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2 February 2020
Update re discipline proceedings against Toronto lawyer David Faed who knowingly advertised in a neo-Nazi tabloid whose operators were convicted criminally of anti-Jewish and anti-women hate propaganda charges. The wheels of justice continue to grind.
31 January 2020
I have today launched a libel action against Faith Bazos (aka Faith Goldy), Jonathan Kay, and Barbara Kay.
The libel action is in relation to false allegations they published online and have refused to retract and apologize for despite being served a libel notice and my providing them evidence the material is demonstrably false. The material has already been found to be defamatory in another libel action.
This is the second libel action I have been forced to take against Jonathan Kay. In 2008, his (then) employer the National Post apologized and retracted other false allegations made by Kay and settled out of court.
17 January 2020
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3 September 2019
On 26 August 2019, I filed a criminal complaint for hate propaganda with the Ottawa Police Service against Rebel News Network Ltd., its directors at the relevant times, Ezra Levant, Hamish Marshall, and Hannah Vanderkooy, as well as Rebel News presenter Faith Bazos (aka Faith Goldy). The complaint alleges they have breached s. 319(2) of the Criminal Code by wilfully promoting hatred of the Muslim community through 48 videos containing hate propaganda published to the world through the Rebel News Network website and Youtube channel from 2015-2018. The videos feature Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (Tommy Robinson – 40 videos) and Faith Bazos (Faith Goldy – 8 videos).
Section 319 of the Criminal Code reads:
Wilful promotion of hatred
319(2) Every one who, by communicating statements, other than in private conversation, wilfully promotes hatred against any identifiable group is guilty of
(a) an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years; or
(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction
As a citizen, and especially as a lawyer, I have a duty to report evidence of what I believe to be criminal conduct to the police. I think that the criminal complaint speaks for itself, and it is not my intent to make any public comment on it.
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While Bellator Fighting Championships crowned four undisputed champions during its inaugural tournament season in 2009, the promotion's lightweight king, Eddie Alvarez, has long been considered their crown jewel. Of course, headlines have begun to shift in recent months with the debut of the Season 2 tournaments and the signing of UFC veteran and fan favorite lightweight Roger Huerta, but Alvarez remains Bellator's strongest claim to a top three-ranked fighter in any weight class.
Alvarez will defend his Bellator Lightweight Championship this Fall against the winner of the Season 2 lightweight tournament, but first he will face dangerous UFC veteran Josh Neer in a 160lb "superfight" tonight from Boston's Citi Performing Arts Center's Wang Theatre. Tapology's Steven Kelliher recently spoke with Alvarez to get his thoughts on Neer and how he fits into the worldwide lightweight rankings.
No matter where Eddie Alvarez goes, no matter how much he tries to turn talk from defending his lightweight belt to his impending "superfight" with Josh Neer, the questions surrounding a potential match-up with Roger Huerta continue to crop up.
"I've dealt with tournament structures and the biggest thing I've learned when fighting in a tournament is never to look past your next opponent. I respect Josh Neer too much to worry about the tournament fighters right now. I'm watching them fight right now as a fan, but that's as far as it goes," he said.
Even though Neer is universally excluded from every prominent top ten list one can dig up, he still posses an interesting style match-up for the ultra-aggressive Alvarez, whose penchant for finishing opponents inside of the distance is only rivaled by his uncanny ability to put himself into dangerous positions in nearly all of his fights. Asked what effect Neer's equally aggressive style and savvy submission game would have on his own game plan, Alvarez was as straightforward as ever.
"It comes down to me running my offense to the point where he's going to have to worry about what I'm going to do to him rather than what he's going to do to me," he said. "I'm not 100% sure what I'm going to do, and I like to keep things that way because then nobody else knows what I'm going to do. At the end of the day I'm just going to go in there and adapt to whatever he does. I think it's important to just adapt to the fight. I love to fight fire with fire and see how it goes."
Asked whether or not he expected to finish the wily veteran, Alvarez refused to hesitate before responding in the affirmative. "Absolutely. That's all that's on my mind, is finishing Josh Neer as soon as possible," he said. "My main focus is to bring a very high paced, violent fight. That's what people want to see."
Alvarez has long been considered one of the top three lightweights in the world by some of the most popular rankings systems, and recent high-profile losses by former UFC Lightweight Champion BJ Penn and Dream Lightweight Champion Shinya Aoki–the only two men consistently ranked above Alvarez–have lead some, including Bellator CEO Bjorn Rebney, to dub him the best in the world at 155lbs by default. While he argued that a recent loss to Aoki in Japan should prevent him from being named the world's top lightweight, Alvarez did concede that he pays attention to the international lightweight rankings, his reasoning as straightforward as his fighting style.
"I pay attention to the rankings," he said. "At the end of the day, my financial security has a lot to do with the rankings, but other than that I really don't care for them. I think I'm ranked what I'm supposed to be ranked. I had my shot to be ranked higher when I fought Shinya Aoki and I lost. I think what's important is the performance you put on, whatever date you're putting it on."
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|Jimmy Durante
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|James Francis Durante
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|February 10, 1893
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|New York City, New York, U.S.A.
|Date of death:
|January 29 1980 (aged 86)
|Death location:
|Santa Monica, California, U.S.A.
|Other name(s):
|The Schnoz
|Jeanne Olsen (1921-1943) (her death)
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James Francis Durante, better known as Jimmy Durante or Schnozzle (Snozzle) Durante (February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980), was an American singer, pianist, comedian, and actor, whose distinctive gravel delivery, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose—his frequent jokes about it included a frequent self-reference that became his nickname: "Schnozzola"—helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s. He was also one of the most beloved people within the entertainment industry. An associate once remarked of Durante, "You could warm your hands on this man."
Durante was born in New York City, the third of four children born to Mitch and Margaret Durante. A product of working-class New York, Durante dropped out of school in the eighth grade to become a full-time ragtime pianist, working the city circuit and earning the nickname "Ragtime Jimmy," before he joined one of the first recognizable jazz bands in New York, the Original New Orleans Jazz Band. Durante was the only member of the group who did not hail from New Orleans. His routine of breaking into a song to deliver a joke, with band or orchestra chord punctuation after each line became a Durante trademark. In 1920, the group was renamed Jimmy Durante's Jazz Band.
Durante became a vaudeville star and radio attraction by the mid-1920s, with a music and comedy trio called Clayton, Jackson, and Durante. By 1934, he had a major record hit, his own novelty composition "Inka Dinka Doo," and it became his signature song for practically the rest of his life. A year later, Durante starred in the Billy Rose stage musical, Jumbo, in which a police officer stopped him while leading a live elephant and asked him, "What are you doing with that elephant?" Durante's reply, "What elephant?" was a regular show-stopper.
He began appearing in motion pictures at about the same time, beginning with a comedy series pairing him with silent film legend Buster Keaton and continuing with such offerings as The Wet Parade (1932), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942, playing Banjo, a character based on Harpo Marx), Ziegfeld Follies (1946), Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962, based on the 1935 musical) and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963).
Durante made himself a bigger name with his nationally-broadcast radio variety show in the 1940s. Durante received his first radio job when the creators of Eddie Cantor's popular The Chase and Sanborn Hour (which also made stars out of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy) contacted him to fill in for Cantor. He made his first appearance on September 10, 1933. Durante was such a hit he was offered his own show.
In 1943, Garry Moore joined Durante as his radio sidekick. Already successful as a solo, Durante's comic chemistry with the young, brushcut Moore brought Durante an even larger audience. "Dat's my boy dat said dat!" became an instant catchphrase. He became one of the nation's favorite radio stars for the rest of the decade, including a well-reviewed Armed Forces Radio Network command performance with Frank Sinatra that remains a favorite of radio collectors today. Durante worked in radio for three years after Moore's 1947 departure, including a reunion of Clayton, Jackson, and Durante on his April 21, 1948, broadcast.
Durante made his television debut on November 1, 1950, though he kept a presence in radio as one of the frequent guests on Tallulah Bankhead's two-year, NBC comedy-variety show, The Big Show. Durante was one of the cast on the show's premiere November 5, 1950. The rest of the cast included humorist Fred Allen, singers Mindy Carson and Frankie Laine, stage musical performer Ethel Merman, actors Jose Ferrer and Paul Lukas, and comic-singer Danny Thomas. A highlight of the show was Durante and Thomas, whose own nose rivaled Durante's, in a routine in which Durante accused Thomas of stealing his nose. "Stay outta dis, No-Nose!" Durante barked at Bankhead to a big laugh.
Beginning in the early 1950s, Durante teamed with sidekick Sonny King, a collaboration that would continue until Durante's death. Jimmy could be seen regularly in Las Vegas after Sunday mass outside of the Guardian Angel Cathedral standing next to the priest and greeting the people as they left mass.
On August 4, 1955, The Jimmy Durante Show was the venue of the last performance by the famous Brazilian singer, Carmen Miranda. Miranda fell to her knees while dancing with Durante, who instinctively told the band to "stop da music!" He helped Miranda up to her feet as she laughed, "I'm all out of breath!" "Dat's OK, honey, I'll take yer lines," Durante replied. Miranda laughed again and quickly pulled herself together, finishing the show. However, later that evening, she died at home.
Durante's radio show was bracketed with two trademarks: "Inka Dinka Doo" as his opening theme, and the invariable sign off that became another familiar national catchphrase: "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are." Durante never revealed the meaning, preferring instead to keep the mystery alive.
One theory is that the phrase refers to the owner of a restaurant in Calabash, North Carolina, where Jimmy and his troupe stopped once to eat. He was so taken by the food, the service, and the chitchat that Jimmy told the owner that he would make her famous. Not knowing her name he instead referred to her as "Mrs. Calabash."
Another theory is that it was his personal salute to his late first wife, Jeanne Olsen, whom he married June 19, 1921. They stayed married until her death, on Valentine's Day in 1943. "Calabash" may have been a typical Durante mangle of Calabasas, the southern California locale where the couple made their home for the last years of her life.
If Valentine's Day proved a day of sorrow for the comedian, he made Christmas Day, 1961, even more joyous than usual when he married his second wife, Marjorie Little, whom he had befriended for 16 years after meeting her at the Copacabana, where she worked as a hatcheck girl. She was 39, he 67, when they married. The couple adopted a baby, Cecelia Alicia.
Durante continued his film appearances through It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) (in which he dies at the beginning) and television appearances through the early 1970s. He narrated the Rankin-Bass animated Christmas special Frosty the Snowman (1969), re-run for many years since. The television work also included a series of commercial spots for Kellogg's Corn Flakes cereals in the early 1960s, which introduced Durante's gravelly growl and narrow-eyed, large-nosed countenance to millions of children. "Dis is Jimmy Durante, in puy-son!" was his introduction to some of the Kellogg's spots. One of his last appearances was in a memorable television commercial for the 1973 Volkswagen Beetle, where he proclaimed that the new, roomier Beetle had "plenty of breathin' room…for da old schnozzola!"
In 1963, Durante recorded an album of pop standards, September Song. The album became a best-seller and provided Durante's re-introduction, to yet another generation, almost three decades later. His gravelly interpretation of "As Time Goes By" accompanied the opening credits of the romantic comedy hit, Sleepless in Seattle, while his version of "Make Someone Happy" launched the film's closing credits. The former number appeared on the film's best-selling soundtrack.
He wrote a foreword for a humorous book titled, Cockeyed Americana, compiled by Dick Hyman. In the first paragraph of the "Foreword!" as Durante called it, he met Hyman and discussed the book and the contribution Hyaman wanted Durante to make to it. Durante wrote, "Before I can say gaziggadeegasackeegazobbath, we're at his luxurious office." After reading the material Hyman had compiled for the book, Durante commented on it, "COLOSSAL, GIGANTIC, MAGNANIMOUS, and last but not first, AURORA BOREALIS. [Captialization Durante's.] Four little words that make a sentence—and a sentence that will eventually get me six months."
Durante suffered a stroke in 1972, and was confined to a wheelchair in the last years of his life. He died from pneumonia in Santa Monica, California, on January 29, 1980, at 86 years old, and was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City. Aside from "Dat's my boy dat said dat!" and "It's a catastastroke!" (for "catastrophe,") Durante sent such catch phrases as "Everybody wants ta get inta the act," "Umbriago," and "Ha-cha-cha-chaaaaaaa!" into the vernacular.
Jimmy's love for children continued through the Fraternal Order of Eagles, who, among many causes, raise money for handicapped and abused children. At Jimmy's first appearance at the Eagles International Convention in 1961, judge Bob Hansen inquired about his fee for performing. Jimmy replied, "Don't even mention money judge or I'll have to mention a figure that'll make ya sorry ya brought it up." "What can we do then?" asked Hansen. "Help da kids," was Durante's reply. Jimmy performed for many years at Eagles conventions free of charge, not even accepting travel money. The Fraternal Order of Eagles, in his honor, changed the name of their Children's Fund to the Jimmy Durante Children's Fund, and in his memory have raised over 20 million dollars to help children.
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The assumption of normality is crucial in many multivariate inference methods and may be even more important when the dimension of data is proportional to the sample size. It is therefore necessary that tests for multivariate non normality remain well behaved in such settings. In this article, we examine the properties of three common moment-based tests for non normality under increasing dimension asymptotics (IDA). It is demonstrated through Monte Carlo simulations that one of the tests is inconsistent under IDA and that one of them stands out as uniformly superior to the other two.


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WHAT?? You can even open your eyes? Sounds ridiculous doesn't it? Well…. yesterday was one of those days. I started the day with lots of pain. Pain in my hips, legs, shoulders, and hands. I was in so much pain that I decided to take a pain pill. It took longer for the pain pill to kick in but once it did it reduced my pain significantly. I don't know about you, but pain pills give me a spurt of energy – the type of energy that you just have to get up and do something. When my spurt of energy started I decided to clean up my closet. I took it easy but was able to make it look so nice. Then the spurt of energy was gone. Not only was it gone, but now EXTREME Fatigue kicked in. When this happens I just have to go to bed. I was in bed for the rest of the day and night. I slept all night, but during the day yesterday I just napped off and on. The fatigue was the extreme kind that I get periodically and I don't even have the energy to open my eyes. I had the tv on for some noise, but I could only lay with my eyes closed plastered to the bed. I did some tossing and turning to try to stay comfortable since some of the pain returned as well. It was the kind of fatigue if you have ever had it you know what I mean….. it was all I could do to breathe. My sweet husband would come in to check on me periodically and I could hear him sneak in to not wake me. I would say "I'm awake Sweetie, I am just still too tired to open my eyes". We would talk for a couple of minutes and then he would go on so I could rest. I am still pretty fatigued today, but able to at least be up and actually HAVE MY EYES OPEN!
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So Fatigued I Can't Open My EyesJuly 30, 2012
Fibro Fog we are SICK AND TIRED OF YOU!!July 27, 2012
I love this!!
This was posted on facebook today by Fibromyalgia Network https://www.facebook.com/#!/FibroNetwork
jUmPiNg FoR jOy!!July 23, 2012
I am jUmPiNg FoR jOy!! God gave me a good day today! I have enjoyed it SO much. For the last week or so I have been having so much fatigue that put me in bed or on the couch. Today I woke up with a little extra energy so I went out really early and enjoyed working in my yard. It is like playing to me. So much fun!
Fellow fibro friends, I wish for you low pain days with extra energy!! Blessings ♥
Fatigue & a Little about Raynaud's SyndromeJuly 21, 2012
Today the FATIGUE MONSTER still has me but I am out of bed doing a little here and there. When I am in bed too long my body hurts all the way down to my bones. I love life and determined to make the best of it. The major symptoms of fibromyalgia is pain and fatigue. Some patients have constant pain like I experience. The following is from the National Fibromyalgia Association's website. It lists some of the other symptoms of fibromyalgia. I want to talk about one today (Raynaud's Syndrome).
"Other symptoms/overlapping conditions
Additional symptoms may include: irritable bowel and bladder, headaches and migraines, restless legs syndrome (periodic limb movement disorder), impaired memory and concentration, skin sensitivities and rashes, dry eyes and mouth, anxiety, depression, ringing in the ears, dizziness, vision problems, Raynaud's Syndrome, neurological symptoms, and impaired coordination."
Raynaud's Syndrome is where your hands and feet (sometimes the tip of your nose or ears) feel numb and bone-chilling cold. What causes this is the smaller arteries that supply blood to your skin narrow, limiting blood circulation to these areas. I have this and it happens more to me when temperatures are cool. My hands and feet get so cold that they hurt and wearing gloves/socks doesn't seem to help. For me it is periodically during the day so I am constantly putting on or taking off gloves in the winter. Seems like 100 times a day. My fingers and toes turn white then a bluish color at times. I also use a heating pad to help.
Blessings to you!
108 Degrees!!July 21, 2012
Yes it is HOT again today in Oklahoma. Yesterday it got up to 108 degrees with humidity so thick you could feel it almost melting your skin. We have 2 sons in college and one is doing his internship working for a refrigeration company. He works on top of businesses a lot out in the heat. They drink tons of water, gaterade, etc during the day and come home just TOTALLY zapped after. Can you believe 108 degrees yesterday! Almost more than a body can stand. Come on cooler temperatures.
The FATIGUE Monster has AttackedJuly 20, 2012
I went to bed early and was woken by my Mother-in-law calling or I don't think I would be up now. I am so fatigued I will be lying around and sleeping all day. I slept 12 hours last night! My record is: I slept 23 hours one day about a year ago. It was really weird to wake up and realize that I had missed a whole day.
Today I am walking around like a zombie from one of those zombie movies that I see advertised but never watch. So just wanted you to know that the FATIGUE MONSTER got me last night and is determined to keep hold of me so far. I may just punch him in the nose!! 🙂
Oklahoma HeatJuly 19, 2012
I am SO tired of this Oklahoma heat!! I am ready to be able to walk outside and enjoy the beauty of the outdoors without turning into a lump of sweat. This 100 degree heat with humidity is almost too much to bear. When I get outside it feels like I can barely breathe because of the humidity and it just zaps my energy (what little of it that I have). Fall weather – please hurry up! 🙂


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Enterprise Enabler's Integration Integrity Manager (IIM) allows for data verification before integrating to make sure your integration does not break due to changes in the data sources.
An integrated environment implies complex interdependencies. Any time someone makes a change, the Integration Integrity Manager (IIM) prevents the catastrophic side effects of crashing systems because of bad decisions resulting from bad information.
The IIM performs impact analysis every time any change is detected in an application, data source, business process, or element of integration—such as interfaces, schedules, business rules, etc.
–> Once the potentially impacted elements are identified, the IIM starts up its workflow management process that notifies the owners, with detailed information.
–> The owner either notifies the IIM that the change is OK or makes a change in his object to accommodate.
–> All changes are held pending until completely resolved, then are automatically rolled out in appropriate order.
The Integration Integrity Manager is designed to help ensure the integrity of the integration with respect to business processes and system impact. If there is a change in data or in an application, the IIM will make sure that the affected people, processes and systems are appropriately notified, and that the rollout of change is sequenced and managed carefully.
Leveraging the integrated metadata stack, the patented IIM ensures that any changes applied to the integration will not cause a conflict with any other object in the stack. For example, if any of the data being accessed is changed, and that template is used other places, it validates that the change will not impact another use. If the IIM discovers that it will, it prohibits saving/deploying the change, and presents the information of exactly what would be impacted and how. The IIM also monitors endpoints for change at integration touch points. If a change is made to a field data type in a database, for example, it is automatically detected and a notification is sent identifying the change and the impacted integration objects.
To access the Integration Integrity Manager go to the Server menu –> IIM Notification Manager.


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Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)
A young tomboy, Watts, finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith, run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most popular girl in school
Wonder Blintzes Recipe
Make 10 blintzes
1 loaf Wonder bread
"Some Kind of Wonder Blintzes"
4 tablespoons white sugar
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 (8 ounces) packages cream cheese
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup melted butter
1 pint sour cream (optional)
Preheat the oven to 350º F. Spray cookie sheet with non-stick cooking spray.
Trim crusts off Wonder bread and roll into flat slices. Combine sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. In a large mixing bowl, mix softened cream cheese, milk and vanilla until smooth. Spread this mixture onto each slice of flattened bread. Roll each bread slice up. Dip the bread rolls into melted butter and immediately in the sugar-cinnamon mixture. Cut rolls into 1 inch pieces. Arrange the blintzes on the prepared cookie sheet.
Bake for 10 minutes.
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text: It must be Christmas, the time of goodwill to all Wheel sizes, with big and little wheels playing in harmony with one another. This great festive edit from Mongoose sees Santa Akrigg giving his hard working BMX elves half and hour off to play on the big ramps. And blimey can they ride: Kevin Peraza, Greg Illingworth, Ben Wallace and Paul Ryan.


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During the intense public battle with public employee unions last month, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) received an intriguing email from an admirer claiming to be a deputy prosecutor from Indiana. The email suggested that Walker should fake an attack on himself, in order to create sympathy for his cause and damage the reputation of the unions. The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism has the email:
The e-mail was signed by "Carlos F. Lam." WCIJ did some digging and discovered that indeed, there is a Carlos F. Lam who is a GOP public official in Indiana. He is a deputy prosecutor in Johnson County, Indiana — which is the same area the e-mail was sent from, according to its IP information. Lam also has a history of anti-union comments online: he's written that Indiana is "an unsustainable public worker gravy train bubble." In another, he said "unions & companies that feed at the gov't trough will fight tooth & nail against anything that un-feathers their nests."
WCIJ contacted Lam and asked him if the Hotmail address on the email belongs to him. Lam confirmed that it does — but categorically denied sending the email. "I am flabbergasted and would never advocate for something like this, and would like everyone to be sure that that's just not me," he said, after being read the email. He said he plans to file a police report about the matter this week.
Oddly, the email was sent on the very same day that another Indiana law enforcement official tweeted out violent plans for the protests. Jeffrey Cox, a deputy attorney general for the state, tweeted that police should "use live ammunition" against the protestors. He was fired the next day – but for now, Lam's boss is backing him. "He didn't send it," he told WCIJ.


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Milkhouse Kurnell
6/10-20 Torres St, Kurnell
Most famous for its tornado in December 2015, Kurnell is a Sydney village with a country-town-meets-the-seaside atmosphere, where in January 2016 friends Carly and Nat realised there was no decent coffee to be found. So they opened their own cafe, Milkhouse, and set about serving Allpress Espresso in what is styled as a beachside milk bar.
Milkhouse could have hung up its flag as only that, a regular cafe for the locals and visitors, except for the delightful intrusion of Nat's heritage, being of Uruguayan descent she was literally bringing something else to the table.
So while many locals happily graze on Sydney cafe fare such as the Milkhouse Burger, their Salami Schiacciata, The Reuben or their Greenie Bowl, it's interesting to observe how many regular Sutherland Shire locals drop by and, with their Aussie drawl, order the El Cubano, or Empanadas such as the spicy chorizo, ricotta and cheddar empanada, or the beef, olive and egg empanada – their empanada ingredients vary pretty much daily.
"I think I'll go the chicken burritos," I overheard a tradie saying on a Thursday morning recently – Australia, what a great land!
So if anyone ever says to you "let's go have Uruguayan food in Kurnell" they're not joshing, this is a real thing and people drive from as far away as Penrith and Palm Beach to experience it.
"But what about the milk?" I hear you scream, because you scream, I scream, we all scream for ice-cream. At Milkhouse Kurnell, dairy is a feature as the name suggests.
They have a soft-serve machine that pleases visitors from age 3 to 93, and also do milkshakes from strawberry to caramel, chocolate, lime and vanilla. Add malt, add thick, or have them with soy or almond milk. Too easy.
Then there's their smoothies in banana, berry, açai or mango, and you can even have Bondi Chai or carrot, ginger and turmeric kombucha as well as their Pigs Pot of Tea, or any array of very decent espresso choices including affogato or iced latte.
What most attracts South American food fans from far and wide is Milkhouse Kurnell's Uruguayan Street Food Sundays, which happen on the last Sunday of every month. Spanish families come not just for the food – they also have pony rides for the kids. And the food is as authentic as it gets in Sydney. Chivito which is Uruguay's national steak sandwich, is a droolworthy combo of scotch fillet, leg ham, fried egg, tomatoes and lettuce, green olives, "salsa golf" on a toasted milk bun. If that's not the best steak sandwich in Sydney, we're not living in Sydney … which is probably about right because Kurnell feels about as un-Sydney as any of our Sydney villages get.
Empanadas for all flavours abound on this special Sunday, as well as Chori Pan, Pancho and Churros, and to make the day complete Carly recommends exploring the sights of Kurnell such as the spectacular windswept cliffs of Cape Solander in the Kamay National Park.
From May to October, these cliffs afford the visual delights of whale-watching as these mighty creatures migrate up the coast.
There's kite-surfing on Bonna Point, a swimming beach and a lot of fishing to be done, plus a food truck at Bonna Point should you be a foodie for whom one taste of a region is never enough.
Also well worth marking in the diary is their recently-launched Kurnell Village Fair on the last weekend in April. Carly revealed there's $50 million of development money being poured into Kurnell by the government, so this little hamlet of 2500 people is set to become more accessible (via a ferry) and better known in the coming years.
For now Kurnell is a little seaside town that time forgot, which just happens to have a pretty unforgettable Uruguayan underbelly.
And you can have a private event at Milkhouse Kurnell, a paella night – while they also do paella catering for private parties in the local area. Sydney needs more paella.
Milkhouse Kurnell
6/10-20 Torres St, Kurnell


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The last two weeks we held a few StartupBus.Accelerate events in Europe. StartupBus.Accelerate events are meant to help you give new insights and accelerate your way of thinking.
The first one happened at Co.Station Brussels and was a satellite event of Europe's biggest open-source software conference FOSDEM. We had a few panel discussions about the impact of open-source software on tech companies with people like Jessica Rose (DreamFactory), Kris Buytaert (Inuits, Cfgmgmtcamp, …), Nils De Moor (Woorank), Charles Bailey (Bloomberg) and Lien Van Den Steen (DataCamp; they're hiring developers).
Ofcourse, StartupBus alumni from London and Brussels met up for some moules-frites and other Belgian culinary things like beer and chocolate.
Last week we visited Italy to talk about StartupBus at a few Startup Europe Week events organized by BIC Lazio. For those who don't know, Lazio is the region around Rome. We visited the local ecosystems of Viterbo, Latina and Ferentino and talked about what StartupBus is and why we organize it.
It's cool to see that even in "rural" Italy entrepreneurship is actively supported! In Viterbo we tested the augmented reality city tour (think a Google Glass for both eyes with navigation, photo and video overlays). In Ferentino we felt the duality between optimism and pessimism about the impact of technology on society. Yes, some jobs will disappear but other jobs will be created to create a better life for us all. We met young people, and we met older people. One of the latter kind is Maurizio De Nardis, founder of DenSolar Italy. He invented a new kind of walls and roofs that generate enough energy to construct passive buildings and is looking for funding to scale internationally.
Keep an eye on our blog because we're going to announce something soon!


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You think being Successful will make you Happy? Science suggests it´s the other way round [Current Research]
Once I´ll reach x (…put in one of your personal or professional goals…) I´ll be happy. This is a popular equation many people believe in. It´s promoted by a lot of self-help books as well.
And it´s wrong – or at least incomplete.
One of the central tenets in Positive Psychology is that happiness (positive emotions) actually lead to success. Researchers Julia K. Boehm and Sonja Lyubomirsky gathered the extant scientific evidence supporting this hypothesis for an influential review article in 2008. Ten years later they revisited this article and integrated new findings that corrobate their initial stance: Does Happiness Promote Career Success? Revisiting the Evidence. Here´s an excerpt from the discussion section:
First, the cross-sectional literature supports a correlational link between happiness and various success-related outcomes. Happiness is positively associated with job autonomy, job satisfaction, job performance, prosocial behavior, social support, popularity, and income. Happy people also receive more positive peer and supervisor evaluations […].
Second, […] longitudinal research suggests that people who are happy at an initial time point are more likely to find employment, be satisfied with their jobs, acquire higher status, perform well, be productive, receive social support, be evaluated positively, engage in fewer withdrawal behaviors, and obtain higher income at a subsequent time point.
Finally, […] experimental research demonstrates that when people are randomly assigned to experience positive emotions, they negotiate more collaboratively, set higher goals for themselves, persist at difficult tasks longer, evaluate themselves and others more favorably, help others more, and demonstrate greater creativity and curiosity than people assigned to experience neutral or negative emotions.
Realize. Relate. Relieve. On Compassion in Organizations
Two weeks ago, I gave my second TEDx talk on compassion in organizations. If you are interested in the (sort of) transcript of my talk, please visit this post. The purpose of this one is just to share some photos and to congratulate the fabulous organizing team of TEDxEBS 2016. The photos were shot by Erfan Fazloomi.
Compassion and Business: How does that go together?
The word compassion sounds "soft". It invokes images of praying Buddhist monks, nurses taking care of the feeble, or a priest administering the last rites to a dying person. What surely doesn´t come to mind is the picture of a corporate boardroom, right? But why?
When we walk into to the office in the morning and someone asks us "How are you?" we´re supposed to say something along the lines of: "Fine! How about you?" It´s part of the language game in the corporate world. We know this. At the same time, we all know that quite often, people are presenting a white lie at this point. We know this very well precisely because we do the same every once in a while. We say "I´m fine" even when things clearly aren´t fine at all.
Life can be a bitch. Our loved ones become sick or pass away. We fight with our spouses, our children, our parents, our neighbors. There are bills to pay and sometimes the end of the month is still too far away. Hell, the Warriors lose to the Cavs after a 3:1 lead in the NBA finals. It´s tough.
This emotional load – we bring it into the office, no matter if we admit it or if we decide to cover up. Most people indeed choose to cover up – as somehow, someone decided a hundred years ago that businesses ought to be rational places, spaces where emotions don´t belong or even disrupt normal functioning (whatever that is…).
The problem is: It´s just not possible. People cannot shut down their emotions at discretion. At least not for longer periods of time – and certainly not without paying a price.
There is always pain in the room.
This sentence was coined by the late management professor Peter Frost, one of the pioneers studying and advocating compassion in business settings. It´s a quite powerful proposition, even though (Or maybe: because?) it states something very obvious. Shit happens to the best of us. We suffer – and sometimes, it takes us a long time to cope. We feel pain and sorrow and those feelings don't bother to ask us if we are currently at work or at home.
So, how should managers and co-workers react? The common rules of business tell us to ignore or downplay the issue but in most cases, that´s not what really helps.
Not showing our suffering or downplaying the suffering of our colleagues is a perfect example of what Finnish philosopher Esa Saarinen calls a system of holding back in return and advance. We don't openly display our suffering because we expect from prior interactions that it will not be acted upon appropriately. Meanwhile, the others see no need to act compassionately as everything seems to be OK. Ad infinitum. And the longer this "non-reciprocity circle" is in place, the harder it becomes for an individual to make a first move in order to interrupt the chain of neglect.
Another way would be to act compassionately: To notice the negative feelings of our co-workers, to feel empathetic concern, and to act accordingly. Compassion does not equal to fully experiencing the same feelings as the person we´re compassionate to.
Put in a straight-forward way…
…being compassionate means to be willing to imagine how it would feel like to walk some miles in another person´s shoes – and then, upon recognizing this would probably be hurtful, trying to appropriately mitigate that pain or suffering.
That´s it. It´s not a mystic thing – and we don´t have to mediate in a cave for 20 years before we´re able to pull off that stunt.
We know how to be compassionate even before we can ride a bike. Small children act compassionately by nature. When they see another child crying, they instinctively show signs of distress – and then they try to help with their restricted means, e.g., by caressing their counterpart or sharing a toy.
But somehow, this get´s lost as we get our high school diplomas, university degrees – and then move on to become business people. Which is a pity, because businesses create a lot of pain themselves – it´s not all from our private lives. People suffer because they don't get that promotion, because their buddies get laid off, or just because co-workers, or even worse, bosses behave in outright toxic ways. Again, we all know this to some degree.
Here´s the point: Science shows over and over again that by carelessly ignoring these emotional dynamics, businesses are hurting the bottom line. If you want to know how, I´d like to point you towards this superb review article written by science rock star Jane Dutton of University of Michigan´s Center for Positive Organizations and some colleagues (that´s also where I "stole" the graphic from):
Dutton, J. E., Workman, K. M., & Hardin, A. E. (2014). Compassion at Work. Annual Reviews of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 1(1), 277-304.
Relational Energy: Is your Organization fully charged?
Are you fully charged right now? Do you feel energized? Full of zest? Or do you feel de-energized? Depleted? Run-down? Or maybe something in-between?
No matter what it is that you´re currently experiencing – it´s clear that humans tend to describe their condition in terms of energetic states. What is this energy? It is clear that we're not talking about energy in a (strictly) physical sense. Yes, we may feel drained energetically because of a lack of food (especially carbohydrates), and definitely a lack of sleep – and we do feel recharged after eating or taking a nap. But with the kind of energy we´re talking about here, there´s more to it.
By way of example, taking a brisk walk after lunch can restore our energy and help us being more productive in the afternoon, even though a lot of physical energy is actually spent while moving.
Moreover, human energy feeds on interesting ideas, on passion, on having a goals, especially shared goals. Research shows the same activity can be energizing or de-energizing, depending on the question if that activity plays to our strengths – or if it autonomously regulated (by and large: intrinsically motivated) or externally regulated (forced upon us). A great of overview of different frameworks of human energy is given in: Quinn, R. W., Spreitzer, G. M., & Lam, C. F. (2012). Building a sustainable model of human energy in organizations: Exploring the critical role of resources. Academy of Management Annals, 6(1), 337-396.
But most importantly, our energy feeds on interaction with other human beings – yet, it can be drained during that process as well.
Relational Energy
For a moment, think about a typical interaction with a colleague at work. Depending on the quality of that interaction, afterwards you might feel:
- (a little) elevated/uplifted (= energized);
- (a little) depleted/exhausted (= de-energized);
- just as before (= unchanged).
In reality, depending on the quality of past experiences, this process might start well before the actual interaction, precisely when a person starts to think about having to meet with another person. I mean, honestly, how often do we say something along the lines of: "Oh gosh, I have a meeting with X tomorrow – I wish I could send someone else…"
This is the reason why a lot of companies start to adopt a "no-asshole-policy": They adjust their hiring/firing processes in order to minimize the occurrence of "emotional black holes" among their employees, those people that suck up the energy of their colleagues, even when they are high-performers within their respective domain of work. The damage they cause to the organizational network by far outweighs their productivity in the long run (please check out: Cross, R., Baker, W., & Parker, A. (2003). What creates energy in organizations? MIT Sloan Management Review, 44(4), 51-57).
Now, imagine how many encounters you have on an average day at work, be they short and fleeting (e.g., small talk at the water cooler) or extended and intensive (e.g., a day-long workshop). And now go on to imagine all the people in your company, and their encounters over a day, or a week, or a year.
With a large company, e.g., the one I work for (120.000 employees), we're easily talking about more than a billion of those interactions per year. That's more than one billion occasions to either charge or discharge the energy of that organization. Each energetic transaction may be minuscule, but together they form the most important asset of that organization (besides such aspects as the properties, machines, trademarks). Because here's the thing (and you know this very well from your own life): The energetic state of each employee is connected to a lot of outcomes, such as work engagement, creativity, and satisfaction – and taken together, alles those interactions form a larger part of the organizational culture.
When we´re talking about "change", usually we´re referring to big fluffy concepts: "change the culture", or "change leadership". But can we really work with those entities in real life? Isn't it more advantageous to start with the little things, the day-to-day behavior? In order to do that, we´d have to be able to measure the nature of those interactions with regard to their "energetic quality".
Such an attempt has now been made by a team of US-based researchers (Owens, B. P., Baker, W. E., Sumpter, D. M., & Cameron, K. S. (2016). Relational energy at work: Implications for job engagement and job performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101(1), 35-49). They define (positive) relational energy as
a heightened level of psychological resourcefulness generated from interpersonal interactions that enhances one's capacity to do work.
The researchers propose a new scale for the measurement of this kind of energy from the vantage point of the recipient; these are two of the items they propose:
- I feel invigorated when I interact with this person.
- After interacting with this person I feel more energy to do my work.
Large companies usually go to great lengths in order to measure employee engagement, satisfaction, and related psychological states. Now imagine having each employee in an organization fill out a short questionnaire on the relational energy they're getting out of interacting with their closest co-workers, managers, and subordinates. This, in turn, could be used to create a detailed "energetic map" of that organization, thereby identifying the energizers and the "black holes" along the way.
I imagine this could lead to a complete new, data-based paradigms in leadership development.
Lift! On Leading with Purpose
Most managers behave as if they were still in high school. The primary goal is not being laughed at.
This sentence resonates with/in me ever since I've heard it three days ago. Professor Robert Quinn, co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations at the Ross School of Business (Michigan) coined it during a workshop on building positive cultures which was part of the Positive Business Conference 2016.
This is, of course, not the first time someone explained to me that most organizations create an atmosphere of (more or less) constant fear. But I have learned over the years that, in order to really grasp a "thing", somebody has to present it to you at the right time in just the right words.
I was so impressed after the workshop that I instantly bought his book Lift: The Fundamental State of Leadership (co-authored with his son Ryan) at the book table and devoured it on the plane back home from Detroit to Frankfurt, Germany. And what can I say? It´s one of the best books on leadership I´ve ever read.
Truth be told: I read a lot of management and psychology books (broadly speaking) and most authors on interpersonal leadership leave me rather unimpressed. I´m a senior human resources manager working in the headquarter of a multinational organization of 120,000 people, leading a team across two continents, additionally being responsible for groups of people that are part of our international trainee programs, and coordinating the efforts of multiple agencies that support us in recruiting and employer branding.
Against this backdrop, I can honestly say: Leadership is not easy. It doesn´t come down to checklists and simple recipes. Instead, it can be immensely taxing and challenging: It´s hard work. That´s why I enjoy leadership books that acknowledge and appreciate this basic condition.
Robert Quinn´s "Lift" is such a book. It draws on a useful metaphor from aerodynamics (the dynamic that makes objects fly even though they are heavier than air) but more importantly, is grounded in decades of top-tier research. The framework that serves as the outline of the book is based on an influential article in the journal Management Science from 1983, A Spatial Model of Effectiveness Criteria: Towards a Competing Values Approach to Organizational Analysis that aims at describing the basic dimensions of organizational effectiveness.
Quinn takes this framework and uses it to outline four corresponding psychological states of leadership: Purpose-centered, internally directed, other-focused, and externally open. This is the crucial point that differentiates "Lift" from most other leaderships books: It doesn´t tell (aspiring) leaders what to do on a concrete level. Instead, it serves to cultivate a certain mindset, a stance, a leadership conduct – what the author terms the fundamental state of leadership.
The author proposes we can enter this special mindset when we (implicitly or explicitly) apply a set of questions to given leadership situations, especially those that bear potential for resistance and conflict. These questions correspond to the four quadrants of the effectiveness/psychological states model.
- What results do I want to create? (objective: becoming less comfort-centered and more purpose-centered).
- What would my story be if I were living the values I expect of others? (objective: becoming less externally directed and more internally directed).
- How do others feel about this situation? (objective: becoming less self-focused and more other-focused).
- What are three or more strategies I could try in learning how to accomplish my purpose? (objective: becoming less internally closed and more externally open).
If you want to hear a short summary in Quinn´s own word, here you go:
For me, an added value of the book is that it provides a very clear definition of an individual purpose. I´ve been struggling with that concept for quite a while now. I know I will have to sharpen mine in order to live up to my full potential – but most of what I´ve read so far has left me irresolute. Here´s what Quinn proposes:
When people are purposed-centered,
- they envision and pursue extraordinarily results that are not constrained by previous expectations or by expectations that they receive from others;
- the results they pursue are energizing because they are self-chosen, challenging, and constructive;
- they provide a clear definition of the situation, focusing people´s attention.
Most management books I read – whether I enjoyed them or not – don't nudge me to do anything differently afterwards. I put them in a shelf and hope, at best, to remember one or two good ideas.
With "Lift", it´s a different story. I have already printed out the four questions and I will stick them to the computer screen in my office next Monday. And I will use the aforementioned definition to further mold my individual purpose.
Share and enjoy!
To learn more, you might want to watch Quinn´s 2013 TEDX talk.
Thriving not Surviving: Positive Business Conference (Day 2)
While the first day of the Positive Business Conference 2016 has been stimulating and inspiring, the second day was truly transformative for me – and mind you, I don't use words like this lightly. But I will eloborate on this at a later point in time. The impressions are too fresh to put them in intelligible phrases.
For today, I'd like to recap the day in the same day I did yesterday: by sharing some of my and other participants' tweets.
First, I discovered my next job title:
Then I learned about how to infuse a company with purpose.
I was impressed to learn how Ross School of Business strives to develop leaders that make a positive difference.
The early afternoon was reserved for a workshop on compassion in business led by Jane Dutton and Monica Worline. Somehow, this one made the difference that makes a difference. But as said, I'm going to talk about that in a separate post.
Fellow Penn Mappster Jessica Amortegui was awarded with the 1. price of the Positive Business Project competition for her work with Logitech.
Just like Alex Edmans explained yesterday: It pays off financially to invest in ethical companies.
Coffee makes the world go round – but only if it's fair-trade.
Michigan Ross: Thanks a million for hosting that is brilliant conference. I'll be back…!


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How to boost your Amazon commissions and clicks by up to 300% – with David Sahel
Episode 266
If you've ever made a sale on Amazon you quickly learned that it takes A LOT of sales to make any real money. However, if you promote the RIGHT kinds of products you can make your odds of success much higher.
David Sahel is on the show today to talk about his AmaSpy software that will help you choose the right Amazon products to promote.
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Current research in the use of ephemeral mediums to communicate historical narratives has resulted in performative installations for both Torn Space Theater and Buffalo's City of Night.
Based in Buffalo, NY, she is an Associate Professor of Scenography and the Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University at Buffalo. She is a faculty fellow of UB's Techne Institute for Arts and Emerging Technologies. She has held office in the USITT Upstate New York Regional Section and in Region II of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. She holds a BA with Honors in Theater/French Language and Literature from Buffalo State College, SUNY and a MFA in Stage Design from Northwestern University.
Lynne's work has earned her an Emerging Designer Residency (Steppenwolf), a Design Fellowship at the Kennedy Center (Intensive in Scenic & Costume Design: The Collaborative Process with Ming Cho Lee and Constance Hoffman), a Joseph Jefferson Citation Nomination, The Michael Merritt Scholarship for Excellence in Design and Collaboration and the UB Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity. Lynne is a member of United Scenic Artists – Local 829.