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Federal employees may be getting a bit of a reprieve from the perception problem that is not of their making.
Workers who responded to tornadoes in the south and the multiple feds who played key roles in tracking down Osama bin Laden are lifting the fog that has settled around the federal government after months of bad news and disparaging comments.
"The facts haven't changed, the story, the truth hasn't changed, maybe the receptivity of the public has changed," said John Berry, the Office of Personnel Management's director, at an event during Public Service Recognition Week in Washington sponsored by the Partnership for Public Service. "That is a window of opportunity. Hopefully we can take advantage of that while the public is listening."
Berry pointed out that almost 3,000 federal employees died in the line of duty since 1992 and the number of federal workers is fewer today than when Lyndon Johnson was President yet there are 110 million more Americans.
"If we can have them understand that then maybe the rhetoric, when we get back to the day-to-day political infighting, will be a little softer because they will know some of those facts actually got through the fog," Berry said.
Berry and other senior officials recognize the ongoing morale problem their agencies face. The months of attacks on federal pay, the White House's decision to freeze employee pay for two years and the potential government shutdowns all have taken a toll on agencies.
"There are so many things that are going on today that undermine the morale of the workforce," said Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership. "We are trying to turn the conversation to focus on the positive to make sure that people, leaders in government and outside, will not get the government they want and they need if they don't actually identify and honor the great things that are happening in government."
Stier said that is why the Public Service Recognition Week is so important to highlight the federal workforce and the work it does. He added that it's important to make sure federal employees feel appreciated.
"We are not doing enough to get the broader word out," he said. "But it's important for federal employees to get the word out. If each of the 2 million federal workers told the stories about what they know about the good things that are happening in the government to their families and their networks, that would create the most successful viral campaign possible."
Stier added the White House, however, plays a huge role in changing the tone across the country.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said President Obama brings up the importance of the federal workforce at nearly every cabinet meeting and met with federal employees at more than 20 agencies.
LaHood is among several secretaries are trying to address the morale issue in their agency.
"This idea that politicians want to take pot-shots at government workers, I despise that," he said. "What we've tried to do during our career, 35 years in public service, is highlight the good work that hard working public servants do every day to help people, and also to promote the idea that a lot of good comes from government. Government should not be the whipping organizations of politicians."
Transportation is using the crowd-sourcing technique to bring in ideas from frontline workers to improve the agency.
Over at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Secretary Shaun Donovan is trying to move his agency out of the one of the lowest rankings on the annual OPM Employee Viewpoint survey.
Donovan has instituted several initiatives from inviting employees to his office for coffee to doubling their training budget and requiring mentoring to quarterly townhall meetings across the country.
"A lot of this is communication and not just one-way communication," Donovan said. "We started quarterly townhalls with every employee around the country. It's a chance not only for me to say 'here's what we are focused on, here's what we've heard and we are responding to what you've asked us to do.' But also to hear new feedback in that format or setting up a website. A lot of this is about making sure an employee anywhere in the agency can say 'we are not serving our customers the way we should' or 'I'm not getting the training that I need,' and having those channels open and responding to them."
And at the Department of Health and Human Services, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said employees are encouraged to be creative and innovative in finding solutions to agency problems.
"People are hearing way too much in terms of the cheap shots," Sebelius said. "We have to work twice as hard to make sure people understand not only they are valued, but empower them to do a better job and empower continuous improvement."
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The Singleton Pattern is used to make sure only one object of a particular class is ever created. This can be useful when when exactly one object is needed to coordinate actions across a system; perhaps for efficiency where creating lots of identical objects would be wasteful, perhaps because a particular algorithm needing a single point of control is required or perhaps when an object is used to interact with a non-shareable resource.
Weaknesses of the Singleton pattern include:
- It can reduce reuse. For instance, there are issues if you want to use inheritance with Singletons. If
SingletonA, should there be exactly (at most) one instance of each or should the creation of an object from one of the classes prohibit creation from the other. Also, if you decide both classes can have an instance, how do you override the
getInstance()method which is static?
- It is also hard to test singletons in general because of the static methods but Groovy can support that if required.
Suppose we wish to create a class for collecting votes. Because getting the right number of votes may be very important, we decide to use the singleton pattern. There will only ever be one
VoteCollector object, so it makes it easier for us to reason about that objects creation and use.
Some points of interest about this code:
- it has a private constructor, so no
VoteCollectorobjects can be created in our system (except for the
INSTANCEwe create)
- the
INSTANCEis also private, so it can't be changed once set
- we haven't made the updating of votes thread-safe at this point (it doesn't add to this example)
- the vote collector instance is not lazyily created (if we never reference the class, the instance won't be created; however, as soon as we reference the class, the instance will be created even if not needed initially)
We can use this singleton class in some script code as follows:
Here we used the instance 3 times. The second usage was even in a different thread (but don't try this in a scenario with a new class loader).
Running this script yields (your hashcode value will vary):
Variations to this pattern:
- To support lazy-loading and multi-threading, we could just use the
synchronizedkeyword with the
getInstance()method. This has a performance hit but will work.
- We can consider variations involving double-checked locking and the
volatilekeyword (for Java 5 and above), but see the limitations of this approach here.
Guice Example
We can also implement the Singleton Pattern using Guice. This example relies on annotations. Annotations are a Groovy 1.1 feature and will need to be run on a Java 5 or above JVM.
Suppose we want to keep track of the total number of calculations that a calculator performs. One way to do that is to use a singleton for the calculator class and keep a variable in the class with the count.
Guice is a Java-oriented framework that supports Interface-Oriented design. Hence we create a
Calculator interface first. We can then create our
CalculatorImpl implementation and a
Client object which our script will interact with. The
Client class isn't strictly needed for this example but allows us to show that non-singleton instances are the default. Here is the code:
Note the
@Inject annotation in the
Client class. We can always tell right in the source code which fields will be injected.
In this example we chose to use an explicit binding. All of our dependencies (ok, only one in this example at the moment) are configured in the binding. The Guide injector knows about the binding and injects the dependencies as required when we create objects. For the singleton pattern to hold, you must always use Guice to create your instances. Nothing shown so far would stop you creating another instance of the calculator manually using
new CalculatorImpl() which would of course violate the desired singleton behaviour.
In other scenarios (though probably not in large systems), we could choose to express dependencies using annotations, such as the following example shows:
Note the
@Singleton annotation on the
CalculatorImpl class and the
@ImplementedBy annotation in the
Calculator interface.
When run, the above example (using either approach) yields (your hashcode values will vary):
You can see that we obtained a new client object whenever we asked for an instance but it was injected with the same calculator object.
Spring Example
We can do the same example again using Spring as follows:
And here is the result (your hashcode values will vary):

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Office of Student ResearchInternal Medicine: General Internal Medicine: Internal Medicine Associates (YIMA), Yale Center for Asylum Medicine
- B.A., University of Colorado at Boulder, 1987
- M.D., Boston University, 1992
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- McKenzie K. Medical Evaluation of Asylum Seekers. In: Annamalai A, Ed. Refugee Health Care. Springer Science and Business Media New York, NY. 2014.
- Barnes RC, Boeka AB, McKenzie KC, Genao I, Garcia R, Ellman MS, Ellis PE Masheb RM, Grilo CM. Metabolic syndrome in the obese patients with binge-eating disorder in primary care clinics: a cross-sectional study. Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders. Published online: March 3, 2011.
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DATE & TIME: Saturday, October 20, 3:30 p.m. (et)
FACTS & STATS: Site: Byrd Stadium (54,000) -- College Park, Maryland. Television: ESPN U. Home Record: NC State 3-0, Maryland 2-1. Away Record: NC State 1-0, Maryland 2-1. Neutral Record: NC State 0-1, Maryland 0-0. Conference Record: NC State 1-1, Maryland 2-0. Series Record: Series is tied, 32-32-4.
GAME NOTES: For the first time since its shocking win over then No. 3 Florida State, the NC State Wolfpack will hit the field when they invade Byrd Stadium for an Atlantic Coast Conference bout with the Maryland Terrapins.
Trailing 16-0 heading into the fourth quarter, NC State put up 17 unanswered fourth-quarter points to pull out a miraculous 17-16 win on its home field against the Seminoles. The win has reinvigorated the Wolfpack who were coming off a 44-37 loss to Miami in its only other ACC matchup. Overall NC State has won four of its last five games.
It may surprise some that Maryland is currently undefeated (2-0) in ACC play after a 27-20 win over Virginia last weekend. The Terrapins went just 1-7 in league play last season and had not won a conference game since opening weekend of the 2011 season. It is the first time the Terps have begun conference play at 2-0 since 2001.
Since 2000, Maryland has won eight of 12 meetings with NC State to pull the all-time series even 32-32-4. The Terps have also won three straight in College Park. Last season NC State was on the winning side, collecting a 56-41 win in Raleigh.
Mike Glennon deserves a bulk of the credit for NC State's comeback win against Florida State. The Wolfpack quarterback orchestrated each of the squad's touchdowns, including the game-winning two-yard toss with 16 seconds remaining in regulation. Glennon has been solid overall this season, completing 60.2 percent of his pass attempts for 1,681 yards and 12 touchdowns, although his seven interceptions are less than ideal.
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NC State is in the middle of the conference in rushing offense, averaging 145.3 yards per game. Tony Creecy (284 yards) and Shadrach Thornton (261) are the two main ball carriers.
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Amerson has still played well this season, collecting three interceptions and six passes defended which are both team highs. Brandan Bishop (47) and Earl Wolff (44) are the team leaders in tackles, while Rickey Dowdy (8.0 tackles for loss) has been disruptive in opposing backfields.
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Disturbed's new album Asylum will be available on August 31st. Each copy comes with a free gift from the band - an hour long documentary capturing the last ten years of candid history of the band. Get your first look at the album tracklisting below. Look for details on an exclusive Asylum album pre-order & additional documentary information coming soon.
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Asylum Tracklisting RevealedPosted 2010-07-09 15:45
Disturbed's new album Asylum will be available on August 31st. Each copy comes with a free gift from the band - an hour long documentary capturing the last ten years of candid history of the band. Get your first look at the album tracklisting below. Look for details on an exclusive Asylum album pre-order & additional documentary information coming soon.
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11) Sacrifice
12) Innocence
Disturbed is my favorite band
Disturbed is my favorite band and a surce of inspiration for me....
im waitting for the new cd to come out and enjoy the songs in it (wich have an interesting name) i got my hopes up on this cd, come on disturbed i know it will be great :U
Asylum on YouTube
The New Single
I Bought "Another Way To Die" At Walmart Yesterday. Great Song, And The B-Side Is A Great Cover Of Judas Priest's "Living After Midnight". Mike Plays The Painkiller Drum Intro Before The Song, And It's Awesome.
oooohhhhh... My child sounds
oooohhhhh... My child sounds so cool!! Can't wait!!
I want it, plus come to Britain
I really really really want this now!!!
Plus come back to Britain to do a tour, i have never seen a live gig
Can't wait!
Can't wait for Asylum! And I must say The Guy is looking a bit more pissed than usual...
And the belts are
And the belts are breaking... uh oh..
real music
But being disturbed is a
But being disturbed is a good thing.. I think....
I truly hope this that DOD as stated in the news, since it's announcement months ago stating we'd get it in May, is not what we've waited for; that "DOD" is a review of the last 10 years. I've been awaiting a full length dvd/concert/behind the scenes since MOL, which was quite amazing and quite ambitious for a band to release upon its early inception.
Although I eagerly anticipate ASYLUM next month, I can't help but feel a little gutted if we don't get a live offering. When a band just has its 5th studio release in 10 years and doesn't offer much in the way of other live and non-live entertainment, it's a hard pill to swallow.
In one respect, it makes up wait, perhaps increasing our affinity of a new release, but even Godsmack have given us a lot of live and extras along the way of their tenure.
I didn't want my first post in a looooong time to be remotely like this, because I know that DISTURBED will not let us down with their music as their first 4 albums are phenomenal. I just hope we get something else. It probably won't happen now as it may overshadow the up and coming tour and people may be satisfied with the dvd, though as I write these words it just sounds incorrect.
Disturbed - Asylum
I think they should all be singles. It would be badass, =)
DOD now just a bonus disc?
Look i bloody hope this isnt the case! I have been droolin for this dvd since i 1st heard of it mid last year! i was hoping for a good 3 hours of material of Disturbed over the years! but if DOD is just going ot be an hour length dvd (what 13 songs? prolly MAAW or and rock AM ring 08 which i have!)that as a MASSIVE diturbed fan ( I have you blokes inked on my forarm!) is a kick in the guts!!!!
Dont preview a amazing soundin dvd if ya aint goin to give it to ya die hard fans!!!!! dont let me down bois!
<3 you blokes!
"The sickness is the cure for we are all Instructible!"
Can't wait
I wish it was out now so I can listen to it!!!
Disturbed - Asylum
Cant wait to buy Asylum and hear it, =)
ASYLUM Sounds Like a Killer
bettayetta- "I like it more and more as we're getting the details. I read the track listing and my heart almost exploded with excitement! It Sounds "Disturbed" You Guys! WHEW!(relief!)"
Been really looking forward
I assume Mine or Three Will
Bonus Tracks?
I cannot wait. Disturbed is my favorite band of all time. There is not one song that I don't like. And just my opinion, I think Another Way To Die is badass. Not seeing " Mine" or " Three" on the list makes me wonder if those songs will be bonus tracks on the special edition. Just a guess.
My jury's still out
My jury's still out honestly.
Another Way to Die really didn't do that much for me. Then again it wouldn't be the first Disturbed song that's like that.
I'm a huge Disturbed fan, I listen to their music every day when I walk to and from work. I have the original version of The Guy from The Sickness tattooed on my arm. I can and have listen to just about any one of their songs a dozen times and not get tired of it. Another Way to Die just really didn't do it for me. There were a couple of songs of Believe that I didn't particularly like either. I dunno, we'll have to see.
Oh Man, I Just Can't Wait...
To hear more of the power balads from this album, if I saw Another Way to Die as a title before I heard the song, I would have never guessed it would be a cheesy song about the fantasy land of global warming. So impossible to say just seeing the titles, hopefully it takes a turn for the better after that embarrassing first single they put out, adding them to the likes of Bette Midler's "Wind Beneath My Wings", but I am crossing my fingers that a song like Remnants isn't about oil on the beaches in the Gulf. But if it is, I'm sure you all will spout off how awesome and mind blowing it is, I love it!! Time will tell..
Sounds Good
This is gonna be sweet, but Im like the previous, where's "Mine" and "Three"? And why aren't they starting with Asylum? Oh well, see all these questions just means that this album needs to be out NOW!!! Rock on!!
where is...
"Mine" and "Three"? guess they didn't make it, hopefully we'll get to hear those soon like we got to hear "Parasite" early, especially since "Mine" was supposed to be on "Indestructible" I think...
This is no doubt gonna be fucking awesome. I can tell just by the name. \m/
This album will no doubt be fucking brutal, i really want them to come back to London, UK so i can see them for the first time, fucking amazing work, keep it up \m/
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JON CARDINELLI writes the Sharks have found form late in the competition but it is their early season failures that could prevent them from lifting their first Super Rugby title.
Saturday's performance against the Reds was astounding. Against significant odds, the Sharks put together their best performance of the season.
They played with confidence, power, precision, and above all else, intelligence. It didn't matter that this game was played in Brisbane or that the Sharks were missing two key players, they showed their quality in producing their best display when it mattered most.
If there is such a thing as total rugby, both the Sharks and Crusaders produced it last Saturday. But while the latter will have found due course for celebration, the former should realise that the competition is about to get a lot tougher, and that luck is certainly not on their side.
The Stormers have been accused of being lucky this season, although in a competition as long and demanding as Super Rugby, you don't win 14 out of 16 games by luck.
You don't win three out of four games Down Under, and seven out of eight inter-conference matches by chance. Away victories in Brisbane, Pretoria, Dunedin… well you get the picture.
In fact, the Cape side will be quick to argue the contrary. It's felt within the Stormers camp that they may have scored more tries during the league if luck had gone their way. Indeed, they may have turned in better showings had they not been hampered by so many injuries, and if their first-choice back row had been available.
But no team finishes the Super Rugby league in first position by dumb luck. The Stormers have earned a home semi-final, and will enjoy all the advantages of playing a knockout match at Newlands. The Sharks, who have at times played the better rugby but have not been as consistent in terms of league results, will be up against it.
While they are traditionally stronger in this fixture at Kings Park, the Sharks haven't beaten the Stormers at Newlands since 2009. On the back of that sensational performance against the Reds, you should believe they're capable of breaking a three-year drought, but for one small detail.
After flying to Australia last week, they will fly back to South Africa to face the Stormers. That's a 22 000km round trip in the space of a week.
The travel will surely take its toll. It should also be remembered that the Stormers have been resting up in Cape Town for the past week, having earned a bye by finishing the league in the top two. They will be the fresher outfit when the two teams take the field this Saturday.
A victory in Cape Town is not impossible for the Sharks, especially given the Stormers' injury situation and the fact that they lost last year's semi-final against the Crusaders.
The Cantabrians proved it possible to fly halfway across the world and still win crunch matches, and the Sharks should draw inspiration from that achievement. But can the Sharks keep producing performances like they did in Brisbane? Can they really maintain that intensity?
There has to be some doubt in this regard. Even if they beat the Stormers this week, they will travel back Down Under to face one of the Chiefs or Crusaders in a final.
The Reds were outstanding in the 2011 final and deserved to win, but it was evident that the Crusaders were not as sharp as usual and that the extensive travel had finally caught up with them.
It would make for an incredible story if the Sharks went all the way, but if they don't, then they will reflect on their earlier failures as reasons for yet another near miss.
As the history of this competition will confirm, home advantage is crucial in the play-offs. The Sharks underachieved in the league stage of the 2011 season, and were forced to travel to Christchurch for a play-off as a result. They've produced a mixed bag once again in 2012, and while they've done enough to progress to the semi-finals, they haven't done enough to avoid the great detractor of travel fatigue.


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Born: 6/19/1954
Birthplace: Springfield, Missouri
Body Heat (1981), Turner's screen debut, was the first of a string of successful films in which she would perform in the 1980s, including Romancing the Stone (1984) and Prizzi's Honor (1985), for which she won consecutive Golden Globe awards, and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), which garnered her a Best Actress Oscar nomination. Her other movies include War of the Roses (1989), House of Cards (1993), The Real Blonde (1998), and The Virgin Suicides (1999).
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I think there may be some misunderstanding about the precepts,
as though their purpose is some kind of rigid "self-denial" trip,
like some kind of ascetic torture, lying on a bed of nails or whatever.
First of all, you don't have to take the precepts in order to practice dharma.
Second, the idea that taking the precepts immediately conjures up resistance to them,
is like saying the moment you get married and exchange wedding vows
you suddenly have this desire to cheat on your spouse
some sort of "forbidden fruit" thing.
The reason to take the precepts is because you want to, and because you feel you are ready to.
Not because you want to undergo some major hardship.
But why would anyone want to? It is because at some point you might feel that
realization or nirvana or the perfect cessation of suffering, whatever you want to call it,
is actually possible.
It's not just a theoretical proposition.
Suppose you were quite confident that somewhere in your back yard was buried a huge chest full of gold coins.
How eager would you be to start digging?
How hard would it be to live with sore muscles from all that digging...
if you were certain that once you uncovered that chest of gold, you would be set for life?
Maybe not too hard.
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Fact or fiction? Powering down a PC via the power button will harm it
by Lee Koo (ADMIN) - 9/9/11 4:02 PM
Question: Fact or fiction? Powering down a PC via the power button will harm it
For the record, I am not talking about holding the button down for
several seconds as would be done in the case of a hard shutdown. Only
a quick press and release--which (from my perspective) seems to send
the system through the exact same shutdown gymnastics as the "Start /
Shut Down" method. I have been using this method my entire life with
every single system I've owned (since 1998) and (to my knowledge) have
never done harm to the OS of any of my workstations.
I just had a $7,000 3D workstation built running Windows7 and the
builder told me never, ever shut it down using the power button
because it would eventually harm the OS. To which I said to myself,
"Yeah, right! I've been shutting off computers that way (Windows XP,
mind you) for the past 12-plus years without a single issue. What's the
big deal? Prove to me that this does harm."
But the more I read online, the more I see people supporting this
notion. Also, I've noticed that some people say it used to be an issue
with older computers. But today's systems are designed to be shut off
either via the power button or the old Start / Shut Down method.
So, for the record, please advise me on this. Is it safe to shut a
(Windows 7) PC down via the power switch as opposed to the standard
Start / Shut Down method?? Is that one of those rules that no longer
needs to be followed because of advancements in technology? For example,
it used to be necessary to pump a car's gas pedal one or two times before
turning the ignition to prime gas into the carburetor. But then came
the advent of electronic fuel injection, which meant you never again
had to worry about priming the fuel. Thanks.
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please read all the advice and suggestions that our
members have contributed to this question.
The action of the power switch is.... --Submitted by: Zorched
Power Buttons Aren't Power Buttons --Submitted by: Droid
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20 Public Speaking Tips of the Best TED Talks
Fuel Your Mental EngineBurn Off a Little CortisolCreate Two Contingency PlansEstablish a Pre-RoutineSet a Backup GoalShare a Genuinely Emotional StoryPause for Ten SecondsAsk a Question You Can't AnswerShare One Thing No One KnowsBenefit the Audience Instead of "Selling"Don't Make ExcusesDon't Do Your Prep OnstageDon't Defer Answering QuestionsDon't Overload Your SlidesDon't Ever Read Your SlidesFocus On Earning AttentionAlways Repeat Audience QuestionsAlways Give the Audience Something to Take HomeAlways Repeat YourselfAlways, Always Run ShortRelated Links:
While captivating an audience is a skill that takes years to develop, there are some simple ways to instantly improve your speaking and presentation skills. Here are simple tips for preparing, practicing, and rapidly improving your skills.
And as a bonus, each tip includes a link to an awesome TED Talk; not only can you see great speakers in action… you can broaden your knowledge too! Jeff Haden
Let's start with some preparation tips.
Dopamine and epinephrine help regulate mental alertness. Both come from tyrosine, an amino acid found in proteins.
So make sure to include protein in the meal you eat before you need to be at your best. And don't wait until the last minute. When you're really nervous the last thing you may want to do is eat.
Watch Amy Cuddy on the power of body language
Cortisol is secreted by your adrenal glands when you're anxious or stressed. High levels of cortisol limit your creativity and your ability to process complex information; when you're buzzed on cortisol, it's almost impossible to read and react to the room.
The easiest way to burn off cortisol is to exercise. Work out before you leave for work, take a walk at lunch, or hit the gym before a speaking engagement. (If you've ever felt more grounded after slogging through a solid workout you now know why.)
Watch Nilofer Merchant on walking meetings.
If you're like me, "what if?" is your biggest source of anxiety: what if your PowerPoint presentation fails, someone constantly interrupts, or your opening falls flat? Pick two of your biggest fears and create contingency plans. What will you do if the projector fails? What will you do if the meeting runs long and you only have a few minutes to speak? The effort won't be wasted because the more you think through different scenarios, the better you can think on your feet if something truly unexpected occurs.
Watch Simon Sinek on the way good leaders make us feel.
Superstitions are an attempt to "control" something we're afraid of. (Lucky socks don't make an athlete perform better.) Instead of creating a superstition, create a routine that helps center you emotionally. Walk the room ahead of time to check sight lines. Check microphone levels. Run through your presentation at the site to ensure it's ready to go. Pick things to do that are actually beneficial and do them every time. You'll find comfort in the familiar—and confidence, too.
Watch Daniel Pink on motivation.
Say you're speaking to a civic group on behalf of a charity you realize your presentation is falling flat. In response people usually either try too hard or basically give up. If your primary goal is to land a contract and you can tell you won't succeed, shift to planting the seeds for another attempt down the road. If you see you won't get what you really want, what can you accomplish? Then, when the room doesn't go your way, you can stay positive, focused, and on top of your speaking game.
Watch Brene Brown on the power of vulnerability.
Now let's look at unusual ways to instantly improve your presentations.
Many speakers tell self-deprecating stories, but simply admitting a mistake is a waste if you only use it to highlight how far you've come. Instead, tell a story and let your emotions show. If you were sad, say so. If you cried, say so. If you felt remorse, let it show.
When you share genuine feelings you create an immediate and lasting connection with the audience. Emotion trumps speaking skills every time.
Watch Elizabeth Gilbert on creativity.
Pause for two or three seconds and audiences assume you've lost your place; five seconds they think the pause is intentional; after ten seconds even the people texting can't help looking up.
When you start speaking again the audience naturally assumes the pause was intentional... and that you're a confident and accomplished speaker. A poor speaker abhors a vacuum; only confident speakers are secure with silence. Take one long pause to gather your thoughts and the audience will automatically give you speaker bonus points.
Watch Seth Godin on spreading ideas.
Asking questions to engage the audience often feels forced. Instead ask a question you know the audience can't answer and then say," That's okay. I can't either." Explain why you can't and then talk about what you do know. Most speakers have all the answers. The fact you don't—and are willing to admit it—not only humanizes you but makes the audience pay greater attention to what you do know.
Watch Nigel Marsh on work/life balance.
I've never heard someone say, "I was at this presentation the other day and the guy's Gantt chart was amazing..." I have heard someone say, "Did you know when you blush the lining of your stomach also turns red?" Find a surprising fact or an unusual analogy that relates to your topic.
Audiences love to cock their heads and think, "Really? Wow..."
Watch Susan Cain on the power of introverts.
Most assume they should capitalize on a speaking engagement to promote a product or service, win new clients, and build a wider network. Don't. Thinking in terms of sales only adds additional pressure to what is already a stressful situation. Put all your focus on ensuring the audience will benefit from what you say; never try to accomplish more than one thing.
When you help people make their professional or personal lives better, you've done all the selling you'll need to do.
Watch Jason Fried on where work really happens.
Now let's look at a few things you should stop doing.
Due to insecurity many speakers open with an excuse: "I didn't get much time to prepare…" or, "I'm not very good at this…"
Excuses won't make your audience cut you any slack, but they will make people think, "Then why are you wasting my time?" Do what you need to do to ensure you don't need to make excuses.
Watch Tom Wujec on teambuilding.
Don't wait until you're onstage to check your mic, your lighting, your remote, or your presentation. Do all that ahead of time. And if there are people running some of those functions, talk to them about what to do if something fails.
And if something does fail, smile and try to look confident while you (or others) take care of the problem. When things go wrong, what really matters is how you react.
Watch Sheryl Sandberg on women leaders.
If a question pops up in the middle of your presentation, that's awesome: someone is listening! So seize the opportunity. If you would have addressed in a later slide, skip ahead. (If you're practiced skipping around it won't throw you.) The best presentations feel like conversations, even if one-sided… so never ignore the opportunity to foster that sense of interaction. Never do anything to disengage your audience.
Watch Malcolm Gladwell on happiness.
Here's a simple rule of thumb: Make your font size double the average age of your audience. Roughly speaking that means your fonts will be between 60 and 80 points.
If you need to fit more words on a slide that means you haven't tightened your message.
Watch Michael Porter on solving social problems.
Your audience should be able to almost instantly scan your slides; if they have to actually read you might lose them. And you'll definitely lose them if you read to them.
Your slides should accentuate your points; they should never be the point.
Watch Kelly McGonigal on harnessing stress.
Now let's look at a few things to immediately start doing.
Instead of playing the "turn off your mobile devices" game, because no one will (and you just look stodgy), focus on earning their complete attention. Make your presentation so interesting, so entertaining, and so inspiring that people can't help but pay attention. It's not the audience's job to listen; it's your job to make them want to listen.
Watch Steve Jobs on living before you die.
Unless microphones are available, rarely will everyone in the audience hear questions other audience members ask. Always repeat the question and then answer it.
It's not only courteous, it also provides you with a little more time to think of an awesome way to answer each question.
Watch David Blaine on holding your breath for way, way too long.
Always provide something specific the audience can do almost immediately.
No matter how inspiring your message, every audience appreciates learning a tangible way they can actually apply what they've learned to their own lives. Inspiration is great, but application is everything: never be afraid to say, "Tonight, think of an employee who is really struggling… and then tomorrow, do (this) and (this) to try to rescue them."
Watch Dan Ariely on how we make decisions.
Your audience probably hears about half of what you say… and then they filter that through their own perspectives. So create a structure that allows you to repeat and reinforce key points. First explain a point, hen give examples of how that point can be applied, and at the end provide audience action steps they can take based on that point.
Since no one can remember everything you say, what you repeat has a much greater chance of being remembered – and being acted upon. So repeat away!
Watch Richard St. John on the secrets of success.
If you have thirty minutes, take 25. If you have an hour, take 50. Always respect your audience's time and end early. As a bonus, that forces you to hone your presentation – and to prepare to shift gears if your presentation takes an unexpected turn.
Finish early and ask if anyone has questions. Or invite them to see you after the presentation. But never run long… because all the good will you built up could be lost.
Watch Angela Lee Duckworth on the power of grit. Yes, grit.


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The flymart and players party has been moved to Johnny V's 10509 Watterson Trail in J-town just minutes from Vettiner. It's this Saturday from 6:30 to 10pm.
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Dies: Labels Three, Deckle Mega Rectangles & Scalloped Oval Nestabilities - Spellbinders
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Ribbon: May Arts
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What is alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency?
Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency is an inherited disorder that can cause lung disease in adults and liver disease in adults and children.
What are the signs and symptoms of lung disease caused by alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency?
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The first signs and symptoms of lung disease caused by alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency usually appear between ages 20 and 50. The earliest symptoms are:
Other signs and symptoms can include:
Advanced lung disease leads to emphysema, in which small air sacs in the lungs (alveoli) are damaged. Characteristic features of emphysema include:
Smoking or exposure to tobacco smoke accelerates the appearance of symptoms and damage to the lungs.
About 10 percent of infants and 15 percent of adults with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency have liver damage. Signs of liver disease can include:
In rare cases, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency also causes a skin condition known as panniculitis, which is characterized by hardened skin with painful lumps or patches. Panniculitis varies in severity and can occur at any age.
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Groovy Mocks
Groovy has excellent built-in support for a range of mocking alternatives. Before considering those, let's review some relevant terms.
An ordinary Groovy or Java class that's instance or class methods are to be called.
Calling them can be time consuming or produce side effects that are unwanted when testing (e.g. database operations).
A Groovy Object that calls methods on the Collaborator, i.e. collaborates with it.
An object that can be used to augment the Collaborator. Method calls to the Collaborator will be handled by the Mock, showing a demanded behavior. Method calls are expected to occur strictly in the demanded sequence with a given range of cardinality. The use of a Mock implicitly ends with verifying the expectations.
Much like a Mock but the expectation about sequences of method calls on the Collaborator is loose, i.e. calls may occur out of the demanded order as long as the ranges of cardinality are met. The use of a Stub does not end with an implicit verification since the stubbing effect is typically asserted on the Caller. An explicit call to verify can be issued to assert all demanded method calls have been effected with the specified cardinality.
An extended example
System under test
We will explore a system under test inspired from the JBehave currency example.
Our system makes use of a base currency class used to represent the currency of a particular country:
and a base exchange rate class which encapsulates buying and selling rates for a currency:
We will make use of an exchange rate service collaborator to retrieve the exchange rates for a particular country:
Our class under test is a currency converter. It makes use of the following exception:
and conforms to the following interface:
Here is our class under test.
Mocking using Map coercion
When using Java, Dynamic mocking frameworks are very popular. A key reason for this is that it is hard work creating custom hand-crafted mocks using Java. Such frameworks can be used easily with Groovy if you choose (as shown in this extended example) but creating custom mocks is much easier in Groovy. You can often get away with simple maps or closures to build your custom mocks.
Let's consider maps first.
By using maps or expandos, we can incorporate desired behaviour of a collaborator very easily as shown here:
For more details, see Developer Testing using Maps and Expandos instead of Mocks.
Mocking using Closure coercion
Alternatively, we can use closures:
For more details, see Developer Testing using Closures instead of Mocks.
Mocking using MockFor and StubFor
If we need the full power of a dynamic mocking framework, Groovy has a built-in framework which makes use of meta-programming to define the behaviour of the collaborator. An example is shown here:
This approach works well for testing Groovy classes. In the current versions of Groovy (Groovy 1.5 and 1.6 beta1 at the time of writing this page), the behavior that you define with
demand clauses represents the behavior of all of the instances of the mocked class type. For more details, see Using MockFor and StubFor.
Instance-style MockFor and StubFor
You can also use MockFor and StubFor in a more traditional style by creating instances as follows:
This approach let's you have multiple instances of the same class all with different behaviors. Also, note that you have to explicitly call the
verify method here if you want to check that the demanded behavior was in fact observed. Also, you can use this technique for testing Java classes but you need to call
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My beliefs (not certitudes, mind you) more or less dovetail with your own. I would like to share with you (and anyone else who cares to read it) what author Israel Regardie said in his book "the Tree of Life;"(which deals with kabbalah,magick,etc…) about "God",the absolute, the infinite or whatever
term you care to use for "ultimate reality". Let me
preface this quote by saying I neither wholly accept
these claims, nor wholly reject them. That pretty much
goes for all claims regarding spirituality OR lack thereof.I
think Champion should read this, though I doubt it will
change anything.One can always hope,though.
First of all,the philosophy of the Qabalah is a philosophy of evolution. The universe,with all its planets and worlds and independent beings,was conceived to be the emanation from
a primeval substance-principle which some have called God,the
absolute,the all and so forth. In the Qabalah,this principle,which
is the one reality,is named the Infinite. The Sepher ha-Zohar
,the most important perhaps of all Qabalistic texts,conceives it to
be unchangeable,unknowable to the mind,illimitable,unmanifest
and absolute.Beyond all intellectual comprehension in Itself,inasmuch as it could never be grasped by a mentality
which is but a segment of its all-inclusiveness. It is stated
to be Ain—Nothing.Since it does surpass all finite
understanding,immutable and boundless as its expanses
are to the human mind whose most profound speculation
could not approach to the faintest adumbration of what it
is in itself,it must ever remain a mysterious emptiness—No-thing. In this connection,the graphic conception of the early Egyptians
is very forceful as well as picturesque.The sky or space anterior to all manifestion,was conceived as the naked body of the goddess Nuit,the queen of infinite space,and from her breasts the milk of the stars,the primordial waters of substance,were portrayed as issuing forth. All that can be said with truth of this absolute and
supreme reality is that IT IS. This must suffice. Omnipresent,eternal
and self-existant—these are ideas which transcend even the loftiest
flights of the trained imagination,abstractions beyond the grasp of mortal minds. One of the symbols of this potetiality of the Ain during a period of quiescence is a Circle,signifying that all having
been withdrawn into homogeneity,motion returns perpetually into
itself,as in the glyph of a snake's tail returns into and is swallowed
by the head. The circle is only broken so to speak by the law of
periodicity.This law,affecting all,and inhering in the very nature of
things,governs the constant flux and reflux,appearance and disappearance of the worlds. The potentiality of the Ain Sophis only mirrored forth with the outgoing from itself of the breath
of creativity,with the commencement of a cycle when the one life
is polarized into spirit and matter. The breaking of the circle of unceasing motion is accomplished by a contraction of its Infinite
light, by a positing of a minute point of scintillating refulgence
within the confines of space(the big bang?). How this concentration
of light into a cosmic center was effected,what its obscure origin,we are unable to tell. There are confused explanations
concerning the will of Ain Soph or the law of cycles,but they
do not really tend to intelligent satisfaction. In one case it is completely impossible to conceive of so infinite and so abstract
a spiritual condition as Ain Soph possessing a will which can
be put into operation,any more than it possesses a mind or a body.The philosophic tradition is that Ain Soph is not spirit
or will but the underlying cause of both;not force or matter but
that which underlies them,their ultimate cause. In the second case,this postulate of the cyclic law to account for the appearance
of the center of light bespeaks of something independant of or
imposing necessity on Ain Soph. If the cyclic law is identified
with the absolute,the postulate becomes identical with the will
to manifest. In any event, since we are agreed in Theurgy that reason cannot be the final arbiter so far as concerns this and
similiar metaphysical questions,the philosophical tradition must
simply be accepted in its bald statement , without endeavoring
to provide rational explanations for a cosmic center of radiance
appearing in space.
Regardie was quite wordy and redundant. Perhaps he can
be forgiven, since he was only 24 when this book and another
were PUBLISHED in 1932.Nonetheless, he tends to clarify and
unify countless spiritual traditions throughought the world with
his own Hermetic Kabbalism/ritual magick. He continued to write
about and practice "the sacred arts", so to speak until his death
at 78 in 1985. Many of his books can be found at just about any
major bookstore, in the "new age" section. His writings have been
a significant influence in the modern "new age" movement.
I have personally found beliefs like this more plausible than those proposed by scientific materialism(not to mention far more
agreeable,which I admit may bias me towards these beliefs).
I have found them infinitely more plausible (and again agreeable)
than those proposed by exoteric, dogmatic Judeo-Christianity(this
includes Islam) with it's "ferocious devil-god yelling with drunken glee". A god that condemns, or excuse me "permits" souls to enter
into eternal damnation for everything from Atheism to practicing
Zoroastrianism.I still insist on taking everything with a large grain
of scientific salt, but if I were a betting man, I would probably place
my bets on the reality of some alternative spiritual realm, like the one proposed by Regardie(more accurately,the kabbalists) rather
than the arid, mechanical, nothingness of scientific materialism or especially the reality of a cosmic super-tyrant,a man writ large, in conventional Judeo-christianity. I think more and more people every
year are becoming interested in "New Age",mystical-occult ideas and spiritualities. The exoteric religions have overall been a curse to mankind, IMO and I believe in the opinion of many here. Science
has given us much,but it has not answered all our questions,nor
solved all our fundamental problems. I firmly believe mankind must
come to terms with an alternate vision of reality, or mankind and much life on this earth, shall either perish outright and
sooner than we must; or our civilization and the earth will
be dramatically altered and probably not for the better.Both
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One of the best designer fragrances out there, recently finished my 50ml and bought a new 100ml. I can't imagine not having this fragrance in my collection, it is such a damn fine scent! That vanilla, apple, tea and lemon combo is sublime.
A little over a year ago, Spicebomb had an advertisement in a magazine that sparked my interest in fragrances. The bottle was just too damn cool.
Intrigued by the ad, I looked up Spicebomb on the internet. This how I found you guys and this secret little club of fragrance fanatics.
Ironically, I've never tried it.
Funny, huh? How Spicebomb started my passion for fragrance, but I've never tested it.
So, after reading through the passionate replies in this thread: http://www.basenotes.net/threads/296...w-of-SpiceBomb I would like to know what are you thoughts a year later?
Thanks for in advance for your replies and comments.
One of the best designer fragrances out there, recently finished my 50ml and bought a new 100ml. I can't imagine not having this fragrance in my collection, it is such a damn fine scent! That vanilla, apple, tea and lemon combo is sublime.
Cheap "Bomb". A nothing fragrance.
Extremely poor.
I really like it, but still haven't bought it.
I love the opening, really sweet. Something along the lines of bubblegum + cotton candy. Maybe some cinnamon there too.
But after that, it's just flat. Very muted, no bomb at all.
I don't think I'll buy this full retail. But if I can get this for half the price, or as a present, I will be very happy.
Meh. Not offensive but just ok for performance. Kinda weak in all aspects. Pass.
Some Favorites
1. Amouage Epic man
2. Dior Leather Oud
3. Perris Monte Carlo Oud Imperial Black
4. Le Labo Patchouli 24
5. Amouage Opus VII
6. Byredo Bullion
7. Masque Milano Russian Tea
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
It lasts forever, drydown is better than the top notes.
Nothing special
Didn't like it at first, then decided I did and bought a small bottle. Wore it a few times and enjoyed it well enough. Then I sampled Armani Code which smelled very, very much like diapers (and certain toilet papers) to me. Seems there's a synthetic vanilla which is used on diapers and toilet paper. Yay. Next time I wore Spicebomb, my nose cued in to this same, or a very similar, synthetic vanilla, and that was it for me. Done. Yuck.
I do smell Spicebomb around town now and then, and it's usually over-applied. Outstays its welcome pretty easily.
Love the scent, love the bottle. The longevity is pretty average, but otherwise no complaints. Like kende said, I think it's one of the better designer fragrances out there. Thinking about buying a bottle sometime this summer and using it once the weather cools down a bit.
Love it and it's on my wishlist. Total compliment getter for me. Tasty with a calm confidence. 3 parts sophistication 1 part sexy.
If anyone has one for sale or trade hit me up.
One big MEH for me. There's nothing SPICE or BOMB in it. It smells like cinnamon bubble gum mixed with cotton candy. I think it's a great scent - for an 8 year old girl or boy - but not for any grown man. YUCK.
I like it, my wife really likes it. It's a keeper in my somewhat small collection. Probably ranks around 23rd out of 25 bottles I own.
I think the hype died down for a reason. Spicebomb is ok, but for me, it's a pass.
Anybody have a sample of Martin Margiela Untitled or Untitled L'Eau? I'm dying to smell these and I've got lots of great niche samples to swap!
"Follow your nose. It always knows." -- Toucan Sam
Still a good one.
Just like marc jacobs bang. Opens with a nice spicy accord but does not project. Very weak on my skin
A smooth easy wear in the cooler months. Much better than Antidote.
I think it's nice. It's smooth, and it is a cut above typical designer fare.
Never liked it.
Love it and its one of my top winter scents. It reminds me a lot of my other new cold weather fragrance this past winter (Ted Lapidus Black Soul). I highly recommend both if you enjoy sweet, spicy scents.
Definitely one that relied on advertising, hype, and gimmicks. Obnoxiously loud and cloyingly synthetic, but slightly less offensive and screechy than some of its peers. I'm shocked that there haven't been 10 or 15 flankers yet like there were with its counterpart! Spicebomb Sport Homme Extreme Noir Summer etc.
My thoughts are the same now as they were when it first launched and bought it. It's a very nice scent and glad I own it.
Guys, I have to say I love reading all your replies.
I love how passionate and strong everyone's opinions are when it comes to fragrances, in general. It's really neat to see everyone's opinion and where they stand.
I blind bought it (lucky on my recent "Blue Sugar" blind buy that had polarizing opinions, too), and I'm looking forward to testing it!
Thanks again!
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I thought I remember reading some people compare it to Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille. Has anyone found them similar? I'm curious because I ran through the last of a vial of TFTV somewhat recently.
Forgettable scent. Not bad but gets lost in an ocean of other boring designer scents. Not worth buying IMO.
A bit too much cinnamon for me. I couldn't get past my association of it with Big Red Gum or Red Hots candy.
Not quite as spicy as I'd like, but a good scent.
still stinks on!
I must admit that I do like it, and I wear it once in a while. Still a bit better than many of the latest designer releases.
Good but not great. Can't see it as a day-to-day scent.
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Strong stuff. The hype died down and can still smell it on me.
Are you not entertained??? Is this not why you are here??
Spicebomb is closer to 1 Million than to Gucci PH II or Tea for Two. It is nice, but I don't really appreciate wearing it.
Watch my recent video review of
Guerlain L'Homme Ideal - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-PW_V1G0aw
Spicebomb is great. I get spotty longevity with it, but last time I wore it, I got over 12 hours with it. It's very sweet and not very spicy. I think it's worth having.
"I am a robot and I like cheese"
Top 5:
1. Axe Kilo
2. Lectric Shave
3. Vicks Vapor Rub
4. Febreze Pour Homme
5. Preferred Stock
I prefer Eau des Baux.
Not a fan.
Current Top Favorites:
1) Portrait of a Lady original formula (EdP Frédéric Malle)
2) Giorgio for Men vintage/V.I.P. for Men (Giorgio Beverly Hills)
3) Dia Man vintage edt (Amouage)
4) Anat Fritz Original Formula and Classical (Anat Fritz) - tie
4) Lalfeorosa (O'driù) - tie
6) Les Nombres d'Or Vetyver (Mona di Orio)
7) Captain vintage (Molyneux)
8) Tzora (Anat Fritz)
9) Javanese Patchouli (Zegna) - tie
9) Monsieur de Givenchy vintage (Givenchy) - tie
9) Coeur de Vetiver Sacré (L'Artisan) - tie
9) X for Men (Clive Christian) - tie
9) Patou pour Homme Privé (Jean Patou) - tie
9) Oud Shamash (The Different Company) - tie
I like it but the fragrance lacks longevity.
Now is the perfect time to wear Spicebomb.
Every time I smell it, it reminds me of "Christmas."
Those spicy, jelly gumdrops is exactly what this fragrance smells like.
No me gusta.
Such a shame - the bottle is an instant classic.
Never tried it as the silly bottle didn't appeal to me and the hype at the time was off putting.
Man people here don't really like it do they?
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Never liked it: the drydown is quite 1 Million-esque. 1 Million in disguise, basically.
I like the first 1 hour but do not like the dry-down.
No offense to those who like it but Spicebomb was a real scrubber for me with a nasty vanilla bite that's extremely unpleasant (to say the least).
A huge disappointment.
If you want loaded spices that don't smell synthetic try the discontinued vintage Monsieur Rochas, (not the modern one!) , also Loewe pour Homme and Punjab. In fact very many of the classic spice fragrances are far superior to spicebomb !
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It's a misnomer for sure, I would not have called it Spicebomb.
However if you abstract from the name, I still think it is a very good fragrance. It is sweet, but not loud like 1 million. Although the scent is not at all similar, it shares a certain sheerness and sheen with Dior homme--and in my view is far classier than 1 million or even Eau des beaux which dries down into a very woody and almost rugged scent. I would wear Spicebomb to work--1 million, never.
Found it oddly coying, and very unsatisfying to wear. Twice from a sample, and enough for me.
I like it!
First time I tried it, I wasn't a fan. It has grown on me since then, but I don't think it would ever be in my top 20. One reason I like it is because it reminds me of the 80s and I feel it will last on my skin during brutal, winter weather, but we'll see.
I like it especially the dry down.
I only just recently tried it. Like it a lot. Not a priority, but it's good enough to be in my Winter Ro. Someday. In the meantime, I have a sample and I suspect I will rock it this weekend. I think that the bottle is dumb, but I like the juice.
A while back I was given a sample. I didn't like the name and wasn't expecting much. Since I was blown away by the scen, I didn't care what it was called. It's not only bottle worthy, but backup bottle worthy IMO. The bottle has an interesting grenade and pin look to it. I cannot imagine not having it in my collection. It was a Fragrance Foundation winner for the scent and ad campaign the year it was introduced as well.
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Bo Robinson was elevated to full time assistant coach in June 2014 after returning to Charlotte in the summer of 2012 as a member of Loren Hibbs' staff. He works with the infielders, hitters and coaches third base for the 49ers. He will also be the on-field camp director and assist with recruiting.
The 2013 squad saw immediate dividends with his addition as the 49ers had an All-Rookie catcher (Brett Lang) and the league's Co-Player of the Year, Justin Seager. The 49ers grabbed more hits and doubles than in 2013 and the team won 37 games, the sixth time in the past eight seasons that the program collected 35 or more wins.
Robinson remains the only player in Charlotte 49er history to reach 100 RBI in a season, which he did in 1998, a season in which Charlotte was selected to participate in the NCAA Tournament as an at-large entry (only 48 teams played in the postseason in those years). He also hit a school-record 32 doubles of his record 106 hits that year, and he owns the career marks for doubles (82), RBI (230) and total bases (499). The 49ers retied his number-four jersey on May 12, 2013.
He is second in hits all-time at Charlotte (289), third in career runs scored (198) and homers (38), fourth in games played (221), seventh in batting average (.355) and slugging percentage for a career (.612) with the 49ers.
"We are thrilled to add Bo to our coaching staff," said Hibbs. "He was a great player for us, played multiple years in professional baseball and is a Charlotte graduate. He will work with our hitters and infielders as well as coach first base on game days. I know he is excited to be a part of our program and ready to get to work with our position players."
He is one of five players in team history to win a league batting title, hitting .424 for Charlotte in Conference USA in 1998, when he played in all 62 games for the 49ers in 1998. He earned one First-Team and three Second-Team All-America honors after that season, adding to a Freshman All-American honor in 1995.
He was the Seattle Mariners Minor League Player of the Year in 1999 after winning the Midwest League batting title with a .329 average. He also scored 101 runs, posted 102 RBI with 108 walks that season. He followed that with 97 RBI and a .313 average with Lancaster to earn an All-Star nod in the California League. He also spent time in the Yankees and Cardinals organizations, playing as late as the 2005 season in the minor leagues. He advanced as far as triple-A with the Columbus Clippers with the Yankees organization.
Robinson is one of the most respected hitting instructors in the Charlotte region, formally holding the post of Director of Player Development with the On Deck Baseball Skill Development Academy. He was the head coach for On Deck O's team in 2011. He joined On Deck in 2000, with former 49er Jason Hill, during his professional playing career. After his playing days were over, Robinson worked toward completion of his degree at Charlotte, which he did with a B.A. in History, awarded in May of 2010.
He is a local product, attending South Mecklenburg High in Charlotte, earning All-State and All-Conference honors with the Sabres.
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