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Short Dance scores
1 Cathy Reed / Chris Reed 55.51
2 Emi Hirai / Marien De La Asuncion 53.01
3 Shizuru Agata / Kentaro Suzuki 37.32
4 Chinatsu Nakazawa / Kokoro Mizutani 31.27
Reeds skated cleanly and Hirai/Asuncion had a mistake in the twizzle. But their scores are close. Of course, Hirai/Asuncion are not eligible for the Olympics. Maybe there are some considerations on the JSF side.


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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - It's possible that Hillary Clinton may decide not to run for president in 2016, but there is very little reason to believe such a decision would be a result of her handling of the Benghazi attacks.
According to a recent Wall Street Journal poll, Clinton is leaving her post as secretary of state with an "eye-popping" 69 percent approval rating.
This is nearly 20 percent higher than President Obama's average approval rating in January, according to Real Clear Politics, and nearly 50 percent higher than Congress.
If Secretary Clinton's approval numbers are this high during a month in which she endured a hostile congressional grilling over Benghazi, there is no reason to expect the incident is going to meaningfully plague her.
Furthermore, the historical evidence suggests that Americans are not inclined to punish their leaders for a failure to anticipate and prevent attacks on our citizens. In the wake of surprise attacks we tend to be much more interested in national unity than in recriminations, as seen in the case of Pearl Harbor and the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Ronald Reagan won a landslide re-election in 1984 only a year and a half after the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, which killed 241 American servicemen, and George W. Bush was re-elected handily despite having failed to anticipate or prevent the 9/11 attacks - and recall that he had received a memo on Aug. 6 titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." While playing the "blame game" is a perennial favorite of politicians, the American people have never demonstrated much enthusiasm for it.
Clinton's response to Benghazi is another factor working in her favor. Clinton directly answered tough questions from Congress in her testimony, and she forcefully argued that the State Department was doing everything within its power to address the problems and to hold the people responsible accountable.
Clinton has demonstrated a willingness to accept responsibility for mistakes that were made and to work to fix the problems that have been identified.
Most important, she has not engaged in a cover-up. Historically, this type of response satisfies the American people.
A leader's legacy is rarely dependent on a single event, regardless of how significant that event may seem at the time.
The continuing confidence the American people have shown in Clinton's leadership of the State Department reflects an appreciation of her overall record during a time that included the spread of democracy in North Africa and a general restoration of American prestige abroad.
But perhaps the strongest evidence that the Benghazi incident will not harm Secretary Clinton's legacy is the decisive re-election of President Obama. If Benghazi wasn't sufficient to prevent Barack Obama's re-election, it is hard to imagine that it would prevent Hillary Clinton from running in 2016 if she so chooses.
Editor's note
Every Monday we offer pro/con pieces from the McClatchy-Tribune News Service to give readers a broad view of issues.
Jim Cottrill is an assistant professor of political science at Santa Clara University.

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Adam Bede HTML version
Hetty was quite certain her uncle wanted her to encourage Adam, and would be
pleased for her to marry him. For those were times when there was no rigid
demarcation of rank between the farmer and the respectable artisan, and on the
home hearth, as well as in the public house, they might be seen taking their jug
of ale together; the farmer having a latent sense of capital, and of weight in
parish affairs, which sustained him under his conspicuous inferiority in
conversation. Martin Poyser was not a frequenter of public houses, but he liked a
friendly chat over his own home- brewed; and though it was pleasant to lay down
the law to a stupid neighbour who had no notion how to make the best of his
farm, it was also an agreeable variety to learn something from a clever fellow like
Adam Bede. Accordingly, for the last three years-- ever since he had
superintended the building of the new barn--Adam had always been made
welcome at the Hall Farm, especially of a winter evening, when the whole family,
in patriarchal fashion, master and mistress, children and servants, were
assembled in that glorious kitchen, at well-graduated distances from the blazing
fire. And for the last two years, at least, Hetty had been in the habit of hearing her
uncle say, "Adam Bede may be working for wage now, but he'll be a master-man
some day, as sure as I sit in this chair. Mester Burge is in the right on't to want
him to go partners and marry his daughter, if it's true what they say; the woman
as marries him 'ull have a good take, be't Lady day or Michaelmas," a remark
which Mrs. Poyser always followed up with her cordial assent. "Ah," she would
say, "it's all very fine having a ready-made rich man, but mayhappen he'll be a
ready-made fool; and it's no use filling your pocket full o' money if you've got a
hole in the corner. It'll do you no good to sit in a spring-cart o' your own, if you've
got a soft to drive you: he'll soon turn you over into the ditch. I allays said I'd
never marry a man as had got no brains; for where's the use of a woman having
brains of her own if she's tackled to a geck as everybody's a- laughing at? She
might as well dress herself fine to sit back'ards on a donkey."
These expressions, though figurative, sufficiently indicated the bent of Mrs.
Poyser's mind with regard to Adam; and though she and her husband might have
viewed the subject differently if Hetty had been a daughter of their own, it was
clear that they would have welcomed the match with Adam for a penniless niece.
For what could Hetty have been but a servant elsewhere, if her uncle had not
taken her in and brought her up as a domestic help to her aunt, whose health
since the birth of Totty had not been equal to more positive labour than the
superintendence of servants and children? But Hetty had never given Adam any
steady encouragement. Even in the moments when she was most thoroughly
conscious of his superiority to her other admirers, she had never brought herself
to think of accepting him. She liked to feel that this strong, skilful, keen-eyed man
was in her power, and would have been indignant if he had shown the least sign
of slipping from under the yoke of her coquettish tyranny and attaching himself to
the gentle Mary Burge, who would have been grateful enough for the most trifling
notice from him. "Mary Burge, indeed! Such a sallow-faced girl: if she put on a bit
of pink ribbon, she looked as yellow as a crow-flower and her hair was as straight
as a hank of cotton." And always when Adam stayed away for several weeks


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Have you ever wondered what Diddy (formerly P. Diddy, Puff Daddy, etc.) likes to wear when he pours himself a nice cold refreshing glass of booze? Well, if you take a look at the photo posted below you'll find out. Diddy shared a personal photo to his official Instagram profile that shows the rapper/producer/mogul standing in his kitchen sans shirt as he pours a big glass of sangria … as a multi millionaire rapper/producer/mogul is wont to do ;)
It seems he believes he is something of a Pumped Daddy. For rapper Diddy could not resist showing off his muscles by posting a topless picture of himself on Instagram [yesterday]. But he may have blundered in recording a song called Bad Boy For Life, as he looked anything but as he poured himself a refreshing glass of sangria before heading out to the pool. As if the illustrate the point further, the 43-year-old was even enjoying a play date with his mother Janice by his pool. But the music mogul, who was previously known as Puff Daddy, obviously did not care, as he boasted: 'Chillin by the pool with my Moms listening to 70s classics #Godisgreat.'
Ahhh … it must be nice to live the good life. I can't say that I'm a Diddy fan by any stretch of the imagination but I have to admit that I'm charmed by this photo. Homie is just maxin' and relaxin', wearing as little clothing as possible without a care in the world. I can't be mad at the guy for living life to the fullest. As long as shirtless is as far as he will go when posting these kinds of photos, I'm cool with it. Sangria is delish, I wouldn't mind a tall refreshing glass of the stuff myself. Now, if only I could find a shirtless dude of my own to pour me some ;)0


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A 48-year-old man was arrested on Friday on charges of sexually assaulting and harassing his three daughters, police said.
Aseerwatham was arrested following complaints from his daughters about the sexual abuse and harassment, police said.
He had also impregnated one of his mentally challenged daughters twice and later aborted, police said, adding, he was remanded to judicial custody.


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Posts Tagged 'productivity'
Triage: The New Time Management Skill©
We live in an era of endless connections, interruptions, distractions and time demands. New tasks come at us at an alarming rate from multiple sources: emails, texts, tweets, calls, friends, fans, family, pings, rings, and vibrations via all sorts of devices. Over the years we've developed many ways to cope, capture and conquer the onslaught including urgent and important matrixes , decision-making trees, and prioritization strategies
I would like to propose that the era of endless requires a whole different take on managing our time and tasks, something I call "triaging."
Triage is a disaster management term. I am a Community Emergency Response Team graduate, which is a civilian disaster preparedness training program. We learn that if adequate resources are available (first responders, medical equipment, trained personnel, etc.), you try to save everyone. But if resources are scarce or limited, 'triage' is the process used to quickly sort injured people into groups based on their likely benefit from immediate care. In a hospital emergency room, the people who scream the loudest do not get care first, nor is it allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis. A triage nurse quickly assesses who needs urgent care and who can wait because there are never enough resources to treat everyone at the same time.
In the Era of Endless, we need to act like the triage nurse. To some of us triage comes naturally. All day long we're able to volley the bombardment of incoming messages vying for our attention and mentally shuffle our to-do deck, deciding on the run "do this now," "this can wait," or "ok, I was going to do that, but this new thing is more important so now that comes next and I'll move that other thing lower on the list." Triaging is based on emotions and intuition. First-responders to a disaster scene will tell you they don't do a lot of analysis. They simply know how to allocate their resources for maximum effect for the greatest number of people. If you don't have the triage instincts of a first responder, here are some triaging tips:
Go with your gut
David Allen, the productivity expert, observes, "Prioritize [or in this case, triage – JK] according to energy, mood, intuition, and emotion. Learn to listen to and trust your heart. Or your intuition, or your gut or the seat of your pants or whatever anatomy is the source of that mysteriously wonderful 'still, small voice' that somehow knows you better than you do, and knows what is better for you than you do. LISTEN to it…take the risk to move on your best guess, pay attention to the results and course-correct as you keep moving along."
Verbalize your to-do list
Say what you are thinking out loud. This can be very clarifying. If a task sounds important as you say it aloud, there's a good chance you've made the right call.
Alleviate worry and guilt
"I make a careful To-Do list. I prioritize it every day. I assign A, B, and C to each task and integrate new tasks as soon as I learn of them. Then, when I wake up in the morning, I totally ignore my list and do the two tasks that immediately alleviate worrying whether they're on my list or not," a client tells me. Dispelling worry is a great use of your limited time. It clears the head and frees you from emotional drains that will thwart all your other work. Like assuaging worry, doing tasks that free you from guilt will also allow you to focus on other work.
Stop the bleeding and open up the airways
Disaster victims in need of complex medical attention beyond available resources are tagged or located to a special area until more medical help arrives. But first their bleeding is stopped and their airways opened. In organizing terms, stopping the bleeding and opening up the airways means doing the most effective thing possible in the time available to you. You won't be able to complete a complex project all at once, but there's always something you can do to be effective. That might mean initiating a meeting, developing an action plan, holding a brainstorming session, or doing something as simple as sending a well-crafted email or making a concise phone call.
Triaging incoming messages, time demands and information is not a perfect analogy to the kind of triaging done in disaster management, but I think it begins to move us to another model of time management better suited for the times we live in.
If you want to learn more about how our world has changed into one full of infinite information, constant distractions and boundless stuff, I recommend my book Getting Organized in the Era of Endless: What to Do When Information, Interruption, Work and Stuff are Endless But Time is Not.
Other Posts You Might Enjoy
Future Sense and the Rise of Time Management: Part I
Time Management and War: Part II
Post-Clock Time Management©: Part III
Calendar of Upcoming Organizing Events
Institute for Challenging Disorganization (ICD) Annual Conference and Exhibition – September 17-19, 2015, Cleveland, OH.
Professional Organizers of Canada, Virtual Chapter, January, 2016
National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) Annual Conference and Exhibition. May 18-21, 2016, Atlanta, GA
The Myth of You Can Work Anywhere, Anytime
How amazing is it to be able to work anywhere without regard to outlets, wires, walls, offices, or bosses? Latest statistics reveal the average American uses up to 3 mobile devices daily (source: McAfee.com.). The untethering of people to computing has made productivity shoot up. But just because we can work anywhere, anytime, doesn't necessarily mean we should. That's because no matter how mobile we are, different kinds of work still require different kinds of environments. Strategic planning, brainstorming, creative projects, and large group work thrives in open spaces with lots of light and windows and plenty of space to spread out. Loud talk, patching in people via Skype, and lots of input that might otherwise be considered interruptive are welcome in this scenario.
At the opposite end of the spectrum is intense, solitary work such as analysis and writing. This is best accomplished in smaller, quiet spaces, such as study cubbies at the library where you turn off your cell phone and interruptions are held to a minimum. A client of mine does her professional reading in the lobby of a local hospital across the street from her office. "That's where I hide," she tells me. Another client checks into a hotel for two days to do her taxes. "Only my family knows how to reach me. After working a few hours, I can take a swim, workout in the gym, or get a massage. Meals are convenient and the whole idea of a dedicated place seems to make me more productive."
Kind of in the middle of the spectrum is purposeful small team or committee work that benefits from a lot of collaboration, decision-making and accountability. This is best accomplished in an environment of small tables, chairs that swivel, and an easy way to take notes or minutes.
The benefits of technology, especially computers, are crucial for any kind of productive work, but the physical environment also plays a huge role. Teachers in classrooms have known this for years. Steelcase recently conducted research on this topic concluding that even an ergonomically comfortable chair on rollers attached to adjustable work surface improves kids' concentration.
When choosing the best place for working on a task, ask yourself these questions:
- What is the task to be accomplished?
- What level of focus does the task require?
- What physical setting would best support the task?
If you want to learn more about how our world has changed into one full of infinite information, constant distractions and boundless stuff, I recommend my book Getting Organized in the Era of Endless: What to Do When Information, Interruption, Work and Stuff are Endless But Time is Not.
Other Posts You Might Enjoy
The Starbucks Effect
It wasn't a scientific survey. The results would never hold up under academic scrutiny, but when 50 people were asked the same question and 97% of their responses were the same, it's safe to conclude you're onto something. That's what happened to me when I discovered what I call "The Starbucks Effect"™. I carried a clipboard to make me look official, and a couple of copies of my books proving that I am a published author. Choosing people way in the back of the coffee shop to interview (so I would not attract the attention of management), I put on a big smile and approached Starbucks customers who seemed to be working, rather than just hanging out.
"Hi, I'm sorry to interrupt. I'm Judith Kolberg, a local author doing research for my next book about getting organized. My survey takes less than 6 minutes. Mind if I ask you two brief questions?" For those agreeable, I asked: "Do you think Starbucks is a good place to get work done?" If they said, "No" I thanked them for their time and gave them a 10% off coupon on my books. I was looking for the people who said, "Yes, I think Starbucks is a good place to get work done."
I made a wild assumption that chocolate and caffeine figured high into people's explanation of why Starbucks is a good place to get work done. But I wanted to understand how a place as noisy and busy as Starbucks could be a good place to accomplish work. Thus, my second question: "It's noisy in here," I commented to each of my interviewees over the roar of the espresso machines, clatter of cups and loud din of voices. "Don't you find the noise and commotion distracting?" To a person, the response was either "No" or "I don't even notice it."
Survey results
Is Starbucks a good place to get work done?
Yes No Total
38 12 50
Do you find the noise and commotion distracting?
Yes No Total
0 38 38
Huh? I'd always thought the best condition for getting work done was quiet places like libraries or cubicles. How can a place as noisy and busy as Starbucks not only be non-distracting, but actually be conducive to productivity? I call it the Starbucks Effect. Using the latest research on the brain and multitasking (check out The Organized Mind by Daniel Levitin) I believe it works something like this: The external distractions (voices, people coming and going, clattering plates, etc.) cancels out internal distractions such as random thoughts, ideas, worries, and that mental to-do list we all carry around with us. Once the external and internal distractions are roughly zeroed out, the task-at-hand comes into focus. More support: some people find a quiet environment devoid of activity very distracting. It lets those internal distractions run wild. This explains why some people go nuts in a library or can't concentrate in a cubicle. I have to turn on a radio or TV when I'm writing in my office. Gotta have some noise.
So my questions to you are:
- Is a coffee shop a good place to get work done?
- Do you find the noise and commotion distracting?
If you want to learn more about how our world has changed into one full of infinite information, constant distractions and boundless stuff, I recommend my book Getting Organized in the Era of Endless: What to Do When Information, Interruption, Work and Stuff are Endless But Time is Not.
Other Posts You Might Enjoy
An Interview with Judith Kolberg
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Getting Organized
Publish15 – June 13-14, 2015
Got a book inside you? Get a book coach! Publish15, an annual convention of publishers, authors, editors, and printers premiers June 12, 13 and 14 at the Forsyth Conference Center, Cumming, GA. Book coach and Publisher Judith Kolberg of Squall Press will be exhibiting. Come visit! Use promo code Pub25 for 25% off General Admission and Workshop passes. Visit Publish15 for more information.
Northern New Jersey Chapter of NAPO – June 22, 2015.
Judith Kolberg will present "Creating Your Digital Estate Plan". The one-hour presentation will address how to protect your "information afterlife" including transferring digital information to your executor, accounting for digital assets in your estate, and keeping digital mischief-makers out of your stuff.
Virtual Chapter of NAPO – August 10, 2015.
Judith Kolberg will present "Creating Your Digital Estate Plan". The one-hour presentation will address how to protect your "information afterlife" including transferring digital information to your executor, accounting for digital assets in your estate, and keeping digital mischief-makers out of your stuff.
Institute for Challenging Disorganization (ICD) Annual Conference and Exhibition – September 17-19, 2015, Cleveland, OH.
National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) Annual Conference and Exhibition. May 18-21, 2016, Atlanta, GA
What Neuroscience tells us about Getting Organized
Excerpt from the Washington Post
We've all heard the conventional wisdom for better managing our time and organizing our professional and personal lives. Don't try to multitask. Turn the email and Facebook alerts off to help stay focused. Make separate to-do lists for tasks that require a few minutes, a few hours and long-term planning.
But what's grounded in real evidence and what's not? In his new book The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin — a McGill University professor of psychology and behavioral neuroscience — explores how having a basic understanding of the way the brain works can help us think about organizing our homes, our businesses, our time and even our schools in an age of information overload.
Click here to read the interview with Levitin about why multi-tasking never works, what images of good leaders' brains actually look like, and why email and Twitter are so incredibly addicting.
How to Develop A Family Technology Policy
We live in the Era of Endless connectivity. We are wirelessly tethered 24/7 to family, friends and fans, co-workers, customers and clients, vendors, suppliers, and perfect and imperfect strangers. One effect of endless connectivity is "work creep." Work creep is the tendency for work to extend into times typically reserved for leisure such as meal times, vacation time and sleep. The overall effect of endless connectivity is to blur the line between work and leisure. Even leisure activities like sharing family videos on Facebook, Checking your Facebook status, commenting on blogs, participating in LinkedIn Groups, and following people on Twitter all take a little work. They also take time. That time has to come from somewhere. A second effect of endless connectivity is that it diverts time away from quality-of-life activities – like real-time with the family and social activities – to digital activities.
In the Era of Endless, families find it helpful to have guidelines for coping with the temptation to endless work and the time-suck of endless connectivity by creating a Family Technology Policy. The Family Technology Policy lays out agreed upon guidelines to balance the best that technology has to offer with real-time, in-person family and social activities.
Every family is different and so each Family Technology Policy will be different. Take a look at the sample Family Technology Policy as a guide.
- No devices at the dinner table. All devices are treated equally whether it's an iPad, TV, tablet, iPhone, or anything that beeps, rings, flashes, or has a screen.
- No screens of any kind open or active after 9 pm.
- No phones within 10 feet of water whether it's the ocean, a pool, the bathtub, or the toilet.
- No texting in front of grandma because it annoys her and she'd rather talk to you.
- No driver in this family will ever text while driving.
- Hugs, eye contact, and live conversation will dominate in this family over texts, calls, and technology.
- If the sun and school are out, you will find us outdoors without our devices.
Consequences: If the policy is violated, the parents will decide on an appropriate action which may include temporarily limiting usage of a device, curtailment of internet time, putting the device in "time-out", or other actions.
Step 1 – Have a family meeting
Step 2 – Choose someone to lead the meeting who will explain the need for the policy. (This can be an adult in the family or you can use a neutral third party like a professional organizer.)
Step 3 – Have handy a large flipchart or other visual aid to write on.
Step 4 – Everyone in the family has an equal voice regarding what they think should or should not be in the policy.
Step 5 – Keep it brief. Up to ten bullet points is usually adequate.
Step 6 – Take a vote to officially approve the policy.
Step 7 – Have everyone in the family sign-off on the policy by signing their names to it.
Step 8 – Discuss what will happen if someone ignores the policy or does something that conflicts with the policy. Will there be consequences? Temporarily limiting usage of a device, curtailment of internet time, putting the device in "time-out" are examples of consequences. Write the consequences down.
Step 9 – Post the approved policy and the consequences in a prominent location in the home and send a copy to each family member electronically.
For more organizing tools to cope with the Era of Endless, order the book by Judith Kolberg, Getting Organized in the Era of Endless: What to Do When Information, Interruption, Work and Stuff is Endless But Time is Not. Available at www.squallpress.net
How To 'Stop' In an Era of Endless
My client, Lisa does not know how to stop. Lisa is a 39-year old university professor. Like most professors, when it is time to prepare her student's reading list, she reviews hundreds of books and academic journal articles. That was overwhelming enough, but to 'keep up' now, she also has to go through videos, podcasts, and blogs. "I'm afraid I'll miss something really vital to their education", Lisa says. She researches and prepares, prepares and researches until the final deadline for submitting the reading list looms close and large. "I have no idea when to stop because I have no idea when I'm done," Lisa confesses.
It's a common complaint these days. In the era of endless, information is infinite, but time is not. Time is finite. So at some point quantity has to be qualified. What is a sufficient quantity to sift thru? How much is enough to qualitatively satisfy a need? It's increasingly difficult to know. Too Big To Know by David Weinberger traces the history of facts as they evolved from scarce, isolated foundations of finite bodies of knowledge to the present day where knowledge and facts are common, group-oriented, and readily available. The concept of rare has gone away in an era of endless when things are equally and endlessly available.
If you find it difficult to stop, here are some tactics you can use:
- Practice the Law of Diminishing Returns which is the tendency for a continuing effort toward a particular goal to decline in effectiveness after a certain level of result has been achieved. Or, as a client in Houston once put it, Stop when the lemonade ain't worth the squeeze.
My client Debra is an HR director for a law firm. Her job is to find qualified prospective attorneys to work for the firm. The longer she keeps looking, the more the open post continues to go unfulfilled. The other attorneys have to add more work to their plate to cover for the unfulfilled position, and the as-yet unhired attorney's contributions are forestalled. Debra says, "It's just not worth it to the company for me to keep going and going and going with my recruitment efforts."
- Spell 'done' out ahead of time. Debra decided to prospect the 10 best candidates as a result of her best efforts exerted over 30 days. Any more effort applied actually diminishes the return.
- Keep in mind that progress towards closure is a quality of life issue. It is good for your mental health to complete things. David Allen, of Getting Things Done fame rightly observes that, "When we spend a lot of psychic energy on half-closed loops, on things left undone, we waste time and energy that could be put to better use elsewhere."
- Ask yourself, outloud, what are the 2 things I can do right now to bring this task/project to closure, to get it off my to do list? It might be to make a call, find something on the web, get a question answered, or take even a small action towards closure.
- Close before you open especially in the morning. Finishing something early in the day builds a "meaning reservoir", an expert on obsessive behavior once told me. Completing just one thing early in the day can give meaning to the entire day.
- Focus on one or two big wins for the day.
Work Creep
A day is still 24 hours long yet there are features of modern work that seem to bend a day a little bit farther over its natural edges, a phenomena I call 'work creep." In the name of greater productivity, there are out-of-office conference calls, weekend team building trips, shifts to cover, and time zone differences. ' Technology has made it possible to work without an office, without a supervisor, and without regard for time of day. In the absence of absolute clarity about the boundaries of work, the line between our working lives and our non-working life is blurred, and discretionary time is disappearing altogether. 62% of at-work email users check work email over the weekend. 50% check email on vacation. In 2009 Americans threw away 465 million vacation days. And 40-hours is rapidly becoming the new part-time. Add to this mix, the fact that we are in a deep recession where the expectation of working longer hours is the norm, and its no wonder we find it hard to find the time to anything but work.
As a professional organizer and time management expert, I tell my clients that I will find them more time, but not to invest into more work. Instead it will be leisure time that we will actually put into their schedule to rest, relax and recreate. Here is where that time can be found:
- Use Skpe, web-based meeting programs, and phone to limit face-to-face meetings.
- Agendize business phone calls, all meetings, and interactions. Write a teeny agenda of what to cover, ask, solve or do at those interactions.
- Delegate to the machines. Taking time to learn how to optimally use your smartphone, tablet, web tools, software and apps can be a huge return on investment in terms of time you save.
- Limit social media usage to a hour at a time. Set an alarm. Get up, walk, and then before setting the alarm for the next hour, decide if you can knock off.
- Schedule leisure, rest, relaxation, and every other kind of downtime. It may sound counter-intuitive to your sense of spontaneity and fun but you'll find you have the best of both worlds: spontaneity and planned non-work time.
Need more help? Contact a professional organizer who can show you how to manage your time to combat work creep.
In a world of endlessly available, unlimited information, it is not so easy to know when a job has been completed and has come to closure. If you're doing research, how do you know when you're done especially when there is so much more information 'out there' that could be incorporated into your findings? How in-depth or thorough does a report need to be before it can be considered done? Unlike other kinds of work, knowledge work requires judgment and experience to determine when you have reached the point of diminishing returns where additional work will not add enough value to justify the cost, effort and time. Closure has come to mean not so much when something is 'finished" as when the tendency for a continuing effort toward a particular goal actually causes effectiveness to decline after a certain level of result has been achieved.
My client Marsha is in HR, charged with 'prospecting for the best legal talent available', one of those knowledge work kind of assignments that can go on forever. "I never knew when enough was enough. I attended recruitment fairs, interacted on social media, prospected at law school events…there just seemed no end to the work." Meanwhile, all that time prospecting for a new attorney meant the open post continued to go unfilled, the other attorneys had to add more work to their plate, and the yet unhired attorney's contributions was forestalled. "It's just not worth it to the company for me to keep trying to find the perfect candidates. I'm done when I prospect what I think are the best 25 candidates a month."
Another factor that affects closure (finishing or completing something) is the extent to which one is taken off task by an interruption or distraction Each day a typical office employee checks e-mail 50 times and uses instant messaging 77 times, according to RescueTime, a firm that develops time-management and tracking software. So defend your right to concentrate. If you truly need to close the door, turn off the cell, and leave email unattended for 3 hours, do it. A recent Harvard University study of 600 managers found that the most significant factor in their perception of their best work days were the days when they made progress, the days they were able to move work forward to closure. Their findings are in a new book called The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile and Steven J. Kramer. I have a client who puts yellow crime scene tape across her cubby office opening. She doesn't have a door but the message is clear. Don't disturb her till the tape comes down. Many companies have a "no devices in this meetings" policy. Find a place to hide where you can concentrate.
The Leisure Dividend
The point of productivity is to generate a 'leisure dividend.' When you are productive you do more in less time leaving you time left over for not working, for having fun or just relaxing. At least that's the theory. Some people are naturally productive. They can prioritize instantly, integrate new tasks on the run, and finish what they start. Productivity tools such as mobile devices with multiple functions, apps, and cloud-based tools can increase productivity. The problem is people tend to reinvest their leisure dividend into more work instead of into leisure. Only 38% of Americans take all of their vacation days. 72% check into the office during their vacations. You recall Clement Clark Moore's Twas the Night Before Christmas? Remember the line ". ..and mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap. Not, "…had just settled down for a long winters nap", but instead "…had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap." We need to rest our brains. All that information we are getting? It needs to be digested, it needs to sink in, be reflected upon and that requires rest.
How do you measure personal productivity? Some people are taking a crack at tracking all their time using a variety of apps. I think tracking our time holds some value but the time is takes to do all that tracking might be using up any benefit of time gained being productive in the first place.
If you are someone who strives for productivity but has difficulty realizing your leisure dividend, try doing the following
- Take whatever vacation you have coming to you. Scientists have found that it takes at least 3 days to relax, and to feel you are on vacation, so take at least 4 days.
- Full engagement in reading is also a good investment of your leisure divident. In-depth, hard copy book reading is a multi-sensory experience involving motor, visual, materiality, and focus that helps us be engaged but relaxed.
- Exercise promotes weight control, lowers stress, controls cholesterol, and supports a good night's sleep making it a top choice for investing your leisure dividend.
- Sleep a little more or learn to nap.
The New Done
My client Ann needs a new car. Armed with a rough budget and some preferences, Ann went online. She visited the best car buying websites, jumped into chat rooms, and used social media to find out what people thought of various vehicles. She checked CraigsList, and downloaded CarPerks to her iPhone (her 100th app!). Once on this research-train, it was hard for Ann to stop. According to the Information Overload Research Group (who knew?!) 53% of people surveyed believe that less than half the information they receive is valuable/useful. Still we find it hard to resist loading ourselves up on information. Not a great screen-reader, or adept at cut and paste pieces of webpages into files, Ann printed out reams of information. "I can't be sure the information is in there," Ann said pointing to her head. What began as a virtual search quickly turned into a seemingly unending tangible research project. When I visited Ann for our time management session she'd been at the car buying project for 3 months. Dan, her husband is supportive, but frustrated. "I know buying a new car is a big decision. But I'd gladly trade-in her thoroughness for getting the job over with."
In an era of unlimited information, the pursuit of thoroughness is more than time-consuming – it's impossible. There is always another opinion to listen to or another piece of information to obtain. I believe "done" needs a make-over. Here's what I think The New Done needs to be:
- It's not about you. Finishing a task is not about your standard of completeness, but rather about meeting other people's expectations or needs. Pleasing a spouse with making a final decision goes a longer way than making the perfect decision which doesn't exist anyway.
- Learn to live with your decision. Let's say Ann narrowed her search to 2 cars and chose one over the other. Chances are great that there is so little difference between them that either choice would be one she could live with.
- Coming through on your obligations and commitments enhances your relationships. Perfectionism and being overly scrupulous might give you a good reputation for being thorough but you'll risk injuring your relationships.
- If you think the stimulation of the hunt for perfect answers feels good, wait till you experience closure!
Organizationally-speaking, The New Done requires a few good practices (I'm not much of a fan of "best practices". The question, 'best for whom?' always stops me cold in my mental tracks.)
- Corralling information is key. Putting it in a form for easy use, retrieval and re-use such as a spreadsheet or a dedicated file is important.
- Impose a time limit especially if the task had no deadline or due date. Go for perfect timing rather than perfect information/solutions/ answers.
- Ask someone else to judge if you are done or not.
- Know exactly what it is people want from you, otherwise you won't know if you've satisfied them.
"He who knows that enough is enough always has enough" – Lao-Tzu


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Every year, the Nashotah House community has the opportunity to tour churches in either the Milwaukee or Chicago areas. In preparation for this year's tour, I interviewed Canon Joseph Kucharski, Professor of Church Music at Nashotah House and Canon Precenter for the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee, the organizer of the tour. This is the first in a series of two articles about the Church Tour, the second of which will post next week.
Q. How long has the church tour been going on?
A. This is actually the 19th year of the church tour.
Q. What was your inspiration for the tour?
A. The tour grew out of my elective class, The Anglican Choral Tradition. In the course, we look at the advancement of music, liturgy and architecture from the pre-reformation period up to the present in the English Church, and discuss its influence of the Oxford Movement on the American Church. One student asked some questions about Milwaukee churches that I attended as a child, and I thought, why don't we visit some as a class. So, my 8 students and I took off an afternoon and carpooled into Milwaukee to see some of the great church buildings. Eventually, others students on campus heard about it and asked if they could do something similar in the future. Dean Kriss liked the idea very much and suggested a seminary tour in place of classes once a year. Since then, we've rented as many as two busses to hold everyone and extended the tour to the Chicago area on alternate years.
Q. What do you hope students (and others) get out of the tour? Why should someone spend a whole day going from church to church in Milwaukee or Chicago?
Q. Where are you taking the tour this year?
A. We are visiting the Episcopal and Roman cathedrals, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, The Milwaukee Art Museum, St. Joseph's Convent Chapel, the Basilica of St. Josaphat, and St. Sava's Serbian Orthodox Cathedral.
Q. Is anything particularly exciting you about this year's tour?
A. Every year I enjoy the look of awe on the faces of students who have never been in large church buildings or churches decorated in a European style. So many American churches are rather plain. These buildings are inspirational; they raise one's spirit and speak of the beauty and transcendence of God.


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Facebook is back again today, sending out the same update for its app, which went out yesterday to iOS users through the regular updating process. Once again, Android users have the opportunity to update the Facebook app, but this time through the Google Play Store only. The update allows users to change their profile picture from the app, do a better job managing group messaging, and report posts for spam.
We're not sure if Facebook is going to repeat its experiment the next time it updates its app, but for now it would appear that the attempt to bring its update directly to Android users was not a complete success.
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Government for the people: APIs are making government more transparent
We have all had at least one experience that has made us wish we had never gotten a driver's license, a car or a passport. That moment when you realized you'd just wasted 3 hours of a perfectly good day waiting in line for a basic government service. (Mine was waiting 4 hours as a 14 year old during my spring break for a tiny receipt that would allow me to get a passport).
Thankfully, it is starting to look like the days of long lines and complete confusion over government paperwork are numbered. It seems that every aspect of the government is getting a 21st century makeover as more governments realize that they can better serve their citizens by opening up their data through APIs. Just a few examples:
- In 2009, New York City announced the annual NYC BigApps competition where developers competed to make apps that use city data; in 2011, the city even solicited suggestions from citizens on what apps they wanted to see come out of the competition
- New York City, San Francisco, and Washington DC (and other cities around the world) have made their data available online and even opened up specific APIs so that developers could make city-living data more accessible and regulations, such as parking rules, easier to understand
- President Obama mandated the opening of data.gov in 2009 to increase transparency of federal government data on everything from labor and business data to education statistics
- The DATA Act (currently working its way through Congress) would centralize and standardize reporting on federal government spending
Of course, just having lots of data available doesn't do much good for a typical person – who has the time to sift through all of this information? The answer, of course, is more APIs. In February 2012, when ProgrammableWeb (the online directory of open APIs) reached 5,000 APIs listed, it reported that government APIs were one of the fastest growing categories. This means that government data is getting easier and easier to consume. The more government APIs there are, the more insight and access citizens have to their government. Everything from finding a (legal) parking spot to researching if you can get a government loan for your small business to finding out how your tax dollars were spent is getting easier.
The opportunities to make everything simpler, freer and more transparent are vast. Now, all we need are some government service APIs and the days of long DMV lines will be replaced by a 2-minute iPhone app transaction.


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Fans of Lee Hi and 2NE1 will have something to look forward to at the end-of-year festivities, as the two artists will be exchanging songs for their respective performances at the upcoming 2012 'MBC Gayo Daejaejun'!
According to an entertainment staff member, the upcoming show on the 31st will feature a cross-over collaboration stage between the two YG Entertainment artists. 2NE1 will perform Lee Hi's debut track, "1,2,3,4", while the 'K-Pop Star' rookie will be singing 2NE1's ballad/hip-hop song, "I Love You".
In addition to the two artists, this year's MBC music festival will also feature other artists from YG Entertainment, including Big Bang and Epik High, raising expectations for this year's 'Gayo Daejaejun'.
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Not that there is alot out there but 2003/04 Bskt products are about to make a big run (barring a total collapse by the Heat). Any product from this year could move higher by 50% over the next 6-12 months. The High End Bskt collectors will focus in of Lebron. The craze is about to begin. Heard a few weeks ago that a private collector declined an offer of $60,000 on a 3 case lot of 03/04 Exquisite bskt. True or not...the attention is on 2003/04. There is another big run coming even with pricing seemingly high already. If you have the means...put 2003/04 away for a few years.
2012 Topps Tier One Baseball is a huge winner. Hearing production numbers on the forums of 1700 Master Cases. Get what you can and put it away. Once this product dries up, it could make a similar percentage move as Tribute and Museum BB which had more than a 50% upside from factory cost.
Keep an eye on the 2012 Topps Olympic products. US olympic Trials are on Prime Time this weekend and there will be alot of coverage as the mass population gets to know these athletes.
More to come as the market changes...
Appreciate the update. Pandemonium has arrived! Baseball, Football, and now Basketball. Should be an interesting next 6 months. Any word of exquisite football?
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Re: ListContourPlot3D ?
John Ehrlinger writes.
>I am wondering if anyone has seen or developed a ContourPlot command that
>can plot 3 dimensional lists of data. I get fantastic results with
>ListContourPlot[plotData, Contours->cons] but the axis are in data point
>units instead of units related to my data. Does anyone have a solution for
There is a bug in the package that causes the axes to have the
wrong values. This is very easy to fix directly in the package
and will be fixed in the next version. The package is called
ContourPlot3D.m and is found in the Packages/Graphics directory.
The fix is to find the two rules for GetMesh. The second one reads...
GetMesh[ mesh_, dims_] :=
If[ Length[ mesh] === 3 && MatrixQ[ mesh, And[ Integer[#],
mesh, Transpose[ {{1,1,1}, dims}]]
this should be changed to
GetMesh[ mesh_, dims_] :=
If[ Length[ mesh] === 3 && MatrixQ[ mesh, NumberQ],
mesh, Transpose[ {{1,1,1}, dims}]]
the other rule for GetMesh should be left unaltered.
This will cure the problem with axes. If someone has problems
applying this fix I can mail a fixed package to them.
While on the subject of ListContourPlot3D, does anyone who uses it find
it inconvenient to prepare data on a regular grid? Would it be useful
to have a three-dimensional triangulation algorithm that would allow
the plotting of contours for some other arrangement of data?
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It is a benefit and blessing to all. But if you're not sure what your gifts and calling are, it is a way of finding out what they are. God has plans for all of us, and this is a tool that God has used to advance many followers of Christ into greater Ministry opportunities--very quickly!
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Oval fans are in for a treat says Solskjaer
The 14,000 fans who will pack in to the Oval tonight are in for a treat according to Manchester United legend Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
Indeed the man, who scored that never to be forgotten Champions League winner in 1999, is predicting that United's new signings Nani and Anderson, on show against Glentoran, will become massive Old Trafford stars of the future.
While Sir Alex Ferguson will not be attending the glamour match to mark Glentoran's 125th anniversary, the Scot is sending over a strong squad to Belfast.
Glens officials were sweating on any last minute withdrawals which often happen ahead of friendlies, but Rio Ferdinand, Patrice Evra, Michael Carrick, John O'Shea and Nemanja Vidic were expected to be on the plane from Manchester this morning with hopes high that star man Cristiano Ronaldo would also be on the flight.
And then of course there will be two of United's recruits - Portugal star Nani and Brazilian Anderson.
For thousands of United fans in Northern Ireland it will be their first chance to see these two talented youngsters.
Solskjaer, who knows what it takes to be a success at United, believes the new kids on the block have the ability to shine.
"It is an exciting time at United, especially with the new signings coming in," said the striker.
"Players like Nani and Anderson have great talent. Obviously it is going to take them time to settle but at times this season you will see great things from them.
"I believe they can be big stars for the club in the future."
If that prediction comes true, those at the Oval tonight can effectively say they were there when it all started.
Glentoran manager Alan McDonald will use every member of his squad this evening.
Michael Dougherty is expected to start in goal in place of the injured Elliott Morris.
Expect Dougherty to be a busy man.
The home defence is likely to be overworked as well, but veteran Mark Glendinning is relishing the challenge.
"Over here in the Irish League we think we are good players, but these guys are true superstars and the people who don't normally get the chance to see Premiership matches will want them to put on a show," said the 37-year-old.
"I have been playing football for 22 years and never had the chance to come up against players like this before, so it will be great for me. I signed for Glentoran a year or two after the tournaments involving Liverpool, Benfica and Feyenoord finished, so I never got to play against any of those teams.
"Playing against Manchester United will be one of the biggest moments of my career. I wasn't sure if I would get the chance to play in this match, but my knee felt good on Saturday and I just hope that the chance doesn't pass me by now."
Although the multi-millionaire superstars from Old Trafford will command the respect of the Glentoran team, Glendinning insists that he and his team mates won't be suffering any inferiority complex. The former Glenavon ace added: " It is a once in a lifetime chance to play against these players and for us as well it is a chance to show what we can do. It is a match to be enjoyed and that is what we will be intending to do."
Kick-off is 7.45pm. The advice is get there early.
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Olivia Munn Glams Up HBO Post-Emmy Party
Stepping out for an enchanted evening, Olivia Munn showed up at the HBO Post 64th Primetime Emmy Awards reception in Los Angeles last night (September 23).
The "Newsroom" babe had all eyes on her thanks to her semi-see-through black dress that exposed just enough cleavage without being too scandalous.
Earlier in the night, Olivia talked about the fact that she was rooting for a certain "Mad Men" actress to finally take home a trophy.
"I think Christina Hendricks really deserves it for 'Mad Men.' As an actor, you get so hopeful that you get to do great work, and if you get that opportunity, that you do it justice and she has knocked it out the park."
Unfortunately, Hendricks went home empty-handed yet again.
Enjoy the pictures of Olivia Mun at the HBO Emmy Awards Afterparty (September 23).
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Deadliest hurricane in western hemisphere
Excerpt from the October 19, 1963, issue of SCIENCE NEWS LETTER
The deadliest storm in the history of the Western Hemisphere, hurricane Flora, was unusual in its slow, wavering pace and the force it maintained over land. Usually hurricanes lose their force when they blow across land…. Then as they move again over open water, they sometimes can regenerate their force. For nearly five days the giant mass of whirlwinds hovered over Cuba, the longest a hurricane has been known to stay in one place…. The powerful storm may have killed more than 9,000 people in...
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The equal pay test case for social and community services workers being backed by the federal government will involve pay rises of between 20 per cent and 50 per cent, phased in over six years.
The extent of the pay rise for about 150,000 mostly female workers employed by charities and non-government organisations will fuel concerns among employers about possible flow-on increases in the private sector.
The flow-on could occur through separate cases covering sectors where there is a largely female workforce who are underpaid, such as childcare, aged care and parts of the retail industry.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pledged an extra $2 billion in commonwealth funding for the wage increases, but between 40 and 50 per cent of the sector's funding comes from the states.
Coalition governments in NSW and Victoria have weakened support for the test case that was promised by former Labor administrations.
On Friday, the Parliamentary Secretary for Workplace Relations, Jacinta Collins, criticised the federal opposition for not supporting the so-called SACS case and called for state and territory governments to firm up their funding.
"There are, of course, sectors other than the ones covered in this case where there may be genuine pay equity issues and we can expect that there will be further claims for equal pay orders for Fair Work Australia to consider," Senator Collins said.
"The decision FWA ultimately makes in this case will establish an important precedent for future equal remuneration applications under the Fair Work Act. But every industry is different, and the arguments in every case will turn on their own facts and history."
Australian Services Union assistant national secretary Linda White said the SACS case had been four years in the making and people either believed in the principle of equal pay or they did not.
"I'm sick of hearing employer associations say they support equal pay but they're not prepared to put their money where their mouth is," she said.
But the joint submission will come under scrutiny from FWA and employers because it admits that identifying and assessing the level of gender under-evaluation is difficult and "is not something that can be identified with precision".
It argues that FWA should rely on the methodology used in a similar ruling several years ago that covered community workers in Queensland.
Earlier this year, Fair Work Australia accepted that SACS workers were underpaid and that this was partly based on gender, but the tribunal said the issues were complex and more work was needed to assess the extent to which "gender had inhibited wages growth" in the industry.
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Hello all, I'm new here and all because of a very poor service having had my 2007 520D break down in Spain.
Basically what happened is that the vehicle went into limp mode about 60 miles North of Madrid and as such, due to the terrain the car was unable to make it up the hills. The limp mode I had would not permit the car to exceed about 20 mph and as for hills, this was a no - no.
I had the car transported to BMW Madrid and had various diagnostics undertaken at a cost of 920. As I was returning back to the UK, the car had to be left in Spain during this testing. I returned to the UK. Following the tests, I was told that to correct the problems, it would cost more that 9000. At this point, I requested that the car be returned to the UK. This was done.
On return I would have expected a full report to have been left in the car as to the finding of the diagnostic report, but nothing had been provided. I have contacted BMW Madrid by email requesting this and, to this point, there has been no reply.
A BMW dealer in the UK says that the diagnostic shall have to be undertaken again. This is crazy and it is also pointed out that BMW dealers between countries do not communicate. Trying to speak to anyone at BMW Madrid has not resulted in anything as they do not speak English and I don't speak Spanish.
So far, I think that the BMW garage has taken money for nothing and at this moment I am unable to resolve the problems without additional diagnostic being undertaken here in the UK.
Very poor service from BMW Madrid.
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Date of Stay: September, 2014
Stayed one night. Have stayed here before. Nice park. Owners show their pride in the park. Not terribly difficult to get in or out but there are some tight places for a large rig. Owners were nice and had no problems with them. Makes a nice transient park and they do have rallies here. We will stop again when traveling through the area.
Date of Stay: September, 2014
Rate is PA member. Stayed for few weeks and enjoyed the park. 3 pools, 2 dog parks, and a gym made our stay very enjoyable. And our motor home enjoyed the Preserves section for its nice spaces.
Date of Stay: May, 2014
Nice, clean, and relaxing. Only a couple of minor issues. One, getting out in a 40 footer is taxing and, two, on the next day a ranger showed up and claimed we were behind in our rent (we stopped at the office since we never have been there and paid). Seems communications are lacking and its a relatively small park. Overall wished we could have stayed a second or more nights. Would stay again.
Date of Stay: April, 2014
Price keeps going up. We go there twice a year while traveling in the area to see family. Has gym (most equipment doesn't work), pool (never open when we are there), traffic noise, etc. Will still go there but the rates keep going up. Only people that use the facilities (for the most park) are the permanents that work in the area. Plus side it's close to many attractions.
Date of Stay: April, 2014
New management is very accommodating. We were there to visit sister who lives in Fort Worth. They didn't at the time have full hookups but would accommodate us in an overflow. Luck has it a full hookup became available. We have been to this park several years ago and there is still charm to it. But with the expansion there is much dust on the road (gravel). Since visiting family didn't use the facilities. Price is right.
Date of Stay: April, 2014
We normally stay at this campground when traveling south or north on I-35 (twice a year). Sites are great, large, concrete with paved roads. However, during this stay the WiFi didn't work and when I called the office the personnel was very indifferent. Basically, they didn't care and didn't have any control. Also, prior to arrival I called the office and was told that the pull through sites had to be reserved. When I arrived I was given a pull through site and I asked how long can I stay on this site. I was told the pull through cannot be reserved so its mine (???). Also, be aware the rate had drastically gone up. I would expect for $45 a night I would get WiFi. Next time I might travel a little farther to save money. We don't gamble. I'd give it a 10 if rates were reasonable, WiFi worked, and office staff received some training.
Date of Stay: April, 2014
Nice campground. Limited sites with sewer and very busy during the weekends. Reservations are a must for weekends. Stayed two nights and enjoyed it. Large tiered patio areas with fire pit and grill. Surrounded by large trees which is good for shade but makes satellite difficult. I would stay again.
Date of Stay: June, 2013
Difficult to get into with large rig. As we got into the campground realized that there was no way to level the rig, large slope. Decided to leave (no one in the office and another tenant blocked our rig. Only level sites where around the parameter which were small back ins occupied by long term tenants. Seriously, as we decided not to attempt to get into a site, attempted to determine the best way out and could not tell which was a road and which were sites! Very tight.
Date of Stay: June, 2013
Office Staff was friendly. Sites were level. However, several sites (empty) had garbage bags with trash overflowing. And the hookups are at the rear and quite a bit distant from the site. Barely had the ability to connect electric, and water hose was barely able to connect. Didn't even try to connect to the sewer. Weeds / grass combined with sand and ants all over the campground. Only one section (permanents?) had grass and was mowed.
Date of Stay: April, 2013
Owners and family very friendly and helpful. Some level sites and several not compacted, meaning you could sink tires or levelers on a large rig if the ground is wet. The rates went up to $30 and there are no discounts.
Date of Stay: April, 2012
The park was clean. Spaces are tight and the pull through concrete pads were breaking apart. Biggest complaint is the train noise all night long.
Date of Stay: September, 2011
Very nice campground, friendly staff, and nice amenities. During holidays can be very busy as it seems everyone has golf carts, etc.
Date of Stay: September, 2011
Very nice park. Needs some improvement in the campground area, such as trimming trees and leveling of some of the campsites. Pets are only allowed in the main campground area and not around the lake and the rest of the recreation area. Cummings has opened the campground to FMCA and Good Sam and is hoping for more usage. Very busy during weekends and impossible to get in during holidays due to company events. There is a gun range in the campground which can be frightening for pets.
Date of Stay: August, 2011
2nd year using this campground while in Michigan. Nice walking area, nice park. Always enjoy it and close to everything yet no street noise. Oh yeah, do have a daily train.
Date of Stay: April, 2010
This is a great new campground. The lot sizes are large. Has a large dog walk area. Only wish for a swimming pool or a gym. Got some highway traffic noise at our site.


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Attached below are some photos from our event.
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NSA Can Hack Into Your Wi-Fi Network From Up To 8 Miles Away
It was recently reported that NSA has specific units of elite hackers, tasked with hacking into all kinds of hardware and networks. Further details on the subject reveal that these NSA hackers can hijack a Wi-Fi network, even while they are miles away.
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Official Facebook & Twitter Account Of Skype Got Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army
The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has decided to celebrate the new year with a solid dose of hacking. The pro-Assad group recently gained control of Skype's social media accounts, demanding an end to online spying.
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Hacker Leaks Info Of 4.6 Million Snapchat Users Online
Recently, security researchers were able to reveal a critical flaw in Snapchat, which allowed a hacker to match Snapchat usernames against actual passwords. Now, a detailed database of 4.6 million Snapchat usernames and phone numbers has been posted online.
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NSA Has Complete Access To iPhone Communications
After reporting NSA can intercept shipments and bug machines with spyware, yesterday an anonymous blogger leaked details of an NSA catalogue, containing backdoor techniques for different hardware tools. The catalogue reveals that the agency can easily access all communications made through an iOS device.
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Hackers Invent Clever Methods To Use Stolen Target Cards
The hacking of nearly 40 million credit and debit cards of Target customers recently was among the largest heists in the entire year. Now, it has transpired that the hackers who stole the information are trying to put these cards to use.
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Security Firm Publishes Snapchat Exploits, Allowing Name/Phone Number Matching
Snapchat has a rather notorious record when it comes to heeding security researchers. Gibson Security has published two major Snapchat exploits which, the firm says, were initially reported to Snapchat but the company didn't respond.
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Hacker Demands Bitcoin Ransom, Threatens To Leak 3.7 Million Israeli Bank Customers Data
A hacker has somehow been able to grab hold of the data of some 3.7 million bank customers in Israel. He has now asked three major Israeli banks to either pay up a certain amount in Bitcoin or that he would sell the data to others.
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Hacking Forums Start Selling The Stolen Target Credit Card Numbers
One of the biggest banking heist of recent times occured when hackers were successful in making away with 40 million credit card numbers. It would now appear that these hackers are now selling the numbers at underground hacking forums.
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Details Of 54 Million Turkish Citizens Stolen By Russian Hackers
Personal details of individuals can be used by hackers in a whole lot of possibly malicious ways. This is why when Russian hackers recently stole details of 45 million Turkish citizens, it sent the alarm bells ringing among security researchers.
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Chinese Hackers Spyied On European Diplomats During G20 Meetings Using Malware
Chinese hackers have earned a notorious reputation over the years, hacking into the machines of countless organizations. Now, a report from FireEye reveals that hackers based in China were able to access the computers of European diplomats during G20 meetings.
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Until now, Gmail asked your permission to 'Display Images Below' before showing any pics within an email. With a new update, the email service will directly display the images, not requiring your permission any more.
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Hacker Tries To Sell Supercomputer Time, Gets Sentenced For 18 Months
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I am giving my R a more classic styling, therefore I need to sell my Old Front Bumber! It is cracked and has been quoted by Waynes Auto Body in North Hampton NH as fixable, bumper is complete with grilles, lower and Upper (stock grille!), seat cupra R lip (new in plastic!), great opportunity to shave side markers, line around lower grilles and really upgrade the look of the front of your GTI!!
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Last Modified: Thursday, January 31, 2013 7:24 PM
By Warren Arceneaux / American Press
Iowa's road warriors will be contending with a desperate foe tonight when the head north to take on the South Beauregard Golden Knights.
South Beauregard has lost two straight games to fall from first to third in the District 4-3A standings. Iowa sits atop the standings, in large part due to winning two of three road district games.
The Golden Knights have suffered close losses at Westlake and at Crowley in its past two games and needs a win to stay in the title hunt.
Head coach Marcus Simon said the teams quintet of seniors — Aaron Guillory, Brian Marks, Shawn Duhon, DaQuain Mathews and Jordan Malbreaux — are the keys to the team.
"Senior leadership and a commitment to play tough defense is why we have been successful," Simon said. "We have given opponents a hard time and made it difficult for them to score, especially late, buy switching defenses. Offensively, we are sharing ball, being unselfish, no one is worried about their numbers. Our seniors are hungry for success. Some of them have gotten a taste of it in football, but they have not had much in basketball."
Simon said bringing home a win won't be easy.
"In this district, it is difficult to get a road win. South Beauregard has not lost a home game in district. Everyone is kind of even and every environment is hostile so you have to be ready to play."
The Golden Knights have protected their house so far in district play, picking up narrow wins over Westlake and Crowley and a blowout over Notre Dame. South Beauregard is just 1-3 in road district games. Second-place Westlake has suffered both of its losses on the road.
Iowa went 8-1 in January and beat South Beauregard 72-62 on Jan. 15.
"It was tight pretty much the whole game, we had a tough time stopping their guards (Micah McElhaney and Grant Thibodeaux) from getting into the paint. After we started doing that, we were able to take the lead and never gave it back."


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Teachers at conference weigh in on common core
BATON ROUGE- Common core was a hot topic when nearly a thousand teachers from across the country met at LSU.
The educators were on campus for the third annual Effective Educators Seminar Series.
"As a teacher, I personally embrace common core. Not just as a set of expectations for students but also as accountability standards for educators. As an educator...we all want our students to be successful. And I look at standards as just expectations," said Chander Johnson, a teacher from Mississippi.
"I'm both for the governor and for John White, the state superintendent. And I'm for common core. It's just about teaching standards. Teaching standards differently," said William Simmons Jr., a high school principal from Terrebonne parish.
At the conference, instructors got the tips on how to effectively manage a classroom, time management, and discipline.
LSU partnered with Harry and Rosemary Wong who were the main presenters. Seminar organizers say the Wongs are well respected in the education field.
The conference wrapped up Saturday afternoon.
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It's common in many insecticides. Pyrethrum, widely regarded as natural and relatively safe, in fact is irreversibly absorbed into human nerve cells, of which the brain is built.
As an aside to that, no actual harm as a result has ever been demonstrated, but me, I don't use it in the house.
That's one of the beauties of some neonictiniods being hundreds of times stronger against insects than some of the old insecticides. It means that hundreds times less is used but still be effective, much better in many ways.


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Several dead as anti-Islam film protests widen
Violent protests have continued across the Middle East in response to an American amateur film seen as insulting to Islam despite an appeal for calm by some Arab leaders.
Crowds have attacked and attempted to storm the British, German and American embassies in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.
There have also been demonstrations in Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Libya, Lebanon, Gaza, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, India and Indonesia.
The BBC's Jeremy Bowen reports from Cairo.
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