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BETHANY - Bethany College's Commencement Hall was the setting for the May 22 wedding of Mandy Rae Merico and Joel Conrad Banks Jr. The 4:15 p.m. ceremony was conducted by the Rev. Jim Forbes.
Carrying an arm bouquet of crimson orchids, the bride was given in marriage by her uncle, Nick Merico of Germantown, Md.
The bride is the daughter of the late Michael Merico and April Merico of Weirton.
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The groom is the son of Joel and Joyce Banks Sr. of Steubenville.
Jennifer Ohalek served as maid of honor, and Heather Knobbe was matron of honor. The bridesmaids were Alisha, Kathryn and Gina Merico.
Justin Banks served as the best man, and Alan Morabeto, James Banks, Joshua Banks and Jeremy Banks were groomsmen. Shea McCoy was the flower girl and Riley Knollinger, ring bearer.
The reception was held at Froehlich's Classic Corner in Steubenville. The newlyweds are planning a fall honeymoon.
The bride is a graduate of Weir High School and Eastern Gateway Community College with an associate degree in general studies. She also attended Bethany College and plans to finish her bachelor's degree in philosophy this fall.
The groom is a graduate of Steubenville High School and is employed at WTOV-TV as the assistant operations manager.
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Obama Signals He's Firm on Raising Taxes for Wealthiest Americans
Obama takes questions from reporters for first time since re-election.
In his first press conference since his re-election, President Barack Obama sought to paint Republicans into a corner on tax hikes, and pleaded with them to pass a measure that would freeze the Jan. 1 increases for Americans earning less than $250,000 before working on a more comprehensive deficit deal.
"The Senate has already passed a law like this, Democrats in the House are ready to pass a law like this, and I hope Republicans in the House come on board, too," Obama said to a room full of White House reporters. "We should not hold the middle class hostage while we debate tax cuts for the wealthy. We should at least do what we agree on. At least give folks some certainty before the holiday season."
[READ: Why Taxing the Rich May Be a Smart Move]
Though he repeatedly said he is open to compromise when it comes to a 'grand bargain,' Obama was skeptical that real deficit reduction could be achieved by just reforming the tax code by eliminating certain deductions and loopholes and not increasing rates on the top 2 percent, something Republicans have opposed.
"There are loopholes that can be closed … but when it comes to the top 2 percent, what I'm not going to do is to extend further a tax cut for folks who don't need it, which would cost close to $1 trillion," Obama said. "And it's very difficult to see how you make up that $1 trillion, if we're serious about deficit reduction, just by closing loopholes and deductions. The math tends not to work."
The president said his position should come as no surprise, as it was a central tenet of his re-election campaign and one of the major differences between himself and Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
"I argued for a balanced, responsible approach and part of that included making sure that the wealthiest Americans paid a little bit more. A majority of voters agreed with me. By the way, more voters agreed with me on this issue than voted for me," he said.
[READ: Labor, Business Leaders Meeting With Obama Are Also Big Campaign Spenders]
Obama added he's confident a deal can be made and says reform of entitlements, such as Medicare and Medicaid must be part of the deal, something Republicans and business leaders strongly support.
"I believe we have to take a serious look at how we reform our entitlements because healthcare costs continue to be the biggest driver of our deficits. There is a package to be shaped," he said.
According to a new Gallup poll, 45 percent of Americans favor an equal balance of tax increases and spending cuts to reduce the federal budget deficit, up from 32 percent last year.
"At the same time, the percentage favoring an emphasis on spending cuts is now 40 percent, down from 50 percent last year, while the percentage in favor of reducing the deficit primarily through tax increases is unchanged at 11 percent," writes Jeffrey M. Jones, a Gallup poll analyst in a memo accompanying the survey results.
"Overall, as was the case last year, most Americans, now 85 percent, are comfortable with achieving deficit reduction mostly or equally with spending cuts," he wrote.
[ENJOY: Political Cartoonists Take On the Fiscal Cliff]
House Speaker John Boehner, the top Republican Obama and congressional Democrats will be negotiating a deficit reduction deal with, issued a release soon after the president finished speaking.
"2013 should be the year we begin to solve our debt through tax reform and entitlement reform," Boehner said. "This will bring jobs home, result in a stronger, healthier economy. And a stronger, healthier economy means more Americans working and more revenues, which is what the president is seeking."
Bipartisan congressional leaders are scheduled to meet with Obama on Friday, following meetings the president has held earlier in the week with labor and business leaders to rally support for a 'big deal' that would help the country avoid a series of across-the-board federal spending cuts and tax increases for all Americans.
Obama, who fielded 16 questions from 10 reporters, also addressed the on-going controversy surrounding Gen. David Petraeus, the potential controversial nomination of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice as Secretary of State, immigration reform, and climate change policy, during the nearly hour long press conference.


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Are you tired of hearing about how to implement Change Management and yet when you try it something is still missing? In this session, instead of talking about the perfect implementation of Change Management we take it back to the basics and figure out what is really needed to make Change Management successful. Using a whole-earth approach we will cover the basics, why they are important and what you have to do to make Change Management work. This is a session not to be missed by all Change Managers.
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Beverly Weed-Schertzer, Founder, edifyIT
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In this presentation we shall explore the approach used by successful service businesses in designing a service portal from the outside-in, from the perspective of the customer, ensuring ease of use and a suitable service experience. Other topics will include:
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- The functional elements of a service portal and the five design planes;
- The key concepts of persona, consumer scenario and story in portal design;
- The role of a 'service safari' in understanding the basic needs of customers;
- How to configure the portal with a knowledge base and request management capability;
- The organizational consequences of an outside-in approach.
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Jesse White, Principal, Intact Technology
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Join us in this insightful discussion that is sure to help you double your service catalog adoption.
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Angus Gregory, Biomni CEO and Rob England, The IT Skeptic
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This may sound strange coming from a Service Catalogue vendor, but we have seen a definitive shift in focus and we feel this is a game changer. So join Biomni's CEO Angus Gregory and ITSM commentator Rob England (aka @TheITSkeptic) for a lively debate on what the world's leading IT organizations are actually implementing and the business value that they are driving for IT and the businesses they support.
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Greg Sanker, Field Services Unit Manager at Oregon Department of Transportation
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A service catalogue does more than simply list the IT services an organisation provides. It helps IT engage with its customers and build and maintain relationships. It helps to establish boundaries and to set expectations. It helps to transform IT to a service lead organisation. It helps IT to find solutions, contribute to the bottom line and demonstrate business value.
The service catalogue should be a 'living' catalogue where services and support levels can be added and removed as required. Requests for new services, when approved, need to be incorporated into the service catalogue. Listing to the business and its technology needs, now and upcoming, will better align IT with the business, helping the service desk to show real business value and helping to position the service desk as a true business partner.
To make this happen, alongside the service catalogue should be a detailed plan outlining the Change Management and Request Management process.
Policy Management - how to achieve consistent and scalable IT administration
Apr 10 2014
45 mins
Chris Brightwell, Senior Engineer, Kaseya
Join this webinar and learn why consistency is the hallmark of an effective, agile organisation. With thousands of moving parts, ensuring that every user, every system is being managed consistently is critical. This webinar will show you how a best practice IT systems management software effectively defines, manages, applies and enforces IT policies across groups of machines.
A state-of-the art Policy Management system streamlines the process of creating, setting and remotely applying IT policies to groups of systems across a distributed organisation. Administrators need to be able to view all policies from a single dashboard, customise them and assign them based on organisation, group, machine type, platform or any dynamic view of machines to ensure all systems are in compliance. By automating management by policies and enforcement, administrators can then take immediate action to remediate any system that is not in compliance.
Benefits of a modern Policy Management system are:
• Ensure distributed systems are in compliance with IT policies or recurring services
• Streamline the process of applying and updating policies to multiple machines based on organisation, group, department or dynamic view
• Achieve greater confidence that distributed systems are secure and in compliance
• Manage policy enforcement of multiple groups of machines, applying varying and nested policies depending on security risk, business use or service level
• New machines can automatically inherit policy settings without any intervention
The Service Catalog Portal – your window to the customer
Apr 10 2014
40 mins
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PC gaming is about to hit the road in a big way. Nvidia has announced that its portable Shield consolenow supports GameStream over the Web. That means you'll be able to stream games from any GeForce GTX 650 GPU-equipped laptop or desktop PC directly to your Shield from anywhere you can get a 5 Mbps wireless connection. Shield had already offered GameStream, but it only worked over in-home networks. Available for $199, Shield gives you the ability to play games through Valve's Steam Platform, as well as Android games via Nvidia's own Tegra Zone.Read More >>
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An excerpt from Yukari Iwatani Kanes "Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs published by Re/code reveals more details about the events that preceded Apples decision to sue Samsung. Apparently, Apple was initially not so eager to sue Samsung, trying to settle the matter out of court, in order to preserve a good relationship with one of its main suppliers.Read More >>
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ppSD2 is a member management software solution for Web sites looking to control access to content. The program is equipped with a fully integrated shopping cart allowing for "hands-free" sales and delivery of digital content. The program automates content access, expiration, follow-ups, and can be used by organizations to plan events. It is designed to be extremely flexible, allowing for total re-branding and integration into any Web site.
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Alleged 'Anonymous' hacker John Borell blamed for cyber attack on LA Canine Association
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The "hacktivist" group Anonymous, represented here by a member in their omnipresent Guy Fawkes masks.
In some circles he's a hero. To the hacker collective known as Anonymous he's a "hacktivist" who took on authorities in the fight against injustice.
But to local and federal law enforcement, John Anthony Borell III is the man who used his computer skills to invade the privacy of more than 100 officers in the Los Angeles County Police Canine Association, for no better reason than because he could.
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MAC Men's Cross Country Runner of the Week
R.P. White, Eastern Michigan, Senior, Hillsdale, Mich. (Hillsdale)
Michigan Intercollegiate (8K)
Time: 25:57:00
White led the Eagles for the first time in his career, finishing sixth on his way to running 25:57 for the 8K, leading the Eagles to a first-place finish amongst Division I schools and second overall.
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Kari Summers, Ohio, Junior, Troy, Ohio
All-Ohio Championships (5K)
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Aiman Scullion, Kent State, Sophomore, Salem, Ohio (Salem)
All-Ohio Championships (5 miles)
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Shamus Eaton, Ohio, Senior, Uniontown, Ohio
All-Ohio Championships (8K)
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Senior Shamus Eaton finished 12th at the All-Ohio Championships to lead the Bobcats to a fifth-place finish out of 42 teams.
Elisa Kipchumba, Toledo, Sophomore, Nairobi, Kenya
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Kipchumba was the top Rocket finisher for the second-consecutive meet.
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Larisa Arcip, Akron, Junior, Spiru Haret University
All-Ohio Championships (5K)
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Rachel Hollinger-Janzen, Eastern Michigan, Freshman, Goshen, Ind. (Goshen)
Michigan Intercollegiate (5K)
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Hollinger-Janzen led the Eagles for the second time this season as a freshman, finishing 11th overall on her way to running 19:20 for the 5K. Her place led the Eagles to a second place team finish amongst Division I institutions and third overall, the best this season.
Kassandra Meholick, Kent State, Sophomore, New Cumberland, Pa. (Cedar Cliff)
All-Ohio Championships (3 miles)
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Meholick placed 11th overall with a time of 18:47.6 at the All-Ohio Championships in Delaware, Ohio on Friday (10/10).
Sarah Neubacher, Toledo, Sophomore, Ft. Wayne, IN (Concordia Lutheran)
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Michigan Intercollegiates (5k)
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Bruceswar wrote:Also your neutral values seem a bit high. That is just what I think.
dana1971 wrote:That's interesting. The other map was last posted in May 2010.
So I don't have to read the thread what was the outcome?
Looking at the other cow map I think mine is a lot better looking and has more interesting game play elements.
Because it's been thought of before should I stop?
I'd like to make it. Perhaps I can succeed where the other map failed.
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The whole project for the luxury apartments on Cottage Street is a disaster waiting to happen. Thank you Mr. Reeves for fielding our questions Thursday night with the huge and dangerous disaster traffic problem doesn't seem to have a solution and is it going to take a fatality before it does.
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Troy Police, what are you doing about all these drug dealers walking around and selling drugs right there in the open? Please do something.
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As if the congestion on Hoosick Street isn't bad enough, now they plan on stopping it in all four directions completely to let people cross the street?
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I am very angry regarding the lack of water boil advisory notification last week in the town of Brunswick. Although it may have been mentioned on one news channel. Many of my neighbors were not aware of this potential danger. In the event that this occurs again, please broaden your range of notification.
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It's May 10 Mr. Nigro, Mr. Golub, the tower is still standing at St. Patrick's Church. From this day forward, I will not ever again shop at any Price Chopper market.


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My family and I went to two amazing concerts by the Gloversville Community Music Wind Ensemble recently at the Glove Performing Arts Center, under the director of Joshua Thompson. The group is a new hybrid ensemble consisting of professional and collegiate musicians alongside talented area student musicians. Both concerts were amazing; we didn't want it to end.
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Written by Barry Rubin
How did the Associated Press, the main source for the world's English-language media, report on the Fatah Congress?
It's a tale of two dispatches.
Here are AP's themes:
--Fatah: moderate, pragmatic, wants peace, pro-American, youthful. (Problems are presented: conflict with Hamas, corruption, internal conflicts, but these are more attributed to the past.)
--Israel: hardline, reluctant about peace, trouble for U.S. government, only takes forward steps when pressured by the United States
AP started out ok, on August 9, with Mohammed Daraghmeh, "Fatah reappoints Abbas as its leader," which is very factual, the way a wire service is supposed to be.
The article states that the convention, ended by "giving him a new mandate for peace talks with Israel - if he can heal divisions among his people....But the movement has lost its shine over the last five years. Its old guard has been accused of rampant corruption and nepotism, and it has suffered military humiliation at the hands of rival Hamas."
This is a fair description in brief. It then quotes Abbas's speech:
"This convention must be a new beginning for the Fatah movement....In our history, we've had many launches and setbacks. Sometimes, we have reached the edge of the abyss - but we have always returned stronger."
The article continues:
"Abbas pledged to lead Palestinians to statehood, but he faces many challenges. On Abbas' watch, Fatah was trounced by Hamas in 2006 parliamentary elections, partly because of its corruption-tainted image. A year later, Hamas seized the Gaza Strip by force, politically splitting the Palestinian territories. The Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority rules the West Bank only, and Abbas has not been able to foster reconciliation. Without a rapprochment, Abbas' claim to represent all Palestinians in peace negotiations with Israel is shaky. And the indications of unity within his own movement so far, judging by the Fatah conference, are not promising."
But then comes his summary article on August 12 which is cheerleading and highly politicized as revealed by the title, "Fatah election brings new faces and fresh hopes." Here's the lead:
"Fatah has elected a rejuvenated leadership that will likely bring the mainstream Palestinian movement more in line with President Obama's vision for an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement, according to unofficial results released yesterday.
"But a reluctant Israel and Hamas' stranglehold on the Gaza Strip pose formidable obstacles to a peace pact."
This is far worse. First, Fatah's problems are not attributed to internal issues but to external ones. Second, without in any way providing evidence, Israel is characterized as "reluctant" to make peace. The latter point is biased. Third, note the gratuitous references to Obama in order to make the group look better in the eyes of the American public.
His presentation on the elections is also misleading, albeit in line with general media coverage:
"The vote appeared to present a new Fatah leadership that removed some of the old-time exiled revolutionaries who urged armed struggle in favor of pragmatic, younger grass-roots activists who grew up in the West Bank and Gaza and support negotiating a peace treaty with Israel. While many of the victors are familiar Fatah figures, some say their rise to the highest ranks will revive Fatah."
At least he included the last sentence but in fact serious study of the election and meeting results shows the contrary, here and here.
Despite media coverage there is no evidence of the "pragmatic" or "grass-roots" factors. In fact, the only "grass-roots" figure is Marwan Barghouti, in an Israeli jail for large numbers of killings done under his direction as the organizer of the intifadah that began in 2000-at a time when Israel was offering an independent Palestinian state with its capital in east Jerusalem.
My analysis shows that one-third of the members are very hardline and not necessarily even supportive of real negotiations with Israel and the other two-thirds, with one or two exceptions, support the same line Fatah has held for the last 15 years.
This article states: The "ascendancy [of younger leaders] gives a boost to Obama's hoped-for Mideast breakthrough, giving the mainstream, secular Fatah more credibility among Palestinians who threw their traditional Fatah leaders out of power in 2006 elections, charging them with corruption, nepotism, and inefficiency."
There is a humorous element here since the "traditional Fatah leaders" thrown out in the 2006 elections are the exact same people generally as those elected in this meeting! And even those who were not elected continue to hold high posts in Fatah and to set policy.
While noting that, "It is assumed there can be no peace accord until the West Bank and Gaza are reunited," which is a good point, the article also takes a gratuitous slam at Israel's government:
"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes a hard line toward the Palestinians. Obama wrung from Netanyahu a reluctant endorsement of creation of a Palestinian state, but for decades he has backed Israeli control over the West
While the media simply can't conceive of this-because of the pigeonholing of Netanyahu as "hardline," though he has far more claim on being a "pragmatist" than Fatah leaders, the Israeli prime minister accepted a two-state solution as an outcome of successful negotiations when he last became prime minister in 1996.
Finally, the article ends with another sentence aimed to show how pro-American Fatah is:
"Obama's administration is said to be within weeks of presenting a new Mideast peace plan, and a reinvigorated Palestinian leadership would be a significant boost."
Now, if you are getting your news from most newspapers, radio, or television stations-which are dependent on Associated Press for their coverage-what are you NOT being told? Here are just some key points:
1. The declaration that Fatah is ready to return to armed struggle if it isn't happy with the negotiations.
2. The official adoption of the al-Aqsa Brigades as Fatah's armed wing, a connection which Fatah and the media have previously denied. The Brigades have committed many terrorist acts and killed scores of Israeli civilians. Fatah is not taking official responsibility for these murders, many of which have taken place in the last eight years.
3. The introduction from the podium as heroes and cheering for terrorists who have murdered Israeli civilians.
4. The officially adopted conspiracy theory that Israel murdered Fatah's previous leader Yasir Arafat.
5. Perhaps most important of all Fatah's selection as its next leader Muhammad Ghaneim, a Fatah official so hardline that he has still not accepted the 1993 peace agreement (Oslo accords), meaning that he has never recognized Israel and openly seeks its destruction.
You have been told that Fatah is a moderate, pro-American group-more moderate and pro-American than Israel's government-without hearing things that went on in the meeting that show the contrary to be true. To paraphrase the poet John Dunne, Ask not for whom the coverage is biased, because it's biased for you.
Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. His latest books are Lebanon: Liberation, Conflict, and Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan), Conflict and Insurgency in the Contemporary Middle East (Routledge), The Israel-Arab Reader (seventh edition) (Viking-Penguin), the paperback edition of The Truth About Syria (Palgrave-Macmillan), A Chronological History of Terrorism (Sharpe), and The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East (Wiley).


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Samuel Johnson: A Biography
by Peter Martin
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 608 pp., $35.00
Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings
edited by Peter Martin
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 503 pp., $29.95
Samuel Johnson: The Struggle
by Jeffrey Meyers
Basic Books, 528 pp., $35.00
Samuel Johnson: A Life
by David Nokes
Henry Holt, 448 pp., $32.00 (to be published on October 27)
Britain is a very changed country; it has changed morally. It might be said that its people's sense of what life is all about has altered more in the last fifty years than it did in the previous 250, beginning in 1709, when Samuel Johnson was born at Lichfield. Yet one of the things that hasn't changed is the popularity of the nation's most popular word: "nice."
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Make your own decorative flower out of steel using a plasma cutter! In this workshop, you will design your flower petal shapes on a sheet of steel and use the plasma cutter to cut your design straight out of metal! You can then work with the metal to create curves in your petals. Once the "petals" are ready, you'll attach them to a metal "stem" and spot weld them together. You can even add a touch of copper wire to give your flower some extra flair. This is a flower that will never, ever wilt (although it may rust)!
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The mega swamp battle has commenced. Lennox and Leonidas are making a quick getaway on the jet bikes with the Croc tribe's CHI, but Cragger will do everything to outwit his opponents.
Start the engines of Cragger's Command Ship and chase after them. Snap the massive crocodile jaws, swish the croc tail and launch the CHI-powered missiles! Request back up from their Raven ally Rawzom to keep a lookout from the skies or dive through the clouds and stop the CHI-thieving felines. Use the mini stealth boats and the swift croc chopper to stop them from escaping on their jet bikes! - A.D.
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38% of the CEO
Carlos Brito
I worked at InBev full-time for more than a year
Pros – The work environment was great and there was a good relationship between employees. The salary and benefits provided were good.
Cons – The managers were not supportive of each other and colleagues were scared of more redundancies to come, making overall morale low. There was rivalry between different sites which was not healthy and a lot of negativity.
Advice to Senior Management – Think about your employees and value them and don't only think about profits.
I have been working at InBev full-time for more than a year
Pros – worked with some nice people
Cons – low benefit,not competitive salary,no beer benefit as brewery company
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company
I worked at InBev
Pros – Tough problems that need solving based on engineering, lots of room to grow within company. Great benefits included of all, even non-union
Cons – Having to deal with union workers every day was pretty abysmal. Lots of hours and lots of expected Over time
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
I have been working at InBev
Pros – good ahtomosphere, mostly good colleagues, challenges
Cons – line managers can be blocking you from having a perfect environment... need to work really a lot more compared to other companies. olny recommended for those who love challenging places
Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend
I have been working at InBev
Pros – Inbev has a Strong Culture that together with its Great Products make a Friendly environment to work.
Cons – There is a huge Lack of information towards the employees. Inbev is too Cash focused (products are secondary) and it makes us lose interest in the job.
Advice to Senior Management – The senior management should Strive for better communication with employees and promote a positive message.
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I have been working at InBev
Pros – In St. Louis, most of the people are still first-rate; carryovers from the "old A-B" when the rewards attracted the best & brightest. This is changing with layoffs and people leaving to find better jobs. People still try to work together (within departments and across departments) to get the job done right. One good thing about new management: They are accessible and down to earth. In this respect, an improvement and very refreshing.
Cons – If you take a job here, know that you will be doing the work of 2 - 3 people since all departments were cut into the bone. Transition to InBev is being horribly mismanaged. Employees are being told benefit cuts, salary freezes, etc. are due to "the economic environment" but everyone knows A-B is doing just fine! Total compensation is now being re-set to the 50th percentile of marketplace. Quality employees are leaving, and more will leave once the job market opens up. Much is made of the opportunities available in the "meritocratic" environment but this only seems to apply to Director level and above. Low-class things being done in the name of cost-cutting; pay bills in 120 DAYS!, micro-manage (or eliminate) necessary business tools like printer paper, continuing education, etc.
Advice to Senior Management – a) You bought the company so you have the right to run it as you see fit. However, realize that there are vital functions NOT BEING DONE because, you know, there are only 60 hours in the week and employees are only putting out fires. This will create some catastrophes in a few months. b) The company you bought is as good as it is because it made a point of attracting good people. If you want to keep good people, you will need to make some accommodations to what is important to workers in the U.S.
No, I would not recommend this company to a friend
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Hi all,
I wanted to start a discussion to listen to adherents and hear what they have to tell us based on some questions I'd like to pose to them. In other words, I want to sincerely play the role of a seeker and ask them how I would know that their god is The One, True God. The purpose is not to deconvert or convert, I just want to walk through a seeker conversation where I'm allowed to ask questions of adherents and see what they have to say ... to listen. I am willing to expand on what I mean by "The One, True God" if a reader asks for that, to the extent that I think the definition is sufficient for the discussion.
This is the adherent's golden opportunity to proselytize; to convert me.
In order to do this effectively I need to ask the adherent for their imprimatur on a rule by which I can do this without bogging it down so that I can never get my questions asked. So, here it is. I'll ask a question as a hypothetical. It may be that there are more assumptions to the hypothetical that one could add, but I'll ask for the sake of discussion that we allow only the assumptions of the hypothetical I offer. This way, I can at least get through a few questions. If someone thinks the assumptions are insufficient just state that with your answer and we'll accept that as your answer informed by the assumptions of the question.
So, here's my question. I'll ask it and see if I can get a useful answer, recalling that I am a lifelong atheist who has never believed and who is sincerely trying to sort out all the gods out there and figure out which one to follow:
How do I know that your god is The One, True God?
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Hey Sarah,
Why don't we do it this way. Let's go back to the police officer analogy just for a sec. Now, in that question I asked I framed the same thing a different way.
Suppose I'm in a parking lot and am suddenly surrounded by several people claiming to be The One, True Police Officer. But suppose each one is giving me orders none of which are compatible? Well, which one then is The One, True Police Officer?
What could I ask to figure out which one is The One, True Police Officer?
I mean, clearly, I want to obey legitimate authority, and if all of them are giving me contradictory orders, I really want to know who The One True Police Officer is. And if I only knew, I would take no issue whatsoever with obeying them, because I certainly would want to obey The One True Police Officer.
So, that's what I would like to ask you:
What could I ask to figure out which one is The One, True Police Officer?
- kk
Hey Sarah,
It's not a trap and no that's not what I'm trying to do. I agree, it does seem like it would be a waste of time and that leaves us without an answer. It's okay if you don't know, I'll just put it out there and see if I get any takers:
How do I know that your god is The One, True God?
- kk
How is it not relevant to study each god? Why only pick one or two?
They were/are all worshiped by thousands, millions, of people at their respective time periods. It is necessary to study them, because through studying them we find where the gods that came after them copied their myths and stories, and thus can disprove them all.
Sarah - it's deceptively deep and profound. It needs a lot of unpacking. It's the bare dry bones of the whole thing. It's the biological foundations of Jesus' message and God's love.
There's a lot more to say, but this is just the foundation. I can say, if you go with it [love God] you will be helped; if you repent you may be forgiven and get another chance; sometimes bad things happen anyway; pray and you will find answers; follow it and you can become happy. Religious doctrine can be successfully and coherently written in these terms. This is why it's interchangeable with religious texts at certain points.
The whole thing is rather like mathematics. I have developed the ideas further, including a description of the state of enlightenment, but I've come to the conclusion that the theory is dry as dust and needs some serious expansion, no matter how much I say about it. Somebody needs to make it into a proper book, or various books aimed at different audiences. As for reaching enlightenment, well everyone has their own issues and there is no universal recipe for getting there in my opinion.
"at certain points."
All the way through.
Remember you said to me which one is the real cop? Remember I said look at his shoes? The answer was that my God is the only God who ever had shoes, and he walked in mine. That was the answer to your cop question. That's the answer to my riddle.
Reminds me of one of my favorite sayings: "Don't judge someone till you've walked a mile in his shoes, because then you're a mile away and you have his shoes."
Fyi to all,
Just so you know, I've asked the question,
How do I know that your god is The One, True God?
and I wanted to be clear that all I'm going to do is ask questions. I'm not going to try to give anyone a conclusion, or force one. You will reach whatever conclusion you want to reach.
And I'm certainly not going to try to trap anyone.
Additionally, you can ask me questions also.
- kk
But Muslims have Muhammad and the Q'ran. Buddhists have Gautama and a body of scriptures as well. It has seemed obvious to me that people find the religion they grew up with and which is held by family and friends has primacy over all others most of the time for most people. Do you think your adherence to Christianity is an exception if that is the rule?
It's refreshing to meet a truly open-minded person. More power to you!
And reading through Sarah/Jessica's journey on this site shows the difference between someone who came here with honest intent, and a desire for knowledge, versus the drive by doomsayers, and apologetics we normally get.
You just have to look to the posts by Angelo on the "Why do the big names in atheism refuse to debate WLC" thread to see what I am talking about.
Hey Sarah,
The Christian faith would argue that God has revealed himself to humanity primarily through the person of Jesus Christ.
This does sound familiar. But what if I haven't preceived that revelation myself? I mean, what if that doesn't tell me that YHWH is The One, True God? I understand it may for you and others, but what about for me? How would I know?
Secondly, through the revelation of what we now call the Bible,
Okay, but what if I read the Bible and I am unable to tell from that if your god is The One, True God?
... and through our own personal relationship with him if we seek him through prayer, the reading of the Bible and being involved in a community, (church).
But wouldn't I need to identify The One, True God before I could have a relationship like this? I mean, from the start I have over 1000 choices so clearly I couldn't get to know all of them in order to answer this question, right?
... Christians would argue that no other God has revealed himself so completely throughout human history, therefore our God is the one true God...
And that makes sense, too. But what if 200 other gods tell me the exact same thing? What then?
We're at a crossroads and I'm not sure which avenue you're trying to take. Do you want to know for the benefit of the group what Christians believe that makes their God true above all others? Or are you wanting to simply understand on an intellectual level what Christians believe and what their faith stands for?
No, none of those things. Look at this from my perspective. I'm a lifelong atheist, born that way as far as I can tell. So, as a seeker I have more than a thousand gods from which to choose. So, what I'm trying to figure out isn't how other Christians would know, or how you know, but
how would I know that your god is The One, True God?
You hinted earlier that maybe we can't answer that question (the idea that it would be a waste of time to round-robin every god and check with each one).
Do you think that maybe we can't answer this question, at least not as formulated? I'm not saying that's the case, I want to know what you think.
- kk
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It's another week and time for another quick technique from Deke. In this week's episode, Deke shows how to create something substantial from something nonexistent. Specifically, Deke creates a hammered metal background (featured behind last week's type of gold project) in Adobe Photoshop from insubstantial clouds and glass. Leave it to Photoshop (and Deke) to create such opportunities for irony.
Start with a field of black pixels, apply some smart filters, and top it off with a little rusty metal pattern, and you have a wall of textured metal that will support any creation you want to build on top of it. And because you're using the Clouds and Difference Clouds filters, which are based on random fractal noise, your wall of steel won't look exactly like anyone else's when you put it to use in your own projects.
Stop back next week for another of Deke's Techniques. We'll bring you a new free video every week here on the blog. Meanwhile, lynda.com subscribers should check out the entire course in the Online Training Library®, where you'll not only find all the techniques to date collected in one place, but some special entries to the course that Deke created just for members.
And now that you've seen a few ideas Deke has up his sleeve, are there any effects you'd like to see him tackle in this short-and-sweet format? Leave your ideas here in the comments, and we'll put Deke to work figuring out fun and efficient ways to take them on. See you next week!
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