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It's no secret that video has a magical effect on your viewers and customers.
It's been proven time and time again that video converts up to 3x better in combination with a regular sales letter. The most successful products and services out there always have a video promoting them.
But before we go any further, you're probably wondering who I am and why I'm telling you something you may already know.
I'm Peter Roszak
I've been a long time marketer in all sorts of small niches and honestly I struggled with video. I was great with graphics and photography, but could never get the whole thing on Video and I was just really bad at making them, honestly my 6 years old cousin could make better videos then me.
Video is complex and it just isn't easy to produce... I'm talking about a video that can actually guarantee you an INCREASE in SALES and get you FRESH leads.
Well you're probably thinking, why don't I just make a slideshow like those countless applications out there that do that...
A BORING SLIDESHOW IS NOT A VIDEO ANYONE WANTS TO WATCH. It's just a bunch of pictures presented with some text, spaced a few seconds part. I've never seen a video like that be effective at selling ANYTHING!
Your personal photos might look good in one, but for selling or promoting your products it's just no good...
Viewers hate them, you probably couldn't sit through watching it and it's just itching to scream out SPAM or even SCAM!
Unfortunately the majority of the software for marketers out there just produces these boring and reputation damaging slide shows.
There are some other solutions, but really they don't come cheap at all and nothing that isn't time consuming or extremely costly.
I don't know about you, but my time is best focused on growing my business, not training myself for weeks on the latest video editor and creation techniques.
Unless your budget is very high, the costs of having a REAL video outsourced, animated and perfected are very high. It's a lengthy process and it takes up a lot of your time in the planning and production process.
Services start from at least the mid hundred dollar range for a SINGLE video being just 1 or 2 minutes long! Imagine what you can do with that kind of money and time invested in growing your business or gaining new customers where it really matters!
THE DIY WAY or "Do It Yourself"... Well it's a learning experience, I eventually figured it out...But it still requires skill, a lot of dedication, expensive software and worst of all it just takes up too much your time. Your time is best invested in growing your business and gaining more traffic and customers. It's going to take you months to master a professional video editing program.
Video templates - This is a growing business and there are actually are quite a few good ones out there, but have you seen the price of just one template that will allow you to sell it to other customers?
$135! The average price for a single after effects video template that you can use for just ONE Business or Product! Are they nuts?!?!? I guess not because they are selling them like crazy even with a price like that.
I told myself, there had to be a better way...
Not a day goes by, not an hour goes by... When you probably watch or have the opportunity to watch a video on a page. Videos can explain your message or product in a short amount of time and have them positioning you as the expert in no time.
By 2017, Its Estimated Video will be 90% of All Internet Traffic. It's vital you have a video, your products and services have a video and that your clients have a video!
It's quite simple and evident all over the Internet!
These are the top 5 products on ClickBank right now sorted by Gravity. All 5 these products use a sales VIDEO!
These products are truly killing it on ClickBank!
But not just ClickBank...
Think of all the "Gurus" and other successful products that use Video to sell their customers. I'm not a big fan of the so called "Gurus" but heck they know Video is powerful!
It fact promotions with just a single video alone have been known to produce MILLION dollar days for Marketers!
Truly this shows you the power of video!
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See any of these sites using some boring picture slideshows? No, I didn't think so.
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1 It will work on every computer. Windows or MAC it's there for you. Being a MAC user myself I couldn't live with this just being a Windows application.
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Two quatrains I like from the 17-line poem "knowledge" in Tadeusz Różewicz's New Poems (Archipelago, 259 pp., $16, paperback), translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston:
cogito and dubito
share a house you know
mr cogito above
mr dubito below
having lived a rich life
they switched you know
dubito above
cogito below …
Różewicz is considered one of the finest poets in Poland and won the Nike Prize, his country's highest literary honor, for Mother Departs. His plays have earned him a reputation one of the major Polish playwrights of the 20th century www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_rozewicz_tadeusz.
© 2008 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.

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The foremost artistic personality of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer was an accomplished painter, printmaker, draftsman, and art theorist. His pictorial innovation and technical bravura transformed the arts of woodcut and engraving, elevating their status to transcend their craft origins and setting standards rarely matched in the history of printmaking. Three works dating to 1513–14 are singled out as the crowning achievements of Dürer's illustrious career as an engraver: Knight, Death and the Devil; Melencolia I; and Saint Jerome in His Study. Closely related in size and complexity of execution, these three prints are known as Dürer's Meisterstiche—or Master Engravings.
Saint Jerome in His Study evokes an ideal of scholarly and spiritual reflection. Set in the ordered interior of a monastic cell, the learned saint is seen at his writing table. The lion, Jerome's legendary companion, and the dog blissfully adrift at his feet, contribute an undeniably sympathetic appeal to the tranquil scene. The light-infused setting, cast in a carefully rendered perspective, has been greatly admired by artists, scholars, and collectors, since the sixteenth century. In his 1568 Lives of the Artists, Giorgio Vasari praised the depiction of sun streaming through the bull's-eye glass windows as having "an effect so natural, it is a marvel," furthermore claiming that "nothing more and nothing better could be done in this field of art." Indeed, in its virtuoso handling of light and meticulous description of textures, Saint Jerome in his Study is a demonstration of Dürer's supreme mastery of the pictorial possibilities of the engraving medium.
This beautiful, rich impression of Saint Jerome in His Study, expertly printed with subtle areas of surface tone, is among the earliest taken from the plate. The careful attention given to the selection of papers and preparation of inks for his engravings strongly suggests Dürer printed his own plates. The artist issued his engravings in limited numbers in response to demand, and as a consequence a qualitative difference can be discerned between various printings. Later impressions can be distinguished from the earliest ones by the progressive dulling of lines and accumulation of scratches in the plate. Here, even the finest and most delicate lines print sharply, rendering a tonal range extending from soft silver to brilliant black to express the play of shimmering light in its most refined nuances. This sheet is also remarkable for its pristine condition. Its survival through five hundred years guarded from even minimal creases, tears, or stains is testament to the high regard in which it was held by its successive owners.
LACMA's holdings of Dürer's prints constitute one of the greatest strengths of the Old Master works on paper collection. The collection includes beautiful, early exemplars of Dürer's masterpieces of engraving, including Knight, Death and the Devil and Melencolia I, in addition to other important works as Adam and Eve and Saint Eustace. With the acquisition of this exquisite impression of Saint Jerome in his Study, LACMA now boasts the complete Master Engravings.
Naoko Takahatake, assistant curator, Prints and Drawings


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Gentlemen: I see that you have chosen to use the horrific crime of the murder of Kasandra Perkins to express your belief that guns are the problem, not the men who wield them. I am utterly certain that you believe that you have the moral high ground on this matter. I am equally certain that such a belief is appallingly wrong, not to mention terribly misogynistic. Why do I say this? Because had your desires on gun control been in place, I would not be alive to be writing this now.
I have an Ex. I have an Ex who, in the process of becoming my Ex, made credible threats to kill me. Why did I believe these threats were credible? Because among the primary reasons why I left him were that he had anger control issues, that he was a problem drinker well on his way to full blown alcoholism and that the things he was throwing at me were getting ever closer to my head. I decided to leave before finally snapped and actually hit me. He was displeased by this and made such displeasure known.
Do you know what kept me safe? Not some piece of paper. Not a judge tut tutting at him and shaking his/her finger and telling him to leave me alone. Not the police, who, after all, would only be able to respond once he had caused me harm. No, what kept me safe was my Glock. What kept me safe was my Glock and the fact that he knew I had both the ability and the will to empty a clip into his chest if he made good on his statements that if I did not come back, I would not see the next week. He never tried to do any of the things he screamed he would because he knew that not only would I defend myself but that I could. My Ex was nearly a foot taller than me and, at the time, had about 150 pounds on me. If he had been able to get close enough to me to harm me, there were very few options I had to protect myself. But with my Glock, well, I would be able to stop him before he got that close. I am alive today because he knew that if he tried to make that otherwise, there was a better than even chance he would be the one lying there in a pool of blood instead of me.
You want to take that from me. You want me to be unable to defend myself. You want to leave me vulnerable to those out there who look at a five foot tall fat girl and think "victim". You want me to be unable to protect myself when there is no one else around to do so. You want to make me dependent on others to provide for my basic safety and security.
Let us not beat around the bush, you want to sacrifice my life on the altar of your political beliefs. How dare you? Honestly, who do the two of you think you are to demand that my blood be shed so that you may preen about what wonderful people you are? Why, precisely, are you removing the responsibility for Kasandra Perkins' murder from Jovan Belcher and placing it on an inanimate object? That is what you are doing, after all. Your position is that absent the gun, Jovan Belcher would not have murdered Kasandra Perkins. What utter rot. It's not as if, to pick something at random, he could have picked up a knife and slit her throat so violently that she was nearly decapitated. Oh no, that would never ever happen. By focusing on the gun, you are choosing to make Jovan Belcher a mere bystander to his own actions. That is horrific. Jovan Belcher murdered Kasandra Perkins. He chose to pull that trigger. He chose to take her life. How dare you attempt to absolve him in even the slightest manner for that crime. He killed her. Not a gun. He did it. No one else.
I will not let you two demand that my blood be shed so that you can sit there and declaim your supposed superior morality to the world. No. You would rather I be dead. That is the logical conclusion of your positions. I will not die for you. No other woman should either.
Alive despite you,


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Community and calendar briefs for Feb. 7
Dance class to prepare for anti-violence event
In preparation for a Feb. 14 OneBillionRising event to end violence against women and girls, the Marion County Children's Alliance Family Violence Prevention workgroup will host a dance class today from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Ocala Police Department community room, 402 S. Pine Ave.
Evelyn James, of the Marion County Health Department, will instruct the signature dance for the national event. The public is invited to participate.
For information, call 438-5990.
Teacher of the Year awards to be televised
Marion County's 2013 Teacher of the Year will be named Friday during the 23rd annual Golden Apple Gala awards ceremony televised on the Marion Education Channel.
Five Golden Apple recipients, all finalists for Teacher of the Year, will be introduced by current or former students.
The gala will air live on the Marion Education Channel at 7 p.m. and replay each Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m, throughout February.
The channel is available on Brighthouse 198, Comcast 99 and Cox 12, as well as other community cable systems, and over-the-air on digital channel 7.1. For more information, 671-7555 or 671-4167.
Golf course benefit helps First Tee program
The Rolling Greens Golf Course is holding a charity golf event beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday at 1415 W. Gleneagles Road, Ocala. The event will help fund the First Tee program, which promotes positive youth development through honesty, core values and life skills both on and off the course.
The cost is $18 per golfer. For more information, call 624-0511.
State to hold trauma center workshop Friday
The Florida Department of Health's Office of Trauma will hold a public rule development workshop from 9 a.m. to noon Friday at the Marion County Health Department, 1801 SE 32nd Ave., Ocala.
The FDOH is working to develop an inclusive, sustainable system that distributes trauma centers throughout the state. The workshop will address apportionment within a trauma service area.
The workshop also is available via conference call by dialing 888-670-3525, pass code 6189253393.
Silver Springs benefit includes auction, buffet
A Romance of Silver Springs benefit Saturday will include a silent auction, catered buffet, live music, dramatic reading from "The Romance of Silver Springs" and raffle tickets for a quilt. The event beings at 6 p.m. at the Pioneer Garden Club, 4331 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala.
Auction items include a Gulf flats fishing trip for four, a cabin in North Carolina for six, kayak and pontoon boat trips along local rivers, donations by artists John Moran and Margaret Tolbert, six hours of outdoor work and a motorcycle ride for two.
The Water Memories Quilt was created by textile artist Celeste Viale, a fifth-generation Floridian, and will be on display. Tickets for the quilt raffle are $1. The drawing will be held Nov. 16. Florida environmentalist Neil Armigan, Guy Marwick, John Hankinson and others will speak.
Tickets are $100 per person or $170 per couple, which includes a copy of "The Romance of Silver Springs" for the first 100 full-priced tickets. A matching ticket grant will pay $50 of the ticket price to the first 40 people who apply.
Contributions will be accepted for a legal fund for a possible challenge to the St. Johns River Water Management District water permit process.
To learn more, call 546-3560 or visit www.wateractionteam.org.
Reunion for Sanborn Seminary set for March
A reunion for graduates of Sanborn Seminary in Kingston, N.H., between the 1930s and 1960s, will be held March 7 in The Villages.
For more information, call 750-1596.
Civic Theatre seeks seniors who perform
The Ocala Civic Theatre is hold auditions for "Sex Please We're Sixty" at 1 p.m. Feb. 18 and 19 at the theatre, 4337 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala.
The casting is for four women and two men, all age 50 or older.
Rehearsals will be held during the day. For more information, call 236-2851, ext. 104.
County firefighter will be recognized Friday
Marion County Fire Rescue and the Marion County Board of County Commissioners will recognize Capt. Joe Amigliore as officer of the year at a ceremony at 3 p.m. Friday at the McPherson Governmental Complex Auditorium, 601 SE 25th Ave., Ocala.
During the ceremony, 17 men and women will formally join Marion Fire Resuce as EMTs or paramedics after taking an oath of appointment.
POW WOW: Chief Running Buck Memorial Pow Wow, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. today through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, Yamassee Seminole Territory/Cox-Osceola Indian Reservation in Orange Springs. $2. (546-1386 or www.coxosceola.com)
JEFF BIANCHI: Classical guitarist in concert, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Brick City Center for the Arts, 23 S. Broadway St., Ocala. $10; $8 Marion Cultural Alliance members and students with ID. (369-1500)
T.O.P.S.: Taking Off Pounds Sensibly groups meet Thursdays: 9 a.m., Spring Lake Village, 2450 NE 146th Terrace, Silver Springs. (625-3358); 10 a.m., Ocklawaha United Methodist Church, 13335 SE 123rd St., Ocklawaha. (347-2841); 10 a.m., Grace Baptist Church, 10835 SE 70th Ave., Belleview. (245-9593); 7 p.m., Dunnellon Women's Club, 11756 Cedar St., Dunnellon. (489-1960) and 7 p.m. Belleview Christian Church, 7149 SE County Road 25A, Belleview. (245-2603)
CHESS CLUB: Ocala Chess Club, 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Marion County Public Library, 2720 E. Silver Springs Blvd. (812-4221)
ASK ARNOLD: Computer help, noon to 2 p.m. Thursday, Freedom Public Library, 5870 SW 95th St., Ocala. (438-2580)
LIONS CLUB: Ocala Lions Club, noon Thursday, Ocala Elk's Lodge, 702 NE 25th Ave., Ocala. (email@example.com)
KIWANIS: Silver Springs Shores Kiwanis Club, noon Thursday, Silver Springs Shores Presbyterian Church, 674 Silver Road, Ocala. (687-1119 or silverspringsshoreskiwanis.org)
BINGO: Bingo, 6 p.m. Thursday, American Legion Post 58, 10730 US 41, Dunnellon. (489-4453)
ACOUSTIC JAM: Musicians of all levels, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Forest Community Center, 777 S. County Road 314A, Ocklawaha. (438-2840)
QUILT CLUB: Pine Needles quilt club, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Forest Community Center, 777 S. County Road 314A, Ocklawaha. (438-2840)
OPEN JAM: Musicians and singers, 7 p.m. Thursday, Orange Blossom Opry, 13939 SE County Road 25, Weirsdale. (821-1201)
OVEREATERS: Overeaters Anonymous, 6 p.m., Thursday, St. Mark's United Methodist Church, 1839 NE Eighth Ave. Road, Room 4, Ocala. (425-2339)
RAPE SUPPORT GROUP: Rape crisis support group, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Ocala Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Center. Call for location. (622-8495 or 622-5919).
BOOK CLUB: Book club grades K-3, 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Forest Public Library, 905 S. County Road 314A, Ocklawaha. (438-2540)
EVENTING KICKOFF: Kickoff party for Equiventures eventing, 2 to 8 p.m. Friday, Ocala Hilton, 3600 SW 36th Ave., Ocala. (875-4428 or www.equiventures.com)
"RED TAILS": "Red Tails," shown as part of Hampton Center Film Series, 6 p.m. Friday, Hampton center, 1501 W Silver Springs Blvd. Free. (873-5810 or www.cf.edu)
MOVIE: Movies for teens and adults, 1 p.m. Friday, Dunnellon Public Library, 20351 Robinson Road, Dunnellon. (438-2520)
COMPUTER CLASS: Internet/email, 10:30 a.m. Friday, Dunnellon Public Library, 20351 Robinson Road, Dunnellon. (438-2520)
PERER EIDE: Contemporary Christian concert, 8 p.m. Friday, St. John Lutheran Church, 1915 SE Lake Weir Ave., Ocala. Free. (629-1794 or www.pedereide.com/index.asp?pageID=1)
BRICK CITY PLAYERS: Brick City Players, 8 p.m. Friday, Insomniac Theater, 1 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala. $12 (897-0477 or http://www.insomniactheatre.com/
"TASTE OF BROADWAY": Student production, "Taste of Broadway," 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, West Port High School, 3733 SW 80th Ave., Ocala. $7. (291-4000 or www.westportkolfpack.org)
To submit information for this list, send an e-mail to email@example.com or visit www.ocala.com, scroll down and click on EVENTS CALENDAR on the right.


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UPMC Steel City Internal Medicine is seeking a Full-Time Medical Assistant to join their McCandless practice.
The practice is located on the suburban campus of Passavant Hospital in McCandless. It is easily accessible from McKnight Road and minutes from North Park.
The newly renovated office encompasses one entire floor of the processional building. The busy internal medicine practice also has a walk in clinic.
This position works Monday – Friday, daylight hours with a rotating Saturday 8:00am – 1:00pm. No evenings or holidays! Free Parking! Sign-On Bonus!
Applicants will be placed in the appropriate job title and salary from the Medical Assistant Career Ladder, based on their individual experience and education.
Assist physicians with various aspects of patient care (including clerical, environmental, and organizational tasks) ensuring patient satisfaction.
- Check schedules and organize patient flow.
- Accompany patients to exam/procedure room. Assist patients as needed with walking, transfers, dressing, collecting specimens, preparing for exam, etc.
- Collect patient information/history, taking vitals, performing screenings per provider guidelines.
- Relay instructions to patients/families.
- Send/receive patient medical records in accordance with Health Insurance.
- Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other state and federal regulations.
- Prepare patient rooms, set up instruments and equipment according to department protocol.
- Clean exam/procedure rooms, instruments and equipment between patient visits to maintain infection control.
- Clean according to scheduled maintenance program and keep appropriate records.
- Manage inventory of supplies; restocking exam/procedure rooms.
- Comply with requirements of appropriate regulatory agencies (i.e. OSHA, CLIA, PA Department of Health).
- Maintain strict confidentiality related to medical records and other data.
- Comply with all UPMC Health System policies and procedures.
- Perform phlebotomy, EKGs, and level one labs. Perform clinic procedures according to policy and procedure. Assist physicians with procedures. Document patient information into the medical record.
- Answering calls and providing pertinent information including patient education as directed.
- Obtain lab/x-ray reports, hospital notes, referral information, etc.
- Complete forms/requisitions as needed.
- Schedule appointments.
- Verify insurance coverage and patient demographics.
- Prepare and manage charts to ensure information is completed and filed appropriately.
Other front office responsibilities, as required.
- High school diploma or equivalent is required.
- Successful completion of a Medical Assistant program or equivalent hospital program, or a minimum of one year of direct patient care experience is preferred.
Must have basic computer skills and knowledge of medical terminology, examination, diagnostic and treatment room responsibilities.
Licensure, Certifications, And Clearances
CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire
- Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
- Act 34
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran
UPMC has a Center for Engagement and Inclusion that is charged with executing leading-edge and next-generation diversity strategies to advance the organization's diversity management capability and its national presence as a diversity leader. This includes having Employee Resource Groups, such as PRIDE Health or UPMC ENABLED (Empowering Abilities and Leveraging Differences) Network, which support the implementation of our diversity strategy.
Total Rewards
More than just competitive pay and benefits, UPMC's Total Rewards package cares for you in all areas of life — because we believe that you're at your best when receiving the support you need: professional, personal, financial, and more.
Our Values
At UPMC, we're driven by shared values that guide our work and keep us accountable to one another. Our Values of Quality & Safety, Dignity & Respect, Caring & Listening, Responsibility & Integrity, Excellence & Innovation play a vital role in creating a cohesive, positive experience for our employees, patients, health plan members, and community. Ready to join us? Apply today.


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Perhaps racing president Teddy Roosevelt was just tired from yesterday's big win vs. the Orioles bird, but today at Nationals Park a lot of Teddy fans were disappointed to see our #26 give up any chance of building on last night's momentum.
Through the early innings of today's game vs. the Baltimore Orioles, Teddy was seen on the field with the grounds crew, pitching in and raking the turf to the best of his awkward ability.
When the runners were introduced for the 4th inning presidents race, Teddy was not there to take the field. Instead he was shown on the Nationals Park high-definition scoreboard, driving a Toro in circles and playing with the grounds crew equipment.
Unlike last night, there were enough participating presidents to make this last presidents race of the homestand official. Abraham Lincoln overtook Thomas Jefferson to resume his winning ways, keeping Abe on pace to set a presidents race record for victories in a season.
Flickr photos courtesy of Nats fans Miss Chatter and afagen
Video by YouTube member VelocityAtrocity


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I've been posting about the way re(peat)-photography permits access to another's seeing, while Greg Neville and I have been working on a such a project for Melbourne. What if the […]
I've been posting about the way re(peat)-photography permits access to another's seeing, while Greg Neville and I have been working on a such a project for Melbourne. What if the […]
Mark Strizic, who recently died (08.12.2012), migrated from Croatia in 1950 and became a widely published architectural and industrial photographer, portraitist of significant Australians. He taught photography at tertiary level in Melbourne from […]
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A decade ago, Linux developer Red Hat faced a decision that would make or break the company: whether to stop producing the very product that gave Red Hat its name. The company was built on Red Hat Linux, but when Paul Cormier—now the head of Red Hat's technologies and products group—joined the company as vice president of engineering in 2001, he knew Red Hat's devotion to open source alone couldn't create a business model capable of standing up to the Microsofts and Oracles of the world. He pushed for drastic action.
To move from small player to big-time enterprise software competitor, Cormier argued that Red Hat had to ditch the freely downloadable Red Hat Linux. Instead, it should replace Red Hat Linux with a more robust enterprise software package that maintained the principles of free (as in freedom) software without actually being free (as in price) to customers.
People within Red Hat told Cormier he was crazy. "A lot of engineers at the time didn't care about a business model," he told Ars. "They wanted to work on Red Hat Linux. We had some level of turmoil inside the company with going to this new model. Some engineers left, but more stayed."
Cormier's vision required a "bet the farm decision," and he won out over the doubters when he convinced then-CEO Matthew Szulik to stop producing Red Hat Linux. The last stable release of the operating system appeared in 2003 at the same time RHEL—Red Hat Enterprise Linux—hit the market. Since then, the company has been on a steady climb in revenue and profitability, aided by the growing popularity of Linux-based servers and Red Hat's expansion into new markets.
The company now faces new challenges as it looks to expand its empire through a big bet on the virtualization market—a market so utterly dominated by VMware that Red Hat may stand little chance. Yet Red Hat's prominence in the enterprise Linux server market ensures growing revenue and profits for some time to come.
This week, at the end of its fiscal year on February 29, Red Hat marks a major milestone: it becomes the first billion-dollar-a-year company making its revenue entirely (or almost entirely) from building and maintaining open source software.
In hindsight, Cormier's risky idea looks prescient; to some at the time, it seemed ridiculous. How did a successful company like Red Hat manage to take such a risk and turn it in to such reward?
Software, scooters, and Nerf gun fights
Red Hat was founded in 1993 by Bob Young and Marc Ewing—with its software having been named after the hat Ewing wore around Carnegie Mellon University—but Ewing had left and Young was gradually stepping back when Cormier joined. He arrived at the same time a new release of Red Hat Linux debuted, and he vividly remembers his early conversations, including one with the engineering manager.
|A Red Hat timeline
1993: Bob Young founds the ACC Corporation, Marc Ewing founds Red Hat.
1994: Ewing releases his own Linux distribution—Red Hat Linux.
1995: Young buys Ewing's business, the two merge into Red Hat Software. Young becomes CEO.
1999: Red Hat becomes a publicly traded company. Bob Young steps down as CEO later in the year, Ewing leaves the company entirely.
2001: Paul Cormier joins Red Hat, sparking a re-examination of the company's business model.
2003: The last stable release of Red Hat Linux debuts. Red Hat Enterprise Linux hits the market.
2005: Young leaves Red Hat's Board of Directors, officially leaving the company.
2006: Red Hat buys JBoss.
2008: Red Hat buys Qumranet, maker of the KVM virtualization platform, laying the groundwork for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
2009: Red Hat enters the virtualization market with RHEV. Existing competitors VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft already have an established market share within the field.
2011: During December earnings announcement, Red Hat reports $836 million in revenue through nine months of the fiscal year.
2012: Red Hat expects to eclipse the $1 billion mark in revenue for the fiscal year ending in February.
"I said, 'So obviously we just shipped something, I assume you can recreate the bits, the binary-compatible bits.' He opened up his top drawer of his desk, a bunch of CDs were inside and said, 'I think the source is somewhere in here.' I said, 'Wow, we have a lot of work to do.' It was like that, people riding around the halls in scooters and having Nerf gun fights. It was all cool. It was all good stuff."
Most of Red Hat's revenue at the time came from telephone support, and Cormier knew the model wouldn't scale.
"We really didn't have a business model," he said. "We had Red Hat Linux in bookstores for $29.95 a box, the same Red Hat Linux people could download for free. We had, maybe, at the time, ten commercial customers that were primarily paying for us to talk on phone. We knew that wouldn't scale. They were saying, 'Why should I pay you for this?'"
Cormier recalls many late nights with top executives, hammering out a strategy to replace Red Hat Linux with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which was ultimately sold through a subscription including updates, patches, and bug fixes. The late night talks were challenging, Cormier says, because Red Hat wanted to both satisfy open source licensing requirements and pave the way for a multi-billion dollar business.
After the transition, Red Hat didn't completely stop giving software away. While RHEL would bring in the money, the spirit of the original Red Hat Linux lived on in Fedora, a Red Hat-sponsored community project, which was first released in 2003 and initially based on Red Hat Linux code. Fedora and RHEL have a mutually beneficial relationship, with Fedora code serving as something of a testing ground for the enterprise features delivered to Red Hat's paying customers.
RHEL source code is freely available under the GPL (GNU General Public License) for those who want to compile it themselves, but the actual finished product costs money. Yes, there is CentOS, a free-to-download clone of RHEL compiled from the source code by CentOS developers. But Red Hat charges a premium for RHEL because it's (theoretically) guaranteed to work—Red Hat and third-party software vendors make sure that applications running on RHEL are not broken when the operating system is updated.
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the bits, the ones and the zeros, are not free," Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst told Ars. "The source code is free and it's freely available. But we compile those bits and we make it enterprise-class."
Most importantly for major customers, Red Hat creates a long-term support edition every two years. It commits to support this for a full decade, to the point of taking critical fixes from the Linux community and back-porting them to the older versions.
"If you're the New York Stock Exchange, the last thing you want is rapid change in your underlying operating system," Whitehurst said.
If all Red Hat did was give away software and sell technical support, "we'd be a tiny little company that is marginally profitable," he said.
Red Hat Linux was much like today's Fedora, releasing new versions quickly to get the bleeding-edge technology out to users. But new versions and patches could break old applications, and there was no ecosystem of software and hardware vendors supporting applications running on Red Hat. With RHEL, Red Hat gives the enterprise what it wants: a stable lifecycle and roadmap, and a more careful system for inserting patches without breaking application compatibility. That model has certainly proven its worth.
Patent trolls follow the money
With the increased cash flow, Red Hat became a target of patent lawsuits and a staunch defender of open source users. The company remains unusually outspoken in its opposition to even the notion of software patents, yet it also forged a pragmatic strategy of acquiring defensive patents. Red Hat fights lawsuits where fundamental issues are at stake and settles others that aren't worth the legal bills.
"If you believe in the concept of modular innovation where a lot of different people add to works that came before them, patents clearly slow that down," Whitehurst said. "I don't think we're different from any other software company, it's just we have to deal with a lot of patent trolls."
Red Hat is always busy in court, particularly in the Eastern District of Texas (well-known as a hotbed of patent lawsuits). Red Hat teamed up with longtime rival Novell to win one case against a subsidiary of "patent licensing" vendor Acacia in 2010. The pair even filed an amicus brief on behalf of Microsoft in one patent dispute.
In other cases, Red Hat simply paid up. It settled lawsuits from Acacia in April 2011 and paid $4.2 million to settle a suit brought by FireStar Software in 2008, for instance.
Among the benefits of a Red Hat subscription is indemnification against lawsuits related to using Red Hat software. Patent trolls sometimes target Red Hat customers directly, and Red Hat generally takes those cases over.
"Our customers call us and say 'we're being sued because we use your product,' and we take over the defense," Whitehurst said. "We reach whatever settlement we reach with the trolls. Some of those we fight because many of these aren't applicable patents for whatever reason, and others we ultimately settle. We generally settle not just for our customers, but for all downstream users of that code."
Despite the patent troubles, Red Hat has become one of the top names in the enterprise server market by focusing on what it does best: building great software.
"We never ever go into a customer and say, 'There's an application that's not supported on RHEL," Cormier said. "If it's supported on Windows, it's supported on RHEL."
Daniel Vande More, chief architect for a company called Net-Results and an Ars reader who has used Red Hat for more than a decade, agrees the shift to a more stable release strategy helped make Red Hat as appealing as it is today.
"Packaging for distributions that shift often is like trying to catch a falling knife," Vande More said. "Everything from new glibc versions to simple things like MySQL version changes can affect applications dramatically and often introduce so much variability that testing all possible configurations is at odds with making good use of developer time. Once Red Hat was able to smooth out these bumps by supporting their RHEL releases for years, I believe it became a much more attractive operating system for software vendors."


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Medics fight to save troops with horrific injuries
In the flickering light of a flare drifting to earth, Army flight medic Daniel "Buzz" Buzard spots a scrum of U.S. soldiers bearing a wounded comrade across a stony Afghan riverbed en route to his helicopter.
Only night-vision goggles illuminate on this moonless night, and a glimpse of the casualty leaves Buzard cold.
"He's just mangled," the medic recalls.
He's looking at Army Staff Sgt. Christopher Walker, 28, a bomb technician with a 7-year-old daughter named Kali waiting back home.
"He's missing his left arm, his right arm. His left leg is just all chewed up, and there's blood all over his face," Buzard says. "I'm looking at this going: 'Where do you start?'"
This is as bad as it gets, doctors and nurses working in Afghanistan say.
It is a cost of fighting in Afghanistan that continues even as the war winds down. Combat tactics in a land of agrarian vastness dictate that U.S. troops patrol on foot — rather than in heavily armored vehicles, as often occurred in Iraq — and risk stepping on the buried explosives that litter the countryside.
The result: More than half of the nearly 460 Americans who lost multiple limbs to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 suffered those wounds here in Afghanistan in just the past two and a half years. From 2001 through 2009, seven troops had triple amputations in combat and one lost all four limbs; all occurred in Iraq. Since 2010, after President Obama ordered a surge in combat against the Taliban, there have been 36 triple amputees and four quadruple amputees, all in Afghanistan, Army data show.
The wave of blast-devastated casualties has left military medicine grasping for better ways to treat what doctors say are the worst casualties they have seen in 11 long years of fighting two wars. Even as U.S. forces draw down in Afghanistan, the military is ramping up medical resources to counter this wrenching pattern of wounds in the waning months of this war.
It has led to multiplying by nearly a factor of six — from 12 to 70 — the number of medevac helicopters operating in Afghanistan, instituting six months of advanced-care training for hundreds of flight medics, performing dozens of blood transfusions on these wounded even as they are lifted off the battlefield and placing more highly trained medical personnel on medevac flights.
The result: Even as the casualties have grown more severe, the mortality rate for the wounded remains about 9%. In all, 2,143 troops have died in Afghanistan, including those killed in combat, and 17,939 were wounded. In Iraq, 4,488 died and 33,220 were wounded.
The physical destruction when a servicemember steps on an IED is immense, doctors say: shattered bones and flesh, sexual organs and rectums torn or ripped away, eardrums ruptured, limbs to the shoulder or pelvis cut away, infectious bacteria and fungus propelled deep into body tissues.
"Right off the bat, you've got the sickest patient you could ever create," says Army Maj. Eric Heinberg, a general surgeon assigned to a field hospital in Afghanistan's southeastern Khost province. "They're disfigured beyond comprehension."
Troops suffering damaged or destroyed sexual organs from these blasts more than doubled from 71 in 2009 to 190 in 2011, military data show.
Last year, the military gave this new wound a label: dismounted complex blast injury.
Emotionally wrought health workers who can no longer bear the sight and suffering of these patients change jobs.
"It's hard," says Army Col. Martin "Fred" Baechler, a hand surgeon who last year sought re-assignment from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. "What strikes me is how many times I've heard a wounded warrior say, 'Just put me back together. I want to be normal.'"
"These wounds are the worst of the worst," says Army Lt. Col. Brett Freedman, a surgeon working at the Army's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Casualties pass through Landstuhl on their way back to the United States.
The story behind what happened to Staff Sgt. Walker, and the challenge of saving him and others ravaged by these IEDs, was put together from more than two dozen interviews conducted in Afghanistan, Germany and Washington, D.C., with medics on the ground, other doctors, soldiers and Walker himself.
1 blast, 7 tourniquets
On the night of April 24, about 15 minutes before Walker is to be hoisted aboard a medevac helicopter, he is down on one knee working under a heavily armored vehicle disabled by a roadside bomb when a second buried explosive detonates nearby.
He is thrown 50 feet, launched over a tree line to a point where soldiers scramble in the darkness to find him.
Army medic Devon Jackson, 22, sitting in a vehicle further back in the stalled convoy, hears the boom and a call that a "dismount" is hurt. He grabs a medical bag and races through the blackness, directed by others to Walker's side.
"I don't remember how many tourniquets I was putting on where," Jackson says later, describing his feverish efforts to save Walker, who was being restrained by other soldiers and pleading for anything to relieve the pain. "I just remember I was putting on tourniquets."
Doctors would later count seven tourniquets on Walker, three thigh high and tight around his shattered left leg and two at the shoulder of each ruined arm. They kept him alive, Buzard says.
The Combat Application Tourniquet developed midway through the war — a simple strap that closes with Velcro, with a plastic windlass for tightening — is now required equipment for all U.S. troops.
Walker — who remembers nothing about this today — is still struggling as the Black Hawk lifts off. Swinging what's left of his right arm, where there is a spear of exposed, charred bone below the elbow, he's effectively stabbing at flight medic Buzard and crew chief Terry Mills, who is trying to give him oxygen.
Soldiers locate Walker's severed right hand, but doctors determine it cannot be salvaged.
The helicopter, flown by a joint Mississippi-Texas National Guard medevac unit known as "Valkyrie Dustoff," is only about three minutes from a small Army field hospital at Forward Operating Base Salerno.
Under the blue light of the aircraft cabin, Buzard, 36 — a critical-care paramedic in his civilian life — checks tourniquets, feels Walker's cool skin and reads his body's paleness as proof of lethal blood loss.
Mills, 51, a retired fire chief from Brandon, Miss., pulls up his goggles so Walker can look into eyes, and leans in close to be heard over the roar of the engine.
"Calm down, brother," he says. "We're getting you taken care of. We're not trying to hurt you. Hang in there with us. We're going to get you to the hospital."
100 minutes down to 40
The most common way soldiers die from these massive wounds is simply to bleed to death.
Despite all of the tourniquets that kept him alive, Walker needs blood when he arrives at the field hospital. A loud-speaker emergency call for his A-negative blood type goes out across the Salerno base, and soldiers quickly respond. During hours on the operating table, he will receive seven gallons of it, six times his body's blood volume.
Recent Army research found that more than a thousand U.S. troops killed in battle in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2001 to 2011 could have been saved with quicker and more advanced care, and that 90% died from blood loss.
"Really, most of the patients are dying before they get to the hospital," says Air Force Col. Stacy Shackelford, director of trauma care in Afghanistan.
That reality, in a land of mountainous terrain and vast distances, is driving a raft of medical initiatives.
Tripling the number of medevac helicopters in recent years has cut the average response time from 100 minutes in 2009 to 40 today.
This year, some medevac crews began carrying refrigerated blood products to immediately begin transfusions for casualties picked up off the battlefield. Fifty blood transfusions have been done so far this year, according to military data. And doctors are studying the option of using freeze-dried blood.
Researchers recorded a 66% higher survival rate for casualties handled by National Guard crews such as the Valkyrie Dustoff platoon — where flight medics are trained to higher standards as paramedics in their private lives. That finding has prompted the Army to require that hundreds of its flight medics receive the same advanced, six-month training. The first graduating class was in October.
Meanwhile, an Air Force doctor and two anesthesiologist nurses flew on medevac missions this year to provide advanced care. A second group will deploy in the months ahead. And the Army is placing critical-care nurses on medevac flights.
"That's really what it's all about," says Army Col. Bruce McVeigh, a medical task force leader in Afghanistan. "It's moving our assets forward to help get to that point where we can sustain life even better."
'You did a great job'
Walker is still struggling to break through restraints when he's wheeled into the emergency room at Salerno between 8 and 8:30 on the night of the explosion.
With his left cheek crushed, head bleeding and a bird-shot pattern of dirt and sand blasted across his torn body, he's trying furiously to wipe the blood from his eyes and face — except that he has no hands.
Army Lt. Col. Christina "Chris" Cawley is the orthopedic surgeon on duty and throws herself — all of 5-foot-7 and 125 pounds — onto Walker, holding down his flailing limbs long enough for assistants to run sedatives into his system.
With blood everywhere "it was like trying to wrestle with a greased pig," she recalls.
It feels like the clock is ticking on Walker's life. "It's terrifying," says Army Capt. Chuck Biggs, a nurse working with Cawley. "You can do all the right things, but take too long doing them, and people will die."
The small hospital would be the first stop on a long trip home. Over several days, Walker would transfer on flights staffed by critical-care Air Force medical teams to larger, better-equipped facilities — first to an Air Force hospital at the Bagram Air Base north of Kabul, then after a seven-hour flight to the Army facility in Landstuhl and finally nine hours later by air to Walter Reed.
Here at Salerno, Biggs says, the key is damage control and preparing the patient for transfer within 10 to 12 hours — by plane or helicopter — to the next stop at Bagram. His shattered left leg is taken off at the hip and his left arm is removed above the elbow. The exposed bones in his right arm below the elbow are left for future surgery. Major blood vessels are tied off. And a crew of six doctors, medics and nurses work for three hours at the painstaking, but crucial task of cleaning the gaping wounds.
Dirt and stones that were turned into shrapnel by the blast, as well as anything else laying on the ground — even green foliage — is pulled out of his body.
"We've seen 6-, 8-inch-long pieces of grass and weeds blown physically into the human body," Biggs says. "And it's still green. It's still alive. It's amazing to see that and have to deal with pulling weeds out of someone's leg or their abdomen."
Cutting away dead tissue, scrubbing raw surfaces with tiny brushes and rinsing with saline solution pouring from small hoses, is vital to prevent bacteria and fungus — common in the soil of Afghanistan — from infecting wounds.
Cawley works to save a long section of skin and flesh from Walker's amputated left leg, leaving it attached to his body. Doctors will use it later, instead of painful skin grafts, to close the left hip.
Months later at Walter Reed, where the veteran combat surgeon has been re-assigned, she meets Walker on a rainy October morning to talk about the day back in April when he arrived at the Salerno hospital. Aware that every salvaged joint is precious to an amputee, Cawley explains the difficult choices she made.
"This (left) arm was attached by skin. But bone destruction was just too big. I wanted to save the elbow. But I couldn't," she says to Walker.
Her eyes fill with tears.
"I never get to see (casualties) afterwards," she says about her war deployments. "They always go away. I don't get to tell them that I'm sorry."
Walker, across from her in an electric wheelchair, tries to console her.
"You did a great job," he says. "Definitely (you) don't have to tell me you're sorry."
'I'm happy I'm alive'
Six months after the bomb went off in Afghanistan, Walker — who says he was in the best condition of his life when he deployed to Afghanistan last November — has aspirations far narrower than those of other young combat veterans his age.
There might be college and a career ahead, perhaps even a training assignment in the military. He loves the intricacies and challenges of figuring out explosive devices. His wife, TianaStraub, is also an Army explosives ordnance technician.
Before figuring out the rest of his life, Walker says he must learn what he can do with the rest of his body.
"It's almost like starting over. Like an infant, you've got to learn to use your (artificial) hands again," Walker says. "I've seen people do amazing things with them, but they've had years and years of practice."
His days are filled with acquiring what his occupational therapist, CaitlinDennison, calls "the skills of the job of living."
"The normal things you do," he explains. "You wake up in the morning and you go to the bathroom. You hop in the shower. You come out and get dressed. You get yourself ready, grab something to eat and you head out for the day. It's just normal, self-sufficient, everyday life.
"It's pretty much where I'm trying to get back to first," he says, wearing a T-shirt printed with the phrase, "Wounded Warrior (some assembly required.)" "Once I get there, I'll start adding on to it."
He shares a two-bedroom suite with this father, Roger Walker, 57, a commercial truck driver who has stopped working for now to care full-time for his son. His father helps him bathe and dress each day. They live in a complex called Harmony Hall, a building designed for outpatient amputees on the Walter Reed campus.
His daughter, Kali Walker, is a child from his first marriage who lives with her mother in Virginia.
After surgeries to clean and close his three amputated limbs, rebuild torn retina muscles in his eyes, remove shrapnel, restore his face and treat a collapsed lung, Chris Walker is learning to walk on an artificial leg and use computerized prosthetic arms, devices that read his muscle impulses. The other day, he practiced using a knife and fork, slicing putty in a dish, and took driving lessons.
"There's days that are horrible," he says candidly. "It can be just ... getting a can out of the refrigerator. You've done it a hundred times. But now that day you drop three in a row.
"Some days things go well. Some days things don't. You just got to keep going," he says. "It's complicated. But I'm happy I'm alive. I have a wife. I have a daughter. And ... I didn't want to die."


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Choi ready for World Golf Championships this time
Now it's time for deep thoughts with K.J. Choi.
The 37-year-old South Korean talked about faith, charity, helping kids from his homeland, maybe even writing a book in the future during an interview session Tuesday for the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational.
He also talked about playing better golf at Firestone Country Club.
Choi has struggled at Firestone's South Course, finishing no better than 22nd in four starts. He ended the 2004 and 2005 tournaments at 10-over par each year.
But Choi isn't about to complain about the Buckeye State, especially after his win at The Memorial in Columbus this summer, the first of two tournament wins so far in 2007.
"I really like Ohio," a smiling Choi said through his translator, Michael Yin. "It just makes me very comfortable being here. It's true that I've never really played well at Firestone, and I've always left Firestone thinking that I could have done better. But I think this week it's a different story."
Choi has the stats to back up that feeling.
He is 12th in the Official World Golf Ranking, with his other win coming in the AT&T National at Congressional in July. He finished ninth at the British Open, his sixth top-10 of the season.
His $3,438,492 in Tour earnings trail only Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh, Phil Mickelson and Jim Furyk.
"My swing has been very consistent this year," said Choi, a compact 5-foot-8, 185 pounds. "It's based on power, you know, rotating the shoulders. So it's very stable. ... And my short game, my putting has been very good lately. All these just factor into my confidence, and I think that's why it's going to be different this year."
Part of that confidence is comfort.
Choi, a hero in his native land, has lived in the United States for almost eight years and can communicate in English for everyday things.
"It's hard for me to really communicate what I really feel deep inside in the exact way that I want to, because I have to go through a translator," said Choi, the first Korean to earn his PGA Tour card. "But I think (with) the other things, I feel very comfortable. It's not a problem for me at all. I feel very at home being on the PGA Tour, living in Houston. So it's all good."
There is a peace about Choi, a sense of balance and purpose. According to him, that comes from above.
"My faith in the Lord, it's set a foundation for me, like a steppingstone for me, something to rely on," Choi said. "It gives me something to rely on emotionally, mentally."
Choi has a desire to write a golf instructional book for South Korean youth, similar to the Jack Nicklaus books he learned the game from a long time ago.
After his 2005 win at the Chrysler Classic of Greensboro, he donated $90,000 to the Korean Presbyterian Church in Greensboro, N.C., that he attends each year during the event.
He was asked what he would do if he won the FedEx Cup championship later this season, worth a cool $10 million.
"If I'm able to win it, I want to give it all to charity, 100 percent," Choi said. "I want to help those kids that really need it, kids who are starving, people who need the money, unfortunate families. I want to spend it mostly on the children and teenagers, adolescents, that need help in their direction in life."
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By Louise Phipps Senft
Being relational means living in relation to others in recognition of an interconnectedness with others. It means, in our interactions with others, being engaged, centered, grounded, clear, generous, humble and kind.
Each of these attributes has a "much more than meets the eye" quality.
A relational way of living involves taking an open, positive attitude into our interactions with everyone, assuming that they are acting out of good motives (or, at least, not assuming they're acting out of malice) – and also that their failures might just be attributable to something that we could understand and relate to if we knew them as a well-loved friend. This holds for people we know well and those who are total strangers to us.
Additionally, living in a relational way calls us to interact with others in a manner that lets them know that we are going to treat them as we would treat a true friend – even in situations involving conflict, and even when they act in ways that threaten us, frighten us and trigger our reactivity. It means not responding with violence or using power to intimidate and control another person.
Being relational shows in the way we greet others, in the respect and consideration we demonstrate, in the way we don't place our needs and desires above theirs, and in the way we seek to serve instead of be served.
Everything we do in relation to others and our world, every day – it all matters. No act or interaction is trivial.
We might just reduce this way of being to the Golden Rule – we treat others as we would have them treat us – but being relational goes well beyond that.
A positive relationship to another person is always valued and hoped for. And, being relational to our environment (fostering a positive relationship with all of creation) is always valued and hoped for, too.
Baltimore Mediation teaches that the core of being relational involves engaging in and fostering quality dialogue. In order to do that, we need self awareness of our own wounds, flaws and sources of reactivity, as well as compassion for others that comes from a willingness to recognize their wounds, flaws and sources of reactivity. We believe that the Enneagram offers helpful insight for gaining both self awareness and compassion toward others.
In contrast to a relational approach to life is what might be called a transactional approach – acting out of self interest and placing very little value on our relationship to the other person.
We are not just talking about actions that are clearly immoral and criminal – clearly, these do not place any value on a relationship with the victim of these acts. Rather, we are talking about all those moments in our lives when we choose to try to get the best of the situation at the expense of others or to the disregard of others.
A transactional approach views interactions with others as transactions where the goal is to get the maximum value for ourselves.
In many ways, our world today rewards and encourages a transactional approach and, thus, we get away with much aggressive, self-interested behavior. After all, with billions of people on the planet, we are much like anonymous actors. This means that most of the time, when we interact with another person, we can assume that we'll never interact with them again. When faced with a choice about how to act in these situations, a coldly rational, logical choice would be to do whatever maximizes our self interest. The relationship with that other person is of no value and not a consideration. It's like we are an economist, weighing risk and return and making a calculation to gain as much as possible.
Classic examples are a student cheating off another kid's paper in school; a driver cutting in front of someone in traffic or running a red light; a shopper buying something, taking it home, using it and then returning it and asking for a full refund; the restaurant patron demanding great service and leaving no tip; a customer ignoring and never even making eye contact with a cashier. Many of these transactional actions are simply frowned at and ignored, and rarely do they have any immediate or even long-term consequences. But these acts erode the spirit of our community and when we are takers and not givers, it affects everyone around us.
The idea of competition is often used to justify a transactional approach. It might be said, "It's a competitive world. Compete to get what you want and let the other guy compete to get what he wants – that's fair right?" And, yes, competition is healthy in some contexts – like in sports and in business.
But competition is not a way of life, and being transactional is no way to live in a world where resources are scarce and need to be shared in order to meet the basic needs of every person.
Being relational is an approach to a life where we have more to think about than our material needs and desires; where the health of our soul increases with loving ourselves and other people; a world where it's not about how much wealth and comfort and power we can acquire.
Our appreciation to Louise Phipps Senft for sharing her insights on our blog.
See Louise in person at our May 29th Drink 'N Think, The Uncharted Edge for Leaders – Conflict Transformation. She will lead an in-depth discussion about responding to everyday conflict and managing difficult dialogues for positive results. Click here to reserve your spot!
About Our Guest Presenter: Honored as a top CEO by SmartCEO Magazine for her leadership of Baltimore Mediation, Louise Phipps Senft is the Founder & CEO of Baltimore Mediation, the first mediation firm in the state of Maryland. Voted "Baltimore's Best Mediator" by Baltimore Magazine, three times named one of Maryland's Top 100 Women by The Daily Record and Baltimore's "Most Spirited Woman" by the American Red Cross in 2011, Louise is also a member of the Greater Baltimore Chapter of the Women Presidents' Organization, a founding member of the international non-profit, Mediators Beyond Borders and sits on the Board of Trustees for Convergence. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, and former faculty at the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation Insight Initiative and President of the Maryland Council for Dispute Resolution. For over 20 years, Louise has served as a pioneer in the field of alternative dispute resolution and is approved by the Association for Conflict Resolution to provide continuing education services nationwide on any mediation topic. Read more about Baltimore Mediation, Louise Phipps Senft and the Transformative Approach to fostering quality dialogue here.


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Brookshaw Pl. 79, Bergamot de Chantilly; Bouchee; Winter Sweet Sugar; Bishop's Thumb
Original Antique Print
23" x 18 1/2" (approximate)
Aquatint and stipple engraving with hand-coloring
Pomona Britannica
Pomona Britannica, or a Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits at present cultivated in the country…selected principally from the royal gardens at Hampton Court…accurately drawn and coloured from nature, with full descriptions was published in London from 1804—1812. Comprising 90 aquatint engravings, including 256 depictions of British fruit, after paintings by George Brookshaw. Published in London and engraved by R. Brookshaw and H. Merke.
George Brookshaw (1751—1823) was born in Birmingham, England where he was apprenticed to Samuel Troughton (d. 1783), a Birmingham painter and japanner. According to a recent blog post related to St. Philips Cathedral, Birmingham, England, entitled In Search of Sobieski Brookshaw, by Gill Partridge, he may have received some art training from his father, also named George Brookshaw, who is listed as an engraver in a document dated 1751. George Brookshaw's brother, Richard Brookshaw (1736—c.1804) was a portrait painter and engraver well versed in mezzotint and copperplate engraving techniques, and may have instructed his brother.
In 1777, Brookshaw moved from Birmingham to London and began a celebrated career building fine cabinets detailed with hand-painted botanical and pomological motifs. Shortly afterward, in 1778, he married Sobieski Grice (1749—1811), daughter of William Grice, a prosperous gunsmith.The Prince of Wales was the most distinguished of Brookshaw's well-heeled patrons, and today examples of Brookshaw's cabinetry may be seen at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. According to church records noted in Gill Partridge's post, both George Brookshaw and Sobieski Grice were baptized at the Birmingham Cathedral. In his cabinet-making shop, Brookshaw also offered lessons in flower painting to 'Ladies of Taste and Fashion'.
During the mid 1790s, it appears his furniture-making business went bankrupt, and he led his life under an assumed name, G. Brown. In 1991, Lucy Wood wrote two articles in which she drew the connection between G. Brown and George Brookshaw. During his years of anonymity, Brookshaw worked as an illustrator of botanical books and gave flower-painting lessons, which may have been his primary source of income. Apparently, the marriage dowry he enjoyed while married to Sobieski Grice was lost after their marriage dissolved. Brookshaw returned to public view as the earliest parts of Pomona Britannica were issued.
In Flower and Print Books of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries, Gordon Dunthorne extolls the virtues of George Brookshaw's large folio edition. "One of the eminent English artists of the early nineteenth century is George Brookshaw, who issued in 1812, Pomona Britannica. Ninety aquatint plates, printed in colour and on a scale comparable to Thornton's Temple of Flora, depict the fruit grown around London and particularly in the royal gardens at Hampton Court. In Aquatint Engravings, George Brookshaw's Pomona Britannica is described by S. T. Prideaux as "one of the finest colour plate books in existence." In many of these plates the lovely mellow tones of the fruit glow against the dark or light brown backgrounds."
References: Sacheverell Sitwell, Great Flower Books 1700—1900; Flower and Print Books of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries, Gordon Dunthorne, 1938, pages 179—180.
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This page lists climate science and climate impact claims that have either not been proven, or have had the claim modified, moved, or expanded to protect the claimant from having to admit the original claim was wrong.
This will always be a work in progress. New items will be added as they are examined and will include:
- The claim itself – what was stated as factual or predicted? A clear unambiguous statement, such as "50 million climate refugees by 2010"
- Proof of the original claim – website, documents, photos, audio, video that clearly and unambiguously show the claim being made sometime in the past.
- A test of the of the claim, and the results – website, documents, photos, audio, video that clearly and unambiguously show the claim not coming true or not meeting the claim.
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- Proof of change in the claim (if applicable) – often, when the claim fails to materialize, goalposts get moved, such as we saw with the "50 million climate refugees" story that was originally set with a due date of 2010, is now set for the year 2020.
First entry:
The Claim: 50 million climate refugees will be produced by climate change by the year 2010. Especially hard hit will be river delta areas, and low lying islands in the Caribbean and Pacific. The UN 62nd General assembly in July 2008 said: …it had been estimated that there would be between 50 million and 200 million environmental migrants by 2010.
The Test: Did population go down in these areas during that period, indicating climate refugees were on the move? The answer, no.
The Proof: Population actually gained in some Caribbean Island for which 2010 census figures were available. Then when challenged on these figures, the UN tried to hide the original claim from view. See: The UN "disappears" 50 million climate refugees, then botches the disappearing attempt
The Change in claim: Now it is claimed that it will be 10 years into the future, and there will be 50 million refugees by the year 2020.


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Simply Faithful: Praying stitches the hours together
It flashed across my screen, this question about how to be closer to God when daily commitments are pulling and tugging at the seams of good intentions.
I thought at first maybe it was a question meant for someone else, someone who dutifully spends an hour each morning reading and praying. But she meant it for me, a mother whose house is rarely quiet and whose life is anything but routine, so I prayed and began my answer.
It starts with how we view time.
It's not a matter of carving out an hour to dedicate to God, it's about realizing that every hour belongs to him. Every moment and every task. The nine minutes after you hit the snooze button and roll over in bed, the commute to work, the hours spent typing or tinkering, the 10 minutes spent folding each load of laundry. That's his time, too.
You pray in the shower. You tuck a devotional in your purse. You put a Bible on your bookcase at work. You read books about faith to your children and listen to spiritual music while you wash dishes. You watch the ordinary unfold before your eyes and you search for the extraordinary, the thread that leads you back to God and his handiwork.
When you find God in those little moments, he becomes seamlessly part of your day.
I also like the idea of praying at certain times of the day, something I've seen while visiting the Trappist monks at the Abbey of the Genesee. I imagine it stitches the hours together and steadies the life. One of the monks suggested that those of us outside of the monastery set alarms on our telephones and computers — that we use everyday objects to call us to prayer.
And that pesky Ann Voskamp, a writer who makes it hard to splash around in shallow spiritual water, has been urging people to memorize scripture. I think secretly she's talking to me. I fell out of the habit of memorizing scriptures back in middle school, and I hadn't thought of it much until the author of "One Thousand Gifts" reminded us how important it is to commit words to memory, to heart.
I'll start my memorization work because this woman who asked the question, well, she's not alone in wanting to be closer to God.
IF YOU'D LIKE TO JOIN US, I have a list of 20 ways to add more prayer in your day. Just visit www.SimplyFaithful.com to download it for free.
— Marketta Gregory is a former religion reporter who can't stop writing about what is sacred and holy. She is a native of Oklahoma but makes her home in Rochester, New York, with her husband, two crazy boys and one very vocal Pomeranian. Find more of her writing at SimplyFaithful.com or check out her book, "Simply Faithful: Finding the Sacred in Everyday Life."


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Beckham back in skimpy bodywear ads for H&M
NEW YORK - The Associated Press
This October 2012 photo released by H & M shows soccer star David Beckham, right, on the set of his newest ad campaign for his bodywear collection in Los Angeles. AP PhotoDavid Beckham has a knack for keeping his name in the news, and his face - and well-sculpted body - in front of the cameras. The newest ad campaign for his bodywear collection for global retailer H&M is being released on the heels of the announcement that he's joining the French Paris-Saint Germain soccer club.
The ad campaign, directed by Guy Ritchie, is more like a film short. Beckham stars as an action hero, saving the day in Los Angeles in his boxer briefs and bedroom slippers. (Beckham, who was born in London, left Europe to join the Los Angeles Galaxy in 2007.)
Beckham launched a line of undergarments and loungewear in partnership with H&M a year ago, debuting in a Super Bowl ad that featured Beckham in a tank top, boxers and his many tattoos. Over the summer came the next wave of ads, with Beckham in his boxers and a different view of the tattoos.
The 37-year-old Beckham said he's committed to this for the long haul, but is still a little startled looking up at a billboard and seeing a giant version of himself.
"No matter how many campaigns I do with H&M, I will never get used to seeing myself on billboards," he said. "It's always a surprise to me when I see them. I'm lucky to work with such great photographers and stylists, so the images are always the best they can be."
Beckham responded to questions via email to The Associated Press:
AP: Working with Ritchie seems like a little bit of a leap into acting. Is that where you are heading?
Beckham: It's been great working with Guy. He's one of my favorite directors, and also a friend, so it was amazing to work with him on my new Bodywear commercial for H&M. It was good fun playing an action hero for the day, getting to do all the stunts and ending up in unexpected situations, but acting full-time is not something I see myself doing in the near future.
AP: Is there a movie you wish you could have starred in?
Beckham: I love Guy's film Lock, Stock ('Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'). It came out in 1998, which was such an exciting time to be British. I remember the attitude and energy of the film as if it were yesterday, and it went on to define so much about how British men saw themselves for years to come. But I wouldn't want to actually appear in the movie - I have too much fun watching it.
AP: What changes have you made to the collection?
Beckham: When we launched the collection, we wanted it to be a range of new classics that men could rely on. We spent 18 months developing the range and working on the product, focusing on fit, comfort and the design details that make for a great piece of bodywear. The core range stays exactly the same, and we add to it only when we feel there's a need for a new piece, like the lounge jerseys and long johns or the morning gown that we added last year. This is a long-term collection, and I'm proud to put my name to it.
AP: With one of your three sons modeling for Burberry (10-year-old Romeo) and at least one seemingly interested in soccer (13-year-old Brooklyn reportedly had a tryout with London club Chelsea), would you encourage them to follow in your footsteps?
Beckham: Like any parent, I just want the best for my kids, whatever they decide to do. They will choose what path they want to follow, and we will always be there to encourage them.
AP: What's the biggest challenge in sticking to your fitness routine?
Beckham: Keeping fit is really important as playing football is all I've ever wanted to do. I'm training a lot at the moment so fitness is an integral part of my day. I think I'd find it more of a challenge if I wasn't able to keep in shape!
AP: New York Fashion Week starts Thursday, and you are often at your wife's shows. (His wife, Victoria, is a former Spice Girl turned fashion designer.) What's it like for you in the front row?
Beckham: Victoria works so hard on her collections, it's just nice to be able to go to the shows and see all that hard work come to life. I'm really proud of her, she gets nervous but it's always a great success.


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Former Nashville recording artist still making music
At 85 years old, music is still what makes Lyons resident Don Shoen tick.
In fact, Shoen just completed his ninth studio album called "Among My Souvenirs" with local recording guru Tom Hagen of Saranac.
"It keeps me going," said Shoen. "That's all I live for now."
The album features 17 songs which are a mix of country, old pop and gospel, which are some of Shoen's favorite genres, he added.
Hagen said he met Shoen through a mutual friend and began working with Shoen three years ago out of Hagen's residence.
"He was solid. His voice was solid and you could see he loved the music," said Hagen.
He added the pair easily work together, try to keep the music authentic to the original songs and are quick to complete an album.
Four other albums made in Saranac compile both original and cover songs sung by Shoen and musically added by Hagen.
"I love it, I love being busy," Shoen added. "It's letting me relive probably the best times in my life."
He isn't joking.
At the age of 40, Shoen said he signed a recording contract with Nugget Records outside of Nashville after cutting a demo recording of a song by Jack Logan.
"I was kind of dazed. I didn't really expect anything to happen," Shoen said.
He recorded two full-length albums with Nugget Records, and said a song called "Molly Darlin'" even hit the charts in England. However, he said the company was pushing a younger musician to the masses and he chose to head back to Michigan.
Shoen said he recorded two more albums with Showtown Records in Lansing and toured for almost two years throughout the country with a scheduled appearance on the Buck Owens' Ranch Show before returning home to his wife who had fallen ill.
Though Shoen never learned how to read music, he said he can "plunk out" a tune on the piano by ear and enjoys singing to his favorites by Eddy Arnold. Most recently he has been singing with other local musicians at the Ionia County Commission on Aging.
Shoen said he feels positively about his music career and said he is proud he knows he can succeed in it, even if the success is only local.
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2008 Season: DYNASTY League Baseball and Pursue the Pennant Nation fired up for 2008 season release.
The Decade of the Underdogs Continues…
After the Subway Series in 2000, every World Series Champion with the exception of 2007 has waited a seeming eternity to win the World Series:
2001 Diamondbacks (1998)
2002 Angels (1961)
2003 Marlins (1997)
2004 Red Sox (1918)
2005 White Sox (1917)
2006 Cardinals (1982)
Cubs (1908)
Brewers (1970)
Phillies (1980), Mets (1986), Dodgers (1988), Rays (1998), Rockies (1993), Twins (1991)
What used to be an annual rite of Spring is now an annual rite of Fall. Instead of your player cards arriving around the time Pitchers and Catchers report to signal the start of the new Baseball season, your player cards arrive when the annual awards for Cy Young, MVP, Rookie of the Year, Manager of the Year and the Gold Glove awards are announced in November and the Hot Stove league heats up with trade rumors over the Winter Meetings.
We used to talk about the possibility of coming out with the new player cards in time for Christmas in some of our Pursue the Pennant meetings. Are you kidding? Not possible. It wasn't even on the radar back then. To do what will happen with the release of the DYNASTY League Baseball 2008 season was unthinkable:
The DYNASTY League Baseball Windows version 2008 season CD will be released in November and all pre-orders are expected to ship the same week of release.
The DYNASTY League Baseball Board version 2008 season player cards will be released in November, the same as they have been since 2004, but here is what is different in 2008 on the board game player card front:
The entire printing system and equipment was upgraded this Summer and the results far exceeded expectations – printing speeds are now 40 x faster than before. What does that mean? The player card pre-orders that used to take 3-4 months to print, now will take 3-4 weeks. That's right. So the staggered first in first out shipping won't be nearly as staggered.
Everyone who pre-orders will have their season player card set shipped in November.
The new printing system also has the benefits of very high print resolutions with very sharp and clear text and a coating on the paper stock to prevent player cards from sticking.
The 2008 World Series teams will once again be offered as PDF's so you can play the 2008 World Series. If you have placed a pre-order for the 2008 season, send an email to:
Include 2008 World Series in the subject of the email and your name in the body of the email and the PDF of the Rays and Phillies will be sent to you prior to the 2008 season release. Estimating the 2008 World Series PDF will be emailed in late October or early November prior to the release of the 2008 season set.
Mike Wilner of FAN 590 Radio has been pre-playing the World Series each year since 2004 with DYNASTY League Baseball. In case you missed it, Jamie Hall took over as Jim Leyland and I was Tony LaRussa as we pre-played the 2006 World Series before each game for CBS.
Size of the 2008 season set? Same as 2007 (972 players).
Top three most anticipated 2008 DYNASTY League Baseball teams:
Top three most anticipated 2008 DYNASTY League Baseball player cards:
CC Sabathia
Albert Pujols and Chipper Jones (tie)
Josh Hamilton
Top three most anticipated 2008 DYNASTY League Baseball rookies:
Evan Longoria
Geovany Soto
Armando Galarraga
2008 season playoff players receiving Clutch hitting ratings:
Ryan Howard .322 BA and .552 SLG RSP/2
Manny Ramirez .318 BA/.576 SLG RSP/2. Manny just being Manny, but he also gets a D Intangible rating for his antics with the Red Sox.
Mark Teixeira .352 BA/.716 SLG Close and Late
Kevin Youkilis .328 BA/.492 SLG RSP/2
Carlos Quentin .351 BA/.757 SLG Close and Late
Vladimir Guerrero .350 BA/.638 SLG Close and Late
Aramis Ramirez .423 BA/.873 SLG Close and Late
David Ortiz .346 BA/.885 SLG RSP/2 and bonus points for the three run jack in game 5 of the ALCS that sparked the greatest comeback in post season history.
Evan Longoria .333 BA/.754 SLG Close and Late
Garrett Anderson .356 BA RSP/2, .371 BA/.578 SLG Close and Late
Dustin Pedroia .368 BA/.526 SLG Close and Late
Andre Eithier .327 BA/.500 SLG RSP/2
Alexei Ramirez .321 BA/.566 SLG RSP/2
Biggest surprise not to get a Clutch hitting rating?
Chase Utley .242 BA RSP/2 and .221 BA in Close and Late
NOTE: Clutch hitting ratings are awarded based on a combination of stats including RSP/2, Close and Late, RSP and RBI.
DYNASTY League Baseball ULTIMATE Ball Park charts (Board version) and updated Ball park effects for the Windows version and Online version
New in 2008 are updated HR results for Minute Maid Park that include the Crawford Boxes,
Train Tracks (Pujols blast off Lidge in the 2005 NLCS) and Conoco HR porch.
Making it's debut in 2008 is Nationals Park:
Most Anticipated New Version of Pursue the Pennant and DYNASTY League Baseball:
It probably won't happen in 2008, but in 2009 it is likely that you will be able to pre-play the World Series with the new DYNASTY League Baseball Online version. If you have not had a chance to check out the new screen shots at the league link – it's a must. DYNASTY League Baseball Online will be rocking the Baseball world in 2008 and 2009.
A next generation user interface is designed to make bracket style Greatest Teams tournaments and continuous Draft League play much easier, faster and more fun.
Don't have enough time to play? A new profile based Computer Manager and Scheduler allow you to play live or have the game Managed for you based on your Manager profile so no matter how busy you are you'll always have time for DYNASTY League Baseball Online.