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PRO Truck Sales & Service. After a mishap outside Road Trip USA, a broken fuel tank is hauled off to the repair shop.
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Beach Volleyball being played at the 134th Preakness Stakes infield in Baltimore, MD.
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My newly acquired used RB67 Pro SD outfit, cost only around one-third of what I paid for the brand new outfit which I bought a few years ago.
Very happy with this great bargain!
(Taken with Sony A200 + Minolta AF 35-105/3.5-4.5)
This building is two PRO Ranch buildings connected with a porch. There is an 8'x8' storage on the left, an 8'x8' porch in the middle and an 8'x10' workshop on the right.
Why is (or rather: was, until somebody scratched if off yesterday night) there a sticker from a right-wing Cologne voter group (that’s something a bit like a political party, but easier to create and limited to one town or city) in Munich?
Well, I found the answer two days later when I saw an advertising billboard from “Pro München”, a new spawn of “Pro Köln” trying to get some votes in our upcoming local elections. Obviously they were too lame to get their own stickers printed, so they just used those from their friends in Cologne.
Read more about them on “Munich friends” (in German) or on “Toytown Germany” (in English).
It's rare that we can clearly establish the provenance of a Gamestorming approach, but it's very nice when we can. The Pro and Con list is a good example: It was invented by Benjamin Franklin and described by him an a 1772 letter to Joseph Priestley. Here's the description in Ben's own words:
To Joseph Priestley
London, September 19, 1772
Dear Sir,
In the Affair of so much Importance to you, wherein you ask my Advice, I cannot for want of sufficient Premises, advise you what to determine, but if you please I will tell you how.
When these difficult Cases occur, they are difficult chiefly because while we have them under Consideration all the Reasons pro and con are not present to the Mind at the same time; but sometimes one Set present themselves, and at other times another, the first being out of Sight. Hence the various Purposes or Inclinations that alternately prevail, and the Uncertainty that perplexes us.
To get over this, my Way is, to divide half a Sheet of Paper by a Line into two Columns, writing over the one Pro, and over the other Con. Then during three or four Days Consideration I put down under the different Heads short Hints of the different Motives that at different Times occur to me for or against the Measure. When I have thus got them all together in one View, I endeavour to estimate their respective Weights; and where I find two, one on each side, that seem equal, I strike them both out: If I find a Reason pro equal to some two Reasons con, I strike out the three. If I judge some two Reasons con equal to some three Reasons pro, I strike out the five; and thus proceeding I find at length where the Ballance lies; and if after a Day or two of farther Consideration nothing new that is of Importance occurs on either side, I come to a Determination accordingly.
And tho' the Weight of Reasons cannot be taken with the Precision of Algebraic Quantities, yet when each is thus considered separately and comparatively, and the whole lies before me, I think I can judge better, and am less likely to take a rash Step; and in fact I have found great Advantage from this kind of Equation, in what may be called Moral or Prudential Algebra.
Wishing sincerely that you may determine for the best, I am ever, my dear Friend,
Yours most affectionately
B. Franklin
Source: Mr. Franklin: A Selection from His Personal Letters. Contributors: Whitfield J. Bell Jr., editor, Franklin, author, Leonard W. Labaree, editor. Publisher: Yale University Press: New Haven, CT 1956.
Note about the image: I couldn't find an example of a Pro/Con list by Benjamin Franklin, but I found this image as part of a Connecticut Historical Society blog post about the Rev. William Patton, who made this Pro/Con list as he considered the relative merits of living in Boston vs. Hartford.
Image: Pros and cons of moving to Hartford, Rev. William W. Patton diaries and account book, 1835-1889, Ms 68129. CHS, Hartford, CT