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Poverty & Dependence
General Opportunity
Improving the Quantity and Quality of America's Volunteerism
Jul 11, 2016 · 5 min read
Brian Fikkert
Volunteerism dropped in 2015, continuing a decade-long trend in which the percentage of adults who volunteer has declined by a total of 3.9 percentage points. Regrettably, these recent declines are part of a century-long decrease in rates of volunteerism in America,[1] a trend rooted in fundamental issues that hinder not only the quantity, but also the quality of our volunteerism.
One of the most important of these issues is widespread materialism: the belief that happiness comes from acquiring more possessions. Although the seeds of materialism have been present since America's inception, a combination of philosophical, economic, and social forces in the past century has resulted in a culture that is increasingly focused on material progress as the source of happiness.[2]
Materialism is necessarily self-centered, while volunteerism is others-centered. Hence, it is not surprising that researchers are finding materialistic people to be less likely to volunteer — a fact that explains at least some of the decline in the quantity of volunteerism in America.[3] But materialism also affects the quality of our volunteerism. For example, consider volunteerism targeted at alleviating poverty.
Because Americans tend to think of poverty in material terms, our approaches to helping the poor often tend toward merely providing them with material resources: dispensing food, ladling soup, and giving out clothing. In times of crisis, such handouts are the appropriate response, but when low-income individuals or communities are in a chronic state of poverty, this approach amounts to treating symptoms rather than addressing the underlying causes of their condition. There are deeper forces at work that must be addressed.
If we listen carefully to the poor, we can hear them longing for more than just greater consumption, for they commonly express feelings of shame, inferiority, social isolation, and powerlessness. These problems involve far more than a lack of material things, and simply handing out more material resources cannot solve them.
While human beings are partly material — we have bodies and real physical needs — both the wisdom of the ages and scientific evidence teach us that human beings are hardwired for relationships: with God, self, others, and the environment.[4] More often than not, it is the brokenness in these foundational relationships that leads to material poverty, but these relationships cannot be repaired by handouts of material resources alone.[5] In fact, handouts can make these relationships worse.
How Can a Material Approach to Poverty Do Harm?
Simply providing handouts of material resources to poor people can exacerbate their feelings of shame and inferiority and undermine the development of their own skills and resources. As a result, handouts can render poor people even more powerless than they were before they received the "help."
Short-term trips to low-income communities abroad often provide prime examples of this dynamic. Volunteers rush in to build houses and dig wells — things that the community could do on its own — thereby undermining local initiative, ownership, and stewardship. Similarly, such trips often dispense clothing and shoes, which can undermine local businesses and create dependence on the outsiders.[6]
Do More, But Do It Differently
Evidence and experience show that we need to use more relational approaches, walking alongside poor people instead of treating them as objects of our assistance.[7] This engages poor people as full participants in the process, building on their assets and abilities in order to restore their dignity and capacity. The goal in such an approach is not simply to increase the material condition of poor people, but also to help them experience greater flourishing in their relationships with God, self, others, and the environment.
One example is the Circles of Support model.[8] In this approach, the poor person chooses and leads a team of "allies" who surround the person with encouragement, community, accountability, and various forms of assistance. In addition, the allies provide access to crucial social and professional networks and can even provide advocacy when systemic injustice is an issue.
One key to more and better volunteerism is the rejection of materialism in favor of a relational understanding of human nature. As we make this shift, we open up possibilities for greater human flourishing both for the helpers and for those who are being helped.
— Brian Fikkert is Founder and President of the Chalmers Center for Economic Development at Covenant College.
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Marvin Olasky, "Volunteering: A Fraying Bond in American Society," in 2015 Index of Culture and Opportunity, ed. Jennifer A. Marshall and Christine Kim (Washington: The Heritage Foundation, 2015), p. 33.
Jean M. Twenge, W. Keith Campbell, and Elise C. Freeman, "Generational Differences in Young Adults' Life Goals, Concern for Others, and Civic Orientation, 1966–2009," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 102, No. 5 (May 2012), pp. 1045–1062.
Yujie Wei, Naveen Donthu, and Kenneth L. Bernhardt, "Volunteerism of Older Adults in the United States," International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing, Vol. 9, Issue 1 (May 2012), pp. 1–18; Ellen Briggs, Tim Landry, and Charles Wood, "Beyond Just Being There: An Examination of the Impact of Attitudes, Materialism, and Self-Esteem on the Quality of Helping Behavior in Youth Volunteers," Journal of Nonprofit and Public Sector Marketing, Vol. 18, Issue 2 (July 2007), pp. 27–45.
For example, see Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (New York: Basic Books, 2006); Commission on Children at Risk, Hardwired to Connect: The New Scientific Case for Authoritative Communities (New York: Institute for American Values, 2003).
Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert, When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor…and Yourself (Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers, 2012).
Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert, with Katie Casselberry, Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions Leaders Guide (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2014).
Corbett and Fikkert, When Helping Hurts.
Ibid., pp. 210–213.
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- Poverty & Dependence
- General Opportunity
- Preface by Jim DeMint
- Executive Summary
- Introduction by Michael Novak
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Please use the form below to submit your inquiry and we'll contact you to discuss the right approach for your group. If you'd like to speak with someone immediately, please call Victoria at 858.598.2448.


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NCAA Panel Faces Tough Selection Process
Thursday, March 8th 2007, 5:57 am
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ Gary Walters and the NCAA selection committee will spend the rest of this week studying numbers, debating resumes and finding the 34 best at-large teams to put in the 65-team tournament.
They're likely to spend the next week hearing everyone complain about it.
Welcome to life as chairman of the highest-profile committee in college athletics, where the only thing everyone seems to agree on is that nobody gets it right.
``Having observed the criticism over the years from teams that didn't get in, I understand how difficult that is,'' said Walters, the athletic director at Princeton. ``We're aware there will be some teams that are disappointed, so you have to have thick enough skin to handle it.''
While people like Walters often find themselves explaining the committee's decisions, it's not as if they have exclusive rights on being targeted. Remember 2004, when Saint Joseph's received a No. 1 seed and CBS commentator Billy Packer told a national television audience it was too high? Saint Joseph's coach Phil Martelli fired back by questioning Packer's credentials, and his Hawks eventually advanced to the regional finals before losing to Oklahoma State.
For the 10-member voting bloc meeting in Indianapolis this week, the decisions could be even tougher.
Aside from choosing who's in and who's out, they must also decipher a seeding process that appears nearly as jumbled at the top as it does on the bottom.
With Florida's late-season struggles, Wisconsin's injuries and Kansas' less-than-spectacular power ranking, Walters acknowledged Wednesday that they'll also be watching scores from this week's conference tournaments to sort out the mess.
``There's no magic formula to this,'' Walters said. ``Just because a team has a solid record or is solid in league play or even has a .500 record in league play isn't enough. You have the unbalanced schedules, so some teams may have followed a different path.''
Among those fighting for No. 1 seeds are Florida and Wisconsin.
The Gators (26-5) are the defending national champions, the regular-season Southeastern Conference champs and were ranked No. 1 as recently as four weeks ago. But consecutive losses at LSU and Tennessee, before beating Kentucky at home last weekend, knocked the Gators down to No. 6 in The Associated Press poll and No. 9 in the RPI Index, a calculation that includes victories over Division I opponents, strength of schedule and opponents' strength of schedule.
Wisconsin (27-4) finds itself in a different predicament. The Badgers are No. 3 in the poll and No. 4 in the NCAA's RPI ratings, but haven't been the same since starting center Brian Butch went down with a right elbow injury during a one-point loss to No. 1 Ohio State on Feb. 25. Butch was expected to miss four to six weeks, meaning he could miss the rest of the season.
Injuries can be a factor as Cincinnati learned in 2000 after Kenyon Martin cracked a bone in his right leg and tore ankle ligaments in a conference tournament game. The Bearcats, who were ranked No. 1, wound up with a No. 2 seed.
``Some teams have done very well when a player goes out,'' Walters said. ``Others have struggled.''
One committee member, UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero, will participate by phone and computer. UCLA said he will be staying in Los Angeles because of his father's death Tuesday.
The only apparent lock, heading into the weekend, may be Ohio State (27-3), which is No. 2 in the RPI and has steadily improved throughout the season. Otherwise, the picture remains muddled.
UCLA (26-4), which lost to Florida in last year's championship game, is ranked No. 4 in the poll and No. 1 in the RPI, so a strong showing in the Pac-10 tournament would solidify its hold on a top seed.
Kansas (27-4) is ranked No. 2 this week but has an RPI rating (15) that could force the Jayhawks off the top line if they make an early exit in the Big 12 tournament.
North Carolina (25-6) has the opposite problem. It's ranked No. 3 in the RPI but only eighth in the poll.
Then, of course, there is discussion about whether mid-major schools such as Old Dominion and Drexel of the Colonial Athletic Association, Santa Clara of the West Coast Conference and Missouri State of the Missouri Valley Conference have done enough to warrant an at-large bid.
How it eventually looks, even at the top, is anybody's guess.
But Walters knows one thing: Some people won't be happy.
``The more we take into account, the better decision we can make,'' Walters said. ``So I think we'll take into account the AP poll and the coaches poll, but it's certainly not driving the car.''
News On 6 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ Gary Walters and the NCAA selection committee will spend the rest of this week studying numbers, debating resumes and finding the 34 best at-large teams to put in the 65-team tournament.


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Q: Linux ext2 filesystem why is there a deletion time? the ext2 inode has a field i_dtime which is the deletion time.
Until today i thought that the deletion of a file removes the inode.
So does anyone know what the sense of this field is?
Thanks!

A: From [1]:
The inode is marked as deleted by writing the i_dtime. Special fs tools [2] can analyse the file system and may still restore files by looking at those marked inodes -- until they are actually overwritten.

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*[1] http://kris.koehntopp.de/artikel/diplom/node13.html

*[2] http://e2undel.sourceforge.net

A: You can't really remove an inode, it's still there in the table. You can only mark it as deleted.

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Home PRESS RELEASES Northwestern Mutual: Contributes $225,000 to local nonprofits
Northwestern Mutual: Contributes $225,000 to local nonprofits
MILWAUKEE, Nov. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — In support of its employees' commitment to giving back to their communities, the Northwestern Mutual annual Days of Sharing program gives employees an opportunity to nominate local nonprofit organizations and causes they are passionate about to receive funding. Northwestern Mutual, through its Foundation, is recognizing 25 Milwaukee and New York-area nonprofits with grants totaling $225,000.
"This year has brought significant challenges to our communities, and our employees have continued to step up as champions for the organizations that play a key role in making the deepest impact possible," said Eric Christophersen, president, Northwestern Mutual Foundation. "We've been proud to see our employees double down on their support through these times of uncertainty and continue their commitment to the causes most important to them."
Below are the 2020 Days of Sharing recipient organizations.
Badgerland Water Ski Show Team
Camp One Step
Civitas Law Group, Inc.
Dorothy Day Hospitality House
Education Foundation of Wauwatosa
Friends of Hank Aaron State Trail
GiGi's Playhouse – Todd Anderson Memorial
Helping Hands Healing Hooves Inc
Hudson Valley Humane Society
Human Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha County, Inc.
March of Dimes
Mario Lemieux Foundation
Marquette University – Black Alumni Association Ralph H. Metcalfe Scholarship Award
Milwaukee Urban Soccer Collaborative
New York Legal Assistance Group
Portal, Inc.
Project Fierce Chicago
SHARP Literacy, Inc.
Shaymus Guinn Foundation
Sojourner Family Peace Center
South Milwaukee Human Concerns
St. John Vianney School
Team Phoenix
The Gathering of Southeastern Wisconsin
Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin
Employees were also encouraged to vote for pre-selected nonprofits, which were determined by the company's employee resource groups and other active employee volunteers. The five organizations with the most employee votes received grants totaling $125,000. This year, the winning organizations include Secure Futures, Grateful Girls, WI Humane Society, Alzheimer's Association of WI and Lift for the 22.
Since the launch of Days of Sharing in 2007, the Northwestern Mutual Foundation has provided more than 400 grants totaling more than $2 million in funding on behalf of its employees. Together, employees have dedicated more than 250,000 volunteer hours in their communities and continue to support the company's philanthropic causes, including its national Childhood Cancer Program, on an ongoing basis. Through its Foundation, the company has donated more than $386 million toward pediatric cancer research and to improve education, revitalize neighborhoods and support cultural destinations in Milwaukee.
About Northwestern Mutual Foundation
The mission of the Northwestern Mutual Foundation is to improve the lives of children and families in need. The Foundation has given more than $386 million since its inception in 1992 and is designed to create lasting impact in the communities where the company's employees and financial representatives live and work. We accomplish this by combining financial support, volunteerism, thought leadership and convening community partners to deliver the best outcomes. Our efforts are focused nationally on curing childhood cancer, and locally on education, neighborhoods and making our hometown of Milwaukee a great destination. Visit Northwestern Mutual Foundation to learn more.
About Northwestern Mutual
Northwestern Mutual has been helping people and businesses achieve financial security for more than 160 years. Through a holistic planning approach, Northwestern Mutual combines the expertise of its financial professionals with a personalized digital experience and industry-leading products to help its clients plan for what's most important. With $290.3 billion in total assets, $29.9 billion in revenues, and $1.9 trillion worth of life insurance protection in force, Northwestern Mutual delivers financial security to more than 4.6 million people with life, disability income and long-term care insurance, annuities, and brokerage and advisory services. The company manages more than $161 billion of investments owned by its clients and held or managed through its wealth management and investment services businesses. Northwestern Mutual ranks 102 on the 2020 FORTUNE 500 and is recognized by FORTUNE® as one of the "World's Most Admired" life insurance companies in 2020.
Northwestern Mutual is the marketing name for The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company (NM)(life and disability insurance, annuities, and life insurance with long-term care benefits) and its subsidiaries in Milwaukee, WI. Subsidiaries include Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC (investment brokerage services), broker-dealer, registered investment adviser, member FINRA and SIPC; the Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Company® (investment advisory and trust services), a federal savings bank; and Northwestern Long Term Care Insurance Company.


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New massage therapist opens EnMotion Therapeutics in Thomasville
By Ben ColeyThe Dispatch
Nov 27, 2018 at 12:00 PM Nov 28, 2018 at 8:32 AM
Candace Brinson wants to help people live their life to the fullest.
She does this every day through the meticulous manipulation of muscles, otherwise known as massage therapy.
Brinson, who's been a licensed massage therapist for six years, recently opened EnMotion Therapeutics at 508 National Highway in Thomasville. The business is open noon to 8 p.m. each day and sessions are booked by appointment.
"My brother always told me that I should be in nursing because I know all these weird words and how the body works, but I can't do blood and I can't do interstitial fluid outside the body," Brinson said. "So I like to manipulate it through the tissues, so massage therapy was one of the things that I was really interested in. My clients can come lay down and not even say anything unless the pressure is too much or not enough, or the temperature is too hot or too cold. That's the only thing I want them to address with me while they're in session. Other than that, I want them to fully submerge into the awareness of what's going on in their body."
Brinson referred to herself as a pain-specific massage therapist, as opposed to a "fluff and buff" massage therapist. According to Brinson, this means that she aims to target her clients' issues and help them walk out the door without any pain. She likes to build a therapeutic plan with her clients to assist with specific issues.
She addresses the full body, but puts emphasis on the pain-centered areas. She offers 60-minute massages, 90-minute massages, chair massages, sports massages, hot stones, warm towels, foot scrubs and aroma therapy.
The massage therapist said the most common issues she sees are lower back pain, headaches, neck tension, shoulder pain and sciatica.
Brinson said that sciatica, which is pain coming from the sciatic nerve, can be caused when the piriformis, a muscle in the buttocks, pinches the nerve. The pain can wreak havoc on the legs and someone's ability to even get out of bed, according to Brinson.
"I address that regardless," Brinson said. "If they're comfortable with me addressing their glutes, I address the piriformis because preventative care is always the best medicine. It might not be an issue now, but it could be an issue in the near future."
This is the first time Brinson has owned a business, and she admitted the first couple of months have been stressful.
She's not used to being the massage therapist, receptionist and marketer all at once.
"It's a whole different ball game, but I love it though," Brinson said. "I can work my schedule around what I need to do and I'm in control of being able to book earlier appointments and later appointments. I like to be in control of everything, but it does have a little bit of a stressful edge to it."
Although she is a newcomer, Brinson said appointment slots have been filling up consistently since she's opened. She attributed the early success to her opening specials, which are $45 for a 60-minute massage and $75 for 90 minutes with a lavender foot scrub included. She'll continue to promote the $45, 60-minute massage deal in December.
Brinson has also been doing foot work, talking to people in the community about the importance of massage therapy and scheduling events where she sets up a chair in her office and anyone who stops by gets a free 10-minute massage.
"I'm super thankful that people are coming in and seeing who I am and what massage therapy is about," Brinson said.
As of now, Brinson is the only massage therapist at the office. In the future, she wants to bring in an esthetician and set aside a room for couple's massages. She plans on getting certified in pre-natal massage therapy, cupping therapy and ashiatsu massaging, where the massage therapist walks along the back of the patient. Brinson also wants her office to facilitate continuing education sessions for local massage therapists.
So far, Brinson said, the most enjoyable part of her new business is meeting and getting to know her clients.
"I love whenever my clients come out of that room and they are bright and cheerful and ready for life," Brinson said. "Not the way that they went in. ... When they come out and they are smiling and in that massage brain is what I call it. You're just elated. You're on a different level. You just come out happy and ready to book another appointment. That's what makes me happy."
To book an appointment at EnMotion Therapeutics, call (336) 592-0162.
Ben Coley can be reached at (336) 249-3981, ext. 227 or at ben.coley@the-dispatch.com. Follow Ben on Twitter: @LexDispatchBC


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HBSE 12th Date Sheet 2019- Haryana Board 12th Date Sheet, Time Table & Schedule: HBSE 12th Date Sheet 2018 will be released on the official website of Haryana Board of Secondary Education (HBSE). Haryana Board of Secondary Education conducts the board examination of class 10th and 12th every year and thousands of students from schools related to HBSE appear in the Board examinations every year. The Applicants can download Haryana Board Date Sheet 2019 For 12th by filling your Registration Number on the official website. Board examinations of class 12th have much importance regarding the admissions in higher education because admissions in various colleges and Universities around the country are taken on the basis of marks obtained in 12th board examination.
Latest Update: The Board of School Education Haryana (BSEH) will be released full details regarding HBSE 12th Date Sheet 2018 on the official website. You can download your Time Table of HBSE 12th Board Examination through this website.
Haryana Board of Secondary Education has updated the timetable of 12th Board examinations for this year on the official website of the board and all the students and staff from the state can download the Time Table of board examinations for this year from the official website of HBSE.
HBSE 12th Time Table 2018 is very important for the students because it helps them to make a study plan for the Board examinations. In this article, we are providing the Exam Routine of 12th board students so that they can know about the exam dates of various subjects they are enrolled for this academic year.
We are enclosing the list of all the subjects of class 12th students along with the HBSE 12th Exam Date Sheet 2019 of all the subjects in this article. You can check the HBSE Plus 2 Date Sheet 2018 of all the subjects for class 12th Board examinations from the list provided here.
In this article, we are going to help the students of class 12th from HBSE by providing the exam timetable of Board examinations 2018-19. The applicants can download full details regarding HBSE 12th Date Sheet 2019 through this website.
Soon after the completion of matriculation Level Examination, all the students are provided options to choose subjects of their own interest and all the students choose the optional subjects as Science Commerce and Arts stream from class 11th.
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Haryana Board of Secondary Education conducted the board examination of class 12th science Arts and Commerce students all over the state earlier this year. Thousands of students appeared in the Board examinations for class 12th and all the students who appeared in the Board examinations are anxiously waiting for the BSEH Plus Two Time Table 2019 of the board exams to be declared by the board.
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With the advent of XML-based SOA, WS-BPEL swiftly became a widely accepted standard for modeling business processes. Although SOA is said to embrace the principle of business agility, BPEL process definitions are still manually crafted into their final executable version. While SOA has proven to be a giant leap forward in building flexible IT systems, this static BPEL workflow model should be enhanced to better sustain continual process evolution. In this paper, the authors discuss the potential for adding business intelligence with respect to business process re-engineering patterns to the system to allow for automatic business process optimization. Furthermore, the paper examines how these re-engineering patterns may be implemented, leveraging techniques that were applied successfully in computer science. Several practical examples illustrate the benefit of such adaptive process models. These preliminary findings indicate that techniques like the re-sequencing and parallelization of instructions, further optimized by introspection, as well as techniques for achieving software fault tolerance, are particularly valuable for optimizing business processes. Finally, the authors elaborate on the design of people-oriented business processes using common human-centric re-engineering patterns.
A cutthroat competition is currently raging between enterprises in which companies are compelled to constantly evolve in order to realize a competitive advantage. This goal of attaining market leadership is pursued by iteratively altering business processes1 and strategies aimed at improving operational efficiency (Reldin & Sundling, 2007). Business processes are thus continuously refined, mainly to resolve recurrent issues and as such rectify process performance. This concept is commonly referred to as business process re-engineering (BPR)2.
Large enterprises have extensively deployed information technology (IT) systems, and have recently started to automate their business processes. Regrettably enough, most of these volatile business processes are enlaced into rigid IT systems and this imposes limitations with respect to the speed with which changes are possible. In the beginning of this decade, this issue led to the concept of service-oriented architectures (SOA) in which IT is flexibly structured to better alleviate the re-engineering of processes by splitting up so-called business logic into a number of software components that are exposed as services (Erl, 2005). With service (operations) as an implementation for individual process activities, a business process can be automated by appropriately orchestrating and coordinating a set of services. Actually this service-oriented computing paradigm has adopted the best practices in distributed computing of - roughly estimated - the past twenty years, and commercially backed by major industry concerns, SOA continues to gain adherence (Stal, 2006).
As one possible SOA implementation technology, web services have managed to become the de facto standard for enterprise software in which various distributed, heterogeneous software systems are integrated in support of corporate e-business and e-commerce activities (Erl, 2005). A web service is typically exposed through a well-defined open XML interface described in the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) document that formally describes the syntax of application-specific messages in XSD Schema format (Microsoft & IBM, 2001) (Erl, 2009). Clients communicate with a web service through an endpoint reference that represents the address and context path where the service is deployed (Microsoft, Sun Microsystems & ComputerAssociates, 2006). The Web Services Business Process Execution Language (WS-BPEL) XML language is one of the standards that resulted from intensive standardization initiatives by industrial consortia, and shortly became a widely accepted standard for workflow modeling (Abode et al., 2007). The benefit of the central BPEL orchestration component is that the process definition is no longer interwoven inside the implementation code of the business logic. Because of this separation, SOA is said to alleviate the transformation and restructuring of business processes using highly reusable services that can easily be re-orchestrated into BPEL workflows (Erl, 2005).
The service-oriented paradigm turned out to be a giant leap forward in the construction of flexible IT systems indeed. XML-based SOA with BPEL further added to business agility, allowing for the quick development of new business processes leveraging service-wrapped legacy IT assets (i.e., business process redesign). But in spite of the popularity of BPEL and its clear separation of process and business logic, there remain some shortcomings (Buys, 2009; Modafferi, Mussi, & Pernici, 2006). One of these issues is that a BPEL process definition is extremely static: it is designed manually using some software tools and is then loaded into the BPEL engine. Since service orchestration and business processes are at the core of SOA, it is imperative to continuously optimize BPEL process definitions to achieve an increase in system performance, besides having economic implications in realizing a competitive advantage required by the actual continual process evolution.


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Anthony talks to Aaron Ross at Mother Jones.
Mother Jones: What was it like growing up Lebanese in Oklahoma City?
Anthony Shadid: I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't. There's always a sense of community, of belonging to the Lebanese community, in Oklahoma. It's remarkable, when I talk to other Arab-Americans, how closed and tight-knit the community was, everything from the church that everyone shared—they all came from the same town in Lebanon—to the food that was served on every holiday and almost every day. There was a sense of coming from someplace else and having to make it in the place they ended up, and there was a lot of pride in that. The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese.
MJ: What resonated with you the most as you researched your family's history for the book?
AS: I didn't know a lot about my great-grandfather who built the house, and I'd done interviews 20 years ago, even before I went to college. I started doing some interviews with elderly people in the family because I knew they would pass away and we would lose the power of their story. But I saw a certain resonance with my grandfather's life and the decisions that he had to make in terms of his career and his family, in terms of sending his kids away. The more I learned about him, the more I understood him.
MJ: You write that some people in Marjayoun weren't too happy about a past story you'd penned about the town. How do you think your book will be received?
AS: [Laughs.] I have no idea. I'm actually building a fence around the house right now because I'm worried the reception might not be all that great. I think people will understand what the town represents and what the town means, and be very proud of the book. I've tried to offer a memorial to what Marjayoun is and what it was and hopefully what it can still be. But, it's a town, and a town is filled with gossip and rivalries and jealousies. I don't think the reception is going to be universally the one I would've hoped for.
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O2 customers losing access to BT Wifi hotspots from July 1
By Alex Dobie
Operator transitioning to its own nationwide Wifi hotspot network
O2 customers will lose their inclusive access to telco BT's UK-wide network of Wifi hotspots in just over a month, the operator has revealed. A message on the carrier's site says it's transitioning over to its own network of O2 Wifi hotspots from July 1, as the four-year partnership between O2 and BT Openzone comes to an end. O2's Wifi network consists of some 8,000 access points across the country, it says, however UK-based readers will be aware that BT's hotspots are far more widespread at present.
O2 customers still wanting to use BT Wifi hotspots will need to pay for access, or alternatively log in through another partner account, such as EE or BT Broadband. If you're on O2 and have your Android phone set up to automatically connect to BT Wifi hotspots, you'll need to remove the network names from your list of remembered networks (Settings > Wifi) come July 1.
Source: O2 (opens in new tab)
Alex Dobie
Alex was with Android Central for over a decade, producing written and video content for the site, and served as global Executive Editor from 2016 to 2022.
Wonder if that effects the legalities of a signed contract? I bet a lot of people chose o2 because of this!
O2 shifted everyone on unlimited data plans onto 500MB packages a few years back without any difficulty, so they probably have some kind of clause written into their contracts.
Is that even legal? I'm not big on laws but something about taking out a contract a couple of months ago and having access to BT Openzone as part of your package and then they say "oh, we're stopping all that now" just doesn't seem legal ... Surely they have to uphold the terms of the deal they gave you otherwise what's the point in anything when you can just change the rules whenever it suits.
Here stuff like that would be ground for a legal termination of your contract WITHOUT paying up the remainder of your "term".
Where's "here" lol? I live in the UK but never use my phone on Wifi other than at home but this would piss me off if I had it as part of a contract I'd taken out.
they are still allowing WiFi but through a different operator, ie themselves. Mind you those O2 WiFi spots are supposed to be free but the only thing I ever get from them is a "500 Server Error" with a massive long number I can use to report the problem but no where / way of reporting it. #fail
Far More Widespread... That's an understatement. O2 WiFi = 8000 access points
BT Openzone = 5 million! More than that, Openzone is located inside buildings very regularly. BT being the largest telecom provider, when combined with BT broadband every WiFi router can be a BT OpenZone hotspot. So many companys that use BT for their phone lines and have BT broadband also provide BT openzone. As much as O2 might want to increase their WiFi coverage, they will be a long time, and probably never, hit the penetration indoors of BT. Arguably , it's indoor s in a hotel or vonference centre (where there is no mobile signal) that WiFi is more useful (out and about you can just use 3G on an unlimited plan). Not that I like or use BT or O2, but not great for business users on an O2 contract.
but the problem is O2 do not offer unlimited data plans, maximum is 1GB
I've had BT Openzone included with my contract since before I can even remember. After a few attempts at getting on it years ago, then suffering appalling throughput if anything at all, I can assure you that losing access to BT Openzone will not affect you one bit. A chocolate teapot is more useful than BT Openzone.


"Lithospheric Extension near Lake Mead, Nevada: A Model for Ductile Flo" by Sarah E. Kruse, Marcia McNutt et al.
Small variations in gravity anomalies and topographic elevation observed in areas that have undergone highly variable amounts of upper crustal thinning can be satisfactorily explained by ductile flow of lower crustal material under the proper conditions. In this study we examine the boundary between the unextended Colorado Plateau and a strongly extended domain in the Basin and Range Province in the Lake Mead (Nevada) region. Bouguer gravity and topography data suggest that both present and preextensional variations in crustal thickness between the unextended and extended regions are small. Analytic channel flow models show that viscosities required for ductile flow in a lower crustal channel to reduce discontinuities in crustal thickness associated with variable amounts of extension are highly dependent on the channel thickness and on the length scale of flow required. Finite element modeling of Newtonian flow and power law creep shows that flow over the length scale of the eastern Basin and Range (500 km or more) corresponding to upper crustal extension by a factor of 1.4–3 over 10 m.y. requires effective viscosities less than 1018–1020 Pa s for ductile channels 10–25 km thick. Flow over shorter length scales (150 km) may be accommodated with effective viscosities as high as 1021 Pa s. Modeling suggests that these effective viscosities may be sustained by lower crustal material deforming at laboratory-derived power law creep rates. The longer-scale flow may require elevated crustal temperatures (more than 700°C), depending on the composition and material properties assumed. Under the boundary conditions assumed in this study the linear viscous flow models yield a satisfactory approximation to deformation by power law creep. This work suggests that flow in the lower crust may be a viable mechanism for producing small variations in total crustal thickness between strongly extended and less extended regions, and thereby explaining the relative uniformity in gravity and topography between such regions.
Kruse, Sarah E.; McNutt, Marcia; Phipps-Morgan, Jason; Royden, Leigh; and Wernicke, Brian, "Lithospheric Extension near Lake Mead, Nevada: A Model for Ductile Flow in the Lower Crust" (1991). School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications. 943.


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THE country's largest local authority may sell off or lease a number of its assets, including a €40 million superdump, in an attempt to make ends meet during the next few years.
Cork county manager Martin Riordan has warned that post-2010, the council will have to think of ways to bolster its coffers in the face of ever decreasing income and expected cuts in Government grant-aid.
One of its valuable assets, he said, could include the landfill at Bottlehill in which the council invested €40m.
It is due to open early next year.
Ideally, the county council would like to lease the facility so it could keep administrative and regulatory control over it. This could well attract a great deal of interest from private operators.
One company, Greenstar, has tried on a couple of occasions to build a superdump near Kildorrery in north Cork. It wanted to use the proposed site as a landfill for refuse collected throughout the Munster region, but a planning application was thwarted by An Bord Pleanála.
On the subject of waste, Mr Riordan said the council would also have to look at its service because the pay-by-weight system may not prove attractive in the years ahead.
Last December, the council introduced an all-in-one refuse disposal price of €250 for all new customers. Up to 600 households signed up.
However, 47,000 existing council customers still have to pay a standing collection charge and an additional charge per kilo for refuse disposed of.
Mr Riordan acknowledged that, in the current economic climate, householders would probably be happier with an all-in charge. "People are very conscious of price certainty. We will need to review the pay-by-weight system," the county manager said. He also acknowledged that the council was facing very active competition from private waste companies.
The manager said a full review of all council services is being undertaken in view of declining revenue and cuts in staff numbers.
A voluntary retirement package to be introduced shortly is likely to see a further 100 employees quit the council. More than 200 contract staff were laid off recently.
Mr Riordan is fearful that income from rates will plummet. If 10% of local businesses go to the wall, the council will be down €10m in rates.
In addition, it is expected that the Government will cut its funding to local authorities.
"The money we get from planning fees has fallen rapidly and development levies have fallen like a stone which has also affected income," Mr Riordan said.
He has resisted the temptation to increase rates on businesses this year, which would have brought in much needed income.
Mr Riordan said that, if Government funding is cut further, he may be forced to increase rates.
But he said he'd like to keep that increase as minimal as possible. He said the council wants to hold onto businesses that have been built up in Cork and also wants to encourage more businesses to locate in the region.
"We are managing okay at the moment. But post-2010 we are facing a very difficulty financial environment and we are looking at all our assets to bridge the gap over the next few years," Mr Riordan said.
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Öszkemen, (kazah nyelven: Өскемен, translit. Óskemen) vagy Uszty-Kamenogorszk (orosz nyelven: Усть-Каменого́рск) város Kazahsztánban, a Kelet-kazahsztáni terület székhelye. Népessége a 2009-es népszámlálási adatok alapján 303 720 fő volt.

A városnak két hivatalos neve van: a kazah nyelvben a neve Өскемен / Óskemen, az orosz nyelven Усть-Каменогорск néven ismert. Mindkét név szerepel a város pecsétjén.

Története

A várost 1720-ban alapították az Irtisz és Ulba folyók összefolyásánál, Ust-Kamennaya nevű erődként és kereskedelmi posztként. Nagy Péter cár rendje alapján jött létre, aki katonai expedíciót küldött ide,  Ivan Vasilievich Likharev vezetésével, és e helyen; az Ulba és az Irtisz folyók összefolyásánál hozták létre az Ust-Kamennaya erődöt. 1868-ban a város a Szemipalatinszki terület fővárosa lett.

Ez volt Georgy Malenkov 30 éves belső száműzetésének helye, melynek során itt helyi vízerőművet irányított.

A város a szovjet időszakban jelentős bányászati és kohászati központtá fejlődött. Fontos színesfém, különösen urán, berillium, tantál, réz, ólom, ezüst és  cink bányászati hely.

Építőipari központ, amely lakóházelemeket és vasbeton cikkeket gyárt. A város háború utáni ipari története nagyon szorosan összefonódik a szovjet nukleáris  projekttel, ezért a várost zártan tartották kívülállók számára. Az egyik fő ipari vállalkozás, az Ulba Metal Works (UMW), amely urántermékeket gyártott és még mindig gyárt, teljesen titkos volt, annak ellenére, hogy ezer munkavállalót foglalkoztatott. Az UMW beryllium gyártósorának robbanása 1990-ben egy nagyon mérgező berilliumtartalmú "felhő" elterjedéséhez vezetett a város felett. Ennek az eseménynek az egészségügyi hatásai nem teljesen ismertek, részben azért, mert az eseményt a szovjet hatóságok titokban tartották.

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Öszkemen kontinentális éghajlatú, időszakos csapadékkal. A leghidegebb hónapok november-március. A rekord alacsony hőmérsékletek –49 °C-tól januárig 4 °C-ig terjednek júliusban.

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Barbara Bedell: Memorial service for paralyzed officer who forgave assailant
Mar 3, 2017 at 11:51 AM Mar 3, 2017 at 11:51 AM
"Forgiveness is the greatest act of love a man can do," said the late NYPD Detective Steven McDonald (1957-2017), who had been shot and paralyzed, yet forgave his teenage assailant. "Had I not forgiven - anger, bitterness and hatred would have killed me where bullets failed."
A bullet changed the young police officer's life forever, and it changed the lives of his family and the people who met him for the 30 years he lived after the shooting.
His young wife, Patti Ann, was three months pregnant when he was shot. She gave birth to a son, Conor, who grew in his father's image and joined the NYPD, achieving the rank of sergeant before his father died of a heart attack on Jan. 10 this year. The three were an unforgettable team who carried the message of forgiveness everywhere they went. Messages from Det. Steven McDonald's inspirational story of forgiveness, together with Pastor Johann Christoph Arnold's strong message of love and a purpose to live for, was shared as the two spoke in hundreds of schools and traveled to Northern Ireland and Israel, relentlessly sharing their stories, and witnessing to the power of forgiveness. Memories of the two occasions I met Steven still bring tears. I was in awe of him strapped in his wheelchair, and the power he carried in forgiveness through his soft-spoken voice, and that smile that surely captivated angels.
Steven's foreword and the story featured in Pastor Arnold's best seller, "Why Forgive?" continues to help spread the message to hundreds of thousands worldwide. The two worked through a theme, "Breaking the Cycle."
A Celebration of Life honoring Det. McDonald's memory will be at noon March 11 at Mount Academy Chapel, 1001 Broadway in Esopus. The "by invitation only" event requires an RSVP which can be made by calling 384-8084 or visiting info@breakingthecycle.com.
"As we celebrate the life of Det. Steven McDonald ... we remember Steven as our brother, friend, co-worker and warrior for love and forgiveness," said Pastor Arnold, a Christian author of many books, all best sellers.
For two years before Steven's death, he participated in the Notre Dame Club of the Mid-Hudson Valley's Bread of Life Food Drive (BOLD) for the benefit of local area food pantries. This year, in Steven's memory, Pastor Arnold's community is partnering with the Notre Dame Club, and asking those attending the memorial service to drop off a bag of nonperishable food items at the chapel entrance.
** Ed Irlbacher, president of the Friends of the Middletown Thrall Library, and director of the Used Bookstore facing the parking lot on the library's property, is sending a huge "Thank You" for making it possible to donate $50,000 this year to the library from the bookstore. He singles out the Friends members, sponsors, patrons and volunteers who make the Friends organization and the bookstore work. It's an amazing undertaking. Volunteers are always welcome at the bookstore. If interested, call 344-1255 or visit swen@citlink.net. Open hours are noon-5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday.
The Friends' next event, at 2 p.m. March 19, is a program on "The Beatles: From Liverpool to Abbey Road." It will be given by Vincent Bruno, a Beatles scholar and '60s rock historian who recently retired as director of First Year Programs at LaGuardia Community College. The event is free and open to the public.
** Artist Ward Lamb will offer a master class/workshop at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Kaplan Hall on the SUNY Orange campus in Newburgh. The session is free and open to the public.
** Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus and Commissioner of Health Dr. Eli Avila will participate in the Health Equity Conference from 9:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m. Wednesday at SUNY Orange's Rowley Center for Science and Engineering on the Middletown campus. To register, call 360-6603 or 360-6613.
** "Dominicans in the New World" is the title of a free talk that will be given by the Rev. David Orique, OP, an accomplished author and director of the Latin American Studies at Providence College in Rhode Island. It will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Mount Saint Mary College's Dominican Center at 330 Powell Ave. The speaker is a prominent author who has worked in 16 Latin American nations for investigative and missionary purposes.
Barbara Bedell's column appears daily. She can be reached at 346-3125 or by email: bbedell@th-record.com.


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require 'spec_helper'
require 'ruby-pwsh'
require 'securerandom'

powershell = Pwsh::Manager.instance(Pwsh::Manager.powershell_path, Pwsh::Manager.powershell_args)
module_path = File.expand_path('../../fixtures/modules', File.dirname(__FILE__))
powershellget_path = File.expand_path('powershellget/lib/puppet_x/powershellget/dsc_resources/PowerShellGet', module_path)
local_user = ['dsc', SecureRandom.uuid.slice(0, 7)].join('_')
local_pw = SecureRandom.uuid

def execute_reset_command(reset_command)
  manager = Pwsh::Manager.instance(Pwsh::Manager.powershell_path, Pwsh::Manager.powershell_args)
  result = manager.execute(reset_command)
  raise result[:errormessage] unless result[:errormessage].nil?
end

RSpec.describe 'DSC Acceptance: Basic' do
  let(:puppet_apply) do
    "bundle exec puppet apply --modulepath #{module_path} --detailed-exitcodes --debug --trace"
  end
  let(:command) { "#{puppet_apply} -e \"#{manifest}\"" }

  context 'Updating' do
    let(:manifest) do
      # This very awkward pattern is because we're not writing
      # manifest files and need to pass them directly to puppet apply.
      [
        "dsc_psrepository { 'Trust PSGallery':",
        "dsc_name => 'PSGallery',",
        "dsc_ensure => 'Present',",
        "dsc_installationpolicy => 'Trusted'",
        '}'
      ].join(' ')
    end

    before(:all) do
      reset_command = <<~RESET_COMMAND
        $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
        Import-Module PowerShellGet
        $ResetParameters = @{
          Name = 'PSRepository'
          ModuleName = '#{powershellget_path}'
          Method = 'Set'
          Property = @{
            Name = 'PSGallery'
            Ensure = 'Present'
            InstallationPolicy = 'Untrusted'
          }
        }
        Invoke-DscResource @ResetParameters | ConvertTo-Json -Compress
      RESET_COMMAND
      execute_reset_command(reset_command)
    end

    it 'applies idempotently' do
      first_run_result = powershell.execute(command)
      expect(first_run_result[:exitcode]).to be(2)
      expect(first_run_result[:native_stdout]).to match(/dsc_installationpolicy changed 'Untrusted' to 'Trusted'/)
      expect(first_run_result[:native_stdout]).to match(/Updating: Finished/)
      expect(first_run_result[:native_stdout]).to match(/Applied catalog/)
      second_run_result = powershell.execute(command)
      expect(second_run_result[:exitcode]).to be(0)
    end
  end
  context 'Creating' do
    let(:manifest) do
      [
        "dsc_psmodule { 'Install BurntToast':",
        "dsc_name => 'BurntToast',",
        "dsc_ensure => 'Present',",
        '}'
      ].join(' ')
    end

    before(:all) do
      reset_command = <<~RESET_COMMAND
        $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
        Import-Module PowerShellGet
        Get-InstalledModule -Name BurntToast -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |
          Uninstall-Module -Force
      RESET_COMMAND
      execute_reset_command(reset_command)
    end

    it 'applies idempotently' do
      first_run_result = powershell.execute(command)
      expect(first_run_result[:exitcode]).to be(2)
      expect(first_run_result[:native_stdout]).to match(/dsc_ensure changed 'Absent' to 'Present'/)
      expect(first_run_result[:native_stdout]).to match(/Creating: Finished/)
      expect(first_run_result[:native_stdout]).to match(/Applied catalog/)
      second_run_result = powershell.execute(command)
      expect(second_run_result[:exitcode]).to be(0)
    end
  end

  context 'Deleting' do
    let(:manifest) do
      [
        "dsc_psmodule { 'Install BurntToast':",
        "dsc_name => 'BurntToast',",
        "dsc_ensure => 'Absent',",
        '}'
      ].join(' ')
    end

    before(:all) do
      reset_command = <<~RESET_COMMAND
        $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
        Import-Module PowerShellGet
        $Installed = Get-InstalledModule -Name BurntToast -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
        If($null -eq $Installed) {
          Install-Module -Name BurntToast -Scope AllUsers -Force
        }
      RESET_COMMAND
      execute_reset_command(reset_command)
    end

    it 'applies idempotently' do
      first_run_result = powershell.execute(command)
      expect(first_run_result[:exitcode]).to be(2)
      expect(first_run_result[:native_stdout]).to match(/dsc_ensure changed 'Present' to 'Absent'/)
      expect(first_run_result[:native_stdout]).to match(/Deleting: Finished/)
      expect(first_run_result[:native_stdout]).to match(/Applied catalog/)
      second_run_result = powershell.execute(command)
      expect(second_run_result[:exitcode]).to be(0)
    end
  end
  context 'PSDscRunAsCredential' do
    before(:all) do
      prep_command = <<~PREP_USER.strip
        $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
        $User = Get-LocalUser -Name #{local_user} -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
        If ($null -eq $User) {
          $Secure = ConvertTo-SecureString -String '#{local_pw}' -AsPlainText -Force
          $User = New-LocalUser -Name #{local_user} -Password $Secure -Verbose
        }
        If ($User.Name -notin (Get-LocalGroupMember -Group Administrators).Name) {
          Add-LocalGroupMember -Group Administrators -Member $User -Verbose
        }
        Get-LocalGroupMember -Group Administrators |
          Where-Object Name -match '#{local_user}'
      PREP_USER
      execute_reset_command(prep_command)
    end
    after(:all) do
      cleanup_command = <<~CLEANUP_USER.strip
        Remove-LocalUser -Name #{local_user} -ErrorAction Stop
      CLEANUP_USER
      execute_reset_command(cleanup_command)
    end

    context 'with a valid credential' do
      let(:manifest) do
        [
          "dsc_psrepository { 'Trust PSGallery':",
          "dsc_name => 'PSGallery',",
          "dsc_ensure => 'Present',",
          "dsc_installationpolicy => 'Trusted',",
          'dsc_psdscrunascredential => {',
          "'user' => '#{local_user}',",
          "'password' => Sensitive('#{local_pw}')",
          '}',
          '}'
        ].join(' ')
      end

      it 'applies idempotently without leaking secrets' do
        first_run_result = powershell.execute(command)
        expect(first_run_result[:exitcode]).to be(2)
        expect(first_run_result[:native_stdout]).to match(/dsc_installationpolicy changed 'Untrusted' to 'Trusted'/)
        expect(first_run_result[:native_stdout]).to match(/Updating: Finished/)
        expect(first_run_result[:native_stdout]).to match(/Applied catalog/)
        expect(first_run_result[:native_stdout]).to match(/'#<Sensitive \[value redacted\]>'/)
        expect(first_run_result[:native_stdout]).not_to match(local_pw)
        second_run_result = powershell.execute(command)
        expect(second_run_result[:exitcode]).to be(0)
      end
    end
    context 'with an invalid credential' do
      let(:manifest) do
        [
          "dsc_psrepository { 'Trust PSGallery':",
          "dsc_name => 'PSGallery',",
          "dsc_ensure => 'Present',",
          "dsc_installationpolicy => 'Trusted',",
          'dsc_psdscrunascredential => {',
          "'user' => 'definitely_do_not_exist_here',",
          "'password' => Sensitive('#{local_pw}')",
          '}',
          '}'
        ].join(' ')
      end

      it 'errors loudly without leaking secrets' do
        first_run_result = powershell.execute(command)
        expect(first_run_result[:exitcode]).to be(4)
        expect(first_run_result[:stderr].first).to match(/dsc_psrepository: The user name or password is incorrect/)
        expect(first_run_result[:native_stdout]).to match(/'#<Sensitive \[value redacted\]>'/)
        expect(first_run_result[:native_stdout]).not_to match(local_pw)
      end
    end
  end
end

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Abercrombie & Fitch is quietly putting plans in place for a new store prototype to rival Banana Republic and J. Crew, details of which The Post has learned.
The project, code-named "Concept 4," is so secret that even Abercrombie's employees have been kept in the dark. Only those directly involved in the project have access to a separate building at the company's New Albany, Ohio, headquarters, where the Concept 4 staff is based, sources said.
Abercrombie has put together a design team for Concept 4 headed by Lisa Axelson, an eight-and-a-half-year veteran of Gap Inc., who joined the company in May, one source said. Axelson, a graduate of the Parsons School of Design, worked for both the Banana Republic and Gap chains.
Abercrombie has also begun looking for retail space in malls, another source said. Space for one store has already been leased in the Garden State Plaza Mall in Paramus, N.J., filling part of a vacancy created by a shuttered Eddie Bauer store, this person said.
The first store is expected to open next year.
The public got an inkling of Abercrombie's plans in May, when the company told shareholders at its annual meeting that it was developing a new concept that would be different from its other three. Abercrombie has so far declined to disclose any details – not even to leasing agents in local malls who are being asked to rent space for the concept sight unseen.
"We'd like to keep this a secret until the big day," Tom Lennox, an Abercrombie & Fitch spokesman, said.
Abercrombie & Fitch, like other retailers, is under pressure to keep growing even as sales at its core chain – which sells collegiate clothes and an all-American image showcased in a racy catalog – slow down. There are now 352 Abercrombie & Fitch stores nationwide, and the company has vowed to stop at 400.
To pick up the slack, Abercrombie launched Hollister, a chain of surf-inspired clothes that now numbers 129 stores. The company also operates Abercrombie, a 170-unit children's chain.
Starting a new chain is not without risks, the biggest being cannibalization of sales at existing stores, analysts said.
Lennox, the Abercrombie spokesman, said that two thirds of Abercrombie & Fitch stores experience lower sales the first year after a Hollister store opens in the same mall but that those sales eventually recover to more normal levels.
Hollister has been a bright spot in an otherwise murky showing for the company, which has recently been the subject of racial discrimination lawsuits. Sales at Hollister stores open at least a year showed double-digit increases in the second quarter, compared with the year-earlier period – offsetting declining sales at both the Abercrombie & Fitch and Abercrombie chains.
Abercrombie & Fitch, the controversial retailer that caters to college students, is expected to target grown-ups with a new concept store.


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DRINKING THE KOOL-AID
Posted: June 10, 2015 | Author: leadershipmatters1213 | Filed under: Uncategorized |3 Comments
For those of you in leadership positions there's probably a moment you can pinpoint; it's the moment when you "drank the Kool-aid" or "jumped on the bus" or any one of a dozen idioms that mean you got with the program. It's part of leadership. Even those of you with the most sympatico boards have likely faced a time when you realized you were not going to get what you wanted. When the board's decision is antithetical to yours, what do you do?
Before we answer that, we should break down our title phrase. Its origins aren't exactly warm or fuzzy, and like many business idioms, it probably should be banished from the workplace vocabulary. Although today it refers to individuals who embrace an ideology without question, it originated in the 1978 mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, when members of the Peoples Temple died after drinking a drug-laced grape drink. Thirty seven years later it's identified more often with workplace behavior than with a utopian experiment gone totally wrong. But history aside, there are moments in all workplaces, especially in museums and non-profits, where a board of trustees exerts its authority, where leaders are faced with two paths: one is the path as director, chief curator, or team leader they chose. The board stands on the other.
I started thinking about this idea after listening to an interview on NPR with Admiral William McRaven, chancellor for the University of Texas System. Texas has just passed a law that permits individuals to carry concealed handguns on college campuses. McRaven is new to academia. In his former life he was part of Navy Special Operations and oversaw the raid that killed Bin Laden. He opposes the new law, but here's what he had to say about upholding the state legislature's decision: "My time in the military has always taught me that, you know, you argue a point up until a decision is made. And the state legislature has made a decision–and presuming that the governor signs the bill–and it will go into effect. And then my job as chancellor is to make sure that we continue to make the campuses as safe as possible, and we're going to do that." You can listen to the entire interview here.
What interested me about the Admiral's reaction was that he is comfortable arguing fiercely for his point of view, but that once a decision is made, he seems to suggest you enter a new reality, one where you support the decision in the best way possible. That means bringing your team on board, while harnessing their creativity and energy for the board's (or the leadership's) decision, not your decision. I understand how that works for the military, but I wonder how it plays in museum land. First, how many of us feel comfortable arguing our point of view? Sometimes workplaces create cultures where arguing isn't something people do. Some staffs don't know how to argue and keep it about the project, the decision or the mission. It gets personal way too fast and people shy away from arguing or worse, they don't, and that's its own special problem. Second, I wondered how often museum leadership is transparent enough so directors share what's happened, meaning "I made our case. The board made its decision. It did not go our way." And last, I wonder how long leadership can remain comfortable when you and the board find yourselves on different paths?
Like most aspects of leadership, decision making demands self-awareness and transparency. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, but what might be surprising is it's not that decisions need to be consensus based. They don't. But the process of reaching a decision still needs to be open and inclusive. Julia Tang Peters argues this in her book Pivot Points and backs it up with research. One of the leaders she interviewed called it MBWA or managing by wandering around. By connecting with his team, often in doorway conversations, this leader created a culture where his employees were comfortable speaking frankly or perhaps arguing about company decisions. They didn't just feel included in change, they were included. But the boss was still the decider.
What's your experience with carrying out decisions that weren't quite what you had in mind? And how transparent is your decision making? Share your thoughts. We love hearing from you.
Joan Baldwin
3 Comments on "DRINKING THE KOOL-AID"
Starlyn D'Angelo says:
I have really been enjoying your posts, Joan. Thank you!
leadershipmatters1213 says:
Starlyn–
Good to hear from you. Let us know what you're thinking as well. The museum world needs an ongoing leadership dialog.
Carolyn Patterson says:
Thanks Karen
On Wednesday, June 10, 2015, Leadership Matters wrote:
> leadershipmatters1213 posted: " For those of you in leadership > positions there's probably a moment you can pinpoint; it's the moment when > you "drank the Kool-aid" or "jumped on the bus" or any one of a dozen > idioms that mean you got with the program. It's part of leadership. Even > th"
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Q: Super simple setup with impressionist, mismatch between impressionist_count and impressions_count Using Rails 4 and Impressionist 1.5.1

I have a ProductsController and a Product model.
In my show action:
def show
  impressionist(@product, "unique view", :unique => [:session_hash])
end

In my model:
class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
  is_impressionable counter_cache: true
end

And my Product schema:
create_table "products", force: true do |t|
  t.string   "name",                                        null: false
  t.integer  "impressions_count",           default: 0
end

And there's a mismatch between the counts:
irb(main):001:0> Product.find_by(slug: 'test').impressions_count
=> 57
irb(main):002:0> Product.find_by(slug: 'test').impressionist_count
=> 70

A: Impressionist has its own table set up by the gem, while your addition to product table holds it own count. They are also counting two different things, hits on your show action and hits on your model.
This is the github page for the gem, skim through the usage section.


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State Department Undersecretary for Political Affairs David Hale leaves after testifying before the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday. J. Scott Applewhite/AP
State Dept. Promises Financial Assistance and No Discipline for Employees Tied Up in Impeachment
During testimony, State official offers support to employees castigated by Trump and others.
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The State Department has set up a program to provide financial assistance to employees asked to testify before Congress in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump, promising those individuals will not face any discipline as a result of their cooperation with lawmakers.
The offer was announced Wednesday during testimony from State Undersecretary for Political Affairs David Hale, who testified to the House Intelligence Committee as part of its ongoing impeachment probe into Trump's actions surrounding Ukraine. The message marked a departure from the department's previous tone, when Secretary Mike Pompeo said he would not allow any of his employees to cooperate with the inquiry.
Hale, quoting a letter written by State Department Undersecretary for Management Brian Bulatao to Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Bob Menendez, D-N.J., said the department "proactively established a program" to provide the financial assistance related to private counsel legal fees. No State employee who has testified has faced adverse action, Bulatao wrote in the letter, and—provided they are appearing under subpoena—no one will face discipline.
The financial assistance offer follows an effort by the American Foreign Service Association, the union for foreign service officers, to solicit pro bono legal services and donations for a legal defense fund. State did not respond to inquiries about the details of its program.
In his own words, Hale, a career ambassador and foreign service officer, took time to defend former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, who previously testified to the committee. Yovanovitch was subject to a smear campaign prior to her recall from Ukraine earlier this year and, with great controversy, State and Pompeo declined to issue a statement of support at that time. Hale said Yovanovitch was an "exceptional officer doing exceptional work" and agreed that what she went through was wrong.
During her testimony last week, Yovanovitch spoke about the impacts the Trump administration's actions have on federal employees.
"I think that it has had exactly that, a chilling effect, not only in embassy Kyiv but throughout the State Department because people don't know kind of whether their efforts to pursue our stated policy are going to be supported and that is a dangerous place to be," she said.
Hale also offered supportive words to State's employees writ large, many of whom have been disparaged by Trump, congressional Republicans and others throughout the impeachment proceedings for perceived disloyalty and bias.
"I support and believe in the institution and the people of the State Department. I am one of them. I have been for 35 years," Hale said. "All of us are committed to the national security of this country and we make up the best diplomats anywhere in the world. That support extends to all State officers who have testified before this committee."
Asked during a press briefing this week why State has not stood up more forcefully for department employees who have come under fire during impeachment proceedings, Pompeo initially declined to discuss the topic.
"I'm not going to get into the issues surrounding the Democrat impeachment inquiry," the secretary said. "Just not going to do it today."
When pressed on why he was not offering more support to his workforce, Pompeo added: "I always defend State Department employees. The greatest diplomatic corps in the history of the world. Very proud of the team."
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Loy is a genus of sea slugs, dorid nudibranchs, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Corambidae within the superfamily Onchidoridoidea.

Species
Species within the genus Loy include:

 Loy meyeni  Martynov, 1994
 Loy millenae  Martynov, 1994
 Loy thompsoni  (Millen & Nybakken, 1991)

References

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20091228180914/http://www.seaslugforum.net/specieslist.cfm

Corambidae


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