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Decrypting the Eclipse
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and a Mystery
"During the total eclipses of the sun on June 30, 1954, and October 22, 1959, quite analogous deviations of the plane of oscillation of the paraconical pendulum were observed..." - Maurice Allais, 1988 Nobel autobiographical lecture.
August 6, 1999: The natural phenomenon of a solar eclipse has historic
Right: When the Moon eclipses the Sun, the solar corona becomes visible. The corona is faint compared to the Sun, so it can only be seen when the Sun is blocked from view. Jean Bernard Leon Foucault, with the physicist Armand Fizeau, took the first clear photograph of the Sun in 1845.
The mystery lies in the question: Does a solar eclipse somehow affect a Foucault pendulum? In 1954, Maurice Allais reported that a Foucault pendulum exhibited peculiar movements at the time of a solar eclipse. If true, his finding raises new questions about the nature of such phenomena.
For the upcoming eclipse, the NASA/Marshall Space Sciences Lab is coordinating an internet and video collaboration between observatories and universities to test the Allais effect. Participants on 4 continents (Central Europe, North America, Middle Asia, and Australasia), are from at least 7 countries (US, Austria, Germany, Italy, Australia, 4 sites in the United Arab Emirates, and England) and 11 cities (Huntsville, AL, Indianapolis, Louisville, Denver, Boulder, Richmond, Vienna, Greifswald, Trento, Abu Dabi, and Sydney).
Thursday's Classroom
for lesson plans and activities related to the August 11, 1999 total solar eclipse.
Left: Time-elapsed photo of a Foucault pendulum at the Smithsonian Museum. As the Earth rotates under the pendulum, the bob strikes down red pegs.
A basic Foucault pendulum is simply a weight on a wire. Practically any pocket watch has the potential to act as a pendulum, exhibiting up to a 10 to 15 degree rotation per hour around its hinge point. To an observer in a windowless room, the rotation that accompanies the swing is a kind of optical illusion: the pendulum is not turning, instead the Earth is actually rotating under the pendulum. Foucault's dramatic proof at the World's Fair is considered to be the first non-astronomical proof of the Earth's rotation.
With rotating hinges raised to heights in excess of 90 feet, Foucault pendulums are now massive display pieces in the lobbies of more than 60 museums and entrance halls around the wo
Remarkably, little more than two long-term scientific records for Foucault pendulums have been published. Both experiments were conducted by eventual Nobel Prize winners: Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes, who won the 1913 Nobel prize in Physics for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures (which led to the production of liquid helium), and Maurice Allais, who won the 1988 Nobel prize in Economics for his contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources.
An Abrupt Excursion in the Plane: What Allais Published
In a marathon experiment, Maurice Allais released a Foucault pendulum every 14 minutes - for 30 days an
Left: Maurice Allais (1911 - ) won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1988. He stated, "All my researches in theoretical and applied physics which, at first sight, appear to be remote from my main activity as an economist, have, in reality, enriched me with valuable experience."
Both before and after the eclipse, the pendulum experienced normal rotation (Foucault effect of 0.19 degrees/minute). This 13.5-degree excursion in the angular plane persisted throughout the length of the eclipse, a total of 2.5 hours of observations. Allais got similar results when he later repeated the experiment during a solar eclipse in 1959.
Allais' pendulum experiments earned him the 1959 Galabert Prize of the French Astronautical Society, and in 1959 he was made a laureate of the United States Gravity Research Foundation.
A handful of scientists have since tested Allais' findings, and the results have polarized the publication record:
October 1959
YES: Allais' original observations were repeated 3 times in 1954 and 1959 in France. In two locations: "two identical installations at St. Germain and Bougival, in an underground gallery (57 m deep) showing that the previously observed anomalies are still present." Allais, 1959.
Italy, 1965
NO: Given a null report in 1954 in Shetland, Scotland using static gravity meters, and in 1965 in Trieste, Italy.
YES: The Allais effect was repeated in 1961 in Romania. "A number of observations were made of the behavior of a Foucault pendulum during the eclipse of the Sun of February 15, 1961. A similar result concerning a shift of the oscillation plane on June 30, 1954 was seen by Prof. Maurice Allais at St. Germain-Laye. These experiments should be repeated during other total eclipses of the sun." G.T. Jeverdan, et al, 1961 (A footnote states that after recording their deviations in the Foucault pendulum, the researchers discovered the Allais observations. In other words, they weren't looking for it.)
MAYBE: The team that conducted the Finland 1990 study detected an indefinite signal one year later in Mexico City. "In the y-position of the pendulum there are two distinct shifts which seem to appear at the beginning and the end of the eclipse... Our experiment cannot determine whether these shifts are produced by some eclipse-coordinated phenomena, e.g. some sort of tidal waves on the shell of the Earth which has altered the position of the pendulum system."
"The initial interpretation of the record points to three possibilities," says Dr. David Noever of NASA/Marshall, "A systematic error, a local effect, or the unexplored. To eliminate the first two possibilities, we and several other observers will use different kinds of measuring instruments in a distributed global network of observing stations."
Worldwide Effort, August 11, 1999
During the next solar eclipse, Noever's team and volunteer scientists at several museums will simultaneously observe Foucault pendulums. Noever and other scientists will also use a gravimeter - a super-sensitive device that reports very small changes in the gravitational force acting on a mechanical spring.
After the eclipse, Noever's team will compare the results of all the tests, including observations from areas in Europe that lie in the path of the eclipse.
Left: Cutaway view of gravimeter, with magnetic, thermal and pressure shielding. The instrument reports very small changes in the gravitational force acting on a mechanical spring-mass. Gravitational changes are expressed as the electrical force (measured as voltage) required to maintain the spring-mass system at a predetermined position (the null point). The modified LaCoste-Romberg gravimeter (Edcon, Inc. Denver, CO) measures relative gravity until calibrated against a reference. The instrument is routinely calibrated along the 10-station Rocky Mountain Calibration range established by NOAA, Edcon and the Colorado School of Mines. The calibration is validated by comparing the measure of absolute gravity in Huntsville Alabama with reference values from the USAF gravity disk.
Data collection begins on August 11. The times of the solar eclipse are 3am-9am in North America, and 9a.m.-3p.m. in Europe and Middle Asia. These times can be adjusted for exact locations, for instance, in Boulder, CO, a data set for recording would be about 2:30a.m., continuing until 8:30a.m. That would cover the approach of the shadow, the actual eclipse, and the retreat of the shadow. The total length of the eclipse from initial contact in the Atlantic to last contact in the Indian Ocean is about 3 ½ hours.
Eclipsing Speculation
If the scientists do observe the Allais effect, the prevailing question will be "Why does it occur?" So far, explanations have included the anisotropy of space (the condition of having different properties in different directions), gravitational waves, and solar radiation.
|Web Links
The Foucault Pendulum -- an excellent tutorial discussion by Professor B. Nickel, Physics Department, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. This web site also reviews some peculiarities in pendulum motion detected by experiments at the University of Guelph.
Fred Espenak's Solar Eclipse Home Page - at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.
But before the cause of the Allais effect can be determined, scientists first need to settle the question about whether a pendulum really does act differently during a solar eclipse. By having a global network of scientists collaborating on a single eclipse, the answer to that question will perhaps finally be resolved.
Results of August 11 eclipse will have to be coordinated with lunar opposition (2 weeks later) before a first summary of eclipse data will be available. Realistically, scientists think it will take at least a decade before all opinions are settled.
In his Nobel Prize autobiographical speech, Allais stated, "My main idea at the start was that a link could be established between magnetism and gravitation by observing the movements of a pendulum consisting of a glass ball oscillating in a magnetic field. Of all the observations made in 1952 and 1953 I was not able to draw any definitive conclusion. Through certain experimental devices, I obtained positive effects, but with other devices I obtained no effect whatsoever....all these phenomena are quite inexplicable within the framework of the currently accepted theories."
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Upon learning of the upcoming effort to investigate the pendulum-eclipse mystery, Allais said he was glad and excited that scientists are revisiting his experiments. The German rocket scientist Werner von Braun, one of the original rocket team members at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, had encouraged Allais to translate one of his pendulum experiments from French into English. Von Braun, it seems, believed the experiment could explain anomalies in some space object trajectories. When the pendulums start swinging on August 11, the early connection between Allais and NASA/Marshall will have come full circle.
Although much of Europe, Asia and Africa will witness the eclipse, only those who lie directly under the path will see a total eclipse. Other than partial coverage at dawn in the Northeast corridor, North American sites appear in opposition to the ground shadow. But if effects have a gravitational origin, previous studies would indicate any detection may depend more on instrument resolution. To better than one part in 10 billion, no evidence of material shielding of gravity has ever been detected.
England and France
France, Belgium, Luxemborg and Germany
Southern Germany and Austria
Austria, Hungary and Romania
Romania and Bulgaria
Turkey, Syria and Iraq
The path of totality will begin in the Eastern edge of North America, run through Europe and the Middle East, and end in India . credit: Fred Espenak and Sky and Telescope
The Dark Side of the Eclipse - Science, July 2, 1999.
Autobiography of Maurice Allais - Copyright ©1999 The Nobel Foundation
Mephistos UCLA - With Pasteur and Darwin, Foucault ranks as one of the top three scientific influences in 19th century science.
Three Spacecraft Reveal Unexplained Motions - from Newswise
The Space Environment - Sunlight and Earthshine
The Speed of Gravity - Tom Van Flandern
Big Bang Acceleration -- Observations of supernova explosions halfway back to the Big Bang give plausible evidence that the expansion of the universe has been accelerating since that epoch, approximately 8 billion years ago and suggest that energy associated with the vacuum itself may be responsible for the acceleration.
The 1990 solar eclipse as seen by a torsion pendulum
A possible explanation for the anomalous acceleration of Pioneer 10
The Apparent Anomalous, Weak, Long-Range Acceleration of Pioneer 10 and 11
Bottlinger's and Majorana's absorption of the gravitational force and the tide-generating forces
The screen effect of the earth in the TETG - Theory of a screening experiment of a sample body at the equator, using the earth as a screen.
A method for detecting gravitational waves with the aid of torsion pendulums
Effect of solar rotation on free vibrations of a torsional pendulum
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A much better and cheaper alternative is yahoo music or equivalent. I listen to music all the time and I love it. Almost no commercials (15 second one every 5 or 10 songs. I can skip songs rate songs etc and best part is it's all free.
When I was living in the dorms during college, several of my peers received threatening letters from the Dean (via the RIAA) specifically identifying movies they had illegally downloaded and were sharing on the school's network. The Dean then instituted a computer-scan policy where the RA's were responsible for checking resident's computers for software which could be used to share files illegally. Our school thereafter subscribed to Ruckus, a service where the school pays a huge flat-fee to the company, and in turn, students may download unlimited files for free. The only two catches were: (i) no iPod compatibility; and (ii) shallow music catalog.
I've long since subscribed to iTunes service which I find sufficient for my music/podcast/movie purposes, but which often has a very negative effect on my bottom line. It's just so easy to click "Buy Song" that you don't even realize how the $.99 add up.
I was overjoyed to read about new legal peer-to-peer software which had struck deals with all the major record labels, and would offer millions of free songs (in a legal fashion) which would be compatible with iTunes and iPods. Then came the shocking news. Qtrax had prematurely claimed they reached deals with the major record labels, and now the site which promised to change the face of the music industry around the world is crumbling under the weight of all the negative press.
This is especially bad news since I've lately been upset about the lack of depth in my music library. With that in mind, I'm going to offer a decent list of some free (or cheap) and legal (or quasi-legal) options for expanding your music options coupled with some pitfalls to avoid, hoping this will generate an open dialogue on alternative ways of legally expanding your exposure to various forms of music:
For many people iTunes is the music software of choice because of its ease of use and compatibility with the most popular mp3 players, the iPod. An open source program known as ourTunes which has faded in and out of existence as Apple constantly modifies its iTunes software, allows you to basically rip music from anyone who is sharing their files on your network and burns the songs you select to your music folders. I'm not positive of the legality of this system, and you should only use it at your own risk. I use it because it allows me to "permanently borrow" music the fiancee has downloaded onto her Gateway and increase the iTunes library on my MacBook.
There is a whole litany of sites like Lala and swapacd, which allow for users to interface with each other and either exchange music online or via snail mail. These systems are usually only as strong as the users who support them, and none of the platforms out there offered the huge library capabilities that Qtrax promised. However, this does provide a secure, generally legal forum for expanding the size of your music library.
Misleading tags that attract huge crawls from search engines like "free ipod downloads" "free songs" "free music" lead you to sites that look semi-professional and have names like "ipoddownloads.net" or "ipodmusicdownloads.info". AVOID THESE SITES! Through ambiguous information in the FAQ and information sessions, these sites try to convince you that if you pay an annual fee you will have access to millions of legal downloads which are compatible with your iPod. In reality, what you will pay for is access to about 4 illegal peer-to-peer sites that you could access for free anyways. These sites will always throw in some kind of "converter" software to help you port the mp3's into Apple iTunes format, but ultimately all of these sites are scamming consumers.
There is a great used music store downtown where I live that buys and sells used CDs/DVDs and lets you listen to entire albums by popping the CD into one of their several multi-disc players, accompanied with nice headphones and even a stool so you can relax. If your city doesn't have a great store like this, turn to my personal favorite Amazon or eBay to buy music at ridiculously cheap prices from users looking to unload CDs cluttering their closets. Of course, Amazon also offers downloads for a fee, but who wants that?
These are just a few of the options (and non-options) I've explored to expand my music library. But I want to know: What works for you?
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A much better and cheaper alternative is yahoo music or equivalent. I listen to music all the time and I love it. Almost no commercials (15 second one every 5 or 10 songs. I can skip songs rate songs etc and best part is it's all free.
Let me recommend MP3Sparks (formerly AllofMP3). It's a site that the RIAA really hates: it operates in Russia and is legal by Russian law; the RIAA claims it's not legal...I don't want to get into the whole issue, so let's call it 'quasi-legal'.
I've used their service for a couple years, and I love it. It's not perfect, but it's the cheapest alternative for DRM-free music that's legal (I don't like stealing my music).
BitTorrent FTW! Sites like thepiratebay.org are hosted outside the United States and are legal in their home countries. You can download their music, movies and TV shows with a program called BitTorrent (I'm sure there are others, this is simply the one I use). Files are spread out, bit by bit, over many different computers and servers, so that no one user illegally shares any files with anyone. And it's completely free.
intitle:"index.of" "name.of.song" (mp3|wav|m4a)
so yeah. type exactly that into your google search bar, and you'll have some luck. use periods between words for best results
My county library system has tons of Cd's, and an inter-library loan system. So I go online and request a CD I want (the most recent being a Springsteen box-set and Spoon) and have it at my local library within a couple days, play it in iTunes and Voila!
Legally sketchy, but no more than some other options above.
Pandora is Free and Legal. Granted you can't actually download the music or rewind but, it's tunes.
I leave it going all day at work.
If you're not looking for big-label stuff, try emusic. It works as a subscription for a certain number of downloaded tracks per month, and no DRM.
Ruckus! If you have a .edu email address you can sign up for ruckus, it offers free legal music the same way QTrax wants to, but is available now! It might be wrapped in DRM but a quick search of fairuse4wm on piratebay or the like will take care of that problem for you. Just gotta have or be able to get a .edu address...
Ruckus! If you have a .edu email address you can sign up for ruckus, it offers free legal music the same way QTrax wants to, but is available now! It might be wrapped in DRM but a quick search of fairuse4wm on piratebay or the like will take care of that problem for you. Just gotta have or be able to get a .edu address...
Alot of people on campus use ruckus and rave about its fantastic features. You can download full albums and even burn them onto CD legally.
I've been using emusic for a couple of years, and have grown to really like it. Yes, they don't have the big-name labels. You know what? Mostly, I don't miss them. I'm having a great time mining the fringes, and I'm finding music that speaks to me, that is just as good or better than the stuff on the big labels. I've got to work a little harder at finding it, and sometimes you really can't tell whether you're going to like someone from 30 second samples (which emusic provides for free), but at something like $15 for 80 downloads a month (YMMV, I've got a "legacy" rate), I can afford a few clunkers.
What's been really fun, and which has happened to me several times, is to discover someone on emusic, and then to have them show up on the radio months later. Makes me feel like I'm on the cutting edge!
I request all of my music from the library. Our library has an amazing music selection and we can even reserve the music online. Better yet, our library even lets you check out iPods to borrow with audio books already loaded for you on them. Fabulous resource for the frugal-minded.
Otherwise, I love Yahoo's Launch music station or Pandora. I just love to have music on in the background at our house all of the time and this is perfect. You can't rewind or anything like that, but it is great to have for dinner music or to play while the children are playing.
I've been using emusic, and also downloading and donating. The D+D option is good - you give the artist $5 or $10, and download what they offer. A lot of artists are allowing legal downloads these days.
I think the "future" is going to be pay-to-download that's not DRM'd. I don't mind paying $5 for several downloads as an 'album' if I've already sampled a few of the artist's songs and know what I'm getting.
I ALWAYS go to my local store to get my music. It puts money in the local stores ( better for the economy then buying from a conglomerate ) I am free from DRM, used cd's start at $6 ( i usually buy used anyways ) and best of all they can usually get any cd I ask for. So what if I wait a few days. I can pay 14 for a new cd, and turn in back in a couple of days later for some more cd's.


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There Is a Time for Everything
- Cliff Young Crosswalk.com Contributing Writer
- 2011 1 Nov
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace (Ecclesiastes 3:1-9).
One of my earliest Bible verse memorizations came before I knew what a relationship with Jesus was all about. It did not come as a result of a youth leader, Vacation Bible School, or a local missionary, but rather through the "audible osmosis" of an old pop song.
For those of you who aren't aware of a time when there were only black and white televisions, telephones with cords, non-electric typing devices without screens and vinyl music, you probably haven't heard of the group The Byrds, or their song "Turn Turn Turn."
However, it was not only the catalyst for me to memorize Scripture, but also imparted some important life lessons I still carry with me today.
Sans a few words, the lyrics to the song are almost verbatim from the third book of Ecclesiastes of which King Solomon, in his great wisdom, has been credited to have been the author. He speaks of our time on earth in terms of polar opposites—"a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build. . . ."
Although we may fully appreciate and accept there is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven, many of us still struggle with believing it after so many years of waiting.
What if this season never changes? Will my future look just as it does today? Will there ever be a season of health, a period of financial stability, a chance to have a family or a time to dance?
Life is a continual series of ebbs and flow, while some seasons seem to last too long, others seem to fly by way too quickly, and many we just don't understand. Regardless, we are told to live each day for the Lord and as unto the Lord.
I urge you . . . live a life that measures up to the standard God set when he called you (Ephesians 4:1).
I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord (1 Corinthians 7:35).
As a "college graduate," I found myself loading cement blocks onto scaffolding, on my knees under a house digging a basement out by hand, spending eighty hours a week at work, cleaning bucketsful of rusty bolts, and unemployed a number of times.
All the while, I have been single, lived in five different states and worked three distinct career paths.
Don't think for a moment I haven't asked myself, "How did I end up here?", "What did I do to deserve this?" or "Is this ever going to end?" a number of times along the way.
However, in those tough and sometimes trying times, while truly believing those seasons would someday change, one verse continued to resonate in my mind in all I did.
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men (Colossians 3:23).
While it is often easier to focus on and complain about the negative aspects of our life, what we seem to be "missing," or what people "did" to us or made us do, maybe it's time to accept our situation in a different manner.
We can choose to perceive and believe our circumstances as a seasonal condition, one that will lead us to bigger and better things in God's own way and time.
When Pharaoh finally let the people go, God did not lead them along the main road that runs through Philistine territory, even though that was the shortest route to the Promised Land. God said, "If the people are faced with a battle they might change their minds and return to Egypt." So God led them in a roundabout way through the wilderness toward the Red Sea. Thus the Israelites left Egypt like an army ready for battle (Exodus 13:17-18).
Maybe his ways are telling us it is:
· A time for us to be reborn and a time to die to ourselves.
· A time to uproot our unresolved past and plant something new in its place.
· A time to kill certain behaviors and begin our healing process.
· A time to tear down strongholds in our life and build up our walls of protection.
· A time to seek occasions to laugh instead of finding reasons to weep.
· A time to mourn those we have lost and dance with the memories we have shared.
In my everyday struggles, I work to receive them as a lesson, a blessing or a change of season.
When I lost my job recently, instead of feeling angst or bitterness, I was thankful for that opportunity, the changes it caused me to make personally and sought the next season in my career. I have since found a new passion that could have only happened had I fully accepted my dismissal and embraced the unknown, as working for the Lord.
How have I reached this point?
I don't take myself too seriously, I try not to worry (or sweat) about the small stuff, I don't always have to be right or get "my way," I don't hang onto anything too tightly, I let God be God, I try to keep an eternal purpose and perspective in mind, and I remind myself every season will pass—enjoy it or embrace it.
There is a time for everything. Make this the time of your life.
Cliff Young is a contributing writer to Sandlot Stories (ARose Books), as well as the monthly column, "He Said-She Said," in Crosswalk.com's Singles Channel. An architect and former youth worker, he now works with Christian musicians and consults for a number of Christian ministries. Got feedback? Send your comments and questions to email@example.com.


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It takes a village to raise a child, it takes a Community to raise an engineer.
Over the last few years, more and more of us are using social media. And by "social media" I'm not just talking about email lists, support forums whether vendor supported or not (though they are important as well). No, I'm talking about Twitter, Facebook, Skype, FaceTime and all other forms of instant(ok semi-instant) communication.
This growing trend, from my perspective, has helped us grow more as engineers than anything else I've encountered in the 18 or so years I've been repairing/installing/designing systems.
In the beginning we all have a mentor. Someone that we are assigned to work with to help get us up to speed. Once you reach a certain level of competence you are thrust out into the big bad network to keep things moving smoothly. Of course you still have your co-workers you can rely on when you need help. But what happens when you encounter a problem they haven't seen before? You can reach out to the vendors tech support group of course, but sometimes that can take days to get an answer from. I'm not bashing tech support, I spent the better part of five years doing it. But understand that tech support gets tons of calls, and you can only be so productive.
So what do you do? What should you do?
Why, reach out to the social media channels! Tweet out your question or issue! You would be really surprised by who will reply to your issue and how fast a response you can get. I've seen engineers in the US work with engineers in the UK, Australia, Germany (you get the picture?) to resolve issues. If someone doesn't know an answer, they can retweet it to their followers as well:
We have study groups that run across social media, shooting out questions and scenarios they have in their books, and getting responses and explanations from other studiers or people that already have that certification. Being able to reach out to the people that create the materials, like Joe Onisick and Ron Fuller.
From Denise "Fish" Fishburne
In 2001 I tripped into what seemed to be the perfect job for me. I learn, I teach, I help people, and I get to play detective. Had anyone heard of "Denise Fishburne" (aka "Fish") before 2013? Not really. Did I care? 🙂 Not really. It's hard to care about not being "known" when you are a lab rat having tons of fun with great co-workers.
Social Media
In 2011 a friend of mine setup introductions with Network World. I submitted 2 sample blog posts and they picked me up. Network World suggested I sign up on this "Twitter" thing. Like many people who aren't on twitter I had my own notions and ideas of what it was and I hadn't voluntarily joined it. But I signed up. Didn't do much with it. Just signed up.
In the spring of 2013 I started playing more with this "twitter thing" prior to CiscoLive. I still remember Jeremy Filliben coming up to me at CiscoLive in 2013 and saying "hi" as if he already knew me. He was my first "in real life" twitter connection.
**January, 2014** – yup… That's when it all happened. John Spade had asked me on twitter to do a "Cisco Helpout – Women in Network Engineering" podcast. I said yes. Amy Lewis @commsninja was also on the show. Soon after I become a Cisco Champion. Then?
CiscoLive 2014
Met awesome and incredible other Cisco Champions
Hung out at the Social Lounge with the fabulous "tweet-up" gang
Went to my first customer appreciation party ever
Had a lot of fun playing with others with sparkly bats, bacon, tiaras, and masks
Got lots of hugs
After CiscoLive 2014? I have now moved over to writing for PacketPushers and Networking Computing. Admittedly I still pinch myself about Packet Pushers.
I'm your basic lab rat. I like playing in the lab. I come out of the lab about once a year for CiscoLive. Not really the type of job that screams "name recognition OUTSIDE of Cisco comes with this job". The name recognition outside of Cisco truly has its root in social media. Social media allows me the best of 2 worlds: the lab rat job I love and the interaction outside of Cisco with awesome incredible people I would not have otherwise met.
Dennis Smith
I'd say being active in social & community help me move from Dell to EMC. Never hurts when ppl know who you are before you apply.
Jeremiah Dooley
It's fair to say that Social and Community have been at the center of every professional opportunity I've had since 2010.
I was a Director at a regional service provider in February of 2010 when I initiated the first SP POC for the then new Vblock, long before there were "Acadia" or "VCE" organizations to support it. EMC drove it, with most of the original group of vSpecialists jumping in to assist. Needless to say, there were…issues. I got frustrated, and shared with Chuck Hollis one of the internal e-mails I had sent to my management, and his suggestion was that there were lots of people who would appreciate me sharing my experience publicly. He asked if I'd ever thought of standing up a blog.
From there, things snowballed. My sharing with the community led to relationships, that led to me being hired by Acadia/VCE, that led to me moving into a very visible position with the company. I've gotten to travel the world multiple times over, I've gotten to work with some of the best and brightest individuals and companies. I've been rescued when I needed it, and able to rescue others when they needed it. I've found incredible people who I want to learn from, learned to treasure mentoring and helping new people in the community and had fun creating new ways to give back. Being in the right place helps, but it was the community and my willingness to engage them directly that made those things happen. No one is an island in this industry. No one.
The community is the gateway to knowledge. It's the gateway to resources. It's the gateway to people and access to technology. Social is how the community interacts. You can't separate the two, and without them my life would be very different, and my horizons and aspirations would be much smaller.


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Seeing Stars: Where the Stars Shop
4th Street & Broadway,
Santa Monica, CA. / (310) 394-5451
If you haven't been to the Santa Monica Place mall in the last few years, you're in for a surprise.
The original enclosed mall, which was featured in several Hollywood movies, was mostly demolished in 2008, as part of a major
$265 million renovation.
In 2010,
Santa Monica Place reopened as an open-air shopping venue, with a much
sleeker, more
sophisticated appearance. The center now opens directly into the adjacent Third Street
Likewise the mall's selection of stores and
restaurants has also been upgraded. Anchor stores are now
Bloomingdale's and Nordstrom, and notable shops include Louis
Vuitton, Tiffany, Kitson, Kenneth Cole and Hugo Boss.
There's also a new
third-level Dining Deck.
Besides an ocean view, it features a number of white tablecloth
restaurants, as well as "The Market" - a sort of high-tech artisan food
court, offering everything from baked goods to imported cheeses.
Santa Monica (for the uninitiated) boasts the main beach serving upscale West Los Angeles, so as you might expect, the city gets its fair share of Hollywood luminaries .
Stars who have made their home in the city include Jessica Alba,
Elijah Wood, Christian Bale,
Harrison Ford, Jack Nicholson, Owen Wilson,
Mel Brooks, Carson Daly, Jeff Bridges, Jane Fonda, Jamie Lee Curtis,
Donald Sutherland, Marg Helgenberger,
Ted Danson and Tom Selleck.
Dozens more live just beyond its borders in Malibu, Pacific Palisades and Brentwood. So it's not surprising that they would turn up here.
Celebs spotted soon after
the new mall opened include Owen Wilson, David Beckam, Sofia Vergara, Paris Hilton,
Jamie Lee Curtis, Tori Spelling, chef Gordon Ramsay,
Giuliana & Bill Rancic, and NBA star Kris Humphries.
Actress/pop star Selena Gomez performed a free concert at the mall, in June 2010.
You can see the video of her Santa Monica Place performance right here:
It was designed
by renowned architect, Frank Gehry, who later created
Disney Hall (although the old mall had none of the flair of that landmark building).
As seen in the screencap to the left, the old mall's north entrance was featured in the 1982 smash hit "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." It played the Ridgemont Mall in the movie. (But only for the exterior shots. The film's interior scenes were filmed inside the now-defunct food court at the Sherman Oaks Galleria.)
The mall also
appeared in the TV series "Beverly Hills 90210".
(Trying to remember what the interior of the old mall looked like? Here's a photo to remind you.)
But that is history - and so is the original mall.
Today, the roof is gone, the sunshine is streaming in, and this part of Santa Monica is looking a lot brighter.
The Santa Monica Place mall is located near the shore, between Broadway
Street (on the northwest), Colorado Boulevard (on the southeast), 4th Street
(on the northeast), and 2nd Street (on the southwest). It's just west of
Lincoln Boulevard, within walking distance of the Santa Monica Pier, at
the south end of the Third Street Promenade. / From the Santa Monica
(10) Freeway west, take the 4th Street exit. Go north on 4th Street
one block to Broadway. The mall will be on your left (west) side.
more information, you can access the mall's official website at:
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The nearly $1 billion Constitution Pipeline project, which had been designed to take natural gas from Pennsylvania's shale gas fields to metropolitan New York and New England, has been abandoned after years of legal regulatory challenges made it economically unfeasible, a spokeswoman for project partner Duke Energy said Monday.
"Although Constitution did receive positive outcomes in recent court proceedings and permit applications, the economics associated with this greenfield project have since changed in such a way that they no longer justify investment," Duke spokeswoman Tammie McGee said by email.
Duke is one of four project partners. The principal partner is The Williams Cos., based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Others are Houston-based Cabot Oil and Gas and Calgary, Alberta-based Alta Gas.
Williams, which has a 41% stake, said in its annual report last week that the Constitution project would suffer a 2019 loss of $354 million.
Since it was proposed in 2013 at a projected cost under $700 million, delays and legal challenges have driven the costs up by nearly 40%. After the project won Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval in 2014, New York regulators refused to issue critical water quality permits, citing concerns about danger to wetlands and stream crossings.
"This pipeline would have carried fracked natural gas across 251 water bodies, including 89 trout spawning streams, and through many unique and sensitive ecological areas such as old-growth forest and undisturbed springs, which provide vital habitat and are key to local ecosystems," Richard Webster, director of legal programs for the environmental group Riverkeeper, said in a statement. Riverkeeper and other environmental groups have fought the project in courts.
"Constitution's investors just confirmed what we have been saying for the past eight years — there is no need for this project," said Anne Marie Garti, an environmental attorney and founding member of Stop the Pipeline. Landowners will now seek to reverse the eminent domain that the regulatory commission had imposed to take property for the pipeline, Garti said.
"At this critical moment for our climate, we cannot afford unnecessary fossil fuel projects that will lead to more fracking and exacerbate our climate crisis," Earthjustice lawyer Moneen Nasmith said in a written statement.
The Williams Cos. said in a statement that its existing pipeline network and planned expansions offer a much better investment return than new projects like Constitution that are impacted by an uncertain regulatory framework.
"Natural gas remains a critical part of our country's clean energy future, and Williams is well-positioned to take advantage of the growing demand for natural gas as a reliable, low cost and clean alternative for power generation fuel, heating oil and diesel," the pipeline giant said.
Environmental activists continue to fight another nearly $1 billion Williams project, the Northeast Supply Enhancement Project, which would extend an existing pipeline to carry natural gas from Pennsylvania through New Jersey to New York City and Long Island. New York and New Jersey regulators have previously denied permits but allowed Williams to reapply.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators on Thursday strictly limited who can receive Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine due to a rare but serious risk of blood clots.
The Food and Drug Administration said the shot should only be given to adults who cannot receive a different vaccine or specifically request J&J's vaccine. U.S. authorities for months have recommended that Americans starting their COVID-19 vaccinations use the Pfizer or Moderna shots instead.
FDA officials said in a statement that they decided to restrict J&J's vaccine after taking another look at data on the risk of life-threatening blood clots within two week of vaccination.
The decision is the latest restriction to hit J&J's one-dose vaccine, which has long been overshadowed by the more effective two shots from Pfizer and Moderna.
In December, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended prioritizing the Moderna and Pfizer shots over J&J's because of its safety issues. Previously U.S. officials had treated all three vaccines similarly because they'd each been shown to offer strong protection.
But follow-up studies have consistently shown lower effectiveness for J&J's vaccine. And while the blood clots seen with J&J's shot are rare, officials say they're still occurring.
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Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission finalized the Order settling charges that The Dannon Company, Inc. exaggerated the health benefits of its Activia yogurt and DanActive dairy drink, two popular products that contain beneficial bacteria known as probiotics.
Under the proposed administrative settlement announced in December, Dannon agreed to stop claiming that Activia relieves temporary irregularity, unless the representation is non-misleading and the ad conveys that eating three servings a day is required to obtain the benefit, or unless Dannon has competent and reliable scientific evidence that the benefit can be achieved from eating less than three servings a day.
Dannon also agreed to stop claiming that DanActive or any yogurt, dairy drink, or probiotic food helps people avoid catching colds or the flu, unless the claim is approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Although companies usually do not need FDA approval of their health claims to comply with the FTC Act, the FTC determined in this case that requiring such approval will give Dannon clearer guidance going forward and help ensure that the company complies with the order.
The Commission vote approving the final Order was 5-0. (FTC File No. 082-3158; the staff contact is Shira Modell, Bureau of Consumer Protection, 202-326-3116.)Copies of the documents mentioned in this release are available from the FTC's website at http://www.ftc.gov and from the FTC's Consumer Response Center, Room 130, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20580. Call toll-free: 1-877-FTC-HELP.
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Holiday Gifts
Just when it looked like the last gifts have already arrived, comes the new ASTRONOMY magazine! The cover says it all:
"WHAT IF STRING THEORY IS WRONG? If it is, then dark matter, dark energy and cosmic inflation are in big trouble"
"The standard model has absolutely no place in it for dark matter and dark energy, ingredients that constitute 96% of the universe's gravitating stuff. And it gets worse."
"Inflation, a super-fast expansion of the universe when it was less than a trillionth of a trillionth of a second old, explains observations of the CMB made by satellites such as NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP). But it can't account for the small-scale structure that led to galaxy formation."
"In the 1980's, when Alan Guth at Massachusets Institute of Technology and Andre Linde at Moscow University first developed the inflation idea, it had nothing to do with string theory, extra dimensions, or supersymnetry. Since then, refinements to inflation scenarios have come only by borrowing ideas from superstring theory."
Dan Hooper, now at Fermilab, has just published his first book in hardcover: DARK COSMOS: In Search of Our Universe's Missing Mass and Energy." He devotes a whole chapter to skeptics of "dark energy." How many of you identify with his words?
"Before arriving at Oxford in 2003, I had never given the evidence for dark energy much thought. The scientific community had largely endorsed the conclusion that we live in a Universe dominated by dark energy, and I, a new researcher who had earned his PhD a mere few months earlier, didn't see much reason to doubt that they were right. While at Oxford, however, I met and became a friend and collaborator of a physicist named Subir Sarkar. Along with being a thoroughly detailed and rigorous particle physicist and cosmologist, Subir is also a dark energy skeptic.
"As the evidence for dark energy accumulated, it did not take long for something of a consensus to be reached by the cosmological community. Subir was one of the cosmologists who paused long enough to ask what assumptions this conclusion was based on. Further, he wondered whether other reasonable assumptions could be adopted that would not lead to a conclusion that dark energy exists. Subir assesssed the evidence for dark energy in much greater detail than most other cosmologists had. In the end, Subir wasn't entirely convinced that dark energy exists."
Bee of Backreaction expresses doubt about standard interpretations of the Cosmic Microwave Background. After the taxpayers entrusted them with an expensive spacecraft, the WMAP team sat on the data for YEARS while they massaged their own interpretation. Their data release was, as Roger Penrose has said, "analysed from the perspective of some fashionable theory." Now that the data is finally available, other researchers have found many anisotropies that the WMAP team missed. Glenn Starkman has found many odd alignments. Kate Land and Joao Maguiejo have also found an "Axis of Evil," suggesting that CMB features are local. Bee has links to their papers.
In the past 6 months this blog has garnered enormous attention. The GM = tc^3 Theory has gained even more supporters worldwide. Well-meaning people have also said "you don't have a theory," it's like watching a car crash, and "it's sad seeing someone who is clearly intelligent, creative, and passionate about science wasting their talents in such a misdirected way." Everyone's concern is appreciated. The status of repulsive energy shows which boats are rising and which are sinking.


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Last weeks session titled The Next Digital Experience at the World Economic Forum in Davos is recommended viewing. The panel was chaired by Michael Arrington from TechCrunch and made up of Hamid Akhavan from T-Mobile, Eric K. Clemons from Wharton, Chad Hurley from YouTube, Craig Mundie from Microsoft, Shantanu Narayen from Adobe and Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook. Discussions cover how mobility, social networks, privacy and platforms are co-evolving in a Meta Age. Runtime is just over one hour.
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The Future of Business
With global consensus finally reached on 2009 being a year of recession people are starting to seek answers on how to shorten its duration. Innovation is the topic du jour around the world with technological innovation coming top of the agenda. Business leaders are starting to speak nationally about how to turn recessionary challenges into opportunities. Rupert Murdoch encourages his fellow Australian's to embrace technology in the second of five Boyer lectures on ABC tonight.
Eric Schmidt shared his views about the future of business in this 6 part video interview with James Manyika. Part one covers the coming remote control for life, cloud computing and network effects. Part two covers the Power Law and how you need both the "head and tail" in a "yes and" rather than "either or" world. Part three covers the freemium business model and how free is better than cheap.
Part four covers the wisdom of the crowds and how new models of governance are needed to foster open and transparent communications both internally and externally. Part five covers the nature of innovation, simplexity and shared value cultures. Part six covers strategic platforms and the evolution of global standards.
Each of the above are recommended viewing in full – runtime is 18 minutes with lots of food for thought. Great to see Ian Davis and his team at McKinsey starting to make their material more publically accessible. Heres hoping many of his peers and the organisations they advise start to follow suit. After all knowledge is a never ending conversation.


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Preparing for Janmashtami celebrations in India
Indian participants await the dahi handi (curd pot) celebrations of "Janmashtami", which mark the birth of Lord Krishna. India's top court on August 17 banned children from taking part in a popular but potentially dangerous religious festival in the country's west that sees young boys scale human pyramids. The Supreme Court barred children aged under 18 from scaling the pyramids and restricted their height to 20 feet following a string of accidents in recent years.


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McRaven: Special Operations More Than Just Combat
By Claudette Roulo
American Forces Press Service
ASPEN, Colo., July 26, 2012 – The nation expects special operations forces to be successful every time they are called upon, but they're not wholly about combat, the commander of U.S. Special Operations Command said here yesterday during a discussion moderated by CNN's Wolf Blitzer at the Aspen Institute's annual security forum.
"We get a lot of notoriety for the raids, for the rescue operations, and frankly we're very proud of that," Navy Adm. William H. McRaven said. "But the fact of the matter is that's a small portion of what we do."
The discussion, titled "At the Point of the Spear: The Role of Special Operations Forces in America's Post-9/11, Post-Iraq/Afghanistan Defense Strategy," opened the annual three-day forum. Topics ranged from the raid that killed Osama bin Laden to what made McRaven decide to become a Navy SEAL.
McRaven said special operations forces are deployed to 79 countries, and the majority of those deployments are for partner capacity-building, not for combat missions.
"We're trying to teach other nations how to deal with their own problems so they don't grow violent extremists," he said. "We're building wells in places. We're doing civil affairs operations. … There is a whole spectrum of things that special operations do that rarely get the press's attention because it's not 'sexy.'"
Some nations have not followed the extremist route because special operations forces have been working there for decades, McRaven said.
The admiral also presented his views on a variety of topics that came up during the wide-ranging discussion:
-- Pulling together defense and civilian agencies to make the bin Laden raid happen was easy, he said, because the interagency team has been built steadily over the last decade. "I've got to tell you, today it hums," he added.
-- "At the end of the day, all we care about is whether you carry your rucksack and you do your job," he said when the discussion turned to gays in the military.
-- On the Arab Spring: "What I know is democracy is hard," he said. "I've watched it as we've tried to build democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan. … It took us a long time as a nation to build a strong democracy, and it will probably take them some time."
-- On Afghanistan's forces: "When you spend time with the guys that we spend time with, you realize they are just as patriotic, just as committed, just as tough, just as courageous as the American soldier that's partnered with them," McRaven said. "For the folks that we work with, I don't think trust has ever been an issue."
-- Women have proven to be up to the task of serving in the nation's special operations forces, the admiral said. "We have a lot of females who serve in special operations," he noted. "They do a fantastic job across the board. … We couldn't do the job without them."
-- McRaven credited a Green Beret soldier with helping him decide to become a SEAL. "This young Army captain came to meet my sister for a date," he said. "My sister, as usual, was late, so I had an opportunity to talk to him for a little while. … He said, 'If you're going to go in the Navy, you ought to be a Navy SEAL.'"
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Everybody start freaking out. New research from Facebook and Cornell University implies that not only can the social network figure out who your boyfriend is — even if it isn't "Facebook official" — but it can also predict when he's going to dump you.
According to the study of 1.3 million Facebook users who listed they were in a relationship — called "A Network Analysis of Relationship Status on Facebook" — researchers could most accurately predict couples based on not how many friends they had in common, but what kind of friends they had in common.
That means that people who were friends with a wide array of high school, college, work, [insert weird activity here] acquaintances of their significant others were likely to still be in a relationship 60 days later. That shouldn't be too surprising considering that good friendship dispersion indicates that a couple is building an integrated life together. If there wasn't satisfactory overlap … well there's always Tinder.


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This is a summary post of the topics I have been writing about during 2011. This has been an amazing year of social networks for me. I have learned a lot from hundreds of people around the globe. I highly value the network of the brilliant, talented, and trustworthy people I have the pleasure to collaborate with.
Thank you all for 2011, you know who you are!
As more social business environment and the new ways of working are changing the organizations and reforming the entire business landscape – I'll find it important and very interesting to study how we create and innovate, make decisions, and further how better mutual understanding can be created. We all know that the existing organizational structures needs a refresh, and that we, knowledge workers, should be passionate about helping our organizations to be more open, learning organizations.
One among many answers to this challenge is to focus on recognizing the value of 'discovering' people in your global network and further interacting and connecting with them on new levels. Naturally, different cultures and communication styles can then collide, softly or sometimes violently. Let me share a story about the Finnish way.
The Finnish Habit of Positive Silence
We Finns can easily be silent in company with other people. It's natural to us. Before the social media we used to love text messages, a Finnish innovation by the way, as you could express yourself shortly and efficiently. Foreigners find our momentarily silence odd – or fascinating. Professor of Communication Donal Carbaugh, from University of Massachusetts at Amherst, have written an excellent paper about this – Silence and Quietude as a Finnish"Natural Way of Being" [pdf], with the following description:
"A Finnish communication code that structures some cultural scenes as occasions for positive silence, exhibiting a social model of personhood for which this is a valued, respected, and natural practice."
Another expression on this topic is this short article of the Helsinki Times – No small talk please, we're Finnish, in which freelance journalist Susan Fourtané describes her experiences:
"I particularly enjoyed the thoughtfulness and the moments of silence in between, giving space for observing our own thoughts before speaking. Yes, you have heard it right. Finns don't do small talk. They don't think a moment of shared silence is awkward. On the contrary, it is part of the conversation. A direct question gets a direct answer. There is no nonsense talk about nothing. There is no asking "How are you?" ten times until someone says something else, or stating the obvious. Finns are more interested in how you think, how you perceive Finland or what keeps you in this small and cold country, as they refer to beautiful and peaceful Finland."
We Finns definitely do have lots to learn about the more social and collaborative way of work, but I think we also have something valuable to share with our fellow citizens from other cultures and nations. The habit of small talk is a part of Anglo-American cultural sphere, and please note that I am not saying that there is something wrong with it. Our different habit, the positive silence, is as strange for foreigners as the excessive small talk is to many of us. All in all, what is needed is openness and curiosity in front of the different communication habits.
My interpretation of Professor Carbaugh's great notion of positive silence is: we are taking time for thinking and reflecting. It is basically about respect towards your discussion partner. I do believe that occasionally 'shutting up our mouths' enables better listening, which in the best case this can lead to better understanding. Naturally, being too silent (also typical here) or silent in the wrong situations is nothing to recommend.
The Wrong Kind of Silence
Nilofer Merchant has marvelously described the wrong kind of silence. She tells a story when she was working at Apple: when she saw the problem clearly and others didn't, she didn't think she had the right or the capabilities to speak out – she was too worried about being wrong. This kind of 'wrong' silence is hurting the outcome, she continues, and emphasizes the importance of thinking together:
"…minority viewpoints have been proven to aid the quality of decision making in juries, by teams and for the purpose of innovation. Research proves then even when the different points of view are wrong, they cause people to think better, to create more solutions and to improve the creativity of problem solving."
She calls after courage to speak and to take risks. "Enthusiasm, naïveté, fear of repercussions, conformity to the group norms, and even wisdom are all things that can influence whether someone speaks up or not."
Her thinking inspires me to researching this topic of encouragement, listening, and mutual respect for better outcome and understanding.
The Culture of Curiosity, Listening and Respect
As an entrepreneur I highly value discussions where there are no pre-set 'rights and wrongs', where openness and curiosity are self-evident, and where mutual respect gives room for different kinds of thinking and thoughts. If ever now we need this kind of approach. And if in any organization it is in a startup or growth company that this is vital. There must be a place for expressing our ideas freely and also to take the time for reflection.
I truly believe that creativity, innovation, and better decision-making, both in startups and in established organizations, require at least some investments in these three capabilities:
- Applying so-called Systems Intelligence,
- Recognition of the value and importance of Serendipity (the weak links and the edges),
- Recognition of the value and importance Listening.
Luckily many of these are a natural part of the startup DNA. A startup company benefits from an open and cooperative style; we need use both sides of our brains and become better listeners. Let me explain.
Firstly, the Systems Intelligence Theory by Finnish Philosopher and Professor Esa Saarinen and his fellow researchers describe the two 'thinking systems' we all have: System 1 thinking as automatic, associative, and intuitive. System 2 thinking is dominating in the work places: you better be strictly rational. In every day work situations the System 2 thinking is active and often unintentionally blocking System 1 thinking – and therefore narrowing the possibilities at hands. When both systems are active, there's a room for intuition, interaction and emotions – and for innovation, decision-making, and shared understanding. Being strictly rational in your work role is not working anymore. We need to utilize our full potential.
Secondly, it is important to realize the value of serendipity and of being active 'on the edges', as John Hagel, Lang Davison & John Seely Brown describe in the Power of Pull model. I agree with them that the cloud-enabled new platforms for serendipitous encounters lead to new kind of innovation, decision-making and leadership. We can now easily meet companies and people we did not know existed, curious expedition is needed. We gather around 'social objects' and connect, and build relationships for mutual learning and helping.
The third capability is about the value and importance of listening. I serendipitously bumped into a beautiful TED Talk by Julian Treasure. In his talk Julian presents the filters that we use when listening and through which the reality is created for us: culture, language, values, beliefs, attitudes, expectations, and intentions. He also shares his five tips for better listening. I found the fifth one, his RASA model, beautiful and absolutely something every one of us should apply in our daily life and the decision-making situations. Acronym RASA comes from Receive, Appreciate, Summarise, Ask – these four verbs should be part of our personal decision-making, learning processes, and leadership. Julian says aptly: Conscious listening creates understanding. This is not too far away from the positive silence thinking.
The discussion around topic of listening is not a new one; see this excellent old article published in Harvard Business Review in 1957: Listening to People. The article states that "the effectiveness of the spoken word hinges not so much on how people talk as on how they listen." There are several gold grains in it, as for example "when people talk, they want listeners to understand their ideas." Touche!
Trust-based Collaboration
What it is I mean with all this talk about Finnish traits and the social business? Let me sum it up with three examples, all originated from Finland; Linus Torvalds of Linux Foundation, Mårten Mickos of MySQL/Eucalyptus Cloud, and the newcomer Peter Vesterbacka of Rovio/Angry Birds. I personally experience all three fellow entrepreneurs as great examples of appliers of the communication style and culture that have deep origins in the 'Finnish way'. All of them are successful in their businesses and more or less global citizens, but none of them have entirely thrown away their Finnish roots and foundation.
It's not only about the substance, their wide knowledge, experience, and creativity, but also about their specific networking and collaboration skills which could be described as trust-based collaboration (and I am pretty sure that some positive silence is included). The fruitful network of relationships can be based on acknowledging, helping, and appreciation of the people you meet and work with which in turn create trust between individuals. Linus, Mårten and Peter are mastering is this. And they are passionately curious.
On top of all this we have now the various social communities which are the true leverage points of the cultural transformation, both inside and outside of the organization, between the organizations, individuals, and nationalities. Trust and successes can be built on this.
Happy New Year 2012! Let your year be filled with happiness, health, serendipity, and love!
(Added 2013-01-22) Related reading: An article @ Yle.fi about American academic Michael Berry, author of "That's Not Me": Learning to Cope with Sensitive Cultural Issues.
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Nice post! Nilofer is one of my favorite bloggers and you really curated her perspective well here. I'm now following you in Google Reader. What a great world where someone from Wisconsin, USA can be influenced by a thought leader from Finland! All the best in 2012…
Thank you, Todd! And sorry for the delay in answering, lots of things happening and my poor blog is taking the hit. I'd like to write more 🙂 Thank you once again for your kind words!


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1 And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
2 For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was a hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
3 And it was covered with cedar above over the forty and five beams, that were upon the pillars; fifteen in a row.
4 And there were beams in three rows, and window was over against window in three ranks.
5 And all the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was over against window in three ranks.
6 And he made the porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and a threshold before them.
7 And he made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.
8 And his house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter (whom Solomon had taken to wife), like unto this porch.
9 All these were of costly stones, even of hewn stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside unto the great court.
10 And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
11 And above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.
12 And the great court round about had three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of the house of Jehovah, and the porch of the house.
13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
14 He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
15 For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits compassed either of them about.
16 And he made two capitals of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.
17 There were nets of checker-work, and wreaths of chain-work, for the capitals which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.
18 So he made the pillars; and there were two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars: and so did he for the other capital.
19 And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits.
20 And there were capitals above also upon the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows round about upon the other capital.
21 And he set up the pillars at the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
22 And upon the top of the pillars was lily-work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
23 And he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and the height thereof was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.
24 And under the brim of it round about there were knops which did compass it, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about: the knops were in two rows, cast when it was cast.
25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set upon them above, and all their hinder parts were inward.
26 And it was a handbreadth thick: and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.
27 And he made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges;
29 and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and upon the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.
30 And every base had four brazen wheels, and axles of brass; and the four feet thereof had undersetters: beneath the laver were the undersetters molten, with wreaths at the side of each.
31 And the mouth of it within the capital and above was a cubit: and the mouth thereof was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also upon the mouth of it were gravings, and their panels were foursquare, not round.
32 And the four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axletrees of the wheels were in the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
33 And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their felloes, and their spokes, and their naves, were all molten.
34 And there were four undersetters at the four corners of each base: the undersetters thereof were of the base itself.
35 And in the top of the base was there a round compass half a cubit high; and on the top of the base the stays thereof and the panels thereof were of the same.
36 And on the plates of the stays thereof, and on the panels thereof, he graved cherubim, lions, and palm-trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths round about.
37 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.
38 And he made ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths; and every laver was four cubits; and upon very one of the ten bases one laver.
39 And he set the bases, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.
40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he wrought for king Solomon in the house of Jehovah:
41 the two pillars, and the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;
42 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were upon the pillars;
43 and the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases;
44 and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea;
45 and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in the house of Jehovah, were of burnished brass.
46 In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
47 And Solomon left all the vessels `unweighed', because they were exceeding many: the weight of the brass could not be found out.
48 And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of Jehovah: the golden altar, and the table whereupon the showbread was, of gold;
49 and the candlesticks, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, of pure gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;
50 and the cups, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the firepans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, `to wit', of the temple, of gold.
51 Thus all the work that king Solomon wrought in the house of Jehovah was finished. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, `even' the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of Jehovah.


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Excerpted from Growing Tasty Tropical Plants in Any Home, Anywhere, by Laurelynn G. Martin and Byron E. Martin, with permissions from Storey Publishing (c) 2010. The following excerpt can be found on Pages 118 to 119.To read the main article about growing other tropical wonders, visit Growing Tasty Tropical Herbs.
• Cinnamomum zeylanicum
• sin-uh-MOH-mum zey-LAN-ee-kum
Cinnamon is well known for its culinary uses, yet it is hardly ever grown in ordinary home settings. It's easy to grow, however. As long as the soil is kept slightly dry, a potted cinnamon plant can thrive for years without special care. You can keep the plants as small as 3 feet by pruning regularly, or you can repot them over time into a 12- to 14- inch pot and allow them to reach up to 8 feet tall.
The leathery, rich reddish bronze juvenile growth provides a nice contrast to the dark green mature leaves. (However, mature leaves will remain light green if plants are kept in high light.) Sprays of small white flowers appear in summer. The purplish black berries are inedible; it's the bark that is harvested for its culinary qualities.
Both the stem and bark are highly aromatic, and it's the inner bark that is used as a spice. Even small stems can be scratched to release a rich cinnamon fragrance. True cinnamon is often confused with cassia, also known as Chinese or Vietnamese cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia). Although the latter is more common in the United States as a spice and is often offered for sale as true cinnamon, it's not as aromatic, and it has a stronger, more assertive flavor. True cinnamon (C. zeylanicum) can be grown from seed, vegetative cuttings, or grafts, but it is more difficult to propagate vegetatively than cassia.
On occasion, cinnamon produces seeds, which can be picked and planted. These seeds must be picked when ripe (black in color) and planted right away because seed viability is limited.
Plant Particulars
SIZE AND FORM: 3 to 8 feet depending on pruning and container size; shrub
BLOOM SEASON: Spring to summer
FRUITING SEASON: Grown for its bark
FAMILY: Lauraceae
ORIGIN: Sri Lanka, Madagascar, and southwest India
Growing Conditions
LIGHT: Full to partial sun
SOIL: Well-drained, acidic potting mix (half sphagnum moss and half perlite)
MINIMUM INDOOR TEMPERATURE: 60 degrees
HARDINESS OUTDOORS: Zone 10; protect from frost
FERTILIZING: Moderate feeder; fertilize weekly or biweekly, but only during active growth (late winter until fall).
PRUNING: Prune at any time for harvest or to prevent plants from becoming too tall or wide.
Potential Problems
PESTS: Mealybugs
FOLIAR DISEASE: Not susceptible; leaf edges turn brown if salt (fertilizer) levels get too high
ROOT DISEASE: Susceptible to root rot if not kept on the dry side
Harvesting Cinnamon Sticks
Cinnamon sticks are simply dried bark from a mature cinnamon plant; you can easily harvest your own. Commercial cinnamon is cut into uniform lengths and graded according to thickness, aroma, and appearance. Stems are continually cut back to stimulate new stem growth for harvesting. Some recipes call for mature wood; others call for young whips (stems). We like using the young whips because they are more fragrant and seem to hold their aromatic properties better than the older wood. Try both to see which you prefer.
Harvesting bark from young whips. Cut the whips into 3-inch segments. Score the bark lengthwise from end to end, cutting just deep enough to loosen the bark. Peel off the bark, which will naturally curl. Dry in an open, airy, warm spot such as on a kitchen counter. For a thicker, compact stick, layer the bark pieces inside one another before drying. Once dried, the sticks can be shaved for the spice or used in a mulling mix.
Harvesting outer bark of mature wood. Cut stems into 3-inch segments. Make a lengthwise slice halfway into the stem, but do not go all the way through. The bark will not peel as easily as it does from a younger stem. Instead, scrape out the core and pithy inner lining, then allow the remaining bark to dry completely. You can layer several pieces of bark together to produce a thicker stick called a quill.
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