nature not sure what was going on.
It's also suppose to be that time of the year when an infectious disease takes over the life of many avid outdoorsmen and women in the upper Midwest. It infects men, women, children and it doesn't make any difference if you're young or old!
All of the old signs that I'll talk about in this column have been all thrown out of whack, as the budding bushes and tress we usually rely on to let us know when it's time to head out to check things out started to bud, froze and now coming on, so some of this information may be old news.
What causes this infectious disease is a fungi soon to be popping up among us, it's the morel mushroom and once they start poking their heads out of the ground, men and women leave their home, family and jobs heading for the river bottoms, island and hills on mushroom hunting excursions.
Morels, found throughout the upper Midwest are easy to recognize and delicious, making them the most sought after of the wild mushrooms.
Identifying morels from other mushrooms is easy. Morels are "elongated" with a white-off white stem and a crown made up of white-off white or grey pits or indentations.
They vary in color from off-white to gray in color. The simplest way to explain what a morel looks like is to look for a mushroom growing on the ground resembling a cone shaped brain.
Morels start popping up in the spring, this year they have been up early with my daughter Heather Kneifl and her husband Sid had a neighbor bring some over a week ago.
In a normal year, they appear when temperatures reach around sixty degrees and above during the day with night temperatures between forty-five and fifty degrees or when the ground temperature gets between forty-five degrees and fifty degrees. [Read more…]


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I am always fascinated by insects that can drill through bark to lay their eggs. One such insect is a horntail wasp. I was lucky enough to catch a female in action a few weeks ago. You can see in the photo her ovipositor (a fancy term for egg depositor) is firmly sticking into the bark under her body. This is not a quick process as she inserts here ovipositor up to ¾ of an inch into the wood before laying an egg. Along with the egg she also introduces a symbiotic fungus that is necessary for larval survival.
Horntail wasp larvae feed on wood, but are not considered a pest as the female is attracted only to dead or dying trees. Insect borers in general take advantage of the tree because it cannot 'fight back' against insect attack in its weakened state. Healthy trees can drown young larvae in sap, but when a tree is dying it cannot. The tree this female was observed on has been clearly in decline for several years with lots of branch dieback and chlorotic leaves.
Female horntail wasp with ovipositor inserted into tree bark.


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"We wanted to bring the studio underwater. Or, I wanted to bring the great white into the studio, right? So I started looking to find some good strong lights. And you know, they didn't exist. And I was like, 'Oh, OK.' So I set out and started meeting people and getting ripped off and having people build stuff that didn't work and almost gave up. Then I hooked up with these two guys. And they said, 'Here's a solution.' And now I have 1200-watt waterproof strobe lights."
"The actual strobe light is a Profoto light. We just built the housing and the way to make it waterproof. We have a patent pending on that. And so I have an assistant up on the deck of the boat or the side of a pool and he controls all the packs, and I have two to six assistants underwater holding the lights, and I have a communication system so I can talk to my guys underwater and they can hear me and I can direct them."
"There are a lot of dynamics going on. Lights, cables, and a bus with teeth swimming around that you have to keep your eye on. It makes for, without a doubt, the most challenging photo shoots I've ever done."
"I'm definitely going for shots that I haven't seen before, but they're animals. I have no control over what they give me and what they do for me, which is great. Whereas, when I shoot people I control the situation for the most part—from telling them where to stand to where to look. For the animals, they're dictating me. I have to adapt to them."
"Most people catch them breaching from the surface when they're shooting out of the water. I have them breaching from underwater in a 16-time sequence, a shark leaving the water and then reentering the water."
"I don't have a favorite photo. As a photographer I have attachments to each image. Not the one photo, the experience of getting the photos is the challenge or the thing."
"The day the lights were delivered was the day before I left for the Galapagos to do an IWC watch campaign in conjunction with the Charles Darwin Foundation and UNESCO. There was a big emphasis on conservation. And when I was down there I just had a sense of fulfillment and purpose. I was like, 'This is what I want to do. This is what I need to do.'"
Great White Shark
"If I can take a photo of a shark or a stingray or a dolphin or a whale and people can look at it, and maybe look at it in a way that they haven't seen before, and say, 'Wow, this is beautiful. What can I do? How can we save this?' Or, 'How can we change what's happening?' That's sort of my mission right now."
"My images of sharks are done purely so that people realize that 70 million—not 7 million—70 million sharks are slaughtered every year, for a soup, a delicacy. They are at the top of the ecosystem, and you take them out? It's a domino effect. The collapse that's going to happen is going to be felt in the oceans. And I just hope that people see the photos and maybe get educated in a little way about what's happening."
"And that they realize they don't have to be scared of them. There were two or three fatalities last year in the whole country. I want to say there were five or six worldwide. But I want to say that there were 140 people that died from bees. People don't need to be scared. I tickle sharks. I do, when they swim by."


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Starting & Staying with Fitness
Starting & Staying with Fitness
As the Summer draws to an end, those of us who started out with the best intentions of being healthy begin to dwindle too…
We start the New Year feeling positive, optimistic and motivated to start exercising, to eat well, cut down on alcohol etc. So, why do so many of us struggle to stick to those well intended resolutions?
As a self confessed exercise enthusiast and personal trainer covering the Hersham and Walton on Thames area, I hear the same questions and statements over and over, and I'm going to give you some tips to stay motivated and true to yourself, as well as quash some of those common exercise myths.
Don't be too hard on yourself…You made the commitment to join that gym/sign up for those classes, which shows that you DO have self motivation. That's a good place to start, and we all have to start somewhere.
Once you have taken out that membership, ask the gym staff to sit down with you and work out a programme that you are comfortable with, it is part of the membership after all, so don't be afraid to approach them, that is what they are there for and they are well used to all shapes, sizes, ages and abilities. So, take a deep breath and go and ask for help.
Secondly, so many of my female friends and family are so self conscious about what they look like, and they worry they will be judged in a gym environment. Yes, there are mirrors. Yes there will be lycra and lots of people, but not necessarily super fit… We all have our hang ups (even fit people do!), and most of us when working out, are in 'the zone' and pay no attention to anyone else in there. We are too busy sweating on the treadmill and trying to keep ourselves focused on our own training, than to worry about what anyone else is doing.
MYTH 1 – The gym is NOT heaving with lots of beautiful, slim, toned fitness models, either male or female. These days, I would say the average age is mid 30's all the way up to sprightly 80 something's and all of varying shape and size.
MYTH 2 – You don't have to be super slim to be toned and fit and healthy!
As an amateur triathlete, I remember being a bit blasé about competing in some of my first triathlons. The women that were several sizes bigger than me were some of the fittest and fastest I have ever seen! This surprised me, and this is down to the media's portrayal of what we 'should look like' and what women 'look' like in sport…And another amazing thing, ANYONE can take part in a triathlon. There are so many different distances and options, and this makes is much more accessible and appealing to us amateurs. What's more, its actually fun!
MYTH 3 – Doing crunches or sit-ups by themselves will get rid of belly fat and give you a lovely toned stomach…
I get asked about this all the time, as so many of my clients all seek that toned, flat washboard stomach. It is achievable of course, but I'm afraid a few sit ups just aren't going to work.
We all need to be including cardio and strength training as part of our exercise regime. And yes, cardio is going to get that heart rate up and make you sweat, which is a positive, as that's when the calories are being burned, and the heart is on the way to becoming more efficient, again, a massive positive!
Strength training is an integral part of any exercise regime, but working out with weights and resistance is NOT going to bulk us ladies up like Arnold. Unless your goal is to become a bodybuilder, in which case, a different approach is needed. However, for the most, it's about strengthening that muscle and improving the muscle tone which gives us that definition and sculpted look.
Again I reiterate, you will not bulk up if you are taught the correct approach to resistance training (and any decent personal trainer/fitness instructor will be able to help you with this).
I could go on, and on…There are so many myths and tips out there.
The best advice I can give you, is to take a deep breath and go for it. Your body and mind will thank you for it.
Keep the training varied to avoid boredom, and if you can't bear the thought of a gym, or cannot commit to several sessions a week to justify the cost, then try a personal trainer, try a local exercise group (there are quite a few locally). The benefits of participating in a class, means that you push yourself that little bit further, you can switch off and just tune into what the instructor or personal trainer is telling you to do.
You might be surprised at how soon you start to see some results, and once you do, you will wish you had started a year ago. After all, a 60 minute workout is just 4% of your day…So no more excuses…!
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DETROIT, May 25 (UPI) -- Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick received a sentence of as long as five years in prison Tuesday for hiding his assets after he admitted lying under oath.
Wayne County Circuit Judge David Groner said Kilpatrick "challenged this court's authority" with his behavior, The Detroit News reported. The judge said Kilpatrick must spend at least 14 months behind bars.
"Probation is no longer an option. The terms of your earlier probation no longer apply. That ship has sailed," Groner said. "This is all because of the actions of you, Mr. Kilpatrick. You were convicted ... all because you lied under oath. That lie ... was part of a broader attempt to cover up your misdeeds while serving as mayor."
Kilpatrick admitted lying on a deposition about his part in firing police officers and his sexual relationship with his former chief of staff. His plea agreement included a short jail term and restitution to the city of Detroit.
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Fawning response from someone on reddit to the fact that the CEO of Valve replied to any email. The images are here. One of note is the second image – "At the end of the day, everyone here at Valve is in support".
Anyone familiar with Steam Support knows they send canned replies, that replies can take weeks and weeks which has to mean that in this company where apparently you work on what you want that no-one wants to work in Support (note – I use a capital S).
The best response in the reddit thread is this one:
"Don't forget though, Gaben has the power to make Steam Support better but chooses not to."
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Earlier this week, we admitted that we didn't despise neon as much as we once did–because its popularity has petered out in a big since its peak ubiquity in 2012.
…But, while searching for examples of successful neon looks–many of which we found!–we also came across all the ones that made us fear and loath it in the first place. Fergie, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Ke$ha and more ahead.
Fergie, at the Grammys in Jean Paul Gaultier.
Katy Perry, dressed like a chew toy.
And again, but more sophisticated.
Ke$ha gives no fucks about being included here.
Leona Lewis in a look that will surely be trotted out on VH1's inevitable I <3 The Teens and all the talking heads will joke about that time when everyone wore neon and crop tops.
Which brings us to Nicki Minaj, looking like Daenerys Targaryen emerging from a Lisa Frank trapper keeper, phoenix-like.
And you know what? Fuck it. We actually like how all of these looks embrace their own ridiculousness–Nicki Minaj wore this look to sit front row at the Carolina Herrera show while sitting directly beside Anna Wintour.
In other words, the neon trend gave us this:
Viva la neon.
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suggests that if, as Mr. Dooley says, the Supreme Court follows the election returns (or more correctly, national public opinion) it will hold that there is an individual right to keep and bear arms unconnected with militia service, and that regulation of gun use is also perfectly fine. Approximately 73 percent of the public believes that there is an individual right to keep and bear arms unconnected with militia service, while 87 percent want gun laws to be as strict as they are now or stricter.
Many of the arguments for Second Amendment rights are originalist in form. But the adoption of individual Second Amendment rights in 2008 is consistent with living constitutionalism. The court (or at least what people predict the court will do) is responding to contemporary values and attitudes about guns, attitudes that have developed in the past three decades as a result of sustained social and political mobilization. The lesson: Don't assume that living constitutionalism only swings to the left. It doesn't.


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KABUL, Afghanistan - With the deaths of three more American troops yesterday, July became the deadliest month for U.S. forces in the nine-year Afghan war.
KABUL, Afghanistan � With the deaths of three more American troops yesterday, July became the deadliest month for U.S. forces in the nine-year Afghan war.
NATO officials said two
of the U.S. service members died in a roadside bombing; another was killed by a se
parate insurgent attack. All of them occurred in southern Afghanistan, where
the Taliban insurgency is strongest.
The latest killings, a total of six over two days, pushed the death toll to 66 Americans, surpassing June, when 60 Americans were killed. The overall toll for NATO forces in July is still below June�s record, when 103 NATO troops were killed.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration yesterday implored the website WikiLeaks to stop posting secret Afghanistan war documents, as the Pentagon pressed its investigation of the massive security breach by bringing a soldier who is under scrutiny in the leaks back to the United States for trial.
Administration officials said the investigation into the release of the documents � more than 76,900 so far � could extend beyond members of the military.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said WikiLeaks� posting of mostly raw military-intelligence reports jeopardized national security and put the lives of Afghan informants and U.S. troops at risk.
Asked what the Obama administration could do to stop WikiLeaks from disclosing thousands of similar documents it says it has, Gibbs said, �We can do nothing but implore the person that has those classified, top-secret documents not to post any more.�
The Pentagon�s inquiry has been looking most closely at Pfc. Bradley Manning, an Army intelligence analyst charged with leaking a helicopter video from Iraq to the WikiLeaks website.
Manning also has been charged with illegally obtaining more than 150,000 classified State Department cables and leaking more than 50 of them. It�s unclear from the charges, though, whether the allegedly diverted documents were those published on the WikiLeaks site.
Manning, 22, was moved Thursday from Kuwait to Quantico Marine Corps Base in Virginia, where he will be held while awaiting possible trial, the Army said yesterday.
With the buildup of 30,000 additional U.S. troops this year, American commanders have predicted a spike in casualties as they push into Taliban strongholds where there has been little presence of coalition forces. The summer months are typically the most violent in Afghanistan, when the Taliban is not hampered by cold weather in the mountains and can go on the offensive.
The insurgency�s size and potency also has grown steadily. U.S. and Afghan officials estimate that the number of Taliban fighters now exceeds 30,000.
A senior NATO official said that one-third to one-half of the 82 districts across the country that NATO considers crucial to the war are under insurgent influence.
Tensions escalated into a protest in downtown Kabul yesterday. Police officers fired to disperse a crowd that set fire to two vehicles, after a traffic accident killed four Afghan civilians, Afghan officials said.
It started when a sport-utility vehicle driven by American contractors struck a car carrying the four Afghans, according to a statement from the U.S. Embassy.
The statement said the contractors �cooperated immediately� with local Afghan security forces.
Information from the Associated Press was included in this story.


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I've got too many ideas and too little time. I eagerly await the day when I can spend eight hours doing this. Then I'll really be prolific. I appreciate any support you can give.
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Newcastle United face a battle to keep hold of Papiss Cisse in the coming days.
With the Turkish transfer window still open, Besiktas and Fenerbahce are both keen on Cisse.
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i made silouettes of jan and i last week. then i printed them on blue paper, cut them out and framed them. i'll post a pic of the finale this weekend. this is the illustrator version. i like the simplicity of this too.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
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- joyful704 said...
ohhh, i have been wanted to do that of my boys, post your final pics bc i want 2 see hoe they look!
- November 10, 2007 at 12:55 PM
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After last month's photos of the Xoom 2, has Motorola gone and let slip some dimensions and specs for their next tablet? The latest leak of a mystery device has started rumours that the Xoom 2 will pack LTE – the next step up from 3G connectivity. Not only that but it looks like the tablet will be slightly more compact than the Xoom. As the leaks come thick and fast, Moto is still pushing the original Xoom with freebies. We're hold out for more Xoom 2 specs.
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Point Cook has been named Australia's online shopping capital in a new major study of internet buying habits.
Melbournians are flocking to the web for fashion, and it's growing faster than our nearest rivals in Sydney.
The fastest growing suburbs are Brunswick Eats, Abbotsford, Collingwood, South Yarra and Fitzroy according to new Australia Post analysis.
Richmond, once the shopping mecca for Melbourne is now busier online for fashion, as young busy business people choose to us their phones to purchase instead of going to the shops.
Ben Franzi, the head of Australia Post's eCommerce platforms said ''When people are time poor they also do short 'snack' shopping on their smartphone or tablet. They don't have the time to walk around Chadstone or other shopping centres for a few hours,''
Australia Post's total online spend rose 12 percent last to $10billion, with fashion and variety stores accounting for half of that spend.


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look who I got to hang out with yesterday!
The FABULOUS Miss Melanie. She is in town for the weekend visiting Dr. Andy so we hooked up for a few hours. Some yummy food at Mongolian Barbeque, some shopping at a couple of cute little shops in Ann Arbor...very eclectic stuff! I got this AWESOME little toy in the first shop. Nope, I have zero use for it but how can you pass up a wind-up nun called "Nunzilla." And dude, she SPITS FIRE. All for the bargain basement price of $3.50. I may be going straight to hell but I know I'll be in good company since you all laughed too ;)
The second store was called 16 Hands. Lots of arts and crafts type stuff. I picked up a couple of greeting cards and a book (Christmas gift - yeehaw!) They had some gorgeous art and jewelry and some other stuff that left us scratching our heads (but have us thinking that perhaps, we're in the wrong business and could make our fortunes in other, more kooky endeavors.)
I got to briefly meet Mel's hubby Andy in the Kroger parking lot (where this pic was took...I thought about lying and saying it was on the UofM campus but I think it's even better in a grocery store parking lot :p) Had so much fun with Melanie...like we've known each other for years (well, I guess technically we *have* but never in real life!) I'm so glad we got a chance to hang out and I'm REALLY hoping that her and Andy's future is in Michigan.
Heading to the pumpkin patch today so hopefully I'll have some good photos to share tomorrow! Have a great weekend all!
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- Anonymous11:16 AM
You have a great blog here! I have a nascar wrecks site. You can find everything from nascar wrecks as well as info on all your favorite drivers, the 2005 Nascar schedule, how to get cheap Nascar tickets, track info and more. Check it out when you can :)ReplyDelete
Wow. You should really check out that Nascar blog. It sounds VERY exciting.ReplyDelete
That is super cool that you got to meet Melanie. Too bad she couldn't have come next weekend and we all could have cropped. It's official I signed up. Have fun at the Pumpkin Patch. Which one are you going to? We always go to Westview Orchards. It's just not Halloween without a $40 pumpkin.
Oh, how fun for you!!! LOVE that nun - that is hilarious!! And she spits fire?! We went to the patch today too! I love this time of year!ReplyDelete
- melanie8:07 PM
Erica, somehow I don't picture you as a Nascar wrecks fan. :pReplyDelete
Pretty darned jealous that you 2 cool gals got to meet up!! How fun is that!? You & Mel are gorgeous. Totally know what you mean too about 'knowing' each other, I felt that way when I met Maureen this past summer, like old friends.It's so fun to be peapals, huh? :)
Have fun at the PP tomorrow- jealous about that too, since we have had nothing but rain, rain and more rain since October started. I haven't taken one single leaf-y/fallish pic yet. And tomorrow it's supposed to be really windy, so there might not be a leaf left on the trees, argh! Take lots'O pics!!
- Maureen6:44 AM
Look at you two....what a fab picture! Sounds like an awesome trip together....shopping (and no kids?!) eating out....fun fun!ReplyDelete
I think it's so cool to "know" somebody online, then to meet them and have them be the same irl...like you'd expect different? I know when I met Melanie and "the girls".....that was what stood out to me...how they weren't being somebody they weren't...kwim? Anyway....hope to meet you someday! :)
Pumpkin Patch....jealous here! Today is the 1st day of sun in like 9 or 10 days....not just no sun but rain!
You two look so cute! I'm glad you had a great time. I would love to meet you both. I'm so glad that you got to hang out for a bit. Girlfriends are so great, huh? I totally agree that you are going straight to hell for "nunzilla" E, but it is so funny! I would love to see her shoot fire! ;)ReplyDelete
Awesome photo of you guys! Sounds like you had a blast and I can't wait to see your p patch photos! I had to improvise big time this year, lol.ReplyDelete


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The Nexus 4 was released five months ago and when it landed everyone questioned the shortcomings. The Nexus device came without a contract, was well designed and had a lot of pros, but lacked LTE or any large storage options.
It felt like Google had to hold back with the Nexus 4, to make it cheap and off contract. This didn't make buyers hold back however, with Google and LG trumped on production for the first three months of the phone's release.
Mountain View may be prepared to come back with an updated version of the smartphone, to really enthuse the US buyers who wanted LTE and more on-board storage.
The X Phone and Nexus 5 will be held off for now, according to the report, with Google and Motorola likely to release the smartphones at other events.
Instead, the Nexus 4 will return, this time it will come with LTE and 32GB of storage. Google will throw this off contract, although we cannot understand how the US carriers will accept this openly and how Google will make it available for every carrier.
The likely solution is the Nexus 4 with LTE will only work on two different carriers, T-Mobile and AT&T, who do not run the CDMA band. Google would have to go through a lot of hassle to get the smartphone working everywhere off contract.
Solutions are coming to this problem with LTE bands, Qualcomm's new chips have plenty of different bands to run on. Sadly, these will not be available until the late end of 2013, when the Nexus 5 and iPhone 5S are rumoured to be announced.
The Nexus 4 gained a lot of support, despite the lack of LTE or large storage – Google can still bring life into the five month smartphone, if they bring something new and exciting to the table.
As far as we know, the new Nexus 4 will not feature any internal enhancements. It may come first with Key Lime Pie, as all Nexus devices come with a software update.
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C L Moore's "Fruit of Knowledge" (novelette, religion): First few days of Adam, Eve, & the second woman - in the Garden of Eden
For someone with only a vague knowledge of the story of Adam, Eve, & their apple eating in the Garden of Eden, it made a fun read. I guess someone with a Biblical background may get a bit more judgmental about this story; but I enjoyed it happily in my lack of knowledge.
Indian readers will feel some familiarity with writing style of Ashok Banker's multi-book retelling of Ramayan. Focus is on devotional interpretation of an old work, rather than more typical rational interpretation.
Story summary.It's set in the "semi-sentient" Garden of Eden, & begins a day after Adam is created by God out of earth; there is still that naked patch of earth out of which Adam was created, though grass has began encroachments. Adam is the only human around, though Garden is teeming with life.
God ("Jehovah"), living in his heaven "up", can simply come to the edge of heavens & look down into the Garden. He had created Garden as part of a Plan; Plan's details are not provided. Throughout the story, we won't actually see Him; but we will hear His Voice.
In the middle of the Garden are two special trees: "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil" & "Tree of Life". Later gives you immortality, & Adam's attempt to access it will be denied by God near end of story. Tree of the Knowledge is, of course, the familiar apple tree.
A supernatural being other than God also features in the story: Lilith, the "Queen of Air & Darkness". Even God cannot kill her, though He can punish her. This is really her story; she's the main character.
On this second day of Adam ("the first Sabbath"), Lilith has a plan of her own for the Garden. A variation of her plan will appear near end of story - through some magical means I could not follow, she can grab hold of Garden for her exclusive use by making it invisible to God. But that's much later, & it will fail because of lack of cooperation from Adam.
Anyway, Lilith has come down & taken the shape that will later be known as woman's shape. She'll become friends with Adam, & will find strange stirrings in her heart; this supposedly heartless spirit is madly in love, & is effectively Adam's original wife! It's on the "eighth day" (of Adam's life?) when she breaks bonds of her body while Adam is asleep & flies away to sky.
Her bodiless being later returns to complete her unstated mission, & finds her vacated body occupied! Looks like God created Eve in her absence from a rib of Adam, & put her in old body of Lilith's!
Here we have the age old story of jealously - one man & two women.
In the meanwhile, there has been swords fight in heaven! So "the serpent", expelled from heaven by God, makes an unwanted appearance in the Garden. Also, "In those days the serpent went upright like a man, nor was he exactly non-human in shape... He was lithe & gorgeously scaled & by any standards a supremely handsome, supremely male creature."
So Lilith & serpent will plot their revenge. Serpent intends to destroy Adam, & with it the God's plan; Lilith convinces him to instead incite Eve to eat the Fruit of Knowledge that will make God destroy her, leaving Adam for Lilith!
In the meanwhile, Lilith has met Adam & convinced him she & Eve are different. And while Adam has a sense of duty towards Eve, he still has a soft corner for Lilith.
I got a feeling that serpent was able to create strange stirrings of love for him in the heart of Eve when he convinced her to eat the fruit, & near end to "Call your first child Kayn... Cain."
In the aftermath of fruit eating, we will also see the first blame-mongering among Adam & Eve.
Eventual judgment of God, after the act of fruit eating: "Adam, Eve, ... the Garden is not for you... I made your flesh too weak, because your godhood was too strong to trust. You are not to blame for that - the fault was Mine. But ... what power did I put in you, that the very elements of fire & darkness find kinship with you? What flaw is in you, that though you are the only two human things alive, yet you cannot keep faith with one another? ... you are not yet fit for perfect knowledge or immortality. You are not yet fit for trust... now you must go beyond temptation & work your own salvation out in the sweat of your brow, in the lands beyond the Garden. Adam, I dare not trust you any longer in your kinship with the earth I shaped you from. Cursed is the ground for your sake... it shall be one with you no longer. But I promise this... in the end you shall return to it".
Lilith's punishment is also her boon: "Let my children & Adam's haunt hers to their graves, then! ... Mine are the disinherited - let them take vengeance!"
And serpent (aka "Lucifer"), while leaving now as a ground hugging creature, will extract from Eve promise of his vengeance: "Give me my vengeance too - upon the Man... Call your first child Kayn... Call him Kayn the Spear of my vengeance, for he shall set murder loose among Adam's sons."
See also.
- Ted Chiang's "Hell is the Absence of God": Taking parts of Bible literally.
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Fact sheet.First published: Unknown Fantasy Fiction, October 1940.
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I was just messing around with making the elements in Photoshop. I chose to play with the Ubuntu logo just for fun. Go GNU/Linux!
Creative and well done!
OOOOO awesome
The Irony: You used Photoshop and supported GNU and Open-Source, however Photoshop is not GNU.
Yes; that is true. That's because I learned Photoshop in high school. I use GIMP now. I haven't used Windows in years - Life's been great!
Incredible. It is amazing how well this fits with my current theme and skydome. Your work is one work praising. Very good job!
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GNU/Linux! The only way to really use a computer.
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Duckworth, federal officials won't visit Paralympic Games
The delegation of federal government officials led by U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth that was planning to go Sochi, Russia, for the Paralympic Games won't be making the trip, Duckworth said.
The move is a response to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and it won't so far affect the American athletes planning to compete in the games that are set to start Friday. Some athletes are already there.
"I remain appalled by the immoral and illegal actions of the Russian government and believe that there must be consequences for its behavior," the Hoffman Estates Democrat said in a statement. "The international community must stand together to support the sovereignty of the Ukraine and end the suffering of its people."
Duckworth was set to leave Wednesday for the Friday opening ceremonies.
"The Paralympic Games are an inspiration to millions of disabled people around the globe and it is tragic that the reckless actions of the Russian government are jeopardizing them," Duckworth said. "Still, these brave Paralympians have shown tremendous perseverance throughout their entire lives and I know they will make all Americans proud in Sochi."


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- Reporting to Reliance Globalcom CTO
- Experienced and highly motivated international Engineering Director, specialised in the conception, design and implementation of Telecom network infrastructures (submarine & terrestrial) as well as Telecom Managed Services, with strategic planning, change management and complex problem solving skills
- Thriving in a high-pressure sales results environment, which required strong leadership, interpersonal and presentational skills
- Successful in the transition of Engineering department from start-up team to international organisation
- Graduated in the most prestigious French university and engineering school.
Work experience
Network Transmission Manager
Part of the European Design team based in Paris, leading the design of the voice and transmission networks in Europe in order to meet customer requirements. As part of the evaluation team, responsible for evaluating new transmission technologies (NORTEL Networks and Ciena). Supporting Marketing groups for new products and services developments.
- Design Authority for two Metro STM-16 rings in Paris, France. Project of $500k involving MCI WORLDCOM and Ciena
- Transmission Expert for the upgrades of the MCI WORLDCOM European North Backbon
- Involved in the integration of the UUNET IP network into MCI WORLDCOM network in Europe
Director of Transport Architecture & Technology Planning
Reliance Globalcom
RGW NGN Design Director:
- Leads the design of the transmission network in order to support the horizontal and the vertical growth of the RGW network. This $1.5B project will implement 4 major sub sea cable systems linking East Africa, Mediterranean area, East of India and Transpacific to the rest of RGW network.
- Delivers strong leadership in product development support for RGW vertical growth: EoSDH, OTN, Bandwidth on Demand, Design and Capacity database development.
- As part of the procurement team, helps negotiating the RGW NGN contract.
FALCON SDH Program Manager:
- Provides a strong leadership to design the transmission network architecture (Synch, SDH, WDM) and supervise the implementation of network solutions linking 13 countries (India, Egypt, Oman, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iran, Maldives, Yemen and Sudan) and 17 landing sites for a total project cost of $450M and responsible for a team of more than 20 engineers.
- As part of the procurement team, helps negotiating with Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) for the Technical Solution, System Acceptance Terms and Q&A of Falcon and Contract Variations (CV).
- Manages the certification of SDH and Submarine Terminal devices from manufacturing plants to cable stations through various tests including Factory Acceptance Tests, In-station Tests, Segment Tests and System Tests.
FNAL Design Manager:
- Led (Design authority) the conception of the SDH Network and WDM backhaul for the FLAG North Asia Loop (FNAL) connecting Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
- Managed 3 major upgrade projects for a total cost of $14M.
- As part of the procurement team, helped negotiating with Fujitsu and Alcatel for T&C's (warranty, operational support, billing milestones etc).
- Established a project team with the necessary skill set: matrix of more than 30 people from various departments (Engineering, Operations, Finance, Procurement and Legal).
- Managed the financial costs and staged payments.
- Managed Alcatel and Fujitsu field engineers.
- Completed projects on time (Feb05, Sep05 and Feb06) and on budget.
Design authority for the FLAG Europe Asia (FEA) Upgrade covering the UK, Spain, Italy, Egypt, Jordan, UAE, Saudi Arabia, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Korea and Japan). Led six major upgrade projects for a total cost of $15M and involving:
- Leading the design of Synchronisation Plans for RGW networks related to more than 50 landing sites or point of presence across USA, Europe, Middle East and Asia
- Leading the design and Implementation for the $5M FEA/FNAL interconnect project in Asia.
- Developing a Provisioning and Inventory database for FNAL (Ciena), FEA Upgrade (Fujitsu) and Virtual PoP networks (Lucent).
- As technical expert, answering technical bids and securing successful partnerships and sales in excess of $50M with major carriers including China Telecom, SPRINT, Chungwa Telecom, etc.
Master Degree of Engieneering
Ecole Superieure d'Optique
The first year of study is devoted to fundamental engineering sciences and to the all-important contact with the world of industry and research. Students reach the bac +3 level [secondary school plus 3 years].
The 2-year course of study which constitutes the core of engineering studies, may be attended under the conventional curriculum or under work study programmes. Successful students are awarded an Engineering Degree from the Institut d'Optique Graduate School.The 2nd year curriculum, which is cross-disciplinary, teaches the basics of optical engineering professions through courses, directed study, and significant amounts of high-level laboratory work. To this are added student projects and a traineeships for students in the conventional programme, and by training in an industrial setting in the work study programme.
The 3rd year, which is totally modular, is devoted to specific high-technology areas in order to develop the skills that the optical engineer will require in one of the many professions available to him/her.The third year is also a year of specialization for several students from the Ecole Polytechnique and others from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan. Students and interns may choose from the modular curriculum at Palaiseau (including a course option at HEC, the most renowned French business school), and in-depth educational opportunities in optical instrumentation provided at the new Saint-Etienne facility.
Students following the normal curriculum may also opt for dual diploma programmes in cooperation with foreign institutions. It is this third year of study that opens the way to doctoral study.
PhD (February 1999) in Optics & Photonics and High Speed Data Networks
Gain switching at 10GHz of Fabry-Perot laser diode is used to generate short optical pulses for use with all optical 20Gb/s regeneration experiments.
Further set-ups were performed. One of those uses a free space self-injection, another uses an all fibre self-injection. The 15ps chirped pulses are linearly compressed using a fibre with a dispersion D of -80ps/nm/km. This compression gives a 7ps pulse stream at 10GHz.
An all-fibre optical time division multiplexer based on a Sagnac loop has been developed and theoretically analyzed. The major advantage of this set-up is that the output pulses have the same fixed power regardless of the input polarization. This device made it possible to obtain a 20GHz pulse stream wih a starting stream of 10GHz.
A novel and simple method to measure the amplitude and the phase of optical pulses is presented. The technique basically involves modulating the optical pulse train in a particular manner and then directly measured examining the resultant optical spectrum. This experimental measurement technique permits direct measurement of the phase of the optical signal in the frequency domain. Experimental results demonstrate the use of this measurement technique for characterizing optical pulses at 10GHz from gain-switched laser diode.
The photon and the electron rate equation formalism is used to perform a numerical model for a Fabry-Perot laser diode under gain switching conditions. The simulation shows how the laser emission may become monomode using self-injection, even though the initial spectrum without feedback is multimode. Using this model, an experiment of pulse wing reduction technique is achieved with success.


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Another photo from Lexington, VA. This is among my first attempts of taking photos in the moonlight. Clearly, I need some practice.
Or a tripod…
Another photo from Lexington, VA. This is among my first attempts of taking photos in the moonlight. Clearly, I need some practice.
Or a tripod…
The photo has a calming effect I like it.
You may need some more practice but it is a nice start. It is definitely one of those moments you had an eye for something pleasing.
of course life is always, or should be always treated as practice…that's how we always get better…but you are good where you start…this was meant to relay to you a subtle yet serious compliment! LOL…seriously, I am loving your photography =)
I like this picture, the color contrast is really interesting. I am curious what type of camera and lens you used for this picture.
It's actually a point and shoot / pocket camera. Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W290 with a Carl Zeiss® 28mm lens. I didn't have a tripod with me to stabilize the camera, so I held the camera against the top of a post to help keep it steady.
Great picture, love your blog:)
Practice makes perfect but i'd say that this photo is already good. It is like a light amidst the dark sky. 🙂
Thanks… please make sure you use a name going forward? If you type "James@camera trick" you will have a link to "camera trick" in your comment. Otherwise, I will delete the links.
I am an MBA with a Six Sigma Black Belt and a camera. I am running the 2015 Chicago Marathon (but could use a little help).
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Clark forgoes talk of politics at luncheon
Mayor Dan Clark spoke Tuesday at the Chamber of Commerce's monthly luncheon. Instead of politics, recent increases to the sewer rates or the city budget, he focused on the approaching 50th anniversary for Ridgecrest – something he touted as a community initiative.
"We as a city are not putting a penny into this event," Clark said. "It is entirely a community effort headed by our 50th anniversary committee."
Clark said the committee had raised around $2,200 so far and was looking to raise another $6,000 to $7,000 before Nov. 3.
Already, the committee has raised money from its May 18 pancake breakfast fundraiser and will be coordinating a golf tournament with local leaders.
Clark said some of the major events for the November celebration would include a 50th year time capsule on Nov. 1 at 11 a.m. at the Historic USO Building, and a presentation of 50 years of history at the Historic USO Building on Nov. 2.
"It should be pretty exciting with the time capsule, dig it up in 50 years and look back on where the city was," Clark said.
Nov. 2 would see the bulk of the celebration, Clark said, from the city's 50th anniversary parade coordinated by Kathy Armstrong and a street fair and concert on Balsam Street coordinated by Justin O'Neill.
"The goal for this celebration of the 50th anniversary is to get every segment of the community involved," Clark said.
Clark also highlighted the Nov. 1 China Lake Naval Museum's 50th anniversary celebration of the Walleye Missile, developed at Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake.
"As we've been doing this, I've found that the Ridgecrest Regional Hospital just had a celebration, Cerro Coso College is in its 40th year, the base is celebrating its 70th year a week before we do our own celebration," Clark said. "It's like it's birthday time for the Indian Wells Valley."
He held the Chamber's "Taste of Ridgecrest" dinner at the Kerr McGee Community Center and celebration as the main focus, which would include wine and beer tastings and samples of local cuisine, and potential dignitaries.
"We've invited every political person you could imagine, including the president," he said. "Remember that back in 1963 President Kennedy was here. The eternal optimist that I am, I thought I'd invite President Obama. It would be awesome for him to be here and he likes to walk in the footsteps of John Kennedy."
Other dignitaries invited include U.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, Supervisor Mick Gleason, Assemblywoman Shannon Grove, state Sen. Jean Fuller, and Congressman Kevin McCarthy.
Wrapping up the three-day celebration is a Nov. 3 community picnic at Freedom Park spearheaded by Gloria Longo. Clark said it was currently in planning and would be more of a barbecue-style event, with community members bringing their own additional dishes.
Clark turned over the floor to NAWS China Lake golf pro Wes Gleason regarding a June 29 golf fundraiser. A round of golf for the fundraiser costs $65 per person.
"We're going to have a shot-gun golf tournament," Gleason said. "We're going to get local leaders out there and it's your chance to get to play with these guys."
Gleason said it was a great opportunity for people to get paired up with local leaders to play a round of golf.
"We have 19 confirmed community leaders so we would love to have 19 games, so the more the merrier," Gleason said.
Clark added that if people weren't prone to playing golf to perhaps sponsor a youth for the opportunity.
"Think about the education or exposure value for a young person to play a game of golf with Supervisor Mick Gleason or Capt. Lazar," Clark said. "What an awesome opportunity for a young person."


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Colin Farrell Honors His Agent Josh Lieberman
Colin Farrell shows a bit of chest in a partially unbuttoned shirt as he leaves a gas station convenience store on Monday (June 10) in Los Feliz, Calif.
The 37-year-old actor recently attended the 2013 Chrysalis Butterfly Ball alongside Chris Pine and Max Greenfield, where he honored his agent, CAA's Josh Lieberman.
"He's the kind of agent who makes other agents call him daddy," Colin said (via Variety). "I was also there for his son's bris. Still getting over that one," he joked.
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