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Political prisoner Fatemeh Mosanna has been returned to prison before completion of her medical treatment process.
In the wake of serious deterioration of her health, intestinal pain and bleeding, Fatemeh Mosanna was was finally taken to a civic hospital on February 11, 2021. After five days, however, she was returned to prison without completing her treatment process. She is presently deprived of access to her regular medicines.
Evin Prison authorities have deprived political prisoner Fatemeh Mosanna from receiving urgent medical treatment for more than five months.
Fatemeh Mosanna, 53, has been suffering from intestinal bleeding since mid-August and is not able to walk on her own.
A doctor from Tehran's Taleghani Hospital, urged the forensics office to examine her and verify that she could not bear prison conditions and that she deserved to be granted medical leave. Because of the advanced stage of her illness, the doctor said, it is not possible to treat her in the stressful conditions of prison.
As a result of prison conditions, Mrs. Mosanna suffers from GI disorders, liver problems, intestinal colitis and nervous migraine headaches. She has repeatedly fallen unconscious because of severe pain in her digestive tract. Every time, however, Evin's Assistant Prosecutor, Amin Vaziri, prevented her access to proper medical treatment.
Fatemeh Mosanna fainted while in detention in Evin Prison on August 19, 2020. She was sent to Taleghani Hospital but her hands and feet were cuffed to the bed throughout the week she stayed there. After 6 days, she was returned to Evin Prison and detained in the quarantine.
Mrs. Mosanna's health conditions deteriorated again on September 7, 2020. She was sent to Taleghani Hospital for endoscopy and colonoscopy but again, she was returned to Evin without completing her tests.
Fatemeh Mosanna and her husband, Hassan Sadeqi, and her two children were arrested on January 28, 2013 as they were holding a memorial ceremony for Mr. Sadeqi's father who was a member of the opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), and had just passed away. Her daughter was detained for three days and her underage son was detained and interrogated for about 1.5 months. The couple were later sentenced to 15 years in prison, each. Their business and residence were also confiscated by the regime's Judiciary.
Mrs. Mosanna has been deprived of having visits with her imprisoned husband for nearly a year.
Born on May 26, 1967, Fatemeh Mosanna was imprisoned for three years along with her mother when she was only 13. They were accused of waging war on God and insurrection through supporting the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). Three of her brothers and sister-in-law were executed by the clerical regime in the 1980s.
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Netflix Sacred Games 2 Review – Gives...
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Netflix India rolled out the second season of the most anticipated web series in the country Sacred Games 2. Having pushed the release time 12 hour earlier, the season was launched at midnight today. And Netflix made sure that the second installment is worth binge watching for the night owls. The Saif Ali Khan and ..
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Netflix Sacred Games 2 Review – Gives Its Best Till Date
Netflix India rolled out the second season of the most anticipated web series in the country Sacred Games 2. Having pushed the release time 12 hour earlier, the season was launched at midnight today. And Netflix made sure that the second installment is worth binge watching for the night owls.
The Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer series take off where it was left. Gaitonde is found sailing in the waters after being saved from dying in jail. He then meets Yadav Madam (Amruta Subhash) and the story starts to take a turn here. We will not be revealing the storyline bit by bit here. That is your job to do….
Speaking about the general storyline, the 8-episode Sacred Games 2 is basically divided into two timelines, as done in season 1, but in a more elaborate manner. The series narrates the past (Gaitonde's timeline) and the present (Sartaj's timeline) in a systematic way. This time, the director made sure all the questions left unanswered in the first seasons are answered. We would like to highlight the race against time to reveal the forthcoming danger that might wipe the name of Mumbai from the face of the world.
Sacred Games 2 has a newbie in the form of director Neeraj Ghaywan, who has restored Vikramaditya Motwane, although Motwane carries on acting as the executive producer. Varun Grover (initially the writer) has also stepped in the team of executive producer for this installment of the web series. New cast members such as Ranvir Shorey, Amruta Subhash, Pankaj Tripathi, and Kalki Koechlin make this web series a piece of cake for the people who love to binge watch.
Netflix Sacred Games 2 Review
The web sears is an ugly warning and a mirror of the dark tempestuous times that our country and the world is facing presently. The danger is actually upon us, and if we do not get our shit together, well, we may not have a Sikh cop to save us. The eight episodes are layered, intense, and keep you on wanting to see the next every time you end one. Season one was the slow start of the chaos. By season two, it has developed into an almost perfection. On the other hand, there are times of obviousness—the utter number of dead bodies falling into the grave, the absurd violence, and the moment where an honest "Muslim" policeman has to prove his loyalty over and over again.
By the time season 2 ends, you feel that you are the part of this entire show, which is a play of absurdity, and all your hope is on the verge to die. But it is the essential poison that we all require to consume if we want for our kids to even see the slightest part of a bright future. And to add more to the twist, not all hope is lost. The seeds for the third season of Sacred Games have been sown.
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Terrorist on U.S. Payroll
Worst Employee of the Decade on the U.S. Payroll
Nidal Hasan has proven himself to be the worst employee to come out of the U.S in the past decade. The so-called radicalized U.S. Army psychologist shot 13 service members dead, including an unborn child, and wounded 32 more at the Fort Hood Texas military base back in 2009. Many count the crime as the first real terrorist attack since 9/11, but the White House and the Pentagon have continued to fight that it be labeled "workplace violence" despite numerous connections to radical Islam.
As Hasan was arrested shortly after his alleged pre-meditated infidel attack, our employee of the decade is still getting paid the big bucks to rot in jail while awaiting his trial. The total cash he has accumulated so far in the name of Allah – a whopping $278,000 buck-a-roos – or in liberal terms – the equivalent of 55,600 Starbucks Latte's – double shot of course. Keep in mind, that's does not including his free healthcare and living expenses.
Yet ironically, Obama's workplace related classification for the Fort Hood attacks have prevented the living victims and families of those killed from collecting any sort of combat benefits befitting to a soldier wounded or killed in the line of duty. That also includes denying them benefits similar to those given to the victims and families of the 9/11 World Trade Center Attack.
On the third anniversary of the attack the 148 victims and family members filed suit seeking 750 million dollars in damages, naming in it, then Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta claiming gross negligence, among other claims. Their ultimate goal is to try and change the workplace categorization to terrorist attack.
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Koi wa Ameagari no You ni – 06
Posted by Takaii on February 16, 2018 February 16, 2018 First Impressions / Koi wa Ameagari no You ni
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「沙雨」 (Sau)
"Fine Rain"
If there was one thing I didn't expect to see, it was the element of friendship rearing its unsightly head into an already messy scenario. That doesn't mean I didn't love it though.
General Impressions
Thinking about it from my own personal perspective, the notion of friendship and all the little connotations that are associated with it can turn into a real messy thing if you try to get into it. Throw the moniker of "best friend" into the mix and you can really push things into the realm of insanity if you want to. Which is probably why watching Haruka and Tachibana try to sort out their friendship really hit me when you think about all the little things the show was trying to show us. From Haruka's perspective she's afraid of losing someone dear to her, but can't figure out if they were only being held together by a common passion for running. On Tachibana's side, I think it's clear that she views Haruka positively, but with her injury knocking her out of the running game, you can tell that there are some emotions there that she hasn't properly dealt with. Specifically, the pain of being unable to be there for the ones you care about compounded on top of the shame and disgrace of having to give up something you loved is clearly visible whenever something involving running comes into play. Together, these two are stuck in this awkward situation where they both feel unable to honestly talk to one another which then leads to things just getting progressively worse.
Except, unlike most typical situations, something actually did happen to break free of that vicious loop. Props to Haruka for being able to face her fears and genuinely reach out to Tachibana. Because if there's one thing that can overcome situations like the one Tachibana and Haruka are facing, it's simply being honest about how you feel and acting accordingly. A notion that Haruka has committed to and one that I'm hoping Tachibana will also be able to do.
Boy, after such an emotionally draining episode can you believe the story had the nerve to throw in another curveball with Kondou!? While I don't want to make too many guesses about why that specific book got him so down (I'm guessing maybe his ex-wife wrote it), I appreciate how he managed to be the voice of reason that'll hopefully help Tachibana express her feelings to Haruka.
Anyways, I'll catch you guys next week. See you then!
Although the story progression was as charming as ever, I was a bit concerned by the animation quality drop-off towards the end of the episode. It was almost to the point where I wondered if their key animators had maybe taken time off to watch the Winter Olympics! The faces especially had lost the precision of design that helps set this show apart, even to the point where they were decidedly off-model sometimes.
Comparing Tachibana's face in some of the worst shots to how it looks in the previous episode, she's lost half of her eyelashes and there's a secondary highlight missing from her eyes. It even feels like they knew there would be a problem in this episode because I'm sure we are seeing her from behind rather more than usual, which then would avoid having to animate her face.
Anyway, here is the real star of the show:
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Yes, a weird-ass looking cat with wings, but the thing is it really worked – almost as soon as she had it, she bumped into Kondou. And that meeting should set the next story arc in motion.
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And now after the quality drop I see it's been announced that the manga is coming to an end rather quickly. I know the anime pre-orders have been disappointing, but has the production committee thrown in the towel already?
February 18, 2018 at 10:47 am 5 years ago
A smile that must be repaired and protected.
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February 17, 2018 at 9:41 am 5 years ago
Special spotlight this week: Haruka
Boy, being a former athlete myself, i somehow feel so sad for Haruka, always chasing Akira's shadow and the only ties they have between their friendship is field and track. Im no manga reader, but whatever i see in Akira is obviously she's venting/replacing her "frustration" with her infatuation on Kondou, just like how Kase pointed it out. And its true, despite how you look at it. It could be anybody else, who appeared and threw some magic trick at her while Akira is all gloomy at the cafe while waiting for the rain to stop. This show has been repeating so many times how Akira has flashbacks and how these whole situations circling back to her running days and how obvious she missed it without her showing it out loud. I bet after the rain (get it? XD), she might be returning herself (well she def cannot go back running since its her achilles tendon is now torn) being a normal highschool student hanging out with Haruka, be more outgoing with her classmates, maybe falling in love with someone her age, and finally moving on from Kondo.
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In Good Spirits
Tennessee Legend Distillery Provides First-Rate Products and a Fun Atmosphere
By Emily Mook
Tennessee Legend Distillery's story has several serendipitous moments, one of which may surprise you: the discovery of a kingsnake amidst some barrels in 2017. We'll get to that in a bit.
The story begins with Jay Holeman and Richard Fraser, who founded the distillery in 2015. The distillery opened its first store on Newport Highway in Sevierville in 2015 and its second store on Winfield Dunn Parkway in 2017. Then, in 2018, the distillery opened a store in Cookeville and a store in Nashville. The latter opportunity came about after Holeman and Fraser met and befriended a Nashville business owner.
The distillery has also grown in terms of its offerings since it first opened.
"We started out with unflavored spirits, moonshines, and flavored whiskeys, and we've evolved into doing more aged spirits," says Kyle Tarwater, Tennessee Legend's Sales and Marketing Director. "Getting into aging our own bourbon was definitely a huge thing for us."
The aforementioned fateful discovery of a four-and-a-half foot kingsnake led to the development of one of the distillery's most popular aged spirits: Tennessee Legend Kingsnake Straight Bourbon Whiskey.
"About six months before were going to release the bourbon, we still didn't have a name," Tarwater recalls. "Then, somebody remembered that when we checked our first barrels, we found a kingsnake in the bottom of the barrel racks! Kingsnakes eat rodents and venomous snakes, so they are typically seen as a good omen. They keep the bad stuff away."
The team decided to fully embrace the reptile theme by developing an embossed, iridescent label that resembles snakeskin. Kingsnake is aged more than two years in a level three char American white oak barrel in house. It is 90 proof, 75% corn, 21% rye, and 4% barley, and it has a soft caramel flavor with faint sweet corn, oak, and vanilla notes.
Tennessee Legend Distillery prides itself just as much on its talented and dedicated staff as on its topnotch products.
"Our production crew is the backbone of everything we do," says Tarwater. "If there's no product, there's absolutely nothing we can do. We've got a great production crew and core management team who have been with us for years. We're a laid-back group, and we try to make our environment a fun place for people to be. When people come in, we don't rush them to the counter. We let our customers set the pace."
Tarwater says that he believes the spirits industry is built on good times, and Tennessee Legend is committed to helping facilitate them.
"Some people may use liquor in bad times, but I've always seen the spirits industry as being about good times," he remarks. "It's about hanging out with your friends, having fun, and hearing and creating stories. Helping someone create that next good memory or tradition is kind of what we live for."
Be sure to visit Tennessee Legend Distillery at one—or all—of their four locations, and stop by their booth at the Townsend Grains and Grits Festival on Saturday, November 5.
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Hollywood stunt rider and SuperBikes! host Jason Britton returns to SPEED with a new prime time series entitled Stealth Rider, scheduled to premiere on July 21, 2010 at 8pm ET/PT.
Jason Britton is igniting his insatiable passion for riding by returning to his roots and shooting the ultimate stunt film. Jason and his team jump in the bus and tour the country to "steal" shots in front of the most iconic backdrops they can manage. Planned like a robbery but carried out safely and professionally, Jason and his team get stunt riding shots in unimaginable locations like the art museum steps of Philadelphia; the Las Vegas Strip; the Golden Gate Bridge; the US Capitol Building; Hollywood Blvd and the French Quarter of New Orleans, to name a few. Each episode culminates with a mini-movie comprised of the stunt footage captured at that week's location.
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Video features model / actress - Chanel Jones
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Shoei just sent me a new RF-1100 just in time for the X-Games Demo. This new helmet is so light & comfortable! I cant wait to put on the new lid and hit up the spot today! The RF-1100 new design features 3 intake vents and 6 exhaust vents for better ventilation. The new aerodynamic design and vent system will make my practice sessions way more comfortable in this brutal heat! I cant wait to Grip N Rip with this new RF-1100! Check out the new RF-1100 at www.shoei-helmets.com
Building on the strongest pedigree in the motorcycle helmet business, SHOEI is proud to introduce the all-new RF-1100. Since its 2003 inception, the RF-1000 has enjoyed great success, but that didn't stop SHOEI's world-class development team from throwing out the molds to build a brand-new helmet from scratch. Combining customer and dealer requests with advanced technology, modern testing practices, and 50 years of helmet-building experience, SHOEI is pleased to deliver the finest sport-touring helmet that money can buy. The all-new, groundbreaking RF-1100–where aggressive styling meets SHOEI's unrivaled attention to detail, and the evolution of perfection is once again met.
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official X Games 16 press release
XDL Championship Series To Perform Demonstration at ESPN's X Games 16
Los Angeles, CA (July 19, 2010) — After almost two years of preparation, the XDL Championship Series will be performing its first-ever demonstration at the LA Memorial Coliseum on Thursday, 7/29 as part of X Games 16. The XDL program will run from noon to 3:30pm and take place in Lot 4 on the South side of the stadium, which is part of the exhibitor and pit area open to the public. Gates open at noon and access to the XDL area is FREE. The demonstration will feature an All Star cast of athletes and include:
1. FMF Cup
2. Speed & Strength Sickest Trick
3. K&N Circle Challenge
4. Aprilia All Star Challenge
5. Sartso Women's Cup
6. Freestyle Burnout
7. Battle of the Brands
While still just a demonstration and not a full competition, inclusion on this level is a first for the sportbike freestyle culture. Stated XDL Director of Competition Thomas Evans: "Explaining the feeling of building a sport from nothing and bringing it to the masses is impossible, so I will try to keep it simple. Being a welcome part of X Games in any capacity is the culmination of a dozen years of blood, sweat and tears. I am very pleased to see that our hard work has gotten us here, I am more excited now for our future than ever." Added XDL Founder Randy Grube: "It is great to see the progress we have made and I'm excited to let the athletes show off their skills for the X Games crowd. Should be a great time."
For more information on the X Games please visit http://www.xgames.com
For X Games tickets please visit http://www.ticketmaster.com/xgames
Further event information follows:
Coliseum driving directions: There are various freeways and exits to get to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Please see http://www.xgames.com for detailed driving directions to the arena. Information on public transportation is also available at http://www.metro.net.
Parking at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum: It is anticipated that the parking lots at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum will become full during the events on Thursday and Saturday. Please plan to arrive at least 90 minutes prior to the start of the competition. Parking is available in all surrounding lots outside the Coliseum as well as at the USC Campus. To reference parking locations please visit: www.lacoliseumlive.com Please visit http://www.xgames.com for X Games specific parking information.
ADA parking: ADA Parking will be available in all event parking lots.
Transportation: There will be complimentary shuttle service between L.A. Live and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Thursday and Saturday from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. The shuttle stop for L.A. LIVE is located at the corner of Figueroa and 12th street at the Gilbert Lindsay Plaza. This is outside the X Games venue just in front of the LA Convention Center. The shuttle stop at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is at 39th and Grand under the 110 freeway.
Public transportation: There are several available options when taking public transportation to Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Please visit http://www.metro.net to find available bus routes and rail lines.
Drop off/pick up location: Guests may be dropped off and picked up at 39th and Grand underneath the 110 freeway. Taxis may be picked up at Figueroa and Exposition Blvd near the Chevron gas station.
Los Angeles metro: Metro rail and bus services are provided by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority. If you have questions about available services, please visit http://www.metro.net or call 1-800-COMMUTE (1–800–266–6883).
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XDL is the only championship of its kind and is the leader in reaching the core 20-year old sportbike demographic. Each XDL event features the world's most skilled sportbike riders squaring off in seven unique competitions for over $10,000 in prize money. Since its inception in 2006 the series has built a global following in places as far off as Japan, Australia, France, Thailand and Eastern Europe, and in the process emerged as the fastest growing action sport in America. The stateside event series schedule includes Daytona Beach, Lake Havasu City, Nashville, Los Angeles and Indianapolis. New for 2010, XDL Magazine was launched in time for the season opener and provides a comprehensive overview of the series and its athletes. The new line of XDL apparel is available at http://www.xdlstore.com. And on October 12th, Inside XDL, a documentary drama on the series and its athletes will premier on Versus Network.
2 Magazine Covers in 1 Month - Throttle Nation Magazine in Stores Now!
Bring on the press!!! Yeah that's right!!! 2 Magazine Covers in 1 Month. Previously I sent out an email earlier this month announcing that I was on the cover of Stuntride Magazine. Now I'm proud to announce that I'm on the cover of another major publication magazine - Throttle Nation. Inside this magazine I'm featured in a 6 page spread titled "Top Dawg" - Crazy Dan Jackson. Ive attached the PDF. Throttle Nation Magazine is available now on news stands and can be found in Barnes & Noble, Borders, Hastings, Copper fields, Joseph Beth, Ingram Bookstores, Books a Million, Suburban News, 7-11 stores, and US Military Bases. For subscriptions please visit on line http://www.throttlenation.com/
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XDL Championship Series To Perform Sportbike Freestyle Demonstration at X Games 16
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XDL Championship Series To Perform Demonstration at X Games 16
The XDL stunt riding demo will be at the LA Coliseum on Thursday, July 29th, as an official part of X Games 16. The XDL program will begin at noon and be in Lot 4. This lot is beside the swimming stadium off of MLK blvd at Hoover St. We will go get some pics this afternoon.
According to our sources at X games this area is an exhibitor based area and should be packed. It opens at noon and admission to this area and XDL is free!!
We havent gotten any info on parking yet. So assume you have to pay!
According to rumors about XDL we know that its just a demo but we think that they are going to run an amended version of their full events competitions. These are normally..
One last thing. We saw a printed email from XDL Host and competition director Thomas Evans to XDL Founder Randy Grube. While we cannot confirm what the email was about, we did notice a list of names that included some of the sports top stars such as:
Teach McNeil
Ernie Vigil
Joe Dryden
Aaron Colton
Luke Emmons
Nick Apex
Darius Khashabi
Alex Flores
Tony Carbajal
Lin Savage
Rick Hart
Kyle Rapport
Strange Music Swag
I stopped by the Strange Music headquarters and they hooked me up with all sorts of SWAG for my cali trip next week! The RV is stacked with promo items for the new Tech N9ne "Mixed Plate" CD that will be released July 27th, 2010. Merch, CD's, Stickers, Flyers, I have it all! Check out the new Strange Music hat! Im rockin it after a brutal practice session in the heat! 95 DEGREES & HUMID!!!!!!!!!! Gotta love the midwest!!!
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Tech N9ne Collabos - "The Mixed Plate" in stores July 27th
Check out the OG music video on youtube! "O.G." is Tech N9ne's first video off of his new Collabos album, "The Gates Mixed Plate", set to release on July 27, 2010. Presale available now at strangemusicinc.net. Executive Producer: Travis O'Guin, Director: Dan Gedman/Liquid9
News 7.12.10
Check out this months Stuntride Magazine featuring yours truly! 5,000 copies will be handed out during this years 2010 X-Games Demo! I will be in the Stuntride Magazine booth signing autographs all weekend long. If your attending please stop by and say hi!
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Project Race Bike Concept Pic - 2009 Kawasaki ZX6R
The 2009 Kawasaki ZX6R race bike is almost built. Its in the final stages and almost ready for Paint! This is a concept picture of what Im thinking the end result will look like! Kawasaki Green & Black!!!
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Strange Music Independents Days Sale - 50% Off Sale
Sale runs from 9:00AM CST Friday, July 2nd thru 9:00PM CST Tuesday, July 6th – quantities on all items are limited – "Tech N9ne Collabos: The Gates Mixed Plate" is excluded from the sale entirely.
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"A Cold Walk But Worth It"
This is a free Turkey Thanksgiving sunday school lesson plan for small children for use in Sunday school or children's church. This has matching materials to go with it. Just pick out what you need and print it out. Make sure you Print Preview before you print to make sure it looks right.
I drew this blue amost frozen turkey walking in the snow carrying his bible. He is on his way to church. It's a cold hard walk for this poor little turkey and his feet hurt really bad but he wants to go to church. He walks a long ways to get there. It will be worth it when he gets to church because the heat will warm up his frozen little feathers.
Sometimes our walk in this life might be a little hard and it hurts some along the way but it will all be worth when we get to where we are going. We might have some troubles but they won't last.
You could try teaching the kids that even when the walk hurts and it gets uncomfortable....just keep going. Eventually they will arrive to their destination and it will all be okay. The snow was very cold on the turkeys feet and he couldn't wait to get inside to warm them up. He just kept on walking because he knew that when he got there he was going to learn about Jesus. He loves Jesus so much and will walk through the sleet and snow just to hear a message about Jesus. Mr. Turkey's feet and feathers won't stay frozen forever. That's a good thing. When we feel a little blue or down Jesus will always be there to warm our hearts when we need him.
Here is a scripture from the Bible in 2 Cornithians 11:22-28. Paul went through some extremely hard times but it was all worth it because He loved Jesus so much and wanted others to know of Jesus saving grace that was available. Some people did not like Paul and didn't want to hear what he had to say. But once again don't worry about it, Paul had a purpose just like you do. Keep telling other about Jesus and his saving grace. In the end it will be worth it. This world will pass away and so will we. We will stand before our awesome king one day and we want him to be proud of everything we have done for him. That right there is worth it! Don't you think!! Paul said he was beaten three times with rods, stoned, and was shipwrecked three times. He went through A LOT! Paul had a huge duty and calling on his life by Jesus. Not everyone is called to do BIG stuff, but you can still do something for Jesus. (Many are called but few are chosen) Just tell someone about him. He loves you and wants you to be his friend. That is most important thing in the world. Be his friend and tell others about him. That is what it's all about.
Here is a song I made up for small children to sing to the tune of Mary Had A Little Lamb.
We have the printable version below. Just click on the link and print the song out and sing with your kids.
We also have some cute cupcake toppers. Just print those out and cut them out. Then tape a toothpick to the back and stick down in cupcakes. We have a cute little cut out activity sheet too. Just have the kids color the turkey and cut the body, head and bible with feather arm out and piece together. Then glue it all down on a colored piece of construction paper.
You might have to help the kids with cutting the doorknob hanger out. Smaller children need help cutting out the circle for the doorknob.
Turkey Tracing Fun Page "Jesus"
Turkey Cupcake Toppers Template - print and cut out. Tape toothpick to back and stick down in cupcake. Or tape to cups filled with snacks or try taping it to the front of debbie cake snacks or even ziplock bags filled with treats!


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Army Soldier Erin Tynan Raped & Murdered by Fellow Fort Irwin Soldier; Christopher Geier Sentenced to Death, Died on Death Row (November 15, 1990)
Erin Tynan, U.S. Army
Army Soldier Erin Tynan, 21, was found dead on November 15, 1990 in her off base apartment in Barstow, California. Erin Tynan was an active duty military police officer stationed at the Fort Irwin National Training Center. She had already spent a couple years in Germany and after her enlistment was up, she was going to use her GI Bill to go back to school and get a degree in forensic social work. After she didn't show up to work, the Army asked the Barstow Police Department to check in on her because they were concerned about a respiratory medical condition she had been diagnosed with in Germany. The Barstow Police Department went to Erin's home and found her dead at the scene.
Barstow PD detectives determined that Erin had been the victim of a surprise sexual attack and murder. They deduced that whoever killed Erin was someone that she knew and the person was able to gain access inside her apartment and overpower her. The autopsy confirmed that Erin was assaulted, forcibly raped, strangled, and stabbed in the neck post mortem. Investigators believed that the precision stab wound in the back of the neck was the work of someone who served in the military and wanted to make sure she was dead. They first turned to Erin's last known boyfriend William Jones. He had recently been discharged from the Army and left the day before but there was tension because the six month relationship ended. Jones informed investigators that he had left Erin with a 22 pistol for protection but she was planning on selling the gun to another Army soldier because it jammed. They did not locate the gun in Erin's apartment and believed the killer stole the gun. Jones was eventually ruled out because his DNA did not match the DNA found at the crime scene and he was in fact physically placed in Illinois at the time of the murder. The next person they turned to was a lead they got from the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID). CID learned that another soldier by the name of Eugene Knox was in possession of a 22 pistol and had been acting erratically. The Barstow PD spoke with Knox and learned that he had been dating Erin. No one knew the two were seeing one another. Investigators determined that Knox could not have been the killer because he was out in the field on the night of the murder.
A couple years later, evidence from an attempted murder of a young mother in Louisiana was linked to evidence in a murder case in California. The young mother had been shot in the face once with a 22 pistol but her life was spared when the gun jammed the second time the killer pulled the trigger. The murder victim, Curtis Dean, had also been stabbed in the neck in the same precise way that Erin Tynan was stabbed in the neck. The suspect in the murder of Curtis Dean was an Army soldier at Fort Irwin, Christopher Geier. Army CID immediately recognized the similarity in the knife wounds found on both Curtis Dean and Erin Tynan. They contacted the Barstow PD to inform them of what they had learned. Geier admitted to investigators that he was hired to murder Curtis Dean but did not admit to the rape and murder of Erin Tynan when confronted. But it didn't matter because in the meantime forensic testing revealed the gun used to shoot the young mother in Louisiana who survived matched the 22 pistol missing from Erin's apartment. And the British Commando knife Geier admitted using on Curtis Dean was consistent with the knife used on Erin Tynan. Hair samples and DNA evidence collected from the rape also matched Geier. The prosecutor determine based on evidence collected at the scene that Geier knew that Erin Tynan would be alone and vulnerable that night. He also knew that her boyfriend Billy Jones was gone. He used the ruse to buy the pistol to gain access into her apartment with one thing in mind: he wanted a sexual encounter with her. After she resisted and rejected him, he raped and strangled her.
On July 21, 1995, Christopher Adam Geier was sentenced to death for the first degree murder of Erin Tyner and Curtis Dean, and the attempted murder of the young mother in Louisiana. Investigators eventually learned that Geier's Fort Irwin Tank Commander in the Army, Jeffrey Hunter, hired him to kill Curtis Dean. Army soldier Jeffrey Hunter was sentenced to life in prison.
Update: On August 31, 2017, Christopher Geier, 49, collapsed and died in the prison's recreational yard. The cause of death is unknown, pending the results of an autopsy.
Investigation Discovery:
The discovery of a beautiful military police officer murdered in her own home sends police on a twisted journey for answers. -Blood and Betrayal, On the Case with Paula Zahn (S14,E5)
Christopher Adam Geier v The People of the State of California (2007)
The People of the State of California v Christopher Adam Geier (2007)
Condemned Inmate Christopher Adam Geier Dies of Unknown Causes
Death row inmate Christopher Adam Geier, convicted of murder, dies
California inmate dies awaiting execution for rape, murders
On the Case w/ Paula Zahn Premiered 'Blood & Betrayal' on ID: Army Soldier Erin Tynan Found Raped & Murdered in California Home (October 23, 2016)
Blood and Betrayal | On the Case with Paula Zahn | Investigation Discovery (S14,E5)
Blood and Betrayal | On the Case with Paula Zahn | Investigation Discovery (website)
Blood and Betrayal | On the Case with Paula Zahn | Investigation Discovery (Prime Video)
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About Me – San Jose Family & Small Business Photographer
San Jose family and small business photographer – Want to know more about Kim E?
• Originally from Los Angeles – San Fernando Valley – Sylmar to be exact
• Went to U.C. Santa Cruz to study Film & Digital Media
• While in Los Angeles, she worked in advertising and promotions for T.V. shows which is where she learned the importance of telling a story in 30 seconds or less. When she moved to the Bay Area, she worked at an advertising agency for local businesses
• Moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2007 and South San Jose in 2012
• Loves to travel the world and has adventured through Mexico, Canada, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Greece, U.K., Switzerland, South Africa, and most U.S. states….phew. She's waiting to safely travel again and wanderlusting about the next country to explore
• Photos by Kim E has been a San Jose Family and Small Business photographer since 2009
• Her work has been featured on Let the Kids, Fearless and Framed, Candid Childhood, A Bicycle Built for Two, Shutterfest Magazine, and Ramshackle Glam
• Proud member of the Women's Networking Alliance, and Fulfillment Fund Scholar
• She lives in the South San Jose area with her two awesome daughters, an awesome husband, and one awesome hamster
• Photos by Kim E photographs with Canon EOS R6, Canon Mark III plus an extra backup Mark III and has a variety of awesome lenses to pick and choose from depending on what she's photographing. Because her style is lifestyle/documentary, she prefers to photograph with natural light and photograph the moments as they occur. However, she will use it if needed
• Photos by Kim E adheres to Santa Clara County safety protocols
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Kcrws World Festival is an event that takes place from Sep 16 - Sep 16, 2018 and may cause room availability issues or hotel rates to increase. Hotels near Hollywood Bowl and hotels close to Hollywood are listed below. Search for cheap and discount hotel rates near the Kcrws World Festival Hollywood, CA for individual or group travel.
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Corbett Park is one of India's most beautiful wildlife areas has a tiger population of around 160, which makes this park as the last and the most important bastion of this endangered species in India. The rich biodiversity of the park is a perfect place for bird enthusiasts; the area is considered one of the best bird-watching areas in India, with some 600 species having been sighted in the park. The different habitat types of Corbett Park i.e. mountains, Sal forests, chaurs (grasslands), khair-sissoo forests, and rivers have their distinct assemblage of plants.


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The Culture Code - Daniel Coyle
Belonging cues are behaviors that create safe connection in groups. They include, among others, proximity, eye contact, energy, mimicry, turn taking, attention, body language, vocal pitch, consistency of emphasis, and whether everyone talks to everyone else in the group. Their function is to answer the ancient, ever-present questions glowing in our brains: Are we safe here? What's our future with these people? Are there dangers lurking?
Belonging cues possess three basic qualities:
Energy: They invest in the exchange that is occurring.
Individualization: They treat the person as unique and valued.
Future orientation: They signal the relationship will continue.
These cues add up to a message that can be described with a single phrase: You are safe here.
Team performance is driven by five measurable factors:
Everyone in the group talks and listens in roughly equal measure, keeping contributions short.
Members maintain high levels of eye contact, and their conversations and gestures are energetic.
Members communicate directly with one another, not just with the team leader.
Members carry on back-channel or side conversations within the team.
Members periodically break, go exploring outside the team, and bring information back to share with the .
Larry Page's technique of igniting whole-group debates around solving tough problems sent a powerful signal of identity and connection, as did the no-holds-barred hockey games and wide-open Friday forums. (Everyone in the group talks and listens in roughly equal measure.) They communicated in short, direct bursts. (Members face one another, and their conversations and gestures are energetic.) Google was a hothouse of belonging cues; its people worked shoulder to shoulder and safely connected, immersed in their projects.
Belonging cues have to do not with character or discipline but with building an environment that answers basic questions: Are we connected? Do we share a future? Are we safe? Let's take them one by one.
Popovich's methods are effective. His communications consist of three types of belonging cues:
Personal, up-close connection (body language, attention, and behavior that translates as I care about you).
Performance feedback (relentless coaching and criticism that translates as We have high standards here).
Big-picture perspective (larger conversations about politics, history, and food that translate as Life is bigger than basketball).
Popovich toggles among the three signals to connect his team the way a skilled director uses a camera. First he zooms in close, creating an individualized connection. Then he operates in the middle distance, showing players the truth about their performance. Then he pans out to show the larger context in which their interaction is taking place. Alone, each of these signals would have a limited effect. But together they create a steady stream of magical feedback. Every dinner, every elbow touch, every impromptu seminar on politics and history adds up to build a relational narrative: You are part of this group. This group is special. I believe you can reach those standards.
Tony Hseih's projects tend to succeed for the same reason the creative cluster projects succeeded: Closeness helps create efficiencies of connection. The people in his orbit behave as if they were under the influence of some kind of drug because, in fact, they are. During our conversations, I ask Hsieh how he goes about recruiting new people into the Downtown Project. "If someone is interested, and we're interested in them, we invite them out here," he says. "We sort of do it in a sneaky way. We give them a place to stay for free and don't tell them too much. They get here and they hang out and see what's happening, and some of them decide to join. Things just sort of happen.". What percentage end up moving here? He pauses for a long time. "Probably about one in twenty." At first, this number doesn't seem all that impressive—only 5 percent. Then you think about what's beneath that number. One hundred strangers will visit Hsieh, and after a few conversations and a handful of interactions, five will uproot themselves from their home and join this group they have just met. Hsieh has built a machine that transforms strangers into a tribe.
Creating safety is about dialing in to small, subtle moments and delivering targeted signals at key points:
Embrace the Messenger: One of the most vital moments for creating safety is when a group shares bad news or gives tough feedback. In these moments, it's important not simply to tolerate the difficult news but to embrace it. "You know the phrase 'Don't shoot the messenger'?" "In fact, it's not enough to not shoot. them. You have to hug the messenger and let them know how much you need that feedback. That way you can be sure that they feel safe enough to tell you the truth next time."
Preview Future Connection: One habit I saw in successful groups was that of sneak-previewing future relationships, making small but telling connections between now and a vision of the future.
"You know that pitcher?" Players looked up. On the screen, wearing a perfect white uniform, stood the heroic figure of Trevor Rosenthal, a young star who had become a dominant relief pitcher for the Cardinals; he had pitched in the previous year's World Series. "Three years ago," the coach said, "he was sitting right in that seat where you are." That's all he said. It wasn't much—it took about five seconds to deliver. But it was powerful, because it connected the dots between where the players were and where they were headed. Three years ago he was sitting right in that seat where you are.
A small thank-you can cause people to behave far more generously to a completely different person. This is because thank-yous aren't only expressions of gratitude; they're crucial belonging cues that generate a contagious sense of safety, connection, and motivation.
Be Painstaking in the Hiring Process: Deciding who's in and who's out is the most powerful signal any group sends, and successful groups approach their hiring accordingly. Most have built lengthy, demanding processes that seek to assess fit, contribution (through deep background research and extensive interactions with a large number of people in the group), and performance (increasingly measured by tests). Some groups, like Zappos, have added an extra layer of belonging cues: after training is complete, they offer trainees a $2,000 bonus if they quit (about 10 percent of trainees accept the offer).
When you watch highly cohesive groups in action, you will see many moments of fluid, trusting cooperation. These moments often happen when the group is confronted with a tough obstacle—for example, a SEAL team navigating a training course, or an improv comedy team navigating a sketch. Without communication or planning, the group starts to move and think as one, finding its way through the obstacle in the same way that a school of fish finds its way through a coral reef, as if they are all wired into the same brain. Sprinkled amid the smoothness and fluency are moments that don't feel so beautiful. These moments are clunky, awkward, and full of hard questions. They contain pulses of profound tension, as people deal with hard feedback and struggle together to figure out what is going on. What's more, these moments don't happen by accident. They happen by design. At Pixar, those uncomfortable moments happen in what they call BrainTrust meetings. The BrainTrust is Pixar's method of assessing and improving its movies during their development. (Each film is BrainTrusted about half a dozen times, at regular intervals.) The meeting brings the film's director together with a handful of the studio's veteran directors and producers, all of whom watch the latest version of the movie and offer their candid opinion. From a distance, the BrainTrust appears to be a routine huddle. Up close, it's more like a painful medical procedure—specifically, a dissection that spotlights, names, and analyzes the film's flaws in breathtaking detail. A BrainTrust meeting is not fun. It is where directors are told that their characters lack heart, their storylines are confusing, and their jokes fall flat. But it's also where those movies get better. "The BrainTrust is the most important thing we do by far," said Pixar president Ed Catmull. "It depends on completely candid feedback." In rhythm and tone, BrainTrust meetings resemble the atmosphere inside the cockpit of Flight 232. They consist of a steady stream of here's-the-bad-news notifications accompanied by a few big, scary questions—Does anybody know how to land this thing? Participants spend most of the time in a state of brow-furrowing struggle as they grapple with the fact that the movie, at the moment, isn't working. "All our movies suck at first," Catmull says. "The BrainTrust is where we figure out why they suck, and it's also where they start to not suck."
Vulnerability loops seem swift and spontaneous from a distance, but when you look closely, they all follow the same discrete steps:
Person A sends a signal of vulnerability.
Person B detects this signal.
Person B responds by signaling their own vulnerability.
Person A detects this signal.
A norm is established; closeness and trust increase.
Vulnerability doesn't come after trust—it precedes it. Leaping into the unknown, when done alongside others, causes the solid ground of trust to materialize beneath our feet.
Harold improv rules:
You are all supporting actors.
Always check your impulses.
Never enter a scene unless you are needed.
Save your fellow actor, don't worry about the piece.
Your prime responsibility is to support.
Work at the top of your brains at all times.
Never underestimate or condescend to the audience.
No jokes.
Trust. Trust your fellow actors to support you; trust them to come through if you lay something heavy on them; trust yourself.
Avoid judging what is going down except in terms of whether it needs help, what can best follow, or how you can support it imaginatively if your support is called for.
Every rule directs you either to tamp down selfish instincts that might make you the center of attention, or to serve your fellow actors (support, save, trust, listen). This is why Close's Harold rules are hard to follow, and also why they are useful in building cooperation.
Anybody have any ideas? During Seal missions, David Cooper sought opportunities to spotlight the need for his men to speak up, especially with newer team members. He was not subtle. "For example, when you're in an urban environment, windows are bad," he tells me. "You stand in front of one, and you can get shot by a sniper and never know where it came from. So if you're a new guy and you see me standing in front of a window in Fallujah, what are you going to say? Are you going to tell me to move my ass, or are you going to stand there quietly and let me get shot? When I ask new guys that question, they say, 'I'll tell you to move.' So I tell them, 'Well, that's exactly how you should conduct yourself all the time around here, with every single decision.' " Cooper began to develop tools. "There're things you can do," he says. "Spending time together outside, hanging out—those help. One of the best things I've found to improve a team's cohesion is to send them to do some hard, hard training.
There's something about hanging off a cliff together, and being wet and cold and miserable together, that makes a team come together."
One of the most useful tools was the After-Action Review, the truth-telling session. AARs happen immediately after each mission and consist of a short meeting in which the team gathers to discuss and replay key decisions. AARs are led not by commanders but by enlisted men. There are no agendas, and no minutes are kept. The goal is to create a flat landscape without rank, where people can figure out what really happened and talk about mistakes—especially their own.
Good AARs follow a template. "You have to do it right away," Cooper says. "You put down your gun, circle up, and start talking. Usually you take the mission from beginning to end, chronologically. You talk about every decision, and you talk about the process. You have to resist the temptation to wrap it all up in a bow, and try to dig for the truth of what happened, so people can really learn from it. You have to ask why, and then when they respond, you ask another why. Why did you shoot at that particular point? What did you see? How did you know? What other options were there? You ask and ask and ask." The goal of an AAR is not to excavate truth for truth's sake, or to assign credit and blame, but rather to build a shared mental model that can be applied to future missions. "Look, nobody can see it all or know it all," Cooper says. "But if you keep getting together and digging out what happened, then after a while everybody can see what's really happening, not just their small piece of it. People can share experiences and mistakes. They can see how what they do affects others, and we can start to create a group mind where everybody can work together and perform to the team's potential."
People who possessed traits of warmth and curiosity— I began to think of them as Nyquists. They were polite, reserved, and skilled listeners. They radiated a safe, nurturing vibe. They possessed deep knowledge that spanned domains and had a knack for asking questions that ignited motivation and ideas. The best way to find the Nyquist is usually to ask people: If I could get a sense of the way your culture works by meeting just one person, who would that person be?
If we think of successful cultures as engines of human cooperation, then the Nyquists are the spark plugs.
Givechi's interactions with her teams take place largely in what IDEO calls Flights, regular all-team meetings that occur at the start, middle, and finish of every project. (Think of them as IDEO's version of the BrainTrust or AAR.) Givechi approaches each Flight from the outside in. She does her research, mostly through conversations, to learn the issues the team has been wrestling with, both from a design perspective (what are the barriers?) and from a team-dynamics perspective (where is the friction?)
Then with that landscape in mind, she gathers the group and asks questions designed to unearth tensions and help the group gain clarity about themselves and the project. The word she uses for this process is surfacing.
A year ago IDEO decided to scale Givechi's abilities across the organization. They asked her to create modules of questions teams could ask themselves, then provided those modules to design teams as tools to help them improve. For example, here are a few:
The one thing that excites me about this particular opportunity is.
I confess, the one thing I'm not so excited about with this particular opportunity is.
On this project, I'd really like to get better at.
The interesting thing about Givechi's questions is how transcendently simple they are. They have less to do with design than with connecting to deeper emotions: fear, ambition, motivation. It's easy to imagine that in different hands, these questions could fall flat and fail to ignite conversation. This is because the real power of the interaction is located in the two-way emotional signaling that creates an atmosphere of connection that surrounds the conversation.
Marci invented a method in which he videoed conversations while tracking galvanic skin response—the change in electrical resistance that measures emotional arousal. He discovered that for much of the time, the arousal curves of two people in conversation bore little or no relation to each other. But he also found special moments, in certain conversations, when the two curves fell into perfect sync. Marci called these moments concordances. "Concordances happen when one person can react in an authentic way to the emotion being projected in the room," Marci says. "It's about understanding in an empathic way, then doing something in terms of gesture, comment, or expression that creates a connection."
The most important moments in conversation happen when one person is actively, intently listening. "It's not an accident that concordance happens when there's one person talking and the other person listening," Marci says. "It's very hard to be empathic when you're talking. Talking is really complicated, because you're thinking and planning what you're going to say, and you tend to get stuck in your own head. But not when you're listening. When you're really listening, you lose time. There's no sense of yourself, because it's not about you. It's all about this task—to connect completely to that person."
Marci has connected increases in concordances to increases in perceived empathy: the more concordances occur, the closer the two people feel. What's more, the changes in closeness happen not gradually but all at once. "There's often one moment where it happens," he says. "There's an accelerated change to the relationship that happens when you're able to really listen, to be incredibly present with the person. It's like a breakthrough—'We were like this, but now we're going to interact in a new way, and we both understand that it's happened.'"
Leaders should ask their people three questions:
What is one thing that I currently do that you'd like me to continue to do?
What is one thing that I don't currently do frequently enough that you think I should do more often?
What can I do to make you more effective?
The most effective listeners do four things:
They interact in ways that make the other person feel safe and supported.
They take a helping, cooperative stance.
They occasionally ask questions that gently and constructively challenge old assumptions.
They make occasional suggestions to open up alternative paths.
One good AAR structure is to use five questions:
What were our intended results?
What were our actual results?
What caused our results?
What will we do the same next time?
What will we do differently?
Some teams also use a Before-Action Review, which is built around a similar set of questions:
What are our intended results?
What challenges can we anticipate?
What have we or others learned from similar situations?
What will make us successful this time?
Purpose isn't about tapping into some mystical internal drive but rather about creating simple beacons that focus attention and engagement on the shared goal. Successful cultures do this by relentlessly seeking ways to tell and retell their story. To do this, they build what we'll call high-purpose environments.
High-purpose environments are filled with small, vivid signals designed to create a link between the present moment and a future ideal. They provide the two simple locators that every navigation process requires: Here is where we are and Here is where we want to go. The surprising thing, from a scientific point of view, is how responsive we are to this pattern of signaling.
That shared future could be a goal or a behavior. (We put customer safety first. We shoot, move, and communicate.) It doesn't matter. What matters is establishing this link and consistently creating engagement around it. What matters is telling the story.
Stories are not just stories; they are the best invention ever created for delivering mental models that drive behavior.
The simple, glowing idea—This child has unusual potential for intellectual growth—aligned motivations, awareness, and behaviors. Rosenthal classified the changes into four categories:
Warmth (the teachers were kinder, more attentive, and more connective).
Input (the teachers provided more material for learning).
Response-opportunity (the teachers called on the students more often, and listened more carefully).
Feedback (the teachers provided more, especially when the student made a mistake).
What happened in Rosenthal's and Grant's experiments is no different from what happened when Johnson & Johnson gathered to challenge the Credo. They created a high-purpose environment, flooded the zone with signals that linked the present effort to a meaningful future, and used a single story to orient motivation the way that a magnetic field orients a compass needle to true north: This is why we work. Here is where you should put your energy.
One of the best measures of any group's culture is its learning velocity—how quickly it improves its performance of a new skill.
When Edmondson plotted the results, she found that hospitals fell into two groups: teams that had high success and teams that had low success. It wasn't a bell curve; it was more like a split screen. Teams were either like Mountain Medical or like Chelsea; they either clicked or they didn't. Why? The answer, Edmondson discovered, lay in the patterns of real-time signals through which the team members were connected (or not) with the purpose of the work. These signals consisted of five basic types:
Framing: Successful teams conceptualized MICS as a learning experience that would benefit patients and the hospital. Unsuccessful teams conceptualized MICS as an add-on to existing practices.
Roles: Successful teams were explicitly told by the team leader why their individual and collective skills were important for the team's success, and why it was important for them to perform as a team. Unsuccessful teams were not.
Rehearsal: Successful teams did elaborate dry runs of the procedure, preparing in detail, explaining the new protocols, and talking about communication. Unsuccessful teams took minimal steps to prepare.
Explicit encouragement to speak up: Successful teams were told by team leaders to speak up if they saw a problem; they were actively coached through the feedback process. The leaders of unsuccessful teams did little coaching, and as a result team members were hesitant to speak up.
Active reflection: Between surgeries, successful teams went over performance, discussed future cases, and suggested improvements. For example, the team leader at Mountain Medical wore a head-mounted camera during surgery to help facilitate discussion and feedback. Unsuccessful teams tended not to do this.
Note what factors are not on this list: experience, surgeon status, and organizational support. These qualities mattered far less than the simple, steady pulse of real-time signals that channeled attention toward the larger goal.
"I didn't know how to read a balance sheet," he says. "I didn't know how to manage flow or run a kitchen. I didn't know anything. But I did know how I wanted to make people feel. I wanted them to feel like they couldn't tell if they had stayed home or gone out."
To do that, Meyer relied on instinct. He hired midwesterners to increase friendliness. He trained the staff himself, playacting various waiter-diner scenarios. When service was slow, as it often was in the early days, he placated guests with free wine and gave the staff latitude to provide treats. He made a habit of gathering tidbits of information to help his guests feel more at home. He paid particular attention to language. He hated waiter-speak like "Are you still working on that?" (it's not work!) or "Is everything to your liking?" (so impersonal!). Instead, he sought to create language that gave guests the feeling that the staff was on their side. For instance, when a reservation was unavailable, he would say, "Can you give me a range of times that work for you, so I can root for a cancellation?"
At the retreat, Meyer and the staff ranked their priorities:
Guests.
Suppliers.
Investors.
Meyer then attempted to name the specific behaviors and interactions he wanted to create at his restaurants. He already had an assortment of catchphrases that he used informally in training—he had a knack for distilling ideas into handy maxims. But now he started paying deeper attention to these phrases, thinking about them as tools. Here are a few:
Read the guest.
Athletic hospitality.
Writing a great final chapter.
Turning up the Home Dial.
Loving problems.
Finding the yes.
Collecting the dots and connecting the dots.
Creating raves for guests.
One size fits one.
Skunking.
Making the charitable assumption.
Planting like seeds in like gardens.
Put us out of business with your generosity.
Be aware of your emotional wake.
To get a hug, you have to give a hug.
The excellence reflex.
Are you an agent or a gatekeeper?
Each of them functions as a small narrative in itself, providing a vivid mental model for solving the routine problems the staff faced. Making the charitable assumption means that when someone behaves poorly, you should avoid judging them and instead give them the benefit of the doubt. Collecting the dots means gathering information about guests; connecting the dots is using that information to create happiness. Skunking is spraying negative energy into the workplace, as skunks do when they're frightened. By themselves, these phrases are unremarkable. But together, endlessly repeated and modeled through behavior, they create a larger conceptual framework that connects with the group's identity and expresses its core purpose: We take care of people.
Name and Rank Your Priorities: In order to move toward a target, you must first have a target. Listing your priorities, which means wrestling with the choices that define your identity, is the first step. Most successful groups end up with a small handful of priorities (five or fewer), and many, not coincidentally, end up placing their in-group relationships—how they treat one another—at the top of the list. This reflects the truth that many successful groups realize: Their greatest project is building and sustaining the group itself. If they get their own relationships right, everything else will follow.
Be Ten Times as Clear About Your Priorities as You Think You Should Be: A while back Inc. magazine asked executives at six hundred companies to estimate the percentage of their workforce who could name the company's top three priorities. The executives predicted that 64 percent would be able to name them. When Inc. then asked employees to name the priorities, only 2 percent could do so. This is not the exception but the rule. Leaders are inherently biased to presume that everyone in the group sees things as they do, when in fact they don't. This is why it's necessary to drastically overcommunicate priorities. The leaders I visited with were not shy about this. Statements of priorities were painted on walls, stamped on emails, incanted in speeches, dropped into conversation, and repeated over and over until they became part of the oxygen.
Figure Out Where Your Group Aims for Proficiency and Where It Aims for.
Creativity: Every group skill can be sorted into one of two basic types: skills of proficiency and skills of creativity.
Skills of proficiency are about doing a task the same way, every single time. They are about delivering machine-like reliability, and they tend to apply in domains in which the goal behaviors are clearly defined, such as service.
Building purpose to perform these skills is like building a vivid map: You want to spotlight the goal and provide crystal-clear directions to the checkpoints along the way. Ways to do that include:
Fill the group's windshield with clear, accessible models of excellence.
Provide high-repetition, high-feedback training.
Build vivid, memorable rules of thumb (if X, then Y).
Spotlight and honor the fundamentals of the skill.
Creative skills, on the other hand, are about empowering a group to do the hard work of building something that has never existed before. Generating purpose in these areas is like supplying an expedition: You need to provide support, fuel, and tools and to serve as a protective presence that empowers the team doing the work. Some ways to do that include:
Keenly attend to team composition and dynamics.
Define, reinforce, and relentlessly protect the team's creative autonomy.
Make it safe to fail and to give feedback.
Celebrate hugely when the group takes initiative.
Most groups, of course, these skill types, as they aim for proficiency in certain areas and creativity in others. The key is to clearly identify these areas and tailor leadership accordingly.
Embrace the Use of Catchphrases: When you look at successful groups, a lot of their internal language features catchphrases that often sound obvious, rah-rah, or corny. Many of us instinctively dismiss them as cultish jargon. But this is a mistake. Their occasionally cheesy obviousness is not a bug—it's a feature. Their clarity, grating to the outsider's ear, is precisely what helps them function. The trick to building effective catchphrases is to keep them simple, action-oriented, and forthright: "Create fun and a little weirdness" (Zappos), "Talk less, do more" (IDEO), "Work hard, be nice" (KIPP), "Pound the rock" (San Antonio Spurs), "Leave the jersey in a better place" (New Zealand All-Blacks), "Create raves for guests" (Danny Meyer's restaurants). They're hardly poetry, but they share an action-based clarity. They aren't gentle suggestions so much as clear reminders, crisp nudges in the direction the group wants to go.
Measure What Really Matters: The main challenge to building a clear sense of purpose is that the world is cluttered with noise, distractions, and endless alternative purposes. One solution is to create simple universal measures that place focus on what matters. A good example happened in the early days of Zappos, when Tony Hsieh noticed that call center workers were measured by the number of calls they handled per hour. He realized that this traditional measure was at odds with the group's purpose and that it was driving unwanted behaviors (haste and brevity, for starters). So he banished that metric and replaced it with Personal Emotional Connections (PECs), or creating a bond outside the conversation about the product. It's impossible, of course, to measure PECs precisely, but the goal here is not precision; it is to create awareness and alignment and to direct behavior toward the group's mission. So when a customer service agent spent a company-record 10 hours and 29 minutes on a call, Zappos celebrated and sent out a press release.
Use Artifacts: If you traveled from Mars to Earth to visit successful cultures, it would not take you long to figure out what they were about. Their environments are richly embedded with artifacts that embody their purpose and identity. These artifacts vary widely: the battle gear of soldiers killed in combat at the Navy SEAL headquarters; the Oscar trophies accompanied by hand-drawn sketches of the original concepts at Pixar; and the rock and sledgehammer behind glass at the San Antonio Spurs practice facility, embodying the team's catchphrase "Pound the rock"—but they all reinforce the same signal: This is what matters. Focus on Bar-Setting Behaviors: One challenge of building purpose is to translate abstract ideas (values, mission) into concrete terms. One way successful groups do this is by spotlighting a single task and using it to define their identity and set the bar for their expectations.
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News: Driver dies after striking tree along CTH G near Brazeau
by lindnerlaw | Apr 22, 2022 | News
OCONTO COUNTY, WI — A 79-year-old man died Thursday night after a single-vehicle accident on County Highway G near the Town of Brazeau, reports NBC26 Green Bay.
Sheriff's deputies and EMS personnel responded to the scene on the westbound lanes of the highway, west of Parkway Road, at about 8:30 p.m.
According to the Oconto County Sheriff's Office, the man was behind the wheel of a pickup truck heading westbound on CTH G when, for reasons still being investigated, he lost control of the vehicle. The pickup traveled into the south ditch before colliding with a tree.
The victim died from his injuries at the scene, confirmed authorities.
No further information has been shared at this time, but an investigation by the OCSO and Brown County Medical Examiner's Office was underway.
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