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MP Flavourings are powder based flavour systems which you can add to your favourite sports supplements as and when you choose. Providing you with the ultimate flexibility, these flavours can be added to your unflavoured supplements or simply mixed with others to create new and exciting flavours.
Each great tasting flavour is made up of high quality ingredients including natural colours and the most premium sweetener Sucralose.
As everyone has their own preferences when it comes to the strength and type of flavour in their supplements, we recommend our MP Flavourings are added to your products to match those tastes, hence why we don't provide specific serving suggestions.
Add flavour to suit taste. We recommend adding a quarter of a teaspoon at a time until taste is achieved.
Berry Blast
Citric Acid, Colourings (Beetroot Extract & Anthocyanin), Flavouring, Sweetener (Sucralose)
Tropical Storm
Citric Acid, Flavouring, Sweetener (Sucralose), Sunflower Oil, Colouring (Beta Carotene)
Chocolate Smooth
Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Flavouring, Sweetener (Sucralose)
Chocolate Mint
Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Flavouring, Sweetener (Sucralose)
Chocolate Nut
Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Flavouring, Sweetener (Sucralose)
Strawberry Cream
Flavouring, Colouring (Beetroot Extract), Sweetener (Sucralose)
Flavouring, Sweetener (Sucralose)
Flavouring, Colouring (Curcumin), Sweetener (Sucralose)
Flavouring, Citric Acid, Sweetener (Sucralose), Colouring (Carmoisine)
Summer Fruits
Flavouring, Citric Acid, Colourings (Beetroot Red & Curcumin), Sweetener (Sucralose)
Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Flavouring, Sweetener (Sucralose)
Caffe Latte
Flavouring, Malt Extract, Sweetener (Sucralose)
Flavouring, Malt Extract, Sweetener (Sucralose)
Flavouring, Malt Extract, Sweetener (Sucralose)
Orange & Passionfruit
Flavourings, Colouring (Beta Carotene), Sweetener (Sucralose)
Flavouring, Colouring (Beetroot Extract), Sweetener (Sucralose)
Apple & Raspberry
Flavouring, Colouring (Beetroot Extract), Sweetener (Sucralose)
Lemon Cheesecake
Flavouring, Sweetener (Sucralose)
Rhubarb & Custard
Flavouring, Colouring (Beetroot Extract), Sweetener (Sucralose)
Flavouring, Citric Acid, Sweetener (Sucralose), Colouring (Curcumin)
Cookies & Cream
Flavouring, Sweetener (Sucralose)
Chocolate & Coconut
Flavouring, Caramel Colouring, Malic Acid, Sweetener (Sucralose)
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I recently tried the banoffee flavour having been previously impressed with the toffee flavdrops in particular and wanting a powder I could add to unmixed shakes etc. It was TERRIBLE. It mixed ok but given that it's supposed to be a flavour the fact that it was so bad makes it a no go in my opinion. Way too sweet and overpoweringly artificial there was no toffee notes in the tastes, only the worst kind of artificial banana whiff. I've tried to mix is with other things and used the bare minimum but it's unsalvagable. Ruined anything it went into. I'm very disappointed Myprotein. Goes Well With:NOTHING
I bought unflavoured whey protein by mistake so bought this product to rectify my mistake. I use one 5g scoop in 2 big scoops of protein in a shake and it's perfect. I've got strawberry cream which tastes amazing - better than most strawberry milkshakes you'd buy in cafés if that's your thing. Also bought toffee but not tried that yet.Goes Well With:Whey Protein. Probably just milk
Have tried many flavours ,they taste amazing !Price is really good too .The only thing that i miss is some stevia sweetened flavours!
Really good flavouring powder! Mixing it with amino acids, nutrigreens and stuff like that makes everything taste good :) Something that would make it a better could be to make use of more natural ingredients like stevia or something. The consequence would then be a higher price, but it's just a suggestion :) Goes Well With:All aminos, nutrigreens and that kind of powder - especially with the Tropical Storm taste!
Turns every protein fix into a treat. I have tried three of the MP flavourings and they have all done the trick. My favourite is Strawberries and Cream so far, but I have yet to find one that is bad. If you like Vanilla - I can recommend the liquid drops as superior to the MP powder - but of course - this is all personal taste. The good thing is you can try flavours out and none of them will prove awful.Goes Well With:Whey Protein
I was addicted to sugar (and in denial) but managed to find sweet substitutes thanks to MP flavorings and Flavordrops, my food is not bland anymore and only need to add a small scoop ! I currently have Rubarb and Custard, tastes great in shakes, yoghurt, and even made a sugar free cake that tastes amaizing ! Choc nut, is nice but really sweet, i add a couple extra scops of coco powder as i like my chocolate dark, great added to peanut butter ! cookies and cream, smells really artifical but ok in a shake, not my fav in yoghurt, think a bit of coco powder would improve it but just my opinion. Goes Well With:protein shakes, yoghurt, porridge, cakes and bakes as sugar and flavour substitute.
The most amazing stuff if you buy unflavoured products.Everything I bought was unflavoured but this things gave some flavour in my life.Taste amazing and of course i can change the flavour anytime so I won't get bored.!!!
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Excellent flavours available, only issue was some are harder to dose due to being compact (example: banana).
This really could be an excellent product BUT if you add enough to get the right flavour it just becomes way too sweet. It needs more flavour and less sweetener. I have 3 flavours and don't think I will try anymore, think I will stick to the flavoured protein powders as their flavourings are spot on :)
Chocolate flavour mixes very well however it is remarkably sweet. Would not recommend anything over a 1/4teaspoon. Apart from that...not bad
Amazing! for some reason I bought 5 different flavors in my last order...Goes Well With:Liberte- yougurt/Yoplait- rich in protein and poor in carbs :)
Tropical Storm tastes fantastic. What makes this product even better is the fact that you can adjust the sweetness/taste as you see fit. Want it sweeter? Add more powder. It's very useful to mask the taste of things that have a very strong chemical taste such as BCAA or L-Leucine. Goes Well With:Water, L-Leucine, BCAA
MP Flavouring powders do exactly what they are supposed to do. They taste great, mix very well, and allow you to customize the flavour of your shake. TROPICAL STORM is without doubt my favourite with a very fresh, fruity, sweet taste. I also like the tropical and berry blast. However, the last tends to absorb moisture easily and clot, so it's important to close the ziplock bag very well. I have also tried the rhubarb custard, but that's not my taste. I'm looking forward to try other flavours.Goes Well With:Any shake.
I bought Rhubarb and Custard, Chocolate Mint and Tropical. Mixed with protein the chocolate was definitely the best. Maybe its because i was using with the vegan protein.Not sure how to use the other two flavours. Flavour over the drops is slightly better and less artificial
couldnt get with this. even using a 1/4 teaspoon measurement, either adds no taste or makes your stuff taste bitter and foul. Tried vanilla and cookies and cream- neither any good. Def not buying again. Goes Well With:your bin
Since I decided to buy whey protein unflavoured, needed to find something taste to drink with. Bought my first MP flavouring Mocha. it tastes so good to drink early morning as smoothie, that needed to try another ones, I already have Orange and passion fruit( too orange ). lemon cheesecake(awful, just took it once), berry blast(my favourite, used to make ice-cream as well), tropical storm and summer fruits. have few that i still want to buy. recommended for sure.Goes Well With:Whey protein isolate unflavoured
I bought Tropical Storm flavouring. It mixes well and has a great taste. I use it to flavour oat mash or protein drink.Goes Well With:Unflavoured Protein Powder
I love grapes. I tried grape flavour BCAAs and it was spot on. This grape flavouring however is disgusting. Smell is great but taste is awful. Goes Well With:?
I bought rhubard and custard and cookies and cream flavour pouches to mix into my unflavoured whey protein and can honestly say they are delicious. I also mix them into greek yoghurt and they make a really tasty snack that definitely helps curve cravings. The powders mix really easily and it doesn't take much powder to flavour a shake. I would suggest letting the mix sit for a few minutes after mixing as I find the flavour develops better. Looking forward to buying a few more flavours to keep things interesting. Nothing worse than the same protein flavour day in and day out.Goes Well With:Milk, youghurt
I just can't stop using this product (in many flavours) ... I always buy plain Protein powder as I get bored super fast with set flavours... so this allows me to have as many different flavours or mix them as I feel like that morning (or after gym or before bed) Goes Well With:Whey Protein on shakes
I love myprotein but wow this was awful. I tried it once and the after taste from every sip of the lemon cheesecake flavour left me feeling sick for hours. I didn't have a great experience with the tropical flavour either personally, other people seemed to like it though good for mixing with vodka apparently....(it tastes a bit like red bull or something).Goes Well With:Vodka
Giving up sugar has been hard, but so good for my body, back in size 10 jeans in 2 weeks ! so not wanting to go back to sugar, but my sweet tooth is hard to tame, i needed to make healthy low carb cakes to fill me up and not feel like im on a diet, as its a lifestyle change not a fad. got the chocolate nut flavor, is really sweet in shakes but works great in cakes as a sugar substitute, i like dark chocolate so add extra coco powder as well. not sure if slightly less value for money than the Flavdrops which i also love. Goes Well With:cakes, porridge, yoghurt, shakes, home made protien bars.
had 4 flavours so far. strawberry cream and cockies and cream were really good. banana was ok but not fantastic lemon cheesecake tastes really bad. don't recommend it.
I bought unflavoured whey and a couple of these flavouring powders because I don't want to be stuck with only one flavour. That turns out to be a great decision. Although they are a bit sweeter than I expected, flavours are actually amazing, especially Cookies and Cream. The smell of these powders are all over my room. That's right, they also smell great! You can use these powders for pancakes. I use it even for other cakes and this is good because it effectively replaces refined sugar.Goes Well With:Whey, Milk products
I really recommend purchasing this product! I am buying unflavored protein, and 6-7 different flavors and in that way I can have different shake every day! Vanilla, Strawberry and lemon cheese cake are my favorite. Chocolate coconut is not very good, pure chocolate is better.. I am using those flavors in yogurts also, and just adding few grams into yogurt, you get super tasty vanilla yogurt! :)
Got choc coconut flav. It's not bad. Good with vanilla protein. Not so good with plain water.
It have great taste and can go with everything, milk, whey, fresh cheese, in cookies, biscuits, any desert etc. Help to stay in target calorie intake and still have great deserts in your diet ;)
I just started to juse this for my pea and brown rice protein powder. The choco mint taste brilliant and the cookies and cream is pretty good to
An Awesome product that allows me to be creative with making recipes and my diet.
These flavourings are amazing. They allow me to flavour a variety of foods such as porridge, yogurt, shakes and ice cream. It allows me to be creative in my recipe design.
I use it to add flavour to my unflavoured impact whey. I love coconut taste and this MP flavouring is the thing I've been looking for!
Flavdrops are ten times better than these flavourings, i have orderd a few and end up throwing them away, one vile on was Cookies and cream! Choc and coconut may be nice for an after dinner desert protein shake but other than that, that too is rank. Mint chocolate is by far the best flavouring, aswell as choc smooth and choc orange, but i think thats because they all contain coco powder? they mix well so thats a bonus.
I've got a whole collection of MP Flavourings now, and I love them! 1 mini scoop of flavouring does me for my impact whey shake in the morning, and just short of 1 for my casein shake in the evening. I've only found one flavour I didn't like so far (Lemon Cheesecake - tasted vile!) but the rest are amazing. I'm currently using Banana, Chocolate Smooth, Chocolate & Coconut, Cafe Latte, Strawberry Cream, Rhubarb & Custard & Cookies & Cream. The ability to change up the flavour of my protein every day is fantastic and means that I'm never getting bored of it. I'd definitely recommend this with unflavoured protein powder, and any of the additional powders. Currently my morning stack is: Impact Whey Protein Creatine BCAA 4:1:1 Beta Alanine Acetyl L Carnitine
Serious yumminess. Blend it in my protein shakes, cocoa powder, mugcakes...whatever. Really nice taste. The chocolate nut + cocoa powder + splash of almond milk is like Nutella. Highly recommended. Also ordered chocolate coconut and cookies and cream flavors and that was a huge disappointment. Really chemical and evil taste. Goes Well With:protein powder, peanut butter, cocoa powder, oatmeal, milk,
Perfect way to flavour plain protein. Also does a good job of flavouring plain milk (+ice cubes for a banana milkshake!) Sometimes takes longer to mix, but otherwise ace. Goes Well With:Whey Isolate, almond milk
Mp flavouring is very handy because you can mixed it in shake before activity and then just put some water in. Also mixability is very good and also the taste is excellent. The best falvour in my opinion is mocha.Goes Well With:casein, whey
This flavouring tastes like medicine, I try with milk instead of water and things get better but... I am afraid I am not going to get it again. Mixing is good and easy, and fair price. Will try more flavours.
I have tried the cookies and cream! I literally put it in everything from coffee to oatmeal! It is pretty amazing and can really add a nice taste to my meals or drinks! I'm really excited to try other flavours!Goes Well With:yogurt, Milk, hot chocolate, coffee, oatmeal, pancakes mix,
The MP flavouring is literally a life saver. Not only does it make dieting that much easier via killing your cravings for something sweet but it also goes perfectly in almost anything! Would 100% highly recommend this product to anyone as it's actually like having something naughty but still guilt free. Amazing! Goes Well With:Coffee, unflavoured protein, Total yoghurt, cottage cheese, water or pretty much anything!
Great product! Mixes perfectly. There's a lot of tastefull flavours to chose from.
Very good tasting mixes well with water and milk.... i biught 3 diferent flavours lemon cheesecake, cookies and cream and chocolate coco very nice but my favorite one is chocolate coco the best!
Just about half of small scoop is enough to add flavour to 500ml protein shake. Can't recommend enough!Goes Well With:any unflavoured protein
I have tried several different flavours - raspberry, cookies and cream, vanilla - all taste great, although the raspberry is a little on the sweet-side. Overall they taste great.Goes Well With:MP Impact Whey (unflavoured)
Toffee flavor is great, just 1/4 teaspoon for one protein shake and richly flavored. I will definitely try also the other flavors. I really did not expect that the flavor will be so concentrated, so you need only small amount of flavouring. Goes Well With:Impact Whey Protein, milk, pancakes, yogurt, ...
I bought flavors toffee, berry blast and cookies & cream. I am so satisfied with all of them, that even I can't believe it. The taste is absolutely delicious of all three flavorings. I can only recommend them to everyone. Goes Well With:Everything, especially with unflavoured whey protein.
These sachets of flavouring are ideal if you don't want to spend lots on large bags of single flavour whey protein for example at the risk of being disappointed with the taste. If you find the flavouring is not satisfactory, minimal cost has been laid out. Great method of finding the perfect tasting shake!! Well worth the few quid that these cost, One thing to be aware of is the concentration of the taste, you really do only need about a quarter teaspoon for a typical 400ml unflavoured protein shake! All in all, great product.Goes Well With:Banana flavouring goes well with a shake made with milk rather than water.
Chocolat nut tastes awesome! Mix it with milk protein and greek yoghurt and it's just like an healthier version of nuttela! Great for carvings while cutting.Goes Well With:Greek Yoghurt, Impact Whey, Milk Protein Smooth
Good value, taste is good but the summer fruits doesnt seem to mix as well as the tropical, also the summer fruits froths up quite a lot. All in all i found it good value for money.Goes Well With:Pre workout ingredients.
I ordered MP Flavouring Mocha, I have to say, that it tastes amazing. I highly recommend this product, it mixes well with water and milk, great taste.Goes Well With:Whey protein products


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HOUSTON—Joel Kotkin, America's leading urbanologist, predicted last year that by 2023 Houston "will be widely acknowledged as America's next great global city." Kotkin noted that Houston, "the country's most racially and ethnically diverse metro area … is home to the world's largest medical center and has dethroned New York City as the nation's leading exporter."
Houston? In the movie A Man For All Seasons, Thomas More (with a sneer in his voice) asks a traitor who has sold out for a sinecure, "For Wales? Why Richard, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world … but for Wales?" East and West Coast academic and media leaders tend to think of Houston in that way: Next great global city? Dethroned New York City? Sure, the energy boom is sending dollars there, but … Houston?
My wife and I decided to learn about Houston by moving there for a month. We rented an apartment one mile from downtown and walked the city's streets, shopped in its supermarkets, and visited its museums. We especially talked with Houstonians and drove with them where they regularly drive. Many have built the kinds of lives they want: Some choose urban living and others want an adjacent lake or forest. Ancestry is less important than ambition, as residents remake themselves and lack of zoning means that whole blocks change quickly.
We especially learned that Houston, which has added 400,000 residents since 2010 and now has a metropolitan area population of more than 6 million, is not one city but a group of welcoming, entrepreneurial neighborhoods: Many individuals and families have their own Houstons. Instead of presenting just the city we observed, I'd like you to meet seven Houston residents with faith in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but, secondarily, optimism about the spirit of Houston, a city where foundations are laid and dreams are made.
WHEN HOUSTON SYMPHONY first violinist Alexandra Wenig, 39, looks out from the stage of Jones Hall at its vibrant red velvet seats and golden teak walls, she sees bright, hot lights but also familiar, supportive faces in the first few rows of orchestra patrons. She went to graduate school at the University of Michigan, married a trumpet-playing husband who is now the symphony's director of community partnerships (her professional name remained Alexandra Adkins), and nabbed a dream orchestra job—but it has left her unfulfilled.
Twelve years ago the Wenigs moved to Houston and found it "welcoming of people of different backgrounds. … There are not generations of old families. Everybody's new." The Wenigs at first lived in the Heights, a charming close-in neighborhood of small craftsman bungalows. After their sons were born, they moved to Kingwood, an affluent planned community north of the city, which advertises itself as within a "livable forest." The trees are real, and the Wenig kids (3rd and 5th grades) ride their bicycles to school.
A bigger change began in her car one day when "the Holy Spirit swept me away." She eventually became a part-time music director within her 800-person Lutheran-Missouri Synod church that is a three-minute drive away from their Kingwood home. At the symphony she began feeling like "a good foot soldier, doing other people's creative ideas, [but] just draining away inside." She struggled "with going to a job that was taking me away from my family at strange hours and wasn't … feeding my creative spirit."
Wenig thought about moving from a tenured position that others covet to a church calling. As she weighed the two career paths, she knew "100 other violinists" could do her symphony job, but she could "have a real impact" at her church, and "be spiritually nourished on a daily basis. I walk into [the church] building and I feel alive, with a strong sense of purpose. In the orchestra I show up and do what I'm told, but here I feel myself growing and changing, envisioning what would be done, how we can tell the gospel better."
The pull of that calling became so intense that in January Wenig gave notice that she was leaving her symphony position to become Director of Music and the Arts at her church. Her last symphony performance is scheduled for May 25. The Holy Spirit seemed to be working on her, but so is the spirit of Houston, where many people do not fear the future or desperately hold onto what they have.
JUAN CARLOS MARTINEZ grew up in Mexico, where his dad had an air conditioning business, and moved to the United States in 1995 to study electrical engineering at Rice University. Later he felt a ministerial call and went to Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, but returned to Houston and became a pastor at Christ the King, a largely non-Hispanic church located in Spring Branch East, a majority-Hispanic section of metropolitan Houston.
Martinez, his wife (originally from Puerto Rico), and their two children live in a rented house in Rice Village. One mile to the east stands the largest medical complex in the world: His wife, a doctor, is one of the 100,000 persons employed there. Four miles to the west sits a magnet elementary school his son attends. It's a Mandarin immersion charter school that teaches half its classes in Chinese and half in English. (A segment with the children speaking and singing in Chinese is scheduled for our March 11 radio show/podcast, The World and Everything In It, available at wng.org, or through a podcast app.)
In a globalizing world Martinez believes the English and Spanish his children can ordinarily learn at school and home aren't enough. The principle that goes with such pragmatism is important both for Martinez and Houston: Ethnic diversity is the spice of life and the stuff of heaven. His son's school is almost equally split among African-American, Anglo, Asian, and Hispanic students, and not by quota.
Martinez spends a lot of time on Bissonet Ave., which connects medical center, home, school, and a strip center that includes a specialized tortilla shop: Explaining that Mexicans buy fresh tortillas every morning for their big early afternoon meal, he stopped at the tortilleria and bought one pound for a dollar. Also on Bissonet is another Houston institution, a Shipley Donuts store. There he meets with parents from his children's school, just to talk: Martinez recalls conversations with a Polish atheist ("She became very interested in the gospel") and says, "This is where informal apologetics takes place."
Much of Houston is low-key in that way but also "vibrant," Martinez says: He recalls seeing many young men in Philadelphia just sitting, while Houston displays "people working hard, so it feels like the city is moving and shaking." He says the two U.S. cities he knows well are "night and day: fear in Philadelphia you might be the next Detroit, cranes in Houston. … All of that energy and expertise that comes from immigrants has made Houston a success story, whereas a city that hasn't been able to capture that vibrancy and skill is struggling now."
Martinez contrasts the message of a famous New York song—"If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere"—with what he says hard-working Houstonians learn: "You CAN make it here."
SYLVIA BOLLING, now in her 60s, spends almost all of her time not on the freeways but within two miles of the north Houston intersection of U.S. 59 and Aldine Mail Route. In that circle are 10 schools, five subdivisions, five apartment complexes, and many businesses and churches. Two-thirds of the young people within that circle are "economically disadvantaged," and near the center of that circle is the Aldine Family Hope Center, which has grown from a seed she planted 25 years ago.
Late one afternoon Bolling strode the corridors of her center, hugging small children as she went. She entered a room with teenage girls, greeted them by name, and offered a promise: "If we see you working hard, we'll put in a good word for you and you will get a job." She marched into a room where teenage boys were in a Bible study under the supervision of a dreadlocked, triple-majoring Rice student. The guys were lounging, legs outstretched, but when they saw Bolling, several sat up straight. She looked one of them in the eyes and said, "It's good I see you in here. When someone comes asking for a reliable helper, I'll remember you were here."
Bolling in 1989 was an effervescent speech pathologist with a husband and two teenage daughters. They lived in an Aldine dominated by gang-bangers who shot out library windows for fun at least once a month. (I interviewed last year, for a WORLD cover story on the death penalty, an imprisoned murderer from Aldine who in 1991 cut the throats of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend.) With drug use growing, Bolling decided to do drug education programs in schools. She operated out of her car until 1995, and once walked into a confrontation of armed gangs to give the adversaries a stern motherly talking-to.
Trying to find a permanent site, she headed from the discomfort zone she understood to the "scary" downtown she hardly knew: "I'd go to the [Central] Library downtown. I was scared to death. I'd sit in the foundation section of the library and start reading about getting grants. People would come in, and I'd ask, 'Hey, how are you doing?' I'd go to United Way meetings. Relationships are everything in this city. You can meet people who will circle around you years from now." Eventually the Houston Endowment gave Bolling enough money to buy the building and seven acres on which her center now sits.
The fledgling had gained wings. The center took off, largely with volunteer help: counselors, nutritionists, parole officers, and teachers of GED, ESL, karate, defensive driving, and more. She was her own janitor: "God told me, 'You will clean every toilet until I tell you not to clean them anymore.' Now, when someone comes to clean the toilet, I don't look down on them. I say, 'Praise the Lord.'"
One of Aldine's basic problems, Bolling realized, is that "no one was teaching our kids about the world of work. They don't have parents who work. They don't get it in school. That's a vast emptiness, and Satan has his best time when we leave an opening. The mom says, 'Stay in the house. Lock the door.' But the 10-year-old boy peeks out the window and sees people with gold hanging down, big cars, women. When he's 12, he goes out there."
Houston, though, is a city with fewer restrictions on pursuing opportunity than most: That encouraged Bolling to encourage teens by showing them practical alternatives that regulations, taxes, and union rules in other cities make harder to achieve.
Bolling's message to everyone is similar: "You have gifts and you need to use them." Aldine residents who use the food pantry have to volunteer for two hours in return for receiving provisions: "When we started requiring this, some folks asked, 'Who does she think she is?' After a while people starting saying, 'Thank you, I no longer depend on handouts." Bolling has seen the clichéd posters that proclaim "A hand up, not a handout": Governmental programs emphasize the latter, but Bolling accompanies every handout with a hand up.
A plaque in her office could be the motto for Houston generally: "In every community there is work to be done and in every heart there is the power to do it."
CONVERSATION IN THE FOYER of City of Refuge, a south-central Evangelical Presbyterian church, continued past the scheduled starting time for Sunday morning worship. Suddenly a big voice displaying the vibrato of classical training summoned the slow into the 200-seat sanctuary, where they joined worship director Nicky Pizana in vibrant hymn-singing.
Pizana, 27, has lived since she was 6 in a little yellow wood-frame house in southeast Houston: It's just down the street from the elementary school where her mother teaches, and close to the Baptist church in which she was baptized and "made Jesus the Lord of my life." (Her parents were once youth pastors there.) The house now has some bullet holes, souvenirs from drive-by shootings not aimed at her family but at the drug dealer next door.
Pizana has always been a Houston commuter. She attended a magnet elementary school with an African-American majority and came out with eigth-grade science and math knowledge. She took a school bus—picked up at 6:30 a.m, home at 5 or 5:30—to attend a middle school in a western part of the city with Jewish students as well as other Hispanics. Twice each week at 6 or 6:30 she went to club soccer practices. "I've always been busy. … I grew up on Houston roads." As she learned to drive, her dad "right away" took her onto the freeways.
She used those freeways for the 30-minute drive to Houston Baptist University, where she majored in vocal performance. She sang at one point with the Houston Choral Society but felt called to work in churches and reach the lost and the outcast. Now she uses the freeways to get her to youth ministry gigs where she performs as lead singer in a band, Three Point Crossing, that has been together since she was 18. She loves performing different kinds of music: "When you're working with different groups such as hip-hop or Latin Christian artists, you're able to take the gospel to … different audiences. All of them are the same in needing Jesus."
Pizana is a member of Park Temple Baptist Church north of downtown, and she drives there for Wednesday evening services and for Monday evening discipling (with the three other band members) by the church's pastor. But last July she became City of Refuge's worship director, her "dream job at a young age" with a multiethnic congregation (and a Japanese pastor) that "is a beautiful picture of heaven."
JULIE ALDRICH, 35, had an upbringing diametrically different from Nicky Pizana's, but they're both at City of Refuge on Sunday morning—and they both spend hours in their cars.
Aldrich grew up in River Oaks, the Houston neighborhood four miles west of downtown that is one of the wealthiest in the United States, with home prices ranging from $1 million to more than $20 million. She's fourth-generation Houstonian on both sides of the family, with lots of oil money in her background, and at one time her traveling was often up and down River Oaks Boulevard: expensive country club at one end, The Episcopal Church of St. John the Divine at the other. Baptized and confirmed there, she also attended St. John's School from kindergarten through the 12th grade.
Within a one-mile radius of her home lived a cornucopia of family members—cousins, grandparents, great-grandparents. A kindergarten classmate not from River Oaks visited her house one day and exclaimed, "It's a mansion." ("That's the first time I thought I had more home than others had.") She flew to Colorado on private planes: "I knew that not everybody had a plane, but didn't realize how crazy that was." Her consciousness of special status slowly increased, and when in third grade a limousine came into the carpool line for her, she "was so embarrassed."
Aldrich professed faith in Christ under high-school Young Life tutelage and increasingly wondered about "over the top" extravagances, such as when a helicopter picked up cheerleaders from the roof of a Houston skyscraper and delivered them to the football field before a big game. She decided to attend Wake Forest University in North Carolina: "No one knew my family name. It was great." Then came work in Washington, D.C., marriage and a move to London (and an Oxford degree), followed by a move back to Houston, where she works part time across from a building designed by her great-grandfather's firm and within a mile of Scurlock Tower, a medical center named after another great-grandfather.
But the Aldriches decided not to live in River Oaks. They adopted two African-American boys: One is now 3 and the other almost 2. They've put their 3-year-old in a River Oaks preschool but live in a middle-class neighborhood several miles away. The Aldriches own land and plan to build in a neighborhood close to low-income areas but not in them: Their lot is between the homes of two African-American professionals who own private equity firms. "We want to live authentic lives," Aldrich says, not in a tiny shotgun home but not in a gargantuan mansion either.
Meanwhile, she spends a lot of time in her car, shuttling between family, friends, and preschool in River Oaks, and points east where she lives and chairs the board of Agape Neighborhood, a Christian poverty-fighting charity. Houston is a city where people reinvent themselves, not in the Great Gatsby sense of running from the past, but with the goal of having roots but sometimes transplanting them.
WILLIAM LAWSON AT AGE 85 remembers the past. With his dignified bearing, short-cropped hair, long jaw, and rail-thin frame within a sweater and suit pants, he could be an elderly professor or lawyer—but when we stopped at Rose of Sharon Baptist Church in a close-in area of Houston where ex-slaves laid brick streets, the pastor hailed him: "You're our sage, the sage of our community. We want to get you back to preach over here." Lawson responded with a smile, "No, you don't want that."
Lawson grew up in Missouri and came to Houston in 1955 to work as Baptist chaplain at Texas Southern, a then-new university established by the Texas legislature for African-Americans in an attempt to avoid integration. In 1962 he started with 13 others a church, Wheeler Avenue Baptist, that now has more than 5,000 members on its rolls. Lawson pastored it for decades and now, retired, lives in a comfortable home with walls full of African-oriented art and photos of his three children—he's been married for 57 years—plus one of himself and Martin Luther King Jr. ("His life was on the line every day. He knew what he was facing.")
Lawson recalls how Texas Southern students, not the NAACP, "dragged" him into the civil rights movement. They told him, "Reverend Lawson, kids in North Carolina are doing sit-ins, we want to sit in here." Lawson told them, "Do you realize why your parents sacrificed to send you to college?" But they insisted, and Lawson over the years worked to achieve integration without violence. Once, when police surrounded a university dorm amid reports that students were armed and ready to shoot, officials brought Lawson to defuse the situation. (Later, police found only one .22 pistol.)
The reason Houston escaped big race riots, Lawson says, was not black or white but green: "Houston was not Klan-oriented, Houston was money-oriented." City leaders met upstairs at the Rice Hotel downtown and agreed that the new Astrodome, space center, and other innovations were attracting big businesses to Houston, but "if we have Birmingham [racial conflict] in Houston, that's gone." They agreed that all businesses would "quietly desegregate. All the department stores would simply let customers come in and try on clothes. All the restaurants would just open their doors and people could just come in. They would take down the 'white' and 'colored' signs off of buses and drinking fountains."
That's exactly what happened: "The decision was not moral, purely economic." In the photo on Lawson's living room wall, a young Lawson looks into the camera with a big smile, but Martin Luther King Jr. looks at someone to the right of the photographer, lips slightly parted, as if he's assessing the content of that person's character. Houston leaders made the content of a resident's wallet more important than either color or character.
TWO YEARS AGO John Mark Reynolds, 50, moved with his wife and four children from 1,300 square feet in Los Angeles to 4,000 in Sugar Land, an upscale suburb southwest of Houston. He showed me the house on the cul-de-sac where he lives (close to a lake with ducks) and his provost's office at Houston Baptist University, an up-and-coming school for upwardly mobile students. HBU's morality requirements make it attractive even to Muslim students: Reynolds enjoys being the chief academic officer of "a place to teach Muslim students where Jesus is Lord."
In Los Angeles Reynolds drove "the 5," the human pipeline known as Interstate 5, and now he refers to "the 59" (U.S. 59, which cuts through the Houston area diagonally) as "the 5 of Houston," but a much easier one to navigate. He doesn't mind the 10 miles he drives to work on "the 59," even if the traffic sometimes moves slowly, because he remembers California hours where "the 5" became a parking lot. He relishes the Los Angeles–Houston comparison: "If you want a job and a nice house with a big yard next to a lake, go to Houston, not New York or L.A."
Reynolds readily cites Houston's other advantages: The city is an energy center where pipelines and production facilities converge, a high-tech center with Rice and other brain factories, and a port on a growth spurt. (Panama Canal upgrades mean more Chinese goods will arrive on their way to the American interior.) Houston benefits from the business climate of a state without an income tax. Its location—in a flat area that stretches inland for dozens of miles, with no zoning—lets workers with families buy more house for less money than they could elsewhere.
Those cities and others have their attractions, of course. New York City offers America's toughest financial and artistic competition. Detroit and New Orleans draw pioneers looking to build new communities. But Reynolds notes that Benjamin Franklin moved to Philadelphia early in the 18th century because it had become North America's city of opportunity. He speaks of Chicago in the 19th century developing a similar reputation that drew Dwight Moody to its precincts, and Los Angeles in the 20th century becoming "the paradigmatic city." He says Houston is becoming the same in the 21st century, "the place where things are happening." He calls Houston's "light Christianization" superior to the dominant atheism-in-practice of New York City and Los Angeles.
HOUSTON HAS MANY PROBLEMS. When we drove down Dowling St., once the hub of Houston's third ward and its main African-American business street, but now dilapidated, William Lawson said the biggest problem in his community now is that half of African-American students drop out of high school: Houston has growing upper and lower classes and a shrinking middle class. Lawson complains that public schools now are "almost atheistic. You don't have to teach atheism. If you tell a child, 'You don't have to include God in your thinking,' you're virtually saying, 'There is no God.'"
Some of Houston's pluses have attached minuses. The spread-out roominess that creates low housing prices does lead to nerve-jangling commutes for some. The absence of zoning opens the door to tear-downs, rebuilding, and infill apartment complexes that put people close to shopping and restaurants—but also to buyers next door making changes that depress a neighbor's property values. Churches can readily build and expand, but so can abortion businesses: Go to "Houston heads, Houston tales" at wng.com for a description of a nurse who "made the rounds late at night to collect garbage sacks of little broken bodies from the local abortion clinic dumpsters."
A rising tide of atheism could swamp all boats, and so could crime. Chicago has first place in the murder rankings of America's large cities, but Houston generally makes it to the top 10. Openness to commerce also means openness to drugs: Houston's proximity to Mexico and countries further south makes it a hub for the trafficking of cocaine, heroin, and other drugs, along with human trafficking.
Despite the problems, though, dozens of Houstonians have told me what Reynolds put into five words: "Houston's the place to be." ("Houston heads, Houston tales," quote nine more residents.) Many exult in their city's ethnic diversity: WORLD reader Jennifer Hong notes, "When we celebrate an annual Thanksgiving meal with my husband's colleagues from the medical center, each visitor brings a dish from his or her home country. … Some years we have had six continents represented."
Houston, in short, is a semisweet land of liberty. In a nation where pessimism now reigns, the city's optimistic spirit may allow it to become what its diverse residents, rather than officials, make of it—for good or ill.


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I've only every hunted mule deer in New Mexico during the rut archery season. Deer, especially bucks are everywhere and seems that every other deer has antlers. In the early AM, the deer were atop ridges and mountains. Bedded for a couple of hours from 9-12, moved a bit, bedded again from 2-3 and were on the move from 3-dusk. I know NOT to expect this in Wyoming in October.
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depends on how much snow. early october deer hunt u will prob run into to some snow but unless its over a foot i wouldnt worry to much. a little snow makes things so much easier. glass glass glass. if there is massive snow storm and your not seeing any deer just drop down to where there is still uncovered feed. with that said.... as othere have stated, mike eastman knows wyoming deer better than most. get the book and good luck
By mid October, what's the likelihood that most of the deer will be in the timber? We are hunting the Bighorn National Forest?
region Y; about as close to 100% as you can get. Region R, some part are a little more open, and you might have some coming out into the fringes of the BLM and maybe some resident deer out in the BLM.


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Ports shape up to ship outU.S. mills produced 3 million tons of wood pellets in 2009, according to forestry experts at N.C. State University. The state ports in Morehead City and Wilmington should soon be able to ship more than half of that themselves. In October, the Council of State approved an agreement that allows San Diego-based International WoodFuels LLC, which is building a wood-pellet mill in Wilson County, to erect a terminal at Port of Morehead City capable of receiving, storing and loading 600,000 tons each year. That follows the June sanction of a proposed terminal at Port of Wilmington for Bethesda, Md.-based Enviva LP (Regional Report, January). The pellets will be shipped to power plants in Europe, where government policies for reducing carbon emissions have created a rising market for biomass fuel.
AHOSKIE Enviva's $60 million Hertford County mill opened this year, employs 79 and is projected to produce 500,000 tons a year. It exports pellets through the company's Chesapeake, Va., terminal.
GARYSBURG The $52 million Enviva mill in Northampton County opened in 2011, employs 74 and produces 365,000 tons a year shipped out of its Chesapeake, Va., terminal.
SIMS Slated to open in early 2014, WoodFuels' $60 million mill in Wilson County expects to produce 300,000 tons a year and create 32 jobs.
GARYSBURG The $52 million Enviva mill in Northampton County opened in 2011, employs 74 and produces 365,000 tons a year shipped out of its Chesapeake, Va., terminal.
SIMS Slated to open in early 2014, WoodFuels' $60 million mill in Wilson County expects to produce 300,000 tons a year and create 32 jobs.
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SOUTHPORT — Lee Controls will open a manufacturing plant and move its headquarters from Piscataway Township, N.J., to here, investing nearly $2.5 million and hiring 77 within three years. The company makes Teflon and pillow-block bearings. The average annual wage of the jobs will be $39,649, higher than Brunswick County's average of $33,174.
WILMINGTON — New Hanover County commissioners approved $325,000 of incentives to Live Oak Bank for an expansion of its headquarters. The small-business lender plans to invest $16 million and hire 120 workers within five years at its sister company, nCino, which makes software for banks.
GREENVILLE — Montreal-based Domtar, a maker and distributor of pulp, paper and personal-care products, will expand here, investing $100,000 and hiring 35 finance and accounting workers. The average annual wage will be $52,000, higher than Pitt County's average of $33,769.
BELHAVEN — Greenville-based Vidant Health will close Vidant Pungo Hospital (p. 50), citing its deteriorating condition and state lawmakers' refusal of federal funding to expand Medicaid. The health system will open an outpatient clinic here that is expected to break ground this fall and take 18 months to complete. It will employ 30 to 35. The hospital employed 127.


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Stan Vanclooster scored two goals and added three assists and Matthew Burwell registered his fourth shutout of the season as first-place Kinston shutout visiting Farmville Central 9-0 on Monday.
Josh Pettis had two goals and an assist, Ashley Wentz had a goal and an assist, Nicolas Frankfort had a goal, Evan Hood scored a goal, Matthew Espinoza scored on a penalty kick and Jamie Rodolfo wrapped up the scoring with a goal in stoppage time. Robert Blake and William French had an assist each for Kinston (7-4-1, 7-1-0 Eastern Plains 2A), which is in search of its first conference title in boys soccer in school history.
The Vikings travel to Wilson Beddingfield on Wednesday.
NORTH LENOIR 5, C.B. AYCOCK 1: At North Lenoir, the Hawks picked up an Eastern Carolina 3A win.
Michael Allred had a goal and an assist, Doerico Sutton scored two goals, Oscar Avila scored a goal and Justin Shimer scored a goal for North Lenoir (5-8-2, 3-4-1). Caleb Baird had seven saves in goal for the Hawks.
North Lenoir hosts Erwin Triton on Wednesday.
WILSON BEDDINGFIELD 2, GREENE CENTRAL 0: At Beddingfield, the Rams were shutout in the EP2A match. They are now 4-5-2 overall, 3-4-1 in league play and host SouthWest Edgecombe on Wednesday.
PARROTT ACADEMY 3, HARRELLS CHRISTIAN 1: At Harrells, the Patriots won 25-22, 21-25, 25-22, 25-11.
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William Hewlett and David Packard started theircomputer-manufacturing company in a one-car garage in 1939. Their brand ofmanagement became the model for Silicon Valley. "We did not want to run ahire-and-fire operation, but rather a company based on a loyal and dedicatedworkforce," Hewlett once said. "We felt this workforce should be ableto share to some extent in the progress of the company." The workforce didshare. HP's "open door" policy was the real thing. Many executiveoffices didn't even have doors.
When an employee contracted tuberculosis in the1940s, HP established a health-insurance plan for catastrophic illness -- anearly unheard-of concept at the time. In 1959, the company became the first toimplement cash profit-sharing; and in 1967, HP's German plant started flextime,another radical concept. In the mid-1990s, HP offered telecommuting on a largescale. Job satisfaction increased. Stress -- and office expenses -- decreased.
In order to avoid layoffs in the 1970s, the companyimposed pay cuts and other measures, including forced vacations. Such actionswere tried again in 2001, but layoffs were unavoidable. Despite setbacks, HP hasleft the workplace with a rich legacy of invention in technology, as well as inmanagement and human resources.
Over the past 80 years, the Cleveland-based weldingequipment manufacturer has initiated some of the most innovative human resourceprograms in the country. In 1923, it was among the first businesses in thenation to give employees earned paid vacations. In the following decade, itoffered several other innovative benefits, including a stock ownership plan, anemployee suggestion program, and an incentive bonus plan. During World War II,after many Lincoln workers were drafted, the company hired large numbers ofwomen and minority factory workers.
But it is the company's fabled incentive-compensationplan that has thrust it into a class by itself as one of the most studiedorganizations in the country. For half a century, Lincoln has guaranteedlifetime employment for all of its full-time workers who have been at thecompany for at least three years. As part of the policy, the company transfersworkers to other divisions as needed, even if that means to lower-paidpositions. Lincoln can reduce hours during bad times, but employees areguaranteed a minimum of 30 hours a week.
In the early 1980s, guaranteed continuous employmentreceived a severe test, but not one employee was laid off. The company usheredin the 21st century as a multimillion-dollar global giant.
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In the early 1900s, Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, who wereimmortalized in the book Cheaper by the Dozen, developed laws of human motionfrom which the principles of motion economy evolved. Their studies of efficiencyresulted in a method for analyzing fundamental movements required to perform ajob. Once the movements have been examined, the Gilbreths said, you can look forplaces to improve or lessen repetition.
These early ergonomists defined efficient, functionalmovements for laborers, which increased productivity and improved the health andsafety of workers. Ergonomists still use a table developed by the Gilbreths toidentify risk factors in the workplace.
In the early days of Workforce, readers worked forcompanies whose employees were, by and large, white men with wives and children.But 30-plus years ago, women and ethnic minorities began to enter the workplacein droves. Today, 26 percent of workers are ethnic minorities and 48 percent arewomen. Additionally, improvements in health care and the elimination ofmandatory retirement mean there are also more disabled and older workers.
These sweeping demographic changes have affected HR inthree primary ways, explains Robert Drago, professor of labor studies andwomen's studies at Pennsylvania State University. First, thanks to federallegislation prohibiting discrimination based on age, race, gender, ordisability, there is a lot more work in terms of legal compliance.
Second, employers have had to work harder at helpingpeople get along with each other. Training on diversity awareness, sexualharassment, and generational differences is now commonplace.
Third, benefits management has become more complex. Toaccommodate a diverse workforce, companies have had to institute such things ason-site day care, policies for religious observances, domestic-partner benefits,job-sharing, paid parental leave, part-time work arrangements, andcafeteria-style benefit plans. The benefits are there not just because companiesare being nice, says Drago, but because they have to compete for good people whoare a pretty varied lot.
With the creation of the first moving assembly line in theearly 1900s, Henry Ford introduced automobiles to the middle class. The highlyinnovative industrialist went on to change the nature of employee relations andhuman resources. In 1914, he shocked the industrial world by paying his workers$5 a day -- an astonishing wage at the time. In exchange, Ford expectedemployees to work regularly, clock in on time, and maintain a serious and soberprivate life.
Ford was a student of the ideas of Frederick WinslowTaylor and the principles of scientific management. He sought ways tostandardize the behavior of workers to increase efficiency and production, andwas among the first to design factories around the way people worked.
Although many of his business methods were controversialand would now be considered unacceptable, Ford's legacy includes treatingworkers with dignity and respect. "While tending toward being a benevolentpatriarch, Henry Ford dealt with employees more as a family to engage than acommodity to acquire and fire," says Dave Ulrich, professor of businessadministration at the University of Michigan.
|WilliamEdwards Deming & TQM
The ongoing slump in the Japanese economy has taken someof the luster off that country's once revered management techniques. However,total quality management and the business philosophy of William Edwards Deming-- which helped build Japan into a superpower following World War II -- havecontinued to shape the modern enterprise. Even in an era when speed matters,there's a growing emphasis on quality.
"Deming has clearly had a profound and lasting impacton HR," says Arnold Packer, a senior research fellow at Johns HopkinsUniversity Institute for Policy Studies. He notes that the "father" ofthe quality movement focused attention on 14 key points, including the abilityto build quality into a product in the first place, improve it constantly,provide institute training on the job, break down barriers between departments,and stress workmanship over hierarchy.
A half-century later and eight years after Deming's death,the concept is still going strong. Within HR, it is leading to a greateremphasis on analytics, the widespread adoption of International Organization forStandardization guidelines, and in some cases, mandatory training for vendors."As time passes, the forces that lead to change will be harder to trace toDeming or any other single cause," Packer says. "But his impact will,nevertheless, remain profound."
|TheTax Code
In recent years, taxes have become a central theme in howcorporations make decisions about everything from where they locate offices towhat kind of benefits they provide. "The tax system now dictates manyactivities and decisions within an organization," says John Boudreau,professor of HR at Cornell University. "It has changed the face of thecorporation."
One of the most obvious examples of this new corporateorder is the emergence of stock options, which are designed to align workers andshareholders, boost retention, and allow employees to share in the company'ssuccess. They've served as a powerful tool for recruiting and retaining talent.More than 90 percent of public companies now offer stock options, according tothe consulting firm Watson Wyatt. Other than administrative expenses, it costs acompany nothing to issue options, thanks to a loophole in the tax code.
The tax code has affected the workplace in other ways. Therapid growth of the 401(k) is a direct result of the tax code, and so is thecomplex nature of compensation packages for top executives.
|TheLikert Scale
In 1932, Rensis Likert revolutionized attitude measurementwith what came to be known as the Likert scale. His method asks subjects toexpress agreement or disagreement with a set of attitude statements using afive-point scale that ranges from "strongly disagree" to"strongly agree."
Previously, attitude scales required input from a panel ofexperts to determine which statements measured the same concepts, says WilliamTrochim, professor of human services at Cornell University. Likert eliminatedthe experts, using responses from the general population to determine whichstatements hung together.
"By eliminating the experts, he streamlined themeasurement process," Trochim says. "An industry of attitudemeasurement was spawned by the Likert scale."
"If it's not fun, why do it?" With this credo,Jerry Greenfield, a founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, created the JoyGang, the company's ministry of fun. That was in 1988. To honor the company'sfun edict, festivities over the years have included the celebration of nationalclash-dressing day. Fun, it became apparent to others in business, was not justa frivolous workplace cop-out. Fun came to be perceived as a competitivebusiness necessity. Southwest Airlines has proved the notion to be true. Thecompany's fun ethic has helped deliver three decades of profits, single-digitturnover, and an expansion to 32,000 employees.
"If you're miserable, you're probably notproductive," says Sherry Phelps, Southwest's director of corporateemployment. "Our leadership is focused on making this a great place tobe." The company figures that a fun atmosphere will result in bettercustomer service. It published a book for employees on how to entertaincustomers during a flight delay. And it has turned its mandatory safety speechesat the beginning of flights into song. A competitor complained to the FAA thatSouthwest wasn't delivering the proper safety messages. FAA representatives flewon the airline and found that, unlike the people on many flights, Southwestpassengers actually paid attention.
|JohnH. Patterson
If HR has a founder, it might well be John Patterson. TheDayton, Ohio, native read about a new machine called a cash register, and boughtthe company that made it. Right away, he changed the name of the firm, which wasfounded in 1884, to the National Cash Register Company. In 1893, he started whatwas likely the first training school to help salespeople sell registers.According to the Montgomery County Historical Society in Dayton, Patterson'sschool was the first to teach "educational advertising," a method inwhich a manufacturer first explains to prospective customers why they might needa product, and subsequently explains the features of the items.
When he noticed an employee heating her lunch on a companyradiator, he started serving hot lunches for all female employees. Absenteeismplummeted. Other trend-setting benefits included company-sponsored vacations andin-house health care.
Patterson instituted one of the first employee suggestionsystems, which became the source of many of his workplace innovations. He iscredited with establishing the first personnel department in the 1890s. Beforelong, it was no more of a novelty than the cash register.
|GeorgeElton Mayo and the Hawthorne Experiments
From 1927 to 1932, Harvard Business School professorGeorge Elton Mayo conducted what became known as the Hawthorne Experiments atthe Western Electric Hawthorne Works in Chicago. Mayo wanted to determine theeffects of fatigue and monotony on productivity. He took six women from theassembly line and segregated them from the rest of the factory. They werewatched by a friendly observer. A second investigation involved two womenassembling phone relays -- small but very intricate mechanisms. Mayo tinkeredwith the work environment in both groups, manipulating such things as restbreaks, work hours, temperature, and lighting.
The women were told in advance about the project, and wereasked for feedback. Mayo found that no matter what change he made, productivitywent up. The researchers believed that observing people made productivityincrease, but that was wrong, says Richard Griffith, director of the industrialorganizational psychology program at Florida Tech. "Eventually it becameclear that it wasn't observation but the fact that someone was listening tothese women that made them more productive. It changed our view of managementfrom scientific to humanistic," Griffith says.
Mayo showed that for productivity to rise, managers had to seeworkers as something other than appendages to machinery.
|ThurgoodMarshall and Affirmative Action
For the HR community, Thurgood Marshall's most importantlegacy was his role as the country's most stalwart champion of affirmativeaction. The policy intended to break the patterns and effects of slavery,discrimination, and racism, and to open job opportunities to all.
"If we are ever to become a fully integrated society-- one in which the color of a person's skin will not determine theopportunities available to him or her -- we must be willing to take steps toopen these doors," Marshall said in 1978.
During the 1960s and 1970s, affirmative-action policieswere used to increase the number of minorities and women receiving governmentcontracts. With the creation of the EEOC in 1965, equal-employment departmentshad been established throughout the country. Private companies later developedaffirmative-action statements, equal-opportunity plans, and inclusive recruitingpractices that directly affected the way HR professionals conducted their work.During the 1980s and 1990s, the U.S. Supreme Court chipped away at affirmativeaction, and Marshall's majority position on the issue eroded. During his career,he served as chief counsel for the NAACP, as solicitor general, and was thefirst black member of the U.S. Supreme Court (1967-1991).
|TheNew Deal
The Depression of the 1930s put an end to the widespreadnotion that any American who really wanted to work could find a job. The growthof bread lines, mass layoffs, and widespread misery were palpable indicatorsthat anyone could experience the pain of unemployment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's package of legislation known asthe New Deal was established as a way to provide a social safety net for peoplewho'd lost their jobs. "The New Deal ushered in a new way of thinking aboutwhat society and employers owe working people in terms of security," saysHR professor John Boudreau of Cornell University. But the New Deal also made therole of personnel officers vastly more challenging and complicated.
The legislation established such things as a minimum wage,maximum working hours, unemployment insurance, and Social Security. Theseprograms required employers to adjust wages and working hours, as well as trackand report much more information -- to both government and workers. Therecord-keeping challenges alone were monumental.
And because workers now had access to a social-supportnetwork outside their places of employment, they became less dependent onparticular jobs. This gave employees more freedom to leave bad jobs, and causedpersonnel officers to worry more about working conditions, employee treatment,and other factors of retention.
The New Deal, with its emphasis on fairness at work,required companies to create seniority systems and grievance procedures.Personnel professionals were suddenly required to establish democratic norms togovern the workplace.
These commonplace programs were considered radical at thetime. Boudreau says that the New Deal "forever changed how Americancompanies think of work, worker participation, and employee security."
|Wooingthe Workers
About five years ago, the combination of an agingpopulation and a drop in the birth rate meant that companies could no longertake hiring for granted. Recruitment became a seller's market, and companiesbegan to utilize previously unheard-of recruitment tactics.
Referral bonuses were the first line of attack. At one endof the spectrum, Doubletree Hotels gave employees $100 for referringhousekeepers. At the other, NeXT Software, Inc., offered $10,000 for anexecutive referral. Additionally, signing bonuses were dangled in front ofcandidates who promised to stick around.
Savvy HR professionals also got creative. Sybase, Inc.,rented a biplane and buzzed competitors with a banner reading "Sybase WantsYou." Stone Container Corp. recruited foreign refugees for jobs. OldsProducts, a mustard manufacturer, searched for new hires in local churches,synagogues, and mosques.
To make their companies more attractive, many employersalso eliminated dress codes, allowed pets at work, and invited employees to settheir own hours. On-site concierge services, day care, massage, and meditationrooms were also established. Practices once discouraged -- such as hiring familymembers -- became acceptable.
Thanks to all these perks and promises, people beganexpecting more from their employers. But with the current recession, the days ofemployee extras may be over.
|Violencein the Workplace
Centuries before the phrase "going postal" wascoined, there was mayhem and murder in the workplace. In the first half of the20th century, corporations hired goons to beat up and kill union organizers. Themining, longshoring, and shipping industries were rife with danger and violence.
In the second half of the century, workplace violencebegan erupting in new ways. There were a number of isolated workplace shootingsby disgruntled employees. Headlines commonly underscored the issue -- a shootingin a Seattle shipyard; a repairman in Hawaii who marched into a Xerox buildingand shot seven people to death; a failing day-trader in Atlanta who opened fire,killing 9 and wounding 13.
And there were assaults on employees by customers --particularly in places like gas stations and 24-hour food marts.
In response, HR began taking a leading role in the 1990sin developing programs to protect employees in the workplace withviolence-prevention programs such as stress reduction and substance abuse.
As the 21st century was ushered in, there were hopefulsigns. Workplace homicides dipped from 1,074 in 1994 to 645 in 1999, accordingto a recent Violence in the Workplace report released by the National Institutefor Occupational Safety and Health.
By the 1920s, America had become an industrial society. Injust 60 years, the labor pool had shifted away from agriculture and towardmanufacturing, mining, public service, and clerical jobs. By 1930, 79 percent ofworkers were employed in industrial positions.
At these new large companies, foremen tended to call theshots. They commonly hired whom they liked, fired whom they didn't, arbitrarilymeted out punishment and pay raises, and accepted bribes for special treatment.
In an effort to wrest control from the foremen and toinstitute fairness into the system, progressive companies established personneldepartments. These early HR departments worked hard to develop betterrecruitment and hiring practices. They assessed skill needs and establishedtesting in order to make hiring decisions based on more objective criteria. Theywrote job descriptions, catalogued jobs, and standardized pay scales. Theycreated grievance procedures, sensible rules of dismissal, and, in some cases,anti-discrimination policies, pension benefits, and softball leagues.
According to Nelson Lichtenstein, a history professor at the University ofCalifornia at Santa Barbara, industrialization -- more than any other factor --gave rise to modern HR practices. "With such large bodies of people, companiesneeded some methodical way to manage them."
|TheDisabled at Work
Since the 1920s, when they were relegated to sellingbrooms or pencils on the street or newspapers in courthouses, Americans withdisabilities have made enormous gains in the workplace. Federal laws have openedendless work options, guaranteed educational opportunities, provided workplacetraining, and eliminated physical barriers. Great progress has also been made asa result of a strong grass-roots disability rights movement and, of course,medical advances. Before antibiotics were perfected, many people withdisabilities died or were institutionalized. Today they are mainstreamed intothe workplace, says Becky Ogle, an activist for the rights of the disabled inWashington, D.C.
Over the past three decades, there has been atransformation in the way society views the relationship between disabled peopleand work. These changes have ultimately resulted in the full participation ofdisabled people in integrated employment. Those with disabilities have moreoptions today than ever before. Still, there are pressing problems, Ogle says.About two-thirds of working-age adults with disabilities in America areunemployed, and those that are employed generally make less than theirnon-disabled counterparts, according to the National Institute on Disability andRehabilitation Research.
It wasn't until the Internet emerged as a mainstream toolin the mid 1990s that organizations were able to tap into the full power of thedigital revolution. The Internet created a seamless way for companies tointeract electronically, spawning the enormous growth of e-business. That, inturn, has driven productivity gains and helped organizations cut costs.
Today, "e-HR" is fast becoming a reality. TheInternet is easing the huge administrative burden of years past by reducingpaperwork and allowing managers and employees to directly handle tasks rangingfrom benefits selection to 360-degree feedback and performance assessments. Italso has created opportunities to share knowledge and information moreeffectively through portals and other tools. And it is cutting costs withmethods such as e-procurement, call-center integration, and collaborative workteams. "The Internet is accelerating and magnifying the capabilities ofcomputers," says John Boudreau, a professor of HR at Cornell University.
In the mid 1990s, HR departments used the Internetprimarily for research and to post company directories and handbooks. Today, HRdepartments are using it to foster learning and to present workforceinformation, and are thus becoming key strategic players in organizations.
With her swearing in as secretary of labor by PresidentFranklin Delano Roosevelt on March 4, 1933, Perkins became the first woman tohold a cabinet-level position. It was the highest-ranking job held by a woman inthe history of the U.S. government, and labor leaders were furious. Not only wasshe thought to be invading male-dominated inner sanctums, but Perkins also wasdetermined to instigate monumental changes in society.
Her agenda included feeding the hungry, giving peoplework, ending child labor, establishing a minimum wage, limiting work hours,creating unemployment insurance, establishing workers' compensation, andoffering pensions to older Americans.
From the time of her graduation from Mount Holyoke Collegein 1902, Perkins was involved in progressive causes. Her training was in socialwork. She was a part of the commission that investigated the Triangle ShirtCompany fire, in an attempt to prevent recurrences of such sweatshop-relatedtragedies.
When Roosevelt became governor of New York, he appointedPerkins to the post of industrial commissioner. When he won the Presidency,Perkins was appointed to the cabinet job. She served as labor secretary for 12years, and was instrumental in drafting almost all of the New Deal laborlegislation.
|TheCivil Rights Movement
Decades before affirmative action, and the representationof large numbers of women and people of color in the American workplace, Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. was speaking passionately for the rights of poor,disadvantaged, and racially oppressed people. Segregation was rampant in bothschools and the workplace. King's eloquent message served as the foundation of amovement for civil rights that redirected the course of history.
In 1952, the U.S. Supreme Court declared schoolsegregation unconstitutional; in 1955, Rosa Parks defied an ordinance requiringsegregated seating on city buses, an event that triggered a successful yearlongbus boycott -- led by King -- in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks's refusal tosurrender her seat to a white male passenger prompted a tidal wave of protests,bloody attacks, and student sit-ins in the late 1950s and 1960s thatreverberated throughout the country.
In 1957, a mob of 1,000 townspeople in Little Rock,Arkansas, tried to prevent black students from remaining at a recentlyintegrated school. President Dwight Eisenhower sent in paratroopers and 10,000National Guardsmen. In 1961, busloads of freedom riders were brutalized whenthey waged a campaign to try to end the segregation of bus terminals. King, aBaptist minister, once declared, "I refuse to accept the view that mankindis so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that thebright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality."
As King took to the pulpit and to the streets, anothercatalyst for racial justice, Thurgood Marshall, was introducing sweeping changesin the courtroom. The two played major roles in the campaign for affirmativeaction and for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The legislation bars discriminationin employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.Many significant changes in the basic rules of the workplace in the 20th centuryresulted from the grass-roots movement.
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I upgraded my server from 8.0.2 to 8.0.4 (also upgrading my Ubuntu server from 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS) yesterday and everything seemed fine. However, whenever I go into the statistics I get this error:
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I Google'd the problem but I didn't find much about this. I found a page on the wiki that gave a series of commands to run and to post the results here. The commands I ran are:
zmloggerctl status; echo $?; ps ax | grep zmlogger (no problems)
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Tennessee became the 16th state of the Union on June 1, 1796
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San Francisco's IndieFest roars into its second week at the Roxie, while this year's crop of Oscar-nominated shorts will be screening nightly at both the Lumiere Theatre and the Opera Plaza Cinema. As always, here's a list of some of the most intriguing films currently playing at an indie theater near you.
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BOSTON — The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon appear to have been motivated by their religious faith but do not seem connected to any Muslim terrorist groups, U.....
the bomber wrote that he and his brother did the bombing because of the USA killing Muslims in Iraq and Afagan..
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Yep another thread.
You post the same thing all the time (Obama is my savior, he doeth no wrong, yeah though I walk through the valley of doubt blah blah), I was just proactive :)!
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Wrat, I haven't posted on this story. What am I denying?
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Imphat, DENIAL is not a river in Africa.
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Mikeyd, yep! Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood killer of 13, is just coming to trial in May 2013 and he did the killing in 2009.
And HIS trial is a MILITARY COURT MARSHAL which is usually quicker than civil cases.
Justice System: FAIL!
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and don't forget we'll have to feed and water this animal through 20 years of appeals.driven by faith.should have been driven by hearse.
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Hillbilly, agree. Now Obamacare will pay millions to heal the little bas***d just so we can give him a trial and execute him!!!
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If the 50 year enemy (Russia) calls you, better pay attention! DHS is a huge money grabbing machine that has no clue what each agency is doing. 235,000 employees without good leadership is just wasteful spending!
We can actually blame this one on Bush 2....
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BS they are not connected. The older brother spent 6 months in Russia recently, even Russian intelligence WARNED THE USA about him specifically.
The FBI interviewed him and let him GO, for *****s sake!!!
This is major FAIL of the Obama DHS! The Russia had it CORRECT.
Here is a punk-azz 26 year old driving a Mercedes Benz, wearing $700 shoes... NO VISIBLE MEANS OF SUPPORT???
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It's a shame in my opinion the younger brother wasn't killed like his older brother. Maybe he will die in the hospital. Their acts were senseless to say the very least. Islamic terrorists and their very screwed up worldview. Die MF, die!
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Adobe has been recognized on Fortune's "Best 100 Companies to Work For" list for 13 years.
Adobe UK ranked No. 33 in its first appearance on this prestigious list and earned a two out of three star Best Companies Accreditation rating for demonstrating high levels of employee engagement.
The Adobe German team ranked No. 10 on the 2012 Germany's Best Employers list among 275 companies in the category of 50 to 500 employees, based on employee research conducted by the Great Place to Work Institute.
Adobe made Canada's Top 100 Employers list, a national competition that ranks companies against their peers in offering exceptional workplaces. Companies are evaluated for the most forward-thinking programs.
Since 2010, Adobe has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere.
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In 2011, Adobe was ranked No. 14 among the greenest companies in the U.S. by Newsweek magazine.
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In 2011, Adobe Germany was awarded a "Fair Company" certificate by the German magazine Junge Karriere. The certificate is given to companies that provide new college graduates with fair work conditions and real opportunities.
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