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Thursday, July 17, 2008
A Gentle and Quiet Spirit
I have seen the beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit and very much desire to work on this attribute in my life. I liked what Nancy Wilson shares on it:
"Some people mistakenly think that a gentle and quiet spirit is displayed when a woman never speaks. This has concerned some of the outgoing personalities because they don't know how to be a silent lump. This is merely looking at externals. Certainly sometimes a quiet spirit will be exhibited by silence, but not always. And a quiet person can be all worked up on the inside. This is missing the point. A heart that is resting in the faithfulness of God is gentle and quiet; it is not stirred up with worry and anxiety. This gentle and quiet spirit is a calm, peaceful spirit. It is a tame spirit, a gentled spirit. I have often compared this kind of spirit to a glassy lake, not turbulent or troubled, but hardly showing a ripple. In contrast, the anxious spirit is like a stormy sea with whitecaps whipping along the shore. This of course brings to mind our Lord calming the troubled Sea of Galilee. Likewise, He can calm our troubled spirits when we look to Him."
Isn't that a beautiful picture? Contrast this with the woman who is:
Loud and overbearing
Wild, untamed
Acting masculine, macho, tough
Flirting, teasing
Always gossiping
Trying to be center of attention-drawing attention to self and not God
We have all seen her. Sadly, sometimes we are her. But as we turn our hearts toward God, He begins to shape our lives to become like Him. I think that our prayer everyday needs to be focused on how we can grow these traits in our lives.
"Lord, help us to be the women you want us to be. Help to grow and cultivate that gentle and quiet spirit that you desire for us to have and to show true beauty to the world-not the counterfeit beauty that the world has to offer that fades away. May it be a light to all people so they will know who you are. Help us repent of a wrong spirit and convict us when we off course. You are mighty and we are thankful for your Mighty Hand in our lives. And we ask this in your Son's Holy name, Jesus Christ. Amen."
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Thank you, Im really stuggling in this area! I feel like the more I pray the more I get worse.... Im frustrated.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousOctober 21, 2012 at 5:09:00 PM CDT
me too me tooDelete
- AnonymousAugust 15, 2013 at 8:01:00 AM CDT
Yes I am learning about boundaries so I do get too anxious and worried.Delete
So glad I found your site. I saw the title and becasue I have a desire to be a woman with a quiet and gentle spirit i was immediatley drawn here. thanks for your insight. Love the prayer I would love to put it my journal. Please let me know if it is ok.ReplyDelete
I must come back again I read several of your posts on a quiet and gentle spirit. What a beautiful site it truly has touched my heart. I was trying to make a decison tonight that I feel 2 things about the Holy Spirit lead me here because I wanted my actions to be truthful-please come to my blog there will be something for you there.ReplyDelete
I wasn't able to complete all the post but I will be back. You are truly bless with the Spirit of the Lord
This is such a perfect quote. It takes guilt off of me where it shouldn't be and helps me focus on what I should be truly focusing on.ReplyDelete
Oh, yes. . . I need to become more like the woman you described. I'm going to need a lot of help from God, though! It's so easy to become angry and speak damaging words, even to the ones we love the most.ReplyDelete
Beautiful! Thank you so much for this.ReplyDelete
Dear God-chaser,ReplyDelete
What a great name! You are more than welcome to--thanks so much for your kind words, award and visiting! May your home be blessed and may the Lord continue to do a mighty work in your life.
Many blessings...
Mrs Fuentes,ReplyDelete
This has been such an inspiring and challenging post for me ~ what insight Nancy Wilson gives into that verse and its full meaning!
Thanks for sharing her quote and your thoughts in a moving prayer, that echoes from my own heart :o)
by His grace,
Aww...can't I have a gentle spirit and still be silently bitter?? LOLReplyDelete
I can echo many of the comments written here. The word of God gives a clear description on how to have a gentle and quite spirit. By far, this is my biggest area of struggle. I am not even sure how I found your blog, but you have blessed me today. Thank you for wonderful encouraging words. I will love to link it to my blog. Thank you.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 28, 2009 at 11:19:00 AM CST
Mrs. Fuentes, I wish you could know how your blog has helped me.ReplyDelete
Unfortunately, I'm the woman that you described. I'm loud, obnoxious, self-seeking and anxious.
I don't have a quiet spirit.
I'm trying to figure out what femininity is all about at age 42. *sighs*
Thank you for helping me.
- AnonymousMarch 13, 2009 at 1:34:00 AM CDT
Hello, I was just wondering if you noticed any langage delays with the younger children? It seems like my baby is delayed. I know each child is diffrent but I worry that my baby is behind he is 14 months and does not seem to understand alot of things that my other kids did when they were that age.ReplyDelete
I found this sight while searching for bible verses describing a quiet spirit because my aunt is terminal and I was asked to prepare the service. Is is a quite spitit. She always does everything with great class and style, with patients and love. Even in her exceptance of lung cancer was quite and calm. Always reassuring us that she was in no pain. Now she has taken a turn for the worse and is no longer comminucating. I need to find the right words to honor her/ReplyDelete
Mrs. June, this post has brought tears to my eyes. Your blog has been ministering to my soul the very moment I found it. I struggle with this issue in my life because I find myself with anger and bitterness inside that surfaces every now and then. I pray (and pray some more) that God will mold me into the woman He has meant me to be. Thank you so much for this post! Be blessed always.ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing this. It really helps me cultivate a quiet and gentle spirit so precious in the sight of God. God bless you and keep on nurturing women to become the women God wants them to become. All the glory to Him, Father and Lord Jesus Christ. Amen!ReplyDelete
Hi I am a follower of your blog and have very much enjoyed it. But that is not why I am putting a comment on a two almost three year old post. You see I am 20 and my Dad has me doing a study report on A Gentle and Quite Spirit and I was having a hard time trying to describe a gentle and quite spirit, so I googled it think I could find something that would help. This post was the third thing on the list of link about gentle and quite spirit. I just wanted you to know that this is still helping people today, even after all these years. Thank you ever so muchReplyDelete
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A gentle and quiet spirit is something God has been tugging on me for a while. I am not there yet but whenever I listen to the Holy Spirit and stay quiet and give my frustration to God instead, I have seen beautiful results. I've learned that when I'm stressed out and wants to yell out my feelings, if I just give those feelings to God in silence, He helps me to calm down and be gentle. I learned that it's a lot better to just obey what the word tells us women to do than to do what we want to do. When we obey the word, we receive the power from God to not only see changes in ourselves but also those around us, especially our husbands.ReplyDelete
Dear Karina,ReplyDelete
I totally feel you. Keep talking to God about your frustrations. Don't stop until He helps you to be gentle and quiet in your spirit. Jesus said, in Mathew 11:28, 29 - Come to me... and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart. May God help you!
oops.. i just commented to somebody from 2008. sorry.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 2, 2011 at 10:51:00 AM CDT
hello :) i was wondering if it is ok to print your articles for personal use? i like to keep a binder of inspiring articles, etc. and, if others might read them is that ok? i wouldn't ever try to make money from them. i'm thinking just in terms of inspiration.ReplyDelete
thank you :)
~ camille
- ChristinaMay 12, 2012 at 9:04:00 AM CDT
When my husband left four years ago he said one of the reasons was that I would never be as gentle as he needed to me. Through the death of my marriage I have come to accept Christ as my savior however my exhusband's words still sting my heart and I am not certain I have made much progress in cultivating a gentle spirit. Thank you for this post as it is very helpful.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousDecember 17, 2012 at 6:26:00 PM CST
Praying for you Christina. You are 'still' a beautiful person, just the way God created you. We 'all' need work, until the very end of our lives - I hope your ex husband can confess 'his' faults to God too. :-)Delete
- AnonymousJune 14, 2013 at 12:45:00 PM CDT
Besides the Bible, I have found Christian author Elizabeth George's books to be helpful and the non-Christian/secular author Dr. Laura Schlessinger's book The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands.
Best wishes to you in your future.
Good morning, I just found your website when I typed in gentle and quiet spirit on google... thank you for your website, it is necessary, and I appreciate the opportunity to share as well. There are many things that I could share today, but I will keep it simple, GOD is so merciful, and even when I am so wrong, HIS Holy Spirit, so gentle and so quiet, draws me back to HIS side and allows me to see me and others the way HE does. What a wonderful GOD HE is. Shalom Yall!!! <><ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 17, 2012 at 6:19:00 PM CST
I found this blog because I typed 'gentle and quiet spirit' after i was deeply convicted of acting much like what is listed above, the opposite of a gentle and quite spirit. I feel, convicted that when I become passionate about a subject I can easily Loud and overbearing Obnoxious, Wild, untamedReplyDelete
Angry, Bitter, Acting masculine, macho, tough and have certainly been guilty of Flirting, teasing, being Critical, often gossiping and yes even Trying to be center of attention-drawing attention to self and not God! Lord. Please forgive me and make me more like your Son, Jesus.
Thank you. I often think I'm not rejoicing in the Lord, because I'm not overwhelmingly vocal to others... just might have a quiet spirit. Thank you for sharing.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 19, 2014 at 9:20:00 PM CDT
I'm a man, and I think it's wonderful that many women are making the effort to be calm and gentle. Too many women in America have become more like men. Many articles have been written concerning this. This is why many men no longer want marriage. They don't need an always defensive, angry, shouting, justifying woman in their lives, one who can't listen with humility. And therein lies the problem for all of us. We've lost humility and shame. But I place half the blame on Television and the other half on women that watch it and tells them or shows them the way they think a woman should be in this world. Get away from the television and back to the bible, prayer, reading, etc.ReplyDelete
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|4-H achievement recognized in projects
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All 4-H members deserve commendation for their project effort at the 2009 Phillips County Fair.
Grand Champion (GC) and Reserve Grand Champion (RGC) efforts in food, booths, clothing and other general home ec/general 4-H projects were recognized at last week's county fair. 4-H shooting sports and FFA farm mechanics were also awarded.
Hannah Gillmore won GC foods honors this year. Elise Atkins was GC in specialty foods.
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RGC awards for other 4-H projects went to Erin Vieselmeyer, heritage arts (quilting); Drew Stewart, leadership; Janna Smith, leathercraft and scrapbooking; Brenna Sullivan, cake decorating; Briar Bergner, photography; and Wyatt McCallum, sportfishing.
Challengers 4-H Club won GC in 4-H booth set-ups, and Better Beef Makers earned RGC.
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CindySays: Blame soft drinks for obesity gains
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Here's a quick health check. How do you quench your thirst each day? Think about your beverage habits and then consider the amount of calories you consume on an average day over and above the food you eat. Once upon a time, water was the primary source of hydration for Americans. But then came sugar, which was cheap, followed by high-fructose corn syrup, even cheaper, and soft-drink consumption rose at a staggering pace. Soft drinks are loosely defined as any beverage with added sugar or other sweetener and include soda, fruit punch, sweetened powdered drinks, sports/energy drinks, lemonade and other "ades." They are high in calories and have virtually no nutrients. The Harvard School of Public Health states: "Historians may someday call this period the fattening of America. Between 1985 and now, the proportion of Americans who are overweight or obese has ballooned from 45 percent in the mid-1960s to 66 percent today. There's no single cause for this increase; instead, there are many contributors. One of them is almost certainly our penchant for quenching our thirst with beverages other than water." That's right. Just as pregnancy produces babies, obesity is the perfect incubator for chronic disease and is delivering diabetes, heart disease and cancer to more and more families each year. Our nation drinks massive amounts of sugar-sweetened beverages -- aka liquid candy -- without giving it a thought. The beverage industry says that soft-drink makers produce about 10.4 billion gallons of sugary soda pop every year. That's enough to serve every American 12 ounces every day, 365 days a year. Add to that all the millions of gallons of juices, faux juices and colorful pouches, cans and boxes of drinks. What's one sugary drink a day? Well, that's about 150 sugary calories, usually involving high-fructose corn syrup. Here's a visual on that -- 10 teaspoons of table sugar! 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Wow ... it *is* beautiful.
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Mike Schley is an artist whose work continues to amaze me. The map of Diyun city is excellent by itself with it's beautiful colors, line work, and an incredible amount of detail, but Mike then makes the map really pop by adding cross section views of the city. This really makes the whole piece come alive and gives it great character.
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Wow ... it *is* beautiful.
This is a beautiful map. The cutaway views scream, 'Adventure!'
Amazing, i love the bridges binding the islands together. So many buildings... (i don't quite understand why some bridges were between 30-50 feet of each other when they linked the same island though but still amazing)
Really nice. Very cool idea for a city.
Absolutely incredible, really stunning.
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That is an awesome map
Awesome map Watcha do with it?
Only possible improvement would be the edge, it lacks perspective imho. You know: a bit of shadow here and there that would be caused by the damaged corners and all, now it feels more like an eraser has been rubbed along the edge. Also a font like in comic books would look kind of cool since the drawing are of a very much similar style.
PS: here is an example of what I mean.
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That is some very good art *and* design work there. I wish I had that kind of talent. I have an (unillustrated) city that is very similar in my world. The bridges add a certain flair to the town. Here is a snippet from my world's atlas:
" The bridges are considered public land and a distinct culture has developed among those who make their lives and livelihood on them. Bridge culture is a unique experience to visitors, and one may spend a lazy afternoon just sipping tea or ale at one of the many vendors on the side of a bridge. "
Just a thought about how life in a bridge city would be. Again, your illustration is fantastic.


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i purchased a 12 volt battery at atwoods a while back for my se mount. i was going to buy another one for a new cg5 i had purchased. atwoods was out so i went to radio shack, they had one for around $40 with tax, i was shocked!!! after i got online and pulled up a dealer that sells these batteries for $7.50 plus tax total about $15. just wonder how some of these companies stay in business. donnie
That's just like saying that I could buy a car down the street for $7000, but at the dealer they sell cars for $40,000. I don't think the '12 volt batteries you are comparing are 'the same thing'.
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It's all a scam, a 40 dollar lawnmower battery will run your mount for 3 weeks...just sayin...12 volts is 12 volts.
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Excellent! I will have to get a couple of those batteries. My 105ah marine batteries don't run for 40 days at all with the laptop, dew heater camera and mount hooked up to them. I would be happy with a week but 40 days sounds even better. Do you have a link to the product?
You should get some extra batteries anyway. You shouldnt run your mount, dew heater, laptop, and camera on the same battery. At least get a seperate battery for your mount to avoid it shorting out from a voltage spike!
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... i ask about the male jack and how to tell if the center is positive or negitive, does anyone know. would appreciate. thanks, donnie
The plug is the male end that goes into the fixed panel side of equipment (female).
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How much should the size of the maps be in pixels, if you mainly intent to publish them on your blog?
*Adam's test piece turned out fantastic! We have been working together to concept the final go. Unless the worst happens and everything falls about (*knocking on wood furiously*) I would say this request is now officially taken.
*I have had a few people contact me and I greatly appreciate the interest. Adam Schmidt and I have begun an idea exchange and he currently has a "test" piece in progress. I will still gladly take a look at any other examples folks want to send, but this may be [Taken] soon.
Map maker, map maker, make me a map
I've been a very amateur worldbuilder for a few years now. I'm getting the hang of it, but my trusty pencil and paper approach just does not stack up against the real deal of talent here in the guild. As such I would love to support a starving artist with a paid commission for a world map. And perhaps the second most enticing part after the $ is NEAR LIMITLESS ARTISTIC LIBERTY! That's right, do as ye will, I'm not very picky.
My request is thus:
A complete world map of 5-6 continents (I will accept 1 full map at fairly low resolution), but I would prefer each continent as it's own map. *Pay special attention to the way Aventhar separated Galinorn compared the overall world map. That's what I'm looking for*
The scale on each individual map would be about 300 miles per inch. This is for ease of calculation if you figure 1 day of mounted travel = approx 30 miles, and my "weeks" are measured in tendays. The shape of the continents matters not. I only ask for a good spread of them - meaning not everything is clustered right at or north/south of the equator. I'd like to have the openness of varied climate zones. So think Earth with perhaps a bit more water - let's say this planet is about the same size as Earth (maybe a little larger, but not enough to drastically affect gravity) with 75-80% water.
Style: here are several examples of my favs within the guild
* this last one is nearly perfect! I love the forests, hills, and mountains, but I'd like a more clearly defined coastline and more fresh water rivers (maybe I big lake that a few rivers dump into, and a few smaller lakes where the water gathers before draining out to sea.) Let's say 1 or 2 big rivers - think Missouri and Mississippi - and then a few smaller branches feeding into these.
I really like the clear, "plain" style of these.
The following is the preferred GIMP style, but I understand it would require higher resolution. I really like the river, mountains, forests.
I hope this clearly defines what I'm looking for in the look of the map. As I said, feel free to terraform whatever you'd like. I'll most likely be conversing with you via email, so we can exchange basic fractal shapes of the landmasses until we agree upon something.
As for print quality; it's unlikely that I'll be printing anything. In the event that I do need to I will pay again for a simplified line version if I cannot trace one myself. I'm mostly looking to have something I can tinker with via CS4 and post on my blog. Thus, I need something maybe 8.5" by 11 or tabloid size. Vector if possible, or bitmap with high enough res that I can zoom in to areas about 500 x 500 miles without getting too fuzzy. Again look to Aventhar's "Galinorn" as a great example.
I'm in no hurry, we can discuss project time and rate once I have a fish on the hook. FYI, I wouldn't dare try to skimp on cost because that would obviously attract lesser quality work; however, I'm a long way from being Uncle Moneybags either. So fee wise I'm thinking $25-30 for each continent (grand total not more than $150).
I would like to retain reproduction rights to the piece(s), but I expect the artist would want to keep it for their own portfolio as well. I am perfectly okay with having the artist's signature on the map (perhaps stylized below the legend/key as if they were the cartographer from said fantasyland)
Again, the intent is to be posted on my blog, but the odds of me ever publishing for commercial sharing is rare.
There you have it. Have at it! I'll keep the $ standing by.
I'm easy to please and look forward to doling out the spendulis to an eager, talented cartographer.
I can be reached via email [my username] @gmail.com. I check it daily.
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How much should the size of the maps be in pixels, if you mainly intent to publish them on your blog?
Call me a newb, but I honestly don't know. (shrug) All I could say is enough to allow for a 200-400% zoom without rendering the imagine too foggy. I understand that probably doesn't help much. Sorry. The best example I can think to describe it is Aventhar's album. The world map is great of understanding layout and scale, but you lose a lot of resolution zooming to each continent, so where s/he has done Galinorn as it's own map works great. You can get pretty close without losing a lot of resolution in the rivers and mountains. That's my biggest concern - well defined rivers - I hate it when I go in for a closer look and the river ceases to have banks and becomes a wide, blue smudge.


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NEW YORK CITY- The life of a budding 15-year-old investor is rarely sluggish.
After a youth choir practice at St. Malachi's Church in midtown Manhattan, Brandon Conley and his younger sister, Joralyssa, meet up with their mother at a nearby coffee shop, where Brandon is supposed to log in for an online class with an experimental high school for gifted youth that Stanford University has started.
There's no wireless access at the first coffee shop. So his mom takes her two younger children to a local park while Brandon grabs a laptop bag and dashes across busy 8th Avenue to a Starbucks where he grabs a table, opens the laptop, plugs in an ear bud, and is racing against the clock, getting past firewalls to log into class. Starbucks' site requires money so he searches for other free signals and, finding one, makes several attempts before hitting success.
"Yes! Six minutes to spare," he says, pumping his fists. Before long, a Stanford professor's face appears on a video feed. A Power Point presentation appears with the title "Democracy, Freedom & The Rule of Law" and bulleted points to follow. Brandon and students from across the country are now chatting in a chat room with the professor. He's drinking his second cup of coffee; the first one earlier that day had two shots of espresso. He's trying to cut back.
This is an afternoon glimpse into the fast-paced world of a young man going for a nontraditional education in the Big Apple. His parents have figured they could best educate their children by turning them loose on opportunities New York has to offer and using the internet to find top-notch resources.
Brandon, the oldest of three children in the Conley family, is like any other 15-year-old in some ways. He wears braces and doesn't yet need to shave. He enjoys Seinfeld reruns and animated films. His favorite sports are chess (and he'll argue that it is a sport) and baseball. He cheers for the St. Louis Cardinals even though his dad likes the Yankees.
But in another sense Brandon is not your average 15-year-old. He usually wakes at 6 a.m. for a two-hour subway and train commute to a high school in Katonah, N.Y. During the journey, he enjoys reading financial newspapers and checking stock quotes on his cell phone. He usually wears a shirt, tie, and sport coat-partly because of the school dress code and partly because he enjoys dressing up. He prefers the online high school through Stanford because it suits his learning style.
Terence and Judith Conley had homeschooled Brandon up till this past fall, when he received scholarships to attend the online high school with Stanford as well as Montfort Academy in Katonah. (They still home educate their two younger children and are very involved in Brandon's education.) They initially homeschooled Brandon when they realized they couldn't afford expensive private schools in the New York City area and didn't want to send him to public schools in their neighborhood that are often rife with violence and underachievement.
Terence is a jazz pianist who grew up in Detroit, Mich. Judith is a classically trained pianist and computer programmer whose family emigrated from Haiti. They met at music school in Boston (Terence is finishing his bachelor's at a local college in New York). Together they've found ways to educate their children using both an improvisational method as well as a systematic approach to technology and schedules.
Judith Conley says she sees herself as an educational consultant who gauges what her children are interested in and helps them discover the best resources to pursue those interests in New York City, in book curriculum and on the internet. Faith is part of their focus as well. "It is sort of like a rudder in a world where there is such change," she said. "Faith has always been a foundation for our lives, for our marriage." The family attended the Brooklyn Tabernacle for a time, but now they attend a Catholic parish.
They discovered that dozens of Wall Street banks and other financial firms have launched websites, created investing games, and offer financial literacy training programs for young people. Citigroup, for example, is spending $200 million over 10 years for various financial education programs, including games, workshops, and school curriculum.
Since Brandon was naturally developing an interest in markets and investing, his parents enrolled him in several financial education programs, including a four-part financial literacy course in 2006 sponsored by Washington Mutual, the Junior League, and a nonprofit organization called Out of the Box.
As part of the program, Brandon and other students developed their own business plan. One fellow student wanted to open a skateboard shop. Inspired by the private equity and hedge fund boom, Brandon wanted to start a mini-hedge fund. "It blew me away," says Jay Ellis, a regional manager of Washington Mutual in Manhattan and instructor in the program.
With encouragement from Ellis and others, Brandon sought investors-mainly his uncles-and combined their contributions with his income from fixing neighbors' computers to create a meager fund with just over $5,000. The fund was legally structured as an investment club and operated under his parents' names, but he used some hedge fund techniques such as taking positions both long (betting a stock price will go up) and short (betting a certain company stock price will go down) in the market.
Brandon ran the small fund for eight months out of his book-filled bedroom in the small apartment where his family lives in an urban but gentrifying neighborhood in Brooklyn. Why does he call his company Mariner Investment Advisers? "We are navigating the market and the market is like a sea," he says. "There is sometimes a lot of turbulence." Despite the turbulence in 2007, his fund made positive 30 percent returns during the eight-month experience.
Brandon's room is full of neatly stacked papers and corporate reports. A series of clocks on his walls show time in Paris, Tokyo, Chicago, Moscow, and Hong Kong so he can keep track of when foreign markets open. His younger siblings, Christopher, 6, and sister Joralyssa, 10, sometimes use ticker symbols, referring to McDonald's as MCD. Brandon's baseball glove and bat are behind a stack of books. He said he likes playing catcher on his local team because, like trading stocks, it involves a lot of strategic thinking and split-second decisions such as what pitches to call and whether to throw a runner out who is leading off first.
With an unusual level of professionalism, Brandon trained and hired three neighborhood friends-all in their early teens-to serve as industry analysts for his investment fund, making them participate in early morning conference calls at least once a week before the markets open and weekly markets training at a coffee shop after chess practice. With those three young men off to college and high schools now, Brandon is recruiting new analysts for a re-launch of his fund (marinerinvestmentadvisors.com).
Brandon, as CEO, on several occasions last year attended investor and analyst meetings at fancy hotels for companies in which his small fund held positions. He and his father would go to the meetings, and Brandon would pose questions to executives such as Lakshmi Mittal, one of the wealthiest men in the world and majority owner of the world's largest steel company, Arcelor Mittal.
A reporter from The Wall Street Journal met Brandon at such an event and profiled him for the newspaper. After the story appeared, Montfort Academy in Katonah offered Brandon a scholarship. Dozens of readers got in touch with him and pledged to invest between $5,000 and $10,000 apiece for a total of between $250,000 and $500,000 when Brandon re-launches his fund.
"Taking their input is crucial to shaping strategies," he says. A large Manhattan law firm is handling the legal work for his fund pro bono (he only pays for filing fees), and several Wall Street banks have taken an interest in Brandon. He consults mentors at Bank of America and may have an internship at another bank this summer.
Brandon is preparing to re-launch a small hedge fund under his Mariner Investment Advisors brand this summer with a pledged investment pool of more than $250,000. It's the second iteration of the fund he initially launched last year. At the moment, besides his schooling and extracurricular activities, he's busy filing paperwork with lawyers, communicating with investors, and preparing to hire analysts to work for him. His mom will be a partner in the firm and Brandon will be CEO. He says he worries about that relationship a bit. "I'm CEO and in charge in that respect," he says. "She's my mom. She's in charge in that respect."
His mother does worry sometimes that Brandon is growing up too fast or getting into uncharted territories, but other advisers assure her that he will be fine. Some experts on gifted young people such as Sylvia Rimm, a Cleveland-based child psychologist, say that parents like Judith and Terence are doing the right thing to be supportive as their children take risks. She says they should be ready to be supportive whether the ventures turn out as successes or failures, particularly in a risky area such as professional investing.
"We try to not restrict his steps but to monitor his steps and provide a safety net for him and provide other safety valves for him. We try to instill values in him," says Brandon's father, who has played with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the past and speaks with a smooth, jazz-style cadence. "I don't worry too much about it. It looks as though he does make decisions that are healthy and that are wise. . . . He has strong faith in God. That keeps a good head on his shoulders as well. As far as what we monitor and observe, I think he will be all right."


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Mitchell scored 12 points in the first half as SLU seemed to have control of the game well into the second half, building up a lead as much as 13 points. But the Rams (26-8) fought back into the game, getting within a point at 49-48.
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Every twist and turn of the case, from the slow-speed pursuit of the Bronco carrying Simpson, to the courtroom scene of him trying on the gloves allegedly worn by the killer, became fodder for the first big TV trial in an era of 24-hour news. A jury acquitted Simpson in 1995.
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Research/Teaching Interests:
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Select Publications:
"How and Why to Teach The History of Women's Dramatic
Writing." Essay in "Teaching Romantic Drama" special issue of Romantic Circles' Pedagogy Commons. Ed.
Thomas C. Crochunis. 2011.
"Women Writers and Pre- and Post-Realist Dramaturgy: Silence,
Speech, and Trauma." In Teaching British
Women Playwrights of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. Eds. Bonnie
Nelson and Catherine Burroughs. New York: Modern Language Association. 2010.
"Teaching Romantic Theatre." In Teaching Romanticism. Eds. Sharon Ruston and David Higgins. London:
Palgrave Macmillan. 2010.
"Reworking Conferencing for More Effective Writing Feedback." Classroom Notes Plus: A Quarterly of
Teaching Ideas. April 2009.
"Captain Barclay's Performance: Decoding Pedestrianism in
Early-Nineteenth Century Britain." In Spheres
of Action: Language, Performance, and Ethics in Romantic Culture. Eds.
Angela Esterhammer and Alex J. Dick. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
"A Personal Pedestrian History." Proteus, A Journal of Ideas. Special issue on "Sports,
Exercise, and Recreation." 2008.
Review of The Mollusc
by H. H. Davies, Theatre Production by the Finborough Theatre Company, London. Theatre Journal. Performance Review
Editor Judith Sebesta. May 2008.
"Literary Homosociality and the Political Science of the
Actor's Closet." Special Issue: Papers and Responses from the Third Annual
Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association. Victorian Studies 49.2 (Winter) 2007.
"Introduction: When Romanticism Met Theater." Special Issue:
Romanticism and Theater. Nineteenth
Century Contexts 28.4 (December) 2006. 281-3.
"Visualizing Feminist Theatre Historiography on the Web." In The Humanities and Visual Media. Ed. Kecia McBride. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2004.
"Women and Dramatic Writing in the British Romantic Era." Literature Compass 1 (2004) RO 094, 1-11. [Online]. http://www.literature-compass.com/viewpoint.asp?section=7&ref=424"
"Joanna Baillie's Ambivalent Dramaturgy." In Joanna Baillie, Romantic Dramatist: Critical Essays. Ed. Thomas C. Crochunis. London: Routledge, 2004. 168-186.
"Putting Plays (and More) in Cyberspace: An Overview of the British Women Playwrights around 1800 Project." Co-authored essay (with Michael Eberle-Sinatra) in European Romantic Review. 14.1 (March 2003). Ed. Diane Long Hoeveler. 117-131.
"Writing Gothic Theatrical Spaces." Gothic Studies 3.2 (2001) A special issue on Gothic Drama and Theatre. Ed. Jeffrey Cox. 156-69.
"Byronic Heroes and Acting: The Embodiment of Mental Theatre." In Contemporary Studies on Lord Byron. Ed. William D. Brewer. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2001. 73-94.
"Performing the Wild: Rethinking Wilderness and Theatre Spaces." Co-authored essay (with Adam Sweeting) in Beyond Nature Writing. Ed. Kathleen Wallace and Karla Armbruster. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2001. 325-40.
Authorial Performances in the Criticism and Theory of Romantic Women Playwrights." In Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance, and Society, 1790-1840. Ed. Catherine B. Burroughs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 223-54.
Select Conference Participation (in Humanities, Theatre History, Media Studies, Education):
Organizer and Presenter: "Transnational Lives in Contemporary Plays" at session "Expanding Horizons through International Stories." NCTE Conference. National Harbor, MD, November 2014.
Siddons' Management in Edinburgh." World Congress of Scottish Literature.
Glasgow, Scotland. July 2014.
Presenter: "Beyond Solo Pedestrian Reading: Group Inquiry and the Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner." Roundtable Session: "The Intersection of Literacy, Sport, Culture, and Society." NCTE Conference. Boston, MA. November 2013.
Presenter: "(Re)Inventing Professional Development for Pre-Service Teachers: The Importance of Student Affiliates and Their Relationship to State Affiliates as Well as the NCTE." NCTE Conference. Boston, MA. November 2013.
Respondent: "The Future Is Now: Exploring 21st Century Teaching Ideas with the Next Generation of English Teachers." NCTE Conference. Boston, MA. November 2013.
"Inheriting the National Stage:
Harriet Siddons in Edinburgh, 1811-1815." Grant-funded workshop "1811-1815
Revisited: Four Years in and around Leigh Hunt and RobertSouthey."
Montréal, Canada. September 2013.
Family Legends, the National Drama, and Management: Harriet Siddons in
Edinburgh." North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Boston,
Massachusetts. August 2013.
Organizer and presenter: "Connecting Through Student
Affiliates to Ignite Campus Interest in Literature And Literacy." NCTE
Conference. Las Vegas, NV. November 2012.
and presenter: "Connecting Through Student Affiliates to Ignite Campus Interest
in Literature And Literacy." NCTE Conference. Las Vegas, NV. November 2012.
Peer reviewed.Organizer and presenter: "Literacy Sponsorship
Profiles: Encountering Students' Changing Literacies." PCTELA Conference. Lancaster,
PA. October 2012.
and presenter (with William Cowden and Joseph Shane): "Assessment in the Wild:
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Inaugural Conference on Emerging and Innovative Teaching, Learning, and
Assessment Practices to Ensure Student Success. Shippensburg, PA, October 2012.
"Ex-Centric Performances: Women Entrepreneurs and the
Authorship of Theatre Institutions." International Conference on Romanticism
conference. Montréal, Canada. November 2011.
Organizer and presenter: "Building Community through
Performance: Varieties of Performance-Based Teaching." PCTELA Conference.
Cranberry Township, PA, October 2011.
Organizer and presenter: "What Does It Take for Early-Career
Teachers to Write?" at session "Keeping Writing Alive as a Beginning Teacher." NCTE
Conference. Orlando, FL, November 2010.
Organizer and presenter: "Literacy Sponsorship Profiles:
Encountering Students' Changing Literacies." PCTELA Conference. State College,
PA, October 2010.
"Field Work is Not a Course Release: Why and How We Need to Evaluate
Supervision of Student Teachers." APSCUF/PSEA Conference. Harrisburg, PA,
October 2010.
"Women Englishing the German Stage: Inchbald and Plumptre's
Translations of Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe." Shippensburg University Modern Language Conference: Margins, Paths,
and Spaces. Shippensburg, PA. April 2010.
Organizer and presenter, "Teaching Multi-Cultural Literature."
Shippensburg University Modern Language Conference: Margins, Paths, and Spaces.
Shippensburg, PA. April 2010.
"Joanna Baillie's Witchcraft: From Hypermedia Documentation to
Classroom Use." Presentation to the "Technologies, Media, and Representations
in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France" research group and the Fonds
québecois de recherché sur la société et culture (FQRSC) "Hypertext and
Performance" grant project. Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, December
Organizer of and presenter at classroom demonstration session,
"Using Performance Activities and Graphic Texts to Stimulate Student Reading
and Writing: Applying Cultural-Historical Activity Theory to Develop Literacy
Practices." NCTE Conference. Philadelphia, PA, November 2009.
Organizer and panel chair, "Teacher Education across the
PASSHE System." EAPSU Conference. Shippensburg, PA, October 2009.
"Working the Field: How We Misunderstand Supervision of
Student Teachers." APSCUF-PSEA Conference on Academic Labor. Harrisburg, PA,
October 2009.
"What are Teachers' Roles and Responsibilities in Assuring
That Our Students are Prepared?" Presentation at Pennsylvania School Board
Association "Symposium on Education Issues for School Board Members." Gettysburg,
PA, July 2009.
"Performing Young Adult Literature: How to Coach Performance
Projects That Engage Readers." PCTELA Conference. Lancaster, October 2008.
"The Scholarly Subject of Performance." Plenary
address at Second Workshop of the "Technologies, Media, and Representations in
Nineteenth-Century Britain and France" Research Group. Université de Montréal,
Canada, September 2008.
"There's performance in my play text; drama, hypermedia, and
user engagement with digital texts." Paper delivered at "Romantic
Diversity: 16th Annual North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Conference. University of Toronto, Canada, August 2008.
Organizer of pre-conference theatre history workshop focusing
on the history of British provincial theatre from 1789-1832. Held in
conjunction with 2007 BARS/NASSR Conference, "Emancipation, Liberation,
Freedom." Bristol, UK, July 2007.
"Women Playwrights and Dramatic Spaces: Locating Historical
Tragedy's Venues and Politics," BARS/NASSR Conference, "Emancipation, Liberation,
Freedom." Bristol, UK, July 2007.
Panelist, "Action Research and the Compleat Teacher
Educator," NCTE Annual Convention, Nashville, Tennessee, November 2006.
"Homosociality and the Political Science of Acting,"
NASSR conference, "Scientia and Techne." Lafayette, Indiana, September 2006.
"Frances Burney's The Witlings: Post-Performance Remarks." University of Massachusetts—Boston, May
"Pedestrianism as Performance; or How Qualitative Inquiry
Makes Sense of Captain Barclay's Quantitative Feats." Romantic Literature and
Culture seminar, The Humanities Center at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,
April 2005.
"Evaluating Professional Learning Experiences in Education:
Testing Theory, Informing Practice." American Evaluation Association, Atlanta,
GA, November, 2004.
Co-organizer and facilitator of "Drama and Theatre History, 1770-1840: The Import of
Romantic Drama," a working-group conference held in conjunction with North
American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) conference, "Romantic
Cosmopolitanism." Boulder, Colorado, September 2004.
Moderator: Post-Reading Panel on Elizabeth Inchbald's The
Massacre, NASSR conference, "Romantic
Cosmopolitanism." Boulder, Colorado, September 2004.
Workshop Leader, "Elizabeth Inchbald's The Massacre," NASSR conference, "Romantic Cosmopolitanism."
Boulder, Colorado, September 2004.
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The early verdict is in: The SAP-SuccessFactors Inc. deal changes the HR software game.
I'm not so sure. But if it does signal a new era, that era may be more SuccessFactors' than SAP's. Don't be surprised if much-smaller SuccessFactors ends up wagging the tail of big dog SAP
No doubt, the contours of SAP's plan to buy talent management software specialist SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion are impressive. Walldorf, Germany-based SAP long has been one of the top sellers of HR software. Its human capital management software has been implemented at a whopping 15,000 organizations, many of which use its core HR system to track basic employee information. But it has lagged the market when it comes to the growing trend of cloud computing.
Cloud computing—sometimes called software as a service—means giving clients access to applications over a network as opposed to installing the programs on company computers. Software as a service is seen as cheaper and easier to manage than the traditional on-premise approach.
SuccessFactors, meanwhile, has taken the HR software world by storm the past few years. Driven by its charismatic CEO Lars Dalgaard, SuccessFactors spent lavishly on marketing to become a top provider of talent management tools—that is, software for key HR tasks such as performance management and recruiting. SuccessFactors also bet big on the cloud, developing a very interactive model of getting customer feedback and suggestions.
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HR technology pundits see the SAP-SuccessFactors deal as a milestone.
"We're definitely entering a new and different phase of consolidation within the talent management part of the market," Jim Holincheck, analyst at research firm Gartner, told my colleague Michelle Rafter. "This is the first time one of the mega-vendors has gotten into the mix."
He can imagine the deal triggering other acquisitions akin to the way SAP, Oracle and IBM Corp. all bought business intelligence software players within a matter of months a few years back.
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Averbook argues that the pressure is on other talent management vendors that can't connect to core "people data" in ways that lead to business insights.
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"While our competitors are trying to figure out a complex integration, we'll be 100 percent focused on the success of our customers and growing our business," said Mike Gregoire, CEO of talent management software firm Taleo Corp.
He may have a point. Even if SuccessFactors' applications are largely left alone, SAP will likely try to weave them together with other SAP products to create insights such as what training programs have the best sales payoff, which managers oversee highly productive employees and which recruiting sources lead to workers that generate the most revenue.
Integration isn't easy. That much is clear from the long gestation of Oracle's Fusion applications.
Then there's the question of cultural fit. Dalgaard is a fascinating guy. In writing about him over the years, I've found he can be refreshingly candid, but also callous and contentious.
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SAP isn't the command-and-control culture some people believe it is. Maybe there will be room there for Dalgaard, akin to the way Amazon.com Inc. seems to have successfully accommodated the zany culture of Zappos.com and its idiosyncratic leader Tony Hsieh.
If so, I wouldn't be surprised if Dalgaard and SuccessFactors ultimately shake up SAP in dramatic fashion. After all, managing people effectively through technology is one of the fastest-growing frontiers of business software. SuccessFactors by all appearances understands the cloud better than SAP. And Dalgaard himself is tireless.
"I can execute harder than anybody—trust me, you cannot keep up with me," Dalgaard once told me. Judging by his track record at SuccessFactors, this is more a statement of fact than a boast.
I can imagine the SAP-SuccessFactors deal faltering badly, a flash in the pan remembered mostly as a case study in incompatible cultures and ego trips. I also can see nearly the opposite—SAP's name changing one day to SuccessFactors, with Dalgaard in the CEO chair.
So is it game-changing? Possibly—in ways even SAP probably hasn't envisioned.


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As always with this style, very nice!
Two questions about the key:
Is it really "castes"? Not "castles"?
And i think it should read "untouchable settings", not "untouNchable settings" (or if it is supposed to read untounchable...what is that? ^^)
Hi all,
Here's a piece commissioned by the writer Jennifer Kohout for her next novel "Queen of Souls" due to be released in December 2013. This is a first of two maps, an overview of Hexxus, the demon home world in Queen of Souls. In the words of the author, Queen of Souls is an erotic paranormal romance set entirely in Hell!
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As always with this style, very nice!
Two questions about the key:
Is it really "castes"? Not "castles"?
And i think it should read "untouchable settings", not "untouNchable settings" (or if it is supposed to read untounchable...what is that? ^^)
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Still I reach out for the Stars
Thanks Eilathen! Oups uploaded the wrong version, thanks for the input. It's obviously untouchables (but settlement not setting ) but it's castes, not castles
Last edited by - Max -; 10-19-2013 at 06:19 AM.
Glad i could help...and lol...the settings was me not paying attention as the important part was the untouchable thingy
Castes, eh? Hmm...as in social caste? I don't get it ^^
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Nice work as always Max! I am also intrigued by the caste and untouchable thing. It immediately makes me think of course of the traditional Hindu system with such things although its odd to me that they'd be divided up by such geographical distance so maybe the author has her own take on things.
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Thank you Viking! To be honest, I don't know that much what's it's about it but I'll ask the client for some details for you guys. Jennifer might also jump in the thread to highlight the setting a bit
Morning everyone! Thanks for the comments. Max does beautiful work, as you know, and I am thrilled to have him working on these maps for me. I wanted to jump in and say that yes, the caste system on Hexxus was loosely modeled after the caste system in India. I appreciate the question/comment about the map's key - it was never meant to suggest physical distance/separation. If it raised the question here it most certainly would have in the book and wasn't something I had thought to address. I asked Max to make a few changes to the key to (hopefully) prevent any more confusion on that front. Thanks again!
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Your posts were caught in the mod queue. I approved the one and deleted the duplicate.
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Nice one again, Max. Visually superior as always.
But a bit less content. And where is the rose and the scale?
Only thing I don't like is the coat d'arms. The typo would sit more nicely inside it if it had a little more space around it.
Last edited by Freehand 5.5; 10-20-2013 at 05:04 PM.
Thanks I'll upload a modified version according Jennifer's wish very soon.
@Freehand : You're right, the map isn't that much filled.But remember it's intended to be print at a small format so that's pretty good Jennifer made the choice to avoid too much overcrowding informations on it. What do you mean by Coat of Arms? Do you mean the key or title frame?


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