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|2007-08-22, 17:49
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One thing I don't get and find very questionable. We have seen absolutely nothing of Unohana's combat ability yet she ranks 100, yet her powers have shown her to be more of a defensive type. Did KT already establish from the get go that she was going to be of that level and has been holding on to the "surprise" scene where she pawns three arrancars. Yet if he is holding her info back why has this been released. That is if it is official. It would be pretty amusing if she was the one to make the killing blow on Aizen, after all she was the only one to see through his illusion.
|2007-08-22, 19:52
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YAMAMOTO Genryusai Shigekuni
京紫(Kyo-Murasaki/Kyoto purple): http://www.colordic.org/colorsample/2031.html
Soi Fon
琥珀色(Kohaku-iro/Color of amber): http://www.colordic.org/colorsample/2210.html
ICHIMARU Gin
白殺し=藍白(Shiro-goroshi = Aijiro/White suppress = Indigo-white): http://www.colordic.org/colorsample/2430.html
UNOHANA Retsu
灰桜(haizakura/Ash and Cherry blossoms): http://www.colordic.org/colorsample/2361.html
AIZEN Sosuke
白緑(byakuroku/White-Green): http://www.colordic.org/colorsample/2128.html
KUCHIKI Byakuya
青藍(Seiran/Indigo blue): http://www.colordic.org/colorsample/2063.html
KOMAMURA Sajin
璃寛茶(Rikancha/ARASHI Kichisaburo(Kabuki Actor)'s brown): http://www.colordic.org/colorsample/2151.html
KYORAKU Shunsui
蘇芳色(Suwo-iro/Dark red (color of sappanwood)): http://www.colordic.org/colorsample/2003.html
TOSEN Kaname
枯竹色(Karetake-iro/Color of dead bamboos): http://www.colordic.org/colorsample/3034.html
* im not sure bout this color, but i think #CCCC33 is collected.
HITSUGAYA Toshiro
千歳緑(Chitose-midori/Japanese black pine's green): http://www.colordic.org/colorsample/2113.html
ZARAKI Kenpachi
滅紫(Keshi-murasaki/Subdued purple): http://www.colordic.org/colorsample/2033.html
KUROTSUCHI Mayuri
木賊色(Tokusa-iro/color of scouring rush): http://www.colordic.org/colorsample/2104.html
UKITAKE Jushiro
潤朱(Urumi-shu/lacquered color in dark red): http://www.colordic.org/colorsample/B85C51.html or http://www.colordic.org/colorsample/C34C36.html
* im not sure bout this color, but i think #B85C51 or #C34C36 is collect.
** ex) 潤色(Urumi-iro): http://www.colordic.org/colorsample/2360.html , 朱色(Shu-iro): http://www.colordic.org/colorsample/2326.html
|2007-08-25, 12:58
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WTF! Unohana is that strong? Is this like official? I'm not surprised. I mean, the 4th div has been always been known to be the weakest so i always figured that Kubo wouldn't make Unohana the weakest or near the weakest. An I'm also surprised Soi Fong is as physically strong as she is. But i guess since scrawny Ichigo is super strong, why can't she be. He loves his badass females.
|2007-08-26, 01:29
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this is the sum of the squares of their stats divided by 100
yamamoto: 536
soi fong: 372
gin: 384
unohana: 494
aizen: 526
byakuya: 437
komamura: 405
kyoraku: 473
tosen: 360
hitsugaya: 418
kenpachi: 325
mayuri: 339
ukitake: 427
|2007-08-27, 00:46
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and this is the square root of their sums doubled then divided by a random variable number, followed by the application of Leonhard Euler's infinite solution:
yamamoto: 1
soi fong: 10
gin: 9
unohana: 3
aizen: 2
byakuya: 5
komamura: 8
kyoraku: 4
tosen: 11
hitsugaya: 6
kenpachi: 13
mayuri: 12
ukitake: 6
seriously, if i'm reading that correctly then gin will be perfect after his hougyoku boost. just inflate his numbers evenly and voila, perfection. but then aizen would be better than perfect.... interesting....
i like knowing that unuhona is third. it makes sense for why aizen didn't even blink when komamura attacked and he slapped that 90 on him, whereas he didn't even touch unuhona. he could have attacked her to stop the spreading of her message, but i have a feeling now that he knew her level and realized he would not have an easy time defeating her...
|2007-09-01, 18:55
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You can sort of gauge the level of the captain by how they choose their opponents. Hitsugaya went after Gin and they have about the same levels, while the one who tracked down Aizen was Unohana. I'd like to see Unohana in action. I think we've seen her bankai already. Isn't it a giant ray/whale-looking thing?
|2007-09-02, 18:20
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Aizen and Gin didn't attack her when she discovered them inside the 46's building, for me, thats a kind of proof to her strength because he didn't hesitate to own hitsugaya/komamura and then on the other side choosed to take a leave when Unohana showed up
|2007-09-02, 20:16
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shame to see joshiros power so low though =/ wonder how strong hed b w/o his illness, and wonder how strong yamamoto would b if he was younger...
p.s. go Unohana! ^_^\/
|2007-09-04, 18:49
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|2007-10-12, 08:26
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Those graph are interesting, but they are just giving a small view of the overall capabilities of each captain.
If you have already played some RPG games, and each of you have surely done it dozen of times ^^ , you know monsters/bosses are always stats stronger than your characters. But you own them every times, because you handle your party better than their, especially about weapons and skills.
Let's take Ken-chan as example.
He is brute strength, with 0 INT, so no spell for Pointy.
All he can do is bash everything, and release special attacks (more bashing ).
Based on his stats, his special attack will do 100 damage at least., like any other STR 100 captain.
But, because of his body stats, he has high endurance, and probably high fatigue as special ability.
When a standard captain can fire 10 special attacks before being exhausted, Zaraki can fire far more (100 ? ^^ ) .
In games, having a character who can fight longer at full strength is more efficient (swordsman) than a very destructive character with little endurance (magician).
In Zaraki's case, he is so endurant he is quite difficult to defeat. Because he will rush at you with full force, and even your strongest attack won't stop him.
And even it does, you will be too exhausted to do it again, as Ken-chan will still ask for more.
Not only he will have enough reiatsu to do it again, but his health is still far higher than yours (ex : Ukitake = 4000 HP/5000 Reiatsu Points - Zaraki = 10 000 HP/10 000 RP ) .
Conclusion :
Those stats are interesting but couldn't reflect the true strength of each captain, as they didn't list special abilities, attacks, weapon tricks, weaknesses, overall HP/SP, etc.
Those graphics are just pure fan service.
(and that's why we ask for more )
|2007-10-12, 15:39
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With the high casting time of spells, vs the Espada especially, the power curves are completely different. These rankings would seriously swing the favor towards combat based captains (i.e, especially Zaraki Kenpachi).
As for Zaraki, I don't know what the heck is up with him. He does have ridiculously high spirit energy which contributes to some damage reduction (just like the arrancar). However, he seems to have some kind of crazy regeneration. Have you guys noticed how often Zaraki gets cut, and even what are regular mortal wounds he just stops bleeding after a while. He has some insane regeneration and endurance.
|2007-10-13, 12:55
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Count me among those surprised Unohana is such a bad ass.
Count me not surprised, however, that Zaraki ranks low.
I love the guy, easily my favorite captian, but when you're factoring in things like Spirit Control and Kidou of course guys like Zaraki and even Ichigo are going to score low.
Even ignoring things such as weapons (a category which, uh, Zaraki would probably also not do too well in, considering he doesn't even know the damn thing's name), Zaraki has always been considered an anomaly in Soul Society, a beast who got by pretty much though pure bloodlust and being completely f***in' insane.
Statistics are statistics, but battle isn't a math equation. Mistakes, luck, experience, confidence, even a simple thing as just having a bad day... All of it factors in in a life-or-death kinda way when fighting, and all of it varies from fight to fight.
Not that anyone in Bleach ever actually dies...
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Covert Affairs shakes things up in the new season, which gets under way Tuesday, with a storyline that barely allows Annie and Auggie – Piper Perabo and Christopher Gorham – their long-awaited assignation before casting them into a cauldron of clandestine calamity in Medellin, Colombia. Matt Corman and Chris Ord, the show's creators and executive producers, knew there were risks to satisfying their characters' sexual tension. So why make Annie and Auggie a couple now?
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A Theorycrafting Stumble
EDIT: And the mystery is solved! Huge thanks to Suicidal Zebra for pointing out where I went wrong and how to fix it. I'm going to leave this post here though, as it's a good lesson for other number newbies like me who're trying to figure how this mathematical magic happens.
You number people will love this one.
I promised I'd do some research to find the new spell coefficients for holy paladins. Since the tooltips weren't updated with the paladin hotfix, I was left with the immense pleasure of doing it all by hand. So that's what I did. I stood in Darnassus, hit a dummy to stay in combat and recorded my overheal as I showered myself with heals.
I tested all of our spells, approximately 50 hits per spell and was feeling rather smug about myself. Then I got the idea to retest the spells with a different spell power.
Surprise, surprise, they didn't match up.
The equation: Heal output = Base heal + SP*Coefficient
I used the base values from Wowhead, which, for Holy Light are 2871 to 3197, averaging at 3034.
I made a special blank talent tree to avoid the annoying Conviction talent. I left my retribution glyphs in, but I checked several times to make sure none of them affected healing. Finally, I removed my Ashen Band of Endless Wisdom to avoid the spell power proc. None of the rest of my gear had any procs that affected spell power or healing.
My results with 3427 spell power were the following:
I used the crits as a second sample to compare values. Dividing the crit values by 1.5 produces 6014-6343-6742.
Both samples produced the same coefficients: 0.92 for the minimum value, 0.97 for the average value and 1.0 for the maximum value. While the coefficients don't exactly line up, I took into consideration that the max and min values are extremes and concluded that 0.97 was my Holy Light coefficient.
Just to be safe, though, I retested it a few days later after removing some clothes. At 1968 spell power, I received the following values:
Dividing the crit by 1.5 produced 5533-5797-6040.
I plugged in my coefficient equation and obtained: 1.35 as minimum, 1.4 as the average and 1.44 as the maximum.
Again the crits and hits produced identical coefficients.
Which leaves me with the following theories:
1) I screwed up somewhere (that's where you guys come in handy!)
2) There's diminishing returns to our spell power, at least for Holy Light.
3) The spell power coefficient is now exponential.
4) We received a hotfix between my high spell power and low spell power testing.
I checked #4 by testing Holy Light at full spell power again, this time on the same day as my low spell power test. At 3622 spell power, I received the following:
The crit values, divided by 1.5 are 6111-6358-6579.
The coefficients for this sample are: 0.89 minimum, 0.91 average and 0.93 maximum.
Again, the coefficients for the crits and the hits are almost identical.
These results seem to suggest diminishing returns with spell power, at least for Holy Light: the more spell power we stack, the lower the coefficient.
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8 Comments on "A Theorycrafting Stumble"
October 28, 2010 at 7:46 pm
I am going to give this another crack over the weekend if I get time, probably with flash of light. I came across exactly the same issues you did when trying to figure all this out.
In the end I gave up and just followed your lead with regards the calculation.
This is going to hurt, but the only way is to get multiple sample points to determine what is going on per spell. I DID find that conviction (either 0,3,6 or 9%) buffed the cast as expected, so that was fine as long as you marked down what the stack was when you cast the heal.
October 28, 2010 at 8:24 pm
Right, there's actually a 5th point you need to consider: your base values for Holy Light heals were incorrect.
Ideally you should be constructing two simultaneous equations to solve for your two unknowns – base spell heal value and coeff – assuming that the scaling is linear. I.e.
(Re-calculate the values from the data you gathered on the second day you tested)
When you've derived a new BASE and COEFF, generate a third set of data to test this new equation, plugging in new Spell Powers and Average Heal values.
I'll let you give it another go without me potentially biasing your results by mentioning my own.


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A post by Guest Blogger, Heather Tranen
Associate Director, Global Communications & Strategic Outreach, NYU Wasserman Center for Career Development
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What do President Obama, Spike Lee, Macy's College Recruiting, and Italy have in common? They were all an integral part of NYU Wasserman Center's NACE Innovation Excellence Award-winning#iamlimitless global social media student engagement campaign (don't try saying that ten times fast).
We were all excited about our big win at the awards ceremony, but I was still nervous about people actually showing up to the presentation the following day. I figured maybe 30 people would show up – half of which would hail from our own institution. When the room filled up and people were lined up outside of the door, I thought maybe everyone would leave once they realized Justin Bieber wasn't performing.
A few awkward jokes and flubbed video showing later, the crowd still remained to hear myself and Sneh share NYU's #iamlimitless campaign. No pressure, right?
Nerves aside, it was incredibly exciting to see so many people interested in what our campaign offered students and other constituents. This blog post serves to provide an overview of the campaign and share the resources and best practices you can adopt to create a campaign of your own.
What is #iamlimitless?
Sneh asked the audience.
"I am limitless. Say it out loud. It Feels good, right?"
And it does. #iamlimitless empowers students to tell their career story to their peers through the powerful tool of social media.
Through the #iamlimitless campaign, the Wasserman Center saw a drastic increase in student and employer engagement. Our previous, primarily email and print-centric campaigns left a large portion of the Gen Y student population disconnected from career events and services relevant to their needs. The #iamlimitless campaign bridged the communication gap through a targeted, incentive based initiative. The campaign brought to life the Wasserman's "limitless" opportunities motto, encouraged students across the globe to tell their global career stories, and morphed the intimidating notion of career development into a friendly, accessible entity. Additionally, the campaign served as a brand building opportunity for employers and local businesses. Organizations ranging from Macy's to small cafes in the Greenwich Village area sponsored our raffle prizes. At the end of each week of the fall semester, those who used #iamlimitless to share their career stories across social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram were entered into a raffle and winners were announced via Twitter and Facebook.
Why Social Media?
There are so many platforms out there, and our students are all over them. To this generation, it's almost as if things don't actually happen unless they are filming, photographing, tweeting or status updating it. Gen Y overshares and hyperconsumes content in the online space.
"They take technology for granted. They live through social media. They want the world their way, and they want it now." – Forbs on Gen Y
As professionals we need to navigate our communication strategies to both speak their language, and teach them the language of the professional world. The #iamlimitless campaign served as a way to engage students in the space they are comfortable with, and then lure them into our office to connect to the tangible resources they need to be successful after college – a bait and switch of sorts.
ROI: Vanity vs. Actionable Metrics
Vanity Metrics: It's always nice to have a large following and fans to make us feel super important and liked. These vanity metrics are often how supervisors judge whether we are doing a good job. Yes, these are important. However, who are these individuals following or liking us? Are they strangers, or actually connections who are engaging and utilizing our resources?
Actionable Metrics: What really matters is whether our campaign translated into "performance" outcomes. Who retweeted us, who became more aware of our resources and came to the office to utilize them? These are the questions we should all ask when engaging with students in the social media space.
Did it work? You be the judge!
#iamlimitless was used 133% times more than the second highest hashtag used by the Wasserman Center
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We caught the attention of the Washington Square News and an article in support of the campaign was published and disseminated to its 100k subscribers.
NEXT for NYU Wasserman Center and #iamlimitless
The Wasserman Center will launch it's #iamlimitless Socializer campaign this fall. It will further engage a broader audience by incentivizing students who get the most likes, repins, and retweets on posts that connect their peers to the Wasserman Center's resources. Stay tuned for the results of it!
DIY Social Media Campaigning
Start Small: Don't feel like you need to throw a rager for your first social media party. Think about starting small with a one-time incentive to complement an individual event.
Operate on One Platform: Use one established platform that you are comfortable with before you expand to a multi-platform approach. Our first experience with a campaign was with a Macy's event hosted using Foursquare specials. Those who checked in during the time of the event were entered into a raffle to win prizes donated by Macy's.
Build Buzz and Engage All Constituents: Build buzz both online leading up to the launch of your campaign, but also in person by engaging all constituents. We engaged student affairs offices, faculty, alumni and local organizations to help support the campaign.
Provide Affordable: Incentives: You also don't have to break the bank. Incentives don't need to be expensive. Students love swag, but the majority of our incentives were provided by employer sponsorships, or members of the NYU surrounding businesess. You can even think of non-monetary incentives like an informational interview with one of your employer partners.
Track Impact: Using your Facebook page's admin metrics, Hootsuite ow.ly clicks, Twitonomy metrics, and Klout score are just a few ways to see what's working, what needs tweaking, and how effectively your office is engaging with your constituents.
Thanks again to everyone who supported the #iamlimitless campaign, and who came to our presentation and asked insightful questions. Twitter was also ablaze with #iamlimitless chatter. You can check out our Storify for more on what #NACE13 folks had to say about the #iamlimitless presentation! NACE 2013 was such an awesome experience and we can't wait to see what's in store for next year's conference! If anyone is interested in continuing the social media conversation, hit me up on Twitter at @HTranen!


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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology
ISBN: 978-1-444-34572-8 September 2011 Wiley-Blackwell 640 Pages
DescriptionThrough a series of essays contributed by leading experts in the field, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology presents an introduction to practical theology as a major area of Christian study and practice, including an overview of its key developments, themes, methods, and future directions.
- The first comprehensive reference work to provide a survey, description and analysis of practical theology as an area of study
- A range of leading scholars in the field provide original contributions on the major areas, issues, and figures in practical theology
- Reviews an extensive range of methods for studying theology in practice, along with sub-disciplines in theological education such as pastoral care and preaching
- Covers developments in the discipline in a range of global contexts and distinct Christian traditions
- Shows how practical theology is relevant to everyday life
Introduction: The Contributions of Practical Theology 1
Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore
Part I Way of Life: Shaping Faith among Believers in Home and Society 21
1 Suffering 23
Pamela Cooper-White
2 Healing 32
Susan J. Dunlap
3 Playing 42
Jaco Hamman
4 Eating 51
Dorothy C. Bass
5 Loving 61
Herbert Anderson
6 Consuming 70
Katherine Turpin
7 Blessing 80
Christian Scharen
Part II Method: Studying Theology in Practice in Library and Field 89
8 Case Study Method 91
Daniel S. Schipani
9 Psychological Theory 102
Lee H. Butler, Jr.
10 Hermeneutical Theory 112
Sally A. Brown
11 Quantitative Method 123
Hans Schilderman
12 Congregational Studies 133
James R. Nieman
13 Ritual Theory 143
Edward Foley
14 Social Policy 153
Pamela D. Couture
15 The Use of Scripture 163
Paul Ballard
16 Poetics 173
Heather Walton
17 Emancipatory Theory and Method 183
Nancy J. Ramsay
18 Feminist Theory 193
Elaine Graham
19 Womanist Theory 204
Evelyn L. Parker
20 Narrative Approaches 214
R. Ruard Ganzevoort
21 Ethnography 224
Mary Clark Moschella
22 Participatory Action Research 234
Elizabeth Conde-Frazier
23 Theories of Practice 244
Ted A. Smith
24 Action Theories 255
Robert Mager
Part III Curriculum: Educating for Ministry and Faith in Classroom, Congregation, and Community 267
25 Pastoral Care 269
Barbara McClure
26 Homiletics 279
John S. McClure
27 Worship 289
Don E. Saliers
28 Religious Education 299
Carol Lakey Hess
29 Religious Leadership 308
Michael Jinkins
30 Evangelism 318
Jeffery L. Tribble, Sr.
31 Spirituality 328
Claire E. Wolfteich
32 Ethics 337
Miguel A. De La Torre
33 Contextual Education 347
Emily Click
34 Systematic Theology 357
Mary McClintock Fulkerson
35 Historical Theology 367
James M. Brandt
36 Biblical Theology 377
Michael Joseph Brown
37 Integration in Theological Education 386
Kathleen A. Cahalan
Part IV Discipline: Defi ning History and Context in Guild and Global Setting 397
Section 1: Issues, Contexts, and Perspectives 399
38 Race and Racism 401
Dale P. Andrews
39 Gender, Sexism, and Heterosexism 412
Jeanne Hoeft
40 Globalization, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism 422
Melinda McGarrah Sharp
41 Economics, Class, and Classism 432
Joyce Ann Mercer
42 Disability, Ableism, and Disablism 443
John Swinton
43 Religious Pluralism and Christian-Centrism 452
Kathleen J. Greider
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44 Continental Europe 465
Friedrich Schweitzer
45 Britain 475
Zoë Bennett
46 French Canada 485
Solange Lefebvre
47 The United States 495
Richard R. Osmer
48 South Africa 505
Jaco S. Dreyer
49 West Africa 515
Daisy N. Nwachuku
50 Brazil 525
Valburga Schmiedt Streck
51 South Korea 534
Meerha Hahn
52 Australia and Oceania 544
Gerard V. Hall
Section 3: Traditions 555
53 Mainline Protestantism 557
Gordon S. Mikoski
54 Roman Catholicism 567
Lynn Bridgers
55 Protestant Evangelicalism 577
Charles J. Scalise
56 Pentecostalism 587
Mark J. Cartledge
Index of Subjects 596
Index of Names 619
"The energy, organization, intelligence, and wisdom of the editor have borne fruit in this very splendid book. It deserves to be widely read and used." (Reviews Religion & Theology, 7 April 2015)
"The first comprehensive reference work to provide a survey, description and analysis of practical theology as an area of study." (Native American Encyclopedia, 20 December 2013)
"This Companion has wide scope … and is surely the most definitive definition of what practical theology entails to date … An important addition to the shelves of those who teach practical theology or ministers as well as those engaged in the ministry themselves ... [It] offers a new way of seeing the subject, with sets of essays that are informative, novel, and take theology in new directions." (Regent's Reviews, 2012)
"This edited collection is a showcase presenting how contemporary scholarship of practical theology has been developed into a wide concept of practical theology ... For those who are interested in teaching Christian theology from a practical theological perspective, this book will be a useful reference." (Homiletic Journal, 2012)
"Miller-McLemore, a leader in the field, has edited an excellent handbook on Christian practical theology. Though the essays are short, they provide excellent overviews of the various topics and, more important, helpful bibliographies for students who wish to explore certain topics further … Libraries supporting curricula in Christian theology and ministry should acquire this good introduction to the field. It is essential for acquisition for seminary libraries ... Recommended: upper-level undergraduates and above." (Choice, 2012)


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Two years.
It could be a term in the House of Representatives or a prison sentence for a minor felony. In two years, you can even get an Associates Degree.
But I think my last two years have been as eventful as any of those options.
Two years ago, we woke up with a new child.
It wasn't quite that easy.
For more than two years, my wife and I prepared paperwork, jumped through bureaucratic hoops and finally received an emailed photo of a little boy who would soon be ours.
Eight months later, he was officially ours.
We had arrived in Ethiopia after a 30-hour journey on a Friday. On Saturday, we shopped for the orphanages and guesthouses that many of our friends and family had sent money and supplies to support.
On Saturday, June 26, 2011, we were going to finally get to take custody of Dawit. We were told to expect him between noon and 5 p.m.
A sleepless night is not uncommon for jetlagged travelers. When you add the excitement of having a four-year old join the family, sleep is even harder to come by.
We did finally fall asleep around 5 a.m. after a sleepless night of talking about what the next day would hold.
At about 9 a.m., we were awakened by a knock at our door. My wife answered the door to have a guesthouse worker tell us that our son was here.
We made a mad dash around the room to get ourselves and Blake dressed and try to get cameras ready. It was almost exactly the opposite of how we imagined it would be.
We made it upstairs in minutes and Dawit was on the lap of the head of the adoption program for our agency. When he asked Dawit if he wanted to stay with us, Dawit shook his head no.
Blake came to the rescue. He ran downstairs and got the teddy bear and some snacks we had brought for Dawit. With Blake sitting next to him and crackers and cheese in one hand and the bear in the other, Dawit decided he would give us a chance.
When Dawit was relinquished to the orphanage, he was a sick little boy battling pneumonia and significant malnourishment.
His recovery began in the orphanage. He stabilized physically but it was a tough year for him because he couldn't understand workers or most other kids in the orphanage because he spoke a different dialect than they did.
When he first came with us, he endured another major change. But Dawit is as resilient as he is ornery.
His language skills have been honed through two years of preschool. Emotionally, he is strong and sweet. He loves to help his mom clean up and he has a lot of friends from church, school and sports. He has played soccer and tee ball now.
He loves fresh fruit and vegetables and will eat a salad with every meal he can.
And he is no runt. We have often joked about getting him a t-shirt that says, "I beat malnutrition."
Dawit has grown eight inches in two years and has improved from the second percentile to the seventy-seventh on growth charts.
Those stats are important and show some of his growth. But his advancement from a four-year old with very limited English to a six-year old ready for kindergarten is another example of his growth.
But watching him become a part of our family has been the most incredible development.
Thanks to obvious racial differences, Dawit will never be that teenager who finally realizes he was adopted. He was four when he left Ethiopia. He knows.
But so far, it has had no effects on him emotionally. He knows he came into the family differently than Blake did but he also knows that he is our son and – other than skin color – there is no difference between him and Blake.
He loves his brother and cousins and seems to be pretty happy about where life has brought him.
He isn't scared of dogs anymore and he is finally beginning to understand that this is permanent and not just another stop along his long, difficult journey.
These two years have flown by. The memories of our "gotcha" day are so vivid, it is hard to believe it has been two years.
But when you see how far he has come and how far our family has come with him, you know it has been time well spent.
I can wait to see what the next two years has in store for us all.
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Read more - Church, police covered up priest's role in IRA gang that killed nine in 1972 bombing
Father James Chesney , today named as the priest IRA bomber who led an IRA operation that killed nine civilians in Claudy, County Derry, was a charismatic figure who was deeply affected by Bloody Sunday in Derry when14 nationalist were killed.
Chesney was fingered in the IRA killings by a fellow priest who in 2002 under the name 'Father Liam' wrote to the Northern Irish authorities saying Chesney had confessed the crime to him said he had met Chesney at a house in Malin Head, County Donegal.
"We talked long into the evenings about the situation in the north and then, one evening, [James] broke down in a flood of tears and said he had a terrible story to tell," one of the anonymous letters revealed.
"He said that he was horrified at the injustices done to the Catholic people and decided to do something for the people. He became a member of the IRA and was soon in charge of a small number of volunteers."
Chesney was ordered by the IRA to place bombs in Claudy to remove pressure on the IRA brigade in Derry after the breakdown of the 1972 ceasefire.
According to Father Liam , Chesney wanted to give advance warnings of the Claudy bombs so that the town could be cleared.
But when they stopped at the nearby town of Dungiven the IRA men could not find a telephone box in working order. "This horrible affair has been with me now for 30 years and it has been hanging over me like a black cloud," Chesney allegedly told Father Liam. "I must talk to someone in authority before I die. I am an old man now and I must meet my maker with a clear conscience. The souls of the deceased are crying out not for vengeance but for justice."
When suspicions about his role first emerged publicly, back in 2002.
The former local MP Ivan Cooper also recalled his first meeting with the charismatic priest who, was accompanied by his wealthy aunt and uncle, Willie and Betty Noon.
It was the early 1970s, before the Claudy bombings. "They arrived at my house in a bright red Mercedes," Cooper remembered. "She was dripping with furs and waving a long cigarette holder. Later, I was invited to their house for what they called 'soirees'. There was always a fair sprinkling of priests, including their nephew, Father Jim Chesney, who was a curate nearby.
"The Noons had no children; Father Chesney was like a son to them. He was in his late 30s, 6ft tall, dark and strikingly handsome, an extremely magnetic and engaging man. He was a familiar sight, haring along the country roads in his sportscar, and always managed to look sophisticated, even though he always wore his clerical garb.
"He was polite and articulate and I was not aware his political views were very different from his aunt and uncle's until some time later when I went to a meeting of his parishioners where he asked some pointedly republican questions but in a subtle and courteous way.
"At the time, many priests were very active in running large social events, but Father Chesney was in a different league. He organised big dances and massive bingo events, where all the little towns and villages round about could join in by radio link for what were huge prizes in those days."
Some suspicions were aroused before he was disciplined and moved across the border. Father Chesney's raffle proceeds were often robbed and people suspected it was a set up with the IRA.
Cooper was convinced of Chesney's republican sympathies. "It became obvious that Father Chesney was Derry's answer to Bonnie and Clyde," he said.
Chesney died of cancer in March 1980, aged 46. The "Provo Priest" was questioned three times by bishops of Derry about his role but always denied he took part.
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Swimming for Spirit Swimming since the age of 4, Craig qualified for the US Open qualifier and placed 6th in the 200 Breast at Summer Junior Nationals consecutively in 2005 and 2006. He also placed 2nd in the 200 Breast at Spring Sectionals in Cambridge in 2006 and has placed within the top 8 for the 200 Breast at every Sectionals since the Summer of 2003. Craig only swam for Council Rock High School South for one year, when he placed second in the 100 Breast and 7th in the 200 IM at the 2006 PIAA States, as well as setting many team and pool records along the way. He was also named the Courier Times Boy Swimmer of the Year for his performance at States.
In high school, Craig was a member of the National and French Honor Societies and he won the Army Student Athlete award in his senior year. He also has been playing the piano for 11 years, and has taught himself how to play the guitar for the last 6 years.
Craig's proudest athletic moments include setting the new Council Rock High School North pool record in his final high school dual meet against Council Rock North, winning the silver at States, and placing at Junior Nationals two years in a row. He chose Yale because of its unique residential college system, its commitment to education, and the overall unity of the Yale Swim Team.


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On March 12, millions around the world watched the start of the conclave that elected Pope Francis. One of the most memorable moments was the ceremonial closing of the doors of the Sistine Chapel by the papal master of ceremonies, Msgr. Guido Marini. It was a riveting scene, and while many viewers focused on the famed doors, they likely missed the diminutive cardinal standing patiently behind Msgr. Marini just inside the entrance of the chapel.
The cardinal, Prosper Grech, was an 87-year-old Augustinian from Malta who had been named to the College of Cardinals by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012. A famed expert in the Church Fathers, he was ineligible to participate in the conclave as he was older than 80. Nevertheless, he was chosen for a very important job: a final spiritual exhortation to the cardinal electors before they began their deliberations. After giving his talk, Cardinal Grech was escorted out of the Sistine Chapel and waited with the rest of the world for the results of the vote.
The text of his reflection, delivered in Italian, was recently published in what is called the Acta Apostolicae Sedis, the official published record of the actions, statements and documents of the Holy See. Five months into the pontificate of Pope Francis, it is possible to ponder Cardinal Grech's exhortation in light of the choice of the cardinals and how accurate the cardinal was in his assessment of the needs of the Church at this particular moment in history.
Cardinal Grech began by stressing that he did not intend to provide an "identikit of the new pope, and even less to propose a plan of action for the future pontiff," as that delicate task belongs, he said, to the Holy Spirit.
Still, the cardinal gave an unflinching look at the state of the Church and modern world, using both biblical imagery and blunt language that anticipated the plain-spoken style of the man who was chosen by the cardinals the next day, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires.
Cardinal Grech, for example, reminded the cardinals that they must present the Gospel without compromise, for when one compromises, the Gospel is emptied of its power — much he says, like a hand grenade with the TNT removed.
This danger is seen especially in relativizing the person of Christ by placing him alongside other "saviors" and neglecting to proclaim "the scandal of the Cross." Preaching the absurdity of the Cross, he noted, was the reason that Christianity "in less than 300 years reduced to the minimum the religions of the Roman Empire and opened the minds of men to a new view of hope and resurrection. It is for the same hope that the modern world is thirsting, suffering from an existential depression."Christ crucified, he argued, is tied intimately to the Church crucified, the Church of the martyrs. We must embrace the Cross, but we must also remember that persecution is not always physical. There is also persecution through lies.
But sometimes a difficult truth is also spoken to the Church, and at such times, Cardinal Grech proclaimed, the Church must face the truth, as has happened in many of the accusations of pedophilia. "Then," he said emphatically, "we must humble ourselves before God and men, and seek to uproot the evil at all costs, as did Benedict XVI, to his great sorrow." This is crucial, Grech proposed, because "only in this way can we regain credibility before the world and give an example of sincerity. Today many people do not arrive at believing in Christ because his face is obscured or hidden behind an institution that lacks transparency."
Once again, he anticipated perfectly the concerns of the future Pope Francis.
Equally, much as Francis has spoken vividly about the devil in his first months, so did Cardinal Grech cite "the evil spirit of the world, the 'mysterium iniquitatis' (2 Thes 2:7)" that strives constantly to infiltrate the Church. And one of the fruits of that evil is also one of hardest tasks for the next pope: keeping unity in the Church. He spoke bluntly about "ultratraditionalist extremists and ultraprogressive extremists, between priests who rebel against obedience and those who do not recognize the signs of the times."
He zeroed in especially on the need to present dogma with a valid hermeneutic that speaks intelligibly to the contemporary world and that avoids proposals to change the Church that are based in notions of sexual freedom.
"Certainly," he said, "laws and traditions that are purely ecclesiastical can be changed, but not every change means progress. It must be discerned whether such changes act to increase the holiness of the Church or to obscure it."
Cardinal Grech thus admits that in the West, at least in Europe, the Christian faith itself is in crisis with a rampant ignorance not only of Catholic doctrine, but even "the ABC's of Christianity." Again anticipating Pope Francis' approach, he stressed the urgency of "a new evangelization that begins from pure kerygma (proclamation of the Good News) and plain proclamation to nonbelievers, followed by a continual catechesis nourished by prayer."
Just as Pope Francis has shown particular concern for the faith of the individual believer, so, too, did Cardinal Grech remind the cardinals not to overlook the reality that the "coals of devout faith are kept alive by millions of simple faithful who are far from being called theologians but who in the intimacy of their prayers, reflections and devotions can give profound advice to their pastors."
His plea for authenticity in the Faith; a humble, transparent and servant Church; unity; the role of the laity and a commitment to the New Evangelization echoed profoundly much that had been discussed among the cardinals in the days leading up to the conclave. They were also key themes stressed by Cardinal Bergoglio in his time as archbishop in Buenos Aires. Looking back on the words of the last preacher to speak before the cardinals cast their ballots, Cardinal Grech spoke for the majority of the cardinals who voted for Cardinal Bergoglio.
Matthew Bunson is OSV senior correspondent.
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Tighe Sullivan and William Ellsworth moved in different circles but shared a gusto for life and golf, their families said. Ellsworth, an American Airlines pilot for 19 years, piloted a helicopter in his part-time work for a New Jersey-based charter service.
Tighe Sullivan and William Ellsworth moved in different circles but shared a gusto for life and golf, their families said.
Ellsworth, an American Airlines pilot for 19 years, piloted a helicopter in his part-time work for a New Jersey-based charter service.
Sullivan, founder and chief operating officer of a New York City-based investment management firm, was a doting father of three, active in charitable causes in his hometown of Darien, Conn.
Theirs were separate, passion-filled lives connected in death.
Sullivan was one of two passengers on their way back from a golf outing when the Bell model 407 chopper Ellsworth was piloting hit rough weather Tuesday night and attempted to land at Pocono Mountains Municipal Airport.
The helicopter crashed in the woods off Interstate 380, the front of the chopper first hitting a tree, then the ground and ultimately landing on its side, authorities said.
Ellsworth and Sullivan, seated in the front, were killed. A rear-seat passenger, Stephen Barral of Bernardsville, N.J., survived, though he was critically injured.
Barral has worked for W.H. Mell Associates, a municipal bond brokerage in Summit, N.J., since 2011, according to The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J. He is also listed as a managing member of Gulfstream Capital Management, a hedge fund run that manages about $325 million in assets, records show. Prior to that, he was head of U.S. convertible bond sales at Barclay's Capital.
Ellsworth's love of family was unmatched, said family member Tim Fleischer. Ellsworth spent as much time as he could with family, given that he was a commercial pilot.
Fleischer said Ellsworth, 52, of Califon, N.J., was married for 23 years to his wife, Trish. They had two children, Eliza, 18, and Harry, 15.
"If there were passions in his life outside of family, it was flying and golf," Fleischer said.
Ellsworth got his pilot's license when he was 21, said Monroe County Coroner Bob Allen.
"American Airlines is saddened to learn of the death of First Officer William "Will" Ellsworth, who had been a pilot with American for 19 years," the company said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with Will's family and the others affected by this tragedy."
Callie Sullivan described her late husband as "one of the most gregarious, fun-loving, generous people I have ever known. There will be hundreds of people who will agree with that."
She described him as a "ball of fire" who was involved in numerous charitable causes in his community.
"He just loved life. He loved every second of it. He was full of energy," she said.
He described her husband as a "Renaissance man" with an appetite for all things outdoors and nature, including hiking, skiing and golfing.
"He was happiest when he was on the move and when was with his children," two girls ages 18 and 17, and a son, 15, said Callie Sullivan, who met her husband on a blind date set up by one of her girlfriends and one of his fraternity brothers. They were married 24 years.
Sullivan had a career in finance.
Before he founded the investment management firm of WCAS Fraser Sullivan, he was a managing director in high yield at Deutsche Bank from 2000-05, according to the company's website.
While at Deutsche Bank, he marketed 600 new issues representing $185 billion of high-yield bonds and bridge financings. He previously held numerous other posts with other financial firms after starting his career at Chase Manhattan in 1983.


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Though they may sound like delicious varieties of candy, "Ike" and "Rox" are actually candidates competing for the new incarnation of the District 2 City Council seat. What's clear is that each one possesses an equally admirable All-American three-letter nickname, so unfortunately, citizens won't be able to use that as the deciding factor when they vote on Oct. 8. This race might just have to come down to the issues.
Today's District 2 was formed in 2012 through arcane redistricting magic that melded most of Democrat Isaac "Ike" Benton's District 3 (including Barelas, Downtown and north-campus neighborhoods) into Debbie O'Malley's North Valley District 2. When O'Malley got a new gig as County Commissioner, Mayor Berry appointed fellow Republican Roxanna "Rox" Meyers to fill the vacancy. So inasmuch as city council races ever get exciting, it's pretty exciting that the race for the now-meatier District 2 features two resident incumbents squaring off. This Thursday, Sept. 12, both Meyers and Benton will be at the North Valley Senior Center for a Q&A forum during a meeting of the North Valley Coalition. Ignore their likeable nicknames and demand they tackle the issues by bringing your tough questions about the area's three Rs: roundabouts, revitalizations and the Rio Grande. North Valley Senior Center • Thu Sep 12 • 6:30 pm • FREE • ALL-AGES! • View on Alibi calendar


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Server virtualization and cloud computing are often talked about – even by service providers —as if the terms were interchangeable.
This is in part because both were developed to solve a similar business problem: how to provide more computing power at a lower cost. It's also in part because many of these terms are bantied about by marketing folks who, unbeknownst to them, don't know that they really don't know the difference.
As it turns out, virtualization is pretty much THE key component of the underlying technology used to provide cloud computing services. So, I thought I'd take a little time to detail some of the key differences between server virtualization and cloud computing...
Q: What is virtualization?
Virtualization is a way to make more efficient use of today's high-performance CPUs, by letting you run multiple (virtual) servers on the same (physical) hardware. One or more virtual servers share computing resources (provided by the physical server machine) under the control of a "hypervisor" (this is the controlling operating system layer running all the (virtual) servers on top of it.
The more virtual servers you can get on to a physical machine, the more the need for physical servers goes down. If you take 5 physical servers and move them onto one physical server, you've reduced the number of physical servers by four. This reduces hardware, space, cooling, and power costs. Virtual servers can also be moved among different physical machines to further align available resources as demand on those servers change.
Q: What is cloud computing?
Cloud computing is a service that relies on a highly virtualized physical infrastructure. In the cloud, applications generally run on virtual servers that are independent of the underlying hardware. (Indeed, a virtual server environment for your application can be one of the services a cloud computing provider offers.) But there's more to the cloud than virtualization - in that cloud computing is based on the concept of a "utility computing" service, where RAM, CPU cycles, storage and network bandwidth are commodities to be consumed on a "pay per use" basis, like water or electricity.
A cloud computing environment relies on many physical and virtual servers. It is configured in both hardware and software to provide high reliability and availability. Clouds are also very flexible and scalable, in the sense that an application can simply consume resources as needed.
Q: What are the basic pros and cons of virtualization?
Virtualization lets you reduce the cost and complexity of your IT infrastructure by maximizing the utilization of your physical computing resources. It also reduces your reliance on the physical machines reducing the number (and therefore the risk) of physical failure points. But keep in mind - you still need to purchase and maintain servers and software. Multiple virtual servers increases the complexity in the initial configuration and requires a knowledgeable and experienced staff (whether inhouse or outsourced) to manage.
Q: What are the basic pros and cons of cloud computing?
The primary benefit of cloud computing is that you basically remove the physical layer from your control and responsibility. The provider now takes care of the infrastructure your application runs on. You can eliminate the initial start up costs associated with purchasing all the needed hardware and software. Your IT infrastructure costs now become operating rather than capital. Everything becomes an ongoing monthly fee.
But this is only a benefit if the provider does a good job. And your internet connection becomes uber-critical! While hardware failures may become a thing of the past, you are more dependent on your internet connection and bandwidth than ever before. Also, when your data is outside of your "four walls", your ability to control and secure it changes (and usually significantly). It's now possible (and sometimes probable) to lose access to business-critical services as well as data, when cloud services fail.
Q: What is a quick way to tell if a vendor is really talking about true cloud computing services or about virtualization?
As Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff recently pointed out, virtualization is a software-based technology. "They have versions with numbers after it. That is when you know you are dealing with software; if you hear about versions, you know you are not in the cloud." Cloud computing is a service that goes beyond what software alone can provide.
Q: Should we choose virtualization or cloud computing?
Which approach is right for your application? Virtualization can certainly save companies money in both the short- and long-term. But it is still necessary to purchase and provision hardware and software upfront in order to run an application on virtualized infrastructure. The IT costs associated with managing the virtualized application is also a factor.
Cloud computing, in contrast, costs less upfront because you don't have to buy and manage the infrastructure. But the more cloud-based resources you use, the higher your costs will be. Ultimately, cloud computing might cost more than running virtual servers on your own hardware, depending on your requirements, workload, and many other factors.
Another key choice factor is data security. In a virtual environment, you control the hardware, the access permissions, the backup/recovery, etc. In a cloud computing environment the service provider handles those concerns, for better or worse. And many times your just stuck with whatever their approach is. For instance, what's their approach to backup? Many times cloud providers only retain backups for 14 days. If you want to save End of Month backups, good luck!
Q: What about application performance?
Whether you choose virtualization or cloud computing, or maybe even both, the performance of your applications is paramount. Both cloud and server virtualization place new and often hard-to-predict demands on the network.
To ensure application performance levels to your distributed users, you need to be able to efficiently manage and troubleshoot network performance. Factors like bandwidth, latency, packet loss and jitter can play havoc on both virtualized and cloud-based applications.
Whichever path you choose, the ability to ensure network performance is a prerequisite for acceptable application performance.


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Subjective reviews are always the toughest to write, so when I got my hands on the NVIDIA's GeForce 3D Vision kit for wireless stereoscopic 3D gaming just days before launch I didn't want to rush it. After I came back from the Consumer Electronics Show I started to game daily with the glasses to see what they were all about. It also gave me time to see where the industry was going in terms of 3D Technology. Hollywood has already begun to make major efforts towards bringing 3D movies to consumers and if you watched Super Bowl XLIII you more than likely saw the 3D commercials. It looks like 2009 will be the year for 3D and it should be no big shock that companies like Intel and NVIDIA have started to run with the idea. In 2008 the big marketing push from NVIDIA was CUDA and PhysX and now that nearly every enthusaist knows about those two technologies it is time to roll out something new.
What exactly I will be looking at today is called the NVIDIA 3D Vision Bundle. The NVIDIA 3D Vision Bundle consists of a Samsung Syncmaster 2233RZ 22″ 3D Gaming LCD Monitor and NVIDIA 3D Vision Stereoscopic glasses. This $599 bundle will give you an out-of-the-box immersive 3D PC Gaming experience as long as your system has a GeForce 8800 or higher gaming graphics card. The Samsung Syncmaster 2233RZ, in conjunction with NVIDIA's advanced software, automatically converts over 350 games to stereoscopic 3D without the need for special game patches. That means you don't need to buy any more expensive game titles to play in 3D, but as you can tell 3D gaming is not inexpensive due to the bundle cost. GeForce 3D Vision uses game profiles similar to SLI profiles and since NVIDA has close relationships with developers they can ensure nearly all games will work and are as immersive as possible at launch. This means that you will not have to wait for weeks after a new game launches to be able to play it in 3D! Price aside, stereoscopic 3D will add a whole new level of realism to your gaming.
The heart and soul of the this bundle would be the high-tech active shutter glasses, designed with top-of-the-line optics, deliver double the resolution per eye and ultra-wide viewing angles than passive glasses. In addition, the new 120Hz LCD monitors unlock crystal-clear, flicker-free stereoscopic 3D gaming that provides 60Hz per eye.
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Can You Guess Whose Tattoo This Is?
This tattoo is just one of many that the rocker has honoring his Native American heritage. This particular tattoo is a rendering of Chief Joseph, known for his peacemaking and humanitarian efforts. Chief Sitting Bull is featured on this inked musician's other arm.
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How ISA-95 can lead to, if not world peace and universal love, at least a plant where all the departments can talk the same language.
By Bianca Scholten
Have you ever seen the painting by René Magritte called La Trahison des Images [The Treason of Images]? The picture is of a pipe with the text below it reading, Çeci nest pas une pipe. [This is not a pipe.] Magritte is right, of course, because indeed it is not a pipe. It is just an image of a pipe.
In the same way, the data in ERP systems are just images of the real situation within the enterprise. But how realistic an image are they? By visiting some European and American industrial enterprises, I have learned that most of them feed their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems with averages and estimates instead of with actual data, a fact that opens up wide vistas for business process improvement.
Nobodys Land
In recent decades, industrial companies have invested much time and money in ERP systems and in automation of the process control layer. In between these two layers of automation, theres a nobodys land usually called the MES (Manufacturing Execution System) layer. MES concerns the activities that take place within a production department; for example, preparative tasks, such as detailed production scheduling and recipe management, but also data collection, tracking and performance analysis.
When you take a close look at such functions within plants, in general, you will encounter a primitive situation. Island automation is everywhere. Most of the factories use MS Excel for detailed scheduling and reporting, and they use MS Word for management of recipes and SOPs. Sometimes plants use more advanced applications, but in that case, these are built by different suppliers and they are not integrated. (See Figure 1.)
Typical European and American plants are islands of automation where a Babel of languages are spoken, impeding data and information exchange.
The lack of insight also becomes painfully obvious if you take a close look at planning issues. The ERP system does provide a production plan, but this usually is not adjusted to the finite capacity of the production lines, nor has it taken into account efficiency. Thats why, in almost every factory, you will encounter planners who work in Excel. They are people who have a huge amount of knowledge. They cannot ever be ill or on vacation. The factory is completely depending on them, so they feel highly appreciated. In the meantime the general manager has a hard time getting the information he needs and is left wondering who really is the boss .
Another disadvantage of the current situation is that the operators cannot concentrate on their core task: controlling the process. Instead, they have to spend a lot of time transcribing data from one system to the other, an error-prone process that leads to data being known in other departments and systems only hours or even days after an event occurs, at which time it may be too late for corrective action.
Plants that use systems that are not integrated also have significant master data management issues. When production is using raw materials from new vendors or when new recipes are introduced, then adjustments to the master data in all the systems are needed. This process takes time and may lead to data inaccuracy. Sometimes it leads to the procurement of the wrong materials or the production of final products that do not comply to specifications.
In order to avoid that, operators have to spend a lot of time doing administrative tasks. In many enterprises, it is common to report an average amount of raw materials back to the ERP system and the average production result instead of actual kilos or liters. In that case, depending on the industry, daily, weekly or monthly inventory stock levels have to be counted or measured, and the administrative stock level has to be corrected in the ERP system. Meanwhile, the administrative inventory is not reflecting the physical stock, conceivably leading to production stops, because the right raw materials are not availableand no one catches the discrepancy until production stops, and the costs start adding up by the minute. Or, more likely, hundreds of thousands of dollars in unneeded inventory are kept on hand, just in case.
This unwanted situation is a thorn in the side of many plant managers. They do understand that improvement of automation and communication between systems may help solve such issues. But who can they turn to? Factory automation traditionally is the domain of engineers, who program in ladder diagrams, function blocks and SFCs. But the network on which those ubiquitious reporting tools, MS Word and MS Excel, are based is the responsibility of the IT department. And these two departments might as well be in different countries, with different languages and cultures.
Collaboration seems like the logical answer, but in the Nobody Land of MES, thats not so simple.
MES: IT or Engineering?
For decades, factory automation has been the domain of engineers. They have programmed and maintained the PLCs that control the production lines. Later, SCADA systems were added for process visualization. SCADA suppliers started to offer more and more functionality, such as historians, that can store huge amounts of data. They also developed functionality for recipe management. Over time, more and more IT-like systems were provided by these traditional control suppliers. And these systems require different, IT-like knowledge from the engineering department.
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You are probably already aware that Disney has refused permission to use Disney artwork in Amid Amidi's biography of Ward Kimball. Chronicle Books, the original publisher, has decided against publishing the book as a result. Amidi is now making other arrangements for publication. (It appears that Amazon.com has de-listed the book or I would provide a link.)
But it doesn't stop there.
Don Rosa was a writer/artist of Disney comics whose work was hugely successful, especially in Europe. He has written material in a nine volume collection of his work about the creation of his stories. That is, until he got to the reasons why he retired. Disney refused to allow that piece of writing to be published. Perhaps because it highlights the medieval treatment of people who create Disney comics and how they are taken advantage of. Perhaps because Disney's licensees exploited Rosa's name without compensation, so that he had to copyright his own name so that Disney licensees couldn't use it without his permission. Rosa decided that he wasn't willing to be muzzled and put his explanation for retiring on the internet.
In a recent podcast, author Sean Howe explained why his book Marvel Comics: The Untold Story contains no images from the comics. This quote comes from 1:15:43 in the podcast.
"I was going to license about 20 images and I got approvals for captions for those images and everything was typeset, the whole thing was laid out, and then I got the contracts. A price had been agreed on, but when I actually got the paperwork, I was going to have to agree that I would say nothing critical about Marvel Comics in the entire book. A lot of people have asked me why there are no pictures from the comic books and that's the reason. If I had used illustrations, I would have had to take out half of the book."Disney is so sensitive that it cannot tolerate anything that casts aspersions on its behaviour or the behaviour of its subsidiaries or licensees. And look how absurdly ineffective they are at squelching it. While they are busy attempting to suppress books, their behaviour is being noted all over the internet. Amidi's book will eventually be published and I hope that Disney's refusal to grant permission to use images becomes a major talking point in the book's reviews. Don Rosa's writing would have been limited to Europe, but is now readable by anyone in the world. Sean Howe wrote the book he wanted to and has a tumblr where he has published more images from Marvel than he ever could have squeezed into his book.
Disney's failure doesn't address the bigger issue. From this point forward, any book on Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars or the Muppets that includes copyrighted images is tainted. The author, rightly or not, will be suspected of compromising the text to satisfy Disney. The books will be damaged goods. The use of Disney-owned images will be proof that the book contains nothing critical of Disney. So while Disney is trying to protect itself from criticism in print, it has essentially neutered any praise it may receive as it is biased. Meanwhile, on the internet, Disney provides ammunition for those who want to criticize it. Good thing nobody ever looks at the internet.


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HORRY COUNTY, SC (WMBF) - Many people are enjoying leftovers tonight, but that turkey dinner also leaves you with leftover cooking oil. There are local areas to dispose of the excess oil properly.
Experts say it is dangerous to dump the used oil down the drain or to throw it outside. It can harm the environment and damage your septic tank by contaminating the soil and affecting the sewage system.
"When you pour oil down a kitchen drain, a sink's drain, a lot of them go right into the septic tanks," agrees Bobby Bland, a Conway resident. He adds, "that totally screws everything up, in the septic tank, the fill lines, and it gets very expensive."
Bobby Bland brings his used cooking oil to the Solid Waste Authority landfill in Conway.
"I use a lot of oil sometimes for turkeys and all. I make sure to pour it right back into the gallon jug that you used, bring them right out here, pour it in the receptacle and it's done with," says Bland.
The Solid Waste Authority has containers at each drop off location that county residents can use to dispose their cooking oil in.
"You don't have a mess, it's the best thing you can do. Get rid of it like you should," says Bland.
Local restaurants also take steps to dispose of the leftover oil.
"After we use it, we dump our oil back here, at the end of every day," says Bobbi Hardin, a cook at Rotelli's Pizza and Pasta.
Restaurants have a container right outside of their business that holds the leftover cooking oil. Usually, an outside company comes to pick up the waste to recycle it.
While you might not have the amount of leftover oil that your local restaurant does, local waste management suggests taking their lead and disposing it properly.
The Solid Waste Authority says you can bring the oil in whatever container you have.
"I just use the jug that it came in. Once I cook with it, I fill the jug back up and bring it to the recycling center," says Bland.
They prefer the oil as clean as possible, which you can do by straining it first.
You can leave up to five gallons at a time.
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Gold firmed on Monday after three straight weeks of losses as appetite for assets seen as higher risk, such as stocks, was hurt by soft euro zone data and political deadlock in Italy and the United States.
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Gold is down more than 5 percent this year, pressured by perceptions that stocks and other higher-yielding assets may offer a better return as global growth recovers. Its correlation with European stock markets turned negative last month.
European shares fell on Monday, however, as a political stalemate in the United States, where spending cuts that automatically kicked in on Friday threaten to dampen growth, hurt investor confidence.
The euro hit session lows against the dollar after a survey by research group Sentix showed euro zone sentiment fell in March for the first time in six months, due to fears of renewed political uncertainty following Italy's inconclusive election.
"There has been relentless liquidation and short-selling of gold, and it has become a little overdone on the downside," Societe Generale analyst Robin Bhar said.
"We've seen a few corrective bounces. The jitters in Europe, particularly in Italy, have helped that cause. The sequester kicked in on Friday in the United States; that helped its cause. So there have been a few worries that have come into the market to at least provide some short-term support," Bhar said.
Spot gold was up 0.2 percent at $1,578.66 an ounce at 1305 GMT, while U.S. gold futures for April delivery were up $5.90 an ounce at $1,578.20.
Hedge funds and money managers increased their net long gold futures and options positions in the week to Feb. 26 after cutting them sharply in the previous week, Commodity Futures Trading Commission data showed on Friday.
"Clearly, participants were encouraged to reposition at these lower prices," Standard Bank said in a note.
GOLD ETFs STILL SEEING OUTFLOWS
However, the largest gold-backed exchange-traded fund, New York's SPDR Gold Trust, showed an outflow of 0.6 tonnes on Friday, its eighth straight day of outflows after reporting the biggest ever one-month drop in February.
Gold prices fell for a fifth month in February for the first time since 1997 as investors lost faith in the metal, which failed to rally back towards record highs last year despite successive rounds of monetary easing from the Federal Reserve.
Ultra-loose monetary policy, known as quantitative easing, has supported gold in recent years by keeping up pressure on long-term interest rates and stoking fears over inflation, while concerns over global economic weakness boosted safe-haven flows.
"The fact that the United States and China are not doing badly at all is slowly but surely chipping away at the 'global systemic risk' driver of gold ETF demand," Citi said in a note.
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Among other precious metals, silver was up 0.4 percent at $28.67 an ounce, while spot platinum was up 0.6 percent at $1,578.49 an ounce and spot palladium was up 0.7 percent at $724.50 an ounce.
Platinum pared its 2013 gains last month but has remained the best performer of the precious metals this year, up 2.3 percent, lifted by concerns over supply outages in South Africa and signs the global economy may be turning, boosting demand.
"Whereas the supply concerns persist, the outlook for growth looks less bullish as the situation in Europe has deteriorated again and U.S. spending cuts look more likely as the government starts to tackle the budget deficit," ScotiaMocatta said in a monthly note.
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Alexei Navalny Freed From Jail Pending Appeal
In a surprise move a day after he was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to five years in prison, Russia's most prominent opposition activist, Alexei Navalny, was freed from jail pending appeal. Lukas Alpert reports from Moscow. Photo: AP
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