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JWC TO MARY RUSSELL ; 27 June 1858; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18580627-JWC-MR-01; CL 33: 257-258
5 Cheyne Row Chelsea / Sunday [27 June 1858]
Dearest Mary
It is so long since I wrote, and I have been so bothered and bewildered in the interval; that I cant recollect whether it is your turn or my own to write! But whosever turn it is, the silence is equally needing to be broken! and if I am the delinquent, I can only say, I have had plenty of excuse for all my sins of ommission of late weeks. First, my Dear, the heat has really been nearer killing me than the cold—London heat!—nobody knows what that is till having tried it! so breathless and sickening, and oppressive as no other heat I ever experienced! Then the quantities of visitors rushing about me at this season, complicated by an influx of cousins, to be entertained on special terms, have taken out in talk my dregs of strength and spirit! Then Mr Carlyle, in the collapse from the strain of his book, and the biliousness developed by the heat, has been so wild to "get away" and so incapable of determining where to go and when to go! that living beside him has been like living the life of a weathercock in a high wind, blowing from all points at once, sensibility superadded! So long at least as he involved me in his "dissolving views"! The imaginary houses in different parts of the Kingdom, in which I have had to look round me on bare walls, and apply my fancy to furnishing; with the strength I have (!)—(about equal to my canary's, which, every now and then, drops off the perch on its back and has to be lifted up!)—would have driven me crazy I think, if one day I hadn't got desperate and burst out crying!! Until a woman cries, Men never think she can be suffering! Bless their blockheadism! However when I cried, and declared I was not strong enough for all that any more; Mr C opened his eyes to the fact so far, as to decide that for the present he would go to his Sister's (the Gill) and let me choose my own course after— And to the Gill he went last Wednesday night, and since then I have been resting—and already feel better for the rest, even without "change of air"—
What my own course will be, I havn't a notion! The main point in my system of rest is, to postpone not only all doing, but all making up my mind to do! to, reduce myself as much as possible to a state of vacant, placid idiocy! that is the state, I am sure, a judicious Doctor would recommend for the moment! When the time comes for wishing for change and action, it will be time to decide where to go— Meanwhile I shall see what being well let alone will do for my health! All the cousins are gone now,— The visitors going—no household cares! ("cares of bread" as Mazzini calls them!) For, with no Husband to study, house keeping is mere play—and my young maid is a jewel of a creature! It seems to me the best chance I have had for picking up a little strength this good while!
I suppose you will be having my Aunt Anne1 again soon. I hear from them very seldom. I should like so much, if I could be set down there in "the Princess of China's" "flying bed," or on "Prince Houssans" "flying carpet," to land at Thornhill, before the fine weather end—but the length of journey by rail terrifies me! especially the length of the journey back! Mrs Pringle,2 I dare say, half expects me to visit her in August—for I have never said positively I would not—and she has pressed my coming most kindly— But to say where I will not go, would require consideration and decision, as well as saying where I will go— And, as I have said, I mean to be an idiot for a time, post-poning all mental effort!—
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J&J gains pivotal PMA for computer-aided surgical sedation device
Johnson & Johnson ($JNJ) achieved a pivotal FDA PMA approval for what is being billed as the first computer-assisted sedation system, now available for endoscopy procedures.
Sedasys, a division of the company's Ethicon arm, obtained the new regulatory nod.
Plans are for a gradual rollout beginning in 2014. In the interim, J&J/Ethicon/Sedasys plans to work with gastroenterology, anesthesiology and nursing professionals to educate them about the new system, which will be programmed to administer minimal-to-moderate propofol sedation during a procedure. They'll have an anesthesiologist on hand to assist and consult, and the person who handles sedation in a physician's surgical team will also be trained in propofol use and how it affects the cardiovascular system.
Additionally, the company will pursue two post-approval clinical studies to gauge how the system behaves in actual clinical use. Sedasys' clinical testing used to support its PMA application found that patients using its automated anesthesiology system recovered faster than the control group, and that patients also had less problems with oxygen desaturation than those sedated with the usual benzodiazapines or opioid drugs.
There's a big market at stake here--as many as 15 million eligible patients in the U.S. alone, the company estimates.
Those post-approval studies will likely be closely watched. In the meantime, another kind of automated surgical system is drawing some tight scrutiny, and not the good kind. Intuitive Surgical ($ISRG) is facing the first of several lawsuits alleging that it marketed its surgical robots without proper training, leading to a man's death.
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Diamonds are sold by the carat (a unit of weight equal to 1/5th of a gram or 1/142nd of an ounce). Small diamonds cost less per carat than larger stones of equal quality. This is because very small stones are very common and large stones are especially rare.
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It could have been a bad week - a lot happened, and it could have (and almost did) de-rail things for me. I had some not so great moments (I drank a soda for the first time in almost three weeks, and I ate some fried food which I've been trying to avoid, I missed some days at the gym.) However, there were so many more successes.
1. I did drink that soda. But, I didn't finish it. It was the first soda I had in three weeks (which is much better compared to the six or more I was drinking a day) and it was still a diet and caffeine free soda.
2. I did eat cheese curds. I let myself get too hungry. However, I ate them after walking the zoo with the boys, I got a small, and I shared it with everyone, so I'm guessing I had about half a serving. Again, much better to compared to the daily doses of fried food I was getting.
3. I missed some days at the gym. This did bum me out because I can't lift at home, so no gym = no lifting. One day I just plain didn't feel good - but later that night I did get up and do a ten minute coach Nicole video. The second day I missed at the gym we did go to the zoo and walked it for the zoo lights. Another win was that when I left, I was not tired. Walking the zoo used to exhaust me - looking for the car in the huge parking lot was torture, because I just needed to sit down. I was good.
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Went to the gym today. On a Saturday! Then we came home and played with the boys outside and took the dogs for a walk. More exercise.
Stayed within my calories all week long.
Even with my little "detours" I still stayed on route. That's the most important. This is my third time trying this whole weight loss get healthy deal, and before it was one thing goes wrong, and I might as well just give up and give in.
I'm learning more and more that it's not about being perfect at all. There's no way I won't ever be able to eat a piece of cake, a piece of fried chicken, a piece of candy ever again. What it is about is doing better than what you were doing. That piece of cake doesn't need to be the whole cake, that piece of fried chicken doesn't need to be four pieces, tht piece of candy doesn't need to be the whole bag. I don't have to beat myself up about having ONE slip up, because overall, I'm doing so much better than I ever was doing.
So while the week was a little stressful, overall, I'm so proud of myself. I thought the best thing about getting healthy would be having other people notice the weight loss and complimenting me - and while that IS awesome, it's so much more to know that I don't need them to do that in order to feel damn good about myself.
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"It's a really good variety," said Lindsay Waddell, a county community events specialist.
Silent lunch is one of the most dreaded punishments for school children, second only to standing against the wall at recess.
Teachers have a predilection for silent lunches. While students want to hear each other talk, school teachers want to hear themselves think.
Crafty seventh-grade faculty at my daughter's school put a new spin on silent lunch for middle-school miscreants by pairing the stricture with alphabetical seating. My daughter got to know the eating habits, which were not silent, of someone new.
State lawmakers will be on an "aggressive schedule" this upcoming session, continuing to push policies that promote business and the creation of jobs in Georgia, state House Speaker David Ralston told local leaders Tuesday.
The Blue Ridge, Ga., Republican was the keynote speaker at the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce's pre-legislative breakfast event at Savannah Rapids Pavilion.
Ralston said he had three priorities for this legislative session: budget, budget and budget.
The following accounts were taken from Columbia County Sheriff's Office incident reports:
Woman victim of lottery scam
A Martinez woman called authorities Monday claiming she'd been scammed into thinking she was a clearing house winner.
The 23-year-old woman said she got a call at about 12:45 p.m. from a man who identified himself as Robert Ford with Publishers Clearing House. The caller said the woman had won $125,000 and needed to pay the taxes and government fees so he could process her winnings.
Even though the people elected to city council seats in Grovetown and Harlem on Tuesday won't take office for two months, they already have big plans for their terms.
Harlem voters elected incumbent John Thigpen, 53, and newcomer Danny Bellavance, 54, to the city council. Thigpen, a chemical senior operator at DSM Chemical in Augusta, has served on the council since 2003.
In the world of competition barbecue, Jim and Jan Burg are celebrities.
The Evans couple make up Killer B's BBQ, the top competition barbecue cooking team in the country.
"I used to like to creep into competitions," pitmaster Jim said. "I can't do that anymore."
Killer B's outcooked 49 other teams to earn the grand championship and $50,000 on Oct. 21 at the third annual Sam's Club National BBQ Tour, the Kansas City Barbecue Society's largest-sanctioned competition, in Bentonville, Ark.
Making the transition from military life to the civilian workforce is not always easy.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is trying to make that shift smoother for veterans and their spouses with the Hiring Our Heroes job fair.
"The goal is to really bridge that divide between veterans and military spouses and employers," said Bryan Goettel, Director of Communications for the Hiring Our Heroes program. "This isn't a charity."
Goodwill Industries will soon begin collecting vehicle donations again in metro Augusta after a four-year hiatus.
Goodwill Industries of Middle Georgia and the CSRA has signed a 10-year lease to occupy a 10,000-square-foot warehouse just off Interstate 20 at 655 Frontage Road that will provide space for storing donated vehicles in addition to donated clothes and household goods.
"We will be open and take other donations seven days a week," said David Becker, the chief operating officer for Goodwill. "The location will serve several functions for Goodwill."
A Grovetown man accused of molesting a young boy will spend the rest of his life in prison.
A Columbia County jury convicted Ronald Wade Stanley, 45, of Millwater Court, on Thursday of 31 counts – nine counts of child molestation, four counts of aggravated child molestation and 18 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.
Superior Court Judge Michael N. Annis sentenced Stanley to two life sentenced followed by 600 years in prison, according to District Attorney Ashley Wright.
Columbia County deputies were forced to shoot and kill a bull that was running loose in a residential area near Harlem for a few hours Thursday.
An 1,800-pound black Angus bull escaped from 5952 Harlem-Grovetown Road at about 6 p.m. and was found running loose in the area near Forest Drive, according to a Columbia County Sheriff's Office incident report.
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Softball Wins Blue & Gold Coca-Cola Classic
March 14, 2004
MIAMI, Fla. - Junior Pam Sulick (Mission Viejo, Calif.) drove in two runs with a single to center field to give the University of Massachusetts softball team (9-11) a 4-3 come-from-behind win over Florida International (11-15) this afternoon in the championship game of the Blue & Gold Coca-Cola Classic. FIU, down 2-0, scored three times in the bottom of the sixth inning to take the 3-2 lead into the final inning.
In the first inning, junior Hilary Puglia (Stoneham, Mass.) led off the game with a single up the middle, but was unable to get past second base. She moved to second on a groundout by freshman Candice Molinari (Glendora, Calif.), but sophomore Katie Jo Kelley (Rainier, Ore.) and senior Jamie Cahalan (Mesa, Ariz.) both popped out in the infield to end the inning.
UMass junior pitcher Kelli Arnold (Kalama, Wash.) got into a bit of the jam in the bottom of the third. She allowed a one-out double and after a two-out walk and a stolen base, FIU had runners at second and third with two outs. Arnold got out of it by getting Kristen Perry to fly out to Molinari in left.
In the top of the fourth inning, the Minutewomen broke into the scoring column. Cahalan started it with a a one-out single to left. Two batters later, she scored from first base when Sulick ripped a double down the left-field line giving Massachusetts the 1-0 lead.
UMass then added another run in the top of the fifth. Kelley hit a RBI single to left field which scored senior Aisha Franke (Philadelphia, Pa.). Franke had led off the inning with an infield single. UMass loaded the bases with one out, but were unable to score any more runs.
In the bottom of the fifth Arnold gave up a leadoff double but worked out of the inning without letting the runner advance past second base. For the second straight day, however, FIU took the lead in the bottom of the sixth inning. The first two Golden Panthers reached via a walk and an error to knock Arnold out of the game. Sophomore Jenna Busa (Lexington, Mass.) came in and gave up three unearned runs. One scored on an error and two more were driven in with a double. Busa then settled down to retire the next three batters, but the damage had been done.
In its final at bat, Massachusetts tried to mount a late-inning come-back. Cahalan got on courtesy of a one-out single and then moved to second base via a wild pitch. She then moved to third when sophomore Lesley Ferrara (Stamford, Conn.) singled to left field. Pinch runner Nicole Wilson (Gaithersburg, Md.) then stole second base to put the go-ahead run in scoring position. Sulick then followed with a single up the middle. The ball got by the FIU centerfielder and two runs were able to score.
Busa then retired FIU in the bottom of the seventh to pick up her third win of the tournament. Kelley was named the tournament MVP. She batted .429 with a home run and four RBI this weekend. Arnold went five-plus innings allowing four hits and two walks. She fanned four batters. Busa worked 2.0 innings and gave up two hits.
Massachusetts will now enjoy a 10-day break before returning to action on March 24, 2004. The Minutewomen will travel across the Commonwealth to face Boston University for a single game. First pitch is set for 3:30 p.m. The home opener at the UMass Softball Complex will be the following day, March 25, against Vermont. It will be a doubleheader with first pitch in game one set for 2:00 p.m. UMass currently boasts the nation's longest home winning streak having won 58 straight games.
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Model-Skank Blogger Is Basically James Madison
The right to call someone a skank may go all the way to the Supreme Court.
The formerly anonymous blogger who devoted an entire website to smearing the easily enraged model Liskula Cohen has given her first interview, one that could only be described as quite ballsy. Among her claims:
that Cohen actually "defamed herself" by going to the press;
that her right to privacy was violated after Cohen made a whole big thing about a website that had only "probably two hits" at the time;
that she plans to sue Google for $15 million for failing to protect her identity, even though Google fought to keep her anonymous and disclosed her e-mail address to Cohen only after a court ordered the company to do so;
that, furthermore, she specifically expected "that a multi-billion dollar conglomerate would protect the rights of all its users." Ha!
But surely the ballsiest statement of all came from Port's lawyer, Salvatore Strazzullo.
His client, you see, is simply the latest in a long line of celebrated American patriots.
"I'm ready to take this all the way to the Supreme Court," Strazzullo said. "Our Founding Fathers wrote, 'The Federalist Papers' under pseudonyms. Inherent in the First Amendment is the right to speak anonymously. Shouldn't that right extend to the new public square of the Internet?"
Maybe! Of course, the major difference is that freedom of speech doesn't necessarily permit defamation. When James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote The Federalist Papers under the pseudonym "Publius," they were explaining the merits of the Constitution to a suspicious populace, not slandering Brutus as a "ho" and the winner of a made-up "Skankiest in NYC" competition.
Outed blogger Rosemary Port blames model Liskula Cohen for 'skank' stink [NYDN]


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It is thought the man, named locally as Tyrone Woodhead, was shot outside Everest takeaway, Doncaster Road, at about 8.40pm on Thursday.
Police were alerted after members of the public called an ambulance and armed officers remained outside the property on Friday morning.
A neighbour said he was a nice man who 'never had any run-ins.'
"I was gutted when I heard because he's a nice kid. I have lived here about 25 years and we have never had anything like this before," he said.
"He always waves when he sees you and we always have a natter in the street."
Detectives investigating the incident believe this was an isolated targeted attack.
Police are appealing for people who were in the Doncaster Road area between 8.15pm and 9pm last night, to call 101 quoting incident number 1146.
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REL 150D-B01, Christian Tradition, Double, Course Syllabus
LaSalle University, Spring 04
Class Meetings: MWF 11-11:50 a.m., Wister #308
Instructor: Sister Roseanne McDougall S.H.C.J., Ed. D.
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COURSE DESCRIPTION: A survey of the complex development of Christianity from a small, Jewish apocalyptic movement to a diverse, 21st century world religion.
As such it is an introduction to the varieties of Christianity—Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant—and is taught from an ecumenical perspective. As a multidisciplinary course, it shows how Christianity both shapes and is shaped by its ambient cultures.
Five core topics will be addressed: Jesus and the New Testament Traditions, Ancient Christology, Church History (the rise of "eastern" and "western" Christian tradition), the beginnings of the Reformation, and Worship (e.g., baptism, the Lord's Supper/Eucharist, liturgy). 3 credits. No pre-requisites.
This course is taught as a "double" with History 151, with an effort to probe the emerging interdisciplinary aspects.
COURSE FOCUS: Christians believe that Jesus lived, suffered, died and was raised to new life for their justification and salvation, so that they might attain eternal life.
Christians believe that Jesus was both human and Christ the Son of God.
Christians believe that Jesus Christ invites all people: to believe in His divinity and teaching, to love God and their neighbors, and to hope in Jesus' promises through their just actions towards those in need.
Christians celebrate Christmas and Easter as special liturgical feasts, which commemorate Jesus' becoming human, living, suffering, dying, and rising from the dead for their justification; some Christians respond to the Love contained in these mysteries with hope and with a love which expresses itself in action for justice.
Since the early days of the Church, Christians have nourished their faith through proclamation of the scriptures, reception of the sacraments, and belief in the presence of grace in their lives. The Church was both a local community of life and worship and a spreading missionary community zealous to proclaim the message of salvation. Those with authority in the Church have interacted with Church members in dynamics marked at times by creativity and at times by tension.
Ralph Keen, The Christian Tradition, 2004.
CALENDAR, MWF 11 a.m., all references are to the Keen text unless otherwise noted:
M 12 Course Overview
W 14 Jesus' Historical Reality, 24-30
F 16 Intertestamental Period, 21-24, 30-34
W 21 The Hebrew Bible, 35-39
F 23 Early Christian Writings, 39-44
M 26 Beginnings of Thinking about Christian Faith, 45-51
W 28 Origen, "On the Image of God" (handout)
F 30 Museum
M 02 Before Constantine: Persecution, 53-59; PAPER ONE IS DUE TODAY.
W 04 During, After Constantine: Acceptance, Establishment, 59-66
F 06 Religion Readings 1, then History Readings 1 at noon
M 09 The Eucharist, 72-75
W 11 Order: The Papacy, Leo I and Gregory I, 82-86
F 13 Teachings on Mary and on Virginity, 95-98; PAPER TWO IS DUE TODAY
M 16 Charisma: Monasticism, 102-115
W 18 John Cassian and Benedict, 106-107
F 20 Mid-term exam
M 23 Missionary Outreach, Keen 116-126
W 25 Boniface, 122-123
F 27 Religion Readings 2, then History Readings 2 at noon
M 08 Scholasticism, 142-143, 145b
W 10 Anselm, 143-145a
F 12 Guest Presenter; PAPER THREE IS DUE TODAY
M 15 Peter Lombard, 146-148
W 17 LaSalle University Charter Week Activity
F 19 Aristotle's Influence, 148-150
M 22 Thomas Aquinas, 150-153, 178-179
W 24 Grace and the Sacraments, 181-186
F 26 Religion Readings 3, then History Readings 3 at noon
M 29 Francis of Assisi, 165-173
T 30 12:30 All That I Am, Roberta Nobleman
W 31 Discuss: All That I Am
F 02 Dominic Guzman, 165-173; PAPER FOUR IS DUE TODAY
M 05 Popular Religious Movements, 173-175
W 07 Museum
W 14 Mysticism, 187-191
F 16 Hildegard of Bingen and Julian of Norwich, 191-194
M 19 Margery Kemp, 195-196
W 21 Religion Readings 4, then History Readings 4 at noon
F 23 Final exam preparation; PAPER FIVE IS DUE TODAY
All students are expected to take the final examination as scheduled by the registrar's office.
Session 1, February 6 Session 2, February 27
Group 1, Keen 27,28 Group 1, Keen 84
Group 2, Keen 30, 32 Group 2, Keen 96
Group 3, Keen 38, 40 Group 3, Keen 106
Group 4, Origen (handout) and Keen 56-57 Group 4, Keen 107
Group 5, Keen 58, 60-61 Group 5, Keen 122-123
Session 3, March 26 Session 4, April 21
Group 1, Keen 144 Group 1, Keen 168
Group 2, Lombard (handout) Group 2, Keen 174
Group 3, Aquinas (handout) Group 3, Keen 192
Group 4, Aquinas (handout) Group 4, Keen 194
Group 5, Aquinas (handout) Group 5, Keen 195-196
WRITING: There will be five graded two-page papers, each of which is due on one of the following dates: February 2 and 13, March 12, and April 2 and 23. Specific directions will be given in class. There will also be ungraded writing assignments which are to be completed as part of the course requirement.
INTERVIEW WITH THE PROFESSOR: Each student is expected to make and keep an appointment with the professor during the month of January. The aim of the appointment is to have an "introductory interview" in which you acquaint the professor with your goals, raise questions about the course, gain an insight into the professor's expectations, and ascertain how the professor can be of service to you both now and possibly in the future
Presence, preparedness for class 05 points
Spoken participation in class 05 points
Spontaneous quizzes, pass/fail 05 points
Two two-page papers 10 points
Interview with the professor 05 points
Mid-term exam 10 points
Joint work in the double 10 points
Presence, preparedness for class 05 points
Spoken participation in class 05 points
Spontaneous quizzes, pass/fail 05 points
Three two-page papers 15 points
Final exam 10 points
Joint work in the double 10 points
B- 80-81 F below 65
Numerical points are a guide to the final grade. Every single criterion is to be met satisfactorily. When reviewing each student's final accumulation of points the instructor will reflect upon the question: Does this person truly deserve the equivalent letter grade? For what reasons? As a result of this reflection, the instructor will then assign a final grade for the three academic credits achieved during the course of the semester.


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A "sexy, funny" spin-off from the Doctor Who television series, is to be made by BBC Wales and set in Cardiff reports The BBC.
The 13-part sci-fi drama will be called "Torchwood" - an anagram of Doctor Who. Russell T Davies will also write and co-produce the "paranoid thriller". The drama features investigators solving human and alien crime.
Torchwood, which is aimed at adults, stars John Barrowman as Captain Jack - the time-travelling bisexual con artist who was one of the main characters from the recent Doctor Who series.
Davies says the series would be sexy, funny and very different to Doctor Who. "Doctor Who has a completely different feel to this kind of thing. This is set in the same place every week. It's a different sort of fun to Doctor Who. It's an urban series, very much set on earth. It's a Welsh series that I'm very, very proud of"
Although Doctor Who inspired Torchwood, no stories will cross over between the two series. Filming is due to start early in 2006, with transmission for a post-watershed BBC Three audience in the autumn.
Some hefty spoilers for the second series of the new "Who" can be found in a recent article over at AICN.
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This week we continue a featured series of some of my favorite innovation-related quotes. Please contribute your favorite innovation quotes in the comments and I'll feature the best submissions in next week's Innovation Quotes of the Week!
"When all think alike, then no one is thinking."
- Walter Lippman
"Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said could not be done."
- Sam Ewing
"If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original."
- Sir Ken Robinson
"Great is the human who has not lost his childlike heart."
- Mencius (Meng-Tse), 4th century BC
"Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted."
- George Kneller
"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."
- George Lois
"It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. The incompetent never get in a position to destroy it. It is those who achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up."
- F.M. Young
"History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success."
- Scott Berkun
"It's not that it isn't happening; we see innovation all around us. But it strikes me that actual innovations are not as widely or evenly distributed as innovation initiatives are. It's not that companies don't want to innovate. It's that they don't have the stomach for it. As with everything in business, execution is everything. And execution is bloody hard."
- Steve McKee
"Challenge your team to assess the strength and clarity of ideas in the early stage pipeline and discard projects that don't resonate with the consumer, rather than carrying them along in the name of "we need to show more ideas in the pipeline". Advancing projects with weak consumer propositions increases your costs and takes the focus off of the projects that can make a difference to the outcome of the business."
- Donna Sturgess
"The real challenge, therefore, is to turn innovation from a buzzword into a systemic and widely distributed capability. It has to be woven into the everyday fabric of the company just like any other organizational capability, such as quality, or supply chain management, or customer service."
- Rowan Gibson
"The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament."
- Steve Jobs
"Some would argue that this winnowing process is more important than the romantic phase of innovation, but I would counter that the benefits of an intense focus on developing an idea can render the innovation strong enough to be able to withstand the inevitable future assaults from the corporate bureaucracy or the marketplace. The time will come for defensive and offensive preparations, but focusing on those aspects too soon can limit the development of an idea."
- Scott Bowden
"Before you start ideating, you need a set of really novel strategic insights. These are like the raw material out of which exciting innovation breakthroughs are built. If you ask people to innovate in a game-changing way without first building a foundation of novel strategic insights, you find that it's mostly a waste of time. You get a lot of ideas that are either not new at all, or so crazy that they're way out in space."
- Rowan Gibson
And here a few of the many thoughts that I added to the conversation during the week on Twitter and elsewhere:
- "Innovation is about change. Companies that successfully innovate in a repeatable fashion have one thing in common – they are good at managing change."
- "Instead of pursuing the current education mantra of more, better, faster, we need to instead rethink how we educate our children because we need to prepare them for a different world. A world in which flexibility, adaptibility, creativity, and problem solving will be prized ahead of the deep technical knowledge that is fast becoming a commodity and easily available."
- "Disruptive innovations often require employees do things in a new way, and that can be uncomfortable, even if it is only your employees imagining what you are going to ask them to help your customers imagine."
- "We sit at the nexus of amazing new education technology capabilities, the globalization of work, and an incredible transformation in the needs of employers. The path forward is not the same as the road behind, but our education system is proceeding as if it were."
- "I believe that we underestimate children's ability to understand the real world and I think that the education system and the business world need each other more than they realize. We need to re-imagine our public-private partnerships and expectations when it comes to education, and we need to start educating today's young kids for tomorrow's world."
What are some of your favorite innovation quotes?
Add one or more to the comments, listing the quote and who said it, and I'll share the best of the submissions as future Innovation Quotes of the Week!
And to all the innovation consultants out there, submit something clever you've said and maybe we'll run it next week.
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Braden Kelley is a popular innovation speaker, embeds innovation across the organization with innovation training, and builds B2B pull marketing strategies that drive increased revenue, visibility and inbound sales leads. He is the creator of the Nine Innovation Roles Group Diagnostic Tool and author of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire from John Wiley & Sons. He tweets from @innovate.


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Markus Henderson
Tech Impresses at Wes Kittley Invitational
No. 10 Red Raiders, No. 19 Lady Raiders compete at Wes Kittley Invitational Saturday
Texas Tech Open - Jan. 13-14, 2012
Photos from the Texas Tech Open Indoor Meet on Jan. 13-14, 2012
2010 OUTDOOR: Competed in the 100M, 200M, 4x100M and 4x400M relays ... injured before the Big 12 Championships and wasn't able to compete ... season bests of a wind-aided 10.27 in the 100M, a wind-aided 20.60 in the 200M, 39.73 in the 4x100M relay and 3:12.51 in the 4x400M ... his time of 20.60 in the 200M ranked him in the top 20 in the nation.
2010 INDOOR: All-Big 12 in the 60M ... qualified for the final of the 200M at the Big 12 Championships ... season bests of 6.38 in the 55M, 6.80 in the 60M, 21.29 in the 200M, 48.78 in the 400M and a member of the 4x400M relay that ran a 3:08.04 at the Texas A&M Challenge.
2009 OUTDOOR: Named All-Big 12 in the 200M with his time of 21.43 ... season best of 21.07 in the prelims of the Big 12 Championships ... ran a 10.56 in the 100M ... member of the 4x100M relay that ran a 40.24 at the Michael Johnson Classic.
2009 INDOOR: Member of the 4x400M relay that earned All-American honors after running a 3:08.90 ... season best of 21.46 in the 200M to win the Texas Tech Invitational ... ran season bests of 6.89 in the 60M and 6.35 in the 55M.
HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Lewisville High school ... played football, basketball, baseball and ran track ... finished third at the '07 state meet in the 200M ... won the Texas 5A State Championship in the 200M with a time of 20.80 which was the fastest time in the nation.
PERSONAL: Born September 13th to Markus and Schawanda Henderson ... has one sister Sharnlece ... majoring in exercise and sports science with a minor in business.


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English 113
Library and Information Literacy
English 113 (Expository Writing I) is flagged for "information literacy" within the general education curriculum. Given this distinction, it is integral to English 113 course goals and objectives that students become acquainted with the skills required to understand and effectively seek, identify, evaluate, and access, various forms of information existing within the rapidly changing and seemingly ubiquitous information environment. Each section spends several class sessions with a Research and Instruction Librarian who will teach students what it means to really "search", and challenge them to think critically about the information they encounter. From the curiosity of a Google search, to an advanced database query, students will learn how to map out and navigate the many stages of a dynamic research-writing process.
These sessions will thus work towards the development of information fluency, acknowledging the two key facets of students' information seeking behaviors, namely, the use of both in-house (library) tools as well as what is available online. The bridge between these two resource pools—the wider context of all searching—is the appreciation of research as an evolving, responsive process and the development of good search strategies.
Some of the more specific concepts and themes these sessions will address include:
- Defining and developing topics ("Presearch")
- Identifying appropriate information resources for research purposes
- Implementing search terms/strategy
- Accessing different types of information
- Analyzing and evaluating results critically
- Expanding and refining Internet research
- Incorporating and citing sources
It is certain that the development of such skills requires the students' full career as undergraduates, but library sessions for English 113 classes should have the space necessary for beginning to develop them. Ideally these sessions will be timed to coincide with a research paper, preferably one that allows students the flexibility to truly explore a topic or question by interacting with, and incorporating, a variety of sources into their work. Since writing assignments naturally vary between sections of English 113, professors are encouraged to collaborate with "their librarian" to determine how these information literacy objectives can best be met in conjunction with their unique approaches to the course.
Defining and developing topics ("Presearch")
- Where do I begin?
- Is my topic too broad? Too narrow?
- What are the main concepts and pertinent vocabulary terms related to my topic?
Identifying appropriate information resources for research purposes
- When and why do I use:
- Reference sources?
- Books and eBooks?
- Journal articles?
- Statistics?
- Primary and secondary sources?
- How do I go about finding them?
Implementing search terms/strategy
- What is the difference between keywords and subjects?
- What are "fields"?
- How should I be combining terms (i.e. Boolean Operators: AND, OR, NOT)?
- How are these different?
- When should I use quotation marks? Truncators?
- When I get no results for a search, how should I change it?
- How do my search strategies vary from database to database?
- Do any of these tactics apply to Internet searches?
Accessing different types of text in/via the library
- How do I locate books in the library once I have identified some titles?
- How do I access library eBooks? Are print books better?
- How do I get from database search results (i.e. title, abstract, etc.) to full-text articles?
- What if our library does not own a particular book or article?
Analyzing and evaluating results critically
- How do I know what type of source I'm looking at?
- What gives an author credibility to be writing on my subject?
- How well does this source actually address my topic/question?
- What are the sources of information used by the author(s) of this source?
Expanding and refining Internet research
- Is it possible to find reliable, academic resources online without using library search tools?
- How can I identify authorship/authority of freely available online information?
- Are Google "autocomplete" search term/phrase suggestions my best bet for getting the most relevant information?
- What is the difference between .com, .org, .edu, and .gov websites?
- Is everything I find online considered a "website"?
- Is there a place for Wikipedia in college research?
Incorporating and citing Sources
- Why does it matter for me to cite my sources?
- What tools will help me do this properly?


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[PHOTOS]: Africa needs over $3 trillion to mitigate climate change
African countries need at least $2.7 trillion for mitigation measures and another $488 billion for adaptation to climatic change to be met in 2030, according to the estimates from Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) for adaptation...
[PHOTOS]: MPs host dialogue on human trafficking
Legislators have called on the Government to scale up campaigns at the grassroots level to educate young people about the dangers of human trafficking and protect them from modern-day slavery such as prostitution, drug dealing, and...
Rwanda issues indictments for two Genocide suspects in New Zealand
The Government has issued indictments for two of the three known Genocide fugitives in New Zealand, the National Public Prosecution Authority (NPPA) has said.
KFM closure 'a wake-up call for media practitioners'
The closure of one of Rwanda's most popular urban radio station, KFM, by its parent company Nation Media Group is likely to send media owners and managers back to the strategy room to mull market penetration...
[VIDEO & PHOTOS]: Over 400 students start civic education
More than 400 students from the Diaspora and Senior Six leavers who excelled in last year's national examinations are today scheduled to start a civic education programme.
Tigo Rwanda cuts data roaming fees for Northern Corridor countries
Tigo Rwanda on Friday announced an 80 percent reduction for data roaming fees for its customers travelling to Uganda and Kenya. Tigo subscribers and visitors roaming on the Tigo network will now browse at Rwf90/megabyte down from Rwf440 in a new tariff that takes effect on July 1 2016.
Tigo Rwanda cuts data roaming fees for Northern Corridor countries
Tigo Rwanda on Friday announced an 80 percent reduction for data roaming fees for its customers travelling to Uganda and Kenya. Tigo subscribers and visitors roaming on the Tigo network will now browse at Rwf90/megabyte down from Rwf440 in a new tariff that takes effect on July 1 2016.
Why Rwanda's satellite cities should promote green policies
Policies that support innovative green growth are essential as Rwanda develops secondary cities across the country. According to Japanese experts, embracing smart technologies and renewable energy will help Rwanda attract more investors into the country and realise its goal of becoming a green economy.
APR FC's Khanfir eyes league and cup double
After seeing his side come away from Rusizi with a goalless draw against hosts Espoir in the first leg of the Peace Cup semi-finals, APR FC head coach Nizar Khanfir has rallied his troops to do all they can and win the second leg Friday as APR bid to win...
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Two young Rwandan filmmakers are set to travel to Germany to attend an international filmmakers' class at the Baden-Wurttemberg Film Academy.
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Every year, Rwanda National Police (RNP) holds 'Police Week' which involves week-long activities under the auspice of community policing in the build up to the Police Day anniversary, June 16 – to showcase the importance of partnerships in crime prevention, detection and enhance mechanisms for collaboration in service delivery and accountability.
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It is common to meet university students pursuing courses just because their parents dictated so or for the sake of acquiring a degree or diploma qualification.
The new competence-based curriculum a richer approach
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Three men and one woman have been arrested on suspicion of drug dealing in connection with the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, who was found dead in his New York City apartment on Sunday, according to The Huffington Post, Feb. 5, 2014. Police reportedly recovered narcotics from the suspects' apartment building while carrying out a search warrant in lower Manhattan. In total, three apartments within the building were searched, and 350 bags of heroin were confiscated by authorities.
Police allegedly were tipped off by a junkie who was a customer of the same drug dealers that the suspects were selling drugs from the building on the 300 block of Mott Street. The names of the suspects are yet to be released.
When Hoffman's body was found his apartment, his arm had a needle in it. There also were several small plastic bags on the floor, some filled with heroin and some empty. Hoffman reportedly had bought over $1,000 in drugs from the suspects on the evening prior to his death.
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Today May 12, 2014 Wizards of the Coast announced in an article by Trick Jarrett on DailyMTG.com that they're introducing a new "special" rarity to Magic: The Gathering cards in Vintage Masters. Of course, the cards in question aren't ordinary: They're the Power Nine.
According to Jarrett: "The Power Nine are so powerful and so format warping in Limited that we had to put them in their own rarity above mythic rare, a rarity we're calling Special."
Check out our related video about the Power Nine by clicking the play button.
Your odds of opening a Power Nine card such as Ancestral Recall or Time Walk are one out of 53 booster packs. That's 17.6 booster draft's you'll have to play in, spending over $212 on packs (if they're $4 each) just to open one piece of power. In all, players will need to open 477 booster packs and spend $1,908 (or more as the msrp of the packs haven't been officially revealed) just to open one set of the Power Nine.
Unless you're just that good in limited or happen to have an enormous amount of disposable income, acquiring multiple pieces, never mind an entire set of Power Nine on Magic Online will be a very intimidating task.
Granted there's other notable cards in the set worth having such as the dual lands, however this new special rarity will keep the Power Nine from getting into the hands of every Magic Online player. While we feel it's great that Wizards of the Coast has taken steps to keep the majestic feel of these very iconic cards, the scarcity will force the cards to debut at high values. This will create a high barrier of entry to those looking to play Vintage on Magic Online.
As a personal owner of the Power Nine, this author feels that everyone should have the chance to play with them online. We don't get to use the physical cards that often, because there simply aren't that many official Vintage tournaments. They've become more of a collector's item than an actual game piece as they were intended.
With Magic Online, Vintage could be a thriving format. If enough copies enter the card pool. The one positive side is that there's nothing preventing Wizards of the Coast from reprinting Vintage Masters again in the future, as it's a digital set and not bound to the same constraints as the physical game.
Hypothetically, Wizards of the Coast could also give away promotional versions of the Power Nine. Say, old school original art and border - both normal and/or foil - as a reward to winners of special events, spending over a certain threshold in the store, or whatever other means they deem appropriate.
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This handbook has been put together by the Asian Urban Disaster Mitigation Program (AUDMP) of ADPC Bangkok with the purpose of educating people on the affordable alternatives to construction available using bamboo in countries such as Bangladesh where annual flooding has become a part of life and is expected to be a greater problem going forward due to the impact of climate change.
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Aside from some minor disparities, Rian Johnson's story is kind of like Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. He's barely into his 30s, there's no fishing involved, and his ending is a happy one, but he has spent nearly all of the last decade trying to wrestle one particular script onto the screen. That script is Brick, which he penned right after graduating from the USC School of Cinema-Television in 1997 and which, thanks to his inordinate doggedness, hits theaters today.
The movie is his debut as both scripter and helmer. Its story is an inimitable hybrid of detective fiction and high school drama, two genres Johnson sees as surprisingly well matched. He finally made the film on his own with money borrowed from friends and family, and with a crew and cast, including actors Richard Roundtree, Lukas Haas, and Emilie De Ravin from ABC's Lost, who were won over by the script. He finally got the big fish into the boat whole when Focus Features purchased it at last year's Sundance Film Festival. Johnson spoke with the Writers Guild of America, west Web site about why he fought so hard for Brick, why he had to lose the noir to do a detective story, and how high school really isn't that far from Hammett.
How did you arrive at this strange hybrid of teen movie and detective story?
It started with the detective aspect of it, with the novels of Dashiell Hammett. I went through a phase in film school where I fell in love with his books and just immersed myself in the world that he created with the few novels that he wrote. I came out of it really wanting to do a new American detective movie. Once I made that decision, in a way film noir became a problem because everyone is so familiar with it at this point, it's been done so well and so often. How do you do a period noir, with guys in hats and shadowy alleyways and not feel a dim echo of older, better films?
So you realized you had to take the detective story out of the noir environment?
Yeah, that was the initial thing, just giving it a different set of visual cues. Once I started working with it, it was fun to see how the world of detective fiction slipped, eerily and neatly, over the world of high school. For me it was a very odd way of revisiting what high school felt like.
Incredibly smoothly. If you think about it, it kind of makes sense because the world of Hammett is kind of shadowy and set off from the rest of society, like its own microcosm, and so is high school. It's very much split by social order and where you fit in.
As a guy out of nowhere with this oddball idea, how did you accomplish this film?
Very slowly. Coming out of school, I didn't know anyone. I didn't have any hook-ups. It was a very slow process getting it around to anyone who would read it. Over time, we just very slowly - like a rock rolling down a hill accumulating, you know, whatever a rock rolling down a hill accumulates.
Momentum, I think.
I shouldn't have used that metaphor. But we accumulated people who dug the script and wanted to help make it. We got a casting director, and then we found a producer, and then I got an agent. It was all from people just reading the script and passing it to other people.
At the end of the day though, getting funding through traditional means proved virtually impossible with this script. We ended up figuring out the lowest amount we could shoot it for on 35mm and then passing the hat to friends and family. That's how we scraped together our tiny budget. Then we took it to Sundance, and that's where Focus picked it up.
You must have had an enormously strong feeling about this script to stick to it that long and take that amount of risk.
Yeah, I did. It's fun for me to go back and look at the original script and see how little most of it changed from the page to the screen. Part of the reason I was so driven to stick with this story is because I saw it so clearly in my head. In a lot of ways, the fact that it was so hard to communicate to people what was going to be cool about this movie just made me want to make it even more. I wanted to make it and show it to them.
Having been through this and seen it to fruition, did that thing you saw so clearly in your head wind up happening?
Yes and no. To a degree yes [because] the film was so meticulously preconceived visually, mostly for practical reasons because we were shooting so fast. But for me, why I make films instead of writing novels is that the exciting parts are the ones that changed from what was in my head, the things the actors brought that I never would have thought of, or the cinematographer or production designer, all the artists that worked on it. I saw the movie in my head, [but] it was more exciting to see the one that came about from this weird alchemy of throwing a bunch of talented people together.


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