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Five Ways the Super Bowl is like Online Judaism
As a rabbi of an online congregation, I am often asked about whether people have "real" Jewish experiences online. Some argue that you can't have a meaningful Jewish experience unless you're in a room with other Jews.
I disagree. I have seen time and time again how having an online community like OurJewishCommunity.org gives people an opportunity to connect to Judaism, to other Jews, and to rabbis.
I was thinking about this as I watched the Super Bowl last night. There may have been 80,000 people in the stadium watching the game, but another 118 million watched on TV – and I'm pretty sure their experience was equally "real."
Is watching at home the same as watching in a packed arena? Of course not! I know there is nothing quite like the feeling of being in an arena full of fans. You can see the action up close (if you have good seats), you cheer loudly among others, and you feel part of the action. But watching from home also has advantages. You can watch alone or with friends, you can listen to the commentators, and you can see the commercials (either an advantage or a disadvantage depending on your perspective!).
Watching the Super Bowl on TV and participating in Shabbat and other holiday services online have many similarities. Here are five:
1. Most people were not watching the game alone. The myth is that if you watch High Holiday services online, it must be isolating. But I know many people who have the equivalent of Super Bowl parties for Jewish holidays! Often, someone will invite over a dozen friends for a Rosh Hashanah meal and then they'll gather around a flat screen TV with our live services streaming. They've printed our unique liturgy and are participating as an intimate community, as part of an even larger community.
2. Not everyone can afford to go the Super Bowl, not everyone has a stadium nearby, and some people who have shown up to games in the past haven't felt welcomed. It's the same with Judaism. Some people have physical limitations, geographic barriers, financial obstacles, or other reasons they cannot attend synagogue. For them, an online community is a perfect connection to Jewish community.
3. Some people had to be at work or take care of other responsibilities during the game – and I'm betting many of them DVRed the game to watch later. So too with services. Not everyone can take time on a Friday night to go to synagogue – but everyone can find a break in their week to create what Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel called a "sanctuary in time." That's why OurJewishCommunity.org makes its services available on-demand. I know one of our community members is an ER physician and works on Shabbat – so she makes her "Shabbat" on Tuesday and is able to participate in our services then.
4. Some people prefer the anonymity of the screen. If you don't yet know the difference between a touchdown, a field goal, and a two-point conversion and you can't tell the offense from the defense, you may not feel comfortable showing up with other fans to talk about the game. By watching on your own, you can learn. Many have commented to me that they feel more comfortable asking a rabbi questions online than in person. For some people, watching online is a way to dip one's toe in before walking through synagogue doors.
5. You can have community across miles. Seahawks fans felt a kinship with one another last night, as did Patriots fans. Participants in OurJewishCommunity.org who have never met feel a connection to one another because of their shared values and philosophical approach to Judaism. During services, we rabbis even encourage online chatting – which means conversations happen between people in different states and on different continents – adding to the diversity of our Jewish conversations.
Technology also means families can have shared holiday or sports experiences, even when separated by geography. During many March Madness basketball games, I've sat on the phone with my dad as we each watched the final moments of a close game. After many exciting Wimbledon tennis matches, I would often call my grandmother to debrief the game. While we didn't live in the same cities, the shared on-screen experience allowed us to enjoy a game together and connect with one another around it. The same thing happens at OurJewishCommunity.org.
One of my favorite emails from a participant in OurJewishCommunity.org came in after our first High Holidays (in 2008!):
I came to work and my partner took the kids to services. I thought I'd be fine, but I was so isolated and getting really upset. I did a google search for a live streaming service, and there you were… So, for details – first, my mother also did not go to services yesterday for her own reasons. She was also sad and called me just before the shofar blew. I quickly sent her the link and we sat on the phone, DC to Florida, and listened to your shofar together. It was an amazing moment for us. I know neither of us would have words of appreciation grand enough to capture what we felt.
When I read that email, I knew our online community was offering something that a bricks-and-mortar experience simply couldn't offer. Would this mother and daughter have preferred to be in synagogue, sitting with one another that day? Probably. But, the circumstances didn't allow for that. So, thanks to technology, they enjoyed a holiday together.
Is the Super Bowl the equivalent of a Jewish service? Absolutely not! But they both have in-person and online components – and variety is good.
For those Jews who prefer bricks-and-mortar synagogue experiences, I am glad they have found a place that feels comfortable. And for those who prefer an online Jewish experience, I'm glad those options exist as well. What could be wrong with having more access points to Jewish connection? I'd say that's a winning proposition!
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Let Rabbis Lead!
Last month Rabbi Yamin Levy (note: I studied with Rabbi Levy when I was a rabbinical student at YCT Rabbinical School) wrote a thoughtful article, The Rabbi and His Board. In the article he details the challenges and opportunities for rabbis and the board of directors of congregations. The relationship between a rabbi and the board can be a delicate and highly orchestrated dance of vision, power and politics. A peculiar aspect of how American Jewish congregational life is organized is that the rabbi is simultaneously a "spiritual leader" of the congregation and an employee of the board of directors. How should congregations organize their leadership? Who sets the vision? Who articulates the synagogue's goals and direction?
In many synagogues throughout the country it is the board of directors who set the vision. it is the board of directors who lead and articulate the goals and directions of the congregation. The rabbi is sometimes a minor partner in that process but more often simply an executor of the desires of the board. I submit that this system is entirely ineffective. It needs to be turned on its head.
It is the rabbi who studied for years Jewish law, ethics, history and philosophy. It is the pulpit rabbi who has dedicated his or her life to the professional leadership of synagogues. Synagogues term their rabbis "spiritual leaders" but the meaning behind that title is often empty and void. It is time to fill that title with purpose, leadership and direction.
This is not to say that rabbis should act autocratically. It is not in the best interest of the rabbi to be a dictator. All the best research in leadership teaches that the vision and direction of a leader is best implemented when it is done collaboratively and through consensus building. However, the person seeking consensus should be the rabbi for their vision from the board and not the reverse. It is the rabbi who envisions, who sets the goals and who leads. It is the board who empowers the leader they hired to actually lead.
This not only makes the most sense from a practical point of view, the rabbi is the trained professional with the expertise and the board are volunteers representing other professions and different training. It is also makes sense from the perspective of Jewish values. Just as one stands for a Torah scroll there is a mitzvah to stand for a Torah scholar. The Talmud (Makkot 22b) expresses bewilderment of people who stand for a Torah scroll but not for a Torah scholar. The honor and respect we invest in the Torah and its scholars and rabbis is due to the wisdom, values and direction the Torah imparts for us in the way we lead our lives. Would it not make sense to give true leadership to the rabbis, the Torah scholars of our communities, who we invest so much in financially, personally and organizationally? Once again, not as autocrats but let them be the vision makers and articulators of goals and let them build the consensus and actualize that vision.
In an era of increasing challenge for synagogues to remain relevant to a new generation of Jews and boards are struggling with decreasing membership and under-utilized buildings, one piece of advice would be: "Let rabbis lead!"
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Can Synagogues Be More Like Starfish?
Membership is lagging, we haven't been able to convince the preschool families to join the synagogue and sales in the gift shop are down. What are we to do? Blame the rabbi!
Members are not receiving their donation thank you letters in a timely fashion, the receptionist is not always friendly on the phone and the office forgot to print my great-uncle's yahrtzeit in the weekly newsletter. What are we to do? Blame the executive director!
People make mistakes and that includes the professionals of synagogues, whether the rabbi, executive director or preschool director. A letter can wait in the outgoing mail box for too long. A receptionist might be having a bad day. It is natural to feel frustrated when bad things happen and to want to locate the person who is at fault. When our synagogues attempt to operate as a command-and-structure type of organization individuals will look up the chain of command and point the finger at the highest link they can reach.
However, most of our synagogues nowadays do not operate with strict hierarchies. The decision making of our congregations has evolved to a more a distributive fashion yet the way we communicate about our synagogues has not evolved with it. There are few synagogues where the current mode of operating is the senior rabbi says "jump" and the only question the rest of the staff and board of directors have is "how high?". Staff, clergy and lay leadership operate in a collaborative and cooperative mode. We know this from experience and we know this intuitively but when things begin to break down and mistakes are made we revert to viewing our system as a solid command structure and view the source of the problem solely in the lap of one individual. Why?
I believe part of the problem is that we have not fully embraced our new way of operating. Is it made clear in the vision statement of the congregation? Is it communicated in board meetings? Is the membership informed of how the synagogue operates? When something goes wrong do board members point the finger at any one individual or do they look at it through a systemic lens?
There are so many advantages to distributive decision making. The starfish, a vulnerable creature to predators, can lose a limb but still function because it does not rest all of its functioning in one place. As we enter 2015 the landscape for synagogues is still a vulnerable one. The case for synagogue membership is a hard sell for many people. Many synagogue facilities remain both under-utilized and in need of major repair work. The place of the congregation in the fabric of modern society is less and less obvious for vast segments of the American Jewish population. Our synagogues are like starfish: beautiful, complicated organisms that are deeply vulnerable.
The time has arrived to not only transition to a more starfish-like way of operating — a distributed, holistic and balanced power structure, but to assertively and clearly communicate that to our membership. When something goes wrong, and something will always go wrong, the challenge is not to look for which clergy, staff member or board member to blame, but to understand how the system as a whole can operate better in the future. A Starfish Synagogue is a healthier synagogue and a healthier synagogue is a more attractive place for people to pray in, socialize in and ultimately become members of.
* Inspiration for this blog post comes from The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom
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Synagogues: Begin With Why
"Thank you for visiting our website. We are a vibrant congregation with daily and Shabbat services. We offer young adult programming, empty nesters and seniors groups, adult Jewish learning opportunities and many other exciting programs. Please contact our membership director to schedule a time to visit our congregation."
This is a fictional welcome message on a synagogue website. However, messages like this can be found all over the Internet. They can be found in introductory pamphlets and can be found printed in weekly and quarterly newsletters. This fictional message expresses WHAT the synagogue does. It offers services and a lot of programming. Yet, it fails to express WHY the synagogue does what it does.
In the well regarded book Start with Why by Simon Sanek (watch a TED talk Simon delivered on the topic) the point is made that all too often our businesses and organizations sell themselves to the wider community with primarily what they do or what they produce. Apple makes excellent computers but that is not why they are the industry leader in personal electronic devices. They don't market their iPhones as simply great phones or their Macbooks as simply great computers but rather they invite the consumer to "think differently" and to join them in fighting against the status quo. Their first and primary message is why they do what they do and only after conveying "the why" do they tell you "the what" it is they actually produce.
What would it looks like for our synagogues to put forth their why before their what. Why do you exist as a synagogue? What is it that you believe as an institution? Why do you have daily services and adult educational programming and Bnai Mitzvah lessons? Imagine a welcome message that looked something like this:
"Thank you for visiting our website. We are a congregation that believes in the vitality of the Jewish people. We believe in working towards a better world and cultivating personalities that are deep with spiritual intention and Jewish wisdom. We do that by offering daily services and adult educational opportunities. We offer empty nesters and seniors groups because we are committed to building the fabric of community that connects one person to another and breaks down the walls of loneliness and isolation. We would love for you to visit our community. Please stop by or send an email to our staff to schedule a time to come by for a conversation on how you can join us in impassioned Jewish living."
Jewish communal life organized around the why can be a powerful vehicle for Jewish engagement and revitalization of our synagogue and institutional Jewish world.
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Is Relational Judaism Only For Large Jewish Communities?
I recently had the privilege of listening to Professor Ron Wolfson give several talks to my community about his new book, Relational Judaism. Professor Wolfson's thesis, as he explains here, is that Jewish institutions are failing us, and hemorrhaging affiliated members as a result, because they focus on "transactional Judaism" rather than he what terms "relational Judaism." Transactional Judaism connotes a fee-for-service approach in which institutions offer programs, activities, services, and schools, in exchange for money. Instead, Wolfson argues that institutions and their leaders need to focus more time, energy, and financial resources on building face-to-face relationships, micro-communities, and programming with a relationship-generating component built in.
There is a lot of wisdom in Wolfson's book, and I commend it as critical reading for all Jewish professionals, from rabbis to federation leaders to school principals. Making synagogues more welcoming of visitors, taking the time to meet parents of students or JCC members one on one, and cutting back on committee meetings will make Jewish institutions of all sizes and locations more vibrant and personal. But as I read through the case studies in his book, and heard him speak, I kept feeling a sense of disquieting disconnect: the Jewish world he describes in his book does not equate with the Jewish world I experience out in the hinterlands of Connecticut.
There are two different worlds of Judaism in America today. There are huge Jewish demographic presences in the big cities (New York, LA, D.C., Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Atlanta, Miami, and a few others) and their surrounding suburbs (the Valley, Westchester, areas in New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia), where the variety of religious expression and opportunity is incredibly rich, perhaps richer than ever before in the history of the Jewish Diaspora. Here, relational Judaism can be a huge benefit to large synagogues and other organizations that have lost their personal touch. Relational Judaism can serve as an effective way to re-vivify places that have grown cold, sterile, and indifferent. Larger federations can and should hire Jewish concierges to help steward new members of the Jewish community and existing members passing from one life stage to another (e.g. post Bar/Bat Mitzvah or new empty nesters) to various organizational presences and opportunities. Synagogues with multiple clergy should deploy them in more interactive ways, such as having a rabbi meet religious school parents in the parking lot to ameliorate the nefarious "drop off" effect or creating an alternative Friday night service in congregants' homes.
But, as I told Professor Wolfson, I remain unconvinced that relational Judaism can work in small communities where resources are so scarce that institutions spend most of their time just trying to run basic programs and keep the lights on. On Shabbat morning, the rabbi of a small synagogue—who is the only clergy—cannot simultaneously greet people who come in during services and lead the congregation in prayers. When the religious school director is also a teacher, in order to make the budget work, he or she cannot both teach students and engage with parents post-drop off or pre-pick up. A federation that cannot sustain its local day school or JCC does not have the funds to hire a concierge, and communities here are so territorially sensitive that it is not clear a concierge could even work.
I should add at this point that I remain committed to the vision that relational Judaism espouses. To me, the issue of relational Judaism's application to smaller Jewish communities leads directly the broader question of the future of these communities as presently constituted. I think we need to begin having far more candid conversations about merging older institutions and achieving economies of scale that enable the kind of vibrant, personal, creative Jewish expression that millennials—and many other Jews—crave. Where I live, there are four Conservative synagogues and two Reform synagogues within 20 minutes of one another. None have more than a few hundred members; some have far less. These synagogues are competing with one another for scarce members, replicating administrative and other staffing costs, and fragmenting rather than unifying the Jewish community. This is crazy! Imagine what kind of places they could be if they came together: imagine how spirited and uplifting services could be if several hundred people showed up each Shabbat, and how many opportunities there could be for multiple minyanim; imagine how many friendships could be created in a religious school with 100 students rather than 4 schools with 20-30 in each; imagine how large and effective a bikkur holim (visiting the sick) society could be established to reach out to those in need within our communities; and on and on.
As you probably know, this kind of community-wide view of local institutions is highly implausible today. Donors want the organizations they have supported to remain open in their current forms, even if doing so is short-sighted. What we truly need is the leadership and courage of our community leaders, in small Jewish communities across the country, to engage donors and other local decision-makers in the process of re-visioning the future of these communities. Perhaps through a relational approach–engaging these decision makers in one to one conversations and small group meetings–we can plant the seeds for the growth of relational Judaism in communities both large and small.
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Seeking Shelter From The Cold
Much of the Eastern and Midwestern U.S. is ensconced in a ferocious cold spell today and tomorrow. Known as the "polar vortex," a blast of air from the arctic is producing temperatures colder than the South Pole in some parts of the country. This got me thinking: 120 years ago, where would poor, marginalized Jews (i.e. most Jews) go to escape the cold? To Jewish relief organizations such as Jewish hospitals, Jewish soup kitchens. In the era before FDR, before a government social safety net, Jewish communities across the country were responsible for talking care of one another. Mutual aid societies and landsmanschaften (hometown societies) provided this critical source of support, ensuring not only the well-being of poor Jewish immigrants but also creating community connections.
70 years ago, where would Jews go to escape the cold? To synagogue-centers and JCCs. Emerging into the middle-class, "second generation" Jews were eager to flee their urban areas of settlement for the expansiveness of the suburbs. They frequently found, however, that secular American society still harbored a good deal of anti-Semitism, so Jews created new hubs for social interaction. The notion of the "shul with a pool" was born, with traditional synagogues expanded to include social, educational, and even athletic programming.
Today, where do we go to escape the "polar vortex?" Starbucks. The public library. The local gym. Or we just stay at home and tweet about how cold we are. The rise of the welfare state (I mean that as a descriptive, not a perjorative, term), combined with the rapid erosion of institutional anti-Semitism in America, has rendered obsolete much of the social architecture of American Jewry. Jewish Family Services, perhaps the closest vestige to the traditional Jewish welfare organizations throughout the country, often serve more non-Jews than Jews! The same is true with Jewish hospitals and even JCCs. While we are truly blessed to live in a society as open to Jews as 21st century America, that blessing comes with a cost: no longer having a need to come together, our Jewish connective tissue is atrophying. As the recent Pew Study illustrates, only 28 percent of those polled believe that being part of a Jewish community is essential to Jewish identity. Continue reading
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The Times They Are Changing
It used to be that most Jews affiliated with a synagogue. My parents' generation supported their synagogues and the organized Jewish community because they believed we were "one people", responsible for each other. They honored their congregations' rabbis and looked to them for guidance. Yet, these norms have now evolved into entirely new realities, with changing values and assumptions.
My young adult children live in a very different world from the one in which I was raised. Few of their generation choose to be members of synagogues, and they dislike rabbis who lecture them about what to believe or do. But they are just the crest of the wave that includes many of my boomer generation, who increasingly reject commitment to synagogues. They respect rabbis only when they inspire and serve them in intensely personal and meaningful ways, often 'in the moment.'
It used to be that rabbis who served Jews independently (derisively called "rent-a-rabbis") were not highly respected within the community. Yes, some individuals do call themselves rabbis yet lack communally recognized rabbinic ordination or appropriate knowledge and expertise.Yet, it is also the case that some very fine rabbis of upstanding credentials and experience are now functioning independently, serving unaffiliated Jews in a variety of ways.
Some rabbis consider this to be unfair competition with synagogues. Rightly so, they feel that Judaism is not a commodity that is bought and sold – it is a commitment to being part of the Jewish people, found within community.
"The times, they are a'changin," Bob Dylan sang:
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.
Synagogues will certainly remain essential for Jewish community. Along the way innovative leaders are creating new modes of Jewish belonging and inspirational spiritual experience for the Jewish people and fellow travelers.
Now rabbis who are providing personalized, independent rabbinic services are spiritual leaders who are meeting people where they are to help them find Jewish fulfillment and connections. With skilled rabbis helping Jews and fellow travelers to find their way within the Jewish community, so much more is possible. With professional rabbis offering this service to individuals and fellow travelers, there is room to build on the pride that 94% of surveyed Jews express at just being Jewish.
That is why I am excited to be going independent. Amidst Jewish communal hand wringing about the dramatic decline in affiliation rates, I am shifting into another gear as a rabbi. It is time to teach, guide, facilitate, officiate and lead from outside the box.
I will soon launch a new center for Jewish learning and experiences. Through it, I will also seek ways to collaborate with local rabbis and communities whenever possible. We are all in it together. "The times, they are a'changin." The Jewish people and our fellow travelers need us.
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Honest Jewish Outreach
Jewish Outreach is a buzz term nowadays. Every organization seeks to do outreach in order to demonstrate relevancy to its board and donors. In addition, outreach is an effective way to increase participation in the organization and financial support in an era of struggling economic times and growing disaffection with organized Jewish life. Indeed, outreach is about taking one's message public and sharing it with a larger disconnected audience. We should support genuine outreach in our communities.
As someone who has served both in a campus context and in synagogues I have seen numerous Jewish outreach organizations. In fact, during my time as a campus chaplain I developed close friendships with Christian outreach professionals as well. The one thread that united all the genuine outreach organizations was honesty and integrity.
There is nothing inherently wrong with being a Christian Evangelical outreach professional on campus. Do I need to make sure my students are educated about their own faith and confident in their own beliefs? Absolutely. Yet, I cannot rightfully condemn a open and honest Christian from spreading her or his beliefs. I can only do my best to teach and inspire my constituents.
However, as many times as I have encountered genuine outreach organizations I have encountered illegitimate ones as well. What makes an outreach organization not really genuine? These are some of the indicators that I have observed over the years:
- Where do the outreach professionals or rabbis spend most of their time? Do they linger in existing Jewish institutions like synagogues or the local Hillel where they will only encounter already affiliated people?
- Where does the outreach organization set up shop? In the heart of the affiliated Jewish neighborhood or in a place where many Jews live but few who are connected to Jewish life?
- Do the programs the organization run exist in consonance with the values of the people who lead the organization? For example, if the Jewish outreach organization is a black hat yeshiva do they do programming that violates their principles or core beliefs, like a non-gender segregated religious service?
- Who is a successful "graduate" of their outreach? Where do they end up in their Jewish journeys? Be careful to pay attention to the diversity in lifestyles among the graduates and not the newcomers.
It is very important to identify genuine Jewish outreach organizations from the others. Genuine Jewish outreach organizations spend their time not in the Jewish neighborhood and work with people who have no existing Jewish connection. Their programming reflects the values they hold important and they do not compromise their core values in order to attract new participants.
Oftentimes, groups or individuals seek to co-opt the term Jewish Outreach when what they really mean is Jewish Redirection. In other words, their aim is to disaffiliate people currently connected to Jewish life and re-affiliate them to other organizations they deem more "kosher." They do not exist in a holistic relationship with the rest of communal Jewish life but rather are in a constant state of competition with it.
The more informed we are about the various Jewish organizations within our communities the better choices we can make about what to attend and participate in and who to support. Jewish outreach deserves our support, Jewish redirection does not.
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HOME Network and InternetTools and Utilities Proxifier Portable Edition
Proxifier Portable Edition 2.0
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Description of Proxifier Portable Edition 2.0:
Proxifier is a program that allows network applications that do not support working through proxy servers to operate through a HTTP or SOCKS proxy server or a chain of proxy servers.There are many network applications that do not support working through proxy servers and thus cannot be used from LAN or with firewalls. These can compromise corporate privacy and lead you to many other restrictions. Proxifier solves all of these problems and gives you the opportunity to work with your favorite software without any restrictions.Portable Edition requires no installation and can be run from removable media such as USB stick, Floppy, etc... With Proxifier you can work with any Internet clients (browsers, ftp, ssh, ICQ, IRC, eMule,video/audio, games like World of Warcraf) from network that is separated from Internet by a firewall (only one open port is required).Proxifier will help secure your privacy. Send and receive email through a proxy server or a chain of proxy servers, all email clients are supported (Outlook, Eudora, Netscape and others).Proxifier allows you to:+ Run any network applications through proxy server; no special configuration is required for the software. + Access the Internet from restricted local area network through a proxy server gateway. + Bypass firewall restrictions (connect to restricted ports). + Use three types of proxy servers: SOCKS v4, SOCKS v5, and HTTP. + Resolve DNS names through a proxy server. + "Tunnel" the entire system (force all network connections in the system work through a proxy server). + Secure privacy by hiding your IP address. + Work through a chain of proxy servers using different protocols. + View information on bandwidth usage as a colored diagram in real-time. + Maintain log files.
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On the Scene at the Oregon CEO Summit
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|Wednesday, May 04, 2011
By Emma Hall
About 160 business leaders and Oregon State University students and faculty members gathered at the Governor Hotel over Cobb salads to hear about the role of innovation in business.
Patricia Bedient, Executive Vice President and CEO of Weyerhaeuser, gave the keynote address. She described how her 110-year-old company used innovation in everything from new imaging technology to polymers in order to stay on top of the industry.
Weyerhaeuser uses LIDAR, a technology that uses light to map out trees on a terrain from above, in order to gain insight on their trees. The company is also coming up with new uses for the cellulose fibers they develop and manufacture, such as using them for biomass in the future. In 2008, Weyerhaeuser began a joint venture with Chevron to develop biomass fuels from their forests, called Catchlight Energy LLC.
Bedient answered audience questions on topics ranging from manufacturing overseas to government support of higher education. She also explained that in order to foster innovation, one must be open to failure. "One of the most important things about innovation is rewarding failures, as long as we learn from them," Bedient said "It's as much about rewarding risk-taking as it is about rewarding success."
After Bedient's talk, a panel of five CEOs and business experts discussed the role of innovation in business, and how it relates to the hot button topic of creating jobs and growing new markets. Moderated by Steve Clark, president of the Portland Tribune and Community Newspapers, the panel members included Bill Chambers, Ryan Deckert, Larry Mullins, Jim Piro, and Ananthan Thandri.
"To me, there's opportunity for innovation everywhere you look," Stahlbush Island Farms President and CEO Bill Chambers said. The fourth-generation Oregonian explained that one place Stahlbush Island Farms found opportunity for innovation was the unlikeliest of places — the waste bin. The realization that energy and agriculture are closely linked led Stahlbush to create a Biogas Plant, which can create enough electricity for about 1,100 homes out of fruit and vegetable waste.
Stahlbush Island Farms also released the first biodegradable bag for frozen fruits and vegetables.
Other innovations that Chambers' company uses are technology-based, such as GPS-guided tractors and robotic irrigators. The tractors work independent of human operators, allowing for more efficient farming that can go on 24 hours a day. The robotic irrigators can be programed for two-week periods, and even are equipped with a cell phone so they can call for help if they run into a problem.
Oregon Business Association President Ryan Deckert was the second panel member to speak on innovation. "The last great hope for America is creativity and the American mind," he said. He talked about the Oregon Innovation Council (Oregon InC) and how it was working to support research and startups in Oregon through its various programs, including ONAMI, OTRADI, OWET and Oregon BEST.
Deckert agreed with keynote speaker Patricia Bedient's point that a part of encouraging innovation is being open to failure. He described an OWET buoy launch, with a gathered crowd, balloons and decorations, only to have the buoy sink. "It's almost Caddyshack-esque," he laughed.
Samaritan Health Services President and CEO Larry Mullins talked about innovation in the health-care industry. "I always describe our field as innovation by mandate," Mullins said.
He explained the wide meaning of innovation, which doesn't just refer to technology. Innovation could mean changing something in order to create more jobs, for example. "We have to look at economic innovations as much as clinical innovations," Mullins said.
Portland General Electric President and CEO Jim Piro spoke about innovation for the 120-year-old utility. One of the company's recent innovations is a "smart meter," with a computer chip. The meter can provide real-time information on a home or business's electricity usage. In the future, this will allow the company to know about a power outage before a homeowner even does, and work towards fixing the problem. For now, the real-time information has been useful to crack down on those stealing the company's products-often the same people who are growing illegal crops, Piro said.
The last panel member to speak on innovation in his sector was Mentor Graphics Vice President and CIO Ananthan Thandri. Thandri reiterated the point that innovation isn't necessarily about new products or technology, even in a technology field such as his. Innovation can mean using an old idea in a new way. As an example he compared the old habit of timesharing (renting a computer and storing all your information on a floppy disc) to the current buzzword in the industry: cloud computing.
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Files » Oblivion » Abodes - Player homes
2 54Elvenwatch ManorThis mod adds a house in the Elven Gardens District of the Imperial City which you can purchase.Released: 28/03/2015 - 03:26PMUpdated: 28/03/2015 - 06:33PM
by TanisDuncan
6 142Our HomeA small player house above ground. A massive lair underground. Made for the use of multiple companions.Released: 21/03/2015 - 04:44PMUpdated: 21/03/2015 - 04:44PM
by bpgisme
1 22Carriage Garden HomeThis mod adds a large carriage built as a home south of Skingrad with a garden filled with custom plants and ingredients.Released: 18/03/2015 - 11:06PMUpdated: 20/03/2015 - 09:31PM
by Wolflady500
18 220Dandelion FarmAdds a small farmstead to the area north of Skingrad.Released: 03/03/2015 - 07:01AMUpdated: 16/03/2015 - 04:25AM
by MsFrankenstein
53 441Strotis Hunter CabinThis space for rentReleased: 02/02/2015 - 12:03PMUpdated: 18/02/2015 - 07:40PM
by stroti
4 42Novice's isolated CampThis little mod adds a small camp on the shore line of the small island east of the IC isle to call home. It's only made for one person, so i don't suggest to use it while you're traveling with a companion!Released: 05/01/2015 - 07:44PMUpdated: 05/01/2015 - 07:44PM
by Hellfalkon
58 700Cheydinhal Swan CottageCheydinhal Swan Cottage is located on the island in the centre of the city of Cheydinhal.Enjoy the company of swans and ducks as you spend an evening outdoors, enjoy the company of your neighbors when they come to sit at your outdoor table. The house is filled with crafting facilities. You buy the house at Borba's Goods and Stores in CheyReleased: 01/01/2015 - 04:34PMUpdated: 08/02/2015 - 11:22AM
by Emma
8 61Possum Lodge RebuiltA remake of my most popular mod!Released: 25/12/2014 - 07:24PMUpdated: 26/12/2014 - 03:40AM
by Muggrug
7 90Panther River Smuggler's ShackA cozy, isolated, abandoned shack nestled deep within Blackwood. With a basement. And All Natural and Storms and Sounds support for extra coziness.Released: 15/12/2014 - 09:20AMUpdated: 15/12/2014 - 09:52AM
by Svartrgeirr
6 47New HomeThis mod was never meant to be release as it was an test mod for my crafting scripts and other things. As well as a home mod for me when I was testing and or playing the game. Have remove all of the crafting scripts and cooking scripts but have add them to an addon for the new home mod it will link to my crafting esm Mod and willReleased: 11/12/2014 - 09:34PMUpdated: 11/12/2014 - 09:34PM
by kenkyaku
7 94Small Log CabinJust a small home for free when starting a new game.Released: 11/12/2014 - 09:04PMUpdated: 11/12/2014 - 09:04PM
by kenkyaku
0 6Skooma Den houseTurns the bravil skooma den into a house for the player.Released: 09/12/2014 - 02:38AMUpdated: 09/12/2014 - 02:38AM
by Batrada
82 1,026Leyawiin Lake HouseLeyawiin Lake House is located on an island slightly north of Leyawiin, accessible from a bridge close to White Stallion Lodge. Here, the weather is nicer than in the Leyawiin city, and you can enjoy the company of swans and ducks as you spend an evening outdoors viewing the Topal Bay. The house is filled with crafting facilities, and you have theReleased: 01/12/2014 - 08:41AMUpdated: 18/12/2014 - 04:44AM
by Emma
18 149Topals DeepAdds a player home and Dwemer Submarine in Topal Bay south of LeyawiinReleased: 23/11/2014 - 10:38PMUpdated: 02/01/2015 - 05:06PM
by mhahn123
20 206The Topal VesselAdds a House Boat style home to the lower Niben near Water's Edge.Released: 22/11/2014 - 01:51AMUpdated: 02/01/2015 - 05:16PM
by mhahn123
27 629Personal Oblivion RealmThis mod allows you to summon a portal to go to an Oblivion Realm that is a player home.Released: 20/10/2014 - 01:12AMUpdated: 27/11/2014 - 11:45PM
by sirius82
2 49Riverside Cabin_FixMy Re textured version of the cabin wood.Released: 12/10/2014 - 10:02PMUpdated: 13/10/2014 - 02:46AM
by AmericanOutcast
2 39WLMansionjust a casual homeReleased: 14/09/2014 - 01:56AMUpdated: 14/09/2014 - 01:56AM
by Wolveslordx
5 151Waterfronthouse - playerhomeputs a Little shack on the shore of lake inialta in the waterfront district.Released: 01/09/2014 - 07:34PMUpdated: 07/10/2014 - 01:36AM
by Ladida
16 231Xander Manor e SanctuarySolve a fairytale-like mini-quest, you'll get an adorable Manor e special Sanctuary Chorrol-style, with some surprises helpful to your character.Released: 29/08/2014 - 01:37AMUpdated: 25/01/2015 - 05:15PM
by xander313
6 55Jon's White Stallion LodgeI put this together because I was always unsatisfied with the layout of White Stallion Lodge.Released: 21/08/2014 - 10:17AMUpdated: 27/10/2014 - 11:15PM
by PrinceJonathan
6 174Skaaldeur Keep Castle ModPlayer home set near Skingrad.Released: 01/08/2014 - 05:28AMUpdated: 05/08/2014 - 01:07AM
by xxiraxx7
3 57Shadowcrest Vineyard ITAQuesto mod traduce il mod Shadowcrest Vineyard and Shadowcrest Vineyard fatto da Korana completamente in italiano!Released: 21/07/2014 - 05:06PMUpdated: 21/07/2014 - 11:41PM
by marcello1997
20 177My Island PalaceAdds an Ayleid style home off the coast of AnvilReleased: 08/07/2014 - 12:27AMUpdated: 02/01/2015 - 07:10PM
by mhahn123
0 107My Home and Overpowered Sword 1.0A cool player home. It includes a very overpowered sword by the furnace.Released: 29/05/2014 - 12:05AMUpdated: 29/05/2014 - 12:05AM
by TrumpetPro
23 263Blackwood ManorThis mod gives you ownership of the Blackwood Company HallReleased: 28/05/2014 - 08:19PMUpdated: 10/07/2014 - 09:20PM
by StaciKrash
8 111ElderfawnElderfawn is a secluded, quaint little home surrounded by large steep cliffs. Beautiful branches hang over the entrance. Includes a map marker just north of Skingrad. Other homes coming soon.Released: 12/05/2014 - 06:21AMUpdated: 12/05/2014 - 06:23AM
by HillSwitch
6 90AST SI HutA basic, no frills hut for those, who have made themselves at home in the Shivering Isles. You have the choice to furnish the hut into either Manic or Dementia style. The hut lies just behind New Sheoth.Released: 30/04/2014 - 10:49AMUpdated: 30/04/2014 - 10:55AM
by Aisis
39 484Pirate ShipThis mod contains a ship that has been turned into a player's home.Released: 14/04/2014 - 09:18PMUpdated: 15/04/2014 - 08:16PM
by rileymarks
4 83ImperialCityGuildThis mod heavily alters the terrain of southern Waterfront and add three building that player can use as home.Released: 12/04/2014 - 05:56PMUpdated: 20/09/2014 - 04:34PM
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I ebf and feel super hungry all the time. I feel like at this rate I'm going to pack on the weight I lost after having the baby. Does anyone else feel like this?
so hungry...
Posted 11/09/2012
Posted 11/09/2012
Yes Totally and I dwell on it everyday and I keep on adding to excuses and avoid workouts
FTM mommie to Baby D 9/18/2012, Engaged to Daddy D
( . Y . ) Silver Boobies 3/18/2013
Posted 11/09/2012
I am in the same boat:( I always want to eat and the worst thing is I'm craving sweets! I went to the store yesterday though and got grapes and humus and stuck with those as snacks today... I also want to start working out but have heard it dries up our supply??
Posted 11/09/2012
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I had a c section so I've been putting off working out until my pp check up. Even now carrying the lo in the carseat makes me feel my incision feel sore.
Posted 11/09/2012
I was talking to my DH about this tonight. I am hungry 24/7! My LO is packing on the lbs (and is EBF) so I know she is getting quite a few of my calories. This is rediculous though.
I got cleared to run and workout and plan to go on a run this weekend. A bit concerned though on being able to get enough calories in.
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Posted 11/09/2012
I've noticed that when I try to cut back on the calories my supply is always less than what it normally is. And I keep craving the sweets too, mainly cookies. :(
Posted 11/09/2012
I'm hungry constantly too. I loooove roast now! I want sweets all the time and haven't lost any weight. I heard you lose a lot of weight when bf buti haven't lost any nd I pump along with bf. I just feel hungry and can't skip meals or ill just feel sick
Posted 11/09/2012
I totally have an insatiable hunger all the time.
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DD - Saffron 10/6/2012
Posted 11/09/2012
I can see where the hunger comes from but does anyone have an idea of why the craving for sweets?
Posted 11/09/2012
I have days where my hunger is insatiable. Today is one of those days. I feel like a total moo cow. I've also noticed these days a have been more frequent since I returned back to work.
Posted 11/09/2012
I always feel famished. I was down to my pre pregnancy weight by 3 weeks...but now (7 weeks pp) I'm up 7lbs. I had a c/s too and was cleared for all regular activities at my 6 week check...but my incision always hurts too. after a day of cleaning the house my incision felt like it was being stabbed with a knife. I'm scared to exercise lol.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Toast \Toast\, noun [OF. toste, or tost['e]e, toasted bread. See {Toast}, v.]
1. Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc.
My sober evening let the tankard bless, With toast embrowned, and fragrant nutmeg fraught. --T. Warton.
2. A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; -- so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy.
It now came to the time of Mr. Jones to give a toast . . . who could not refrain from mentioning his dear Sophia. --Fielding.
3. Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as "The land we live in," "The day we celebrate," etc.
{Toast rack}, a small rack or stand for a table, having partitions for holding slices of dry toast.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Toast \Toast\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Toasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Toasting}.] [OF. toster to roast, toast, fr. L. torrere, tostum, to parch, roast. See {Torrid}.]
1. To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
2. To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
3. To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
1: slices of bread that have been toasted
2: a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention; "he was the toast of the town"
3: a person in desperate straits; someone doomed; "I'm a goner if this plan doesn't work"; "one mistake and you're toast" [syn: {goner}, {toast}]
4: a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event [syn: {pledge}, {toast}]
1: make brown and crisp by heating; "toast bread"; "crisp potatoes" [syn: {crispen}, {toast}, {crisp}]
2: propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year" [syn: {toast}, {drink}, {pledge}, {salute}, {wassail}]
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From "Sick in the Head: Why America won't get the health-care system it needs," by Luke Mitchell, in the February 2009 Harper's Magazine.
The argument for single payer is straightforward. When everybody is in, you don't have to spend a lot of time and money deciding who to keep out. You also don't have to worry about what to do with the people you've kept out when they get sick anyway. (Uninsured sick people cost insurers nothing, but since they often end up seeking expensive emergency-room treatment, they cost taxpayers a lot.) If you want to quit your job and work someplace else, you can do so without fear of losing your health insurance, which means that labor is more mobile. And employers don't have to carry the burden of benefits, which means that capital is more mobile. If you get sick, you don't have to worry about losing your coverage or your house. Your insurance is paid for through taxes. And your taxes don't go up just because you have a preexisting condition; under single payer, there is no such thing as a "preexisting condition." Moreover, your provider—the single payer—has an incentive to keep you healthy your entire life, rather than just getting you to age sixty-five and then dumping you into Medicare. And if the experience of most other countries is any indication, the whole thing would cost a lot less than our current bloated mess of a system.
The benefits of single payer were at one time if not a matter of consensus then at least a topic considered worthy of discussion, at least among Democrats. "I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer health-care program," Barack Obama said in 2003. "As all of us know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, we have to take back the House." And yet as Democrats began to take all of those things back, Obama began to reconsider. In 2007, he recast the debate in terms that were more reflective than prescriptive. "If you're starting from scratch," he told The New Yorker, "then a single-payer system would probably make sense. But we've got all these legacy systems in place, and managing the transition, as well as adjusting the culture to a different system, would be difficult to pull off." And now that Democrats have the White House, the Senate, and the House, it is clear that a single- payer program is not a part of their agenda.
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There is no place at the table for single payer advocates in the view of the Congressional leaders who set the agenda and muzzle dissenters. Last month at a breakfast meeting with reporters, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) responded to a question about health care with these revealing and exasperating words: "Over and over again, we hear single payer, single payer, single payer. Well, it's not going to be a single payer." Thus spake Speaker Pelosi, the Representative from Aetna? Never mind that 75 members of her party have signed onto H.R. 676-the Conyers single payer legislation. Never mind that in her San Francisco district, probably three out of four people want single payer. And never mind that over 20,000 people die every year, according to the Institute of Medicine, because they cannot afford health insurance.
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U.S. soldier at Camp Liberty, Baghdad, kills five fellow soldiers (via); Iraqi homosexuals tortured with hot glue?
The exceptionally sluggish pace of new-vehicle sales, moreover, in the face of extremely attractive incentives being offered by the automakers might imply that Americans are considering making more-permanent adjustments to their lifestyles. And the denigration of the brand of the Big Three automakers in light of their financial difficulties— about one third of Americans have generally told pollsters they will buy only an American-made car— might reduce some of the patriotic associations with the activity of driving. Building a light-rail system might not persuade Bubba to get rid of his vehicle— but forcing him to buy foreign might.
One can hardly imagine anything that would have better justified the established social and economic theories of the Industrial Revolution than the claim that our very biological natures are examples of basic laws of political economy. How else are we to explain the immediate and continued commercial success of Darwin's books? The entire first edition of 1,250 copies of the Origin was immediately snapped up by booksellers. The expectation of public interest is revealed by the fact that a circulating library took five hundred copies.[3] The sixth edition, only thirteen years later, sold 11,000 copies. One cannot understand the origin and the immediate success of the Origin outside of the social and economic setting in which it was conceived, nor have historians of science ignored the question. The pages of the Journal of the History of Biology have certainly not been devoid of papers on the subject. Yet what we have been provided with in 2009 is biography and annotations on the Origin, Perhaps it is time for a socioeconomic analysis of our own preoccupations.
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