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Project Arts Centre
Coinciding with the exhibition A MacGuffin and Some Other Things, Project Arts Centre continues its new experimental Grotto series, with an installation by David Fagan entitled Sensation. Fagan works with the idea of a 'dirty work' - an object that is aesthetically pleasurable and ready for display, but that is also self-consciously underdeveloped as a finished artwork.
In this way, Fagan poses the question: 'how and where does one display a guilty pleasure?' Engaging with the idea of the cabinet as a less salubrious, low-rent space, Fagan re-imagines it as prime real estate for a peepshow. More
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The Dock
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Dance Theatre of Ireland, Centre for Dance
Dance Theatre of Ireland, based at a purpose-built, professional, state-of-the-Art Centre for Dance in Dun Laoghaire offer classes in a wide variety of dance styles for adults and young people year round including Contemporary Dance, Hip Hop, Zumba® and Zumba® Toning (with weights), Booiaka, Body Weather, African Dance, Michael Jackson Dance, Dance N' Fitness, Yoga, Pilates and more. More
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Western LIight Art Gallery
The Western Light Art Gallery - Keel - Established Since 1989
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We are located on the Sandybanks at Keel. The exhibition has always been inspired by high profile professional artists and their interaction with Achill and it's culture. Established since 1989 the Western Light Art Gallery continues to curate an increasingly unique and visually stunning new exhibition year on year.
What is on Display:
Paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel and mixed media.
Bronze Sculptures.
Photographic lnadscapes of Achill printed to archival standards at the gallery.
Prints, Limited Editions & Etchings. More
28th Apr 2012 (Sat) - 10th Jun 2012 (Sun)
Butler Gallery
Fiona Larkin's work arises from an interest in the lives of others. In discovering ways of understanding and engaging with others, the work finds form in a variety of media from action to video to drawing. The camera is used to engage reflexively and directly with viewers. The work surrenders to the determination of significant chance elements, for example: a stranger marked with an unusual emblem, a collection of 'yellow' images gathered through casual sightings, or to the kindness of strangers. Larkin's interventions become connective tissue between action, material production and the viewer's access to the story. More
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Cafe en Seine
Stella Bass and her quartet brings you the wonderful jazz and swing standards of the Great American Songbook each Sunday from 2-4pm in the elegant surroundings of Dublin's most stylish cafe bar, Café en Seine, where you can enjoy their fabulous brunch menu while listening to the smooth sounds of jazz. Entry is free. More
3rd May 2012 (Thu) - 2nd Jun 2012 (Sat) from 10:00 - 17:00
Hamilton Gallery
The Hamilton Gallery are delighted to invite you to the opening of 'Fovea', an exhibition of watercolours and sculpture by Vivienne Roche, on Thursday 3rd May at 6pm. Patrick Murphy, RHA Director, will open the exhibition. More
3rd May 2012 (Thu) - 28th Jun 2012 (Thu) from 10:30 - 12:30
Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane
Led by artist Mary Noonan these painting classes
will see participants explore the technique of a
different artist from the collection each week.
Looking at colour, mark making, tone and
composition there will be the opportunity to
experiment with different styles and media inspired
by artists such as Jack B. Yeats, Roderic O'Conor,
Francis Bacon, Sean Scully, Norah McGuinness,
Walter Osborne, Elizabeth Magill and Edgar
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Highlanes Gallery
"Patchwork with its magnificent colour, patterns and symmetry has never failed to inspire awe and respect in the eye of the beholder, and the skill which started centuries ago as a hard times' craft has developed into an art of its own. Patchwork bridges the gap between art and craft and not only has a visual effect, it also appeals to the sense of touch. It is soothing, calming, hard work and wonderful all rolled into one." Drogheda Quilters, 2012 More
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Top class live traditional music session every Friday night at 9:30pm in Ernie's Bar, Wicklow Town, featuring the cream of traditional musicians from Wicklow, Dublin & Wexford. Runs all year round and always busy, so come early if you want a good seat! This is an open session and visiting musicians are welcome to join in. For details of guest musicians, go to Facebook/WicklowTrad or follow WicklowTrad on Twitter. More
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Highlanes Gallery
The title of the exhibition 7.42 refers to 7:42am, which was the moment in which it all changed for people in this area of Lapua. The moment frozen in time on the watch face of a survivor of ammunitions factory explosion where 40 women died. The date was April 13 1976. This was a tragedy which left an indelible mark on the area and one which greatly affected the artists. The Lapua Art Museum was built on the site where the factory once was.
The work in the exhibition is largely made in response to this and explores themes of humanity and mortality.
Last December 7:42 opened at Lapua Art Museum, and in March 2012, it was also on view at the Cable Factory, Helsinki and now is on show in Highlanes Gallery from 4 May - 4 September More
8th May 2012 (Tue) - 2nd Jun 2012 (Sat)
Siamsa Tire Theatre and Arts Centre
A Feast of Irish Music, Song and Dance, the National Folk Theatre's Summer Season of performances includes Oileán, which celebrates the Blasket Islands in times past. The way of life of the islanders and their spirit of survival is framed in this production which captures the essence of their traditions and customs, their wealth of song and story, their love of life and their strong kinship with one another. More
9th May 2012 (Wed) - 7th Jun 2012 (Thu) from 11:00 - 17:00
Roscommon Arts Centre
9th May 2012 (Wed) - 9th Jun 2012 (Sat) from 21:00 - 23:00
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Pat Shortt is one of Ireland's best-loved comedians. Pat Shortt's quirky interpretation of rural Irish characters has bought him international acclaim. I Am The Band is a hilarious look at life on the back roads between Ireland's dance halls, and a tribute to one of this country's true music legends—Dixie Walsh. More
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Philip Healy's Bar
Top class live traditional music session every Wednesday night at 9:30pm in Philip Healy's Bar, Wicklow Town, featuring the cream of traditional musicians from Wicklow, Dublin & Wexford. Runs all year round and always busy, so come early if you want a good seat! This is an open session and visiting musicians are welcome to join in. For details of guest musicians, go to Facebook/WicklowTrad or follow WicklowTrad on Twitter. More
10th May 2012 (Thu) - 8th Jun 2012 (Fri) from 11:00 - 18:00
Olivier Cornet Gallery
'Archipelagos' is the third exhibition in the Olivier Cornet Gallery which opened its doors as recently as March 2012 in Temple Bar.
This is Hanneke van Ryswyk's first solo show in Dublin and was opened by Jeremy Hill of the Norman Gallery in Co. Wexford on 9th May. The exhibition is running until 8th June 2012.
Van Ryswyk builds her paintings in numerous layers through washes and glazes of colour. In these imagined Archipelagos, her process of building and eroding layers of paint, mirrors the formation of the earth's crust.
Gallery opening hours: Tue - Sat 11am - 6pm, Late Thursdays til 8pm, Sun 12pm - 5pm, And by appointment, Monday closed
email@example.com | www.oliviercornetgallery.com | 01 677 0280 More
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VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art & The George Bernard Shaw Theatre
Enjoy the flavour of local music, story and song at lunchtime with Carlow Storytellers Group and friends.
Join the audience of the Carlow community, their neighbours and friends and bring the theatre into the community and bring the community into the theatre. You can join the company to perform your party piece this summer - so if you've a story to tell or a song to sing or would like to lunch with a difference - our lunchtime show is the place for you!
Supported by the Arts Office, Carlow Local Authorities. More
11th May 2012 (Fri) - 15th Jun 2012 (Fri) from 11:00 - 16:00
Belfast Exposed
Open Shutters Iraq involves a series of photographic essays and texts by women from Baghdad, Basra, Falluja, Kirkuk and Mosul. It presents a view of everyday life experienced through conflict and behind news headlines.
11h00-16h00 daily. Closed Sundays and Mondays. More
12th May 2012 (Sat) - 7th Jul 2012 (Sat)
Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane
Drawing classes for adults coming to drawing for the first time, and for those with previous drawing experience.
New Persepectives Through Drawing will see participants engage with modern and contemporary art through an experimental approach to drawing in a format which will both emphasise innovation and provide a technical basis for beginners.
Life Drawing is for those with previous drawing experience. These classes explore drawing techniques entirely through life drawing from the clothed figure.
Aspects of Drawing will explore traditional drawing techniques through experimental observation. These explorations will be manifested through life drawing from the clothed figure and through the artworks in the Gallery's collection. More
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Lismore Castle Arts
Lismore Castle Artis is delighted to present a solo show by Hans Josephsohn. Staged in collaboration with Hauser & Wirth and Kesselhaus Josephsohn, the exhibition features works dating from 1950 to 2011, specially selected for Lismore including pieces
in the gallery and the historic Castle Gardens. The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to enjoy key works from an internationally important artist. More
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The Dodgers acquired Jim Thome at the postseason trade deadline last night, having already added the round mound of the infield, Ronnie Belliard, earlier in the day. Of course the Dodgers already had longtime Indians Manny Ramirez and Casey Blake on their roster. Thome and Ramirez played eight seasons together on the Indians, winning five straight division titles from 1995 through 1999. Blake and Belliard had a somewhat less celebrated run as Indians teammates from 2004 through 2006.
The trade represents a white flag for the White Sox, and no doubt it will draw comparisons to the infamous 1997 "white flag trade." The White Sox assumed an enormous risk when they claimed OF Alex Rios on waivers, accepting a fairly massive contractual burden in the process. They had already absorbed a huge cost on blood and treasure in acquiring weak-elbowed NL ace Jake Peavy ten days earlier. Chicago has won only six games in the three weeks since acquiring Rios, however, and they've now lost eight of their last nine games to fall under .500 and into third place, six games behind division leader Detroit, 2.5 behind Minnesota.
Even more remarkable, the White Sox are getting nothing for Thome. He's owed $2.4 million in salary for the rest of the season, and the Dodgers will pay some but not all of that. The White Sox receive back only minor league SS-2B Justin Fuller, who turned 26 a month ago and has yet to reach even the Double-A level. Fuller is not a prospect, not even in the sense that Josh Rodriguez is a prospect. He's Niuman Romero, an organizational soldier. August 2009 will be remembered by White Sox fans for decades to come as a franchise-shaping crash and burn.
The Dodgers say Thome will be used in a bench role and will not displace 1B starter James Loney. The role-change likely will cost him a few home runs in his climb into the Top 10 all-time home run list. With 564, Thome currently is 12th all-time, five behind #11 Rafael Palmeiro and nine behind #10 Harmon Killibrew. He is the Indians' all-time leader with 334 home runs, and he finishes his stint in Chicago with 134. He spent nearly four seasons with the White Sox after being traded by the Phillies following the emergence of Ryan Howard in 2005. Thome hasn't played even one inning at first base in more than two years, and he's played only four games in the field since June 2005.
The Dodgers are prohibitive favorites to make the postseason this year, which will make this only the second time Thome has appeared in the playoffs since his last Indians division winner in 2001. He returned to the postseason last year with the White Sox but managed only one single, one double and one walk in 17 PA.


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text: I've been wanting to tell the MHR community about this for a while now, but just haven't gotten around to it. Gary Kubiak, Ken Whisenhunt, Jim Mora, Sr., and Jim Mora, Jr. visited my outpost (COB Speicher near Tikrit) in Iraq last summer. I escorted them for about an hour. I really can't say enough good things about them. They were great. All four of them were terrific, genuine. people. You could tell that they were truly impressed and humbled by the sacrifice that so many Americans have been making over there for a long time. Of course, I really wanted to talk to Kubiak, but I spent most of my time talking to Jim Mora, Sr. He had been a USMC officer in the 1950s and understood how the military works. Because I was the senior officer, he wanted to talk to me. I ended up talking to him for about an 45 minutes. He has taken really good care of himself and was very interested in everything we had to tell him. All four were great, but I was particularly impressed with Ken Whisenhunt. If Denver is ever looking for a head coach, and he is available, I would be very happy if we hired him. As far as Kubiak goes, you could tell that we were lucky to have such a special backup QB, QB coach, and offensive coordinator for so many years. He gave me a Houston Texans coin, and of course, like many Colorado natives/Bronco fans I cheer for Houston because of Kubiak.


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DOVER, Del. - Police are looking for a suspect after a shooting allegedly occurred in Dover.
According to Dover Police, early Saturday morning, around 2:45 AM, two men got into an argument on New Castle Avenue, East of River Road, one pulled out a handgun, and the two got into a physical altercation, during which the gun was shot.
Police say that the bullet hit the 24-year-old man, and a 39-year-old woman in the hand, who then fled the scene to get treatment at Bayhealth Hospital. The woman had to be transferred to Christiana Hospital, the man refused treatment.
The victims reportedly describe the suspect as a black male around 30 years old, 6' tall, with a medium build, last seen wearing a stocking cap, jeans and a gray hooded sweatshirt, and driving an older model white Chevy Suburban. The suspect is facing assault and weapons charges.
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I'm of the opinion that Dunn's career is on the downslide. Some will point to his age and say his "peak" years still lie ahead. I don't think so. But of all the things missing from Adam Dunn's baseball game (and the list is long)..... perhaps savvy is one of the most important and glaring......
savvy - "practical understanding; shrewdness or intelligence; common sense"
Dunn's game lacks intelligence. His game lacks gamesmanship. His game lacks shrewdness. I can imagine him gunslinging back in his grid iron days. But I doubt he was a Joe Montana.
When you have a hand in poker one strategy is to raise "a little". Send out an "invite" for others to call you... maybe even raise you. With Dunn there is no cat and mouse. Dunn swings at his pitches and tries to hit them over the fence. Period.
Muhammad Ali had the "rope a dope". Good football defenses "bend but don't break". With 2 outs a good pitcher might give 2 free bases on balls just to get to the hitter he wants to strikeout to end the inning and win the game.
Dunn doesn't swing at pitches that aren't strikes very often. Is that good? In one sense .... probably yes. However, in poker there are times you raise a not very good hand and cost yourself chips just so you can be in a better position to win lots of chips on a big hand later in the game.
Dunn has no such savvy. Suppose with a man on second (first base open) and one or two outs Dunn had the game to be aggressive on the first pitch...even the second pitch. Suppose he went down 0-1. Then maybe got in a hole 1-2. A pitcher may have been planning to pitch around the donkey but if he gets up on him 1-2 awfully tough to not take one or two more tries at getting the out. If Dunn had the game and the "smarts" he'd know what was coming and if he had the skill the result could be an opposite field double to drive in the run and put himself on second base.
Alas, you'll see no such savvy from Adam Dunn. Adam is a walkman. Adam is HR/K/BB. You'll always feel like you have the short straw with Adam Dunn.


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SAN FRANCISCO — Ecstatic baseball fans crammed the streets of San Francisco on Wednesday for a confetti-drenched parade and rally honoring the World Series champion Giants — a Halloween treat made even sweeter as a repeat performance from 2010.
Tens of thousands of people decked out in the team's holiday-appropriate orange and black stood 30 deep behind barriers, climbed trees, camped out overnight and mounted rooftops for a chance to see their favorite players wave from convertibles and get serenaded by Tony Bennett singing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco."
Giants Manager Bruce Bochy, who hoisted the World Series trophy from the back of a gold Rolls Royce during most of the 11/2-mile procession, credited fans and his players' "unselfish play" for helping to lift San Francisco to its second World Series victory in three years, an improbable double play for a franchise that had not won the title since 1954.
"In 2010, we characterized the club as misfits that came together and got it done," Bochy told the roaring hordes gathered for the rally in Civic Center Plaza. He said the tagline of the 2012 Giants was "never say die," a reference to the team's come-from-behind, post-season dominance.
"I thank you for always being there, for never giving up," he said. "Thank you for showing up wherever we've been and making this one of the greatest moments of my life."
As with the 2010 parade, this year's two-hour edition drew a cross-section of the region's diversity. Children who were allowed to skip school squeezed cap-to-glove alongside older couples who had been Giants fans since the team arrived in San Francisco from New York in 1958.
Series MVP Pablo Sandoval, who swatted three home runs in his first three at bats in Game 1, and second baseman Marco Scutaro, who batted in the winning run of the game that clinched the title, addressed the throngs at the rally in Spanish.


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Summer in Campbell is chalk full of community events, including the .
This year, organizers have asked visitors to vote on the Downtown Campbell Business Association's website whether laptops and smartphones should be banned from the nighttime event.
The electronics have been making an appearance at the weekly event, distracting movie-goers with their bright LED displays.
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The fight between two-time K-1 MAX champion Buakaw Por. Pramuk and MMA lightweight standout Andre "Dida" Amade has officially been rescheduled for April's K-1 World MAX Final 16 show, after an injury forced the Brazilian to back out out of their February date. "Dida" told Tatame last month that he's split with Universidade da Luta - the Curitiba-based team he founded with the Rua brothers - and opened his own gym, Evolução Thai, in Canada.
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Thanks to DePauw's Environmental Fellows Program and Professor Jen Everett, a group of DePauw students had the opportunity to attend the largest Climate Change rally in U.S. history. Professor Everett, Carlie Vaughn, Maggie Repko, Lauren Krumwiede, and Lauren Van Fleet joined 50,000 like-minded individuals in Washington D.C. on February 18, 2013 to protest the Keystone XL Pipeline. They are standing up against this issue because the pipeline is a huge threat to thousands of Americans. It will traverse the middle of the country, starting in Montana, traveling through states like Nebraska and Oklahoma, and ending in Houston and Port Arthur, Texas. This pipeline will further degrade habitats, wreck ingenious peoples' homes, and increase the risk of detrimental oil spills. On the issue, Lauren Van Fleet says,
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- Cultivating spiritual growth through communal prayer, fellowship, and worship; learning to share one's faith; and devotional study of the Bible and classic Christian works.
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Western Michigan wasn't the only MAC school to have a good hockey weekend, as they opened up their NCHC play with a sweep of Colorado College, 3-2 (OT) and 5-1 in Kalamazoo.
Elsewhere, Bowling Green (who got 2 points in the October 28 USCHO poll!) used stifling defense to get a home sweep of Alaska-Anchorage, 6-1 and 1-0. Camden Wojtala led the way on Friday night, with 2 goals, with Adam Berkle picking up helpers on both of them. On Saturday, Tomas Sholl posted a shutout, but it was a team defensive effort, as they limited the Seawolves to only 16 shots on goal.
The sweep should only help the Falcons climb in the polls, and former Miami assistant Chris Bergeron finally seems to have the program on a nice trajectory after a couple of rough seasons, and some uncertainty on whether or not the program would even survive. Good on Bowling Green for committing to the program, and the players for buying in to Bergeron's system.
Up next, BG travels to Mankato to take on Minnesota State in a pair of games next weekend.
Over in Hockey East, UMass skated to a 1-1 draw with Maine on Friday night before beating them 2-1 on Saturday. Conor Sheary picked up a goal and an assist for the Minutemen on the weekend, and goalie Steve Mastalerz made 64 saves between the two games. UMass travels to UNH on Friday night before hosting the Wildcats on Saturday.
Miami came in to the weekend series against Canisius ranked #6, after coming back from #3 Providence with a loss and a tie last weekend. The Golden Griffins never really got close to the RedHawks, who came away with 3-0 and 5-2 victories. Alex Wideman scored twice on Friday while Ryan McKay made 20 saves for the shutout. Austin Czarnik led the RedHawks on Saturday with two goals and an assist, which took him to the top of the national leaderboard with 5 goals and 9 assists.
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Alex is a Hoarder
Today I have the great honor of introducing you to my beautiful wife, Rachel! She's written a post to let you in on my creative process (yeah, that's good spin). I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
My name is Rachel Humphrey. This post, however, is not about me – it's about Alex.
My husband, Alex, has many roles. He is a great husband and compassionate friend. But there is something about him you would not expect.
Ever seen the show on television about hoarders?
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I first noticed Alex's tendencies when I saw his house for the first time. His room – immaculately spotless; His desk – covered with every kind of sticky note, ruled note card, or scrap of paper imaginable. Every note covered with discreet bits of information jotted in his handwriting. Books or websites he wanted to read, videos to watch, quotes that brought a new perspective into his life. The seriousness of the situation never really hit me until observing his open browser page. Who knew fifteen tabs could be open at once? I mean, seriously, fifteen? (editor's note: it's usually way more than 15). And then there are the links. I find links saved, jotted down, or zipping about in emails on a non-stop basis!
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One of Vermont's Catholic schools is marking a big milestone. Mater Christi School in Burlington is starting its 50th year. Kristin Carlson spoke with Paul Jette, the Principal at Mater Christi School and Mark Pendergrass, a middle school science teacher about the school's past, present and future.
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Don't Panic
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"Don't Panic" is the opening track to Parachutes and is a guitar-based song. It was originally called "Panic" [1] and was one of six songs played at Coldplay's first concert in 1998. Eventually, the title became "Don't Panic", taken from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Radiohead used the same source to name the song "Paranoid Android".
The song is often mistakenly referred to as "Beautiful World" due to the lyrical content.
The original version of the "Don't Panic" was recorded in July 1999. There are several differences between this and the final album version. First, Chris Martin plays the piano during the bridge. As well, there is a feedback-distorted introduction and some modified lyrics. This version was released on The Blue Room EP.
On the A Rush of Blood to the Head Tour, "Don't Panic" contained an entirely different introduction. In addition, Martin played the electric guitar and Jon Buckland performed a harmonica solo during the bridge. He regularly threw the harmonica into the crowd after the solo.
In 2004, the song was featured on the popular Garden State soundtrack, and received persistent exposure in Australia for over a year when it was used by Australia's Network Ten in a series of promotional ads that ran before and after most shows, featuring its programming and personalities. The song was also featured on the debut episode of the FX TV series Rescue Me.
"Don't Panic" is the fourth single from Coldplay's debut album, Parachutes. Regional singles included Europe, France, the Netherlands (single and live EP), Denmark (live EP), and Australia. The UK only received a promo edition. The album version of "Don't Panic" is featured on all versions of the single.
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- "Don't Panic (Album Version)" – 2:17
- "You Only Live Twice (Live)" – 4:06
- "Bigger Stronger (Live)" – 4:55
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The music video starts off with an animated diagram of the water cycle, then portrays the band as 2-dimensional paper cutouts doing household chores, when suddenly disaster strikes the earth in the forms of floods, volcanoes and electric shocks.
It also features the yellow globe on the cover of Parachutes. The video was directed by Tim Hope, who also directed "Trouble."
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October 30, 2012 - submitted by Fatin, Malaysia
Q. Dear Oracle,
I've been wondering why does the song Don't Panic/Beautiful World has two title?
Salam from Malaysia.
The Oracle replies:
It doesn't; the song is called Don't Panic.
It is often referred to as Beautiful World because of the lyrics but that's a mistake as it's not and never has been its title.
It was previously called Panic but that is the only other name it has ever had.
October 18, 2012 - submitted by Tzukeet, New Zealand
Q. Hi Oracle,
I'm currently listening to Don't Panic, and wanted to ask if the high voice singing with Chris during the first chorus is one of Chris's children? Is this right?
Thank you! :)
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Given that the song was written 6 years before Chris' first child arrived - no, it's not. It's actually Chris singing falsetto with Jonny singing the lower vocal.
February 14, 2012 - submitted by Lisa, Canada
Q. In all the audio recordings of Shiver, is it possible that there's one where Chris isn't the one singing the second verse of the song? I swear I'm listening to one right now that doesn't sound like Chris at all, but only for that second verse. Am I losing it?
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As you wrote again to say that you mean Don't Panic, not Shiver, it now makes sense.
Chris does sing the second verse but the higher notes you hear in the background; it's Jonny singing the main part.
February 17, 2011 - submitted by Tomas, Argentina
Q. Hello Oracle, how are you?
I hope you can answer my question. I was wondering, why is the song Don't Panic call like this?
The Oracle replies:
That's a tricky one Tomas because just to confuse you all, the song was originally called Panic. I'd guess the line "all of us are done for" is saying there's no hope but on reflection the closing lyrics of having nothing to run from and someone to lean on are more hopeful; lifting the song into a more positive mood hence Don't Panic.
June 9, 2009 - submitted by Danielle, Mozambique
Q. Is the song Don't Panic by Coldplay trying to say about global warming and what we are doing to our beautiful world?
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It's actually more about being optimistic and seeing that every cloud has a silver lining, which means that even though there may be a negative situation, something positive can come from it.
Bones, sinking like stones all that we fall for Homes, places we've grown all of us are done for We live in a beautiful world Yeah we do Yeah we do We live in a beautiful world Bones, sinking like stones All that we fought for Homes, places we've grown All of us are done for And we live in a beautiful world Yeah we do, yeah we do We live in a beautiful world Bones, sinking like stones All that we fought for And homes, places we've grown All of us are done for And we live in a beautiful world Yeah we do, yeah we do We live in a beautiful world And we live in a beautiful world Yeah we do, yeah we do We live in a beautiful world Oh, all that I know There's nothing here to run from Cos yeah, everybody here's got somebody to lean on.


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Combat training and combat situations can produce the type of healthy stress, strength, and resilience that keeps our airmen operating with a calm head in the chaos of battle to save lives and effectively perform the mission. This type of positive stress is something Air Commandos and others in special operations embrace daily to succeed. However, combat exposure and combat stress are often inappropriately given a negative connotation.
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HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. - Have you ever gone through a challenging or painful situation and later felt stronger from the experience? In other words, the stress of the situation pushed you to react, adapt, and thrive. You overcame fears or other emotions so, when put in similar situations, you could handle them more effectively, with greater self-confidence and/or with more courage?
Why do many people seek stress and challenges through extreme sports or risky careers? This article seeks to explain what an Air Commando affectionately calls Combat Stress.
Stress is neither positive nor negative, and depending upon the nature of the stress, it can be comfortable or uncomfortable!
The Chief of Operational Psychology for Air Force Special Operations Command has remarked that "through the ages, adversity - when met with accountability, positive attitude, and faith - has consistently bred strength and human growth." All stress is a developmental opportunity that can make us stronger, if handled with faith, a proper mindset, and a positive attitude.
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In a past ceremony for an Air Commando who received the Air Force Cross for his heroic actions in Afghanistan, it was noted that throughout the six-and-a-half hour battle on the ground, this air combat controller consistently called in fire with precision and accuracy, even when injured and fired upon. In an interview, the controller credited his calm in battle to his two years training in combat skills.
Combat Stress is defined as "a high risk personal challenge - a test - that strong people voluntarily enter to express and test their values ... and develop their strengths. Those who enter and emerge on the other side with the proper attitudes are stronger for the experience and will be forever changed for the better, seldom being defeated by lesser life challenges in the future.
The battle of Shok Valley that he endured qualifies as a high-risk personal challenge, clearly putting lesser challenges into context. It is important to realize that resilience and strength are key qualities that can be achieved and honed through experiencing high-stress of any kind, including the stress of combat.
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It starts with a person's inherent desire to challenge themselves. It takes a Warrior Ethos and an attitude of invulnerability balanced by a positive mindset with serious training and ongoing skill development.
Other elements of resilience and strength are seeing high value and honor in one's personal service and sacrifice...an emotional attachment to values of loyalty and courage, and a desire to be tested...recognizing danger and adversity as facts of life and striving for mastery...to name a few.
A clear majority of Marines in Operation ENDURING FREEDOM surveyed by a 2011 joint advisory team believed that deployment made them more confident in their abilities and resulted in increased pride in their accomplishments. The Army used the term "battle-mind" to describe a "warrior's inner strength to face fear and adversity in combat with courage" - an element of resilience. The term battle-mind is a positive vision, correctly suggesting the existing psychological strength of our troops.
How do Air Commandos develop the "battle-mind" and prevent negative reactions to stress from taking over? The stress Air Commandos are exposed to initially, and throughout their training, works like an effective inoculation helping them overcome combat stress in war with benefits that last the rest of their lives...on and off duty.
Realistic combat training in high pressure combat situations coupled with a Warrior Mindset and positive attitude reveal their value in AFSOC warfighters down range. Stressful training, as well as the stress of deployment and combat, is helping to forge faith, courage, confidence, perseverance - and many other success characteristics in our Airmen.
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Around 7 p.m. Tuesday, Houston police department received information that 4-month old Stephanie Lavette Phillips and 32-year old Byron Gee, the accused abductor, were be at the Mariner Inn, located at 1602 Seawall Blvd.
The two were the subject of an amber alert issued early Tuesday morning.
According to Galveston police department spokesperson Lt. Michael Gray, Galveston police officers were contacted and, along with the U.S. Marshall's, made entry into the motel room.
According to Gray, officers located the 4-month old child alone inside the motel room. The child appeared to be unharmed.
Lt. Gray says Gee fled to a nearby neighborhood. Officers dispatched K-9 officers to the area and a perimeter was set up.
Gray says that an officer who walking the perimeter of the search area located a suspect who matched the description of Gee and that person was taken into custody.
The child was transported to an area hospital to be checked out.
Gee is currently in the custody of Galveston Police. He has been charged with robbery with bodily injury and kidnapping in 177th district court.
Gee has a criminal record that dates back to 2000 with charges ranging from assault to theft.
He will be transported back to Houston sometime tonight.
It was around 4:30 Tuesday morning when HPD investigators say Gee disappeared with 4 month old Stephanie Phillips.
The baby, who's not Gee's biological child, was allegedly taken from this West Bellfort apartment.
The child was with her mother Carolyn Phillips who is Gee's girlfriend.
Mike Cervantes lives in the complex.
Cervantes says, "he got into an argument with his gal and I guess he snatched up the baby and took the baby... "
John Bahta was in apartment near the home of the missing child. He says he heard screams at 4 in the morning... all he did was rolled back over in his bed. He says he expects screams in the complex that's why he wants his father to move out.
Bahta says, "I don't even know because I went back to sleep after that it could've went on all night I just woke up I woke up now."
An amber alert has been issued for the child and police still say Gee eludes them.
He was last seen running from the complex just off West Bellfort wearing all black with no shoes...
Cervantes says, "he got some woman across the street for her car I guess he carjacked some woman."
Cervantes went on to say, "I just hope he doesn't hurt that bad he's already in a world of trouble...he needs to do what's right and turn that baby in at a fire station or somewhere."
Gee was last seen in that white Ford Expedition with Texas License plate DK3N645.


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one (10-inch) diameter tube coffeecake
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Remove biscuits from containers. Cut each biscuit into 4 equal-size pieces (96 to120 total pieces); loosely cover with plastic wrap while preparing other ingredients and set aside.
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Bake in a preheated moderate oven (350 degrees F.) for 35 to 40 minutes or until done and golden brown. Immediately turn E-Z Sticky Buns (bottom-side up) onto a round serving plate. Serve hot or at room temperature. To serve, just pull apart pieces of buns with glaze.


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by John Verstraeten
Michael Naughton
Simona Beretta
Since Rerum novarum the problem of work has been a major concern of the Catholic Church. Considering work as "the very centre of the social question" (LE, 2), the magisterium has dealt with the problem in a number of different ways. Through the articulation of principles and virtues, it has developed a moral horizon which has moved the Church to advocate for a just wage, as well as for specific rights related to work, such as the natural right to association (and the creation of solidarity movements), the right to leisure, the right to safe and just working conditions and the right to participation at different levels of economic life. It has continuously defended the rights of specific and often vulnerable groups in the economic system (poor, disabled, migrants, people who have no access to the levels of knowledge required for employment). With the use of the distinction between the direct and indirect employer, it has sought to clarify the moral duties of policymakers and institutions. It has strongly affirmed the priority of labour over capital, and it has connected the right to private property and the creation of wealth to the duty of contributing to the creation of useful goods and the distribution of wealth.
This rich moral framework has been deepened philosophically, anthropologically and theologically by Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Laborem exercens (1981). The key to his argument is the subjective dimension of work. John Paul has seen all too often that our objective triumphs and achievements—those discoveries, techniques, and outcomes which have increased the efficiency, productivity and profitability of work—can too easily become forces that corrupt the human soul. Rather than being conquerors, we have been conquered – by our own objective achievements. Rather than developing us, work has corrupted us, precisely because we have become inattentive to work's subjective effect on our souls. He points out that the work of teachers, executives, technicians, carpenters, and farmers is not only an activity that terminates in objects. Workers change not only the world, but also themselves. When people work, they not only make a choice about what they work on—that is, the objective dimension of work—but they also simultaneously make a choice about themselves. Work, then, is an essential expression of the person, an 'actus personae'. The basis for determining the value of human work "is not primarily the kind of work being done, but the fact that the one who is doing it is a person. The sources of the dignity of work are to be sought primarily in the subjective dimension, not in the objective one."
The conference takes as its starting-point the priority of the subjective dimension of work, not simply to repeat and synthesize the existing teaching, but to deepen and develop our understanding of what it means, and to explore and clarify the interpretations of the subjective dimension in the context of the massive transformations in the world of work since 1981. Getting to specifics, the conference has a number of particular aims:
1. Exploring the theoretical implications of the 'subjective dimension'. What does it mean in light of contemporary theology and philosophy, especially the theology of creation?
2. Analysing the great transformations in the world of work since Laborem exercens and discerning the ways in which they have a positive or negative influence on the very condition of human work.
3. Exploring solutions for the problems described.
4. Defining the role and duties of collective actors, such as the indirect employer in respect of the humanization of work.
The papers are structured along these lines, though it is clearly not possible to keep the themes entirely separate. In practice there will be a mingling of themes and cross-links in many papers.
A first series of papers will explore the philosophical, theological and anthropological meaning of work. Special attention will be paid to the notion of co-creation and co-redemption and its implications, as well as to the question of how the different aspects of work are related to each other. Categories for work, such as job, career and calling, are used, as well as the three interrelated dimensions of 'labour', 'work' and 'action'. Labour is the activity which corresponds to the biological process of the human body. It is the domain of the animal laborans whose life is dominated by the metabolism with the natural world and who lives in seasonal cycles, as well as in the cycle of production and consumption. Work, in the narrow sense of the word, can be considered as the production of a more stable 'artificial' world of things; this is the domain of the homo faber. And human action, as personal action and direct interaction between humans, includes among other things the creation of culture, political action, promise, forgiveness and, not least of all, providing work with meaning. It is via action that other dimensions of work allow the subjects of work to see the meaning of their work. Meaning comes from action that allows the self to be disclosed to others. Meaningful work discloses the self in a manner analogous to the way a meaningful metaphor discloses the self: both present the subject with a 'something more' than what he or she previously was, or was only potentially. That is precisely what Laborem exercens has in its own way stated: "Through work man not only transforms nature, adapting it to its own needs, but he also achieves fulfilment as a human being and indeed, in a sense, becomes 'more a human being'."
In this perspective, one of the basic questions is: How can the whole of work become human action? How can we avoid work from becoming reduced to either the sphere of working for subsistence and working for consumer goods, or to the sphere of the homo faber in which the subject substitutes making for acting, and in which the 'product' of work (the utility of what one does, the external criterion, the objective dimension) becomes more important than human action and self-disclosure itself?
Given the increased sense of 'meaninglessness' in the world of work, it becomes even more urgent to create a space for the full understanding of the human person. Functional differentiation, instrumental rationality, extreme forms of flexibility, and a change in the perception of the self have affected our capability to give meaning to work. Homo economicus has gradually imprisoned the world of work in a positivistic and objective language and in frameworks of interpretation which narrow the perspectives from which we can interpret our world meaningfully and humanize it.
Work becomes appropriated like the way Mr. Gradgrind, in Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times, represents the "man of realities", the calculating citizen who believes "that in this life, we want nothing but facts (…) nothing but facts" (Nussbaum, 1995, p. 19). The world of these "Gradgrinds" is totally disenchanted and objectified so that it becomes perfectly 'manageable'.
This attitude has negative consequences. It leads to a reduction and objectivization of human reality where we begin to see human beings as counters in a mathematical game, and refusing to see their mysterious inner world. "The Gradgrind philosophy is able to adopt a theory of human motivation that is elegant and simple, well-suited for the game of calculation, but whose relation to the more complicated laws that govern their inner world of a human being should be viewed with scepticism" (Nussbaum, 1995, 24).
One of the main reasons why men and women in our world cannot experience business and work as meaningful, is that the process of functional differentiation has lead in some cases to a radical disconnection between the differentiated spheres of life and between them and ultimate ends. One can call this a 'disconnection syndrome' resulting in the incapacity to put the pieces together.
Before modernity the individual found him or herself embedded in a dense cultural framework which gave sense and meaning to his or her life. As a consequence of the process of rationalization, the different spheres of life have become autonomous, and the different fields of science become more and more specialized and hyper-specialized, while all these spheres and areas of specialization have developed their own rationality apart from and even without the original framework of meaning and value (cf. Max Weber). As Christopher Dawson aptly explained: "Instead of the whole intellectual and social order being subordinated to spiritual principles, every activity has declared its independence, and we see politics, economics, science and art organising themselves as autonomous kingdoms which owe no allegiance to any higher power." The foundations of these autonomous kingdoms are laid in universities where academic disciplines are incarnate as schools and departments that suggest rows of storage silos rather than threads in a web of interconnected knowledge.
There is still an ethic in these spheres, but it goes no further than a limited form of professional [role] duties and instrumental values which, as such, do not take into account values and perspectives of meaning which transcend the limits of the rationality of the sphere, while fundamental ethical and religious values are banished to the separate sphere of private life and religion. In the context of the corporate world, "the executive is required to treat certain goals as given, and, within certain broad constraints, he or she is set to consider how he or she may most economically and efficiently use present resources to reach these goals (…) and the framework of such executive reasoning is socially defined so that certain limits are placed upon what questions may and may not be raised about it" (MacIntyre, 1979, 126). This is similar to what Kenneth Goodpaster describes as teleopathy, the unbalanced pursuit of instrumental ends which are disconnected from their moral justification in the context of society.
The disconnection process, which is reinforced by the demands for more flexibility (cf. Sennett) produces also an inner fragmentation of the human person as moral actor. MacIntyre refers (not without nuancing it afterwards) to the metaphor of social life as a theatre "with a set of adjoining stages upon which a number of very different moral philosophical dramas are being acted out, the actors being required to switch from stage to stage, from character to character, often with astonishing rapidity" (MacIntyre, 1979, 127-128). Such a situation can lead to a world in which it becomes very difficult to maintain beyond the separate roles a configured self. To configure oneself as acting person is the basic condition for the humanization of work. Finding new ways to integrate the different roles and aspects of life into a meaningful whole is one of the challenges of today, to which the Church can contribute in more than one way.
Another important aspect which in our time has become an urgent problem, is the neglect of the positive role of leisure (in the deep sense of the word). The ability to be at leisure is nevertheless one of the basic powers of the human soul. "Like the gift of contemplative self-immersion in Being, and the ability to uplift one's spirit[s] in festivity [also sacramental and liturgical festivity], the power to be at leisure is one of the basic powers to step beyond the working world and win contact with those superhuman, life-giving forces that can send us, renewed and alive again, into the busy world of work" (Pieper, 36). Without leisure and the contemplative element, humans succumb to the spiritual sin of acedia, the inertia that "refuses to begin new things". Without a healthy balance we cannot become what we are, and is that refusal not the greatest sin, the acedia of our time?
After having explored the more theoretical and anthropological aspects of work, the conference then turns its attention to an analysis of the great transformations, pressing issues and problems.
One of the issues discussed is burn-out and workaholism. The conference wants to answer the question: How do these new pathologies affect human dignity? How do we distinguish theologically between working hard and accepting the normal burdens of work (cf. Laborem exercens, chapter 5) and an addiction to work which estranges us from our essential selves?
A series of papers will focus on the great changes in the global market, the increased pressure from the international financial markets and the use of new information and communication technologies influencing the world of work. In this context questions arise such as:
(a) What effects does the objectivizing of language and practices (re-engineering, down-sizing, right-sizing etc…) have on people, management practices and job-design? In this context an analysis of the effects of downsizing on individuals (more workload, fear, cynicism, loss of dignity and solidarity) becomes necessary. How does extreme flexibility cause a corrosion of character, in the sense of reinforcing the process of the post modern disintegration of the human person? How does all of this affect family life? And how does the commodification of time affect professional life?
(b) How do the great transformations affect the poor? Several papers will explain in what terms the recent economic developments have created new forms of poverty and even of exploitation. One of the most pressing discussions in this regard is: How is unemployment related to social exclusion? A crucial question for the poor is the just wage. Some participants argue against the idea of a minimal or living wage—especially insofar as it leads to more unemployment or to more difficult access for inexperienced young workers to the labour market—while others demonstrate that there are in recent decades significant increases in the dispersion of earnings, an inequality that has affected mainly, in terms of exclusion and poverty, those individuals located at the bottom of the earnings sector, and that institutional variety in the labour market is able to explain a great deal of the pattern in low wage countries. In this context union density, collective bargaining coverage and structured wage negotiations continue to be a conditio sine qua non for more justice. Also, legal frameworks such as constitutional norms in the US appear to have an influence on wages and work conditions.
(c) What is the most characteristic feature of the commodification of work? For the Catholic Church it is of the utmost importance to evaluate not only the consequences of the recent transformations in terms of justice and solidarity, but also in terms of how all of this affects the spiritual well-being of persons. The dominance of instrumental rationality is not only a matter of manipulation of the body, as it has been the case in the Tayloristic economy (symbolically expressed by Charles Chaplin in Modern Times). The subjection of the person to instrumental economic ends is more subtle. It is replaced by "the management of the hearts". Nicole Aubert has demonstrated that business organizations have sometimes become surrogate suppliers of meaning by totalising the life of their constituents: becoming an object of an almost religious devotion; consuming all the energies of their leaders, managers and employees; absorbing their desires; and dominating their imagination. In these cases business organizations make use of the subjective needs of their constituents, who, confronted with an existential emptiness, almost completely surrender to their companies because they expect from them the possibility of self-realization, self-transcendence and immortality. Because of the lack of authentic mediators of transcendence, companies, with pretensions to be 'built to last' (cf. Collins and Porras, 1994), behave sometimes like a secularised church (with a creed, code and cult) which provides them with the illusion of eternity and meaning:
"In former times, the Church was the predominant organizational representation of our collective western belief in immortality, and this was expressed, to some extent, in the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the living and the dead as in various forms of worship. Nowadays our companies have, to a degree, taken over the spiritual and cultural function of confirming belief in immortality" (Siefers, 1996, p. 133).
With their 'thirst for the absolute', many people become totally dependent on their companies insofar as they expect them to respond to their narcissistic dreams and phantasms. Nicole Aubert calls this totalising influence of business organizations an "absorbing of being at the service of producing", which leads to an existential perversion: instead of realizing oneself or going beyond oneself by way of a life project which is meaningful, work, once a source of life, risks to become a source of existential death (Aubert, 1996, p. 115).
The conference does not stop at analysing problems or at criticizing developments which become an obstacle for the humanisation process. Its most challenging task is to find alternatives, realistic ways to induce a process of change and humanisation. While some papers focus on collective actors and institutional changes, others open perspectives on a smaller scale, such as:
New ways of conceiving leadership in business
Proposals for a personalisation of the organisation
The creation of meaningful work for the poor, via initiatives such as micro-credit, grass roots formation and organisation of people (cf. the example of fishing village women), community development, watershed management in rural areas, and part-time job opportunities programs.
The creation of new forms of participatory business organisations (cf. Mondragón).
Not least: revaluing leisure and spirituality. Several contributions focus on this crucial issue. Some point to spirituality as transformation of the individual toward more inner peace, integrity and meaning. Others consider spirituality as a source of inspiration for 'good' management that gives workers a sense of participation and which evokes in them a spirit of creativity and dedication. At least one paper pleads for an integral spirituality which integrates the previous levels, but also creates, at a more structural level, frameworks for change in the business world and thus around generative issues. Awareness of the spiritual dimension of work leads also to a new understanding of sacrifice and to reconnecting work and sacrament. Spirituality in work can finally be connected with what Charles Handy describes as the need for 'cathedral builders', people with a sense of purpose which goes beyond the limits of a role, a job, a career or even a life.
Vanquishing the fragmentation requires a holistic experience of reality, a consciousness that our life is part of a greater whole. But this consciousness requires a rediscovering of the world, through a mystical return to the world as divine milieu. For those who can see, nothing here on earth is profane (Teilhard de Chardin), for they can mystically understand the world as a dynamic process on its way to its fulfilment and plenification. The experience of the world as milieu divin transforms the secular into a locus of divine presence, and in this perspective everything, every aspect of life, even work and business, becomes sacred for those who distinguish, in each creature and each human activity, an aspect of being attracted to the fulfilment of the world (Teilhard, 1957, 47). This has nothing to do with returning to a 'modern' progress ideology or to a simplistic form of optimism. As Lyotard has pointed out, this type of great story has come to an end. But there remains a fundamental sadness (chagrin): if we have no stories at all, we live in fact according to the hidden story which dominates everything: economism (cf. Pope John Paul II in Centesimus annus). But in that case we remain in the closed horizon of interpretation already described. There is, however, another world of experience. Purpose means something else than merely modern progress: participation in the development of the world is re-personalized and more related to 'being' than to material outcomes. It is realizing gradually the fullness of the anthropogenesis. One of the main aspects of this is the opening of the sources of an élan vitale in the depth of human beings and a communion with the world and the sources of life and love. The belief in the meaningfulness of life as described above, leads to a joy of life which finds its expression in a joy of acting. It is participating in the energy of the personalization of reality, and what else is this, ultimately, than the rediscovery of the forces of love and the transformation of the destructive forces of history? This, moreover, allows us to say that that there is no longer a strict separation between professional life or management decisions and trust in the meaning of life. Management and work become an integral part of the humanization of the world in evolution and acquire a meaning beyond the limits of a differentiated field.
This also changes and intensifies moral responsibility beyond the limits of role obligation. One starts acting and living in the consciousness that the human quality of professional activity has a real influence on the quality of the global evolution of the world.
This sense of responsibility is at the heart of the conference.
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