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It's amazing to me. How it can take some people their entire lifetimes to figure it out. Sure, some people understand things sooner than others. Some might learn from experiences they've had or people they've met. And there are some people that might never get it.
But for me, those fifteen minutes was all it took. Like most things that happen, I can rarely explain the why. But as the Diviner of Fate, I can tell you this; what happens, happens regardless.
I remember watching him for the first time. I saw a man, sipping tea in his favorite chair, just watching things as they happened through a glass window. Always smiling, that man.
I'll admit, he confused me then, and he confuses me now.
But before that day, I never really enjoyed my own cup of tea. I'm not sure if he knows, but on that day, he definitely woke me up and snapped me out of something horrible.
I'm now alive and awakened, thanks to that man by the window.
"So what do you think of Garrick? Isn't he darling?" The supreme god, Keiran, inquired sweetly to the Diviner of Karma.
Quietly, Sylas watched his superior "at work"; more or less, attempting a recently-acquired hobby: number puzzles. Before answering the question brought before him, the man paused to collect his thoughts. While he did so, his eyes remained fixed to Keiran's hands, which were hesitantly yet gracefully moving across the notebook; every once and a while, etching down a number or two.
Sylas then spoke, "I think he's a little uptight at this point. Takes his job too seriously. ...Or maybe he stresses too much. He's dense and close-minded, I believe. But he is still fairly new here, so maybe he's just feeling uncertain."
"As always, honesty is your strong point. I think you've analyzed him quite spot-on." With a faint smile of adoration, Keiran added, "Except for a few things. He's serious, but in his own way… A different sort of serious than yours."
"…?" Sylas welcomed a further explanation – one that never came.
Predictably, the taller man switched topics towards his own interest. "Would you be a dear and get my bath ready? And some sweets, if you have the time. I'm planning on talking with Garrick tonight. Just me and him. You know… a one-on-one, man-to-man thing. You see?" Ever-suggestively, the redhead chuckled.
For a wavering moment, Sylas was hesitant to respond to the orders. Perhaps because a puzzle was brought before him, causing him to think before taking action.
Keiran turned his attention back towards his own riddles, frowned, and then shut the book. Perhaps he, too, was frustrated with his puzzle?
Without moving his eyes, the supreme god continued, "His thoughts are just reeking of wanting to get something off his chest, you know? I'm sure you've heard them, too...?"
"Y-Yes, of course." Keiran… What a strangely generous person.
I hate Keiran, that self-centered mook.
The newly-recruited Diviner of Fate, Garrick, sat frustrated at his desk. Although attempting to concentrate on his work with full-force, his attention was hypocritically devoted on his superior, Keiran - that ever-nagging thought in his mind.
He's so laidback about everything… He alone is responsible for the world he's created, yet… Argh, it's just so frustrating!
A curt knock on the door abruptly awoke the daydreaming worker. In stepped Sylas, who greeting Garrick with a nod, then stated his business, "Keiran would like to meet with you tonight over tea."
"Tonight? As in, a few hours?" The evermore frustrated man gestured towards his workload. "I have so much I need to- Tch, very well."
After receiving the answer, Sylas gave him one last look before exiting the room. One which Garrick interpreted to be cold and unsympathetic.
Then again, I guess that's how everyone here is. Heartless. I hate this. I hate Keiran.
Reacquainted once again with his workload, Garrick wholly immersed himself. Yet all the while, his thoughts remained stuck to Keiran like skin to hot leather. Discomforting.
Although he harbored much remorse for his leader, another new (yet all-too familiar) feeling took root - loneliness. After all, as the Diviner of Fate, he deemed responsible for judging (and if need be, carry out) the fates of human lives. Such a burden seemed trifling at times, unbearable as of late, yet lonely moreover.
Garrick listened to the empty sounds of a clock ticking, the wind picking up outside, and the footsteps of his former intruder pacing the hallway to make the needed preparations for his master. Quietly, the man scoffed. Such a noble little dog, that one. Serving that idiotic lord of his with no questions asked. What a joke.
The man checked his clock. Two hours to go. For the first time that day, Garrick actually noticed himself heave a sigh. Surely, he'd done so many times previous without being aware of it...?
Unhappy with his distracted state of mind, Garrick shook his head hard, heaved in another breath of air, and took his pen more firmly in his hands. On any other day, these small actions may have been all that was required to bring him back into a working mood. But alas, today was different; a known something - or perhaps someone - vexed his mind.
As his pen movements had ceased, his mind moved on. When one first joins this godly society at Runawynd, your past name is left behind. As in, Keiran "bestows a new name, therefore new life upon you." It's kind of like a reincarnation ritual of sorts. By getting rid of your previous name, it symbolizes supposedly getting rid of your previous life.
His head unintentionally lowered upon such past recollections. Momentarily, his blue eyes stared blankly into the half-finished document beneath him while a thick drowsiness began overtaking him. Not that I have any major complaints with it. My previous name wasn't all that precious to me, anyway.
After the unwanted topic was dropped, the scratching pen commenced. And for perhaps the first time within that hour, Garrick was able to reclaim his peace of mind. He finished sheet by sheet collecting bits of information from various mortals, for whom he would grant either happiness or unhappiness, depending on Sylas' reports.
For a brief moment, that lonely man wondered what his own "karma report" would look like. What did he deserve, truly…? A life of solitude, working under a selfish, cold man? A life of monotony, never stopping to take in the world's beauteous opportunities?
But I'm working now and can't be stopped by thinking. Because thinking is… unprofessional.
Sitting calmly, sipping tea. The way of Keiran had always been so simple. He greeted his guest with a soft smile, then offered him a cup of his own, to which Garrick declined.
"Fine. Don't accept my lovely offer." Keiran hinted dramatically. "He who hesitates is lost, as they say."
Silence overtook the room moments after Garrick had entered. Smiling, the observant superior chose to remain wordless as if waiting for the other to speak first. Such a discomforting silence drove Garrick into a corner when at last he chose to speak.
"Why are you always so laid-back about everything?" He finally snapped at his superior, who merely smiled a charming response. It seemed to the distressed Garrick that Keiran found everything he did to be amusing. Which, naturally, only annoyed him further.
"We're practically gods, no? The people of earth are almost no less, believe it or not. As I watch them, I notice certain life patterns. Some continue their lives merely living… as you feel, I'm sure." He added with a knowing chuckle. "You sure you don't want some tea?"
Per usual, Garrick inwardly rated the significance in his words. I have no idea what he's getting at. And why change the subject? "No, I really don't want any."
"So, you won't sit down and talk over a cup of tea with me?"
Garrick's wild eyes remained locked on suave Keiran's. With a sense there was more talking to be done, the man sat on the nearest chair, across from his superior, and listened half-heartedly to his commander's speech.
As Keiran hospitably reached for the second teacup across the table, Garrick quipped, "I'll sit, but I won't drink."
With a shrug, the man proceeded, "But you know, truly living is a gift. A gift I - we - give them. They live as they like, I watch them do as they please in a 'live and let live' sense, but in the end, we're still here to judge them when their time comes."
Garrick couldn't supress a cynical laugh, "Kah hah, I hate how you say 'we'. I'm the one working for these people. I have a lot of responsibility and have things to do. You have no idea how hard this is! And I do all of this alone! You just sit back and watch! Nothing you say makes any sense, and I don't…" A red hue grew around his manly features, quickly regretting his sudden outburst. "I don't get you."
Why am I being so honest with him? I shouldn't be talking like this - I need to be professional… Unemotional. But now, I just can't hold it in anymore… And I'm sure he wouldn't let me leave without spilling everything anyway.
"Why do you choose to work alone? You need to have some faith in me. After all, I'm the one who keeps everything ticking." Keiran stood from his seat, abandoning his warm teacup to walk around Garrick's tense form. "I could… take all this away for you. End your work; end the world. Destroy humanity. Is this what you want?" He added, suggestively.
Garrick sat motionless and speechless. Trying to seem unmoved by the others' startling words, he avoided any and all eye-contact for fear that Keiran would read into him. Which might have already occurred, knowing the ruler of Runawynd.
"I love how you're so human-like… It's your unpredictability – among other things - that makes you so attractive, beloved Garrick of mine…"
Unintentionally, the blush across the blond's face crept into a searing heat across his body. This act of his is getting way too repetitive. "If we're done here, I'm leaving."
"Do as you please." Keiran stated simply, then gestured once more to the teacup. "But won't you try some tea before leaving?"
"Don't want any."
"Have you ever even tried it? Or have you no time for tea, is that it?"
Garrick said nothing, but from the corner of his eye, he watched his superior's tall figure stride towards his favored, lavish window. All the while sipping his tea, he lazily rested his body against the frame, brown eyes hazed through the glass.
Although he was permitted to leave, something kept Garrick stuck in that one place. His troubled mind and body felt foggy and tired; a great relief stretching over him. The formerly-hasty man lifted his eyes. He had never really spent time with his superior, yet the thought never really crossed his mind before.
I sat on my chair and watched HIM this time. There wasn't much to the imagery, actually. It was just one guy, taking a look at an entire world below him – just standing there and watching.
In a blinded moment, Garrick became fascinated. "What is it that you do here anyway?" He asked, his prior hostility slowly melting away. "All I ever see you do is sit and watch the people down there."
"Garrick, my dear. Everyone has their share of problems and workloads, I assure you." Keiran gave a graceful turn then gestured a welcoming hand towards the window, "But rather than me try to explain things to you - because we can both see how well that's going - would you rather just take a look yourself?"
The man hesitated - afraid at first, but curious all the same. Slowly, he started to rise from his seat.
Garrick's eyes adjusted to a vast plane of land, water, and a sunset that nearly took his breath away. There were various horizons in the sky, the clouds (a bubbly speculation of unpredictable patterns) left a indefinite trail before him, and even the glimmering sun and earth, too, met and traveled onward together.
On the land, there were people full of life, with each location offering its own variety of color and architecture. From structured cultivation to compact, towering cities, there were things that were familiar and things that were unrecognizable to the beholding, sheltered man. Cars and unknown objects glinted and sparkled under certain inspections of the beautiful sunlight that stretched beyond the horizon.
He saw grand and lesser bodies of water, and in them, as well, there was life. Garrick marveled that, however small they appeared, the lakes gleamed like pools of gold gems in the light. Looking closer, he watched the oceans shake like foil against the wind, and he watched small objects dart across the calmer waters like water-based meteors.
Looking out that window, Garrick could see people each with their own purposes and inspirations. Roads connected, roads strayed, but altogether, they made up parts of a whole world that functioned and all of nature in perfect harmony. The beauty was blinding, the earth was beautiful, and each person seemed to have something to hold onto that made their living worth while. To Garrick, it was thought-provoking. It made him think.
I can't explain what happened. But what happened, happened. As it was probably intended from my beginning. Being the Diviner of Fate, you'd think I would've figured that out sooner.
"My goodness, I realize I've been rambling quite a bit! I sincerely apologize, love! But hopefully, my dearest Garrick, this talk did you some good. Now," Keiran returned to his seat, retrieving Garrick's unused, neglected, empty teacup, and held it up along with the small teapot, and asked once more, "Won't you join me for tea?"
For some people, it takes a long time to figure that stuff out. Some people are unfortunate enough to never get it. But for me, that fifteen minutes was all it took.
And by the way, guess who had his first cup of tea that day? It was bitter as hell could be at first, but after those first couple sips, it wasn't all that bad.


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The Narcotics Detection Team of Patrolman Michael Divito and K9 Solo, completed a 400 hour narcotics training program offered by the Swedesboro Police Department, Swedesboro, NJ under the direction of Sgt. Daniel DeMora Jr.
The narcotics detection team assisted numerous municipal police agencies not only in Gloucester County, but Camden, Cumberland and Burlington County. They had also assisted 2 Federal Agencies, 2 County Prosecutor's Offices and New Jersey State Police.
The team assisted these agencies in establishing probable cause for the issuance's of approximately 12 Superior Court issued search warrants for residences and vehicles. This resulted in the arrest of approximately 40 individuals, seizure of Marijuana, Cocaine, Crack and Heroin. They seized Fourteen Thousand dollars in U.S. Currency and four vehicles.
K-9 Solo was in service from October 1992 to when she passed in December 2000.
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K9 Brixx was obtained from Port Authority of New Jersey and New York Police Department in November 1999. Brixx had been trained by prior to us receiving him for narcotics detection. Brixx and I, handler Patrolman Michael Divito, started training in March 2000 with the New Jersey State Police and complete a 400-hour training course in narcotic detection June 2000.
During his 7-year career with the Clayton Police Department he assisted 8 municipal police departments, 1 State Police Department, 2 County Law Enforcement Agencies and 2 Federal Agencies. K9 Brixx assisted in giving some of these agencies the probable cause needed in the issuance of 11 search warrants for homes and vehicles. His ability in locating illegal narcotics assisted in the arrest and convictions of 33 individuals.
Brixx keen sense of smell located approximately 35 grams of Marijuana and 20 grams of Cocaine and the forfeiture of approximately $3500.00 of contaminated U.S Currency. With that said, Brixx had two very notable finds during this time frame. In December 2003 Brixx located 500 lbs. of Marijuana hidden amongst fruit that had been shipped from Mexico to Vineland, NJ. In January 2004 he located a package that been shipped via a commercial mail delivery service from California to Deptford. The package contained 35 lbs. of Marijuana.
K-9 Brixx was in service from June 2000 and retired in June 2007. Brixx passed in September 2008.
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Andrea was obtained from the Seeing Eye Foundation in October 2009. Andrea was trained in Narcotic Detection by the Atlantic City Police Department K-9 Unit.
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Among my other responsibilities, I still hang out with the LXI crowd. Lots of conference calls, and a quarterly face-to-face meeting. (Thank you, TestForce, for hosting our recent meeting in Toronto.)
Following up on my earlier blog post, National Instruments did join the LXI Consortium at some point (last year, I think). I believe that having one network-instrumentation standard to follow is better than having many, and the technical side of the consortium is constantly working to devise solutions to limitations inherent in a network-based test system.
There are a variety of challenges revolving around the fact that LAN opens up the door to having more than one "controller" in a test system.
In a test system using RS-232 or USB, for example, any single device talks to only a single "controller"—typically the test system's PC. A GPIB system is a form of network, but there's always one "controller in charge". Nobody can easily intrude into the test system.
Is this a "feature", or a "limitation"? It all depends on the test system. What if you wanted to see test data from the outside world? Today, you'd probably put a network connection on your test PC, and let it serve up data through the LabVIEW Web Server, or store data into a corporate database. Nobody could talk to the instruments directly; they would always go through the PC.
But an alternative that LXI allows is to connect your private test network to the rest of your company's intranet (or the entire internet, if you want). This allows others to interact directly with the measurement instruments. You probably wouldn't want this feature in all test systems, but it opens the door to some interesting possibilities.
Even if you don't connect your test network to the internet, you might still want to have more than one test PC talking to the devices. Or one grand vision of the consortium is that instruments can control other instruments. How does an instrument manage multiple connections from multiple controllers at once? Does this sound complicated? It is.
And this is where the LXI Consortium comes in. What can the consortium do to make it "safe" to have more than one controller on your network?
There are many aspects of this that the consortium is working on—defining behavior when there are too many connections for an instrument to handle, for example. One particularly challenging problem is how to "reserve" or "lock" an instrument in your test program so that nobody else comes in and changes settings in the middle of your test.
It's worse than that, really. Just discovering instruments on your network can have the accidental side effect of interrupting a test program. And it's especially this kind of inadvertent access to a test instrument that the consortium is trying to resolve.
One step in this direction was announced in the LXI 1.2 standard. There will be a new mechanism for discovering LXI devices that is less obtrusive than the current approach. In the future, when instruments are available that support the next version of the LXI standard, this very common form of inadvertant access should be solved for future test systems.
But there are still challenges with test systems with more than one computer or instrument trying to talk to a single device at the same time. For that, we really need to be able to reserve the instrument for exclusive use by a single test program (or perhaps even a single part of a larger test program).
This problem has been solved before in this domain. In 2004, I helped write an article for T&M World entitled Migrating to Ethernet. I discussed the VXI-11 protocol for communicating with instrumentation over Ethernet.
Because VXI-11 defines processing on both the host (PC) and client (instrument), it is able to provide a way to reserve or lock the instrument in a test program. With VXI-11 devices, the VISA commands viLock and viUnlock can be used to lock the instrument so that it only responds to the program that has the lock.
However, VXI-11 has kind of fallen out of favor with instrument vendors. One reason is that it requires a fair amount of processing horsepower inside the instrument. VXI-11 is based on a technology called RPC, or Remote Procedure Calls. With RPC, much of the processing happens on the instrument, requiring more processing power, more memory, and thus, higher overall cost.
Instrument vendors want to move to simpler protocols. The consortium therefore needs to take a fresh look at instrument locking, and hopefully come up with a proposed solution in the 2009 or 2010 versions of the LXI standard.
Until then, fortunately, most LXI instruments continue to support VXI-11 and you can use viLock or viUnlock (in LabVIEW, they are called "VISA Lock Async" and "VISA Unlock") to lock instruments in your test system.
One caveat is that IVI drivers do not support the same kind of locking. You need to have access to the VISA session to properly lock the device. This is one of the benefits of using a LabVIEW Plug and Play (or for C users, VXIpnp) driver. Since these kinds of drivers use the VISA session directly, you can easily add VISA Lock and VISA Unlock calls to your program without major rework.
Stay tuned as the standards evolve.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Thoughts on Network Protocols for Instrumentation
Among my other responsibilities, I still hang out with the LXI crowd. Lots of conference calls, and a quarterly face-to-face meeting. (Thank you, TestForce, for hosting our recent meeting in Toronto.)
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When I started working at the Restaurant, I became interested in hockey, and to this day, still watch, cheer, and participate in hockey pools. Go Detroit!
When I was 18, my mom started to watch soccer religiously. Well, when I say soccer, I mean the World Cup and the Euro Cup. I had no idea she knew so much about the game.
But interest in football had always eluded me. I couldn't get why people were SO interested. It didn't help that I didn't know the rules. But then again, I wasn't trying to learn them. To be honest, the only thing that I knew about football was who this guy was:
And that's only because he was QB of the team that went undefeated for the entire season only to lose the Super Bowl.
But now that I have badgered the Dude regarding the rules of the game, I am starting to see why people love it. It's interesting. In all my years of watching sports here and there, I have never seen people so passionate about football the way their fans are. It's not just the face-painting or the Super Bowl parties. There's a loyalty that football fans have that I don't see very often elsewhere (except maybe Leafs fans…come on, you go almost 50 years without winning a Cup and you STILL sell out the rink consistently?).
So what I'm trying to say is I understand now. The strategy, the physicality, the tactics, I'm beginning to understand why people love it so much.


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Oneida Independent Cavalry Company
Mustered in: September 4, 1861
This company was organized at Oneida, and there mustered in the service of the United States for three years, under the command of Capt. Daniel P. Mann, September 4, 1861. It was recruited mainly at Oneida, Salisbury, Stockbridge, Hamilton, Otisco, Eaton, Nelson Flatts, Vienna and Chittenango. It left the State in September, 1861, and served at the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, performing escort and guard duty, and furnishing couriers, etc. At the expiration of its. term of service, those entitled thereto were discharged, and the company retained in service until June 13, 1865, when, commanded by Capt. James E. Jenkins, it was honorably discharged and mustered out near Washington, D. C.
Battles and Casualties Table from Phisterer
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Gabriel, Daniel. "Oneida independent cavalry company." Madison county heritage Dec. 1978, p. 17-24.
Schroeder, Patrick A. "The Highest Praise of
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For those who read (sadly a dwindling number in America), here is a compelling back-and-forth between my friend Lawrence Ludlow and an unidentified acquaintance of his. If so inclined, it will make you think...
LL: This was called my best back-and-forth thread with a statist on Facebook. I deleted his name because he's a valued friend, even if he is a statist.
STATIST CLAIM #1: If you do not want to pay the State Income Tax, do not live in a state that has a state income tax. If you do not want to pay a federal income tax, live in a country that does not have one. The decision to live in Michigan and in the United States is your consent.
LARRY'S RESPONSE: I do not believe for a single minute that one's human rights depend upon one's geographic proximity. That is the problem that people have who have never seriously studied ethics but repeat a received opinion without scrutinizing it. There is a concept called meta ethics, which determines how you can develop a system of ethics. It has to be universal just as the laws of physics and chemistry must be universal and repeatable. That is why your criticism has absolutely no merit. The public school system ensures that people never make a serious study of the science of ethics, and as a result, even supposedly well-educated people have absolutely no conception of it. It is the equivalent of a flat Earth Society in the realm of philosophy and ethics, and it has created the system that now exists, and it helps to generate comments such as the one just made. Do you see the difference?
[Additional thought, not stated but obvious]: The claim boils down to the suggestion that it is my fault that I cannot find a more hospitable neighborhood in which to live and that it's my fault that criminal gangs (i.e., governments) control the land surface of the planet. Translation? If the Statist had lived in the year 400 A.Dl, he would have said the following to a slave: "Look, slave: it's your fault that slavery is practiced all over the world without exception and that you cannot find a place where slavery is not practiced.
STATIST CLAIM #2: "you wish to take advantage of the services and quality of life provided by the payment of taxes but assert that having made the decision to enjoy those benefits does not constitute consent to pay for them. I do not see that as logical, fair or ethical. If you contend that taxes are too high, or the government provides poor service or spends money fecklessly, that would be different (although frankly not one which I would agree broadly). Magical Fairy Dust, to be brutally honest, is believing that anarchy works."
LARRY'S RESPONSE: You are claiming that I wish to take advantage of services that I did not request and that I would not select if I were given an opportunity, the funds for which were taken from me without my consent. I do not see how one can possibly say that I want to take advantage of these "services." You have made a false statement, and I would appreciate it if you would not put words in my mouth that I have not said. That lowers the level out of the realm of argumentation and into one of false claims. Because I am standing on the planet Earth does not mean I have granted my consent for anything. You are assuming that a conceptual entity [the state] has rights, and that actual existing human beings do not. To demonstrate how bizarre your concept is, just because I happened to be standing in front of a Kroger store does not mean that I should be forced to purchase a shopping cart full of items that I did not ask for, did not want, and do not feel are worth the price. In the world that you live in, I do not have any choice about what I purchase in any venue, but other people are able to tell me what they think I should buy and how much I should pay for them. You are actually defending such a system. Or that appears to be the case, and at least I am granting you an opportunity to show how it is not the case. But you use the term "I wish," which is absolutely false, and I am making that denial here.
Furthermore, as to the denial that ethical private property anarchism can function properly, the same protest has been made for every invention and Improvement of mankind. There was a caveman who proclaimed loudly tens of thousands of years ago that the idea of a wheeled vehicle is absurd. Likewise, in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, there were people that wished to maintain the institution of slavery because the concept of emancipation and a society without slaves had, and I quote, never been tried [before]. The same comments are now being made about people who, like me, are making that case that the institution of organized repression, theft through taxation, and obedience to gangs of voters, who violate the human rights of minorities, is not a system that a civilized being should submit to. Every new and wonderful advancement of humankind has been derided by people who feel comfortable with the matrix into which they were born. I do not personally blame you because you are not given a choice when these ideas were pounded into your head by means of the Prussian style factory school system that generates conformity and obedience in our society, but you should be aware that people are able to perceive this truth nonetheless. That is why I do not get angry about it. I, too, before I began to examine many of the premises that I absorbed as a child, shared many of these beliefs. It is just a matter of time before people can awaken themselves out of this slumber.
[Additional note] The idea that a conceptual entity has real existence is called the "reification fallacy." It stems from Plato and his belief that concepts have an independent and superior existence that is more "real" than entities that exist on Earth, where such earthbound entities only reflect (imperfectly) the more-real reality of the divine forms/concepts that are the patterns for all things substantiated on the Earth. This fallacy was refuted (I use this word to mean "decisively disproven," not merely disputed, or argued about) by the nominalists of the Middle Ages, primarily by Roscellinus of Compiegne and his followers. They demonstrated that our mental concepts, although very useful and necessary for humans to think in an abstract way, do not have an independent existence. Instead, they are merely puffs of air (flatus vocis). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscellinus
STATIST CLAIM #3: Your anarchy is a Utopia, in both senses of the word. It is as likely to occur as Atlantis is to be discovered.
LARRY'S RESPONSE: You are ripe for the picking! Actually, as you know, Utopia literally means no place. Those who are trying to pretend that the nature of mankind is otherwise are demanding a Utopia. We are simply trying to open people's eyes to the fact that the system of consent, unobstructed exchange -between human beings for goods and services, and a rule of non-aggression and non-molestation is the only one appropriate for human beings. We are making a case for a livable, even if imperfect world. It is those who are seeking perfection in the world, which we realize is not possible, that are seeking Utopia in its exact sense. On the link below, which provides access to a free PDF, you will be able to read on page 27 of the book "For a New Liberty," by Murray Rothbard, the basic theory of non-aggression and non-contradictory human rights. This chapter was one of the single most galvanizing experiences I have had as a human being in my entire life. It completely changed my worldview, and the footnotes provided by Murray Rothbard in this book and in his book "Ethics of Liberty" open up an entirely new world of ethical study which is guaranteed to change your life. The good contagion-cancer of freedom is already in your memory or in your ear, and it shall soon metastasize!
STATIST CLAIM #4: The single biggest flaw is that it does not take into account that people are people. Time to go to work.
LARRY'S RESPONSE: Actually, we are well aware of that concept. Consequently, since people are tempted to do bad things, we do not hand over Maximum Authority and the capability of coercion to people who are capable of doing evil with all of the Monopoly coercive powers of the state. That is why we prefer the ultimate decentralization of authority to the individual human being. We look with horror upon the centralization of coercive Authority in the hands of people who can do evil. In fact, we find it puzzling that people who openly acknowledge the flaws of human beings would put such power into the hands of such beings. It is just as Lord Acton stated about the concept of power corrupting. Since we are flawed individuals, we abhor the idea that one should put even more coercive power into the hands of such people rather than decentralizing it so that mistakes will be small and self-correcting rather than centralized and Unstoppable. The 20th century is a prime example of what occurs when power is centralized. The regimes of Nazi Germany, Stalinist Leninist Soviet Union, and Mao in China are examples of what occurs, and we are marching toward such centralization in the USSA at this very moment.
Let me make one request. You have said that I am a utopian. But I asked you to please look in the mirror and ask yourself if that does not much more accurately reflect your position. After all, the regimes of Stalin, Mao, and Hitler all promised a Utopia to the adherents of their ideology. And all of them shared the idea that the ends justify the means. We private property libertarians know very well from the examples of history that the ends are never achieved, and we also know that human beings are always subjected to the means. That is why we focus entirely on the means. That is why we forbid the act of aggression, which is the use of initiatory force. That is the means that we must live with. Since we now realize that a Central State simply cannot police itself, and it simply will not obey any laws it imposes on us, is it not utopian to expect a monopoly state to obey laws when it is indeed the only judge of whether it is obeying laws, and it is the final interpreter of all of these laws? Isn't that the mark of utopian belief? And since history has so many horrendous examples of such State Utopias engaging in mass murder, which we call Democide, is it not time for you to abandon the Utopia that you are proposing? And in this context, is it not clear that the libertarian private property anarchism idea is the only intellectually legitimate and consistent and noncontradictory alternative to such a utopian conception, which always devolves into a dystopia? This is a very important syllogism, and it deserves a good deal of consideration. It is particularly important at this time because we can see a polarization in our society between the nationalistic socialism of what is called the right, and the internationalist socialism of the Antifa left, both of which share a love of state-sponsored violence or aggression, which we Libertarians despise. And it is not a surprise that the first admirer of fascism in this country, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also imprisoned in concentration camps the Japanese population as he sought to emulate the regime of Mussolini in Italy and of Stalin in the USSR? And now, with the militarization of the police in the United States with their various forms of equipment from the battlefield, do we not see down the road what may very well lie in our future? This kind of movement in our country should give very serious pause to anyone who supports the conception of a centralized Monopoly State as opposed to the libertarian conception of individual freedom and voluntary Association. Rather than being considered extreme, it is the libertarian private property idea of voluntary relationship that is the middle way that avoids the extremes of the state by the left and the right. Our conception of consent and human dignity is the only one that is consistent in opposing the conflagration offered by both the left and the right.


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When a company begins to use cloud services, it finds itself facing new challenges to its approach on security. Cloud-based services can affect many different aspects of security, ranging from the security features of new apps in development to the way a company defines the security measures for internal data.
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This article, based on the observations and experiences of Microsoft Architects, presents ten questions that can help your company identify security issues you may encounter when using cloud services.
1. How thoroughly has your organization defined its general security policy? Do you have platform-agnostic guidelines to apply as new security issues arise?
Without overall guidelines to fall back on, personnel may end up applying security measures ad hoc and interpreting applicable regulations on the fly. Microsoft Architects have worked with companies that operated in this manner—in such companies, the security measures applied to documents may depend more on where the documents are stored than their content.
For example, the protections applied in a web store may differ from those applied in another file share simply because different people were responsible for configuring them. A fractured security picture makes it very difficult for companies to specify which content may be used with cloud services and which content cannot be used with cloud services.
2. How flexible are your security systems? How much work will it take to accommodate the cloud-based service?
This work includes the technical changes needed to ensure that the cloud-based service can interact with your systems in the ways intended (and only those ways), and that the users have appropriate levels of access to the service.
Some companies have legacy technology that makes it difficult to modify security models and processes. For example, Microsoft Architects have worked with manufacturing companies, and have found that their systems tend to change more slowly than in other companies. As a result, these companies seem to accumulate legacy systems that tend to dominate any new technology and standardize approaches to issues such as security.
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Who can forget Nicola Spirig's dramatically close victory over Lisa Nordén in the women's triathlon at last year's London Olympics? This ambitious and multi-talented athlete from Winkel (near Zurich) has been an ambassador of Swiss endurance sports ever since. And she's just switched exclusively to On running shoes.
Nicola Spirig never does things by halves. Not just at the Olympics, but in her daily life, too. Whatever she takes on – from intensive training sessions to guest presentations and media photo shoots – she gives it her all. She has high expectations as well: not just of herself, but of everyone involved. So it's hardly surprising that "Be the best you can be" has long been her motto.Nicola's ambitious approach has proved highly fruitful. And it's not just in the triathlon that she's achieved her success. Throughout her 2012 Olympics preparations, she also found the time to finish her legal studies – and earn a magna cum laude into the bargain. She has no plans to practise law for the present, though, preferring to focus fully on her sporting career. That career started early in Nicola's life. The youngest of three children, she grew up in a highly sporting family. Her grandfather, uncle and parents were all physical education teachers. She started running at the age of seven, and took part in her first triathlon at ten. She came second. And from there her career really took off. For all her drive and ambition, Nicola does allow herself the odd sinful indulgence. "I love chocolate!" she confesses. "I ate a whole bar of Swiss chocolate and a banana for breakfast before the Olympic race." But she doesn't drink coffee, she adds. Nicola is clearly a multi-sports athlete: in addition to the triathlon, she's keen on ski touring, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, alpine tours and kayaking, preferably combined with travel. "I'd never want to leave Switzerland, though," adds this down-to-earth individual. Nicola has always been very family-minded, too. And a lot has happened in her private life since her London victory. She married her partner, fellow triathlete Reto Hug. And this spring she gave birth to their son Yannis. So how hard is it to deliver a top performance as an athlete and a mother? Pretty easy, it seems, for this calm and almost diffident woman. Nicola has both well under control. And after a brief "baby break", she's back in shape, and putting a special emphasis on her running right now. Her next major goals? The 2014 European Athletics Championships, which will be held in Zurich, and the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Nicola is determined to represent Switzerland to the best of her abilities. And she'll be competing in all her future events with the shoes of her choice: Ons. "I just wore them once and became a total fan!" she recalls. "They suit me perfectly, and they're just what I need. I'll be wearing them in my training and in all my competitive events."
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It is confirmed that Mac brachium match r ii contains much lower w3 HUFA levels than marine prawns. For larvae which have a low HUFA profile at stage I. survival and growth vary in relation to dietary linolenic acid which is the precursor of these long chain fatty acids. Diets containing different levels of w6 fatty acids produced large differences in survival and slight differences in growth. Recently hatched larvae utilize saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids for their energy requirements, as PUFA's increase from stage I to stage II, suggesting that larvae are able to chain elongate. Heavier M. n2ank ii females have heavier clutches and higher numbers of eggs. However, female weight does not influence weight per egg, nor the volume of each egg. The length of incubation does not significantly influence the larval survival though a negative trend is observed. The ratio between the weight of the parent female and the weight per egg (Wegg/W) is found to be 0.036 which reflects a poor fecundity. Recently hatched larvae consume microencapsulated feed, but do not survive beyond day 13. However, artificial diets can be fed successfully from stages VI-VII, the best growth occurring at a feeding rate of 8-16mg of microcapsules per litre. For the caridean M. ma br; zi and penaeid a=LtUa m2nQdgn larvae, edge index increases from 641 and 223, respectively, at the beginning of their development to 1847 and 750 at the end, reaching 2817 and 5000 at postlarval metamorphosis. These results confirm the herbivorous, omnivorous and raptorial feeder classification given by Itoh (1970). Recently hatched M. rosenbargii larvae show poor ability to crush their food and rely heavily on their embryonic lipid droplet reserves. Later, they feed on live diets, such as Artamin and rotifers, containing their own enzymes which aid larval digestion. Between stages V and VII, the cardiac foregut becomes muscular, the pyloric filter apparatus is functional, and the hepatopancreas increases rapidly in size. Residence time of food becomes longer in the foregut, but remains the same, and later decreases, in the midget. Survival and growth on artificial feed coincide with these changes, suggesting that larval enzyme production is sufficient to digest and assimilate such diets.
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Captivating Camaguey, Cuba's third largest city, stands on the wide central savanna halfway between Havana and Santiago de Cuba. Camaguey's well preserved old quarter is a winding maze of narrow streets and dead end roads designed to confuse marauding Caribbean pirates.
Camaguey is an important cultural center with many venues for the city's musicians, and for the visitor, numerous museums. Our Camaguey travel photos show some of the monumental stone churches which face the squares. Horse drawn carts and carriages rule the roadways, with cool colonial courtyards providing respite from the bustle and summer heat. The closest beach resort to the city of Camaguey is Playa Santa Lucia on the Atlantic Ocean to the northeast.
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The tower of the Iglesia de la Soledad marks the entrance to the old town.
Cuba welcomes visitors. This Caribbean country offers a unique and very different travel experience.
Folk musicians at a popular restaurant on Plaza San Juan de Dios.
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Bowling Green, Ohio (BGSUFalcons.com) – Bowling Green State University head men's basketball coach Chris Jans has completed his coaching staff with the addition of Corey Barker. Barker will join David Ragland and Mark Downey as the three assistant coaches for Coach Jans, who was named the 16th men's basketball head coach in BGSU history in March.
"I am thrilled to add Corey Barker to our team of coaches. Coach Barker has a track record of building relationships with young people and mentoring them as they grow and mature both on and off the floor," commented Coach Jans. Corey has been associated with winning basketball programs and will add to our overall development as a program."
Barker comes to BGSU after serving as a member of the Arkansas State University men's basketball coaching staff for each of the past two seasons. In his two years on the bench at Arkansas State, the Red Wolves posted back-to-back 19 win seasons and totaled 38 wins overall.
The Red Wolves also advanced to the semifinals of the Sun Belt Conference Championship Tournament in both 2012-13 and 2013-14.
"I am extremely excited about joining Coach Jans and the staff at BGSU," commented Barker. "I love the passion that all the coaches have towards recruiting and winning at a high level. I feel like we can do something special here at BGSU."
A-State's 19 victories in 2013-14 matched the 2012-13 team's wins output and tied for the program's highest single-season win total since the 1997-98 campaign when the Red Wolves went 20-9. The last time A-State registered back-to-back 19 victories or more was 1986-89 when the Red Wolves compiled a 21-13 record in 1986-87, a 21-14 mark in 1987-88, and a 20-10 ledger in 1988-89.
At A-State, Barker helped to tutor Kirk Van Slyke and Melvin Johnson III. Van Slyke was named to the 2013-14 Sun Belt All-Conference Second-Team and was named to both the all-league second-team by College Sports Madness and to the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) All-District 24 First-Team. He was also a recipient of a SBC Academic Honor Roll Award, while Johnson III garnered third-team all-conference accolades and was also chosen as a College Sports Madness all-conference third-team performer.
In his first year at Arkansas State in 2012-13, Barker coached Brandon Peterson and Trey Finn who were named to the All-Sun Belt Conference Second and Third-Teams, respectively.
Barker arrived at A-State in June 2012 after spending the 2011-12 season as an assistant coach at Paris (Texas) Junior College where he helped lead the Blazers to a 23-6 overall record and to a Region XIV Zone Conference Championship Title. While at Paris JC, Barker's responsibilities included recruiting and player development.
Prior to his coaching stint at Paris JC, Barker served as an assistant for the 2010-11 campaign at North Forest High School in Houston, Texas. Barker played a key role in helping NFHS improve its season wins total to 22 overall compared to just 13 wins in the previous 2009-10 season. From 2005-10, Barker was an assistant coach at Humble Christian Life Center Academy in Humble, Texas where he recruited and coached some of the nation's top players such as Augustine Rubit (South Alabama), Latavious Williams (NBA draft pick-Miami), Junior Cadougan (Marquette) and Kourtney Roberson (Texas A&M). Barker handled film breakdown, practice organization and player evaluation along with directing preseason and off-season individual workouts.
A native of Houston, Texas, Barker graduated from Prairie View A&M University in 2003 with a degree in Kinesiology. He helped lead the Panthers to their first conference title since 1962. Following his playing career, Barker served as a graduate assistant at Prairie View A&M under former head coach Jerome Francis.
Barker, a 1998 graduate of Eisenhower High School in Houston, Texas, played on the school's varsity basketball team from 1995-98.
The son of Miki White Barker, Corey has two brothers and two sisters. Barker comes from a strong basketball pedigree as his grandfather and uncle served as Division I head coaches in the collegiate ranks.
Corey Barker leaves ASU for Bowling Green
Bowling Green, Ohio (BGSUFalcons.com) – Bowling Green State University head men's basketball coach Chris Jans has completed his coaching staff with the addition of Corey Barker. Barker will join David Ragland and Mark Downey as the three assistant coaches for Coach Jans, who was named the 16th men's basketball head coach in BGSU history in March.


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triad is ruining my oRiginal relationships
Just joined this site for some guidance. I have been with my bf for 4 years. We have always had thrones just for fun very successfully. Recently my bestfriend of 12 years has had a very tough time financially. We have slept with her before and the three of us get along great so my bf and I moved her in with us and decided to all be one beautiful happy triad. We talked about it for weeks before dOing it because the move is out of state. Not long into it her and I both realized this type of relationship will not work for us. My bf hardly wants to acknowledge the fact I am unhappy. She won't talk to him about it. I can tell how terribly disappointed he is. She has also been acting very catty to me and refuses to give him and I alone time, even though I know we need some. All of us are home with eachother constantly. My bf doesn't want to talk to me about her rude behaviour to me and gets annoyed when I bring it up. She gets defensive when I try to talk to her. I live them both more than anything am terrified of the thought of this messing up my relationships. Please any advice would be very highly aPpreciAted!!!!
You are being disrespected at every turn. You have tried to communicate..
I don't think you have a lot of options.. they have a term for people like your friend.. cowgirl. Sounds like she might just be one.
Best of luck.. sorry my advice isn't more positive.
Is she a cowgirl...or does she want a very and you're trying to force a triad? You had her move in. ... yiu can't very well kick her out just because she is attracted to him and not you. ...
I wouldn't kick her out. She isn't bi and I knew that going into this. Her abd I have been intimate even before the move. I don't think she is trying to be a cowgirl, She has told me she could never imagine being with our bf without me. I just feel disrespected and since her and I understand the triad won't work I wish she would give my bf and I time alone sometimes. I don't appreciate the attitudes I am getting from both if them but just want our relationships to go back to what they were before we had tried this. I don't know hOw to bring it up without problems from them. We have never discussed it not working with all of us present. I just want my best friend and my sneezing relationship back!
And I guess is it ridiculous of me to ask for her to sleep in the spare room sometimes if we know she is not looking to pursue a future with us, nor I with her.
It's not ridiculous at all to set up a sleeping schedule or dating schedule so you can each have your alone time with a shared partner.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
It is very important to have time for each dyad, you and your bf, you and her, her and the guy. There is no reason for all 3 to share space constantly. And there is no rule that all 3 need to sleep together in one bed! You could take turns sharing a bed, you and him, her and him. Even just you and her, if you want to share sleep even if you're not sharing sex.
Also, each person needs their alone time, "me time," as well!
Any experienced poly person will tell you, communication is EVERYTHING. The fact that neither of your partners will talk about boundaries, schedules, etc., is very concerning.
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I agree with setting up a sleep schedule. Each of You should have your own space and particular nights with him. I personally wouldn't want to share full time sleeping space with my husband's other partner.
Because of her financial situation, moving her in as an additional sex partner can create a really icky dynamic. I am not saying this to suggest it a sex for a roof situation but sometimes people feel that way, feel others might be seeing them that way, more likely to act out poorly. Has this been addressed by everyone? And since this is getting considered a triad maybe trying talking to the both of them about what's on your mind at the same time before trying to do it one on one. It can help keep things above board and make it harder for anyone to make false accusations about happens or gets said.
Is there room for you to find a partner while they enjoy their connection if it does become a no go for a triad? Is it possible for her to just be a roommate and not a sex partner to you or your SO?
I'm sorry you struggle.
Sounds like you guys forgot to talk about how you agree to do conflict resolution before the move. It happens. Could address it now.
What "attitudes" are they doing that you find objectionable? You do not elaborate.
Do you offer to give THEM alone time?
If this is a "V" thing rather than a triad -- seems constructive to me to move on to creating a sleeping schedule. 3 people in a 2 bedroom flat. Limit of the space you share.
It's not unkind to have her take the 2nd bedroom or YOU take that room. He is the hinge, so he has to move to and fro. You two could flip for which bedroom you get first for the rest of this lease and agree to switch it if you renew the lease here rather than move to a 3 bedroom flat together.
Then he visits her for sex share in her bedroom. And he visits you over here for sex share in your bedroom. He has to put up with storing his clothes and things in whatever space, but that's the price of admission when you all live in a flat without 3 bedrooms and he's the hinge. One of you has to share the closet with his clothes. He can't leave it in a sloppy pile in the living room -- unless you buy a stand alone wardrobe to put it in neatly and then he can have his clothes there without mess.
If you want to spend time with BF alone for alone time shared, could ask him out on a date and GO OUT alone together. If he says no, you have to manage your disappointment without blaming the other GF. It is the BF not giving you a moment of his time, not her.
I hope you feel better soon. I'm sorry getting used to the "new normal" is particularly rough right now.
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I'll be reading from Dearly, Departed, and I've provided five advance copies for event giveaways! Also, I'll be bringing about six gowns. Seriously.
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Oh I hope you have a great time! And you'll have to share some pics with us of the reading and the dresses.
Ugh! I wish I could be there!!! I'd die for a copy!!!
Very exciting! Can't wait to see those ball gowns.
I could not wait for this weekend, and now that I know copies of Dearly Departed will be there I am even more excited. Finger crossed that I win one (look for the Victorian babe in the purple and silver). Still deciding which color to add to my hair….
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Randall Rothenberg's column ("Brit's team approach to mag management makes sense," Viewpoint, AA, March 31) failed to note that, while the consumer magazine industry has a vast variety of successful publishing models, a large percentage of U.S. magazines have been operating on the same or similar model as the "British" one for years. Excellent examples can be found in a myriad of special-interest, enthusiast magazines as well as in more broad-based titles.
The committed individuals in these companies live and breathe their publications with a passion-all united around a love for the editorial. Many of these titles are independently owned and highly profitable. By necessity, they operate on a central management team model to achieve success. And they do so while maintaining very solid church/state guidelines.
These magazines represent categories such as crafts (sewing, quilting, knitting, weaving, beading), politics (left, right and center), building (homes, log cabins, timber frame, kitchens), collecting anything and everything, sports (flying, walking, diving, running, boating, fishing), cooking, gardening, to name a few. This group of magazines thrives because they have established strong brand recognition, which translates to tremendously loyal readership.
Hundreds, probably thousands, of magazines that operate around the same model as the one described in Rothenberg's article are often the brands that don't get the recognition, but they are strong, impassioned vehicles for millions of Americans. As the association that represents them, we feel their story should be told.
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New York
Don't be surprised by contradictory trends
I agree with Rance Crain's point of view ("Urgency of change is touted, but marketers favor safe bets," Viewpoint, AA, March 24) and would add three observations.
* We should never make the mistake of assuming that what is good for the conference business is good for business. A conference about how effective 30-second TV advertising can be would not sell many tickets.
* It has always struck me as ironic that it is perceived to be "more accountable" to know exactly which 98.5% of a direct mail campaign did not work than not to know which half of an advertising campaign did.
* If you can't ride two horses at once, don't join a circus.
Our business is full of contradictory but real trends. Global vs. local. Integrated vs. disintegrated, etc., etc. The only things to be "absolutist" about are, first, that the persuasive quality of the work that consumers touch is all that matters, whatever it is (TV, print, e-mail, product placement, etc.), and second, that excellence in this depends on securing an unfair share of a limited pool of exceptional talent.
Everything else can stay the same. Or change. And it won't matter.
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BBDO Worldwide
New York
Where Kmart can find the 'stuff' of branding
Less than a week after Kmart "downsized" its honcho for TV advertising (Late News, AA, March 17) comes word that the retailer lost a colossal $3 billion. When you spend $270 million in measured media, I suppose you expect to do better. Yet despite the capable talents of Spike Lee's "Stuff of Life" campaign and the curiously happy feet of that dude dancing in his Joe Boxers, it appears there was no blue light at the end of the tunnel. So, go ahead. Blame the ad guy.
Kmart's new CEO clearly has his work cut out. Emerge from bankruptcy, close 300 stores and lay off 35,000 employees (just 34,999 to go). Once he gets around to marketing, he may be tempted to bankroll another expensive ad campaign, assuming that just the right message will be the panacea to Kmart's woes. Far from it.
Even the best advertising cannot by itself restore Kmart's once-respected brand. Consider: After Pete Rose signed a multi-million-dollar contract with the Phillies in 1978, his wife was reported to have asked, "They got a Kmart in Philadelphia?" Talk about brand loyalty! But somewhere along the way, Kmart lost its sense of what that brand is.
Rediscovering the Kmart brand should come first. What Rosie and Penny, Winona and Naomi, or Spike and the underwear guy could not do was make customers forget that shopping in Kmart can be a dreadful experience. Stores are less than sparkling, shelves are stocked in austere fashion and dispirited employees treat shoppers as distractions.
Job 1 is fixing what's broken. Among the casualties: the Kmart brand. Finding it starts not with advertising but with tangible branding. It's what consumers touch and feel to form opinions about a company.
It's time for Kmart to forget the sizzle and work on the substance. They won't turn things around with catchy slogans, new logos or trendy ad campaigns but must focus their efforts internally, defining and executing against a clear identity. I think they'll find that that's the real "Stuff of Life."
Kelly O'Keefe
Richmond, Va.
Video games offer major opportunity
I don't play video games but isn't advertising missing a gigantic opportunity here to reach the elusive younger generation? They spend $9.4 billion on games. Aren't games super sponsorship material? Isn't game content ideal for advertising messages beamed at highly focused minds? It's a brand new pop up world!
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Kingwood, Texas
In "Sony's $50 million Aiwa biz in review" (March 31, P. 8), it was incorrectly reported that Publicis Groupe's Fallon Worldwide, New York, confirmed it was in the pitch. The agency had declined to comment.