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What is Intercessory Worship?
Intercessory Worship is the blending of prayer and worship for the purpose of advancing God's will for individuals, or a region. There are many biblical examples of IW. One of the most striking is in the time of King David(1Chronicles 13-16). When King David was inaugurated as King in place of Saul one of the first actions he took was to bring the Ark of the Covenant, which used to reside in the Tabernacle of Moses, to Jerusalem and he placed it in a tent on Mt. Zion. This was called the Tabernacle(or tent) of David. King David then appointed musicians, singers, levites, and priests to minister before the Ark 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. The singers were engaging in Intercessory Worship around the clock. This practice enabled King David to conquer many enemy armies because David understood the role and purpose of continual intercession and worship, and the effect it would have upon a people, a nation, and his rule.
Another biblical example of the integration of prayer and worship in the scriptures is simply found within the themes of the Book of Psalms. The Psalms were the Hymnals of their time. They contained the musical lyrics which the Israelites sang during their worship times before the Lord. You will often notice that their themes migrated from praise to prayer, to adoration, to the renouncing of their enemies, to repentance, and to various other themes all weaved together within the same psalm. (see Psalm 149 for example)
And even in the New Testament we find examples of this integration of intercession and worship. Within the well known topical prayer that Jesus taught the disciples Jesus says, "Our Father Who art in heaven, hallowed be Your name(PRAISE), Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on the earth as it is in heaven(Prayer).
Another New Testament example is found in the book of Revelation 5:8 "And when He(Jesus) had taken it(The Scroll), the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls of incense, which are the prayers of the saints." Here you see in heavenly adoration the blending again of worship, represented in the "harps", and prayer, represented in the bowls of incense.
Today there is a global prayer movement which is restoring Intercessory Worship in the church for the purpose of worldwide revival.
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What You Can Expect to See When You Visit One of Our IW Sessions.
Intercessory Worship is the seamless integration of prayer with worship. Therefore our style or format reflects this integration. The musicians on the platform create a continuum of music, or worship. The congregation contributes by either worshipping along with us, or more importantly, by adding the intercession that lays over the top of the music. This is different than what most people are familiar with. Most people have experienced more of a segregated or compartmentalized approach to their worship services where the worship is separate from the prayer, which is separate from the sermon, which is separate from the offering, etc. IW is different in that it seamlessly integrates the prayer with the worship. The two work together overlapping one another, or alternating back and forth from one to the other.
You will notice a microphone at the front of the room just in front of the platform. That is for the intercessors to use when they are contributing their prayers. You will also notice that often the musicians on the platform will "echo" a spoken prayer and begin singing scriptural prayers, or spontaneously constructing a musical chorus that they will repeat over and over. The intercessor will then respond back antiphonally, and there will be an exchange that takes place between the worship and the intercession. This is what I meant by a seamless integration, or a continuum.
The microphone at the front of the room is not meant for people to give personal testimonies, or for "mini-sermons". It is not meant to be used by someone to speak to the congregation, but rather the focus of IW is almost exclusively directed upward toward God.
Again modeling from the multi-thematic examples of the Psalms, our expressions will include prayer, proclamation, and prophecy. By proclamation I mean that God will lead us to "proclaim" a theme that is on His heart, thereby we are actually using the power of our spoken or sung declarations to create a God ordained circumstance or event. By prophecy I mean that God will use us as His mouthpieces to communicate His heart or will for any number of issues. We are simply messengers used by God for this purpose. In 1st Corinthians 14:3 it says that prophecy is for the strengthening and comforting of the church. So within IW, God can and does speak to and through us for the benefit of all.
IW also often involves conducting spiritual warfare. The bible is replete with examples of how God uses worship as a weapon to defeat spiritual enemies, i.e. Satan and his demons.(2Chronicles20 1Samuel16:14-23)
IW also often includes singing and speaking in our heavenly language, or in tongues. This expression is also mentioned in 1Corinthians13-14. It is a biblical and natural expression that the Holy Spirit leads us into as a way to more purely communicate our worship, and as a way to be strengthened in our inner man(Jude:20)
The Anatomy of an Intercessory Worship Session
The purpose of this play by play recall of an IW session is to provide a novice this commentary to hopefully provide better understanding of the workings of the Spirit within corporate prayer.
We are all assembled once again. Some small talk is going on. Some have come prepared to dive right in, some are excited and are talking about a cool prayer meeting they were at the night before, some are simply tired because after all it is 7:00am on a Sunday morning. Some may be wondering, is God going show up again this morning, although with our group that would be highly unlikely because our intercessors are truly expectant people. Some may have had a bad week and are wondering if they are even worthy to come into God's presence. I can only imagine the myriad of mental gymnastics going on at the start of any given prayer meeting. I go through them myself. I'm feeling pretty good today. Yesterday was a Saturday and my family was all gone visiting relatives in northern Wisconsin. I was home alone and was able to pray a lot in the house throughout the day and felt a strong presence of the Lord most of the day. When that happens, I just know something very special will happen at IW tomorrow.
I always seek the Lord for which songs I am to plan to sing. I do this because I have a simple theology that believes that the Spirit anoints the songs that God is singing and not the songs I may want to sing. Assuming I heard from the Lord accurately, there will almost always be an accompanying anointing on the music very quickly.
So I begin to sing and focus on the Lord. As I recite the lyrics, I begin to sense the Lord's presence moving. An image may come to my mind off of a particular lyric or a phrase within the lyric. The worship begins to become a communication vehicle between the Lord and me. I begin to get a sense that He is drawing near, and that He is speaking. There is a process that has begun and it usually begins at a specific point in response to our sung prayers. The Spirit "rides" in on our words and our hearts' desires, and He ushers us into an intimate place with Himself, where now His presence is tangible. It reminds me of the descriptions of God's glory from the OT times, particularly for example at the dedication of Solomon's temple, where the glory of God was so prevalent that the priests could do nothing but fall to the floor and simply bask in God's glory.
I begin to get swept away in revelation as I sense, discern, and follow the Spirit's voice. It's as though He has taken control (and He has) of the worship now, and we are just followers along for the ride, accomplishing His will for this session. I think of Psalm 37 where it says, "Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart". We began the meeting delighting in God through our worship, and suddenly He breaks in and gives us His heart, and our hearts are intertwined with His now through revelation and His Spirit, and we have become conduits of His presence to bring about His purposes today. I live for this. There is no better place to be.
So now I'm airborne, and it's amazing. Suddenly my guitar is easier to play, I'm not forgetting any of the lyrics. I've entered into another level of creativity. Most importantly, the anointing is so strong that I feel that whatever comes to my mind is the Lord's thoughts, and as I simply express those thoughts, there is an immediate and powerful effect. It's as though we are climbing a ladder and progressing further and further upward toward His throne room. All sorts of "unplanned" things begin to happen. This I believe is the most powerful place in worship and prayer that anyone can come to.
So we are about 10 minutes into this morning's session and I sense that a "theme of repentance" is on the Lord's heart. So I start leading out a spontaneous song of personal and corporate repentance, inviting everyone to personalize this, and sing out on their own behalf. Humility is a powerful entrance point into His glory and presence. God responds to our brokenness big time. Again, His glory is swelling all around us.
Something happened this morning that I will never forget. An occasional visitor from our congregation was with us this morning. Well as I was singing a prophetic spontaneous song that was very honest about the depths of our sin , I looked over at him, and to my amazement, he is smiling at me and he gestures with his fist and his thumb sticking up in the air, as if to say, "Sing it Bro! That blessed my socks off. It moved me into yet another level of devotion in what we were all doing and sensing. Just then a sister chimes in and prays an anointed prayer of repentance. Here we go again, climbing the ladder to another level. The Lord has created music and intercession to be mingled together. So I follow up with another spontaneous lyric that echoes her prayer, and the session continues to progress toward deeper and deeper levels of His presence. I believe many worship leaders do not have a sensitivity to discern and follow the Holy Spirit in worship, and that is why the worship is dry and void of His presence.
Anyway, so we continue further on. Now that we are engaged, and following the Lord, the Spirit who gives gifts liberally and corporately, begins to move on the intercessors, and they begin adding their Spirit directed prayers to the music, and I continue to respond musically and undergird those prayers. I then receive a spontaneous chorus from the Lord out of Isaiah 61, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon you and me", and I start singing that over and over. People don't realize the power of worship in shaping a life, or in shaping our spirits. God's power to change us within is often present as a result of His glory and presence in this kind of setting. In other words, you are in character to a large degree, what you have allowed the Lord to "work" in you through either your personal prayer times or corporate prayer times.
I understand this dynamic of the Spirit. In Psalm 32 it says, "Seek the Lord, while He may be found". There is a reason for His presence at any given point and it is paramount that we discern His purpose for His presence in order to go deeper with the Lord and experience the fullness of what He wants to do. So I begin to lead out this spontaneous chorus from Isaiah, and I sense the Lord wants us to "prophesy "and "pray and sing" this chorus over one another (Ephesians 5:19) for the purpose of downloading into our spirits the reality of this verse. So now we have engaged into an environment of edification and equipping like no other. We are creating or engineering, because of and through His presence, the very character of God's divine nature into one another's soul and spirit. This dynamic is without substitute my friends in terms of becoming who God wants us to become, and performing what God wants to perform through our lives. This to me is what it means, to "live, and move, and have our being" in HIM.
So we are now singing this over one another over and over, and I began laying over the top of this chorus another set of spontaneous lyrics that enhance and augment what God is speaking and forming in us. So we have kind of a "singing in the round" kind of thing going on. Again, we are prophesying, so there is power being released into our spirits, and we can tangibly feel this is in the room and in our whole being. This is another reason God has joined together Worship with Prayer. The prayer becomes a lot more anointed, and is anything but "boring". We are getting so full of God, that we are feeling His unspeakable joy, His unlimited strength, and there is a confidence from the Lord that we experience that echoes what David said in Psalm 18:29, " With my God I can scale a wall".
So you can see the progression here where I start out with a plan that I sought from the Lord. He breaks in at some point and takes over leading us into a deeper theme of personal and corporate repentance. He then begins to prophesy over us and through us for our strengthening and equipping. We are full of His presence and have a renewed confidence to "seize the day"! And that's just the first half hour folks.
When this stuff happens in each and every session, to then move ahead and to begin to intercede for sicknesses, salvations, citywide, countywide, and national transformations, becomes an easy transition to make because we are in this place of true power and anointing. Suddenly it becomes practical and simply natural, to pray for the impossible and to pray for God's kingdom to come and His will to be done upon the earth as it is heaven. After all, we're in heaven, in a figurative sense, because of His manifest presence, and therefore we take on the agenda of heaven, which is what we were born again to do.
I won't describe what happened for the rest of the session, but we did progress into more intercession for our target region for that day, which was Nashotah, Wisconsin.
My intent here again was to detail and document the anatomy of an IW session for the benefit of those of you who may never have seen or experienced this before.


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Date: July 03 2013
London: A mainstream British TV channel says it will broadcast the Muslim call to prayer throughout the fasting month of Ramadan.
From July 9, Channel 4 will cut into its schedule to show the three-minute call to prayer, or adhan, live.
The channel's decision comes as Britain is experiencing community tensions in the wake of the brutal murder of a British soldier. Two Muslim converts have been charged with the murder.
The number of attacks on Muslims rose sharply after the killing in May and several mosques have been targeted.
As well as on television, Channel 4 viewers will be able to watch the call to prayer on the station's website, where it will play automatically at prayer times throughout the day.
A series of Ramadan-themed programmes will also be shown, starting on July 8.
Ralph Lee, head of factual programming at Channel 4, said: "The calls to prayer prompt Muslims to carry out quiet moments of worship, but hopefully they'll also make other viewers sit up and notice that this event is taking place."
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Religious Notes
Published: Friday, May 24, 2013 at 4:56 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, May 24, 2013 at 4:56 p.m.
The Religious Notes column is published every Saturday to highlight special religious services (fundraisers go in the Calendar). E-mail information to firstname.lastname@example.com, bring in printed information to 30 E. First Ave. or mail it to The Dispatch, P.O. Box 908, Lexington, 27293. Notes must be submitted by noon Wednesday to run the following Saturday. Notes will run no more than two times prior to the event.
Blessing of God Ministry
The church, 412 Westside Drive, will host Apostle Flora Morris and congregation of Restoration Temple of Deliverance in High Point at 3 p.m. Sunday. For more information, contact Superintendent Elaine Hardy 852-8783.
Ezekiel A.M.E. Zion
The missionary department will sponsor a 7up program at 3 p.m. June 2. Speakers will be Shelma Leverette, Friendship Baptist; Angie McDuffie, St. Peter's World Outreach Center, Winston-Salem; Wilma Fuller, Files Chapel Baptist; Minister Yvonne Johnson, Zion Tabernacle FBH, Thomasville; and Georgia Littlejohn, Tina Scott and Liz Hargrave, Life in the Word Fellowship.
Grace Missionary Baptist
The church, Giles Road, Tyro, will have an old-fashioned camp meeting Sunday through May 31. Sunday service will be at 11 a.m., and lunch will be served; all nights will be at 7.
Lexington Deliverance Tabernacle
The church, 912 Dixie St., will celebrate the 42nd anniversary of the church at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Sunday. Guest speaker will be Elder Jasper Verdell and the Rev. Bernard Adams.
The church's annual Women's Gathering will be at 10 a.m. June 1 and 11 a.m. June 2. Minister Kim Hargrave of Gospel Tabernacle UHC of Burlington will be the guest speaker June 1, and Minister Diane Jefferies will be the guest speaker June 2.
New Life Worship Center
The church, 171 Garden Drive, will honor Pastor Dennis M. Clodfelter with a pre-anniversary musical at 5 p.m. June 1. Performing will be The Gospel Deliverers, On the Wings of a Dove Choir, Ervin Watts and The New Life Mass Choir.
New Zion Baptist
The church will have its annual Women's Day with speaker Minister Alicia Morris Bailey at 11 a.m. Sunday and Minister Barbara Hester of Winston-Salem at the 3 p.m. program.
Rolling Heights Faith Baptist
The church, 228 Pineland Ave., will celebrate homecoming June 2. Special services will be at 10 a.m., followed with a covered-dish meal. Revival will begin at 6:30 p.m. June 2 and at 7:30 weeknights June 3-5. Special guest speaker for all the services will be Evangelist Richard Harper. For more information, contact Pastor Wayne Sechrest at 956-2468 or 249-2737.
Shady Side Presbyterian
The church, 217 E. Center St., will celebrate Women's Day at 3 p.m. Sunday. The guest speaker will be Dr. Arnetta E. Beverly, pastor of St. Matthews United Methodist Church, Greensboro. She is a native of Lexington and a graduate of Davidson County Community College and Duke Divinity School. She was the first African-American elected to the Lexington City Council.
St. Stephen UMC
Woman's Day will be celebrated at the church at 11 a.m. Sunday. The guest speaker will be the Rev. Mae Ruth Edwards. This event is sponsored by the United Methodist Women.
Union Chapel AME Zion
The Usher Board at the church, 4329 Sowers Road, Linwood, will observe its anniversary at 3 p.m. Sunday. The guest minister will be the Rev. Rudolph Cornelius, pastor of Zion Wesley AME Zion Church, Troutman.
The men at the church will observe the annual Men's Day June 2. The guest minister will be the Rev. James Moore.
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The California Air Resources Board (ARB) yesterday announced that it has fined a manufacturer of hand-held consumer products for violating California air pollution control laws. Husqvarna Professional Products agreed to pay $1,038,000 for selling uncertified, small off-road engines in the state.
Bakersfield and San Joaquin Valley property owners may not realize it, but when they (or their gardeners) use non-electric power tools to prune their trees, trim their bushes, and clean up those trimmings during gardening chores, the air pollution from those tools is a significant contributor to smog in the Valley. Because of those emissions, the manufacturers of such equipment must comply with stringent regulations that apply to off-road engines.
The San Joaquin Valley has some of the nation's worst ambient air quality. The region currently fails to meet several state and federal clean air standards.
ARB investigators found that Husqvarna failed to obtain certification for engines used in 2011 to 2013 model year products such as line trimmers, chainsaws, and leaf blowers. The violations applied to nine different engine families.
In announcing the settlement, ARB enforcement Chief James Ryden noted that "Husqvarna promptly conducted an internal investigation and fully cooperated in the resolution of this matter," but added that "violations of the basic elements of California's anti-pollution requirements, especially certification of engines prior to sale in our state, have serious consequences."
Husqvarna has implemented new internal procedures to help ensure that all future engines meet certification requirements before being sold in California.
Suggested Links
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- ARB releases free carbon footprint app for i-Phone and Android smartphones
- California's high-speed rail project derailed by Sacramento judge
- EPA making $2 million available for construction engine retrofits
- EPA awards $174 million for CA drinking water systems, water pollution control


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It's time to chill out a bit. Between now and New Years is the closest we come to a non-political season in Virginia.
Just mere days away from that annual festival of family and friends crashing your kitchen known as Thanksgiving. You do have that big hunk of poultry thawing in your refrigerator, right? If not it's probably time to start.
I'm sure you've already decided how you want to cook that bird, so I won't add to the confusion here. If not, check YouTube and search for Alton Brown. He has several methods there, one of which I'm sure you will like.
What I will do here is share a recipe that I gave to Clyde some time back. He liked it so much it's now on his menu. Just don't tell anyone what the brown cheesy crust is.
Serves 12 and halves or doubles easily.
1. Preheat oven to 350. Butter two 1 1/2 quart baking dishes, and add cooked macaroni.
2. In a blender or food processor combine egg, milk, and garlic, and process 3 seconds. Add onion, cheeses, peppers, salt, and paprika, and blend 10 seconds. Turn into dish, folding into macaroni. Casserole could be covered with plastic wrap and refrigerated up to 24 hours at this point.
3. To bake, bring casserole close to room temperature. Melt butter in a small saucepan. Coat cheerios with butter and grated cheese mixture and spread over top of casserole. Bake about 20 to 25 minutes, or until thick yet creamy. If top is not golden, slip under broiler for a minute. Remove from oven, let stand a few minutes, and serve.
Yep. You read that right. That's over two pounds of cheese. 'Course that's for at least twelve people. I like to substitute some grated pepper jack for some of that, but that's just me.


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The Red Bluff Police Department has been awarded a $131,817.96 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety for a year-long program aimed at preventing deaths and injuries on our roadways.
The Red Bluff Police Department is going to use the funding as part of an on-going commitment to keep our roadways safe through both enforcement and education.
Captain Kyle Sanders said that due to this grant, for the first time in recent history, the Red Bluff Police Department will have two dedicated traffic officers.
Sanders also said they will have a zero tolerance approach to distracted driving violations. These violations would include talking on a cellular device and texting while driving.
Activities that the grant will fund include: specialized DUI and drugged driving training, seat belt and child safety seat enforcement, compilation of DUI "Hot Sheets" identifying worst-of-worst DUI offenders, and many others.


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A mammogram is an x-ray picture of the breasts. It is used to find breast tumors and cancer.
Mammogram; Breast tomosynthesis
You will be asked to undress from the waist up. You will be given a gown to wear. Depending on the type of equipment used, you will sit or stand.
One breast at a time is rested on a flat surface that contains the x-ray plate. A device called a compressor will be pressed firmly against the breast. This helps flatten the breast tissue.
The x-ray pictures are taken from several angles. You may be asked to hold your breath as each picture is taken.
You may be asked to come back at a later date for more mammogram images. This does not always mean you have breast cancer. The doctor may simply need to recheck an area that could not be clearly seen on the first test.
Traditional mammography uses film, similar to routine x-rays.
Digital mammography is a newer technique:
Three-dimensional (3D) mammography is a type of digital mammography. Researchers do not yet know whether 3D mammography is more or less accurate than standard mammogram.
DO NOT use deodorant, perfume, powders, or ointments under your arms or on your breasts on the day of the mammogram. These substances may hide the images. Remove all jewelry from your neck and chest area.
Tell your doctor and the x-ray technologist if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
The compressor surfaces may feel cold. When the breast is pressed down, you may have some pain. This needs to be done to get good quality images.
Mammography is performed to screen women to detect early breast cancer when it is more likely to be cured. Mammography is recommended for:
Mammography is also used to:
Discuss with your health care provider how often you should have screening mammograms.
Breast tissue that shows no signs of a mass or calcifications is considered normal.
Most abnormal findings on a screening mammogram turn out to be benign (not cancer) or nothing to worry about. New findings or changes must be further evaluated.
A radiology doctor (radiologist) may see the following types of findings on a mammogram:
At times, the following tests are also needed to further examine mammogram findings:
Comparing your current mammogram to your past mammograms helps the radiologist tell whether you had an abnormal finding in the past and whether it has changed.
When mammogram or ultrasound results look suspicious, a biopsy is done to test the tissue and see if it is cancerous. Types of biopsies include:
The level of radiation is low and any risk from mammography is very low. If you are pregnant and need to have an abnormality checked, your belly area will be covered and protected by a lead apron.
Routine screening mammography is not done during pregnancy or while breastfeeding.
American Cancer Society. American Cancer Society Recommendations for Early Breast Cancer Detection in Women Without Breast Symptoms. Last revised October 24, 2013. Available at: www.cancer.org/cancer/breastcancer/moreinformation/breastcancerearlydetection/breast-cancer-early-detection-acs-recs. Accessed January 29, 2015.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). ACOG practice bulletin no.122. Breast cancer screening. Obstet Gynecol. 2011;118:372-82. PMID 21778569 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21775869.
Katz VL, Dotters, D. Breast diseases: diagnosis and treatment of benign and malignant disease. In: Lentz GM, Lobo RA, Gershenson DM, Katz VL, eds. Comprehensive Gynecology. 6th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Mosby; 2012:chap 15.
National Cancer Institute: PDQ Breast Cancer Screening. Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute. Date last modified 10/30/2013. Available at: www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/screening/breast/healthprofessional. Accessed December 5, 2014.
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Screening for Breast Cancer. July 2010. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Available at: www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/uspsbrca.htm. Accessed January 29, 2015.
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Friday, June 09, 2006
Costco and Local Celebrity Shoppers
My wife and I are not Costco members, but we get most of the benefits when we ask co-worker friends to take us shopping there during lunch. I mean, seriously, the diapers are much cheaper than anywhere else on the planet. As it's fun to look at the random stuff that you never thought you needed (like an "18-foot high inflatable waterslide" or "10,000 candlelight spotlight" that operates from a car's cigarette lighter) but would never really buy.
Our local Costco, near work, is in Burbank and going for lunch is always crowded. Not only are all the senior citizens there hanging out at all the free samples stations, but also you get everybody on their 2-hour lunch rushing in and rushing out.
Today we saw a local morning news celebrity, Michaela Pereira, at the checkout line and my wife and I couldn't help to see what she was buying -why not? Which happened to be a cart full of alcohol. From the looks of it, you would think she was partying later tonight with Liz Taylor and David Hasselhoff (wow, wouldn't that be a party!). In her defense and being the morning news watchers that we are, she was planning a friend's 40th birthday over the weekend. But given the looks of other people, seniors and industry-types, they all had the look of "wow-that chick must have problems!".
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Event : Craft Industry
Pottery Festival in Bouffioulx
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- from Friday 1 July 2016 to Sunday 3 July 2016
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Take part in many new, quality activities, that are on agenda this year, with a fabulous fireworks display for the 44th anniversary! In Bouffioulx, 04 to 06/07/14!
Flea market, craft market, traditional procession, concerts... and sport with the new edition of this annual run organised by the Bouffiols.
2 markets are scheduled: a market for crafts and produce with local food stalls and a market displaying Irish products.
There will be guided tours of Sebastopol nature reserve and a large funfair will be in full swing over the 3 days.
Learn about different art forms with Festiv'Arterre, which aims to raise awareness of different art forms. There's a high-quality, varied, contemporary programme centred on the diversity of the disciplines.
Don't miss this free major event which opens the summer season!
A free permanent shuttle bus will be available to take people from the car park and event site.
Special guest of honour for 2014: Switzerland!
Tourist information on the town CHATELET
Visit our partners' webpages
We are not responsible for any changes in dates and/or programmes. Please contact the organiser prior to departure.


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The weather in southern New Hampshire has been unusual but amazing. If you haven't had a chance to get outside and get some vitamin D you have been missing out. If you are feeling motivated to make healthier choices and get your hour of physical activity, you are not alone. Woman all over New Hampshire feel renewed by the warm temperatures. Bathing suit season seems closer than ever and motivation is high.
It doesn't matter the reason, if you are feeing motivated get up and go! If you are looking for a little more motivation, check out these local resources.
Womens Fitness Meetup has a comprehensive list of unique fitness opportunities in the area. From dance, to co-ed rugby clubs you can find what floats your boat this spring in the Nashua area and beyond. Just type in the closest city to you, or a zip code and can pick an activity near you.
Get In Shape For Women is has opened locations in Bedford, Nashua, North Hampton, and Salem. Advertising small group personal training and a free trail week this might be a place where you and your gal pals can meet up for a workout. Weight training, along with cardio and nutrition services are offered at all the locations in NH. Weights can be a great way to change the way your body looks, and keep weight off. Head to one of their locations to a professional can teach you the moves and you might be a whole lot happier to bare it all this summer by the pool.
YMCA has many locations in New Hampshire and women are raving about the running clubs in Nashua, Manchester and Merrimack. Offering comradely and at least an hour of running with core and strength mixed in, this is a great opportunity for a beginning runner, make new running friends, or just mix up your usual routine.
Don't forget to check your local town recreation programs for spring. Many town recreation departments are offering hiking for fitness clubs, walking clubs for women, and other ways to get outside and get some physical activity. Activities usually range between $50.00 and $100.00 dollars if you live in the town. Beaver Brook in Hollis has activities starting in the spring that are worth looking at as well as recreation in Merrimack, Amherst, and Milford.
It can be hard to throw yourself into a new activity or club but many women sit down each season and sign up kids and family members for different sports and activities and forget to do so for themselves. Make a commitment to find and try one new physical activity this spring. Your body and your soul with thank you!
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The Southern Miss Golden Eagles (13-3, 2-1) went on the road to defeat the Rice Owls (8-9, 0-3) at Tudor Fieldhouse, 81-78 in Houston on Wednesday night. The victory marks the 2nd in C-USA play for the Eagles and leaves the Owls still searching for their first conference win.
USM blasted out of the gates with a 10-1 lead on a Josimar Ayarza dunk at the 16:56 minute mark. There was no quit by Rice as they fought to get back in the contest. The Owls took the lead and went on to a 34-25 halftime advantage. The Eagles needed to to make some adjustments so this game did not get out of hand like the massacre on last Saturday at Marshall.
Rice continued to lead in the 2nd half and took a game high 13 point lead on a Conner Frizelle 3-point basket at the 16:26 mark for a 43-30 lead. The Owls shot 10 of 20 for 50 percent from 3-point range for the game. The Black and Gold battled back for a tie score at the end of regulation play, 68-68. This sent the game into the first overtime.
Rice started out the OT period with hot shooting on a 7-2 run. It was up to USM to get back in it to pull it out in overtime. That is exactly what the Eagles did as Gary Flowers lead the charge with 6 OT points to capture the 81-78 victory. Rice put up a great battle and has a better team than their record shows.
Senior forward Gary Flowers scored a game high 24 points, grabbed 8 rebounds, dished out 5 assists and swatted away 4 balls for USM on the night. Sophomore guard LaShay Page hit double figures again with 15 points, including 4 of 9 from behind the arc, while senior guard R. L. Horton and freshman guard D. J. Newbill each added 11 points for the Eagles.
Guard Conner Frizelle lead the Owls with 21 points off of the bench with guard Tamir Jackson throwing in 19 points and forward Lucas Kuipers chipping in with 13 points. Rice's leading scorer, Arsalan Kazemi, was held in check by USM scoring only 10 points which is 7 points short of his season average.
This was a good win for the Southern Miss team on the road against a tough Rice squad. USM will be at home next versus the #19th ranked Central Florida Golden Knights (14-1, 1-1) at Reed Green Coliseum on Saturday afternoon. The start time is slated for 4 p.m. CST.


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I agree he can be greater than his brother. I didn't expect that just a few months ago. Right now it seems probable, and maybe after next summer it seems obvius.
Unfortunately I don't think Memphis would give up on him that easily. A frountcourt of Lee/Gasol would be atonishing.
We should get Dimtembe Kumtumbo out of retirement right now
Don't want Gasol , not athletic enough. I like Camby comming back home for cheap and in a close second I'd love to get JaVeal MaGee from the Wizzards.
Too big - yes.
Unlikely acquisition - yes.
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Has nobody noticed the edit I made to Mike D's quote yet?
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I lurrrve Marcus Camby, but I'm surprised that a younger center isn't topping the list.
Andray Blatche is lookin pretty good since he got put into the starting lineup. Had 36 and 15 tonight.
That's why I think we should make a push for Javal McGee. Offer him a starting spot in NY and have him force a trade. Cheap, athletic, mad wingspan, won't be a focal offensive player - as in all we need is a shot blocking rebounder next year.
Wishful thinking no doubt.
I heard that Manu Ginobili is almost certain he'll be traded at season's end. Sucks for you! He surely was your favorite player there at some stage.
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Ast - 1 3 3 2 5 6 4
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Averages of - 26.6 pts 11.7 reb 3.4 ast 1.4 blk
You heard wrong. What he said is he's unsure if he'll be a Spur next season (he's a FA).I heard that Manu Ginobili is almost certain he'll be traded at season's end.
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Andrew Dunn and Sara Gregory have posted a draft design for the new Daily Tar Heel Drupal website being designed by Stunt3 and welcome feedback from the community. If I were redesigning a website right now for a student news organization, I'd use the opportunity to try something even more radical. What if the Daily Tar Heel were to take design cues from Facebook and use the homepage to show me a stream of the website activity based on who was in my social graph? That's the type of experimentation I'd personally like to see.
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One of the most difficult aspects of managing these days is keeping employees – who often are stressed about everything from their 401(k)s to increasing workloads – engaged while on the job.
Still, there are a number of ways that managers can be proactive when it comes to energizing their staffs, such as:
· Having an open door. Managers are under enormous stress themselves trying to balance a leaner workforce with budget constraints and a globally competitive market, but they have to find time to listen when a worker is anxious or worried. Taking employees to lunch or even on a walk on a nice day can go a long way in letting staff members know a manager is tuned in. It also helps to get employees physically removed from the workplace so that they can decompress and release some stress.
· Keeping them informed. Workers need to understand on a continual basis how what they are doing on the job directly impacts not only their team's success, but a company's success. Knowing their contributions are important is critical in keeping them engaged and focused.
· Using social media. While face-to-face contact is best, that may not always be possible because employees may be in far-flung locations or even on other continents. Using Twitter or Facebook is a way to stay connected on a regular basis.
· Helping them enjoy their job. Whether it's providing pizza on a Friday afternoon or giving them tasks they really enjoy, managers should always focus on making the job not be so much, well, work. Stress can be reduced – for both the manager and the employee – when there is some fun and sense of fulfillment for a day's work.
Keeping Employees Engaged in Tough Times
Layoffs, reduced pay, more hours, decimated 401(K)s are all conspiring to distract and demoralize employees. So how do you keep your staff engaged, motivated and enthusiastic?
One of the most difficult aspects of managing these days is keeping employees – who often are stressed about everything from their 401(k)s to increasing workloads – engaged while on the job.


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Young Anna is a novice in a Polish convent. It's 1962, the year the Second Vatican Council gathered in Rome. Challenges and changes are in the air.
Described as tiny when she was brought to the convent school, Anna has no knowledge of her roots. She has spent her life in the company of women who have taken lifelong vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience – and have surrendered their hearts and souls to Christ. She knows all about cloistered life and can see where it leads. Anna feels that she is one of them. She is about to take her vows.
Against the backdrop of postwar Communism and the lingering evidence of Nazi occupation, writer and director Pawel Pawlikowski juggles highly nuanced questions of self-identity, nature versus nurture, loyalty, allegiance – and the force of destiny. He and co-writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz have fashioned the complex story of a soul.
Agata Trzebuchowska as Anna is the calm at the center of the storm. Swirling around her character is the wreckage of a family history to which she has had no attachment. Until now. The Mother Superior (Halina Skoczynska) wants Anna to meet her only living relative. She must leave the convent and, for as long as necessary, meet with her mother's sister, Wanda Gruz (Agata Kulesza). Anna's certainty of her vocation, her commitment to being the bride of Christ, will be severely tested. It is a story-telling device that resonates with a small group of powerful films that deal with nuns – including Green Dolphin Street, Black Narcissus, Heaven Knows Mr. Allison, The Nun's Story, The Song of Bernadette, and Thérèse. Wanda's aunt tells Anna that her real name is Ida Lebenstein. She is a Jew.
Ida becomes determined to find her parents' grave. "What if you go there and discover there is no God?" asks Wanda.
Ida will discover that Haim and Róża were murdered by a local Nazi sympathizer who then occupied their house. His family lives there still. It is not an uncommon story. He will take Ida to the gravesite on the condition that no further claim be made on the property. She agrees. Ida and Wanda watch as the man digs into the earth and recovers the remains. They take them to a family plot in a rundown cemetery in Lublin. But the odyssey of the novice is not yet finished.
Ida must resolve her chance encounter with an attractive jazz musician, an alto sax player (Dawid Ogrodnik). His renditions of music by John Coltrane have penetrated her imagination. He suggests she follow him instead.
Agata Kulesza delivers a soul-stirring performance as "Wanda". Her character is that of a judge, an insider for the Communists, an alcoholic with a not very discriminating sexual appetite. She admits she has sentenced anti-Communists to death. Wanda is fond of classical music. "I'm a slut and you're a little saint," she says to Ida. "This Jesus of yours adored people like me." Wanda puts on a recording of Mozart's Symphony No. 41, the "Jupiter" and leaps from her apartment window.
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- The City Auditor also reports to an Audit Review Committee (ARC) comprised of seven members: The Mayor's Chief of Staff, the City Treasurer, the Finance Director, the Budget Director, the Chair of the City Council Finance Committee, the City Council Chief of Staff or designee, and one member of Council selected by the City Council President. The City Auditor submits an annual audit plan to the ARC for review and approval. The City Auditor also submits all final audit reports to the ARC.
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- The City Auditor submits an annual report to the Mayor and City Council, within 30 days of the end of the fiscal year, indicating audits completed, major findings, corrective actions taken by department heads, and significant findings which have not been fully addressed by management.
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The Red Wings close out their exhibition schedule tonight in Toronto where a mostly-AHL lineup will face the Maple Leafs.
Both teams iced close to their expected NHL rosters in Detroit last night and the Wings called up eight players from the Grand Rapids Griffins earlier today to skate tonight. The chain reaction means that many expected Griffins won't be in Grand Rapids' lineup in Plymouth tonight as they play the Lake Erie Monsters in a preseason matchup, which is where I'll be.
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More ignition switch problems for GM cars has prompted additional recalls by the trouble plagued automaker. This time, General Motors is recalled approximately 512,000 Camaros build between 2010-2014 because it was found that the keys could be bumped by the drivers' knees knocking the cars out of the "run" position. This could, in turn, cause the engines to stall and disable the brakes and power steering. So far, there have been 3 reported crashed and 4 minor injuries connected to this latest issue.
According to GM spokesman Alan Adler, the problem was uncovered during internal testing of ignition switches on all models, following the recall of more than 2.6 million small cars including Saturn Ion and Chevy Cobalt during the past few months. He did state, that the "Camaro switches met their specifications, unlike the other vehicles," and that the problem with hitting the keys by accident in their case seemed to "mainly involve tall drivers who sit close to the steering column so that their knees come in contact with them.
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There are two big events for Stanford women's soccer this week. The Cardinal reports for training camp on Tuesday the same day three teammates open the FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup in Canada.
Sophomores Stephanie Amack and Jane Campbell, and freshman Andi Sullivan, are part of the United States team that plays Germany in Edmonton on Tuesday to begin the 16-team World Cup that will continue through Aug. 24. Brazil and China also are part of the four-team Group B.
No school can match Stanford's three players on the U.S. team. Amack and Campbell were starters as freshman last year on the Cardinal's 15-6-1 team that reached the Sweet Sixteen. Amack was a defensive midfielder, but plays outside back and center midfield for the U.S. team. This is her second U-20 World Cup, having been the youngest member of the U.S. squad in 2012.
Campbell took over as Stanford's starting goalkeeper as a freshman last year after an early-season injury to senior Emily Oliver. Campbell was the starter on the USA's 2012 U-17 World Cup team.
Sullivan is a midfielder who also plays outside back. She was a starter at the 2012 U-17 World Cup. She is a co-captain on this U.S. team. She was listed as the nation's No. 1 recruit by TopDrawerSoccer.com and heads the Cardinal's top-ranked freshman class. However, the deeper the U.S. advances, the longer it will take for Sullivan to make her U.S. debut.
The following is the U.S. World Cup schedule (all times Pacific):
Tuesday, 4 p.m.: Germany, in Edmonton (ESPNU, WatchESPN)
Friday, 7 p.m.: Brazil, in Edmonton (ESPNU, WatchESPN)
Tue., Aug. 12, 2 p.m.: China, in Moncton (ESPN2, WatchESPN)
If the U.S. advances:
Sat., Aug. 16, TBD: Quarterfinal, In Edmonton or Toronto (TBD)
Wed., Aug. 20, TBD: Semifinal, in Montreal or Moncton (TBD)
Sun., Aug. 24, 1 p.m.: Final, in Montreal (TBD)
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Stanford begins training on Wednesday with two-a-day sessions, the first of which begins at 9 a.m.
Stanford will feature a seven-member freshman class as well as 2013 Pac-12 goal-scoring leader Taylor Uhl, and All-West Region players Maddie Bauer, Lo'eau LaBonta, and Chioma Ubogagu.
The Cardinal returns nine starters from a team that finished 15-6-1 and made its eighth consecutive Sweet 16 appearance. In the past five seasons, Stanford has a record of 109-10-6, and has produced 12 All-Americans under head coach Paul Ratcliffe.
The Cardinal will hold most of their conditioning in the morning sessions, and spend the afternoons on more soccer-specific activity.
Stanford opens its season Aug. 20 at North Carolina, as part of a demanding schedule. Seven of the Cardinal's 20 regular-season opponents were ranked in the final 2013 NSCAA Top 20. Eleven are coming off NCAA tournament appearances, and eight of those advanced past the first round. Sixteen opponents were .500 or better last season, including all nine nonconference foes. Finally, six opponents won regular-season conference championships.
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Nicole Barnhart '04, recently elected to the Stanford Hall of Fame, is leading the National Women's Soccer League in shutouts, with eight.
The goalkeeper plays for FC Kansas City (10-6-5) and is among the NWSL leaders in several categories. She is No. 1 in minutes played (1,890), No. 2 in wins for a goalie (10), No. 3 in saves (70), and No. 4 in games started (21).
Barnhart, a Stanford volunteer assistant coach, is among eight former Stanford players in the NWSL. The others are: Mariah Nogueira '13 of the first-place Seattle Reign, Christen Press '11 and Rachel Quon '13 of the Chicago Red Stars, Cami Levin '12, Kelley O'Hara '10, and Madeleine Thompson '13 of New Jersey-based Sky Blue FC, Teresa Noyola '12 of the expansion Houston Dash, and Rachel (Buehler) Van Hollebeke of the Portland Thorns FC.


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Amanda Bynes, 27, the former Nickelodeon star, has been spotted going to the gym for a workout shortly after her stay in a rehab facility where she spent about a half-year, according to WebProNews on Thursday.
A week ago, Bynes was seen in Los Angeles, California where she was given a ride by her father Rick Bynes to a gym. She also was seen going over to a gas station where she purchased Zig Zag cigarette rolling papers.
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After the stint at the gym, she was seen being picked up by a friend. The next day, she returned to the gym and the same gas station in the same outfit via a ride from her mother Lynn. That day, she reportedly was using the elliptical machine.
Besides the said-outfit, she was wearing huge sunglasses and a blond wig. It appears that she is doing away with a large tattoo off angel wings on her right arm.
Regarding the trips to the gym, Amanda is reportedly quite interested in getting healthier – according to the owner of Miracles Fitness Retreat where Amanda stayed for a time. She wants to get in better shape, lose a few pounds, and mainly strengthen up and eat healthier.
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Fuston's Hat Trick Propels Tech to 4-0 Shutout of Montana
Junior forward Jessica Fuston matched her career-high with three goals Sunday in the Red Raiders' 4-0 victory.
Aug. 26, 2012
FT. WORTH, Texas - Texas Tech junior Jessica Fuston matched a career-high with three goals Sunday morning as she propelled the Red Raiders to a convincing 4-0 shutout over Montana.
With the three goals, Fuston matched her own school record for a single game - a feat she has reached now three times during her career. The Cedar Park, Texas native last recorded a hat trick on Sept. 25 of last year in a 5-0 win over Northern Arizona at the John Walker Soccer Complex.
"We have been all over the goal since game one but today we were a little more committed in the last 30 yards," head coach Tom Stone said. "That made a big difference in the score line today."
The impressive performance capped off a 2-0 weekend at the TCU Invitational in Ft. Worth, as the Red Raiders defeated Stephen F. Austin on Friday night with a game-winning goal in the 89th minute.
"We knew SFA was going to be a big one and to win it in such dramatic fashion was great for our team and for our record," Stone said. "We played to the final whistle and it won us the match. Then today we had the chance to utilize our full roster and the quality coming off the bench was excellent - it was the difference in the match."
Texas Tech (4-0-0) is off its best start to a season since 2010 when the Red Raiders opened the year with five straight victories.
Tech got off to a quick start in the first half as Fuston found the back of the net with her first goal of the afternoon at the 23:03 mark off an assist from sophomore Jaelene Hinkle.
The assist was Hinkle's first of the season.
It took just 2:50 for Fuston to strike again as she fired another shot past Montana goalkeeper Kristen Hoon at the 25:53 mark to give the Red Raiders a 2-0 lead midway through the first half.
The two goals in just under three minutes by Fuston were the quickest back-to-back strikes by a single Tech player since Fuston scored twice in just 53 seconds against Northern Arizona last season on Sept. 25 in a 5-0 win at the John Walker Soccer Complex.
The Red Raiders went into the half with a 2-0 lead over the Grizzlies before Fuston added her third goal of the afternoon at the 60:41 mark off a cross from teammate Conner Williams.
Senior Sarah Ellison gave the Red Raiders their fourth and final goal when she scored off an assist from freshman Ashley Casey at the 79:58 mark. It marked the first goal of the season for Ellison, and the first career assist for Casey.
Texas Tech will return home for a Friday night match against Nevada on Aug. 31 at the John Walker Soccer Complex. First kick is scheduled for 7 p.m.


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In the last few years, the research community has seen rapidly growing interest in two-dimensional (2D) crystals and their applications. The electronic properties of these 2D crystals are diverse — ranging from semi-metals, such as graphene, to semiconductors, such as MoS2, to insulators, such as boron nitride. These 2D crystals have many unique properties as compared to their bulk counterparts due to their reduced dimensionality and symmetry. A key difference is the band structures, which lead to distinct electronic and photonic properties. The 2D nature of the materials also plays an important role in defining their exceptional properties of mechanical strength, surface sensitivity, thermal conductivity, tunable band-gap and interaction with light. These unique properties of 2D crystals open up broad territories of applications in computing, communication, energy, and medicine. In this talk, I will present my work on understanding the electrical properties of graphene and MoS2, in particular current transport and band-gap engineering in graphene, interface between gate dielectrics and graphene, and gap states in MoS2. I will also present our work on the nano-scale electronic devices (RF and logic devices) and photonic devices (plasmonic devices and photo-detectors) based on these 2D crystals.
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|Object Flight Path
|Path with directional change
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Sighting Details
10:15 pm Took one dog out and leashed to porch. Stood looking into the sky as always. Looking for jets that constantly fly over. Sometimes have counted 6 to 8 jets in the area. Look at stars as well. This time an object orb like in structure flashed and the light stayed on several secs, which I knew right away wasn't aircraft because it wasn't normal color and it wasn't the white and red or blue that I usually see nor was it strobe like. The object headed NW terrific speed, I say once it flashed and went out it traveled some distance and it flashed again but this time it was very brilliant. No way you could miss it. There were clouds not heavy you could still see stars and jets, but the strange thing was as it disappeared into a cloud it flashed it but this time it made a turn that is impossible. It actually made an arch back the same way it came but towards my direct, then turned again into the clouds and met with second object. Same orb like structure, it flashed once when both met and both flew NW in same direction. This all happened between 10:15 - 10:35 As for feelings was astonished and amazed by the maneuverability. Lost after both entered cloud cover. First when I seen thought plane, but no noise being that low, and lights weren't strobing and the incredible speed it was moving. I could draw a pic of an orb like structure but again that was the shape of the light that flashed as for craft you couldn't make it out, not like when you see a jet at night you can tell what it is before you hear and once close you know. This wasn't like that. Honestly this isn't the first time I ever seen a UFO, but I never reported them why now you ask, figured why not get it recorded, maybe someone else out there seen it as well. Yes I beleive in UFO's, and I'm a religious Franciscan Brother, no it doesn't effect my faith.
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The Bathurst 1000 race has always held a special place on both the World motorsport calendar and in my own heart and I always used to watch the race highlights every year on television with my father.
Television coverage has improved over the years and we now get to see the entire race which only fueled my desire and my dream of actually being at Mount Panorama for the Great Race.
In 2009 that dream became a reality when I travelled to Bathurst to experience the race first hand and this book is a record of my visit to Mount Panorama for the SUPERCHEAP AUTO Bathurst 1000
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Rodger Albert Bumpass (born November 20, 1951) is an American character actor and voice actor, who is noted for his long-running-roles as Squidward Tentacles on the hit series SpongeBob SquarePants, and The Chief from Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?. He also voiced Professor Membrane on Invader Zim. Bumpass has many other credits in animated films, animated television series,[1] and video games.[2] Bumpass was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas on November 20, 1951. He attended Little Rock Central High School where he received his first training in theater. He attended Arkansas State University where he majored in radio–TV and minored in theater. He worked at the campus radio station and also at the Jonesboro's ABC television affiliate, KAIT-TV, where he had multiple duties as announcer, film processor, cameraman, audio technician, and technical director.[1] While at KAIT, he also wrote, produced, and performed in a late-night comedy program called Mid-Century Nonsense Festival Featuring Kumquat Theater.[3] He graduated from ASU in 1976, and when encouraged by an ASU professor to consider professional theater, he went to New York in June 1977.[1]
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Facilities Services Department
The Facilities Services Department supports the District to ensure that instructional facilities are conducive to learning and are properly maintained. The Facilities Services Department continues to work to direct our resources to remove facilities related issues from the focus of instructional personnel. We remain steadfast in seeking out methods that will not only improve the delivery of construction and maintenance services to the district but also deliver these services in a cost effective and efficient manner. As we complete capital and maintenance projects we work to strengthen our efforts on maintaining and maximizing the useful life of our capital assets. The focus of all of our labors remains on establishing and maintaining excellence in our facilities.
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Facilities Services Executive Director is responsible for the departments of Capital Improvement & Construction Management, Operations & Maintenance, General Services, and Administration & Management.
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Facilities Maintenance and Operations Department is primarily responsible for the overall operating condition of the physical plant including custodial services. The SRT Maintenance and Operations Managers are the primary points of contact and assign appropriate resources to maintain schools and facilities within the respective SRT's.
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Facilities General Services Department is responsible for HVAC, lawn services, integrated pest management, refuse collection, surplus furniture removal, special event set-up, and roof maintenance. The SRT Maintenance & Operations Managers are the primary contacts and secure the support needed from the General Services Department.
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Yggdrasil in Norse Mythology
In the middle of Asgard, where the gods lives, is Yggdrasil. Yggdrasil is the tree of life. It is an eternal green Ash tree; the branches stretches out over all of the nine worlds, and extend up and above the heavens. Yggdrasil is carried by three enormous roots. The first root from Yggdrasil is in Asgard, the home of the gods. By this root is a well named Urd's well. This is where the gods held daily meetings. The second root from Yggdrasil goes down to Jotunheim, the land of the giants, by this root is Mimir's well.
An 1847 depiction of the Norse Yggdrasil as described in the Icelandic Prose Edda.
By Oluf Olufsen Bagge
The third root from Yggdrasil goes down to Niflheim, close to the well Hvergelmir. It is here the dragon Nidhug gnawed on one of Yggdrasils roots. Nidhug is also known to suck the blood out of the dead bodies. At the very top of Yggdrasil there lives an eagle. And down by the roots of the tree lives a dragon named Nidhug. The eagle and the dragon are bitter enemies. They truly despise each other. A squirrel named Ratatosk, is spending a lot of time each day, running up and down the tree. Ratatosk does whatever he can, to keep the hatred between the eagle and Nidhug alive. Every time Nidhug says a curse or an insult about the eagle, Ratatosk will run up to the top of the tree, and inform the eagle what Nidhug just said. The eagle is equally rude in his comments about Nidhug. Ratatosk just loves to gossip which is the reason why the eagle and the dragon remains constant foes.
There are three Norns who lives at the well Urd. Their names are Urd "past", Verdani "present" and Skuld "future" The three Norns are the goddesses of fate. They spend most of their time spinning the threads of life, deciding the fate of every human, animal and every god. Whenever a child is born, the Norns spins the fate of the child in their threads. The three Norns will every morning start the day by placing a rooster at the top of Yggdrasil.
The bragging of the rooster is a wakeup call for all humans and gods. Every day the Norns will also carry water from Urd's well, and pour it over Yggdrasil. The water from the well is of vital importance to keep the tree green and healthy. The Norns was very respected in Viking times, it was quite common to serve a woman who had just given birth to a child some porridge, they called this porridge for "Norn porridge" The Vikings believed the Norns were always nearby whenever a child was born. The porridge was considered an offering to the Norns. They hoped the porridge would please the Norns and secure good health for the mother and the child.
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Should You Get an MBA or Start a Business?
A few years ago, I completed my MBA at HKUST in Hong Kong, which is currently ranked 8th worldwide by the Financial Times. I'm now running my own startup (fishfishme.com) along with my friend and MBA colleague Jose Gil Zafra. As I continue to expand my startup, I tend to get this question a lot: "Should I do an MBA or build my own startup?"
Before you can answer that question, I tell my friends, you might want to try answering a broader question: What career are you seeking?
A few possible answers include:
- I want to start my own startup or business
- I think I lack some skills; I want to improve them and then work in my own startup
- I want to work at a startup
- I want to work for a big company
- I don't like my current job and I want to change my career
- I don't know!
If your answer is 1, 2 or 3, then you shouldn't do an MBA. If your answer is 4,5 or 6, then an MBA might be a good choice for you. Why? First, let me explain very briefly what you will get out of doing an MBA:
- You'll learn a bit about everything in business (accounting, finance, marketing, strategy, management, operations)
- You'll learn about the organizational structure of big companies and how to manage big teams and big departments
- You'll learn how to present in front of people and write professional reports
- You'll learn how to write a business plan
- You'll meet a lot of people and build a great network (the best part of an MBA)
MBA programs are built to prepare students to work in big corporations. As a matter of fact the first MBA program was offered by Harvard Business School in 1908 to prepare Americans for the new era of big co-operations and the new industrialized century. Put in simple words, MBA programs are not designed for startups. Remember, as Steve Blank said, "startups are not a smaller version of large companies." So what does a startup founder really need to learn?
- You need to learn how to transform a new idea into a product that people are willing to pay for
- You need to learn how to select and manage your small team
- You need to learn how to survive with a small budget
- You need to learn how to survive the pressure from your family, friends and the whole world that thinks you are crazy
- You need to learn how to learn by yourself
Business schools will not teach you these things and no one can unless you learn it yourself. And you can't learn it by reading; you need to learn it the hard way by doing it yourself, by starting your own startup. Of course, there are some great resources that you should read before starting a business, that it would be great if they taught in an MBA:
- I wish they taught us Lean Startup, instead of Strategic Management
- I wish they taught us the Business Model Generation, instead of how to write a Business Plan
- I wish they taught us the Customer Development method, instead of Marketing
That doesn't mean that I didn't learn anything from my MBA; I actually learnt a lot and I built a great network spread in all five continents. I also had a great opportunity working and living in many different cities (Hong Kong, Montevideo in Uruguay, and Granada and Barcelona in Spain).
I also had the opportunity to do an internship with Endeavor Uruguay and start my first startup with two of my classmates; after that, I later joined Wayra, one of the top incubators in the world, in Barcelona, before returning back to Kuwait.
Yet those experiences proved more valuable than classroom learning. When I now try to assess how much of my MBA teachings I'm applying to my startup, it's actually not much.
So in short, if you are thinking between doing an MBA and building a startup, you should probably just go ahead and build your startup.
If you need guidance, find a mentor. For getting on your feet, incubators and accelerators are a great option and are currently replacing business schools for startups. Another great way to get advice is to plug in with your local startup community (you could do so by attending one of Wamda's a Mix n' Mentor event).
And if you feel that your city doesn't have any of these resources, then you should probably take the lead and start it yourself, maybe beginning with a blog, a weekly meet-up, or a monthly event, as we did here in Kuwait with StartupQ8. It started small, but we now have a startup community that helps and supports each other.
And again, if you are hoping to work in huge company then doing an MBA is not a bad idea at all.
Abdullah is the co-founder of fishfishme.com, and he also started a blog and a monthly event called StartupQ8 to help building a Startup Ecosystem in Kuwait. You can follow him on twitter @a_alshalabi.
I have a few questions...
Does really a single person company work?
Can it expand without having an MBA degree?
Does the low experience really help in achieving the goals?
Sorry for the later reply. To answer your questions:
1- Being a sole founder can work, but you'll have less probability to success. Also from an investor perspective it's 10 times riskier to invest on a sole founder than a team of co-founders.
2- It sure can expand without an MBA, but yeah I agree the MBA comes handy when the startup starts growing and becoming more like a big company.
3- I didn't get this question, but I guess more experience is always better.
These informations in the article are most useful for me, cause I'm in case to take a decision about going with MBA or not.
For me I see any training course, undergraduate or graduate degree we have to look at it as a tool to help us in our career or business more than target or magic stick that should open all success's doors for us.
On the whole, I agree that an MBA is NOT a prerequisite for starting a startup. The secret sauce is rarely to be found in management alone, it's in innovation and delivering value. So I'd probably recommend people do MBAs a bit later in their startup career, when they have more organization-led problems to tackle. However, I think there are benefits to having an MBA that were not addressed in the article. For my part, it wasn't until I started working with startups that I really saw the value of my MBA, and was using nearly every piece of it, particularly:
*The ability to look across an entire organization to see what's going wrong
*The ability to set pricing
*The ability to forecast and track performance
*The ability to lead, motivate, and inspire people
*Financial statements
*The ability to compete effectively in the marketplace
*Market research
*The ability to negotiate with customers and suppliers
So the 'hard skills' like option pricing will be nearly useless, but the ability to look at a business (any business) as an integrated whole with a need for profit and sustainability is priceless.
Someone on the comment thread mentioned that no top-10 tech companies or F500 companies had MBA CEOs, and I'm afraid that's just not true. 30-40% of the Top 10 companies in each category have MBA CEOs, including Apple (Tim Cook).
Thanks for the comment. I agree that it's defiantly beneficial to have an MBA in a later stage of your startup life cycle. To be honest, I still believe that many of the benefits you mentioned can be learnt by the entrepreneur from practice rather than in a class, and many things are not in need for a startup in an early stage. And the main problem as mentioned in the article is that MBA's are built for big companies and not startups. I used to ask the professors almost after each class if I can use what I learnt here for a startup or not, most of the answers came negative. Yet I agree, after having a big team and coming across many big corporate decisions, then an MBA might come very handy.
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When an Employer and a Federal Prosecutor Praise Giving a Second Chance
Among numerous stories I've come across about people with criminal records turning their lives around, a recent story from the Quad-City Business Journal caught my attention. The story involves a trio who served time in federal prison for trafficking meth, the employer who hired them, and the federal prosecutor who described their employment relationship as "just terrific."
Sally Hillman, Frannie Spickers, and Brian Nimrick were all convicted of trafficking methamphetamine. Upon completing their prison sentences, they searched for employment. Usually, a job search for people with past convictions can yield very few results, especially in the current job market. Even when employers are willing to take a chance on someone with a criminal record, those employers often do not expose themselves publicly out of fear of becoming stigmatized.
In this story, though, not only did Hillman, Spickers, and Nimrick find work with Greystone Logistics, but this Bettendorf, Iowa-based manufacturing company openly acknowledged its policy of giving second chances to people with criminal backgrounds. A plant manager explains:
It really comes from the heart. Sure we get great workers with good attendance and good attitudes. But when you hear their success stories — such as getting to see family they had not seen in years — and they are genuinely grateful to have a job and a place to plant their feet to start again, to get that second chance, you know you are doing the right thing.
It makes you want to go the extra mile when you are made aware of the discrimination they have to endure to get a job, to rent an apartment, etc. We truly do want to give these great people a re-chance to adapt and to become a productive member of society. Without employment it cannot be done. When you have that "Grampa" who gets to see his 9-year-old grandchild for the first time, and he is doing everything right so he can see his grandkids, how can you not do this for them?
This chance for Hillman, Spickers, and Nimrick was a chance not only to work, but also to succeed. The story notes, for instance, that Spickers has been working to move up the company ladder since joining Greystone Logistics as a janitor nearly two years ago.
Another other notable person pleased with the trio's success is Jeffrey Lang, the federal prosecutor in the meth trafficking case that originally landed them behind bars. Now the acting United States Attorney of the Central District of Illinois, Lang praised their story as an example of how the criminal justice system is supposed to work:
The system protected the public back then. They are rehabilitated and now they are productive members of society.
Lang's words echo a speech by Mr. Lang's counterpart in the Northern District of Illinois, Patrick Fitzgerald, who reminded us that like law enforcement, businesses have an important role in ushering people from prison and jail back into society. Greystone Logistics has stepped up to that challenge quite well.


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