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Today this message appeared, and I knew that I needed to find a socket with a QLIM smaller than QLEN=8, but couldn't remember what the formula was.
But, the topic had come up on the bind-users list back on November 14th, 2013, where the messages was about '16 already in queue'.
Where for months before this I had been getting messages for '10 already in queue', and the only tcp socket I found that might be a problem The only thing with a QLIM of 10 was the submission port on sendmail, which didn't make sense...and bumping it up didn't help.
And, searching my system for the pcb was a bust (using
lsof ‑i ‑Tfs | grep LISTEN or
netstat ‑LAan)
Reducing end digits until I got matches, resulted in matches that didn't seem to fit.
So, I tried to ignore it....
When it popped up on the bind-users list. The discussion went to that the tcp-listen-queue default is 10. But, it didn't seem to apply in my case, until later when I did see some messages for "5 already in queue", because the base bind in FreeBSD 9.2 is 9.8.4-P2 where the default tcp-listen-queue is 3. It was changed to 10 in bind-9.9.
Anyways, when the thread came up on bind-users list, I decided that I needed to really dig for the answer. Searching through the kernel source, I eventually found my answer.
The message is reporting when QLEN > 3 * (QLIM / 2)
Aha...QLEN = 10 => QLIM = 6....which was my Socks5 proxy server (
Couldn't figure out how to change the listen queue in it through its configuration file, so I stopped using it. And, the messages stopped. I had filled out the proxy settings in
chromium with
squid for http & https and
ss5 for Socks5....and evidently some update around the same time as when I upgraded to FreeBSD 9.2 (or perhaps FreeBSD 9.2 made the message show up for
dmesg?). Switching to using
squid for all protocols fixed it.
Meanwhile...while I was looking for that old message, which I had posted back on November 20th, 2013. I stumbled upon some older threads on freebsd-stable.
I was searching on home computer, where I'm subscribed to the list, while my work email isn't subscribed to the list... and all my old freebsd list emails have since been purged. Still trying to get my email back under control after switching providers...both personally and at work. Plan to let an old personal domain expire once the migration is fully done, but its going so slowly that I let it auto-renew last year...and perhaps forgetting to change to the default 2 year auto renew to 1 year was intentional? New expiration date is November 20th, 2015. It was an early domain that I had registered, before I knew that '-'s in domains are considered bad. There were a number of different blogs that I would try to leave comments at, and the comments would claim to go to moderation but actually get discarded. The owner of one site eventually responded saying the system automatically does that to domains with '-'s in them, since most of them are spam. But, he'll whitelist my domain for the future. (IIRC, it was about a different antispam patch he had written for our blogging platform, functionality that never made it into newer releases and hadn't gotten updated. Wishing something like it was back again.)
That made me wonder if another site, running under my employer's domain...with a '-' in it, was rejecting my comments under my work email account, because it has a '-' in it. Switching to the form without the '-', and the comments would appear. I suggested to the site owner that he should remove that filter or at least whitelist our employer's domain.
The threads were older, and associated with upgrading to FreeBSD 9.2....first thread was started on August 1st, 2013. Was for "8 already in queue", and later indicated that the system was for backups and did outgoing rsync's and also did NFS and Samba. The discussion talked of strangeness of only having a queue limit that small, and that the default limit (128) is like 20 times that. The last reply to the thread was October 7th, 2013. Another thread started on September 30th, 2013 for "193 already in queue", with the last reply on November 12th, 2013.
The main hanging point again was that the pcb couldn't be found...and the suspicion is that its how daemons fork processes to listen to sockets and/or to handle requests, plus that they might create all these things and then use fork to detach to run in the background. The last thread was about using dtrace to maybe see if the process could be found that way.
I've been meaning to play around with that, but when I had last tried...found that its a module, and
kldload dtrace wasn't the right way to load it.... its
kldload dtraceall Guess I've rebooted since then, so it should be right (and done automatically in
/boot/loader.conf.) Guess when I have time....
So, I wonder if I should reply to one or both of the threads....but first, its been a while since I blogged....so here I am.
As for today's message?
At first I looked for the full address:
# netstat -LaAn | grep fffffe006acd9310
trimming, I eventually got:
# netstat -LaAn | grep fffffe006acd
fffffe006acdb7a0 tcp4 0/0/5 *.5666
fffffe006acdb3d0 tcp4 0/0/128 *.587
fffffe006acdcb70 tcp4 0/0/50 *.445
fffffe006acdc3d0 tcp4 0/0/128 *.621
nrpe? Hmmm, did that one new disk check push me over?
What else is 5?
# netstat -LaAn | grep '/5 '
fffffe012b909b70 tcp4 0/0/5 *.10143
fffffe006acdb7a0 tcp4 0/0/5 *.5666
fffffe006aab2b70 tcp6 0/0/5 *.5666
fffffe006abd17a0 tcp4 0/0/5 *.9032
fffffe019a1503d0 tcp4 0/0/5 *.873
fffffe012b9093d0 tcp6 0/0/5 *.873
fffffe006abd0000 tcp6 0/0/5 *.2049
fffffe006abd03d0 tcp4 0/0/5 *.2049
10143, imapproxyd - wasn't accessing roundcube
9032, there shouldn't be anything accessing pyTiVo
2049, NFS hmmm....well, my MacBook Air might be doing a PowerNap and doing its TimeMachine backup to the NFS share on my FreeBSD server.
873, rsyncd - BackupPC is constrained against running more than 3 jobs at once, and at most 3 against this server (I break up my [bigger] systems so its not all backed up at once, using lockfile in DumpPreUserCmd, though I have exceptions on this server so that certain rsync shares aren't blocked if a really long backup is running (recently had an incremental take 1 day and 11 hours - at least on my FreeBSD/ZFS system I have a comamnd in DumpPreShareCmd to take a snapshot.... a couple of weeks earlier, I had an incremental take 1 day and 15.5 hours.
Tweaked some sysctl's, and deleted some old snapshots seems to have sped things back up.
Probably NRPE
So some of the messages convert to:
OTOH, "8 already in queue" is what the first thread in August had, and he had added about being a backup server that does output rsync and had also mentioned NFS (and Samba).
Additionally, in the output looking for QLIM == 5, were these lines
unix 0/0/5 /tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.wpVy4H/SingletonSocket
unix 0/0/5 /tmp/ksocket-beastie/klaunchere40501.slave-socket
unix 0/0/5 /home/beastie/.pulse/zen.lhaven.net-runtime/native
unix 0/0/5 /tmp/.esd-1000/socket
unix 0/0/5 /tmp/seahorse-QY4SIO/S.gpg-agent
unix 0/0/5 /var/run/samba/nmbd/unexpected
When I was previously looking for QLIM == 6, there were only the two tcp sockets, so it was only 50-50 on picking the culprit, and since the other was minidlna which I haven't done more than build/install it so far. It was really only the one socket to explain it, and it did clear up immediately once I stopped using it.
As for NRPE, there doesn't seem to be a way to change it easily....so I'll just see if the problem continues to happen, before investigating other solutions.
Such as injecting something like this into:
@@ -859,7 +861,7 @@
/* Start listening on the port. */
- if (listen(listen_sock, 5) < 0) {
+ if (listen(listen_sock, 32) < 0) {
syslog(LOG_ERR, "listen on [%s]:%s: %.100s", ntop, strport,
@@ -1796,6 +1798,7 @@
return OK;
Brilliant article, helped me a lot. I was running dbmail (mail server) on FreeBSD 9.2 and started getting this issue:-
Listen queue overflow: 193 already in queue awaiting acceptance
Using your article I was able to narrow down what was happening so thanks for a great article :)
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A Tyroshi sellsword serving in the company called the Stormcrows, Daario is a flamboyant popinjay, all his garments spilling with lace and silk, his trident-forked beard and hair dyed blue to match his eyes. He has a golden tooth, and fights with an arakh and stilleto that feature bronze hilts that are shaped to look like naked and wanton women. He is arrogant beyond belief, and is given to impossible claims regarding his prowess at war and with women.
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I was all excited about USA's Friendly soccer match against Colombia today after Saturday's match against Poland was on Fox Soccer Channel, which we no longer get.
Then…the game happened.
I haven't seen a game that boring in a long, long time. Both sides were lackluster and there was absolutely no hint of a goal.
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Someone sent me this link. I've been going to it every morning and clicking on first the dog and then the cat links. There will be a trivia question of the day. Click on it and it will donate something silly like 10 pieces of kibble a day. But all those pieces of kibble add up when enough people do it daily. I haven't been pestered at all by the site to buy anything.
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Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council
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The Synod of 787, the second to meet at Nicea, refuted the Iconoclast heresy during the reign of Empress Irene and her son Constantine VI.
The Council decreed that the veneration of icons was not idolatry (Exodus 20:4-5), because the honor shown to them is not directed to the wood or paint, but passes to the prototype (the person depicted). It also upheld the possibility of depicting Christ, Who became man and took flesh at His Incarnation. The Father, on the other hand, cannot be represented in His eternal nature, because "no man has seen God at any time" (John 1:18).
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Hey, Julia ......... it's me ....... Kind of glad you're not picking up — this'll be easier. Maybe.
So. Here goes. I'm going to ask you to do something for me. It's not an ordinary best friend kind of favor — God, I wish it was. I wish I just needed you to pick up my dry cleaning or something ...... Anyway. Here it is. It's big ..... I need you to somehow explain to David (and I guess everyone else ...... damn) that I won't be there on Saturday. I just can't do it. This won't make any sense, I know. You'll think I'm insane. Everyone will .......
Um, I'm at the airport right now. And I'm getting on a plane in a few minutes. To Guatemala. Yeah, I know. It sounds crazy when I say it out loud. I don't even know where to start. It's just — I went to the bookstore this morning, you know, to pick up that nice pen for the guest book. I decided to grab a book to read on the honeymoon — something fluffy, good for sunning by the pool on the cruise. Anyway. Whatever. So there was this woman there, a row away from me, in the travel section. She just looked — I don't know. Interesting. Different. Carefree. Like she wasn't worrying about what anybody would think. She had on bright red overalls, and some kind of crazy tribal jewelry. She was talking to her friend, and I was nosy and I eavesdropped. Her friend asked her, "Why always these third world countries? I still don't get why you keep going back." And do you know what she said? Listen to this, Julia. She said, "Because when I'm there I'm constantly reminded of what's important. I feel alive in a way I never feel when I'm here. Because, for whatever reason, I feel like I can really be me when I'm there."
What she said hit me like a ton of bricks. Bam. Sounds stupid, right? But I looked at myself and thought — What really is important? Is it this crazy expensive wedding, with the two-thousand dollar dress and open bar? Is it my job — that I hate, and I do only because I'm supposed to have a 'career' and I have to pay the bills? Do I actually feel alive every day? Or am I just trudging
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Julia, I just stood there, asking myself those questions — and my answers sucked. That woman walked away with her friend, and I just stood there. I finally left — I never bought the pen or the book.
I went home and kept thinking about all of this, and it was just suddenly so clear that I couldn't get married on Saturday. I love David, and this is just about the crappiest thing I could do to him. But I don't think I should join lives with someone until I can answer those questions and feel good about the answers. And Julia, right now I feel pretty alarmed by my answers.
So — Guatemala. Yes, it's impulsive, and extreme. But I need to do something extreme. I need to force myself to take a long hard look at my life. And I need to go right now, or else I'll chicken out. If that woman's right, maybe I'll come back feeling alive, knowing what's important, and knowing what it's like to truly be me.
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When we last left Rachel Zoe in Bravo-land, she and Rodger had just decided to have a baby, and Rachel was coming to terms with what that might mean for her career.
The new season will focus on Rachel's struggle to keep her ultra-stressful life and business in order, all while nursing the bun in her oven. Phrases like "I keep forgetting that I'm pregnant!" during a photoshoot and Rodger saying, "Don't kill my baby!" as a hairstylist sprays an unknown substance onto his wife's head can give you an idea of what this season will be like. And now that her former assistant Brad Goreski has moved on, it seems we'll get to watch a brand new fashion manservant freak out about meeting Rachel's demands.


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Sometimes I wonder if my dislike for a lot of Pop singers is because of misogyny. Nowadays female singers aren't docile like they used be. They're aggressive, can rap, can have a guitar here and there and not shamed of having a lot of sex or of telling someone to fuck off. My manhood is threatened, and thus I cannot enjoy when Lady GaGa tells me about how everything is beautiful and that we should all just be ourselves (That's because we all have the privilege of being skinny, right?). I can't stand Rihanna because a sexually assertive woman offends me. Submission is a turn-on, and without it I'm nothing.
Or maybe not. My favorite Pop singers include Lana Del Rey, Tove Lo and Melanie Martinez which are all concept-heavy. As for aggression, I also admire Emilie Autumn who directly attacked her sexual abusers. The problem with the singers in the first paragraph isn't that they were 'assertive'. In fact, no one should be scared of Rihanna. She's so conformist that Chris Brown beating here wasn't the big deal. The problem with these singers is that they didn't sell you an image or a concept, but themselves.
Compare Taylor Swift's "22" – which I actually like – to any song here. Taylor uses the song as a vehicle to inform the listener who utterly cool and fucking awesome she is. It's about her, not about having fun. She has a lot of exes, she has breakfasts at midnight unlike these lame 'cool kids' and they dream instead of sleep. The songs' music videos even confirm it. In "Good Time", Carly and Adam Young are surrounded by people who actually look different and don't seem to be doing anything but having fun. Everyone in Taylor's video looks perfect and skinny. It's a song about contrasts, not about partying.
When everyone got taken away by EMOTION – and by 'everyone' I mean 'music nerds' – the shock was hearing a Pop singer who really didn't care about seeming cool. She did way before "I Really Like You". From a distance, this and "Call Me Maybe" sound like an artist with one gimmick that milks it. Listen to a whole album, and it's a modus operandi. If Carly can't deviate, it's because she's having too much fun, doesn't need and want to and invites you to join in.
Adam Young asides, who everyone seems to hate, "Good Time" is such an inviting song. "Call Me Maybe" may have generated the shitty parodies but that song tells you more about who Carly is. Most of the songs here work in the same sphere only with slightly weaker drums. All the songs are about the excitement of first love and first crush, about a possible future that may happen and if it does it'll be awesome. It's not exactly optimistic. Rather, Carly captures that tiny moment of happiness when you're sure someone really likes you or may like you, and you're kind of emberassed and unsure but enjoy it all the same. Song titles like "This Kiss", "Curiosity", "Tiny Little Bows" and "Call Me Maybe" all display this range of emotions. Merge these topics with dance tracks and you have great party music that's happy, not tough. People who don't jump to "Tiny Little Bows" look like they're trying too hard to reach the Idea of Coolness.
Carly's performance is also perfect. Another problem of contemporary Pop singers is how much they love show us their voice. Often, the songs aren't meant to be enjoyed. Even the performance isn't meant to be enjoyed. Rather, we're supposed to be impressed, stand aside and admire all the vocal acrobatics. Adele epitomizes it and Sia is the biggest offender. Imagine if Sia sang these songs. Will "Turn Me Up" sound so cute and confused if Sia howled? Would it even be about confusion, instead of about how awesome Sia is? Carly sings so low and calm. She rarely stretches her voice, trusting instead her character shine through her voice. It also makes the song more listener-friendly, making it sound like anyone can sing them.
At times she does stretch her voice for something more profound, but it's so rare it leads to a weird effect. On "More Than a Memory", she stretches her voice just a little to suit the song's more somber mood, and it makes her seem vulnerable and worried. Since she doesn't stretch it often, she shows us that this moment is more important than others – the relationship might die! She also loses the tune a bit on "Guitar String/Wedding Ring", and the result is ridiculously cute. The song's lyrics are a bit nonsense, but they, along with the sparkling, noisy production and Carly's messy voice expresses the excitement and thrill of love all the more effectively. Music is, after all, acting. I'm sure many can sing that song better technically, but I doubt if anyone can convince me like Carly does.
Only one song does stick out where she sounds closer to her contemporaries. That's "Tonight I'm Getting Over You" which includes an actual bass drop. The noises this time are aggressive instead of sparkling and Carly tries to reach to the top of her voice. It's also a total success because it focuses on this idea, instead of using these tools as a modus operandi. It's not another generic club banger but a singer who's full of pain and needs to let it with singing and loud beats. What's beautiful is that once the chorus hits, she still sounds vulnerable and hurt. The cries of "getting over you!" aren't triumphant, but sound like she's trying to convince herself by constantly repeating it. Many said that "Chandelier" by Sia mixed the whole party-and-depression thing well, but that song, like anything else by her, is about how Sia awesome is. Carly outdid everyone else.
It's interesting how clean this album is. In a world where singers like Rihanna use misogyny and objectification of women to seem powerful – because being approved by wifebeaters like Chris Brown means you're strong? – it's refreshing to hear someone who doesn't need to go on and on about it. Carly is sexy in her way. She's not afraid of it, she's just more concerned with love and having fun. "Good Time" works because, unlike other party songs it's for everyone – not just people who happen to be sexy. Her excitement in "Tiny Little Bows" is way sexier than anything by Rihanna. Carly was actually older than most singers when she recorded this and many called this 'immature for her age', but is it really?
Today Kiss sounds more like a prelude to the brilliant EMOTION, and it's not as all-encompassing as that albums. Still, what it does it does brilliantly. "Call Me Maybe" is actually buried in a sea of highlight, and there's a consistent mood that shows Carly always believed that Pop is an album genre. Even the acoustic ballad "Beautiful" doesn't let down the pace. 12 joyous Pop songs about excitement and love that invites everyone are too much to become viral in this age of irony, but really, if you dislike this you may be trying too hard to seem tough.
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Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery
Named for Arthur A. Houghton Jr., former trustee and chairman of The Cooper Union, this 1800 square foot gallery supports the pedagogy of the School of Architecture through public exhibitions and events. Over the years, the works of architects, photographers, painters, builders and faculty and students of the school have been exhibited, drawing viewers from schools of architecture and the wider professional communities as well as the public at large. The School of Architecture Archive works with collegial institutions to present jointly sponsored exhibitions, or will curate, design and install original exhibitions. Recent exhibitions presented by the school include Musikerhaus: Raimund Abraham, Landscapes of Extraction: The Collateral Damage of the Fossil Fuels Industries (presented with the Institute for Sustainable Design), and Paul Rudolph: Lower Manhattan Expressway (presented with The Drawing Center, New York).


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EPSI is a membership-based networking organisation within Europe that focuses on innovation in the areas of physical activity related to sport, leisure and health. EPSI strives for a more innovation-friendly environment for the EU sports industry, in order to stimulate technological innovation and to set up businesses with a focus on innovative technology.
Sports & Technology
The Sports and Technology cluster is a non profit organisation and includes more than 100 SME companies, working in several field of sports. The cluster incorporates 9 (sport) field labs in the region, located around (top) sport facilities. FieldLabs are research and development locations in a real-life sports setting where new ideas, concepts, technologies and products are developed/tested in cooperation between sports, knowledge organisations and companies. Field labs have been developed for gymnastics, swimming, equestrian sports, soccer, sports for the disabled and sports stimulation.
INDESCAT is the Catalan Sports Industry Cluster. As a cluster, we bring together companies and research centres related to the world of sport, with the main objective of developing actions that improve companies' competitiveness, encouraging the development of innovative products and services. INDESCAT means INDUSTRY+SPORTS+CATALONIA
Hungarian Sport- and Lifestyle Development Cluster Ltd. MSI
The enhancement of the cooperation between the members, the quest of new cooperative possibility and creation of business opportunities, Gathering and sharing the information concerning the cluster and the cluster's members Advice to the cluster's members (R+D, tenders, best practices, generation and managing of projects, business planning) Organization of events related to sports and healthy living, Sports marketing, market analyzing and researching activity, creation of a common image Sport health care services (medical, doping, regeneration, rehabilitation) Cluster representation and professional interest representation (lobby) Other demanded services provided in the interest of the cluster.
Assosport - Associazione Nazionale fra i Produttori di Articoli sportivi (Italian Association of Sporting Goods Manufacturers) - is the Italian national sector association which represents businesses in the sports sector. It is a non political and non profit association.
Flanders' Bike Valley
The Flanders' Bike Valley Cluster brings together actors in the field of bicycle & cycling sciences and technologies: public research organizations, private companies and specialized service providers in a Quadruple Helix format, including strategic stakeholders. The Cluster is managed by experienced entrepreneurial managers with roots in business development and cycling industries. Flanders' Bike Valley's infrastructure includes a common wind tunnel testing facility for athletes, products, etc. for wind speeds until 30 m/sec or 110 km/hr for cyclists, ski and Alpine Sports etc. and an Incubator for start-ups, new companies etc. As an emerging cluster, the mission of the Flanders' Bike Valley Cluster is to actively participate in building a successful ecosystem that will attract and retain companies and laboratories that are active in the bicycle and cycling field contributing to boosting innovation, economic performance and employment.
AITEX (ASOCIACIÓN DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE LA INDUSTRIA TEXTIL) is a private non-profit association that encompasses textile and related companies. Some current figures are that AITEX has more than 1.000 associated companies, more than 3.000 clients, around 250 staff and 9 delegations around the world (North and South America, China, Pakistan, Lithuania and India).
Delft University of Technology
The TU Delft Sports Engineering Institute aims to create intensive interdisciplinary collaborations between researchers of the faculties 3ME, IO, LR, EWI and BK. It will give Delft a unique position as the most engineering oriented university in the field of sports research, combining the broad fundamental knowledge of these engineering faculties.
Ulster University
Ulster University is a dynamic research led University. Our core business activities are teaching and learning, research, innovation and technology and knowledge transfer.
The Sport and Exercise Sciences Research Institute brings together international experts across a range of sport related activities, facilitating collaboration with the commercial and community sectors promoting research, education, policy and practical innovation.
Asociacion IBV
Ibv is a technological center applying biomechanics and ergonomics for developing products and services that add value by improving people quality of life. In sports arena, IBV specializes in people oriented innovation: from people to the market. It is a recognized center for sports surfaces (FIFA, ITF, IAAF,..), sports products, footwear and clothing.
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Institute Carnot Star
The Carnot STAR institute "Sciences and Technologies for Research Applications" is a key player in Sports and Health research, development and innovation. The Carnot STAR institute aims to providing access to competencies, technological platforms and results from the French public research to industrials. Thanks to the reputation and the research excellence of its eight laboratories, the Carnot STAR institute is able to address three targetted markets: sports equipments, connected objects/internet of things for Health area and biomedical imaging.
Faculty of Sport, University Union - Nikola Tesla
Faculty of Sport, University "Union - Nikola Tesla" in Belgrade, was founded in 2012 as the first institution of higher education in Serbia whose core academic field is sport. In this respect, the following undergraduate courses
1. Coaching in Sport
2. Management in Sport
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and postgraduate – master courses were created at the Faculty:
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All the undergraduate courses consist of 4 years of study and in that period each student gains 240 ECTS credits. Students with higher ambitions have the opportunity to continue their studies and earn additional 60 ECTS (300 ECTS altogether) at master's degree.
Faculty of Sport in Belgrade, in addition to the regular academic education, is also oriented to informal types of education through implementation of the programs of vocational training for performing certain professional tasks in sport. Our aim is to keep this part of the educational process of sports experts at high level and thus contribute to the improvement and development of Serbian sport.
Vocational training programs were introduced in the obligatory practice of sports organizations and higher education institutions in Serbia due to the large number of former athlete and current sports workers, who perform a wide range of activities in the field of sports, but have no formal education. Basically, they need vocational training for the acquisition of the working permit, which allows them to work in sports organizations, in accordance with the law.
The method of gaining the appropriate sports titles is clearly determined by the applicable legal and regulatory provisions and includes the fulfillment of certain formal-legal and educational and professional requirements and criteria. It is realized through joint work and cooperation with sport organizations and higher education institutions in the field of sport and physical education.
Università Iuav di Venezia
Università Iuav di Venezia: Our research main topic is the design of innovative products and services using emerging technologies with special regard to sport, physical activity, health and wellbeing
Nova CHILD
Nova CHILD drives a network including companies, research and training institutes, with an innovative approach for the well-being of children.
The cluster gathers and coordinates a network of professionals from sectors, such as: child care, furniture, fashion (clothing - shoes), toys, food, hygiene, services ... but also, universities, schools, research and technical centers, training institutes... who provide their skills and their expertise: marketing, human and social sciences (psychology ...), design, technical (materials, electronics, IT, ...), medical, etc.
Nova CHILD strives to put the end user at the heart of the business and thus, mobilize these skills to make this network a true transverse center of expertise dedicated to the child.
Dalarna University
Dalarna University is a academic institution of higher education dedicated to education and research. The sports-science research at Dalarna University is focused on exercise physiology, physical education, sports media, and public health. Connected to these research areas, Dalarna University have a sports-science laboratory consisting of physiological, biomechanical, and biochemical sections. Many of the equipment in the sports-science laboratory enable field-test measurements. For now, Dalarna University will be represented in EPSI by Dala Sports Academy (www.dalasportsacademy.se) which is a center that focus on collaboration with external parties via transfer of scientific-based knowledge, development and innovation within the sports and health sector.


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Review: The Blue Cow Cafe & Deli, Plaza Damas
>> Wednesday, March 23, 2016
It was a fantastic moo-ve that Cathy Appleby & Scot Braithwaite, 2 of the partners of Blue Cow Cafe, took when they started the cafe back in the year 2006. Located at the Plaza Damas area, this hidden gem, tucked in the busy area of the Plaza Damas serves prime cuts, hand-made sausages & fresh meats that you can purchase from the deli & have your selected piece of meat cooked just the way you like it!
Scot was in the cattle business before venturing into this deli cum cafe business. His rich knowledge in handling cows & its meat has ensured that only the best are served to all customers at Blue Cow Cafe. All their beef cuts are imported chilled, not frozen, from Stanbroke Beef, Australia & Ralph Meats in Australia.
Their lamb on the other hand are imported chilled from Ramnco International & Southern Meat in Australia most of the time unless there aren't sufficient stock, which the deli will then import their lamb from New Zealand.
Pork cuts are locally bred & processed, only from the choice farm(s) in Malaysia, specially hand-picked by Cathy, Scot & their team.
Beef Rump Steak (RM6.99/100g)
Pork Loin Steak (RM41.90/kg) *best seller*
Straight from the deli to the grill
Pork Sausages (RM5.49/100g) *best seller*
One of their latest products is the Guinness Ribs. The ribs are imported from Spain (more meaty), marinated (these pre-packed ribs are the only marinated meats in the deli/cafe) & cooked. Approximately 500g of the ribs are marinated for 3-4 hours before cooking. Once done, it will then be vacuum-packed & chilled. Customers who order these ribs will not need to wait for several hours for their ribs to be served as they're all pre-cooked & just needs to be reheated & served.
Let me share with you what we have tasted on that day:
We concluded our lunch tasting session with 2 delectable desserts/drink.
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What Easter Started
User's Guide to Sunday, April 8.
Sunday, April 8, is Easter Sunday.
Acts 10:34, 37-43; Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23; Colossians 3:1-4, or 1 Corinthians 5:6-8; John 20:1-9
Our Take
We love to tell and retell the lessons of Christmas: God loves the poor, a baby changed all the world's plans, and the angels told the shepherds to expect peace on earth.
But Easter is a greater feast than Christmas, even though its lessons aren't as picturesque. We hear the consequences of Easter all year long, but it might be helpful to zero in on three of them, just as a quick refresher:
1. Easter started peace on earth.
The first enemy of peace on earth is death. Before Christ rose from the dead, death was a shadow land of uncertainty. Whether or not resurrection was even possible was a heated debate among Jewish believers.
But Jesus said: "I am the Resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me, even if he dies, will live." Today, he proved it.
The second enemy of peace is suffering. We wonder why we suffer, why a good God allows suffering. Jesus answers by suffering with us, and then opening up to us the enormity of eternity that overwhelms our suffering.
In fact, God never delivers on the Christmas promise of "peace on earth" except through the Resurrection.
2. Easter started the Bible.
Easter started the Bible in two ways: First, Christians had a burning need to write down every detail they could think of regarding the Holy Week story. They had that burning need because the Resurrection transformed that week from a humiliating defeat to a world-changing victory. From that first effort, the New Testament was born.
Second, Easter started the Bible because it is due to the authenticity of the paschal accounts that we believe the Bible at all. These accounts present the apostles not as heroes, but as doubters and bumblers who resisted and rejected the Resurrection until the evidence of their senses forced them to believe.
Easter transformed the life of Christ from stories about a colorful prophet into stories about how God behaves in — and redeems — the world.
The story of Jesus has power and life in it because we know who Jesus is: He is God. And we know that because Jesus rose from the dead.
3. Easter gave us the God of love.
If we had never heard about Christianity and were told that God became man, was crucified, died and buried, and then rose from the dead, what would we expect? Vengeance.
We would expect God to wipe his killers off the face of the earth. Defending himself would properly show his power and show his enemies the consequences of messing with God.
But after the Resurrection, we see who God really is: He suffered and died at our hands because he knew it would intensify our love for him. And when he returned all he wanted was to make us love him like he loves us.
Wishing you a blessed and holy Easter!
Tom and April Hoopes write from Atchison, Kansas,
where Tom is writer in residence at Benedictine College.
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Apple released its sales data on April 24, and in our Q2 earnings liveblog, you can also reference some of the figures Apple reported, supporting the continued success of devices like the iPhone and iPad. Apple said it sold 4 million Macs during the quarter, a 7 percent unit-increase over the same quarter a year ago. We also reported on IDCs' report, which confirms that Apple's got a definitive hold on the tablet market. Apple has not yet announced exactly which of its Mac lines will get the Ivy Bridge processors, or to what extent, and now is perhaps the best time for the Ars community to tackle these topics.
As usual, a lot of discussion about the current state of the Mac line, and you will also find some similar discussions in the dedicated thread for the 2012 Q2 earnings report. Users like noob, who provided their own take on some of the sales figures, "-More iPhones sold than expected, fewer iPads sold than expected (by a small bit), fewer Macs sold than expected (by a fair amount)" Though there are plenty of variances in Apple sales, many of the OpenForum members provided their analysis of what this will mean for Apple's future. Is the horizon dominated by the radiance of iOS or the Mac line? You can read the full post here to find out.
Another thread, titled, "So, it looks like the Mac has crested" asks similar questions about sales of the Mac. This thread is located The Battlefront, a place where Ars readers have used in the past to argue about computers. As you can imagine, discussions have sometimes gone down long winding paths, sometimes erupting in some heated flame wars. And yet, who knew that such conflict could generate sublime haikus?
You heard right. Ars Openforum has chosen this poetic form of haiku to discuss the current state of Macs, and it happened early on in the thread. As a response to targetnovember's suggestion that haikus were the best way to discuss, fil wrote:
- Poetic venture
- A twitch in the HP corpse
- Soon at peace again
the_stig_1 added:
- Flotsam and jetsam.
- Shining intellect, behold!
- Brain, brain, what is brain?
Later haikus continue to dispute other assertions by forum members, and just to make sure discussions stay healthy and constructive, Horatio reminded everyone:
- Personal attacks
- Forbidden by policy
- Please keep it friendly
Though some of the posts are certain in their analysis of the state of the Mac in Apple's sales, eumaeus' double haiku took a more middle-of-the-road stance:
- No glass can show u
- If Apple is more like Rome
- Or Alexander.
- But my MacBook Air
- Blind to the future, twinkles
- In the sun today.
Stratus Fear's opinion on the literary nature of this Ars OpenForum thread:
- So incredible
- Thread completely delivers
- Very full of win
We'd like to know what you think Apple has in store for its line of Macs, which include the laptops, iMac and the Mac Pros. Share your thoughts with us via the comments, and feel free to create your own haikus. If you're new to the OpenForum, register for an account and join in the discussion.


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Sandy Hook Elementary's fate rests with 28 Newtown officials
NEWTOWN -- Against a backdrop of tender nerves, still-fresh anguish and a townwide concern and desire to move forward with its healing, town officials hope to decide the fate of the vacant Sandy Hook Elementary School by May 1, First Selectwoman Pat Llodra said Sunday.
The process to get there will involve the 28 elected members of the boards of Selectmen, Finance, Education and the Legislative Council -- and lots of community input, Llodra said.
The big challenge is that not everyone agrees on how to go about it.
At two hearings held earlier this year, many Newtowners favored razing the school and either building a memorial or a new school somewhere else on the same site.
"That ground is sacred now," one parent said at the Jan. 18 hearing.
Still others, with fond memories of the school,which opened in 1956, said they might want to return to a renovated building. Although a number first wanted to know how the Sandy Hook teaching staff felt about returning.
Llodra, speaking Sunday as she drove home from an appearance at a Sandy Hook fundraiser in Ramapo, N.J., suggested that there are no easy answers.
One of the things she expects from the 28 officials involved is enter the process without preconceived notions and keep an open mind.
"What I would like them to do in preparations for those meetings is to have as many conversations as possible with their constituents," she said.
That said, "I think there are basically three options. There are three big buckets of ideas," Llodra said.
"One bucket is that the school would be subtantially remodeled and rebuilt in the same location," she said.
"Another bucket is to demolish the school and rebuild on the same site.
"The third bucket of ideas is to build the school in another location entirely," Llodra said.
A second panel, a research team led by Director of Planning & Land Use George Benson, with members that include a number of Newtown residents with construction and development experience, will look into the challenges presented by each option, she said.
If the decision is to rebuild the school elsewhere, "There's some land that would be available ... but then there's the question of infrastructure. Some of those parcels don't have water and sewer," Llodra said.
The school building has sat vacant since state police finished processing it as a crime scene after the Dec. 14 mass shooting, in which 20-year-old Adam Lanza, armed with a Bushmaster AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and two semiautomatic handguns, fatally shot 20 first-graders and six female staff members. He first fatally shot his mother as she lay in bed.
Sandy Hook students and staff have since returned to school at the former Chalk Hill Middle School in neighboring Monroe.
Llodra, the school board and Superintendent of Schools Janet Robinson all have said that no solution is likely to come fast enough to have a new school in place in Newtown by September. Sandy Hook School is likely to remain in the Monroe building at least through the end of the next school year.
"We're anxious to have them back, but we also know that the process is going to take awhile in order to do it right," school board Chairwoman Debbie Leidlein said Friday. "We're weighing everybody's input so we can make the best decisions possible."
Leidlein said she was thankful to Monroe for letting Newtown use the former Chalk Hill building.
Before Dec. 14, there was no discussion of building a new school in Sandy Hook, said Llodra.
She detailed the process for determining the school's fate in a letter to the Newtown Bee, a copy of which she forwarded to the New Haven Register.
"Our first and most important challenge as a community is to determine the fate and future of the Sandy Hook School building and program," she wrote.
Under the plan, "the elected representatives of the Boards of Selectmen, Finance, Education and the Legislative Council combined will carefully review every option for locating, building and rebuilding Sandy Hook School," she wrote.
"Ultimately, these elected representatives will make recommendations based on an analysis of these options in the context of the community 'voice' and understanding of the greater good, including short and long-term district education goals and vision for the community," Llodra wrote.
The government meetings to discuss the school's future "will be public, carefully structured, and led by facilitators experienced in leading groups in complex decision-making," Llodra said.
"This is going to be difficult work -- full of challenges, emotion, and personal passions," she wrote. "I ask all to be patient with us in this process. We are committed to serving you and will always do our best, but this is new territory for all of us."
Llodra said she expects the 28 members of the various boards involved will attend the meetings "having had many opportunities to hear and feel the 'voices' of the community, particularly of those for whom the events of Dec. 14 were so significant and which bear most directly on the school facility decision.
"We are gathering input from many constituencies: the general public; Sandy Hook School parents; parents of the students who survived; parents of victims; and Sandy Hook teachers and staff," Llodra wrote. Those meetings with individual constituencies already are under way, she said.
"But every Newtown person should know that each of us remains open to comments and suggestions throughout the entire review process," Llodra said. "Emails, calls, and general correspondence are welcome at all times."
There actually are two groups working on various aspects of what the town eventually decides, she said.
Even as the process to gather input continues to unfold, "another group commissioned by me has been conducting a vigorous review of all the options for school siting, building, rebuilding," she wrote.
"This research group is a combination of Land Use staff and private individuals from Newtown and Sandy Hook, involved in the construction and engineering fields."
The research the second group is doing "will provide essential information about each option and will help inform and guide the government review," she wrote.
"Once we have a plan for moving forward, we will reconvene with our state and federal partners to determine funding sources," Llodra said.
"I continue to be confident that these partners will do everything possible to help us implement our plan for the Sandy Hook School facility.
"Once we have a plan and funding secured, the project will follow the typical school construction process," Llodra wrote. "Thank you for being so steady and so supportive. We can accomplish this together, as a community."
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TORRINGTON >> A pair of car shows coming up for Memorial Day weekend feature very different operational strategies, but both are chances for car owners and restorers to showcase their work for good causes.
The 22nd annual Oliver Wolcott Technical High School car show is scheduled for Friday at 5 p.m. in the front parking lot of the high school. The show was started by John Royals, a teacher at OWTS but according to his brother, Glenn Royals, the heavy lifting will be done by the students.
"The main thing is it's for the kids," said Glenn Royals. "We just guide the kids, is what we do."
The centerpiece of the first show was a 1936 Ford truck, which many of the school's students had restored. Glenn Royals said the purpose of the show was to illustrate what they had done before a receptive audience.
"First of all," said Glenn Royals, "he wanted them to do work and be able to show that work to their parents and families."
Since then, the show -- which benefits the Tom Matulis and Royals Family scholarship funds -- has been in the hands of Oliver Wolcott Technical High School students, while teachers and adult volunteers are on hand to prepare refreshments and offer guidance. The actual operations, though, are left to the students, in part to help give them valuable experience.
"It's like running a business," said Glenn Royals. "When they do this show, everything has to add up."
The first 100 cars receive dash plaques, and trophies will be awarded for the best in show and students' choice. As is the case with the rest of the show, the decision on the latter category is up to the the students behind the show.
"We only go around with them," Glenn Royals said. "We're there for guidance, and we still want them to run their own show."
Friday also marks the beginning of a three-day commemoration of Trans Ams at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville. Since racing is banned on Sundays due to noise ordinances, exhibitors of muscle cars, tuners, imports and any other show-worthy vehicles will take to the track to showcase their pride on May 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
"it's turned out to be a nice thing," said Glenn Royals of the Royals Garage Car Show. "You get to drive around the chicane of the track."
Sunday will be the fourth instalment of the Royals Garage Car Show, and as has been the case in previous shows, all proceeds will benefit a cause. Money from the first two shows went to the veterans' memorial wall at Torrington City Hall, and last year's show benefited the Lakeville Hose Company. But for this year, all of the proceeds will go to the Wounded Warrior Project, which raises awareness of, and funds for, military service members who suffered severe injuries.
"We have so many veterans coming home hurt," said Glenn Royals.
Thanks to Skip Barber donating not only the track, but also the trophies and most of the other costs for the show, Glenn Royals said the show can donate the maximum amount possible to the Wounded Warrior Project. The Royals family picks up the tab for other expenses as well, since -- as Glenn Royals said -- "we want to give them as much as we can."
"Every penny that gets raised goes to the Wounded Warriors Project," said Glenn Royals.
For more information, contact Royals Garage at (860) 489-4500.
Reach Jason Siedzik at (860) 489-3121, ext. 321 or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RCjsiedzik.


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Man sent to prison for probation violations
Probation was revoked Tuesday for a 68-year-old Johnson Lane man with a string of violations since he was sentenced for a 2010 weapons offense fueled by alcohol.
District Judge Tod Young ordered William Calebaugh to serve his 12-32-month Nevada prison sentence after the latest violation which occurred in December at his home during a holiday visit with his two adult daughters.
Calebaugh pleaded guilty last week in East Fork Justice Court to two misdemeanor charges of battery against the women.
Judge Tom Perkins sentenced Calebaugh to six months in Douglas County Jail.
On Tuesday, Young revoked Calebaugh's probation, and ordered him to prison. He said the prison sentence can be served concurrent to the six months in jail.
"You cannot commit a violent crime when you're on probation," Young said.
He gave Calebaugh credit for 114 days in custody.
"I'm just so sorry for all this. I just want to go home and be with my wife," Calebaugh said. "I want this to go away. I just want to do the right thing."
Forensic psychologist Dr. Joseph McEllistrem, who evaluated Calebaugh, said his behavior was influenced by "a long chronic history of alcohol dependency."
That was evidenced by the fact that until Calebaugh was 66, he had no criminal history.
Were Calebaugh to remain on probation, McEllistrem said he would have to augment his treatment plan with additional anger management, continued attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous and meetings with his sponsor, and discontinue use of prescription sleep aids which raise the risk of relapse.
Calebaugh was sentenced in February 2011 to 12-32 months in prison, suspended, and ordered to surrender his $100,000 gun collection for going on a two-day alcohol binge and shooting up his house in September 2010.
At the time, his blood-alcohol content was .256, more than three times the legal limit of .08.
He was taken into custody in September 2012 for an alcohol relapse which coincided with one of his daughter's weddings.
When he was arrested for the incident in December, he was sober, according to reports.
Calebaugh admitted he used excessive force with his daughters.
Deputies were called to his home Dec. 18 after the victims said he shoved one woman into a kitchen counter and put the second in a headlock when she came to her sister's rescue.
The women said Calebaugh was upset because they had decided to cut short a visit with their father and were getting ready to leave.
The altercation was broken up when a victim's husband reportedly punched Calebaugh in the face.
"He could be a success on probation, but that hasn't been proven yet," McEllistrem said.
Prosecutor Tom Gregory asked that Calebaugh's probation be revoked.
Reading from the Douglas County Sheriff's Office report, he gave a much different account from Calebaugh of what happened at the defendant's home in December.
"He's on probation, already been back in court for a revocation hearing, and was given another opportunity. Then he commits two new violent offenses on his daughters," Gregory said. "He could do well on probation, but he hasn't proven that yet. It's been two years, and we're sitting here."


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Mark Zuckerberg is donating $100 million to the Newark public school system. The donation will be the first part of a foundation intended improve U.S. education.
Zuckerberg will announce the contribution Friday on The Oprah Winfrey Show, where he will be joined by Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
The New York Times broke news of Zuckerberg's educational fund shortly before Forbes revealed that the Facebook founder and CEO had climbed to the 35th position on its annual list of wealthy Americans. Forbes estimates that Zuckerberg is now worth $6.9 billion, putting him seven spots above Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who is estimated to be worth $6.1 billion, ranking 42 on Forbes's list.
Some will call the donation calculated. The timing of the announcement is in sync with the October 1 release of The Social Network, based on Ben Mezrich's book The Accidental Billionaires, neither of which portrays Zuckerberg in the most favorable manner. The donation could also be aimed at counteracting any negative stigma that could arise from his new rank on the Forbes 400.
The fact of the matter is that Mark Zuckerberg just donated $100 million of his own personal wealth to one of the country's worst school systems. This is the sort of philanthropy that we see from the likes of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates; frankly, it's amazing to have someone else with the ability to contribute at that level to that field. Ideally, we should be able to take the gesture at face value and not taint it with speculation.


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All Blacks 51
Scotland 22
The All Blacks, in case anyone was unsure of their whereabouts, announced their arrival in the northern hemisphere with a performance that came with surges of breathtaking excellence.
It also came with passages of spirited adventure from Scotland who were able to do enough to score three tries - presumably some kind of world record for them (at least this century) - and leave a number of questions hanging over the effectiveness of the All Black defensive effort.
It's often the way of things in Europe, the All Blacks do enough in 10 minutes bursts to kill the game and then open themselves to the prospect of a little mental drifting.
Wynne Gray: A breathtaking and bewildering All Blacks performance
That was certainly the story at Murrayfield. The second quarter of the first half was where the damage was done - when if the All Blacks were judged purely on that alone, every nation north of the equator would have wondered whether the men in black are really from New Zealand or another planet. The skill level was hypnotic the pace relentless and the execution emphatic.
The tries came and they came - basic skills done well with a touch of creativity and genius - that was the formula. Much of the genius came from Dan Carter, as if he had been holding something back all year for this moment.
Its frightening what he can do when he's in the mood. Admittedly the Loch Ness Monster has been sighted more than the Scottish defence but still, the movement, the handling and the timing of the All Black attack was Swiss clock efficient and elegant.
Carter was the orchestrator: a man so at ease in this arena its worth wondering whether he carries a test rugby gene.
It was all so easy for him after an iffy start where he threw an intercept that allowed Scotland to score the first try of the game. But after that, he was immaculate and so much more.
He skipped and hopped and when he gunned his engine - it purred. He pretty much owned the contest - something he proved, when after a prolonged period of Scottish territorial and possession, Carter nudged an inch-perfect cross kick that Julian Savea gathered on the bounce and carried through to the line.
That move typified the nature of the contest and hinted at what is likely to follow: the difference between the All Blacks and Scotland was the former's ability to play with imagination and the skills to back it. There was plenty of ordinary from the All Blacks in between - periods, particularly in the second half, when they were sloppy, lateral and loose. But that's how they are - they meander and then strike with lightning force, which is why they can troop off, seemingly having not impressed that much yet with 50 points in the bag.
They are in a different class to the rest of the world - providing the only real joy of the weekend.
The day before, Ireland, Wales, South Africa and Argentina had served up precisely zero rugby in 160 minutes of dirge. The IRB, so determined for these next few weeks of test football to capture the public's imagination, must have despaired. People like all sorts of strange things - but it would have taken a peculiar type to have sat through that rugby offering and not reckoned it would have been more of a laugh going to the dentist.
It was all so different at Murrayfield, though. The All Blacks gave the masses a taste of what rugby is all about and to be fair to Scotland, they showed signs they too had caught the rugby bug.
Scotland 22 (T. Visser (2), G. Cross, tries; G. Laidlaw 2 cons, pen)
New Zealand 51 (I. Dagg, C. Jane, A. Hore, J. Savea (2), B. Smith tries; D. Carter 6 cons, 3 pens)


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Why English Majors are Just as Important as Engineers
Last Sunday I adjusted my glasses not once, but twice to make sure I was reading these words in The New York Times correctly:
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"To nudge students toward job-friendly degrees, [Florida Governor Rick Scott's] task force on higher education suggested recently that university tuition rates be frozen for three years for majors in 'strategic areas,' which would vary depending on supply and demand," writes Lizette Alvarez. "An undergraduate student would pay less for a degree in engineering or biotechnology -- whose classes are among the most expensive for universities -- than for a degree in history or psychology."
The kid who thrives on Chaucer and couldn't give a hoot about a molecule is going to be steered to an entire career in science because we need to fill those jobs? This is as opposed to finding a way for the science-inclined to afford to get the education to fill that gaping void? Does passion for the subject or talent for it even come into play? Are we looking for mediocre scientists and engineers or people gifted and wide-eyed over the marvels of the field?
I already have a piggyback suggestion – find a way to "nudge" folks to careers in life coaching because boy will that industry be in higher demand.
My fellow professional coaches are already doing their part to help adults transition out of careers "strongly suggested" to them by well-meaning parents, guidance counselors and other practical-minded advisors. They get to be in their late 30s, early 40s, even 50s, and realize the lawn and the two-car garage are nice, but spending the majority of your life commuting to a job you can barely tolerate isn't a great tradeoff.
Even those who think the whole Mayan world-ending-this-month thing is hogwash are getting jittery over all the stuff they still haven't done. They're like, "Ha ha, these survival people are nuts … I have plenty of time to enjoy my life … can you pour me another glass of wine? Yeah, why don't you just leave the bottle here?"
It's a scary proposition, this idea of doing the societally dictated right thing, putting your square self in the round peg that is today's open job.
"The message from Tallahassee could not be blunter: Give us engineers, scientists, health care specialists and technology experts," Alvarez writes. "Do not worry so much about historians, philosophers, anthropologists and English majors."
In the spirit of full disclosure, I entered college as an English major (but eventually graduated with a degree in journalism and professional writing), so I'm smarting an extra little bit for that reason. But truly, my education prepared me for what I'm naturally drawn to, for what I've always been drawn to – writing. I couldn't have known then that eventually newspapers would struggle and I'd be writing on the Web. That doesn't mean given a choice I'd go back and change my major to fit some other societal need.
Florida has it backwards. You go with your interests, what's at your core and you take it from there. If you have no clear focal point upon entering college, you gravitate to a few things that pique your interest and you stay open to what presents itself. Stories on how people happy in their careers found their way are so varied; it behooves us to trust ourselves and pay attention to that thing that perks us up.
I have had clients who, when talking about something that intrigues them, sit up straighter and talk more excitedly. Sometimes I can feel the energy shift.
If you're one of those people who can go to a job, punch in, do your thing, punch out and come home to a life you enjoy because the job affords the security you need, more power to you. But there are so many people who try that and just can't seem to stop asking, "Is this all there is?"
We create our lives. That may sound trite, but it seems like a revelation to an awful lot of my clients. When they tell me it's all fine and good for so-and-so to make a change because she doesn't have to worry about paying the mortgage, I point out that it was their choice to have that mortgage. And if that mortgage is the reason they are staying in a situation they hate, then the house owns them, not the other way around.
This is a bit of an extreme example because it's not typically an either/or when it comes to security and and material comfort and happiness. But so many have convinced themselves it is. They don't feel they have a choice. They don't recognize it was a whole series of choices that brought them there in the first place.
This probably began sometime around the time they picked a college major. One year, one decision, flowed into the next. Some erect traps, walls, entanglements. Others opt for going with a feeling, a nod to the giver of gifts that those gifts will be used at all costs. There's a whole bunch in between and most of us find ourselves on different parts of that spectrum at various times in our lives.
We would do well to encourage our students to pursue what makes them tick. That sets the right tone for a meaningful life.
But hey, we could go the other way. My fellow coaches and I will be happy to expand our client bases for years to come.
Nancy Colasurdo is a practicing life coach and freelance writer. Her Web site is www.nancola.com and you can follow her on Twitter @nancola. Please direct all questions/comments to email@example.com.