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Wanner Miller Moreno (born 22 July 1987 in Vigía del Fuerte) is a Colombian athlete specializing in the high jump. His personal best outdoors is 2.28 metres achieved in 2012 in Havana.

Personal bests
High jump: 2.28 m –  Havana, 27 May 2012
Triple jump: 15.56 m (wind: NWI) –  Medellín, 1 August 2008

Competition record

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1987 births
Living people
Colombian male high jumpers
Athletes (track and field) at the 2011 Pan American Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of Colombia
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South American Games silver medalists for Colombia
South American Games medalists in athletics
Competitors at the 2006 South American Games
Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Colombia
Competitors at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics
Sportspeople from Antioquia Department
20th-century Colombian people
21st-century Colombian people


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We will apply the concept of "octopusmanager" anyone in his managerial career management, either on his own inclination or theories and practices in vogue, pressure on their partners as thoroughly as inefficient.
One of the tools of "Regeneration of Management" is to realize and use practices "octopusmanager" in relation to your collaborators, and be prepared to neutralize those professional practice systematically higher than the griping pressure "octopusmanager".
The book "The Regeneration of Management" describes the 7 Toxic peculiarities of the "octopusmanager" and how to deal with the tools of "Regeneration of Management".
It is an interesting topic, if it departs the belief that we all "perfect" and assume that there are many areas for improvement in people management, probably more of a manager is totally identified with some of the behavior of Octopus Manager. I look expectation!!!!!
Remedies, thanks. I hope that many of us as managers to avoid falling into reflect practices "Manageroctopus". On the other hand, if our Manager behaves as a "octopus "will discuss the tools of defense to keep us from choking on their tentacles.
With the latest reforms and their consequences,your concept of "manageroctopus" seen my humble opinion is to be converted into another concept much older and toxic "exclavitud".
Today, more than ever, CSR is a need. And CSR is implemented only if the Managers become aware, certain paradigms are questioned and if necessary modify them in a real regeneration of Management.
You do not need slogans of the "gurus" of maximum profit, simply restore the principles and values.


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Genesa Greening Appointed CEO of Vancity Community Foundation
The Board of Directors of the Vancity Community Foundation (VCF) today announced the appointment of Genesa Greening as Chief Executive Officer. Effective February 14, Genesa replaces Allison Felker who served as interim executive director of the Foundation since 2018.
In the wake of recent acts of anti-Black violence and discrimination in Canada and the United States, Vancity Community Foundation expresses our solidarity with Black people
Vancity and Vancouver Foundation Launch Community Response Fund
Fund will support services and programs designed for the most vulnerable populations across British Columbia Friday, March 20, 2020, Unceded territories of Musqueam, Squamish and
Vancity Community Foundation's Response to COVID-19
During this time of uncertainty,the Foundation's priorities are to ensure the health and safety of our staff while continuing to work with donors and partners to support our
Vancity extends support to co-op cousins in Australia
As climate change transforms global ecosystems, our awareness and ability to take action on the climate emergency is of the highest importance. Reflecting on the news coming out of Australia, Vancity wanted to find a way to help their co-op cousins.
Vancity Community Foundation, 2018 Annual Report
Vancity Community Foundation received more than $18 million in gifts in 2018 from more than 1800 individuals, members, and community partners to advance and strengthen charities
Vancity Community Foundation Receives Provincial Grant To Help Expand Access To Community Rent Banks
The Province of B.C. has granted $10-million to the Vancity Community Foundation to develop a sustainable provincial rent bank program. Rent banks provide emergency low- or no-cost loans to help renters facing eviction. The funding announced earlier today by the Honourable Shane Simpson, Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction, means more renters facing short-term financial difficulties will soon have better access to assistance from community rent banks.
312 Main celebrates completion of phase one
Vancity Community Foundation has been overseeing the redevelopment of the former Vancouver police station on Main Street in the Downtown Eastside for the past several years with a
Vancity Community Foundation Leadership Update
Allison Felker has been named as interim executive director of Vancity Community Foundation (VCF) following the departure of Derek Gent after 10 years at VCF and 7 years at Vancity
Healing space opens for families and survivors affected by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
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Mission SAR Advises Caution on Local Waterways
2017 started out as a slow year for Mission Search & Rescue. Not sure if it was the weather or the public is becoming better prepared, but we didn't get our first call out until the Spring. Most of our calls this year have been to assist other teams, which is another important way the Mission team provides support to other local communities.
With the warmer weather however, the snow melt increased substantially and there has now been an increase in calls, mostly related to the Fraser River and the local lakes. As the water levels rise, so does the danger on our lakes and rivers. The waters are much faster moving and there is more risk to boaters.
Mission Search & Rescue would like to take the opportunity to advise the public to check local weather conditions and river/lake water levels before heading out on a boat. Ensure you have all the necessary safety items on board, including life jackets, flares and warm clothes or blankets. Also, let someone know where you will be and have a cell phone and radio communications on board.
Mission SAR recently responded to a stranded boat on Stave Lake. A family of four, including two young children were stranded on the lake after dark. The team was able to locate them and bring them back to the boat launch safely.
Mission SAR Rescues Stranded 4x4ers
Mission Search & Rescue was called to Norrish Creek Forest Service Road to assist two stranded 4×4 enthusiasts. They were well off the main road that others were using and were very stuck. It took almost 3 hours to reach the subjects and get them out of the area. They were also lucky that our 8 wheeled Argo was able to extract the vehicle as well.
Just a reminder to all back road and back country enthusiasts – Be Prepared! These young men were not dressed or prepared for the conditions. Ensure you keep extra clothing, blankets and food in your vehicle if you are heading to the back country. And tell someone where you are going and when to expect you back. Again, these young men were fortunate to have cell coverage, because it is normally very spotty in that area.
MSAR Helps Support Mission Firefighter's Movember Campaign
Mission Search & Rescue participated in the 2nd Annual Mission Firefighters' Movember Dodgeball Event this year. It was a great time, with lots of great costumes and real competitive spirit. We're already planning to attend next year's event and working on our strategies. Thanks to the Mission Search & Destroy team for giving it their all. Can't wait for next year!
Mission SAR Warns Fishermen
Mission, B.C. – October 23, 2016
Mission Search and Rescue would like to issue a warning to all local fisherman to be careful fishing from sandbars in local rivers and estuaries. There were calls to rescue stranded fishermen the last two Friday's in a row (Oct 14 & 21) due to rising waters.
On Friday, October 14th, MSAR was called to the Stave River to rescue a fisherman who had waded downstream to a sandbar. Friday's heavy rain and wind caused the waters to rise rapidly and when the fisherman attempted to return to shore, he was unable to. Fortunately, he called 911 and the Mission RCMP dispatched Mission SAR to perform the rescue.
On Friday, October 21st, MSAR was called out to the Norrish Creek estuary to rescue a fisherman and his two children who had crossed to a sandbar earlier in the day not realizing the waters could rise. The dad did the right thing by staying put and calling 911. The Mission RCMP deployed MSAR again to perform a rescue, this time of the dad and his children. Everyone was okay, just a little cold.
Before you go fishing, check whether there is a high stream advisory. Ensure you are properly equipped and someone knows where you are. And don't hesitate to call 911 if you run into trouble.
Mission SAR Called to Assist BCAS
Mission, B.C. – August 31, 2016
Mission Search and Rescue was called out by BC Ambulance yesterday to assist in the rescue of a woman who was found approximately 150 feet down an embankment off Butler Place.
BCAS was initially informed that she had fallen about 45 feet but when they attended realized this wasn't the case. The MSAR Rope Rescue team was put into action, lowering a stretcher down the ravine. The woman was packaged and transported to an awaiting ambulance. The extent of her injuries is unknown at this time.
Mission Search & Rescue is NOW Recruiting!!!
Mission Search & Rescue is looking for some new recruits. We've changed things up a bit this year. Instead of holding an information session like we have in past years, we are going to send applications out to those who are interested in becoming part of our team and then interview selected individuals. Those candidates that pass the interview stage will then be invited to complete a fitness test.
Our basic level ground search and rescue course (GSAR) will start in November, 2016 and will take place every Tuesday evening (19:00-21:00) for approximately 5 to 6 months. Members in Training will also be required to attend regular team practices while taking this course. Anyone interested can send us an email at info@missionsar.com or complete the questionnaire on the Volunteer page.
Recruiting will close on August 31, 2016.
Be Safe This August Long Weekend!
Mission – July 29, 2016
Please read the bulletin from AdventureSmart related to this busy long weekend. And stay safe!
Mission SAR Graduates 7 New Members
Mission, B.C. – March 24, 2016
Mission Search and Rescue recently hosted a Graduation for seven new members. The event was attended by proud family and friends. The Ground Search and Rescue (GSAR) course which is administered by the Justice Institute of BC is 6 months in duration and involves creating competencies in skills such as search techniques, first aid, and navigation. This is the first level for any Mission SAR member and consists of both written and practical examinations.
MSAR congratulates these seven members on their dedication and commitment to the team and to the District of Mission. All members are 100% volunteer and on call 24/7.
Recognition was also handed out to members who completed certifications in Rope Rescue, Swift Water Rescue, Ground Search Team Leader, and Adventure Smart Instructors.
Also in attendance to congratulate our new members was Inspector Ted De Jager of the Mission RCMP Detachment and Abbotsford-Mission MLA Simon Gibson.
Recruiting for our next class will start in late July.
Two Mission SAR Members Are Now Certified Helicopter Rescue Technicians
Two of Mission Search & Rescue's members have now become certified helicopter rescue technicians courtesy of Chilliwack Search & Rescue. After four intense training days, two of our members are now part of the Chilliwack HETS team. We are very proud of both of them and having the added capability on our own team. Congratulations to the other six SAR members who certified as part of the HETS team. Great job everyone!
Mission Search & Rescue Receives $100,000!
B.C. Government Caucus
MISSION – Mission Search and Rescue Society is getting a boost thanks to a $100,000 grant from the B.C. Government.
"Thanks to this gaming grant we will be able to move out of the '90s and purchase an efficient and modern command vehicle. We will replace a 1995 converted bread truck that we have been using for the last ten years," Mission Search and Rescue president John Lemond said. "This vehicle is the hub of our search and rescue operations in the field and will be fitted with the latest technology specific for search and rescue operations."
"Search and rescue societies are important organizations in our community," Abbotsford-Mission MLA Simon Gibson said. "Volunteers take time out of their busy lives to trek through the wilderness at all hours of the day to find those in need. I'm proud that we support their operations."
This grant was awarded under the public safety category, which supports public safety initiatives along with disaster relief and emergency preparedness, such as restorative justice projects and search and rescue programs.
Every year, the Government of British Columbia approves $135 million in gaming grants that benefit more than 5,000 local organizations that serve communities throughout British Columbia.
To find out more about community gaming grants funded by the Government of British Columbia, visit: www.gaming.gov.bc.ca.
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After singing Michel Legrand and Gilbert Bécaud, Mario Pelchat completes his trilogy of tributes to these illustrious European singer-songwriters by revisiting Charles Aznavour's body of work. With his many hits, Aznavour, this unequalled singer-songwriter, wrote and recorded over 1,000 songs over the course of his career spanning several decades. He is without a doubt the greatest French singer, having gained worldwide recognition. His legacy is incredibly rich, and his style will remain forever unique and incomparable.


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# walk-folder-tree.js

# Recursively walk file system tree and callback on every file

## Current status

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API is stable.

## Usage

### Installation

    npm install walk-folder-tree

### Loading

```js
var walk = require('walk-folder-tree');
```

### walk(path [, options] [, fn])

Recursively walks through the directory tree from `path` downwards, calling `fn` on every file and directory.

`fn` is called with the single argument `params`. `params` is of the form:

```js
{
    path: /* path relative to root path */,
    fullPath: /* full path of file */,
    name: /* filename of file */,
    directory: /* true if is a directory */,
    stat: /* stat object for the file (as returned from `fs.stat()`) */
}
```

`walk()` returns a promise.

```js
walk('/path/to/folder', function(params, cb) {
    console.log('Found file: ', params.path);
    cb();
}).then(function() {
    // do something else
});
```

#### walk(options)

`path` and `fn` can also be provided as attributes of `options`

```js
walk({
    path: '/path/to/folder',
    fn: function(params, cb) {
        console.log('Found file: ', params.path);
        cb();
    }
});
```

### `fn`

`fn` can alternatively be a promise-returning function. Just leave off the callback argument.

```js
walk('/path/to/folder', function(params) {
    return Promise.resolve().then(function() {
        console.log('Found file: ', params.path);
    });
})
```

`fn` can also be a generator. If so, it is wrapped using [co](https://www.npmjs.com/package/co) so you can `yield` promises.

```js
walk('/path/to/folder', function*(params) {
    yield Promise.resolve();
    console.log('Found file: ', params.path);
})
```

### Options

#### recurse

When `true`, recurses through subfolders and sub-subfolders, examining an entire tree. Set to `false` to ignore subfolders.
Defaults to `true`.

```js
walk('/path/to/folder', { recurse: false }, fn);
```

#### filterFiles

A regular expression for what files to include.
Defaults to `/^[^.]/` (i.e. ignore files starting with `.`)

```js
// include all files
walk('/path/to/folder', { filterFiles: /^.*$/ }, fn);
```

#### filterFolders

A regular expression for what folders to iterate into.
Defaults to `/^[^.]/` (i.e. process all folders except those beginning with `.`)

```js
// Process all folders except those starting with `.` or `_`
walk('/path/to/folder', { filterFolders: /^[^\._]/ }, fn);
```

#### return

If set to `true`, returns an array of all files and folders found.
Defaults to `false`.

```js
walk('/path/to/folder', { return: true }).then(function(files) {
    // files is array of params object for each file
});
```

#### sort

Function to sort files in each folder before processing.

```js
walk('/path/to/folder', {
    sort: function(a, b) {
        if (a > b) return -1;
        if (a < b) return 1;
        return 0;
    }
}, fn);
```

## Tests

Use `npm test` to run the tests. Use `npm run cover` to check coverage.

## Changelog

See changelog.md

## Issues

If you discover a bug, please raise an issue on Github. https://github.com/overlookmotel/walk-folder-tree/issues

## Contribution

Pull requests are very welcome. Please:

* ensure all tests pass before submitting PR
* add an entry to changelog
* add tests for new features
* document new functionality/API additions in README

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Mark Lawson talks to celebrity interviewer and chat show host Graham Norton about growing up in Ireland, his sexuality and a near fatal mugging whilst he was at drama school.
Mark Lawson turns the tables on celebrity interviewer and chat show host Graham Norton and discusses seminal moments from his life and career. From his southern Irish Protestant beginnings, Lawson explores what drove Norton to become one of the biggest names in light entertainment, via a brief stint as an actor and an even briefer stint as a failed rent boy. In this frank and funny interview he discusses growing up in Ireland, his sexuality and a near fatal mugging whilst he was at drama school.
'I started finding my life engaging when I was about 16, when I started having experiences outside of Ireland, that's when I sort of came alive.' Norton's journey out of Ireland first took him to live in a hippy commune in San Francisco before he returned to study acting. One of his earliest roles was in Puss in Boots in Harrogate, an experience which made him realise that a life on the boards was not for him. His TV breakthrough came in 1997 when he filled in as the main presenter for Channel 5's Not the Jack Docherty Show, which led to a best newcomer gong at the British Comedy Awards. In 1998 he was given his own hit show on Channel 4 and in 2005 he transferred to the BBC, where he continues to thrill Friday night audiences with his unique blend of celebrity guests, tongue-in-cheek humour and audience participation.
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Pittsburgh Penguins v Washington Capitals
Penguins vs. Capitals: Time, TV channel, how to watch online
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Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin played side by side in last weekend's All-Star Game. They assisted on each other's goals, and even admitted to enjoying it.
On Friday, the longtime rivals return to their more familiar roles as mortal enemies when Ovechkin's Capitals visit Crosby's Penguins at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh.
MORE: Alex Ovechkin, 32, ages into goal-scoring glory at historic pace
The Capitals (30-15-5) own first place in the Metropolitan Division, but the Penguins (28-21-3) are just six points behind and gaining, using a 8-2-0 stretch to make up for time lost to an uncharacteristically slow start. Crosby is riding a 10-game point streak (three goals, 20 points). Ovechkin leads the NHL with 30 goals.
"There's a rivalry between both teams, and I'm sure both bring out the best in each other," Crosby said Thursday. "But I think there's some mutual respect there."
Crosby's hot streak has run congruently to co-star Evgeni Malkin, who had 12 goals and 19 points in January. In fact, Pittsburgh had the NHL's first, second and fifth point producers last month - Crosby (21), Malkin (19) and Phil Kessel (17). Much of the success can be attributed to the Pens' NHL-leading power play (26.7 percent), which has produced 10 goals in the last 10 games alone. The Capitals enter having gone 6-2-2 in their last 10 games.
Pittsburgh and Washington last met Nov. 10. The season series is split at one game apiece.
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Penguins vs. Capitals
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A Sea Cliff company competing to win a New York State medical marijuana license and open a dispensary on Long Island Friday announced it has secured a manufacturing facility upstate.
PalliaTech Inc. said it has agreed to lease a 65,000- square-foot facility, part of a former Pfizer Inc. research and manufacturing center near New York's border with Canada, to grow and refine cannabis plants into medicinal form.
Financial terms of PalliaTech's lease were not disclosed. The deal, which gives the company the option to lease an additional 85,000 square feet at the site north of Plattsburgh in Clinton County, is contingent on PalliaTech's winning a medical marijuana license from the state Health Department.
Richard Taney, PalliaTech's president and chief executive, said the "turnkey pharmaceutical R&D facility that can be brought online very quickly" would help New Yorkers who suffer from illnesses that can be treated with medical cannabis.
In a separate development, Empire State Compassionate Care, another contender for one of the five licenses New York State plans to issue, has hired Michael Balboni, a former state senator from Nassau County and Homeland Security adviser under two governors, to help direct the company's safety, security and compliance operations.
Empire State Compassionate Care also hired Paul Higdon, a Drug Enforcement Administration veteran and former director of the criminal intelligence directorate at INTERPOL.
Empire State Compassionate Care is owned by David Weisser and his father, Michael Weisser, principals of a marijuana dispensary in Woodbridge, New Jersey, where Higdon oversees safety, security and compliance.
The New York State Department of Health extended the deadline to apply for the five licenses from May 29 to June 5 after receiving a blizzard of inquiries.
The former Pfizer facility in Chazy, N.Y., was acquired in 2013 by Stephen and Victor Podd of NorthStar Private Capital LLC. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer pulled out of the 386,060-square-foot facility after announcing a restructuring in 2009. PalliaTech said as many as 60 people would be employed at the facility.
The Sputnik Group, a private equity firm with offices in New York, London and Moscow, led a funding round in 2013 that raised more than $10 million for PalliaTech, the company said.
New York plans to award the five licenses 30 to 60 days after the June 5 deadline; each licensee would be authorized to run up to four dispensaries.
New York is the 23rd state to legalize medical marijuana.
Patients with conditions including cancer, HIV/AIDS, Lou Gehrig's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, inflammatory bowel disease and Huntington's disease would be eligible to purchase marijuana.


A worm, which takes advantage of a six-month-old vulnerability in SQL Server, is having a significant effect on Internet performance this weekend.
The SQL Slammer Worm uses SQL Server Resolution service buffer overflow flaw dating from last July to commandeer vulnerable servers. These serve as drones which randomly scan for more vulnerable servers and fire out exploit code.
generates a damaging level of network traffic when it scans for additional targets. The worm continuously sends 367 bytes of exploit and propagation code across port 1434/UDP until the SQL Server process is shut down. Unlike Nimda these attacks are not directed towards local sub-nets but spread across the wider Internet.
ISP UUNET is experiencing critical latency and Level 3 severe latency, according to Internetpulse.net, as Slammer zombies fire off bandwidth crunching chunks of useless traffic.
Military.com report five of the 13 root DNS servers are down, with up to 10 experiencing "massive packet loss" due to the DDoS effect the worm creates.
Fortunately, infected servers are relatively easy to cure, once identified. Admin need only take infected servers offline, apply Microsoft's patch, and restart their machines to cleanse them of infections.
Security firm also recommend blocking port 1434/UDP at firewalls or ISP's routers to stop Slammer's scans getting through.


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Founder of the The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, the nation's oldest national agricultural organization, with granges established in 3,600 local communities in 37 states.
Born in Boston, Oliver Kelley moved to Minnesota in 1849 where he became a farmer. In 1864, as a clerk for the U.S. Bureau of Agriculture, Kelley received a commission from President Andrew Johnson to survey agricultural conditions in the Southern states following the American Civil War. At this time he conceived the idea of the Grange as a social and fraternal organization of farmers, and on December 4, 1867 he and six others secured the charter and Kelley became secretary until his resignation in 1878. The Grange was later instrumental in passing the "Granger Laws" which put an end to various abuses by the railroad industry in the late 1800s.
Source: Masonic Stamp Club of New York: first day cover. Photo: Oliver H. Kelley, 1875.


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Lower Terrace Beautification Project
Point San Luis Lighthouse
Point San Luis Lighthouse is a hidden gem of the central coast. Join us for a historical lighthouse tour!
Point San Luis Lighthouse is operated by a team of over sixty-five volunteers & docents. It's a great way to give back locally, learn about California history, and spend time in a beautiful environment.
There are a lot of ways to get involved: join the Tuesday work crew that helps with restoration and grounds projects, become a Lighthouse docent, assist during special events, assist with our community education program or help in our gift shop. Please contact us for information!
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Help Preserve History by Joining the Tuesday Work Crew
Every Tuesday the "Work Crew" heads up to the lighthouse to work on projects and to help maintain the structural stability of the buildings on the property and the landscape as well. Some of the volunteers have been working at the lighthouse for over twenty years, others have just joined up recently. If you have skills or the desire to come assist at the lighthouse then you are wanted! Recent projects included the construction of the wheelchair ramp to the back of the keeper's residence, and planting of new native plants in front of the duplex building. Whether its sweeping, painting, construction projects, or just helping out by washing windows, the lighthouse would not be in such great shape if it were not for the Tuesday Work Crew. Interested workers should contact lighthouse staff--we would love to have you out!
Want to be a Docent?
There is a wide range of volunteer opportunities at the Point SLO Light Station. We have docent led tours twice a week for those interested in sharing history. One step further is our period-attire clothing program, for docents who want to dress up in nineteenth-century garb. There is the Tuesday Work Crew gang as well. We also have opportunities for people who like to write and do research, assist us in building our research library and archive. The lighthouse is the most beautiful volunteer spot on the Central Coast, come spend some time and assist us in maintaining our beauty!
Become a Member of the Keepers
To support the Point SLO Lighthouse Keepers in our mission to preserve the Lighthouse, you can become a Lighthouse Keeper through our membership program. Keepers Level is $35. Lighthouse Inspector $100. Lighthouse Navigator $250. And Lighthouse Commander $1000. Each membership level comes with a newsletter and continuing perks, such as tickets to a regular tour, tickets to a signature event, and in the case of Commander level your name will be inscribed on a plaque on display at the Lighthouse. To become a member call the office at 805-540-5771 or send a check to PO Box 308, Avila Beach, CA, 93424, c/o Point San Luis Lighthouse Keepers! Or click here to purchase online.
On the job training for Interns
Point San Luis Lighthouse is the perfect place for Cal Poly and Cuesta Community College students to adopt a project. Past projects have included writing scripts for docents and assisting them with tour interpretation, assisting with the Fourth Grade Field Trip program, and researching period-appropriate clothing for the volunteers. The opportunity to intern at the light station gives students a hands-on approach to utilizing their degree at a historic site. We are dedicated to continuing research on the history of the lighthouse, to conserving the light station, and to sharing the story of the light station with the general public. The right intern should be interested in preserving and sharing local history!
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This week has been filled with so much Star Wars its been a fantastic challenge to keep up with it all! The week began with a Philip Reed's Universe Expanded Kickstarter to produce a book exclusively about The Power of the Force's Expanded Universe line of figures.
The next Wave (3) of Saga Legends line appeared online over at Amazon.com.
On Monday, the Star Wars Fan Film Awards were announced and this time around they are full of action figures cameos!
(And some cool animated bounty hunters!)
Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens was announced on Tuesday. This will include 20 published works that tie into or lead up to December's The Force Awakens.
"All titles published under Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens will be canonical within the Star Wars universe, and in-continuity with the Star Warsfilms, animated series, new books, and Marvel comics."
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On Wednesday Amazon.com appeared to post a single figure from Wave 4 of the Saga Legends; SL27 Han Solo (Endor). The jury's still out if this truly is the figure Amazon says it is which is rumored to not be available until May. (We'll let you know when ours gets here.)
Also on Wednesday, Marvel Comic's released Star Wars #3 featuring their fifth "Action Figure" variant cover. This time featuring Old Ben.
During the middle of the week many fans began receiving their Star Wars Celebration Anaheim badges.
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This then led to some pretty major announcements on Thursday. First were the final round of celebrity announcements for Star Wars Celebration including a few mystery guests from The Force Awakens was made and then the official release dates for the next two Star Wars films were revealed as well.
December 16th, 2016 Star Wars: Rogue One
– The first standalone Star Wars film starring Felicity Jones and directed by Gareth Edwards.
May 26th, 2017 Star Wars Episode VIII
– Directed by Rian Johnson
Now no details about the plot were revealed (crossing our fingers that Rogue One will star Rogue Squadron) but what one thing that is fantastic about this news is that Star Wars will be returning to its proper home in May in 2017!
With all of these major releases, reveals and announcements, we've made loads of updates to the following pages:
Rebels Base (All things Star Wars Rebels)
2014 Star Wars Rebels (Action Figure Checklist)
With just about a month to go till Celebration we and many other fan groups, sites and podcasts will be gearing up for one heck of a party which is sure to be full of tons more of announcements.
But until then,
May the Figures be with you!


The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has awarded Northrop Grumman a $3 million contract to supply the navigational system for NASA's Solar Probe Plus satellite.
Northrop will build the Scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit to help the robotic shuttle stay on its flight path using the company's hemispherical resonator gyro technology, Northrop said Tuesday.
Bob Mehltretter, vice president for navigation and positioning systems at Northrop, said the Scalable SIRU will work to generate the necessary information during the probe's maiden voyage to the sun.
"The system is equipped with redundant components that meet the strict, high performance requirements of the anticipated seven-year mission," Mehltretter said.
NASA's planned Solar Probe Plus mission will collate data from the near-sun environment through measuring and imaging tools to help scientists understand solar wind and its effect on planet Earth.


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And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze. And he was full of wisdom, understanding, and skill for making any work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work. He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference. It was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers. The second pillar was the same. He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were lattices of checker work with wreaths of chain work for the capitals on the tops of the pillars, a lattice for the one capital and a lattice for the other capital. ... Share Your Faith Products
2 Timothy 3:16 tells us that ALL Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness. The Bible is a work of God that was written by human men that were inspired by God. What better source of inspiration than our Creator! Whether you are looking for motivation, encouragement, reassurance, or peace, the Bible should be the first resource you turn to! Bible Verse Wall Art
The Lord said to Moses, "See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft. ... Bible Verse Wall Art
The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, and until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month. Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations." ... Christian Gifts
Thus says the Lord, "Go, buy a potter's earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests, and go out to the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you. You shall say, 'Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing such disaster upon this place that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle. Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents, and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind— ...
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Huram also made the pails, the shovels and the bowls. So Huram finished doing the work which he performed for King Solomon in the house of God: the two pillars, the bowls and the two capitals on top of the pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on top of the pillars, and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the pillars.read more. Christian Canvas Art
and in the cutting of stones for settings and in the carving of wood, so as to perform in every inventive work. "He also has put in his heart to teach, both he and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. "He has filled them with skill to perform every work of an engraver and of a designer and of an embroiderer, in blue and in purple and in scarlet material, and in fine linen, and of a weaver, as performers of every work and makers of designs. Christian Canvas Art
In the West, the Renaissance saw an increase in monumental secular works, but until the Protestant Reformation Christian art continued to be commissioned in great quantities by churches, clergy and by the aristocracy. The Reformation had a huge effect on Christian art, rapidly bringing the production of public Christian art to a virtual halt in Protestant countries, and causing the destruction of most of the art that already existed. Christian Gifts
The Bible is full of encouraging scriptures that are such a blessing to read and memorize. Here are ten of my favorite scripture quotes for encouragement. Feel free to share these with others as these encouraging Bible verses will brighten anyone's day. The Scriptures used are filled with hope, comfort and inspiration. These famous Bible quotes are from the Old and New Testament.
Much of the art surviving from Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire is Christian art, although this in large part because the continuity of church ownership has preserved church art better than secular works. While the Western Roman Empire's political structure essentially collapsed after the fall of Rome, its religious hierarchy, what is today the modern-day Roman Catholic Church commissioned and funded production of religious art imagery. Share Your Faith Products
Artists were commissioned more secular genres like portraits, landscape paintings and because of the revival of Neoplatonism, subjects from classical mythology. In Catholic countries, production continued, and increased during the Counter-Reformation, but Catholic art was brought under much tighter control by the church hierarchy than had been the case before. From the 18th century the number of religious works produced by leading artists declined sharply, though important commissions were still placed, and some artists continued to produce large bodies of religious art on their own initiative. Bible Verse Wall Art
Since the advent of printing, the sale of reproductions of pious works has been a major element of popular Christian culture. In the 19th century, this included genre painters such as Mihály Munkácsy. The invention of color lithography led to broad circulation of holy cards. In the modern era, companies specializing in modern commercial Christian artists such as Thomas Blackshear and Thomas Kinkade, although widely regarded in the fine art world as kitsch,[4] have been very successful. Share Your Faith Products
The house that I am to build will be great, for our God is greater than all gods. But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him? So now send me a man skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, trained also in engraving, to be with the skilled workers who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.
Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. ...
Moses assembled all the congregation of the people of Israel and said to them, "These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do. Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death. You shall kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day." Moses said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, "This is the thing that the Lord has commanded. Take from among you a contribution to the Lord. Whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the Lord's contribution: gold, silver, and bronze; ... Christian Gifts
28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. 29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. 30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed, I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was a more faithful and God-fearing man than many. And I said to them, "Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot. And while they are still standing guard, let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their guard posts and some in front of their own homes." The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few, and no houses had been rebuilt. Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it: ... Bible Verse Wall Art
Solomon the son of David established himself in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him and made him exceedingly great. Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers' houses. And Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness, was there. (But David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.) Moreover, the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord. And Solomon and the assembly sought it out. ... Bible Verse Wall Art


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In a global market, there's big money to be made by bringing in new audiences and users for your products. However, there's more to winning over audiences than just translating text into another language and waiting for the shopping carts to fill up. Translation is a small part of the overall process of localization. The bigger picture requires just as much attention to detail as the translation does.
Context, Context, Context
One of the reasons that translation of materials doesn't work well on its own is the cultural context within which those materials will be used. People can have the same job title, work in the same industry and earn roughly the same money and still work in incredibly different ways.
English-speaking Western cultures are often quite informal about the way they pursue business. There may be a hierarchy but it's OK to step outside of it. Turning up without a suit is becoming the norm in many places. Yet, if you were to visit these people's counterparts in China; you'd find that the hierarchy is inflexible. Stepping outside of it would cause loss of face. Turning up without formal dress for many roles would be a firing offence.
There's an informality of language and a minimalist approach to information in some places, in others language needs to be formal and a lot more information is expected from a business.
For localization to succeed, you need a thorough understanding of the cultural context. If you don't; it's very likely that your message will miss the mark. You aren't likely to have this understanding in house and the easiest way to get it – is to find a localization consultant specializing in the market you want to enter.
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Translation Does Matter
China, Hong Kong and Taiwan may all be "Chinese" but the main languages they speak and write are very different. Once you have an idea of the context your text will be used in and have amended it accordingly; you're ready to translate.
The easiest and most effective way to do this will be to use your localization consultants for this. Unfortunately, this can be costly and smaller businesses might struggle to afford their translation services.
There is an alternative, of sorts, that you can investigate. You can use a freelance translator (find them on Odesk or Elance) and reduce your costs. However, you ought to be aware that not all freelance translators are created equal. It's a good idea to run a small, paid, test project and then have a user give it the once over for effectiveness – otherwise, you may be paying for nothing but "Google translate" which won't provide the polished experience that you're looking for, for your customers.
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Technical Considerations
Languages operate differently. That means there may be things you need to address on the technical side in order to display text correctly.
Things that might be necessary include:
How will the language be displayed?
In which direction does the language need to be displayed?
How much space is needed to present the text?
Which way will you encode the characters of that language?
Will name fields need reversing so that the last name is first and the first name is last?
How will dates and currencies be handled?
How will you deliver the local calendar?
Many Western languages run left to right. Many others do not. Arabic runs right to left. Japanese and Chinese can be written top to bottom. You'll want to consider the way that you layout the page for localization. The traditional "F" shape of Western websites can be a strong deterrent to users who don't read or scan pages in the same way that we do.
Do you know why China has no firm favourite Facebook alternative? It's because their version of Twitter, Sina Weibo, which allows a few more characters than Twitter – allows for lengthy expression. Chinese users don't need as much space to express themselves in. Most Chinese words consist of one or two characters. You can fit an awful lot more Chinese in a space than you can fit English into it. Other languages, like German, often require a lot more space than English.
Ideally, you want to plan for this right from the start of a project because it can be very tricky to amend sites afterwards.
It's also worth noting that Chinese and Japanese, for example, require more space per character than English – the characters are more complex to form than English characters.
It's estimated that there are more than 100,000 characters in use around the world in different languages! That means developing websites that are encoded to cope with this level of variety. UTF-8 is fine for most markets but UTF-16 is better in Asia.
Take special care when using fonts to ensure that they work properly and don't strip out characters from font sets to improve loading times – nobody wants to see gibberish because the characters are replaced with boxes.
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Dates, Currencies, Etc.
Pay close attention to the small details. Americans work in MM-DD-YYYY, Britons in DD-MM-YYYY, and the Chinese in YYYY-MM-DD. Entering dates incorrectly can mess up delivery times and ruin customer satisfaction ratings.
The same goes for numerical input. Separators and decimal points, etc. vary dramatically.
Choosing a Language
Ideally, you want to be able to display the user's language as soon as they land on the site. But that's not as easy as it sounds. It took me a while to learn how to get English on my Facebook account in China (before Facebook was blocked there) because I don't read Chinese. In countries like Switzerland there may be multiple first choice languages available. Auto-selecting a language based on the incoming IP address is fine – but make it easy for your users to switch to another if the auto-select doesn't deliver the goods.
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Supporting a Language
Rome wasn't built in a day and language support isn't immediate either. In many cases, particularly for large sites, localization is an ongoing job. Why not let your users know how much support they can expect and what content isn't available yet (or at all)?
The Long-Term
Localization is not a one-off exercise. Every time you make changes to your English language website, you're going to need to reflect them elsewhere in other languages. You need to budget time, money and effort for these exercises or your initial efforts will quickly be in vain.
The list above gives you an idea of what you need to do to prepare and maintain a website localization project. Tomorrow, we'll look at how you can do even more to make your localization efforts pay dividends.
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EU and the immigration crisis
A migrant's vessel destined for Europe carrying hundreds of refugees capsized in the Mediterranean off Libya's coast killing 950 of them including 200 women and several dozens of children.
The incident was the deadliest migrant disaster ever in the Mediterranean and the latest addition to Europe's migration crisis intensifying the pressure on the European Union to take steps for decisive action. According to the Italian authorities, 28 people have been rescued so far and 24 bodies recovered. Most of the refugees were from Egypt, Libya, Somalia, Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Zambia, Ghana and war-stricken West Asian countries such as Syria and Iraq along with a few job seekers from Bangladesh. Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi called for an emergency meeting of European Union leaders this week in Luxembourg to address the immigration crisis. Sweden's Minister for Justice and migration Morgan Johansson said that the EU countries should take the responsibility of the refugee crisis. The shocking incident has brought a new focus on human trafficking from North Africa to Europe where the people flee war, poverty, famine, drought and political instability. Libya being closer to Europe, acts as a growing hub for these desperate refugees who seek a better life and lack of proper alert systems along the maritime boundaries makes the crossing easier. In recent years, the European Union has failed to tackle the problem of illegal migration with no sufficient planes, boats and rapid action teams.
Human trafficking continues uninterrupted through the Mediterranean centered on Libya. The civil war set off by the toppling of the authoritarian Moammar Gadhafi, the rival militias, tribal factions and political forces have destabilized the country due to which it has become a frequent point of departure for the asylum seekers. The ruthless smugglers take advantage of the situation squeezing the refugees into rickety vessels ferrying them across the Mediterranean. Many never make it. Around 1500 people were drowned in 2011, 500 in 2012 and 600 in 2013 while 3, 500 people lost themselves to the sea in 2014. Around 1, 500 people are estimated to be dead in the incident. The safe arrival of 1, 70, 000 refugees on the shores of Italy last year prompts the asylum seekers to experiment with their lives. According to the UN reports, 2, 19, 000 people of Afro-Asian origin had landed up as refugees in Europe in the last few years.
The humanitarian crisis poses a huge threat to the European nations. The extreme right-wing political parties have demanded a strict action against the increasing illegal migration. So far this year, 35,000 asylum seekers and migrants have reached Europe and more than 900 are known to have died trying. Libya, Iraq and Syria that were comparatively better than the African countries stricken with civil wars, poverty, unemployment, drought, scarcity and political instability have been added to the list. While Turkey bears the brunt of refugee crisis the most, the remaining of the refugees relocates to the European countries. The UN should ensure cessation of war and bloodshed normalizing the situation in the region and restoring peace. The US and the EU nations should strive hard to save the third world countries by sidelining expansive imperial interests and arms sale. Deciding not to sell arms to the battling parties alone would pave way to solutions. Exploitation, economic centralization, unjust distribution and authoritarian governments are the curses of the African countries and not the scarcity of resources or the lack of shelter.


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Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Dead Ringers
Even in my most productive weeks, in ten of my most productive weeks, I cannot compete with Nathaniel R's indefatigable productivity. If you know Nathaniel, you know he is always fretting that his site traffic will collapse, or seeking ways to give his readers more more more. He is so extraordinarily generous, it makes me tired just thinking about it, which is why you should donate.
Most recently, he has been laboring even harder than I have to make sure you know about my new book, The Desiring-Image: Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer Cinema, which I started working on within a year of meeting Nathaniel in 2002. Already he published this interview I got to do with top-flight film critic Tim Brayton about the book's ideas, its contexts, and what I hope people might get from it (which was a joy to do). Today he is hosting a new installment of his delicious Hit Me With Your Best Shot series that is also designed to plug the book by showcasing the subject of its first chapter, David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers, an eerie film noir in crimson and blue, chrome and rue, starring two twin brothers as each other's homme fatal.
I'm delighted to see what his other contributors select as their favorite shot in this deliriously gorgeous movie, shot by Peter Suschitzky, the same cinematographer who lends chic, subtle macabre to all of Cronenberg's pictures. Suschitzky also gave us the fluorescent slash of light sabers in The Empire Strikes Back, the farcical flatness of Mars Attacks!, and the scary, rock-and-roll martyrology of Peter Watkins' Privilege, a clear and underseen precursor to the film that closes my book, Todd Haynes's Velvet Goldmine. I suppose I'm being predictable by picking a shot that already illustrates my chapter on Dead Ringers. But since photo captions in academic books typically keep to a bare minimum, I thought I'd say a little more about why I selected it, and what I find more generally artful about the shot, and why I relish as gruesome and disquieting a film as Dead Ringers, and what you might hear if you dip into conversation with The Desiring-Image.
These are the gynecological tools that Beverly Mantle designs for operating on "mutant women." They wheel into this shot from just out of frame, staggering the eye with their horrid shapes while flattering it with their texture and detail, and with the precise, elegant framing Suschitzky achieves even from this spontaneously-arriving element. The plot logic behind these implements is even more revolting than their fanged, spindly appearance: at this point the drugged-up and heartbroken Beverly believes that all women's bodies exist in a state of grievous mutation, which only he can assess and emend, using these devices. Soon enough, we will learn that Beverly perceives himself and his own twin brother to be mutants, and will "operate" on Elliot accordingly. No points for guessing that this goes badly. Cyril and Stewart Marcus, the New York gynecologists whose true story inspired Dead Ringers, did not in fact smelt such alien technologies, though they did die together under mysterious circumstances, and one of them did leap atop a female surgery patient in a narcotic haze to huff her anesthesia, as Beverly does soon enough in this scene. If you want to know more about the Marcuses, read the "Dead Ringers" chapter of this book, and feel bad for Rosenbaum that he gets no credit of any kind in Cronenberg's film.
My book is about queer cinema from the late 1980s to the present, and its biggest goal is to define that rubric so that it doesn't only or even primarily equate to "gay and lesbian film." Instead, I want the phrase to suggest an expansive, debatable, fluctuating range of movies that use story, style, and structure to throw their audiences out of easy assumptions about what any desire is, how it works, who feels it, via what promptings, how abruptly it might shapeshift, and how cinema helps create it. I wrote two chapters on Cronenberg because he's more or less our poet laureate of shape-shifting bodies and weird sexualities, though Dead Ringers marked something new for him in the wake of Rabid, Scanners, The Fly, and their ilk: rather than douse us in the plasma and viscera of bodily change, Dead Ringers uses uncanny atmospherics, brooding performances, and objects like these tools to imply total overhauls in desire and embodiment. As the best horror movies know, and some of the most erotic movies do as well, what we imagine for ourselves is often scarier and sexier than images can show us. Beverly's tools are unnerving, then, because they force you to conceive of the body they would fit: an ingenious cinematic trick, though not one that every viewer will want to try at home.
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High-Output Management for Remote Teams and Companies Part II
In the first installment of this two-part series, we looked at the characteristics of high-performance remote teams. We discussed the key methods I use to ensure my teams are in the best possible position to perform at the highest level.
I explained my process for setting quarterly goals, communicating those goals to the entire organization, and how every level of the company has OKRs that tie into the larger objectives. I also shared my thoughts on check-points and how we use OKRs and check-ins to stay on track and identify any problems as early as possible.
In this second installment, we'll dive into the finer points of decision-making for leaders, and I'll be sharing how we use these principles at Turing.
Next, we'll talk about feedback, and how honest, transparent, and immediate feedback facilitates speed and continuous improvement. Finally, I'll give you my blueprint for establishing a high-performance organization.
The secret to making fast, but high-quality decisions
I can't emphasize enough how critical it is to have the right decision-making structure for your company. One attribute of a high-performance company is that the team makes fast decisions that are also correct.
Reversible vs. Irreversible decisions
From my perspective, there are two kinds of decisions companies make; reversible decisions or irreversible decisions. Ninety-nine percent of the decisions a company makes are reversible. Only a very few, who you raise money from, who you choose as a co-founder, are irreversible.
Typically, the best approach for a company is that anybody except the CEO should make reversible decisions. If it's an irreversible decision, the CEO makes the decision. In both cases, high-performance companies make high-quality decisions fast.
How not to suck at decision-making
Generally, there are three ways companies can operate when it comes to making critical choices.
One way they can operate is purely top-down. For example, somebody with authority just says, hey, do this, and everybody does what they're told. The benefit of this approach is that it's swift.
The negative is that you don't have enough buy-in from everybody on implementation and people don't feel heard. Frequently, valuable insights from others in the team don't get incorporated into the decision. So that's not ideal.
Have one decision-maker but consult key stakeholders
A much better approach is to have one decision-maker who consults with key stakeholders. These are people with insights and perspectives relevant to the problem. Often, there is a very high-quality decision made when all the right people are sharing their inputs.
But you will want to maintain one arbiter who weighs all the inputs and makes the call. This approach has the benefit of factoring in everyone's expertise, and it increases the likelihood that everyone feels heard.
Product design decisions
At Turing, for some of our product design decisions, the approach I follow is the same pattern described above. Having one decision-maker — someone who is a key stakeholder. All stakeholders are consulted, then we have the decision-maker also be the person who's responsible for implementation.
How frustrated have you been when somebody else makes the decision, but you are the person that ends up accountable for implementation? That's not great. I believe it's always good to have the decision-maker be the implementer and the person who owns the metrics associated with the decision.
Decide who decides
So for our product design reviews, we use the following process.
A decision owner (could be someone from the Product team or Engineering team) reviews the design for a new feature, takes inputs from key stakeholders, and then decides. This person also owns the success metrics for that feature.
The decision can be a) good to move to implementation, b) identifies a few changes that need to be made before it moves to implementation c) decides it's a no-go.
Once the decision is made, the decision-maker identifies the next step. E.g., "ship to staging by Feb 10th." We track what was decided, share it with the team, and move to implementation. The decision-maker is the DRI (Directly Responsible Individual) for implementation.
You can do much of this asynchronously. At Turing, we're using Google Docs, so our designer, Alejo, leaves the Photoshop designs in the Google Doc so the people involved can leave comments on the doc, and everybody signs off.
The beauty of this process is that it allows you to use meeting time to go over anything that is genuinely contentious or something that needs further hashing out.
Reserve synchronous meetings for resolving blockers
Synchronous meetings are used more for resolving any bottlenecks, conflicts, or anything that needs further discussion while doing the simpler stuff asynchronously. But one of the most important things is having that separation between a decision-maker and team members that provide input.
Too often, companies err by having a decision-maker but no group of people to be consulted.
So then things get into the product, and there is not enough buy-in. Afterward, people sort of complain about the decision behind each other's backs — or follow-through is lackluster on implementation and support.
Making decisions made by a committee is another mistake companies make.
Everybody will try to get on the same page and reach a consensus. The problem is that getting to an agreement can be very costly for a startup because you can lose so much time. Purely democratic decision-making does not work for fast-moving technology companies.
That's why I call my approach a reversible decision — because 99% of all company decisions are reversible. Keep in mind that you should be making a lot of reversible decisions knowing full well that some of them will fail, and you can always internalize the learning and move forward.
Embrace feedback loops for continuous improvement
High-performance organizations have a strong culture of feedback and continuous improvement. Ideally, once a month, you must take some time to internalize areas for improvement to go faster.
At Turing, for example, I have a document that's solely focused on the next improvements.
I call the document the "Next Improvements Diagnosis." What I try to capture are all the negative things that can happen within my company. A trial can fail, or a developer can fail a customer's interview. Or, for some reason, collaboration breaks down.
What we do is track every single case of any fail happening. Then we try to understand why this error occurred? How could we have detected the problem earlier, and how can we prevent it from happening next time?
Instill a culture that learns from failure
One of the hardest things to do in a startup is to have a culture that learns and improves from failures without falling into the blame game or feeling too negative about it.
When I see these things breaking down, this may seem odd, but I have a big smile inside me because the most challenging part of building a high-growth company is if you can't find the headroom to go faster.
I love when we find big, meaty problems because solving them means unlocking a lot more growth and business value. (Rubbing hands together with glee.)
It's also helpful to keep the team focused on the positive outcomes of some of these adverse situations to learn from them and get stronger.
Do you analyze your lessons?
Too often, non-high-performing cultures fall into the trap where people are saying, "It's not my fault; it's that person's fault." Failing to analyze lessons from failures and therefore never improving is even worse.
If you are still on the first level — you're not even tracking all these failures; you're only showing things going up and to the right.
Track failures to get better more quickly
But I want to track every single failure where we didn't deliver on our promise to a developer or a commitment to a customer and use this data to keep getting better continuously. High-performance cultures share a common attribute of continuous improvement and constantly leveling up.
How to build a high-performance organization – a simple blueprint
How do you distill everything I've written into a simple blueprint that makes it simpler for your team and your company to perform to your utmost?
It's simple but not easy. Here's your cheat sheet:
Make sure everyone understands what high-performance looks like. Remember, high-performance teams, establish clear goals, write them down, share them widely and then meet or exceed them.
Leadership at the team and the company level should establish the next set of objectives, makes sure that everyone in the company understands what we're doing, why we're doing it, and how we'll measure success.
You've developed a method of creating checkpoints and making adjustments when you see something isn't going as planned.
Write everything down. Writing simplifies, clarifies, and makes it easier to drive alignment. Writing also makes it easier to refine ideas through iteration and feedback, so your final version keeps getting better.
There's a clear decision-making process that secures buy-in from all involved parties, but with a single decision-maker who's responsible for implementing the decision, tracking performance, and determining what needs to happen next.
Be sure to create a culture that embraces failure and leverages mistakes to unlock untapped speed.
Never become complacent. High-performance teams and companies focus on identifying areas for improvement and continuously working to better themselves and deliver on plan and on schedule.
Building a high-performance team is not something that happens overnight. I've worked for years to develop the skills that have enabled me to attract the right kind of people and hone them into a highly productive, collaborative, and unified team. I have an outstanding executive team that has helped me distill these lessons and contributed to this blueprint.
Becoming the sort of leader that inspires people to build a great product and company that can change the world isn't an endpoint; it's a continuum.
You won't start this process at the top
Remember — you'll be bad at this before you're mediocre and mediocre before you're good and good before you're great. But at each stage in your process, you should be able to see where you want to go.
By applying the techniques I've outlined above, you'll be on your way to getting high-output management for your remote teams and companies.
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Johnny Haymer (Saint Louis, Missouri, VS, 19 januari 1920 - Los Angeles, Californië, VS, 18 november 1989) was een Amerikaans acteur, vooral bekend als sergeant Zelmo Zale uit M*A*S*H. Haymer was tot zijn overlijden, ten gevolge van kanker, getrouwd met Helen. Hij had 3 kinderen.

Filmografie
Life Goes On televisieserie - Barney Ross (Afl., Paige's Date, 1989)
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal (televisiefilm, 1989) - Sheldon
Punky Brewster televisieserie - Detective Denko (Afl., Cosmetic Scam, 1988)
DuckTales televisieserie - Rol onbekend (Afl., Horse Scents, 1988, voice-over)
Transformers televisieserie - Caliburst e.a. (1984-1987, voice-over)
Open House (1987) - Paul Bernal
The Golden Girls televisieserie - Commissioner (Afl., It's a Miserable Life, 1986)
Hotel televisieserie - John Watson (Afl., Queen's Gambit, 1986)
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends televisieserie - Additionele stemmen (Voice-over, 1981-1986)
G.I. Joe televisieserie - Charles Fairmont, Dr. Filmoss (Afl. onbekend, 1985-1986)
Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story (televisiefilm, 1985) - Stan
The Jeffersons televisieserie - Stan Fromin (Afl., Bobbles, Bangles and Booboos, 1984)
Cagney & Lacey televisieserie - Sy Bishop (Afl., Baby Broker, 1984)
Fame televisieserie - Gianni (Afl., Stages, 1984)
The Facts of Life televisieserie - Officer Franklin (Afl., Under Pressure, 1983)
Three's Company televisieserie - Rocco (Afl., Jack Goes the Distance, 1983)
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo televisieserie - Additionele stemmen (Voice-over, 1979-1983)
Cagney & Lacey televisieserie - The Interviewer (Afl., Better Than Equal, 1982)
Madame's Place televisieserie - Walter 'Pinky' Pinkerton (Afl. onbekend, 1982)
Mr. and Mrs. Dracula televisieserie - Gregor, the Bat (1980)
Eight Is Enough televisieserie - Deliveryman (Afl., Mary, He's Married, 1979)
M*A*S*H televisieserie - Sgt. Zelmo Zale (20 afl., 1974-1979)
Mork & Mindy televisieserie - Danny St. Thomas (Afl., Mork in Wonderland: Part 1 & 2, 1979)
...And Justice for All (1979) - Mr. Crenna
The Best Place to Be (televisiefilm, 1979) - Rol onbekend
Samurai (televisiefilm, 1979) - Advocaat
Real Life (1979) - Dr. Maxwell Rennert
The Incredible Hulk televisieserie - Fred Lewitt (Afl., Haunted, 1979)
The Comedy Company (televisiefilm, 1978) - Haberson
American Hot Wax (1978) - Song Plugger
Ring of Passion (televisiefilm, 1978) - Nazi Official
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977) - Race Official
Eight Is Enough televisieserie - Rol onbekend (Afl., Children of the Groom: Part 1 & 2, 1977)
Annie Hall (1977) - Komiek
Kingston: Confidential televisieserie - Rol onbekend (Afl., Triple Exposure, 1977)
The Streets of San Francisco televisieserie - Night Waiter (Afl., Who Killed Helen French?, 1977)
Baa Baa Black Sheep televisieserie - Sgt. Chambers (Afl., The War Biz Warrior, 1977)
5 Weeks in a Balloon (televisiefilm, 1977) - Rol onbekend (Voice-over)
Logan's Run (1976) - Rol onbekend (Niet op aftiteling)
The Four Deuces (1976) - Ben Arlen, the 'Deuce of Hearts'
S.W.A.T. televisieserie - Rol onbekend (Afl., Terror Ship, 1975)
Win, Place or Steal (1975) - Boardmember
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (televisiefilm, 1975) - Reporter Poole
Adam-12 televisieserie - Jim Brock (Afl., North Hollywood Division, 1974)
A Touch of Grace televisieserie - Charles (Afl., The Commercial, 1973)
The Magician (televisiefilm, 1973) - Rol onbekend
Mongo's Back in Town (televisiefilm, 1971) - Rocca
The Organization (televisiefilm, 1971) - John J. Bishop, Pres. Century Furniture
Longstreet televisieserie - Harv (Afl., The Way of the Intercepting Fist, 1971)
Evel Knievel (1971) - Rodeo cook
Hogan's Heroes televisieserie - Generaal Sharp (Afl., Kommandant Gertrude, 1971)
Mannix televisieserie - Jerry (Afl., The Color of Murder, 1971)
The Doris Day Show televisieserie - Montagne (2 afl., 1969, 1970)
The Young Lawyers televisieserie - Jimmy (Afl., Where's Aaron, 1970)
The Governor & J.J. televisieserie - Pierre Picard (Afl., Cat on a Hot Tin Mansion, 1969)
Get Smart televisieserie - Nova (Afl., The Not-So-Great Escape: Part 1, 1969)
Star Trek televisieserie - The Constable (Afl., All Our Yesterdays, 1969)
My Three Sons televisieserie - Mr. X (Afl., What Did You Do Today, Grandpa?, 1969)
Gunsmoke televisieserie - Ned Stallcup (Afl., 9:12 to Dodge, 1968)
Operation Greasepaint (televisiefilm, 1968) -  Brown
The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968) - Sgt. Pozzallo
The Wild Wild West televisieserie - Aloyisius Moriarity (Afl., The Night of the Vipers, 1968)
He & She televisieserie - Edward J. Flanagan (Afl., One of Our Firemen Is Missing, 1967)
Captain Nice televisieserie - Dr. Von Keppel (Afl., That Thing, 1967)
Pistols 'n' Petticoats televisieserie - Etienne LaVoissiere (Afl., Here Comes Trouble, 1966)
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. televisieserie - Joey the Clown (Afl., The Romany Lie Affair, 1966)
The Dick Van Dyke Show televisieserie - Sam (Afl., Bad Reception in Albany, 1966)
Honey West televisieserie - Manuel Rodriguez (Afl., Whatever Lola Wants..., 1965)

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Q: Can I add multiple modules to nodeJS? I am new to NodeJS. What I wanted to know is, can I like call 2 JS files using NodeJS & ExpressJS. Basically I want to have 2 seperate files so I can work on one and my partner can work on another one. So I want Server.js to call one file which contains some part of my REST API and other one contains rest of the function.
|--NodeModules[etc..]
|--Server.js
|--Rest/
|  |--RestAPI1.js
|  |--RestAPI2.js

It will be really helpful in the development of my project, if this is possible.

A: You can define routes in different files like this:
Server.js
var express = require('express')
var router1 = require("./routers/router1");
var app = express();
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app.use("/user", router1);

Router1.js
var router = require("express").Router();

router.get("/", function(req, res) {
...
});

module.exports = router;

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