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The other day I got a phone call from a guy who wanted me to join his association.
He made a strong case: reasonable dues, good people, great networking.
When he asked for the sale (or in this case, the membership), I paused for a few seconds before responding.
"Mark, my policy about saying no is, 'I don't say it enough.' So, for that reason alone, my answer to you is no."
Dead silence. I smiled and waited.
"Well um, uh … OK," he stammered. "I-I guess I'm not going to challenge that."
Dead silence. I smiled and waited some more.
"OK well, uh, thanks for your time Scott," he resigned.
"My pleasure!"
I hung up the phone.
Whoa. Where did THAT come from?! I wondered.
That was a first for me. Telling someone my "policy" on saying no.
And I tell ya what; it felt GREAT!
Candid, yet friendly.
Honest, yet confident.
And nobody's time was wasted.
LESSON LEARNED: people respond to policies.
So I looked up the word policy online. And according to my favorite website in the world, the word first appeared in 1406. One of its origins came from a Lithuanian word, pilis, or fortress.
Fortress. Nice. Talk about standing your ground!
But the definition of policy simply means, "shrewdness or prudence, especially in the pursuit of a particular course of action." Which means:
You're not being mean.
You're not being difficult.
You're not rejecting someone.
You're simply sticking to your guns. Telling someone, "Look, this is how I roll. This is who I am. That's my policy."
NOTE: I'm not talking about company policy. Different animal.
I'm talking about personal policy.
Knowing thyself. Being the world's expert ON yourself and confidently articulating that on a consistent basis.
The following steps will help you put this idea into practice:
1. Brainstorm a list of 10-15 of your most valued personal policies.
2. Organize and type them out on a small card.
3. Carry that card in your wallet.
4. Look at it regularly.
5. Next time someone challenges one of your policies, whip out that card and ask them to physically read it back to you. (THIS IS CRUCIAL!)
6. Smile and wait for them to respond.
Oh, and they will. Every time.
Because people respond to policies.
What are some of your personal policies?
Post them here!
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In a new book by British evangelical John Petley, Providence, Piety and Power, we read the following:
Socialism has been undermined by politicians like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, and by economists like FA Hayek and Milton Friedman, but I am not aware of any book that has attempted to evaluate it from a Biblical perspective (p. 11).
Petley is a professional politician. He is a member of the anti-Europran Union Independence Party. In 2005, he received 2.2% of the vote.
He was an atheist for most of his life. A decade ago, he became an Evangelical Protestant. He is now dedicated to defending his politics in terms of Christianity.
To do this, he must show that Christian presuppositions lead to the same conclusions as humanist presuppositions, which he previously held. He also must show why his presuppositions are more reliable than humanist presuppositions. He knows this. This is why he calls for a Christian worldview.
But he is new at all this. He actually says that no one in the Evangelical camp has provided such an assessment of socialism. He implies that he is the first. Here is the most important economic and political debate of modern times -- the free market vs. socialism -- and he thinks he is the first to provide a Bible-based solution.
It is not a good idea to trumpet your originality if, in fact, you are a late-comer who has failed to do your homework. This is Petley's problem. It is not that he is original, as he claims. It is that he is uninformed.[product id="1201" align="left" size="small"]
He includes a bibliography. I am mentioned once. He has the book's title wrong. He has the publication date wrong: 1992, not 1982. (http://bit.ly/gndomcov)
There is no reference to my first book, Marx's Religion of Revolution (1968, 1989).
There is no reference to this department.
There is no reference to David Chilton's book, Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt-Manipulators, which was published in 1981, and which has been onlinefor free for about 12 years.
There is no reference to Joel McDurmon's God versus Socialism (American Vision, 2009).
There is no reference to any of Lord Brian Griffiths' books. He was Thatcher's economics advisor. Before that, he taught at the London School of Economics and also served as Dean of the City University Business School in London. He is well known in British evangelical circles.
There is no reference to Calvin Beisner's books.
There is no mention of R. J. Rushdoony.
There is no mention of Herbert Schlossberg's Idols for Destruction (1983).[product id="1150" align="right" size="small"]
He claims that his book presents a biblical worldview. I have heard this claim for over 45 years. But his book doesn't offer one. It does what previous anti-socialist books written by Christians have done: it chronicles the history of socialism. "Socialism is bad. Believe me, it really is. I have quoted a lot of anti-socialist humanists to prove this. Furthermore, I'm a Christian. Thus, I have presented a biblical worldview."
The tip-off is the Scripture index. It's missing.
He devoted three and a half pages to a consideration of the Israelites' civil government (pp. 34-37). He drew no conclusions. That constitutes the only discussion of the Bible in 330 pages of text. The rest of the book is devoted to history. He concludes that socialism is bad. He's right. But he has said nothing new.
This is incomplete scholarship. So be it. There is lots of that in evangelicalism. It claims to offer what it fails to offer. There has been lots of that over the last half century. But why do men spend years researching a topic they do not understand, and then insist on going into print with a large neon sign? "I don't know what I'm talking about, but I love Jesus!"
It took me about 17,000 hours to research and write An Economic Commentary on the Bible. (http://www.garynorth.com/public/department158.cfm) The total number of pages is 8,555, or almost exactly two hours per page. It took me at least that much time -- probably twice that amount of time -- to write the newsletters, raise the funds, and publish about 70 support books. (http://www.garynorth.com/public/department78.cfm) I did not get paid a dime for any of this work.
[product id="1211" align="left" size="small"]That work was required to prepare me to begin my final three books (fat, medium, and short) on Christian economics, plus a book on economic epistemology.
Then there must be videos, Sunday school courses, and homeschool courses.
This is the minimum of what is required. This is what few Protestant evangelicals are willing to do.
For a politician, the book is far above-average. But it annoys me when Christian social and political authors who come in the name of expertise are utterly unaware of the extensive volume of work that is in print and online. "I never heard of it" is not a valid answer in the world of search engines.
Evangelicals are not taken seriously in academia. There is a valid reason for this attitude of contempt. "These people do not do their homework."
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I received a letter on December 11 from a man who claims to be the publisher of the book. He wants modifications in my review. I will provide them.
I am writing in response to your piece on John Petley, I am the publisher of his book, 'Providence, Piety and Power'. First of all, thank you for reading it. There are a number of what I believe to be inaccuracies in your article which you might like to amend.
1. John is not a professional politician. He did stand for UKIP but when he was in Brussels he worked as a researcher, not a politician. He has since left the party and is now an editor. His original training was in computing, he has never had a job as a politician. Incidentally, UKIP came second in the last European elections in the UK and is no longer the minor fringe party that it was in its early days.
I said that the book is good, given the man's status as a politician. If he is an editor, then the book is not so good. I retract.
2. John has been a christian since at least 1984 when I first knew him. He was converted I believe a few years earlier when attending Oxford University from a Roman Catholic background.
I misunderstood. Petley writes that he went to Brussels as a researcher. He joined the UKIP Party in 2001. "Before arriving in Brussels, I had read only one or two books written by Christians about political issues. I guess this is hardly surprising, for there are very few books in existence, certainly on my side of the Atlantic" (p. 9). I assumed that he was ignorant, because he was a new Christian. He must not have known of Abraham Kuyper, who founded the Anti-Revolutionary Party in 1879, and who was elected Prime Minister of the Netherlands in 1901. He wrote voluminously on politics and Christian social theory. He started two newspapers and a university to promote these views. Petley cited his Lectures on Calvinism (1898) in his bibliography. Then there were the Christian Reconstructionist authors. So, I figured that his ignorance was based on his not being a Christian. My mistake. He was merely ignorant.
Or was he?
3. Not citing or referencing other books does not mean he has not read them or is ignorant of them, it means he does not deem them pertinent to what he is writing.
I see. He is not ignorant after all. He was merely keeping his readers from becoming aware of a body of material which does, in fact, refute socialism from a biblical standpoint. That would make his initial statement about their being no biblical refutations of socialism look like self-conscious deception rather than utter ignorance. I do not see how this gets him off the hook. It makes him look worse.
4. John is writing in the context of the paucity of material on the subject on this side of the Atlantic and for a general market, not an academic market. His book is important in the UK where the default evangelical christian position is left-wing/socialist.
I see. My books are for an "academic market." As for 1,200+ articles on LewRockwell.com, that's for all those pointy-headed intellectuals, no doubt. As for the 100,000 subscribers to my Tea Party Economist, they are all a bunch of Ph.D.-types.
He ignored David Chilton's Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt-Manipulators, which went through four editions and five printings, and which targeted Ron Sider's Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, which sold 400,000 copies. But this was not written for the general reader, Petley's publisher wants you to believe.
5. You blame him for not referencing scripture enough, but he was not writing an exposition of the Bible, he was as you noted writing a history of UK and European political thought which is well-referenced; you might as well condemn him for not referencing Enid Blyton.
I see. Petley tells us that there is no biblical refutation of socialism, and then he does not supply one. He supplies a refutation based on Hayek and Friedman.
He says we are in need of a Christian worldview, and then he refuses to quote the Bible to provide it.
That was why I wrote my review: to show that this is one more book by one more man who claims he is supplying what he says is crucial -- a Christian worldview -- and then refuses to supply it.
Then his publisher defends him by saying that this was not the author's intent at all. It wasn't? The author writes on page 10 regarding his years in Brussels, "I had hitherto failed to think consistently as a Christian and apply any sort of Biblical thinking to the political arena." He goes on: "So began a spiritual discovery trying to determine what constitutes a Christian worldview." He even claims the following for his book: "It may appear that a book that attempts to put socialism under the spotlight of scripture is a strange topic in the early 21st century."
So, I imagined that this is what the book would do. It doesn't. On the other hand, it was what I did in 1968 inMarx's Religion of Revolution.
The publisher concludes:
I would appreciate it if you would inform your readers that some of the things you said were not completely accurate. Your opinion of course is entirely up to you.
His wish was my command.
Mr. Petley needs help. His publisher has not provided any. His publisher argues that he is not ignorant, which implies that Petley is a deceiver who is self-consciously covering up a comprehensive body of material that does, in fact, do what Petley says has never been done.
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Dark energy or matter is not to be measured as we would in ordinary circumstances. This is a property of the Zero. It is 'dark' because like the compacted 'sound' in the Zero which we cannot hear, we cannot 'see' this energy – which actually is not an energy. It is an all-pervading cosmic direction, or alignment. It 'holds' by virtue of this contracting action in counterbalancing the expansion on this side. Clearly the wrong tools are used in measuring because they do not know what it is exactly, and they then apply the laws of physics which hold for the One and its expansion. We know it is there by its effects. We conclude, we deduce that this is more than 90% of our universe – and yet we do not know how to measure it!
Dark matter is beyond the Expansion, beyond its laws. It is the origin of gravity on this side; and certainly gravity is the force that resists integration. It must because its own roots or origin on the other side are unknown. Scientists do not know how to approach it, how to bring it within the ambit of the other forces and the laws that govern them. To understand the origin of the gravitational force we must know Time. That knowledge lies 'on the other side' – hence it eludes the physicist.
Time is 'measured' on this side through the process of birth measurable by the calendar which is a faithful reproduction of the harmonies of our solar system. The December Solstice is the doorway to 'the other side' when perihelion occurs and there can be contraction to a point; hence in all advanced cultures it was given prominence, like the temple at Konarak, Egypt where the rising Sun on that solstice occurs each year exactly between two pillars/walls. How exquisitely the passage to the other side was portrayed.
A calendar like the current one used by Hindus completely distorts this experience. According to the Nirayana astrologer that sunrise would be measured 23 days AFTER the event, and of course the synchronisation would fail – as would the entire Vedic method of equivalencies.
OM, like the raga/shruti, also provides the correct understanding of the origin of things, with the three stages of contraction (in the primordial vibration) leading to a Zero/fourth. So accurate, yet so unproductive in this science-maddened society that has lost all touch with its ancient wisdom.
Thus, the harmony of our solar system, and the Earth's contribution to the composition, is the display of what lies beyond. Our solar system is unique because it faithfully transcribes in space the grand harmony that exists on the other side of materiality. And the contribution of the Earth is to offer the key through the December Solstice to the portal that can carry us to that beyond in full consciousness. Not to heaven or hell or extra-cosmos, but rather into the deepest dimension of our material reality. We are contracted to a 'point' in the deepest recesses of the soul where we experience the same 9, 6, 3 – or the Transcendent, Cosmic and Individual trinity. Only birth on Earth allows us to do so because the soul is the special quality of this third planet. We can make of our sojourn here an Underworld where the Dark Lord Pluto reigns; or we can, thanks to the supramental Truth-Consciousness, bring what lies in the core of ourselves to the surface and then to establish life on Earth according to those triadic principles of the New Way formula. The Avatar comes for this: to open the way by his birth and death and conscious re-birth for this foundational experience.


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You've watched Bruce Willis blow stuff up in "Die Hard," see dead people in "The Sixth Sense," and blow more stuff up in "The Expendables 2." But you haven't seen him with hair.
A Levi's commercial from 1984 (see below) starring your favorite action star has surfaced, thanks to BuzzFeed, and is enjoying a comeback. Check out one of the A-lister's first acting jobs -- he's the guy at the end with the yellow jacket showing off some smooth moves. (Look closely -- he may also be the one washing the car.)
In the ad, which is a time capsule of bad '80s fashion, a series of scenes show various people wearing Levi's 501 jeans -- roller-skating, washing a car, driving in an old pickup -- to a bluesy guitar riff.
Young Bruce appears at the end of the spot. The not-yet-famous Willis is seen walking on the street, moving to the music, spinning around, all with a goofy grin on his face.
If this were old Bruce, we'd assume it was ironic. But the guy is such a happy ham in the ad, you have to assume he's young, he's glad for the work, and he's acting.


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Home › Forums › General Karting Discussion › From indoor to outdoor Karting › Reply To: From indoor to outdoor Karting
Welcome to outdoor karting. Yes, it is exhilarating!
SoCal sprinters is the club I started with many years ago – and it's a great club. They race exclusively at Adams (fun track)
Also, TriC Karters races at Fontana – well run club – very nice people.
You may also want to look into F100karters. They are a great place to start in karting with a huge novice class (nearly 20 drivers at each event). When you have more experience, you can move in to the intermediate class (also a huge class) and finally in to the advanced class when you can't be beaten in the intermediate class. They race at most of the local tracks – Adams / Apex / CalSpeed / Willow Springs / Grange.
F100 races 100cc engines which like you heard, are relatively inexpensive and low maintenance compared to many other engine options.
Look them up – F100karters.com. The next F100 race is at Adams July 26.
You should expect over 80 F100 racers at the July race.
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Students seeking education loan now would be able to get all the information in just one click of the mouse- thanks to efforts of the central government that has launched a website, vidyalakshmi.co.in
Five banks including SBI, IDBI Bank and Bank of India have integrated their system with the portal.
The portal "Vidya Lakshmi was launched on the occasion of Independence Day i.e. 15th August, 2015 for the benefit of students seeking educational loans," a Finance Ministry release said.
The portal will provide information about educational loan schemes of banks; common educational loan application form for students; facility to apply to multiple banks for educational loans; and facility for banks to download students' loan applications.
It also has facility for banks to upload loan processing status; facility for students to email grievances/queries relating to educational loans; dashboard facility for students to view status of their loan application and linkage to National Scholarship Portal for information and application for government scholarships.
The portal has been developed and maintained by NSDL e-Governance Infrastructure Limited (NSDL e-Gov) under the guidance of Department of Financial Services in the Finance Ministry, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development and Indian Banks' Association (IBA).
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his Budget speech for 2015-16 had proposed to set up a fully IT based student financial aid authority to administer and monitor scholarships as well as educational loan schemes through Pradhan Mantri Vidya Lakshmi Karyakram (PMVLK).
It is aimed to ensure that no student misses out on higher education for lack of funds, said the release, adding that the launch of the portal is the first step towards achieving this objective.
"Vidya Lakshmi Portal is the first of its kind portal providing single window for students to access information and make applications for educational loans provided by banks as also government scholarships," it added.
So far 13 banks have registered 22 educational loan schemes on the Vidya Lakshmi Portal and five banks -- SBI, IDBI Bank, Bank of India, Canara Bank and Union
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I saw this recipe this morning and I just had to make it. A small issue I faced was I neither had lemons nor poppy seeds but the bread had to be baked.
So I replaced lemons with orange and poppy seeds with sesame seeds and I was ready! I did turn out quite good though it felt more like a cake than bread i.e. it was slightly dense and not airy & light like a bread. But it tasted well and so this is a good recipe by itself.
1 cup all purpose flour
1/3 cup sugar
1/8 tsp salt
1/8 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp nutmeg powder
1 1/2 tbsp sesame seeds
1 small egg
1/8 cup oil (I used sunflower oil)
1 cup cold milk
1 tbsp orange juice (I used 100% Tropicana)
1 tbsp zest (I added another 1/4 tsp since that was all I had left of my zest)
For the glaze
1/8 cup sugar
1 1/2 tbsp orange juice (again Tropicana 100%)
1. Preheat the oven to 180C
2. Grease a pan and put a parchment paper (optional) at the bottom
3. Mix all the dry ingredients (totally 8 of them)
4. Whisk the egg
5. Add oil, milk and juice to the egg
6. Mix the egg mixture with the dry ingredients with a spatula. Don't over mix
7. The mixture will not be too watery or too stiff. Somewhere in between
8. Pour this batter in the pan and bake for 40 minutes.
9. As the baking is in progress, mix the sugar and orange juice for the glaze.
10. Slightly warm the mixture and mix till the sugar dissolves. It won't take you more than 2-3 minutes.
11. Once the toothpick comes clear of the cake, remove it from the oven
12. Poke holes with a skewer one inch apart and pour the glaze on the cake immediately.
13. Wait for 20 minutes before cooling it on the wire rack.
1. You can use fresh orange juice as well.
2. Nutmeg powder can be replaced with cinnamon powder
3. You can replace milk with cold water as in the original recipe. I used milk because I had it and not cold water
4. Anytime you make a cake that requires a glaze, it is an essential part and cannot be done away with. If you do not want to add the glaze then you need to increase the sugar portion of the cake else it won't taste as good.


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Evaluate two studies related to abnormal psychology. Abnormal psychology is the branch of psychology that deals with studying, explaining and treating mental, emotional and behavioral problems. Many studies have taken place examining many different aspects of abnormal psychology. Some studies explore psychological disorders, such as depression and others try to test the validity of diagnosis and classificatory systems and to show that actually the distinction between abnormal and normal behavior is very difficult. Two of the most famous studies in abnormal psychology are the ones by Brown and Harris in 1978 and by Rosenhan in 1973. First of all, depression is one of the most common psychological disorders. People who are depressed have very low moods and low levels of self esteem. They lack motivation, and think that everything is black and that they will never be happy again. It seems that besides the biological and cognitive factors, social and cultural ones also play a role in depression. One study which explores the effects of sociocultural factors on depression is the one by Brown and Harris. Brown and Harris aimed to investigate the link between depression and both current and past life events in the lives of sufferers. ...read more.
The finding that most people got depressed because there was something wrong with their in their lives and not due to their personality, totally transformed how depression was seen by general practitioners and psychiatrists in Britain. A main problem in abnormal psychology is the distinction between normality and abnormality and the validity of diagnosis of psychological disorders. There are many criteria which help psychiatrists to distinguish between abnormal and normal. Some of them are the statistical infrequency, the deviation from ideal mental health, the deviation from social norms and the failure to function adequately. However, each of these criteria has its own limitation. Regarding the validity of diagnosis of psychological disorders, it is important to say that the purpose of diagnosis is to identify a disorder and find the cause (etiology) and provide treatment (and maybe a prognosis). This procedure is typical within the medical world. However, it is more problematic in relation to psychological disorders as in many cases diagnosis is based on symptoms and not objective signs, and the classification systems are far from perfect. The classification systems are merely descriptive and meant at identifying certain disorders. ...read more.
This study is a strong evidence that there are problems regarding the validity of psychiatric diagnosis and that it is very difficult to distinguish normal from abnormal. This study had an enormous impact in psychiatry. It sparked off a discussion and revision of diagnostic procedures as well as discussion of the consequences of diagnosis for patients. The development of diagnostic manuals has increased validity and reliability. The method used raises ethical issues but it was justified since the results provided evidence of problems in diagnosis which could benefit others. There is strong deception and there were also serious ethical issues in the follow-up study since the staff thought that impostors would present, but they were real patients and may have not received the treatment they needed. In conclusion, it is certain that abnormal psychology is one of the most fascinating branches of psychology and many studies have taken place and will also take place in the future examining its phenomena. Brown and Harris and Rosenhan et al studies are only two of a number of studies which can characterized as breakthroughs and contributed to amazing changes in the area of psychology. ...read more.
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Lantronix signs deal with FutureSmart
IRVINE, Calif. - Lantronix has signed a deal with a structured wiring hardware manufacturer to integrate its Premise SYS Automation Software with FutureSmart's structured wiring panel and server.
The partnership will allow the combined control server to more easily deliver entertainment through media management, web access to security cameras and automation and communications benefits.
Home Depot to showcase security products in safety campaign
ATLANTA - Home improvement retailer The Home Depot has kicked off a customer education initiative on safety and security. As part of the campaign, related products will be showcased prominently in every store, including fire extinguishers, smoke alarms, security lighting, entry alarms and other related items in the Home Safety Zone.
The campaign kicked off in October in recognition of National Fire Safety month.
Home improvement website showcases services to consumers
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When a homeowner signs on and gives his or her zip code, up to four pre-screened contractors are matched based on the homeowner's location.
The Home Improvement Resource Center is a wholly owned subsidiary of MAP Marketing LLC.


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|Occurred : 6/18/2010 21:00 (Entered as : 6/18/2010 21:00)
Reported: 11/30/2011 5:09:01 PM 17:09
Posted: 12/12/2011
Location: Pittsfield, MA
Shape: Light
Duration:3 min
|I saw a light in the sky that I could not identify.
My father and I were having a conversation on his back porch on acorn st. He said " hey look at that" I saw a simple red light ascending from the tree line that was 100 yards in front of us. the object looked like it was approx. 2-3 miles away and over the city. As I observed further and the light moved upward from right to left, I noticed that there was a rainbow aura around the steadily shining light. This object moved without any sound, then it went behind the clouds and was gone. I have been a helicopter pilot for over ten years, and I can say with confidence, it was not anything I can identify.
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD))


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Meeting last weekend in Los Cabos, Mexico, for their first, "informal" gathering, G20 foreign ministers made a pivotal decision: to expand the G20 agenda to encompass pressing political and security matters. Patricia Espinosa, the Mexican foreign minister, emphasized that on crucial issues that "affect the lives of billions…the international community is failing," and announced that the group would reconvene at the G20 leaders' summit from June 19 to 20 to consider a raft of global issues ranging from transnational crime to green growth and food security.
For the G20, this represents a huge advance. Since its inception as a leaders' level forum at the November 2008 Washington summit, the G20 has been dominated by finance ministers and central bank governors, who have fought to restrict its mandate to macroeconomic issues. Espinosa's proposal—endorsed by Secretary of State Clinton—will help the G20 transition from an emergency economic committee to a more general-purpose steering group chaired by the most important developed and developing countries.
This shift is both inevitable and welcome. From the beginning, many have anticipated that the G20 would be drawn into a broader global agenda, either by design or by the intrusion of outside events. Indeed, the communiqué of that initial Washington summit hinted as much, committing the assembled countries "to addressing other critical challenges such as energy security and climate change, food security, the rule of law, the fight against terrorism, poverty and disease." Certainly, the history of the G7 and G8 suggests that world leaders are reluctant to confine their remit to economic and financial issues. Indeed, they find annual summits irresistible opportunities to address a broader global agenda, particularly issues dominating the headlines. Over the past two decades, first the G7 and then the G8 expanded their agenda to include issues ranging from money laundering to nuclear nonproliferation, and then democracy promotion in the wake of the "Arab spring." At the end of the day, leaders will speak about whatever they desire, regardless of the script.
For the past three years, finance ministries—including the U.S. Treasury—have fought a rearguard action to restrict the G20 summit agenda. At one level this made sense. The G20 was born in the depths of the global credit crisis, when the world economy was on the verge of collapse. The zenith of its success came at the London Summit of April 2009, when British prime minister Gordon Brown, U.S. president Obama, and their counterparts cobbled together an unprecedented global stimulus package to save the world from a second Great Depression. Since then, the G20 has had a much bumpier ride, as it seeks to grapple with longer-term challenges of "rebalancing" the global economy, coordinating exchange rates and financial regulations across twenty sovereign jurisdictions, and ameliorating the eurozone crisis. With so much left to be done economically, finance ministers have understandably fought against "mission creep." The surest way to kill the G20, U.S. Treasury officials maintain, would be to saddle it with a sprawling array of global tasks.
To be sure, modest agenda expansion has already occurred. At the Pittsburgh summit of September 2009, where Obama declared the G20 the "premier forum for global economic coordination," the assembled leaders gingerly entered the climate change fray, pledging to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies. A year later in Seoul, the G20 embraced a role in advancing global development—heretofore the purview of the G8. Still, these changes have occurred at the margins. And last November in Cannes, the United States gave a cool reception to the Cameron Report on the future of G20 governance, in which the UK prime minister suggested that the G20 might lead reform in other bodies, including the UN Security Council. Beyond underscoring the dominance of the U.S. Treasury in U.S. policymaking, the U.S. attitude reflected a lingering attachment to the G8, which the Obama administration believed retained a comparative advantage in addressing sensitive political and security issues, given its largely likeminded membership. The G8's solid performance in Deauville, where it coordinated international support to the Arab spring, appeared to give that venerable body a new lease on life.
As a long-term approach, however, restricting the G20 to economic issues is short-sighted and neglects the unprecedented opportunity the forum provides to forge new patterns of international cooperation. As Bruce Jones of New York University has cogently argued, the demand for new forms of cooperation between established and emerging powers is hardly restricted to the economic realm. It applies equally to other global issues, from climate change to nuclear proliferation and humanitarian intervention. The G20 is the only forum where the world's established and rising powers meet exclusively, on an equal footing, to candidly air their differences and (hopefully) hammer out new principles, norms and rules of international behavior. It also provides an invaluable setting to calm inevitable frictions between the world's two most important players—the United States and China.
The Obama administration, which has made the integration of rising powers a geopolitical priority, should embrace the new opportunities afforded by an expanded G20 agenda. The forum provides a chance for the United States to erode the bloc mentalities that often thwart cooperation within the UN, forge new diplomatic alignments spanning developing and developed countries, and negotiate breakthroughs on longstanding global bottlenecks—solutions that can be taken up and implemented by more formal organizations, from the UN to the World Trade Organization to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Of course, the G20 will not provide a magic bullet to solve the most complex challenges, like growing tensions with Iran, for example. Still, the G20 offers a more fluid environment for the United States to seek political buy-in from a more diverse swath of the world's most important players. Clinton and Espinoza were right to seize this opportunity.
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Another highlight you may not hear in the President's address from this morning: according to the last Department of Agriculture update, Americans on foodstamps has increased by over half a million in August, hitting a fresh all time high of 42.4 million people relying on the government for basis sustenance. At least now we know where that labor force is going. The August number is a 17% rise from the same time a year ago. That number is up 58.5% from August 2007, before the recession began.
As the WSJ reports:
By population, Washington, D.C. had the largest share of residents receiving food stamps: More than a fifth, 21.1%, of its residents collected assistance in August. Washington was followed by Mississippi, where 20.1% of residents received food stamps, and Tennessee, where 20% tapped into the government nutrition program.
Idaho posted the largest jump in recipients in the past year. The number of people receiving food stamps climbed 38.8% but their rolls are still fairly low. Just 211,883 Idaho residents collected food stamps in August.
The average benefit size per person nationwide in August was $133.90. Per household it was $287.82.
Food stamps have become a lifeline for workers who have lost their jobs, particularly among the growing share of unemployed Americans who have also exhausted their unemployment benefits. Lines at grocers at midnight on the first of the month have signaled that, in many cases, those benefits aren't tiding families over and they run out before their next check kicks in.
Even during the summer children returned to schools to take advantage of free lunch programs where they were available. Nearly 195 million lunches were dished out in August and 58.9% of them were free. Another 8.4% were available at reduced prices. That number will surge when the fall data are released because children will be back in school. Last September, for example, more than 590 million lunches were served, nearly 64% of which were free or reduced price.
Children whose families have incomes at or below 130% of the poverty level — $28,665 for a family of four — can access free meals. Those families earning between 130% and 185% of the poverty level — $40,793 for a four-person family — are eligible for reduced-price meals that can't cost more than 40 cents.
We also fail to see just what Fed-induced wealth effect these 42.4 million Americans will receive courtesy of the Fed's generosity targetting Wall Street, corporate insiders, and nobody else.
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Academic journal article Science Scope
Can You Identify Our Mystery Photo?
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How to submit a guess
In each issue of Science Scope, we publish a science-related image for your students to identify. When an image is published, teachers can submit a guess on behalf of their class through our website, by e-mail at email@example.com (please include "Mystery Photo" in the subject line), or by mail (Science Scope, Mystery Photo, 1840 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22201). Those classes that correctly identify the Mystery Photo of the month will be eligible for a drawing to receive an item of their choice from NSTA's Science Store.
Only one entry per class per contest will be accepted. Please be sure to include the instructor's name, subject taught, grade level, and name of your school, along with your guess. The names of the contest winners, as well as the solution to the Mystery Photo, will be published in the following issue's column.
The entrance to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Last month's Mystery Photo was correctly identified by Chelsea Petereit's eighth-grade space and Earth science classes at the Lancaster School in Lancaster, New Hampshire. …


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- Subject: [mg44702] RE: [mg44664] Re: filled plot on part of x-interval
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 05:13:23 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Suppose we want to split the plot into three portions so that the center line will have the same plot points as the fill and not leave gaps. And suppose that we want to label each of the three regions, specifying the labels in each of the three plots. (I also changed your FilledPlot so one actually does obtain a filled plot.) Needs["Graphics`Graphics`"]; Needs["Graphics`Colors`"]; Needs["Graphics`FilledPlot`"]; DisplayTogether[ Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 2}, PlotStyle -> Red, Epilog -> {Text["Left", {1, -0.2}]}, ImageSize -> 450], FilledPlot[Sin[x], {x, 2, 8}, Fills -> LightBlue, AxesFront -> True, Epilog -> {Text["Center", {5, 0.2}]}], Plot[Sin[x], {x, 8, 10}, PlotStyle -> Red, Epilog -> {Text["Right", {9, -0.2}]}]]; The resulting plot is not what one probably intended. Only the left Epilog label was picked up. Also the AxesFront option was lost from the FilledPlot, but not the Fills option. ImageSize was picked up because it was in the first plot. In other words, overall plot options are only picked up from the first plot in the DisplayTogether statement. The solution is either put them all in the first plot, or remove them from the individual plots and put them at the end. DisplayTogether[ Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 2}, PlotStyle -> Red], FilledPlot[Sin[x], {x, 2, 8}, Fills -> LightBlue], Plot[Sin[x], {x, 8, 10}, PlotStyle -> Red], Epilog -> {Text["Left", {1, -0.2}], Text["Center", {5, 0.2}], Text["Right", {9, -0.2}]}, AxesFront -> True, ImageSize -> 450]; The only advantage of DrawGraphics is that instead of dealing with various plots and worrying about what options are picked up, you draw the graphical elements directly and always put the overall plot options at the end. Needs["DrawGraphics`DrawingMaster`"] Draw2D[ {Red, Draw[Sin[x], {x, 0, 2}], Black, FilledDraw[Sin[x], {x, 2, 8}, Fills -> LightBlue], Red, Draw[Sin[x], {x, 8, 10}], Black, Text["Left", {1, -0.2}], Text["Center", {5, 0.2}], Text["Right", {9, -0.2}]}, Axes -> True, AxesFront -> True, ImageSize -> 450]; David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ From: AES/newspost [mailto:siegman at stanford.edu] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net I'll still assert that something like: Needs["Graphics`Graphics`"]; Needs["Graphics`Colors`"]; Needs["Graphics`FilledPlot`"]; DisplayTogether[ FilledPlot[{Sin[x], Sin[x]}, {x,2,8}], Plot[Sin[x], {x,0,10}, PlotStyle->Red]]; is clear, simple, flexible, and readable -- and allows you to easily modify the styles (linewidths, colors) of the different components of the plot independently, as done here, and add additional stuff if you like. DisplayTogether is your friend -- haven't run into a headache with it yet.


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Welcome to the Saudi Student Website
The website is designed to answer specific questions in regards to scholarship students from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
KPU manages the Saudi Arabian Partnership program through the International Office. KPU International deals directly with the Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau (SACB) in Canada in regards to student support and inquiries. SACB is the organization that facilitates the scholarship program in Canada on behalf of the Ministry of Higher education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Relationship between KPU and SACB
KPU has built a very strong relationship with the SACB by helping its student's transition from ESL to undergraduate programs, start and complete their undergraduate programs and support them through their studies. In addition, KPU is a qualified and approved institution to deliver academic programs by the Ministry of Higher Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Number of Students
KPU currently has 127 scholarship students from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia studying full time at KPU. KPU has 50 students who are completing their ESL studies and transitioning to their undergraduate programs and the remaining students are currently completing their undergraduate program. Most of the undergraduate students are studying under the faculty of Business. However, scholarship students are studying variety of programs in the Faculty of Arts and Science.
KPU has the biggest School of Business in Western Canada and scholarship students are studying a variety of business programs at KPU in addition to the faculty of Arts and Science.
KPU with the input of the SACB has designed a one-year, intensive ESL program to help scholarship students complete their English studies and requirements within the time available by their scholarship. The program offers an intensive two-month ESL courses to help students complete their ESL studies successfully. KPU has currently six levels of ESL courses in the program. If students start their ESL at the beginning of the program, they will be able to complete their studies within one year.
KPU supports KSA scholarship students through a variety of services. KPU has designated advisor that work directly with scholarship students. The advisor is a native Arabic speaker who is able to communicate with students in Arabic and answer all their questions and inquiries.
KPU also supports the language learning by offering extended tutoring and language assistant. KPU International in partnership with the Faculty of Academic and Careen Preparation, facilities by the ESL department, has designated specialized ESL tutors to work directly with the scholarship students to support them to complete their ESL program successfully as well as facilitate the language learning.
Events and Students Life
KPU International offers variety of activities to scholarship students to help them balance their academic studies and personal life. Each semester, KPU International holds a special event geared toward supporting scholarship students. In addition, KPU International offers other regular events open for all international students at KPU to foster the multiculturalism on campus.
KPU has designated a praying room on its campuses to help students practice their religious activities.
There Mosques are close and available to students around each campus. Students can walk or take the transit to go to the Mosque to practice their prayers and religious activities. The British Columbia Muslim association along with its central Mosque is on a walking distance from the Surrey campus. In addition, the biggest Mosque in Canada is about 10km away from both campuses and the transit system is available for students to facilitate travelling to that Mosque.


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Born in Chicago and raised in Southern California, Jen Lin-Liu attended Columbia University and went to China as a Fulbright Fellow. The founder of Black Sesame Kitchen, a Beijing cooking school, she is the author of Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China. She has written about food, culture, and travel for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Saveur, Newsweek, Travel + Leisure, and other publications. She lives in Chengdu, China.


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29 Apr Pink Grapefruit + Cucumber Salad
The sunny weather this week is most certainly calling for salads for supper. The summer seems to be creeping back into our collective consciousness, thanks to a sunny spell last week. It's always a surprise to find ourselves at the May bank holiday weekend, which marks the beginning of the summer months.
Grapefruits evoke sunnier climes, particularly the pink variety. White grapefruits are thought to have originated in Barbados, as a hybrid of the Jamaican sweet orange and the Indonesian pomelo. They were eventually given the name grapefruit, in reference to the way the fruit grows in clusters on their tree. It's thought that the grapefruit was introduced to Florida in the early 1800s. In 1906, the Atwood Grapefruit Company discovered the first pink grapefruit growing on one of their trees. The appearance of the juicy, sweet pink grapefruit is sometimes referred to as nature's million dollar mistake, as it was an unplanned hybrid that led to a very economically fruitful fruit.
With my grapefruit salad, I'm pushing the boundaries of acidity by adding a squeeze of lime juice to our dressing. It's a balancing act with the lime and the honey, but a rewarding one when you get it just right. With a hunk of warm, crusty baguette by its side, this salad is a nourishing summer supper. It also works really well with a few slices of roast chicken or a good piece of steak on the side.
pink grapefruit + cucumber salad
Serves 2
Prep Time: 15 minutes
2 pink grapefruits
Half a small cucumber
50g of feta cheese
Handful of fresh mint
Pinch of chilli flakes
For the dressing
3 tablespoons of rapeseed or olive oil
1 tablespoon of red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon of runny honey
1 lime wedge
Pinch of salt and pepper
- Start by slicing the grapefruit into rounds. Use a sharp knife to remove the rind from the circular slices, without damaging the shape. If you prefer, you can slice the grapefruits into segments or finely dice them for this salad. I like the look of the circles on the plate, so it's purely an aesthetic decision.
- Slice the cucumber into long, thin strips or bite-sized pieces. Crumble the feta cheese with your fingers.
- Arrange the grapefruit circles on two salad plates. Top with the cucumber pieces and crumbled feta. Pick the leaves from the fresh mint and scatter over the plates. Sprinkle with a pinch of chilli flakes.
- Make the dressing by mixing together the oil, red wine vinegar and runny honey. Add a squeeze of lime juice and a pinch of salt and pepper. Give it a taste and add a little more honey if it's too tart. You want the dressing to be quite sweet to balance the acidic grapefruit, but not too sweet that you lose the lime juice.
- Drizzle the salad with your dressing. Serve with some crusty bread on the side, or even some honey-roasted chicken legs.
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Injury as an athlete can really get you down. Physically and mentally, it has a massive impact on how you move forward, recover and hopefully get back on track. That is why getting over injury is paramount.
A constant challenge when taking part in training or competition is avoiding injury, especially when pushing the limits of your capabilities to progress or win, and the setbacks of injury are therefore more frightening – particularly for heavily dedicated athletes from all sports.
So how do you get over injury when it does happen? Here are some tips and concepts you should consider if you ever suffer from injury which limits your sporting ability for a period of time and potential influences how you get back to where you were and move forward.
Accept the Results
First thing to do is accept that if you have an injury that you need to take the time to recover properly, as prescribed by your doctor or physio, etc. We recently featured a great article about training through pain or injury – read it, as it explains how ignoring pain or injury and continuing to train through it will only cause bigger problems.
Move On
Besides the physical issues, mentally you need to be able to accept the situation, especially when training makes up most of your daily routine and it is a big part of your personal goals. During this time out of training, set yourself new goals – goals which align with the time when you can start training again. Set goals you want to reach to get back to where you were and where you want to be after. This helps you mentally accept your situation, but importantly it allows you to accept that you will come back from it and you have new goals to reach.
Rehab is often dictated by your doctors or physios, etc. See this as an opportunity to push yourself like you would during normal training. Just like training, know your ability, your limits, your goals, and how you can achieve these goals sooner and within reason. Also, keep in mind that often some injuries may only limit training certain areas of your body and you may still have the ability to train other parts of your body or even your monostructural capacity (i.e. cardio). The important thing here, if that is the case, is not to over-train, strain or injury these capable areas.
Use Your Support
Sometimes injury and recovery is a lonesome journey. Don't let it be, especially if it's mid to long term, and especially if you feel it's really getting you down. Speak to your doctor or physio and see what therapy there is for the psychological impact. See how your family and friends can help you psychologically and emotionally. Get out and support the sport you love and those friends of yours who are still athletes and are training and competition – do this so that you don't find yourself becoming negative about the sport or community which you clearly belong too. Often being in that situation you'll find that being a supporter is a great way to lift your mood and you can learn so much from observing too.
Get back Into It
Once you have fully recovered and you are ready to start training again, let your coach (provided you have one) help your scale into training. Jumping straight into the deep end may lead to injury again. Likewise, don't be scared to return to training and to gradually get back to where you were – you will be surprised how quickly you get back to where you left off. During this time, reassess your goals you had set and track your progress. In addition, avoid future injury (the same or unrelated) by working on things like mobility, etc., and better ensure you don't go through this again.


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A well-equipped clinic is available in the Administration Building to provide health care for our children throughout the school day.
Students with injuries or illnesses may go and be seen by our nurses or the school doctor, and be provided with appropriate medication and/or treatment.
We also do regular health checks, particularly for the younger children in the Primary and Early Years age. The clinic also keeps
a medical file on each child and checks on absences. The school nurse notifies the parents of a child if more serious treatment is needed.
We also have an additional clinic in the Sports Hall.
One of our facilities supporting our staff, is a day care center open for the young children (age 0-3). This day care center enables our working mothers to get back to work quickly after having their baby, as it is properly equipped with toys, caretakers and cots for the children to sleep in. This center is not open to the public.
The school has its own engineering and maintenance department and we do almost all of our own maintenance and repairs, as well as keeping everything in order. We have a group of skilled workmen who also provide some support to our Art department in making large scaled projects.
The school has a large and very well stocked resource department as well as departmental resource rooms attached to each classroom. The materials and equipment available to teachers are all catalogued and bar coded using the Oliver library software program and this unique facility is run by full time personnel who also support the teachers with photocopying, lamination and classroom stationary needs. This enables us to continuously provide fun, interactive style classes for our primary students.
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Four full time ICT System Engineers and four full time ICT technicians (MCSE qualified) look after our extensive computer networks as well as an educational ICT coordinator. Our ICT Development Coordinator provides vision and leadership for the development of ICT, E-learning, and Management ICT Systems across the school and day-to-day ICT Operations, securing high quality and the effective use of resources to bring about the highest standards of achievement for students and staff.
Physical Education
The School offers a broad curriculum in PE with a wide range of different sports and activities and has a variety of areas to use: grass and artificial fields, hard surfaces and acrylic. Students are also encouraged to take part in the school teams, As part of our physical education system, we also provide a multitude of extra-curricular school sports teams that your children can join and thrive in, creating friendships and good memories as well as learning about sportsmanship and teamwork skills. Our winning record is impressive, even in sports such as Rugby.
El Alsson NewGiza has a Sports Hall featuring Basketball courts, two indoor heated pools and a fitness gym and dance studio.
The school runs 90+ buses all over Cairo, to and from school, enabling our students access to our school and safe transportation every day. The buses take your children from home directly, on a set schedule, providing efficiency and safety for younger children. All the buses are air-conditioned and most of them are 26 seater Coasters enabling them to reasonably get through the traffic. Every bus has a bus matron who stays with the children for the whole journey, maintaining the behavior and safety of the children.
Large outdoor play and sports areas
The Primary Elementary School is equipped with a playground for the younger ones along with Basket Ball and Handball tartan courts and 2 green fields.
The Senior Secondary School has its own fields. It has a large natural grass field along with a tartan Basket Ball outdoor field.
Both Schools share the Sports Hall facilities featuring Basketball courts, two indoor heated pools and a fitness gym and dance studio.
Music Rooms
The School has music rooms in every school, some are class rooms to accommodate the entire class equipped with musical instruments while others are designed to hold individual peripatetic music lessons.
The school also has multiple music rooms at the Performing Arts Building.
Multi Purpose Indoor Halls
We have 2 multi purpose indoor halls; one in the British School and one in the American School. Seminars, trainings, Concerts and assemblies can take place in these halls.
We have 2 Large Libraries in both schools. The American School has a 2 story Library divided between the Juniors on the bottom floor and Seniors on the top floor. Same for the British School, it has a large 2 story Library divided between Juniors on the bottom floor and seniors on the top floor.


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Just came across a report in the New Zealand Herald which suggests that Auckland is OECD's (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) most entrepreneurial city in terms of number of entrepreneurs vis-a-vis the population.
13.5 percent of people living in Auckland have been considered "entrepreneurs", followed by Vancouver and Melbourne.
Brussels and Tokyo are cities with least amount of entrepreneurs.
A common thread that I can see between the top three cities is that all three have a lot of social diversity in terms of people from different parts of the world. I guess migration would have played an important role in unleashing the entrepreneurial abilities of people, apart from the fact that certain cities provide frame conditions in which entrepreneurship can thrive.
More on this can be found in this article entited Auckland named OECD's top entrepreneurial city.


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About the Age Group Committee
We are an advisory committee that serves at the pleasure of the National USAT Board Of Directors and our charge is to represent the interests of the Age Group Athlete in matters that come before the board. We hope that the information presented on these pages is informative, and invite you to participate on your Age Group Committee by communicating any issue you believe should be addressed, or by becoming a nominee to serve on the Committee (Board approval required).
Current Age Group Committee Members and Contact Information here.
Committee GuidelinesThe Members of the Age Group Committee are appointed by the Board Of Directors. The Chair is appointed by the President. While not a requirement in the by-laws, the Board and the AGC try to ensure that every region in the country is represented on the Committee whenever possible. Those wishing to join us on the AGC should contact the Chair who will submit the nomination to the Board Of Directors for approval.
Meetings (by conference call) are held bi-monthly and the schedule for 2010 has been set for meetings to be held on the third Thursday of each month. Minutes of the meetings are recorded and approved by the AGC within a few days of the meeting. They are then circulated to the Board and posted on the minutes page.
The Age Group Committee, as stated in our mission, represents the Age Group multi-sport athlete in issue that come before the Board. Generally, the Board will request the AGC to make a recommendation on anything that impacts age groupers.
Aside from our advisory role on policy matters, the AGC oversees teh Athlete Of The Year Award and selects (through a sub-committee) its recipients each year.
The AGC also oversees the administration of the National Rankings process, and monitors it for any modifications that are needed to ensure the rankings are as accurate as possible.
Age Group Committee Sub-CommitteesThe AGC has several sub-committees, some of which are specific to a task and go out of existence once the task is completed, and others which are continuing in nature. Recent sub-committees have been:
Athlete Of The Year Committee
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Not active currently, this committee within the last few years considered and adopted substantial changes to the formula used to establish athlete rankings.
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In case you didn't know (–awkward pause–), Starbucks is more than a coffee shop. The upscale shops, located on what seems like every corner, sells just about everything a fast-paced business professional might want, from assorted trinkets to pastries, smoothies and several other specialty drinks – even the "dynamic" drink of tea. Yes, that's right, tea is apparently DYNAMIC.
When I first heard the news of Starbucks' most recent acquisition of Teavana, I immediately thought, "wow, $620 Million for Tea. That must be some damn tasty tea." Teavana is a specialty retailer founded in 1997 that offers just about anything tea related you could think of. The company maintains stores throughout the US and a handful of franchised stores in Mexico.
Well, turns out it's more than just the taste of Teavana products that makes this deal such a good play for Starbucks.
Was Teavana ready for an acquisition?
Over the years, Teavana has done a superb job building what we'll call the Four Pillars of Acquisition.
- Real Estate – Teavana holds more than 200 company-owned stores throughout the US, many of which are located inside shopping centers.
- Brand Equity – Teavana has worked for years to establish and polish their brand. The company has created a culture around product quality and customer service, two extremely important long-term attributes for any company.
- Existing User Base – With more than 184,000 likes on Facebook and 30,000 followers on Twitter, Teavana has an emerging, very loyal customer base.
- Product IP & Knowledge – Teavana offers more than 100 varieties of specialty teas as well as several types of proprietary merchandise that others DO NOT offer.
Why did Starbucks decide to acquire Teavana?
Why did Starbucks ultimately decide to pull the trigger and acquire Teavana? There are a few key reasons…
- Control the Supply Chain – Starbucks is relying more and more on their option to offer customers in-house products, which helps them to focus on quality control and efficient delivery times. They understand that adding new, complimentary product offerings can reap huge benefits down the line.
- Expand the Brand – Teavana's brand culture is very similar to Starbucks, making the possibility of a successful long-term acquisition outcome more likely. Starbucks has generally done a great job in the past acquiring similar, like-minded brands that fit in with the unique culture at Starbucks.
How can you better prepare your company to be acquired?
Ask yourself the following questions to see if your company might be a candidate for future acquisition.
Q: Why you might consider an acquisition?
A: Agreeing to be acquired is the quickest way for your company to grow. You'll almost immediately have more access to capital and other important resources that you might not otherwise have standing on your own. An acquisition may also shore up an existing product weakness for either the buyer or your company.
Q: Is your company in good financial standing?
A: Make sure your company finances are healthy and in order. Consider the following very carefully:
- Be ready to provide necessary financial documents during due diligence.
- Having accurate financial status reports is critical during this process.
Q: Is the time right?
A: Watch market signals from competitors with complimentary products. Keep an eye out for the following:
- Has a competitor recently gone public?
- Is a competitor opening up new market segments or are they looking to expand into your area?
Q: Are you growing your customer base?
A: The more steadily you have been growing market share, the more of an acquisition candidate you are. Adding real estate (brick/mortar locations) in key demographics locations, building a large tribe of social media advocates as well as maintaining a retail presence online all contribute to a "sellable" user base.
Leave a comment and tell us how you're preparing for a future acquisition. As always, we would love to hear from you!
Check out some more interesting facts about past Starbucks acquisitions below.
When you look at some of the acquisitions Starbucks has made in the past, you begin to quickly realize a history of prudent, methodical purchase strategy designed to add complimentary products that help streamline the company's supply chain. Some past acquisitions include:


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Fútbol Más Ecuador was established in 2013, when an alliance was formed with the Antonio Valencia Foundation, the Ecuador Football Club, Unicef and Pony Malta. This alliance was made as a first step to implement the programs in the coastal city of Guayaquil.
In the first stage of the process, a research and revision of the various characteristics were carried out to identify the sectors and neighborhoods with the highest levels of vulnerability and development potential. This gave way to the election of the first intervention area, the industrial zone Via Daule, where the first neighborhood meetings were held.
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We may have our first frost this weekend. Even if we don't, it will freeze soon, and the butterflies will be gone until next year, so today's post is dedicated to the insects I love. Not so much to those that love me. (Mmm, tastes like chicken!)
Some sort of fritillary.
This is one of the little butterflies I can't classify at all.
More thistle fluff.
Birdie! Seems to be a warbler; I can't say what kind. I thought the background was kind of pretty.
I loved the texture of this stump.
I managed to catch a pair of sulfurs in their mating dance. Maybe not really well, but catching flying butterflies is hard.
Some more fall colors. I hope you're not bored.
This squirrel disappeared into a hole in a tree beside the path. As I passed the tree, I could see him peeking out.
A painted lady. They're planted flowers (at the driveway to the ranger's residence), not wild, but it's a wild butterfly.
Much of the experience of walking through the woods in the fall is when a strikingly colorful tree is partly visible through the intervening trees. It's difficult to capture in a photograph, but here's an attempt.
There were several great blue herons about. Without either a bigger lens or the patience to lie in wait for a long time, I would need to be luckier than I was to get a good close shot, but I think they're beautiful birds even when I can't fill the frame with them.
The color contrast between the red and green leaves in this white oak drew me.
Here's another great blue heron, resting in a dead tree instead of hunting.
Another great blue heron in a fairly pretty lake view.
There were some turtles in the north end of the lake. I didn't get any good closeups, but they anchored this nice reflection
... and I tried to capture the sun sparkle to balance the turtles' silhouettes.
The angle of the light made these dandelions glow.
Here's a view of the lake and the colors from the end of my hike by the north boat ramp.


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Wright makes his mark in first career outing
O's prospect tosses 7 1/3 scoreless innings, exits to ovation at Camden Yards
BALTIMORE -- Before Sunday's game, Orioles manager Buck Showalter said pitcher Mike Wright would be looking to make an impression in his Major League debut.
"He wants to pitch a shutout and make us not send him back out," Showalter said. "I've got it. I want him to, too."
The rookie right-hander made Showalter look like a prophet, allowing four hits over 7 1/3 electric innings of scoreless ball, while striking out six batters and walking none in Baltimore's 3-0 triumph over the Angels, bailing the Birds out of a tricky situation due to injuries to starters Bud Norris (bronchitis) and Chris Tillman (back stiffness).
Wright became the ninth Orioles pitcher to have a scoreless start in his Major League debut and the first since Chris Waters on Aug. 5, 2008. It's the first at Oriole Park since Anthony Telford did it on Aug. 19, 1990.
"I'm impressed by the fact that he went out there and went 7 1/3 innings with 90 pitches," center fielder Adam Jones said. "He was economical, he threw strikes and he kept his defense in the game."
The 6-foot-6 power pitcher earned his first Major League strikeout by firing one of his 98-mph fastballs past Angels slugger Mike Trout in the first inning, and the day only got better from there.
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"That was pretty exciting," Wright said. "To have your first big league strikeout be Mike Trout is a pretty good thing to have."
Wright, who was 3-0 with a 2.64 ERA in six starts at Triple-A Norfolk before being recalled on May 13, went through his normal routine, spending time before the game in the stands reading a book in order to get his body used to the game conditions. He got an added boost of familiarity by working with catcher Caleb Joseph, whom he had teamed with in prior Minor League starts.
"He was really impressive," Joseph said. "It's exciting for him. I've played with him in Double-A and Triple-A, and to be a part of somebody's debut, and an impressive debut at that, was special. He was carrying a really live fastball. He was able to sink it when he needed to and elevate when he needed to."
Wright allowed just four hits, but two of them came in the fourth inning, when the Angels mounted their lone threat of the game after a single from Kole Calhoun and a double by Albert Pujols. But Wright was able to induce a groundout, and then struck out Johnny Giavotella to end the inning.
"Honestly, I thought that ball that Pujols hit was gone," Wright said. "I missed with a fastball, but when that stayed in, I was like, I really need to get through this. That was one of my really good sliders, to end that inning, so I was pretty pumped about that."
As Wright walked off the field to a standing ovation from the 41,733 in attendance, Showalter mused about what could be the start of something special.
"You're lucky to be there," Showalter said. "Hopefully we can say we were there in his first outing one day."


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The language of this article feels so intense and psychotic, because this is intense and psychotic…and it is 100% my experience with my sister. There is no answer or solution other than No Contact. Sadly my 84 year old mother with cancer is her willing and enabling hostage. Unless I submit to this, she will not see or speak to me. I wonder what that is called, besides "your mom doesn't want you-you got screwed".
Click here to read the full article. I just skimmed and read the 20 bold bulleted behaviors. Apparently, while this is shocking, it is not uncommon. Behavior #s 1,2,3,5,9,…Ok, well pretty much all of them are part of our story.
Sensitive ones, BEWARE of these behaviors! They will make you feel crazy and sad and unworthy. You are not. You do not cause or imagine the insanity of this dynamic and you cannot cure it. No Contact is the only real solution. And they will fight you on that. Aligning with my ex is the perfect affirmation of what I have known all along about my sister, who is terrified that as an adult in recovery who knows what only I know of her, that she must do this. She cannot trust me more than she trusts herself.
I will pray for compassion for her–from a safe distance. I give thanks for enough recovery and self-love to allow myself to continue healing. My engagement stops here. What is most upsetting is the toll on the innocence of my young sons as they are forced to navigate her antics as she circumvents me by foreign unwholesome alliance with my Ex. She righteously breaks all girl code with this arrangement.
Much Love,
Magda Gee
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Three New Jersey women are facing kidnapping charges for seeking revenge on a former friend who sued the insurance company of one of the women after a car accident.
Maria Contreras-Luciano, 22, of Dumont; Amber Crespo, 20, and Dyanne Velasquez, 21, both of North Bergen, face kidnapping, assault and conspiracy charges after the women abandon their former friend in 8-degree weather wearing only a dress and one shoe along the New Jersey-New York border.
A motorist let the victim use a cell phone, but refused to give her a ride. Another gave her a ride to the hospital.
The victim reported the incident to police four days later.
The three women were arrested and charged by North Bergen police. Each posted $200,000 bail.
Watching the Sopranos too much, ladies?