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Wow - there are some truly amazing photos in this thread..if you like to shoot birds but are not familiar with their name (proper or otherwise) try using http://www.whatbird.com it has an excellent built in wizard
Here's a few I shot over the past 6 months - all photos shot in the wild - no zoo or otherwise with 7D + 400mm hand held:
Belted Kingfisher (difficult to capture..you get anywhere near these birds they fly about 100 yards away. You go that direction they revert back to original starting point. I had to creep up and hide to nab this one..oh the fun!
munsoned
I took the following at Great Falls National Park, Virginia side. A lot of stalking went into taking these photos. I found this really awesome spot that gave me all 3 of these pictures and more. Shot with canon 5D II and 100-400 L.
I wish I knew why a sparrow will sit on a bird feeder for half an hour, but a cardinal won't stay more than half a minute.
When I saw him, he and his female mate were both right there perfectly positioned. While I grabbed the camera and changed lenses, Mrs. Cardinal took off. This was the only shot I got with the whole bird in the frame and in focus.
Now every time it snows I stalk back and forth past this window, but no more luck since then.
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This 1993 Nissan Skyline R33 GTS25-T Type M has just arrived to our showroom and looks absolutely beautiful. The Super Black (KH3) exterior has been lightly modified and is has been very well maintained. A super rare Trial front bumper replaces the OEM piece and helps create a more aggressive looking front end. The OEM Type M optional Side Skirts are present and flow well with the Trial front bumper and Knight Racer rear spats which are a bit more aggressive than the stock pieces. The body is in beautiful condition with no major dings or dents and the paint is just stunning. The GTR rear wing really improves the rear of the car and continues the slightly more aggressive feel of this beautiful R33. Finally a set of 18" Monoblock wheels have been added and contrast the black exterior perfectly.
The interior has also received several upgrades and is in great condition. You will first notice a set set of gauges have been added to keep an eye on engine stats. These include Boost, Oil Pressure, Coolant Temp, and Oil Temp by Auto Gauge. The dash itself is in great condition and has no major sun damage, cracks, or bubbles. An aftermarket steering wheel has been added along with a Razo shift knob. The door panels are very clean and the fabric inserts are in great shape. There is on small tear on the lower right part of the drivers door panel which in not noticeable when the door is closed. The seats are all in fantastic condition and have no major stains. The trunk panels have been previously removed, but the OEM strut bar and OEM floor mats are included.
Mechanically the RB25DET starts right away and idles smoothly. Exhaust tone has been much improved thanks to a stainless Reinhard Takumi Catback, and a M's air intake lets the engine breathe a bit easier. Shifts through the 5 speed transmission are smooth without any grinds. It's clear the engine is healthy with just 114k original miles. Boost comes on strong and pulls hard throughout the RPM range and sounds great doing it! This R33 has received the following since arriving to our shop: 4 brand new tires, new spark plugs, new fuel filters and fresh oil change. It's ready to drive home today!
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Anybody have any thoughts on how the economy will effect us this year.People can't afford to go far from home over the summer wonder if it will boost sales for local events.I know movie ticket sales are up our little up town concert thingy is packed.A friend of mine does the events for Carolina Harley Davidson she says they have big turnouts for bike nights,bbqs,poker runs and this weekend they are hosting something for speed week and the turnout looks good.Will any of you change ticket prices offer deals or coupons?I was thinking of offering a season ticket so the customers can come as many times as they like and of course they will bring friends each time they come mo $$ for me. What about more advertising to help bump up sales or just do same as always and hope for the best.I myself believe this will be a big year for local events.What are your thoughts on this?
Jim Warfield
05-23-2010, 04:28 PM
Will your business be set up in time to take Euros as payment? Or maybe Eros?
Blame it on the Greeks? Eros was Greek.
SO many things can influence our ticket sales.
?????????
I feel our admission price is a bargain at $12.oo If some people don't feel that way..let them eat cake,
From the three-day old bakery!
bhays
05-23-2010, 08:01 PM
Last year was our biggest ever and with a slight uptick in the economy since last season, I am hoping for some really great things. In a down economy entertainment always prospers... I think it will be an outstanding season.
To be more specific, I expect to see the same trend from last year, those major market haunts who have already peaked in their markets should hold their own and those us in expanding markets or who haven't maxed out our markets should see some nice growth.
JamBam
05-24-2010, 11:07 AM
Last year we broke the paid attendance record from the previous year in the last hour. Despite the fact that I didn't finish a ton of marketing because of our twin girls being born eleven weeks early on Sept 11. They are doing great by the way.
I am already doing some marketing on myspace and facebook. We have gone from 400 to 2000 friends on myspace and have the FB fan page just starting to build.
We are half way through our changes for the year and have a huge increase for the 2010 goal.
Indiana unemployment is at 10% but the economy is picking up in the area. The GM plant I work at just added 900 workers for a third shift of production and the real estate market is jumping. People are starting to spend money again!!!
P.S. Aren't these the two cutest babies you have ever seen. Good thing they look like mom. LOL
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Ernst Conservation Seeds grows, processes and sells over 400 species of native and naturalized seeds and live plant materials for restoration, beautification, reclamation and conservation. The environmental climate and professionals in the field are recognizing how important natives are in the restoration of our North American ecology, and that natives are the best choice for use in almost every scenario. We know how to harvest native seeds and grow them in a production environment. We know how to help our customers replicate that success in their own applications. This steadfast commitment to understanding our customers’ needs and advising them on the best solutions hasn’t changed in fifty years.
Company details
Ernst Conservation Seeds was founded by Calvin Ernst in 1964 as Ernst Crownvetch Farms. This third generation family-owned and operated business was formed to meet the need for soil conservation along our interstate highways. Since that time, our business has evolved with the needs of the soil and water conservation industry. Driving this evolution are increased public and governmental interest in native species as a preferred first choice, sustainable landscape design, low-impact development, responsible reclamation and restoration, improved biodiversity, habitat development and evolving practices in conservation agriculture. Today, we grow, process and sell over 400 species of native and naturalized seeds and live plant materials propagated on more than 8,000 total acres. While the majority of acreage is located in northwestern Pennsylvania, we own additional farm land in Florida, and have cooperative relationships in Maryland, North Carolina and Oregon. Our products are sold to conservation organizations, landscape architects, reclamation/restoration contractors, government agencies and private landowners throughout the United States and abroad. We pay special attention to providing species that enhance the beauty of the environment by their colorful flowers, fruit and foliage. We go to great lengths to provide native seed mixes that reflect the wide variety of species that we have studied growing together in native environments. We provide a diversified selection of seeds and materials that are sure to be of the highest quality. Every order is harvested, processed and shipped with pride and dedication from our entire family and staff. The individual needs of our customers remain our highest priority. We are dedicated to providing our customers with the best native and naturalized seeds and materials available. Our family and employees are dedicated to providing you with products that reflect our values. We trust that each order will be filled to your satisfaction. “The environmental climate and professionals in the field are recognizing how important natives are in the restoration of our North American ecology, and that natives are the best choice for use in almost every scenario,” says Calvin. “We know how to harvest these seeds and grow them in a production environment. We know how to help our customers repeat that success in their own applications, and we take the time to do that with each customer.”
Many of the most successful enterprises in history owe their staying power to a visionary leader – one who guided them through the best and worst of times – always with a steadfast resolve and unwavering vision for their destiny. The history of Ernst Conservation Seeds is one such story – intertwined uniquely with that of its founder and president, Calvin Ernst.
Born and raised a stone’s throw from where his sprawling agribusiness calls home, Calvin proved himself to be a savvy entrepreneur by the young age of 14, when he received his Pennsylvania nursery license, now known as a plant merchant certification. In his senior year of high school, Calvin grew the record corn crop in Crawford County with guidance from his 4-H leader and the local Penn State University Cooperative Extension office.
As a junior at Penn State in 1962, Calvin, his brother Luther and some friends were performing research on crownvetch — an herbaceous legume that spreads through both rhizomes and seed — for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Some staff members from the University told the young men they couldn’t find anyone interested in growing crownvetch.
Calvin recalls, “I didn’t initially think that seeds would be my thing. It was really the challenge of doing something PennDOT couldn’t get anyone else to do that put me on this path.” And Calvin has always loved a challenge.
In 1963, Calvin was working for Penn State’s College of Agriculture and Luther as a school administrator. The brothers scraped together $1,000 to purchase foundation crownvetch seed and convinced their father, Ted, to plant it on five acres of the family farm. The gamble, they assured him, would pay off.Recalling his mother’s reaction to the initial seed purchase, Calvin says, “She thought every seed must have been worth a penny – she even swept the stray seeds off the barn floor.”
It was also in 1963 that Calvin made his most auspicious proposal — and realized his greatest personal gain — when he requested, and was granted, the hand of Marcia Atwell in marriage. The two have been life and business partners ever since, literally traveling around the globe and making an indelible mark on the seed trade industry in the ensuing 50-plus years together.
Reflecting on the importance of having her by his side all these years, Calvin says, “Marcia has always supported me personally and professionally. And I could count on her, as I could my parents, to question me on why I thought something was the right idea. She would never say, ‘Don’t ever do that again,’ but instead she would ask why things didn’t work out and how we could learn from it.” He continues, “I think more than anything, it was her support back home and keeping the family together and strong that always made it productive for me to go out and try things, then come back and regroup now and again.”
In 1964, the Ernst brothers planted an additional 60 acres of crownvetch on leased land in the spring, and harvested the earlier five-acre stand that fall. With Ted’s assistance, the 1964 crop was sold to Stanford Seed in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. The Ernst family enterprise — newly dubbed Ernst Crownvetch Farms — had its first customers and was officially in the seed business. The sale to Stanford Seed and other early customers allowed the fledgling agribusiness to hire its first full-time employee, who would help them expand production on owned and leased land.
Calvin had witnessed firsthand the potential of crownvetch for erosion control while living and working in the greenhouses at Penn State. His gut told him this legume held enormous potential for commercial viability. His timing couldn’t have been better. It was during this period of time in the mid-to-late 1960s that the massive Unites States Interstate Highway System was being built. Superhighways like I-79, I-80, I-90 and I-95 were being carved across the American landscape. Suddenly, there was high demand for effective cover crops to revegetate rights-of-way and highway medians. Much of Ernst Crownvetch Farms’ key growth occurred during the ensuing years, thanks largely to the relationships being cultivated with highway departments and government agencies involved with the interstate system.
The 1967 crownvetch crop made it possible to purchase the 180-acre property which Ernst Conservation Seeds still calls home today. It also allowed for the Company’s first personnel expansion, to what was then a handful of people who helped the Ernsts grow both crownvetch seed and crowns.
In fall of 1969, Ernst Crownvetch Farms joined forces with Multi-Systems, Inc., a public corporation based in Detroit, to purchase a 640-acre farm in north central Nebraska, where they plowed under the native prairie and planted the entire farm in irrigated crownvetch. The purchase doubled the acreage Ernst had in production at the time. Over the next three years, Calvin, Marcia and young sons Andy and Michael would spend a couple months each spring and fall living on the Nebraska farm while fields were planted and harvested.
By 1972, the price of crownvetch collapsed. The Ernsts’ partnership with Multi-Systems was mutually severed, with Ernst Crownvetch Farms owing $12,000. With no available assets, Calvin and Marcia took yet another risk by securing local Farmers Home Administration financing on approximately 500 acres back home in Crawford County. The couple expanded their business by growing crownvetch crowns and potted plants. They soon paid their debt from the dissolved partnership and moved on, in control of their own destiny once again.
The couple was blessed with the birth of daughter Robin in 1973. The remainder of the 1970s saw Calvin and Marcia raising the three kids while continuing to sell crownvetch and grain crops. According to Calvin, the children all shared a love for the natural world and the ever-changing business their parents were in.
“I don’t think they ever looked at our farming as drudgery,” he says. “It seems they always figured, ‘Something’s going to happen here that’s going to be more exciting than the last thing.’ And that kept them engaged. Every time we made progress, we shared it with them as well. I think that was important. And it’s something they do with their own kids today.”
The business continued to expand until the 22% interest rates of the early 1980s hit. When the value of crownvetch wasn’t worth the cost of harvesting it, the couple began growing large volumes of no-till corn planted right into the existing crownvetch fields. The practice created high corn yields due to the legume’s excellent nitrogen-fixing properties. Once again, crownvetch had saved the day, even when it was playing a supporting role as a cover crop.
In 1985, Ernst Crownvetch Farms hired its first full-time information technology employee to manage the company’s inventory and sales & marketing activities. This progressive move was becoming characteristic of the Ernsts and their approach to agriculture as a true business, and its employees as professionals.
“I think I’ve generally been successful at finding or developing a skill set within an employee – a skill set that was useful for the business and that person’s professional growth,” he comments. “I’ve tried to mold some of our employees into what the business needs them to be with a lot of success. And some of them I’m still working on,” he laughs.
In the later 1980s, Ernst began growing native deertongue obtained from the USDA’s Big Flats Plant Materials Center in Corning, New York. Deertongue was the first native used for strip mine reclamation where low soil pH was a challenge. Calvin credits the propagation and marketing of deertongue seed as the turning point in the Company’s eventual transition from the non-native crownvetch that had driven sales for the first 20-plus years to the native plant species that would assume that role moving forward. The Company planted its first foundation switchgrass seed (‘Shelter’ variety) in 1988. Calvin was interested in switchgrass because it added wildlife value to strip mine and reclamation seed mixes. It wouldn’t take long, however, for him to find an even higher calling for this high-yielding warm season grass that grows so well on marginal lands.
In 1990, Ernst was purchasing much of its crownvetch seed from growers in southeastern Minnesota in order to mitigate the effects of low market prices. The Company built a small processing facility and erected a handful of grain bins there. Calvin recalls that these activities in Minnesota first piqued his interest and drove a shift in his business strategy toward the diversity of natives and their potential to revolutionize the seed trade. Southeast Minnesota and Iowa were home to many of the first commercial growers of native ecotypes. This fraternity of like-minded producers was very helpful, sharing their combined insights with the ever-curious and innovative entrepreneur. In short order, Calvin began shifting acreage from grain and crownvetch production to that of native forbs and grasses.
In step with Ernst’s shift toward native ecotypes was a shift in the attitudes of government agencies toward the use of non-native species such as crownvetch. Non-natives, specifically those classified as aggressive species, were beginning to be blacklisted in favor of a move toward native species. Once again, Calvin had begun innovating and adapting his product offering ahead of the curve.
Calvin has always believed in the need to continually educate himself and others on best practices, to study the future of agronomy and foresee opportunities to diversify and meet future demands. His peers recognize this as well, often inviting him to speak or to participate in the greater conversation within the industry. In the summer of 1990, Calvin and Marcia traveled to Eastern Europe as part of the “People to People” exchange program in order to study a diverse agricultural practice. In 1991, Calvin traveled with the USDA to China to promote inter-cropping perennial legumes with annual grain crops in order to reduce crop inputs and erosion.
Further expansion of the farm’s operations occurred at this time with help from Ted and the hiring of additional employees.
Calvin recalls fondly one of those employees in particular.
“Pressley Hilliard came to me in an old wreck of a car one day and said, ‘Calvin, you need to buy my farm and grow corn.’ I said, “Pressley, I’m going to show you how to make money without growing corn or raising dairy cows.” We spent time traveling together in the Midwest buying and selling seed and he became enamored with the large production fields. You see, fifteen years ago or so, there was a big transition from dairy farms to crop farms. And it seemed that on every farm where they had torn down the old dairy barns and went straight to crop farming, there was a Cadillac in the yard, so to speak. And on one of those trips, Pressley finally looked at me and said, ‘when I get back, I’m gonna tear down those old barns.’ He was a great person and really became member of our family. We lost Pressley a couple years ago, and folks are still telling stories about him today.”
In 1993, Ernst Crownvetch Farms secured the rights to grow and market ‘Niagara’ Big Bluestem, which was successfully planted in 1994. At about this time, the Company changed its name to Ernst Conservation Seeds in order to better represent its evolving products and philosophy. By that time, Ernst was wild harvesting and growing native wetland seeds for the wetland mitigation market.Further opportunity arose when Ernst began collaborating with federal agencies, highway departments and land developers for the purpose of establishing wetlands and meadows using native seeds, and teaching these groups how to install bioengineering materials for soil stabilization.
Andy, Michael and Robin all pitched in with Ernst employees to expand native seed production and sales. Andy became involved in both state and national professional seed organizations that promote better quality standards. Michael busied himself building additional processing, storage and office capacity. Robin directed seed sales and promoted efficient native seed installation.Mark Fiely joined Ernst Conservation Seeds in 1995 as its full-time horticulturist, helping Calvin diversify the Company’s offering of native ecotypes. To this day, Mark spends a considerable portion of his time traveling the eastern United States in search of new species and researching their viability as production crops. He also works closely with customers, from large government agencies to landscape architects and hobby gardeners, all with the goal of educating them on the use of native species and assisting in their successful establishment.
In 2001, fire destroyed a major portion of the Company’s seed conditioning facility in Meadville and several of that year’s crops were lost. Employees and neighbors brought their own tools to help the family rebuild.
“Our community was showing up to help us before the end of the first day,” recalls Calvin.
With used equipment and loyal employees, seed was conditioned outside through the winter. In 2002, a new seed processing facility was completed, including equipment repair bays and a secure bay for the handling of field spray applications. Though the incident was tragic, it is widely seen as a unifying moment in the history of the Company, strengthening bonds between the family, its employees and the community, while also necessitating facility expansion and improvements that would pay dividends in short order.
“It was something we’d never want to repeat under the same circumstances,” Calvin reflects. “But it allowed us to rebuild and improve the facilities we had. The changes we were able to make to our capacity and processing efficiency just advanced us tremendously. And the way our neighbors, business partners and employees came together and helped out so quickly is very special. It was quite a pulling together.”
In response to a challenge to develop a native seed source for the extreme southeastern United States, Calvin initially utilized his vacuum harvesting technology to wild harvest wiregrass in central Florida. These successful wild harvests and collections of native forbs and grasses throughout Florida gave him yet another opportunity to expand. In 2003, the Ernst family purchased a farm in Live Oak, named it Ernst Southern Native Seeds, LLC, and began field production, with frequent assistance from the NRCS Plant Materials Center (PMC) in Brooksville, Florida and the Florida Wildflower Seed & Plant Growers Association.
Due to decreased demand, coupled with production difficulties involving wiregrass and some of the forbs, this venture did not prove to be as fruitful as hoped. However, with the aid of the Brooksville PMC, Calvin is successfully producing seed of two plant materials center releases of ‘Stuart’ and ‘Miami’ switchgrass. Additionally, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA, ARS) in Griffin, Georgia, he is multiplying seed for more than 40 southeast ecotypes of lowland and upland switchgrass, along with his own native wildflowers. Calvin had been considering the potential for developing grass biomass for energy production. He put his plans to the test in 2005 by leasing 5,000 acres of marginal farmland in Crawford County and planting switchgrass for seed and biomass production. With marginal land being what it is, Calvin learned plenty about the effects of low pH and wet soils. Switchgrass performed well, but, “with thousands of tons of lime and patience, it did better,” recalls Calvin with a wry grin.
Research soon began on the densification of grass for use in direct combustion applications. In a characteristically gutsy move, Calvin decided that his Company would need to be the innovator once again — leading the charge instead of sitting on the sidelines of progress. Ernst would build its own state-of-the-art facility to process warm season grasses. Michael and a select group of dedicated employees designed and constructed a pellet plant that uses only grass. The plant was completed in 2012 and is currently producing densified grass pellets for multiple uses as a separate entity called Ernst Biomass, LLC.
As with most of Calvin’s ventures, very little financial assistance was utilized in the interest of maintaining project control and keeping development on schedule. The facility has opened numerous market opportunities for grass biomass, including numerous agricultural applications and uses in the burgeoning Utica and Marcellus shale oil and gas plays of the northeastern United States.
Today, with over 8,000 acres in production, Ernst grows more than 400 diverse crops for conservation, restoration, beautification, energy, pharmaceuticals and consumption. Future growth opportunities can be seen in increased public and governmental interest in sustainable landscapes, low-impact development, responsible reclamation and restoration, improved biodiversity and habitat development, and evolving practices in conservation agriculture.
While Calvin and Marcia show no sign of slowing down, their children all play critical roles in the future growth and diversification of Ernst Conservation Seeds and its affiliates. Andy and Michael Ernst share responsibilities for day-to-day operations at Ernst Conservation Seeds and Ernst Biomass, while Robin operates Meadville Land Service, Inc., a full service mobile restoration company specializing in the construction, restoration and mitigation of streams and wetlands, as well as native planting, seeding and the installation of bioengineering material. Darrell Ernst, Calvin’s younger brother, has been with the Company as an electrical and hydraulic mechanic for over five years.
After a passing glance back on the first 50 years of his Company’s history, Calvin immediately focuses on the promise of its future.
“The environmental climate and professionals in the field are recognizing how important natives are in the whole restoration of our North American ecology, and that natives are the best choice for use in just about every scenario.
“Through our experience, we know how to harvest these seeds and grow them in a production environment. We know how to help our customers repeat that success in their own unique applications, and we take the time to do that with each customer.
“There’s progress to be made in the efficiency of producing native seeds and in discovering, or creating, new markets for them. We continue to find new plants in diverse ecologies that may contain a thousand species in a square mile.
It is the mission of Ernst Conservation Seeds to make available to eastern North America the key native and naturalized species of plants for restoration, reclamation, conservation, wildlife and pollinator habitat enhancement, renewable biomass energy and the beautification of our nation.
We will identify, collect and propagate new species and ecotypes that will meet our clients’ needs, from eastern Canada to the southeastern United States. Our native seeds are produced from species that are considered the most significant foundation of an effective native restoration or reclamation project. To ensure our customers receive a quality product, all of our seeds are harvested, conditioned and tested under the highest quality standards.
In addition to 8,000 acres of native seed production at Ernst, we supply seed from some of North America’s top producers and collectors. Ernst Conservation Seeds and its suppliers collect, grow and process all of our products in an ecologically sustainable and renewable manner.
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Don't get me wrong,
Macross is a great Anime series. But, the
same can't be said for the game. You
begin by gazing at a sassy gong-vixen
(Minymay?) and then hop into your
Valkyrie (Transforming spaceship). Now,
you have a rapidly decreasing power
supply, which is drained even faster when
you hit enemies. Basically, if you get
hit once, you won't have enough power to
make it to the next stage. You can always
change into your robot form, with rapid
fire, but you move too slowly and, once
again, won't be able to make it to the
next level. Graphics are poor, Gradius is
infinitely times better. Sound, once
again, repeats constantly. Controls are
good, but the difficulty is always set on
nigh-impossible. Too damn difficult for
its own good.
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How to Control the Ring
In this week’s CROM’s Corner we will be going through part 2 of our Footwork series.
Although there are a few different aspects that go into Ring Generalship, I believe the integral components stem from footwork. Some people understand the term, some people have never heard of it, and some don’t care for it. If you are any of these three, know that if you don’t KO/stop your opposition that this is one of the deciding factors that a judge will be looking at to score for or against you.
While it’s true that everyone loves a knockdown, drag ‘em out brawl, I was a commentator on a beautifully technical bout this past weekend which was a great display of exactly what ring generalship represents. It was a 5 round work of art by two female Nak Muays in a rematch at the 105 lb/ 48 kg mini flyweight division. The blue corner was the taller and more aggressive style fighter, as the red corner was content to be the counter fighter.
From the opening bell the blue corner was attempting to set the pace by using her lead leg to establish range. The red corner was wise enough to stay just out of range and counter with hopping lead leg push kicks of her own. As the fight/round went on the red corner started to evade and counter the blue corners attack using precise timing and low kicks to blue corner’s lead leg. Though the blue corner was using smart aggressiveness the red corner was utilizing sharp footwork to stay out of corners, off the ropes, and to create angles for her low kick attacks. The red corner was able to use position and ring awareness alongside accurate counter attacks throughout the fight to retain her title in championship form.
How do you define “Ring Generalship”?
I believe every coach will have their own interpretation as to what ring generalship is and they will have valid points. In my opinion, ring generalship is the ability to move and use the entire ring in such a way to corral and land significant strikes to mentally and physically dominate your opposition.
The finer points of Ring Generalship:
-Precise and purposeful footwork
-Awareness of where you are in the ring in relation to your opposition
-Being able to use the ropes to your advantage
-Using feints to keep your opponent guessing, confused and off rhythm
-Using stalling or retreating to bait the opposition in to attacking first, leaving them open for counter attacks
-Mimicking a shark with circling and forward movement as you are hunting and stalking for your own offensive maneuvers
As with any technique in Muay Thai do your best to incorporate this in to your shadowboxing, bag work, pad work and sparring and it will become a part of your fighting strategy. Becoming a ring general will make it crystal clear for the judges and the crowd to see who’s in charge.
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Transcript
1.
Professional Presence
The Hard Facts about
Soft Skills
Handouts
2.
In business, professional relationships are enhanced when people understand and
practice business protocol. Every time an associate presents or accepts a business
card, greets a customer with a handshake, or attends a business lunch or dinner, they
will exemplify the polish and professionalism that communicates exceptional customer
service and market leadership. In today’s more casual business dealings, that rare
individual is easily distinguished from the competition. Business protocol and etiquette
is also a foundation for individuals developing their leadership potential. It makes an
immediate and noticeable difference in how an individual is perceived and in their
effectiveness in business and social interaction.
Ellen Reddick
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Impact Factory
[email protected]
801.581.0369
3.
What is Business Presence?
A powerful business presence exudes high-level professionalism in attire, posture,
conduct, and verbal skills as well as displaying confidence, leadership, and personal
power in a businesslike manner. A powerful business presence conveys on the nonverbal
level: "I am intelligent; I have choices; I am resourceful; I can be authoritative, easily
managing and inspiring other people; and I am capable of handling any business
situation, including conflict and curve balls."
Know the components of business presence, and learn how to use them to your
advantage:
• Attire - all aspects of your clothing selections, including accessories such as
shoes, jewelry, eye-glasses, etc.
• Hair - style, color, condition, length
• Grooming - overall cleanliness, and personal presentation, including fragrances
use and abuse
• Posture - confidence in the way you hold yourself
• Demeanor - mannerisms, and body language
• Business Accessories -such as briefcases, pens, technology tools, etc.
• Communication Skills - articulation, eye contact, and effective listening
• Etiquette Skills - the right handshake, business protocols, and courtesies
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First Impressions
Appearance + Actions + Attitude
When someone meets you for the first time, they will make up to eleven
assumptions about your personal or professional life. These assumptions are
made fast – within three to seven seconds. Right or wrong, correct or incorrect,
your appearance, actions, and attitude prompt immediate speculation –
conclusions accepted as true without any real proof.
Age ~ This assumption is largely based on physical aspects. Make sure you pay
attention to your appearance.
Level of Education ~ Education can refer to textbook knowledge as well as
worldly exposure. Appearance, action & attitude – will strongly affect this
assumption.
Moral Character ~ This assumption is based on whether you project an
understanding of what is morally and socially right or wrong.
Likability ~ Your actions, particularly nonverbal body language, can greatly
affect this assumption. A friendly smile, sincerity, politeness and good listening
habits can push this assumption to the positive side.
Position in Company ~ Of the three’s A’s, attitude is the most helpful here,
Have you noticed the upper management tend to exude confidence and a
positive attitude? Body language is important – walk taller, hold shoulders back,
and make excellent eye contact.
Income ~ This assumption often reverts back to appearance, one that you can
correct quickly.
Level of Success ~ As we mentioned earlier, attitude is contagious.
Name & Model of Car ~ This is an odd one and one I have never figured out.
Marital Status ~ While it is not appropriate to ask people often assume that
married people are more stable.
Level of Confidence ~ This assumption is based on your attitude, experience,
and self- esteem, which in turn is affected by your appearance 7 actions
Company Image ~ Remember…You are the company. The way you present
yourself is precisely how others perceive the company you work for.
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Body Language Basics
Body language is the single most important means we have of getting our point
across. Over 50% of our communication is accomplished through our posture
and gestures. Body language can add to or detract from your professional
image.
Posture
Good posture, whether sitting or standing, presents a confident image.
• Stand and sit up straight
• Head up
• Shoulders back
• Feet flat on the ground approximately shoulder width apart
• Arms should be relax at your side
Walk
When entering a room, walk in with confidence and purpose. Maintain good
posture. Keep you head up and your eyes off the floor. Lift your feet up, avoid
dragging them along the ground. Keep your arms at your side, a nice easy swing
that matches your stride. A relaxed yet purposeful walk communicates high self-
esteem and commendable confidence.
Gestures
Be aware of your gestures at all times. When speaking with others, make certain
your gestures enhance your message and don’t detract from it. Gestures should
be open and friendly. Avoid doing anything that is going to detract from your
professionalism and the message you are trying to convey.
Eye Contact
Eye contact is builds trust and develops rapport with others. Looking people in
the eye lets them know you are interested in what is happening, you are
involved, you are self-confident and a professional. Avoiding eye contact makes
people believe you lack confidence, are nervous and unprepared, and worst of all
you might not be trust worthy.
It is recommended that you maintain eye contact approximately 95% of the time
when you are engaged in a one-on-one conversation, and up to 50% of the time
when in a group setting.
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Facial Expressions
Your face offers a veritable wealth of information, not just your age and heritage.
Your expressions, or sometimes lack of, give away your innermost attitudes.
Some expressions may make you appear unfriendly, angry, or disinterested. A
warm sincere smile on the other hand, allows you to appear friendly, open, and
approachable, and may be one of your best accessories.
Handshake
Americans traditionally shake hands when meeting or leaving someone for the
first time, or when reconnecting with a person. An appropriate handshake is
between right hands only (unless your right hand is disabled), web-to-web
contact with locked thumbs, and care given to not grab the other person’s
knuckles. A firm grasp that lasts long enough for two to five substantial pumps is
essential.
Every handshake should begin from a standing position, ladies as well as men.
There is no gender distinction in business today. The rest goes as follows:
extend your right hand, initiate eye contact, say an enthusiastic hello, slowly and
clearly state your first and last name, and be sure to smile.
The handshakes you should avoid:
• The limp, dead fish handshake
• The double-handed handshake, often called the politician or pastoral
handshake
• The bone-crusher handshake
• The cold, clammy handshake
Business Tip: Name Badge
Always place your name badge on your right shoulder where it can be readily
seen. The nametag’s purpose is to reinforce your name. When you meet
someone and shake hands, their gaze will automatically follow your right arm
up to your shoulder and then to your face. Place your nametag high enough
on your right shoulder to be easily see.
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Introductions
There are two kinds of introductions: self-introductions and three-party introductions.
When do you introduce yourself? When you recognize someone and he or she doesn’t recognize
you, whenever you’re seated next to someone you don’t know, when the introducer doesn’t
remember your name and when you’re the friend of a friend. Extend your hand, offer your first
and last names and share something about yourself or the event you’re attending.
Tip: In a self-introduction, never give yourself an honorific such as Mr., Ms., Dr., etc.
In a three-person introduction, your role is to introduce two people to each other. In a business or
business/social situation, one must take into consideration the rank of the people involved in
order to show appropriate deference. Simply say first the name of the person who should be
shown the greatest respect. And remember, gender doesn’t count in the business world; protocol
is based upon rank. Senior employees outrank junior employees, customers or clients outrank
every employee (even the CEO), and officials (Mayor, Senator, etc.) outrank non-officials.
Begin with the superior’s name, add the introduction phrase, say the other person’s name and
add some information about the second person. Then reverse the introduction by saying the
second’s name, followed by the introduction phrase and the superior’s name and information.
When a three-party intro is done correctly, the two people being introduced should be able to start
some small talk based upon what you shared about each of them. Introductions should match, so
if you know the first and last names of both people, say both. If you know only the first name of
one person, say only the first names of both. If you add an honorific for one person, the other
should also have one.
Examples:
“Mr. Brown, I’d like to introduce Ms. Ann Smith, who started yesterday in the mailroom. Ann, this
is Douglas Brown, our CEO.”
(Ann would be wise to call the CEO “Mr. Brown” right away and not assume she may call him by
his first name. Always use the last names of superiors and clients until you are invited to do
otherwise.)
“Pete, I’d like to introduce to you Doug Brown, our CEO. Doug, I’d like you to meet, Pete
Johnson, who’s considering our firm for his ad campaign.”
Tip: Don’t say “I’d like to introduce you to..”, but rather “I’d like to introduce to you…”
Tip: Always stand for an introduction.
Social skills are important prerequisites to succeeding in business. Knowing how to shake hands
and handle introductions can set you apart from the competition, convey confidence and project a
professional image. Practice these simple skills and you will reap the benefits!
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Seven Body Language Killers
In many ways, listeners hear with their eyes. What is your body language saying
about you? When you give a presentation or run a sales meeting, are you
coming across as authoritative, confident and credible, or insecure, disreputable
and out of your league?
When it comes to body language, simply avoiding the most common mistakes
and replacing them with more confident movements will make a big difference.
Killer #1- Avoiding eye contact
What it says about you: You lack confidence; you are nervous and unprepared.
What to do instead: Spend 90% or more of your presentation time looking into
the eyes of your listeners. The vast majority of people spend far too much time
looking down at notes, PowerPoint slides or at the table in front of them. Not
surprisingly, most speakers can change this behavior instantly simply by
watching video of themselves. Powerful business leaders look at their listeners
directly in the eye when delivering their message.
During the recent confirmation hearings for U.S Chief Justice nominee John
Roberts, newspapers praised him for "looking self-assured." How did Roberts
project this image? Instead of reading his statements from notes, Roberts looked
his audience of Senators straight in the eye as he delivered his remarks.
Killer #2- Slouching
What it says about you: You are non-authoritative; you lack confidence.
What to do instead: When standing stationary, place feet at shoulder width and
lean slightly forward. Pull your shoulders slightly forward as well -- you'll appear
more masculine. Head and spine should be straight. Don't use a tabletop or
podium as an excuse to lean on it.
Killer #3- Fidgeting, rocking or swaying
What it says about you: You are nervous, unsure or unprepared.
What to do instead: Well, stop fidgeting. Fidgeting, rocking and swaying don't
serve any purpose. I recently worked with the top executive of computer
company who had to deliver the news of a product delay to a major investor. He
and his team actually had the event under control, and had learned valuable
lessons from the failure. But his body language suggested otherwise.
Killer #4- Standing in place
What it says about you: You are rigid, nervous, boring -- not engaging or
dynamic.
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What to do instead: Walk. Move. Most men who come to me for presentation
coaching think they need to stand ridged in one place. What they don't realize is
that movement is not only acceptable, it's welcome. Some of the greatest
business speakers walk into the audience, and are constantly moving... but with
purpose!
For example, a dynamic speaker will walk from one side of the room to another
to deliver their message. But if there's no one in a corner of the room, it doesn't
make sense to go there -- it's not moving with purpose. When I tape my clients
on video, I actually want to see that they move out of frame once in a while.
Otherwise, they appear too rigid.
Killer #5- Keeping hands in pocket
What it says about you: You are uninterested, uncommitted or nervous.
What to do instead: The solution here is too simple: Take your hands out of
your pocket. I've seen great business leaders who never once put both hands in
their pockets during a presentation. One hand is acceptable -- as long as the free
hand is gesturing.
Killer #6- Using phony gestures
What it says about you: You are over coached, unnatural or artificial.
What to do instead: Use gestures; just don't overdo it. Researchers have shown
that gestures reflect complex thought. Gestures leave listeners with the
perception of confidence, competence and control. But the minute you try to copy
a hand gesture, you risk looking contrived -- like a bad politician.
Killer #7- Jingling coins, tapping toes & other annoying movements
What it says about you: You are nervous, unpolished or insufficiently
concerned with details.
What to do instead: Use a video camera to tape yourself. Play it back with a
critical eye. Do you find annoying gestures that you weren't aware of? I once
watched an author who had written a book on leadership discuss his project. He
couldn't help but jingle all the coins in his pocket throughout the entire talk. He
didn't sell very many books that day, and he certainly didn't score points on the
leadership scale.
Nervous energy will reflect itself in toe-tapping, touching your face or moving
your leg up and down. It's an easy fix once you catch yourself in the act!
Use your body as a positive communication tool!
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How to Write a Handwritten Note
Only three or four sentences long, a thank you/hand written note is a
golden opportunity to make the sort of personal connection that builds
stronger professional relationships.
Hand write a note whenever possible. It says you took the time to think about
what you were writing. The person receiving your note will appreciate your
thoughtfulness and will not be grading your penmanship.
A simple fold-over note card, a black or blue pen, a stamp and little effort are
all you need. A good thank you/hand written note that gets mailed is better
than the perfect one that never gets written.
The six elements of a basic thank you note:
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1. Salutation Dear Jay,
A surprising number of writers forget
this, but people like to see their own
names.
If you are on a first-name basis, use
it, otherwise use the more formal Mr.
or Ms. greeting.
2. Express your appreciation Thanks so much for the the tickets to
Noises Off.
Thank you is more formal; thanks is
more casual.
3. Describe the gift or experience Al and I have always loved going to the
theater, especially when it's a comedy.
Mention how an object looks or how The performances were great, and we
you will use it. Mention your laughed until our sides ached. It was
enjoyment of an event. People want wonderful of you to think of us.
to know they made you happy.
Even if there was a problem with the
gift, keep negatives to yourself. If the
gift or event wasn’t to your taste,
focus on the giver and the thought.
Everyone wants to be appreciated.
The time and energy are more
important than the gift.
4. Mention a connection We hope to see you when you are in town
again.
Discuss the past, allude to the future
or mention something you have in
common with the giver. If you can’t
think of anything else express your
desire to see or talk to the person
soon.
5. Thanks again for Thanks again for a wonderful evening.
It’s not overkill to say it again
6. Close Sincerely,
Any of the following are suitable for
business:
• Sincerely
• Sincerely yours
• Cordially
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What to Say: Ideas for Business Greetings
Thank You: General
• With special thanks and much appreciation.
• Sincere thanks for your extra efforts.
• Your thoughtfulness is appreciated so much more than words can say.
• With sincere gratitude for all you have done.
• You’re the best!
• You made my day!
• It was a pleasure to work with you.
• Thank you for thinking of us.
• Many thanks for all you do.
Thank You: For Business/Order
• Thank you for your order. Continuing to serve you will be a pleasure.
• Your business is always appreciated.
• Thank you for choosing us.
• Thank you for your friendship, your business and the opportunity to serve you.
• Your business is sincerely appreciated. We look forward to continuing to serve
you.
• Success is having you for a customer.
• We appreciate your business and your confidence in us.
• Thank you for your continued business. We look forward to working with you in
the future.
Thank You: For Referral
• Thank you for the referral. Your confidence and trust in us is sincerely
appreciated.
• Thank you for referring _______ to our firm. We sincerely appreciate your
confidence in us.
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• Thanks for thinking of me. Your referral is very much appreciated.
• Thank you for the vote of confidence.
• Many thanks for referring _______ to me. I’ll make sure he/she gets VIP service.
Thank You: For Time/Conversation
• Thank you for taking the time to meet with me.
• It was a pleasure talking with you. I hope we can speak again soon.
• Thanks for your time. If you need anything, don’t hesitate to call me.
• Thank you for meeting with me. If you need anything, I’m only a phone call
away.
• Thanks for squeezing me in. I know how busy you are.
• Many thanks for your inquiry. I’m sure we can meet your needs.
It is Your Birthday
• Wishing you a wonderful day.
• Sincere good wishes on your special day.
• Best wishes on your birthday for good health and happiness throughout the
year.
• Warmest greetings on your birthday with every good wish for the coming year.
• With friendly thoughts and best wishes for your birthday.
• Sending you sincere wishes for good health and happiness on your birthday.
• All the best to you for a very special birthday.
• May you have an unforgettable day filled with happiness.
• Wishing you life’s best!
• May this day and every day be filled with joy.
• Wishing you every happiness today and always.
• Have a sensational day!
• May all of your dreams come true.
• Warm wishes on your birthday and always.
Business Anniversary
• Happy Anniversary! Thank you for being a part of our success now and in the
future.
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• Thanks for another great year!
• You’ve made our success possible. Thank you!
• Thanks from all of us for ______ years of your business. We look forward to
many more.
• Many thanks for being our customer for _______ years. We value that
relationship.
• Your business is appreciated. Thank you for choosing us.
Welcome
• A hearty welcome from all of us.
• Welcome aboard! It’s good to have you with us.
• A very warm welcome. We’re glad you joined us.
• We’re glad you’re here.
• A warm welcome. Thank you for choosing us!
• Welcome! We look forward to serving you.
• A warm welcome from all of us. Thank you for the opportunity to serve you.
Congratulations
• Congratulations on a job well done.
• Hoping the best things in life will always be yours.
• This is a day to remember.
• It’s great to see good things happen for someone so deserving.
• Congratulations on a well-deserved promotion.
• Congratulations on an outstanding accomplishment.
• Your achievement is an inspiration.
• Kudos to you! You’ve earned them.
• Just want to add my good wishes to those you’ve already received.
• Bravo! You’ve accomplished great things.
Retirement
• With every good wish for your retirement. May this be the start of your best
years.
• Congratulations on your retirement. Best wishes for a great future.
• Wishing you life's best today and always.
• Congratulations on achieving a milestone. Here's to a great future.
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• Best wishes for today and every day in the future.
• Congratulations on your special day. May the future be filled with much
happiness.
Get Well
• May every day find you feeling better!
• Thinking of you. May you feel better soon.
• Our warmest thoughts are with you. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
• We’re sick without you. Get well soon.
• Hoping this finds you well on the way to recovery.
• Take care of yourself and feel better soon.
• You are in my thoughts. If there is anything I can do, please let me know.
• You are missed! Get well soon and hurry back.
Sympathy
• Please accept my/our deepest sympathy
• My/Our sympathy and thoughts are with you and your family.
• Offering my/our sincerest condolences to you and your family
• With concern and caring sympathy.
• May your sorrow be eased by good memories.
• With heartfelt sympathy. You are in my thoughts and prayers.
• Hoping these words of sympathy will comfort you in your time of sorrow.
• Words are inadequate at a time like this. Please accept my heartfelt sympathy.
Keeping in Touch
• Just a note to keep in touch. Let’s talk soon.
• Thinking of you—hope all is well. Let me know if I can help in any way.
• Sorry I missed you. Hope to talk with you soon.
• Just touching base with you.
• Sending this just to say hi.
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How Does Your Office Welcome Clients?
A new client is coming to visit--and panic sets in. What will they think? Will they
have a favorable experience that encourages them to do business with you? Or
will they leave your facilities wondering how to contact your competition?
When customers visit, they form an impression of your business. That impression
becomes your image. Whether the visit involves a business transaction, a service
call or a corporate event--whether it's for only an hour or a full day--you need to
create positive impressions for everyone.
Here are some tips for receiving visitors graciously:
• Create a welcoming atmosphere
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Have you trained your receptionist (or the first person your clients see) to smile
and greet every visitor who comes to the office? That first contact can affect
perceptions about the company. If this person is on the phone or occupied with
another customer, do they acknowledge the visitor with a glance or a smile? Or
do they ignore the visitor? Do customers have to hunt around for someone to
assist them?
If you know ahead of time that the client is coming, make sure everyone knows
the name of the visitor. The receptionist should be prepared with a name badge
or a visitor's pass. Be sure every visitor is greeted in a friendly and helpful way.
• Set professional standards
A client visited a car dealership on a Saturday afternoon. The sales
representative who greeted her was dressed in a white tank top that exposed her
belly button; she also wore a pair of tight black jeans and black-and-white
sneakers. The client took one look at her and decided to go to another
dealership--her competitor.
Are your employees appropriately dressed? Do they always project a
professional image, even on business-casual days? Or are they dressed a little
too casually? Your employees represent the company; their appearance should
reflect that at all times. Think about how their appearance can enhance or detract
from your corporate image.
• Act as the host
When you receive visitors, you are the host. The way you greet them in your
office can affect the outcome of the meeting. So set the tone for a positive
encounter.
Don't keep your visitors waiting. If the receptionist is escorting them to your
office, be sure to come out from behind your desk to greet them. Stand to shake
hands, and shake "web to web"--that is, grasp the other hand fully with your
hand-don't simply clasp the other person's fingers. Shake in the same manner
with men and women alike.
To create the best impression, personally greet the visitors in the waiting room.
Shake hands with your guests and escort them to your office, letting them follow
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you. Upon arrival at your office, allow them to proceed first into the room, and
indicate where they should sit. Do not seat your guests directly across from your
desk; instead, place their chairs to the side of the desk.
Don't accept calls or interruptions during the meeting. When the meeting is over,
stand, shake hands once again and walk your guests back to the waiting room.
• Make the proper introductions
Introductions may seem like a trivial item in the grand scheme of business
interactions, but they are crucial to setting a professional tone in the office. If
clients are at your location for the entire day, make an effort to introduce them to
your senior executives. This simple gesture will help your guests to feel welcome.
As you escort a client through the office, you may run into company employees.
Be sure to make the proper introductions. When deciding who should be
introduced first, use the following order, regardless of gender: client, senior
executives, and junior executives. Provide information about each person you
introduce, so these people can start a conversation. For example: "Mr. Harris
(client), I would like you to meet Ms. Jones (company president). Mr. Harris is our
new client from Chicago; Ms. Jones is our company president." Show equal
respect and gracious behavior to everyone in your office. Your clients will notice
how you treat everyone.
• Be conscious of office courtesies
When escorting a client for a product demonstration or a company tour, use
proper office courtesies. One should never, for instance, discuss office gossip or
talk negatively about company employees in front of guests. I have sat in
reception areas and overheard employees talk about things and people that gave
me a very unflattering view of the company. The same should be applied to
employees that walk through the office talking on their cell phone. You never
know who may overhear a remark that should not be heard at all.
Know the appropriate way to handle entrances, exits, revolving doors and
elevators. As the host, when you get to a door, open it. This rule applies
regardless of gender. It is polite to hold the door for your guest to enter. At
revolving doors, the host enters the door first, leading the way for guests. As you
enter, you might want to say, "I'll wait for you on the other side." Then do so. If
there is more than one person with you, wait until everyone is through the
revolving door before you proceed.
When navigating stairs and escalators, the host leads the way, whether you are
going up or down. When using elevators, allow your guests to enter before you
do; upon exiting, leave the elevator first and hold the door for those following.
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People at the front of the elevator should step off to make room when those in
the back need to exit. Hold the door, allow them to leave and step back into the
elevator. This is much nicer than cramming your body to the sidewall so that they
have room to leave.
Companies that want to stand out from their competition pay attention to making
visitors welcome. Manners make the difference. Greet your visitors graciously,
know what to do during their visit, be considerate of others and create positive
impressions that last and last.
Make a client visit to your company another selling opportunity and reaffirm that
your company deserves their business.
Sound as Good as You Look
Speaking with Ease
Every time you open your mouth and speak, your professionalism is on display.
What you say and how you say it is extremely important to your professional
image.
What we say is not as important as how we make people feel.
Make certain your speech doesn’t detract from your professionalism by paying
attention to the following:
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• Listen to the sound of your own voice. Keep it warm and inviting.
People with a higher than normal voice are thought to be less intelligent
than those with a lower voice. One way to improve the sound of your
voice is to read out loud to yourself every day for 5 or 10 minutes. Read
quality literature, the Bible, poetry, Shakespeare, the classics.
• Speak slowly, clearly and distinctly. Make it easy for the person you
are speaking with to hear and understand what it is you are saying.
• Eliminate the use of non-words. Non-words are meaningless fillers that
speckle our speech, distract from our message, drain our impact, and
annoy our listener. The most common non-words are “uhh,” “ahh,” and
“um.” They also include words such as “like,” “you know,” “well,” “so,”
“okay?” and “sort of.” The excessive use of non-words can undermine
your credibility and make you appear weak and ill-prepared.
• Always use proper grammar. Nothing detracts from your
professionalism faster than using the incorrect tense of a verb or an
incorrect word.
• Avoid using slang such as “hi guys,” “how ya doin,” or casual phrases
like whatever” while rolling your eyes.
NEVER refer to a group of people as “You guys.”
• Avoid poor diction. Often people don’t realize they are using poor
diction because it becomes a verbal habit.
Resources
Be An Interesting Person
Selected Shorts –
Each week on National Public Radio, great actors from stage, screen and
television bring short stories to life. Selected Shorts is an award-winning, one-
hour program featuring readings of classic and new short fiction, recorded live at
New York’s Symphony Space. One of the most popular series on the airwaves,
this unique show is hosted by Isaiah Sheffer and produced for radio by
Symphony Space and WNYC Radio.
see: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/shorts/ KCPW & KRCL radio stations
What you will learn: The power of a quality voice and the importance of using
your voice as a tool.
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C-SPAN2 Booknotes –
48 hours of non-fiction book programming, all weekend, every weekend on C-
SPAN2. It includes book events related to History, Biography, Business, and also
Encore Booknotes programs. Book TV airs from Saturday at 8am ET through
Monday at 8am ET
Also the show: After Words. This Saturday, November 11 at 9:00 pm and
Sunday, November 12 at 6:00 pm and at 9:00 pm Book TV presents After Words:
Nicholas Lemann, author of "Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War"
interviewed by Herman Belz, a professor of history at the University of Maryland
See: http://www.booktv.org/schedule
Resources
Books
The Elements of Style William Strunk Jr. & E. B. White
Global Business Etiquette: A Guide Jeanette S. Martin and Lillian H.
to International Communication Chaney
and Customs
Primal Branding Patrick Hanlon
AllEtiquette.com – A Power Guide Fredrica Cere Kussin
First Impressions Ann Demarais, Ph.D
What You Don’t Know About How Others See You
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II. Samuel Eliot Morison. The Oxford History of the American People;Page
Smith. A People's History of the United States.
III. Alfred North Whitehead. Science and the Modern World.
IV. Alfred North Whitehead. An Introduction to Mathematics.
V. E. H. Gombrich. The Story of Art.
VI. Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren. How to Read a Book
Social Intelligence
In his new book Social Intelligence, Daniel Goleman wrote “Listening poorly is
the common cold of social intelligence. And it is being made worse by
technology. To have a human moment, you need to be fully present. You
have to be away from your laptop, put down your BlackBerry, you end your
daydream and you pay full attention to the person you are with. It may sound
rudimentary but think about how often we just keep multitasking and half pay
attention. We each need to live in the moment fully engaged in what we are
doing.”
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The use of etiquette or true professionalism is exactly that
– being fully present!
SIX KEYS TO STRONG EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Self-awareness, self-control and empathy form the foundation of strong
emotional intelligence, followed by social expertness, personal
influence and mastery of vision.
• Self-awareness. Knowing what influences our feelings, positively or negatively,
is critical. It’s very important to realize what kinds of situations can put us over
the edge before we get there.
• Self-control. Once we know our “triggers,” we can implement coping
mechanisms. For instance, just knowing that getting cut off on the highway
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produces intense feelings of rage (self-awareness), we can decide to cope better
while driving by listening to soothing music or a recorded
book (self-control).
• Empathy. We must cultivate the ability to look at a situation from another’s
perspective. In our driving example, consider that the driver who cut you off might
have been someone helping an expectant
mother get to the hospital.
• Social expertness. The ability to build relationships requires empathy,
excellent communication skills, and the ability to listen well.
• Personal influence. All leaders are, by definition, required to influence and
persuade others to follow them. This is impossible to do without the qualities
listed above.
• Mastery of vision. A mission statement of sorts outlines intentions and values.
Cell Phones - The Worst Offenses
On the topic of wireless "faux pas," respondents in the Yahoo! HotJobs survey ranked
these five unacceptable behaviors, from most reprehensible to least.
1. Accepting a personal call while in a meeting or presentation
2. Answering the phone or emails while at a business dinner
3. Talking on the phone while in the bathroom
4. Talking on the phone while in close quarters (such as a train, plane, or bus)
5. Answering a work call or email during personal time after work hours
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The Top Eight Rules of Proper Cell Phone Etiquette at Work
A recent study showed that at least 40% of U.S. companies now have a
published cell phone usage policy at work. That percentage will most certainly
rise in the near future. It might be more difficult for the employees of the majority
of firms that have yet to adopt an acceptable use policy. To avoid suffering a
career detour from unacceptable cell phone use in your office, consider the
following generally accepted rules of good cell phone behavior.
1. Turn your ringer OFF or set to “vibrate”. Unless your cell phone is a
company-issued handset for business use, set your unit to vibrate while at
your desk. Even if you’ve selected a tasteful ring tone, repetitive incoming
calls will be noticed (negatively) by co-workers and management.
2. Let “bread and milk” and other unimportant calls go to voicemail.
While it’s wonderful to have a live connection to the important people in
your life, children, parents, other family and friends, frequent chatty calls
during your workday will often reflect negatively on your perceived
concentration on your duties.
3. When you must use your cell phone, find a private, quiet place to
make your calls. Regardless of where you are, most etiquette advisors
agree you should always observe the “ten-foot rule”. Maintain a buffer
zone of at least ten feet from others while you’re using your cell phone.
While at work, you should make every attempt to expand basic etiquette
and find locations that do not infringe on co-workers trying to perform their
jobs.
4. Don’t bring your cell phone to meetings. Neglecting this one rule can
do career damage even when you adhere to most of the other
recommendations. Some etiquette gurus recommend that, should an
important call be expected, either for business or a family emergency, you
could put your cell phone on “vibrate” and bring it with you. Treat this
exception with extreme caution, however. Regardless of the urgency of
the expected call, your boss will most certainly take a very dim view of a
meeting interruption because of your cell phone. It is a far better idea to
leave your cell phone at your desk to avoid any “interruption temptation”.
5. Never use your cell phone in restrooms. This rule may, at first, appear
frivolous, but the statistics indicate it is an important component of cell
phone etiquette. Why? You often do not know who else may be using the
facilities. Should you communicate private information or sensitive work
issues, you may easily be overheard without your knowledge. There are
some well-documented horror stories of information delivered into the
wrong hands by this simple, innocuous rule violation.
6. Eliminating embarrassing ring tones. Should you have a psychological
need to use a cutesy or outrageous ring tone while away from your job, be
very careful when you are at work. Either keep your cell phone on vibrate
at all times at work or change to a more professional ring tone during your
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work day. Along with annoying both co-workers and supervisors, a silly
ring tone can negatively impact your career by displaying a less than
professional, serious image to management.
7. Maintain a low voice during cell phone conversations. Often called
“holding court”, having loud conversations about nothing, a loud voice can
be extremely annoying to anyone within earshot. Often, the ten-foot rule
becomes useless during one of these situations. Unless you are in the
middle of a loud construction site, you should understand that cell phone
microphones are very sensitive and only inches away from your mouth.
There is normally no need to increase your voice to levels used by
seminar leaders talking without microphones.
8. Use text messages instead of voice calls to maintain
professionalism. If you need to communicate on a personal level and
understand that voice calls would be inappropriate, send a text message
to your caller. It’s quiet, fast, and to the point. Unless you’re trying to set a
world’s record for the largest thumbs on the planet, a few text messages
during the workday keeps your lines of communications open without
wasting your time or annoying co-workers.
Try to remember that, through most of recorded history, the world of business
operated quite effectively without constant cell phone use. The basic substance
of successful business operations contains no requirement that cell phones
contribute mightily to your company’s bottom line. Be ready for a formal company
policy regarding cell phone use at work. More and more firms, many reaching
unacceptable levels of frustration, will be joining those who have already
published regulations and publishing restrictive policies.
By following the current rules of good cell phone etiquette, you’ll not only be
ahead of the curve, you may enhance your professional standing at work by
displaying this considerate behavior. Some of your cell phone etiquette may even
be transferred to your friends who might be in need of some guidelines, too.
Professional e-mail Etiquette Guidelines
"There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are
evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how
we say it." - Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) American Educator
When it comes to your business e-mail communications, you need to make an
impression that can lend to the determination that you are a credible professional
enterprise and someone that will be easy and a pleasure to do business with. You only
have one chance to make that first impression which will be invaluable to building trust
and confidence.
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Top 10 Business Email Etiquette issues that need to be considered with every
commercial e-mail sent.
SUBJECT The window into your e-mail and can determine if your e-mail will be
opened.
Level of Formality Try to avoid the prevailing assumption that e-mail by its very nature
allows you to be informal in your business e-mail.
Addressing How do you address your new contacts?
TO, From, These fields can make or break you:
BCC, CC
TO Type the contacts name formally-John B. Doe - not john b doe or JOHN
B DOE.
FROM Make sure you have your full name formally typed
BCC Use this field when e-mailing a group of contacts who do not personally
know each other
CC Use this field when there are a handful of associates involved
in a discussion that requires all be on the same page
Formatting Refrain from using any formatting in your day-to-day business e-mail
communications.
Attachments If you need to send a large size file business courtesy dictates you ask
the recipient first if it is O.K.
Using Previous Always start a new e-mail and add your contacts to your address book.
E-mail
New
Correspondence Don’t give the perception that you are lazy
Down Edit Do not just hit reply and start typing. Use common courtesy
Be careful with signatures
There you have it! The above Top 10 items will certainly allow your business
communications to rise above the majority who do not take the time to
understand and master these issues. When forging new business relationships
and solidifying established partnerships, the level of professionalism and
courtesy you relay in your business e-mail communications will always gain
clients over the competition that may be anemic, uninformed or just plain lazy in
this area.
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When it comes to business, regardless of mode of communication used,
professionalism and courtesy never go out of style!
Business email etiquette speaks volumes about the sender and the
company where the message was originated.
Keep your professional image at all times following these simple
rules. They are not hard and all the benefits will be yours.
Top 10 List of SMS Etiquette
Text messaging is one of the simplest and most useful means of mobile
communication. No one can doubt the popularity of text messaging and short
messaging service (SMS) in particular - more than 50 billion SMS messages
were sent across the world's GSM networks in the first quarter of 2005, a fivefold
increase over the previous year - and there's no slowdown in sight.
1. Common courtesy still rules. Contrary to popular belief, composing an
SMS while you're in a face-to-face conversation with someone is just
about as rude as taking a voice call.
2. Remember that SMS is informal. SMS shouldn't be used for formal
invitations or to dump your girlfriend or boyfriend. The casualness of SMS
diminishes the strength and meaning of the message.
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3. Don't get upset if you don't get a reply. Before you text someone and get
frustrated at the lack of a response, be sure that they're familiar with how
to use the service, and that their carrier will accept messages from yours.
4. Be aware of your tone. It is extremely difficult to discern tone in text
messages, just as in e-mail. What seems to you to be a completely
innocuous message may be grossly misinterpreted by the recipient,
causing certain discomfort if not irreparable harm.
5. Don't SMS while you're driving. Talking on the phone is bad enough. You
won't know what hit you - or what you hit - if you are pounding out a
message on your keyboard.
6. Leave the slang to the kids. Don't expect your stodgy superiors at work to
be hip to the lingo of the SMS streets. And don't expect to win points with
your kids by trying to be cool, either.
7. Remember that SMS can be traced. Anonymous messages - if you must
send them -are still best sent from Web sites.
8. Be conscientious of others' schedules. Don't assume that because you are
awake, working, not busy, or sober that the person you're texting is as
well. Many a pleasant slumber have been interrupted by recurring "beep-
beep...beep-beeps" of messages.
9. If it's immediate, make a voice call. If you can't get through and your text
message is ignored, there's probably a good reason. There are still some
times when people don't even have a thumb free to respond.
10. Remember that your phone does have an off button. There are very, very
few things in the world that absolutely cannot wait.
General Dining Etiquette
It is important to know how to conduct oneself properly at the table. The rules of
dining etiquette are fairly straightforward and mostly require common sense.
Table Setting. It can be very confusing to be presented with a variety of eating
utensils. (See below) Remember the guideline “to start at the outside and work
your way in.” If you have been given two forks, which are the same size, begin
with the fork on the outside. Many restaurants use the same size of fork for both
the salad and main course.
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Napkin. When dining with others place your napkin on your lap after everyone at
your table has been seated. Do not open your napkin in mid-air. As you remove
your napkin from the table begin to open below the table level and place on your
lap. If you must leave a meal, do so between courses, and place your napkin on
your chair or to the left of your plate. When a meal is completed, place your
napkin to the right of your plate – never on the plate.
Served. Wait for everyone at your table to be served before beginning to eat.
However, if an individual who has not been served encourages you to begin
eating, you may do so. Eat slowly while waiting for their food to be served.
Soup. When eating soup, think of making a circle: spoon away from you, bring
around to your mouth and back to the bowl. Soup is taken from the side of the
soup spoon –it is not inserted into your mouth. Do not slurp or make noises when
eating soup.
Sorbet. This item is often served between courses to cleanse the palate. It is a
light, sherbet texture and depending on when served may be eaten with a fork or
a spoon.
Utensils. Be careful how you hold your utensils. Many people tend to make a fist
around the handle of the utensil – this is the way a young child would grasp a
utensil (not an adult). There are two acceptable ways to use the knife and fork:
continental fashion and American standard. Continental fashion—the diner cuts
the food usually one bite at a time and uses the fork in the left hand, tines
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pointing down, to spear the food and bring it to the mouth. American standard—a
few bites are cut, the knife is laid across the top of the plate, sharp edge toward
you, and the fork is switched to the right hand, if right-handed, tines up to bring
the food to the mouth. (Do not cut more than two or three bites at a time.)
Dessert Utensils. Dessert utensils may be found placed across the top of the
place setting. Place these utensils down for use after the main course is removed
(fork to the left and spoon to the right).
Passing. Pass “community food” such as the breadbasket, salt and pepper, and
salad dressing to the right. Always pass the salt and pepper together. When
passing items such as a creamer, syrup pitcher or gravy boat, pass it with the
handle pointing toward the recipient.
Seasoning. Always taste your food first before using any seasonings. Do not
assume it needs to be seasoned.
Sweeteners. Do not be excessive with sugar or sweetener packets. The rule of
thumb is no more than two packets per meal. Do not crumble the packets but
partially tear off a corner, empty the contents and place to the side.
Bread. Bread/rolls should never be eaten whole. Break into smaller, more
manageable pieces, buttering only one bite at a time. Toast and garlic bread
however may be eaten as whole pieces since they are usually already buttered.
If you are served a piping hot muffin or biscuit, you may break in half crosswise,
butter and put back together. However when ready to actually eat, break it into
small pieces.
Glasses. A variety of types and sizes of glasses can be used throughout the
meal. Remember your items to drink will be located in the area above your knife
and spoon. Coffee cups may be located to the right of the knife and spoon.
Alcohol. Alcohol, if consumed, should be in moderation. In most cases you may
have a drink during the social hour and wine(s) with the dinner. You do not have
to finish your drink. In fact slowly sipping is recommended. If you do not want an
alcoholic drink politely decline.
Buffets. Buffets provide an opportunity to select items you enjoy. Do not
overload your plate. Select a balanced variety of food items.
Pre-Set Meals. With a pre-set meal the host/hostess has already made the
selections and the individuals are served. If allergic, religious or vegetarian
issues arise, quietly deal with these as the server is at your side. For vegetarian
ask if you may have a vegetable plate; with allergies or religion provide the
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server with some options (ex. Allergic to shellfish—ask if they have cod or
flounder and be ready with your preference). This lets the server know what you
can eat. Always eat a little of all items served to you.
Ordering from Menu. As the guest select an item that is in the mid-price range,
easy to eat and you will enjoy. Consider asking your host/hostess for a
recommendation before making your decision. As the host it is helpful to take the
lead in ordering appetizers and wine, if these are to be served.
Finished. When finished with a course, leave your plates in the same position
that they were presented to you. In other words, do not push your plates away or
stack them.
Guest. If you are someone’s guest at a meal, ask the person what he/she
recommends. By doing this, you will learn price range guidelines and have an
idea of what to order. Usually order an item in the mid price range. Also keep in
mind, the person who typically initiates the meal will pay. Remember to thank
them for the meal.
Restaurant Staff. Wait staff, servers, Maitre d’, etc. are your allies. They can
assist you with whatever problem may arise. Quietly get their attention and speak
to them about the issue.
12 Common Dining Mistakes
Today more business is done while dining than ever before. Sales can be lost and careers short-
circuited when poor table manners are displayed. Remember, your table manners are a gift you
give those with whom you dine. They also indicate whether or not you know how to show respect
for others. The following are the most common mistakes noted while dining.
1. Misusing silverware
Gripping the fork and knife incorrectly is the most obvious and common faux pas. Knives
are meant to cut, not saw. The fork and knife should never teeter half off the plate onto
the table. Don't wave your silverware in the air while talking. Silverware placed at the top
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of the plate is for dessert. Place only the silverware that you have used on the plate when
finished.
2. Using the wrong butter plate
There's a simple rule to remember: liquids to the right, solids to the left. Your butter plate
will be near your fork, not your knife.
3. Buttering an entire roll
Bread and rolls are meant to be torn, not cut. A large roll would be torn in half first, then a
smaller piece can be torn off, buttered and eaten. Toast is the exception. The entire piece
can be buttered at once.
4. Improper use of the napkin
The napkin comes off the table only after everyone is seated. It is used to dab the lips,
not scrub the face. If leaving the table temporarily mid-meal, place the napkin on your
chair. At the end of the meal, place it on the table next to your plate, never on the plate,
however.
5. Eating too fast or too slow
Pacing is important when dining with others. Slow down if you notice you're faster than
everyone else. Speed up or leave some food if you're a slow eater. You should never
leave your guest to dine alone, which happens if you're finished way ahead of your guest.
6. Showing food in mouth
This happens when you've taken too big of a bite and then chew with your mouth open,
or continue to talk. This is very unappetizing for others to observe. Small bites are
necessary when trying to converse while eating.
7. Seasoning food before tasting
Without tasting your food, how would you know it really needs seasoning? This can be
seen as an insult to the chef and host. It also can indicate that you jump to conclusions.
8. Washing food down with liquids
The mouth should be cleared of food before beverages are sipped. It's a good habit to
get into, especially with wine. Wine is meant to cleanse the palate and its taste can't fully
be appreciated with food still in the mouth.
9. Passing food incorrectly
The salt is always passed with the pepper. Anything with a handle, such as the creamer,
is passed so the handle is facing the person receiving the item. This is why the correct
way to pass food the first time around is to the right=counterclockwise.
10. Leaving lipstick marks
Lipstick should be well blotted so not to leave marks on cups and glasses. It's a real
turnoff.
11. Grooming at the table
This is another turnoff. Don't touch your hair or apply makeup while at the table. And
certainly don't pick your teeth at the table. Excuse yourself from the table to remove
something from your teeth...or to apply makeup.
12. Poor posture
Sit up straight, don't lean on your elbows or forearms, don't rock in your chair, and keep
your elbows close to your side.
When You are the Host
Doing business over meals is a ritual that has existed for centuries. Taking
clients to breakfast, lunch or dinner has long been an effective way to build
relationships, make the sale or seal the deal. These business meals are
essentially business meetings. Knowledge of your product or your service is
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crucial to the success of the meeting, but so are your manners. Too many people
jeopardize an opportunity because they fail to use good dining etiquette. Here
are a few basic rules to make the experience pleasurable and profitable:
• Know your duties as the host. You are in charge. It is up to you to see that
things go well and that your guests are comfortable. You need to attend to every
detail, from extending the invitation to paying the bill.
• Plan ahead when you issue the invitation. Allow a week for a business
dinner and three days for lunch. Be certain that the date works for you. That
might sound obvious, but if you have to cancel or postpone, you can look
disorganized and disrespectful of your client's time.
• Select a restaurant that you know, preferably one where you are known. This
is no time to try out the latest hot spot. Being confident of the quality of the food
and service leaves you free to focus on business.
• Consider the atmosphere. Does it lend itself to conversation and discussion?
If you and your clients cannot hear each other over the roar of the diners and
dishes, you will have wasted your time and money.
• Let the staff know that you will be dining with clients. If your guests suggest
a restaurant new to you, call ahead and speak with the maître d'. Make it clear
that you will be having a business meal and picking up the check.
• Arrive early. This is the perfect time to give your credit card to the maître d’,
and avoid the awkwardness that can accompany the arrival of the bill.
• Take charge of seating. Your guests should have the prime seats—the ones
with the view. As the host, take the least desirable spot—the one facing the wall,
the kitchen or the restrooms.
• Allow your guests to order first. However, you might suggest certain dishes
to be helpful. By recommending specific items, you are indicating a price range.
Order as many courses as your guests, no more and no less, to facilitate the flow
of the meal. It is awkward if one of you orders an appetizer or dessert and the
others do not
• As the host, you are the one who decides when to start discussing
business. That will depend on a number of factors such as the time of day and
how well you know your clients. At breakfast, time is short, so get down to
business quickly. At lunch, wait until you have ordered so you will not be
interrupted. Dinner, which tends to be the most social meal, is a time for building
rapport. Limit the business talk, and do it after the main course is completed.
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• When you know your clients well, you have more of a basis for small talk.
However, because you have established a business friendship, you can eliminate
some of the chitchat when time is an issue. When you don't know your clients
well, spend more time getting acquainted before launching your shoptalk.
• Handle ANY disasters with grace. With all your attention to detail, things can
still go wrong. The food may not be up to your standards, the waiter might be
rude or the people at the next table boisterous and out of control. Whatever
happens, be part of the solution not the problem. Excuse yourself to discuss any
problems with the staff.
• Limit the alcohol you drink. The three-martini lunch is mostly a thing of the
past. However, cocktails and wine are still part of the business dinner. Since
alcohol can have the same effect as truth serum, keep your consumption to one
or two glasses. When guests are drinking liberally and you sense trouble, excuse
yourself and discreetly ask the server to hold back on refilling the wine glasses or
offering another cocktail.
Your conduct throughout the meal will determine professional success. If you pay
attention to the details and make every effort to see that your clients have a
pleasant experience, they will assume that you will handle their business the
same way. You are laying a foundation for a solid, powerful business relationship
by paying attention to details.
When You are the Guest
The business meal has become standard operating procedure in business. Over
half of all business is finalized at some type of a meal and job interviews often
include a meal as part of the interview process. Many times we are put on the
spot and our behavior and manners are on display. Knowing what it takes to be
someone’s guest at a business meal is as important as being the host. The
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following guidelines will help you make a positive impression when you are the
guest:
• Confirm the day and time if the invitation was made more than a week in
advance.
• Arrive on time. Call ahead if you will be more than five minutes late. If
you cannot reach your host directly, call the restaurant and leave a
message with the maitre d’.
• Follow your host’s lead in ordering beverages.
• Order an entrée from the menu in the average price range. Ask for
suggestions from the host. Don’t order the most expensive item on the
menu.
• Do everything in moderation. It is not your last meal, so don’t stuff
yourself. If you are on an interview, don’t drink alcohol. Otherwise, if the
occasion calls for a drink, never over do it.
• Do not complain about the service or the meal. Remember that your host
is paying for the meal and you should behave graciously,
• Set a comfortable atmosphere and ask questions to encourage
conversation.
• If you must cancel, call personally, apologize and suggest a rescheduling.
• Thank your host for the meal and their time. Send a thank you note to
your host. It takes a short time but makes a big impression
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• In the business environment, you plan every
move with potential clients.
•
• You arrange for the appointment, you prepare
for the meeting, you rehearse for the
presentation, you prepare as a host for dining
with clients, but in spite of your best efforts,
potential clients pop up in the most
unexpected places. Leave nothing to chance.
Every time you walk out of your office, be
ready to make a powerful first impression…it
is the best selling technique.
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Another piece of shock news as Michael Jackson dies unexpectedly at what is a relatively young age of 50. And of course we are all both horrified and fascinated by it, whether or not we were ever fans of him or his music. These kind of unexpected twists, especially in relation to someone we all know about, highlight the tragic nature of our existence. Because there is a Michael Jackson in us all. A combination of being very public and very reclusive, wanting people to know and recognize us and yet wanting to have our own space. And, like him, conflicted about our identities and with low points matching the highs. The media are having a field day speculating about his health, his childhood, his mental state, his apparent loneliness, his talent, now tinged with a kind of wistful speculation as to what might have been had he lived longer.
It’s not quite another Princess Diana moment, but as with all celebrity lives and deaths these things hold up a mirror to ourselves, our own hopes and aspirations, and the reality of our struggles. An opportunity to face up to the baggage we all inherit from childhood, and also to reflect on the contribution we can make to the wellbeing of those who come after us. Whatever the truth about Michael Jackson’s lifestyle and health, his music will live on in the lives of his many fans. Thanks for the memories. RIP Michael Jackson – a ‘Rare Iconic Personality’.
It’s not very often that baptisms get into the tabloid press, though bishops quite often do – frequently for the wrong reasons. But this story surely highlights both a growing trend for the baptism of adult converts, and also shows that a bit of spectacle can be a good thing in terms of getting into the news. Maybe if more of church happened outside the four walls of church buildings, there would be more interest by the general public. There’s something safe about being able to stand on a river bank to be part of worship, as compared with being trapped in pews or behind closed doors. But then, John the Baptist knew all about that a long time ago.
This week saw the end of a long process to launch the Mission Shaped Ministry course in Scotland. The course itself emerged out of the Fresh Expressionsinitiative of the Church of England and Methodists to encourage new forms of church – and it’s been successful way beyond anyone’s wildest dreams in England, Wales, and Ireland.
Scotland has had to wait a bit longer, but in September-October this year there will be a six-week taster (Mission Shaped Intro) in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and then starting in January 2010 the entire course will be presented in Glasgow and Inverness. The church mice will be involved in Inverness, along with Duncan Macpheron, minister of Hilton Church, while the Glasgow course will be led by Alan McWilliam and David Currie.
We took a couple of days off this week, thinking that June might actually be summer in Scotland. How wrong can you be! It wasn’t just all four seasons in the proverbial 24 hours, but all four of them in the space of about 40 minutes. The drive to Glasgow on Monday started in dull, though dry weather as we left rural Aberdeenhire, but by the time we were passing Stirling there was actually snow at the side of the road. We had to look at least twice, but sure enough – not hailstones, but real snow. Not to mention a sky as black as night and flooding all over the place. Then just 15 minutes later, bright sunshine, which continued all the way to Glasgow and for the rest of the day. Still, it was just as well that the main attraction was not outdoors.
And it was well worth travelling through fire and brimstone to be there! The main attraction was a concert by The Priests, three Irish priests who’ve just shot to fame from nowhere in less than 12 months following the release of their first album last Christmas.
In an obviously unscripted dialogue, their informal laid-back style of conversation throughout the concert was something else. Fun, faith, spontaneity, and a lot of easy talk about God and the spiritual, not to mention their fantastic singing just made it a great occasion. And where else would you find a concert where the most prominent projected icon is a cross? And it wasn’t all a bunch of old grannies either: we sat next to a couple of twenty-something young women who must have been first in line to get there, and whose excitement at seeing The Priests in person was … well, infectious.
Next day we went to see an exhibition of Edvard Munch’s work, which (as we expected) evoked the exact opposite set of emotions, with his obsessions with failed love affairs, death and, of course, stress – most famously expressed in his painting The Scream.
But as well as that there are various versions of his Madonna on display, along with an intriguing portrait of Nietzsche, and a striking self-portrait. The exhibition runs till September, and is free so well worth a visit if you like that sort of thing.
After that, a walk down the street to the Kelvingrove Gallery to take (yet another) look at Salvador Dali’s Christ of St John of the Cross,
and while we were viewing that we had an unexpected (and free) organ recital.
Of course, all this was interspersed with new conversations, about the meaning of life, faith, spirituality, theology … and how cool it would be to have The Priests as pastors. And on the way home we called by this interesting studio. A two day outing doing these things probably tells you something about us …
We’ll comment on the book and its contents once we’ve finished reading it, and had a chance to talk about it. But the question of whether fresh expressions of church are really as fresh as we all think came to our attention with the recent death of the Revd Bill Shergold. He’s not typically hailed as one of the heroes of either fresh expressions or emerging church, and quite likely most readers of this blog will be wondering who exactly he was and why we should be bothered to mark his passing. After all, he was 89 when he died last month. And he trained as a priest at Mirfield, a high church college if ever there was one. And his most significant ministry was at the Eton Mission in London, with close connections with the posh school that gave it its name. So you might think he would be about the last person to have pioneered anything remotely missional, let alone truly creative. And you’d be wrong. He was the founder of the 59 Club, a bikers community, which he started when he realized that here was a way of connecting faith with what at the time (the 1950s) was a growing recreational trend among young men in particular. To read the story of how and why he did this, in his own words, go here. He clearly thought he was just doing what came naturally, given his calling as a parish priest, and his efforts were not blessed with all the trendy terminology that seems an essential part of the emerging, emergent, fresh expressions scene today. Which we all probably need to be reminded of: that there have always been mavericks and pioneers who saw missional openings in unlikely places and who stepped outside of the box in order to see where God might be at work. Bill Shergold was one of them. And at a time when Christians were far less tolerant of the non-traditional than they are today. But then, he did, as a newspaper headline of the time says, wear ‘leathers under his cassock’ – which, obviously, means that he wore a cassock over his leathers. When so many are preferring to dispose of cassocks and other bits of tradition, we might have something to learn from him.
This week has certainly been a long time for UK politicians, most notably Gordon Brown, who looks like being on his way out as prime minister. He makes a lot of having been raised in a Church of Scotland manse, and his Presbyterian values and ‘moral compass’, though the point of all that is probably a bit lost on many people today, if for no other reason than they’ve heard it so many times now and it’s not altogether clear what it all amounts to. What can in one context be tenacity and commitment can all too easily become stubbornness and aggression. Ask any Presbyterian! The ‘I’m right and you’re all wrong’ attitude has been the cause of many splits and schisms over the years (centuries even) not just in Presbyterian circles, but throughout Scottish churches more generally. One thing we’re thinking about right now is whether this sort of righteousness is an inevitable outcome of a certain kind of theology, or whether that connection is secondary, and other factors such as personality type play a bigger role. It’s certainly the case, in our experience anyway, that folks from other backgrounds seem to be a bit more laid back about things, not taking themselves too seriously, and more ready to know when they need to change.
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Stuff Queer People Need To Know (follow them @SQPNTK) has just shared that the multi-talented dancer, photographer, student and current Miss New York Claire Buffie will be the first Miss America competitor to run on “Straight for Equality: Let’s Talk” platform, which will focusing on all aspects of equality for the LGBT community. Buffie told the Advocate that the major reason she stuck with the competition is her passion for her platform: improving the climate for LGBT youths in schools, and breaking stigma, and talking about misconceptions .
It’s to get so great to see a Beauty Queen who is an outspoken advocate for human rights. She is a real role model to young women everywhere! I’m so proud to be from NY.
As much as I despise former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean — who recently exercised her right to “opposite marriage” when she tied the knot with Oakland Raider Kyle Boller — and these so-called scholarship competitions, one beauty queen is supporting LGBT rights in her race for the crown. Miss New York … Read More
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reading things like this makes me want to scream with joy. I wish my son would never have to see discrimination against anyone. Men, women, lesbians, gays, straights, transgender, nursing mothers, handicap people, children, adults.
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Happy Thanksgiving! It’s once again that time of year when we give thanks for all the good things in our lives and express our gratitude to the important people in our lives. In this time of Thanksgiving, we should strive to remember our friends. Even the most thoughtful of us can let important relationships slip by the wayside, and we can lose track of people who were once the best of friends.
Football season always seems to come and go much too quickly and it is one of the most exciting times to visit State College. Now is the time to make the trip back to Happy Valley for a great Nittany Lion Football weekend. Click “Read More” to learn about all the great things to do while you’re in State College.
The purpose of the Football Letterman's Club is to perpetuate the Penn State Football tradition and promote brotherhood and unity between the university and former players, coaches and managers for their mutual benefit.
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Monthly Archives: March 2014
Pharrell Williams will replace judge Cee Lo Green on The Voice for it’s upcoming seventh season. Williams was behind the two tracks that were each dubbed “the song of the summer” (“Get Lucky” and “Blurred Lines”) last year. Williams also helped Hans Zimmer score the soundtrack of next summer: “The Amazing Spider-Man 2.” He wrote…
Fox not only announced plans for the season’s end with releasing finale dates for their current programming, but they announced plans for the summer premieres of some hits like “So You Think You Can Dance” and new show “I Wanna Marry ‘Harry’.” With premieres comes sacrifices. Next week’s series finale of “Raising Hope” has pre-empted…
NBC is already making summer plans as this TV season winds down. In addition to announcing their finale plans, NBC will be rolling out six new series this summer with some returning favorites. “Crossbones,” a pirate drama, is one of the more anticipated summer rollouts. Check out the full list of premieres below. All times…
True Detective, the hit series brought to you by HBO is currently on the hunt for a new pair of True Detectives. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson have said they would not be returning, although we knew that already as HBO had confirmed from the beginning this was to be an anthology. Rumor now has…
Joining NBC and ABC, the EYE network is the latest to roll out their season ending plans. Kicking things off next week with the “How I Met Your Mother” series finale and ending with a three-hour Survivor extravaganza, check out the CBS Season Finale dates below! ABC Announces Finale Dates MONDAY, MARCH 31 8/7c How…
Last night’s “Wheel of Fortune” (airing March 19, 2014) featured what host Pat Sajak called the “most amazing solve” in his career as the show’s host … for over 30 years! This solve is akin to a last second hail Mary play. Only two letters popped up on the final puzzle for Emil and his…
After NBC announced their plans for the end of the season, ABC is next in line to share their air-dates for the end of the 2013-2014 TV season. Kicking it off with “Once Upon a Time In Wonderland,” putting “Scandal” in April and ending it with a few sitcom favorites, check out the plans below.…
In the latest cover of Frozen’s Oscar winning song “Let It Go,” one man brilliantly gives us a taste of how the song might end up if Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast or Minne Mouse gave it a whirl! How would Timon and Pumbaa do? Check out the video below and let us know…
“What percentage of water is celery?” That is precisely one of many burning questions users post on “Yahoo! Answers.” Life just isn’t the same without knowing exactly how much a $5 footlong at Subway costs, you know?
A nine-hour adaptation of "11/22/63" - King's thriller about the Kennedy assassination - is headed directly to Hulu. Helmed by Abrams, the series is a limited “event series,” but there will be opportunities for future subsequent seasons based on the story, which follows high school English teacher Jake Epping, who travels back in time to try to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on the fateful date in American history.
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The U.S. Army is laying
the groundwork to let Halliburton Co., keep several billion dollars paid
for work in Iraq that Pentagon auditors say is questionable or unsupported
by proper documentation, the Wall Street Journal reported today.
According to Pentagon documents reviewed by the Journal,
the Army has acknowledged that the Houston-based company might never be
able to account properly for some of its work, which has been probed amid
accusations that Halliburton's Kellogg Brown & Root unit overbilled
the government for some operations in Iraq.
The company has hired a consulting firm to estimate
what Halliburton's services should cost, the report said.
The newspaper, citing the documents and internal memorandums,
said that officials are considering using the estimate to serve as the basis
for "an equitable settlement," under which the Pentagon could
drop many of the claims its auditors have made against the company.
But the Journal added that some disgruntled Pentagon
officials see the effort to broker an outside settlement with the company
as unusual because the contract is so large.
According to the report, Kellogg Brown & Root
so far has billed about $12 billion in Iraq, and about $3 billion of that
remains disputed by government officials.
The Journal also cited Pentagon records showing that
$650 million in Halliburton billings are deemed questionable. An additional
$2 billion is considered to have insufficient paperwork to justify the billing,
the report said.
A representative for Halliburton did not immediately
return a call seeking comment early today.
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I've lived a very sinful life, but a friend of mine says God will forgive me if I'll just believe in Jesus. What difference would that make? And how would I know if I was really forgiven?
A:
Your friend is right: You can be forgiven, and you can know beyond doubt that someday you will go to be with God in heaven forever. And my prayer is that you will take the one step that is necessary for this to become a reality. What is that step? It is the step of faith - trusting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and committing your life to Him.
Let me explain what this means. Only one thing will ever keep us out of heaven, and that is our sin. God is holy and pure, and unless we are cleansed of our sins we can never enter heaven. The Bible says of God, "Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong" (Habakkuk 1:13). We not only need to be forgiven; we need to be cleansed.
But how is this possible? We can't cleanse ourselves; only God can do it. And this is what He did by sending His Son, Jesus, into the world. He was without sin - but on the cross all our sins were placed on Him, and He took the judgment we deserved. All this was in accordance with God's plan, for God loves us and wanted to provide a way for us to be cleansed and saved.
What must we do? We must turn to Christ, repenting of our sins and trusting Him alone for our salvation. Why not ask Christ to come into your life right now and save you? The Bible says, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved" (Acts 16:31).
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Piggy-backing on the ongoing Apple Maps drama, The New York Times gives us a couple interesting tidbits that help explain the origins of Google Maps on the iPhone. For starters, Apple never intended to put maps on the iPhone. It was a decision late CEO Steve Jobs made last minute, one that would cost Apple its reputation five years later as Apple rushed its own solution out of the door too early.
In a way, the report notes, Apple Maps continue on a string of Internet services missteps, with notable examples of the recently axed Ping social network for music, Siri, a controversial digital assistant, the MobileMe suite of web tools and recent iCloud outages.
These blunders expose Apple as a hardware and design-focused culture, which is more often than not a difficult match for online services on a world scale, where Google rules the landscape by a wide margin…
Nick Wingfield and Brian Chen filed this report with The New York Times, based on interviews with former Apple engineers:
Including a maps app on the first iPhone was not even part of the company’s original plan as the phone’s unveiling approached in January 2007. Just weeks before the event, Mr. Jobs ordered a mapping app to show off the capabilities of the touch-screen device.
Remarkably, just two engineers managed to scrap together an app for Steve Jobs keynote in three weeks and Apple “hastily cut a deal with Google to use its map data”.
It began to bother executives how much data about the behavior of iPhone users was flowing back to Google, which could see the coordinates of every iPhone user who downloaded a map, the former executive said.
This was all happening at a time when Apple and Google were buddies, with then Google CEO Eric Schmidt having a seat on Apple’s board of directors – even though at that point Google was working on its own mobile operating system, which it had acquired two years earlier, in 2005, in the form of Android, Inc. a Palo Alto startup headed by Andy Rubin, the founder of Danger and now Senior Vice President of Mobile and Digital Content at Google.
The contention erupted in 2008 as Android began introducing iPhone-like features:
That year, Mr. Jobs drove to Google’s headquarters and got into a screaming match with Google’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and the head of its Android development team, Andy Rubin, as he tried to discourage them from copying the iPhone, according to an account of the meeting in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Mr. Jobs.
Rubin to this date continues to oversee development of Android.
It would take Apple some time to realize what was happening and force Schmidt to resign from the Board “due to potential conflicts of interest”.
This corner Apple has painted itself into with Maps today may never have happened if Jobs hadn’t misplaced his trust in Schmidt.
Here’s Steve Jobs placing a prank call to Starbucks via Google Maps at the iPhone keynote in January 2007.
The report goes on to assert that “Google was blindsided” by the Apple Maps introduction at WWDC 2012, despite numerous reports and Apple’s acquisitions of mapping startups Placebase, Poly9 and C3 Technologies.
A former Apple executive told the paper that Apple was caught off guard by Mapgate:
“They’re embarrassed by it,” he said. Many of the problems are a result of merging map data, some of it flawed, from many sources.
Another source sums it up nicely:
“I always felt if you had to name an Achilles’ heel at Apple, it’s Internet services,” said Andrew Borovsky, a former Apple product designer who worked on MobileMe and now runs his own design firm in New York. “It’s clearly an issue.”
Maps is an important part of iOS 6, but it’s not the most important part. Would the iPhone stop working without Maps? No, it would be just fine. Apple is not going to fail because of a mapping application — they will take their lumps and deliver a better app in the future.
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You do realize that at some point people want to read different articles than Apple Maps right? Talk about overkill. Mercy.
CollegiateLad
Yeah, it’s serious overkill…
Why not produce an iPhone 5 availability tracker list for consumers who want an iPhone 5, but can’t locate one? That’s something readers will find very useful. I’ve been searching all over the place for my wife one and everyone seems to be out of stock.
MagicDrumSticks
Lamborghini mercy
Dan
they have nothing else better to talk about, iphonemapsblog?
CollegiateLad
They may not have been an Internet services company in the past, but they’ve got it together now. iCloud is awesome and iTunes Match is brilliant. And I think Maps will be the best mapping service in the “near” future.
I think this bad press is a blessing in disguise. Apple may not like it now, but in five years they will be better because of it.
http://www.facebook.com/mattthegoodwin Matt Goodwin
icloud is not awesome. the web interface is awful. main reason i had to switch to gmail. i was an apple employee for 2 years and i tried to like the web interface of mobile me/icloud but its just style over function.
CollegiateLad
Works great… All my devices are in sync: Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Bought a new phone everything synced fast over LTE before I arrived home. Love it!!! Find my phone is awesome too. iWork is brilliant. Couldn’t be happier.
http://twitter.com/Branhower Branhower
I really don’t think the web interface is a huge breaker. iCloud is primarily designed to keep your digital life in sync, the web interface is just an afterthought.
EpicFacepalm
iCloud uses Amazon And Microsoft’s servers and none of them are running Mac OS… I unfortunately disagree
CollegiateLad
Apple uses its own data centers now. There’s a new mammoth one in NC. And there are several others being built around the world.
Kurt
Not going to happen
http://www.facebook.com/j.terrymma Jeff Terry
“Cost Apple its reputation”… Are you serious? Do you honestly believe that this whole over blown situation has caused Apple to ruin its reputation? Absolutely not, But it sure is making these Media sites, And journalist look really stupid.
I Agree with the below post, Enough with the maps, We get it, You don’t like it, Now MOVE ON!!!
Apple Maps is no where near as bad as you people are making it out to be.
CollegiateLad
I’m with Jeff on this one, maps work great for me too and in many respects I think it’s better.
Kok Hean
It works nicely here although Google Maps is more detailed.
John Herthep
I want ios 5 maps
Chaos
Slow news day huh?
Kurt
Why not write about Steve woz not agreeing with apple billion dollar win against Samsung. Much more interesting
Chaos
They did.
http://www.itallnews.com iTAllNews.com
Apple Map Fail
Bakersfield
This whole maps thing is bringing out all the idiots isn’t it.
I’ve been using it a lot, I have had no issues at all, You nerds will always find something to fixate on.
http://www.facebook.com/kelly.hewitt.731 Kelly Hewitt
Why is everyone complaining about it. I’ve only found one noticeable downsight that is my town is in black and white. That’s probably because I’m rural. 3D is 10000000 times better than googles, googles doesn’t even render properly.
http://twitter.com/digitalfeind Dani Hayes
You know, the maps on ios was going to be a problem no matter what. If it stayed with google maps people would complain that it has no turn by turn navigation.
http://twitter.com/purpledodi Jens Tinnerholm
Apple will be fine
http://www.facebook.com/razick.rilshad Razick Rilshad
Apple maps is not working in our country (srilanka) enybody knows why?
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O'Leary, Pasborg & Friis-Nielsen - Støj
Mark Corroto, AllAboutJazz
In the aptly named Guerilla Series, for Ayler Records, this
trio does, indeed, fight a "little war," recording this limited
release (400 copies) as a hit-and-run ambush of destruction and noise.
Støj is quite surprising for O'Leary, whose previous outings found
him detailing more muted sounds with the likes of Supersilent on St. Fin Barre's (Leo, 2009), Tomasz Stanko on Levitation (Leo, 2005), and Cuong Vu on Waiting
(Leo, 2007). Here, the Irish guitarist teams with the Scandinavian
duo of Stefan Pasborg and Peter Friis-Nielsen, a tipoff that this
album will comprise sabotage and surprise. Drummer Pasborg (the leader
of the Odessa 5 and Ibrahim Electric) and bassist Friis-Nielsen, have
been heard on several hardcore Peter Brötzmann sessions, including Medicina (Atavistic, 2004) and Live At Neferiti (Ayler, 1999).
The route chosen here is fast and loud. The album opens with the
befitting brief track, "First Tune." O'Leary fires off swift, crisp
notes over Pasborg's feverish drumming and Friis-Nielsen's thunderous
bass. The trio plays with a cathartic passion, displaying speed and a
sort of controlled tumult. The aptly named "Kinetic" follows up with
even more speed. This trio could rival any metal band, except they
also interject bits of free music into this tornado of a recording.
The title track darts and dodges, with Pasborg mixing the pulse and
O'Leary ramping up the intensity.
The trio establishes a pattern of either short intensity, or longer
tracks that build ferocity as the music progresses. What maintains
attention here is the band's ability to inject passion into both a
sliced-up bebop pulse from Pasborg's bass on "Exit," and the slogging
thunder of "Interference," that switches with a boom into rock-n-roll.
From note one, this is a take no prisoners outing.
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The Daily Mail says United have inserted a clause into Lingard’s one month loan deal to Birmingham City that will prevent the forward from playing in the Capital One Cup.
Lingard, who sparkled on his debut for the Midlands’ club as he hit four goals in the 4-1 victory over Sheffield Wednesday, is therefore ruled out for the visit of Swansea on Wednesday evening.
The short-term move to Birmingham may be extended if all parties are happy with the way the signing works out but United have also safeguarded against the possibility of Lingard being cup-tied ahead of a possible speedy return to Old Trafford.
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Fort Hood Shooter Is Seeking Death Penalty
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FORT HOOD, Texas (AFP) – The army psychiatrist who has admitted to opening fire on fellow soldiers in the Fort Hood massacre is deliberately seeking the death penalty, his stand-by defense attorney said Wednesday.
Lieutenant Colonel Kris Poppe urged a military judge to either prevent Major Nidal Hasan from representing himself at the high-profile trial or allow the court-appointed lawyers tasked with assisting him to be removed from the case.
“It became clear his goal is to remove impediments and obstacles to the death penalty,” Poppe told the court as the second day of Hasan’s trial got underway. “Should he decide he wants to fight the death penalty, then we are here and ready to defend him.”
Hasan interrupted Poppe, declaring “this is a twist of the facts” and insisting he was not trying to martyr himself.
Military judge Colonel Tara Osborn cleared the courtroom to discuss the matter privately with Hasan and then called an early end to the day’s proceedings.
Hasan has repeatedly attempted to plead guilty to killing 13 people and wounding dozens more in the 2009 attack at a Texas military base.
Military law prohibits Hasan from pleading guilty to a capital offense. So he has been given the opportunity to try to convince the jury that he does not deserve death for his actions.
Now aged 42, Hasan was due to deploy to Afghanistan weeks after the attack. He has said he shot the soldiers to protect his fellow Muslims from an “illegal” war.
“The evidence will clearly show I am the shooter,” Hasan declared in his opening statements Tuesday.
The statement, which lasted just a couple minutes, reiterated his radical views.
“We, the mujahedeen, are imperfect Muslims trying to establish a perfect religion in the land of the supreme God,” Hasan said. “I apologize for any mistakes that I made in this endeavor.”
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I get that. And look, I'm a former Chicago guy and my Kim is a former Nebraska gal, so we don't eat anything that didn't have parents. I suppose it's subjective to a degree. But tripe...?! Jeez. My last post on this matter as I'm going waaaaay off-thread. But I can't resist. As my mother would have said, "Gross!" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripe Mmmmmmm... McRib!
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I love the McRib, but don't want to know what it is made of. I learned long ago to NEVER question the food you eat or you won't eat anything that you don't personally grow in your own garden. lol.
End of every year I like to compile a list of my favorite films and ones I'd recommend plus I like to read everyone else's picks as well.
One of those rare years where I could make a top ten I feel good about, usually I make a top 5. Really confident in my top two. Loved Zero Dark Thirty, extremely well put together and acted. The Dark Knight Rises people can pick apart to death, but I loved the story telling, Bane's voice and eye acting, Catwoman, Alfred, Gordon, Blake, Batman's goodbye, all of it. The rest are interchangeable.
Contraband
Haywire (only if you love Gina Carano)
Underworld: Awakening (best of the series)
The Grey
Chronicle (surprisingly good superhero film using found footage)
Project X (Chronicle meets Risky business on steroids and ecstasy)
Safe House
Gone (surprisingly good)
John Carter
21 Jump Street (made me a Channing Tatum fan)
ATM
Lockout
Safe (one of the better Statham movies)
The Dictator
Men in Black 3
Mansome
Prometheus
Safety Not Guaranteed
Ted
People Like Us
The Amazing Spiderman
The Bourne Legacy
Premium Rush
Resident Evil: Retribution (if you liked all the others)
End of Watch
Looper
V/H/S
Flight
The Bay
Hitchcock
Killing Them Softly
The Collection (2nd best horror movie of the year)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (wanted to love it, but it's no LOTR)
Jack Reacher
I'll probably be the only one (and so be it!) but Expendables 2 was the best for me. I'm an Action movie fan to the core and seeing these guys together (i don't care if they're old timers LoL) in the one film was cool. The Hobbit & The Avengers are another couple that deserve notable mentions. 2012 wasn't a great year for outings to the cinema. Haven't seen Skyfall yet but will try to get to that one so can't obviously include that for 2012.
Looking forward to some films in 2013 a bit more (hopefully they don't let me down...) such as Jack Reacher, Pain & Gain, GI Joe, Stand Up Guys, Movie 43, World War Z, Man of Steel, The Last Stand, Snitch... Geez that's a fare few! Pretty sure there will be more...
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Long Summer Light, Epic Landscapes, Wildlife Action!
Southeast Alaska is a land of photo superlatives, from colorful sunrise to magical sunset, the endless opportunities in between will leave even the most seasoned photographer breathless. Every week as the Saltery “C” embarks on a new adventure with a fresh group, the trip script writes itself as we cruise deep into wilderness with no 2 trips being exactly the same in every way. Around every turn of the coastline, behind the next point of land, there is the potential for extraordinary photographic experiences that can’t always be planned, and often exceeds expectations. The excitement never ceases when the scenery changes constantly and wildlife action can appear at any moment! Because Classic Alaska Charters is an overnight charter service we are in no hurry to go anywhere other than where the photographic opportunities, the light, and wildlife, present themselves.
Mountains Rise And Waterfalls Pour!
Standing on the bow of the Saltery “C” you’ll marvel at the geologic landscape that has been created by volcano’s, heaved by tectonics, weathered by glaciers into sculpted valleys of rock granite walls thousands of feet vertical from saltwater! Waterfalls are gushing from the cliff sides everywhere you look, even more when it rains, and that’s often. Several places there’s chances to pull the boat up and under one of these waterfalls for a unique perspective or to just get wet with the purest water on the planet. The dramatic landscape provides amazing light and shadow shows along with the obvious awe inspiring panorama of a safe anchor spot. Kayaking, exploring a snow cave (early summer) and hiking, provide magnificent views and vistas throughout the day. At night, the stars come out and the sky beckons to night photographers eager to capture the Milky Way, a Blue Moon, or the Aurora Borealis, and perhaps even a meteor shower, typically in August. Some of these events ARE predictable, however, like any great photo shoot it all depends on the weather!
Whales, Bald Eagles, And Bears!
Humpback whales by the hundreds arrive in the Ketchikan area in early Spring bubble net feeding along the coastline, often breaching playfully, females with calves close to their side, larger groups coordinating their all day feeding frenzy. Just because we anchor up for the night doesn’t mean the photographic action is over either! Often whales come into the secluded coves we nestle the Saltery “C” in and give us a show. Killer whales are frequent visitors to the Southeast Alaska coastal waters too. Following the migrating salmon they forage and feast right up to river mouths in packs often as many as a dozen. Many an encounter with Orca’s (and humpback whales too!) offer jaw dropping once in a lifetime experiences. For professional photographers it could mean a pay day! Amateurs and the novice photographers with camera’s filling the digital albums would be the envy of their peers.Bald eagles are essentially everywhere and any given hour of any day Captain Rob can make a soaring, diving, swooping bald eagle photo shoot happen. There’s hundreds of species of other magnificent birds to photograph that inhabit the wilderness waters we ply. Pacific and red throated loons, marbeled murrelet, pigeon guillemot, rhinoceros auklet, common murre, are frequent sightings for seabirds. Shore, tidal, and upland birds include belted kingfisher, black bellied plover, harlequin duck, water dipper, hummingbirds, thrushes and swallows. Of course, the list goes on… For serious birders we can supply a complete check list upon your arrival to keep track of your amazing sightings.
Bears! Black and brown bear are plentiful in the remote wilderness areas of Misty Fiords National Monument Wilderness Area with sightings of them nearly every week. For some serious bear photography Captain Rob can make it happen. Along with the bears wandering the tideflats and estuaries, there’s the Alexander Archipelago Wolves that have emerged from the old growth forest more frequently the last few years. Sitka black tailed deer, harbor seals, and Dall porpoise round out the most frequent cooperating subjects.
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RIGHT STEP SIDE, LEFT BEHIND, RIGHT STEP SIDE, LEFT HEEL, LEFT STEP BACK, RIGHT CROSS
1-2 Step right to side, step left behind right &3Step right to side, touch left heel forward &4 Step left back, step right across in front of left
LEFT STEP SIDE, RIGHT HEEL, RIGHT STEP BACK, LEFT CROSS, RIGHT STEP SIDE 5-6 Step left to side, touch right heel forward &7 Step right back, step left across in front of right 8-1 Step right to side, Step LEFT behind right
LEFT BEHIND, RIGHT STEP SIDE, LEFT HEEL, LEFT STEP BACK, RIGHT CROSS, LEFT TOUCH &2 Step right to side, touch left heel forward &3 Step left back, step right across in front of left 4 Touch left beside right
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Armchair Gaming Episode 15- Art, Aesthetics and Games Part 3
Welcome to another episode of Armchair Gaming. The goal for this show is simple: I want to help you learn more about philosophy, and I’ll be using video games as an instrument to help teach it. Today we will continue looking at art, Philosophy of Art and the Beautiful while playing Monster Hunter: World.
In previous episodes we have looked for philosophical themes in games themselves. In this episode, we will be taking a look at the game industry as a whole, to address the argument of video games as a medium of art.
In the last few weeks, we took our first look at whether or not games qualify as art. Being relatively new to human history, relative to other art forms, games have fought for a position in today’s society as more than just an escape from reality. In today’s episode, we will look at how video games have developed in the art community, and how they have changed the topography of the art world forever.
About Armchair Gaming
I had the chance to explore philosophy in high school and I loved it so much that I went on to study it at Trent University, where I obtained a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in philosophy. I feel so strongly about the subject that I often find myself going through the books I had purchased over my university career, as well as adding to the collection regularly.
Philosophy is an amazingly exciting subject that can teach us not just what to think, but how to think. Unfortunately, a lot of people see philosophy as some intimidating monster, with difficult concepts and theories to grasp. Conversely, some see it as a waste of someone’s time and intellect. As someone who has dedicated their life to the subject, this Scholarly Gamer wants to bring philosophy to you in a way that is approachable, sometimes funny, and presented through a medium of great importance to himself and millions of other people around the world: Games.
I hope you’ll join us on this journey. And remember, you never go a day in your life without living some philosophy.
Sheldon was Born and raised in Canada's Capital City, Ottawa, where he came to love 4 things... Metal, Hockey, Knitting and Gaming. Sheldon has a B.A in philosophy from Trent University, and uses his critical analysis and knowledge from his 4 years accidentally ruining everything for everyone. In his limited spare time, He generally tries to be an upstanding Canadian Citizen
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I have been bugging my Best Buy almost daily for updates and today they informed me that my 168gig is at the store and will be waiting for me as soon as they open. They are only receiving one 128 and one 64 however. I hope that others of you get better news :-! I have still not received any kind of emails from them updating me. I have just been working with a customer service rep in store. Aurora, CO
Grats. The thread was made for people who have NOT received the email. We know some people have.
No **** Sherlock, you posted that there were people having issues and I was trying to let people know it isn't everyone and that maybe..just maybe there is hope before tomorrow. Go take your frustration out on someone else jackass.
No **** Sherlock, you posted that there were people having issues and I was trying to let people know it isn't everyone and that maybe..just maybe there is hope before tomorrow. Go take your frustration out on someone else jackass.
Calm down kid. My point is that we already know people are getting their emails. Hence the title saying for people who HAVEN'T.
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Table of Contents
LLVM Update
This page summarizes the effort of updating LegUp from LLVM 2.9 to LLVM 3.4.
LegUp Source Changes Required
LLVM Header Files Moved/Deprecated
The following header files have been renamed or removed. The functionality seems identical in most cases.
LLVM Objects and Functions Renamed/Deprecated
Red highlighting indicates changes that may cause problems, or may not be functionally correct.
Yellow highlighting indicates changes that are probably fine, but may need to be double checked.
Unhighlighted rows indicate trivial changes that should have little or no effect.
Functionality Added to LegUp
ConstantDataArray
LLVM 3.4 now uses ConstantDataArray in several places where a ConstantArray was used previously.
ConstantDataArray support was added to some LegUp files including:
Ram.cpp
Ram.h
GenerateRTL.cpp
IterativeModuloScheduling.cpp
LegUp Makefile Changes Required
llvm-ld Deprecated
Use:
llvm-link ...
llvm-opt -std-link-opts ...
instead.
Unfortunately llvm-link cannot link archive files, only .bc files. As a result, instead of linking with liblegup.a, libm.a, etc, we need to link with liblegup.bc, libm.bc, etc, which are basically the same thing, just in a different format.
llvm-gcc Deprecated
llvm-gcc was used for OpenMP support.
The LLVM project “dragonegg” can be used instead.
dragonegg is a gcc plugin.
It will be compiled along with the rest of LegUp.
It requires gcc 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, or 4.8, and the corresponding gcc-4.X-plugin-dev package (available using apt-get).
The main LegUp Makefile assumes the packages gcc-4.6 and gcc-4.6-plugin-dev are installed.
If you wish to use a different version of gcc, you must change the DRAGONEGG variable in legup/examples/Makefile.config and DRAGONEGG_GCC_VERSION in legup/Makefile and recompile LegUp.
LLVM Profiling Deprecated
Vectorization
LLVM 3.4 now produces vectorized code that is not currently supported by LegUp.
Adding clang flags -fno-vectorize and -fno-spl-vectorize seems to solve this problem for now.
In the future it may be desirable to add this functionality to LegUp in order to obtain more parallel hardware.
See LLVM 3.4 Auto-Vectorization for more info.
MIPS1 Target Deprecated
llc no longer has a backend for mips1. Compiling for mips32 with flags -mno-ldc1-sdc1 -soft-float produces somewhat similar code, but it is still not perfect. An awk command can be used to lower conditional move instructions, and add a nop after each lw. Also, the LLVM mips backend was modified to not produce DSP instructions. This seems to work well enough that the mips binutils can assemble working binaries for Tiger.
Changes Required to LegUp Examples
Disable LegUp Features
It was necessary to disable LOCAL_RAMS for the following benchmarks:
chstone/blowfish
chstone/gsm
It was necessary to disable GROUP_RAMS_SIMPLE_OFFSET for the following benchmarks:
chstone/jpeg
Other
chstone_hybrid/dfsin: the linker complains about multiple definitions of 'sin' when linking with libm.bc. sin() was renamed to dfsin() to fix this problem.
use_begin iterator is now user_begin. Don't use the use_ iterators directly any more. Use is now a bookkeeping helper class for the User class. See:
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AWAR – The Catch Up
AWAR has been setting recording booths on fire, especially with his most recent work, The Winning Team, his collaborative album with producer Vanderslice. Whether killing verses alongside Freddie Gibbs or Roc Marciano or holding it down solo on tracks like “Orange Boxcutter,” AWAR continued to cement his place in the game as a real lyricist. In our latest episode of The Catch Up, AWAR takes us through some of his most recent cuts, as well as songs from his catalogue that helped get him to where he is now. Packed with insightful stories about his journey as an MC, how certain songs came together, and stories behind his rhymes, this episode of The Catch Up will only make you more of a fan of the one and only AWAR.
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Direct Bindings and Interposition
Interposition can occur when multiple instances of a symbol, having the same
name, exist in different dynamic objects that have been loaded into a process.
Under the default search model, symbol references are bound to the first
definition that is found in the series of dependencies that have been loaded.
This first symbol is said to interpose on the other symbols of
the same name.
Direct bindings can circumvent any implicit interposition. As the directly bound reference
is searched for in the dependency associated with the reference, the default
symbol search model that enables interposition, is bypassed. In a directly bound environment,
bindings can be established to different definitions of a symbol that have
the same name.
The ability to bind to different definitions of a symbol that have
the same name is a feature of direct binding that can be
very useful. However, should an application depend upon an instance of interposition, the
use of direct bindings can subvert the applications expected execution. Before deciding
to use direct bindings with an existing application, the application should be
analyzed to determine whether interposition exists.
To determine whether interposition is possible within an application, use lari(1). By
default, lari conveys interesting information. This information originates from multiple instances of
a symbol definition, which in turn can lead to interposition.
Interposition only occurs when one instance of the symbol is bound to.
Multiple instances of a symbol that are called out by lari might
not be involved in interposition. Other multiple instance symbols can exist, but might
not be referenced. These unreferenced symbols are still candidates for interposition, as
future code development might result in references to these symbols. All instances of
multiply defined symbols should be analyzed when considering the use of direct
bindings.
If multiple instances of a symbol of the same name exist, especially
if interposition is observed, one of the following actions should be performed.
Localize symbol instances to remove namespace collision.
Remove the multiple instances to leave one symbol definition.
Define any interposition requirement explicitly.
Identify symbols that can be interposed upon to prevent the symbol from being directly bound to.
The following sections explore these actions in greater detail.
Localizing Symbol Instances
Multiply defined symbols of the same name that provide different implementations, should
be isolated to avoid accidental interposition. The simplest way to remove a
symbol from the interfaces that are exported by an object, is to reduce
the symbol to local. Demoting a symbol to local can be achieved
by defining the symbol “static”, or possibly through the use of symbol attributes
provided by the compilers.
A symbol can also be reduced to local by using the link-editor
and a mapfile. The following example shows a mapfile that reduces the
global function error() to a local symbol by using the local scoping
directive.
Although individual symbols can be reduced to locals using explicit mapfile definitions,
defining the entire interface family through symbol versioning is recommended. See Chapter 5, Interfaces and Versioning.
Versioning is a useful technique typically employed to identify the interfaces that
are exported from shared objects. Similarly, dynamic executables can be versioned to
define their exported interfaces. A dynamic executable need only export the interfaces that
must be made available for the dependencies of the object to bind
to. Frequently, the code that you add to a dynamic executable need export
no interfaces.
The removal of exported interfaces from a dynamic executable should take into
account any symbol definitions that have been established by the compiler drivers.
These definitions originate from auxiliary files that the compiler drivers add to the
final link-edit. See Using a Compiler Driver.
The following example mapfile exports a common set of symbol definitions that
a compiler driver might establish, while demoting all other global definitions to
local.
You should determine the symbol definitions that your compiler driver establishes. Any
of these definitions that are used within the dynamic executable should remain
global.
By removing any exported interfaces from a dynamic executable, the executable is
protected from future interposition issues than might occur as the objects dependencies
evolve.
Removing Multiply Defined Symbols of the Same Name
Multiply defined symbols of the same name can be problematic within a
directly bound environment, if the implementation associated with the symbol maintains state.
Data symbols are the typical offenders in this regard, however functions that maintain
state can also be problematic.
In a directly bound environment, multiple instances of the same symbol can
be bound to. Therefore, different binding instances can manipulate different state variables
that were originally intended to be a single instance within a process.
For example, suppose that two shared objects contain the same data item
errval. Suppose also, that two functions action() and inspect(), exist in different shared
objects. These functions expect to write and read the value errval respectively.
With the default search model, one definition of errval would interpose on
the other definition. Both functions action() and inspect() would be bound to the
same instance of errval. Therefore, if an error code was written to
errval by action(), then inspect() could read, and act upon this error condition.
However, suppose the objects containing action() and inspect() were bound to different
dependencies that each defined errval. Within a directly bound environment, these functions are
bound to different definitions of errval. An error code can be written
to one instance of errval by action() while inspect() reads the other,
uninitialized definition of errval. The outcome is that inspect() detects no
error condition to act upon.
Multiple instances of data symbols typically occur when the symbols are declared
in headers.
int bar;
This data declaration results in a data item being produced by each
compilation unit that includes the header. The resulting tentative data item can
result in multiple instances of the symbol being defined in different dynamic objects.
However, by explicitly defining the data item as external, references to the
data item are produced for each compilation unit that includes the header.
extern int bar;
These references can then be resolved to one data instance at runtime.
Occasionally, the interface for a symbol implementation that you want to remove, should
be preserved. Multiple instances of the same interface can be vectored to
one implementation, while preserving any existing interface. This model can be achieved by
creating individual symbol filters by using a FILTERmapfile keyword. This keyword
is described in SYMBOL_SCOPE / SYMBOL_VERSION Directives.
Creating individual symbol filters is useful when dependencies expect to find a
symbol in an object where the implementation for that symbol has been
removed.
For example, suppose the function error() exists in two shared objects, A.so.1
and B.so.1. To remove the symbol duplication, you want to remove the implementation
from A.so.1. However, other dependencies are relying on error() being provided from
A.so.1. The following example shows the definition of error() in A.so.1. A mapfile
is then used to allow the removal of the error() implementation, while leaving
a filter for this symbol that is directed to B.so.1.
The function error() is global, and remains an exported interface of A.so.2.
However, any runtime binding to this symbol is vectored to the filtee
B.so.1. The letter “F” indicates the filter nature of this symbol.
This model of preserving existing interfaces, while vectoring to one implementation has
been used in several Oracle Solaris libraries. For example, a number of
math interfaces that were once defined in libc.so.1 are now vectored to the
preferred implementation of the functions in libm.so.2.
Defining Explicit Interposition
The default search model can result in instances of the same named
symbol interposing on later instances of the same name. Even without any explicit
labelling, interposition still occurs, so that one symbol definition is bound to
from all references. This implicit interposition occurs as a consequence of the symbol
search, not because of any explicit instruction the runtime linker has been
given. This implicit interposition can be circumvented by direct bindings.
Although direct bindings work to resolve a symbol reference directly to an
associated symbol definition, explicit interposition is processed prior to any direct binding search.
Therefore, even within a direct binding environment, interposers can be designed, and
be expected to interpose on any direct binding associations. Interposers can be
explicitly defined using the following techniques.
With the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
With the link-editors -z interpose option.
With the INTERPOSEmapfile keyword.
As a consequence of a singleton symbol definition.
The interposition facilities of the LD_PRELOAD environment variable, and the -z interpose option,
have been available for some time. See Runtime Interposition. As these objects are
explicitly defined to be interposers, the runtime linker inspects these objects before processing
any direct binding.
Interposition that is established for a shared object applies to all the
interfaces of that dynamic object. This object interposition is established when a
object is loaded using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable. Object interposition is also
established when an object that has been built with the -z interpose option,
is loaded. This object model is important when techniques such as dlsym(3C) with
the special handle RTLD_NEXT are used. An interposing object should always have
a consistent view of the next object.
A dynamic executable has additional flexibility, in that the executable can define individual
interposing symbols using the INTERPOSEmapfile keyword. Because a dynamic executable is
the first object loaded in a process, the executables view of the next
object is always consistent.
The following example shows an application that explicitly wants to interpose on
the exit() function.
The letter “I” indicates the interposing nature of this symbol. Presumably, the
implementation of this exit() function directly references the system function _exit(), or
calls through to the system function exit() using dlsym() with the RTLD_NEXT handle.
At first, you might consider identifying this object using the -z interpose option.
However, this technique is rather heavy weight, because all of the interfaces exported
by the application would act as interposers. A better alternative would be
to localize all of the symbols provided by the application except for
the interposer, together with using the -z interpose option.
However, use of the INTERPOSEmapfile keyword provides greater flexibility. The use of
this keyword allows an application to export several interfaces while selecting those
interfaces that should act as interposers.
Symbols that are assigned the STV_SINGLETON visibility effectively provide a form of interposition.
See Table 12-20. These symbols can be assigned by the compilation system to
an implementation that might become multiply instantiated in a number of objects within
a process. All references to a singleton symbol are bound to the
first occurrence of a singleton symbol within a process.
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In the spectacular pre-title credits opening sequence, Agent 007 James Bond (Roger
Moore) was pursued by four machine gun-wielding Russian KGB agents in an exciting ski-chase down a steep slope in the Austrian Alps.
In the opening scene, the existential hero simply named the Driver (Ryan
O'Neal) stole a prospective client's 4-door Mercedes V-8 Sedan and then
auditioned his skills. He showed the three terrified bad guys how talented
he was as a freelance, ace getaway driver/wheelman for bank heists.
He
plowed through a cramped, underground parking garage and narrow alleyways
in LA to demonstrate his prowess and prove that he was worth every
penny of his high-priced fee.
The film had three spectacular car
chase sequences as well (including a night-time chase through LA).
Hooper (1978)
In a film filled with stunts and daredevil challenges, a car driven by
stuntman Sonny Hooper (Burt Reynolds) drove through a collapsing factory
(and barely missed its falling chimney) and made a rocket-propelled leap
over a 456' chasm over a river where a bridge used to be before it collapsed.
In the final hour of this 11th James Bond film, agent 007 (Roger Moore) ventured to the Amazonian jungle in Brazil, where he was pursued in his armored Glastron Hydrofoil Speedboat on the Tapirape River by henchman sent by villainous billionaire industrialist Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale). They launched an armed attack on his craft with explosive depth charges. From the rear of his boat, Bond deployed mines, blowing up one boat and killing three thugs.
As he raced forward, two other boats joined in the
pursuit - one held steel-toothed Jaws (Richard Kiel) who was wielding
a machine-gun. Bond then launched torpedoes from his speedboat,
and destroyed a second boat with three men onboard.
When Bond's
speedboat approached the massive Iguacu Falls, he escaped death
when he launched himself from his speedboat onto a hang glider
that was deployed from the craft's roof - and he soared away to
safety. Jaws (with two other thugs) in the last boat crashed over
the falls.
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Cool
ex-con, renegade musicians named the Blues Brothers - who were "on
a mission from God" - were siblings, who both wore black
suits, hats, and shades:
Joliet "Jake" Blues
(John Belushi)
Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd)
In one of the comedy film's earlier scenes,
there was an incredible jump over an open drawbridge [the 95th
Street bridge] ("This car's got some
pickup"), then a spectacular chase through an entire indoor shopping
mall in the Chicago area [the former Dixie Square Mall] - when they
were pursued by state police in their Bluesmobile (a converted 1974
Dodge Monaco police cruiser sedan), with dozens of crashes through
store windows (J. C. Penney's, Toys R Us, etc.) - that sent shoppers
fleeing.
In the last half
hour of the film, they sped 106 miles in their car toward downtown
Chicago while pursued by lots of squad cars, with a maniacal death-defying
chase that reportedly had the largest number of car crashes (demolition
derby style) in film history. One police car ended up crashing into
the side of a freight truck ("We're in a truck!").
At the conclusion, the two - driving at 120 mph at
times - plowed their vehicle through a flock of pigeons and a crowd
of pedestrians and into the lobby of the Richard J. Daley Center
municipal building at Daley Plaza. Once they had reached their final
destination, their car literally collapsed and completely fell apart
after they stepped out of it.
[Mack Sennett's The Keystone Kops short films were an inspiration
for this film.]
The Cannonball Run (1981)
Here was another chase film from Hal Needham (similar to his earlier The Gumball
Rally (1976)), featuring a cross-country, car-crashing road-race from
Connecticut to Southern California with the tagline: "You'll never
guess who wins."
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HomeUncategorizedObserve your dog obey all orders by using a good dog training collar
Observe your dog obey all orders by using a good dog training collar
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A copyrighted variant that is similar to the principle of the choke training collar is definitely the good dog training collar. This inventive collar features ridges situated on the inside of the dog collar that are connected together through tiny links that can be added or even taken out depending on the dimensions of the dogs neck. This particular training collar has two loops at each end that are attached to a free-sliding leash. This kind of design ensures that the dog collar tightens across the neck of your dog in a very accurate and delicate manner if she or he tries to distance themself from you as well as relaxes the moment she or he comes back towards you. This specific training collar is an inexpensive way of coaching your pet dog quickly and your pet dog will definitely stop pulling at the leash within a very short period of time.
On the other hand, if you wish to control your dog remotely or perhaps wish to coach your own hunting dog from afar then you can certainly opt for another form of good dog training collar that is available in the form of remote training collars or even electronic training collars. You should use the corresponding e-collar as a hunting dog training collar or simply to coach your own domesticated pet, based on your particular requirements. These collars include a remote transmitter that will remain in your hand along with a receiver fitted on the collar of the dog. You’ll be able to send electrical stimulation as well as beeps or even use vibrations through varying strengths to manage your dog. These collars usually have a range between about half and one mile although higher end versions even feature GPS tracking of your dog. You can browse between numerous models of dogtra training collars as well as sportdog training collars that are made by dogtra and sportdog, two of the very best respected manufacturers of remote control training collars.
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Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line
Progressive Workers Movement
On the Question of Liu Shao-chi
First Published:Progressive Worker [Canada] Vol. 4, No. 5, March 1968Transcription, Editing and Markup: Malcolm and Paul SabaCopyright: This work is in the Public Domain under the Creative Commons Common Deed. You can freely copy, distribute and display this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit the Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line as your source, include the url to this work, and note any of the transcribers, editors & proofreaders above.
The Belgian journal, La Voix du Peuple, has given considerable attention of late to a speech by Sidney Rittenberg, an American who has lived in China for more than 20 years. An extremely long article purporting to be a criticism of the Rittenburg lecture has extended over a number of issues during November, December and January. Criticism of Rittenburg is the stated aim but the authors appear to have a much more sinister objective in mind.
Rittenburg spoke to a Peking meeting sponsored by a group known as the “Bethune-Yenan Rebel Regiment”, apparently composed in the main of foreign experts working in China. This event took place in April 1967 and the address was subsequently mineographed and distributed abroad in Belgium (in French) and in England ( in English), under the title “Liu Shao-ehi and His Evil Book”. Copies of the speech together with articles attacking its main content have been received in Canada and we propose to comment on the lengthy polemic which appeared in La Voix du Peuple.
While we might be disposed to be somewhat critical of Rittenburg’s speech for being poorly constructed, not too carefully prepared and containing some careless formulatons, we are in agreement with its basic content in criticizing and repudiating the bourgeois-reactionary line of Liu Shao-chi and upholding the proletarian-revolutionary line of Mao Tse-tung. However, the Belgian trio of Jacques Grippa, Rene Raindorf and Stephen Strulens who are of the opposite opinion, in reply to Rittenburg’s 40 to 50 minute speech inscribed a, reply that would fill a good-sized book.
The extreme length of this literary attack is largely caused by the authors’ ranging far beyond the limits of the Rittenburg speech which did not provide them with sufficient scope for the objective they had in mind. In order to correct this situaton Rittenburg is charged with not saying certain things, and the things which were not said provide the main basis for the attack. The authors list a total of ten so-called “omissions” in the speech:
“ . .. no denunciation of American fascist imperialism”; “... no analysis of the social base of social-democratic reformism and revisionism”; “... no analysis of the contradictions in the contemporary world or the role of fundamental contradiction”; “nothing about revolutionary movements for national liberation”; “no reference to the contradictions between imperalists and revisionists on the one hand and socialist countries on the other hand”; “no allusion to the new stage of working class struggle ... in imperialist countries”; “nothing ... on the subject of contradictions between the capitalists and between the imperalists”; “no reminder of the essential nature of our period as Lenin and other Marxist-Leninists have defined it”; “nothing . . . which recalls that this is a period during which imperialism will be destroyed and the proletarian revolution victorious”; “These ’omissions’ suggest strange conclusions about the real world ...”
If these alleged “omissions” had been discussed, several days would have been added to a 50 minute speech. But let us leave it to the authors themselves to make reply to their charges of “omissions”. In part four of their literary marathon, having ’forgotten what they had written several weeks previous, the authors, criticizing Rittenburg, unwittingly supplied their own answer to the false cry of ’omissions”; as follows:
“It is also necessary to refute the false argument that is purely and simply a diversion and consists of saying that How to be a Good Communist does not deal with such and such a question. With that reasoning no Marxist-Leninist work except a complete encyclopedia would be of any value.”
That is fitting enough reply – nothing need be added.
However, we did not take up the pen to defend Rittenberg; the relentless attack on his speech is but the prologue to the real aim of his detractors – a covert attack on Chairman Mao Tse-tung and the Proletarian Cultural Revoluton in China, an attack masked by vehement declarations of loyalty to Marxist-Leninist principles and with loud cries of “long live Mao Tse-tung.” But not every shouter of slogans is a Marxist-Leninist and the lengthy article in La Voix du Peuple is a prime example of that point. In part 2 of the article we read:
“...the Marxist-Leninists of the world have always contributed new jewels to the common treasure of Marxist-Leninist thought, as Mao Tse-tung has done so brilliantly in many areas.”
We have no desire to disparge the contributions of many working-class journalists around the world, (including our own modest effort), who work under difficult and trying circumstances. But we cannot agree that the vast and important contributions to Marxist-Leninist theory and practice made by the chief architect and leader of the Chinese Revolution are to be considered in the same light, for what the authors imply here is that Mao Tse-tung is just another contributor instead of presenting him in the proper light as the equal of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, the one who advances the work begun by these brilliant minds. Mao Tse-tung has brilliantly applied and developed Marxism-Leninism in the era of the final defeat of imperialism and of victorious proletarian revolution, and particularly in solving the problem of how to carry on the proletarian revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat – a task which Marx, Lenin, and Engels could not, and did not carry out.
To downgrade the great contribution of Mao Tse-tung as la Voix du Peuple does means denying the authority of Marxist-Leninist thought in our day, it means lowering the banner of revolution. The thought of Mao Tse-tung is not just one more of many contributions, it IS Marxism-Leninism in our time and upholding Marxism-Leninism, defending the proletarian revolution and proletarian dictatorship requires that revolutionaries uphold and defend the authority of the thought of Mao Tse-tung. The above-quoted passage fails in this respect – it lowers the banner of the thought of Mao Tse-tung, hence it lowers the banner of proletaian revolution in the world.
The “Center” of Revolution
When representatives of the Progressive Workers Movement returned from a trip to China last year, they stated:
The outcome of the struggle now taking place will determine the future destiny of China and will exercise a decisive influence on the whole world because, as far as the present era is concerned, it is China that plays the really decisive role in the world. It is China that is the decisive factor so far as revolution, not only in China but in the world, is concerned. We can say with confidence there will be hope in the world so long as China does not fall and does not change its colour. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is an event of vast importance which has a vital bearing on the destiny of the whole of mankind (Progressive Worker, Vol.3, No.9, July, 1967).
The passage of time and events have not caused us to alter our opinion. On the contrary, we are now more firmly convinced that the consolidation of the proletarian dictatorship and winning new victories in the Cultural Revolution in China constitute objectives that are of supreme importance to the cause of the anti-imperialist struggle and the world revolution. From the contents of the article in la Voix du Peuple it appears that Grippa, Raindorf and Streulens are far from agreeing with us.
Rittenberg, after commenting on the revisionist seizure of power in the Soviet Union, went on to say:
Was that going to happen in China? Were they going to take down the picture of Chairman Mao that hangs over the Tien An Men gate tower one day? Were they going to announce that China would not be the center of world revolution, that China will cease and desist from giving unstinted aid to the embattled peoples of all countries, particularly of Asia, Africa and Latin America in return for false assurances of peace and moderation from the imperialists.
Taking a distorted version of this passage as their point la Voix du Peuple presents an argument that conveys the impression that the defeat of the Chinese Revolution would be but a minor tragedy. Here, in part, is la Voix du Peuple rebuttal to Rittenberg:
For us Marxist-Leninists, the Soviet Union was for a long time the only socialist country, the only one where the victorious proletarian revolution showed the way...and constituted a powerful force for the proletarian world revolution...
When the revisionists usurped power in the U.S.S.R., we were not for long disoriented and discouraged – we did not feel we had lost our ’center’. We considered this setback, this temporary defeat of the Russian Revolution, just as a setback, a check for ourselves and for the world revolution, a regrettable mishap for class struggle on a world scale, but we preserved intact our fighting will...
When the Chinese revolution was victorious and the People’s Republic of China was proclaimed we saluted that victory, considered it as our own... (Part 3).
Ignoring for the moment the all-too-casual way in which the Russian Revolution is written off, and the very low estimate of the extent of that defeat, let us examine its meaning as it applies to China for it is the very obvious intention of la Voix du Peuple that it is intended to convey their opinion of a possible defeat in China. According to these writers, then, the downfall of the Chinese Revolution would be “just a setback”, a “check”, a “regrettable mishap for the class struggle” that would make no substantial difference to the world Marxist-Leninist movement and the anti-imperialist struggle. Apparently we can depend on the editors of La Voix du Peuple to “preserve intact their fighting will”, step into the breach and challenge international reaction led by U.S. imperialism and aided by Soviet revisionism. With all due respect to La Voix du Peuple we simply cannot buy their theory. For us the Chinese revolution is a subject of outstanding importance the defeat of which could never be written off as a “regrettable mishap.” Certainly struggle would go on. It is inevitable that struggle will continue, but under what vastly altered and unfavourable circumstances!
It would take nothing away from the outstanding heroism of the Vietnamese people, nor would we be underestimating their brilliant application of, and contribution to the strategy and tactics of peoples war, to say that, without revolutionary China as their firm and reliable rear, their struggle would be infinitely more difficult, if not impossibe in its present highly-developed form. Without China, Soviet revisionist and treachery pressure to yield imperialist blackmail would go unchallenged.
It is not without significance that it is in Southeast Asia where the Chinese revolution has the greastest influence, and not in the Middle East or Latin America, that U.S. imperialism is meeting its most formidable challenge just now. Are we not justified in believing that had China fallen to the revisionists the anti-imperialist struggle in Vietnam and elsewhere would not now be in its present highly-developed form? If that diaster had occured the counter-revolutionary policy of peaceful co-existence with the imperialists, and not that of the revolutionary anti-imperialist peoples war, would be the dominant characteristic in the world in this period. Should we, then accept the opinion that this would be only a “regrettable mishap.”
We cannot accept the way in which La Voix du Peuple presents the sequence of events quoted above. It happens that the Russian revolution suffered a “regrettable mishap” following which the courageous editors of the Belgium journal “preserved intact their fighting will, the determination to struggle”, then, happily, along came the Chinese Revolution which the editors “claimed as their own.”
We have not such short memories. We will remember that the Chinese revolution was victorious for some seven years before the outright seizure of power by the Kruschovites and that it was the Chinese Party that was in the lead in exposing that betrayal by the revisionists. We know that it was still another seven years, in 1963, before Grippa and his colleagues effected an organizational break with the revisionists in Belgium. Had there been no Red China to stand against and expose revisionist treachery the struggle to build a Marxist-Leninist movement would have been more difficult.
In his preface to the second edition of The Peasant in Germany Engels said of the German workers:
“If the German workers proceed in this way, they not march exactly at the head of the movement – it is not in the interests of the movement that the workers of one country should march at the head of all – but they will occupy an honourable place on the battle line, and they will stand armed for battle when other unexpected grave trials or momentuous events will demand heightened courage heightened determination, and the will to act”, and further on in the preface, they “form the vanguard of the proletarian struggle.”
What could be said of the German workers a century ago, without state power in their confrontation with reaction is a thousand times more applicable to China today. The working people of China certainly occupy an honourable place in the battle line, and those who have been privileged to see China in these days of victory in the Cultural Revolution know that the Chinese people, mobilized around the revolutionary banner of Mao Tse-tung, stand armed for battle when grave trials or momentuous events demand heightened courgae.
The Book of Liu Shao-chi
The true extent of La Voix du Peuple becomes clear in Part 4 which appeared in the issue of December 1st. Rittenberg’s speech is but the means to an end, that end being defence of the book by Liu Shao-chi. This fact is established in the very first phrase when Rittenberg’s criticism of How to be a Good Communis is referred to as “vituperations against the book by Liu Shao-chi”. This categorical rejection of any criticism of the book is made still clearer later when Rittenberg’s critical remarks are classed as, “frantic attacks against Marxist-Leninist parties”, “a peridious campaign against Marxism-Leninism”, “an anti Marxist-Leninist counter-revolutionary line”, etc. Repudiation of the line of Liu Shao-chi is discribed as an “invention of Rittenberg and his masters” used with the “intention of destroying Marxist-Leninist parties by any means.”
La Voix du Peuple makes numerous allusions to “Rittenberg, his masters and agents” with the obvious intention of having all criticism of Liu Shao-chi and his book automatically associated with an alleged international counter-revolutionary conspiracy. In this way the authors of the article strive to suppress criticism of the line of Liu Shao-chi and, at the same time, give their actions the appearance of defending Marxism-Leninism. If Rittenberg does have “masters and agents” they must total in the hundreds of millions – presently engaged in sharp criticism and repudiation of the line of Liu Shao-chi. This repudiation of Liu Shao-chi and his book is an important part of the Cultural Revolution, and a fact which cannot help but be known to La Voix du Peuple.
One of the authors, Stephen Strulens, arrived in China last spring apparently there to discuss some questions in connection with the Rittenberg speech. We met Strulens and his companion at the Shanghai Airport and spent several hours with them there. We were with them when airport workers gave a concert featuring the thought of Mao Tse-tung by means of song and dance – one encounters these impromptu concerts all over China. Propaganda teams of the thought of Mao Tse-tung can be found in all corners of the land and they number in the millions. In unison with the working masses of China these teams raise the cry “Down with Liu Shao-chi and his evil book.” Strulens witnessed this phenomena at Shanghai and when we saw him again on our return to Peking we know he could not fail to see millions of workers repeating the slogan in the great square at Tien An Men, not far from the Hotel Peking.
Strulens, therefore, could not fail to observe that “Down with Liu Shao-chi and the capitalist roaders” was the demand of millions and not a plot devised by a small band of counter-revolutionary conspirators. Strulens must have communicated this fact to his colleagues. What purpose do they have, then, in attempting to have this appear as an “invention of Rittenberg, his masters and his agents”? They can have only one aim in view – rehabilitation of the bourgeois-reactionary line of Liu Shao-chi as sumanzed in his book How to be a Communist
La Voix du Peuple gives an edited and abbreviated version of the following passage from Rittenberg’s speech: “ the poison smuggled into the Communist movement by Liu Shao-chi and the representatives of his line, particularly reflected in his book, must be eradicated, not only in China, but throughout the revolutionary movement. Otherwise, it will be impossible to really establish a proletarian revolutionary line and carry the revolution forward to victory.”
Responding to this la Voix du Peuple says: “Rittenberg his masters and agents have thrown their ultimate to Marxist-Leninist: those who do not yell ’Down with Liu Shao-chi and his book How to be a Good Communist’ become ’false revolutionaries,’ ’revisionists,’ ’counter revolutionaries.’”
This type of ’reply’ only amounts to an evasion of the real point at issue by a resort to invective. If Rittenberg is justified in his criticism of the book – and we agree he is – then those who do not join in repudiating it are false revolutionaries and revisionists, and resorting to invective connot erase that fact. Again it is evident La Voix du Peuple is anxious to defend Liu Shao-chi by any avaible means. Following the above passage the editors express righteous indignation over an “order” said to have come from Ritenberg: “... at their order, our Party is supposed to serviley reject, totally, on the spot, with no discussion, a book which for all this time has been considered good...”
There is no part of Rittenberg’s speech which could possibly be interpreted as an order to servilely reject anything. As for “no discussion”, the editors of la Voix du Peuple must surely know that Liu Shao-chi and his book have been important items for discussion for many months and that numerous articles and pamphlets on the subject have been published in many languages. If there has been no discussion of this question in Belgium then the fault rests with the Belgian movement for failing to read, study, and discuss the wealth of material and information available. And if there has been no discussion, as the above quotation clearly indicates, on what did la Voix du Peuple base their decision to reject Rittenberg’s thesis and defend the book by Liu Shao-chi? It seems they have decided to accept the line of Liu Shao-chi “with no discussion”.
That the authors of the article in la Voix du Peuple do defend How to be a Good Communist is not in doubt as the following passage form Part 4 will demonstrate:
Rittenberg condemns How to be a Good Communist because it mentions nowhere the problem of taking revolutionary power.
This is not true. Not only does the whole book deal with the education of the Communist Party, of the cadre in the revolutionary struggle, thus implying the necessity of the taking of power by the proletariat allied to the other classes of the labouring population, that is to say the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also deals explicitly with the fundamental question of power, in relation to the deportment of Communists.
It is significant that the authors are unable to quote Liu Shao-chi DIRECTLY on the dictatorship of the proletariat, but, in giving the lie to Rittenberg, are limited to making the unsubstantiated claim that Liu Shao-chi IMPLIES the necessity of taking power, which can be considered as no more than an opinion of the editors, and a very unreliable one at that. The truth is that How to be a Good Communist, first published in China in 1939, and revised and republished many times thereafter until 1962, maintains total silence on the proletarian dictatorship. (First published in the fierce struggle of the anti-Japanese war, it never once touched upon that conflict until the 1962 edition, long after the war, when a brief reference to it was thrown in). Liu Shao-chi simply describes the state as “centralized and at the same time democratic” and nowhere mentions the necessity for dictatorship over the class enemy. What is that but the Kruschovite “state of the whole people”?
However it is not necessary for us to enter into an endless debate over this question of implicit or explicit references to proletarian power for it is easy to establish the fact that Liu Shao-chi not only does not mention the subject but actually eliminates all references to it in every one of the many editions issued since 1939.
In 1962 – the year of the most recent edition (English edition 1964) – the question of proletarian power was under sharp attack from the revisionists led by the Soviet ruling clique, therefore Marxist-Leninists were duty-bound to rise in defence of this concept which is central to Marxism-Leninism. Yet Liu Shao-chi continued to erase it from his book.
On pages 40 and 41 (1961 English edition) Liu Shao-chi cites two passages from Left-Wing Communism by Lenin but he eliminates important sections from the body of each quotation. In the quotation on Page 40 the following section is excluded:
The dictatorship of the proletariat is a persistent struggle – bloody and bloodless, violent and peaceful, military and economic, educational and administrative – against the forces and traditions of the old society... Without an iron party tempered in the struggle, without a party enjoying the confidence of all that is honest in the given class, without a party capable of watching and influencing the mood of the masses, it is impossible to conduct such a struggle successfully.
And on Page 41 we find the following excluded from the quotation from Lenin:
“The dictatorship of the proletariat is essential.”
So we can see clearly that Liu Shao-chi ELIMINATED all references to proletarian dictatorship when he “quoted” from Lenin and made no reference to the subject himself. Was this just an oversight, an accident repeated in each new and revised edition of How to be a Good Communist? How could any Marxist-Leninist possibly overlook the all-important question of proletarian power? It is not Rittenberg but the editors of la Voix du Peuple who are wrong about Liu Shao-chi failing to deal with the dictatorship of the proletariat. And in view of the charge by la Voix du Peuple that “Rittenberg and his masters” are trying to destroy the Marxist-Leninist movement it is significant that Liu Shao-chi erases Lenin’s reference to the type of party required UNDER THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT.
The Belgian article states: “Engels, Lenin and Stalin ought to disappear according to Rittenberg”. This is to our way of thinking a completely unjustified accusation, all the more slanderous in view of the failure to point out how Liu Shao-chi did, in fact, cause Engels and Stalin to disappear.
In all the editions of his book until 1962 Liu Shao-chi wrote: “be the best pupils of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin” and quoted three passages from Chapter Four of the History of the CPSU. But in nineteen-sixty-two, he revised this to read: “Be worthy pupils of Marx and Lenin” and deleted entirely the passages previously quoted from the History of the CPSU. To do this in nineteen-sixty-two could only mean conforming to the wishes and needs of the Soviet revisionists who attacked Stalin to destroy Marxism-Leninism. In order to delete the name of Stalin he made Engels a co-victim with him.
For us the evidence seems clear and irrefutable: Liu Shao-chi opposes proletarian dictatorship and the party of a revolutionary type which Lenin fought for and Mao Tse-tung did so much to build in China.
In Conclusion
We have not exhausted the subject of Liu Shao-chi whose activities range well beyond those dealt with here. There is a lot of material available which can be obtained from Advance Books and Periodicals, Neither have we dealt completely with the lengthy article in la Voix du Peuple. We feel however, that we are justified in drawing the conclusion that the editors of la Voix du Peuple are committed to defending the bourgeois-reactioary line of Liu Shao-chi and are intent on making it appear that criticism of Liu Shao-chi is an attack on the Communist Party and the thought of Mao Tse-tung. But these two are representatives of two fundamentally different lines which cannot be reconciled. Liu Shao-chi represents the counter-revolutionory line of the bourgeois while Mao Tse-tung represents the proletarian revolutionary line. One must choose between these two. The Central Committee and the vast majority of cadres and Party members, together with the Chinese masses, guided by the thought of Chairman Mao, are criticizing and repudiating the reactionary line of Liu Shao-chi who is the top party person in authority taking the capitalist road.
The speech by Rittenberg, as we have noted above, might justifiably be criticized for its style and some careless formulations. But this is not what the editors of la Voix du Peuple are concerned with. On the basic point of repudiating Liu Shao-chi and defending Mao Tse-tung Rittenberg is correct. But it is precisely against this correct point that the attack is directed. It is clear that the authors, behind the screen of a pretended attack on Rittenberg, are in reality mounting an attack on Mao Tse-tung and the Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
We firmly state our opposition to the line advanced by La Voix du Peuple, which we consider to be pointing a revisionist course and, in essence, counter-revolutionary. We take our stand now, as always, on the side of Chair Mao Tse-tung and China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
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From Albania to Zimbabwe: My Very First Halloweekend
Hi there! My name is Akira Camargo, a freshman hailing from Tokyo, Japan who will try to crack funny jokes and puns from time to time as I write posts for From Albania to Zimbabwe, the ins and outs of being at Brown from an international student’s perspective. Through my posts, you’ll be able to learn more about all things international here, ranging from international events at Brown (cool guest speakers, festivals and parties) to my thoughts on living in America for the first time (!!!), and a bunch of other interesting stuff as my first year at Brown unfolds. Hope you enjoy reading them!
Happy November! I hope all of you had a great one. For those of you applying to colleges, the Early Decision deadline just passed…! I congratulate those of you who submitted your first college application! That’s a commendable honor. I remember exactly a year ago, I was in my high school library looking over my Brown application and hitting submit while my friend Sumika (who also got admitted to Brown and is in the above photo on the left) did a last-minute run through of my essays. It’s really weird to think how much my life has changed in just a year. Spooky…
Speaking of spooky, Halloweekend is just making its final run at Brown. I dressed up with all of my friends, had a lot of fun at some awesome Halloween-themed parties and I am now procrastinating from all the work I didn’t do this week.
Anyway, this was my first Halloween in America and in college, and I must say, WOW. I was overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and passion everyone had with regards to what costume they wanted to wear, what parties to go to and much much more. Back at home, we really didn’t do much for Halloween except for Trick-or-Treating when I was younger, so it was a big change to do a whole set of different things. It was an overwhelming couple of days but I sure did have a lot of fun.
On Friday, I dressed up with my friend as superheroes and went to a party that was hosted by our college neighbor next door, RISD. I met a bunch of cool people and even made a new Japanese friend! The international world is small, and you are bound to find people who you share mutual friends with. Take advantage of your international background!
On Saturday, the Japan Cultural Association had its annual Haunted House, which was tiring and exicting all at the same time. We created our own haunted house, in a series of small classrooms in a basement of an old buildling at Brown. Scary right? It was a great success and I had a lot of fun scaring people (I didn’t think that would be fun, but hey, it really was!).
As an international student, you will definitely experience a lot of ‘firsts’, just like Halloween. Don’t forget to be open-minded and try new things. That being said, no one really pressures you, and it’s also cool to stick to what you’re used to as well.
Stay warm, folks. It just started snowing here and I am freaking out! Winter is coming!
Best,
Akira
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Dorothea Benckendorff, Princess Lieven (1784-1857)
Dorothea, Princess Lieven, was born in December, 1784, into the Russian Baltic nobility at Riga, now in Latvia. Her father, General Christopher von Benckendorff, served as military governor of Russia’s Baltic provinces; her mother, Anna Juliane née Schilling von Cannstatt, held a high position at the Russian court as senior lady-in-waiting and best friend of Empress Maria Fyodorovna, the wife of Czar Paul and mother of the Czars Alexander I and Nicholas.
Princess Lieven had two brothers. Count Alexander Benkendorf, four years her senior, was aide-de-camp to the Emperor Nicholas, and at one time Chief of the Secret Police. He died in 1844. Count Constantine Benkendorf was born in the same year as the Princess; he rose to the rank of General
in the Russian service, and died of fever, in 1828, at Pravadi, during the first campaign of the war against Turkey.
Dorothea was educated at the Smolny Convent Institute in St Petersburg and then was assigned as a maid of honour to the Empress Maria. In 1801, at the age of sixteen, some months after finishing her studies, Dorothea married General Count (later Prince) Christopher Lieven.
Princess Lieven had, in all, five sons and one daughter. Two sons, Alexander and Paul, alone survived their parents. Of the younger children, the only daughter died, presumably, in infancy; Arthur and George died at Petersburg, of scarlet fever, in 1835, while Constantine, having incurred his father's displeasure, left his family and died in America in the year 1838.
At the Peace of Tilsit, in 1807, Count Lieven had attained the rank of Lieutenant-General, and in 1810 was accredited to Berlin as Russian Minister Plenipotentiary, at the Court of Frederick-William III. In 1812 Count Lieven was appointed Ambassador in London, and held this post for the following twenty-two years. Dorothea used her intelligence, charisma, and social skills to contribute materially to the success of her husband’s embassy.
In England's political environment, the Princess discovered that she had a flair for politics. By 1814, if not earlier, she was elected as one of the patronesses of Almack's Assembly Rooms, the first foreigner to be so honoured; she is said to have introduced the German Waltz to Almack's. She was a prominent political hostess: invitations to her house were the most sought after. She held the confidence of some of the most important statesmen in London and Europe and she was considered to be at least as politically important, if not more so, than her ambassador husband who, at the time of the coronation of the Emperor Nicholas in September, 1826, received the title of Prince.
The Princess participated, either directly or indirectly, in every major diplomatic event between 1812 and 1857. She knew ‘everyone in the Courts and cabinets for thirty or forty years [and] knew all the secret annals of diplomacy’, wrote a French diplomat. Dorothea devoted herself tirelessly to the welfare of Russia, assiduously sleeping with every major statesman on the European stage, including Metternich, George IV and each successive British prime minister except George Canning, whom she saw as a plebeian with no manners. Her lovers changed with each Cabinet reshuffle.
She performed at least one secret diplomatic mission for the Tsar when, in 1825 Tsar Alexander entrusted Dorothea with a secret overture to the British government. ‘It is a pity Countess Lieven wears skirts’, the Tsar wrote to his foreign minister Count Nesselrode. ‘She would have made an excellent diplomat.’ The Tsar’s mission marked Dorothea Lieven’s debut as a diplomat in her own right.
During Prince Lieven’s ambassadorship in England, (1812-1834) the Princess played a key role in the birth of modern Greece, and made a notable contribution to the creation of today’s Belgium. In London, Princess Lieven cultivated friendships with the foremost statesmen of her day. She and Austrian Chancellor Prince Klemens Lothar Wenzel von Metternich had a notorious liaison. Her friendships with George IV, Prince Metternich, the Duke of Wellington, George Canning, Count Nesselrode, Lord Grey, and François Guizot gave Dorothea Lieven the opportunity to exercise authority in the diplomatic councils of Great Britain, France, and Russia.
In 1834 Prince Lieven was recalled from London, and was named Governor to the young Czarevitch, later Emperor Alexander II. Despite her residence in London, the Princess had already been appointed senior lady-in-waiting to the Empress Alexandra in 1829. Soon after the Lievens returned to Russia, their two youngest sons died suddenly. This tragedy and her declining health caused the Princess to leave her native land and settle in Paris. Though she suffered from ill health in the last decades of her life, she continued to be involved in politics and diplomacy. Her collected letters provide a wickedly gossipy insight into Regency England.
In a city where salons served a unique social and political purpose, Princess Lieven’s Paris salon, known as ‘the listening/observation post of Europe’, empowered her to be an independent stateswoman. In 1837 she and François Guizot entered into a close personal partnership that lasted until the Princess's death.
Dorothea Lieven died peacefully at her home, 2 rue Saint-Florentin, Paris1 on 27 January 1857 . She was buried, according to her wish, at the Lieven family estate, Mežotne near Jelgava, next to her two young sons who had died in St. Petersburg.
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The concept “thoughts turn into issues” has turn into a meme in pop culture. It’s held as a company proposition in metaphysics, and a few religious lecturers ascribe countless powers to the brain. yet are those claims scientifically exact? What does the medical proof let us know in regards to the scope of the human brain to remodel ideas into truth?
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Yamaha Motif Rack
It seems simple enough — take the successful Motif workstation, remove the keyboard, and release it as a more affordable rack unit. But there's lots more to the Motif Rack than meets the eye...
As the owner of a studio best described as compact and bijou, I have always applauded the practice of repackaging synthesizers and other keyboard instruments into space-saving rack modules — and latterly, zero-mass software! In many cases, it can be some time after the release of the original keyboard version until the rack module makes an appearance — time enough for the manufacturer to gauge the success of the original instrument, and thus infer a viable market for a module. Yamaha claim on their web site that a modular version of the Motif has been their most-requested product — so, one-and-a-half years after the release of the acclaimed Motif 6, 7 and 8 workstations, the Motif Rack is born.
The Motif 7 was reviewed in depth by Derek Johnson and Debbie Poyser in SOS September 2001, so I recommend referring to this for a detailed description of the Motif synthesis engine and other features. The Motif Rack can essentially be described as 'the sound of the Motif in a box' — however, there are some significant functional and feature differences between the keyboard and rack versions.
The Motif Rack is a 1U rack, measuring 35cm in depth. The front silver-and-blue liveried panel hosts the 20 buttons, rotary encoder dial and 160x64 backlit LCD display that control the synth within. A master volume control, headphone socket and power switch complete the line-up. Round the back we find the usual wall-wart power connection and MIDI In/Out/Thru. There are six analogue outputs (a stereo Master plus four assignables), S/PDIF and optical digital outputs as standard, and a USB connector.
Anyone familiar with the numerous controls on the Motif keyboards may be wondering how on earth all of its features can be condensed down to 20 buttons and a dial. Obviously the control faders and knobs of the keyboard are absent, as are the (redundant) master keyboard controls. Two other principal features of the keyboard versions are also missing from the Motif Rack. Firstly, the Motif Rack has no onboard sampling, nor is there any facility for importing samples — hence no internal sample RAM. Secondly, there is no onboard sequencer — the Motif Rack is purely a tone generator. The Motif synth engine has nevertheless not been compromised in any way as a result of these omissions — if anything, it has been given a shot of steroids
The basic Voice structure remains the same — AWM2 (ie. sample-based) waveforms, four AWM2 elements per Voice with subtractive synthesis, each element having ADDSR envelopes for Amp, and HADDSRs for both Filter and Pitch, 20 filter types (six low-pass filters, two high-pass filters, four band-pass filters, one notch filter — or band-elimination filter, as it is called here — and seven dual filters) and one LFO. The major enhancement here is a polyphony of 128 voices, as opposed to the Motif's 62. The effects have also been upgraded to Business Class; the Global effects now boast eight new reverb algorithms (totalling 20) and there are 44 chorus options, which include a selection of 25 reverb/delays and 19 chorus-type effects (see the 'Rack Vs Keyboard Versions' box below). The two Insert effects have also had a makeover — each Insert now has a range of 107 effects to choose from, whereas the Motif had 25 for Insert 1 and 104 for Insert 2. The number of Preset Voices has been upped from three banks to five — each with 128 Presets, totalling 640. There are now two user-programmable banks of 128 instead of one, and even the outputs have been augmented to a total of six — one master stereo pair and four assignables.
Due to the absence of an onboard sequencer, the Motif Keyboards' Performance and sequencer Song modes are now represented on the Motif Rack by a Multi mode. This actually handles both of the latter modes in one. You can either dial up a Multi directly from the User bank, or you can access a preset 'library' of Multis. On the review model, this library contains 124 configurations, arranged into two Banks. Bank 1 consists of 59 Performance-type Multis — ie. up to four velocity and keyrange-scaleable parts, all receiving on one fixed MIDI channel, thus making complex layered sounds, some with a drum groove at the lower end of the keyboard overlapping with a pad in the middle and a lead sound at the top. Bank 2 contains 65 Multi-type presets, or 16-part multitimbral configurations, for use with a sequencer. Setups for a variety of musical genres are available here; if you wish, you can simply select the library preset closest to your requirements, then copy it to the temporary buffer. From here you can edit it out of all recognition if you desire, then save it to the Multi User bank.
The Arpeggiator remains basically the same as on the original Motif, save for the absence of a User bank — so no bespoke patterns can be created. Nevertheless, fans of Philip Glass will have a whale of a time with the 256 patterns on offer — especially the chordal types. There are various ways to manipulate the patterns; notes can be sorted in the order in which they are played, key velocity can be acknowledged or ignored, and key and velocity ranges can be set. The velocity range is especially useful — if you set the arpeggiator to engage above a certain point, say velocity 120, then any notes played below that threshold will play the voice as normal. In this way you could play an acoustic guitar melody, then hit a chord hard for an instant flamenco flourish — olé! Unlike the Motif, the Motif Rack transmits its arpeggiations from the MIDI Out port, enabling you to arpeggiate any external synth, or to record the arpeggios into a sequencer. My only wish would be that you could have more than one instance of the arpeggiator in a Multi — unfortunately it can only be assigned to one Part, but this is exactly when the ability to record the arpeggio's output to a sequencer should come in very handy indeed.
Although the Motif Rack lacks the sampler functions of the keyboard Motifs, it still retains the option to install plug-in boards from Yamaha's PLG range. These plug-ins offer different types of synthesis — analogue modelling, FM and acoustic physical modelling, for example. Not only do they add a complete new instrument to the Motif Rack, they also add their own polyphony and effects — meaning the Motif Rack's own engine is augmented, not compromised. See the 'Plug-In Boards' box for a list of the boards currently suitable for the Motif Rack. Whereas the keyboard Motifs can accommodate three such plug-in boards, the Motif Rack can only take two, due to the obvious size restrictions. The Presets for these boards are already in the Motif Rack's OS, so the sounds are ready to roll from the moment you install a board.
The Motif Rack ships with a CD containing audio demos of the PLG plug-ins, plus various application softwares. As well as the requisite Yamaha USB drivers, there are various voice editors — Voice Editor for Motif Rack, editors for each of the PLG plug-ins, and a sequencer, SQ01. Of these, the voice editor and SQ01 sequencer are of particular interest here. The Motif Rack's 160x64 display and 20 buttons, while not too painfully minimalist, are about as economical as they could be without being obstructive. The software editor therefore comes as a welcome bonus, and it was a simple matter to install the USB drivers and software. The voice editor is well-thought-out and very intuitive, making deep-level voice-editing of Motif Rack sounds a relative doddle. Sadly you cannot edit Multis in this program, which means you must endure a certain amount of cursoring and dialling. Nevertheless, you can download the entire voice contents of the Motif Rack to your computer, edit and rearrange the voices, save them, edit effects and so on. There's also an integral librarian function, so all your sounds can be archived to your hard drive.
SQ01 deserves a special mention too — it is a fully functional MIDI + Audio sequencer, and while it may not exactly be Sonar or Cubase SX, I was surprised at the extent of the facilities it offers for a free program. Certainly it would be a great help for anyone starting out on a limited budget who wants to get into some serious Motif Rack action while waiting for the funds to accrue towards a sequencer upgrade. The bad news is that SQ01 is only available for Windows...
For a 1U rack, the Motif Rack offers a decent number of outputs (one main stereo pair plus four mono assignable outs), plus the MIDI and USB connectors.Photo: Mark Ewing
Editing without the software editor can be fairly slow — there's a lot of cursoring to be done, and the rotary dial can sometimes be annoyingly slow when going from one parameter extreme to the other. An Undo facility would help when you're experimenting with values — my dialling finger would certainly agree. Some voice parameters are perhaps not as detailed as on other synths — others more so. For example, each element has only one LFO, with a choice of only three waveforms, and the LFO delay time is combined into one parameter with the fade-in time. By comparison, Roland's XV synth tones have two LFOs, each with 11 waveforms, separate LFO delay and fade, and four fade modes. That said, the Motif Rack voice has 20 filter types as opposed to the Roland's six, not to mention a global Common LFO that enjoys 13 waveforms, and the Motif's amplifier and filter keyboard scaling is blessed with four adjustable breakpoints — very nice — in contrast to the Roland's linear slope.
There are a few other editing issues: there is no means of editing two or more elements simultaneously, and you can't copy the settings of one element to another within the Temp Edit buffer. This is true even when editing from your computer. You can copy elements from already saved voices, but each time you want to copy an element, you have to save the sound you're editing before you've finished, which isn't too sensible. In Multi mode, you can make some basic 'offset' type edits to voices while they are in situ within the Multi, but you don't have access to fully detailed, individual element parameters.
The amount of reverb and chorus applied to a Voice is global — in other words, there is no individual send level for each Voice element. Although up to four Insert effects can be used per Multi, they must have been programmed into the relevant Voices first. While this is not as flexible as on some other synths, the quality of the effects is consistently first class.
One disturbing thing came to light whilst constructing a test multitimbral piece in Sonar — the Motif Rack exhibited some conspicuous timing problems when playing a simple six-part tune. Initially, I thought it was due to the Motif being sluggish to respond over its MIDI ports, but the problem persisted, even when I banished MIDI in favour of the USB port. Loading the same song into SQ01 produced the same timing errors. In order to confirm there was no problem within the sequencers, I copied the drum part to an adjacent track, and routed it to a completely different synth module. This played the drum part back perfectly in time — while the duplicate Motif Rack drum part stumbled conspicuously, and was noticeably late in triggering. In order to get some idea of exactly how much, I recorded an audio snippet of the twin drum parts and inspected the waveform at a high zoom factor. The results showed an average discrepancy of around 1800 samples — ie. 40 milliseconds at 44.1kHz sample rate (the sequence was at 86bpm). Mindful of the fact that sequencers prioritise the scanning of tracks in numerical order (the Motif drums were on track 10, according to their default MIDI channel) I moved both drum tracks to the top of the track list. The problem was slightly ameliorated, but there was still a distinct flamming between the part from the Motif and the one from the other module, more than would otherwise be expected from 'normal' MIDI-timing discrepancies. This time, the delay measured on average 400 samples, which translates into around nine milliseconds — better, but still perceptable. This is a potentially serious problem for a multitimbral synth.
As a performance synth, the Motif Rack is a fine-sounding machine, made all the more attractive by the option to add plug-in synth boards. The sounds it produces cover a vast palette of musical genres, and are well-suited to meet the increasing demand for an all-purpose synth that can tackle pretty much any style of music. However, as a multitimbral workstation module, the Motif Rack fared less well at the time of this review due to the timing problems reported above. Yamaha were made aware of this problem, and at the time of going to press were trying to nail it down and see if it was something that could be resolved with a software upgrade, as opposed to a more serious hardware-based problem. Depending on what they find, UK customers may have the benefit, as the Motif Rack was about to start shipping in the UK when Yamaha found out about the problem, and the release has been delayed at the time of writing. As we went to press, Yamaha had the following to say on the subject: "To date, we're unaware of any problematic issues relating to Motif Rack, however thanks to the diligence of the Sound On Sound team we're taking steps to fully investigate this situation, and will be able to respond shortly. Unfortunately, because of the deadlines involved with this issue, we cannot make a full statement, but will of course do so before the product ships within the UK market. For any updates and news, please keep an eye on the SOS web site, where you'll be the first to hear the latest."
I really do like the Motif Rack as a synth, so the altruist in me feels compelled to find some way to make it workable as it is. If you used the Motif Rack as your sole sound source, and adopted the practice of assigning any timing-critical parts to the lowest possible track numbers (ie. to the top of the list) then the timing issues might be considered negligible. However, I'm duty-bound to point out that the discrepancies begin to show up when the Motif Rack is part of a larger MIDI setup, in which context it is, after all, likely to be used — so this is clearly an issue which has to be resolved at the earliest opportunity. Taking the optimistic view that a solution is possible, I'll round up by saying that, given the choice of similarly priced (and cheaper) alternatives now available in the sample-based, multitimbral synth module arena, it is the additional sonic potential of those plug-in boards that is most likely to sway potential buyers in favour of the Motif Rack.
Since Yamaha have been championing the mLAN cause by fitting the Motif 6/7/8 with a slot for an optional mLAN8E board, it's interesting to note that they have omitted this option from the Motif Rack — especially in view of the recent launch at Frankfurt of the mLAN-equipped 01X Production Studio. As we know, mLAN is supposed to be able to cope with many hundreds of MIDI channels and up to 128 channels of audio down one cable, and while this may be more relevant to the Motif 6/7/8 (with its integrated sampling sequencer), surely it would also be a useful feature on the Motif Rack? Particularly since the 01X can also function not only as an audio mixer but as a complete MIDI control surface — which could naturally be used to extend the performance potential of the Motif Rack.
At present, it's not too clear when or whether other manufacturers will embrace mLAN (much less stick to the same set of rules...), so maybe Yamaha are biding their time until they release the next incarnation of the Motif.
Extended polyphony and improved range of effects over Motif keyboards.
Arpeggiator outputs over MIDI.
cons
Button-intensive editing without the software editor.
Slightly inflexible effects deployment.
Some worrying timing problems in multitimbral use at the time of review.
summary
The essential sound of the keyboard Motifs in a 1U rack, with enhancements. The absence of the sampler and sequencer facilities are made up for with a doubling of polyphony, more effects and outputs, extra preset and user banks, arpeggiator output over MIDI and an excellent (if PC-only...) software sequencer. However, at the time of writing, the Motif Rack is compromised when operating multitimbrally, and this must be addressed before it can be considered a practical alternative to the Motif keyboard.
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Full text search with Sygic Mobile SDK
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20. 04. 2017 · 1 min read
Today we are going to take a look at another great thing about upcoming Sygic Mobile SDK and it is called Full text Autocomplete Search.
Full text search
Autocomplete
Part of Sygic’s Mobile SDK is super-fast customizable Full text Autocomplete Search engine. One of its advantages is searching POIs in categories, supporting also searching by postal codes. Search is also completely capable to work with misspellings.
Speed
The main asset of Full text search is its speed, while results are displaying in matter of milliseconds. The more misspellings are in input, the long search it takes.
Intelligent Search
Full text search considers language localization of the name in the map and also language of user. It gives you results based on your actual position as well. For example, if you type in simple “pizza Paris”, you get all possible pizza restaurants around. It helps you to effectively browse objects around you moreover you can easily add your custom data to already existing ones
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The body of an Ebola victim remains contagious after death, so collectors must carry full protective gear as they prepare to do their job.
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"When I wake up in the morning, I will pray to God to give me strength and focus," says 21-year-old Sorie Fofana.
His job is collecting the bodies of those who die from Ebola in Monrovia, Liberia's capital city of roughly 1 million people. Before, Fofana was an artist, making designs for T-shirts. The new job pays better — $1,000 a month. But every morning, the lanky, laid-back Fofana has to steel himself to go out and do the job.
Fofana serves on one of four government teams of specially trained body collectors in Monrovia, funded by the International Federation of the Red Cross. It's a critical task as the Ebola epidemic worsens in Liberia, with more than 1,300 suspected and confirmed cases, and nearly 700 deaths. In the densely populated city, when someone dies of Ebola, many more people may become infected by coming into contact with the body.
On a recent morning, the body collectors pull up to their first stop: a dirt lot at the edge of a steep hill overlooking a river. They've come to collect the corpse of Rachel Wleh.
The men change out of jeans and sneakers, into surgical scrubs and rubber boots.
Alexander Nyanti, 23, used to study economics at a local college. But the college is closed, along with every other school here, because of the Ebola outbreak.
Nyanti isslender and soft-spoken. He looks a little nervous at the thought of going into Wleh's house. "I don't feel fine," he says. "But I have to go there. I must go there."
Mark Korvayan is the team leader. He's a longtime employee of the Ministry of Health and a father figure to the crew.
The men gather up their gearand begin the difficult hike down the hillside, carefully picking their way over rocks strewn with trash and drying laundry.
At the base of the hill, they walk past a cluster of cement-block homes at the river's edge. People stream out of the doorways. The whole neighborhood is turning out to watch. Wleh's husband was the doctor at the local clinic. That's also where the family lived. He came down with Ebola earlier this month and died a few days ago. Wleh took sick soon after. She died the day before.
Wleh's four children, ages 15 to 22, stand to one side. They hug their arms to their chests and hang their heads. "She was vomiting," says Larry, the oldest. "She said she was just feeling weak."
As Larry describes his mother's symptoms, Korvayan strides up to warn him that he and his brothers and sister absolutely must get tested for Ebola. If they touched their mother while she was sick, there's a good chance they've been infected, too.
Wleh's kids just stare back at him, panic flickering in their eyes. Finally, Larry speaks up. He mumbles that their health is fine. Their problem is a different one: In the space of a few days, they've become orphans: "We don't have a father. We don't have a mother."
The team dons the last layer of protective gear. They unfurl white plastic jumpsuits and pull them on. Next come face masks and goggles. They tape their sleeves shut with meticulous care and check each other for exposed skin. Their life depends on getting this right: The corpse of a person who dies of Ebola leaks bodily fluids loaded with the virus. Anyone who comes into contact with those fluids can become infected.
Their last defense is a prayer. The men gather in a circle and touch hands: "God our father, ... as we are going in ... may you be the protector. We will take the precautionary measures, but may you seal us with your holy spirit and with your angels ..."
Korvayan claps his hands twice to signal it's time to go in. They enter the house slowly, single file, and head into a bedroom.
They emerge a few minutes later. They've packed Wleh in a green body bag and drag it across the floor.
They pause at the door to figure out the best way to lift the body safely, then proceed out of the house.
As they carry Wleh past the crowd, several women begin wailing. Others join in. The cries swell to a chorus. Wleh was beloved in this neighborhood. This is the closest thing she'll get to a funeral.
The hike back up the hill is excruciating. At the top, the men stop under a tree and collapse against it. Korvayan says the state of Wleh's corpse was unnerving. "When I saw the body," he says, "my skin creeped." She was lying on a bed, blood leaking from her mouth.
The men carry Wleh's body over to a long flatbed truck. They heave it in and drag it to the back.
Now comes the most dangerous part: getting out of their protective suits. They arch their backs and contort their limbs in an awkward shimmy to avoid touching the outside of the suit. Then they spray each suit with disinfectant and place the suits in a trash bag.
Despite the pay — generous by Liberian standards — the men say their families do not want them doing the work. Nyanti, the economics student, says his parents won't even let him stay in the house. They're worried he's going to infect them all. Fofana's parents have begged him to quit.
"My mom and dad don't want me to do this job," he says. "But I feel I should do it to save my nation."
Like the other men, Fofana says that what started as just a job has become a calling. He is seeing firsthand how crucial this work is to stopping Ebola's spread. He knows the risks. But, he says, someone's got to do it: "I'm going to save my country. If I die, I die for my country."
The men close up the back of the truck.
Korvayan says he can't even guess how many bodies he's picked up since he started this work. "I cannot give you a specific number. I've gone far. I have picked up enough."
But their work is never done. They've got six more bodies to pick up today, and after that a long drive to the city's crematorium.
Tomorrow they'll do it all over again.
NPR's reporting from Monrovia has been produced by Nicole Beemsterboer.
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MELISSA BLOCK, HOST:
Twenty-thousand - that's how many people the World Health Organization predicts will be infected with Ebola in the next six to nine months. 3,000 people are known to have already come down with the deadly virus. About half of them have died.
One of the epicenters of Ebola is the West African country of Liberia. In the densely populated capital of Monrovia, a major concern is how corpses are handled; they're highly infectious. Every day, specially trained teams go out to collect the bodies and they're not able to keep up with the demand. NPR's Nurith Aizenman went out with one of those teams.
NURITH AIZENMAN, BYLINE: The body collectors pull up to their first stop of the day. It's a dirt lot at the edge of a steep hill overlooking a river. They've come to collect the corpse of a woman who died in a house at the bottom. Her name was Rachel Wleh.
The men change out of jeans and sneakers into surgical scrubs and rubber boots. They're one of four teams doing this work in Monrovia with funding from the International Federation of the Red Cross.
ALEXANDER NYANTI: I have my surgical gloves, as you can see. I have my heavy-duty gloves. I have my goggles.
AIZENMAN: Alexander Nyanti is pulling on his surgical gloves and gathering his goggles. He used to be a student studying economics at a local college. But the college has been closed along with every other school here because of the Ebola outbreak. Nyanti's 23, slender and soft-spoken. He looks a little nervous at the thought of going into Wleh's house.
NYANTI: I don't feel fine, but I have to go there. I must go there.
AIZENMAN: A few feet away, Sorie Fofana is more nonchalant. He's the creative one.
SORIE FOFANA: I was an artist - T-shirts, drawings.
AIZENMAN: People used to pay him to put his designs on their T-shirts, but this job pays better. He's 21, lanky and laid-back. Still, he says, every morning he has to steel himself to go out.
FOFANA: When I wake up in the morning I will pray to God to give me strength and focus.
AIZENMAN: Mark Korvayan is the team's leader. He's a longtime employee of the Ministry of Health and a father figure to the crew.
MARK KORVAYAN: I'm the head of the team - the burial team personnel.
AIZENMAN: The men gather up their gear and begin the slow climb down the hillside, picking their way carefully over rocks strewn with trash and drying laundry. At the base of the hill, they walk past cement block homes at the river's edge. People stream out of the doorways. The whole neighborhood is turning out to watch this.
Wleh's husband was the doctor at the local clinic - that's also where the family lived. He came down with Ebola earlier this month and died a few days ago. Wleh got sick soon after. She died yesterday afternoon.
Wleh's children stand to one side. They hug their arms to their chests and hang their heads. The eldest, Larry Wleh, is 22.
LARRY WLEH: She was vomiting. She had chills. She was feeling weak.
AIZENMAN: As he describes his mother's symptoms, Korvayan marches up to warn Larry Wleh that he and his brothers and sister absolutely must get tested. If they touched their mother while she was sick, there's a good chance they've been infected too.
KORVAYAN: You say you did not touch your mother? Now, who touched her? The person that touched her needs to report himself to the center.
AIZENMAN: Wleh's kids stare back at Korvayan in mute horror. Finally Larry, the eldest, speaks up. He mumbles that their health is fine. Their problem is a different one - in the space of a few days they've become orphans.
WLEH: We don't have a father, we don't have a mother.
AIZENMAN: The team begins putting on their last layer of protective gear. They unfurl white plastic jumpsuits and pull them on. Next come the face masks and goggles. They tape their sleeves shut with meticulous care and check each other for exposed skin. Their life depends on getting this right. The corpse of a person who dies of Ebola is extremely dangerous. It leaks bodily fluids loaded with the virus. Anyone who comes into contact with those fluids can become infected. Their last defense is a prayer. The men gather in a circle and touch hands.
God, our father - as we are going in, may you be the protector, Korvayan says. We will take the precautionary measures, but may you seal us with your holy spirit and with your angels.
Korvayan claps his hands to signal it's time to go in. The men walk into the house slowly, single file and head into a bedroom.
They emerge a few minutes later. They've packed Wleh in an army green body bag and drag it across the floor. They pause at the door and discuss the best way to lift up the body safely and then proceed out of the house.
As they carry Wleh past the crowd, several women begin wailing. The cries swell to a chorus. Wleh was beloved in this neighborhood. This is the closest thing she'll get to a funeral.
The hike back up the hill is excruciating. At the top, the men stop under a tree and collapse against it. Korvayan says the state of Wleh's corpse was unnerving.
KORVAYAN: Well, when I saw the body, my skin creeped.
AIZENMAN: He says they found Wleh lying on a bed, blood leaking from her mouth.
KORVAYAN: Her nose, I saw was saliva. Very wet saliva. Wet. But her mouth - she was leaking with blood.
AIZENMAN: The men carry Wleh's body over to a long flatbed truck. They heave it in and drag it to the back.
Now comes the most dangerous part - getting out of their protective suits. They arch their backs and contort their limbs in an awkward shimmy to avoid touching the outside. Then they spray each suit with disinfectant solution and place it in a trash bag.
The men are paid for this work, a thousand dollars a month - generous by Liberian standards. But their families do not want them doing it. Nyanti, the economic student, says his parents won't even let him stay in the house. They're worried he's going to infect them all. Fofana's parents have begged him to quit.
FOFANA: My mom and dad do not want me to do the job. But I feel I can do it to save my nation.
AIZENMAN: Like the other men, Fofana says that what started out as just a job, a way to earn a living, has become a calling. He's seeing firsthand how crucial this work is to stopping the Ebola's spread. He knows the risks, but he says, someone's got to do it for the country.
FOFANA: I'm going to serve my country. If I die, I die for my country.
AIZENMAN: The men close up the back of the truck. They've got six more bodies to pick up today. And after that, a long drive to the crematorium. Tomorrow they'll do it all over again.
Korvayan says he can't even guess how many bodies he's collected since he started this work.
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U.S. Supreme Court
OREGON v. MATHIASON, 429
U.S. 492 (1977)
429
U.S. 492
OREGON v. MATHIASON
ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF OREGON
No. 76-201.
Decided January 25, 1977
Where respondent in response to a police officer's request voluntarily came to a police station for questioning about a burglary and was immediately informed that he was not under arrest, and at the close of a half-hour interview left the station without hindrance, respondent was not in custody "or otherwise deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way," Miranda v. Arizona,
384
U.S. 436, 444
, so as to require that his confession to the burglary obtained during such interview be suppressed at his state criminal trial because he was not given Miranda warnings prior to being questioned.
Certiorari granted; 275 Ore. 1, 549 P.2d 673, reversed and remanded.
PER CURIAM.
Respondent Carl Mathiason was convicted of first-degree burglary after a bench trial in which his confession was critical to the State's case. At trial he moved to suppress the confession as the fruit of questioning by the police not preceded by the warnings required in Miranda v. Arizona,
384
U.S. 436
(1966). The trial court refused to exclude the confession because it found that Mathiason was not in custody at the time of the confession.
The Oregon Court of Appeals affirmed respondent's conviction, but on his petition for review in the Supreme Court of Oregon that court by a divided vote reversed the conviction. It found that although Mathiason had not been arrested or otherwise formally detained, "the interrogation took place in a `coercive environment'" of the sort to which Miranda was intended to apply. The court conceded that its holding was contrary to decisions in other jurisdictions, and referred in particular to People v. Yukl, 25 N. Y. 2d 585, 256 N. E. 2d 172 (1969). The State of Oregon has
[429
U.S. 492, 493]
petitioned for certiorari to review the judgment of the Supreme Court of Oregon. We think that court has read Miranda too broadly, and we therefore reverse its judgment.
The Supreme Court of Oregon described the factual situation surrounding the confession as follows:
"An officer of the State Police investigated a theft at a residence near Pendleton. He asked the lady of the house which had been burglarized if she suspected anyone. She replied that the defendant was the only one she could think of. The defendant was a parolee and a `close associate' of her son. The officer tried to contact defendant on three or four occasions with no success. Finally, about 25 days after the burglary, the officer left his card at defendant's apartment with a note asking him to call because `I'd like to discuss something with you.' The next afternoon the defendant did call. The officer asked where it would be convenient to meet. The defendant had no preference; so the officer asked if the defendant could meet him at the state patrol office in about an hour and a half, about 5:00 p. m. The patrol office was about two blocks from defendant's apartment. The building housed several state agencies.
"The officer met defendant in the hallway, shook hands and took him into an office. The defendant was told he was not under arrest. The door was closed. The two sat across a desk. The police radio in another room could be heard. The officer told defendant he wanted to talk to him about a burglary and that his truthfulness would possibly be considered by the district attorney or judge. The officer further advised that the police believed defendant was involved in the burglary and [falsely stated that] defendant's fingerprints were found at the scene. The defendant sat for a few minutes and then said he had taken the property. This occurred within five minutes after defendant had come to the office. The
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U.S. 492, 494]
officer then advised defendant of his Miranda rights and took a taped confession.
"At the end of the taped conversation the officer told defendant he was not arresting him at this time; he was released to go about his job and return to his family. The officer said he was referring the case to the district attorney for him to determine whether criminal charges would be brought. It was 5:30 p. m. when the defendant left the office.
"The officer gave all the testimony relevant to this issue. The defendant did not take the stand either at the hearing on the motion to suppress or at the trial." 275 Ore. 1, 3-4, 549 P.2d 673, 674 (1976).
The Supreme Court of Oregon reasoned from these facts that:
"We hold the interrogation took place in a `coercive environment.' The parties were in the offices of the State Police; they were alone behind closed doors; the officer informed the defendant he was a suspect in a theft and the authorities had evidence incriminating him in the crime; and the defendant was a parolee under supervision. We are of the opinion that this evidence is not overcome by the evidence that the defendant came to the office in response to a request and was told he was not under arrest." Id., at 5, 549 P.2d, at 675.
Our decision in Miranda set forth rules of police procedure applicable to "custodial interrogation." "By custodial interrogation, we mean questioning initiated by law enforcement officers after a person has been taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way."
384
U.S., at 444
. Subsequently we have found the Miranda principle applicable to questioning which takes place in a prison setting during a suspect's term of imprisonment on a separate offense, Mathis v. United States,
391
U.S. 1
(1968), and to questioning taking place in a
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U.S. 492, 495]
suspect's home, after he has been arrested and is no longer free to go where he pleases, Orozco v. Texas,
394
U.S. 324
(1969).
In the present case, however, there is no indication that the questioning took place in a context where respondent's freedom to depart was restricted in any way. He came voluntarily to the police station, where he was immediately informed that he was not under arrest. At the close of a 1/2-hour interview respondent did in fact leave the police station without hindrance. It is clear from these facts that Mathiason was not in custody "or otherwise deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way."
Such a noncustodial situation is not converted to one in which Miranda applies simply because a reviewing court concludes that, even in the absence of any formal arrest or restraint on freedom of movement, the questioning took place in a "coercive environment." Any interview of one suspected of a crime by a police officer will have coercive aspects to it, simply by virtue of the fact that the police officer is part of a law enforcement system which may ultimately cause the suspect to be charged with a crime. But police officers are not required to administer Miranda warnings to everyone whom they question. Nor is the requirement of warnings to be imposed simply because the questioning takes place in the station house, or because the questioned person is one whom the police suspect. Miranda warnings are required only where there has been such a restriction on a person's freedom as to render him "in custody." It was that sort of coercive environment to which Miranda by its terms was made applicable, and to which it is limited.
The officer's false statement about having discovered Mathiason's fingerprints at the scene was found by the Supreme Court of Oregon to be another circumstance contributing to the coercive environment which makes the Miranda rationale applicable. Whatever relevance this fact
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U.S. 492, 496]
may have to other issues in the case, it has nothing to do with whether respondent was in custody for purposes of the Miranda rule.
The petition for certiorari is granted, the judgment of the Oregon Supreme Court is reversed, and the case is remanded for proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.
So ordered.
MR.
JUSTICE BRENNAN would grant the writ but dissents from the summary disposition and would set the case for oral argument.
MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL, dissenting.
The respondent in this case was interrogated behind closed doors at police headquarters in connection with a burglary investigation. He had been named by the victim of the burglary as a suspect, and was told by the police that they believed he was involved. He was falsely informed that his fingerprints had been found at the scene, and in effect was advised that by cooperating with the police he could help himself. Not until after he had confessed was he given the warnings set forth in Miranda v. Arizona,
384
U.S. 436
(1966).
The Court today holds that for constitutional purposes all this is irrelevant because respondent had not "`been taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way.'" Ante, at 494, quoting Miranda v. Arizona, supra, at 444. I do not believe that such a determination is possible on the record before us. It is true that respondent was not formally placed under arrest, but surely formalities alone cannot control. At the very least, if respondent entertained an objectively reasonable belief that he was not free to leave during the questioning, then he was "deprived of his freedom of action in a significant way."
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U.S. 492, 497]
Plainly the respondent could have so believed, after being told by the police that they thought he was involved in a burglary and that his fingerprints had been found at the scene. Yet the majority is content to note that "there is no indication that . . . respondent's freedom to depart was restricted in any way," ante, at 495, as if a silent record (and no state-court findings) means that the State has sustained its burden, see Lego v. Twomey,
404
U.S. 477, 489
(1972), of demonstrating that respondent received his constitutional due.
2
More fundamentally, however, I cannot agree with the Court's conclusion that if respondent were not in custody no warnings were required. I recognize that Miranda is limited to custodial interrogations, but that is because, as we noted last Term, the facts in the Miranda cases raised only this "narrow issue." Beckwith v. United States,
425
U.S. 341, 345
(1976). The rationale of Miranda, however, is not so easily cabined.
Miranda requires warnings to "combat" a situation in which there are "inherently compelling pressures which work to undermine the individual's will to resist and to compel
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U.S. 492, 498]
him to speak where he would not otherwise do so freely."
384
U.S., at 467
. It is of course true, as the Court notes, that "[a]ny interview of one suspected of a crime by a police officer will have coercive aspects to it." Ante, at 495. But it does not follow that because police "are not required to administer Miranda warnings to everyone whom they question," ibid., that they need not administer warnings to anyone, unless the factual setting of the Miranda cases is replicated. Rather, faithfulness to Miranda requires us to distinguish situations that resemble the "coercive aspects" of custodial interrogation from those that more nearly resemble "[g]eneral on-the-scene questioning . . . or other general questioning of citizens in the fact-finding process" which Miranda states usually can take place without warnings.
384
U.S., at 477
.
In my view, even if respondent were not in custody, the coercive elements in the instant case were so pervasive as to require Miranda-type warnings.
3
Respondent was interrogated in "privacy" and in "unfamiliar surroundings," factors on which Miranda places great stress. Id., at 449-450; see also Beckwith v. United States, supra, at 346 n. 7. The investigation had focused on respondent. And respondent was subjected to some of the "deceptive stratagems," Miranda v. Arizona, supra, at 455, which called forth the Miranda decision. I therefore agree with the Oregon Supreme Court that to excuse the absence of warnings given these facts is "contrary to the rationale expressed in Miranda." 275 Ore. 1, 5, 549 P.2d 673, 675 (1976).
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U.S. 492, 499]
The privilege against self-incrimination "has always been `as broad as the mischief against which it seeks to guard.'" Miranda v. Arizona, supra, at 459-460, quoting Counselman v. Hitchcock,
142
U.S. 547, 562
(1892). Today's decision means, however, that the Fifth Amendment privilege does not provide full protection against mischiefs equivalent to, but different from, custodial interrogation.
5
See also Beckwith v. United States, supra. It is therefore important to note that the state courts remain free, in interpreting state constitutions, to guard against the evil clearly identified by this case.
6
It has been noted that as a logical matter, a person who honestly but unreasonably believes he is in custody is subject to the same coercive pressures as one whose belief is reasonable; this suggests that such persons also are entitled to warnings. See, e. g., LaFave, "Street Encounters" and the Constitution: Terry, Sibron, Peters, and Beyond, 67 Mich. L. Rev. 39, 105 (1968); Smith, The Threshold Question in Applying Miranda: What Constitutes Custodial Interrogation?, 25 S. C. L. Rev. 699, 711-714 (1974).
[
Footnote 2
] The Court's action is particularly inappropriate because the record of this case has not been transmitted to us, and thus our knowledge of the facts is limited to the information contained in the petition and in the opinions of the state courts.
[
Footnote 3
] I do not rule out the possibility that lesser warnings would suffice when a suspect is not in custody but is subjected to a highly coercive atmosphere. See, e. g., Beckwith v. United States,
425
U.S. 341, 348
-349 (1976) (MARSHALL, J., concurring in judgment); ALI, Model Code of Pre-Arraignment Procedure 110.1 (2) (Approved Draft 1975) (suspects interrogated at police station must be advised of their right to leave and right to consult with counsel, relatives, or friends).
[
Footnote 5
] I trust today's decision does not suggest that police officers can circumvent Miranda by deliberately postponing the official "arrest" and the giving of Miranda warnings until the necessary incriminating statements have been obtained.
In Opperman, this Court reversed a decision of the South Dakota Supreme Court holding that routine inventory searches of impounded automobiles, made without probable cause or consent, violated the Fourth Amendment. The case was remanded, like this one, "for further proceedings not inconsistent with [the] opinion."
428
U.S., at 376
. On remand, the South Dakota Supreme Court held that such searches violated a nearly identical provision of the State Constitution, and that therefore the seized evidence should have been suppressed. State v. Opperman, 89 S. D. ___, 228 N. W. 2d 152 (1976).
MR. JUSTICE STEVENS, dissenting.
In my opinion the issues presented by this case are too important to be decided summarily. Of particular importance
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U.S. 492, 500]
is the fact that the respondent was on parole at the time of his interrogation in the police station. This fact lends support to inconsistent conclusions.
On the one hand, the State surely has greater power to question a parolee about his activities than to question someone else. Moreover, as a practical matter, it seems unlikely that a Miranda warning would have much effect on a parolee's choice between silence and responding to police interrogation. Arguably, therefore, Miranda warnings are entirely inappropriate in the parole context.
On the other hand, a parolee is technically in legal custody continuously until his sentence has been served. Therefore, if a formalistic analysis of the custody question is to determine when the Miranda warning is necessary, a parolee should always be warned. Moreover, Miranda teaches that even if a suspect is not in custody, warnings are necessary if he is "otherwise deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way." If a parolee being questioned in a police station is not described by that language, today's decision qualifies that part of Miranda to some extent. I believe we would have a better understanding of the extent of that qualification, and therefore of the situations in which warnings must be given to a suspect who is not technically in custody, if we had the benefit of full argument and plenary consideration.
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Love, Beauty, and Charity
Inasmuch as love grows in you, in so much beauty grows; for love is itself the beauty of the soul.
Augustine of Hippo
There is a variant translation to this quote.
“Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul’s beauty.”
Philanthropy is love in action. Through your actions, through your philanthropy, through your charity, you share your love for the world with the world. When love is shared, love grows making yourself and the world a little more beautiful.
In whatever way that looks like in your life, I want to thank you for bringing more beauty, more love, more charity, and more change to this world.
As 2017 comes to a close, we mark the end of another year at Change Gangs. It was a great year, and together we donated $13,683 to great charities around the world. Since we founded, we’ve given $65,243.50 to nearly 100 different charities.
Here are our final recipients of the year.
People for Pets Giving Circle
This year, the Pets Giving Circle gave $5,335 for a total of $25,833 to great pet charities. For our last donation in 2017, we chose Big Bones Canine Rescue.
Big Bones is a 100% volunteer based shelter and foster based rescue network for all breeds of Mastiff and Great Danes. They receive dogs that are about to be euthanized from shelters in CA, TX, OK, KS, and NM. They have a 13 acre property in Windsor, CO with 4 buildings that can hold up to 30 dogs. All the dogs have indoor and outdoor areas that they can access, plus there are isolated kennels to keep new or sick dogs until their health and temperament can be assessed. In 2015, they adopted out 598 dogs. In 2016, they adopted 860 dogs- 250 of whom were puppies.
Poverty Busters
This year, Poverty Busters donated $4,727.50 for a total of $26,460. For our last donation in 2017, we chose Project Self-Sufficiency.
Located in Loveland, CO, Project Self-Sufficiency creates opportunities for single parent families to become selfpowered by providing intensive support to parents who are ready to build new career pathways. When participants enter the program they are partnered with a skilled advisor who helps them calculate a living wage for the family and then customizes a career planning curriculum and time frame for meeting that living wage. While in school or training for a new career, participants receive help to improve the family’s health (physical and mental), access to reliable transportation, child care, and affordable housing. It can take several years to graduate from the program.
Veterans Giving Circle
This year, the Veterans Giving Circle donated $2,745.50 for a total of $10,625. For our last donation in 2017, we chose War Horses for Heroes.WarHorses for Heroes provides equine-assisted therapy to veterans who have sustained service-related mental or physical injuries. As a therapy partner for those with mental illness, a horse is intuitive and non-judgmental, providing a trusting and open environment for processing and healing. Veterans with histories of depression or PTSD who participate in equine assisted therapy experience consistent improvement in depression symptoms and increased sociability. Veterans with physical injuries also benefit. Horseback riding benefits the rehabilitation process because the rhythm of a horse’s gait is similar to that of a human’s. It provides the sensation of movement to those with severe injuries affecting mobility. Veterans with spinal cord injuries or other physical disabilities experience improved muscle strength and better balance after participating in equine assisted therapy programs.
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
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Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them… he cried, “Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?” God said, “I did do something. I made you.” Sufi Teaching
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A film experience
Although the film is based on history, “Red Tails” is no staid documentary. It is an action-packed experience that plunges the audience deeply into fast-paced World War II dogfights. It also draws the audience into the brotherhood of black fighter pilots facing the battle against Nazis and racism. The film gives a realistic look back at the struggle of the first Tuskegee Airmen to be recognized as capable pilots despite a long history of prejudice in America’s military.
“We had an agenda of really inspiring and uplifting youth. It’s one page being turned out of many in getting our stories told,” Hemingway said.
Nate Parker, who plays flight leader Marty “Easy” Julian in the film, said portraying a character based on a real person made him feel a greater responsibility to give an “honest and true” performance. Parker, 32, said connecting with the experience of being a young black man in the era of Jim Crow was easier when he began to draw the parallel between the obstacles of the young men of the 1940s with those of modern times.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
How to be the most awesome Dad ever
To be the most awesome Dad ever, capable of carrying out feats of skill and mastery usually reserved for the likes of the Avatar, James Bond, or the Doctor, requires just a few common ingredients:
The locked, most secret diary of a pre-adolescent daughter (who has lost the key),
The knowledge that all such cheap locks are the same,
A set of cheap luggage locks with keys,
A frantic pre-adolescent daughter in possession of #1 but not #2 or #3, and
A flair for the dramatic, with which one discloses that one knows how to pick locks, but it's a secret handed down from master spy to master spy, therefore the work must be done behind a locked door (which neatly conceals the fact that you're rummaging around in your bedroom drawer to find #3).
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Zendaya and Val Chmerkovskiy after their performance finale on Monday night's 'Dancing with the Stars.' Tonight's final is at 9 p.m. on WRTV (Channel 6). / Screenshot from ABC.com
The monstrous tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, flattening entire neighborhoods with winds up to 200 mph, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school. Here, teachers carry children away from Briarwood Elementary after its destruction Monday.
KFOR-TV and NBC News reported that seven of the dead were children who drowned at Plaza Towers Elementary, where 75 students and staff members were huddled when the tornado struck around 3 p.m. (4 p.m. EDT). U.S. Rep. Tom Cole, who has lived in Moore for more than 50 years, told CNN the school did not have an underground shelter, just interior rooms with no windows.
Estimates of the tornado’s size ranged from a half-mile to two miles wide; video showed a large debris ball at its base at some points. The National Weather Service preliminarily categorized it as an EF-4 in strength.
Expect another sticky and hot day, with a high in the 80s, and stay alert for scattered showers and storms, Poteet says. Many residents already heard plenty of thunder overnight: Thousands were without power following an overnight line of storms that downed trees and took down power lines.
The fire ravaged the home of Stephanie Eppert, who lived there with her four children, three of whom have autism. Two of them, brother and sister Genesis Eppert, 9, and Forrest Eppert, 8, were killed in the blaze. The family was expected to move this year into a new home specially built by Habitat for Humanity for the children.
“Shame on Vogel for not genuflecting when he mentioned the Heat, or for volunteering to kiss James’ ring — ring singular, not rings,” wrote the columnist, tongue firmly in cheek. If you recall, Vogel said on Saturday that Miami was simply the “next” team in the Pacers’ way to an NBA Finals; James took it for an insult. The teams meet next on Wednesday night for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals.
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The lawsuit pits seven stylists at Lou’s Creative Styles in Lawrence against a former co-worker, Christina “Christy” Shaw, who holds the winning ticket in a Feb. 16 Hoosier Lottery drawing worth an estimated $9.5 million. Shaw’s co-workers says they are due a share of the winnings.
Between 2009 and 2012, the company shielded at least $74 billion in profits by setting up shell companies in Ireland, the report said. While the practice of using foreign operations to avoid U.S. taxes is legal and common, Apple’s scheme was unprecedented in its use of multiple affiliates that had no semblance of a physical presence, Senate staffers said. Apple CEO Tim Cook plans to vehemently defend the company before the panel on Tuesday, arguing that Apple does not break any tax laws, according to a copy of the firm’s prepared testimony.
Manzarek succumbed to bile duct cancer, according to his manager, Tom Vitorino. He founded the groundbreaking band in 1965 with the singer and lyricist Jim Morrison, later joined by drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger. While Morrison died young and achieved legendary status, Manzarek also played a crucial role in developing their sound and popularity.
When the comedian was just starting out, he struck up a friendship with Elizabeth “Mimi” Haist, a woman who volunteered at a Los Angeles laundromat and depended on tips from customers, the New York Daily News reports. When Galifianakis learned a few years ago that his friend, 87, had fallen on hard times and was homeless, he got her an apartment and started taking her to red carpet events. “I’m looking forward to it, I like the excitement of it,” Haist said of his latest movie premiere.
Zendaya has a 1-point edge on Kellie Pickler after Monday night’s performance final. One casualty beyond the other two teams: Val Chmerkovskiy bloodied his face when he bashed it during Monday rehearsals when Zendaya accidentally hit him just above the eye with her elbow. Tonight’s two-hour finale at 9 p.m. on WRTV (Channel 6) will include one last "instant" dance for the stars. Scores will be added to the public vote to determine a winner.
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The Atlanta University Center Consortium Council of Presidents and Mayor Kasim Reed announced the completion of a collaborative surveillance program that strategically places video cameras and license plate readers around the campus community to create a safer environment.
Working through the University Community Development Corp., a community development arm of the AUC, Presidents John Wilson, Ronald Johnson, Valerie Montgomery Rice, and Mary Schmidt Campbell have forged a partnership with the Atlanta Police Foundation and the Atlanta Police Department to install 35 cameras and five license plate readers around the AUC community. The cameras are monitored by AUC police at their respective schools and APD’s video integration center.
Each institution – Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, Spelman College – paying equal amounts, and the mayor’s office contributing the remaining balance, funded the $700,000 project. The effort highlights the priority the AUC institutions and the city have to combat crime in the community.
The VIC’s state-of-the-art system provides a cohesive unit of 24/7 video feeds from the cameras to serve as an additional layer of security to increase the scope and reach of existing campus police departments.
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I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.
Madam C.J. Walker
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
Norman O. Brown
The middlebrow is the man, or woman, of middlebred intelligence who ambles and saunters now on this side of the hedge, now on that, in pursuit of no single object, neither art itself nor life itself, but both mixed indistinguishably, and rather nastily, with money, fame, power, or prestige.
There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there.
Michael Richards
Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.
Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.
Michael Porter
For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money.
Arne Garborg
There seems to be a frenzy, a momentum to grab up anything you can. The decisions seem to be dictated by money and political expediency.
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Jets on the hunt for options on offence
WINNIPEG — It can be a foolish game to play, trying to connect the dots through the first weekend of the National Hockey League’s free agency period and attempting to draw any kind of concrete conclusions.
But we’re going to wade in and do it anyway.
Fact #1: The Winnipeg Jets need a centre and/or winger to beef up their top two lines and provide punch to a squad that finished 20th in offence last year and lost 11 games by one goal.
Fact #2: The team signed six players — three defencemen in Randy Jones, Derek Meech and Mark Flood plus three forwards in Tanner Glass, Rick Rypien and Aaron Gagnon — who have combined to score a grand total of 40 goals in 782 NHL games.
Our brilliantly insightful conclusion: The Jets still have some work to do to jump-start their attack.
How does the franchise find offensive help with the best available unrestricted free agents on the open market already picked over?
• Jason Arnott, centre, Washington: Scored 17 last year and has 400 in his career, but turns 37 in October.
• Teemu Selanne, winger, Anaheim: Would be spectacular if he finished as a Jet — he did have 31 goals and 80 points last year — but he’s coming off knee surgery and, if he returns, it’s said that will likely be with Anaheim.
• Alex Kovalev, winger, Pittsburgh: Gifted when he’s into the game — he had 16 goals last year and 428 in his career — but he’s 38.
• Cory Stillman, winger, Carolina: Has scored at least 20 goals eight times in his long career.
• Vaclav Prospal, centre, New York Rangers: Had 23 points in 29 games with the Rangers last year, but might be looking for a new home after they landed Brad Richards.
• Nikolay Zherdev, winger, Philadelphia: He’s just 26 and has a ton of skill, but coaches get quickly frustrated with his inconsistency.
2. Trade for offence
The Jets do have some intriguing pieces that could be moved — defenceman Zach Bogosian’s name came up a lot around the draft — but the organization might not make a drastic move until it at least gets a feel for the hand they’ve been dealt and what new coach Claude Noel can do with it.
3. Consider the restricted free agent market
It would cost to chase some of the talent here — they’d have to give up draft picks, depending on how much a player is signed for — and it’s not exactly the best way to make new friends in the NHL playground. So, debate among yourselves: is Tampa superstar Steven Stamkos worth four future first-rounders? Should the Jets give up future picks for a player like Brandon Dubinksy or Ryan Callahan, both decent goal scorers with the Rangers last year?
4. Cross fingers and pray a young squad finds its goal-scoring mojo this winter
Evander Kane doesn’t turn 20 until August, has already posted 14 and 19-goal campaigns and many figure he’s got 35-40 written all over him. Andrew Ladd is just 25 and finished with a career-best 29 goals last year. Bryan Little, 23, scored 31 goals in 2008-09 and has had the same over the last two seasons. Blake Wheeler has posted 21, 18 and 18-goal campaigns over the last three years and Nik Antropov has flashed an occasional touch during his 679-game NHL career.
If those players continue their metamorphosis — and first-round draft pick Mark Scheifele is ready to jump to the pros — the Jets may have found their goal-scoring answer from within their own roster.
In the end — and as general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff stressed Friday night in meeting with the media — there’s a whole lot of time left between the opening of the free-agent market and the drop of the first puck in October.
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Initially signed on a month’s loan from Celtic in January 1982 as a replacement for departing star Neil Orr, tough tackling centre-half Duffy soon made the move permanent in a £25,000 transfer.
In total he spent three-and-a-half eventful seasons in Greenock, in which time he played in three Premier League campaigns and experienced two relegations and one promotion.
Yet it is the second demotion in 1984-85 — his final season before moving to Dundee in a deal which earned Morton £65,000 — that he is perhaps most remembered for. Despite being a defender who had played in a team that was relegated after conceding 100 goals in 36 matches, Duffy’s impressive displays saw him recognised as the SPFA’s Players’ Player of the Year.
The 55-year-old looks back on his spell at the Ton as a positive time and hopes he will be celebrating another promotion next season in his capacity as manager, just as he did as a player in 1983-84.
Speaking exclusively to the Tele last night, Duffy, who has signed a two-year deal, said: “I feel this was an opportunity I couldn’t turn down. Morton approached Clyde and asked for permission to speak to me and the Clyde chairman then contacted me. It went from there.
“I don’t know who else was interviewed — it’s not my business — but once I spoke to the club I was offered the post and it was something I was absolutely thrilled to accept.
“There’s obviously a connection with the club which I’m very proud of. Benny Rooney and Mick Jackson were an unbelievable influence in my career. If Benny and Mick didn’t sign me and give me the chance to play, I wouldn’t have had a career in senior football, so I owe everything to them and Morton Football Club. They had the belief in me that I could play at the top level and they gave me the platform to do that. I could not underestimate or overstate how important they were to my career.
“Regardless of the fact I’ve now been appointed manager, I would still tell you that I owe a huge part of my career to the club and the belief the management team had in me.
“And that was in the Fergie [Sir Alex Ferguson] era at Aberdeen, the Jim McLean era at Dundee United: we were up against great teams and top class players.
“We were involved in some real tough league campaigns. But up until a few players were sold we did very well. When I came here we stayed in the Premier League for the first 18 months then we were relegated.
“Once you sell too many of your good players, you’re weakened and that’s what happened — we were relegated. But we managed to bounce straight back again, winning promotion from the First [Division] back into the Premier League on the last day of the season the year I was captain.
“So you can look at it either way: the glass is half empty or half full. You have the disappointments of relegation and the elation of promotion.
“My glass was half full and I remember my time here fondly — and I hope we will be experiencing that elation of promotion again at the end of this year.”
While Duffy doesn’t mind reminiscing about his playing days at Cappielow, he is fully focused on the job at hand and says he is aiming to take the Ton back to the Championship.
The former Falkirk, Dundee, Hibs and Brechin boss added: “It’s about where we are now and not where we were 30 years ago. I’m looking at where we are now and how we can take the club forward.
“Speaking with the chairman, I understand the demands and expectations of this job, and I’m looking forward to the challenge. I’m determined to do the best job I can. I’m under no illusions about how tough it’s going to be and I’m also fully aware that people expect Morton to be up there challenging at the top end of the table. There are high demands, but I’ve never shied away from a job or a challenge in my life in footbal. I’m sure if we can get a team showing real commitment, and playing for the jersey, the fans will get behind us and that’s my initial target.
“In reality, it’s not about what you say in newspapers or what you put on a tactics board — it’s about what you do on the pitch on a Saturday, and that will be the test for the players this season.”
Meanwhile, the Tele understands that, although a deal has not yet been finalised, another former Morton player will be installed as Duffy’s assistant.
Midfielder Craig ‘Hagi’ McPherson, 43, made 118 starts and 67 sub appearances for the Cappielow club between 1994 and 2000 and looks set to leave his position as Falkirk’s head of youth.
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Why is emergency risk communication guidance needed?
During public health emergencies, people need to know what health risks they face, and what actions they can take to protect their lives, their health, their families and communities.
Accurate information, provided early, often, and in language and channels people understand, trust and use, enables people to make choices that can protect them from health hazards threatening their lives and well-being.
What is new about this guidance?
WHO has manuals, training modules and other forms of emergency communication and risk communication guidance based on expert opinion or lessons drawn from major environmental disasters, such as the SARS outbreak of 2003 and the H1N1 influenza pandemic of 2009, rather than systematic analysis of the evidence. This is the first ever evidence-based risk communications guidance.
The recommendations in this guidance are based on a systematic search of the evidence on key issues in emergency risk communication practice and experience. Not only was the academic structured evidence searched but also ‘grey literature’ to ensure that the lessons learned from recent emergencies, such as the West African Ebola virus disease outbreak in 2014–2015 and the global Zika virus outbreak in 2015–2016, were captured and explored fully.
Who should use this guidance?
These guidelines were developed for policy- and decision-makers responsible for managing emergencies, particularly the public health aspects of emergencies, and practitioners responsible for risk communication before, during and after health emergencies.
Other groups expected to use these guidelines are front-line responders, local, national and international development partners, civil society, the private sector and all organizations, private and public, involved in emergency preparedness and response.
What are they key recommendations in this guidance?
These guidelines provide WHO Member States, partners and stakeholders involved in emergency preparedness and response with evidence-based, up-to-date, systems-focused guidance on:
building trust and engaging with communities and affected populations;
integrating risk communication into existing national and local emergency preparedness and response structures, including building capacity for risk communication;
emergency risk communication practice - from planning, messaging, channels and methods of communication and engagement to monitoring and evaluation - based on a systematic assessment of the evidence on what worked and what did not work during recent emergencies.
How were these guidelines developed
A Guideline Development Group (GDG), comprised of experts in risk communication, media relations, public health emergencies and epidemiology, met in Geneva in July 2015 and agreed on 12 key domains of emergency risk communication requiring exploration of the evidence. Twelve questions were framed and used to guide evidence reviews, which were then used as a basis for formulating recommendations during a second meeting held in Geneva in February 2017.
An external peer review group made up of emergency risk communication practitioners, emergency responders, academics and policy-makers then reviewed the recommendations. Comments, changes and additions suggested by the External Review Group (ERG) were further reviewed by the GDG who used them to finalize the recommendations.
How should these guidelines be used?
The recommendations in these guidelines provide overarching, evidence-based guidance on how risk communication should be practiced in an emergency. The recommendations also guide countries to build capacity for communicating risk during health emergencies. Specific ‘how-to-do-it’ step-by-step instructions are beyond the remit of these guidelines. However, in due course, these will be provided in detailed manuals, standard operating procedures, pocket guides, checklists, training modules and other tools developed to elaborate the recommendations.
The first ever evidence-based WHO guidance on emergency risk communication
Evidence for decision making
The GDG agreed on 12 priority questions covering trust, community engagement, integrating emergency risk communications into health and emergency response systems and emergency risk communication practices. These questions were then further developed into potential search terms, using the SPICE Framework and used to guide the systematic reviews and a grey literature search.
Training in risk communication
This online course in risk communication features five modules of lectures and exercises to equip frontline responders and decision-makers with the information and tools they need to better manage disease outbreaks and health emergencies.
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Petaluma father charged in boy's roadside death
PETALUMA -- A Petaluma man faces criminal charges after a birthday outing led to the roadside death of his daughter's 13-year-old friend.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat (http://bit.ly/YX5IOJ ) reports that 41-year-old Mike Krnaich was charged Monday with two counts of felony child endangerment in the June 15 accident that resulted in the death of Trevor Smith.
The accident occurred when Krnaich was taking his daughter and some friends on a trip to Lake Mendocino, and his pickup truck ran out of fuel on Highway 101.
The California Highway Patrol says Smith and another boy jumped out to push the truck, and Smith got run over by the trailer the truck was pulling. He died at the scene.
Prosecutors say Krnaich could face more than seven years in prison if convicted.
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Indians are known to be optimistic about their jobs; once they have one, they assume it is theirs for life. They have a very high opinion about their performance too. They are always expecting that little bit extra from their employer — a promotion, a bonus or simply an extra coffee round.
It has become traditional in India to give bonuses during the festive season. It’s more than traditional; in several industries, it is statutory to give one month’s pay as bonus. This gives the excuse and the budget to splurge at such times. But it takes away all motivation from the bonus. Can something statutory be an incentive to work harder?
On the other hand, Indians have the fewest public holidays. According to a Mercer Worldwide Benefits and Employment survey, the UK has the highest number of workplace holidays — 36 per annum. (Ratan Tata was right when he spoke of lazy Britishers.) Other leisure-loving countries include Poland and Austria. India is near the bottom with 28. Incidentally, Indians are also amongst the most vacation deprived.
The trouble in India is that work and life are regarded as belonging to different buckets. This is true across the world. But only in emerging economies, where rural roots have not yet been forgotten, is work regarded as something alien to life. Farming was hard labour; but it was life. A job is necessary to make a living but it’s only a new generation of Indians that is internalising it. Most bosses belong to an older generation, however; they have to go before attitudes can change.
In the West, a bonus is essentially a reward for something you do over and above your normal duties. According to a WorldatWork report (see box), bonuses are in trouble. “Many would say that the economic shift in recent years has left little in the business world unscathed,” says the study. “Total rewards professionals have expressed the same concerns about bonus programmes... New findings suggest that although most respondents indicated a positive effect of bonus programmes on employee engagement, motivation and satisfaction, very few are consistently featuring bonus programmes.”
The most popular form of bonus is the referral bonus. There was a time when employees were not encouraged to recommend their friends and families for jobs in their own organisation. Today, kith and kin are supposed to be the best bets. For one, the referral comes from a person who needs to keep his own skirts clean; so you are unlikely to get a lemon. Secondly, most of the referral bonus comes after the new employee has settled in. If he proves to be a dud, you don’t get the money. Finally, this is another indication of the work-life merger.
Next in the bonus hierarchy is the sign-on bonus. This shows that even in these days of high unemployment, companies are willing to pay more for the right talent.
The spot bonus, which comes next, is most akin to the festive bonus in India. The reasons for spot bonuses are mainly special recognition, and performance above and beyond duty. They score in the high eighties in the WorldatWork poll. Project completion also features with a 72 per cent score but everything else is below 20 per cent.
The last major form of bonus — the retention bonus — is on the decline. Companies were asked if they were planning to introduce retention bonuses (if they didn’t have them). A whopping 92 per cent said ‘No’.
Bonuses work. They work best in the listed private sector (44 per cent). They also deliver in privately-held companies (33 per cent). Where they don’t is in the public sector (14 per cent) and nonprofits (13 per cent). But public sector and nonprofits bonuses — like in India where there is even a Payment of Bonus Act 1965 — don’t take performance into account. Crismus Bonus and its equivalents have an unwanted existence beyond Asterix comic books.
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Chevrolet TrailBlazer Ratings, Reviews and Analysis
Ratings & Reviews
4 star
uncledamapa writes:
I am basicly pleased but if I was to do it again I would wait a couple of years for the bugs to be w
Over all this vehicle has been good to me. Never left me stranded Just turning 94000 miles and still has factory brake pads. no plans on getting rid of it any time soon. Replacing the front end this summer and the rear shocks are starting to leak.
3 star
tlm_outdoors2k3 writes:
The mid-size SUV, a mixed bag.
Like the 4WD, not so much the engine. would like to swap in a Cummins 4-cylinder turbo diesel, tuned to at least 160 hp, giving 30-40 highway mpg with 3.42 axle ratio. Love the ride, especially with a loaded U-Haul. Love the Black paint over aluminum running boards with black inserts.
5 star
hdhunr writes:
Thrilling
Love the power and the interior. Plenty of room in the back, and it actually comes with its own air pump and hose.
That's a small thing, but it is so convenient. I cannot understand why all cars don't cone with them.
5 star
ChevroletDriver436 writes:
I love this vehicle.
My favorite abouth this car: The speakers have built in subwoofers and are all stock. They sound better than any replacement sound system even outside of the vehicle. I wouldn't replace them unless I absolutely had no chioce
Safety Ratings and Recalls
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Recall Notices
2007 Chevrolet TrailBlazer (9/24/2015)
Campaign Number: 15V599000
Component Name: VISIBILITY:POWER WINDOW DEVICES AND CONTROLS
Manufacturer: General Motors LLC
Description: General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain model year 2006-2007 Buick Rainier, Chevrolet Trailblazer and GMC Envoy vehicles, and 2006 GMC Envoy XL and Chevrolet Trailblazer EXT vehicles. Fluid may enter into the driver's door master power window switch module, causing corrosion that could result in a short in the circuit board, causing window switches to become inoperative. Previously, the affected vehicles may have had their master power window switch module treated with a protective coating, instead of having it replaced.
Defect: The protective coating may not eliminate the risk that the circuit board could short and result in a fire, even while the vehicle is unattended.
Corrective Action: GM will notify owners, and dealers will install a new driver's door switch module, free of charge. The recall began on November 2, 2015. Owners may contact Buick customer service at 1-800-521-7300, Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020, and GMC customer service at 1-800-462-8782. GM's number for this recall is 15700.
2006 Chevrolet TrailBlazer (9/24/2015)
Campaign Number: 15V599000
Component Name: VISIBILITY:POWER WINDOW DEVICES AND CONTROLS
Manufacturer: General Motors LLC
Description: General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain model year 2006-2007 Buick Rainier, Chevrolet Trailblazer and GMC Envoy vehicles, and 2006 GMC Envoy XL and Chevrolet Trailblazer EXT vehicles. Fluid may enter into the driver's door master power window switch module, causing corrosion that could result in a short in the circuit board, causing window switches to become inoperative. Previously, the affected vehicles may have had their master power window switch module treated with a protective coating, instead of having it replaced.
Defect: The protective coating may not eliminate the risk that the circuit board could short and result in a fire, even while the vehicle is unattended.
Corrective Action: GM will notify owners, and dealers will install a new driver's door switch module, free of charge. The recall began on November 2, 2015. Owners may contact Buick customer service at 1-800-521-7300, Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020, and GMC customer service at 1-800-462-8782. GM's number for this recall is 15700.
Defect: Headlamps that do not illuminate reduce the driver's ability to see the roadway and reduce the vehicle's visibility to oncoming vehicles, both of which increase the risk of a vehicle crash.
Corrective Action: GM will notify owners, and dealers will replace the HDM, free of charge. The recall began on May 17, 2016. Owners may contact Buick customer service at 1-800-521-7300 or Pontiac customer service at 1-800-762-2737. GM's number for this recall is 14291.
Defect: Headlamps that do not illuminate reduce the driver's ability to see the roadway and reduce the vehicle's visibility to oncoming vehicles, both of which increase the risk of a vehicle crash.
Corrective Action: GM will notify owners, and dealers will replace the HDM, free of charge. The recall began on May 17, 2016. Owners may contact Buick customer service at 1-800-521-7300 or Pontiac customer service at 1-800-762-2737. GM's number for this recall is 14291.
2007 Chevrolet TrailBlazer (7/2/2014)
Campaign Number: 14V404000
Component Name: VISIBILITY:POWER WINDOW DEVICES AND CONTROLS
Manufacturer: General Motors LLC
Description: General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain model year 2005-2007 SAAB 9-7x; 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer EXT and GMC Envoy XL; and 2006-2007 Chevrolet Trailblazer, GMC Envoy, Buick Rainier and Isuzu Ascender vehicles. Fluid may enter the driver's door master power window switch module, causing corrosion that could result in a short in the circuit board. A short may cause the power door lock and power window switches to function intermittently or become inoperative. The short may also cause overheating, which could melt components of the door module, producing odor, smoke, or a fire.
Defect: A short in the circuit board could lead to a fire, increasing the risk of personal injury. A fire could occur even while the vehicle is not in use. As a precaution, owners are advised to park outside until the remedy has been made.
Corrective Action: GM will notify owners, and dealers will inspect the part number on the door module, and install a new door module if necessary, free of charge. Parts for the remedy are not currently available. An interim letter was mailed to owners in August 2014. A second owner letter will be mailed when parts are available. Owners may contact GM customer service at 1-800-521-7300 (Buick), 1-800-222-1020 (Chevrolet), 1-800-462-8782 (GMC), 1-800-955-9007 (SAAB), and 1-800-255-6727 (Isuzu). GM's number for this recall is 14309. NOTE: This recall provides a new remedy for all vehicles covered by recall 13V-248. Vehicles whose modules were modified but not replaced as part of the previous recall remedy must have their vehicles remedied again under this campaign.
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Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley, saying it is time for healing and reconciliation, said yesterday that he will reconsider the Archdiocese of Boston's refusals to accept money raised by Voice of the Faithful or to allow new affiliates of the lay organization to meet on church property.
O'Malley also told leaders of Voice of the Faithful that he wants to strengthen the role of lay people in administering parishes, and he pledged to make public an audit of the archdiocese's efforts to prevent sexual abuse of minors.
O'Malley met yesterday for the first time with leaders of Voice of the Faithful, an international group based in Newton claiming 30,000 members that was formed last year by Catholics upset by the church's handling of the clergy sex abuse crisis. The private meeting lasted about an hour, and was characterized by a level of mutual respect that was not present at meetings between the lay organization and Cardinal Bernard F. Law, according to participants.
O'Malley's spokesman, the Rev. Christopher J. Coyne, used the most generous language ever by a Boston church leader to describe Voice of the Faithful, an organization that around the country has been welcomed by some bishops but banned by others and which has been denounced by its critics as dissident.
"Each member of Voice of the Faithful who came made it very clear . . . that they are faithful, good members of their parishes, and that the people who are part of Voice of the Faithful are not dissidents, people who are not out to spread disunity within the church, but just people who want to help the church move forward," Coyne told reporters after the meeting. "All of us around the table did not see divisions between Catholic and Catholic, but mainly just saw some issues within the family that need to be resolved."
Coyne said that the improved assessment of Voice of the Faithful is possible because of an improved climate at the archdiocese. O'Malley recently brokered an $85 million settlement of legal claims brought by more than 500 alleged victims of clergy sexual abuse, and his straight talk, frequent meetings with victims, and steps to resolve the crisis have been generally greeted with good will.
"The circumstances in which we're all living and moving forward as a church have drastically changed in the last six months," Coyne said. "While recognizing that there are still . . . many things to do, that allows for conversation that's open and honest."
Two bishops in the United States have reversed bans against the organization: Thomas V. Daily of Brooklyn and Daniel E. Pilarczyk of Cincinnati. The organization is currently barred from meeting on church property in 10 dioceses, including Fall River, where O'Malley's successor banned the organization as one of his first acts in office.
Coyne did not characterize the likelihood of change in Boston, where Law and Bishop Richard G. Lennon -- the interim leader of the archdiocese after Law resigned -- did not accept money raised by the group and said that any chapter of the group formed after Oct. 13, 2002, would be barred from meeting on church property. "He said that he would consider lifting the partial ban on affiliates in the archdiocese," Coyne said of O'Malley. "He also asked the chancellor to look at the financial structure and setup of the Voice of Compassion fund."
Voice of the Faithful leaders, speaking after the meeting, said O'Malley strongly suggested he was inclined to accept money raised by them. They told him it is painful for loyal Catholics to be barred from using their own parishes for meetings to discuss the state of the church, but said his posture toward lifting the ban is unclear.
Voice of the Faithful has raised approximately $100,000 from people unwilling to give directly to the archdiocese; most of the money has been contributed to Catholic Charities after Law and Lennon declined to accept it.
Voice of the Faithful President James E. Post said yesterday's meeting was "considerably more cordial" than six previous meetings with archdiocesan leaders. He and other leaders of the group yesterday presented a portrait of O'Malley, inscribed with a quote from O'Malley's installation homily and with the prayer of St. Francis, to the archbishop as a good-will gesture.
"We spoke and he listened; he spoke and we listened," Post said. "I think Archbishop Sean has questions that need to be resolved, and of course we would provide that information. We want to get on with it."
O'Malley was accompanied to the meeting by Lennon, Coyne, archdiocesan chancellor David W. Smith, and Barbara Thorp, who is the archdiocese's liaison to abuse victims. Post was accompanied by Steve Krueger, the organization's executive director, as well as by two active members of the organization, Elia Marnik of Reading and Margaret Roylance of Newton. The meeting took place at the house in Brighton formerly used as the archbishop's residence; O'Malley, honoring a pledge he made during the summer, earlier this week moved into the rectory at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End.
"Over and over and over again, everybody kept talking about moving forward, moving towards healing," Coyne said. O'Malley has repeatedly said he does not know much about Voice of the Faithful, which did not have chapters in Fall River or Palm Beach when he was the bishop there. A portion of yesterday's meeting involved Voice of the Faithful members explaining how their group came about, and about its goals, which include supporting victims and "priests of integrity" and helping to shape structural change in the church.
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Been to a high school graduation party this year? How about eighth grade? Or fifth grade? There’s more business for party retailers, as younger and younger grads celebrate.
It’s graduation season, and that means Tina Mazzone, manager of Westmont Party supply in South Jersey, is inflating helium balloons nearly non-stop. But it’s not just high school and college. She says more people are celebrating eighth grade and other graduations.
“I’m not sure if it’s just that people love to throw parties. And it’s an exciting thing and a happy thing. Maybe that’s the case, and maybe to encourage the kids that what they’re doing is a great thing and they’re advancing.”
Customer Lisa Wilson of Oaklyn has noticed the party explosion. “Even the younger ones. They’re doing a lot of parties for 7th and 8th grade graduations, Oaklyn goes to 9th grade so they even have those parties.”
Wilson wonders whether all of these celebrations water down the true achievements. “Personally, I think it should be reserved for 12th grade or college.”
Either way, Mazzone says more parties are definitely good for her business.
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Fill with water and shake! Try to get more water than ice, or drink melted ice.
I found this on pinterest, the person drank it 8 weeks straight did no exercise and ate whatever he/she wanted. She/He lost 5lbs. If this is your water bottle please let me know so I can give you credit 🙂
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Silver Line Watch, Black
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Sometimes less is more. Our Gold & Silver Line relies on understatement: it is subtle and unobtrusive, but nonetheless catches the eye. The case is made of stainless steel, the quartz movement is set under sapphire glass. It's a collection of top quality watches in a timeless design.
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About Mental Health Month
Mental Health Month is celebrated each year in the month of October in NSW. This awareness month encourages all of us to think about our mental health and wellbeing, regardless of whether we may have a lived experience of mental illness or not. This month also gives us the opportunity to understand the importance of mental health in our everyday lives and encourages help seeking behaviours when needed.
This year the theme for Mental Health Month is Share the Journey.
No- it’s not déjà vu – Share the Journey was the theme for 2017 as well, but we received such incredible and important feedback we decided it should be kept this year as well.
Share the Journey means – telling your friends and family when things are a bit tough – finding others who have been through something similar – connecting with your community – finding a health professional you trust – connecting on social media – giving your pet a cuddle – organisations working together for the best possible wellbeing of everyone – sharing your stories with others – creating a sense of security within families and communities – reaching out to someone who might need your help - decreasing the isolation people feel when things aren’t great
The message is important – isolation has a huge impact on the wellbeing of people whose mental health isn’t as great as they’d like it to be. We can all share the journey to make things a little easier, to make communities as supportive as possible; to make good mental health a bit more accessible for everyone.
And there are benefits to keeping the theme for all of us – greater understanding of how sharing our journeys can help, better awareness of Mental Health Month, and more preparation time for people organising fantastic community events, and our tireless, incredible grant recipients. Grant applications will open earlier – keep an eye out in mid-May - so your event can get funded earlier. It also means we can promote your events for longer, making sure as many people as possible see your message. And if you have resources left over from last year, they can all be reused this year.
Please Share the Journey with us another year, and let’s all work to make this Mental Health Month, and good mental health and wellbeing, a journey everyone in New South Wales can share.
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The Music of the MRI
“Take a picture, what’s inside?
Ghost image in my mind
Natural pattern like a spider
Capillary to the center”
Sitting with our morning coffee on Sunday, our pack of dogs snuggled around and on top of us, Caryn and I were listening to NPR’s Weekend Edition. It’s a little thing we try to do on the weekends to recover from one week and steel ourselves for the next.
As soon as I heard an introduction of a segment with the letters “IRM”, my attention was caught. It is the acronym, in many languages for what we know as MRI. I made that correlation quickly. What I wasn’t getting was that this was to be an interview with a French singer about her new album.
Well, as soon as they played title track from Charlotte Gainsbourg’s release IRM, I knew that my assumption was correct.
The unmistakable whine, groan and thump, so familiar to a person living with multiple sclerosis, came across our clock radio. Had it not been for a hypnotic drum track backing the sounds of an actual MRI machine, I may have thought I was having some kind of a flashback!
Ms. Gainsbourg had a series of MRIs (and other neurologic tests with which we living with MS are all too familiar) and, like many of us, was profoundly changed by the experience inside the MRI machine’s lonely tube.
“Hold still and press the button
Looking through a glass onion
Following the X-ray eye
From the cortex to medulla”
The more I listened to her recording (which she co-authored with Beck, who is known for using ordinary sounds to create extraordinary musical experiences) the more I was brought back to my first journey into the world of magnetic revelation of my body. That drumbeat revealed itself as my heart; thumping in my throat, my ears, my eyes…my consciousness. ANYTHING to drown out the electronic grinding and the shaking which seemed to move the very room in which I lay!
I must have looked a fright as I sit, propped against a stack of pillows and in the middle of a Wheaton Terrier sandwich! Caryn didn’t say anything until a few minutes into the interview, once I had a chance to shut my gob which was slacked for the experience.
I’d never thought of those sounds, the ones we experience in total seclusion, as the basis for art. Even with a modest musical training, I never thought to allow them any place in my mind other than annoyance or fear.
I guess it just goes to show us that there can be beauty in nearly every experience; even the MRI. All we have to do is open ourselves to it. The next time (which will be this quarter), I’ll try to stay awake!
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We've known for a while. However, when you tie compensation to patient satisfaction scores, guess what happens. Luckily I work for a department that acknowledged the risks early and created formalized guidelines for narcotic prescriptions. Even having written policy handouts still doesn't prevent me from having to call security at least once a shift to escort out agitated patients who believe they are owed narcotics.
In the context of this study, what does "for a year" mean in regards to using opioids? Is it a continuous, had a prescription fill every month for 12 months? Is it just had another fill a year later? I feel I'm not really understanding exactly what outcomes the study measured.
I'd never taken opiods (generic Vicodin) before severely fracturing my arm. It took a week for surgery to be scheduled so I took them for about three weeks before weaning myself off of them and then stopping. Had nasty withdrawal symptoms for several days - can only imagine how difficult it must be for people who take them for any real length of time.
In the context of this study, what does "for a year" mean in regards to using opioids? Is it a continuous, had a prescription fill every month for 12 months? Is it just had another fill a year later? I feel I'm not really understanding exactly what outcomes the study measured.
For a year = continued use for a year starting from the initial prescription with a gap no greater than 30 days.
In the context of this study, what does "for a year" mean in regards to using opioids? Is it a continuous, had a prescription fill every month for 12 months? Is it just had another fill a year later? I feel I'm not really understanding exactly what outcomes the study measured.
For a year = continued use for a year starting from the initial prescription with a gap no greater than 30 days.
Thanks! Seems in line with my initial impression before my cynicism had me questioning it.
Or, people in severe need of pain relief has the same need over a long time?
The new CDC recommendations mentioned in the article (to extremely over simplify) are to not prescribe opioids for chronic pain except in cases of cancer, palliative care, or end of life care. People in severe need of pain relief over a long period of time should not be utilizing this type of medication.
This assumes that most if not all of these patients on long term opiates don't actually need them. This is simply not the case, life-long pain due to permanent damage is quite real. A lot of it comes from the simple fact that the back-bone evolved for quadrupeds and modified for bipedal walking in a horrible hacked way that would horrify any structural engineer, tack on the obesity epidemic and you have the perfect storm for spinal cord damage
In the context of this study, what does "for a year" mean in regards to using opioids? Is it a continuous, had a prescription fill every month for 12 months? Is it just had another fill a year later? I feel I'm not really understanding exactly what outcomes the study measured.
For a year = continued use for a year starting from the initial prescription with a gap no greater than 30 days.
The paper also notes that this study doesn't include prescriptions paid out of pocket or any opioids obtained illegally so the reported rates are likely underrepresentation.
On the whole, the results are not terribly surprising. Patients with more serious issues are likely to be prescribed a longer initial course of pain management and continue using them for a longer duration. Also note that the observation period was 2006 through 2015, so a good chunk of the study was before people really started to realize how problematic long term opioid use is and certainly before the new (2016) CDC guidelines.
I think that there is a genetic component involved in the addiction. I am a cancer patient and had been on OxyContin and oxycodone for +4 years. Once I realized that the opioids were making me an aggressive asshole, I went a reduction schedule and stopping completely within 60 days. I had zero withdrawal symptoms. Now I manage with over the counter pain drugs.
Or, people in severe need of pain relief has the same need over a long time?
Sure, but this is still useful information for doctors even in that context. If as a doctor you know your patient will need at least 10 days of it, you can now be aware of the likelihood that the patient will need the same drugs for much longer. Since there is a 0% chance of a patient using these for a full year and not getting addicted, a doctor should be aware of the potential consequences when starting treatment.
That doesn't mean indefinite opioid prescriptions are universally bad though. My grandmother was unwell for a very long time and suffering from extreme pain. She and her doctors were fully aware that she was addicted to the medication, but she wasn't going to ever recover anyway so this was the best they could do.
I have never been in the kind of pain that requires this kind of medication so I know that I'm not qualified to make a cost-benefit analysis here, but I find it hard to believe that these drugs are really the best we can do for people in chronic severe pain.
I'd like to see the diagnoses for greater than 10 day prescriptions. Did those people have a potentially chronic condition and that lead to long-term use?
I have neuropathy from chemotherapy, and I was in terrible pain for 12 years due to being under-medicated. I would have fallen into the long-term user category. But the solution for me wasn't opioid reduction, but switching to extended release morphine. The unintended consequence of all these crackdowns is people with moderate to severe chronic pain being undermedicated, while doing nothing to stop addiction.
Doctors have a role in not prescribing opioids willy-nilly, but to claim that opioids shouldn't be used in chronic conditions is absurd.
Or, people in severe need of pain relief has the same need over a long time?
The new CDC recommendations mentioned in the article (to extremely over simplify) are to not prescribe opioids for chronic pain except in cases of cancer, palliative care, or end of life care. People in severe need of pain relief over a long period of time should not be utilizing this type of medication.
The problem is all opioid use is the same when in there are very different valid use cases beyond the guidelines. Also, drug abuse and deaths from drug abuse have been occurring forever. What changes is the current drugs being abused. So a crackdown opioids will in reality shift much of the problem to other dangerous drugs. Then we will have a "new epidemic" of X.
I find the headline and general use of the word "opiod" a little too generic (no pun intended). The article only makes a few specific mentions of different types of opiod, does the study make the same distinctions? I'm sure the addiction rates for Vicodin are different from OxyContin are different from fentanyl (edit: oops, not the same as fenfen).
I'm sure this will spur massive new public policy reports on reducing opiod consumption and new research on marijuana effects on those with chronic pain. /s, just the last sentence
Also this article address chronic vs acute pain in that they are moving away from even using these drugs to treat chronic pain (that's pain that lasts a long time), this article is in regards to short term, acute pain.
I find the headline and general use of the word "opiod" a little too generic (no pun intended). The article only makes a few specific mentions of different types of opiod, does the study make the same distinctions? I'm sure the addiction rates for Vicodin are different from OxyContin are different from fentanyl (fenfen).
I'm sure this will spur massive new public policy reports on reducing opiod consumption and new research on marijuana effects on those with chronic pain. /s, just the last sentence
The paper is linked in the article and does compare different medications and classes of medications. Also, fentanyl is not "fenfen." "Fen-phen" is a combination anti-obesity drug that has nothing to do with opioids.
Or, people in severe need of pain relief has the same need over a long time?
If only. It is an ever growing need when opiates are involved, which is the problem.
Not necessarily.
I have been prescribed a variety of painkillers for many years now, and whilst it took a number of years to achieve an effective combination, the prescription mix that I now take (which includes both co-codamol and tramadol) has not changed for more than a decade.
I hear the withdrawal from tramadol is pretty nasty as well, these also come in a long acting so I'm wondering why it's singled out as it is?
Correct. It does vary with the individual, but I can tell you it was bad. The only thing I've experienced worse was withdrawing from 3mg of Ativan daily (for a year). That took over two weeks of living hell to get over. I had no "lesser drugs" or herbs to blunt the withdrawals. Just weeks of continuous hot and cold sweats, panic attacks, and literally zero sleep at night. I couldn't even sit down for more than a couple of minutes at a time before having to get up and pace.
Also this article address chronic vs acute pain in that they are moving away from even using these drugs to treat chronic pain (that's pain that lasts a long time), this article is in regards to short term, acute pain.
Beyond excluding cancer patients and those with a history of substance use disorder, this study makes no well defined distinction between the acute vs. chronic pain/diagnosis.
Broke my arm in two places a long time ago, 25 years ago. They gave me a prescription for Percocet as if it was aspirin. Took one pill and after the effects wore off threw the rest away and started taking tylenol instead.
My mom was given Oxycodone from her Dr. for arthritis pain and by the time she passed away in 2001, she had been addicted for some time.
If everyone would have their CYP2D6 gene tested prescribers would know if a patient would metabolize a drug quickly, normally, or poorly. Knowing that would help in prescribing the appropriate treatments.
Never tried opioids/hard drugs, can someone tell me what kind of effect it gives you that is so addictive? (Just curious)
I've been taking daily opioids for over a decade and I wonder the same thing. I've never felt any high from opioids at a prescribed dose, but euphoria is common at higher doses.
The biggest problem with opioids is the physical dependence. Even missing one dose can leave you feeling lethargic, nauseated, or malaise. Withdrawal symptoms are terrible. In addition, opioid tolerance builds up after time. Addicts require increasing dosages to get high. The makes the withdrawal symptoms worse and the viscious cycle spins out of control.
And since we put people in jail instead of treating them, you get the problem we're currently experiencing.
I don't understand what this even means. As someone who right now is sitting behind this keyboard recovering from spine surgery to remove constant pain, sometimes you NEED pain killers.
If someone only gets a supply for 5 days, maybe they had a splinter and they only needed a supply for 5 days. If they got a supply for a whole month, maybe it was a big freaking deal and not just a splinter, but a real pain that may not be going away FOR LIFE until surgery is performed. Anyone can logically look at that and realize they will need multiple months. They aren't getting refills for jollies. They are getting refills, from an initial uncommon 30 day supply, again indicating it was more than just a splinter, because the pain is still there.
My background is I had a herniated disc into the spinal cord and nerve root to my right arm. All feeling and movement was replaced with numbness and nails driven through every inch of my arm from my finger tips to my neck. You can't sleep. You can't raise you head. You suffer. Pain meds made it bearable. I had this for 6 months until surgery last week which thankfully removed all the pain. I actually went the last 2 months on no pain meds. Mainly because I didn't enjoy at all going through the stigma and judgement attached to "I need another refill" from someone who has never experienced real pain before and has decided that I am a junkie. Oh how I wished I could have just left the pain with them and went home normal while they lived in my hell. So I just kept my last 30 day supply as an emergency and dealt with it, knowing I had surgery coming.
There is no limit to the sympathy I feel for people with chronic pain that there is no fix for. If they want pain meds, let them buy them. If they want to die on pain meds, I understand. Keep them away from those who don't need them.
As for this article, I don't see where the length of a prescription means anything other than a correlation to the severity of the injury and stigma against the patient.
My grandmother was unwell for a very long time and suffering from extreme pain. She and her doctors were fully aware that she was addicted to the medication, but she wasn't going to ever recover anyway so this was the best they could do.
My mother went through the same thing before she died. She had an inoperable problem with her spine, replaced hip, replaced knee, kidney disease, fatty liver disease, severe arthritis, diabetes, etc. She was continuously in a lot of pain. The last year she was alive, she was on extended release morphine and oxy. I am glad that she was able to get some comfort (although it did not eliminate her pain), but being on high doses of those drugs means I actually lost my mother before she died. She wasn't the same person anymore.
In the context of this study, what does "for a year" mean in regards to using opioids? Is it a continuous, had a prescription fill every month for 12 months? Is it just had another fill a year later? I feel I'm not really understanding exactly what outcomes the study measured.
And does it properly account for those who have switched to heroin black-market pills?
Or, people in severe need of pain relief has the same need over a long time?
The new CDC recommendations mentioned in the article (to extremely over simplify) are to not prescribe opioids for chronic pain except in cases of cancer, palliative care, or end of life care. People in severe need of pain relief over a long period of time should not be utilizing this type of medication.
The problem being that the 'other treatments' that the CDC likes to push are just as poorly studied as opiates. While they have some efficacy, to say that they can simply replace opiates on a broad scale is more than a little disingenuous.
For example, Pregabalin (Lyrica) was one of the touted medications to get people off of opiates. Except that the DEA has placed it on the controlled substances list. Oops.
Unfortunately, as is typical, policy is being made more to push headlines and get something done, anything at all. Studies like this are interesting but typically get much more traction than are really warranted and, more importantly, tend not to get amplified or repeated. Let me put out one bit of anecdotal evidence that argues against the study. Opiate prescriptions for joint replacements tend to last longer than a week. Usually two or three weeks, sometimes longer. There are a hell of a lot of patients with joint replacements and I don't see anything resembling a 20% chronic opiate use rate in these folks. Likely this reflects the patient's age (joint replacement patients tend to be older) which has an effect on addiction potential, but the point is that reality is going to be quite a bit more complex than the CDC is expressing at this point.
This particular study is set up for all sorts of biases and really should be used as a stepping stone to other research, not as a guide to policy as of yet. But repeating or expanding the study will take years and twitter blurbs take seconds.
Never tried opioids/hard drugs, can someone tell me what kind of effect it gives you that is so addictive? (Just curious)
For some folks—and I'm one of them, unfortunately—opiates very quickly bring on a feeling of wonderful, poignant, intense euphoria. It's a feeling like being warm, except instead of physical warmth it's an emotional warmth. It's like being softly enfolded in a blanket of feeling like everything is going to work out wonderfully, even if you're actually feeling pretty cruddy about life.
And there's a physical component to it, not just emotional—a humming undercurrent of goodness that attaches itself to and flows through every part of your body. Everything just feels good. You're comfortable no matter what you're doing. If you're actually injured and taking the pills for that injury, the pain is dulled and put into a little box, and you can ignore the box and not look at it if you want. If you're taking the pills and you're not injured, the effect is magnified because you don't have pain to overcome.
Everything is...super interesting, and super exciting. The video game you might be playing is literally the most entrancing, uplifting, fun, vibrant, enjoyable game you've ever played—and while you're playing it, you don't want to ever be doing anything else. The twitter feed you're reading is more fascinating than the best novel you've ever read. The twitch stream you're watching is the most profound, most important thing you've ever seen.
An opiate high makes you feel hopeful, because it makes everything not just interesting, but good. If you've got nothing to look forward to on a Tuesday afternoon except coming home after work/school to a dirty empty house and eating a frozen dinner and playing video games until you fall asleep, an opiate high makes that afternoon into something profound, fun, enjoyable, purposeful, and meaningful. It flows in between the gaps and cracks in what would otherwise be soul-crushing boring routine and fills them in with light and joy and sparkling star-stuff and makes you feel awesome about whatever you're doing.
And, at least for me, after 5 or 6 hours of bliss, the high slowly fades into a beautiful heavy-limbed drowsiness and I can then sleep soundly for 8-10 hours and wake up feeling incredibly refreshed, with a slight echo of the previous day's high.
I am not joking when I say that if I had access to an unlimited supply of opiates, I'd take them every day. Absolutely, 100%. Because they're fucking awesome.
I hear the withdrawal from tramadol is pretty nasty as well, these also come in a long acting so I'm wondering why it's singled out as it is?
Correct. It does vary with the individual, but I can tell you it was bad. The only thing I've experienced worse was withdrawing from 3mg of Ativan daily (for a year). That took over two weeks of living hell to get over. I had no "lesser drugs" or herbs to blunt the withdrawals. Just weeks of continuous hot and cold sweats, panic attacks, and literally zero sleep at night. I couldn't even sit down for more than a couple of minutes at a time before having to get up and pace.
It can vary with time too.
I had no problem when the tablets ran out after an operation I had as a kid.
Now, though, when the pharmacy have not had the tablets and I have had to go "cold turkey", then yes, I have experienced similar symptoms (and more) to those you describe.
That said, I have deliberately weaned myself off the opioids temporarily (just to prove to myself that I could), and to do so over a few days was possible with minimal discomfort.
My grandmother was unwell for a very long time and suffering from extreme pain. She and her doctors were fully aware that she was addicted to the medication, but she wasn't going to ever recover anyway so this was the best they could do.
My mother went through the same thing before she died. She had an inoperable problem with her spine, replaced hip, replaced knee, kidney disease, fatty liver disease, severe arthritis, diabetes, etc. She was continuously in a lot of pain. The last year she was alive, she was on extended release morphine and oxy. I am glad that she was able to get some comfort (although it did not eliminate her pain), but being on high doses of those drugs means I actually lost my mother before she died. She wasn't the same person anymore.
I think you should be blaming the disease on losing your mother, not the drug. If she had no pain relief, you might have lost her more. Opiates are hardly a panacea - but they do have some utility.
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“GOOD IS THE ENEMY OF GREAT.” So says author Jim Collins in his best-selling book Good to Great. In other words, being good can be bad, if it leads to complacency and indifference.
If you stopped a typical man or woman on the street and asked who develops the standards they take for granted every day, you’d get a variety of answers, but almost none would say, “Why I do, of course.” But companies can’t operate that way. Great companies don’t operate that way.
Good companies use the best standards. Great companies develop them.
Here’s what great companies know. They know what standardization does for their products, for their processes, what it does for them in the marketplace, and what it does for their technical experts. Where else can technical experts get a better sense of the marketplace than in a forum of their peers? Where is there a better classroom, a better laboratory, a better network of the best minds in the industry? Technical experts who actively develop standards with other experts are far more valuable to a corporation than those who work in isolation. Great companies invest in their experts, support their involvement in standardization, and listen to them when they come home.
There is no way to operate competitively without using the best standards, whether a company’s goal is to capture the market in their hometown or in 17 countries around the world. And there is no way to be a leader in the industry without being involved in the direction in which the product is going. Standardization is the act of investing in the company’s confidence in what it is doing. It is the translation of that confidence into public acceptance. It is the secret weapon of great companies.
Standardization is the birthplace of the best ideas in the world. It’s where brilliance and stimulation and debate make good experts great ones. It’s where corporations win the battle for the market before the product gets there. But it isn’t free. It takes commitment. It takes foresight and the investment of time and resources. What vital company function doesn’t?
Good companies can take advantage of the standards work that great companies do for them. But they won’t get there first; they won’t explore the boundaries of their fields, or see the technical trends coming. They won’t put their company’s imprint on what will become the statement that describes the product and its performance. What a loss.
For some companies, being good is enough. For others, it’s just the beginning.
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Holy Cow
34 Elder Street, Edinburgh EH1 3DXOpen Mon-Sun, 10.00-18.00
Edinburgh’s newest veggie eatery and it’s 100% vegan, organic and fairtrade. Holy Cow opened on Fri 9 Dec 2016. Everything is cooked from fresh and seasonal ingredients. Rather hidden away behind Edinburgh’s bus station just off York Place. As of mid-Feb 2017 the basement location still has a sign saying “Halo Coffee Co”, but their own sign will be coming soon.
Holy Cow offers 5 types of vegan burger, soup, sandwiches and salads. For afters, they have lots of beautiful vegan home baking to go with hot and cold drinks. Very attentive and friendly customer service is clearly a strong suit.
Typical vegan dishes:Vegan burger and chips – £9.50
Burger is served in a home-baked bun with home-made vegan mayo and lettuce, tomato and onion
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After poor show in domestic T20, Saeed Ajmal mulls retirement
Karachi: Failing to impress national selectors after back-toback shoddy performances in the domestic T20, veteran spinner Saeed Ajmal is planning to call time on his international career.
"Saeed is disappointed with his own form and his failure to come to grips with his modified bowling action. That is why he also skipped Faisalabad's last match in the tournament in Rawalpindi," one source told PTI informing that the off-break bowler is thinking big time about retirement.
Saeed Ajmal
Ajmal, 37, finished with two wickets at an average of 62 after conceding 124 runs in four matches and he has struggled to make an impact with his new action since early this year.
Chief selector Haroon Rasheed said there was a lot of domestic cricket to be played this season and Ajmal should keep on working on his bowling action and hope for the best.
"It is never easy to change your bowling action after you have bowled with it and enjoyed success for so many years. We feel for Ajmal and the problems he must be going through. But atleast he is trying and like I have said the doors are still open for him if he can show us his new action has also become effective," Rasheed said.
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The Ultimate Fighting Championship will close the book on the sixth season of its popular reality series — “The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra” — tonight at The Palms Las Vegas.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) will post live updates, including round-by-round coverage on tonight’s main card and results from the preliminary card, throughout the evening. Additionally, we’ll post an update on tonight’s big announcement from UFC President Dana White.
The event kicks off at approximately 7:30 p.m. ET, and the televised main card airs live on Spike TV at 9 p.m. ET.
Tonight’s nine-fight card includes a main event of lightweight contenders Roger Huerta and Clay Guida, as well as a co-main event between “TUF” finalists Mac Danzig and Tommy Speer. Additionally, every cast member from this latest season of the reality series (except Blake Bowman and Joey Scarola) has been booked for undercard fights.
Warning: Live results from tonight’s event will be available after the jump below. If you don’t want to know the live results, do not click the link below. Additionally, a full event recap — including all the results from tonight’s fights — will be posted at approximately 1 a.m. ET. If you’re watching the event on tape delay or later this weekend, be sure to avoid MMAjunkie.com until you’ve watched the event.
(Again, if you’d like to comment on tonight’s event, please do so in our discussion thread.)
Enjoy the fights, everyone..
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PAUL GEORGIEFF VS. JONATHAN GOULET
Round 1 — Georgieff rocked Goulet with a left hook, but Goulet rebounded to catch a kick and score a takedown. Goulet then unloaded some ground and pound, and he then sunk in a fight-ending rear-naked choke in the final minute of the first round. Jonathan Goulet def. Paul Georgieff via submission (rear-naked choke) at 4:42 of the first round.
ROMAN MITICHYAN VS. DORIAN PRICE
Round 1 — Mitichyan scored a quick takedown, grabbed a leg, and secured an ankle lock that forced Price to tap out in a very quick bout. Roman Mitichyan def. Dorian Price via submission (ankle lock) at 0:23 of the first round.
MATT ARROYO VS. JOHN KOLOSCI
Round 1 — Arroyo was determined to get the submission in this one. After connecting on a right hook, Arroyo secured an early guillotine. Kolosci escaped the choke, and then escaped an arm-bar. After a stalemate, they returned to their, and after a clinch, Arroyo locked in another guillotine. Kolosci escaped, but he finally got stopped by an arm bar that forced the tap-out. Matt Arroyo def. John Kolosci via submission (arm-bar) at of 4:42 of Round 1.
RICHIE HIGHTOWER VS. TROY MANDALONIZ
Round 1 — In pre-fight interviews, Hightower and Mandaloniz both told MMAjunkie.com to expect a brawl, and we got one. The fight remained standing as the fighters traded punches for the first few minutes. Mandaloniz began to wear down his opponent with a series of blows, though. As the round came to a close, Hightower was sucking wind and then ate a big punch that dropped him. Mandaloniz followed with a barrage of shots from the top to force a stoppage. Troy Mandaloniz def. Richie Hightower via TKO (strikes) at 4:20 of the first round.
***MMAjunkie.com can now confirm that UFC executives have stripped Sean Sherk of the UFC’s lightweight title. B.J. Penn and Joe Stevenson’s UFC 80 main event will now be for the vacant lightweight title.***
DAN BARRERA VS. BEN SAUNDERS
Round 1 –Saunders looked for kicks early while Barrera eyed a takedown. Barrera spent two minutes working for the takedown and ate some knees in the process. Once the fight hit the mat, Saunders nearly secured an arm-bar submission, but Barrera escaped into his opponent’s guard. Saunders is staying as busy from the bottom as Barrera is from the top during the final minute. It should be a 10-9 round for Saunders.
Round 2 — Barrera scores the early takedown and takes his opponent’s back, but Saunders rolls out of it. Working from Saunders’ guard, Barrera does little damage from the top. The ref stands them, and Saunders throws a knee just as Barrera shoots for a takedown. The knee doesn’t connect, and Saunders looks for the arm bar. Barrera rolls out of it and takes top position again. The action again slows,and the fighters are stood again. Saunders partially lands a head kick and follows with a series of punches while Barrera tries to grab a leg. As the round ends, Saunders look for the arm bar but can’t secure it. It’s another close one, and despite the kick, it should be 10-9 for Barrera based on overall control.
Round 3 — Saunders lands a couple kicks while Barrera tries to counterstrike. With his opponent shooting for a takedown, Saunders peppers him with punches. Saunders takes Barrera’s back and locks in a tight body triangle. Saunders looks for the rear-naked choke and connects on some punches to soften up Barrera. Barrera finally rolls out and takes top position and pushes Saunders against the fence. Barrera does little damage, and the ref again stands them. Saunders throws a body kick while Barrera again shoots. Unable to get the takedown, Barrera continues to eat some punches to the body as the round ends. It’s a 10-9 round for Saunders for what should be a 29-28 victory. Ben Saunders def. Dan Barrera via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 30-27).
BILLY MILES VS. GEORGE SOTIROPOULOUS
Round 1 — Miles storms his opponent to start the round, but Sotiropoulous quickly takes his back and lands a series of blows to the head. Sotiropoulous sinks in a body triangle and flattens out Miles. Sotiropoulous continues to rain down punches, sinks in the choke, and then forces Miles to tap out. George Sotiropoulous def. Billy Miles via submission (rear-naked choke) at 1:36 of the first round.
JON KOPPENHAVER VS. JARED ROLLINS
Round 1 — Rollins scores an early takedown, but Koppenhaver breaks free thanks to his butterfly guard. Koppenhaver now works from the top, but Rollins avoids much damage. The fighters trade — and connect on — a few elbows. Koppenhaver now throws body punches while Rollins continues elbow strikes to the top of his opponent’s head. Koppenhaver now mixes in body punches with strikes to the head as he pushes Rollins into the fence. Koppenhaver finally produces a cut, but Rollins explodes for a series of elbows that produce a cut of his own. The round finishes a bloody mess as Koppenhaver takes it, 10-9.
Round 2 — Koppenhaver is bleeding from the top of the head, and Rollins from the left eye. After a quick exchange, Koppenhaver lands a trip takedown and takes top position. Rollins continues throwing elbows from the bottom as Koppenhaver lands body punches. Both fighters are now drenched in blood. The ref stands the fighters, and Rollins throws a flying knee and Superman punch that miss. Rollins then gets the takedown and finally works from the top. Rollins has his opponent pushed against the fence and then gets side control. Koppenhaver tries to break free, and Rollins takes his back. Rollins transitions into the mount position and connects on some ground and pound and a flurry of punches. The ref looks like he wants to stop it, but the horn sounds. It’s a 10-9 round for Rollins.
Round 3 — Big ovation to start the round, and Rollins shoots for the takedown. Koppenhaver maneuvers for top position, though. Koppenhaver lands a series of blows and may have opened another cut. The pace slows, and the ref stands them again. Koppenhaver shoots, but Rollins lands a big knee to the face and a right hook that forces Koppenhaver to collapse. Somehow, Koppenhaver reverses the position, takes mount position, and rains down a series of blows that daze Rollins. The ref is forced to stop it. An amazing comeback for Koppenhaver to pull out the bloody win. John Koppenhaver def. Jared Rollins via TKO (strikes) at 2:01 of round three.
MAC DANZIG VS. TOMMY SPEER
Round 1 — An early clinch allows Speer to keep Danzig pinned against the fence, but Danzig powers through his bigger opponent for the takedown. Danzig takes the mount position and rains down a combination of punches. Speer tries to roll out of it, but Danzig takes his back and looks for the choke. Danzig flattens him out with a body triangle, and Speer is finally forced to tap. It’s a quick and surprising submission victory for Danzig. Mac Danzig def. Tommy Speer via submission (rear-naked choke) at 2:01 of the first round.
*** Mac Danzig is the lightweight winner of “The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra.”***
CLAY GUIDA VS. ROGER HUERTA
Round 1 — Guida scores the first takedown via single-leg, but Huerta gets back to his feet. However, Guida scores a big slam to return the fight to the mat. Guida moves into sidemount, but Herta roles free and grabs a leg looking for a submission. Guida takes Huerta’s back in the process, but Huerta reverses the position and tags Guida with a knee to the face. Seconds later, Guida responds with his own knee to the face, it’s an illegal blow because Huerta had a knee on the ground. After a brief stop in the action, Huerta says he’s OK and comes out swinging and lands a body kick. A brief scramble on the mat allows Guida to take Huerta’s back and lock in his hooks. Guida works for the rear-naked choke, but Huerta breaks free. The round concludes with Huerta looking for an arm-bar. It’s an exciting first round and hard to call. I give it to Guida 10-9.
Round 2 — They go toe-to-toe to start the round before Guida scoops up Huerta for the double-leg takedown. Guida waits for Huerta to get up from the mat to land a knee but eats an uppercut instead. Back on their feet, Huerta works a variety of kicks and snaps his opponent with a leg kick. Guida, though, scores another takedown and works from inside Huerta’s guard. Huerta tries to kick himself free, but Guida takes his opponent’s back momentarily. Back to their feet, they trade shots again, and both fighters land combinations. Guida gets the better of it and scores the takedown and rains down a barrage of hammerfists. Back to their feet, and Huerta lands a combination. Guida fakes a shoot, Huerta drops to his knees, and then eats a back right hook that temporarily dazes the fighter. Guida smells blood and works from top position now and lands some additional hammerfists. The round ends, and it’s a clear 10-9 frame for Guida.
Round 3 — They again trade shots to start the round, and Guida eats two big knees and then an uppercut. Guida looks rocked, falls to the mat and gives up his back. Huerta sinks in the rear-naked choke. Guida tries to hang on but is eventually forced to tap. Roger Huerta def. Clay Guida via submission (rear-naked choke) at 0:51 of the third round.
*** UFC President Dana White announces that Forrest Griffin will be one of two coaches on the next season of “The Ultimate Fighter.” Additionally, he promises a complete overhaul of the show’s format for the upcoming seventh season.***
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Green Line Extension Phase 1 construction meeting March 5
On Tuesday, March 5, 2013, the Green Line Extension (GLX) Project will hold an Abutters Meeting for those directly affected by Phase 1 construction and any concerned citizens interested in the construction relating to the Harvard Street Railroad Bridge in Medford and the surrounding drainage reconstruction.
The meeting will be held in the St. Clement School cafeteria, 579 Boston Ave., Medford, at 7 p.m.
With Barletta Heavy Division Inc. having received its Notice to Proceed with construction for Phase 1 of the GLX Project, this meeting will be an opportunity for the project team to present the extent of the Harvard Street Bridge and area drainage construction, and address any questions or concerns before the construction begins.
In the coming weeks, the GLX project will hold a larger Public Meeting with the Phase 1 contractor and the community to discuss the full extent of Phase 1 construction in Medford, Somerville and Cambridge. It will be an opportunity to meet the team, discuss the schedule and to present opportunities for stakeholders to follow the progress of the project.
Notification of the time and location of this Public Meeting will be made later this week.
More information about the project is available on the Green Line Extension website. A presentation on the construction work planned for Phase 1 is available under Public Meetings (Early Bridge & Demolition Package, January 25, 2012).
As always, if you have any questions on the Green Line Extension Project, you can email us at [email protected].
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MINUTE OF MOURN FOR AYLAN KURDI AND OTHERS
DI Media [email protected]
People across the world will be taking a moment of prayer´-or-silence to remember Aylan Kurdi, his brother, his mother and other refugees who have lost their lives attempting to reach Europe.
Details
Minutes of silence´-or-prayer to be held worldwide to honour the victims of the humanitarian tragedy unfolding on the shores of Europe and elsewhere. Those paying their respects will be thinking particularly of Aylan Kurdi, his brother Galip Kurdi, their mother Rehan Kurdi and their loved-ones.
Time: 4 September 2015 at
8 PM CET7 GMT2 PM ET10 PM Kobane time
DI Media Committee said the decision to organise a moment of silence´-or-prayer was taken after requests poured in to DI President, Dr Widad Akrawi, on twitter and other social networks.
What can be saidWords disappear as pain and grief take holdTears come rushing and there is no solace
What has become of usWe have become blind to the fact that Aylan was our sonMillions of children and youth across the world who suffer unspeakable injustices are all our childrenUntil we realize this there will be no peace
We never knew AylanSo why do we cry?Because he is part of usPart of us that died
Dear Aylan
Wherever you areHave no doubtLike the sunWe will riseTo reclaim our humanity
In loving peace
Gal
Emotional Statement by Mr. Zar Ali khan Afridi, DI representative in Pakistan and executive -dir-ector of Society for Rights and Development
Aylan my sweet child. You are not dead. You are ing. You have gone to heaven. My God when I look at you my own son who is of same age just comes and stands before me. I have same sentiments for your brother who is not seen here but I have same feeling for him too. Your Mom who is also no more with you here but she is with you both in heaven I have same sentiments for her as well. Today all day long and to night I have lost no moment to forget what happened with you. You made me speechless like million of people. I am unable to share your picture of with my wife´-or-child who is of your same age. I am sure my wife will be half dead if she sees you. My child more and more. Your is a slap on the face of humanity in general and so called Arab and Muslim Ummah if any in particular. I can not do any thing more except shedding few tears for you all three. Pl accept my flowers wreath for you and your brother and sweet Mom. The more I see you the more I lose my heart.
Child we as adult human beings are very much ashamed before you for not protecting you. You’re lying in such an innocent posture does ask us question which we are unable to answer. My toddler you better go to heaven to be sheltered from brutalities of the terrorists.
Background
The two boys: Aylan Kurdi (three-year-old) and Galip Kurdi (five-year-old) were refugees from Kobane trying to resettle in Canada. When their family lost hope of a new life in Vancouver, they attempted to reach the Greek island of Kos. Their journey ended when their boat overturned due to high waves, leaving their lifeless bodies along with that of their mother Rehan and those of eight other refugees washed up on a Turkish beach of the Bodrum peninsula Wednesday. Their father survived and his only wish now is to return to Kobane with his dead wife and children to bury them.
This family’s tragedy encapsulates the challenges refugees are facing to flee armed conflicts in their countries. According to the UN refugee agency, Wednesday’s dead were part of a grim toll of nearly 2,500 people who have died this summer attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Europe. It is estimated that around 205,000 refugees have entered Greece this year alone.
Key Messages on behalf of Defend International
DI President, Dr. Widad Akrawi, today expressed condolences on behalf of Defend International to the families and friends of victims. Dr. Akrawi stated: “Our heartfelt sympathy goes to the families and friends of those who have died and all refugees and their loved ones. Our thoughts are with them as they mourn the passing of those they loved.” Dr. Akrawi thanked volunteers and humanitarian workers worldwide for their outstanding efforts in aiding desperate refugees. She called on the international community to share equitably the responsibility for protecting, assisting and hosting refugees in accordance with principles of international solidarity and human rights.
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27 March 2007
Those Wordy Samuelses Strike Again
My father, Jon Samuels, has recently published an essay at the PublicEducation.org site. In it he draws upon the observations of early America made by Alexis de Tocqueville, who suggested that the new nation's prosperity could be attributed in considerable part to its disdain for class strictures, its support for free movement within the country, and its acceptance of broad public education:
Writing today, de Tocqueville might note the erosion of our public schools and the roles played in that by racism, failed discipline, missing parents, rote teaching and testing gone berserk. But, he would be confident in our defense of public education. He would argue that it was not within the American character to shrink in the face of challenge. He would expect that we would tax ourselves sufficiently to provide for the common educational good.
He would not be surprised when we raised the station of our teachers. He would anticipate our solution of the dropout problem and our reinstitution of discipline and mutual respect in our schools. He would expect that we would use tests surgically to expand an improved curriculum.
He concludes:
I do not support any “choice” that would further impoverish our public school system, that, however unintentional, could result in a few fleeing the problems that affect the many, that could create educational slums to warehouse an overwhelmingly poor and minority population. That would not be the America that enthralled de Tocqueville . . . .
I am sure that those who disagree with me are acting out of the courage of their convictions. I would ask, however, that they also have the courage of the consequences of their convictions.
When it comes to public education concerns, I suspect that there's some daylight between our respective positions, but I respect his willingness, as a board member of Public Education Partners, a local education foundation in Aiken, South Carolina, to tackle difficult issues that have stymied many, many others. After years as a career military officer and a successful businessman, I'm proud that he's brought his considerable skills to bear on a topic of such pressing public concern.
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About Me
I am presently corporate counsel for Accela, Inc., a software company headquartered in San Ramon, California and am a member of both the Oregon and California State Bars. More detailed professional information is available at my LinkedIn profile.
I have been blogging at Infamy or Praise since early 2005. From 2006 to 2009, I served as a "Sherpa" at Blawg Review, the weekly carnival of legal blogging; I have also hosted (or co-hosted) six editions of Blawg Review, the first four of which were awarded a "Blawg Review of the Year" award. I formerly was a co-blogger at Unsilent Partners. I'm on Twitter as "colinsamuels".
I am the author of "Humanizing the Profession: Lawyers Find Their Public Voices Through Blogging" (11 Nexus L. J. 89 (2006)) and a contributing author to "Blogging and Other Social Media" (Gower Publishing Limited, 2008) and "Legal Profession: Modern Approach" (The Icfai University Press, 2008).
None of the foregoing blogging, tweeting, or personal writing necessarily represents the views of my employer; responsibility for these is entirely mine.
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Comments on: Helen Thomas Sees Lack of Courage in Obamahttp://www.conservativedailynews.com/2011/06/helen-thomas-sees-lack-of-courage-in-obama/
The best conservative political news, analysis and opinion articles written by a collection of citizen journalists. Covering a range of important topics in blogs, op-ed, and news posts, these upstanding patriots are bringing back American exceptionalism with every entry..Mon, 02 Mar 2015 18:01:47 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1By: eileen fleminghttp://www.conservativedailynews.com/2011/06/helen-thomas-sees-lack-of-courage-in-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-5120
Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:48:06 +0000http://conservativedailynews.com/?p=13656#comment-5120I spent the evening of 20 May 2011 with Ms. Thomas and some of our conversation follows:
During my conversation with Ms. Thomas I filled her in on my distress over Amy Goodman’s failure to follow up on her 2004 interview with Mordechai Vanunu which resulted in his being sentenced to 6 months in jail in 2007 and then enduring 78 days back in solitary in 2010, just because he dared to speak to foreign media after he was released from 18 years in jail for telling the truth and providing the photographic proof of Israel’s WMD Program.
In April 2007, I had lunch with Amy Goodman-not because we have ever been friends, but only because I had once been a generous donor to Democracy NOW! was I invited to have lunch with Amy.
I accepted the invitation only so I could fill Amy in on the fact that her 2004 interview with Vanunu was major testimony against him in his FREEDOM of SPEECH trial-which began the same day Hamas was democratically elected on 25 January 2006- and also to ask her to follow up asap!
Amy acted interested and jotted down notes in her Blackberry, but she didn’t bother to call Vanunu until July 2007 after he was sentenced to 6 more months in jail essentially for speaking to foreign media in 2004!
Vanunu refused to speak to Amy because she –like all THE MEDIA-hadn’t done anything to raise awareness about Israel’s continuing persecution of him and to this day Vanunu is still waiting for his inalienable right to leave Tel Aviv and fly to freedom.
After I filled Ms. Thomas in on my anger with Amy she replied, “She used to be better.”
I then brought up Ms. Thomas’s first and last question to President Obama regarding Middle East nuclear weapons when he blew her off claiming he didn’t want to ‘speculate’ and her ‘peers’ remained mute, although the State Department has reams of documentation about Israel’s WMD.
Ms. Thomas replied, “They have no conscience.”
I also claim their lack of integrity borders on treason!
I was not a reporter when I met Vanunu for the first time in June 2005, but I knew I had to become one when he told me:
“Did you know that President Kennedy tried to stop Israel from building atomic weapons? In 1963, he forced Prime Minister Ben Guirion to admit the Dimona was not a textile plant, as the sign outside proclaimed, but a nuclear plant. The Prime Minister said, ‘The nuclear reactor is only for peace.’
“Kennedy insisted on an open internal inspection. He wrote letters demanding that Ben Guirion open up the Dimona for inspection.
“The French were responsible for the actual building of the Dimona. The Germans gave the money; they were feeling guilty for the Holocaust, and tried to pay their way out. Everything inside was written in French, when I was there, almost twenty years ago. Back then, the Dimona descended seven floors underground.
“In 1955, Perez and Guirion met with the French to agree they would get a nuclear reactor if they fought against Egypt to control the Sinai and Suez Canal. That was the war of 1956. Eisenhower demanded that Israel leave the Sinai, but the reactor plant deal continued on.
“When Johnson became president, he made an agreement with Israel that two senators would come every year to inspect. Before the senators would visit, the Israelis would build a wall to block the underground elevators and stairways. From 1963 to ’69, the senators came, but they never knew about the wall that hid the rest of the Dimona from them.
“Nixon stopped the inspections and agreed to ignore the situation. As a result, Israel increased production. In 1986, there were over two hundred bombs. Today, they may have enough plutonium for ten bombs a year.”
After cheese cake for desert I asked Ms. Thomas what she would advise anyone who wanted to go into the field of journalism and she stated:
“Go for it! It’s the greatest profession in the world because you are always learning and you are aware of the world, so you just might be able to affect change.
“You cannot have a democracy without an informed people.
“Information is everything; it enlarges your intellect and that guides you.
“The job is to follow the truth and report where it leads you!
“Right and wrong is not relative. Empathy is fine but kindness and sympathy do not change the facts and conscience is everything!
“Leaders are suppose to do the right thing and we should back up the president when he does the right thing; but drop him when he doesn’t.
“The WHY is the most important question-not that something happened- but WHY did it happen?
“Somewhere along the way America lost its soul.
“People have to rise up but Americans have become so passive and power overwhelmingly abusive.”
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MASKS OFF: Roberto and Elizabeth Goizueta of Brookline at the Save Venice Masquerade Gala at Locke-Ober in downtown Boston on October 27.
photograph by Bill Brett
| November 18, 2012
GOOD CAUSE: Geoff Why of Watertown, Janelle Chan of Boston, and Nick Chau of Newton at a fund-raiser for the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence held at the State Room in Boston. on October 26.
photograph by Bill Brett
| November 18, 2012
PHYSICS OF PUMPKINS: Students gathered to witness the Boston University Physics Department’s annual pumpkin drop on October 26.
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Addressing mediapersons here, he said the BJP was even willing for the preponement of elections in case the Congress party felt that it would not be feasible to hold elections at higher altitudes of the state in December.
Mr Dhumal said the government's request of postponing of elections on the plea that the school education board had decided to hold examinations from December two to 12 only reflected the ''perturbed mindset'' of the Congress leadership.
Examination dates could always be changed to suit the interests of the students and the people of the state, he said.
The BJP leader the party had lodged a complaint with the EC for getting a few deputy commissioners, SPs and some other key state government officials, who were working as stooges of the ruling party, transferred.
The party was keeping an eye on the officers who were over enthusiastically involved in preparing the Congress manifesto or working towards the postponment of elections, he said.
He cautioned administrativr officers to ensure that free and fair polls in the state and desist from carrying out the agenda of the Congress.
Former minister Parveen Sharma and Kutlehar legislator Virender Kanwar were also present during the conference.
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Irish Barista Champion
Well done to Karl of Coffee Angel for beating the other 11 entrants in yesterdays finals in Dublin.
I think Karl was expected to do well, and good on him for edging out the rest of the competition and making it to Bern. Great to see someone from a very independent establishment do so well, and hopefully it’ll be great for his business.
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Oregon State has never been shy when it comes to recruiting players from all over the country. Athletes from Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio and Illinois have all made their way to Corvallis in recent years as the Beavers continually look to uncover gems. Last week Coach Mike Riley personally offered a speedy Midwest running back who is excited about what the Beavers bring to the table.
St. Louis (Mo.) DeSmet running back Malcolm Agnew is a shifty 5-foot-9, 180 pound back who's highlight reel is impressive. The question on many minds though is 'how did Oregon State find him?'
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(Closed) Sometimes it makes sense
After freaking out for months about things with career and relationship, last night was a moment of clarity.
My job that I had loved dearly moved out of state 3 months ago, and I chose to go back to another less fullfilling position at my company instead of following the job I loved. I did so because of Mr. Tri… He had stated that he wouldn’t EVER move to this location, so I knew that I would have to choose . Pay etc wasn’t a factor in this choice so…it was basically me choosing between career and relationship. I chose relationship. Let me preface this with the fact that I have done this before in a previous relationship that literally blew up on me and sent my life into a complete tailspin and overhaul, so doing this scared me a ton.
For the last 3 months I have been questioning my move a lot… wondering if Mr Tri felt the same way about me as I did him. Half worrying that I was replaying mistakes in my head.
But last night all of the little blocks aligned to make sense of a lot of mixed emotions and worries… all thanks to Mr Tri’s cousin
Mr Tri has been consumed by $$ for about the last 6 months, and I couldn’t quite figure it out, was it a sense of accomplishment was it a feeling of being good enough, I just didn’t get it. He’s been crazy about his debt and his career to the point of annoying on occasion. But now I know why
Last night while at a concert ( his bday present from me) his cousin asked me what the deal was with us and when we were going to get engaged… I danced around the question and decided to use it as ammo for questions later. I needed to put my worries to rest once and for all… they were eating at me…
So last night I got some guts and told him what his cousin asked, and I got the answer of when I have enough money, followed by a joking comment in regards to the fact that he would have to propose with a lifesaver right now…
Although I’d be happy with that or a twist tie, I will wait happily… I know tha the wants to marry me and right now, that is enough.
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"Here's a little mental virus for you: "For reasons that are obscure to me, but not unimaginable, some of my friends call it 'Duck Machine' instead of 'Deus ex Machina'. Among these friends we call it Harry Potter and the Duck Machine, a delightful image. We used to laugh that Star Trek endings so often employed the Duck Machine, that we imagined this ending written into the script for Star Trek episodes:
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MIT Blackjack Team
“The first year I played, we returned 154 percent to our investors. That’s after paying off expenses. You try and do that on Wall Street.” – Jeff Ma, member of the MIT Blackjack Team.
How did a bunch of college kids from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University become the most feared blackjack team on earth in the 1980’s and ’90’s? Individual players on that blackjack card counting squad routinely made $100,000 to $180,000 per session in profits, and Las Vegas treated them like royalty. That is, until they found out these fresh faced blackjack bandits were using an intricate card counting system and confederates to uncover the most favorable circumstances for a big bet. While blackjack card counting itself by using your brain is not illegal, the MIT team which has been the subject of films like the documentary “Breaking Vegas” and the more recent Hollywood production “21” sometimes went above and beyond simply using great math skills, and paid the price. But not until after winning tens of millions of dollars at blackjack and bringing Vegas to its knees.
And if you think the claims above made by Jeff Ma of 154% returns are a little outlandish, they actually started off much better than that. Bill Kaplan is a 1980 Harvard MBA graduate who had run a very successful blackjack team out of Las Vegas in the late 1970’s, and in 1977 used a blackjack card counting strategy to generate a 35X rate of return over a nine-month period (that’s turning $1,000 into $36,000 in 9 months). In 1980, Kaplan headed up a team of MIT and Harvard students that hit Las Vegas using formal management procedures and approaching a blackjack card counting and betting system as a business. On August 1, 1980 that original MIT team began with a stake of $89,000, with player names like Massar, Jonathan, Goose, and Big Dave doubling the original stakes in less than 10 weeks. An investor prospectus had estimated profits of $170 per hour, and actual play delivered realized profits of $162.50 per hour. Mostly undergraduates, the MIT team, as it came to be known, earned across-the-board an average of over $80 an hour while investors enjoyed annualized profits of 250%.
All this while Las Vegas showered the young players with free rooms, lavish suites and other Sin City comps. Andy Bloch, now a professional poker player that holds two electrical engineering degrees from MIT and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School, was one of the MIT blackjack members. He has claimed “tens of millions” of dollars won by his fellow teammates and subsequent team members, and it is hard to argue with that estimate. And all those millions started to draw attention. Henry Houh, at the time a grad student at MIT, noticed his office-mate lugging around thousands of dollars of casino chips at work. Saddled with massive debt, he eagerly joined the card counting team, stating, “It was great fun.” With plenty of “crazy stories” of partying and staying in $1,000 a night suites complements of Las Vegas casinos, Houh also said that the MIT blackjack team was the reason it took him 13 years to finish school.
But these brilliant blackjack brains did not simply decide to get together and then hit Las Vegas. The mysterious Mister M and Kaplan put potential blackjack team candidates through grueling training sessions. A fully trained card counter then had to undergo a “trial by fire” final exam by playing through 8 six-deck shoes without mistakes, all while being lambasted with loud noises, music and other distractions typical to the average casino. Players learned to stagger their betting patterns as to disguise the fact that they were counting cards and waiting for the perfect scenario. They would then make a massive bet when they had an extreme advantage, and while losses naturally occurred, the profits were far greater. Advanced techniques like ace tracking and shuffle tracking were also employed, but John Chang, an MIT undergraduate that joined the team in late 1980, stated that the most consistent profits came from straight blackjack card counting.
Playing throughout the ’80s, and growing to as many as 35 players in 1984, a full 22 different partnerships composed MIT blackjack teams from 1979 through 1989. A total of 70 people played at one time or another in some capacity, either as card counters, “Big Players”, or in other supporting roles. Many times a player would count cards at a blackjack table while placing small bets without wavering his play. When the table was right for the picking, that player would signal someone sitting at a nearby bar or appearing to simply be watching, and that Big Player would swoop into the table for a single large bet, collect and leave. Incredibly enough, every single MIT blackjack team was successful during that tenure, paying in some cases over 300% per year to investors. In 1992 and ’93, MIT blackjack team members Bill Kaplan, J.P. Massar and John Chang formed Strategic Investments as a limited partnership to run the blackjack card counting enterprise. Through the early and mid-90s, the MIT team grew to nearly 80 players, with 30 players playing simultaneously at different casinos around the world. While blackjack teams consistently come and go, the MIT blackjack card counting team of the 1980s and ’90s will always live on in memory as one of the most brash and successful blackjack teams of all-time.
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Networks, Movements and Technopolitics in Latin America
Networks, Movements and Technopolitics in Latin America
Critical Analysis and Current Challenges
Caballero, Francisco Sierra, Gravante, Tommaso (Eds.)
Networks, Movements and Technopolitics in Latin America
About this book:
This edited collection presents original and compelling research about contemporary experiences of Latin American movements and politics in several countries. The book proposes a theoretical framework that conceptualises different mediation processes that emerge between cyberdemocracy and the emancipation practices of new social movements. Additionally, this volume presents some Latin American practices and experiences that are autonomously and by using self-management–creating other identities and social spaces on the margins of and against the neoliberal system through the use of digital technology. This book will be of great interest to scholars of media and social movements studies as well as of contemporary politics.
About the authors:
Francisco Sierra Caballero is President of Unión Latina de Economía Política de la Información, la Comunicación y la Cultura (ULEPICC) and Coordinator of Technopolitics Consortium of European Unión. He is also Professor of Communication Theory and Director of the Interdisciplinary Group of Studies in Communication, Politics and Social Change (COMPOLITICAS) at the University of Seville, Spain.
Tommaso Gravante is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Sciences and Humanities (CEIICH) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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This is one of those “more bang for your buck” meetings. At the September 17 meeting we will have two programs. 1:30-2:45 – Panel on writing mysteries, Rae Cuda and Louse Pelzl 3:00-4:00 – Mike Klaassen presentation “Warped Time: How You Can Manipulate Time in Fiction” –
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The
immune system has the peculiar ability to respond to foreign substances
(or antigens) by producing antibody molecules that bind to these
antigens with extremely high affinity and a remarkable degree of
specificity. In order to achieve this high level of affinity, B cells –
the cells that produce antibodies – must undergo a series of steps that
culminate in the generation of an anatomical structure known as the
germinal center (GC). Within this structure, B cells introduce random
mutations into their antibody genes and, in a process reminiscent of
Darwinian evolution, B cells that have acquired affinity-enhancing
mutations proliferate, and are eventually directed to differentiate
into antibody-producing plasma cells or memory cells that can re-expand
upon future contact with the same antigen.
A germinal center reaction in a lymph node
of an
immunized mouse. It is within this structure that B cells mutate their
antibody genes, in a process that ultimately leads to the generation of
high-affinity antibodies.
It is this process that
allows vaccines to work, and that makes us immune to catching certain
diseases more than once. On the flip side, failures in the GC reaction
can result in the production of high- affinity antibodies against
innocuous substances or even components of one’s own body – leading to
allergies and autoimmune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid
arthritis. Furthermore, when misplaced the mutations introduced during
the GC reaction can cause genetic lesions that may ultimately lead to
lymphomas and other malignancies.
In the Victora lab, we combine
a number of cutting-edge techniques – from the development of novel
mouse models to intravital multiphoton microscopy – to shed light on
the intricacies of the GC reaction and its regulation. For example,
using multiphoton-based geotagging of GC cells in a newly developed
photoactivatable mouse, we have been able to define the cellular and
molecular characteristics of different subpopulations of GC B cells, as
well as their dynamic behavior and its relationship to selection. The
characteristics we defined in mice are now being used in human studies
to better understand the events leading to B cell lymphoma. We believe
that unveiling the molecular mechanisms of the GC reaction will be
essential if we wish to design better vaccines, develop treatments for
allergies and autoimmune diseases, and dissect the molecular basis of
lymphomagenesis.
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Monday, January 30, 2012
Comfort and superficial peace
"It is true that God may have called you to be
exactly where you are. But, it is absolutely vital to grasp that he
didn’t call you there so you could settle in and live your life in
comfort and superficial peace."--Francis Chan
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In Its Time
I am a wife, a mother and a saved-by-grace writer who is learning to rest in the truth that He makes everything beautiful in its time. I write about the One whose timing and ways and plans I do not understand, but who gives joy in the midst of waiting and brings beauty out of ashes.
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For the most part, the Broncos are finished with phase one of free agency.
Getting a newly restructured/reduced contract with pass-rushing defensive end Elvis Dumervil is their final piece of business before owner Pat Bowlen, president Joe Ellis, front-office boss John Elway and coach John Fox take off Sunday for the NFL owners meetings in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Otherwise, the Broncos as they stand now are pretty much tapped out of salary-cap room, according to two NFL sources. They are roughly $50,000 to $52,000 below league-imposed $123 million payroll limit.
This is not a surprise given their furious attack on the open market through the first two days.
Add in the re-signings of special-teams standout David Bruton and starting defensive tackle Kevin Vickerson, plus the franchise tag placed on starting left tackle Ryan Clady, and the Broncos have made $63.5 million worth of financial commitments to eight free-agent players.
Those eight players will be paid a collective $30 million this year.
The Broncos are likely to use the draft to select a running back, probably within the first three rounds. Maybe even in the first round.
They wanted to add a safety to compete with Rahim Moore, Mike Adams and Quinton Carter. Maybe later.
They will have to pick up a No. 3 and No. 4 quarterback by training camp. This team is solid at the first two spots with Peyton Manning, who will turn 37 in 10 days, and Brock Osweiler, who is barely 22.
Otherwise, the Broncos want to make sure they are not left with a gaping hole opposite Von Miller at right end. Dumervil is scheduled to make $12 million this year, after he made $14 million in each of the past two years.
The Broncos want him to take a pay cut to a salary more in line with the adjusted pass-rusher market. Paul Kruger's new deal averaged $8 million a year. He has only 15 ½ sacks in his career. Dumervil had 17 in 2009 alone.
Yet, Cliff Avril had 20 ½ sacks the past two seasons, the number Dumervil has had. He got $7.5 million a year. There is a case that can be argued for both sides.
The Broncos are willing to add back some of their proposed reduction in the form of guaranteed dollars in the later years of Dumervil's contract. His current deal calls for an non-guaranteed $10 million in 2014 and $8 million in 2015.
In some ways, the Broncos and Dumervil's agent Marty Magid are not far apart. In other ways, they are not close. The Broncos have a backup plan if they can't work out a deal with Dumervil by Friday, the day before his $12 million salary would become fully guaranteed. Dwight Freeney is one possibility, but there are other defensive-end candidates the Broncos would consider.
Missy Franklin, Jenny Simpson, Adeline Gray and three other Colorado women could be big players at the 2016 Rio OlympicsWhen people ask Missy Franklin for her thoughts about the Summer Olympics that will begin a year from Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro, she hangs a warning label on her answer.
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I'm not exactly sue how the whole familiar movement thing goes, but we have always played that if you move the familiar can move along with you. But now I am getting zephyr boots and I wanted to know if my floating weapon familiar can fly along with me. Also I have a winged shield, will hat float up with me also?
if your fam is on passive mode it is part of you can goes where u go. But if it is active it only moves when you move it via a move action (so moves instead of you) and it moves based on its move speed and type.
That doens't make any sense. If a familiar can't be more than so many squares from you that would mean you would have to walk only every other round, essentially half speed in order for it to keep up.
It may not make sense but it's the rules. There is a feat that specifically allows your active familiar to move when you take a move action named Active Familiar. There is also another feat that lets you move your familiar with a minor action 1/turn, Quick Familiar. So without those, either you move, or your familiar moves, but not both. On a side note, "keeping up" isn't really a concern because for overland movement you can just put it in passive mode to stay with you, and in combat it's unlikely for the range to be an issue.
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It’s hard to get into the world of the Internet of Things (IoT) without eventually talking about Digital Twins. I was first exposed to the concept of Digital Twins when working with GE. Great concept. But are Digital Twins only relevant to physical machines such as wind turbines, jet engines, and locomotives? What can we learn about the concept of digital twins that we can apply more broadly – to other physical entities (like contracts and agreements) and even humans?
What Is a Digital Twin?A Digital Twin is a digital representation of an industrial asset that enables companies to better understand and predict the performance of their machines, find new revenue streams, and change the way their business operates[1].
GE uses the concept of Digital Twins to create a digital replica of their physical product (e.g., wind turbine, jet engine, locomotive) that captures the asset’s detailed history (from design to build to maintenance to retirement/salvage) that can be mined to provide actionable insights into the product’s operations, maintenance and performance.
The Digital Twin concept seems to work for any entity around which there is ongoing activity or “life”; that is, there is a continuous flow of new information about that entity that can constantly update the condition or “state” of that entity.
The Digital Twin concept is so powerful that it would be a shame to not apply the concept beyond just physical products. So let’s try to apply the Digital Twin concept to another type of common physical entity – contracts or agreements.
Applying Digital Twins to ContractsMany contracts and agreements have a life of their own; they are not just static entities. Many contracts (e.g., warranties, health insurance, automobile insurance, car rental agreements, construction contracts, apartment rental agreements, leasing agreements, personal loans, line of credit, maintenance contracts) once established, have a stream of ongoing interactions, changes, enhancements, additions, enforcements and filings. In fact, the very process of establishing a contract can constitute many interactions with exchanges of information (negotiations) that shape the coverage, agreement, responsibilities and expectations of the contract.
Let’s take a simple home insurance contract. Once the contract is established, there is a steady stream of interactions and enhancements to that contract including:
Payments
Addendums
Claims filings
Changes in terms and conditions
Changes in coverage
Changes in deductibles
Each of these engagements changes the nature of the contract including its value and potential liabilities. The insurance contract looks like a Digital Twin of the physical property for which it insures given the cumulative history of the interactions with and around that contract.
Expanding upon the house insurance contract as a living entity, the insurance company might want to gather other data about the property in order to increase the value of the contract while reducing the contract’s risks, liabilities and obligations. Other data sources that the insurance company might want to integrate with the house insurance contract could include:
Changes in the value of the home (as measured by Zillow and others)
Changes in the value of the nearby homes
Changes in local crime
Changes in local traffic
Changes in the credentials and quality of local schools
Quality of nearby parks
Changes in zoning (the value and liabilities of a house could change if someone constructs a mall nearby)
Changes in utilities (a house with lots of grass might not be as attractive as the price of water starts to increase)
If the goal of the insurance company holding the home insurance policy is to 1) maximize the value of that policy while 2) reducing any potential costs, liabilities and obligations, then creating a Digital Twin via a home insurance contract seems like a smart economic move.
Applying Digital Twins to Humans“Big Data is not about big data; it’s about getting down to the individual!”
One of the keys to data monetization is to understand the behaviors and tendencies of each individual including consumers, students, teachers, patients, doctors, nurses, engineers, technicians, agents, brokers, store managers, baristas, clerks, and athletes. In order to better serve your customers, you need to capture and quantify each individual customer’s preferences, behaviors, tendencies, inclinations, interests, passions, associations and affiliations in the form of actionable insights (such as propensity scores). See Figure 3.
Figure 3: Big Data About Insights at Level of the Individual
These actionable insights can be captured in an Analytic Profile for re-use across a number of use cases including customer acquisition, retention, cross-sell/up-selling, fraud reduction, money laundering, advocacy development and likelihood to recommend (see Figure 3).
SummaryGE uses the concept of Digital Twins to create a digital replica of a physical product that captures the asset’s detailed history (from design to build to maintenance to retirement/salvage) that can be mined to provide actionable insights into the product’s operations, maintenance and performance.
That same Digital Twins concept can be applied to contracts and agreements in order to increase the value of those contracts while minimizing any potential risks and liabilities. And the Digital Twins concept can also be applied to humans in order to better monetize the individual human (customers) across the organization’s value creation process.
As a CTO within Dell EMC’s 2,000+ person consulting organization, he works with organizations to identify where and how to start their big data journeys. He’s written white papers, is an avid blogger and is a frequent speaker on the use of Big Data and data science to power an organization’s key business initiatives. He is a University of San Francisco School of Management (SOM) Executive Fellow where he teaches the “Big Data MBA” course. Bill also just completed a research paper on “Determining The Economic Value of Data”. Onalytica recently ranked Bill as #4 Big Data Influencer worldwide.
Bill has over three decades of experience in data warehousing, BI and analytics. Bill authored the Vision Workshop methodology that links an organization’s strategic business initiatives with their supporting data and analytic requirements. Bill serves on the City of San Jose’s Technology Innovation Board, and on the faculties of The Data Warehouse Institute and Strata.
Previously, Bill was vice president of Analytics at Yahoo where he was responsible for the development of Yahoo’s Advertiser and Website analytics products, including the delivery of “actionable insights” through a holistic user experience. Before that, Bill oversaw the Analytic Applications business unit at Business Objects, including the development, marketing and sales of their industry-defining analytic applications.
Bill holds a Masters Business Administration from University of Iowa and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics, Computer Science and Business Administration from Coe College.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it. Major AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents," where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions which maximize its chances of success. John McCarthy, who coined the term in 1956,defines it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines." The field was founded on the claim that a central property of human beings, intelligence—the sapience of Homo sapiens—can be so precisely described that it can be simulated by a machine.
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“It’s a simple idea that looks really wacky,” Jordan admits. “But it does have a sound basis in animal behavior theory.”
The question is whether lions can be fooled by this same trick. Jordan suspects that they can, especially since lions tend to stalk their prey, and only pounce when an unsuspecting antelope or cow lets down its guard. “Lions are supreme ambush predators—they rely on stealth,” Jordan says in the video. “When seen, they lose this element of surprise and abandon their hunt.” In theory, farmers could protect their cattle by, you guessed it, painting eyes on the cows’ butts so that even when their backs are turned, they appear to be staring at the lions.
With their butts.
At least one small-scale study has already shown promising results.
Dr Jordan’s idea of painting eyes onto cattle rumps came about after two lionesses were killed near the village in Botswana where he was based. While watching a lion hunt an impala, he noticed something interesting: “Lions are ambush hunters, so they creep up on their prey, get close and jump on them unseen. But in this case, the impala noticed the lion. And when the lion realized it had been spotted, it gave up on the hunt,” he says.
In nature, being ‘seen’ can deter predation. For example, patterns resembling eyes on butterfly wings are known to deter birds. In India, woodcutters in the forest have long worn masks on the back of their heads to ward-off man-eating tigers.
Jordan’s idea was to “hijack this mechanism” of psychological trickery. Last year, he collaborated with the BPCT and a local farmer to trial the innovative strategy, which he’s dubbed “iCow”.
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“If the police are once again made to do political work, the leadership will doubtless fail again. The police institution must be larger than the government or any other entity,” Riyaz advised the hundreds of serving officers in attendance.
Riyaz – appointed after the controversial transfer of power in February 2012 – stated that his plans to move into a political career are in order to build trust in this area too.
“The police must not be seen to be an institution that just protects the government. The police is an institution that serves all citizens and implements lawful orders and norms. We have to be answerable to the government. We have to be accountable to the parliament”.
Riyaz stated that, when he had assumed responsibilities of the police commissioner on the night of February 8, 2012, the police leadership of the time had “failed and hence, people’s perceptions of the police had completely changed”.
He asserted that one of his first objectives after assuming the post was to ensure that the police was freed from all external influences and went back to working independently and professionally.
Riyaz further stated that police had remained steadfast in the face of wrongful allegations and perceptions of their work, while emphasizing that during his time as commissioner he had “never made a decision or issued an order with the intention of inflicting harm or harassment to any specific individual”.
“When Amnesty International released a report with false statements against us, I personally made a phone call to their president. In response to every one of these statements, we sent a statement clarifying the truth of the matter.”
“When I first took up the post, I was reluctant to even claim my pay as there was so much murder being committed. However, due to the work done unitedly, god willing we haven’t seen a major death this year,” Riyaz said.
February, 2012
Riyaz spoke in detail about his role in the controversial transfer of power on February 7, 2012.
The retired commissioner – who had at the time been relieved of his duties as a police officer – stated on Monday night that he had gone there on the day with “good intentions because [he] could not bear to sit home and watch the situation the police and soldiers were in”.
He added that he had contacted both the current Defence Minister Mohamed Nazim and former Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Mohamed Fayaz via phone prior to going there.
Stating that he had prioritized national interest above all, Riyaz claimed that he had accepted the post of police commissioner because his country needed him.
“Police were desiring a leadership that would not issue unlawful orders. Many asked me why I was going back to this institution, including my wife. But I decided that I cannot turn my back to the nation at the time it needed me most.”
Riyaz ended his speech by “seeking forgiveness from any police officer of citizen I may have inconvenienced during my time as commissioner of police”.
“Although I am leaving behind life as a police officer and entering politics, I will always defend this institution. There is no institution I can love as much as I do the police.”
He added that Vice Presidentv Dr Mohamed Jameel Ahmed had been the first to advise him to enter the political arena.
Appreciation from the state
“The happiest day that I have come across so far is the day when a new president was elected on November 16, the second round of the presidential election. What made me happiest about it is that we were assured that a government has been established which will not undermine or disrespect important state institutions like the police, the military, the judiciary and other entities,” he said.
“And that this is a government which will protect the religious unity of this nation and ensure that expensive state assets are not sold out to foreign companies,” he continued.
“The fact that Maldivian citizens voted in a Jumhooree Party and Progressive Party of Maldives government proves that the events that happened on February 7 [2012] was not a coup d’etat,” he stated.
Other speakers at the event, including Vice President Jameel, Home Minister Umar Naseer and current Police Commissioner Hussain Waheed commended Riyaz for his work.
Home Minister Umar described Riyaz as an assertive and sharp-minded officer who had brought commendable development to the institution.
Current Commissioner of Police Hussain Waheed stated that Riyaz had stood up to defend the police institution even when faced with “immense pressure, criticism and threats against [police officers’] families”.
“Even as police were referred to with various hateful names, and even some officers’ lives were taken, our brother Riyaz was working tirelessly in our defence.”
There used to be an old British Sit Com, 'It ain't half hot mum', the theme tune was, 'the boys to entertain you'. A bit like The Maldives now, all very entertaining, except of course if you support the MDP.
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Pension Zandvoort
About us
Welcome to pension zandvoort in the Netherlands (europe)We offer several beautiful rooms against attractive prices.The beautifull rooms are in the centre of zandvoort and only 100 meters of the beach.The distance to Amsterdam is 28 km, haarlem 8 km, schiphol(airport) 16 km.It is a pleasure to relax at the beach and in the evening to the casino and afterwards to the sparkling nightlife.
The prices of the rooms:25 euro till 30 euro pppn
We have completely furnished rooms with a waterboiler, coffeemachine and with the usual equipment of the kitchen.
All rooms are equiped with a color tv(cable), refrigerator, safe and including towels.Unfortunately pets are not allowed.
Mail or call us for more information and the availability.We will respond your request in 36 hours.
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Pharmacokinetics and Indications: Stanozolol is a synthetic anabolic steroid approved by FDA for human use. It is derived from testosterone. Stanozolol has large oral bioavailability because it survives through liver metabolism and therefore available in tablet form. It does not produce estrogen as end product. Stanozolol is popular in female bodybuilders because of its large anabolic effect and weak androgenic effects; however virilisation and masculinization are most common side effects. Stanozolol is banned from use in sports competitions by IAAF and many other sporting bodies. Stanozolol is popular in bodybuilders because of its anabolic effects also because it tends to retain lean body mass without any water retention and weight gain. Stanazolol is also thought to be a fat burning drug, however there is very little evidence supporting this. It is used by bodybuilders for anabolic effects to enhance the masculine appearance. Clinically it has been used to treat anemia and hereditary angioedema in humans with remarkable success and is very popular among most of the physicians. In veterinary it has been used in weak animals to increase body mass, improve blood counts and appetite. Stanozolol has also been used in horse racing to give a metabolic assist during the preparation of the competition. Stanozolol is normally presented as 5 mg tablets. The dosage is 10-25 mg/day with optimal results at 50 mg/day.
Possible Side Effects: The effects of this drug are not permanent and only last as long as one keeps taking it in regular dosage. As soon as the intake stops body mass decreases rapidly. Possible side effects of Stanozolol are insomnia, depression, jaundice which can be serious, nausea and vomiting, gynocomastia, male pattern baldness and deepening of voice.
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