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The CWU Orchestra program is recognized as the preeminent collegiate orchestra program in the Northwest, performing as many as ten concerts per year including choral/orchestral collaborations, a concerto competition, Halloween concert, opera productions and guest artist concerts. The ensemble consistently receives invitations to perform at State Washington Music Educators Association (WMEA) and Northwest Regional NAfME conferences. Recent performances include Carmina Burana at Seattle's Benaroya Hall, Pictures at an Exhibition as part of an invited performance for the State MENC Conference, and fully staged performances of Copland's "The Tender Land" and Strauss' "Die Fledermaus" at the Capitol Theater in Yakima.
With an emphasis on a wide range of repertoire, the 90-member ensemble has premiered many pieces while presenting standard masterworks. Recent programs have included: Brahms Symphony No. 4, Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, Debussy La Mer, Shostakovich Symphony No. 10, Higdon Concerto for Orchestra, Respighi Pines of Rome, Sibelius Symphony No. 5, Beethoven Symphony No. 9, John Adams Lollapalooza, Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms, Dvorák Cello Concerto, Ravel La Valse, Paulus Erotic Spirits, Mahler Symphony No. 1, Brahms Symphony No. 2, Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3, Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet, Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, and Bernstein Symphonic Dances. In Fall 2010, the orchestra performed premieres of Elaine Ross and Maria Newman in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Women's Suffrage in Washington State. In Winter 2011, the orchestra was invited to celebrate Alan Hovhaness' 100th birthday in a performance of his Magnificat at Benaroya Hall.
Recently, the orchestra went on a Northwest tour, performing at various high schools on their way to Portland, OR where they concluded their tour at the 2014 NAfME All-Northwest Conference. In Fall 2013, the orchestra performed the Northwest premiere of Martin Kennedy's Piano Concerto, featured professor Tim Betts on Bartók's Viola Concerto, and collaborated with the Yakima Symphony Orchestra on Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring. That December, the orchestra was honored to perform at the Paramount Theater in Seattle with Jackie Evancho, 2013 winner of "America's Got Talent". In 2015, Yakima Symphony Orchestra will combine forces again with the CWU Symphony Orchestra to perform Mahler's Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection".
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Eating and sleeping dominate the town scene. Sprinkle in some sport climbing, bouldering, and tons of dudes talking about climbing and weather and you have a good picture of the day-to-day here in El Chalten. For over a week now we have been waiting in town for the weather to clear, and it looks like it is going to happen. If this weather window stays solid we will be hiking in to the mountains tomorrow! Here are a few pics from life in town.
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2012 (Senior): Played nine games along offensive line ... Part of O-line that paved way for third-best passing offense (295.4) and fifth-best total offense (440.2) in ACC ... Received U Respect Award at team's end-of-season banquet ... Earned letter.
2011 (Junior): Lone appearance of year came against Duke ... Earned Scout Team Player of the Week honors heading into team's match-up against Virginia Tech ... Earned letter.
2010 (Sophomore): Played in one game, did not record tackle.
2009 (Redshirt Freshman): Played in seven games at defensive tackle ... Recorded three tackles (two vs. UNC, one at UCF) ... Had pass break-up in win over Virginia ... Earned letter. 2008 (True Freshman): Participated on scout team ... Saw limited action against Charleston Southern in season opener and recorded career-first tackle.
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Enemies that make you stop playing
Not long ago I finally forced myself to finish Skyrim: Dawnguard, which required me to fight my way through a dungeon of falmer and their insect pets. At that point I knew I would probably never play through Dawnguard again.
I just can't stand fighting those things and tend to avoid any dungeon that forces me to deal with them. I say, "Wow, Blackreach is amazingly beautiful and a good chance to explore a huge dwemer city. Oh, wait, it's just a big falmer lair, so to hell with that."
It's not that they're hard. It's not that they're creepy. It's just that they're so damn tedious! They're standard humanish baddies, but with a tendency to hit-point sponginess, and they tend to come in large groups. Their pets are somehow even worse, and use poison to be extra annoying. You wouldn't think they would be any more irritating than bandits and spiders, but somehow I find them so much worse.
Thankfully Skyrim's open enough that I can find plenty to do without having to slog through these guys, but with other games you can't always avoid baddies like this.
Are there any enemies that inspire you to walk away from a game, or even just one part of it?
Yea, there is a type of enemies that make me stop playing the game. Enemies that respawn. I just hate playing any game where your character or party is mortal, but enemies are not.
You already knew that.
What you probably didn't know is that I despise adding races into nonracing genre. Yes I did and won races in Kotor, but would I run them again in game replay? No.
Another example is Mafia. Adored by everyone, yet I've uninstalled it when I got a quest to drive some sort of formula.
There are some counterexamples though, Brutal Legend has a sort of races in it, but it's designed not as a race but just a drive through obstacles in some odd and fun way so in the case of that game, it actually "drove" me to play more. Another game where "racing" but in fact driving and getting things done while driving was designed well was Full Throttle.
Not quite an enemy, but still. Racing in a nonrace game will make me stop playing it completely.
To me it's usually in jRPGs, the final bosses, that take a looong time to kill and then 99% of the time, they turn into a more powerful monster. Most of the times when this happens and I die by the 2nd (and sometimes 3rd form of the boss), I just consider the game completed, and go to youtube to watch the ending.
The rakghouls from KOTOR 1's undercity area. They had the annoying habit of constantly poisoning you. That entire section is a large part of the reason for why I've never bothered replaying the game. It was not a particularly hard section, but it was incredibly annoying.
But I tend to dislike any area that contains large amounts of enemies that can poison you.
Well, the obvious choice is Cliff Racers from Morrowind :)
The will o'wisps in Oblivion was really annoying, on the other hand Oblivion became rather annoying pretty fast as well, so I can't say they are what made me stop.
In Diablo 2 griswold monster was very annoying, I would finish the game on all difficulties but leave him be…
I mostly enjoy J-RPG bosses, but in Final Fantasy 3 ( NES Version, not the FF 6 which is called 3 in US ) I however never managed to beat the final boss, which prevented me from finishing the game. The most annoying part of that was that I didn't have any save except for at the boss so I could not go back and level up in order to beat him!
In Shadowrun Returns, the typical dungeon will last about 20 minutes. For whatever reason, they decided the last two dungeons should last a couple hours each. I slogged through the first one and when I found out I had to do one more, I just went to watch the ending on youtube. Wasn't going to slog through 100 super spiders just to fight the final battle.
Of course that doesn't change my opinion that the save system in SRR is a joke. :)
In reality, I think I forgave it because it was just one level.
For KOTOR however, I don't see a problem, since it's entirely optional (as far as I can remember).
Yup, in Kotor, unlike Mafia, it's optional.
I have noticed that my tolerance for crazy end bosses and general slogfests has declined with age - when I was a young lad I would wade through hours of monotonous combat. No longer! Who knows how many years I have left - don't want to squander time on drawn out encounters. blech! I play as far as I can, repeat N times for hard combats (where N is small positive integer) and then grab a cheat to move forward. There, I said it. Oh the shame!
Game-breaking c*nts? There's the obvious recent one - the first boss in the newest Deus Ex.
Up until that point, the game really does let you play and develop your character to your own particular style of play. I chose stealthy, zero-kill hacker. Except the first boss fight directly railroads you into a toe-to-toe, stand-up scrap. Don't have any gun skills (or even guns) because they've been entirely unnecessary until this point? Best restart then, Billy-take-the-devs-at-their-word-about-multiple-paths-through-the-game.
(Dishonoured is a vast improvement on this front. You can genuinely play through the game without killing anyone. And the multiple approaches to missions are genuinely varied.)
Game styles stop me from playing games, not opponents. For instance, a game that sells itself as an rpg but is really a shooter, ie, ME 3, is an instant refund for me. If the genre is right, a hard opponent only makes me want to play more, not less.
I search the big bad boys and always find ways to kill them…
The Falmer Dungeons were pretty easy for example if you used ranged weapons, stealth and Serana as partner. You need a good bow skill, though.
Yeah, that's basically my problem with Deus Ex: HR. It's a really nice stealth 'em up all the way up until it suddenly isn't!
End boss in Risen. Sorta a letdown when battling the enemies before it.. On the bright side the game ended with it (I'm being overly critical here.. hehe).
Honerable mention: Shinobi on arcades. If you died on the last level, you could not use continue and had to start all over. Only game that managed to get me furious. Beat it the next playthrough though and never looked back.
Every boss battle that forces completely different gameplay on the player and requires some very hidden trick before the boss is even vulnerable. Bonus douchebag points for bosses that regenerate or have hidden extra lifes. One of the main reasons I dumped consoles and never looked back.
Oh and throw Gothic 3 boars in mix :evil:
Golems in Arcanum.
They degrade melee weapons when hit and armor when they hit, in dungeons where there is plenty of then like abandon dwarf stronghold, If you don't have repair skill, you had to go back to town and repair several times in single dungeon, very annoying.
I dont think I've quit due to enemies, more the situations. How theyre used.
For instance - Darkspawn in the Dragon Age. I'm still sick of them. Complete overkill, you cant swing a stick without hitting one in either game. The rooms chock full of them towards the end of DA:0, and their paratrooper bretheren in DA2 had me begging for a merciful end.
I couldnt quit tho. DA:0 was the closest thing I'd played to Infinity since then, and DA2 was more not letting it beat me out of spite.
Re4's kill-em-again head-sprouting enemies were annoying, the morphing enemies always wear on you. Still fun tho, and imo RE4 had some of the best boss battles of the decade. Just difficult enough to be challenging, and maybe even rage-quit once. But you come back later and win on the first try. That's satisfying
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Maxwell-Peters Home302 Main Avenue
Northport, AL 35476, United States
Maxwell-Peters Home302 Main Ave
Northport, AL 35476, United States
Best Western Park Plaza3801 McFarland Blvd E
Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
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Budget Inn2600 Mcfarland Blvd
Northport, AL, United States
Courtyard by Marriott - Tuscaloosa4115 Courtney Drive
Tuscaloosa, AL 35405, United States
Econo Lodge1930 McFarland Blvd
Northport, AL 35476, United States
Hampton Inn6400 Interstate Drive
Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Hampton Inn: Tuscaloosa - University600 Harper Lee Drive
Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
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Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Jameson Inn5021 Oscar Baxter Dr
Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Microtel Inn & Suites Tuscaloosa-University Hotel1417 Veterans Memorial Parkway
Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
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Northport, AL 35476, United States
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Bessemer, AL 35020-5417, United States
"A large indoor/outdoor market with a variety of old, new, collectibles and antique items. Every Friday-Sunday. Easy access from I-65 to downtown Bessemer. 8am-5pm. Free admission. 205-425-8510."
Alabama AdventureAlabama Adventure
4599 Alabama Adventure Parkway
Bessemer, AL 35022, US
"The New Name for Fun! Formerly Visionland, the park features a theme park and water park. In addition to new rides in the existing theme and water park, the plan calls for the following amenities: an animal park, a hotel with an indoor water park, a sports complex, RV park, interactive water play area, stock car racing zone and many more exciting attractions."
Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame1631 4th Ave N
Birmingham, AL 35203, United States
"Birmingham native Erskine Hawkins penned the jazz standard "Tuxedo Junction" about an Ensley streetcar crossing, creating a sound heard around the world. And that's just one of Birmingham's many contributions to the world of jazz. The Jazz Hall of Fame exhibits memorabilia in the historic, art deco Carver Theatre. Open Tuesday-Saturday/ 10am-5pm. Closed Sundays and Mondays, except for scheduled events. Guided tours are $3.00 per person and must be scheduled by appointment at 254-2731 Ext 21 only. General admission to the museum is $2.00 per person."
Birmingham Botanical Gardens2612 Lane Park Rd
Birmingham, AL 35223, United States
Birmingham ZooBirmingham Zoo
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Birmingham, AL 35223-1106, US
"Alabama's Number one tourist attraction! See more than 700 wild animals in the heart of Birmingham at the Birmingham Zoo! Visit the Alligator Swamp. Feed the lorikeets in an interactive aviary where colorful parrots will land gently on your arm and sip nectar from your cup. The new Savannah brings Africa to Alabama in a naturalistic exhibit featuring giraffes, greater kudu, gazelles, and ostriches. Food, gift shop, train, and picnic areas. Phase I of the new Junior League of Birmingham- Hugh Kaul Children's Zoo now open! Take Zoo-Gardens exit off Highway 280. Open 7 days a week from 9 to 5. (Extended summer hours from Memorial Day through Labor Day: Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, 9 to 7.) Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. Admission is $11 for adults; $6 for children (2-12); $6 for seniors, 65+. Children under 2 are free. 1/2 price Tuesdays (March 1- October 31). Members get in free everyday! Group rates available with prior reservations. Accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association."
Children's Hands-On Museum2213 University Blvd
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401, United States
"The Children's Hands-On Museum is a dynamic learning experience that stimulates curiosity, creativity, and shared discovery in all ages."
Mcwane Science Center200 19th St N
Birmingham, AL 35203, United States
"Adventures in learning surround you at the McWane Science Center. The museum offers a hands-on, creative examination of the worlds around us in a renovated department store housing 150,000 square feet of educational science equipment and a 42,000-square-foot IMAX theater. The energy that fuels the McWane Science Center is as exciting and engaging as the human imagination. Come see the wonders of our world in action, and leave with new-found perspectives."
Meyer Planetarium900 Arkadelphia Rd
Birmingham, AL 35254, United States
"Gaze at the stars at Meyer Planetarium on the campus of Birmingham-Southern College and learn fascinating facts about the universe."
Paul W Bryant Museum300 Paul W Bryant Dr
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, United States
"The Paul "Bear" Bryant Museum is located on the Campus of the University of Alabama. It's a rather small museum but is packed with memorabilia and artifacts from not only Coach Bryant but also details the history of Alabama Football. As you enter the museum a large bust of Coach Bryant will meet you and then it on to exhibits detailing the early years of Crimson Tide Football. Around the corner are a number of exhibits dedicated to the most popular football coach in Alabama history. Visitors will see the trophies from most of Alabama Bowl Wins and all 6 of Coach Bryant's National Championships trophies. A replica of Coach Bryant's office features his desk and chair and one of his trademark Houndstooth Hats. The museum also features a Waterford Crystal replica of Coach Bryant's Hats. Also on display are many personal artifact from Alabama players of the past, including Joe Namath and Ken Stabler. After completing your tour visitors can stop by a small gift shop where they can purchase their favorite Crimson Tide souvenirs. It took me about an hour to complete my tour, but hardcore Alabama Fans can spend longer listening and watching highlight from Alabama's past. The only concern that I have is that parking appears to be somewhat limited and could be a problem when students are on campus, but all in all I enjoyed my visit and would highly recommend any college football fan to make the effort to visit when in the Tuscaloosa area."
Talladega Superspeedway3366 Speedway Blvd
Talladega, AL 35161-0777, United States
"Talladega Superspeedway is the biggest, fastest, most competitive motorsports facility in the world. Records for both speed and competition have been established at Talladega. The Superspeedway can accommodate more than 143,000-seated guests and thousands more in the 212-acre infield. The track offers van tours to visitors daily during working hours except on weeks around events. Adjacent to the track is the International Motorsports Hall of Fame and Museum, which is also open daily."
Alabama Theatre1811 3rd Ave N
Birmingham, AL 35203, United States
"Built in the 1920s, The Alabama Theatre is one of the last working movie palaces, featuring first-run and revival films along with concerts and other special events. The "Showplace of the South" is still among the most elegant and elaborate theaters in the Southeast."
Birmingham Children's Theatre2130 Richard Arrington Jr Blvd
Birmingham, AL 35203, United States
"As a professional theatre of adults performing for youth and family audiences, the mission of Birmingham Children's Theatre is to serve the community as an educational resource while increasing students' exposure to quality theatrical arts. The Birmingham Children's Theatre offers more than 600 performances and reaches an average of 75 Alabama cities each year. Approximately 250,000 children and family audiences experience BCT's educational arts opportunities annually through family performances, tours, school performances, summer workshops and guest artist presentations."


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President Obama says retired Marine Corporal Lyle Carpenter is a model to all Americans of the "strength and resilience that define us as a people."
Carpenter received the Medal of Honor in a ceremony at the White House Thursday afternoon – the highest U.S. military honor awarded for personal acts of valor above and beyond the call of duty.
Carpenter was seriously wounded in combat in Afghanistan at age 21 in November 2010 when he used his body to shield a fellow Marine from a grenade blast during an attack at their patrol base by insurgents.
He lost an eye, part of his jaw and had to undergo more than 30 surgeries to survive.
The President praised the Lexington County resident and University of South Carolina student, saying there's no better example of what you'd want to see in an American or a Marine.
Carpenter is the eighth living recipient of the Medal of Honor from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the first South Carolina recipient since Vietnam.


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Veteran Checks Off His Bucket List
A year and a half ago David Wells was diagnosed with lung cancer that has since turned into bone cancer.
Not knowing how much time he has left to live David created a bucket list.
The first thing on it is fixing up his yard, to make it a nice place for his wife once he leaves.
Combat veteran Paul Lamm met Vietnam veteran David Wells when a mutual friend asked if he could help reset some hammock poles.
Lamm said that is when David told him that he is fighting bone cancer, and what he really wants is a nice yard to leave behind for his wife.
"When we looked at that it was yeah we can do that, we have enough craftsman ship and skills within our group, then it was like let's get some community involvement and it ballooned from there," said Lamm.
The first step was removing a large tree from the center of the yard.
Lamm called the owner of Top Tree Service, Ryan Hone, who offered to remove the tree at no cost
"He's done his part, not everyone has a chance to serve so I appreciate what he has done," said Hone.
David's wife Grace is stunned by everything that is happening.
"For vets to come out and help other vets with people that volunteer is amazing in itself," said Grace.
David said this is the most humbling thing anyone has ever done for him, and he is more determined now to beat this cancer so he can return the favor.
"I told him if I beat this cancer I will get out there and help them on some of their project," said David.
Grace siad that's true. The community stepping forward has given her husband a renewed sense of hope.
"When they come here and he talks to them and he watches what they doing, his answer is one of these day I'm going to be better enough to where I can help do what they're doing."
All of these people were strangers a month ago, but will now be a part of his life forever.
"We don't do it for recognition, it's just about paying it forward," said Lamm.
David said he asked doctors not to tell him how much time he has left, but now if he does have to go, it's a little less scary.
"It makes it a little bit better knowing that when I do go it will be better for her."
Grace knows David and said he isn't going anywhere before he gets to lay on that hammock and enjoy his new yard.
"He'll be here the day that this is finished."
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Clicker training is one of the most effective ways of teaching a pet to behave well, whether inside and outside of the home. If you don't want to pay for costly obedience school lessons, you can take it upon yourself to train your pet during your free time.
Encouragement to perform target behaviors is achieved through nonverbal signals, verbal signals, clicks, and rewards. Rewards are important to clicker training because a reward is the clearest sign (to the animal) that the action that it just performed is desirable to the trainer, and that a reward will always come if it performs that action.
Another thing that separates clicker training from all other forms of classical conditioning is that it minimizes the use of aversive control, or punishments. This is not to say that clicker trainers do not punish.
Corrective actions are performed, but animals are never scolded or physically hurt just because they did not perform the desired action. Whenever an animal does not perform the intended action, a neutral verbal sign is given to signal to the animal that it has not performed something that was to be rewarded.
Simplicity & power
The system is simple enough for any animal to understand, because all animals understand the concept of reward. Another element that separates clicker training (operant conditioning) from classical conditioning is that it requires the utmost patience during training, because small steps are also rewarded.
So, if you want your dog to run to a target, you have to reward it even if it only managed to just look at the target during the first attempt. If a target behavior is too complex, it has to be broken down into several phases that can be managed easily by the student (your pet). The animal will then be led into successive phases.
Each small success is met with a click, and a reward. Wrong or non-targeted behavior will be met with a neutral deterrent, so the animal will choose the target behavior over non-targeted behavior.
Clicker training works extremely well because of its foundation is in positive reinforcement. Positive reinforcement helps an animal to figure out which actions provide the highest return (the reward), and which actions do not. Of course, an animal will always choose the action that will bring a treat or reward, because it is in the animal's best interest to do so.
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Danica Patrick Announces Split From Hubby Via Facebook
Bringing the world of racing to a sudden halt, Danica Patrick announced that she and her husband Paul Hospenthal are heading for divorce court.
Posting a statement on her Facebook page Tuesday (November 20), the 30-year-old wrote, "I am sad to inform my fans that after seven years, Paul and I have decided amicably end our marriage. This isn't easy for either of us, but mutually it has come to this. He has been an important person and friend in my life and that's how we will remain moving forward."
Hospenthal met his future wife while treating her for a non-racing injury and after the two tied the knot in 2005.
Just before the shocking announcement, the brunette beauty won the Nationwide Series' most popular driver award on Monday (November 19), which is voted on by the fans. She also completed her first full season of NASCAR this past year.


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I agree the SMG is a blast to drive , learning the sweet spot to shift at the right RPM, every one is bashing the SMG but lets do a comparison if you don't know how to drive a standard you can do more damage to the transmission than a SMG , a clutch and stripping the gears is way more costly to fix .
Maintenance is key change transmission fluid ever third oil change , it is cheaper to change transmission fluid than engine oil on a smg , there is a soft ware up grade for the SMG the shift is a lot smoother ,they do it at the stealers, if you have an up to date shop they can do it a lot cheaper I spoke to my to the mechanic another thing to do is change the ball and spring for the pump the spring gets week and the ball get away and damages the pump , one more thing when parking on an incline put your hand brake on before you put it in 1 mode to park,when you are ready to restart you can hear the transmission struggling to shift into N I love the SMG.
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Home > News & Events > News > Articles > Goldsmith Award Finalists Assess the Future of Investigative Reporting
Several of the nation's top print journalists gathered at the Kennedy School this morning to swap stories of their efforts to uncover graft, corruption and cheating – in government, the health care industry, and in corporate America.
The panel discussion, sponsored by the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, featured members from each of the six finalist teams nominated for the 2007 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.
The winning team, honored during ceremonies Tuesday night at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, was Charles Forelle, James Bandler and Mark Maremont of the Wall Street Journal. Their series, "Stock Option Abuses," revealed how dozens of executives from top corporations rewarded themselves with millions of dollars in back-dated stock options.
Maremont recounted how the practice of unethical stock price manipulation had been going on for 25 years. "People were cheating on their options. They were filing false paperwork, but nobody really knew what was going on," he said.
Forelle admitted it was "tedious drudgery" to pore through financial records to uncover the extent of the scandal, but said it was well worth the effort. As a result, more than 130 companies are currently under federal investigation and more than 60 top officials have lost their jobs. Many of the former executives have been charged with federal crimes.
Launched in 1991, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting honors journalism which promotes more effective and ethical conduct of government, the making of public policy, or the practice of politics by disclosing excessive secrecy, impropriety and mismanagement.
The other finalists for the 2007 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting were:
* Walter V. Robinson, Michael Rezendes, Beth Healy, Francie Latour and Heather Allen, of The Boston Globe for "Debtors' Hell."
* Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber of The Los Angeles Times for "Transplant Patients at Risk."
* Debbie Cenziper of The Miami Herald for "House of Lies."
* Ken Armstrong, Justin Mayo and Steve Miletich of The Seattle Times for "Your Courts, Their Secrets."
* And Dan Morgan, Gilbert M. Gaul and Sarah Cohen of The Washington Post for "Harvesting Cash."
A special citation was awarded to The Center for Public Integrity for its efforts to fill the void left by the decreasing amount of top quality investigative news coverage by "mounting investigations of exemplary quality and then freely sharing its findings with other journalists and the public."
Longtime network news analyst Daniel Schorr was granted the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Broadcasting during the ceremony Tuesday night.
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The Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy hosted a panel discussion on Wednesday morning featuring members from each of the six finalist teams nominated for the 2007 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.


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Just over two months ago I had traditional circumferential thigh, hips and knees liposuction and quite a lot of fat was removed (5.8 ltrs of fat). However my thighs still look big especially when I sit down and if I touch them they feels hard in some areas and it's slightly painfull. When I walk, it looks like I've got something sticking out of my right thigh and I fear that the saddlebags which I had might be still there. I have lost quite a lot of weight after the procedure and my clothes feel loose but I want the tops my thighs to be straight.
My surgeon told me that it was too early to make a judgement but I do hope that my shape will continue to change as I don't want to remain pear shaped and this is why I had liposuction.


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Canada's economy is expected to pick up steam in 2017, with real GDP growth forecast at 2 percent for the year.
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Canadian importers and exporters' frustration is mounting after two Hanjin vessels — one set to sail to Tokyo and another to Seattle — have been stranded in Canadian waters for more than two weeks.
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The Port of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, is studying the feasibility of a new terminal that would handle breakbulk and bulk cargoes.
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"DPW tends to focus on origin and destination ports in emerging markets, which are relatively less sensitive to cyclical downturns as opposed to transshipment ports," Moody's said.
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Opposition to the shipment of liquid radioactive waste from Canada to South Carolina by truck spotlights broader challenge to hazardous materials transportation.
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A new white paper commissioned by the Van Horne Institute and completed by JOC outlines how Canada can build on its success in creating inland ports.
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Whether the economy improves in the second half of 2016 or slides toward recession, trucking companies will have to travel in new directions, driven by high inventories, e-commerce, new regulations and increasingly complex supply chains.
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Shippers can now tap a new door-to-door intermodal rail service connecting the U.S. and eastern Canada.
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Managing the flow of trucks through the terminals at Vancouver and Montreal, Canada's two largest ports, is a challenge for everyone involved with the process.
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Dicom looks to integrate cross-border trucking, parcel business with last-mile service as e-commerce grows.
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Looked at new boat today
Looked at: 1980 Sabre 28 Boat For Sale
In the starboard hatch their is a box with the engine key.
There are two T handles. I'm used to one T handle that is the fuel shutoff but why were their two?
The broker didn't know either so I he wouldn't start the engine so I could hear it.
Without a photo or diagram, it's hard to say. But I'll just mention that I have seen some engine controls rigged with both a fuel shutoff and an emergency air-intake closure, to starve the engine of oxygen. Another possibility is that you are looking at a remote compression release.
Just my WAGs...
P.S. That's looks to be a lot of boat for the money!
Yes we liked it a lot too.
Heyyyyy! ......... I had to pay a lot more then that and I only got two winch handles...:p
Cold start knob?
Here is a site where you can download the Volvo MD7A manual I did not (I'm on dial up - pity me) but I see mention of a cold-start knob. Does the key-start have a momentary glow-plug position?
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Good luck to you. We boarded the dog and drove 450 miles to look at a Sabre 34 this past weekend and if the broker hadn't have done his homework I'd have slapped him up side the head. He had, but the boat itself had a few wood rot issues. It's a bad sign when teak is rotten to the point that you can stick your finger through a bulkhead or the cabin sole near the mast step. And I SO wanted this one to be the boat. :-(
dang, wish my sabre looked like that
David - This looks like a great boat! We owned an '82 Sabre 28 for 15 years that we sold 4 years ago... only to buy another Sabre. You'll love this boat. She's rugged and looks to be in great condition. I'd recommend that you work on a lower price though. $24900 is a bit high, but not that bad. Try for $22k.
We had a Westerbeke so I'm not exactly sure what you refer to without a photo. However, in our '84 Sabre 38, there is an engine cutoff "T" handle which is a choke. Our 28 had a knob that was pulled - same idea, but in knob-form. The 28 & 38 have a glow plug. Since it's a "T" handle, I'll wager that one is the cutoff and the other is a compression release as JohnR says.
With this boat, be on the lokout for poorly sealed chainplates and associated rot in the bulkheads below. Also look at the teak handrails on the deck. Sabre didn't seal them the best and there could be some deck delmination. Not a huge issue, but you could get some $$$ off.
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I made coffee. I fed the cats. I sauntered around the house loving being alone.
I got on the Facebox and found a post from a friend with the podcast of his sermon on spiritual parenting from two weeks ago. I don't get to sit in service on Sunday mornings. I work with the kidlets and youth as the Religious Education Coordinator so instead I listen to the podcasts of the sermons on lazy Wednesday mornings when I wake early enough to enjoy them before Hurricanes Pants and Plum wake for a new day of beauty and catastrophe.
UUCK Podcast - Spiritual Parenting (Mike Hovancsek, Lori Fatchet-McGee and Mark Allender)
Then, a few minutes after I finished, I heard a whimper coming from the top of the stairs.
"Mama? Mama? I need you", I heard her say. And I eagerly headed upstairs to greet my sweet girl as she woke for the day. She's a great morning friend. Most days she wakes with sunshine and rainbows literally shooting from her face. But once I got to the top of the stairs, I noticed that she was feeling ALL the feelings.
She was sad.
"Where's Daddy?", she asked as her voice broke in sadness and her tears fell.
"He's at work, baby.", I offered.
She hung her head and Charlie Brown shuffled back to our family bed.
"I need you to hold me right now, ok?", she informed me in a flat second place kind of way.
And in that moment, that's all I wanted to do even though I knew that I was a placeholder. I wasn't the one. I was the sub.
She cried. She cried hard. Because in that moment deep down in her soul all that she wanted was her daddy and he couldn't be there.
I was a consolation prize. My words of comfort did not soothe her. They did not erase her feelings of sadness. Nor did she want me to keep trying. In fact, she grew irritated with my attempts to make her feel better.
She was committed to feeling deeply. She was connected, in that moment, to her deepest emotions.
As Mike says in his sermon she deserved my complete engagement and confidence. She deserved for me to hear her and validate her. She didn't want to be cheered up. She was mourning and I needed to stop trying to make her stop.
And so I asked her. "Do you want to send daddy a message?"
She did.
"But I don't spell words, mama. I can't!"
"What about a video?", I offered.
"Yes. Lets do that.", She whimpered.
But its hard to talk when tears are stuck in your throat. So when it came time to say what she wanted to say, she couldn't. The emotions were too strong. The depth of her sadness made it impossible to speak and so I spoke for her the best that I could.
I know this because when the call ended she turned to me and with a huge smile and enormous tears she said, "Daddy and me are gonna snuggle tonight", her voice broke and her sobs came. And I noticed that the motivation of the tears had changed.
These new tears were different. They were anticipation tears.
Anticipation for the moment when her daddy came home and enveloped her in his arms. Anticipation for the feeling of safety and love that was sure to come. Anticipation for the amazing comfort of wholeness. Anticipation for how good it will feel to have daddy home for the night.
And I held her as her tears dried up and her body calmed. She allowed me to be enough for now. Especially now that she knew her daddy wanted to come home to her just as much as she wanted him to.
I lay there remembering how big it felt to be so connected and so raw as a child. I remember the emotions that would wash over and consume me. I remember how sudden and enveloping it was. I remember how unsteady I felt as I tried to make sense of the emotions that overpowered me. And I remember how scary it could be to not understand why.
And then I imagine how wonderful it will feel for her as they drift off to sleep tonight when all is right in the world once again because daddy is home.
And I think to myself that if nothing else seems to go the way we planned as parents, we got the most important one right. She knows the real, raw, power and honesty of love without limits, without ridicule, without restraint.
She knows a love so big that it even makes her cry sometimes.
What a gift that is.
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Zagat calls superstar chef Todd English's food "lusty, gutsy cooking." We happily agree. Here, you can nibble on some Todd trivia and a bonus recipe.
VITALS: Born August 29, 1960, in Amarillo, Texas; raised there, Atlanta, Georgia, and Branford, Connecticut.
EDUCATION: Guilford College, North Carolina; The Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, New York; apprenticeships at Dal Pescatore in Canto Sull O'lio, Italy, and Paraccuchi in Locando D'Angello, Italy.
HOW HE GOT INTO THE BUSINESS: "One night, when I was 14, I stopped by to see my friend Ivan. He was working at a little Mexican place in Branford, Connecticut, and he asked if I had plans for the evening--thinking he had something great in mind, I said that I had none. Instead, he said that his dishwasher was sick and asked if I could help out. There was no dishwasher; you washed the pots and plates and silverware by hand. I just jumped right in and for some strange reason, I really loved it. I don't know why--well, okay, you got as much free beer as you wanted." (From Todd's first book, The Olives Table; see "His Books," below.)
BOY MEETS GIRL: In 1982, Todd met his wife-to-be, Olivia, during their studies at The Culinary Institute of America. "I took her picture for her school ID. You know, love at first snap." (From The Olives Table)
CAREER HIGHS: Working with Jean-Jacques Rachou at La Cote Basque in New York, and his top professional honors--especially his James Beard awards: "National Rising Star Chef" (1991), the Robert Mondavi Award for Culinary Excellence (1991), and "Best Chef: Northeast" (1994) .
NEAR-HIT CAREER: "It would have to be baseball, in that I wonder what would have happened if I had given it more of a shot," he told Nation's Restaurant News. "I played from the time I was 7 years old. My father was a first baseman coach," he told starchefs.com. "I had opportunities that I never really pursued--with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges--and then I ended up bailing and began cooking."
GUILTY PLEASURE: Peanut butter and jelly.
The Olives Table: Over 160 Recipes from the Critically Acclaimed Restaurant and Home Kitchen of Todd English, co-authored with Sally Sampson (Simon & Schuster, 1997).
The Figs Table: More than 100 Recipes for Pizza, Pastas, Salads, and Desserts, co-authored with Sally Sampson (Simon & Schuster, 1998).
The Olives Dessert Table: Spectacular Restaurant Desserts You Can Make at Home, co-authored with Paige Retus and Sally Sampson (Simon & Schuster, 2000).
HIS RESTAURANTS: Todd's restaurants consistently receive rave reviews for their worldbeat fare. Next stop? Maybe London. For now, head to:
Olives--his most acclaimed Mediterranean-influenced restaurant, with its original location near Boston in Charlestown, Massachusetts (617/242-1999; since 1989). Newer locations in Washington, D.C. (202/452-1866); Las Vegas (702/693-8181); Aspen (970/920-7356); and New York City (718/423-6095).
Figs--a family-friendly retreat known for its homey pizza and pastas. Massachusetts locations in Charlestown (617/242-2229); Boston (617/742-3447); Wellesley (781/237-5788); and Chestnut Hill (617/738-9992). There's also a location at New York City's LaGuardia Airport, Central Terminal Building (718/446-7600).
Miramar--fine dining at The Inn at National Hall, Westport, Connecticut; 203/222-2267 or www.innatnationalhall.com.
Greg Norman's Australian Grille--fine dining at Barefoot Landing in North Myrtle Beach, SC; 843/361-0000.
Kingfish Hall--sumptuous seafood at Faneuil Hall, Boston; 617/523-8862.


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Adslot is a publicly listed company on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX:ADJ). With offices in New York, London, Shanghai, Munich, Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland, we service market-leading Publishers, Agencies and Advertisers all over the world.
Ian joined Adslot as CEO in October 2012, bringing over 20 years media industry experience and 13 years managing high growth media and media technology companies, both privately held and publicly traded. Immediately prior to joining Adslot, Ian was CEO of Facilitate Digital Ltd (ASX:FAC), where he launched Symphony – the world's first workflow and trading platform for media agencies – and led the company's international expansion into Asia, Europe and North America. Prior to Facilitate, Ian was CEO of ad measurement company Traffion Ltd, and Managing Director of Red Sheriff Ltd, a global pioneer of web measurement technology. Ian has held senior management roles in a number of media and media agency organisations including George Patterson Bates and PMP Ltd.
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Collared LoryImage: Tim LamanSource: Nature Picture Library
Museum specimen featured in the Wild exhibitionSource: Museum Victoria
Type: bird
Collared Lories are common, but their range is restricted to just a few islands. They may be vulnerable in future to disturbances such as logging, which removes the hollows they use for nesting. Their ability to exploit introduced trees for food has allowed them to persist despite profound changes to their environment.
Collared Lories are herbivores.
They eat the nectar, blossoms and fruits of native and introduced plants.
Size relative to a sparrow and a cat.
Collared Lories belong to a group of parrots that includes the lorikeets of Australia. Like all parrots they have stocky bodies, large heads and short legs. Their strong, curved beaks and nimble tongues are powered by highly-developed muscles which help them manipulate food. Collared Lories have long tongues tipped with a brush-like appendage for sweeping up pollen grains and nectar.
Their plumage is very colourful but actually provides camouflage in their lush forest home. With orange bills, purple-black crowns and bright feathers of green, red and royal blue, Collared Lories are stunning parrots, and their feathers were traditionally used for decoration by people of Samoa and Tonga. They have an area of long feathers behind their necks that they can ruffle up to create a large 'collar'. Large groups of these birds congregate to feed on mangoes and coconut palm flowers, often displaying playful, intelligent and inquisitive behaviour.
These birds are difficult to study in the wild since they move around so much to follow food sources. Most recorded breeding behaviour comes from studying captive birds. Collared Lories form strong pair bonds and nest in tree hollows or old stumps in November or December. They lay two eggs, which are incubated for about 30 days. Young Collared Lories remain in the nest, attended by both parents, for about nine weeks.
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Collared Lories are found on the larger Fijian islands. They live in forested areas up to 1200 m in altitude. They also feed in plantations and tree-lined streets of towns.
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Given the perils facing our planet, it may be time to observe Lent in a different way: with a "carbon fast."
For starters, I listened to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address with a special interest in his message on climate change.
I was delighted that he cited the "overwhelming judgment of science" on this subject, citing the increasing frequency of heat waves, droughts, wildfires, floods and storms in a period when 12 of the hottest years on record have come in the last 15 years.
I was happy to hear his willingness to take action even if Congress does not budge. His emphasis on wind and solar power was welcome.
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On Wednesday, 48 civic and environmental leaders, including Bill McKibben, Julian Bond, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Daryl Hannah were arrested in front of the White House for protesting that Keystone pipeline. And this weekend, thousands of people concerned about the earth will rally Sunday on the Mall in Washington to do the same thing.
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"Saddle up." It's an old western term from frontier days in which the lead wrangler told his posse it was time to saddle up their horses and go forth on a ride, or a mission blazing new horizons. It's what WorldVentures Founder Wayne Nugent used to say to Jefferson Santos when it was time to start out or start over. Jefferson knew an adventure was about to begin when he heard those two words.
Jefferson first met Wayne more than 20 years ago. At the time, the men were 20 and 28, respectively. From the outset, Jefferson was duly impressed by Wayne, who had a pedigree that was mighty enticing. For starters, Wayne had a magnitude of charisma and his personal financial security was enviable. So, how did he get there and how could Jefferson follow in his footsteps?
It's a story worthy of starting from the very beginning.
Raised in Richardson, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, Jefferson's travel bug bit him early with a father whose career was in the airline industry. And his mother was the first to introduce him to network marketing. Speaking volumes for his free spirit, optimism and entrepreneurship, he had zero skepticism toward the stigmas of network marketing. He also adds that his enthusiasm was high, but his ability was low.
His ability, however, was very high in understanding teamwork and being infinitely teachable. Since he was a child, Jefferson had always been a good athlete and, at times, a stellar athlete. Although he'd never been a part of a winning team on a grand scale, he notes with a bit of a retrospective chuckle that he was enrolled and played football at the U.S. Naval Academy during a year when they underperformed. The year after he left, the team won a bowl game. The same was to happen at Texas Christian University (TCU) under the coaching tutelage of Pat Sullivan. Once again, he played football and, once again, the team endured a lackluster record. Once again, the year after he left, TCU won a bowl game.
Most people would view that with discouragement, but Jefferson didn't. What he learned from it was that it wasn't enough to merely be a good athlete; the team had to excel at working together. "WorldVentures wouldn't be here today if everyone didn't do their part," Jefferson says. "It's the team. It's each and every member of the team. But it's also very much the team as a whole."
When Jefferson met WorldVentures founder, Wayne Nugent, he was badly in need of both a team and a mentor. At the age of 20, he had negative US$1,100 in his bank account and was US$70,000 in debt.
The question that bubbled to the surface was, "Could I be doing something way better than I am doing right now? Could I be a way better person? Could I be not just good but could I be great? So I knew I had to be better than my best. And I had to do better with each passing day than I did the day before."
When he met Wayne, he was a sponge for learning; Jefferson's task was to introduce as many people as possible to Wayne and expose them to his business. For Jefferson to get Wayne's time, he had to put prospects in front of him to prove his value. His key to success in piquing the interest of his friends he wanted to introduce to Wayne, was to make it personal.
Wayne and Jefferson would hold court at a table in the back of one of their favorite Dallas sports bars. Jefferson would invite his friends to meet Wayne by telling them, "Wow, I've got someone I really want you to meet!" In other words, Jefferson would prime the conversation with his own enthusiasm and set the stage for Wayne to excite the prospects and customers, just as he'd been excited.
Just as Jefferson's path to Wayne had been not-exactly-a-straight-line, their path to WorldVentures was not a point-A-to-point-B journey, either. Hence was born the phrase "saddle up," which Wayne would excitedly spout before taking or testing a new direction.
Jefferson had grown up remembering things he'd heard that were hard to shake. "Money is hard to make! Money is hard to make!" said his mother. And he always figured that, indeed, it might be hard to make, but there had to be smarter ways to make it. His mother's saying had inadvertently created an internal obstacle for him. He didn't mind the hard work, but why was money hard to make?
Another seminal moment in Jefferson's journey was reading Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People." From that, he would learn simple Carnegie revelations that would lead to his own success. Simple edicts such as: speak with enthusiasm, really know what you're talking about, get your body language into the game and never hold back on your ideas.
So when Wayne called Jefferson and once again uttered "saddle up," and the new venture involved travel, Jefferson was already on board. Wayne's presentation began with basic foundational ideas. "You believe in the unbridled power of network marketing and you absolutely love to travel. And when you travel, whom do you most want to travel with? Family and friends." Boom, the idea was in its infancy, but poised to take off.
The genesis for DreamTrips was called Smart Travel. Over the next several years, Wayne would hone and perfect the impetus for what would become WorldVentures.
During that time, Jefferson would be facing some of his own personal challenges. He says, "There are three major changes a person can experience in their life and I had all three stressors simultaneously: changing jobs, moving and the end of a relationship." Add to that, the first few iterations of Wayne's travel network marketing and didn't bear the fruits that were hoped for.
Eventually Wayne launched WorldVentures in 2005 with Jefferson as the very first member and zero funds in the startup bank account. "It was a really exciting and very scary time … all at the same time."
"We're gonna flop or we're gonna fly, was what we said as we set sail," remembers Jefferson. Through their collective hard work, however, the first several DreamTrips completely sold out. The very first one was a Royal Caribbean cruise that included a port of call to the private island of CocoCay in the Bahamas.
"I immediately fell in love with the whole team aspect of it. It looked like, felt like football," says Jefferson. "My background has always been around teamwork. And Wayne was sort of like the big brother I never had. I purposely crawled under his wing so he could mentor me."
A big change that facilitated Jefferson's success, not just in WorldVentures but in all his ventures, was when he realized that he needed to love people and use money. Not the other way around. "I needed to listen to people — a lost art. I needed to hear what people's needs, strengths and goals were. And then find out what I have that can help them."
What Jefferson and the team had that most people wanted was the freedom, which allows them to travel.
"Think about it. People work for 40 or 50 years to be able to do what? Travel. Until then, people work 50 weeks a year to travel two weeks. It doesn't make sense," he says. The cover article of Time magazine's June 1, 2015, edition asked the question, "Who killed summer vacation?" The gist of the article is that Americans are taking less and less time to travel because they're worried about who's going to get ahead of them, and are concerned about money and time. It's not a secret that America is the least traveled first-world country on the planet. And travel is a direct result of freedom.
Harkening back to his days as a football player, Jefferson says that many athletes who see the WorldVentures opportunity absolutely love it because it has a parallel. "Whether it's high school, college, career or post professional, teams have an attraction to WorldVentures, because they see that camaraderie again that they missed," he says. "It's what they were missing once they gave up a team sport. It's fighting together on the field, going after the enemy, going after the opposition, and that's what we're doing here. Except in this case, the enemy (if you were to call it that) is an average life or a mediocre life."
While he never was on a winning college team, Jefferson notes that he's now played on a much bigger field with a whole lot more wins. "As a college ball player I never got the beloved 'bowl ring' that every warm-blooded American male dreams of. But you know the cool thing? Because of WorldVentures, I've gotten many rings that mean so much more to me. The $100,000 ring, the $1 million-dollar ring, the IMD ring, and the beautiful thing is that along the way, I've helped a lot of people achieve their dreams. And so those rings mean a whole lot more to me than a bowl ring would have meant."
He adds, "It means more because of all the presentations, all the meetings, all the no-shows, all the shows, all the yeses and noes; and seeing all the people win on the team has obviously been so much more meaningful now, than a football bowl ring would have meant then."
Ask anyone who has been successful in WorldVentures — it's even mentioned in most Voyager articles — that three of the most important components to being successful is taking full advantage of training, training and more training. Jefferson reinforces that by saying, "With our training you get access to the top million-dollar earners. It's like training and personal development on steroids. Our training is unheard of.
The personal development of this training spills over into every other facet of a person's life. Jefferson cites his own wife's accomplishments beyond WorldVentures. Megan is an accomplished and immensely talented singer/songwriter with an EP (shorter version of an album or CD) on iTunes. She would not have even ventured into the professional music arena if it weren't for the confidence, encouragement and friendships she gained in WorldVentures.
"We all have that self-doubt when we start out. But call it the 'campfire effect' of people saying 'you can do it, you can do it,'" says Jefferson, and Megan agrees. It's what makes her successful in WorldVentures; it's what makes her successful in the music business.
But to understand WorldVentures, a person has to be WorldVentures. To be a part, you have to assume the DNA of the team, the training, the product, the events, the hanging out time, the history and especially the future.
So much of Jefferson's DNA is "passing it along" to other members of the team, literally every member of the team. He reflects on his own struggles nearly a decade ago. "Teaching and training. I love it. It's a responsibility to me. And I'm passionate about it. I want to shorten someone's learning curve. If I can say something or shoot a video that shortens someone's learning from six years to six months, or from six weeks to six minutes, I will continue to do that for the rest of my life. That's part of my God-given purpose."
As you might guess, Jefferson has one of the biggest and most successful teams in the company. So how does one do the same? "I believe leaders lead, people watch those leaders, people emulate," he says.
"The founders and leaders of WorldVentures create an environment of greatness, not for egoist purposes but for servant-leader purposes. WorldVentures is a factory for greatness if you really want it. All in a service mentality."
"The next decade is going to be incredible," Jefferson says of WorldVentures. "We all have our motivations — to be significant, to be remembered, to matter. To have meaning not just in our own lives but in other people's lives, too." To pull a quote from Jefferson's best-selling book, "Higher Life," (available on Amazon.com): "When going on a trip, take luggage, not baggage." A saying which means to shed every ounce of unproductive thinking, negative reinforcement and traditional misconceptions.
As much as Jefferson is a leader and a teacher, he is also an avid student. He looks to — and steers others toward — thought leaders like Peter Diamandis, whose book, "Bold," addresses the "six D's of exponential growth," forecasting growth in our economy and thinking at a lightning pace. Diamandis' thinking is embraced by people like Jefferson as a way to harness and use 21st century tools to launch bold, hugely profitable and life-changing projects.
But it's not just business leaders that Jefferson looks toward to navigate his life, but also those in the spiritual realm. He attended a business seminar years ago which had a spiritual bend. One of the spiritual advisors who spoke at the seminar brought to Jefferson's attention what would instantly cause a shift in his attitude not just toward work and money, but more important, what to do with the money he makes.
"My whole life, I wanted to be successful because successful people make a lot of money, although everyone has a different measuring stick for success. But, according to recent studies, the church has lost its influence; the people who are influencing people now are celebrities and business leaders who make a lot of money," says Jefferson. But what this Christian leader challenged him to do was to learn business skills so he could make money, be influential and do good things with his money. In short, she said, "When good people make money, good things happen."
Jefferson continues, "I know it sounds cliché, but the woman told us to 'let go and let God.' It was a huge punch in the face because, up until that point, I had been trying to be the God of my life. At that moment I realized, now I have my true purpose. So I realized I have to go make money not for money's sake, but to be of influence and do good things with what God is giving me. That caused something to click inside of me. My tone changed. I called all my team members from that seminar. And they were like, 'something is different with you.'"
From that time on, for Jefferson, the convergence of faith and business would be inseparable. Jefferson realized that his goals and outlook had changed — if not 180 degrees, very close to it. He realized that goal was three things: income, influence and impact. He had to generate income for himself and the team, but he also had to influence the lives he touched and have an impact on the world at large. He wrapped his own arms around this new business mantra, and he encouraged his leaders at WorldVentures to do likewise. With a new battle cry, new goals and new faith, his business took off like a meteor.
"It's crazy, but culture is everything. Culture trumps everything," Jefferson says referring to the indescribable culture of WorldVentures. "The encouragement and instruction you get here is without parallel. You get everything you need to succeed. You just have to do the work.
"We've got other companies looking at WorldVentures, billion-dollar companies asking, 'What are they doing?' But it's not just one thing, it's multiple things. It's like a cake mix. It's everything that's baked together."
Jefferson continues, "For the first time in history, we're going to be able to participate in exponential growth. Because of all these converging technologies and the smart people in WorldVentures, we're positioned to make and be a part of history."
Being an entrepreneur is a "life sentence." But a very good life sentence. "It's not for everyone. It's not for the faint of heart. Entrepreneurship has you go face-to-face with yourself." And for those with the heart to work with Jefferson, it's time to "saddle up."
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