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A Summer Reading List: Recommendations From Top Leaders
Kimberly A. Whitler Senior Contributor
Psyched Up, by Daniel McGinn
Daniel McGinn
What books do C-level leaders recommend? To find out, I reached out to leaders from different industries, such as healthcare, financial services, food, security management, and technology, to findout about the books that they find insightful, motivating, or inspiring. Below is a list of interesting books that touches on everything from leadership to performance to overall business management. For a list of books focused on marketing-related topics, click here.
To kick it off, I will share a hot-off-of-the-presses book that I have really enjoyed. It's Psyched Up: How the Science of Mental Preparation Can Help you Succeed, by Daniel McGinn. It isn't a marketing, management, technical, or leadership book. Rather, this book combines theory, research, and practice to uncover the scientific approaches that can help strengthen mental preparation, resulting in greater success. What I particularly like about the book is that it is written by an artful, vivid storyteller who has appreciation for research and evidence-based insight. The tools provided can help anybody, whether giving a big speech or making an important client pitch or preparing for an interview, build a pre-game muscle to achieve better game-time performance.
Jeff Jones, former President Uber and EVP/CMO, Target
Shoe Dog, by Phil Knight. Coming off of my recent experience with an infamous tech entrepreneur, I recently visited Nike's campus in Beaverton with my youngest daughter. I had been there multiple times over the years but this trip was different as I saw the history, the product, the innovation and the culture differently; wondering about the journey Phil Knight had taken with a fresh perspective. I immediately bought Shoe Dog and it didn't disappoint! I knew a fair amount about Blue Ribbon Sports, the waffle iron and Bill Bowerman...but this book provided a new look into the struggles, perseverance and ultimate victory, giving new meaning to Just Do It!
Jeff Hennion, Former EVP - Chief Marketing & e-Commerce of Dick's Sporting Goods & GNC, Board Member at Briggs & Stratton
Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination, by Adam Lashinsky. Often, the best lessons on management, leadership and marketing come not from books specifically on the subject, but by delving into behind the scenes, real world, case studies. Adam Lashinsky, an Executive Editor at Fortune, first did this well in his book Inside Apple, Shedding Light on a Very Private Company. In Wild Ride, just released in May, Adam digs into the history, growth, stumbles and successes at Uber through in-depth research and countless hours with recently departed CEO Travis Kalanick Whether you're interested in the business perspectives or are just an Uber rider, the book is an entertaining read full of interesting insights and the timing for its publication couldn't have been better.
Jody Bilney, Senior Vice President and Chief Consumer Officer, Humana Inc.
Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice, by Clayton M. Christensen. A central premise of this book is that understanding consumers does not spur innovation. Rather, business leaders must understand their customers' jobs, i.e. what job is the consumer hiring the product/service to do? "Jobs theory" reframes products and services in terms of the "jobs to be done." As I'm reading, I'm asking myself "What does the consumer hire Humana's products and services to do?" The book has driven significant reflection on brand positioning, product development, operating models, service delivery, and more.
Dave Minifie, Chief Experience Officer, EVP, and Corporate Strategy, Centene Corporation
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes, by Tamim Ansary. If you're trained in Western Civilization history, you may want to read Ansary's entertaining and thorough view of world history through Islamic eyes. If you work on a global business, or a business impacted by politics or diplomacy, you should spend the time to learn how and why others in the world see events differently than most Americans do.
Margaret Molloy, Global Chief Marketing Officer, Siegel+Gale @margaretmolloy
The Leadership Mind Switch, by D.A. Benton and Kylie Wright-Ford. For leaders looking to leave summer geared up to finish 2017 with gusto, The Leadership Mind Switch is the perfect read. It provides a wealth of knowledge on successfully navigating various generations and cultural shifts that comprise the "new world of work." Provocative yet accessible, it guides the reader on becoming the inspired and inspiring example in a time of tech advancement and demographic disruption. Compiled using data and stories, you will fly through it.
Antonio Lucio, Global Chief Marketing and Communication Officer, HP Inc.
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy, by Sheryl Sandberg. Option B was written after the tragic death of Sheryl's husband. It provides poignant insight on how she managed her grief, her focus on her children and the need to ask for help. Its lessons are much broader about the importance of resilience. We'll all deal with grief and adversity in our lives and need to manage it, choose to move forward, grow from it and make the best out of the life we are given.
Martyn Etherington, Chief Marketing Officer, Cisco IoT Cloud
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? by Louis Gerstner, Jr. It's an account of IBM's historic turnaround as told by the architect. Gerstner led IBM from the brink of bankruptcy and mainframe obscurity back into the forefront of the technology business. The book is divided into five parts: "Grabbing Hold," "Strategy," "Culture," "Lessons Learned," and "Observations." He was an outsider, he challenged traditional thinking and when everyone was talking mouse-clicks and eyeballs he defined E-Business, the fore runner to Digital Transformation. This is not a how to book but rather a how he did it book. Great business book and compelling read.
Sara Spivey, CMO, Bazaarvoice
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, by Angela Duckworth. In this book, Duckworth sets out to prove her hypothesis that the secret to outstanding achievement in almost any field is not talent, but a special blend of passion and perseverance. Interviewing dozens of high achievers in a wide variety of fields, Grit describes and explores what goes through your head when you fall down, and how that — not talent or luck — makes all the difference. Whether you are trying to develop your own resilience, grow resilient employees or raise resilient children, this is an excellent read.
To add to Spivey's recommendation, I have shared Duckworth's research with students in the past because it is empowering. Her research suggests that to a degree, success isn't controlled by genes (i.e., IQ), but rather by those factors within an individual's control.
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Shaun White is a flawed champion. NBC turned him into a faultless snow god.
NBC turned one of the greatest Winter Olympics competitions ever into a solo performance piece.
Gold medalist Shaun White of the United States celebrates during the snowboard men's halfpipe final on Day 5 of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics at Phoenix Snow Park on Wednesday.
For as long as their sport has been a sport, snowboarders have seen themselves as members of a collective—stakeholders in a chilled-out traveling circus who lift each other up and cheer each other on. White, by contrast, has always stood apart from his peers and placed himself on a pedestal—a self-conception that's hard to quibble with given all he's accomplished with a board strapped beneath his feet.
NBC sees White the way he sees himself.
On Monday and Tuesday nights, the network didn't show its viewers a snowboarding contest. Instead, it broadcast the Shaun White show, directing all its star-making apparatus toward the promotion of White as a singular talent for whom the 2018 Games were the final act in a clichéd redemption arc. Over and over, we heard that White failed to medal in Sochi, and that he was determined to return to his rightful place at the top of the podium in Pyeongchang.
This triumph-over-adversity tale is not only bogus—Shaun White has never been and never will be an underdog—but it's also somewhat offensive, given the ugly news that's come out about White in the past several years. But NBC studiously avoided mentioning White's unpopularity with his fellow snowboarders, or the sexual harassment lawsuit he settled last year, or anything else that might dispel the hero myth the network had spent so much time and money crafting.
White is a scintillating performer, and a remarkably clutch one. He found himself in second place going into his last run, needing to put up a dizzyingly high score to turn silver into gold. In a span of 20 seconds, he pulled off five insane aerial maneuvers, all of which looked less like tricks than special effects.
It was a great sports moment, and a reminder that White is the rare athlete who almost always lives up to the hype. But he wasn't the only snowboarder who thrilled the crowd in Pyeongchang. Ayumu Hirano, a 19-year-old Japanese snowboarding wunderkind, had stood atop the leaderboard for much of the night thanks to an awe-inspiring performance that featured back-to-back 1440s.
It was a telling description, one that encapsulated NBC's blinkered approach to broadcasting the games. Hirano and James were important only to the extent that they abetted the American star's self-actualization. By focusing so intently on Shaun White, and by peddling the fiction that White's toughest competitor was himself, the network undersold what will surely be one of the most dramatic, tightly contested events in Pyeongchang. Even if you're watching the Olympics through red-white-and-blue glasses, it doesn't take anything away from the American to acknowledge that the foreigners are good, too.
NBC's coverage of White demonstrates it's incapable of acknowledging that the greatest athletes can sometimes be the biggest jerks. The network likes to portray its American Olympic heroes as cuddly, wholesome, and likable, even when they're nothing of the sort. As a storyline, "Shaun White: Greatest Snowboarder Ever" pales in comparison to "Shaun White: Greatest Snowboarder Ever and a Super Nice Guy." NBC needed us to want White to win—to see his victory as an unambiguous triumph. That means, by extension, that a gold medal for Hirano would've been seen, above all else, as a defeat for White. In reality, the contest would've been just as thrilling either way.
After the event was over, when the NBC Olympics Twitter account was in the midst of sending out 25 missives about White in the span of an hour, Richards declared, "What an amazing day for snowboarding. What a tremendous day for Shaun White." He was right on both counts. It was a tremendous day for White. But the triumph for White's sport didn't depend on his capturing a third gold medal. Rather, for those of us who don't typically watch snowboarding, the joy of the evening came from watching three world-class, well-matched athletes fight it out until the very end. White's victory didn't validate snowboarding. It showed what viewers lose when NBC paints with a broad brush and a limited palette.
• Why Isn't NBC Talking About the Sexual Harassment Allegations Against Shaun White?
Josh Levin is Slate's editorial director.
Justin Peters is a Slate correspondent and the author of The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet.


In the book The Tipping Point, author Malcolm Gladwell talks about three different archetypes of people: mavens, connectors, and salespeople. If you're a changemaker, this framework can help you see why you work the way you do.
Pam Slim and I have been using this model for a few years, both in our Lift Off Retreat and with clients in our individual coaching practices. She also wrote a post on maven, connectors, and salespeople back in 2010 and has been nudging me to write this one since around that time. So, here we go.
Mavens make change happen through information and ideas. These are the people you ask whenever you want to know something about anything — they're always the people in the know. They're builders, engineers, process folks, and system folks. It's all about the ideas and the information.
You often feel overwhelmed because you have so many big ideas to unpack.
You're often frustrated by how "thin" a lot of information seems.
You can get lost for days working on one idea, or spend months happily exploring the depths of one idea.
Your expression is largely about ideas and information, rather than about people or sizzle.
Connectors make change happen through people. They galvanize people. They're natural hubs. That's just the way they're oriented to the world. These are people who, every time you ask a question, start flipping a Rolodex in the back of their mind, saying, "Who do I know who knows this? Who do I know who has done this? Who do I know that I need to connect you with?" They love connecting you with people, because they're all about the people.
You are constantly referring people to the right expert or service to solve their problem.
You love networking and talking with people, just for the sake of doing it.
The stories you tell always focus on the people, not the ideas or the sizzle.
Salespeople make change happen through persuasion. They can take an idea, make it sticky and accessible, and position it to get a tribe behind it. Salespeople are your storytellers and masters of persuasion. These are the people who can borrow your watch and then sell it back to you. They just have this uncanny ability to get you to buy into whatever they're selling, whether it's an idea, a plan, or a product — it doesn't matter.
When you talk about your next project, people are instantly hooked.
You love the chase of getting someone to agree with you or buy into whatever you're selling.
It's really easy for you to get hooked on sticky, sizzle-y ideas, products, and services.
Your stories have sizzle at their basis, and the information and people support the compelling idea.
The goal in business and life is to really play to your strengths.
It's about being YOU to the fullest and playing with the deck of cards that you have. After using this model for a few years, I started distinguishing between people's primary archetype and their secondary archetype. I noticed that a lot of people said, "Well, I'm kind of a maven but I'm also kind of a salesperson." This is why I talk about the concept a little bit differently than both Pam and Malcolm Gladwell.
Yes, I am (primarily) a maven, so I would start pulling out subtle differences, but it's more than just mindplay. Knowing what your primary and secondary archetypes are is important because your primary tells you why you do something and what you're going to be naturally motivated to do, whereas the secondary tells you how it's going to make the most sense for you to do it.
This means we actually have six categories. Here is a quick breakdown of what they look like, with an example to help you see what these archetype combinations can look like.
A few model notes. First, the simplistic statement is not meant to encapsulate the entirety of, or nuances of, these people's great work. Second, I've noticed that it's easy for people to get confused when their great work is with people, ideas, or persuasion; i.e., mavens who focus on marketing and sales may assume that they're salespeople, when in fact they're excited about the ideas and processes around marketing.
What's really fascinating about this is the way in which these personality types interact with each other. Remember, you're not in a vacuum — you're always a part of a broader community, a broader ecology. And this is where things get really exciting and this is where the magic happens!
If you're a maven, you know you need to ally yourself with connectors, because they're going to connect you with the people world, and you need to ally yourself with salespeople, because they can take whatever it is that you do, hone it, and make it more approachable. We mavens are inherently challenged with making our ideas sticky, making them easy to understand and grab onto. We like to talk about frameworks, processes, and systems, which we're fascinated by. If we talk to other mavens about this, we'll have two-and-half-hour long conversations that we enjoy but drive everyone else crazy.
It's the same with connectors. If you're a connector, you need to ally yourself with mavens and salespeople. The mavens will take what you're doing and add depth, rigor, and substance to it. So, if you're launching a product, it's great to have mavens on your side, because they'll give suggestions like, "Maybe you should structure it this way," or "Maybe this will be the best way to get users." Salespeople are able to help you use your natural gift of connecting with people in a way that makes your message or what you're doing easy to spread.
I want to keep this fairly brief to get the idea out there and to introduce this idea: When you play with your natural strengths and genius zone, you're going to have far better results. If you're naturally a salesperson, don't try to be a maven — you can't do it! If you're naturally a connector, don't try to be a salesperson — you can't do it! You can learn how to mimic it, you can learn the skills of that domain, but you can't truly be that person.
@gingercorsair I think I'm a maven too! Does the book go into more depth? I'm curious now!
@_ChelleShock it does! Definitely worth a read, I love all his work. I'm a bit of the salesperson too. I dont like the idea of being only 1!
What if you are "none of the above"?
Are you sure you're not selling yourself short, Lisa?
Just curious, if you wouldn't put yourself into any category, how would you describe yourself?
I've been thinking on this a lot since you posted this recently. It really helps clarify when I'm in my zone and when I feel uncomfortable – and could find someone way better at doing X. It's also fun to pick out which archetype other people are and to see how they use it. It also helps with forming strong teams: I know where my strengths are, so finding complimentary strengths in a partner will help get the job done. Thanks, Charlie!
Interesting post, Charlie – thanks! I am a maven-connector. You made it really easy to figure this one out. The secondary was a bit tricky though, for me. Sometimes it depends on the idea, or the subject, whether the salesperson or connector shows up. They are pretty close – but definitely distant from my primary!
Thanks – reminded me to go back and look at this again!
@CharlieGilkey I'm totally a story junkie! I love telling and hearing people's stories. And yes, I'm working on connecting people now!
As I was reading, I was thinking "This feels like the directions to a strategic board game." Except that we are the characters and this is no game. Very interesting take on roles and characteristics. It's always helpful to see things from a different perspective.
This is facinating! I just ordered the book too – I am certianly a Maven, and looking for those connectors and salespeople too! This perspective just seems to fit so well with what it is that I am missing and now I know who I need to align myself with. Great post!
I'm late to this party (and new to PF thanks to Third Tribe), but I have to say that this post really hit me over the head! Your definition of Maven is exactly me. And now it's clear why I struggle with sales and networking. Those things are just NOT me — at all.
I'm no where near being a blend of Maven-anything, and this is why I think I spend so much time banging my head against the wall. I've wanted to quit so many times but I just can't stop being a Maven. Now I realize I need to find a salesperson-connector type to partner with so that I will have the flourishing component of my business. I also find it funny that over 10 years ago I chose my business name and URL – ImageMaven.com. It's like I knew it before I knew it.
Thanks for helping me identify my archetype. I'm a maven without a doubt. Now I need just need to find a couple of persuaders and connectors and I think that together we could make things really happen.
I think I am a maven myself too! I just can't tell whether I'm a maven-connector or maven-salesperson since I love to connect to other people as well as to pitch my ideas to others too!
Awesome post. I knew I was a maven but didn't realize I had a secondary salesperson thing going on until I read this definition of it. Thank you.
This is the most useful set of archetypes-in-business I've yet come across. I'm not quite sure if I'm a maven-connector or a connector-maven. Book added to reading list!
I think that most people will not be either a Maven, Saleperson or Connector but will have some traits from all three archetypes. Each one has its own unique qualities. I am most interested in the Maven as I have just started a podcast with my co-host Bob Garlick focused on interviewing Mavens and discovering their passions and expertise.
I'm not sure I agree on this one, Andrew, largely because it doesn't fall along traits as much as natural affinities. I'm a great marketer and salesperson, but that's due to experience and practice. When I wake up in the morning, though, I'm a maven. It's the thing I can't help but be.
Have fun with your podcast!
Am most def a Maven with a bit of salesmanship…. I better chase the other two categories before the bus leaves me.
I'm not sure actually. I'm closest to maven but not entirely.
Great idea and comments! Thank you Charlie and everyone who commented.


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'Thinking the Unthinkable'
The headline on Thomas Schelling's obit in the NY Times dubbed him "master theorist of nuclear strategy." Schelling proved to be far saner than the three ogres mentioned as his fellow theorists:
"After spending a year studying nuclear weapons at the RAND Corporation in 1958 and writing 'The Strategy of Conflict' (1960), he took his place as a leading theorist of nuclear war and peace along with the RAND intellectuals Herman Kahn and Albert Wohlstetter, as well as Henry A. Kissinger, the director of the Defense Studies Center at Harvard."
The role of these experts in the 1950s was to make the use of nuclear weapons seem feasible. There had been a few years when the people of the world were so appalled by the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Russkies had developed A-bombs and H-bombs of their own, and the prospect of Mutually Assured Destruction was so obvious, that the use of nuclear weapons seemed unthinkable.
Then young Henry Kissinger made his bones with a list of rules that would enable combatants to fight a "limited" nuclear war. Schelling proposed "game theory" as a way to break the nuclear stalemate. Obese Herman Kahn weighed in with a best-seller called "Thinking about the Unthinkable." These gentlemen provided the rationale for a nuclear arms race —increasingly sophisticated weapons and delivery systems— that continues to this day and has made the Arms Industry dominant in the US economy.
Schelling was not a committed Cold Warrior. When Stanley Kubrick was planning his great film "Dr. Strangelove," he used Schelling as a consultant. William Grimes's obit also reminds us that Schelling implored Kissinger and Nixon (in vain) not to bomb Cambodia in 1970.
Schelling won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2005. The obituary by Grimes recounts:
Expanding on the work of Morton Grodzins, a political scientist at the University of Chicago who used the term "tip point" to describe the crucial moment when white fears become white flight, Mr. Schelling offered a simple diagram, almost like a game board, to show how mixed urban neighborhoods could quickly become entirely black, even when white residents expressed only a slight preference for living among members of their own race.
His papers on the subject, and his book "Micromotives and Macrobehavior" (1978), achieved wider currency when his ideas were popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in his best-selling book "The Tipping Point" (2000).
The basic concept was laid out by Frederick Engels, who wrote that quantitative change, at a certain point, results in qualitiative change. Like, ice melts. No one repackages ideas as lucratively as Malcolm Gladwell.
When I was a lad and there were used-book stores on 4th Avenue, I was browsing in one and found, inside some tome (can't remember which), a postcard to Herman Kahn thanking him for his contribution to the Federation of the Handicapped. I thought it might be a sign, but of what I did not know.
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The president and I agree that the current levels of spending, including entitlement spending, are unsustainable. The president and I do not agree on his view that government needs more revenues through higher taxes on job creators.
Seriously, Mr. Speaker? The American people will not accept a bill that raises taxes on these mysterious job creators that are so important that you feel the need to protect them in any deal to solve the debt crisis?
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Weed Out the Stigma
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Alex Kitchmire | The Montclarion
Many students at Montclair State University are under constant fear of being punished by university authorities for cannabis use. Meanwhile, alcohol is bought and used by underage students every week, and discipline for that drug consumption is far and few between.
Due to this institutional, irrational stigma surrounding marijuana use, people continue to be punished for using a drug with a vast range of positive qualities that make it much more safe and helpful than its far more dangerous alcohol counterpart.
The stigma surrounding cannabis stems from the rise of immigration from Mexico following the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century. Despite cannabis already being a popular ingredient in American medicine since the mid-19th century, the fear of Mexican culture and customs invading America ignited a fear that lead to the plant's intense xenophobia-fueled stigma.
From there, massive governmental advertising campaigns claimed that marijuana use led to a rise in violence and lewd sexual behavior.
Even though the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 was found unconstitutional in 1970, it was placed on Schedule I federal classification following the passage of the Controlled Substances Act the same year, where it remains to this day.
In 1920, the 18th Amendment was passed and the era of Prohibition began, banning the production, sale and transportation of alcohol.
Inevitably, compliance with the new law did not occur without resistance. What was intended to prevent crime ended up having the opposite effect.
Bootlegging, speakeasies and bathtub gin rose to great popularity and profit, and due to a lack of government regulation, the alcohol that was being illegally produced was often harmful for consumption.
The same has occurred in the production and sale of marijuana. Because it remains on the controlled substances list, PCP-laced and synthetic marijuana is sold and consumed by unknowing recipients, who risk damaging their health permanently.
However, the positive and healing remedies of unaltered cannabis are seemingly endless. Prescribed medicinal uses include treatment for glaucoma, Alzheimer's, Crohn's disease, epilepsy and some forms of cancer.
Additionally, marijuana can be used to combat appetite loss and anorexia, nausea, headaches and other pain, as well as mental health disorders like schizophrenia and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Marijuana saves thousands of lives every year, while alcohol does just the opposite. The side effects of alcohol consumption that are casually indulged are actually quite frightening.
The lack of social inhibitions, memory loss, slurred speech and others are your body's way of trying to stay alive. The more alcohol you drink, the more non-essential functions begin to shut down in order to save your vital ones.
This is why when one has consumed an amount of alcohol that their body cannot handle, they often get alcohol poisoning and regurgitate it.
According to the National Institute of Health, an estimated 88,000 Americans die every year from alcohol related causes, making it the third most prevalent cause of death in the U.S.
The number of people who died from a marijuana overdose last year is zero.
It is clear, from a health perspective, that the benefits of marijuana far outweigh the benefits of alcohol, if there even are any, other than heightening social experiences.
Cannabis is a plant that grows naturally from the earth. Its benefits do not have to be reaped from any of its forms, other than its most basic. Alcohol is a drug made by humans, with all of its harmful ingredients knowingly added.
That is not to say that alcohol should be made illegal. Like marijuana, if it were to be legalized, alcohol is a recreational drug, but to keep a potentially life-saving drug like marijuana out of the hands of those who can benefit from it, just because of a myth that its as harmful as a drug like heroin, is foolish.
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I want to thank my dear friend Tauna from Proverbial Homemaker. She's written this post to encourage you.
Have you been having a hard time spending good time with the Lord in prayer? You want to feel connected to Him all day but find yourself in the middle of a prayer slump you can't seem to get out of. You long to be a woman of prayer, but you're struggling to find the time in the midst of the chaos and the clutter.
And you feel guilty because, after all, it's not about finding time for the Lord but making Him your priority, right? You know this, yet for some reason it's still hard. As I'm sure you've experienced, too, that a prayer-less day is always a less peaceful day. So what do you do to get back on track?
First, just know that you're not alone. Nobody wants to say they're having trouble making time for prayer because we're all supposed to be such faithful Christians. Yet I'm convinced that most (maybe all?) of us struggle with this at various times. I know I do! So let me tell you what helps me when I'm struggling.
When I find that my prayer life has become dried up and neglected, there are a few things I do to get back on track. If I can find the time, I go on a prayer retreat. This can be a simple trip to the coffee shop alone or my annual overnight prayer retreat. Those are wonderful times to really refresh and renew your prayer life.
However, the day-to-day is where you and I live most of the time. The daily grind is where our prayer lives can either thrive or dry up. The BEST thing I can do to get my mind and heart into the habit of daily prayer is what I refer to as anchoring. I identify rocks in my day – the activities that I do each day without fail – and I anchor my prayer times to them. They can be simple or complex, but as I focus on one a time soon I am back into a habit of praying without ceasing. That's where we want to be!
Pray before your feet hit the floor – As you're thinking about the day (or trying to fend it off a bit longer) spend some time praying about the activities ahead for you and your family.
Pray over a cup of coffee or tea – Enjoy your morning beverage and pray for energy, clarity, and guidance as you parent your children.
Plan for dedicated daily prayer – Make a simple plan: read your Bible and pray through the scriptures, use a prayer journal, or prayer cards for moms.
Pray when you wash your hands – Take this brief pause to pray for spiritual and physical health for whichever friend or loved one comes to mind.
Pray before devotions – Pray with your children before beginning family devotions, praying that God's Word would be received and accomplish its purposes.
Pray before important conversations – Before talking to a friend over a difficult matter or approaching your child to instruct or discipline them, pause and pray for wisdom and discretion.
Pray at midday – As you eat lunch or clean up from it, thank God for the blessings of the day so far and pray for the rest of the day.
Pray when you fold the clothes – Pray over your family members as you wash and fold their clothes, asking God to grow in them a heart of service.
Pray those desperate bathroom prayers – We busy moms can find a brief reprieve in the bathroom to pray when the day gets frustrating or overwhelming.
Stop everything and pray – When things get crazy or a concerning situation comes up, stop everything and pray out loud, or take a line from Susanna Wesley and wear an apron and throw it over your head to pray!
Pray past your murmurings – When you catch yourself complaining or murmuring in your heart toward your family, turn them into sincere prayers instead.
Pray as you clean up from the day – Praise God and thank Him for the day, submitting all the victories and the struggles to Him.
Pray when your head hits the pillow – Meditate on a Psalm and pray to the Lord before the day closes.
Pray without ceasing – Keep striving in prayer, one anchor at a time, and soon a habit of praying without ceasing will be yours again.
So, dear Busy Mom, set aside a few minutes today and write down the rocks in your day and anchor your daily prayers to them. You will be blessed!
So good. So practical. So honest. It's nice to know I'm not the only one who longs for a deeper connection with God but struggles with the myriad distractions of life. I do a few of these things, but will have to watch for adding in more prayer "anchors". Thank you.
This is full of great and practical ideas. Thank you for taking the time to share this with us.


A fantastic time was had in Palm Springs, celebrating our wonderful George Pepperdine College alumni at the sixth Grand Pepperdine Celebration!
Their beloved Dolores made the trip to Palm Springs and enjoyed being the center of a traditional Hymn Sing in the "Oasis" on Friday evening led by our own Ken Rice ('57). Over thirty GPC alumni came together to worship in song, but not before there was a battle of the GPC alumni on the golf course when Bill Watkins ('62) and John Katch ('60) enjoyed a friendly round of golf. We wanted to give a huge congratulations to John, who had the lowest score of the day.
Saturday we enjoyed breakfast and then spent a few hours together reminiscing and looking through memorabilia from their time at the original campus. Everything from a cheerleading uniform and annuals to copies of the Graphic and videos were presented for alumni to enjoy and bring back memories! Saturday afternoon alumni enjoyed some down time to gather with friends at the hotel or around Palm Springs. It was so nice to hear about their afternoon activities and restaurants enjoyed in the area!
Saturday evening proved to be an enjoyable time! Alumni gathered for the evening banquet where we recognized several who have reached their 50th anniversary and are now included in the Golden Circle! Pepperdine University student worship group, Won by One, joined us for the evening to provide a fantastic song and offer a blessing for the evening and meal. Following a tasty meal we recognized Dr. James Brinton ('57) as the 2014 "Oly Tegner Award" recipient and we were then entertained by local Palm Springs performer, Steve DiTullio, who took the stage with songs by artists like Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr., allowing alumni to dance the night away!
Sunday concluded our reunion weekend when we were again joined by the student group, Won by One, who led a spirited and faithful morning worship. We were so lucky to have this group of young and faithful students be a part of the celebration. We were also blessed to be joined by Phil Nash ('64) during worship, where he performed a Biblical dramatization along with a moving and faithful message.
All in all we had a fantastic time coming together as Waves, as family, and as friends. We thank those alumni who were able to join us and make the reunion weekend a success, and while we missed many of you who were not able to make the trip, know you were thought of fondly and we hope to see all of you soon!
If you would like to see more photos from GPC VI, please click HERE.


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Prop. 34: Will California Abolish the Death Penalty?
By Jamie Goldberg, Alana Levinson and Erica Hellerstein | Nov 3, 2012 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission | 16
In November, California voters will decide the fate of Proposition 34, a ballot measure that would overturn the death penalty for people found guilty of murder and replace it with life imprisonment without possibility of parole.
Proponents of the ballot measure say that passage would save the state and counties the expense of lengthy death penalty proceedings. They estimate the state would save $100 million annually for the first few years, followed by a $130 million increase thereafter. Prop. 34's passage would also create the SAFE California Fund, an initiative that would provide resources for sheriffs and police departments as well as district attorney offices statewide.
"The campaign isn't about a moral opinion of the death penalty," says Daisy Vieyra, communications assistant for Yes on Proposition 34. "It's about what is actually happening in the state of California…. Right now, with our state's budget cuts, it doesn't really seem feasible to fix or have [the death penalty]."
If the death penalty is abolished, the statewide prison population would likely increase. However, given the elongated time that many prisoners spend on death row, proponents believe the difference would be minimal and that it would be cheaper to serve a life sentence without parole. Since 1978, the state has spent $4 billion on the death penalty.
According to language in the law, Prop. 34 will "end a costly and ineffective practice, free up law enforcement resources to increase the rate at which homicide and rape cases are solved, and achieve fairness, equality and uniformity in sentencing."
Opponents claim that the proposition's numbers are misleading. Its passage, they say, would cost taxpayers $100 million over the next four years, and millions more down the road. Additionally, they maintain that the proposition would cost taxpayers at least $50,000 annually per convicted killer for such services as lifetime health care and housing.
According to Californians for Justice and Public Safety, the proposition, if passed, "would let serial killers, cop killers, child killers, and those who kill the elderly, escape justice. Proponents don't acknowledge that when California's death penalty was eliminated before, condemned criminals were released only to rape and kill again."
Prop. 34 would also require that all prisoners serving a life sentence for murder be made to work, and that debts to crime victims be deducted from their pay. This is currently the practice in the state, but Prop. 34 would make it a requirement.
Opponents of the measure also say that the proposition unfairly punishes victims' families, who have already suffered deeply from their loss. According to the voter information guide, capital murder victims include 225 children, 43 police officers, 235 individuals who were raped and murdered, and 90 who were tortured and murdered.
The Peace Officers Research Association of California, a statewide coalition formed to uphold the death penalty, claims that the proposition's passage "would embolden the most vicious criminals and endanger law-abiding citizens as well as sworn peace officers."
Those against the proposition argue that victims and their families deserve retribution. But supporters of Prop. 34 maintain that innocent people are frequently executed in the pursuit of justice.
"More than 100 innocent people have been sentenced to death in the U.S., and some have been executed," proponents claim in the information guide. "We'll never execute an innocent person with 34."
Below is a timeline of the death penalty in California.
Mug shots courtesy of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
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Michael	on November 3, 2012 at 10:29 am
Thank you for the very informative article. The timeline is really helpful in understanding the issue. Thanks
Dudley Sharp	on November 4, 2012 at 4:51 am
As we all know, you cannot increase a inmates punishment over what existed in statute at the time of the crime, so these provisions, below, are unenforceable and will not happen, for any of those already on death row.
In addition, forced labor is unenforceable, as well.
PROP. 34: The Truth Will Kill It
Dudley Sharp
An honest discussion about Prop 34 would result in its overwhelming defeat.
Are the cost claims made by the pro Prop 34 folks accurate? Maybe not (1). The ACLU cost review was easily destroyed (1) and Mitchell and Alarcon, of the $4 billion study infamy, refuse to share their database (1), which we can presume has problems and, therefore, no one can, responsibly, depend upon that review.
Is it possibly that life without parole (LWOP) may cost more than the death penalty? Yes (1).
Is it required that California citizens allow their representatives to be so irresponsible with both their state budget and death penalty management? Of course not.
Virginia has executed 75% of those sentenced to death and has done so within 7.1 years, on average.
All states, inclusive of California, could implement similar protocols and save money over LWOP.
INNOCENTS MORE PROTECTED WITH THE DEATH PENALTY
Is it true that innocents are better protected by a death penalty protocol? Yes, in three different ways (2). Innocents are more at risk without the death penalty (2).
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PROP. 34: UNPRINCIPLED? APPARENTLY.
Ask the media (or insert any industry) this question.
How principled are you?
If you had a group of corrupt people, who only wanted to shut down the media, by sabotaging the media, would you say, OK, shut down all media?
Or would you say, let's clean it up, get you bad folks out of the picture, and make it work?
A vote for Prop 34 is a vote for folks who have intentionally obstructed justice in these cases, meaning anti death penalty legislators, the defense bar and judges who have made the death penalty so irresponsible and who are the same folks telling us to reward them by giving them what they have been working for, based upon the horrible system they have engineered.
A better idea.
How about demanding a responsible system, such as Virginia's, whereby 75% of those sentenced to death have been executed within 7.1 years, on average – a system similar to what Ca should have, if responsible folks were in charge.
Calif has executed 1.4% of those sentenced because such mismanagement is what such obstructionists (read Prop 34) had in mind.
meatsack	on November 4, 2012 at 10:44 pm
Yup, the anti-death penalty crowd has driven up the costs and then complains that it costs too much.
Elizabeth Zitrin	on November 4, 2012 at 8:18 am
It is the non-partisan Legislative Analyst's Office that wrote in the ballot that a YES on Prop 34 will save $130 million a year.
The bi-partisan California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice (ccfaj.org) found that there would be over $130 million a year in savings as well.
Judge Arthur Alarcon was a supporter of the death penalty when his study found that we have spent over $4 Billion to execute 13 people — $308 million per execution.
Every year, 46% of homicides are unsolved in California. That's about 1000 homicides a year where no arrests are made. Prop 34 and the SAFE California Fund will put $100 million into solving those homicides and the 56% of reported rapes that are currently unsolved every year.
Get the FACTS at YESon34.org.
YESon34.org Prop. 34 has over 1450 endorsements, including many law enforcement professionals. One of the many newspapers to endorse Prop 34 is the Sacramento Bee, which reversed its 155 year history of supporting the death penalty.
The death penalty is irreparably broken. It is not a deterrent. Life in prison without possibility of parole is a sure, certain and sever penalty, which is what deters crime.
Get the FACTS — YESon34.org
YESon34.org A YES vote on Prop 34, the SAFE California Act WILL protect the innocent.
Read and watch the story of Franky Carrillo, who spend 20 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.
http://www.safecalifornia.org/stories/innocent/carrillo
Estela	on November 4, 2012 at 8:52 am
Wait, I thought the money would go in order to focus on murder and rape cases, not just to the sheriffs.
This is a difficult one,if we had a more reliable system with people full f common sense, and not just years on the job- I would support the death penalty.
But, due to the many innocent people, especially the racial inequalities – I do not trust the system. Also, death seems too easy for many, but I wish we'd just serve them solitary confinement, instead of access to internet, and healthcare, and their buddies who actually rule the prisons.
At this time, I don't trust politicians, as really, money is too be made by their buddies if there are more people in prison.
But, I hope this is at least a start at getting the right people in prison – molesters and murderers (versus stupid kids smoking dope, trying to rob a bank or stealing a bagel pizza).
I really tire of hearing child molesters run free, and are rampant to commit more crimes, of rapists who have stolen the souls of dozens of young women. I hope California leads the way in something, once again.
Estela, $100,000,000 will go into the SAFE California Fund in the first three years into the investigation of unsolved rape and murder cases. All of the additional savings will be available priorities for state spending because that $130 every year will not be wasted on this dysfunctional system.
Estela	on November 4, 2012 at 10:52 am
I have hope people are trying to solve our state's problems. Thank you for adding to this discussion, and informing us as well.
Elizabeth Zitrin	on November 4, 2012 at 10:17 am
Life in prison without possibility of parole means forever. NObody has ever been released from a California LWOP sentence except for people who were exonerated. If they got the death penalty it could be too late to right the wrong. LWOP means death in prison. YESon34.org
Patrick Boyd	on November 4, 2012 at 11:16 am
Vote YES on 34. It protects the community and provides real JUSTICE for all by incarcerating the killers for Life Without Possibility of Parole. California has proven for 34 years that Life Without Possibility of Parole means exactly what it says – NO Possibility of Parole. Directing a portion of the savings to improve solving rates for homicides and rapes is good public safety policy. It will send a clear message to those responsible for public safety that, 46% unsolved homicides, and 56% unsolved rapes (reported rapes) is a threat to the Public and an Injustice to the victims and their families. Vote for Justice. Vote YES on 34.
Patrick Boyd
Chief Probation Officer, Retired
Chris Bernstien	on November 4, 2012 at 4:23 pm
Prop. 34 proponents are perpetuating a huge FRAUD against California voters, knowing that with the millions of out-of-state dollars they can repeat their lies enough times that voters will begin to accept them. A Study by Judicial Watch concludes that Prop. 34 is "both disingenuous and deceptive." Three former CA governors and every major law enforcement group in CA OPPOSE Pro. 34.
Pro. 34 is dangerous, will cost taxpayers more, and was poorly thought through.
Prop. 34 will NOT save money, but instead COST TAXPAYERS BILLIONS of dollars more in additional trials, prison changes, and escalating health care costs.
Claims that Prop. 34 will save money are based upon a paper written by a former judge who has been advocating for abolishing the death penalty for decades (biased and inaccurate). A review of these numbers by the Legislative Analyst's Office concludes that the assumptions supporting these claimed savings "may well be wrong." Michael Genest, former State Of California Finance Director, found that these "savings claims are grossly exaggerated." Also, the loss of the threat of the death penalty will substantially increase the total number of murder trials by taking away a major incentive for murderers to plead guilty.
Prop. 34 ignores the escalating costs of medical care for life-time inmates. Prop. 34 will cost CA taxpayers billions more over the next several years. (It is these huge medical costs that are fueling the attack on life sentences under 3-strikes under Prop. 36.)
Prop. 34 is DANGEROUS. Experts conclude that Pro. 34 will increase the number of murders in California. Criminals will be more brazen in their crimes without the death penalty. Also, there will be no deterrent for the 34,000 inmates already serving life from killing a guard or an inmate. They are already serving the maximum penalty.
One of the key methods for "saving" money under Prop. 34 is to move death row inmates into the general population and house them from single-person cells with other inmates. One strong proponent of Prop. 34 admits this is unworkable– the risk of danger posed by mixing the prison population is too great, and would increase costs associated with such an arrangement.
Life without parole is means they WILL GET OUT. Efforts are already being pursued by the same people supporting anti-punishment ballots and legislation to get rid of life sentences. (Human Rights Watch, Old Behind Bars, 2012.) On 9/30/12, Brown passed the first step, signing a bill to allow 309 inmates with life sentences for murder to be paroled after serving 25 years. Someone who has committed a brutal murder at age 20 could get out by age 45! Governors are also notorious for releasing inmates who should never be released. Convicted killers get out and kill again, such as Darryl Thomas Kemp, Kenneth Allen McDuff, and Bennie Demps.
ARGUMENTS OF INNOCENCE BOGUS. Proponents can't identify one innocent person executed in CA. They can't identify one person on CA's death row who has exhausted his appeals and has a plausible claim of innocence. Quite simply, CA's appellate process, designed by the very same people promoting Prop. 34, is 100% effective in weeding out the innocent. Every person Prop. 34 proponents refer to are either non-death-penalty cases or out-of-state cases where defendants do not get the benefit of CA's appellate process.
Don't get fooled by the bombardment of lies. See cadeathpenalty.webs. com and voteno34. org for more facts explaining why you should NOT SUPPORT Prop. 34.
Beau	on November 5, 2012 at 9:25 am
This will not cost more. I don`t think the math is being done correctly. It cost much more on appeals and decisions to make a person qualified to be put to death, and set aside with special treatments in institutions. An inmate is set free with death and with a life sentence will be punished for life. And I can guarantee you that inmates themselves will make the rapist, child molesters, elderly abusers pay much much longer than that death penalty. With savings of cost on the death penalty cases. Throw them to the pack of dogs and let them live with shame. Not all these men deserve the escape of being put to death. And not all of these men have did worse than the next lifer/killer inmates!
Patrick Boyd	on November 4, 2012 at 5:56 pm
Vote YES on 34. Go to the YESon34.org website and see why Don Heller, Ron Briggs, and Jeanne Woodford say we should join the League of Women Voters, victims families, numerous faith organizations, and career peace officers in voting YES on 34. Don Heller is the former US Attorney who wrote the current death penalty law; Ron Briggs was the campaign director for the initiative that established the current death penalty law; and Jeanne Woodford was responsible for four executions as the former Warden of San Quentin State Prison. Hear their first hand explanations of how your YES on 34 vote is a vote for JUSTICE. Vote YES on 34.


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Chancellor of the Judiciary (ag), Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards, on Wednesday afternoon, announced that the decisions in all three matters before the Appeal Court that stemmed from the acting Chief Justice's rulings on the December 21 Vote in the National Assembly will be handed down on Friday, March 22 at 15:00hrs.
Also, the Court of Appeal refused to grant a stay on the effects of the no-confidence vote since the acting Chancellor said that would be overtaken by Friday's ruling.
Counsel for the appellant, Neil Boston.
Wednesday's sitting heard lawyers representing Compton Reid, who is challenging the validity of Charrandass Persaud's vote given his dual citizenship.
Boston, in his presentation, said the acting Chief Justice misdirected herself in her ruling which said Charrandass Persaud was ineligible to be elected to the National Assembly by virtue of his dual citizenship, yet his vote was preserved.
Further, Boston said the acting Chief Justice misdirected herself on the matter of Charrandass Persaud "crossing the floor" to vote against the list from which he was extracted.
According to Boston, Persaud's failure to inform the Speaker of the National Assembly of his intention should result in the invalidation of his vote.
"If he has done so what is the consequence of so doing, we are saying the consequence of so doing, is, his vote cannot be counted. This issue is all about interpretation of the constitution whenever the [acting] Chief Justice interpreted 165 (2) by itself, she must interpret it in conjunction with 156 (3) when the allegation is that he has violated 156 (3) and in so doing then his vote is not saved. The resolution is valid, but his vote is not saved so the vote is 32-32 it can't be 33-32," Boston explained.
Should this be the case, the motion would stand as not carried thereby allowing the government to continue its term in office until elections are due in 2020.
Boston explained that Persaud's vote should be invalidated because as a member of parliament he is there as a representative of a specific list and not a constituency because the country's electoral is one of proportional representation.
"The whole idea behind why a member of the National Assembly cannot vote against the list from which his name has been extracted is because he doesn't have a constituency. No one voted for him. There are 65 members in the parliament. He cannot say this is his constituency and these people voted for him. His name was extracted from a geographic list for Region Six. APNU+AFC had four persons on that geographic list, any of those four names could have been extracted, "Boston emphasised.
Boston said the framers of the article 165 (2) were deliberate in coaching the article to ensure a member of a list remains loyal to that list, a method of preserving representative democracy.
"The intention of the framers of the constitution is for Mr. Charrandass to write the speaker, or the list representative is because it works well for representative democracy nobody didn't vote for you. You came on a list, so the representative democracy must be interpreted in a purposive way for representative democracy you cannot for no reason whatsoever vote against the party from which your name has been extracted," the counsellor said.
Following Chief Justice (ag), Roxane George's decisions, following Compton Reid's challenge to the validity of the December 21 Vote, that the vote stands as the complainant has moved to the Court of Appeal to quash the ruling on the grounds that the acting Chief Justice erred in several of her decisions.


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According to the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management (AHA Centre), more than 380 people have been displaced to evacuation centres in Terengganu and Kelantan States.
TWENTYNINE is forecast to continue further west over central Peninsular Malaysia as a Tropical Depression, dissipating in an area north of Kuala Lampur in the early morning of 18 December.
Moderate to locally heavy rain with thunderstorms is forecast over most of Peninsular Malaysia on 17-18 December.
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I mentioned before that I've been studying foods for a few years now. When I decided I would write some food-related posts on this blog, in my own roundabout convoluted way of course, I surprised myself with just how much information I had gleaned.
I was also surprised to find composition books filled with neat penciled, cursive writing. Such patience. Such yearning. Such neatness. Such legibility. Such heartache. Running my fingertips lightly over the words as I read, I felt the me of so long ago. The me who had written them, as if the careful writing down of this vital information would somehow help my pain go away.
Fear not. I do not plan to impart solely the clinical. More so the personal, and share what I believe has helped me. The main objective for this study of foods was/is to combat inflammation. That to me is far more important than thwarting fat. Because having a few extra pounds of fat on board is not as lethal as having a few extra ounces of liquid on board.
I learned that the hard way a few weeks before being formally, officially, definitively diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Prior to that event, I ended up in the ER with fluid squeezing my heart and lungs to the point that I presented as an MI patient.
I'd known there was something wrong with me for a while. Something that rest and sleep (hard to come by with a job and kids) and regular doses of OTC pain killers couldn't seem to touch. My primary care physician mentioned the possibility of RA and handed me over to a rheumatologist.
Unfortunately, this rheumatologist turned out to be the wishy-washy kind. "It could be this. It could be that." I don't remember him laying a finger on me, not to examine me nor even to offer a bit of sympathy. And not surprisingly, he never came up with a diagnosis.
But he did treat. Vioxx, right before that blew up. Advil, yeah, like I hadn't thought of that already. Paraffin wax baths for my hurting hands, hah! I'd read about those in my Fundamentals of Nursing textbook in 1978. This was 2004!
He referred me to another rheumatologist and I was given an appointment for mid-October, new patient and all. I tried to think positive. Help was coming. I could see the light at the end of the tunnel.
On Oct 3rd, what I saw were the bright overhead lights of the ER exam room where at least ten people floated around me, sticking needles into my veins, needles into my radial artery, pills under my tongue, O2 onto my face, leads onto my whole body for a 12 lead EKG.
And the funny thing was that I didn't care! I didn't care what all they were doing to me because when you can't breathe you don't give a crap about anything else.
It was not his place to diagnose a specific ailment and then come up with a long-term treatment plan for me, to do the job of the specialist who should have. It was his job to pinpoint the obstacle to my heart and lungs functioning as they should right then. I returned his wry smile with my own. We both knew why I was there, why my status had deteriorated to the point where he and I ever had to meet at all.
I immediately envisioned chest tubes being inserted into me to drain the fluid. I'd lost track of how many times I'd assisted a doctor with their placement in critically ill patients. Had I been thinking clearly I would've realized that had I needed that particular intervention, I would already have a Pleurevac hanging off the side of my bed.
Though I lay amidst wires, lines and tubings, which made for one very restless night, it was only IV lines, heart monitor leads and an oxygen sensor clipped to my index finger that held me captive to the bed. That, and my yet-to-be-diagnosed disease.
I was sent home on oral steroids to treat my pleural and pericardial effusions. That's when I first met up with my buddy, Prednisone. We've had a rocky on and off relationship these past ten years. Mostly off, but I like to keep my buddy handy, or as I tend to think of him, my frenemy.
Our first dalliance lasted till the following February. By the time I got to see my new rheumatologist, I'd gone through the one week's worth of treatment prescribed by the ER Doc. The first thing he did was to put me right back on the steroids. "We don't want it happening again," he said. No, we sure didn't.
The next five years were a blur of pain, but at least I knew why.
Come 2009, something happened. I'd left my job several years before and my youngest child had flown away to college. I began to feel better physically. The fog was lifting and I began to look around. And I thought wait a freaking minute. There's gotta be more to this than pain and drugs. And so began my journey, into exercise, into foods, into love. Into me.
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The recent commissioning of HMS Queen Elizabeth, Britain's largest ever warship, certainly made waves. Much has been made of the state of the art vessel which will bring a massive leap in capability to the fleet. However, redundancies have left the Royal Navy with only 29,280 personnel and that lack of manpower has created a serious dent in its strength and readiness.
It recently emerged that a trio of Russian naval vessels transiting the English Channel were intercepted by a British minehunter rather than one of the fleet's frigates, due to a shortage in vessels and personnel. The British Ministry of Defense usually publishes details of such events but on this occasion, HMS Cattistock's Russian rendezvous was kept away from the headlines.
Today, the service has 73 commissioned ships, 20 of which are major surface combatants, along with 10 submarines. Its 29,000 personnel pales with numbers historically. In 1945 at the end of Second World War, the Royal Navy has 861,000 personnel, a number that fell to 128,000 in 1955 and 62,000 in 1991 when the Berlin Wall came down. By 2000, naval manpower shrunk to 38,880 before reaching today's historic low.
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