People will always have different opinions on 'luck', but as someone who's seen a lot of different businesses, I can confidently say that in the business world, 'luck' doesn't exist. It just doesn't work like that. There are no naturally 'lucky' people, or naturally 'unlucky' ones. The success of a business doesn't depend on the luck that supposedly follows some people through life.
The reality is that running a successful business is not about luck at all – it's all about working hard and working smart. While it might be true that some people find themselves in a good situation or 'the right place at the right time' this is nothing but sheer coincidence. If a business is relying on this type of coincidence to be successful, I'm afraid to say that it's probably not going to happen, and if it does, it is likely to be short-lasting.
What really makes a business successful?
If we take a realistic look at how most businesses operate, we can see that the successful ones will regularly set business objectives and performance targets. Setting these goals is one thing, however if you are relying on luck alone to attempt to achieve these goals then you are surely setting yourself up for failure, rather than growth and success.
Let's now take a moment to think about what luck means in a purely business setting, the things lots of business do that they might not realise are relying on luck!
Lots of businesses rely on the misguided practice of sending out cold contact proposals. Reaching out to someone who has never engaged with your business before is obviously poor lead, and you already know that it's unlikely to result in a sale.
Of course, I can understand the mentality behind this. After all, you never know when a cold lead may actually turn into a sale. But chances are, you're just going to just annoy the lead with a torrent of information and your attempts to persuade them into buying from you. Facebook advertising is one thing, but directly seeking someone out and contacting them to tell them they need your services is too much too soon.
Other businesses rely on the practice of networking to grow. Networking can be a powerful tool when used appropriately, but many ill-advised businesses will use networking in a similar way to how they utilise the cold contact proposals – by bombarding contacts who have not previously engaged and are unfamiliar with the business model.
Again, this is a clear case of marketing in a way that does not reflect the lead's tailored needs and desires. They may be interested in your product, but at this point you should only be communicating with clear, concise and short pieces of information.
The third 'lucky' tactic that is often used incorrectly by businesses, is relying on referral leads from you existing contacts. Again, referrals can be great in the right context, but there is a fine line between coming across as confident with a strong belief in your company's abilities, and being pushy, which can isolate both the company and the referee. You can end up losing a lot more than just a good business contact.
Look at it this way: if the lead isn't impressed with the initial information you've presented, your referee may be hesitant to continue to refer you to other leads. Use your references sparingly and wisely, and don't give a referred lead more information than they can handle. These initial contacts can make or break a potentially great relationship. You want to be nurturing solid, loyal advocates for your business to truly succeed.
As a business leader, you might find that the above three tactics are actually working for you. Maybe you're reading this and thinking "I do all these things -and I've never had any problems!". You might even find that your business is thriving and seems to be heading towards gaining a healthy profit.
The problem is, that relying on luck for business growth is all short-term gain for long-term pain. Things might look rosy to begin with, but you may as well bet everything you have in Vegas, as the luck you're relying on is about to run out. If you really want solid long-term business growth with no sign of slowing down in the foreseeable future, you need a method that's sustainable and guaranteed to succeed.
So what method can a smart, switched-on business use to succeed?
The answer is an online marketing funnel.
Online marketing funnels are consumer focussed – they work by directly funnelling customers towards the purchase of a product. A customer's journey towards purchasing, which is also the businesses road to success, is a certain indication of long term growth.
Forget the pushy and ill-fitting referrals, networking and proposals that have doomed businesses in the past – marketing funnels focus on the customer's specific needs, desires and ultimate purchases. They consider the fact that each lead is at a different stage in the purchasing process and possesses a unique mindset.
The right marketing funnel is the key, as marketing correctly and smartly will ensure that your business doesn't fail due to a lack of customers. Satisfied and nurtured customers equal success, and so therefore the marketing funnel equals success.
The smallest part of the funnel represents the committed customers, which are of course a huge part of the marketing funnel's strategy. However, the largest part of the funnel represents potential customers, and so here is where the business growth lies. By managing the efforts of the business accordingly, you can ensure your cashflow remains strong without the ebbs and flows that have plagued businesses of the past.
Are you ready to completely revolutionise your business? Are you tired of relying on luck that doesn't exist? We have established that ill-advised luck tactics do not work for a sustainable business, and that the vital element of any successful business is a marketing funnel that is tailored to the specific needs of your customers. Get ready to give up the feasts and famines that are the downfall of unsuccessful businesses, and see your business grow exponentially as a result.


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Can you make a career out of being obsessed with yourself and your DNA? In the Navy - sure you can.
First of all - always describe yourself with as a victim;
... from the age of 12 was raised in a single family household. His mother, a blue-collar worker, made it through economic and personal hardships to nurture and provide her two sons with a humble, but financially stable household. She always encouraged both of her sons to strive further in their education and her greatest accomplishment has been to see both her sons graduate college with engineering degrees.
(he) graduated from high school in 1992 and was the first person to attend college on his mother's side.
You are really stretching hard there.
Of course - as you know that the Navy rewards those who have a racist .... oh, I'm sorry ... sectarian world view - make sure and focus so much of your attention on YOUR race (not your Sailors, not your Shipmates, not your Ship). I wonder if he is aware how this looks from the outside? Does he care?
(he) actively served his community through his participation in the Catholic Midshipmen Club and the Latin American Studies Club. (LASC) As the president of the LASC, he spent countless hours mentoring and guiding young Latino midshipmen ...
Not any MIDN, of course. After all - in the fleet Sailors love it when an officer focuses on other Sailors who happen to be of the same ethnicity (self-described) as they are. They love preferential treatment of others based on race, creed, color, and national origin. USNA must be very happy it teaches those superior leadership skills to its future officers.
Take it to the Fleet and then back!
(he) served as a Field Diversity Admission Counselor for the U.S. Naval Academy from 2004 – 2006. He spent long hours on and off duty to develop relationships between the Naval Academy and Hispanic Organizations and contributed numerous community service hours for the betterment of the Hispanic Community.
He as a SWO - then an INFO guy .... and with that warfare designation ....
Driven by his passion, (he) was hand selected to be the first diversity officer for the Navy Cyber Forces Domain. As the Force Wide Diversity Officer, ... in less than one year has successfully implemented the first Navy Cyber Forces holistic diversity strategy that integrates national and regional outreach, community service, mentorship, diversity training, and strategic communication in support of the Navy's and Navy Cyber Forces Diversity Policy.
(he) has been involved in various national, regional, and local non-profit organizations. He provides opportunity where there is none and encourages men and women to excel. He also motivates his colleagues to volunteer and donate their time, as it is everyone's responsibility to give back to their communities.
Not give back to their nation. Not back to their Navy. No, he has learned from the Navy well. Focus on your self-identified ethnicity. Act no different than a member of the KKK. Race first and always. Treat your Shipmates and Sailors differently in your action and attentions based on their race as compared to your own. What a winning attitude.
Just because this might be helpful to you taxpayers out there. Here we have a LCDR who graduated from USNA in 1997. Almost 14 years ago. In that time - it looks like he has been on Sea Duty ... 3 years. Maybe he did an IA - I don't think so. Fairly detailed CV and nothing mentioned.
So, there you go. The Navy's little corner of the Diversity Industry. Your tax dollars at work.
Buying a round at Singletons
A big deck is coming back,
Foridians in Congress sounded elated about Tuesday's Government Accounting Office report declaring the region's ship repair companies certified and capable of handling much of the maintenance required to keep a Jacksonville-based carrier sailing.
U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., issued a statement lauding the report and boasting about capabilities of Northeast Florida's maritime maintenance industry. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., said it all but ends political challenges to basing a nuclear-powered carrier at Mayport Naval Station.
"The bottom line is all systems are go - Mayport has a nuclear carrier coming," Nelson told The Times-Union.
Right call.
There is a sober note ... one that again comes from the Lost Decade under the leadership of Clark, Mullen, and Roughead.
But officials in the ship repair industry were focused on a different bottom line. They expressed concern about how companies will retain a large enough workforce amidst the ongoing decommissioning of Mayport's aging - but numerous - fleet of guided missile frigates.
The soonest a carrier is expected to move to Mayport is 2019, while 12 of the base's 13 frigates will disappear by 2015, according to the report.
"I think it's a pretty worrisome time for ship repair contractors and anybody who relies on the base for work," said Joe O'Conor, general manager of Earl Industries, one of the three major firms that repair Mayport-based warships.
Even the report raised questions about how those companies and dozens of smaller contractors will fare until the carrier arrives. It said the Navy has considered a number of mitigation efforts, including temporarily moving maintenance work or ships to Jacksonville.
The Navy also is expected to announce that it will base some of its new class of littoral combat ships and possibly some new guided missile destroyers at Mayport.
"More important than just a carrier - which is very important - is how do we get other ships into the Mayport basin?" said J. Michael McGrath, executive director of the Jacksonville Area Ship Repair Association.
Well, if LCS-1 is any guide, there may be some welding work to be done.
Good for Mayport - good for Strategic Homeporting - good for the Navy.
Labels: Carrier, Maritime Strategy
Did de Tocqueville play basketball?
After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the government then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence: it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
---- Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America Volume 2 (1840); Book Four, Chapter VI
Hat tip Allah.
SACEUR J2: Please Call Your Office
As we watch the power in Egypt's revolution slide - as I warned you about - towards the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood - we should all think carefully about what SACEUR, Admiral Stavridis, USN has to say as reported by the Washington Examiner.
Appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Stavridis was asked by Republican Sen. James Inhofe to comment on "reports about the presence of al Qaeda among the rebels, among those with whom we are associated." "As you can imagine, we are examining very closely the content, composition, the personalities, who are the leaders in these opposition forces," Stavridis responded. "The intelligence that I am receiving at this point makes me feel that the leadership I am seeing are responsible men and women who are struggling against Colonel Gadhafi. We have seen flickers in the intelligence of potential al Qaeda, Hezbollah, we've seen different things, but at this point I don't have detail sufficient to say that there is a significant al Qaeda presence or any other terrorist presence in and among these folks. We'll continue to look at that very closely. It's part of doing due diligence as we move forward on any kind of relationship."
... if you are still feeling OK about it though, leaven it with this.
The lack of knowledge about the Libyan opposition has become a major question in the Libya conflict. At Monday's Pentagon briefing, Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin asked another top official, Vice Admiral Bill Gortney, a very simple question: "Do you know who the opposition is, and does it matter to you?" "We're not talking with the opposition," Gortney responded. "We have -- we would like a much better understanding of the opposition. We don't have it. So yes, it does matter to us, and we're trying to fill in those gaps, knowledge gaps." Gortney's answer was another suggestion that the U.S. is doing critical due diligence on the fly in Libya.
Labels: Libya
Can we call it something else now?
It is just silly to call this a no-fly zone anymore.
A U.S. Navy P-3C Maritime Patrol aircraft, a U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt attack aircraft and guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG-52) engaged Libyan Coast Guard vessel Vittoria and two smaller crafts after confirmed reports that Vittoria and accompanying craft were firing indiscriminately at merchant vessels in the port of Misratah, Libya, during the evening March 28, 2011.
The P-3C fired at Vittoria with AGM-65F Maverick missiles after multiple explosions were observed in the vicinity of the port rendering the 12-meter patrol vessel ineffective and forcing it to be beached.
Two small crafts were fired upon by an A-10 using its 30mm GAU-8/ Avenger Gatling cannon, destroying one and forcing the other to be abandoned.
When you have a P-3C putting AGM-65F into Coast Guard boat and A-10 chewing up the coastline ... it is just silly to call it a no-fly zone.
This is a war, full and simple. We are covering the Air & Sea - some Libyan tribes the Land ... but we are a player in this civil war. To call it anything else is to just feed cynicism and the public's habit of not believing anything someone in uniform is saying.
We need to be honest about this. We need to win - win decisively - and be honest with the taxpayer.
We are at war. Full stop. Let us hope it ends soon with as little cost in blood as possible - our blood.
OK, let's talk accountability
In his discussion about the Kearns decision, Admiral Harvey said a few things I find interesting in a larger context.
"Nobody trusts or has confidence in leaders who believe they cannot be held accountable for what they do," Harvey wrote.
"We have good, fair processes to hold commanders accountable to established standards," he wrote. "We need to use them, you need to use them, and I intend to use them."
OK. Notsomuch for ADM Harvey ... but up the chain a bit - where is the accountability for DDG-1000? LPD-17? How about "Optimal Manning" and refusing to give COs the personnel and resources they need to pass an INSURV or even get their ships underway? Not the sacrificial lamb O6/7 fired for the actions of others. No, those who made the decisions to begin with.
What about the outright fraud that took place at USNA as outlined in the IG report? Where is the accountability?
We have Flag Officers who not only encourage - but practice racial self-identification fraud for personal benefit. I know we won't question that - but when we accept such behavior in our most senior people --- do not expect everyone down the chain not to see that example and apply it elsewhere.
Instead of hiding (like classifying INSURV results) and happy-talk, why don't we hold our Flag Officers to the same level of professional expectation as we do our CDR and LCDR? That is a message that all will understand and will get you positive results down to the deckplates.
Programmatic failures are just as deadly as not carrying out procedures that don't exist ... I think.
Yes to accountability - but lead from the front.
Live blogg'n the CINC's Libya speech
Need to get a drink ....
1929: Hey ... Shep Smith is asking my questions I put out over at USNIBlog on the 20th ... no Hat Tip.
1931: OK, we are going after AQ, but we are also giving some of their fighters CAS in Libya.
1934: Wait ... is he talking about Castro and Cuba ... oh, nevermind. Libya.
1936: This would have been a nice thing to have had a week and a half ago ... but guess Rio was a bad venue.
1942: Is he talking about Saddam's action against the Shia in the south and Kurds in the north? Oh, never mind - Libya.
1949: We need a new term for this. It was never a no-fly-zone; more of a "we will kill you from the air while your countrymen kill you on the ground zone."
1940: President Clinton, call your office.
1945: This is a better part of the speech - but a little too Hamletesque. I wish he would focus on our national interest a bit more.
1947: That was R2P. That was also Obama embracing the Bush Doctrine. Welcome. When will ANSWER start marching?
1949: Oh no, the great hedge. YMBFKM. If you are not in this for regime change ... then what are we doing?
1950: I don't like all the "I, me, I." It is "we."
1952: Kaus is right - this is "humanitarian imperialism." Can we afford to do that is a world that is nasty, brutish and short?
1954: Where else are we going and with whom?
1954: The enemy of my enemy is my friend. It was nice though.
1955: Aren't we dictating and scoping right now in Libya?
1956: So, are we going to Burma, Zimbabwe, ... China next?
1957: We've only been playing global protector since WWI. I guess that is generations.
OK, time for another drink. Fine to good speech - but almost two weeks late. It still sets a strange bar for military action. I still don't see my questions from the 20th being answered - well except for the first one. The opposition is advancing fine under our top-cover and close air support.
So, what are your thoughts. Have at it in comments.
Labels: Libya, Obama
Pre-CINC Libya Speech Ponderings ...
I'm all over the place at USNIBlog.
Royal Navy's decline in a picture
There is a bit of, "oops, oh crap" going on in the UK about all their budget cuts focused on Navy power ... but for now it is all talk. With a few hundred thousand people rioting in London demanding more give-aways from the government that it can't afford ... well ... there you go.
The culminating effect of the Western Welfare State in a picture. Your "1,000 Ship Navy" gets underway.
As dawn breaks over the home of the Royal Navy, one modern maritime legend sets sail for the last time and another awaits her fate.
In the foreground, we see HMS Invincible, flagship of the Falklands War, leaving Portsmouth for good.
Behind her, Britain's most famous aircraft carrier, HMS Ark Royal remains in her berth until a new owner is found: either a second-hand buyer or a scrapyard.
... and yes, I know - today is a bit of a downer day. True .. but such is the world this spring. Serious times.
Labels: Britain, Carrier
Understanding Europe's immigration nightmare
There is more to what is going on in Libya than what you think.
It isn't all about oil - it isn't all about peace-love-n-understanding. No, something a bit more basic.
Look at the demographics .... this is only the beginning.
Last December, Qaddafi warned EU leaders that their region may "become black because millions want to come to Europe."
As part of a reparation deal with Italy worth $5 billion, Qaddafi agreed in 2008 to tighten border controls. That led to the number of Libyan migrants to Italy falling to fewer than 3,000 in 2010 from a record 37,000 two years earlier. In Malta, the influx dropped from a 2008 high of 84 boats bringing 2,775 people to 2 boats carrying 47 in 2010.
Since mid-February, almost 225,000 people have fled Libya, with about 115,000 going to Tunisia and 102,000 to Egypt, the Geneva-based United Nations High Commission for Refugees said on March 10. About 2,000 went to Niger and 5,500 to Algeria.
The distance between Valletta and Tripoli, 220 miles, is the same as that of Paris and London. That makes Malta, which joined the euro region in 2008, an entry point for those escaping the unrest in Libya.
While arrivals to Lampedusa are shipped to the Italian mainland, immigrants arriving in Malta are held in detention centers for as long as 18 months. More than half of Malta's 2.5 million-euro military budget goes to food and shelter for the refugees.
Like I said when this started - we are stepping in a very dark room - where this all leads to, no one knows.
What I will bet a paycheck on is that it won't be a happy place.
Labels: Demographics, Europe, Libya
An NCO on USNI
Our buddy from Midrats and here, AT1 Charles Berlemann, Jr., offers a solid NCO perspective on what the USNI is and is not. Double posted over as SJS and USNIBlog - well worth your read'n time.
Labels: USNI
Policy & Planning in a changing environment, on Midrats
The global strategic environment is at a pivot as the Arab world is in flux, the Western welfare states is staggering, and the world's economic center of gravity is shifting East. What ideas and concepts do we need behind, which new ones do we need to embrace - and what are the implications of what we are seeing now?
Join EagleOne and me as we examine the Big Pixels for the full hour with our guest, Thomas G. Mahnken, currently Jerome E. Levy Chair of Economic Geography and National Security at the U.S. Naval War College, and a Visiting Scholar at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at The Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
In addition to his present position, he is the author of Technology and the American Way of War Since 1945 and other books.
In previous assignments, Dr. Mahnken served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning from 2006-2009. In that capacity, he was responsible for the Department's major strategic planning functions, including the preparation of guidance for war plans and the development of the defense planning scenarios. He was the primary author of the 2008 National Defense Strategy and contributing author of the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review. He led an interagency effort to establish, for the first time in five decades, a National Security Council-run interagency policy planning body.
Prior to joining the Defense Department, he served as a Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College. From 2004 to 2006 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Merrill Center at SAIS. During the 2003-04 academic year he served as the Acting Director of the SAIS Strategic Studies Program. His areas of primary expertise are strategy, intelligence, and special operations forces.
Dr. Mahnken has held positions in both the government and the private sector. He served as Staff Director of the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel's Force Structure and Personnel Sub-Panel. He served on the staff of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. He served in the Defense Department's Office of Net Assessment, where he conducted research into the emerging revolution in military affairs. He also served as a member of the Gulf War Air Power Survey, commissioned by the Secretary of the Air Force to examine the performance of U.S. forces during the war with Iraq. Prior to that, he served as an analyst in the Non-Proliferation Directorate of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), where he was responsible for enforcing U.S. missile proliferation policy.
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Labels: Cartoon, Libya
Saturday Music Stop
I'm going to make you wall'er in 'muh culture for a bit, and take a break from all the serious stuff.
Carolina Chocolate Drops from Durham, NC. Good stuff. Visit their site if you have time.
Heard about these guys in Garden & Gun. If you want something from them with a different twist - check out their version of "Hit 'em up style."
Sigh ... and they vote
My afternoon was kind of like this - sometimes, the paying gig has its down points.
Labels: Iraq, Libya
CNO owes Salamander a Hat Tip
One day, all articles will start with the phrase, "Salamander started discussing this over a year ago...."
The U.S. chief of naval operations is warning the government to start heading off severe budget challenges for naval forces in the 2020s, when a surge of ships built in the 1980s will "age out" at the same time when the Navy will be trying to replace its strategic submarine and nuclear aircraft carrier fleets.
"The biggest issue is the decade of the '20s," Navy Adm. Gary Roughead told Washington-based defense reporters March 23. "The nation is looking at a challenge to shipbuilding that I believe we need to start thinking about now."
The only thing that would make this article better would be if the CNO started calling it the "Terrible 20s" like we did early last year on Midrats and a few times here, well over a year ago.
Bravo Zulu to Admiral Roughead in starting to beat this drum a little more. Last year he hinted at it here and there, but it has yet to stick. He needs to continue to beat it over and over and over. Stress the Terrible 20's. It is a branding and marketing thing. People like to look at decades - and as he knows better than I do - from a shipbuilding POV, 2020 is at our doorstep.
This is so incredibly important to our Navy and our Nation. THIS topic is what needs to be our #1 priority - if I may humbly offer.
Hat tip Mike.
Labels: CNO, Shipbuilding
One thing most know is that for every act of bravery we know of - hundreds more will never be known because no one is there to tell the story.
From a story many have forgotten - clues have gathered to a man who met his calling earlier than he would have thought.
VMI VATech Cadet Matthew Joseph La Porte.
The body position and the wounds of Matt La Porte indicate that he had maneuvered around the room from his desk in the rear right of the classroom and attempted to attack Cho across the front of the classroom. Attired in his uniform, he fell just short of the door, lying next to the blackboard facing where Cho would have been standing while shooting. Matt's arms were outstretched in a classic football tackling position. He had eight bullet entry wounds – fingers, thumb, arms and shoulders and to the front of his head – that could only have been sustained while moving forward on the shooter in the very position he fell.
The Archangel team believes there is no other conclusion that can be drawn from the physical evidence other than that Cadet Matthew Joseph La Porte died in a charging attack on Seung-Hui Cho.
Hat tip Andrew and CPS.
Labels: Fullbore, Heroes
You love C2 diagrams ... you know you do ...
I'm trying to make heads or tails of it over at USNIBlog with SACEUR's announcement of MCC Naples taking over the Maritime portion of the Libyan operation.
Help me out.
Labels: Libya, NATO
One of the more pathetic secondary effects of the Diversity Industry's diktat is that is warps otherwise solid, intelligent minds into a twisted logic train that makes the writings of Soviet citizens' self-criticisms seem logical and clear.
Of course the primary effect of the Diversity Industry's actions is the promotion of sectarianism and discrimination - but a secondary impact is a reward system that encourages the weak-minded to parrot diktat for professional gain.
If you want to have a "Ref. A" during the Commissariat's "Accountability Reviews," then you need something to show them. "Admiral, Admiral, Admiral ..... look at what one of my JO's did! No sir, it isn't patronizing at all! It is makes a clear connection to the power and strength we gain by promoting division! On top of it all - it is just so relevant to the second decade of the 21st Century. Just read what we've contributed to the celebration of 100 years of Naval Aviation!"
Behold, the addled lickspittle writes!
On January 15, 2009, U.S. Airways flight 1549 landed on the Hudson River and all 155 passengers were safely evacuated. The flight attendants on the flight had from 27 to 39 years of experience. The men and women who fought for equal rights in the 60s and 70s may not have been able to prove at the time why their right to do the job they loved mattered to the airlines, but more than 20 years later those 155 passengers owe some small measure of thanks to them for ensuring they had such an experienced and diverse crew when it mattered most.
We may not be able to always articulate why diversity matters, but experience has taught us that we are more effective and safer and the mission gets done more often, if we learn to use everyone we have to their maximum potential. Shutting people out and shutting people down didn't work in aviation and it doesn't work in the world in general.
OK, that didn't work for you?
OK 13XX types - you'll love this ready room conversationalist;
Crew resource management, often shortened to CRM, is simply the effective utilization of all available resources to achieve efficient, safe flight operations. As a pilot, I often struggle with trying to explain to people why diversity matters in aviation, but when I read the definition of CRM, I think "that's it"…diversity is CRM.
Really? How does it play into career ORM?
There are a couple of more examples in the article as well that ... well ... will make you glad you don't fly with her. One of her comments Marie Curie and - ahem - Mother Salamander would find particularly insulting.
Corrupt post-modern theories create distorted lenses to see life through. The picture they produce is just as messy.
YN2, Byron, Sal and Smashmouth Naval Theory
We've fallen down such an interesting rabbit hole in comments over at my post on USNIBlog that I think I want to bring it over here as a post.
All sorts of geeky fun.
First, YN2; in part,
YN2(SW) H. Lucien Gauthier III Says:
To the 1,000 Ship Navy, look what CNO Mullen had to say about it.
"Membership in this 'navy' is purely voluntary and would have no legal or encumbering ties. It would be a free-form, self-organizing network of maritime partners — good neighbors interested in using the power of the sea to unite, rather than to divide. The barriers for entry are low. Respect for sovereignty is high."
Tell me how that differs from what we're seeing in SIXTH Fleet right now.
Crusty 'ole yardbird squawks,
YN2, when the needs of nations and their national interests diverge from those of the United States, well, it'll be just us. The 1000 ship navy is about the dumbest thing I've ever heard coming out of a CNOs mouth. He should know better.
Leaning back in his smoking jacket and shoosh'n away the nubile Scottish lass on his right knee, as he taps his pipe and leans forward,
Byron. No it's not. It's the application of complexity theory at sea.
The 'fleet' forms based upon common objectives, and dissolves away once those objectives are met.
Looking at the myriad of 'fleets' deployed fighting piracy right now, such an arrangement is in the spirit of the CAS Navy (I am not calling it the 1,000 ship navy any more, cause that's horrible branding) (CAS = Complex Adaptive System). So is how things have thus far come together in the Med.
If there are going to be increasing numbers of random events like the 'Arab Spring' then the ability to form momentary alliances is a vital need. But, the ability to pull such an arrangement off is with the guys who wear suits, not uniforms. We have the C4ISR that can make such arrangements work (though, not perfectly).
Politically, it might be dumb. But, operationally, it's not dumb at all.
Though slightly distracted by the nubile Scottish lass as she adjust the gig-line on the back of her stockings while she whispers in the ear of the lithe Walloon undergrad mixing a fresh batch of Gimlets for the menfolk; the yardbird launches -
Pretty words, YN2…but does not stand up to the reality of nations do things in their self-interest. As the national policy goes, so does their Navy. Yes, there is a semi-official anti-piracy fleet in being that is multi-national in make-up. If nation "X" decides that it's in their self interest to leave the pirates alone and just flat bribe them yearly (yes, it's been done before) then kiss those ships good-bye. If nation "Y" decides it's had enough of of piddling with pirates and starts killing them wholesale (the other end of the spectrum) we will divorce ourselves from them in a New York second. It simply wouldn't look good on CNN or MSNBC, you know.
The bottom line is that the only Navy you can truly count on, 100% of the time, is the one flying your flag. All the others are there only until it is no longer profitable or necessary to their needs.
Unable to restrain myself - and finally through getting the fire going properly at the end of the library and getting a full light on my Maduro Churchill,
CDR Salamander Says:
YN2;
The formula for your CAS Navy is a lot more complicated than you think. To simplify what is a very complex DiffyQ – you have two variables; X & Y.
X is your mission capability ratio. Establish as a baseline a Flt IIA Arleigh Burke (X=1).
Y is your caveat ratio. A US Navy warship operating under USA ROE is your baseline (Y=1)
Just for an example, let us say that in your CAS Fleet you have a USA Flt IIA under USA ROE. That gives you (1×1=1) operational unit.
For another example using completely made up ratios, let's say you have a MEKO from NATO nation Z (X=.5) that is operating under its nation's ROE with the standard caveats that apply (Y=.2). That gives you (.5x.2=.1) 1/10th of an operational unit for the CAS Fleet Commander.
In your PAO picture, you have two warships steaming together playing Global Task Unit for Good. In reality though, you do not have two warships … scratch that, make it "naval ships" … from the Commander's perspective he has 1.1 ships.
Theory is nice – but such theories have been around for centuries; and the mathematics of those theories have been as well. Review the difficulties of the ABDA Fleet in the south pacific and the post-Dunkirk Anglo-French naval coordination for examples of how the math can be a challenge and you need to respect the exquisite and delicate nature of the CAS Fleet theory.
Allies are nice garlands to have – but cannot be relied on with an equal basis as national assets – never have, never will.
The closest we ever had were Royal Navy units in WWII and Korea – and even then X=.9 on the best of days, Y=.8 on most. You do the math from there.
No harm; no foul – just reality.
It appears that it may be awhile until we get YN2's attentions again - the nubile Scottish lass is back upon his knee.....
Sigh. Youth.
Does the NAAA really care about children?
If they did - they would find some way to get a 12-yr old to fly in the back of the Blue Angels' #7 bird.
Just saying ... there is always a place for redemption. For the children, of course.
Hat tip HA.
Whose access to oil again?
Way too many people are inwardly focused not just on themselves, but on their nation.
Due to our size and relative isolation - not to mention our national character - Americans tend to have this problem a bit more than the global average in the developed world, methinks.
Few are more obnoxious about this than the anti-everything crowd - especially WRT who consumes oil.
The Economist has a great article on the challenge you owe to yourself to review in full - but ponder the little graph on the right. It speaks a thousand words about who is using what - and where the trends are going.
Why isn't China more involved? Simple; they really don't feel a "moral" reason to do anything for anyone as long as they get what they need. As for stability, they are content to be free riders on the USA's work. If we want to borrow money from them in order to defend their interests - fine with China.
George Will for CNO ...
Ok, his Task Force Uniform may be a train wreck .... but he seems to get it; especially WRT China.
America's cheerful assumption has been that although its ships are not as numerous as they recently were — 286 now, down from 594 in 1987 — there actually is a 1,000-ship Navy. That comforting figure aggregates all the navies of nations that have no agendas beyond keeping the great common orderly.
China is deploying new submarines at an impressive rate — three a year. They are suited to pushing back U.S. power projection in the Western Pacific. China's much-discussed ballistic and cruise missiles also seem designed to keep U.S. surface forces far from China's soil. And China seems increasingly inclined to define the oceans off its shores as extensions of the shores — territory to be owned and controlled like "blue national soil." This concept is incompatible with the idea of the oceans as a "common."
This includes the "near seas" — the Yellow, South China and East China seas. But such "far seas" as the Indian Ocean also are crucial to China's global commercial reach as a hyperactive importer and exporter. Disciples of Mahan want a national capacity to protect their nation's interests there.
In "Red Star over the Pacific: China's Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy " Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes, both on the War College faculty, remind readers that Mahan defined "command of the sea" as "overbearing power on the sea." And that, he said, means power "which drives the enemy's flag from it, or allows it to appear only as a fugitive; and which, by controlling the great common, closes the highways by which commerce moves to and fro from the enemy's shores."
When Mao reigned, say Yoshihara and Holmes, Mahan was "reviled" as "an apostle of imperialism and colonialism." Now, they report, at major international conferences Chinese analysts have cited Mahan's bellicose definition of command of the sea to emphasize "the value of sea power for China."
BTW, if you missed the Midrats episode where we had Toshi and Jim on for the full hour - well get a cup of coffee and settle in.
Click here. Well worth your time.
Hat tip SJS.
We'll need a lot more of these ...
As it appears that this will be a predominately land-based No Fly Zone - Libya (NFZ-L), we are going to need a lot more of these,
An Air National Guard unit based out of Illinois is heading to Libya to help fight against Colonel Gaddafi.
"I am proud that the National Guard is able to play a part in curbing the atrocious violence against Libyan civilians by their own government," said Maj. Gen. William L. Enyart, the Adjutant General of the Illinois National Guard, in a statement.
The unit based out of Scott Air Force Base in southwest Illinois specializes in refueling aircraft in mid-air and will join the mission to establish a no-fly zone over Libya.
The 126th Air Refueling Wing and its 906th air Refueling Squadron fly the KC-135-R Stratotanker, which is the military version of the Boeing 707.
As I've covered here and over at USNIBlog - the distances from land bases to Libya, sit CAP and then return, will require a lot of tanking.
There are only two ways we can mitigate the tanking requirements. First is what I hope happened; the attacks over the weekend eliminated most of Gadaffi's fixed and rotary wing air. That way, the requirements for aircraft, number wise, will be small. The other is that the rebel forces can with the top-cover advance on Tripoli and end this soon.
It doesn't look like any Carrier air, outside the 35 multirole aircraft on the FS CHARLES DE GAULLE and the USMC Harriers on the USS KEARSARGE will be involved in this ... yet.
If this drags on, then in time I think you will start to see the weak sisters start to peel off. When that happens .... a large deck Carrier gets a lot more handy.
Labels: Carrier, Libya, USAF
Herndon's return ...
Little things matter.
As a non-USNA guy, internal cute little rituals really don't mean much to me - but little things can be indicators of larger trends.
When for the most thin of reasons the greasing of Herndon was abruptly ended last year, it worried me as it represented a pattern of action we have seen a lot in our culture over the last few decades; a trend that is injurious to the body as a whole.
Well, take heart - things can be turned around. Wrongs can be righted. Bad decisions can be reversed. Via The Capital;
The grease has been re-ordered.
"Conducting the ceremonial climb in the same manner as so many previous classes helps to instill spirit and camaraderie among plebes and better links them to the many classes that have gone before them," said academy Superintendent Vice Adm. Michael H. Miller.
It is a shame last year's class will always be an odd-ball, but that isn't their fault.
BZ VADM Miller.
Want to toss mullets at Flo-bama with Skippy-san
No, this isn't an awsome idea for a Valour-IT fundraiser ... this is a "close but not quite" outline of the next episode of EagleOne and my talk show, Midrats.
In the small world of the Navy blogosphere, when you think of Japan one name should immediately come to mind; Skippy-san of the blog FarEastCynic.
Though most know Skippy by his "interesting" perspective on some of the "interesting" parts of life - what he also has is a good feel for the Japanese, and it is that part of this quasi-Renaissance man that we are going to tap in to.
Join EagleOne and me as we explore the serious side of the Navy blogosphere's famously infamous Skippy-san to talk about the very Japenese reaction to their earthquake-tsunami-nuclear meltdown national nightmare, and how the Navy and its relationship with the Japanese people is working through this challenge.
Staying with the 13XX side of the Navy, but with a slight pivot, for the second half of the hour we will be spending out time on a lighter subject - remembering the funnier side of Naval Aviation with Bob Taylor to talk about his new book, Getting Our Wings — Tales from Naval Aviation Flight School, that looks at flight training in much the same way as his previous book did with Marine Corps in A Few Good Memories: Tales from USMC Boot Camp .
Labels: Aircraft, Japan, Midrats
Primary, backup, ready spare
If you want a summary and update on the Libyan strikes - I've got a post over at USNIBlog on it.
Ummm ... so this ideal WWII wardroom? This is what we want the post-Honors Navy to be? Click for a clearer picture.
The guy in the background in the all white uniform and cover might think differently.
Labels: Cartoon, WWII
What about the No Fly Zone - Libya?
Well - I'm 'a ponder'n over at USNIBlog on it.
UPDATE: Via the BBC - the wages of delay - note the map. There are your challenges (click for larger).
How you defeat Islamists ...
Simple - you act like a woman. A fearless, intelligent, self-assured woman.
Wow. Just wow. What a powerful and wonderful woman.
All freedom loving men of Pakistan and the Islamic world should hold their manhood cheaply; as they have been measured and found wanting. Pakistan needs a million men who are half the man Veena Malik is.
Bravo Zulu Veena, and watch your back.
Hat tip Jawa.
Labels: Islam, Media, Pakistan
Launch the ready yardbird!
Yes - the gift that keeps on giving, LCS. Just a ..... crack'n good time!
Lockheed Martin Corp.'s first new warship for operating close to shore developed a crack as long as six inches through its hull during sea trials, prompting a U.S. Navy investigation of the design.
The Navy is analyzing the crack on the USS Freedom, which is homeported in San Diego, to determine if changes are required for future Lockheed Martin hulls, Naval Sea Systems Command spokesman Christopher Johnson said Thursday in an e-mail. This includes reviewing "the design, construction drawings and welding procedures," he said.
During a heavy-weather ocean trial on the USS Freedom in mid-February, he said, sailors discovered a six-inch horizontal hull crack below the waterline that leaked five gallons an hour. Inside the hull the crack measured three inches. It originated in a weld seam between two steel plates.
The ship returned to its home port in San Diego, avoiding rough seas, after the commanding officer judged the leak rate "manageable," Johnson said.
Smaller cracks that indicated welding "defects" showed up in the welds of the vessel's aluminum structure during sea trials last year, Johnson said in his e-mail.
Glad this made it into open source.
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With the news of this week, there is only one Fullbore I can think of - the Japanese engineers and workers who have made the call.
Despite the dangers, the Agence France-Presse news agency reported staff from TEPCO and other industry firms were volunteering to join in efforts to stabilize the reactors.
Keiichi Nakagawa, associate professor of the Department of Radiology at University of Tokyo Hospital, put it starkly: "I don't know any other way to say it, but this is like suicide fighters in a war."
Experts note, though, that radiation levels drop quickly with distance from the complex. While elevated radiation has been detected well outside the evacuation zone, experts say those levels are not dangerous.
Like the Soviet engineers and workers in Chernobyl - they go in knowing what they are doing.
Why do they do it? For the same reason so many of the people in the military make FbF - they do it for their friends, co-workers, and neighbors - but more than anything else, they do it because it is the right thing to do and it must be done.
Labels: Fullbore, Japan
It took only a few minutes for me to feel like I knew these guys and what makes them tick. Their world, basically, is a world of trucks, chicks, strong personal loyalties and vague apprehensions for their future – the kind of world Springsteen has made a career singing about.
Their world is about to change, however, and abruptly. With no warning other than an ominous rumbling noise, and their house shaking, the Eckert boys and their compatriots wake up one morning to see Chinese paratroopers dropping out of the sky in a massive, thunderous air assault. It's a genuinely frightening, gut-wrenching sight as transport planes disgorge an endless number of Chinese soldiers into the skies above this otherwise quaint town. At one point, an American missile hits one of the planes – and the plane's fiery wreckage crashes right into one of the houses. Reality is suddenly hitting these teenagers in a big, 9/11-sized way.
Yes, the Red Dawn remake inbound.
Oh, this sound familiar (spoiler warning)?
We eventually learn that the Chinese have used advanced electromagnetic pulse weapons to disable our electronics and communications. Chinese systems are adapted to being immune to the pulse. We also learn that the Chinese are "here to collect" on the massive economic debt America owes them.
Like "V" and the last season of "Battlestar Galactica" - I am sure I will be disappointed - but why not smile anyway.
Labels: China, Movies
Crow tastes OK when wrapped in bacon
Then again, what doesn't?
Hmmm .... let me quote myself,
I won't even start to discuss the UN route – as to get to that point is just too difficult and like Darfur, by the time someone can craft a deal, there will be no one to save. Anyway, really?
I still may be right, as the rebel forces are left mostly with Benghazi, and Gaddafi's forces ready to eliminate them.
But ... here we go,
The United Nations authorised military action to curb Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday, hours after he threatened to storm the rebel bastion of Benghazi overnight, showing "no mercy, no pity."
"We will come, zenga, zenga. House by house, room by room," he said in a radio address to the eastern city.
Al Jazeera television showed thousands of Benghazi residents in a central square celebrating the U.N. vote, waving anti-Gaddafi tricolour flags and chanting defiance of the man who has ruled for four decades. Fireworks burst over the city.
Gaddafi had warned that only those who lay down their arms would be spared vengeance to be exacted on 'rats and dogs'.
"It's over. The issue has been decided," Gaddafi said. "We are coming tonight...We will find you in your closets.
"We will have no mercy and no pity."
You reach a point where everything is over but the killing - and the air battle may be done. The rest will be done how it always is - by a young man with a rifle taking land and killing opposition.
French diplomatic sources said military action could come within hours, and could include France, Britain and possibly the United States and one or more Arab states; but a U.S. military official said no immediate U.S. action was expected following the vote.
Ten of the Council's 15 member states voted in favour of the resolution, with Russia, China and Germany among the five that abstained. There were no votes against the resolution, which was co-sponsored by France, Britain, Lebanon and the United States.
Rebel National Council head Mustafa Abdel Jalil told Al Jazeera television air strikes were essential to stop Gaddafi.
"We stand on firm ground. We will not be intimidated by these lies and claims... We will not settle for anything but liberation from this regime."
To do CAS right - someone on the ground has to the targeting - otherwise you are ineffective or messy.
This will need to be watched. The hour is late - the promise has been made - credibility is on the line - let's see the execution.
So far - looking interesting. Even the Canadians are on the move.
"The Canadian government has made the decision late today that Canada will send six CF-18 fighter jets to join the Americans, the British and the French and other countries that will participate in imposing a no-fly zone," CTV's Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife reported Thursday.
The jets will be based out of Italy and could be there as soon as Friday.
Again, the hour is late. I pray good leadership; good ROE; good follow-through.
Good luck to those going forward - we are stepping in to a dark room; again.
Labels: Canada, Libya
... and the French will lead them?
Well ... interesting.
France believes there is enough support at the U.N. Security Council to pass a resolution on Libya on Thursday and military intervention could take place within hours of that, senior French diplomatic sources said.
Any action could include France, Britain, possibly the United States and one or more Arab states, the source said.
"It would be surprising if there was a veto from one of the permanent members. We are convinced we have the nine votes," one source told reporters. "Once the resolution is voted, an operation could start within several hours."
The source said Paris wanted to host a three-way meeting on Libya in the next few days with high-level representatives from the European Union, the African Union and the Arab League.
Vote is taking longer ... but this is the UN.
Labels: France, Libya
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Kidnapped Cleric Appears in Rebel Photo
Monday August 12th, 2013 by Zaman al-Wasl (Opposition website)
The cleric appeared without any apparent signs of ill treatment or torture
Alawite Sheikh Badr Ghazal, who was kidnapped during rebel battles to "Liberate the Syrian Coast", has appeared in a photo showing him in good health.
In the photo, the cleric is seen sitting in a wagon, wearing his white garments and without any apparent signs of ill treatment or torture.
Meanwhile government warplanes bombed a village in Syria's north overnight in an apparent attempt to prevent opposition rebels from advancing on communities in the Latakia province, Reuters reported.
Latakia is the home province of President Bashar Assad and his father and former presidnet, Hafez Assad, and a stronghold of their minority Alawite sect.
In airstrikes on the Sunni village of Salma, 20 people were killed, including 10 civilians, six Syrian fighters and four foreign fighters, according to the opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Rebels meanwhile captured the religiously-mixed village of Kharratah, three kilometers south of Salma, videos posted online by rebels on Friday showed.
Insurgents could be seen walking around the village, surrounded by green fields and orchards. No civilians could be seen and houses appeared to be empty, Reuters reported.
Translated and edited by The Syrian Observer


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On Tuesday, 35-year-old Joshua Harding, who was on trial facing two sexual assault charges, pulled from his sleeve what officials have described as a shank and tried to stab assistant prosecutor Jonathan Roth, video of the incident obtained by the State Journal shows.
Public entrances to the courthouse require attorneys, the public and the media to pass through a metal detector. Pockets are emptied and bags, coats and other items are passed through an X-ray machine similar to those in an airport.
When inmates are admitted to the Ingham County jail, they pass through a metal detector and a body scanner, Sheriff Gene Wriggelsworth said, but those measures aren't taken when inmates, like Harding, are taken from the jail.
Nor do they pass through metal detectors or body scanners when they arrive at Veterans Memorial Courthouse in downtown Lansing, Wriggelsworth said, adding that the issue is something that may be reviewed after the events in Judge James Jamo's courtroom Tuesday.
Wriggelsworth said he will meet with judges this week to discuss any security concerns or questions they might have.
Ingham County Chief Circuit Judge Janelle Lawless said judges met with a state court security expert Wednesday. She added that the meeting had been scheduled prior to Tuesday's incident and was prompted, in part, by the July shooting in Berrien County Circuit Court.
She added that the court is already "in the process of reviewing security measures," but that Tuesday's incident "validated" the judges' concerns about court security. She said metal detectors at the back entrance for inmates is a Sheriff's Office issue, but something the judges "will certainly be supporting."
"We are very thankful that there were no serious injuries on Tuesday," Lawless said. She judge credited the quick actions of the three law enforcement officers in the courtroom with preventing something worse.
A message was left seeking comment from Ingham County Prosecuting Attorney Gretchen Whitmer.
As a jury was walking into the courtroom on the third floor of the courthouse with its verdict, the video shows Harding appearing to pull something from his sleeve before charging across the room at Roth.
In the video, Harding appears to target Roth specifically, running past another assistant prosecutor to get to Roth.
While appearing to be holding the weapon, which officials have described as a shank, the video shows Harding tries to stab Roth but misses, possibly due to the efforts of Det. Brian Canen of the Meridian Township Police Department.
Harding ran at Roth from the prosecutor's left. Canen, who was standing on the other side of Roth, sees Harding as he's halfway to the prosecution table and starting to raise his right hand, which appears to have the weapon. Roth ducks and Canen's arm appears to deflect Harding's arm as the detective starts to tackle Harding.
From the video, it appears Harding's weapon missed Roth's face by inches. As Canen tries to tackle Harding, who Wriggelsworth said weighs about 280 pounds, Harding appears to swing his arm at Roth again.
Two Ingham County deputies, who were in the back of the courtroom, responded to the incident within seconds. One helped Canen bring Harding to the ground and the other jumped onto the pile to help get Harding under control.
It took Canen and the two deputies about 30 second to roll Harding onto his stomach and handcuff him.
Officials said Tuesday evening they believed a deputy had suffered a broken nose during the incident. Wriggelsworth said todaythe deputy suffered a cut to his nose but it wasn't broken. He added that the deputy is expected to return to work on Friday.
Harding suffered minor injuries, the sheriff said.
Charges expected next week
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The problem with the financial markets is that they are hard to predict, and no matter how much one can try, it is always almost impossible to predict accurately. However, by following the market for years and ensuring that the various financial parameters are considered from time to time, it becomes easier to safeguard the investments from imminent risks and take the hints from the signals that the market gives out from time to time. It helps in not only protecting the investments, minimizing the risks, but also helps in getting better returns. Professional investment management companies are necessary for the organizations to manage their funds in a strategic manner, which would help them generate long-term growth as well as protect from the uncertain economic climate.
One of the top investment firms based out of New York City is the Fortress Investment Group, and its Chairman is Wes Edens. He has been working in the financial industry for quite a while. Soon after completing his studies, he joined the Lehman Brothers. But, he soon quit and joined a small investment company Black Rock, and it was there that he was able to raise his first fund. But, he then decided to do something of his own and created his own company with the name Fortress Investment Group in the year 1998. The company today has more than 160 investors that include institutions and private clients as well. He started the firm with an investment of just $400 million and a few employees.
But, they manage assets worth $72 billion and have more than 1200 employees working for them.Wes Edens is highly respected as one of the most successful investors of all times. He has an extensive and impressive track record proving that he is one of the experts in the field. He is also looking for new places to invest in. Recently, he invested in Jamaica Liquefied Natural Gas project and is quite excited about it as he wants to expand his business there. He feels that Jamaica has a lot to offer to investors and it is all about finding the right opportunities. All of his investment strategies have worked quite well, and he hopes that it will be that way too in the future. Wes Edens, who is also the co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, recently bought FlyQuest and is among the ten teams that are selected to the members of the League of Legends.


It almost sounds space-age doesn't it?? 2011?? Are we seriously already here? You see kids walking around in letter jackets for class of 2013 and you think, it CAN'T BE.
In one of my favorite movie trilogies, Back to the Future, Marty goes to 2015 (in Part II). Back in the 80's, with the way technology was developing, they probably really thought we'd be in hover cars by then, and that we could rehydrate food in a device like a microwave and enjoy a large, pre-sliced, steaming hot Pizza Hut pizza. We laugh at this now, because we are certainly more than 4 years from that sort of advancement, but they did nail a few things. Flat panel TVs that take up entire walls, thumb print security systems, voice commands, etc. Still waiting to be able to fly my car around (could you imagine the accident rate! Not to mention insurance!).
So looking ahead to this next year, what are our expectations? Have any goals?
It's really hard to believe we're at this point again where we talk about New Year Resolutions. I always say I don't want to make any because I rarely follow through with them, but there are definitely a few things I'd LIKE to accomplish this year. Though I'm not eager to share them because they sound too similar to last year's and I'm pretty sure none of it got done. Sigh.
If you're into books (as many of my followers are), check out Stephanie's list of books coming out in 2011. I'm definitely waiting on some of these.
Water for Elephants - After I read the book, I seriously didn't think I'd go see this movie (especially because of the Reese/R-Pat pair up), but I just watched the trailer, and it looks sort of good (and the soundtrack sounds awesome).
The Green Hornet - Now, I'm not always into superhero movies that don't include RDJ or Christian Bale, but this one looks a bit hilarious.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II -- Can't wait for the trailer for this!
Breaking Dawn -- Because there's no NOT going to see it.
I can't wait for all of those movies! And I'm super excited about Jack Sparrow! It's not summer without Captain Jack Sparrow!
Goals...goals. Umm, last year my goal was completely literary. This year, I think it has to be financial because I spent too much on the literary part!
I can't believe it's nearly 2011! I haven't formulated my resolutions, but I make some every year. I hope you enjoy your last couple days, and then have a very Happy New Year!
I never have expectations, which could be a great thing, means that I'll be more excited with the inventions they come up with!
It's been a blast getting to know you! I'm so glad we live close to one another! It's great having a friend nearby!
I prefer to have flexible goals and to aim a little low so that I can blow past them.
And I'm excited for all of those movies too!
My One Year Blogiversary Contest!
His name is Stanley. And Etsy Store RELAUNCH!
You guessed it! And... Christmas on a budget.


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- Siren replaces to Witch of L4D1. The original author is 'Splikns', so all credits go to them. I only ported the skin to L4D1.
Siren replaces to Witch of L4D1. The original author is 'Splikns', so all credits go to them. I only ported the skin to L4D1.
Solomon Grundy replaces to Tank. If you're going to make a super Zombie, Do it right and go all out with making him a supervillain as well... Credits:Splinks.
This mod replaces the Smoker with the Slenderman. Originally a L4D2 mod by Splinks. Converted by me for use in L4D1. Read the change-log for installation instructions (click the paper stack icon).
This mod replaces all the Special Infected zombies with enemies from Quake 2. Originally a L4D2 mod by Splinks. Converted by me for use in L4D1. Read the change-log for installation instructions (click the paper stack icon). Enforcer replaces the Boomer. Mutant replaces the Hunter. Brains replaces the Smoker. Iron Maiden replaces the Witch Quake 2 Tank replaces the L4D Tank.
This mod replaces the Hunter with Kate the Chaser from the Slenderman series. Originally a L4D2 mod by Splinks. Converted by me for use in L4D1. Read the change-log for installation instructions (click the paper stack icon). Thanks and enjoy!
This mod replaces to Zoey for Juliet. This texture belongs to Splinks. I only edited some of the details. And the author of the Juliet model is Splinks. All credits Splinks.


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The Wizard of Sustainability
Dare Ilori has journeyed from the bottom up to become Merlin Entertainments' Group Head of Sustainability and 'Wizard' of Sustainability Performance and Progress. Dare has been in his current role for three years, focusing on sustainability strategy, carbon reporting, supply chain management, energy efficiency, waste management and regulatory compliance.
Dare will be joining me at the edie Smarter Sustainability Conference on 27th February 2018 and will present his experience and guidance in one of the morning breakout sessions which is a deep dive discussion on environmental impacts reporting.
Merlin Entertainments is the largest European entertainments company operating in Europe. Merlin runs 125 attractions in 25 countries across four continents with brands that include LEGOLAND Parks, SEA LIFE aquariums and the iconic Madam Tussauds that operates with many attractions across the globe.
Can't resist digressing, as I recall many exciting visits to Madame Tussauds in London as a child and later with my own kids. You may not know that Madame Tussaud (German wax modeler Marie Tussaud (1761-1850)) founded the first Wax Museum on Baker Street in London in 1835, after learning the art of creating lifelike figures out of wax during the French Revolution, claiming to have made her first ones directly from the heads of the recently guillotined.
Merlin operates many more fun places such as Alton Towers (popular spot for our annual day trips when I was a schoolgirl), Teh Coca-Cola London Eye, Blackpool Tower (another nostalgic brand for me, as all my family summer holidays as a child were spent in Blackpool) and more modern attractions such as Shrek's Adventure in London. So you know that sustainability can be fun, but in a business such as this, it has to be extra super fun! And that was my impression after talking with Dare Ilori, who I am looking forward to meeting in person at the edie Smarter Sustainability Reporting Conference in London next year.
"I graduated as an industrial chemist 17 years ago with a great passion for environmental chemistry. In 2007, I enrolled for a Master's Degree in Waste and Environmental Management and graduated in 2009. In the same year, I joined the waste and recycling department at Thorpe Park Resort which is owned and managed by Merlin Entertainments. Initially the role was to manage waste and recycling only, but within a year, the role expanded to include other environmental management activities (waste management, energy management, sustainability reporting and environmental management system) for the park.
I realised that the future of sustainability is that these aspects need to be integrated into the management of the business itself. Over time, employers may no longer be able to recruit an energy manager, a recycling & waste manager, an environmental management systems manager, carbon manager and others separately.
Not long after that, and based on the interest we generated through a range of activities to improve our environmental performance at Thorpe Park Resorts, I expanded my responsibilities to include all of Merlin Entertainments' strategy and environmental approach for all our sites at a corporate level in 2015.
Businesses nowadays must factor environmental impacts at a strategic level where knowledge and learnings can be shared and implemented across multiple sites. This increases both effectiveness and efficiencies."
This is a super example of bottom-up sustainability, starting by proving the benefits from the ground up, and demonstrating that advantage to one business unit has benefit to the wider organisation. Dare Ilori has driven engagement at a site-by-site level, with each operation getting involved and delivering results.
For the Group as a whole, Dare manages the Green Capex fund; capital expenditure designed to support investment in environmental initiatives to help Merlin continue to reduce its carbon footprint while at the same time deliver operational savings. As a way of managing energy spend on sites, the company use internal metric of energy spend per £1m revenue to identify sites that will need to be prioritized for energy audits and reduction focus. The Green Capex fund has been instrumental in delivering recommended projects from energy efficiency audits. Some of the projects delivered with the Green Capex fund are installation of LED lights at Sydney Cluster Australia, chiller optimization at Sealife Istanbul, solar powered cars at Junior Driving School LEGOLAND Florida and variable speed drive on air handling units at Madame Tussauds London.
In other areas, Merlin strives to Be a Force for Good and operates several programs designed to positively impact marine and wildlife conservation, support charitable causes for children and ensure accessibility at all its venues. Merlin's Magic Wand, for example, is a charity that makes it possible for thousands of seriously ill, disabled and disadvantaged children to enjoy a memorable day out at a Merlin attraction every year or provide Magic Spaces for those too sick to experience an attraction firsthand.
In terms of reporting, Merlin Entertainments has opted to report its scope 1 and 2 carbon performance within its annual report and accounts.
I am looking forward to hearing his more perspectives and the challenges he has faced and overcome in order to help Merlin Entertainments deliver business and environmental objectives. We will also aim to hear Dare's view regarding scope 3 emission reporting by Merlin Entertainments Plc.
Will we see you there?
elaine cohen, CSR Consultant, Sustainability Reporter, former HR Professional, Trust Across America 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, Ice Cream Addict, Author of three totally groundbreaking books on sustainability (see About Me page). Contact me via Twitter (@elainecohen) or via my business website www.b-yond.biz (Beyond Business Ltd, an inspired CSR consulting and Sustainability Reporting firm). Need help writing your first / next Sustainability Report? Contact elaine: info@b-yond.biz
Elaine will be chairing the edie Conference on Smarter Sustainability Reporting in London on 27th February 2018
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Wash and Cut bitter gourd into small pieces and keep it aside.Add turmeric powder,salt to bitter gourd pieces and mix well keep it for half an hour and squeeze the pieces.
Dry roast peanuts till the skin starts turning light golden color .Let it cool and hn remove the skin and keep it aside.
Now add peanuts in grinder / mixer jar grind to a coarse powder.Keep it aside.
Heat oil in a pan add cumin seeds,mustard seeds ,once it starts spluttering add red chillies,hing and curry leaves fry for 1 minutes.
Now add the squeezed bitter gourd pieces ,turmeric powder,ginger-garlic paste,salt ott it,mix well .Cook in medium flame by covering the lid for 10 minutes.Keep stirring in between.
When bitter gourd is cooked now add the red chilli powder fry for 5 minutes till the bitter gourd changes color.Then add peanuts powder stir well.
Turn off the flame and transfer into a serving bowl.
Serve as side dish with rice .
Nice variation while making bitter gourd. I haven't heard of this addition of peanuts...Super yummy it seems Divya.Thanks for sharing.
Delicious fry with peanut and bitter gourd.
Love Bitter gourd..But never tried it with peanut powder..Thanks for this different recipe.
I love bitter gourd..But never tried the version with peanut powder.This one is a must try..Thanks for the lovely recipe..
Simple but fabulous bitter gourd recipe. Bookmarked dear.
Looks awesome. Never added peanuts with bitter gourd. Bookmarking it.
never tried this combo.. delicious..
Yum what a fabulous way to cook bittergourd.
So different, adding peanuts is a nice idea..
Looks yummy... thanks for sharing!