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France to fine those encouraging anorexia

Inciting people to extreme thinness could be punishable by a year in prison and a fine of 10,000 euros ($11,000) in France after MPs voted Thursday to take aim at "pro-anorexia" websites.

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Does illness make people lonely?

Difficult circumstances often bring people closer together. But a new Concordia study published in Health Psychology has found that the onset of chronic illness often results in sufferers feeling lonelier—even for those ...

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Chronic (medicine)

In medicine, a chronic disease is a disease that is long-lasting or recurrent. The term chronic describes the course of the disease, or its rate of onset and development. A chronic course is distinguished from a recurrent course; recurrent diseases relapse repeatedly, with periods of remission in between. As an adjective, chronic can refer to a persistent and lasting medical condition. Chronicity is usually applied to a condition that lasts more than three months.

The definition of a disease or causative condition may depend on the disease being chronic, and the term chronic will often, but not always appear in the description:

Many chronic diseases require chronic care management for effective long-term treatment.

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The Professional Guest

Seven years ago, it occurred to me that paying rent was a real drag.

I was putting together the original business plan for Cycle Toronto, and I realised that we’d need to have a full-time staff person for about nine months, being paid roughly $0 per week.  As long as I needed to pay rent, we couldn’t start the new bike group.

So I came up with a fun idea called “The Professional Guest”.  I sent the following letter to all my friends:

November 27 2006

dear friends!

I’m moving out of my house and I’d like to move into yours.  Don’t be alarmed.  My plan is not to be a moocher nor a ‘Couch Surfer’.  As of New Years, I will begin my new career as a Professional Guest.

I’ll be serving two-week shifts.  In return for a couch and a pillow, I offer you my services.  You may choose from the following: general cleaning, cooking, interior or exterior painting, proof reading, babysitting, guitar lessons, website design, dog-walking, dishes, electrical wiring, carpentry, plumbing, sock darning, photo portraits, baking, snow shoveling, graphic design, piano lessons, computer tutoring, window cleaning or career counseling.

To register for a two-week shift in 2007 please let me know where you live, type of couch and what you need done.

[house-sitting & pet-sitting also available]

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The response was fantastic.  Within days I had 112 requests.  Over the next 60 weeks I lived in 32 homes with 31 adults, 16 children, 18 cats, 4 dogs, 2 rabbits, 2 birds, 2 gerbils and 2 ferrets.

After a while, I missed the sensation of having my own home, and I moved into a house in Kensington Market.  But my Professional Guest experiment was one of the best years of my life.  If you’re single, childless and have few possessions, I encourage you to try this.

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Some say business strategy is 50 percent art and 50 percent science. The truth is probably closer to 65 percent art and 35 percent science, but the science of strategy remains critical. While art must be developed from within, science can be taught - and it forms the foundation of any business strategy.
In The Strategy Mindset, strategy consultant, author, and internationally renowned speaker, Dr. Chuck Bamford, provides a simple yet practical guide to creating corporate strategy using well researched and battle-tested approaches.
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Andy Murray vs Novak Djokovic for World No 1 Spot: Paris Masters

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Andy Murray, following a title run at ATP Basel last week, contested his third-round match at the 2016 Paris Masters earlier this week. He defeated Lucas Pouille handily in that contest, a result that I found a bit surprising given that Murray entered Paris without much preparation time. But then on Friday the Scot proved himself to be a man on a mission again as he defeated Tomas Berdych in the quarterfinal round. That result and developments on the other half of the draw make it quite plausible that Murray will be the No. 1 ranked played on Monday.

Novak Djokovic, a player who has struggled with injury in recent months, played Marin Cilic on Friday. Unfortunately for the Serb, the on-court struggles that he has endured through for several months continued. Cilic, who won Basel last week, has also played an impressive tournament in Paris this week. The Croatian defeated Djokovic in what was a reversal of one of the more lopsided active head-to-head series on the ATP Tour. Heading into Friday’s match Cilic was 0-14 against the Serb, a series that the Croatian improved to 1-14 with a 6-4, 7-6 victory on Friday.

If you’ve followed tennis this week then you know that the Djokovic loss creates a situation where Murray now has the World No. 1 on his racket. Heading into the tournament, that wasn’t the case as he needed to hope that Djokovic would lose ahead of the final to have any chance at getting to top spot in Paris. But with Djokovic now out the live ranking points are as follows:

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Djokovic: 10780 points
Murray: 10545 points (includes points for making the Paris semifinals)
Difference: Murray trails Djokovic by 235 points

A semifinal finish in a Masters Series event is worth 360 ranking points while a runner-up finish is worth 600, a difference of 240 points. If Murray defeats Milos Raonic on Saturday, then the Scot would guarantee himself at least 10785 points with a berth in the final. Even if he should lose in the championship match to either John Isner or Cilic, Murray would be the new World No. 1 on Monday (i.e.,. Murray no longer needs to win the Paris title).

Raonic is certainly playing well enough to play the role of spoiler in Paris. However, his head-to-head series against Murray is one that has gone decisively in the Scot’s favor in 2016. Murray is 5-0 against the Canadian this season with big wins in the Australian Open semifinals and the Wimbledon final. In those five matches combined, Raonic has won just three sets.

Additional to the Murray/Djokovic tussle at the top of the rankings, there have been plenty of subplots in Paris this week. Cilic, who will have a new career-high ranking on Monday of either 6th or 7th, has qualified for the year-end tour finals. Berdych, on the other, needed a victory over Murray on Friday, one that the Czech failed to get. Meanwhile, Raonic eliminated Tsonga from London contention.

Saturday’s Order of Play makes the Raonic/Murray semifinal the late match. The two will face one another not before 4:30 pm local time.

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On Monday, December 9, 2013, at approximately 4:30 pm, a victim was walking in the rear alley of the 1700 block of Evarts Street, NE, when a suspect approached the victim and stated that he had a weapon and announced a robbery. The suspect obtained personal property from the victim and then sexually assaulted her.

The suspect is described as a black male, approximately 5`9" in height, weighing approximately 160 pounds, medium complexion, in his early 20`s, hazel eyes with dark lines under eyes, He was last seen wearing a black skull cap with ball on top, black winter jacket, navy blue sweater with hood, and dark gray pants.

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Night Secrets
by Norah-Jean Perkin, paranormal (2002)
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Do you believe that the Northern Lights can drive people crazy? Do you want a tale of time travel and the paranormal mixed with murder in one intriguing blend? Well, if you can get past page 150 of Night Secrets without wanting to really bitchsmack that REALLY STUPID heroine black and blue, you are a much more worthy human being than I am.

Jack Wilder is a man with many secrets. Valerie Scott, a city gal schoolteacher, is visiting this idyllic Lake Aurora rustic countryside (that's in Ontario) - faithfully shedding tears each time she recalls her late uncle at regular interval throughout this story - when she stumbles upon a naked and unconscious man all washed up from the lake. She drags him back to the lodge she has inherited from her uncle, where she learns that he is now her co-owner of the lodge. Her uncle has made it such that neither can sell the lodge without coughing up around $900,000 to the other, so now they are stuck.

Then the cracks start to show in this lovely picture. A woman recognizes Jack as the dead ringer of a guy wanted for murder in the 1920s. And a wanted man for murder, also named Jack, is missing and probably roaming around the countryside. Who is Jack? What is going on here?

Not that Valerie cares. Not once does she even wonder what Jack is doing naked and unconscious that night, and not once does she find it weird that the guy in the 1920s has the same name, face, job - everything - as this Jack. Her reaction is to go all "Hee, hee! What funny coincidences!" And when there's a Jack that's been missing and wanted for murder and gee, didn't she meet a man full of secrets also named Jack lately? Valerie just sighs at the TV report and tell Jack how sad the world has become.

When she sees Jack all acting funny like locking himself up in his room and doing strange things, no doubt, inside, she doesn't even wonder. It is not good to pry or intrude on one's privacy, you know.

And so she goes. Maybe I should cut Norah-Jean Perkin some slack, as this is her debut, but seriously, if you want to keep a woman in the dark because you think that's what the plot needs, don't make that woman three-quarter braindead in the process. It is all I can do to finish this story without chomping away at this book with my fangs. It's not a bad story, to be honest, but the really stupid heroine must just die die DIE.

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Synonyms: However, It's a Lovely Day
Japanese: されど愛しい日々

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The researchers at UK-based Pen Test Partners are already well aware of the security holes that can be found in the Internet of Things (IoT).

Recently, they turned to Shodan, the IoT search engine, to take a look at digital video recorders (DVRs): the IoT gadgets that get hooked up to ever-more ubiquitous CCTVs in order to capture surveillance footage.

The Pen Test Partners post about what they found, from Andrew Tierney, is full of coding details on how he got a local root shell on the DVR and used it to uncover an unauthenticated, impossible to disable, remote root shell that an attacker could use to compromise and control the device from the comfort of their own laptop.

And that’s not all they found.

The device was also has no Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection, so attackers can trick users into clicking on links to carry out malicious actions; it has no lock-out, so attackers can guess as many passwords as they like; it sends communications without HTTPS that can be intercepted and tampered with; and there’s no firmware updates, so “you’re stuck with these issues,” Pen Test Partners said.

But weirdest of all, the thing is capturing still images from video feeds and emailing them to an address that appears to be hosted in China.

We already know how bad these DVRs can be: the US company Risk Based Security (RBS) recently looked into the firmware of a widespread brand of surveillance DVR and found that it has a hard-coded root password for the web interface, with which users manage the cameras, including remotely moving them and zooming in.

In other words, anyone can log into that particular model of DVR.

That’s extremely concerning from a privacy perspective, given that much of the footage coming from CCTVs streams from private premises, with all of it being captured by internet-enabled DVRs.

Pen Test Partners have yet more researchers who wanted to know: How safe are those DVRs?

The answer: not safe at all.

The DVR Tierney’s team bought off of Amazon was a random choice: they went with a cheap model manufactured by a company called MVPower that they couldn’t find any details on.

Buried deep in the device’s firmware code, Pen Test Partners found that images were being captured from CCTV feeds and sent to the mysterious email address

As a screenshot of a firmware code sample shows, that email’s subject is “Who are you?”

The email’s body contained a 320x180px snapshot of the CCTV feed.

The email address was hosted on a Chinese email provider, according to Softpedia.

Pen Test Partners discovered that the firmware was taken from the JUAN-Device GitHub repository, managed by someone named Frank Law.

Why is the DVR snapping photos and sending them to Frank Law?

Tierney says that Pen Test Partners doesn’t have a clue.

The researchers did find that somebody else had previously reported the issue on Frank Law’s GitHub page but Law has since pulled the repository it was made on.

As of last week – Tierney posted on Wednesday, 10 February 2016 – Frank Law’s email address was still live.

And as of that date, it was being sent the intro to “Button Moon,” frame by frame (for those outside the UK: Button Moon is a UK children’s program that was broadcast in the 1980s. It chronicles the adventures of Mr. Spoon, who lives with his family of kitchen implements on Junk Planet).

Tierney tells me it’s the only thing he could find kicking around that would do:

The only analog video source is from my test server, which happened to have my collection of 1980s children’s TV on it. So that got fed to the DVR, which is working [its] magic.

I asked him if it was still running, still gumming up Frank Law’s inbox with the adventures of Mr. Spoon, and how long it had run for.

No, he said, Pen Test Partners severed all ties after finding out how nasty the DVR is, which happened pretty fast:

It only ran for a very short period of testing, so not much! I stopped all internet access from the DVR when I realised it was so bad.

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For indie developers on Steam Greenlight, your YES votes make the difference between getting to sell our PC games and…not getting to sell our PC games.

Steam Greenlight is a fickle, flawed, fanged, gnarly beast most indie developers inevitably have to do battle with in order to get their games on Steam.

And let’s be honest…if you’re making a PC game and it’s NOT on Steam, your chances of getting enough sales to make its development worthwhile are pretty…nil.

A swift and decisive victory is always ideal, but there are many times when games become entangled in the process and stagnate in its serpentine grasp, the life squeezing from them with every passing moment,.

This is the situation I find myself in today.

My latest small game, Missile Cards, is currently wrapped up in the barbed, tentacled limbs of this unruly creature that is Steam Greenlight, and I could use your help hacking it free.

What’s that? You’re unarmed? Nonsense!

Let your YES votes be your sword, and let’s cut until there’s nothing left in our path!

Still not convinced Missile Cards deserve to be on Steam? Hmmm.

To my lovely Beta testers who signed on last month: you have not been forsaken. I’m prepping a meaty private Beta build for testing very shortly. In the meantime, however, I’ve released a small public demo of Missile Cards on itch.io to let people kick the tires.

I’ve already gotten a few Let’s Plays and some great feedback, which has helped me tune and improve the game.

Please feel free to try the Demo today, and don’t forget to vote on Steam!

It’s only the first base, but it has a good 30-40 minutes of playtime in it, and it gives a good sense of what the initial gameplay is like.

Still not sure why it’s so important to vote NOW rather than just wait to see if the game get’s through? How about….

The vast majority of Steam Greenlight votes happen in the first two days, when your game is featured in the “New Games” feed section of Greenlight.

Beyond that point? It drops off to crickets. That’s when it’s up to developers to hustle for votes, and if you don’t get enough votes to crack the top 100 games (which constantly shifts), you can forget about getting your game on Steam anytime soon.

Missile Cards development is progressing rapidly, and the game is really shaping up!

But my hands are tied until I pass Greenlight. As you can see from the graph below…I have quite a many more votes to go. A few hundred at least, if not significantly more.

I’m now averaging roughly one Yes vote every other day, despite ongoing efforts to create content, write articles relating to the game, and push to get the word out daily.

This feels a lot like laboriously squeezing a dozen oranges for one drop of succulent juice.

This is not as dire as it seems, but it definitely frustrating from a developer standpoint. I know that, once I can release the game on Steam, it’ll find enough of a niche audience to succeed (I’m keeping the game intentionally small scoped and highly replayable to minimize risk and keep dev time succinct).

Missile Cards is a small project I embarked on over the holidays as a brief palette cleaner from my bigger, darker, more horrific projects I’m working on. It’s not meant to be a huge, massive, long-term thing. But it’s a lot of fun to play and has a lot of replay woven throughout its fabric.

So the sooner I can finish it up and get it launched on Steam…

…the sooner I can get back to making games about things that cloak themselves in the warmth of people’s entrails and whisper your secret name from the darkness outside your window.

Anyhow. Cheers! I appreciate your YES votes and your help!

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Allegory Allegory
Escape the cave.
Domesticated Domesticated
Complete all domestic tests.
Regicide Regicide
Make a royal mess.
Validated Validated
Complete your evaluation.
Fallen Fallen
Complete Part 1.
Merciful Merciful
Evaluation: Pending…
Face-Off Face-Off
Evaluation: Complete.
In a Barrel In a Barrel
Nice reflexes!
Consider That a Divorce Consider That a Divorce
It’s better to have loved and lost…
Sadistic Sadistic
Light ’em up.
Tin Man Tin Man
You never even gave it a second thought…
Ask Questions Later Ask Questions Later
Repair Reaper.
Doesn't Learn Doesn’t Learn
Kids these days…
Fungacide Fungacide
I couldn’t escape!
Military Machine Military Machine
6 feet under.
Diag-Gnostic Diag-Gnostic
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Machines don’t always run smoothly – phone calls drop, computers crash and cars stall.

A new Brigham Young University study shows the same kinds of problems happen to the molecular machinery within our cells.

Known as ribosomes, these machines crank out the proteins that do nearly everything cells need to survive: Move things around, speed up chemical reactions to get energy from food, even make and copy DNA.

With all that ribosomes do right, it’s only now coming to light how much can go wrong. As BYU biochemists report this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, these biological machines are just as prone to failure as man-made machines.

“Biologists tend to think of the ribosome as capable of making anything,” said BYU professor and study author Allen Buskirk. “They think that ribosomes don’t care what sequence you give them – that they just make whatever you tell them to make. And that’s not true.”

Even in a simple bacterial cell, there are thousands of different proteins, each made up of amino acids linked together end to end. Ribosomes have to build all these proteins accurately and quickly, using information copied off of DNA as messenger RNA to determine which amino acid goes where.

Buskirk and his students found a variety of amino acid sequences that cause ribosomes to move in fits and starts or completely stall. Some of it may be strategic – buying time for the protein to fold properly as it comes off the ribosome, or regulating the expression of nearby genes in response to changing conditions in the cell.

In other cases, however, it seems more like a bug in the system. Buskirk and his co-authors explain in the new study how cells recover from those setbacks with systems that alleviate stalling or rescue stalled ribosomes.

BYU Ph.D. student Chris Woolstenhulme co-authored the paper with Buskirk. The two of them are pursuing follow-up studies this year at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Four BYU students who worked on the project as undergraduates also appear as co-authors: Shankar Parajuli, David Healey, Diana Valverde and Nicholas Petersen.


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Wednesday January 04, 2017 @08:52PM NASA Unveils Two New Missions To Study Truly Strange Asteroids
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Thursday December 08, 2016 @04:15PM John Glenn, First American To Orbit The Earth, Dies At 95
Friday November 18, 2016 @07:20PM Scientists Discover Antibody That Neutralizes 98% of HIV Strains
Thursday October 27, 2016 @06:05PM Star Trek Discovery Gets Delayed After Losing Showrunner Bryan Fuller
Monday October 17, 2016 @04:21PM Venus May Have Been the First Habitable Planet In Our Solar System, Study Suggests
Tuesday October 04, 2016 @01:57AM Researchers Restore the First Recording of Computer-Generated Music
Monday October 03, 2016 @11:42PM Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan Wins Nobel Prize In Medicine For Study of Cell Recycling
Friday September 16, 2016 @11:44PM Pluto Is Emitting X-Rays
Friday September 09, 2016 @05:32PM New Research Reveals Hundreds of Undiscovered Black Holes
Wednesday September 07, 2016 @01:49AM Star Trek's LCARS Could Become Your Virtual Assistant
Thursday September 01, 2016 @03:15PM World's Oldest Fossils Found In Greenland
Monday August 29, 2016 @09:43PM Hunt For Ninth Planet Reveals Distant Solar System Objects
Monday August 29, 2016 @04:08PM SETI Has Observed a 'Strong' Signal That May Originate From a Sun-like Star
Thursday August 25, 2016 @07:13PM NASA's Voyager 2 Flew By Saturn 35 Years Ago Today
Wednesday July 27, 2016 @04:45PM ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Funding Leads To New Genetic Findings
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Tuesday March 29, 2011 @12:48PM Discovery Heads Into Retirement
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December 10, 2014
Accenture Grants Social Business Women US$1.3 Million to Help Women in Germany Find Jobs or Start Businesses
Grant is part of Accenture’s Skills to Succeed corporate citizenship initiative
BERLIN; Dec. 10, 2014 – Accenture and the Accenture Foundations have awarded Social Business Women US$1.3 million to deliver job and entrepreneurial skills training to more than 2,000 women in Germany who experience barriers to employment because of difficult life situations.
The award is part of Accenture’s corporate citizenship initiative Skills to Succeed, which will equip more than 700,000 people around the world by 2015 with the skills to get a job or build a business. Over a four-year period, the grant will enable Social Business Women to expand within Germany from one to at least five locations, providing skills training to help women seeking employment or entrepreneurship. In addition to the grant, Accenture people will provide Social Business Women with pro bono services that support program management and expansion.
Social Business Women works with local nonprofits to help women who face a wide range of challenging situations, such as unemployment, single motherhood or financial hardship, enter or re-enter the job market through employment or through starting a small business.
“Social Business Women shares our commitment to building employment and entrepreneurial skills that can help women get jobs or establish businesses that bring them, their families and their local communities more financial independence,”  said Jill Huntley, managing director, Global Corporate Citizenship, Accenture. “By partnering with Social Business Women, we can help the organization expand, broaden their reach and increase their impact, as they strive to build the confidence and capabilities of women.”
“In Germany, these women face a range of economic, regulatory and social barriers that prohibit them from finding a job or starting their own business and are, therefore, heavily underutilized,” said Gabriele Moehlke, co-founder, Social Business Women.” This grant will help us improve the economic situation of more women, their families and local communities by boosting their skill set and confidence to integrate more easily into society.”
About Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 305,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. Through its Skills to Succeed corporate citizenship initiative, Accenture is committed to equipping 700,000 people around the world by 2015 with the skills to get a job or build a business. The company generated net revenues of US$30.0 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2014. Its home page is
About Social Business Women
Social Business Women aims to increase female employability in Germany through mentoring and job and entrepreneurial skills training. It focuses on helping women – who face a range of challenging life situations – improve their financial circumstances by finding lasting employment or by starting a business.  Learn more at
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Saturday, July 23, 2011

"I never understood why some people destroyed my career, my life, insulted me while I was the victim"

TO some, she is a frail, tormented young woman who was preyed upon by an influential politician and well-known womanizer. To others, she is a publicity-seeking fantasist. To still others, she is a skillful manipulator who helped foment a plot against the Socialist Party.

Whether fairly or not, Tristane Banon … has become one of France’s most polarizing figures, even to some of her colleagues and friends
writes Maïa de la Baume in her article on the 32-year-old writer who contends that Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her in 2003.
For Ms. Banon herself, the complaint brought an end to years of indecision and turmoil. “It’s liberation,” she said in a phone interview. “It’s the most liberating and violent thing I’ve ever done in my life.”

…In [a L’Express] interview, Ms. Banon said the [DSK] episode destroyed her self-confidence, affected her relationships with men and hurt her chances to find work in journalism. “I never understood why some people destroyed my career, my life, insulted me while I was the victim,” she said.

…after the episode with Mr. Strauss-Kahn, she says she was branded with a reputation. Many in the French media world knew about her accusations against Mr. Strauss-Kahn and feared them, she said. She implied that she was a marked person. “I was hired at a radio station and then a month later, my boss would tell me abruptly that he couldn’t keep me anymore,” she said.

Friday, July 22, 2011

Damn Those Presbyterians!

Pix of the Near Distant Ago

SPON features a set of images of a disused Soviet military hospital in the Brandenburg town of Beelitz, a sanitarium in Oranienburg, and other abandoned structures in what was the DDR by Berlin photographer Axel Hansmann. Is it art or merely deliciously grim scenery?

"Needless to say, America's right is having a field day"

Pour la première fois depuis 1938, la droite s'est emparée du poste de gouverneur ainsi que de la majorité dans les deux Chambres locales. Autant dire qu'elle s'en donne à coeur joie.
So much for respect of the outcome of elections. In Corine Lesnes' Le Monde articles on Scott Walker and the situation in Wisconsin, we are treated to social "traditions" that "date to the Roosevelt era" while members of the left are duly "motivated" while the right — and the Tea Party — are, needless to say, behaving irresponsibly.
Scott Walker n'aurait été qu'un gouverneur parmi d'autres, aux prises avec la crise budgétaire, s'il ne s'était attaqué aux syndicats. A la faveur du passage du budget, il a aboli le droit de négocier par conventions collectives dans la fonction publique, un acquis datant de 1959. "Il a changé fondamentalement cette idée que les syndicats de fonctionnaires ont le droit d'exister", considère le professeur Charles Franklin, de l'université du Wisconsin à Madison, capitale de l'Etat.

Sentant le danger, les organisations de gauche se sont mobilisées, et le Wisconsin est devenu une cause nationale, l'emblème du bras de fer historique qui oppose démocrates et républicains sur le modèle social à l'heure de la crise. "Le Wisconsin a toujours été pionnier pour les conventions collectives, pour les indemnités-chômage, rappelle Peter Barca, chef de file des démocrates à l'Assemblée. Tout le pays nous observe. Les gens se disent : si on peut changer les droits syndicaux dans le Wisconsin, on peut le faire n'importe où."
"Ces élections vont changer le débat jusqu'à Washington, assure Charles Chamberlain, de Democracy for America, une association nationale venue aider les militants locaux. Les républicains, où qu'ils soient, ne seront plus si pressés de toucher aux programmes sociaux s'ils s'aperçoivent de la réaction violente qu'ils engendrent."
From the Obama-loving newspaper, we are treated to the description of a statesman (Scott Walker, needless to say, not Barack Obama) as a politician "without much experience" ("M. Walker, ancien élu local sans grande expérience") and to healthy doses of paranoia about the Koch brothers without apparently noticing the irony in the fact that in the very next paragraphs we learn — but here vast amounts of money from out-of-state is apparently a good thing — that thousands upon thousands of dollars have been spent on recall elections by MoveOn and the AFL-CIO, etc…

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Johnny Hallyday is as French as the baguette, and he has been singing for more than 50 years

It is hard to explain the place [JOHNNY HALLYDAY] has in French life
muses Steven Erlanger from Paris about the French rocker, now 68, who "has survived three previous marriages, kidney stones, a bout with colon cancer and [a] bungled operation on his spine" along with "a couple of suicide attempts, and even an effort at retirement."
— he has done more than 100 tours, sold more than 100 million records, made 47 studio albums and 26 live ones. He has been on more than 2,100 magazine covers, and his Wikipedia entry in French is longer than Jesus Christ’s.

Johnny Hallyday is as French as the baguette, and he has been singing for more than 50 years, bringing Elvis rhythms, energy and glitter to a culture steeped in ballads.

…IN Los Angeles, at least, where he went in part to escape high French taxes, his children are untouched by his celebrity, since few Americans outside the music world know who he is.

Remembering Past Hissy Fits

Remember those endless, repetitious, screamed-hoarse blubbering about the US not having a victory or a postwar plan in Iraq, when in fact they did? We were led to believe that lefties, should they be “forced” to fight a war, and it wouldn’t be “of choice” would at least get that part right.

Wars of choice, however, are fundamentally different. They are normally undertaken for reasons that do not involve obvious self-defense of the United States or an ally.
Fast forward to the truth. Libya is not a war “of choice”. Worse still, Europeans are trying to run it. There is no apparent plan to win, and postwar planning seems to be limited to “you’re on your own, kid - now cough up that light-sweet Brent grade crude”.
In theory, this would all have been worked out before NATO intervened, thus taking ownership of the outcome. And it's possible that someone, somewhere planned all this out. But, if they did, they've been awfully quiet about it.
Elsewhere: an excellent data source is found for the “dead hippy index”.
"German society is changing and it's not easy to be a naturist anymore," said Kurt Fischer, president of the German FKK association (DFK). There are some 500,000 registered nudists and a total of seven million Germans sunbathe naked regularly.

"But the numbers are unfortunately falling by about two percent each year," Fischer told a group of reporters in the Foreign Press Association (VAP) while sitting, fully clothed, at a beach bar in Berlin's government quarter. "Times are tough."

The main problem is the shrinking population, Fischer said.
Aside from a still fetid river cum canal, Berlin’s government district (as if that didn’t describe their whole society), is far enough away from a tropical beach (Club Med Libya, perchance?) to make this look about as silly as most impromptu press events in Germany.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

And WHO makes all of those Solar Panels ?

They would sell their Grandmother for a nickel.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has advised the Greeks to invest more in solar energy to overcome the crisis.
FAZ called him „Sonnyboy Schäuble” for this. I say start singing “Danny Boy” for a continent if they’re going to keep attitudes like that.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Need Some Comic Relief?

Just wait for some Russian scientist (seeking attention) to open his mouth.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Europe: A Paradise for Social Pyromaniacs

Of course no explanation is ever given to bombastic claims like this:

Lack of women in top jobs to cause 'problems' for EU economy
But the well subsidized crow seems to have no problem with threats:
The commissioner said that come March next year she will look to see whether companies have made a "clear, precise and measurable evolution" towards greater gender balance within their walls.

"If yes, there will be no need for European legislation. If no, we will have a problem with the internal market," said the commissioner explaining that major companies who work across the EU will be confronted with different national laws on women quotas.
The Luxembourgeoise, whose only real job outside of government was “journalism” while in various parliamentary posts went on to prattle on about ‘the boardroom’, as if that’s where the economy really was. Really, it’s the imagined prize of getting power quick that the boardroom obsession, the one that assumes that the internal operation of private entities are under the rule of the state.
The commissioner, who wants to boost female boardroom positions to 30 percent by 2015 and to 40 percent by 2020, said she is "completely supported" by internal market commissioner Michel Barnier.
Who is used in this context as if he was an advocate of getting the albatross off from around the neck of business. He isn’t. He’s a Commisariat type like Reding, indifferent about them or anyone else being generous with other people’s resources. They’d all join in to buy off some dickless votes anyway.
She is supported by the EU parliament, which earlier this month said Brussels should make such quotas mandatory. An EU law in an area dealing with employment and social policy is likely to be controversial among member states, however.
The threatening tone is borne out of disappointment at the public not doing what’s “being asked”. So it’s no more Mr. Nice Guy for Viviane’s pet issue of female cronyism that uses government as an enforcing thug.
Although Reding has been increasingly vocal about her campaign, to date only seven companies have signed up to the public pledge, up and running since March.

Sunday, July 17, 2011

A Pause for Poesy

In fact it’s all about beef

Terribly upset.
It is my birthday today.
No one gave me beef.

"Incoming, small arms fire!"

Frédéric Bobin files a Le Monde story from Afghanistan's Honaker-Miracle Base, named after two U.S. soldiers who lost their lives in combat.Needless to say, it reflects leftist, pacifist tendencies…
Les soldats Christopher Honaker et Joseph Miracle, tombés au combat, ont donné leur nom à cet avant-poste américain butant sur les marches du massif de l'Abas Ghar au coeur de la province de Kunar, dans l'Est afghan, tout proche de la frontière avec le Pakistan.

…Silence, solitude et adversité. La bannière étoilée flotte sur l'enclos de bunkers et barbelés cerné de "hescos", ces paniers en treillage métallique bourrés de cailloux faisant office de fortifications. Au pied du mât, des stèles funéraires égrènent soixante-dix patronymes, soixante-dix gars du Colorado, du Tennessee ou de l'Ohio, morts au nom de la "guerre contre la terreur". Dans quelques jours, la liste s'allongera.


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Poor you . How pathetic it is to play victim to the shit you created.. Now you wanna cry about it ! Please bitch you have NO IDEA the tricks I have up my sleeves ! Just be patient... Like I said I DONT PLAY GAMES I WIN THEM !!

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Quote from The Big Bang Theory 10x10 │ Penny Hofstadter: I think I’m gonna go for a run. You want to come? Leonard Hofstadter: No, last time that old lady in the park kept screaming, “Watch out, he’s right behind you.”

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I totally agree as many women are known to nag a lot and try to manipulate and control their hubbies. Poor men of such wives ! Lesson learnt, be on the look out for girls who cannot respect your decisions and try to coerce you into submission by calling for reinforcement among family and friends. These make poor wife material.

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Funny Animal Pictures Of The Day – 25 Pics

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Carl Grimes. Poor kid's been through so much.

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That's ALOT of honey you know how many times they say bee in that movie...

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For the peeps that are constantly playing the victim one really feels badly for you!

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I thought you'd like this

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The things we have to do to stay safe. Though I think you should verbally demand he remove his hand first before you physically remove it. Hurting someone is so much more satisfying if you warn them first and they continue to make a poor decision.

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You are cordially invited to attend the Crawford County Farm Bureau policy development meeting Tuesday, March 24. We will meet in the Lowere Level Conference Room of County Courthouse, 112 E. Mansfield St, Bucyrus. A light breakfast will be served at 8:30 a.m.

Policy development is one of the most important activities that the Crawford County Farm Bureau conducts each year. We take suggestions for policy from our members, our board of trustees, and from community leaders. Our policy development committee then takes the suggestions and proposes policy resolutions to the membership at our annual meeting. Our policies are a reflection of the issues that are important to Farm Bureau members. Throughout the program year, our “action projects” will be based on these policies. County Farm Bureau policy also helps to determine Ohio and American Farm Bureau policy.

This is a process that truly represents democracy in action.Your input is vital to the success of this program. We would like for you to offer one or two issues that you feel that Farm Bureau should work on this year. You may suggest ideas that you have thought of through your work or from personal experiences. Please write down your ideas and be prepared to share them with the group. Please call our office (800-327-6055) to RSVP by Monday March 23.

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Government Orders

1:55 p.m.

Yvon Godin Acadie—Bathurst, NB

Mr. Speaker, I think it is because the Liberals need to make two changes per election to get elected and to buy votes. If they make all the changes today, come the next election they will not have any changes to make to buy the votes of the poor workers who lost their jobs and who were robbed by the federal government. This is what the Liberals have done in recent years.

Let us not forget that it will take eight elections to implement the 17 recommendations made by the parliamentary committee and agreed to by all the political parties. This is the only answer I can provide.

Otherwise, the employment insurance fund would have to revert to what it was and the benefits would have to return to where they belong. This is the real measure to take. It is called job creation. In the meantime, we should be able to give to these people what belongs to them. This is what should be done.

Back home, we call it putting the cart before the horse, and this is what the Liberals have done. But it is not a cart that they put before the horse, it is a carrot and they wanted to eat it. That carrot was the money with which they eliminated their deficit and balanced their budget, at the expense of workers.

The current Prime Minister said in the House: “I put that money to good use. I transferred money to the provinces. I invested some in health care.” Workers do not contribute to the EI fund just to balance the government's budget or to transfer money to the provinces. They contribute in case they need benefits.

The hon. member for Madawaska—Restigouche supported the recommendations because he knows what is going on in New Brunswick, and the problems associated with seasonal jobs. I am proud that he stood up in the House and supported these motions. The hon. member for Beauséjour—Petitcodiac voted in favour of 15 changes to the EI plan, but when a motion was introduced in the House to recognize seasonal workers, he voted against it.

What the Liberals did in recent years is a shame. They used the elections, and they used the EI fund to balance their budget and to buy votes. It is a shame. I am sure the electors that are listening now and all Canadians will see through this scheme that has been going on for all those years.

Makivik Corporation
Statements By Members

1:55 p.m.

Guy St-Julien Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik, QC

Mr. Speaker, the federal government has announced a five-year moratorium on import duties for oil drilling platforms, in order to help the east coast region.

I rise today to encourage the government, and in particular the Secretary of State for Financial Institutions, to immediately extend this program to the eastern Arctic, in order to help that region develop its economy and thus improve the future for people in the communities of Nunavik and Nunavut.

The Makivik Corporation was a key partner in the historic importation of the MV Umiavut , the first and only Inuit-owned class 1 ship. The partners have asked for the duty they paid on this ship to be reimbursed.

Purchasing and importing the MV Umiavut represents a major step toward greater economic and political self-sufficiency for the north.

By immediately announcing a retroactive moratorium on taxation for vessels operating in northern waters, including the Makivik Corporation's MV Umiavut , the government will show that it wants its economic development policy to be fair and equitable in the north.

Edmonton--Sherwood Park
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1:55 p.m.

Canadian Alliance

Ken Epp Elk Island, AB

Mr. Speaker, these days a number of our colleagues are giving their final farewells because they are not running again, but I am still ready for the fight. I am running again and will be working hard to win the new riding of Edmonton--Sherwood Park.

I believe that the work of reforming Parliament cannot be left to this Liberal crew. They use the words, but the words have no meaning. I am truly interested in making MPs more accountable to the citizens we represent, in reducing waste and mismanagement in government, in getting rid of corruption and unaccountability in fiscal management, and in having laws that protect law-abiding citizens and our innocent children.

I have been frustrated in the past 10 years watching this bumbling Liberal government go nowhere on these important issues. It is time for change. It is time Canadians get an honest and trustworthy government. It is time we demand better.

Elizabeth Fry Week
Statements By Members

2 p.m.

Marlene Jennings Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, QC

Mr. Speaker, this week we are celebrating National Elizabeth Fry Week. All the Elizabeth Fry societies in the country will be organizing activities to raise public awareness about the situation of women in conflict with the law.

National Elizabeth Fry Week is held in the week preceding Mother's Day as most women in prison are mothers and most were their family's sole supporter before incarceration. When mothers are sentenced to prison, children are sentenced to separation.

By focusing on women's needs and alternatives to prison, Elizabeth Fry Societies encourage community responses to addressing criminal justice matters and build support for community based options for women.

Congratulations to all the Elizabeth Fry societies across the country for organizing this week.

Statements By Members

2 p.m.

Paul MacKlin Northumberland, ON

Mr. Speaker, I lost a dear friend to lupus, a disease that attacks the body's immune system.

My friend was not alone, since more than five million people worldwide suffer the effects of this disease and each year over a hundred thousand men, women and children are newly diagnosed with lupus.

Many physicians worldwide are unaware of the symptoms and the health effects of lupus. As a result, many people suffer for years before they obtain a correct diagnosis and medical treatment. There is an urgent need to increase awareness and educate our communities worldwide about the debilitating impact of lupus.

Therefore, let us resolve that the World Health Organization recognize and declare May 10, 2004, as World Lupus Day and that we call for increased funding for medical research and education on this significant public health issue.

Road Safety
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2 p.m.

Gurbax Malhi Bramalea—Gore—Malton—Springdale, ON

Mr. Speaker, the number of traffic accidents within the Brampton area has reached an average in excess of eight per day. This totals a staggering number exceeding 3,000 accidents annually. This has led to safety advocates in the region seeking the advice of the local residents to find ways and means to better the safety of our roads.

I believe this is a serious issue that requires federal, provincial and municipal governments working in tandem to bring about tangible results.

Last month, the World Health Organization identified road safety as the focal point of World Health Day. This stems from the fact that 1.2 million people are killed worldwide as a result of traffic accidents and 50 million more are injured annually. Moreover, approximately three-quarters of accidents occur in clear weather conditions.

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2 p.m.

Canadian Alliance

Kevin Sorenson Crowfoot, AB

Mr. Speaker, given that this may be one of the last opportunities I have to rise in the House during this Parliament to make a statement, today I would like to say thanks and farewell to a very significant part of my riding.

It is with a very heavy heart that I bid adieu to the County of Flagstaff and the Municipal Districts of Wainwright and Provost. Unfortunately, due to the electoral boundary changes, after the election I will no longer represent the good people of: Sedgewick, Daysland, Forestburg, Killam, Lougheed, Strome, Alliance, Provost, Hardisty, Hughenden, Heisler, Chauvin, Edgerton, Wainwright, Daysland, Irma, and Amisk.

Fortunately for me, however, over the last four years I have traveled extensively into these parts of Crowfoot and I have had the privilege of meeting many fine people. It has been a real pleasure to attend or participate in so many events and celebrations in these truly rural Alberta communities.

To the County of Flagstaff and the Municipal Districts of Wainwright and Provost, I say thanks for making my first term as the member of Parliament for Crowfoot such a memorable one.

Sikh Community
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2 p.m.

Bernard Patry Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC

Mr. Speaker, Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh scripture, is a compilation of the divine revelations to the Sikh gurus and saints of other faiths, reaffirming the fundamental unity of all religions. The Sikh scripture embodies the universal message of truth, compassion, peace, equality and service toward all humankind.

The fifth guru of the Sikhs, Guru Arjan, compiled and consecrated the Sikh scripture, giving self-determination to the Sikh community that originated the Sikh homeland of the Punjab.

Sikhs have been part of our Canadian society since 1899. They are a very vibrant community and they contribute significantly to the economic, social and cultural well-being of our country and its citizens.

As this year marks the 400th anniversary of the first installation of the Guru Granth Sahib, I would like to congratulate the Sikh community in my riding and across Canada.

National Mental Health Week
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2:05 p.m.

Réal Ménard Hochelaga—Maisonneuve, QC

Mr. Speaker, the purpose of National Mental Health Week, from May 3 to 9, is to remind us of the importance of helping our fellow citizens detect the early signs of distress or mental illness and to provide them with the tools they need to deal with such crises.

In order to help these people, Quebec has strengthened front-line care, particularly by establishing family medicine groups and local service networks. These approaches facilitate better case management and continuity of care for people affected by mental illness.

This week is also an opportunity to express our appreciation of all those who contribute to the well-being of persons affected by mental illness and their friends and families.

Our sincere thanks go to the employees of the health and social services network, as well as to the volunteers and community organizations that offer support, assistance and advocacy.

Member for Vancouver--Kingsway
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2:05 p.m.

Eleni Bakopanos Ahuntsic, QC

Mr. Speaker, today I would like to pay tribute to my dear friend and colleague, the member for Vancouver--Kingsway.

As a community activist, she served as an executive member, sitting on the board of directors with over 30 arts, business and community organizations. Her work has not gone unrecognized here or in her community. She has been the recipient of many community and government awards, including the Order of Canada in 1994.

In 1997, she was the first Asian woman to be elected a member of Parliament in Canada. Since her election, economic issues, immigration, western alienation, human rights, and justice for all are but a few of the issues she has raised as a tireless advocate for her constituents, for her community and, on the international level, for Canada.

The people of Vancouver--Kingsway, her community and her Liberal colleagues are proud of her accomplishments and the invaluable role she has played during her seven years as a member of Parliament. Her presence will be missed and her contribution never forgotten. Zhu Ni Cheng Gong . We wish her success in all her future endeavours and a good retirement.

Olds College
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2:05 p.m.

Canadian Alliance

Myron Thompson Wild Rose, AB

Mr. Speaker, I would like to pay tribute to Olds College in my riding of Wild Rose, which is celebrating its 91st anniversary as a teaching institution.

Over the years the college has watched the agribusiness industry grow dramatically, and this year it is more concerned than ever about the future. To this end, the college encouraged its students to participate directly in the USDA public comment period regarding the border closure and our livestock trade with the United States.

Every member of Parliament received their formal submission this week. The college took an innovative approach by collecting impact statements from 30 of their students across Canada and compiled them as a CD-based video and a webcast that is accessible through the college's home page.

The impact of their submission has been tremendous. I would encourage every member of Parliament to take a moment to view these heartfelt messages.

Those students know that if we do not do everything possible to get the border open soon, there may be no future for them in agribusiness in Canada.

Mental Health
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2:05 p.m.

Marcel Proulx Hull—Aylmer, QC

Mr. Speaker, Sunday, April 18, was the Fondation Pierre-Janet's fifth edition of the “En espadrilles pour la santé mentale” event.

This annual event held at the Aylmer race track raises funds to help people with mental health problems. Nearly 1,000 sponsored participants ran laps around the track each at their own pace. The fundraiser brought in $65,210 to implement telemedicine for mental health in the Outaouais.

Mental illness, and depression in particular, is a growing concern. Hence the need to demystify it now, to eradicate the stigma attached to it and to improve access to quality services.

I want to congratulate everyone who took part, the dedicated volunteers, the honourary president of the 2004 event, Alain Raymond, and particularly the president of the Fondation Pierre-Janet, who instigated the event, Dan Gay, as well as the foundation's board of directors.

Mission accomplished, job well done.

Mental Health Week
Statements By Members

2:05 p.m.

Wendy Lill Dartmouth, NS

Mr. Speaker, this week, May 3 to May 9, is National Mental Health Week in Canada.

Good mental health is essential to everyone's well-being and to the strength of our communities. Too often, people suffering from mental illness and other brain disorders are discriminated against and stigmatized. We have to work together to find better means to decrease the stigma associated with mental illness so that it becomes as easy and acceptable to speak about as any other disease.

For that to happen, we need to start providing stable, long term funding to mental health care and its research and treatment. I was very disappointed that there was no mention of mental health in the recent budget presented by the government even though programs all over the country are facing cuts.

For the one in five Canadians affected by mental illness, and for their friends and families, this is truly a public mental health emergency.

Hearing Awareness Month
Statements By Members

2:10 p.m.

Caroline St-Hilaire Longueuil, QC

Mr. Speaker, every year in May, I make a point of drawing attention to Hearing Awareness Month and the fact that, in Canada, some 3 million people, including more than 750,000 in Quebec, have a hearing problem.

As parliamentarians, it is critically important that we make sure that the deaf and the hearing impaired have equal rights when it comes to communications.

In this respect, captioning of television programs is essential, and I would like to acknowledge the great work done by the Centre de recherche informatique de Montréal, which has developed an automatic speech recognition system.

This technological advance which will provide real time transmission of information was recently introduced to both houses of Parliament and would allow, among other things, the captioning of proceedings in the House of Commons in French; at present, captioning is only available in English and only during oral question period.

The technology is there. All we need now is the political will to make it accessible as quickly as possible, not only to Parliament but also to all broadcasters.

RAI International
Statements By Members

May 6th, 2004 / 2:10 p.m.

Clifford Lincoln Lac-Saint-Louis, QC

Mr. Speaker, in August 2003, a petition with 100,000 signatures and over 330 letters were sent to the CRTC by Canadians, including some from my riding, asking to have access to the Italian television network RAI International.

Today, I wish to reaffirm my support to these citizens, particularly the members of the Italian community, who hope that the CRTC will approve the application filed on September 15 by RAI International. A CRTC licence would give them 24 hours a day access to this network, which is broadcast in most countries of the world, but not in Canada.

I would also like to mention the work of the hon. member for Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel and of several Liberal colleagues who, from the outset, supported and continue to support the initiative of these Canadians of Italian origin, who are demanding to have access to RAI International.


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Five questions about open innovation, open source, and NASA with Molly Dix of RTI

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A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to meet Molly Dix and Jeff Cope, who run the Open Innovation Advisory Services group at RTI. For those not familiar with RTI, it is one of the world's preeminent research institutes, founded by a group of scientists in 1958 and now employing almost 3000 people helping businesses and governments in more than 40 countries around the world.

I thought it was pretty cool to learn that an organization of RTI's size and position in the research world has a group dedicated to open innovation. I asked Molly if she'd be willing to let me ask her a few questions about the way she and RTI see open innovation.

My questions, and her answers, below.

CHRIS: Open innovation is one of those terms that everyone seems to see a bit differently. How would you define open innovation?

MOLLY: We see open innovation as a perspective whereby an organization is open to building on thinking, research, and intellectual property (IP) from outside their organization, as well as being open to partnerships with outside organizations related to their own research and IP.

Thus, open innovation is a 360-degree mindset that includes both technology pull and push as avenues to improve the speed and quality of research, development, and product launch.  Successful partnerships are at the core of successful open innovation.

CHRIS: When we first met, you mentioned that you'd been practicing the principles of open innovation at RTI for 18 years, even if not under that label. What did you call it before? Which core principles or ideas have endured over that period?

MOLLY: Our group within RTI has been practicing what is now called open innovation for more than 40 years. We started with technology pull by helping industry user groups seek solutions from NASA for non-competitive problems.

For example, in the agricultural equipment industry, safety technology is treated as non-competitive. We developed a process that was then used to seek solutions from the entire Federal Laboratory Consortium.

With implementation of Bayh-Dole (the 1980 legislation that gave U.S. universities, small businesses, and non-profits control of the inventions and other IP that result from federal funding) and patent licensing, we supported NASA, universities and other government agencies in technology push via licensing and knowledge-transfer agreements.  More recently we have been doing more technology scouting for companies seeking external solutions – back to technology pull.

Originally the effort of linking technology sources with external users was called technology transfer, which morphed into technology commercialization once licensing became the prevalent trend.  The core principles for all of our efforts have remained the same –  we say we sit at the intersection of technology and business.

Regardless of which direction the technology is moving relative to an organization the key questions to ask include:  What is the value of the asset (e.g., technology or patent) to whom?  What kind of partnership (e.g., license, cooperative agreement, supply relationship, merger, or acquisition) will best enable successful use of the asset?

CHRIS: As open innovation becomes a mainstream innovation strategy employed by all sorts of organizations, are you seeing changes or modifications to those original core principles emerge? Any that you find particularly interesting or compelling?

MOLLY: The core principles needed to successfully link a technology with a user remain the same – it’s all about the partnership.

From the seeker’s perspective:  Does the solution meet the specifications?  Is there adequate competitive advantage?  Will the cultures of the two organizations, and structure of the relationship, enable success?

From the technology developer’s perspective:  Is this the best avenue for my asset?  How can I motivate this partner via contractual terms to be successful or fail fast so that I can seek an alternate if they do not make progress?

As a third party, we bring an unbiased assessment of a market opportunity and/or the technology asset.  We’re able to help make technology connections (via push or pull) and help create partnerships  that ultimately enable innovation.  Sometimes the real value of a third party is the ability to make non-obvious connections.  We think in terms of technology fundamentals to find technology solutions, and technology benefits to find market opportunities.

CHRIS: Do you have any examples you could share of early open innovation projects you worked on before the term was even coined? What was the project, and what did you learn?

MOLLY: Although I’m not sure of exactly when the term was coined, I go with when it was popularized via Chesbrough around 2003.

One interesting example from NASA is the use of a NASA alloy for a marine engine.  In 1997, the first direct-injected outboard engines were hitting the market.  At the same time, emissions requirements were strengthening, and ultimately piston loading was reaching the strength limit of conventional aluminum materials.

Bombardier Recreational Products, owner of the Evinrude brand, had a design solution but needed a better material.  Just prior to this, NASA had been working with the automotive industry on efforts associated with “next generation vehicles” and had developed a new aluminum silicon alloy that increased strength and wear at higher temperatures.

When the auto industry lost interest due to stalled legislation, NASA had an asset from which they still wanted to see US industry benefit.  RTI helped NASA consider the market potential of the asset, targeted avenues for commercialization, got the word out, and ultimately the connection to Evinrude was made.  RTI facilitated a license and cooperative agreement between NASA and Bombardier that is still in effect today.

Ultimately, NASA’s alloy enabled Evinrude’s 2-stroke engine to meet environmental standards and thus compete with 4-stroke engines.  The resulting product offered customers the engine power they wanted, no scheduled dealer maintenance for 3 years, and consumption of ~20% less oil.

The engine went on to be a huge market success and recipient of both environmental and design awards.  RTI and NASA went on to license the material into other applications.

Putting this in terms of open innovation,  Bombardier knew they needed a novel material and were open to a development program with the NASA researchers.  The technology wasn’t just thrown over the fence with the legal support of a license – both organizations committed time and resources to transfer the knowledge to be successful.  From NASA’s perspective they understood they had an asset of value and sought partners across various applications to take the invention to market – that’s innovation.

CHRIS: I've asked the following question to other open innovation experts, but I'd love for you to weigh in too. In my experience, open innovation and open source share many common themes, yet we tend not to see open source and open innovation people sharing ideas that often. Is this because of a difference in viewpoints or do we just not know each other yet?

MOLLY: We’re starting to see more linkage between open innovation and open source with the implementation of crowd sourcing tools to bring folks together on innovation issues.

However, I agree with you that in general it’s not common.  I tend to think that the root issues are IP protection and confidentiality.  On the push side of open innovation, the organization has an asset that is not always fully protected via intellectual property and is thus carefully controlled.  On the pull side, communicating a strategic need may highlight a competitive weakness or provide insight on future product direction.

I think the transparency companies are implementing for better connection to their customers will help these barriers start to diminish.  Cross-cutting issues like sustainability may drive this trend.

CHRIS: Thanks so much for your time!

Stefan Lindegaard

Thanks for the great insights! I like your views that open innovation is a 360-degree mindset. Only thing to note is that we need to get beyond technology. Innovation is about much more than just technology and products. Even more so with open innovation as this will impact all business functions and thus the entire organization when fully implemented as a mindset.

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Stefan, thanks. I just recently read your book so it is great to engage in discussion with you. I agree with you that OI needs to get beyond technology and products to broader business functions and ultimately the entire organization. My answers to Chris's questions are based on our perspective as a service provider. We help our clients in areas of technology-based solutions related to products. Sometimes the technology link is a process internal to the company (e.g. manufacturing) but more often we are helping create partnerships realted to a technology that enables a product improvement. So, my answers might be a bit myopic, but that is the part of the OI spectrum we live in. I look forward to more of these conversations as OI continues to evolve.

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Thanks your views that open innovation is a 360-degree mindset are really good.Innovation and technology and products are different things. i think it will show some impact after implementation.

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