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For over 75 years, globally renowned AMT has been THE CHOICE for allied health professional certification. AMT supports its 60,000+ members via continuing education, leadership opportunities, networking, and more. All of AMT's competency-based examinations are accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA).
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02 Jul 2015 5:30:13am
I'm an angler and I'm appalled by the amount of litter and discarded tackle that so called "fisho's" leave behind, I'm sad to report its very rare that I go fishing and don't have to clean up the mess left by these people.
I've fished in the UK, Europe and the USA and I can honestly say that Australia is the worst I have ever experienced, from the litter to the lack of care taken whilst fishing, it really is total incompetence and neglect for the environment and the creatures that depend on it.
I'd like to think that better education and stricter regulation of anglers might be a way forward, but from my experience most anglers here just don't want to know, so I think the best way forward is to lock anglers out of area's where there has been persistent littering, it is honestly the only time they will sit up and take notice, as marine parks have shown us.


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Will Jeff Green be back in a Thunder uniform next season?
Simply put, how much another team offers Green next summer will determine whether he remains in a Thunder uniform beyond this season. Oklahoma City's front office has had few missteps, and it's unlikely that one of the most disciplined franchises will overpay to retain Green at the risk of jeopardizing the rest of its young nucleus.
But the bond between Green and the Thunder is a strong one, dating to his surprising, and questioned, selection as the fifth overall pick.
Since joining Durant as the franchise's first two cornerstones, Green has endeared himself to the coaching staff and managerial staff. He's earned a reputation for being both the consummate teammate and valuable because of his versatility.
Green on several occasions has voiced his desire to stay with the Thunder, and it's not far-fetched to think he would take less money to remain with a winning team. San Antonio guard Manu Ginobili and Miami's Udonis Haslem both recently agreed to re-sign with their respective teams for less money than they could have received elsewhere.
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Joseph "Joe" Haley, 56, of Mount Ayr died May 11, 2014, at Ringgold County Group Home.
Funeral services were 10:30 a.m. today, May 15, at Watson-Armstrong Funeral Home, 205 W. Monroe St., Mount Ayr. Burial was in Marshalltown Cemetery in Benton.
Joseph "Joe" Paul Haley, son of Ruth Annella (Roudybush) and Harry Howard Haley, was born June 4, 1957, in Creston.
Joe was raised in rural Diagonal and lived in Afton for a short while. He most recently resided at the Ringgold County Group Home in Mount Ayr.
Joe was active in the Special Olympics, once serving as torch bearer at Drake, RCSS Bowling League, and attended church and other community activities.
Joe's childhood was spent growing up on a farm.
Joe attended school in Mount Ayr. A few yeas later, he went to Diagonal School, then Creston and Jefferson Developmental.
Joe was involved in the Ringgold County Supportive Services program.
Joe is survived by his brothers, Jerry (Janet) Haley, Jim (Shirley) Haley, Jeffery (Janet) Haley, J.B. (Roben) Haley and Jack (Tina) Haley; sisters, Janet (Lynn) Kesterson, Judy (Raymond) Hensley, Joyce King, Janice (Vince) Gaeta, Jean Moffitt and Janelle (Duane) Schafer; many nieces and nephews; and his group home family, Sharon Lesan, Joan Routh, Linda Jackson, Joan Bickel, Ralph Hampton, Alan Force, Danny Reynolds and staff.
Joe was preceded in death by his parents; brothers-in-law, Ted Moffitt and Ronnie King; and nephew Greg Haley.


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Poultry operators can increase profits by lowering ongoing energy expenses. Dennis Brothers, Extension poultry housing specialist with the National Poultry Technology Center of Auburn University, led a recent webinar on this topic called "Poultry Operations: Broiler and Breeder Energy Conservation Opportunities." Brothers focused on commercial broiler and breeder houses. Brothers said broiler and breeder chicken production accounted for 85-90 percent of American commercial poultry houses. [Read more…]
Grazing stockpiled pasture takes patience
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Joe Namath said, "First I prepare. Then I have Faith." I've got my own context: "Without goals, passion and the faith to succeed, you will fail." When it comes to grazing animals into the winter season it pays to develop patience and a sense of humor as you battle Mother Nature's wrath.
Like a sickness, I've been on a quest to achieve year round grazing in the Northeast because someone said it couldn't be done. It's a challenge I'll admit, but it has many beneficial layers to plants, animals, soil and people. [Read more…]
WOTUS: Where every molecule of water can earn a fine
Welcome to the wonderful world of WOTUS. That acronym stands for Waters of the United States. As is often necessary, political outrage spawns acronyms because the term in question is likely to be around for a long time and is thus easier to reference. [Read more…]
Vermont 4-H horse delegation excels in national competition
BURLINGTON, VT — Nearly 300 4-H'ers from 24 states gathered in Louisville, KY, Nov. 7-9, for the Eastern National 4-H Horse Roundup, including 16 Vermonters who earned a place on the University of Vermont (UVM) Extension 4-H delegation as winners at state competitions.
The roundup, considered the largest national 4-H horse program contest in the country, was hosted by the North American International Livestock Exposition at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center. Participants qualified for one of the six contests — hippology, horse judging, horse quiz bowl, team demonstrations, public speaking and individual presentations. [Read more…]
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Improving account passwords
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Even with encrypted drives, account passwords remain one of the prime security methods for any Linux system. With a little knowledge of the available commands and their options, you can make your account passwords more secure.
If you have dealt at all with account passwords from the command line, the experience was probably through passwd, run with no options (Figure 1), or adduser, which calls on passwd as part of its operations (Figure 2). Both of these commands guide you through the basics of adding or changing an account password, requiring the usual double entry to ensure you know what you typed. Both were added long ago to Unix-like systems – just how long ago, you can judge by the command names themselves: The writers of passwd were under such tight naming restrictions that leaving out two characters made a difference, and adduser lacks a field for entering users' email addresses.
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NoScript Flaw
Mozilla's script blocker add-on could be putting malware sites on the whitelist.
RIP SSLv3
The Internet community officially banishes the notoriously unsafe Secure Sockets Layer protocol.
Mate 1.1 Arrives
Popular desktop environment continues the Gnome 2 legacy – with new support for the Gnome 3 toolkit.
US Government Requires HTTPS
The Obama White House has issued a memorandum telling all US government agencies they must use HTTPS for all websites and web communication.
Mozilla Signs Firefox Add-Ons
New program will dial up security for the Firefox browser.
Fedora 22 Arrives
Red Hat's community distro embraces the cloud.
Code.org and College Board Team Reach Out for Talented High School Coders
New partnership will bring more and better CS training to US schools
A Peek Inside TeslaCrypt Ransomware
Criminals offer online help over Tor network
Mumblehard Still Spams
Sophisticated malware is still present on Joomla and WordPress sites around the world.
Launchpad Gets Git
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I'm a born organizer and planner. No really, my mother could tell you stories of reorganized cabinets, grade projection graphs and receiving my very detailed birthday party plans - with budgets. What gives me energy is working on strategies, taking a goal and figuring out all of the steps needed to achieve it, looking at all of the ways something could go wrong, and assessing the potential success of any given choice or direction. In a way it's as natural as breathing and just as important to my life and well-being. Early on I realized that all of this was far more fun if I surrounded myself with talented and motivated people. A firm believer in a leadership style that not only seeks to reach goals but also to build up each individual involved; my philosophy is integrated leadership – creating an environment where people learn and grow in the process of effectively reaching strategic objectives is the real measure of the success of a project and a manager.
I manage a team of .Net application, Reporting Services, Sharepoint and SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 data warehouse developers focused on delivering the tools and metrics used by our organization to support decision making processes, assess financial health and determine strategies for growth.
Responsible primarily for the implementation, integration and support of ad management software. In the process of this implementation I did extensive work performance tuning the database to meet the demands of high usage workflow processing application including the successful rollout and maintenance of a CORBA layer.
This position required daily shell scripting, Sybase database administration, T-SQL development and Perl scripting.
Worked collaboratively with Application Developers, System Database Administrators and others to design logical and physical data models and ensure that the database is robust enough to support a high volume of transactions. Translating business needs into solid model database schemas capable of supporting the requirements while allowing application scalability. Responsible for troubleshooting and proactively monitoring database problems such as deadlocks, excessive blocking, excessive wait times, and other conditions that affect the performance of applications.
Worked multiple short duration and special project contracts for a variety of companies in the Phoenix Metro Area.
My short list of favorite links I've come across this month.
There is no Shortage of Leaders
This one was my favorite of the month, it sparked many conversations on the 'raising' of leaders and the impact that culture has on their abilities. It's also sent me on a long ponder on the discarding of leaders for ineffectiveness when they may only really need realignment.
I wish I could get a print of this and put it on the wall in my office as a constant reminder to get the heck out of my head and move forward.
What to Do When Your Boss Doesn't Like You
I am lucky to not be in this situation now, though I have been in the past and do not envy anyone stuck trying to navigate it. There are some good tips here though on breaking through and creating an effective relationship. I'd add that asking your boss on a regular basis if he/she needs anything from you can be helpful in creating a more open relationship.
10 Traits of Innovative Leaders
Yes to all of this!! This year my goal as a leader is to foster more innovative thinking and processes into my team and organization and get past some of the limitations we've created for ourselves. This article will be reread many times along the way.
Our 31st iteration started off with an Agile review meeting where we had an open discussion on what changes we'd like to make, ideas for the future and a few minutes from me on addressing reporting needs. Not a lot came out of it, surprisingly. I guess I was expecting more tweaks than I probably should, given that we're three years into this and have been fairly stable for more than a year now. I'm not sure how typical that is with smaller and fairly well insulated development teams; I am happy that we've seem to hit our stride, with a predictable velocity and common set of risks.
Unplanned Tasks
We've implemented some changes to our unplanned task tracking to make it quicker to enter them and also quantify their time impact.
I'm taking a deeper dive into reporting beyond burn down/up charts, looking for ways to better communicate status, risk and overall capabilities.
Product Owners
We're putting some thought and research into how we reengage some of our product owners, keeping them with us through out a project and build in some accountability on their end when they get pulled away. Our product owners are not in that role full time, nor are they in some cases project managers or even skilled in that area, at worst they function more as business analysts which I know is not at all ideal.
Scrum Master
This role needs a little tightening up, so that its focus is more on supporting the team's day-to-day needs and less on managing last minute requests from users.
Not a big list to tackle but more than one item is on the meaty side, I'm excited to see what we discover.
At the end of every year I pick 4 to 5 different books that have either been recommended to me or that I've read myself as nominees for our monthly book club. My team then has a few weeks to review each book and vote on the titles they are most interested in. Everyone had two votes, the winning book is chosen by either receiving the most #1 votes or I'll assign each vote points and pick the highest total. Fairly straightforward, I think, and mostly democratic.
This year my team chose a book by Behance – 99U Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus & Sharpen Your Creative Mind. This book is a collection of essays written by some of my favorite authors (Gretchen Rudin, Seth Godin, and Dan Ariely) and promises to help you tackle your day by better managing your focus and finding more time for creativity.
Typically I try to pace any book club at a chapter a month but in this case we have twenty-two chapters that are all relatively short. We'll start off with the foreword by Scott Belsky and an exercise using an article found on 99U – Forget SMART Goals, Set CLEAR Goals Instead to get everyone focused on what their individual goals are for this year and what of those the book can help them with.
From there we'll have two sessions on building routines, I'll start that with a bookended exercise where we'll capture before and after looks at a week of work each assessing balance, stress and free time. In April/May we'll switch to building focus, using RescueTime to capture the true impact of distractions. June/July will be focused on tools and learning to let go of 'happy' distractions. I'm thinking of introducing something mood lifting at that point that illustrates relieving stress and mindfulness. Aug/Sept will be working on leveraging creativity, something I'm eager to learn more about myself, through exploring different methods of disengaging from the problem to find better solutions. We'll end on reviewing our goals, discussing what we've learned and talking about the final chapter on next steps.
I'll admit I wasn't very enthusiastic about this book at first glance, more because like our last book it'll require more preparation on my part, but now that I've had some time to draw up a plan and look into supporting tools, I am very excited to give this one a shot. From here on out I'll post regular updates on our progress under the Training and Books categories.
Two things connected for me recently in a stars aligning kind of way. Years ago, 11 in fact, I purchased a creative abrasion training guide for my team thinking that it would a good tool when working with other teams or customers where the relationship was contentious to help us to get through combat to good ideas and solutions; creative abrasion being the ability to generate ideas through discourse and debate. For some reason I just never got around to it, I didn't do any work on creating a training class, and really didn't give it much further thought.
That is until recently when going through a pile of torn out magazine page when I came across an HBR article, from June 2014 called Collective Genius. It contained a couple of diagrams illustrating what is needed to support innovation. The diagram was split into two parts: willingness and ability. Willingness is the culture of your organization, the three aspects needed there are; your purpose, rules and values. These three combine to create a sense of community which is the foundation of your organizational innovative aptitude. Ability is the execution of innovation, the three aspects needed there are; creative abrasion, agility and resolution.
Abrasion – The ability to generate ideas through discourse and debate.
Agility – The ability to test an experiment through quick reflection and adjustment.
Resolution – The ability to make integrated decisions the combine disparate or even opposing ideas.
That really just struck a chord with me. I feel like my team has the foundation, we understand why we exist, we interact well together and are on the same page were values are concerned. Where we sometimes struggle is in this ability to generate ideas, we do have a lot of healthy debate – A LOT – and do have some discourse. We do run an Agile iterative methodology; projects and process alike, that's our agility. Creative resolution? That part I'm not so sure about. I feel like it's almost there, perhaps we wear ourselves out with the talking and quickly settle on the most obvious solutions.
In looking at our development for 2015, innovation needs to be at the forefront. We're great at what we do but getting more involved in the solution development from a product perspective and also looking inwardly at expanding our current products into the predictive analytics arena. I can't think of a better way to start than this whole creative abrasion guide to include all these aspects from the HBR article and walking my team through the process of becoming more innovative.
Typically it takes me two or three months to develop a new training idea and turn it into on something concrete that I can actually deliver. Hopefully this one will be easier with the guide. I will post the finished product and discuss it in greater detail when it's ready to implement. If you have any resources on resolution, I'd love to hear more.
I have read recently that one of the worst things that you can do when measuring the success of your Agile implementation is to use measures to influence people's behavior. Meaning instead of using your measuring processes to assess the overall success of your products, or as a feedback mechanism to find pain points or process issues, you use them to hold individuals accountable. An often mention side effect of doing this is that people tend to try the game the system by building in more slack to their estimates or playing it safe with their solutions.
In the last couple of years my primary determining factor for whether or not our Agile implementation has been successful is if we are delivering what we agreed upon, when we promised to deliver it.
Working software when it is needed – that's it.
That measurement, as simple as it appears, is really a reflection of a large number of factors; a well written user story, an engaged product owner, well scoped tasks, external resource availability, and good risk assessment and planning. All of those factors are dependent upon the skill of individuals and the support of the larger organization. A few of those factors are under the team's control (or mine) but most are not.
That doesn't mean that measurement doesn't influence a person's behavior though. I mean I don't know how everyone feels about this but when I know that the peak on the burndown is because I didn't estimate my time well enough, it makes me work that much harder to catch up and certainly is in the back of my mind the next time I'm estimating. Do I pad? Potentially if the short fall was something outside of my control but is that a bad thing?! And the team does always have the ability to question my estimates as well as look at the failures for lessons.
In looking at changes to make for our Agile process this year, I'm going to propose we extend our measurements beyond our burn down charts and to also incorporate some feedback from these measurements to the team, not to praise or censure but to learn and grow looking at not only how productive we are as a team but also how effective we are working together.
I also want to build in deeper risk analysis into our forecasting, we have some very robust discussions around this but have yet to catalogue, score and assess ongoing in the hopes of moving from tactical thinking on the back end (after something has gone wrong) to more strategic at the onset of a project.
My first step is to start trying out new charts, graphs, spreadsheets (joy!) to start weeding out what fits. I'll report back weekly and in my Agile So Far posts on progress, but in the meantime if you have a favorite way to measure success feel free to add it into the comments.


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PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. Clay Buchholz went five innings and allowed four hits and one run as he lowered his spring ERA to 2.70 in an 8-4 Red Sox win over the Rays today.
Buchholz said he chose the breaking ball to work on in this outing.
It felt really good, Buchholz said. Its progressed from the game I pitched back home (minor league simulated game last week). Felt good being in a real game. Throwing my curve ball more, when its working its a good pitch for me.
Bobby Valentines view: He obviously looked good. He had a good curveball and fastball. He and Salty work great together. Other than the back-to-back changeups to (Evan) Longoria (who hit a home run) I thought it was a real good outing.
Cody Ross and Josh Kroeger (two RBI) had home runs.
Saltalamacchia said his sore hip (bursitis) felt better though he had a massive ice pack on it after the game. This condition bears watching.
Valentine said he liked what he saw from Vicente Padilla, who allowed five hits and one run over the final three innings. Padilla keeps solidifying a spot in the bullpen, but theres always been some question whether Padillas past injury history (elbow issues) will allow him to pitch consistently out of the pen.
Were going to try to find out, said Valentine when asked if theres a correlation between Padillas injury history and the bullpen. Dont know if health issues are related. All I know is hes probably gonna get up and throw the ball 200 feet in the outfield tomorrow. If hes not throwing in the outfield tomorrow Id have some concern. The last time he threw three innings and then threw in the outfield.
And what about the star of camp, infielder Pedro Ciriaco, who went 1 for 2 with a double?
While Valentine said he didnt have a spot for the .545-hitting journeyman right now, Hes a good player. I know you thought I was kidding early when I said that. I really like him.
What makes him different from spring training All-Stars who disappear?
His hands are there, his arm is there and the speed is there," Valentine said. "Theyre all pretty good. He hits the fastball and if he sees the breaking ball. Yeah, little different (than those other camp wonders) because theres talent there. Hes just not pulling the ball. A lot of times guys have a lot of hits and pull the ball. Hes hitting breaking balls and hitting to all fields.


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Crulic: The Path to Beyond
maybe I paid attention and everything, but I have the feeling I understood the film, and disregard other comments as malicious if they say the storytelling is messy. well, the real one is even messier hence the way Anca Damian chose to say it. my real troubled question is why spoken in Romanian and English and not Polish?! big up for animation, story&subject, voice&direction, documentation, feeling&creativity!


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Donald Glover
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Sep. 25th, 1983
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Donald Glover's Main TV Roles
Main Movie Roles2015 - Magic Mike XXL
2014 - Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
2014 - Harmontown
2013 - The To Do List
2012 - Shut Up and Play the Hits
2011 - The Muppets
2009 - Mystery Team
0 - Clapping For The Wrong Reasons
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Donald Glover was born in Edwards Air Force Base, California, and raised in Stone Mountain, Georgia. His father is a postal worker and his mother runs a daycare center. He is, despite rumors, not related to actor Danny Glover. Graduated from New York University with a degree in Dramatic Writing in 2006.
Glover worked as a writer for the NBC comedy 30 Rock which he also got a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for in 2009. He is best known for his role as Troy on the current NBC comedy Community in which he plays an athlete in a rather odd study group, opposite Chevy Chase and Joel McHale.
Glover auditioned for President Obama on Saturday Night Live in 2008. Though he didn't get the role, for a while rumors were circulating. His stand-up special aired on Comedy Central in March 2010.
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White Sox vs. Rays Picks 7/6/13
- Updated: July 6, 2013
Matchup:Chicago White Sox vs. Tampa Bay Rays
Date/Time: July 6th, 7:15 PM ET
Television: FOX
MLB Betting Odds from BetOnline Sportsbook
Probable Starters: Sale (Chicago) vs. Moore (Tampa Bay)
Moneyline: Rays -135
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The Tampa Bay Rays are still trying to get back into contention in the AL East as the All-Star Break draws near. They'll be in for a challenge against the Chicago White Sox in MLB betting action on Saturday night at Tropicana Field.
The Sox are in trouble this year, and they are certainly going to break this team up at the trade deadline. One of the key components that will likely be departing is that of Saturday's starter, LHP Chris Sale. Sale really has done nothing wrong this year, but you wouldn't know that from his 5-7 record. The southpaw actually has splits that suggest he could be the Cy Young Award winner, and it certainly isn't his fault that his team hasn't given him more than five runs of support in a game even one time all year long. Sale has a 2.79 ERA and a 0.96 WHIP, and batters are hitting just .202 against him. His strikeout tally is once again awfully high at 114, and he has only walked 24 batters against that. Sale has at least 10 strikeouts in three of his last four starts, and he has struck out at least 12 three times already since May 17th. Two of those three starts came on the road. Sale faced these Rays earlier this year and allowed four hits and two runs over seven innings with seven strikeouts, enough to get the victory.
Tampa Bay is trending the right direction, and the club is now seven games above .500. There's a chance today to get back above the break-even point for bettors as well, a mark that Manager Joe Maddon and company have not reached since April. The Trop is becoming the haven for the Rays once again, as they are 26-18 in this building this season, a sturdy number for a team that is used to taking advantage of its surroundings. Tampa Bay is 19-5 in LHP Matt Moore's last 24 starts, and the hope is to build upon that in this one. Moore though, isn't a pitcher that we like all that much in spite of his 11-3 record. Sure, Moore will be in the All-Star Game this year, and he has only allowed four runs in his last three starts combined, each of which have been wins, but his control is killing us. Moore has walked 51 batters in just 93.2 innings of work this year, and he very well could finish out the campaign with at least 100 walks. Batters are only hitting .220 against Moore this season, and if that doesn't stay the case throughout the rest of the year, we could see his ERA rise well into the 4.00s in a hurry.
That's why we like the White Sox in this one. Chicago has a lousy club, but it has a great arm on the mound in this one, and that's going to make all the difference as long as the offense stays relatively patient at the plate and works some walks.
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Over the last month and a half, I have witnessed a magical transformation within my life. However, over the last couple weeks it seemed as though a few of the momentum I had felt within the first month has been dying out. I asked personally, 'What was I doing back then that I am not doing now? ' Then it dawned on me personally. I had retreated in to my mind and I'd forgotten exactly why I felt so good to begin with. Key word: 'felt. '
The reason My partner and i felt so good to start with wasn't just novelty. The reason was because every day I made it a spot to feel excellent. I would try to feel overpowering gratitude for my life just the way it had been. I did this three or maybe more times every evening. Looking back, I now recognize that this gratitude was the origin of my happiness from everyday. In the last couple of days I determined to get out of my head and back my heart. It feels nothing short of amazing!
Happiness Happens
So I is at the car earlier today along the way to the store to buy some fruit and this idea popped directly into my mind. I wrote that down quickly to ensure that I wouldn't forget about it. Sure enough, by the time I got back home My partner and i was thinking: 'Where is that little bit of paper? I need to remember what that three-step formula was for this blog post. '
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1. Positive emotions certainly are a precursor to Pleasure.
2. Happiness is the precursor to prosperity.
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I want you to take notice that these three rules are typical true in how I have created them. I used the actual phrase 'happiness is a precursor to wealth' as opposed to 'happiness leads to be able to wealth' because I wanted to emphasize this formula is a guideline as opposed to an exact research.
Now I will give you some detail about how this formula operates.
1. Positive Emotions Really are a Precursor To Happiness
When you think of happiness, what comes in your thoughts? What comes in order to my mind is a life free regarding negative stress along with a life FULL associated with positive emotions. I see positive emotions as the core of true happiness. Along with these kinds of positive emotions, we also need deficiencies in negative emotions. You wouldn't be happy in the event you were fearful on a regular basis but constantly trying to feel happy about it.
So, with positive emotions as the core of the happiness program, the next logical question is: "How do I feel positive emotions? " To answer this question, we must first learn just a little about the current emotional state that you are in.
Most people learn in a young age to be emotionally reactive, rather than psychologically proactive. To be emotionally reactive implies that the main supply of your emotions is via you reacting to your environment. In an on an emotional level reactive state, you have no control over your emotions. Rather, your emotions possess control over you. To be more specific, your environment provides control over your emotions through your reactions to it, which in turn has control over you.
To re-act means to act after or as a result of. To pro-act way to act before or as the causal source.
To be on an emotional level proactive, on the additional hand, means that you're the one that creates the emotions that you would like to feel. On top of the trait, you also don't answer the environment the maximum amount of or at just about all. This is known as 'drawing state from within. ' You produce your emotional state by deciding to feel a certain way. This means you can feel just as happy or sad as you desire to feel in any given moment.
Once we have control over our own reactivity and the pro-activity, we can commence to seek financial alleviation with Empower Network and financial prosperity (wealth) from your proper mindset. What's the correct mindset, you ask? What I mean is that people are now seeking financial relief solely to ease the stress that devoid of enough money gives us, rather than wanting to become wealthy inside a vain attempt to find happiness.
2. Happiness Is A Precursor To Wealth
Now I know you are probably thinking, "WHAT!?!?! 1@>! How is Pleasure a precursor to wealth?? " I notice where people get the idea that happiness uses you become prosperous, rather than just before. Many people become wealthy only to find they are still unhappy. This happens mainly because financial anxiety was not exactly why they were unhappy.
The reason behind their confusion is that they confused financial relief with happiness. Financial relief as well as happiness are generally not very the same thing. Financial relief is a feeling of 'not needing to worry' whereas happiness can be a feeling of on-going positive emotion. happiness
When we learn that money doesn't result in happiness, we can next seek financial prosperity from the standpoint of knowing and walking our desired path. We won't be operating beneath the false belief in which happiness exists at some point in the future when we have more funds. Happiness can only ever happen inside the moment when you choose to feel it.
3. Wealth Is Any Precursor To True Freedom
In order to unscramble this psychological mess of success, happiness, and financial relief, I will offer you some simple concepts to take into account.
Everyone is seeking financial relief. People think that they have to become very wealthy so that you can attain permanent financial relief. This isn't correct. In fact, permanent financial relief is a lot closer than you believe.
The reality is that permanent economic relief feels just as effective as being wealthy. You will reach a point where having more money isn't going to create you feel any more relieved. You only have to reach this point to have permanent economic relief. It is crucial that you understand this because this may prevent you from needlessly trying to become wealthier as well as wealthier, all the although becoming less as well as less happy in the process.
happinessFinancial relief happens when you are able to pay off all your expenses at the finish of the calendar month. Financial prosperity, on the some other hand, happens when you've about twice around you need (or even more). The reality is that financial prosperity is slightly ways away; approximately twice the cash you are making now.
Once you have found ways to make twice the money that you need, you are right now financially prosperous. You can pay all your bills and have a lot left over to spend on whatever you wish. Whatever you don't spend it is possible to simply put inside the bank for the financial security. There is only 1 problem with this…
True Freedom
What if you need to work 12 hours or maybe more every day to produce enough money to be financially prosperous? That would defeat the entire purpose of residing. You would spend all of your time working and also have no time left over to enjoy the cash. This is where leverage comes in.
If you can find a way to make additional money in less period, you can be financially prosperous and have ample time to spend doing things that you love to accomplish. Thankfully, with technology, this can be performed. In fact, many thousands of people around the world now live the life where they work under two hours each day and have plenty of money, even living the millionaire lifestyle.
The way I personally chose to utilize this technological financial leverage was with the Empower Network. I've seen those who are making 20k, 30k, 50k, 100k per month and they were only working an hour or two per day. In fact, the longer these were in the Encourage Network, the less that they had to work over time, and the more money they made! This inspired me to find yourself in the Empower Network.
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This three-step formula works great. What we realized is that by starting off with happiness within your daily life, you will develop a rock-solid foundation to your financial prosperity and also ultimately your correct freedom. You won't become mistakenly seeking wealth in order to find happiness. At first it seemed backwards, but by you will see that we all were backwards in our thinking all alongside.
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Arizona State athletic director Steve Patterson is excited to see ASU senior Carrick Felix participate in Thursday night's Division I College Slam Dunk Contest.
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Patterson, told Arizona Sports 620's Doug and Wolf that he's looking forward to seeing the 6-foot-6 swingman selected in the 2013 NBA Draft.
"There's a lot of teams that are interested in him, particularly in the second round," the former Portland Trail Blazers general manager said.
The 2013 Pac-12 Scholar Athlete of the Year played his final season at ASU with graduate status after earning his bachelor's degree in 2012.
During his senior season, Felix was selected as Pac-12 Player of the Week three times and posted 13 double-doubles.
"He plays great defense and finished his master's degree, he's a solid kid," Patterson said. "People are excited about him."
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Re: Pages Paper Formatting? in response to SOJHA Helpful
You simply have the wrong orientation clicked.
If you have made the paper size wide not tall, it does not need to be rotated.
But you must consider how you are going to print this. You need to orient the sheet for the correct feed into the printer.
If it gets feed into the printer on the short edge then you need to set up the custom page size to reflect that.
For a short side feed the paper should be 30" wide by 40" high and orientation would then be the second option of turned 90°.
For a long side feed the paper should be 40" wide by 30" high and orientation would be the first option, no turn.
PS I hope the research has nothing to do with rocket science.
SOJHA Aug 1, 2013 2:28 PM
Re: Pages Paper Formatting? in response to PeterBreis0807
Orientation as in I should have it in portrait and not landscape? I thought this was the case, but I was specifically told to have it as landscape with 40 wide and 36 height. Could you please clarify this part again to me? This is the first time I'm using pages for something like this.
As far as printing, it won't really be my problem. I'm going to take this pages document, convert it to PDF and then send it to the printing department, which they'll hopefully get.
PeterBreis0807 Aug 1, 2013 2:48 PM
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Orientation is which way it is facing not what shape it is. ie Where is the top of the sheet.
Format is whether it is portrait or landscape.
You are performing a double negative when you are turning the page sideways in the set-up then sideways again in Orientation.
PS Avoid transparency, shadows, reflections, 3D Charts and fancy borders on images if you are going to pdf. Pages turns those into 72dpi bitmaps.
SOJHA Aug 1, 2013 2:49 PM
Re: Pages Paper Formatting? in response to PeterBreis0807
OH. So basically, I should leave the orientation at Portrait, and then set the width to 40" and height to 36" yes? Then it will solve the issue?
Thanks for the PDF suggestion, I would love to put those reflections in, but oh well...
PeterBreis0807 Aug 1, 2013 3:48 PM
Re: Pages Paper Formatting? in response to SOJHA Solved
Yes. Orientation is what it says.


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Ortiz's story is heartbreaking -- a Roman Catholic Nun teaching poverty stricken children who was abducted and tortured in Guatemala. Two things she said moved me:
My ministry today is focused on preventing torture, and I find it painful, as do other survivors, that the church has been so silent on this issue.and
When I first heard people were advocating for the legalization and use of torture in this country, I was very angry. It was almost like what we had experienced was irrelevant and that they were saying it was OK for us to have been tortured.None who read her story will have an excuse for apathy on this issue.


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CONYERS — A man who apparently did not want to be treated at Rockdale Medical Center allegedly arranged for a Life Flight helicopter to take him to Augusta.
According to the incident report filed by the Rockdale County Sheriff's Office, the 29-year-old man had gone to the emergency room at Rockdale Medical Center on Friday and said that his physician, a Dr. Williams, had ordered that he be placed in the Intensive Care Unit and put in a medically induced coma to help him avoid withdrawal symptoms from his current medication, after which he would be prescribed a new seizure medication.
"The emergency room doctor attempted to call (the man's) doctor, but was not able to locate a doctor with the name (he) provided," the report states.
Apparently unsatisfied with the response, the suspect returned home and on Saturday, called for an ambulance to take him to RMC, where they met a Life Flight helicopter that was waiting there.
The EMS ambulance had picked up the man from his Upland Ridge Drive home "because they were under the impression that a doctor had ordered the Life Flight helicopter," the incident report states. "(The suspect) stated that Dr. Williams ordered that he be transported to Augusta Medical (Center) due to poor treatment at Rockdale Medical."
When deputies arrived at the hospital, the Life Flight pilot was on his cell phone attempting to make contact with the doctor who allegedly ordered the helicopter.
"Rockdale Medical staff, EMS and the Life Flight personnel attempted to locate Dr. Williams, but no one at Augusta Medical knew who they were talking about," the report states.
The case is currently under investigation and no arrests have been made, although, according to the RCSO, EMS, Life Flight and Rockdale Medical Center have stated they would like the man prosecuted for impersonating a physician and ordering the helicopter.
Rockdale Medical center attempted to give the man a mental evaluation, but he reportedly checked himself out of the hospital against medical advice.
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It takes both chutzpah and cojones (both indigenous to NYC) to roll out a campaign that takes on the beverage industry. And that's just what the New York City Department of Health has done with its "Pouring on the Pounds campaign," that effectively highlights the anti-health impact of sugary, sweetened drinks.
The cost of the multi-lingual ad campaign is about $277,000. It will run in 1,500 subway cars for three months.
Its signature image is a bottle of soda (or sugary substance of your choice) that is pouring into a glass. As it reaches the glass, the liquid turns to fatty globules. A stunning reminder of how these high-calorie products are empty calories that lead to obesity and other related health problems and diseases, particularly diabetes and heart disease, stroke, arthritis and cancer.
The ad queries, "Are you pouring on the pounds?" And it warns, "Don't drink yourself fat." Needless to say, one can quench their thirst with water.
According to the American Heart Association, Americans now consume on average 22 teaspoons of sugar per day or 355 calories. The NYC Department of Health found that more than 2 million New Yorkers drink at least one sugar-sweetened beverage each day, averaging 250 calories per 'pop.'
Sweetened beverage consumption is highest among 18-44 year old and among adult blacks and Hispanics.
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If you consider the research conducted by Child Development Theorist Linda Kreger Silverman, which indicates that approximately 75% of the population learns from visual cues and 65% from words (25% exclusively), then utilizing visual campaigns that are heavy in images and words, makes perfect sense.
My only question is this: $277,000 seems a small amount of money to pay to deliver such an important message. Why only 3 months? Why only in New York City?
To the rest of the nation, I say, "Hey, ramp up the chutzpah and get some cojones." And to the NYC Health Department, I say, "Super-size this campaign and count me in!"
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Endlessly replayable, endlessly brilliant
(Just copy-pasting an old review of mine from GS, just to see the reader review system in action ...and probably expect a ton of bias).
Morrowind is the much-anticipated third installment of the Elder Scrolls series. Arriving four years after the release of its predecessor, The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, Morrowind seems more than worthy to carry on the tradition of the immerse and non-linear style of role-playing game. Like Daggerfall, Morrowind is a first-person RPG that lets you basically choose your own adventure--a style of game that admittedly isn't for everyone. However for those with an independent streak who would rather "go it alone" than be shepherded from scenario to scenario, Morrowind will not disappoint.
This game has even less of a premise than Daggerfall, a game which basically dumped you onto a continent with a vague order from the Emperor to investigate the ghost of a king who was haunting the castle of the capital city. Morrowind gives you even less to work with. You are a convict; nameless, faceless, without a history, who has been mysteriously granted freedom by the Emperor, released onto the giant island-continent Vvardenfell and given orders to deliver a package to a certain individual in a nearby town. This is the extent to which your quest is introduced--the rest is up to you.
Your first step will be creating a character, and Morrowind has one of the most thorough and detailed character generation systems I have ever seen. Not only can you specify your character's race and gender, but can then choose from several different physical representations of that race, each with different facial features and hairstyles. Most of the races available in Daggerfall have been carried over and a few new choices have been added: there are the human races of Redguard, Nord, Imperial and Breton; the elven races of High Elf, Dark Elf and Wood Elf, and the bestial Khajit (cat-like creatures) and Argonians (lizard-men). Orcs are also a playable race this time, instead of being the mindless monsters they were in Daggerfall. Once a race has been chosen you can assign a profession for your character, each of which has different major, minor and miscellaneous skills. (These skills fall into three broad categories of Combat, Magic and Stealth and include the various magical disciplines and fighting arts as well as things like lock-picking, sneaking, acrobatics, swimming, armor-repair and mercantile abilities. Major and minor skills will be easier to increase and affect your character's level advancement.) It is also possible to create a custom class and choose your own skill-sets. You can even choose what "sign" your character was born under. (Each sign gives your character certain special abilities.) The sign feature replaces the assignment of certain specific strengths and weaknesses in Daggerfall. In Morrowind, strengths and handicaps such as night vision, weakness to disease, immunity to poison, magic resistance and such are decided by the race and sign that you select
You begin your quest in one of the more backwater towns of Vvardenfell, but from there the entire continent becomes open to you. You can elect to begin the main quest straight away by delivering the package as you were told, or ignore orders for the time being and set off exploring on your own. For those with an adventurous spirit, Morrowind is full of dungeons, shipwrecks, ruins and mines full of monsters and treasure. Or, you can become involved in the politics of Vvardenfell by joining guilds or one of the three Imperial Houses. Guilds include the Thieves, Fighters and Mages guilds, and there are several other factions that accept recruits as well. However, you must be careful who you ally yourself with because politics are always in motion and you will almost certainly end up making enemies with another faction. Great Houses are farther reaching, and allying yourself with one is a major decision that cannot be revoked.
The thing that becomes apparent almost straight away is that Morrowind is very complex, much more so than the previous games in the series. Racial and social tensions, slavery, factional scheming and conflicting political agendas all simmer together under the shadow of a malevolent being named Dagoth Ur who resides behind the Ghostgate in the center of Vvardenfell and sends ash and blight across the land, encroaching slowly but inexorably into ever wider territory. Combined with this evil is the classic conflict of old verses new. The Dunmer, or Dark Elves, had been the ancestral inhabitants of Vvardenfell but have recently been displaced to an extent by new arrivals, the Imperials. Many resent this new influence from the West, and some fanatics are willing to take their hatred to the extreme. There is also the presence of several older, more ancient technologies on the island--relics of long forgotten civilizations. Huge ruins full of artifacts that have long ago ceased to work, but who beckon to be rediscovered and used. There are even rumors of secret cults of demon worshippers and vampires.
Guilds and Great Houses will give quests, as will various NPCs. These are not, as they were in Daggerfall, randomly generated and will be the same every time through the game. Nevertheless, the possibility for replay is endless, especially if you actually role-play your character and take on a persona. Perhaps you are a noble knight who helps people in distress and expects no reward in return, or a thief who never pays for anything if he can help it but prefers to pickpocket and shoplift, or an ambitious mage whose goal is to advance through the ranks of the guild and become Grand Master, or a "Robin Hood" type character who frees slaves and steals from the rich, or an evil outlaw who spurns authority and will kill for the shirt off someone's back. Add to this the fact that becoming a member of certain factions excludes you from joining others, meaning you will have to play the game multiple times to experience everything.
But all this development would be for nothing without good game mechanics, and Morrowind delivers there as well. Morrowind is a skills-based game, which means that your character improves by successfully performing a skill as opposed to gaining experience points. For example, if your character successfully picks a lock or casts a spell enough times, his skill level will improve. For this reason, the character will be weak in the beginning of the game, which makes things quite challenging, but as skills improve and the character becomes more powerful, the game will get easier. You will be able to notice your character's performance improving over the course of the game is his skills increase. For example, as Athleticism and Acrobatics are increased, there will be a noticeable improvement in the character's speed and how high she can jump. Not only is this highly realistic, but also allows you to focus on the skills you want to improve rather than getting blanket improvements to each skill every time you level up. Stats, on the other hand, are improved by leveling up, and leveling up happens each time major and minor skills increase by a total of 10. Stats are the usual categories of strength, intelligence, willpower, etc and govern how well skills are performed and certain other things like maximum HP and MP.
The world of Morrowind is 3-D at its best, in that you can make your way into every nook and cranny of the game environment. By climbing, swimming or using levitation you can scale mountains, reach underground caverns, cross lakes or ravines, or even climb over the walls and roofs of buildings, often discovering secrets in the process. The game comes with a decent paper map, but at least 80% of the areas in Morrowind are unmarked and waiting to be discovered by the explorer.
The fighting in Morrowind is fairly basic, and does not have to be the focus of the game unless your character is a fighter. Basically you don't "engage" an enemy in a one-on-one turn-based battle, but can take a swipe at anyone who is close enough to you. Once fighting you can attempt to run away (you will be chased, however), or continue until one of you is dead. You attack by clicking the mouse on the monster and dragging it various ways to represent different weapon strokes. Certain strokes such as jabs, thrusts or slashes, work better with different foes. Offensive magic can be used during fights, and weapons can be enchanted to have certain destructive magical properties. Weapons include axes, spears, various types of swords and daggers, hammers and staves, and there are also several powerful "artifact" weapons that have special bonuses. Armor also comes in great variety in light, medium or heavy weights that affect how quickly your character can move verses how well they absorb hits.
There are six schools of magic in Morrowind, and every character will have to master at least a few spells if he wishes to go far in the game. Conjuration is the summoning magic that lets you summon monsters or items to aid you in battle. Destruction encompasses attack spells like fireball. Restoration is healing magic. Illusion changes peoples' perceptions of you, and includes spells like invisibility. Alteration and Mysticism are varied schools that allow everything from water walking and water-breathing to levitation and telekinesis. These spells can be bought at guilds, or learned from NPCs, but by far the coolest feature is the Spellmaker, which lets you create spells of your own choosing where you can specify the velocity, duration and effects.
In a genre where producing stunning visuals is not always the top priority, Morrowind is a rare example of and RPG with superb graphics balanced with great depth of gameplay. The game is absolutely stunning, with characters that are very realistic and life-like, and objects and backgrounds with amazing levels of detail. The wilderness areas are particularly breathtaking, and the various weather patterns such as dust storms and rain add a lot to the experience.
The audio is very well done with a nice selection of voices to complement text conversations. NPCs utter a variety of phrases as your character approaches them (not just one or two repeated ad nauseam, but a fair sized list of 15 or 20), and their tone changes depending on their disposition towards your character. The voice acting is passable, with a decent variety of actors providing samples; though later on you'll start to feel the repetitive nature and realize that perhaps the game would've benefited with a bit more lines of spoken dialogue. The soundtrack, composed by Jeremy Soule, is in an elegant and suitably epic orchestral style. The music is subtle enough not to become intrusive, yet still contains some beautiful and memorable melodic lines. The only complaint here is that there is not a big enough variety of musical tracks to compliment such a large and complicated game. There are only about 10 tracks in total, which means there is a lot of repetition.
In the end though, Morrowind is a hard game to recommend if merely for the fact that it is a daunting game to tackle, and those looking for a viseral gaming experience might want to go elsewhere. The combat is deritivtive and can grate on the user's nerves at the outset, and the lack of any real direction save for a note given to player might be a little too much for many gamers out there to handle or take-in. But those that do decide to give Morrowind a chance will not be disappointed in the least, and at most will be enjoying not only the best RPG of 2002 (Sorry NWN), but one of the more memorable and endlessly replayable games to come out in years.