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Girls swimming: Highland's Jackie Smailis following in big footsteps
By Josh Lichtenfeld Post-Tribune correspondent January 7, 2013 11:10PM
Highland's Jackie M. Smailis poses for a portrait before the of the Highalnd girls swimming invite held at Highland High School on Saturday January 5, 2013. | Charles Mitchell~For Sun-Times Media
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For the past couple seasons the Highland girls swimmers have been in waiting mode.
The Trojans have been waiting for their shot to break out of the middle of the pack in the Northwest Crossroads Conference.
Waiting for another swimmer to have the opportunity to make it out of the ultra-competitive Lake County-based sectional.
Waiting for the pieces to come together in their program.
So, with the way the 2012-13 season has been shaping up, it comes as a pleasant turnaround for Highland swim coach Ryan Harrington.
After last season's less than savory three-win campaign, the girls have already collected seven dual meet victories heading into this Saturday's NCC conference meet. And with the increase in productivity has come higher ground in the conference, where they sit in second place behind state-contender Munster.
"Lowell and KV both have got their programs ... we've been sweating KV and Lowell for a long time," Harrington said. "It's nice to finally, at least for the year, be one up on them. At least for right now, conference is coming and anything can happen at the conference meet."
Like many programs working to get better, the Trojans are doing so off the efforts of athletes that aren't afraid to be aggressive. Though she's in her first complete year of high school swimming, and still an underclassman, sophomore Jackie Smailis is one of the biggest contributors in the push.
"Really she's just a good kid and that shows that she's positive and she's a hard worker academically and in the pool and she's been a big part of our success and our turnaround," Harrington said of the swimmer that's drawing attention for her times in the 100 back.
Smailis, who also swims either of the sprints and is part of both freestyle relays, brings a youthful burst of energy mixed with the passion of coming from a strong family of Highland athletes. Each of her older siblings, especially sister Donna (who parlayed a big career at Highland to swim for Indiana University) made their presence known in multiple sports at the school.
Of course, there are the expected pressures that come from following in relatives' footsteps.
"It is pressure, it's a lot of pressure — it's good pressure and bad pressure," Smailis said. "It's good pressure because they try to be coaches to me and help me out."
But given the younger Smailis's feats (her season best and second place time of 59.81 at last weekend's Highland Invite keeps her on pace to chase the school record of 57.5), amid some adversity, she's clearly holding her own. While many swimmers stay in age group swimming through high school, Jackie backed away when she was 11 to focus on other sports. And soon after getting serious again about swimming in eighth grade, she suffered her third tear to the ACL in her left knee and missed part of the 2011-12 season.
Now, especially with the big finish at the highly touted invite, Smailis could also have a shot at taking home a sectional title in the backstroke (she lost by less than a second at Highland).
That could be the first Trojans' swimmer to go down to Indianapolis in several years.
"I would probably feel like I would be on top of the world," she said with a look of hope on her face.


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UPDATE 1: Groundkeeper stopped at the on-deck circle after the game and picked up a half-dozen things, which looked like they could have been crumpled-up dollar bills but I'm way up here so who knows. Some fans were hollering for whatever it is, but the crew member took whatever it was with him.
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Tony Hsieh is a really nice guy. This is what makes him a very unusual CEO, which is what makes his company so interesting. It also makes him a writer who doesn't use much corporate lingo, and a terrifically casual reader of his own book on the growth and development of Zappos, his unique company. One part memoir, one part philosophy, one part corporate handbook, and all silly optimism, Delivering Happiness will appeal to a surprisingly wide audience.
Hsieh begins with his business history, which adequately conveys his wackiness. First, there was the worm farm in elementary school. All the worms escaped, and he lost money. Then there was the mail order button business in middle school, so successful that he passed it along to his younger brothers in succession. In high school, he learned a bunch about programming, thereby combining his instincts with an appropriate knowledge base. He laughs out loud at his own computer club lunchtime antics, and so will you. Then there was the pizza business in his dorm at Harvard, where Hsieh found innovative ways not to attend any classes, and a high-paying corporate gig after graduation where he once again did as little as possible.
This is a man who likes to take business risks, and as he explains how he made decisions that caused him to grow from slacker into a Red Bull-pounding, 24-hour working machine, you'll be amazed that it sounds like he's smiling the entire time. From his first major start-up, which was subsequently sold to Microsoft, to his repeated close calls where Zappos almost went under before it was eventually bought out by Amazon, this true story of one man's corporate odyssey will leave you believing that anything really is possible. It will also at least make you want to shop at Zappos, if it doesn't make you want to move to as Vegas to work there.
Shot through with brief guest-narrations using the actual participants relevant to Hsieh's fast-paced world of entrepreneurship, there are a wealth of memos, emails, and testimonials that all serve as evidence to his weird intellect. And if you played a drinking game where you drank a shot every time Hsieh mentions having a drink, you'd be drunk before the book is half finished. From the tone of his voice to the story he tells, this is clearly a guy who needs his work to be fun and challenging. Just as Zappos has done, Hsieh's book casually fires the opening volley in a new era of corporate culture and management.
This eye-opening treatise on how to be happy at work has the added bonus of an hour-long conversation between Tony Hsieh and Warren Bennis, who has been universally considered one of the most significant leadership gurus for the past 40 years. Much of what Hsieh says is a more concise version of what he says in the book, though insights from the aging but still hilariously astute Bennis do offer something extra exciting. They discuss happiness in a way that is useful to all people, not just corporations. Megan Volpert
In this, his first audiobook, Tony Hsieh - the widely admired CEO of Zappos, the online shoe retailer - explains how he created a unique culture and commitment to service that aims to improve the lives of employees, customers, vendors, and backers. Using anecdotes and stories from his own life experiences, and from other companies, Hsieh provides concrete ways that companies can achieve unprecedented success. Even better, he shows how creating happiness and record results go hand-in-hand.
He starts with the "Why" in a section where he narrates his quest to understand the science of happiness. Then he runs through the ten Zappos "Core Values" - such as "Deliver WOW through Service", "Create Fun and A Little Weirdness", and "Build a Positive Team and Family Spirit" - and explains how you and your colleagues should come up with your own.
Hsieh then details many of the unique practices at Zappos that have made it the success it is today, such as their philosphy of allocating marketing money into the customer experience, thereby allowing repeat customers and word-of-mouth be their true form of marketing. He also explains why Zappos's number-one priority is company culture and his belief that once you get the culture right, everything else - great customer service, long-term branding - will happen on its own.
Finally, Delivering Happiness explains how Zappos employees actually apply the Core Values to improving their lives outside of work - and to making a difference in their communities and the world.
©2010 Tony Hsieh (P)2010 Hachette
"Do one thing exceptionally"
The first quarter of the book about Tony Hsieh's childhood and the lessons he learned feels a bit forced (my button business taught me the lesson of ______). But, my doubts were quickly dispelled with the story of Zappos. I loved how Tony focused on one thing, the best customer service, and did it really well. To have the best customer service, they focused on company culture through a system of hiring (it's easier to hire people who fit the culture than try to change people) and through employee advancement opportunities through their "pipeline," giving employees perceived control of their careers. I can't think of any other large company that has been able to sustain a culture (Starbucks had a unique culture, but in recent years they've become too big to sustain it). Tony says that the Zappos company culture is their one sustainable competitive advantage. Will company culture work for your company? It's hard to say, but there probably is one thing that your company could do better than any other company...and it is probably worthwhile to develop that.
The argument was made about Tony "getting lucky." I have to agree, but I'd add that any business success is 80% luck and 20% planning, tenacity, insight, and work ethic. The 20% is critical to making success, but it's not sufficient. Even the most brilliant people will fail more often than they succeed, but you don't often see the entire journey of failures before success. You could use the "luck" argument for any success (Thomas Edison just got lucky, after all, he was wrong 999 times before he was right).
I thought that Tony did an excellent job of narrating his book. This isn't the case with many authors turned narrators (i.e. Beer School), but with several authors like Malcom Gladwell and Bill Bryson, hearing the book in the author's voice puts you into the story better than with a professional narrator. I'd put Tony's narration squarely in this category.
"Great Read!"
This book is interesting and very informative for a business owner. I love Tony's style of writing - it's very natural and you feel like you know him. I would recommend this book to other business owners and my employees.
"Inspiring and down to earth book"
This is an amazing story, and one that inspires you to move forward with your passion. Success, as everybody knows it when it already hits the media, portrays the glory but not the story. Entrepreneurship is like surfing, you have to ride out the waves, you never know when you hit a great one.
"Amazing Growth and Corporate Culture Story"
I really enjoyed hearing about Tony's growth as an individual and listening to the trials and tribulations when building Zappos. Opposed to the standard book rambling off stats or uncommon words to give the perception of intelligence; Tony along with some other Zappos employees informally talk to you just like you were at Starbucks telling a story. Opposed to be lectured to like the professor in the last chapter of the book, it feels like you're experiencing birth and rise of Zappos alongside Tony and his staff. If you a business owner looking for an excellent inspirational book that provides a blueprint on how you can start thinking about changing your company's culture then this is the book!
The only thing I couldn't handle was the listening to an interview with Warren Bennis and Tony at the end. This guy is the typical professor who is obsessed with himself, self promotes another one of his ignoramus books, and talks down to Tony, all while trying to appear that his vast intellect is fair superior than Tony's while having no clue who Tony even is. I seriously would have rather listened to an air horn next to my ear than listen to Warren Bennis for another second. What's even worse that that the guy that introduces Warren and Tony to the group is so infatuated with him (Warren) that I wasn't sure if the guy was going to start licking Warrens big toe or start talking about the fan club.
"Delivering: a recipe for organizational culture"
I had heard of Zappos as the online shoestore, but never as the company that sees its culture as its core competence. The book outlines Tony Hsieh's (the owner/CEO) personal business biography and combines it with the steps he and his team took to build Zappos.
Tony shows that success is also a matter of luck: Zappos hovered on the brink of bankruptcy for a few years and only his own wealth prevented it until finally some investors put money on the table, and even then it took 4-6 years before Zappos was out of the danger zone.
The book is a very nice story, and although Tony is not a narrator (he speaks a bit fast) his enthusiasm and personal touch make him the ideal storyteller nonetheless. I am not much for biographies, so the book for me became really interesting when he starts to describe how he build the culture of the company step by step. Not planned or methodical, because that's not how it works, but purposeful with deep commitment from his colleagues, co-workers and the extended Zappos family.
For any organisation that wishes to strengthen (or make explicit) its culture, this book gives plenty of ideas and suggestions on how to do it and what might result from it. Not only for startups or internet companies, but for any organisation bigger than 25 people. Some ideas that Tony shares:
- hire only people that share your values: that way, the live what the company stands for instead of following their own agenda
- teach company values in a intensive introductory training
- live the company values also with your suppliers (it is easier with your customers)
- have your employees co-determine the values of your organisation. Re-iterate them regularly, to see if the culture is still where you want it to be. A 'culture book' helps to both verify the culture as well as share it with new employees
- encourage community and getting to know other employees outside your own department: this fosters a 'we' feeling (instead of departmental kingdoms)
- share, commit and take risk also as managers.
The culture of Zappos might not be the culture you wish or have, but that is not the point. The key is that a strong culture can strengthen your position and can be purposefully built. Try it yourself!
"Uplifting business book"
Great book going through the history of Zappos and showing a successful business can be run a different way. Unlike other business books that put the owner on a pedestal this one keeps it real. What amazed me was the huge risk he took to make Zappos happen. While he should not read other books his voice added a level of authenticity and depth to this one.
"Business Brilliance"
Cutting edge business philosophy. This book is part autobiography and an inside look at Zappos and includes lots of great information for any business owner or employee who wants to be a leader in today's marketplace. I believe that any business that doesn't follow this modern way of thinking about the customer is in trouble. Zappos is huge but I am working to apply these concepts to small business. Any size business should have it's employees and owners read this book. It's a guide to business and personal fulfillment. I love that Tony reads the entire book himself, it adds a personal touch and you feel like he is talking to you. Best find of the year for me so far! AAA+++
"Delivering Spin"
Delivering Happiness is part brief autobiography, part "here are my brilliant ideas for how to conceive, start, and run a business". He is more strongly oriented towards creating a corporate culture than any other business guru, and presents interesting ideas for how to create that culture. However, I've got a problem with Tony and the book - proof (or at least viable evidence) and replication. Tony was at the right place at the right time once and pretty much by accident made millions in the process. Out of boredom he joined what was to become Zappos. 10 years later he has made Zappos the largest online store specializing in footwear, with sales over $1B per year. But Zappos has always been on the verge of failure and is completely dependent on an ongoing 100 million dollar line of credit with their banks. This tells me that they have less than $1M (less than 10%) in profit. This would not be considered a successful situation for any business. For all of the hype about how brilliant Tony is, he hasn't proved that culture is the key to business success. I wish he had–I'm a huge believer in developing corporate culture, one based on integrity, contribution, and "doing what is right". He as not demonstrated that if you build the right culture the profits will follow. He has not demonstrated anything except that he was successful at making money by accident one time in his life, and his Zappos isn't it. More disappointing is he discusses the dozens, possibly over a hundred other companies he helped start, most of which failed, none of which had more than marginal success. So like most of the other business gurus, he provides no proof or evidence of his ideas, and has not been able to replicate his one (apparently accidental) success. Not someone I would consider a viable role model, leader, or even teacher.
"Good read, not good Business!!"
Here is the thing, the book is a good listen. It was a crazy trip the man took from start to finish and made for an exciting listen. But as for a business book, not good. There is nothing business about it. The book should be in Entertainment section.
I am in business, and i can tell you, if you are doing $46 millioin a year in rev. and not making a profit. you have issues and a horrible business plan. Yes in the end it worked out for him, but 999 out of a 1,000 times the person will be writting a book on how they lost everything. And he almost did, dont get me wrong i know how the story ended and they deserve everything they got in the end.
But not because of great business, if anything, it shows when the owner of Amazon (a real business man) wasnt interested in the company until years later when really business people made it profitable....
With that being said, like mentioned earlier, great listen, exciting, but dont plan on learning anything to help you in your business.. this should be in entertainment..
This book should have been sub-titled "An autobiography of Tony Hsieh." I bought this book expecting to learn alot of valuable lessons from someone who is clearly a brilliant business man. Instead I got hour after hour of his life story (and sometimes in WAY too graphic of detail). The second half of the book is one long commercial about Zappos. There were a few pearls of wisdom to be had, but overall I'd say this book is only for the hard-core Zappos/Tony Hsieh enthusiast.
"Dull and over simple"
I had high hope for this book after reading the other reviews but I have to say having just read the Steve Jobs autobiography this is woeful in comparison. The book is padded out with detail that neither has relevence or any entertainment value.
eg. I made a cup of tea for Dave, I took a cup and put boiling water in it and then I added a tea bag. Dave waited a while for the liquid to cool and raised it to his lips. He then started drinking the liquid.
Yes Tony we understand how a cup of tea is made.
"Dull, dull, dull!"
It sounded like he was reading straight from the book.
The book was very repetitive. Didn't contain any insights. It was generally annoying to listen to.
"Last year I read 30 books this was the BEST"
If you are passionate about business or just inspiring journeys of self discovery this book is a must read. I loved it and I am sure you will too.
"Stands out from the crown; creating unique culture"
Haven't read print version
delivering WOW - getting an insight into unique thinking and unique culture.
Great sense of well being - want to get involved in delivering happiness movement.
I will be getting involved with friends and colleagues.
"Very moving & personal with great business advice"
The way the book was laid out like a story. It was very personal and gave great insight into an amazing business. A very easy read and one I've already repeated multiple times.
It's also read by the author which is a rare occurrence, if you read the book though you'll understand how it fits perfectly with the "Zappos Culture" for him to do this.
A must read for any business owner.
It was told in the first person in a very human and down to earth way with splashes of perspective from customers / employees. It makes you care for the business. Even though I've never even been on the Zappos website let alone bought anything I love the business. I'll definitely be looking them up next time I buy shoes!
Holding my breath as he gives up everything he owns,(literally) risking it all on his belief that Zappos will succeed if they can hold on long enough. Brave moves!
The trip up kilimanjaro and resulting dreams / hallucinations.
A must read for anyone in any business. But especially if you plan to run or are involved in Ecommerce or any service business.
Even if none of the above applies to you it was an extremely entertaining read. Another great story from a world class business.
"Captivating listen and very surprising story"
I found I could listen to this anywhere and would just sit and listen without any need to fidget or work on anything else to occupy me. A totally captivating true story of adversity, good and bad fortune and sheer hard work and a lot of risks taken. It is written with humility and was engaging for the entire 8 hours of the book. Fantastic Audio book ...thanks.
"A great journey"
Unexpectedly well narrated, this is a gem of a business book that really takes listeners through the whole range of emotions surrounding business creation and success. I particularly enjoyed the actions that Tony and his team took when things got really tough. Well worth the time.
"insightful and helpful"
a truly great read, just a shame it ended where it did. I want to know more and although truly a great read it left me wanting more
"Love the style"
I thought it was great book with a nice relaxed approach and the author himself speaking made it a bit more enjoyable and understandable. With him talking it was a bit easier to get the point of what he is doing why. Well recommended.
"About what every human being should be"
I had no idea that this book was mostly about Zappos and I'd never heard of Tony Hsieh (Pronounced 'Shey'), when I started listiening I thought: what the heck has any of this got to do with happiness. However, it is a great story and it sometimes to me seems success is born randomly - many of us have put in the 16 hour days for months, with business plans that the banks demand and still failed. This is the story of how Link Exchange was built and then sold, making the author some $40M. However, he always reflects on what he has enjoyed and the creation of Zappos plays a big part in his life - it almost IS his life. It's only in the final moments of the book that the author really considers happiness and its science.
A really interesting read about someone who sounded not so different from the rest of us. Success is a pretty random thing because it's unpredictable. And happiness should be everyone's aim. It's what life surely boils down to.
I have always recognised that employees are a company's most important asset and this book confirms my beliefs and that it's not all about profitability - success can be measured in many ways and making people happy in something where they spend the majority of their life pays off in every way, it's win win win every way you look at it.
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Christopher Hitchens' 62-year-old scotch and cigarette soaked body, which he wore as a badge of honor in the form of a physical protest against nanny states gone awry, gave way to esophageal cancer on Thursday evening. As Vanity Fair announced news of his passing, social media lit up with touching tributes to one of this generation's most controversial and confrontational writers.
Typically I don't grieve the death of people I've never been acquainted with, and similarly I find a certain sense of vulgarity in people who mourn celebrities in the same way as if they had lost the family dog. Having said that, I found myself spending a great deal of the past few days contemplating Hitchen's life, his writings, and the influence they had on me. When I think of his genius, my immediate thought is I would never have had the testicular fortitude to seek a publisher for my first book, 'God Hates You. Hate Him Back' (Sept 2009), were it not for his international bestseller 'God Is Not Great'. A book that not only led an entire generation of atheists out of the closet, but also enlightened countless many religious folk to abandon superstition for reason. As such I acknowledged the profound effect his work had on me by dedicating my second title, 'Jesus Lied. He Was Only Human' (Oct 2010), to the legendary writer.
As a writer, the sooner you accept you will never ever possess the faculties to write as well as Hitchens, the easier one's life gets. Literally, there is no one who can imitate his extraordinary vernacular, nor his vast geo-political experiences. After all, it was iconic television personality David Frost who said of Hitchens, "He has met everybody who is anybody." But outside of my jealousy for his use of words, and admiration for his verbally combative opposition to any person or entity that attempts to blur the line separating Church and State, there ends my man crush for Christopher Hitchens. Why? Well, he was a warmonger and an unabashed misogynist. He was a neo-Conservative masquerading as a Liberal. While he may have been drawn to liberal politics in the 60s as a result of his disgust for racism and the Vietnam War, he certainly abandoned that ideological position during the last decade of his life.
(Now, if you listen carefully, you will hear the sound of my atheist brethren setting my books on fire. But hear me out, you inglorious godless bastards. Firstly, the same folk, myself included, who praised Hitchens for his firebrand obituaries, namely those targeting Princess Diana, Jerry Falwell, and Mother Theresa – immediately following their respective deaths, will presumably hurl venom in my direction for speaking ill of Saint Christopher. Irony much?)
Now I won't spend too much time on the misogynist charge as I did not know the man personally, but when you call the Dixie Chicks "fat fucking slags" and "sluts", because they dared release a song denouncing George W. Bush's march to war in Iraq, then there's one clue. Another clue came in the form of a Vanity Fair article titled, 'Why Women Still Aren't Funny', an article that opined numerous and vexing reasons as how women are not adequately skilled to make men laugh. Certainly, standing at the front of a long queue is Tina Fey, who among millions of others, is owed an apology she will now never get.
As far as his warmongering is concerned, it was always perplexing to hear Liberals champion him as a torch bearer for the progressive cause. As far as neo-Conservatism goes he was to the right of Paul Wolfowitz, Josh Bolton, Richard Pearle, and even Dick Cheney. Effectively, Hitchens was a Bush-ite! While he criticized Bush the Younger as an "inarticulate intellectual buffoon", he was lock step with the policies of the Administration. Further, during the 2004 election said, "A John Kerry presidency would be a disaster for the United States." Worst than eight years of Bush, really? Most genuine Liberals would've taken that chance!
Dennis Perrin, a friend and former protégée of Hitchens, described all the way back in 2003 how Hitchens' virtues as a writer and thinker were fully swamped by his pulsating excitement over war and the Bush/Cheney imperial agenda:
"I can barely read him anymore. His pieces in the Brit tabloid The Mirror and in Slate are a mishmash of imperial justifications and plain bombast; the old elegant style is dead. His TV appearances show a smug, nasty scold with little tolerance for those who disagree with him. He looks more and more like a Ralph Steadman sketch. And in addition to all this, he's now revising what he said during the buildup to the Iraq war.
In several pieces, including an incredibly condescending blast against Nelson Mandela, Hitch went on and on about WMD, chided readers with "Just you wait!" and other taunts, fully confident that once the U.S. took control of Iraq, tons of bio/chem weapons and labs would be all over the cable news nets–with him dancing a victory jig in the foreground. Now he says WMD were never a real concern, and that he'd always said so. It's amazing that he'd dare state this while his earlier pieces can be read at his website. But then, when you side with massive state power and the cynical fucks who serve it, you can say pretty much anything and the People Who Matter won't care."
The irony is Hitchens, a Brit native, detested British colonialism, while adoring the imperialism of his adopted nation, the U.S. More accurately, he was besotted with the projection of American military might. His statements endorsing bombing Muslim nations would make even the Muslim hating Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorums of the world blush. Shortly after 9/11, Hitchens stated, "My first reaction to the 9/11 attack was exhilaration because I knew it would unleash an exciting, sustained war against Islamofacism…..I realized that if the battle went on until the last day of my life, I would never get bored in prosecuting it to the utmost."
Like other neo-Cons, Hitchens rarely commented or examined the cause of the Islamic hatred of America i.e. U.S bases in the Holy Land; prejudiced treatment of the Palestinians; economic sanctions against Muslim countries; and support of tyrannical Arab dictators. Hitchens' attitude towards the Middle East, however, was not too dissimilar to the maligned Ann Coulter, who once said, "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity." Except for the last strand in that sentence, their hawkish attitudes were shared. If you believe that's a stretch, here's what he had to say on the use of cluster bombs, a weapon 108 countries have ratified a comprehensive ban against using them:
"If you're actually certain that you're hitting only a concentration of enemy troops…then it's pretty good because those steel pellets will go straight through somebody and out the other side and through somebody else. And if they're bearing a Koran over their heart, it'll go straight through that, too. So they won't be able to say, "Ah, I was bearing a Koran over my heart and guess what, the missile stopped halfway through." No way, 'cause it'll go straight through that as well. They'll be dead, in other words."
Admittedly, it's impossible to make a complete judgment of a man based on a few pieces of commentary. The point being, however, it would be wrong to remember him as a person who was flawlessly enlightened. He, like the rest of us, wasn't! He was a fighter against wrong doing, but that didn't make him immune to endorsing the wrong doings of others, and for atheists and anti-theists to make a false idol of him, insofar as overlooking the numerous instances he was fundamentally and morally wrong, is something I doubt he would have even hoped for.
Regardless I will remember him for the positive and profound influence he had on my life, and I will leave you with my one my favorite passages from 'God Is Not Great'":
"Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated."
CJ Werleman
Author 'God Hates You. Hate Him Back'


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For the third time, Neiman Marcus hosted the DVD Trends report for the award-winning Fashion Group International of Denver. Hors d'oeuvres and wine were served prior to the DVD that revealed fall fashion trends from the runways of New York, Milan, Paris and London. Entertaining and educational narration was by FGI New York's own Marylou Luther, fashion writer and editor of the award-winning International Fashion Syndicate.
The production of this valuable piece of creative fashion communication is estimated at more than $750,000. This is just one of the many benefits of membership in the global nonprofit of fashion industry professionals numbering 5,000.
Lafayette's Ed Wilkerson visits Nordstrom/Park Meadows
Visionary and Design Director of Lafayette 148 New York was recently in town at Nordstrom/Park Meadows to promote the Spring/Summer Collection, pose for photos with loyal clients and supply fashion advice to eager followers. The collection offered eclectic detail with sleek city style. Wilkerson draws his inspiration from countries around the world.
Dr. Karen King presents 'Was Jesus Married?'
It was a spirited coffee at Denver Country Club when The Harvard Women's Studies in Religion Program Colorado Steering Committee hosted Dr. Karen King, Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard. Her topic: "Was Jesus Married? Early Christian Controversies over Marriage, Celibacy and Salvation."
King is at the center of the current discussion over whether Jesus had a wife with recently discovered and translated ancient Christian writing from Egypt. On the screen was an enlargement of the three-inch piece of papyrus that carries the message hinting of the possibility of a wife. King presented a fascinating translation and fielded questions from the audience.


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GoPayment One of First Mobile Payment Apps Developed for Android 3.0
Gets You Paid on the Spot Using Android 3.0-based Tablets to Process Credit Cards
Mountain View, Calif. – Feb. 02, 2011 – Intuit GoPayment, which lets anyone who sells products or services get paid via mobile devices, is one of the first mobile payment apps being developed for Android™ 3.0, Honeycomb.
Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) demonstrated GoPayment for Honeycomb today at Google's Android event and will display it again at Mobile World Congress from Feb. 14 to 17.
Building on the capabilities of Honeycomb, GoPayment makes it easier and quicker for people and businesses selling products or services to process credit card payments no matter where they are – on the road, in a store or at their home.
GoPayment for Honeycomb makes it easy to get paid fast and lets users:
"We are excited about bringing one of the first mobile payment apps to Honeycomb," said Chris Hylen, vice president and general manager of Intuit's Payment Solutions division. "We are continually looking to support the newest mobile platforms and devices so that more people can start taking credit card payments no matter where they are."
Availability and Pricing
Intuit will publicly demo GoPayment for Honeycomb at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from Feb. 14 to 17 at the Android booth. GoPayment for Honeycomb is expected to be available this spring on Android Market.
About GoPayment
On the market for nearly two years, GoPayment processes more than $80 million in mobile transactions. GoPayment enables everyone who sells a good or service to process mobile payments with support for key mobile platforms, including Android, Blackberry, and iPhone, and more than 40 mobile devices. It also supports a choice of optional, encrypted credit card readers at different price points.
About Intuit Payment Solutions
Intuit is one of the largest small business payments processors in the U.S. It processes more than $17 billion in transactions annually for approximately 300,000 small businesses. Over the last 10 years, Intuit has helped small businesses get paid and improve cash flow with a complete family of end-to-end electronic payment solutions. This includes services to process credit cards, e-checks and online payments via a variety of channels including mobile devices, web and retail stores and integrated solutions such as QuickBooks.
Intuit GoPayment (http://gopayment.com/)
About Intuit Inc.
Intuit Inc. is a leading provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses; financial institutions, including banks and credit unions; consumers and accounting professionals. Its flagship products and services, including QuickBooks®, Quicken® and TurboTax®, simplify small business management and payroll processing, personal finance, and tax preparation and filing. ProSeries® and Lacerte® are Intuit's leading tax preparation offerings for professional accountants. Intuit Financial Services helps banks and credit unions grow by providing on-demand solutions and services that make it easier for consumers and businesses to manage their money.
Founded in 1983, Intuit had annual revenue of $3.5 billion in its fiscal year 2010. The company has approximately 7,700 employees with major offices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India and other locations. More information can be found at www.intuit.com.
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KENTUCKY, (2/1/14) – Some of my most memorable times in the woods and on the water have been during these cold winter months.
I can remember years past when every Saturday in January was spent throwing a rooster tail for stripe and largemouth. We fished places like the "graveyard," the "silos," and "40965." Our tackle box was an old miner's bag and the only brand of reels we owned were Mitchell 300's.
I've still never caught as many fish as I did back then.
And that was without a boat.
I can also remember taking my untrained bird dog into the woods to hunt grouse. I thought if it was a bird dog, it already knew how to find birds. I was right. It just didn't know how to set them up for me to shoot.
Most of the time I ended up hunting for my dog.
Those cold winter days were some of the best times of my life.
The chill was always knocked off by the thrill. The anticipation and excitement always warmed the blood.
I've never been only a fair weather outdoorsman.
I've always been willing to step out into the unpleasant climate or the, unpredict-able circumstances. Those times have produced both feast and famine.
The days of famine have been mostly forgotten.
The days of feast have been inspiration to keep going back.
I have found that we hunters and fishermen are not spoiled with the idea that we must bring quarry home each time we go out.
We don't need constant affirmation. We only need one bullet or one bite; just one good day.
That will be enough to call us back to our passion.
And that one good day just might be on a cold January evening when everyone else but me and you have opted to stay at home.
I do love this time of year.
January and February offer plenty of hunting and fishing opportunities but I'm going to have to take an extended break.
I am not saying I am quitting but I have got to spend some time getting ready for turkey season and I have still got to gather up some tree stands that are still in the woods.
The extreme cold weather is making this decision a lot easier as well. I can't let my mind linger on grouse, geese, and walleye or I'll fall off the wagon.
(Although) maybe a trip or two won't hurt.
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Kaytranada - Hilarity Duff
Posted Oct 18, 2013 at 09:45 AM
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Kaytranada is an ill producer from Montreal, Canada and today we're introducing you to him with his newest cut (along with dope single art) titled "Hilarity Duff." Show love on iTunes.
Give Hilarity Duff a spin - it's a new offering from Kaytranada. It was dropped on Friday, October 18th, 2013. Kaytranada's rap artistry continues to improve with every release, something which is most definitely evidenced on Hilarity Duff. His ever-expanding catalogue is definitely better for it, and we're looking forward to the next piece of the puzzle - aren't you?
If you're feeling this, make sure to hit up Kaytranada's profile page for the latest info, news, songs, and mixtapes.
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