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As a prelude to the roadmap 2011-12 that will be published in the next few days, let me reveal one of the many exciting things we plan to do: A touch/mobile interface for Openbravo 3.
(Credit: US PTO/Apple)
The advantages are clear. A mobile enterprise can benefit from a higher workforce productivity - up to 45% [1], faster decision-making and increased employee satisfaction.
Openbravo 3 has a highly sophisticated architecture where the GUI is defined in metadata. This allows us to easily optimize the GUI for smaller screens and touch interfaces.
Simplification is critical in designing for touch/mobile. Too often mobile apps or sites try to mimic their desktop siblings without looking at the specific opportunities and constraints of mobile devices. We intend not to do the same.
At this point I´m trying to get a grip on which business tasks are essential for mobile. We aim to make all functionality of Openbravo 3 accessible through mobile devices but at the same time we need to make sure that the user experience of the key flows is superb. Let´s focus on what´s important first.
Here are some examples of tasks that could be candidates:
- A manager approving employee expenses while traveling
- A sales rep placing an order together with the customer
- A sales director checking the sales figures before a meeting with his team
- A CFO checking the financial health of the company in a chart in a widget on his mobile phone
- A shop owner using her tablet as both a POS and ERP
- A warehouse person picking orders using his tablet
- A sales rep being notified that a customer placed an order that cannot be delivered because it is out of stock
Now I´d like to know what would be the typical tasks for your business (or your customer) while away from the desk.
Throw your ideas at us in the comments, via Google+ or Facebook, thanks!
[1] bfrench:"Survey: Mobile Apps Increase Enterprise Performance and Productivity Advantages, Top Three Mobile App Strategies Gain Momentum". iPad CTO. Retrieved 8/11/2011.


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This post lists some books on academic writing, which I've found useful.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Books on Writing, Grammar, and Style in Psychology and Beyond
By jeromyanglim on Friday, February 27, 2009 Labels: Writing 0 comments
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Assorted issues with Multiple Regression and Moderation
1. Do variables in moderation have to be normally distributed before centering?
No, normality is not a requirement. However, you could apply a transformation if you felt it was justified, such as when it better reflects the meaning of the variable.
See the following for a discussion of issues in transformations:
Assumptions in moderation are the same as in normal multiple regression. They mainly concern the pattern of the residuals. For a discussion see: http://www.statisticshell.com/multireg.pdf
2. Do I use the R squared or adjusted R squared when reporting a multiple regression?
You can use either or both. The larger your sample, the smaller the difference is between adjusted R square and R-squared. R-squared is a biased estimate.
3. p=0.52, is that still significant?
Jacob Cohen once said something along the lines that surely God must love .06 almost as much as .04.
You can write p = .05
Whether this is statistically significant depends on your alpha. If your alpha is .05, then your obtained p value is not less than .05, and thus, it is not statistically significant. Reflecting the seemingly arbitrary cut-off consequences off null hypothesis significance testing, researchers often write that there was a trend toward significance when p <.10 and >=.05.
4. Would a significance level of 0.06 be slightly significant or not at all?
Trend toward significance is a common label, see above.
5. Do you have any examples of how to write up a moderator regression?
Frazier, P., Tix, A., & Barron, K. (2004). Testing moderator and mediator effects in counseling psychology research. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 51, 115-134.
McAlister, A. R., Pachana, N., & Jackson, C. J. (2005). Predictors of young dating adults' inclination to engage in extradyadic sexual activities: A multi-perspective study. BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, 96(3), 331.
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Single Group Correlational Study: Basic Analyses
This post sets a basic procedure for analysing a single group observational study in psychology. It aims to provide a starting point, particularly for researchers who do analyse data infrequently.
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Formatting Correlation Matrices in Psychology
Researchers in psychology often want to present a correlation matrix of the main variables in a study. This post sets out one way of producing a formatted correlation matrix that conforms to APA style.
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Coach Bruce Boudreau is an astute watcher of the NHL, and that's why even in the face of the astounding production by the Ducks' first line he harped on the scoring void elsewhere.
"We were sort of in the rut of 'Let the big line do it,' " Boudreau said Tuesday after the Ducks practiced for Wednesday's home game against the Minnesota Wild.
So even though Corey Perry already has 20 goals, Ryan Getzlaf has scored at least one point in 14 consecutive games he has played, and Dustin Penner ranked second in NHL plus/minus before Tuesday's games, help is needed.
"It's a rarity for one line to dominate where you can win everything — maybe Mario Lemieux's, [Wayne] Gretzky's line — but when I look at recent Stanley Cups, it's three and four lines deep," Boudreau said.
His wish has been granted since third-line center Saku Koivu returned from a concussion. The Ducks, leading the Pacific Division with 47 points, are 4-0-2 since Koivu's return.
In addition to Koivu's goal and three assists, his linemates, Andrew Cogliano and Daniel Winnik, have combined for three goals and seven assists during the six-game unbeaten streak.
"You feel comfortable, because he's always in the right areas," Cogliano said of Koivu. "It's really helped. Great passer, strong presence on the ice."
The line kept the Ducks in Monday's 5-2 victory over the New York Islanders. Koivu scored a goal in the first period, and Winnik had assists on Cogliano's and Perry's goals in the second period.
"I don't think I'm going to blow anyone's door off with my shot, but I know how to score," said Cogliano, who has nine goals. "I can find areas of the ice to get goals. Sometimes you go to dirty areas and you don't have to think too much. Pucks find you."
Winnik said none of the veterans were wounded by the coach's push for more scoring.
"Everything's coming together at once," Winnik said. "Opportunities, getting pucks to the net. The two goals that we scored were the same — driving the net. We've known if we're scoring it would help our team a lot."
Emerson Etem is up and down
The Ducks let forward Emerson Etem return from the minor leagues for three games, then sent him back to Norfolk on Tuesday after he was scoreless in the two games he played.
"These guys are … going up against good players," Boudreau said.
A move for a defenseman also might be at play after Mark Fistric, who has had 12 hits in the last two games, departed Monday's game because of an upper-body injury.
Before center Nick Bonino tore a hamstring last season, his pairing with Teemu Selanne boosted the veteran's production.
Although Selanne, 43, did not take a shot in 15 minutes 10 seconds of playing time Monday and hasn't scored a goal since Oct. 20, Boudreau is hopeful the reunion will help Selanne.
"I know he's struggling offensively, but he's always a threat when he's out there," Boudreau said. "I still believe that it's going to break for him at some point."
When: 7:30.
On the air: TV: FS West. Radio: 830.
Etc.: Minnesota goalie Josh Harding leads the league with a 1.5 goals-against average and is tied for the lead with three shutouts.


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Pounawea Motor Camp
A highlight for motorhomers travelling through the Catlins is the campground in the tiny settlement of Pounawea, just 3km from the town of Owaka and the beginning of the Catlins Coastal Rainforest Park. The camp, shaded by tall totara trees, is next to a scenic reserve of virgin bush and the saltmarsh flats of the Owaka and Catlin River estuaries.
A bush walk in the reserve leads through dense native woodlands. Another track begins in the forest and continues along the estuary. The area is rich in bird life - waders, waterbirds and kereru - and every morning singing tui and bellbirds claim the area as their own. Upgraded facilities are now in excellent order. As a great base for exploring the northern Catlins, it is no surprise this camp is consistently given a thumbs-up by those who stay there.
Gunn's Camp
Deep in a wild Fiordland valley is a camping place built on a long history.
This was once the site of Deadman's Hut where legendary runholder, back-country hero and pioneering tourism operator Davey Gunn established a base and spent 30 years of his life. After Davey's death, his son, the equally legendary Murray Gunn, who retired in 2005, ran the camp. Nowadays it's managed by the Hollyford Museum Charitable Trust.
In the camping area there are plenty of unpowered sites but just three powered sites. A generator supplies power to them by day but is closed down at night.
But the real power at Gunn's camp is its environment in the deep valley of the Hollyford River, shadowed by the towering Darran Mountains. It's wild and wonderful. No wonder the Gunns stayed on so long. It might be a hard place to live in but even harder to leave.
Motutara Farm
The barely-there village of Whananaki North, about 22km inland from Hikurangi in the Far North, is divided from South Whananaki by a wide curving estuary.
Connecting its two shores is the longest footbridge in the Southern Hemisphere.
The estuary's north head is an undulating peninsula farmed since 1920 by generations of the Barron Family. Owners Helen and Bruce Barron, have turned the 75ha property into a superb camping ground. Hillside terraces have been levelled to make individual sites among embracing foliage. Others are marked out on the beachfronts or in the sheltered valleys.
Waves on two surf beaches unfold against shortbread-coloured sand and shady pohutukawa leaning drunkenly along the fringes. This is the way camping grounds used to be - just cold water and long-drop toilets by way of facilities, and nature providing the rest. The tip of the peninsula has been gifted as a reserve and undulating walkways over farmland lead to rocky inlets and secluded beaches.
Tapotupotu Bay
Three kilometres before Cape Reinga a metal road leads to this remote horseshoe-shaped bay, which is bordered by a wide beach of creamy-coloured sand. The DoC camp makes the most of the flat, grassed area next to the beach and the tidal river estuary leading to the mangroves. Cold showers, toilets and water are available and payment is $6 a person a night (cash). Fishing from the beach can be excellent and there are rocky platforms at either end. At the west end of the bay a steep track leads up the cliffs to Sandy Bay and to the Cape Reinga Lighthouse (five hours return). You need to be reasonably fit as the climbs are taxing. Even a short climb affords a wonderful view of this wild and beautiful corner of the northern coastline.
Poukaraka Flats Camp Ground
Getting your motorhome there will lighten your pocket but camping on Waiheke Island is still an economical way to stay on one of Auckland's favourite playgrounds. The campground is at a designated area known as Poukaraka Flats, which is in the Whakanewha Auckland Regional Park on the shore of Rocky Bay. It is secluded by the hills and forest around it and divided and sheltered by thickets of mature trees.
Whakanewha park is on the southern side of the island - a large area of mature forest, cascading streams, walkways and a crescent-shaped beach cut in two by a bush covered headland which was once the site of a pa. The campground has flush toilets, cold showers and gas barbecues and although the beach is not its best feature it is favoured by families with young children as it's shallow and calm.
Lake Waikaremoana Holiday Park
The very remoteness of Lake Waikaremoana in the Urewera Mountains of the North Island has saved it from the claws of development. Even today it takes some getting to - on SH38 from Rotorua (a wild road I would not recommend for RVs) or a twisting 60km drive from Wairoa. Waikaremoana translates as "sea of rippling waters" which is exactly what it is - a great stretch of water surrounded by soaring mountains of mudstone that are covered in a tangle of forest.
At Home Bay is a holiday park where most people who stay at the lake end up; but there is another delightful DoC camping spot at Mokau Inlet, 17km further on. The road is not recommended for large motorhomes. Except for summer holidays this gem of a place is away from the madding crowds.


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Local reviews site Yelp is set to price their upcoming IPO tonight. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, it will sell 7.15 million shares at a price of $12 to $14. That would value the company at $838.6 million at the high end of that range.
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As you probably know by now: Yelp is not currently profitable. Last year Yelp incurred an operating loss of $16.2 million on revenues of $82.3 million.
In 2010 it generated revenues of $47.7 million with an operating loss of $9.5 million.
Is this a cause for concern? Yes and no. There is nothing inherently wrong with running losses during a period of heavy investment. However, Yelp's losses fell less than 1 percent as a percentage of revenue from 2010 to 2011 and are surprisingly large considering the company's 74 percent year-over-year growth.
We believe Yelp will face a difficult path to profitability in the coming years.
Yelp and the "Network Effect"
If Yelp wants to build a profitable business in a very competitive market, it will need a defensible comparative advantage.
Yelp argues that it has network effects that create its advantage.
What's a network effect? A network effect is what happens when a product or service becomes more valuable when more people use it.
What is Yelp's network effect? According to the S-1:
Our platform helps people find great local businesses to meet their everyday needs. As more people use our platform, more of them write reviews. Each review that a user contributes helps expand the breadth and depth of the content on our platform, in turn drawing in more consumers. This increase in consumer traffic improves our value proposition to local businesses as they seek low-cost, easy-to-use and effective advertising solutions to target a large number of intent-driven consumers.
In other words, Yelp thinks its depth and breadth of customer reviews create a network effect.
Yelp first enters a market and begins creating profiles for local businesses (what they call 'claimed business locations'). Users then begin to write reviews, ultimately creating a snowball effect until Yelp becomes the definitive guide to local businesses in their market. At this point, Yelp pitches itself to local business as a cheap and effective way to reach their local audience.
Although it may sound a bit far-flung in theory, this can and has worked in certain markets. In San Francisco, its first and most developed market, Yelp is widely accepted as the most effective way to search and find local businesses. Furthermore, by enabling hyper local neighborhood searches, Yelp is usually better to look for local businesses than Google.
At its best, the network effect produces a product akin to a crowd-sourced Zagat (you might want to keep that analogy in mind). While it's easy to discard the reviews of a few picky or petulant customers, it is hard to discount the broad consensus of over 100 reviewers (as is commonly the case for businesses in Yelp's most developed markets).
However, it remains to be seen if Yelp will be able to duplicate this success in other markets. They have seen impressive year-over-year growth in several key metrics: reviews (64 percent), unique monthly visitors (67 percent), claimed local businesses (97 percent), and active local advertisers (118 percent). Nonetheless, despite these gains, Google still accounts for 75 percent of Yelp's traffic. In other words, Yelp has not yet succeeded in becoming a stand-alone web destination. Further complicating Yelp's expansionary growth strategy is the increasingly fierce competition it faces in the local advertising market from the hand that feeds it, Google.
The 800-Pound Google in the Room
Google and Yelp have had what can at-best be described as a contentious relationship. In 2009, Yelp walked away from an all-but-signed agreement to be acquired by Google for more than $500 million. Google reacted by making clear its determination to crush Yelp with all the fury of a scorned lover. They have developed their own competing review service, Google Places, and more recently purchased restaurant review and guide source Zagat.
Both companies say the future of local search and reviews in in mobile, where you pull up an app not a website. Yelp, for example, is now integrated with Apple's Siri on the new iPhone 4S. Google, meanwhile, offers their competing Google Voice app built in to all new Android phones. Given that Android has doubled its market share in the past year, Google has positioned itself to be a leader in mobile local search and reviews.
Other companies are getting into the mix too. Foursquare overhauled its website in November to emphasize search and discovery of local businesses—a clear challenge to Yelp. Users can now search a map to find local businesses that are trending, on a user's list, offering a special, and can even receive recommendations based on time and day. Groupon and Living Social can also be considered competitors as daily deals are a local advertising product of sorts. Furthermore, local advertising has started migrating onto Facebook as well.
What are the stakes? In a word: huge. According to BIA/Kelsey, a market intelligence firm, local businesses spent approximately $133.2 billion on advertising in 2010, only $19.6 billion of it online. Furthermore, 95% of all consumer spending is local. As local business advertising continues to migrate online, the dominant player in the local review market will do very well.
The $19.6 billion question is then: will local businesses devote their small advertising budgets to Yelp or other players like Google and Groupon? Which is most effective in driving new business? The answer, paradoxically, may be neither for some businesses. Why? Services like Yelp have the power to turn the out of the way taco stand into an overnight sensation, effectively undercutting Yelp's own advertising pitch. Why would a company need to advertise if their own customers are already doing it for them?
The Rocky Road to Profitability
As discussed earlier, Yelp's operating losses have barely narrowed in the past year. Given their eye-popping revenue growth, it is worrisome that operating losses still stand at 19 percent of revenue. Why? Largely as a result of its sales and marketing expense, which ate up 65 percent of its revenues last year (see chart outlining revenue and expense growth to the right).
As part of its expansionary growth strategy, Yelp is clearly investing heavily in its sales effort. And so sales and marketing will continue to drag on the company's bottom line as it invests in the top line. It is not clear, however, whether they will be able to cut this expense without sacrificing their revenues. In other words, there is not a clear path to sustainable profitability (see chart below outlining quarterly revenues and operating losses).
Finally, and most worrisome, it does not appear that Yelp's core business of local advertising has been consistently growing in line with its huge increase in local advertising accounts. Quarterly local advertising revenue per active local business account has fluctuated wildly and appears to actually be trending downward over time (see chart below with red trend line).
In other words, Yelp is making less money per advertiser in the most recent quarter that it was in the first quarter of 2010. While some of this is surely attributable to the growth in accounts, it is nonetheless a little worrisome as it may indicate that advertisers are not satisfied with their return on investment. The dollar drop is not devastating in absolute terms, but it is a foreboding trend as Yelp attempts to scale revenues and achieve a sustainable profitability.
There may be some good news though. If the network effect does in fact work, revenues will follow user adoption. Yelp's explosive growth in user adoption over the past year would, therefore, be indicative of strong future revenue growth.
In other words, the bull's case for Yelp goes something like this: in its most established markets, Yelp is the dominant local reviews site; user-generated reviews give Yelp a network effect, which means over time it should get established in many more markets; as it does, it will be able to sell its advertising to local businesses profitably.
There are many problems with that, however:
- It's not clear that user reviews give Yelp a sustainable comparative advantage, let alone a network effect (Zagat's reviews are plenty good);
- Yelp faces big strategic threats (i.e. Google shutting off the traffic tap and competing with its Places local listings/reviews product);
- Selling local advertising is a very expensive proposition, which means that Yelp doesn't have a visible path to profitability in the short or medium term.
While we think that Yelp's local review platform is a strong core product, we believe they will have difficulty scaling revenues and achieving sustainable profitable because:
- They have not proven that they have a "moat", or a truly unique comparative advantage in the market ;
- Most of their traffic comes from Google which is increasingly competing with them ;
- Their ad products have not proven that useful.
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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2001 Press Releases > October 2001 > Hogue glad to represent Wayland as titleholder
Hogue glad to represent Wayland as titleholder
If Emily Hogue had been asked a month ago about giving up her crown as Miss Wayland 2001, she might have been more reluctant. But now, with the pageant looming and three weeks of hard, non-stop work under her belt, she might just appreciate the chance to hand over that responsibility to another.
Hogue, a junior chemistry and biology major at Wayland Baptist University, relinquishes her title Saturday at the Miss Wayland 2002 Pageant, which begins at 7 p.m. in Harral Auditorium on the Plainview campus.
Though Hogue said she'd be glad to see any of the 18 contestants win the next title, she admits the past year has been rewarding and challenging.
"I've gotten to play the piano and speak at a lot of places, and I've really enjoyed that," she said. "This year has given me a neat platform to stand on and tell people about the Lord, people I wouldn't have met otherwise."
Hogue said she's made numerous appearances at area civic group meetings and at university banquets and other functions. From riding on a convertible in 40-degree weather for a parade to playing one song at a nice banquet, Hogue has seen it all. But it all comes with the title.
While the performing and meeting people have been enjoyable, Hogue admits there are other parts of the title that are more challenging.
"It has definitely made me set my standards higher, because I stand for a school that stands for God," she said.
"Putting the pageant together has been a whole lot more work than I thought. There's a whole lot more behind the scenes than I realized."
For the past few months, Hogue has spent most of her free time doing the one task most Miss Wayland's don't mind relinquishing: organizing the next pageant. With help and creative assistance from student activities coordinator Leslie Boyd and student services secretary Amber McCloud, Hogue has had to come up with a theme, decorations, flowers and helpers to choreograph the opening numbers. She's enlisted a sound crew, stage crew, escorts, judges and any other necessary roles.
She credits McCloud and Boyd - who she said have a tendency to think more in terms of how to prevent slipups during the pageant - with keeping the event organized and with soliciting gifts from local merchants for the winner.
For the past three weeks, she's called Harral Auditorium her evening home as she and the 18 contestants have practiced everything from the opening dance number to how to walk in their evening gowns. With energy now waning, Saturday's pageant will at least bring about Hogue's chance to get some much needed rest.
The pageant will feature evening gown competition and entertainment by Hogue, who will be joined by her twin sister Allison, a junior at Howard Payne University, for one number. Following the announcement of the top ten finalists, those ten will present their talent competitions. The field will then be narrowed to five for the final question.
According to McCloud, the talent and interview portions of the competition - both of which are done on Friday - will account for 35 percent each of a girl's score. Evening gown scores will account for the remaining 30 percent. The final question score will then weigh in as one-third while the average will weigh two-thirds, combining to determine the winners and runners-up.


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Great expectations in hard timesWritten by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief
The railroads will help the U.S. economy recover—if Congress doesn't hinder them. Throughout a distressing 2009, many analysts and economists, and not a few ordinary citizens, searched for any signs of economic recovery, seemingly in vain. Some had hearing keen enough to hear one voice repeatedly stressing the positives: the U.S. freight railroad industry.
The railroads will help the U.S. economy recover—if Congress doesn't hinder them.
Throughout a distressing 2009, many analysts and economists, and not a few ordinary citizens, searched for any signs of economic recovery, seemingly in vain. Some had hearing keen enough to hear one voice repeatedly stressing the positives: the U.S. freight railroad industry.
True, rail freight suffered along with most other industrial, commercial, and service sectors, duly documented by Association of American Railroads weekly traffic reports. But AAR and the industry itself repeatedly noted that rail's fundamental economic posture was sound, and would be a factor—if not the factor—leading the economy to recovery. AAR formalized its message in February, releasing "Great Expectations: Railroads and U.S. Economic Recovery," to drive the point home.
As 2010 progresses, rail traffic is indeed recovering, appearing to set the stage for some form of economic rebound, strength yet to be determined. Still unclear is whether the freight rail industry's pivotal role in that recovery will be more widely acknowledged. Indeed, congressional activities and focus in Washington at times seem more intent on punishing the industry for (or despite) its strong economic performance.
A convergence of benefits . . .
"Whether it's by supporting millions of American jobs, keeping the things we buy and use more affordable, or easing traffic congestion and lowering greenhouse gas emissions, freight rail confers tremendous public benefits on society," AAR says.
"Unlike all other modes of transportation, freight rail delivers these benefits with almost no taxpayer help"—no lightweight factor at a time when the specter of higher taxes (and/or, conversely, reduced services) looms across almost every facet of economic life.
Put simply: Efficiency. Economy. Environmentally benign. Freight rail is lean and green—and has been so even before the current economic difficulties arose. What's not to like? "Since 1980, railroads have nearly doubled how much freight they move—while using virtually the same amount of fuel," AAR states. Among other gains, "That means moving freight by rail instead of truck reduces greenhouse gas emissions by on average 75%." That efficiency comes largely from within the industry, not the taxpayer, AAR says: "The four largest major U.S. railroads spend far more on capital outlays and maintenance of track and roadway than the vast majority of state highway agencies spend on their highway programs." And those outlays spur job creation and retention. "Based on U.S. Department of Commerce data, freight railroads generate nearly $265 billion in total annual economic activity, and directly or indirectly support 1.2 million jobs, including rail suppliers and other manufacturing, retail, and service firms throughout the economy."
Perhaps the most overlooked advantage rail offers is its cost efficiency bestowed on its customer base. "Average rail rates were 49% lower in 2008 than in 1981," adjusted for inflation, AAR says. "That means the average shipper can move twice the freight today for the same price it paid 27 years ago."
. . . matched by rising expectations . . .
Such prowess has triggered new demands on the freight rail industry. Some, such as the effort to revive the symbiosis of freight and passenger rail—particularly U.S. high speed rail—are a challenge the industry welcomes. "Striking the right balance as we grow both passenger and freight rail is key to ensuring America's economic engine keeps running," AAR stresses, while cautioning "the development of a world-class passenger rail system must not come at the expense of our country's existing world-class freight rail systems."
Industry groups including AAR, ASLRRA, and RSI are participants of OneRail, a freight/passenger coalition seeking to smooth out difficulties of shared use. And while many see a balancing act ahead, they also see passenger railroads as another customer, and partner, willing to work to the benefit of both.
Far more contentious is a disgruntled shipper segment disputing the freight industry's cost benefits to its customers. Personified by CURE, this customer segment clamors for "changes in federal law and policy that would require railroads to provide more competitive pricing and reliable service. CURE's goal is to hold railroads accountable to their customers and the public," often through claims that individual shippers, or whole industry sectors such as chemical, paper/forestry, or electric utilities, suffer punitive fiscal charges.
AAR, reminding Congress of the benefits of partial deregulation generated by the Staggers Act of 1980, counters, "Railroads remain subject to most antitrust laws, including those that prohibit railroads from getting together to set rates, allocated markets, or unreasonably restrain trade. The few narrow antitrust exemptions available to railroads cover areas under [Surface Transportation Board] jurisdiction." CURE counters by vaguely advocating "legislation to improve" STB. The targeting of STB by CURE is perhaps curious, considering (as AAR notes) "an independent study conducted at the request of STB determined that competition in the industry is working, and that while there have been incremental rail rate increases in recent years, these increases are in line with overall increased costs."
. . . and a federal fixation on safety
The specter of rate re-regulation is still in flux (see Larry Kaufmann's commentary), but Congress has already made its move in terms of safety, approving a largely unfunded mandate to install PTC on large segments of the U.S. freight rail network by the end of 2015. Congress ignored the data documenting rail as the safest mode of ground transportation, insisting that a very safe mode make itself safer. Says AAR, "For railroads, pursing safe operations is not an option—it's an imperative. Today, railroads have lower employee injury rates than most other major industries." Moreover, safety has improved year by year, "with 2008 the safest year on record for U.S. railroads," AAR stresses, largely through its own internal motivation. What will the benefits of making a safe mode even safer cost the industry and its customers (the latter including passenger railroads, as they seek to expand)?
Offering an olive branch along with its concern, AAR says, "Railroads are committed to complying with the Congressional PTC mandate, but this well-intended legislation will have negative unintended consequences. The initial railroad PTC installation cost is roughly equal to what railroads spend in a typical year on all infrastructure-related capital spending." That places much-needed capacity expansion plans (for a recovering economy seeking alternatives to highway congestion) at much risk. Safety is motherhood and apple pie, but at what price and for what gain? Says AAR, "The FRA estimates that . . . railroads will incur approximately $20 in PTC costs for each $1 of PTC benefits." Is the industry to foot the whole bill? Charge Amtrak and passenger customers a pro-rated share? Charge its entire customer base, assuming it's not thwarted by reregulation? Or should the federal government perhaps chip in its share?
The freight rail industry welcomes the great expectations sought by U.S. industry and U.S. government. Still elusive, however, is agreement on "balanced, market-driven policy initiatives that instead offer a better way forward to ensure freight rail can deliver on these expected public benefits."


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About UMERC
The University of Maryland Energy Research Center (UMERC) is a multidisciplinary university initiative dedicated to advancing the frontiers of energy science and technology, with a focus on energy storage, efficiency, and clean energy generation.
The Center focuses on a broad array of research areas critical for future energy technology development.
The Need
Our quality of life, standard of living and national security depend on energy. A strong, balanced energy research program, based on the most efficient use of our natural resources while minimizing our dependence on imported energy, is critical to Maryland and the U.S.
Addressing the Need
The University of Maryland Energy Research Center brings together the research capabilities necessary to create a sustainable energy future, with faculty expertise in both energy technology and policy.
Our Mission
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WILSON � Seven New Bern artists bring their work to the Annie D. Boykin Gallery of the Wilson Arts Center for an exciting exhibit of diverse styles and mediums titled �Uncommon Ground: Seven New Bern Artists.�
WILSON � Seven New Bern artists bring their work to the Annie D. Boykin Gallery of the Wilson Arts Center for an exciting exhibit of diverse styles and mediums titled �Uncommon Ground: Seven New Bern Artists.�
These artists chose a primary meeting point at a local artist�s materials store, owned by a member of the group, Ed Macomber. As they bonded, several of the regulars formed a group they called the �New Bern Realists.�
They represented a serious group of artists who desired to share common interests and ideas. This unique exhibition is made up of some of this original group, with several others who were �juried� into the show by their peers. Each artist met the requisite of being professional and local to New Bern.
The Wilson Arts Center provided these overviews of the artists:
Jill Eberle is an oil painter who is inspired by relationships with family and friends and their interactions. For her still-life paintings, she searches for objects with interesting shapes and colors that evoke a memory. She maintains a studio in New Bern while teaching art at East Carolina University.
Gary Gowens, an international award-winning artist, is also an oil painter. His is known for his landscapes and marine subjects, and has become a Signature member of the Marine Painter�s Association.
Robert Hennon has a fascination with light passing through glass, which is evident in his paintings. His work is a conscious effort at painterly-realism and is reminiscent of the pop art tradition. His still life paintings become portraits of commonplace, familiar objects.
Watercolors are a popular medium, and Ed Macomber pushes them to the maximum. Brightness, color and full-value range make his paintings winners of many juried awards and the centerpiece of private collections. He teaches both privately and through Craven Community College.
Andree Richmond has the ability to create human-like ceramic animals. Her whimsical creatures delight art lovers of all ages. Her artist statement says, �Technology and the current economic system move us at breakneck speed separating us from our natural rhythms, wooing us onto wheels to travel too fast to nourish our soul and sense of humor. My work is about my struggle for balance.�
Artist Elizabeth Alexander-Spencer uses feelings and emotions from her life to create functional and non-functional wooden sculptures. She uses pieces from stories and experiences of people and places to form her sculptures, which have a contemporary take on the Baroque styles.
Joyce Stratton�s paintings begin with a word or phrase to give her a general idea of the direction she will follow. Her finished works are a combination of gesso, acrylic, collage elements, oil pastel, graphite and ink on wood panels.
The show opens March 7 in the Boykin Gallery of the Wilson Arts Center, 124 Nash Street SW, Wilson. Opening day events are free and include an informal Artist Talk forum at 5 p.m., followed by a reception. The exhibit is on display through April 13.


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UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum
The UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum (UKCSF) advises government on managing risks to the environment and to human health via the environment that may result from the production, distribution and use of chemicals.
The forum works alongside other departments and government bodies including the Health and Safety Executive, the Department for Business Innovation and Skills and the Environment Agency. We also receive advice from the Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee (HSAC).
Terms of reference
The purpose of the forum is to advise government on managing risks to the environment and to human health via the environment that may result from the production, distribution and use of chemicals. The forum aims to be a strategic body, with due regard for sustainable consumption and production throughout the chemicals supply chain, the life cycle of chemicals, the precautionary principle, and the need to add value and not replicate activities undertaken elsewhere.
In particular it will:
- review the effectiveness of REACH in realising its goals in the light of the experience and needs of UK stakeholders
- review the effectiveness of the UK competent authority in delivering its obligations under REACH, and engage it in an on-going dialogue to reflect stakeholder views and concerns
- advise government on measures to promote the sound management of chemicals internationally
- continue to promote voluntary action by industry in the UK where this can reduce the overall use of those substances recognised by the forum as being priorities for action
- communicate and encourage best practice and innovation, and encourage others to do so
- promote more effective linkages throughout the chemicals supply chain, and between all those with an interest in the future of a sustainable and competitive UK chemicals industry
In order to measure the effectiveness of the activities above as they relate both to itself and others, the forum will develop key performance indicators against which it can assess performance.
The forum has 24 members, drawn from industry, environmental/animal protection/conservation and consumer organisations, trade unions and the scientific community, and an independent chairman: Professor David Phillips. The broad membership of the forum ensures that they are well placed to explore the views of the many sectors of society who work with, or are concerned about, industrial chemicals.
Professor Phillips has been reappointed as UKCSF Chairman for a second 3 year term, starting from 12 July 2016.
List of the organisations and their representatives currently on the forum:
- ADS (UK Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space industries) - Phil Humphries
- British Association for Chemical Specialities - John Reid
- British Coatings Federation - Tom Bowtell
- British Plastics Federation - Philip Law
- British Retail Consortium - David Bolton
- Business Council for Sustainable Development (UK) - Pat Laughlin
- Chemical Business Association - Michael Cooper
- Chemical Industries Association - Nishma Patel
- Chemicals, Health and Environment Monitoring (CHEM) Trust - Michael Warhurst
- Cruelty Free International - Katy Taylor
- EEF, the manufacturers' organisation - Roz Bulleid
- Environmental Services Association - Ray Parmenter
- Federation of Small Businesses - Andrew Poole
- Green Chemistry Network - James Clark
- Greenpeace - David Santillo
- Knowledge Transfer Network - Steve Fletcher
- National Federation of Women's Institutes - Glenis Wedzicha
- Non-Ferrous Alliance - Piat Piatkiewicz
- Royal Society of Chemistry - Camilla Alexander-White
- Society of Chemical Industry - David Taylor
- TechUK - Susanne Baker
- Trades Union Congress - Bud Hudspith
- UK Cleaning Products Industry Association - Philip Malpass
The forum also has one individual expert, Dr Mike Holland, who is not associated with a particular organisation. Mike is an expert on socio-economic aspects under REACH.
Meetings are open to the public. Please contact us if you would like to attend.
An agenda and papers for the meeting will be published here a few days before each meeting.
- 31 October 2017
- 30 January 2018
- 24 April 2018
- 17 July 2018
- 23 October 2018
Minutes and papers
70th meeting: 31 October 2017 (ZIP, 734KB)
69th meeting: 18 July 2017 (ZIP, 1.53MB)
68th meeting: 27 April 2017 (ZIP, 9.38MB)
67th meeting: 31 January 2017 (ZIP, 10.5MB)
66th meeting: 1 November 2016 (ZIP, 5.3MB)
65th meeting: 26 July 2016 (ZIP, 4.96MB)
64th meeting: 26 April 2016 (ZIP, 5.59MB)
63rd meeting: 26 January 2016 (ZIP, 5.23MB)
For minutes of previous meetings and other documents, please see The National Archives webpages.
2016 UKCSF annual report (PDF, 303KB, 14 pages)
Updated forum guidance for SMEs and downstream users on REACH 2018 registration deadline, with an explanatory note (ZIP, 1.96MB)
Updated forum guidance for SMEs and downstream users on REACH authorisation (PDF, 625KB, 7 pages)
Forum guidance for SMEs and downstream users on REACH Authorisation, with an explanatory note (ZIP, 628KB)
A forum guide to chemical services – introduction to the chemical services business model to influence stakeholder behaviour in the supply chain (PDF, 572KB, 19 pages)
A forum guide to substitution (PDF, 605KB, 16 pages)


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Why isn't Kordia getting blamed for killing public broadcasting?
As FACE Television looks to launch tomorrow, there are grumbles about it not being available on Freeview. The reason it isn't on Freeview is because Kordia - the state owned enterprise frequency mafia, sold the channel that was supposed to be set aside for regional TV once the signal is switched off at the end of this year to Chinese media.
That's right. Kordia sold the channels supposed to be set aside for public broadcasting to Chinese broadcasting interests. Why Kordia haven't been held to account for this surprises the hell out of me.
The Ministry of Culture and Heritage are supposed to be in charge of this and yet seem utterly at a loss to explain why Kordia don't have a signal available. We would all I think love to know why NZ frequencies are being hogged by another country's cultural interests and why one of our own SoEs is making money selling those frequencies to those other cultural interests.
Maybe someone in the msm might want to pick that one up if they aren't too busy surfing Kiwiblog for story ideas today?
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As you all know my marriage has come to an end and the Number One contributing factor in this happening is that dirty fuckin word Depression.
In the almost 4 years I've been writing this stuff out the number of people who come to me suffering from one form of depression or another has risen exponentially.
I'm talking it was one in 1000 before, but now it's more like one in 3.
Depression is a pandemic sweeping across the world and we have no one to blame but ourselves.
Why? Because we now live in a world where emotions are bad and being lazy and no longer self motivated to do anything ourselves, we run to Doctors and Governments to do something about it.
No one allows themselves to cry any more, or be angry or hurt.
People, we were given emotions for a reason. They are our release valve. They dump all the toxins in our emotions and psyche and heal us.
But with Fluoride and Artificial Sweeteners, Sugar, Antibiotic filled meats and dairy, the low fat bullshit stripping our brains of the healthy fats we need to coat it and now the medications we take in bucket loads willingly, we have depression when the smallest thing happens.
I bet you no one will have depression when the Cleansing hits and we are all having to fight for tins in the Supermarket lol
Get off your asses and take your Blob Damn life back.
We have an entire Universe full of Conscious love and light out there desperate to teach us the ways of the Universe.
All our loved ones throughout the course of our Evolutionary creation are begging us to listen to what they have to say and what do we do?
We eat cake and watch the Fucking Kardashians.
Also this 'Labels' bull shit and the Moral Brigade, these pain in the ass 'Black Lives matter' trouble makers and 'Feminists' etc…the governments orchestrate these little pockets of sub division so we will run to them to fix it.
Well guess what people? You get the Government you deserve.
They're coming, and they are bringing tanks and Thought Police. So now you can't be angry that some cops are out of control because your a Terrorist and if you say anything bad your a Terrorist and threat to the nation you live in.
Even though freedom of speech and expression are in the front of all great nations Declarations or Constitutions.
Remember when we were kids, things were so much less complicated when shit happened.
They are allowed to cry and have tantrums but when your an adult you suddenly need to focus on working and going to University and pay taxes that aren't even legal.
We hand ourselves over to the Matrix and then wonder why we are unhappy and our souls are crying out for us to be FREE!!!!
People, please, I beg you, STOP allowing yourself the right to have a fuckin emotion. Life is shit sometimes. Its supposed to teach you the lessons YOU asked for before you came here to be you.
We are incredible Vessels of love and light and only a few of us (Empaths) understand this needs to just cry or be worried or whatever.
We have ALL had to rise above shit that when it's over we have unclenched our butts and breathed a sigh of relief. But life's issues aren't the hurdles we think they are. They are stepping stones not hurdles. We place each stone there ourselves.
WE are the masters of our destiny, no God or Deity. US, we are one consciousness. We are ALL one. We are symbiotic and connected by the light in the Universe. This is why we don't know what is beyond the edge of space because we haven't finished creating it yet. I've seen it. I know how t works. I can step outside all time and see the light and why and how it works because my brian (yes I know I said Brian, watch the animated movie Igor, I LOVE that movie, it is so sweet and I feel like I'm the monster) releases its own DMT it seems without the need for the drug. We all can but mine is just obvious lol
We are ALL supposed to be like me. The way I deal with stress, the way I understand the Universe, the way I leave all the big stuff to fate, my gift is nothing if we are all like it and if everyone was more like me in terms of this gift stuff depression wouldn't exist.
Anyone can be like me if the want is there to put in the years of dedication and training.
This year should of been the worst of my life. So much has changed. My heart has been broken more times this year than any other in my life and you know how bad my life has been.
Yet I'm the happiest I have EVER been in my entirety of life here as Debbie.
Since I gave over to the fear and allowed myself to focus on following my compass, get it. What I am, what I need to be, what I need to do etc…..to be happy. I found pure light.
And boy am I getting happy. I see only light now. I'm surrounding by spirits hundreds deep, I have the most incredible job. Oh My Blob, my readings I actually enjoy them now because I'm helping those who want direction not answers. So it spreads positivity and hope. Where as before I was always worried I was letting people down. My fear of letting people down made me nervous.
I'm teaching thee most incredibly loyal, gifted, loving students. They all tell me how they followed their gut to find me. (They followed their compass) and of my senior students I can honestly say I have found my family.
Even when I've had to go Dark to teach certain lessons these last few days they ALL understand why it had to be done and never judged me and in fact by having their support and permission it illuminated many truths and brought certain people to the light who should never have found it in the first place.
My sons are so clever and funny. They are bat shit crazy like their parents but they are individuals and happy even with all this going on with Mr Ex.
But they embrace my crazy and now my 7 year old is in to Physics. Even has theories of his own we like to discuss.
Mr Ex and I? We are the best of friends and will continue to love and support each other through out all of time. All divorces should be like ours. I'm taking nothing but what is mine, and he will help me with the boys without lawyers getting involved. No drama, just healing.
Everything in life has an opposite, for balance. Without perfect balance nothing can evolve. Left/Right, Up/Down, Light/Dark, Yes/No, Good smells/Bad smells, Love/Hate, Day/Night, Sleep/Wake, Run/Walk, Laugh/Cry etc…..you name it, it will have an opposite. So you have to know that when your depressed because your marriage is over, the good times WILL come. It has to. It's Universal law of balance. But what is happening with us on earth is there are so many of you suffering from some form of emotional or Spirit blockage that we are now tipping the balance the wrong way. We either go up the ladder to light which is evolution and all knowledge, all time, all creation, everything, or we tip it the other way to dark and de evoling or nothingness. Which everything in the Universe including the dark are trying to avoid.
Nothing wants to go down the wrong part of the Black Hole. I call it The Tornado Effect.
By us not doing anything about our situations we head further and further into the black hole (metaphoric black hole of life I mean this time not the actual black hole like I meant last time).
So how to beat depression?
Honestly? Grow up. Embrace the suck, admit your dramas, get off our medication, stop trying to pass the responsibility for your bad decisions onto other people, own your problems, take responsibility and get off processed garbage. Sugar and Fluoride, MSG, SLF, Sweeteners, all that shit is killing our brains, turn off your Blob Damn TVS and read a book, go for a walk, stop being fed the lies that your not good enough. Do what makes you happy and fuck every body else. You will give love and support where you earn it. Give respect where you get it, love with all of your heart, do what you love and love what you do. Stop working jobs you hate and follow your dream. It's better to try and be happy than fail at being happy?
Know that you chose this life for the very lessons your running away from. So face them head on.
You ask for this life. The reason your so miserable is your Third self or Highest Self knows it is here to have the Human Experience and by you fighting your compass trying to point north your denying yourself the experience you sent yourself down here to learn.
If you are living a life where you wish you were doing something else then your pointing your dial away from North. Over time that wears heavy on the dial. Now imagine your intuition is the dial and the decisions you make the magnetic force pulling that dial to North. So like a magnets polarity pushing when your put two magnets against each other, your pushing your Soul away from where it was set to be all along.
So everything you do, every thought, every action, every decision, every plan has it's opposite response. So if you make a positive decision, a positive plan, do something there is also the alternative to it out there. The potential of what could be if you make the wrong decision.
Your gut, your intuition is your compass and no one listens to it but me lol
I'm the only idiot brave enough to listen to every gut feeling and thought BUT I've lost 200lbs and found the love of loves because of it. I have an incredible career now and a book coming out and I'm fighting the fight to get to New England (well that area). I'm happier than I've ever been and at 43 I now have a 25yr old in love with me hahahahaha (I KNOOOOW RIIIIIGHT?) lol
Bless him the silly boy lol
But I did ALL the things my compass told me to do and my life has changed so dramatically I now welcome the bad shit that happens because the Universal law of Balance dictates that what turns to shit also turns to roses 🙂
That's why you enjoy the positives in life because it can change in an instant but it's AAAALLLL based on what you do with what happens next that decides what happens next.
See life as you standing on a pair of skis. One ski is Light, Positive, Evolution of your Spiritual Self, the Other Ski Dark, Negative and De Evolving on a Spiritual level.
Our job while having the human experience is to balance just right on those skis, not too dark, not too light just going at the right speed to have our journey. But soon enough you get the balance just right so your skis go so fast that before you know it your traveling at the speed of what??????? Anyone?………LIGHT!!!
Good Students. I know the 4 that had their hands up immediately already from here lol (see…..Time Traveller lol)
Get it now?
Sort your shit out and watch how fast you get to the light and evolve?
My light is blinding now I'm going so fast.
Many of my students have just gotten on the slopes so I can't wait till they catch up and they will because my experiences mean I can show them how to avoid the hard stuff. I have the cheats to life lol no having to go through the shit I went through to know what I know.
Some still have the fear but honestly if your that miserable in your life, surely trying to be happy is worth giving it a go because if it doesn't work you haven't lost anything and you can say 'See I told me so' lol
Nothing found nothing lost right?
You owe this to yourself and your Ancestors to try. Otherwise you'll be back down for sure.
We are those kinds of nerdy Spirits lol it's ALL about the Lesson of the Human experience.
That's why we do it. But we control what happens, when and how. Fight or Flee.
I used to think everything was predestined but it isn't. We choose it all. Everything, even when we die.
I chose to fight and I've been fighting like a bastard these last 12 months Oh My Blob.
Oh and the reason I am anti Black Lives Matter is because I think ALL lives matter. I'd like to see the people protest the Asian Slaves in the textile and sex industry etc….the African Diamond slaves, The Eastern European Orphans, (All Orphans tbh), First Nations, Aboriginals, LGBT, Men, Hispanics, Muslims,Palestinians, Homeless, Gypsies Animals, Women, The Elderly, Black people, Irish, Gingers, Nerds, Handicap, Mentally challenged, even ugly Spiders the Devils Minions, ALL lives matter, I could be here all day,trees, plants, even dark side, all victims in some way, and we allow it to not matter. We all have good and bad versions. Your going to get good Priets and bad ones, Good Teachers and Bad ones, Good Judges and DAs and bad ones, good black/White/Hispanic/Catholic/Muslim/Gay/Straight/Handicapped you get my drift, I could go on and on. But you know what I mean. If you don't agree that ALL lives matter then your to blame for the state of all of this in this world. Your either a part of the solution or a part of the problem because that's the balance lol See how it works? lol
See….I told you I wasn't crazy lol The dead people in my head taught this stuff. Lol
Wait till I do my book called The Science of the Paranormal.
So we are all to blame for this shit. We got what we deserved.
We are living our collective Spiritual Karma.
A handful of people tell us who to hate and we obey. Even though deep down we know it's wrong.
Immigration…….we ALL come from Immigrants. We ALL came from somewhere. No one will be 100% pure anything.
The trouble isn't letting someone in from a different country but letting everyone in without checking the moral fibre of the person you let in.
If your there to work and make a life for yourself then come on in. Your going to stimulate the economy, and build infrastructure. If your there for benefits and have nowhere to go then maybe you don't come in, especially if you can't read or write.
BUT…..what we should be doing is helping these countries so these poor souls aren't having to leave in the first place. And we do that by getting rid of Bankers, Government, Sovereignty, Big Business, Pointless Celebrity, Military, Pharmaceutical companies etc….
If we all lived the same way there wouldn't be any of this shit.
I'd of worked in every country but now if it wasn't for immigration.
Bastards. Who are we to say no you can't come my soil? It's not even OUR soil, it's Earths and she belongs to ALL of us in the Universe.
We are ALL responsible for each other, when we have the SJWs and Politically Correct, and Moral Brigade getting offended by every little thing we de evolve ourselves faster than war.
War is tragic and brutal and over with eventually. Take your emotions and freedoms and rights of expression away etc…and it poisons us slowly over centuries.
This is why we are on the dark side of the Black Hole and Brethren aren't.
We are heading towards that black holes corner pocket faster than we can maintain the balance and we all know what happens when a house gets sucked into the wrong part of the Tornado.
So you choose. Life is choice. Be the change you want to see because know one can fix what is wrong in you because only your compass knows where it's north is.
Deny it and you deny yourself.
So don't blame anyone else if you don't listen to yourself. The answer is in you and has been all along.
The question is how much do you want to be happy and live the life your soul asked for?
I was taught this by the dead. I share it with you to show you that the dead are NOTHING to fear. Nor the Dark Side as just these very last days I had to work WITH the Dark Side to resolve a problem surrounding a Student of mine.
You HAVE to know the Dark to know the Light. It is the balance of life.
Don't be afraid. I'm trying to show you how, if you just listen and trust your instincts your compass finds it's way to where it is meant to be every time.
The bad stuff happens because it is meant to, but with bad comes good. With good comes bad. You just have to find the balance.
But as I say The Fear of the Paranormal is never as bad as the reality of it and I'm living proof.
Now I just have to be heard a little louder which is why I need to get to America. I know the course of my true destiny lies there.
My compass is set and I can't fight the magnets pulling me in and to be honest I don't want to stop it.
Knowing this path is taking me faster to the light and the happier I become the closer I get to it.
So I won't jump off any time soon.
Light is soooo right. I can't even begin to tell you.
But I'm gonna try.
I've been crossing over so many Spirits I think maybe it might be my thing lol My main purpose, my true gift. I just can relate to them. They trust me to do the right thing.
But more about that later.
We are deigned to self govern
So when we bottle stuff like shaking a bottle of coke eventually it's going to explode and erupt. It's the same with emotion.
I admire people that withdraw and mope
or like me I go off and cry
crying is my release
it's just in how you choose to deal with it comes the hard part
finding the balance
so get angry and punch a pillow but don't go out and punch a cow or small child
Listen to music that you know can change your vibration, go for a walk, hug a tree, bake a cake, play golf, paint, fish (catch and release or for dinner not for sport or the blood lust), whatever it is you have to do to bring calm to your light. Stop stopping yourself from feeling. Put your anger towards something that gets that kenetic energy out of you. Just put it into the right action. Make good choices when wanting to be angry not bad ones. YOU set the balance. YOU. No one else knows your balance but you. No one IS you but you so no one can understand what YOUR balance is.
And this is what I'm teaching you all, this is what my students are doing. Skiing lessons 🙂
And I'm the Ski Instructor called Sven, but it's a Military grade Ski Slope so I'm the Drill Instructor as well and I'm sorry but my Teacher was right and I apologize to you now Pauline, can you hear me up there? lol I'm so sorry lol You were right you little tiny person. I am tougher than you. You said I'd be a tough teacher and I laughed at you. I told you I'd bake cakes and tuck them in at night lol
I'm hard Mama, Oh My Blob, I'm like Satan with big tits lol
I'm the Satan of the Paranormal Sciences hahaha bloody typical lol
My poor students lol they are tough man, I've not had to drop a student in months and boy have I thrown some shit at them lol
It's an honor to serve with these men's and women. We are going to war together to change history forever and I couldn't ask for a better regiment to serve with.
Our galactic brethren are with us, fighting the good fight and the light is starting to shine.
Soon enough if I can do this right, before I die there will be a few hundred thousand less people afraid of death and what happens after and then we can see death as a celebration because they get to go back to the light if they lived the right life while here.
So get it right. Please listen to what I'm saying in these posts. What I want you all to do is try it. Try the way I'm saying to be. Just for a month or a year listen to what I'm saying. It works. I promise you. You wait till you see my weight loss. Once I'm down to my goal weight you wait till you see the change it made all because I listened to the voices in my head lol The dead.
If I'm wrong……well then I just won't play anymore lol Your on our own. I'm done lol I quit lol
Love and Light
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The original idea was conceived by Ferruccio Covini in '74 and made provision for 10 inches front wheels because there where no low profile tyres at the time. The project was ditched in favour of the Soleado prototype, deemed more important, and lay dormant until the 80s when hydro-pneumatic suspension for the four front wheels where devised to optimise weight distribution under various loading conditions.
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Influencers in Academia, the Media and the Literary WorldBy John Jainschigg | Posted 2008-10-30 Print
From entrepreneurs and academics to CEOs and it Gurus, These influencers come from diverse backgrounds, but have one thing in common: they strive to use technology to improve the world.
Influencers in Academia, the Media and the Literary World
Peter Weill
MIT Sloan School of Management
Since 2000, Peter Weill has been director of the Center for Information Systems Research and senior research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He urges CIOs "to spend more time working with external customers, selling and delivering the firm's products and services, while helping to increase the firm's business process effectiveness."
"In a study of more than 250 CIOs," Weill says, "we found that CIOs spend an average of 44 percent of their time managing the provision of IT services and only 10 percent working with external customers. CEOs seeking growth want their CIOs to double that time and are sometimes giving their CIOs revenue targets and incentives. To free up time to focus on these high-impact areas, CIOs need to delegate more of the IT services work."
Nicholas Carr
Nicholas Carr, formerly an executive editor at Harvard Business Review, is best known for his 2003 article for that journal titled, "IT Doesn't Matter," in which he argued that the strategic importance of IT in business is vanishing. His 2004 book Does IT Matter? elaborates on his ideas. Recently, Carr has tackled what he calls "Web 2.0 utopianism" and is reassessing the value of social media such as Wikipedia.
Thomas Friedman
The New York Times
A columnist for The New York Times, Thomas Friedman is best known for several seminal books on topics relating to globalization and the implications of borderless economy. His 2005 book, The World Is Flat, made Friedman prominent as an advocate of the inevitability of free trade and outsourcing.
Adrian Holovaty
While at World Online, Adrian Holovaty collaborated with colleagues Simon Willison, Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Wilson Miner to create the Django Web framework, a tool used for efficient Web site building. In 2005, he created Chicagocrime.org, a free database of crime information. Holovaty also founded EveryBlock, a network application for collecting and disseminating local news.
Walter Lewin
Walter Lewin is a proponent of technology in science education. For many years, he offered courses in physics on MIT cable television. His courses on MIT's OpenCourseWare Web site are widely reposted on YouTube.
Andrew McAfee
Harvard Business School
Andrew McAfee, associate professor at Harvard Business School, is both a critic and a proponent of the business use of social networks, prediction markets and other contemporary Web tools.
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Baseball Field
Bethany's baseball field, found near the southeast corner of the campus, is used for intercollegiate games, intramurals, and practice.
Intramural Field
Bethany's intramural field, located next to Gullixson Hall, is used for intramurals, soccer practice, and other events.
Soccer Field
Bethany's soccer field, located on the south end of the campus, is used primarily for intercollegiate matches.
Softball Field
Bethany's softball field is located on the north end of campus, near the intramural field, Gullixson Hall, and Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary. The field is used for practices, intramural events, and competitions.
Tennis Courts
Bethany's six tennis courts are located at the extreme southeast corner of the campus and serve Bethany's tennis team and individual students.
Sports & Fitness Center
Elevated Running Track
Whether it's too hot, too cold, or too wet outside, Bethany's running track is always just right. The rubberized 1/16th-mile track is suspended above the gymnasium seating and runs the perimeter of the room just behind the basketball hoops. The track is approximately 10 feet wide and is accessible from the second floor of the Sports and Fitness Center lobby.
Fitness and Free Weights Room
The fitness room and the free weights room, on the second floor of the Sports and Fitness Center, are generally accessible to students from early morning until late at night, so the urge to work out can almost always be satisfied. For safety, students must be certified before using the free weights and must always have a spotter to assist them.
North Gymnasium
Bethany's North Gym is host to many of Bethany's basketball and volleyball competitions as well as intramural activities. The rubberized elevated track is a great alternative to the sometimes unpleasant outdoors for walking, jogging, or running.
Racquetball Courts
The Sports and Fitness Center has two regulation racquetball courts availble for physical education classes, intramural competitions, and general student use. Equipment can be checked out with the receptionist in the SFC lobby.
Ronald J. Younge Gymnasium
The Ronald J. Younge Gymnasium is the larger of Bethany's two gymnasiums. In addition to sporting events, the gym is used for events such as Opening Service and Commencement. The Younge Gym is open to students for general use during certain hours of the day.


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INDIANAPOLIS -- The Baltimore Ravens' offseason roadmap begins with Joe Flacco, and it appears they're getting serious about hammering out a new contract for their Super Bowl-winning quarterback.
ProFootballTalk.com's Mike Florio was dining at Capital Grille in Indianapolis on Friday night when he spotted Ravens vice president of football administration Pat Moriarty dining with Joe Linta, Flacco's agent. That lines up with a report from NFL.com's Ian Rapoport, who indicated the Ravens would meet with Flacco's people during the NFL Scouting Combine.
It marks the first time the sides have met since last summer, when August talks to re-sign 28-year-old Flacco fell apart. Those failed negotiations will wind up costing the Ravens, who understand Linta seeks to make Flacco the highest-paid quarterback in the NFL.
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MONTPELIER — Legislators angling for an overhaul of the popular "Current Use" program, which provides tax breaks for owners of farm and forest lands, said their proposals would have trimmed costs from the state budget.
Gov. James Douglas disagreed, and he said so last week when he sent H.485 back to the Statehouse without his signature.
BRISTOL — After a tense start, Bristol residents on Wednesday night faced their neighbors, pulled out their maps, and began talking seriously about where and how gravel extraction should happen in a town still largely divided over the contentious issue.
The conversation was the second in a series of three forums designed to turn inside out the process of town planning in Bristol, marking an effort by the town's planning commission to trade, for the time being, public hearings for round-table conversations.
VERGENNES — Vergennes aldermen have taken a look at the first draft of a proposed $1.6 million 2010-2011 city budget that if adopted would not require an increase in the portion of the city tax rate that supports municipal spending.
That $1.6 million figure does not include the sewer budget, which is funded by users, or the fire department budget, which is funded by the several towns protected by the department. It does include Vergennes' share of funding the fire department.
ADDISON COUNTY — One of the first large thunderstorms of the season sent 70 mph winds and steady bolts of lightning racing through Vermont late last Wednesday night and into the early hours on Thursday, cutting power to thousands of homes around the state, including more than 1,000 in Addison County.
Central Vermont Public Service Corp. (CVPS) estimated that 24,000 residences lost power during the storm, and by 8 a.m. on Thursday 13,200 remained without power.
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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury voters will be asked this summer to endorse a $3 million, 20-year bond to chip away at a mounting backlog of needed repairs to the town's water system infrastructure.
VERGENNES — For the second time in recent months, a longtime member of both the Vergennes Planning Commission and the Development Review Board has decided to step down. On May 18, Mark Hattler, a member of both boards since January 2001, submitted his resignation to aldermen via email.
Hattler's decision, based on his wish to spend more time with his children, follows the departure earlier this spring of longtime planning chairman Neil Curtis, who resigned after a move out of Vergennes.
Mayor Michael Daniels said Hattler would be as hard to replace as Curtis.
BRISTOL — Bristol residents in the village police district voted down the proposed $378,806 police department spending plan for fiscal year 2011 in a narrow 15-14 paper ballot vote on Monday, May 24. At a meeting of the police district, those opposed to the budget cited the rapidly rising cost of supporting the department as their chief concern.
The proposed 2010-2011 budget would have meant a 12.5 percent hike in the amount to be raised by taxes if residents had approved the budget.
NEW HAVEN — The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department and more than 70 community members banded together to conserve nearly 200 acres in the northwest corner of Bristol, finalizing a conservation easement for Jason and Nina Bacon's property on May 21.
The new easement, which is held by Fish and Wildlife, will preserve in perpetuity 194 acres adjacent the Waterworks park on Plank Street. The land will be open for non-vehicular recreation, and the easement now protects valuable maternity colonies for Vermont's only federally endangered mammal, the Indiana bat.
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