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It's just like the opening act of Favreau's Chef: Favreau is literally Carl, and Disney is Dustin Hoffman.
Tony, Tony, Tony. How can we miss you if you won't go away?
Toy Story 4 does not continue the story of the first three films, but casts about for new things to do in this world with the sprawling cast of characters in Bonnie's orbit, most of whom once revolved around the now-absent figure of Andy.
Forgiveness in the face of murderous violence is a radical act that remains as shocking and controversial today as it was when a Second Temple–era Palestinian prophet commanded his disciples to love and to pray for those who persecuted them and ended his mortal life praying for divine forgiveness for his own executioners.
All art — even pop art, even bad or offensive art — is in some way a mirror to the soul of the culture that created it. Whether we embrace them, condemn them, or are indifferent to them, these secular apocalypses reveal something about who we are as a culture.
How can you watch a movie when you keep wanting to close your eyes in prayer?
The best X-Men movies, by my lights, are about hope. Dark Phoenix doesn't seem to know what it wants to be about.
It's the classic movie monster's dilemma: You either die a villain or live long enough to see yourself become the hero.
Who is the target audience for Precious Moments from hell, or at least from a bad country song?
When they announced The Lego Movie, this is basically the movie I thought we were going to get.
It's the story you know already, almost exactly. They say the lines and sing the songs, the same songs, almost exactly. It's a good story and they're good songs. There are no spoilers in this review because how could there be?
"One of my strongest opinions," J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in a 1971 letter, "is that investigation of an author's biography … is an entirely vain and false approach to his works."
Zac Efron's Ted Bundy is Extremely Wicked — but there are other things he should be, and isn't
The real Bundy could be charming, but an honest film about Bundy and Kloepfer's relationship could just as easily be called Super Weird, Emotionally Abusive and Threatening.
Hesburgh (2019)
Patrick Creadon (I.O.U.S.A.) offers a compellingly attractive if one-sided portrait of a figure of exceptional gifts, astonishingly diverse accomplishments and extraordinary influence.
Why Mary Magdalene gets a bad rap
A reader of my review of Mary Magdalene offers an impassioned defense for the medieval Western view of St. Mary Magdalene as a penitent with a notoriously wanton sexual past, a profligate adulteress or harlot.
'The Redemption Project': Convicts, Victims, Confrontation and Forgiveness
The prison setting and the word "redemption" in the Ludlumesque title are vaguely evocative of the most popular prison movie of all time, The Shawshank Redemption. A prison sentence, though, is seldom a redemptive experience for anyone.
Running just over three hours long, Avengers: Endgame builds to a denouement with a valedictory air akin to the last act of Peter Jackson's similarly sprawling The Return of the King, except that it comes at the end of 22 movies instead of three movies.
Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan and The Divine Plan: Filmmaker Robert Orlando (Interview)
Anyone who directs a movie about the converging efforts of Pope St. John Paul II and Ronald Reagan to take on the Soviet Union is someone I'm interested in talking to. But Robert Orlando isn't just anyone to me.
Mary Magdalene (2019)
Somewhere roughly between Risen and Last Days in the Desert in its narrative and interpretive sensibilities, Mary Magdalene presents an interpretation of Jesus' ministry, passion and resurrection that seems in some ways — with important caveats — fairly traditional, viewed from a feminist perspective with some biblical justification.
It's a little bit about the Seven Deadly Sins and a lot about how a 14-year-old boy would react if he were suddenly bequeathed with superpowers beyond imagining and also an Adonis-like adult physique in a bright red super-suit.
Unplanned (2019)
"My story isn't a neat and tidy one," Abby tells us at the start, but this telling is still pretty neat and tidy. Perhaps the real story was messier.
The Disney nostalgia train rumbles on with Tim Burton back at the throttle — not quite throttling the iconic tale of the flying baby elephant, but only barely rising to the challenge, sort of like Casey Junior struggling to clear that daunting hill.
Fathers Know Best? Phil Lord and Chris Miller's Surprising Animated Dads
Particularly striking to me, and even moving, is a theme connecting Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (though not The Lego Movie): how themes of father–son conflict ubiquitous in other cartoons play out with unexpectedly insightful, consequential fathers.
At this stage in Marvel Cinematic Universe history you almost need a Tolkieneque set of appendices and diagrams to make complete sense of everything.
A Star Is Born [video]
So Bradley Cooper can direct and sing as well as act, and Lady Gaga can act as well as sing. The music is solid and sometimes excellent, but does Hollywood's fourth take on this story have anything new to say?
Best films of 2018: More lists!
First Reformed made more than half of the nine individual lists below, and unsurprisingly topped the year's best films according to the Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury … What's more surprising — anyway I'm a little surprised, and delighted — is that another film was even more esteemed in this little community … and it wasn't any of the films I would have expected.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
The two sequels greatly expand the world and the mythology of the original Dragon. Yet our hero's personal self-development was pretty much complete at the start of Dragon 2.
Roma [video]
"No matter what they say," the mother tells the maid, "we women are always alone." More than any other 2018 film about unreliable men, Alfonso Cuarón's Roma is a tribute to women holding their worlds together.
2018: The year in reviews
2018 was a remarkable movie year — for family films, films with religious themes, and documentaries — but it was also a year of family men who weren't there for their families.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse [video] (2018)
Chris Miller and Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Phil Lord / Do whatever Chris Miller and Phil Lord do.
Can they swing from a thread? / No they can't, they're Hollywood filmmakers.


Daddy-O hired Carnsmedia to design an interactive website highlighting their expansive 500-bottle spirit collection and to drive brand awareness for Daddy-O's serious whiskey collection through social media, photography, digital advertising, and press coverage.
Carnsmedia designed Daddy-O's expansive list of over 500 fine and rare spirits, famously referred to as "The Book," into an interactive spirit guide complete with whiskey tutorial. Ever wonder what makes a Bourbon a Bourbon?
Average visitor stayed on daddyonyc.com for 23 minutes the first weekend of launch.
It's easy to become cynical about bars in a city where every neighborhood has its own expertly branded nouveau speakeasy. It is impossible to be cynical at Daddy-O. There is no branding to speak of here. The glassware is not special. There is a television. The television plays hockey games. And yet, Daddy-O's enthusiasm for spirits — especially whisky — rivals, and bests, far more obnoxious establishments. The written tome spans 500 hand-picked bottles, with not even a hint of pretension.
Daddy-O owner Philip Casaceli reportedly drove Pat LaFrieda crazy perfecting the custom dry aged blend for his burger. You will be glad he did. Served on a classic sesame seed bun with lettuce, tomato and red onion and tater tots. $15.
When Daddy-O switched from handling social media internally to giving the controls to Carnsmedia the annual organic reach grew from 87k to 1.7 million. "Daddy-O Fashion Week Runway Bourbons," "Leave Daddy-O Sober-ish," & "Medium Rare Burgers, Very Rare Bourbons." were just a few successful campaigns. Daddy-O's owner eventually opened up a new bar with celebrity chef and friend Anne Burrell called Phil & Anne's Good Time Lounge.


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FL Specialty Crop Foundation Names Sonia Tighe Executive Director
Randall Weiseman August 10, 2010 Florida, Specialty Crops
MAITLAND, Fla. – The Florida Specialty Crop Foundation has appointed agriculture industry veteran Sonia Tighe as its executive director effective Aug. 1.
A veteran of agricultural publishing, Tighe spent 26 years with Vance Publishing Corp., the last five of which she served as group publishing director. She is vice president of Florida Agri-Women, chair of the Florida Ag Expo Committee, and co-chair of the Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association s Benefit Auction. She holds a bachelor s degree in communication from the University of Tennessee.
The foundation continues to provide resources for production research and support for the people who work and live in our farming communities, said Tony DiMare, foundation chairman. Sonia s enthusiasm and passion for agriculture will help take the foundation into the future.
FFVA President Mike Stuart added, Sonia s leadership and strong relationship with those in Florida s specialty crop industry will be an asset for the foundation moving forward. We re very pleased that she is on board.
The foundation addresses myriad challenges to Florida agriculture by supporting research, education and philanthropic outreach in the community. This fiscal year, the foundation received two federal Specialty Crop Research Initiative grants for research of tomato and potato late blight and for development of a farm labor contractor training program. In addition, the foundation provides college scholarships to deserving high school graduates who are children of farm workers. Scholarships were awarded to two students this year.
I am very excited to work with the knowledgeable team at FFVA and to support the important projects of the foundation, Tighe said. The foundation is involved in several critical areas of research, education and support of organizations such as RCMA, and I look forward to expanding the depth of our work. It is a privilege to work with the growers, researchers and allied industry members in these endeavors.
The Florida Specialty Crop Foundation was established in 1991 to address specialty crop growers' scientific and knowledge needs in the production, marketing, transportation and consumption of fruits and vegetables. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, the foundation operates to benefit the Florida specialty crops industry and society as a whole.

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As parents, we invest thousands of dollars in our children. We give them the best education we can afford. We spoil them with gifts and treats. We often give in to their demands for the latest gadgets, fashion or sporting gear. But what about making an investment where it matters most? Building up their self-confidence.
A healthy self-confidence doesn't happen by accident. Yes, there are children who are naturally more outgoing than others, but a child's view of themselves is largely shaped by their interactions and experiences with the people around them. And parents and significant adults in the child's life can play a vital role in developing their self-esteem and building up a healthy sense of self.
You don't build self-confidence in a child by heaping praise on them. Positive reinforcement is good, and children need to know that they are loved and valued and special, but a strong self-esteem comes from actually accomplishing things and knowing their capabilities.
Praise and encouragement aren't the same.
Praise is good but overdoing it can lead to an inflated sense of self and behaviours that are aimed merely to get approval whilst positive encouragement and constructive feedback has a much longer-term, more meaningful and healthier effect.
Developing confidence starts from a very early stage and there are lots of things that parents and caregivers can do to develop a child's confidence prior to school.
The structure and predictability of a daily routine, such as having an established supper/bath/teeth brushing/bed-time story/lights out process will help give your child a sense of security and control.
Clear explanations of boundaries and expectations and a consistent response when a child either oversteps those boundaries or meets them will help enormously, particularly when your child interacts with others or experiences new situations.
Giving your child responsibilities will help develop their self-confidence. Involve your child in your daily chores such as feeding the family pet, helping lay the table for meals, tidying up toys, making a bed, dusting or helping with the grocery shopping. When a child accomplishes a task, they'll feel more confident. They'll feel proud of their problem-solving skills and feel more competent, successful and useful.
Being honest with your child, giving them constructive feedback and helping them to set realistic standards are all imperative for their self-esteem. Children don't need to be told that they are the best at everything as an inaccurate or inflated belief in themselves is counter-productive. Whether they believe they are the best footballer or the worst at building blocks, it's up to the adults to correct inaccurate beliefs and help them set more accurate expectations and beliefs. If children understand cause and effect, action and consequence, they will become more resilient, more realistic and able to persevere when they fail.
Using the 'I' word is so powerful. 'I like the way you tried hard today'. 'I wasn't happy when you didn't share your toys'. 'I saw that you enjoyed playing on the jungle gym today, let's see if you can climb higher tomorrow'. Focus on the effort rather than the outcome and always try and bring humour, warmth and affection into the situation.
Being a positive role model is one of the most crucial things that you can do to develop your own child's self-confidence.
Starting school can be a big deal for a child. Making time for play and spending quality time with your child with your child is one of the best investments you can make in developing their self-esteem and helping them get ready for the big move. Aim for activities that encourage co-operation rather than competition, where the focus is on the effort and the process, not the outcome.
The choice of early learning centre for your child is another huge factor in a child's development. Schools like those in the Early Learning & Kinder group which has centres all across Australia, focus on developing children's self-confidence as well as their social skills through their globally acclaimed child-directed curriculum.
They believe that a child's self-esteem is closely related to their health and wellbeing as well as their learning trajectory and their performance. In these Early Learning & Kinder centres, the child's voice is heard and valued and they are encouraged to become confident, curious, active and enthusiastic learners – and if this approach interests you, please get in touch with them through the website www.earlylearningandkinder.com.au or by emailing info@earlylearningandkinder.com.au for caring, friendly assistance.


The new national officers of the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents were installed during the group's Sept. 21 board of directors meeting in San Antonio.
PIA National agrees that when it comes to being a risk to the nation's entire financial system, banks and insurers are two different breeds of cat. Thus, the PIA supports the insurance-related fix to the Dodd-Frank Act contained in the Insurance Capital Standards Clarification Act (S.2270).
The U.S. is now at war with ISIS. President Barack Obama has authorized military action and attacks have happened in Iraq and Syria and more will happen in the future. "I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. This is a core principle of my presidency: If you threaten America, you will find no safe haven," Obama said.
The Federal Insurance Office Annual Report has been released. It's the report on the state of the insurance industry required by the Dodd-Frank Act. The report is for Congress and the White House to be used as an education tool. The report is the second report the agency has done in its short existence.
The Federal Insurance Office's FIO 2013 Annual Report is out. The report is part of the requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act. Each year the FIO is charged with giving a summary of the state of the insurance industry.
Cyberbreaches continue at businesses large and small. The number of compromised consumers is staggering. Many millions in 2013 and 2014 at the last count and many more millions will likely come in the future.
The Department of Health and Human Services said consumers will have more insurance choices in 2015 than they did in 2014. HHS' official statement noted 77 new carriers will be available on the exchanges — or marketplaces as they're now called — a 25 percent increase.
The Obama administration promises this Affordable Care Act enrollment season will be different than next. Agents enrolling people complained that it took hours to get the task done and then it often wasn't done right.
The rollout of the Affordable Care Act cut the number of people in the U.S. without health insurance of some kind to 15 to 22 percent. That's good news. A new Harris Poll done for the Transamerica Center for Health Studies says that's good news and bad news. Here's some detail.
Now, we take a look at the states with the highest uninsured rate improvement since Obamacare became law. But first, the goal of the Affordable Care Act is to reduce and eventually eliminate the number of uninsured in the United States. Year one saw some improvements says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Hartville Pet Insurance Group did a survey on pet insurance at the annual meeting of the Society for Human Resource Management. The topic was benefits and specifically new benefits. Pet insurance, it seems, is the hot new benefit.
With all the fuss being made these days about cyberbreaches and the theft of identification, we're all getting a little paranoid. While we worry about what's happening with big firms, like Home Depot and Target, and with records stored by our medical and health care providers, we aren't too focused on what we have on our phones and other mobile devices.
Americans are not getting married in record numbers. This according to a Pew Research Center survey. In 1960, just 9 percent of adults 25 and older — or close to 1 in 10 — had never been married. In 2012, that number was 1 in 5 — or 20 percent. In terms of numbers, that's 42 million people.
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. said it is going to unite all of its products and subsidiaries under its most recognizable brand — Nationwide. Chief Executive Officer Steve Rasmussen said Nationwide is in all 50 states, but customers in many areas are not aware of its offerings and size because it uses multiple brands that can appear to be unrelated.


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SoftIron® is the world-leader in task-specific appliances for scale-out data center solutions. SoftIron eliminates vendor lock-in, siloed operations, and complexity to enable flexible, efficient, scalable, and high-performing outcomes. We do this by creating task-specific appliances that leverage leading open-source software - all of which are designed, built, and assembled transparently.
Hybrid Cloud: A Binary Choice or a Hybrid Decision?
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The data repatriation race is on. Recently, TechTarget suggested that "many organisations are doing the math and discovering that the ROI for cloud isn't as good as with on-premises storage…". As enterprises plan for the pivot and look to their channel partners for support, it's crucial that the right platform choices are made at this strategic "inflection point" to avoid negative, long term repercussions.
The pendulum is coming to rest
We often talk of technology lifecycles, but from where we sit in the data storage camp we liken it more to a swinging pendulum, with on-premises data infrastructure in full throttle on one side, and the all-out rush to the cloud on the other. For some time there, if you weren't moving all your workloads and data to AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, your peers might have looked at you like you were crazy. And why wouldn't you? The glittering promise of switching Capex to Opex, elasticity as your demand level changed, and the theoretically low management overhead was alluring.
More recently though we're seeing that pendulum settle to a more rational state of equilibrium, a hybrid world unifying the best of both worlds. In fact, IDC report that "80% of organisations are now undertaking some level of cloud data repatriation activities."
It's at these "inflection points" in technology where strategic decisions need to be made, and the quality of those choices will have a lasting impact on your organisation, for better or worse. And to be sure, Amazon, Microsoft and Google have not missed that fact either.
Three drivers underpinning data repatriation
The way we see it, there are three core reasons driving such a big shift back from an "all-in" cloud strategy and of course, for different organisations the priority between these will differ.
Moving workloads and data into the cloud may seem initially attractive, however, for many businesses, the egress costs (the cost of moving the data back out again) can add up really fast and sometimes unexpectedly. Lyft infamously made headlines in 2019 when it was revealed that they were on the line to pay Amazon Web Services (AWS) around $300m a year to provide cloud services, ouch! If you can identify workloads where the data need to be accessed locally on a regular basis, why pay the cost of moving it to and from the cloud? In addition, the much-lauded ability to deploy a multi-cloud strategy has in reality, not been achievable in practice at a workload level for many, making it harder to dynamically switch between the big three vendors to help keep their pricing keen.
2. Agility and Performance
The public cloud is naturally fantastic for managing elastic workloads, but not so great where latency is an issue. This performance challenge has been magnified of late by the explosion of new workload types such as AI and IoT, which have in turn also driven the growth in edge computing, adding compute and storage closer to where the data is created.
3. Data Governance and Security
As data breaches continue unabated and regulators grapple to respond, the third factor that's influencing data repatriation is the increasing need to ensure greater levels of governance and security controls over data, and the desire for transparency into how these controls have been implemented.
If you can't beat 'em...
As mentioned, the big guys aren't giving up without a fight because they don't want to lose your data from their cloud ecosystem. But if hybrid is a growing reality, how do they respond? Enter Amazon Outposts, Microsoft Azure Stack and Google Anthos: three slightly varied approaches, but each designed to keep your data in their cloud, even if it's physically residing in your own data center. We still question the value. If there were three reasons to move from public cloud, then how do any of these approaches measure against those drivers we just identified?
The Choices Just Don't Stack Up
To start with, if you're still in the same proprietary ecosystem, then you're still locked into your cloud vendor of choice's pricing plan. Then, from an agility perspective, your ability to deploy a multi-cloud strategy is also hindered, giving you very little room to negotiate. You might observe improvements in performance by placing workloads back in your own data center, but if Edge Computing is in your future, will you be able - and willing - to roll out that same architecture to every edge environment? Will the hardware that is prescribed by those vendors actually perform efficiently in all the edge locations you need?
And lastly, have you really addressed your all-important security and governance concerns by simply placing a cloud vendor's hardware and/or software in your location? What real controls are you able to place on that deployment, and how will those controls stand up to regulator scrutiny?
The solution: task-specific hardware, built for open source
In our view, the right strategic choice as you consider both hybrid cloud - or any future shift toward Edge Computing - is to use this opportunity to break ties with the public cloud vendors and move to an open source-based architecture that's able to integrate with them on your terms.
The software stack is already well understood and widely deployed, consulting and support is widely available and your hardware choices are broad giving you the bargaining chips you need to drive a good deal, and to select the right platform for your use case.
That said, in our opinion, you really start to make the best strategic choice if you couple that shift to open source with a move to task-specific hardware on which it will run – appliances designed with a single purpose in mind, giving you the best of all worlds – blistering performance and incredible efficiency, manageability, and scalability, yet underpinned by transparent design and manufacture giving you secure provenance for your hybrid cloud platform. And, if you're selling generic hardware into open-source data center deployments you're missing out on a very unique opportunity: the chance to differentiate by delivering superior performance and efficiency, as well a solution that's easier (and therefore more profitable) to deploy and support, yet still delivers all the independence of open source.
Remember though, under the hood it's still open source at its core, eliminating vendor lock-in for your own infrastructure, but also facilitating a multi-cloud strategy should you wish to implement one.
SoftIron just announced that their HyperDrive Storage appliance has been selected by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT and data management research and consulting firm, to receive a Top 3 Award in their "EMA Top 3 Enterprise Decision Guide 2020" report. HyperDrive was selected as a leading storage solution in the "Hybrid Cloud Management – Enterprise Data Services" category for the awards. The report is available here.
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Chapter 20. The biggest bears in the garden
I have met two former heads of the KGB in my life and I liked them both. The last to hold the job before the KGB changed its name, though not its spots, was Vadim Bakatin. Intelligence services, somebody clever said, are like the wiring in a house: the new owner moves in, he drops the switch, and it's the same old lights that come on again.
It is 1993. Vadim Bakatin, the retired head of the extinct KGB, is drawing broken arrows on his doodle-pad. They have nicely tailored feathers and slim shafts. But halfway along they make a right-angle turn and become boomerang arrows, each tip pointing in a different direction and always out of the page. He draws them while he sits strictly to attention at the long table in my Russian publisher's conference room, his centurion's back arched and his head drawn stiffly into his shoulders as if for ceremonial inspection. Reforma Fund says the English side of his badly printed card. International Fund for Social & Economic Reforms.
He is a heavy, gingery, Nordic-looking man, with a sad smile and mottled, capable hands. Born and bred in Novosibirsk, he is by training an engineer, a former director of state construction, former member of the Communist Party's Central Committee, former Minister of Internal Affairs. Then in 1991, to his surprise and not altogether his pleasure, Mikhail Gorbachev handed him the poisoned chalice: take over the KGB for me and clean it up. Sitting listening to him now, I could well imagine what might have prompted Gorbachev to offer him the job: Bakatin's patent decency, which is of the deep-running, stubborn sort, made of awkward silences while he carefully weighs a question before delivering the carefully weighed answer.
'My recommendations were not popular with the KGB,' he observes, and draws another arrow. And as an afterthought: 'This was not an easy assignment.'
He means: not an easy assignment to breeze into KGB Headquarters in Dzerzhinsky Square one summer's morning, purge it at one blow of its autocratic tendencies and deliver a new, sanitized, socially aware spy service fit for purpose in the reconstructed democratic Russia that Gorbachev dreamed of. Bakatin knew from the beginning that the going would be tough. But how much he knew is anyone's guess. Was he aware that the KGB was a streamlined kleptocracy that had already pocketed a large chunk of the nation's stock of hard currency and gold reserves and stashed it abroad? That its chieftains were hand in glove with the country's organized-crime syndicates? That many were old-guard Stalinists who saw Gorbachev as the Great Destroyer?
Whatever Bakatin did or didn't know, he performed an act of such glasnost that it remains unique in the annals of intelligence services across the globe. Within weeks of taking office, he handed to Robert Strauss, the United States Ambassador to Russia, a chart, together with a users' handbook, of the listening devices that had been installed by the KGB's audio team in the fabric of the new building designated to replace the existing US Embassy. According to Strauss, he performed this gesture 'unconditionally, out of a sense of cooperation and goodwill'. According to Moscow's many wits, when the American sweepers had taken out the KGB's devices, the building was on the point of collapse.
'With those technical people, you could never be sure,' Bakatin earnestly confides to me. 'I told Strauss it was the best I could get out of them.'
As a reward for this courageous act of openness, he earned himself the full fury of the organization he commanded. Cries of treason went up, his post was abolished and for a short time, under the leadership of Boris Yeltsin, the KGB was parcelled out to other departments, only to have itself promptly resurrected with increased powers and a new name under the personal command of Vladimir Putin, himself a child of the old KGB.
Back to his broken arrows, Vadim Bakatin is musing about spying. Those who do it for a living are obsessives, out of touch with normal life, he says. He himself entered and left the spy business as a novice.
'You know far more about it than I do,' he adds suddenly, looking up.
'But that's not true,' I protest. 'I'm a novice too. I did the work when I was young and got out thirty years ago. I've been living off my wits ever since.'
He draws an arrow.
'So it's a game,' he says.
Does he mean I'm a game? Or the spying industry is? He shakes his head, as if to say it doesn't matter either way. Suddenly his questions become the mystified outcry of a man deprived of his convictions. Where is the world going? Where is Russia going? Where is the middle way, the humanitarian one, between capitalist and socialist excess? He's a socialist, he says. He grew up a socialist:
'I was brought up from childhood to believe that communism was the only true path for humanity. Okay, things went wrong. Power got into the wrong hands, the Party took some wrong turnings. But I still believe that we were the moral force for good in the world. What are we now? Where is the moral force?'
It would be hard to find a greater contrast between two men: the introspective Bakatin, engineer and Party stalwart from Novosibirsk, and the Georgian-bred Yevgeny Primakov, half-Jewish son of a woman doctor and a politically persecuted father, scholar, Arabist, statesman, academician and - in the course of half a century's service to a system not famed for its tenderness towards those who fall foul of it - master survivor.
Unlike Bakatin, Yevgeny Primakov was eminently qualified to take over the KGB or any other heavyweight intelligence service. As a young Soviet field agent, codenamed MAKSIM, he had spied in the Middle East and in the United States, now as correspondent for Moscow Radio, now as a print journalist for Pravda. But even while he was in the field, his ascent through the scientific and political ranks of Soviet power continued. And when Soviet power ended, Primakov continued to prevail, so it surprised nobody when, after five years as head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, he was promoted to Russian Foreign Minister, in which capacity he came one day to London to discuss NATO matters with the British Foreign Secretary, Malcolm Rifkind.
And it was on the evening of that same day that my wife and I were summoned at no notice to dine with Primakov and his wife at the Russian Embassy in Kensington Palace Gardens. In the morning, my literary agent had taken a breathless call from Rifkind's Private Office: the Foreign Secretary requires a signed book of mine to present to his Russian opposite number, Yevgeny Primakov.
A particular book, or just any book? my agent asks.
Smiley's People. And he needs it fast.
I don't keep stacks of my books around me, but I managed to dig out a hardback copy of Smiley's People in reasonable condition. No doubt for reasons of national economy, Rifkind's office had said nothing of providing a courier, so we rang for one, wrapped up the book, addressed the parcel to Rifkind care of the Foreign Office, SW1, and dispatched it.
A couple of hours later, the Private Office rang again. No book, for God's sake, what's happened? Frantic calls by my wife to the courier service. Package under advisement was delivered to Foreign Office at such-and-such an hour and signed for by recipient. We relay this information to the Private Office. Oh Christ, then it must be stuck in bloody Security, we'll check. They check. The book, having presumably been sniffed at and shaken and X-rayed, is wrested from the clutches of bloody Security, and perhaps Rifkind adds his name to mine, along with a collegial line or two, one foreign minister to the other. We shall never know because neither my agent nor I had another peep out of Rifkind or his Private Office.
Time to dress up and call a black cab. My wife has invested in white orchids in a pot for our hostess, the Russian Ambassador's wife. I have put together a carrier bag of books and videos for Primakov. Our cab pulls up outside the Russian Embassy. No lights burn. I am obsessive about punctuality, so we're a quarter of an hour early. But it's a balmy evening and there's a red diplomatic police car parked a few yards down the kerb.
Good evening, officers.
Good evening to you, sir and madam.
We have a small problem, officers. We're dining at the Russian Embassy, but we're early, and we've brought these gifts for our hosts. May we leave them in your care while we take a stroll round Kensington Palace Gardens?
Of course you may, sir, but not in the car, I'm afraid. Put them down on the pavement there and we'll keep an eye on them for you.
We put our parcels down on the pavement, stroll, return, collect our parcels, which in the meantime have not exploded. We mount the Embassy steps. A sudden blaze of light, the front door opens. Very big men in suits glower at our parcels. One of them reaches for the orchids, another pokes inside my carrier bag. We are nodded through to the splendid drawing room. It's empty. I am assailed by inappropriate memories. At the age of twenty-odd, as an aspiring young spy in the British interest, I had attended a string of awful Anglo-Soviet Friendship meetings in this very room, before being spirited upstairs by over-friendly KGB talent-spotters, there to watch Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin for the umpteenth time and submit to yet another courteous inquisition about my life, origins, girlfriends, political leanings and aspirations, all in the vain hope that I shall become the target of a Soviet intelligence pass and thus acquire in the eyes of my British masters the coveted status of double agent. It never happened, which - given the scale of Soviet penetration of our intelligence services in those days - should not surprise anyone. Or perhaps I just didn't smell right, which wouldn't surprise me either.
Back then, there was also a tiny bar in a corner of this beautiful room. It dispensed warm white wine to any comrade hardy enough to fight his way through the crush. It is still there, and tonight it is manned by a babushka in her seventies.
'You want drink?'
'Very much.'
'What you want drink?'
'Scotch, please. Two.'
'Whisky?'
'Yes, whisky.'
'You want two? For her also?'
'Please. With soda, no ice.'
'Water?'
'Water's fine.'
But we have barely taken a first sip when the double doors fly open and enter Primakov, escorted by his wife and the Russian Ambassador's wife, then the Ambassador himself and a troupe of suntanned power-men in lightweight suits. Coming to a halt before us, Primakov pulls a comic smile and points an accusing finger at my glass.
'What are you drinking?'
'Scotch.'
'You are in Russia now. Drink vodka.'
We return our un-drunk Scotches to the babushka, join the troupe and at light-infantry speed proceed to the elegant pre-Revolutionary dining room. One long table, candlelit. I sit as directed, three feet across it from Primakov. My wife is two stops down on the same side, looking a lot calmer than I feel. Big-shouldered waiters fill our vodka glasses to the brim. Primakov, I suspect, has already refreshed himself. He is very jolly, very twinkly. His wife sits beside him. She is a blonde and beautiful Estonian doctor with a motherly glow. On his other side sits his interpreter, but Primakov prefers his own vigorous style of English with an occasional prompt.
The power-men in lightweight suits, I have meanwhile been told, are Russian ambassadors from across the Middle East, summoned to London for a conference. My wife and I are the only non-Russians at the table.
'You will call me Yevgeny, I will call you David,' Primakov informs me.
Dinner has begun. When Primakov speaks, no one else does. He speaks suddenly, after much thought, consulting his interpreter only when he's stumped for a word. Like most Russian intellectuals I have met, he has no time for small talk. His subjects for tonight, in the following order, are Saddam Hussein, President George Bush Senior, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and his own abortive efforts to head off the Gulf War. He is an agile and vivid communicator of great charm. His eyes do not lightly let you go. Periodically he breaks off, beams at me, raises his glass, proposes a toast. I raise my glass, beam back and respond. There must be a waiter with a vodka bottle for every guest. There is certainly one for me. When you're caught for a vodka marathon, an English friend urged me the first time I went to Russia, stick to vodka and don't for God's sake go for that lethal Crimean Sekt (champagne). I have never been more grateful for his advice.
'You know Desert Storm, David?' Primakov demands.
Yes, Yevgeny, I know Desert Storm.
'Saddam, he was a friend from me. You know what I mean by friend, David?'
Yes, Yevgeny, I think in this context I know what you mean by friend.
'Saddam, he telephones to me' - indignation mounting - '"Yevgeny. Save my face. Get me out of Kuwait."'
He allows time for the significance of this request to sink in. Gradually it does. He is telling me that Saddam Hussein asked him to persuade George Bush Senior to let him pull his forces out of Kuwait with dignity - save his face - in which case there need be no war between the United States and Iraq.
'So I go to Bush,' he continues, striking angrily at the name. 'This man is' - tense discussion with the interpreter. If it is on the tip of Primakov's tongue to use strong language to describe George Bush Senior, he restrains himself.
'This Bush is not cooperative,' he asserts reluctantly, and allows himself a grimace of indignation. 'Therefore I come to England,' he resumes. 'To Britain. To your Thatcher. I come' - another flurried consultation with his interpreter, and this time I catch the Russian word dacha, which is about the only one I know.
'Chequers,' says the interpreter.
'So I come to Chequers.' A hand flies up commanding our silence, but the entire table is dead silent already. 'For one hour this woman lectures me. They want the war!'
It is after midnight when my wife and I return down the Russian Embassy's front doorsteps to England. Did Primakov ask me a single personal or political question during that whole long evening? Did we talk literature, spying, life? If we did, I have no memory of it. I remember only that he seemed to want me to share his frustration; to know that as a peacemaker and a reasonable human being, he had done his damnedest to stop a war, and that his efforts had foundered on what he regarded as the pig-headedness of two Western leaders.
There is an ironic epilogue to this tale that I only recently caught up with. It's a decade later. With the younger Bush in power and the invasion of Iraq again imminent, Primakov flies to Baghdad and urges his old friend Saddam to hand over whatever weapons of mass destruction he may or may not have to the United Nations for safekeeping. This time it's not Bush Junior but Saddam who gives him the brush-off, on the grounds that the Americans would never dare do it to him: they had too many secrets in common.
I had not seen Primakov or spoken to him since that dinner. No letter, no email had passed between us. Now and then an invitation trickled down at third hand: tell David any time he's in Moscow, et cetera. But Putin's Russia didn't draw me, and I didn't call him. Then, come the spring of 2015, I received a message that he was ailing and would I send him some more of my books to read. Since nobody said which books, my wife and I made up a great box of them in hardback. I signed each book, added a dedication, and we dispatched the box by courier to the address we'd been given, only to have it returned by Russian customs on the grounds that it contained too many books at one time. We broke the books up into smaller lots and presumably they made it through the lines, although no word came back.
And now it never will, because Yevgeny Primakov died before he could read them. In his memoirs, I'm told, he writes kindly about me, which pleases me very much. As I write, I am trying to get my hands on the text. But this is Russia.
How do I see that evening from this distance? I have long ago discovered that on the odd occasions when I come face to face with people of power, my critical faculties go out of the window and all I want to do is be there, listen and watch. To Primakov, I was an evening's curiosity, a bit of time out, but also, as I like to think, a chance to speak from the heart to a writer whose work had rung bells with him.
Vadim Bakatin had only agreed to talk to me as a favour to a friend, but once again I like to think I provided him with an opportunity to speak as he felt. People at the epicentre, in my limited experience of the breed, have little idea of what's going on around them. The fact that they are themselves the epicentre makes it all the harder. It took an American visitor to Moscow to ask Primakov which character in my books he related to:
'Why, George Smiley of course!'
Oldrich Cerný should in no way be compared with either Bakatin or Primakov, both professed communists of their day. In 1993, four years after the Berlin Wall came down, Oldrich Cerný - Olda to his friends - took over the Czech foreign intelligence service and, at the behest of his old friend and fellow dissident, Václav Havel, set about turning it into a place fit for habitation by the Western spy community. Over the five years in which he ran it, he struck up a close relationship with Britain's MI6, notably with Richard Dearlove, who later became its Chief under Tony Blair. Quite soon after Cerný's retirement from the post, I visited him in Prague and we spent a couple of days together, now in his tiny apartment with Helena, his companion of many years, and now out and about in one of the city's many cellar bars, drinking Scotch at scrubbed pine tables.
Before getting the job, Cerný, like Vadim Bakatin, knew nothing whatever of intelligence work which, as Havel explained, was why he had chosen him. Once he took it over, he couldn't believe what he had walked into:
'The bastards didn't know the fucking Cold War was over,' he exclaimed between gusts of laughter.
Few foreigners can swear convincingly in English, but Cerný was the exception. He had studied at Newcastle on a grant awarded him during the Prague Spring, so perhaps that's where he learned the art. On his return to a country once again under Russia's heel, he translated children's books by day and wrote anonymous dissident tracts by night.
'We had guys spying on Germany!' he went on incredulously. 'In nineteen-fucking-ninety-three! We had guys out in the street with truncheons looking for priests and anti-Party elements they could beat the shit out of! "Listen," I told them. "We don't do that stuff any more. We're a fucking democracy!"'
If Cerný talked with the exuberance of a man released, he had every right to. He was an anti-communist by nature and by birth. His father, a wartime Czech resistance fighter, had been imprisoned in Buchenwald by the Nazis, then given twenty years for treason by the communists. One of his earliest memories was seeing his father's coffin being dumped on the family doorstep by the prison goons.
Little wonder then that Cerný the writer, dramatist, translator and graduate in English Literature should have waged a lifelong battle against political tyranny; or that he was repeatedly hauled in for interrogation by the KGB and Czech intelligence who, having failed to recruit him, persecuted him instead.
And it is interesting that, for all his protestations of being hopelessly ill-equipped to take over his country's spies after its split with Slovakia, he held the job down for five years, retired with distinction, went on to direct a human rights foundation established by his friend Havel, and set up his own Security Studies think-tank that, fifteen years later and three years after his death, flourishes undiminished.
In London, shortly before Cerný's death, I met the ageing Václav Havel at a private luncheon given by the Czech Ambassador. Tired and visibly ill, he sat alone and largely silent. Those who knew him best, knew to leave him to himself. Timidly, I approached him and mentioned Cerný's name. I said I had had a good time with him in Prague. Suddenly he brightened:
'Then you were lucky,' he said, and sat smiling for a while.


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Participaction, Sweden and the CAF?
Published 12 September 2022 -Updated 14 September 2022 |5 Comments
By Moderator, 12 September 2022
Canadians of a certain age will remember tv commercials for Participaction, a government program formed to encourage Canadians to exercise more. The commercials involved an elderly Swedish man out-skiing/out-running a much younger huffing and puffing Canadian man. It pains me to say this but there seem to be parallels today with Sweden, a soon-to-be member of NATO, and Canada, a long-time member of NATO. Even given its much smaller size in terms of territory and population, Sweden packs a significant military punch, and has some impressive new naval capabilities. When it comes to new naval capabilities, Canada has, hmm, the Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships! Do we need a new military Participaction program! See an article a few weeks ago by Robert Smol on this topic, "Why Sweden will be a stronger NATO member than Canada," https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/smol-why-sweden-will-be-a-stronger-nato-member-than-canada
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Curious Civilian
13 September 2022, 7:55 am
This comparison should extend to each country's industrial sectors. Sweden has been a strong producer and exporter of complex machinery and technology for a long time. It has an export-oriented high value-added manufacturing sector. As such, it can build and export arms of all types and maintain technologically well-equipped forces. Canada does not have the same industrial capabilities so cannot produce and maintain comparable forces.
David Dunlop
13 September 2022, 6:57 pm
Hello Curious Civilian. It seems that you are trying to explain away Canada's lack-luster NATO performance over the past decades. Unlike Canada, Sweden will be a formidible NATO partner. It already has a comparable GDP Defence percentage ratio with Canada of 1.3 % in 2021 and growing stronger each year annually. They also require their young men and women to serve in their military unlike Canada. Canada has become a drag on the NATO alliance unlike what Sweden will do within NATO.
Explain, no. But context is important. Whatever the decisions about spending on Defense specifically, my point is that Canada spends less on high-value manufacturing, compared to other countries (NATO and non-NATO). Detailed numbers take some digging, and indicators are seldom equivalent, but here is a high-level comparison from the word bank:
% of GDP spent on value-added manufacturing https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.IND.MANF.ZS?locations=SE-CA
Canada sits around 10%
Sweden 12%-14%, both having dropped noticeably post 2000
Medium and high-tech manufacturing value added as % of the above https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.MNF.TECH.ZS.UN?locations=CA-SE
Canada at 36% since 2005
Sweden at an average 50% since 2000
Rough comparison, but it shows that Sweden spends a greater portion of its GDP on the higher-tech manufacturing than Canada. Coupled with its export orientation, this means that it exports more high-value higher-tech products. This in turn provides a higher critical mass of work between defense procurement cycles, permitting its industry to deliver defense products on more advantageous terms than ours can.
All this to say that Canada does not invest sufficiently in its high-tech, high-value added manufacturing sectors, and this is a very significant factor in our Defense procurement. Increasing the procurement budgets alone won't solve the underlying capability gaps.
On level more tangible than often-manipulated GDP, skewed by the financial sectors, the following short list of companies should make the point that Sweden designs, produces and exports significant volume and value of complex machinery. The raw tonnage and complexity it produces translates to its greater ability to produce Defense equipment.
AB Volvo
Eriksson
A comparison of Canada with other nations that out-perform us on the Defense front (ex. US, Italy, Germany, UK, France, China, South Korea, Japan and yes Russia) will yield similar results.
"Increasing the procurement budgets alone won't solve the underlying capability gaps". Could not agree more with that statement however how does that solve Canada's less than ideal performance WRT military defence spending of a "true" 2% GDP spending on defence (not including non-military spending)?
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Q: Find a pattern with no repeated numbers in egrep I to find a regular expression to match all digit sequences which has no repeated digit.
Example:
198345 -> matched.
198315 -> not matched (1 repeated twice )
How can I achieve this in grep\egrep?

A: Interesting question. Thank you. The answer I found a little bit creepy:
egrep -v '([0-9])[0-9]*\1'

pattern find the occurrence of digit [0-9], save it to \1 and check for non repetition. So it finds any digit followed by the same digit. Use -v for inverse

A: If you need to do it with regex, see Stephane's wonderful answer to a similar question.
If regex is not a must, I offer you a Perl alternative:
perl -nle '
    $digits{$_}++ for /([0-9])/g;
    @repeated = grep { $digits{$_} > 1 } keys %digits;
    print @repeated? "":"$_"
    %digits = ();
' your_file

This assumes your_file has one number per line and will print out only those numbers whose digits are unique.

A: Edit:
Below the same numbers must appear consecutively: they match 1123456 (consecutive 1s) but not 1213456 (non-consecutive 1s):
A lame solution is this:
cat testfile |  grep [0-9] | grep -v "0\{2,\}" | grep -v "1\{2,\}" | grep -v "2\{2,\}"  | grep -v "3\{2,\}"  | grep -v "4\{2,\}"  | grep -v "5\{2,\}"  | grep -v "6\{2,\}"  | grep -v "7\{2,\}"  | grep -v "8\{2,\}"  | grep -v "9\{2,\}"

The first grep matches numbers and the rest 10 grepensure that every number appears only once.
A more compact but still lame way is this:
cat test |  grep [0-9] | grep -v "1\{2,\}\|2\{2,\}\|3\{2,\}\|4\{2,\}\|5\{2,\}\|6\{2,\}\|7\{2,\}\|8\{2,\}\|9\{2,\}\|0\{2,\}"

testfile must have one word per line.

A: grep '\([[:digit:]]\) *\1 *\1'

It takes a digit [[:digit:]] and remembers it \( ... \). It than tries to match any number of spaces * (including none at all), remember character \1, any number of spaces, the remembered character. You can try running it with --color=auto to see what parts of the input it matched.

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Zanzíbar (probablemente del persa زنگبار zangi-bar, que significa 'costa de los negros') es una región semiautónoma de Tanzania que comprende un par de islas alejadas de la costa oriental de África llamadas Unguja o Zanzíbar (1554 km²) y Pemba (984 km²). A estas islas y a la isla de Mafia se les suele llamar islas de las especias, aunque el término suele asociarse más con las islas Molucas en Indonesia.

El centro económico y la principal ciudad es Zanzíbar Ciudad en la isla de Unguja, famosa por ser la ciudad que vio nacer a Freddie Mercury vocalista del célebre grupo Queen, y al escritor Abdulrazak Gurnah, Premio Nobel de Literatura 2021. Stone Town (la Ciudad de Piedra de Zanzíbar, centro histórico) fue declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la Unesco en el año 2000, al ser una de las ciudades más importantes de la cultura swahili.

Las principales industrias son las especias (nuez moscada, canela y pimienta) y el turismo. Zanzíbar es también el único lugar en donde habita el mono colobo rojo de Zanzíbar.

Historia

Política
Aunque Zanzíbar es parte de Tanzania, elige a su propio presidente quien es la cabeza de estado para los asuntos internos de la isla. Fue elegido para este oficio el 29 de octubre de 2000.

También tiene su propia "Casa de los Representantes" (con 50 lugares) elegidos directamente por voto universal (ejerciendo por un término de 5 años) para hacer leyes especialmente para Zanzíbar.

Economía

Faltos de monedas en circulación, el sultán Barghash ordenó la acuñación de unas pocas monedas en Londres, al mismo tiempo que marcó con un punzón todas las piezas extranjeras que circulaban por la isla. Este resello, que se utilizó a finales del , contenía un dibujo ornamental geométrico con la inscripción "Zanzíbar" en árabe. Se conocen monedas españolas (8 reales), francesas (5 francos), austríacas (talers) e inglesas (rupias) con esta curiosa marca. Durante esta época también se llegaron a resellar monedas extranjeras con diferentes letras y signos chinos.

Naciones Unidas
Zanzíbar fue miembro de las Naciones Unidas desde el 16 de diciembre de 1963 hasta que se unió con Tanganica en abril de 1964 para crear Tanzania.

Visires

 Sir Lloyd William Matthews, (1890-1901)
 A.S. Rogers, (1901-1906)
 Arthue Raikes, (1906-1908)
 Francis Barton, (1906-1913)

Administradores británicos
 Francis Pearce, (1913 - 1922)
 John Sinclair, (1922 - 1923)
 Alfred Hollis, (1923 - 1929)
 Richard Rankine, (1929 - 1937)
 John Hall, (1937 - 1940)
 Henry Pilling, (1940 - 1946)
 Vincent Glenday, 1946 - 1951)
 John Rankine, (1952 - 1954)
 Henry Potter, (1954 - 1959)
 Arthur Mooring, (1959 - 1963)

Cultura
Zanzíbar cuenta con una fascinante historia influenciada por persas, árabes, musulmanes, portugueses y el propio continente africano. Stone Town (una de las principales ciudades) está compuesta de hermosas calles, torres circulares, puertas de madera talladas y hermosas mezquitas. Los lugares arquitectónicos más importantes son el Puente Guliani, Livingstone y el palacio construido por el Sultán Barghash en 1883.

En la región se celebra anualmente el Festival Internacional de Cine de Zanzíbar, un evento creado en 1997 con el objetivo de desarrollar y promover las industrias cinematográficas y otras industrias culturales, como catalizador del crecimiento social y económico de la región.

Deportes
  Selección de fútbol de Zanzíbar
  Primera División de Zanzíbar

Referencias

Véase también
 Anexo:Sultanes de Zanzíbar
 Zanguebar

Enlaces externos

 Zanzíbar: el paraíso por 500 euros
 Guía completa de Zanzíbar

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I really like the oddness of your tracks. I've been into experimental electronica for years and the stranger the better. There's plenty of variety in here and I do appreciate the attention to detail that goes into music like this (like different delay rates and intentionally tricking the sequencer / quantizer into making the instrumentation sound loose and less mechanical. Nice!
Thank you for the review! I do love odd melodies sometimes. I appreciate your mentioning "tricking the sequencer" because so often in my work tricking the sampler and the rigidity of the sequencer is the hardest part.
yes, it's really very musical in how there's a definite motif (or several actually) that you work, and re-work, that gives it an anchor, even throughout the weirdness. The beat programming/engineering is really good too.
Yes, for all its weirdness, it's never really a noise piece at all, but instead a non-pop musical piece.
Thanks for the kind words on the beats—I don't do as much with beats as others do, and it's fun to try.
I felt my biologic rhythms shift as I listened — my heart racing, then slowing, my breath being held for a moment, then released. Amazing how sound effects us so viscerally.
I'm glad I excited the hoped-for visceral connection to the rhythmic way things work. thanks for commenting!
Thank you! I love that phrase—sonic impatience.
Thanks! your mental listener's image is what I hoped to evoke.
Thanks! I love eerie, sometimes.
Sweet remix. Love the weird vibe.
your spooky dub was so cool that I had to do this off-kilter homage to it.
I'm sure I've talked about Ralph Records and the Residents here before - but there's a thing here with the wobbly pads and the sort of shrieking sounds that make me think you're secretly one of the band members.
But you couldn't be, of course, because this is so much better.
I love Ralph, too, and old Residents work surely influences my sense of melody (as does, to throw a different curve ball, the early songs of Ron Mael).
The Residents hail from Shreveport, a town not 3 hours drive from where i grew up in gurdon,arkansas. Perhaps it's in the water.
Hurray! I'm glad that you use my work. Can't wait to go see it.
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I love the way that different images have different assortments of "visitors" to the face of the sunflower!
I have never been into this style of music (experimental) so I cant say a lot..but I do think this particular piece is full of emotions and motifs..


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Pat Williams: No reluctance in his leadership
By John Baldoni
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To lead or not to lead — it is a choice, sometimes.
In his newest book, "Pat Williams, The Reluctant Leader," legendary sports executive Pat Williams shares that the first time he had leadership thrust upon him was in college. Pat, a baseball player, was asked — well, not really, more commanded — by an upperclassman to arrange the annual freshmen versus varsity basketball game.
Pat tried to beg off after he had to get ready for baseball and maintain his grade average. That was more than 60 years ago, and it set in motion a career in athletic management that continues to this day. Williams was the co-founder of the Orlando Magic. He was the first to hire Chuck Daly, and he drafted Shaquille O'Neal. Today, Pat's in the NBA Hall of Fame.
Along the way, he helped raise 19 children (14 of them adopted from overseas), built a successful speaking business and authored more than 100 books on leadership. For Williams, leadership development is his passion. An avid student of history, Williams is a sponge for leadership wisdom, freely dispensing it.
More than 20 years ago, I wrote to Pat, out of the blue, for public-speaking insights. He didn't know me from Adam, but he was generous with his advice, writing it out in longhand as I recall. We have stayed in touch all these years. I have interviewed him for my work, and he's kindly asked me to endorse some of his books. (He thinks I am doing him a favor, when really it's my privilege to celebrate his work.)
Dealing with reluctance
Pat recently joined me on my LinkedIn Live show to talk about "The Reluctant Leader." For one so enthusiastic about leadership, it may seem odd to address the topic of reluctance. As Williams explains, "I think that's the case in many, many situations where something happens, there's a cause. The leader says, 'Alright, nobody else is going to do this. So, I'm going to do it. I just feel compelled to do it.'"
When you are asked to assume a leadership role, doubt may creep in. "The immediate reaction is, 'Oh boy, what if I fail? What if I mess it up? What if I can't do it?'" For Williams, who learned leadership by doing, his advice is to plow ahead. "Once you get through that [reluctance] and you get a taste of leadership opportunities and see successes, you're a leader for life. You can't go back once you get a taste of it."
Acting wisely
Successful leaders hire the right people. Carefully. "You can never do enough background checks," says Williams. "You can never have enough people involved in doing the interviewing. You can never have enough different settings where you do the interviewing." Doing interviews over a meal, on the golf course, or with a spouse give the potential employer a broader view of the candidate.
Being a leader is not without its obstacles. For example, what if you hire the wrong person? "If you've got a problem person, who's just not fitting in. Someone who is a square side, and you're trying to jam it into a round hole in your organization, well, that square side is never going to get into the round hole. It just never will."
Leaders act. "Nobody likes confrontation. It's scary. It's worrisome to you. But the best leaders don't avoid it when they see something [negative] developing in their organization," Williams says. "They understand we cannot delay this. We've got to confront it. We got to get on it right away, even though it may be unpleasant. And even though I've got a big knot in my stomach, we've got to do it."
Learning from outside sources
Leaders, like Williams, draw wisdom from history. Williams recalls that his father, a high-school history teacher, was fond of President Harry S. Truman at the time when not many people were. As Williams explains, "Truman was faced with so many bold decisions. You get to make the first one about dropping those two bombs on Japan, then integrating the armed forces and standing behind the launch of the nation of Israel." Truman also named George Marshall as his secretary of state, who organized support for the European recovery effort that today bears his name: the Marshall Plan.
Good leaders, too, also have mentors. Williams recalls the example of R.E. Littlejohn, the owner of the minor league affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
"There I was with big dreams, big hopes, big ambitions. We had a wonderful run, but the real blessing to me was Mr. Littlejohn. … He was a man with great wisdom and with a heart of love," Williams says. "He wrapped himself around me for those four years. It was all in running a baseball team, but he was pouring wisdom into me constantly… Looking back over 50 years, Mr. Littlejohn's voice is still very clear in my head. I can still hear his wisdom principles."
Living by leadership principles — and teaching them to others through his speaking and his authorship — is the legacy of Pat Williams. Caring, generous and wise.
John Baldoni is a globally recognized executive coach and leadership educator. Inc.com ranked John a Top 50 Leadership Expert and Top 100 leadership speaker. Trust Across America awarded John its Lifetime Achievement award for Trust and Global Gurus ranked him No. 9 on its list of Top 30 leadership experts. John is the author of 14 books, including GRACE: A Leader's Guide to a Better Us.
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Growing up one of Matt's favorite traditions with his dad was to eat "fluffernutter" sandwiches with cream soda. Now that he's grown it's a tradition that Matt has carried on with the boys. For Father's Day I wanted to make Matt and his dad something that would remind them of this special father-son tradition. Of course the boys were excited to give them anything that involved them getting to "help" bake!
Last year I made Fluffernutter Bars, this year I decided to create all the wonderfulness of a fluffernutter sandwich but in a cookie! I already have an amazing peanut butter cookie recipe that I use in my Peanut Blossoms, so rather than re-invent the wheel I started with that!
Now here they are after coming back out of the oven. See how they are all melty and delicious looking? Like a marshmallow straight off the campfire!
Of course Matt would say that it's a sin to enjoy fluffernutter without cream soda so I made sure to package up a few cream sodas with the cookies!
I also couldn't resist printing this picture and the boys quotes from our cookie baking. Of course the amazingness of the cookies would convey the boys love for their grandpa, right? Straight from Jack's mouth!
Roll Dough into small dough balls and roll them in sugar. Place into small muffin cup.
Immediately after removing from oven push 3 marshmallows into each cookie, then pop them in the oven for 2-3 more minutes, just long enough to melt the marshmallows!
Cool and Enjoy with a frosty cream soda!


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