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There's 60+ days of summer left and the Starbucks menu just got a summer makeover. Starting Tuesday, July 11th, Canadian customers can head to stores and get their hands on these new menu items:
NEW Teavana® Shaken Iced Tea Infusions
Starbucks is reimaging their iced tea menu. New Teavana® Shaken Iced Tea Infusions are freshly brewed with tea, fruit and botanicals – pure, house-steeped goodness. This innovative flavour delivery uses freshly steeped herbal tea infusions to create a perfectly balanced flavoured iced tea. With just a touch of liquid cane sugar, Teavana® Shaken Iced Tea Infusions are a low-calorie and refreshing new option for customers to enjoy on warm summer afternoons and beyond. There are three infusions to choose from:
NEW Teavana® Shaken Iced Peach Citrus Flavoured White Tea Infusion/Lemonade Teavana® White Tea combined with freshly steeped peach citrus fruit and botanical infusion and water or lemonade, lightly sweetened and shaken with ice
NEW Teavana® Shaken Iced Pineapple Flavoured Black Tea Infusion/Lemonade Teavana® Black Tea combined with freshly steeped pineapple fruit and botanical infusion and water or lemonade, lightly sweetened and shaken with ice
NEW Teavana® Shaken Iced Strawberry Flavoured Green Tea Infusion/Lemonade Teavana® Green Tea combined with freshly steeped strawberry fruit and botanical infusion and water or lemonade, lightly sweetened and shaken with ice
Each beverage is handcrafted and made to each customer's preference, including customizing tea bases or enjoying without liquid cane sugar. When unsweetened, they are 0 calories and 0 grams of sugar
NEW Starbucks Blonde® & Stormy
In February of this year, Starbucks introduced Starbucks Blonde® Espresso Roast exclusively in Canada, as a second core espresso option, and it has been enthusiastically received by coffee-loving Canadians since. Starbucks is continuing their beverage innovation this summer by introducing a whole new level of artistry with Starbucks Blonde® & Stormy! This beverage shows off true barista craft and starts with Starbucks Blonde® Espresso, combined with a layer of whole milk, topped with cold foam and finished with Cinnamon Dolce Topping. Blonde Espresso is extra smooth and sweet; it is a unique blend of Latin American and African coffee beans, roasted to bring out the lighter side of espresso.
NEW healthier/protein rich lunch items
Starbucks is adding new protein-rich options to the lunch menu, which include a vegan option, protein boxes, protein bowls and wraps.
- Protein Bowls:
- NEW, certified vegan, Baby Greens & Brown Rice with toasted sesame dressing
- NEW Chicken & Quinoa with Chile vinaigrette
- Protein Boxes:
- NEW Eggs & Cheese with apples and grapes, now with two eggs for added protein
- NEW Thai chicken wrap with peanut-coconut sauce
- Lunch Wraps:
- Returning Favourite Butter Chicken with jasmine rice
- Protein Bowls:
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Junior Dos Santos (12-1 MMA, 6-0 UFC) has opened a slight favorite over fellow UFC heavyweight contender Brock Lesnar (5-2 MMA, 4-2 UFC).
Noted MMA oddsmaker and frequent radio guest Joey Oddessa (@MMAOdds) today told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) he's set the initial line at -155 in favor of Dos Santos, which gives him an approximately 61 percent chance of defeating Lesnar (+125).
UFC president Dana White recently named Dos Santos and Lesnar as "The Ultimate Fighter 13" coaches, and they're expected to fight in a No. 1 contender's bout at UFC 131.
As MMAjunkie.com first reported earlier this week, UFC 131 is expected to take place June 11 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, though officials still are finalizing the date and venue.
News of the bout of the fight and the fighters' appointments as "TUF 13" coaches came as a big surprise on Tuesday. Officials closely guarded the identity of the coaches, who each will lead a team of welterweight prospects on the reality series. The season debut is set for March 30 on Spike TV, and the live finale takes place June 4, a week before the expected Dos Santos vs. Lesnar bout.
The opening line likely will be picked up by the major sportsbooks and will fluctuate as money comes in on each fighter. UFC 131, though, marks the first time that Lesnar has opened as an underdog in an MMA fight.
Lesnar is a former NCAA Division I national wrestling champion and UFC titleholder who lost his belt to current champ Cain Velasquez in October. The former WWE star has emerged as the UFC's top pay-per-view draw, and his inclusion in "TUF" should translate to big ratings.
Dos Santos, meanwhile, recently claimed top-contender status by posting a 6-0 record in the UFC. Recent wins have come over Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic, Gilbert Yvel, Gabriel Gonzaga and Roy Nelson.
Officials put together the fight and coaching gigs after current champ Cain Velasquez required shoulder surgery (and a long recovery period) due a shoulder injury he suffered in an October title win over then-champ Lesnar. The UFC 131 winner gets a guaranteed title shot with Velasquez.
For more on UFC 131, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
(Pictured: Junior Dos Santos)

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Photographer takes snaps of dogs on glass tables and the results are SO cute
We all love an underdog – especially if it's cute and fluffy! Jason Kenzie and Tania Ryan's unique photos are sure to melt your heart.
We all love an underdog – especially if it's cute and fluffy! Jason Kenzie and Tania Ryan's unique photos are sure to melt your heart.
Just when you thought you'd seen dogs pictured in every scenario and from every conceivable angle, along comes Jason Kenzie and Tania Ryan's Underdogs project.
The pair were driving along one day, when Tania had a bright idea – to take pictures of dogs from underneath. The plan certainly gave photographer pause for thought, and as they imagined how cute it would look to see their model mutts' paws, noses and eyes up close, they knew they must give it a shot.
'We started brainstorming,' explains Tania, 'and realised we'd need some sort of surface – so, glass – and a studio to do it in, cos neither of us had a studio, so we actually built a portable studio.'
To take the photos, Jason would lie underneath the glass surface with his camera, while Tanya would help keep the dog happy and engaged by using treats.
Man's best friend!
He's got a new lease of life
A hairy hero of the Net
They decided to do a test shoot with Tania's pet beagle, Rocky. Needless to say, Rocky was a 'glass' act and the photos were adorable. So the next question was how could they get more models?
The answer was to head to a doggy daycare centre where there was no shortage of volunteers willing to strut their stuff.
'The photos we took at the doggy daycare were awesome, they were amazing, so cute, we were so pleased,' says Tanya.
And it wasn't just camera-hungry canines getting in on the act. The pair of pet paparrazi also captured stunning undercarriage shots of other animals, such as cats and pigs.
Naming the project Underdogs, they partnered with a rescue centre in Vancouver, Canada, and created a calendar from their unique photos. Money raised went towards the charity's efforts on behalf of abandoned and homeless dogs.
Tania says that they had a good time doing this project, as did the animals involved, and the photos certainly seem to capture them being snap happy!


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Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) took the victory on the 2014 Vuelta a Espana's first real mountain test, as the general classification favourites fought it out for the win on stage six.
Chris Froome (Sky) placed second just behind Valverde, with Alberto Contador (Tinkoff-Saxo) showing he's recovered from his Tour de France injuries with third place.
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Valverde's effort puts him back in the overall race lead, 15 seconds ahead of team-mate Nairo Quintana (Movistar) and 18 seconds ahead of Contador. Froome is now fourth at 22 seconds.
After spending time in an ill-fated break on the previous day's stage, Pim Ligthart (Lotto-Belisol) joined forces with Lluis Mas (Caja Rural) on stage six to create the day's escape. With no threat to the general classification, the duo were allowed to build up a large advantage over the peloton, reaching over 14 minutes before hitting the first of three categorised climbs.
Mas had interest in increasing his lead in the King of the Mountains classification, and Ligthart looked happy to play along, with the Caja Rural man crossing the line first over the second category Alto de Zafarraya and third category Alto de los Bermejales.
Within the final 40km, Katusha and Garmin-Sharp looked active at the front of the peloton, upping the pace and steadily chipping the break's advantage away.
Orica-GreenEdge then took over the pace-setting to whittle down the break's advantage to under 30 seconds by the base of the final ascent to the line at La Zubia. Ligthart had one last solo effort as Mas dropped back but was caught with three kilometres to go.
At this point, the peloton had been whittled down to a select number of riders as the climb's gradient hit double figures. Valverde upped the pace with Movistar team-mate Quintana with two kilometres to go, to further reduce the pack as the likes of Cadel Evans (BMC), Wilco Kelderman (Belkin) and Adam Yates (Orica-GreenEdge) slipped back.
Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha) was the first to launch an attack, followed by Valverde. Froome then ground out a steady pace to bridge up to them, dragging Contador and Quintana with him. Froome briefly led, but Valverde came around him to take the victory.
Garmin-Sharp's hopes of a decent overall placing were once again dashed with Daniel Martin finishing 18th on the stage and losing 59 seconds to Valverde. Yates finished two places back in 20th and at 1-07.
Friday's seventh stage from Alhendin to Alcaudete is another lumpy day, but with less of an ascent to the line.
Vuelta a Espana 2014, stage six: Benalmádena to La Zubia, 167.1km
1. Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar in 4-35-27
2. Chris Froome (GBr) Sky
3. Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo at same time
4. Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa) Katusha at 8 secs
5. Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar at 12 secs
6. Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana at 18 secs
7. Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica-GreenEdge at 25 secs
8. Daniel Navarro (Spa) Cofidis at same time
9. Mikel Nieve (Spa) Sky at 32 secs
10. Robert Gesink (Ned) Belkin at 33 secs
20. Adam Yates (GBr) Orica-GreenEdge at 1-07
Overall classification after stage six
1. Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar in 22-48-08
2. Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar at 15 secs
3. Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo at 18 secs
4. Chris Froome (GBr) Sky at 22 secs
5. Esteban Chaves (Col) Orica-GreenEdge at 41 secs
6. Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa) Katusha at 45 secs
7. Robert Gesink (Ned) Belkin at 55 secs
8. Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana at 58 secs
9. Warren Barguil (Fra) Giant-Shimano at 1-02
10. Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Belkin at 1-06
17. Daniel Martin (Irl) Garmin-Sharp at 1-37
67. Adam Yates (GBr) Orica-GreenEdge at 19-15
Vuelta a Espana 2014 stage six gallery
Graham Watson presents images from the sixth stage of the 2014 Vuelta a Espana as the overall favourites showed their
John Degenkolb makes it two at the Vuelta a Espana
Stage five win for German sprinter John Degenkolb at the Vuelta a Espana; Michael Matthews retains overall lead
Vuelta a Espana 2014 stage five gallery
Images from stage five of the 2014 Vuelta a Espana, won by John Degenkolb. Photos by Graham Watson
Vuelta a Espana 2014 preview
A look ahead to the final Grand Tour of the 2014 season, the Vuelta a Espana, starting on Saturday, August


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The story's been passed down through the generations of the Steingraber family.
About Albertina Schlicht Steingraber, who came to Syracuse from Germany in 1886 and owned several properties in the Solvay area. These properties included a boarding house at Lake View Point, on Onondaga Lake, about across modern State Fair .
She was at home in the boarding house (hotel) early on Thanksgiving Day, 1943, when a Solvay Process Co. dike gave way, flooding a two-mile area of Lakeland with waste from "The Process." It some places the chalky material was five feet deep.
Albertina, according to the family story, refused to leave her home, which housed jockies who raced at the fairground track. Some 50 houses were reported destroyed.
Her great grandson, Bob "Tank" Steingraber, a Syracuse actor and theater director, retells the story he's heard:
"The stubborn German woman" made her stand, he said.
"My father, an avid hunter and fisherman, put on his hip waders and waded through the ash and carried Albertina out over his shoulder. He later found holes burned through the rubber by the acidic ash."
Bob continues: "I believe as part of the cleanup, the ash from the fairgrounds and the street was moved and dumped along the side where the houses were damaged beyond repair which created that mound along the lake. Somewhere under the mound (if anything is not eaten away now) lies Albertina's house along with her neighbors homes."
This is where the Solvay waste beds "white cliffs of Dover" rise along the lake today. Some of the property is used for the fairgrounds parking lots. And this is where Onondaga County plans to extend its "loop" trail around the lake, eventually reaching more than 11 miles.
The Solvay waste has hardened and solidified since that tragedy 69 years ago. Vegetation grows on the "mountain."(Retired State University College of Environmental Science and Forestry Prof. Norm Richards has proven that.) I've walked on the settled mound. You stomp on the ground and only kick up a bit of dust.
David Coburn, director of the county's environmental office, who studied the waste beds, found them stable. (We park our cars on them.) Are the waste beds a challenge as far as the trail is concerned? No, David says.
That Solvay waste has been a challenge for our community since 1884, when the Solvay company, founded by two brothers from Belgium named Solvay, started making soda ash from local limestone and salt brine. The aftermath of the Solvay Process created a waste no one knew what to do with. For a time, the waste was poured directly into Onondaga Lake. It leached salt along the shore, eventually helping make Onondaga one of America's most polluted lakes.
That's one reason Solvay's modern successor, Honeywell, Corp., which merged with Allied Chemical, the company that took over Solvay, is engaged in a major dredging of the lake as we speak.
A footnote to creating the mountains of solid waste on the lake's western shoreline is the story of Albert Shenandoah, a member of the Oneida Nation, who claimed in the 1930s to have found a use for Solvay waste. He said he'd invented a process converting the white, chalk-like material into a hard, stone product for building. He said the product was five times lighter than brick.
Shenandoah said he'd applied for a patent. However, he died and the formula died with him.
The new trail extension will cross Nine Mile Creek, on its way around the lake. Oddly, when Onondaga Lake was ringed with resorts, this was the first spot, at what's still called Lake View Point, noted for its spectacular outlook.
In his 2002 book on the resorts, "The Golden Age of Onondaga Lake Resorts," Donald H. Thompson, a retired Clay school teacher, explains that Lake View was built up by one Fred Ganier, who ran a steamer packet boat from Clinton Square to the Point, starting in 1871. He raised his hotel in 1872 on the delta, built up on thousands of years of silt from Nine Mile Creek.
The resort got by for years as a jumping off point for fishermen (prowling the lake for white fish). In 1899, Frank Haberle, of the brewing family, bought the site but by 1916, according to Thompson, "Solvay Process waste dumps had encroached too close to Lake View Point and the park was closed.
And the dumping continued, well into our own era. Today, according to the book, "Lake View Point still has up to 80 feet of waste, mostly calcium carbonate, on top of its once swampy shoreline that once upon a time was Onondaga Lake's first resort."
The newest trail extension, which will provide as grand view of the lake, is scheduled to be finished in a year. It will extend the 10-foot wide paved trail two and a quarter miles. Long-range, the whole "loop" of the lake would be just over 11 miles. Parks Commissioner Bill Lansley said county officials have applied for grants to support a feasibility study of the last leg of the trail, which faces such challenges as railroad tracks, Onondaga Parkway and the I-81 interchange.
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The story's been passed down through the generations of the Steingraber family.
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The cast of Bravo's hit docu-series Ladies of London will be joining our sister blog Mind the Gap (@MindTheGap_BBCA) on Twitter for an hour-long #MindTheChat today (July 9) at 2 pm ET. The series follows British socialites, Annabelle Neilson and Caroline Stanbury, along with American-born expats Juliet Angus, Caprice Bourret, Marissa Hermer, Julie Montagu and Noelle Reno, as they navigate the strict codes of London high society. To ask questions for the cast, use hashtags #MindTheChat and #LadiesofLondon, and all chat participants will have a chance to win an Absolutely Fabulous box set, courtesy of BBC AMERICA Shop.
What are some of the rules Americans should know before mixing in British social circles? We asked Caroline Stanbury, British entrepreneur and founder of the luxury gifting and personal shopping service Gift Library of Caroline Stanbury, for her advice, and she supplied these five tips:
1. Always write a paper (not email) thank you letter if you've stayed at someone's house for the weekend or had a day out where they've treated you. And always bring a gift.
2. If you're at a dinner party, make sure that after the first course you turn and talk to the person sitting on the other side as you. Rotate for dessert.
3. Dress codes are strictly observed in British society and should be followed at all times. Special occasions require a multitude of different dress codes: familiarize yourself with the difference between black and white tie to avoid embarrassment or refused entry to an event.
4. Avoid PDA (public displays of affection) at all costs, and never be too overfamiliar with someone you don't know. British people like their space!
5. Always use inside voices, and don't make a spectacle of yourself while out in public. Avoid loud, obnoxious behaviour in social situations; always be respectful and subtle when conversing with others.
Thoughts? Tweet your questions and opinions using #MindTheChat and #LadiesofLondon.Read More


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~ Two of my favorite things are knitting and reading and I love sharing my projects and current reads here. I would love for you to join me every Wednesday to share a single photo of what you are knitting (or crocheting) and reading too! Share your photo on your blog, on Instagram (#yarnalong), or on Flickr. Leave a link below to share your photo with the rest of us!~
I'm in the last quarter now of The Ear of the Heart. I definitely recommend it. I'm working now on the last bit of my Sproutlette dress, the charted hem, so it's not boring at all anymore. I love checking off the rows on charts!


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February 26, 2020, 7:00 PM
February 26, 2020, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM @ Burlington County Fairgrounds
Explore our parks while enjoying the sunset! Join Naturalists Jen Bulava and Kate Forte to learn about the crepuscular animals that utilize this time of the evening to hunt and gather food. We will scan the fields from the Fairgrounds parking lot with spotting scopes and binoculars in the hopes of finding a great variety of raptors and other animals that are active at dusk. Register online.
February 26, 2020, 2:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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January 30, 2020, 10:00 AM - March 22, 2020, 4:00 PM @ Smithville Mansion Annex Gallery
This exhibit will feature nine exceptional artists of divergent styles but with connecting sensibilities and aesthetic. Their objective is to show the depth of the culture and scope of art existing and powering the African American community. Gallery hours are Thursday - Saturday, 10 AM - 4 PM and Sunday, Noon - 4 PM
January 23, 2020 - March 29, 2020 @ Warden's House Gallery
Bill began making paper collages in his late teens. They are made from pictures and photographs found in various magazines, calendars and books. He arranges them to form another picture that flows into the next and never knows what the outcome will be. This simplistic approach has led him to make many complex pieces over the years and all are diverse. Bill enjoys piecing them together and the time and concentration involved. Gallery hours are Thursday - Saturday, 10 AM - 4 PM and Sunday, Noon - 4 PM
January 30, 2020 - March 15, 2020 @ Worker's House and Gallery
Come see an array of talented artist creations. Some of the works on display will include blankets, hats/scarves; lap robes, afghans, prayer shawls, chemo caps and assorted holiday favors for children. It's an opportunity to highlight this craft and to help it flourish into the future by sharing skills across generations. The guild was founded in 1995 in Willingboro, New Jersey, the guild was created to share information, skills and patterns with all who were interested. In addition, it would provide a chance for relaxing with social interaction and was a good way to keep physically active both mind and body. Thousands of items, over the years, have been donated to people in need through various local/national organizations, charities and hospitals. Gallery hours are Thursday - Saturday, 10 AM - 4 PM and Sunday, Noon - 4 PM


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For the second year in a row, a group of 20 MBA for Executives students and alumni organized a global healthcare-focused trip. This year, the group traveled to India.
During this trip, they met with India's Health Secretary, senior executives from Johnson & Johnson, Tata Memorial Hospital, Kokilaben Ambani Hospital, Hetero Pharmaceuticals, and Sai Life Hyderbad. The trip was an opportunity to explore a different culture and a different approach to healthcare. Follow the students' journey as they share their perspectives.
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christine vetter '15
I feel very lucky to have had this chance to see India from another perspective. One of the things that struck me was the paradox of so many people needing care resources, but so few physicians and nurses available to provide that care. Even though the government is addressing the problem by opening more medical training facilities, it will take time to build up the numbers. It amazes me that physicians and nurses remain steadfast in their professions, even in the face of such severe shortages. One cannot help but admire and perhaps envy that kind of dedication!
Beth DeStephens '14:
I was struck by the social mission of Cipla, a public pharmaceutical company based in Mumbai. Senior leadership's mission was clear: to make critical, lifesaving drugs accessible and affordable for patients in developing countries. The company's long history of making India self-sufficient in healthcare through drug development and manufacturing processes that are cost effective, safe and environmentally sustainable is impressive. I felt their most remarkable accomplishment was the pioneering of HIV treatment, ARVs that are now available at less than a 'Dollar a Day' which has saved millions of lives around the world. Cipla both aids in the betterment of India's population health, and the development of the local workforce for the future of technological and innovative drugs to meet the needs of all patients.
Anees Chagpar '14
They call it "Incredible India"….the adjective choice was clearly deliberate. I was struck by the amazing contrasts that exist there – the juxtaposition of extreme wealth and extreme poverty; of ancient historical architecture and sleek innovative technology. There, a capitalist mindset is merged with a socialist heart. As we visited hospitals, pharma, and biotech industries, I was in awe of how much could be done with so little; how truly, invention is driven off the back of necessity...
Joe Ianelli '15:
This was a trip of a lifetime. Our classmates were our hosts as they were born in India and were able to show us the diversity, innovation, and vibrancy of both the culture and the healthcare system. I came away impressed with how groups leverage technology to help solve big and complex problems and gain efficiencies. The trip helped me understand the world and myself differently, and I was so honored to be part of a very special experience.
Wendy Davis '14:
It will take time for me to digest the incredibly rich details of our time in India. However, I now appreciate the detail, color, chaos, noise, volume and diversity (17 religions that infuse the fabric of the country) brought together by the influence of Gandhi embracing diversity. I won't soon forget the gigantic dark eyes of the six month old recovering from cardiac surgery that cost a mere $800 due to the intense dedication to bring down medical costs. Nor the large multinational manufacturing plants located hours from the city in the countryside where villagers would walk for work. All of our hosts were very gracious with time "for interactions," candid, open discussions of their unique challenges, and what we can learn from them. And everywhere the friendly side-to-side nod of the head indicating 'I hear you.'
Srini Alagarsamy '15:
Mahatma Gandhi said, "be the change you wish to see in the world." Our recent trip to India allowed us to see many living examples of Gandhi's philosophy! It was just amazing to see the passion and the service motive engrained into the corporate DNA of the many organizations we visited. From executives at one company saying, "no matter how far or expensive to get to, our drugs make it to every corner of the nation," to another where making discrete technology and tools work together to ensure things get done faster and efficiently was important. Such selfless commitment is hard to see or match in today's world. It also probably is the only way to serve the needs of 1.2 billion people.


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2020 technology trends and the future of work
Whether it's through AI, machine-to-machine, data ecosystems or how we organize around teams and lead, enterprises are poised to reach new levels of worker productivity and innovation. What trend will affect you the most? How are you preparing? Watch the video and read the article.


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Case Study Writing With News Analytics
The research apps and services of this website solve for you several critical empirical challenges in writing case studies. They allow you to accurately map the competitive actions of firms and thereby capture their strategic change patterns over longer periods of time (Chakravarthy & White, 2001). Further, our apps quantify stock market responses to firms' strategic competitive actions, what allows you to add the capital market perspective to your case study. Please review this case study of the University of St.Gallen Institute of Management. It illustrates how this website's research apps can support your work. The case study grounds on an analysis of the included firms' press release streams.
Press releases are only one potential source for case study research. They have the advantage that you will not depend on the collaboration of the firms you study. EventStudyTools' research apps combine several methods (e.g. text analysis) and techniques (e.g., regular expressions) with newly arising technological opportunities (e.g., web data scraping) in an innovative form of longitudinal organizational change research (Van de Ven, Polley, Garud, & Venkataraman, 1999; Van de Ven & Poole, 1995).
This empirical strategy allows for (large) samples of individual firm "cases" covering resource allocation decisions, competitive actions, and governmental changes (Eisenhardt, 1995; see the website's section on competitive dynamics research for more details on firms' action sequences). Additionally, the website's abnormal return calculators allow you to include stock market responses to firms' competitive actions in your research. Figure 1 and the subsequent paragraphs illustrate the empirical challenges of writing case studies that ground on news analytics.
Figure 1: Empirical Challenges of Writing Case Studies that Use News Analytics
(1) Data Collection: Case studies typically tell a story about the organizational behavior of firms. There are different ways to document firm behavior: You may manually capture the firm's competitive actions through traditional manners, such as expert interviews. Alternatively, you can scrape the organization's press releases and identify the respective competitive actions using computer-aided text analysis. This latter automated approach rapidly gains popularity as it allows for larger samples. If you want to retrieve news from other sources than the firms' websites, you may make use of news aggregators that consolidate sources. The following video gives you an impression of the advanced filtering options that you can expect from such aggregators.
(2) Allocation of Events in Time: Writing case studies that use news analytics requires you to allocate individual news items in time. While this can easily be done by hand for a small sample, larger news samples suggest the use of an automated approach. This website's regular expression-based (event) date identifier (EDI) is capable of process large volumes of press releases and hands you back all dates mentioned within the release texts.
(3) Coding of Events: For an automated solution, you should use the website's keyword-based computer-aided text analyzer (CATA).
(4) Statistical Analysis: Your choice of analysis tool should be informed by your research question. If you seek to complement your case study by assuming the capital market perspective on the firm strategic decisions you analyze, you may draw on this website's abormal return calculators. For an introduction to the methodology, which may inform your decision to use or not use the methodology, you may view the following third-party video from youtube.
Chakravarthy, B., & White, R. 2001. Strategy process: Forming, implementing and changing strategies. Handbook of strategy and management: 182-205. London: Sage Publications.
Eisenhardt, K. 1995. Building theories from case study research. In G. Huber and A. Van de Ven (Eds.), Longitudinal field research methods. Studying processes of organizational change: 65-90. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Van de Ven, A., Polley, D., Garud, R., & Venkataraman, S. 1999. The innovation journey. New York: Oxford University Press.
Van de Ven, A., & Poole, M. 1995. Methods for studying innovation development in the Minnesota Innovation Research Program. In G. Huber and A. Van de Ven (Eds.), Longitudinal field research methods. Studying processes of organizational change: 155-185. Thousand Oaks: Sage.


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China is upset with "speculators."
You see it's not that China's economy is "landing hard" and it's not that a massive yuan devaluation is almost a foregone conclusion. No, it's that "manipulators," "speculators," financial "predators," and all sorts of other nefarious foreign meddlers are colluding to destabilize the country's economy and financial markets for personal gain.
If it were up to the Beijing, this gang of evildoers would be rounded up and jailed until they agreed to confess their "crimes" on live television. Either that or they'd simply disappear into the bowels of the Politburo. Unfortunately for Beijing, the Chinese can't arrest George Soros (who one Chinese media outlet recently called a "crocodile" for daring to place a bet against the yuan) and they can't arrest Kyle Bass either.
As regular readers are no doubt aware, Bass is betting on a meltdown in China's mammoth banking sector which he says will need to recapitalized. China, Bass figures, doesn't have nearly enough in reserves to pay for a banking sector bailout and will thus need to do QE on a massive scale to plug the holes. That, he says, will eventually lead the currency to fall 30-40%.
China has fired back at Bass and at Soros over the past several weeks via a series of hilariously absurd "Op-Eds", the latest of which (out this morning) is entitled "Groundless, unfair to blame China for hardship." "Pessimists misunderstand the Chinese economy, or they just choose to turn a blind eye to the bright spots that really matter," it reads.
Right. You want to focus on "the bright spots that really matter" instead of depressing things that really don't matter, like collapsing exports or the fact that the banking sector may be sitting on $3.5 trillion in souring loans.
Thankfully, there's at least one source who is willing to take a glass half full approach to assessing the situation and that person is Mao Junhua, who you know isn't biased when it comes to analyzing Chinese banks because he works for - CICC, a Chinese bank.
"China's bad-loan problems are 'not as serious as' Hayman Capital Management's Kyle Bass claimed earlier this month," Bloomberg writes, citing a report by Mao. "10 trillion yuan ($1.5 trillion) is the most that banks could lose from soured credit in an economic hard-landing scenario [and] that's less than half the $3.5 trillion potential loss flagged by Bass."
Obviously Mao's figure is wildly optimistic. If he's right, it would mean that in a worst case scenario, NPLs would only rise to 5%. If we're being honest, they're probably already above 10% and it's getting worse all the time as evidenced by the growing number of bankruptcies we've seen over the past nine or so months.
In fact, even the headline number (which is even less reliable than an NBS GDP print) is on the rise.
"Soured loans at Chinese commercial banks rose to the highest level since June 2006 as the nation's economic expansion slowed to the weakest pace in a quarter century," Bloomberg reported earlier today.
NPLs rose 51% from a year ago, hitting CNY1.27 trillion yuan ($196 billion) by December. That's the highest level since Q3 2006. "The bad-loan ratio climbed to 1.67 percent from 1.25 percent, while the industry's bad-loan coverage ratio, a measure of its ability to absorb potential losses from soured credit, weakened to 181 percent from more than 200 percent a year earlier," Bloomberg continues.
"NPLs increased by 88.1 billion yuan over the last three months of the year," Reuters adds. "Special mention loans, referring to debts that could potentially turn sour, rose to 2.89 trillion yuan, the regulator said, an increase of 80 billion yuan from the end of September."
And while special mention loans gives us a bit more clarity on what the "real situation" (to quote the NBS) is, there's no way of knowing how many loans have been rolled and thus not counted as souring and perhaps more importantly, there's no way of knowing just what the figure would look like if it included bad channel loans that are carried as "investments" on banks' books.
But before you go following Bass and Soros over to the dark side where "speculators" conspire and plot to bring down the Chinese economy and destroy the country's financial markets, consider the following message from Xinhua:
"It is groundless and unfair to blame China for the global slowdown and market volatility, and naysayers' misjudgments highlight their ignorance on the world's second-largest economy."


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'The Artist': Is Silence Golden?
Hugo and My Week with Marilyn aren't the only late-November releases mining cinematic history in search of Oscar gold: The buzz has built to near-deafening levels for The Artist, the black-and-white, virtually silent melodramedy about the early days of Hollywood. Cineastes have been oohing and aahing and ooh-la-la-ing over the film since it became the toast of the Cannes back in April. But will Academy voters—and modern multiplex-goers—feel the amour?
My guess is: Oui, oui! The Artist stars a pair of actors foreign to American audiences, Frenchman Jean Dujardin and Argentinian-born Bérénice Bejo, as George Valentin and Peppy Miller, a silent-screen heartthrob and an ardent fan-turned-"talkies" superstar. But the supporting cast is smartly peppered with familiar faces—if not voices—ranging from John Goodman (at his blustery best as a cigar-chomping studio exec) to Chaplin love interest Penelope Ann Miller (as Valentin's romantically disenchanted wife). That should make the movie more palatable to the subtitle-phobic crowd.
As for the Oscars, Dujardin and Bejo are all-but-assured nominees for their performances, which deftly split the difference between silent-era mugging and contemporary subtlety. Also likely to make the Academy's final cut are writer-director Michel Hazanavicius (who previously worked with Dujardin and Bego on his OSS 117 film comedies, which didn't translate into big U.S. box office) as well as cinematographer Guillaume Schiffman and composer Ludovic Bource, who work overtime to evoke the story's mood due to the lack of dialogue.
Of course, the film's Oscar chances won't be hurt by the fact that its campaign will be led by battle-tested veteran Harvey Weinstein. This is the guy who convinced the Academy that Shakespeare in Love was a better picture than Saving Private Ryan. But the movie's relatively light tone shouldn't diminish its considerable achievement. Hazanavicius reaches back into the medium's past to create something that feels genuinely new. That's the mark of a true Artist.
Side note: I saw The Artist with my friend and former Two Cranky Guys colleague Bret Watson, a silent-film aficionado. And while we were both irked by the couple behind us who wouldn't take a hint from the film and shut up, Bret enjoyed it just as much as I did. Still, he couldn't resist making a crack: "I liked it better when it was called Singin' in the Rain." Leave it to a Cranky Guy to rain on The Artist's parade.
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Discussion by: Eric Wojciechowski
A couple weeks ago, my five-year-old daughter asked to hear the story of the big rock that fell out of the sky. And when I told her that sixty-five-million-years-ago, it came crashing down into the Yucatan, causing fires followed by extreme cold, killing the dinosaurs, she erupted into a big cry that took my wife ten minutes to settle. My daughter was very concerned as to whether or not we had a smoke alarm in the house. So to Bert Cappelle who posted that his child is distressed about a dying sun, I understand.
I've spent a better part of the afternoon perusing the archives and discussions but haven't found quite what I'm looking for. Perhaps I overlooked it so if this discussion is going on elsewhere, feel free to point out the link. With that said, I have a five and seven-year-old. Both have been asking the orgin questions. I am having a difficult time getting them to understand these adult concepts (Evolution, Big Bang, ELEs, etc) with my adult words. I'm afraid I am not a good communicator of such things to the kids.
Now I've watched the video that Phillip Dettmer directed (http://www.www.richarddawkins.net/discussions/2013/8/22/video-about-evolution-for-children#) but feel it's above their heads. That video, while of good quality, is still using words and concepts my kids can't grasp. This is due to their age.
While other discussions here have dwelt on how to discuss religion to kids, I'm more interested in how to discuss the Origin questions. When my daughter asks, "Who made the first grass?", I need a ten second answer on her level. What I seek is assistance. Any reading material for a five or seven-year-old would be helpful.
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For the 2007 Miss Italia pageant, lighting designer/DoP Fabio Brera specified over 250 Robe moving lights – including ColorSpot and ColorWash 575E ATs, ColorSpot and ColorWash 700E ATs and the workhorse ColorSpot and ColorWash 1200E ATs – all supplied by rental company Mixer di Taietti.
The show was staged at the Sport Palace in Salsomaggiore Terme (PR) which was transformed into a large studio for the show that was presented by Mike Buongiorno and Loretta Goggi. It was produced by RAI Milano and broadcast live on RAI 1, watched by 6.2 million people – about a 32% share of the viewing public – jumping to nearly 60% as the winner was announced!
Brera has lit Miss Italia since 2003 and also used Robe on many previous occasions. He works very closely with the set designers/scenographers on these large projects, and in this case it was with Sabrina Fontanini and also with choreographer Roberto Croce. Lighting is essential for their work to be integrated into the show as well as for the cameras, and he also had the added challenge of lighting the stage for the live audience.
The overhead trussing was designed for the fixtures rigged on it to get the best lighting coverage throughout the stage, with the aim of evenly lighting all set elements.
Brera used the ColorSpot and ColorWash 700 ATs to bathe the set in a series of soft lighting washes and also to 'wrap' the contestants in subtle colours as they used the different parts of the set.
The large zoom of the ColorSpot 1200E AT was used to create good background looks and textures for the cameras.
The lighting operators were Raffaele Vailatia and Ernesto Mattavelli, with Roberto Corona running the white lights (160 PAR 64s) using a combination of Compulite Sabre and Spark consoles. Chief electrician was Nicola Bianchi.


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Hello 🙂
Today I'm here with a quick post to show you the fun I had yesterday with one of the cute Halloween cards from the SDS Halloween Cards kit – the Boo Ghost Card
I made the card with AC Cardstock and "Tricky" patterned paper from Authentique.
Now this card is so cute as it is but I wanted to add a little extra detail:
Do you see it? I know it's a bit hard to see on the picture, but I added some colored Chibitronics LED lights behind the Boo banner that turns on by pushing the pumpkin.
Now this card is exactly how I want it 🙂
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Books: New in Print
Never Too Late To Read: Language Skills for the Adolescent With Dyslexia, by Ann Cashwell Tuley (York Press Inc., PO Box 504, Timonium, MD 21094; 184 pp., $27.50 original paperback). Describes typical students with dyslexia and leads readers through a step-by-step process of evaluating and teaching them. The book is based on the work of the late Alice Ansara and provides techniques and strategies for teachers developing exercises in phonics, spelling, and phrasing.
Reflective Activities: Helping Students Connect With Texts, edited by Louann Reid & Jeffrey N. Golub (National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 W. Kenyon Rd., Urbana, IL 61801-1096; 209 pp., $22.95 original paperback, list price; ncte member price $16.95). Offers classroom practices that encourage students to make connections between what they read--whether visual or verbal texts--and the lives they lead. The various approaches are outlined by 34 contributors (students, teachers, and writers), address all the language arts, and apply to middle, secondary, and college classrooms.
The Spelling Book: Teaching Children How To Spell, Not What To Spell, by Gladys Rosencrans (International Reading Association, 800 Barksdale Rd., PO Box 8139, Newark, DE 19714-8139; 141 pp., $23.95 original paperback). A spelling manual for teachers of intermediate-level children (grades 3-6), elementary and middle school teachers working with students who have learning disabilities, and teachers working with students for whom English is not their first language. The book outlines a methodology--developed and implemented by the author--that combines whole-language and phonetic strategies to teach children to spell as part of an entire language arts program.
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Building Leadership Capacity in Schools, by Linda Lambert (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1703 N. Beauregard St., Alexandria, VA 22311-1714; 136 pp., $13.95 original paperback, list price; ascd member price $10.95). Defines leadership as "the learning processes among participants in a community" and leadership capacity as "the breadth of participation in leadership and the depth of skill that teachers, administrators, parents, students, and community members bring to work." Through an analysis of three schools--an elementary school with low leadership capacity, a middle school with moderate leadership capacity, and a high school with high leadership capacity--the author suggests what schools and districts should do to foster effective leadership and improve student learning.
American Education and Corporations: The Free Market Goes to School, by Deron Boyles (Garland Publishing, 47 Runway Rd., Levittown, PA 19057-4700; 240pp., $50 hardcover). Argues that private businesses use public schools as worker-training sites, resulting in a devalued teaching force, students as uncritical consumers, and schools as economic markets. The author analyzes various school-business partnerships ("fast-food reading campaigns" and "supermarket 'sales for schools' promotions," for example) and critiques the practice of privatization, challenging its claim as an extension of free-market business influence into the public sector.
A Peaceable School: Cultivating a Culture of Nonviolence, by Vicky Schreiber Dill (Phi Delta Kappa International, PO Box 789, Bloomington, IN 47402-0789; 107 pp., $12 original paperback). Provides a chapter-by-chapter framework for thinking about school violence issues: the culture of violence; denial of the problem; the actions and responsibilities of administrators; and teachers' behaviors and attitudes. A "Selected Resources" section includes federal and state safety initiatives and professional and private organizations.
Funding Special Education, edited by Thomas B. Parrish, Jay G. Chambers, & Cassandra M. Guarino (Corwin Press Inc., 2455 Teller Rd., Thousand Oaks, CA 91320-2218; 273 pp., $49.95 hardcover). The 19th annual yearbook of the American Education Finance Association, Funding Special Education explores the ways in which funding has changed over the years and weighs in on different funding methods--from per-student bases to payments for specified resources. Topics covered include: increasing pressure for local control over funds; including special education students in standards-based reform; and case studies of special education funding reform in Pennsylvania and New York.
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Various ideas continue to be published further as in the past few days with regard to the impeachment presented against the Chief Justice.
Participating at a media briefing held in Colombo yesterday, Co-operatives and Internal Trade Minister Johnston Fernando said that the Chief Justice should immediately resign from the post in a manner that preserves the honour of the judiciary.
However participating at a media briefing held in Colombo yesterday United Socialist Party Secretary Siritunga Jayasuriya said that all should get together for the independence of the judiciary.


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Wristshot Photo-Reel #1 – IWC, Rolex, Panerai, JOA, Graham, Eterna…Posted by The Breitling Source under Eterna , Graham , IWC , Panerai , Rolex , Sinn , Wyler Geneve
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On my computer, I have a photo temporary folder where I store my photos initially after downloading them from my camera. Its like an "unsorted" temporary folder before I have decided what to do with my pics. Because I am busy (or lazy, can't always tell which), photos often sit there for months. Looking through my temp folder now, I see lots of wrist shots, and figured I would throw them up on here for kicks. Seeing lots of wrist shots in a row is kind of a cool thing, so Here it is!
Up First: Rolex GMT-II Ceramic
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Chuck flew in from Denver, Mike from Knoxville, Tenn. Cathy arrived from Albany, N.Y., joining Sarasota resident Nancy.
Sons and daughters, all gathered to say goodbye to a father and, really, a Sarasota icon.
He's at Tidewell Hospice, unable to speak, or even open his eyes. It won't be long now. In the next day or so, 86-year-old Chuck Such Jr., will take the final breath of a life lived richly, with honor.
Does anyone truly whip The Big C? Diagnosed with bladder cancer three years ago, Chuck realized his own life scoreboard was ticking down.
"I think he knew in his heart that he was trying to keep it at bay for as long as he could,'' said Chuck Such III. Doctors performed surgery, removing pieces of the cancer, "but I guess they didn't get it all.''
Chuck saw his dad in December, saying he looked and felt good. But last week, failing, he was rushed to Sarasota Memorial Hospital, given a new form of chemotherapy.
It didn't work. Hospice was the only option left. Son spoke to dad by phone on Monday and Tuesday, but by the time he had arrived from Denver, Chuck no longer could speak.
"The doctor said that from Tuesday to Wednesday, he had deteriorated 25 percent,'' son said, "and Wednesday to Thursday, had deteriorated almost 75 percent within that day.''
Among many things, Chuck Such Jr., was a Canton, Ohio, sportswriter who wrote a story that set in motion the building of a shrine honoring our favorite sport.
In 1959, working for The Canton Repository, his article, under the headline "Pro Football Needs Hall of Fame and Logical Site Is Here,'' laid the groundwork.
Four years later, the Pro Football Hall of Fame became a reality.
"I think that was his shining moment,'' said his son. "Growing up in Canton with him, we couldn't go anywhere where people didn't know him, or wanted to chat with him. It was amazing.''
Thirty years ago, Chuck Such III moved to Sarasota. Along with his wife, Barbara, Chuck Jr., visited and decided to stay.
He got involved with the Plantation Golf & Country Club, Otto Graham and Carlton Fisk golf tournaments, using his considerable connections and friendships to bring in the talent.
"There's no question that when we needed ballplayers, we went to Chuck and said, 'Hey, we just need some more celebrities and ballplayers,' and he got them all,'' said Steve Korcheck, former MLB player and former president of State College of Florida.
"It seemed like he knew everyone in the United States.''
For a couple of years, he even served as general manager of the old Sarasota White Sox of the Florida State League. Chuck loved baseball, to the point of helping coach Ed Edwards' Sarasota Babe Ruth teams for many years.
When Edwards needed a big timer to wow his players, he'd lean on Chuck, whose phone calls would produce a Ken Frailing, Tom Niedenfuer, even Hall of Famer Early Wynn.
"He loved it,'' Edwards said. "He was a natural, and the kids liked him.''
Everyone did. When the Cleveland Browns won the NFL title in 1964, owner Art Modell had one extra championship ring made.
"That kind of defines,'' said his son, "the type of guy he was.''
NOTEStartcutline info: Chuck Such and longtime friend and Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller at a spring-training game several years ago in Winter Haven.
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In Cuatro Vientos only the VFR transit is authorised. Here, the majority of Madrid's sports aviation takes place. All the planes using these facilities are small, turbopropeller, regenerating engine planes.
Madrid-Cuatro Vientos is an airport mainly devoted to general aviation, which is why there is no passenger traffic as such. People using this aerodrome are mostly clients of pilot schools and, to a lesser extent, private traffic, air work, flying club and State flights (police and military).
In both summer and winter, from 09:00 until sunset.
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Bright Side
Spotlight Review – Bright Side by Kim Holden
Title: Bright Side
Author: Kim Holden
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Everyone has one.
Some are bigger than others.
And when secrets are revealed,
Some will heal you …
And some will end you.
Kate Sedgwick's life has been anything but typical. She's endured hardship and tragedy, but throughout it all she remains happy and optimistic (there's a reason her best friend Gus calls her Bright Side). Kate is strong-willed, funny, smart, and musically gifted. She's also never believed in love. So when Kate leaves San Diego to attend college in the small town of Grant, Minnesota, the last thing she expects is to fall in love with Keller Banks.
They both feel it.
But they each have a reason to fight it.
They each have a secret.
And when secrets are revealed,
Some will heal you …
And some will end you.
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This is an emotional story about friendship, family and love. It's about embracing life and finding acceptance in a world that can be cruel and intolerant. Bright Side was emotional, compelling, and delivered a powerful message. This is definitely one of my top reads for 2014 and I urge you to move this to the top of your TBR.
Kate was strong and full of compassion. Her optimism was infectious and I admire the determination she showed to embrace her life in its entirety. She left her mark on me and I hope that I can be a little more like Kate. I identified with her in a way that brought back memories of my own childhood. As such, my love for Kate can't really be put into words.
Keller was incredible. His love for Kate was beautiful and his story touched my heart. He was selfless and gave Kate exactly the kind of love she needed. They were perfectly suited for one another and I am a better person for having witnessed the great love they shared.
Gus was genuine, down to earth, and loved Kate deeply and effortlessly. I had a Gus in my life once and though we drifted apart years ago, I look back on that friendship and smile to have had such a wonderful and caring person in my life, if only for a short time. Everyone needs a Gus in their life.
As I sit here a week after I finished this book, this story and these characters still consume me. My heart is broken and yet it's full. My eyes still have tears and yet I wear a smile. Do yourself a favor and experience this book. You won't be sorry, I promise.
Some of my favorite things: reading, writing, the two coolest guys on the planet (my husband and son), my bicycle (my husband built it for me), Facebook (I'm fairly certain it's an addiction at this point), iced coffee (hazelnut), and music (LOVE the 1975, Dredg, the xx, Haim, Teenage Bottlerocket, and 30 Seconds to Mars). I also love dreaming, which brings me to my next point. I have one bit of advice for anyone reading this … follow your dreams. It's never too late. Get started today … heck get started RIGHT NOW! I wanted to write a book 20 years ago. Instead I waited. And waited. I should've been writing. But I didn't. I don't do regrets, because the past is just that, the past. But let me tell you there's nothing in the world like achieving something you've dreamt about for years and years. So, get started. Make your dreams reality.
I love to hear from other readers. Send me a message or find me on Facebook (https://facebook.com/kimholdenauthor) and tell what's up in your reading world.


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In the book, he suggests this exercise. Put pebbles or some small marker, I use blue glass beads, to represent one week in a container. Each week remove one pebble from the jar and challenge yourself to think of what you did that week to change a life. Did you make a difference for your stockholders, customers, leaders, or employees? Did you do something meaningful for someone else, personally or professionally, to make someone's life better? Did you reach a goal or objective to help your business grow?
Veeck includes in the jar all the remaining weeks of a life, based on the average life span. His main theme is we do not have forever, so make everyday, every moment, count. That is too fatalistic and depressing for me. Instead I used the 52 weeks of the year.
Since I read the book this last May, I started with approximately 30 or so glass beads in my martini glass. Like many things we begin, I started like gangbusters the first two months, but slacked off and skipped many weeks. Today, I caught myself up to November 16.
I started with 30+ beads. In a flash, I am down to six. Wow.
It is a cliché that "Time flies by." It is a cliché because it is true, and when something visual represents that passing, it smacks you in the face! Professionally, personally, it astounds me to think how the year has progressed in many prosperous ways. The events I have had the privilege to attend; the people I have been fortunate to meet. But also there have been a few devastating events, which I would never believe could have occurred. How about you?
It also made reflect how cyclical we think in the world. We mentally follow the seasons, but we do so only because of our human constructs. Seasonal time is a concept we build into our lives to cope with all the tasks we need to do to succeed, and we accept periods of productivity and lax, as laws of nature.
Business Impacts
I started consulting for large corporation in the spring, but I had been their customer for years. It wasn't until I became a part of the organization, that I realized how much we think we are moving, but we recycle much of the past. What I was asked to do as a consultant I remembered I experienced many of the same things as a customer. The more I thought about it, I realized most places I worked were like this. Maybe some details change, but one year could remarkable begin to look like another. I believe it is because we do not challenge ourselves to do much different. Trust me, I include myself in this thought.
So we accept periods of not as much productivity as Just-The-Way-Things-Are. We are full of gusto in January creating strategic plans. In the spring, strategy seems to give way to the practicality of what can we realistically accomplish. Summer everyone mentally takes a vacation, as the weather improves. For Americans, August we get back on track when the kids return to school, whether we have them or not. Fall we enjoy the cooler weather, but we are really marking time until the holidays. Once the holidays start, we rush to complete our performance reviews (which I know few people who find this a valuable exercise, but this is for another blog), and start the stressful obligations at work and home to end the year. Then we find ourselves at January again.
My Point
You are in control of this cycle. You are also in control of your direct reports cyclic behavior. My constant mantra is your employees model your behavior. Actually, everyone you connect with will follow your example, even if they do it subconsciously. How to help manage this is setting performance expectations and keep them a part of your ongoing conversations with employees.
One idea, at the beginning of the year create one of these " Year in a Glass" containers for each of your direct reports. Every week they give you the pebble, or whatever, and tell you what they did to make a difference the prior week. It should only take a minute or two, unless a bigger performance conversation needs to occur. It keeps everyone focused on the progressive big picture, not only the tactical everyday routine of work.
Also boost team morale and increase your standing as a leader by doing the same, being accountable to them. For all, some weeks it could be something small, "Bob needed a ride home, so I was able and happy to give him one." It could be significant; "We delivered our project, on time and slightly under budget." It's a part of the environment of success you create.
Your Six Weeks
So what will do you to powerfully impact these last six weeks of 2011? Make it count.
If I can help in anyway, please let me know.
Veeck, Mike and Pete Williams. Fun Is Good: How to Create Joy & Passion in Your Workplace & Career. Rodale Books, 2005.


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In the book of Matthew, Yeshua tells the Pharisees and Sadducees, "You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you
cannot discern the signs of the times," (Matt. 16:3).
He tells them so, because they tested Him by asking him to show them a sign from Heaven!
He continues in verse 4 saying, "No sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah." Who did Jonah run away from? To which city did he run? Where did he spend three days and three nights?
We know from reading the whole story that Jonah was running from his calling to carry God's message to a Gentile people (Nineveh). However, instead of heading northeast to Nineveh, Jonah went west to the port city of Jaffa (Tel Aviv) to catch a boat going west. Little did he know, God called a big fish to assist Jonah on his mission.
It is written that the sons of Issachar discerned the times and knew what to do!
"from Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do"
1 Chronicles 12:32
Do you, as a true disciple of Yeshua, know and discern the times in which we live today? Or, do you need a "Jonah" experience to wake you up to the calling to which God has called you?
It was Simon Peter (Son of Jonah) who after receiving a revelation from God said to Yeshua. "You are the Messiah (Anointed One), the Son of the Living God! (Matthew 16:16-17).
It was also Simon Peter who received the vision three times in the City of Jaffa to go to the Gentiles, to Cornelius, an Italian Captain living in Caesarea (Acts 10). Until then the Congregation in Jerusalem was exclusively Jewish.
It was Simon Peter, the Jewish Apostle, that received the full revelation that, "You should not call any man unclean" and "preaching peace through Yeshua the Messiah- He is Lord of All" (Acts 10:28,36).
The Gospel has gone from Jerusalem to Lydia (Lod) to Jaffa (Tel-Aviv) and then to the uttermost parts of the world.
After almost 2000 years the Jewish people have returned back to their homeland Israel. This return fulfilled the prophecies prophesied by the Prophet Ezekiel (Ezekiel 36).
And now, as we live in these prophetic times, the Good News is returning to Israel from the nations thru the gate city Jaffa (Tel Aviv), up to the Judean Mountains, and on to Jerusalem, the eternal city of our great King.
As believing Christians from the nations:
More than ever we see the Harvest in the land of Israel ready!
We are so thankful for your prayer and support and we ask that you would continue to agree with us in prayer as we labor to fulfill the great commission in Tel Aviv.
Blessings in Messiah,


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A Landscape To GO
Acrylic, 2017
Acrylic painting on wood panel. This piece speaks to being able to take the Canadian landscape with you, wherever you may roam. It's about sharing the land and giving. Of course, the piece is also about each viewer's experience as no painting is complete until it has reached the minds and eyes of viewers it will receive. When I find someone lingering over a painting, I now ask what they see in the piece, as it is ultimately their connection to the piece that completes the story, with each new set of eyes, a new story. From my perspective, the piece also pays homage to great Group of Seven painter Lawren Harris – the mountains featured in the piece set a Canadian Art auction record, selling for 11.4 million.


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Daniel didn't believe the rumor at first. Whenever his company chased after the hottest new business trends, they usually pursued the worst trends imaginable. But word was that this time, they'd seen fit to mimic Google's fabled "20% Time."
The invitation for a company-wide meeting soon landed in everyone's inbox, turning rumor into reality. For a moment, Daniel dared to dream about the various time-saving scripts he'd always wanted to write, and the applications he'd always wanted to re-implement from the ground up—all those things he'd been prevented from even thinking about as he'd been flung from one urgent project to the next. With 20% of his work time dedicated toward personal pursuits, all of that was set to change ...
He forced himself not to get excited. As a hardened corporate veteran, Daniel had been down this road before. It wasn't a question of would this go wrong, but how would it go wrong.
At the company meeting, which Daniel attended via conference call, a parade of high-level executive voices gushed about the new corporate policy, dubbed "Take-12." "From now on, everyone gets one hour each month to put toward personal work and development!"
Twelve hours a year, out of the 2,000 that most people were expected to work. Daniel supposed "0.6% Time" didn't have quite the same ring to it.
And how would the new policy be reconciled with the company's already Byzantine timesheet and internal billing system? Well, the company didn't even even attempt such a thing; there was simply no room in anyone's budget. Instead, someone had the bright idea of co-opting a different internal system for curating video playlists for online training courses. The idea was that each employee would create a new playlist of 12 hour-long videos, one for each month. The videos wouldn't actually be videos, just placeholders. By "watching" a "video," an employee would be logging that they'd spent one hour of time on personal development.
The premise started off sketchy, and only got sketchier as difficulties were encountered during implementation. Daniel could only shake his head in astonishment as he read the User Guide detailing what he had to do:
Set up your playlist each year:
1. Click "Technical Academy" on the home screen
2. The "Take 12: Development Time" modal will open
3. Click "Add to Playlist" in the title bar
4. The "Add to Playlist" menu will appear
5. Click to expand the menu options
6. Click on "Create a Playlist" option
7. Text entry boxes will appear for your new playlist
8. Type in a playlist title. E.g. "Take 12 Development Time 2019"
9. Type in a description
10. Click the "Add Playlist" button located under the text fields
11. Select your new playlist from the playlist dropdown
12. Click the "Add to Playlist" button
13. The word "Added" will appear
14. Click the home button in the screen
15. Your newly created "Take 12: Development Time" playlist will show in the "My Playlists" section of the home page (You may need to refresh the screen for it to show first time)
Using your Take 12 Development Time each month:
1. Click on your Take 12 playlist to open it
2. Expand the "Outstanding Content" section of your playlist
3. Click on the month you wish to register time for
4. A page will open which has some text on it, there's nothing you need to do here.
5. Exit this window by using the 'home' button
6. When you've finished your hour of learning, click on your Take 12 playlist again to open it
7. Expand the "Outstanding Content" section of your playlist
8. The current month has a "Completed?" button next to it.
9. Click the "Completed?" button
10. The selected month will move from the "Outstanding Content" section to the "Completed Content" section
11. Close your playlist until next month
People ended up spending more time troubleshooting their buggy playlists than on personal development. With little by way of profit or benefit to justify its continued existence, "Take-12" was eventually done away with altogether. Daniel congratulated himself for having lowered his expectations.


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I think at this point we all get that ending Duchenne is going to take a collaboration of efforts. Treatments will come from different researchers, produced by different pharmaceutical companies, and supported by different foundations. Ending Duchenne will be an ensemble piece, a collection of great minds (artists even) working together on the most important project to this community. I wrote an essay entitled The Theater of Duchenne that was included in the 2012 PPMD Connect Conference User's Guide, in which I compared treating Duchenne and the clinical trial process to producing a Broadway hit. I wanted to put an often confusing process down on paper to help even me better wrap my head around the players and policies involved in treating Duchenne. It's just one of the many things we shared at arguably our most comprehensive and informative conference to date. You'll find several highlights in this month's newsletter with presentations coming soon. We heard from lots of amazing people at the Conference, and wanted to highlight two voices that stood out. Jack and Nolan Willis are 10 year old twins with Duchenne who participated in one our panel about clinical trials from the patients perspective. Their insight, experience, and humor helped shed light on what patients experience when they are in trials.
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