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After boasting last month that it had joined the "nuclear club" by successfully enriching uranium on an industrial scale — and portraying its action as irreversible — Iran appears to have slowed its drive to produce nuclear fuel, according to European diplomats who have reviewed reports from inspectors inside the country.
The diplomats say the slowdown may be part of a deliberate Iranian strategy to lower the temperature of its standoff with the West over its nuclear program, and perhaps to create an opening for Washington to join the negotiations directly — something President Bush has so far refused to do.
In discussions with White House and State Department officials in recent days, Europeans have described the inspectors' findings, clearly hoping to influence a debate within the Bush administration over whether to change strategy and engage directly with Iran. But hard-liners in the administration say they are unconvinced and think any slowdown may be merely a tactical ploy by the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "It could simply mean we're not looking in the right places," said one senior official with access to the intelligence and who has long suspected that Iran has a secret weapons program.
Nuclear experts, accustomed to measuring the efficiency of uranium centrifuges rather than of diplomatic initiatives, caution, too, that the slowdown may mean that Iran has run into technical obstacles on its nuclear road. Centrifuges are machines whose rotors spin extraordinarily fast to enrich, or concentrate, uranium into material that can fuel nuclear reactors or atom bombs.
Diplomats, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the topic's political delicacy, say that Iranian engineers stopped pouring a raw form of uranium, called UF6, into arrays of centrifuges after just 12 days, even as the nation erupted in celebrations of the enrichment feat. The reports, which have now been widely circulated, say the Iranians kept the empty centrifuges spinning, as is standard practice because slowing the delicate machines can cause them to wobble and crash.Continue reading the main story
Understanding why the enrichment run was so short — and why Iran has failed to put more centrifuges into operation — are the newest mysteries about its program.
"The pace is more diplomatic than technical," said a senior European diplomat who monitors the Iranian program, and who has told the Bush administration that he believes the slowdown could be a signal. "They could probably have gone faster. But they don't want to provoke."
But they also do not want to stop, and that is the crux of the standoff.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reaffirmed in a meeting with Parliament members yesterday that Iran would not back down in the face of Western pressure over its nuclear program.
"The young Iranian engineers, with their success in nuclear technology, have in fact guaranteed the long-term energy future for the country," Ayatollah Khamenei said, the Iranian Student News Agency reported. "We must not give up this achievement at any price, because retreat is a 100 percent loss."
As Ayatollah Khamenei was meeting with members of Parliament, the secretary of the Russian National Security Council, Igor S. Ivanov, held a three-hour meeting with Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani. Officials in Tehran said that the two were discussing the prospect of conducting uranium enrichment in Russia, and that Mr. Ivanov was pushing Iran to accept a European proposal of economic aid in return for ending its enrichment program.
Meanwhile, President Bush and his advisers have maintained that no negotiations can resume between Europe and Iran "while one centrifuge spins" in the country. "Once they master the technology, it would be easier for them to go underground with a covert program," Greg Schulte, the American ambassador to the atomic energy agency, said in Washington last week. "They appear to be moving forward very methodically to develop that knowledge."
So far, Britain and France have held to the same view, though German officials have begun to argue that allowing a low level of Iranian enrichment activity — essentially, allowing the Iranians to maintain their current activity — is harmless. "They've cracked the code," one senior German official said last week. "We're kidding ourselves if we think we are going to deny them the knowledge" of how to produce nuclear fuel.
Whether Tehran and Washington can find any face-saving middle ground could depend on how quickly the Iranians move toward, or delay, what they say is the next phase: building new centrifuges, with the aim of installing nearly 1,000 by the end of this year.
If the Iranians were racing forward, experts say, they would have made substantial progress in installing those centrifuges. But they have not. One senior European diplomat said such delays could reflect a decision to pause for scientific evaluation as well as a diplomatic effort "not to rock the boat."
The action, or lack of it, centers on the desert south of Tehran, where Iran has built a sprawling industrial site near the city of Natanz that includes a pilot enrichment plant.
It was there, on April 11, that the Iranians announced that they had enriched uranium to the low levels needed to fuel a nuclear reactor. They depicted the achievement as just the start of a sprint. "Our young scientists are working day and night," Gholamreza Aghazadeh, who is in charge of Iran's Atomic Energy Agency, told an Iranian television interviewer the next day. "People are shocked and surprised that this has happened so quickly."
Then, on April 28 in Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that the Iranians were assembling two more cascades, or strings of centrifuges, each consisting of 164 machines. On May 17, David Albright, the president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a research group in Washington that tracks the Iranian program, told Congress that those cascades were expected to start operating in May and June, respectively.
But in an interview last week, a diplomat close to the international watchdog agencies disclosed that the atomic agency would report soon that the Iranians had made little progress on the new cascades.
That would be a setback, at least as measured by Iran's declared intentions. It has said the pilot plant is to hold a total of six cascades made up of 984 centrifuges — a goal nuclear analysts expected Iran to achieve later this year. They see that as roughly the minimum number of centrifuges Iran would need to enrich enough uranium to make a single bomb. Analysts say that if the complicated plant worked reliably and efficiently, and if Tehran decided to throw out the inspectors and abandon its obligations under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, using the cascades to make fuel for a nuclear weapon would take a little more than two years.
The assessments of Iran's progress, however, are hampered because Tehran has curtailed its cooperation with nuclear inspectors and sharply limited their ability to follow their hunches around the country. The inspectors still have a legal right under the nonproliferation treaty to track radioactive materials and their manipulation, giving them a window into the pilot plant at Natanz. But they cannot look at other buildings, and the Iranians have barred them from monitoring the manufacturing of centrifuges.
Even peering through the keyhole, the International Atomic Energy Agency's findings and Tehran's own statements have combined to raise questions about its claims of irreversible breakthroughs in developing indigenous nuclear technology.
For instance, the inspectors found that Iran in the first enrichment campaign used not only its own raw uranium but material it had imported from China. Its domestic supplies are reportedly laced with impurities that can reduce the efficiency of delicate centrifuges or cut their lives short.
In addition, the centrifuges that Iran is running appear to be inefficient. Mr. Aghazadeh's remarks after the announcement last month contained detailed information on the rate at which Iran's centrifuges had enriched uranium, allowing Western experts to calculate their efficiency. While the cascade worked, "It didn't operate well," Mr. Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security said in an interview, echoing his May 17 Congressional testimony.
But a European nuclear expert who closely monitors the atomic energy agency's work said that such low efficiencies were characteristic of initial centrifuge efforts, and that the Iranians would undoubtedly improve their record as they gained experience.
Over all, the first diplomat said, the Iranians, despite start-up problems, had clearly pushed enrichment into the industrial phase, confronting the world with a strengthened nuclear agenda. "They crossed the Rubicon in terms of having the basic knowledge," he said. "And that has changed the dynamic."Continue reading the main story


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Red Bay Coffee is a wholesale specialty coffee roasting company based in Oakland, California. Our team is building a global community through our commitment to producing high quality, organic, sustainable, and fair trade coffees. Every day we strive to roast excellent coffee, provide outstanding service, and implement a social mission committed to inclusion and diversity.
Q. What inspired you to start your business?
Every day we strive to develop beautiful coffees, fair relations, and delicious approaches to living. We focus on creating opportunities within the community at large while fostering single origin, fair trade, direct trade, organic and sustainable coffees.
Q. Tell us in one sentence why your customers love your business?
We serve Beautiful Coffee to the People.
Q. What's the best thing about doing business in Oakland?
At Red Bay, we're building a community where our employees and customers are reflective of the global coffee culture and the City of Oakland. We come from all walks of life—food heads, artists, community folk, and innovators.
Q. What are some of your favorite local businesses in Oakland?
Kosa Arts
Mamacita's Cafe
Impact Hub Oakland
Donut Savant
Beauty's Bagel Shop
Kingston 11
Two Jacks Denim
Q. What's the one thing Oakland offers that you couldn't live without?
The Lake, the Hills, and walking trails and the diversity of the people.

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Break a rule and you just break a rule; contravene a value and you let down your team mates. #values #culture #peepsly
Mashing up software thinking and People & Culture
There's this game that I love to play called "the mashup game".
Basically you take two unrelated things and mash them up together to give you something new. So for example if I mash up a daffodil with a cat; then I might get a cat that when it does its business in the garden, a daffodil will grow 🙂
This is a great game to play with your kids or over a glass of wine of an evening; however it also has big implications in business.
Every organisation has areas of excellence and specialty, for example an ad agency will have creative know how, a manufacturing firm will know all about precision, or a project mangement company will be experts at organising many moving parts and deadlines.
As People and Culture professionals working within these companies, its vital that we "mash up" what we do with what we can learn from various functional experts within the company. At Vend, I get a lot of inspiration from my marketing, business analytics and engineering colleagues.
All of this has led to me, unwittingly really, developing a software or agile thinking approach to doing People and Culture stuff. I wanted to share how I do this so you might take some inspiration, especially if you don't have engineering peeps in your organisation to model. Please note that I am no expert at agile thinking and I'm sure the agile purists will find lots of holes in my reasoning – so if you're an agile purist – stop reading now 🙂
Iterative thinking and MVP
There's this picture in the ladies bathroom at Vend – it has a panel at the top with a tick, and a panel at the bottom with a cross.
In the top panel it denotes an MVP (minimum viable product) which in this case is a skateboard; then it has the next iteration, which is a scooter, then the next iteration which is a motorbike and then finally the last iteration which is a car.
The bottom panel – the undesirable one, marked with a cross – shows stage 1 of the car which is the wheels and axle; then onto stage 2, which is adding the chassis, then stage 3, adding the motor and body, and then finally stage 4, adding the doors and windows, a fully functioning car.
When you're building software, you want to create your MVP, test it, learn, refine and then get your next iteration out the door. You want iterative thinking. This way you can constantly check in, ensuring that you're on the right track. The stakes in building a beautiful product step by step without testing it along the way are huge – in terms of lost time, dollars and missed opportunities.
We can do this same type of thinking in People and Culture – instead of working on a project for months with no testing, figure out what your MVP is and get it out there, test it, learn (which may mean making a big mistake), review and change if necessary. Then rinse and repeat.
Fail Fast
Very closely aligned to iterating is that failing fast is a good thing. Basically test what you're working on regularly and be prepared for it to fail. Be prepared to try another approach, to reevalute what the problem is, to go back to the drawing board. It helps of course if you can figure out what success looks like at each stage so that you can objectively check in to ensure you're on the right path. I don't need to tell you that biases exist so if you can have a predefined measure of success and be honest when assessing against it, you can get your ego out of it, and make the call.
Use Data (but don't forget your intuition)
At Vend we have a love affair with data. And because we're a SAAS company we have data coming out of our ears. So we use data to make decisions. Of course some data is easier to capture, analyse and interpret than others; and in general People and Culture data is a lot harder to use than sales data, marketing data, customer data, etc. But it can be done.
Of course we all know about the main data points – engagement surveys, regrettable turnover, length of service, sick leave, internal promotions, L&D spend, etc. But for each project you're working on, you can probably find other data as well. So for example in the leadership programme at Vend, we track participation and satisfaction rates, as well as certain markers within the engagement survey.
All this talk about data is one thing, but also remember to touch base with your intuition. If data and intuition are on a spectrum, then as People and Culture Professionals we need to be able to move up and down that spectrum at any given time, and remember that sometimes the data will send us in the wrong direction; and sometimes our intuition does fail us. So its a balancing act of both things.
Retrospectives and Post Mortems
Within software, retrospectives are very common. They might happen once per sprint, once per month and also once per year, etc. A retrospective is basically a time to look back over what has gone well and what hasn't in that period of time. Often it is based around a couple of questions, being: What did we do? What went well? What didn't go well? Its a chance to check in with your objectives for that time and see how you went meeting them. If necessary you can tweak the system so that you increase the chances of hitting your goals for the next period. Oftentimes questions will be asked like "What should we stop doing? What should we start doing? What should we do more of? What should we do less of?"
A post mortem is held when something goes wrong. Its aim is to get to the bottom of the issue. A really easy way to do this is by asking the "Five Whys". Essentially whatever has gone wrong, you ask Why? And then to the answer of the first Why you ask another Why, and so on and so forth. If you find something in there that is a big issue, then put it to one side and do five whys on that one thing after you've finished the first exercise. This is a great way to get to the fundamental systemic things that may be causing problems.
Also note that a post mortem in a software company is normally held very quickly after the problem has surfaced, so haste is important.
Lean Process
At Vend we love lean process. We don't like bureaucracy and try to ensure that we don't inadvertently sprout one. Of course this can be challenging within People and Culture, because some of what we do is compliance, and as such, there are processes that need to be in place.
And I have found it to be true in my career, that often People and Culture people loooove process, even sometimes if it's to the detriment of company culture and overall efficiency. So ask yourself before you're about to email out a 20 box checklist, or get overly prescriptive on job interviews, 1:1s or anything else, how is this process helping the business succeed? And notice there the focus on the business. As People and Culture people we are there to help the business succeed and help its people thrive. If what you're about to do is simply to feather your own nest, or make you feel like you're doing a great P&C job even if the business don't need it, then stop at once, and go back to the thinking about MVP.
These are some of the things that I have learnt from doing People & Culture in a software environment. I'd love to hear from people who do People & Culture stuff in other industries and what you have learnt from your functional experts that you bring into your work.
Six key takeouts from Wisdom 2.0 conference
We've never lived in a busier or more connected time. It's easy to think that the key to thriving is to do more, but the answer lies in acting and thinking smarter. Advances in neuroscience are now proving that many traditional "wisdom" practices are indeed effective in living a more purposeful, balanced and successful personal and work life.
The Wisdom 2.0 event www.wisdom2summit.com, founded by author Soren Gordhamer in 2010, explores the place of these traditional practices in our modern age. Attendees are always a unique mix of founders from the likes of LinkedIn, eBay and Paypal, execs from Google and Facebook, and experts in happiness, mindfulness and meditation, including a handful of curious Kiwis hoping to learn how to Downward Dog alongside Mark Zuckerberg!
Here's our key takeouts:
- Leadership by joining in
Jef Weiner @jeffweiner and Fred Kofman, LinkedIn
Leadership is inspiring others to follow you to achieve shared objectives. Clarify your vision (which mountain to climb), find your courage to overcome adversity, and then effectively communicate this vision. Fred shared his analogy for Jeff's leadership: "It isn't Jeff rowing a boat and getting everyone rowing in the same direction, but catching a huge maverick wave on a surfboard and inspiring others to want to do the same." Once you've got vision, courage and resilience sorted, just choose the right objective and surround yourself with the best talent.
- Fear of missing out (FOMO) drives success
Julia Hartz, Eventbrite @juliahartz
One in two people experience FOMO (fear of missing out) and this is driving spending around experiences and live events. Take Coachella Music Festival, for instance: When they decided to livestream this famous event, there were no shortage of detractors telling them their idea was business suicide and a license to lose money. They did it anyway, and FOMO led to an explosion in their ticket sales. Lets face it, there's nothing surer to bring on FOMO than watching from your sofa the fun had by people like you. How can you utilise FOMO to drive success?
- Achieving more by doing less
Christine Carter, Happiness Expert @raisinghappiness
Our brains are not computers designed to run multiple apps. The myth of multitasking is well and truly dead and buried – instead of multitasking our brains simply switch attention rapidly from one thing to another. This creates less productivity.
Become more productive by single tasking:
- Allow yourself to focus on one thing at a time. This avoids cognitive overload that hinders productivity, emotional regulation and decision making.
- Find the minimum effective dose. For example, how little time can you spend on your email and still be effective; or on social media and still be connected?
- Our brains benefit when we daydream. This allows us to access creative insight, which helps us make those big breakthroughs – anyone who has their best ideas in the shower instinctively knows this!
As Socrates said "beware the banality of a busy life".
- Food for thought
Byron Katie, Author http://thework.com
We are who we are because of our thoughts – these dictate our actions, our decisions, our beliefs. Some of our thoughts are working for us, and lets face it, some of them simply are not. The work of Byron Katie is a way of identifying and questioning the thoughts that cause our unhappiness. She believes taking your "wild child" thoughts and putting them on the paper allows you to hold them still long enough so you can undo them. Katie advocates getting very still and looking for the barely there thoughts – like the princess and the pea, you know something is there, it may be tiny, but there is something there. Once you have your thoughts written down comes the real work, by asking the four questions below you can start to shift your beliefs and therefore the way you experience the world.
- Is your thought true? (No move to Q3)
- Are you sure? (Yes or No)
- How do you react? (What happens when you believe that thought?)
- What would you feel without that thought?
- Success follows passion
Brandon Stanton, Humans of New York http://www.humansofnewyork.com
Most of us have many voices in our ear telling us what we should do, and lets face it, living a conventional life is often the path of least resistance. What Brandon and others attest to however is the success and satisfaction that is available to those who are prepared to follow their passion. For Brandon this was a commitment to photography – simply for the joy of it – that has subsequently led to the wildly successful Humans of New York. There is a choice available to each of us – to watch from the sidelines in envy at those who follow their passion in life; or take the first steps towards doing this ourselves. What small decision can you take today to move you closer to your desired life?
- It's all about people
Simon D'Arcy, NextLevel Culture, www.nextlevelculture.com
An organisation's success depends on its people. And how those people behave at work depends on the organisational culture – or simply put 'how we do things around here'. Influence the culture and therefore the organisation's success by following these six steps.
- Reveal what your default culture is and what it's costing.
- Design a Culture Code that's values-based, behaviourally-explicit and an expression of your highest possibilities.
- Activate a shared context of "culture as a daily practice". Provide training for common language and behaviours.
- Embed your Culture Code through the organisation
- Amplify by finding the people already demonstrating the code and encourage and amplify their efforts.
- Iterate by tracking leading and lagging indicators to measure progress and continuously improve.
Life is busy and multifaceted, but success and happiness often lie in utilising the quiet moments – when we can take some time for daydreaming, to identify our passion, to extend our view from the detail to the vision. Why not challenge yourself today to take something that resonates with you and think on it. It could be the start of something beautiful.
Some of the full talks can still be viewed online http://wisdom2conference.com/livestream. And who knows, maybe we'll see you in that yoga class next year?
Mel Rowsell is Head of growing leadership & culture at Vend. She blogs athttps://thegreatdeveloper.wordpress.com/ @melrowsell
Kath Knight is founder of Geyser, a B-2-E (employee) communication agencywww.geysercreative.co.nz
See the original blog post here: http://blog.marketing.org.nz/2015/03/17/two-kiwis-pick-six-tricks-from-wisdom-2-0-conference/?utm_source=ET&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=weekly170315
Hire smart people and let them get on with it
Recently I had the pleasure of writing a blog post about how Vend has scaled its company culture across countries, continents and time zones.
I'll be writing more about this in future, but for now here is the link. If you have any specific questions that you're interested in me exploring, let me know 🙂
Three ways to integrate wisdom into your HR practice
For busy HR professionals balancing the demands of an organisation, professional development, and life outside of work, it can be difficult to find new inspiration.
From a recent deep dive into the wisdom movement thanks to the Wisdom 2.0 conference in San Francisco, here are three pointers that I hope can add some fresh food for thought into your HR practice.
1. The small things are the big things
Its very easy to get lost in strategy documents, employment negotiations, long range planning or the detail of administrative work. Its so easy to lose sight of the important things you can do to add value to your organisation – often times these are in the simple gestures and words that someone in your position can use to convey a warmth and inclusiveness vital to organisational engagement and hence productivity. Connecting with people in real ways frequently, taking the time to soften the tone of an email, spending that extra 15 minutes coaching vs directing someone on a work related problem, stopping the voice in your head in order to really listen to someone, and taking the time to drink in a small win. These are the small things from which other bigger things are borne.
2. Follow your passion
Time and time again I heard at Wisdom 2.0 of people doing amazing things. None of it was borne from a desire to make money or gain fame or notoriety. It was wholly about pursuing a passion. For example take Brandon, the guy behind Humans of New York, he had no idea how it would all end up, but just needed to follow his passion of photography. To be truly engaged and successful in the fullest sense of the word, dig deep and reflect on your passion, and how you can bring this to your work. Once you have done this for yourself, you are in a better position to do it for others. Furthermore, to act as a role model in your organisation, being authentically you, sends a strong signal that will enable others to follow your lead.
3. Embrace the whole
Every situation has an upside and a downside, every person has strengths and weaknesses, every project has pros and cons, every day has good bits and bad bits. One of the enduring memories of any visit to San Francisco is the sheer inclusiveness – sure its not without its problems – but as a whole San Francisco is a very inclusive, liberal place, that doesn't shy away from hiding its less attractive parts. Likewise, I think it pays to embrace the bits of yourself or others that you're frankly not that fond of. We all have bits of us that we prefer to hide away but if we can embrace all of ourselves for what we are, this helps us do a better job, by an honest reflection and discussion of our strengths and weaknesses. If you're having a bad day, then embrace the bad bits too, or the bits of a project that didn't go well. This allows us to learn and grow, and ultimately become better at what we do.
Lets face it, life is busy and work can be very demanding. By taking time to attend to the small things; identify and follow your passion; and embrace the whole, you can find new perspective, energy and ultimately perform better at work.
Wisdom 2.0 Day 3
Well, day 3 culminated in me taking the stage in front of a good 1000 or more people declaring my intention to bring the wisdom movement to NZ. So there was that. And in the funny way that life works, less than five steps off the stage I met with the lovely Kath Knight who shares this passion. Thanks universe 🙂
But what about before that? What happened on Day 3?
The day started with a moving call to action from Roshi Joan Halifax.
"Compassion as the Radicalisation of our Time"
She talked about the growing need for compassion in the world. She talked about how compassion
- primes our wellbeing and resilience
- makes us happy when we help others
- lowers inflammation and boosts immunity
- improves longevity and decreases stress
The secret sauce to compassion she said is connectedness and relatedness. And this is a problem in our increasing digital age. She drew the distinction between compassion and empathy. Empathy is a cognitive and emotional construct, however compassion requires more – feeling concern and desiring to reduce the suffering of others.
She has come up with a movement called GRACE.
- G – Gathering Attention
- R – Recalling intention
- A – Attuning to oneself and to others
- C – Considering what will serve others
- E – Engaging and ending.
She finished up with the strong message – disrupt complacency, engage compassion. So we don't get mass destruction from mass distraction.
Wisdom Movement – Thriving Together
Next up was the People's Stage instalment of Wisdom Movement. This is a movement recently started by Monique Martineau seeking to build a wisdom community all year round, not just when the wisdom conferences happen. The highlight of the talk for me was the exploration of polarities, adapted from the work of Polarity Partnerships. Anna McGrath and Margaret Ryan presented this part.
They talked about polarities as being quite different from having a problem to solve – because solving a problem is not ongoing, there is an endpoint and they're solvable. There are independent alternatives and often contain mutually exclusive opposites e.g. Shall I paint the wall yellow or blue, shall we hire Fred, what questions shall we ask in our engagement survey?
Whereas if you look at it in the terms of polarities to leverage its quite different. These are ongoing, there is no endpoint and they are not solvable – they must be leveraged together. So there are interdependent alternatives and always contain mutually inclusive opposites, e.g. Cost and Quality; Authenticity and Kindness. The one that really spoke to me was the example we explored in the session which was Achieving on one side and Grounded Calm on the other.
When you have explored the polarities, then look at the positives and negatives of each. So for example the positives of achieving are : full self expression, make a contribution, financial independence, more opportunities; the negatives of achieving are : burn out, imbalance, loss of perspective, illness. The positives of grounded calm are : on purpose, focussed, ease, joy; the negatives of grounded calm are : lack of resources, self absorbed, disengaged, loss of confidence.
When you feel an early warning sign that you are stepping to far into one of the positive or negative spaces of the polarity its time to take action steps. (see the picture I've attached). Basically if you're feeling burned out and are getting stick, its time to take action steps to get more grounded calm. If you feel that you are disengaging, its time to take action steps to kick start achievement. In this respect its self correcting. When we can successfully self correct we move towards our greater purpose of what can be achieved by leveraging those dual polarities, if we get stuck in the negative results we lose or move away from our greater purpose.
This is taking an individual example but you can also take leadership and organisational polarity examples, such as:
- Individual AND team
- Task AND relationship
- Logic AND emotions
- Responsibility AND freedom
- Organisational purpose AND organisational performance
- Data driven decision making AND intuitive decision making.
You can basically look at any two polarities, be they personal, family, community or anything at all really. Just ensure that they are both required for success; and both poles are worded positively. Fascinating 🙂 And so blinkin' obvious when you see it written down, but hard to access sometimes when you need it, and thats why having a mental framework can be so helpful.
There's a few more things you can pick up in the pictures below.
Full Plate, Empty Life: How to Achieve More by Doing Less
Great presentation by Christine Carter about being more productive by single tasking. I think everyone knows by now that our brains don't actually multitask, they switch attention rapidly from one thing to another. This makes us less productive. Christine said it perfectly when she said our brains are not like computers designed to run multiple apps at a time.
She talked about three myths / lies of our modern lives:
- Busyness is a sign of importance; withstanding stress is a mark of character.
- More is Better – work more, get more money, buy more stuff.
- Doing Nothing is a Waste of Time.
She turned each of these around.
- Allowing yourself to focus one one thing at a time avoids cognitive overload that hinders our productivity, emotional regulation and decision making. We can step into flow where it feels like time stands still – more productive and the opposite of feeling busy.
- Find the minimum effective dose – e.g. how little time can you spend on your email and still be effective; how little time can you spend on social media and still be connected? She shared her "better than nothing" workout which is 3 minutes every morning including 25 situps, 25 pushups and a one minute plank. She says she's never been stronger, she found her minimum effective dose.
- Our brains benefit when we 'waste time' – i.e. when we daydream. This allows us to access creative insight, which gives helps us make those big breakthroughs – its like when we have our best ideas in the shower. The big challenge here is to break the habit of reaching for our phones when we have 'nothing to do', because doing so doesn't selectively numb our emotions, it doesn't just make us less bored, it also means we feel less joy. Let yourself feel how you feel with curiosity and acceptance. Loved that.
She talked about a sweet spot of ease/joy and power. We just need to get out of our own way and hit that sweet spot. Remember a relaxed muscle is stronger than a tense one, And as Socrates said "beware the banality of a busy life".
The Crossroads of Should and Must
Holy Shit! This woman is amazing. Her name is Elle Luna and she has been on an amazing journey over the last 12 months or so since she published an essay "The crossroads of Should and Must". She explained how she had a recurring dream every night for a month or so in which she stepped into a white room where the floor was concrete, the walls were a bright shining white and there were factory windows on one side. She didn't know what it meant and shared it with a friend, who said something extraordinary – "why don't you go and find it in real life". I mean, as us kiwis say, what the actual fuck! So anyway, she went onto Craig's List and after searching found this room, went for a viewing with 20 other people (who were in her magic room – how dare they!) and got the space.
The first night she was in there, she broke down in tears and said 'Why am I here', and she said the room 'spoke' to her and said 'to paint'. Cripes I've got goosebumps just writing this. So she went and unpacked her painting supplies that she hadn't used in the last five years or so, and started painting, and painting and painting. Now she is an artist, has exhibitions, and teaches kids to explore art.
The most incredible part of this is when she said: "When you decide to follow your dream in real life, where do you go?". For her it was Craig's List – but what is it for you?
She talked about the need to step back and examine the should and musts in our life. The shoulds are often plentiful and strong – and if we follow this path we may end up living our lives for other people, to meet their expectations. The must is often one very strong pull. This is what you believe when you're alone, it allows no compromises, it is unavoidable, it is undeniable. It might be brutal, and it might be hard. Its not always or even often the easy road.
So examine the shoulds. e.g. "You should never…..; You should always……; You should know better than to ……; You should not ……".
Ask yourself:
- Where did these shoulds come from? (an ad, a song, a community, your family)?
- Is this should true for you? (right now at this time in your life)?
- Do I really want to keep holding on to this should? [Note, this might be yes, in which case it becomes a must].
If once you have examined your shoulds you find that you don't need or want this should in your life, then lay it down gently and kindly and tell it you no longer want to carry it with you. By removing the shoulds you make way for the musts.
Importantly she also pointed out that this isn't a one time deal, we return to this exercise many times in our lives, sometimes several times a day 🙂
There are a couple of buts here that are worth exploring.
- But what if I don't know what my must is? She advocates ringing people who knew you in childhood – what did you love to do as a kid, this often contains the seeds of finding our must.
- But what if this raises questions that are really scary? Then get practical. In an ideal word, your job, your career and your calling would all be aligned; but sometimes your job allows you to make the time and ability for you to pursue your calling (your must). She talked about the other jobs that famous artists had over time – of selling used cars, as plumbers. This was food for thought.
- But I don't have time in my life to explore my must. You need to make time for your must. She referenced a lot of Christine Carter's talk in terms of how to make life less busy and more productive. Schedule some 'must' time into your calendar.
Finally, she rounded out by saying "its not enough to reach the treasure, one must bring it back". She implored everyone to share their musts with the world – and share it with people who are waiting to receive it? And finally the quote that really rounded out her presentation, one from Mark Twain : "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why".
Final Conversation
The final part of the day was a conversation between Leila Janah and Tim Ryan. The thing that stuck in my head here was when Leila remarked that the great myth of our time is thinking that we are all separate from one another. When she talked about how our bodies are made up of the same matter that makes up everything else on earth and that we are all just a collection of atoms, it causes us to question this common view. This view means we think that as I sit here writing this and that as you sit there reading this that we regard ourselves as separate and not connected. However when you zoom out and and get a new perspective, you can see we are all interconnected. I thought that was a great note to finish the conference on.
Oh – not mentioning the getting up on stage and sharing my commitment to continue this work in NZ. Woot.
More on that soon.
So thats over and out from me. Mel x
Day 2 Wisdom 2.0
I'm at a loss to know where to start!
I guess from the beginning.
Byron Katie : The Work
First up was Byron Katie and "The Work", which was quite ironic as someone pointed out, as Emma Kirkman have started "The New Work" meetup. I was interested to find out about this original work. As it turns out, its a bit different to our "new work".
Byron Katie is an expert at shifting people's beliefs. She's also the type of person whose energy you can feel from 30 metres away. She's also funny, compassionate and real. Basically I fell in love with her 🙂
Her premise is that if we can identify our thinking and believing then can put an end to our suffering. Especially if we can explore our thinking and beliefs with an "I don't know" frame of mind – at the moment in time when you're doing this there is no arguing or judging in that space. There is no right or wrong, there are just feelings.
She believes that taking your "wild child" thoughts and putting them down on the page means they can't move from there, they're stopped, still, and you can work with them. She advocates getting very very still and looking for the barely there thoughts – like the princess and the pea, you know something is there, it may be tiny, but there is something there. That's why this process (below) is best if you take some time on it.
She believes that we do a lot of false identification, and if we identify with something that is anything less than kind, its not true. Her belief that there is no one and nothing that isn't here for us. We can ask people around us to help us blow our own cover, as many of the things that make us miserable are beliefs we have that aren't true. We can stop fooling ourselves and enter a fearless state of mind. Nice.
She also had an interesting question which I think I'll find helpful 🙂 – "Who's business are you in?".
She has a "Judge your neighbour worksheet" that you fill out about someone that you haven't forgiven yet. You answer six questions:
1. In this situation and location, who angers, confuses or disappoints you and why?
2. In this situation, how do you want them to change? What do you want them to do?
3. In this situation, what advice would you offer to them?
4. In order for you to be happy in this situation, what do you need them to think, say, feel or do.
5. What do you think of them in this situation? Make a list.
6. What is it in or about this situation that you don't ever want to experience again?
Then investigate each of the above statements using four additional questions and really get still in the moment and feel what comes up. Then turn each thought around, e.g. "I don't ever want to" becomes "I'm willing to" and "I look forward to….".
The four additional questions are:
1. Is it true?
2. Can you absolutely know its true?
3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought?
4. Who would you be without the thought?
I witnessed a man who was brought up onto stage move through this process and quite honestly it was the most powerful thing I have ever seen. It seemed like magic.
Fred Kofman – Conscious Business at LinkedIn
Fred is an awesome guy. A brilliant intellect coupled with empathy, compassion. He's pretty memorable.
He advocates that most people and business behave in ways that make sense in the moment but don't make sense in the long term. And this concept is very very easy to understand cognitively but extremely difficult to apply – kind of like a game of chess, its easy to know how to play chess but takes a lifetime of perfecting to play it well.
He believes that Conscious Business Principles are grounded in three basic truths:
1. Responsibility – make responsible choices
2. Have humility – you never had the full story, so always remain curious.
3. Integrity – share and live by your values everyday (even / especially on the hard days).
He gives himself the title Chief Spiritual Officer. He sees "spiritual" as an animating force that helps people stay connected to whatever animates them. He drew a linkage between how this sits in with the Buddhist path to enlightenment – that the picture denoting the tenth step to enlightenment is not being in a zen like state, but coming back to be helping hands at the market. He drew a linkage between this notion of enlightenment and coming back to the market with helping hands to making a profit and being sustainable in business along with doing good.
He talked about a quote and I don't know who its from but it was "after the ecstacy, the laundry". He sees himself as doing the laundry at LinkedIn; in that he helps connect the dots of vision and everyday laundry conversations; in order to help the team win from any role. I guess he sees the CEO Jeff as being the visionary one and him as the enabler.
He believes that change comes for him from people he trusts making a change in their life, not from curated articles, and this mirrors with this belief that its not in the knowing but its in the doing that you can change things in life or in business.
He was asked a question about making sacrifices, e.g. for profits over people or the other way around. He likened this to a game of chess, where the key theme is to win the game. When you see it in this context there is no real sacrifice, because if you sacrifice something in order to win the game, you are still winning the game. I guess this begs the question, in your business, what is the aim of the game? Is it the customer? Is it money? Is it around doing good? Is it around providing an awesome workplace? Because when viewed in these terms there is no true sacrifice.
He talked a little bit about the difficulty of incentivising people in a workplace – do you incentivise on local metrics and have local incentives? No, because then you are not evaluating the whole. Should you incentivise people on global metrics and have global incentives? No, because then you are not evaluating the individual output. He didn't have a clear answer other than to say that to hold people together through growth its important to connect to the mission and translate that mission into hard daily conversations.
In terms of getting something off the ground, like mindfulness practices, the conclusion was to iterate it often, go viral and grass roots and give people a choice – don't mandate it. The Skippy Buffy exercise is apparently worth googling, haven't heard of it, but when I have more time I will. Apparently this gives people a direct experience themselves.
His last remark was stop seeking momentary pleasure and find a life of happiness. Truer words have never spoken!
Culture Building Roadmap
This was a guide for culture champions, tribe-builders and people Geeks and change agents.
The steps covered were:
1. Reveal what your default culture is and what it is costing you.
2. Design a Culture Code that is value based, behaviourally explicit and an expression of your highest possibilities.
3. Activate a shared context of "culture as daily practice". Provide training for common language and behaviours.
4. Embed your culture code through organisation – hiring, on-boarding, managing performance, decision making, role definition and organisational design.
5. Amplify – find the people who already demonstrate the culture code and encourage and amplify their efforts.
6. Iterate – track leading and lagging indicators to measure progress and continuously improve.
Connection and Collaboration with Eileen Fisher
Eileen Fisher is big into mindfulness practices at her business.
Some things that work for them:
- a chime at the beginning of each meeting where everyone has a minute or so in silence to connect in with themselves
- a checkin – everyone has a minute or two to talk about something that is going on for them right now.
- dialogue walks – as part of off sites people go in pairs for 20-30 minute walks and talk (time split evenly so one talks and one listens). Great for building connections across the company.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
An inspirational moment in time with this guy.
Some quotes that I thought you might like:
"Focus on this breath because the next one is not guaranteed"
"Don't mistake thoughts about reality as reality"
"There's no better place, you just get older"
"Hasten slowly"
"We're all here to learn, none of us know much of anything. Its like a love affair, take a seat"
"What is your job on this planet?"
Kai Kight – finding harmony in the interplay of dissonance and consonance
Last presentation of the day. This guy is a violinist and speaker. He spoke of the night his mother broke the news to him that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and the regret in her life of never having lived her dream of opening a jewellery store and working with her hands on making the jewellery.
In that moment the paralysing stage fright he had experienced for years in his violin performances just dissolved and he started to see them as an opportunity to learn and grow and basically feel the fear and do it anyway.
He likened it to learning to play a difficult new note on the violin – maybe your fingers need to contort themselves to play this new note and its really uncomfortable, but in time you build up muscle memory and you can play it without thinking. The same can happen in your life if you are prepared to make your own unusual way in the world.
By the way, his mother recovered and is now thriving.
That was just the presenters
I'm getting just as much goodness from everyone I am meeting here, and each has in their own little way added to this growing something that is inside my head. Its so freaking great!
So, now I'm off for Day 3, and I promise when I have more time and perspective I'll craft these blog posts into something truly awesome.


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As part of the legislation, Congress renamed the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary to recognize the many contributions of Gerry E. Studds to marine conservation and management.
During his career, Mr. Studds served as Chairman of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries for four years (the committee was dissolved after 1996 and its tasks assigned to other committees), was Chairman of the Fish and Wildlife Subcommittee and was ranking member of the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans. He authored the National Marine Sanctuaries Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 1992, in which the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary was officially designated, and the original Magnuson Act of 1973, which extended American fishing jurisdiction to 200 miles offshore.
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Mr. Studds remained involved in marine issues as a consultant on fisheries issues and ocean outreach, as well as branching out into biotechnology and telecommunications through a base in Boston in the decade after his retirement from Congress. He took on the co-chairmanship of the Board of Trustees of the Island Alliance, the non-profit partner to the Boston Harbor Island National Park and continued to stay informed about and in touch with the National Marine Sanctuary that bears his name.
Unfortuantely, the man who fought tenaciously for protection of the ocean, succumbed to complications from vascular disease and injuries incurred from a fall when walking his dog. Late in 2006, this dedicated advocate for the sanctuary program died at the age of 69.
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"Gerry's leadership changed Massachusetts forever and we'll never forget him," U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy said. "His work on behalf of our fishing industry and the protection of our waters has guided the fishing industry into the future and ensured that generations to come will have the opportunity to love and learn from the sea. He was a steward of the oceans. The Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary put protections in place for our waters that never before existed and has since become a framework for protecting and maintaining marine life in Massachusetts."
Congressman Bill Delahunt, who replaced Mr. Studds as the representative for the Tenth District of Massachusetts, wrote: "While at home he was known for his attentiveness to the district and the interests of our fishermen, his contributions to our nation were much greater. In Washington, he displayed an extraordinary grasp of complex marine policy issues. As chairman of the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, he was able to build bipartisan support for many important and controversial environmental laws, a skill that is all too rare in Washington today. Most of all, we will remember Gerry for his quick wit. He once boasted to me that his pivotal role in the revival of the striped bass was not in legislating a recovery plan, but in his inability to catch any."
Mr. Studds was born on May 12, 1937 in Mineola, NY but grew up in Cohasset, Mass., a community located within the district he represented for 24 years. He attended Yale University, where he was awarded his undergraduate degree in history in 1959 and a master's degree in 1961.
From 1961-1962 he served as a foreign service officer in the State Department, then worked as an assistant in the Kennedy White House the following year to develop a domestic Peace Corps. In 1964, he joined the staff of U.S. Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr. (D-NJ) as a legislative assistant.
Mr. Studds left the political world of Washington for a time, serving as a teacher of government, politics and history at the St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H. from 1965-1969. But the lure of the political arena continued to attract, and in 1968 he served as New Hampshire state coordinator for Eugene McCarthy's presidential primary campaign.
In 1970, Mr. Studds entered his first campaign for political office, running against U.S. Representative Hastings Keith (R-MA) in what was then the 12th District. Although he lost the election, his interest in public service did not wane. He learned Portuguese to better communicate with the fishing community in the district and maintained an interest in local issues. When Rep. Keith declines to run in 1972, Mr. Studds stepped in and won his first term in Congress. He continued to garner support from his constituents, and won re-election 11 times.
An eloquent speaker with a quick wit, Mr. Studds held numerous town meetings in the district, answering questions and listening to the concerns of his constituents. After his retirement, he continued to maintain contact with the district, and assisted the sanctuary in the dedication of its Provincetown Visitor Exhibit in 2001, as well as participating in the openings of sanctuary exhibits at the New England Aquarium, the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, and a Provincetown art gallery.
Mr. Studds passed away on October 14, 2006. He is survived by his spouse, Dean Hara; a brother, Colin Studds; a sister, Gaynor Steward; and four nephews.


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Deja Vu Blogfest 2015
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Lord Brabazon of Tara: My Lord, I thank the noble Baroness for introducing this order and giving the House such a comprehensive view of what it does. I am sure that everyone will agree that it is a different kettle of fish to what has been debated so far this afternoon. Nevertheless, it is important to many people, including yachtsmen, among whom I count myself.
I congratulate the General Lighthouse Authorities on what they have been able to do over the past two years, culminating this year in a reduction in light dues. I welcome the order as it stands. As the noble Baroness said, it foreshadows--I do not know whether that requires any further parliamentary time--the end of the Decca system around the end of the year 2000. That was an issue with which I had some involvement some six years ago. I should have liked to see it done then, but it was not possible. The Decca system was a good one but, unfortunately, it is expensive to run. The fact is that Decca can no longer obtain money from selling the system, which means that it receives no income. That is why it has become a cost on the General Lighthouse Fund. In the old days it obtained a little money from every bit it sold.
The noble Baroness referred to the fact that the GPS is operated by the United States Department of Defense and is now what most people use. Sets can be bought for as little as £200 each. The problem with it is, as the noble Baroness said, that the United States Government can alter its accuracy and therefore we need to have this mechanism in place which can compensate for that.
I should like to ask the noble Baroness one or two questions. I have not given notice, and I apologise for that. If she cannot answer them, perhaps she will write to me in due course. At one time there was a proposal that it might be possible to make a contribution towards the cost of GPS in order to obtain a better guarantee from the United States Government. I do not know whether anything happened in that regard or whether it has been pursued. I appreciate the difficulties that it may cause and that we may not obtain the necessary guarantees as to the validity of the system.
The noble Baroness mentioned also the Commissioners of Irish Lights. In my day there was considerable argument about the cost of the Irish lighthouse authorities and how much was coming from UK light dues. I do not know what the present situation is and whether we are still subsidising Irish lights to the extent that we were. I realise that it is an all-Ireland body and therefore we must take care of the Ulster part of it, but we are subsidising the Republic part of it by a considerable amount. Perhaps the noble Baroness can tell me what progress has been made over the years on that.
Generally, I welcome the order and I am encouraged to hear of the possible savings of £30 million over the next 25 years. I am sure that we shall end up with a better system than what we have now, and the GPS is the system that most people use at the moment.
Lord Inglewood: My Lords, I am sure the whole House is grateful to the noble Baroness for so comprehensively explaining the order and its background. I should like to thank also my noble friend Lord Brabazon. I am someone who prefers to keep his feet firmly on terra firma and it was extremely helpful to hear his remarks. This order seems to combine saving lives with saving money, which is an excellent proposition, and we support it.
Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton: My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Brabazon, for raising his two questions and for his support for the order. Perhaps I may write to him in detail in relation to the financial proposals with regard to possible support of the United States' system and the benefits.
With regard to the Irish subsidy, the current arrangements pre-date the establishment of the Irish Republic, as I am sure the noble Lord is well aware. Officials will be proposing to Ministers that negotiations commence later to look at the current and future funding arrangements. I commend the order to the House.
On Question, Motion agreed to.
Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton rose to move, That the draft order laid before the House on 28th October be approved [11th Report from the Joint Committee].
The noble Baroness said: My Lords, I am pleased to have the opportunity of inviting this House to approve an affirmative order under the Transport and Works Act 1992 (TWA for short). This order involves minor, but useful, amendments to the original 1992 order and should not, I believe, be controversial.
It would doubtless be helpful if I first explain to the House the background and purpose of the proposed order.
Although the TWA is mainly concerned with new railway and tramway schemes, it also enables other types of projects in England and Wales which would previously have been authorised by private Acts to be approved by ministerial orders. Those include inland waterways and projects which interfere with rights of navigation, such as, for example, river barrages.
The order-making system is set out in Part I of the Act. Section 3 enables the Secretary of State to make an order for the carrying out of works which would interfere with rights of navigation and are of a
The first Section 4 order--the Transport and Works (Descriptions of Works Interfering with Navigation) Order 1992--prescribed 10 categories of works. The effect of the order is to enable promoters of the prescribed works to make an application under Section 3 of the TWA. It does not mean that works of such description will necessarily be approved. The case for approving particular projects is considered only in relation to specific applications made to the Secretary of State under Section 3.
The first order sought to cover the full range of projects which might interfere with rights of navigation, but works projects have been developed more recently which were not foreseen at the time. We have in mind in particular proposals for certain millennium works in Portsmouth Harbour which require a Section 3(1)(b) order and are not prescribed in the existing Section 4 order. These projects include a retail development to be constructed on a piled platform, an observation tower and an illuminated water fountain sending out jets of water periodically across the harbour. The amending Section 4 order prescribes these types of works.
We have undertaken a public consultation exercise on the proposed changes. Those consultees who responded have generally been supportive or have offered no comments. Two organisations questioned the need for the order but their concerns appear to be based on misunderstandings about the overall purpose and nature of the TWA order-making process. One of those two respondents thought that the order would enable works to be authorised by Section 3 order which would more appropriately be approved under other statutory powers. The proposed order was therefore an unnecessary duplication. The second objector argued that by not prescribing the proposed categories of works in the first Section 4 order, Parliament had indicated that such works should continue to be authorised by Private Bill and there was no compelling case for enabling them to be subject to approval by TWA order rather than by an Act of Parliament.
On the first point, the TWA procedure is permissive. It is for promoters to decide whether they need the statutory powers and protection from actions in nuisance afforded by a Section 3 order. They are unlikely to apply for such an order if there is another more convenient and appropriate means of approving a project. Moreover, the Secretary of State can refuse to make an order where he considers that the necessary powers could be obtained by other means--Section 13(2) of the Act. In the case of the proposed works in Portsmouth Harbour, we are satisfied that a Section 3 order under the TWA is the appropriate mechanism for obtaining statutory
Turning to the second point, Parliament decided in enacting the TWA that it was no longer appropriate for infrastructure projects, involving as they do consideration of detailed and local planning issues, to be the subject of Private Bills. Sections 2 and 4 of the Act were therefore inserted to enable the range of projects coming within Sections 1 and 3 to be prescribed and extended by order with the aim of ensuring that all works schemes are normally determined by the TWA procedure where the only alternative would be a Private Bill. Parliament clearly envisaged that there might need to be more than one order made under Sections 2 and 4 by referring in these sections to "orders" in the plural.
It is worth repeating that, by bringing forward the order, the Government are not necessarily signalling their support for any of the proposed projects covered by the extended descriptions of works. Each application under Section 3 of the TWA will be considered on its merits, after taking into account any objections to the proposals. What we are saying is that, in line with the whole thrust and purpose of the 1992 Act, the proposed works in Portsmouth Harbour and other similar projects should be subject to the TWA statutory approvals process where the only alternative would be a Private Bill. That is what this order, if made, will ensure. I commend the order to the House.
Moved, That the draft order laid before the House on 28th October be approved [11th Report from the Joint Committee].--(Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton.)
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If you loved Rainbow Rowell's FANGIRL (like I did!) then you will LOVE the characters in Flirting with Fame. Not only is Elise an amazing writer but she's also a survivor. She's trying to balance her secret life as a world famous author to a hit series with being a "normal" college freshman. Her voice is fresh, self-deprecating but in the best of ways. Her new friends are adorable and real and I feel like I both already know them and I want them to be my friends too. (COME ON! CLINT! THE POET COWBOY?!) Obviously, this story is full of what the fandoms call "feels" and I have lots of them.
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Several Wichita restaurants have been experimenting with late-night and all-night hours recently, and now, Delano's Diner is joining the fray.
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Manager Eric King said that customers have been asking for a late-night dining option – some place they could go for a plate of bacon and eggs or a slice of lasagna after the bars close down.
"We were just listening to feedback from the community, and we were getting a lot of people in Old Town that were saying they wanted a choice other than the two major chains that are basically the only things open late at night," he said. "Everybody in community was saying, 'When are you going to go 24 hours?' So we decided to listen and take them up on it."
Several near downtown restaurants have been adding late-night weekend hours lately. Among them are Egg Cetera at 242 N. Mosley, which now serves tacos from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, and Douglas Street Tacos in Union Station Plaza, which is open from 11 a.m. to 3 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays.


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Pianist Lang Lang draws fire for choice of music at White House state dinner
Pianist Lang Lang is getting heat over his choice of music at the White House state dinner for China last week. Among his tunes: "My Motherland". . . the theme from a 1956 anti-U.S. movie about the Korean War, "Battle on Shangganling Mountain." "A musical shout out to America-hating patriots," denounced the New York Post. Lang (China-born, U.S.-educated, splits time between both) defended the selection, writing on Facebook Monday that he chose it "for no other reason but for the beauty of its melody." All right, just be careful playing other patriotic tunes, okay?:
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Song was an insult to America. He dishonored his welcome- and surprisingly that was Hu's theme during his stay in USA. Hu's China is waging a trade war directly and showing off NK as nuclear powered ally, ready to go to war. Hu is refusing to budge at both. He is refusing to adjust the Yuan currency exchange rate, and refusing to help ease NK and SK tensions. Guess how NK acquired nuke technology? Even if China didn't help directly - it just looked the other way. Nobel Peace Laureates Liu is still in jail, Dalai Lama has been kept out of Tibet for over 51 years. These are all cruel and unfair.
Posted by: vk1537 | January 24, 2011 9:23 PM | Report abuse
I recall when President Reagan hosted state dinner for Japanese Prime Minister Nagasone in White House, our Marine Band played "Marching of Imperial Fleets" - a Japanese Navy marching song in WWII when they bombed Pearl harbor.
Posted by: shawnp220 | January 24, 2011 9:23 PM | Report abuse
Lang calimed that he played the song "for no other reason but for the beauty of its melody." Ha, ha, ha... He cannot just play dumb as if he does not know. I wonder who is dumber between Lang and the White House staff who knew what Lang was going to play but probably did not know what the song was for. The song is an insult and so is Lang.
Posted by: Piperglen | January 25, 2011 12:33 AM | Report abuse
Who wrote this ignorance? What does it matter that the third verse of the National Anthem insults the Brits. It insults no one if it is never sung, and especially in their presence! In my opinion you have lost all perspective. This was a deliberate effort to insult us with a smile on their face. To make it worse, it appears that the closer you get to the White House the more willing you are to take a hard slap in the face and ignorantly smile back as if you do not realize you have been smacked. I was considering paying $200 to see Lang Lang when he comes to town next week. Now I think I will use the money to buy a sign that says "Go Home" in Chinese and stand outside the auditorium!
Posted by: Pops64 | January 25, 2011 1:23 AM | Report abuse
When President Reagan hosted a State Dinner for PM Nakasone, (not Nagasone), in April 1987, it was not the Marine Band who played but Henry Mancini and Johnny Mathis.
Posted by: a_cal_native | January 25, 2011 1:50 AM | Report abuse
The National Anthem is politically incorrect? Are on crack? Shut up.
Posted by: mjoy | January 25, 2011 10:28 AM | Report abuse
Amerika, What don't you understand about nationalist-fascist China?
Do you see how their "artists" are simply tools of the State?
That every word from this prison-state carries the foul halitosis of marxist propaganda and, yes, FURY.
Do you comprehend that they are playing "to win." Not to "get along?"
Will the last yankee patriot in DC turn out the lights, please?
Sometimes you just have to really "look" to see what is right in front of your face.
Posted by: BigSea | January 25, 2011 1:43 PM | Report abuse
The third verse of the national anthem? I didn't even know it had a second verse. In any case, none of the veterans of the War of 1812 are still around, none of the kids of people who died there are still around. This is really really annoying. Roxanne or Amy, whoever, bite me.
Posted by: kls1 | January 25, 2011 6:21 PM | Report abuse
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Zambia: Continue Graft Fight, President Sata Urges Ruling Party
President Michael Sata says the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) must continue the fight against corruption, social injustice and inequality in order to promote social order and peace for the Zambian people.
President Sata said political mobilisation and consciousness must remain the cornerstone of the ruling party.
He was giving his view on the newly-introduced PF training module for members, which is under the theme: 'The History and Development of the Patriotic Front 2001 – 2011.'
Mr Sata observed that the history of a political organisation formed the bond of identity with its members and supporters at large.
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Special Assistant for Press and Public Relations George Chellah released the President's remarks on the PF training module.
Mr Sata said the PF's electoral victory of 2011 should be considered as only the beginning of a long journey.
"The party must, therefore, continue the fight against corruption, social injustice and inequality in order to promote social order and peace for our people and the world. The transformation of our party from an opposition political party into that of the governing political authority of the country must not betray the aspirations of its members.
"The party is the only vehicle for the improvement of the living standards of the Zambian people. It must, therefore, continue to be relevant to the people's day-to-day life and welfare at all times. It must inspire and give them hope," he said.
He noted that political mobilisation and consciousness must remain the cornerstone of the party.
"Political consciousness must be frequently renewed through continuous political education and participatory programmes by all members to enable them respond to the dynamic challenges which confront the party.
President Sata said challenges in the party were cross-cutting from the section up to the Central Committee.
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