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SINGAPORE - Businesses are more pessimistic than at any time in the past three years, according to a survey out on Tuesday.
It found that 56 per cent of businesses cited global economic uncertainty as the main challenge facing them in 2016 while 21 per cent pointed to higher costs.
Other factors cited included reduced sales, foreign labour issues, and lack of financing.
The quarterly survey by the Singapore Commercial Credit Bureau polled 200 business owners and senior executives across major industries here on six indicators - expectations of upcoming quarterly sales, profits, employment, new orders, inventories and selling prices.
The index the data generates hit a three-year low of -2.93 percentage points for the first quarter of 2016, down from 0.14 percentage points for this quarter.
Powermark Battery & Hardware Trading, which makes batteries for the marine and telecoms industries, highlights many of the issues companies are facing.
The weaker business sentiment and lower oil prices have hit its revenue expectations, said accounts manager Ng Zhihan, who added that the firm is seeking to sell its batteries online to overseas markets to compensate for the decrease in revenue here.
Lourve, another local firm, also expects demand for its interior design consultancy and refurbishment services to remain muted at the start of next year.
Retail and commercial clients have been more hesitant to spend heavily due to the uncertain economic outlook, said finance director Lee Kia Tiow.
Commercial clients, wary of cashflow needs, have reduced renovation work and negotiated longer payment terms, which has led Lourve to reconsider taking up certain projects.
Labour costs for carpenters hired mainly from Malaysia and tilers have also risen due to fewer young people joining the industry.
The costs involved in hiring a staff for demolition work have risen about 30 per cent in the past two years, in part due to foreign worker levies, and are now about $1,800 a month, Mr Lee said.
"(This is) equivalent to a fresh diploma student out on the market," he noted. The firm has had to pass on these costs to its customers, who can also be strapped for cash.
But some firms do not expect to be hit as heavily by the weaker business sentiment.


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"What do I do when the near-angelic choir that wooed me to Christ morphs into an attack-dog platoon?"
I'm wrestling with that question in a book I'm writing, tentatively entitled The Intimidator's Club. It ponders American evangelical Christianity's descent from graciousness into an alpha-dominated sparing pit, with time-honored creeds dumped in favor of partisan orthodoxy. I'm giving sneak previews with a few sample chapters. The synopsis is here; an autobiographical sample is here.
The sample below describes what happened after I abandoned my carrier in journalism and unpacked my bags at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary on the north shore of Massachusetts Bay. Suffice it to say that "evangelical" meant something far different in 1985 then than it does now.
Some intentionally mispronounce seminary as "cemetery" because God supposedly shrivels into yellowed lecture notes and theological tomes. I relished it. I could actually talk God-talk without meeting a journalist's sneer.
Gordon-Conwell is one of several seminaries spawned by the evangelical resurgence, which began in the early 1940's and was led by Harold Ockenga, Carl Henry and (most famously) Billy Graham, among several others. Each was reared in fundamentalism, which initially heaved intellectual heft in its summons back to basic doctrines, but quickly slid into a separatist, legalistic, anti-intellectual cacophony – especially after the infamous "monkey trial" of 1925: Darwinist Clarence Darrow humiliated creationist William Jennings Bryan on a witness stand in Tennessee. The word "no" dangled in the sky: No movies; no drinking; no smoking (not a bad no, really); no card-playing; no mixing with those apostate, Modernist-Liberal mainliners adoring Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969), pastor of New York City's Riverside Church. Most were Dispensationalists and mandated literalistic readings of almost all biblical texts, whatever their literary form. The seven days of Genesis One were 24-hour periods; the Earth was about 5,000 years old; the thousand-year reign of Christ in Revelation 20:1-6 is exactly one thousand years – never mind the obvious symbolism of numbers in the Apocalypse.
Ockenga began calling himself a "neo-evangelical" or "new evangelical" to distinguish himself from the fundamentalists (the "neo" was soon dropped). Henry, who emerged as evangelicalism's informal academic dean, challenged back-to-the-Bible believers to abandon their cultural fortresses in his 1947 landmark book, The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism. Graham ruffled feathers when he reached out to leaders in mainline and Catholic churches. Ockenga served as the founding president of the National Association of Evangelicals in 1942 and, in 1947, the troika joined radio evangelist Charles Fuller and founded Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. The school remains post-conservative evangelicalism's intellectual Mecca. Again, Ockenga served as the seminary's first president and manned its board even after it veered away from biblical inerrancy (more on this later; Fuller now describes the Bible as "infallible," a slightly looser word). So did Graham.
But Ockenga also fixed his eyes on the East Coast and establishing a Fuller-like institution there. He helped merge Gordon Divinity School and Conwell School of Theology in 1969 and took its helm in 1970. The seminary clung to inerrancy while employing more sophisticated exegesis than fundamentalists (inerrancy is often mistaken for wooden literalism, which is not necessarily the case). He led Boston's prestigious Park Street Church in his spare time.
Graham, of course, traveled the world and led mammoth revival meetings, founded a relief organization, and spurred the publication of Christianity Today, over which Henry presided as its first editor. Meanwhile, Neo-evangelicalism's influence spread to Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois. Weslyan-flavored Asbury in Kentucky also played a key role, and The Evangelical Theological Society was established in 1949 in an effort to deepen sound scholarship. The organization's publication, the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, JETS, does not fly at supersonic speed and is no thrill ride – but it's learned.
The term, "evangelical," opened new vistas and panoramas for me. I could study the Bible from different angles without falling off orthodoxy's edge – and I needn't be anti-Catholic, anti-science, anti-women, anti-democrat, and anti-education. My professors relished the life of the mind (many did their graduate studies at Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton). They took a dim view of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell and dismissed the Moral Majority and Christian Coalition as passing fads.
Would that they had been right.
Most were Reformed, or Calvinist. Calvinists are often caricatured as stern grouches relishing a God with a grudge: The Lord predestined most to eternal Hell while rescuing a few lucky souls for Heaven. As usual, the caricatures are misleading. Some of my favorite professors – Garth Rosell, the now-late Nigel Kerr, David Wells, Greg Beale, and Richard Lints – gladly embraced the Reformed label. And they laughed up a storm. They were the veritable emblems of the "Christian gentleman" (there weren't many women on the faculty then; there are more now).
I never came around to Calvinism. I substantially agreed with Dutch theologian Jacob Arminias (1560-1609), who probed the Bible and found more latitude for choice. John Wesley, Methodism's founder, popularized the Arminian view in 18th-century Britain.
But I'm thankful for these Calvinists. They rid me of flaky fundamentalism. The now-late Old Testament Professor Meredith Kline, for example, showed how Genesis 1 could be read as a prose poem, with its days interpreted symbolically. Others showed how the biblical genealogies are intentionally incomplete, which meant they couldn't be used to determine the Earth's age. And they opened my eyes to an entirely different approach to eschatology (the study of the end times) courtesy the writings of the late George Eldon Ladd (1911-1982). Ladd and others explored a slew of biblical texts and found that the blessings of the eschatological age began in the ministry of Jesus; they will become complete at the second coming, or the consummation of His kingdom. We live between the already and not yet. Believers are meant to be tokens of the end times, a people of the future dwelling in the present. We're the future's harbingers, a people of "realized eschatology," to use a phrase coined by British scholar C.H. Dodd (1883-1973). Miracles, such as healings, point to a future of absolute health and blessing. Tokens of love underscore a future of absolute love. Holy lives point to a future of total holiness.[i]
The future is now. Eschatology invades through us, which gives the term deeper relevance than playing guessing games on the Rapture's date – and, incidentally, there's no "there" there on the so-called Rapture. All the biblical proof texts supporting it can easily refer to the Second Coming itself. Perhaps that's why no Christian thinker mentioned the event before the rise of Dispensationism. It's not in the Bible. We're trying to locate an empty spot on the calendar in our Rapture predictions, so let's leave the Left Behind series behind.
My professors also showed me the biblical tension involving women in ministry. True, some passages seemingly prohibit it; but there's also Deborah, a judge over all Israel about 1100 years before Christ, and Huldah the prophetess (2 Kings 22:14-20; 2 Chronicles 34:22-28) and Phoebe in Romans 16:1 and Junias in verse seven of that same chapter. Most of my teachers supported ordaining women. I gladly followed them.
I was fascinated by the history of revivals, first with the 18th-century Great Awakening, led by Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield in the American colonies and Methodist founder John Wesley in Britain. Converts wept and swooned and displayed other signs and manifestations of the Holy Spirit's power. Church attendance plummeted in the later 18th century but sky-rocketed after an enormous camp meeting in Cane Ridge, Kentucky, in 1801. Again, there were those manifestations: Swooning and weeping – even barking and roaring. Some historians dubbed the 19th century "The Methodist Century," which gave the era an Arminian hue. The emerging leaders spearheaded abolitionism and moved into slums. The late Timothy Smith pointed out that political reform, not conservatism, was all the rage – at least in the north.[ii]
Calvinism, of course, did not die. Some followers joined the Wesleyan fun and mingled with Methodists while remaining Reformed; a more cerebral branch lauded the scholasticism of Geneva theologian Francis Turretin (1623-1687) and found a home at Princeton Theological Seminary. The Old Princeton theologians – successively Archibald Alexander (1772-1851), Charles Hodge (1797-1878), AA Hodge (1823-1886), and Benjamin B. Warfield (1851-1921) – lobbed critical shells into the revivalist camp. They frowned on altar calls, the manifestations, and all the exhilaration. To their credit, they were intellectually rigorous and personally charitable, especially the elder Hodge, but they demanded stifling tidiness.
Maybe it's because I'm a mess, but I'm one with those 19th-century evangelicals and their transformation-minded 20th-century heirs, especially Ronald Sider, author Rich Christians in a Hungry World and former head of Evangelicals for Social Action. And I loved those fervent Pentecostals, who inherited the mantle of Wesleyan enthusiasm and whom Warfield condemned (he preached cessationism). I even prayed in tongues at seminary, although I could never bring myself to agree with Pentecostalism's two-tiered theology (tongues marked off those who were "baptized in the Holy Spirit" from other deprived souls).
Thanks for the brain power, Old Princetonians, but do yourselves and everyone else a favor: loosen up; chill out; join the party. And Warfield: Could you walk beside the Pentecostals instead of disparaging them?
Sadly, the union of high spirituality and societal reform dissolved in the later 19th and early twentieth centuries. Advocates of the Social Gospel, like Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918), embraced Liberal Christianity – which, in its more radical forms, jettisoned cardinal doctrines like the resurrection. Huge sections of the Bible littered the cutting-room floor. Evangelicalism devolved into anti-cultural and anti-intellectual fundamentalism, with Modernist leaders like Fosdick predicting its demise.
Fosdick did not foresee the influence of Henry, Ockenga, and Graham.
The threesome and their cohorts were not flawless. First, Henry and Ockenga extolled the Old Princetonians even while they shook hands with Pentecostals and admired Wesley (his portrait hung on Ockenga's office wall). Pentecostal and Wesleyan churches joined the Reformed faithful in the National Association of Evangelicals, which would have prompted Warfield's glare. But the Hodges and Warfield emerged as the new ideal. Old Princeton no longer rimmed a Wesleyan-Arminian universe, and some of its descendants in the new evangelical academic elite would eventually impose an arbitrary, neo-fundamentalist dogma smothering legitimate creativity. An unspoken covenant brooded over the scene: Everyone's a guest in Hodges' manse.
Second, historian George Marsden observes that most leading new evangelicals supported Republican Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft, the guru of the GOP right in the 1940's and 1950's[iii] (it should be said: Billy Graham was a registered Democrat and pushed for civil rights and social action).[iv] They did not baptize the Republican Party in Jesus' name, but perhaps their political unanimity rendered them near-sighted to the 1980 emergency, when Jerry Falwell and others pasted an overtly partisan label on theologically traditional Protestantism. The Evangelical Left, which had developed later and swum in its own stream, filed deep grievances, but most evangelical establishment leaders responded with a frown instead of a protest. They failed to see the invasion of a gurgling political idol.
Very unwittingly, the genteel new evangelicals left the door open for subsequent intimidators.
I would see that later. For now, I was lapping it all up and tagging myself with the evangelical label. It was a liberating insignia, a stamp that freed me to breathe in the whole Gospel.
I also met my future wife at seminary (the former Andrea LaCelle) and, in a strange twist, I contracted tongue cancer just before our wedding. I submitted to twice-a-day radiation therapy at Massachusetts General Hospital. I stood before the altar in the winger of 1987, pledged the until-death-do-us-part oath, and wondered if I'd render my beloved a widow in a year. I didn't know the cancer wouldn't recur for another 27 years.
[i] Ladd wrote his analysis in the scholarly The Presence of the Future (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1974), and the more approachable The Gospel of the Kingdom (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1959).
[ii] See Timothy Smith, Revivalism and Social Concern (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2004).
[iii] George M. Marsden, Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987), p. 62.
[iv] Eliza Griswold, "Billy Graham's Striking Gospel of Social Action," The New Yorker, February 22, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/billy-grahams-striking-gospel-of-social-action; retrieved, 9/5/18.

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Here is tonight's patch:
http://220.127.116.11/dl/dapatch.exe (1.0 MB)
This is all I could get done tonight; more will be done
tomorrow and over the weekend. Once we get all the bugs
fixed I will write this into a final official release.
This 1.0c patch solves:
- Major major changes to style tables. This will overwrite
your existing tables. They have been reformatted to remove
contour settings, which was confusing as the contour
module gets this info from digatmos.mnu or manual graphics
commands using the Analysis script language (see Help
- Convective outlooks partially restored; I see a few funky
line positions; it is a parsing error and I'll work on it some more.
- Fixed Radar > Load From File, which was incorrectly
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- Fixed VECT and BARB wind grid analysis items so that
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- Raised limit of digatmos.mnu entries to 50 in the
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- Removed RichEdit components; this should solve the
startup problem for the people who were having trouble.
- Translucency algorithms will now work on dark maps.
Best results are when your basemap is either very
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As always, Henrik Lundqvist was surrounded by reporters at his stall.
It was a few minutes after the Rangers' 7-6 loss to the Stars last Tuesday night at the Garden, and Lundqvist had allowed all seven Dallas goals in two periods before being replaced by Magnus Hellberg.
Faces were grim. The words were quiet and clipped.
"It's embarrassing, frustrating and disappointing at the same time," Lundqvist told reporters. "I spent the last 24 hours really working hard and trying to prepare for this game and you come out and get a pretty good start, then (in) our first period there were a couple missed plays where they made us pay.Most goals were scored right in front. As a goalie, you need to just be more aware I guess.
"The bottom line is I need to find another level; it's not good enough. Obviously when you're looking for confidence and a good feeling you're hoping for a game where there's a lot of structure and shots are more to the outside, but that's not the case right now. There are a lot of opportunities right in front and I just need to find a way to get going.But it's hard when you're trying to do all the right things and it's not paying off right now."
Essentially, those words summarize Lundqvist's 2016-17 season. Following Sunday's 1-0 overtime win over the Red Wings in Detroit, Lundqvist has a 20-12-1 record with a 2.77 goals against average, two shutouts and a .904 save percentage.
Perhaps most troubling is that Lundqvist has a 3.82 goals against and .867 save percentage in the eight games he has played in January, as of this writing.
A butterfly goaltender, Lundqvist has appeared to be over-aggressive and not fully squared to shooters at times this season, which has led to a debate on social media: Is Lundqvist at fault or has he been hung out to dry by his teammates and their defensive zone coverage?
To hear Alain Vigneault, the issues are intertwined.
"There's no doubt that we need to do a better job in front of our net. Our offensive game is pretty good at this time, but defensively obviously there are too many breakdowns," Vigneault said after the loss to the Stars. "On three of the first four goals we have someone in front of the net, we're just not taking the pass. Twice were defensemen, once it was a forward. It's an easy read to make, it's an easy pass to take, and we don't take it. We give the other team a grade-A opportunity. It's something that we can work on, we're going to work on, we're going to try to get better."
Shortly thereafter, the coach spoke about his goaltender.
"He's doing what a professional is supposed to do: He's trying to work on his game, he's trying to work on the areas where he needs to get better. And we as a team in front of him, there are areas that are obvious to everybody (to improve on). We are in front of our net, but we're not taking the passes. We need to work on that," Vigneault said.
And it should be noted the Rangers appeared far more structurally sound in road wins over Toronto (5-2 on Jan. 19) and the Red Wings Sunday.
With 35 games remaining in their regular season, the Rangers are 30-16-1 and have a firm grasp of the first Eastern Conference Wild Card slot. Their 61 points are 10 more than Toronto, which has the second berth. And the Rangers are a full 11 points ahead of Philadelphia, whom they will play Wednesday at the Garden.
Still, for a group whose collective goal is to win the franchise's fifth Stanley Cup, if the playoffs began today, the Rangers would need to roll a lot of sevens and hope their potential playoff opponents drain physically, mentally and emotionally drain each other.
The Blueshirts' forward depth has played a role in the team's success this season. Bottom-six forward Michael Grabner leads the team with 21 goals. What is noteworthy about Grabner's season is that twenty of his 21 goals have come at even strength. The other goal was shorthanded.
And for as much of a talking point as the defense corps has been this season, the left side has been fine with Ryan McDonagh, Brady Skjei and Marc Staal. Newcomers Nick Holden and Adam Clendening have not been out of place.
But the play of longtime right side stalwarts Dan Girardi and Kevin Klein has been a season-long talking point. So much so that right side UFA-to-be defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk has been linked to the Rangers since last season.
Shattenkirk, who grew up in Westchester and will turn 28 Sunday, has 32 points (11 goals and 21 assists) in 47 games with the St. Louis Blues this season. for his career, he has 274 points (66 goals and 208 assists) in 457 games according to NHL.com.
Citing a report from TSN hockey reporter Darren Dreger, The Hockey News suggested Shattenkirk would consider signing an extension should the Blues trade him. The outlet went out to say Dreger noted the defenseman had the Rangers—among a list of seven teams—he would "consider."
Industry website CapFriendly.com estimates the Rangers will have $8.967 million in available cap space by the Mar. 1 NHL trade deadline. The site also reports Shattenkirk will earn a pro-rated $4.25 million for the remainder of this season.
Before printing the jerseys and t-shirts, the question of what St. Louis would demand in return for Shattenkirk needs to be asked. Despite being in the midst of a three-game losing streak, the Blues hold the first Western Conference Wild Card slot. But unlike the Rangers, St. Louis' playoff position is hardly secure. Calgary has the same number of points and has the second Wild Card berth. Those teams are being chased by Vancouver, Los Angeles, Winnipeg and Dallas.
So it wouldn't make sense to trade Shattenkirk for anything less than a blow away offer. And it would seem unlikely that the Rangers would trade anyone from their NHL forward roster. Why subtract a strength unless it is guaranteed Shattenkirk will sign an extension.
Should the Rangers trade for Shattenkirk, the question of what happens to Girardi and Klein has to be answered. At first glance, it would seem likely that Vigneault would pair McDonagh with Shattenkirk. As noted above, the Staal-Holden pairing has been fine, which would leave Skjei needing a new partner and the triumvirate of Girardi, Klein and Clendening battling for the sixth and seventh defensemen roles.


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Monday February 19, 2018
Give your memory a workout: Scientists explore high-tech and low-key ways to improve recall
more stories from this episode
- 'We don't see the reality of what bullets do to bodies': Should images of school shootings be public?
- 'Does cancer not care I have plans?': Terminal diagnosis forces author to grab hold of life
- Give your memory a workout: Scientists explore high-tech and low-key ways to improve recall
- February 19, 2018 Episode Transcript
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Thirty-six million people worldwide suffer from Alzheimer's disease and dementia. In Canada, 25,000 new cases are diagnosed each year.
Those sobering numbers have researchers around the globe racing to come up with new ways to help the brain fend off memory loss.
From simple mental exercises and lifestyle tips to increasingly high-tech advances — a wide-range of techniques for improving memory are coming into focus.
Michael Kahana, a neuroscientist in the department of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, is exploring some of the field's most cutting-edge research.
His recent study looked at the effects brain implants can have on memory systems. Kahana's team analyzed how small electric shots from 100 to 200 electrodes influenced memory storage and retrieval in patients with intractable epilepsy.
The findings have excited the scientific community.
"It resulted in a 15 per cent improvement in memory when the impulses were delivered, both at the moments when memory was predicted to fail, as well as in an interesting part of the brain — the lateral temporal cortex … In that region we were able to consistently improve memory with this type of smart stimulator."
Kahana told The Current's guest host Catherine Cullen that this technology can be expected go to clinical trial within "a small number of years," and that it is aimed toward patients with Alzheimer's disease, mild cognitive impairments or other neurological disorders that affect memory.
Peter Reiner, the co-founder of the National Core for NeuroEthics at the University of British Columbia, agrees the research is a great advance for the area of study, but said we have to be cautious of the ethical implications when considering cognitive enhancements.
"Any time that you have technologies like this, people pretty quickly move towards … enhancing people who don't have cognitive defects and then things get a little bit more complicated."
Other researchers are coming up with practical techniques we can all use to significantly improve our memory on a daily basis.
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Jennifer Heisz, a cognitive neuroscientist and assistant professor of kinesiology at McMaster University, said high-intensity physical exercise increases memory performance by about 10 per cent.
"Exercise is thought to promote new brain cells in this brain region called the hippocampus, which is critical for learning and memory."
Colin MacLeod, a psychology professor at the University of Waterloo, said saying things out loud is another quick trick for improved recall.
"In a recent study we had people read some words silently, and other words aloud, and then we tested their memory," he told Cullen. "They remembered the words they read aloud significantly better — about 10 to 15 percent better."
But don't go around reading everything to yourself. Besides the obvious fact that everyone will hate you, the effectiveness of this phenomenon, referred to by MacLeod as "the production effect," is founded on distinguishability.
"What we think is important about reading out loud is it makes things distinctive. So of course if you read everything out loud, nothing is distinctive."
Want more tips? Listen to the full conversation at the top of this page, where you can also share this article across email, Facebook, Twitter and other platforms.
This segment was produced by The Current's Ines Colabrese and Suzanne Dufresne.


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'Yo Kejriwal So Honest' hashtag goes viral, beat Alok Nath jokes on Twitter
Is Arvind Kejriwal so honest that he will read through all the terms and conditions before clicking on the 'Agree' button? Did he refuse to play cricket because he is a common man, not a gentleman? Well, Twitter would have you believe so.india Updated: Jan 11, 2014 16:08 IST
Is Arvind Kejriwal so honest that he will read through all the terms and conditions before clicking on the 'Agree' button? Did he refuse to play cricket because he is a common man, not a gentleman? Well, Twitter would have you believe so.
Ever since he pulled a giant killing act in the Delhi Assembly polls, Arvind Kejriwal has been constantly under the scanner. From being forced to leave the 'janata darbar' due to uncontrollable crowds to his stomach problems earlier, everything has been scrutinised, taken apart and evaluated.
It was only a matter of time before the Twitterati jumped on to the bandwagon. They are now making up for lost time, with the hashtag #YoKejriwalSoHonest giving Aloke Nath jokes a run for their money.
Cheeky and irreverent as always, the Twitter folk have really taken to it. Sample this: #YoKejriwalSoHonest he got his wife's cousins arrested for stealing his shoes on his wedding.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Here are 10 others that tickled our ribs:
#YoKejriwalSoHonest is that he doesn't take extra sauce sachets with mcdee burgers— abhinav smith (@faltu_engineer) January 11, 2014
#YoKejriwalSoHonest that he says excuse me after sneezing even if nobody is there— marut bharat (@marutbharat) January 11, 2014
#YoKejriwalSoHonest that when his wife once asked him if he could get moon for her, he called up ISRO to launch Chandrayaan-1— Pratik Prasenjit (@pratikprasenjit) January 11, 2014
#YoKejriwalSoHonest he didnt see #sholay yet cuz he is pretty sure that #thakur ne apne haath #gabbar ko nahi diye ..— #hAsHTag (@Rohit8804) January 11, 2014
Best one on Kejri yet! "@Ra_Bies: #YoKejriwalSoHonest That when he finds a bomb, he returns it to the terrorists"— Animesh Jayant (@animeshjayant) January 11, 2014
#YoKejriwalSoHonest he Rolls On the Floor Laughing before sending ROFL in text/chat reply.— Sir Ravindra Jadeja (@SirJadeja) January 10, 2014
#YoKejriwalSoHonest that no woman has ever asked him "Do I look fat in this?"— AristocRat Miller (@YearOfRat) January 10, 2014
RT @KaminaPun: #YoKejriwalSoHonest that once he filed a case against a Halwai because there were neither Gulabs nor Jaamuns in GulabJamun.— Vidyut (@Vidyut) January 10, 2014
#YoKejriwalsoHonest that "Jhooth bole kauwa kaate" to be replaced with "Jhooth bole Kejriwal kaate"— Babaji Ka Thullu (@BabajiKaThullu4) January 11, 2014
And the cherry on top:
#YoKejriwalSoHonest even sanskari Alok Nath can't compete with him when it comes to honesty #LivingLegand#26th#NDTV25#26JAN— Jintu Kalita (@JintuKalita9) January 11, 2014
So, what were your favourite Tweets? Share with us.


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Published on March 7, 2014
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Identify the right integrated marketing communication channels Team |Gaurav |Ishan
Snapshot The Problem The methodology The Background The Situation The Insights The Discussion The Solution The Conclusion
The problem TOO many marketing communication channels & Limited marketing budget
The Methodology
Problem discovery Analysis of the Problem Review of Lierature Secondary data Problem Definition Designing a new marketing Model Experts' Opinions To check the feasibility of this new model Improving the model Recommendations Conclusion
The background
The product orientation era
In the simpler time… Lack of variety of products in the market Lack of competitors Lack of options for the consumers WORD-OF-MOUTH MARKETING
The sale orientation era
Competition heated up MORE products, MORE competitors, MORE options
Fighting in the crowded market place Shift of focus to Branding, Communication, Advertising Our product is better than yours
The marketing orientation era
The customer is KING Intense competition for customers Understand the needs and wants of customer
Over the past few decades, there was a very small and little changes in our marketing communication channels Until….
The boom of digital media
Marketing revolution Online marketing has transformed the entire marketing industry. Introduction of many new & exciting marketing channels: Website, search engine, social media etc.
The situation
Print media Social media Television Marketing communication channels Online marketing Radio Mobile
Print Media
Newspaper Newsletter Magazine Posters Billboards Brochures flyers 40% Of total advertising expenditure
Pros Cons • Appeal to certain group of audience • Limited coverage • Higher probability of reaching the target audience • Readers might focus on editorial reports instead of advertisement • Many options to choose from
Becoming irrelevant Only account for 6.9% of the total marketing expenditures in the year 2012.
Pros Cons • Can target specific group • Low impact due to short duration • Less expensive compare to TV • Is anyone listening to the advertisement?
Pros Cons • Large coverage • High investment • Higher clarity of messages • Low impact due to short duration • Can segment according to programs • Is anyone watching the advertisement?
Pros Cons • Instant results • Platform too diverse • Easier to work with • Privacy issues • Direct marketing • Tracking users response • Poor navigation on mobile phone
Pros Convenience Reach Cost Personalization Improve customers relationship • Social media industry • • • • • Cons • Security • Updates • Hidden costs
Social media marketing
Most commonly use social media platforms for marketers 00% 92% 90% 80% 80% 70% 70% 60% 58% 56% 50% 42% 41% 40% 30% 20% 18% 16% 11% 10% 0% 10% 5% 4% 4%
Google+ 2% Most important social media platforms Pinterest for marketers 1% Others 1% Forums 1% YouTube 4% Blogging 14% Facebook 49% Linkedin 16% Twitter 12%
Pros Improved sales Increased traffic Increased exposure Provide marketplace insight • Developed loyal fans • Reduced marketing expenses • • • • Cons • Hacker's threat • Risk of negative comments • Time-consuming
The Insights
The customer's shoes
The trusted channel by consumers
The marketer's shoes
The discussion
Look for consumer behavior pattern to draw a successful marketing campaign. Success of a marketing campaign should be judged beyond ROI. Marketing objectives are needed to be clearly defined before designing a campaign.
"In marketing, there are no hard and fast rules , what may work for one company may not work for another." "Data collection is of prime importance for a marketer before designing any campaign."
3 factors to consider for marketing campaign: • Sales goals • Scale of the campaign • Cost of the campaign "Big data gives us the basic market patterns and scenarios but they cannot be relied on to predict future market trends ."
Social marketing as a concept of creating brand awareness is very good; it also is a good medium of receiving and processing the views of prospective customers . "ROI should be measured on both quantitative and qualitative figures."
Marketing channel choice is based on two primary parameters: Target audience and product market. Internet is the most cost effective marketing channel in today's world. Just having a page on Facebook is not social media marketing. It is a platform to constantly engage and interact with your customers
Use return on marketing investment (ROMI). It measures the incremental sales growth from the marketing campaign considering the contribution margin of the business . Marketers should understand and measure the marketing campaign on the basis of business life cycle.
The solution
The conclusion
smart marketing—it's a distinct competitive advantage in today's ever-changing marketing landscape "Those who respect consumer preference will soon find themselves able to reach consumers in new and more relevant ways across greater number of channels"
Sky is the limit DONE BUT NOT FINISH GOOD BUT NOT GREAT COMPLETE BUT NOT PERFECT There is always room for improvement!
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Well, what an awesomely shit week! It may sound like a contradiction but its the only way to describe it. Awesome weekend in Melbourne followed by the site crash and my teams 350+ point drop. I think its time for some retail therapy, buying some fresh meat and getting rid of the dead wood. That should make the old smile return… and hopefully a return to the 1800 club.
The price rise window is not quite closed on these guys:
Cyril Rioli:I was lucky enough to watch Cyril dominate on the weekend. He was amazing, doing a bit of everything and converting it into DT a whopping DT score of 130. This bloke had no preseason and made everybody around him look slow. He was well underdone in last weeks game and still knocked up a 70. With increased fitness, I hate to think what this bloke will do. Priced at 334,900 and a break even of 43 he is an absolute bargain. If you were to look for concerns, the only one could be that he will almost certainly start copping the tag that currently goes to Chance Bateman. On a good note, he still amazingly fits into the 3rd year rule.
Jared Brennan:This guy has been so Katy Perry over his career so the question that needs to be asked is "can he continue the best start to a season in his career?" My answer is who would know. One think I have learned is that he is an automatic 100 every time he plays Carlton so I don't know how much can be taken out of that game. His other 100 for the year can against the lowly West Coast, however the interesting fact here is he only averages 65 in his career against them. I am concerned this week that he will have to return to his part time ruck role in the absence of Mitch Clark which he has had mixed success with over his career. Priced at 373,000 he seems a bargain on the surface, but high risk.
On the radar due to a price drop/big break even:
Ryan Hargrave: I loved this bloke last year and luckily enough I don't have him this year. A mix of average form and bad luck with an early injury has seen Ryno's price drop dramatically and the good news for non-owners is that there is more to come. His price plummet would be causing headaches for coaches, however their only option now is to probably keep him and hope his luck changes. Either that or swap him for a bag of mixed lollies next week. Ryan has dropped over 61,000 to this point and has a break even of 176. Call me a seagull and show me the chips baby.
Leon Davis: Neon is a very handy duel position player that proved last year he can be a DTer. After a slow start to the year he is definitely on the radar. Following an initial price drop of 41,700 he now has a huge break even of 157 leaving him as a potential upgrade early on.
Dane Swan: I bit the bullet and paid full price for Swannie, the good thing is I don't have to worry about when to trade him in, the bad thing is everybody else is going to have the option for a lot less money. Swan dropped 14,500 in the first price change but now faces the challeng of a 175 BE. Personally I think he will give 150 a nudge this week but even with that he will drop. Nice upgrade target early on, the only question is whether the rookies can be milked enough this early to reach what will always be a high target.
On the rise and still rising:
James McDonald: A heading like this would lead you to believe that young players are about to be mentioned. This is probably the first time anybody has even mentioned J Mac in the DT world this year but you cant ignore his scores of 99, 107, 109. He has already had a price rise of 22,000 but has a low break even of 54. J Mac is solely tagging this year so it is not as though he is going to cop a tag himself. It looks like we have a reinvigorated career in the mould of Kane Cornes. Yes, I said it, Kane the man Cornes.
Nick Maceski:I did alot of dumb things this pre season but the worst to date would be getting rid of Malceski due to his pre season hamstring tightness. Nick has laughed at me the first 3 weeks with great scores and a price rise of 45,800. He looks to be a certain keeper after averaging 101 and running amuck off the back flank. It is probably the last chance to jump on for a cheap price due to his BE of 13. For me I think he is just the one that got away, then I think, why wait for Hargrave when I can get Malceski now.
I hope I've given you guys a few players to spark discussion, feel free to add your own suggestions and chat the day away. Also, show Warne Dawg some love for getting the site looking this good this quick. It would have been very easy for us to pull the pin completely considering the hours of work that it requires on top of full time work, and $0 return. Cheers
Ps. That probably sounded sookier than usual because my DT sucks.
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Conductor, composer, violinist and pianist, and also holds a law degree. She has frequented courses for orchestra conductor in the Vienna Academy of Music, held by the Professor Karl Osterreicher, and in Mainz held by the carismatic Sergiu Celibidade. She has presented several concerts in different European countries, and in Japan, Korea, Usa and Mexico. She has been active internationally as a conductor since 1993. Agnoletto has collaborated with various orchestras and opera houses such as the Lviv Theater of opera and Ballet, Teatro Regio di Torino, The Silesian Opera and the Orchestra Femminile Europea (Milan). Since 1994, she has been principle conductor of the Philarmonica Gaudì Vienna, which has performed different concerts, tours ( Guanajato Festival during the Mexico Tournèe in 1996), and the Young Polish Philarmonic. Agnoletto is chairwoman of the Viennesse association Art in Action. She has been a member of OKB since 2001. Her first opera, Brahman (1996), was commissioned by the city of Cracow and written using an avant-garde composing technique that precisely transfers the mathemathical frequencies of the texts onto notes. Her children's opera Pinocchio (2001) was commissioned by the Comune di Vittorio Veneto from texts by the well-known Florentine poet and painter Dora Raparo Bianchi. She speaks six languages fluently.
Selected works Venus Hochzeit oder die Klage einer alten Frau aus Berlin for s, mime, tape and chamber orchestra, text: P. Sichrvsky, premiere: Philarmonia Gaudi Vienna, Haus der Musik ( Vienna 2000);Pinocchio, children's opera 2001, text: D.R. Bianchi, Teatr Korez ( Katowice 2003) ; Ave Maria for mixed choir, premièred by the Lviv Chamber Choir " Gloria", Ave Maria Festival ( Poland 2005); Brahman Opera, text: Malgorzata Stawarz 1997 commissioned by the city of Cracow, performed framm. 1998 Lvov, Ucraina Lvov Philarmonia.
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Took a fancy to ensnare her Boss,
With extremities akimbo,
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With no further cunctative delay,
I wave my extremities away,
I slake all my fear,
With your admirable rear,
While your lip gloss adjures me to stay,
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Mid-Year Review: What is the State of Your Small Business?Posted by Steve Strauss in General Business
Happily, summer has arrived. While many businesses tend to slow down in the warmer season, summer can be a boon to your business. How? Because the slower season is the perfect time to give your business a mid-year check-up.
You can wisely use this typically slow time to reflect on 2019 to see what is working, what is not, and then institute some changes to put you ahead when business picks back up.
Mid-year reviews help your business stay on track and keep your goals in sight. Whether it be a simple status update or an overhaul of some of your practices, this mid-year review can help you formulate a better plan.
There are three steps to the process, and it is deceptively simple. Essentially the mid-year process involves sitting with your team and answering three big questions about your small business:
- What has worked?
- What has not?
- Where can we do better?
Let's drill down into each.
1. What have we done right and what successes can we acknowledge?
Begin with the positive. What were your best successes so far this year and how did you achieve them? Outlining practices that worked, goals that were met, customers satisfied, and money that was made and saved is critical to understanding next steps you might want to take for your business.
This part of the review is an opportunity to find the pattern in why things worked well. Which area of your business produced the most profit? What services have been popular? What performed well on social media?
In this regard, you might want to employ the 80-20 rule. Which 20 percent of your efforts created 80 percent of your successes? You might want to emphasize those going forward.
2. Which failures are obvious and why didn't you reach some of your goals?
This part of the review can be the most painful but is also the mostnecessary. Looking at failures gives you an opportunity to get your business back on track. A mid-year review is an ideal time to take a look at mistakes made in the last six months. What didn't work well - and why?
Dig in. Look at it all: products that fizzled, where your team may have dropped the ball, opportunities missed, dissatisfied customers, marketing mistakes, money lost and squandered.
Understanding the why is critical here. Again, we can look to the numbers to help see where our business didn't excel. Where have you been losing money? What posts didn't get good engagement? Is your marketing bringing in clients? Having these numbers provides crucial insight into what needs to be changed moving forward.
Suggested reading: Use a Small Business Dashboard to Understand your Data
List the mistakes, list the root causes, and begin to think about needed pivots to correct the situation.
3. What do you want the future to look like for your company? How can you implement some changes?
This is the payoff: A mid-year course correction.
Knowing the successes and failures of your business and the numbers that drive those ups and downs should lead you to some conclusions. This final step helps you consciously manifest the future of your company. This is where you outline your vision, and importantly, the steps it will take to get there.
Ask yourself: How can we not make the same mistakes again? And how can we double-down on our successes? What has stopped or hindered our progress? And given all of this, should you have some new, updated, concrete goals based on the above? You want to be both big picture and minutiae oriented here. What is the vision, and what are the exact steps needed to implement that vision?
Finally, write down and keep your new goals in view at all times - this way, they'll always be in sight, even when the day to day gets in the way.
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During 1969, Buckley began to write and record material for three different albums: Lorca, Blue Afternoon, and Starsailor. Inspired after hearing the singing of avant-garde musician Cathy Berberian, he decided to integrate the ideas of composers such as Luciano Berio and Iannis Xenakis in an avant-garde rock genre. He started to utilize his voice's entire 4 octave range. According to guitarist Lee Underwood, Buckley knew that Lorca had little to no chance in the commercial market, and due to his old friend Herb Cohen starting up a new label venture with Frank Zappa, Straight Records, he wanted to provide an album of older material that was a step back from his current direction, but one that would have a better shot at making a dent in the public's minds. Selecting eight songs that had yet to be recorded, these tracks evolved into the sessions for the forgotten classic Blue Afternoon, an album that was quite similar to Happy Sad in style.
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Short stories of terror, acceptance, forbidden affairs, and yearning for love await. Each character brings their own voice to their own stories, as they all face the challenges of life and their choices. Readers may empathize or find their own story within Illustrated Short Fiction of William H. Coles: 2000-2016 by William H. Coles.
Honestly, I could not stop reading these short stories. And I only did stop because my head was throbbing from staring at the screen for too long. But you're here for the review, not my personal woes. At first, I frightened myself with how many pages this book had. However, when I started, the page count went out the window. Each story had me entranced, drawn in. This is one of the first collections of short stories that I actually enjoyed in a long time.
At first, I could not decide which my favorite was so I highlighted a few. Some of my favorites were the stories about overcoming despite all odds; The Gift, Suchin's Escape from sex trafficking or facing a Dilemma, which is the shortest story of them all; one page. Wow. Coles literally grabbed my heart and squeezed, and twisted it in all sorts of directions. Basically, my emotions were all over the place with this one. I have no idea what I would do, as a parent, in that situation. So kudos, I'm still thinking about this one. I am a fan of so many genres when it comes to reading, and this collection had them all. I have favorites, but really I did not dislike any of them. I may not want to reread some of them, but I still enjoyed them.
At the end there are two graphic novels, Homunculus and Reddog, and a novella, SISTER CARRIE. The graphic novels are based on two previously written short stories and the novella is a stand-alone. I did like the graphic novels because the illustrations matched with how I pictured the scenery and the people in each story. Plus, there are already one or two illustrations before each of those stories. To me, they helped with setting the story, they did not take away from it all. I liked the simplicity of the illustrations and it's as if the story was written around that picture. I also noticed that there are mentions or emphasis on God in the majority of the stories, I liked that tie-in.
One thing about the novella, though, I did not know what was going to happen throughout and I still cannot believe that is what actually happened. For myself and one of the main characters, it was such a back and forth of question and suspicion. At the end, I literally yelled, "Wow, we were all wrong!" When an author makes me yell out or talk back to the story, they have done well. And this is that one. Whether I did that, cried, laughed or smiled, each story for me can be left just as it ended. I was not left wanting and wanting more. I did want to jump in and hug a character or two, but they will be okay.
I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars. I noticed a few errors, but none prominent enough to ruin any of these stories. In all truth though, I may have missed some. Sometimes something is so good you're not looking for mistakes. (But really, there are rarely any). As a reader, you can tell it was professionally edited. I believe there is a story or two for almost anyone; young adult and older, in this collection. I really hope others enjoy this as much as I did.
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What to Do When You've Put Lipo Weight Back On
For a person to be said to have an attractive form, they need to have a combination of balance, proportion, and contour. There are, however, some areas of the body that do not respond to any level of exercise, diet or other weight loss measures; this is where a competent surgeon comes in. Cosmetic surgeons have the skills to sculpt any part of the body and achieve very noticeable changes with the slightest improvements. Liposuction is one of the most efficient ways to achieve redistribution of fat in the human body.
Weight Gain After Liposuction
The greatest thing that follows healing from liposuction is looking at yourself in the mirror and seeing that tinier waistline, thigh gap, small butt, less flabby arms or less chunky thighs that you envisioned before the procedure. You will want to flaunt your beautiful new form everywhere. However, for some people, the joy might be short-lived because there is the possibility of gaining back the entire weight one lost during the procedure.
There are a few tips and guidelines that you will find very useful in managing your weight after lipo:
• Liposuction does not make you immune to future weight gain, as soon as you are healthy enough to exercise, you should get an activity that you enjoy such as yoga, a spin class, swimming, hiking or anything else that will keep you active and keep the pounds away.
• The waistline is made in the kitchen: even if exercise plays a significant role in burning off the extra calories, the best way to ensure these calories do not get into your system, to begin with, is watching what you eat. Avoid exceeding the recommended calorie intake because all the extra will pack itself back onto the areas that you got the lipo.
• Drink water and green tea: Water is a secret that all the successful weight watchers swear by. It has been scientifically proven to increase metabolism by up to 50 percent. Green tea also boosts metabolism. In general, adopt a healthy lifestyle if you want to keep the pounds off.
In case you feel that you have gained back all the weight, and the above measures are not helping, it is possible to get a second procedure on the same site. However, doctors always recommend that you wait at least 8 to 12 months before doing the second procedure. Note that at times, swelling from the surgery may create the appearance of weight gain, which is why it is advisable to wait before a second procedure.
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Director and writer – Sanja Zivkovic
Jasna (Mirjana Jakovic), a Serbian architect, settled in Toronto, as a refugee, during the war in the former Yugoslavia, along with her daughter, Nina (Nini Kiri). Nina is repeating Grade 12, unhappy, ashamed of her mother, and wants to return to her life in Serbia. The relationship with Nina is strained. Nina shares little. Both women are isolated.
Jasna has had a breakdown and is diagnosed as being mentally ill and is on meds. A social worker got Jasna a job in an interior design shop where she is demeaned, made to wear a badge identifying her as an intern and told to observe but not serve customers.
Nina struggles at school, bullied by classmates who know about her mother who they call crazy. Nina is disinterested in school. She is befriended by Arman, a 21-year old student and drug dealer. Nina sells what are apparently stolen cell phones to a dealer and stashes away the money for her return to Serbia.
Nina is sent by a teacher to work with a theatre group who are working on a Samuel Beckett play. Initially she does not want to participate but eventually becomes drawn in.
Jasna is not able to pay their rent, owes $300 to the landlord after receiving an eviction notice which she hides in the closet. She dreams of selling a design proposal for a centre for immigrants and thinks she has a potential interested party, a customer, Ben. Ben asks her out for a drink and ultimately, they go to his apartment and have sex. Ben pretends he is interested in her plan and Jasna proceeds to put together a design. Jasna goes off her meds and works feverishly on the design which she takes to Ben who rejects the work; he never was interested, and had lied to her.
Jasna had had a career in Serbia and Nina had friends there. Both women struggle on their own to make their way in a foreign world. Was Jasna mentally ill or does her immigrant experience push her over the edge? This film shows us how difficult life can be for refugees who have been forced to flee the world they know for a new, confusing one.
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Quality and elegance. This is what you can find in a small shop next to Piazza Santo Spirito that carries on the antique tradition of designing and producing handcrafted shoes, primarily for male clients who want to wear the top quality. The shop is that of Roberto Ugolini, a Florentine artisan famous in America and Japan for designing and manufacturing shoes based on the wishes of his customers and on the shape of their foot. The shop offers a wide range of solutions regarding shape, colors and materials. Entering it you can 'breath' the air of an old tradition that today has become a rare luxury.
The formula of Roberto is that of combining the best Florentine artisan traditions with the highest quality of materials.
Always with the same scope: quality and elegance.
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A Jordanian man has committed suicide by jumping off Abdoun Bridge in Amman on Thursday, according to police officials.
Eyewitnesses said that the man was killed immediately upon impact with the ground.
Police were called to the scene in southern Amman where the man's body was found lying under the bridge. They have launched an investigation into the incident.
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As I drove home from the grocery store at 9 PM, two police cars blared their lights at 12-year-old Miss L's house. The mother in me wanted to run over there and take the 2 kids home with me, but instead I prayed and waited for morning, not knowing if someone was arrested or what happened.
Miss L.'s mother is an adult child of an alcoholic, but her parent stopped drinking when his grandchildren were born, or there about. In her thirties now, Miss L.'s mother leads a self-destructive life, with her two children knowing no normalcy, safety, or hope, especially now that their grandmother has died.
Late the next morning the kids knocked on the door. I heard the whole story about the inebriated adults and the arguing and threats, and the eight-year-old brother calling 911. The police were not much help; no arrests were made, and a violent, angry boyfriend came back after the authorities left.
Lord have mercy on these kids, who only want normalcy and real love--love that tucks them in and reads them stories and doesn't smell of alcohol or drugs. Every child, Lord, deserves to be a tucked-in, prayed-for child, covers all lovingly arranged and kisses deposited generously on a freshly-bathed face.
But our world is broken and the enemy wins more than Christians would like to admit. Too many of us born again by his blood, pursue the wrong things. Our hearts don't weep enough for the unsaved, the broken, lost, and wretched.
I remembered Jeremiah and acted boldly, when later the kids came back and Miss L. expressed pain and worry over her mother's threat to commit suicide, after learning that money was gone from her purse. Her poverty drives many of her decisions--spiritual and financial poverty both.
I had a messy house to clean on a deadline before a 4 PM children's Bible study, but I remembered Jeremiah. "Come in and play while I write a letter to your mother."
I sat at the computer and amazingly, wrote amid the chaos of three neighbor kids and my own four. I told her about my upbringing and alcohol's ugly presence. I told her about all the battles the adult children of alcoholics face, and how we feel ashamed and less-than and isolated. How we don't know how to have fun or play because our childhoods were too short and too serious. As such, there's potential to find all the wrong people to attach ourselves to, finding love in all the wrong places, and never knowing our worth or potential.
But God.
I pleaded with her to end this path and mark out a new one--one full of hope, love, peace, wholeness. God can redeem all this and he loves you, I wrote. You were wonderfully made by your loving Heavenly Father, and he wants to bless you...give you hope and future.
Decide right now that you will no longer cling to people who can't take responsible care of themselves. I ask this out of love for you and for your children. You were created for so much more than dysfunction.
I directed her to the literature from Adult Children of Alcoholics (or of dysfunctional families), copying and pasting as much of it as I could in the letter.
There's an estimated 50 million adults who come from alcoholic or dysfunctional homes, needing to find their way. Please, have a look at this literature below, and know where to obtain it when you meet a self-destructive mother, failing her kids and continuing the ugly cycle of addiction. It is spiritual--it's about God, but doesn't lock the sufferer into believing in God right away, or having to be a Christian to be healed. Some people go through twelve-step spiritual programs and do become Christians, but others do not. This literature is still valuable--you can add in the Bible's perspective yourself.
As he did for me, God will give you an opportunity to participate in someone's transformation. Don't take it lightly...don't get too busy or too preoccupied, but do help with boundaries in place.
Bless you as you work to bless others through His holy name.
I don't know the outcome for Miss L's mother. There's free will and not everyone chooses wholeness and love. But I took the opportunity given me, praying with the kids, writing a letter, opening my door. That is what the Lord expects from us...nothing more, nothing less. He puts people in our lives, and we must respond.
Adult Children of Alcoholic's Literature: found here:
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Many of us found that we had several characteristics in common as a result of being brought up in an alcoholic or dysfunctional household. We had come to feel isolated and uneasy with other people, especially authority figures. To protect ourselves, we became people-pleasers, even though we lost our own identities in the process. All the same we would mistake any personal criticism as a threat. We either became alcoholics (or practiced other addictive behavior) ourselves, or married them, or both. Failing that, we found other compulsive personalities, such as a workaholic, to fulfill our sick need for abandonment.
We lived life from the standpoint of victims. Having an overdeveloped sense of responsibility, we preferred to be concerned with others rather than ourselves. We got guilt feelings when we stood up for ourselves rather than giving in to others. Thus, we became reactors, rather than actors, letting others take the initiative. We were dependent personalities, terrified of abandonment, willing to do almost anything to hold on to a relationship in order not to be abandoned emotionally. Yet we kept choosing insecure relationships because they matched our childhood relationship with alcoholic or dysfunctional parents.
These symptoms of the family disease of alcoholism or other dysfunction made us 'co-victims', those who take on the characteristics of the disease without necessarily ever taking a drink. We learned to keep our feelings down as children and kept them buried as adults. As a result of this conditioning, we confused love with pity, tending to love those we could rescue. Even more self-defeating, we became addicted to excitement in all our affairs, preferring constant upset to workable relationships.
This is a description, not an indictment.
Adapted from The Laundry List
The solution is to become your own loving parent.
As ACA becomes a safe place for you, you will find freedom to express all the hurts and fears you have kept inside and to free yourself from the shame and blame that are carryovers from the past. You will become an adult who is imprisoned no longer by childhood reactions. You will recover the child within you, learning to accept and love yourself.
The healing begins when we risk moving out of isolation. Feelings and buried memories will return. By gradually releasing the burden of unexpressed grief, we slowly move out of the past. We learn to re-parent ourselves with gentleness, humor, love and respect.
This process allows us to see our biological parents as the instruments of our existence. Our actual parent is a Higher Power whom some of us choose to call God. Although we had alcoholic or dysfunctional parents, our Higher Power gave us the Twelve Steps of Recovery.
This is the action and work that heals us: we use the Steps; we use the meetings; we use the telephone. We share our experience, strength, and hope with each other. We learn to restructure our sick thinking one day at a time. When we release our parents from responsibility for our actions today, we become free to make healthful decisions as actors, not reactors. We progress from hurting, to healing, to helping. We awaken to a sense of wholeness we never knew was possible.
By attending these meetings on a regular basis, you will come to see parental alcoholism or family dysfunction for what it is: a disease that infected you as a child and continues to affect you as an adult. You will learn to keep the focus on yourself in the here and now. You will take responsibility for your own life and supply your own parenting.
You will not do this alone. Look around you and you will see others who know how you feel. We will love and encourage you no matter what. We ask you to accept us just as we accept you.
This is a spiritual program based on action coming from love. We are sure that as the love grows inside you, you will see beautiful changes in all your relationships, especially with God, yourself, and your parents.
We admitted we were powerless over the effects of alcoholism or other family dysfunction, that our lives had become unmanageable.
Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand God.
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Admitted to God, to our selves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Continued to take personal inventory and, when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understand God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry it out.
Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others who still suffer, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.