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Once the installer for simcity 4 is finished it will try to run the game. Run the game from your shortcut.

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How to get simcity 4 to work on windows 7. Run in administrator mode. This forum is for simcity 2013 not simcity 4. Try running in compatibility mode.

Make sure your antivirus or firewall are not blocking the program by adding the exe to the exception list. If you ve followed the above steps and are still having issues getting sim city 4 windowed mode to work please post in the comments below. Now copy and paste one of the following additional commands.

The picture below shows the window that will appear click on the box labelled target and press the end key on your keyboard or use the cursor keys to scroll to the very end of the line. The properties window for simcity 4 will then appear click on the shortcut tab. I have sim city 4 deluxe for some reason it is the uk edition even though i live and bought it in north america and it was working fine for a few months but recently after updating windows it stopped working.

Right click the icon and disable origin in game. A couple of basic things to try. I have been reading online and tried a few different things i know someone else here had the same issue as shown in this post.

If you post your question in the other simcity games forum you may get some better answers. Or it may appear to hang. In any case if it doesn t resolve itself after 2 minutes go to the machine dropdown for the vm window and choose reset which will reset the machine as if you pushed the reset button on a case.

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Friday, February 7, 2014

Winter Semi-Hibernation and Shopping.

Well, this winter has taken quite the knock out of me! Things are still rolling but much more intermittently than is good for my motivation. I do best when in a program...when I let things slide, they sliiiiide. Needless to say, with all the insanely cold temps this winter, my riding has taken a hit. I just don't think it's healthy to ride when it's -20C(-4F) or colder without the wind chill. Actually, my cutoff is usually closer to -16 to -18C because with the wind chill it's brutal. Sure, we don't have wind in the arena, but still. Muscles just do not warm up properly in those temps, for horse or rider.

So I've done some free-lunging to let Armani loosen up, especially when it's been icy. Our barn turns out no matter what, which I love, but the horses don't move around much on their own when the conditions under foot are icy. I've also been careful to give electrolytes when it iced up and during out huge temperature swings. That kind of stuff is brutal on horses here and a little nudge to encourage drinking is good. I give a very small dose, though, because Armani responds to electrolytes like gangbusters.

The under-saddle work has been going great, despite the increased time-off and lack of real program. I've been riding more consistently in my rides, as opposed to bringing my A-game for lessons and being a wimp about asking him to work properly otherwise. The result is more consistency from Armani. Huh, what a surprise, hahaha!

Here is a picture from back in January sometime. It's not a great pic as we were just warming up, so soon in the warm-up that I'm still wearing my coat - that doesn't happen after 10min on Mani because he is such a bowflex. I usually don't even start with a coat, so it must have been an exceptionally cold day! We were  heading to the scary corner, hence the high-ish neck and my leg back to say 'git up there' as he has a tendency to balk at certain points.
I haven't gotten many pictures this winter either because I'm at the barn alone or because the light isn't great...or because I forget to put the memory card back in the camera...oops!

To alleviate some winter blahs, I decided to go tack-store shopping. While trialing a zillion horses as purchase prospects, I had ridden a few with the Royal Rider T3 stirrups. I loved them. I was out of riding shape and my bad right ankle *loved* the Royal Riders when we came across them. So, naturally, I began to believe I needed a pair for my crappy ankles.

Over a year after buying Armani, and having no necessities left to buy (save new show boots), I thought I would treat myself to a pair of the ridiculous $250 stirrups. Our highest-end tack shop was sold out, so I waited a few weeks for them to come in.

After a few rides, I realized...I don't like them. Boo! They are fine. But just fine. In fact, now that I'm in better riding shape (although less than I was in the fall), I find they hurt my bad ankle. I'm guessing I learned to strengthen my ankle properly during the last year. In other ways, I see no difference under saddle. In terms of tack care in general, I am finding them hard on my stirrup leathers and saddle.

So, a stirrup that doesn't yield any extra leg stability under saddle, I feel no difference, and my coach didn't even realize I changed stirrups...$250...they are going back. It's funny because I wanted them for so, so long but what's the point if my old irons are just as good and don't chew the leather? Boo! Granted, if I were doing jumpers, I think I would change my tune. So perhaps I will revisit in 5 years give or take, depending on where I think Armani would like to go.

Now, I'm at a loss for stuff to buy. How is that possible??  I guess at some point you've been buying good stuff long enough that it lasts and you run out of things. My top two right now would be a half pad for schooling and show field boots.

I am equally at a loss for both, in a way. My current half pad is ok but getting on in years and Mani has started to get some crinkled hair in the back of the saddle area. It's not saddle fit, so either his winter belly is making his mid-section swing more and it's rubbing or I could use something else. I guess I will have to do some research to decide whether to go sheepskin again or try a gel pad or something.

As for show boots, well, I guess I just have to start trying them! So much depends on fit there isn't much point getting hung up on Brands etc until I narrow the field.

Well, that's where were at. Hopefully I will get some lesson pictures tomorrow!

Laura said...

I find it a bit sad that you have everything you need at the moment and don't have much to shop for! ;-)

As for show boots, is there anything for sale locally besides Ariat?

Too bad about the stirrups not working out - they sound good on paper!

If you are bored, could you research blankets for my little short high-withered horse? I can't find anything that fits him properly!

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RuckusButt said...

It *is* sad!

There isn't much else, you're right. So annoying. I bet you can relate with the lack of western gear around.

I just might! I got injured and am house bound, so...


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Using surplus food to power community growth

Jane Powell paid a visit to a café in Pembrokeshire which serves food with a difference

Next to the offer of plum crumble on the blackboard at the Fishguard Transition Café  in north Pembrokeshire is a helpful note: ‘may contain stones’. That remark sets the tone for our visit to this pioneering enterprise, where meticulous attention to detail and a warm human touch combine to form a community project with an imaginative contribution to a town’s food system.

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Serving customers at the Fishguard Transition Café

Most of the food served at the Cafe, which offers a choice of home-cooked dishes in bright and tasteful surroundings, is supplied by local food businesses. It is surplus produce, mainly fruit, vegetables, bread and dairy, but also some meat and other items, from the no-man’s land between the much misunderstood ‘best before’ date, which marks the point at which the manufacturer estimates that it might start to lose its premium quality, and the ‘use by’ date, after which there are real dangers to health and it cannot legally be served.

Perishable food in this zone is perfectly fit to eat – certainly the plums were at the peak of perfection, aromatic and sharp – but it needs to be used fairly quickly, and what is a liability for a supermarket becomes an opportunity for the enterprising bargain-hunter or in this case the community project with the facilities to handle it. Tinned and packaged foods, meanwhile, can be kept for months and even years. The Fishguard Transition Cafe turns surplus food – around 850 kg a month of it – into nutritious meals while also providing a space for volunteers and community groups to come together, forming a lively hub for discussions.

It’s a simple concept but a complex operation. Food arrives daily and menus are planned around what’s available – the main dish when we visited was mushroom stroganoff, with roast beetroot – while some of it is frozen, preserved or pickled. Like the supermarkets which supply it, the cafe has its own waste stream, with excess food given away in the cafe, sent for composting or biodigestion, or diverted to animal feed. Record-keeping for the Cafe, as for any food business, is demanding. Besides weighing the daily food deliveries, a note is made of allergens, food that has been cooked but cannot be used immediately is labelled and frozen, and cleaning routines are checked off. It’s clear that managing the surplus food for a small town and its hinterland is no small task, but the very intricacy of it also allows for a scale of human involvement that brings opportunities.

The cafe obviously makes an important contribution to improving the diets of local people who cannot afford to cook such meals themselves, although as volunteer director Chris Samra says, the stigma of ‘food poverty’ sometimes deters people who might benefit most. However, it was actually set up to reduce carbon emissions by diverting food from landfill, to the tune of an estimated 21 tonnes of carbon savings per year. It gets its name from the Fishguard Transition Group who formed in 2008 from a group of citizens who identified with a wider movement to make the ‘transition’ to a low-carbon society.

They began by setting up allotments and running gardening courses, with the aim of helping more people to grow their own, together with other activities to engage the local community. In 2012 they hit upon the idea of a cafe running on surplus food, acquiring premises rent-free from the next door Coop supermarket. A plaque on the wall acknowledges donations of furnishings, equipment, labour and cash to the project, from a wide range of donors including several national chain stores, a youth club, a farm, a solicitor, a hotel and a range of voluntary and government agencies.

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Behind the scenes: weighing the produce as it comes in

Around about the same time, they embarked on the lengthy process of owning a wind turbine, raising loans from local residents. Generating an income from the wind is important, because the grants that helped the cafe get started are not such a renewable resource. Support by Environment Wales for a part-time project manager post, now in its fourth year, was key to getting the project started, and the Jobs Growth Wales scheme helped to get some young people onto the staff, which together with support from the group’s voluntary directors meant that they could run on volunteers to begin with.

The cafe has also been supported by the Wales Cooperative Centre, who funded a business plan, and  itwon the 2014 Sustainable Communities competition at the Hay Festival which provided a grant. Takings have grown and it is becoming more financially viable, but it still needs grants to cover some of its running and labour costs, including some part-time kitchen staff who provide continuity for the volunteers who assist with food preparation, record keeping and service at the counter.

The cafe is not just a means of turning surplus food into affordable meals. It is also a training facility, where volunteers, catering students and others with learning disabilities can acquire skills in a safe environment. It is a social hub where anyone can come for a healthy meal during the day from Tuesday to Friday, and at many out-of-hours events. It runs play sessions for families with young chidren, craft sessions for older children and adults, and drop-in sessions for Welsh learners. It also distributes food parcels on behalf of the Pembrokeshire food bank scheme PATCH, which means that some see it as a place ‘for poor people’, but it has always drawn in people from a wide cross-section of society, using food as a point of connection to drive social change.

The Fishguard Transition Cafe shows what can be done when food businesses, big and small, identify with their local area (in this case, within a 15-mile radius) and make common cause with community groups, so that surplus food builds social capital. There are other examples, like the Pay as You Feel cafe in Bethesda, Gwynedd,and the Real Junk Food cafe in Cardiff , each with a different take on the theme.

Wouldn’t it be great if every neighbourhood in Wales had one?

Fit and not fat: what the Welsh government can do

By Steve Garrett, Chair, Riverside Market Garden, Cardiff

In considering how to best influence consumption patterns of unhealthy food products in Wales, motivated by the need to reduce the health costs and impacts which are now understood to result from an overconsumption of those products (sugar is now viewed by many health professionals as the biggest avoidable public health risk, and the ‘new nicotine’), useful lessons can be learned from the way in which cigarette purchases have been reduced by state sponsored initiatives.

High levels of taxation combined with public education campaigns and banning of advertising, labelling and packaging has succeeded in seriously reducing levels of tobacco consumption. More recently, the invention and rapid rise in the popularity of artificial cigarettes has also helped many people to kick what is essentially an addiction.

(It’s interesting to imagine whether a substitute junk food could be artificially created, which would satisfy our cravings for salt, sugar and fat, without actually delivering those health damaging substances to us. Someone in a food lab somewhere is probably working on it.)

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Growing vegetables for Cardiff

There are a range of “enabling health” approaches to changing food consumption behaviour which may be considered, such as: subsidising the cost of healthy food to make it more affordable to people on low incomes; launching a healthy eating promotional campaign; providing and promoting “healthy options” in state run locations such as schools and health centres; making healthy food easily available to all sectors of the community, particularly to those on lower incomes, with measures such as “healthy corner shops” (encouraging corner shops to stock a range of fresh produce) to ensure that even in relative “food deserts” some healthy food is available; providing cooking classes and nutritional information at a community level. But without making healthy food more affordable, any attempt to promote its consumption amongst poorer sections of the community is likely to fail.

More directly ‘Interventionist’ measures can include: adding a “sugar tax, or “fat tax” to products with unhealthily high levels of those ingredients, such as fizzy soft drinks (which are the main source of processed sugar for young people) or high-fat food items; nutrient fortification in low-cost food; banning processed food in government-controlled environments such as schools, and health centres; putting discouraging labelling on processed food and controlling the kind of packaging that can be used; banning or limiting advertising of unhealthy food, especially to children. One or more of these measures are currently being considered, or are being trialled in several countries in spite of concerted opposition from the financially powerful manufacturers of the products most affected. However there is deep disagreement about the effectiveness of such measures. (1); (2).

A major difficulty, in addition to any costs involved, in implementing any steps in relation to reducing consumption of ‘empty calorie’ food, is that it is not as easily connected in the public’s mind as tobacco with negative heath implications, in site of the declarations of health experts. The huge lobbying power of the manufacturers, many of which, such as Coca-Cola, number amongst the largest businesses in the world, also means that these companies can exert huge financial pressure in attempting (and in many cases succeeding) to influence the shaping of food policy, by offering direct funding to government, and also by supporting a range of e.g. sports activities which are welcomed by local communities, and by funding organisations and individuals that are willing to oppose such a move, as well as sponsoring expensive campaigns to discredit any attempts to limit their immensely profitable sales. (It is only the amoral attitude of such corporations that can explain the absurdity of Coca Cola and MacDonald’s being the primary sponsors of the 2012 London Olympic. Echoing the well established behaviour of oil companies in trying to discredit research on the effects on global warming of burning fossil fuels).

Another factor is the limited public appetite for having their food buying behaviour “controlled” or “censored” by government, which in spite of ostensibly good intentions, is felt to be an unwelcome form of meddling in people’s freedom to choose what to buy and consume.

I believe that a combination of health promoting and interventionist measures will be most effective in steering people away from ‘junk’ and unhealthy food. Alongside attempts to reduce empty calorie consumption, measures are needed which will promote and increase the availability of, and access to, healthy food options for all parts of the community. This will require a multilevel approach, including actions like exposing young people to healthy food in schools and public places, and supporting the creation of a local food ‘chain’ which will make fresh local food easily and affordably available, Such measures will require investment of public money and a willingness to resist the opposition of multinationals, but as has been seen with tobacco, such moves are possible and can be effective where the political will is there. And unlike smoking reduction, which is restricted to limiting consumption of something harmful, promoting healthy eating and local food production will deliver twin long-term benefits of improving the health of the population, thus reducing the cost of providing the health service, at the same time as delivering a range of environmental benefits, and supporting the development of a local food economy creating investment and employment.

All these approaches can and must be taken in Wales by our national government, and, with their support, local governments, and should be included in the development of a ‘Food Manifesto’ for Wales (3) The wide range of positive outcomes they imply should make the investment of public money in creating a localised food system more popular with the general public and thus more politically palatable. The only thing standing in the way of such moves would be a lack of vision and courage on the part of Welsh Government. If our political representatives are not able to fulfil their duty of care by promoting and facilitating healthy eating and taking a stand against the corporations who benefit from the current health-damaging and unsustainable food system, it is up to campaigners and the rest of us to respond appropriately at the ballot box at the forthcoming Welsh Government elections.


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Steam ovens allow you to cook dishes which are full of flavour, whilst also retaining the nutrients of the ingredients. They also work wonderfully at enhancing the texture of your food and preventing them from drying out.

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Steam ovens keep more nutrients in your food, keep its color better, and eliminate the need for oil. Steaming also prevents cross-flavoring, so you can cook a salmon and chocolate torte at the same time without getting a fishy dessert. A combi-steam oven may be your favorite appliance at holiday time and year round.

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Claudio Ranieri not in frame for Thailand national team job

Football Association of Thailand (FAT) has squashed rumours that former Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri is being linked to coach the national team.

Previously, the 65-year-old Italian tactician was reported in the running to take over as the new head coach of The War Elephants following the Kiatisuk Senamuang’s resignation.

Ranieri has links to Thailand following his successful stint with the Premier League champions, who are owned by a Thai tycoon.

“About Claudio Ranieri [rumour], that is just a joke,” FAT president Somyot Poompanmoung was quoted as saying by Goal Thailand.

“It was just a word to tease Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha [Leicester owner] whether we can bring the manager after his contract was terminated.

“Then, he replied that the cost [salary] will be £5million per year, so I said no and thank him.”

Former Thailand coach Winfried Schafer and ex-Sir Alex Ferguson’s assistant at Manchester United, Rene Meulensteen among the names rumoured to be under consideration by FAT.


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REVIEW – Dishonored: Death of the Outsider

My review of what I consider to be, well and truly, a masterpiece.

I’ll preface this by clarifying I’ve only played through once; a semi-lethal run without much exploration, ignoring all but two contracts. It still took me fourteen hours. (This factors in the eleventy-billion times one particular insta-kill enemy sent me to oblivion, but more on that later).  As with the previous titles in the series however, the way Dishonored: Death of the Outsider is played is entirely down to the individual, so my play time isn’t saying much.

Being a tremendous fan of Dishonored, I’ll swallow anything related to it I can get. The Knife of Dunwall in particular stuck out as a true highlight, Dishonored at its peak. I’m not alone in thinking that Daud felt far more fleshed-out than Corvo as a protagonist, although this may partly be down the gravelly tones of Daud’s voice actor Michael Madsen. For this reason I was itching to see Daud reappear as more than just a passing mention, and my prayers were answered. My first-class seat on the hype train was booked from the moment this game was announced.

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Billie reuintes with Daud

Although the old assassin does play a role in Death of the Outsider, players instead step into the boots of his one-time apprentice and second-in-command, Billie Lurk. Tasked with one last contract from her old mentor, Billie sets out to find a way to enter the Void and eliminate the Outsider himself. In true Dishonored fashion there is a choice in how this is achieved, although I took the lethal route.

Death of the Outsider plays virtually identically to the previous games. Billie has a small arsenal of physical weapons and supernatural powers at her disposal, although in this instance she is not branded with the Outsider’s Mark. Instead he takes her right arm and eye, replacing them with what amounts to pieces of the Void, allowing her powers to draw energy from the Void itself and for her energy meter to replenish itself fully over time. This dispenses with the requirement of collecting mana potions, leaving Billie with mostly unlimited use of her powers.

Being that the game is only an expansion, Billie’s skill set is more limited than Daud’s for example. There is no upgrade tree for her active or passive abilities, nor can she purchase new powers by collecting runes. The powers she does have, however, are unique to her character whilst remaining comfortingly familiar.

Billie’s Displace power is something of a cross between Blink and Emily’s Shadow Reach from Dishonored 2. As well as allowing her to cross wide gaps or climb to higher places, it also allows her to transport herself to the exact same spot occupied by another person: it transports her into that person and they explode from the inside out (this does cause Billie damage). This is termed Displace Interpenetration and is undeniably the coolest ability in the game.

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Billie’s Displace power, with her ‘marker’ in place

She also has Foresight, the ability to project herself in spirit. Much like Dark Vision, it gives her the ability to mark enemies to view their movements/lines of sight through walls and identify bonecharms, useable items and important objects in the environment. The caveat with this power is that it drains her energy incredibly quickly, and she can’t stray too far from her physical body, making it sometimes impossible to scope out a heavily-guarded location from afar.

Semblance is her third and final power, although I only used this twice. Similar to Possession it allows her take the form of an unaware (human) NPC, although in this instance she is simply mimicking their outward appearance rather than using them as a meat suit (I found out the hard way impersonating a guard with this power does not trick Arc Pylons). It is a useful tool if you want to simply walk through a guard outpost, or if you’re trying for a ghost run and find yourself facing numerous enemies without much chance of picking them off one-by-one or navigating around them from above.

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An Envisioned Cultist marked with Foresight, showing line of sight, patrol path and patrol end

One difference is the inability to upgrade Billie’s existing powers or purchase new ones. This omission is logical, seeing as Billie’s powers do not stem from the Outsider’s Mark and therefore runes would be of no use to her. Certain bonecharms can be found that do affect her supernatural abilities, such as extending the reach of her Foresight and increasing the number of enemies she can tag. Some of the passive powers from previous games can also be obtained as bonecharms, such as Agility.

As well as Billie’s unique powers, the game also introduces the original Clockwork Sentinels, featured heavily in the trailer for the second game, which were included due to them being a fan favourite. These Clockworks, whilst being decidedly more sinister in appearance thanks to their grinning faces, have the advantage that they do not, I repeat NOT, have the ability to see out of the back of their head.  (As someone who hates the Clockworks in Dishonored 2 with the passion of a thousand suns for that very reason, I thank you Harvey).

The game itself spans five missions, starting with Billie’s rescue of and reunion with Daud and culminating in her facing the Outsider. Set in the gritty underbelly of Karnaca, players can find familiarity in not just getting their asses kicked by the game’s difficulty but also exploring the nooks and crannies, looting items for coin and of course listening to the same handful of NPC voice lines. Players will recognise the Royal Conservatory from Dishonored 2, which makes a reappearance as the setting of the fourth story mission. Karnaca is as visually striking and atmospheric as it was in Dishonored 2, the buildings much more dilapidated but still strangely pleasant. The atmosphere of a world awash with dangerous secrecy is palpable, especially in the final mission where an already creepy abandoned mine becomes a horrific eldritch world filled with crazed cultists and the aforementioned insta-kill enemies, the Envisioned, creatures that are remnants of the original cult responsible for creating the Outsider (by sacrificing an innocent teenage boy).

In addition to the main campaign objectives, Billie can also pick up a number of contracts from the black markets. These are optional side quests that pay a handsome amount of coin, or sometimes a bonecharm. Some contracts are simple, some need specific requirements to have been met. They vary from theft to multiple assassinations, and inject some true variety into a formula that can sometimes feel a bit monotonous.

The biggest difference, one that has been met with a mixed response, is the lack of a chaos system and with it the lack of the core message of the previous games: any decision, however big or small, affects the world around you and those in it. Ultimately, Billie killing civilians or sparing the Overseers bears no effect; there are no extra swarms of hungry rats or bloodflies, nor are the sewers crawling with Weepers. Ultimately, the impact of whether Billie is an unseen phantom, a blood-soaked psychopath or somewhere in between ends with the player’s own decision of how to play. I will say not having to worry about a chaos level made it far more comfortable for me to hack, slash and shoot my way through the game in places where I would’ve thought carefully about leaving everyone unharmed.

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Much like the previous games, the true strength lies in the holy trifecta: terrifically complex story, brilliantly written characters and astounding voice performances. The raw emotion audible in Billie’s voice after Daud’s death is heartbreaking. The relationship between master and apprentice is an example of unconditional trust: even after her betrayal in The Knife of Dunwall, Daud knows he can still count on Billie. The fatherly affection he feels for her is obvious in the diary entry he writes at the beginning of mission three, and his final audiograph in mission four. I’m not ashamed to admit listening to it made me cry.

Billie is driven by her loyalty to Daud and the will to complete his dying wish, but is also conflicted thanks to her own guilt at the life she led before. If you choose to kill the Outsider, there’s a tiredness within Billie as she resigns herself to being ‘just a murderer’, conceding that killers never change despite being given the chance. It’s this gem of writing and voice acting that means the ending, a simple action rather than an action-heavy brawl with a deity, was a fitting climax to the tale. This is all interwoven with Daniel Licht’s emotive soundtrack. Sometimes eerie and sinister, always somewhat bleak, each note of the ambient music ripples through the tense atmosphere of the game and provides a perfect backdrop to the game.

There’s a strange, hollow feeling that grips me as I write this. It’s the feeling one experiences at the end of an era, when the stories of beloved characters have come to their conclusion and been laid to rest. The entire series was a true masterpiece, an obvious labour of love packed with detail, and for this reason I think Death of the Outsider is a truly fitting swan song that is likely to stay with me for a long, long while.


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  • Your best bet is to put new batteries on. Another suggestion can be using a rechargeable battery pack that comes with the Play & Charge Kit. Hope this helps. =)

  • Before you turn the controller off you need to sign off the account that is signed on to the controller. Once no account is signed into that controller location you may turn the controller off. If you are signed in when the player quits and turns the controller off the console thinks the battery has died in the controller.

  • The only way I know of is either to a. Put in new batteries or b. make sure there is nothing between the controller and the xbox that might cause an interference that would cause it to disconnect.

  • Try turning off the controller by holding down the middle button instead of pulling out the battery.

  • If he signs out before he shuts off the controller, it won't tell him to connect the controller again.

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What does the word “chiquilla” mean in Spanish??

If a man says chiquilla to a woman does this mean something sexual or similiar to saying honey or sweetheart in english.

Would a man say this to just a friend or a girlfriend.

If I overheard my husband saying this to a "so called friend" should I be upset??

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  • "chiquilla" = "Little girl"

    There's NO need for you to be upset. It's like someone calling you "young girl". It means nothing. He's just being polite.

  • Just means little or tiny girl, not means something sexual, can be used for a friend or someone in the family.

    Chiquilla vs Chiquita.

    Both are diminutives. Words ending in -illa means that the object is more littler than objects ending in -ita.

    Chiquitina is more little than Chiquilla.

  • It simply means "young lass" or "little girl" in Spanish. The man is probably using the word simply as a colloquial form of address in this case more in the sense of "young lass" or "young lady."

  • Don t be upset cause it only means kid, youngster or girl.(informal way)

    There s a popular song in Spanish with this name by Seguridad Social. Enjoy it:)

  • HI;

    Chiquilla means "little girl" and cand aply to a younger woman,girlfriend or close friend

  • It means little one, as in terms of a child. If a man says it to a woman its like almost the equivalent of saying babe or baby...

  • Chiquilla doesn't have any sexual meaning,....it means: little girl or young girl.....something like that 🙂

  • Chiquilla means "young girl" or "young woman".

  • Chiquilla? I have never heard of chiquilla...do you mean chiquita? Chiquita is generally used either speaking to a child, a girl...mostly as a term of endearment...or with a girlfriend/wife as a sort of pet name. It just means like little one.

  • hey!Im Indian.Spanish girl

    This word its for the South of Spain.THis its for a friend and its for a girl.its mean like....Girl or Funny girl or better little girl.Its nice.

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Sorry I know there are thousands of threads on which bike and I know there will be a lot of responses saying go and try them, but if I am being honest I wont really know what I am looking for. I do know I want full suspension and a relaxed geometry.
Is there any significant difference between the Cannondale RZ one 3 and the Lapierre Zesty 214? (both 2011 models)
If you had the money which would you get and why?
I just want a bike that will go off road and we'll see where I end up from there. I know I will not be heading towards DH.

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    Two slightly different platforms the RZ has 120mm travel and the Zesty 140mm.
    So depends how you ride, they would be both suitable for XC and trail use....

    The best advice and it's been said many times, try them both for fit and feel and go with the one that feels right for you.
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    Does it really matter that the Lapierre has 140mm forks?
    I suspect I wont bottom out the 120 forks. The 140s may be overkill, but am I right in saying they wont be a problem?
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    I used to have a 120mm travel and it was fine and took some abuse the zesty is slightly more hardcore though you would not see a huge difference. The 140 will have a slightly slacker headangle.

    If you need a large, I would also look at of the best trail bikes I have owned. ... RS_GB/3265
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Splanking disrupts the non-violent nature of the game. It's something I don't want to see in the new version of the game. After you've been splanked by Jesus Christ, it destroys the fun mood, and it just gives troublemakers an opportunity to make trouble.

  • I actually think it serves a very good purpose. "Troublemakers" will find a way to make trouble, splanking seems a relatively harmless outlet for that, no harm done. Perhaps, there can be an option to "ignore" or "deflect" splankings individually.
  • I was never a fan of splanking either (though I will joke about it in the forums). But it's still in game since initially they are reconstructing the game as it was. I just avoid using it as an option for myself. Even if someone splanks me, I typically return the action with a hug.
  • I never cared for them myself and never splanked anyone, I just ignored it and went about my business. Well, not Entirely ignored.... I've been known to fill the splankers mailbox with random useless things on occasion. ;)
  • I personally like splanking people but I completely respect the fact you all don't like it and will add your names to my, "Don't splank" list.
  • Artemis.............. I will only fill your mailbox with useful fun things... ;)
  • Going to be a little blunt here, to the extent that it may seem a little mean. That's not my intent.

    I think that really you'd have less of a problem if you just sort of... chose not to care. Typically, being bothered by things like this is based upon some level of effort to do so. What you can do is make an effort to react in a somewhat unexpected fashion, such as B3's method of hugging those that splank.
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    Well said Seeen. :) Not mean at all. We are all adults here, and the choice is ours. We can hop about our day squeezing chickens and making Awesome Stew to our content. Smile and enjoy the fact that NOW we are able to do so once again! Woooottts for Eleven!!!!! And of course, in the spirit of Glitch, we are gentle on peoples souls... :) Sweet EmoBear hugs to all those with sore bottoms that don't enjoy it, myself included.
  • Splanking was never overused at least in my memory. On occassion it was but it only seemed to be used, (for the most part) at certain parties/events, it was rare for me to be splanked otherwise. With the exception of being a sarcastic Glitchen. But I can see how it can get on peoples nerves if overused , but this was rarely the case
  • I was known to splank my good friends becayse as we know it was all in fun! 8-D
  • I use to enjoy a good splanking when I'd earned one.
  • when I was in betabandcamp, this glitch kept splanking everyone and using sneezing powder over and over and over eventually ruining a big party. After much forum debate the fervor died down and no glitch vigilante group was formed thanks to rascal mom and stoot reminding all that our interpretation of events is not always the intention. Anything nonviolent in glitch can be used to annoy others! Just try following someone silently from street to street to street till it bugs them but don't acknowledge them in chat. Annoying? Yes, but is it a stalker or non English speaking glitch seeing if you lead them to any new fun? We can only control our reactions to these things and erring on the glitch side is encouraged. the times that Splanking or anything it is ill mannered or unwelcome, trust in glitch karma. Ask messy monster
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    The only memories of widespread splanking I can recall is whenever I'd go to the enchanted woods. There always seemed to be one or two newer players who had just discovered splanking and were eager to try it out on avid lumberjacks such as myself.
  • Splanking didn't really bother me too much. I had a friend that whenever we met, we would hug, kiss, splank, Hi 5, and water. It was just part of our greeting each other.
  • That's the glitchiest handshake I've ever heard of. :')
  • I never liked splanking, and never splanked anyone. Maybe I get too immersed in the game, but it seemed too 'real' to hurt someone, even in a 'friendly' way. Just my take on it and I always just ignored splankers, or gave them a hug like @B3achy.

    Sorry, @Seeen, can't agree that I had to make an effort to dislike it, I just don't care for any hint of violence, however expressed.
  • I was a bit gob smacked over all the virulently anti splanking folks who never seemed to get the irony. If you splanked someone, it was YOUR energy that was reduced. And that, I thought, was the point of having it in the game. Triply ironic were the folks all whanged out about splank club. The splanking didn't hurt the splankee, it hurt the splanker. The "winner" was the player who was splanked less. I thought the whole thing very glitchy. Violence hurts the one perpetrating the violence, not the one on the receiving end. I would never want it removed from the game.
  • Splanking never hurt anyone and I wouldn't even say it was annoying.

    But Lill Missy leaving 40,000 bears in your house. Now THAT is dishing out the hurt. :D
  • It was my butler.......
  • I *really* support the goal of Eleven Giants to recreate the game as it was first (so, not removing anything like splanking).

    Glitch had a non-violent tone that splanking might not fit into, but one of the things that stood out to me was how uninterested a lot of Glitchen seemed in splanking despite it being available... As evidenced by comments in this thread such as from Artemis, I think it's possible for us to be respectful with it.
  • I think taking it out of the game, considering how mechanically harmless it is, would be a little too much like trying to engineer the perfect society by physically eliminating all the things that make us who we are. It's better to foster a community that chooses not to do bad things than to make a rubber-coated room that makes gentle interaction the only option. It doesn't seem as meaningful if people aren't asked to choose to be pleasant.
  • I've been waiting almost 3 years for a good splanking. Bring it on.
  • As you wish >:3
  • Thank you. Just as I remembered it.
  • edited November 2015
    I splanked someone in Illmenski (Glitch, not Eleven) who was being rude. They followed me and verbally abused me until I had to block them. I didn't use it much after that.
  • There will never be a cure for trolls and rude people, but at least it's simple enough to block the ones in game. And the Glitch support team was always really helpful whenever I had a problem with another player.
  • Splanking seemed to be most successful when it was done among consenting adult Glitchen.
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    I had it happen to me a few times where it completely disrupted what I was doing, and when I asked the person to stop they continued over and over. I know a lot of people think it's fun, and it is when it's being done in a fun way; I'm sure I should "choose not to be bothered"- and mostly, I wasn't really bothered- but that kind of thing is only really fun for the jerk doing it, and while it may not hurt the person being splanked, it can be a real PITA if you're busy and some hilarious wit won't stop.
    I don't think it should be removed, though.
  • @Djabrill. Asshat behavior is asshat behavior, whatever it is. Just curious. If the jerk had repeatedly hugged or kissed you, would it have been equally disruptive to your project? I'd hazard that the fact they'd chosen to splank you added an extra soupçon of annoyingness, but WHAT they did is not the main issue really. It was the fact they didn't treat you with respect.
  • I never really splanked myself, though I recall being splanked once or twice along the roads, so forgive me if i say something that would absolutely not work. What about a sort of splanking counter? Everyone can only splank someone else, lets say, 10 times a day (it could be more or less, i'm not sure what the majority would consider annoying or too little). So with three other glitchen on a street, you could splank one person 10 times then move on to the other. I think the same could be imposed with other actions performed on fellow players to prevent disruption, such as hugging, kissing, sneezing powder, et cetera. Going with this, perhaps there could be upgrades to increase the amount, up to a certain point, maybe start at 3 instead of 10 and work up to 15 or 20? Not sure if this would even work, just my thoughts.
  • @Apothecary Wilmuth. I hope you wn't be offended--I mean this in the kindest way possible but I'm afraid what you're suggesting sorta sounds like a solution is search of a problem. I get it that there are folks that do not care for splanking because of what it represents to them and because of the misunderstanding about who actually is harmed when splanking takes place. I also get it that all sorts of things, if done to excess, can be annoying or bad for you or for others. But where does this stop? There are controls in place to manage annoying players. Do we need more? I sincerely don't think so. I love this community and, on the whole, we are a darned swell bunch (IMHO). I don't think we need artificial controls to force everyone to be nice. I'd rather folks be nice because they want to be. And if they don't, well, I'd rather know that, too.
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I've got map covering area 20km around my town. Map is divided to 210 parts 3000x3000px png in trekbuddy tared format. I'd like to put parts into single folder to use them as single map but now locus use only first segment in directory (I tried converting map so sqlite but i recieved empty file).
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3. Locus create index for files in directory (name,covering lat/long,filesize), maybe in sqlite so it can be updated when adding more maps to directory.
4. When selected in private maps, locus load map covering current position
It would be nice if locus can load tiles from 4 different tared maps when looking at edge of fragment.

Now i'm using androzic for dealing with scanned maps, but i'd like to have them in single app.
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  4. I'd like to make the label on my datapage display the current month. Is there a way I can do that?
  5. That works on my end too. I do have another file called "Engineering Report [short date]" that works fine but with Customer Report it freaks out for some reason. Thanks for the help!
  6. Ok after rebuilding and testing, I've figured out that it's the short date I have tacked on to the end of the file name that is messing things up. No clue why. I have another report with the same name format that works fine...
  7. Yep, tried to duplicate it. I've got a support ticket open rn. Currently debating whether I should rebuild an identical datapage from scratch.
  8. Here is the deployed datapage link: https://c1dcs476.caspio.com/dp/66ca90000d1775aed9144fc79760 I am downloading the XML file to open in excel but it corrupts every time
  9. Ok in addition to that though the file that fully downloads on other computers is corrupting. On Mac I got the error above and on windows I got this error.
  10. I'm having issues downloading xml files from Caspio on some Windows computers. Once I go through the whole keep -> save as song and dance, it converts the file to a .crdownload and refuses to open with excel (corrupts or has other errors) 9 times out of 10. Any ideas on how to fix this? Edit: Having a similar error on Mac but without the .crdownload. This file specifically is coming up with this error when I try to open it.
  11. I want to change the layout of my pivot table. Right now it looks like the column headers are aligned to the left while the data fields are aligned to the right, which looks bad. how can I change this?
  12. This is the record index for a tabular report. I enabled it on the Results Page Options screen here.
  13. How can I change the color of the header for the record index?
  14. I want a calculated field formula that can return the date in MM/DD/YYYY format. How can I get this?
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  1. yohannrjm's Avatar
    Since I got my Passport, I've noticed that I have very little reason to break out my tablet (Lenovo Win8.1 tab) --- at least when I have to check/reply to emails or read documents, and for general Web browsing.

    For serious document creation, I'll still use the tablet with a Bluetooth keyboard, and it wins out on the rare occasions I watch a Netflix show, but for the most part the Passport has taken over most of my casual computing tasks (and some of the serious tasks too).

    Honestly, the Passport combined with my laptop covers all my computing needs. If I didn't already have the tablet, I wouldn't feel the need to get one.

    Anyone else salting away their tablets since they received their Passport?
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  2. world traveler and former ceo's Avatar
    I agree. Since getting my Passport I stopped using a tablet...

    I still have a laptop for use but mostly I use the Passport for everything business or fun.....

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    12-23-14 06:43 PM
  3. fanisk's Avatar
    Totally agreed!

    Sent from my BlackBerry Passport
    12-23-14 07:04 PM
  4. vader42's Avatar
    I think I've used my home laptop only once or twice since I got the PP. tablet use has just stopped.

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    12-23-14 07:05 PM
  5. Jaalouro's Avatar
    Since getting my passport I have not been using my iPad air much, other than checking some game apps. Navigation is superior on the passport. Screen size is perfect and the keyboard is precise.

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    12-23-14 07:41 PM
  6. ggbrands's Avatar
    Yeah totally. Especially with Blend, my tablet isn't needed.

    When people who aren't familiar with Blend ask me about it, and I answer, they just don't seem to comprehend. It's really that far outside the box.

    Posted via CB10
    12-23-14 08:24 PM
  7. sandman10's Avatar
    once in a while, I hear people mention that the PP is "too big", yet those same people tote around a tablet along with their phone.

    Since I got my PP, certainly don't intend on getting another tablet any time soon....
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  8. crazy mazy's Avatar
    Is that What TH was referring to when he said the tablet will be obsolete in 5 years?
    12-23-14 08:39 PM
  9. yohannrjm's Avatar
    Strangely enough, I had a 'phablet' before I got the Passport. It is a Nokia Lumia 1520. 6" of screen space.

    However, it didn't replace my tablet as completely as the Passport. The physical keyboard combined with a generous screen was what I was looking for.
    12-23-14 08:43 PM
  10. dale-c's Avatar
    I have a Dell win 8.1 tablet. It's Still useful for installing leaks :-)

    Posted via CB10
    12-23-14 08:47 PM
  11. dale-c's Avatar
    I really use it when I need a full laptop. But other than that I can don't.

    Posted via CB10
    12-23-14 08:47 PM
  12. engrbugs's Avatar
    Never touch an ipad after I bought the BlackBerry passport
    12-23-14 09:45 PM
  13. herbersh's Avatar
    Haven't touched my Tablet since my Passport arrived

    Posted via CB10
    12-23-14 09:48 PM
  14. msmcmillan's Avatar
    Ditto...my tablet is shelved in my closet...I feel bad, but I have no use for it since my Passport.

    Posted via CB10
    12-23-14 09:54 PM
  15. jopfet's Avatar
    Yes, especially when it's gold. I just had this done today after taking it totally apart. Just got it put back together. Jim
    Has the Passport dented your Tablet use?-img_20141223_185444_edit.jpg

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  16. jvictor77's Avatar
    My playbook sits on the kitchen table and I read news on it in the morning - that's about it . For everything else it's my Passport.

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    12-23-14 10:01 PM
  17. SK122387's Avatar
    Kind of, but not really. I have the iPad Air 2 and it's great. I'm even one of those people who will say that the iPad is the best tablet in the world. But if I'm on it and an email comes in to my iCloud inbox on my iPad and my Passport, my Passport gets it at least ten seconds faster, and it's just so easy to grab it and type back a response. Email is fine on the iPad, but it's nowhere near as good as the Passport, obviously.

    But for watching movies and shows, I never do that on my Passport. I wear contact lenses, so I like to take them out at night and watch stuff on my iPad with it really close to my eyes (I know, it's bad for me!). I still think the tablet and the Passport are two different types of devices, and if I could only have one, I'd pick my beautiful Passport.
    12-23-14 10:02 PM
  18. marzfreerider's Avatar
    If anything its dented my computers use, never used tablets.
    12-23-14 10:23 PM
  19. JDel23's Avatar
    What's a tablet?

    Posted via BlackBerry Passport 10.3
    12-23-14 10:50 PM
  20. OzBogan's Avatar
    The ipad hardly gets a look in nowadays.

    Posted via CB10
    12-24-14 04:24 AM
  21. thymaster's Avatar
    Yep I've left my iPad out in my car for a while now that I don't know if there's any battery left. I don't even recall the last time I changed it.
    12-24-14 05:02 AM
  22. whatsever's Avatar
    the only dented thing is my camera- It's slow and has really issues to make pictures from my kids and going to test this weekend other phone's or buying a small camera. O

    I use a Blackberry Passport and with the hardware you thinking it's better than my Z30 but it's not , I hope software will solve it .
    12-24-14 06:12 AM
  23. Matt J's Avatar
    My Microsoft Surface 2 has definitely seen less use after I got my Passport. I find that surfing the web it much better now than on my Z10.
    12-24-14 07:11 AM
  24. bluetroll's Avatar
    The iPad is really only used to play Clash of Clans and The Simpsons Tapped Out

    Posted via CB10
    12-24-14 08:19 AM
  25. hobbes_nyc's Avatar
    Never saw the purpose of owning a tablet, so I cant comment

    I have a PC and my Passport, and I will say I use Blend for emails, texts, calendar like a madman though
    12-24-14 08:47 AM
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How Can I Remove The Lock Screen From My Samsung Tablet?

Protecting your tablet or mobile from unauthorized use is very necessary. This is best accomplished with the help of the excellent lock features available in your device. Android devices come with a variety of lock systems that prevent the unknown users from gaining the access of your device, and misusing the information available in it. Using the right lock system helps in making the devices less vulnerable to the unauthorized users, thus protecting them completely. The lock features not only safeguard the information present in the tablet/mobile, but also avoid hindrance in your privacy as well.

Sometimes a situation arises where your screen gets locked while you are looking up for some data or reading information. This becomes quite irritating and you want to deactivate the lock screen feature present in your tablet. There are basically two types of lock systems in the tablets.

  • Swipe lock which is a general screen locking feature. No extra information is required by the user to unlock the device, and just swiping the screen left to right can solve the purpose.
    Password, Pattern or PIN lock. The user is assumed to have some pre-information required while unlocking the screen.
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Removing a swipe, password or a PIN lock from your tablet/mobile is very easy. You just need to follow following steps:

  1. ■Firstly, click the Menu icon present on the home screen of the tablet.
    ■Now tap the Settings option from there.
    ■From the Settings window, tap the Lock Screen.
    ■If your tablet is locked by password, enter the password which is presently set to unlock the tablet. If it is locked by pattern, enter the present unlocking pattern or the PIN for unlocking the device.

    ■After providing the specified unlocking information, back on the previous screen, tap the None option to remove the unlocking method.

    ■Your screen lock should now be disabled.
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Note: It is not recommended that you should disable the screen lock. If you get annoyed with it, it is better to increase the screen timeout delay instead. Although doing so will reduce the battery life, your device will remain protected from any unauthorized access and unwanted data theft.
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USB port/panel shorting from improper connection

Hello, I recently plugged a USB device into my laptop and I think that it shorted the USB panel on the motherboard. I think that the USB cable had been fine in the computer, but wired wrong into the device. When I plugged in the device, heard some sort of pop in the computer, and now whenever I plug anything into the port nothing happens and I am not able to find the device in the Device Manager. Is there any way to fix this that does not include a DIY or taking it to a professional? If I do have to take it to a professional are there any recommended ones?

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A popping sound implies you burnt something inside. At this point you’ll need to open the system up to locate the damaged component. If that’s beyond your skills then its time to find someone who does.

There is no software solution for this.

You may want to check the device you tried plugging in maybe using the wrong power brick. I’ve seen this a few times which a 18 volt brik is used on a device that was designed to only work with 5/6 volts.

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One other item. It’s possible you have more than one USB connector and that only this particular “bank” of USB connectors are damaged/destroyed. If you have others that work, you can consider putting a USB Hub to expand your ports if needed as a stop gap measure to repairing your board.

Dan, however, is very right that a pop clearly states a blow fuse/cap/IC component. If you aren’t good with a soldering iron or heat gun, this is outside your scope of DIY repair.

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Kalamazoo X Conference is Just Around the Corner!

My second favorite conference[1], the Kalamazoo X Conference, is rapidly approaching! Please come join a passionate, interactive, engaged group of folks in Kalamazoo, MI, on 30 April for a very unique, wonderful conference.

KalX is a single-track event focusing on the soft skills we technologists don’t often think about: interviewing, building your brand, leadership, education, and so forth. Sessions generally 20 – 30 minutes, and they’re always dynamic and engaging.

I’ll be giving two talks at this year’s event: Working With Great Teams, and a still-untitled talk on dealing with evaluations (giving and receiving). I’m also going to be part of a panel talking about interviewing – look at the list of speakers and you know that panel will be kicking out some tremendous discussion!

The Heartland has a passle of wonderful conferences to get you educated and engaged. KalX is a place I go to get inspired and motivated. It’s Just. Plain. Awesome.

Go register. Now!

(If you’re in the Dayton area and want to go but are hesitant because of the distance, drop me a line via the sidebar contact link. I’ve got room in my car and would be happy to have some carpool mates. I’ll keep my yodeling to a minimum.)

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Your Resume: Go Visual

I (mostly) diligently update my resume twice a year. I do this regularly because I use the updating process as sort of a retrospective on where I’m at, what I’ve done, and what I want to do moving forward. I try to get one of the updates in a few months before my formal review comes up at work – not because I’m fearful of what’s going to happen, but because I want to make sure I’m on track with goals my manager and I had laid out.

This year I decided to do something different: create a visual resume. Pal Ben Carey once had a Tweet or link about visual resumes, and I started exploring around. I’ve seen a number of them around over the years and have really been impressed by the concept. Visual resumes definitely speak to organizations with a creative, curious mindset, and I think they’re a great way for younger workers to better highlight things in their short careers. For old farts like myself visual resumes enable a much better understanding of one’s career timeline and milestones.

After a couple attempts here’s what I finally came up with. It’s somewhat (ok, mostly) copped from the beautiful one Jef Newsom of Improving put together; however, I tweaked a few things to fit my style. (The image is a link, so you can see the full-sized version if you want.)

I tried this initially in PowerPoint, but that quickly fell apart, so I moved to Visio. My first go using a horizontal timeline got a polite thumbs down from Josh and his recruiter wife Gretchen who both suggested a vertical orientation to emphasize the most current work.

There are a number of other really neat styles which look like subway maps, octopuses, and various graphs; however, this format was one I could pull off with the tooling I had available. I’m happy with it as my first attempt. It plays around with technologies I’ve been around, it shows my positions and roles, and I use the middle lane of callouts to highlight specific events which have shaped my career.

I might not use this resume by itself for every position I was interested in. I’d definitely send it with a strong cover letter, and I would likely accompany it with a traditional resume if I was looking at a company with a more formal culture.

That said, as another pal Joe Morel remarked, “Do you really want to work for a company that wouldn’t find this really cool?”

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Focus on 100% Value, not 100% Complete

Too often folks on a project focus on getting to 100% complete of a specific feature, feature set, or even project. Unfortunately, too often that means those same teams aren’t focusing on delivering 100% value.

Draw a comparison with the infamous 80/20 rule: the first 80% of something takes 20% of the effort, and the last 20% takes 80% of the effort.

It’s highly likely I’m not delivering the best value to my company or customers if I’m spending inordinate amounts of time finishing up the last 20% of every feature/feature set/project. Instead, teams should constantly be evaluating the progress through their features and asking the hard, hard question: “Does it make sense to finish out the last bit of this particular feature set, or should we stop and move on to something else of higher value?” [1]

This isn’t often an easy sell to folks. Some individuals or teams get very focused on those 100% metrics because that’s how they measure their own value: 100% complete of their work instead of 100% value delivered on the project. That’s a tough hurdle to overcome since this mindset hits not only teams, but also management and stakeholders.

You can sometimes overcome this mental FUD by laying out the cumulative effect of working five features to 100% complete, when only 80% of those features offer high value. Continuing with my completely arbitrary, highly contrived numbers, say each of those features takes 20 hours.

80% of the value of those features was created in 20% of the work time: 20 hours * .2 == 4 hours of value creation time. Conversely, you’ve spent 16 hours per feature working on lesser value portions of that feature.

Add that all up and you’ve spent 80 hours of your 100 on low-value work. That hurts. Badly.

The bright side of this – the really shiny, awesome part – is that you’ve created tremendous value in 20 hours of work out of the 100 you had planned for those five features. You have delivered tremendous value to the customer in just 20% of time/budget/whatever.

If you focused on only the most critical aspects of your work then you could apply those 80 remaining hours to building tremendous value elsewhere in your project. You could even have the conversation with your customer that “Hey, based on the close interaction we’ve had with you through this short project, it turns out we’ve gotten everything you really need on this project. How about we figure out some other awesome things to do with the money you’ve got left in those remaining 80 hours.”

[1] You also need to think hard about the added weight for maintenance, sustainability, and overall complexity you’re adding in by working that last 20% to completion. Those longer term costs, both direct and implied, can crush the life of a system.

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There is, as Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg correctly noted, a surging wave of suicides, drug overdoses, and alcohol deaths. These have been collectively labeled "deaths of despair," first in academic literature and then in the popular press.

On Friday, Buttigieg's presidential campaign released a plan to "improve mental health care and combat addiction," with the explicit purpose of reducing "deaths of despair." The plan calls for massive federal investment in mental health care, including a drive to increase the number and geographic diversity of psychiatric and drug treatment services. It also includes several liberalizing reforms to the prison and drug treatment systems.

There are several things to like about the South Bend mayor's plan. Expanded pre-conviction diversion for people with a history of mental illness and substance use would benefit not only individuals who need treatment, but the prison wardens and police officers forced, over their own objections, to play mental health counselors. Increasing the availability of naloxone, a medicine used to reverse opioid overdoses, almost certainly would be beneficial, as would the removal of federal limits on syringe exchange programs.

In general, there is nothing per se objectionable about expanding access to mental health and drug abuse treatment. How Buttigieg would actually effect this expansion is often left unclear. The plan is heavy on imperatives, light on details.

If the "deaths of despair" crisis were predominantly caused by a dearth of mental health resources, then perhaps Buttigieg's plan would be meatier. But the vagueness of the proposal and its focus on mental health indicate that Mayor Pete does not understand the true nature of "deaths of despair."

Economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton coined the term to describe a particular series of comorbidities that collectively explained the unprecedented increase in all-cause mortality among white Americans in their 40s and 50s. The term does not describe an underlying causal theory. The fundamental force driving these increases is not an amorphous "despair" that suddenly emerged ex nihilo. Nor, for that matter, is there much evidence that most Americans are more lonely or mentally ill than they used to be (except for teenagers). Rather, as I've written previously, the three distinct crises that compose the "deaths of despair" phenomenon each became prominent around the same time, but have distinct underlying etiologies linkable to particular social and policy decisions over the past 20 years.

For example, there is good reason to believe that U.S. trade policy, and specifically permanent normal trade relations with China, sparked increases in drug use and suicide, as well as contributing to decaying marriage and family formation rates which in turn promote "despair." Similarly, Buttigieg is right that rates of depression and anxiety have risen among teens and young adults. But, while there is no consensus as to why, there are multiple valid competing theories which link the trend to the rise of the internet, changes in our educational structure, and a decline in teen socialization, all linked to both family and state decision-making.

At their heart the "deaths of despair" crises are not about mental health. They are about political economy. How we have chosen to structure our society, and to whose benefit—the old versus the young, the beneficiaries of trade versus those harmed—is more fundamental than increasing the number of psychiatrists per capita.

The Buttigieg plan obliquely acknowledges non-mental-health causes, alluding to "parents being laid off," or "teenagers coping with childhood trauma," or "older people whose aging friends don't stop by as often." It also includes the standard grab-bag of social issues: racism, poverty, etc. All of these are timeless social problems, not particular causes that, for example, initiated an unexplained and unrelenting increase in the suicide rate beginning two decades ago. Something—or more than one thing—initiated an explosion in deaths.

Some might object that even if there are more "root" causes, mental health treatment is a more readily available solution. But while there are undoubtedly more mental health resources—including for at-risk groups—today than there were 20 years ago, the suicide rate is 30 percent higher. This does not mean treatment causes suicide, but it does mean that the fundamental problem is not a lack of mental health resources—it is deeper, structural issues. It also means that additional mental health resources are not going to meaningfully reduce total death rates.

In a sense, the Buttigieg plan offers a band-aid. Yes, people's lives will be harmed by their jobs getting shipped to China, but at least they will be able to talk to a psychiatrist about it. There is something fundamentally sinister about this band-aid.

When asked why his plan was not targeting "root issues," the Buttigieg campaign told the Washington Free Beacon, "Simply spending more on current programs will get us the same results, which is why we are proposing forward-thinking ways to bring mental health care into schools, primary care offices, and communities."

"Our approach to mental health and addiction assistance is grounded in ensuring that every American has a place to receive support and care," the campaign spokesperson continued. "It puts resources directly in the hands of communities, allowing them to address social factors as well as health care factors to dramatically improve mental health treatment and ultimately save one million lives over the next decade."

This answer simply doubles down on the focus on mental health. Buttigieg emphasizes a desire to destigmatize mental illness—a common line in similar plans. But the emphasis on mental health, instead of political economy, necessarily focalizes the source of people's despair on themselves. The problem, our former McKinsey consultant tells us, is not that we have shipped your job to China, or mortgaged your future to pay for the Boomers' retirement, or allowed China and Mexico to flood your town with fentanyl. The problem is that you are not taking the right anti-depressant, and you do not talk enough to your psychologist.

The problem, in other words, is not us. It is you.