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When you write a happiness and productivity blog, people expect you to be glowing, sparkling, checking everything off your to do list daily. And when I am at my best, I'd say I fit the bill quite perfectly. But on days like today, I cannot get anything done, and there's not much I can do about it.
I've suffered from depression since I am a teenager. At 15, my first major depression hit hard, I had to take meds and some time off from school. I even had to change schools. The doctors said that my chances of suffering from depression again in life were very high. With the help of antidepressants and therapy, I gradually started feeling better and, by the end of high school, depression was only a distant memory.
Later in my 20s, depression crept back in, it came and went. I tried different meds, with astonishing side effects, weight gain, acne, all sorts of weird things, like blurry vision or falling asleep at 8 at night. Then I had a few years of solace, where my mood was normal and I could work and enjoy life.
Later, in 2016, something awful happened at work, and the depression quickly came back, filling all the space in my life. I took a few months off work, then left and created Productive Happiness. When the depression lifted up, I could start building my brand new business. Writing and coaching about productivity and happiness was my jam. I felt like I had really found my life's purpose. I felt fulfilled in my work and wouldn't see myself doing anything else. Then, surely but slowly, depression crept back up again.
Fast forward to last week. I was so depressed, or so numb, that I couldn't pick myself up or do any kind of work. I did not publish a blog post last week. I did not record that shiny new video I've been planning for you guys. I just couldn't. And it made me think. As entrepreneurs, you are the only person you can rely on to get the job done. You are the boss, the employee, the marketer, the writer, the accountant. You have to do it all. And when your moods get in the way, everything falls to the wayside. Hopefully, I found a few tricks to help me pick myself up and get back to work.
Here are the few things that helped me get back on track during this last year battling depression :
Don't try to do it all
When the smallest thing is a challenge, do not jam-pack your to do list. Select the few things that absolutely need to get done, and focus on those. When I have a really bad day, I try to set my goal at accomplishing only two tasks. I will often choose something that will make my environment more enjoyable, like washing the dishes or cleaning up my living room.
Break up big projects in smaller chunks
Trying to tackle huge projects is discouraging when you're depressed. Break down those bigger projects in smaller tasks. I often find that, when I get started knocking small tasks off my to do list, I gain momentum and slowly start enjoying my work.
Focus on self-care
Make sure you get plenty of rest, try to go to sleep early, allow yourself to sleep in if you need. Try to find at least one activity in your day that will make you feel better. Kendra Wright talks about the Bingo Card of good habits. Try to hit a bingo and make your day super special. If I am unable to do much, I try at least to take a warm bath with a book, or go for a walk.
Allow yourself some healthy treats
A warm bath, your favorite cup of tea, or, if you can afford it, a massage can go a long way making you feel better. You might feel guilty that you're not accomplishing as much as you would like and would prefer to kick yourself into working instead of giving yourself a treat, but the only way to full productivity is feeling better first. Put yourself in priority.
Depression is quite a challenge, especially when you're an entrepreneur, or building a side business. Try not to be too hard on yourself, be compassionate and understand that you need to refuel before you can be the productivity beast you once were. Take care of yourself, be kind and allow yourself to do less while you're healing. When you're feeling better, and you will, you'll be able to start back were you left off. Give yourself the time and space to do just that.
I hope this post helps you find a few tricks to feel better. If you would like more happiness and productivity tips directly in your inbox, sign up for my weekly newsletter to receive every new blog post as soon as it comes out.
Have you ever battled depression? How did you handle work and productivity while you were not feeling well? Let us know in the comments below!


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Buenas tardes, querida familia.
It must come as quite a surprise to you that I'm actually writing on Monday for once. It's the first time in a while that there haven't been other happenings that have kept us from writing on our normal P-Day. But here I am! I haven't heard from many of you, but I'm sure it's just for the sudden change from the norm. But regardless, I have to write now, so I'll read the rest next week I suppose. In response to your question, Mom, I always read everything I have in my inbox right there, which often takes away time from writing, yes, but I enjoy it. I could print whatever and read it later, but it's a hastle and costly, so I don't do it. So as far as reading old letters goes, I've got em all saved in my email account so I can read them on P-Day when I want to.
Glad to hear that Dad's doing so much better now. I was pretty bummed to hear about the injury but happy to know he's up and running again, and proud of Jennifer for being such a boss and running the 15k! Way to go! Speaking of sports, how're the olympics? I think of all the television programs I've missed in the past 10 months, the olympics is the hardest one for me to miss. I love it. But every now and then it's playing in stores and stuff so I can catch a few gymnastic routines. Thank you for sending the thermals! Those will definitely help a ton during the day. It's been dang cold here this past week, and I sleep in lots of clothes, with my hoody over my head to keep my ears warm and my blankets over my head to keep my face warm. I'm pretty pumped for spring to start soon.
Dad, I think I can help you out. Looks like the street is called Arturo Prat, and the apartment is in the corner of arturo prat with Matta. It's part of a city square that's right next to the plaza. Hope that helps.
My companion is pretty awesome. I was going to tell you a little more about him last week. Here goes. He's from a city named Bucaramanga, Colombia and is 22 years old. He does in fact speak very diferently. Like a mix between Spanish and Jamaican, with very rounded vowels. His parents were converts, and he was baptised along with them when he was around 8 years old. He's got another brother who's two years younger who's also on a mission in Antofagasta, Chile. They left at the same time. Elder Aparicio, after completing high school, served in the Colombian army for two years. He's got 15 months in the mission and was the last missionary in Carahue before I got there! Neat! We get along super well, and I'm having a blast with him. It's funny, because he reminds me a TON of Austin Chardac. Like, he's seriously Austin's Latin double, only with less musical talent. What I'm learning most from Elder Aparicio is how to truly focus on the needs of the people teach. Elder Aparicio is a missionary that really gets the big picture. He's not here (primarily) for duty, or for glory, or for self-gain, or any thing else. He's here because he's humble, and has a true testimony of the redeeming power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He knows that baptising is important, but not the most important. What counts is someone who gains a personal testimony of the Savior, who repents of their sins and has a change of heart. He's taught me a lot of things that I think I always knew in theory, but not in practice, and in only these past two weeks, I've learned how to have more faith in the power of God, to not doubt the sheer reality of His work and His glory, and especially not to doubt in the goodness of people, and their God-given ability to change. He's taught me how to teach with greater power and authority, as the representatives of Jesus Christ that we are, having been called of God to this ministry. And it's been an absolute blast these weeks working together with him to help the Zone of Coronel gain the same vision of this great work and to give themselves 100 percent to the Lord.
This week, my goal is to try and be more charitable. Yesterday in church, there was a talk that really struck home with me. In our branch, there's a wonderful man named Omar who (I don't know why), doesn't have legs, so he gets around in a wheel chair. Well the man giving the talk spoke about how he was at the church the other day, just getting out of an interview, and so was Omar. He looked at him with a certain sense of compasion, knowing how tough and dangerous the road is where Omar lives, and how he could help. But soon he remembered how busy he was that evening, how he needed to go home and make food, and other chores, and rationalized that Omar is a strong man and independent, he can take care of himself. Then another man named Javier, a recent convert with a big heart, who also knew how dangerous and tough the road is where Omar lives, offered to accompany him home. The man who gave the talk was moved by the example of Javier, who selflessly looked upon his brother in the faith and said, "Yo te acompaño, porque sé que el camino es duro." Or in other words, "I'll go with you, because I know the road is hard." Upon hearing these words, I instantly thought about the example of our Savior, who lived a life of service, who suffered and died to make our burden lighter. He really knows, and He understands. And how often He says those very words, "I'll go with you, because I know the road is hard." I am eternally grateful for the example of the Son of God, who showed us the meaning of charity and compassion. I want to be more like that, and without hesitance or justification repeat those very words to as many as are in need of them, "Yo te acompaño, porque sé que el camino es duro." My invitation to all these week is that we can search for opportunities to offer service to someone in need. Every small act of kindness goes a long way.
I love you all very much, and am grateful for your example to me. Till next time, keeping it real in Lota,
Elder Wilcox
At the top of a giant hill that we climb at least once every day (we live in the valley between the hills.)
With me
Another pair of very high quality socks.
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I wrote the following a couple of weeks ago after a series of conversations with other Princeton Theological Seminary students taking summer language. "This past few weeks at seminary has taken some adjustment. I feel I am coming from the opposite side of the room in many conversations I have had so far with classmates. That is okay, in diversity lies the beauty of life. A significant issue that I am struggling with now is where do I fit in the church? I can see both sides of the liberal/conservative fence. The question is where do I plant my feet? Can I straddle it? When asked, as I was this week by a classmate, "As a scientist, do you believe in miracles?" I can honestly answer, "Yes." Do I believe that the hand of an anthropomorphic superhuman God can reach down from the sky and heal the wounds of a leper? No. Do I believe that God can heal the spirit of a man or woman giving him or her a renewed sense of purpose and meaning in life? Yes. Do I believe that God can heal the brain? No, that is the job of psychiatry. Can He heal the mind? Yes, absolutely. The subtlety of language is the difference. It is my hope that writing about the thoughts that arise in meditation, discussion, and in solitary contemplation will help guide me in spiritual development in seminary. Indeed, the force that Christians call God has a place in this process. However, I still struggle to fully embrace that term for want of a more universal word for the reason that the anthropomorphic terminology of the three Abrahamic traditions (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity) points to the same reality as pointed to by the Asiatic religious traditions (e.g. Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Jainism, etc.) or to the limits of modern science. To be absolutely clear, there is one reality that all language must map to that can only be truly physically understood by modern science. The psychic understanding of reality, meaning the way the mind interprets the world can be shaped and formed by modern science as it can be by religion.
I am glossing over quite a profound point that I will only briefly touch on, all physical truths can map to a psychic truth provided a sufficiently clever scientific experiment can be done to reveal this particular truth. Indeed, this is why modern science is so difficult! Some physical truths require extremely difficult experiments to be revealed and some experiments are beyond the limits of modern technology. The same is true for psychic truths since the mind is the brain. All psychic truths may map to a physical truth about the neurophysiological state of the brain. However, modern science is certainly in its infancy in this regard. It is very difficult to study the neurophysiology of a living human being in an ethical manner! (i.e. we cannot ethically open the head of a thinking living human being while performing a "meaningful" behavior such as worshiping God. To this end, new forms of neuroimaging may provide novel insights.) How physical states of the brain map to psychic experience is a topic that is much too complex for this blog post. I go into such detail with this because I do think it is important to think about the physical state of the brain influencing psychic truths for purposes that will become clear in future writings (e.g. mental disorders, psychoactive drug use, and psychopharmacology).
As long as I can articulate what I mean by "God" to others before I actually use it in a meaningful way, I believe that I can avoid tribalism. To be clear, however, I do not believe Christianity is the sole divine path for humanity. Rather, it is a cultural construct. One of a set of similar cultural constructs defined as "Religions." A set of practices of a group of individuals who share certain beliefs about causation in the cosmos and about the identity of human salvation, ethics, and purpose. More remains to be said on this topic in later blog posts. For now, I will say that I have a profound respect for the Christian tradition as a route to spiritual salvation for those capable of accepting and internalizing the spiritual archetypes and metaphors contained in its key texts (i.e. the books of the Bible). Seminary is a funny place, the academics are important; they embody the wisdom and knowledge of those who have come before. Generations have fought to preserve and extend this knowledge, sometimes sacrificing their lives to bring it to the next generation. Why?"
The majority of students I have talked to so far are not scientists and tend to have a different perspective on religious topics than I do. I would say that they appear to have more spiritual liberty, knowing less of what modern science has deemed a "Theory" or a "Law." As a result, they possess a greater cognitive freedom to accept certain postulates of faith as physical truth than I do. For many of the key "events" in the Christian narrative such as the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, I reject their physical truth but accept their psychic truth in the mind of the believer. A significant goal of mine in seminary is to construct a theology that will enable me to speak in a reasonable and constructive way about Christian practices and beliefs to atheists, to Christians, and to those of other faith traditions. Furthermore, I wish to speak about these practices as someone who does find transcendence within the tradition. I do not wish to strip Christianity of its metaphysical, spiritual, and psychic power. To this end, I made a significant discovery today. Carl Jung wrote many books on Eastern and Western religion, and in particular on Christianity.
The opening passage of Carl Jung's book Answer to Job resonated with me today as it eloquently articulated the distinction between the physical truth of religious statements and their psychic truth. "On account of its somewhat unusual content, my little book requires a short preface. I beg of you, dear reader, not to overlook it. For, in what follows, I shall speak of the venerable objects of religious belief. Whoever talks of such matters inevitably runs the risk of being torn to pieces by the two parties who are in mortal conflict about those very things. This conflict is due to the strange supposition that a thing is true only if it presents itself as a physical fact. Thus some people believe it to be physically true that Christ was born as the son of a virgin, while others deny this as a physical impossibility. Everyone can see that there is no logical solution to this conflict and that one who do better not to get involved in such sterile disputes. Both are right and both are wrong. Yet they could easily reach agreement if only they dropped the word "physical." "Physical" is not the only criterion of truth: there are also psychic truths, which can neither be explained nor proved nor contested in any physical way. If, for instance, a general belief existed that the river Rhine had at one time flowed backwards from its mouth to its source, then this belief would in itself be a fact even through such an assertion, physically understood, would be deemed utterly incredible. Beliefs of this kind are psychic facts which cannot be contested and need no proof." To read more of this passage by Jung go here. If you have read this blog post you will see that I tend to disagree with his statement about the fact that psychic truths are not provable. They are provable provided one can map them to a neurophysiological state of the brain. However, on a course level it is clear what Jung is after in this distinction is the the statement that physical truths are outside the brain and psychic truths are inside the brain. If Jung were alive today with the modern tools of neuroimaging, he might have felt it necessary to explain this point more clearly. I will forgive him for now, but for future discussions and writings this will need to be articulated more clearly. 🙂
A significant theological question that arose from a discussion about this topic over ice cream today is, "Who are humans accountable for their sin if God is only a psychic reality?" There is a possible answer to this question that immediately comes to mind. First, the term God most certainly maps in some way to both the physical and the psychic realities. The way I think of this is via a metaphor (the cosmic chess game) of T. H. Huxley, "The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance." This metaphor obviously posits an anthropomorphic being on the other side of the chess board-cosmos but the key point of the metaphor is "The player on the other side is hidden from us." As human beings with finite sensory capabilities and finite minds, we are free as individuals and as societies to ascribe any psychic truth to this "player" as seems reasonable. For religious purposes, as is done in Abrahamic faiths and to some extent in Asiatic traditions, it is much easier for an individual to anthropomorphize "the player" for relational purposes. However, it is not necessary. Some religious traditions, such as Zen Buddhism attribute absolute nothingness (emptiness – sunyata) a divine character. Sunyata is not God, but both are similar in that they attempt to construct cognitive structures that can map to the unknowable "player." Second, human accountability for sin is at the heart a social phenomenon in time. Since societies of believers through out history have constructed a set of narratives, scripture, articulating the practices of a religion it is the society (or more specifically the religious group) that defines what constitutes a sinful action. For the Christian brought up on the idea that Biblical scripture is "inspired by God" it is certainly possible to state that God has inspired scripture if one accepts this perspective. The authors of the scripture simply interpreted certain events in the cosmic chess-game and wrote a text with these interpretations.
There are no texts that are the literal word of God, texts are psychic truths derived from an author's or a community's interpretation of physical truths. As they are constructed in time, often times these texts evolve to contain other psychic truths not directly derived from the interpretation of a physical truth. For example, Adam and Eve both embody the reality of the human form (physical truth). However, it is highly unlikely given what we know about human biology for Adam to have been directly made from the dust of the ground and Eve to be made directly from Adam's rib (this may point to a particular psychic truth the author of Genesis held about the nature of the sexes). Thus, sin is relative. "There is nothing outside the text," the text and its interpretations define the nature of sin for a given religious community. For Muslims the Qur'an, for Christians the Bible, etc. … Emphasizing the human origin of scripture does not make sin easily permissible, it can still be as verboten as if it were defined directly by an angel descending from the sky. For myself, I find it helpful to think that the truths contained in a text such as the Bible were selected for by a process of Darwinian evolution within a set of humans minds. Just as the causal agent in the cosmic chess game is "unknowable," the causal agent of the Bible's evolution is ultimately unknowable – two equally likely possibilities are absolute nothingness or God. Both an atheist and a Christian have equally probable (but different) explanations for the causal agent, but they both can agree that the text itself is the result of evolution as described. Just as many Christians are arriving upon the position of theistic evolution for living beings, one may apply the same principles to the evolution of psychic truths contained in texts. For more on this topic see the book Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life. By carefully observing what theologians and neo-Darwinians are currently saying, one may construct a Christian theology of creation that includes the emergence of the Bible within its explanatory framework. For individuals in other religious traditions, a similar act is possible.
Did God build the mountains in the photograph above? If so, how?
This type of question might lead to the articulation of a psychic truth.
Did earth exude these mountains in the photograph above from its crust due to the movement of magna in the interior of the planet? If so, how?
This type of question might lead to the articulation of a physical truth.
The next topic that this blog post leads me to start to think about is neurotheology.
While obviously careful linguistic analysis and exegesis of a Biblical text can be useful, Seow was very big on the idea that the arts and humanities can shed light on a Biblical text. The Book of Job has inspired myriad art forms of all types.
I was reading this book (http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674736566) this morning and this jumped out at me:
"When it became useful in educational circles in the United States to group various university disciplines under the name "The Humanities," it seems to have been tacitly decided that philosophy and history would be cast as the core of this grouping, and that other forms of learning-the study of languages, literature, religion, and the arts – would be relegated to subordinate positions. Philosophy, conceived as embodying truth, and history, conceived of as a factual record of the past, were proposed as the principal embodiments of Western culture, and given pride of place in general education programs.
But this confidence in a reliable factual record, not to speak of faith in a reliable philosophical synthesis, has undergone considerable erosion. Historical and philosophical assertions issue, it seems, from particular vantage points, and are no less contestable than the assertions of other disciplines. The day of limiting cultural education to Western culture alone is over. There are losses here, of course – losses in depth of learning, losses in coherence – but these very changes have thrown open the question of how the humanities should now be conceived, and how the study of the humanities should, in this moment, be encouraged.
I want to propose that the humanities should take, as their central objects of study, not the texts of historians and philosophers, but the products of aesthetic endeavors: art, dance, music, literature, theater, architecture, and so on. After all, it is by their arts that cultures are principally remembered. For every person who has read a Platonic dialogue, there are probably ten who have seen a Greek marble in a museum; or if not a Greek marble, at least a Roman copy; or if not a Roman copy, at least a photograph. Around the arts there exist, in orbit, the commentaries on art produced by scholars: musicology, and music criticism, art history and art criticism, literary and linguistic studies. At the periphery might set the other humanistic disciplines – philosophy, history, and the study of religion. The arts would justify a broad philosophical interest in ontology, phenomenology, and ethics; they would bring in their train a richer history than one which, in its treatment of mass phenomena, can lose sight of individual human uniqueness – the quality most prized in artists, and most salient, and most valued, in the arts."
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New one-meter PP pipe from Pipelife
Alex Hairabedian, General Manager for Pipelife in Bulgaria explains: "Plastic pipe systems have been used for various applications in the region since the 1960's. However, EU infrastructure funds have created huge opportunities to modernize our antiquated sewer and rainwater networks. In Bulgaria, for example, with just over three percent of our villages connected to a sewage system, the need for tangible improvement has been recognized. EUR 600 million has been earmarked by government to modernize or create hundreds of kilometers of water and sewer networks over the next three years."
"Our PRAGMA® range has appeared on an ever-growing list of projects throughout the region. Two schemes in Bulgaria will include the new one-meter pipes, namely an infrastructure project in Blagoevgrad in the south-west and a second in Devnia. Export opportunities for the one-meter are equally promising. Orders have already been booked for major schemes in Russia and Macedonia."
Local production
For Alex Hairabedian, the decision to start production with the one-meter pipe was customer related. "This two layer pipe has many advantages for installers and service providers. Its corrugated outer pipe wall withstands all the loads above ground during handling and all the loads below ground due to soil movements. Its smooth inner wall provides superb flow properties that that accelerate run-off. This is important when heavy rainfall needs to be moved quickly to mitigate flooding."
This PRAGMA® concept was originally developed twenty years ago in Scandinavia where civil engineers were quick to recognize its inherent benefits. The pipes are heat resistant to 100° C for intermittent flow in the transport of sewage. They are also chemical resistant even in aggressive situations. At the other end of the thermometer, their impact resistance is equally good since they can accommodate the very low temperatures that prevail during winter conditions in the region.
The one-meter diameter pipe will be accompanied by the local production of the entire PRAGMA® range of diameters in 160, 200, 250, 315, 400, 500, 600 and 800 mm at the same new site. Staffed eventually by around 100 commercial and production employees, this location represents a significant investment in that region. By early 2011, the factory will offer all plastic pipe systems, which are needed by the market, most of them by own production.
Pipelife is a joint venture of Wienerberger and Solvay and is based in Vienna. Active in 29 countries and with 31 production sites, it employs 2,450 people worldwide. Pipelife sales for 2009 amounted to EUR 699 million.


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NewSensations – Athena Faris Step Sister Athena Becomes An Expert (11.07.2018)
Athena Faris started with an innocent web search for some homework that led her wanting to be a blowjob expert. Lucky for step brother James his cock became the lucky winner of daily yearlong blowjobs. But, one special day had Athena pull her panties to the side and hop on his cock for a nice hard sibling fuck.


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Now that North Korea has nuclear missiles, what would it look like if they struck U.S. cities?
A confidential assessment recently reported on by The Washington Post revealed that North Korea now has missile-ready nuclear weapons.
The shocking info was made even more alarming by President Donald Trump's reaction and escalation to the isolated country's new tech: "They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen."
DETAILS: Trump issues warning of 'fire and fury'
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Obviously, no one wins in a nuclear war. Astronomer and author Carl Sagan once described the nuclear arms race "like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five."
One humbling way to be reminded of the massive loss of life is by seeing how warheads would impact some of the U.S.'s most famous and largest cities.
Click through above to see the impact of nuclear weapons on U.S. cities.


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Pulitzer Prize winning author Jane Smiley will be in Ann Arbor this week.
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Local fans of folk music, books, science films and drum-based, youth-oriented motivational speaking (is this a thing?) will find something to their liking on this week's list. Check out the details below.
Noah Gunderson at The Ark. Seattle pop-folk singer/songwriter whose recent solo debut, "Ledges," is a collection of songs that, in a manner reminiscent of Leonard Cohen, commingle the sensual and the sexual with the spiritual. Opening act is Doug Paisley, an alt-country singer-songwriter from Toronto. Sunday at 7:30 p.m., The Ark, 316 S. Main in Ann Arbor. Tickets are $12, available at mutotix.com and theark.org, and by phone at 734-763-TKTS.
Science on Screen at the Michigan Theater. Monday's selection, "Particle Fever," directed by Mark Levinson (and released in 2013), documents the experiences of 6 scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, in search of a theoretical subatomic particle. Post-screening Q&A with Johns Hopkins University physics and astronomy professor Dr. David E. Kaplan, who appears in the film. Monday at 7 p.m. at the Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty St. Tickets cost $10, available at ticketweb.com and at the door.
Rob the Drummer. Interactive concert, aimed at middle school students, by the versatile percussionist Robert Gottfried, a nationally recognized educational entertainer who has appeared on "Sesame Street," "Romper Room" and "Entertainment Tonight." His shows emphasize the importance of self-reliance, self-discipline, and goal-oriented thinking. Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty St. in Ann Arbor. Tickets $6 (VIP tickets, $25) at ticketweb.com and at the door.
Events featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley: The U-M English Department Zell Visiting Writers Series will offer a free reading by Smiley, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist ("A Thousand Acres") and essayist. Her most recent novel, "Private Life" - widely regarded as one of the best books of 2010 - traces the life of a woman in a loveless marriage while also immersed in the cataclysmic upheavals of the first half of the 20th century. Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the UMMA apse, 525 S. State in Ann Arbor. (Also on Thursday, April 3, Helen Zell Writers' Program director Michael Byers will moderate a conversation between Smiley and author/critic Steven Moore at 5:10 p.m. at the UMMA auditorium.)
Journalist/author Denise Kiernan at Nicola's Books. Kiernan reads from and discusses her book, "The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II," which focuses on the unsung WWII workers of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, one of the Manhattan Project's secret cities. Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Nicola's, 2513 Jackson in Ann Arbor.
Jenn McKee is an entertainment reporter for The Ann Arbor News. Reach her at email@example.com or 734-623-2546, and follow her on Twitter @jennmckee.


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Chaldea began as a roleplaying game world back around 1981. I started playing Dungeons & Dragons® in 1978, and it wasn't long before I graduated from playing to GM'ing. I never was a fan of the published adventure modules—instead, I went straight to building my own worlds and creating my own adventures.
During the 35 years since I began working on Chaldea, I've always been inspired by real-world history, especially military history. Chaldea's story begins with the death of Kordaava, the emperor of the known world, a story inspired by the real-world tale of Alexander the Great: a warrior-king who conquered all in his path, built an empire, but then died without a clear line of succession. In our world, Kordaava is that warrior-king, adapted to fantasy by making him a demigod of Set. And our story opens with Kordaava's assassination.
Another significant influence for me was real-world mythologies. Like most men, I imagine, the legends of the Norse gods gets my testosterone flowing. But I've always been interested in the Middle Eastern pantheons as well, especially the Sumerians and the Babylonians. In my D&D games, I would sometimes throw in some lesser-known Canaanite or Hittite deities just for good measure. In Chaldea, I lean heavily on these real-world mythologies. In the cosmos of Chaldea, instead of all these pantheons coming from the same world—Earth—each pantheon is instead a group of deities from a different world. The Egyptian gods are from a world inspired by ancient Egypt, the Greek gods come from a world inspired by ancient Greece, and so on.
Chaldea, however, is not the home world to any of these pantheons—it's simply one of thousands of habitable worlds in the universe (the "prime material planes," in D&D terms), and any particular deity's interest in Chaldea depend on the extent of that deity's influence and concerns there. Or the machinations of that deity's enemies in Chaldea. In our story, Set has a noteworthy stake here, as Emperor Kordaava was a demigod of that god. But now that Kordaava is dead, Set's dominance on Chaldea is threatened, a situation not at all helped by the fact that elsewhere in the universe, he's engaged a full-scale war with Isis.
Another traditional fantasy aspect I've leaned on heavily in developing Chaldea is the dragon. Whereas none of the deity pantheons come from the world of Chaldea, dragons do. If you asked someone on a far distant world about Chaldea, they might say, "Isn't that were dragons come from?" There were perhaps a few hundred dragons back in the origins of time. But by now, most have died or moved to some other world in search of adventure, treasure, knowledge, or solitude, and the few who remain are over a thousand years old. These are the elder dragons, and they are as powerful as gods. In fact, it's the presence of the elder dragons that's kept Chaldea from being overrun by any other pantheon.
Most Chaldean races are easily recognizable: humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, gnomes, halflings, and various monsters of classic fantasy. And because this world was born from 1970s' style D&D, I think most old-school D&D players—or those finding their way to it now through those old schoolers—will find the world easy to access.
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BINDER expands company headquarters in Tuttlingen
Construction phase 1 - COMPETENCE FACTORY
BINDER is on a trajectory of growth. Over the coming years, it plans to establish multiple new buildings at its Tuttlingen site – a large-scale project named "Competence Campus" which will see the entire company premises undergoing several stages of development.
The initial preparatory construction work began back in August 2015. The groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of construction of the BINDER COMPETENCE FACTORY has taken place on May 11, 2016. The work will involve erecting a state-of-the-art plant over approximately 8,300 m² of space at the company's Tuttlingen site. The new production hall is where all sheet metal working and device carcass construction will take place in the future. The areas of the existing facility that are freed up during the project will be used for expansion of the individual assembly areas.
With this large-scale construction project, we are setting the course for the future and laying the foundations for continued growth. This site will soon be the location of state-of-the-art infrastructure designed to provide maximum efficiency, quality, and productivity.Managing Director Peter M. Binder
Overview: the most important milestones
- 2014 bis September 2015: planning period
- August 2015: excavation work started
- September 2015: building permit obtained
- April 2016: start of first construction phase
- Mai 2016: groundbreaking ceremony
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I moved with my family to America when I was 11 years old from the beautiful island of Jamaica. The excitement of landing in New York City and finally being where I've dreamt of so often was almost palpable. Everything was so big and different in so many ways. There was so much newness I was about to experience. It was November and I remember my Dad putting this big heavy coat on me and telling me I'll need this. Coat was a foreign term to me ;) I wore a pretty blue and white stripe dress that had a big bow on the waist. I wanted to be well dressed the moment I landed in America. To greet her and tell her how delighted I am to meet her. My parents, my brother, my sister and I hugged each other for a long time in JFK. My Dad held my hand and we walked outside and yah, I remembered the cold. It was new but oh so welcomed. For me, there was a bit of magic in being an immigrant. I was ready to see what I could give to this country and how we could grow together. I've learned that we are resilient, strong and that love will always win!!! I believe in this country and the diverse fiber that makes us who we are. We are complex and ever changing. Evolving and learning from the struggles and the triumphs. It's a path that allows progress and I'm so grateful we can experience it together.
I wish you all a Happy Fourth of July and thank you for allowing me to share my journey with you. It feels like home.


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The monograph by Oleg E. Volovik tells in an entertaining form the story of
incredible, unusual, in many cases tragic life that fell on the Great Duchess
of Russia, Archduchess of Austria, the spouse of Hungarian Palatine Alexandra
Pavlovna Romanova – the eldest daughter of Emperor Paul I, sister of the
Emperors Alexander I and Nicolay I. Concentration of mind-blowing events of
very old and recent days, plenty of great illustrations, unique archive
materials and documents, many of which are published in Russian for the first
time, the author's thrilling description of so many hardly known facts of
Russian and European history unavoidably classify this book into the category
of particularly valuable and long-living publications…
The presentation of the voluminous book of the journalist and president of the
Civil Collaboration, Cultural and Spiritual Heritage Foundation Oleg E.
Volovik, titled "Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna. The Family. The Life. The
Fate. The Memory." took place in Budapest, in the building of Hungarian Academy
of Science. Before the start of the presentation His Highness Duke Dimitry
Romanovich Romanov and his spouse Her Highness Mme. Dorrit Reventlow, His
Highness Archduke Michael Habsburg-Lotharingian and his spouse Her Highness
Hungarian Duchess Krisztina von Habsburg and the author of the book were
received by the Cardinal of Hungary, Archbishop of Budapest and Esztergom,
President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Hungary Dr. Peter Erdo. He
received an exclusive inscribed example of the book. Later, the same
delegation, including members of the Habsburg and Romanov dynasties and the
author, was received by the President of the Hungarian Academy of Science Mr.
Szilveszter E. Vizi, who was also presented with an exclusive copy of the book.
The event was attended by representatives of various mass media…
Author: Oleg E. Volovik
Books size: 308 х 214 mm.
Weight: около 3 kg.
Paper – 150 gr/m2.
Total pages – 540.
Thickness: 58 mm. Gold stamping.
Total number of illustrations and graphic elements:
1148. Out of it- 240 portraits, as well as tens of illustrations of palace
interiors, antique engravings, aquarelles, architectural compositions, battle
descriptions, memorial medals and counters, archive materials and documents,
period coins, genealogic schemes and tables.
Joint publication of "Interpressfact" (Budapest), "ALVO" Publishing (Moscow)
and the Civil Collaboration, Cultural and Spiritual Heritage Foundation
Published under the patronage of Expert-Editing Council of Russian Highest
Public Reward – the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky "For Labour and Homeland" (
During the preparation of the monograph, the
historical materials and documents were translated from English, Hungarian,
Latin, German and French languages.
The book has been printed in Hungary in the oldest typography in Europe,
established in 1561- Alfoldi Nyomda Rt. (Debrecen)
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El Nula, Venezuela. 9 November 2016 – Women and girls are among the most vulnerable in Colombia due to widespread violence caused by decades of conflict. Young girls are exposed to armed recruitment, while women often find themselves on their own to sustain a family. With the lack of opportunity, they are likely to fall victim to exploitation, including prostitution and human trafficking.
Many of them flee to neighbouring countries in search of safety and stability. In Venezuela, JRS works at the border to support these Colombian refugees.
In Tàchira, Apure and Zulia, JRS brings women together to strengthen their artistic abilities and facilitate in the local integration process. By learning how to make handles, necklaces, earrings, purses, or hammocks, they acquire the tools needed to start businesses and achieve sustainable economic stability.
"I never thought I would learn how to knit and make my own daughter some earrings! We were able to exhibit our handicrafts together in other cities. Those were beautiful experiences that I'll never forget. We were able to come together and create an even stronger bond." says Gabriela, one of the participants.
These workshops serve as a space for women not only to explore their creativity through crafts but also to share their experiences and create a network of support to improve their psychosocial well-being.
As Paula shares: "I used to stay alone at home and never go out. These workshops gave me the opportunity to meet with other women that I've grown to value a lot. They have been through difficult situations in their lives and are trying to move forward."
Coming together empowers them to contribute to the peace building process by bringing new elements and a different perspective to the dialogue as women survivors.
This programme is not only catered to women, but also men, especially the spouses of women participating in the programme. Men's involvement allows for a better understanding of women's rights and more support for women to learn new skills that will help them succeed.
In this sense, the arts and crafts workshops serve as a space to cultivate peace and gender equality. In the words of Gerson Cardenas, advisor of JRS Venezuela, "Learning about art is a development that promotes a culture of peace as it provides women with tools to settle the conflicts that they encounter on a day to day basis. This has also been a space that has allowed them to develop skills that will give them the ability to deal with problems, especially in their own homes."
After participating in the program, these women will have mastered a set of skills that will empower them to be self-sustaining and be able to succeed independently through their own businesses.


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The wealth gap produces a thicket of feelings. Peer into it - as a report this week from the Fabians does - and the first impression sets egalitarian hearts pulsing with possibilities: three in four Brits regard the great chasm between the rich and poor as unacceptably large. A second glance casts doubt on the Robin Hood route to political office. The public are wary of redistribution. So they support the ends of a more equal society but not, it seems, the most obvious means to get there.
Accusing voters of double-think may be a tempting response, but attacking the public is rarely smart in politics. Instead, the Fabians use focus groups and polls to understand what is going on. Most people - whether rich or poor - tend to believe they are in the middle, producing confusion about who would gain and lose if the state were, in Barack Obama's phrase, "to spread the wealth around". At the same time there are suspicions that benefit claimants are scroungers, as well as a tendency - at least until recently - to dream up rationalisations for why super-rich individuals earn what they do.
Despite the 10p tax rate fiasco, Gordon Brown has spent years trying to arrest the slide towards inequality by funnelling tax credits to selective groups among the poor. The Fabian analysis explains why he took this tack; the emphasis on the working poor over supporting the workless or tackling the rich appears to fit with what voters have said they wanted over the recent past. The recent past, however, suddenly seems a different country. One of the great advantages of the Fabian research is that it was conducted both before and after the tumultuous events of the autumn revealed that financiers on mega-salaries had been taking the rest of society for a ride. And as soon as the storm clouds broke over the City, public rationalisation of why the rich get paid what they do gave way to public rage.
Taxing the rich more, as Labour now cautiously proposes, is one response to a changed mood in which it is no longer viable to be intensely relaxed about the filthy rich. But it should not be forgotten that doubts about the state's capacity to redistribute persist. So, however welcome the new 50p rate is, it cannot on its own be a winning political strategy for fairness. The minimum wage gives some control over rewards at the bottom end; new thought must be given to how pressure can be applied on pre-tax pay at the top end too. Procurement, industrial support and, above all, example are ways in which ministers could have an effect. The £9.4m pay packet which this week turned the RBS chief, Stephen Hester, into Britain's most highly paid public servant suggests the Brown administration is still set in the old ways.


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A graphical representation of key business metrics such as MRR, ACV/TCV, churn, conversion, and close rates. The dashboard provides a snapshot of the health of the subscription business.
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Payment term in which payment is due immediately upon receipt of the invoice.
A standalone collection of product features. In order to fully monetize a recurring revenue model, many subscription companies use pricing and packaging strategies to reach multiple market segments. Typically the flagship product includes high-value features, whereas lower, entry-level editions offer fewer product features at a lower cost.
Any non-paper based form of payment, such as ACH, wire transfer, credit or debit card, PayPal.
A subscription that remains active until the subscriber cancels.
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The primary accounting record for a business. This account uses double-entry bookkeeping, which divides the account between debits and credits, and includes other accounts for specific types of transactions.
Tenant-level governors or policies enforce application and system-level thresholds for each tenant. These governors are designed to optimize and scale Zuora platform resources for multi-tenant usage.
A financial statement that a company uses to determine its profits and losses for a given accounting period.
Part of the order-to-cash process that refers to the collection of payments from the customer based on an invoice. The process includes invoice creation, collection management, and dispute management.
A journal entry report provides journal entries in a format that can be imported into your accounting system to update the summary journal entries for current and future accounting periods.
Monthly recurring revenue (MRR) calculates subscription recurring fees normalized to a monthly value.
The process in which a customer places an order, service is provided, an invoice is generated, and payment is collected. Order-to-cash is a recurring, ongoing process in a subscription business.
Usage charges incurred when service levels included in the rate plan are exceeded.
A payment is the money that customers send to pay for invoices related to their subscriptions.
A comprehensive set of services that are delivered over the web including all systems and environments comprising the end-to-end life cycle of developing, testing, deploying, and hosting web applications.
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The end-to-end business process of creating a quote for a prospect or customer's order management, invoicing, and cash receipt.
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The percentage of subscribers scheduled to expire during a particular cycle who renew their subscriptions. Renewal rate is a subscription operational metric that reflects overall customer satisfaction. Can be measured on a unit or dollar value basis.
A Revenue Event represents a change to a revenue schedule, such as creating the initial schedule, canceling an invoice, or recognizing an undistributed amount.
A Revenue Item represents the amount of revenue distributed into an accounting period.
Revenue Recognition determines when revenue can be recognized for a service. Revenue recognition follows the basic principle that revenue can be recognized when a service has been provided and when you are likely to receive payment for that service.
A Revenue Recognition Rule governs the automated creation and change of revenue schedules on a charge.
A Revenue Schedule is a distribution of revenue amounts over a number of accounting periods–representing how revenue should be recognized over time. A revenue schedule is tied to a single charge.
A Revenue Schedule Amount is the sum of all amounts placed into accounting periods – including the "open-ended" accounting period.
A software delivery model in which a software firm provides daily technical operation, maintenance, and support for the software provided to clients.
International regulatory standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants that requires formal reviews on an organization's control over information technology and related processes.
A sandbox is a separate technical environment where customers or prospects can test software or services with a subset of data without disruption to their production environments.
Sometimes called activation fees, set-up fees are a one time charge levied to cover costs associated with getting a customer up and running on a service.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who is 2130 Partners?
2130 Partners is a leadership development and education firm training leaders to create focus, alignment and collaboration around a sustainable shared vision.
Our core belief is the only sustainable business strategies engage the heart and soul and are simultaneously grounded in sound business practices.
Our custom-designed individual and team programs recognize a company's unique culture and business development level. We meet our clients where they are today, and facilitate their momentum toward their vision of tomorrow.
What does the "2130" stand for in your name? Is it your address?
The number 2130 in our name is a significant symbol for us. Since the company was founded in 1990, the year 2130 was selected as approximately 7 generations from the founding date. Why 7 generations? There is a notion, often attributed to the Iroquois Confederacy, that leaders are accountable for the effects and impacts of their decisions on the next 7 generations. We find this idea of the "ripple effect," or legacy of leadership and the responsibility that comes with it very important. It is something we discuss frequently with our executive clients.
What is 2130 Partners' view of leadership development?
We firmly believe the growth edge successful leaders must explore and master to improve their performance and maintain the competitiveness of their organizations lies in the human dimension - the world beyond the traditional focus on physical and financial resources. In our experience, working in this realm is the most significant opportunity for productivity gains in our economy today. In particular, we believe the biggest opportunity lies not just in "getting the right people on the bus," but in maximizing the collaborative capacities of those "right people." This involves the following fundamentals:
Vision-Focused Leadership™ - our core methodology for creating a higher purpose or vision for an organization
- Catalytic Initiatives™ – taking the vision and creating right actions to fulfill and sustain it
- Operating Principles – the fundamentals for creating an atmosphere of mutual respect, trust and safety
- Productive Interactions™ – building skills and competencies to productively fulfill vision
- Leadership Choice Point™ - bringing the power of presence and choice to leadership
Is 2130 Partners right for you or your firm?
We regularly interact with hundreds of leaders in more than 50 organizations in a wide variety of industries. As a result, we are able to constantly evolve our work to incorporate leading edge thinking and sound business practices. We have been in business since 1990 and many of our clients have been with us for more than a decade.
We work with individuals and organizations that are willing to make big commitments, engage in rigorous work, face tough issues, and recognize that real, meaningful transitions are not a "weekend wonder" but an extended process.
Our most successful clients spend at least three to four years developing dramatic and sustainable change in their organizations and lives. They may or may not use 2130 Partners for the entire duration, but they regularly invest in themselves during an extended time frame to insure results.
What kind of companies or organizations benefit from working with 2130 Partners?
Based on our experience with clients over the last 17 years, we can confidently say it is not the industry or type of organization that determines whether or not working with 2130 Partners will be successful. Our techniques have also been successful for boards and staff of non-profit institutions, religious organizations, and trade associations. It is the values and characteristics of the organization that predict success. With that in mind, we find clients will be most successful in working with 2130 Partners if they have the following characteristics:
- Open and interested in learning
- Committed to sustainable growth and change – both on an organizational and individual level
- Willingness to continually examine beliefs and strategies
- Believe employees are the biggest assets
- Believe effective communication is critical
- Understand flexibility and agility are essential
- spire to have high performance, partnership-based teams
When is 2130 Partners' work most successful?
2130 Partners' methodologies are most successful when support comes from Chief Executives, Partners, Principals and their senior leadership teams to sustain the commitment, focus, and effort required to produce desired outcomes.
- Our clients succeed when they are committed to:
- Rigorous examination of their organizations and themselves.
- Becoming clear about their current circumstances and the issues they face.
- Designing bold actions and working hard.
- Conducting periodic updates to renew alignment and refresh enthusiasm.
- Staying with it over an extended period of time.
What is the value of working with 2130 Partners?
Working with 2130 Partners you will:
- Develop increased leadership skills and capacities.
- Learn to have more productive interactions with the team.
- Become comfortable engaging others in challenging, difficult conversations that lead to new levels of results.
- Learn to develop a vision that is shared by all members of the team.
- Learn to work from this vision and return to it quickly if challenges pull the team off course.
- Learn to correlate your actions and those of team members with the shared vision.
- Develop new levels of comfort with bold goals and actions.
- Make regular review and renewal a part of your way of working and living.
How can I tell if my company needs help?
- Vision or strategy is unclear or controversial
- Flat growth
- Cooperation is low or absent
- Deadlines are regularly missed or not even set
- Blame is rampant
- Competition between individuals or departments is internally directed
- Market threats exist
- Organizational consolidation is imminent or has already happened
How do I determine the kinds of programs I need?
We work with clients to conduct comprehensive self and/or organizational assessments and based on what is revealed, we will mutually design the programs based on sense of urgency, budget, and ability to allocate team time away from day-to-day accountabilities.
Recommendations may include any combination of individual and team programs, workshops and retreats.
What are 2130 Partners' fees?
Following an initial consultation, a quote will be prepared based on the selected services. For projects that are in a design phase or not yet formalized we usually work for a daily rate. When the scope of a project is defined and formalized, we generally work on a fixed fee basis.
Please contact us for more details.
Do I have to enter into a long-term contract?
No. After our introductory conversations, which have no fee, our initial interactions will probably be on a daily rate basis to jointly develop the scope of work necessary to achieve a client's objectives. Once the intended scope is clear, we will jointly set a length of engagement.
In any case, we will have a mutual right to end the engagement at will with a 30-day notice from either party.
The perspective we recommend as a starting point is that real and sustainable transitions take time, and the more people involved the longer it takes. One-to-one work is generally for a year to eighteen months minimum. Organizational strategic interventions are typically on an annual cycle and it can take up to three or four years to accomplish dramatic and sustainable results.


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Rare IED success: MRAPs cut U.S. death rate in Afghanistan
KABUL — Canadian reporter Michelle Lang spent her last moments in a Canadian Light Armored Vehicle rolling down a muddy path in Kandahar province on the day before New Year's Eve.
The improvised explosive device that killed Lang and four Canadian soldiers flipped the 23-ton LAV upside down, according to the Canwest News Service, Lang's employer. The Canadian LAV-III and LAV-25 closely resemble the American Stryker, an armored vehicle that U.S. soldiers have nicknamed the "Kevlar coffin."
In Iraq and now in Afghanistan, the U.S. military has battled to keep pace as insurgents have devised IEDs that are big or sophisticated enough to cripple or destroy even the biggest American armored vehicles, the 33-ton Mine Resistant Ambush Protected armored vehicle.
The MRAP, however, is still far superior to less heavily armored vehicles such as the Stryker and the Canadian LAVs. No MRAP has ever lost its entire crew to an IED, and if Lang and the soldiers who died with her had been in one, it's less likely that the bomb would have killed them all.
"It is certainly the case that almost all of our casualties have come from IEDs, and that many of those have come in lightly armored vehicles," said Brian Platt, the author of the Canada-Afghanistan Blog.
Casualty figures suggest that the quick pace of American development of blast-resistant vehicles such as the MRAP and its all-terrain variant, which is designed for Afghanistan's rugged conditions, has helped to reduce fatalities from IED attacks.
The new armored vehicles are arriving as President Barack Obama has ordered an additional 30,000 or more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, and as the frequency of IED attacks has skyrocketed. In 2003, there were 81 recorded IED incidents in Afghanistan. In 2009, there were 7,228.
Canada and other NATO partners have lagged behind the U.S., however, and the casualties their forces have suffered have increased domestic pressure on their governments to limit offensive operations in Afghanistan, resist U.S. requests to send additional troops and in some cases even to consider withdrawing their troops.
After MRAPs began trickling into Afghanistan in 2007, American troops became far less likely to be killed in IED attacks than their Canadian and British counterparts were, according to figures compiled by the Web site icasualties.org, which tracks casualties in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. U.S. fatal casualties due to IEDs, as a percentage of combat fatalities, have decreased precipitously as more blast-resistant vehicles have entered the theater.
In 2008, about half of the British, Canadian and American troops who were killed in action died in IED attacks. In 2009, the percentage of American troops who were killed in IED attacks fell to 40 percent from 50 percent, while the odds of a successful IED attack against their two largest NATO partners increased dramatically.
During the same period, the percentage of British combat casualties due to IED attacks grew to 70 percent from 58 percent. IEDs killed 27 of the 32 Canadian troops who died in combat in 2009, or 84 percent.
According to figures compiled by The Guardian newspaper in London, the Canadians have had 5.1 percent of their total deployed force killed in action since 2006. The British have lost 3.6 percent and the Americans 2.5 percent.
Those figures can be misleading, however. A large number of U.S. troops are deployed in the quieter north and west of Afghanistan, while almost all the Canadians and Britons are in the volatile south, where the Taliban originated.
In addition, a few of the troops who were killed by IEDs may have died while they were on foot patrols, not in military vehicles, and American, Canadian and British ground tactics and procedures are as different as their soldiers' accents are.
U.S. commanders privately have gasped at how their British counterparts conduct operations in Land Rovers, which have no discernable protection against IEDs.
Canadian commanders, on the other hand, have complained privately that U.S. troops carry too much armor, preventing interaction with Afghan locals.
Still, the data indicate that U.S. troops are better prepared for IED attacks than their NATO partners are.
Canada, the United Kingdom and other NATO partners have sent MRAPs to Afghanistan, but in smaller numbers and well behind the pace of their U.S. counterparts.
Diane Larose, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Forces in Ottawa, said the Canadian government had purchased 39 Cougar MRAPs, a model that provides some of the best protection against IEDs, but she declined to say how many have been deployed to Afghanistan.
A British spokeswoman also declined to specify how many MRAPs the United Kingdom has purchased and deployed.
The first wave of U.S. M-ATVs arrived in Afghanistan last month, and the military expects to send about 5,000 of the off-road vehicles to Afghanistan this year.
(Day reports for The Telegraph in Macon, Ga.)
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Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected-All Terrain Vehicle program
Army's new all-terrain vehicle debuts in Afghanistan
Afghan insurgents learn to destroy key U.S. armored vehicle
U.S. Marines find Iraq tactics don't work in Afghanistan
Pentagon ignored danger of roadside bombs, report finds


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This collection contains 2 photocopied newspaper clippings. The first clipping is an interview with Lt. Joyce Shotwell, Lt. Carol Ramsey, and Lt. Deborah Loewer about their experiences as female officers onboard the US Navy ship USS YOSEMITE (AD-19). The second clipping is an announcement of Lt. Joyce M. Shotwell's award ceremony where she received the US Navy Commendation Medal. Also included in the collection is the original commendation certificate, medal, letters of endorsement and citations. There are three black and white photographic headshots of Lt. Joyce M. Shotwell in uniform, one color photo of Lt. Shotwell in civilian attire posed in front of the USS YOSEMITE (AD-19) and three small black and white photos of Lt. Shotwell receiving her medal at the award ceremony, accompanied by a Capt. Palumbo and one unidentified male officer. Also included is Shotwell's 1960s grade school autograph book signed by friends and teachers.
Lt. Joyce Shotwell, Lt. Carol Ramsey and Lt. Deborah Loewer all served as female officers onboard the US Navy ship USS YOSEMITE (AD-19). Shotwell received the US Navy Commendation Medal.
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YOSEMITE (AD-19), 7/20/1980 - 8/28/1981, for which she received the Navy Commendation Medal; also her Lamesa, Texas grade school autograph book, ca. 1960s. 61 items. (0.25 cubic feet est.) See preliminary inventory attached. Donor: Jonathan Dembo.
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