September was an AMAZING month and we couldn't have started out any better than going back to Kentucky to visit our family and friends. During our short visit, we managed to pack in a lot and enjoyed every second we had with people we love. We also managed to get a lot of well needed pool time, eat way too much yummy food, and make a visit to our favorite winery. I wouldn't even know what pictures to share, so instead I made this video which seems to have captured the entire trip in a nutshell.
It was extremely hard to get back on the plane and come home, but once we were home we didn't have a second to be sad. We got home, put some fresh sheets on Landon's bed, and then welcomed some first time visitors and our friends from Nashville. They bought Landon a Bayern-Munich soccer uniform which he immediately put on and has worn constantly since. Not only that, but they have an adorable little boy who we all had a blast with. He just loved Landon and Landon loved him. It was so much fun sharing a little bit of this city with them and getting to hang out. We hope they loved it enough to come back soon!
The day they left, it was finally time to wind down from our trip and their visit. Landon had received some money in Kentucky from family so we took him to Target to pick out something for himself and then decided to go for a drive. We ended up at a winery (no surprise) in Half Moon Bay and while I did a wine tasting, the boys built a submarine. When we were finished there we continued down the road and ended up at PF Changs for some dinner. Spur of the moment drives can be fun!
All the eating from our trip to Kentucky seemed to follow us home, so the next morning after church we decided it was time to get out and do some hiking. One our favorite nearby areas is Mt. Tamalpais, with many different trails we decided to go over and hike the very top, an area we hadn't been before.
The views from Mt. Tam are spectacular and the short, but uphill hike to the top was rewarded with great views down into the bay. This is also great place to watch the fog rolling in and this day it was really moving.
It felt so good to get out after two weeks of being inactive and eating way too much. This is the time of year where the year in the area really heats up and usually the fog fades to make way for beautiful sunny days best to be enjoyed outside.
The following weekend, I took Landon with me downtown to visit the Ferry Building. I wasn't sure how he would do, but he absolutely loved it. We started out with some delicious Lemon and Chocolate Italian donuts for breakfast and sat on the water's edge while enjoying our sweets.
Afterwards, we walked around the market. Landon's favorite thing was a huge lifesize coloring page at the local bookstore. He had so much fun coloring it that we actually went back twice. We also visited the playground just down the street. When we first moved to the area and had corporate housing downtown, we played at this playground a lot. He loves it and, with tons of kids constantly coming in, we spent a good bit of time there.
Once he was hungry, we headed back to the ferry building to get some lunch. With so many different places to pick from we started out in line for Mexican and then changed our minds. He picked mac and cheese from the Cowgirl Creamery and I got some fish and chips from a San Francisco Fish Company. We ended up sharing and all of it was amazing. I'm pretty sure, no matter what you get there, you can't go wrong. Landon ended our excursion with some ice cream, but by then I had to call it quits. After a long morning and afternoon of eating and playing one of us had to go back home and have a nap and it wasn't the little one.
That night, we found some cheap last minute tickets to the San Francisco Giants game. We hadn't been to a game yet, but it was on our list so we bought the tickets and the next morning headed out to a 1 pm game. We took BART and on the way to the stadium passed Adam's office. His office is on the 9th floor right in the center of the financial district.
We made it to the stadium just before the start of the game. It was a beautiful day.
The only problem,? There wasn't a cloud in the sky, our seats were uncovered, and it was 90 degrees. For all of those reasons, it wasn't very enjoyable and no one could really concentrate on the game. After just two innings, we left. I was super disappointed and annoyed to have wasted the money. I didn't see this picture until later, guess it just isn't the case for some of us.
Since the season is over now, we decided that next year we will try for a night game. I think it will be a lot more enjoyable for all of us. To make it all better, we went to California Pizza Kitchen and I had a glass of my favorite wine. The day didn't turn out so badly after all.
The last weekend of the month was well spent. Saturday, we headed up to Napa and knew we were getting close when we passed these on the road.
As I talked about HERE we visited Grigch Hill Estates and Sterling Vineyards. I was worried about taking Landon along, but we ended up all having a great time. Proof you don't have to drink to enjoy Napa.
Sunday, we finally managed to make it to the Point Bonita Lighthouse for a full moon tour. We were especially excited because it also happened to be the blood moon. We arrived at the starting point for the hike down to the lighthouse where our high hopes were quickly downsized. Despite it being nice and sunny at our place, Marin was pretty foggy and we were not sure it would clear up quickly enough. Still, we had come this far so we weren't turning back. We ended up really enjoying learning all about the lighthouse and its history. Despite having been to the lighthouse before, this was the first time we took a tour and even the Munchkin enjoyed talking to the tour guides.
By the time the sun was suppose to set, it was obvious that we wouldn't see a moonrise. Instead, we just walked around the lighthouse and enjoyed what sunset we had through the clouds. Regardless of the day, this place is always beautiful.
Since it was a dud of a sunset/moonrise we just kept it on our list to try and do again another time. None the less, it was still really fun and a great little family excursion.
To finish off the weekend, Landon and I went home and made a no bake cheesecake. I'm pretty sure Landon could have done this completely on his own, it is that easy. I really enjoyed making this quick dessert with him as it was something my Grandmother use to always make. Despite being an amazing cook, I always loved her no bake cheesecakes and now Landon knows their goodness and loves them too.
September was a great month full of family and friends and lots of good food! It's hard to believe October is already here, but I cannot wait for all the fun events and activities that the holidays bring. Another month in the history books and so many more wonderful memories made. Life is good!


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Controversial courtroom drama "An Affirmative Act" hits theaters nationwide Friday April 1st 2011. From the mind of best selling author/producer Ken Del Vecchio comes a film based on the legalization of gay marriage which could possibly have Academy Award written all over it. An Affirmative Act is a powerful film that will keep you on edge and is our pick as a must see!
A slice of life of a young, professional married couple with their darling baby turns a sharp, dark corner when the pair are arrested and charged with several counts of fraud. The reason: Terry and Samantha Succi aren't the man and woman that they purported to be. In truth, they are two women. One, a long haired, pretty school teacher; the other, a boyish-looking architect, who tricked the world surrounding her into thinking she was a man.One affirmative act, deciding not only the fate of the women's freedom, but also the governor's bill and one of the most controversial issues facing the United States. One affirmative act - of justice, or maybe not…all of this and more as "An Affirmative Act" hits theaters. Directed by Jana Mattioli, the film stars Elissa Goldstein, Candice Holdorf, Eric Etebari (Witchblade, Lincoln Lawyer) Emmy Winner Blanche Baker, Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling ("The Howard Stern Show"), 6-time Emmy winner Justin Deas, Rachael Robbins (The Great Fight), and Keith Collins (A Fight For Survival, Games People Play), who add comedic moments to the drama; LGBT standouts Randy Jones (Cowboy – "The Village People"), Rob Moretti (Crutch), Jeffrey H. Johns and Greg Jackson; and veteran Hollywood actors Costas Mandylor (Saw movies, The Pledge), Thomas G. Waites (And Justice For All, The Thing), and Robert Clohessy ("Oz", "Boardwalk Empire", "Hill Street Blues"), joining the legendary Charles Durning(2-time Academy Award Nominee).


W. Rodney Hammond, PhD, is the retired director of the Division of Violence Prevention within the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia. Currently, he is an adjunct professor of counseling and human development in the College of Education at the University of Georgia. He began his career at CDC in 1996 following 23 years in academia, where he became nationally recognized for his research and programs focused on preventing youth violence. As the first permanent director of the Division of Violence Prevention, he led the division through unprecedented growth. Throughout his career, he has been dedicated to promoting a public health approach to preventing violence, both nationally and internationally. His efforts brought recognition to the CDC as a world leader in violence prevention and have engaged numerous partners in violence prevention activities, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and the World Health Organization. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and a distinguished fellow emeritus of the National Academies of Practice. In 2010, he received the Nicholas Hobbs Award from the Society for Child and Family Practice of the American Psychological Association for lifetime achievements in child advocacy and policy. Also in 2010, the American Psychological Association honored him with their Meritorious Research Service Commendation for his leadership role at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in applying psychological science to the problem of youth violence. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his PhD in psychology at Florida State University in Tallahassee. He completed postdoctoral study at Harvard University.
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The Cruellest Month by Louise Penny
The third of Penny's Inspector Gamache books, we're back in Three Pines with another murder and the simultaneous playing out of the story that's overshadowed Armand Gamache's working life from the start of the series. Things were looking tense by the end of the previous book, so we know that poor old Gamache is probably in for a bumpy ride.
First, though, and somewhat rashly, readers of the earlier books might think, the inhabitants of Three Pines set off for the old Hadley house to exorcise its ghosts. They've got a visiting medium and they think holding a séance will be a good idea. It's not, of course, because one of their number winds up dead, apparently frightened to death. Inspector Gamache doesn't mind too much when he's sent for, because he's got fond of the village, and he looks forward to a welcome at the B&B run by Gabri and Olivier, where the food is good and the fires are always burning (well, Easter in Quebec is on the chilly side). With him he brings his assiduous sidekick Jean Guy Beauvoir (a man you can be assured will be well-turned out and wearing impractical shoes) and the rest of his team – which includes, again, the thoroughly unlikeable Yvette Nichol. Of course, we're quite pleased to see her back, really, because we know there's unfinished business there.
The Cruellest Month is as atmospheric as its predecessors, and of course, we're as attached to the village as Gamache is by now. We might think it's a rather dangerous place to live, and wonder how the residents continue to feel positively about their lives being continually disrupted by violent death, but we want to be there with them. (Well, they've got a good bookshop, for a start, and a resident award-winning poet!) The regular characters continue to grow, too, so that we feel we're getting to know them better – Clara and Peter, who don't always get everything right, are still working on their marriage. The alarming Ruth is still insulting everyone and getting away with it. And Penny's writing, just a touch uncertain in the first book is, by the third, deft and assured. I like this series a lot.
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The Flourish by Heather Spears
This rather interesting venture into the world of fictionalised historical reconstruction, somewhat reminiscent of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, is sadly out-of-print, although secondhand copies can be found on the usual sites. Unlike Kate Summerscales' book, though, it doesn't seek to reproduce the investigation, but the events leading up to the murder of Charlotte Spears in the small Scottish town of Kirkfieldbank, near Lanark. In the nineteenth century small-town Scotland was prim in the extreme and on her arrival from Glasgow to keep house for her aunt and uncle, Charlotte quickly finds herself the object of her neighbour's scrutiny. A young woman of determination and independence of spirit, she nonetheless sets herself up as a music teacher and appointed to take charge of the kirk choir (the detail on the modern, "scientific" approach to music teaching, and its use of tonic solfa, is fascinating). Before long she catches the attention of a young local minister, in whom she quickly recognises a kindred spirit, but she's also subjected to the attentions of a much less amenable man, the decidedly oily Mr Weir, a member of her choir. And then Charlotte's cousin Willy comes home from Glasgow to convalesce from a fever, and she, alone in the house while her uncle and aunt attend their draper's shop, must nurse him during his recovery.
There is a tremendous immediacy to The Flourish, reinforced by the knowledge that
The events in this story are true. The characters all lived. My task as storyteller has been to provide motives, particulars and narrative continuity, always and necessarily convinced that the parts I have imagined are true as well.
The author, Heather Spears, is Charlotte's great niece, a Canadian poet whose love of language is evident in her handling of nineteenth-century Scottish idiom, which she wields with startling flair. Words which might be unfamiliar to the reader fall naturally into context and become, I suspect, self-evident (and a quick online search will anyway provide the answer to any problematic expressions) while the minutiae of daily life provide an ground bass above which the over-arching story flows:
Charlotte took her early walk in all weathers. The ways still hung with tawdry bits of ribbon over the dykes and among the hedges. Helen's red sateen had been found not to be fast; when they came to pull it down, the doorstep and some of the roses were spotted from it, which looked very odd. Margaret Tennant scrubbed the porch, and Maddie gathered the affected petals up as they fell, for a pot pourri.
Willy fails to recover, his fevers "returning and returning". With Charlotte's murder foreshadowed from the start, there begins to be a dreadful inexorability to the pace, a strong contrast with the lack of event which mainly characterises her everyday life. While she washes the bedlinen and teaches her pupils, moving quietly about the house and village, we know that Charlotte is doomed, that no choices she can make can prevent her terrible end. Even so, you can't help hoping for some way out. An unforgettable book.
CanLit again - Annabel and The Bishop's Man
Annabel by Kathleen Winter
This is a thoughtful and often lyrical investigation into what it means to grow up different from other children. It's 1968 in Labrador, and Jacinta, at home and surrounded by her female friends, gives birth to a baby who has both male and female characteristics. But only the baby's parents and a close friend, Thomasina, know it, so it's straightforward enough for Treadway, the baby's father, to decide that he'll be raised as a boy. Wayne grows into a solitary child, close to his mother, but generally comfortable enough with his father, and all is quiet enough until Wayne reaches puberty.
I enjoyed this novel which is, in many ways, as sparse as its Labrador setting. At the end I felt that, if you were prepared to suspend disbelief (and I usually am, as a reader, happy to take a work very much on its own terms) it works well as a study of loneliness: I'm not sure that it really said much about gender ambiguity, except that it makes it difficult to find friends, something we could probably have guessed. Perhaps it's too delicate, and a few more rough edges in the writing might have made it more immediate, made you care more deeply about the characters. Your heart should be in your mouth at Wayne's plight, but instead you just drift through, pausing only momentarily to wonder at this or that. When I finished the book I found I was left with a sense of wistfulness and an overall feeling that my emotions had had too easy a ride for the subject matter.
The Bishop's Man by Linden MacIntyre
Another slightly anomalous read. This time it was mainly because I quite disliked the main character, the rather prissy Father Duncan MacAskill but, that apart, I was impressed by this 2009 Giller Prize winner. It's no spoiler to say that the plot turns on the difficult subject of child sexual abuse, and as I read I found myself thinking a good deal on the questions raised: on the church's attitude to it and failures to address it, on the nature of victimhood, and on religious vocation.
"The night before things started to become unstuck, I actually spent a good hour taking stock of my general situation and concluded that, all things considered, I was in pretty good shape. I was approaching the age of fifty, a psychological threshold only slightly less daunting than death, and found myself not much changed from forty or even thirty. If anything, I was healthier. The last decade of the century, and of the millennium, was shaping up to be less stressful than the eighth — which had been defined by certain events in Central America — and the ninth, burdened as it was by scandals here at home."
Father MacAskill quickly finds the complacency of the opening pages to be misplaced as, not long after he moves to his first actual parish, a young boy he befriends there kills himself. As a result, MacAskill finds himself facing his own demons as well as those of the church he's served so assiduously. His time as, in essence, inquisitor for the Bishop he admires, the period he spent in Honduras, his childhood in Cape Breton, all carry their attendant pain that he's avoided dealing with until now.
Despite my dislike of MacAskill's prissiness, this is muscular writing, born of a tradition of novel writing which I associate with men of a certain generation (Robertson Davies comes to mind). It's firmly rooted, with an introspection and clarity that roots it in the real world, even when it deals with evasions and avoidances of the truth. The Bishop's Man does what Annabel fails to: it's a challenging and serious book, painful at times, but it's one I'll be glad to return to.
Troll Fell and Troll Mill by Katherine Langrish
Troll Fell is the first of a trilogy by Katherine Langrish who blogs at the fabulous Seven Miles of Steel Thistles. So it's no surprise to find it full of familiar tropes and characters, but I love the new directions in which these are taken. On one level this is conventional fairy story, on another it's immediate and relevant to a modern-day audience.
When his father dies, Peer Ulfsson is sad and lonely, but preparing to make the best of things by moving in with family friends and continuing his training as a woodcarver. So he's appalled when a hideously brutish uncle turns up at the funeral and claims him as kin. Peer is taken back to his uncle's mill on the edge of Troll Fell, where he's neglected and mistreated. But at least he has his dog Loki with him, and he does manage to make new friends - with young Hilde, a neighbour, and with the Nis, the household bogart, who is equally neglected (and we all know from fairytales that that's not a good idea!). The Nis is sly and mistrusting, and often sulky, but at least he's a source of information about what's going on outside the mill. It's important information, as it turns out, because the trolls who live under the Fell are expecting to celebrate a wedding between their prince and the daughter of the king of Dovre Fell, an event of great significance and one which will have enormous repercussions for Peer and Hilde.
Troll Mill picks up the story some time later, and I don't want to say too much about the plot, except that new characters are introduced while old ones return in a deliciously scary and atmospheric story. Along with Hilde I agonised for Kersten and Bjørn, and I thought the troll baby was tremendous! Peer and Hilde are both struggling with the pangs of growing up and undergoing all sorts of feelings which will be familiar to a young audience. The action is fast-moving though, and these are books which would be wonderful to read to a younger child -- scary, but not oppressively so, exciting and funny, and with the true fairytale emphasis on the resourcefulness of its young heroes. An adult reader, meanwhile, can appreciate the deft interweaving of the elements of the folk tales on which Langrish draws, and the light touch she brings to the exploration of the feelings of her main characters. There are some superb writers working with this traditional material these days - what makes Langrish stand out, I think, is that her love for it shines out of her writing and lends a wonderful freshness and authority.
The trilogy continues with Troll Blood, which I haven't had a chance to read yet. The first two, however, I read as part of the Once Upon a Time V Challenge. I'm not going to do a wrap-up post for the Challenge because, although I read several books, I just didn't have time to write about them here (and, in one case, I didn't feel all that much inclined!). I did enjoy the challenge all the same, so thanks to Carl for hosting it. Oh, and I read them both on my Kindle. And, I should add, I enjoyed Troll Fell so much that I downloaded Troll Mill straight away!
Labels: fairytales, fantasy, Once Upon a Time V Challenge
The Great White Bear by Kieran Mulvaney
The Great White Bear is a natural history of the that iconic Arctic animal, the polar bear. It makes fascinating reading – I wanted to quote so much from it, my copy is full of highlighted passages that I want to make everyone in the world read, because the polar bear in peak form is a muscle-bound miracle of evolution with a four-and-a-half inch layer of blubber, black skin and translucent hair that works so efficiently that, far from struggling to keep warm, the bear actually has to stay cool. It can smell a seal for miles, has been known to leap on the back of a beluga whale, and spends four months under the snow to rear its young.
Kieran Mulvaney has written for, amongst others, New Scientist, BBC Wildlife and Greenpeace, lived for seven years in Alaska and brings a lifetime's interest and understanding to his subject. His book covers all aspects of the bear's life (including the answer to the hoary question about why they don't live in the Antarctic) from evolution and physiology to its future. Most important of all, though of little practical interest to most bears, is the unequal relationship with man, and Mulvaney demonstrates beyond question just how unequal that is: despite its being admirably equipped to kill, encounters between bears and humans are much more likely to result in the bear's death. And bears are still hunted, of course, both legitimately by indigenous peoples, and illegally, even in Russia where hunting has been banned for longest.
In this accessible and readable book, Mulvaney combines history, mythology and science with his own first-hand travels and experience of "bear tourism" with Canadian polar bears in Churchill, and an attempt to offer a deeper understanding of the bear's experience as he describes its life through the course of the Arctic year. Thus it's rather reminiscent of Kingdom of the Ice Bear, the hugely successful television series which followed a family of bears, and readers in search of "hard" science may be surprised at the degree of intimacy the approach offers. There's no lack of solid information, though, and Mulvaney examines and presents it thoughtfully. I felt enriched as I read, intellectually and emotionally.
The final chapter is a consideration of the threat of global warming on the Arctic, an environment extremely susceptible to change as the sea ice declines, taking with it the algae that drives the Arctic Ocean's complex ecology. While migrant species may benefit, at least in the short term from these changes, the species which are dependent on the ice for breeding are already under threat, in the case of the polar bear doubly so, since the seals which are its prey are its companions in ice-dependency. We've all seen the film of a polar bear swimming in an ocean bereft of ice, and realised that the creature is almost certainly doomed to swim until it drowns – and indeed, the book's US cover image is of a swimming bear (I'm not sure why the UK publisher decided to go with a less effective image). It may be as little as twenty years before the ice fails to replace in winter what has been lost in summer and our descendants will only know the polar bear on film, or as a sad creature in a zoo with concrete beneath its paws. We have evidence that the bears are already showing signs of decline both in size and numbers, and it's more than time that the polar bear was declared an endangered species (rather than "threatened", its current status), so that its welfare must be take into consideration and its habitat protected. Mulvaney's book is timely and essential.
Note: The Great White Bear is published in the UK as Ice Bear: A Natural and Unnatural History of the Polar Bear. This review refers to the US version, which came from NetGalley. You can learn more about polar bears from Polar Bears International and both they and The Great White Bear have Facebook pages. Not a Canadian book as such, but one with extensive Canadian subject matter, I'm counting this book towards the 4th Canadian Book Challenge.
Labels: Canada, Canadian Book Challege, natural history, wildlife

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Many people consider manure to be a liability, but anaerobic (or methane) digesters convert this manure into electricity, fertilizer and bedding, creating value-added products for the community.
They installed a digester about half a mile down the road from our farm a year or two ago, so I decided to go check it out.
Liquid manure (slurry) is trucked in from a few dairies and emptied into a pit. Like livestock, the digester must be fed continuously. There is a sensor on the digester that indicates when the digester needs more manure and substrate, and then it flows from the pit it is emptied into. The manure and substrate are called feedstock. This particular digester uses dairy manure and grease, along with a few other substrates.
The manure and substrate mixture stays in the digester for approximately 22 days. After that point, the methane is pumped off through pipes and the solids collected. The solids are used as bedding on dairy farms (and probably other types of farms, too) and can be used as fertilizer for greenhouses.
If methane is not used, it cannot be stored unless it is compressed into compressed natural gas (CNG). Since this digester does not produce CNG (that I know of), they must flare any excess. This just looks like a flame.
The digester produces one megawatt of electricity every kW hour, enough to power 800-1,000 homes.
This digester is different from the others I've seen in that it is more of a co-op digester that brings in manure from several dairies. Most of the digesters I've seen and heard about are on a farm and utilize the manure from that farm, along with another substrate like produce, ice cream, grease or many other substrates.
The roof of the digester. The yellow pipe you see if where methane leaves the digester.
At the end of the process, the methane is extracted, solids removed and any liquid remaining is returned to the dairies to use as fertilizer on the fields, reducing the need for chemical fertilizer.
It amazes me how a place with so much manure really doesn't smell like manure.
Technology use on farms continues to increase the efficiency of today's livestock operations and this is just another way to utilize the manure to produce something useful for the community. As the number of farms continues to decrease and some farmers approaching retirement age without another generation to take over the farm exit the farming business, we will need to use more technology to continue producing more with less. Technology is a good thing. It helps us take BETTER care of our cows, our land and also the community.


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The Human and Economic Cost of Car Crashes [Infographic]
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In the US, someone is killed in a car crash every 12 minutes. Statistics show that in 2010, 70 percent of those killed in car accidents were men (interestingly, however, if both a man and woman were involved in the crash, the woman was more likely to die). Of the 32,885 wrecks that occurred in 2010, about a third involved a speeding driver, another third involved alcohol, and more than 50 percent occurred on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday.
This infographic presents more statistics about the human and economic costs of car accidents, which total as much as $300 billion in medical and emergency costs, lost earnings, property damage and reduced quality of life each year. In 2010, the social cost of each individual death via car wreck was estimated at $1.4 million – the equivalent of $1,522 per person in the US.
Check out the infographic below presented by CarInsuranceQuotes to learn more about the impact of car crashes on people and the economy.
From: Bankrate Insurance's CarInsuranceQuotes.com
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Jesus tells them to go to a certain man – a specific man – to make the Passover preparations. Right before we are told "From then on Judas watched for an opportunity to hand him over." (26:16) Both Judas and Jesus seem to have a plan for the days ahead.
Similarly – "appointed time" suggests a set time, a time toward which events are moving. Judas thinks he is in control of things but really Jesus is the one with the plan. Judas may have a plan but it doesn't trump the plans of God in Christ.
Judas betrays Jesus but perhaps I do as well. I have known Jesus longer than Judas did yet sometimes I do not follow him any more faithfully or completely. As the moment of Judas' betrayal looms, I do well to consider my own acts of betrayal and abandonment of the Master.
Lord, I cannot follow you while following my own plans and purposes. I cannot be faithful to you if my first loyalty is to my interests however I conceive of them. May I be sensitive today to the ways I betray you for my own gain and my own purposes. May I, unlike Judas, seek your grace and know your mercy even in those moments and from them and your grace and power move beyond them in the future as I follow you. Amen.


Tuti Tursilawati had killed her employer's father to escape sexual violence. Indonesian President Joko Widodo presents a complaint and demands explanations. The Office for the Care and Protection of Migrants: "The Saudis do not intend to shed light on violations of human rights". In total, since 2011, at least six Indonesian citizens have been executed in Saudi Arabia.
Jakarta (AsiaNews) - The Saudi authorities have executed an Indonesian domestic worker, without first warning Jakarta or the woman's family. Riyadh's conduct has caused indignation throughout the country, prompting the Jakarta government to officially protest.
Originally from Majalengka (province of West Java), 34-year-old Tuti Tursilawati (photo) was beheaded last October 29 in the city of Ta'if. The woman was sentenced to death in 2011 for the premeditated murder of her employer's father, the year before.
The defendant has always claimed to have acted in self-defense, in an attempt to escape sexual violence.Having killed her attacker, Tursilawati fled from the scene of the crime but was joined by nine men, who raped her before delivering her to police.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo said he had contacted the Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, Adel al-Jubeir, to lodge a complaint and demand explanations on the failure to notify. Lalu Muhammad Iqbal, director of the Office for the Protection of Indonesian Citizens of the Foreign Ministry of Jakarta, points out that neither the Indonesian consulate of Jeddah nor the embassy in Riyadh have been warned.
The Office for the care and protection of migrants, another body within the ministry, reports that the last communication between Tursilawati and the family took place via a video call on 19 October. The consulate of Jeddah had contacted the woman on October 28, without however receiving information on the execution of her conviction.
Wahyu Susilo, Executive Director of the Office, told AsiaNews: "Despite two separate cases, the recent murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the killing of Tuti Tursilawati show that the Saudis are not going to shed light on human rights violations, mostly against the right to life ".
"The office I run - continues Susilo - strongly condemns this execution and urges the authorities to put in place diplomatic efforts, to put an end to the resistance of Saudi Arabia to respect for human rights and international protocols such as the mandatory consular notification" . Because of the "insufficient actions" of the Saudi authorities in protecting the rights of foreign workers, the official called for the withdrawal of Indonesia from the agreements signed with Riyadh on immigration.
Susilo reports that Indonesians who had emigrated to Saudi Arabia were involved in 102 criminal cases between 2011 and 2018. "75% of them were homicides," he says. The judges acquitted the defendants in 29 cases. However, at least six Indonesian citizens have been executed by the Saudi executioner without warning. Tuti Tursilawati was preceeded by Ruyati (2011), Siti Zaenab and Karni binti Medi Tarsim (2015), Yanti Iriyanti and Zaini Misrin Arsyad (2018).


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The goal of the Rural Evidence Review project is to work with rural citizens and communities to provide high quality, useful evidence for rural health care planning in B.C.
The team of researchers from the CRHR are headed by the projects Principal Investigator Dr. Jude Kornelsen. The researchers need the public's help to identify the rural health service issues that matter the most to rural communities.
(1) Take our survey. The RER Team has developed a brief and anonymous survey to learn about rural citizen and community priorities for health services – which can be completed in 10 minutes or less! The survey is available at the following link. There is no pressing deadline to fill out the survey, which will be available until the end of the project (i.e., April 2021).
(2) Research Interview. Residents are invited to participate in a confidential interview with our research team about their research priorities. The interviews will take place by telephone. Individuals that are interested in participating in an interview are asked to email the project's Coordinator (Christine Carthew) directly at the email listed below to let our team know that they are interested.
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\subsubsection{Meson decays into the same sign charged leptons}

\paragraph{Neutrino transition dipole moments}
Heavy sterile neutrino can radiatively decay into active neutrino and
photon (one-loop level process).
Radiative decay width reads\,\cite{Pal:1981rm}:
\begin{equation}
\label{radiative-decay}
\Gamma(N_I\to\gamma\nu_\alpha)=\frac{9\alpha
  G_F^2}{1024\pi^4}\sin^2(2U_{\alpha I})M_I^5
\approx 2.6\times10^{-16}\times U_{\alpha I}^2\left(\frac{M_I}{\text{\,GeV}}\right)^5
\text{\,GeV},
\end{equation}
Since both neutrinos are electrically neutral, this process can be
effectively described by the transition dipole moments
$\mu_{\text{tr}\,\alpha I}$, see\,\cite{Beg:1977xz}.
From \eqref{radiative-decay} we obtain the following estimate:
\[
\mu_{\text{tr}\,{\alpha I}}\approx 2.7\times
10^{-10}\times \mu_{\text{B}}\times U_{\alpha I} \,\frac{M_I}{\text{\,GeV}}
\]
where $\mu_{\text{B}}$ is the Bohr magneton. Transition dipole moments
contribute to neutrino scattering off nuclei and can be probed with
large neutrino flux. Since the sterile neutrino is not observed in
this type of searches, we consider it among \emph{indirect searches} for sterile
neutrinos. Given the smallness of mixing predicted in $\nu$MSM, see
eq.\,\eqref{BAU-limit},
the transition dipole moments are too small to be tested in future
experiments. The corresponding results are presented in
Fig.\,\ref{mueee}.

\paragraph{Conclusions}
To summarize, we have obtained $\nu$MSM predictions for lepton flavor
and lepton number violating processes and observed that they are far
below the expected sensitivity of present and foreseeable future
experiments. Thus to probe $\nu$MSM one must resort to direct searches
only, see \cite{Gorbunov:2007ak,Blondel:2014bra} for examples.

\vspace{0.5cm}

We thank F.\,Bezrukov, W.\,Bonivento, M.\,Shaposhnikov for valuable
comments and O.\,Ruchayskiy for participating in the project at
earlier stage.
The work was supported by the RSCF grant 14-22-00161.

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"I immediately felt a sense of relief when I walked in the door," she said. "Horizons helped me figure out a path to move forward. They partnered with me on my children's education and gave me guidance to continue my schooling and search for housing. I am now finishing courses needed to complete my Certificate in Child Development from Urban College."
Rosi works closely with Sheila, her Family Advocate (case worker), on a strengths-based coaching approach that aims to overcome the extreme stresses of poverty. Our in-house Family Advocates work with parents to help them develop goals and a plan to achieve those goals. We assist parents with accessing resources including education, job training, mental health and substance abuse treatment, and other services that they need to be successful.
The majority of goals are in the education and employment categories. Our Family Advocates act as mentors, coaches, and accountability partners. We provide workshops for parents in topics such as financial literacy, child development, and nutrition, and support their search for and transition to the most appropriate next school for their children. Parents learn financial management skills and are assisted with establishing a savings plan and savings account. We partner with the Roxbury Center for Financial Empowerment to provide 1:1 financial counseling. In addition, we provide opportunities for parents to be involved with the center and their children's education and to form support networks, through parent breakfasts, teas, picnics, family celebrations, and other family-based activities.
Rosi has accomplished several goals during her time with us, including taking ESOL classes, paying off a school debt, and obtaining permanent housing for her family. "Even living in shelter, Rosis has been able to get an education while also being involved in her children's classrooms." said Sheila, who admires her tenacity. "Rosis is highly motivated, which I see every time we work together to set and accomplish more goals. She is always eager to read with her children, volunteer in the classroom, and participate during parent activities."
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At Horizons, we take a full family approach. Our team is working day and night to ensure homeless children and their parents have the support they need to move forward. We get personal satisfaction when a family leaves us with the skills and confidence to succeed in life.
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I never thought I would hear myself say this, but there is a lot Christians can learn from Gareth Southgate, manager of the England football team. For those who live in a bucket; the one who wears a waistcoat. He is the one who missed a vital penalty kick against Germany in 1996 and with it the hopes of a nation. He is the one who was sacked as manager of Middlesbrough (Middlesbrough!). He is the one who was brought in as a caretaker manager for England after the Sam Allardyce scandal, to a squad lacking any sort of unity or hope. What did he do that elevates him to the role of example for the rest of us Christians?
Well, just after England had won its first ever penalty shoot-out against Colombia to go through to the semifinals, he went over to Mateus Uribe, the Colombian player who had missed his shot and thus given England the chance of victory, and gave him a very sympathetic cuddle. He used his experience to understand what Mateus was going through, he didn't gloat, he didn't mock. We call it a moment of Grace. Not only that, but his behaviour on the edge of the pitch was decent, seeking to praise good playing rather than to deride mistakes.
Going back a bit, he had welded his squad together by showing faith in them, by helping them through failure to success. He saw through the footballer to the man, helping Danny Rose through depression after injury, encouraging Fabian Delph to miss the Colombian match to be at his wife's side during childbirth. No one had any expectations of the England squad except, apparently, Gareth Southgate; nobody believed that the second-tier squad he had picked had any potential.
When we read the stories of Jesus in the Gospels, we read of a leader who saw through the fisherman, the tax collector, and the assorted women who supported him, to the people they were. He trusted and encouraged them, even Judas. He set them goals and was interested in how they fared. A Teambuilder. He was not interested in creating personal glory, as many football managers are tempted to do, but interested in how his life and death could become a legacy of Grace for those of us who come after.
Even in that tense semi-final, all the players knew that Gareth Southgate was there, calmly on the touchline, supporting them, wishing them the best, knowing the difficulties they were dealing with, looking at what they did well, understanding their mistakes; not only now, but he would be there there as long as the game should last, even unto extra time; not only that, but even when the game would be over, he would receive them, comfort them, and encourage them.
So, Love Island or the World Cup? You have to take your role models where you can find them.
Mervyn has worked as an engineer, as a teacher and headteacher in comprehensive schools, as a university lecturer and latterly as a dry-stone waller, and lay pastor of the church. He also serves as Eco Officer. His hobbies include walking and he leads holidays in Italy and here in the UK, especially holidays for families. He has been a local preacher in the Methodist Church for fifty years and has been riding motorbikes for slightly longer. He is married to the girl of his dreams and has several children and grandchildren of whom he is inordinately proud.


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from nameko.rpc import rpc, RpcProxy

class RpcResponderDemoService:
    name = "rpc_responder_demo_service"

    @rpc
    def hello(self, name):
        return "Hello, {}!".format(name)

class RpcCallerDemoService:
    name = "rpc_caller_demo_service"

    remote = RpcProxy("rpc_responder_demo_service")

    @rpc
    def remote_hello(self, value="John Doe"):
        res = u"{}".format(value)
        return self.remote.hello(res)

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Q: Copying data from textBox to cmd using startInfo.Arguments I need to write the serial number (text) from a textBox to cmd command using startInfo.Arguments.
The main point is, all searches I did here pointed to replace the text in the beggining or in the end of the arguments.
But I need to insert the text from textBox to the middle of the argument, like this:
string input1 = textBox1.Text;
startInfo.WindowStyle = System.Diagnostics.ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
startInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
startInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
startInfo.FileName = "CMD.exe";
startInfo.Arguments = "/c adb -s "textBox1.Text" shell dumpsys battery";

Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.

A: The content of the textbox has already been stored in the input1 variable.
Now we have multiple options to do this in C#:
startInfo.Arguments = String.Format(@"/c adb -s ""{0}"" shell dumpsys battery", input1);

(in the @ string notation, double quotes are preserved in the resulting string by doubling them)
or with concatenation:
startInfo.Arguments = "/c adb -s \"" + input1 + "\" shell dumpsys battery";

(the backslash-escaped double quotes will preserve the double quote in the resulting string)
or, recently, we can use string interpolation:
startInfo.Arguments = $@"/c adb -s ""{input1}"" shell dumpsys battery";

Either way, consider to validate the value before you execute anything you obtained from a user, especially when it is started with administrative privileges.

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On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member on Tantalus Base believes he's made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claim all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples. But the routine excavation turns to disaster when the porous ground collapses, and he falls into a deep crevice and near certain death. And after yet another crew member vanishes, the survivors start to suspect that the life-form they have discovered is not yet dead.
Last Days on Mars is a great looking film that quickly devolves into "28 Weeks Later in space." It begins with an incredibly slow pace that only picks up once the accident occurs, but it feels like an eternity to get there. Most of the talented cast are wasted in roles that barely give them anything to do, with Elias Koteas and Olivia Williams being the biggest examples, but Liev Schreiber manages to anchor the film with a strong leading performance that keeps things watchable.
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package proton.inject;

import static proton.inject.util.Validator.checkNotNull;
import static proton.inject.util.Validator.checkState;

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.WeakHashMap;

import proton.inject.binding.Bindings;
import proton.inject.internal.InjectorImpl;
import proton.inject.listener.FieldListeners;
import proton.inject.listener.ProviderListeners;

import android.app.Application;
import android.content.Context;

public final class Proton {
    private static Map<Context, InjectorImpl> sInjectors;
    private static Bindings sBindings;
    private static ProviderListeners sProviderListeners;
    private static FieldListeners sFieldListeners;

    private Proton() {
    }

    public static void initialize(Application app) {
        initialize(app, new DefaultModule());
    }

    public static void initialize(Application app, Module... modules) {
        synchronized (Proton.class) {
            checkState(sInjectors == null, "Already initialized Proton");
            sInjectors = new WeakHashMap<Context, InjectorImpl>();
            sBindings = new Bindings();
            sProviderListeners = new ProviderListeners();
            sFieldListeners = new FieldListeners();

            for (Module module : modules)
                module.configure(sBindings, sProviderListeners, sFieldListeners);

            InjectorImpl injector = new InjectorImpl(app, sBindings, sProviderListeners, sFieldListeners, null);
            sInjectors.put(app, injector);
        }
    }

    public static Injector getInjector(Context context) {
        synchronized (Proton.class) {
            checkInitialize();
            InjectorImpl injector = sInjectors.get(context);
            if (injector == null) {
                InjectorImpl parent = sInjectors.get(context.getApplicationContext());
                injector = new InjectorImpl(context, sBindings, sProviderListeners, sFieldListeners, parent);
                sInjectors.put(context, injector);
            }
            return injector;
        }
    }

    public static void destroy() {
        synchronized (Proton.class) {
            checkInitialize();
            sProviderListeners = null;
            sBindings = null;
            sInjectors = null;
        }
    }

    public static void destroyInjector(Context context) {
        synchronized (Proton.class) {
            checkInitialize();
            sInjectors.remove(context);
        }
    }

    private static void checkInitialize() {
        checkNotNull(sInjectors, "Proton is not initialized yet");
    }
}


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Since this season of the TLC series was filmed, Christine Brown has announced her split from husband Kody
By Ally Mauch November 16, 2021 12:57 PM
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Christine Brown's marital woes with now-ex Kody Brown appear to be taking center stage in the upcoming season of Sister Wives.
In PEOPLE's exclusive sneak peek at the premiere episode, airing Sunday on TLC, Kody, 52, sits down with his four wives — Christine, Meri, Janelle, and Robyn — to discuss their property in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Christine, though, is still wishing Kody would agree to move the family back to Utah and admits she is struggling in her marriage with him. (Since the season filmed, Christine and Kody have announced their split after 25 years together).
"Christine is upset. I understand it," an emotional Robyn, 43, tells the cameras in the clip. "It's scary, it's been absolutely scary, what our family culture is looking like because we are not spending time together."
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In their group conversation, Janelle, 52, similarly acknowledges Christine's feelings.
"I don't know that this is something that fixes itself right away so don't be thinking it's all gone and it's all put to bed or whatever," she says. "I want to honor where you are."
Kody, however, is focused on figuring out how they will build on their Arizona property. "We have to get all the property boundaries figured out though, that we have to do because we have to be able to move on that," he says. "We don't want to wait any longer."
Though she doesn't respond to Kody at all, Christine, 49, tells the cameras that she's "hurt."
"This whole thing is hard, it's not just about moving back to Utah, it's not just about that," she says. "I'm not going to make any drastic decisions on what I'm going to do next today — I am hurt today."
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After Kody concludes the meeting, Christine adds in her confessional, "I really needed his support, I really did."
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"Marriage is hard, but I never wanted the kind of marriage that I have now," she continues. "I never wanted to be so estranged and have extremely limited physical contact, not even hand holding."
"It's sad, my marriage to Kody is sad," Christine concludes.
The new season of Sister Wives premieres Sunday (10 p.m. ET) on TLC.


After all the transitions going on this year we decided to take an intentional break from it all. We were able to spend most of the month of August in Montana. We had two primary goals: 1) Read; and 2) Hike.
For our first goal, we had plenty of time to read some of those books that we had always wanted to, but never took time to read. We added to the enjoyment by listening to them on our phones while sitting by the river or staring at the mountains.
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A lot of sufferers are losing their jobs either due to being laid off, getting fired or unable to work a regular job, so they quit, due to this horrific condition.
There are a lot of opportunities for people who wish to work from home. Some corporate companies allow people to telecommute which is cool. In fact, there are a lot of companies out there who allow people to work from home. I wouldn't be surprised if many years from now (if this system of things even lasts that long) working from home would be the norm for everybody! I wish the last company I worked for allowed it when I was there. I mean granted, I only lived 9 minutes away but still, on my worst days it would have been nice to just get up and walk over to my home office.
That job lasted 2 years and a 5 months. They ended up laying everyone in our department off. It was a relief for me but sad all at the same time. I still miss my co-workers because I worked with a great bunch of people who truly cared about me and were concerned for me due to my condition. I did my best at that job though and it was not easy going to work in pain and then having to deal with the other awful symptoms that comes along with Topical Steroid Withdrawal, but I managed. In the end about a month before the layoffs, I had been on disability leave. I suffered tremendously the whole time. The flare I was going through did die down a bit but still. Ugh!
I was working that regular (9:00-5:30) job and earning some income on the side through Network and Internet Marketing. I have a full, extensive background in Inside Sales, Direct Sales, Marketing and Customer Service, so it was an easy transition as I have no problems working with people and knowing how to handle my business.
While this condition made it difficult to work my side gig (I actually lost income), I couldn't really do it at all, I still didn't want to give up because one day I wanted to be able to replace my full time income, work from home, set my own hours and not have to worry about working on a corporate "plantation" job. This condition has made me realize my goals even more! I am still on my mission!
What I would like to do now though that I am getting better is help as many people as I can create an income for themselves and their families. An income where if they ever do get laid off, fired, or simply cannot work due to an illness or any other reason, can help them continue to pay their bills while having more money left over than month, to use however they wish. Like paying off debt, having enough income to pay for their child's education, to travel more, to give to their favorite charity or religious organization or even for investing.
We live in a world where in order to survive we have to have an income coming in. We have to have food on the table and a roof over our heads. I am on a Team of people who have been helping others and each other for a long time now and we want to reach our goal of helping many more. I thought this would be a great place to write about this due to my readership and because if you are one of those people who wants and needs the help, click on the photo below, view the video and fill out the form on the page. I will call you within 24-28 business hours for a brief interview and invite you to a special online or conference call event before you get started. This is open to Dad's too, not just Moms! Must be 18 years old or older.
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Victor Alexander Mateo Nadera (born July 27, 1989) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent.

Career
He was born in the Dominican Republic city of Santo Domingo. He was signed by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays as a non-drafted free agent on November 15, 2006. Starting his professional career the next year, the 17-year-old went 0-2 with a 6.39 ERA in 38 innings for the DSL Devil Rays his first campaign. The next year, back with the Dominican Summer League club, he went 3-4 with a 4.07 ERA in 48.2 innings. With the GCL Rays in 2010, Mateo was 3-4 with a 1.98 ERA in 10 games (nine starts), walking only nine batters in 50 innings. He tied for the team lead in victories and led the  squad in games started. In 2010, Mateo was 2-5 with a 4.89 ERA in 15 games (five starts) for the Princeton Rays.

2011 was Mateo's first 10-win campaign, as he went 12-6 with a 3.98 ERA in 26 games (20 starts) for the Bowling Green Hot Rods. During the week of July 11, he earned Pitcher of the Week honors as he tossed a no hitter against the Lake County Captains on July 8. He was one of only two players on the team to toss a complete game shutout, with the other being C.J. Riefenhauser. He pitched for the Charlotte Stone Crabs in 2012 and went 6-5 with a 4.31 ERA in 30 games (16 starts). With the Montgomery Biscuits in 2013, Mateo was 7-9 with a 3.93 ERA in 27 games. He tossed two complete game shutouts, including another no hitter—this time against the Jacksonville Suns on August 24. He was the only pitcher on the team to toss a complete game. He also led the team in innings pitched (153.1) and team starters in WHIP (1.141). He was the only pitcher in the Southern League to throw two shutouts. During the 2013-2014 winter league season, he pitched briefly for the Tigres de Aragua of the Venezuelan Winter League and Estrellas de Oriente of the Dominican Winter League. In 2014, he went 12-11 with a 3.90 ERA in 28 starts for the Biscuits, completing two games. He led the team in wins and tied Dylan Floro for the club lead in starts. He also tied Floro, Drew Gagnon and Justin Nicolino for the Southern League lead in starts. He made the Southern League Mid-Season All-Star team that year.

Following the 2014 campaign, Mateo became a free agent and signed with the Atlanta Braves. He began the season with the Double-A Mississippi Braves, but was promoted to the Triple-A Gwinnett Braves partway through the season.

He earned invitations to work with the major league club during spring training in 2012, 2014 and 2015.

On December 2015, he was selected to the roster for the Dominican Republic national baseball team at the 2015 WBSC Premier12.

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Dominican Summer League Rays players
Estrellas Orientales players
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Leones del Escogido players
Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente pitchers
Mississippi Braves players
Montgomery Biscuits players
Princeton Rays players
Sportspeople from Santo Domingo
Tigres de Aragua players
York Revolution players
2015 WBSC Premier12 players
Dominican Republic expatriate baseball players in Venezuela


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Dave Hoerman of DaVita Enterprise: Companies that pay attention to mindfulness and intentionality in their culture will in turn, create fulfilled, mindful citizens of that culture"
If companies pay attention to mindfulness and intentionality in their culture, this will, in turn, create fulfilled, mindful citizens of that culture, and the ripple effect is astounding. Those people can impact their families. Their family members can impact their companies. They can all impact their communities, and beyond. The ripple effects are tremendous when […]
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If companies pay attention to mindfulness and intentionality in their culture, this will, in turn, create fulfilled, mindful citizens of that culture, and the ripple effect is astounding. Those people can impact their families. Their family members can impact their companies. They can all impact their communities, and beyond. The ripple effects are tremendous when a company decides to do this because the company can help show people that this stuff is important. When a company does that, people take notice. In DaVita, one of our philosophies is that companies can be a powerful force for good.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Dave Hoerman. He is the Chief Wisdom Officer for the DaVita Enterprise. In this role he oversees the Wisdom team which is responsible for all cultural elements as well as organizational and leadership development. This includes DaVita University, all major events and Village Gatherings, as well as all internal branding. Dave has been expanding his capabilities in leadership positions in the realm of human performance development, personal, professional and career coaching, as well as organizational development for over 20 years. Dave graduated from Drexel University in Philadelphia with a Bachelor's Degree in Commerce & Engineering in 1985, and began his career by doing systems engineering, sales and technical training for IBM, NYNEX and other technology companies.
Dave has built a broad experience base in leading training both within the U.S. as well as internationally, in the technology, banking and healthcare industries with organizations such as Citigroup, Salomon Smith Barney, Deutsche Bank, Gambro Healthcare, and now DaVita. Dave is known for and has won several awards for his work in design, development, delivery, and evaluation of performance improvement strategies for fortune 500 companies, and has a proven track record in leadership development, mentoring, coaching, and speaking to leaders and teams. Dave has built several training departments from scratch and has led several international training projects in the corporate finance environments. Through the years, Dave has earned multiple professional certifications including Senior Professional in Human Resources, Achieve Global Curricula, needs assessment and design, executive coaching, information mapping, and Motorola Quality Management. In addition to leadership positions within large organizations, Dave currently serves on the Board of Directors at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver, has helped hundreds of individuals by coaching and mentoring them toward work that they love through career counseling, and has volunteered in several non-profit organizations as a mentor, coach and teacher for adults and young people. Dave now resides in Colorado and enjoys playing drums and piano, spending time with his wife and three daughters, and enjoying outdoor sports and recreation in the Rocky Mountains.
Dave Hoerman had little experience with mindfulness or spiritual practices in his life growing up. Not that his parents didn't guide. He attended church on Sundays, but he grew up in a family that didn't do much of the more "touchy-feely" stuff.
Spirituality became more embedded in his life, as is true with many young people, as he matured and grew older. Dave began to discover the need for mindfulness later in life when he started to realize, "Holy cow, it is very hard to keep up with the world if you're never stopping to allow space for reflection, something new." He discovered that he was going to burn out if he didn't slow down. Dave determined four domains that guide his spiritual life and empower him personally and professionally.
Mindfulness and Business
Dave found the importance of being intentional about being mindful through many coaches and mentors in his life. Now, he thinks of mindfulness and spiritual practice in four different domains:
i. Physical: Dave asks himself, "How am I doing physically?" Physical health impacts so many other parts of people's lives. DaVita pays attention to physical health through several programs, for example, Village Vitality, a DaVita program that helps teammates (DaVita employees) achieve a sense of wellbeing in every aspect of their lives. All of these bring attention to how teammates are doing and allows them to ask themselves, "Am I healthy, and could I be more healthy? What are little things I can do, practices or habits in my life that will enhance my wellbeing?"
ii. Mental: He thinks about this as challenging oneself. Dave is in a business that makes him feel like he's contributing, being contributed to, but also has mental challenges that allow him to use his brain. To Dave, that is very important because he tends to get a lot of fulfillment and meaning in his life from solving some big problems that help others. Dave also realized, he loves being in both personal and business situations where he gets to be challenged mentally. When it comes to new ideas, getting out into nature, changing his scenery, tends to be where he can do his best thinking, innovating, and problem-solving. So fresh air can sometimes by his best way to refresh mentally.
iii. Emotional: Dave considers emotional wellbeing as connectedness. He looks at his emotional bank account, emotional balance and health, as "Do I have opportunities within my day or my week that I get to celebrate other people or do something human, fun, or heartfelt with them?" This doesn't mean connecting business-wise but rather, sitting down with people and talking about life, kids, or families. He wants to connect with humans beings in a real, meaningful way and that means helping them, and getting help from them, in a real and meaningful way.
iv. Spiritual: Many people give out a lot of energy every day, especially teammates at DaVita, who help and serve others. So for Dave, caring for ourselves is important in restoring and re-filling our cups so that we can continue to care for others. DaVita has several practices and programs they offer teammates so they can re-energize, rejuvenate, be grounded, be at peace, and have the energy to take on the next day. Spirituality isn't necessarily about religion, it can be, but it's more broadly about being centered, or grounded. People can decide whatever their source of higher power or their source of beliefs are that give them strength. DaVita encourages them to tap into whatever that is for them. It is also important to accept and make sure everyone feels like they belong in whatever spiritual practices they may have, and all practices they may have over these domains.
How to "lead a good life"
Dave believes this is all centered around reflection. Reflection is so important and DaVita offers people time to pause their lives. One of DaVita's team's, Wisdom, which helps teammates foster discovery and growth, really puts speed bumps in people's lives so they slow down to reflect. People will come to programs, such as DaVita University's Restore program where teammates embark on a silent retreat, put their phones away and reflect on their lives. This helps teammates empty out the busyness and reflect on what path they are going down and decipher whether it's intentional or not. Teammates have the opportunity to ask themselves, "What am I doing that aligns with my life and what am I doing that doesn't?"
At DaVita, teammates are encouraged to slow down and reflect. In the past, there have been teammates that decided they wanted to follow their dreams overseas or work for a non-profit in third-world countries. DaVita works hard to prepare teammates and support them to move forward in their life's journey, whatever that may be. One of DaVita's core values is Fulfillment and the company encourages those people to find fulfillment in whatever they do, which is why the key to mindfulness at DaVita is a reflection.
An impactful moment of mindfulness
In one of the first programs Dave had the opportunity to experience, he got to co-coach with the faculty. It was at the end of the program that Dave had the chance to step outside on the balcony of the hotel and reflect on what he had just experienced. He became very emotional, filled with love and joy, as he realized that DaVita was a place where it was okay to "go there" with people. He had found his home. In other words, it was okay to go into a room and talk about real life─marriages, life with kids, death in families and struggles that all people encounter. He was overjoyed at finding a company that accepts people for who they are. DaVita allowed Dave to do work with people on their lives, so they could go off to be a great patient care technician or facility administrator, but also, a great mom, dad, brother, sister, friend, husband or wife. To Dave, work-life and personal life aren't separate; it's all life and he truly wants to help others along the way.
An Inspirational Mentor
Dave believes mentors are incredibly important because not only does the mentee learn but the mentor does as well. It's an opportunity for people to discuss work, but also life — the pain, sorrow, joy, and everything in between.
Though Dave has many mentors and leaders─CEOs, COOs, teammates that have participated in DaVita University classes one of the first mentors he ever had was his father. Dave's dad was a role model for him in one of DaVita's Core Values, Integrity. He always taught Dave to do the right thing. He told Dave, "If you do the right thing, you'll be rewarded for it. Nothing else matters as long as you speak up and be honest." But that was not just through his words, Dave's dad started him early on a road of understanding what a role model and a mentor is, and then Dave had and still has many additional mentors in his life, and is incredibly grateful for them all.
How leaders can create a "healthy and uplifting" work culture
a. Role Modeling: Start with yourself. Everything leaders do is being watched, so those leaders in an organization need to act as role models. For example, if you want to create more fulfillment in your organization, walk around and talk about your own fulfillment, express your love and fulfilling moments to your team and chase fulfilling moments in your life. If you expect something from your team, do it yourself. It's imperative to decide what is important to you, make it your own and "be" that which you want to bring to life.
b. Relentless Reinforcement: Put your money and time where your mouth is. You can't just say, "Hey, our company wants a healthy and uplifting culture" and then not show up. You have to show up to meetings, classes, and relentlessly reinforce what is important to you because again, people are watching, and will follow what your lead is — what's OK here, and what isn't.
c. Clarity in Leadership: If you have clear intentions of what you want in leaders, you need to take those to the leaders and set expectations. Getting clear on your intentions and expectations takes mindfulness and reflection. Don't assume everyone knows what you are trying to create. Even if you're a role model, you need to communicate with others what you want to see and follow through. It's all about taking action and aligning on expectations. Dave strongly believes that one's words and actions must match — that's what creates credibility and trust, which is foundational to leadership.
d. Integrate mindfulness into daily work life
i. Meditation basics and practice within DaVita programs, morning check-ins and meditation groups that meet twice a week at DaVita headquarters
ii. Zen rooms
e. Create programming within the company for any teammate
iii. Mindfulness Micro StarLearning course: Scientific studies confirm that mindfulness leads to better performance, health, and well-being. DaVita University Faculty, Pam Tanner, explains in the basics of mindfulness and how you can quickly and effectively build a mindfulness practice within your busy schedule.
iv. Mindfulness Webinar: What is mindfulness? What difference does it make? How would I go about cultivating it? For answers to these questions and more, join us for an engaging and interactive session.
v. Silent retreat in-person program
vi. DaVita Great Outdoors: leaders in nature, having time to refill their cups, reflect on life and leadership, and share in life's journey with others
A movement that would bring the most amount of good to the most amount of people
Dave believes that, if companies pay attention to mindfulness and intentionality in their culture, this will, in turn, create fulfilled, mindful citizens of that culture, and the ripple effect is astounding. Those people can impact their families. Their family members can impact their companies. They can all impact their communities, and beyond. The ripple effects are tremendous when a company decides to do this because the company can help show people that this stuff is important. When a company does that, people take notice. In DaVita, one of our philosophies is that companies can be a powerful force for good.
If Dave could inspire a movement, it would be to see more companies getting serious about creating an intentional culture, and within that, creating mindfulness in their people. Companies should point inward, start with themselves and say, "We want to create something impactful and then we want our employees to create the same thing in their families, communities and beyond."
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Roee Magdassi is a jung product designer born in Jerusalem and based in Tel-Aviv. His Edge collection of bistro and coffee tables, can be used outdoor or indoor. The tables are equipped with a carrying handle which has both visual and functional values. The half ring shaped handle functions in two manners: making it easy to carry the tables around and when not in use, as a table edge, making sure nothing slips. To me it sound a bit clumsy to be moving a table by a handle but the colouring and tight geometrical shape make it beautiful none the less.