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MILWAUKEE—Pittsburgh Pirates starter Jeff Karstens was removed due to discomfort in his right hip flexor after getting only one out in the first inning against Milwaukee on Friday night.
The Brewers hit Karstens hard, with five of six batters reaching base. Aramis Ramirez hit a two-run single and Corey Hart hit a two-run homer to give Milwaukee a 4-0 lead. Jonathan Lucroy followed with a single on Karstens' 20th pitch, prompting trainers to go to the mound and talk to the right-hander.
He walked back into the dugout and was replaced by right-hander Kyle McPherson, recalled from Triple-A Indianapolis earlier Friday.
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Let's review why the ACA ("Obamacare") is dreadful public policy:
(1) It increases uncertainty and decreases confidence when recovery from the Great Recession requires more confidence and less uncertainty.
(2) The ACA discourages job creation by raising the price of hiring.
(3) Uncontrolled health spending is the U.S. system's main problem — and the ACA makes it worse.
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DATE: June 10, 2008
The spring meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops will be held June 12 through June 14 at:
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General sessions will be held in the Grand Cypress Ballroom
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The agenda will include a presentation on the recent Pew U.S. Religious Landscape Survey and the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) research on "Sacraments Today: Belief and Practice Among U.S. Catholics."
Other agenda items include a proposed policy statement on embryonic stem cell research, a progress update on the Causes and Context study of sexual abuse by clerics by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, and the new translation of the Proper of the Seasons of the Roman Missal.
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Amulet of Talos
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Amulet of Talos | |
Weight | 1 |
Value | 20 |
Class | Amulet |
Enchantment | Time between shouts is reduced 20%. |
FormID | 000CC846 |
The Amulet of Talos is an enchanted amulet that decreases the cool-down time of dragon shouts by 20%. This amulet represents the god Talos, who is believed to be the divine incarnation of Tiber Septim, a Dragonborn.
The Amulet can be used to decrease the cool-down time of dragon shouts by 20%, allowing the use of shouts more quickly.
Additionally, the Amulet of Talos is one of the items needed to make a Shrine of Talos in a house in The Elder Scrolls V: Hearthfire.
- Radiant Raiment occasionally sells an Amulet of Talos.
- The pilgrim Karita near the end of the 7,000 steps to High Hrothgar is sometimes carrying one.[confirmation needed]
- Can often be pickpocketed from Borri.[confirmation needed]
- Can be stolen from Hold guards, Stormcloaks and Imperial soldiers.
- Sometimes can be found on dead Draugr.
Fixed locationsEdit
- Roggvir is wearing one during his execution. It can be taken off of his corpse after the execution.
After the beheading of Roggvir, a child named Svari in Solitude informs the Dragonborn that her mother, Greta, is very distraught by the death of her uncle, Roggvir, and is spending a lot of time at the tavern. Svari asks the Dragonborn to convince her mother Greta to return to the temple. Upon speaking to the mother, she requests that an Amulet of Talos be retrieved from the body of Roggvir before she returns to the temple.After witnessing the beheading of Roggvir, the Dragonborn can immediately climb up and take the amulet in order to avoid having to get it from the catacombs. The beheading must be finished, or people will become hostile and attack. When the beheading is done, the amulet can be retrieved from Roggvir's body and then Svari can be talked to.
Svari and Greta can sometimes be found in Addvar's house. Svari also runs around town with several other children. Addvar operates a fish stall in Solitude during the day.
- Thalmor will be hostile to the wearer if they are spoken to while wearing this amulet.
- The appearance of this amulet may be based on real-life Mjolnir pendants worn by devotees of Thor in ancient Scandinavia and by modern adherents of Norse Paganism.
- If the Dragonborn is a vampire and has the "Necromage" perk, the cooldown is reduced by 25%
- 360 PS3 If Greta is met with the amulet already in tow, she'll give thanks for it, but the quest will not be marked as complete, and the amulet will not be removed from the inventory (although no longer marked as a quest item).
- 360 PS3 After speaking to Greta the amulet can be reverse pickpocketed on her. Doing so breaks the bug. (Possibly no longer works as of 3/25/13)
- PC , There is a fix via the console: Before speaking to Greta, type "player.drop 000cc846 1" into the console. The amulet will drop to the ground. Talk to her and she will ask the Dragonborn to get the amulet. Pick up the amulet from the floor, talk to her again, and the quest will complete. The amulet will still be in the inventory but it will no longer be a quest item. If there are multiple amulets in the inventory, use the above console input with 1 (one) at the end for each amulet on hand. The last one dropped will be the mission amulet. Get the mission, then get the amulet with the mission arrow only. After mission is complete, the rest of the amulets can be picked up and are now normal inventory items.
- PC Alternatively, advance the quest to completion via console. The quest ID is SolitudeFreeform03. Use the command setstage SolitudeFreeform03 40 to advance to the end of the quest, which should remove the quest from the log and allow removal of the amulet(s) from the inventory normally.
- PC 360 PS3 Greta can be killed instead of giving her the amulet. The mission will fail, thus be removed and the amulet no longer be a quest item.
- If the amulet is taken from Roggvir's corpse after his execution in Solitude it will become listed as a quest item, and cannot be dropped. Any other Amulets of Talos picked up will also be quest items and will stay in the inventory permanently (until the quest has been completed). This will mean the Shrine of Talos cannot be made at a mansion. Fix: Kill Greta if completion of quest is not optional.
- 360 If the Amulet of Talos is worn with Wolf Gauntlets, the amulet will not appear worn.
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It will surprise almost nobody that some erroneous statements have been made during the campaign for mayor of Quincy, not to mention some legitimate differences of opinion between the candidates.
Mayor John Spring, the Democratic incumbent, has a television advertisement that says Quincy's unemployment rate is the fourth lowest in Illinois.
That's incorrect. Adams County's rate was fourth lowest in January, according to the latest figures from the Illinois Department of Employment Security. Quincy's jobless rate is the 27th-lowest among 100 cities listed by the IDES.
In that same ad is a mention of bringing jobs to town, followed immediately with mention of the hydroelectric plants being sought along the Mississippi.
Of course, those jobs are not yet in place.
Spring said after the close of a Monday mayoral forum that his ad mentions the creation of jobs as an ongoing priority. Thus "bringing jobs" to town is not a past tense event but present and future tense.
Dave Bellis, the Republican challenger, has charged that people should connect the dots between Spring and ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich. He said after Monday's forum that Spring and Blagojevich have many of the same contributors.
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Perhaps since both men are Democrats, they both were favored by Democratic donors?
Bellis also mentioned campaign donations as a possible motive for the repaving of Acadia Way, a street in his neighborhood. Bellis said the street was in good shape and that it was a waste of money to repave it. He said two of Spring's donors live on the block.
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In today's reading from John 1:1-18 NKJV In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (2) He was in the beginning with God. (3) All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. (4) In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. (5) And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. (6) There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. (7) This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe. (8) He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. (9) That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world. (10) He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. (11) He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. (12) But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: (13) who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. (14) And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. (15) John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, "This was He of whom I said, 'He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.' " (16) And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. (17) For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. (18) No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.
We hear "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God." In Genesis 1:3 we read: "Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light." God said and the creation was. That is how the Bible shows us God, it is the way in which God reveals Himself to us, and it is the way in which we see that God keeps His word.
So many of us, want some kind of proof of God's being, of God caring, yet that evidence is all around us and we don't see it. There are schools of thought that want us to believe that God created the world and everything in it and then left it to its own devices, but scripture tells us that God acted throughout history. When God first created the world, He also created a man and a woman, in His own image they were created. We read this in the first chapter of Genesis, where God says: "Let us make man in our image…..male and female created He them." He then goes on to put them in the garden to till it and to care for it. However there is more to it than that, God also was the one who came and walked with them in the garden in the cool of the evening. God did not create man and woman to be robots but to be God's own companions. Why would God create a companion and then go off to someplace else and abandon His companion?
Later, when they sinned and God banished them from the garden, He was still around. When Cain killed his brother, God was there to judge the actions, and to mitigate the punishment. When man became so depraved that God grew weary of him and his activity, He also acted to save a remnant through Noah and his family. Is that a God who has forgotten about His creation? Again we find God calling Abram to come out of Ur and go to a land he was not familiar with, then walking with Abraham and talking with him in a personal way. We find that God came and ate a meal with Abraham and even that Abraham had a conversation where he was able to speak to God as you and I would to one another. Remember the conversation? "God would you destroy the city if there were 50 righteous people, or 40 or 10?" God spoke to Abraham as to a friend, as to a companion, as to one He loved. God came and wrestled with Jacob and called him Israel, that is one of those great stories in the Old Testament, God comes down to wrestle with His people, to talk with them and to help them to understand.
The Bible is full of these wonderful stories, stories that help us to understand God and that help us to see how the people of God have changed their own understanding of God through the centuries, reading today in Jeremiah 31:7-14 we find a wonderful example of God's working with His people. In verses 10-14 we read:
Jeremiah 31:10 through Jeremiah 31:14 (NLT)
10″Listen to this message from the LORD, you nations of the world; proclaim it in distant coastlands: The LORD, who scattered his people, will gather them together and watch over them as a shepherd does his flock. 11 For the LORD has redeemed Israel from those too strong for them. 12 They will come home and sing songs of joy on the heights of Jerusalem. They will be radiant because of the many gifts the LORD has given them—the good crops of wheat, wine, and oil, and the healthy flocks and herds. Their life will be like a watered garden, and all their sorrows will be gone. 13 The young women will dance for joy, and the men—old and young—will join in the celebration. I will turn their mourning into joy. I will comfort them and exchange their sorrow for rejoicing. 14 I will supply the priests with an abundance of offerings. I will satisfy my people with my bounty. I, the LORD, have spoken!"
God did just that, He brought His people back from their captivity to again inhabit the land. Yet God's people just as quickly forget that they are God's people and sink, over and over again into apostasy. Not only the Jews of ancient times but you and I today. We forget that God is sovereign, that God is present, we don't really want God to be present, except when it comes time to collect on the promises. Yes we want the goodies but we don't want the responsibility of being a people set apart for a good work. We like to accept the gift of God, the life of His Son as our redeemer, but, since Jesus has already done the work we want to just rest on that, and go on and do as we please with no repercussions. It didn't work for the people of Israel, it will not work for you and I.
The truth is that we look back at what God has done in the past for His people, Israel, and we think we are better than they are, that because Jesus died on the cross, all persons will be saved, all will be OK. We expect God to have infinite mercy without Justice, but that has never been so, and will not be so today either. God requires of those who would follow Him to do Justice as well as Mercy. For He is a Just God as well as a merciful one.
Just as God looked for the people of Israel to be changed into new persons, just as He looked for them to be holy, and to do justice to one another and to those who lived in the land, so to does He expect us to be holy and righteous. We read in Paul's letter to the church at Ephesus that God has adopted us into His family in Christ, that we have a purpose and that purpose is to praise God and to be His people. All of the gospel centers around our being God's people, set apart for good works, and for holy living.
God tells us that we are His, because of the redemptive acts of Jesus Christ, and that we are to be a holy people, set apart, not to be a people of the society around us, but rather we are to influence that society so that it will be changed as well. We who have received the Spirit of God and have been transformed into the image of Christ, are also the recipients of eternal life in the presence of God, through that same Jesus Christ. We have received the gifts of the Spirit as we are told by Paul, and those gifts help us to live in a way that sets us apart and helps us to bring the gospel to those around us.
In remembering that past, and in looking forward to that future where we will be in the presence of our savior always, we will today renew our covenant with God and with one another, simply because we need to remind ourselves and each other who it is we are. We have taken on a name, we have taken on a task, and we have said that we will be the people of God. After we renew that covenant we will also partake of the communion meal, and have a time of fellowship together with one another, a time for us to renew ourselves and to remind each other that we are family, we have been adopted into the family of God and as such are brothers and sisters together in this journey toward the promised land.
Let us come together today, as we renew our covenant with one another and with God, and as we participate in the Eucharist understanding that we are moving toward a bright and beautiful future, because God has acted, is acting and will continue to act in the lives of His people. We are striving for perfection, perfection in love that we might perfectly reflect the love of Christ in our lives and for those around us. Let your light shine beloved that the world around you may come to know that Jesus Christ is alive and well right here where you are.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Jas 5:14 "Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. 16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working." (ESV)
As I was in prayer this morning about a prayer ministry in our county, God impressed upon me that my counterpart another prayer warrior, needed to be in prayer for our ministry also. Now I have been in conversation with my Lord many times over the years, and sometimes I don't hear him as well as I did today. He always answers the prayers, because we are in conversation together. In other words, I don't just pray and then walk away, I like to listen to hear what my Lord will say to me. It is interesting that we Christians like to tell God what we want, but we don't wait to hear what God has for us.
It is a difficult thing this being in conversation, with other people as well as with God, since we seem to want to be sure that whoever we are talking with, hears what we have to say, but for some reason, we don't want to wait for them to speak to us. I sometimes watch "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox news at night, and I get irritated when he interrupts his guest and won't let them speak unless it is what he wants to hear. I understand it is his show and he gets to set the rules, but to me, it is awfully rude to ask someone a question, and when they begin to work out where they want to go with the answer, they are not allowed to do so. They are in the "No-Spin Zone" as O'Reilly says. Of course if they are saying things that are not truthful or that are shaded as to the truth, I think I can probably figure that out by listening to the entire conversation.
Now, let me say, this used to be me. I knew my own truth and if you didn't toe my line, well I wouldn't let you speak. I was a rude and obnoxious person, then the Lord made it clear to me that I was rude and obnoxious. I try now to be the kind of person God wants me to be, sometimes I will slip, but I feel that gentle nudge in my heart that says I am slipping. I go back to listening rather than controlling the conversation. James puts it really well when he tells us that we are to confess our sins to one another and pray for one another, that we may be healed. He is not necessarily talking about physical healing, but rather soul healing. Jesus always worked to heal souls as well as bodies. I realized that when God made me think about what was being said in these healing times of Jesus. Hear this encounter:
Mar 10:51 "And Jesus said to him, "What do you want me to do for you?" And the blind man said to him, "Rabbi, let me recover my sight." 52 And Jesus said to him, "Go your way; your faith has made you well." And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way."
What a powerful statement, your faith has made you well. Note that the blind man who received his sight not only was physically healed but then wanted to follow Jesus. How many of these people were healed in their souls and spread the news that the Messiah had come? We don't know since we don't know how many people were actually healed and went on to speak of the Healer. The blind man, btw offered up a prayer of supplication, Mar 10:47 And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"
Jesus had compassion, how often do we pray, and wait to hear what God will say to us? I'm afraid that it is not nearly as often as we should. Brethren, take time out of your busy schedule to spend time with God today, to be in conversation with the one who loves you, and wants to share your life with you. Let me know how well you do when you converse with our Heavenly Father.
God bless and keep you, this day and all days.
the end of the Journey of Immanuel – God with us. Jesus will spend Thursday evening with his disciples at the traditional Seder/Passover meal. Then they will go to a place to pray and there he will be arrested. This is the beginning of the persecution that Jesus will suffer. He is brought before the Religious leaders, the High Priest and members of the Sanhedrin. They accuse him of blasphemy and the guards hit him as he is being questioned. Later in the early morning he is brought before the Roman Governor, who has him sent to Herod, who sends him back to Pontius Pilate. After some time, he is scourged, at least 39 lashes of the whip, they crown him with thorns, and finally they bring him back out to Pilate. Pilate offers to release either Jesus or Barabbas. The crowd calls for the killer Barabbas, and Pilate asks what they want him to do with Jesus. The crowd calls out – "Crucify him, Crucify him." Pilate orders him crucified, and on Friday morning he is led to Golgotha and is nailed to a cross.
Death is excruciating. takes hours for Jesus to die, and then the centurion to insure he is dead, stabs him in the side with a spear. He is buried in the tomb of a man called Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus.
This is the end of this part of the Journey with Jesus. More however is to come, Easter Sunday will come and we will again speak of Jesus and the Journey.


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Fugitive prisoner Alberto Morales, 42, who escaped from Miami-Dade County detectives near the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on February 11, 2013, was shot dead by officers in Grapevine, Texas, early on February 16. Police received numerous tips regarding Morales' movements, but had trouble locating the convict after he attacked one of the detectives transporting him with a shiv and escaped from a Walmart parking lot.
Police finally caught up with the Morales, who had sworn that he would never return to captivity, after receiving a 911 call from Teresa and Brian Parker about a break in. The Parkers returned home at about 10 p.m. on February 15 to find a broken window and the bedroom door locked. Teresa parker called 911 saying that the intruder could still be in the home. The dispatcher told them to get out, get into their vehicle and lock the doors. Police arrived and on searching the home found several items missing including clothing and jewelry. They caught up with Morales after midnight in a wooded area controlled by the Army Corps of Engineers near the southern end of Grapevine Lake. Armed officers told Morales to get down on the ground with his hands up, but he reportedly rushed them with sticks in his hands, no other weapon, was shot down at 12:25 a.m. It is assume that he got his shackles off at some point after his escape, but that detail is not mentioned in the reports at this time. Some items of jewelry were recovered in the woods and the clothes Morales was wearing are believed to have belonged to Brian Parker.
Though the manhunt is over, the investigation continues as questions remain about Morales' obviously planned escape. Morales had been extradited from Nevada to Florida where he pleaded guilty to charges and was sentenced to ten years to run concurrently with the 30-year sentence he was serving in Nevada for rape. When it came time to return him to Nevada, Morales was shackled and loaded onto a plane with two detectives. Morales, who is believed to have suffered from mental illness, became disruptive enough on the flight that when the plane landed in Dallas he was removed. Deputies opted to complete his transfer by car.
They rented a car at the airport, but required a third deputy to accompany them on their cross-county drive. They decided to wait it out at the Walmart parking lot in Grapevine, which is where Morales took out the shiv he had with him and stabbed Miami-Dade Detective Jaime Pardinas in the back, chest and neck, making his escape — with his shackles on.
Miami-Dade detectives reportedly did not alert police in Grapevine to their presence until after the escape. Had they done so, Morales, who was considered a dangerous sex offender, could possibly have been held in a cell until the third Florida detective arrived. Also, the detectives kept Morales in shackles rather than using more secure plastic handcuffs. Also, it is also unclear why Morales was in civilian attire and how he managed to hold onto the shiv that he had prepared for the attack. It would seem that both airport security and Florida police failed to effectively search the prisoner. Luckily no one else was hurt in the escape and manhunt for Morales.
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The American had just handed the car back over to teammate Richard Westbrook after leading through his stint, but lost four laps to Giancarlo Fisichella while the Englishman retrieved the three-wheeled C6-ZR1 to the pits. The team was then also forced to make repairs to the floor.
"It's too early to say we're out of it," Milner told AUTOSPORT. "But we've lost five or six positions and they'd all need to have problems to bring us back into it, and the chances of that I guess are low."
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i-mint, India's first and largest multiple partner rewards program, has today joined hands with Bhaktivedanta Hospital to continue to offer community welfare programs for the poor and needy residents of the society in rural areas.
— i-mint, India's first and largest multiple partner rewards program, has today joined hands with Bhaktivedanta Hospital to continue to offer community welfare programs for the poor and needy residents of the society in rural areas.
To supplement the joint initiative, i-mint is looking to urge all its members to "SPEND FOR A CAUSE", where for every redemption; i-mint will donate 10 points between 15th December till 15th January, to fund the free cataract operations for the poorer sections, who are not in a position to afford the treatment. Also the i-mint member has a choice to fund one cataract operation by utilizing 3500 points for which they will be entitled for 80G tax benefits.
The Bhaktivedanta Hospital has been conducting free cataract surgical camp at Barsana, UP, and Rural Thane since 1991. Initially the average number of operations per year at each camp amounted to 200 surgeries. With the increase in the need for such services the surgeries have now increased to an average amount of 3000 operations.
The Bhaktivedanta Hospital has 180 volunteers consisting of 10 Ophthalmic surgeons, 20 MBBS doctors, 30 nurses and others who have come forward to offer pro-bono services during this camp
i-mint has pledged their support to the Bhaktivedanta hospital in order to support the work that the hospital serves the needy in our society
Commenting on this initiative Mr. Vijay Bobba, founding CEO and Managing Director said "The medical need in the rural areas of India have been continuously rising. More and more people are falling sick due to the lack of medical attention and we believe that it is extremely important that we do our part in contributing back in the upliftment of the needy sections of the society."
He further went on to say "The Bhaktivedanta hospital, conducted by Chaitanya Welfare Charitable Trust, has been doing some outstanding work in this space and it's just perfect for us to ally with them. We're promoting this initiative very aggressively and I'm certain that many more will support this cause unconditionally"
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i-mint is India's first multi brand consumer rewards program, which is pioneered by Loyalty Solutions & Research Limited (LSRL), a company funded by ICICI Ventures. Launched on 1st August 2006, i-mint brings together several brands namely HPCL, Air India, Makemytrip.com, Bookmyshow.com, ICICI Bank etc as well as hundreds of i-mint affiliated merchants on a single rewards platform. i-mint has partnered with more than 3000 merchant outlets and are poised to have 25 million customers by the end of this financial year.
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The Bhaktivedanta Hospital lies in the vision of a few dedicated doctors. Way back in 1986, immediately after completing their specializations in various medical fields, a dream weaved the association of a few like-minded doctors together. The collective dream was to provide quality healthcare to the medically deprived people at a very affordable cost. The hospital is run by the Sri Chaitanya Welfare Trust under the chairmanship of Mr. Rajeev Srivastava, and a cohesive group of Trustees who provide the required strategy and guidance for growth. The motto of 'Serving in Devotion' is followed in spirit by all the 285 staff and the 100 consulting specialists of the hospital.
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Wyeth is a pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Madison, NJ, and affiliate offices all over the world, primarily in Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East. Its drugs range from Advil to flu vaccines to medications for cancer and animal diseases such as feline leukemia. There are approximately 9,000 sales reps in the company's U.S. sales force, and roughly one-third of those are in the U.S.
About twice a year, sales representatives for Wyeth have to be trained on new drugs that are going to be launched and new uses for existing drugs, called indications. They also have to learn about the conditions those drugs treat so they can talk to doctors and other potential buyers about how the drug is supposed to be used, what it will do, what side effects it may have, and other information about the drug. Finally, they frequently have to be trained or refreshed in Wyeth's particular philosophy about how to sell drugs to buyers in a responsible and informed way.
Richard Creasy, director of marketing development, global training, and instructional design for the commercial learning and development group at Wyeth, explains that product training about new and existing drugs is developed by his group, in consultation with representatives from the regions where it will be delivered. Those representatives have a voice in how the training is designed and delivered, and speak for the specific needs of the region. They also help to keep the content culture-neutral, so colloquial expressions that don't translate well aren't used. "Those regional representatives give us guidance about issues like that, as well as infrastructure issues such as how the content can best be delivered in that region," Creasy says. Some regions, such as the United Kingdom and Europe, access the Web-based training Creasy's group develops through Wyeth's Learning Management System (LMS). All the regions are anticipated to start using the LMS in 2009, but until then, those regions that aren't using it have to rely on CD or paper-based delivery of training content.
Training for new launches or new indications usually consists of three phases: a pre-launch phase, when representatives learn about the history of the disease the drug has been or will be used for; a launch phase that teaches specific information about the drug and how it works; and a post-launch phase that attempts to fill gaps in representatives' knowledge with weekly activities that reinforce the product knowledge that already has been delivered. The training is designed to avoid any culture-specific references or colloquial expressions that might make it less globally applicable.
Once the training has been developed, Creasy says, it goes through a rigorous review process to make sure all legal and medical information is accurate. Once the training is approved, it is turned over to Wyeth affiliates, or offices in other countries. "Those affiliates then make any needed revisions to comply with their local regulatory bodies, and they also handle getting the content translated to the local language," Creasy says.
To make sure nothing gets lost in translation, Creasy explains, local affiliates work with translation companies of their choice, some of whom use a library of "Wyethized" words, which are common terms of the pharmaceutical industry or terms that have a special meaning at Wyeth. For example, "mode of action" commonly is used to mean the way a drug works in the body, while "customer-focused selling" is Wyeth's particular selling philosophy. "That library helps to improve consistency and localization," Creasy says.
Steelcase is a manufacturer of business furniture products, such as cubicle walls, chairs, high-end wood office furniture, and architectural products. Its headquarters are in Grand Rapids, MI, but its products are distributed by approximately 600 independent dealer locations all over the world, particularly in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
The marketing group for each line of products is responsible for deciding which products require delivery of specific product training. In North America, the company has 20 to 25 Web-based modules about different product lines, which are available on the Steelcase University portal. "Trying to do on-site, facilitator-led training is a challenge because we are so geographically dispersed, and we don't have the dedicated resources to do it," says Ken Dutkiewicz, director of global learning for Steelcase. "So we take advantage of the Web-based delivery method."
When product training is created, it's designed with both Steelcase sales and marketing employees and Steelcase distributors in mind. That's because those modules are available to the company's North American distributors, as well, and certain sales representatives are tasked to go out and deliver the training they learned in those modules to the distributors. There are approximately 400 U.S. sales employees, and another 3,000 individuals in Steelcase's distributor network.
But Steelcase doesn't sell the exact same products in North America as it does in its other regions. The products Steelcase makes have to be modified in the different regions to comply with local regulations or codes. So the product training in North America can't necessarily be used to train sales reps or distributors in other regions.
For that reason, Steelcase employees in the regions around the world use the template developed for Steelcase University to create their own local, customized training that fits the products that are being sold in their region. North American training is used as a model, but Steelcase's worldwide employees have the freedom to put what they want and need into the developed template.
Translation also is handled locally, and Dutkiewicz says that decentralized approach makes the most sense. "It's best to have it done by a local because they get the nuances of the language," he says. "When they've taken content we've had translated for them, they often tell us, 'Wow, this is really stiff and formal, and it's not the way I would say it.'"
Dutkiewicz says more oversight may be necessary as the company goes more global, but he also points out that being a global company means being able to bob and weave with the needs of different countries. "It's much harder to have oversight in Europe than it is in Asia-Pacific, for example, because in Asia many of the companies we're working with are start-ups and welcome the guidance we have to offer," he says. "But in Europe, each country does its own thing and wants to be treated as an individual country, so they're less receptive to that oversight. You have to be sensitive to differences country by country in this model."
Intel manufactures microprocessor products and integrated circuits for computers. Its headquarters are in Santa Clara, CA, but it sells its motherboards, chip sets, processors, and other computer components all over the world. Its five regions, or "geographies," include the Americas, EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa), Asia-Pacific, China, and Japan. Ap-proximately 30 to 35 percent of the company's sales force operates in the Americas region, with the remainder operating in the rest of its geographies.
Sales employees receive product training in the different products Intel sells, but they also learn about the applications for those products so they can speak knowledgeably about how Intel's products can support those applications. For example, they might be taught how Intel's chips work, but they also might learn about their use in WiMAX, or mobile Internet access in devices such as PCs, handsets, smartphones, gaming devices, cameras, camcorders, and music players.
Subject matter experts (SMEs) design most of Intel's product training, which is delivered in the sales and marketing group about three times a year. There are also weekly conference calls that deliver product training or updates to the Americas, EMEA, and a consolidation of the Asia-Pacific, Japan, and China geographies. There are frequent ad hoc requests for training from different product groups, as well.
Intel has been able to skirt the translation issue with its product training for a simple reason: Employees hired by Intel are required to speak English, regardless of their region. That doesn't mean that no customization ever takes place, though. "We rely heavily on local training partners to take additional steps to tailor the content to the region, which might include local language versions of the training," says Jim Huss, sales and marketing curriculum development manager for Intel. "But that happens relatively rarely."
Instead, SMEs frequently go to the different geographies and act as trainers for local SMEs. Local SMEs then take responsibility for training their direct sales force. "There isn't much local oversight after the training is delivered," Huss says. "Basically, the oversight happens beforehand in the design phase. If bad information does get out there—and it does happen, once in a blue moon—our field representatives are good about recognizing it, pointing it out, and getting it corrected."
Huss says that, far more than the cultural challenge, Intel's real training challenge is making sure the right training gets to the right person at the right time, regardless of region or language. "Different parts of the sales force sell to different parts of the value chain, and they don't all need the same level of detail or to hear about a given product at the same time," Huss says. "Getting the right training to what the specific role requires is harder for us than keeping it consistent across borders. "
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This is a group for anyone interested in growing spiritually from a Biblical perspective using kingdom principles and precepts from God's word {the BIBLE} to help serve, teach, train, nurture, develop, enhance, grown, inspiring through love, caring, and understanding. Its purpose is to help you discover and refine your understanding of your life's purpose and to inspire precision living and to live a successful life by building a kingdom relationship with God. 1- Do you need to grow spiritually …
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A new logo/brand was created over late 2011 and early 2012 to help define who Greater Chattanooga Aspies (GCA) is. The bi-color theme is represented by the color blue, which is symbolic for peace, tranquility, serenity, and quiet - things that describe the need for someone going through strong sensory stimulation from a job or anything else during the day. The block letters represent that people who live with Asperger's and High Functioning Autism can be and are strong survivors. Although we …
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Young Couples of Chattanooga is a meetup to introduce young (20's-30's) professional couples with others of similar interest. Marriage is not necessarily required, but in a serious relationship is encouraged. Meetup for dinner, Lookouts games, Nightfall, happy hour, bowling, football games, hiking, biking, or any other hobbies you think another couple would enjoy. This meetup group will host regular events to introduce couples in relaxed public atmosphere where you can network and find new coup …
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This group is for anyone looking to hang out and share their amazing experiences with other like-minded individuals without the fear of being judged by people who just don't understand what it's like to possess psychic powers. I know they say everyone is psychic and I'm sure that is true but not everyone accepts these gifts whether it's because they are afraid of looking crazy or because they just never thought about it before. Either way at some time or another we have all thought about it and …
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Our aim is to create an vegetarian and vegan community in Chattanooga! Whether you are just curious about meat-free diets or a life-long vegetarian/vegan veteran, join us to make friends with like-minded people, learn V/V health tips, and exchange information and recipes. Welcoming all levels of interest in and experience with vegetarian and vegan lifestyle. Initially, we will meet once a month location TBA soon. Meeting locations and activity suggestions are welcome.
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This is a group for people who love movies, who love going to movies, talking about movies and can't wait each week to see which movies they would love to go see. Also, who would love to get together and talk about recent films that they have seen or are interested in.
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I moved to Ellijay two years ago and felt lost without my network of friends. I read about the supper clubs and I loved the idea. I am looking to meet new people that share an interest in building a social network and food (I like to cook and eat) and these things could give us a common bond. Loosely the idea is for members of the group to host a monthly dinner/lunch in thier home. Each month a new cuisine will be introduced to the group, the host will provide the main course and attendees will …
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Hello and Welcome to Family Wellness! We want to empower our community to live healthier lives by providing the support and resources they need to raise a health family. Members can expect to learn more about natural ways to raise a healthy family in order to make the best decisions for their family. Whether you are a new mom, a dad, experienced mom or dad, an expecting mommy-to-be, couples or women thinking about having a child, or someone who just wants to learn more about healthy living- we l …
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We provide a safe supportive community for visually-orientated poly and poly-friendly people regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion or sexual orientation, but you must be at least 21 years of age. You will be expected to behave as you would at any other informal dinner party. Harassment of any member will result in your removal and you will be banned from this group. PLEASE BE ADVISED, it has come to our attention that when you try to join this Meetup using a smartphone with the Meetup app, y …
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This group is for anyone who enjoys eating a variety of delicious food while meeting new people and socialising with everyone. My parents have potluck parties in their community back home and I love bring a part of them. We want to try new, unique, delicious food. The food you bring to the potluck parties should be home-prepared, so please don't bring in store-prepped meals or desserts. Of course, there are exclusions for this. One exclusion is for people who may live in a dorm or place where yo …
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I started this group after discovering & experiencing the mind-blowing benefits to mindfully walking, hiking, standing, or just being barefoot in nature. This group is for those who love nature, are holistic in their approach to health, and desire spiritual and healing experiences, and of course who love being barefoot! Because that's how it works! While I love deep, insightful, and spiritual conversation, I also love practicing mindfulness, connected-ness, and LIFE. So my goal is that we can …
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Founded in January 2012, we're a laid-back and diverse group brought together by our love of Euchre. Many of us are transplants, mainly from the Great Lakes, Midwest, Northeast, & Canada - with a growing contingent of Locals, too. We're from all walks of life, and have different playing levels (from first-time players to those who have been playing for years). Come by and join us for a few hands, some laughs and few drinks! Don't be shy. No partner necessary! If you are new to Euchre or a litt …
Meet other local people who are interested in making the Community, Country and Planet (including churches, homes, businesses, and government) environmentally friendly. Discuss techniques for making your life green! This group should provide a CALENDAR for Green Events in the greater Chattanoooga Area. 3 regular meeting: 2 local Sierra Club meetings: Regular monthly meeting, last Monday of each month at GreenSpaces, 63 E. Main St. Strategy (board) monthly meeting, 2nd Wed of each month, also …
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October 7, 2011 | 12:09 am
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I think my wife Naomi struggles to find the good in the farm I've crammed onto our city lot. Sometimes she reaches her limit—like when the goats escape and barge into the house—or when she's trying to write or study and the chickens are clucking and the dogs are barking and I can practically see the thought bubble forming above her head of a regular backyard with a lawn, a couple of flower beds, and a hammock where you can lay down without fear that a pair of goat horns might reach up through the bottom. That's happened.
But she tries. I think the times the farm brings her the most joy is when it helps her bring a Jewish text or ritual to life. And that happens, too. Because you can't read Biblical texts read like a farmers almanac: fat years, lean years, shepherds, oxen, goats, barley, milk, honey—Jews are an urban people whose whose greatest literature revolves around the country.
We've had chickens for years now, and for years we've talked about doing a humane homemade version of kapparas. Kapparas is an atonement ritual. In traditional communities its practiced between the New Year and Yom Kippor, the Day of Atonement. Traditionally it involves swinging a white rooster (if you're a man) or a white hen (if you're a woman) above your head, while reciting a prayer that transfers one's sins to the bird. The animal is the given to the poor, which completes the expiation.
Because in many Orthodox communities the chickens have been terribly mistreated, manhandled and malnourished and crippled by the handling and the swinging, animal rights groups and Jewish activists have fought to change the ritual. In many communities it has been de-chickenified—a pledge of money is given to the poor in lieu of poultry.
That's usually what Naomi does.
But last night, after dark, when we were lying in bed, Naomi asked me if I wanted to do kapparas. Real kapparas.
"Sure," I said.
After all, we have 6 chickens outside, and at night they are especially docile—chickens are pretty much night blind and somniferous starting at sundown.
Naomi gathered her ritual handbook and a flashlight, and a baseball cap. This would involve holding a chicken above our heads.
I entered the chicken yard and picked up one of the older ones. She melted into my arms, her eyes wide open but otherwise very still.
She read a long passage in Hebrew:
Children of Man, who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, shackled in affliction and iron. He removed them from darkness and the shadow of death, an broke open their shackles. The fools—because of their sinful path and their iniquities they were afflicted.
It goes on for a while about how awful we humans are, then comes the out:
If there will be for someone but a single defending angel out of a thousand to declare a man's uprightness on his behalf, then He will be gracious to him and say, 'Redeem hium from descending to the Pit; I have found atonement.
Then comes the chicken part. Naomi instructed me to pass the chicken over her head each time she recited, in Hebrew, the sentence below, for a total of three times.
'This is my exchange, this is my substitute, this is my atonement. This hen will go to its death while I will enter and go on to a good long lif, and to peace.
Fortunately our chickens don't understand ancient Hebrew, just modern.
The prayer book had an out, in brackets, for people who have abandoned the killing chickens part. It provided substitute, "or this money will go to charity," that you could recite instead.
But we had a chicken, and she really didn't seem bothered at all. At one point her heavy lids closed, and she only snapped them open when I put her back on her perch with a quiet, "Thanks."
Naomi closed her prayer book and kissed it. She took off her baseball cap. Tomorrow we would each give the equivalent of the chicken's value to the poor. (I rescued the chicken from a butcher shop, where I paid $7 for her). According to the rule book, it's a perfectly legit switch.
I am all for stopping the cruel aspects of kapparas as it is still practiced in a few neighborhoods. I've seen it and written about it, and it's vile and cruel. Chickens stacked in battery cages. Terrified, often sick and crippled and then hauled off to slaughter. It's not atonement, it's an actual sin in itself.
But as of tonight I can see why the people who do it with birds prefer it: weird, mysterious rituals have a weird, mysterious power. Our religion, like our lives, has moved further and further away from its natural anchors, and something is lost in the distance. Yes, we gave up sacrifice—not a bad thing. But we also gave up the intimate, interdependent relationship we had with the natural world—a world through which the people who forged early Judaism understood the very power of God.
A humane kapparas is not a bad thing: we walked away feeling connected to an ancient tradition, and maybe just a tad more cleansed. And the chicken, she couldn't have cared less.
Tomorrow, some poor person will get $14. And we'll get another egg. And Naomi may find one more reason not to be fed up with the farm.
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You may be seeing more of tea party firebrand Allen West after his ouster for Congress, but don't expect to see him trying to get his old seat back.
The Republican tells Fox News he'll begin hosting an online TV show called "Next Generation Today."
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German re-armament
The German re-armament (Aufrüstung, German pronunciation: [ˈaʊ̯fˌʀʏstʊŋ]) was a massive effort led by the Nazis in the early 1930s in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. During its struggle for power the National Socialist party promised to recover Germany's lost national pride. It proposed military rearmament claiming that the Treaty of Versailles and the acquiescence of the Weimar Republic were an embarrassment for all Germans.[1]
Despite its scale, the Aufrüstung was for years a largely covert operation, carried out mostly in a cloak-and-dagger manner through organizations (some of which were racketeer-style fronts), until disclosures of Nazi re-armament by Carl von Ossietzky, which won him the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize,[2] but they also triggered the Re-armament policy in the United Kingdom, which escalated after Adolf Hitler withdrew Germany from the League of Nations and the Geneva Disarmament Conference in 1933.[3]
Germany's post World War I re-armament began at the time of the Weimar Republic, when the Chancellor of Germany Hermann Müller, who belonged to the SPD Social Democratic Party, passed cabinet laws that allowed secret and illegal re-armament efforts.[4]
After the Nazi takeover of power the re-armament became the topmost priority of the German government. Hitler would then spearhead one of the greatest expansions of industrial production and civil improvement Germany had ever seen.
Third Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, one of the most influential Nazi figures of the time, and Hjalmar Schacht, who, while never a member of the Nazi party was an initially sympathetic economist, introduced a wide variety of schemes in order to tackle the effects that the Great Depression had on Germany, were the main key players of German rearmament policies.[5]
Dummy companies like MEFO were set up to finance the re-armament; MEFO obtained the large amount of money needed for the effort through the Mefo bills, a certain series of credit notes issued by the Government of Nazi Germany.[6] Covert organizations like the Deutsche Verkehrsfliegerschule were established under a civilian guise in order to train pilots for the future Luftwaffe.[7] Although available statistics don't include non-citizens or women, the massive Nazi re-armament policy almost led to full employment during the 1930s. The re-armament began a sudden change in fortune for many factories in Germany. Many industries were taken out of a deep crisis that had been induced by the Great Depression.
Some large industrial companies, which had until then specialized in certain traditional products began to diversify and introduce innovative ideas in their production pattern. Shipyards, for example, created branches that began to design and build aircraft. Thus the German re-armament provided an opportunity for advanced, and sometimes revolutionary, technological improvements, especially in the field of aeronautics.[8]
The Spanish Civil War 1936–1939 would provide an ideal testing ground for the proficiency of the new weapons produced by the German factories during the re-armament years. Many aeronautical bombing techiques were tested by the Condor Legion German expeditionary forces against the Republican Government on Spanish soil with the permission of Generalísimo Francisco Franco. Hitler insisted, however, that his long-term designs were peaceful, a strategy labelled as "Blumenkrieg" (Flower War).[9]
Re-armament in the 1930s saw the development of different theories of how to prepare the German economy for total war. The first amongst these was 'defence in depth' which was put forward by Georg Thomas. He suggested that the German economy needed to achieve Autarky (or self-sufficiency) and one of the main proponents behind this was I.G Farben. Hitler never put his full support behind Autarky and aimed for the development of 'defence in breadth' which espoused the development of the armed forces in all areas and was not concerned with preparing the German economy for war.[citation needed]
Since World War II, both academics and laypeople have discussed the extent to which the German re-armament was an open secret among national governments. The failure of Allied national governments to confront and intercede earlier is often discussed in the context of the appeasement policies of the 1930s. A central question is whether the Allies should have drawn "a line in the sand" earlier than September 1939, which might have resulted in a less devastating war and perhaps a prevention of the Holocaust.
"Unquestionably, such a policy might have enforced a greater circumspection on the Nazi regime and caused it to proceed more slowly with the actualization of its timetable. From this standpoint, firmness at the time of the reoccupation of the Rhineland in 1936 would probably have yielded even better results than firmness at the time of Munich." -George Kennan[10]
See also[edit]
- Anglo-German Naval Agreement
- Deutsche Verkehrsfliegerschule
- British re-armament
- Wiederbewaffnung
Notes and references[edit]
- ^ Hakim, Joy (1995). A History of Us: War, Peace and all that Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 100–104. ISBN 0-19-509514-6.
- ^ Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich in Power 1933–1939. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-1-59420-074-8. Pg. 153
- ^ UK War Production
- ^ Michael Geyer, Deutsche Rüstungspolitik 1860 bis 1980, Frankfurt 1984
- ^ Wilhelm Frick (1877–1946)
- ^ Nuremberg Trials discussion of the Mefo bill
- ^ Ernst Sagebiel 1892–1970
- ^ Blohm & Voss Geschichte v. 1933/1938, Die Rüstungskonjunktur ab 1933
- ^ Evidenced in a January 1937 speech prior to the outcry over the bombing of the Basque city of Guernica, known by the Luftwaffe as Operation Rügen. Hitler speech to Reichstag 30 January 1937 available via the German Propaganda Archive.
- ^ Kennan, George (1951). American Diplomacy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 79
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I voted for this hippo image to be included in the Year in Pictures. Yes it's a zoo picture, yes, it's an animal -- so some would say it's not "serious" photojournalism and doesn't stand up against all of the important news of the year. Yes, all that is true, but also, it's nice to take a moment to appreciate the lighter moments that were captured. This picture makes me smile, in part because the hippo seems a little happy about the attention and the carrot is a fun, whimsical detail. See the images that did make the cut here.
A keeper brushes a hippo's teeth at the Shanghai Zoo on Nov. 3. The hippo has its teeth cleaned three times a week to reduce the chance of mouth diseases.