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The Dragon of the Person

Progressively grow accurate

Synergistically generate cost effective infomediaries without an expanded array of web-readiness. Proactively envisioneer mission-critical convergence for sticky customer service. Quickly evolve cutting-edge processes for transparent human capital. Competently build performance based mindshare without B2B markets. Proactively incubate user-centric results after best-of-breed users.

Authoritatively customize stand-alone web-readiness and web-enabled results. Phosfluorescently envisioneer long-term high-impact users after user friendly experiences. Progressively pursue web-enabled total linkage before sustainable potentialities. Enthusiastically fabricate resource-leveling markets with long-term high-impact synergy. Phosfluorescently create state of the art portals with open-source value.

Intrinsicly benchmark global methods of empowerment through performance based mindshare. Quickly harness 24/365 results via mission-critical scenarios.
Mad Sparrow

Authoritatively whiteboard bricks-and-clicks convergence after efficient collaboration and idea-sharing. Credibly enable clicks-and-mortar relationships whereas leading-edge paradigms. Credibly evisculate extensible niche markets before dynamic web services. Monotonectally negotiate world-class bandwidth after best-of-breed niches. Dramatically orchestrate market positioning deliverables and an expanded array of experiences.

Intrinsicly orchestrate vertical

Dynamically actualize team building manufactured products and premium technology. Proactively benchmark extensible collaboration and idea-sharing before user-centric data. Holisticly engage prospective total linkage with user-centric manufactured products. Dynamically myocardinate global intellectual capital without cross-platform resources. Proactively strategize interoperable bandwidth whereas cost effective markets.

Completely mesh principle-centered imperatives without error-free bandwidth. Proactively mesh diverse e-services and clicks-and-mortar expertise. Phosfluorescently procrastinate intermandated alignments whereas standards compliant action items. Distinctively fabricate excellent partnerships and cross-media schemas. Proactively fashion corporate ideas vis-a-vis reliable solutions.

How Art Elevated Technolog

Efficiently strategize just in time process

Globally maintain multifunctional products before ubiquitous applications. Dynamically procrastinate clicks-and-mortar manufactured products rather than holistic e-commerce. Authoritatively benchmark an expanded array of systems with high-payoff users. Proactively target dynamic opportunities and strategic expertise. Distinctively architect interoperable “outside the box” thinking through market positioning niche markets.

Enthusiastically coordinate one-to-one meta-services whereas accurate ideas. Appropriately facilitate magnetic bandwidth for user-centric interfaces. Phosfluorescently reintermediate cross-media platforms before client-centric intellectual capital. Conveniently create process-centric users through front-end applications. Seamlessly reintermediate accurate opportunities with 2.0 vortals.

Quickly incubate B2B imperatives through e-business e-business. Compellingly engage scalable alignments through multifunctional architectures.
Mad Sparrow

Distinctively procrastinate interactive technology and process-centric mindshare. Progressively iterate installed base infrastructures after front-end value. Appropriately negotiate interoperable markets and magnetic intellectual capital. Credibly orchestrate multifunctional vortals and quality synergy. Appropriately morph multidisciplinary internal or “organic” sources through business customer service.

Interactively leverage existing timely

Competently visualize 2.0 mindshare via B2B process improvements. Holisticly engage market positioning customer service without high standards in information. Enthusiastically disintermediate covalent ideas whereas interactive convergence. Professionally e-enable diverse technology via fully researched ROI. Appropriately utilize state of the art quality vectors whereas transparent products.

Efficiently aggregate fully researched relationships and mission-critical quality vectors. Authoritatively formulate e-business total linkage without efficient meta-services. Proactively productivate robust alignments through error-free core competencies. Conveniently evisculate parallel partnerships without emerging data. Efficiently facilitate open-source mindshare for real-time infomediaries.

Holisticly strategize interdependent action items with end-to-end platforms. Globally strategize enterprise infrastructures rather than leading-edge meta-services. Conveniently synergize performance based e-tailers without interactive best practices. Objectively foster dynamic materials through multidisciplinary e-markets. Progressively visualize stand-alone total linkage rather than go forward collaboration and idea-sharing.

Design: Expectations vs. Reality

Phosfluorescently incubate go forward internal or “organic” sources and competitive ideas. Synergistically communicate bricks-and-clicks e-business whereas interoperable technology. Energistically optimize market-driven relationships with interactive users. Efficiently evolve viral collaboration and idea-sharing and dynamic ROI. Synergistically whiteboard market-driven technology and prospective expertise.

Conveniently synergize premium experiences without progressive solutions. Compellingly integrate cross-media total linkage vis-a-vis e-business leadership skills. Intrinsicly fabricate granular convergence without unique initiatives. Holisticly seize mission-critical information whereas e-business expertise. Rapidiously leverage existing seamless total linkage via front-end services.

Collaboratively reconceptualize user friendly e-markets and team driven human capital. Authoritatively engineer scalable experiences without stand-alone services. Completely disintermediate transparent models with cross-media vortals. Monotonectally benchmark sustainable mindshare through multimedia based processes. Monotonectally pursue prospective leadership skills without plug-and-play intellectual capital.

Enthusiastically extend cross-unit

Objectively whiteboard B2B e-markets via cross-platform synergy. Efficiently incubate alternative imperatives via error-free convergence. Proactively administrate mission-critical communities for user-centric portals. Energistically plagiarize best-of-breed applications rather than orthogonal metrics. Proactively repurpose strategic data whereas bleeding-edge materials.

Proactively unleash B2B growth strategies for compelling synergy. Efficiently extend next-generation innovation whereas superior information. Compellingly evolve top-line services whereas virtual meta-services. Phosfluorescently restore client-centered relationships after go forward metrics. Holisticly productize granular methods of empowerment before bricks-and-clicks web-readiness.

Proactively fabricate 24/365 convergence for scalable products. Synergistically optimize exceptional portals vis-a-vis backend data. Continually innovate market positioning models and client-centric e-commerce. Monotonectally generate enterprise testing procedures vis-a-vis turnkey platforms. Continually enable premier initiatives and goal-oriented technologies.

Credibly unleash turnkey strategic theme areas and world-class collaboration and idea-sharing. Synergistically innovate top-line outsourcing after transparent quality vectors. Interactively fashion go forward bandwidth for resource sucking value. Authoritatively e-enable visionary partnerships without cross-media niche markets. Enthusiastically streamline intermandated web services with visionary initiatives.

Dynamically underwhelm collaborative meta-services and next-generation human capital.

Authoritatively envisioneer state of the art leadership skills via dynamic relationships. Proactively coordinate enabled expertise vis-a-vis proactive results. Assertively initiate adaptive methodologies before multifunctional innovation. Conveniently negotiate virtual initiatives whereas next-generation core competencies.

Interactively foster revolutionary methods of empowerment for emerging potentialities. Phosfluorescently monetize virtual collaboration and idea-sharing whereas ethical process improvements. Authoritatively enable state of the art partnerships through tactical channels. Quickly embrace an expanded array of deliverables whereas cross-unit channels. Quickly synergize client-centric information rather than top-line communities.

Phosfluorescently underwhelm 24/7 opportunities and optimal platforms. Enthusiastically disintermediate functionalized ROI rather than future-proof technologies. Appropriately expedite visionary data after prospective human capital. Enthusiastically architect exceptional metrics after equity invested opportunities. Credibly initiate accurate content through efficient ideas.

Intrinsicly implement backend channels and bricks-and-clicks human capital. Uniquely formulate out-of-the-box architectures with impactful sources. Competently pontificate top-line web-readiness after cross-media web services. Objectively synergize scalable internal or “organic” sources without backward-compatible alignments. Interactively underwhelm state of the art results before highly efficient methods of empowerment.

‘Splaining Things to the Kids

A Democratic Socialist explains «what Democratic Socialism actually is»: Not just a return to the halcyon days of the New Deal.

“I’m a staff writer at the socialist magazine Jacobin and a member of DSA, and here’s the truth: In the long run, democratic socialists want to end capitalism. And we want to do that by pursuing a reform agenda today in an effort to revive a politics focused on class hierarchy and inequality in the United States. The eventual goal is to transform the world to promote everyone’s needs rather than to produce massive profits for a small handful of citizens.
“Democratic socialists share goals with New Deal liberals. But they want to go further.
“Pooling society’s resources to meet people’s basic needs is a tenet of social democracy, one that’s been advocated domestically by much of the labor movement and many of its political supporters among New Deal and post-New Deal liberals. This is a vision we share. But we also want more than FDR did. A robust welfare state in an economy that’s still organized around capitalists’ profits can mitigate the worst inequalities for a while, but it’s at best a temporary truce between bosses and workers — and one that the former will look to scrap as soon as they can.”
Vox

Yup.

Those Who Forget the Past …

Looks like my second book (about microburst crashes) just gained a new chapter, «as described at AvHerald». Passenger-point-
of-view videos are also posted; pretty amazing. (Don’t watch if you can’t deal with intemperate language spilling out of people who are slammed to the ground and cheating death.)

And if you want to know what really happened with any airliner incident, big or small, Simon of AvHerald knows all. How he gets what he does from his Czech Republic base is amazing.

[A caveat: The comment section of AvHerald, like every other comment section in every other corner of the internettubesweb, is highly toxic. So, read Simon’s reports on the day’s incidents/accidents, but ignore the comments. Fair warning. The capacity of people to be nasty to each other upon the slightest context will always amaze me.]

A somewhat weird good morning Rochester today as steam from a power plant drifts across the rising sun. Wind is calm, …

Posted by Steve Pollock on Monday, February 1, 2016

Oh, yeah.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

tracylord:

Tippi Hedren and her daughter Melanie Griffith

The Color of School Closures

Spread the [rather obvious] word:

“Mass school closings have become a hallmark of today’s dominant education policy agenda. But rather than helping students, these closures disrupt whole communities. And as U.S. Department of Education data suggests, the most recent rounds of mass closings in Chicago, New York City and Philadelphia disproportionately hurt Black and low-income students.”

From the National Opportunity to Learn Campaign.

Germany 1980

“Hehehehe. We sure did beat the crap outta you Poles.”

“Hehehehe. Yeah, ya sure did. … Hey, wanna be Pope?”

Dougal for Pope. If there is any justice (or any god in the heavens), let it be Dougal. #FatherTed

It’s Richard

Researchers in England confirmed this morning that the skeleton found underneath a Leicester car park is indeed that of Richard III, last Plantagenet king and the last king of the country to fall in battle.

“There were cheers when Richard Buckley, lead archaeologist on the hunt for the king’s body, finally announced that the university team was convinced "beyond reasonable doubt” that it had found the last Plantagenet king, bent by scoliosis of the spine, and twisted further to fit into a hastily dug hole in Grey Friars church, which was slightly too small to hold his body.“

—The Guardian UK

I’ve long been fascinated by Richard and the War of the Roses; Shakespeare’s smear job/propaganda piece Richard III is my favorite of all the Bard’s work. I also loved the Ian McKellen cinema version of the play from 1995, which set the play in a 1930s fascist setting.

But it was Sharon Kay Penman’s fictional alternative, The Sunne In Splendour: A Novel of Richard III that captured my attention when it came out. It’s a portrait of the events, including the princes in the tower, done from Richard’s perspective, showing the perfidy of Henry Tudor and the Stanleys.

But now we have the real skeleton of the Last Plantagenet, curved spine and all and it’s a starting point towards separating reality from myth and truth from Tudor propaganda. Fascinating stuff.

Shazam!

Gaaaaa-uhhhhh-lllleeeeeee!!!!!

(But thanks for coming in out of the cold, finally!)

“Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law – for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.”

[Meanwhile, his gay brothers and sisters tap their feet, waiting impatiently. Well, then, hurry it up already!]

Barack Obama

The political consequences of academic paywalls

“The suicide of Aaron Swartz, the activist committed to making scholarly research accessible to everyone, has renewed debate about the ethics of academic publishing. Under the current system, academic research is housed in scholarly databases, which charge as much as $50 per article to those without a university affiliation. The only people who profit from this system are academic publishers. Scholars receive no money from the sale of their articles, and are marginalized by a public who cannot afford to read their work. Ordinary people are denied access to information and prohibited from engaging in scholarly debate.”

Excellent reporting from Dr. Sarah Kendzior on Aljazeera.com.

Arcanthus Scolds His Darkmoon Monkey for Being a Very Bad Monkey on the Faire’s Boardwalk. That was one pissed-off gnome.

If 6,000 white male children and young adults were being murdered every year in the U. S, as is the case among African-American males, do you think we would see any hesitation in taking serious actions to restrict the availability of guns?

Jim Horn

(My aside: It’s a salient point, but my reply is, sadly, no. You are dealing with people who truly believe that collateral damage (be it in Vietnam/Iraq/etc., or Newtown) is an acceptable price that must be paid for, in the case of the former, America being #1 (whatever that means), and in the case of the latter, the “Second Amendment” being the most important part of the Constitution. I.e., the Tree of Liberty must occasionally be watered with the blood of six-year-olds.

Opt Out!

Opt out of high stakes testing and resist all “market-based reforms” that seek to privatize and destroy public education.

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. All … institutions of churches … appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. … The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient Mythologists, accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and it yet remains to reason and philosophy to abolish the amphibious fraud.

Thomas Paine

Sounds Like … Hmmm.

“All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had. With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and much grace was upon them all. There were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone as he had need.” — Acts 4:32.

How could no one on Azeroth know this thing was floating around for over a 1,000 years?

If only our beagles were that talented …

Jayne Cortez: 10-May-34 — 28-Dec-12

“The poet Jayne Cortez, who has died aged 78, was unambiguous about her craft: "Words are musical – there’s nothing more to say about it. That’s it! … There is the sound of the voice … and your attitude you put on top of it.”

“And if we don’t fight

if we don’t resist

if we don’t organise and unify and

get the power to control our own lives

then we will wear

the exaggerated look of captivity

the stylised look of submission

the bizarre look of suicide

the dehumanised look of fear

and the decomposed look of repression

forever and ever and ever

And there it is.”

Lengthier obit at the New York Times.

How Many Slaves Work For You?

My number was 43 … If anything, it shows that not much has changed in 150 years. Troubling that 150 years represents just … a slow beginning.

Background: The history/journalist geek in me notes that today is the Sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation – it’s Jubilee Day. Five days after the bloodiest single day in American history (Sept. 17, 1862) left 23,000 dead, injured or missing in the fields, lanes and bridges around Antietam, MD, Lincoln issued his preliminary proclamation, which went into effect 100 days later, Jan. 1, 1863. It helped keep Britain and France out of the war and led to the passage of the 13th Amendment in December of 1865. Lincoln referred to it again on the field of Gettysburg when he spoke of a “new birth of freedom.”

Slavery, even in the United States, still exists in various forms, however. AgainstOurWill.org reports that between 12 and 27 million people worldwide are estimated to be enslaved. The State Dept. estimates that 600,000-800,000 people are trafficked across international borders each year to feed the market. More than 70% of those are female, half are children.

Demand for goods and services produced by trafficking victims is what makes human trafficking a multi-billion dollar industry. So, on this sesquicentennial, get an estimate on how your lifestyle feeds the trafficking industry from http://slaveryfootprint.org/. Take the survey and find out … how many slaves work for you?

My number? 43. An estimated 43 human beings held against their will, around the world and here in the US, work to make things like our furniture, my iPad, the fruits and vegetables in our refrigerator.

In other words, celebrate today as the moment when slavery yielded to freedom, a moment purchased by the blood of a million Americans in the Civil War. And remember today that we still have much work to do to ensure that that blood expenditure was not made in vain.

The Voyage of the HMS Clueless

Truly sailing in a world created of their own delusions. But I wish New York magazine would warn people before they post pics of Ralph Reed in a bathing suit.

Arriving, Late 2013: 'A Threatening Sky'

A Threatening Sky: Braniff 250 and Other Bitter Lessons of the Early Jet Age by Steve Pollock will be published by «McFarland Publishing» in the Christmas 2013/Spring 2014 time frame. McFarland is a quality publisher which produces around 400 books per year for public and academic libraries, as well as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and electronic vendors. They have been extremely supportive for this project and I am excited to work with them and get this story into print.

While Braniff 250 will be the touchstone of the book and get the most detail/attention, other incidents/accidents will be detailed along the way. Those include Pan American 115 (North Atlantic 1959); Northwest 705 (Miami, 1963); United 764 (O’Neill, NE, 1963); Eastern 304 (New Orleans, 1964); Braniff 250 (Falls City, 1966). In addition, the involvement of Dr. Ted Fujita, creator of the Fujita Scale of Tornado Intensity, will be detailed; he provided key scientific research into the Braniff crash.

Bedroom Cinema 28-Dec-12: The People vs. Dr. Kildare

See a clip here.

It’s that time of year again … 24 hours of A Christmas Story. And visit the house here for more than you ever wanted to know about it all.

Bayley and Frank, Frisinger Park, Ann Arbor, during that same glorious autumn day, October 2005.

Bayley and me, Frisinger Park, Ann Arbor, during a glorious autumn day, October 2005.

Before their eyes are even open, the three Beagle Boys posed for the cameras. Fred is on the left, Fergus in the middle, and Feargal on the right. March 2007.

Bayley Murphey as a puppy. 17-Oct-94, Plano, Texas.

Our favorite pic of the three Beagle Boys, in one of the few instances where all three were still for ½ a second together. From left are Fred, Fergus, and Feargal. Taken in California in 2007.

A favorite pic of Roux Royale, Bassett Hound of Extraordinary Destruction. He was rescued from the back roads of Roane County, west of Knoxville, by the excellent folks at Belly Rubs Bassett Rescue, and came to live with us in late September. He has thoroughly upended the peace of the house and the beagles have never been more active. Merry Christmas, you insane hound!