What happens to society devoid of mutual obligation?
A group of teens are hanging out by a pond when suddenly they see a man drowning. As he screams for help and struggles in the murky water, they laugh and mock his predicament, shouting: "Let him drown, what the heck!"
The boys make a deliberate decision not to assist the desperate man during those critical moments of distress. Not even a few finger-taps to call 911. Instead, they videotape the drowning and post it online.
This incident actually happened in Florida last summer, and this week state officials announced they would not press charges against the teens, given the absence of any law requiring one person to assist another in danger.
There is a natural human instinct to help.
Legal issues aside, local police chief Mike Cantaloupe spoke of the humanitarian aspect: "I want to think that's a natural instinct for any of us, that if we saw somebody in trouble... that we would at least try to get them help."
Is "communal responsibility" something that can, or should, be legislated?
Must we help others if it means endangering ourselves?
On a more basic level, why even help save a life in the first place?
The Torah states: "Don't stand idly by on the blood of your brother" (Leviticus 19:16). This confers a legal obligation to intervene and help save a life.
One is not obligated to save another if the situation involves significant risk to his own welfare (Pitchei Teshuvah – CM 426:2). And yet, some minimal degree of effort is surely required.
Judaism confers legal protection on one who undertakes an act of lifesaving.
In listing various "lifesaving situations," Maimonides (Laws of Murder and Lifesaving 1:14) writes that we are required to do everything possible to spare the other person harm – even if it involves spending money to help (for which the lifesaver is entitled to reimbursement).
Maimonides continues (1:16) to say that "inaction" in such a lifesaving case "is very serious, since whoever kills one person is considered as having destroyed the entire world, and whoever saves one person is considered as having established the entire world."
All this raises a more basic question: What is the value of human life? By what logic should one person spend precious time and energy to help another?
Or as Dennis Prager put it: In an emergency situation, forced to choose between saving your dog or saving a stranger, which would you choose – and why?
Though animals and humans both have a physical life-force, humans also have a transcendent soul. This is a creation unto itself, completely distinct and removed from the body.
Ultimately, the basis for choosing human over dog is rooted in every human's "Divine image."
Back to the Florida pond: Should society legislate and punish for failure to act? What would be the Jewish response to this case?
Although a crime of "inaction" is not typically punishable, Maimonides writes (Laws of Murder and Lifesaving 2:5) that prison or any other corrective measure may be imposed "for the benefit of society."
Ultimately, however, morality cannot be forced. It must emanate from within, from a recognition that every human life has infinite value.
In the Florida case, our outrage should not be directed at the courts, but rather at the society that exposes a typical 18-year-old American to 16,000 murders on television and film – plus some real ones on Facebook live.
Perhaps we've become numb and inured to respect for human life, in part extinguishing our natural human reaction to help.
Or perhaps Madison Avenue, Silicon Valley and Hollywood have blurred the lines between fiction and reality – creating social media avatars, virtual reality, and CGI celebrities that desensitize us to genuine human emotions, making us less compassionate with how we actually treat others.
100 hours of community service would invariably help to restore their sense of humanity.
Perhaps the Florida court should have mandated these teens to 100 hours of community service, reaching out to care for the elderly and needy. The process would invariably help to restore their sense of humanity.
The Ten Commandments were given on two parallel tablets – five on one tablet, and five on the other.
The first command – on the first tablet – is belief in God. The first command on the corresponding second tablet is "Do not murder." Thus murder is akin to assaulting the image of God.
This is the basis of the Founding Fathers' principle "all men are created equal." An attack on the "Divine image" is an attack on our essential humanity. The Jewish vision for the world is built on respect for every human being and a willingness to take action when necessary to help.
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While calling for help can and should be required by law, I can understand some people's fear of trying to help more directly, especially since they can be sued if something goes wrong. When that senator choked and her colleague did the Heimlich Maneuver and broke her rib, at least she had the good sense to not sue him over the broken rib. And there are Good Samaritan laws in place to protect from such lawsuits. But there are still those who would sue over such things.
In Switzerland, France and probably a number of other countriesin Europe (where legislation developed based on the Napoleonic code), there is a punishable offence called: Non-assistance to a person in danger, which requires anyone who sees a person in danger to help or call for help (without endangering his own life). If you do not provide such assistance you can be sentenced to a term in prison or a considerable fine.
Thank you for writing this. Although I am also appalled at the teens' behavior, it is an extreme manifestation of a disturbing symptom. Thank you for so clearly giving us the Jewish perspective on such behavior. Keep up the good work, Rabbi!
Rabbin Simmons, How appalling that this article even had to be written. What a travesty these young people stood by and videoed the drowning of a man. It seems so many in society have lost their soul. G-d have mercy.
Israel has such a law, passed at the encouragement of Supreme Court Justice Menachem Elon. The law's title comes from that verse. British common law, the source of American and Israeli law, had no such duty. I was privileged to have him as my professor at NYU Law.
Re the author's suggestion that the court should have ordered community service-- the case never made it to court, because the law was not violated. I am an attorney, and one of the first things we learn in Criminal Law is that an act or failure to act, however morally reprehensible, cannot be prosecuted in the absence of a law that prohibits or compels action.
The lack of a legal duty to aid goes back a thousand years in Common Law. Today, with the ready availability of cellphones and professional emergency responders, it may be time to reconsider the duty to aid. However, were a legislature to impose such a duty, it would need to be narrowly tailored. For example, failure by an Orthodox witness to summon aid on Shabbat because we do not carry electronic items would have to be exempted from prosecution.
I always enjoy reading your comments. The words morally reprehensible ring loud and clear. These adolescents were nothing more than a bunch of inhumane sadists. Btw--Someone else made a comment saying that milenialls (sp) typically exhibit this type of self absorbed behavior. I don't think such behavior is limited to one age group.
I agree it's not limited to millenials, although posting one's callousness is a pretty new phenomenon.
I try to make comments based on facts, not feelings. I'm glad you enjoy them.
Believe age of technology is turning millenials into zombies! No conscience! No reaction nor sensitivity to life, they just live by instant gratification! Doing an effort or risking their lives to secure somebody from drawning is too much!
From uslegal.com: "A good samaritan in legal terms refers to someone who renders aid in an emergency to an injured person on a voluntary basis. Usually, if a volunteer comes to the aid of an injured or ill person who is a stranger, the person giving the aid owes the stranger a duty of being reasonably careful. A person is not obligated by law to do first aid in most states, not unless it's part of a job description. However, some states will consider it an act of negligence though, if a person doesn't at least call for help. Generally, where an unconscious victim cannot respond, a good samaritan can help them on the grounds of implied consent. However, if the victim is conscious and can respond, a person should ask their permission to help them first." Apparently Florida law does not have a negligence provision.
100 hours of community service?
Would it wise to trust those particular teens to properly care for elderly and needy people without very close supervision?


Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea. It is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States and CARICOM.
The country speaks English as its official language. The capital, and its main port, is Kingstown.
Its national bird is the Saint Vincent Amazon, an endemic bird of the Saint Vincent island.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as head of state. The Queen does not live in the islands but she is represented in the country by the Governor-General, currently Sir Frederick Ballantyne.
Control of the government rests with the elected prime minister and his or her cabinet. The current Prime Minister is Ralph Gonsalves.
The country has no formal armed forces, although the police has a Special Service Unit that has a supporting role on the island.
The Parliament is unicameral is formed only by the House of Assembly with 21 seats: 15 representatives elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms and 6 appointed senators. The last elections were held on 13 December 2010 and the next will be held in 2015.
The island now known as Saint Vincent was originally named Youloumain by the native Caribs. The Caribs inhabited Saint Vincent before the Europeans arrived, and it is possible still to find Carib artifacts in the island.
Christopher Columbus explored in 1498 the main island on Saint Vincent's Day. The Caribs did not allowed Europeans to settle in Saint Vincent until 1719 when some French people came from Martinique and began to grow coffee, tobacco, indigo, cotton and sugar cane with the help of African slaves.
In 1763 by the Treaty of Paris, France gave control of Saint Vincent to Britain; France took the island again in 1779, but the British then regained Saint Vincent under the Treaty of Versailles (1783).
In 1834 slavery was abolished and people from the portuguese island of Madeira and from India came to work as agricultural workers.
In 1871 the group of islands became part of the Windward Islands Colony and in 1956 a member of the Federation of the Windward Islands. In 1958 Saint Vincent joined the Federation of the West Indies and in 1969 it got full internal self government. Finally in 1979 it became an Independent Sovereign State within the Commonwealt.
The estimated population in 2003 was 103,220. The population density is 265 persons per square kilometre.
The ethnic composition was 66% Black, 19% Mixed, 6.0% East Indian, 4.0% European (mainly Portuguese), 2.0% Carib Amerindian, 3.0% others.
The official language of the islands is English but most people use the Vicentian Creole English.
The people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines was 75% Protestant (47% Anglicans, 28% Methodists), 13% Catholics, 12% other (Hindu, Seventh-Day Adventists, other Protestant).
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a group of islands of the Caribbean Sea. It lies to the west of Barbados, south of Saint Lucia and north of Grenada in the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles.
There are 32 islands and cays, including the main island of Saint Vincent (344 km2/133 sq mi) and the northern two-thirds of the Grenadines (45 km2/17 sq mi), which are a chain of small islands stretching south from Saint Vincent to Grenada. The largest and most populated Grenadines islands are Bequia, Mustique, Canouan and Union Island.
The main island of Saint Vincent, at 13°15′N 61°12′W / 13.25°N 61.2°W / 13.25; -61.2 (Saint Vincent), is 18 km (11 mi) long and 11 km (6.8 mi) wide, and has an area of 344 km2 (133 sq mi), or about 88% of the total country area, 19 times that of the country's second largest island Bequia. It is dominated by the highest mountain in the country and an active volcano, La Soufrière (1,234 m (4,049 ft)), which erupted violently in 1812 and 1902. The most recent eruption was on April 13, 1979. The island has many mountains and forests. The island is tropical humid, with an average of between 18 and 31 °C depending on the altitude.
The Saint Vincent Passage is between the Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent islands, and the Bequia Channel is between the Grenadines and Saint Vincent islands.
The Grenadines islands lie between the islands of Saint Vincent in the north and Grenada in the south. Neither Saint Vincent nor Grenada are Grenadine islands. The islands north of the Martinique Channel belong to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the islands south of the channel belong to Grenada.
Bequia, at 13°00′N 61°14′W / 13°N 61.233°W / 13; -61.233 (Bequia), is the largest of the Grenadines. The capital of the Grenadines parish, Port Elizabeth , is here.
Tropical rainforest climate is a type of tropical climate in which there is no dry season - all months have mean precipitation values of at least 60 mm (2.36 in). Tropical rainforest climates have no pronounced summer or winter; it is typically hot and wet throughout the year and rainfall is both heavy and frequent.
The Köppen climate classification subtype for this climate is Af (Tropical Rainforest Climate).
The average yearly temperature is 27 °C (81 °F). The coolest months are between November and February. During the rainy season, May through October, rain is frequent in the mountains of St. Vincent with the annual average rainfall being 380 cm (150 in) away from the coast and 200 cm (79 in) on the coast.
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "CIA World Factbook". Central Intelligence Agency. 09 April 2013. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/vc.html. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines". International Monetary Fund. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2012/01/weodata/weorept.aspx?pr.x=46&pr.y=14&sy=2009&ey=2012&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=364&s=NGDPD%2CNGDPDPC%2CPPPGDP%2CPPPPC%2CLP&grp=0&a=. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
↑ "St. Vincent and the Grenadines National Symbols". visitsvg.com. http://www.visitsvg.com/intro/symbol.html. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "St Vincent and the Grenadines profile - Timeline". BBC News. BBC. 26 October 2012. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20007543. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
↑ "Languages of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines". Ethnologue. 2013. http://www.ethnologue.com/country/VC. Retrieved 30 Mar 2013.
↑ 7.0 7.1 "Geography - SVG Facts". Ministry of Tourism, Sports and Culture. 09 April 2013. http://www.gov.vc/tourism/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=20&Itemid=71. Retrieved 2013.
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Used to measure, keep, and indicate time, clocks and timekeeping tools are amongst the oldest human inventions, they respond to our need for quantifying intervals of time shorter than natural units (day, lunar month, year). Although clocks in public buildings no longer govern the rhythm of daily life the way they once did in schools, factories, or churches, the same notion of time remains the basis for socioeconomic order worldwide. In juridical matters, time also gages the relationship between how grievous a misdeed is deemed, and the sentence that ensues for the accused individual.
Composed of twelve Swiss made wall clocks, the piece titled Two revolutions a day was originally intended as an art project for the most recent facilities of Zurich's criminal police. Nys' modified clocks borrow the corporate identity of the Kriminalpolizei by using the signature bright orange colour found on their vehicles. The shape of the black index on the dial of the clocks is based on the outline of the artist's third phalange; a reference to antiquity where this finger represented the phallus and was therefore named digitus impudicus, which became known as a symbol of contempt in many cultures.
As 'private individuals,' our use of everyday objects results in traces left on the belongings of the domestic interiors we inhabit. 'To dwell means to leave traces'.1The majority of these traces are also the fingerprints used by the police during investigations. Still today, fingerprints are the most fundamental and reliable 'tools' used to identify individuals.Oftentimes, artworks tend to escape these repeated manipulations, 'they are not subject to the use of living creatures'2and like the moving arms of clock behind glass, they reside traceless in their Gehäuseas if unaffected by touch and the passage of time.
With the yellow painted Manikin (Au Pilori), Nys refers to the current political climate and to her earlier body of work The Drunkard's Cloak (2010), where a collection of rudimentary objects alluding to pillories were painted in this same bright yellow colour-a colour historically associated with shame and betrayal. To protect the floor while painting this piece, she used facsimile pages of WWII French anti-Semitic newspaper Au Pilori.
In 1940, German Jewish philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin committed suicide on the French-Spanish border in fear of being captured by Nazis. In 1934, under the pseudonym Detlef Holz, Benjamin published an essay titled Auf die Minute (On the Minute) in the Frankfurter Zeitung. In this text, he described his first experience in a radio studio. By 1934, the German government had gained full control over radio broadcasting stations, and each management board had to include a representative directly delegated by the interior minister to supervise the programing.
Tied around the column of the gallery, Das Boot ist voll (The Boat is Full) borrows the title of a 1981 drama set during WWII where a group of six refugees attempt to cross the border into 'neutral' Switzerland. In this movie, a local policeman orders the deportation of the newly arrived immigrants who tried to pose as a German family in a small village.
1 Walter Benjamin, Paris, the capital of the 19th century, p. 104. (Massachusetts, Harvard, 2008), and Hans Teerds, 'Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and the Importance of the Interior.', 2016.
2 Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition. Chicago, Chicago University, 1958.
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A recent study from the Institute of Education (IoE) has found that the proportion of graduate jobs within the UK labour market is at a record high.
Using a sample of 3,000 adults across the job market, the IoE determined that there are currently more jobs available for those with degrees than without.
More than a quarter of all jobs within the UK are filled by graduates.
The research also shows that the number of graduates in graduate jobs has increased from 69% in 2006 to 74% in 2013.
By contrast, the number of jobs open to those with no qualifications has fallen to 23% of the labour market.
Looking for your first graduate job? Use our graduate jobs board to find the vacancy for you.


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Q: insert variable value in lambda expression python I have a scenario where I am trying to get the variable value into the lambda function , but it seems not to work and ignore the value with no error.
a_name = ['APP-1 extension check', 'APP-1 b2b check', 'APP-1 no checks']
ape_t = content['data'] # ape_t contains result APP-1
ape_d = str(ape_t) # this becomes 'APP-1'
ape_f = ape_d + ' ' # this becomes 'APP-1 '

tempda=list(map(lambda x: x.replace(ape_f,''),a_name)) # here I want to get the variable value of ape_d
which is 'APP-1 '

when I run this I expect my output to be
['extension check', 'b2b check', 'no checks']
But instead it gives the current output
['APP-1 extension check', 'APP-1 b2b check', 'APP-1 no checks']
Is there anything missing here, any help would be great.

A: Your code seems to be fine. First verify that ape_f contains the string you expect. Then if you want to see original list a_name to be modified, assign the modification back to a_name.
Change
tempda=list(map(lambda x: x.replace(ape_f,''),a_name))
to
a_name=list(map(lambda x: x.replace(ape_f,''),a_name))

Hope this helps!

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Wheel of Time Companion Guide set for 2015 release
By Aidan Moher January 7th, 2015
The official companion guide for Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series will be released in November 2015.
"The story of The Wheel of Time spans fifteen books, but the fantasy world which that story resides within is more complex and detailed than even those books could relate," describes the official announcement on Tor.com. "Only a fraction of what author Robert Jordan imagined ended up on the page, the rest going into his personal files."
For those fans still haunted by their experience with Tor Books' previous Wheel of Time companion, The World of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, you can rest easy. This is a complete, from-the-ground-up overhaul of the companion guide, unrelated to the previous companion published in 2001, and promises to be much more comprehensive, which only covered the first several books in the series.
Included in The Wheel of Time Companion (via Tor.com):
An entry for each named character
An inclusive dictionary of the Old Tongue
New maps of the Last Battle
New portraits of many characters
Histories and customs of the nations of the world
The strength level of many channelers
Descriptions of the flora and fauna unique to the world
In addition to the above, the companion also promises to "[shed] light on some of the most intriguing aspects of the world, including biographies and motivations of many characters that never made it into the books, but helped bring Jordan's world to life."
Harriet McDougal, former Editorial Director for Tom Doherty Associates, was Robert Jordan's wife and editor, and had a major hand in compiling this new companion. Working alongside McDougal on the project are Alan Romanczuk and Maria Simons, Jordan's editorial assistants throughout the writing of most of the Wheel of Time. Together, they aided Brandon Sanderson as he wrote the final three volumes of the epic series.
The updated snake and wheel logo is by Sam Weber.
With people like that involved, who's lives have revolved around the Wheel of Time for nearly two decades, fans are sure to be pleased by the final product. (Let's just hope the artwork in this edition of the companion is better than the regrettable art included in The World of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time.)
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Read an Excerpt from Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
In a post-Wheel of Time world, Brandon Sanderson is king. Hot off the heels of A Memory of Light, the final volume of Robert Jordan's long-running series, Tor turned to Sanderson to fill the huge, gaping void left behind. Jordan's are big shoes to fill, but Sanderson already proved his gumption, and cemented his place as Tor's successor to Jordan, by completing the Wheel of Time to much critical success after Jordan's passing in 2007. Words of Radiance the second volume in Sanderson's The Stormlight Archives is set for release on March 4th, 2014, and promises to be one of the biggest (literally, critically and commercially) fantasy releases of the year.
Tor.com reveals what Stormlight fans have to look forward to with the upcoming sequel to The Way of Kings:
In The Way of Kings, we were introduced to the remarkable world of Roshar, a land both alien and magical. Roshar is shared by humans and the enigmatic Parshendi, who have been at war with each other for five years. The war has revealed the worst of humanity to Dalinar Kholin, a powerful general, and Kaladin Stormblessed, a troubled slave. But there is more at stake in this conflict than the fate of the peoples involved. As Jasnah Kholin and her ward Shallan Davar discover, their entire world is rushing towards a cataclysm, one that only a long-lost order called the Knights Radiant could possibly prepare them for.
In Words of Radiance these stories will intertwine and develop in thrilling and unexpected directions. The war with the Parshendi will move into a new, dangerous phase, as Dalinar leads the human armies deep into the heart of the Shattered Plains in a bold attempt to finally end it. Shallan is set on finding the legendary and perhaps mythical city of Urithiru, which Jasnah believes holds a secret vital to mankind's survival on Roshar. Kaladin struggles to wear the mantle of the Windrunners as his old demons resurface. And the threat of the Voidbringers' return hangs over them all.
Additionally, Tor.com has published the prologue and first two chapters of Words of Radiance for eager fans to read, read again, devour, and analyze. March 4th can't come soon enough, can it?
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Review of A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
By Larry Nolen May 15th, 2013
A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan
Publisher: Tor Books - Pages: 912 - Buy: Book/eBook
After nearly twenty three years and countless millions of words vomited out upon thousands of pages, Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series finally concludes with its fourteenth volume, A Memory of Light. It has been a memorable series for those who've read, it albeit for some such as myself, it has become more an exercise in patience and restraint, waiting to see if the payoff justifies to any extent the laborious parsing of repetitive descriptions, redundant sentences, clothing and furniture porn, hackneyed villain motivations, etc. My own opinion of the series has fluctuated between a diversion during my last semester of grad school in the Fall of 1997 (it was a change of pace from reading Hitler's memoirs and speeches for my grad seminar/research) toward it being a repetitive, poorly structured (and written) clunker of a novel/series. I wrote a series of posts on re-reading the Jordan-penned books, most of them for the first time since the release of the ninth book back in November 2000, and the re-reads did little to improve my deepening dislike for the series. Yet the first semi-posthumous release, co-written by Brandon Sanderson, I thought at first was a marked improvement. That was before I began to understand while reading the second co-written volume, Towers of Midnight, that the planned three-volume conclusion to the Wheel of Time series was terribly flawed in terms of narrative structure, characterization development, and prose. Therefore, it was with some trepidation that I ordered A Memory of Light and read it. Unfortunately, it is one of the worst-written books in a series renowned for its mediocre, bloated prose. Read More »
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Review of Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
By Larry Nolen May 8th, 2013
Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legends fade to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
This quote, which opens the main sequence of every single The Wheel of Time book, can, with some alterations be applied to reading, memory, and the impressions formed (and altered) from the commingling of the above. I am not by nature someone who trusts wholeheartedly my first impressions; too often they change with time and further reflection. I have found this to be the case with this now-thirteen-volume epic fantasy series. When I reviewed the twelfth volume (and the first where Brandon Sanderson wrote most of the material in place of the deceased Robert Jordan), The Gathering Storm, I perhaps was a bit too forgiving of that book's shortcomings because I reviewed the book after not having read most of the other volumes since 2000. Certainly my memory did not jibe too well with my experiences re-reading the first eleven volumes this past spring and writing commentaries on my impressions. In short, it was a slog re-reading this series. Not merely because of the myriad subplots nor because there were repetitive and yet shallow social commentaries, but also due to the creaky, non-graceful prose and uneven characterizations that often left me feeling cold. Despite the change in authors and the plot developments that one might expect in the penultimate volume of such a ponderous multi-volume series, Towers of Midnight, after some reflection, is a flawed volume in a very flawed series. Read More »
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Review of The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson
By Larry Nolen May 1st, 2013
The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series has been one of the most sprawling, character-intensive epic fantasies of the past twenty years. Spanning millions of words, this series, now reaching its twelfth volume out of a planned fourteen, has spawned dozens of fansites over the years, as well as engendering heated debates over matters ranging from how well (or not) the author managed to portray female characters to questions of character identities and motivations to even a fictional murder-mystery that still remains unresolved seven volumes after its occurrence. Some view passages, such as the (in)famous "wind passage" that opens the first chapter of each book, as being hallmarks of a great talent. Others read the same lines and wonder how the story ever managed to become even more turgid and bloated than the previous volume.
One of the most sprawling, character-intensive epic fantasies of the past twenty years.
Debates such as these point to some intrinsic quality of the series that barely allows for there to be a middle ground. There is something for almost everyone, depending if one likes an action/adventure tale, political intrigue, social commentary, or even elements of a puzzle novel. Sometimes, there is too much of it all, and readers who enjoyed the earlier volumes might end up finding the past few volumes to be rather plodding, tedious affairs. After reading the eighth and ninth volumes, The Path of Daggers and Winter's Heart, I found myself going years before even thinking of picking up the tenth volume, Crossroads of Twilight, which was perhaps the most difficult book to complete reading of them all at the time. Read More »
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//  NSXSideViewFooter.m
//  NSXcode
//
//  Created by DexSinis on 15/12/14.
//  Copyright © 2015年 DexSinis. All rights reserved.
//

#import "NSXSideViewFooter.h"
#define MAS_SHORTHAND
#define MAS_SHORTHAND_GLOBALS

#import "Masonry.h"
@implementation NSXSideViewFooter
typedef NS_ENUM(NSInteger, NSXButtonType) {
    NSXButtonTypeLogin = 0,                         // no button type
    NSXButtonTypeOther,
    NSXButtonTypeBottom,
    // Deprecated, use UIButtonTypeSystem instead
};
/*
// Only override drawRect: if you perform custom drawing.
// An empty implementation adversely affects performance during animation.
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect {
    // Drawing code
}
*/
-(instancetype)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame
{
    self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
    if (self) {
        [self initSubviews];
        [self setLayout];
    }
    return self;
}

-(void)initSubviews
{

    _dayDarkBtn = [self setupBtnWithIcon:@"Menu_Download" title:@"离线" tag:NSXButtonTypeBottom];
    _downloadBtn =[self setupBtnWithIcon:@"Menu_Day" title:@"日间" tag:NSXButtonTypeBottom];

    [self addSubview:_dayDarkBtn];
    [self addSubview:_downloadBtn];

}

- (void)setLayout
{
    //
    //    for (UIView *view in [self subviews]) {
    //        view.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = NO;
    //    }
    //
    //    NSDictionary *viewsDict = NSDictionaryOfVariableBindings(_loginBtn, _collectionBtn,_messageBtn,_settingBtn);
    //
    //    [self addConstraints:[NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"V:|-20-[_loginBtn]"
    //                                                                 options:NSLayoutFormatAlignAllLeft | NSLayoutFormatAlignAllRight
    //                                                                 metrics:nil views:viewsDict]];
    //
    //    [self addConstraints:[NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"|-40.0-[_loginBtn(300@300)]"
    //                                                                 options:NSLayoutFormatAlignAllTop | NSLayoutFormatAlignAllBottom
    //                                                                 metrics:nil views:viewsDict]];
    //
    //    [self addConstraints:[NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"V:|-80-[_collectionBtn]"
    //                                                                 options:NSLayoutFormatAlignAllLeft | NSLayoutFormatAlignAllRight
    //                                                                 metrics:nil views:viewsDict]];
    //
    //    [self addConstraints:[NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"|-40.0-[_collectionBtn(60@300)]-10-[_messageBtn(60@400)]-10-[_settingBtn(60@500)]"
    //                                                                 options:NSLayoutFormatAlignAllTop | NSLayoutFormatAlignAllBottom
    //                                                                 metrics:nil views:viewsDict]];
    //
    //    [self addConstraint:[NSLayoutConstraint
    //                          constraintWithItem:_loginBtn
    //                          attribute:NSLayoutAttributeCenterX
    //                          relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual
    //                          toItem:self
    //                          attribute:NSLayoutAttributeWidth
    //                          multiplier:1
    //                          constant:0.0]];
    //

    [_downloadBtn mas_makeConstraints:^(MASConstraintMaker *make) {

        // 添加大小约束
//        CGFloat *writh = [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.width/2
        make.size.mas_equalTo(CGSizeMake(120, 40));
        // 添加左、上边距约束(左、上约束都是20)
        make.left.mas_equalTo(10);
        make.top.mas_equalTo(0);
    }];

    [_dayDarkBtn mas_makeConstraints:^(MASConstraintMaker *make) {

        // 添加大小约束
        //        CGFloat *writh = [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.width/2
        make.left.equalTo(_downloadBtn.mas_right).offset(10);
        // 添加左、上边距约束(左、上约束都是20)
        make.size.equalTo(_downloadBtn);
        make.top.mas_equalTo(_downloadBtn);
    }];

    //    [_collectionBtn mas_makeConstraints:^(MASConstraintMaker *make) {
    //
    //        make.left.equalTo(20);
    //        make.top.equalTo(50).offset(-50);
    //        make.size.mas_equalTo(CGSizeMake(60, 60));
    ////        make.bottom.and.top.and.width.and.height.equalTo(_loginBtn);
    //
    //    }];

    //    [_collectionBtn mas_makeConstraints:^(MASConstraintMaker *make) {
    //
    //        // 添加右、下边距约束
    //        make.bottom.and.right.mas_equalTo(-20);
    //        // 添加高度约束,让高度等于黑色view
    //        make.height.equalTo(_loginBtn);
    //        // 添加上边距约束(上边距 = 黑色view的下边框 + 偏移量20)
    //        make.top.equalTo(_loginBtn.mas_bottom).offset(20);
    //        // 添加左边距(左边距 = 父容器纵轴中心 + 偏移量0)
    //        make.left.equalTo(s.mas_centerX).offset(0);
    //    }];

    //
//    [_collectionBtn mas_makeConstraints:^(MASConstraintMaker *make) {
//
//        // 大小、上边距约束与黑色view相同
//        make.top.equalTo(_loginBtn.mas_bottom);
//        make.size.equalTo(CGSizeMake(60,60));
//        // 添加右边距约束(这里的间距是有方向性的,左、上边距约束为正数,右、下边距约束为负数)
//        make.left.mas_equalTo(20);
//    }];
//    //
//    [_messageBtn mas_makeConstraints:^(MASConstraintMaker *make) {
//
//        // 大小、上边距约束与黑色view相同
//        make.top.equalTo(_loginBtn.mas_bottom);
//        make.size.equalTo(CGSizeMake(60, 60));
//        // 添加右边距约束(这里的间距是有方向性的,左、上边距约束为正数,右、下边距约束为负数)
//        make.left.mas_equalTo(_collectionBtn.mas_right).offset(20);
//    }];
//
//
//    [_settingBtn mas_makeConstraints:^(MASConstraintMaker *make) {
//
//        // 大小、上边距约束与黑色view相同
//        make.top.equalTo(_loginBtn.mas_bottom);
//        make.size.equalTo(CGSizeMake(60, 60));
//        // 添加右边距约束(这里的间距是有方向性的,左、上边距约束为正数,右、下边距约束为负数)
//        make.left.mas_equalTo(_messageBtn.mas_right).offset(20);
//    }];

    //
    //    [_collectionBtn makeConstraints:^(MASConstraintMaker *make) {
    //        make.right.equalTo(self.right).offset(-50);
    //        make.bottom.and.top.and.width.and.height.equalTo(_loginBtn);
    //    }];

    //    [blueView makeConstraints:^(MASConstraintMaker *make) {
    //        make.right.equalTo(self.view.right).offset(-50);
    //        make.bottom.and.top.and.width.and.height.equalTo(redView);
    //    }];
}

- (UIButton *)setupBtnWithIcon:(NSString *)icon title:(NSString *)title tag:(NSInteger)tag
{

    UIButton *btn = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];//button的类型
//        btn.backgroundColor = [UIColor cyanColor];//button的背景颜色

    //
    [btn setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:icon] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
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    [btn setTitle:title forState:UIControlStateNormal];

    btn.titleLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;
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    //    btn.titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 10, 0, 0);

    //    btn.contentHorizontalAlignment = UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentLeft;
    if (tag == NSXButtonTypeLogin) {
        btn.contentHorizontalAlignment = UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentLeft;
        [btn setTitleEdgeInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 50, 0, 0)];
        btn.titleLabel.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:16];
        //        [btn setTitleEdgeInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(50, -btn.titleLabel.bounds.size.width-45, 0, 0)];
    }else if (tag == NSXButtonTypeBottom)
    {
        btn.contentHorizontalAlignment = UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentCenter;
        [btn setTitleEdgeInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(4, 20, 0, 0)];
        btn.titleLabel.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:12];
    }
    else
    {
        [btn setTitleEdgeInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(50, -btn.titleLabel.bounds.size.width-45, 0, 0)];
        btn.titleLabel.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:12];
    }

    // 设置间距
    //    btn.titleEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 10, 0, 0);
    return btn;
}

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Here's a family-friendly list of activities and things to do in this East End village.
Summertime means vacation time for many families, and luckily you don't have to travel far for a getaway that has something for everyone in the family. Simply head to the East End village of Sag Harbor for some seaside fun. From historical locales to beautiful beaches, it's the perfect place for a day trip or a weekend away. You can easily spend a good part of the day walking down quaint Main Street, lined with shops and restaurants, and make your way to the marina to watch the sailboats go by. Then stop by the windmill that houses the Visitor Center for info on local events, and check out some of our favorite things to do in this beautiful town. And for more to do in the area, take a look at the Hamptons & North Fork Family Guide.
The old Sag Harbor Jailhouse Museum was built around 1910 and the old lockup stayed in service until the late 1970's. It reopened in 1996 as a museum featuring an exhibit of old photos and police memorabilia.
This 17th century farm has remain largely unchanged since 1750. Period furnishings and decorative arts are inside, and families can enjoy the surroundings with a stroll through the grounds as well.
This museum was established in 1978 and includes historical apparatus and artifacts.
Bay Street offers children's films and regular puppet shows from Goat on a Boat Theater.
Established in the mid-1950s, this is home to diverse habitats, including a bay-facing beach. Hike the trails and set up camp at the beach. And if you love getting up close with feathered friends, bring along some bird seed.
The museum preserves the culture of Sag Harbor through its collection of historical objects related to the village's whaling history, as well as the presentation of contemporary exhibits and events that reflect the culture of the village today. Local students' work is often exhibited. The museum is open seven days a week.
This one-mile stretch of sand was left to the town when its owner passed away. Foster Memorial Beach is dotted with benches, while a grassy picnic area is also available on premises and a mobile food stand. Since it's so small, parents can relax and still keep an eye on the kids.
The only beach in Sag Harbor Village, Havens has a playground and a gazebo. Residents say the water is calm and the beach is ideal for searching for shells.


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What Do You Think This Thing Is?
Many parts, like the shift shaft on a motorcycle, have stories behind them
By Kevin Cameron
This engine is an evolution of an earlier engine, and the earlier engine was an evolution from an engine before that. Each time a given design is judged to be obsolete—that is, it would cost more to improve it than it would cost to make a new model that fixes all the problems of the old model—engineers get an opportunity to fix things that have been bugging them.
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This is the shift shaft. It is connected to a mechanism inside the gearbox that rotates the shift drum. Cam-like slots milled into the drum move the shift forks that engage and disengage the gears. On an earlier style of bikes, the shift pedal was attached to the shift shaft, and a pinch bolt held it in place.
Fifty years ago, motorcycles vibrated a great deal more than they do today; people won't put up with it any more. But in those days, overcoming that vibration was regarded as "manning up." When the engine vibrated at a certain speed, the shift pedal also vibrated, so fast you couldn't see it. This is known as sympathetic vibration.
It wasn't long before a crack would develop, and the end of the shaft would drop off with the shift pedal. It didn't matter if you had safety wired the bolt and the nut. Here, engineers have made the shift shaft thicker. I wonder why. Some engineer said, "This is the last time that is going to happen."
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We're so often faced with apparent paradoxes: continuity and change, conservatism and progressiveness, predictability and chaos. In business, inherent tensions are mistakenly viewed as problems to be resolved once the "correct" answer is found. But when we consider only one direction—either A or B—we only see part of the picture. The strongest and most innovative solutions are frequently realized not through either/or decisionmaking, but by pursuing two contrasting options at the same time.
Taking readers through the same steps she's used to help Fortune 500 companies such as Scottrade, Georgia-Pacific, and Boeing, Deborah Schroeder-Saulnier reveals a dynamic critical-thinking process anyone can use to define the strategic tensions within his or her organization, identify the potential of seemingly conflicting options, and develop action steps to maximize the benefits of each.
Complete with examples of companies that achieved a competitive advantage with this breakthrough strategy, The Power of Paradox will help you face chronic challenges with confidence and uncover unexpected and infinitely better solutions.
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Deborah Schroeder-Saulnier, president and CEO at Excel Leadership Solutions and a former partner at the Clarion Group, is a results-driven executive with a PhD in management. She has devoted her career of more than 24 years to partnering with CEOs and top leaders to clarify focus and accelerate the pursuit of critical market, business, and leadership priorities. Her work with a variety of Fortune 500 companies has been centered on collaborative and integrative approaches that solve problems. She is based in St. Louis, Missouri.
Paradox Thinking: What Is It and Why Use It?
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
My new client had a lot on the line. It was no longer the golden years in which companies like his could hold on to the status quo and make profits. Money was tight, and he was feeling intense pressure to make changes that would boost profits immediately.
He started our first meeting with a story I'd heard many times before: "We're struggling. We need to cut costs, but if we don't invest in growth opportunities, the company will wither away."
"Let's look at the challenge through a different lens," I suggested. "There's no law that says you have to cut costs or invest in growth, is there?"
He laughed, "Maybe a law of business."
I told him a law like that was meant to be broken. And then I wrote the words "cut costs" on the left side of a paper and "invest in growth" on the right side. Between them, I wrote the word "and."
Cut costs and invest in growth. "How is that possible?" he wondered. "We're about to figure that out!" Welcome to paradox thinking.
Definition and Benefits
Paradox thinking is "and" thinking. It is thinking that identifies pairs of opposites and determines how they are interdependent relative to a key goal. In the previous example, the pair of opposites is "cut costs and invest in growth." They are interdependent because both are vital in achieving the goal of a thriving organization. Failure to manage the pair of opposites may result in the company going out of business; at the very least, it will result in its slow decline.
Paradox thinking enables balanced management of conflicting objectives. A company wants to be known for innovation at the same time customers embrace it for its stability, to thrill shareholders with strong short-term revenue results and concurrently take actions to ensure long-term health. From those two examples alone, it should be easy to see how failure to manage a critical pair of opposites results in the company stumbling and, perhaps, failing.
Adopting an appreciation for paradox ends the practice of viewing conflicting needs separately and addressing one over the other. Paradox thinking unravels the assumption that, if we analyze a situation thoroughly, one option will trump another in terms of problem-solving. Organizations do not reach their potential when they habitually use that kind of either/or approach to challenges. Their profit, morale, and ability to innovate suffer. Renowned playwright George Bernard Shaw addressed what it takes to make progress when he said, "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
Paradox thinking supplements the type of thinking many consider natural. So if you are a linear thinker, for example, you won't stop being a linear thinker and suddenly transform into a complete paradox thinker by reading this book. A linear thinker might look at the challenge of employee performance management like this: "First I will point out the employee's shortfalls, and then I will praise him for his accomplishments." The solution to the employee management problem is a step-by-step progression involving critique and reward — but the linear thinker wouldn't necessarily see critique and reward as a pair of interdependent opposites.
To that linear pattern, therefore, paradox thinking adds another way of looking at options and goals. It means looking at the divergent needs for critique and reward as linked and necessary in pursuing the goal of effective performance management. In other words, paradox thinking adds a level of understanding of the challenge, the ways to address it, and what the intended outcome is. In this example, once the linear thinker makes the connection between critique and reward, and consciously manages both to help the employee improve performance, he establishes an environment for faster behavior change and helps employees hit higher performance levels.
When paradox thinking becomes part of your problem-solving strategy, it has another benefit. It alerts you to when you are over-focusing on one part of the pair at the neglect of the other. That is, it helps your management of issues and actions stay balanced. In the performance management situation, it's possible that you may want focus on the reward more than the critique, of course. Doing that deliberately and keeping in touch with the outcomes of that action will help you in the future. But if you are unaware of that emphasis on reward over critique, then you may have just created a problem for yourself.
Paradox in the Language of Business
Many business-related concepts suggest opposing needs. For example, customer service implies the "push" of providing something to customers and the "pull" of finding out what the customer wants. Contract negotiation entails dual requirements: to listen/pay attention and talk/demand attention. More than any others, however, two elements stand out as embodying multiple, significant paradoxes: innovation and leadership.
In a business context, innovations tend to involve imagination and logic, a focus on what's different and what's familiar, being practical and stretching for the incredible, and many more interdependent opposites. Michael S. Dobson, author of Creative Project Management among other engaging business books, told me this story of innovation from early in his career:
I was at the toy fair with my boss, looking around the show floor for the next big thing. This was the year the Cabbage Patch Kids became a fad. We were in some Hong Kong importer's show room and they were selling Broccoli Patch Kids. They were a terrible knockoff. I made some disparaging remarks about them and my boss said, "You have to understand that it's not bad that it's a knockoff. It's just a dumb knockoff. There is a brilliant Cabbage Patch knockoff at this show. See if you can find it."
I looked around for hours and didn't see anything that fit his description. At the end of the day, he said, "What is the Cabbage Patch gimmick?"
That much I knew: "You adopt them."
"What else do you adopt?"
That was a gigantic clue. The brilliant Cabbage Patch knockoff at that year's toy fair was Pound Puppies. They are exactly like Cabbage Patch dolls, but completely different.
The ideal toy is brand new, completely original and just like everything else.
The paradox Dobson discovered applies to any company that tries to innovate, from toothpaste to smartphones. Integrating such paradox thinking into to new product development creates the kind of competitive advantage that companies profiled throughout this book enjoy.
In addition to innovation, leadership embodies myriad conflicting needs, such as confidence and humility, control and empowerment, grounded and visionary. Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) experienced major structural changes in 2008 and then again 2011. Because of these changes, new leadership paradoxes took shape for CEO Greig Woodring. Once owned by Metropolitan Life Insurance, RGA split off from MetLife in 2008 after expanding its global presence by adding new foreign offices. Then in 2011, it became a matrix organization and started to move toward more integrated systems instead of running like a loosely affiliated group of reinsurance companies. Control and empowerment emerged as central conflicting needs in his changing world. By exercising too much control, he could quash the entrepreneurial spirit of the individual company leaders. By empowering them too much, he would undermine the moves toward more coordinated behavior and goals.
Case Studies Prove the Power of Paradox Thinking
In this book, case studies of organizations help clarify the phases of a planning and implementation process that uses paradox thinking. Think of the process in terms of these macro steps:
1. Explore the types of paradoxes that your organization faces.
2. Evaluate when paradox thinking is necessary and when it's important to see choices as either one or another.
3. Envision the Aim, the Miss, and the possible positive and negative outcomes for your organization when you focus on each need separately and then together.
4. Energize the solution. Move out of the analysis stages and into actionable implementation to manage and leverage your paradoxes.
5. Equalize the execution. That is, put qualitative and quantitative measures in place to help indicate risk as you gauge progress.
Now visualize how these steps are connected and flow from one to the other, with the process repeating again and again. The steps have an energetic relationship. When practiced over time, this thinking becomes fluid and brings value instantly to your work life and your whole life.
The case studies vary in size from a local not-for-profit to a global, multi-billion-dollar company. Exposure to their struggles and ultimate successes gives specific insights into how to put the process captured in the image to work in your own organization. You will see how real companies identified critical interdependent opposites and applied paradox thinking to them. As the stories develop in later chapters, you will also see how well they leveraged relationships between the two and implemented paradox thinking on an ongoing basis.
The four case studies introduced in this chapter and referred to in other parts of the book are a financial services company, an upscale hotel chain with annual sales of $2 billion, a not-for-profit healthcare organization with annual revenue of $20 billion, and a technology-related services company with annual sales of $5 million.
St. Louis–Based Financial Services Firm
A St. Louis–based financial services firm, which we will call St. Louis Finance, consists of more than 15,000 financial advisors who came together over the course of years through mergers with regional and national firms. The group provides asset management, estate planning, and related services.
A lot of change in the company occurred with upheaval in the financial services industry, and that had a tremendous impact on external opportunities and threats, and internal strengths and weaknesses. On the internal side, "Who's doing what?" bounced off the walls in many offices, with people wondering who had responsibility for creating the marketing strategy and who had responsibility for execution.
I provided guidance to the marketing executive team of St. Louis Finance throughout their 2013 and 2014 strategic planning effort. One of the fundamental elements at play in an organizational paradox is its ongoing nature, so in addition to an outside-in look at directionally where they needed to take their strategy, we discussed chronic issues and challenges for the group. This is the point at which we entered the "explore" stage of the process and determined that paradox thinking is necessary.
"What causes confusion and chaos for you?" I asked them.
I wanted them to look at their struggles and then accept that strategic planning would help them understand their struggles, not just rise above them. They needed to see what causes the struggles and then what sustains them — that is, what keeps them ongoing. Zeroing in on paradoxes is the way to do that.
There is no crisply defined formula for strategic planning, but there is one element every strategic planning exercise needs as it gets underway, and that is a common language. The one fundamental word when integrating paradox thinking into strategic planning is "and." Some elements of strategy are so interconnected, so dependent on one another and yet opposite, that they are like breathing. Examples are logic and creativity, deliberation and emergent action, revolution and evolutionary change, a focus on markets and consideration of internal resources.
Identifying key stakeholders and key partners set the context for articulating the main reason for coming together to tackle strategic issues — in a business environment, it's what I call the Aim. The Aim and its negative counterpart, the Miss, are discussed more in-depth beginning in Part II of the book. These are the absolute markers of whether an organization is managing to success or failure.
The Aim we identified for St. Louis Finance was "client growth." The Miss was "slow decline of business."
Fast-forward to several meetings later, where the executives identified six strategic priorities:
1. Growth through acquisition of successful financial advisors and their clients.
2. Direct, corporate cultivation of clients (customers).
3. Mining client/prospect data in order to know customers better.
4. Recruiting/developing talent in the company.
5. Exhibiting client/prospect data in order to share knowledge and demonstrate success.
6. Improvement and standardization of core services — that is, a focus on efficient processes.
At this point, we entered the "evaluate" part of the process; three sets of tensions took shape immediately. Through questions that guided conversation, my goal was to help them to look at those tensions and see them holistically. It was important for them to think of the list in terms of:
Growth through financial advisors and growth through direct contact with customers.
Emphasis on people (talent) and emphasis on process.
Gathering data to understand customers and sharing data to demonstrate success.
The group involved in the strategy process grew and no longer consisted of only the marketing executive team. Nine new people joined the group. Their job was to help build out the strategy and to be ambassadors of the strategy within the organization, as well as to act as key players in the implementation of the strategic plan.
In order to raise awareness of the fundamental "and" and to get buy-in from those who were new to the team, I expressed the three, opposing — yet linked — strategic pairs on a flip chart using the infinity loop, a symbol first used by Barry Johnson in his model to represent ongoing energy within the pair: 8. So, for example, "talent" occupied the left side of the loop and "process" occupied the right, with the loop suggesting they are energetically connected. At the same time, I made it clear that the word "tension" had crept into all their conversations about these pairs.
And then I invited them to do a simple exercise:
"Inhale."
"Exhale."
"Inhale, and hold it."
Obviously, at some point, they wanted to exhale, but I didn't give them that instruction. Yet they exhaled because they couldn't continue to hold their breath. They got the point: You can't do one or the other if your Aim is to live. You have the same dynamic requirement with your company when it comes to these interdependent sets of opposites.
Particularly in strategic planning sessions, but also in meetings, participants tend to use "trap words" that hold them back from both/and thinking. Two of them are "priorities" and "agenda."
Priorities and agenda can get you stuck in either/or thinking because, by the nature of the words, they conjure up a this-then-that order, a first-then-second perception. That establishment of a hierarchy assigns more value to one possibility, which means another possibility has less value. I'm not saying that's invalid in all circumstances, but when you are considering paradoxes, it's essential to keep in mind that they are neither positive nor negative. They are equals — interdependent pairs. Priority thinking can take you to a choice, and that choice can imply either/or thinking and undermine your entire meeting or your entire strategic planning process.
The first success in the process of working with the St. Louis Finance group involved a change in their list of goals from six to five, with the two growth goals officially linked with an "and." Of course, the process must continue with action steps to move toward the Aim and a system of measuring how well you are managing the process. There are the "envision," "energize," and "equalize" steps that are covered in depth in Part II.
Livli Hotels
The context for this case study (in which the company name has changed and selected details have been disguised to protect confidentiality) is the recession that began in 2008. A company of any size faces radical changes if it loses 40 percent of its revenue stream overnight. That's essentially what happened to the Livli Hotels, a world-class hotel chain founded by a Scandinavian-American and headquartered in the U.S. Midwest. It had generated about $1.5 billion in annual sales prior to that year. Livli Hotels specializes in high-end services for business and leisure travelers; all locations offer some level of spa services as well as two or more restaurants.
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Excerpted from "The Power Of Paradox"
Copyright © 2014 Deborah Schroeder-Saulnier.
Excerpted by permission of Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC.
Author's Notes,
How Paradox Thinking Is Natural and Learned,
Introduction,
Part I The Process: Unleashing The Power of Paradox,
Chapter 1 Paradox Thinking: What Is it and Why Use It?,
Chapter 2 The ABCs of Using Paradox Thinking,
Chapter 3 Identifying Paradoxes in Any Organization,
Chapter 4 The Importance of Leaders at All Levels,
Part II Implementing the Process,
Chapter 5 Building the Model,
Chapter 6 Developing Action Steps,
Chapter 7 Identifying and Using Metrics to Stay on Target,
Chapter 8 Respecting Context and Complexity,
Part III Results of Implementing the Process,
Chapter 9 Going Operational,
Chapter 10 Success (and Failure) Stories,
Conclusion,
Appendix How-to Summary,
Chapter Notes,
About the Author,
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Ghinolfo Dattari (ur. ok. 1535 w Bolonii, zmarł w maju 1617 tamże) – włoski śpiewak i kompozytor.

Od lutego 1555 był zatrudniony jako śpiewak w bazylice św. Petroniusza w Bolonii.
W czerwcu 1597, po śmierci Andrei Roty, został mianowany chórmistrzem. Po dwóch latach, w styczniu 1599, powrócił na stanowisko wokalisty i pozostał na nim aż do śmierci.

Przetrwały niektóre jego polifoniczne utwory taneczne w stylu ludowym (villanelle).

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Zmarli w 1617
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Walmart partners with Handy, offers installations and home set-ups
On March 19, Walmart announced it had teamed up with home services startup, Handy, to give customers the added convenience of installation and assembly services for televisions and furniture sold through more than 2,000 of its stores. The company has been testing Handy services at 25 of its Atlanta stores since October 2017.
Shoppers will be able to purchase Handy services and book an appointment while checking out in-store and can also schedule service at a later time through the Handy App. Appointments can be scheduled between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m.
"At Walmart, we are tirelessly searching for new and creative ways to improve the everyday lives of our customers by providing great experiences that extend from our stores into their homes," said Daniel Eckert, senior vice president, Walmart Services and Digital Acceleration, Walmart US. "Our program with Handy enables us to eliminate the friction of installation and assembly and offers customers a convenient, delightful experience from start to finish. We know Handy's services are going to be a big help to our busy customers," Eckert said.
Handy was founded in 2012 by Harvard Business School classmates Oisin Hanrahan and Umang Dua. "Customer expectations have fundamentally changed," Hanrahan, Handy CEO and cofounder, told CNN. "Customers don't just want to buy a TV — they want to have it set up," he said. "When you have a TV mounted, you're less likely to return it."


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Balatonrendes is the smallest waterfront community on the shore of Lake Balaton, in the center of the Káli Basin World Heritage Area.
Rendesi Hill, situated less than 1 km from the waterfront, is home to many protected plant species. A landscape scar caused by the red sandstone mine operating here was planned to be restored by the mining company, which has an extraction license until 2026. The mining pit would have been filled up with construction waste.
We have prevented that!
For forty years, the pit would have been filled with construction debris, glass waste, concrete, concrete sludge, dredging waste and other waste classified as "non-hazardous" in an amount of up to 120 tons per day. The trucks transporting them would have made it impossible for local residents to rest and would have damaged the environment.
According to a previous government decision, the project would not even have required an environmental protection study to be approved, which is unacceptable!
There was no other way to stop the project than broad social cooperation, which is why the Association of Friends of Nature in Balatonrendes launched a petition on the szabad.ahang.hu website.
Their work has paid off!
Recently, government commissioner Tibor Navracsics promised that there would be no landfill established in the Balatonrendes mine. The representatives of the opposition and the ruling party agreed on the matter – we cannot harm our environment!
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The service is always in touch and helps to meet two travelers: the driver and his passenger. The BlaBlaCar logo shows a different pricing policy on the site so that everyone can find a travel companion according to their wallet.
BlaBlaCar: Brand overview
Founded: 16 September 2006
Founder: Frédéric Mazzella, Francis Nappez, Nicolas Brusson, Nicolas Deroche
Website: blablacar.com
BlaBlaCar is a private online platform for finding travel companions. It connects potential passengers with drivers who take a specific route and compensate them for the cost of the trip – sharing it proportionally among all participants. For this purpose, the service has a website and mobile applications. It does not have its fleet of vehicles, as it is a broker with a booking fee of 18-21%. The service operates in 22 countries, mostly in Europe and Latin America. Its headquarters is located in the capital of France – in the city of Paris. The site's founder is Frédéric Mazzella, along with Francis Nappez and Nicolas Brusson. The time of its appearance is 2006.
Vincent Caron, a Frenchman, first bought the domain name Covoiturage.fr and then opened a company with the same name. This happened in 2004. In 2006, he sold the Internet site to Frédéric Mazzella, who created the company Comuto on its basis. It owned a vehicle depot.
Two years later, the transportation service launched another Internet service related to social aspects. It was possible to find recommendations, biographies, reviews, and profiles from it. Covoiturage.fr was both a travel site, a recommendation web resource, and a community platform. And by the end of 2008, it became the number one source for car sharing in France.
The service became more pervasive year by year and gradually expanded to cover more European countries. In 2012 BlaBlaCar started a booking service: potential passengers pay for their trips online, and the web platform transfers a part of the fare to drivers. This business model is a way to motivate transport owners to cooperate. Now the group has 100 million members.
What is BlaBlaCar?
BlaBlaCar is a popular online platform and app for long-distance ridesharing. It connects 60 million drivers in 22 countries and helps select people going in the same direction to offset the cost of travel. The payment is split for each person on the trip. Group members also indicate their level of chatter so that fellow travelers feel as comfortable as possible on the road. The service was launched in 2006. Its founder is Frédéric Mazzella. The location of the head office in Paris (France).
The service gets its name from a rating scale that characterizes a ride with a particular driver by the level of chattiness. One "Bla" is for the not talkative, "BlaBla" is for people of average talkativeness, and for those who like to talk, "BlaBlaBla" characterizes the most talkative – those who are not able to be quiet at all. And "Car," appropriately, refers to the car. Since its inception, the site has had two logos. Their history dates back to the original name of the ride-sharing service.
The corporate logo, introduced at the beginning of the BlaBlaCar service's career, contained only its name. It was divided into three parts: the first fragment was green, the second was blue, and the third was red with a touch of fuchsia. The constituent elements were separate; that is, they were not connected. The first two words were arranged diagonally at the same angle, and the third stood horizontally. The logo contained nothing else – it was as concise as possible, without unique details and unnecessary accents. The text was in bold: wide letters without serifs. The main emphasis was finding people who wanted to have fun on a trip and chatting with fellow travelers.
After the 2018 redesign, the BlaBlaCar logo has completely changed its style. It has become sterner, more confident, and more modern. The lettering is now in a straightforward font and without a large gap between its components. All three parts are merged, but each word starts with a capital letter. The characters are bold, neat, and colored in navy blue with a touch of green.
On the left side is the trademark of the online service – two lowercase "b," which are slightly overlapping. Their connection is so slight that the letters look like two commas in the form of opening quotation marks. One of them is dark blue, repeating the color of the inscription, and the other is blue. And the overlapping place is colored light green. Such a delicate connection reflects the key goal of the transport broker – to find wordy fellow travelers with whom it would be interesting to travel. The classic expression "blah-blah" alludes to this. The unusual acronym also illustrates the relationship that arises during the trip between the driver and passenger. It also refers to the car seats.
In the early years, the logo for the BlaBlaCar online platform was fun and unserious. But later, when the service proved itself as a practical and in-demand service, the owners switched to a stern design. They removed the fun effect by connecting all three parts of the name, correcting the slant, and aligning the word horizontally. They also tweaked the color palette to match the new logo style. The Koto agency handled the development of the mature version of the visual identity.
The first version of the logo uses a Tahoma Bold font. In the second version, we preferred neutral stylistics with clear geometric lines. This is a font created by Grilli Type, custom-made. It is an adaptation of GT Eesti.
The corporate palette is varied: the debut emblem is dominated by bright colors (green, red, blue), in the modern emblem – restrained tones (dark blue with green). They emphasize the company's friendliness and professionalism.
BlaBlaCar color codes
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Hex color: #9ef769
RGB: 158 247 105
CMYK: 36 0 57 3
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Hex color: #2dbeff
RGB: 45 190 255
CMYK: 82 25 0 0
CMYK: 94 13 0 68
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Vital Rotherham United's Man of the Month for March is Semi Ajayi.
Semi joined the Millers in January 2017 originally on loan from Cardiff City and scored his first goal in a Rotherham shirt on Valentines Day at home against Huddersfield Town going on to make seventeen appearances until the end of the season. He signed a permanent deal at the end of March. So far this season in the forty-three games he's played for the Millers he's banged the ball in the net eight times while also getting his first full caps for Nigeria.
Semi was voted Man of the Match in our game away at QPR, where he scored twice and at home to Norwich City when he also scored. He was also joint Man of the Match against Sheffield United at Bramall Lane.
Our home game at the start of the month when Blackburn Rovers were in town saw Clark Robertson get the Man of the Match while he was also one of the joint recipients at Bramall Lane alongside Semi, Michael Ihiekwe, Billy Jones, Joe Mattock and Marek Rodak.
The Man of the Match for the away Derby County game, which we all want to forget, was Ryan Williams.
Well Done Semi and thanks to all who took the time out to vote!
Semi has also been nominated for PFA Championship Player of the Month for March – a month when he has scored five goals. Also nominated are Luke Ayling and Pablo Hernandez of Leeds United, Norwich City's Emiliano Buendía, John McGinn of Wednesday night's visitors Aston Villa's and Sheffield United's Jack O'Connell.


Le mémoire de ma thèse porte sur le sujet des « méthodes de travail collaboratif et les usages des technologies de collaboration en entreprise« .
Due to the increasing multiplication of Knowledge Management and Collaboration Software as well as the diversification of work methods and collaboration contexts, the "usage of collaboration technologies" tend to be highly complex and more and more heterogeneous. Collaboration issues are complex (i.e. organizational, technological, functional, cultural, and human issues).
In Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Integrated, Virtual and Interactive Engineering for fostering Industrial (IDMME Virtual Concept'08). Beijing (CHINA), 2008.
As defined in WikiPedia, Wiki is "a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit and change web content very quickly and easily, sometimes without the need for registration". Multiple (INTERNET) experiences show that this concept of open collaboration, sometimes with few structuring conditions, could effectively works, attracts users and stimulates innovative usages.
In a corporate context with formalized processes are structure, the usage of this kind of tools seems to be much more difficult. Many issues can limit the acceptance of "open collaboration" and break technologies deployment in the enterprise.
In this paper, we try to identify and to answer to these questions through a field research study in a corporate context. We propose and observe different wiki use-cases, while analyzing their contexts and identifying the conditions of their successful implementation in the organization.
In Proceedings of 1st conference in Research Challenges in Information Systems (RCIS'07). Ouarzazate (Morocco), 2007.
Situations of collaborative working are more and more complex and various in organizations. Such diversification is little studied in the literature. Researches about "technologies usages" in "collaborative situations" mainly focus on specific contexts where a given group is using a specific technology. In this paper, we focus on the richness of a real world environment of collaboration technologies' implementation, where different teams are working in various contexts (professions, localizations, tasks, etc) and using multiple tools.
We propose a model to analyze usages and to bring with patterns in such complexity.We present a research framework obtained by the integration of elements from different models and disciplines. The model was applied to analyze collaborative work tools usage in a French automotive company. As result, this study allowed us to map a global tools usage description, identify user groups' configurations, their needs, practices and usages.
In proceedings of Lecture Notes in Informatics. Information Systems and Collaboration: state of the art and perspectives. Luxembourg June 8-9 2006. PP 402-418. ISBN 978 3 88579 186 7.
By Ali OUNI, Jean Claude Bocquet (ECP) and Danièle Bonnivard (ECP).
L'usage d'une technologie se décompose en trois phases d'évolution, commençant par l'adoption de cette technologie, ensuite son utilisation fonctionnelle arrivant à une phase d'appropriation et d'instauration de pratiques. Une étude de l'usage doit s'adresser à l'ensemble de ces phases pour déterminer les clés d'adoption d'une technologie par les utilisateurs, identifier les fonctionnalités qu'ils utilisent principalement et pourquoi elles sont utilisées, et comprendre comment ces usages s'installent dans les pratiques et les influencent.
Papier rédigé par Ali OUNI dans les Actes du 10ème colloque de l'Association Information et Management (AIM), Toulouse, France, Juin 2005.
Etat de l'art des approches de définition du Système de Gestion des Connaissances (SGC).
La définition du système de gestion des connaissances (SGC) reste une question peu précise et abordée selon plusieurs angles par différentes disciplines. Plusieurs travaux de recherche définissent le SGC comme un support informatique aux processus de gestion des connaissances. D'autres montrent que son périmètre est plus large qu'un simple artefact technologique. Cet article propose, à partir d'une revue de la littérature, une classification des approches de définition du SGC et leur modélisation.


His single 'Clear' on LandSpeed records received major rotation overseas and secured him a place in that market. Headkrack is an artist that will not be pigeon-holed. He can hang with the rest of them lyrically and crunk it up with the best of them as witnessed by his many mix-tape appearances and features on other peoples projects.
A producers dream come true, all Krack needs is a beat and a mic. The right and left side of his brain takes care of the rest. Headkrack was one of the featured hip-hop artists on the 2003 and 2004 Vans Warped Tour. He has performed at SXSW. Krack has opened shows for Run DMC, Common, Jurassic 5, De La Soul, Big Pun, and Xzibit just to name a few. He also appeared on a 15 city tour with Wyclef Jean. He has battled hip-hop legend Craig G (ask for your DVD copy) and appeared on remixes to Tweet's 'Oops' and Lumidee's 'Never Leave'.


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A number of times people have trouble revealing just exactly simply what car aspects are required to take therapy of an auto, the solution is generally exceptional under their noses. Still, the truth continuouslies be that cars and truck taking care of services are inevitable along with seeking simply which truck aspects that you ask for is added challenging as contrasted to positioning a needle in the haystack.
One technique where people normally walk searching for which vehicle components they require to fix within their automobiles as well as likewise automobile is by therapy of removal. By discovering which truck aspects run by doing straightforward analyses, one has the capacity to determine whether they require a gas filter, brand-new gas pump, or whether the entire starter of the car is just going out.
Individuals that consistently service lorries in addition to vehicles can understand the problem right away, which would certainly conserve some concern changing the cars and truck components that do not require changing. When alerting you just precisely what car components they assume demands changing, one downside to depending on a private else worrying your automobiles along with automobile is that they simply can be incorrect.
There are a large amount of individuals that make a decision to take their cars along with vehicles as well as automobiles to cars and truck option center to have their automobiles dealt with. Different numerous other found out to tip right into a repair option store simply to see to it that they're able to obtain a specialist viewpoint on the auto components that they require to care for. Opportunities are that the service charge for providing a point of view stressing particularly simply what require to be changed will definitely not be exceptionally pricey, nonetheless this is a superb method making sure which car components should be transformed in order for the lorry to begin running again!
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Kelsey Reidl is the founder of Visionary Life, and through her holistic business coaching program The VISIONARY METHOD she has helped 100's of aspiring & startup entrepreneurs build out their idea into a profitable business. When she's not outdoors with her family living her own most visionary life, you can find her podcasting, creating content, coaching her clients, and teaching at The Canadian School of Natural Nutrition. Kelsey lives in Toronto, ON and is a self-proclaimed coffee connoisseur who has tried over 200+ local cafes.
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Q: Use script to load js files dynamically. Why is the CSS extracted from the corresponding mini-css-extract-plugin not automatically loaded I use these:
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Wendell Moore
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Duke freshman Moore out indefinitely after hand surgery
January 6, 2020 GMT
Miami guard Kameron McGusty (23) drives past Duke forward Wendell Moore Jr. (0) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020, in Coral Gables, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Duke freshman forward Wendell Moore Jr. is out indefinitely after having surgery to repair a broken bone in his right hand.
Speaking during the Atlantic Coast Conference coaches' teleconference, coach Mike Krzyzewski said the 6-foot-6 forward wouldn't travel for the second-ranked Blue Devils' game Wednesday at Georgia Tech. The team issued a statement later Monday after completion of the procedure, saying Moore is expected to return this season.
Moore was hurt with about 4:40 left in Saturday's 95-62 win at Miami. He lost the ball on a turnover and reached for a steal, then immediately grabbed his right hand. He stayed in the game for another possession before exiting with 4:11 left and immediately having his hand examined on the bench.
"We think everything's going to be good, but he'll be out for a while," Krzyzewski said.
Moore has started five games and is averaging 7.4 points with 3.9 rebounds in 22 minutes of action for a team with a deep rotation.
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