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The learners will learn to talk about the calendar and learn to make a weekly plan in Chinese.
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About Krista Schafer
How long have you been doing what you do, and how did you become a holistic coach?
To answer this question, it's probably best that I share with you a defining moment, and resulting "compelling story," that brought me to where I am today- coaching people like you on exactly what to do to soar their health and confidence. That defining moment in my life happened in 2005.
I began dating my husband during college. Often, we would go to his home so I could study in a quiet place and get away from my annoying roommate. I saw a picture of Carmen Electra on the back of his door and announced that I was going to be like her. She was on a pole. He laughed confused, thinking I wanted to be a porn star. Naively, I had no idea what that was, but I knew at that moment I would be a pole star! To me, a pole star was utilizing the pole to become strong, confident, and powerful. The tricks, the movements- slow and fast, the overall science and health to a Pole Star were just astonishing to me. I knew that in time the more I worked at Pole myself the more I felt inside my heart that this would help others to achieve their health and confidence dreams.
I attended a local amateur night. I kept my clothes on! I watched the one performer do a flip on the pole and knew I could do that. I did a flip on that pole! I did hit my head, but only my husband seemed to notice. Because I am a dancer, it came very easily and naturally to me. I was hooked. Although North Dakota does not require certification, I went to Las Vegas to get my official certificate in pole fitness and opened up my own studio.
After having my daughter in 2011 and nearly losing her due to preeclampsia, and delivery issues, I made myself a promise that I would do everything in my power to mentally, physically, and emotionally do what I needed to, to be sure to be here for my daughter. I made the decision to continue on my health and wellness path to better control type one diabetes and hypothyroidism. On this journey, I discovered the tools to become confident and strong, so that I could lead, teach, and help my daughter and others gain these skills in life as well.
A few years later, I discovered Reiki. I had returned from a wedding in the Virgin Islands and came back itching constantly. My friend who was with me suggested I allow her to do distance Reiki on me. I was desperate for relief, so although I did not know what that meant, I agreed. Within 15 minutes, my itching went away completely. After several incredible experiences with Reiki, I knew this was my calling.
Reiki and pole fitness got me through personal barriers I did not even know existed. Reiki has helped me move passed old barriers and limiting beliefs, extreme mental and emotional trauma that I had as a child, as well as the experiences of physical and emotional abuse to one of family members specifically. The chronic yelling, complaining, and repeating of continuous bad words repeatedly. Oh, did I mention that in the midst of all of these traumatizing experiences, I was diagnosed at age of 12 with type 1 diabetes and hypothyroidism (SHIT). Then in 2009 I had discovered Pole while my dear friend insisted on taking us to Fargo ND to take classes, I immediately fell in love. The pole- static and spinning had a way of erasing all my passed life experience and physical pain I had. As well as emotional thoughts and feelings that I felt while, my husband was diploid in Kosovo for that year (2009-2010). Pole had helped me conquer physical strength, emotional confidence that I did not know I could achieve, as well as a love of determination, confidence and diligence to complete a "job" that most of my family members and friends say I "never finish a task…" Here I was able to conquer that "trick" and move to the next and the next, etc. If it could heal and transform my life so profoundly, I knew that Pole Fitness, Reiki and becoming the Holistic coach I am today was the vehicle I needed to help others.
I cleaned up my past and started teaching women how they can do the same: I watched their confidence and health escalate too! I have since made a commitment to coach women on how to live their most healthy and confident life - moving forward past the limiting beliefs standing in their way.
Since then, I have worked with many private clients, spoken in front of countless groups. I have lived my dream of helping women with a variety of challenges transform their lives, become confident and healthy - all while earning an income with my online business, and traveling to Greenland and Ireland. I have created Rise Up: 90 Days to Unleashing Your Most Healthy and Confident Self.
I work with many people like you who are determined, independent, self-driven, honest, natural-born leaders, teachers, and coaches, women who listen, respect one another, and are open to coaching.
What makes you different from other "Holistic Coaches"?
Although we will occasionally touch upon how I am spiritually guided - intuitively receiving messages to help us to get to the root of things, to help you become you're most healthy and most confident self, you have me as your health and confidence expert and consultant. I work on the inner and outer principals for success and look at your health and trigger/trauma results from an organic and spiritual perspective. What that means to you is that you get a wise-sage-meets-kick-butt authentic health and confidence coach. I am also very spiritual, and I don't pretend to hide it either. Because I am not delicate, you will always get a straight to the point quick and honest response from me.
I am concerned with how to get your health and confidence rolling in FAST and STOP wasting your energy, time, money, power on FADS that won't get you to your best healthy and confident self.
You may not like what I have to tell you, but you can be sure I will always tell you the truth - the truth about what's standing in the way of your success and how to get rid of it FAST so you can start getting results in record time (and I throw in a healthy dose of humor and inspiration, which always helps ;) .
What type of personality do you work best with and what is expected of me?
The Rise Up: Unleash Your Health and Confident Self- workshops, programs; products were created for people who are serious about getting healthy, gaining self- confidence, pushing forward against limiting beliefs. This means not running around all day long, beating yourself up anymore saying: "Oh, it's because I can't afford it, or I need more strength, or I do not believe in this, or I need to be more fit to do that." They were created for you to put systems in place within a few months (sometimes weeks!) which will eventually lead you to gain more confidence, health, praise and joy.
Being a high-achiever, go-getter myself, I'm known to work best with other high-achiever, go-getter people who are committed to their own success no matter what, who are super-ready to get going and just want to know exactly what steps to take to get healthy and confident. My clients often tell me – "just tell me what to do, and I'll do it!" Consider what you will do with me to be a high-octane crash course on everything you need to know to succeed in your goals. You will be expected to take serious and consistent action. No excuses anymore, just a very different way of thinking and full support while you achieve this incredibly exciting goal: achieving your healthy, confident, magical self.
For what type of professionals are your programs NOT going to work?
Please know I am very selective in who cherry-pick and I work with my clients, choosing to (gently) turn away people who aren't suited for my programs and won't get the results for which they would have signed up for. (It would not be fair to them). Rise Up: 90 Days to Unleashing Your Most Healthy and Confident Self - programs are not for those who have no money coming in and are absolutely, financially desperate, at least not right away, and are not ready to take on their own self-accountability for heath. It's been my experience that people in financial crisis do not trust the recommendations I give them and do not work (probably because they spend too much time worrying about where they are going to get next month's rent check or mortgage payment). If you fall within this category, it's absolutely OK. We've all been there in times of financial crisis at one point or another, Do yourself (3) favors:
Get some money coming in with a full-time or part-time job at the very least, and then call me. This will take the edge off and provide a little more peace of mind. Mostly, it will de-clutter your mind enough to focus your Rise Up: 90 Days to Unleashing Your Most Healthy and Confident Self, assignments, and the BIG picture.
Sign up for the Jez-Mir-Izing Healthy Living Talk email list at www.jezmirizing.com. The free information will get you started towards your goals until you're ready to work with me one-on-one.
Make a point to join my private Rise Up: 90 Days to Unleashing Your Most Healthy and Confident Self Facebook group. The weekly tips will give you lots to think about.
Doing these three things will really help you get primed for our work. When you're ready, call me, and we'll get you started. (I'm in no rush and will be here when you need me.) Other types of personalities I will not work with (without exception) are the whiner or the chronic skeptic, as well as individuals who consistently make excuses for not getting their assignments done or challenging every aspect of the program. If you are one of these people, I gently and respectfully ask that you not call and I hope you understand why. We'll probably just not work well together, and I wouldn't want you to waste your time or money. Is that fair?
What exactly is Rise Up: 90 to Unleashing Your Most Healthy and Confident Self - system, and what does it include?
Rise Up: 90 Days to Unleashing Your Most Healthy and Confident Self begins with establishing your true intentions as to what you want and where you want to go. Understanding your what your personal self-sabotage thoughts are and how to get you above and beyond old limitations (including better health and confidence), creating a self-powerful routine to help get thorough those rough days and helping you to allow your-self to celebrate the small win.
Here's what the System gets you to do:
Set Your Intentions
We examine where you are in at in your health and confidence journey thus far and get you CRYSTAL clear about your intentions, what you want to experience in your personal life. Before you can manifest what you want, you have to know what you want. You'll learn the difference between setting goals and intentions, the biggest mistakes with certain health and fitness techniques when trying to apply them to your personal workout routine. We'll pave the way for exciting opportunities, synchronicities and better health and confidence.
Release Your Inner Resistance
Mostly you might already know what you need to be doing but yet are still struggling in procrastination, feeling stuck and spinning in circles. You'll be learning proven techniques for breaking through inner resistance, self-doubt, fear, anxiety, emotional trauma, and all of that "stuff" that keeps you feeling like a "victim" rather than taking your own power back and gaining that self-confidence.
Now it's time to supercharge and amp up your energy and discover enthusiasm to transform your negative internal dialog. This is where you reprogram your mind, body and soul.
Being open to new opportunities in life and being able to receive as women will dictate how much joy we invite into our lives. Master the processes to help you speak with integrity to yourself and others. This is where you become able to receive, even though you have always been a giver. It's a skill that will help bring more of what you want into reality.
Your personal Success Routine
You will get the knack of implementation and finally bring everything together. Learn to set up mental triggers for consistent results for staying motivated and having positive momentum.
Just Get Over It
How to eliminate Stress and Anxiety for Good
Get Your Sexy Back
Revamp the body image
Feeling sexy and frisky again
Regain your confidence
Have MORE intimacy in your relationship
Action Plan
Creating Your Next Steps: I will help you to be able to move from mental, emotional and physical blocks when triggers arise and or obstacles/ stuck feelings get in the way. We will guide you through the action steps on creating the life you love and closing the door on limiting beliefs, emotions and feelings. Creating the space for more personal love, health and feelings.
We'll focus on a lot of our tie celebrating wins and creating the new habit of celebrating what's showing up for you. What you focus on expands and everything you are learning and experiencing is of your creation. Your confidence will soar as you consistently produce results over and over again! Celebrate what shows up so you can pave the way for even more success!
Does this really work?
Yes! The result of our work is an approach to shifting your mindset and determination, so that with time, and consistency you'll grow your confidence and achieve the healthy lifestyle you've been dreaming of.
See Testimonials here https://www.jezmirizing.com/testimonies).
What results can I expect?
You can expect to:
Have big breakthrough and aha-moments
Creating new standards for yourself, including boundaries, so you're in charge of your health, confidence, and happiness
Discover yourself and set goals and reach them with all your treatment cases
Feel empowered and excited about your own journey
Truly love the version of yourself that shows up to play this game called life
Learn how to say the creative NO and honor your true yes and no
Being Honest with Yourself
Being Responsible for Yourself
Trusting yourself more now
Health benefits, living stress-free
Anxiety dissipates and peace and calm sets in
Fall back in love with yourself and how you provide self-love to yourself
Have more ease and grace in your practice and in your personal life
Connect with your intuition
Raise your self-esteem and self-confidence
Gain unshakeable confidence in yourself (a lot of my clients tell me that is worth the investment alone)
Learn proven techniques for this will release your internal resistance and self-sabotaging tendencies so you can take action and start living your passion and purpose with ease
Create new goals for your self
Stay accountable to these goals and achieve them
Let go and release trauma in the body, mind, and soul
Learn how to say NO and honor your yes and no's
Breakout in Creativity
Connect with your intuition
How can I see what it's like to work with you?
Please go to the https://www.jezmirizing.com/testimonies page and read all of them. See which ones you feel drawn to, either because the person has gotten the results you want to get too, or perhaps because that person is in a similar situation.
How quickly can I expect results?
That depends on how quickly you can make those inner shifts. Some clients are ready to go and get healthy and confident in a very short time frame, sometimes even a few weeks while others have a bit more work to do first. It also depends on
How can I guarantee myself that I will get more health and confidence in record time?
Do all of your homework, Be totally committed to your success. Understand that this is a process, a proven one, that works if you take action and implement all of the steps. All my clients who have diligently applied every step of Rise up: 90 days to unleashing your most healthy and confident self; have successfully determination, independent, self-driven, honest, natural leaders/teachers, coaches, listen and respect, in much less time then they would have I their own AND have health and confidence.
Krista, based on everything I've read and heard about you, I know you're the one I want to learn from, what are my options for getting started with you?
Congratulations on making a decision for success! I'm happy to work with you to achieve your health and confidence goals… The best way to work with me is in my Rise Up: 90 Days to Unleashing Your Most Healthy and Confident Self. Here are some of the results you can expect…
Have big breakthrough and aha-moments
Creating new standards for yourself, including boundaries, so you're in charge of your health, confidence, and happiness
Discover yourself and set goals and reach them with all your treatment cases
Feel empowered and excited about your own journey
Truly love the version of yourself that shows up to play this game called life
Learn how to say the creative NO and honor your true yes and no
Being Honest with Yourself
Being Responsible for Yourself
Trusting yourself more now
Health benefits, living stress-free
Anxiety dissipates and peace and calm sets in
Fall back in love with yourself and how you provide self-love to yourself
Have more ease and grace in your practice and in your personal life
Connect with your intuition
Raise your self-esteem and self-confidence
Gain unshakeable confidence in yourself (a lot of my clients tell me that is worth the investment alone)
Learn proven techniques for this will release your internal resistance and self-sabotaging tendencies so you can take action and start living your passion and purpose with ease
Create new goals for your self
Stay accountable to these goals and achieve them
Let go and release trauma in the body, mind, and soul
Learn how to say NO and honor your yes and no's
Breakout in Creativity
Connect with your intuition
OK, I'm ready to do this for myself, but I have a couple additional questions. Can I call you?
Good, sounds like you're ready to be pulled into your future! Yes, if you have a couple of questions, just email me at firstname.lastname@example.com or call me directly at 701-389-0402 ad I'll be happy to walk through the different options to see which one will be the very best fit for you.
I can't wait to see you succeed and am honored to be the one to help you. Let's get going and moving you above and beyond old limitations easily and elegantly.
Krista Schafer
Your personal Holistic Coach
Jez-Mir-Izing Reiki, Pole Fitness and All Better Products


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A new hub of the Structural Genomics Consortium housed at UNC-Chapel Hill's Eshelman School of Pharmacy will encourage a widespread and unrestricted use of its findings to accelerate discovery of breakthrough medicines for diseases ranging from cancer to rheumatoid arthritis to Alzheimer's.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the newest member of a pioneering international partnership that aims to completely map the single most successful targets for cancer drugs known to date and will share their work with no fees or restrictions on intellectual property. The unrestricted use of this map could lead to breakthrough medicines not only in the realm of cancer, but also for rheumatoid arthritis and a host of neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
The partnership is known as the Structural Genomics Consortium, which began 11 years ago and includes Oxford University, the University of Toronto and the State University of Campinas in São Paulo, Brazil. UNC-Chapel Hill is the consortium's newest member and has launched the SGC-UNC on campus, thanks to startup funding from the UNC Eshelman Institute for Innovation, which was created by Fred Eshelman's gift to the pharmacy school in 2014.
"Because of Fred Eshelman's historic $100 million gift, we have been able to create the first SGC hub in the U.S.," said Chancellor Carol L. Folt. "SGC-UNC is going to help identify the best new targets for discovering breakthrough medicines, and we have Dr. Eshelman and an incredibly talented group of faculty, staff and students to thank for this remarkable effort."
UNC-Chapel Hill will focus on developing chemical tools that allow researchers to home in on the function of a family of proteins called kinases, enzymes that set in motion the machinery for cell growth and survival. They will then use these tools to create a functional map of this family, such that similar kinases would be grouped together. The map will help pharmaceutical companies, industry and academia narrow down on kinases they want to target for drug development depending on the disease they want to treat. Without the map, it is unclear which kinases are potential drug targets for any one disease.
"It's like exploring and opening up the American West," said Tim Willson, chief scientist of the Structural Genomics Consortium at UNC-Chapel Hill. "Everyone suspected there was something interesting out there, but until somebody went out there and made a map, people just didn't know where to build the railroads, or a new settlement. The pioneers had to go explore for the good of everyone and bring that knowledge back to share with everyone."
Although kinases have been one of the most productive areas of drug development, they are largely unexplored. Out of a family of approximately 500 proteins, only about 50 have been studied in depth, which has led to the creation of 26 drugs, 25 of which work to fight cancer – an overwhelming success rate for drug discovery. But despite their high-stakes therapeutic potential, more than 80 percent of kinases remain untapped due to the cost, risk and complexity of creating the chemical tools that yield such a map.
UNC has already seen success leveraging the SGC's work with protein kinases. In 2009, researchers at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center identified a kinase that plays a role in various forms of cancer. At that time, the SGC, which did not include UNC-Chapel Hill, had already made the 3D structure of the kinase available to the public. Scientists then used the structure of the kinase to rapidly design and synthesize new compounds that shut down activity in human cancer cells.
Their work resulted in a spinoff company, Meryx, which was created in 2013 to develop new therapeutics based on the kinase inhibitors created at UNC-Chapel Hill.
"The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy knows firsthand the value of the work done by the SGC, and we are extremely proud to become a part of it," said Robert Blouin, dean of the school. "We are now at the center of a global network of activity that will generate many opportunities for drug discovery with protein kinases as targets for breakthrough medicines."
The new unit is made up of former employees of GlaxoSmithKline's Research Triangle Park location. GSK, one of the original funders of the SGC, is contributing the rights to use and distribute a library of chemicals developed and characterized by the company.
"The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an outstanding institution, and their involvement in the SGC clearly signals their intent to speed the creation of new medicines for patients," said Aled Edwards, director and CEO of the Structural Genomics Consortium. "We're delighted to welcome UNC as our first site in the U.S."
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UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy contact: David Etchison, (919) 966-7744,firstname.lastname@example.com
Communications and Public Affairs contact: Thania Benios, (919) 962-8596, email@example.com


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SUPERHUMAN30 – Day 25: You Deserve a Cheat Meal!
Posted on 26. Jan, 2012 by Andrew Frezza in Lifestyle, SUPERHUMAN30 Challenge
Last week, we talked about 6 sensible ways to cheat on the Superhuman30. Those indulgences, although not ideal from a weight loss standpoint, can actually have positive effects on your overall health when used on an occasional basis. As we discussed last week, the purpose of the sensible cheat was 3-fold:
1) To teach you how to cheat better.
2) To teach you how to not feel guilty when you do cheat.
3) To teach you how to recover quickly after you go off track.
This week, we want you to take a slightly different approach. We still want you to obey points 2 and 3, but we want you to throw #1 completely out the window! All food and drinks are allowed for one meal this weekend!
Why Are We Allowing This?
Because a little math tells us that Day 31, your first day off the Superhuman30, falls on a Tuesday. While I certainly can't speak for everyone, having my first cheat on a Tuesday seems pretty pointless. Not to mention, with the weekend looming so soon after, it will be difficult to get back on track long enough to regain momentum before Friday. Also, a little event called the Super Bowl happens to fall on that Sunday. So essentially if you choose to have your cheat on Tuesday, there's a good chance that you will spend at least 4 of the next 6 days consuming food and drinks that you worked so hard to avoid for the last 30 days. Your momentum will be gone, and you will likely end up right back where you started on Day 1. Or as DirectTV likes to point out in their commercial, "Don't wake up in a road side ditch". Get your cheat out of the way this weekend, and make next week as strong as you possibly can.
Why Cheat In The First Place?
Like we mentioned in last week's post, perfection was never the goal of the Superhuman30. If your favorite food in the whole world is Ben and Jerry's Chunky Monkey ice cream, it would be stupid to think that you would spend the rest of your life without taking another bite of it. We also expect that most of you won't hold back at your next holiday gathering, wedding, date night, or office party. These events don't happen every day and there's no reason to feel guilty about going off track every once in a while. Instead of ignoring cheating and pretending its not going to happen, we prefer to schedule it instead.
Because as long as you get back on track the following day, you will quickly realize that a few hours of bad eating has almost no negative effects on your long term goals.
How do I know?
Because I was consistently incorporating cheat meals once a week when I got in the best shape of my life 7 months ago.
I loved my cheat meals for a few reasons. First off, it gave me mental relief from the permanent feeling of most diets. This may sound pathetic to you, but it's kind of a scary feeling to think that you could never eat Oreos or Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream again for the rest of your life. With a weekly cheat meal, I never had to go more than 7 days without my favorite foods.
This mental relief removed all of the guilt that I normally associated with cheating and provided additional motivation to eat extra healthy during the week. It became easy to turn down a sandwich during the middle of the week because I knew I was going to have something I really wanted once the weekend rolled around.
Also, because I never held back, cheat meals always made me feel a little bit sick and reinforced how much good I was doing for my body the other 6 ½ days of the week.
This deliberate approach to cheating makes eating healthy a lot easier and makes cheating a whole lot more fun.
Guidelines for the Cheat:
This can occur anytime between now and Sunday. But don't waste it on something you don't really care for. Make the cheat as special as possible so you don't get done and wish you had more.
Pick 1-3 of your FAVORITE foods! This includes alcohol. Nothing would disappoint me more than to see you waste your cheat on a crappy sandwich or bowl of cereal. Take some time to think about some food/drinks that you have been dying to have, and focus the cheat around those.
Limit it to just a few hours. Don't spend the whole day or weekend spreading small cheats throughout. It's only allowed to be one meal! If you want to go out to a bar or club for a few hours and have drinks then that works as well, just make sure it's not an all-day affair.
Make the cheat the last meal of the day. Even on my worst cheat days, I still love to have a healthy breakfast and lunch and get a good workout in. This limits the damage of the cheat day, and lessens the chance of you making it an all-day event.
Savor every bite. Don't go off track just for the sake of going off track. If there's something you have been dying to have, enjoy every bite and make the cheat count.
No leftovers. If there's anything left once your cheat is over, make sure it goes straight in the garbage. Keep the habit of making your house your safe-house and eating healthy will always be the convenient and easy way to eat.
And most importantly, get right back on track. If you are accepting the cheat this weekend then you are promising to continue your superhuman ways until the next weekend. Recovery is the most important part of cheating. You've come a long way over the last 25 days and there's no reason to not continue that momentum. Use the cheat as an added boost to make the next week as good as possible.


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The world's best loved Liverpool-born Beatles tribute
The world's best loved Liverpool-born Beatles tribute – The Mersey Beatles – are touring the world in 2019 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Fab Four's iconic 1969 album Abbey Road.
The Mersey Beatles are regarded by many as the most authentic Beatles tribute in the world. They are the former resident band at Liverpool's legendary Cavern Club – they played the world famous venue more than 600 times – and plaudits include none other than John Lennon's own family.
In 2019, the band are touring the USA, Australia and Europe with a show which will see them play the Abbey Road album in its entirety in the first half followed by a sensational second set of The Beatles greatest hits.
Starts at 7:30pm on 14th November at City Hall Salisbury.


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If you're wondering how managers use emotional intelligence, I suppose it depends on how effective those managers want to be. If they want to be top performers, they need to use it well.
All joking aside, there is a strong correlation between how managers use emotional intelligence and their performance ratings. Research in over 200 companies worldwide shows that in middle management positions, 2/3 of the difference between average performers and top performers is emotional intelligence. The news seems to be everywhere, such as this article in Inc. magazine about the best managers using EQ.
The question remains: How do they use it?
The EQ model provides a great foundational framework. It all starts with self-awareness. Managers need to know their strengths, their weaknesses, their personal goals and motivations, and also their behavioral and cognitive styles. The next step is self-management, which is capitalizing on their strengths and knowing where they need help — as well as when to back off. To quote a famous Clint Eastwood movie, a man's got to know his limitations.
The second level starts with social awareness – that is, knowing the strengths and weaknesses of everyone one your team. This is a core responsibility of management that is rarely emphasized in management schools. But know that understanding your people doesn't happen by osmosis. A manager must become a student and strive to learn about the people on his or her team.
As I've observed in my 30 years of working with teams and team leaders, those who become students of their people are the most effective managers. Why? Because when they're aware of each team members strengths, weaknesses, motivators, and their behavioral and cognitive styles, they know how each person performs best.
With that knowledge they can make better assignments and they get problems solved easier. It's part of the relationship management quadrant of the EQ model. All of this makes them more productive, effective, and profitable.
Yes – this is how managers use Emotional Intelligence.
Can you see its value?
Isn't this what we expect from managers? Create productive, effective, and profitable workplaces?
And so, considering how managers use emotional intelligence to create engaged and effective teams, I strongly recommend all managers learn it.
Let me say this, too: If you're a manager, you're never too old or too young to learn EQ. The other day I read that you can't learn EQ after your 40's. My eyeballs kind of popped out when I read that! I've had lots of clients in their 50's and 60's who've learned EQ and put it to work right away with excellent results.
In closing, let me add that learning EQ is not difficult. I've been teaching it for nearly 30 years to a wide variety of people in many industries, and if you want to learn it, you can.
PS. No matter what your age, if you would like to give your EQ a boost, let me recommend my latest book, which I am giving away for free for a limited time – it's titled 10 Steps for Improving Your Emotional Intelligence, and you get it free by clicking the image below:


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Thursday, 20 September 2007
Lydford Gorge
A lovely trail through the forest
Which winds down to a stream with old copper mines alongside. I could smell the bats in here.
And then I got to swim below a 90 foot waterfall called the White Lady.
The way back was along precarious paths on slippery stone. A lot of the time the humans had to hold on to the handrail and even my feet were unsteady. The river would suddenly gush down through cuts in the rock and over rapids and waterfalls. Dogs definitely not allowed off lead! The roaring noise of the water spooked me a bit.
At one point the river falls into a chamber it has cut which they call the Devils Cauldron. It's like a cave full of roaring water swirling boulders around making a huge noise. Dogs weren't allowed down there and you can see why - this is the way in and the steps are on the top left.
But I really impressed Mum and Dad when they took me on the metal walkway above the Cauldron. The noise is deafening, and I could see through the grille I stood on right down into the waterfall below. I only hesitated once, but then went straight on over. Cool me, huh?
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Wow! What an awesome spot! I wish we had something like this near us!ReplyDelete
Love ya lots,
How pretty that place is!! We've never seen a copper mine. Good thing it's fenced off so you can't get lost in there!!!! We have a gorge near our house too. We love to walk there. There are just soooo many sniffs to see!ReplyDelete
Scruffy and Lac!
Hi, MojoReplyDelete
Looks like a very interesting walkie. You have great places to go there where you live!
oh..i love outdoor adventure....ReplyDelete
those r really scenic view....got waterfall too!!
those are mazing photos Mojo!ReplyDelete
and those green.. whoo.. what fun you had ei?!
I wish theré such places like that in this country..
How absolutley lovely( but a little scary on the high up parts!) WE would LOVE to go there.Love A+AReplyDelete
You are one tough and sweet cookie of an Airegirl. I am impressed. The photos were cool and scarey at the same time.ReplyDelete
Have a good weekend, chica.
Goober love,
What a beautiful place to take a walk! You are one lucky dog!ReplyDelete
Ozze & Rocky
Hey Mojo,ReplyDelete
Awesome spot to go for walkies. We love going to places like that. Glad you enjoyed it & wasn't too scared.
Luv & Wirey Hugs!
Butchy & Snickers
Hiya MojoReplyDelete
We're new to blogging and have just come across your blog. It's great to meet you.
Noah, Willow, Tess & Lucy
Leura dales.
WOW!! What a place!! You are a very brave doggie to go there, but it is beautiful!ReplyDelete
Koobuss Kisses,
Hello Mojo!ReplyDelete
Thanks for writing on our blog! Great to see you in Devon too - we know the area where you live pretty well....
Guess what - we've been to Lydford Gorge too - and the East lyn Valley - it is so beautiful up there isn't it?
Lovely pics,
Love Molly and Gertrude


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Osama bin Laden, Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, bin Laden's mentor, and Abdullah Anas, Azzam's son-in-law, create an organization called Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK), known in English as the Services Office. It is also known as Al-Kifah. This organization will become a key node in the private funding network for the Afghan war. (Bergen 2006, pp. 28-30) The US government will later call it the "precursor organization to al-Qaeda." (9/11 Commission 8/21/2004, pp. 89 ) Initially, Azzam runs it while bin Laden funds it. They create a guesthouse in Peshawar, Pakistan, to help foreign volunteers connect with rebel forces in Afghanistan. Prior to this time, the number of such volunteers is very small, perhaps only several dozen. But the number begins to dramatically expand. (Engelberg 1/14/2001; Bergen 2006, pp. 28-30) Donors will include the Saudi intelligence agency, the Saudi Red Crescent, the Muslim World League, and private donors, including Saudi princes. (Rashid 9/23/2001) MAK/Al-Kifah begins fundraising in the US one year later (see 1985-1989).
Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, bin Laden's mentor, makes repeated trips to the US and other countries, building up his Pakistan-based organization, Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK), or "Services Office" in English. It is also known as Al-Kifah, which means "struggle." Azzam founded the Al-Kifah/MAK in 1984 (see Late 1984). Branches open in over 30 US cities, as Muslim-Americans donate millions of dollars to support the Afghan war against the Soviet Union. The most important branch, called the Al-Kifah Refugee Center, opens in Brooklyn, New York (see 1986-1993). Azzam is assassinated in a car bomb attack in late 1989 (see November 24, 1989). Bin Laden soon takes over the organization, which effectively morphs into al-Qaeda. His followers take over the US offices and they become financial conduits for al-Qaeda operations. (Lance 2003, pp. 40-41)
By the mid-1980s, Osama bin Laden and his mentor Abdullah Azzam jointly founded a charity front based in Pakistan which is called Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK) (which means "services office") and is also known as Al-Kifah (which means "struggle") (see 1984). Branches start to open in the US; the first one apparently opens in Tucson, Arizona, where al-Qaeda has a sleeper cell (see 1986). But around 1986, Khaled Abu el-Dahab, the right hand man of double agent Ali Mohamed, informally founds the branch in Brooklyn, New York, and it soon becomes the most important US branch. (Weiser, Sachs, and Kocieniewski 10/22/1998; Burr and Collins 2006, pp. 269-270) On December 29, 1987, three men, Mustafa Shalabi, Fawaz Damra, and Ali Shinawy, formally file papers incorporating Al-Kifah, which is called the Al-Kifah Refugee Center. At first, it is located inside the Al Farouq mosque, which is led by Damra. But eventually it will get it own office space next to the mosque. Shalabi, a naturalized citizen from Egypt, runs the office with two assistants: Mahmud Abouhalima, who will later be convicted for a role in bombing the World Trade Center in 1993 (see February 26, 1993), and El Sayyid Nosair, who will assassinate a Jewish leader in New York in 1990 (see November 5, 1990). (Mitchell 4/11/1993; Hosenball 10/1/2001; Sullivan, Garrett, and Rutchick 11/4/2001) Jamal al-Fadl, a founding member of al-Qaeda and future FBI informant (see June 1996-April 1997), also works at the Al-Kifah Refugee Center in its early days. (Miller, Stone, and Mitchell 2002, pp. 155) The Brooklyn office recruits Arab immigrants and Arab-Americans to go fight in Afghanistan, even after the Soviets withdraw in early 1989. As many as 200 are sent there from the office. Before they go, the office arranges training in the use of rifles, assault weapons, and handguns, and then helps them with visas, plane tickets, and contacts. They are generally sent to the MAK/Al-Kifah office in Peshawar, Pakistan, and then connected to either the radical Afghan faction led by Abdul Rasul Sayyaf or the equally radical one led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. (Mitchell 4/11/1993) The CIA has some murky connection to Al-Kifah that has yet to be fully explained. Newsweek will later say the Brooklyn office "doubled as a recruiting post for the CIA seeking to steer fresh troops to the mujaheddin" fighting in Afghanistan. At the same time, the Brooklyn office is where "veterans of [the Afghan war arrived] in the United States—many with passports arranged by the CIA." (Hosenball 10/1/2001) Robert I. Friedman, writing for New York magazine, will comment that the Brooklyn office was a refuge for ex- and future mujaheddin, "But the highlight for the center's regulars were the inspirational jihad lecture series, featuring CIA-sponsored speakers.… One week on Atlantic Avenue, it might be a CIA-trained Afghan rebel traveling on a CIA-issued visa; the next, it might be a clean-cut Arabic-speaking Green Beret, who would lecture about the importance of being part of the mujaheddin, or 'warriors of the Lord.' The more popular lectures were held upstairs in the roomier Al-Farouq Mosque; such was the case in 1990 when Sheikh [Omar] Abdul-Rahman, traveling on a CIA-supported visa, came to town." One frequent instructor is double agent Ali Mohamed, who is in the US Special Forces at the time (see 1987-1989). Bin Laden's mentor Azzam frequently visits and lectures in the area. In 1988, he tells "a rapt crowd of several hundred in Jersey City, 'Blood and martyrdom are the only way to create a Muslim society.… However, humanity won't allow us to achieve this objective, because all humanity is the enemy of every Muslim.'" (Friedman 3/17/1995) Ayman Al-Zawahiri, future Al-Qaeda second in command, makes a recruiting trip to the office in 1989 (see Spring 1993). (Wright 9/9/2002) The Brooklyn office also raises a considerable amount of money for MAK/Al-Kifah back in Pakistan. The Independent will later call the office "a place of pivotal importance to Operation Cyclone, the American effort to support the mujaheddin. The Al-Kifah [Refugee Center was] raising funds and, crucially, providing recruits for the struggle, with active American assistance." (Marshall 11/1/1998) Abdul-Rahman, better known as the "Blind Sheikh," is closely linked to bin Laden. In 1990, he moves to New York on another CIA-supported visa (see July 1990) and soon dominates the Al-Kifah Refugee Center. Shalabi has a falling out with him over how to spend the money they raise and he is killed in mysterious circumstances in early 1991, completing Abdul-Rahman's take over. Now, both the Brooklyn and Pakistan ends of the Al-Kifah/MAK network are firmly controlled by bin Laden and his close associates. In 1998, the US government will say that al-Qaeda's "connection to the United States evolved from the Al-Kifah Refugee Center." Yet there is no sign that the CIA stops its relationship with the Brooklyn office before it closes down shortly after the 1993 WTC bombing. (Weiser, Sachs, and Kocieniewski 10/22/1998)
Osama bin Laden's mentor Sheikh Abdullah Azzam is killed by a car bomb in Afghanistan. The killing will never be solved. Azzam has no shortage of enemies. Suspects will include the Mossad, CIA, Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the ISI, and bin Laden. The reason bin Laden will be suspected is because he and Azzam were increasingly at odds over what approach to take since the Soviet Union had been driven from Afghanistan earlier in the year (see February 15, 1989). (Suellentrop 4/16/2002; Coll 2004, pp. 204) In 1998, Mohammed Saddiq Odeh will be arrested and later convicted for a role in the 1998 African embassy bombings. He reportedly will tell US interrogators that bin Laden "personally ordered the killing of Azzam because he suspected his former mentor had ties with the CIA." However, it is not known if Odeh was just passing on a rumor. (Gunaratna 2003, pp. 32) Regardless, in the wake of Azzam's death, bin Laden will take control of Azzam's recruiting and support network, Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK)/Al-Kifah, and merge it with al-Qaeda, which was formed the year before (see August 11-20, 1988). (Suellentrop 4/16/2002; Coll 2004, pp. 204)
The Al-Kifah Refugee Center is bin Laden's largest fundraising group in the US and has offices in many cities (see 1986-1993 and 1985-1989). Counterterrorism expert Steven Emerson will later call it "al-Qaeda's operational headquarters in the United States." (Emerson 2006, pp. 436) Nearly every figure involved in the 1993 WTC bombing has a connection to the Al-Kifah branch in Brooklyn, New York. (Turque 3/29/1993) Bob Blitzer, a former FBI terrorism chief who heads the FBI's first Islamic terrorism squad, is stunned to discover the number of militants connected to Al-Kifah who have left the US to fight for Muslim causes overseas. He will later remember thinking, "What the hell's going on?" Neil Herman, head of the FBI's WTC bombing investigation, will comment, "It was like a modern underground railroad." But no effort is made to keep track of who has gone overseas to fight, even though many of the WTC bombers had gone overseas to fight then came back to use their training to plan an attack in the US. Furthermore, the Al-Kifah office in Brooklyn shuts itself down, but all the other branch offices remain open. US News and World Report will later note that the offices "were left largely intact [and] helped form the nucleus of bin Laden's al-Qaeda network." Herman will say, "They certainly continued on, but were somewhat fragmented." Over time, the other branches generally go underground. Soon their functions are largely replaced by a network of Islamic charities. For instance, the functions of the Brooklyn branch, including its newsletter and website, are directly taken over by a new Boston-based charity called Care International (see April 1993-Mid-2003). Another charity is the Benevolence International Foundation (BIF), run by Enaam Arnaout, who is a veteran of the Al-Kifah Brooklyn office. (Kaplan 6/2/2002) The US will not freeze the assets of Al-Kifah until shortly after 9/11, long after all the US branches have dissolved (see September 24, 2001). There is evidence to suggest that the CIA had ties to Al-Kifah and blocked FBI investigations of it (see Late 1980s and After).
The Al-Kifah Refugee Center is bin Laden's largest fundraising group in the US and has offices in many cities (see 1986-1993 and 1985-1989). Counterterrorism expert Steven Emerson will later call it "al-Qaeda's operational headquarters in the United States." (Emerson 2006, pp. 436) In late March 1993, Newsweek will report that "virtually every principal figure implicated in the World Trade Center bombing" that took place the month before (see February 26, 1993) has a connection to the Al-Kifah branch in Brooklyn, New York. (Turque 3/29/1993) The Brooklyn branch quietly shuts itself down. But other branches stay open (see Shortly After February 26, 1993-1994) and the Boston branch appears to take over for the Brooklyn branch. In April 1993, it reincorporates under the new name Care International (which is not connected with a large US charity based in Atlanta with the same name). Emerson will later comment, "The continuity between the two organizations was obvious to anyone who scratched the surface." For instance, Care takes over the publication of Al-Kifah's pro-jihad newsletter, Al Hussam. (Emerson 2006, pp. 437) It also shares the same website and street address as the Al-Kifah Boston branch it took over. (Guidera and Simpson 11/21/2001) By the time of the WTC bombing, Al-Kifah is doing most of its fund raising for the mujaheddin fighting in Bosnia. For instance, one month after the bombing, a member of Al-Kifah/Care in Boston named Aafia Siddiqui sends Muslims newsgroups an e-mail pledge form asking for support for Bosnian widows and orphans. Siddiqui, a university student in Boston for most of the 1990s, is well known to Boston's Muslim community as a dedicated Islamic activist. One imam will later recall, "She attended many conferences. Whenever there was an event, she would come." But it appears Siddiqui is also a prominent al-Qaeda operative, working as a "fixer" for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Despite considerable suspicious evidence against her discovered shortly after 9/11, she will disappear in Pakistan in 2003 (see Late September 2001-March 2003). (Scroggins 3/2005) Two long-time Care employees are also be long-time employees of Ptech, a Boston-based computer firm formed in 1994 that will be raided in 2002 by the FBI for suspected radical militant ties. One of them writes many articles advocating Islamic jihad (see 1994). Emerson and his Investigative Project on Terrorism research team begins researching Care International in 1993, targeting it and several employees for suspected radical militant ties. The team discovers some checks made out to Care have notations on the back such as, "For jihad only." (Keenan 9/11/2006) Presumably Emerson's team shares what they learn with US intelligence, as his research on other matters lead to US government investigations around the same time (see for instance October 1994-2001). Al-Kifah branches in the US are connected to the charity Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK) overseas, which is also sometimes called Al-Kifah. In 1996, a secret CIA report will assert that the main MAK office in Pakistan funds at least nine militant training camps in Afghanistan and has ties to bin Laden and other militant groups and leaders. Furthermore, it connects this office to the Al-Kifah office in Brooklyn and the 1993 WTC bomber Ramzi Yousef (see January 1996). But the FBI takes no action against any of the remaining Al-Kifah branches in the US before 9/11. The US will officially declare Al-Kifah and/or Maktab al-Khidamat a terrorist financier shortly after 9/11, but by then all the US branches have closed or changed their names (see September 24, 2001). One day after the declaration, a Boston Globe article will make the connection between Care and Al-Kifah, pointing out that Care and the old Al-Kifah branch in Boston share the exact same address. (Kranish and Kurkjian 9/26/2001) But the FBI will wait until 2003 before raiding the Care offices and shutting it down. The FBI will later state that Care raised about $1.7 million from 1993 to 2003. (Keenan 9/11/2006) Al-Kifah has had a murky connection with the CIA, at least in its early days. Shortly after 9/11, Newsweek will comment that Al-Kifah's Brooklyn office "doubled as a recruiting post for the CIA seeking to steer fresh troops to the mujahedin." (Hosenball 10/1/2001)
Ptech is founded in 1994 by Oussama Ziade, Hussein Ibrahim, and James Cerrato. Ziade came from Lebanon to study at Harvard University. As the Associated Press will describe it, Ptech's "idea was to help complicated organizations like the military and large companies create a picture of how their assets—people and technology—work together. Then the software could show how little changes, like combining two departments, might affect the whole." They raise $20 million to start the company. A number of Ptech employees and investors will later be suspected of having ties to groups that have been designated by the US as terrorist organizations: (CNN 12/6/2002; Guidera and Simpson 12/6/2002; Pope 1/3/2003)
Yassin al-Qadi, a Saudi multimillionaire. He will invest $5 million of Ptech's start-up money. The US will declare him an al-Qaeda financier shortly after 9/11 (see October 12, 2001). In 1998, al-Qadi will come under investigation by FBI agent Robert Wright (see October 1998) for potential ties to the 1998 US embassy bombings (see 10:35-10:39 a.m., August 7, 1998). Al-Qadi is also a major investor in BMI Inc., an investment firm with connections to a remarkable number of suspected terrorist financiers (see 1986-October 1999). Al-Qadi later will claims that he sold his investment in Ptech in 1999, but there will be evidence he may continue to hold a financial stake after that year, and even after the US will officially declare him a terrorism financier (see 1999-After October 12, 2001). (Guidera and Simpson 12/6/2002; Mintz 12/7/2002; Pope 1/3/2003)
Gamel Ahmed, Ptech's comptroller in the mid-1990s. One al-Qadi loan Wright will investigate also involves Ahmed. (Pope 1/3/2003)
Hussein Ibrahim, Ptech vice president and chief scientist. He also serves as vice president and then president of BMI from 1989 until 1995. He has no known direct terrorism finance connections, but it has been reported that al-Qadi brought Ibrahim into Ptech as his representative. (Guidera and Simpson 12/6/2002; WBZ 4 (Boston) 12/9/2002; Pope 1/3/2003)
Soliman Biheiri. He is the head of BMI and a member of Ptech's board. US prosecutors will later call him the US banker for the Muslim Brotherhood, a banned Egyptian militant group. He will later be convicted for lying and immigration fraud (see June 15, 2003). (Ehrenfeld 6/17/2005)
Abdurahman Alamoudi. He is one of Ptech's founders, as well as an investor in BMI. In 2004, the US will sentence him to 23 years in prison for illegal dealings with Libya (see October 15, 2004). (Markon 10/16/2004; Ehrenfeld 6/17/2005)
Muhammed Mubayyid and Suheil Laheir. Neither have any known direct ties to terrorism financing. However, both are longtime Ptech employees whom formerly worked for Care International, a Boston-based suspect Islamic charity (not to be confused with a large international charity having the same name). (Guidera and Simpson 12/6/2002) In 2005, Mubayyid will be charged with conspiring to defraud the US and making false statements to the FBI. Care International had previously been the Boston branch of the Al-Kifah Refugee Center (see [a0493kifahboston]]) and a recruitment office for Mektab al Khidmat (MAK), the precursor organization to al-Qaeda (see 1985-1989). Laheir, Ptech's chief architect, wrote many articles in support of Islamic holy war. He frequently quoted Abdullah Azzam, bin Laden's mentor. (Emery 5/13/2005; Ehrenfeld 6/17/2005)
Yaqub Mirza. He is a Ptech investor and on a Ptech advisory board. He directs SAAR, a multi-million dollar network of companies and charities in Herndon, Virginia (see July 29, 1983). In March 2002, US investigators will raid the SAAR network for suspected terrorism ties (see March 20, 2002). In late 2002, the Wall Street Journal will report, "US officials privately say Mr. Mirza and his associates also have connections to al-Qaeda and to other entities officially listed by the US as sponsors of terrorism." (Guidera and Simpson 12/6/2002; WBZ 4 (Boston) 12/9/2002; Pope 1/3/2003)
BMI itself directly invests in Ptech. It also gives Ptech a founding loan, and leases Ptech much of its office and computer equipment. (Guidera and Simpson 12/6/2002; Pope 1/3/2003) Ptech president Ziade and other Ptech employees will claim that all of their ties to suspected terrorist financiers are coincidental. By 2002, Ptech will have annual revenues of up to $10 million. (Guidera and Simpson 12/6/2002) Ptech's potential ties to suspected terrorist financiers will be of particular concern because of its potential access to classified government information (see 1996-1997). (Guidera and Simpson 12/6/2002; Ranalli 12/7/2002) Joe Bergantino, a CBS journalist who will be the first to report on Ptech, will say of Ptech in 2002, "The worst-case scenario is that this is a situation where this was planned for a very long time to establish a company in this country and in the computer software business that would target federal agencies and gain access to key government data to essentially help terrorists launch another attack." (National Public Radio 12/8/2002)
According to reports, the failed US missile attack against bin Laden on August 20, 1998 greatly elevates bin Laden's stature in the Muslim world. A US defense analyst later states, "I think that raid really helped elevate bin Laden's reputation in a big way, building him up in the Muslim world.… My sense is that because the attack was so limited and incompetent, we turned this guy into a folk hero." (Gellman 10/3/2001) An Asia Times article published just prior to 9/11 suggests that because of the failed attack, "a very strong Muslim lobby emerge[s] to protect [bin Laden's] interests. This includes Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, as well as senior Pakistani generals. Crown Prince Abdullah has good relations with bin Laden as both are disciples of slain Sheikh Abdullah Azzam (see 1985-1989)." (Shahzad 8/22/2001) In early 1999, Pakistani President Musharraf complains that by demonizing bin Laden, the US has turned him into a cult hero. The US decides to play down the importance of bin Laden. (Waterman 4/9/2004)
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In colonial days, election days were very much celebrated. Celebration included speeches, parades, and festive food. Of course, celebration is synonym of good food. One of the most characteristic foods was a cake full of raisins and candied citrus peel, very much in the British tradition of fruit cakes.
- Heat the milk until close to boiling point. You can stop when steam comes from the pan. Pour the milk into a large bowl.
- Put the warm water into the measuring cup and sprinkle in the yeast; no need to stir. Let stand until foam comes out, about 5 minutes. Add to the milk.
- Add whole wheat flour to the milk mixture. Mix until smooth. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let it stand in a warm place for about 1 hour, the batter will rise and bubbles will appear.
- Grease a cake pan with butter.
- Sift all-purpose flour, salt, cinnamon, mace, nutmeg, and cloves. Reserve for later.
- In another large bowl, cream the margarine and sugar together until fluffy. Add the eggs and mix thoroughly. Stir in now the batter previously let to rise.
- Add the dry ingredients gradually, mixing every time until well blended and smooth. You should get a thick batter.
- Stir in the dried fruit pieces, raisins, candied peel, and almond slivers.
- Turn the mixture into the greased pan. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rise for about 2 hours in a warm place.
- When the dough is almost ready, preheat the oven to 350°F. Bake on the middle shelf for 50-55 minutes.
- Allow it to cool in the pan for 20 minutes before taking the cake out. Let it cool completely before serving.
A wooden spoon works best to mix the batter and dough.
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The inside of the microwave can be a good spot to let the cake dough rise. No drafts there!
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2015 – This evening, the Fox News Channel will begin the painful process of elimination for the gaggle of candidates now vying for the Republican Party presidential nomination.
The man to beat will be standing – literally – center stage: New York real estate tycoon Donald Trump.
Trump's rise in the polls stunned nearly all political observers. The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza mused, "Why did I miss Trump's appeal so badly? Simply put: I had NEVER EVER seen a reversal in how people perceive a candidate who is as well-known as Trump – much less a reversal [in initial polling] in such a short time. I based my conclusion that Trump would never be a relevant player in the Republican primary fight on the ideas that once 10 people know you and 20 don't like you, you can't change those twin realities much."
That is certainly the working assumption of political consultants and the candidates that hang on their every word. Cillizza, a member in good standing of the mainstream media, is part of a non-stop character assassination machine.
If you are a member of, say, the tea party, you have been branded a racist, militant hater of sainted authoritarian government and, thus, an "extremist." You say something often enough and America's vast sea of LIVs (low information voters) will believe it.
The day Trump announced his candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination, singling out illegal immigration as the cornerstone of his campaign, he was immediately branded a racist kook by the press.
Instead of backing down, Trump doubled down, attacking his attackers in the media and his Republican rivals who so desperately seek the mass-media smear machine's imprimatur.
While some Republicans howled that Trump was not a conservative, citing his contributions to Democratic candidates (so as to be left unmolested to conduct business in a city dominated by the Democratic Party and the Five Crime Families), likely Republican voters ignored them all, drilling down to the tidbits of Trump's message that found their way into print or the evening-news.
And Republican voters began to rally around the unapologetic Trump.
While the press and his Republican critics remain baffled at Trump's meteoric rise, groping for an explanation that fits within the neat left-right paradigm, his appeal, I believe, has much more to do with cultural push-back.
Trump exudes that most old-fashioned of traits – manliness.
While millions of touchy-feely emotionalists trip over one another in competition to see who has more compassion for the gender-confused Bruce Jenner or outrage at the shooting of Cecil the lion (really?), Trump stands tall and defiant like a Hemingway hunter tested by the jungle beasts stalking and pawing at him from the shadows.
Trump is not a politician. His natural, animal instinct – some call it arrogance – is to please no one but himself.
If you agree with him, fine. If you don't, well, that's your problem, pal.
The question to be answered in tonight's Fox debate is: which among Trump's nine rivals is the better, tougher man?


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NuVision Sues Panasonic Over Tagline
The television and home entertainment center manufacturer NuVision on Monday announced that it is suing Panasonic over the latter company's use of the phrase "High Definition Living" in its advertising. NuVision, which owns the trademark and has been using it since 2005, alleges that Panasonic, in using the phrase "Living in High Definition," has "knowingly and willfully infringed upon" the trademark.
The suit was filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. NuVision added that it had warned Panasonic to stop using the phrase prior to the suit.
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I'm no attorney, but I believe that the content of a letter is considered the author's "intellectual property," so the copyright would remain with the author or their estate. The physical letter itself clearly belongs to the person that it was sent to (or to whomever the letter was legally transfered), they just don't have the right to reprint it or make money from it (the content) without the permission of the copyright holder. Yeah, I agree that it would be fair that, if these letters were to be reprinted, the person to whom it was addressed be compensated somehow, and I imagine that that person could withhold the letter from publication if they chose to.I think what I'm wondering about here is who owns the copyright to the letters he wrote to his female companions of the moment? My feeling is that if it's solely under the control of Buk's estate, the copyright should be shared. He'd have had a great deal less to write about without them, that's for sure, and he'd have been porking more pillows than pussy.
then steal it.man I dunno about Linda King. After reading Women, and then seeing her real life account of what went on between them in her interview on the BBC doc. I find her to be a real cunt. Seems like she went out of her way to make sure that Buk suffered. I don't think I'll be getting this book.
That was good, wasn't it. It made me want to read the rest, kind of like coming across a chapter of Richmond's Spinning Off Bukowski in ATOM MIND magazine, way back when.I just read chapter 35 in Jahrbuch der Charles-Bukowski-Gesellschaft. Promising!
And there's another excerpt in "Drinking with Bukowski"...there's also an excerpt in the Bukowski special published by Beat Scene back in 2004.
We don't know Linda King neither we do know Charles Bukowski.That was good, wasn't it. It made me want to read the rest, kind of like coming across a chapter of Richmond's Spinning Off Bukowski in ATOM MIND magazine, way back when.
A first hand account by someone who holds as notorious a spot in Bukowski's "mythology" as King does is sort of problematic though. It must be very difficult for her to write objectively about their time together. I'm sure she has many things she would like to "set the record straight" about, and that could color the recollections. But you really have to take the recollections of people who were as fucked up as they were much of the time with a grain of salt anyway (speaking of Richmond).
But yeah, the chapter was very promising.
Loving and Hating... that title says it all right there...The one I really look forward to is Linda King's Loving and Hating Charles Bukowski, which is supposed to come out this year. (MJP)
Any news about her book?
I just read chapter 35 in Jahrbuch der Charles-Bukowski-Gesellschaft. Promising!


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Or Retzkin, CEO of Israel-based EyeControl, sees great potential for wearable technology to aid the difficult role of the carer, as he explains here
From fitness trackers to smart watches and health apps, wearable technology has allowed individuals to directly improve their health and self-monitor some of their medical conditions. Wearables have the potential to provide medical professionals with much more accurate data, enabling them to monitor patients in real-time and respond to medical issues more quickly and effectively than ever before. A recent study by researchers at the Northwestern University found a 44 per cent decrease in sick days for employees that were using a wearable technology on a daily basis.
While wearables have already been employed across the healthcare industry to improve diagnosis and monitor patient wellbeing through various wellness programmes, the potential to further improve and save people's lives is enormous. In particular, they can have a huge impact on caregivers, who are often 'on call' 24 hours a day.
Caregiving can be an overwhelming, full-time job, and is one which is often undertaken by family members, who take on new responsibilities when a loved one is diagnosed with a life-altering condition. It can be exhausting for family members to manage the emotional stress while making sure that their loved ones' everyday key processes such as bathing, and eating are accomplished. For example, research by the Journal of Palliative Medicine showed that the diagnosis of motor neurone disease not only has a devastating effect on the patient, but it can have a serious impact on the mental health of the family members, with studies suggesting an increase in depression in caregivers as the burden of care increases as the disease progresses.
While wearable technology may not yet be able to take away disabilities or the emotional stress attached to it, it can help carers to reduce stress and better manage their time. Here are three examples of how wearable technology can ease carers' strain.
This technology can remove the burden of being always 'on call' for carers by remotely monitoring a patient's conditions, as the name suggests. RPM can be monitored via a headset worn by the patient, that has sensors attached to it and can notify the carer with an alert if the person is having an issue or an emergency, for example. Remote monitoring can allow patients to feel a sense of independence while 24-hour monitoring can prevent potential issues before they become too serious. For carers, it can add a sense of comfort because they know that they will be notified as soon as their loved one has an issue, and as a result they can respond to it immediately.
Wearables can transmit patients' data directly to their doctors, which can help them to better manage their illnesses and avoid any sudden issues. For example, a medical nurse monitoring a patient remotely might notice a slight change in the patient's heart beat who might suffer from a heart disease and therefore can intervene before it fully develops into something serious. For carers, knowing that their loved ones are being monitored, and accessing clinical services in real time if needed, can reduce stress and give them peace of mind.
In addition, the data that wearables collect can be used to better diagnose diseases and, in the future, potentially prevent them completely. This information could include a wide range of parameters, including a patient's heart rhythm, breathing patterns and the amount and quality of sleep a patient is getting. This information could even be used in medical trials, which could generate new innovation in medical treatments. The amount of data that wearables passively collect could produce a more detailed picture of the effect an illness or treatment could achieve in a patient's everyday life.
There are a number of conditions – such as locked-in syndrome, in which a person's body is completely paralysed but the consciousness and brain activity has remained. While there are a handful of devices available helping locked-in patients to communicate, such as the one that Stephen Hawking had, they are often very large in size and not accessible when a patient wakes up. Wearable technology can introduce a new dimension of communication for locked-in patients to communicate with their loved ones again.
Being able to wear a lightweight device, rather than being attached to a large computer, can make a huge difference in patients' everyday life. It can give patients a sense of freedom upon awakening because it allows them to communicate immediately. For carers, this means that patients can quickly notify them if they need assistance.
The EyeControl, which is the world's first screen less wearable communication device allows locked-in patients to communicate with their loved ones again. Using audio feedback and eye gestures, the EyeControl is a standalone portable device that allows for immediate and around-the-clock communication. The device features a shortcut for patients to call for help and enables them to quickly notify their carer if they are chocking or struggling to breathe for example. This gives carers a sense of security, knowing that their patient can call them if they are out of the room.
The popularity and usage of wearable technology devices is expected to rise significantly over the next decade. Wearables have significantly improved the healthcare sector and will continue to do so in the near future. They can enable remote patient monitoring for carers and medical professionals, improve analysis of patients' health status and give them a sense of freedom and independence.
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johndrew 11:33 27 Nov 2010
Did you see that piece on TV where the pensioner was with TalkTalk? They decided to 'impose' broadband into the package even though the customer doesn't have a PC. When complaints were made and a request to remove it from the bill they ended up disconnecting her even though she was fully paid up for all her bills - in fact TalkTalk owed her money for the broadband she didn't ask for.
Took a long time to resolve with the 'excuse' that they had taken her original supplier over and 'standardised' the package to fit their schemes.
Not a company I would wish to do business with.


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|Naomi 2
The NAOMI (New Arcade Operation Machine Idea) is also Japanese for beauty above all else.
In 2000, Sega debuted the NAOMI 2 arcade system board at JAMMA. NAOMI 2 offered improved graphics performance; by substituting the graphics-assembly of the previous NAOMI board with a new assembly composed of two PowerVR CLX2 GPUs and a VideoLogic Elan chip (for geometry transformation and lighting effects). NAOMI 2 also doubled the NAOMI's graphics memory from 16MB to 32MB, to enable more detailed graphics (each CLX2 has its own 32MB bank, as the CLX2 does not share graphics RAM). Architecturally, the NAOMI 2 is similar enough to the original NAOMI that both can play NAOMI games without modification.
With the NAOMI 2, Sega brought back the GD-ROM drive. For both NAOMI and NAOMI 2, the GD-ROM setup was offered as an optional combination of daughterboard expansion known as the DIMM Board, and the GD-ROM drive itself. The DIMM board contained enough RAM to allow an entire game to be loaded into memory at start up, allowing the drive to shut down after the game has loaded. This heavily reduces load times during the game, and saves on drive wear and tear.