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What Happens When Women Say Yes to God: *Live More Fully* Love More Deeply *Experience God's Best for You
by Lysa TerKeurst
Learn More | Meet Lysa TerKeurst
A Soul That Longs for More
Whatever God says do, do it.
It all started the day God told me to give away my Bible.
I was exhausted from traveling and speaking. All I wanted to do was to get to my assigned seat on the plane and settle in for a long winter's nap. Imagine my absolute delight at being the only person seated in my row. I was just about to close my eyes when two last-minute passengers made their way to my row and took their seats.
Reluctantly, I decided to forgo my nap. The last thing I needed was to fall asleep and snore or, worse yet, wake up with my head resting on the guy's shoulder beside me. No, I didn't need another most embarrassing moment, so I pulled a manuscript out of my bag and started reading.
"What are you working on?" the guy asked. I told him I was a writer and I was working on a book titled Leading Women to the Heart of God. He smiled and said he thought God was a very interesting topic. I agreed and asked him a few questions about his beliefs. Before long, I found myself reaching into my bag and pulling out my Bible, walking him through some key verses that dealt with the issues he was facing. He kept asking questions, and I kept praying God would give me answers.
All of a sudden, I felt God tugging at my heart to give this man my Bible. Now, this was not just any Bible. This was my everyday, highlighted, underlined, written in, and tearstained Bible. My kids had even drawn pictures in this Bible. I started to argue with God in my head, but His message was clear. I was to give away my Bible.
I emptied it of some old church bulletins and other papers, took a deep breath, sighed, and placed it in the man's hands. "I'd like for you to have my Bible," I said. Astonished, he started to hand it back to me, saying he couldn't possibly accept such a gift. "God told me to give it to you," I insisted. "Sometimes the God of the universe pauses in the midst of all His creation to touch the heart of one person. Today, He paused for you."
The man took my Bible and made two promises. First, he said he would read it, and, second, someday he would pass it on, doing for someone else what I'd done for him.
Before I knew it, the plane landed and we were saying our goodbyes. As I stepped into the aisle preparing to disembark, the woman on the other side of the businessman reached out and grabbed my arm. She'd been staring out the window the entire time we were flying, and I thought she'd been ignoring us. But her tearstained face told a different story. In a tone so hushed I could barely hear her, she whispered, "Thank you. What you shared today has changed my life." I put my hand on hers and whispered back, "You're welcome." Then a knot caught in my throat as tears welled up in my eyes. I didn't have another Bible to give away, so I gave her one of my books and hugged her goodbye. It has been said that we are to tell the whole world about Jesus, using words only if necessary. I saw this powerful truth come to life. Though I never spoke to this lady about Jesus, she saw Him through my obedience. How humbling. How profound.
As I got off the plane that day, I could barely hold back my tears. Three people's hearts were radically changed. I believe the businessman came to know Jesus as His Lord and Savior. I believe the same is true for the lady. But my heart was changed in a dramatic way as well. While on the one hand I was overjoyed at what God had done, I was also brokenhearted by the flood of thoughts that came to mind recounting times I'd told God no. How tragic to miss God's divine appointments. I just kept wondering, How many times have I told You no, God? How many times because I was too tired, too insecure, too uncertain, too busy, or too selfish have I walked right past Your divine appointment for me and missed experiencing You? I lifted up my heart to the Lord and whispered, "Please forgive me for all those noes. Right now I say yes, Lord. I say yes to You before I even know what You might ask me to do. I simply want You to see a yes-heart in me."
Several minutes after exiting the plane, I was weaving in and out of the crowds, trying to find my connecting gate, when I spotted the businessman again. He stopped me to tell me he had been praying to God and thanking Him for what happened on the plane. We swapped business cards, and, though we lived several states apart, I knew we would stay in touch.
About a month later he called to tell me his life had totally changed. He'd taken a week off from work to read the Bible, and he'd already shared his testimony with numerous people. When he said this to me, my mouth dropped open. I couldn't bring myself to tell him that I'd never taken a week off from work to read the Bible. God was definitely pursuing this man in a serious way! When I asked him what his favorite verse was, he said it was Proverbs 3:5-6: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." I thought to myself, Wow! Look at how God has already answered that for my new friend.
He also told me that after reading the Scriptures he knew he needed to get involved in a church, so he'd decided to visit a large church in his town. On his way there he passed another church, and a strong feeling came over him to turn his car around and go back to that church. So he did. When he got to his seat in the sanctuary, he opened up his bulletin and gasped. Inside the bulletin he saw my picture and an announcement that I was to be the speaker at an upcoming women's conference. He said he felt as though, once again, God had paused just for him.
That day on the plane, when God impressed on my heart to give this man my Bible, I did not know what would happen. This man might have thrown my Bible into the nearest airport trash can, for all I knew. Normally, I would have come up with a hundred reasons not to give my Bible away, but that day something changed in me. That day, for the first time, I truly heard the call of a woman who says yes to God: "Whatever God says do, do it."
A Fresh Invitation
When I said yes that day, I caught a glimpse of eternity. I saw how beautiful it is when God says to do something and it is done. And I thought, Why wait for heaven? Why not say yes to God on this side of eternity?
Oh, dear friend, the call to become a woman who says yes to God is the fresh invitation your soul is looking for. We all feel a tug at our heart and a stirring in our soul for more, but we are often afraid to venture past our comfort zone. Outside our comfort zone, though, is where we experience the true awesomeness of God.
I think at this point it is important for me to paint an accurate picture of what my life looks like on a daily basis. Lest you imagine me as this women dressed in sackcloth who is perfectly calm, amazingly organized, incredibly disciplined, and who spends hours upon hours on her knees in solemn solitude before the Lord, let me assure you that's not how it is. I am a wife and busy mom of five who can often be found rushing from one carpool to the next. My to-do list rarely gets fully accomplished. My emotions have been known to run wild, and my patience can easily run thin. I get pushed to the limit by everyday aggravations, such as a summer's worth of pictures getting erased from my digital camera by a child who wasn't even supposed to be handling the camera. And a dog that I love dearly who insists on running away. And some important paperwork that should be in a file that has mysteriously sprouted wings and flown the coop!
Can you relate? Great! You are a woman perfectly equipped to say yes to Him. Notice that I did not say you are a perfect woman. But if you are in the thick of living with all that life throws at you and you simply whisper yes, you are equipped. "Yes, Lord. I want Your patience to invade my desire to fly off the handle." "Yes, Lord. I want Your perspective to keep my emotions in check." "Yes, Lord. I want Your provision so things don't seem so overwhelming." "Yes, Lord. I want Your courage to do what I feel You calling me to do." "Yes, Lord. I want and need more of You in every moment."
You don't need perfect circumstances to be a woman who says yes to God. You don't need the perfect religious attitude or all the answers to religious questions. You simply have to surrender all that's clamoring for attention in your heart with the answer God is longing to hear spill from your lips: "Yes, God."
Each day when I wake up I pray a very simple prayer even before my feet hit the floor. God, I want to see You. God, I want to hear You. God, I want to know You. God, I want to follow hard after You. And even before I know what I will face today, I say yes to You. This simple act of surrender each morning will prepare your eyes to see Him, your ears to hear Him, your mind to perceive Him, and your heart to receive Him. This is how to live expecting to experience God.
You see, we have become so familiar with God yet so unaware of Him. We make the mysterious mundane. We construct careful reasons for our rules and sensible whys for our behavior. All the while our soul is longing for a richer experience—one that allows us to escape the limits of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell and journey to a place of wild, wonder, and passion.
Women who say yes to God will see life like few others. They are drawn in and embraced by a love like no other. They don't have to wait until the next time they're in church to experience God because they sense God's presence all around them, all through their day. Instead of merely walking through the motions of life, they pursue the adventure of the moment-by-moment divine lessons and appointments God has in store for them. They expect to see God, to hear from Him, and to be absolutely filled by His peace and joy—and, therefore, they do and they are.
A woman who says yes to God isn't afraid to be honest with God. Just last week I woke up feeling drained and overwhelmed. I couldn't quite put my finger on the source of my anxiety, but I couldn't shake it, either. As I prayed my normal prayer of wanting to see and hear God, I told Him honestly that I really needed to see evidence of Him in my day. Later on I was in my kitchen washing dishes, preparing dinner, and talking with one of my sons. My attention was focused on my son while my hands were just going through the motions of my tasks. Suddenly I felt God's strong impression on my heart to look down in the sink before I reached for another dish. As I did, I saw a very sharp butcher knife sticking blade up from inside a glass. Immediately, I knew God's presence was there. I closed my eyes and thanked Him. More than just for sparing my hand from serious injury, I thanked Him for caring enough to be so real in my life.
A holy God in the middle of life's mundane activities will change your life. But you might not always feel happy about the changes. I can't let you think that being a woman who says yes to God means everything will suddenly be happily ever after. As I am writing this, I must tell you about an experience I had today where I simply wanted to throw my hands in the air, throw my computer out the window, and cry out to God, "You have hurt my feelings and I'm just a little unnerved and upset!"
I am on a retreat at a friend's lake house where I have three days during which I'd hoped to accomplish a lot of writing. I am under a tight deadline for this project and really needed to make a big dent in the task before me. Yesterday went great. I wrote almost 2000 words and the friends with me loved what I'd written. I went to bed excited about all I'd accomplished so far. Visions of a completed manuscript and my editor's praises danced in my dreams all night long. I woke up this morning ready to tackle another huge chunk of writing, but first I wanted to admire yesterday's accomplishment. I opened up my documents section and the manuscript was nowhere to be found.
Refusing to panic, I asked for my friends' help. They felt confident we could locate the document I'd saved three times the night before. After two hours of searching, one of my friends gently looked at me and verbalized the truth we'd all come to know. "It's gone, Lysa. You are going to have to start over."
Wait just a minute, I thought. I have said yes to God today and had a great quiet time. I just know He can and will help me find this. But for whatever reason, my document was gone and God had chosen not to bring it back. Tears filled my eyes as bitterness started to creep in my heart. Why would God allow this? My friend could sense my despair and gently replied, "Lysa, recently when something like this happened to me, someone told me to look at my loss as a sacrifice of praise to God. It is so hard in today's abundance to give God a true sacrifice, but losing 2000 words and a whole day's work would qualify. Give this to Him without feeling bitter."
I resisted slapping my well-meaning friend as she then broke into singing, "We bring a sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord..." By the second stanza I actually found myself joining in with a lighter heart and a resilient spirit. Being a woman who says yes to God means making the choice to trust Him even when you can't understand why He requires some of the things He does. It also means that once you've said yes to God, you refuse to turn back, even when things get hard.
This kind of obedience invites you to embrace a bigger vision for your life. When you look at your everyday circumstances through the lens of God's perspective, everything changes. You come to realize that God uses each circumstance, each person who crosses your path, and each encounter you have with Him as a divine appointment. Each day counts, and every action and reaction matters. God absolutely loves to take ordinary people and do extraordinary things in them, through them, and with them.
A Party in Your Honor
Imagine you're planning a wonderful surprise party for someone you dearly love. You've made the plans, invited all the guests, and decided on an exquisite menu. You can't wait for the big moment when all the guests yell, "Surprise!" and your loved one finally joins in the festivities. You know she'll understand just how cherished and adored she is when she sees everything that's been done in her honor.
Finally, the time for the surprise arrives. All of the guests are waiting in anticipation at the front door. You see your loved one pull into the driveway, and you hear the car engine turn off. As she opens the car door, you see the interior lights come on while she gathers her things. Your heart races as you see her heading up the driveway. Suddenly, she makes an unusual turn and heads to the back door.
You quickly make your way to the back door to redirect her. Your cheerful greeting is met with a halfhearted smile, and your attempts to send her to the front door are brushed aside. She insists she is tired and will look at what you want to show her tomorrow. Only you know that tomorrow the guests will be gone, the leftover food will be stored away, and the party will be over.
How sad for the guest of honor who missed her own surprise party! And how disappointing for the party planner who orchestrated the event.
God must feel the same way when we miss the "surprise parties" (the divine appointments) that await us each day. How it must disappoint Him when we don't hear or don't listen to Him redirecting us to the front door. How it must grieve Him when we walk through our lives oblivious of His activity all around us. How it must break His heart when we brush aside something that not only would make us feel special and noticed by God, but also would allow us to join Him in making life a little sweeter for others.
How many times have we missed our own surprise party?
God reveals Himself and His activity to all of us, but very few really want an encounter with Him. Encounters cause extreme changes in our plans, our perspectives, and our personhood, and most of us hate change. In reality, though, the very act of trying to protect ourselves from change is the very thing that makes our life the boring mess that it sometimes is.
As I've traveled around the country speaking at conferences, I am amazed and saddened by the number of people missing out on the most exciting part of being a Christian—experiencing God. Over and over people tell me they want something more in their Christian life. They want the kind of relationship with God where they recognize His voice, live in expectation of His activity, and embrace a life totally sold out for Him. I suspect that tucked in the corner of your heart is the same desire. And I've discovered that the key to having this kind of incredible adventure is radical obedience.
The Road That Leads to Blessing
You may be surprised to discover that radical obedience is not really that radical. It is really biblical obedience—but we've strayed so far from biblical obedience that it now seems radical. In today's society, it is radical to obey God's commands, listen to the Holy Spirit's convictions, and walk in Jesus' character. But we will never experience the radical blessings God has in store for us without radical obedience. It is the road that leads to blessing. It is what happens when women say yes to God.
And you won't find the full blessing until you give walking in obedience your full attention. Obedience, however, is more than just "not sinning." It is having the overwhelming desire to walk in the center of God's will at every moment. Don't stumble over fearing you won't be perfect or that you are sure to mess up. Saying yes to God isn't about perfect performance, but rather perfect surrender to the Lord day by day. Your obedience becomes radical the minute this desire turns into real action. Radical obedience is hearing from God, feeling His nudges, participating in His activity, and experiencing His blessings in ways few people ever do.
If this is what you want, read on.
Six Simple Words
After hearing about the day I gave away my Bible, people often ask me if I've ever gotten it back. I always chuckle because, to be honest, I don't want to get that Bible back (or any of the Bibles I've given away since then)—at least not for a very long time. I've had this vision of one day being on a plane when I'm old and gray, and the person next to me starts talking. She tells me of the amazing things God has done in her life since the day she received a Bible from a stranger who had received it from another stranger who had received it from another stranger. She'll then reach inside her bag and pull out a worn and tattered book I've held once before. Wow, what a day that will be!
The man I gave the Bible to that day has continued to share his testimony, and I still hear from others whose lives have been changed because of his story. Recently, a lady wrote to tell me that the "Bible man" opened up a business meeting she attended by sharing how God had changed his life.
- I just finished visiting with a friend of yours and mine. His name is Ron. Over the years I have seen him struggling with his success and the decisions in his life. Today, Ron is filled with a different spirit. Your actions brought him back in touch with God. He shared his story with the office on how he met you and the effect of your actions. Isn't it strange that we know God is powerful and we know that we should listen, but sometimes we shut Him out? I can't explain the emotion I felt when I heard this story, but I can tell you that I am seeking some way to be more active in spreading God's Word. Bless you and bless Ron for being wonderful messengers.
Don't we all long to see God at work? Evidence of His activity around us, in us, and through us is the greatest adventure there is. The God of the universe wants to use you!
There is but one requirement for this adventure. We have to set our rules and agendas aside—our dos and don'ts, our social graces and proper places—and follow God's command. His one requirement is so simple and yet so profound: Whatever God says do, do it. That's it. That is the entire Bible, Old Testament and New, hundreds of pages, thousands of verses, all wrapped up in six words.
It is the call of the radically obedient woman who makes the choice to say yes to God.
Bible Study
Did the story about the man on the airplane and giving him the Bible inspire you? How?
What is holding you back from going deeper in your relationship with God?
- Time?
- Intimidation?
- Not feeling like the Bible applies to your everyday life?
- Seems too hard?
Comment on one or more of the above or another thing you sense holding you back.
Psalm 19:7-10 (MSG) says:
- The revelation of God is whole and pulls our lives together. The signposts of God are clear and point out the right road. The life-maps of God are right, showing the way to joy. The directions of God are plain and easy on the eyes. God's reputation is twenty-four-carat gold, with a lifetime guarantee. The decisions of God are accurate down to the nth degree. God's Word is better than a diamond, better than a diamond set between emeralds. You'll like it better than strawberries in spring, better than red, ripe strawberries.
List what Psalm 19:7-10 from The Message promises about God's Word.
The resolve of the human spirit is truly an amazing thing. We will fight to the death for something we want to protect, truly believe in, or desire. So why would we be lackadaisical about the most eternally significant relationship there is?
Read Deuteronomy 6:5.
- How can you love God with your heart?
- How can you love God with your soul?
- How can you love God with your strength?
Is there something you might need to let go of in order to have the freedom to say yes to God?
- Fear that it may cost you too much?
- Uncertain that you will like what a life sold out to Christ looks like?
- Feeling insecure that you'll be able to go the distance?
Psalm 16:7-9 (NLT) says,
- I will bless the Lord who guides me; even at night my heart instructs me. I know the Lord is always with me. I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me. No wonder my heart is filled with joy, and my mouth shouts his praises! My body rests in safety.
Write below how this verse gives a sure answer for each concern listed above:
In this chapter we read, "Being a woman who says yes to God means making the choice to trust Him even when you can't understand why He requires some of the things He does. It also means that once you've said yes to God, you refuse to turn back even when things get hard." Write out a personal prayer of commitment for your new adventure with God:
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February 11, 2013
Baseball Therapy
How to Measure Clubhouse Chemistry
This one is dedicated to the memory of my father-in-law, himself a biochemist. I once tried explaining baseball and sabermetrics to him (he was from Russia). He thought it was nice that I had such an interesting hobby. He will be missed.
Clubhouse chemistry. The fact that everyone in the room believes in everyone else. Except Smith. The fact that this team is composed of a great bunch of guys who are there for each other and support each other. The fact that no one could ever ask for a better group of teammates. The fact that we just won the World Series.
The chemistry question is one that flummoxes data-driven investigation, mostly because there just isn't any direct evidence to test the hypothesis. Can an ill-defined and nebulous concept like "chemistry" among the people on the team have an effect on their performances on the field? Performance can be measured, but how on earth does one actually measure chemistry? It's not like MLBAM is putting out BESTFRIENDf/x any time soon. (MLBAM, if you're reading this... I'm just saying.) Outsiders don't have access to the clubhouse, either directly or indirectly. Players and media usually have an unspoken agreement that what happens in there stays there. About the only time that outsiders even see a locker room is when players are spraying each other with champagne after clinching a tie for the second Wild Card, entitling them to a play-in game to get into a play-in game. No one interviews the team that lost 100 games. Maybe everyone on that team liked each other too. And anyway, even if they did interview them, there's a standard answer that everyone knows how to mouth.
There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of the claim that chemistry influences performance. One commonly cited idea is that the arrow is pointing in the wrong direction. Chemistry doesn't influence performance. Winning puts everyone in a better, friendlier mood. (More on that a little later.) Another is the selection bias of the "proof" that's often offered. Players get the chance to proclaim how joyful things are only when they've won something, which gives the illusion that winners live in happy locker rooms. And even if people can barely stand each other, there's the old rule that if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. These are all legitimate points that the available data are very biased. We can't scientifically accept the claim that chemistry influences performance.
But we can't dismiss it either. Often, I hear well-meaning sabermetricians deny the claim out of hand. How can anyone possibly buy into this stuff? There's no proof! But if we're going to be fair, the chemistry-performance link falls into the "reasonable hypothesis" category. We just don't know either way. It might not be true, but it at least passes the "if you say it out loud, you don't sound foolish" test.
In the absence of direct evidence, we're forced to look at (very) circumstantial evidence on the matter. In favor of the hypothesis, there's the fact that an entire field of study exists (industrial/organizational psychology) that looks at the evidence on "workplace environment" and productivity in other types of jobs. The general evidence is that the structure of the workplace and the interpersonal relationships between workers make a difference. A baseball team is just another workplace, right? On the other side, a few weeks ago, when I tried to find an effect for one specific type of workplace chemical agents (that just sounds wrong...) that teams tend to employ, the "veteran leader", there was no major effect that blanketed the whole team, although there might be some effects on individual players that we wouldn't be able to detect.
It's tempting to think that it's impossible to measure team chemistry. I personally think "impossible" is the wrong word. It's not a physics problem; it's a logistics problem. In fact, if I had the access (and the budget) to do it, measuring clubhouse chemistry wouldn't be all that hard. To get a big enough sample size that would produce meaningful results, I'd probably need access to a majority of team clubhouses over multiple years, not to mention the cooperation of the players in answering my questions. This isn't likely to happen (again, if anyone's reading... just saying...) but I think it's interesting to look at how it could be done, since it can tell us some interesting things about what actually comprises "team chemistry" and what effects it might realistically have. In what follows, I present a research project that will never be fully realized. But you might just learn something from the exercise.
Warning! If There Were Gory Mathematical Details, They Would Go Here!
There are a couple of different ways to measure the development of a network, again assuming massive (and unrealistic) amounts of access and cooperation. The easiest one is what's known as a peer nomination strategy. You give each of the players a sheet of paper and ask them to write down the five or so players on the team with whom they feel they are most friendly (or some variant of that question). If you want to get fancy, you can ask them to rate that closeness on a scale of 1 to 10 (or 20 to 80). You can then map out who is friendly with whom and figure out how many links on the chain it would take to get from Smith to Jones. If Smith hangs out with Lewis, and Lewis is also friendly with Jones, they are two links apart. If there is conflict between Smith and Jones, they are more likely to solve it if they share friends in common, both because Lewis might act as a peace broker, or more to the point, Lewis will be annoyed at being in the middle of a fight and whip the two players into shape.
In an ideal clubhouse, there would be at least some sort of link between everyone on the roster. The problem comes when there are players (or groups of players) who are completely isolated from the rest of the team, something that would show up on that social map. It's easy for humans to fall into cliques. On a team, lines might be drawn along pitchers vs. position players, English vs. Spanish speaking, religious vs. non-religious, or about 1500 other possible granfalloons (a billion points for that reference). Those aren't impossible barriers to break down, but if no one makes the effort, then it leaves open the possibility of conflict and no good interpersonal path for solving it. In other words, bad clubhouse chemistry. Everyone doesn't have to be friends with everyone else, but well-formed networks do offer a counterweight to festering conflicts.
The cool thing for the quantitatively-minded researcher is that there are numerical methods for looking at these social maps. You could look at the average distance between players or look at how many factions are in the clubhouse. You can look at the general ratings, subjective as they are, and see if this is a clubhouse where there are a lot of 50 relationships or a lot of 80 relationships. A researcher could start by looking at how individual players fit on the map and check it against their performance, and then do the same at the team level. If a well-connected clubhouse helps players, we would be able to prove it. If it's true, then that guy who is a good people person, makes friends with everyone, and has a second career as a diplomat awaiting him but also hits .230 suddenly has more tangible value beyond his on-field WARP. It's possible that being that link between guys who are fighting can be quantified into runs. The critique of the WARP model (and sabermetrics in general) that I've heard most often is that it doesn't consider the value that a guy adds in the clubhouse. Well, here's a good start on how we might address that. Want a sabermetric Nobel prize?
On the question of whether happy players hit the ball further, a researcher can ask simple questions like "How happy are you on a scale of 20 to 80?" before the game, after the game, and the next day when the players get to the park. It would take a little bit of time to get what each player's baseline level of happiness is (because this is a subjective scale, some guys will say 80 when they are only moderately happy and some will save 80 for being deliriously happy), but that's just a matter of getting a good baseline. Once that's been established, though, a researcher could see whether a player being above or below his baseline happiness rating helps or hinders his performance. And the same for the team. Maybe hanging out with a bunch of chipper chaps makes even the most dour and awful starter pitch like Justin Verlander.
The method of looking at happiness before and after the game would shed light on the question of whether happiness leads to performance or performance to happiness. However, I'd personally expect the arrow to point in both directions. This is neither logical nor statistical heresy. There are plenty of cases where two variables feed off one another. You feel better so you have some energy to get up and work out, and that makes you feel even better. These are called reciprocal effects and can be modeled with either some good longitudinal regressions or with a structural equation model. Again, with the right data, it wouldn't be that hard.
And so if baseball would grant that level of access, we'd at least have quantifiable measures of social connectedness in the clubhouse and player mood. Combined with some outcome measures on the field, we can pull together a few hypotheses to test whether those post-World Series speeches are actually true and whether it made a difference. We might also look at which teams (and players) are emotionally the most hardy in the face of an 0-for-5 night, and perhaps which teams (and managers?) are the best at not getting too high after a win or too low after a loss... and whether that one matters either.
While I'm in the clubhouse, I might look at a couple other markers that would promote good chemistry. How often do players converse with one another after games, and for how long? (Yeah, I know that would be creepy to actually measure.) How long do they hang out in the locker room after a game? These can be indicators of a clubhouse that no one likes to be in. I might also look for some structures that would promote chemistry. Does the team have a structure (a kangaroo court?) for settling grievances that arise? Does the team have an identity that everyone buys into? Say what you will about the Rays' themed road trips being silly, but they get everyone on the team to buy into something that they all do together. A manager must be one part field tactician and one part summer camp counselor.
And when you add it all up, it sounds like a good measure of team chemistry. It isn't really that hard to measure, if you can get the right access, and then it's just some numerical gymnastics to figure out whether there's a link to performance. What's important to know about the things that I've laid out is that they all have been shown to promote a good workplace environment, and that generally increases productivity. Now, in a baseball context, the effects might not be huge. Only in Hollywood can a ragtag bunch of rejects turn into world beaters just by trusting in each other. But I think that given what we know, the most logical guess would be that there would be some effect of chemistry, just maybe not as exaggerated as it seems in the warm glow of a late October night.
But if you ever wondered why even the "smart" teams pay so much attention to such a squishy thing as "team chemistry" consider this: the effect might be small or maybe even non-existent, but the cost of trying to optimize it is miniscule. It might be the cost of some cheap props from a dollar store. Even if a loose clubhouse adds half a win, if the cost is 25 bucks, that's a deal. And even if the interventions fail, they probably won't make things worse. So why not try?
And maybe the effect is a little bit bigger. Right now, we don't know, but I think we as sabermetricians do ourselves a disservice if we assume that chemistry doesn't matter. And maybe some day, we'll get a chance to prove it one way or the other.
Russell A. Carleton is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @pizzacutter4
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Pat Folz
Really enjoyed this, it's well thought-out and thought-provoking! I wonder if any teams have actually tried something along these lines, looking for the "extra 2%" as they say.
Feb 11, 2013 04:11 AM
Pat, all of those were issues that I left on the proverbial cutting room floor. Per #1, my guess is that there is probably more downside than upside, but I hold out hope that some innovative person could figure out a way to optimize the upside.
Feb 11, 2013 06:54 AM
Love the idea. If you actually did send such a survey out, it's highly likely that you would not get 100% response, as you note. Are there ways for analyzing a clubhouse's social network based on a sample, rather than a census, of the players in that clubhouse?
Feb 11, 2013 04:44 AM
There are, but since "chemistry" is a team-level term, I'd need at least a good response rate within each team, and since there are only 30 teams, I'd need a good chunk of them to have any sample size to look at team-level effects. So, I'd need a response rate that was pretty high.
Feb 11, 2013 06:57 AM
Do you really need to survey major league teams? Can't you glean some directional data from high school, college and minor league teams?
Feb 11, 2013 10:48 AM
It could be misleading. It's probable that seasoned, adult professionals would have very different outcomes from their less experienced colleagues. I'd predict that "team chemistry" declines in importance as age and salary rise, but I admit to that being little more than a hunch.
Feb 11, 2013 11:06 AM
(However, I will point to the landmark case of Det. Roger Murtaugh vs. This #$&!, with respect to one's willingness to endure clubhouse drama.)
Feb 11, 2013 11:12 AM
Ya know, that might be an interesting way to measure it. Many people in high school take things like the Myers-Briggs Personality tests. It'd be interesting to see if there are correlations between athletes personalty types and performance.
Feb 11, 2013 11:21 AM
Rule #3: Never mention the Myers-Briggs around me.
Feb 11, 2013 11:41 AM
Feb 11, 2013 14:33 PM
I took it once and actually split three of the four down the middle.
Feb 11, 2013 18:33 PM
One related question might be: How much value does roster consistency have? One would think that being a Marlin in 2013 would be bad for morale-- guys are going in and out the door every week. Is it helpful to get more than X% of your innings or roster spaces from the same guys as you did the year before?
Feb 11, 2013 09:47 AM
Chemistry's a bit like defense. We're sure it exists, just not sure how to precisely measure it.
Feb 11, 2013 10:47 AM
Cat's Cradle!
Feb 11, 2013 11:04 AM
"What we're looking for is a well-functioning and well-connected social network."
Feb 11, 2013 11:10 AM
I suspect team chemistry is a significant factor, even though I am not sure you'd be able to measure it. These players are together for six to eight months, half that time on the road, playing almost every day. Some of the team chemistry measure may be reflected in how well a team rebounds from a tough loss. Or from a shellacking. Maybe even from a good win. Adam Jones, for example, seems to put things in perspective for the Orioles (or maybe he's just more accessible to the media), pointing out that "it's only one game". If the leadership of one player can help the others overcome the disappointment of one night, maybe team chemistry comes into play at that juncture.
Feb 11, 2013 12:32 PM
I don't think social network analysis is the right tool here. I might try for surveying teams about the "values" of their clubhouses and then performing multi-group analysis. That's how we lO psychologists get at organizational culture.
Feb 11, 2013 19:22 PM
Enjoyed the article, but sorry to hear of your loss. Best wishes to you and your family.
Feb 12, 2013 12:41 PM
Would not a plausible measure using baseball metrics be to try to see how players moving from one organization to another perform? Better, worse, no different? It's not a simple matter, because many factors affect performance, from increasing age to parks, but surely with some care and thought, one could tease out effects attributable simply to the different "environment"? (If, in fact, there are such effects.) After all, "chemistry" is meaningless unless it is something that affects actual performance and results.
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Does anybody keep a diary anymore? Come to think of it, we all do: in the computers, tablets, and smartphones we use. These gadgets record practically everything we do, sharing it with giant corporations and shadowy government agencies.
Now it's our turn, thanks to a cool app called Saga, a not-so-secret agent that helps smartphone users build a digital diary of their everyday activities. And unlike the information collected by so many other tracking apps, the stuff collected by Saga is for your eyes only.
Available free for Apple Inc.'s iPhone and devices running Google Inc.'s Android software, Saga offers a painless introduction to "life-logging," an up-and-coming tech trend in which people use digital gadgets to record everything they do.
Life-logging is mainly catching on with health and fitness buffs, who use apps like RunKeeper to keep tabs on their daily exercise regimens. However, the concept is getting more comprehensive as the gadgets get cheaper and easier to use.
Life-logging still requires some of the same self-discipline needed for a traditional diary, but Saga uses automation to lighten the load. It tracks your comings and goings, much like the popular app Foursquare.
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But if you want that geographic data for your own use, you can shoot the photo using Saga, or with the popular photo app Instagram. Images appear inside Saga, which shows the time and location of each shot. But none of that data appear if you post the same image to, say, Facebook.
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WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama says he told NBA centre Jason Collins that he "couldn't be prouder of him" for coming out as gay while playing in a major sports league.
Speaking at a news conference Tuesday, Obama said Collins showed the progress the United States has made in recognizing that gays and lesbians deserve full equality. He said they deserve "not just tolerance but recognition that they're fully a part of the American family."
Collins has played for six teams in 12 seasons, including this past season with the Washington Wizards, and is now a free agent.
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June 28, 2012 -- Working long hours on your feet while you're pregnant may affect the size of your newborn.
A new study shows that pregnant women who spend a lot of time on their feet -- and work more than 40 hours a week -- may give birth to smaller babies.
The study shows that women who spent long periods on their feet during their pregnancy in jobs such as sales, child care, and teaching had babies whose heads were an average of 1 centimeter smaller than average at birth.
Clocking long hours during pregnancy also had an effect on the baby's birth weight.
About half the women in the study worked between 25 and 39 hours a week. About one in four worked more than 40 hours a week.
The women who worked more than 40 hours a week had slightly smaller babies than those who worked less than 25 hours a week. But there were no differences in rates of preterm delivery, low birth weight, or babies being born too small for their gestational age, the study showed.
The differences in head size and weight were apparent from the third trimester onward.
Whether or not these differences affect a baby's long-term development is not known.
The findings appear online in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Protecting Pregnant Women at Work
The study suggests that changes are needed in work patterns for pregnant women.
"We believe that optimizing the work environment is important since participation of women in the reproductive age in the workforce continues to increase," the researchers write. The research team was led by Claudia A. Snijder, MD, of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
The researchers say changes needed in the workplace include setting limits on:
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These measures may be most effective if they focus on the third trimester.
Researchers used ultrasound to check the growth rates of the babies of 4,680 pregnant women in the Netherlands. The assessment was made throughout pregnancy and at birth.
Women also answered questions about their jobs, including whether they involved:
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Close to 40% of women spent a long time on their feet and 45.5% had to walk for long periods as part of their job, according to the study. Just 6% of women engaged in on-the-job heavy lifting. About 4% worked night shifts.
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"Anecdotally, we have always known that women who work harder have smaller babies," says Cynthia Gyamfi, MD. She is the director of perinatal clinics and an associate clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in New York City.
Certain changes could help level the playing field for working moms and their kids, she says.
"We can modify the work schedule," she suggests. "We can also monitor growth more frequently with ultrasound among pregnant women who are on their feet a lot or who work long hours."
Ideally, more frequent monitoring would start in the third trimester. That's when these changes first pop up.
Ashley S. Roman, MD, says this study answers a question that she gets asked all the time: Is it safe to continue to work during pregnancy?Roman is a clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at New York University Langone Medical Center in New York City.
"Many women don't have the option of either stopping work or cutting back on their work hours for financial reasons," she says in an email.
She points out that differences in the study did not emerge until late in pregnancy and working had no effect on preterm birth or low birth weight. "It is very reassuring that a large study such as this one with over 4,000 women included in the analysis found no harmful effect to working through most of pregnancy."


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Reed Hastings took a big pay cut last year: In 2011, Netflix paid its CEO $9.3 million in cash and stock, but cut that down to $5.5 million in 2012.
So why is this man smiling?
Because he owns a big chunk of Netflix stock. And that stock has gotten much, much more valuable in the last 12 months.
A year ago, when Netflix was trading at $106, Hastings owned a 4.4 percent stake in the streaming video company, which was worth $265 million. Today, Hastings's stake is up to 4.5 percent (more than half his ownership comes via options); at $215 a share, it is worth $559 million.
That is: The value of Reed Hastings's Netflix holdings increased by almost $300 million in the last 12 months.
So he's probably not smarting from a one-year pay cut.
Just in case he was, Netflix has boosted his 2013 pay. His salary will increase from $500,000 to $2 million, and he'll get an option allowance of $2 million, up from $1.5 million.
If you want to see another happy Netflix shareholder, by the way, talk to Carl Icahn. Icahn accumulated a 9.9 percent stake in Netflix last fall, paying $58 a share. Today those shares are worth nearly $1.2 billion, which means Icahn is up close to $900 million in less than a year.


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I'll be the very first to say that saying "just sim it" isn't a constructive thing to say. Beyond being slightly rude, it doesn't explain why simming is such a good idea. However, while I find "just sim it" to be in poor taste, the actual act of simming or spreadsheeting gear choices is a really good idea. This post aims to address why we encourage spreadsheeting your DPS choices.


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In the February 16 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center detail why an experimental test intended to identify early ovarian cancer from a small sample of blood is unlikely to lead to a reliable clinical test right away.
After conducting repeated checks of the data that supported the test's effectiveness, the researchers say their findings indicate that claims about the experimental protein-based assay are not biologically plausible.
"We view this as a cautionary tale. If you are not careful with this new technology, whose quirks we don't fully understand, you can find results that may be due to something other than biology,?says the study's lead author, Keith Baggerly, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Applied Mathematics.
He adds that this study "illustrates the need for researchers to set standards by which to conduct proteomics research,?meaning that protocols involved in these investigations should be common across laboratories so that results from one lab can be verified by others.
"We are moving in that direction,?he adds. "The technology being used to develop a variety of proteomic diagnostic tests is getting better and we are getting more reproducible results.?
Researchers worldwide are excited about the notion of using protein "barcodes?to identify individual cancers before symptoms appear, but Baggerly and others maintain that the promise of this emerging field of proteomics has not yet been met due to the difficulty in finding complex, reproducible patterns of proteins.
According to Baggerly, that now appears to be the case with the experimental ovarian cancer test at issue, which was first proposed in 2002 by researc hers in the journal, Lancet. That study reported dramatic results using mass spectrometry to search for a pattern of proteins in blood. In several sets of blinded samples, the test detected all patients who had ovarian cancer and only misdiagnosed three healthy individuals.
But among others who subsequently tested the study's data for reproducibility were Baggerly and his colleagues (Kevin Coombes, Ph.D., and Jeffrey Morris, Ph.D., from M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, and Sarah Edmonson, M.D., from Baylor College of Medicine). They say the issue centers on how the mass spectrometer data were analyzed.
A mass spectrometer is an instrument that can quantitatively measure the concentration of hundreds of proteins from a single sample. In short, it does this by using an electric current to propel ionized proteins toward a detector. The number of ions hitting the detector at each mass-to-charge ratio (also known as m/z ratio) is recorded to produce a protein spectrum. A peak in the graph of the spectrum represents a protein (the identity of which is often unknown).
The goal is to find a pattern of peaks that will distinguish between patients with cancer and those who are cancer-free. The authors of the Lancet study have reported different proteomic patterns in three separate data sets. Researchers at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, reanalyzed the data to look for reproducible patterns. In 2003, they reported finding a single pattern involving 18 peaks (or unidentified proteins) that could diagnose ovarian cancer across two of these data sets.
The M. D. Anderson researchers examined the quality of the data sets and concluded that this systematic protein pattern "is biologically implausible.?Baggerly explains that discriminatory peaks appear to be spread across the entire m/z spectrum in the second data set, but "changes in protein expression associated with cancer should affect only a few specific peaks, not the entire spectrum .?/p>
Furthermore, the researchers say some of the protein peaks were found in regions of the spectra where, for technical reasons, mass spectrometry cannot be sampling proteins, and thus may be simply representing experimental "noise.?Such results may come about from such procedural problems as incomplete randomization of samples, Baggerly says.
The study raises a question that is broader than the effectiveness of the experimental ovarian cancer test, the researchers say. "Are we going to be able to measure what we want to measure??Baggerly asks. "Given issues in technology and a lack of standards, I think it will be a few years before we can know what works.?/p>
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Their stores are eagerly anticipated. People want to know when they're opening.
Earlier today, fresh & easy sent out a Twitter message: So excited about our 3 store openings tomorrow! Northridge, CA, Ventura, CA & Phoenix, AZ (on Ray & 48th)
Then, just moments ago, another Twitter message: CORRECTION: 4 stores opening tomorrow! For all store grand opening event info http://bit.ly/dAKOdR stop by say hello, pick up some treats!
So, I looked. The store they left out was Rialto! Oops!
Um…thanks a lot, fresh & easy.
Makes sense, though, since the store looked fully stocked when I looked in the window Saturday night.
The Rialto fresh & easy is at 2015 N. Riverside Ave., just north of SR-210. The grand opening is planned between 9:30 and 10 a.m.
A second Rialto store is planned at Foothill Boulevard and Cedar Avenue.
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Golden Bay Resorts set on the beach front at the middle of Klong Dao Beach under the natural pine tree jungle and our greenish garden. We offer 31 bungalows in various combinations double and twin beds, with air conditioning, hot water, TV, and mini bar. There are all type with single or twin bungalows match with the private or family holidays.
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Our fourth stay at this hotel which is a good standard. Convenient for town and the lovely beach. Ko Lanta local laws prevent jet-skis and beachfront parasols from being used and girlie bars! Since the beachfront trees were cut down shade is at a premium. Good snorkelling at high tide 30m from the rocks on the headland in front of Costa Lanta resort. And we had no problems at all with the Wi-Fi during our nine day stay! What more can I say…………looking forward to our next visit
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Very nice hotel with friendly staff, very good food and clean rooms. The only thing is the lack of umbrella s on the beach. But this is a common thing, it was everywhere the same problem.This was due to regulations as they told us. It would be a good thing if the hotels could stand in for offering seats and umbrella s to their customers. It was a very nice and clean beach. If you have not the possibility to sit on it, under an umbrella I mean, and the hotel provides no service or enough spots to sit under a tree or something than it is for me a minus point. Same problem a little bit at the pool, the shadow places were poor due to the system.
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Everything was excellent, except of WI-FI. New code every day and problems with log-in was not seldom irritating. Hope thay will change the system completely soon
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Very poor function of WI-FI. New codes every day, often no access even with a new code.
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Perfect. Good staff,nice bungalows,beautful beach ans pool
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Great resort. Staff is very friendly & helpfull. Breakfast and dinner was delicious. Nice swimming beach. Will stay there again.
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We had two fantastic weeks at GBC. I like that the resort not is that big as many other resorts. The staff was fantastic. The only thing is that the breakfast could be more continantal .
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Very nice location seems to me the best resort on that Beach. Very nice and well maintained Garden. Bungalows could have Mosquito protection on the windows to be able to keep them open during the night
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very easy to book and to pay
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Nov 28, 2014
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Good service, nice fresh bungalows, the breakfast is not that inspiring though.
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very helpful with assisting to book taxi transfer from krabi to koh lanta
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with beautiful beaches and a crystal clear sea. We invite you to come to visit, and of course to stay at our very comfortable bungalows, only a few steps from the sea. We offer 31 bungalows in various combinations double and twin beds, with air conditioning, hot water, TV., and mini bar. There are all type with single or twin bungalows match with the private or family holidays.
:: Standard Room (34 sq.m.) - 7 Units ::
More closer to the beach with air-conditioning and selection of queen size bed and single bed. Thai modern style interior decoration with wardrobe, dressing table, western style toilet plus hot shower.
:: Superior Room (32 sq.m.) - 13 Units ::
Just a few minute walk to the beach located after the beach restaurant area, the luxury room with air-condition with single bed. The well decorate room with wardrobe and dressing table, western toilet.
:: Deluxe Room
(38 sq.m.)
- 9 Units ::
The Thai modern interior decoration style fully with all convenience things; air-conditioner, selection of queen size bed and single bed, Television, Fridge, Mini Bar, wardrobe, dressing table and western toilet plus hot shower. The private balcony with beach chair and more closer to the beach.
:: Deluxe Suite (50 sq.m.) - 2 Units ::
These rooms are surrounded by tropical garden. The amenities of the Deluxe Suite are: Double-Bed, TV, Mini Bar, Hot-Cold Shower, Wardrobe, A dressing Table, An office desk, Umbrella, Beach mat, Coffee maker and the private chairs on your room balcony.
:: Pool View (57 sq.m.) - 4 Units ::
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:: Ocean Sunset (67 sq.m.) - 1 Unit ::
Max People 3
The restaurant served Thai, Chinese and International cuisine with 2 atmosphere, under the roofed shelter or open air on the sand bank which you can have the romantic dinner with stunning sunset of Koh Lanta. Enjoy sunbathing under the warm Koh Lanta sunny day on our free beach bed. Order the exotic cocktail from beach bar or do some course of Thai massage on the beach.
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Hot - cold shower every bungalows
Satellite TV. every bungalows
Safety deposit box
Laundry service
Internet and oversea call services
Tour counter, ticketing and booking centre
Free transfer to Koh Lanta Pier
Car parking
Golden Bay Cottage
positioned just on two kilometers from Ban Saladan. The resort set on the beach front at the middle of Klong Dao Beach under the natural pine tree jungle and our greenish garden. The back drop behind the resort is the forest Mountain of Koh Lanta National Park.
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In his response, Gingrich aggressively characterized the President's stated vision as one of big government, bureaucratic control, and as one strives to create a food stamp economy designed to make Americans dependent upon government.
Newt Gingrich's SOTU Response
"We have a crisis of work in this country and tonight President Obama proposed nothing in the way of policy changes that will get us to robust job creation and dramatic economic growth. Instead, the president described his conviction that his big government is built to last and should be paid for with higher taxes. But bigger government and higher taxes will not lead to jobs and growth.
Bigger government and higher taxes will instead lead to more people on food stamps, a situation which the President and his party defend as a fair outcome. Here we have to confront the truth about President Obama. Economic growth and prosperity is not really at the top of his agenda. He will always prefer a food stamp economy to a paycheck economy and call it fair. For the president and a large part of the political class, it's about their power, their right to rule. They just want to take money from Joe the Plumber – the small business people who makes over 90 per cent of the new jobs — and redistribute it to the government bureaucracy and their political friends and allies.
That's why so much of that nearly trillion-dollar stimulus didn't create jobs but just went into the pockets of special interests who support President Obama and the leadership of the Democratic Party. No better example of this exists than in the crisis of American energy. President Obama and his political allies – not of few of whom love living in energy inefficient houses or driving gas-guzzling luxury vehicles – openly admit they want gas prices to remain high so that the rest of America will learn to live more modestly.
They think it's good for rest of us. Only recently, the president canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline that would have created countless new jobs and helped America on the way to energy independence because he wanted to appease the far left of his party. And yet not a single word on the Keystone XL pipeline tonight. To create jobs and growth in this country, we must start with dramatic tax reform that lowers taxes and maximizes capital investment and job creation. We must return to a dollar as good as gold whose purchasing power is the same in thirty years as it is today. We must dramatically expand American energy production. We must have smarter regulation at the same time we abolish destructive and costly regulatory systems beginning with Obamacare, Dodd-Franks, and Sarbanes-Oxley.
And finally, unlike the current administration, we must have faith in job creators. With these policies the state of the union will be much better. They will create an explosion in job creation and lead to robust economic growth and a return to prosperity. Furthermore, a paycheck economy will put us on a path to balanced budgets and paying down our national debt."
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Smell and Memory: Old Feelings in a New Place
What happens when we're whisked away to a past memory by a scent?
Posted Jan 28, 2013
My friend texted me something today that she thought I'd find interesting.
She had a meeting for work in an office she'd never entered before. Immediately as she entered the room, conflicting feelings of happiness and awkwardness washed over her.
The smell. It wasn't necessarily good or bad—just distinctive. And it didn't smell like anything in particular. All she knew was that it had an odor exactly like her boyfriend's dorm room when she was a freshman in college—something she hasn't experienced in five years—bringing back the paired feelings of excitement and nervousness that come with new relationships. And those of, well, being in a boy's stinky dorm room.
We've all experienced this at one time or another: a familiar perfume, a family recipe in the oven, the scent of a bonfire—they all bring back a flood of memories, momentarily whisking us away to re-live our past. But why does this happen?
One of animals' most primal senses is that of smell. If you look at a rat brain, the olfactory bulbs (the two little notches at the top) take up a significant portion of the total surface area. In the human brain, the piriform cortex (our primary olfactory cortex) is composed of three primitive layers, unlike the more evolutionarily-advanced six layers that most of our cortex contains.
Of course, we humans have perfected our more "important" senses of sight, smell, and touch over the years. That's why we don't smell as well as bloodhounds, and why we don't have these gigantic notches sticking out of our brains.
But we do have olfactory bulbs, albeit significantly smaller, located within the bony cribriform plate in our noses. When we smell something, the odorants stimulate olfactory receptor cells. These receptor cells are fascinating because they have different affinities for a wide range of odorants.
The axons from these receptor cells converge in the olfactory bulb, which forms the olfactory tract and converges in the piriform cortex.
Now here's where things get interesting: the olfactory tract also terminates in the medial amygdala and the entorhinal cortex.
The medial amygdala is involved in emotional learning (pairing events with emotion) and is especially important in social functions such as mating.
The entorhinal cortex is involved in memory; interestingly, it is one of the first regions affected by Alzheimer's disease.
The amygdala also has a direct connection to the mammillary bodies, a region of the hypothalamus involved in recognition memory.
Olfactory neurons are unmyelinated, meaning that they are not contained within a fatty sheath (myelin) that functions to speed electrical signaling. Smell is, in fact, our slowest sense.
Interestingly, olfactory receptors are also our only sensory receptors exposed to the environment, suggesting their direct importance in our brain's coding of memories from our experiences and emotions.
Indeed, the story is starting to come together for my friend—the odorants in the office matched those of her boyfriend's dorm room, sending the same signals via the same receptor cells to brain areas involved in memory and emotion.
We call this the "Proustian phenomenon" after French writer Marcel Proust, whose novel À la recherche du temps perdu depicts a character pining over his childhood after smelling a familiar tea-soaked madeleine biscuit.
Mostly I'm just glad there's a neuroanatomical reason for my love of biting, pungent laundry-room Clorox and my personal childhood memories of pool parties and Fun Noodles.
Rabin, M., & Cain, W. (1984). Odor recognition: Familiarity, identifiability, and encoding consistency. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 10 (2), 316-325 DOI: 10.1037/0278-7322.214.171.1246


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Ginger Relish
Ginger Relish is very handy to have in your refrigerator for spicing up many different dishes.
Cut the green chilies lengthwise (remove the seeds if you like mild).
Chop the green chilies to match the size of the chopped ginger.
Mix ginger, chili, salt and lemon juice together and store in glass jar.
Before serving refrigerate the relish for 24 hours.
Relish can be refrigerated for about 2 weeks. Note: after a couple of days the green chilies will fade in color and will become milder in taste.
Recipe Notes
- Thinly slice the green chilies and ginger about 1 inch lengthwise and mix with salt and lemon juice.
Serving suggestions
- Mix the chopped relish with cream cheese and use as a sandwich spread.
- Lightly spread between grilled cheese sandwiches.
- Sprinkle over any chat.
- Use sliced relish to garnish any dal, rice, subji with gravy.
- The relishes' juice can be mixed with olive oil to make a salad dressing.


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Prof. Steven Lubet (Northwestern Pritzker School of Law) has an excellent analysis.
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Vinepeek has the potential and power to replace Facebook and Twitter in your life. For that very reason, no one can say how long it will last. However before you read this further, you must be aware that Vinepeek brings to you people's lives in uncensored, raw, six seconds shots. If you don't want to watch what people do in real life and share with others, better not take a peek at Vinepeek.
Simply put, Vinepeek is a website with a small window which continuously shows a stream of 6 seconds long micro Blogging videos embedded by people in their tweets by a video sharing feature called Vine, recently introduced by TWITTER.
Vine, which is a video sharing service of TWITTER, needs software currently available only on Apple's products like iphone, ipod and ipad, for you to embed your 6 second videos in your tweets. Once embedded and tweeted, the clip which has its URL can be clicked by anyone who can see your tweet, to watch your video which loops continuously, in a little window.
According to Twitter vice president of product Michael Sippey, like Tweets, the brevity of videos on Vine inspires creativity. Dom Hofmann, co-founder of Vine, said the Vine embeddings are little windows into the people, settings, ideas and objects that make up your life.
In fact Vinepeek is actually more ingenuity than technology, As a matter of fact you can easily get a widget from TWITTER to pull up the stream with tweets with Vine videos. But with the power of Vine and the enormous popularity of TWITTER, sites like Vinepeek can take millions of users of the social web to a new phase and level of addictive dependence. Here is why:
In real life, if you are depressed, dejected or hopeless about your life, you head to your local pub where you can meet up with your pals and share your life with them. In reality, that is the reason most people get hooked to Facebook and Twitter where they can meet up with their real friends and hundreds of others who they have never met, with the convenience of a desktop or handheld device. However they still need to read, type or do some work to take in the updates of their buddies or watch the stream on the wall, not entirely conducive with the mindset. Vinepeek practically removes that element of unpleasant work by having to do nothing but watching to get the same level of enjoyment.
In fact the constantly changing and unpredictable short videos on the by Vine stream, with amazing visual and sound quality, are like info graphics on steroids. You are taken in to a never ending whirl wind of time, space, and motion full of life, engaging your mind as never before, offering an experience entirely deserving to be called a new form of entertainment. It is always there, you feel like taking it in, you watch it. You don't, you simply ignore it and carry on with whatever you are doing. There is always the next one. In fact Vinepeek actually brings the Social Web to life!
Vinepeek in fact even makes the raison de etre of sites like Tech crunch, Mashable and a lot of others where we constantly check for "NEW" things a little bit questionable, bringing a series of objects and ideas we have never heard of or imagined, quenching our thirst for "novote" in life.
The exponential power of the video compared to the rest of the media in the development of human communication and understanding of life around us has not been fully understood. Vinepeek in fact brings a new dimension to this quest by pumping up an unusually high volume of imagery, sound and emotions to our brains, consciously and unconsciously in the shortest time. This alone can explain the enormous addictive power of Vinepeek. In time there can be hundreds of valid reasons to support sites like Vinepeek.
It is quite normal that initial glitches can be deterring. It looks like Apple has temporarily taken the Vine software from their store. Weather Twitter will continue with the development of Vine or not, utilities like Vinepeek are sure to pop up as any one who has enjoyed it even for a few hours will now find anything else unsatisfactory. For now My Facebook window is closed and the little Vinepeek is open in a corner of my second screen.
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We wanted to do a line of planters that in addition to be modern and cool, were also fun and happy. Life can get serious, so it's important to have touchstones in your house that make you smile every time you look at them.
A sleek and unique modern Fox planter in earthy and organic colours, White, Cobalt Blue, Hunter Green and Orange, is one of the newest additions to our growing zoo of Animal Planters that we designed to bring joy to you and your plants. We love the modern, geometric cut in his shape.
If succulents were not cute enough on their own, it is next level adorableness when you plant them into one of the Foxes. While there is no drainage hole, add a layer of small rocks in the bottom to ensure your favourite succulent buddy is happy and healthy in its new home.
If you're scared of dirt, these foxy guys are just as happy if you make them the home for your favourite air plants or cut flowers.
Product Details
- Material: Clay
- Dimensions: 3.25" diameter, 4" tall
- Finish: fully glazed, glossy
- Cleaning: warm soapy water
- Indoor planter
- Perfect for mini succulents, cactus, fresh herbs
- Perfect for small and medium sized air plants, Tillandsia
- Modern shape
- Sit lovely in a window sill, home office, dorm rooms, excellent gift idea
- Pairs well with Burros Tail, Echeveria, Kalanchoe


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Shoe Biz
Hiking inspired lace-up boot in oil-treated calf leather with chunky sole, rounded toe and two-color laces.
Heel: 3.5 cm
Material: oil-treated calf leather
Look: cool
We offer free shipping in Europe and we always ship with GLS or UPS. The estimated delivery time varies depending on your location:
Denmark: Within 3 business days.
Europe: Within 7 business days.
*Please note that custom services might inflict the estimated delivery time.
Do you ship outside Europe?
If you are located outside Europe and want to get your hands on some Shoe Biz shoes, please contact us at email@example.com, and we will try to sort something out for you.
Where do you ship from?
All items are shipped from our warehouse in Denmark.
When will my order ship?
This is how we do it: You order – We process your order – Then we ship.
We usually take 1-2 business days to process your order. When your order leaves our warehouse, you will receive a shipping notification email with a tracking number and link. Your new shoes are on their way!
Where is my package?
You can track the location of your package through the tracking link in the shipment notification email. If you experience any problems, please contact our courier (GLS or UPS). They are best at tracking the location of your package. If you are in doubt, do not hesitate to contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Please note that it may take up to 24 hours after you have received your shipping confirmation email before the tracking link is active.
Will I be charged duties and taxes?
Within the European Union, no duties or taxes will apply. For shipments outside the EU, there may be duties and taxes on your shipment, which you must be responsible for yourself. Please note that Shoe Biz Copenhagen does not have any control over such fees. For more information, please contact your local customs office.
Returns & Exchanges
Can I return/exchange my purchase?
We always hope that you are happy with your new shoes from us. However, should you not be fully satisfied you can return or exchange your purchase within 14 days of receipt (in its entirety).
Please note that to withhold your right of return/exchange, the item(s) must be returned to us in the same condition as you received them. We do not accept used or damaged goods.
How do I return/exchange my order?
To return/exchange your item(s) please fill out the enclosed return form that came with your order and send it back to us together with the item(s) you wish to return/exchange.
All products returned must be securely wrapped. Any damage caused by inadequate packaging may affect your right to return/exchange. We recommend that you send the products as a package and that you re-use the parcel box you received your order in. Easier for you and better for the environment!
Please label the parcel box with "RETURN PARCEL" and send it to:
Textile Logistics Denmark
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Please note that all return fees are paid by the customer and that we do not accept packages sent COD (cash on delivery).
How long does it take to process a return or exchange?
As soon as we have received your returned package, we will quality-check the item(s) and then handle your request.
If you request a refund, the amount you have paid for your item(s) will be refunded to the same payment card as you placed the order with. If you received a promotional offer or discount, any refund will only reflect the amount you paid.
When we have processed your request of return you will receive a confirmation email and you can expect your refund in your bank account within 4-5 business days.
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As a consumer, your purchase is protected under the Sales of Goods Act (including lack rules), which gives you a 2-year warranty on any products bought from us. This gives you the right of having any faulty product repaired or replaced, refunded or reduced in price – depending on the specific circumstances of your case.
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If you have to send the product back to us and your complaint is justified, we will refund any reasonable freight costs. If your complaint is not justified, you are responsible for all freight costs during the process.
Please note that you are responsible for the product(s) up until our reception. All products must be securely wrapped, and we recommend you keep hold of the postal receipt and tracking number.
Do you have any questions?If you have any doubts, do not hesitate to contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com and we will answer your questions as soon as possible.


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SC102 Pole Mount
2.5m (8.3') complete pole system for 2kW / 4kW Raymarine; Garmin and Navico BR24 / 3G / 4G radomes
2.5m (8.3') complete pole system for 2kW / 4kW Raymarine; Garmin and Navico BR24 / 3G / 4G radomes
Totally universal, the SC100 Pole Mount installs your radar or satcom antenna onto the deck or transom of your boat.
Supplied as a complete kit, you will have everything you need for a quick and easy installation.
New Look 360° Adjustable base
New look anodised aluminium base gives choice when deciding where you wish to install the pole mount. Base enables pole to be installed on both sloping transoms and level decks.
Unique Pole Extrusion
Accommodates two cable channels with a cover strip to hold cables in place and out of view.
Stable Installation
Have confidence in your installation - you are supplied with two support modules which provide maximum fore / aft and sideways support.
Easily Removed
Unscrew base and remove pole for racing or winter storage, leaving just low profile base on deck.
Choice of Height
1.9m (6.4') recommended for deck mounting and 2.5m (8.3') recommended for transom mounting.
Marine Grade Materials
6082 Aluminium pole with a polyester powder coat for a durable and gloss white finish.
Marine Grade Materials
6082 Aluminium pole with a polyester powder coat for a durable and gloss white finish
Technical Information
How to Install your Scanstrut
Scanstrut Brochure
Deck Flood Light
SC117 – For use with SC100 Pole Mount
SC117-4 – For use with SC2 Pole Mount
Lifting Crane
SC120 – For use with SC100 Pole Mount
SC120-4 – For use with SC2 Pole Mount
Can I upgrade my SC100 Pole Mount to a levelling one?
Yes you can, you can use our upgrade kit. As long as you have the 2.5m SC100 Pole Mount, we can provide the top section from the Self Levelling Pole Mount.
Do you have a Pole Mount for a wind generator?
We do not currently have this product in our range. However, either of our Pole mounts can be used, but a special top would need to be made to fit the generator to the pole.
Is there a way of putting an additional satcom on my radar pole?
Our Dual Self-Levelling Pole Mount enables installation of both radar and satcom on one pole mount.
General F.A.Q.'s
I have some old electronics, how can I work out if they will fit your products?
If your electronics are not listed in our part number table, please contact Scanstrut as we may be able to assist with compatibility.
Where can I order this product?
Scanstrut products are available worldwide via our network of distributors.
Visit our 'Dealer Locator' page to find your local dealer.
Can I see this product installed / on display anywhere?
Scanstrut products are displayed at various boat shows throughout the season.
Alternatively, find your local dealer on our where to buy page and see if they have a store to visit.
I am upgrading my marine electronics, will I be able to use the same Scanstrut mount?
It all depends on the electronics you are using - please contact Scanstrut for further assistance.
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The project was spearheaded by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Norman Foster.
Apple isn't your ordinary company, so it's fitting that its soon-to-be-completed headquarters is anything but average. According to an article in Architectural Digest, the brand's new campus is on the cutting edge of design. And it was Steve Jobs' vision to make it a reality.
At his final public appearance before his death in October of 2011, Jobs told a group of Cupertino council members, "We've come up with a design that puts 12,000 people in one building. We've seen those office parks with lots of buildings, and they get pretty boring fast… so we're going to do something different than that."
The campus, which was designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Norman Foster, is innovating company spaces. What's being called The Ring structure has the ability to run entirely on sustainable energy, most of which comes from the solar panels that line its roof. Apple's new headquarters will also be lined with fruit-bearing trees that are planted to withstand climate change. And the structure will be all glass, mirroring its famous New York City location.
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Drink the Kool Aid
Posted by Smokey Stover on June 13, 2006
In Reply to: Drink the Kool Aid posted by Victoria S Dennis on June 12, 2006
: : : : Any takers for "Drink the coolaid"? It would appear to be a US originated phrases and it's meaning is quite close to "towing the corporate line". I'm curious how it came to be. I'm thinking it could be realetd to the energizing drink Gatorade, but it also appears to be a cocktail.
: : : It refers to mass murder/suicide by members of the Jim Jones cult. The poison was in a Kool Aid type drink.
: : : James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 - November 18-19(?), 1978) was the American founder of the Peoples Temple church that developed into a group with cult-like beliefs, power structures and practices. On November 18, 1978, most Peoples Temple members followed Jones' advice to commit mass suicide by drinking poison in their isolated agricultural intentional community called Jonestown, located in the jungle of Guyana. Jones was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head among the 914 corpses there.
: : Today, the phrase is cynically applied to any group of followers who accept dogma/policy/propaganda without question. Corporate employees who believe totally in the direction and management of the company, for example.
: NB that you don't "tow the line"; you "toe the line" - i.e. you stand in a row with your toes just touching the line, as when runners line up before a race.
If "Drink the KoolAid" appears just like that, as the whole sentence, I wouldn't be surprised to find a humorous context. Yes, I can imagine it used not only as a joke, but as a funny one. Back to Jonestown: it's not quite accurate to say that everyone drank the FlavorAid willingly. There were armed guards present, and children in particular are said to have put up a hell of a fuss. To this day, no one knows at whose hands Jones himself died. SS