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Ever wondered if your loved one suddenly had another face, body, and even a different gender — would you still somehow be able to recognize them? Because you share a deep connection with each other, can such a bond differentiate beyond your loved one’s physical aspects?
These are the questions that best describe this 2015 remake of a Korean movie with the same title. The Beauty Inside, a show helmed by the JTBC network (Hello Strong Woman Do Bong Soon), is sure to deliver a great show with life lessons that will surely be more than skin deep in depth and significance.
The plot is about a popular actress, Han Se Kye, who mysteriously transforms into another person once a month. With no clue or idea on why this happens, she is often shrouded with gossip and negative reputation of always running away or escaping events. Despite that, she is still loved by the Korean masses. I love how Seo Hyun Jin is portraying the lead female character: funny, strong-willed, but also silly and childish at times. I haven’t watched her other popular romcom drama (Another Oh Hae Young) so I’m not sure what she’s capable of but she is so beautiful and charismatic here and that’s enough for me.
The leading male is played by Lee Min Kee, the guy who stole our hearts in “Because this my First Life” and recently had a guest role in “What’s wrong with Secretary Kim?”. His character here, Seo Do Jae, somehow possesses the traits of his previous role of being stoic, expressionless, and talks in a refined manner. It suits his looks to play such a role and I was surprised that he could pull off being a stern guy but can still deliver goofy lines. Both actors’ chemistry is sizzling as well as they play a game of cat and mouse to catch and disclose each other’s dirty little secret. He is “face blind” here (He has difficulty recognizing one’s face) and needs Han Se Kye’s help with his business. How their love story will develop is interesting as he is the only one who can recognize her even if she changes into another person, while she is the one of the very few people privy to his situation.
The secondary cast here is also wonderful as they provide not only comedic relief and support for our main leads, but it is often the supporting roles where one can gain recognition and adoration for their roles. Han Se Kye’s two best friends, Seo Do Jae’s stepsister and secretary, are wonderful complements to the show. Have I also mentioned that the soundtrack is awesome too? 🙂
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Then in 2013 Meizu guaranteed 128GB storage area space on the Meizu MX3, but other than that we were in another storage area space ice age.
The next improve came in 2015 with the Asus Zenfone 2 Luxurious ZE551ML, the Exclusive of which had as much as 256GB of built-in storage area room. You could double that with a microSD credit score cards... not that you could discover such a credit score cards, as that season SanDisk only managed to fit 200GB on a microSD. 256GB credit score credit cards exposed up eventually, but aspects have been quiet since - 512GB microSD credit score credit cards are only demoed, never promoted.
A few other cell mobile phones printed up the 256GB offer in 2016, but most devices this period don’t go northern of 128GB. And we think the first 512GB mobile cellphone isn’t coming soon - formerly few years, makers have taken to Samsung Galaxy S8 Specs
promotion storage area space amount rather than prospective. Also, providers try to force reasoning storage area space solutions as an alternative (some going too far).
Even the microSD format was assaulted by the occurrence bug - “Class A1” credit score credit cards should provide kind of of performance Samsung S8 Clone needed to run programs from external storage area room. That is an answer to UFS credit score credit cards, which promise much higher rates.
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In my message last week, I shared our thoughts behind crafting ‘The Godrej Way’ – our refreshed purpose and values. The Godrej Way is fundamental to who we are. It is the cultural cornerstone that will guide our choices and actions.
In the various sessions that we are having to share and discuss the Godrej Way, the feedback has been very positive. Our team members feel that the Godrej Way is inspiring and will rally, energise and unify the organization.
Certainly, for each of us to know the Godrej Way is a step in the right direction. We also need to make sure that we understand it. And it is not enough unless we live it.
Not surprisingly, a study on over 1,000 firms in the Great Places to Work database highlights a strong correlation between corporate financial performance and the extent to which people believe their company’s values are practiced.
At the same time, there is research to show that only 23% of U.S. employees strongly agree that they can apply their company’s values to their work every day, and only 27% “believe in” their company’s values.
Why is that so?
Because the real test is when the rubber hits the road. If we don’t adhere to and live by our purpose and values, cynicism will set in. People will question our credibility. (Remember, that in the last 120 years, the strong reputation that we built as a Group, is centred on trust). By extension, in the worst case, our own people could even become resentful of what they see as hypocrisy.
So, it is absolutely critical that we don’t allow The Godrej Way to be confined to posters or journals – “cosmetic window dressing”, as author Ron Carucci puts it. We have to make it real.
So, my message this week is on how we can individually and collectively embrace, embed and live the Godrej Way.
Here are some thoughts on how you can start living the Godrej Way:
Accept that this is a journey. Try to become more self-aware. Watch and assess your choices and actions. Have the courage and humility to accept when you are off course. And then be willing to course-correct. It’s the only way you will grow.
2. Be sincere
At the end of the day, this boils down to your personal credibility. Don’t undermine it. You just have to walk the talk here. People will judge you – and by extension – our company, basis it.
3. Challenge each other
An important part of this journey is about pushing each other so that collectively, we can grow and improve. So, debate and discuss the Godrej Way. Ask questions of each other. Constructive conflict is healthy. Encourage it. And if someone is off-value, call it out instead of ignoring it. The more we talk this out, the better we will all understand where we stand.
4. The buck stops at you
All of us have to be individually responsible for living the values. So, don’t shy away from taking accountability. Of course, a greater onus will always lie with leaders, who need to be the magnifying mirrors of sorts.
5. Pass it on
As leaders, you must train and teach people. There’s no better way to do this than to share stories. So, find stories to showcase people and teams who are living our values. Talk about what made these stories possible. Use them for inspiration. But equally, be honest and share stories of when we stray. It’s an important way to reflect and learn.
Even as we find ways to live and be true to the Godrej Way, it is equally important to ensure that we don’t misuse it. Here are some points to keep in mind:
1. Don’t use this for vendetta
Never use our values as a way to throw your other team members under the bus or be vindictive. These values are intended to unite us around our common purpose; and not become a tool to be divisive.
2. Be specific
Motherhood-and-apple pie statements like someone not “aligned with the values” are not particularly helpful. Be specific. What specific behaviour caused you to say this? What could the person have done differently? We need to have objective and consistent standards of what is acceptable behaviour, so that things don’t get misunderstood.
3. Put a lot of weight behind values
Don’t be flippant. If you don’t agree with someone or if someone is questioning your behaviour, don’t play the values card. Accusing someone of not adhering to the values is a very serious allegation. It is also, typically something you would use for repeated flagrant behaviour.
4. Not every value is binary or absolute
Some of our values are sacrosanct; some are aspirational. Some of them have shades of grey. And they are very much linked to individuals and behaviour patterns. Let’s acknowledge this. The shades of grey shouldn’t become an excuse to not try to adhere to them. At the same time, it is important to acknowledge that there will be some ambiguities.
5. Don’t shame people
If someone is off-value, don’t shame them. Public humiliation is not the way to live respect. Instead, be constructive and focus on how to fix things. Remember that how you deal with situations when someone else is off value, speaks a lot about how you live our values.
Do remember that this is a journey.
The Godrej Way is both a reflection of who we are as well as a guide on who we want to become.
None of us are perfect. We must accept that we are fallible and we will, on occasion, despite our best intentions, stray course. In particular, I think that our value around ‘Show respect’ will probably be one of the tougher ones to truly live.
But the point is to treat this like an on-going journey, and ready and better ourselves to make this sustainable in the long run.
The Godrej Way is a wonderful opportunity for us to rally and inspire people around our fundamental principles. But we must also acknowledge that it won’t be smooth sailing. In fact, if it is easy, it would probably mean that we aren’t pushing ourselves hard or being very authentic. We have to be ready for uncomfortable questions. For it to cause us some pain. But we must have the courage to stay on course and persevere.
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Bad habit #1 – nutrition
Ex-bad habit – following through with races & workouts – and yes, I say ex because for the most part it’s broken.
So far – week 5 of marathon training has looked like this:
Mon – cardio sculpt class
Tues – 5 mile run (marathon pace first half then half-marathon pace or faster 2nd half)
Weds – 4 mile run
Thurs – REST!
Bad habits die hard
When I saw Tuesday’s group run on the message board, my initial thought was “that isn’t bad.” So I proceeded to get a small portion of chinese food (sesame chicken, beef chow fun [noodles] and dumplings) to go with my kale salad for Tuesday’s lunch. In my defense, I had a hearing of sorts to prepare for the next day and I only brought kale to work (& I needed carbs & protein!).
It was a terrible justification. I only ate $4 worth of Chinese food (this is NYC we’re talking about so you know it wasn’t all that much). Yet I just felt so sluggish during the run – no energy whatsoever. I was looking forward to running with the group and seeing people after missing last week’s group runs.
I’ve learned the hard way since high school that what I digest will most definitely affect my performance but I still do it anyways. In high school, it would be ice cream before crew practice (terrible idea). In college, it would be going out Tuesday and Thursday nights before a 5am morning practice (worst idea ever).
My job was coxswain but I still did all the land workouts!
It’s a challenge to be training so much because I have to constantly thinking about what I’m eating and drinking. So far I’ve kept on track of actually recording my meals on MyFitnessPal but that hasn’t stopped me from eating that Chinese food. It’s a constant battle of what’s cheap, what’s available and what I should actually be eating.
bad habits can be broken….
Right after college, I moved to Boston and my two coworkers decided to sign up for Boston’s Run to Remember
held every May. I decided to sign up for that half-marathon in March of 2010….
Except when did I do my first half?
Oh right, I did my first half in October 2012.
So for two and half years I had been planning on running a half-marathon but failed to follow through the first time. I did the same thing again the year later in 2011 – signed up for a few NYRR races (4 & 5 milers) and never ran them. I even got a NYRR membership in February 2012 and didn’t do my first official NYRR race until October 2012.
Seriously, I want to kick myself for all that money I wasted!
In some respects I can see why I didn’t do those races. It’s hard to motivate yourself when…well it’s just yourself. I’m slowly getting some of my close friends to join me for races but it’s like pulling teeth. On Monday, I was most definitely missing my crew days – having friends working out with me. Seeing the women in my class with their friends reminded me of all the fun I had bonding over a tough practice with my crew team.
Sometimes it outright sucks working out alone. Other times, I love the peacefulness of running by myself.
I’m just a constant work in progress.
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Eight plays into the game, a hush settled over a once raucous Bobby Dodd Stadium as confused Georgia Tech fans wondered what had just happened on their team’s sideline.
Muttering silently among themselves, they slowly began realizing one of their worst fears had come true: Starting quarterback Josh Nesbitt was injured and would not be able to finish the game.
It was a freak injury; a tweaked hamstring suffered as the scrambling signal-caller ran out of bounds at the end of a 21-yard, first-down run.
Moments later, the shock Yellow Jackets fans felt as they witnessed Nesbitt being tended to was replaced with exasperation, as his young replacement jogged onto the field. Clearly for some in the crowd, expectations weren’t high for the true freshman from Flowery Branch. Perhaps they should have been.
Photo from espn.com. Quarterback Jaybo Shaw (right) listens as Georgia Tech head coach Paul Johnson talks to him. Shaw had a strong outing against Mississippi State, filling in for injured starter Josh Nesbitt.
Three plays after entering the game against Mississippi State, backup Jaybo Shaw handed off to A-back Embry Peeples, who scored the game’s first touchdown. Some four minutes and a Yellow Jackets fumble recovery later, Shaw connected with receiver Demaryius Thomas on a 20-yard touchdown pass to give Georgia Tech a big early lead. It was just the start the Yellow Jackets hoped to have. The week before, the Bulldogs had allowed just a field goal in a tight, defense-heavy 3-2 home loss to then-No. 9 Auburn.
After charging to the 14-0 first-quarter lead, the Yellow Jackets continued to pile on points as Shaw showcased his decision-making skills — as well as his hard-juking feet — to the crowd of 48,402.
Early in the second quarter — one play after recovering his own fumble — Shaw faked an option pitch before weaving his way to a 25-yard touchdown run. After the score, the visibly quarterback ran up to the north end zone seats and high-fived a student hanging over the wall. It was Shaw’s coming out party.
But the freshman’s exploits weren’t the only ones on full display.
B-back Jonathan Dwyer set a Georgia Tech school record in the third quarter, when he scored on an 88-yard touchdown run. One of nine carries that day for the player who became 2008’s ACC player of the year, Dwyer rushed for 141 yards in limited work.
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David Cameron has given his strong backing to reform of the House of Lords despite Tory predictions of ministerial resignations and a large-scale rebellion over the plans.
Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister, published the House of Lords Reform bill, which proposes to reduce the number of peers from 826 to 450, 80% (360) of whom will be elected. The remaining 20%, representing 90 members, would be appointed by a statutory appointments commission on a non-party basis.
Under the bill, members of the reformed house would only be allowed to serve for one 15-year term.
Clegg said the bill presented the best chance in 100 years to create a democratic second chamber, but he faces ambivalence from Conservative whips and demands from Labour for more time to debate the 60-clause bill.
Cameron earlier on Wednesday lent his weight to the reforms as he told MPs at prime minister's question time that "it really is time to progress". He said: "We have been discussing this issue for 100 years and it really is time to make progress. The truth of the matter is … there are opponents of Lords reform in every party.
"But there is a majority in this house for a mainly elected House of Lords and I believe there's a majority for that in the country. But if those who support Lords reform don't get out there and back it, it won't happen. That is the crucial point."
The prime minister made his comments as ministerial aide Conor Burns became the first government backbencher to indicate he intended to vote against the programme motion, which sets out the timetable for the Commons debate on the bill.
The shadow cabinet has said it would support the bill when it receives its two-day second reading in the Commons, which is likely to be at the beginning of July, but said it would not support the motion that would speed up the passage of the bill through the Commons.
The prime minister branded Labour's position as "hopeless", after being pressed by Conservative MP Helen Grant, on whether he agreed it was "stupid" to vote for Lords reform, but against the timetable motion.
Labour has promised to support the bill itself but is threatening to derail the procedure motion, which sets out the time it gets to be debated in parliament.
Cameron referred to the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, saying: "It's absolutely hopeless in life and in politics to do what the right honourable gentleman is doing, which is to say he's in favour of it, and he's also against it. It's hopeless."
The coalition government is braced for a widespread revolt over the proposals, with Cameron put on notice about the strength of feeling in his own party ranks after Burns became the first ministerial aide to signal he was prepared to resign over the reform.
Speaking ahead of the bill's publication, Burns challenged the amount of time for debate for a major constitutional reform, saying it should be "at length and in full".
"So on that basis, I would certainly be attracted to voting against any programme motion that would constrain the amount of time parliament can debate this for," he said.
Burns suggested he would be prepared to resign over the matter. "If I lose my job for something that was a mainstream view within the Conservative party within the last parliament, which serving cabinet ministers held as their view, so be it," he said.
Eleanor Laing, a Tory backbencher, warned that the majority of the Conservative party not bound by ministerial office to support the government opposed this type of reform of the second chamber.
But the justice secretary, Ken Clarke, said it would be a "terrible mistake" if Tory backbenchers decided to "lark about and upset the Liberals" by disrupting the government's programme.
He told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme: "As a party member, to show your commitment by actually wrecking the government's legislative programme, which is actually what they would do – I think that is pretty bizarre."
"It's bound to be a compromise," he added. "The problem is there isn't a solid majority on almost any detail – bishops, electoral system."
Conservative MP Jesse Norman, who is campaigning against the reforms, said the bill was a "total nonsense". He told the programme he would "absolutely without any question" vote against it and the government's timetable.
"It is a constitutional monstrosity of a bill," he added.
Under the terms of the bill, elections for the second chamber would be held alongside general elections, starting in 2015. A form of proportional representation known as a "semi-open list system" will be used, where voters can opt to vote either for a political party or an individual candidate in their region.
In a move that has angered many supporters of reform, they will be joined by 12 Church of England bishops — down from 26 church representatives.
To deal with opponents' claims that an elected second chamber would undermine democracy, the bill also includes a specific commitment to retain the Parliament Acts of 1911 and 1949.
They allow for the Commons to overrule the Lords in certain circumstances to force through measures. The government has threatened to invoke them to push through Lords reform.
The £300-a-day maximum pay limit desired by the government is not set down in the bill – which says only that elected Lords members must not earn more in a year than an MP.
Publishing the proposals, Clegg said: The coalition stands on the brink of a historic achievement. After more than a hundred years of debates, cross-party talks, green papers, white papers, command papers and a royal commission, we are finally introducing a bill to create a democratic and legitimate House of Lords.
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Disabled Cutlery For The Elderly - Advice On How To Improve Mobility With Disabled Cutlery
Mobility impairment can really impact on your quality of life, and also make you feel dependent upon friends and family to aid you with the simplest of tasks. Mobility can be affected by many factors whether it is old age, MS or a disability. At Collins Care we have noticed that most people with mobility problems strive to be independent in their daily routines and our mobility products help to offer them this freedom.
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Meal times can be a minefield of potential problems and an area in which we all like to achieve some sense of self-sufficiency. Collins Care have called in the expertise of well known brand Good Grips who have an incredible collection of practical disabled cutlery. The disabled cutlery has been designed with built-up handles for those with a weak grip and restricted wrist or finger movement. The blades of the disabled cutlery are made from stainless steel and the disabled cutlery is dishwasher safe.
One of the most popular ranges of disabled cutlery is the Good Grips Cutlery range.
It’s built up handles offer a great sense of security at meal time. What makes this disabled cutlery stand out amongst the others is that each stainless steel utensil has a special twist built into the metal shaft that allows the spoons and forks to bend to any angle. So this disabled cutlery can be bent for either left or right handed use.
However small the improvement of disabled cutlery may be, it can make a huge difference in someone’s life.
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Sidi is a brand that is all about being comfortable and taking care of yourself to the fullest. After all, that’s what this brand is all about. It’s true to its name: “Sidi” translates to “self”, and the “Mountain” in the brand name refers to the fact that it’s one of the most comfortable shoes on the planet.
Sidi shoes are very well suited for trail riding. They are durable, lightweight, and have a great balance, which makes them more comfortable to sit in. They are also light enough to be worn all day on a daylong bike ride and are comfortable to wear on your feet.
The best thing about these shoes is that they are very easy to get on and off of due to the smooth and comfortable leather they are made of. They also come with a built in system to prevent any slippage. They make for a perfect complement to your bicycle and for that reason is a must have for the trail. If you are looking for a comfortable, comfortable shoe for your bike, this is the one for you.
Sidi mountain bike shoes are made by the same company who made the shoe we featured in our last story, Sidi. They are one of the most popular shoes on the bike clothing market, so it’s no surprise that they’re back in production. While they’re not my favorite brand, they are still a good and comfortable pair that don’t get in the way of your bike ride.
Sidi shoes are made of a polyurethane material and are made of a leather upper. What some people may not know is that the upper is made from a type of leather that has a very hard, strong sole. This means that you can wear them with any type of bicycle saddle and they will keep your foot secure. The only downside is that they are a bit thick, but I still love them.
It will be interesting to see how Sidi’s shoes perform in the fall. These boots are made of a leather upper, but have what can best be described as a soft sole, instead of the harder, stronger sole we’re used to.
Speaking of Sidis, these new Sidis Mountain boots look to resemble the Sidis Mountain boots in the original, but with a softer sole. They are still leather but now have a soft sole that will allow for a more comfortable ride. I think I’ll be rocking these for a while.
Sidis have been around for a while and have been used by many to great success. These shoes look to be a bit different than the original, but they look as comfortable as the original Sidis Mountain boots.
Sidis Mountain boots have been used for years to great success. There are a ton of people who own these boots and wear them to work, and in fact, I’ve seen many of them around my house. They make riding a bike much easier, because they offer more support. They do a great job of keeping your feet well-protected on a bike, and can also help with your posture and overall fitness, which allows you to get out and about more often.
Sidi Mountain boots are a great way to stay comfortable on a bike all day. They are also a great way to stay fit and healthy. When you first go out to ride your bike, you’ll find that your feet have a tendency to pop out of the sneakers. Sidi Mountain boots help eliminate that problem by keeping your feet on the pedals all the time. | <urn:uuid:c175902d-216f-476e-ade0-2a35af6a4a03> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://cyclingshoes.in/sidi-mountain-bike-shoes/ | 2022-09-30T09:05:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335448.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220930082656-20220930112656-00692.warc.gz | en | 0.979273 | 742 |
If you have ever wondered why New Mexico is called the Land of Enchantment, then maybe it's time to search out a few New Mexico hotels and get your travel plans in order. You will be confronted with many interesting options for New Mexico hotels, from guest ranches to casinos, and you can be sure that the state's stunning natural landscape will present a most satisfying backdrop. Sure, New Mexico seems to get left of the radar mostly, but that's part of what makes it so special. One thing is for certain. Take a trip here, and you will never get the stunning images out of your mind, nor be able to forget the hospitality of the people.
A good amount of visitors to New Mexico arrive
to Albuquerque. If they are coming in
the early part of October, they might then be embarking
on flights of the hot air balloon variety.
The Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta starts the first
week of the month, and for nine days, hundreds of
air balloons take to the New Mexico skies.
If you are here just to be here, you might take
interest in a drive on the historic Route
66, or visit the Pueblo Cultural Center. Albuquerque has many neat museums, and shopping in Old Town
is a great way to spend a few hours, or days.
When it comes to the Albuquerque hotels, there definitely
isn't a lack of choices, and except during
a few summer and fall festivals, rooms are usually
available in good number. You can often negotiate
a lower price for your room at various Albuquerque
hotels, as the managers would rather fill a room
then have it empty. Pretty much when
it comes to the Albuquerque hotels, you can get
a great room at a great price. From luxury
to discount lodging in New Mexico, the state's
largest city has it.
Not far north of Albuquerque, the state capital
Fe also offers its visitors a wide selection
of quality hotels. Santa Fe does have seasonal
variances as far as tourism goes, and especially
in the summer, the hotels in Santa Fe NM tend to
pack quickly. The hotels in Santa Fe NM provide
a nice list of options for those looking for New
Mexico budget hotels, mostly in the form of the
various motels found on the south side of the city.
If you want to be near the city's main plaza,
the downtown hotels in Santa Fe NM present some
wonderful choices. Santa Fe also boasts some
nice bed and breakfasts, if you want a change from
the hotel scene. Santa Fe is an art-rich city
with a feel unlike any other place. From the Loretto
Chapel, to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museums,
the attractions here run deep. Outside of
Santa Fe, you can visit a town where scientists
worked on the Manhattan Project. Los
Alamos is a place where recreation might just
be the king now, but if you want to peruse a bunch
of old science equipment, you can do it at the "Black
Hole", which is a most interesting flea market-type
store. There aren't a ton of hotels
to choose from in Los Alamos, but the Best Western
is worth a look.
After spending time in beautiful Santa Fe, you
might look for another city with an enviable arts
scene. Resting among Rocky Mountain peaks,
the town of Taos is one of those places that if you're not
careful, you might end up spending the rest of your
life in. Certain residents here shun materialism,
building "homes" that have no running
water or electricity, and even some of the vacation
homes here utilize alternative energy solutions.
Taos is where you come in the state if you are looking
for the best ski resorts. In fact, regardless
of the time of year, it is among the best places
for outdoor recreation in the state. As for
the Taos hotels, there are many bed and breakfasts
to choose from, and many people prefer the Taos
Ski Valley hotels. From lodges, to motels,
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you will have no shortage of places to rest your
head. The north isn't the only part
of the state that visitors head to. In southern
New Mexico, the cities of Roswell, Las
Cruces and Ruidoso might make it on your itinerary. Roswell is
the famed sight of an alleged 1947 alien spacecraft
crash. Ever since, the town has been attached
to all things UFO related. Come here in July
for the UFO Festival, and you are bound to not forget
it any time soon. The Roswell hotels are in
big supply, and the city has one of the biggest
selections of New Mexico budget hotels. Apart
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Just west of Roswell is the small town of Ruidoso,
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when it comes to the Ruidoso hotels, and this base
for outdoors enjoyment is a great place to visit
any time of year. Southwest of both Roswell
and Ruidoso, you will find an ample selection of
New Mexico hotels in the city of Las Cruces.
The recreation areas in the mountains here offer
plenty of outdoor things to do, and for indoors
entertainment, you might check out the Museum of
Natural History. Las Cruces is home to New
Mexico State University, and thankfully this desert
city is set on the banks of the mighty Rio Grande
River. As for the Las Cruces hotels, like
the aforementioned locations, there are plenty to
choose from. You can find New Mexico budget
hotels here, and some more upscale options as well.
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lodging in New Mexico in its southern region.
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people. Besides visiting these featured south
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The Arthur and Leonora Hornblow papers span the years circa 1911-2002 (bulk 1930s-1976) and encompass
approximately 15 linear feet. The collection consists of miscellaneous production material relating to a
dozen films associated with either her producer husband, Arthur Hornblow Jr., or her actor husband, Wayne
Morris. Of interest is Arthur Hornblow's diary with typed entries covering 1953 and 1954 events relating
to the production of OKLAHOMA! (1955). There are address books, biographical material on the Hornblows,
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material on Leonora Hornblow's 1950 novel, "Memory and Desire." Material on Wayne Morris is interspersed
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Arthur Hornblow Jr. was a producer most active in film from 1933 to 1962. Prior to his career in
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A few (Most) of you don’t know me. If you do know me, you probably don’t know me anywhere near well enough to say you actually know me. And if you don’t fall into either of those two groups, then I guess I *might* be obligated to give you a small introduction.
Who am I? I’m a person who likes lists, so let’s start one.
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- have a good background in technology.
- am always eager to learn.
- always like telling people about what I learn.
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- like lists.
Over the coming weeks, I will be publishing a series on the topic of, you guessed it, Virtualization. Of course, this is a bit different than the normal tone of things for this site, but I like change. Change is good. (Especially pocket change. Doubly so when you have the 65 cents required to buy a soda in the vending machine of our office basement…)
The goal of the series is to give you an in depth understanding of virtualization. Will we succeed in our quest? Only time will reveal that answer, but in the meantime, here is a tentative outline.
(That is, naturally, subject to being changed.)
- Kick-Start to Virtualization
- What is Virtualization?
- Types of Virtualization
- Why Virtualization?
It should be pointed out that the above is just an outline, and not necessarily a single post. (In Layman’s terms, Josh will want to stab me with a fork to get me to shut up about Virtualization by the time it is said and done. I’m
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South Beach Diet - Feelings Friday at the Beach DAILY 8/22
08-22-2003, 07:08 AM
What are you feeling today?
So you want to have a good weekend.
Go on a mini vacation.
Go out to eat.
DON'T worry or fret.
Print out the lists of Foods to Enjoy and Avoid for Phases 1 and 2, and take them with you so you know which healthy foods to choose.
Drink lots of water and think about the better choices.
Use the 3 bite rule for desserts.
Walk, park further from main enterances, use stairs and BE ACTIVE.
Have a good time and remember this is a healthy way of life and eating.
If you gain a few, you can always start Phase 1 again.
Your new way of Living is gooing to help you say NO or just indulge a tad.....3 bites worth.
So how are you feeling NOW?
To our NEW members WELCOME
To our "oldies KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
It has ben over 100 for the last 2 days. Hot Hot Hot!
I have actually been able to read and finish reading a novel. Something I have not been able to do for a year+. Eyes are very bad. Well, I had surgery and they are better, but they have a long way to go yet. I go Monday to see if I need more surgery or if they will fit me with a different type of glasses. I only hope that I can pass the eye test for the driver's renewal in Jan/Feb. My eyes were -1500 and -1375. Normal as you know is 20/20. I know now that with this surgery I won't go blind in my 60's as I was told I very well could.
Have a great day.
Lady M :flame:
08-22-2003, 07:36 AM
Good morning, Marcie. Today I'm feeling GREAT because I had an excellent sleep last night. Lavender bath oil and a St. John's Wort did the trick.
I'm sorry to hear about your vision problem. I hope the surgery can fix things for you. I can't imagine not being able to read. Have you considered books on tape? Our library has a vast selection which I used to use on my 90 minutes drives to work back in the bad old pre-retirement days.
It's up to 82 already here. I have not run the AC all week because of energy conservation but today may be the day! I have to bake this afternoon for the Church bake sale tomorrow and the Parish BBQ on Sunday - 6 cakes and 6 pies. Sometimes I wish I wasn't such a community oriented chick. My DH thinks I'm nuts but who listens.
I'm at a standstill re weightloss - maybe because I'm retaining water? Football feet and sausage fingers are the first hint. I'm out of diuretic from the doc and he's on vacation so may go for the herbal ones today. I have resisted the ju-jubes but some chocolate covered raisins lept into my maw yesterday, alas. Perhaps I'll be back to my control and enthusiasm when the heat breaks a bit.
Hershey and I are off to Lucy's Obedience Class this morning. Lucy is in heat and I don't want to chance her in a class which includes a couple of male dogs. I don't fancy a Portie/Westie cross! Hersh and I will go just to check out any new tricks. I am definitely NOT going to be an Assistant Instructor this fall and winter, by the way. Life is too short to spend it driving on snowy roads twice a week.
Welcome to the new chicks. It's nice to see so many posts on the Daily.
Have a great day and stay cool. Tomorrow will be better.
08-22-2003, 07:39 AM
Marcie ~ I am praying for good news on your eyes.
So after last nights chocolate melting fiasco I am feeling like a lousy cook today. How hard can it be to melt choc.? Apparently very hard. I am not much of a cook and have never baked. But thanks to Glinda's DH helpfull tip I will try again tonight to melt chocolate and make covered strawberries. :)
Today I am NOT going to give up on anything, except bad choices!
Have a beachy day! :dance:
08-22-2003, 08:58 AM
Today I am feeling....fit...fiesty...fearless...fantastic! I have managed to stay OP all week! Now that is a major feat! And the best part...no weighing, measuring, counting....just using my "new" commonsense! Between all the good stuff I have been eating and the great exercise I am getting, I SHOULD feel wonderful...and I DO!
Marcie...I sure hope you get a good report at the doc's! What novel did you read? I am an avid reader, always searching for a great book! Your tips are so on point...I want everyone to ENJOY this WOE....and you certainly help lead the way! Thanks!
Ruth-glad to hear you got a good night's sleep. It is going to be hot and muggy here today. The a/c will have to stay on! I have tried sleeping with it off, but when it is 90F that is almost impossible. Do you remember the California Raisin ad campaign of several years ago? Now I have visions of them being chocolate covered and diving into giant mouths! AAAACKKK! :lol:
sflake-don't give up on cooking! Melting chocolate sounds a lot easier than it is. But with Glinda's tip you should be all set. I found some stuff in the produce department that is made for dipping fruit...DOLCE Di FRUTTA or something like that. It comes in a little cardboard container that you put right into the microwave. The resulting chocolate coats like a dream and sets up in no time without going in the fridge. I have even taken that and strawberries to work and made them in our little mini-kitchen to "treat" my co-workers...made me very popular on those nights! I saw that someone suggested a bit of butter when you melt the chocolate... or you can use a pinch of shortening (a tsp. or so)...it helps the chocolate set up better and keep its shine. One more tip...make sure your strawberries are completely dry or the chocolate won't stick! Good luck!
Here's wishing you all a wonderful day full of great feelings!
08-22-2003, 09:04 AM
Off to Texas today and I am looking forward to it!!! Went to the Doc yesterday so he could look at my finger again...he reccomends surgury.....I don't know if I should do that or not...I am not sure I want to deal with it. I need to pack and do some light housekeeping before we go....You beach babes have a good one and Marcie I hope you get a good report. laters....
08-22-2003, 11:36 AM
Good Morning: Thanks Marcie. I plan to have a happy weekend. It started last night when we had guest for dinner and I served them all the things I could eat too, including dessert, and they never tumbled that they were eating 'diet' food.:D: That is the great thing about this whole WOE. Hope your trip to the Dr. will be a happy one. I highly recommend books on tape. We have several, and they are great for trips. They will rest your eyes in between reading .
Have a question. In the book, there is a dessert using chocolate cups. Suggests they can be found in Liquor stores. Has anyone found them? The dessert sounds like one that would be great for company.
I love the chocolate strawberries, but I forgot that they needed to be completely dry so my first attempt was a bit rough. But The didn't go to waste. :D:
Happy days. Ann
08-22-2003, 12:18 PM
Franny, I was trying to think of the name of that Dolce di frutta for sflake and couldn't remember it ... my son uses it all the time.
Have fun in Texas Whimsey ... they say everything is bigger and better there (though bigger and better than what I'm not sure)...
I'm not gonna stress eating out Saturday because as Lady Marcie says, I can always go back to Phase I for a week ...
Have a nice day everyone!!!!
08-22-2003, 12:41 PM
A quick question. I was reading some low carb recipes and one called for Keto crumbs. Anyone ever used them or know what they are or where to find them? Ann
08-22-2003, 01:03 PM
Good morning all!!
Feeling, okay. I tell you, I almost quit last night. :stress: ..was already thinking I should go back to WW. Well, I feel SO much better today. I am sure I can do this!! DAY 5, thank goodness. A few scratches, but unhurt...:stars:
Looking forward to the day, thinking of the things I can eat. YES...I have been a bit obsessive, but I am always like this with a new 'venture...lol.
Making it short today, hope everyone has a WONDERFUL WEEKEND. Good luck,
08-22-2003, 01:15 PM
I went shopping yesterday for the diet on Monday gee i spent alot of money oh well.
Fannymae I saw from another post tha you work nights so do I I was wonder when were the times u ate if you don't mind me asking I go to sleep right when I go home so I can get my baby at 2:00 I did't know if i should eat breakfast when I get home
08-22-2003, 02:59 PM
Hi Beach Babes!
I am feeling very good today, and plan a short(working) weekend.
Staying OP, busy getting the Boys ready for school Mon.
Take Care All! Be Blessed! Lenee...
P.S. Ann, I made my crumbs with low card bread.
08-22-2003, 05:25 PM
I've been sneaking a peek daily at the scales. It appears I've lost 3 lbs. after 4 days. YAY!
Yesterday I seemed to be irritable; a difficult day, but I blamed part of it on "carb withdrawal."
I'm doing this with a couple of friends from work, so it's fun to encourage each other!
Have a great weekend!
08-22-2003, 05:46 PM
Whimsey-have great trip to Texas! Hope you can get that finger healed!
Ann-we are having company this weekend and so far I am planning on serving all on plan food...it really shouldn't be hard at all! I've never even looked for the chocolate cups? But they sound yummy! Don't know about keto crumbs, either?
Nikkiloo-have a wonderful, guilt free, dinner tomorrow!
slaminbod-SO glad you didn't quit! You have made it through the toughest part...really! Before you know it this WOE will be second nature and you can stop obsessing and start ENJOYING! :lol:
nursebetty- I typically eat a snack when I get up, before I work out. Then I eat my lunch at work at about 1am or so. Then usually another snack at about 4am, especially if I am going to work out on my lunch break. Then sometimes I eat a ricotta desert at 6am or so! I have to eat breakfast (something with protein) before I go to bed or I wake up ravenous in the middle of the day! I don't usually get to sleep before 9:30 or so and sleep until 5pm. I have the kind of job where I can eat whenever I get a chance, so I can plan on having food whenever I like! Most evenings I don't eat a meal before work...just not hungry after working out. If I do eat dinner in the evening then I eat a lighter lunch at work. It has taken some experimentation to figure out what works for me...good luck!
lenee-have a great weekend, even if you do have to work! Enjoy the last weekend of summer with the boys! My baby starts 2nd grade on Tuesday...I'm really not ready for it, even if he it!
Tricia- congrats on your loss this week! The irritability probably IS carb withdrawal...it should pass soon if it hasn't already!
Okay, I need to haul my tukus upstairs and workout. I know I'll enjoy it once I start...or at the very least once I finish!
08-22-2003, 07:20 PM
Today I am feeling Thankful ....thankful that I discovered SBD, and thankful that I found this board of wonderful new friends!!
Marcie, I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers on Monday! I hope you get good news at your eye appointment. :goodvibes
Ruth....football feet and sausage fingers? :lol: I'm sorry, I shouldn't laugh at your plight, but I love how you phrase things!!
sflake, I'm not a cook either, so don't feel too bad. Have you ever dropped a Thanksgiving Turkey on the floor as you were taking it out of the oven, and your whole family was waiting to eat? Funny thing....they never asked me to have Thanksgiving at my house again! :chef:
franny, congratulations for staying OP all week!! You should be very happy and proud of yourself! :cp:
Whimsey, hope you have a great time on your trip to Texas!
Lizzie, I don't know about the chocolate cups either, but the dessert sounds interesting (not to mention yummy!). :T And I don't know anything about keto crumbs either. I must live a sheltered life....or maybe it's because I'm not a cook!
Nikki, enjoy yourself on Saturday!!!!
slaminbod, glad to see that you're hanging in there! The first week is definitely the hardest....it really will get easier. If you feel like you want to quit, be sure to come here for support, we'll help keep you on track.
nursebetty, Welcome! I know what you mean about spending a lot of money at the grocery store....but we're worth it!!
lenee, good job staying OP!
Lavender Fields, sounds like you're off to a great start! Congratulations on the weight loss!! :bravo:
08-22-2003, 09:16 PM
Good evening all, Rough day at work today but this is my weekend off and we are planning on going into NY for a Renaisanse Faire. The humidity is supposed to disappear tonight so my DH is looking forward to wearing his kilt. He does look kinda cute in it. Food choices are kinda limited. Steak on a stick or turkey legs maybe some fruit salad. You aren't allowed to bring food in. Marcie I hope your eye exam goes well. Ruth how can you do all of that baking without tasting??? I give you much credit. Sflake I see that you are from Woodmont. I am from Devon. Could we possibly be from the same town??? Gotta run. Starting to thunder and my DH wants the puter shut down......Julie | <urn:uuid:66f8cfed-d224-44b1-b24a-b8b486f08c5a> | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/archive/t-30923.html | 2014-07-25T07:09:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1405997893881.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20140722025813-00111-ip-10-33-131-23.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958307 | 3,291 |
The FCA Financial Lives survey is one of the largest surveys looking at consumers and finance. It investigates UK consumers and their experiences of financial products and services, based on interviews with 13,000 people. The survey is designed to provide data and context for the work that the FCA does in consumer protection. However, it also offers some key insights into how UK consumers are handling their finances.
Consumers’ financial vulnerability is high
According to the survey, 25.6 million people in the UK are potentially vulnerable to financial harm. So, for example they may not have access to the internet or to safety nets such as an overdraft. The most at risk age group is the over 85s – 77% of whom show vulnerability to financial harm. Those who are vulnerable to potential harm are twice as likely to have used high cost short term credit and many would struggle if their monthly obligations increased just a little. For example, 45% said they would find it difficult to pay rent if payments went up by less than £100 a month. 4.1 million people in the UK are already “in difficulty” i.e. they have already started missing payments on bills or credit commitments.
Confidence about money matters is low
It may not be that surprising to discover that 46% of UK adults say they have low knowledge about financial matters. 18 – 24 year olds tend to be the least confident when it comes to money matters. However, the problem seems to be quite widespread – for example 17 million people in the UK who have motor insurance don’t know what “no claims protection” means. The survey showed that there is a tendency to stick with already known brands and that this increases with consumer age. So, for example, on average 62% of people will stick with a brand they already know but in the over 75s this rises to 82%.
Many of us aren’t satisfied with our financial circumstances
However, this changes as we get older. Dissatisfaction is particularly notable in the 18 – 24 age group where 60% are not satisfied with their financial circumstances. That’s compared to just 21% of over 75s who aren’t satisfied with their current financial situation.
Debt levels are rising
The Financial Lives survey backs up data provided by many other sources that levels of debt in the UK are rising. For example, 75% of UK adults have had one or more consumer credit product in the last 12 months and 46% of UK adults are currently paying for credit. 12.9 million adults are overdrawn while 3.1 million adults have gone into an unauthorised overdraft over the past 12 months. Roughly 100,000 people have resorted to an illegal moneylender in order to make ends meet in the past 12 months. Although the survey didn’t mention zero hours contracts and the gig economy, this is one of the potential factors in increased debt reliance highlighted by debt charity Step Change. When there are enough monthly hours to cover outgoing payments then everything is fine. As soon as that changes – which it can at any time – many people have no other choice but to look for debt support.
There are serious issues for young people
According to the FCA survey, around 13% of those aged 25 – 34 are currently in financial difficulty, having missed bill payments or credit payments in the last three to six months. This is something that is echoed by the FCA Chief Andrew Bailey who has said that there is a pronounced build up of indebtedness among young people. He made the point that this is not reckless borrowing but money that is being used to cover essential living costs. The debt charity Step Change has also noticed an upward spike in the numbers of calls being received from young people. In the first six months of the year, six out of 10 callers were under the age of 40 and four out of 10 were single and had no children. Katie Morley, Consumer Affairs Editor at the Telegraph, points to a “cocktail of different problems,” saying that young people are often just a single step away from financial disaster thanks to factors such as easy credit, poor quality housing and benefit cuts.
The FCA Financial Lives survey is an interesting snapshot of the way that we are living, financially, as a country. From the large numbers of financially vulnerable, through to the serious problems that younger people face, there is a lot of food for thought in the data generated.
- What the ONS Family Spending survey reveals
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Howe is targeting defensive reinforcement
Newcastle United are reportedly interested in Eintracht Frankfurt defender Evan Ndicka.
The 22-year-old French centre-back has been in fine form this season for the Bundesliga side. He has scored four goals and contributed as many assists in 29 league appearances.
According to Bild (via InsideFutbol), the Magpies are targeting Ndicka this summer with the 22-year-old’s contract at Deutsche Bank Park expiring next June.
A deal for the Frenchman could be done at around £21 million but he is reportedly not the only centre-back in the Tyneside outfit’s sights.
The club are also interested in Monaco’s Benoit Badiashile and Sevilla‘s Diego Carlos. Howe’s side tracked the latter in January and made a £25 million bid for the Brazilian only for it to be rejected (per The Sun).
One thing is clear, the Magpies are on the lookout for a centre-back. They look to build on what has been an impressive end to a rollercoaster season.
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Joelinton has been in fine form under Howe
Newcastle have been a side reborn under manager Eddie Howe.
The takeover of the club by a Saudi-led consortium in October has coincided with an upturn in form both on and off the field.
The Magpies have been astute in the transfer window since the takeover, signing the likes of Bruno Guimarães, Kieran Trippier and Dan Burn.
They have contributed to a huge turnaround at St James’ Park. The club were previously embroiled in a relegation battle but now sit ninth in the Premier League.
Howe can be expected to go into the market once again this summer for some top talent to refresh his current squad.
One man being linked with a move to Newcastle is Guimarães’ former Lyon teammate Lucas Paqueta. ChronicleLive claims that scouts from Newcastle have watched the Brazilian playmaker.
Guimarães himself is eager for his Brazilian compatriot to join him on Tyneside.
He responded when asked which of his former teammates he’d most like to join him at Newcastle (via HITC):
“Ah, Lucas Paqueta. He is my brother, my best friend and I really get on great with him. We have the same way of thinking, we are the same age and we were together everything day – always talking to each other.”
The Magpies are turning into a side with a Brazilian core, as they currently boast Guimarães and Joelinton in their ranks.
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Nuts & Bolts Collections Part II: Next Steps in Assisting Pro Bono Clients with Collections Matters
Josh Wu will be presenting the webinar Nuts & Bolts Collections Part II: Next Steps in Assisting Pro Bono Clients with Collections Matters on June 13, 2018 for the ABA Section of Taxation.
This panel follows the Nuts & Bolts Collections Workshop Part I (available for free download here). Like the first webinar, this session is designed as a practical training for pro bono attorneys who have minimal experience representing low-income taxpayers in collection cases. This workshop will pick up where the last webinar left off. Now you have a low-income taxpayer in need of assistance in front of you. Where do you begin? Attorneys participating in the Section’s pro bono programs are encouraged to participate. Seasoned practitioners in low-income controversy representation will guide participants through the following topics:
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Cannon Falls Top Cop Was Really ‘Milking’ It This Weekend
I read an article over the weekend about county fairs and local celebrations in greater Minnesota. It was something like 2 million people attend the State Fair, while 2.6 million attend all the county fairs and local festivals that take place during Minnesota's 2-3 month window of what we call summer. Part of that ambiance is fun little competitions that pop up at these festivals. It could be local fire departments challenging others to pull a tractor, or maybe it's a milking contest, like the one that took place this weekend at Dennison Days.
The Cannon Falls Police Department had some fun with their chief participating in the contest in this post to their Facebook page on Sunday morning.
Chief Jeffrey McCormick ended up with what was described as a "personal best" extracting 8oz of milk in 60 seconds.
With all the heavy news we faced over the weekend, it's nice to be able to see some of the lighter parts of life like cow milking contests at a small Minnesota festival. Maybe we will see something similar at the Steele County Free Fair next week?
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Out of the thousands of developers on Google Play and the App Store, Adult Swim Games has been one of the more consistent. Pocket Mortys is the networks latest toon adaption and it’s a game Pokémon fans will want to pick up immediately.
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2nd Edition. Amanda Sinclair (Author) › Visit Amazon's Amanda Sinclair Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and by: Doing Leadership Differently: Gender, Power and Sexuality in a Changing - Amanda Sinclair - Google Books. With a new preface, this revised edition presents a concept of leadership that situates gender, power, and sexuality at the heart of being a leader.
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Amanda Sinclair is an author, researcher, consultant and teacher in leadership, change, gender and diversity. A Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne, her books include Doing Leadership Differently, Leadership for the Disillusioned and Leading Mindfully. Sinclair is also a teacher of yoga and meditation.
Doing Leadership Differently is essential reading for both established and aspiring executives and managers. It offers a challenging and original analysis of: why the traditional style of leadership has failed us; how men as well as women can benefit from understanding how gender shapes leadership style; how to put power and sexuality at the.
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By Dr. Travis Bradberry. His bestselling books have been translated into 25 languages and are available in more than countries.
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The doing side is easier and can bring quick results. This Is What Amazing Leaders Do Differently. 7 Skills They Don’t Teach In Business Class, But Make All The Difference.
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The best leaders will do anything for their teams, and they have their people’s backs no matter what. They don’t try to shift blame, and they don’t avoid shame when they fail. Good leaders do things well. Great leaders teach and inspire others to do things well.
If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime, right. The same concept applies to leadership. What Great Leaders Do Differently by Wally Bock Great leaders stand apart because of the results they get, and they get results because of what Pay attention to the 5 P's of leadership.
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We expect our leaders to be a certain type of person - a tough, heterosexual male. Drawing on. The 12 Most Important Things I've Learned About Leadership but you can bet they’re much more focused on what you do.
Leaders who talk a Author: Ravin Gandhi. Leadership is an honourable and sacred experience and many of us are not working it," said Tomblin.
The book Days of Doing Power Differently is finally available. "People kept asking where is the book, so I knew I had to write it, and it is finally here," said Tomblin as she proudly held her first of many books to come.
We expect our leaders to be a certain type of person-a tough, heterosexual male. Drawing on interviews with senior executives, male and female, Amanda Sinclair shows convincingly why our faith in this traditional style of leadership is so strong-and misplaced.
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Many times, improvement occurs when teacher leaders motivate colleagues to become more skilled and thoughtful regarding their work, encouraging them not to do things differently but to do them better. At other times, of course, teacher leaders recognize an opportunity to institute a practice that will improve the school's program.
This is an age-old question. And the answer is complicated. Women in high-level leadership positions, such as corporate CEOs, when studied, seem to exhibit the same sorts of leadership behaviors.
So far this year, 1, paperback books have been published with the word “leadership” in the title. Today is Octo the th day of the year, which means (if my arithmetic is correct) new leadership paperbacks have been coming out in at a rate of more than four per day.
That’s a lot of leadership books. Decades of research on achievement paint a very clear picture: Successful people (including successful leaders) reach their goals not because of what they are, but because of what they can learn to give feedback that motivates, create work environments that bring out the best in your team, and more effectively reach your own goals while teaching your employees how to reach theirs.
“winners don't do different things, they do things differently” ― Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers. 16 Things High-Performing Organizations Do Differently. Great teams understand their why.
Great teams have and develop great leaders. Great teams allow culture to shape recruiting. Great teams create and maintain depth.
Great teams have a road map. Great teams promote camaraderie and a sense of collective direction. Broadly, to create a gap in the market it is not normally enough to do things differently, you also have to do different things. For example, a shop in Tobermory could open until 9pm all summer, and as soon as the other stores selling similar things see them doing it, they will copy them as it is simple to do things differently.
A better question than “do men and women lead differently?” is to ask If we want diversity in leadership as a good thing in itself, My book, Why Torture Doesn’t Work. differently. Is it true. 1 Fine, C. () Delusions of Gender, Icon books, UK.
2 George J Romanes, evolutionary biologist and physiologist () cited in Fine, C. () Delusions of Gender, Icon books, page Leadership Do men and women do it differently. Todd Whitaker has books on Goodreads with ratings. Todd Whitaker’s most popular book is What Great Teachers Do Differently: 14 Things That Matt.
Leadership is very different. "It is about aligning people to the vision, that means buy-in and communication, motivation and inspiration." Churchill is a great example of a leader, but he is not Author: Rebecca Ratcliffe.Leaders who are not in control of their own emotional reactions can do significant harm—particularly if they are unable to admit a mistake and apologize for it.
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The Astonishing Faith of a Gentile Woman (Matthew Sermon 72 of 151)
March 18, 2007 | Andrew Davis
Redemption, Walk by Faith, Jesus Christ
There are many admirable attributes of the human nature that God could have chosen to focus on concerning our salvation. He could have focused in on wisdom. He does praise young King Solomon highly and rewards him highly for asking for wisdom to lead God's people. Wisdom was rewarded and praised and is an admirable trait. He could have focused on courage or boldness, like the courage of Samson facing all those Philistines with the jaw bone of a donkey, or the boldness of Peter and John in front of the Sanhedrin. Filled with the Holy Spirit, they proclaimed the word of God boldly. He could have zeroed in on that character trait for the salvation of our souls. He could have zeroed in on compassion or humility or generosity or kindness. He could have focused on love. Love has an entire chapter in the Bible, 1 Corinthians 13. Love is even compared to other admirable attributes; “And now, these three remain: faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love.” But it was none of these character traits that God zeroed in on for the salvation of a sinful soul. No, it was faith that God zeroed in on. “The righteous will live by faith,” the scripture says. “Since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Why faith?
Faith Comes From God
God hates our boasting. He has very wisely saved us in a way that we cannot boast about the process. How can you boast about faith? What does faith do but receive what God will give. That's all. It's like the eyesight of the soul, it just receives what's there. It doesn't create anything. It just receives what God is willing to give. How do you boast about that? Imagine standing at the rim of the Grand Canyon and you saw all those purples and browns and reds, and you saw the beauty there and somebody said, "Isn't that incredible? Isn't God magnificent to make something like that!" And someone else said, "Yeah, but my eyesight, now, I can see it, okay. I have great eyesight. Let's talk about that for a while." There's nothing to talk about. "Yeah, that's good, that's good. Why don't you go sit over here and think about your eye sight while I look at this grandeur.” “It's out there, it's magnificent, it's glorious and my eyes just happened to bring it into me that I may receive it.”
So how can we boast about our faith? How wise is God! But also, in a perverted way, how wise is Satan to attack faith so that we don't understand it properly. We must have clear teaching about faith, because there's a lot of misunderstanding about faith as well. There are well-publicized movements that focus on faith: The faith healers, the Word of Faith movement, etcetera, that sees faith somewhat like a commodity that you can trade with God based on if you have enough. Like a bag of gold dust hanging at your belt, and God's got His scales, and if you've got enough faith, like a commodity, you can pour your faith on to the scale and it'll trip over, and God is forced to give you what you ask for. It's like a commodity that you can have and you got to go get more if you don't have enough. If you're pulling out your little bag and God looks at you, "I tell you right now, you don't have enough faith. So go get some more faith and then you can have the thing you ask of Me." In the end, faith turns in somewhat of a work of man, that if you have enough of this thing called Faith, then God's got to give you whatever you ask. The dark side of that whole word of faith approach is that, if you have any kind of suffering in your life, if there's a loved one, like the Syrophoenician woman's daughter who is demon-possessed, or you have some illness, or there's some issue and you come to the matter, and you don't get the healing and the person dies, or something, it's because you didn't have enough faith. So now, not only do you have the loss of the loved one, you now are told that was, indirectly told it was your fault, that if you'd had enough faith, this would never have happened. It’s similar to Job's friends basically saying, "Well, I see that you're going through great suffering. Just want you to know it's your fault. And if you would just kind of out with it about your sin, then we could get on with the healing and all that." It's about the same thing. You're left devastated. 1980 Harvest House published a book by Larry Parker entitled We Let Our Son Die. The book tells a tragic story of how Larry and his wife, after being influenced by one of America's numerous Word of Faith or Word-Faith teachers, withheld insulin from their diabetic son, Wesley. Predictably, Wesley fell into a diabetic coma and died. The Parkers, through that whole process, were warned about the impropriety of making a negative confession, saying anything negative about the whole thing. They continued to trust God and to speak words of faith concerning this matter until finally he died. Even after his death, they refused to have a funeral, but instead had a resurrection service for their son, trusting God based on a revelation they'd had that their son would be raised from the dead. It wasn't until a year later that they started to realize that they'd gotten hold of some bad teaching, and it focused on this matter of faith.
If it were just limited to the seriousness of that situation, physical death for a loved one, that would be bad enough, but instead it's going to the heart of the way that God saves our sinful souls. We are justified by faith. We must understand it, therefore. We don't go to the Word-Faith teachers, we don't go to these fad, weird movements to find out what faith is. We must go to the Scriptures. The verses today are one of the accounts that I would bring someone to who wanted to understand what is the nature of true faith. Why? Because Jesus commends this Syrophoenician woman for her faith. He focuses on it. In verse 28 it says, "Jesus answered, 'Woman, you have great faith. Your request is granted.' And her daughter was healed from that very hour."
The Context of Jesus’ Interaction with the Canaanite Woman
It's good for us to learn from the Syrophoenician woman, to find out from her example what is great faith, faith that Jesus will commend. As we come to this encounter, we're coming to, I think, one of Jesus's most puzzling interactions. Admit it, haven't you wondered about this one before? It's a little bit strange. Robert Stein in his book, Difficult Passages in the Gospels, chooses this as one of the passages he deals with. Why is it difficult? Stein says this, "The problem is obvious. Jesus' words appear harsh, austere, insensitive. They seem atypical of Jesus. In the Gospels, He is portrayed as a kind, loving and compassionate savior. The words of this account would cause little difficulty coming from a mean, harsh, unloving individual. The Jesus of the gospels, however, is a loving and kind Jesus with a special compassion for the outcasts of society, and this woman is an outcast in the Jewish mind." That's why this passage is difficult. It seems strange that Jesus would answer like this.
Let's understand the context, first of all. It begins, verse 21, "Jesus left that place or leaving that place, He withdrew." Now the Greek word “there” just means, it means more than just went away. He's in effect bringing about a strategic withdrawal in His ministries, retreating strategically at this point. Why? I think to escape the building pressure. The pressure was building around His ministry. Pressure from the huge multitudes who are crushing in on Him on every side, demanding, yearning for Him to meet their physical needs. In Mark 6:31 it says, "Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, He said to them, 'Come with Me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.' So, they went away by themselves in a boat to a solitary place." That's the retreat approach.
Or again, this crowd, after Jesus had fed the 5,000 in John's account, are pressing in on Him and want to seize him and take Him by force and make Him king. Jesus's response here is the same. John 6:15, "Jesus knowing that they intended to come and make Him king by a force, withdrew again to a mountain by Himself." So again, He's withdrawing. Strategic withdrawal. There's a pressure from the crowd, the adoring and needy crowd. Secondly, there's pressure from the secular authorities. The king, for example, Herod Antipas, who thinks that Jesus may be John the Baptist risen from the dead and that's why miraculous powers are at work in Him. He killed John and so Herod may be pushing matters to accelerate Jesus's death. That may be some of the pressure that Jesus is feeling.
I think in the immediate preceding account, however, is pressure from the Jewish religious authorities. The Scribes and Pharisees who had already decided, in Matthew 12:14, that Jesus had to die. They already decided that, and now they are basically amassing evidence or pushing a case so that they can have Him executed. The previous encounter was about hand-washing, and the ceremonial law, the ritual washing and all that. In that account, Jesus offended them and the disciples told Him about it. In Matthew 15:12, the disciples came to Him and asked, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?" So for all of these pressures, I think Jesus desires a strategic withdrawal to let things cool off a bit. It's like it's boiling over and it's going too fast, it's time to cool it off a bit because everything's been timed out. There's an exact time for Jesus to die, it's not yet.
There's another aspect, I think, and that's so that Jesus could focus on His apostles and just work with them for a while and just pour Himself into them and build them up. But it didn't work, because it says in Mark's gospel in this parallel account, Mark 7:24-25, "Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it, yet He could not keep His presence a secret." No way to keep the presence of Jesus, the Son of God, a secret. In fact, as soon as she heard about Him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an evil spirit came and fell at His feet. That's how the encounter begins. So Jesus is trying to find a quiet place to work with His disciples, but it's no good. The woman finds Him and presses her need forward at this moment.
Now, Tyre and Sidon are an interesting place in Biblical history. They are notorious to some degree in Jewish history. The region of Tyre and Sidon had a good beginning in scripture, as the wise king Hiram was a good friend to King David, and once David had established himself in Jerusalem, sent him timber and different materials to build his palace. In the time when Solomon, David's son, was building the palace, he again supplied him with building materials. They had a good relationship. But it went south from there, after King Hiram. Tyre was a gentile trading area where goods would be sent out all over that region of the Mediterranean. They became very wealthy, plying that commercial trade. With it came all of the corruption of being a nautical seaport. All kinds of evil, as a matter of fact, Isaiah likened the region of Tyre and Sidon to a prostitute plying her trade. It's somewhat of a defiled area, defiled by their wealth and their prosperity. Worse, they involve themselves in buying and selling human slaves from the ancient Near East, from Edom, and even including the Jews, buying and selling them. This is talked about in the book of Amos. But worse still, when Jerusalem fell, the people of Tyre and Sidon mocked and celebrated the fall of Jerusalem. Ezekiel talks about this. In Ezekiel 26, "Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, 'Aha, the gate to the nations is broken and its doors swing open to me now that she lies in ruin, I will prosper.'" Judgement comes on Tyre and Sidon. In Ezekiel 28, the oracle to the King of Tyre is couched in such language that you're not sure if it's talking about the human king of Tyre or Satan himself, implying that, it's like demonic forces are behind Tyre and Sidon.
Several prophets, therefore, predicted the total devastation of Tyre and Sidon, including Ezekiel, Joel, Amos, Jeremiah and Isaiah. However, Jesus knew the people of Tyre and Sidon even a little bit better. He made some remarkable statements about them. First of all, He knew that hundreds of Gentiles had been coming to see Him and to listen to Him preach and to have their illnesses cured. In Luke 6:17-19 it says, "A large crowd of his disciples was there and a great number of people from all over Judea, from Jerusalem and from the coast of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear Him and to be healed of their diseases, those troubled by evil spirits, all of them were cured and the people tried to touch Him because power was coming out from Him and healing them all." This whole region is coming to listen to Jesus preach, and He's healing them. One of Jesus's most amazing statements though, He made earlier in Matthew's Gospel, when He denounces the Jewish cities in which most of His miracles had been performed because they didn't repent. He said, "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sack cloth and ashes. But I tell you, it'll be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you."
Now, who was this woman that Jesus deals with? Matthew describes her as a Canaanite, the very people that God had commanded Joshua to destroy completely when the Jews conquered the Promised Land. Canaanite women, in particular, were the focus of a warning in Deuteronomy 7:1-6 in which God warned the men of his people, “Do not intermarry with Canaanite women because they will turn your heart away from worship of the true God.” But Mark goes into even more detail about this Canaanite woman. In Mark 7:26, it says the woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia, so she's frequently called the Syrophoenician woman. This woman would have been a complete outcast as far as the Jews were concerned. They would have had nothing to do with her. Nothing at all. But yet, she has a tremendous faith in Christ and for all times she's memorialized here in the text of scripture, as an example of great conquering faith. How beautiful is that? Now what was her plight, what was her problem? Her little daughter was demon-possessed, verse 22, "A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to Him crying out, 'Lord, son of David, have mercy on me. My daughter is suffering terribly from demon possession."
Mark's gospel heightens the fact that she's young, she's a little daughter, using an extra Greek word, so there's a sense of a little helpless girl being tormented by a demon. Demon possession is a very serious spiritual affliction. A demon, a fallen angel, a spiritual being takes over the mind and personality and even the body of a human being. The demon and demons do bodily harm to the individual and they cause somewhat of a living hell for those around that care about that individual because there's nothing they can do. There's no power that can deal with this demonic force. This seems to have been, if you can imagine, an especially bad case. There's extra words that give a sense of, she's suffering terribly from demon possession.
False Options behind Jesus’ Strange Interaction with the Canaanite Woman
Then Jesus begins a series of strange actions at this particular moment. The first thing, is He doesn't answer her at all. Look at verse 23, "Jesus did not answer a word." Secondly, his disciples come to Him and urge Him, "Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us." Jesus seems to focus His ministry only on the Jews, and He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel." He says this in her hearing. He doesn't even address her directly, He just says it to His disciples. Third, in finally dealing with her directly, He seems to insult her and call her a dog. "The woman came and knelt before Him, 'Lord, help me,' she said. He replied, 'It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to their dogs.'" This is a series of strange actions on Jesus's part.
There's some mitigating factors. We don't have facial expression or body language or tone of voice, we don't have any of that. We just have His words and you know, there's a way to say something that doesn't sound as harsh. It could be playful, like a riddle. He could be saying it like that. We don't know. We weren't there, so we don't know the non-verbals that went along with this statement. Secondly, the Greek implies that Jesus had a longer conversation with her than is recorded here. Jesus was saying to her, "It's not right to take the children's bread." It's not just one simple proverb, and then He's done. It seems like He's having a conversation with her, but you only get part of it here. Then also this word dogs, it's not the harsh word for dog, like a rabid beast that roams the streets picking through garbage and is a threat to the populace, that kind of a dog, like a roaming wolf. But rather, the word used here is more like a household pet, like a puppy. So it would be like, "It's not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to their puppies."
There's some mitigating factors but all of that said, it's still a strange interaction on Jesus's part. What is going on here? What were Christ's motives? That's what we have to ask. Why did He treat her like this? Let's rule out some things that cannot be. Let's rule out false options. It's not because Jesus didn't care about Gentiles. Let's start right there. He knew very well that Abraham had been promised 2,000 years before in Genesis 12:3, “I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you, I will curse, and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” Jesus knew that very well because Jesus's Heavenly Father, said in the words of Isaiah the prophet[Isaiah 49:6], “It is too small a thing for you to be my servant. To restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept.” That's too small a commission for Jesus just to save the Jews. “Ask of me, and I'll give the nations as your inheritance, the ends of the Earth as your possession.”
After Jesus was born, Simeon took the baby Jesus in his arms and praised God saying, “Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you now dismiss your servant in peace for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the sight of all people, a light of revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people, Israel.” If Simeon knew that, Jesus knew it; can we concede that? Jesus knew very well that He was to be the light for the Gentiles, and in His ministry, Jesus had already dealt many times very positively with Gentiles — the Roman centurion He deals very graciously with and very lovingly with. Then there's the Samaritan woman, the half-breed, half Jewish, half Gentile, but He is so loving and gracious to her, He doesn't hesitate at all.
After Christ's resurrection, He would send His disciples to the ends of the earth, and one of the places they would go would be this very region of Tyre and Sidon. He had a saving plan for them, and soon, in the Book of Acts, there's a church in this area beautifully growing. Paul, on his journey to Jerusalem back to Jerusalem, lands at Phoenicia. He goes and visits the disciples in Tyre and they welcome Paul warmly. Through the spirit, they warn him not to go to Jerusalem and after that they take him out with his entourage, and they kneel on the beach together, and pray. There's such a loving encounter there in a church made up of people from Tyre and Sidon. Jesus knew all of this would come. Clearly Jesus had a saving intention for the entire world, including the people of Tyre and Sidon.
Secondly, it's not because He lacked power to do miracles in Gentile territory. Jesus is God omnipotent, there is nothing He cannot do. He's not more God in Israel than He was in the gentile areas. There's nothing He cannot do, and He's going to prove this directly by giving her her request. There's no lack of power to do miracles, not at all.
Thirdly, it's not because He lacked mercy or compassion for her plight or her daughter. Jesus was infinitely filled with mercy and compassion; the most perfectly compassionate man in history. Four separate times in Matthew's gospel, it links one of Jesus's miraculous healings to his compassion, his heart is moved with compassion and He heals. Basically anybody who comes to Jesus as a beggar, humbly asking for a healing like this, they get it. It doesn't matter who they are, so it can't be that He lacked compassion.
And it can't be that He was weary and annoyed and irritable after a long hard day. You may be like that from time to time, maybe not, getting irritable and saying something you wish you hadn't said. Has that ever happened to you? You wish you could have the words back. James 3:2 says, “We all stumble in many ways.” Isn't it true? We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, what is he? He's a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check. Is there a perfect man? Was there a perfect man who was able to keep his whole body in check? Yes, His name is Jesus. He never stumbled in what He said. Never. So it's not that He was weary and irritable after a long, hard day. I'm not saying Jesus didn't get weary, I'm not saying He didn't get tired, I'm not saying that there aren't temptations, I'm just saying He never yielded to any temptation and everything He said was perfect. Jesus spoke the words of life. He says in John 6:63, “My words are spirit and they are life.” Jesus is the Word of God; He doesn't throw words aside like you and I do. When He speaks there's a reason.
Fifth, it's not because He's taking a break from ministry and doesn't want to care for her needs at this point. “I’m on vacation.” That's not it. Jesus could both take a strategic retreat, and care for her needs as He does. He's not shocked or dismayed when there's a huge crowd in Tyre and Sidon that hears of his being there. He's not surprised at all, He knew full well that this was going to be part of his ministry.
Six, it's not because there's only so much bread for the children and once it's been given out, there's none extra. Do you think Jesus would have been more taxed to feed 6,000 than He was to feed 5,000? What do you think? There’s a little extra miracle-working power, a little more sweat on Jesus's part, it's impossible. 60,000, 600,000. He fed 2 million Jews in the desert for 40 years. Is the arm of the Lord too short? He can do anything. It's not because there's only so much bread for the children and once that's gone, then the dogs eat or the children are going to starve, that's not it, at all. It's not because the woman didn't ask properly or with enough humility or enough faith or any of that, none of that.
The Redemption Plan of God for the Jew & the Gentile
Why then? First let's look at redemption, the redemption plan of God to the Jew first and then to the Gentile. This principal is stated again and again in Scripture. After Jesus was raised from the dead, the apostle Peter spoke about this to the Jews in the temple, [Acts 3:26], “For you first, you Jews God raised up his servant, and sent him to bless you, by turning every one of you from your wicked ways.” The apostle Paul taught this, and lived this out again and again in His ministry. He was the apostle to the Gentiles, but every city he went to, he went first to the synagogue, didn't he? That's where he started.
To the Jew first, he says in Pisidia in Antioch. He and Barnabas had preached there. The Jews become hostile, they begin to reject the message. This is what Paul says in Acts 13:46, “Then Paul and Barnabas answered the Jews boldly. ‘We had to speak the word of God to you first; since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life. We now turn to the Gentiles.’” Do you see that ordering? Now, “you Gentiles.” I'm a Gentile, too. We should not feel offended by this. This was just God's strategic ordering, this is what He chose to do, and He says it again, and again. He wrote about it in Romans 1:16, “I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes, first for the Jew, and then for the Gentile.” This was God's strategy. That Jesus, the Son of God, would go to his own people, and they would reject Him, and that they would turn him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified and then on the third day, He would be raised to life. That was part of God's strategy. It's spelled out very plainly in John 1:11, “He came to his own, but his own people did not receive Him. Yet to all who received Him, To those who believe in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. Children, not born of the flesh, or of blood, or of water, but of the Spirit of God.” Jesus says in verse 24, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.” Christ hadn't died on the cross yet, so the barrier to the Gentiles was still up. There was still a barrier separating Jew from Gentile which was spoken of in Ephesians 2 where Paul said, "Therefore remember, that formerly you who are Gentiles, by birth and called uncircumcised, by those who call themselves a circumcision that done in the body by the hands of men. Remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. That's what you were, but now he has destroyed in his body the barrier between the two, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in His flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace and in this one body, to reconcile both of them to God through the cross by which He put to death their hostility.” This hadn't happened yet. The curtain in the temple, hadn't been torn in two from top to bottom, so there were still a focus on the Jews. Also, there's a strategy here. Jesus is focusing on the children of Israel, but within them, his disciples, and within them, the 12 apostles. He's got a strategy to pour Himself out. It could be that He's saying, “Look, I'm here to focus on the apostles, it's not right for me to be doing a wide ministry of the Gentiles, right now. I've got to spend time with these men and pour myself into them.” That's all possible.
One of the most common answers to this is that Jesus was doing it to test her faith. More specifically, He's humbling her, and seeing if she would overcome the obstacles. Perhaps this is true, but I don't think it goes far enough. I think Jesus knew her heart very well. He wasn't merely testing her faith, I think he was actually developing and strengthening her faith and then putting it on display for us. Like a physical therapist will develop a weak or injured muscle by opposing motion so that the person is forced through some pain to strengthen that weakened muscle and develop it. The therapist in a very wise way will oppose the motion and strengthen and build up that damaged muscle. So Jesus seems to oppose her and fight against her despite the fact that He really does desire to give her what she wants. Ultimately, He means to put this woman's faith on display for all time.
The Focus of Faith
So, what is the nature of true faith, what then is true faith? Well, first, it has a basis in something. We don't have faith in faith itself. There are a lot people like that — True faith is a leap into the black darkness. You imagine some pitch black night and you're on top of a skyscraper and you're running off screaming into the dark hoping something's going to catch you, and that's faith. That is not faith. It's not essentially our optimistic outlook- “I believe for every drop of rain that falls a flower grows. I believe that somewhere in the darkest night, a candle glows.” John McArthur said this sort of faith is essentially faith in faith, which is to say no faith at all. “To jump out of an airplane with a parachute is an act of faith. To jump without a parachute, while exclaiming I believe, is an act of stupidity. To say no more than I believe in love, or I believe in believing or I believe it will all work out is contentless faith, and therefore, pointless and powerless.”
Faith focuses on something. It focuses on God — His nature, His promises, His work in the past as revealed in Scripture. That's what faith focuses on. This Canaanite woman clearly had heard of Jesus's miracles, she knew of the Jewish prophecies concerning the Messiah. Look at the title she uses and the expectation she has that Jesus will heal her daughter. Lord, son of David, she calls him. How does a Gentile woman know Son of David? Faith comes from hearing the message about Christ; that's where her faith has come from.
The Reverence of Faith
We see also the reverence of faith. She calls him Lord. Later on she bows down before him and worships him. She is submissive, she is reverent, she doesn't presume on him, she doesn't demand from him. How different is that from the “name it and claim it” crowd that bosses God around like he's some kind of a house boy as though God somehow loves to be bossed around like he's a house boy. He doesn't. He is a sovereign king and it says in Ecclesiastes 5:2, it says, “Do not be quick with your mouth, and do not be hasty in your heart to bring up anything before God. God is in heaven and you are on Earth, so let your words be few.” Stand in awe of God. The more you believe, the more reverence and awe you'll have for God. You're not going to boss him around. I hate that aspect of that Word of Faith movement, it forgets reverence. Remember what Abraham said, when carrying on intercessory prayer over Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 18? Abraham spoke up and said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord though I am nothing but dust and ashes. . .” So also the Syrophoenician woman, she had a submissive humility to her.
The Confidence of Faith
We see also the confidence of faith. She was absolutely certain that Jesus could do this, wasn't she? That's why she kept coming. She's so persistent, she calls him Lord, so she knows he can do all things. The essence of great faith is great confidence that God has the power to do what you ask him to do. Abraham had it in Romans 4:21, “Abraham being fully persuaded that God had power to do what He had promised was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God. Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we can ask or imagine.” That's our God; that's the confidence of faith. He can do anything, infinitely more than you could ask or imagine.
The Repentance of Faith
We see also the repentance of faith. “Have mercy on me,” she calls. She recognizes that she doesn't deserve anything from the Lord; she's a sinner. She may not know the verse because it hadn't been written yet, but she understood the concept, that Paul wrote in Romans 9:15, “For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.’” God has the power sovereignly to decide who He's going to have mercy on and who He won't. So you come asking for mercy, you come with repentance, humility, knowing that you don't deserve a favorable outcome. Once we acknowledge that we are sinners, all we can do is cry out for mercy and humbly accept what God chooses to give. Anything we get is more than we deserve. Repentance and faith, I think are two sides of the same coin. Genuine saving faith involves turning away from wickedness and sin and turning to the Lord who can save you from it.It's both.
The Persistence of Faith
We also see the persistence of faith. Jesus puts up one road block after another and she overcomes every one of them. True belief is persistent. Notice also with intercession here, she has linked herself to the plight of her daughter. That is true intercession. You want to know what intercessory prayer. It is when you really care about the person and what you're praying for as though it were happening to you. Look what Jesus says in verse 22. “ Have mercy on me,” she says. In verse 24, “Lord help me.” I think God sometimes tests our prayer because we don't care about people enough. Let me just speak about myself. I think that God tests me in prayer because I don't care about people like I should and so sometimes he wants me to come on more strongly, and care more about what I'm praying for. He doesn't give it to us right away. So faith overcomes all obstacles through persistence.
The Humility of Faith
We see the humility of faith. Jesus said, “You know it's not right to take the children's bread and throw it to their dogs.” What came out of her mouth next, just moved me this morning as I was thinking about this text. It's not right to take the children's bread and throw it to their dogs. “True Lord,” she said. Wow. Where's the pride at that point? Where is the bridling up? “I’ve got some things that... I'm pretty good here. I'm not a dog at least.” There is an incredible humility here in this woman. “True Lord,” she says. “I’m closer to a dog than I am to you.” John the Baptist put it this way, “After me will come one who's more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.” Is that true? The angels hide their faces in front of Jesus. She accepts it. “Yes, I'm a dog, less than a dog, but please heal my daughter anyway.” Here's the miracle of grace, that God can take a dog and make her one of his children. It's not right to take the children's bread and throw it to their dogs. How about if he makes her one of the children, how about then? Does He have that kind of power to take a wretch and make us His treasure? We're worse than dogs when we rebel against the king, but God's grace is sufficient to take us out of that rebellion and save us entirely. This is the reward of faith. Look at verse 28, "Then Jesus answered, ‘Woman, you have great faith. Your request is granted.’ And her daughter was healed from that very hour.” You know, I've heard this expression, “We need to storm the gates of heaven.” I don't like it. It implies that heaven is like a walled fortress against us, somewhat our enemy, and we have the power to overcome that adversary and make him give us what we demand which He doesn't want to give.. It's wrong. It forgets how powerful He is. It forgets how loving He is, how much readier to give us blessing than we are to ask for it. Forget storming the gates of heaven. Go like a child to your father and ask. “Which of you fathers, if a son asks for bread, will give him a stone?” That's the way to think, and if He doesn't give it right away, He's strengthening you and helping you. He's got a plan and the reward of faith is that your request is granted, dear woman, and her daughter was healed from that very hour.
This is an incredible miracle, really, it is but I think there's a greater one, far greater, and it has to do with the greatness of the blessing and the greatness of the cost. What did she get for all of that? She got a healed daughter. You may be sitting here today listening to me in an unregenerate state. You may never have a demon-possessed daughter. Does this passage have anything to say to you? Yes, it does. Jesus has something far greater to give you then the healing of a demon-possessed daughter. He has eternity in Heaven at His right hand where there are pleasures forevermore. He has full forgiveness of sins available for you. You may not have a demon-possessed daughter, but you have a sin-saturated soul. If you're sitting here listening to me, in an unregenerate state you are not ready to die. There is a record against you of all that you have ever said or done and you're not ready to face that record.
If you're here today in a graceless state, if you don't know Christ as your savior, you're not ready to die. All you have to do is believe in Him. Jesus shed His blood on the cross for the forgiveness of sins, just like yours, and He is eminently capable to cover all of your sins through simple faith. That's all it is. Just receive what He has promised to give. “If anyone comes to me, I will in no wise cast them out.” Trust in Him. You may be listening to me and you've already trusted in Christ. Are you done coming to Jesus? No. That was just the first time you came. You know you've come again and again and again. He is still more ready to give you what you're asking for, than you are to receive it. It will always be that way.
Pray then like this woman and care about somebody else the way she cared about her daughter. Take up their case and press it in as this woman did, not storming the gates of heaven as though heaven's your enemy. Heaven's your eternal home; you're going to live there forever. It's not an enemy, but with persistence and with humility go and ask for what God has laid on your heart and ask until He gives it to you, and let his wisdom decide when that will be. | <urn:uuid:da0405a2-f559-4d37-abdf-e4418e7c89ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://twojourneys.org/sermon/the-astonishing-faith-of-a-gentile-woman-matthew-sermon-72-of-151/ | 2022-08-14T21:32:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572077.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814204141-20220814234141-00428.warc.gz | en | 0.986018 | 8,770 |
What is a .io game?
The .io games are a genre of games, which was born in 2015, to be more specific at the end of April, when the game Agar.io was published online, thanks to the youtubers and social networks that generated so much eco of this game, thanks to its gameplay, today we can consider games .io a new genre of video games. Agar.io is nothing more than the domain name that the game uses, being the .io the identifier that represents the British territory of the Indian Ocean.
How is Agar.io?
In Agar.io you are a small cell and you aim to be the largest on the map, to achieve the goal you must move around the map eating the small colored dots, you can also eat other cells if you are bigger than them, but you will die if you eat a bigger than you, the bigger you are the slower you will go and position yourself above the rest of the players in the leaderboard.
What requirements does a .io game meet?
Although the following list of requirements is not strictly required, if it meets the majority, it could already be considered a .io game:
- Domain .io
- Free to play.
- Play in the browser.
- Multiplayer, competitive or co-operative.
- Possibility of superiority over other players.
- Easy to learn but hard to be the best in the game.
- Game in real time.
- Leadership table.
- To be able to play with one click.
What is different about gameslist.io to other pages?
First of all, gameslist.io is in development and a lot of improvements are missing to reach our goal, which is to create a platform that gathers all the possible games, where the player enjoys the best user experience, without you wait and fluidly, we also think about the developers, since we have experience creating .io games and we know the frustrations and problems that can lead us to get into that adventure, we want to create a community that helps the indie developer and drives them in their goals, and All the games have the same possibilities to grow! | <urn:uuid:afb590e5-381c-46b0-9195-0c1ee0c4eecd> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | http://es.gameslist.io/about | 2022-05-19T12:38:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662527626.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20220519105247-20220519135247-00642.warc.gz | en | 0.958515 | 449 |
This air-conditioned hotel is well suited to business travellers and holidaymakers alike, and is an establishment which has retained the colonial architectural style of the historic city of San Miguel de Allende. The interior of the building is dominated by more than 300 arches in colonial style. On offer are a total of 57 rooms, in addition to a lobby area with a reception desk manned around the clock, a hotel safe, a restaurant, a bar, and events rooms for private or business meetings with a capacity of up to 130 persons. Also available here is room service, on-call medical assistance, a play area, a parking garage, and a transport service.
This family-friendly city hotel is set in a colonial-style mansion dating back to the 18th century. The 21-room establishment is divided into 2 areas; the lower level is home to modern suites, whilst the upper level features colonial-style suites. The 2-storey building welcomes its guests into a lobby with a 24-hour reception, a hotel safe and a cloakroom, whilst on-site facilities include a restaurant, WLAN Internet access and room and laundry services. Guests arriving by car can leave their vehicles in the nearby car park or parking garage.
Set within a tranquil private park surrounded by gardens, waterfalls and flowering trees, this beautiful boutique hotel opened in 1990 and comprises 28 elegant rooms and suites. The colonial architecture is perfectly complemented by the colourful and comfortable furnishings. The hotel has received an AAA 4 Diamond rating, and several guide books have named it ?the best, small, hotel in Mexico' and ?best in the city'. The hotel features bilingual staff, a concierge service and local transportation services to the city centre.
Housed in a building dating back to 1800, this small and elegant city hotel comprises a total of 8 rooms offering extraordinary comfort and privacy, including 1 suite and 5 junior suites. Facilities on offer to guests at this air-conditioned establishment include a lobby area with a 24-hour reception, a bar, a restaurant and WLAN Internet access. Guests can also take advantage of the room and laundry services and there is parking available for those arriving by car. A central part of the d�cor concept is photographs of famous people whose first name is Pablo or Paul, for example Picasso, Neruda, Hogan and Casals.
Constructed in 1997, this peaceful, family-friendly hotel comprises a total of 21 rooms, including 8 suites and 6 junior suites. Facilities on offer to guests include a 24-hour reception and check-out service, a hotel safe, a currency exchange facility and a cloakroom. There is a restaurant and guests will appreciate the Internet access and conference facilities. They can also take advantage of the room and laundry services.
This stylish, air-conditioned hotel comprises a total of 215 rooms spread over 3 floors. Surrounded by 600 m� of gardens, a pleasant foyer awaits guests with a reception desk. Guests are able to relax and enjoy themselves in the cosy bar. Dining options exist in the form of an air-conditioned restaurant. A public Internet terminal, in-house laundry service as well as room service may all be taken advantage of. Guests arriving by car may use the car park or garage.
Built in 2010, this charming, family-friendly city establishment is a luxurious hotel surrounded by the magnificent colonial buildings of San Miguel de Allende. History and elegance emanate from the walls of this hotel, which offers top-class services and is ideal for business travellers and holidaymakers alike. It comprises a total of 67 luxurious rooms, including 16 suites, 40 singles and 5 junior suites. Facilities on offer to guests at this air-conditioned establishment include a lobby area with 24-hour reception and check-out services, a hotel safe, a currency exchange facility and lift access. There is a kids' club for the younger guests, as well as gourmet dining with a restaurant, a lounge-bar on the terrace and a caf�. Guests will appreciate the conference facilities, meeting rooms, business centre and wireless Internet access. There are extensive gardens surrounding the hotel and guests can also take advantage of the 24-hour room service and the laundry service. There is a car park and covered garage parking for those arriving by car.
This hotel creates an elegant and welcoming atmosphere, so that guests are able to fully enjoy their stay. Monuments, structures and architectural details feature on every corner of the building designed to promote guests' comforts. From the guestroom balconies and the outdoor restaurant, visitors are able to enjoy not only the sunlit horizon but also San Miguel's 18th century pseudo-Gothic style parish church ""Parroquia de San Miguel Arc�ngel"". The hotel offers a total of 12 rooms of which 7 are junior suites spread out over 3 floors. Guests are offered a garden, a terrace, a spacious foyer with a 24-hour reception, a hotel safe, a currency exchange desk and a cloakroom. Furthermore, the hotel includes a bar, a caf�, a TV room, a restaurant and WLAN access point. Guests may make use of the room and laundry services and there is a doctor on call. Use of a car park and garage is also available as well as the bicycle cellar.
The hotel is small, allowing the staff to deliver personalized attention and to create an atmosphere of total relaxation. With a total of 10 guest rooms on offer, the hotel features a lobby with 24-hour reception, a bar, restaurant, WLAN Internet access, room service and a car park.
The colonial-style hotel is spread over 2 floors and has 40 rooms of which 4 are junior suites and 1 is a suite. The hotel has an air-conditioned lobby with a 24-hour reception, a safe, a currency exchange desk and a cloakroom. Furthermore, guests are offered a restaurant, a dining room, a conference room as well as Internet access. Laundry services are available as well as medical assistance around the clock. There is also a laundrette as well as a dryer available. Those arriving by car may make use of the car park. For added convenience the hotel offers a babysitting service, room services and an office service with Internet and fax as well as bilingual staff.
Best Western Monteverde Express, located in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, offers comfort and beauty through its authentic 16th century colonial building. The corridors and green gardens of the hotel keep the peace, nostalgia and the history of the past times, creating a beautiful combination between the old Mexico and the ideal resting place, where you will feel at home.
The historical hotel is a mix of colonial buildings from the 16th to 18th century. It has 37 rooms distributed in 5 colonial houses: Fuente, Principal, Caballo, Limon and Palma, additionally Park House is located two blocks from the other houses a few minutes' walk away. Each mansion has between 5 and 7 rooms, and they are all unique, with some having private patios or hidden entries. Guests will feel at home within the colonial atmosphere. The hotel is air-conditioned and guests are welcomed into a lobby with 24-hour reception and 24-hour check-out services. Facilities at the hotel include a hotel safe, currency exchange facilities, a bar and a restaurant. There are conference facilities available to business guests, while WLAN Internet access is also provided and guests can take advantage of both the room and laundry services. Those arriving by car can leave their vehicles in the hotel's car park (fees apply).
Built in 2007 and renovated in 2008, this city hotel comprises a total of 6 rooms and offers an exclusive and relaxing atmosphere. It features interiors decorated in Mexican style using local works of craftsmanship as well as items from other parts of the country. Guests can enjoy the very pleasant garden and further facilities include a TV and reading room with a fireplace, a dining room and a terrace located on the second floor with a wonderful view of the city. There is a lobby area with a 24-hour reception and check-out service, a hotel safe, a currency exchange facility and a cloakroom. Guests can take advantage of the WLAN/Internet access and room and laundry services are available for an additional fee. There is parking (charges apply) on hand.
Renovated in 2011, this 13-room design hotel is decorated in Mexican style. In addition to a lobby area with 24-hour reception service, facilities available to guests include a hotel safe, currency exchange facilities and a cloakroom, as well as a caf�, restaurant and a laundry service (extra fees apply). There is roof terrace with spectacular views of San Miguel de Allende, as well as an area for meals in the main courtyard and comfortable rest areas for reading and relaxation. Guests can leave their bicycles in the hotel cellar and a bike hire service is provided. Younger guests will be entertained at the kids' club.
This small and exclusive hotel features 13 rooms and 3 suites. From the hotel's patio, terraces and balconies, guests can admire the majestic Parish of San Miguel Arcengel, as well as the attractive city of San Miguel de Allende. The establishment is characterised by its decorative art, which combines Mexican, Indian and Moroccan styles. Each space is unique in this hotel, which offers a personalised service and has facilities for guests' exclusive events. On-site facilities at this hotel include a lobby area with 24-hour reception and check-out service, currency exchange facilities and cloakroom, as well as a caf�, bar and breakfast room and WLAN Internet access. For an additional fee, guests can make use of the room service.
Built in 1400, this former historical mansion has been transformed into a first-class city hotel with a magical atmosphere, blending Colonial Spanish, Oriental and Mexican influences. The hotel offers a total of 10 rooms and welcomes guests in a lobby. Facilities include a bar, restaurant, wireless Internet access and a laundry service, and room service is available from the caf� during its hours of operation for all guests. The hotel also has outdoor parking with special rates.
This charming city hotel features colonial architecture which manages to combine luxury and technology with the beautiful natural environment, making it the ideal place for a relaxing stay. This design establishment is ideal for business travellers and holidaymakers like. The hotel comprises a total of 23 rooms including 6 singles, 10 junior suites and 7 suites. Facilities on offer to guests at this air-conditioned establishment include a lobby area with a 24-hour reception and 24-hour check-in/check-out service, a currency exchange facility, a caf�, a breakfast/dining room, conference facilities and WLAN Internet access. Guests may take advantage of the room and laundry services for an additional fee, and there is parking and a garage for those arriving by car. The hotel also has 2 functional rooms for events and a business centre.
This historic hotel is a sanctuary in which guests can enjoy the privileges of a healthy life: rest, relaxation and harmony of body and spirit. It is an idyllic place, designed to satisfy guests' every need and desire. The hotel has a natural environment, is charming and has a refurbished colonial Mexican architectural style and a warm, comfortable atmosphere - everything that an exclusive guest deserves. The 11-room hotel welcomes its guests into a lobby with 24-hour reception and check-out service. There is breakfast service in the central patio or room and bar on site, and WLAN Internet access is available. Room and laundry services are provided for a fee, whilst guests arriving by car can leave their vehicles in the parking lot located half block from the hotel with an extra charge. | <urn:uuid:1b8d07f6-2af2-41ca-a80a-38f4adbe8a58> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.flyin.com/property/mexico/san-miguel-de-allende.en.html | 2017-06-29T14:09:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128329344.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629135715-20170629155715-00645.warc.gz | en | 0.961066 | 2,403 |
Back in the Summer I purchased a ProStalk Wildlife Camera. The camera has built in passive IR detectors and a set of LEDs for night time flash illumination. Although the camera body is weather proof I decided to give it some support as it is quite heavy and some cover to keep the worst of the rain, snow and bird droppings away.
It was after missing shots of a visiting Kingfisher and the first visits by a Grey Heron I decided to have an automatic camera watching over the garden pond. The camera takes four D cells or it can be run from an external 6V battery. Up to now I have been using rechargeable D cells but they only last a few days.
The ProStalk can take still shots or movie clips. The once I tried the movie facility I was very disappointed with the quality so I keep it set for still shots. There are a few choices when setting it up. I have it set to take three photos in succession when it spots any heat source and there is then a one minute rest before it will take any more. This to conserve battery power. Photos and video are stored on an SD memory card.
So far it has spotted very little, sometimes because I forget to change the batteries in time, sometimes because I think it is slow to react. During the icy weather it did manage to capture some Blackbirds and the occasional cat walking on the surface of the frozen pond or the occasional Collared Dove flying past.
Although I have been somewhat disappointed with its performance so far it is still handy to have a camera which will automatically record visiting animals and birds. The next thing I will do is connect it to a rechargeable sealed lead acid 6V battery so that it can keep operating for longer periods without me having to keep an eye on the power levels. The batter will also be constantly trickle charged so it should never run down. The camera has the facility to plug in an external battery so no modifications have to be made.
More information about the camera can be found HERE.
Monk Seals, the Desertas Islands, Madeira
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CREATED: Thursday, April 21, 2016
Collected from around the United States, this compilation of short documentary films explores the lives of children across the country as they experience life, through all
of its ups and downs. From a story of an amazing teacher and the use of music to changes his students’ lives, to a new immigrant family struggling to make it in San Francisco, to a group of young high school girls with a fearless passion for STEM curriculum and robot building. This collection gives students a glimpse into the world of their peers living right in their own backyards and on the other side of the continent, all the while discovering the shared similarities and differences. | <urn:uuid:ab1be705-75c3-4687-b7a8-74e15835cc0e> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | http://filmed.sffs.org/film-ed/lesson-library/a-child-s-perspective-sffs-viewing-guide | 2019-02-18T20:59:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247488374.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20190218200135-20190218222135-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.94735 | 145 |
Many companies take on a differentiation approach to compete within their industry, seeking to stand out from the crowd by delivering a unique product or service. Unfortunately, there are many things that can go wrong during the process. Today, we will be looking at 15 common differentiation strategy mistakes that all businesses can learn from.
Developing and implementing a seamless differentiation strategy can be a challenging task for many businesses. From starting with the wrong approach to targeting your audience ineffectively, it is crucial to ensure that the whole process is carefully planned if you don’t want to have the opposite effect.
Before we jump right into our differentiation strategy mistakes, here are a few articles that you might want to check out as well in order to fully understand this approach:
- 13 Amazing Differentiation Strategy Examples (in 2022)
- 5 Differentiation Strategy Risks To Avoid at All Costs
And now, without further ado, let’s go!
1. Mixing strategies
First on our list of differentiation strategy mistakes that companies often make is trying to mix differentiation strategy with cost leadership. In other words, trying to compete on low costs and optimized internal processes while also looking to stand out from the crowd with a unique or innovative product.
Of course, this isn’t impossible, but it’s very hard to pull off, especially on limited resources. One example I can think of is IKEA, which is on my list of cost leadership examples, but it also managed to differentiate itself with a very unique business approach that hasn’t been replicated in 79 years.
Image source: World Economic Forum
The point is, if you don’t have the resources to mix both approaches or don’t know how you would be doing that, it’s better to stick to one strategy and execute it in the best way possible. Otherwise, you are setting yourself up for failure.
2. Focusing exclusively on innovation
While innovation is amazing and it has been driving our development as humans, don’t think about a differentiation strategy as just offering something innovative.
One of the most common differentiation mistakes that companies make is obsessing with innovation without providing value or offering something that the market really needs. It can be innovative, but it still has to satisfy a certain need, otherwise people will simply not pay for it.
Remember, you want to differentiate yourself, and it doesn’t have to be something that no one has ever done before. You just have to find something that makes you stand out, something that you are doing better than everyone else. For example, it can be an outstanding customer service.
3. Not having a clear target audience
Next on our list of differentiation strategy mistakes is not having a clear target audience, or having one but targeting them ineffectively. You can’t have a product or a service without knowing who are your ideal customers.
In my article Shark Tank Marketing: 7 Important Lessons for Businesses, I talked about an energy drink company called Cougar Limited that was trying to differentiate itself in a non-sustainable way, going completely for the wrong audience.
Their main target was “cougars” – a slang for women in the 40s dating significantly younger man. However, they not only tried to differentiate themselves with a rather offensive product, but also failed in identifying an audience that would actually purchase it.
4. Not meeting expectations
One of the most common differentiation strategy mistakes that companies make is not being able to meet the expectations set by your point of differentiation. For example, promising an outstanding 24/7 customer services in all languages when you don’t have the logistics or employees to comply with that.
When undertaking a differentiation approach, think about what exactly do you need in order to meet it. If you can’t gather the needed resources, think about a less demanding one, or simply tone it down a notch. However, it’s of crucial importance to keep the promises you made to your target audience.
Otherwise, they might end up disappointed and frustrated.
5. Copying the competition
Trying to copy your competition is possibly one of the biggest differentiation strategy mistakes that you can make. Remember, you are trying to differentiate yourself – you can’t do that by doing exactly what everyone else is doing, or what the biggest players are doing.
You have to find your own unique selling proposition.
6. Not doing your research
Next on our list of differentiation strategy mistakes is not doing enough research to understand what the market really needs and demands. One of the most emblematic examples is Coca Cola, who tried to introduce an improved flavor to their Coca Cola although nobody ever asked for it.
The company attempted to tweak the classic recipe by making it sweeter than the classic one, although it wasn’t something that the market ever demanded. Because Coca Cola didn’t do their homework to research before launching modifications, it turned out to be a short-lived failure.
The new flavor only lasted for 77 days after its release in 1985, and the company soon went back to their classic, already successful product.
7. Fixing very high prices
Speaking about common differentiation strategy mistakes, another error that can really hurt your company’s growth is fixing excessively high prices just because you’ve undertaken a differentiation approach.
While a differentiation strategy is typically associated with premium prices, as opposed to cost leadership in which you are competing on lower costs and prices, it doesn’t mean that the sky is the limit when it comes to pricing.
Your prices should still be in accordance to the value you provide, and not be excessively high just because you think you can do whatever you want. It is important to develop a clear strategy and justify the price in the eyes of your customers, making sure that your product provides enough value.
After all, customers won’t be willing to purchase a product, no matter how different it is from the rest, if it doesn’t solve their needs.
8. Miscalculating your profit margins
While the cost leadership approach focuses more on reducing costs as much as possible and optimizing internal process, it doesn’t mean that you should underestimate your costs and profit margins.
When you are trying to differentiate yourself as a company, you might end up having higher costs than a company that’s competing with a cost leadership approach. However, you should still aim to optimize your processes in a way that gets you the highest profit margins possible without sacrificing value or quality.
After all, while your goal is providing value and delivering customer satisfaction, you are a still company that’s in business in order to generate profits.
9. Trying to reach everyone
Our list of common differentiation strategy mistakes continues with a very frequent error – not niching down and trying to reach everyone instead. Whether you are going for cost leadership, differentiation or any other strategy, it’s essential to build your target audience.
One way in which you can niche down is by creating buyer personas that represent your ideal target audience. You can get started with this free tool by Hubspot.
Differentiation strategy mistakes: niching down with buyer personas.
10. Not taking into account possible threats
You might think that you have a very solid differentiation strategy that no company can compete with. However, one of the most common errors that businesses make is underestimating their competitors and their resources to copy or even improve upon your differentiation point.
For this reason, it is very important to identify possible threats that may come not only from your competition but also from other factors such as economical, political, etc.
One great way to tackle this is to perform a SWOT analysis so you can have a very clear understanding of your current situation and what may change in the future.
11. Not being honest with yourself
Our list of differentiation strategies mistakes continues with the lack of honesty – more often that not, companies tend to overestimate themselves and underestimate competitors. Be careful when trying to claim that you have something that nobody else has.
By conducting a SWOT analysis, you will not only identify opportunities and threats, but you will also take a better look at yourself and your strengths and weaknesses. Once you’ve done this exercise, you will be able to have a more clear and honest perspective of your company and your differentiation strategy.
12. Relying too much on Marketing
Just like exercise can’t outrun a bad diet, good Marketing can’t outrun a bad product or business model. Before going all in with your Marketing strategy, make sure that you have a good product and a solid differentiation point first. And then, you can focus on promoting them.
However, not caring too much about your product or whether you are really able to differentiate yourself the correct way is one of the most common differentiation strategy mistakes that companies make.
13. Not creating a personality for your business
A good differentiation strategy doesn’t end up with a unique aspect of your product, service or business. It is also important to build your company’s personality. This way, even your competitors replicate your product or service, you will be able to stand out nonetheless because people love your business for what it is as a whole.
One great example that I can think of is Mailchimp – while there are many Email Marketing automation tools on the market, there is something fresh, unique and user-friendly about them that is able to maintain your attention.
Differentiation strategy mistakes: not having a personality for your business. Mailchimp example
14. Not having a clear Marketing message
Next on our list of differentiation strategy mistakes is not having a clear Marketing message. You might have found the perfect differentiation point that makes your business stand out from the rest – but are you able to explain this to your customers?
You should be able to clearly explain what is it that differentiates you, what unique value you provide compared to your competitors, and how all of this benefits your customers.
If you are not able to do this, even if you have the best differentiation strategy, potential customers might not understand it and appreciate it.
15. Getting too influenced by trends
And last but not least, we have another one of the most common differentiation strategy mistakes – jumping on current trends and following the hype without having a clear strategy, vision, and comprehensive research to determine if this will continue in the long-term.
A lot of trends go away as quickly as they came – be careful when jumping on them only to take advantage of their temporary boom. It’s important to think long-term and build a sustainable differentiation strategy.
And that was all from me for today! As always, thank you for reading my article on the most common differentiation mistakes that companies make, and I hope to see you in the next one! If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to let me know in the comments below.
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What? Did you try other holes?:P
noooooo, I haven't tried any fyi, but just wondering, how would you know what the right hole is? or are you supposed to stick with your hand?! ;) rofl!
Hang around what you think is the right one long enough and you'll know. At least that's what they say.:D
lol, sounds good to me! :D
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When Chinese nationals move money overseas, they often do it the way drug traffickers or terrorists do: They break down cash into small amounts below what would trigger official scrutiny.
In Vancouver, North America’s most expensive city, rich Chinese take the blame for skyrocketing home prices
Housing affordability is a big issue in Vancouver, where detached homes go for an average $2.23 million and where residents blame wealthy Chinese immigrants and investors for the run-up in prices. Read on
Moving money in small increments to avoid reporting requirements is called “smurfing,” after the little blue cartoon characters who as small individuals constitute a larger whole. A record US$194 billion exited China in September, according to a Bloomberg gauge estimating capital flows. The Chinese use numerous tactics to transfer money abroad, and smurfing is routine, with some of the cash flowing into overheated property markets in Vancouver, Hong Kong, New York and Sydney.
Now, as Chinese citizens bypass the country’s limit of converting US$50,000 a person per year by enlisting friends, relatives and even employees to send out cash on their behalf, banks and regulators around the world are being forced to decide: Is it okay to knowingly allow Chinese citizens to evade their government’s controls if it doesn’t break your own country’s laws?
In Vancouver, a Supreme Court case showed that one lender, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, had assisted such transactions. The case arose when a CIBC financial adviser allowed a wealthy Chinese client to route two deposits of US$50,000 through her private accounts to buy a home, leading to the dismissal of the banker for “commingling” her own funds with her client’s.
“With the corruption crackdown and the recent financial markets meltdown, more Chinese than ever are looking to move their wealth — some legitimately earned and some not — to safe havens outside of China,” said Bill Majcher, a Hong Kong-based former financial crimes investigator for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. “Chinese capital is simply too large to ignore, so the banks will do all they can to capture this growing business, regardless of the risk it brings.”
China’s rules are being ‘made a mockery’ of. I wouldn’t do it if I ran the banks
Chinese buyers for the first time ranked as the biggest foreign purchasers of U.S. homes in the year through March, laying out US$28.6 billion. In Sydney, Chinese buy almost a quarter of the supply of new homes, and are forecast to double their purchases to A$60 billion (US$43 billion) by 2020. In Vancouver, home prices have doubled since 2005, and owning a home can cost as much as 91 per cent of household income.
The Canadian court judgment last year in the fired banker’s wrongful dismissal case described the practice of bypassing China’s controls as challenging, complicated — and something that CIBC “supported.”
“If, for example, a CIBC client wanted to send US$150,000 from China to Canada, the money had to come from three accounts belonging to three different account holders in China and be transferred to three separate accounts belonging to three separate account holders in Canada,” the ruling said. “As long as all the appropriate accounts were set up, the money could be moved.”
In April this year, British Columbia’s Court of Appeal overturned the lower court’s ruling in the banker’s favor and ordered a new trial.
Asked about such transfers, CIBC said that it makes money-laundering checks, flags suspicious dealings to regulators and ensures that these “very infrequent” transactions comply with Canadian law. CIBC isn’t legally responsible for ensuring that money transfers comply with Chinese law, a duty that falls on institutions in China, spokesman Kevin Dove said by e-mail.
Global banks have run afoul of regulators in recent years for failing to do enough to counter money laundering, one of the risks that arises from smurfing. As part of a US$1.9 billion settlement in 2012, HSBC admitted to failing to maintain effective anti-money-laundering programs in both the U.S. and Mexico, and in June of this year the bank said it had agreed to a fine to close an investigation into allegations of money laundering at its Swiss private-banking unit.
“We expect our customers to be in full compliance with all relevant laws and regulations including those related to Chinese currency controls,” Sharon Wilks, a spokeswoman for HSBC’s Canada business, said by e-mail.
China has been tightening up on channels for outflows, capping withdrawals at overseas automated teller machines and telling banks to watch out for “ants moving their house,” the term used in Chinese. In September, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said lenders can refuse to process frequent withdrawals or transfers in which five or more people send money to the same overseas account.
In Hong Kong, banks have stepped up efforts to report suspicious transactions and cut the risk of financial crime, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority said in response to questions. Banks accounted for 83 per cent of such reports to the Joint Financial Intelligence Unit last year, the police-customs agency that helps investigate money laundering, the HKMA said.
Asked whether financial institutions are allowed to knowingly help Chinese citizens evade their home country’s capital controls, government agencies in Canada and Australia cited requirements including verifying customers’ identities and reporting suspicious transactions. A spokesman for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, an agency of the U.S. Treasury Department, said that banks are required to “conduct enhanced due diligence on foreign correspondent accounts.”
Last year, smurfing surfaced again when Beijing police busted underground banks for US$23 billion of alleged transactions, including illegal transfers of money abroad. In one case, a man had moved more than US$5 million overseas in a year by breaking up the amount and using different bank accounts that had been borrowed, rented or purchased, according to the police statement.
Penalties for violating the US$50,000 annual cap are tiny: 30,000 yuan (US$4,700) for banks and 1,000 yuan for individuals, according to a SAFE rule issued in 2007. SAFE didn’t respond to a faxed request for comment on the rules and their enforcement.
The pooling of US$50,000 quotas is routine. Jenny Cai, a Shanghai resident, said she used her family members to help her buy a A$1.2 million apartment in downtown Sydney by grouping her own allocation along with those of her husband and daughter. Her property agent told her the arrangement is commonly used, she said, although her family members needed to falsely state that the cash was to be used for tuition fees.
Elsewhere in China, examples include a company that ordered employees to use their accounts to wire money to Canada for private property purchases, according to Christine Duhaime, a Canadian lawyer specializing in financial crime.
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Hello guys! I am using Nikon D850 Digital SLR Camera for capturing high quality pictures. Yesterday, when I tried to connect my PC with the camera to transfer the files then I found that the folder was blank. I didn't know how the saved pictures got erased. There were lots of photos and videos which I don't want to lose. I am trying hard to get back lost pictures manually but ended up with failure. Will you please help me to restore permanently deleted photos of Nikon D850 Digital SLR Camera? All the suggestions will be strongly appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance.
Nikon D850 Digital SLR Camera is one of the advanced digital camera which comes with 45.7MP of extra ordinary resolution. It has been designed by using BSI (Back Side Illuminated) full frame image sensor with no optical low pass filter. With the help of its outstanding dynamic range and virtuality, you will be able to super fine images. It allows the users to make use of its 9 fps1continuous shooting at full resolution with full AF performance. You can use its tilting touchscreen to see the preview of the captured files. Additionally, it comes with various features such as focus shift shooting mode, outstanding battery performance and various advanced features. It is available in Black color with elegant design. Moreover, you will be able to record 4K ultra HD videos in slow motion up to 120fps at 1080p. This camera is available at affordable price.
Photo loss is possible at anytime due to silly mistakes of the users. Some of the common reason for corruption or deletion of pictures has been mentioned below:-
Virus Infection: If you will connect your digital camera with the infected PC then it is possible that lots of malicious threats will enter in your camera and corrupt all the saved files.
Formatting of SD Card: Many times, user fails to add or delete any file from the SD card. In such a situation, users need to format the card. If you will proceed without saving backup then you will lose all the data.
Interruption during File Transfer Process: If you will transfer the photos of the camera to the PC and suddenly the process got interrupted then it will cause damage of the saved files.
Abrupt Termination of Camera: If you will use the digital camera without charging the battery then it will get terminated abruptly. It can also results to the damage of the saved files.
Water Damage: if your digital camera comes in the contact with water then it is possible that all the files will be damaged and become inaccessible.
The worst situation after the corruption of photos are error message which is completely annoying. The common warning alerts has been mentioned below:-
An unknown error occurred while opening the file.
Select file does not exists in the memory.
Do you want to format the memory card?
Unsupported file format.
You are not authorized to perform this activity.
Read/Write operation failed.
Unable to complete the operation. Please try again later.
You need to know that once any file gets erased from the SD card of Nikon D850 Digital SLR Camera then it gets transferred to a hidden location which you can't view manually. But it is possible to get back such data if you will take immediate precaution after the file loss situation. Some of the common points has been mentioned below;-
Do not overwrite the space of deleted file with another data.
Try to avoid using the SD card for sometime.
Don't use the digital camera until the recovery process.
No need to worry if you have lost your important photos and videos of Nikon D850 Digital SLR Camera accidentally. In order to retrieve them easily, you need to make use of Nikon Photo Recovery Software. It is one of the advanced tool which has been designed by the technical experts by using high level mechanisms and algorithms. It is capable to perform deep scanning in the system to restore the permanently deleted and repair the corrupted files quickly. The best part of the software is that it will never compromise with the files quality and restore them in their actual format. It comes with user-friendly interface which can be easily handled by the professionals as well as novice users. It is compatible with different versions of Windows and Mac operating system. So, we recommend you to download the trial version of the software if you really want to get back your deleted pictures in effective way.
Nobody wants to face photo loss situation but it is possible at anytime. So, experts suggest you to take prevention while using the digital camera. It will definitely help you to avoid photo loss sin future. So, try to follow the given precautions which are mentioned below:-
Always charge the battery of your camera to avoid abrupt termination.
Do not connect your digital camera with the infected PC.
Always create the backup copy of your files at different locations.
Avoid ejecting the SD card by pulling it out unsafely.
Protect your SD card from water damage.
Be careful while removing unwanted files from the camera.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by: Herndon, Chief Judge
Plaintiff, an inmate at the Hill Correctional Center (HCC), brings this action for deprivations of his constitutional rights pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff seeks damagesfor an alleged violation of his Eighth Amendment rights for an incident that occurred while he was confined at the Pinckneyville Correctional Center (PCC). This case is now before the Court for a preliminary review of the complaint pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915A, which provides:
(a) Screening.-- The court shall review, before docketing, if feasible or, in any event, as soon as practicable after docketing, a complaint in a civil action in which a prisoner seeks redress from a governmental entity or officer or employee of a governmental entity.
(b) Grounds for Dismissal.-- On review, the court shall identify cognizable claims or dismiss the complaint, or any portion of the complaint, if the complaint--
(1) is frivolous, malicious, or fails to state a claim on which relief may be granted; or
(2) seeks monetary relief from a defendant who is immune from such relief.
28 U.S.C. § 1915A. An action or claim is frivolous if "it lacks an arguable basis either in law or in fact." Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319, 325 (1989). An action fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted if it does not plead "enough facts to state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face." Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 127 S.Ct. 1955, 1974 (2007). Upon careful review of the complaint and the supporting exhibits, the Court finds that no claim in the original complaint may dismissed at this point in the litigation.
Liberally construing the complaint and attached exhibit, Plaintiff contends that he got into a verbal confrontation with corrections officers about being placed in handcuffs. Plaintiff states that Defendant Williams, with the assistance of Defendants Holmona and Trace, hit him and slammed the back of his head. Plaintiff says the he was rendered unconscious and that he suffered a "busted . . .eye [and] nose" from this use of force. Plaintiff claims that the Defendants used excessive force against him violation of his Eighth Amendment rights.
The intentional use of excessive force by prison guards against an inmate without penological justification constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment and is actionable under Section 1983. Hudson v. McMillian, 503 U.S. 1, 6-7 (1992); DeWalt v. Carter, 224 F.3d 607, 619 (7th Cir. 2000). "[W]henever prison officials stand accused of using excessive physical force in violation of the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause, the core judicial inquiry is . . . whether force was applied in a good-faith effort to maintain or restore discipline, or maliciously and sadistically to cause harm." Hudson, 503 U.S. at 6-7. An inmate seeking damages for the use of excessive force need not establish serious bodily injury to make a claim, but not "every malevolent touch by a prison guard gives rise to a federal cause of action. . . . [the] prohibition of 'cruel and unusual' punishment necessarily excludes from constitutional recognition de minimis uses of physical force, provided that the use of force is not of a sort 'repugnant to the conscience of mankind.'" Id. at 9-10; see also Outlaw v. Newkirk, 259 F.3d 833, 837-38 (7th Cir. 2001).
Applying these principles to the alleged facts, Plaintiff's complaint survives review under § 1915A and should not be dismissed at this time.
Also before the Court is Plaintiff's motion for appointment of counsel (Doc. 3). There is no absolute right to appointment of counsel in a civil case. Cook v. Bounds, 518 F.2d 779 (4th Cir. 1975); Peterson v. Nadler, 452 F.2d 754 (8th Cir. 1971). When presented with a request to appoint counsel, the Court must make the following inquiries: "(1) has the ... plaintiff made a reasonable attempt to obtain counsel or effectively been precluded from doing so and (2) given the difficulty of the case, does the plaintiff appear competent to litigate it himself." Pruitt v. Mote, 503 F.3d647, 854-55 (7th Cir. 2007). With regard to the first step of the inquiry, there is no indication at all whether Plaintiff has ... | <urn:uuid:12fa156a-7898-4ba5-af9a-20a124c0d75d> | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | http://il.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.20081016_0001199.SIL.htm/qx | 2017-02-26T12:46:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501172000.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104612-00077-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920621 | 977 |
Article written by Femi Aderemi, read below:
It is often said that Nigerians are resilient and can ‘suffer and smile’ their way through any situation, however tough. Maybe so. But as Nigeria gradually slides into full-scale economic recession, frowns are beginning to outnumber smiles and many fearthe future looks bleak.
Recently, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) painted a gloomy picture when it forecast that the Nigerian economy was likely to contract by 1.8 percent this year. Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefelie’s prognosis was no less dire. He disclosed that Nigeria was experiencing economic stagflation, which is a euphemistic way of admitting the economy is experiencing little or no growth, resulting in high rates of unemployment, inflation and a decline in Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Already, the prices of foodstuff, transportation, shelter and other basic necessities are at an all-time high. No one needs to be reminded that massive unemployment only means an increase in social vices. After all, Nigerians have their hands full struggling to make ends meet amidst one of the toughest economic downturns they have ever experienced. In situations like this, Nigerians are quick to trade blames rather than see the big picture. Some groups and individuals are already blaming the parlous economy on the Federal Government’s implementation of the Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy. I beg to differ. It is ironic how a policy that eliminates the diversion of public funds by stipulating that all revenue receipts and payments conducted by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) be deposited into a Consolidated Revenue Account (CRA) can actually have negative implications for the economy. Rather, we should blame previous administrations for not implementing such a policy sooner, leaving much room for corruption which well-nigh left the treasury empty during the inception of this administration. It is also questionable to blame banks’ liquidity problems on the adoption of the TSA policy. After all, we want a banking system that is strong enough to power the economy and keep our investments safe. So there is absolutely no justification for Diamond Bank to lay off 200 staff, Ecobank 1,040 and FBN Holdings a projected 1000 just because the new policy stipulates that Deposit Money Banks (DMB) remit the revenue they receive from MDAs to the CRA at the close of every banking day. A strong banking system cannot be built on profit generated from cash deposits left stagnant while the government is starved of funds meant for capital and other projects.
What this dire situation calls for is that Nigeria urgently diversify its economy away from crude oil. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is the veritable tool for economic growth that many other forward-looking nations of the world have adopted. According to statistics, India raked in a whopping $75 billion from its software exports between 2014 and 2015, and is continuously registering double-digit annual growth in the process.
At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Kigali earlier this year, South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa reportedly assured potential investors of positive returns on their investments in South Africa’s infrastructure and ICT sectors. He emphasised that such innovative partnerships could help bridge the financing gaps for economic and social infrastructure. Nigeria cannot afford to lag behind if we must move forward.
Ours is a country that boasts several homegrown ICT companies and initiatives that show much promise and can be encouraged. For the record, Glohas beat the odds to become a powerhouse in telecoms; whilePaga and eTranzactare two ePayment systems that have made a difference on the Nigerian economic landscape. More crucially, the revolutionary TSA policy adopted by the Federal Government was invented and continues to be powered by indigenous software giant SystemSpecs, using its software Remita.
According to recent reports, the software has already saved the government up to N3 trillion in the first quarter of 2016 alone and has the potential to do more. Recently, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed admitted that the judicious management of the TSA has helped advance the President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s fight against corruption and saved Nigeria from imminent collapse.
He maintained that this administration had managed scarce resources prudently, thanks to TSA, the anti-corruption fight and elimination of ghost workers. All of this can only be good for brand Nigeria as a reference point for something other than corruption and terrorism.
So rather than throw the baby away with the bathwater, we must begin to appreciate the positive changes in our payment landscape. If change is to happen, sacrifices must be made urgently and that includes economic diversification in favour of ICT.
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You can get very creative with this type of bead; with your color choices and roving’s. I have made these wet felt beads and the tighter you roll them and the more colors you use the more exciting your beat is. A staff writer for “craft foxes” posted this helpful pictorial tutorial for us to follow and create some gorgeous beads. It is similar to using polymer clay which is called caning. With the wool roving beads you get a much softer bead to use when making jewelry or decorating a felted piece. This bead design is excellent, very versatile and extremely pretty. They give you a list of all the supplies you will need this to create your beads. Sign up for their newsletter and get their latest projects. Thanks “craft foxes” for sharing this lovely tutorial. | <urn:uuid:cdbc9eb0-a034-4f2a-8cc6-449c70cc2fcf> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://felting.craftgossip.com/2013/08/25/wet-felted-beads-pictorial-tutorial/ | 2014-10-02T00:20:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1412037663612.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20140930004103-00214-ip-10-234-18-248.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957753 | 168 |
You know those times when you get home after a long day feeling hangry (hungry/angry) and raid your pantry for whatever is closest/fastest? This 5 Minute Tuna & Vegetables has often saved me from a dinner of chocolate. As much as I would’ve enjoyed a dinner of chocolate, at the risk of sounding like my parents it’s probably better to save the chocolate for after you’ve eaten your protein and vegetables.
You can adapt this recipe to suit whatever you have on hand. The key for me is to make it with frozen vegetables (or leftover vegetables) that just need to be heated up. If peeling or chopping is required, too late. I would’ve inhaled the chocolate.
I always keep frozen organic spinach and peas in my freezer, along with small portions of frozen mashed sweet potato. I’ve written about how I roast and freeze sweet potato here. That way I always have some vegetables ready for a quick meal like this.
5 Minute Tuna & Vegetables
- Large handful of frozen chopped spinach
- Large handful of frozen peas
- 1/2 cup frozen mashed sweet potato
- 1 can of tuna in spring water or olive oil
- Knob of organic butter (or olive oil)
- Sea salt
- Black pepper
- Fresh herbs and pumpkin seeds to serve (optional)
- Heat the butter (or olive oil) in a frypan over a medium heat. Tip the frozen vegetables into the pan, adding a good pinch of sea salt and some cracked black pepper.
- Cook the vegetables until defrosted and warmed through. Drain the can of tuna and tip the tuna into the pan. Stir everything together.
- Tip into a bowl to serve and top with fresh herbs and pumpkin seeds if desired.
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LivingSocial Using Adware to Pass Groupon?
ADOTAS – As the media was lost in the hoopla surrounding the launch of Google Offers, fraud hound and former Adotas publisher Pace Lattin discovered via Alexa that discount site LivingSocial actually jumped in front of chief rival Groupon this month in terms of daily traffic.
In particular, there was a huge spike as LivingSocial offered a $20 Amazon discount card for half price. LivingSocial has been getting a lot attention since a $175 million cash injection by Amazon.
But Lattin did a little more digging and was surprised to find that 7% of LivingSocial’s traffic came from… Groupon? Its biggest competitor? OK, that’s a little weird, but maybe thrifty consumers were jumping from one discount site to the next, looking for the best deal of the day. However, Lattin smells the use of adware:
“I confirmed with several affiliate networks that run [LivingSocial CPA campaigns] and they told me that some of their biggest affiliates indeed are using contextual adware to promote LivingSocial, including TrafficVance, an opt-in adware system. Whether or not you agree with adware, is one question –- but the legality of popping a competitive site has been found in the courts to be an issue.”
Oooh, do we have a brewing legal showdown between Goliath (Groupon) and David (LivingSocial)? Stay tuned…
I check http://grouponbot.com more often then I check groupon now.
LivingSocial is certainly gaining more fame, especially after their last deal involving half off Amazon gift cards. It isn’t surprising to see them growing like Groupon.
If you are a consumer looking to save, try http://www.dailydealpool.com. They’ll send you a daily email with the best local discounts, ensuring you won’t miss out on a great deal in your area.
Great find. Knowing the tech culture of Living Social I don’t find it suprising they are using Adware. While it’s still a “grey” area LS tends to take a no-holds barred approach to this space.
However, I don’t consider Living Social vs Groupon a “David vs Goliath” matchup, its more like Goliath vs Goliath. TroopZilla vs. Groupon in their own backyard, is much more of your classic “David vs Goliath” matchup..
As a LIVINGSOCIAL employee…I totally agree with @TroopZilla for getting the tech culture right. We have incredibly intelligent “techies” who solve problems and streamline operations that thrives a sales force. I am proud of our accomplishments in the last year and yes @TroopZilla, it would be a Goliath vs. Goliath. LS just passed Groupon in web traffic and its latest $200M investment from Amazon, LS is now valued at over a billion dollars. Lastly, our company is very ethical and I feel an intentional sensitivity to ethics and values here. I sincerely believe the potential LivingSocial posses has been underestimated. We are going to surprise lots of people, stay tuned…
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Views from the Grandstands
Letter to Santa
Dear Santa, since your big day is just around the corner, I’m sure you’ve already received wish lists from drivers, team owners and even a few league head honchos.
But before you shift your Sleigh of Tomorrow into gear and take the green on Dec. 24, I want to make sure your list is complete. Here are a few suggested gifts for those in the racing world and, of course, us fans.
Chip Ganassi There’s only one thing Chip needs: a time machine so he can relive 2010. Not only did his IndyCar driver Dario Franchitti win the Indy 500, the Scotsman also dramatically claimed that series’ championship in the last race of the year. Ganassi’s GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series team captured that league’s title. And while Ganassi Racing didn’t win NASCAR’s Sprint Cup, Chip’s driver Jamie McMurray took home Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400 trophies. Ganassi’s cross-series success made him the first owner to win both NASCAR’s and IndyCar’s premier events in the same year. And that, Santa, is a year all of us would want to have over and over.
Darrell Waltrip The Kentucky Speedway is on the Sprint Cup 2011 schedule. Good for Bluegrass State race fans. But please, Santa, bring Jaws the good sense not to climb behind a wheel for the inaugural Cup race at his home-state track.
Race for the Cup NASCAR’s championship geniuses definitely need the same calculator IndyCar and F1 use. Those open-wheel series have managed to have down-to-the wire finishes for the last several seasons without a manufactured playoff system. Their secret: A more finely-tuned points system that allows every race, not just the last 10 of the year, to count toward the crown.
Jack Roush Please bring the Cat in the Hat a private pilot. I know Jack enjoys being in the cockpit, but this summer he suffered his second life-threatening plane crash. It’s definitely time for Jack to turn the air controls over to someone else.
Danica Patrick Santa, bring Danica a realistic racing perspective. Her mediocre-at-best foray into NASCAR is the expected result of splitting rides between two series. It’s time for Patrick to choose, and that choice should be IndyCar. True, Patrick didn’t exactly set the open-wheel world on fire in 2010, but stats prove she was one of IndyCar’s most consistent performers all season, even driving for an Andretti Autosport team that couldn’t keep pace with the Penske and Ganassi cars. St. Nick, help Danica realize, like NASCAR dabbler Dario Franchitti before her, that the grass isn’t always greener on the NASCAR side of the fence.
ESPN and NASCAR Most of the time, I enjoy ESPN’s coverage of Nationwide races, but the cable television network and NASCAR have some serious problems when racing and college football seasons overlap. When football games run long, the Nationwide races get bumped, at least temporarily, to one of ESPN’s other channels (usually ESPN Classic) that many fans don’t get on their cable systems. Santa, help these guys come up with a way — later race start times, perhaps? — so the most fans can see the green flag drop.
Jimmie Johnson As I write this, there are still a few NASCAR races to be run, but I suspect this year’s finish will be the same as the last four. So, Santa, that means JJ needs a new trophy case.
Sponsorships Economists tell us that things were picking up in 2010, but you couldn’t prove it by looking at the NASCAR sponsorship situation. Tony Stewart, a three-time Cup champ, had to hustle to get a brand on his No. 14 car. And as I type, four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon is still looking for a major sponsor for his No. 24 Chevy. Santa, have you ever thought about getting some non-yuletide exposure? A nice decal of your workshop would look nice on a NASCAR hood.
Race-day concerts I understand NASCAR is about entertainment as much as it is about motorsports, but Santa, please bring America’s top racing league the ability to spotlight the cars. Pre-race concerts need to become post-race concerts, beginning after the victory lane celebration ends. That would allow fans who want to hang around the track for tunes to do so, reducing traffic that the exiting fans face. Or even better, St. Nick, instead of concerts bring us post-race smackdowns, where drivers who have issues with each other can settle them in a public forum. NASCAR said it wanted boys to be boys and to handle things themselves. This should make everyone — NASCAR, drivers and fans — happy!
Well, Santa, that’s it for Christmas 2010. Have a safe journey as you race around the globe. Keep an eye out for any debris along the route. We’ll have cookies and milk waiting for you.
Kay Bell is an Austin, Texas-based writer. When she’s not yelling at her television during NASCAR races, she blogs about taxes and other financial topics at www.dontmesswithtaxes.typepad.com.
IndyCar ratings up While NASCAR has been bemoaning its television ratings the last few years, IndyCar says its second season on Versus was up 16.2 percent in 2010 over the cable sports network’s 2009 ratings. Even better news for the series is that its race ratings are up nearly 40 percent in the coveted 18-to-34 male demographic. OK, so the raw numbers are anemic; IndyCar races on Versus this year averaged 366,000 viewers for 12 telecasts. And the open-wheel series’ TV numbers are still well below where they were when IndyCar ran on ESPN. But ESPN’s parent, Disney/ABC, offered some better news for IndyCar. The broadcast network televised four IndyCar events, including the Indianapolis 500, and averaged 2.696 million viewers. Ratings for those four ABC races were up 2.3 percent from the 2.636 million viewers who tuned in for the 2009 races.
Europe’s F1 tracks face global competition The world’s most popular racing series, Formula 1, swears it will race in my hometown of Austin, Texas, in 2012. I’ll believe it when I hear the engines start. F1’s commercial manager Bernie Ecclestone has always taken his title to heart; if a venue isn’t commercially viable, he moves the race. And while Austin might indeed see some races, if they don’t produce the kind of money Ecclestone likes, he’ll find a track that will. Ecclestone confirmed that approach in a recent interview with Britain’s The Guardian newspaper, where he acknowledged that the future of historic F1 venues like Silverstone, England, and Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium, remain uncertain amid the ongoing surge of new venues and a simultaneous push by teams to cap the schedule at 20 races. Ecclestone said the Belgian Grand Prix in particular was “absolutely” threatened by new venues with big bucks behind them. “If it wasn’t supported by the government over there, it probably would go because they wouldn’t be able to afford it,” he said of Spa. “It’s the same with the British Grand Prix.”
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GDC doesn’t usually hold many amazing game announcements to keep gamers interested, but for developers it’s like Christmas. This year looks to be no different, as the developers behind two of 2009’s best games will be attending. First up is Naughty Dog, the devs behind the critically acclaimed Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. They’ll be giving at least five talks on their game, including director Bruce Straley and co-lead designer Neil Druckmann on how they managed to integrate story telling with gameplay.
Double Fine are the other devs giving talks on their Brütal Legend. Lead platform Programmer Peter Demoreuille, Lead Platform Programmer and technical/VFX artist Drew Skillman will all be on-hand to talk about the most interesting part of the game, its visual design.
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A while back our friend Ivan Jimenez from Barcelona hit us up to tell us that he was about to release some caps for his newly opened Skulls store in Barcelona. Well, the time has come and we could check out the caps in person. Produced in the USA by Quintin, you can be sure that the quality is there. Colorful and psychedelic fabrics have been used in the series and to be honest we find it refreshing compared to the simplicity that is being pushed by most others out there. It is summer, so you can certainly wear something a little more out there, especially when it is just an accessory.
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Teacher Accused of Having Sex With Students Posts Bail
CORONA, Calif. (KTLA) — A high school teacher in Corona was out on bail Friday after being arrested for allegedly having sex with several underage students while on school grounds, police said.
Summer Michelle Hansen, 31, of Corona, was arrested following an investigation that began June 18, according to a news release from the Corona Police Department.
The married mother of three teaches special education at Centennial High School.
Police were notified by the Corona Norco Unified School District of a possible inappropriate relationship between Hansen and a now-former student.
Investigators discovered that there were several possible victims under the age of 18 who allegedly had sexual contact with Hansen while on campus, police said.
She was arrested on suspicion of multiple counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor and oral copulation of a minor, Corona police Sgt. Brent Nelson said.
The district has placed the teacher on leave, according to CNUSD Superintendent Tom Pike.
“All teachers undergo a thorough background check prior to employment, including clearance from the FBI and Department of Justice,” Pike said.
Parents who were attending after-school activities on Thursday had strong reactions to the news of Summers’ arrest.
“It surprises me that any 31-year-old adult, married woman is having sex with a child, teacher or otherwise,” said parent Angela Thompson.
“Give her fair chance to defend herself, and if that is the case it’s gonna be a shame,” another parent, Khoi Pham, said.
The investigation was ongoing, police said. Investigators were looking into the possibility that there may have been additional victims.
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Way back in April, I mentioned that I had begun reading The Chronicles of Narnia during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was a great choice for several reasons. The familiar stories provided comfort in a time of anxiety, the imaginative world of Narnia provided helpful distraction from reality, and the series’s central focus on Aslan helped to re-orient me from fear to trust.
As I read through the books, I enjoyed them so much that I decided to write about them. I had actually wanted to do so for years, and I thought it would be a lot of fun to rank the different books and write a post or two to summarize my thoughts.
It turned into a much larger project than I first intended.
The first post was about 1,500 words, but each subsequent post grew longer and longer, like the books in the Harry Potter series. The post reviewing The Last Battle was over 4,000 words long, and the entire series is some 22,000 words. The posts got longer because I began to focus more on details of the books, and especially on the theology presented in each one. That also meant that to took me much longer to write the different posts: while there was a gap of about a week between Part 1 and Part 2, Part 7 came about six weeks after Part 6 (which was ridiculous).
Summarizing all of those posts, my rankings basically break the Narnia books down into three tiers:
For my money, LWW, VDT, and HHB represent the top three Narnia books, in that order. But, they are so close that I have a hard time being dogmatic about that. The next time I read through the series, they could easily shuffle places.
LWW is so good, and has no real weaknesses; it had the highest or tied-for-highest sub-score in three of the four rubric categories (Story, Characters, Theology). VDT didn’t peak as highly, but similarly had no weaknesses. HHB was the best book in the series for the first three categories (Story, Characters, Worldcraft), but was a notch below in Theology, which moved it from first to third.
LB is really good as well. It doesn’t have any real weak points, but its highs are not quite as high as the top tier, and the lows are a little lower. I would disagree with anyone who argued that it is the best book of the series, but still, it represents a fitting and satisfying end to the Narnia chronicles.
Good But Flawed
According to my rubric, PC and SC scored very similarly, with only a half-point separating the two. Both books have good elements, but are also flawed. The stories are somewhat slow, the theology is not as good as several of the other books, and neither book is truly excellent in any category.
But again, these books suffer from being compared unfavorably to some truly brilliant books; they are still worth reading.
The Unnecessary Prequel
There’s no way around it: I am not a big fan of MN. The story really drags, the characters aren’t very compelling, and even though the creation account prompts some good theological reflection, overall, this book is a big step below all others in the series.
It’s not a terrible book, but as I said in the review for MN:
“It is a classic prequel in the negative sense: you care about the story because you are already invested in the world in which it exists; if you actually read the prequel first, you wouldn’t understand what was so great about the series and may not even be inclined to continue.”
Thankfully, Lewis didn’t write this one first.
This concludes our Ranking Narnia series; I hope you have enjoyed it! Although I had not originally planned to review the books at this level, this series turned out to be a lot of fun to write, and the theological reflection it prompted for me was meaningful and encouraging.
These reviews have helped me develop an even deeper fondness for the Narnia series; I expect that I will be reading them again!
Check out the full series of posts:
- Ranking Narnia, Part 1: The Magician’s Nephew
- Ranking Narnia, Part 2: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Ranking Narnia, Part 3: The Horse and His Boy
- Ranking Narnia, Part 4: Prince Caspian
- Ranking Narnia, Part 5: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- Ranking Narnia, Part 6: The Silver Chair
- Ranking Narnia, Part 7: The Last Battle
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Geological and Geotechnical Engineering in the New Millennium: Opportunities for Research and Technological Innovation (2006)
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Summary of Treachery in Death by J.D. Robb:
Detective Eve Dallas and her partner, Peabody, are following up on a senseless crime-an elderly grocery owner killed by three stoned punks for nothing more than kicks and snacks. This is Peabody’s first case as primary detective-good thing she learned from the master.
But Peabody soon stumbles upon a trickier situation. After a hard workout, she’s all alone in the locker room when the gym door clatters open; and-while hiding inside a shower stall trying not to make a sound-she overhears two fellow officers, Garnet and Oberman, arguing. It doesn’t take long to realize they’re both crooked-guilty not just of corruption but of murder. Now Peabody, Eve, and Eve’s husband, Roarke, are trying to get the hard evidence they need to bring the dirty cops down-knowing all the while that the two are willing to kill to keep their secret. (via Goodreads)
My Review of Treachery in Death by J.D. Robb:
I’ve already talked about Treachery in Death a couple of times on the blog because I absolutely love this series. I think it is pretty incredible that the series has over 30 books and just keeps getting better. I have read every book published so far and have yet not to enjoy one…but this one, by far, is my favorite.
I always look forward to the Eve & Roarke parts. I never skip over parts involving the main plot – but it is the MC interaction that I look forward to. The murder mysteries/suspense is always interesting – but very rarely equals the romance (exceptions that come to mind are Conspiracy in Death, Divided in Death & Creation In Death). In this case, the mystery/suspense eclipsed it. For once, I was actually impatient through the Eve/Roarke sections because I wanted to get back to the main action!
Peabody accidentally becomes witness to corruption in Cop Central, and she and Eve are primed and ready to take them down. One of my favorite parts of Treachery in Death was getting to see Eve as a Lieutenant. She always has been, but normally we just see her detective side. This time, for reasons related to the plot, we see her authority as an LT and I absolutely adored every second of it. I also always love seeing Eve interact with authority (Tibble and Whitney). I love the relationship she has with her boss, and we get quite a bit of it in this book.
Seeing the way Eve and her task force systematically destroy the wrong cops is one of the most satisfying things I have ever read. It was so fun to read! The fact that we know, more or less, who all the bad guys are from very early on in the story takes absolutely nothing away from it. The suspense levels remain so high through the entire book that I didn’t breathe easy until the book was over. (Also, the final scene was awesome, Eve is a BAMF.)
Seriously you guys, if you enjoy a good mystery, you have got to pick Treachery in Death by J.D. Robb up. It isn’t really necessary to read any of the other books first, although of course I recommend the entire series. The first book I read was somewhere in the middle, so I didn’t read them in order either. You won’t have the same depth of feeling for the characters, but you will definitely still enjoy the ride.
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Aston Villa supporters have been reasonably downbeat in recent times after seeing their team fail to get back to winning ways in the Championship on Tuesday night.
The Midlands giants went into their encounter with bottom side Preston North End off the back of a 1-1 draw at Bristol City in their previous league encounter, a result which left them with just one win from their preceding eight league matches. And it is now one victory in nine for the Villans despite racing into a 2-0 lead at Villa Park on Tuesday night, with Yannick Bolasie netting late on to earn his side a 3-3 draw from the clash, which prompted much displeasure from Villa supporters.
As such, there have been many disappointed Villans fans up and down the country in recent times, although some will likely be feeling much better following the news that Steve Bruce has been sacked as the club’s manager.
And with the 57-year-old relieved of his duties, attentions are turning towards who his successor might be, and the Villa hierarchy should show boldness by turning to former defender and Chelsea legend John Terry as their next boss.
The 37-year-old has spent the vast majority of his playing career at Stamford Bridge having come up through the youth ranks in West London, eventually going on to appear 702 times for the Blues, in which time he won five Premier League titles and indeed the Champions League back in 2012.
Yet he also spent the season at Villa Park last term in a bid to prolong his playing career after leaving Chelsea, and the centre back certainly produced the goods to help Bruce’s men reach the Championship play-off final, only to lose to Fulham at Wembley to thus end their hopes of returning to the top-flight.
And while there is no doubting that appointing Terry would be a gamble, given he has yet to embark upon his managerial career, that one-year stint at Villa Park would have helped him understand a great deal more about the club and where it is at – he will know most of the players, the infrastructure, and indeed what makes the fans happy.
Add in the fact that players from his generation in the form of Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard have taken the plunge into management this term, and have so far fared well at Derby County and Rangers respectively, and appointing the 37-year-old could well prove to be a masterstroke.
On the field, there were few better centre backs in the world than Terry when he was in his prime, and while being a great player doesn’t always mean that one makes a good manager, the Villa hierarchy are sure to look at messrs Lampard and Gerrard as examples of what could happen if they lure Terry back to Villa Park.
Yes, the former Chelsea defender hasn’t officially retired from playing yet, but he has been helping out with the Blues youth teams in recent times to suggest that coaching is very much in the forefront of his mind.
And the opportunity to begin his first management job at a club he was only at a few months ago could well appeal to Terry – the fans would also likely be behind him because of who he is, and how well he did for them last term.
Thus, the Villans board must be bold and appoint the 37-year-old as Bruce’s successor in the near future.
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So I'm on this blogging panel -- the first ever! -- for NCS Siena. (More information and pre-conference discussion at Humanities Researcher; Stephanie Trigg organized the session). My paper, or at least notes toward my presentation, needs to be sent to the panel respondent tomorrow. So here I sit in the screened in porch, a few birds chirping, an illegal sprinkler whirring, Katherine and Alex at the piano, fashioning tunes of their own devising. Now it's the theme from Howl's Moving Castle, or some tentative steps towards that complicated song. Though the temperature will approach 100 today, at this moment with its songs and its sounds and its house full of life it is difficult to imagine a moment more beautiful.
Except perhaps for last night. We had friends over for wine and conversation after Katherine went to bed. Alex called my cell at 10 and asked if I'd walk halfway through the neighborhood to meet him as he returned from a friend's: he gets a little nervous as he cuts through the schoolyard field, because there is no light. I set off, a little lightheaded, and listened to the booming of the fireworks on the National Mall. They must be almost over, I thought, it sounds like the grand finale. I'd forgotten it was the Fourth of July.
Alex returned the previous day after two weeks of camp in rural West Virginia. He loves the mountains, lakes, camping, fishing. In one of his letters, though, he complained that he was always hungry, and could we please take him out for noodles and dumplings when he returned? We did that on July 4, lunching at a storefront restaurant in Rockville (an interesting fact about DC is that much of its cultural diversity thrives outside the small city limits; the least pretentious, most authentic "ethnic" food is found in downtrodden shopping plazas in Arlington, Rockville, Germantown, Silver Spring, Wheaton). On an impulse right after lunch we went to Toy Story 3. It was one of those days when the world conspires to assist even the least developed of plans. The restaurant was new to us, and boasted a separate vegetarian menu that was extensive and filled with dishes we'd never eaten; the film was beginning just as we arrived; the day was sunny; our moods were light. We were happy to be together as a family after this break with more breaks to come (I leave for Italy a week from Tuesday; upon my return Wendy leaves immediately for Quebec).
I spotted Alex darting across the dark field because he had his cell phone open, its wan light a small comfort. He was eager to tell me about what a great time he'd had watching a Godzilla movie, and infiltrating his friend's parents' dinner party, where everyone was speaking Spanish and he kept nodding as if he understood. As we passed the creek that meanders near our shortcut home, we stopped. Though the fireworks in DC had ended, the ground, the tree branches and the sky were pulsing with tiny lights.We suddenly felt as if we were in a commercial for some kind of product that tricks you into thinking you'll purchase the experience of a magical moment if you lather with the soap or eat the energy bar. Or maybe that we were in a special effects heavy sequence from a 3D film like, say, Toy Story 3. But it was just fireflies, going about in their hundreds their nightly business of display. Mating is part of the show, but so is (I am certain) an extraneous beauty that is simply art. The insects blinked, every corner of the woods and sky filled with animate stars. We paused in silence and then walked home, resuming our talk of Mechagodzilla.
What does this moment (corny, saccharine, sentimental, but no less true for its sweetness and cliché) have to do with blogging? For me, a great deal. Toy Story 3 is a film about leaving childhood behind. I watched it with a six year old who already understands that she will outgrow her loves (Dora the Explorer stickers were ripped from her bicycle this morning), and a thirteen year old who was so hungry at camp not because they couldn't accommodate his diet, but because he is growing so quickly that he consumes food constantly. While away he sprouted an inch. Soon he will be my height. I was thinking as I walked through the night to meet him how much of the boy remains, and wondering how long that would be true (My heart will break when he doesn't call my cell phone and ask me to meet him on his walk home). I know I am slowly losing him, and that the loss is hard but good.
So much of this blog has recorded key moments in Alex's life, because for a long time it narrated a confluence of the personal and the professional. It doesn't do that so much any more. I write mostly about academic subjects; I quietly enact a quarantine that I instigated the blog in order to overcome. I'm not sure why this should be true. Perhaps because ITM reaches a wider audience than I could have imagined in 2006, and is becoming just another medium in the media landscape. Perhaps because I've reached a point in my life where it is easier to be professional, and that's become my default persona. No doubt it's also because I had a blog-related problem with an obsessional reader, and that experience taught me the vulnerability that revealing too much that is personal engenders. I certainly closed down for a while. Or maybe I just don't have the time I once did to be so self-reflective. And I've also begun to doubt that I know why readers come to this blog (though believe me, I am grateful that they do. I don't say it enough: thank you for reading ITM).
Yet I can't help thinking that I lost something by enacting this partition. I never blogged, for example, about Alex's becoming bar mitzvah, and the ways in which the intensive year leading up to that day profoundly changed my relation to Judaism. I didn't write about Katherine's kindergarten struggles to discover and assert the person she wants to be, the price she has paid among some of the girls in her class for her gender-busting rambunctiousness. These are life events that have touched profoundly my thinking, my feeling, and therefore my scholarship. Yet you won't find any mention here at ITM about them.
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Last year, we introduced you to Aaron Martyn, who made huge waves with his debut single, ‘Slide into my DM.’ Now, the talented artist is back with a brand new single which sees him team up with another incredible rising star.
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The track has a really cool RnB vibe and allows both Aaron and Jess to showcase their incredible talent. Aaron’s slick style complements Jess’ powerhouse vocals perfectly, making this one of the hottest collaborations on the block.
Speaking about the track, Aaron said: “I can’t wait to release this record! It’s been really fun and exciting bringing it all together. Jess was the perfect collaboration for this one”.
Here at CelebMix, we’re delighted to be premiering the official music video for ‘Separate Ways’. The visual is a polished performance piece which highlights Aaron and Jess’ emotion throughout. They are also joined by The Grime Violinist, who gives the instrument a modern twist.
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Despite being so young, Aaron has already achieved a great deal in his music career. From racking up thousands of views on his YouTube covers, to joining Eastenders star Maisie Smith on a school tour, Aaron has proven that age is just a number and that his talent knows no bounds.
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|Wednesday, 03 December 2008 07:23|
Our traveling teachers are a most gifted group and are doing all kinds of interesting things when not roaming the country with us. If you are looking for thoughtful, one of a kind gifts, some of our CSI family have interesting things to offer this Advent.
Mary Sharon Moore of Eugene, Oregon, is one of our traveling Called & Gifted teachers. She is also a spiritual director, retreat leader, and vocation consultant, and has just published a book, Touching the Reign of God: Bringing Theological Reflection to Daily Life. Be sure and check out Mary Sharon's website Awakening Vocations,
Katherine Lundquist of Portand, Oregon, is not only an occasional poster and commenter on ID and long time CSI supporter. She also is a wonderful musician and glass artist. You can listen (and buy) her exquisite Advent cd here and view her fused glass jewelry here.
Meanwhile, the amazing Barbara Elliott, author, journalist, speaker, philanthropic adviser, human rights champion and gadfly, continues to delight in teaching the Called & Gifted and Making Disciples seminars. Her book, Street Saints, is a one of a kind guide to some of the most cutting edge and effective urban ministries in the US. You can buy a copy through the CSI online bookstore.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the 9-valent human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil 9 (Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp).
Cases of winter flu have spiked up to twice the national rate in Auckland, with hospitals reporting a surge in admissions.
Dr Lance O'Sullivan, a general practitioner in Kaitaia, has a passion for improving healthcare and the eradication of poverty-related illnesses in Northland children.
Measles in New Zealand confirmed over the Christmas/New Year period.
The latest anti-immunisation Facebook claims about Gardasil being a huge scam are just a rehash of an old 2009 story published as 'news' by a British tabloid.
Health Minister Tony Ryall reported a significant improvement in New Zealand's immunisation rates for children by their second birthday.
The Syrian Arab Republic, polio-free since 1999, have confirmed cases of wild poliovirus.
"In The Loop" has been updated to reflect the 2011 Immunisation Schedule.
All District Health Boards (DHBs) offer free influenza immunisation to their staff. Uptake of the immunisation increased to 58% of the DHB workforce in 2013 compared with 48% in 2012.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration has licensed the Novartis meningococcal B vaccine Bexsero for use in Australia.
The Ministry of Health is enabling the National Immunisation Register (NIR) to collect information on the 11 year old Tdap immunisation event.
Written for high school science and history classes, covering the birth of vaccines in the late 1700s through to cutting-edge approaches to novel vaccines and vaccine delivery.
PHARMAC have extended the eligibility criteria for free influenza vaccine from 1 April 2013.
The packaging for ProPharma supplied Boostrix® will be changing.
PHARMAC have extended the availability of funded Boostrix® for pregnant women between 28-38 weeks gestation from 1 January 2013.
The whooping cough vaccine is available for family/whānau of infants less than one year of age who are already accessing specified immunisation services.
Eligibilty for funded National Immunisation Schedule childhood catch-up vaccines has been extended for adolescents to their 18th birthday, in line with the Health and Disability Services Eligibility Direction 2011.
The packaging for Synflorix® and Infanrix®-IPV is changing. The vaccine formulations have not changed.
South Canterbury will be commencing a school-based Gardasil® programme for 12 year old girls from term one 2013.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US is coordinating a multistate investigation of fungal meningitis among patients who received a particular medication injected into the spine.
Pfizer have announced top-line data assessing immunogenicity, tolerability and safety of Prevenar 13® in adults aged 18-49 years of age.
Toi Te Ora - Public Health Service have children singing about immunisation on radio.
Researchers at the University of Otago are inching closer to the development of the first effective oral vaccine to protect against tuberculosis (TB).
The Ministry of Health has released the updated cold chain management guidelines.
The immunisation programme ended on December 16th 2011. An estimated 31,455 Northlanders are belived to have taken up the offer of free vaccine against the serious disease.
The Ministry of Health declined to fund a nationwide meningococcal C immunisation programme due to the high cost involved.
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Recently, my 13 year old male greyhound had to have a laparoscopic liver biopsy because he was found to be in liver failure. He had totally refused eating the whole day before and the morning of his exam. Blood work revealed his liver enzymes, especially billiruban, were severely elevated and his eyes were jaundace. He was hospitalised and scheduled for a laparoscopic liver biopsy the next afternoon. He still didn't eat anything this day. We were warned that because of his age and his liver that the anesthesia would be risky and he might not live through it. He had the biopsy at 1:00pm and was finshed by 2:00pm. They told us that preliminary results from the biopsy looked like it was likely lymphoma. They told us he would be OK to be released to be brought home by 6:00pm that night. When they brought him out, we were shocked to see him wheeled out on a gurney, still totally out of it. It took 3 people to lift him in the car. He stayed totally out of it all the way home and all night. He still wasn't eating. Is it normal for a 13 year old greyhound with liver failure, who hasn't eaten for 3 and a half days with suspected lymphoma to be released the same day (4 hours after) after a risky laparoscopic liver biopsy?
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Column: Grape-growing Del Mar board member Kosta Hronis relishes Kentucky Derby contender
The first-time Kentucky Derby owner has 5-1 Rock Your World at Churchill Downs
As kids, Kosta and Pete Hronis peeked through the trackside fence at Santa Anita to watch horses run. The wide-eyed pair growing up in the dusty agricultural expanse outside Bakersfield made holiday trips to the racetrack with their Pasadena grandparents.
The thundering hooves and Racing Form-slapping regulars intoxicated the brothers since the first day they were allowed to bet on a winner.
When they landed driver’s licenses, they began to go to the track on their own. As they grabbed the reigns of the family’s table grape- and citrus-growing operation that stretches across 9,000 acres, they purchased a box at the track. In 2010, they claimed their first horse.
Now, the “grape growers from the valley” are co-owners of Rock Your World, a top contender in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby. Kosta, a Del Mar Thoroughbred Club board member, marvels at the sweet intersection of talent, timing, luck — and finding his way to the other side of the fence.
“We’ve never even been close (to the Derby),” said Hronis, 62. “The one thing you know about this, you can’t try to do it. You can’t buy your way into it. If it happens, it happens organically. If things fall into place for a 3-year-old who comes around at the right time, you enjoy the ride.
“It’s definitely a needle in the haystack kind of thing.”
As a businessman, Kosta knows a thing or three about navigating a blizzard of business-related numbers. Hronis Inc. has coaxed grapes and oranges from the San Joaquin Valley soil since 1945. It’s a delicate balancing act in a complex climate with chill and tule fog in the winter and temperatures that can soar beyond 110 degrees in summer.
That background, along with more than a decade in horse racing, built sobering understanding in Kosta about the long odds of a horse finding the starting gate at Churchill Downs. Rock Your World was born into a 2018 foal crop totaling 21,181 in North America, according to The Jockey Club. Of those horses, just 20 breathe rare Kentucky air on the first Saturday in May.
For most, reaching the Derby feels a bit like lassoing a shooting star.
“After (winning) the Pasadena Stakes, Belinda Stronach, who owns the racetrack (at Santa Anita), said to me, ‘My dad’s going to be really jealous of you, because in all of his years he’s never had a horse in the Kentucky Derby,’ ” Hronis said. “So I think about Frank Stronach, what a great horseman he was, how many Eclipse Awards he won as an owner and it really made me appreciate what had been accomplished.
“To hear Belinda say that to me was a real ‘wow’ moment.”
The unbeaten colt cruised to wins in a pair of turf races before collecting a $450,000 payday by romping to a 4 1/4 -length victory over fellow Derby qualifier Medina Spirit in the Santa Anita Derby on April 3.
The dirt race pushed the son of 2003 Pacific Classic winner Candy Ride to Churchill Downs as the second betting favorite at 5-1, looking up at only Derby favorite Essential Quality (2-1).
So you’re saying there’s a chance?
Hronis’ brother, Pete, framed the thinking of the men grounded by the fertile ground surrounding the company anchored outside of Delano.
“At the end of the day we’re farmers, professional grape growers,” Pete said. “No matter what happens on that Saturday, we’ll be selling grapes on Monday.”
The seeds of Hronis Racing, so to speak, were planted with one person, trainer John Sadler. An usher at Santa Anita set up an initial meeting when he heard the brothers discussing the possibility of sinking deeper roots in the sport.
From the beginning, Sadler preached patience.
“I’ve never been invited to an auction,” Hronis said with a chuckle. “John makes me stay at work. ‘You stay and take care of the grapes and I’ll go look at the horses.’ When I first was with John in 2011, I said, ‘Hey, the 2-year-old sales, can I be part of that?’ He said, ‘No, you’re not ready yet. We’re going to just keep claiming horses. Just keep doing what you’re doing.’
“I think people jump in and jump out so fast because they get discouraged. I think he liked us and wanted to bring us along at his pace.”
When the group scooped up Rock Your World at Keeneland’s renowned September yearling sale for $650,000, that patience would be tested.
Hronis passed, Sadler said.
“The exceptional thing about him, in this day and age of complex things, he’s from the Central Valley,” Sadler said. “He’s very straight forward. He’s the real deal. When you get to know him, it’s hard not to like him. He doesn’t blow his own horn. He’s just a good guy.”
Fellow Del Mar board member, horse advocate and actress Bo Derek was asked to describe the unique prospect of a sitting board member capturing the most prestigious race.
“The best,” Derek said. “The best. The space shuttle is going to hear me screaming.”
Astronauts are unlikely to hear it from Hronis.
“He’s very understated,” Derek said.
After winning the Santa Anita Derby and guaranteeing a spot in the Derby for the first time, Hronis and Sadler skipped the caviar and Cristal.
“We went to a Mexican restaurant in Pasadena,” Hronis said. “It was just enchiladas, tacos, burritos. That was about it. John needs to get home and get to bed because that alarm clock goes off at 3 every morning.”
Though it sounds tame, it in no way erases the tunnel vision. Hronis said he’s at a California racetrack 50 of 52 weekends a year. His wife, Stephanie, dives into work that benefits track workers and retired horses.
“We don’t hunt. We don’t fish. We don’t ski. We don’t golf,” Hronis said. “This became our hobby.”
Why straddle the fence?
A Rockin’ name
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — How did Rock Your World get his name? Mike Talla, a real estate developer and entrepreneur who co-owns the horse with Del Mar Thoroughbred Club board member Kosta Hronis, explained.
For Talla, who names all his horses, it was a split-second decision out of a conversation with trainer John Sadler.
“John said he’d found this thin, skinny horse that wasn’t filled out yet with great character and great breeding,” Talla said. “I think he’s going to be the best horse you’ve ever owned. So come up with a big name. It has to be big, because this horse could be really special.”
Talla began perhaps the shortest brainstorming session in modern horse-naming history.
“I said, ‘OK John, you want a name that’s going to rock your world, right?’ ” Talla said. “He said, ‘Yes.’ I said, ‘Well, that’s the name.’ He said, ‘What is?’ I said, ‘Rock Your World.’ ”
The horse in fact grew into his oversized name.
“He’s very balanced and light on his feet,” Talla said. “When he runs, he glides across the dirt. He’s not built like the strong, powerful runners. He’s a throwback to the 1920s and ’30s when horses were brought over from Europe. Very elegant and athletic. Now, (top Thoroughbreds) are getting muscular and quarter horse-y looking.
“When you watch him, he doesn’t like when his feet touch the ground. He picks them up right away. Some horses do that, but not as much as he does. That’s a telling sign about how athletic he is.”
Rock Your World runs ... and runs ... and runs.
“Once a race is finished, he doesn’t turn around and come back,” Talla said. “He runs right through the wire and keeps going. When you talk to (former jockey Umberto) Rispoli or (Derby jockey Joel) Rosario, ‘Where’d you go? The other horses are headed back to the barn?’ They say, ‘I couldn’t stop him, Mike. He wants to run.’
“Just because the race is over, that doesn’t mean anything to him,” Talla said. “He just keeps going. Every race he runs, he adds on like a half a mile. And it doesn’t seem to tire him out. Maybe (the Derby distance of) a mile and a quarter will.”
Rock Your World will break from the No. 15 post, which has won the Derby 10.2 percent of the time since the use of starting gates began in 1930. That’s third-best of the 20 post positions.
— Bryce Miller
Odds fail to define ‘Charlie’
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — One barn away from Hronis Racing’s Rock Your World, fourth Kentucky Derby choice Hot Rod Charlie and Del Mar owner Bill Strauss stretched their legs.
The three ownership groups behind the horse — Bill Strauss, Roadrunner Racing and Boat Racing — undoubtedly are bringing the biggest, rowdiest contingent to Churchill Downs. The throng Strauss said could reach 170 includes the “Boat” group, five 20-something former football players at Brown University.
Hot Rod Charlie, with 8-1 odds, defies numbers. The 94-1 starter in the most recent Breeders’ Cup Juvenile finished a startling second by a mere three-quarters of a length … to current Kentucky Derby favorite Essential Quality.
“He doesn’t get phased at all,” Strauss said.
“None at all,” said Strauss, who co-founded the multi-million-dollar company ProFlowers.com. “When they load him into the (starting) gate, that’s when the butterflies will start.”
— Bryce Miller
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This Throwback Thursday article is from the Summer 2014 issue of The Partner Channel Magazine. Catch the most current issue for more great sales, marketing, and leadership tips!
Remember sniglets? (They’re neologisms or newly-coined terms on their way to being accepted into mainstream language. They were all the rage in the late ’80s.) I think there should be a sniglet for the time between feeling something isn’t right, to taking action. Hmmmm. What could we call that?
- Denialation (denial + duration)
- Worsera (worse + era)
- Hinderquarter (self-evident)
No matter what you call it, we all have been negatively impacted by the space between suspecting and correcting. Since we know how painful these timespans can be for everyone involved, why don’t we do something about it?
The truth is, we don’t really want the truth. Because knowing – really knowing – puts items on our to-do lists that we’d rather avoid. Take your resident technical guru who solves the trickiest of customer situations but is a bad, bad manager. Or how about that new pricing model a team spent weeks developing that should come with a slide rule and a crystal ball? Correcting these sticky situations takes courage, perseverance, and time, all of which seem hard to come by in our overly busy lives.
The short-lived relief we feel after avoiding action doesn’t even come close to outweighing the costly downside. The longer that complicated pricing model is in place, the harder it’s going to be to unravel the mess of transitioning customers to a new, simpler model. Worse yet are the beacons of badness emitted by managers radiating negative attitudes, sloppy behaviors, and unmet expectations through organizations like waves of contagion.
The more we think about these tricky situations, the more we convince ourselves that they’ll just work out or that things aren’t that bad. What’s really going on is that our subconscious mind is tricking us into inaction by planting seeds of fear and doubt. It’s not really my job to deal with this. I know she’s going to deny it and then make my life miserable if I bring this up. I’ll think about it next week. But next week brings more challenges that we avoid until the situation seems as impossible to unknot as a drawer full of tangled necklaces.
On the prevention side, quick action is key. Get in the habit of writing down exactly what you’re thinking and feeling just after you experience that flash of frustration. Don’t think, just write. It’ll help you quiet those avoidance voices and identify specific behaviors you can discuss with your colleague…once you calm down, of course. While you’re still in fix-it mode, schedule a quick conversation with this person. Getting it on your calendars makes it real and unavoidable. Make it 15 minutes, and make it later the same day or first thing the next day. Do not let more than 12 hours pass.
If the situation has become a tangled mess, pen and paper are still the best place to start. At the top of a blank sheet, write these two headings: “I get frustrated when you…” and “Because it results in…” Fill up the sheet and then put it aside for a while. Looking at it with fresh eyes will help you see patterns and themes that are easier to address. Pull out two behaviors that seem to be the most detrimental. And then schedule that 15-minute conversation.
Whether you’re preventing or untangling, the 15-minute conversation should start with a thank you. Thanks for taking the time to talk with me. I appreciate it. The reason I want to talk one-on-one is I’ve noticed some issues with (the team, the project…) that are resulting in (missed deadlines, unmet customer expectations…), and I need your help to resolve these issues. And then pause. Either the person will ask what’s up or they’ll be silent, which often signals they know you’re going to raise issues. Almost always they know things aren’t going well. Almost always they know they’re part of the problem. Almost always they feel as frustrated as the rest of the team because they don’t have the time, resources, background, confidence, or skills to drive the desired results.
By raising the issue, you’re opening the door and letting in the light. By raising the issue after writing out your frustrations and identifying correctable behaviors, you’re dialing down the emotion and placing the attention on results.
Let’s start a movement. Let’s change the current frustration-to-fix pace from slow boat to bullet train. And then let’s make a new sniglet for rapid action. How about…fastfix? As in: let’s have a fastfix chat on that, okay? Sounds way better than okay to me! | <urn:uuid:86e02d85-eb09-4b68-b3b7-a8d37be42cf6> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | http://thepartnerchannel.com/leadership/dont-think-just-write-act/ | 2019-09-23T16:02:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514577363.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20190923150847-20190923172847-00430.warc.gz | en | 0.941621 | 1,078 |
UP-DATE ON THE BEDBUGS
According to the news media, they are still around, and people are really worried. I have friends who don’t go to the movies because there is word out that Bedbugs are now going to the movies too.
We don’t really know where they are – have you seen one? Hopefully not, but should you be concerned when shopping for clothes that you might bring one home, here is a way to ease your mind – before wearing what you bought, and without washing it first – put it in the dryer for 20 minutes – on low.
Spending 20 minutes in the dryer will take care of the Bug – it will never be seen again.
Until the next time
STAY WELL – WITHOUT BEDBUGS
AND LOOK YOUR BEST
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Lincoln City have been installed as one of the favourites for promotion next season by bookmakers.
According to odds comparison website Oddschecker, the Imps are second favourites for the title, just behind relegated MK Dons, now managed by former Exeter boss Paul Tisdale.
Danny Cowley’s side are just 10/1 with the majority of bookies to finish top of League Two in 2018/19.
They are followed by Mansfield, Bury, Northampton, Notts County, Swindon, Oldham and Cambridge, with Carlisle rounding out the top ten.
After narrowly avoiding relegation last season, Grimsby Town are being rated as outsiders and are as much a 40/1 to win the title with some outlets.
In contrast, the Mariners are just 7/1 to be relegated. Only Morecambe, Yeovil and Macclesfield have been given shorter odds to go down.
There is a separate market to just win promotion, whether automatically or via the play-offs.
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"If one understands by “family” a compulsory union based on marriage contract, the blessing of the church, property rights, and the single passport, then Bolshevism has destroyed this policed family from the roots up."
1. “Does the Soviet State turn men into robots?”
Why? I ask. The ideologists of the patriarchal system like Tolstoy or Ruskin, object that machine civilization turns the free peasant and craftsman into joyless automatons. In the last decades this charge has mostly been leveled against the industrial system of America (Taylorism, Fordism).
Shall we now, perhaps, hear from Chicago and Detroit the outcry against the soul destroying machine? Why not return to stone hatchets and pile dwellings, why not go back to sheepskin coverings? No; we refuse to do that. In the field of mechanization the Soviet Republic is so far only a disciple of the United States and has no intention of stopping halfway.
But perhaps the question is aimed not at mechanical operation but at the distinctive features of the social order. Are not men becoming robots in the Soviet State because the machines are state property and not privately owned? It is enough to ask the question clearly to show that it has no foundation.
There remains, finally, the question of the political regime, the hard dictatorship, the highest tension of all forces, the low standard of living of the population. There would be no sense in denying these facts. But they are the expression not so much of the new regime as of the fearful inheritance of backwardness.
The dictatorship will have to become softer and milder as the economic welfare of the country is raised. The present method of commanding human beings will give way to one of disposing over things. The road leads not to the robot but to man of a higher order.
2. “Is the Soviet State completely dominated by a small group in the Kremlin who exercise oligarchical powers under the guise of a dictatorship of the proletariat?”
No, that is not so. The same class can rule with the help of different political systems and methods according to circumstances. So the bourgeoisie on its historical road carried through its rule under absolute monarchy, Bonapartism, parliamentary republic, and Fascist dictatorship. All these forms of rule retain a capitalist character in so far as the most important riches of the nation, the administration of the means of production, of the schools, and of the press, remain united in the hands of the bourgeoisie, and in so far as the laws, above all, protect bourgeois property.
The Soviet regime means the rule of the proletariat, irrespective of how broad the stratum in whose hands the power is immediately concentrated.
3. “Have the Soviets robbed childhood of joy and turned education into a system of Bolshevist propaganda?”
The education of children has always and everywhere been connected with propaganda. The propaganda begins by instilling the advantages of a handkerchief over the fingers, and rises to the advantages of the Republican platform over the Democratic, or vice versa. Education in the spirit of religion is propaganda; you will surely not refuse to admit that St. Paul was one of the greatest of propagandists.
The worldly education supplied by the French Republic is soaked with propaganda to the marrow. Its main idea is that all virtue is inherent in the French nation or, more accurately, in the ruling class of the French nation.
No one can possibly deny that the education of Soviet children, too, is propaganda. The only difference is that in bourgeois countries it is a question of injecting into the child respect for old institutions and ideas which are taken for granted. In the USSR it is a question of new ideas, and therefore the propaganda leaps to the eye. “Propaganda,” in the evil sense of the word, is the name that people usually give to the defense and spread of such ideas as do not please them.
In times of conservatism and stability the daily propaganda is not noticeable. In times of revolution, propaganda necessarily takes on a belligerent and aggressive character. When I returned to Moscow from Canada with my family early in May, 1917, my two boys studied at a “gymnasium” (roughly, high school) which was attended by the children of many politicians, including some ministers of the provisional government. In the whole gymnasium there were only two Bolsheviks, my sons, and a third sympathizer. In spite of the official rule, “the school must be free of politics,” my son barely twelve years old was unmercifully beaten up as a Bolshevik. After I was elected chairman of the Petrograd Soviet, my son was never called anything but Chairman and received a double beating. That was propaganda against Bolshevism.
Those parents and teachers who are devoted to the old society cry out against “propaganda.” If a state is to build a new society, can it do otherwise than begin with the school?
“Does the Soviet propaganda rob childhood of joy?” For what reason and in what manner? Soviet children play, sing, dance, and cry like all other children. The unusual care of the Soviet regime for the child is admitted even by malevolent observers. Compared with the old regime, infant mortality has declined by half. It is true, Soviet children are told nothing about original sin and Paradise. In this sense one may say that the children are robbed of the joys of life after death. Being no expert in these matters, I dare not judge the extent of the loss. Still, the pains of this life take a certain precedence over the joys of the life to come. If children absorb the necessary quantity of calories, the abundance of their living forces will find reasons enough for joy.
Two years ago my five year old grandson came to me from Moscow. Although he knew nothing whatever about God, I could find no particularly sinful inclinations in him, except for the time when, with the help of some newspapers, he succeeded in sealing up hermetically the washbasin drainpipe. In order to have him mingle with other children on Prinkipo, we had to send him to a kindergarten conducted by Catholic nuns. The worthy sisters have nothing but praise for the morals of my now nearly seven year old atheist.
Thanks to this same grandchild, I have been able in the past year to make a fairly close acquaintance with Russian children’s books, those of the Soviets as well as of the émigrés. There is propaganda in both. Yet the Soviet books are incomparably fresher, more active, more full of life. The little man reads and listens to these books with the greatest pleasure. No, Soviet propaganda does not rob childhood of joy.
4. “Is Bolshevism deliberately destroying the family?”
5. “Is Bolshevism subversive of all moral standards in sex?”
6. “Is it true that bigamy and polygamy are not punishable under the Soviet system?”
If one understands by “family” a compulsory union based on marriage contract, the blessing of the church, property rights, and the single passport, then Bolshevism has destroyed this policed family from the roots up.
If one understands by “family” the unbounded domination of parents over children, and absence of legal rights for the wife, then Bolshevism has, unfortunately, not yet completely destroyed this carry over of society’s old barbarism.
If one understands by “family” ideal monogamy, not in the legal but in the actual sense, then the Bolsheviks could not destroy what never was nor is on earth, barring fortunate exceptions.
There is absolutely no foundation for the statement that the Soviet law on marriage has been an incentive to polygamy and polyandry. Statistics of marriage relations, actual ones are not available, and cannot be. But even without columns of figures one can be sure that the Moscow index numbers of adulteries and shipwrecked marriages are not much different from the corresponding data for New York, London, or Paris—and who knows?—are perhaps even lower.
Against prostitution there has been a strenuous and fairly successful struggle. This proves that the Soviets have no intention of tolerating that unbridled promiscuity which finds its most destructive and poisonous expression in prostitution.
A long and permanent marriage, based on mutual love and cooperation—that is the ideal standard. To this the influences of the school, of literature, and of public opinion in the Soviets tend. Freed from the chains of police and clergy, later also from those of economic necessity, the tie between man and woman will find its own way, determined by physiology, psychology, and care for the welfare of the race. The Soviet regime is still far from the solution of this as of other basic problems, but it has created serious prerequisites for their solution. In any case the problem of marriage has ceased to be a matter of uncritical tradition and the blind force of circumstance; it has been posed as a task of collective reason.
Every year five and a half million children are born in the Soviet Union. The excess of births over deaths amounts to more than three million. Czarist Russia knew no such growth of population. This fact alone makes it impossible to speak of moral disintegration or of a lowering of the vital forces of the population of Russia.
7. “Is it true that incest is not regarded as a criminal offense?”
I must admit that I have never taken an interest in this question from the standpoint of criminal prosecution, so that I could not answer without obtaining information as to what the Soviet law says about incest, or if it says anything at all. Still, I think the whole question belongs rather to the domain of pathology on the one hand, and education on the other, rather than that of criminology. Incest lessens the desirable qualities and the ability to survive of the race. For that very reason it is regarded by the great majority of healthy human beings as a violation of normal standards.
The aim of socialism is to bring reason not only into economic relations but also as much as possible into the biological functions of man. Today already the Soviet schools are making many efforts to enlighten the children as to the real needs of the human body and the human spirit. I have no reason to believe that the pathological cases of incest are more numerous in Russia than in other countries. At the same time, I am inclined to hold that precisely in this field judicial intervention can do more harm than good. I question, for example, that humanity would have been the gainer if British justice had sent Byron to jail.
8. “Is it true that a divorce may be had for the asking?”
Of course it is true. It would have been more in place to ask another question: “Is it true that there are still countries where divorce cannot be obtained for the asking by either party to a marriage?”
9. “Is it true that the Soviets have no respect for chastity in men and women?
I think that in this field it is not respect but hypocrisy that has declined.
Is there any doubt, for example, that Ivar Kreuger, the match king, described as a dour ascetic in his lifetime, and as an irreconcilable enemy of the Soviet, more than once denounced the immorality of the Russian Komsomol boys and girls who did not seek the blessing of the church on their embraces? Had it not been for the financial wreck, Kreuger would have gone to his grave not only as a just man on the Stock Exchange but also as a pillar of morality. But now the press reports that the number of women kept by Kreuger in various continents was several times the number of the chimneys of his match factories.
French, English, and American novels describe double and triple families not as an exception but as the rule. A very well informed young German observer, Klaus Mehnert, who recently had a book published on the Soviet youth, writes:
“It is true the young Russians are no paragons of virtue ... but morally they are certainly no lower than Germans of the same age.”
I believe that this is true. In New York, in February 1917 I observed one evening in a subway car about two dozen students and their girl friends. Although there were a number of people in the car who were not in their party, the conduct of these most vivacious couples was such that one could say at once: even if these young people believe in monogamy in principle, in practice they come to it by devious paths.
The abolition of the American dry law would by no means signify that the new administration was striving to encourage drunkenness. In the same way, the Soviet Government’s abolition of a number of laws which were supposed to protect the domestic hearth, chastity, etc., has nothing to do with any effort to destroy the permanence of the family or encourage promiscuity. It is simply a question of attaining, by raising the material and cultural level, something that cannot be attained by formal prohibition or lifeless preaching.
10. “Is the ultimate object of Bolshevism to reproduce the beehive or the ant stage in human life?”
11. “In what respect does the ideal of Bolshevism differ from the state of civilization that would prevail on earth if insects had secured control?”
Both questions are unfair to the insect as well as to man. Neither ants nor bees have to answer for such monstrosities as fill human history. On the other hand, no matter how bad human beings may be, they have possibilities which no insect can reach. It would not be difficult to prove that the task of the Soviets is precisely this to destroy the ant characteristics of human society.
The fact is, bees as well as ants have classes: some work or fight, others specialize in reproduction. Can one see in such a specialization of social functions the ideal of Bolshevism? These are rather the characteristics of our present day civilization carried to the limit. Certain species of ants make slaves of brother ants of different color.
The Soviet system does not resemble this at all. The ants have not yet even produced their John Brown or Abraham Lincoln.
Benjamin Franklin described man as “the tool making animal.” This notable characterization is at the bottom of the Marxist interpretation of history. The artificial tool has released man from the animal kingdom and has given impetus to the work of the human intellect; it has caused the changes from slavery to feudalism, capitalism, and the Soviet system.
The meaning of the question is clearly that a universal all embracing control must kill individuality. The evil of the Soviet system would then consist in its excessive control, would it not? Yet a series of other questions, as we have seen, accuses the Soviets of refusal to bring under state control the most intimate fields of personal life, love, family, sex relations. The contradiction is perfectly evident.
The Soviets by no means make it their task to put under control the intellectual and the moral powers of man.
On the contrary, through control of economic life they want to free every human personality from the control of the market and its blind forces.
Ford organized automobile production on the conveyor system and thereby obtained an enormous output. The task of socialism, when one gets down to the principle of productive technique, is to organize the entire national and international economy on the conveyor system, on the basis of a plan and of an accurate proportionment of its parts. The conveyor principle, transferred from single factories to all factories and farms, must result in such an output performance that, compared with it, Ford’s achievement would look like a miserable handicraft shop alongside of Detroit. Once he has conquered nature, man will no longer have to earn his daily bread in the sweat of his brow. That is the prerequisite for the liberation of personality. As soon as three or four hours, let us say, of daily labor suffice to satisfy liberally all material wants, every man and woman will have twenty hours left over, free of all “control.” Questions of education, of perfecting the bodily and spiritual structure of man, will occupy the center of general attention. The philosophical and scientific schools, the opposing tendencies in literature, architecture, and art in general, will for the first time be of vital concern not merely to a top layer but to the whole mass of the population. Freed from the pressure of blind economic forces, the struggle of groups, tendencies, and schools will take on a profoundly ideal and unselfish character. In this atmosphere human personality will not dry up, but on the contrary for the first time will come to full bloom.
12. “Is it true that Sovietism teaches children not to respect their parents?”
No; in such a general form this assertion is a mere caricature. Still, it is true that rapid progress in the realms of technique, ideas, or manners generally diminishes the authority of the older generation, including that of parents. When professors lecture on the Darwinian theory, the authority of those parents who believe that Eve was made from Adam’s rib can only decline.
In the Soviet Union all conflicts are incomparably sharper and more painful. The mores of the Komsomols must inevitably collide with the authority of the parents who would still like to use their own good judgment in marrying off their sons and daughters. The Red Army man who has learned how to handle tractors and combines cannot acknowledge the technical authority of his father who works with a wooden plow.
To maintain his dignity, the father can no longer merely point with his hand to the icon and reinforce this gesture with a slap on the face. The parents must retort to spiritual weapons. The children who base themselves on the official authority of the school show themselves, however, to be the better armed. The injured amour propre of the parent often turns against the state. This usually happens in those families which are hostile to the new regime in its fundamental tasks. The majority of proletarian parents reconcile themselves to the loss of part of their parental authority the more readily as the state takes over the greater part of their parental cares. Still, there are conflicts of the generations even in these circles. Among the peasants they take on especial sharpness. Is this good or bad? I think it is good. Otherwise there would be no going forward.
Permit me to point to my own experience. At seventeen I had to break away from home. My father had attempted to determine the course of my life. He told me, “Even in three hundred years the things you are aiming for will not come to pass.” And, at that, it was only a question of the overthrowing of the monarchy. Later my father understood the limits of his influence and my relations with my family were restored. After the October revolution he saw his mistake. “Your truth was stronger,” he said. Such examples were counted by the thousand, later on, by hundreds of thousands and millions. They characterize the critical upheaval of a period when “the bond of ages” goes to pieces.
13. “Is it true that Bolshevisim penalizes religion and outlaws religious worship?”
This, deliberately deceptive assertion has been refuted a thousand times by completely indisputable facts, proofs, and testimony of witnesses. Why does it always come up anew? Because the church considers itself persecuted when it is not supported by the budget and the police force and when its opponents are not subject to the reprisals of persecution. In many states the scientific criticism of religious faiths is considered a crime; in others it is merely tolerated. The Soviet State acts otherwise. Far from considering religious worship a crime, it tolerates the existence of various religions, but at the same time openly supports materialist propaganda against religious belief. It is precisely this situation which the church interprets as religious persecution.
14. “Is it true that the Bolshevist State, while hostile to religion, nevertheless capitalizes the prejudices of the ignorant masses? For instance, the Russians do not consider any saint truly acceptable to Heaven unless his body defies decomposition. Is that the reason why the Bolshevists preserve artificially the mummy of Lenin?”
No; this is a wholly incorrect interpretation, dictated by prejudice and hostility. I can make this statement all the more freely because from the very beginning, I have been a determined opponent of the embalming, mausoleum, and the rest, as was also Lenin’s widow, N.K. Krupskaya. There is no doubt whatever that if Lenin on his sick bed had thought for a moment that they would treat his corpse like that of a Pharaoh, he would have appealed in advance, with indignation, to the Party. I brought this objection forward as my main argument. The body of Lenin must not be used against the spirit of Lenin.
I also pointed to the fact that the “incorruptibility” of the embalmed corpse of Lenin might nourish religious superstitions. Krassin, who defended and apparently initiated the idea of the embalmment, objected: “On the contrary, what was a matter of miracle with the priests will become a matter of technology in our hands. Millions of people will have an idea of how the man looked who brought such great changes into the life of our country. With the help of science, we will satisfy this justifiable interest of the masses and at the same time explain to them the mystery of incorruptibility.”
Undeniably the erection of the mausoleum pursued a political aim: to strengthen the authority of the disciples eternally through the authority of the teacher. Still, there is no ground to see in this a capitalization of religious superstition. The mausoleum visitors are told that the credit for the preservation of the body from decomposition is due to chemistry.
Our answers absolutely do not attempt to gloss over the present situation in the Soviet Union, to underestimate the economic and cultural achievements, nor still less to represent socialism as a stage which has already been reached. The Soviet regime is and will remain for a long time a transitional regime, full of contradiction and extreme difficulties. Still, we must take the facts in the light of their development. The Soviet Union took over the inheritance of the Romanoff empire. For fifteen years it has lived surrounded by a hostile world.
The situation of a besieged fortress has given the dictatorship particularly crude forms. The policies of Japan are least of all calculated to develop in Russia a feeling of security; but also the fact that the United States, which carried on war against the Soviets on Soviet territory, has not taken up diplomatic relations with Moscow to this very day, has had an enormous and, naturally, negative influence on the internal regime of the country. (Leon Trotsky wrote this article late in 1932, more than a year before US recognition of Russia. – Ed.)
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Few more things of note...
That CashBaq link I have on the right side, actually works! I signed up and used it to buy a couple of things from stores I already use - HSN, QVC and Drugstore.com... just go to those sites after clicking the link on the CashBaq list. It does give you rebates and discounts. :) I have no affiliation whatsoever, but thought I'd let you all know it actually does work!
In the message from the other day I mentioned "sin". I haven't had anyone call me on this one yet, but please know that I'm a full believer in Jesus Christ and that I do believe that anything that keeps us from God in any way is a sin. That doesn't mean it makes me a bad person or whatever society thinks. And, we all sin. I just took the time to define/share one of mine.
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35 YEARS of evolution
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Financial services firms spent over $1 billion advertising investment and retirement services in 2011, according to Kanter Media, and there is no reason to suspect the spend is getting smaller. But consumers still aren’t getting the message. Approximately 58 percent of investors don’t have retirement plans, according to a Deloitte Center for Financial Services report released Thursday.
But while the retirement industry may have fallen short, financial advisors are picking up the slack. Among investors with an advisor, two out of three have a plan. Among those who don't, only 28 percent have one.
The report suggests advisors will have to conquer a “fundamental disconnect” between the retirement industry and consumers stemming from a variety of factors, including communication failures, investor mistrust and an overall lack of product awareness.
“Too few are turning to professionals for advice and solutions,” Deloitte says. “It’s ultimately up to financial services institutions to rethink their operating models and approaches to more effectively meet this challenge.”
In it’s survey of nearly 4,500 consumers, Deloitte found that many investors believe that planning for retirement is beyond their capabilities or that many times, other financial matters take priority.
Further, advisors should break it down to the basics. Consumers suffer from a lack of understanding on common retirement products. According to the report, 60 percent of consumers surveyed didn’t know anything about target date mutual funds, while nearly 40 percent didn’t know anything about annuities.
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Toe strap bindings on your snowboard allow for more flexibility and sharper turns, but if they're ratcheted too tightly, they can cut off your circulation and make your feet even colder than they already are. Fortunately, the ratchet design that holds your foot firmly in place is fully adjustable, even with freezing fingers or through thick gloves. All you need to do is find the sweet spot in the binding that is both tight enough for good control and slack enough to stave off premature frostbite.
If you're using a new board, take a screwdriver or snowboard tool with you when you're on the slope. You may need to adjust the placement of the ankle or toe straps for maximum comfort and maneuverability.
Get to a flat surface or position your board horizontally to the slope before starting to avoid slipping. If you are a beginner, sit down on the ground before loosening the straps until you are more familiar with the procedure.
Lift the buckle of the toe strap to its open, vertical position. Grasp the strap and pull it slightly away from the buckle to loosen it.
Realign the front of the toe strap around the front of your boot, then lower the buckle back down and ratchet it up until you are comfortable with the level of slack. Try to leave about an inch of strap from the ratchet to the baseplate for easier access later.
Stand back up with your board still horizontal to the slope and shift your weight back and forth between your heels and toes to test the tightness. Both your ankle and toe straps should be centered over your boots, with your feet held firmly in place but not so firmly that you feel your blood being cut off. Once you've achieved the right balance of tightness, you're ready to get back on the slopes.
- If you're using a new board, take a screwdriver or snowboard tool with you when you're on the slope. You may need to adjust the placement of the ankle or toe straps for maximum comfort and maneuverability.
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(European blastomycosis), a deep-systemic fungal disease of man and animals caused by the yeastlike fungus Cryptococcus neoformans.
Cryptococcosis is a rare and serious disease, found in all countries. The sources of infection for man and the paths of dissemination of the pathogenic principle are unknown.
In man, cryptococcosis is characterized by predominant affection of the lungs, central nervous system, skin, and subcutaneous tissue, with subsequent metastases to the viscera. Diagnosis of the disease is difficult; laboratory diagnosis consists in isolation of the causative agent. The disease is treated medicinally (amphotericin B), combined with anticryptococcal rabbit serum or gamma globulin.
In animals, cryptococcosis is widespread in the USA, Denmark, Italy, France, and the Netherlands, and it has been recorded in Switzerland and the USSR. Cattle, cats, dogs, and monkeys are affected. The causative agent enters the animal’s body through the respiratory and digestive tracts. In cattle, cryptococcosis produces alternate chills and fever, swelling and soreness in the udders, a sharp decrease in milk production, and, with metastasis to the lungs, pneumonia. In dogs and cats, it affects the lungs and central nervous system. The diseased animals show disturbances of coordination, labored breathing, cough, and, occasionally, blindness. Treatment has not been developed. Zoo-hygienic and sanitary measures are of decisive importance in preventing cryptococcosis in animals. | <urn:uuid:d4f1cfb3-2a7b-4bda-bebf-3d210e708c6c> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Busse-Buschke+disease | 2017-03-24T10:13:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218187792.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212947-00611-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.894338 | 436 |
There are more mainstream British Asian comics than ever, but how important is their ethnicity and why aren't their audiences more diverse? Yasmeen Khan meets rising comedians and Spamalot's Sanjeev Bhaskar to find out
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NEED Combine 9 Designs ships about 10 times per week. The company always requires a lift gate and two-man deliveries. “Ninety-five percent of their product goes to residences and almost all are curbside deliveries as the freight is heavy,” said Al Herron, Team Worldwide Houston Branch Owner. Team Worldwide has worked with Combine 9 Designs for the past three years and has grown it from 92 shipments in 2016 and 2017 to more than 200 already this year (as of Aug. 2, 2019). Last year, it had 175 shipments. It has even grown to include international and inbound shipments.
SOLUTION Team Worldwide Houston may have little e-commerce business, but is ready to handle a call from its customer regarding e-commerce needs. “We figured out that we could service the account with quick quote response and daily route pickups,” said Bruce Nixon, Day Ops Manager at Team Worldwide Houston. “The service level was a good fit for both logistically as we have a driver in their area most of the day.” The fact that Team Worldwide is a large company with the small business feel is another of the ways as well, according to Nixon. What gives Team an advantage is the way it tracks the product. “We can give the attention of a small business with the technology of a larger player to meet their needs,” Nixon said. “These type of things are what gives us the edge: The ability to have a tracking system that is accessible and close to real time, the delivery services and delivery locations we offer, the quick turnaround on quotes and emails, the route trucks for pickups, electronically doing BOLs, electronic payables, and the ability to meet our clients’ needs.” With these advantages Team Worldwide Houston is ready to handle any of its customers’ e-commerce needs.
“What gives Team the advantage is the way it tracks the product. We can give the attention of a small business with the technology of a large player to meet their needs.” Bruce Nixon, Day Ops Manager Team Worldwide Houston | <urn:uuid:b4f5b910-e1ea-4cfd-9e81-04bba1c960c8> | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | https://sea.teamww.com/services/ecommerce-teamhouston/ | 2020-02-21T20:58:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875145538.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20200221203000-20200221233000-00348.warc.gz | en | 0.97226 | 672 |
They've got muck; we've got rakes. TPM Muckraker
The government is telling whistleblowers "do not tell truth to power, we'll hammer you," Drake told CBS. His on-camera interview followed an article in the New Yorker on his prosecution by the Obama administration's Justice Department. The trial is set to begin next month.
Drake is being prosecuted not for talking with a reporter but for taking home classified documents. But thanks to a mistake by the prosecutor handling the case (he sent the defense team an earlier draft of the indictment against Drake), the former NSA official's lawyers can see how greatly the scope of the indictment was reduced.
He was no longer charged with leaking classified documents or being part of a conspiracy -- rather he was charged with the "willful retention" of five documents. Even with those reduced charges, Drake still faces up to thirty-five years in prison because he is still accused of violating the World War II era Espionage Act. Writes the New Yorker's Jane Mayer:
Drake's case also raises questions about double standards. In recent years, several top officials accused of similar misdeeds have not faced such serious charges. John Deutch, the former C.I.A. director, and Alberto Gonzales, the former Attorney General, both faced much less stringent punishment after taking classified documents home without authorization. In 2003, Sandy Berger, Clinton's national-security adviser, smuggled classified documents out of a federal building, reportedly by hiding them in his pants. It was treated as a misdemeanor. His defense lawyer was Lanny Breuer--the official overseeing the prosecution of Drake.
Drake's criminal prosecution is being handled by William Welsh, the former head of the Justice Department's Public Integrity unit. He is due in court on June 13.
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Team Pugs For Peace is back for their second year of fundraising for Pug Rescue of New England's 7th annual 5K on June 3. PRoNE is a non-profit organization run entirely by dedicated volunteers. Surrendered, abandoned and often times neglected pugs are taken in and placed in caring foster homes while they await adoption by a forever home that is a perfect match for them. While in foster care they are examined by a veterinarian. Their medical issues are identified and treated. Sometimes a neuter or dental, other times more extensive medical intervention is needed. This is where we come in. Veterinary care costs money. Our donations enable PRoNE to provide the medical care that each rescue pug needs before it can become available for adoption. PRoNE gives a rescue pug a second chance to have a great life with a forever family that will love and care for them. In return, they will enrich the lives of their forever family everyday. Our three rescue pugs, Wally, Odie and Nigel ask that you help us to help them.
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Art Monkeys wonder no longer!
Your regular program Sunday Sketchy Session has been rescheduled to Sunday October 7.
Please note the earlier start time of 4pm. Doors will open from 3.30pm.
Fire & Brimstone with the Fierce & Fearless, Vesper White
Prepare to be tormented by the tease and experience just how hot hell can really get as Dr Sketchy’s presents
Burlesque Force, Vesper White as she invites to descend into the Netherworld as the sexiest Satan you will ever imagine.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 7
Doors open 3.30pm, Session runs 4.00 to 6.00pm
Where: The Toff in Town
Curtain House 2/252 Swanston St Melbourne
Bookings: $18 at the door, or pre book at http://www.moshtix.com.au
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Our founder and energy bar creator, Dave Decker, believes that sufficient nutrition and quality fitness go hand in hand. Through years of researching more paleo eating options and a growing need for long-lasting energy to supplement his own active lifestyle, Dave’s Serious™ came to fruition. Due to his love of supporting his local community, he felt the desire to let others in on the nutritious value and health benefits of the D’S Primal Bar, too, and began baking them in small batches and distributing them locally.
We bake our bars in-house at our family-facility and jam pack a blend of superfoods in them, which will help you obtain the nutrition your mind and body needs for optimal performance in any activity. With ingredients that are all raw, natural, and unprocessed, you can experience the many health benefits our energy bars have to offer while never growing tired of its delicious taste. | <urn:uuid:9a6c2b78-966c-4960-9c0f-ed85af5ac413> | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | https://www.davesserious.com/our-story/ | 2020-05-30T00:02:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347406785.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20200529214634-20200530004634-00027.warc.gz | en | 0.96008 | 186 |
This was originally posted at my blog Cyborgology – click here to view the original post and to read/write comments.
Crowds in Times Square waving at themselves on the big screen. Photos in this post by nathan jurgenson.
Something interesting has been happening in Times Square this summer. As has been occurring for a century, the crowds gather with necks perched upward looking at all the famously illuminated billboards. But now there is a new type of buzz in the crowd: they stand together facing the same direction, cameras held high and their hands waving even higher. They are not just watching celebrities or models in this the most expensive ad-space in the world; today, they are watching themselves on the big screen.
This is all part of a new billboard for the company Forever 21 currently in use in Times Square in the heart of New York City. It struck me that this billboard is nothing short of a consumer-capitalism-happening, and started snapping photos and thinking about what this all might mean. Read More »
Recently, this blog [note: this was originally posted over at Sociology Lens] has focused on the labor of the crowds. I have posted that the “prosumers of the world should unite” and have continued to write on the topic. Bmckernan expertly handled the topic when discussing “light” capitalism and more recently pj.rey convincingly demonstrated that prosumption is a structural force at play in the death of old media. This post is driven by the recent announcement that Facebook, now nearly the size of the United States, has become profitable (or “cash flow positive“). This re-ignites the debate around companies profiting from increasingly personal and intimate information about ourselves and our lives.
As prosumers on Facebook (that is, we both produce and consume the content on the site), we display ourselves and our socializing with others, and it is precisely this data, this digital goldmine, that Facebook leverages for profit. Another trend of intimate data being shared has to do with “geotagging” and “location awareness” tools.
Location awerness simply refers to tools -often utilizing “smart” mobile phones that are GPS-enabled and always in our pockets- that track and display one’s geographic location. The Loopt iPhone app does just this by keeping track of where the user is and helping them share the information with others. Yahoo has the Fire Eagle service, Google has Google Latitude, and Twitter has also begun to “geotag” tweets with their geographical location. Given these technologies, we can share our past and current geographical locations with ourselves and others by plotting them on maps, posting them as our Facebook or Twitter statuses and so on.
In these examples, we see that the very titans of Web 2.0 capitalism are set to profit (or at least try to) from another intimate source of data: where one is physically located at any given moment. The degree to which these tools become ubiquitous is the degree to which our very lives become a source of ‘intimate profit’. To this point, and I’ll leave with a question to tackle in a later post: does it matter that companies profit from increasingly intimate user-data regarding their self/their socializing/their very location if users find these tools useful? ~nathan
I have a number of posts on this blog regarding the user-generated web (what has come to be known as Web 2.0), usually focused on social networking sites or the changing relations of production and consumption online, leading to the rise of prosumption and the prosumer (briefly, prosumption involves both production and consumption rather than focusing on either one or the other). Some of these ideas are published as a chapter in the new book, The Culture of Efficiency, edited by Sharon Klienman. The chapter, co-authored with George Ritzer, is titled “Efficiency, Effectiveness and Web 2.0”.
There, we argue that there has been an explosion of user-generated content, creating a virtual world of general abundance. We maintain that efficiency thinking –getting the most output from a given input or using the least input to generate a given output- only makes sense to the degree that scarcity exists. Web 2.0 is, largely, an abundant system, requiring a post-scarcity focus on effectiveness rather than efficiency.
For example, it matters little the amount of input that goes into a Wikipedia entry. Many hundreds of authors putting in many hundreds of hours into an entry that is never finished is highly inefficient from the standpoint of content-production. Simultaneously, however, it can also be a highly effective way of building a base of knowledge, as the sheer size of Wikipedia illustrates.
Our essay is a small part of the larger book which looks at how people deal with new technological developments in modern, digital life –a timely and important topic. ~nathan | <urn:uuid:9de281f3-a632-4e71-8bc0-740f96248a3d> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | https://nathanjurgenson.wordpress.com/tag/prosumer/ | 2017-04-25T12:33:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917120349.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031200-00359-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952019 | 1,029 |
Best Compact Binoculars
So here we are in the users’ choice section. Here we’ll talk all about those binoculars which are very appreciated by the users and have a very high user rating. We’ll talk about the best Compact Binoculars which have a decent size, easy to carry around and also high performance. So let’s get on to our top 5 picks of the Best Compact Binoculars.
- 1 Bushnell Powerview Compact Folding Roof Prism Binocular
- 2 Features at a Glance
- 3 Nikon 8245 ACULON A211 Roof Prism Binocular
- 4 Features at a Glance
- 5 Celestron 71332 Nature DX 8×42 Binocular
- 6 Features at a Glance
- 7 Tasco Essentials 10×25 mm compact Binocular
- 8 Features at a Glance
- 9 Barska 10×25 waterproof Binocular
- 10 Features at a Glance
- 11 Share this:
- 12 Related
Bushnell Powerview Compact Folding Roof Prism Binocular
When it comes to compact binoculars, what can possibly be a better option than the one which has a decent size and also can be folded? The Bushnell Powerview Compact Roof Prism Binocular provides you all of that. It’s a very durable and efficient binocular in a very compact size.
Coming in a flexible design, this binocular is very easy to grip and is shock resistant. It folds up very nicely and also very easy to operate. It is very efficient in light transmission and produces very clear and sharp images. Let’s check out all of its features.
- Small and flexible design
- Lightweight (7 ounce)
- Shock resistant rubber armor
- 8x zoom with 21mm objectives
- Fully multicoated glass lenses
- BK-7 prism glass
- Center focusing system
- FOV of 378 feet at 1000 yards
- Limited lifetime warranty
- Nearest focus point at 21 feet
- Designed for heavy and rough use
No doubt, the Bushnell Powerview Compact Folding roof prism binocular is a very good and high performance compact binocular. Though it has some issues in extreme low light conditions from time to time and can’t be placed on a tripod, but they’re not very big issues when it comes to the compact binoculars. It’s a binocular worth having.
Nikon 8245 ACULON A211 Roof Prism Binocular
Nikon always produces great binoculars. There’s no difference in the compact binoculars. The Nikon 8245 ACULON A211 Roof Prism Binocular is an exceptionally efficient one in a very compact size. It’s a very durable binocular with excellent ergonomics.
It’s a very light binocular and easy to carry around. It looks very good and comes in both black color and the real tree extra green camouflage. In a very affordable price, it produces a very wide field of view and very sharp and clear images. Let’s check out the features of it.
- Made with PORRO Prism
- Gives wonderful sharp resolution
- Very light chassis
- Closest focusing distance 5 meters or 16.4 feet
- Lenses are made from multi coated eco-glass
- Anti-slipping rubber-armored coating makes it shock resistant
- Wide field of view
- Smooth central focus knob
The Nikon 8245 ACULON A211 Roof Prism Binocular is an awesome choice. Though it’s not water and fog resistant and has some issues with the brightness, it’s still a very good binocular to have with excellent ergonomics.
Celestron 71332 Nature DX 8×42 Binocular
For those who love the outdoor, the Celestron 71332 Nature DX 8×42 Binocular is perfect for them. Within a very affordable price, it produces some very efficient and fancy features. Not to mention, it’s very lightweight and portable.
This binocular is rubber armored which makes it easy to grab. It looks very good and very easy to operate. The color matches its design perfectly. It’s an ultra-durable binocular. Let’s have a look at the features it offers.
- BaK-4 Prisms
- 100% multicoated optics
- Twist up eye cups
- Army green color
- Weighs 1.75 pounds
- Water and fog resistant
- Nitrogen purged
- Excellent light transmitting capabilities
The Celestron 71332 Nature DX 8×42 binocular is an excellent choice. It can endure heavy usage and extreme weather conditions. The 8x magnification with 42 mm objectives serve their purpose very well. It’s a very high rated product and also highly recommended.
Tasco Essentials 10×25 mm compact Binocular
Coming in a range of different colors, the Tasco Essentials 10×25 mm compact binocular is a very efficient binocular. It’s a very user friendly binocular which can also be given to small children. It also provides some good and useful viewing features.
This binocular comes with a nice case and with a range of different colors. It comes in a very small size and very lightweight. In a very affordable price, it produces all the primary features of binoculars which is great for new users. Let’s find out the features of it.
- Astonishing HD clarity with quality optics
- High class and fully tested materials
- Rubber armor makes it shock resistant
- Beautiful design with various colors
- Very durable
- Weighs only 0.57 pounds
- Excellent choice for new learners
- Very easy operation
- 10x magnification with 25 mm objectives
As a compact binocular, it serves very well. Though there are some issues with the focusing, optics and efficiency in the low light, it still does the job quite well. As it’s a compact binocular for the beginners, it doesn’t have those fancy features. But all in all, it’s not a bad choice at all.
Barska 10×25 waterproof Binocular
This binocular is a very efficient one with excellent ergonomics. It’s also very good in all weather conditions. The rubber armor makes it shock resistant. So basically, it’s a compact learning binocular with some added fancy features. Let’s see the features now.
- BaK-7 prisms with blue lenses
- Weighs only 1.5 pounds
- Roof prism design
- Water and fog resistant
- Rubber armor for shock resistance
- Stylish mix of yellow and black color
- Limited lifetime warranty
- Compact design and easy to carry
The Braska 10×25 waterproof binocular works very well in every weather conditions. It’s a durable binocular with impressive looks. Performance wise, it’s very good too with the 25mm objectives and 10x magnification. The lifetime warranty eradicated all the risks involved with the purchase. So you can definitely go for this one. | <urn:uuid:2a8ff28f-358e-4416-832e-be52f9e7cfce> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | http://binocularsview.com/best-compact-binoculars/ | 2018-11-15T21:15:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039742937.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20181115203132-20181115225132-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.903792 | 1,499 |
Thomas Bulfinch (17961867). Age of Fable: Vols. I & II: Stories of Gods and Heroes. 1913.
IV. c. Latona and the Rustics
SOME thought the goddess in this instance more severe than was just, while others praised her conduct as strictly consistent with her virgin dignity. As usual, the recent event brought older ones to mind, and one of the bystanders told this story: Some countrymen of Lycia once insulted the goddess Latona, but not with impunity. When I was young, my father, who had grown too old for active labors, sent me to Lycia to drive thence some choice oxen, and there I saw the very pond and marsh where the wonder happened. Near by stood an ancient altar, black with the smoke of sacrifice and almost buried among the reeds. I inquired whose altar it might be, whether of Faunus or the Naiads, or some god of the neighboring mountain, and one of the country people replied, No mountain or river god possesses this altar, but she whom royal Juno in her jealousy drove from land to land, denying her any spot of earth whereon to rear her twins. Bearing in her arms the infant deities, Latona reached this land, weary with her burden and parched with thirst. By chance she espied in the bottom of the valley this pond of clear water, where the country people were at work gathering willows and osiers. The goddess approached, and kneeling on the bank would have slaked her thirst in the cool stream, but the rustics forbade her. Why do you refuse me water? said she; water is free to all. Nature allows no one to claim as property the sunshine, the air, or the water. I come to take my share of the common blessing. Yet I ask it of you as a favor. I have no intention of washing my limbs in it, weary though they be, but only to quench my thirst. My mouth is so dry that I can hardly speak. A draught of water would be nectar to me; it would revive me, and I would own myself indebted to you for life itself. Let these infants move your pity, who stretch out their little arms as if to plead for me; and the children, as it happened, were stretching out their arms.
Who would not have been moved with these gentle words of the goddess? But these clowns persisted in their rudeness; they even added jeers and threats of violence if she did not leave the place. Nor was this all. They waded into the pond and stirred up the mud with their feet, so as to make the water unfit to drink. Latona was so angry that she ceased to mind her thirst. She no longer supplicated the clowns, but lifting her hands to heaven exclaimed, May they never quit that pool, but pass their lives there! And it came to pass accordingly. They now live in the water, sometimes totally submerged, then raising their heads above the surface or swimming upon it. Sometimes they come out upon the bank, but soon leap back again into the water. They still use their base voices in railing, and though they have the water all to themselves, are not ashamed to croak in the midst of it. Their voices are harsh, their throats bloated, their mouths have become stretched by constant railing, their necks have shrunk up and disappeared, and their heads are joined to their bodies. Their backs are green, their disproportioned bellies white, and in short they are now frogs, and dwell in the slimy pool.
The persecution which Latona experienced from Juno is alluded to in the story. The tradition was that the future mother of Apollo and Diana, flying from the wrath of Juno, besought all the islands of the Ægean to afford her a place of rest, but all feared too much the potent queen of heaven to assist her rival. Delos alone consented to become the birthplace of the future deities. Delos was then a floating island; but when Latona arrived there, Jupiter fastened it with adamantine chains to the bottom of the sea, that it might be a secure resting-place for his beloved. Byron alludes to Delos in his Don Juan: | <urn:uuid:96736162-835f-4333-a3f9-92c9a638d05e> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.bartleby.com/181/043.html | 2014-12-18T05:42:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802765616.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075245-00050-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978305 | 876 |
As you know I had the opportunity to re-see CHANEL’s Spring/Summer 2017 Haute Couture collection while I was in New York last week. I’m so thrilled to be able to share a behind the scenes look at the stunning presentation with all of you!
Picture the most elegant fashion illustration you have ever seen, now imagine the figure in the illustration coming to life right before your eyes – that is the essence of what Karl Lagerfeld captured in his latest Haute Couture Collection. Lagerfeld’s inspiration for these gorgeous pieces actually came from something extremely simple – a spoon, Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture Spoon Woman to be exact. Giacometti’s sculpture is representative of a woman’s body, from the neck to the bust, a nipped waist and the spoon-like curves of the hips. Lagerfeld took this concept and applied it to the pieces he created with tailored skirt suits, belted high to emphasize the waist. The pieces had feather trimmed hems, silver, sparkle and more elongated lines. Truly beautiful!
From the silver sequins belted dress to the feathered thigh-high boots, all of the pieces from this collection were absolutely breathtaking. It was really hard to pick a favorite look, but I definitely have to go with the beautiful suit and pant set above. The intricate silver beading was absolutely stunning to see in person. The pieces in this collection are truly works of art that showcase Karl Lagerfeld’s incredible ability to create unrivaled designs.
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LOW COST, DIGNIFIED ALTERNATIVE TO THE HIGH PRICE OF INTERMENT
When the time comes, and it does for both our loved ones and ourselves, the costs of a funeral and interment can be staggering.
Many now choose the low cost, dignified alternative of a simple cremation followed by a burial at sea.
Family and friends gather aboard one of our yachts, and travel a short distance to sea
where one’s remains are scattered in a dignified manner.
Clergy are always welcome aboard to officiate and offer their comfort and support should you choose.
Many clients request a light buffet with a short harbor cruise after the release of the ashes,
and often use that time for reflection and as a celebration of their loved one’s life. Flowers, coffee, sodas and juices are complimentary.
Please feel free to contact us regarding further details and services available.
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HOMEWOOD, Calif. — When Homewood Mountain Resort opens later this year, it will make the 52nd winter season for the West Shore resort.
And there will be plenty of new things in store for 2013-14.
Homewood recently was awarded the Golden Eagle Award for environmental stewardship by the National Ski Areas Association. According to the resort, the award is NSAA’s highest environmental honor and recognizes exemplary environmental performance in the ski resort industry.
Homewood was recognized as the top resort in the “Small Ski Area” category — resorts with fewer than 200,000 skier visits annually — for its commitment to innovative watershed management and water-quality monitoring work.
As for skiing and riding, Homewood plans to expand its Smart Slopes sculpted beginner terrain for 2013-14, a concept that “incorporates man-made snow berms, gullies and other terrain features … designed to ease the learning curve for first-time and novice skiers and riders,” resort officials said
Creating those terrain features will be easier with the resort’s addition this year of a PistenBully 400 Park Pro Series groomer to its fleet of snow cats, allowing for better groomed terrain on the slopes and in the resort’s terrain parks.
This winter, Homewood also will unveil the new Foundation Park, described as an urban-style terrain park located next to the mid-mountain Big Blue View Bar.
The resort’s restaurant — West Shore Café & Inn — has a new chef, Mike Davis, who comes most recently from Martis Camp, and whose resume includes The Dining Room in The Salish Lodge and Spa in the Pacific Northwest and The Waterfront Hotel in Oakland.
Another new feature planned for 2013-14 is the Backcountry Experience, a $1,200 lodging package from the West Shore Café and Inn that includes a day of snowcat access with Pacific Crest Snowcats to 3,000 acres of reserved terrain.
This year, Homewood also struck a deal with Diamond Peak Ski Resort, allowing season pass holders to enjoy four days of skiing/riding at the Incline Village resort. The deal also allows Diamond Peak pass holders access at Homewood; both resorts are heralded as having the best views of Lake Tahoe among any of the region’s ski resorts.
An opening date for Homewood has yet to be announced. Learn more about the resort and other features planned for 2013-14 at www.skihomewood.com. | <urn:uuid:883a7a21-694e-46b5-ba30-aa4a6de4e560> | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/northshore/8801154-113/resort-homewood-terrain-2013-14 | 2014-07-22T15:50:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1405997859240.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20140722025739-00169-ip-10-33-131-23.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937124 | 529 |
I am very excited to tell you I have joined up to participate in the on-line class - The Build Zone- solid foundations in Mixed Media Jewelry.
It is run and hosted by Deryn Mentock who makes gorgeous jewellery using vintage findings, gemstones and metals.
As the name suggests the classes will give a good solid foundation of basic skills..plus, of course a glimpse in to Derryn's design process and the addition of resources etc.
Some of the more basic techniques I probably already know how to do......but, hey, that's ok to go over them again and refresh my skills....and also start doing some metal work again which I have put on the back burner a bit lately.( and have never been very confident with anyway!)
Here are some inspirational photos of some of Deryn's work...gorgeous aren't they!!
All the above photos are from Derryn's blog.
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Jessica Chastain Says Her Experience With The Patriarchy Is "Every Experience"
When it comes to the wheelings and dealings of sexism, misogyny, and/or female oppression, Jessica Chastain doesn't mince words. So, naturally, when asked to sum up her personal confrontations with the patriarchy, the Molly's Game star whipped out a curt response, which, for a lot of women, probably hits pretty close to home: Jessica Chastain says her experience with the patriarchy is "every experience."
In a profile with the Wall Street Journal published Jan. 17, Chastain chronicled a lifetime's worth of encounters with the long-held tenets of the patriarchy. And, in keeping with her characteristically forthright tenor (especially when she's talking about women's rights), Chastain's response to WSJ's inquiry about her "personal experience of patriarchy" was spot-on.
After flashing what the WSJ called a "small, mirthless smile," Chastain replied,
"I mean, it's every experience for me, so I don't know how to separate anything. When you have one demographic that is in charge of another demographic's livelihood, you're always going to have abuse of power."
Chastain's response feels particularly timely, for two reasons: one, it calls upon the primary thematic workings of Molly's Game, the award-season contender by first-time director Aaron Sorkin, in which Chastain plays the title character; and two, it manages to succinctly capture the patriarchy's omnipresent and overwhelming impact on women. And, while Molly's Game has already been lauded for the ways in which it manages to turn the pillars of traditional gender dynamics on their heads (mostly by way of its searing, dauntless hero, Molly Bloom, who is as tenacious in real-life as her character reads on-screen), that second point bears great real-world relevance.
In light of Hollywood's string of high-profile sexual assault allegations over the last several months, as well as the burgeoning national conversation about female oppression (and empowerment) that rose with it, it's necessary and important to honestly call out institutional sexism for what it is: pervasive, rampant, and abusive, even part of the most mundane of everyday experiences.
During her WSJ interview, Chastain also touched on those life experiences that shaped the way she sees the world and her place in it today. The 40-year-old actor — whose performance in Molly's Game has already earned her a Golden Globe nomination — recounted a physical confrontation, which she referred to as a "turning point in [her] life." During an argument over something trivial ("my room was messy or whatever," Chastain recalled), she claims her mother's boyfriend at the time slapped her. And, in return, Chastain says she kicked him in the genitals before promptly booking it out of the house.
"I always look back on that moment as knowing that, OK, if anything happens to me, I'm capable of fighting back," Chastain said, adding that her knee-jerk retaliation seemed to get the "don't mess with me" message across. "He never messed with me again," she continued, segueing into another tidbit of hard-earned wisdom: "If you allow a bully to intimidate or victimize you, they'll continue to do it. Bullies are actually weak; they don't go after strong people."
As she told the Wall Street Journal, at the end of the day, her path toward independence (and autonomy from the men who've oppressed her) pretty much boils down to this: Women shouldn't be defined by men. Seems simple enough, right? Unfortunately, that's not how gender dynamics have historically played out. But, in taking steps toward eventually changing the ways in which women experience sexism in a day-to-day sense, perhaps the societal powers that be might do well to take a note from Chastain's insights. | <urn:uuid:9577fcd3-8b33-4196-b79f-aea64957890b> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://www.bustle.com/p/jessica-chastain-says-her-experience-with-the-patriarchy-is-every-experience-7930752 | 2019-05-19T06:51:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232254253.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20190519061520-20190519083520-00324.warc.gz | en | 0.968532 | 826 |
A month-long carnival celebration and three new pop-up outdoor rides are just some of the new attractions awaiting when Alton Towers resort reopens its doors on April 12.
Alton Towers Resort has announced it is planning to host a series of fantastic celebrations and entertainment for 2021. Guests can expect never-ending fun this season as the UK’s biggest theme park introduces an exciting brand-new carnival themed celebration, as well as the return of fan favourites, spooktacular Scarefest and Oktoberfest.
As the theme park prepares to re-open from April 12, Alton Towers Resort will roll out its programme of festivities to celebrate unforgettable adventures, spending time with friends and family, and making memories together at Britain’s greatest escape.
This season will see the arrival of three retro-inspired, pop-up outdoor rides for guests to enjoy, providing a thrilling trip down memory lane.
The calendar of entertainment includes:
NEW FOR 2021: Mardi Gras (May 22 – June 20)
Guests will get to kick off summer as the resort hosts its first Mardi Gras inspired takeover. new carnival style celebration is set to dazzle, thanks to an explosion of colours, sounds, high energy entertainment and so much more ahead of a fun-packed summer of thrills.
Oktoberfest (September 11 – October 3)
Following the success of last year’s event, the Alton Towers Oktoberfest oomptastic fun is returning this autumn and it is going to be bigger and better than ever. Families and thrill-seekers will be in for more than a treat with the chance to ride the resort’s world-class rollercoasters as darkness falls, try some utterly delicious food and enjoy delightfully themed entertainment, all in a cheerful, family-friendly atmosphere…with a German twist.
Scarefest (October 8 to 10 and 16 to 31)
As the days grow shorter and the nights get darker, Scarefest returns. Guests can expect all sorts of creepy scares, shocks and thrills as they experience the frantically funny to seriously spooky themed attractions, all wrapped up in a spooktacular Halloween atmosphere.
Fireworks (November 5 – 7)
For spectacular sights and incredible sounds, the Alton Towers Resort fireworks display will dazzle guests with the most astonishing displays across the UK, with electrifying bursts, bangs and howls of amazing fireworks to music, lights and live action storytelling.
Christmas (November 27 – December 23)
This Christmas families can make magical memories with a Santa’s Sleepover and new for 2021, guests can visit the brand-new Towers Christmas Markets, the perfect Christmassy escape this festive season.
Chris Carter, Events and Entertainments Director at Alton Towers Resort, said: “This year we are planning to host ongoing fun and thrills for families and thrill-seekers throughout the season. We are excited to be able to offer something brand new for our guests, as well as stage the return of our popular Oktoberfest, Halloween celebrations and awesome fireworks show.
“We are really looking forward to welcoming our guests back to the resort – we’ve got a team of essential workers currently on site preparing for reopening to ensure we create a safe, memorable, exciting and family-friendly atmosphere that our guests know and love.”
Alton Towers Resort has implemented a wide range of measures to help ensure social distancing and good hygiene whilst guests enjoy a fun day out including enhanced cleaning regimes, social distancing, temperature checks and mask wearing on rides and attractions for those aged over 11 years (unless medically exempt).
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The amount of work that goes into deploying, managing, and monitoring a cloud system is significant so it makes sense that organizations would want to automate some of the more routine and tedious tasks. Thankfully, AWS fully understands this and has created several services to help you do just that.
We’re taking a look at some options that are native to AWS, as well as introduce some third-party options that you can integrate into the workflow. Creating a mix of services enables the flexibility needed to simplify operations and, hopefully, increase your effectiveness and productivity when working in the cloud.
With this service, you can automate a significant portion of your cloud maintenance and monitoring, from deploying applications through CodePipeline to responding to data modifications in S3. While Lambda does not work with all AWS services, it can read events from Kinesis, DynamoDB, and SQS, and can be invoked by 15 different services, including S3, CloudWatch, and CodeCommit.
Common use cases for Lambda include data processing and serverless backends. For data processing purposes, code can be executed in response to changes in data or system state, or the actions of users. This can facilitate real-time file processing, real-time stream processing, and Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes for big data analytics. For serverless backend creation, functions can be created to handle web, IoT, and third-party API requests which allow for the creation of personalized mobile app experiences and scalable, highly available web apps.
Lambda does require at least basic programming knowledge if you wish to use it directly but there are pre-built functions that the AWS user community has made available, as well as tutorials with code samples, such as this one about automating EBS snapshots. The service is also frequently used with third-party integrations.
AWS Systems Manager
AWS Systems Manager is a service that allows you to view operational data from the services you’re using and to automate operational tasks related to those services. Through it, you can group resources, like instances or storage buckets, and take bulk actions for instance deployment, patch application, and configuration changes.
Systems Manager operates via automation documents, written in YAML or JSON, and includes predefined documents for common tasks, which you can easily customize. When creating and customizing documents, you can specify the actions you wish to take, their schedule and number of attempts, as well as what the response should be when an action fails or is completed. You can also dictate whether actions are role dependent, what resource states they’re triggered by, and whether they use branching logic.
To use Systems Manager, you must configure an automation role, either through CloudFormation or Identity and Access Management (IAM), with permissions allowing access and modification of your services.
Use cases for automating with Systems Manager include the creation and modification of machine images, the maintenance of CloudFormation stacks, the creation of tags, the launching of instances, and the calling and running of API actions. This service can be used in combination with Lambda functions for even greater functionality.
AWS CloudFormation is a service that uses JSON templates to automatically provision and manage your AWS resources as “stacks” of services or applications. With this service you can standardize your infrastructure components, allowing for faster configuration and troubleshooting, and automatically deploy and provision resources, minimizing manual effort and the chance of misconfigurations.
A common use case for CloudFormation, in combination with CodePipeline, is the creation of a Continuous Delivery pipeline. To accomplish this, you must designate a CloudFormation template as a deployment action in your CodePipeline workflow, which will allow you to create or modify stacks and create or execute changesets so you can test how changes will impact your resources before implementing them. An added benefit of this combination is that it can be used to easily deploy and terminate pre-production and test environments for your applications.
Third-party tools, like Jenkins or Ansible, are another good option for automating your AWS services. These services can often be deployed within AWS, either on top of EC2 instances or in containers.
Ansible, which is an open-source automation platform, provides a variety of built-in modules for managing AWS. This includes functions for authentication, provisioning, security grouping, inventory, tagging, and autoscaling.
Ansible functions through playbooks, which are designed to be easily readable by humans and are written in YAML format. You can use playbooks for everything, from simple configuration and deployment of remote machines, to multi-tier rollouts with rolling updates.
Jenkins is another open-source tool. It provides an automation server most often used for Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) workflows. Jenkins is a Java-based program that can be configured through a web interface and includes a wide variety of plug-in options, including Pipeline AWS, which allows you to interact with AWS through API.
By incorporating automation into your workflows, you can redirect the significant time and effort that would otherwise be spent on configuration and management to optimize cloud performance and productivity. As your cloud grows, it will only get more challenging to maintain, so adding automation early on can give you a significant head start on streamlining the process. | <urn:uuid:00e8dc54-ca88-4656-976d-40480e71b1d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://sandhill.com/article/automating-the-cloud-aws-tools-and-tips/ | 2022-07-05T19:41:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104597905.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220705174927-20220705204927-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.919634 | 1,210 |
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Background: Understanding the strengths and challenges of various clinical models is important for nursing education. Method: Three long-standing clinical models (preceptored, hybrid, and traditional) were compared on several outcome measures related to satisfaction, learning opportunities, and student outcomes. Students, faculty, and preceptors participated in this study. Results: Although no differences were noted in satisfaction or standardized examination scores, students in the preceptored clinical model were able to practice more psychomotor skills. Although participants in the preceptored model reported spending more time communicating with staff nurses than did those in the other models, students in the traditional model spent more time with faculty. No differences were noted among groups in student clinical observation time. Conclusion: All clinical learning models were focused on how clinical time was structured, without an emphasis on how faculty and preceptors work with students to develop nursing clinical reasoning skills. Identifying methodology to impact thinking in the clinical environment is a key next step.
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California: Hepatitis a New Worry for Baby Boomers
May 3, 2012
Federal officials plan soon to announce a new nationwide effort to promote widespread hepatitis C virus testing. Three-fourths of the estimated 3.2 million Americans with chronic HCV, and roughly the same proportion dying from the infection, are baby boomers. Between 1999 and 2007, US deaths from HCV almost doubled. The more than 15,000 HCV-related deaths in 2007 outpaced deaths from HIV/AIDS.
"We have a sort of a perfect storm of an age wave of people who are moving through time who are progressively becoming sicker from an infection that was acquired several decades ago," said John Ward, director of CDC's Division of Viral Hepatitis. "We think we are at a very critical juncture."
Many people with HCV have never been diagnosed. The blood-borne virus often remains silent for decades as it slowly destroys liver cells. In California, state officials estimate hospital costs of HCV-related liver disease, cancer, and transplants surpassed $2 billion in 2010. The new, more effective HCV therapies are not cheap, but they are far less expensive than cancer treatment and liver transplantation.
CDC's current HCV testing recommendations are risk-based. Risks include injecting drug use; having had a blood transfusion before HCV screening became available in 1992; HIV infection; or receiving a tattoo with non-sterile instruments.
At least 530,000 people have HCV in California, including an estimated 134,000 in Los Angeles County, health officials said. For more information on HCV testing in the state, visit the California Department of Public Health website: www.cdph.ca.gov/healthinfo/discond/Pages/HepatitisC.aspx.
Los Angeles Times
05.02.2012; Anna Gorman
Reducing Widespread Pipe Sharing and Risky Sex Among Crystal Methamphetamine Smokers in Toronto: Do Safer Smoking Kits Have a Potential Role to Play?
This article was provided by CDC National Prevention Information Network. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.
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Another year, another data point showing Amazon has surpassed Google as the default search engine for shopping.
Fifty-five percent of people in the U.S. now start their online shopping trips on Amazon.com, according to results from a 2,000-person survey commissioned by the e-commerce startup BloomReach. That stat marks a 25 percent increase from the same survey last year, when 44 percent of online shoppers said they turned to Amazon first.
Over the same time, the percentage of shoppers who start product searches on search engines like Google dropped from 34 percent to 28 percent. The number of online shoppers who check out a retailer’s website (other than Amazon) first also shrunk, from 21 percent to 16 percent.
The trend is obviously bad news for traditional retailers like Walmart and Target, which have both made big, recent executive changes on their digital teams amid stalling growth in the face of Amazon.
But Amazon’s growing dominance is also an obvious problem for Google, which makes a fortune from selling ads alongside product searches.
The one potential silver lining for Google: As fewer shoppers go directly to a retailer’s website, these businesses have to find new ways to get in front of shoppers. One option: They are turning to Google’s image-heavy product listing ads to do that.
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Ben Gurion International Airport, Israel - Israel Aircraft Industries/MBT Division announces the launch of its EROS A1 satellite by the Russian
Early reports indicate a successful launch into orbit.
EROS-A1 satellite carries a high-resolution electro-optical camera that will make commercial digital imagery services available to users around the world.
MBT's EROS A1 is the first in a series of satellites in a multi-phase program delivered to ImageSat International, a joint venture, in which IAI, American and European investors are partners.
Last month, IAI/MBT teams arrived in Svobodny, the Russian launch site, to prepare the satellite for launch and direct the entire launch campaign.
The satellite was launched today 5 December, 2000 at 12:32 GMT, into Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO). In this polar orbit, the satellite circles the earth over its poles every 94 minutes and crosses the equator, maintaining the same local time. SSO gives the satellite total coverage of the earth for various imaging tasks.
Once in orbit, EROS A1 will undergo a series of tests by MBT's engineers to verify its operation and performance capabilities. These in-orbit tests are expected to last about a month.
At this hour the satellite has completed 2 orbits. Systems checked by the control room show that they are functioning properly.
The 250 kg launch weight of EROS A1, includes fuel for a few years of mission life. Its unique light weight (about one third of competing satellites) makes the satellite highly maneuverable and efficient in performing its imaging tasks. Because of the satellite's lightweight, the EROS A1 control system easily maneuvers the satellite from side to side in order to image, with remarkable agility, specific and focused targets.
IAI/MBT teams will control the EROS A1 satellite from the main Ground Station at IAI/MBT's facility. This main Ground Station was also developed and manufactured by IAI/MBT.
IAI/MBT successfully launched LEO (Low Earth Orbit) type satellites in 1988 and 1990. These were the experimental OFEQ-1 and OFEQ-2 satellites. The Observation OFEQ 3 satellite was launched in April 1995. These LEO type satellites orbit the earth at altitudes ranging from 400 to 1000 km and circle the earth approximately every 100 minutes. They serve as platforms for observation, communication and for scientific purposes. Mr. Itzhak Nissan, MBT General Manager, said, "MBT Division is an 'under-one-roof' center that provides wide range of space activities in Israel. It ranges from design, development and manufacture of satellites and subsystems, integration and testing facilities, through earth stations that offer the capability to track, control and command in-orbit satellites and payloads".
MBT total sales for the 2000 reached $260 million, as compared to $220 million in 1999. Sales forecast for 2001 will exceed more than $300 million. The backlog in 2000 reached $800 million, and the forecast for 2001 is approximately $ 1 billion.
Few days, following the successful launch of the "EROS A-1" satellite, the Prime Minister and Minister of Defence of the State of Israel,
Mr. Ehud Barak, sent this letter of congratulation to Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI):
Gen. (Ret.) Ori Orr - Chairman of the Board - IAI
Mr. Moshe Keret - President & CEO - IAI
Employees of IAI
On behalf of the government of Israel and myself, please accept our congratulations following the successful launch of the "EROS-1" satellite.
This achievement is the successful outcome of a superior technological and scientific effort, demonstrating the ability, pursuit of excellence and persistence that characterizes IAI's employees.
This success belongs to each and every one of you. It stands above all expectations, and, proves, once again, that knowledge and talent have no frontiers.
The Prime Minister
and Minister of Defence
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